Judge — January 19, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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* JUDGE ——— —— _ The Scarecrow Industry | By Gurney “Scarecrow” Williams Photos from the album of George “Dummy” Lichtenstein Due to an insistent and popular demand, the upon the farm and g Fditor of Jupor has asked me, as the foremost destroyed nine acres | authority on scarecrows, to write a brief history of of the pitiful crop | America’s scarecrow industry; so here you are, and Scarecrow attempted if you get a thrill out of this fascinating story of to stay the destruc | carly pioncer struggle, why then there’s something tion by uprooting the | | the matter with you bushes and storing i] This little-known—and what's more, little-cared them in his cellar, | about—business can be traced back to John Scare ind what he said at | crow, who, in the time has been | | turn, was handed down from | | traced for xeneration to genera i many years, tion, although it has | but never was heen garbled and dis- caught. In torted by time. “A Early American scarecrow. 1745 he came bush in the hand,” to this coun Searecrow said as he ploughed up his precious | | try with noth plants, “is worth two in the bird.” | ing but his On the day following the disaster, Scarecrow found | son Jasper, that one acre of the bushes had remained untouched the shirt) on by the scavengers, and after two days of investiga his back, and tion to discover the reason, he came upon Jasper, — | a second-hand resting on his hoe. He had been resting in the Fl 1 sig middle of that acre for ten days and when the | nal, The shirt scourge had come he had been too stupefied to move, was a bit thus frightening away the birds. Eureka! The small and (Continued on page 29) | Scarecrow was immedi- | ately arrested | . " for indecent } ] | John Scarcerow (right) demon- exposure. He Unusual | | | strates the remarkable intelligence was forced to photograph ] of his favorite illuminated model. sell the signal showing the | As the camera clicked, the great to the P. D. actual landing | inventor fell over on his face and & Q. railroad at Hoboken. was followed almost immediately for bail, so by the other dummy. This evoked when he a spontaneous cheer from the out of ja | amazed onlookers. started in, you might say, from scratch. (This was duc principally to the little pests that infested his cell, but I can't go into that now.) Scarecrow was g) en a ten-acre land grant in North Dakota, where he and Jasper planted thou- ] sands of little bushes which they intended to sell to the Dominion of Canada for use in the famous Canadian bush country. On the adjoining farm lived Tony Snizclli and his daughter, Anita, who came over to visit their new neighbors. ‘Where you worka, John?" asked Tony for no reason at all. “LT bush, I bush, I bush,” answered Scarecrow for the same reason, and both men laughed and drank } some hard cider. But disaster stalked in the offing. Before the bushes attained maturity a blight of birds descended comicbooks.com