Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 208, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1918 Page: 11 of 16
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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1018.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
ELEVEN
PESTS DESTROY
ENORMOUS VALUE
—those who understand
motor car construction
in its modern develop-
ment describe the
New Studebaker Models
as “the cars of the year”—
U. S. Spends Great Sums
to Combat Them.
in design
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Phone 1240.
TO HELP DEVELOP
OVERSEAS TRADE
Exporters Preparing to
Make Use of Law Per-
, mitting Combination.
Special to The Tribune.
New York, July 26.—Because of pres-
ent difficulties in conducting foreign
business it was thought that American
manufacturers would be slow to take
advantage of the privileges granted
them in the Webb law, permitting com-
bination for export trade. But the pas-
sage of this act has been followed by
considerable activity among manufac-
turers of importance, and a great deal
of interest has been manifested in the
scope of the provisions of the law.
While much of this interest has been
open and undisguised, it is said that
there have been a number of associa-
tions formed quietly so as not to has-
ten similar acition on the part of rival
groups of manufacturers. These ex-
port associations, or organizations, are
being put in readiness now, it is re-
ported, so as to take advantage of the
world trade situation the moment peace
is declared.
“The leading manufactures of this
country,” said one of the highest au-
thorities on foreign trade in this city,
“will not again go after foreign busi-
ness in the slip-shod, haphazard man-
ner which many of them have relied
upon in the past. A great deal of harm
has been done to the standing of Amer-
ican merchandise and American meth-
ods in other countries by this means,
and by firms and individuals who have
exploited foreign opportunities with a
view only as to how much they could
make on a single transaction. This sort
of thing has caused no end of com-
plaints in South America especially and
was more prevalent during 1915 and 1916
when our exports showed such a great
increase due to the European supply
being shut off, than it ever was before
or has been since.
"While the growth of government
control and regulation of foreign trade
is for the time being somewhat cur-
tailing export business, it is also tend-
ing to eliminate that element whose
interest in foreign trade opportunities
was only temporary. Being temporary,
this element was by no means con-
structive, and was responsible: for the
major part of the fault-finding in for-
eign markets with our goods and our
manner of doing business. With these
opportunists put of the way those mer-
chants, with the future as well as the
present in view, will be better able to
continue the work of constructive
building for the future with fewer in-
terruptions and setbacks.
“When peace is declared and busi-
ness is permitted to resume its activi-
ties on its own initiative and without
interference, American manufacturers
and exporters will undertake the de-
velopment of foreign markets with a
more intelligent understanding of those
markets and their needs
than they
have ever possessed before.
By that
time the work, which has already been
well started by many organizations
and individual manufacturers, of
gathering information on the industrial
needs of the markets of the world will
have been completed. Manufacturers,
therefore, will be able to offer for sale
in these markets, not merchandise
which they think wil
be suited or
Special to The Tribune.
Washington, July 26.—Nearly all of
the thousands of plant diseases and
pests that go to make the life of the
farmer, gardener and orchardist miser-
able and double his labor cost ,of pro-
duction occupied very small territories
when they were in their natural habi-
tat. And for the most part they have
been carried by man himself to regions
remote from their homes. It has been
estimated that it took thousands of
years for nature, unassisted by man, to
change the flora or fauna of any con-
siderable legion. Then it was the slow
process of the survival of the fittest,
and the fittest was the plant or animal
that developed the greatest strength
or the greatest numbers in the area it
invaded. And. as with the pests and
blights of today, numbers almost al-
ways won in the battle against
strength. Geologists find massive
forests of ages gone that probably were
destroyed in their entirety by some
minute parasite, after withstanding
and flourishing against the gigantic
forces of nature. So the government
has turned its attention to little things
and is fighting to save American agri-
culture from new invaders.
More than half of the insect pests
that annually cause incalculable losses
in fruits and vegetables in the United
States could have been kept out of this
country by thorough quarantine
against them, according to officials of
the department of agriculture. To
guard against more injurious insects
being brought in from other countries
is the object of the federal plant quar-
antine act of 1912, which, with the de-
velopment of knowledge of insects
throughout the world, has resulted in
the bars being put up wherever the
pests are likely to enter.
Among the insects of other lands that
have not yet become established in this
country are the serious pests known
popularly as fruit flies, They resemble
house flies, but are far more beautiful,
inasmuch' as their wings are prettily
spotted and banded and their bodies
are usually more brightly colored. They
are like houes flies also in that they
lay small eggs that hatch into whitish
maggots. However, the maggots do
not develop in refuse or decaying mat-
ter as do those of the house fly, but
they feed upon the living tissues of
fruits, nuts and vegetables. Eggs are
laid just under the skin of the host
plant or fruit, and these hatch into the
maggots, which burrow in all direc-
tions through the pulp. As the mag-
gots tunnel about they cause decays
to develop, and these decaying areas
produce greater injury than.the mag-
gots themselves.
