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Evening star., 1921-01-23

A WELFARE club held rummage
sale at a nice little home on q nice
little side street, with the parlor filled
with secondhand finery. refreshments in
the kitchen and a grab bag in the hall.
You paid dime. dived a hand in the
mystery depths. and after feeling around
among the bundles, fshed out
Two neighbors who had invested,
staged their explorations on the stair
way with other neighbors for audience.
The pudgy woman who looked as If she
didn't have a nerve in her body lacked
the courage to unite her string. because
pointed, but the other, like that brave
lady in the song. "bade farewell to every
fear" and boldly waded in.
"Handkerchiefs Gooddy! The very
things for Aunt Mollie's birthday"
Il hate to get handkerchiefs for a
present" The interruption came from
a lookeron.
80 do I. but they are grand to give
, away. when you can't think Of anything
| else
And look at this little blouse, will you
It'n just come in for Maggie's Emma ~
Maggie's Emma was to come in for a
| blue galatea. faded in the wash and
adorned with china buttons. as big as
poker chips. (Note: Poker chips are
| what you play poker with.)
why think got a lot for 10 cents
| open yours. Mat-go on-open it!'
| lookers-on, most Of whom were
| chuckling over their own luck, but
| the nearest she could come to an
| exhibition was peephole she made
| in the bundles end:
II dasn't because I know I'm go
ing to be fooled-serveS me right for
| buying a pig in a poke
! What about it? Nothing, neigh
| bors. dear, except that Mat had spent
dollars baking cakes and making
| Lemonade for the refreshment booth,
had bought the postal cards mailed
| around the neighborhood, and the
| twine and manila paper for fixing up
the bundles. besides making the bag
| itself from some cretonne left over
from a couch cover. So it wasn't
meannesS. The trouble was that
Mat simply didn't know how to take
! a chance.
And it may be some such cranky
little kinks in our mental make-ups
that keeps such legions OF US peggfne
away at desks and counters Instead
of risking life out in the open.
We are afraid to take a chance.
IN S. Reason forty-eleven-B. Why
- men do not give up car seats to
the ladies':
IF n couple Of women get on a
car that has plenty of room but no
two vacant seats together. they make
no bones Of inviting a fellow to move
out of his place by the window to
some other place, SO that the women
may sit together. A man may be
ungallant enough to let a woman
stand, but you don't catch him deal
ing out a raw hand like that"
To be continued.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1921-01-23

INAUGURATION Visitors Will
l Claim Much Attention From Volun-
teers Who Wear Badge of the Sheltering
Palm-Mrs. Walling Van Ripper, Or
ganizing and Executive Secretary, Tells
of Day With Workers at the Union
Station.
Evening star., 1921-01-23
T ASKED Gihon about selling abroa.

/ AShED GlnOn ABOUT 6elllng ABROAD
and at home.
MANY Americans like to buy
abroad" he said. They want an ar
tistic souvenir of their trips. or they
like to buy in Paris from the salon or
in the painters studio. or they like
European subjects. I have exhibited
landscapes at the Pennsylvania Acad-
emy of Fine Arts. the New York So
ciety of American Artists and the
Chicago Institute. Some sold, some
came back to me in Paris. Well.
bought at my studio by Americans
who saw but did not buy them in
Philadelphia. New York or Chicago"
Gihon looks on it as rather tenn
porary and personal. America is the
great field Of the future for American
no need to come to Paris-unless for
prestige-to begin selling.
Carolus-Duran. a year before his
death, said to Gihon:
young Americans do not need to
come to Paris nowadays to study.
with the beautiful landscapes you
have at home and art schools as good
as any"
Carolus-Duran referred particularly
to the art schools of Philadelphia.
New OTk, w tOh dHO NHlCAkOs
and Boudet de Montvel. a little before
his death. declared the school at Gin
cinnati one of the finest in the world.
"Aman-Jean told me-" says Gihon.
that the Art Students League in New
York was revelation to him, and he
had not sufficient words to praise the
Art School Of Chicago. AS to the
yearly exhibition Of the Carnegie In
stitute of Pittsburgh. Aman-Jean.
veteran French leader OF the Societe
Rationale des Beaux Arts. has pro-
nounced it to be ahead Of either of
the Paris salons. for the two consid-
erations, that 1t has an international
jury, not open to wire pulling and
that the greatest painters Of the
world exhibit in it." (This was in
1913, and Aman-Jean naturally be-
lieved all good painters to be in tho
Societe Rationale des Beaux-ArtsD
l find this annual Pittsburgh salon
looked on generally in Paris as a fine
example Of the growing American art
interest all over the country.
The greatest painters Of the world
really do compete at Pittsburgh" said
GiAon, land when you get q prize
there 1t carries a heavy sum of mon
ey with 1t. l assure you the foreign
celebrities are struck when asked to
sit on it's juries."
1t is therefore Of interest to men
tion a Carnegie Institute detail which
has caused hurried meetings OF Amer.
lean painters and sculptors in Paris.
Evening star., 1921-01-23

