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The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Worm Termed One of the
Seven Most Destructive
Agricultural Pests.

McALLEN, TEXAS. - Partial
economic ruin of the South's cotton
industry by pink bollworm is visual
lied by federal and state entomolo-
glStS unless effective measures are
adopted to curb infestation in Texas
and Arizona.
The bollWorm, which feeds on cot
ton bolls. was discovered in the low
er Rio Grande valley only two years
ago in gin trash, having spread
from the Big Bend country of Texas
Extensive precautions were taken
to eradicate the pest, but the boil
worm attacked growing cotton dur
ing the last season in Kleberg,
Nueces and San Patricio counties,
outside the valley.
Stalks Cleared Away.
South Texas farmers cleared their
fields of cotton stalks under super
vision of c. M. McEachern of Nc
Allen, head of the federal-state quar-
antine office of the valley.
State Entomologist J. M. Del
Curto of Austin said that the Rio
Grande valley cotton industry
could not stand a 80 per cent in
crease in the cost of production, cut
staple and stained lint-all eventual
tiles of infested areas"
Del Curto pointed out that unless
farmers follow federal regulations
for cleaning every field of stalks
only breeding places of the pink boil
Worm-eStabliShment of d "noncot-
ton zone" might result.
Entomologists say that the boil
worm is one of the seven most de-
structive pests known to agriculture
and is one of the most difficult to
eradicate because of its life cycle.
Seriousness of the threat to South
ern agriculture is indicated by stern
efforts of the government to eradi-
cate the pest.
Spread in 1886.
The extensive eradication pro-
gram followed the discovery of the
bollworm several years ago in the
Big Bend country of Texas and it
spread in 1886 in the lower Rio
Grande valley of Texas and Mexico.
Del Curto said it had not been
learned how the pest had spread last
season to Kleberg. Nueces and San
Patricio counties, which lie ITS
miles from infested areas in the val
ley. There has been no infestation
between the valley and the new
counties.
Until recently the United States
was the only cotton-producing coun-
try in the world free from the pink
boll-worm. Unless the pest is con-
trolled, entomologists assert, an en-
tirely new economic crisis will face
the South.
The worm is so destructive that
a serious infestation, sufficient to
cause Commercial damage" will
destroy as much as 80 to IS per
cent of an entire crop.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
4YE54s G0ODNsGa0 (
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by Thornton w @ { ST s.
Burgess ( 8AZ

"COOD MORNING" said Danny
~ Meadow Mouse, when he sud-
denly found little Miss Nanny Mead
ow Mouse sitting with her back to
him, quite as if she hadn't the least
idea that he was anywhere about.
Miss Nanny pretended not to hear.
Good morning" said Danny
little louder than before. Little
Miss Nanny turned her head and
pretended to be very, very much
surprised.
Good morning" said she in
very low voice, and appearing very
shy, Danny thought it was the
sweetest voice he had ever heard.
'I-Tve come to make a CALL"
said Danny, because he couldn't
think of anything else to day.
"Oh!" said little Miss Nanny, and
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
$25O,OOO,O 900 U. S. Toy Trade
Changes Paytime Technique
World in Miniature to
Greet Youngsters
This Christmas
By JOSEPH w. LaBINE
'When | was a kid :"

when | was a kid :"
Father speaking. When he
was a kid, Santa Claus
brought tin trains and crock
cry dolls, tinker-toys and
wooden wagons that some
how fell apart the day after
Christmas.
So when Father walks
through a 1898 toy store his
eyes may well pop out at the
baby doll that can be fed,
bathed, powdered, dressed
and rocked to sleep, or the
streamlined automobile with
exhaust pipe, electric lights
and a horn to make youthful
pedestrians get off the road.
He may frown over real pianos
and motion picture projectors, but
these seemingly extravagant toys
are really much more sensible than
the tiddly-winks set Aunt Emma
gave him for Christmas many years
ago.
Old World Initiates Us.
The toy industrial revolution has
made the United States a world
headquarters for Christmas shop
pers. who migrate annually from ev-
cry European nation-just to see
what's new in the American toy in
dustry. Where a scant few years
ago our own toys came from
abroad. japanese and German man.
ufacturers now copy our products.
Often they attempt to sell cheap
limitations in the United States.
The revolution wasn't spontane-
Gus; dozen years ago struggling
American toy makers protested
when psychologists and educators
told them that jacks-in-the-box may
be amusing. but certainly not very
Instructive. Armed with fancy fig
ures about child behavior and the
need for toys that would develop
young minds, these self-appointed
uplift societies forced their wares
on toy manufacturers. For several
years American youth was showered
with Christmas gifts it was sup
posed to like, but didn't. Sorely
puzzled. the psychologists were slow
to find remedy: why not ask chill
dren themselves what kind of toys
they wanted?
So they tried it, and discovered
that American boys and girls like
nothing better than initiating Moth
er and Dad. That's why 1888 Christ
mas toys stress miniatures-authen-
tic reproductions of trains, automo-
bileS. baby buggies, bassinettes and
airplanes. At Chicagos Merchan-
disc Mart. where the toy-minded
visitor can get comprehensive pic
ture of this new trend, it's quite
possible that you'll see a preview
of your 1910 automobile, ready for
delivery to 10-year-old driver long
before the real thing rolls off an
assembly line!
Age Is Important Factor.
Briefly. toy manufacturers have
realized that children need new toys
and games to develop new abilities
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
The birdie has graduated from the
window sill to the wall paper.

