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chestnut blight. This is a bark dis ease which was brought to this coun try from the Orient on Japanese chest nut nursery stock. It was first found on Western Long Island in 1904 and two years later it had reached south ward to Philadelphia. In ten years it spread over half of the chestnut area of the United States and at the present time it has practically exterminated the chestnut trees within a 100 mile radius of New York, and is rapidly accomplishing the complete ruin of our magnificent chestnut forests of the South. The loss caused by this single imported pest Is many million dollars and its ultimate end will be the extinc- ton of one of the most useful and most profitable American forest trees. Only recently it was found that similar disease attacking the poplars had been and had spread over a wide area of the United States.
 A Few Undesirable Visitors
 Some other pests introduced from abroad are the Oriental peach moth. the Japanese beetle. the European ear wig. the Leopard moth the alfalfa weevil. the European eelworm, and the European corn borer. The latter is a pest which apparently was brought 10 the United States in a cargo of hemp unloaded at rope factory near Bos- ton Massachusetts. It is exceedingly destructive to corn. feeding by boring
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in the stalk. In its operation it works upward, eating out chamber from the pith. The developing eaTs are also sometimes hollowed out. AS high as 90 per cent. of the stalks in a corn field may be infested. Over 200 borers have been found in the stalks growth g in one hill of corn. Control is made more difficult by the fact that the Dor CT feeds on a number of other plants. including the stalks of weeds and flow CTS, and may live over winter in grass roots. About the middle of May it pupates and emerges as a moth which lays large number of eggs, sometim es as many as TOO. The caterpillars from these eggs feed upon early corn and weeds and do considerable damage. About the last of July these caterpil- lars pupate and early in August an- other generation of moths appear. These lay their eggs (this time about 9OO) On corn and weeds (principally corn), and do vast amount of dam age. feed on the stalks and ears of corn. rx
 toaca ssNOt Wanted'
 Among the important insects which it is hoped to exclude from the Ameri- can continent are the Medit terranean fruit fly. considered .by entomologists to take first prize as a destructive
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and iron. Admiral Peary compares this feature of her construction to the cestus of the ancient gladiator. It was planned to be her mailed fist with which she would meet the enemy ice.
 In chapter of one of Admiral Peary's books on his polar exploits he sums up the predominant idea back of her construction. He says: "The whole plan and theory of the ship was first, that her strength, her power, her weight, her carrying capacity should all be below the main deck and that everything above deck houses, bu1warks, spars, sails, rigging. boats, quipment-should be as light as possible, to permit more coal in the hold; and the second. that not dol lar was to be wasted on fittings or frills, everything to be for strength, !, power and effectiveness
 Mrs. Peary christened this sturdy vessel which was to assist her husband
 in carrying out his perilous undertak-
 ing and bring to him the honor of the world. Shattering a block of ice con- taining a bottle of champagne against
 the steel-clad stem she named it after Admiral Peary's friend, Colonel Roose- welt.
 "On1y Name To Give Her." When I asked Admiral Peary why he had chosen to name her thus, he replied Tt was the only name to give her. She was the greatest ice fighter afoat, he was the greatest fighter in other directions" This remark was accompanied with a whimsical smile He continued Colonel Roosevelt be- lieved in my enterprise; it was through him that I obtained the necessary leave of absence to see the project through"
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the Roosevelt has carried on the du- ties assigned her in connection with her government work"
 Obviously, the polar exploit of the Roosevelt stands out permanently as the great event of her career. Interest centers on this experience. In fact, it was for this that she was specially built; the details of her building, therefore, are worthy of note.
 Designed For Arctic Waters
 In form and construction she was designed to overcome severe conditions of service. The model selected was intended to meet the requirements of lifting under pressure, of being short enough to handle easily and of being able to ram a passage through ice barriers effectively and continuously. Her length was fixed at 1S4 feet over all. She was built to be a pow erful steamer with only moderate sail power; her engines were capable of developing one thousand horse power; her sail plan is a light, America n. three-masted schooner rig with suffi- cient surface to aid the engines in a favoring wind and enable the ship to make her way home should her coal be exhausted.
 The Roosevelt was built solely of American timbers. Men secured the forests of the great northwest and the south to obtain her beams and masts. Wood was chosen rather than steel for its essential powers of elasticity, | toughness and resi1iency which are necessary for battling with the ragged solid fragment and foes of Arctic ice. Her bow which virtually constituted | a battering ram when she got into action was filled in solid with timbers
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As she bore the ColoneFs wellknown name, she bore also his better known nickname. We find Admiral Peary Roosevelt experienced on her initial trip northward and speaking of her thrilling rushes against the granite like barriers in this fashion: 'At such time everyone on deck hung with breathless interest on our movement, and as Bartlett "Chis Captain)," and I clung in the rigging I heard him whisper through teeth clinched from the purely physical tension of the throbbing ship under us, Give it to 'em, Teddy, give it to 'em.-
 And Teddy was called upon to "give it to 'em during the entire jour. ney northward after the Arctic wa
 ing into the ice packs and the south ward drifts which constitute an almost impervious jam is the continual func ton of a polar ship. Until she reach ec the point where Admiral Peary anG his party were satisfied to establish their base from which they worked onward by foot and dog team, tht Roosevelt experienced one continua battle with foes and bergs. Admira Peary compares these forward rushes crashes and splitting of the ice tt steeplechasing across country. As h, describes it-and no one else can dc justice to it-one gets the impression that it is vastly more thrilling.
 Bucking The Ice
 In his account of the Roosevelt 1905 trip northward he gives the de tails of one of these battles: "Just of the point of Sumner, a brief nip be tween two big foes which the swif
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The Arctic Ship Roosevelt To Be Sold By the Govern ment-Career of This Arc tic Fighter Part She Played In Discovering the North Pole.
By DORA sINrPKINs

