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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-04

sold for irrigation purposes, espec-
tally outside of the district. Should
the power be used for pumping to the
within district, then the acreage cost
will be proportionately reduced.
On account of the immense area of
the project and the large acreage that
must be sold to actual settlers and
farmers before the water can be put
to beneficial use, it is deemed very es-
sential that the project be built in
units or by stages. 1t is believed that
the canal should be constructed to
capacity of 1850 c. f. S. which would
involve the expenditure of $9,476,S
in conjunction with the Cispus river,
Cedar valley and Little Klickitat di-
versions in order that as much water
as possible could be supplied from the
natural flow of these streams. In con-
junction, the main lateral across
the Horse Heaven plateau should be
also constructed, so that the lands
which were prepared and ready to re-
ceive water could be irrigated. Fur
Their expenditure of funds for a COM
pleted distribution system and stor-
age need not be made until all the nat
ural flow had been put to beneficial
use. 1t is estimated that this could
be done for about $45 per acre. In or
der, however, to complete the main
canals and the entire distribution sys-
tenn, the following summary has been
prepared:
Cost of Big Muddy canal IS 391, 1896
Cost of West Fork canal 80. 339. 1876
Cost of main lateral ...... 991, 250
Cost of main canal ........ 9,476, 800
Cost of Cispus river ....... 10000
Cost of Cedar Valley and
Little Klickitat .:....... 1850
Cost of main, small laterals
and distribution system ;. SITS, 4ss
Cost of pumping plant 80. 551, 300
rights .................. $4,000
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SIPS per acre per annum. With the
completed storage reservoirs, these
charges should not exceed $1.75 per
acre. With, however, the development
of the valuable power in the drops of
the main canal and in the Glade, this
operation and maintenance should be
very greatly reduced if the power is
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-04

tributaries of the Little Klickitat.
Storage Facilities and Water Avail
able for Irrigation
The amount of available water for
the project depends to a large extent
on the ultimate development of stor-
age, and this again on the economical
cost per acre foot stored. In this re-
port seven storage reservoirs have
heep contaminated. as follows:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-09
TAMMANY To ADOPT
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Will Combine Principles of
Roosevelt and Hearst in
Its Platform.
FIRST MOVE BY BOWLING
Calls on City to Take Over Surface
Lines - Democrats to Attack
Mitchell az PIutoeraey's Friend.

It is long way from Bill Tweed Jake Sharp and the
outrageous pundeng of the people through the street car
system, to a TANMANY DECLARATION FOR PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP.
It's change as great as that from Darwn's primitive
horse the size of the thousand pound percheron
The Tammany organization in New York actually talks
public ownership of public property.
This extraordinary political phenomenon due to some
twenty-five years Of public ownership teaching carried
through his newspapers by w. r. Hearst.
Constant repetition based truths always forms public
opinion And public opinion once formed will rule any or
ganizaon any selfish interest Tammany Hail. or the con-
sentative end Of the United States Senate
Every day. for years. in dozen newspapers different
cities Hearst has carried the public ownership fight over
and over repeating to the people, You should own your
property your public streets You should own every
natural monopoly telephone railroads. telegraph the public
lighting plant.
BLAINE yourselves for official dishonesty You cannot ex
pect honest officials you allow them to sell your franchises
worth millions to the highest bidder"
In his political campaigns Hearst made public ownership
of public property the backbone Of each fight saying You
would expect your house remain honest you
allowed them sell the overcoats of the rack the hall and
the furniture of the dining You cannot expect
your public be honest you let them sell every
thing that you have
corrupt political Bosses to steal election from Hearst
when he carried New York city with political organization
Continued in Last Two Columns.)
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Hearst Educating Tammany to
Public Ownership
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back Of him. and powerful enough to defeat him in another
election.
But the corporations have been able prevent him
MAKING THE PUBLIC REALIZE THAT PRIVATE
OWNERSHIP OF PUBLIC PROPERTY OUGHT TO END.
The public realizes that today and demands action along
the line of public ownership And Tammany Hail.
verted-BUT MORE INTELLIGENT, with a difficult fight
ahead this fall from the copoons upon whose bride
money lived and bases campaign restoring to the
people property taken from the people.
In his philosophical dictionary chapter on statesmen
Voaire says that he wrote not for the in office Of his
day but for young who would control the nation few
years later. He understood his work When those few
years. had passed Voaires country had changed from
monarchy to democracy and his old bones were buried in
the Pantheon
More than twenty years ago. through millions of copies
daily newspapers Hearst began talking public ownership
to those that are today important statesmen
Gradually persistenty without their knowing it, they
have been educated while public opinion has been formed
And although the New York Times doesn't know it. in
his government ownership and other campaigns Hearst has
educated in radcaism the gentle Theodore Roosevelt
well the warlke Charles F. Murphy, of Tammany Hall
twenty-five years ago there much public ownership
along really radical lines about as much Of the sadyd
coyotes ponderous grizzlies that he met West Roose
welt and other opportuntc radicals got their ideas Of
public ownership from Hearst two-day calf gets milk
from the mother 1t is staggering feeble little calf that
begins taking the milk.
Come around in couple of years find that calf grown
big and ask him: Ibid you get your health and strength
know her"
That is what Roosevelt would surely say and Murphy
would probably say aske1 whether he got his municipal
ownership ideas from Hearst.
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Do Mothers Read The Times ?
Yes, and Fathers, Too
Ask Mr. Marks, Publisher of the Washington Post.

