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Dunstan Times, Issue 3130, 14 August 1922, Page 7

A live-act comedy by Menander, called “The Arbitrator,” was presented at Leipzig for the first time during the Christian era( The leaves of papyrus on which the comedy was written wore discovered in Egypt, and the play has been adapted to make a two hours’ entertainment. Professor Alfred Korte and Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski, the adapters, retained the old joke, which seem as fresh as those of any contemporary theatrical success, and the situations and dialogues are thoroughly amusing. The comedy turns on the question of the paternity of a child which was abandoned by the mother and found by a shepherd. The matter comes before a judge, and the father confesses in court. Four years ago a. New York lawyer, Mr Leighton Frocks, started an organisation to fight the tyranny of the collar, against which many correspondents are sending letters of protest, in the preliminary manifesto of the Anti-Col-lar League Mr Frocks says that few men do not wish at some time or other that collars were never invented, and that they are undoubtedly detrimental to health. He adds that “Edison has to take oil' his collar before he can invent anything,” that “President Wilson always removes his collar when penning his great messages,” and (most startling assertion of all) that “no author evex’ wrote anything worth reading with a collar on.” An appeal to use the American method of employing airplanes to wipe out insect plagues is made by Prof. Lefroy, of the Imperial College of Science;, who declares that the beautiful oak woods of the southern counties are being devastated by caterpillar®. A similar plague comes every five years and causes great damage. The forests in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Essex are overrun with the pest, and entomologists are facing the problem of saving them. Prof. Lefroy says spraying will not stop the blight. He wants airplanes to drop powdered insecticide, especially in Richmond Park, which he says will otherwise soo» he ruined for the season and is liable to he permanently disfigured, as trees I'ose their virility when they are stripped of their foliage every few years.