Evening star., 1937-05-17

disease. Secretary Hull ardently favors
the convention and has publicly indi-
Gated his 1mpatience with senatorial
opposition originating in group of
Southwestern cattle-raising States. The
Hull contention is that the United States
good nelghbor' policy toward the other
Americas must have commercial, as we'll
as political and cultural, advantages in
mind. He is plainly of opinion that Uncle
Sans refusal to give Argentine meat
square deal Is far from good neigh
borllness. Meantime, the sanitary con-
vention remains Theoretically pigeon
holed in the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
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In Washington over the week end was
man who made special trip to the
Capital just to pick up quartet Of cock
roaches-each four inches in length
They are of the giant Central American
breed, of which a considerable flotilla is
IN the exclusive and closely guarded pos
session of the National Geological Park
here. The visitor in question was George
Francis Plerrot, traveller, lecturer and
former editor of the American Boy Maga-
zine, who is now devoting himself to
establishment of the United States first
important museum of entomology 1t
will be located at Detroit and called the
Michigan Insect Zoo At first, its ex-
hibits, elaborately arranged, will be con-
fined to some 200 different kinds of
insects extant in Michigan-a tiny pro-
portion of the 100000 varieties said to
exist throughout the world. Mr.. Pierrot
has had the cooperation of the Bureau
Of Entomology of the Agriculture Depart
ment and the National Geological Park
in organizing his ZOO, which is conceived
primarily as an incentive to youth in the
study of natural history. A confessed
"bug" on the subject of insects, Pierrot
plans trip around the world next Fall
in pursuit of his hobby, after seeing the
Detroit zoo started on its novel career.
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Viscount SnoWden, veteran British So
cialist statesman, who has just passed
away, had many ties and friendships
in the United States, as has his widow,
who proudly boasts that she has lee
tured in every State of the Union. At
home and abroad one always spoke of
"the Snowdens," for husband and wife
were intimately associated in their many
puUllC, AltCIdI dllu SOClOlOklCdl dCIlV1LlcS.
Though as Philip Snowden, M. p, the
former chancellor of the exchequer and
labor leader generated bitter enmities
through the years, politicians of all hues
greatly respected his brilliant attain
ments and gallant fight against phys
ical inf1rmity dating from earliest man
hood. Snowden perpetrated celebrated
passage In one OF his farewell budget
speeches in Parliament. Lamenting the
failure of the inheritance tax to pro-
duce anticipated returns, he explained
that "Britons had not been dying up to
expectations"
Beer is by way of suing for divorce
from hard liquor. At any rate, incom-
patibility seems to have developed be-
tween the newly organized United Brew
ers Industrial Foundation and the Dis
titled Spirits Institute. Brewers think
they have more to lose than gain in being
linked In the public mind with beverages
Of high alcoholic content. The breweries
would like to establish popular accept
ance Of beer as . mild drink or liquid
food" Once the product Is e1ectually
disassociated from hard liquor, brewers
believe they would have little to fear In