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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949.
SCIENCE NEARS NEW TRIUMPH
I quote two statements made {by scientists at the recent British
Association Conference:
1. Manects which are in direct
competition with man for food devour production equivalent to the labours of millions of farm workers.”—Mr. D. D. Ogilvie
2 The possibilities of insect
control are.wow within our reach
to an extent undreamed of only ten years ago."-Mr. L.W.L. Cole. Behind these statements lies the story of a war that never ends against an enemy whose number cannot be reckoned; an who robs us of our food, our land,
oct lives.
It is a war in which
By Richard Rowland
the year.
TRIUMPH Ple
that the parasitic worm flaria- caute of elephantiasis which affects 190,000,000 people-is air- lifted by the mosquita from the has continged at increasing terpo
We now know that lighter and weaker species, such as
"Large air müggling racket,” ants,
aphides, Ichneumons hoveries and
reports a contemporary yesterday. some wingless forms, are sweptried it bottled or in steel cylinders. Didn't say whether they : car- aloft in vast numbers, often op
after years of fighting, the first and Russia at certain seasons of blood of many the study of insects signs of victory are apparent.
The trouble is that we are Malaria alone, carried by the trespassers, all of us here on | aropheline
mosquito, earth. This is not our world. 2,000,000 deaths annually.
That, at least, seems to be the point of view of the insects; and when it comes to population they outnumber as by millions to ens
The empire of the insecte bas
enemy ferent
today,
Fire? Send For Firth
By T. F. THOMPSON
Fire! Curling flames redden the windows of a great furniture de pository and consume 24 earl's priceless art treasures stored within
Tomorrow the same crackling terror might reduce a £1,000,000)
to twisted steel scrap, or des- troy a famous church.
Accident or arson? Nobody knows. So they send for a stocky neatly dressed little
man who scarcely ever moves without a senior detective on either hand.
Gives Them Bad Dreams
species-and
claims
..
Interfere With.
Land Work
Midges in Britain more an- Estimates based on
to 15,000. Even large locaats tave been seen at 10,000ft.
six-
mile square
no frontiers. The 450,000 dif-noying than directly barmful to month research at Hull show that
there are man spread diseases to men and a column of air one millions of each species are not animals from Malaya to Mexico, and extending from 10 to 2,000 confined to national boundaries.
ries Africa to Finland There are feet, contains An In every country they attack the only three countries in the world nearly 1,000,000 insects.
average af crops that give us food; carry in which the midge is unknown. Scientists of the experimental diseases fatal to man and animal; Even in England, in the peak stations at Rothamsted and Bar limit the development of vast season of badly infested areas penden are wing aerial traps and and valuable areas of the earth's midge-armies interfere seriously kites coated with a sticky mixture with agricultural work. In Scot to catch fosting and dying insects land it has been suggested that at various
heights. Nets "its presence in conjunction with arranged so that they can be. that of the kit has given rise to opened and closed at predeter
highland
mined inderarbei things barrage balloon cables and oper
suface.
•
Insects Are Great Travellers
of
thousand different insects operate II
Da
in all there
Middle East and on to India. Midsummer of this year BAW
AD end
taxpayer In the evening, when the swal- lows twist and turn and, the hatı flatter erratically, immense num-
These headline writers agzina;'- *** disabled in America. planning"
US expert praises Polish
British people to display
Sir Stafford Cripps.rged the backbone in the future should have that very result
His austerity food programme
"British
While overseas buyers have been offering sales resistance.
"Miss -- who only recently ar- rived from England, is included in an otherwise strong cast”
for treatment, but left with no "He was taken to the Hospital bones broken."
Myrtle was angry the other evaning. "If I can get iny hands on that girl," she fumed, "I'll
And they are great travellers, Aphides and horesdies have been which are not attacked by some ate at heights from 50 to 2000 known to drift on sir currents surt of insect Over most of the feet over $00 miles of water. Mos world the larvas of the clothes
American research workers are quitoes have travelled by plane Moths eat their way through acres using searchlights and high- from Africa to South America of fur, feathers and woollens.
frequency radar beams to count] Weakest Link Locusts devastate crops from the insect pests and to check on Colorado beetles "stowaway” ca
west Africa through to the their aerial wanderings. ships and planes.
Twenty
Data on insect movements is species Britain alone; representing thou 5,000 square miles of Nevad piling up. Light and darkness.
ada, atmospheric U.S.A picked clean by a locust humidity, and the speed of the
temperature sands of millions of bangs plague described as "exceeding wind, have been found to be mouths.