window sill to the wall paper.
kitchen to match. What a fresh
chirpy place that would be to fly
about your work in! I'd paint table
and chairs a sparkling white enam-
el, add pink voile curtains-yes
pink-and get not-too-deep blue
linoleum. And there I'd be as cheer
full as canary Pm sure. The only
catch is that l don't have dinette
and kitchen in need of redecorating.
In defense of all that pink and
blue for dinette and kitchen, let me
say that you can just about use any
color anywhere-if your eye is sure.
We have entirely too many color
inhibitions anyway and this is as
good a time as any to go through
your head and clear them out-just
as we sort our old clothes.
Take rust. green and gold for liv-
ing rooms, for instance. I've got
no grudge against that trio. But
you must admit that it's been done
to death. So if l had a room like
that, I'd begin to inch up on it.
Perhaps I'd use the gray cure-do
over the walls in a fine light gray
and hunt around for a gray and yel-
low chintz to ring in. If nothing
else, I'd add some smart gray
cushions or some important looking
pieces of gray pottery.
Then there's the green and or
child bedroom, once such Joy to
behold, now as "out" as the Buster
Brown bob. II had room like
that, I'd try to inch the orchid out
of the picture and introduce yellow
in its place-trying for that fresh
ness you see in daffodils or butter
cups. Any odd tidbits of orchid that
have to be retained would look all
right with the yellow, but with yell
low and green predominating, I'd
have a newer, crisper looking room.
If your room is too dull and neu.
trail looking, try some incisive shade
to pick it up-magenta. jade. orange,
scarlet.
G BY Betty Wells.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Pink BollWorm Threatens
Southern Cotton Industry
Mans 55-Year Diary
Is History of Town

ROBINSON, ILL.-Residents of
Robinson who want information
on daily weather conditions, pol
itics or catastrophes in the last
SIS years don't need library.
They just ask Sam J. Barrick.
If he doesn't remember offhand
he can find the answer in his
diary.
Since February 26, 1883, Bar
rick has kept a diary which in
cludes, in addition to personal af-
fairs, references to events of pub
lie interest or importance.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

DISNEY, OKLA. The new S20,-
100000 dam being built on Grand
river in northeastern Oklahoma is
rapidly taking form.
Seven contracts, aggregating
more than S10,000,000 have been
awarded. The excavation for the
spillway has been completed and
core drillings have been taken to de-
termine what kind of rock is avail
able for the huge dams founda-
iops.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Tax on Pitcairn Island
Only IL Cents Annually

LONDON. - An island colony
where they cannot cook or spell.
but the only tax is IL cents year.
That is the picture of the lonely
Pitcairn Island colony, founded by
the mutineers of H. M. S. Bounty in
1890 on an isolated dot of land mid
way between Panama and New Zea-
land, in report just published in
London by the colonial office. The
report is the work of j. S. Neill and
DR.. Duncan Cook.
The brightest light in the whole
report is the news that the ''arms
tax" on Pitcairn Island is a gun
license fee of II cents year, and
that is the only tax levied.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
} RIVER DAM TO BE COMPLETED IN l8 MONTHS

in connection with the dam will be
capable of producing 200, 900, 900 kill
owatts of electricity annually. The
power will be sold to towns and cit
les in the area and the money will
be used to retire bonds which were
issued to pay for the dam.
Land in the area is selling at
premium. Town lots in Disney
which few months ago had little
or no value are selling at prices
ranging as high as $1,000 each.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