Increasing imports from the coun-
tries where fruit flies now abound, ex-
tension of trade to remote corners of
the earth, increasing density of popu-
lation in the warmer parts of this
country, are making greater each year
the danger that fruit flies may become
knowledge which exporters should | firmly established in this country,
possess of the markets they are to J To intercept and destroy fruit flies
cover, but they nevertheless were not : as well as other pests, the federal hor-
ticultural board, charged with the en-
should be suited to the local needs, but
merchandise which
they know will
meet the requirements in a given mar-
ket. And where it is necessary, as it
is in some parts of the world, for the
consignee to take his goods from the
coast to the
interior by mule-back,
manufacturers will know better than
to pack the goods in large cases which
can not be so transported. These sound
like the most elementary facts in the
known before by many who professed
to be .exporters.
“It seems to be a practical certainty
that the campaign for world trade fol-
lowing a final settlement of the war
will be no less skillfully and carefully
conducted than are military campaigns
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of today. The most effective methods
ofconcentrated development of mar-
kets will be employed as insistently
and persistently as are high explosive
and gas shells now on the western
front. The individual, the firm, or the
country which relies, even in part, for
its share of the world’s commerce oh
occasional business picked up in the
form of trade opportunities will very
soon find itself, so far as foreign trade
is concerned, out in the cold.
“The various methods of intensive
sales promotion, which are employed in
this country so successfully by our
large manufacturers, must be worked
out in foreign markets with such minor
variations as the differing conditions
may suggest. Foreign fields must be
developed and made to produce their
quota of business just as a territory
is worked up here. A demand must be
created not. only from the dealer but
from the people, so that the dealer will
be able to sell his stocks. Campaigns
with these ends in view, which are
more extensive and comprehensive
than anything of the sort that has ever
been done before, are now being
planned in several quarters, and will
undoubtedly be taken up by many
others. I believe that this country is
developing gradually into an exporting
nation.”
forcement of the plant quarantine act,
prohibits the entry of all horticultural
products likely to carry insect pests
unless they have been rendered free
from danger as pest carriers, either by
inspection or by treatment by approved
methods.
The department also has established
in the Hawaiian islands a system of
inspection whereby all plantations and
packing houses from which fruit is
shipped are kept from becoming
sources of fruit fly dissemination. No
shipments of fruit can be made from
Hawaii to the Pacific coast or unloaded
there unless they have first received
federal approval. The horticultural
board also maintains a fruit fly special-
ist whose duty it is to gather available
information regarding this pest either
by travel in foreign lands or by cor-
respondence with specialists serving
foreign governments.
Travelers from foreign lands have been
called upon to help in seeing that they
do not become the carriers of insect
pests. Printed matter calling attention
to the serious consequences that may
follow the careless and unintentional
introduction of fruit flies from Hawaii
is distributed to all persons entering
Pacific ports from the Hawaiian
islands. Each passenger must sign an
affidavit that he has in his baggage no
fruit subject to fruit-fly attack. In-
spectors who search baggage- for fruits
carrying fruit flies or their maggots,
find infested fruit every month. Any
one of these instances if not dealt with
promptly and properly might mean the
loss of thousands or millions of dollars
to American farmers and fruit grow-
ers.
As to how fruit flies are introduced,
the department of agriculture offers
the following:
“The Bermudas probably would not
now be infested by the Mediterranean
fruit fly had not a sailing vessel, bound
for New York from the Mediterranean
region during Civil war, times, been
blown from her course and forced to
unload her cargo containing infested
fruits at St. George. The Mediterranean
fruit fly did not become established in
Australia until steamships and cold
storage made it possible for the infest-
ed Mediterranean countries to ship or-
anges to Perth and Sydney. With the
pest established in Eastern Australia
the ships plying between Australia and
Hawaii carried the maggots to Hono-
lulu, and today the inspectors of the
state of California and the United
I States are intercepting infested fruits
Ion ships arriving at San Francisco and
San Pedro from Honolulu and Hilo.”
It is not alone the fruit fly that gov-
ernment agents are working night and
day to keep out. Quarantines are now
in effect prohibiting the importation of
cottonseed and hulls from Hawaii and
from all foreign countries except Lower
California, prohibiting the importation
of ’fruits and vegetables from Hawaii;
prohibiting any importation of living
sugar cane; regulating in New Eng-
land states the movement of stone or
quarry products and of certain plants
and plant products on account of the
gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth;
prohibiting certain interstate move-
ments of five-leafed pine, currant, and
gooseberry plants; prohibiting all im-
portations of sweet potatoes and yams
from Hawaii and Porto Rico; prohibit-
ing the importation of Irish potatoes
from certain specified European coun-
tries (including Germany and Austria);
regulating the movement of date palms
in California, Arizona and Texas.
Importations of the following are
prohibited: Certain fruits from Mexico;
all pines from Europe, and five-leafed
pipes from Asia, Canada, and New-
foundland; alligator pear seeds from
Mexico and Central America; all citrus
fruit stock from all foreign countries;
Indian corn or maize and closely re-
lated plants from India, Siam, China,
Malayan Archipelago, Australia, New
Zealand, South Sea Islands, Philippines,
Formosa, and Japan; sweet potatoes
and yarns from all foreign countries;
banana plants from all foreign coun-
tries, including Hawaii and Porto
Rico. .
MEXICAN EDITOR.
