The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-08-13

Hill the PostoHca
IF THIS WERE GERMANY
CHI! If this Germany, what grand that how
"A would make" remarked some weeks AGO
he admired the awart carriage and muscular symmetry of o
of Kennewick's 17-year-old youths.
Today the German his admng eyes followed The
passing youth, mused Wha blessing this Germany M
that boy would now be target for someone's bullet flower
his manhood would be bghted the budding and the
promise would the heartsobs of
On that first occasion the German under the thrill of patriotic
pride the gamor the spurious spenor of The
of the last days have lifted the Today he be-
held gaunt destructon-the unmasked vsage of mtarsm
AS the battles and the progresses seas the
thunder off, We the cabed grpp
by the excitement of flying coors charging squadrons smoking
and bombardng ships The tramp of the marching
thousands ss fighting blood The deaded trenches the
bloodstained fields the shattered temples vessels
MANNED and starved humanity become but passing Incidents mere
matters-of-fact
shift scene Pluck our little bodily up and
set down in the Hoist the coors and sound call
Leave the rpened fruit and and
the unharvested grain to shrve and haer the field Call
boys from the farm from the Office the shop store
Send forth the pride of homes and the flower of youth
become targets for someone's bullets How family circles
would be unbroken? How many escape the
stalk of want and the shadow of death?
Contemplate the The fighting fever in blood
sensbties sicken The glory of welded fades
dees of martial by and there the
beggared age childhood fathers
the mothers the widows and the orphans Thus sobered
in each abed dispatch but another horror of devastation death
camors for war never, but counsels peace
FILLING THE JOBS
WITH field of applicants to twelve
w jobs it looks the voters Benton county should able
the official affairs of the county in competent hands,
AS taxpayers have the right expect that business
fairs of the county be administered wisely economically
for the best the county whole The realization
expectations will be measured by the judgment display
choice of the who to fill the county Offices Forow
have before the voters of this county asking for
the voters should investigate the qualifications EACH The
to insure efficiency in office and after the ballots
the box
analysis the election of county officials nothing
more than business transaction judgment rather
than political preference should be the voters guide.
AMODERN NECESSITY
THE VALUE of advertising felt endsthe merchant
the consumer and the publisher.
Through the medium of his advertisements merchant
quains the with the for SALE their
attractive features and is himself constantly
touch with the consumer.
The consumer reads of the goods wants. where
find Them and the time frutless hunting place
place.
The publisher is the gobetween the medium of communc
ton between the buyer and the seller public convenience
Strange as it may seem, he, too, has his uses.
Advertising accompshes more good and better results
az people tnan any one feature in commercial life.
modern necessity made by constantly increasing
demands OF discriminating public.
BY THE WAY
Why shouldn't the European scrappers make efforts
to retain the friendship the must feed
the starving millions when the war is over
unwilling to do yourself ask the other fellow
age may be greater than yours
Wheat prices have not yet reached doar grain point
But farmers have hopes
Some people spend much money getting ready for vaca
Zion they never have enough to get there with.