The wireworm, - which turns anything in the history of man."
Caly last year a fight against ments and density of the serial closely connected with the move into the click-beetle, costs
£3,500.000 a year.
locusts-lasting five years and noom
population British the Four and a half million square £5,000,000 came to
costing miles of Africa, an ares seventy- five times as large as that or Now they threaten again.
Scourge of the vitally import- For J. Brierley Firth, 50-year- England and Wales, are ruled by old Home Office forensic scientist, the tsetse fly, which brings sleeps ant potato crops in Europe and bers of airborne insects come is the Number One arson expert sickness to man and the wasting America is the Colorado beetle; down from high altitudes to stay tear out her blonde hair by its in Britain.
nagana disease to cattle; both established, in spite of continuous the earth for the night, before He is the man to give a £re- with a high mortality rate.
war against it, in all European taking off and being carried some
where else on the following day. Only raiser bad dreams. He is the man i Mites, first cousins of our har- countries except Britain. What are technically des scientific approach to arson de- Malaya and New Guines. Ticks and excellent public co-operation whose knowledge, experience, and rest bug, spread scrub typhus in extremely efficient control methods cribed as "inflationary ten-tection can spot the work of the carry Rocky Mountain fever. have kept this country free from dencies" mean to the ordinary cleverest fire-bug-if he is called Howe-dies are among the carriers
them. to the scene early enough. person in Hong Kong, as else-
of the ereaded poliomyelitis; dis- Before the war insurance com- or the crescere the rerms of where. simply that he now anies had their arsor experts. has to pay out more money Then, with the national emer- cholera, dysentery and typhoid.
Mosquitoes are strongly en-, for the same article than hegency, came a Home Office in- did a few months ago. Fur-struction that in future all seri- entrenched in hot and temperate
alike from ous or suspicious fires were to be climates
Central ther, even if he is fortunate regarded as arson and were to be America to the Burma Road and
investigated.
beyond to China,
RISING PRICES
| enough to have an adjustable borough, Director of the Home
Dr.
on the Дет fresh tech-
high cost of living allowance,
as if his spending Office Forensic Science Laboratory it seems
at Preston, Lancashire, was given power has been reduced.
the job. Not only does this cause He knew next to nothing about immediate individual incon-fires. But he brought his scient venience, but it can also ad-ist mind to bear versely affect our trade and problem and evolved
nique. commerce generally. Apart His work during the war will from locally manufactured never be known-it was secret. goods, still of secondary im- but in police circles his reputation
was established. portance, our entrepot ser- vices must be provided at the lowest possible figure.
When the war ended Firth was
the acknowledged arson expert. In March 1946 he investigated the fire which destroyed Empire
In his address to the Euro-disastro German liner pean YMCA reported yester Waveney at Liverpool.
the
day, Dr. Kirby gave a brik
Together with blackfies, they
That is the story that lies be tind Statement Na. 1. What of the new developments in the war that are behind Statement No. 2:
Some Germs are High-Flyers
New Weapons.For
The Battle Research into their habits, their
physiologs, and the factors neces Sry for their survival and repro- duction, has resulted in the deve- lopment of drugs which cure mary of the insect carried diseases; of highly potent-in- secticides and of effective insect
black roots."
"Giris" "Vision" Cizim."
No, Errol Flynn of Burma, it I wasn't you for once. Siddown!'
in the border zone so far, says a Judging by what has happened correspondent, it seems as if the Red regulars are regular fellas.
"We have now been married 10
years, Ferdinand, and not once have I missed baking you a cake
The answer lies frst with the repelle have also been found of for your birthday, have 1?" --
also invade the vast sub-aretie dack-room boys. Ever since 1878, regions of Canada, Scandinavia when Patrick Manson discovered
Your Teeth Can Last Your Life
By PATRICK NICHOLSON
Ways
making plants poisonous to the "No, dear. I can look back on insects which feed on them, but those cakes as milestones in my in this case-and in the use of all life."
insecticides-the problem is to
avoid killing the "good" insects
which prey on those harmful to Milky way.
man.
Among insecticides, Gam-
"Here the bridal couple.stood.
moxane, D.D.T. and benzene facing the floral setting and ex- hexachloride have been used suc changed cows.” cessfully over wide arest sgainst
Happy release.