A small railroad and transmits
sion line have been built to the dam
site. At present about 275 men are
employed on the dam, but officials
estimate that when the pouring of
concrete begins between 1900 and
1900 laborers will be needed.
Contract for the construction of
the streamlined, 6,100foot multiple
arch dam was awarded to the Mass
man Construction company of Kan
sas City. The Massman company
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

6-Games that develop skill and
encourage play with other children.
But your selection should also be
guided by the table of values es-
tablished by the same experts. The
correct toys for your youngster
should meet these requirements:
durability.
2-Stimulation Of self-activity.
3-Correct toy for the given age.
4PrincipleS of aesthetics.
5-Sanitation and hygiene.
Zippered Teddy Bear!
The latter factor is stressed by
modern toy makers. For the very
young child only vegetable dyes are
used. Sharp corners have been
eliminated and dangling appendages
Ooo easily detached and sWallowed)
are taboo. There is emphasis on
forms and materials that can be
kept scrupulously clean. Even ted
dy bears are now made with a zip
pered skin that can be removed and
laundered, while many wood toys
can also be washed
While adhering to these scientific
principles, toy makers have not for
gotten that their young customers
are primarily interested in being en-
tertained. For example, it's much
better for child to develop muscle
and coordination through a foot
propelled vehicle Qike a toy auto
mobile or tricycle) than by calls
themes.
Similarly, in the most pleasant
way possible, toys reveal talents
and aptitudes, often overcoming de-
fciencies. This is particularly true
of the sense developers, elementary
handcraft materials, musical and
rhythmic toys, and all materials for
simple graphic arts like crayons,
water colors and printing sets.
1eSted Onder FIRE.
Every toy that finds its way to the
Christmas tree this year might well
bear the label, Child Tested and
Approved" After the inventor and
child psychologists have perfected
them, the playthings find their
way to nursery and sand pile for
thorough trial before being manu-
factured in quantity lots. First, the
experimenterS want to discover
whether their toy can stand up un-
der hard wear. Second, it must hold
interest long after the novelty stage
has passed, which was one serious
fault with the toys yesterdays chill
dren received each Christmas. By
New Years day they had usually
been consigned to the closet.
By additional experimentation
they discover what age group most
enjoys the toy, and it is manufac-
tured accordingly. Many large
stores are segregating their toy dis
plays by ages this year, a boon to
the uninitiated uncle or aunt who
doesn't know whether three-year-
old girl should have dress-up doll
or just plain rag baby.
AS for the toy makers, they're
happy about the whole thing. Says
James L. Fri, managing director of
the Toy Manufacturers of the Unit
ed States: by increasing the pur-
posefulness of playthings, their i'm
aginative appeal and educational
value have been greatly enhanced,
and consequently the market for
toys has steadily broadened."
G Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

''LightS out" says Rascal,
pulling the lamp cord. And if
the cord hadn't been giren a
tougher pull test to make it
safe, it might hare been Sights
our for Rascal, sure enough.
ficient insulation over the wire to
prevent shock. To prove that rub
Der cord is sufficiently tough to
stand abuse, two inches of insula-
ton must stretch nine inches with
out breaking. Bombs" are used to
determine the condition of cord after
several months use. Bombs are
heavy steel containers in which rub
ber insulation is 'bombarded" with
pure oxygen at high pressure to
cause rapid aging.
Since damaged or poorly con-
structed cords are often response
BILE for home fires and accidents.
special care is needed during the
Christmas season. Danger is espe.
cially great between now and
March, the records show, since dur
ing that time a fire breaks out ev-
cry two minutes.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

bid So, 322, 060 for the job and prom
ised to have the structure complet-
ed in 10 months.
The Grand River Dam authority
also has ordered 81, 338, 760 worth of
turbines, generators and other elec-
trical equipment, which is to be de-
livered on January l, 1910.
The dam will create lake 81
miles long stretching across four
counties in northeastern Oklahoma.
The power plant to be constructed
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Firehouse Put in Flames
By Own Noon Whistle

MONROE, WIS. "A fire was start
ed in the firehouse when one of the
firemen blew the noon whistle.
A short circuit in the electric Wir
ing started the blaze, which was ex-
tinguished before much damage was
inflicted.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Machine Locates Gales
To Aid Ships and Planes

