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els of the different bugs" These
modelS-abOut threefOurthS of an inch
lOng-are used in the picture plays to
show how destructive insects are
curbed, caught and controlled. Most
of the pests have two or three pairs of
legs and move about by means of fine
black strings which are manipulated
by the movie directors.
Often 1t is an important problem in
technique to manipulate the/model so
that it will move exactly as does the
living insect. The motion picture au
thoritieS catch living specimens of the
insects under discussion and painstak-
ingly study their movements by naked
eye, or. If necessary, under magnify
ing glasses or microscopes, until they
familiariZe themselves with the loco
motion methods of each variety. Sub
sequently they move the dummies" as
the camera records the picture in ac-
curate imitation of the strut" of the
real insect. The legs of the models of
insects are made of brass, very small
pins being used as pivots. Only the
most important leg joints are made so
that they will bend and turn as in the
case of the living insect. The models
are used largely in animated movies.
Individual specimens of the various
pests also show the regions they in
fest by crawling over certain areas of
special map of the United States.
In educational motion pictures the
use of cross sections of machines and
implements are most effective in show
ing the spectators just how each tool
works and it's purposes. Where such
an activity as the removal of StumpS
from a certain field with dynamite is
to be filmed, the animated motion pic
ture is most satisfactory. The inte-
riors of cotton and wooden mills and
similar manufacturing plants are also
best presented in cross section form.
Comparisons are invaluable in inn
pressing the spectator with the magni-
tude or certain statistics. Uncle Sam
recently described the mammoth siZe
of the American bean industry in this
interesting way. All the beans grown
in this country in IL months would
make enough bean soup to keep Mag
ara Falls running for three hours if
it's water supply gave out. If all the
green beans raised in one year could
be placed in an enormous basket and
all the dried beans could be packed in
a huge sack, the total volume Of these
two containers would be greater than
that of the United States Capitol.
All TIE sets anu props uSeu III
filming the agricultural motion pic
lures are made in workshop which
is an essential adjunct to the estab-
lishment. The interior of a town hall
large enough to seat several hundred
people was made latterly and used in
the filming of a farming movie"
This town hall was 40 feet long and
20 feet wide. 1t was an accurate rep
lica of many such structures which
you see today in American towns and
villages. No matter what it is they
are called upon to make. the national
artisans of Washington's 'movieland"
man make It.
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grasp at the opportunities that come
your way. Only yesterday l saw you
draw back when a single step into the
road would have had a truck humping
into you"
Wei. it's not so easy to let truck
bump into you
Nonsense. 1t only requires d lit
tie ordinary resolution. Use your
imagination. man. Try to think that
g child has fallen down in the street
e. little golden-haired child said Uk-
ridge, deeply affected. And a dashed
great cab or something comes rolling
up. The kids mother is standing on
the pavement, helpless, her hands
one save my darling? Yes, by
George you shout, I will And out
you jump and the things over in half
second. I don't know what you're
making such fuss about
YES. but said Teddy Weeks.
Tin told. what's more. it isn't bit
painful. A sort of dull shock, that S
ALL"
who told you that"
Il forget. Some one"
well. you can tell him from me
that he's an ass" said Teddy Weeks,
with asperity.
"All right. If you object to being
run over by a truck there are lots of
other ways. But, upon my Sam. it's
pretty hopeless suggesting them. You
seem to have no enterprise at all.
Yesterday, after L went to all the
trouble to put a dog in your room. a
dog which would have done all the
work for you-all that you had to do
was stand still and let him use his
own tudgment-what happened? You
climbed on TO-
Victor Beamish interrupted. speak
ing in a voice husky with. emotion.
Was it you who put that dog in
the room?"
"Eh?" said Ukridge. why, yes.
But we can have a talk about all that
later on" he proceeded hastily: The
point at the moment is how the dick
ems we're gong to persuade this poor
worm to collect our insurance money
for us. Why. l should have thought
you would have
"All ] can say" began Victor
Beamish, heatedly.
Yes, yes" said Ukridge; some
other time. Must stick to business now,
laddie. l was saying" he resumed,
that I should have thought you would
have been as keen as mustard to put
the job through for your own sake.
