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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

tlle cry OIL the clcada generally an unwelcome one.
very long ago some superstition attached to the
dark bars of the tilmy wings These bars are al
ways In the shape Of the letter w, but few people
remember that through a period of IL or II wears
ana great significance is attached to If Mt each
recurrence Some prophet has arisen always to
announce that the w on the loc,lst's wings means
war Since this outbreak will come just at the
conclusion OF the greatest war; and when even the
imagination of the rural prophet could hardly con-
jure up the likelihood of another one some new
explanation will apparently have to be found this
time. But no doubt the cicada WILL as usual be
greeted as a harbinger of disaster and as usual
there will be reports of deaths caused by sngs of
the ccada, belief that has persisted in spite of
positive proof that the clcada has no sting that
only by the EXTREMIST accident could it inhict
wound either with bill OvlpositOr and that 1t
could not, in any case, inject a poison.
Injury Is Usually overestmated
Upon every appearance Of large brOods OF the
clcada, fear is aroused that trees will be destroyed
particularly young trees of the fruting and orna-
mental species. There would seem to be some
ground for such a fear. The number Of the in
sects is so tremendous that one can hardly under
stand how they deposit their eggs in the young
and tender branches of the trees without killing
them. Yet the fact remains that there have been
outbreaks of cicadas in some sections of the United
States in most of the years since this country was
discovered and that very grave damage ever vet
has been done. Very young fruit trees sometimes
are killed or seriously injured, but little or no
permanent injury is done to forest trees or mature
trees of any kind and measures of protection can
employed that will save the young and tender
stock from serious injury
Inasmuch as the coming 1919 brood OF locusts
may be of the largest on record it Is particu-
larly important to allay excessive fear of destruc
ton to timber as we'll as to have people on guard
SO that the few preventive measures possible may
be applied. The belief that the 1910 brood will be
exceptionally large is based on the fact that the
1T-year brood coming out this year is brood 10.
perhaps the largest of the 17year broods and that
brood IS Of the 13-year family comes out ut the
same time The year 1868 the creates locust
year in history In that year brood 49, the largest
II the 19-year broods appeared in conjunction with
brood TO- the two combining to made an unpreee-
,cned nfestation. The coincidence Of the largest
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

pence, and the work should be very early In the
morning or late in the evening when the insects
are somewhat torpid and sluggish.
insecticides Are Effective
The destruction of the clcada may be accom-
plished with insecticides II applied at the moment
of emergence from the ground or shortly after 1t
has shed its pupal skin and is still soft and COM
narotlvely helpless. This kind of work can be
made very successful in small areas but could not
he applied on large scale. Best results are OBJ
tanned with pyrethrum powder, Kerosene emul-
sions. a per cent solution of carbolic acid, or
Is per cent solution of acetic acid sprayed direct
ly on the insects
Not much success has been attained with
washes or other applications to prevent oviposi-
ton nl-smelllng substances appear not to repei
the cicada There are some indications that the
insect dslikes to sit on white surface and there
fore whtewash is believed to possess some efficacy
as n preventive of opposition, though the cicada
will ovipost on whitewashed trees If no more
nlaosne place can be found. spray of bordeaux
mixture is also believed to have some value as
preventive.
(,ertain precautionary methods, however. are OF
moro Importance than the curative ones. IN all
regions where there Is to be an appearance OF the
cicadn all pruning operations should be neglected
during the preceding winter and spring ia order 20
offer a larger twig growth and thus to distribute
the damage over a greater surface. The planting
Of Young orchards should be deferred unth the
danger Is past and the same advice @ppheS 10
budding operations In the spring prior 70 tne
cicada's appearance.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
- TRANSPORTATION OF PERIODICAL CIcADA
NFr NUMBERS INDICATE sTAoES OF oEVELoPt1ENT
When the "17-Year-Locusts" Come.

