It has this advantage over the W. P. A. plan. If this $1.500.000 is granted in this bill. it will be administered by the skilled. able. and resourceful members of the Department of Agriculture. who are charged with the responsibility of heading off these imported plant and tree pests in this country. This elmtree pest appeared first around 1919 in Holland. It was imported from some obscure Asiatic source. Engaged in the struggle to rehabilitate themselves after the war. no attention was paid to this destruction of elms until the thing had spread everywhere. Then it was too late to do anything.