Arthur D. Marks is the publisher Of the Washington
Post Business know him and will be interested in his
bitter plant poured into the of this editor Said Mr.
Marks:
"Your coming to Washington has given me a new job
and had work enough already In the first place now
have take The Washington Times HOME every night to
my little girl Your humorous features that appeal
strongly to children have already become absolute life
necessity to her.
Usually it is her mother who sits down and reads the
comic page to daughter explaining the adventures of the
different characters she goes along But when the mother
happens to be busy I MUST DO THE READING. I look
forward life complicated by the necessity Of reading The
Washington Times comic page out loud to my daughter at
least every other day"
Mr.. Marks will like the comic characters as
much his intelligent daughter does now Children
quick appreciate merit Meanwhile merchants who study
the great national problem of DISTRIBUTION will find
important meaning in Mr.. Marks complaint
The newspaper that such man Mr. Marks publisher
of the Washington Post MUST TAKE HOME TO HIS LIT
TILE DAUGHTER every day the newspaper that the moth
ers and father-ALL OF THEM-win have delivered
in their houses.
The newspaper that the mother read loud her
child the newspaper that interests the intelligent merchant
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even then it did not seem that
this meant death.
when l was rescued, the first
words l spoke were about my eye
glasses-which, of course, were
gone!"
Another time she told me the
aftermath of the experience. In
its way it was as interesting as
the experience itslf.
She had refused to be put to he'd
or "coddled" after her rescue.
She had been takcl to her camp,
rubbed down, and put into warm
clothes. Then she played a game
of bridge with her rescuers. In
cidentally, she defeated them.
That night she had a Christening
experience. She was in bed. The
camp was dark, and she was just
dropping off to sleep.
Suddenly, before he- rose a vast
green wave, like a high wall. For
an instant it hung, trembling,
then crashed down upon her with
a force that took her breath. The
shock brought her upright.
Composing herself, she lay down
again and closed her eyes. Again
the quivering green wall rose and
fell. 1t fell upon her three times.
She felt she could not endure a
fourth shock. She rot up, turned
on the lights, dressed, and read all
night.
Nerves, of course" she ended,
81 had never had any before. Since
then have wondered if the SOL
diers go through that sort of
thing after battles"
No doubt they do.
ELIZABETH JORDAN.
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T N normal conditions we do not
think much about death. Ma
ture sees to that. She puts
into every human heart the
deep-seated conviction that if
some time-it must stop, that time
is far off.
Today, with the roar of cannon
filing the world, we cannot for
get death. 1t is too close-if not
to US, to some one we love.
We begin to think about tat
first, perhaps, with a natural
dread, then with a sudden thrill.
We have learned something.
Deaths terror was in its remote
ness, in its mystery. 1t is no long
er remote.
The whole world is going up to
it and looking straight at it; and
under that splendid close regard,
death becomes a familiar thing
and loses half its frightfulness.
From a distance it still looms
dark. Thousands of young men,
with the trenches ahead of them,
are wondering if, when the time
comes, they will be afraid.
Officers, fresh from the trenches
in Europe, have told me that those
trenches are tragic spots just be-
fore a charge.
"Half my youngsters go to
pieces" one British officer said.
THAT is, their nerves get the bet
ter of them. But when the order
to advance is given, and they are
out Of the trench, most of them are
all right.
"All Of them are all right in
fighting at close quarters" he
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By Elizabeth Jordan

