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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-03
NEW MODEL HOME
READY IN MONTH
WaverIy Taylor Building
Home Inspired by Electric
Firm Movement.

Construction Of one of the homes
that will lie Washington's contribu-
ton to the Nationwide New Amer
lean" home movement. sponsored by
the General Electric Co., is proceed
ing at rapid rate, and will be ready
to 60 on display September /, stimuli
taneously with nearly 5000 similar
homes throughout the United States.
1t was announced today
The house, under construction at
Rollingwood, Md. a new DEVELOPMENT
adjoining Rock Greek Park at Beach
drive and Leland street, Is being built
by Waverly Taylor, Inc. as a DEM
onstration house in the New Ameri-
can" home campaign. The movement
Is the outgrowth of the countrywide
architectural competition conducted
by the General Electric Co. in which
more than 1000 entries were made
by 5000 architects.
While the house is not based on
any one Of the prize winning entries
in the competition. it was designed by
Waverly Taylor, Inc, as a composite
Of those features which predominated
among the prizewinning plans. Ar
chitecturally. the exterior design is
described as modern adaptation OF
the Normandy motif.
The house will be equipped with
Winter conditioning apparatus, de-
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with grapes in which part of the new
growth was cut in Midsummer from
some Of the vines and the results COM
pared with unpruned vines. Not only
was the crop reduced in weight by the
pruning but the sugar content of the
grapes was appreciably lessened. In
fact, considerable progress is being
made in improvement of fruit crops by
reducing the number of fruits or clus-
tiers of fruit so that each fruit has more
leaf surface.
The Tiger Lily.
60 HARDY and adaptable is this
- fine old lily that it now occurs
as an escape from cultivation In parts
of Eastern United States. Just now
its orange blooms, typically spotted
with purple black, may be seen in
many suburban gardens and. although
it may not be the most beautiful Of
the lilies. the tiger lily makes very
snowy display, particularly when
grown as a group. Small black
bulbils produced freely in the axis
of the leaves drop easily to the soil
and tend to spread the clumps rather
rapidly. Travellers in the Orient re-
port that the bulbs Of this lily are
used as food by the Chinese. The
flowers are enduring and make rather
desirable vase material for the home.
The Vegetable Garden.
THE greatest need in the vegetable
garden these Summer days is
water. Rapid growth, essential to
quality in most garden crops. espe-
clally the root crops such as beets,
carrots and parsnips, cannot be Sc
cured without abundant water in the
soil. Hence it Is that certain of these
crops are often rather woody and un-
desirable in midsummer unless the
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garden Is provided with irrigation.
Really to have q successful vegetable
garden all Summer long, one should
provide for overhead irrigation.
Cabbage worms are not only serious
to the growing plants but also are
very disagreeable to the housewife
when preparing the heads for cooking
or salad. Calcium arsenate dust will
effectively control this pest. but leaves
toxic residue, especially II used late
in the development Of the heads.
Derris dusts are now being used sue
cessfully in many gardens. both be-
cause of their capacity to kill the
green worms and also because their
residues are not poisonous to people.
Pyrethrum dust is also usefu! ard Is
non-toxic.
Celery blight, which appears as
spotting of the leaves, may be checked
by spraying the plants two or three
times with Bordeaux mixture.
Caulifiower will not form nice white
heads unless the leaves are drawn up
over the head just after 1t forms. Tied
together with a bit of raffia, this cover
tends to shade the edible head and
cause it to blanch. Such treatment
improves the flavor as well as the
color of the edible portion.
Hortus.
A NEW and revised edition of this
concise and useful dictionary OF
garderl plants and gardening opera
tion2has recently appeared. Prepared
by/Dr. L. H. Bailey and his daughter
Ell. Bailey, the information has been
critically edited with a view to brevity
and value. The alphabetical arrange
ment makes the dictionary very easy
to use.
Garden Notes.
MASSEY dust, composed Of nine
" parts of busting sulphur and one
part Of powdered arsenate Of lead, Is
one Of the simplest and best preven-
tives of black spot on roses. Various
commercial forms of this dust are now
available, some Of them green in color
SO as to render them less conspicuous
on the foliage. Dusts, to be effective,
must be used with persistent regular
ity throughout the entire rose-grow-
ing period and particularly frequent
during rainy seasons such as prevailed
early this Summer. When one Is 60
ing away on an extended vacation
there is nothing better than q thor
ough spraying with Bordeaux mixture
to protect the rose foliage. This ma
terial leaves blush white deposit or
the leaves and. for this reason, Is no,
as popular as the dusts.
Suburban gardeners with poultry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-03

