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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
Grain Belt Prepares
For Hopper attack
Poison Bait Offensive Awaits Insects as Federal State
Farm Leaders Seek Means of Protecting
This Years Bumper Crop
BY JOSEPH w. LaBINE

Kids enjoy devish pranks. Remember how used to
catch grashoppers, pull their legs and watch them spit
tobacco?
Innocent fun perhaps but today the low rasshopper takes
his In Biblical days there locust plaques but
than the yearaerear grasshopper that has
damaged Americas verdant every
the early 1905 Preventative have met with minor
this the United States department of agriculture
of invasion.
Hoppers like horde of angry bees from field
to the ripping their through rpenng grain and leav
path of desolaon They cut away fence posts destroy
shrubbey and finally spater their gorged bodies against the
windshield of passing Sometimes they blacken the
and make men fear the millennium has arrived.
But when fall the grasshoppers disappear and
farmers breathe easier hoping the plague forever
Then winter and with entomoogss from state
and federal departments of agriculture They dig in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

Recognizing that successful con,
troll measures depend on co-opera-
ton, well-organized campaigns are
already under way in many states
headed by a trained entomologist
who generally works with county
agents. In turn come township and
community leaders, mixing stations
and bait-spreading crews. County
financing has supported large part
of the campaign.
Last year 1921 tons of poison
bait were supplied at an approx
mate cost to the federal govern
ment of 81, 104,0 900. This made pos
sible a harvest, in many sections
where without control the crops
would have been a complete loss.
State co-operators estimated that
crops worth more than 500, ZOO, 900
were saved in the north central and
great plains area. But despite these
savings, the losses to crops where
hopperS were not controlled reached
nearly $66, 100000.
Such is the picture of Americas
current agricultural pain-in-the-
neck, a perennial nuisance that has
driven more than one farmer to
near insanity. Adding to the dis
comfort is the fact that these
plaques have descended with great
est wrath upon those states which
have suffered most harshly from
drouth and dust storms during the
past eight years.
Disasters Bedfellow.
Perhaps it is logical that grass
hoppers, dust and drouth should 60
hand in hand and that one of these
pestilences should lead to another.
Lack of moisture encourages grass
hoppers. The 'hoppers, in turn,
destroy foliage and loosen the earth
to be swept about at the mercy of a
strong wind.
More than one visitor from the
industrial East has looked upon this
desolation and turned his eyes
away, swearing that drouth, dust
and 'hoppers will never be con-
quered. But there's always another
year and each spring the hopper
belt farmer faces life confidently,
imbued with an undying faith that
his luck must eventually change.
So it follows that again this year
he thinks it will change. Probably
it will, because never since 1929 has
the great plains area been so plenti-
fully showered with spring rains.
Maybe the rain will kill these grass
hoppers; maybe the weather will
become freakish and keep them
from doing great damage; maybe
the poison bait will work better than
before.
Maybe. At least We'll hope sol
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

vices that are sold at fancy prices
and hold out alluring promises of
speedy reducing without dieting or
exercise.
1t is bad enough that most Of
these fail to reduce. For they
may delay the day when the VIC
tim of overweight will undertake
a sound and scientific program of
weight reduction that will effec-
lively take off weight-thus i'm
proving appearance, benefiting
health and increasing the chances
of longevity. But what is far
more serious is that some of these
preparations may endanger health
or cause lifelong physical impair
ment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
The Film Stars Method

