Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 8

DAY STAR, ' SUN THE WASHING TON,. D. C JULY 5, 1925—PART 1. U.SWAR ONINSEGTS GUIDED BY SENCE Skilled Men Test Methods of | Extermination on Fairfax County Farm. In beautiful and historic County, Va., 14 miles away from the Nation's Capital and surrounded by homes and estates of the well-to- do, isa re farm that raises fleas, lice, roaches, mites, bedbugs, mos- | quitoes, flles, and about 150 other in- sects that the public has not met, or would not know, in its everyday travels. Here ski ed artisans plant, sow and st the four seasons of the reap a har vear. Roughly, their work is to watch over the mother and her eggs and when the eggs hatch and the babies first look upon this world they must see that the little bugs get the | chance due by their birthright. They are guarded through early youth and the dangerous adolescent age and when clean, healthy adulthood is reached poison and killed! Four “Hatcheries” Provided. Included in the farm’'s equipment are four special nurseries or hatch- eries, bearing the following entomo. logical designations (all derived from the Greek): Trixy, Mac, Mickey and Pete. Trixy is a bulldog, Mac is an Airedale, Mickey is the son of Trix and Mac, and Pete—well, he's just| dog. They produce a bumper crop of fleas which is augmented slightly by a fair “acreage” turned out every so often by two vellow cats. Further, there are about 125 chickens in whose fertile feathers grow the largest num ber of lice and mites recorded by any <coop. There must be a reason for the ex- istence of such an extraordinary state of affairs and ir ment of the United & people are the cause < located at Vienna is known as the Insecticide Test Lab oratories of the Department of Agri culture, under the direction of W. § Abbott, entomologist, and in charge of the ‘enforcement of the Insecticide Act of 1910. The farm was estab- lished shortly after. the passage of the act and Mr. Abbott has presided over it since 1912. His residence is in Fairfax Abbott's “Test Pilots.” The 4 dogs, cats and chickens may accurately be called Mr. Abbott’s test pilots. bbott's duties are to find out if preparations moving in interstate commerce and advertised to Kill this or that insect actually will do it And the way he finds out is to take an innocent coterie of fleas, lice or other species of vermin and submit them to the fangs of the rem- | edy in question, Consequently T and Pete, the two Mickey 125 chickens spes it walking abc tarin lling stuff loaded down w designed to I queer sme of nd if 1 1 encountc remedy that does th work with deadly force and they are deloused or deflead, some one imme- dtatel \ore in their fur or fe are ready for another dos enefactors. e the ben In Role of ixy, Mac, Mickey and continuous round of scratches preparation goes a few it not only ; < ies have inflicted their flea-bitten is where e em your or my dear dog 2 the vietim. th favor of the dogs, because test pilot for M tory for the p Abbott’s flea labora- t 10 vears and about twice a year she contributes a pup or two for civil service examination and Mickey is her latest get rating. The quartet "They roam the along very well. cres from morning untll night and are given the best of food and quarters. They cavort about the main laboratory building at will, upstairs, downstairs and in the cellar. ‘They are part of the force and are en- titled to an equal status. Cats in the Exclusive List. { Of the cats there cannot be said | much—they are rather exclusive and | retiring, although willing to submit 1o various cat flea preparations. They harbor a different type of flea from | the dogs, so Mr. Abbott says, the dif- | ference, however, being so slight and of a highly entomological technical nature that only the dog and cat and the sclentists know the difference deemed it useless to try to show the Igyman wher match equally To increase the vopulation of mo squitoes, Mr. Abbott said, he just takes a tub of water and lets it stand. and there you sters get pretty well on in hours (the ife of a mosquito, like that of an air- lane, is measured by hours) he places \| covering over the tub with a hole in’the center. On the hole he puts a one, and whenever he wants a few #pod healthy mosquitoes to withstand Seme pretty Stff polson attacks, why e just Ufts up the cone, catches them apd takes them upstairs to the room sot aside for mosquitoes and flie Then they bring on the polson an: R. HARRIS & 00. Jewelry--- for More Than they are given a big dose of | - |are dead. i TRIXIE SOME MARTYRS OF A FLEA-BITTEN WORLD | BRIGHT-COLORED SHOES LATEST PARISIAN CRAZE MAc keep plugging until the mosquit Queer Preparations Listed. All sorts of queer preparations are picked up by the department’s agen Only Apparent Rule Seems to Be _ TS variety, which were shown at the ex. | That Footwear Shall Not Be | position. i of Dark Shade. Actresses also are furthering the ! By the Associated Press oes fashion by wearing colored kid shoes ol | the exact shade of thelr gowns. About ITALIANS IN RIOT AT CELEBRATION Warning to “Red Shirts” to Stay Away Brings Conflict | on Staten Island. | Special Dispateh- to The Star. NEW YORK, July 4.