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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-07

VOTING FOR OUR OWN IN.
TERESTS

TERESTS
A VOTE next Tuesday for S.
~ J. Harrison for Congress
not only means a vote for an
able. conscientious, hard-work-
ing man who will undoubtedly
make good as a congressman, but
it means vote in the interest of
reclamation work in the state
and the Northwest. With the
exception of H. w. Hale, of Ell
lensburg, Mr.. Harrison is the on
ly candidate who is familiar
with the needs Of the irrigated
sections. He has had practical
experience in the actual develop
ment of irrigated lands as well
as experience in the formation of
irrigation districts and the Sc
curing Of government appropria-
tons for irrigation work.
Mr.. Harrison has made a thoro
campaign in all parts of the con-
gressional district and has ex-
cellent chances for the nominal
ton. Every first choice republi-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-07

can vote in Benton county should
be cast for him and the second
choice votes should be given to
Mr.. Hale.
So 1893
SHOULD BE REELECTED
Mr.. A. C. JONES, candidate
lVl for reelection to the office
of county superintendent of
schools, is an official who de-
serves the support of the peo-
pie of Benton county at the
forthcoming primaries. In the
conduct of his office the last two
years he has demonstrated UNI
questioned ability and has won
the commentator of many of
the state school officials as well
as the hearty support of the
school authorities of Benton
county. He has been influenced
by no consideration save the well
fare of the school children of
the county and is entitled to
another term in the Office upon
his record of efficiency and pro-
gressiveness.
MOORES FOR REPRESENTA-
TIVE
IN another column in this issue
i there is published an inter-
view with Gordon C. Moores, in
which he outlines his conception
of the duties of a legislator. We
believe Mr.. Moores' views cannot
but strongly appeal to the good
judgment and the common sense
of the voters of Benton county.
Mr.. Moores' statements are in
keeping with the trend of the
times which is steadily and sure
ly sealing the doom of the fool
legislator and freak legislation.
The people are awakening to the
fact that conditions demand that
the state legislature be made up
of men of calm and calculating
judgment rather than those of a
bromo-seltzer disposition and
gun-powder characteristics.
AA*%+%%
THE present controversy over
i the county clerkship is one
of the strongest arguments we
know of for the election of such
men as r. e. Pratt to the board
Of county commissioners. AS
the county's business managers
the commissioners should be suf-
ficiently familiar with the bust
ness details of the several de-
partments to weed out needless
expenditures and to insist upon
economy in the administration
of county affairs.
BY electing, whenever posi-
BILE, men of business experience
and training, to the board of
county commissioners, the tax
payers will do much more toward
protecting their pocketbooks
than by bargaining off the coun-
tv Offices to the lowest bidder.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-07

can vote in Benton county should
be cast for him and the second
choice votes should be given to
Mr.. Hale.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Girl GIova Workers Strike.

Decatur. ILL.,, May 5.-Girls EN-.
ployed in the Mulhenkruch glove
and tnitten factory have struck be
cause of refusal of the manage
ment to increase wages and better
working conditions. The girls
say they are compelled to walk up
FIVE flights of stairs to get to their
work AMI If they are one minute
late the door is locked and they are
compelled to go home. Toilets are
unsanitary and the drinking water
faucet is the same one that Is over
the dirty sink used by the employees
to wash. The factory Is swept but
twice a week and lint from the
cloths used in making gloves is ar
Inch deep on the floor. The Girl,
are compelled to furnish all needle,
and their lunches are eaten within
few feet of the toilet.
The strikers are unorganized
They say they do not expect to Sc
cure their former positions, bu
they hope their protest will result
in bettering the condition of othel
working girls.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
MUSK IN THE RAW.
IL Looks Much Like Axle Crease, but
Has a Worse Odor.

Musk In the raw looks u good deal
like axle grease and smells worse. The
popular notion that the musk Of com
merce is obtained from the muskrat
is mistake
There is obtained a somewhat SINH
lar perfume from the muskrat, but
most Of the supply comes from the
musk deer, creature that is carefully
reared in India for the sake of the Sc
cretion. The secretion Is shipped in
the crude state and is used not only
In the manufacture of the liquid per-
fume sold as musk, but also In very
small quantities to give strength and
staying power TO many perfumes made
from the essential oils of flowers.
Curiously enough, the blossoms of
two native plants have a noticeably
musky odor. One is the small yellow
blossom of creeping vine known as
the musk plant. Its odor is marked
and is counterfeited in the commercial
perfume called musk The other is the
bloodroot. The pure white blossom of
that early spring plant has distinct
though delicate musky odor
A bean known as the musk bean is
a cheap substitute for animal musk
London Standard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Curious Church Arohitantu.a.

