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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31
HISTORIC BRADD0CK CANNON

When Major General Edward
Rraddock. with George Washington
as his aid de camp, left Alexandria
in Anril 1855. with little army
Of regulars and provincials on his
ill-fated expedition against the
French and Indian allies, ne left
behind a number of cannon that
were later planted, with muzzles
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31

city of Alexandria by the Colonial
Danes and stood at the intersection
of Cameron and Royal streets for
several years. The fountain was
knocked from its foundation by an
army truck 8 years ago and is now
said to be stored in the market
building while city council deliber
ates on a. new location for it. The
remaining cannon are lying II,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31

Christ Church yard. 1t is under
stood that the Colonial Danes VIII
present them to the George Wash
ineton Masonic National Memorial
Association to be mounted IN the
grounds of the Masonic Temple to
be erected on Shooters Hill, Alex
andria, as a memorial to Washing
ton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31

! Wav. and is confident that Alexandria
can become a great distributing center
bv cooperation and the adoption OF
modern methods.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31
C. F. CoFFEY

Prominent Wholesale Grocer and
Produce Dealer Who Is Doing Much
to Make AleTand,ia Important Dis
tributing Point for Northern Vir-
gi1ia
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31
WEST BROTHERS BRICK co.
Copyright Natl Newspaper Service,

One Of This Sections Large and I'M
portrait Industries Is Brick ManH-
tacturiMg. For All Building Pur-
poses As Maintained 6y This Com
panY at $4,000 Brick Output Daily.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31

It's jest about got SO a
senatorial election is our
principal circulatin' medium.
TIL cabaret singer at tn
Elite Drug Store burned up
last night after backin' int
tn cigar lighter.
Copyright Maui Newspaper scrvice.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-31
BANNER LAUNDRY

One Of Largest and Most Modern
Steam Laundry Plants IN South
Occupies TaUo Floors and Has Up
to-Date Sanitary Eqanpment--O'
Fl. Hullings Is Mdnager
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19

any other writer, ought to have written one more
play before he went off to enjoy himself at the
Stratford Inn only to die instead Of enjoying him.
self. He ought to have written on If, But and
Perhaps the trouble makers.
"Cut those three words out of your vocabu-
larry, put in almost any other three and you will
be better off"
You can see, as you read history, how easily any
Of the three excuse words would have saved Colum-
bus tho trouble Of crossing the ocean. "PERHAPs
viii fall over the edge when reach the end" or
"BUT It IL said that monsters big enough to swal-
low the ship are out on that endless sea. IF meet
ono Of them what then7"
A Nihilist in his CELL sentenced to death and
fearing that he might confess the names OF his &C.
completes, determined that he must die to avoid the
risk Of betraying his friends He was IN small
cell, above him q narrow window with iron bars.
Below the window and bars dim oil lamp with
small wick. No weapon at hand, he had not room
enough TO run and dash his brains out against the
stone wall.
He had every excuse for NOT doing what he
thought he ought to do to save his friends He lifted
his body up by the iron bars Of the window and
leaning against the small lamp, burned himself to
death. There was conquest Of IF, BUT, PER
HAPS" most striking.
How many hundred million human beings
now working would be unborn If their parents had
allowed "IF, BUT" and "PERHAPs" to prevent
their marrying?
They went ahead anyhow, leaving the three
weak words to take care Of themselves. And 50 the
world goes on.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19

l@ O q
on them.

on them. "IF, BUT, PERHAPS wouio 'eli 'ne
story. :: 70. puT .
he would have done something in LIE, bOi
whenever he started out he was raced py an IL
with a PERHAPS following close after-so ne
never got anywhere.
IF. means making an excuse for yourself be.
fore the struggle begins
II you begin with ''IF" you are quite apt to
and with OFF," and to explain at the end that you
would have been successful, IF something hadn't
happened.
BUT builds up fence between you and the
thing that you want to reach. When your mind says
"But," your body and your will say It,
'PERHAPS" means that you do not believe
IN vour own plan. II YOU do not believe in It,
others surely will not.
"Perhaps' II you had left those three words
out Of your vocabulary, you might have gone ahead
and won
perhaps" not.
7 Some will say that words have no strength IN
themselves that they merely represent the thoughts
Of the person that uses the words.
That is partly true, largely FALSE.
You can form mental habits just as you form
physical habits.
And ono Of the very worst mental habits. often
acquired In childhood, when self-confdence should
be established, is the "R, BUT, PERHAPS
habit.
This is all very OLD truth, and every one that
roads It knows 1t.
Nevertheless, Improvement Of human beings
consists in making today's reality OF OLD TRUTH.
Honesty is the best policy Is old truth
x,,. -.ol,,.d n would have saved the world from
the war Of 1914
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19

