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HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
Knights Of King Arthur.
Admirers of King Arthur and this chivalry have erected at Tintagel, Cornwall, à great hall of
FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1983.
LISTENING-IN TO THE INSECT WORLD
SCIENCE PROBES MANY LANGUAGES OF NATURE
stone and fabric glass which, in CATERPILLARS SENSITIVE TO MUSIC
the presence of an assembly from all parts of the world, was recently opened by the founder of the Fel- lowship of the Knights of King! Arthur, Mr. F. T. Glasscock
To the strains of musle. from "Tannhauser," the robed knights
(By Dr. R. T. Beaty of the Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington.)
On a hot summer's afternoon the [receiver::
escorted the white-clad founder to meadows are full of insect sounds chirps, squeaks, and tiny ratties.
a granite throne, from the steps of
"Where are you? I am listen- ing with all my legs."
At this point she was removed
which he initiated the knights, and The insects are talking to each explained the significance of the other as they scurry up and down by a brutal scientist and locked us ritual and the purpose of the fel-the blades of graes, and we should for the night
all like to know what they are say- lowship...
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Why They Listen With Legi.
It was not as a warrior, he said, ing, and how the conversation is
It is an advantage for a small that Arthur was revered, but as a carried on.
the legs. Scientists have been looking in- insect to have ears on spiritual leader calling men to the
The to the matter lately, and they tell Human beings can tell the dire... service of their fellows. Round Table spirit was to be made us, as we could have told them betion from which a sound comes be- to permeate all human activities, forehand, that it is just the old cause if it comes from the side it... the story. It is the boys calling up reaches one ear before the other. and already the branches of order were radiating influence the girls, or else telling each other The difference in time is only second, about the girl they met last night. about a thousandth of a throughout the world.
Grasshoppers, for example, but it is enough to allow the brain Grasshoppers have their heada to tell the direction. But insects - Grand Old Man.
fitted
have very small heads, and if ears with antennae, forceps, Slovenliness in writing caused and complicated jaws, so that there were placed there, the sound would rage to race through Moore's pale is no room left for vocal organs or arrive practically simultaneously veins. He told his publisher that ears. So when they want to talk at both ears. But on the legs the Conrad's work was "the wreckage they rub their hard wing-cases to-eare are spaced further apart, and of Robert Louis Stevenson floating gether in an exaggerated stage-20 sounds can be more accurately
located. -- on the alops. of Henry James.frenchified way. This produces & high
Some moths have an ear on each George Elliot he called "the police-high squeak, sometimes so woman of literature."
that elderly people cannot hear it side of the body. But Hardy's work prompted his Perhaps they work on this wave- English moth, the Red Underwing. most violent attacks. He used to length for stories which would not swerves in flight at any squeaking say: "They only like him because pass the censor.
they must have a Grand Old Man." Whistle Accompaniment.
manner remarked:
A common
sound, such as may be produced by turning a glass stopper round in the neck of a bottle.. The swerve A year after Hardy's death some- render superfluous the mainten-
They frequently held singing is probably a response to the one remarked to George Moore, ance of a much larger body of "Your Grand Old Man theory has contests: one male chirps for a aqueaking sounds made by bats, ground troops. Yet, when the
fallen flat. There is nobody who few seconds and is answered by a which prey on these moths. If the fullest weight has been given to alls that position to-day."
rival, and this alternate chirping car-drums are destroyed the mothe
a considerable time.jno longer swerve. all these arguments and o
Moore put down his knife and goes on for
You can join in this game if you In cicadas the ears appear as the special plea of the Iraqi Gov- ment, whose interests the British fork as if to add emphasis to hi have a high-pitched whistle, which pair of beautifully iridescent mem Police Bombing Government always have in reply and in an almost Johnsonian
you can construct from a toothpick branes which shine like mirrors. mind, that the tranquillity of "Virginia Woolf in the Grand or buy at a shop where scientific They are situated on the abdomen. instruments are sold. Aex for a Cicadas are among the world's Britain's reservation in regard their country cannot be assured old Man of literature to-day."
