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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-09

selves and can swallow enough of
the poison to make them sick.
Soil treatment with DOT has
shown indication of becoming a
practical way of controlling the
-fringed beetle which feeds
on a number of crops in some
southern states. Infestations OF
leafhoppers, the alfalfa weevil,
thrips and aphids in seed alfalfa
have been controlled with DOT,
The insecticide has proved very
effective against the gypsy moth,
destroyer of foliage in the north
eastern part of the country.
Extensive tests indicate DOT
is a good remedy for such cot
ton pests as the bollworm. stink
bug. and plant bug. However.
DOT was not as effective as
calcium arsenate against the
boil weevil. an insect which
takes tenth Of the cotton crop
each year.
DOT will control several spe-
icies of Lygus bugs that attack the
seed stalks and seed of sugar
beets. 1t has not been found effec-
tive for control of the sugar cane
borer. In sugar cane plots treated
with DOT, populations of yellow
sugar cane aphids have greatly
increased.
DOT is highly effective against
most of the common pests Of
stored seed. It is best used in
combination with a carrier dust to
give it greater volume and insure
better distribution over the seed
A very good combination is OBJ
tanned by using magnesium oxide
as the carrier dust.
dots biggest single contribu.
ton to the nations wealth, ex-
cepting its protection of human
health, has been a great increase
in beef and milk production.
Its use in control of horn flies
and other flies which poster cat
tie is already worth $100,000,00O
| a year to cattle owners, accord.
ing to P.'V. Carbon, administrator
of research for the Department
of Agriculture. Carbon says the
returns to cattle farmers will be
greatly increased as the use Of
DOT becomes more general.
Agricultural experts estimate
that some 8 TO 10 million cattle
were sprayed with DOT last
year. They predict that from
two to three times that number
will be given DOT treatments
this year. The total cattle popu-
lation of the country is around
"a million.
| Tiny horn flies which suck the
blood from a cow in summertime
have cost American cattle and
dairy farmers plenty. If flies are
bad-sometimes 1000 settle on 8
cow-beef cattle won't put or
weight and cows don't give as
much milk as they should. Some
experts have estimated the peak
horn-fly drain from the farm
pocketbook at a million dollars {
day.
In a test on a Kansas ranch, GOO
cattle of all ages and classes were
sprayed with DOT. They gained
$4,000 more pounds than the same
number of unsprayed cattle. On
another ranch each pound of DDI
resulted in an increase of 2,306
pounds of weight. 1t was esti-
mated that each dollars worth OF
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-09
By ALEXANDER r. GEORGE
AP Newsfeutures Writer

a@s By ALEXANDER n. GEORGE
#8k AP Newsfeutures Writer
WAStNGTON-The vulue Of DOT to form and city people is
being increased steudilY
Extensive of the wcborn inseccide by agricultural
scientists promise for control Of munY which domuge
field crops gdens orchards forests and livestock Neon
while and people using for protection ugonst
diseases Carried by housefies mosquitoes and lice.
DOT sprays have increased omuzingy the beet
ond milk production Of peseged by horn flies boosted
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-09

Beetles are the bulkiest in
sects, the largest known being
the Herdules of South America,
measuring six inches long.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-09

The Skating Frog of India
literally jumps on the water, COW
ering the surface in big leaps.
aighting on all fours and leap
ing again as it would on land.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-09
Do You Know That

The grasses of the world are
classified into $3.50 species.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-09

Jamaica was discovered by
Columbus on his second voyage
in May, 1894. when he christen-
ed it st. Jago after st. James
the patron saint of Spain, but
the new name did not last and
the island was known by its ma
tive name of Jamaica.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
GoITinqer and St. EIizubeths

