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Show V. ; ' A Squirt Gun Army . By Herbert Kaufman RIDE through the country and wherever the eye turns there are hug webs of worms discharging their full, omnivorous legions to devour precious foodstuffs. A late season, scarcity of farm labor, the withdrawal of European acreage from the plow, a woful insufficiency of staples and consciencelessly manipulated markets are united in a conspiracy to reduce supplies and raise prices. And now, to cap the climax, as if Providence had deserted humanity to strengthen the hand of famine, every sign portends a fat year for pest and vermin. '. How can an enlightened and efficient community suffer enormous enor-mous tracts of waste land to breed these blights in plain sight of ' every passerby and utterly fail to adopt measures, for want of which, tons of precious fruits and vegetables will be lost to every tounty? The instinct of preparedness seems absolutely lacking to America. Amer-ica. We have no sense of anticipation. We steadfastly refuse jo take the stitch in time and habitually pay nine. It's all well and good totalkof76nservlngee1ds'hlcftsCTpen!eTartattotrrtrt-there totalkof76nservlngee1ds'hlcftsCTpen!eTartattotrrtrt-there would be no necessity to scream for legislation against the high cost of living if somebody, somewhere on this continent, had , the knowledge and the gumption and the energy to utter a call to - the spray gun and enlist an army to fight the multibillion dollar waste which continues year after year in the land that permitted the buffalo to perish in a decade its forests to disappear without replacement, and the wood pigeon to die under the pot hunters' guns and cudgels. , Shall we never learn forehandedness? In the name of com-' com-' mon welfare and personal advantage, will YOU form a local pest- fighting club and get the boys and girls of the neighborhood and some of the hysterical men and women of your acquaintance now ' running about wringing their hands for a chance to "do their bit. ' Interested In a very practical and highly valuable form of public service Buy a dollar squirt gun, some slungshot or kerosene solution and clean up the nearest patch of underbrush. And if you have, the rift of leadership, invite a few prominent folk with the do ( , something habit" to join with you in starting a nationwide crusade j 1ot "jfj,? - one ventur to suggest that the time now spent j bv several hundred thousand enthusiastic boy scouts in other ad- i . niirable activities might be very valuably applied in this quarter. OpyWght.H17.by Horhcri Kaufman. Oro.f ritaln and all thr right re.erv.d. , |