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"on Moth Control: The US. Dept. of Agricul- ture Gives Latest Data in Reference to the Control of this Household Pest "MOTH DOPE" LISTED, The classic story of the man who bought a bag of mothballs and then sat up all night to pelt moths with them i¢ due to be told agaln, now that the symptoms of Spring cleaning are appearing. : ' . There will be laughs at his ex- pense, for almost every woman pre- fers her own method of dealing with moths. But few know 'he most ef- fective means of offense or defense, as witness the unofficial figures which report a $200,000.000 loss annually as a result of the depredations by this prime offender among fabric pests. _The Clothes Moti The clothes moths are not anxious to be seen, and therefore always flut- ter about darkened corners. They love the darkness in which they per- petrate their crimes. They are frightened readily and have extreme- ly guilty consciences, especially when clothing and other objects are moved. They then run or fly to concealment. There are two very common specles of clothes moths, They are the case- making clothes moth (Tinea -pellio: nella) and the webbing clothes moth (Tineola biselliella). The adult of the -ase-making clothes moth has a wing opread of about half ap inch. Its head is a dull yellow, with Indis- tinct dark spots on the middle of the outer portions. The hind wings are silky, white or grayish. The case-making moth is 30 named, net-from the number of bad eases of apoplectic angse which it causes but because the larva, for its protec: tion, makes a portable case out of spun silk and fragments of the fab- ric upon which it feeds {that's where last Summer's dress went), These cases attain a length of one-quarter to one-half an inch, depending upon the hunting grounds the moth has in- habited. "The Tirva almost never leaves Its case. It withdraws into its silken shell when resting but when it gets hungry for another bite out of a dress or overcoat it sticks its head and first body segment out and nib- bles away. It moves about restless- ly, eating small holes here and there. As the larva grows It enlarges fits ease from time to time, both in length and circumference. On reaching full growth the larva attaches its case of silken threads to the material upon which it has been feeding, or it may crawl to an- other part, carrying its case. After attaching itself firmly it seals itsell with silk, thus making a pretty pupal the pupa or chrysalis to the active moth, : The webbing clothes moth is the most abundant and injurious of the fabric pests. ~ During the last few years nearly all instances of severe clothes moth damage reported by manufacturing plants throughout the North, including New York, Chicago and Boston, have been associated with this species. Thousands and thousands of dollars are lost through moths 'by woolen and worsted manu- facturers--a further fncentive to get your moth, : A Thriving Moth For years this webbing clothes moth has been the prevailing species in certain houses in West Massachu- setts and Southearstern Connecticut, Although this type is often called the Southern clothes moth it has been shown by {investigators to thrive equally well in the North. Its larva resembles that of the case-making moth. Unlike the latter, however, it has no case but spins silky transpar- ent tubes or tunnels wherever it goes. Often it spins a cobwebby mass of silken threads, apparently at random, as it crawls around fabrics. Of course, one of the best ways to get rid of moth sis to starve them. If you want to be a benefactor to moths be sure and have plenty of bristles, hair, feathers, fur and raw wool around the house, Those are ingredients for a moth's feast. And if you want to have a generous stock of moths always on hand all you have to do is to allow one plece of feather or hairstuffed furniture to act as a breeding ground. And do not forget the plano felts and the stuffed pheas- ant. 2 Household moths almost never in- jure household fabrics or wearing ap- parel in daily or weekly use or articles that are brushed cleaned 'or beaten . once or twice a month. Furniture, on _ the other hand, may be in constant use and still be infested. Next month is the time when the pests are on the wing in the greatest number. It is evident that the man with the moth balls was at least t boost the temperature irom 18 degrees all the newly hatched young larvae of the clothes moth. under way by the bureau to determine cedar. sulphur, dusted salt, borax, powdered eucalyptus leaves, sodium bicarbonate, lead oxide, dried red cedar leaves; ent complexion to the affair, or the tenthrate orchestra which was augmented by local Sujet, infesting the fabrics later. . No prac: tical treatment known will render wearing apparel absolutely immune to attack, : Under all circumstances a thorough]. brushing and beating d¥d, if possible, a sunning of all fabrics is requ before any treatment is applied.. The. following specifics are listed in the order of their effectiveness. Nathalene. Very effective in the form of flakes or moth balls for pro-| or tecting clothing in closets, tru tight chests. Paradichlorobénzoe. Equal in ef- fectiveness to napthalene and used in the same manner. Camphor. For use In tight chests. Pyrethrum powder. Cold storage . 