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Show o Starling a New American Church in Paris o View of the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone for the new American This took place on the seventieth anniversary of the congregations establishment. 21 " t $ ecmnsiMKS n ei i Aviation Sees Big Gain De spite Toll of Life and Property. ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE of the greatest battles In modem history Is now being waged against a foreign invader on American soil. It is a battle against an enemy which has threatened to wipe out nearly $10,000,000,000 worth of American crops. To save them, the sum of $10,000,000 already has been appropriated by the federal government and much more will probably be required before the fight Is ended. The enemy is the assassin of the corn field," the most dangerous enemy of Indian com that has ever apthe European peared in America corn borer. This enemy is an alien that first appeared on American soil in Canada in 1921. After ravaging the corn fields of that country and almost totally destroying them in the short spnce of six years, it sneaked over the boundry line and appeared In the United States. Ohio and Michigan were the first states which it Infested and there the losses mounted to as high as SO per cent of the normal crop. Before its presence became widely known. the pest had spread Into New England and New York, through Ienns.tlvnnia as far south as Pittsburgh and Into one corner of West Then it began to work Virginia farther west into Michigan, invnded the northeastern corner of Indiana and within the last year it struck at the heart of America's famous corn belt hr appearing in Kankakee county, Illinois. As the result.of its operations an area of 3,000,000 acres, covering 10.000 square miles, has been Infested and unless It is controlled, it is predicted that the entire agricultural ntnp of the worlds greatest farm producing area will be changed. Threat to Crops. If the corn borer threatened only the corn crop It would be bad enough. But in striking at King Cora, this little Insect Is a menace also to the very foundations of the dairy, pork, poultry and other farm Industries. It is estimated that 89 per cent of the corn is fed to live stock and sold In the form of meat, milk, poultry. Forty per cent of the corn is fed to hogs and 15 er cent to cattle. Last year these hogs were worth $1,080,000,000 and cattle $1,165,000,000. The value of the poultry was estimated at $600,000,000 and the dairy products $1,515,000,000. Add to these the value of the corn crop Itself, $2,000,000,000, and It gives the staggering total of $10,000,000,000 which the European corn borer Is threatening to reduce. Of course, this does not mean that the corn borer can wipe out of existence that much wealth, hut It Is a potential danger to It unless the ravages of the pest are checked. Alarming as the situation has been, there Is one ray of light In a recent statement by Secretary Jardine of the United States Department of Agriculture that even though the corn borer might spread over the entire corn belt, by that' time his department would have developed effective and economical methods of control and the damage would be kept to a minimum. The Agricultural department has recently completed a survey of the results of the $10,000000 spring control campaign In New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan authorized by congress. Although this survey shows one and a half times as many -- Fbvvers Fall in Love Bose, the noted scientist, knows what he is talking about, romance Is not limited to the uni inn I world. He says flowers hare hearts and fall In love. Ills opinion Is that most present teachings In rerpcct to botany are Incorrect. Experiments show, he says, that the death of one flower may cause another to pine away ahd die. Of course whni the great scientist says should If Sir Jagadis ii Win, 20 Die, in Sea Flights vztT A c&Airr cur your txow! borers in 1927 as In 1926, this Is only of the normal Increase in the number of borers In the Infested area that is shown In the estimate of four times as many in 1926 as In 1925. The significance of this is shown In the remainder of Secretary Jardines statement which reads as follows: one-sixt- h The reduction o f the rate of Increase the number of borers this year Indicates the effectiveness of the control measures employed In the recent spring; campaign, but these results also show moot mpbavloa.11 y that thA hrAr Is a real menace. The departments opinion continues to be that the spread of the borer to the entire corn belt Is Inevitable. and that it is a situation to which the farmers, the state departments of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges must adjust their plans. At the same time the control measures used In the spring were sufficiently effective to lead the department to believe that serious commercial damage to the nations corn crop can be avoided to a considerable extent The results of the 1927 campaign are due In a large measure to the given by farmers In the Infested area In carrying out the clean-u- p measures recommended. The continuation of such concerted and vigorous action by all farmers In the area In putting effective control measures Into practice Is