The parish church Of Ormskirk, In
Lancashire, England, has a tower and
a spire side by side. The tower Is built
over the porch at the west end, and the
spire is placed as closely as possible
to Ii. The origin of this architectural
freak has not been ascertained, but
there Is a tradition to the effect that
when Orme, the Saxon pirate from
whom the town derives its name, de
cided to construct q kirk, or church,
as an expiatory offering for his evil
deeds his two daughters quarreled over
the design for the structure. One de
termined to have a tower; the other
was equally resolved to have a steeple.
AS neither of them would give way
the pirate chief acceded to both their
wishes, and the curious may see the
tower and spire still keeping watch
side by side on the surrounding coun-
try
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
LaWIess 'CossaGks" Club Men
and Women.

Scranton, Pa. May 5.-The state
constabulary, known as 'cossacsks'
is blamed for the rioting at Wilkes
Barre.
Street car men have been on.
strike for several months, and that
town is the scene of numerc us out
breakes by Waddell strikebreakers,
guards and the state constabularly.
The Wilkes Barre correspondent to
the Scrantonian says.
Zone would really be led to be-
lieve, If he has to pay attention to
the preachers of law and order,
that to refuse to ride on scab
manned cars, or refuse to be beaten
up by Waddedl thug, was a
crime and that the authorities
should take some action against all
such offenders. But as bad as the
Waddell crew of bired thugs are
the coundy today is infested by a
more daring band, and the very
lives and liberties of the citizens are
menaced by horde of irresponsible
chaps who wear the badge of the
state and 60 about armed to the
teeth looking for and provoking
trouble.
That the city and &C unity is
menaced by lawless horde, there
is no denying. That state, county
and city authorities seem to be
linked with the traction company
in the effort to drive the strikers
back to work and compel the peo-
pie to ride the scab- manned cars,
there is very little reason to doubt.
But the lawlessness and disor-
der that breaks out in spots herea-
bouts could be checked if the coun-
ty aud city authorities but did their
duty. Instead of a sheriff sending
additional state troopers to protect
the lawless horde that is now here,
he, with the mayor, should take
action to rid the community of the
gunmen and thugs that go about
beating up people and insulting
women and children, thus provok-
ing riots.
There is no lack Of proof of the
fact that this band of lawless thugs
have let no opportunity pass to stir
up trouble. The police records will
bear out this statement, and so
will the court records. But for
some reason or another, instead of
hning these chaps the limit, as they
do with the citizens of this city,
they are left off and thus encour-
aged TO commit other depredations"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
A FLOATING FORTUNE.
The Right Kind OF Whale 10 Heavily
Frsiaited with Wealth.


First let Us dispe, the popular idea
that whale is a fish. 1t is not fish,
but an animal. 1t feeds its young with
milk. And even though it lives in the
water 1t can be drowned. A fish ex-
tracts oxygen from the water and
takes 1t through its gills. But the
whale has to rise to the surface and
get supply of oxygen from the air.
When 1t does this 1t spouts water to
make room for air, and the fishermen
say, '"There she blowsv'
A whale has a large, fat tail, about
Eighteen feet across. Every fish has an
upright tail. That Is because fish need
their tails only to act as rudders. But
whale, when he needs oxygen, has to
beat down the water and get to the sur
face In bounds. That's the reason his
tail is fat
The baleen, or whalebone whale, car
lies all the whalebone IN his mouth.
It hangs down from his upper jaw In
vast network. He eats the smallest
sort Of Jellytish, etc. Having no teeth,
he swims right into a shoal Of things
that form his food, and the network of
whalebone acts as a huge fishing net,
Whalebone is worth $4,000 ton, and
one whale may carry one and half
tons OF 1t. Besides whalebone, we get
tons of oil from the whale. 1t Is used
fnr ointments and very fine candles.
And from a certain species of whale
we get ambergris, which LIS worth
from $40 to $50 an ounce. The whale
is q floating fortune.-Milwaukee Sen
tfnaI
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
BOAT TRIPS 8

