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Evening star., 1936-09-01
Reduction of Milk Price
Means No Gain in Sales

To the Editor OF The Star:
In connection with your editorial en-
titled, mo Milk Price Boost" I would
like to point out that the huctuating
seasonal surpluses of milk are not caused
by seasonal variations in sales of milk so
much as the variations in the daily
quantities given by any and every herd
Of cows. In order to have sufficient milk
to supply his market, the dairyman must
keep enough COWS so that when his herd
is producing the smallest quantity Of
milk, there will still be sufficient SO that
no child will be forced to 60 to bed
without the regular ration Of this vitality
necessary food.
You state in your editorial Il quote): {:
whether the agreement was sought by
the Virginia Milk Producers
Association, representing about 1,100 Of
the 1,400 milk producers of this area,
in the hope Of obtaining higher price
for their milk, may be a matter of con-
troversy. But that the producers hoped
for higher price through the agree
ment Is certain"
The only reason for the formation Of
the association Is a corporate attempt to
secure fair prices, which could not be
hoped for with each individual under
bidding the other. The salaries of Fed
eral employees have been restored to nor
NAL and most of the prices of other
foods which were depressed have been
brought up to nearer normal levels, and
If the dairymen's association does not
know how to restore the normal price Of
milk for its members, 1t should be honest
enough to admit the fact, return the
members contracts and discontinue
charging brokerage. The purpose be-
hind the associations application for a
license seems to be to hide its in
competence behind the skirt of the Gov.
ernment.
The last paragraph Of your editorial
deals with the fallacy of lowering the
price of milk and thereby increasing the
sales and profits. When the point has
been reached that an article is being
sold for less than the cost Of manufac-
ture, no businessman would be interested
in the proposition that he would be able
to sell still more by further reducing his
price. A further increase in sales would
not increase hts profits but would in
crease his losses. Bread Is an equally
necessary food but no one is advocating
that its price should be governed by what
the potential bread-eaters could pay who
are unable to include bread in their diet.
A very vital fact which seems to be con-
sistently ignored is that the price Of milk
is, in proportion to its food value, way
below the average price of other foods.
This food value does not get in the
milk, Of course, except at great expense.
am Of the milk-consuming class,
totally uninterested in any way in the
dairy business, but do happen to know
something about it and believe lii fair
play, ERNEST E. OSWALD.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Civilization Has Improved
Little Since Middle Ages
70 the Hditor Of The star:

40 the &ottor OF The 6tars
In your editorial August 13, titled, "This
Golden Age" the author attempts to
show the ignorant and unscrupulous
agitators" that the world has greatly
improved socially and morally since the
Middle Ages"
Why did not the author carry his dates
back further, say to the Stone Age, or to
the time when the cave was mans castle,
and show the advances and improve
ments we have made In the past 10
millions Of years?
No student can fail to see that the
world has greatly improved and that
Improvement has been largely due to the
work Of the small and greatly handi-
capped group that the said author calls
the professional reformers," and we
have still long way to 60 to reach the
more abundant life"
It is very doubtful that our Indians
are any better off now or healthier and
happier than they were before the white
Europeans discovered this continent.
Certainly the average Negro Is little,
If any, better of than he was In the
late SOS or early SOS, and the share
croppers of the South are in very much
the same state as were the serfs In the
Middle Ages, and it is also very doubtful
that our aristocracy of today, with their
yachts and high-powered automobiles,
are relatively any happier or more con-
tented and comfortable and better cared
for than were the barons Of the Middle
Ages.
AL the wars since the year / have
not caused so much loss In life and
limb and treasure as did the recent great
World War, and there was never an
invasion by the clans or barons in the
past that equaled in horrors and beastly
slaughter the recent invasion of Ethiopia
by Mussolinis forces.
OF course, we have now our hospitals
and Red Cross, but to counterbalance
these there never was created or in
vented and introduced by mortal man
any tools or machines for his use, pleas
ure or profit that have caused the great
loss of life and manning of men as has
been and is being caused by automo-
biles and the airplanes.
1t is reliably estimated that one out
of three of our children will be killed
or crippled for life by the automobile or
truck. This Is worse than meningitis
and infantile paralysis combined and our
doctors, with all their science and dis
covery Of germs and microbes, have done
little TO alleviate mans three worst dis
ease enemies-cancer, tuberculosis and
heart disease.
Civilization Is growing, we hope, but
the small seed OF progress has as yet
barely pushed its head above the sands
of time and the billowS of war are even
now threatening to bury it deeper than
1t was during the Middle Ages.
CHAS. M. PIDGEON.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Spiders are always interesting garden