the only Immediate way in which commercial damage can be prevented. These measures Include the destruction of all cornstalks, remnants of or stalks, and corncobs In the fields near the premises, before the emergence of the com borer moth. Effective methods of holding down the Increase In the number of corn borers must be adopted Into the farming practice generally or serious readjustment of the present system of farmbecome ing in the corn belt area will necessary, as has already occurred In Canada since 1923. The joint spring campaign of the federal and state forces having demonstrated the effectiveness of the control measures used In slowing down the Increase of the number of borers. It Is assumed that adequate control measurers will be continued by the states affected. The department will continue with the states in scoutto the maining to determine Infestation, tenance of quarantines and tn providand educaing for necessary research tional work Insofar as the regular appropriations of the department for the purpose are available. New Bulletin Out. In furtherance of Its Control the Cora Borer campaign, the Agricultural department has recently Issued a bulletin for farmers on the subject of The European Corn Borer Its Present Status and Methods of Control" which contains the following advice on how each can do his share to help thwart the "assassin of the corn In - field: material. (2) Plowing under cleanly. (3) Burning completely. Each field presents a separata problem. In any case the clean-u- p method adopted will vary according to the farming practice used. The Important thing to remember Is that all corn remnants must be disposed of before the corn borer changes to tbs moth, or flying stage. Clean Up by May 1. For the sake of safety the clean-u- p should be completed by May 1 of each year. In fields which cannot be plowed or otherwise handled effectively In the special effort should be made spring, to dispose OI Bll corn leiuuauu the fall. In case the corn Is to be cut. It ehould be cut as low and as early atas possible. Special tachments for corn binders may bs purchased for this purpose. Ifd corn Is to be cut by hand, a heavy hoe should be used because this permits low cutting without undue exertion. In case Infested cornstalks are fed direct to live stock without previous cutting or shredding, the uiw eaten parts should be destroyed unless Intrampled deeply Into manure. creased use of the silo and husker-shredd- er machines Is recommended. If plowing is to be effective tn destroying the corn borer all thrash must be turned under completely so that material may not be plowed-unddragged to the soil surface by later cultivation before the moths emerge. Clean plowing deprives borers of their natural shelter when they crawl to the soil surface after being plowed under. Average plowing methods must be Improved sufficiently to insure that all cornstalks and trash are turned under completely. Neither depth of time of plowing Is Implowing nOr corn-borcontrol If a portant for clean job Is done and material Is not' afterward dragged to the soil surfacs. In case the available plowing equipment will not handle standing cornstalks or high stubble, they should be cut or broken off at the ground level, raked both ways of the field Into windrows, and burned. This reduces the bulk of the material to such an extent that the remaining parts can then be plowed under cleanly. Breaking or cutting off standing cornstalks at the ground level, followed by clean raking Into windrows or piles, and clean burning are very effective methods. They may be made more effective tf the remaining trash Is plowed under cleanly. Before June 1 of each year burn all cornstalks that have been used for building shelters for live stock, for thatching, and for windbreaks, and similar purposes. This should also include surplus stalks stored for fodder and all stalks in and around barnyards and feed lots. Keep all portions of corncobs out of shelled corn intended for shipping to points outside the Infested areas. Corn from badly Infested fields ehould be shelled not later than June 1 of each year and the cobs burned. Ear corn from such fields should be kept In a tight compartment or covered by eswire screen to prevent the cape of the emerging moths. Disking stubble Is an cornstalks or high-cobjectionable practice In Infested fields, because It leaves abundant shelter for borers. Poisons, trap lights, attractive baits or pasturing Infested corn fields have not been effective tn controlling the borer and are not recommended. Control of the corn borer depends effort. The corn upon community-wid- e growers must help one another. Corn-bormoths fly from field to field. Comlaws are necessary to pulsory clean-u- p secure the full of all concerned. low-cutti- short-handle- er er fine-me- Large-stemme- not be taken too literally. He does not mean that there is danger that the lilac will elope with the grapevine. Unreformed Spelling The latest way to spell potato Is this: p gh as In hiccough; o ugh as In dough; t phth as In phthisic: a eigh as In eight; t tte as In gaeau as In beau. Thus, zette: But It tastes ghoughphthelgbtteeau.' Just the same when cooked properly. Youths Companion. il IflPO The cost of using naval vessels and private ships in searching