—Ttalian_ poli- | tics intruded today on the Fourth of July celebration of 700 Itallans at the | Garibaldi Memorial Building in Rose. | bank, Staten Island, and it took al the police reserves on the island half an hour to quell the rioters. Nobody was seriously injured. Friends and foes of the Mussolini | Government met on the half acre of "Ih\«n about the memorial, and clubs, blackjacks and stones were used be-‘ fore enough policemen arrived to herd | | the combatants apart. Even when | they were separated stones continued |to fly from group to group. Seven of the men were arrested on charges |of disorderly conduct and taken to police headquarters at St. George. | The disturbance arose, Italians told police, fn the publication Friday in an | Italian newspaper of a warning to all | “red shirts,” as the anti-fascisti Ital- | ians are known. The article, it is al- | leged, warned the “red shirts” not to | appear at the services in the Garibaldi | Memorial. | | 200 Antis Appear. Ab a result of {his ‘warning, 290} anti-facisti appeared in a body at 10 am., prepared to stay for the day.| | The fascisti faction did not appear {until 1 p.m., as they marched from St | George instead of going over in busses. With them \were two brass| {bands and all carried banners and placards. Meanwhile, knowing trouble surely trolmen, bicycle men and motor cycle men on the island should be notitied to report at once to him at the Garl- baldi Memorial. Riot Breaks Out. Before the police arrived, however, the vanguard. of the marching fascisti had met, with immediate results, the compact group of ‘“red shirts’ who seemed very anxious to show they had come to the memorial services in spite of the warning. Stones were hurled until the factions were within reach of each other and then the clubs and blackjacks were used. Police were on hand, however, before the main body of fascisti arrived. Inspector Cahalane stopped them about two blocks away from the lawn and sent Capt. Gray and most of the patrolmen to separate those fighting. Further hostilities ceased, except for the occasional hurling of a stone or bottle, The fascisti were turned abou: and sent back to Manhattan. After the arrests of persons carrying clubs, the “red shirts” dispersed. Officials of the Order of the Sons of Italy, the society which has charge of the Garibaldi Memorial Building, ‘told police they had given permission to both factions | to use the building for the d: COOLIDGE SHUNNING BIDS OF EXCLUSIVE NORTH SHORE CLIQUE| _(Continued from First Page.) Shore was ready to lionize President Coolidge and thereby enhance the prestige of its best homes. He will have none of it. Through Secretary Sanders, the President has | announced that Mrs. Coolidge and he have recelved numerous invitations to North Shore homes, but that they in tend to accept none of them. Mr. Coolidge has had to resort to the rule of the National Capital, which excuses the President from acceptance of invitations to private functions. Aside from a few formal receptions and the round of cabinet dinners, a relax the hard-and-fast rules of Wash- ington while on vacation. The embassy set has been available for some years along the coast from the South Shore to Bar Harbor. This | section has monopolized such digni- | tarfes. It seemed to have regarded the President as a logical “catch” for ex- clusive dinners. 4 The situation is not without its ironical side. This is not the first sea- son the Coolldges have been at Swampscott.. Not at all. They have been coming here for some years. Mr. Coolidge came as Governor of Massa- chusetts. The North Shore clique overlooked him as a social possibility. He came again as Vice President. It is not of record that any society folks | tried to get him to a dinner. | Were Let Alone. In those days the Coolidges remain- bles, the Summer home lof Frank W. Stearns, which adjoins White Court. The Coolidges and the | Stearnses did not go in for the round | of teas and parties at homes and coun. try clubs. The North Shore clique let | them decidedly alone. | Now things are changed. The shoe | is on the other foot. Mr. Coolidge has | become an outstanding world figure. | | His political popularity s almost un. | precedented. Massachusetts boasts of | {him and asserts a claim to him su-| | perfor to that of Vermont. Society | folks would dearly love to open their | | doors to him and garnish their dinner | |tables with the gold braid of his| | military and naval aides. Mr. Coolidge has spolled the play.