Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-04-28
SEN. HARRISON
MAKES Big HIT
IN AN ADDRESS
BY RICHARD LINTilICuM,
fSpecial Correspondence.)

Washington, April Ex-senator
Pat Harrison, the able, eloquent
and always good-natured junior.
Senator from Mississippi, does. not
pose as an authority on animal
and plant diseases, but it is rare
ly the Senate has been so highly
and informed as by his
recent scientific discussion Of this.
subject when the Agricultural De
partment appropriations were un-
der consideration. The Senator
passed over such pests as scSbies,
cattle ticks, hog cholera, hoof and
mouth disease, gypsy and brown
tail moths, white pine blisters,
boll-weevils, boil worms, bean bee
ties, citrus canker, Hessian flies,
chinch-bugs, and grasshoppors, and
concentrated his attack upon the
latest dreaded menace to agrieul-
ture-the barberry bush.
On the subject of berries the
Senator was entirely at home. The
barberry bush, he informed the
Senate, seems TO thrive and prevail
in the localities represented by the
Junior Senator from Minnesota, (Mr.
Kellogg, the senior senator from
Michigan (Mr Townsend and III
Wisconsin, represented in part by
Mr.. Lenroot.
I'xy4vacc5no Tn1I cWn1n4t Inv with
the wheat growers of the Middle
West whose crops are menaced by
the rust spores of the barberry bush,
Senator Harrison pointed out that
the barberry bush is not the only
berry that is a pest or threatens
to menace the country.
Crest as is the injury that may
be wrought by the barberry," he
Isaid, ct is not to be compared with
some other pests or, may say, dis
eases by the name Of berry You
know what | mean. | can see the
smiles on your countenances when
II mention berry pests. Sirs, when
we talk about the danger of the
borry pest the people will mot
Thank OF 'barberry'is bushes; they
win think OF 'Newberry bushes,
term taken from 'Newberryism,
meaning the plundering of tho peo-
pie by the purchase of power"
Stating that he was going to vote
for the increased appropriation to
eradicate the barberry bush, he said
| that il some Of the Senators who
had spoken in behalf Of the appro-
lpration had shown the zeal in try
ling to eradicate the other berry
pest that is not applicable to few
Estates alone, but that reaches from
Maine to the state OF Washington
that not only blights and destroys
the wheat but affects the ambitions
Of the young boy, destroys the high
ideals of the people and removes the
last yestige Of justice and equal OPP
Iportuniey Newberryism they
would have rendered a greater sery-
ice to more people in a larger sec
tion OF the country"
The Senator explained that New
berryism' distributes its spores il
la similar manner to the barberry
only that they are not called rus
lspores.
an New York" he said, 9TH
spores that emanate from it Nigh
be termed Calder spores, or thos
from Newberryism in Massachusetts
might be called Lodge spores, 0
those in Michigan might be calle'
Townsend spores, or in Minnesot
kellogg spores. | failed to spec
ifically mention Ohio, where certain
spores from Newberryism would no
be termed rust spores but chang
their name to Willis spores there.
Senator Harrison closed with
plea that when Newberryism mex
shows its menacing head in tn