Evening star., 1921-09-04
Heard and Seen

City Postmaster Chance has risked
placing himself in the ranks of the
nature takers, with his latest potato
bug story.
While on his farm in southern Illi-
nois this summer. Farmer Chance
found the potatoes bothered with the
pesky bugs.
There were colonies of potatoe bugs
on every plant. They infested the
rows. swarmed up and down the
plants. cavorted over the fields and
generally monopolized the landscape.
At least, that is the way the situa-
t1on appealed to the postmaster on
vacation. So he went out to deal with
the situation. He found an old neigh
Dor standing in q field.
What does a fellow do about po-
tatoe bugs?' he asked him.
well, neighbor." replied the old
farmer. les take a piece of brush
and thrash through the rows. and the
tatie bugs will all 60 west"
Now this is the way Postmaster
Chance continues the narratives:
so got me a piece of brush. and
began tanning my way down the rows.
And. sure enough. the potatoe bugs
droves. every last one Of them. down
to the rows to the west. No. they
never came back. either"
=.
Maj. William NJ. King. agricultural
journalist, who retired last year
from the Department OF Agriculture
after long service therein. is ono OF
| the youngest eighty
men in the world.
1t was not 50 long ago that Maj
King took up cigarette smoking, just
to have something to do. and he says
the habit does not seem to hurt him
complexion and youthful gait he is
right.
How do you manage to keep 90
young? I asked the major, on a
| recent visit he paid me.
Il come from long-liv1ng an
lived to what fs known as a ripe old
age.
Survey Of Maj. Kings habits do
not reveal anything unusual. He
| eats what most people eat, not ad-
herring particularly to the spare diet
advocated by the famous centenarian
Maj. King was for many years an
| employe Of the old bureau of cror
| estimates. where he kept up to date
| the bureaus data on q variety OF
| subjects If any one wanted the
very latest opinions as to boil weevil
/ reduction. for instance Maj. King
was the man to see. He had it
Shakespeare somewhere has a line
to the general effect that a good deed
like bright light sends its cheerful
beams through a naughty world"
1t would seem a far cry from Post
master General Hays "humanizing'
| policy, as applied to the postal EN-.
| ployes. to a discussion Of leases sub.
mitted to tenants here last week ir
| up their Photographs.
| But the bright light Of humanity. al
| exemplified by Mr. Hays brought the
two together, all right.
| An official of the government was
! talking about those leases. in which
dogs. cats and parrots.
| What the people who made Out
those leases need is more of the spiri,
that moves Mr.. Hays, more of thu
desire to look at the other fellows
side of things" he said.
| They would Danish the immorta
voice of the great Caruso. singing on
though the singer is no more: the ar
of the great pianist Rachmaninoff. o.
Kreisler, the violinist; the wonder
work Of Schubert, Beethoven ant
other masters.
They need to learn that the mod
ern talking machine, properly used. i.
a true source of true music. and thai
the man who has no music in hi.
soul is fit for treason, strategems and
spoils.' indeed"
CHARLES E TRACEWELL.