HAY FEVER SNEEZING CAUSED BY WEEDS—
WESTERN STATES LEAD IN CAMPAIGN
TO ERADICATE CAUSE OF SUFFERING
Pacific Niwi Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON.—The people ol
Washington, Oregon anil Californio
are not sneezing 30 much as are th >s<
living east of the Rockies. This hat
been made plain by officials of thi
treasury and agricultural department
who are cooperating with state gov
ernments and private organization) in
a campaign to remove the cause ol
sneezing—such weeds as Induce hay
fever.
The Pacific Coast states enjoy
stringent weed laws and it ia expect
ed that an Increasing number of ihe
clt.es In the westernmost states will
pa3s ordinances for the removal ot
hay fever weeds, thus practically
freeing the region lying west of the
Rrckles of the noxious weeds and re
duce to an absolute minimum (he
cn«-es of hay fever In that territory.
A1 present officials state the preval
ence of the Inconvenient di3easa In
Pacific Coast states is far below 'hit
of most of the other sections of the
Ill ited States. That Is due, they de
clare, to the fact that the three states
bordering on the Pacific have w»ed
laws, wherea3 less than half the total
lumber of states of the union have
n’erested themselves to any appreci
al lc extent.
n'he American Hay Fever Preven
tion officials say, Is the most active
private agency waging war against
I haj fever, and several government de
partments are cooperating with the
association.
The bureau of plant industry of
the department of agriculture is en
couraging the destruction of hay
fever-inducing weeds—Common rag
weed, Roman wormwood, giant r-,g.
word, western ragavood, false worm
wood, marsh elder, western elder,
careless weed, thorny ‘amaranth,
j cackle burr, false ragweed and yellow
dock—insofar as these weeds inter
fere with the cultivation of good ag
ricultural land.
The United States Health Service
recently Issued a bulletin stating that
the only pollens which cause hay
fever are those which are carried by
th- wind, the most common of which
are li3ted above. The bulletin road
in part:
' The method of eradicating the hay
fever weeds Is naturally a question
of convenience and economy. The
most effective is careful cultivation.
Where this is not practicable these
weeds may be kept down by grazing
cattle, and especially by sheep. When
neither of these method3 Is available,
the weeds should be destroyed or cut
bt'*cre they reach the flowering stage
as this wllll prevent both the pollen
atieg and the formation of the seeds.
On the road3ide, which is a favorite
site for hay fever, It was sometimes
found to be more economical to use
some form of chemical weed killer.
When these methods are persistently
carried out for a few years the re
sults will justify the cost and the
encigy expended.
, "An important item in the eradica
tion of hay fever weeds is the distance
at which pollen may produce an at
tack of hay fever. It has been shown
by means of glass slides exposed to
the wind that some pollen may travel
a great distance—even several miles.
We have found, however, that pollen
scatters rapidly as it is carried by
the wind from the parent weed, the
decrease being estimated to bo in
versely as the square of the distance.
"On this account pollen is not often
a source of hay fever at a distance of
over a half mile, and even a much
i s' orter distance is often sufficient to
give relief. Accordingly, a patient
I thiee city blocks dUtnnt would inhale
onlv one one-hundr dth part of the
pt I'm to which he would be exposed
at tOO feet.
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FARM LOAN ACT EXPECTED
TO BOOM FARMING AND DO
AWAY WITH FARM TENANCY
Pacific News Service, Wash, Bureau.
WASHINGTON.—The Farm I.can
Act will be administered in the inter
ests of actual farming and actual
farmers and not in the interests of
landlordism or tenancy,Herbert Quick
rmmber of the Farm Loan Board re
cently declared in an address before
the annual conference of country
leaders and state agent3 held under
the auspices of the Department of
Agriculture.
The bonds of the farm banks, the
spcoker declared, jvill probably be the
first ideal investment offered to the
American public. He described the
Rural Credits plan ns "a system not
for loaning government money to ;
farmers, but a system by which the
farmer Is afforded the opportunity of'
borrowing from investors on his
security.”
