The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1923, Page 6

r Publishing Co. attleSta i United onthe, 01.00; ¢ San Fran New Tork o Our Beautiful State FI! The Hood's canal region and other districts where the = rhododendron flourishes are now entering upon their an- i nual period of splendor, The state flower is truly as beautiful a wild blossom as grows—at least, in the temperate latitudes. Because of the fairly limited area in which it is found in any profusion and because that particular area hap- pens to be somewhat off the beaten paths, there are many Washington citizens who do not appreciate the un- usual beauty of the flower or the luxuriant display which it makes at this season in the woods where it is a native. But as the ferries multiply and the highway program Wogresses, more and more thousands every May are rning to admire and love the rhododendron, And this increasing fame is bringing also its penalty. ™® Thoughtless people are slashing great quantities of the beautiful shrub-flowers with the same wasteful disregard for later comers that we Americans have always been ig Guilty of showing toward abundant natural resources Admire your state flower, citizens; cut what you need ) for home bouquets, but cut carefully. Don’t festoon great | masses of these or other beautiful woods blossoms, like the dogwood, for instance, over your car, where they will S only gather dust and be good for nothing upon your re- rn. : The rhododendron is a real esthetic asset to our state, J ald is entitled to decent treatment. ANOTHER NEAR NON-STOP RECORD | The longest distance matrimonial record in the history of the pension ‘office has been recently revealed in examination of claim for a pension by Catherine A. Wheeler, of Union, Okla, Mrs, Wheeler had lived with her husband, a civil war veteran, for a period of 73 years, three months and nine days. Mrs. Wheeler at present is 91 years of age and her hus | band was 98 years old at the time of his death—Interior Department God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the Darnacies will not cling. —J. G. Holland i Back porches are places where tools borrowed from neighbors are kept, and kept, and kept. Goes Another Night's Sleep! Day by day our feelings are all harrowed up so that might by night our slumbers are increasingly uneasy. Day by day the department of justice and, more par- arly, William J. Burns of the secret service, scares ie gizzard out of us telling about the lawlessness and the ‘impending danger to the republic which lies in the “activ- » ities” of some body described but not defined by the words “radicals,” “reds,” “communists,” “bolshevists,” “syndicalists,” and God knows what all. Mr. Daugherty assures us that he is going to make folks respect the law if he busts a gallus (this does not apply to sugar profiteers this week). Nor does it apply to those who are able to afford suf- ficient legal counsel to enable them to ignore the laws in polished and genteel manner. For example, take the case of New Y state: Twenty-five years ago the Canadian thistle jumped the tariff wall and began to sweep over New York. The fought the Canadian thistle tooth and nail, but invader found a safe foothold along the railroad rights- ' of-way and from there each spring made fresh forays into the fertile fields adjoining. ‘ _ So the legislature passed a law requiring the railroads destroy’ the thistles on their rights-of-way. There ing no particular penalty, the Amalgamated Associa- n of ad lawyers correctly advised their clients to e the law. Whereupon the legislature said that if the railroads not destroy the thistle the farmer on the adjoining might destroy it himself and charge the railroad $3 for the work. being low in those days, the railroads destroyed thistle. Now, with railroad wages higher, it is cheaper for the '¥ailroads to ignore the law, let the farmers cut the thistle collect the $3. ‘So the Amalgamated Association of Railroad lawyers, y, advises them to disregard the law. This they lo without reluctance. ‘But the farmer cannot now destroy the thistle for $3, the legislature has a new bill saying that if the rail- ds do not cut the thistle and the farmer does, he can | $8 a day. Curiously enough the yowl that is going up in the con- tive press, the old familiar yowl that makes the me old goose pimples rise up on one’s back and causes é pink-whiskered gentlemen to shudder, is not that the ilroads, being now able to afford it, disregard the law, that to soak them $8 a day for so disregarding it dangerously close on bolshevism, communism, soci ism and God knows what, projected against the poor-but-honest railroads by the red, radical and raving ers, aided and abetted by their demagogue represen- es in the legislature. There goes another night's sleep. farmers NEW. USE FOR AUTOS you troubled with rats, especially around the chicken house, , barn or vegetable garden? Fasten a length of hose on the end the exhaust from your gasoline engine—whether it be a “flivver” or tractor—back the car up within reach of the rat burrow, and adjust the carburetor for a rich mixturt. Pack damp earth around the hose at the entrance to the hole to seal it. Run the engine at a moderate speed for 10 minutes or more and the rats will be destroyed. This method 4s practical when there are only a small number of holes or the area to be fumigated is not too extensive. It may also be used in destraying ‘rats beneath floors or in other places where a concentration of the gas can Le obtained —Department of Agriculture, Mops are articles used in scrubbing and in describing women’s hair before they comb it. Chairs are furniture with chewing gum stuck underneath, Quick! Bring the Vaccine _ The league of