spiders are always interesting garden
deniDens.
These little animals, 50 insect-like in
most things, give many persons, even
OF the male persuasion, the creeps, as
they are called.
No doubt the plentitude Of legs, and
the quick, darting ways, account for this.
While the spider is an animal, most
persons insist on calling it ard thinking
OF 1t as an insect, which perhaps is Just
as we'll.
There are many species of spiders in
the average garden, most of them harm
less, all of them "scary" enough.
There are few more diverting hours
to be spent than In watching q spider
spin his web, or run around in it after
1t is completed.
To see one OF those big fellows, yellow,
with very long legs, trust himself to the
mercy Of the breeze on a filament which
would not span One-hundredth of an
inch is to be in on adventure.
There is typical garden spider Of this
type just outside screen in some rho
dodendron bushes.
persistent fellow Is he. If a rain
beats down his entire nest, he builds it
up again the very next day. Nothing
seems to discourage him. Tear down his
web, you find 1t there again in the morn
ing. bright and new, sparkling with dew
in the sunshine.
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Speaking of garden insects, a word of
praise should be said for the aphids, or
plant lice, so called, although they are
no more lice than elephants.
These are fat insects, of a pale, beau
tiful sea-green color in the main. There
are aphidS which are pink, and some
red, some black. but the type mostly en-
countered in the yard are of the pale
green persuasion much lighter than the
color of average leaves.
Clever little things they are, to be sure.
If you spray the foliage to get rid of
them, they run around to the underside
of the leaves, knowing well they will be
perfectly safe there, so determined is the
average gardener to spray only the upper
and outside.
If you will go to the trouble to turn over
a leaf dripping with nicotine solution,
or even soap alone, though both are best,
you will see scores of aphids huddled to-
gether, perfectly dry and perfectly safe.
You might as well not have sprayed the
plant at all as far as they are concerned.
Most sprayer devices throw in a nozzle
which will shoot the liquid back and up,
but experience proves that this is seldom
used, Tor some mysterious reason (prob-
ably lazinesS).
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A sure-fire hit in any mans garden is
one form of the sphinx moth.
first meeting with this creature is a
never-to-be-forgotten experience.
why, a hummingbird," you say
The closer you approach, the surer you
are, but on coming directly up to the
plant in which il is feeding without
the "hummingbird showing the Slight
est trace of fear, you begin to lose con-
fldence in your diagnosis.
No, it isn't hummer, although 1t
does look considerably like one, even to
the rapid flutter of its wings"
1t is just one stage in the life cycle of
a moth, mighty picturesque fellow in any
stage.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
History in the South.

