Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-25
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Tri-Weekly Mems Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Jersey Tomatoes


South Jersey tomato growers are prepar-
ing to set out large acreage of the early
variety. no matter what upstate farmers
might decide in respect to the planting of the
later canhouse tomatoes. There is still some
difference between Gamers and growers as
to this seasons contract price.
Early tomatoes have been grown extensive
ly in the Swedesboro district in recent years,
supplanting most of the other early crops in
their Importance Just now hotbeds and cold
frames are filled with hundreds of thousands
of young plants, which will be set out in the
fields as soon as the weather is milder
AS these tomatoes are marketed in the big
cities and are sold direct to the consumers,
the growers in this region are not aITected
by canneries' prices until toward the end of
the season, when they sell their surplus stock
to the canning houses. Prices for the most
part range high, and this looks like promis-
ing season to the growers.
Liquor Figures
Enforcement of the state dry laws cost New
York City about 81 100000 last year, accord
ing to a report filed by John A. Leach, dep
uty police commissioner. Five hundred pa
trolmen were assigned to enforcement of the
law.
The police last year seized liquor valued
at more than $20,00O,0O0, most OF which
eventually will be destroyed. The total of ar
rests was II, 523. The police also took guam
tity of rye, malt and prunes.
Hunting Bugs
That a crazy woman was wandering about,
the forest preserve in Illinois with sprin-
king can and a rake, was the substance or
a frantic message received over the telephone
by the caretaker, John H. Hood, says mes
sage from Evanston. Fearing that she might
do herself harm, the forester hurried across
the frozen fields only to find a young woman
industriously raking old leaves and loose ice
from the river bank.
Hunting for bugs and snails for nature
study films" was the suspects reply to his
peremptory query as to what she was doing
there. When he insisted upon further de-
tails she established her identity as Lucille
v. Berg, naturalist one of the scientific staff
that is developing series Of motion pictures
on nature subjects which the Society for
Visual Education is producing for use In the
schools.
This explanation gave a different aspect
to the situation and Forester Hood permitted
himself to be initiated into the mysteries
contained in handful of January mud. He
cheerfully piled the rake while the natural
lists experienced eye sought out the motley
coterie to be transported to the societys
Evanston studios, where additional reels for
film on pond and stream life are in the
making.
Sleepy toads, cyclops, water-fleas, crawfish,
nymphs of the caddis and damsel flies, blood
worms and the larvae of the crane fly, COM
mon house fly and burrowing May fly were
all in torpid condition when brought from
the river. ION location" in the warm atmos-
phere of the studio, however, they were easily
persuaded to resume their summer activities.
| The society is in immediate need OF these
| specimens in order to complete a series be-
| gun last spring and summer said Miss Berg.
! '"There is dearth of educational films which
| definitely correlate with the textbooks and
/ the course of study. More motion pictures
! produced from the pedagogic viewpoint, like
those already in circulation on the Monarch
butterfly, mosquito, cecropia moth and toad,
supplementing the teachers instruction and
illustrating the lesson are needed in the
schools of America. That is why we are wax
ing up these little creatures from their long
winters nap"
According to Miss Berg, those who question
the use of motion pictures in the schools do
not know bona fide educational films In
dustrial pictures, scenic and news reels,
while Institutional in content, can scarcely
be classified as true educational films, for
the reason that they are not produced with
the direct needs of the curriculum in mind,
and so do not correlate directly with the text
books and methods used. Educators, she de-
clares, are becoming more and more discrimi-
mating in their application of the education
al" label.