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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year there were scarcely any June bugs in those States. That was because the beetles laid their eggs in 1927. (They prefer weedy lands or farms of small grains and timothy hay for laying.) Last year the eggs developed into grubs, which this year will turn into bugs, which next fall will deposit their store of eggs in their three-year cycle. The grubs do more farm damage than the bugs. Hence entomologists, knowing that hogs adore the juicy grubs, urge farmers to pasture swine next year in fields which are June buggy this summer...
...news may be good. The news may be bad. Business may approve it, or business may prefer that the news be suppressed. We have no decision to make as to that. It is our duty to carry the news...
...innovation is planned, except that there will be absolutely no closing hour for revelers on the top-deck "Night Club"-an intimate restaurant purposely removed as far as possible from the cabins of those who prefer sleep to giggle water. As in the newest Dutch liner Statendam, the German fliers will have Tourist Third Class accommodation of a luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic...
...majority wishes to participate in, there is no reason for requiring them to enter some other field merely because it needs support. The aim of the Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that the best men be assigned to the activity most in need of them: but that they be allowed to enjoy exercise. If some men like to play football in the spring, there is no justification for the stand that they should be made...
Those who prefer the old order will find "Geraldine" as interesting a picture, in its way, as the feature it is a variation of the old theme a very plain girl is shown how to become very lovely and things begin to happen...