This simple and scientific meth
cd of controlling the weight is the
one used by film stars in Holly
wood. It is essential that they
keep slim and practically every
important film player has a clause
in her contract calling for a can
collation. if she permits her weight
to increase beyond a certain point.
But at the same time, film stars
must safeguard their health, for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Dreaded Meats.-A pinch of
baking powder added to the bread
crumbs for the Dreaded meat or
fish will result in a lighter coating.
Be Precauti0us.-If you should
smell smoke in the house, don't
just sit and wonder where it is
60 investigate Immediately. 1t
may be only the neighbor build
ing fire-but then it may not.
Improving Custard.-Stale cake
crumbs, sprinkled over the top of
a custard before putting it into the
oven to bake, gives the top a deli
cate brown and the custard a
different flavor.
Salt the Prunes.-A pinch of salt
heightens the flavor of any prune
dish.
Test Your Iron.-Too hot irons
may weaken cotton sheets, even
though the scorch is not deep
enough to be seen.
Hooks and Eyes.-Did you ever
try sewing on hooks and eyes with
a button-hole stitch? It is the
most secure method YOU have
ever tried.
Worth Trying.-To drive a nail
into plaster without cracking the
plaster, heat the nail.
When Food Burns.-If food is
burned in the pan while cooking,
place the pan containing the
scorched food into a larger pan
containing water and the food will
lose its burned flavor. Then re-
move all but the scorched parts
and continue cooking in a clean
vessel.
Use for WORKOUT Stockings
When woollen stockings are too
old to wear, cut off the feet, draw
one leg over the other, fold over
and tack down the sides to form a
bag into which you can easily slip
your hand. They make splendid
polishers for shoes, stoves or
floors and bright articles, and
keep the hands clean.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

merly. But the worst grasshopper
outbreaks in American history &C.
Cured in the great plains region so
to 60 years ago when game birds
were far more plentiful than now.
For years it has been believed
that when grasshoppers come they
remain seven years, destroying
crops annually. After this period
has elapsed they allegedly return
to normalcy and are only a minor
crop hazard until the next outbreak
occurs. No definite proof of this
theory has ever been offered.
1t has been established, however,
that dry, warm weather is favora-
BILE for grasshoppers and that the
most severe outbreaks occur either
during or following periods of
drouth. Perhaps most drouth cy-
cles are about seven years long,
which would explain the hopper ira
dition.
Rains Haven't Helped.
But wet weather is unfavorable
and great numbers of grasshoppers
often die during wet springs from
disease. Such is not the case this
year, however, when the depart
ment of agriculture.is planning the
most active anti-grasshopper cam
paign in its history. The current
spring has been wet in the Middle
West and great plains area but
grasshoppers will be bad anyway.
Says the bureau of entomology:
"Recent rains over a wide belt
in the Middle West and great plains
area have much delayed the hatch
ing of grasshoppers and have held
those which have Matched in the
edges of fields. But the reported
mortality because of weather has
been low. Not enough have been
killed to permit any letting down in
the control campaign. The delayed
development of the grasshoppers
and growth of vegetation have kept
grasshoppers out of the crops, but
it is too early to indicate that con-
troll will not be needed over this
wide area.
'tThe delayed hatch may make it
necessary to make several applica-
tons of poison bait, rather than one
or two, which would be sufficient if
all the 'hoppers Matched at about
the same time.'
Widespread outbreaks are expect
ed this year in South Dakota, Mon
tana, Oregon, Missouri, Iowa, Ne
braska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah,
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma
and Texas. The greatest trouble is
expected in North and South Da-
kota, which together will require
$4,000 tons of hopper bait. Total
requirements this year for the en-
tire nation are expected to be 49,
900 tons; two states will need one
third of i'll
Extra Generations.
The situation is made more acute
by an unprecedented happening last
fall. Whereas grasshoppers are
known to hatch only once a year,
last fall an extra generation ap-
peared which ruined considerable
fall sown grain and added greatly
to the number of eggs which passed
the winter in the soil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
The Name Josephine

The name Josephine, feminine
form OF the Hebrew Joseph, has
the same meaning-"he shall add
(children)." The name comment
crates the happy exclamation of
the mother of the patriarch Joseph
at his birth: "The Lord shall add to
me another son." Josephine, en-
press of France (1763-1814), most
famous person ever to bear the
name, must have found its mean
ing an ironic mockery, since it
was because she bore him no ION
that Napoleon divorced her.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
Don't Diet Without Direction

