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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
One BAD PARROT
Said to Have Corrupted Morals
of Ninety and Nine.
That Number OF Innocent, Pure-Minded
Pollys Converted Into One Hun
dred Per Cent "Cussers."

When the Booth liner Justin left
Manaos, Brazil, far up the Amazon
river, there were on board ninety nine
green and unsophisticated parrots and
Jack O'Brien, who also is green.
When the ship reached Pier 6, Bush
terminal, Brooklyn, 100 green parrots
were In the cargo. There also were
eighty-seven shocked passengers and
crew which habitually wore cotton
In Its individual ears, cOnversed by
signs and jumped nervously at irregu.
lar intervals 1t was all blamed on
Jack OBren, who until this voyage
was one of the most popular seamen
who ever accepted biscuit and finger
at one and precisely the same time.
One parrot with gift for Ian
guage and sociable nature, 1t was
admitted, will tighten the leisure
hours of sailormen not given to pedan-
try In speech. But when you multiply
that parrot by ninety-nine and then
turn them loose, the result is-the
Booth liner Justin, as she appeared
when she reached Brooklyn.
Jack established his primary school
courses soon after the ship left Manaos.
Every parrot in the place was doing
postgraduate work in profanity with
single-souled devotion when the
ship arrived in port. One of the worst
features of the thing was that when
the parrots once got a smack of the
sea they stood watch all the way, so
that night was precisely as hideous
as day and day was equally as raucous
as night.
For time the crew fought. Then
the men learned that "cussing out"
a parrot is as futile as bawling out
a recording monograph. Little green
parrot addressed would sit silently at
attention on his perch, head cooked
and beady eyes fixed on the orator.
Nothing could be more gratifying than
the concentration displayed.
Then, instead of saying: You're
another! as any real gentleman
would do, the parrot would begin at
his primary schooling and mount
rapidly through high school and col /
lege work, ending crescendo in
caricatured but emphatic version Of
the orators best efforts. 1t got so
that when an officer desired to tell
sailor to do something or go some
where he would whisper 1t, lest the 81
parrots on duty command the officer
to go and do lilwise, with amend ,
ments.
The bird-store man who was to
receive the consignment got an earful
of parrot talk on board and lmmedi-
ately announced that he was supply
ing the birds to ladies and not to
sporting clubs, and that all was over
between him and the ninety and nine.
They may have to go back, 1t is noised
about,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
Three Ages of Ambition.

Grandmother wanted to have the big
gest and whitest washing on the line
before the neighbors had theirs out /;
to make the best soap, jellies, bread
and pies; to have the reputation Of
keeping the cleanest house In town; to
be well married early In life; to have
a large family of well-behaved chill
dren, and to have her friends think O
recipe must be good If she used 1t.
Mother wanted to be cultured and
refined and to do the proper thing at
all times; to be well married rather
late in life; to have two or three we'll
dressed children; to be able to hire
and keep good maid; to be dressed
in good taste and to have her friends
think word was spelled or pro-
nounced correctly in her way.
Daughter of today wants to live In
the most exclusive apartment house
in the city; to be able to drive her
own car; to have chow, Pekingese
or Persian cat; to be married and
divorced a time or two; to have her
friends think her gown the latest
fashion or she would not be wearing
1t; to have girls ask her what kind
of powder and rouge she uses, and to
make men turn around.-Katherine
Negley in Judge
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
Artificial Hands.

Martin Bauman, born in Nagytalya,
Hungary, and now happily domiciled
In Akron, o., has invented an artl.
fetal hand which enables the armless
man, provided he has at least four
inches of natural arm, to do any kind
of work, from running an automobile
to handling the knife, fork aud spoon
properly at dinner party. The In
genIous and misunderstanding lnven-
ton viii he put on the market as soon
as Washington finds time to mail the
inventor copy of his patent
But the device Is more helpful than
original, Gotz Won Berlichingen (1is0.
1862, once doughty knight of Bavaria,
got mixed up as young man In a
sklrmlsh at Landshut, just south of
Munich, and came out of It minus n
hand, He Immediately fell to and In.
vented an iron hand with which he
could do anything from knocking n
man down to wiggling the Iron fingers.
He achieved, ms matter of fact, the
title of "Gotz with the Iron Hand"
and was so dramatlzed by Goethe
New York Post.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
PROTECTING Handbaos

