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Show PARROTS, FIRES AND ACCIDENTS. "It is with mi,xed emotions that one reads of the presidential order for the exclusion of parrots from our previously hospitable shores," says the Portland Oregon-ian. Oregon-ian. This action is the result of a disease said to be brought in by parrots and which has caused the death of several persons. . i -5 $ While the parrots frighten us into hysterics over a few deaths attributed to them, we go calmly on our various var-ious ways unmindful of some 15,000 persons burned to death each year in fires and some 30,000 persons killed in automobile accidents. In other words, nearly 45,000 lives snuffed out annually by causes which are almost wholly preventable, do not move us to corrective action, but a sensational death due to a sensational cause arouses arous-es our immediate attention. By the same tcken that it is good judgment to protect pro-tect the people from needless diseases, is is also good judgment to- focus public attention on the lives and property that can be saved annually by a little care in the use of fire and automobiles. If the parrot incident could only call public attention atten-tion to the incongruousness of the present situation, it would-be of lasting benefit to humanity. o |