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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-10-25

FOR SALE-Netted Gem potatoes
well matured, slips per hundred
One and one-half miles south OF Rich
land. C. H. Ford. Phone 2724. 29-3Oc.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-10-25

FOR SALE-Five shoats weighing
between sixty and seventy pounds.
six dollars each. Four pure bred Po-
lands, smaller, 81 each; Two fat cows.
B. F. Neal, Phone 1913. 3O-32p.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-10-25

FOR SALE-Some good last springs
hens and tom turkeys, Mammoutn
Bronze. Good breeding stock. Write
for prices. F. E. Mathews. paterson,
Washington. Z9-5up
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
PRIZE WINNERS

Well, well. well. after many sleep
less nights going over an array of
names that would tax the mentality
Of a Shakespeare, the winners in the
Tribune's Word Contest have
been selected. 1t is evident that many
disregarded the rules completely, for
they wrote on both sides of the paper
and others jotted down every word
they came to, without regard to the
instructions which said that ONLY
ENGLISH words found in the diction-
airy would be considered.
Some evidently took the dictionary
and went down the line thinking thus
to capture the prize by writing all the
words in the dictionary that it was
possible to make out of the letters in
the contest name. The judges took into
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

consideration the neatness of the list
and the one nearest correct which con-
tained the least number Of foreign
and obsolete words. It must be re-
membered that there are many fore
ign words listed in the English diction-
airy, but these were not to be used in
this contest.
In the opinion of the judges, the
neatest and nearest correct list was
submitted by jeanette Day. Phoenix,
Arizona. Second prize, Eliza B. Cum
ningham, FL Paso, Texas. Third Prize
Lee Ihara, Brawley. Cal. Fourth Prize
Addie Simmons, Phoenix, Ariz Fifth
Prize, Laura Davis, Cleveland, Ohio,
Sixth prize, Thelma Evans, Phoenix,
Arizona Honorable mention, Vivian
Young, Phoenix, Katherine Barr, Peor-
ia, Ariz., and Henry Bell, Blythe, Cal.
The management wishes to thank all
who took part in the contest and wish
we could award prizes to all. Checks
have been mailed to winners. Watch
for the next big feature in the Tri-
bune which will be announced real
soon. It's a hummer
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
BISHOP FLIPPER PLEADS FOR
MINISTER'S WITH GRAY HAIR
preston News service)


Atlanta, CIR. May 14.-At a gathering
in the Pleasant Valley-A NJ E. Church
last Friday night Bishop j. S. Flipper
said in part: Young ministers should
not enedavor to displace old ones who
have labored and made many sacri-
fices to build up the church to its pre-
sent standard" Following the bishops
pointed remarks in this connection
several of the younger ministers con-
tributed similar remarks during the
services. The conference closed last
Sunday afternoon with mission mass
meeting conducted by Rev. J. A. Had
ley. DR.. Hadley made thoughtful ad-
dress on Extension of Missions"
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
THE MODERN NEeRo's coNTRI-
BUTTON TO MUSICAL ART
Mabel Travis Wood


Everyone knows that Negroes have
given to America much of her most
typical and beautiful folk music thru
the spirituals and plantation songs
that have grown out of the life of the
race. But what musical art owes to
the modern Negro composer is not so
generally recognized, There is today a
wealth of music both sacred and secu-
lar which has come from the pens of
Negro composers. Some of it is based
upon the spirituals, and some of it is
not racial in character. Such Negro
composers as Henry T. Burleigh, S.
Coleridge-Taylor, Will Marion Cook,
R. Nathaniel Dett, Carl R. Diton, j.
Rosamond Johnson, and Clarence
Cameron White have during the past
fifteen years written songs of rare
melody and originality, songs that will
live.
OF late there has been a steady in
crease in the appreciation of musical
compositions by Negroes both among
white and colored groups. Church
choirs have given over services to
sacred compositions by Negro COM
posers. Many women's clubs have de-
voted time at their sessions to the
performance of religious compositions
by Negro composers, especially the
simpler choral works. Colored groups
operating locally under Community
Service have presented special pro-
grams of Negro music, combining the
spirituals with songs by modern Ne
gro composers. In New Haven, Con-
|necticut festival of Negro music pre-.
sented by Negro community chorus
and in Augusta, Georgia, musical
program made up largely of compost
tions by Negroes brought fresh musi-
cal knowledge and appreciation.
The Bureau of Community Music of
Community Service, 315 Fourth Ave,
New York City, is endeavoring to fos-
ter this growing interest and to ac-
quaint more music groups, both white
and colored, with the possibilities of
fered by compositions by modern Ne
gro composers. A bulletin, Music Com
posed by Negroes" has been prepared
by this Bureau and is sent out at the
nominal charge of ten cents. 1t lists
the compositions of seven Of the fore
most Negro composers, telling for
what combinations of voices and in
struments they are arranged and
where they may be secured. Examples
of well-balanced programs of Negro
music which already have been pre-
sented are given. To help groups de-
string to take up the study and per
formance Of Negro spirituals the bull
letin mentions the best existing col
lections Of this type of music.
Community Service has made in
this bulletin the first complete and
satisfactory compendium Of music by
Negro composers. It will prove en-
Tightening not only to Americans in
general who may be unacquainted with
the treasures that are contained in
the storehouse of Negro music, but to
colored groups which may not be
familiar with all of the music that
their race has produced
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
A SECRET FROM INDIA
THE LAND OF MANY MYSTERIES

