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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-29
What Soil Means to Unity

u DTTORS Note-The following article is portion of an
~ address delivered by Edward G. Johnson Dean of Ag
rcultre and Director of the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Washington State College Pullman at the State
Unity day program sponsored by the Washington State
Press association at Eensburg August "a Instaments
of this address will be printed in the from
week to week until the entire article has been published
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-11-29
FINLEY NEWS NOTES

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j. w. Wealdy is in Seattle on bus
mess this week.
Beulah Zindel visited the Kenne-
wick High school Monday.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
MO Their " | I H
BABY HIT BY
TROLLEY
Mrs. Charles Boteler Escapes
Injury, But Child Is Bruised
BY Accident.

Knocked down by a street car at
Eighth and F streets northeast, last
night, Mrs. Charles Boteler, 625 F
street northeast, escaped injury, but
her baby of five months was cut on
the forehead. The infant and
mother were removed to Casualty
Hospital in an automobile, the OPP
orator of which did not make his
identity known. The babys condi-
ton is not serious. Both were
knocked down when struck by the
rear end of the car as it turned
from F street into Eighth street.
Miss Clara Kraft, 1880 First street
northwest, was knocked down by
an automobile which ran over the
sidewalk in front Of her home last
night after 1t was in collision with
another car. Samuel c.. Scott,
colored, twenty-eight years old, 633
K street southeast, operator OF the
automobile, was arrested and
charged with assault, colliding,
having a dead" license number on
his machine and having no on
orators permit. Miss Kraft refused
hospital treatment.
Three-year-old Thelma Waldron,
$40 B street southeast, sustained
bruises of the arm and leg when
she was knocked down by an auto
mobile on B street, between Fifth
and Sixth streets southeast. Her
condition is not serious.
Mrs. Margaret B. Reid, fifty-flve
years old, living at the Woodward
apartments, suffered a fracture Of
the left leg and bruises of the hip
last night when she was knocked
down by an automobile at Kalorama
road and Connecticut avenue.
Police say that Fred Mclaughlin. of
Carroll Manor, Takoma Park. Md.
was operating the machine. Mrs.
Reid is not in a critical condition.
She is being treated at Emergency
Hospital.
Carl c. Grimes, contractor,
living at Hyattsville, Md, was cut
on the head and suffered hemor-
rhages Of the ear when the machine
in which he was riding at Eleventh
street and Maryland avenue north
east, today was overturned in a
collision with another car. Jacob
Goldenberg, describing himself as an
actor Of New York city. who was
operating the machine that struck
Grimes car, was arrested on the
charge of having no operators per-
NIT. OOIOeNDoES IS DelnS OcIdlHeo
pending determination Of the extent
Of the injuries of Grimes and Will
liam Cope. colored, 1906 Seventh
street, who was slightly bruised.
John r. Dennison, thirty-five
years old, 1888 U street southeast,
was badly bruised last night when
he was knocked down by an auto
mobile at Nichols avenue near Good
Hope road. His condition is not
serious
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
4 8 DARLINGTON
RENTSF|XED
BY BOARD
Value of $4,000 Put on
Apartment-Ten Cases I'm
der Amusement.

Apartment house cases are con.
Stunning the greater part Of the time
of the District Rent Commission,
Chairman A. Leftwich Sinclair an
nounced today.
The commission today made a
general reduction of rents in the
darlington, 3O33 Sixteenth street
northwest, forty-nine apartments
being affected.
The rent board placed value of
$175, 200 on the property and
authorized maintenance allowance
Of $12,830 annually. The revision is
calculated to afford the owner a
net return Of Z per cent. The
darlington recently changed hands
and another sale is rumored.
The commission Is to hear the
case Of the Vivans apartment house
on Monday and the Leonmar on
Tuesday.
Ten additional cases are under
advisement for final decision. These
are the Bradford, Tudor Hall. the
Solano. the Eudora, the Lamont.
the Argyle. the Loretto, the Win
ton. the Stanley, and 1107 Eleventh
street northwest.
Howe Totten. owner Of the Hen
rietta Apartments, 933 N street
northwest, today asked the COM
mission for a REHABILITATION Of the
previous decision of the rent judges
on that establishment.
The Henrietta comprises twenty
apartments. Totem stated In his
petition that the present rate of
1912 a room yields an insufficient
raVaOuo
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
CIT|zENSFIGH 7
FOR P|NEY
BRANCH
Association Long Active in
Development of important
Residential District.

