No one has yet found anything that will conquer the wire-worm, says Professor J.R. DUNSTAN. We feel that the Professor is unduly pessimistic. Has he tried the effect of writing a letter to The Daily Mail about it?
Things appear to be settling down in Mexico. Last week only one hundred of General CARRANZA'S men were annihilated by bandits.
The Berlin authorities have ordered a "Shaveless day." As a measure of frightfulness this is doomed to failure against an Army like ours with tanks which will eat their way through all sorts of entanglements.
Because an officer omitted to salute him, Field-Marshal VON HINDENBURG stopped his car and said, "I am HINDENBURG." We understand that the officer accepted the explanation.
"There is a scarcity of violins," says The Evening News. Some papers never know how to keep a secret.