Mr.. McCay's cartoon on the three "bad words
can be made especially useful in the right HANDS,
Everybody that sees this paper knows some ono
person that needs the warning against ~, BUT,
PERHAPS"
The picture is striking, impressive. 1t COM
PELs THOUGHT. Sometimes sudden thought,
in the right direction, will change lifetime habits
The thing has been known.
"IF, BUT and PERHAPS" are such easy ways
out of difficulty. You never spend day without
hearing one or all three Of these words used ~ IN
excuse for NOT doing something.
IF can," or II would, BUT" or "PER.
HAPs; I'll see"-those sentences you hear con-
stantly. And they mean tho moment you hear ono
Of the three weak words that the thing, whatever
it be, is NOT to DO done.
Handing in his picture, Mr.. McCay contributes,
as usual, his own brief sermon on tho pictures
meaning He writes:
"Here they alt, the three old do-nothings
And once ACTION let's them take hold, action Is
done for the time.
.IF is the heaviest of the three-he sits on
the stomach, BUT holds down the feet. And
old reliable PERHAPS holds down the wrists
and head With the three of them sitting tight
there will be no action,
"Ninety per cent of the failures In this world
could be divided into three great classes or
brotherhoods There would be the IF Brothers.
tbs PERHAPS Brothers and the BUT Broth
ers'
''The ordinary man uses few words. His vo-
cabulary does not run much above a thousand
words. Shakespeare. who used more words than
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19

The little "IF" alone would have been sufn.
Gent to kill half the great inventions. There would
be no floating ships made Of solid iron, no flying
machines, submarines, telephones or gas engines
had It not been for men able to brush 'IT' aside
and substitute must" for "IF."- .s--: z-s5 4
II we can get rid Of these three words q 81.
cuses, and use them only as they should DO used tho
world would be several hundred per cent better off,
Of course, used in the right way, "Hr BUT
PERHAPS" are useful and necessary. Many
man writing for his country has said, II may 60 to
my death, BUT IF do shall have done the bsst
could PERHAPS my friends will hear Of It. That
is all the reward ask"
There you see "IF, BUT, PERHAPS" ali
employed close together and wen employed
The meaning of this editorial and picture b
that, to succeed, we should keep our minds sway
from UNCERTAINTY. =. -
Avoid the habit of words and thoughts that ar.
range failure in advance, that PREPARE - for
failure and reconcile US to it.
The farther on we get in life, tho harder & =
to get rid Of bad habits or to form good ones.
Easy in childhood, 1t becomes more and nsogo
difficult later This cartoon will interest chidEsu,
from six to fifteen years OF age And after yoU hAvo
read this, you ought to show it and explain Il 70
some child. The big man held down by the three
queer little men will interest the mind Of child
And once INTEREST is awakened 1t II easy 70
hold attention. and push through an idea or suggss
ton.
However, Mr.. McCay's picture Is not merely
for youth It has an especial lesson for those that
are getting old. Too many Of us, after fifty, Form
tho habit Of saying, II would, BUT am not ~
young as was"
The BODY is not as young. But the BRAIN,
If we haven't spoiled it, is younger For Is ~ got
older the mind should get younger, moro willing 70
work. In every well regulated human being Il can
do more between fifty and sixty than It could have
done at earlier ages In life, and still more between
sixty and seventy.
When he brought in his picture Mr.. McCay
said IT have put cap the head of each Of these
little nuisances, don't quite know why Perhaps
you might tell your readers that the black cap 10 on
each already, they can hang IF, But. PEE.
HAPs" in the caps have already provided. and -
get rid Of them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19

Words Haze Character and
Power. Three of the Worst of
Them You Can See Here, En-
gagged as They Usually Are in
Holding Downthe Giant ACHOM.
There Is No THOUGHT
Without Words, Try 1t in Your
DUN Head. You Have Got to
THINK the Words of Your
Thought, or No Thinking Is Done.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19