I ignore the Hudson river school. 1t
was very primitive; but the work of
the American painters of the past
twenty-five years, look you!-twenty-
five years hence. that work Will rise
in art sales prices higher than the
lists"
Pardon" said. but did not the
we'll known collection of American
paintings made by William Chase sell
rather moderately in New York just
before the war;"
Gihon. twenty-five years hence, those
same pictures will fetch big prices"
And. really, does not the actual
course bear him out. SO far as It goes?
You cannot persuade painter to talk
prices and names together. Gihon
knowledge in Paris that just before the
war Alex Harrison, Louis Ashton
Knight. Carl Melchers and the late
George Hitchcock were estimated be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000. and Edwin
Connell, the cattle painter, and the
landscapes of the late Peter A. Gross
between. say. $500 and 500. And it is
equally common knowledge that "all Of
! them today are selling for three to
five times as much"
twenty-five years ago, Harrison and
Melchers probably took 5000 for pic
ture more than once. Van Boskerck,
painting in France. accepted almost
anything for his early works, and those
who snapped them up for. say, $50
apiece. made a fine speculation. Just
before the war Van Boskerck was get
ting from $500 to $1,000. and today
we'll, try to buy one! Others who have
gone up notably are Samuel NJ. Roose-
welt. Herbert w. Faulkner. the Venetian
painter; Clarence Gihon, brother Of AL
bert, and Seymour Thomas Of Alabama,
who has been in Paris, moving back
his furniture and belongings, to set up
permanently in America.
Americans used to cross over to have
their portraits painted by Seymour
Thomas in Paris. His setting up at
home is significant. Faulkner, who for
a long time deemed that he could sell
best abroad, has proved, for ten years
past that he can do equally well at
home. The same discovery has been
made by Victor D. Hecht and by Van
Boskerck in long tours Of American
cities.
Evening star., 1921-01-23
BY EDNA N. COLMAN.

.O the commuter. the profess
sional traveller and the tour
ist. journeying about from city
Evening star., 1921-01-23


days elapse before we feel that a case
is closed, and often correspondence is
maintained for a long period.
'One Of the most interesting girl
cases was discovered apparently
waiting for a train here in the station.
She was about seventeen years old
and alone. The Travellers Aid worker
approached her and after chatting a
while learned that she had q ticket
for q southern city. and there seemed
nothing to be done for her. But you
know. in this work we rather de-
velop q sixth sense where girls are
concerned, and hence the worker
chattted on with her in a friendly
way, seeking for the opening to be Of
some real service.
"The girl claimed to be from New
York and on her way to visit rela-
tives. but she was altogether provin-
viously size knew nothing Of big
cities. The worker soon discovered
that the girl had come from coun-
try town in New England. The father
had deserted the family. home; oondi-
worked hard all day. walking a mile
and half to and from work daily
and at night sharing a bed with two
restless children. She was only
searching witlH the dreams Of seven
teen for something moro beautiful
somewhere in life-and to run away
from 1t all was her solution. She
thought to ind in another city more
conEenial surroundings and better
opportunities. We cared for her, put
her in charge Of a member Of a Girls
Protective League. Her mother was
notified by wire. but she refused to
allow her to come home, feeling that
in tho eyes Of tho small community
her daughter had disgraced herself
and her family by leaving home.
Through the efforts Of the Travellers
Aid she was placed in care of a New
England Girls Protective League,
and q few months later she wrote to
our society that she was living under
the protection of a religious organisa-
ton. She had good position, was at
tending night school and was devoting
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
SERIES OF FARM BUREAU
MEETINGS BEING HELD
Objects and Aims of Organization are
Explained to General
Public

