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Show THE CITIZEN forming grasses, but grow in bunches FAKE LAWN SEED Many persons have been victimized by the Zenith Lawn Accessory Company, a firm with numerous mail addresses, engaged in selling a grass seed mixture for lawns under the Coined name Herbae Prati. The Post Office Department has denied the company the use of the mail. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, grossly erroneous statements as to its suitability for lawns have been made. Its qualities have been proclaimed in such phrases the as the boss of all grasses; a worlds most beautiful blue-gras- s; lawn in 30 days anywhere; it will grow where other grasses have failheat, ed, in any soil or climate; vcold, or shade will not affect it. w An analysis of the mixture made by the department seed testing laboratory showed it to be composed mainly of meadow fescue and Italian rye grass. The victims have paid as high as $1.50 a pound for the mixture, whereas, according to the department, the constituents of the Herbae Prati mixture could have been purchased from reputable seed firms for not more than 18 to 20 cents a pound. The postal fraud order has put a stop to the use of the mails by the firm, but traveling agents are still active throughout the country, especially in the Southern state at present, selling Herbae Prati by house to house icanvass and to local seed handlers. Meadow fescue is not a lawn grass. In the humid sections of the United States it is a good meadow and pas- -. ture grass when used in mixtures with other grasses, but it may be said unqualifiedly that it is not a desirable lawn grass nor is it drought-resistain the commonly accepted sense of the term. Italian rye grass is sometimes used for making temporary lawns or as a minor constituent of permanent lawn mixtures for 'quick and temporary results. Meadow fescue and Italian rye grass are not turf nt much the same as timothy, and, therefore, it is impossible for them to make a velvety turf. By nature of their growth they are not aggressive against weeds and creeping grasses, and they are ho more tolerant of shade than is Kentucky bluegrass. U. S. AND THE LEAGUE. British newspapers are editorially expressing the opinion that the squabble over the council seats in the League of Nations will delay the adherence of the United States to the League and damage League sentiment in the United States. What Europeans seem unable to grasp is that Uncle Sam is not contemplating joining the League of Nations. Few people in America will begrudge any good that the League can do toward But keeping the peace in Europe. there is little or no sentiment in any. political party in America which looks toward the United States joining the League of Nations. Doubtless the way League politics has been handled at Geneva during the last few weeks will make Americans all the more thankful that the United States is not a League member but it will not postpone our ratification of the League covenant because no such ratification is contemplated by any considerable following of the League in the United States. Doubtless European hopes of our entering the maelstorm were magnified by our joining the World Court with reservations and our agreement to attend the disarmament conference. But this did not mean that the Unit ed States was contemplating joining the League of Nations. It is reported at Washington that one reason for the delay of the arms conference was that the European nations desired to find out whether the United States was not ready to join in a closer participation in international affairs. Commenting on this supposition the Boston Tran- - Through thfe Black Top, 'on to the concrete. Snapped with camera August C, 1925, on Sixth South, between Main and West Temple Streets. Heavily loaded wagons conie to grief on black top pavements during hot summer days. In this picture is shown where the wagon wheel has cut into the blacktop to the cement. It shows what horses are up against when pulling heavy loads upon such pavements. No wonder the drivers take to the street car tracks. script, a newspaper more than friendly to the administration, says: The European countries anxious to get the United States into the League will be sorely disappointed if they really believe, as reported, that recent events mean this country has changed its opinion regarding joining the League. Sentiment in Washington and apparently trroughout the country is as strong against membership in the League as it ever has been delayed for this reason, the quicker it is called the better. 9 French students recently broke up a communist meeting in Paris with a riot, and the communists protested vigorously. They are only in favor of direct action when they do it What girls turn is it this week to be mentioned as a possible bride to the Prince of Wales ? Detroit Free Press. Mexico threatens to become as and scrappy a place as Geneva. |