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e o G o o Is That So? Although they lack the power of vocalization, insects are able instrumentalists producing vast variety and intensity of or chestral sounds with instru ments stranger than any used by ftew Year celebrants. Just as male canaries do the singing, so, too, the male insects furnish most of the trilling and chirping, while the females listen enraptured to their swains. The insect orchestra is made (vp mainly of a heavy violin sec tion with a sprinkling here and there of drummers, xylophone, saxophone and o cornet players not to overlook the hummers. Some of the sounds are loud, and carry far on a still night the tones of one musician the field cricket, can be heard a mile away. Another sound is per sistent: the snowy tree cricket may repeat his call steadily dur ing warm weather at 90 times a minute for an hour at a stretch In the course of one season, he emits perhaps 4,000,000 chirps. And no string broken. The most talented family prob ably is that of the crickets, of which there are some 2,000 species. Producing their music by friction, they are the violin ists. On one wing they have a membrane covered with ridges on the other are ridges notched like a file. By rubbing one over the other, they produce a variety of chirps from the screech like sound of a bat (wood crick et) to a shrill whistle like that of a locomotive (cicada). But of the lot, the most melodic is the American katydid. Beetles Produce Sounds Other violinists capable of producing such stridulatory sounds are many beetles, several ants and a few South American butterflies, some of which emit a sharp, crackling noise as they fly. The friction is not entirely produced by rubbing wings, how ever. A few grasshoppers pro- duce their frictional sounds by rubbing thigh against wing cov er while one South American cricket scrapes his hind lags over ridged areas on each side of his abdomen, which is greatly swol- len and filled with air, adding resonance. ow ACME HARDWARE helps you IMPROVE or REPAIR your Hunt on EASY CREDIT TERMS! NO CASH DOWN! UP TO 24 MONTHS TO PAY! SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS G that fit YOUR budget! If you'rt i bit short of cash . . . take advantage of this CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN. Buy ANYTHING you need ... and pay for it at only PENNIES A DAY! START NOW! It Costs LESS Than Yow Think I 3 West Sixth Street Medford, Oregon Investments made by the 10th of the month earn divi dends as of the First. d3 By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist One accomplished drummer of this insect orchestra is the cicada, or 17-year locust. Under his wings are two membranes, round like drumheads. These are con trolled by tiny but powerful muscles which press the mem- branes in and out as we might the bottom of a tin pan. The resulting racket is further am plified by a vibrating body cov ering his exterior skeleton. Another of the magicians is a zylophone player the death watch beetle which burrows into dead and decaying wood. To at tract another's attention, it raps its head or jaws against the sur face on which it is resting, pro ducing a slight percussion sound. Wind-Instrument Players There are the wind-instrument players, too. A sound which comes close to being vocal rather than instrumental is that of the death's head moth. When alarmed or molested, it utters a - shrill squeaking not unlike the cry of a startled mouse. This saxophone-like sound is produced by expulsion of air from air sacs through the nose. The humming of some flies and bees is produced by a me chanism within the breathing holes of their bodies, roughly, it may be likened to cornet play ing. One instrumentalist, the house cricket of Europe, has the knack of shifting its wings while play ing. Thus he seems to shift the sound so it comes from different directions. To instrumentation add ventriloquism! Most insect musicians observe not only seasons, but also day light hours. For that matter, some take strict account of the weather. As it grows warmer, crickets chirp more rapidly. However, should the tempera ture rise above 100 or sink be low 55, they refuse to chirp. As for the grasshopper he's even more fussy. He seldom makes a sound when the temperature drops below 61. Whatever insects sing whether mating calls or for the sheer love of hearing their own good music they add a cheer ful, happy melody to the sum mer day. That's reason enough. (Copyright. 1955, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClude Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, box 575, Sausalito, Calif. VOTE FOR AFL Portland W (U.R) Retail em ployees at Mongomery Ward's Portland store have voted in a National Labor Relations Board election to be represented joint ly in collective bargaining by the AFL Retail Clerks Union and AFL Teamsters. Dead line Sunday Classified is at tiuuu oiiuraay: xu a.m. monaay lur Monday: otner days 5:30 previous day. - t INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNTS ARE OUR "Your funds, which we invest in First Mortgages on homes are further protected by Insurance up to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insur ance Corporation. Our substantial dividends help your savings grow. Combine this attractive return with insured safety and you have an excellent investment. Open your insured savings account now. FIRST FEDERAL M Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 27 North Holly Telephone 2-9147 Today and By Walter CHOU'S DIPLOMACY We are, I think, under esti mating seriously the strength of Chou En-lai's diplomacy when we think of his more con ciliatory atti tude as pri marily propa gandic. It is true that the hostile tune of the Chinese C o m m u n ist propa g a n d a Walter Lippmann has been muted. But that change did not take place until after the situa tion in the Formosa area had changed decisively in favor of Peiping. The fact is that Chou became ready and willing to ne gotiate about the little issues, such as the prisoners and de tained persons, when on the cru cial issue, he had achieved his primary and paramount objec tive. 1 This is the elimination of Chiang as a contender on the mainland the definitive renun ciation by the United States of its support of the reconquest of the mainland. Chou En-laid did not become conciliatory in order to gain this objective. He be came conciliatry after he had gained it, after he was sure that the President had over-ruled and had