You're always beefing that you haven t
any clothes to impress managers with.
Think of all you can buy with your
share of the sWag once you have sum-
moned up a little ordinary determine
ton and seen the thing through. Think
of the suits. the boots, the hats, the
spats. You're always talking about
your dashed career and how all you
need to land you in q West-end pro-
duction is good clothes. Well here's
your chance to get them"
His eloquence' was not wasted
A wistful look came into Teddy
Weeks eye. He breathed heavily,
You could see that the man was men
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" tory of the Department of Ag-
"A riculture the other day How
A ard Greene, technologiSt and
inventor, exhibited for the first
time a new camera which he has de-
viSed to photograph plants as they
grow. This is but one of the many
devices that Mr. Greene and his asSo-
ciates have originated. This unusual
picture making apparatus is governed
by special clockwork, by means of
which periodic pictures are made of
plants as they actually grow.
You can adjust the time switch on
the clock so that the camera will auto
matically take picture at any desired
interval from 80 seconds to l hour
The clock runs for ten days at one
winding, and at the regular intervals
q film exposure is made. The clock
work is linked by an electric switch
to the crank of an ordinary motion
picture camera. Two mercury vapOr
lamps of $50 candlepower each are
used to give light of high photo
graphic value in the dark room where
the plants are growing. These lamps
are particularly efficient for the pur-
pose, because they give off but little
heat. which will influence plant
growth. The pictures are used educa-
tionally to show exactly how plants
grow.
Curiosities of one kind and another
have been developed during research
tests with the new camera. For eX-
ample Il couple of ordinary dandeliOnS
developed so rapidly during their pic
ture-making program that they grew
, entirely out of the camera s range in
the course of 80 hours. Remarkable
photographs have been made of cedar
, gall disease. which spreads from cedar
i to apple trees and is a source of great
economic losses. Magnolia buds have
| been filmed as they expanded and
opened. The blooms and blossoms of
many other wild and domesticated
plants have been studied as they grew
and developed by use of the automatic
camera.
Mr.. Greene is now working to per
feet an apparatus to make micro
scopic movies His chief problem
, has been to design and develop appa-
ratus which will hold the motion pic
ture camera in rigid position above
the powerful microscope. so that
movies can show bacteria. insects
and fungi which are invisible to the
naked eye.
II may be possible to see germs at
| work and bad bugs at play, even
though they be ass small as atoms.
With this new movie" camera even
the flow of sap in leaves can be pho
tographed.
Curious production problems arise
almost daily at the Washington
movie lot one important scene
filmed recently involved the exercise
of ingenuity and craftsmanship A
certain historical citrus fruit photo
play. written and acted under Govern
ment auspices, described the arrival
of the Santa Maria, one of columbus
three ships. in Florida. a. picture
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on sand. Not even toy Pomeranian
had chewed this man.
Halo, you fellows" said Teddy
Weeks
HALO we responded. duly.
Cant STOP said Teddy Weeks.
I've got to fetch a DOCTOR"
"A doctor?"
Yes. Poor Victor Beamish. He's
been bitten by a dog
Ukridge and l exchanged weary
glances. 1t seemed as if Fate was
going out of it's way to have sport
with us. What was the good of a dog
biting Victor Beamish? What was
the good Of a hundred dogs biting
Victor Beamish? A dog bitten Victor
Beamish had no market value what
ever.
You know that fierce brute that be.
longs to my landlady," said Teddy
Weeks. THE one that always dashes
out into the area and banks at people
who come to the front door, / re-
membered.
Somehow or other he got into my
bedroom this evening. He was wait
ing there when I came home. 1 had
brought Beamish back with me. and
the animal pinned him by the leg the
moment / opened the, door,
why didn't he pin you?" asked
Ukridge. aggrieved.
What 1 cant make out" said Ted
dy Weeks, lis how on earth the brute
came to be in my room. Somebody
must have put him there. The whole
thing is very mysterious"
why didn't he pin you?' demanded
Ukridge again.