houses possess o supply Of the very
finest fertilizing material, particularly
II the manure Is handled carefully.
Superphosphate and muriate Of potash
added to the litter on the boards be-
meath the roosts will not only improve
the fertilizer but also conserve its
nitrogen content. Poultry manure
contains roughly about Ia per cent
of nitrogen, 9 per cent Of phos-
phorus and 4 per cent potash. The
superphosphate is obviously needed to
bring up the phosphorus to desirable
percentage.
One way to protect plants from
drying out during periods of Summer
drought is to mulch them literally
with grass, straw or peat moss. For
the average home garden, peat moss
is the most available mulching mate
! rial because it can be purchased from
the garden supply store. The soil will
not only remain more moist beneath
q layer Of mulch but will be few de-
grees lower in temperature in hot
weather. Gradually the mulch will
become part of the top soil and will
tend to improve its texture and gar
dening value.
Now that the asparagus season is
past, 1t does not do to permit the
beetles or slugs to strip the plants OF
green foliage. busting with arsenate
of lead powder mixed with nine parts
of hydrated lime will check these
insects but because of the smooth
foliage must be applied when the
plants are wet with dew.
Grab grass Is poisoning now and
should be cut rather closely and fire.
quently to prevent the seed heads
from ripening.
In the Flower Grower for June,
1885, there is q complete list Of State
flowers, corrected to January, 1885.
The accepted flowers Of Maryland and
Virginia are said to be black-eyed
Susan and Towering dogwood. re-
spectively. No species is indicated for
the District Of Columbia.
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v ' lished a few years ago
in the journal of the New York
Botanical Garden by DR.. A. B.
Stout of the garden staff. One
rarely finds more than three or
four species of this lovely genus in the
usual home garden, perhaps few
tiger regal and Madonna lilies. Very
often the gardener has tried other
species only to lose them after a
year or two. To explain the situa-
ton, DR.. Stout proposes three major
causes % a failure to supply proper
cultural conditions. % difficulty of
obtaining vigorous. healthy stock, and
90 destruction by mites, mice and
various diseases. Under culture. DR..
Stout points out. lilies benefit by the
protection of a shallow rooted ground
cover, such as Japanese spurge,
Pachysandra. A mulch of leaves or of
straw in Winter lessons the hazard of
severe freezing. Culture is, however,
not considered as important factor
as the condition of the bulbs when
received from the scotsman. The
bulbs have often been bruised, with
the result that the outer scales are
broken and dried out. Many bulhs
are actually partly dead when re-
ceived and have only strength enough
to grow once and flower. There Is
really very little that home garden
ers can do about this except to seek
out good sources of stock even though
the initial cost is higher. There is a
marked difference in inherent capaci-
ties of species to establish and main
tain themselves and among the better
species in this respect are Lilium
tigrinum, L. Henry, L. croceum, L.
regale, l.. candidum and L. speciosum.
Regarding insects and diseases, DR..
Stout states that it is practice at
the New York Botanical Garden to
soak newly arrived bulbs in solution
of one part of 40 per cent nicotine
sulphate and 400 parts of water for
five minutes to control mites and
thrips. Diseases are less understood,
particularly troubles of virus nature.
Where plants are evidently permanent
ly affected, they should be destroyed
to safeguard the healthy stock. There
is said to be a profound need for re-
search work on lily diseases that the
gardener may be informed as to meth
DDS of control.
Gladi0luS Thrips.
-FOUR or five years ago any gardener
could grow fine gladiolus flowers
if he bought good varieties of bulbs
and planted them in well prepared
soil. Now, it takes constant care to
produce nice crop of blooms. This
changed situation is due to one in
sect, the thrips, a minute sucking
pest, that in year or two spread all
over the gladiolus producing area Of
the United States and Canada and
brought bitter disappointment to ev-
eryone who grows this beautiful Sum-
mer flower. Control lies in two def
mite procedures, the first of which is
the reatment of the bulbs or corms
before planting and the second spray
ing regularly from the time the plants
are or 6 inches tall until they break
into bloom.
Bichloride of mercury, known gen.
orally as corrosive sublimate, is an
effective killing agent for all thrips
larva and eggs on the corms. One
ounce of the chemical dissolved in
gellons of water makes a proper
strength and, if the corms are i'm
mersed in this solution for 10 or IL
hours, they will be thoroughly cleansed
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signed 80 that Summer air cooling
may be added. Modern electrical de-
vices will be featured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-03