It might be wise and even necessary to
retain some psychopathic services at
Gallinger Hospital. But as The Star
suggested ten days ago, in commenting
on the series of Star articles on the dis
grace to Washington that Gallinger's
psychopathic division represents, the
feasibility of transferring its functions to
st. Elizabeths Hospital should be thor
oughly explored.
Commissioner Mason wants to do that.
The idea in principle is supported by DR..
Winfred Overholser, superintendent of st.
Elizabeths 1t is not a wholly original
idea In fact, prior to enactment in 1888
Of the law creating the Commission on
Mental Health, the Commissioners had the
power of temporary committal direct to
st. Elizabeths-a procedure that should be
reinstated now
In the first place, it is wasteful duplica-
ton to maintain comparable services at
Gallinger and St. Elizabeths In the second
place, the existing procedure represents
a hardship on the patients themselves.
Only two methods seem to be available in
the District for sending mentally i'll pa
tients to st. Elizabeths. One is formal COM
which on certificate of the head OF the
division at Gallinger may be transferred
to St. Elizabeths.
The delay in making available st. Eliz-
abeths fine facilities to patients who need
them is unnecessary. And in the interval
of detention at Gallinger, the patient is
subjected to the results of all the dismal
shortcomings of that understaffed, under
equipped and undesirable place.
Not all, but some of the many reforms
which should be effected at Gallinger re-
uuire appropriations by Congress. Before
we go into the business of spending more
money there the authorities should find
out what amendments of law may be
necessary to utilize st. Ellzabeths. That
great institution already derives the major
part of its operating expenses from Dis
trict revenues. There is no reason Why,
with proper amendment of the statutes, it
should not assume most of the functions
now discharged at Gallinger.
Some psychopathic services should be
retained at Gallinger, for they are neces-
sary parts of general hospital The
treatment of alcoholics should remain at
Gallinger and these cases represent
substantial proportion of the present load.
There are other functions that Gallinger
might perform better. than st. Elzabeths.
Some careful study is necessary to deter
mine what responsibilities can be assigned
where and the statutory changes necessary.
This week Health Officer Rutland may
send to the Commissioners his recon-
mendations of what to do at Gallinger.
They should be made the basis for a
program that will be ready for Congress
in January They should not be made
an excuse for postponing until January
steps that can and must be taken now
to improve the physical surrounding and
the administration Of the psychopathic
division as it now Is.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

Blum stood for principle no longer
shared by the majority of Frenchmen.
in or out of Parliament. Leon Blum pro-
claimed the thesis of a, third force"
capable of opposing successfully the ex-
tremisms of both Left and Right. His
platform, couched in the Shakespearian
phrase, could be summarized as "a plague
on both your houses" In his eyes, Com
munists and De Gaullists were equally
dangerous and should be simultaneously
combated.
Before the words were out of his mouth,
however, it was obvious that they were
falling on deaf ears. Parliament refused
to give him a majority mandate because
large proportion of the members did not
believe the truth of his contention. Like
the voters who, in the last municipal elec-
tions pumped so heavily for the Rally
of the French People, these parliament
tarianS regarded communism as the greater
menace, which must be dealt with first,
even at considerable risks. So Blum and
his middle of the-road program went into
the discard. In his place, the National
Assembly-with only the Communists
opposed-has now handed the premiership
to Robert Schuman, Finance Minister and
member of the moderate Popular Repub-
lican Movement.
The subsequent course of political events
will presumably depend upon what the
Communists do. If they react violently
to curbs placed upon them, the new gov
ernment will be compelled to lean more
and more heavily on De Gaulle and the
forces he represents. Should the situation
degenerate to the verge of civil war, De
Gaule will almost certainly come to power.
And civil strife appears to be distinct
possibility. Frenchmen are thinking in
creasingly in terms of showdown" The
best hope that a bloody clash can be
averted lies in the partial failure OF the
French workers to obey the commands OF
their Communist leaders. Not only are the
Socialist and Catholic unions disregarding
strike orders; varying numbers OF the
membership of Communist-dominated
unions are staying on their jobs or going
back to work, wherever they are given
adequate protection from Communist
"goon squads" If 1t appears that the
workers cannot be relied on, the Com
munist high command may not risk the
supreme gamble of open resistance to a
government resolutely backed by the great
majority of the French people.
Against this hope, however, must be set
the ominous possibility that Moscow will
order a hopeless gamble for its larger ends.
The hard core of French Communist
fanatics would probably obey Moscows
command, even though realizing fully that
they were "expendables." On the size and
ability OF that Communist hard core, the
extent and outcome of Communist re-
sistance would depend.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
*7> Republicans on the Spot ~
They Fear Truman Has Adopted D. R. Tactics of Keeping
G. O. P Face to Face With Crises
By Jay G. Hayden