The year 1919 is likely to be one OF the
worst "locust years on record. But ento-
,nologists of the United States department. Oh
agriculture see nothing alarming in the pros
pect.
The periodical cicada, the real name OF the
insect commonly called locust, VIII appear
This wear in the following states: Alabama
District of Columbia, Delaware Georgia.
Illinois. Indiana Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland
Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania
South Carolina, Tennessee, vermont VIZ
e,inia. West Virginia, and Wisconsin
The injury done by the periodical cicaua
consists almost wholly in chiseling grooves
in the branches of trees for depositing eggs
This injury always appears to be greater
than 1t actually is. Popular alarm is usually
out of proportion to general damage.
Young fruit trees are sometimes killed
) by the cicada. The precautionary measures
are: Defer putting out young fruit trees TIL
next year; postpone budding operations; do
no pruning this winter or spring.
When the insects begin coming out. hand
nick them from young fruit trees or spray
them with pyrethrum powder, kerosene
emulslons or a solution Of carbofic acid or
acetic acid
Later, when the insects are ready TO be-
gin laying, spray young fruit trees with
whitewash.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
Flanders Fields Poppy and Torch Of Lib
erty for War Service Flags
By MISS MONA MICHAEL. University OF Csorsi.

our And and
We n o
torch; be
II I'VE breakfa wi
the
In Flanders FLANDERS heds
Lie Col Aoina Michael
every great and for great has
fitting memorial The great organization mercy has its red
the NJ For the boys serving their
fry on andor the service star flag and
The service flag the psychological demand during the but
now new need has Something needed keep alive that thrill
which we all feel now inspiration and the triumph the fight
democracy poppy should be the victory flower and the torch of
liberty the emblem grateful world memorabilia the devoted
sacrifice of men who the hero author of GIN Flanders Fields
their to humanity Let us keep faith with them
The number Of could be shown by the service
Of blue they lived gold if they have edn the upper hand
CORNER service hairs in the lower lefthand length
d time served with the colors The insignia the the
n M unn roand corner and sripes warraned-n the
over right corner would the AorY complete at glance
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

II years, and over other regions where another
brood appeared Is years ago This is the insect
commonly referred to as the '17-year locust
name that is incorrect in at least two particulars.
1t is not q locust at all that name being properly
applied only to members of the grasshopper family
and while it has Il 17-year period, it also has 10
year period. 1t has been so long miScalled by the
name of locust however, that there is no hope OF
divestng it of that incorrect appelation, and in
the regions where there is the longer period of
recurrence it will continue to be known as the IL
year locust" and in the of the shorter recur
renee period as the "13year locust" The scien-
tiicay accepted name of periodical cicada, there
fore is the only one that exactly fits.
The statement that this is the most interesting
where and it is the most interesting because it is
the most anomalous, or possibly, because it has
always appeared to be so mysterious The fact
that it appears in countless numbers year, then
is not seen again for half the average lifetime of
human beings and then suddenly appears again in
countless numbers, has kept the popular mind myS
titled and has woven many superstitions about the
cicada. When It is known that the insects spend
the Is II years in slow development beneath the
ground and emerge at almost exactly the same
spot where they entered he ground IS or II years
before-then the mystery disappears, but the in
terest if anything is intensified One of the queer
est things in nature is that in spite of such ex-
tremely slow growth in their subterranean habitat,
all the millions of individuals attain maturity and
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

additional classify this the order OF It's MILL
tay industrial importance the domestic and indus
speed up wartime activities to maintain them
state production and to pave the way to
speedy peae pursuits while recruiting the full fight
ing strength of the naton-hese would be instantly
rejected as impossible did the actual facts stand
Truly the melting pot of the world and the cosmopolitan
composition our population stngy disclosed than
the world Then the melting stood the
Rational emergency and its contents heated the
flames either fused into the compact fod off dross
The great and inspiring revelation here has been that Of foreign
and native alike responded to the call to with patriotic
that COMPOUNDED the cynical plans Of aenemy
passed highest expectations No puse the roll
camps the casualty list from battlefield France
realizing fulfilled of its highest
breeding spirit loyalty among all those who have shared
the blessings of life its free soil
certain that great national undertaking begun
which depended utterly upon faith people for its execution and
undoubtedly faith has been completely justified and
fdence abundantIy rewarded
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

