The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-06-03
NO TIME FOR SOFT PEDAL

NO TIME FOR SOFT PEDAL
task for spreading blight all over our
front page week. We have been told the nead INES wiz
good nonresident orchard owners and the
home seeker Perhaps not But wonder which will look
to when he arrives an nderent com
munity orchards the head lines In last
paper -
We are informed by those closely followed the bat
tie against blight Yakima country that OF the
in the fight against the pest was the
up tactics followed the early stages OF the campaign
ohardists Yakima Valley would have been saved tnou
sands of dollars public thoroughly aroused when
blight first made said District horticultural In
spector Powell The best at Tor
public front head lines and in answer to our
critics we have this by OF last weeks head
farmer went orchard ana Iound
blight which he did not there and cut out and in
doing spreading through his orchard and
into neghbors feel that did good days work
though the head lines gntened away nan oozen
prospective homeseekers.
BLIGHT uncontrolled means destruction
dustry in this section while blight controlled does not that
the district cast into dsrepute as fruit growing section Ken
alone the blight battle than is alone
the fight against cooling moth of the other orchard
pests demonstrated that blight be controlled
and community which has the getup to stamp
the community that going to stand in the front ranks
of the fruit producing procession
his district the investment
many thousands of dollars investment which is just
turing which the next few will handsome dv
dends the investor In other fruit districts these or
chard have been and being out OF existence
right Kennek orchard with the blight cut out
more valuable asset that worth
protecting and fighting for.
situation is not nearly critical 1T week ago
quick respond the call to The public
and right the blight situation pretty well
There time to sleep the job, however and
is to be continued successfully it absolutely
sar that the county Inspector Powell assistant who
devote his entire time the inspection OF orchards this end OF
the county The last OF the gave the county
the power meet just such this
hoped they meet it their regular meeting Monday
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HARDsHIPS OF A REMOTE SECTION
O. KYLE of Paris Texas writes the Courier Reporter
lN follows II constrained to compliment you in getting
such publication In somewhat OF remote secton
Your paper superior others who have thrbbe
the population and resources"
Now we like the tone of Mr. Kyles We duly APP
prcative of the compliment pays and at the time
that section is somewhat remote from
Texas It live away here Washington ESQ miles
from the ocean and only railroads Not than
twenty each day and the Columbia
navgabe to the is the only river that flows
through town.
The evening daily papers do not reach until breakfast
time the next day morning dies do not arrive until
requires several hours to journey to OF four
cities the which large the largest city in
Toxas Mr. Kves letter days the road between
Paris Texas city, and it usually takes New York letters
fully days to reach u.s.
known as automobiles nothing better than
roads They still have to be content with mail delivery
dav over the rural still the wire telephone
the electric light Otherwise the community showing mmis
of and yet be raising mules and
long-horn steers
CIvILITY
MONT try bully the world It does not Whoever enters
the ring for rough and tumble fight with public opinion
lis pretty sure eventually to be knocked OUT Society
r;aers and think Of encountering single pair
of fists Better shake multitudnous
ord IF the Qiant goodnaured provoke bic
wrath Despise the peases you but as YOU have t
live in the world the world is just as we'll tn
treat it cv Shrewd who understand their race
seek quarrel with society They understand is possible