the passengers. Men and women
stand around, quite calm, appar-
emily a little stunned.
No doubt they are a little stun
ned. No doubt, in great crises
that come suddenly, nature sup
plies its own anesthetic.
FACING DEATH
BY DROWNING.
Recently a woman l know was
almost drowned. She went down
with a sinking boat, came up, and
for thirty-five minutes she chung
to a small "fioat" in the Icy waters
off the Maine coast. It was a lone
ly spot. There were only a few
scattered camps along the shore.
She could not swim. She had
no hope Of rescue. For thirty
Eve minutes she faced death. It
would come, she knew, when her
numbin" grip on the float relaxed.
81 did not think of my past life"
she said. 81 was not afraid.
Neither was l brave. My sole SEN
sation was q stunned, utter incre-
dulity. The thing could not be
happening! Yet it was. knew
that.
WAITING FOR SOMETHING
NOT LIFE, NOT DEATH.
81 looked at the distant shore
line. l had no hope Of rescue. l
just looked and waited-for some
thing 1t was not life; it was not
death.
AT the end, when l felt myself
letting 90, one thought came. 1t
was the only clear, well-defned
thought of the whole experience.
Perhaps this is as good a way
as any, was the thought. But
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added proudly, 'but sometimes
the youngsters collapse again after
the fight is over"
He smiled reminiscently.
eve don't rag EN-" he ended.
ave understand 'em-bless their
hearts. We've gone through it all
ourselves. And, Of course, after
THEY'VE had experience, they don't
get so panicky."
WHEN OUR GRACE
DARLING" PAINTED.
Years ago l spent a day with
Ida Lewis, "the Grace Darling of
America" in the Lime Rock light
house, off Newport. While her
father was keeper of the light she
had saved countless lives. The
Government put her in charge of
the lighthouse after his death.
AS we talked, she rocked and
sewed. She was a gray-haired
woman at this time. 1t was diff
ficult to picture her in the great
scenes in which she had figured
rowing forth alone, in mighty
storms, to save shipwrecked,
drowning men.
"Were you ever afraid" l
asked her.
Never while l was doing the
rescue work." she said. Then she
laughed a little.
"But after l had my men safe"
she confessed, back in the light
house, and revived, I-I-always
tainted! Then the poor half
drowned fellows had to turn to
and revive mel"
In the accounts of torpedoed
ships We read Of the GOODNESS Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-09

Jd WnlsKey little dlzzy-as his friends usually
He is happier today than he last week. however
On Friday they killed him DEAD On Saturday they
brought him half back to life
He is longer to at large, but Government will
pension him off pay him what he worh-and let his alcohol
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explode in dynamite instead OF exploding in American
citizens.
Anything better than nothing Tad says this
his picture of whsky when he heard that he not
killed entirely
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-09
Hearst Educating Tammany to
Public Ownership

Its an Uncertain World" the FourToed Sloth Said
When He Fell on the Porcupines Back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-09