~ EFORE ship slides off the
 launching ways she is said to rest
 in her cradle" When, after the ~ period spent in the service for wHich she was built, she is sold for other duty. she Is spoken of as having gone to her grave"
 Despite it's melodramatic tone, the phrase from the cradle to the grave" is a fitting heading for this tale about Admiral Robert F. Peary's Arctic ice fighter. the s. s. Roosevelt. For changes are taking place in the life of this vessel whose career has been as interesting as that of any renowned craft afloat.
 Now she is about 10 be disposed by the Department of Commerce. Re gently at the Bermerton Navy Yard on Puget Sound it was discovered that the alternate freezing and thawing in northern attitudes had sapped her huge oak timbers of their tensile strength. Repairs would be costly. so a sale is being considered.
 Admiral Peary Watched Construction
 Admiral Peary sketched for me the main events of the career of the Roosevelt from october, 1904, when at Bucksport, Maine, he watched the placing of every piece of timber that went into her construction to the time when the government bought her for a supply and patrol ship for the Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce.
 The Roosevelt" began Admiral Peary. twas built by the Peary Arctic Club, through the efforts of Morris K. Jesup. Begun in october. 1904. she was launched in March, 1905, and made her trial trip in June, starting
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~ EFORE a ship slides off the
 launching ways she is said to rest
 in her cradle" When. after the ~ period spent Tn the service for
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Loss Of Millions

Recent experience with imported
 pests has made it apparent that the bug is blightier than the sword. The uncontrolled ravages of the late blight and rot of potatoes in 1916 was re- sponsible for the shortage in the po- tato crop which sent prices soaring and brought the humble spud into prominence hitherto unknown. Pow dery scale and scurf are two other po- tato diseases which have been brought in from abroad. More recently. the potato wart disease, established in Pennsylvania from European importa-
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Copyright, 1919, The elntern1tion1lSy syndicate. V INSECT pests are about ready to
 say of Uncle Sam "he was a good
 fellow" and adjourn that s500,- - 100000 a year banquet they have been holding. forest or a whole crop mean nothing in the life of these pests and there is a pest for every plant according to Charles Lathrop Pack. president of the American Forestry Association of Washington.
 Some plants have more than a thou sand insect and fungus diseases which attack some portion of them. causing death or injury. However. most of the pests which attack our plants are native to America and have natural enemies which keep them in check. And all those fieas have little fieas, upon their backs to bite 'em: and those again have lesser fieas, and so ad infinitum." Thus native insects have a host of voracious enemies. in- cluding birds. animals and other in- sects. which preserve the balance of Nature"
 Must Maintain Balance Of Nature
 But Uncle Sam has maintained an open door to plant immigrants and. year after year. destructive insects and
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plant diseases have come to this coun- try on these plants from abroad. Some of these pests have found the Land of Freedom entirely to their liking. Some times the climate here has been ex- ceptionally favorable for their rapid development, at other times they have found new food plants. In such cases they have propagated rapidly because the balance of Nature was no longer maintained
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
Big WELCOME TO-DAY
FOR HERO REGIMENT
Week of Celebrations Planned
in Honor Of 369th Infantry
and Col. Hayward.

