Evening star., 1927-10-23

well, il do not die in five years
will thank YOU"
Dynamite has played a prominent
role IN sections of the South where
cattle owners refused stubbornly tt
comply with regulations designed tt
eliminate the Texas fever tick. Dip
ping vats have been blown up fre
quently, though no Federal men haW
been killed thus far.
Government officials of any de
scription who expect to have occt
sion to work around the Georg
cracker" and the Pine Woods h
billy should certainly be crack shott
Watch your still" is the slogan I
the Southern mountains, covered wit4
almost as many firearms as stills
The lads down there are not lie
the Westeners, who do not care 50
much who you may be so long an
you know what good fellowship
means. Nor yet like the Back Bay
patricians of staid Boston. who are in
terested in your ancestry. These
Southern worthless want to know but
one fact-what are you doing here?
And it is polite of you, and perhaps
wise to tell them pronto-unless you
prefer the feel of a revolver pressed
intimately against your ribs.
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A RECENT experience Of mo-
n tion picture operator had some.
thing of irony in it. While taking
pictures for a film supposed to depict
how to handle a bull on the farm in
a safe manner the operator had his
tripod placed on top of a hay stack,
himself grinding away while the bull
fn1 IN Cd IVrNa
inc the poor fellows dismay when
the bull cut loose through the fence.
toppled over the stack and made
for the operator, whose legs fortu.
nately worked overtime. However,
another operator was not so lucky
some time ago. being killed in the
course Of a like occurrence.
Among those who study agricul.
tural problems for the government,
the plant explorers, perhaps. lead the
most adventurous lives. These men
go to the far corners of the world,
into the jungles and among savage
tribes, seeking plants that may be OF
value to man. One such explorer,
DIR. H. L. Shantz, tells of a thrilling
plant exploration trip through Uran.
di, Africa. while on 9,000-mile jaunt
in the dark continent. He says he
bering some 10000, 900. living some-
thing on the order Of our famed COW.
boys of the early SOS.
The government hunters Of the Bi.
illogical Survey have many q narrow
escape while ridding the country Of
the notorious gray wolf of the West.
ern plains. the treacherous coyote, the
massive grizzly or the cunning noun.
tain lion. However, none of these
intrepid hunters seems a whit more
danger-blind than H. S. Stoddard
of the Survey. While studying the
nesting habits of the heron, the ibis
and the egrets down around South
Georgia and North Florida it is COM
monplace for him to wade through
waters thickly infested with alligators
and copperneads. Moreover. after
so doing, he oftentimes climbs up q
cypress tree where he maintains a
blind and calmly enjoys good nights
rest.
Another Survey scientist spends
most of the year in the wilds OF the
jackson Hole country in Wyor:.nG,
some IL miles above the end of the
automobile roads in the big game
ridge of the Teton Mountains. On one
occasion he carried his two children.
one on his arm and another on his
back. for IL miles. including no less
than eight wading streams. More
over. on each occasion he carried his
wife across the stream. His honey.
moon trip was "he-man" proposition
in every respect. With his wife. an
Alaskan woman of great charm. he
took a 2,000-mile sled trip across
Alaska.
True enough-we need more men OF
his caliber--but we have a goodiy
number of them In the government
service risking their lives daily for
science and taking each hazardous
occurrence as a matter Of course