Members OF the Democratic Party high COM
mand are saying covertly that President Tru-
mans special-session message put the Republi
can Congress over a crisis barrel" as useful
In the coming election as any the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt invoked.
And the bitter anger among Republicans,
provoked by the Presidents demand for all-out
restoration of wartime executive powers PROM
ised on the need for saving Europe from COM
munlsm, was because this srnacked so much
OF the Roosevelt tactic Of keeping his political
opposition always on a Crisis spot
Mr.. Roosevelt built his first reelection, in
1896, upon the farm and industrial unemploy-
ment doles, paid out to stem home economic
crisis and the war crisis largely blotted out
all issues in the presidential campaigns of
1910 and 1914.
Wherefore it is not at all surprising that
when Mr.. Truman linked with his proposal
for European relief request for discretionary
controls over the home economy greater than
even Roosevelt had ever devised, his Republican
opposition should have taken alarm.
Republicans Are Frustrated.
Wherever they look the Republicans find
their plan interfered with. Take tax reduction,
for example. The added billions asked for
foreign relief is obstacle enough, but that is
only the beginning. The President almost
certainly will renew his demand for uni
versal military training and ask for other
costly increases in the armed services on the
ground that these are acutely necessitated by
the threatening international situation.
Mr.. Truman probably will ask for blanket
increase in pay for the still more than 3,500,000
Government employees Gncluding the armed
forces), unless Congress is willing to vote him
authority to roll back the cost of living.
1t will be surprising If the President does not
present a budget close to his $37 500 900 900 of
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Pensions Under Fire

The National. Labor Relations Board has
undertaken to decide whether an employer
is compelled by law to bargain with
union on the details Of an employe pen
sion plan.
This is interesting, in the first place, be-
cause the complaint was brought by tne
CIO SteelWorkers-a union which mas not
complied with the Communist afndaVlt
provision of the TaftHartley law. This
leaves the steelWorkers ineligible to use
the facilities of the Labor Board, but since
their complaint was filed before the new
law took effect the board has decided to
take Jurisdiction of the complaint Pre-
sumably, if it decides in the unions favor,
a time will be specified within which the
union must comply with the law in order
to obtain the benefits OF the boards
decision.
OF greater interest, however, Is the effect
which the decision may be expected to
have on pension plans in general.
In this case, counsel for the union ap-
parently takes the position that pension
is part of an employees compensation, and
the board has been warned by the union
that wage demands will be intensified"
unless it requires employers to bargain on
the matter of pensions.
There are many types of pensions, how
ever, some more favorable to employees
than others In the principal case before
the board (actually there are two similar
cases. the pension is described as past
service pension trust" under which en-
ployes are retired upon reaching age
sixty-fve The union is not consulted
about retirements, and the attorneys for
the employees insist that the union should
have the right to bargain on the circum-
stances under which workers may be
turned out into the streets
The merits of this argument as applied
to the cases before the board cannot be ap-
praised in the absence of detailed infor-
nation as to the nature of the pension
plans under fire. 1t is an argument which
will be received with surprise, to say the
least, however, by those employers who
put up all of the funds for employe- pen
don systems. And it may be suspected
Evening star., 1947-11-23
ForeteIIinu Weather

