The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-03-09
The COrrupting Worm

ii 1t is great study for the grower,
who desires to have the best CONNER
| cial fruit, to get ahead of the codling
moth. the aphs, the leaf-roller, the
scale, scab. anthracnose and blight.
| He cannot have the commercial fruit
without strict attention to the business
of forestalling these pests. The trees
will not take care of themselves; moth
ing will take care of itself. Every
thing with which we have to do de-
mands our watchfulness and ministra-
tion, otherwise we will look upon CT.
ders and cookers with deep regret and
only wall, at might have been. !"
With care at the right time it could
have been 80 per cent extra fancy and
10 per cent fancy.
There is no profit in growing elders
and cookers. If we ever get to grow
ing only elders and cookers we will
then decide to pluck up the trees. The
stockgrower must be just as vigilant
to maintain his standard stock. He
cannot afford to let the stock he has
been careful and at great expense to
secure as standard. registered stock to
mingle with the undeveloped natives.
Attention, Parents There is bad
moth and kindred pests that you must
forestall or look upon the fruit of your
lives seized with that Worm that
dieth not, and the fire that never shall
be quenched. That is hell for your
child. Parents Get down that old
song, Where is my wandering boy
(glrD tonight?" and then get busy and
apply the spray in your nome circle |
and head off the eating in of that dirty |
larva, that filthy old moth deposited in |
your child's mind.
That sweet child you held in your
arms, looking long into its features,
sent your petition to heaven to guard
your child and keep it pure; your
hearts desire was to have extra fancy
fruit of your life. That sweet baby
grew every day for a year, three
years, six years, and you sent it to
school. You watched it make progress
until it passed from grade to grade,
through the grammar school and en-
tered high school. How proud you
were. You thanked the Heavenly
Father; prayed again for continued
But, how sad though true, there was
another home in the city where there
was no prayer, not the same care, or
There may have been
wealth. but parental selfishness and
daily disregard for that home circle
parents at clubs and card tables night
ly and children abroad; evil and dark !. !
ness moths work at night, depOsiting !
that dirty larva in the hearts of those
children and ate into the hearts and
the undying worm developed and did :
its unclean work. There was no spray :
ing in that worldly home.
These children passed through the =
grades into the high school simultane- !!
)usly with your loved, cared for, and .
prayed for dear ones. All reached a
new condition of school life, and there
vas timely. natural change in your =
boys and girls. A new social circle is =
ormed. In this world are good and =
,vil. We cannot get away from this j..
act. And the two are like seeds of u
he garden. good seeds that will pro- =
luce life and bad seeds that will pro- =
uce weeds to be regretted, and to be x
oed out daily. The wheat and the s,
ares are growing in the world side by -
ide. The evil seed is in the children
{ that worldly home where the fruit y
ng is neglected and it gets sown in ~ ~
be hearts of your children in that new u'
ocial circle in the school.
Shall | tell you this fact, in the his =
Dry of a high school in a not distant p
tate2 Ii is hard to tell it. But the n
tate official gave me personally the -
iformstiOn about 10 years ago. 1t "
as that p girls of that high school 1.
ecsme mothers. some were of what -
e call the best families. of easy cir u
Imstances. Several Of these children
ere born in the hospital; they were
sOwned. committed to the official du-
es of this stote agent who was re- On
hired to find homes for them. There a.,
ere 22..young men equally guilty in o.
lis circle but undiscovered because Of ~,
manly cowardice, all the "a youths IN,
,rrupted an6 moral culls, and the Ill en-
" worm 10 be allowed to exist and an
w its evils on and on.
Some Of that circle may be censid-