SIV " yHY We Fail With Garden
Lilies" is the title of an
wv interesting paper pub
HShed n few wears ago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-03
Chemistry Aids Farmers.

South Africa is turning to chemistry
for agricultural relief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-03

serve q special shore
dinner for only 60c.
Fresh soft crabs, fish,
salad, homemade pie
"a real treat. Yeu
can't possibly appre-
ciate st. Clement until
you see 1t. No other
water front develop.
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us this week end. It's
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change.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01
MYSTERIOUS WAVES
OF DISEASE GERMS
EXPLAIN HEALTH

Mysterious waves of disease germs,
rising and falling in numbers in city
jewellers like great ocean swells which
show no visible breakers, are believed
by Sir E. Hilton Young, British Min
lister of Health, to explain some puz-
zling features of disease statistics,
he explained in a recent address in
Parliament.
One puzzle is why general public
health seems to be better in some
years and worse in others, more or
less independent Of perceptible cpl
denies. Another is the fact that di-
seases which seem to be periodic, such
as measles or influence, do not al
ways show up on schedule.
Students of public health believe
that germs of all common diseases
are present all the time in any crowd
ed population, but usually in such
small numbers that few actual cases
of disease occur. Most people have
enough bodily resistance to fight off.
the small doses of germs which they
receive. At times something changes
this situation. The germs increase in
numbers or something lowers the aver
age resistance to them. This causes
an epidemic.
The idea suggested by Sir Hilton
is that the numbers of germs Of each
kind are increasing or decreasing all
the time in the population, like the
equally mysterious cycles known to
exist in the numbers Of field mice,
rabbits, jennings and several other
wild animals.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01
Cokesbury News

A miscellaneous shower was given
for Mr.. and Mrs. George Merrill at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Thomas
last Thursday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Frank Buckley are
spending this week with their parents
at Drexel Hill and Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Taylor spent
last Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bloxom at Oak Hall, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Beauchamp and
family, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Cowger last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Long and
son, John Walter, and Mrs. w. A.
Long were guests to dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn Wilker-
son, of Pocomoke City, Tuesday night.
The Cokesbury Ladies Aid will meet
at the parsonage Thursday evening,
Feb. z.
Mrs. Paul Cowger of near town, Wis
tied Mrs. Ralph Taylor Monday after
noon.
Miss Hortense Parsons of New
York City and Mr.. Marion Britting-
ham of this place, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
James Cottman Sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Long and daugh-
ter, Miss Pauline spent Monday with
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Bundick of POGO
moke City.
Mrs. Horace Pusey of Costen Station
Nd, spent part of last week with her
daughter, Mrs. Vernon Beauchamp.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cottman and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Dennis visited
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01
HEAVY STONE
IN THE STOMACH
OF fine COW

