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EW YORK city’s much- ,
vexed atutu' of “Civic i
Virtue.” by Frederick
MacMonnies is Id place
in City iiali park at last.
And now that the New
Yorkers can see It the gab
ble is worse than ever
over “The Rough Guy,**
as the women call him.
If there’s a great popu
lar clamor against him.
Mayor Hylan says, down
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hell come. It’s n long, end tale, my
mates, but here’s the brief of It: Mrs,
Angelina Crane, who died in 1904. left
153,000 for the statue. Ibdati/es con
lested her will. In 1909 the city won.
added $7,000, and gave MacMonnies
the commission. In 1912 the alder
men voted the site for h statue to
Thomas Jefferson, for which provision
had bee.'? made In the will of Joseph
Pulitzer. The site was saved for
“C. V.,” and the sculptor, then In Paris,
was prodded. In 1915 he re
turned to New York, bringing with
Mtn models for “Civic Virtue.’*
But the environment of City Hall
park had changed. The sculptor de
rided. in view of actual and prospec
tive changes, that a heroic marble.
’tntue should take the place of the
hronze one for which he had contract
ed. He volunteered to make the
bange nt Ids own expense. The mu
nicipal art commission rejected his
>n»t design, but accepted his second.
The statue surpasses In bulk
everything of its kind except Michel
angelo's “David.” It is made of a
solid block of Georgia marble and
weighs 55 tons. The figure looms 11
feet high and with the sirens and the
pedestal the height above the pave
ment is Id feet. Here is the sculp
tor’s own description of his statue:
"I selected the figure of a youth, ns
best exemplifying the spirit which
dtould preside over a citadel of civic
activity. In the composition of the
lines of the figure In the posture I
used a system of lines which are un
' niplicated and direct In their sug
gestion so that he would seem to be
•■‘•ncentrnted with single-minded en
ergy on one purpose—to stand upright
imd hold up the sword of law. As a
secondary action, ho is freeing himself
idmost unconsciously from the snares
* thrown about him. They are drop
ping away from him without much
rffort on his part. He looks out Into
the distance so concentrated on his
treat ideal that he does not even see
the temptation.
suggest this temptation; its dual
fat are which dazzles while it en
snares, its charm and insinuating dan
<er, one thinks of the beauty and
nughter of women; the treachery of
.he serpent coils of a sea-creature
' T npped about its prey. These lovely
1611 women coil themselves about
Many Minor Planets
There continues the -discovery of
’Merolds or minor planets, especially
* ,; h the aid afforded by celestial pho
"“rnphy. Among a vast multitude of
dais, crowding a photographic plate
•m<‘. perhaps, will be seen to have
’”'"D n short thin line on the plate
’"ring its hours of continuous expos-
** ’Hie astronomer knows at once
u,t if | R either an asteroid or a
'“met. Subsequent observations soon
I their victim. Their scaly, sinuous
I tails entwine him. With one hand
each one draws about him the net dis
guised in tangled seaweed; with a
smile on her lips one holds, half hid
den. a skull, sinister suggestion of dis
illusionment and death.
“The other hides her face as we
hide all dark designs. They entirely
surround him, but he steps out tri
umphantly and places his foot on a
firm rock. Below him lies the wreck
of a ship which had sped gayly, Its
proud figurehead of victory overturned
—torn shreds of hone.”
A greater change has come about
than the erection of tall buildings about
City Hall square: Women are now
Voters and are busying themselves tre
mendously in civic affairs. So women
rose in protest against the statue. The
National League of Women Voters ob
jected on the ground that It degraded
! womanhood. Mary Garrett Hay put
It this way: “In this age woman
should be placed not below man but
side by side with him in any repre-
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Mayor Hylan Has Doubts.
sentation of civic virtue.’’ Dr. Ella
A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. said this:
"It portrays the degradation of wom
anhood. not the uplift of man.” Mayor
Hylan. since women now have votes,
naturally paid attention. He looked
at a photograph of the statue and re
marked: “I don’t know much about
art, but I don’t like the looks of that
fellow." And he set a day for a pub
lic hearing. Well, the women came
and freed their minds. The sculptor
stayed away, but sent the explanation
of his design given in the foregoing.
And the statue went up on Its pedes
tal—possibly to come down again.
The art critics, generally speaking,
stand by McMonnles and his statue.