ELECTROMAGNETIC physicist re-
search board of Melbourne univer-
sity has announced the invention of
machine for locating thunder
storms and gales, which it is be-
lieved will be of the utmost impor-
tance in aviation and steamer trav-
ell.
The machine operates from a
ground base and radios its informa-
ton to all planes and ships.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22
Ne,U Wall Paper
VIII Brighten
Average Room
BY BETTY WELLS

THIS year it's a birdie with a
u turquoise bill-and he's gradual
ed from the window sill to the wall.
One of the seasons most delightful
papers has a very modern bird and
bird cage-Im partial to it in pink
and blue on a white ground.
1t would be as delicious for
nursery or bathroom. But my ia
vorite place for it would be a dinette
or breakfast room-With maybe a
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

Raymond Kennedy of Cleveland.
Ohio, didn't believe that he was
earning the salary paid him by the
government, SO he resigned. His du-
ties called for inspection of equip
ment valued at S1,5OO,OOO. He felt
that taking the manufacturers word
would be incompatible to his oath
of office, and unable to inspect all
of the equipment, resigned.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-12-22

Whitfield DOWN TO SIZE!-Youngsters like to initiate
Mother and Dad toy manufacturers responded Abore:
The young nanaboufocn ,Cith his sfreanined teatu
ing exhaust pipes and classy paint job Beow: Christmas
mother gues her dolly thorough scrubbing the
doll bathineHe shoton Merchandise Mart, Chicago.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
D|ET.D|SCOVERED
CURB ON DISEASE
important as Heredity in
Building Resistance,
Scientist Finds.
ey the Associated Press,

ey the Associated Press.
KANhAA CITY, Mo-, Oct. GA
Rockefeller Foundation scientist de-
clared today that correct eating is as
important as heredity in the ability
Of a person to resist disease.
Many persons have a natural re-
sistance to infection acquired from
their parents, DR.. Charles F., Church,
director Of the foundations nutrition
fund declared, while others succumb
readily to tuberculosis, colds, measles,
diphtheria, pneumonia and a host Of
other diseases.
1t is becoming apparent, however,
that the right diet for both mother
and child is just as important, if not
more so, than the factor of heredity
in building up disease resistance, DR..
Church, who is also children's spe-
cialist at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania Medical School, told the Amer
lean Public Health Association.
Unto Fourth Generation.
In series of experiments on mice
infected with the bacteria salmonella
enteritidis, which causes food poison
ing, it was found that an optimum diet
would protect both the mother mouse
and her children to a high degree,
even to the third and fourth genera
tions If the diet was continued, he re-
ported.
"The protection thus afforded lasted
at least until maturity was reached in
all the experiments, and progressive
improvement took place for at least
three generations on the same diet"
DR.. Church said, adding that "the in
fluence of diet upon resistance may
thus be on par with the influence
Of heredity"
The inclusion of mineral salts in
the diet is apparently just as i'm
portant as including vitamins, he
added. When the quantity of these
elements was reduced to one-fourth
the normal in one group of mice,
the number of deaths increased four
times. And when the amount of cal.
clum, the essential element for form.
Evening star., 1938-10-28

ing bones and teeth and promoting
body metabolisn, was reduced to one
fifth Of normal the fatality rate in
creased five times when exposed to
infection.
Cutting down the amount Of vita
Minis A and D and fat, considered
heretofore as the principal factors in
disease resistance, did not produce the
same results, indicating that the min
eral salts are just as important, or
more important, than the vitamins,
DR.. Church said.
The Public Health Association last
night pledged itself unanimously to
support the Federal Government in
its plans to extend medical care to all
the people through a new national
health program.
Will Assist Plan.
Representatives Of the organizations
5000 members agreed without a dis
senting vote to give every assistance
to Federal and State authorities and
the American Medical Association in
putting into effect medical plan
which will eventually call for the ex-
penditure of $850,0O0,00 in tax funds,
Evening star., 1938-10-28

half Of which would be provided by
the Federal Government and the other
half by State and local governments
These funds will be used for pro-
viding care for the medically needy,
preventive medicine and extension Of
public health facilities, building new
hospitals, and stimulating health in
surance plans.
DR.. Edward s. Godfrey, jr., New
York State health commissioner, Al
bany, N. Y, was elected president Of
the association to take oflce at the
meeting next October in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Evening star., 1938-10-28
Woman Fatally Shot.