burst from the ground at
almost the same moment.
Every locust year" is,
in some sort, a year of
fear and dread. 1t appears
to have been so with the
savages and has remained
so with their civilized sue
cesSorS, Notwithstanding
the fact that the cicada
has been under investiga-
ton for well over 200
years, and the appearance
of the swarms are fore
told by entomolOgists as
accurately as eclipseS Of
moon are foretOld by as
tronomers. People have
fancied that they could de-
tect in the cry of the
cicada a resemblance to
the name of the monarch,
Pharaoh, that prosecuted
the lsraelites, and that Oc-
cult belief or fear added
to the somewhat dolorous
sound has served to make
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

IT. e ar brood
with a smaller IL
year brood this
year w i'll n o t
bring about CON
ditions approach
ing those of 1868.
r h e q nj t e d
S ia t e s depart
ment of agricul-
ture has long kept
close check on all
of the broOds of
both families and
is able to say
with almost com
plete, unfailing
accuracy just
when and over
w h a t territory
any brood will
appear.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

HE most interesting insect III
the world, the periodical cicada,
is going to be seen, perhaps in
very large numbers, during the
spring and early sum
mer over large regions of the
United States where this brood
has not appeared before for
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
How the Selective Draft Proved an lmpos-
sible Task Easily Possible
By CEN E H. cRowDER. Provost Marshal General. u s. A.

We are now too close to the events of the war to
assess them accurately How great part the Ameri-
can seectve service played in the drama of the world
war history alone tell
That new and untred scheme of selection could
succeed at all was to many doubtful; that it should
attain results beyond the fondest dreams of its most
ardent supporters unbelievable To enroll for serv-
ice "a O000 900 men, to mobilize selected army OF more
than 28O00O0 a million of them in ninety days; to
have presently available for military duty 100000
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
MOST MYSTERIOUS
INSECT KNOWN TO
SCIENTISTS WILL m
WADE LARGE PART OF
THE UNITED STATES.

Prepared by the 7. S Department Of Agrieulturel
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

And now the torch and poppy red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear naught that We have died for
naught;
We've learned the lesson that We taught
In Flanders fields
Molina Michael
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours TO hold II high;
II We break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep through peoples grow
In Flanders fields
Lieut.. Col John McCrae
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06
HID IN GERMANY
 FOR 4 YEARS

Paris, March -CCorrespondenc of The Associated Press) s)-The ad- ventures of two French stragglers. Sergeant Lesquern and Private Le- vesque, who, becoming separated from their units after the battle of Char leroi, remained in hiding for more than four years in German occupied territory are told in the newspaper La Victoire. In the early days of the war, civilians helped the two sol diers but as the German domination became weightier, they took to the woods.
 They made their home in the for est of Sapogne in the vicinity of Se- dan. Their dwelling was a dugout so concealed that it was never dis covered, although the forest which harbors wild bear and other game was a favorite hunting ground for German officers. The French strag- glers lived on wild animals. hare and other game. One German who ven tured into too close proximity of their dugout Is also buried where he fell.
 They made one attempt to escape in 1916. but on the Dutch frontier they were shot at by the German sentries and the sergeant was wound cd, so the two of them returned to their forest. The severe winter of 1916 brought them terrible sufferings. They were showed in and almost starved.
 They owe their lives to an old Bel gian poacher and smuggler who throughout all the years of their ad- ventures helped them with provis- ions. They are now in a French hospital recovering fro the effects of their Driva lions
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06
RUSSIAN LEADER
 TALKS OF PEOPLE
Article i'll American Senti- nel Says Russian Culture
 Is Recent.