THE LAND OF MANY MYSTERIES
East India, the land of many myster-
ious secrets, a country who's people
have kept their secrets for many thou
sands of years The Indian Yogis who
excel all magicians, whose tricks my
stify the most highly educated men
and women of all the world.
These magicians have succeeded in
charming and training the deadly Co
bra, a native snake, whose bite is so
poisonous that death results almost
instantaneously Magicians of far off
India have performed what ate seem
ingly miracles. 1t has been reported
from authentic sources that famous
Yogis have made people, actually live
and breathing men and women, to ap-
pear and disappear out of a smoke
cloud, to cause trees to grow, plants to
bloom, and streams of water to flow,
and to shoot up out of seemingly
solid rock or table to do these and
many other mystifying acts, almost
at will, but the most wonderful secret
that has been a revealed, has at last
found its way out of darkest India. A
foreign doctor while travelling in In
dia befriended a dying native who in
trying to repay the doctor for his
kindness revealed this secret to him,
who in turn told it to one of his col
eagues in America
This American, after long delibera-
ton, finally decided to place 1t at the
disposal Of the colored races in Amer
lea. This secret is no less than this:
1t will straighten the hair and keep
it straight. The great secret that will
give you smooth long and lusturous
straight hair; all the hidden lovliness
of the dark shiny, glossy hair is in
stantly revealed; these beauty secrets
contain qualities that will bring bloom
to your cheeks, the red rose tint to
your lips, the smooth satin finish to
your complexion The beautiful
creamy color, the Transformation will
be- both the envy and despair of your
friends. You will be the sensation of
the society circle of your community
For a consideration this doctor will
reveal this secret to you. The doctors
Idea is to teach by mail few, very
few, men and women in each COM
munity the art of applying these won
derful secrets which your friends and
neighbors will be only to willing to
pay you handsomely for. The Doctors s
supply of these ingredients at present
are very limited and he will only
teach those who write to him i'm
nediately, those who write at once
can be taught in a few lessons, the
cost is very small and the income is
enormous. If you wish to become
wealthy, be the first in your COM
munity to write the Doctor; Don't de.
lay an instant, don't put this paper
down until you have written the letter
and mailed it. Address: The India
Company, NATIONAL BUILDING,
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

Lawn Social
The ladies of the Goldinol club gave
a lawn social Thursday evening May
10, at the residence Of DR.. and Mrs. w.
C. Hackett, 1884 East jefferson street.
Many were present and a very enjoy
able evening was spent.
Federation Meeting
The Arizina Federation of Colored
Women's clubs will meet this month
in Flagstaff for their annual conven-
tion, with Mrs. Lynn Ross Carter as
state president A big delegation is ex-
pected and Flagstaff is prepared to
entertain the convention in grand
style.
In Hospital
Mrs. Josie Simpson is a patient in
the Booker T. Washington hospital.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

Mr.. Walton, Liberian iHaberdash
cry, thinks the typist who wrote 14S
words a minute and carried on a con
versation at the same time had no
thing on the young woman who pow.
ders her nose, chews gum, sings, talk
fixes her hair and writes at the same
time.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