A big reception has been planned for
the 369th Infantry, the old Fifteenth
New York. OF which the Third Battalion
and Machine Gun Company are ex-
pected to reach New York from France
to-day aboard La France. to De followed
Immediately by the rest OF the orsaniza
ton. Under the command OF Col. Will
lam Hayward formerly Public Service
Commissioner. this regiment of negro
troops so distinguished Itself that II was
conduct in battle.
A whole week OF welcoming has been
arranged by the Hayward unit OF the
War Camp Community Service, which
will keep open house al its headauar-
tiers, zoo West l39th street. The mem
bers OF the other colored regiments ex-
pected to-day. the 370th. from Chicago.
37lst and 372d, will Join in the festivI-
ties.
There will be supper and dance at
the Fifteenth Regiment Arnory, spe-
cial performances at the Lafayette Thea
tire and blocks of seats provided at other
theatres. The wounded Will be taken
10 tho Hayward unit BY tho Meter Corps
OF America, colored section. At the
unit there will be beds for more than
100 men. with quarters for officers at
20SS Seventh avenue. where there also
will be a canteen with meals for all at
moderate prices. Major William II.
Jackson has charge Of the arrangements.
AS soon as the 36gth reaches camp
a committee. will call on Col. Hayward
TO arrange for parade, tho route OF
which will include Harlem.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09

"a and 26; Headquarters Thirty-eishth
Coast Artillery Brigade, convalescent
detachments 81. 80 and Is to 40 in
elusive, and sixteen casual officers.
The Polar Bear and Maiden are 10
arrive at Baltimore February IS and
New York February II respectively.
with a few casual officers each.
The War Department announced to-
day the following organizations assigned
to early convoy home:
Sixteenth. Twenty-eighth and 266th
Aero Squadrons. Signal Corps Casual
Company. Base Hospitals Nos. and
+3 OF the Sixty-ninth Balloon Company
and Bakery Company No. 3os.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Feb. S.--The
battleship Vermont arrived here to-day
after a rough voyage from France, with
1000 soldiers from the 4s3d and 4s9th
Aero Construction Squadrons and four
casual companies comprised of men
from New York. Pennsylvania, Kansas
and New Jersey. They will be demobil-
lied at Camps Meade. Jill and Stuart.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
BRITISH OFFICERS
SAIL ON ADRIATIC
Noted Army and Navy Men
Among the 1000 Aboard.

More than thousand passengers
sailed for Liverpool yesterday on the
White Star liner Adriatic. The big liner
put into the river about the time snow
Degan to fall and fastened down the hay
TO get safely away from the Hook before
thick weather made navigation hazard
Gus in shoal and crowded waters.
Admiral Sir w l. Grant. for the last
year commander Of the British naval
force in American and Western waters
was ono OF the passengers. lie said his
flagship was the former American yacht
Warrior. owned by Alexander Smith
Cochrane.
Questioned concerning the keen COM
PETITION OF British and American inter-
ests In South American markets, Adj
mral Grant said English manufacturers
are endeavoring to win back markets
they deserted when British ship owners
turned their vessels over to the Govern
meut. With the Admiral was his Flag
Lieutenant, +. G. Fellows Gordon who is
returning to England with his American
wife. formerly Miss Sarah Price Col
lier, 10 whom he was married in Wash
ington on December so.
Other British officers on the Adiiatic
were Commander =. II. Trimmer, Brig
Gen. j. d. Cormack. head Of British Air
Production in the United States John
Headlam. formerly head of British Ar
tillery Production: Gen Charles Lee OF
the British FLYING Corps. and Sir Geof
frey Butler. director OF the British Infor-
nation Service.
George Boussos. Minister to Greece to
the United States, is bound for France,
where no will confer with Premier Ven
izelos at Versailles and later return 10
Greece. He said he felt sure the United
States would stand behind Greece and
support her at the conference.
Others sailing included Miss Emily
Grigshy, former ward of Charles Il.
Yerkes; Miss Marie Doro. Miss Maggie
Teyte. and Sir Connop Guthrie of the
British Ministry of Shipping,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
Troopships Due To-day

DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI from
Marseilles. January 20, with
forty-nine officers and 1879
men Of the Coast Artillery Corps
and one officer and fifty-five
men of the 164th Field Hospital.
Battleship North Carolina
from Brest January %, with
the Twelfth Battalion, Twentieth
Engineers, composed of sixteen
officers and 1877 men; two officers
and lie men Of the Thirty-second
Company, Twentieth Engineers,
Air Service Casual Company 2, Of
two officers and 1877 men, casual
companies of Georgians and
Pennsylvanians, and a marine de-
tachment.
France from Brest February
2, with ia officers and 2,S43
colored troops Of the 370th In
fantry, thirty officers and 952
colored troops of the 369th In
fantry, Machine Gun Company,
and medical detachment of the
Third Battalion, six officers and
143 colored troops of the 36Sth
Infantry, Machine Gun Battalion,
2S2 casual officers, including 149
airmen. Total aboard 4,729.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
$4,000 MORE u. S. MEN
START FROM FRANCE
Most of the Soldiers Will
Land at NeU York.

w,sur,,GTov. Feb. S-peparture from
France Of more than $1,000 officers and
enlisted men Of the American Expedi-
,ionary Forces, including the Forty-sec-
ond. Sxty-second and Sixty-thIrd Coast
Artillery regiments. was announced to-
sday by the War department
The troops are aboard the battleship
Kansas and the transports Harrisburg
louisville, Kroonland, Polar Bear. Nal
den, Pocahontas and Caserta. All are
due to reach American ports between
February II and IS.
The Pocahontss liz due at New YORK
February 1S with the Sixty-second Regi-
ment Coast Artillery complete, head
quarters Of the Thrty-third Artillery
brigade, Convalescent Detachments Nos
90 and 20 casual companies of Illinois
Ohio and Wisconsin troops and Regular
5Army: ono Quartermaster casual COM
fpany of Virginia mon, the medical de-
Siachment Of Battery T. and the ordnance
ybctachment OF the Sixty-hrst Regiment
Coast Artillery.
& The Caserta is scheduled to arrive at
New York about February IS with vir-
ssually ALI of the SlXty-third Regiment
s sA.. Artillery and s!Xty-five casual Of
Ulcers,
h The Kansas IS expected at Newport
News February 1G. with the headquar-
TIERS, medical deta chment and Companies
A. II. G and d 81 tho ll6th ammunition
train and the llCth Engineers complete
Eli bound for Camp Dix.
The transoort Harrisburg, due at
New York February Is, has on board
the field and staff, headqua rters ana
E'Ipp;y company, medical detachment
and Companies 4 to q inclusive Of the
f:ssth Infantry. All of these so TO Camp
.Necde. Also on board are thirty-threc
casual officers and about fifty sick ana
wounded
Tho Louisville Is due ut New York
lFehruary IL with the field and STAFF,
supply company, medical detachment
batteries \, II. e and d OF the 35lst
Field Artillery, for Camp Meade Head
quarters lf7'h F.r!1 .trt!!!cry Brigade.
detachment Of Company q. 3gSth In
fantry and convaloscent detachnents
sos. ., 10 ana -. Also 0n;;h.s ship are
ER"out 30" naval men and thirteen sail
eors' wives
q The ru sport KroorlaDd is due at
Ne" N"rN February - with the Forty
BSecond Regiment Coast ARTILLERY COM
,plete casual companies or ptnnsllyapio
ENew YORK aud Massachusetts mon
va Aero Replacement squadron. pna-
Geographic sections Nos 10, 20. 81. ~.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
THREE SHIPS SAIL FOR BREST.
Two Transports 90 TO bring stack
Part of Organs Division.

Not an American transport nosed its
way into New York harbOr yesterday
despite the fact that several were due
Two transports, the Slboney and the
Mongolia. and the hospital ship Mercy
sailed Yesterday for Brest The trans
ports viii bring back to this country part
OF the Twenty-seventh Division made
Up oc boys from Camp Upton
Scventy-tlve women canteen workers
OF the V NJ. G. \. We're passengers on
TIE Mongolia. Others on hoard were
Major G. T. Hendler OF the Judge Advo-
Gates department. Rabbi AARON Teicel-
baum of the Syrian Relief Commission.
Alfred Berri, American Nirr-Consul at
Odessa, and James g. Finley, American
Nicr-Consul AT Narcotics,
on the Sihoney Were eleven m>n and
four women OF the salvation Army. who
VIII 1laks doug-tAnGs SsI doaSSe=-n
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09
HUNGARIANS WANT MONARCHY
Government Takes steps TO Halt
Movement for Restoration.

