The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-20
THE POLICE QUESTION

,, ,,,rE1rc AGO come of our citizens worked then-
selves into frenzy over the local ponse was
n ~ r,ors which gained currency when the
81 Ire bo;obt been true Kennewck could have quaiieu %
outlaw community. fact, runor was lnssten @ ahno
the scene of the revival of the days OF Iar
WAS rampant with the sky the limit and
iocots merely passing Incidents that life was one
candestine orgy with bootegged booze talfiy iio"s -
alleys and in other dark and secret pains +hso
Of course nobody believed the STORIES noe ~
-. o +bor mysterious origin and voclferous clculatio
tbe lack of more spectacular scandal they serVeu wen "
+ba rea motives of the agtators and were recoueu
rumors as political capital The rumors Weie i ,4;
;ons consideration at the time the question OF seiecs
chief of police was live are they enuteu - s;
RAISING notice now We mention them only because we
Kennewick has before ita serious police problem anu INC.
~ :. not tbe stamping out booteggng nor garnpns.
Kennewcks police problem has been nor WIN ev
he 70 safeguard the community against the Violent
Io its own citizens In the days OF the saloons the
not that of coping with curbng the waywardness OF
tbe resident drunk has been that OF
Young business men, with the soft down OF youth SUN upon
oos from losing their and their rolls over the gaming
KenneUick police problem other days. and will be
again not gambling, not booze but the hobo. ..,
The "snowbirds coming to the jngles again. the
are on the ties the kids the Sims ana the Snort
- orc returning Some of them will come back knew them
of old some with the added title OF noDo
They come perhaps not as OF DID, with tnelr naes M u
hove M with hands full damnable doctrine OF bosnev
ord their brains afre with Snow which somehow seems ever
fall in and hidden retreats of the Jungle
In the old days they content to keep the Jungle
h means of habtual iever frequent small Durgares
brawing occasional murder but now they WISH
to earth and the fuess thereof Tor mas not
said that the for the plain people TO
what peope palmer than they The world has always owed them
living and in former times they willing to go n1ty-ty
and work part and steal the rest but now the ola
gram days work for fair days pay has peen
and there is to be neither working stealing but just taxing
what they want destroying what they do not need
So meeting the problem concerned 1T
much wobby thinks nor is 1T quesuon so mucn o.
what he does as it is question of what going to &c
when he If the and will come all TOO soon
when the ungles full OF and Front
lined with miscellaneous humanity that cares not
works when work is offered that demands 81 day when
are Sd or ten box when the price SIX what are VIZ
going to do about chief of police matter who ne
be- nor the mayor matter who he may be- are not gong
he able either or together handle the problem
What they able accomplish going to be governe
largely by the temperament and sentiment of the community
behind them going to be mans job but com
munitys Job The wobbly coming and it is time that
to the shortcomings of neighbor
of which are imaginary and begin to work together neigh
bors for the commonsgood.