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Oct. % (P.-
Mrs. Ruby Bailey, "a, Of near Blueneld,
was shot to death yesterday when a
shotgun discharged accidentally. A
14-year-old nephew, Clarence Bailey,
said he came in from hunting and
that his aunt and her young daughter
engaged in a playful scufae with him.
The gun discharged, striking Mrs.
Bailey in the abdomen,
Evening star., 1938-10-28

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Evening star., 1938-10-07
WEATHER SPURS
RETAIL BUYING
Most Regions Show More
\ Favorable Comparisons
With Year Ago.
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. Favorable
weather conditions stimulated retail
trade during the past week, permitting
most regions to show more favorable
comparisons with volume for the same
period last year, said Dun g. Brad
street today in their weekly trade sum-
mary.
For the country as whole the year.
to-year comparison ranged between 2
per cent above and per cent below,
and gains In the week were broader
than during the. corresponding period
Of 1887"
Return to more nearly normal con-
ditions in New England cities allowed
buying in that section to approach
within 3 to 8 per cent Of the 1887
level, the review said.
I'm the East the average drop was
cut to to per cent Tornado dam
age to several important centers held
back sales totals in the South, and the
spread below last year widened slightly
to to 10 per cent.
Increased factory pay rolls counter
acted the effects of lower farm prices
in the Middle West and sales for the
region showed drop of not more than
to IL per cent under 1897.
Opening OF the football season re-
newed interest In three-piece suits,
heavy coats and woolen dresses. Wom-
ems millinerw also was active and In
many centers made better showing
than other lines of merchandise.
"On the North Atlantic Seaboard
building materials, small tools and
housefurnishings continued to take the
lead in sales totals.
Sales at wholesale were higher in
the week but still 4 to l3 per cent
lower than in the same period of 1887.
In dry goods markets volume steadily
approached that of last year"
Evening star., 1938-10-07
CHAMBER DEPL0RES
FISCAL POLICIES
Mounting Costs of Government
Pictured as Disturbing Factor
in New Pamphlet.
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States Chamber of Com
merce issued a pamphlet on taxes
and Government spending yesterday
and in it noted disturbing trends in
national fiscal policy"
The publication, entitled Facts
About Taxes and Public Spending"
these statements:
THE cost Of Government, Federal,
State and local-mounted from So
sl8,000, 900 in 1923 to $4,000 000, 900
in 1887. or from 1896 per capita
to $l3o.75.
AT the present rate % public spend
ing it would take the working popu-
lation of a city of 10000 inhabitants
about $50 years to support the Federal
Government alone for one year.
Governments of all types collected
in taxes 1924 900 900 in 1923. In
1897 they collected s12,30 5000, 900.
IF every dollar of income of per-
sons receiving more than $4,000 year
we're to be taken in taxes, the sum
would pay the cost of our numerous
governments for only about six
months"
Evening star., 1938-10-07
HARDWARE SALES
IMPROVE SLIGHTLY
August Gain Leaves Total
1922 Per Cent Below
Month Year Ago.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Speclai llSpalCn 10 1 ne otaE.
NEW YORK, Oct. Retail hard
ware store sales in % States showed
an average gain of 05 per cent in
August, as compared with the previous
month and an average decline Of 10.2
per cent compared with August, 1887.
These figures were published yester-
day in the semi-monthly market sum-
mary of Hardware Age. This sum-
mary is based on reports from 1864
retail hardware stores in % States.
The August volume for the reporting
stores was $7,278.3 800 compared with
sales totaling $8,l09,500 in August.
1887. Sales for the 1864 stores in
July, 1887, were $7,240,9O0.
Of the reporting States Georgia had
the best showing, August sales having
been 30.4 per cent better than for the
previous month. August, 1888, sales
in other States showing average gains
compared with the previous month
were as follows: Oregon, 18 per cent;
Arizona, 178 per cent; Florida, l43
per cent; Alabama, los per cent; Mon
tana, 81 per cent; California, TO per
cent; Arkansas. 66 per cent; Indiana,
as per cent; Texas, Al per cent, and
South Carolina, 02 per cent. The
poorest showing was reported for 81
stores in Kansas, reporting an average
decline of $50 per cent, comparing
August sales with those for July.
Comparing August, 1898, figures
with those for August, 1887, the best
gain was reported by 10 stores in South
Carolina. with an increase of 1912 per
cent. Other States reporting gains
for August compared with the pre-
vious August we're: Montana, 113 per
cent: South Carolina, 1912 per cent,
and Arizona, l.3 per cent. The poorest
showing, comparing August, 1888, with
the same month in 1887. was that Of
Kansas, which showed an average de-
crease Of 319 per cent for 81 stores.