It takes a stout heart to reject a
statue by MacMonnies. He is one of
the great sculptors. Boston, it will
decide the point. Only the more In
teresting ones are afterward ob
served with attention, but once dis
covered they cannot be ignored, and
the rapid growth of the flock becomes
an embarrassment. Eros, which at
times approaches the earth nearer
than any other regular members of
the solar system, except the moon, and
asteroid No. 585. which at aphelion is
more distant than Jupiter, as far as
their orbits are concerned, remain
the most Interesting members of the
entire group and are kept under con-
be remembered, threw out his "Bac
chante” from its public library; the
bronze lady is now one of the at
tractions of New York Metropoli
tan museum. His “Nathan Hale”
stands in City Hall park. He was se
lected to make the $250,000 monument
of “Liberty in the Agonies of Strug
gle,” America’s gift to France in com
memoration of the Battle of the
Marne.
New York’s gabble over the statue
is of all kinds—serious objection,
ironic laughter and puzzled ignorance.
“Let the downtrodden men rise in
righteous assertion of equal rights 1"
say Vox Popper. “Give the women
their share —no more. In the past
we were lucky to get George Wash
ington on a postage stamp. Now we
want men upholding gilded scales on
courthouse towers and all the rest
of it.”
• • •
Neysa McMein, the artist, says:
“Well, if women don’t lure, who will?
And we have to have lures, don’t we?
If there were no temptations there
would be no virtues. . Any map who
would walk over a real lady-lure with
a net and everything ought to be done
In marble—or concrete.”
• • *
Two flappers: “It’s two ladles,” said
the first.
“Not ladles—moimalds,** said the
other emphatically. "See their tails?”
“Yeah,” said the first, “but look at
the tops o’ ’em.”
• • •
And here’s what MacMonnies says:
"Bish —bosh 1 I say I For a lifetime I
have adored womankind. I have spent
my life nt their feet. To intimate
that I, MacMonnies, respecter and ad
mirer of women, have had a hand in
symbolism degrading to womanhood is
to talk d —d nonsense.”
stant observation whenever circum
stances permit.—New York Herald.
Have Settled Plan for Work.
Some men are In a state of per
petual confusion. They are always
apparently as busy as bees, but they
never achieve anything It Is no use
working unless there is a settled plan.
The day’s activities should be care
fully schemed—so many hours for
work, so many hours for study, so
many for healthful relaxation.—Sir H.
Woodman Burbridge.
EFFORTS BEING MADE TO PREVENT
SPREAD OF EUROPEAN CORN BORER
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WORK OF LARVA IN INTERIOR OF CORN -STALK
European Corn Borer in Various Stages and Its Work.
(Prepared by the United Statea Department
of Axrlculjture.)
Special efforts to prevent the Eu
ropean corn borer from spreading to
the corn belt, which it now threatens
to do from the southern shore of
Lake Erie, will be made .this season
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. I*ll6 most important sin
gle measure will be the rigid enforce
ment of federal quarantine regulations
by the federal horticultural board of
the department, in co-operation with
the Canadian government and the va
rious states where the pest now ex
ists. This will prevent other Infesta
tions of the insect from coming Into
the United States and will go a long
way toward keeping the borer from
being carried to other parts of the
country.
The bureau of entomology of the
department lias prepared its plans for
investigating the insect, which was
discovered in this country during 1917,
jvith a view to applying and amplifying
methods of controlling it. The slight
infestations along the lake shore, It is
believed, will not cause serious injury
to corn there immediately, giving am
ple time for a careful study of the in
sect and its behavior in tills new en
vironment before actual commercial
damage is done. For this purpose the
bureau will establish immediately a
number of entomologists at Sanduskv,
Ohio.
May Have Come From Canada.
The infestation on Lake Erie, it is
believed, originated in the province
of Ontario, Canada, where a severe in
festation has been present for several
years. Favorable winds during the
flight season of the moth in the sum
mer of 1921 are supposed to have
compelled the adult insects to fly
across the lake to the American side,
where they became established along
almost the entire southern shore. Rec
ords of the weather bureau indicate
that for the first time in five or six
years the winds prevailing then blew
from the north or northwest for sev
eral days at a time. It is not thought,
therefore, that this condition will pre
vail again for several years, and other
moths be blown over.
In order to watch this phase of the
matter, however, the bureau of ento
mology will request permission of the
lighthouse sendee to station observers
during the flight season at the power
ful lights maintained along the south
ern shore. They will ascertain, if pos
sible. whether moths are attracted to
the lights from the other side.