“This bill," the speaker told the nx
j tension workers, "Is going to give you
and your men more work to do in
the next ten years in assisting in
planning profitable agriculture than
you have ever had before. It may be
necessary even in some parts of the
country to insist that certain methods
of farming be followed before loans
are granted. The system is going to
be placed more and more on a busi
ness basis: you will see farm tenancy
begin to be wiped out; you will see
soil begin to increase in fertility; you
will see farm life become more stable
and ,on the financial side, you will
see second farm mortgages become
safer investments.”
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SCHOOL-TEACHERS ALLOW
PUPILS TO ADOPT MANY
FORMS SIMPLYFIED SPELLING
Pacifio New* Service, Waeh. Bureau.
WASHINGTON,—If Ucca Jonnio
and Mary are doing their lessons and
wr.te ‘written" with the "w” or
“tong* for “tungue” or any other
words in apparently original wsys
that do not agree with the notions and
teaching of their “elders,” Jonnie and
Mary should not be corrected too sev
erely, if at all, for there are 292 Amer
Icon universities, colleges, and normal
schools now using simplified spelling
in either their official work or permit
students to use it, according to the
United States Bureau of Education.
Also there are 36S newspapers and
periodicals using the simpler forms as
rocommended by the sumplifled spell
ing board, which Includes the twelve
words adopted by the National Edu
cational Association.
Orade and high school Instructors
throughout the country are making no
effort to stop pupils from using "thru"
“tho," etc., wherever a tendency on the
part of the pupils to adopt that form
i3 apparent, officials say. The words
that are coming to be generally used
In their shorter forms are; program,
catalog, decalog, prolog, demagog,
pcdagog, tho, altho, thoro, thorofare,
thru, and thruout. It Is likely that
these formes will be generally adopted
nationally, it is said.
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GOVERNMENT TESTING
MATERIALS FOR FIRE
PROOF BUILDINGS
Pacific New* Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON,—Fire tests of all
kinds of building walls and partitions,
which are expected to have a bearing
on all fire-resisting building construe
t'on, have been arranged by the
United States Bureau of Standards.
They will be carried out with a newlv
installed panel furnace recently con
structed at the bureau's laboratories
here, which is the most complete and
largest plant ofr such work ever built.
Details of the tests, such as tvpes
and dementions of partitions, tem
peratures to which they are to be ex
posed, time of exposure to Are, the
water test to which the heated parti
tions should be subjected, and other
regulations, have been worked out by
a committee representing the Ameri
can Institute of Architects, the Amer
ican society for testing materials, the
National Board of Fire Underwriters,
the Associated Metal Lath Manufac
turers, the Gypsum Industries Assoc
iation, the Metal Brick Manufacturers
Association, the Association of Amcr
Ica-Portland Cement Manufacturers,
the National Fire Protection associa
tion and the National Lime Manufac
ti ters Association.
COMFORT FOR U. 8. A. BOYS.
The Red Cross asks for "comfort
kits” for the American troops on the
Mexican border.
NEW METHOD
PRINT SILK
PERFECTED
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON,—Printing of silk
fabrics by color photography, mak
ing possible decorative effects the per
fection of which does not seem to have
been hitherto atained In present met
hods, has been reported to the state
department from consuls in France.
LESS COAL HANDLED
OE ALL KINDS THAN
IN PREVIOUS YEAR
WASHINGTON,—There was 23,544,
773 tons of coal less shipped in the
United States during the eight mon’ha
ending September first than for the
suiue period the year preeceUing, ac
cording to the first official figures
published on the coal "famine" by the
Department of Commerce.
The Department’s figures show a
decrease in bituminous coal of 22,016,
714 tons and in anthracite of 1,629,249
tons. The amount shipped was 103,
198, 434 tons of bituminous and 13,857,
149 tons of anthracite coal. This was
exclusive of coal hauled by railways
for their own use.
OFFICERS PROMOTED
TO BRIG. GENERALS
IK MARINE CORPS
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Pacifio Nawa Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON,—Secretary of the
Navy Daniels has announced the pro
motion of five officers of the marine,
corps to the rank of brigadier general.
They are Major General Commandant
George Barnett, Col. Littleton, W. T.
Waller, Col. Joseph M. Pendleton, Col.
John A. Lejeune, and Eli K. Cole.
The promotions are In conformity
with special legislation of the latest
Congress, and are subject to the ap
pointees meeting professional, mental
and physical requnrements of the na
val examining board and to confir
mation by the Senate. All are grad
uates of the Naval College.
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