| | He will not be lionized. He has not | changed since he came here some years ago. He declines to play with the social clique. - 4 Locked in his bedroom by his moth- er to prevent his marriage, a youth of County Monahan, Ireland, could not meet his flance at the altar, but escaped after 48 hours, carried the | girl by speeding motor to a minister and was quickly married Cleaned | ts and the | o | scheme is led | medy had not been dis- | He | |} the two fleas do not | | After the young- | Diamont]s-,—-Watcl’les R. Harris & Co. 7th and D Jewelers and Diamond Merchants especlally , prescriptions for killing| PARIS, July 4.—Shoe fashions| the only rule laid down is that shoes hicken lice. " In fact, there are more | shown in the modern arts exposition | USt be anvthing except dark colors, remedies for this insect thar any | being held in Paris this Summer have | Which shades are worn, nevertheless, other. One claimed if you put the|&iven marked Impetus to the craze for | DY all except the few hundred who | preparation in the chicken's water,|gorgeous colors in footwear. Silver, | 2T€ Supposed to be creating the styles. the antilice concoction would be|gold, red, vellow and green are SEUELAh AR |swallowed and perspired by the fowl nd the lice on the feathers and body would die. That was the first inti- nation Mr. Abbott got that chickens perspire. . Another person sald If |chickens are fed sulphur, it would turn to sulphuric acld by a digest procedure and would come out through ! |the pores of the hen or rooster's skin land spell death to the lice. Still another preparation which failed to convince Mr. Abbott and his | chickens was the remedy that called | |for_placing_the medicine on a cloth |ana wrapping it around the chickens. One-half dozen fowl were selected and | {so wrapped up and walked around | several days in that fashion. They died! Get Information at First Hand. | First-hand information of the ef- { fectiveness of mosquito and chigg | preventives are obtained by Mr. Ab- bott and his staff through personal | experience. If a ys rub it-on the flesh and it will | | keep away the insect, the prepara | tion is placed on the left arm and the force goes fishing. While sitting on the bank they note between bites (of the fish) whether any misquitoes | 1and on the righ arm, unprotected, or | the prepared left arm. The same dopted with chiggers. One | is covered with the remedy and other isn't. After a good walk in 2 nice chigger patch, if the right leg has been attacked and the left “n't, well, it's all right for the | manufacturer to | his wares. leg the Sl AL U. S. Park Tourists Gain. Tourist trave national park reservations this year promises to ex- ed all previous records | An increase of over 60 per cent has been reported from some parks. to Quigley’s Pharmac 21st and G Streets N.W. Is a Star Branch Make use of The Star Branch Office in your neighborhood when you wish to insert a Classified Ad in The Star, and save yourself a trip downtown. Quigley’s Pharmacy serves the neighbor- hood of 2lst and G streets. No extra fees, only regular rates. The Star prints MORE Classified ads every day than all the other papers herec combined — b e cause Star ads bring results. “Around the Corner” is a Star Branch Office Charge Accounts Invited. Satistactory s Arranged Silvcrware Healf a Century. ontinue advertising | @ splotched all over the newest shoes| seen at the center of fashion. in week wearing square-toed shoes just bex Several of the pest dressed women Paris appeared at the races lul‘ cause a princess who often is in the department of the Middlesex Hospital, | was London, has been on duty at 5:30 every | Cahalane morning for | tardy, and has ive | soclety columns ordered a pair of that | 112 hours a week during that time. | would start when the factions met, an | unidentified Ttalian _informed police Joseph Tavlor, head of the stores | headquarters in St. George that a riot | impending. Deputy Inspector | gathered the policemen about the station, put them in auto- ears without hvlng; worked from 100 to moblles and started for the scene, after leaving instructions that all pa- Shampooed Scoured Washed President does not go out of the White House. Washington society must ac- cept the Vice President as the repre- sentative of the Executive. Either the North Shore was not fa- miliar with that rule—and there was every reason it should have been—or it believed that the Coolidges would RUGS:= Sanitary Carpet Cle. Co. Phone Lincoln 1481 & Lincoln 7638 School Has One Pupil. tch to The Star. Special Dis) MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., July 4.—d3 novel situation exists in school district No. b of the town of Forestburg, Sul livan County. There is only one clags in the school and only one pupil in the class. The teacher is Mrs. Mary Hickey and the pupil is her daughter Anna. The purchase of fazz mnds in the district by the Mongaup Power Co. to build a dam has caused the rare con dition. The school once had 25 pu pils. Bacillus Acidophilus Milk For intestinal disorders Ask your physician about it Prepared by the NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE Have You Pimples Or ACGlear Smooth Skin? 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