Thoughts Are Words, Words
and Thoughts Establish Habits.
In Thinking, Avoid the Worst
Habits and the Worst Words.
Three of the Worst of Them Are
in This Picture.
They All Three Mean
WEAKNESS, DOUBT, and They
Point the Way to Inaction, Which
Means Failure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-19
If
But
Perhaps

Hey are three Of the worst WORDS.
They mean Don't do anything.
You see them at work in Mr..
McCay's cartoon today.
The tombstones above all the
failures in all the graveyards ought
TO have these three words written
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14
HOLD DOWN PRICES AND
RAISE UP BUSINESS SAYS
HENRY FORD

u1IANAS4 - WV
Wizard of motor industry at
wellesley Hills gives recipe for
prosperity.
wellesley Hills, Mass, Decem-
ber 9th. Last week while Henry
Ford was visiting the Babson In
stitute, he discussed the business
situation and prescribed a common
sense dose for American business.
This man whose daily income runs
into six figures stated plainly that
all this money was incidental, a
by-produce. His remarks created
40 much interest that, today, he
issued the following statement:
"The trouble with most business
mem, said Mr.. Ford, "is the fact
that they go into business to
make money, to make as much as
they can, as quickly as they can.
They have a hard time Of it be-
cause they are trying to get some
thing that someone else has. The
principle is wrong and even If it
weren't, it would be pretty hard
because there are SO many Of them
trying to Get" that the COMPETE
ton Is terrific.
The man who will use his skill
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14

to keep pace and well all go an
other grand scramble Of Getting
only to land in the ditch as we
did in 1920.
maybe l am wrong but believe
these words demand the earnest
consideration Of every business
man. We certainly do not want to
repeat the experience of 1920 and
and early 1921"
In connection with this state
ment the Babson experts have
been checking up commodity prices
and find that in 1915 prices were
travelling sidewise near that more
or less famous 1914 level
Under the steady pressure Of
European buying the trend turned
upward in October Of that year ard
continued to climb steadily for two
years. After a brief reaction the
climb started again and for an
other year prices scared.
A temporary decline came on the
heels OF the armistice but this was
followed by speculative orgy and
prices 'skyrocketed' once more to
the peak which was reached in
July 1920. At this point prices
were 140 per cent above pre-war
levels. What had cost s1.O0 now
cost $40.
Then prices broke and we ex-
perienced the most radical COM
modify decline in history. During
the next IL months, July 1920 to
July 1921, prices dropped to a
point but 45 per cent above 1914.
By January of 1922 they had work
ed to about 40 per cent. Since
then. prices have climbed about 20
per cent so that the average level
today is 60 per cent pre-war levels.
II prices hold at around this
level with a gradual adjustment,
lower building materials and high
er farm prices, there is no reason
why Improvement should not con-
tinue. If, however, grasping BUSH
ness interests try to raise prices
on the strength of increased activ-
ity, business will have another set
back.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14


Miss Genevieve' Craver was 3
week end guest of friends at Wal
Ia Walla.
James Craver spent the week end
at Pullman, the guest of friends
at the State College.
Lloyd Keene has been absent
from school for nearly two weeks
on account of illness.
Mrs. E. o. Keene has been sub.
stituting for Mrs. Perry Willourh-
by in the Richland school this week,
Word comes from Spokane that
Mrs. Lydia Hess has been given
a permanent position in the sew
enth grade Of one of the Spokane
city schools.
w. L. Craver is leaving this aft
ternoon for Spokane, where he will
attend the Grade and Pack con-
ference as delegate from the East
end of Benton county.
The Home Economics depart
ment of the Woman's club is meet
ing with Mrs. j. B. Yost TODAY
~ Vs
The ladies are entertaining them
selves with a community luncheon.
O. S. Sullivan writes that he
and Mrs. Sullivan expect to ar
rived here from Seattle the latter
part of the week. They will mot
or to Portland and return home
via the Evergreen Highway.
The Needlework club will be en-
tertained at luncheon by Mrs. w.
L. Craver at her home on. the
Highlands on Saturday afternoon.
This is tn e annual Christmas meet
ing and is made a festive occasion
by the club. Gifts are exchanged
and social time enjoyed.
Mrs. Minnie Beiderweiden, Mrs.
F. N. Giles and Mrs. Katrina AL
bright constituted the election
board at the annual election of q
trustee for the Kennewick district
held at the club house. Only four
votes were cast all Of which were
for Mr.. Hughes Of Kiona.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14

