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Show ! RANDOLPH. UTAH V3ffiB3i5Sl IRBSQSlk I Miracle Insecticide DDT Hot a Panacea Japs Surrender on USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay New Deadly Bug Killer Has Effective Use But It Also Has Its Limitations and Danger When Improperly Used. (EDITORS NOTEt This is a guest column written by Winfield J. Dryden, WNU Staff Correspondent , end was not prepared by Baukhage, whose column generally appears in this space each week.) DDT, much publicized insecticide, attack field crops, man, livestock and saved thousands of lives of our fighting trees. These included codling moth, men and civilians in countries where cabbage looper, catalpa sphinx, cotton r, cotton eastern our operations were extended, but it Is not the panacea that we would like to tent caterpillar, elm back beetle, green-stripe- d believe. maple worm, gypsy moth, horn The irony of the story Is that it was flies on cattle, Japanese beetle, Lygus discovered nearly seventy years ago and fourother kinds of sucking bugs, by a German chemist named Zeldler, mimosa webworm, pine sawflles, pink but was almost forgotten until redis- bollworm, spruce budworm, velvet-bea- n covered during the present war by caterpillar, vetch bruchld, white-fringe- d Dr. Paul Muller and Dr. Paul Lauger. beetles, mosquitoes, bedbugs, These Swiss scientists asserted recent- three kinds of lice on man, and housely, upon their arrival in America, that flies and fleas In buildings. with proper control, flies, mosquitoes A Good Insecticide and other harmful Insects can be elim- For Postwar Home inated entirely from the United States. Brig. Gen. Simmons, army medical But along with these Insects would go corps, has said : DDT will exceed even our pollen-carryin- g Insects, bees and penicillin in its ultimate usefulness and other beneficial friends of mankind, will prove to be the outstanding nied-lc- al advance made during the war. also perhaps our birds and fish. Gone One of the newest products is a paint also would be many plants and trees that depend upon insects for polinlza-tio- n. containing DDT to be used on walls of As they point out,' it is a job for kitchens, dining rooms and In institutions. Other industrial uses have been entomologists, not laymen. DDT has been made available to found by dusting with a 10 per cent the public in limited amounts. There DDT powder around the sink in kitchen will soon be a sufficient supply to and other places where cockroaches and meet every demand. Manufacturers of other insects stay. DDT will eliminate the bedbug probthe products, whether in liquid or powlem in hospitals, as well as in private der form, are careful to give complete Instructions as to its application, which dwellings. It may be applied as a five must be followed. per cent spray or as a 10 per cent powder to both sides of the mattress Scientists Tell of ' and springs. It also provides freedom Effective DDT Use boll-wor- Photograph .shows General MacArthur and his Allied staff looking on as Gen. Hsu Yungchang signs the aboard the USS Missouri, laying off Tokyo bay. The signatures of all Allied countries were added to those of the Japanese. MacArthur signed for the United States. The terms of the surrender are already being put into effect, although it is admitted by military authorities that it will take months before a working government is set up in Japan. surrender document World Commercial Problem for Years to Come A Despite its inherent toxicity, DDT the desired insecticidal concentrations In air is of such low order that it will not cause injurious effects in humans, Dr. Paul A. Neal, chief of the research section of the division of industrial hygiene of the tJ. 3. Public Health Service, has reported. It was this knowledge that made it advisable to spray from the air the Jones Beach area on Long Island, N. Y., and part of the city of Rockford, Illinois. In both cases the purpose was to control Insects, Jones Beach to kill sand fleas and Rockford to kill flies, believed to have been the direct cause for the serious Infantile paralysis outbreak in many sections. Lt Col. A. L. Ahnfeldt, U. S. Surgeon Generals office, after a study of results secured in the army, reports: In peace time DDT may well change the destiny of the earths population . . . Our postwar world will no longer be scourged by typhus and malaria and diseases. DDT is other insect-born-e but in the perpetual war not a cure-albetween humans and disease, DDT is one of the most effective weapons yet in polio-carryin- g l, While miles, Japan will be whittled down from a prewar empire of 260,770 square miles to 146,690 square on the the islands by the Allies will be a major task. The control of the 72,000,000 Japs be industries will of these industrial shows Many Allies. the be easy for Japan. Map the administration of home islands will not Choose Up for Boys All-America- Japs Starved Yanks n1 discovered by man. DDT will be to preventive medicine what Listers discovery of antiseptic was to surgery