"Dars, died suddenly at ber home last night. She had been afflicted with the the past 23 years.
Church for
t
unfortunate typogra-
The Empire Begins phical error, we said yesterday
the tsetse fly. In parts of Zulu- and, two species of the fy seem to The home-made toothache cure, black, so she asked her husband have been completely wiped out as her a result of carefully timed and ότι of an English scientist who was to try his treatment
immediate and calculated aerial application of an He was called in a few days too busy o war work to go to There was
a dentist may throw the dentist's effective reaction. The treated D.D.T. compounds
teeth stopped
They drill on the scrap-heap.
aching Dr. D. F. Stedman showed me gradually turned brown, then his front tooth which he stopped yellow, then creamy and within without a dentist's help
10 seves days were white. These teeth years ago. Today it is a perfect were so bad that Dr. Stedmar dia tooth in every way. His home- not expect to save them, but his
Insecticides work cure did stop the pain and post- made stopping has not only in-
different ways. One will prevent visibly mended the decay but has pone the day of extraction.
The Royal Canadian Army the insect from using the oxygen apparently become a living part of the tooth.
Dental Corps is now carrying out in the air it breathes, so that,
this Stedman although surrounded
by cygen, "During the war I found that experiments with
liant exposition of current later to the fire aboard the Queen economic trends, with parti- Elizabeth. cular reference to the after- Last year he proved that the math of sterling devaluation.yacht Barcarolle was deliberately Her in two places. A man went He hit out at concerns which to jail. claimed that this gave them Now Firth is co-operating with a reason for increasing their Scotland Yard on the Channel is prices at once, even on stocks lands fires. they already held
How does be work?
"I can't say," confesses Firth "because every case is different.”
no clue could survive.
Stopped Pain
'+
To Crumble
Many
"By an
that Mr. was a member of the defective branch of the police force. This should of course have read The defective branch of the police farce."
Voice from beyond.
"It would be a great help to-
good order if others would follow
is beginning
WHAT'S HAPPENED
Then one Saturday afternoon treated early, and especially should find in cases it started to sche. In my library the decay is in the middle of a muscles that death comes through free from malaria, for 1 lơng •
́one of its major sovurges?” N tooth so that it forms a cavity in exhaustion. a looked up the chemical com- which the paste can be retained. One of the finest testimonies The war goes on. It must be position of a humar tooth, Meanwhile he has patented to the success of the new insecti-waged for many years on many bought small quantities of those his formula. Both the British cides is this recent statement by fronts.
at a chemist's shop and Swedish
But at long last the empire of ingredients
Governments have the World Health Organization:
insects "It is now possible, for the the already asked for details so that and made up the brew at home.
This "brew" of home-made
made they car test it for use under first time to see ahead a world crumble tooth was а white paste. Dtheir State Medicine schemes.
Stedman was a Tunbridge his decayed tooth and it quickly Wells THET and first learned stopped the pain. As the paste chemistry under "Billy" Nodder got washed out by saliva and by at Brighton Grammar School, He eating. be put in more three is Doctor of Science. times a day. A little remained Mainly thanks to his wife, the each time and gradually built up former Miss Allfrey, of Horley. a hardened plaster which filled Surrey-The girl went to fetch
hole the
completely in three back 18 years ago" he is today months.
as English as when he emigrated. Over the next few years He even still hates the high ten-. pure white, hard lump formed, peratures of Canadian homes and
Canadian summers. wice the area of the cavity. This gradually wore fat and became
At home, Bay Nunn sounded creamy-coloured so that today, the dental world to find out how seven years later, his tooth looks it feels about Dr. Stedman's perfect with no sign of decay or claim. stopping
"I this cure is substantiated Before starting his treatment over here. I might just as well
only washed Dr. Stedman
his start looking for another job," tooth and cleaned it out with a sald a director of a Arm supply- piece of bent wire.
ing dentists with equipment
It would have B
TO MR. BROWN?
There has so far been no raising of the cost of goods He visits the scene of a fire and one of my teeth had a cavity in Salve. It is too early yet to say it suffocates. Another prevents received from 'most parts of examines what appears to the im- it, but I hadn't time to get it whether it will prove as success the digestion of the food which wards keeping the churchyard in the sterling area, and as Dr.trained eye to be chaos in which fixed," Dr. Stedman told me. ful on everyone as it was on its the insect ests, so that, althoug") the example of those who clip
inventor. He himself believes it continues to eat, it dies of star the grass on their own graves." Kirby reiterated, it is a But Firth, having inspected
will work best if a decay isvation Others cause such in- known fact that the bulk of more than 200 fires in the past 10
tense nervous activity in the American commodities avail-years, knows what to look for and able here were bought at the where
what he
fires were deliberately free market rate of exchange, started. which was the same as the Small Details present devalued official rate.
