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Show BUT NOT BIG NEWS The federal government la recent re-cent year had aought to follow th biblical Injunction to feed the hungry and cloth th naked. But It tomstlmei ha to draw the Una. A letter cams to ths forest service serv-ice the other day from a society with hesdquartert In New York, asking all possible Information aa to the planting and cars of fig tress. Ths request was turned ever to ths bureau of plant Industry, which replied thst it wouldn't adviss anyons to try raising fig trees and other tropical fruits in an area so far north. An employe, who believes the Incident ahould be noted In ths forest service bulletin, has writtsn it up with ths caption: "Whan a nudist camp writes in for Information Infor-mation on raising fig trees, that's news." Washington Correspondence Correspond-ence of Rodney Dutcher. |