Evening star., 1923-07-25

Inc taHous poem oI SoictI DuEBess
concerning his never having seen q
purple COW, and not wanting to be
one; has its counterpart in the
city child's never wanting to see any
source for milk. except glass. The
Department of Agriculture. therefore.
is busily making glass cow, to be
exhibited this fall at the national
dairy show at Syracuse, N. Y.
The COW Is to be so transparent
that one may see it's every vein and
artery. Flowing throughout the cir
culatory system will be colored
fluids. to illustrate the flow of blood.
the digestion OF feed into amino acids
and thence into alleged milk. 1t will
demonstrate the need of q balanced
ration-not limiting the COW to one
or two kinds of feed, for there are
various amino acids in the making
the excess is wasted.
When the experts get the glass
COW we'll trained. 1t may be that
their efforts will be turned to making
wife thinks she can already see
through her husbands innermost
thoughts as clearly as IL he were
glass bottle. Anyhow. when men
are made of glass, IT will save a lot
of scopolamin.
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How many barberry bushes is the
reader hereof harboring as orna-
| mental shrubbery? The Department
of Agriculture has added 800 men to
its force of barberry detectives, with
the view to discover every barberry
! bush in the eight states constituting
| the "barberry eradication area" One
| sion OF black rust for five miles, de-
stroying or injuring grain through
out that area. There are other
bushes more ornamental than the bar
| berry. hence there is no defense for
any ones knowingly tolerating it.
Most of the damage comes from the
wild barberry neglected on farms
nut the city barberry is just as
| injurious.
| 1t seems almost incredible that the
Army training camps should find that
more than half of the young men ar.
irving for military training are
physically defective. 1t is claimed
that a. per cent were so badly af-
fected by some physical defect that
they could not be accepted for train.
ing. and that 40 men out of 1,ooc
had some ailmeRt more or Tess seri.
Gus, requiring immediate medical at.
tention.
| Who can estimate the financial loss
TO the nation when half its men are
physically deficient? Is there a manu-.
facturer who would neglect his ma
chinery and let it's belts run Ioose
or its wheels wobbie? Is there a
siockbreeder who would let half OF
ms i've stock continue sick without
, the attention of a veterinarian Hers
are millions of men-as indicated nv
the examination of $4,000 in camps-
who are wobbling through life with
oe.ts sIack, cogs worn and wearing
OUT, circulation clogged, bones not
iartlculated, furnace fires smolderinR-
their whole machinery out OF gear
me efilciency of the nation would bs
multiplied over and over again ii
every man We're fit. No man who Il
half-sick can do a mans work. ant
million men half sick cannot dr.
haIt what even half million SOUND
men. with pep and the JOY of Twins
can DO. The ration is dragging itsell
along where it should be bounding
and leaping over obstacles and hur.
dies.
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| That does not mean that every mar
should be an athlete. Far from it
Athletes can't march. Athletes CAM
endure. Athletes can't "stand the
gaff,' for their hearts are weak from
overstrain. Exceptions. of course)
The ideal man is one whose engine
does not race and overpull any par
of the machine. He is like an airpians
in perfect adjustment. not like a ma
chine without a aywheel racing itsel
to pieces. There appears work fol
hundreds of thousands of trained sur.
geons and psychologists to tune III
America. Yes, and hundreds of thou