The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-12-31


ment and property supported entirely by contribu-
lions from the general public and not owned or
operated for profit should be exempted from tax
alton, and that there should be constitutional
provision prohibiting the expenditure of public
funds except for strictly public purposes, and that
such amendments would result in striking the
shackes from the hands of our lawmakers, and,
while compelling them to deal honestly and fairly
modern and progressive conditions with modern
and progressive laws
'Johnnie!'
"Yes'm"
Why are you sitting on that boys face?"
Why, l."
Did not tell you always to count hundred
before you gave way to passion and struck an
other boy?'
'Yes'm, an Pm doin' it. I'm just setting on
his face so he'll be here when Pm done countin'
the hundred"
Colvlle is shown as the only incorporated munic-
ipaity of the third class in Stevens county in list
OF l8O Incorporated towns and cities in the state
prepared by l. M. Howell secretary of state, for
his forthcoming biennial report There are shown
six fourth class municipalities in the county,
These are Marcus Ione Kettle Falls, Newport
Springdale and Chewelah. The report shows for
the entire state 18O Incorporated municipalities
of which 140 are municipalities of the fourth Glass;
80 of the third Glass; three of the second class
and four of the first class. No Incorporated town
or city is shown for Wahkiakum county, But one
municipality each and that Of the fourth class is
shown for Mason Island, San Juan and Skamania
counties. Whitman county has the largest num-
Der of Incorporated municipalities shown for any
one county, having IA fourth class municipalities
Pierce and King counties have identicaly the same
number of municipalities of the various classes,
each having of the first class, one of the third
class and nine of the fourth class
The Humphrey ship subsidy bill, which provides
for an annual gift of $5 OOO 900 from the treasury
of the United States to millionaire private ship
owners is to be jammed through this session of
congress at the special request of President Taft
Ship subsidies are about as unpopular with the
country generally as tariff revision upward. Yet
the republicans appear to be unafraid to place this
additional class legislation upon the statute books
The best that can be said for shipping subsidy
is that it provides for the payment of public
moneys directly to big private interests on the
assumption that the maritime commerce of the
United States will increase and that the public will
then be able to get the donations back indirectly.
But past experiments have proven that once the
special interests get hold of the peoples money,
the people have their own trouble getting it back
either directly or indirectly.
Although it is not generally known, Uncle Sam
subsidies few mail steamship lines. Our heav-
est subsidized line is between New York and Eng
land. If it is true as subsidsts assert, that trade
follows subsidies why is it that our exports to the
United Kingdom in the 10 years between 1897 and
1907 increased but 25 per cent, while our exports
to nine countries to which we have no Subsidized
lines increased from los to 1900 per cent?
Teachers certificates were issued to residents of
Stevens county during the week ended Dec 81 as
follows: Halle O. Clarke, Pearle Coamore,
Georgia Thayer, Emma A. Turney, Ida C. Curry,
Lucius E. Decker Mrs. Eta H. Heaton, Gertrude
Fitzpatrick Elsie NJ Lister, Anna Peterson, Mary
E. Wells.
Another professor has just bobbed into the lime
light with certain startling assertions about the
difference in lght-haired and dark-haired people.
This is Professor DR.. Lansendorf of Vienna, who
has apparently taken up in downright earnest the
eternal discussion of the superiority of blondes
over brunettes.
The scientific tables and data that he has COL
lected are appalling in their minuteness and
volume. To reduce the professors conclusions
to something like brevity he finds that 80 per cent
of the worlds great literary men, artists.
musicians, philosophers and scholars, as well as
people who have ethical ideas and high moral prin-
ciples are blondes. Black-haired people, he says,
are money-earners and brutal oppressors. The
professors statistics show that 80 per cent of the