One of the strangest and most
unusual things that ever happened
in the history of dairying in New York
State took place recently on the farm
of Henry Prutsman, farmer in the
SQUAD Hollow district of Troupsburg,
reports The Canisteo Times.
One of Prutsman's choice Holstein
cows, 10 years old, began to all and
droop. She would not eat. She stood
still hour after hour, her head down,
eyes hollow, drooling and mooing as if
in pain. J. H. Prutsman, veterinary,
was called in. He stated that he did
not know what was the matter with
her but that she was going to die.
She would neither eat nor drink.
The cow died and an autopsy was
performed on her. The condition Of
the first stomach indicated that the
process of digestion had stopped.
When the second stomach was opened
large stone was found in it near
the outlet into the intestines.
The stone weighed 8 pounds and 8
ounces. It's length is z IA inches,
width 6 1-2 inches and it is 1-2
inches thick in the deepest part. To
look at the stone causes one to think
it almost unbelievable that cow could
swallow such a large object says the
writer.
When, where and how she got the
stone is not known. The supposition
is that the stone was pitched up onto
the load with a pitchfork full of hay
and finally found it's way into the
cow manger, where she swallowed it.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01

If the crest of one of these in
visible waves of some germ mounts
high enough to overcome average hui
man resistance an epidemic OCCURS.
If the crest of the germ wave is not
quite so high as this there may be no
epidemic but average individuals still
may be weakened by necessity of fight
ing against more than usual numbers
of the germ, so that other diseases
may increase and average health may
be affected.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01
Uncle Sam Spends Freely
To Push Adult Education
Commissioner to Paw
Out $2O,OOO,OOO
in 1885
BIZ International Illustrated Neacs

By international Illustrated Neacs
WASHINGTON-In education and
learning there Is no age limit.
DR.. John W. (EIire-a-Hall) Stude-
baker. United States commissioner
Of education. believes that Further,
he believes that adults not only need
to keep up with the times but want
to.
And partly because of the strong
beliefs Of this former bricklayer in
education for adults. Uncle Sam is
going to spend a lot of money In
1885 encouraging added learning by
grown-ups.
Expenditures Of the federal gov
ernment in 1885 on projects affecting
education will total about $3.50. 900. 900.
OF this amount about $20.000.000, or
slightly less than one-sixth. will go
for salaries Of teachers on adult
education projects.
Not Vital
1.-THE trouble with education" says
DR.. Studebaker. sis that It hasn't
been vital and the people working
in It haven't been vital. We can
afford the millions of dollars which
eventually will be required to build
into the structure Of education a
scheme by which all the adults In a
community may come together to
discuss their political. social and
economic problems"
Adult education is not exactly a
new project in the United States for
states and state universities have
been promoting 1t for several years.
And the idea certainly isn't new with
the country's commissioner Of
education.
DR.. Studebaker has been an ad-
vocate Of the scheme for a long time.
AS a matter Of fact, the unusual
appellation injected into his name
ire-a-Hall'-was attached
to DR.. Studebaker as a result Of his
emphatic support of the adult
education movement.
Public Forums
In his home town of Des Moines,
a., he promoted the idea of public
forums for adults Often it was
necessary to hire a hall to conduct
them. and DR.. Studebaker did. Thus
developed the significant sobriquet
The public forums in Des Moines
are operated as a part Of the school
system. an idea he is trying to
encourage elsewhere. Similar forums
have been started In Washington and
New York.
Despite his emphasis on adult
learning. DR. Studebaker has not
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01
MARRIAGE MILL
MUST STRUGGLE
FOR EXISTENCE

