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Show One for All, All for One, Even Germs Take Up theChant, Scientists Assert Two Department of Agriculture scientists announced discovery of four types of bacteria that give up their rugged individualism when the going gets tough and organize themselves them-selves into an army, marching on parade with the precision of West thing while doing research in th torlf ' AgdCU,tUr tones. They pursued their st,,; further and found what I GS bacteria act so strangely e reduced moisture, they reported Point cadets, writes a Washington United Press correspondent. Scientists long have believed that bacteria act, like ruthless savages on the principle of "the devil take the hindmost" These four species, however, unite in a co-operative organization when the water in which they live starts to dry up. They move in ranks with as many as 50 individual bacteria in a single, even file. Half a dozen ranks of bacteria may parade across a microscopic field in a few minutes, it was said. Dr. Francis E. Clark and N. R Smith, of the bureau of plant indus-I indus-I try, solved the mystery of the socially so-cially conscious bacteria. The phenomena phe-nomena was first described by J L Roberts, a graduate student of the University of Texas. Dr. Clark and Smith, working independently, in-dependently, discovered the same j lo these spore-formW k . . Inherit some astonish Trait Jt guides them when their r Whlch ditionsbecomltUo'abtT8 Dr. Clark and Smith do not v the answer, although they havp hW working on the puz7le for I Cn AH they know I I t 'rwhmonU-moisture 'rwhmonU-moisture is reduced, tSese four cos of bacteria organize Zn SPe" operative units to sale t Cs Under the microscope th V tena form an even row dozens. Out In frnnt mnnv individuals may cad' Z W like drum major t, ' y P"ade-"Pidly P"ade-"Pidly that magnifi inn Ve 80 .'mes their actual V00 arch" out of view wit a few minutes. " a Vc'y Behind the rows In even fr "zsvfz! ' ': |
