Show government decides to make mace war var on mistletoe the mistletoe Is so closely as soc socia ted with the lie christmas celebration has fins been found guilty and is about to be banished from the national nal forests of the pacific slope the plant thrives wonderfully nonder fully in that section of the fie country its leaves are so large find and in eppe appearance urance that it is some limes commercially cultivated and great quantities shipped to the eastern states for yuletide decoration but as is generally ann the plant locates on oak end other trees and in the northwest it soon str strangles angies its host government forest rangers have started upon a crusade which will exterminate the plant by tearing out dense areas of the trailers six or seven years oi 01 work will be required to accomplish the purpose the toe growths are viewed with interest by tourists and purely out of sentimental regi regard Ird a small amount of 0 will be allowed to remain for the benefit of the visiting si sightseers bt |