A carefully regulated diet will
not only maintain normal weight,
but will Danish overweight by
forcing the body to burn it's own
excess fat as fuel. Having heard
of this scientific principle, many
women frantically and foolishly
attempt to prescribe their own re-
ducing diets often with dis
astrous results.
There is always the possibility
that one may omit calcium-bear-
ing foods and thus impair the
teeth, or leave out foods rich in
iron and copper and interfere
with the formation of the hemo-
globin or red pigment in the blood.
One of the most common and
most serious errors is to omit all
bread, potatoes and cereals, in the
belief that carbohydrates are "fat-
tening foods" Carbohydrates are
required by the body in order to
utilize the fats in the diet, and
when reducing, they are also nee
essary to burn up excess fatty
tissue.
Just as fire cannot burn without
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

they indicate that
in spite of my
warning against
unscientific meth
DDS of weight re-
duction, m a n y
women still cling
to the idea that
there is some mag
ic in the various
pills, powders, cap
sules, soaps, salts
and mechanical de-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
Counting Galleries the Easy Way
to Reduce


The one safe, sure and scien-
tific method of getting rid of sur
plus weight and at the same time
maintaining top health-is to con-
sumo a diet that is balanced in
every respect, but to count your
calories at every meal, making
certain that you consume fewer
calories each day than your body
requires for its normal energy ex-
penditure.
will gladly send to every read
er Of this newspaper, a copy of
my reducing bulletin. This in
cludes a chart showing the caloric
value of all the commonly used
foOds-plus a weeks sample re-
ducing menus. By following this
scientific plan for weight reduc-
ton, you can easily lose from one
to two pounds weekly. A more
rapid reduction is not advisable.
At that rate, you can lose from
six to eight pounds in the course
of neutrality-suspicious. pounds at
the end of three months. That is
a lot of weight to lose and will
make a vast difference in your
appearance and in the enthusiasm
with which you greet your daily
tasks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

1SSIAIIS sui cIIO SldhS IllS1A
heads. Last years grasshop-
pers have deposited millions
of eggs which will hatch
under favorable conditions
and bring more trouble next
summer.
This routine has been re-
peated for several years but
farm men have not been idle.
They've discovered the most
effective method of combat
ing 'hoppers is poison bait, a
mixture of bran, sawdust, black
strap molasses, crude arsenic and
water. Innumerable tons of this de-
lectable diet have been offered the
grasshoppers since 1880; this year
an estimated $4,000 tons will be
needed and much of it will be
supplied by the federal government.
Summer Mornings Pastime.
Poison bait is spread in the fields
during late spring or early summer,
before the 'hopperS get started. Any
morning this month you can drive
through a midwestern farm area
and watch it being spread from a
Z wagon or truck.
Unlike humans, grasshoppers are
particular when they eat and the
bait spreaders must be patient. In
ordinary summer weather the feed
ing time is from a. m. until noon.
They figuratively stay in bed if
the temperature is less than IS de-
grees; moreover they can't be both
cred with food if it's warmer than
80 degrees.
The grasshopper' private life is
an interesting chapter in the study
of entomology. He matches from an
egg which is buried in the soil by
his mother the previous autumn. AS
many as AL eggs are known to
have been deposited in one tunnel.
In contrast to many other injuri-
Gus insects, the grasshopper when
newly Matched closely resembles his
parents except that he lacks wings.
Almost Immediately upon emerging
from the egg he is able to hop about
quite actively, beginning his life of
destruction. Forty to sixty days
later he has grown into maturity.
During the growth period he sheds
his skin five or six times. Cast-off
skins are often mistaken for dead
grasshoppers and are frequently the
basis for mistaken reports that
grasshoppers are dying by the mil
lions"
Fight for Existence.
Man is not the grasshopper's only
enemy. Throughout its brief life the
insect is plagued by parasitic two
winged flies which deposit maggots
on the hopper. These maggots de-
YOUR the internal portions of the
grasshopper's body and soon cause
its death.
But one of the most important
factors in grasshopper control is
the bird. Except for those living
solely on vegetable matter, birds
feed on 'hoppers and destroy large
numbers of them. The assertion has
often been made that grasshoppers
are now so abundant because game
birds are less numerous than for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
DANGEROUS DRUGS

Dragging is particularly to be
condemned, and no one should at
tempt to reduce by this method
except under the advice and
watchful eye of a physician. There
are many invalids today who
would be happy and healthy if
they had not attempted to take
some reducing medicine" with
out consulting physician.
One preparation that is still
bought by foolish women-in spite
of repeated warnings against its
use-may even result in perma-
nent blindness.
Almost equally Objectionable
are excessive purging = which
may leave you a wobbly wreck
and fasting, which is even more
dangerous to women than men.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
e Houston Gondia4 o1tets Mose
Advice About Reducina
Describes the PeriIs Of Unscientific
Methods for Losing Weight
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
a East goth stree, Nev Work. Citv