As a part of the campaign to make
Benton county 100 per cent member
ship organization, Bureau officials, un-
der the direction of Secretary L. L..
Todd, are conducting series of meet
ings in this end of the county this
week. These meetings are open to the
pubic and not only farmers but husi-
ness men are urged to attend.
Last nights meeting was at the
Highlands club house. This evening
similar meeting will be held in the
Valley club house and Friday evening
at Finley.
The meeting on the Highlands was
attended by White Bluffs-Hanford
delegation headed by II. E. Robinson.
The evenings program was enlivened
by music furnished by the White
Bluffs Farm Bureau orchestra.
The purpose of these meetings is to
explain the objects, aims and purposes
of the organization.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Is REORGANIZED
Fourteen Men Enroll as Mem.
bers-City Sadly in Need Of
Better Equipment

The Kennewick Volunteer Fire De-
partment was reorganized Friday eve-
ming with fourteen men enrolled as
members. Charles Haas, Sr., was
elected president; Wilmot Gravens-
lund, vice president and A. j. Cope
land, secretary-treasurer.
Following the reorganization E. A.
Ferren was named chief and w. p.
Thresher assistant chief. Captains,
nozzlemen and other positions were al
so filled.
1t is the plan Of the reorganized
department to hold regular meetings
on the first Thursday of each month.
December will be started off with a
tireman's feed at the Palace Cafe at
7:30 this evening.
Members of the department are very
frank in their criticism of the city's
fire-fghting apparatus. They say it
is next to impossible to sustain in
terest and build up the morale of the
department as long as the men are
forced to work with antiquated and in
ferior equipment. eff any citizen will
take the trouble to inspect the present
equipment he will no longer wonder
why local insurance rates are so high.
The wonder is why they are not high
err" said A. ]. Copeland.
In addition to the officers the fol-
lowing men are enrolled as members:
Chas. Haas, Jr., Roy Winkenwerder,
C. j. Anderson, Ray Copeland, Milo
Tupper, w. L. Marsh, Earl Ferrell and
Charles Edwards.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
GOING FINE
ON BRIDGE
SAYS DEAN
Supervising Engineer Says Work
is Getting Under Way in
Good Shape
THE PILE DRIVERS ARE BUSY
Each of Six Concrete Piers Will Equal
in Height Nine-Story Build
ing-Some Job

People generally do not realize how
really big job the building Of the
Kennewick- Pasco bridge is, says Capt.
Dean, supervising engineer who was
a guest at the Commercial club luncsh-
con Wednesday. But as big as it is
the captain has hopes that it will be
completed and open to traffic next
fall. This, however, will depend very
largely upon weather conditions this
winter.
Stew people realize" said Capt.
Dean, "that this is one Of the largest
bridge building jobs ever undertaken
in the Northwest. 1t would be con-
sidered big job even in New York
City,"
According to Captain Dean an ex-
cellent start has been made in spite
of the heavy snow Of last week. Ma
terial is being rapidly assembled, con-
crete foundations for the land ap-
proach on the Pasco side are in, grad
ing work has started, pile drivers are
at work on both sides of the river and
excavations for the pier on the island
is under way. The pouring of concrete
for the piers, he says, at the soonest,
will not start before the first Of the
year.
BY way of interesting comparison,
Capt. Dean points out that each of the
six principal piers will equal in height
nine-story building and the erecting
of six nine-story buildings out in the
Columbia river is no small job.
Capt Dean is not in the employ of
the Union Bridge company, but repre-
sents the Benton Franklin Intercounty
Bridge company and his business is to
see to it that the contracting firm does
not slight the work in any particular
and that the work in every detail is
done according to specifications.
Capt. Dean is making his headquar-
tiers at the Pasco hotel.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
BUSINESS GIRLS SHOW
NEXT MONDAY NIGHT
Musical Director Says Girls are En-
titled to Capacity House-Pro-
gram is Good

The Kennewick Business Girls are
this week putting the finishing touches
to the feature acts of the show which
they will give next Monday evening
in the Liberty theatre. Mrs. c. Brunn
who is directing the musical numbers
expressed herself today as highly
pleased with the manner in which the
young ladies are taking their parts,
and says the quality of the show mer-
its capacity house.
The admission price is fifty cents
and the proceeds will be used to fit
up the club rooms in the Telephone
company's building. These rooms will
not be used exclusively for the benefit
of club members but the welcome sign
will be always out for ladies who wish
to use it as a rest room.
The complete program of the show
is printed in the advertising columns
in this issue.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
TO RECEIVE FISH FROM
THE STATE HATCHERIE
Distribution to be Made by Kennewick
Poultry MaEket-Shipments
Twice Each Week