Identified with the early de-
velopment of what was known as
Saurs Addition, having been organ
lied shortly after Improvement
work in that section was started
the Piney Branch Citizens Associa-
ton has from the first proved one
Of the most effective citizens or
CARNATIONS of the District. It's
history reads like a chapter from
litigation records, for never has the
association hesitated to appeal to
the courts in the defense Of what II
believed to be the best interests OF
it's section of the city.
Among the services rendered the
city as a whole as the result OF
this aggressive policy have been the
establishing Of a number OF prece
dents subsequently followed by the
courts in determining similar con
troversies involving other sections
of the District.
Conspicuous among such achieve
ments was a court ruling secured
by the association, which virtually
established the right to enforce re-
strictive covenants in deeds to
property.
Fought Hospital Site.
In another instance, following &C
ton by Congress setting aside a
site for a hospital in it's section, the
association fought the plan sue
cessfully, although opposed by prac.
tically all of the official influence
in the District.
In the hospital case" the as,
ISOLATION took the position that the
development of the tract surround,
ing the hospital site for residential
purposes would be affected adverse.
ly were the hospital erected. Con.
gress has already made an ap-
preparation for the construction OF
the hospital buildings, but the op.
position of the association became
SO strong, and it's fight against the
project was Waged so cleverly that
eventually the plan was abandoned
How 1t has affected educational
development in it's section is seen in
the eight-room addition to the West
school. This increase in school
facilities was effected without even
a favorable recommendation from
the Board of Commissioners.
Won in Supreme Court.
Along similar lines is its recent
victory in preventing the construc.
ton of a school for tubercular chill
Continued on Page 22A
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
NOW
BEFORE
BOARD
Committee Confident Existing
Wage Scale Will Be Revised
Before July 1.

Washington navy yard ma
chinists open the presentation of
their appeal for higher wage
scale before the local wage board
today. =
Robert E. Janson, James j.
Noonan, Felix Licarione, and
George H. Emlet constitute the
committee in charge of the ma
chinists' case, and their appear
ance before the local board is the
first step in the reconsideration
of the award of the Naval Depart.
ment board last month, which
Secretary of the Navy DENLY sus-
pended because of the general pro-
test against it.
Put In Lowest Group.
The wage scale for machinists
set up by, the Naval Departmental
Board shows that Washington was
ranked virtually with the lowest
group, despite the high cost of HV-,
ing in this city. The Illachtnists
Of the Charleston, S. c., navy yard
were given a wage of II cents an
hour; those of Washington; New
Orleans. Pensacola, Bremertons and
Philadelphia, 70 cents; Boston. II
cents; Portsmouth, N. H., "a cents;
New York, rs cents; and VALLEJO,
Cal, so cents. The rates for pairt.
ers ard pattern makers were some
what higher. comparatively speak
ing, but were far from adequate
from the viewpoint of the workers.
The Washington navy yard ma
chinists feel that their plea for an
increased wage-to 80 cents an hour
or more-has been strengthened
materially in the past six months,
because of the general pay advances
coming with business revival. The
data they will present to the local
board will show that crafts wages
paid by private employers here are
higher than the navy yard rates.
these comparative studies and also
upon data relating to the cost Of
living in the Capital.
Board to Revise Scale.
The local board will revise the
existing wage scales of the Navy
Yard and submit them to the Naval
d. Departmental Board and Secretary
OF the Navy DENLY for approval
within the next three weeks. The
award will have to be approved in
advance of July /, when the new
fiscal year begins. The general ex-
pectation among the machinists is
that the wage scale they seek will
be granted by the, local board and
approved by the Naval Department
tai Board without controversy.
Rear Admiral Joseph Strahs, who
was the chief stumbling block in
the way Of the approval of higher
wage scale before, is no longer
chairman of the board, having been
succeeded by Admiral Robson.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
U. S. EXHIBIT OF STAMPS
WINS PRIZE IN LONDON

The American stamp exhibit
taken to London by Third Assistant
Postmaster General W. Irving
Glover which was entered in the
International Stamp Exhibit held
there from May IA to 26 has won
special prize, according to
cablegram received from Glover at
the Post Office Department today.
In his cablegram, Glover enthus'
iastically advises the Postmaster
General that he was yesterday pre-
scented to King George Of England,
under whose patronage the stamp
exhibit was held. King George is
said to have the largest stamp
collection in the world.
Glover. himself, is a stamp
enthusiast and 1t has been under
his guidance that the specinl
philatelist division OF the depart
ment was installed.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
NEW DRY LAW POLICY IN
N. Y. NOT PLANNED-U. S

