Arizona republican., 1921-01-23
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING.

More and still More" And we all
 know how that slogan was carried too far, so that today we have what ap- pears to be production. So the slogan production has been dropped, and in its place today We have the catch word of economy. Now economy is fine thing, a very necessary thing, and yet am sure that you will agree with me that 1t can be carried too far, just as any other slogan can be car ried to extremes. A false economy is as costly as extravaganza in both pub lie and private affairs. And SO it is important that at this time in our af-
 fairs, when we are hearing the slogan economy, that we be economical intel | hgently, and not lei, ourselves be stampeded into false economy from
 which is would take us a long time to recover.
 Now it Is generally appreciated that
 insect pests and plant diseases annual | ly do a great deal of damage in this
 country. Do you know that the direct
 losses due to insect pests in America
 every year amount to $200 00e,O0O.
 Think of thati More than enough
 money to pay the annual interest on
 the Victory loan. Every year the
 American people set banquet table for 200 pests at a million dollars a plate. 1t is safe to say that there is not a man here who would not be ready and willing to enlist in the army to fight any foreign nation that de- manded that much money from us in tribute, and yet every year we calmly
 hand that amount of money over to a
 lot of foreign pests, most of them from foreign countries, and pay little or no Iattention to the important work of fighting these enemies.
 ii When you are engaged in a war, you
 cannot let up, or stop or suspend hos tilities until the enemy has been com lpletely conquered, and certainly it
 would be the poorest sort of economy to suspend or slacken our efforts to ] combat these pests that are yearly causing us such tremendous losses.
 They constitute an army of relentless
 foes, they multiply at a prodigious rate,
 and they recognize no armistice. Let the efforts which are being put forth for their extermination or control be suspended for a single year, and their devastating millions would sweep over the country, carrying famine and sui fering in their train.
 Different methods are employed ir the effort to reduce the losses caused by those unwelcome guests. Among these may be mentioned the use oi natural enemies, the modification o1 certain farm practices. the use of in secticides, complete extermination anc ' the use of quarantines.
 Of the various means employed thu quarantine, where feasible, has proveI 2 the most efficient and successful. IT brief, a successful quarantine consist: E in isolating the pests within certalr x boundaries and cutting off all means o z It's transportation into territory not in. z fected, in much the same manner em' s ployed in fighting an epidemic of con tagious disease. Incidentally the cos of maintaining a quarantine is born ol z the state, country and city folk, payint share and share alike, while the cos of combating insect pests and plan 4 plant diseases after they become estaD lished Is borne by the farmer alone. at H those who would question the necessit. and ultimate value of agriculture quarantine in the promotion of agri culture. I would ask them to conside with me the situation as it exists to t day in the east where insect pests ant K plant diseases are exactlnS toll Iron k the farmer that is appalling. This sec tion is part of our country that ha not until very recently pracuced plan \ auarantines and exercised adequate m spection of plant product upon arrlVai N Because Of UllS open uOOI pOt~S eAA white pine blister rust got into tn pine forests; chestnut blight disease Gypsy and browntail moth are playin havoc with our hardwood forests; tn potato wart disease has gotten int Pennsylvania. and West Virginia; tn cotton boll weevil is busily engage leach year in the destruction of the cot ton crop over nearly the entire cotto belt of Southeast; the pink boil worI of cotton has gotten into Louisiana \ Texas and New Mexico; the Europea \ corn borer introduced into Massa
 chusetts, has spread to New Hainp K shire. New York and Pennsylvania \ the Japanese beetle has gotten int \ New Jersey and Pennsylvania; and tn E Oriental peach moth has become we \ established in Massachusetts. Ne York, Connecticut. Pennsylvania, Ne \ Jersey, Delaware, Maryland. NirEini X and the District of Columbia. Ther
 are all introduced pests, causing bur \ densome quarantines and restriction N to be placed upon agricultural produc k ton and distribution, necessitatin k enormous annual expenditures ( VI money for their control and each sea