WHAT*S IT WORTH?
No one needs to "justify" or try to "sell" the Red Cross* Its manifold servi­ ces to the men and women in the armed forces, to prisoners of war, to the families of service men and women, to those in need in time of national disasters, and many other activities call for no elaboration on our part* An American soldier in a prisoner of war camp in Germany wrote home that he had learned-to appreciate four things, "God, my parachute, my good health, and the Red Cross." A war correspon­ dent writes that the three greatest discover!es-of the war are, "The jeep, Ernie Pyle, and the Red Cross girl." We know all of this and more too about the Red Cross, but what wo do not know is what it costs, except in very general terms* Some one has estimated that the wartime activities of the Red Cross are costing about $6.00 a second. On or about pay day, the Station*s campaign committee will call on all Station employees and give each one an opportunity to make his and hor annual contribution to the American Red Cross. Our quota in the local campaign has been sot at $550* We predict^that this will b £ over subscribed, as usual l Please bo prepared to say what your part will-be when you arc called upon. The committee is as follows: Miss McGuigan, Miss Hogan, Mrs. Legnini, Miss Warren, Mrs* DoWall, Miss Curtis, Miss Updike, Miss Van Riper, Mr. Hefferon, and Mr. Luckott.
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SEED STANDARDS
Professor Munn was in Ithaca Monday for a conference on standards for all types of certified seeds to be grown this year. Today he is attending a conference in Al­ bany to discuss details of the official seed inspection to be carried on by repre­ sentatives of the State Department of Agriculture and Markets this spring. This work was recently placed under the direction of Dr. A. B. Buchholz, Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department,
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CANNING CROPS "SCHOOL"
It looks very much as tho there will be a canning crops extension "school" here at the Station next month. We understand that permission to hold such a school has been granted by the ODT and that the Agricultural Committee of the Association of New York State Canners has tentatively set March 19 and 20 as the dates. Professor Sayre is planning to attend a meeting of the canners1 committee tomorrow in Roches­ ter when the program for the school will be drafted. Professor C. B. Raymond, ex­ tension specialist in canning crops, is also taking an active part in arranging the details,
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- WINTER HOURS-TO CONTINUE
Due to the wintry blasts, snow squalls, and low temperatures that continue to make fuel saving a matter of first Consideration, Director Heinicke has decided to continue the 8:30 opening hour thru the month of March. Heretofore, "summer" of­ fice hours have prevailed after March 1st,
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AN ENGAGEMENT
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Jean Conn to Vincent W, Cochrane. Both are graduates of Cornell and Miss Conn is now a member of the fa­ culty of Iowa State College at Ames. Mr, Cochrane is engaged in research work for tho Lodorle Laboratories in Pearl River, N. Y.
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A WEDDING
Joan MacKenzie-Huckor, a-niece of Dr. and Mrs# Hucker, was married in the Rucker1s residence last Saturday afternoon to Arland Case Wliito# The young people will make their home in LeRoy, N. Y., where "both are members of the high school fa­ culty. Mr. White is expecting to be called into the armed services in the noar future. Incidentally, the groom is a grandson of Mr. 3. J. Case, well-known fruit grower of Sodus*
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nUNDERMANNED w?
With the severing this-woek by Charles Luckett of his temporary connections with the seed testing laboratory in order to resume pursuit of highor education at the University of Rochester, are we justified in saying that the laboratory is rlundermanned1* in the sense that the gentler sex now has a clear majority in that area of the Station*s activities?
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IN THE MOVIES
Pfc Robert Baumgartner, brother of Esther Baumgartner of the Bacteriology Di­ vision and better known to his admiring friends in Geneva as Bobbie, was scon in the movie nThe Fighting Lady" shown in Geneva recently, Bobbie was an anti-air­ craft gunner on the carrier at the tine the picture was made and participated in five major engagements in the Pacific, He has boon selected for officers* train­ ing and is now at Princeton University*
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WANTED: MORE LETTERS
We are indebted to Mrs, Brooks for permission to quote from a recent letter from Major Ed Smith from somewhere in Belgium. !,A bit of Geneva weather here,11 writes Ed, nsnow and ice. Progress is being made in spite of and not because of the weather.*.I am sure people would write more if they knew how^we felt, but they cantt know *til they have been here and that, of course, won*t happen, for which we
are t h a n k f u l , E d * s address is as follows: Major E, H. Smith, Inf, Hq. U5 Repl.
Bn,, APO 872, $ Postmaster, New York,
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CHECKING RESULTS
Representatives of food processing plants in Geneva, Newark, Rochester, De­ troit, and Chicago met in the bacteriology laboratories yesterday to check samples of canned and frozen peas which were collected last summer as part of the current project on food plant sanitation being conducted by Dr* Hucker and Dr, Brooks,
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