The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-06-30
CaAUTAUQUA
TICKET SALE
OVER THE TOP
attendance at the Big Tent Is
Fully AS Large AS In
Former Years.
mE PROGRAM Is GOING GOOD
roogressman Rainey's Taxation Lee
ture Draws Record Crowd
Sunday Last Day.

rhautauuua is over the top. When
u.,h Shanafelt, chairman of the tick
: M committee, counted his cash Tues
isv evening he found that the season
81 Sslet sale had amounted to $1214 or
ssil Sr more than the guarantee. Little
!, no personal solicitation was made.
Ths tickets sold themselves.
This tells the story of this years
.hautauoua. There is an abundance
- non. enthusiasm and interest. The
shsutauuua folk seem to be we'll
uIsased with their audiences and the
audiences equally we'll pleased with the
t.lsnt. Even the weather and the kids
down in front have been we'll behaved.
The biz tent was filled last night and
: larger crowd is expected tomorrow
richt when the Keighley Players will
present the play, "It Pays to Adver-
tiser-and it really does pay.
The Boston Liberty Bellies, who are
a good to look at as they are to listen
%, put the chautauqua crowd in a good
humor with their music, readings and
impersonations. -.
Dr. Miles, who has salvaged a gen.
ial disposition and an understandable
philosophy from a long career as a
preacher, editor, author and lecturer
dipped candles to the entire catisfac-
ion of his audience Tuesday evening.
Next to his pipe. DR.. Miles favorite
ustime is interviewing celebrities.
When he can't find celebrities to work
on he interviews plain folks. He car
ries around with him a wonderful store
Of little thumb-nail word pictures of
people whom he has met. Among the
portraits he gave his audience were
those Of Theodore Roosevelt, William
Gladstone, and the mother of DR..
Newell Dwight Hills.
Electra Platt brought along with
hG, besides her husband, Fred Stone,
and red-haired fellow who has
rich voice and can play the piano-ac-
Gordon, whole cellar full of home
hrewed fun, with kick in it. She kept
her audiences both afternoon and eve
ning in an uproar of laughter.
DSoh CliSiiOy WIiO lcCluIeu ycSIcI-
day afternoon, didn't have a pipe. His
one hobby is apparently food pro-
tuction and food distribution. Ken
aswck gave him something to think
about. He found here people whose
business is food production and riv-
q the second largest in the nation
which should be harnessed for food
production but isn't. During his leis-
ore hours here the dean visited the
nelds and orchards and paid visit to
Vnurch's Grape Juice plant.
Dean Perisho says the greatest
gtoblem facing the nation today is
ne Indifference of the people to pub
questions. The next greatest prob
sm IS that of food production and dis
M6ution. At the present thine dis
moutlon is the more important phase
VI this question. Cost of transpor-
auon ne declared is crippling and un-
selmlnlng the great basic industry of
ae country. There is far too great
'nference between the price the con-
Mmer pays for farm products and the
ance paid to the producer. AS an ex-
apie the dean cited lemons which are
Nsaillng here for so cents per dozen
aa Tor which the California grower
Selved three cents. The speaker de-
Jared the blame does not rest at the
%or OF the retail dealer. He has made
uloreds of Investigations and in ne
Instance had he found the retailer of
'u0d products guilty of profiteering.
Ss iault is with the system of dis
N costs as much, said the dean, TO
s ad a shipment of freight all the way
s0wn hill from Denver to Chicago as
ooes to send the same shipment
n9und the world on ship board. De-
ssepment of the nations waterways
n. insists is one important step toward
s ss, solution of the distribution prob
Ill, III The Columbia river, he says,
s,i,sN iuuia De carrying to the sea practi-
of uS all OF the products of the farms
rIne Inland Empire.
a. se ~ speaker criticized that feature
rh,sae Ie Esch-Cummins railroad bill
q n rs. guarantees the railway owners
inrssa ssarn OF 1-2 or per cent on their
si,ts si,t..nments. ~ BY the same right he in.
acs;ne ae farmers should be guaranteed
Cse Cona Improbable operations.
held tSressman Rainey, of Illinois
for he attention of his big audience
an m.re mnore than an hour last right with
Eliminating discussion of nationa,
rans;non. rson. Congressman Rainey was
r1eann 9 member of the ways anc
tho ,s NJ. committee of the house during
part war ;a and played most important
6nannnn III drafting and passing all wa,
doors e e measures. He opened the
mittsS9 9i I, the committee rooms and per,
what ms hearers a passing view OF
doors - strahspires behind the CLOSED
Tbs a. .he nations capital.
Is Am.Mea Meaithlest nation in the worlt
man anneTr,ca's T boast, said the congress
w;.a Sa' The boast is true hut # is like
Nue That we are carrying tn,