We reproduce the interesting heading of important
Jaws story in the New York Times
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-07-09
Facing Death Afar and Near

the Fearing They'll Show the White Feather
but the Test ONE Meet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-11

or not; that has nothing to do with the case. All ask Is that they do not re- sit; if they will just concentrate-that's the only thing I demand
 In answer to my question as to why he required people to write their questions instead of merely think" then Ala Axiom said.
 T work with sixth sense Most people use only their five senses-seeing, smell ing, tasting, feeling, and touching. When they think they don't use any of them. When they write they use one of the most important-seeing-a that sense concentrates the mind on the subject when the person is writing and that gives me the opportunity to get in touch with them through the power of concentra- tion. Just on the same principle as the pupil Is required to stay in after school and write the words he has misspelled, so that they will be impressed upon his mind"
 Ala Axiom. 1t Is said, has foretold many great events in history. He has given many people sage advice in business mat ters. He has located Host, strayed and stolen" articles. He has unraveled many a puzzling love affair, and he has ex- hibited the remarkable gift in instancei after instance of predicting phenomenf happenings in the current events of tS world. X
 Asked about his theories concerni% the great world war now waging, tho while all the mysticism of his race drifted across his eyes and, like some prophet of a passing people looking out into space through which he now and then smiled at me, he answered.:
 T perdicted the present war year and a half before 1t started, in July, 1914; | predict now that it will end in the spring of 1918 with the United States as the United States of the world.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-11

long and straight and jet black and his hands with the dangerous tapering fingers, very much my idea of the orien- tal." I was born in Japour, India, and lived there much of my life; I'm 34 years old. I was brought up in an atmosphere of mysticism. My father was an English man and my grandmother was white also. The rest-well, I'm half Indian.
 You see," Ala Axiom told me. fin the orient a seer or mind reader, is revered and honored above the priesthood. Chil- dren are taught from their infancy the mystical, talsmanic, signs and l had a tutor from the time I was mere child. My maternal grandfather was one of the greatest East Indian seers of his day, and 1t has come to me, I suppose, through heredity."
 'Is 1t more difficult to read the minds of women than men2'' I asked.
 No; 1t Is easier" he said, his bright eyes flashing "Women are more enrap- port with me; men, of course, are unbe- lievers to a greater extent than women. They cry fake quicker than women, but once convinced they are my warm friends.
 ''I claim no supernatural power" said Ala Axiom;" I am a student. I do not appeal to any but the intellectual people, who acknowledge that there is a science known as mind reading; for it is a science. Stored away in the subconscious mind which I call the hall of records are thoughts which the conscious mind does not register. but when the conscious mind wants to revert to these thoughts it goes to it's subconscious mind. where each thought has been carefully tabu- lated In the hall of records Now, if a person will concentrate and allow themselves to become enrapport with me- I can easily read their mind. don't care whether people believe in me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-11
THE HOUSEHOLD ID
EDITED By ANNE RITTENHoUsE
WE. GO ON WHEELS

We have found, at last, that wheels are tremendously convenient. And hav- ing found out this interesting fact we are putting much of our furniture on wheels.
 There is the tea wagon, for instance. Of course, the wheels are there for the very logical reason that tea is pre- pared in the kitchen and then served in the living room or the drawing room or in the garden, wherever we happen to be. So a wheeled wagon is of the utmost convenience In getting the tea
 promptly to its imbibers. Of course, a tray, carried iH the hands, would an- swer the purpose of transporting the tea things. But several tray loads can be placed on the tea wagon at once. and so expediency and convenience ara both served.
 Another thing we see about our sum mer homes are those interesting wheeled cribs for babies-little net inclosed nests in which the baby is quite protected from flies or mosqui- toes, and which can easily be wheeled about the garden in search of shade.
 They are finished in white or gray or other enamel and are quite as easy to keep fresh and spotless as any other piece of enameled furniture They make an admirable place for the baby's out door nap They are far more commo- dious than baby carriage, and are no
 more difficult to get from place to place. moreover. like some tea carts. they can be folded into compact space when they are not in use
 Then there is laundry cart, rather | novelty for the private house. It can be loaded up with all the laundry
 paraphernalia and pushed about. much
 on the order of a tea cart.
 | We haven't any chairs on wheels, to
 be sure-excepting of the avowedly in- 1 valid type, and the sort that one sees l-and revels in--on the board walks
 of various seaside havens. But we may | yet come to garden chairs that can be propelled by those within them over | the garden paths.
 There is another sort of wheeled con-
 venience, however. Yes, now we have
 our music making machines on wheels
 so that we can move them about, to
 veranda or garden, wherever the desire
 strikes us to have bit of music.
 Copyright by the Mcclure Newspaper
 | Syndicate.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-11