Archangel. Dec. 26. Via London, Mar. 6. Correspondence of The As sociated Press)-An interesting in- sight into the views of a Russian Leader on the troubles and failings of his own people is given by Pres1- dent Nicholas B. Tchaikovsky of ths Northern Region in an article written for The American Sentinel, the news paper for American soldiers, pub lished at Archange1.
 Writing for the members of the American Expeditionary Force, Prest- dent Tchaikovsky said: Tt is true that Russian culture is very recent and lacks the briIliancy and accom- pHshment that are so characteristics of the large American cities It ia particularly noticeable that what we borrow from abroad does not easily adjust itself to our foundations. But, as if afraid to be left behind by our more progressive neighbOrs, We have acquired this foreign super-structure without having first properly pre- pared the foundation.
 Thus we had brilliant electric lighting in our capitals long ago,
  have only recently ceased using wood splinters to light their huts. Our uni versailles and scientists are well known throughout the world, while scarcely thirty per cent of our country folk are able to read and wirte.
 Tn our social and political life, ane observes the same pecuIiarity. For more than fifty years vel ived under Q rule of verita ble slavery to bureaucrats, imperial gendarme and police, being deprived of the most elementary rights of citizenship. But a the same time we used to have all shades of political and sociaHstic doctrine, whose opponents sought ar immediate answer to the social prob- lens of ideal methods of distributing the wealth of the country.
 "In word. we have been very anxious to absorb the latest ideas of western civilization without being at all sure that there was room for them in our own life. We have all ways been more concerned with the affairs of the wide world than with the crying needs and faults of our own nation. We have actually learn ed to he indifferent to our own na- tionaI interests and ashamed to be patriotic.
 ''UnfortunateIy. some of our sp1en- did natural gifts. our achievements in art, music and literature have given some of us the conceit that we have been called upon to teach other nations how to solve their most diff fcult and complicated problems Thus. it is said that Lenine. accord ing to his own statement, undertook so daringly his dangerous experiment with our Russian affairs not so much for own sake as to teach lesson to all mankind. Leaving aside his other motives, it would be difficult to find a better personiecation of vanity and conceit."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06
THOUSANDS OF THE
 DISABLED QUALIFY. Number of Men Awarded Re-Educa- ton by U. s. Government Steadily Increases.

Washington, Mar. 6.-F'igures indi- eating progress in re-educating and placing disabled soldiers, sailors and marines show that the work is go- ing forward at a satisfying pace. The statement of February 18th reveals the total number of cases the federal board for vocational education was in contact with was 22,851. Of these 6,552 were reported from the war risk insurance bureau; 9,02O from hospitals; 4,49+ from the red cross; 7S from the United States department of labor; 1852 from the men direct. and from other sources, 1,060.
 Not every wounded man is entitled to retraining. First, under the law, he must have been awarded compen- satiCn by the war risk insurance bu- reau, and thus far 3,655 have been awarded compensation, 79 having been denied it. and 19,117 are cases in process of determination.
 It is necessary to have the war risk insurance bureau pass upon case as the essential preliminary, and the agents of the federal board assist all disabled men to make their applications to the war risk insur- ance bureau. In the last thirty days 2.s65 men have been assisted in
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06
HUN U-B0ATS DESTROYED 5000
 ALLIED SHIPS
Sunken Hulls, at Half Mile Intervals, Would Bridge
 Atlantic.