Galton whistle. A single grass-loudest insect singers; there is a to police bombing, advanced at without the use of bombs the question remains whether the
hopper will reply to an imitation huge species in the New World Your Daily Smile the
which whistles like a Disarmament Conference, general abolition of bombing is
of its chirp produced by blowing tropies this whistle, and indeed it is so locomotive, and the solitary Eng has met with considerable oppo-to be prevented because of ita
ABSENT MINDED.
jobliging aa to accommodate its ilish variety, which lives in the sition from most European value to police operations which
New Forest, is audible over B Walter: "Mr. Smith has left his rhythm to that of the whistle. have, after all, been carried out nations, and Wednesday's debate with success by other methode umbrella again. I belleve he would These Insects hear each other by range of 40yd. The urchins of on Foreign Affairs in the House for centuries. If it were only a leave his head if it were loose." means of waves of found in the air Provence have a traditional method
Diner lof
(absent-mindedly): wide matter of maintaining a few
and not by vibrations transmitted of catching the local cicada;' by Commons revealed divergence of opinion.
The bombers in such distant places us dare say you're right. I heard him along the ground, for a biologist whistling they imitate the pitch Iraq and the Indian frontier, say yesterday he going to once provided two small balloons; and rhythm of the cicada's shirp, case which Mr. Eden made out then it is possible that other Switzerland for his lungs!" each carrying a grasshopper, and and the insect is often deceived to at Geneva that bombing from countries would make no seri-
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If
found that the singing contest con- the extent of settling on the face the air is a cheap, rapid, effec-ous objection. But how, if that SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT. tinued when the balloons rose off of the whistler.
local concession were made,
The Harmonious Caterpillar. A newly-born baby boy now has the ground. tive, and not in practice a parti-would it be possible to withhold an expectation of life of about Biologists worked for many Even caterpillars are sometimes cularly inhumane method of the same right from Italy and 55 years. No wonder he wails, years trying to find out where sensitive to music. The caterpillar maintaining order in uncivilized France, for instance, to maintain Something must tell him of the grasshoppers keep their cars. The of the large white butterfly which
in years of taxation ahead.
ears are not in the antennae, for feeds on cabbage plants responds {and mountainous districts →→→ is bombing squadrons for use
deserts of the mountains and
removal of the antennae does not to a whistle or to a note on the E in itself quite incontrovertible. North Africa? And Africa is.
THE EVIDENCE.
pat an end to a singing contest, string of a violin by curling itself On the Indian frontier and in separated from Europe only by "But, dear, I'm late because I've Prolonged scrutiny of the head up like a U. But it only does so Iraq this new weapon of police the Mediterranean, which could had my nose to the grindstone all under a microscope failed to reveal for a short time, so that any at- anything resembling an ear. But tempt to save the cabbages by put- administration has undoubtedly be crossed by bombing planes in day."
the allot- the first hours of a European "Well, you'd better get a grind at last the problem was solved, ting a loud-speaker on proved its efficacy. Wild tribes crisis. At the present time stone that doesn't get rouge, lip-and the result came as a complete ment is bound to be futile.
surprise.
Such caterpillars hear by means which, as Mr. Eden said, have there is a strong movement with- stick and powder all over you.”
Grasshoppers carry their ears on of the hair with which their sometimes "a passionate appetite in the Disarmament Conference
(their shins.
bodies are covered. The hairs are WEARING EM HIGH
On each of the front legs, just set into vibration by sounds and tary aviation, to which is attach-
A man who had been a guest at below the knee joint, there is excite the underlying nerves.. for disturbing the tranquillity for the total abolition of mill- of their neighbours" have beened the essential corollary that a fashionable hotel was paying bisalit, at the bottom of which is the hairs are weighed down by brought rapidly to a state of system of effective, supervision bill. He looked up at the girl found a thin, tightly-stretched spraying with water, the insect quiet subjection and order by shall be devised to prevent civil cashier and asked what it was she membrane. This is the animal's becomes insensitive and gradually
aviation from being misused for had around her neck. bombardment from the air, pre-military purposes. It may
ear-drum If these membranes recovers its power of hearing no it "A ribbon, of course," she said. arc pierced by a needle, the insect, the water evaporates. ceded, as it always is, by the dis- certainly will be extremely why
though it may afterwards give solo Perhaps the most dramatic” per-" tribution of warning notices en-difficult to elaborate any scheme well," he replied, "everything is performances, refuses to join in formance is given by the caterpil- abling women and children (and of control which will be effective so high around here that I thought community singing. A grasshop Iar of the Camberwell Beauty but
But for the ordinary mass of the perhaps it was your garter." usually the men also) to remove public in all countries. the use of
per has to be careful about being terfly, which feeds on nettles. It ́ kicked on the ahin lest it become is only necessary at the proper themselves to the shelter of practhe aeroplanes as. a-scout seems SURE ENOUGH?¦ ̧ deaf.