President Harding has formulated
no special policy of prohibition en-
forcement in New York State, in
the event Governor Smith signs the
bill repeating the Mullen-Gage law
the States dry code, according to
q statement from the White House.
Federal authorities will operate in
New York as they do in Maryland
and Massachusetts. neither OF which
States have enacted. enforcement
codes.
The statement was in answer to
Inquiries arising from the Presi.
dents letter to Wesley Wait, Of
Hewburgh, N. Y, statements in
which were construed to mean that
the Administration would adopt
special measures to meet the coca.
sion.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
SUNSHINE HOME PLANS
CAMPAIGN FOR 100000

Plans for a 100000 drive to
carry on the relief work of the
Sunshine Home fer destitute women
$40 c street northwest were laid
at a meeting in the home, last
night.
The Rev. D. Wellington Curran.
business adviser of the late Bishop
Harding, praised the work of the
institution:
Mrs, Leland Stanford CONFESS,
secretary, announced that support
of the campaign has been pledge
by Mrs. John L. Hinee, Mrs. Alex.
ander r. Shepherd, Mrs. Mott .T',
Potter. Mrs. James p. Wood, Mrs.
John w. Price, Mrs. George D.
Hope, Mrs. r. E. Lee Wiltberger
Mrs. Richard Wilmer Bowling, Mrs
r. A. Hinson, Mrs. Delos Blodgett
and Mrs. Harold G. Nelson.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
PROPOSES
NEW BUS
LINE
Capital Traction Co. Asks
Route Connecting Southeast
and Southwest.

The Capital Traction Company
is planning to enter the bus bust
ness on a large scale.
John H. Hanna, vice president
and general manager of the COM
pany, today applied to the Public
Utilities Commission for permits
sion to operate a cross-town bus
line connecting southeast with
southwest Washington.
Will Issue Transfers.
The bus line will issue transfers
to the Eighth street line in south
east Washington and the Seventh
street line in southwest Washing.
ton.
Another petition was filed with
Lieut. Col. C. o. Sheriff., in charge
of public buildings and grounds.
asking permission to operate a mo.
tor bus line to the new Rock
Creek Golf Club course, which
opens next Friday for public play.
This bus line will be operated in
conjunction with the company's
bus line on Sixteenth and Kennedy
earlier in the week.
The route of the cross-town bus
| line follows:
From Eighth and M streets south
east, along M street, Delaware ave.
| nue., o street. and Water street to
the intersection of Water and p
streets southwest; return route by
p street, Delaware avenue and NJ
street.
Regular Fare 8 Cents.
The rate of fare will be eight
cents cash, six tokens for 40 cents
with a two-cent transfer charge be.
tween bus line and lines Of the
company on M street southeast
and Water street southwest.
A public hearing to consider the
request will be ordered shortly by
the Commission. 1t is expected
that the company will be given
| permission to operate the bus line.
For the past ten years there has
been talk of a cross-town line to
| connect southeast with southwest
| Washington. Street car companies
in the past have planned to opcr.
ate street cars over this route.
| However. the recent increased use
of buses resulted in a change Of
plans.
It was pointed out today that the
cost of a street car line in that
section would be in the nelghbor.
hood of 100000. Buses can be
purchased for $1,000 or SIS, 900 apiece
and this will be practically the en-.
! tire cost Of opening transporta,
ton line.
Proposes Steel Poles.
| Vice President Hanna also applied
! to the commission for permission
to remove poles located on the
Chevy Chase car line on Connecticut
avenue northwest from Chevy Chase
circle to Jenifer street. They plan
to substitute steel poles at each
side of the street with span wire
construction, feed wires to be car
ried by the poles on the east side
of the street.
."It is our WISH" said Hanna, "to
do this work in connection with the
| repaving of the west side of Con.
necticut avenue, and for this rea-
son we request early consideration
of the matter by the commission
| Four thousand dollars is the
amount estimated as needed to
make this change.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
HIGH COS |
Of LAW
HELD
BAR
Social Work Conference ID
Told Remedy Must Be
Found for Them.