2 Storage in chests of heartwood. Dry heat is dependable if It can be applied, and treatment of cracks and hiding places with hot water, soap, gasoline, benzine or kerosene and dry cleaning are protective. - red-cedar I Clothes moths do not eat through paper to reach clothing; so any kind of firm wrapping paper Is satisfactory, and several thicknesses of newspaper will serve, Articles first treated to free them from moths will remain safe if wrapped carefully In news- paper. It has been established that 'the printer's ink does not scare them away, Care must be taken to bend back the folds of the paper upon themselves at the ends of the bundles, s0 that the moths cannot crawl Into a specially prepared dining room. Although cold storaged things are usually frowned upon, this is not the case when it comes to dealing with moths, It is not alone the cold that kills the moths. They like an even temperature and can withstand a temperature qf 18 degrees Fahrenheit for a long time. But to ly Fahrenheit to 50 degrees Fahrenheit and hold it there for two days and then drop it again to 18 degrees Fahrenheit--well, the moth Is no more. - Cedar Chests Tests by the Bureau of Entomology |® of the United States Department of Agriculture show that a cedar chest with sides, ends and bottom of red cedar heartwood at least three-fourths of an inch thick and with a cover of solid red. color or of neutral wood lined with red clear veneer will kill Tests are now the relative effectiveness ..of chests containing various percentages of red Some so-called moth-destroylng ma- terials, sworn by for years, have been found ineffective. Even if grand- mother told you they were effective, discard the use of the following. Tobacco extracts coniaining nico- tine, lavander flowers, cayenne pepper, dusting allspice, black pepper, air slacked lime, dusting on powdered ecsnmoilmoenma "Come to Scotland" London Observer (Ind): The Sec- retary for Scotland disposed in a few perfunctory words on Wednesday of the question of developing recreation as an industry, although this is the policy which offers most prospect of revival for the depleted Highlands. Sir John Gilmour prefers to leave the matter "to such public bodies as the 'Come to Scotland' movement, and so on." But people will not go to the Highlands to walk upon 'highroads, and the shooting interest, which chiefly controls that area, does its best to see that they shall go nowhere else. The first necessary step is to pass the Access to Mountains Bill, and that is what a Scottish Minister who was in earnest about the matter would GIVES A DIFFERENT COMPLEXION Bess: She's going to marry one of those brown-skinned Hindus they say. Tess: But he's worth many millions. "Bess: Oh, well, that gives a differ » seems . It was difficult to say which was the worst, the tenth-rate band of actors The big villain Chemical Warfare Smee Dr. Humphries Discusses Pro- tection of Civilian Population Dr.'F, R. Humphries recently gave an address before the Royal Sanitary Institute of England and Chemical Warfare," the London correspondent of The Journal of the American Medi- cal Assoclation writes. "He sald that the Royal Air Force manoeuvres in 1927 and 1928," says the correspondent, '"showned that London and our great cities could not be defended from attack from the air, 'poison gas' being the dangerous missile. Bach city would have to un- dertake its own protection. Protec: tion in the field was afforded by masks and dugouts, neither of which was available in huge crowded cities. Yet protection must be afforded it we were not to lose our place in Europe, endangering both our existence and our influence in its peace councils. "The first attack at Ypres in 1915 on unprepared troops cost 5,000 lives and an enormous number of casual ties in a few minutes, and was a clear indication as to what would hap- pen to our undefended civilians. The gases which had to be dealt with were discharged in liquid form and were slow in evaporating from the streets. It was proposed that an organization should be formed divided into four sections. "The first section would have the duty of getting gas-proof rooms--Ilike those prepared for disinfection after an infectious disease--in each house for the incarceration of the inhabi- tants, while the second section was clearing the roads by flushing down and the use of