Show oj i Victory For The es r. r i Comes word from the Department Department Depart Department ment of Agriculture that the battIe battle bat bat- t tIe tle against the Japanese beetle has bas f been going badly The department has informed a Senate sub subcommittee commit commit- tee fee that it is ready to give up the ghost in its effort to quarantine the beetle The reason given was because the department has come to the reluctant conclusion that the bettle bettl is going to go where where- it wants to go regardless of the departments department's departments department's departments department's de de- de- de quarantine effort The department attack on on the Japanese beetle has been in progress grog grog- ress now for some twelve years and was tentatively proposed proposed pro pro- pro pro- posed as the next b budget for quarantine quarantine quarantine antine enforcement This is is' roughly rough rough- ly third one-third of a million dollars Since the campaign against the beetle beetIe is g getting nowhere the the- expenditure expenditure expenditure ex ex- of a third of a million dollars in the beetle quarantine program could not be justified by the department We Vc congratulate the department on the frankness of its approach anc and note that it is unusual for a government department to vol voluntarily volun volun- un- un give up jobs and money tentatively tentatively ten ten- scheduled for it tion We Ve also too secretly admire admire ad- ad mire the Japanese bettle for l his s ability to travel about where he lIe pleases despite twelve years of opposition from the department and several million dollars expend tures on the part of the Y ers The beetle it seems can stand his ground even against the most scientific ic quarantine of the Twee- Twee Twentieth Century |