for lost ers is reckoned at another half-millio- flyn dollars. The total does not Include losses to backers of flights, or to the sponsors of transoceanic ventures which never progressed to a takeoff. In searching for the missing Dole prize flyers, the navy estimates it consumed $125,000 In fuel; that the 8.000 men employed consumed $40,000 In rations, and that naval equipment valued at $60,000,000 was used. As naval vessels were many as fifty-tw- o employed In the search at one time, as well as naval planes. Sees New Era of Aviation. Summing up the American activities of the season, government air experts declare that the flights have given birth to a new era In aviation, and have laid a carefully constructed foundation for the development of air traffic as safe as rail, motor or steamship transportation. They deem that long flights, even when attended by disasters, demonstrate amply that the airplane will play a bigger role In wars of the future. One effect of the years flying has been the shaking off generally, they said, of the feeling of danger and sensationalism once attached to aerial ventures, and the substitution of a national If progress In the last year or so In army aviation, as well as In other fields of air activity, Is an Index to what the future may hold, America will soon be ahead of the rest of the world In aviation," Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, head of the army aviation department, said. He gave the opinion that wAile long nanonstop flights of ture should be discouraged unless con- extra-hazardo- er r Artist Paints 200 Canvases Spooks-Guide- d Heinrich Mussleln says London. mediums told him to paint. In three months be has painted more than 200 canvases and has them on exhibition at the Alpine club gallery. Conduit street Mussleln had never painted before and his pictures show It But he Is a middle-age- d Bavarian who Is reputed to be a millionaire and need not worry whether his work sells or not He says he has clairvoyant contact with the living and the dead and has a to deliver to the canvas mes.-g- e world.' Cubists and futurists are outdone by Mussleln. He wanders tnto spirit realms unknown to them. Most of the persons who view his pictures fall to get the message he says he is delivering, but Mussleln Is still painting furiously and Is not In the least dis turbed by hostile criticism. Whooping Cough Near Top of Cause for Death Cincinnati, O. The death rate of whooping cough has declined less than that of any other childrens disease during the last 20 years. Dr. Edward S. Godfrey ol the New York state department of health told the annual meeting of, the American Public Health association. Whooping cough Is the least completely reported and Is perhaps the most difficult to coutrol of our epi- - ROMAN CURSE TABLET IS UNEARTHED NEAR VIENNA - Ancient Carnuntum Yields Leaded Imprecation in Latin Leveled at a Thief. Vienna. Excavations carried on by Prof. Rndolf Eger of the archeological Institute of the Vienna university at Carnnntum, the anelent Roman settlement near Vienna, have yielded up a highly Interesting find In the Friend to Be Held Dear 21 A good man is the best friend and shape of a leaden tablet bearing text. Latin of lines obliterated all but therefore soonest to be chosen, longThis text, which by dint of much est to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease tc labor has now been translated, Is rebe that for which he was chosen. ported to present a deep imprecation leveled at the head of a certain Jeremy Taylor. Eudemus, who appears to have committed a theft What la a Novel? The curse Is Indicted Id the tradi According to Andre Clide, no boot tlonal manner and addressed to the is a novel unless It Is a work In which gods of the nether world Dispater, there exists a conflict of eJiuviMn Eracura and Cerberus. The name of and a conflict of Ideas the goddesa Eracura Is here met with . aerx-nautl- Paris. In Morocco Wont Let Women Run Wild Marrakesh, Morocco. Morocco Intends to profit from the ex- perience of the Western world and not give Its women too much liberty, says HadJ pasha of Marrakesh. Morocco regards with apprehension the example 'of the Western world and Turkey," the pasha recently told a women We see the correspondent weak and Immoral side of too much and too rapidly acquired liberty. We will profit by the lesson. Womans sphere Is no.t In free contact with men, other than her husband, the pasha thinks. I favor the gradual feminist movement for Morocco. But above all the evolution of worn-mamust be In her sphere. To bring a man and a woman together in Morocco Is to put the fire near the powder, he conFrom the beginning of tinued. our history our women have seen only their husbands. With us the friendships between men and women such as the Western world knows, are Impossible." Tham-lel-Glaou- n demic diseases. Dr. Godfrey declared. Of the communicable diseases of childhood, it ranks next to diphtheria 7 deaths In New York Uo state. Nearly peixrm or ttndeaths from this cause occur among children under six years of age. Measles claims the most victims under one year of age, he stated. Since children under five succumb more easily to diphtheria, be recommended Immunization campaigns to reach the preschool child. Mysterious Derelict