Women suffer for lack Of pockets.
Commonly they carry money In their
handbags, practice so well known to
thieves that the grabbing of handbags
on the street is an everyday occur
renee. Joseph Costello of New York
city has scheme for preventing this
sort of highway robbery. He has pat
ented little contrivance which is sim
pie enough, looking somewhat like
spool, and attachable to the cord or
strap of the handbag In such way
as to bind loop of 1t around the
lady's wrist. The loop thus provided
is not large enough to pass over the
hand and so the bag cannot easily be
separated from its owner. The spool
like device is In two parts which screw
into each other, the cord of the handbag
passing In at the top and out through
the sides Of the spool. All that is nee
essary Is to pull the cord far enough
through the spool to make the loop of
proper size, after passing It over the
hand, and then to screw the lower part
into the upper part of the spool This
cllnches the cord and makes Il fast
Philadelphia Ledger.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
DEITY FOR EVERY VILLAGE
In Localities Of Indian the Local Gods
Can Be Numbered by Hundreds
Of Thousands.

In some parts OF the amazing land
of India, where mystery seems to in
habit the very air, there are so many
different local gods that even to list
their names would require large d.
rectory, writes Temple Manning in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. True as this
IS of southern India, it is even more
accurate of the strange hill lands of
the Himalayas, where every village
has its own especial deity.
For their own god each of these hill
towns sets apart n godhouse, which, In
most villages, is built upon the highest
land In the center of the town and may
be seen from every house. Decorated
with goats and rams horns they are
n picturesque sight, and some of the
incidents connected with them are no
less romantic.
sometimes god-naturally through
its priests-malles a claim on the god
of another village for land, or money,
or meal. This being refused, the dis
pute is referred to the rajah's god, and
is often carried up through ranking
gods to the ultimate benefit of all con-
cerned, with the exception of the pow
erty-stricken peasants, who alone have
to bear the brunt of the litigaticns.
The gods themselves are made Of
cloth, silver paper and other compare
lively cheap materials and sometimes
at a big ''mela," or holy fair, scores of
them are assembled in procession and
are escorted in great state to the place
where the fete is being held. From
every ravine and hill come the little
companies of gods to join the big pro-
cession, and one of the strangest men,
cries that possess is the half-light of
evening when stood on beacon hill
and looked down upon three small pro-
cessions converging at my feet.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24

creasng number differ the that is being by the
Universities of 1922 but dares call common grade
school work to task On March 4h be the school
election VIII VaShon AauW islanders interest
that election they would poultry culg demonstrations
spraying machine used kill San mothY
We doubt it very much And whose is the the schools
are not conducted properly and ecenty2 With
going support this island what interest
being taken to who going expend moneys Every
voter should take much interest election oil March 4h
they took fall before voting president the T. S
For who is going be school directors more concern in
dollars and alone than who is going governor the
state next year, President of the u s. in 1924
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
Are You Going to Do 1t?

Are the taxpayers going to stay home March 4th
trust to mckY What the different
with university string of degrees with smile
and mercenary bow counter someone with crouch
lat what has been maybebu person who human ma
re well enough to help pick w Nichols
and W. g. Parkes with mother sense, enough business ability
to safeguard the public treasury from the bgg atery
the who has something SELL To pay upward $4,000
month salary should be in the cellar sprout
ing potatoes Tor living Is neither fair to pupils parents,
the taxpayer who foots the bill Go polls and vote for
some one who will fill the bill We have candidate
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
What Ingersoll Once Said

Col Ingersol didn't consider necessary have college
training be useful succeed He said colleges
the place they polished pebbles and dmmned diamonds
through the nscruta of chance his phrase has
pretty well worked American history Henry Ward Beecher
greatest pulpit orator. and he had but school
education Charles H. Sturgeon the world greatest preach
En- and he had but meagre schooling u s. Grant
General and he had Ogchoo house training Shake
peare little his day and he couldn't spell his
twice the samewhe the greatest of Amercanif of
mortanevcr the inside of college walls but learned night
by the light of a blazing knott
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
A Lesson or Two From the Above

The great northwest gives striking example of denoc
Tracy The foregoing figures well for the fact that here
found but few In European cities and countries,
find few who University bred
who neither read write 1t is the class who mgrate
That's why such large per of small number of litter
foreign But in this state and adon
the great of the population have through the grades
public schools. The few erate whites could be
Jed with equal number of persons bearing University degrees
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
Our Idea of the Matter

