Show locusts as food date back to the days of john the baptist and others it inq not necessary for a learned entomologist in the johns hopkins faculty to prove uie the edibility of lo locusts cuts by eating a few of them and surviving the experiment ariment for unnumbered centuries these insects have been an occasional but consid considerable 1 I r a ble part of ill the d diet let of millions of 4 people in several parts of the world and if ever those people lien r of the bolins mans s exploit they will smile superiorly anil and wonder onder at the belatedness belat of chiq audacity lla city the history of john the baptist is not tile the only recorded instance aln n which empei ical persons have anticipated CIP td tile the scientist oi of course locusts are edible so are hundreds hundred of other insects thousands of bf them pro probably balAy and it might not be nt at all injudicious at this time NN when hen so much of the worlds population I 1 is going hungry it if more attention were overe bestowed on nasit ill at is after till all the largest largest of new food sources still the locusts in this country are not in much danger as a result of the professors revelation oven even though lie does say I 1 khat that I 1 they laste faste like shrimp |