and constructive imagination to
see how much he can give you for
dollar instead of how little he
can give for dollar, is bound to
succeed. I cannot understand
why people don't see it.
What applies to an individual
applies also to the entire country.
A nation grows as it serves, as its
people give the most they can to
others-whether in the form Of
labor, material or distribution. We
are now in a period when this is
very important. Business is doing
its best to come back but we must
encourage it in coming back by
holding down prices, especially the
prices of the raw materials which
go into our manufacturing pro-
ducts. have in mind coal, iron,
lumber, cement, bricks, etc. It
is great mistake to say that they
do not care what they pay as long
as all other manufacturers must
pay the same price. We do wrong
in paying higher prices simply be-
cause we can pass it along to some
one else.
"Most manufacturers" continued
Mr.. Ford, "begin at the wrong end.
They ask the, production depart
'ment how much it costs to make
the article, then they add a selling
cost and profit. Next they call
in the sales department and say
Here's the article and this is the
price, go out. and get it!' At De-
troit we have always figured from
the other end. We began with a
human need, then we wanted to
give just as much as we could for
a dollar. The product must be
right, it must give service, so ex-
perimented and tested for eleven
years before we were sure the pro-
duct was as good as we could
build it. Then we began to figure
out ways to make it most efficient
ly--to give more for the dollar.
"When sales slow up we don't
drive the sales force and try to
force folks to buy, we cut the
price, then more of them can and
do buy. When the price is cut
it is usually cut below the cost TO
manufacturing at the time. Then
the production department has to
figure out new economics, new
short cuts that will deliver the
same car for less money-and |
they've always done it.
'The more you give people for
a dollar the more there are Of |
them who can buy. The larger
your production, the more you can
give"
Here we have the rules that has
built up one Of the greatest COM
mercial successes Of our day-the
organization that has supplied the
cheap, efficient transportation to
every country round the world.
Things are coming along very
WE'LL" added Mr.. Ford commenting
on current business recovery, "and
if they will only keep from Jump
ing prices there's no reason why
the improvement can't continue.
Hold down prices and raise up the
business.
IF the merchants and manufac-
turers begin boosting then costs Of
living will go up, wages will try
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14

Somehow nothing that an un-
usually eloquent speaker says ever
sounds reasonable after you get
Since the bartenders disappear
ed there aren't SO many good mix
ers.
Sometimes the highway Of life
seems to be paved with tacks and
broken bottles but, cheer up, a
little farther along you'll probably
find nails and spikes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14

FOR SALE-Lots 60, plat B, 10
acres; lot Is, plat C, S acres and
lots Is, plat C, Z acres Highlands.
Terms. Make me an offer. Address
S. Courier-Reporter. 36-42c
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14
WHAT r. w. BABSON SAYS

4 MERICA mas no better authority on matters of
~ business and finance than Roger w Babson The
Courier Reporter each week will print copyrighted
report from the great economist. These reports will
be interesting and beneficial to all classes of readers
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-12-14
FOss TO PREACH
Eminent Lutheran. Clergyman In
Local Pulpit next SUNDAY


The Reverend L. C. Foss, presi-
dent OF the Pacific district pioneer
pastor and foremost Lutheran
clergyman on the coast will de-
liver the sermon at the mission
festival arranged by First Luther
an church next Sunday evening at
$500 o'clock Rev. Gulhaueen will
officiate at the alter. A special
mission offering will be taken.
President Foss will remain in
the valley one week visiting Luth-
eran congregations also in ,Pasco
Grandview and Yakima.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-01