It might be a charred scrap of It is, therefore, difficult to see rag which, on laboratory ex- why the public should have amination, shows traces of having to pay more for any of the betro sanoin perle au o in Stedman put some in the hole in
found no staple purchases. Higher should have been; or signs--such prices will almost certainly as two "heart" to a fire which be justified soon--but these suggest that it began in two are likely to be for sterling places
On such pointers the fire de area imports, and not for tective goes to work. those obtained from the But there are other, more sub United States, When the ef- tle, things which help him decide fect of the unfavourable ex- whether it is accident or arson The behaviour of materials, for change rate on hard currency example. raw materials is felt in Bri- "Unboosted" are, under certain tain, higher selling prices of conditions, spreads at a certain
Particular processed articles will become articles bum up at a particular almost inevitable. But this rate. has not happened yet.
Ir a. fire spreads unusually Dr. Kirby thought the atti-zapidly and a material is consum- tude of some local firms de-ed at an abnormal rate, then there is a reason for it. Firth decides plorable. As he said, had it that reason is arson. the boot been on the other. His on-the-spot instruments are foot, and government, propos-few. He pokes in gutted pre- ed, for example, to tax mer-burned material or of anything the black partly decayed area, chants this year on next which strikes him as unusual. He he said. year's presumed higher earn-packs everything, ticketed, in a size of the hole and sa doubles this: "If the care is genuine I ings, there would be protest-suitcase
the amount of work nature must should think it would ruin us. Back in his Preston laboratory do to fill: ing shouts to high heaven.”
*up. If you cut your Patients would soon start treat- he subjects the specimens to in- While our traders are of tricate tests. Then, if he has been wager you don't make it easier ing themselves " supreme importance to Hong brought to the scene
to heal by saipping off the
tip"
Another said: "I think the dis quickly Dr. Stedman was impressed by covery sounds like nonsense." Kong, the day of the free for cough and it has not been a
the determination with which all struggle for pronts, with complete burn-out, he is able to nature heals the human body. make some police chief happy by out respect for the welfare
either taying
“Accident" of the community, is rapidly "Arson,"
rate.
inflammable
"A dentist drills and ́ ́ drills
up specimens of until he has cleared away all effect on our industruphic
or
One dental surgeon summed up "But that doubles the the professional viewpoint Mike
Not The First'
official of the influential British Dental Journal" declar-
An He reasoned that if nature can make new bone structure to knit
becoming obsolete, even in Then Firth is probably off to a fracture, then she would prob- ed: "There was a similar scare
that last major stronghold of investigate znother fire. capitalism, America. As Dr,
Kirby put it, "I do not think
fatal
ably
backed
do the same thing to mend in Scandinavia two years 280, a tooth.-
but it came to nothing This He based his home treatment "cure will need to, ba
up on the revolutionary bellef that, by strong scientific evidence be a tooth will grow, and that one fore it is worth considering."
The British Dental Association, might as well let nature fill up
the hole, instead of plugging, it
there is any other place in ple, even when it can be de the world where such sugges monstrated that world trends
13, Hill-Street, London, W.1, in- tions would be tolerated for prove such an attitude is
10 with inanimate gold or metal or tend to find out all they can. a moment.”
However much one may In Hong Kong we rightly porcelain Alling which can never They have already written to Canada requesting details. "We hate Communism, or any do not want too much inter- become part of the live tooth.
He says his experience shows are still awaiting a reply, they other totalitarian regime basference from government, but that if nature is helped by giving said. ed on a fake revolution of the it is a debatable point whe- her an
Statement from the Ministry of abundant supply of the people, it is surprising to note ther a more positive approach necessary minerals fust where Health:
they are needed. then she can o
At the moment.we e cannot give how entrenched privilege con should not be made by the absorb them and tinues striving to maintain authorities in view of the deca unwarrantable gulfs in the uncertainty of our immediate standard of living of a peo 'future.
the you a yes or no to the question s of whether the British Governs; were meat is investigating Dr. Sted- discoloured man's claims.
decayed issues.
Stedman's aching
too, and
teeth
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