Half a million persons are de-
MED justice in the United States
every year because of poverty, the
expense of litigation and lawyers
services, John s. Broadway, of
Philadelphia, secretary of the Ma
tional Alliance of Legal Aid Soci-
cites, declared today before dele
gates to the semi-centennial con-
vention of the National Confer
ence of Social Work.
Sees Bar to Loyalty.
It will be necessary to bring the
laws out of the books and home
to the people, said Bradway. At
present this condition of denial Of
justice is being partially met by
legal aid bodies, but this is only q
palliative.
"If a man cannot afford the
money or the time to carry through
a case at law, according to the
existing methods" Bradway went
on. ''he may be left completely out
side the law. There are ap-
proximately half a million persons
each year in the United States
who cannot seek justice through the
ordinary channels because of these
barriers. Such group cannot be
tloyal citizens unless they participate
Pin the greatest benefit Of citizen
| ship-justice.
Many Aid Societies.
! There are now sixty-eight legal
aid societies functioning In the
United States, said the speaker,
handling 100000 cases a year and
collecting for their clients more
/ than 100000 annually.
| Miss Alice Waldo, OF New York,
spoke on the same subject, stressing
the fact that many lawyers are stiIl
suspicious of social workers, fearing
| they are attempting ''to Danish law
and attorneys" These must be
assured that social workers through
legal aid organizations seek only
| to cooperate and facilitate pro-
cedure.
The general topic for today's
group meetings and general ses-
sions is Law and Government
A summary OF the program is as
follows:
Morning group meetings. . to
1880:
Red Cross Assembly Hall.
Topic, How Far Should Juvenile
and Domestic Relations Courts I'm
| dertake Social Case Work Admins
| tration."
2-Hotel Washington. Topic. ''De-
1 velopment of Public Health Protec-
/ ton and Promotion
S-Hotel Washington. Topic,
1.-The Laws Delay
1.-The Willard. Topic, ''The
| Movement Toward Government by
Boards and Commissions.
5-Corcoran Art Gallery Topic,
Legal Aid Service and Social
| Work.
| 6-Interior Department audtto-
rum. Topic, Growth Of Scientific
! Understanding of Mentality.
Morning general session. 11:10 to
1, Memorial Continental Hall.
Luncheons. followed by afternoon
meetings of kindred groups"
Dinner, Intercity Conferences on
LEGITIMACY. Ebbitt House.
Evening general session. 8 O'Clock,
Memorial Continental Hall.
Graft on Immigrants.
Many immigrants to the United
States are acquiring unfavorable
ideas Of our courts. our law, our
Government and the State itself be-
cause they are being made victims
| of organized systems Of graft,
charged Miss Kate Holiday Ciag-
horn, of the New York School of
Continued on Page 22.)
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
/. THE MEANEST CUSS.

He had a discOncerting way
OF qualifying all he'd say:
A compliment that sounded nice
He'd rob. Of every bit Of spice;
That made Won think his friend q mutt.
"Oh. yes; he, H. a noble sort,
a generous soul. q good old sport.
In politics he'd make q hit.
A splendid fellow. I'll admit.
And then he'd up and knock IIke-well
1t isn't very nice to tell,
But from my rhyme you'll guess. no
The kind of stuff he shoveled out.
"'Our country's far the fairest land
Fer settled on by Pilgrim band;
Our flags the lnyeliest unfurled,
Our government beats the world.
The Presidents q mighty man,
The Senate does the bsef 1t can.
The sky Is blue, the crops are fine,
The cost of living will decline.
Look where you may. the prOspect's
God q on the job and all is right
And then he'd up and raises-welI
1t isn't very nice to tell,
But from my rhyme, You'll guess no
The line of stuff he handed out.
1t CHANGED one day this rascal died
And to the gates of heaven hied.
With much ado and pOmpOus show
He started in to brag and blow.
Until St. Peter with q smile,
Took up the discourse for q while.
"YOur virtues in the Book are writ,
IT'S plain you tried to do your bit.
A nObler Saint ne'er graced the earth,
There's not a shadow on your worth.
But"
And then the gateman sent him-well
1t isn't very nice to tell.
But from my rhyme you'll guess no
The health resort st. Peter picked out.
THE UNKNOWN.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
MAN SOUGHT
BY POLICE AND NAVY

Naval Identification experts and
police OF the District and New
York have been asked to search
for Paul Hanspurg. twenty.gix years
old, who has been missing from his
home at Braddock, Va, since April
10. He is coppersmith.
The description furnished bv the
Navy Department says that he is
six feet two inches in height and
weighs 40 pounds. He has light
brown hair and brown eyes, The
little finger on his left hand Ia
broken. Part Of his clothing com.
prtsed a black pin.stripe suit and a
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
REMOVAL OF A. N. MURPHY
AS RECEIVER DEMANDED

A petition, demanding removal OF
Arthur N. Murphy, one of the re
ceivers for Golden and Company
bankrupt commission merchants
was filed yesterday in the District
Supreme Court by the New York
Package Cheese Company and viii
liam Brayshaw.
Murphy, who was cashier for
the bankrupt concern, is serving as
receiver jointly with William H.
Shoies. Petitioners claim that
Sholes is unwilling to serve with
Murphy any longer, and they ask
for the appointment OF new re-
ceiVers.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
PEACE SOCIETY FAVORS
WORLD JUSTICE COURT

President Harding was urged to
call an international conference to
promote an independent interna-
tioal court of justice, in a resolu-
ton adopted by the ninety-f1fth an.
nual meeting of the directors or
the American Peace 3oclety In the
Cosmos Club last night.
CONGRESSMAN Andrew j. Monta-
que of Virginia, was elected presi-
dent of the organization, and Ar
thur Deerin Cali, of George Wash
ington University, was reelected
secretary.
It was announced that centennial
anniversary foundation 10 being es-
tablished to make the society self
sustaining by 1928, when it is to
observe it's Tooth anniversary
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
Refuses Garage Injunction.