nations and the world court ideas have vived many sorts of attack, fair and unfair,. and have a cruel and unusual punishments. But there must be a limit. That limit, or thereabouts, seems to impend when the vs is given out that George Harvey will resign as am- gsador to Great Britain, pack -his velvet panties in h-balls and devote the future wholly to campaigning the world’s court. e Star is for the world’s court idea and because it is shudder at the thought of an epidemic of Col. Harvey es. In fact, if possible, the court idea should be ecinated at once. Our Washington boys inform us that Miss Mary Livingston, who has in the postoffice department 45 years, has seen 22 postmaster gen- come and go. Nothing to feel uncommonly stuck-up about, We all dim Burleson go. Bedrooms are places about which movies and novels are written, | Tables are furniture wives make you keep your feet off of. Bhelves ure long wooden strips where contented roaches Ive, Noise is a racket made by everybody while you are phoning. (A toot and his straw hat are ‘oon sat upon, Good steaks are rarq These Spring Va \ A LDERITT UNG, We greet you streama! A to v shores, in drea A while ¢ faraway; and pause to pendence Day. We greet you. flord! Who aca and sword! halla's dome, where ¢ Norway! urdy Vikin A while kyries roam. ‘ . try's first We greet you, Norway! Land sublime! night aun! Of ancient mountain A while your ing rivera runt far—so far—avweay, will pause Independence Day! Editor The Star: Upon returning to the eity I find that I was elected a member of the school board, and desire to express my thanks for your kindness tn in: Editor Tho Star: At a megting of the board of trus tees of the United Veterans’ club | yesterday noon (May 15) a unanimous resolution was pa: | Star for ita effective support of Tin |dal! and Hesketn, two candidates | who were indorsed by the club in | the last election. It was the general opinion of those present that the ald of The Editor The Star: The vaccination order of the Les- chi school, as announced exclustvely lin ‘The Star of Tuesday, *, In the | minds of many, a bold move to not jonly take away the people's personal rights, but to impair dur health. There are two abhorrent things }about vaccination: First, | dumb animals—the calf, horse, rabbit or guinea pig—with a virus or poi | son, making them suffer untold agony and often die with tne disease, and Second, is the fact of injecting into the blood-stream of the child this un- Editor The Star: In the last city election we had J. Y¥. C, Kellogg, chairman of the King county republican central com- mittee, making an active fight for the election of two republican nomi. neey to the city council, as against two other republican nominees up for re-election, For the chairman of the King county republican central committee to make an active’ fight in a non- partisan election, particularly when the two he was trying to defeat are also good republicans, shows poor ther many mighty men, ed thanking The | is the fact of inoculating | THE Showers Surely \ LNQUOT S\lP> SEATTLE are STAR Refreshing EMS Ar THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1923 (a oo YOu SCUPDOR, | SHADOWS BY LEO Chained to you unheeded, they er choice ia mine Even i 1nd The Where where sun hadow you unseen, 7 ver are, PRED SMITH ©, - LETTER, FROM \V RIDGE MANN Norwegian Independence Day. d of hilla and rushing r 2 your hey d honor pn blisa, fer this, your Inde- Land of hilis an kne e th and wild Val Of moss and mid worn by Time, to! v to dream of distant Home, on LETTERS ie LDITOR Hopes to Merit Confidence cluding me in your advisory ballot jand trust by faithful work to merit the confidence placed in me by the | voters. Yours very truly, | O. B. THORGRIMSON Veterans Appreciate Support | Star in this matter was vital in | bringing to the pubile the SM merit of these two candidate: it jseoma that when The Star speaks | out the people lsten, You may rest assured that the Vet erans will not forget your hélp in this last campaign. | Thanking you again on their be | half, I remain, Very sincertly yours, (CHARLES H. PAUL, President He’s Anti-Vaccination jclean pus taken from the discased animal, | Mahy believe that all diseases or ailments in the human body are | caused ay the result of some foreign }element (germs or tmeteria) in the jblood current, If true (and {t Is a | logical deduction), why, then, poison [the blood-stream with some foreign | germ taken from a rotted horse, calf or pig? Is it not flying in the face of medical logic, this filling Into the | blood-stream these germs of disease |rather than tleansing the blood stream by elimination of disease | germs? Yours very trul THOMAS J. C. Invites Kellogg to Resign Judgment, to say tho least; byt when the men for whom he is making evory effort to elect, are defeated by those republicane ho is trying to defeat, it would appear to the under |{t would be a good thing for the interest of the republican were Mr, Kellogg to resign as a member of the King county repub lican committee. Very respectfully, W, HW, SMITH, Seward Hotel, is reflected iB, & H.C. COOK, Clear as Crystal— The absolute purity of " SALADA” GREEN TEA nara in every cup, The most delicious GREEN TEA in the world, JUST TRY IT WEST 4073, ELL. 0350, Distributors, | ‘Hazing and Horse-Play | Star The sad cane of the hazing of Mount, In N A Health Habit— In Colgate’s Ribbon nee finds best in a dentifrice— a fine chalk ~no grit and pure soap. It is a healthy habit to use Colgate’s, Large tube 25¢ COLGATE & CO. best all-round college athlete? One for the be sophomore, junjor and se stu 1 knew a lazy college st spent all his time loafing and play ing. 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