appropriate chemicals. The third section would be necessary for decontaminating the clothing and persons of those who were endanger- ing others and 'themselves by gas car- ried on their persons and clothing, a very dangerous matter. "The fourth section, to consist of the voluntary and societies under the local physicians, would give first ald and provide for removals to a hospital. Wholesale removals would be neces- sary in the more dangerous areas, with provision of billets and neces- saries temporarily." What Loosens The Baby Teeth? You have watched in your small son those little teeth that were once so firmly rooted, gradually loosen and begin to wobble. For fear lest he might swallow one you tied a string around it and jerked it out; or else you just picked it off, and finding no root, ydu wondered what had been holdnig it in place, and you asked yourself was it always so. ' Now as a matter of fact, the "baby tooth," upon eruption, did possesse a normal root; then, vhere has it gone? Well, you see, that as th2 incoming permanent tooth begins to develop and push up, it must find room. So Nature removes these little temporary teeth through dbsorption of the root, allow- ing the crown to fall away--a process that is attended with no pain or out- ward disturbances whatsoever, But occasionally it happens that this natural process of root absorption is retarded, or it may be, doesnot occur at all, with the rcsult that the little tooth does not loosen by the time the shedding process should take place, This is due, probably, to the death of its pulp or nerve, preventing a quick natural absorption, of it may be, to the tardy development of tha replacing permanent tooth or to its eruption into an abnormal position, or possibly to] the non-development of what should have been the succeeding tooth. In any case, your dentist will be best able to advise you as to whether this unloosened "baby tooth" should come out now or at a later date, A Baby's Influence In the early days of Child-Protec- tion work a foundling baby was sud- 'denly landed in my office. Not knowing what else to do, I called up the Marton of a Refuge for Girls and begged her to relieve me by tak- ing the baby for a few days. It stayed there for two months until a suitable foster tome was found for it. When it left the Institution there was genuine distress on. the pagt.of all the inmates and the Matron sald, "You have np idea what a wonderful influence for good that baby had on all the girls. In fact it was so popular that it was made a reward for good conduct to have the oppor- tunity of nursing and caring for it." Here is a woman's real vocation in lite! --J. J. Kelso. "He takes his typewriter in his car -with him everywhere he goes." "She's the portable kind, I guss." i as To propagate and teach one error hides a multitude of truths. --Isaac Newton Vall, emi------ Father--"So you've already begun to find that married life Lac its trou- bles?" Daughter--"Yes, Ted's a dear old thing, but sometimes he won't lis- ten to reason." "He ought to be ashamed of himself. Not every mar _~ried man hds the chance." New Way of Shipping Live Stock "I plified or modernized in the full sense '| motor of every car, and controlled by and that - jate as fool-proof, and we | accidents every year, what a ¢ intelligence of our people? are] all mortor-wise, and getting more 80 every year, Nearly all participants deny it was their fault, following an] accident; then what caused the dent it no one ever is to blame? Th must be a third party somewhere in that woodpile that must be to blame, Who was he? or what it? 'What is the basic cause of accidents? Lack of cbntact between driver and car, caused by the improper location of controlling elements, The control of an automobile has never been sim- of the word. J Ask yourself why nearly all means of transporlation have nearly as much power to stop them as. to drive them forward except the automobile? Why do we use the same principle to stop our automobiles to-day as the China- man used to pump water twa thongand years before Christ? We push on some pedals with our feet. We have thirty to eighty horse-power under the hood, but to connect all that power to our brake pedals would not do us one bit of gooldl as long as it is not comfort: able or considered quite the right thing to_do for a driver to keep his feet within a foot or two of the brake- pedals. si The accelerator fs. the curse of the automobile. At thirty miles an hour an automobile is going forty-four feet per second. When you see danger, then realize it, then take your foot off the accelerator, put it on the brake- pedal and push it down, the biggest part of a second is gone. The other driver is doing the same; you lost forty-four feet; so did the other ma: chine. That is eighty-eight feet ot the distance used up, and the brakes