CoPENHAGES, Feb. S.---A resolution de-
manding the reestablis lment of the
Kingdom of Hungary WAS passed Thurs
day at "A public meeting in budapest. ac-
cordus to despatch to-day from tho
Hungarian capital Great enthusiasm Is
said to have been manifested at the meet
ing when the resolution was adopted
The agitation for the restoration of
the monarchy is reported to have caused
great unrest and the Government is talk
Ing strong measures ~ suppress the
movement.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-09

FROM a branch office in Hoboken Of
ficers OF Massachusetts units aboard In
coming transports arc told to send their
men TO the cubrooms Information
has been cab.ed 20 the ports OF France,
and carts with the photograph and ad
dress of the place OF good cheer will
be posted on all transports and at al!
camps and hospitals. former army
officer will visit regularly the camps
and military hospitals OF the New York
district TO search out Massachusetts
men. Automobiles will be provided to
take couvalescents on trips through
parks or 10 the ciuhrooms. and for this
work more volunteered cars are needed.
For wounded soldiers unable TO write
or careless about getting word to the
home folks regularly the Massachusetts
committee will undertake to send
report once a week, telling where the
patient is and how he is getting on.
Andrew Mack who Is a member OF the
committee. will stage shows once a week
in the clubrooms; Sidney F'arrRf. an
other member. hopes his distinguished
daughter Geraldine may sing for the SOL
diers soon. Albert J. simmons and other
Massachusetts members OF the Lambs
are cooperating on the stunt programme
And for their own entertainment and ed
iHcatIon the men have in the clubrooms
piano, a talking machine. books,
games. writing material and smokes. not
To mention file OF Massachusetts, news
papers, and on the walls photographs OF
the State House. Henry Cabot Lodge.
FAnueil Hall, the Old South Church and
other institutions of the Commonwealth
May Have Dormitory.
Tho committee Is now discussing The
establishment OF a dormitory with TWEEN
ty-hve or fifty beds, in some loft build
ing, as the War Camp Community Ser
vice, the Salvation Army and other agen-
cies do not begin 20 have accOnmoda-
tons for all the soldiers who are wan
dering about New YORK.
"But we hope says Mr. Fahy. 1--WE
shant make the Massachusetts men so
comfortable that they will want TO stay
here. for 1t is important that they should
be encouraged to go to their homes at
the earliest possible moment"
Among the committee members are
Albert h. Wiggin, chairman OF the
Chase National Bank: Eugene V r.
Thayer, president OF that bank: Lieut.
Charles y. Briykley, l.. S, y, former
Harvard football captain; Timothy
Byvncs. former vice-presdent of the
New Haven Railroad; Mr.. Fahy. who
is "A member OF the brokerage Arm Of
Lyman u. Smith 4 Co. ; Henry w Saw
age, william Harris, Jr., Carl u. 10th
rop. Thomas w. Ross, actor. and Patrick
Francis Murphy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-17
The Victory Loan Drive

Wayne county will not fall behind other
political units of Indiana In subscribing its al
lotment of the last war loan. 1t made enviabe
record by it's absorption of former loans, its SUBJ
scriptions to the Red Cross and the Y. NJ C. A..
and it's gifts to other war relief agencies and or
CARNATIONS.
The Victory loan comes at time when tho
people have the surplus money to invest in gilt
edged securities. The terms of the issue are at
tractive to investors Of all classes. There is no
truth in the impression that prevails in some
circles that the loan is intended only for persons
who have large surplus of money. Quite the
contrary holds true. The government wants
every person who can buy to invest, even if the
amount is only for $50 bond.
Wayne county easily absorb its quota.
Promoters of worthless oil, mine and industrial
stocks look upon this county fruitful field to
garner dollars in exchange for scraps of paper
that are worth nothing. Their operations can
be effectively checked by putting your money
in government securities. No better form of in
vestment can be found than government bond.