"Oh, managed to climb on to the
top of the wardrobe while he was bit
ing Beamish." said Teddy Weeks
And then the landlady came and
took him away"
We gazed after him in silence as he
tripped down the street. We noted
the careful manner in which he paused
at the corner to eve the traffic before
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close as possible to the small scale
set-up and the desired pictures were
made. Subsequently, when exhibited
in the 6-reel photoplay, they looked
true to life.
On another occasion, in one of Uncle
Sans motion pictures, a certain ship
hove to and dropped it's anchor. The
national camera men in this case re-
cruted laboratory sink to serve as
an ocean. They tossed the ships an
Choir into this agitated ocean while
the cameras were cranked. The re-
sultant film looks as though a ship in
distress had finally anchored in a har-
Dor during a severe storm.
Many of the agricultural motion pic
lures describe the activities of de-
structive insect pests. American
farming pays toll and tribute to the
tune of $4,000, 900, 600 annually to plant
pirates which prey on grains, grasses,
fruits and other economic crops. The
movie scientists made bakelite mod
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this scene the national camera men
had to resort to legitimate subterfuge.
Mr.. Greene made a wooden model of
the Santa Maria 20 inches long, using
ancient pictures and history about the
ship for designs.
The camera men then motored to
Arlington Farm in Virginia, where
they finally found a pool about 10 feet
square, which they used to simulate
the Atlantic Ocean. They built sand
spit in the pool with a bucket of white
sand pre-empted from a neighboring
greenhouse. Palm trees about 10
inches high were made from Japanese
maple leaves and tWigS, which are
fine and feathery. These were stuck
in the sand. A large piece of canvas
was camouflaged as a sky for the man
made scene. The Lilliputian ship was
launched into the tiny pool and pulled
back and forth by means of black
threads carried under the water. The
motion picture cameras were placed as
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Looked Like Easy Money-The Inspiration of Lifetime

! those grim. ironical. hopeless. gray.
despairful situations which the Rus
sian novelists love to write about. and
| could not find it In me to blame
| Ukridge for taking direct action in
this crisis. My only regret was that
| bad luck caused so excellent a plan to
miscarry.
| My first intimation that he had been
| trying to hurry matters on came when
he and l were walking along the
Kings road one evening, and he drew
me into Markham Square, where he
once had had rooms.
whats the idea?" l asked, for 1
| disliked the place.
Ukridge. I'm my old rooms" could
not see that this lent any fascination
to the place.
| Il want to inquire after him.
Inquire after him? Why"
We'll, the fact is, laddie, ! have an
| idea that he has been bitten by a
dog"
What makes you think that"
"Oh, 1 don't know" said Ukridge,
dreamily. I've just got the idea. You
know how one gets ideas"
The mere contemplation of this
beautiful event was so inspiring that
for a while it held me silent In each
of the 10 journals in which we had
invested dog bites were specifically
recommended as things which every
subscriber ought to have. They came
about half way up the list of lucrative
accidents. inferior to broken rib or
fractured tibula. but better value
than an improving toenail. was
gloating happily over the picture con-
jured up by Ukridge's words when an
exclamation brought me back with
start to the realities of life. A revolt
ing sight met my eyes. Down the
street came ambling the familiar fig
ure of Teddy Weeks, and one glance
at his elegant person was enough to
tell us that our hopes had been built
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brain was whirring like a dynamo
| AS many as 1872"
Yes, l should think so. Quite 10
| Then a fellow who subscribed to
them all and then sprained his ankle
would get so quid?" said Ukridge
reasoning acutely.
More if the injury was more seri
GUS said Freddie. They have a
regular tariff. So much for broken
arm. so much for a broken leg, and So
| FORTH
Ukridge's collar leaped off it's stud
and his pince-nez wobbled drunkenly
as he turned to us.
How much money can you blokes
| raise?" he demanded
What do you want it for" asked
| Robert Dunhill. with bankers eau
| ton.
My dear old horse. can't you see
I've got the idea of the century. Wen
get together enough money and take
out a years subscription for every one
of these papers"
What's the good of that" said
Dunhill, coldly unenthsiastic.