MY RECENT discussion of reducing in these columns
IVl brought many letters, indicating that the modern
is, fortunately weight conscious This
aging sign For shows that you alert the dangers
overweight which only destroys beauty but may indirectly
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
Soldier Cemeteries ABROAD

There are eight American soldier
cemeteries in Europe, six of which
are in France, one in Belgium, and
one in England.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

contribute to heart disease,
kidney disorders and diabetes,
which take their greatest toll
from among the heavyweights
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
When Men pisliked Coffee

When coffee and tea first began to
come into Ohio, many of the men,
folk pushed the beverages aside as
"slops," fit enough only for women.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
Guard Against Unseientifie
Reducing Methods

Some of these letters caused me
great concern, however, because
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
Counting Galleries Is Fun

In Hollywood they make game
of counting calories. You, too,
will find it amusing, as well as
beneficial to health and looks. And
you will be rewarded by noting a
drop in weight every time you
step on the scales.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

air, fat cannot be utilized in the
body without the presence of
starch or sugar. When the diet
contains insufficient carbohy-
drates, fat burns incompletely, re-
sulting in the dangerous acetone
type of acidosis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

Tenerme isle gu Miles Long
Teneriffe, largest of the Canary
islands. is sixty miles long.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23

their work is the most strenuous
of occupations!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-23
WHAT to EAT and WHY
Are You
0vetweiaht?
You con
REDUCE
- -.
Safely. Surely. Comfortably
Send for Tbs Free Bulletin
offered b. c. HoEsfos Gosdiss

Readers ofthis newspaperare
invited to write to c. Houston
Goudiss, at 6 East 39th Street,
New York City, for his scien-
tifcReducing Bulletin, which
shows how to reduce by the
safe and sane method of
counting calories.
. Tbe bKLLefin rs complete s0ifb q
chart sboaOiBg The caLOric pskEe of
all tbe commonly used foods and
contains sample mems tbstyog can
use as q guide to comfortable and
beaItbfgI tDeigbt reduction.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-14
Oil Trucks At
Wilmington =.
-. al. Z liAisalf
Start Trips

Wilmington, Nov. a. ZAP - Petro-
leum products trucks Of the Southern
Oil Transportation Company, he'd at
the company's plant here for the
past three weeks under a guard of
striking drivers, were moved without
disorder today. The trucks were
moved through the picket line filled
with gas and sent upstate shortly
after Captain Charles D. Farmer, of
the State Highway Patrol, came to
Wilmington with large detail Of
patrolmen. He said he came here
at the order of Governor Hoey.
The State patrolmen did not go to
the plant, however, and only Sheriff
David Jones and Chief of Police J.
c. Rouark were on hand when the
trucks were moved.
"The strike has just begun" said
j. B. Broughton, president of the
local union. c.. M. Fox, A. f. l..
representative, said 1--WE hope that
the State authorities are satisfied
that we have maintained an orderly
picket line and outside Interference is
unnecessary.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-14
Banker Graham Is
Let Off With Fine
and Probation Term

Raleigh, NOV. 14.-(AP)-Judge I.
NJ Meekins, in Federal district court
today, fined E. B. Graham, former
cashier of the Dunn branch of the
First Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany, 5000, and placed him on proba-
ton for five years for violation of
banking laws.
Graham pleaded nolo contendefe
two weeks ago to charges of misap-
plying $1,067, and Enoch w. Wilson,
of Salemburg, former State legisla-
tor, was convicted in the same case
and drew a three-year prison term
from Judge Meelxins. Graham testified
against. Wilson.
This morning Graham also pleaded
nolo contendere to classifying bank
records and received a five-year pro-
baton term to run concurrent with
his other sentence.
Court officials said that Graham's
present employer, whose name they
did not get, told Judge Meekins he
would increase the mans salary sc
he may pay the fine at the rate OF
S25 a month. In passing sentence
Judge Meekins commented he did not
believe Graham got anything out OF
the illegal transaction which the State
Banking Department commended in
volved more than $4,000.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-14
Radicals In
France Make
New rouble
Socialists and Com
munists Make War on
New Finance Plan of
Minister Reynaud