C. C. Cantwell has just completed
arrangements with the state fish COM
mission whereby he is again to re-
ceive shipments Of salmon and silver
trout from the state hatcheries. A
small shipment arrived yesterday and
in the future larger shipments will
arrive twice each week.
Distribution of the fish will be made
from the Kennewick Poultry Market
and the fish will be sold at actual cost
plus a small handling charge The
price will not exceed eight cents per
pound.
Mr.. Cantwell says that for while
distribution can be made only in linn
tied quantities but later he hopes to
supply the fish needs of all residents
from Richland to Hover.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
IRRIGATION DISTRICT
ELECTIONS THIRTEENTH
One Director in Each to be Elected
Hughes is Choice of the
Hover People

Annual elections will be held in the
Columbia and Kennewick Irrigation
districts Tuesday, December 13. In
each one director for three-year term
is to be elected.
In the Columbia the term Of 81. S.
Hughes expires and in the Kennewick
the retiring director is M. N. Hudnall.
At special meeting of the Hover
Commercial club last Saturday eve
ming Mr.. Hughes was unanimously
endorsed for reelection.
In the Columbia district the polling
places will pc at the home of Dan
Rosa on the River Road, the City Hall
the Finley Hall and the Hover school
house. The Kennewick polls will be
at the Highlands club house and Kio-
ma. In each the polls will be open
from 8 q. m. until a p. m.
At the election all land owners,
which includes husbands or wives of
title or equity holders, will be allow
ed to vote. In the Columbia district
this includes all owners of city lots.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
OPEN MEETING
AT LEGION POST
Local LegiOnaires Want Rooms
Packed Friday Night of this
Week

Robert w. Ely Post of the Americ-
an Legion will keep open house Friday
evning of this week and local legion
aires want their room filled to cap
acity with townspeople.j
In announcing the meeting r. H.
Nicholson, post commander, has issued
the following open invitation to the
general public:
"Citizens and legionaires of Ken
newick and vicinity:
"It is with the greatest pleasure that
I have at this time the privilege of
extending to you a most cordial in
vitation to attend the American Leg.
ion meeting which will be held in the
American Legion club rooms of Ken
newick on Friday evening, December
End, at Sac p. m.
"At this meeting there will be pres
ent prominent Legion man Of the
Northwest, Mr.. Fred M. We'll, who will
deliver to you message Of very vi
tai Importance.
"The business people Of Kennewick
are especially urged to attend this
meeting as matters of tremendous
Importance to the community at large
will be discussed. It will be we'll
worth your while to attend.
"Legion Members: Please be at hall
at 7:30 for regular business meeting
of the American Legion, as hall will
be thrown open to the general public
.at $780,"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
CLEANUP SQUAD
COMING SOON
All Ex-Service Men who Have
Claims Against Government
Wanted i'm PascO Dec. z

C. Roy Fleming, Ph. D., advance
agent of the United States veterans
bureau, cleanup squad, was in Ken
newick Monday conferring with rep
resentatives of cooperative organiza-
tions interested in ex-service persons,
and found most friendly attitude of
mutual interest looking forward to
the coming of the Cleanup Squad.
In an interview, DR.. Fleming says
the Cleanup Squad is now typifying
the progressive spirit of the u. S.
veterans bureau 1.-THE new consolidat-
ed agency of the bureau of war risk
insurance, the public health service,
and the rehabilitation division of the
federal board for vocational training)
especially in communities Of substan-
tial prosperity and permanent devel-
opment, by expressing worthily their
hospitality and good will to all ex-
service persons presenting claims they
may have against the government,
traceable to the recent worlds war.
1t is plainly manifesting not only its
unusual accommodations and excep-
tional service, but also its personal
interest in every ng-pending claim
requiring additional evidence for final
adjudication. 1t appeals to every cit
izen in each community for earnest
cooperation to carry into effect the
great humanitarian purpose contem-
plated by the Sweet Bill. The many
serious and complex problems are re-
ceiving striking blows. The result
is that it is becoming recognized by
all agencies cooperating, social as
well as business, that the cleanup will
be fact as well as name.
Owing to the large territory which
this squad must cover it has been
found inadvisable to hold sessions in
both Kennewick and Pasco. After
looking over the territory DR.. Fleming
selected Pasco for headquarters and
it will be necessary for all ex-service
men on this side Of the river to go
there to present their claims.
The squad handles all cases where
ex-service men or their families be-
lieve they are entitled to any man.
ner of compensation from the gov
ernment. These cases will include war
risk insurance, new, pending or de-
MED claims for disability compensa-
tion, vocational training, hospitaliza-
ton and bonus.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
OLD CLOTHES
COUNT AS CASH
Community is Credited Seventy
J Five Cents for Every Pound
Given Near East Relief