The NewRecord believes better have 95 per of the
of this circumcrbed educaonay by the grades
i'm school, with few iteraes and equal number with 'let-
degrees than divide up like many of
Europe with few great hghbrows, and many,
many times who neither read write Not that
dsparage the college the high school, but do believe the
fundamentals which strong and national life is
knowledge three RS If child read write and
knows the multiplication abes all that's necessary find the
true Path of Life
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
Just the Exception = You Say

But says it in Lincon-sure ii But if it
hadn't been in him. what would college be able bring out?
Take it this present time in AmercaWho the worlds rich
est mani Rockefeller with only the grades at school Who is
worlds greatest manuaehrer2 Ford with only grades
school Who is the worlds greatest nyentor2 Thomas Ava
Edison with only part of the grades in school One doesn't have
frame evidence prove in favor of the schools
From days of Pestalo the present hour the
schools of the world have started SO of every 100 the Path
of Success
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-24
Our Plea to Our Readers

No taxpayer question the necessity of supporting to the
fullest measure public schools Good differ the
ighschoc honest differ the college, and
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
MANY LICE
REMEDIES"
Have Little Effect on Vermin.
Tests Indicate; Use of So
dunn Fluoride il Urged

Many so-called lice remedies being
widely sdver: sed throughout the
country NJ the present time as ef-
icIcut methogs of Kidding hens 81
lice and mites apparently have little
II any effect upon this yermin. ac-
cording to results obtained at the
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment
Station IN recent tests u their worth.
-Four Of them used on infested
hens in the station poultry flock. sc-
curding 90 the directions ~ their
manufacturers. failed TO reduce the
number ~ parasites on the birds. ac-
cording 10 james Holmes Martin. in
charge Of the station poultry work.
Inquiries from various parts % the
state Indicate that scores ~ farmers
and poultrymen are being mislcd by
the Advertisements ~ these remedies.
Questions concerning their worth also
have been common at the poultry
culling demonstrations being held
over the state by the extension d.
vision Of the College 81 Agriculture.
the poul,rymer say
Two Of the -four remedies given a
trial on the station farm are said
by their manufacturers to be 90 ef-
fcctivc that the hens have only TO
drink the water containing them in
order TO Kill all lice and mites. The
manufacturer II another claims that
lice and mites are destroyed By the
yap1rs u his product when bottle
Of 1t is suspended in the coop or
hen house. Still another claims that
trcatmen, with his product will rem.
der the fowls absolutely immune.
Despite all that is claimed by
these various products. sodium flour
ide. which may be purchased at any
drug store. has proved in trials that
Il j. the most effective remedy known
for lice and mites on poultry" Mr..
Martin said. The dip method %
treating the birds d. recommended
during the warm days of summer"
One pound in about ten gallons Of
water Is sufficient to treat $50 birds.
In dipping the hens. they are held in
one hand by their wings and com.
plctely submerged. the feathers on
their body being rufflcd by the free
hand Of the persons doing the treat.
INK while the birds are thus sub.
merged. In cooler weather the ma.
terial Is applied in dry form.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
TIME TO CUT SWEET GLOVER
~ First Crop 10 harvested ~ to ~
Inches High a Good Second
Crop viii Result

II the first crop Of sweet clover
IL cut too low the plants are killed
When cut II 20 II inches high n good
second crop resulted. These results
were secured In a trial at the North
Dakota experiment station In 1919.
The sweet clover sends out Its second
growth from the stem. The buds form
In the angle between the stem and the
branches II all the branches are cut
then all the buds from which nev
growth can come viii b removed.
The lower the branches come out. the
lower the irst crop con - cut without
killing the plants.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
Sowbeans Prove Worth
To Morgan County
Men