Paris, Nov. 14-kAP)-The power
full and communist party declared war
today on Finance Minister Paul Rev
nauds financial and economic pro.
gram, which they said favored CAPT.
tai at the expense of labor.
The Official neWsnapers of both
parties called for fight to the finish
against the Daladier government, and
declared the general confederation Of
labor with 100000 members, would
join Them
Both the papers fdcclarcd the left
ist parties woull seek immediate con-
vocation of Parliament. where they
would try to overthrow Premier
Efouard Daladier.
Reynaua's program, among other
things, abolished the 40-hour work
week, and increased the price of sugar
tobacco, bus and subway fares and
increased income taxes The finance
minister announced that two. add
tional DEGREES would be published
Tuesday, one requiring foreign mer-
chants doing business in France to
obtain special license, and the other
groups of public employees and semi
public organizations to organize CO.
operatives for wholesale purchases Of
household necessities.
Spokesman of the leftist parties de-
clared the measures hit workers hard
er than other classes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-14
Cotton Consumed
Somewhat Greater
Month OF October

Washington, Nov. 14-(AP)-The
Census Bureau reported today that
cotton consumed in October totaled
542,778 bales of lint and 72,1O9 bales
of linters, compared with 534,037 and
70.991 during September this year, and
r524.188 and 73. 1s3 during October last
ear
Cotton on hand October 81 was re-
ported held rs follows
In consuming establishments, L.
rn7.245 bales of lint and 279,14 of
linters, compared with 1,107,388 and
263, 1899 on September 30 This year End
1,419,O39 and 194,O43 on October 81
last year.
In public storage md at congresses
Is, 312,719 bales of lint and 101 ,422 of
linters, compared with 13,013,410 md
7,1S9 on September 30 this year, and
e,769,861 and 54,135 on September 30
last year.
Imported during October isotaled
1928 bales, compared with 1851 dur
ing September this year and 3,744 'lur-
ing October last year. Exports for
October totaled 464,59O bales of lint
and 21,4O6 of linters, compared with
988,S58 and 1928 during September
this year, and 798,921 and 24,308 dur
ing October last year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-14
Cereal Title
Denied Under
Court Ruling

Washington, Nov. 14.-(AP)--The
Supreme Court ruled today the Ma
tional Biscuit Company was not en-
titled to the exclusive use of the
words Shredded wheat" and did not
have the exclusive right to sell break
fast cereal in the pillow-shaDed form
employed. Justice McReynolds and
Butler dissented. They contended that
cit seems sufficiently clear that the
Kellogg company is trying to appro-
pirate to itself the, good will, built up
at great cost by the National Biscuit
Company"
However, Justice Brandies held
"the plaintiff has no exclusive right
to the exclusive use of the term
shredded wheat" as the trade name
as that is the generic term of the ar
ticle which describes it with a far de-
gree of accuracy, and is the term by
which the biscuit, in pilloW-shaped
form, is generally known by the pub
lie.
The court postponed, at least until
next Monday, action on litigation in
volving the authority of the Nytional
Labor Relations Board and the right
the states to ra.ify the child labor
constitutional amendment
The court refused to reconsider its
recent action in declining to consider
Thomas ]. MONEYS. completely and
conviction in the 1916 preparedness
day .bombings in San Francisco.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-14
Dispute RACES On
appropriated Land
Taken byMexicans

Mexico City, Nov. 14--(AP)-The
question of compensation to Mexicans
for appropriated farm land was rails
ed today in comment on the agree
ment with the United States for re-
payment of land appropriated from
Americans.
The Mexican government has agreed
that a commission, with United
States representation, would deter
mine the value of land taken from
United States owners, that the initial
payment of $1,OOO,0OO would be made
on May 81, 1889, and that disputed
claims would be settled by third
party arbitration.
The others have valued land in
volved at $10,13,388, but Mexican sour
ces say this is only ten percent of the
total taken over by the government
since 1915, for redistribution to the
peaSantry