1 There was once time when it was not considered quite fit and seemly for | young girls to array themselves in sillken fabrics. These were kept for the | years of sedateness and the occasions | of ceremony to which older women were entitled. But today, with the enormous product of silk and the cheapening prices, 1t has been substituted for cot 1 ton and muslin in the wardrobes of young girls.
 i This summer, the older woman looks askance at a gown of taffeta. She may wear it in pastel shade for a dinner gown, but she does not wish 1t for the street, the country lane or the club porch
 The girl of Is. however, does wish it. Her ability Ito choose a gown of taffeta Is the realization of a dream she has had since she was years | old
 1 The frock shown today Is a leaf green taffeta, with a full skirt and the universal pocket across the hips, slanted and ornamented with green bone buttons The high waisted bodies | is trimmed with broad band of eyelet
 embroidery, extending toward the bust. This kind of needlwork has come | quickly into fashion since the spring
 began, and shrewd women who saw bargains in it as late as May, took hold of all they could get. | The collar on the simple bodies is of white lawn, and the broad sash is of the material.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-11
RANDOM NOTES

Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Jackson and little son, Nell, left few days ago in their car for Montgomery and other places in south Alabama to spend several weeks.
 Mrs. Berry Baugh and two children are spending the summer at Mentone.
 Mrs. Ada Murray and Miss Florence Murray of Washington are the guests of MT. and Mrs. H. H. She'll
 Mrs. Benjamin Kidd and children have returned from visit to Montgomery.
 Friends of Mrs. Mary E. Rittenberry will regret to learn that she is i'll at her home at Edgewood. Mrs. Frank Blair, who has been the guest Of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Me- Cormack, has returned to her home in Tuscaloosa.
 Miss Emily Ford, who has been tho guest of relatives in Maryland and Washington. has returned home.
 Mrs. Joseph McLester and Mrs. James VanHoose have returned from Boligee, where they were the guests of Mrs. Ken non Thedford, who will be pleasantly re- membered as Miss Helen VanHoose of this city.
 Mrs. Jack Orrison and son, Jack, Jr, have returned from visit to Virginia
 
 Mrs. J. W. Sylvester has returned home after a weeks stay at Ingram Wells.
 Miss Hattie Cullom entertained her card club at her home on Cliff road yes- terday afternoon.
 Mrs. Conrad Ohme expects to leave to- day for Florence to attend the "commu- nity building" which is an organization the farmers.
 Miss Eleanor Graham of Rome, Ga, who is spending the summer at Mentone, is in the city for a few days, the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Charles Caldwell.
 Mrs. J. F. Eustis of Mobile is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. George H. Clarke.
 Mrs E. w Tucker and Mrs. I. E. Bennett are spending sometime at Wrightsville Beach.
 Miss Carrie Swartz left a few days ago for a visit of two weeks to relatives and friends in New Orleans and Biloxi MT. Lamar Eyster of Albany and MT Thomas Martin of Montgomery are the guests of MT. Paul Penny at his home at Glen Iris.
 Miss Eloise Hayes of Macon, Mis-. Is the guest of her sister, Mrs Wilker- son, in the city for few days. ss | Miss Ella Salrnen, who has been the l guest of MT. and Mrs. George w. liar ris, has returned to her home in New ! Orleans LA F Mrs Hollon Harris Fletcher, who has been the guest of relatives in Columbus Ga, for the past few months, has re- turned home During her visit she was dellghtfully entertained | Mrs. Albert c. Stout of Pittsburg is | the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs George Hughes, on Elm street. l Mrs. John Farnces Byrne of New York l who has spent the past few weeks with
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