are just beginning to do their duty. Now add™the distance it will require to stop, and on an ordinary street intersection the automobile coming out from the right will be in front of your héadlights all set for a broadside smash, I suggest that every motorist of the country -demand that a governor so constructed that it will control both. spark and throttle, be geared to the a dial tobe located on the instrument- board, said dial showing either the miles per hour they wish to travel or the revolutions per minute they wish to have their engine make. Then all you will have to do is turn on the switch, set the dial at the speed you want and proceed to forget all about your speedometer, It will open your throttle on the grade and close it when you do mot need the power. Also demand a new ° brake-pedal shaped Bo you can put your foot right in it and rest it there. Have it so con- structed that when you remove your foot it will cause a short ciréuit in the' ignition system and stop your motor. Then you or anyone else will never drive your car without a foot on the brake, and that alone means a difference of from eighteen to forty feet in stopping a car. I believe the] manufacturers will be glad to make these parts for the cars you fiow oper- ate, and at a reasonable cost if you demand them. Those buying new cars should demand that the mere Hippiug of the right pedal forward on the top will instantly apply all the power of ser ake also oper- the foot goes -- The dial should be located on the steering. 'wheel on new cars. E | doctor suggests that balloons : used ag hospitals): a | place among: medi. } value i 'then direct to Lake Chad, the _southern part being lands fixed by a sort of tropical serub, e northern part rock and sand ua forbidding character. The rotte left | the important post of Zinder on one side and thus neglected .the link with Kano and British Nigeria, though this may be otherwise provided for. ~ the subsequent explorations have had-to take the results of this lexpedition as the basis for further work. The main features of the scheme. have been laid down, on the basis of a normal-gauge track of some 2,800 kilometres (1,76(: miles) long, involving a cost estimated at be- tween 2,000 and 8,000 billion francs ($50,000,000 to $120,000,000). If it is found possible to secure the necessary labor and 'to work from both ends, it has been calculated that the bare track might conceivably be completed by the end of 1880. When the line is finished it will brifig' French West 'Africa within five days of Patis. It will be a direct link between a population of 14,000,000 and another of 12,500,000 at present cut off from one another by the im- practicable desert. It will link up the railways of Northern Africa with the lines destined to join up with the main French, Belgian and British 'African systems. And if the scheme for irrigating the sterile lands about the Niger bend should prove a pzac- tical proposition, and the French dream of an independent sourcs of raw cotton should be the result, its use- fulness will have been greatly in. creased, . It.is, however, a curious phasa of the preliminaries that French publie opinion should look upon the scheme mainly as an assured line of communi. cation for the tranzport of black troops to Burope. In the late War about 150,000 were brought across, of whom 80,000 were killed and 40,000 wounded. It must not be forgotten that the French regard their native populations in a spirit very different from that which underlies 'the prin- ciple of British colonization, and see nothing extraordinary in entrusting their destinies to the i:azard of native help. 1 "COLONIALLY CONSCIOUS" But whether, as a military or an economic project, there can be mo doubt that the prospec: of a developed West Africa has caught the imagina- tion of the French people. France has become colonially conscious. ~The French newspaper reader is hardly less curious about colonization than the French colonial officer. ---- Unemployment London Referee (Coms.): Not all the people can be fooled all the time, especially not the British people, with their ruined industries, their two mil. lion employed, their unbearable bur den of taxation, and their knowledge of the underlying realities of the situa. tion, which has been gained from the most bitter trials experienced by any modern people. The public will sup- port the party that gives evidence and earnest of its understanding and intentions, not in the form of slogans and photographs depicting politicians in the act of uttering slogans, but im... clear-cut pronouncement on the 'question of national interest-free cred-- it for productive industries, which alone can effectively solve all the problems of the present economic chaos, 3 The Sky as a Spa. London Times (Ir .)' (A Russian could be a common. |. iy tate of wii