In addition to the regular Sun
dav trips, the Steamer Island Queen
Is getting ready for the Cincir natl
to Louisville trips which will be
sailed May 11th and 18th, return
Ing to Cincinnati, May 18th and
May 10Th, respectively. Hundreds
of residents of Cincinnati and VI
cinity will take the May 18th trip
so as to be in Louisville May ID,
when the classic derby race at
Churchill Downs, in that city takes
place. On each date the Queen
will leave the foot of Broadway at
s a. m. sharp, arriving in Louis
vile about 6. p. m
The boat will stop going to and
from Louisville, at Aurora, Pising
Sun, Vevay Madison and Carroll
ton to take on or leave off passen-
gers. 1t has been arranged to cut
the fare to rockbottom figure 75
ceuts for the round trip. Anyone
wishing to stay week at Louis.
vile or the other points may do sc
as the round trip ticket is good fol
that period of time. During the
voyage the very best of table d.
hote meals will be served for 81
cents,
The regular voyages of the Queer
and Princess will be sailed Sunday
The Island Queen will sail at 9:3(
a. m. and $3.50 for Aurora ane
Lawrenceburg, Ind Home ware
bound she will leave Aurora a
1880 a. m. and $50 p. m. ane
Lawrenceburg, at noon and 6 .. IN
The Princess will leave for New
Richmond at 10 a. M. and 2:30 D
m. leaving that city at noon anc
4:30 p. m. Both boats will hav.
stopovers at all ports.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Prison Scandal Revived.

Little Kock, Ark, May 5.-A
short time ago 1t was charged that
convicts in this state were treated
in an inhuman manner. A com-
mittee was appointed to investigate
but the claims were found not true.
Right-thinking citizens, however,
declared the committees report was
a "whitewash," and continued the
agitation. AS result Governor
Hays made a personsl investigation
and later asked for the designations
Of two members of the penitentiary
board. This was refused and the
state executive has brought charges
against them. The trial is now in
progress. One convict acknow-
lodged he committed perjury when
questioned by the former investi-
eating committee. When asked
why he did So he replied:
Well, if you lawyers knew that
200 pound man with a six fooi
lash was waiting to whip you II
you did not testify as you were OR
dered, you would have committed
perjury, too"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
KOS 7 Bk
Local Organizers and Busi-
ness Agents.

Charles +. Vaughn. A. F. Of L.
Residence, 721 Buckeye Street
Home Phone 800 A.
Timothy Rowan, Inteinatiopa
Molders' Union, Residence, 939
Central Ave, Bell Phore 403 x.
Vim. w. Finfrock, Painters
Decorators and Paper Hangers
Union, No 1876. Residence 308 S.
second Street. Bell Phone 1896 L.
w. R. Smith. Paper Makers I'm
ion, Residence, Hotel DeArmond.
Home Phone 81. Bell Phone 81.
Swain B. 'Corson, Carpenters
and Joiners' Union, No. 637, Resi-
deuce .l07 Brosey Ave, Bell Phone
756 L.
Wm Leonard, Business Agent
Ba1tenders' Union, 251 Chestnut St
Vim Geppinger, Business Agent
Theatrical Stage Employ es' Union,
726 4 High ST. Home Phone 1101
DAYTON OHIO.
Ben Closterman, Polishers.
J. F. Eichorn, Bartenders, 7
Market street.
w. ]. Gregg, Hosting Engineers
Al w. Great Miami Boulevard.
Vim Schneberger, Cigarmakers'
125 Samuel street.
George Richardson, Teamsters'
80 Wayne, Ave, Bell Phone SAL
Home Phone 2541.
Earl Nyswander, Carpenters 25
N. Main street.
Geo. Lorah, Plumbers corner
Washington and Main, street
Plumbers Hall.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Says Pleas Are HypeGritiCaI