Drifts in From Pacific British Columbia. The Victoria, bull of a 200-fovessel, bearing tha name of Reveil or Reveille, has drifted Into the Strait of Joan de Fuca from the Pacific, and has been taken in tow and tied up at Sooke Harbor, near here. Mariners are puzzled as to the history of the derelict, which seems to have been a fine vessel of some 300 tons. Some ten or twelve years ago, they recall, a ship with a similar name was reported to have burned at sea in Pacific coast waters while on a voyage out of New York, but whether the hulk tied up at Sooke Is of tha same vessel has not been ascertained. Lloyds register for 1902-- lists a vessel under the name of Pevell, whose specifications correspond roughly with the ship which drifted Into the strait here. The hull has been taken In charge by the Dominion department of marine and fisheries. ot 3 Real Puzzle Ottawa, III. The Supreme court must decide whether women are persons. Womens organizations have been demanding representation In the senate, which the constitution limits to qualified persons. The government Is to refer the matter for Judicial interpretation. sh ut The main effect at control of the corn borer In the Middle West ehould be directed toward the disposal of corn refuse. weeds or grasses d the edges of badly growing in or along must also be deInfested cornfields stroyed. Infested plantsonemay be disof the folposed of through any of lowing methods or by a combination such methods: (1) Feeding to live etock direct from the field, or as silage, or as finely cut or finely shredded New York. The curtain has descended upon the transoceanic flying season of 1927, and aviation has turned to tabulation of the gains and losses of a historic summer. Ten ocean flights have succeeded, nine have failed. Twenty-on- e persons have ridden the wings of the air to safety across the two great oceans; twenty have lost their lives In flight and five more in preparation for flight The Atlantic has been spanned five times from America to Europe, and once from Africa to South America-Th- e Pacific has been crossed to Hawaii four times. Atlantic Five planes attempting flights have gone down, three planes have perished on Pacific flights and Paul Redfern, Georgla-to-Brazflyer, vanished above the Caribbean. In addition to human lives there has been a loss In airplanes, in flights of American origin, which aviation experts set at about half a million dol- - ducted under the most favorable auspices, nothing should be done to Interfere with the efforts of the military authorities to extend the usefulness of military planes." Calls Change Psychological. A psychological rather than a mechanical change in aviation Is seen by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edward P. Wagner, head of naval air activities. From a navy viewpoint the activities "proved the real usefulness of the application of aircraft" A reawakened Interest In the flying boat Is also forthcoming, he said, and the navy will continue to purchase new machines of this type as replacements for war-tim- e craft. Increased production or airplanes to meet a growing demand, and development of airports, landing fields, and a network of airways as plentiful as the rndlo-wav- e channels, Is foreseen by Clarence M. Young, director of of the Department of Commerce. While believing that ploneerlpg Jn any field Is expensive tn lives and material, CapL E. S. Land, assistant chief of the iavai bureau of aeronau stum uj tug im oiuut laa utrcittics flyings sake" a poor business." But he foresees a future In which aviation will be a vitally Important Item, not only to American commerce, but also to American defense." church for the first time In an Inscription of this character. Bear Eudemus to the nether world, runs the prayer of the curser, addressing himself to the judge of he the first Instance. Eudemus, shall return the goods continues, he has illegally appropriated to himself within the space of a week to the spot where they belong. Next the curser directs his appeal to the authority on the second InInfernorum stance, the Mlnisteria Peura. He begs that Eudemus be destroyed In the most miserable fashion. I e., with his hands tied on his back, he is to be dragged down, and con tinues : What this lead (the tablet) hath weight even such (weight) of your wrath shall Eudemus experience. Lastly the curser appeals to the to "evil spirits of this amphitheater The him hla property. help regain leaden tablet was found In the smaller of two amphitheaters so far uncovered at Carnuntum. French Army Test First Lady Cook Paris. Good, home cooking for the boys who go to war Is being tried out in the French army. The first lady cook Is bossing the Job of preparing the army chow in the Thirty-firs- t Infantry regiment She has a crew of kitchen police to help her, and even their work Is lightened by a mechanical potato peeler. Army food never has shared tha high reputation usually accorded the best French cuisine. It Is a tradition In the army, say Jocular critics, that shoemakers and carpenters are detailed to cook the food, while the professional cooks, doing, their military service, are created regimental tailors. The ears of the kangaroo mouse are about 15 times as large as the ears on the common mice of the same size. - |