The Princess Theatre was far too
small to accommodate the crowd which
came out Monday. night to see the
Near East Relief picture "Alice in
Hungerland."
The picture brought home to those
who saw it more forcibly than any
descriptive article possible could, the
Near East's great need and Americas
Christian duty. In the pictured story
Alice led the way to where the from
tiers of the American relief work
marks the boundary line between des-
olation, destitution, dispair and death,
and life, love and future hope. The
audience was taken to the gates Of
the scores of American orphanages in
the countries of the far east where
the broken fragments of miserable
humanity-starving women and child
ren-cried for admission and were
heard not because of lack of funds,
while inside thousands Of boys and
girls-wards of America-were play
ing games of healthy, happy child
hood. The message which the picture
brought home so forcibly is "Ameri-
ca can't quit, the rescue work must
go on"
Before the films were shown DR..
Donald D. MacLaurin made a brief
talk and Rev. John A. Shaw offered
prayer.
In connection with the picture F. A.
Swingle, local chairman of the Near
East campaign announces that it is
his hope to close up the used clothing
drive the end Of next week. This
week Mr.. Swingle enlisted the aid Of
the school children and the bus driv-
ers. The children carried to their
parents shipping tags for bundles and
the bus drivers volunteered to haul
all bundles either to the schools or to
the store of the Columbia Clothing
company.
Mr.. Swingle says that every pound
of clothes counts as rs cents toward
the community's annual quota and he
is hopeful that the most of the quota
can be raised in this manner.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
EMPLOY SCHOOL NURSE
Health Work in Schools Resumed AZ
ter Jan. i by Graduate Nurse

Benton county schools are now as
sured of county nurse: Beginning
January / the work so successfully
carried on by Miss Elizabeth Hollen-
beck will be continued under a grad
uate nurse supported by the Red
Cross and the Anti-Tuberculosis
League
Work will be resumed in the dem
tai clinics which was established in
the Kennewick schools. A room has
been kept for this purpose and the
equipment has been stored. At a
meeting of the county board to be held
Saturday of this week definite ar
rangements will be made in regard to
the work.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01

Mert Lampson won the state cham
p'0nship in Poultry club work this
:ear and is culling flocks of chickens
.0r club members, helping them to
: en the non-layers. On Saturday,
'ec. ord, at 10 a. M, he will Gull Ken
Ae.n Lechelt's flock in Finley.
Tor nominal sum he will Gull COM
sercial flocks. Several flocks about
r~eanewick = he has culled successfully.
= aa's ability he has gained this year
: u MS poultry club interest. This
.a0Ws the educational advantage of
club work.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
T. ]. HOWELL WEDS

T.. Howell, proprietor of the How
ell Battery company, and his bride
are at home in the Tillery bungalow
on Fifth street. Mrs. Howell was Miss
Edna Schnelby, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. P. H. Schnebly, of Ellensburg,
in whose home the wedding ceremony
was performed November 8. Mr.. and
Mrs. Howell were former school mates
at Coulee City.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-01
Y x x x x Z x x Y
NO ELECTRICITY SUNDAY

X Manager Stafford Of the Pacific y
X Power & Light company an y
X nounced today that Kennewick y
X would be without electrical SER y
X vice all day Sunday. The cur y
X rent will be turned off $3.50 Sun y
X day morning and service will not y
X be resumed until evening. y
" Mr.. Stafford admits that this
X will necessarily work hardship
X on those who cook with electric y
X ity, but the shutdown is neces- J
X sary.
X Installation of new scales in J
* the yards of the Tum-A-Lum J
X Lumber company necessitates the J
X moving Of one of the power COM J
X pany's high tension feed lines J
X and this can be done only by tenn !
X porarily suspending all service ,
X out Of the local sub-station.
X Every effort will be made to !
X complete the work before dark :
X Sunday evening.
4 X TX * X X X X X 4