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Promisingly vulnerable to parasites is the Japanese beetle, a handsome bronze and bottle-green creature smaller than a June bug. Experimenters have found that maggots of the Prosena fly and Tiphia wasp will destroy the Japanese beetle grub if they have access...
...interview in today's CRIMSON Mr. Randolph Walker of New York expounds his plan for reemployment, the so-called "Grub Stake Plan." His ideas would be worth considering if only because they advance a new solution of the problems which the depression has forced upon everyone; but further than this, they are interesting because they touch a subject which is at the bottom of every heart, because they involve the word, gold...
...special interview to the CRIMSON; Randolph Walker, widely known New York editor, outlined his "Grub Stake Plan" for National recovery and unemployment relief. Defining his position, he said: "I am going on the theory that America has solved the art or problem of distribution. The necessitates a medium of exchange of purchasing power placed in the hands of the buyer. The Grub Stake Plan," Mr. Walker went on, "is simply this: first, a grub stake...grub, a pick, a shovel and a pan... for prospectors and placer panners; then transport to placer regions, where it has already been shown that...
...manifold, and it is designed to attack the problems of the depression from more than one angle. "In the first place," he said, "the plan is intended to relieve unemployment through putting men to work in the gold fields. It should open up our vast gold resources through the grub staking of prospectors, and lead to the location of new dredging operations and the discovery of new lode mines. In the second place, it will put gold... purchasing power and a medium of exchange... directly into the hands of the buyer without taxing other industries. In the third place...
...involve the production of a material already over-produced, and in that it permits a mental and physical freedom which other arrangements deny their beneficiaries. Where the men in the Reforestation Camps are cooped up unnaturally and are accomplishing little of value, the men who are to be grub-staked will be on their own as their ancestors were. "The depression of '49 was lifted by the discovery of gold in California," he said. "Where those miners suffered unfold hardships to attain their goal, modern searchers will be aided by improved transportation, which makes both labor and gold mobile. Furthermore...