soybesns have proved their worth
10 farmers IN another Kentucky coun-
~, according 10 X. =. Stephenson.
soils and crops specialist ~ the Col
iege 81 Agriculture. who recently re
turned from Morgan county where
the beans were grown for the first
time this summer In view " the
good showing which the beans have
made az sa.! iwprovcrs and hay
crop il il probable that the acreage
seeded in the county will be- increased
next year.
A few Morgan county farmers
planted the .oys in their corn for
soil improvement purposes while
others seeded the bean. broadcast Tor
hay. Good results were obtained in
both eases. Large numbers ~ no
dulles. that contain the bacteria cap
able - drawing nitrogen from the
air. were found on the roots Of the
plants indicating that considerable
amount 81 this valuable plant food
will be- added TO the soils % the eoun.
~ by the soybeans.
Cowpeas formerly constituted the
chief lcgumc crop grown IN the coun-
~. but in many eases the beans have
given better results this year than
The peas Despite the fact that
most % both the beans and peas were
grown on good bottom land. the soys
demonstrated that they were better
able 90 Withstand the drouth cNper-
fence. throughout the state this year
one -kcpticsl farmer .a the county
who was growing the beans ant peas
side by side to determine which was
best suited Tor his land produced
about 5000 pound. ~ peas and g.
Oo0 pound. of beans an acre.
Beans being grown In the same
row with corn are probably giving the
creates, satisfaction since farmers 81
the county have found that 'hi. j. an
economical method u supplying hu-
mus and nitrogen Co improve their
depleted soils 4 large part ~ the
bottom lands % the clur'y must be
seeded 10 corn year after year. By
growing beans With the corn and SOW
INK cover crop in the fall 20 pre-
vent erosion and Teaching and TO
furnish crop 10 pillow under in the
spring. the fertility Of the Morgan
county lands can be more effectively
maintained than in auy other way
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
OPEN DRIVE ON
GASOLINE GREAT
Short Measure Selling Costs
Motorists s9O.OOO.OOO
Year. According To
Estimates of Auto
Association

Washington Short measure
selling 81 gasoline was estimated re-
Gently by the National Motorists As.
ISOLATION to be costing purchasers
500 100000 a year
This figure was based on an -.
t.il ate that each ~ ten million mo.
tor rs buy. two gallon. ~ gasoline
daily. and that the avcrag, flching
from short measure artists" amounts
90 two pints m each five gallons. re
.uitinr IN total daily los, 10 pur-
chasers Of one million gallons. valued
a. approSimstel $4,000
The association announced .t, in.
t,.tion 90 combat the "snor, meas.
urc' selling
Recent tess with fraud detecting
devices, carefully made under official
auspices" by representative. ~ au.
tomoblc clubs. the sta,cmen, said,
develop the astounding fact that Gu,
~ number ~ purchases o. gas in
fye-galion lots. there was shortage
running from one 90 three pints each
in over 80 per cent 81 the tests
made"
These tests were conducted chief
ly % wa, said. IN Cleveland. Louis
vile and Kansas City. although in
one large city only or two cases Of
hlching Vas reported.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
DISCUSS PLANS FOR
ERADICATION OF "1B"
Eastern Conference Favoes Area
Plan Of Testing.
Leading chIesoo Packers gHpress
Intention Of Paying Premium Tor
Animals From Farms With
Accredited Nerds.

prepared ~ the Unnsd state. Department
% Agriculture
The Eastern States tuberculosis
conference. held recently at Hartford.
Conn. considered various problems In
the way IL eradication ~ this plague
from cattle and hogs. hut the greatest
emphasis was given Ia the area plan
~ testing cattle and the results that
have thus far resulted from it, use
out was that the leading Chicago
packers recently expressed In "a resu
luton their Intention ~ paying a pre-.
MUM ~ ~ cents u hundred pounds
for hogs bred and fed IN and shipped
from counties accredited by stat. and
federal authorities as being free ~
tuberculosis and the same for those
bred and fed and shipped from indI.
yidunl farms on which the herds have
been accredited a. being free Of the
disease.
breeders and business men present
~ the conference were ~ the opinion
that the area plan IL the most eco
nomical yet devised and that II AZ
fords the maximum protection To-
herds against r.lnfectlon. one promi.
neni New England breeder and milk
producer said that when tuberculosis
was eradicated from herd there
were much fewer complaints ~ losses
from other causes. such ~ shy breed
Ing and calf disorders
Federal and state men who are en-
gagged In tuberculosis eradication work
were unanimous In urging that there
should b. u white spot. n iuh.rcu-
iosi--free county. in each state as soon
ms possible These free areas are tn.
best kind ~ demonstration 20 the rest
~ the state ~ the good that comes
through such cooperative clcan.ups
and the sooner these spots arr found
In all parts 81 the country the sooner
will the plague be wiped cut.
This was the third conference 81 the
kind held in this region and I, II
probabl. that another will be held
next year.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
BETTER LAWS AGAINST DOGS
Regulations In Various states Intend
cd to Protect Sheep but Are
Poorly Enforced.