San Francisco, May, 5 -Editor
Scharenberg of the Coast Seamen' q
Journal is not impressed with the
pleas of certain opponents of immi-
grafton restriction. He says;
Many hypocritical pleas have
been made In the name of freedom,
liberty and 'Americanism. But
never was there a greater display
OF hypocracy than in the many fer
vent appeals made for the poor IL
llterate immigrants who would be
barred from our shores if the i'm
mig alton restriction bill, now
pending in the United States senate
were enacted into law.
Unfortunately, there is a seri-
Gus conflict of opinion regarding
the correct definition of the words
freedom and 'Americanism.
There are those who contend that
true 'Americanism' means an in
dnstTial democracy in which labor
has the right and the opportunity
to determine for itself what are
fair wages and reasonable working
conditions.
ITO the steel trust, however,
the words Americapism and free
dem have only one meaning-it is
freedom to exploit the workers of
the world. And, of course neither
the steel trust nor the lesser octo-
pia of American industry desire
any change in the present arrange
ment which enables thelu to ex-
plot the workers OF the world by
keeping constant and large sur
plus of imported ignorant pauper
labor rights at the gates of their
respective plants. Hence the siren
uous opposition to any immigration
restriction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
PRECIOUS PETROLEUM.
K 10 q Priceless Resource That Can
Never Be Replaced.

N 10 q Priceless Resource That Can
Never Be Replaced.
"How much petroleum there is in the
United States no one knows" writes
Franklin Il. Lane in an article on
Economic Preparedness" published in
the Scientific American. But at the
present rate of consumption-265 ,0o0,
GOO barrels year-it will soon be eX
hausted, for the geological surveys
barrels.
Whatever the supply" says Mr..
Lane, ut should not be allowed in its
crude state to compete with coal as
fuel Petroleum is priceless resource,
for 1t can never be replaced. Trees can
be grown again on the soil from which
they have been taken. But how can
petroleum be produced? 1t has taken
ages for nature TO distill it in her sub
terranean laboratory. We do not even
know her process. We may find sub
stttute for 1t, but we have not yet.
"It Is practically the one lubricant of
the world today. Not railroad wheel
turns without it's way being smoothed
by It, We can make light and heat by
hydroelectric power, but the great
turbines move on bearings that are
smothered In petroleum. From 1t we
get the quick exploding gas which Is
to the motor and the airship what air
is to the human body. To industry, ag
riculture, commerce and the pleasures
OF life petroleum is now essential"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Oriqin of the Hackney.

The hackney horse has given quite a
number of useful words to the Ian
guage He and his name came from
Normandy acknowledgement really
corruption of the Latin for horse.
and he was a riding horse Being com
monty hired out, the name came to be
associated with hiring and in course
of time also with drudgery. Today
there are far more hackney carriages,
out horses than with. A literary hack
is another form of the same name, and
hackneyed is an obvious derivation
from a common source. London
Chronicle
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
"Sparring For Tims y

Washington, May, 5.-A com
mittee of business men appointed
by the Chamber of commerce of the
United States of America favors
congress directing the interstate
commerce commission to investigate
the eight hour demands of railroad
train service employees and related
subjects. 1t is also suggested that
congress ask the employees ard the
railway companies to postpone fur
ther consideration of The questions
at issue until the interstate COM
merce commission may be able to
complete its Investigations and
make its report.
The report of the committee of
the chamber of commerce is sent to
a referendum and the result of the
voting will be known the second
week in June.
If the referendum favors an in
vestigation, the matter will be re-
ferred to congress. When the
members of both houses take favor
able action the matter will be re-
ferred To the interstate commerce
commission who will thoroughly
investigate the wages and hours of
not only the train service men, but
the wages AM hours Of men in
other industries 'and any other
matter in this connection that the
commission may deem revelant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05