That marriage mill over in Elkton,
Md, which has brought so much pub
lie reproach to Elkton, Cecil county
and Maryland must fight for its con-
tinued existence.
State Senator Harold Coburn, of
Cecil county, it is pleasing to state,
has introduced bill in the Maryland
Legislature to put an end to what he
calls the marriage racket in Elkton.
That so-called racket has been run
by Industrious taxicab operators and
preachers without churches. The Co.
burn bill strikes at the very heart of
the business of the marrying par
sons" 1t restricts the right of per-
forming the marriage ceremony to
preachers who have charge of es-
tablished churches.
Furthermore, the marriage cere-
mony must be performed in the coun-
ty in which the marriage license was
issued unless the names of the con-
tracing parties be published on three
separate Sundays by some preacher
residing in the home county of the
bride-elect. Clerks of the court also
are banned under the law from issuing
marriage licenses before 9 a. M, and
after p. m. on week days and none
shall be issued on Sundays. Bill
boards, signs, posters, information
booths and hot-dog stands put up in
behalf of marrying parsons also are
forbidden.
1t will be recalled that many years
ago Wilmington had it's marriage
racket" and that some preachers from
Elkton had run on that line of bust
ness. 1t became such disgrace that
during the administration of Cover
nor C. R. Miller, when Senator Thomas
F. Gormley, Democrat, of this city,
led fight against the racket, it was
decided by the Legislature to wreck
the marriage mill here.
Gormley, supported by Governor
Miller, led the fight in the Legisla-
ture. He introduced and championed
a bill providing that no one should
be married here unless they estab-
lished a residence here for three days.
That broke the back Of the Will
mington marriage mill and it was
shifted over to Elkton, where tens Of
thousands of marriages have been per-
formed under the working plan of the
marrying parsons and their taxicab
driving allies.
Most persons who have watched the
development and conduct of the Elk
ton marriage mill" will wish State
Senator Coburn good luck in his fight
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01
BIG MOUNTAIN
WITHOUTIROOTS
IN CALIFORNIA

A mountain without roots. whose
head is of more ancient material than
it's body, has been found by earth
quake Investigators some 60 miles
northwest of Los Angeles.
Its granite crown, weighing about
1923, 900, 000,007 tons, was pushed up
to it's 1926 foot elevation and placed
on younger sedimentary rocks by
earthquakes, the researchers say.
Prof J. P. Buwalda, geologist, and
Prof. Beno Gutenberg, geophysicist,
of the Seismological Laboratory of
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton here, are the authorities for this
surprising find.
1t is Frazier mountain, in the Te-
hacapis, about five miles west Of Te-
jon Pass. It lies near a bend Of the
Great San Andreas earthquake fault,
one of the longest and more active
of the worlds known earthquake
faults,
The cap of the mountain, an I'M
usual plateau-life formation eight
mile long and four miles wide. Seis-
mograph depth tests showed this cap
is from 1,270 to 1900 feet thick.
"This slab of Frazier Mountains
cap must have come out of the San
Andreas fault, as an over thrust"
said DR.. Buwalda. "This mountain
block pushed up, first as a wedge,
then as a slab, being forced by earth
quakes up and over the younger sedi-
mentary deposits.
cit is probably only a small REM
nant of the original slab pushed up
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-01

showed youth education into the
background. Not John Studebaker,
who found 1t necessary to work his
way through college by laying brick.
Part Of the government school
fund will go to keep open schools
which otherwise would have to close.
More will go for vocational training,
land grant colleges, helping college
students through school and paying
wages Of workmen on school build
ings.
Student Aid
Besides the 100000 900 for teachers
Of adult education, the teachers to
be those not now employed, 100000
900 will go for salaries Of teachers Of
schools without funds to pay their
own instructors. A sum of $15.000,.
900 will be paid 100000 college stu
dents for made work..
Land grant colleges will receive
$2.500,000 and $12.500.000 will go for
vocational training in various states.
A minimum of $50.000.00O has been
allotted for erecting or remodeling
buildings. and $15.000.000 more will
be paid as relief wages to workmen
on school buildings. g.
During the year a nationwide
survey Of school needs will be con-
Quoted. For this. and for the pay
ment Of expert supervisors on school
construction. 100000 will be spent.