New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1923, Page 10

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10 PUANT PESTS GOST STATE MILTIATO | COUNTRY BILLIONS WEAR BLACK SHIRTS Cost Taxpayers More Than Smug: It glers or Booleggers | Washington, Feb dlers, hootleggers and diamo: NUE- | ne glers have old schemes to f ¢ Sam's sharp eyed men, Tt their evil| ® ways do not cost the taxpayer b so much as the pla into the country that the taxpayer is payi plant pests at the rat billion d¢ Nature a will be Plant policema Just as the o partment taby law breaker, ¢ lery"” of the plant tie states know what blight and the white pi have done. The South's experience wit il One of the be brought to this land was the Hessian Fly straw the soldiers horses. Thag fly still « try the pri I war every year because ¢ does to wheat Tutroduced from Mext weevil has cost the colto the Bouth enough > puy o A one hundred wily ex .Yy ticral debt acro corn crop is ann & dozen destructive dicascs, most of whick wormed thur way into Am erica from foreign fiells, The last to appear is the Europeun corn b . hus far science has made hends way in exterminatiig tuis pest. Tho best it can do is to sive to limit the ares attacked Gypsy Moth The bootlegger's system of marketing his ware possibly “cover the territory” as gypsy moth has done. A professor at Harvard university some yea was experimefiting with all silk worms and cultures of ) moth trying to develop a variety of silk worms which would resist this noxious disease. A gust of wind blew several cultures through his labora- tory window. Shortly thereafter, the gypsy moth became a destructive in Massachusetts and now exter depredations over more than square miles of American ar American Nature association s pest accomplishes almost as economic damage as the annual fires which constitute one of the most serious menaces with whicih we have to contend. Brown Tail Moth The dope peddler does aothing more clever as the brown tail mioth which came from Holland or Frauce in ship- ments of roses. The Japancse bettle came to our shores on imported Jap-|g anese Iris plants. The San Jose scale ‘has rendered fruit production prohibi- tive in some parts of the United States and costs more than $10,000,- 006 a year. All fruit, seed or plant products that are found to be diseased are either destroyed or clse rendered practically sterile by thorough fumi- gation. Among the Mexican border, Uncle Sam maintains great fumiga- tors large enough for several freight cars to run inside at a time. In this way all the cotton and cotton seed that comes in from Mexico is ren- dered harmless so far as the distri- bution of objectionable cotton diseases is concerned. “The rogue's gallery” list of peste ‘now includes more than 73 economi- cally important crop despotiers. The American Nature association asserts. They include much crop criminals as the codling moth, asparagus beetle, buftalo moth, hop plant louse, horn fly, common cabbage worm, sugar cane borer, pear midge, wheat louse, oyster shell bark louse, pea weevii, croton bug, 23 injurious ecale insects and many others. Thirty-seven of these pests have been imported from| FEurope, At such impo t parts of entry as New York, B n, Seattle and Ban Francisco, piant pest police- | men now oxamine all sced and plant material as well as other agricultural | products which might be infested with forelgn discase germs. no most approved HTALTH REIGNS. Lendon, ¥eb, 10.—The small town of Aspatia, Cumberland, wil 3 rata of only 5.6 a thousand, te ba tha nealthieat town in Fur Algo during tho last year there w four times ns many births as d 8 in Aspatia, And the mala ¢l are men of weight, A football team representing the town averaged 210 pounds each, 1] ey MUELLERS delicious SPAGHETTI | Remember these are all our own high Suits and Overcoats NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1923, Explorers of Tropics and Arctic Meet alian Organization Built on Plan| of U, §. National Guards Rome, Feb, 16—Premier Mussolini's wiy organized state militia, whieh mainly # isted from the PFascisti, built upen the plan of the National uard « the United s, Nerviees in the Italian militia | and is unpaid unless on It members follow ofessions and occupas their spare time. | sed in case of ewil) while, in the event of war, be merged into the regular untary 1dy the new erganization is fill oldiers and lads who n the reeent yup, when 1 led to head t in choosing the personnel s given to Fasclsti ists, of “proven Italian are given the second considera- Guard units are d te ord ave be d " will bel definite orders have been issued re. | of the new militia | garding the uniform of the new foree, Promptly at 9 0’Clock Saturday Morning Our doors open to all men who want the most clothes value they ever bought. class garments, with the Wonder label —You take no chance—We guarantee every garment. Here are two gallant adventurers shown when their trails nistorie unexpectedly crossed, On the left is Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who Mussolini | has spent 11 years in the Arctie, gretting Carl Akeley, naturalist vernment. | and sculptor, who has made many excursions into Africa, Fiumelegion- : placed in every town, just at National , it is expected that the black shirt distributed in the | of the Fascisti will be adopted, It has towns and cities of America. While no | been pointed out shat the black shirt is now traditional, just as was the red " shirt in. Garitis Mongolla, as well as in the region | I's time, The men in the new body are sald to favor the black shirt in preference (o an army uniform, for it was in these shirts they made their celebrated mareh on Rome. The new militia may be called to gerrison duty in the Italian colonies in Africa. There they would supersede the regular anmy, the units of which would be returned to Italy for train. ing in war taekes, |FND SKELEONS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS scientists in China Unearth Remark- able Discoveries—Dinosaurs, Mammals, Fie, Upsala, Sweden, IFeb, 16,—Upsala university has been Interested by the news that the Swedish Paleontologi- cal expedition in China has made re. markable discoveries of ‘the skeletons of prehistoric animals which will be sent to the natural history department here for mounting and preservation. These finds are characterized as of vgreat significance to all International paleontological research.” The Bwedish expedition in China, which has divided the fleld by agree- ment with the American oxpedition headed by Roy Chapman Andrews, is under the personal direction of Pro- fessor J. G. Anderson. Researches are carried on in the remote stretches of A Sale of Such Tremendous Proportions, That Feeble Sales Attempts of Compe- tition Fade Into Insignificance Beside These Prices. {Otte Zdansky, shipped to Upsala university, about Shantung Professor Anderson reports that a mesogole deposit has been found near | Shantung eontalning dinesaurs, tur: | ties and fishes, and a large eocene de- posit containing veptiles and mam- | als, Himilar remains have been dis- | , and have been | wedish expert Dr. These finds will be RYZON BAKING POWDER covered by Poate YO { € € dug out by the ed his intention of heading a new ex- In connection with these reports it | pedition through unknown parts of may be recallgd that the Swedish ex-|Asla with an entire staff of Swedish plorer, Dr, Beve edin, has announe- | experts, You Catch Cold Easily? Wi o sty b o o by invite the cold and follows germvinfection, L e i R " il as a means of guarding against the breaking down of the | adl resistive of the body. The rich, energizing quali- | ties of 's Emulsion are quickly digested, and it' is surprising how a few bottles build up and strengthen! whole . Be sure that you buy Scott’s| Emulsion! Sicott & Bowne, Bloomfield; N, J. un EVERY GARMENT TO GO AT TWO PRICES And that means that you have the choice of the house—at either $15 or $20, and you can bet yocur last dollar that you’ll find nowhere values that even compare with these Wonder Suits and Overcoats. ur Entire Stock Sacrificed at Two'Prices Think what this sensational announcement means to every man, It means that Suits that formerly sold for as much as $37.50 will now be sold for $15 and $20.. Nothing over these prices in our store. Every Suits and Overcoats man can afford a new Wonder Suit or Overcoat, because these prices That Scld Formerly Up to $37.50 Men! We challenge you to compare thesé garments. We dare you ' to come and find a single garment here ' priced higher than $20. are so low that you can afford to buy. This is one of those once in a lifetime sales. But we must clean out our present stock — and make room for incoming merchandise. It hurts to sell these fine garments at these giveaway prices, but we mus: have room quick and therefore are making this sacrifice. That Sold Formerly Up to $37.50 Regardless of state- ments to the contrary, these are positively the lowest prices for quality Suits and Overcoats in New Britain, You know the quality of Wonder Clothes—You know that regular prices were up to $37.50 without the Middleman’s profit—you can not go wrong at this sale—because Wonder quality is Guaranteed $3 and $4 Trousers Trousers of all materials and shades and we can match most any suit—and look at that price. Why i+ costs more than $1.69 to make a pair $1.69 Extra salespeople will be here to serve you—Alteia- tions are free, a5 usual—No. C. 0. D.—None delivered, but every garment bears the usual. Wonder guarantee. The First 37 Men Will Get These Super Values 20 Overcoats at $12 17 Overcoats at $10 NEW BRITAIN

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