On a dusty, sun-baked Mississippi
cotton field yesterday history was writ
ten. A ten-foot tall, ungainly machine
waddled down rows Of cotton, its steel
fingers picking more cotton IN an hour
than a skilled human being could pick
between sun-up and sun-down. Scores
of men followed the machine down the
long rows of cotton, handling the fiufiy
staple, commenting on the imperfections
of the machine that sometimes grabs
leaves and hulls along with the cotton
and stains" the cotton green; doubling
that the thing would ever be practical or
that the average cotton farmer could
afford to use it. Such skepticism has
greeted every new invention.
At the controls of the machine, Mack
Rust, the inventor, was pleased enough
with the demonstration. The CORE
spondent of the New York Times quotes
him as saying that he does not claim
the cotton picker to be the best cotton
picker that will be developed, but 1t is
q better cotton picker than the frst
Model T was an automobile. And no
harvesting machine, he points out, Is
more than 90 or 95 per cent perfect.
Certainly the imperfections noted in
the machine. its gathering of trash
along with the cotton. thus lowering
the grade and quality of the staple, and
its apparent failure to function in hilly
land, do not seem very important now.
Such imperfections are usually noted in
new machinery, before practical, con-
tinued experience has shown ways to
remove the kinks. Those who pointed
out such imperfections in the machine,
gravely shaking their heads In doubt,
may have allowed their wishes to father
their thoughts. For, hedged about with
the mechanical imperfections noted by
observers. in addition to the idealistic
conditions with which the owners plan
to restrict its use, the machine is
capable Of Transforming the economic
life Of millions of people. wards Of old
King Cotton. And because the posi-
bility of change presents new problems,
not yet solved. people are afraid Of
the possibility.
If developed as its inventor believes 1t
will be. the machine could lower the pro-
duction cost to the point where scent
cotton would be profitable. But 1t would
also deprive millions of men. women and
children Of the work that has enabled
them, for generations past, to subsist.
It could do more work than thousands
Of human beings in the South and 1t
could also wipe out the market for feed
represented in the millions of mules
and horses of the Cotton States-on
which depend the farmers of millions of
acres in the Middle West. It possesses
the possibility of ending the back-break-
ing toll of little children in the South
but no one has yet shown what these
children or their parents will do when
cotton is picked by machinery.
Thus 1t has been, on a smaller scale
perhaps, with most "labor-saving'' In
ventions. Men are confused because they
attempt to picture future conditions
against the background of the present
and the past. New machines, new ways
of living, new needs, new opportunities
are always just ahead. But for the time
being they are out of sight.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

At last the very large insect which dug
hole about an inch across in the lawn
and buzzed angrily every time we at
tempted to oust him is identified.
He was digger wasp, which special
lies In killing the annual cicada, whose
merry cadenced song is heard O. hot
night.
The cicada is dragged into the nest,
the eggs are laid In 1t, and 1t furnishes
food for the Matching larvae.
Such is another OF Natures pretty little
schemes.
We did not see this cruel drama. for
we doused the wasp with insect powder
and poured nicotine solution down its
burrow.
The insect, buzzing angrily at this at
tention, new away. IT was the last seen
of him. Rains washed over the hole and
now the grass has grown over 1t.
~
Gardens are full of such insect Incl
dents, If a close watch is kept for them.
Who will forget the first sight Of the
praying mantis?
A pretty, leaf-green insect Is this one,
rather like a gigantic grasshopper, but
even the least wise in insect lore knows
for q certainty that the thing is its own
insect.
Those long leaf-like "wings," that abb
surd insect head, those arms" bent in
attitude of prayer
This is something different, the finder
knows instinctively.
1t is seldom found in the city, although
there, too, on occasion.
Mostly the mantis crops up on shrubs
in suburban areas. So cleverly does 1t
blend with its background that the
searcher often finds it inspecting him
sagaciously long before he is able to
inspect it.
A sort Of insect inspection, as it were,
instructive insect inspection, as the cir
Gus press agent might say. Come to
think Of it, there is no reason why the
praying mantis would not make as good
a side show inmate as anything else.
There are still millions of people In
the world who have not seen one.
Surely this is creature, too. of which
the yokel well might say, as he is sup
posed to have said of the giraffe. There
amt no such animule."
A praying mantis is like that.
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Its head, or lack of head, however one
wishes to regard it, is uncanny in its
fascination.
We saw one the other day, brought into
the city, and placed on blotter on a
desk.
While it id not take on the coloration
Of the blotter, 1t looked appropriate
enough there, much as if fashioned by
hand out Of paper, so mechanical, SO un-
real it seemed.
Although it was reputed by its owner
to be alive, it never moved muscle"
if it had any. which we doubt. 1t seemed
thing of soft green surfaces, and long
wires, called legs and arms"
1t could scarce be said to look insect"
so lifeless did it appear.
Cruel, it is reputed to be, but can
anything be called cruel in Nature, at
least in the sense humans use the word?
The digger wasp, using the body of
slain cicada, does not know itself to be
cruel.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Taken for Granted.