Although ~ states have dog laws
designed 10 protect sheep, many of
them ARE 81 poorly planned or 80 POOR.
ly enforced that dogs still do much
damage To hocks. especially In the
farming states where nocks are small
and dogs are plentiful There is need
for improvement In these laws. hut,
says the United States Department of
Agriculture. u poor law that IN en-.
forced with energy may produce bet.
ter results In shssp conservation than
much better law that 10 halfheart-
eddy enforced. Dogs keep many men
from going into the sheep business.
which IN probably greater setback
10 the industry than the actual dam.
ag. done by them
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
BUENA VISTA
School Tablets. 4. n. Basin 4 Co
Delayed

Mr.. Edwin Lane, Of Lexington. is
spending a few days with relatives
here.
Miss Sadie Ruble left Monday for
Danville TO enter Kentucky College
for Women.
Miss Ruth Lane lef, Saturday for
Covington. where she will teach in
the city school.
Little Miss Judith James Lane
spent last "Wednesday with her aunt,
Mrs. JAS. !. Hamilton.
Mr.. and Mrs Herman Frasa and
Miss Jones, Of Dayton. Tenn, are the
guests Of Mrs. Jas. Frasa.
Mr.. Charlie Duncan and Miss
America Duncan, of Burgin, attended
church here last Sunday.
Mrs. Will Scott and Misses Lila X
and Rachel Scott were in Nicholas
Vile and Lexington Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. II. Lane. Mr.. and
Mrs Wesley Lane were guests Of
Lancaster relatives last Tuesday.
Miss Gladys Hamilton. Of X. ".
C.. Winchester, spent the weekend
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs Joe
Hamilton.
Misses ". 7. Green and Price Lane
~ Lexington. spent several days last
week with their aunts, Ms. Jennie
Lane and Mrs. Roy Williams.
Mr.. Wilson Clark died at his home
near here last Saturday morning.
The funeral service was conducted by
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
Driving ciose to Crib.

wagon wheels. writes u. H. Van Horn
Of Nebraska. In the Farm Journal.
Each groove was "a little wider than
the wheel and curved away from the
base M the end, as shown In upper
sketch. once the wheels were started
In the grooves. they were drawn In
close TO the barn.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21
DRIVE WAGON CLOSE TO CRIB
Where slipping Land and s,Io Prevent
ed Driving In . Layer Of
Concrete Remsdisd.

Several bins built in a basement
barn were hard 10 reach because the
ground sloped away. and because a
silo NJ one end prevented driving in
close a, the start. The remedy was tn
level the slope and put down n layer
~ concrete. with grooves for the
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21

Rev. Morton. Presbyterian minister,
Of Nicholasville. at the Mt. Olivet
cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Askins. Mr..
and Mrs. Salisbury and daughter, of
Kansas City. Mo. arrived by auto
mobile Wednesday for visit to Mrs.
Alice Askins. Miss Nellie Askins and
Mrs. Ben Naylor.
Messrs. John and Rueben Naylor
are in Louisville. attending the State
Fair. Mr.. John Naylor will exhibit
several pens Of his Brown Leghorn
chickens that have won blue ribbons
at several fairs during the summer.
a number from here attended the
Bulgin revival services at Harrods-
burg. Among them were Misses
Ruth Broadus, Mamie Calico. Ruth
Lane Matte Calico, Messrs. Paul
Wilson. Brice Sechrest. Rueben Nay
Tor and Hansel Lane.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21

rfufu suffering Than you
have Isrbap. imasined.
An eminent physlcian.
srpert In this science,
has shown tie way u
Vas be who nTsf pro.
dured the great remedy.
Mothers Friend" Mira.
q J Hartman. Scran-
Ton, IA. says.
with my first two
ehiliren ] had q doctor
ana . nurse aud then
they had 60 use insiru-
nents tut with my las,
tvo Children useL
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21

The sweetness Of hattery turns to
bitterness when the truth becomes
known.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1922-09-21

Treat your neighbor like human
being and he won't treat you like a
dog