The federal quarantine includes 144
cities and towns in Massachusetts,
three in Michigan. 12 in New Hamp
shire, 115 in New’ York. 42 in Ohio,
and 13 in Pennsylvania, and prohibits
the shipment of corn and broom corn,
including all parts of the stalk, cut
flowers or entire plants of chrysanthe
mum, aster, cosmos, zinnia, hollyhock,
and cut flowers or entire plants of
gladiolus and dahlia, except the bulbs,
to other states throughout the year.
The ban applies to other products for
the period between June 1 and De
cember 31, in the New England terri
tory. The prohibition applies to corn
and broom corn, including all parts
of the stalk, all sorghums and sudan
grass from infested areas in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michi
gan throughout the year. No restric
tions are placed on the Interstate
movement of clean shelled corn and
clean seed of broom corn.
Control Practices Recommended.
To control the corn borer on the
farm, the department recommends the
following practices:
1. Burn, or otherwise destroy, be
fore May 1 of each year, all cornstalks,
corn cobs, corn stubbie, vegetable, field
and flower crop remnants, weeds and
large-stemmed grasses of the previous
year.
2. Keep cultivated fields, fence rows,
field borders, roadsides and such places
free from large weeds or large-stemmed
grasses.
3. Cut corn close to the ground.
4. Cut and remove sweet corn fodder
from the field as soon as the ears are
harvested. Feed direct to live stock
or place in silo.
5. Cut and remove field com from
the field as soon as the ears are ma
ture. Feed the stalks to live stock as
soon as possible and burn or otherwise
dispose of the uneaten parts before
May 1 following. Shred or cut the
fodder to Increase its consumption.
6. Plow under thoroughly, in the
fall, all infested cornstalks, corn stub
ble, other crop remnants, weeds mid
similar material which it is Impracti
cal to destroy tn any other manner.
When necessary to adopt this prac
tice an attempt should be made to
•flow under all the material to a depth
>f nt least 0 Inches.
7. Plant small areas of early sweet
. n to net ns a trap crop. a<ljac«|®t to
fields intended for field corn or late
sweet corn. Feed, or otherwise de
stroy, this early sweet corn, as soon
as the ears are harvested, or prefer
ably just before that period, if the
grower is willing to sacrifice the ears.
Such plantings, where not destroyed
at the proper time, constitute a men
ace to» later corn.
8. Limit the size of cornfields to
areas that can be kept free of weeds.
9. Do not plant corn within 50 feet
of beets, beans, celery, spinach, rhu
barb, or flowering plants intended for
sale.
10. Do not throw the uneaten parts
of cornstalks used as feed or bedding
into the manure pile unless this mate
rial is worked into piles containing
enough fresh horse manure to produce
heating.
11. Do not transport outside of the
infested area, any of the plants, or
plant products, listed in Federal Quar
antine No. 43.
12. Do not transport any living
stages of the European corn-borer out
side of the infested areas.
13. Do not place in swill container
any sweet corn ears or portions there
of or discarded portions of celery,
beets, beans, rhubarb, and spinach
when this material is suspected of
containing the borer.
14. Do not dump cornstalks, or other
plant refuse from the vegetable and
flower garden on public dumps nor on
the edge or flood level of brooks, riv
ers, and other bodies of water.
15. Do not attempt to circumvent the
quarantine regulations. The penalty
is severe.
16. Do not mix products grown with
in the infested area with those grown
outside the infested area.
17. Do not label packages containing
flowers or other products with mislead
ing statements of contents.
18. Do not pack produce in boxes or
other containers until all old tags and
permits have been removed.
19. Do not feel angry if products are
confiscated at border lines for viola
tion of quarantine regulations. Such
action Is the most lenient that may be
taken under the law.
MOLESKINS VALUABLE
SOLD THROUGH POOLS
Boys and Girls Have Formed
Clubs for Trapping.
Taught Approved Methods by Exten
sion Workers and Representatives
of Biological Survey—Prizes
for Gophers.
Moleskins, which brought little or
nothing in the ordinary fur markets,
have been successfully pooled and sold
m Washington and Oregon through
farm bureau organizations. Boys and
girls in many communities have formed
clubs for trapping moles. Through the
co-operative work of the extension
agents and representatives of the
biological survey bf the United States
Department of Agriculture, they have
been taught approved methods of trap
ping and skinning the moles.
Two hundred and twenty mole pelts
were sold in Benton county. Ore., for
boy and girl trappers. Linn county.