charge OF disloyalty; Phillip La Fol-
lette. the senator's son. z. g. Larson,
no Nonpartisan League candidate Tor
treasurer, and H. W.. FRAZER,
chairman Of th9 Nonpartisan league
campaign committee.
The auditorium, where the ADDRESS
was given, was damned to tpe utrnos'
Of its capacity.
North Dakota Contest.
In opening his address Senator La
Toilette declared that the contest in
North Dakota had made such a strong
appeal to him that he had come to the
state to take part In it. For II years
hi said he had been lighting the peo-
| pies battles in the United States sen
ate, and his heart yearned for an as
sociate like MI. Frazier in that Tight.
He had watched the fight of the till
ers of the soil to free themselves from
| the tyranny Of the Minneapolis Cham
her Of Commerce for many years, and
had taken part in the early activities
of George LOTUS and the Society OF
Equity.
of statehood. The agricultural popu-
lation Is the most patriotic In the
wage earners
Senator La Toilette called atten-
ton to the fact that he had been
brought up on a farm, and declared
his conviction that no n could prop.
erly represent the great mass of the
people unless he came from them.
Watch Representatives.
- Good government" he said. lis bas.
ed on two great principles, Liberty
and Equality. Our forefathers devils.
ed this great system Of representative
government. You want to be sure
that the men you send to represent
you will always represent you. YOU
want to be sure that no great corpor'
ate interest can take him away from
you, for whom it does you will have
lost your share in the government.
From the time the American gov
eminent was formed, until after thu
Civil war, it continued to. be truly rep
resentative," tho senator declared. i
was after the war that the change
came. Before the Civil war, he said
| that there had. never been a contes
over a senate seat on the ground thai
It was obtained through bribery
"Since then there have been IS sucf
contests, three Of them since I have
been a member Of The senate. Thes'
three were the cases OF Lorimer o,
Illinois, Stevenson of Wisconsin,. and
last and most odius, Newberry OF MI
chigan." he said.
1.-THE barefoot soldiers of Vale,
Forge fought for q government FOL
the people, not for tho Chamber o,
Commerce; let us mot lot that gov
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-01
Moliere Play
At University
Much Enjoyed

A more pleased audience seldom
q theatre than tho n which
left Woodwork auditorium, state uni
vsrsity campus, Tuesday evening after
the Coffer-Miller players
presentation Of THE Imaginary In
VALID Moliere's masterpiece OF
comedy.
From the FIRST curtain and the APP
pearance OF Argan, the imaginary In
valid, to Tionette's hhal "Fiddle-dee-
'dee!" laugh after laugh was called
satire Of the master playwright shone
from the lines in spite 81 the fact that
the play was given in the English
Translation.
The Cofer-Miller players, cannot be
too strongly commended for the work
they are doing in presenting before
the schools Of the country this won
der-work Of comedy, which has come
down through. the ages to be as enter
tanning today as when 1t was first pre-
scented. The life of the production,
naturally resting upon the two main
characters, Argan and. Tionette, his
maid servant, loses none Of its effec-
t~iveness in>the hands Of Jess Golfer
Booth, AZ the unsolicited sutton for tho
hand Of Angelique, daughter Of Argan.
plays a character role adding much to
the pungency Of Moliere's satire.
When Argan. who, according to his
own notion, Is always sickly, begins
his lamentations upon the first rising
of the curtain the laughter begins.
Toinette. who forever teases him and
makes him often forget through hi
temper that he IL an invalid, weave.
the story by her wit and ingenuity K
the end. that she, and incidentally the
audience, desires. Through theSfun.
profession, runs ..the love story o.
Angelique, Argan's daughter. and
Cleante, who has no medical ten
Poor Argan, ever in need Of the pre-
scriptions, medicines. and administra-
tons Of a member of,the medical pro-
fession, as he himself SO ardently be-
lieves, wants~a doctor as a son-in-law
and gives Ankelique's hand to Thomai
Diaforus. just put Of the medical
school, and q son. of Monsieur Dia.
forus, the physician. Thomas, simple
youth, calls with his father on Argar
and his daughter and under hi
fathers direction recites his thanks .te
tho sickly parent and his proposal tt
the disgusted girl.
'Angelique refuses the proposal and
her father determines to send her to a
nunnery. according to the wishes Of
his second wife. Z Toinette takes a
hand. proves the futility or doctoring,
the deceit ofs.Argan's wife, tho loyalty
Of the daughter, and brings Argan to
sanction tho marriage Of Cleante and
Angelique. She docs not shake Ar
CANS faith in his illness, however.
Standing out through all this ID No
Here's gentle raillery directed at tn