and should close the door forever on those diseases which inare companions of death-dealin- g sects. In the field of agriculture, the results have been far from disappointing. Remarkable results have been obtained by some of its application, while in others the results were either negative, incomplete or its use not recommended due to effect on Jirds and other insects. Will Prove Boon to flea-hoppe- from files and mosquitoes in hospitals. The new aerosol bomb, which releases the DDT as an aerosol a cross between a fumigating gas and an ordinary fly spray, is excellent for this purpose. A power spray may be used in applying a five per cent DDJ solution. Just as lt is proving effective on the agricultural and Industrial front, and as it saved lives on the war .fronts, DDT has started to contribute the health of the home front The story of spraying for mosquitoes against mar laria is well known Painting door and window screens with a five per cent solution of DDT in water or kerosene leaves an insecticidal residue that will kill every fly, mosquito or other Insect lighting there within the next several months, the U. S. department of agriculture reports. A five per cent solution of DDT In kerosene sprayed on floors or over rugs eliminates the flea nuisance. A hand, sprayer is adequate. By spraying deep Into cracks, the DDT will remain toxic to these insects for several weeks. A ten per cent powder applied to cracks with a small hand duster can be depended on to kill any brown dog ticks that may be hiding there. Baseboards, especially those that have worked loose from the wall, afford excellent breeding places for bed--1 bugs, cockroaches and brown dog ticks. DDT is sure death to these pests. A hand sprayer, held close to the opening, will send the Insecticide, a five per cent solutiod in kerosene, down where the Insects are concealed, or a large duster, of 10 per cent powder, may. be used. . Average Citizen Has Answer to National Welfare Farmer While agricultural use of DDT must still be considered in its experimental state, reliable and complete tests at various state experiment stations have proved that lt is the best insecticide There is considerable difference of now on the market for the control of with regard to the attitude most the opinion destructive the apples pest, will take during the next few, civilians moth. codling It will kill Japanese beetle adults, months. Their attitudes will largely while current remedies are based en- determine whether we have a recession of several months duration and the tirely upon their repelling value. extent of the recovery from such a The grape leafhopper and other are highly susceptible to DDT recession. One group thinks that in and excellent results have been ob spite of lower Incomes based on a talned with it against Oriental fruit shorter work week, civilians will have moth. It also has proved effective more leisure and spend more. This group would expect a brisk against apple red bug, pear thrlps, based od free spending. Importrade grape berry moth, fruit tree leafroller, of the federal governtant segments and many apple maggot, cherry maggot ment would seem to favor policies that others. In California, it was proved that DDT would Jead to free spending accomwas effective against codling moths in panied by what might be termed conwalnut and other orchards. At Missouri trolled inflation. The other group exlt was found that a three per cent dust pects people to be cautious and unwas effective in controlling blister willing to spend their accumulated savbeetle, squash bug, white fly, thrlps, ings. The committee for economic developsowbugs, corn earworm, Colorado poment has issued a report which gives cuand tato beetle, spotted striped business mens estimates of postwar cumber beetles, northern corn markets for manufactured goods. These pavement ant, on grape, flea beetles on egg- estimates are optimistic. The committee points out that the postwar years plant, and a ten per cent dust for can roughly be divided Into three peroaches, fleas and squash bugs. riods: first, short period of reconverof S. U. Agriculture The Department which may last through 1946; sion, were DDT Insecticides that reported found experimentally to be definitely second, from 1946 or early 1947 for a more effective than those currently year of deferred orders, and the last used for control of some 30 pests that period of Hard-Worke- d leaf-hoppe- root-wor- lace-bug- s, This starved, emaciated POW from Aomori, near Yokohama, shows Babe Ruth, pilot of the Eastern nine, and Ty Cobb, manager of the effects of malnutrition at hands of e Western nine of the choose up just Japs, as he was rescued by toU. hu-S. boys, Esquire out took time squadrons. In addition mercy the start of the Boys East-Wechampionship. They demand ball parks for every 1,000 boys in the United States. Ruth and man torches, other inhuman and barbaric brutal acts were practiced. bb still remain heroes to thousands of sand lot players. be-jr- All-Ameri- ca st leaf-hoppe- rs g. rrVnri'i'ifcri n |