season to place a bunch of nettles tically bomb-proof caves. The to be quite natural and indeed un "I hear you lent Peterson #251
A Strange Experiment. on the piano to see these insects destruction is confined as a rule avoidable if ever military opera what surely have you?"
tions are found anywhere to be to the actual huts of the villag-necessary. The bomb, indiscri
"I'm sure I shall never get the Crickets also have earn in this gravely saluting each loud chord money back."
extraordinary place. In the case by raising their beads in chorus. ers, though warriors on the minate in its effect and almost
of the field cricket the female fies march to the southward passes unlimited in its destructiveness, Me and the Pro. at My Club.
is the weapon which they would may, of course, be directly like to see discarded altogether.
Between the two is a great golf bombed. Even then the "roar- The use of the air-bomb, if it is Facts You Did Not ing menace" of a squadron in to be retained in any degree and
Know. for any purposes, ought to be re- flight may be quite sufficient to
seeks the male, but her sense of served solely for use under the
direction is impaired, for-the male turn" the marauding trespassers auspices of the League. Much of To enable & speaker to illustrate is only resched after a series of homeward. By a show of irresis the useful police work of air his discourse a device has been in erratic Rights There is no doubt
New York. Porty frogs arrived here recently tible force the aeroplane can squadron is actually performed vented that projects notes and that the female is really stimulat sometimes stifle disorder at its without high explosives; and it drawings as he makes them on a ad by sound-waves and not by the from California by aeroplane en birth. It can command places in-jed that the use of tear gas, as
Imay come to be generally accept screen.
Sense of smell vor night, for the route for Italy, where they will start male has actually been enabled, in a colony intended to provide frogs accessible to land troops has proposed by the American dele- A company, in Buenos Aires has an experiment, carried out by Pro-egge sufficient for Italy's neesm Everest itself not been survey-gation, is wholly legitimate for begun the manufacture of a com-fessor. Regan of Vienna, to call up The emigranta are travelling led? and it can make the au- police purposes. In any case it is bined harvesting and threating the female by telephone under the orders of Premier thority of Government felt at certain that there will be no machine that maves about under its less cost of men and money then agreed international regula-own power.
tion of armaments-unless" each
any other branch of the Services, country is prepared to make A Chicago man has invented a It can do its work during the hot some substantial sacrifice; and secret electric switch operated by weather, when the tribesmen British public opinion will not be an automobile battery to prevent have learnt that troops can hard-satisfied that the work of the unauthorized persons lifting a car's ly live on the bare rock under a Disarmament Conference should hood. baking on. There is no longer tish claim to use the air-bomb,
be held up on account of a Brid
towards the chirping male, but if ULS. FROGS SECURE
her ears are destroyed by an elec trically-heated wire this fight no longer takes place. If only one ear is destroyed the female still
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Consignment By Plane To Italy.
The male was set down in front Mussolini, who directed his govern- of the transmitter, and at once mental agents to improve the size emitted a series of chirps which and breed of Italian froga.. may be translated:
The shipment was transferred "Oh, Jane! Oh, Jane! come to from the plane to a Belgian steamer, me quickly. My wing-cases are At Antwerp they will placed trembling so that I can hardly aboard a place for the final lap of the their journey. The frogs and the Jane, who was seated in a dia trip will cost about $1,500. The Finnish Air Defense League tant ropm, no sooner heard the be Experts estimate, there should be in fact a close season punk however, wall justified have been has established an annual 750 mile loved voice than the leapt madly 10,000 to 20,000 eggs from each Live xpedition And the pro- the method and the purpose of its ssce to be flown by Finnish pilots in in the air, and may have said, 98 female frog by the end of Jun sence of a small Air Force may employment hitherto,
lanes manufactured in Finland. Jabe settled down in front, of the Reuter
a
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