They train bank clerks to stfle emo.
ton, so that they will be able to refuse
overdrafts when they become man
| ayers. THE odds are we should none
of US have an accident of any kind,
and then the money would be chucked
away"
Good heavens" snorted Ukridge,
you don't suppose I'm suggesting
that we should leave it to chance, do
you? Listen. Here's the scheme. We
take out subscriptions for all these
papers, then we draw lots. and the
fellow who gets the fatal card or what
over 1t is goes out and breaks his leg
and draws the loot. and we split up
between us and live on it in luxury.
1t ought to run into hundreds of
pounds"
A long silence followed. Then
Dunhill spoke again. He was solid
rather than a nimble mind.
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Suppose he couldn't break his leg"
My Gosh"' cried Ukridge. exasper-
ated. Here we are in the twentieth
century, with every resource of mod
ern civilization at our disposal, with
opportunities for getting our legs
broken opening about us on every
side-and you ask a silly question like
that. OF course he could break his leg.
We're all Internally broke-personally
unless Freddie can lend us a bit of
that FLYER till Saturday, I'm going to
have a difficult job of pulling through.
We all need money like the dickens.
and yet. when I point out this marvel
Gus scheme for collecting a bit. instead
of faWning on me for my ready intelli-
gence you sit and make objections. 1t
isn't the right spirit. 1t isn't the spirit
that wins
IF you're as hard up as that" OBJ
jected Dunhill, how are you going 10
put in your share of the pool?''
A panied, almost a stunned, look
came into Ukridge's eyes. He gazed
at Dunhill through his lopsided pince-
nez as one who speculates as to
xhether his hearing has deceived him.
Me-" he cried. Me? | like that!
Upon my Sam. that's rich. Why,
blast me. if there's any justice in the
world. if there's "a spark of decency
and good feeling in your bally bosoms,
l should think you would let me in
free for suggesting the idea. It's a
little hard. ! supply the brains. and
you want me to cough up cash as as
we'll This hurts me. by George! If
anybody had told me that an old pal
would
"Oh. all right" said Robert Dunhill.
IAN right, all right. all right. But
I'll tell you one thing. If you draw
the lot. it'll be the happiest day of
my life
Il sha'nt." said Ukridge. Some
! thing tells me that | sha'n't."
Nor did he. The man of destiny
! was Teddy Weeks.
SUPPOSE that even in the Spring
time of youth, when broken limbs
seem a lighter matter than they be-
come later in life. it never can be an
unmixedly agreeable thing to have to
go out into the public highways and
try to make an accident happen to
one. In such circumstances the re-
Election that you are thereby benefit
ing your friends brings but slight
balm. To Teddy Weeks it appeared
TO bring no balm at all. That he was
experiencing a certain Discrimination
to sacrifice himself Tor the puDllc
good became more and more evident
as the days went by and found him
still intact.
BY the end of fortnight. nothing
having happened to Teddy Weeks
worse than d slight cold which he
shook off in a couple of days. the gen
eral concensus OF opinion among his
apprehensive colleagues in the syndi'
cate was that the situation had be-
come desperate. There were no signs
whatever of any return on the vast
capital which we had laid out. and
meanwhile, meals had to be bought.
landladies paid and IL reasonable sup
ply of tobacco acquired, 1t was a
melancholy task in these circum-
stances to read ones paper of
morning.
All over the inhabited globe. so the
we'll informed sheet gave one to un-
dersta nd, every kind of accident was
happening every day 10 practically
everybody in existence except Teddy
Weeks In crippled world, it seemed.
Teddy Weeks walked alone. whole and
glowing with health. 1t was one OF
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crossing the road, the wary way in
which he drew lack to allow a truck
to rattle past
You heard that" said Ckridge.
tensely. "He climbed on to the top of
the WARDROBE
| Yes"
And you saw the way he lodged
| that excellent truck?"
| YES"
Something's got to be done" said
! Ukridge, firmly. THE man has got
/ to be awakened to sense of his re-
sponsibilities.'
| Next day a deputation waited on
| Teddy Weeks.
Ukridge was our spokesman. and he
came to the point with admirable d.
| rectness.
How about ito" asked Ukridge
How about what?" replied Teddy
Weeks, nervously, avoiding his ac-
cusing eye.
when do we get action"
"Oh, you mean that accident bust
ness"
Yes"
! i've been thinking about that"
said Teddy Weeks.