August closed with two days of weather
as perfect as the neighborhood of Wash
ington ever knows. Skies crystal clear,
sunshine and cool breezes DISTINGUISHED
the final 48 hours of the month. The air
was tonic, each minute 1t was good to
be- alive.
But how many Of the thousands Of
people who were the benefciaries Of this
halcyon period Of Intervention between
the heat of Summer and the inevitable
chill of onconing Autumn have paused
to think about it? The answer is: Not
more than very few. If it had poured
rain, complaint would have been clam
orous. So, too, would there have been
noisy complaint If gales Of hurricane
intensity had swept the city and adjacent
territory. Yet, as usual, Just because
the climate was momentarily ideal, no
body was impressed. It appears to be the
habit Of mankind to take blessings for
granted.
Such, in general, is the attitude Of the
average individual toward the provi-
dental endowment of unimpaired health.
Men and women who never are Ill simply
do not realize their luck. Indeed, the
slightest word of self -commiseration
from the lips Of q chronic sufferer is apt
to bring q sharp rebuke from those Of
folk unacquainted with pain. Sympathy,
it seems, is to be found only among
fellow-unfortunates whose own expe-
rience is instructive in the circumstances.
And a similar observation may be
made with regard to prosperity and pow
erty. 1.-THE poor would perish" philos-
opher once declared, were it not for the
poor" Doubtless, the same rule applies
to the rich-they. likewise. probably
support each other. Hut what Of those
Evening star., 1936-09-01
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Forest in Moonlight.

Forest in Moonlight.
Dusk lengthens in cloudless sky,
The daylight fainter grows,
The moon on darkening trees and brook
A mellow color throws.
A soft-eyed fawn with timid leap
Lands by the limpid stream,
It's graceful form reflected there
Outlined by a moonbeam.
A trout in flashing, upward spring
Is silvered by the light.
A thrush repeats its vesper song
Walked by moon-ray bright.
The tranquil moon smiles down on all
A benediction. Then
In peace and utter q,fietude y
Night falls within the glen.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

There is always a cynical element Of
the populace that regards keeping out
Of war merely as one of those oft-re-
peated New Year resolutions. It is, how
ever, to be remembered that civilization
has been moving rapidly and there are
few civilized poets remaining competent
to glorify war.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Vehicles.

From the New Haven Journal-courier.
The Board of Selectmen Of Amherst,
Mass, has ruled that persons on roller
skates are vehicles. Now If only they
can be made to put on headlights and
signal their turns!
Evening star., 1936-09-01

1t is an honor to the American people
to put Susan B. Anthonys picture on q
postage stamp. although ofyicial action
does not necessarily imply full popular
approval of the Post Office Departments
political methods.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

The King of England endears himself
to the people by frankly resenting the
routine of royal ceremonial and further
endears himself by patiently submitting
to it. The British public Is not hard to
please, so long as it is allowed to have
its own way.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

Some Of the Pennsylvania old-timers
regard Summer snowstorm in Cambria
County as remarkable, but not more so
than . Democratic presidential conven-
ton In Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Education on Care and
Treatment of Pets Needed

To the Editor Of The Star:
want to thank you for your editorial,
"Pet or Pest" printed few days ago.
In your question column a few nights
ago, In which the question was asked.
do the newspapers have much to do
with educating the public?" yes was the
answer. And such articles as yours are
instrumental in educating the public In
humane treatment of their pets.
MARY e. CLARK.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

European communities are being SUBJ
jected to local censure for arresting
Americans and feeding them at public
expense instead of allowing them to go
on distributing tips in the cafes.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Felicity.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Women who rifle their husbands
clothes are denounced by q Southern
court. And yet nothing makes for
marital felicity like a spirit of optimism
In the wife.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
A Call.

Heyl You with the downcast eye,
And you with the glistening tear,
And you with the faint, regretful sigh,
And you with the icy sneeri
Don't you know that the sky Is smiling
And the flowers are out in bloom.
And the world is bent on beguiling
Each heart from the haunts Of gloom?
And you with the bitter word
More bitter, perhaps, If wise
How many . mind is to envy stirred
BY your fortunes which you despise!
There is always some chap whose grieving,
If his grief were only known,
Would bid you to its relieving
And help you forget your own.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

The Department Of State is expected
to study bulletins from the Department
Of Agriculture in deciding questions of
export and import. The time may be
at hand when the market basket is
mightier than the portfolio.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Time for the Preacher.