WRITES OF VISIT
Recites Impression Made
by President Wilson.
(The following is a translation of an
article written by Jose de J. Nunez y
Dominguez, one of the Mexican editors
who visited President Woodrow Wilson
at the White House recently. The
original article was published in the
Mexican paper Excelsior on June 20
last.)
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“I have been in the practice of med-
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Post, Barnwell, S. C. "I came to this
place last March, having purchased a
plantation ten miles from here, am pre-
paring to move onto it and shall prac-
tice there. I find diarrhoea prevalent,
in fact, became affected myself, saw a
notice of Chamberlain's .Colic and Diar-
rhoea Remedy, bought a small bottle
and it is good.”
An aid de camp pointed out to us,
with a quiet but cordial gesture, where
we should place ourselves to greet
President Woodrow Wilson.
This was in the Blue Room of the
White House, which we reached after
passing along the garden walks that
lead up to the presidential residence.
The rooms is solemn in appearance and
is painted and draped in a dark blue
color, which seems all the more grave
as the faint rays of the light sift
through the curtains covering the win-
dows.
The prisms of two beautiful chande-
liers that hang from the center of the
room shine brilliantly. There we were,
all silent and expectant. I glance at
my companions and, see they are labor-
ing under the spell of deep emotion,
and their faces seem to denote the in-
tensity of their nervous strain; their
eyes are fixed; the moment is, indeed,
a solemn one.
The aide de camps move forward
quickly and grasps the curtain which
covers The vestibule. We behold Mr.
Wilson. Impetuous applause greets
him, and the great man smiles pleas-
antly. While one of my companions
addresses him, I study the man with
profound interest.
Yes, those eyeglasses are the same
I have seen hundreds of times in the
papers; that thin face is the same that
has been profusely reproduced all over
the world; the mouth, with determined
jaws, is the very same from which the
new gospel of the nations has issued.
The president listens attentively. His
hair, almost white, still resists the total
invasion of the gray. His clean-shaven
face of angular features reveals, by its
hearty complexion, magnificent health;
his stature, neither tall nor short, but
rather the latter, stands firmly erect.
He is very simply attired, in summer
garb; from the buttonhole of his blue
coat hangs a gold chain; trousers and
shoes are white. His typical eyeglasses,
as he faces our spokesman, light up
brilliantly; his face gleams,' and the
evanescent rays from without, reflecting
faintly against the marble columns,
seem to augment the solemnity of the
occasion.
His candor and democratic plainness
impress me wonderfully and immediate-
ly inspire a certain confidence in those,
like ourselves, who are from distant
lands. One would take the chief mag-
istrate to be no other than any ordinary
honest American citizen, and this im-
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thoughts of his absolute sincerity. It
should be borne in mind that a gov-
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should be attired like a prince, but
rather be a modest man, like one in-
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The president speaks. We seem to
vibrate with the most tense attention,
like drawn strings ready to break at
the slightest impulse.
Th president speaks with a clear
voice, the voice of one accustomed to
address millions of voters. His ges-
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liberate and calm. With his thumb
and forefinger joined, it seems as if he
endeavored to put more force into his
thoughts and convictions, to underscore
them, make them clearer and more
comprehensible.
His voice becomes gradually more
accentuated and even vehement as he
gives expression to the high ideals of
his doctrines. His right arm suddenly
rises with opened hand when he em-
phasizes the liberties of the people and
the rights of humanity, and his coun-
tenance lights up as he welcomes us
and wishes us prosperity.
There were moments when I felt like
a scholar seated on a bench before the
schoolmaster of Princeton. The presi-
dent seemed to speak as in a hall of
learning, and acquired as I listened a
high moral value as an enunciator of
ideas.
And when I went close to him to give
him my hand, when I heard from his
lips the courteous ‘I am glad to know
you,’ I pressed with a reverent clasp
that hand created to pen words of
enormous importance to the world.
■ Still under the spell of the emotion
of that moment, when my lucky star
brought me to the presence of one of
the representative men of these days of
stupendous happenings, I set down
these lines in order that, they may ex-
press one of the indelible recollections
of my journalistic career.
VON TIRPITZ DISLIKED.
German Admiral Has Narrow Escape
From Angry Crowd.
By Associated Press.
New York, July 26.—-Grand Admiral
von Tirpitz, leader of the Fatherland
party and one of the most rabid of
Pan-Germanists, had a narrow escape
from being handled roughly by an an-
gry crowd at the railroad station at
Freienwalde, Brandenburg, recently, ac-
cording to a latter published in Vor-
waerts of Berlin, a copy of which has
been received here. A passenger train
was crowded and excited passengers
were struggling to get on when one
discovered a compartment in whch sat
one man by himself.
A rush was made for the compart-
ment, but the door was not opened.
Force was about to be used when the
conductor opened the compartment.
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truders, removed his hat to show his
bald head and stroked his beard. It
was Admiral von Tirpitz. He main-
tained a studied silence even when
some stepped up to him and cried
out: .
“Yes, that’s the way the Fatherland
people are. They reserve for them-
selves the comfortable compartments
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are crushed to death.”
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