Injunction proceedings filed In the
District Supreme Court by Mildred
NJ. Hazard and other residents near
the Dean property to prevent the
building OF garage on Nineteenth
street north of the property was
today dismissed by Justice Siddons.
Residents are expected to appeal
from the ruling Of the court.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
HOTEL ASKS DISMISSAL
OF WOMAN'S DAMAGE SUIT

A special plea was filed in the
District Supreme Court yesterday
by the Wardnan Park Hotel Cor.
poration for the dismissal of the
suit against It by Alma c. Smythe
Of Alexandria, Va. for $4,000 dam.
ages for an alleged unlawful CIVIC.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19

Dear Roland Robbins: took
Bill to your theater (Keith's) yes
teFday afternoon. and the bill of
fare served is the greatest 1 ever
tasted. No kidding. though, that's
I'm wondering where you get such
splendid talent.
Bill counted 1917 screams, 1,847
laughs and 272 thrills out of your
Program, and ne wants you TO know
that IL everybody knew what we
knew you wouldn't have room
there for the crowds.
POs0luteIy,
THE OFFICE GOAT.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
Buses for BIadensburg.

The Washington Railway and
Electric Company will extend its
Bladensburg bus line beginning to-
morrow morning, it was announced
today The line now stops at the
District line but will continue to
the Bladensburg school, Ia miles
from the District line
The Washington times., 1923-05-19

light gray hat. His watch charm
bore Masonic and Odd Fellows EN-.
blems. His former address was
SAILS Second avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
No reason can be assigned for
his disappearance
The Washington times., 1923-05-19

And mow Paris comes
along Nth silk stockings so
made as to give the effect of
no stockings at all. But With
long skirts still IN Vogate, it
doesn't mean anything to us
boys! CAKE EATER.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
A MARATHON WINNER.

His steps were slow and falterinH,
He dragged himself along
AS II MS burden was great indeed,
But his heart was filled with sonR,
His brow was knit In troubled care,
In fact ne seemed all gone,
For two hundred hours he'd shuTNeI
His feet In a record marathon,
LULU NJ. SCHULTZ.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
Navy Yard MacEn1ists Seek Pay Raise
MAGIC.

The pugdc champion of these Umted States
Was pugnGcious feuoO by the name OF Atoddtn Bates
tough and seasoned fighter with JG1 as hcrd as steel
opponents Bates aVoud scarcely seem to tee
CHALLENGER arose one .dag large and brutal Tough
Ercoinang that had been pGmpered long enough
"f this Champion the challenger 1Uerred,
"u him beok hard heW hear the nocmg bird
And they signed articles Aladdin and the gtnk,
Oemty rounds of dough- tao hundred thou think
For rounds the battle 0en fill furious and fast
The audience forgot the battles past;
The chaengers smart seconds yeped o bust HIM IN the
snVote-he kissed goodbye
But IN the audience quite realized the champ
Could Oi When the challenger had rubbed Atudd lamp
JACK HARLAN.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
AT THE SYMPHONY CONCERT.

The orchestra had just finished
playing Poet and Peasant" She
turned to. her corpulent daddy,
and remarked: "Oh, l do hope
they play The Seasons, by Tsai-
chowski."
1.-The seasons?" inquired the
old man. "How'n the devil can
they set pepper, vinegar and salt
to music?"
JULES BACKENHEIMER.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19
EMBRYO FIGHTERS
ARE PLENTIFUL

Sport writer's tell US that pre-
liminary fistic fighters get no
pay at all and that there are far
more applicants than fights.
The promoters difficulty is in
making the best selection. He
may shake hands with the col
umn conductor. The latter is in
identically the same position.
FRED VETTER.
THE CONVENTION CITY.
New YOrker-HOw did you find
the folks i'm Washington?
Westerner-Oh, very conven-
tiOnal. HANK HAWKINS.
The Washington times., 1923-05-19

THE STRONGEST COME BACK.
Jess Willard had strong come back,
Argued old Hezekiah Peese,
but the strongest come back know o.
Is that of limburger cheese"
ARIZONA IKE.