New York Legislature providing
for penalty of not less than $5
for the first offense for opening
barber shops on Sunday. The
present law provides for a fine of
not more than S.. The amend
ment would increase the minimum
fine for q second offense from $40
to Sl5 or a minimum imprisonment
of 70 days. The exceptions to the
law In favor of barber shops con-
Quoted at Saratoga Springs and
New York are stricken out.
The Street Car Mems Union of
Hamilton, Ont, has signed two
year contract with the local street
car company. The following wage
increases have been secured. First
year men, p cents an hour; second
year men, "A cents an hour, and
third year men, % cents an hour,
The original demand was scale of
25, % and 80 cents an hour.
Wages paid to the men before were
20, % and 25 cents per hour, ac-
cording to the grade.
The minimum wage amendment
to the Detroit, Mich, city charter
has been resubmitted to the city
council at the request Of the De-
troit Federation of Labor. The
amendment provides for wage Of
not less than 81 so a day fo- un-
skilled labor and the highest pre-
vailing rates for skilled mechanics.
This amendment. last spring, re-
ceived the largest vote ever given
charter proposal, but was recent
! ly declared invalid because legal
red tape had not been compiled
with.
The Reece B tlonhole Machine
Company of Boston has reached ar
agreement with its 400 striking
employees. A SO called efficiency
system is abandoned, the eight
hour day granted, and wages are
increased. Time aid QUE half will
be paid for overtime and double
time for Sundays and holidays
Arbitration provisions are alsc
agreed to in the contract. Thes,
workers are mostly machintsts
They were unorganized when the,
struck, but returned to work a
members of Machinists' Union No
264.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
LitsraCy Opponents Continue
Alarm Cry,

Toledo, Ohio, May s. -Uudel
the caption "Still Harping on ths
Literacy Test" the Evening Blad,
expresses these editorial views or
the Burnett immigration bill, nov
pending In the senate
A number of persons in excel
lent vocal condition continue to be
exercised over the literacy test ot
the immigration bill The fault:
and flaws they find in it are simply
amazing. If an earnest minded
citizen confined his reading to these
criticisms he would become con
vinced that this test must be elm
mated or the republic will perish.
The immigration commission
which first made study of ways
to restrict the human food from
Europe, voted 8 to for the literacy
test because it was the only practi-
cal method suggested TO ii. One
proposal was that the emmigration
from any one country should in a
single year be confined to certain
percentage of the ten-year average
emigration of the country. An
other proposal was that immigra-
tion be controlled as to groups. In
any one wear, only single group
should have the privilege of enter
ing the country. There was still
another idea, that a contract be re
quired guaranteeing the immi-
grant ability to earn living wage
Plainly, some of the restriction
could not be applied. The com
mission had to accept the ltteracy
test as the one thing that could be
administered day after day without
deing grave injustice, conflicting
with laws and treaties and raising
the business of examining immi-
grants to the dimensions of -four
ishing munitions plants.
"Once the immigration bill is
passed and becomes operative, we
will hear little more about the
shortcomings and expressions of
the littracy test. The agitation
has been conducted mostly by peo-
pie who saw in this test a threat
ened shortage of cheap labor, an
increase in living standards which
would make a low standard of
wages ro longer possible. +"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Knife Duelr In Maxleo.

A duel between cattle herders on the
Mexican plains is about as savage and
deadly a manner of fighting as one
could possibly imagine. Each opponent
extends his left arm, and q third party
who has been selected to act as ref
cree binds their wrists together with
q thong Of rawhide. He then places O.
knife In the right hand OF each, and
the fight Is on. Needless to say, 1T does
not Last long. Every stab may be cal
culated upon to do damage, and it Of
ten happens that both duelists receive
fatal wounds. Yet, In spite Of the Sc
we're rules OF the game, there are men
who become experts and terrortze a
whole neighborhood. They pride them
selves on being able to strike so quick
~ and so surely that they can kill an
opponent with the first blow and Sget
Away unScathed4 -NxGhaQ2a.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-05-05
Child Laher Is Ruinous.

Waterbury, Conn, May s.
Children are community's great.
est and most valuable asset" said
Superintendent Johnson of the
state reformatory, in an address In
this city.
Upon them the future welfare
or degradation must depend. Oh
what avail is it to build magnificent
structures or great commercial or.
CARNATIONS if the human being who
are to be the motive power in them
are not of the proper kind. We
like to think that in our democracy
there are upon the streets today
some future president of the United
States or some future governor oi
our commonwealth.
1T IS true that out from the chill
dren must come the leaders in good
ness, but the future leaders in
wickedness and crime are also TO
come from the same group In com
munual lie. The child cannot
speak for itself, 1t therefore be-
hooves those of us who are interes.
ted in the better tomorrow as well
as a brighter today to see to 1t that
the children's rights are protected
and their interests conserved"