Ukridge drew the macintosh which
he wore indoors and out of doors and
in all weathers more closedly around
him.
And about time you were thinking
about it," he doomed, sternly.
X x X
WE shifted appreciatively in our
w seats, all except Victor Beamish,
who had declined a chair and was
standing by the mantelpiece., Upon
my Sam, it's about time YOU were
thinking about it. Do you realize
that we've invested an enormous sum
of money in you on the distinct un-
derstanding that we could rely on you
to do your duty and get immediate
results? Are we to be forced to the
conclusion that you are so yellow and
few in the pod as to want to
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UKRIDGE'S ACCIDENT SYNDICATE
By p G: W0deh0use

//H 7 ALI a minute, Laddie,
said Ckridge. And. grip
ping my arm, he brought
Il i me to halt on the out
skirts of the little crowd
about the church door.
II was a crowd such as may be seen
any morning outside any of the
churches which nestle in the quiet
squares between Hyde Park and the
Kings road. Chelsea.
4 consisted of five women of cook
like aspect. four nurse maids. half a
dozen men of the non-producing class
who had torn themselves away for
the moment from their normal task
of propping up the wall of the Bunch
of Grapes public house on the corner,
4 coster- monger with a barrow of vege-
tables. divers small boys. eleven dogs.
and two or three purposeful-looking
Young fellows with cameras slung
over their shoulders. Ii was. plain
that q. wedding was in progresS-and,
arguing from the presence of the
Cameramen and the line of smart
motor-cars along the kerb, a fairly
fashionable wedding What was not
plain--to me-waS why Ukridge,
sternest of bachelors, had desired to
add himself to the spectators.
What" enquired lis tho
thought behind this? Why are we
interruptinG our walk at attend the
obsequie& Of some perfect Stranger
Ukridge did not reply for a moment.
Then he uttered Il hollow. mirthleSs
lauCh---a dreadful sound like the last
gargle of a dying moose.
Perfect stranger. my number
eleven foot he responded. In his
coarse way. DO you know who it
is who's getting hitched up in there?"
Who"
Teddy Weeks
Teddy Weeks? Teddy Weeks?" l
exclaimed. Not really?"
And five years rolled away.
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evade your honorable obligations? We
| took you for "a two-fisted, enterprising
big-souled, one hundred-per-cent, he
man who would stand by his friends
| to the finish.
YES. but
| ANY blOke with a sense of loyalty
| and an appreciation of what it meant
to the rest of us would have rushed
| out and found some means of fulfilling
! his duty long ago. You don't even
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OVER THE HEADS OF THE
CROWD WHIZZED A LARGE.
JUICY TOMATO. 1T BURST
LIKE A SHELL BETWEEN
TEDDY WEEKS EXPRESSIVE
EYES.
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Plants Are Photographed as They Grow
By Washington's Official Movie Staff

T the motion picture labora-
tory of the Department of Ag-
riculture the other day How
ard Greene, technologist and
inventor. exhibited for the first
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stepping off the curb onto a. banana
skin. was instantly knocked 10 feet
by passing lorry.
1.-TWO ribs and an arm. said the
doctor five minutes later, Supcrin-
tending the removal proceedings.
Gently with that stretCher."
New Britain herald., 1926-10-01
SIX BILLION FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
Labor Estimates This as Next
 Years Program in U. s,

Detroit, Oct GP - Indications that new buildings to the value of s6,000,000,0o0 will be constructed in the United States during the next year are seen in the number of building permits already issued. the annual report of the building trades department of the American federation of labor, made at the department convention here yester- day, said.
 Large construction programs throughout the southern and Paci- fc coast sections Of the country were cited as causes for the un- precedented building activities ir the report which added: All wage agreements that expired during May and June have been renewed most of them an increase over last year.
 The building trades unions have successfully weathered the storm and are again writing regular wage contracts, after boss con- tractors attempted to inaugurate the so-called American plan ot company unions open shops and low wages. The same is true of Chi. cago where it was sought to estab. fish the open shop under terms ot the Landis award. Today the unions have contracts in Chicago at higher wage scales than hither. to prevailed"
 The annual convention of the A F. of L. will open here Monday.