Ore., reports three communities which
offered 10 cents each for moles and
pocket -gophers and an ndditlonal prize
for the three children killing the most
pests. One community reports 83 moles
[ killed in this way.
Tillamook county. Ore., was divided
into four districts, and SSO purses were
allotted to each district for first,
second, and third prizes. The county
paid a 5-cent bounty on both moles
and pocket gophers. The moleskins
were stored In the county agent’s
office until a salable amount was col
lected. They were then sold to the
highest bidder. All money received for
the skins was returned to the trappers.
OVERCOME PLANT DISEASES
Practical Plan to Allow Land to Ro
main Idle or Use Crop Immune
to Ailment.
There are several diseases of vege
tables which live over in the garden
soil from one year to the next, and If
the same crop is planted in the same
soil year after year it will be but a
short time until the crop will prove a
loss. These are mostly fungous and
bacterial diseases and the only prac
tical way to overcome them is to al
low the land to lie idle for two or
three years or to plant a crop which
is immune to the disease.
PAGE SEVEN
HOME pj
TOWN St
HELPSEZI
RECOGNIZE VALUE OF TREES
People Awake to the Necessity
Their Presence for the Proper
Landscape Effect.
With the growing interest in forest
ry, the landscape effect of the trees
used for reforesting purposes should
not be overlooked. As country homes
Increase in number, the esthetic fea
tures In both cultivated areas and
woodlands become more and more Im
portant, writes I'. W. Kelsey in the
American Forestry Magazine. Progress
In this direction in the United States
may be classified Into three distinct
periods.
1. The early clearing of the native
woods growth with waste and destruc
tion alike of the natural foliage effects
and the irreparable loss of the timber
supply, without consideration being
given to future needs.
2. The awakening to a realization of
this suicidal policy as manifested in
the conservation movement, which has
now bedome a subject of nation-wide
Importance.
3. The prospective period when the
beauty of the forest growth will in the
treatment of forestry land be recog
nized as an Important factor of de
velopment in connection with the utili
tarian purposes of the forest.
The fact Is now everywhere ap
preciated that a treeless landscape is
like a treeless city, an unattractive
and depressing sight.
WHITE FENCE FOR GARDEN
Decorative Scheme That Serves Two
Purposes, Making for Quiet and
Seclusion, With Beauty.
Framing the garden with a decora
tive fence of white pales has at least
two distinct advantages. Inclosing the
garden gives it that much-to-be-de-
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Fence That Appeals.
sired atmosphere of quiet and seclu
sion. The gleaming white of the fence
against the green foliage adds much
to the appeal of the garden.
EXTERIOR MUST BE INVITING
What Might Be Called “Approaches’*
to House Are Worth the Most
Careful Consideration.
A comparison of the number of per
sons who view the Interior of the home
with the number who view the exter
ior makes more than evident the im
portance of artistic and tasteful dec
oration for the lawn and the outside
of a house. The careful execution of
a well-planned scheme of exterior dec
oration is a matter of personal as well
as civic pride, and nothing enhances
to such an extent both the home and
the town as vines, shrubs and flow
ers carefully placed with an eye to
generfil effect and suitability in keep
ing with the size and shape of the
lawn and the style of architecture of
the building. The beauty of a house
or group of buildings can be entirely
spoiled or greatly Improved by the
vines and shrubbery around it.
Every householder is confronted
with his own particular decoration
problem. He must study the character
of his ground, the style of his house,
the paths and walks leading to It, as
well as take into consideration the
kind of decorations his neighbors use
In order t/o get the right emphasis and
contrast to bring his own place out
and a proper perspective of the whole,
house,-lawn and flowers.
Set Good Example.
Show your good citizenship and do
mestic pride by making your house a
splendid example rather than a dis
appointing exception. Wash your win
dows ; apply paint to thirsty surfaces;
clean and renovate your yards; polish
your brasswork; see to it that your
bouse looks like a real American home.
And don’t stop ort the outside but make
the Interior look like new from cellar
to attic.
Pruning Roses in Spring.
For the production of Individual
blossoms of greatest perfection, as well
as to secure a succession of bloom,
severe pruning of cut-flower roses must
be practiced, says the United States
Department of Agriculture. Where
a large number of blooms of small size
is the alm, the pruning is less severe.
In the spring, dormant roses which
have been set in the fall should be
cut back, leaving only 2 or 8 stems
with 4 or 5 eyes on each. This will
leave them 6 inches or less in length.