The losses to on-Teutonic shipping during the war amounted to nearly eight billion dollars. Five thousand ships were sunk, three-quarters of them in the Atlantic, or enough to place a sunken hulk on the sea bot tom for each half mile of the trans Atlantic voyage, according to a, sum mary of international losses published in the Rudder for March.
 The figures are based on reports of the United States Shipping Board, the Bureau of Navigation of the Depart ment of Commerce, the British Ad- miralty, Iloyd's Register and other specially prepared data.
 The Rudder estimates that not over b per cent. of the total loss was due to causes other than German slIbTna- rines The loss is so terrible, it says, that it has had a. large effect on the increased costs of living and com modities the world over. The short age of ships sent up freight rates. the danger necessitated bonuses for crews and increasei insurance and other in cidental costs of the vast loss, which must be borne by the ultimate con sumer, make the figure $S,000, ,oo0, GOO conservative.
 10000 Lives Lost.
 
 lost in sea. attac cks or as the result of injuries sustained therein, according to the estimates.
 The United States. through it's i'm petus to building and because of the heavy losses inflicted or Great Brit ain, shows a. gain in it's relative po- sition as a shipping nation. On August 1, 1914, the United States had but 18.6 per cent. of the worlds ships and Great Britain had 45.4 per cent. When the armistice was signed Great Britain's percentage had fallen to 37.3 and that of the United States had risen to 25.6.
 The figures given for costs of ships, cargoes and earning power are based on careful estimates of the present cost of reproduction of ships. It Is shown that this cost has risen in Great Britain and the United States from $40 and $50 a ton deadweight to S2OO and even $500 a ton dead weight today.
 Equal Thirty Years Loss.
 Cargo values are based on the re ports of the British Admiralty as 10 amounts and values of entries and clearingS in war and pre-war years. Loss of earning power is calculated on the best available figures as to what the earning power of the ships now is or might be.
 A further large item is added for the cost of ships attacked but not destroyed, this figure being based on the cost of repairs and the loss in earning power of the injured vessel during the time she was unable to proceed to sea. ''The TCudder'' points out that the losses were equal to 30 years of average peace time loss due to ordinary marine risks
 Every ship sunk. says the writer. could have been kept busy every mo- ment had she been afoat.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06

Liverpool and while the vessel re- mained in port it was the center of interest. The Savannah then pro- ceeded to Stockholm and on Septem- ber 8 arrived at St. Petersburg, (now Petrograd) where she was inspected by the American and foreign minis ters and the nobility
 The ship left St. Petersburg on September 29, 1919. and arrived in Savannah on November 30, after an absence of 192 days,
 This was the first and last trip of the Savannah across the Atlantic. Afterward her engines were removed and she was used as a. sailing vessel between New York and Savannah. She was wrecked off Long Island in .1b21.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06

Probably the greatest force in this country working against Bolshevism is not the learned economic arguments or the professors, but the prospective opening of the baseball season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06

The reason that the farmers oppose Daylight Savings seems to be that the farm help have an ineradicable tend ency to get up in the morning by sun time and quit work by Daylight Savings tipa
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06
OF
 FIRST STEAMSHIP

Savannah, Ga, March 6-The cen tennial anniversary of transatlantic steam navigation will be celebrated here on May %, the date when the Savannah, the first ship to cross the Atlantic propelled by steam and the fororunner of the great ocean grey hounds of today, sailed from this port for Liverpool on her historic voyage.
 The Savannah was built at New York City and was launched on Aug 22. ISIS. She was mastered by the two Rogers-Captain Moses Rogers being the commander. and Captain Stevens Rogers, the sailing master. The vessel left New York City March 2S. 1S19, and arrived in this city for the first time on April 12. 1Sl9
 On May 22, 1919. the trip across the Atlantic was started from this port, Everything went well until June IT, when the vessel was stopped by the British cutter Kite, whose com mander thought the Savannah was on fire and stopped her to assist fin fight ing the flames.
 The vessel was stopped outside Liverpool by an English sIoop of war, whose commander wished the Ameri- can vessel to display the British colors above its own. Captain Rogers re- fused and threatened the British of hcer with a boiling water hath if he did not leave the ship He immedI- ately left.
 The Savannah docked in Liverpool on June 20, after completing the voy- age in twenty-ntne days and eleven hours. The engines were used only eighteen days on the trip.
 The entrance of the Savannah un- der full steam caused excitement in
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-06


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