The, average citizen has keen interest
in the weather and usually takes look
at the prediction in the paper He likes
to see what the experts have figured out
but in his heart he feels that the scien-
lists do not give enough attention to ira
dition-tested signs and portents. And II,
by chance, the clouds gather on day the
forecaster predicted sunny skies, he is in
clined to think bit smugly that he saw
a ring around the moon last evening and
knew 1t would cloud up within twenty-four
hours.
There are good gardeners who still cling
to moon phases as a guide for planting.
The old adage says to plant crops that
grow underground in the waning of the
moon and crops that grow above as the
moon wakes. Competent countrymen look
to the squirrels tails these late fall days.
II they are bushy it means cold winter.
Or perhaps 1t does not for recent article
in The Agricultural Situation published
by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
United States Department of Agriculture,
puts the amateur weather forecaster In
difficult spot.
R. F. Dale, of the Weather Bureau, has
made a careful study of weather cycles
and, according to his findings, the folklore
weather prognosticators are on shaky
foundation. The amateurs work on two
premises: That certain signs and indica-
tions foretell weather changes, that
weather follows cycles which occur at pre-
dictable intervals. The Weather Bureau
asserts that neither idea Is founded on
fact 1t says, "The moon cannot appre
ciably change the temperature or hu-
midity of the air or soil; its light and
heat are not strong enough to influence
plant or animal growth; science knows no
way in which crops or livestock or weather
can be significantly affected by it.
The utility of cycles in forecasting weather
has never been established scientifically"
Science makes it's statement without
equivocation. Science is impersonal OBJ
jective and definite But say, have you
noticed that the buds on the lilacs are
unusually plump? That is sure sign
of a long, hard winter.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
A Case of Mistaken Identity?

It was probably more in sorrow than in
anger that Senator Taft was reproached by
two of his Senate colleagues for having
grabbed the ball and run-perhaps In the
wrong direction.
Here was the situation: Last July Re
publican Senator Baldwin of Connecticut
proposed an investigation of high prices,
etc, by three subcommittee. One was
given the West, another the Midwest and
the third the East. Republican Senator
Flanders of Vermont took on the East. He
had already made his report when the
President read his message to Congress
last Monday. In some respects 1t parallels
the Presidents program on domestic inf1a-
ton control.
But when Senator Taft heard the Pres
ident's speech last Monday, he rushed TO
a microphone and answered it that night.
Was he talking as presidential candidate
or was he talking as chairman OF the
Republican Policy Committee? Was he
talking as Bob Taft, or was he talking as
a Republican leader?
Senator Baldwin and Senator Flanders
probably think he might have been little
more careful to identify himself. For II
he was talking as Republican leader, how
does that square up with what one Of the
Republican senatorial subcommittee has
Just reported ought to be done? Or how
does 1t square up with what two other
subcommittee might have to say regard
ing the Republican program?
Beginning this week measures to combat
imitation will be popping up all over the
Capitol. The Senate and the House Bank
ing Committees each begins hearings
Senator Taft's Joint Committee on the
Economic Report is getting to work on the
overall situation Senator Tobey Of New
Hampshire is pressing for controls on
consumer credit the commodity exchanges
and on exports-all mentioned by Mr..
Truman. AS for rationing and price corr
troll, Senator Flanders report said they
might have to be considered later on but
commented on the fact that partial price
control did not work so we'll in the latter
days of OPA.
Redistribution of rationing and price con-
trolls, of course is the really hot political
potato. Maybe Senator Taft will show that
he was right in opposing them. But other
Republicans have not made up their minds
To Senator Taft's credit, he was opposed
to the political strategy of bundling up the
Presidents program and sending it back
to him as complete legislation-thus pass
ing the buck and letting the President take
responsibility for it. There is such thing
as assuming responsibility in the interests
of the country and adopting the course
that seems wisest, regardless OF politics.
That is the responsibility that falls to
Senator Taft, as Republican leader, in
the matter of domestic imitation control.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