From the Savannah News
We feel sure the presentation OF .
gold watch to q pastor as 10th ami.
versary present was not intended as
reminder not to make his sermons too
lone,
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Gasoline Limitations.

From the Paterson IN. j. News.
In North Carolina it's against the law
to sell gasoline to an intoxicated per-
son. No doubt filling stations in this
State make it the rule to sell the gaso-
line first.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
The Barnum Test.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The likeness of P. T. Barnum Is to
appear on commemorative half dollars
The suckers of whom Barnum spoke will
ring the half dollar particularly hard on
the counter.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

America always does things in q big
way. 1t remains for Ruth Bryan Owen
to show distinguished husband Q cam
paign speaking tour as . wedding trip.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

IF It had took as long," said Uncle
Eben, ito create de world as it has took
to fnd way to run 1t, Adam an Eve
wouldn't hab no garden Of Eden ready
foh 'em yet"
Evening star., 1936-09-01

Spain has figured vividly in the history
OF both hemispheres and has always
created new problems instead of solving
old ones.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

In Soviet Russia so many laws have
been disregarded that even the law of
self preservation does not appear to be
held in its usual respect.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Arithmetically SPEAKING.

MY motto is look out for number one"
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne, 'but the
person who looks out exclusively for
number one is likely soon to be re-
garded as q cipher"
Evening star., 1936-09-01
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Evening star., 1936-09-01
limitation.

How oft we study men who came
TO glory and undying fame,
And find the blunders Of the great
Are al that we can initiate.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Dodgers.

From the Paducah tKyJ sun-Democrat.
# some men could dodge an auto rs
they do work, there wouldn't be 30 many
accidents.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Unanirnity.

From the Flint journal.
It's fairly clear that most Of the public
men think Of Washington, Jefferson
and Lincoln, and they manage to make
their opinions sound mutual.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Shooting Stars.
BY PAuANDE JOHNSON.

Deserving Of Consideration.
Bow to the boast of the self made man
Defying nature in all its planl
The oak ere 1t grows to its sturdy height
Depends on the soil and the rain and
light;
The river that flows to the mighty deep
Is fed by the streams on the hillside
steep;
The flower that blooms and the ripening
grain,
Were the sun shut out, would reach
forth in vain,
And the cubs in the widest creatures
lair
Would die in lack Of sheltering care.
But the self-made man apart doth
dwell,
The work of some strange, spontaneous
spell,
With never memory In his mind
OF help In the days that are left behind;
No friendly hint when the luck ran slow,
No timely aid when the cash was low.
He has missed . lot in the strife and
stress
Where he oonQuers in splendid loneli-
ness.
Let him claim such happiness as he can
Defer to the boast of the self-made man!
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Precarious Enterprise.

Precarious Enterprise.
what happens to man who carries
water on both shoulders?" asked the
youth who is learning politics.
WELL" replied Senator Sorghum, II
hate to use slang. But as q rule he gets
soaked"
Jud Tunkins says oratory seems to
have backset because q man who has
eloquence and magnetism can make
more money out Of some kind of sales
manship.
Evening star., 1936-12-01
FARMS FOR SALE.

rs ACRES NEAR LEE-JACKSON HIGH
way. l hour Of Washington: 8 acres timber.
balance clear: spring and stream: well
fenced: 7-room house in good shape: shade:
barn. necessary outbuildings. Price. 81 $50:
5000 cash. balance to suit. BUELL. FARM
DUE TO MARTIAL DIFFICULTIES.
owner will sacrifice 7-room, 2-bath. mod
ern Colonial house. hot-water heat. hard.
wood floors, fireplaceS etc % acres OF
fine tobacco land Price ridicuously low
for quick buyer Something clear in
Washington will be considered in exchange.
Address Box 3l1-V Star Office.
NOW IS THE TINE TO BUY FARMS. AND
the right prices. 900 acres. with large
house and barn. near Darnestown: 5s acres.
with new house and barn, near Poolesville;
numerous necessary outbuildings. near
Brighton. are among our best !istings in
hheesutiIul hes Montgsomery Gounty Nd l,,SI GALL 81
NATIONAL 1900 OR ADAMS 9l2l.