put down Chiang's Amer ican supporters. IirHY, then, does it now serve his purpose to be concilia tory? Because, if I read correctly his recent statements, he is con vinced that time is now working for him in Formosa, that the rest of the way is downhill. Once the Nationalist Chinese were de prived of the promise, indeed of the hope, of recovering the main land, it could be only a matter of time when most of them make their peace with Peiping. It was this spring that the final turn against American intervention took place in Washington, and this was followed almost imme diately by a change of Chou's attitude and of the Communist propaganda. - We must note in this connec tion that Chou is now taking the position that the future of Formosa is a question for the Chinese to arrange among them selves, and that the United States is not a party to the issue and has no right to participate in its settlement. While we are say ing that we will not negotiate about Formosa and the off shore islands unless Chiang partici pates, - Chou is nowi telling us that he does not wish to nego tiate about them if we partici pate that he wants to negotiate directly with the Chinese on Formosa. Chou does not admit that the United States has any legal standing in Formosa. It follows, quite obviously, that Chou expects to get Formosa by making deals with the Chinese in Formosa. NOW that the President has bottled up Chiang on the island of Formosa, Chou's dip lomatic position is, as I have been saying, very strong. But the American position is weak er than it needs to be. It is weaker than it would be if we had a positive policy of our own for the future of Formosa. Our legal right to have a voice about the future' of For mosa is based on the peace treaty with Japan, and it derives from the fact that neither the Chinese Nationalists or the Chinese Com munists but the American and Allied forces, took Formosa away from Japan. We have promised to restore Formosa to China. But the Chinese government to which we meant to restore it is ARE YOUR SAVINGS INSURED AGAINST LOSS? SPECIALTY Tomorrow Lippmann no longer the actual government of China. The other Chinese government, in Peiping is an un friendly government, and while it is unfriendly, we are under no obligation to take the risks and suffer the injuries of re storing Formosa to that govern ment. The weakness of our position is that the Chinese government in Formosa might disintegrate, leaving us with a choice of abandoning our rights in For mosa or of occupying the island with our own troops. OUR weakness is due to the fact that we have staked everything in Formosa on Chiang, and that Chiang has no future; The best hope, I would suppose, of protecting our in terests in Formosa would be to come forward with a plan to neutralize and demilitarize For mosa for, say, ten years, under the United Nations. The essen tial American interset in For mosa is, as the President put it in his January message, that the island should be in "friendly hands." This does not mean American hands. It does not necessarily mean Chiang's hands. Under the U.N., Formosa would be in friendly hands. A ten year plan is long enough to show China's relations with the West and with the Soviet Union are going to develop. It is not too long a time to put off the final settlement of the sov ereignty of Formosa. WE have had a Formosa policy based on Chiang. In the long run we cannot hope to deal suc cessfully with Chou unless we have a Formosa policy which does not depend on Chiang who is so vulnerable and who cannot last forever. There is a self-assurance and confidence in Chou's diplomacy which our own lacks. And that is because Chou has a strong policy, which permits him to be patient because he expects to win his end. We on the other hand have as yet no policy to put into effect if Chiang fails. It seems to me that this vac uum in our policy needs to be filled before Mr. Chou En-lai and Mr. Dulles meet. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Trio Overpowers Escaping Bandit Portland (U.R) A man armed with a .44 caliber revol ver was overpowered by three witnesses to a holdup Friday night as he waited to board a bus to leave town. Police identified the man as Henry L. Williams, 34, of Port land. He was charged with as sault and robbery while armed, in connection with the holdup of the Cartwheel tavern. Williams allegedly fired a shot into the counter when the tavern owner Mrs. Frances Lander ig nored his demands for money. Williams then fled with the con tents of the cash register. . Two patrons of the tavern and a man working nearby followed Williams to the bus depot, wait ed until he purchased a ticket to, Gresham, and then subdued him until police arrived. The three captors were Ll.yd Ritchie, 49, Christ Maule, 49, and Richard A. Kidd. U. 5. Standing Firm On China Recognition Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower says the United States is standing firmly against any change in its long-standing policy of opposing recognition of Red China despite current U.S.-Communist Chinese talks in Geneva. He told a news conference Thursday that the United States has no alternative but to with hold recognition 'as long as Red China is branded as an aggres sor by the United Nations." This apparently also refers to con tinued American opposition to seating Communist China in the United Nations. A twin goal of the Peiping re gime long has been U.S. recog nition and a seat in the United Nations. NLRB Elections Set For Portland Area Portland U.R) National Labor Relations Board elections are scheduled to be held next week at two firms in the Port land area. Employees of- Russell Tow boat and Moorage company and North Shore Boat Building com pany vote Thursday on a propos al by. the AFL Metal Trades Council of Portland to become their collective bargaining agents. On Friday, employees of tel evsion station KLOR will decide on whether to be represented by the AFL Electrical Workers un ion or the CIO Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. Child Dies in Fire Grandfather in Jail Portland (U.R) Linda Rie derer, 7, of Portland, burned to death in her bed Friday night from a fire accidentally started by her younger sister. Police said the victim's five-year-old sister, Cherie, accident- HAVE A BIG MASTER OVEN! o EASY TO SEE DNTO! EASY TO USE, TOO! AND NOW, COLOR COSTS NO MORE! OUR POLICY IS SIMPLE! YOU MUST BE SATISFIED -OR YOUR MONEY BACK. 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