last year, even without taking the long-range
European recovery cost into account. 1t is
good guess further that the Presidents request
wilLbe large enough to eat up the rising surplus,
which the Republicans have counted on to
enable tax reduction, even after foreign relief.
If the President asks for appropriations
equaling the Treasury's. estimated income, or
close to 1t, the Congress is going to be greatly
handicapped in its tax-relief plan at least until
it has cut down the budget to make way for it.
Foreign Outlook Drab.
Meanwhile international events are sure to
influence congressional action. This week
Secretary of State Marshall will begin in Lon
don another bout with Russian Foreign Min
lister Molotov. If this meeting should achieve
settlement of the German and Austrian peace
problems, pressure on Congress will be greatly
reduced. But few people here believe such
agreement possible. Rather they expect that
the London Conference will result in such COM
plete failure that the western powers will break
off completely the negotiations with Russia for
German settlement.
In the latter case, American public demand
for both acceleration of the European recovery
program and enlarged military and naval ap-
preparations is likely to increase.
curious feature of the situation is that the
rulersAin Moscow seem to be doing their level
best to stir up anti Communist feeling through
out the democratic world. Comrade Vishinsky
has performed yeoman service in that line
throughout the U. N. Assembly session in New
York And Communist-inspired uprisings in
France and Italy and executions of non-Com-
munist leaders in the Russian satellite nations
are working the same way.
All of which looks swell for Mr. Truman,
Republican military ace in the hole-Eisen-
hover or Macarthur
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Frances Crisis Deepens

cabinet muddle, the graver does the
situation appear. This is because the
mess in Parliament is a reflection of the
state of French public opinion, which is
highly explosive in character.
The improvised drafting of the aged
Leon Blum to form new government was
a desperate expedient virtually fore
doomed to failure. This was because
Evening star., 1947-11-23

that 1t Is an argument which will be re-
ceived with surprise by that not incon-
siderable number of employees who well
come the prospect of being retired on a
pension upon becoming sixty-fve years
of ace
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Mexican Farm Hands

MEXICO CITY.-Mexican and United States
officials are to discuss the contracting of
Mexican agricultural workers for American
farms at El Paso. Tex, this week.
Such contracting was formalized during the
war and extended temporarily into the post
war period. The program was supervised by both
governments and guaranteed the Mexicans
treatment, wages and living conditions similar
to those for United States workers.
Mexico recently refused to contract more
workers for Texas until reported discrimina-
ton against Mexicans ended She has con-
tinued to approve contracts for most other
Southwestern States
Evening star., 1947-11-23
a1,:o Ala,l Some Shadous of Coming Events
AOOh111S 1AllNdu Are Noted Here and abroad

he Associated Press)
week of october a. originally planned as con-
vention time.
Now CIO vice presidents-probably at their
December 2 meeting-must decide whether to
meet in Portland on another date or on the
same date in another city.
The AFL already is making arrangements for
a convention in Cincinnati, tentatively set for
after the November presidential election.
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Red Cxechs

On top Of President Trumans report that
aid to Greece is helping stave of communism
there administration officials say they see signs
that Marshall plan advances have heartened
anti Communists elsewhere in Europe.
merce in Charge of Exports, told a business
group last week that this has been the effect
In Czechoslovakia.
There is distinct possibility" he said. that
the democratic forces in Czechoslovakia may be
able to swamp the forces OF communism in their
elections next May"
Evening star., 1947-11-23
Atomic Style Note

Employees of the Atomic Energy Commission
who have to wear badge with their picture
on it while at work have given security ON
cials a workout.
Most Of the woman employees dislike badge
that has to be pinned on They say 1t tears
dresses Some OF the men don't like 1t either.
So security officials offer two other choices;
% badge with black ribbon for wearing
around the neck; (2) badge that clips to
coat lapel or pocket.
Top favorite The ribbon job
Incidentally, Boston firm that makes badges
to measure radiation dosages-worn as
safety measure by people who work with
radiation materia]s-is combining eye-appeal
with utility. In technical journals 1t adver-
tises attractive plastic" badges-and shows
a swel-looking girl wearing one.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

Let us turn now to Pravda for an ex-
planation of how New York relief appli-
cant can afford mink coat. If this is
capitalistic trick, it's a good one.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

Hunting in the wilds is enjoyed by many
a city denizen, once he gets over feeling
that wild game ought to light up in neon
and ring bells when struck.
Evening star., 1947-11-23

The new look calls for some masculine
patience. AS Menjou said to the old girl,
in a bygone film: you're as beautiful as
ever, my dear-it just takes longer"
Evening star., 1947-11-23

Surely it is not Attlees intention to put
all British drones to work. Would he leave
Wodehouse with no characters whatever
for the novel?