Pardon me. Did you drop your
handkerchief during the dancer
"Oh!- I'm so embarrassed! That's
my Dress"
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
LOCAL NEWS
On Road To Fame

On Road To Fame
Oscar Smith Phoenix boy, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Smith who reside
at 1435 East Jefferson street, is with
the Famous Players Laskey Corpora
tion in Los Angeles and is making
good as a movie actor He says that if
any Of his friends want to see him in
action, attend the movies where Las
key pictures are shown. Oscars friends
in Phoenix are proud of him and glad
to know that he is on the road to fame
and fortune
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

Well, when the girls get to wearing
corsets again, 1t may make a little
more room in the street cars.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

We heard a girl tell her escort that
men who don't wear garters have
more confidence than she has"
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

Definition of a Giggle: That rattle
of lonesome thought in an empty
brain.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
May Day Festival

May Day Festival
The May Day celebration was held
at the Douglass Grammar hchool
Thursday, May 10 and sports of all
kinds were INDUCED in by the chill
dren. Many patrons and friends of the
school turned out to see the students
perform and all expressed their de-
light Prof. P. Landry, principal of
this school is to be Congratulated on
the success of the affair which was
under his supervision. He was ably
assisted by his capable and efficient
staff of teachers.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

There's little bit of bad in every
good little girl"
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
Hospital Club Notes

The B. T. W. H. R. club met Tues
day evening May 9Th at the residence
of DR.. and Mrs. w. C. Hackett with the
president, Mrs. Ruby Jones in the
chair. Twenty members were present
and very interesting meeting was
held Some very important business
was transacted. The club gave a
pound party for Mr.. Roy Parker who
came to Phoenix several months ago
for his health They also. sent him a
small donation of $500. The club also
sent a basket of fruit to patients in
the hospital. All members of this club
are requested to be present at the
next meeting on May %, as plans will
be made for lawn party to be given
June 18th at 1884 E. jefferson St.
Mrs. Ruby Jones, president, Mrs. Eliza
Kenney. reporter.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
Motor To Tucson

Motor To Tucson
Mr.. c. c. Dotson and Mr. ]. D. Gar
ner motored to Tucson last Sunday in
Mr.. Dotson's touring car and spent the
day in that city. They attended SER
vices at the Baptist church and re-
ports that Rev. Cornelious, the pastor
Of that church is carrying a big con-
gregation. They also noted that Tue.
sos is a wide-awake town and things
seem to be booming. They were royal
ly entertained while there. Both are
widowers. Nuf sed.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

know giddy grille
Who dres 7es like whiz
And though her minds not oft made
up,
The rest of her sure is!
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16
Prominent Visitors

Among the distinguished visitors i1
the city last week were Mrs. w. D
Alexander, Grand Matron, o. E. s.
Mrs. Jacob Tull, Mrs. Young and othel
ladies from Prescott and other towns
in the state.
Phoenix tribune., 1923-05-16

Much Improved
Mrs. Kate Conyers who has been
indisposed the past few weeks is re
ported as doing nicely.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-07
PSYCHOLOGY OF H EMPTY PoCKETBoOK

Says Senator Arthur Capper, leader of the senate farm bloc,
and publisher of farm papers of extensive circulation:
Income of the nations farmers will be one billion dollars
more than last year" as the result of a careful survey. "The index
figures of the Department of Agriculture of September indicate
that farm prices are p per cent higher than a year ago. Condi-
tons are not what they should be, but progress is in the making.
The vast majority of farmers are feeling better"
President Coolidge, says the Pacific Rural Press, in a recent
editorial, is giving a big share of his time and thought to working
out some possible and practical solution to the unbalanced condition
which has placed such a big percentage of farmers at a huge dis
advantage; and which should have the aid of government to the
full extent of its ability. The president was born on a farm,
worked on a farm, and knows the darker side of the farmers life
as well as the advantages of it. The farmers can count on a
shrewd, sympathetic, resourceful friend at court in Calvin Coolidge.
Some one remarked that the agricultural situation was large
ly psychological, whereupon the president retorted. 81 have been
a farmer myself and no farmer in the country is more keenly
aware than l am of the difference between an empty pocketbook
and a state of mind"
While there may be some skepticism of the governments
ability to actually carry out measures that will overcome a world
wide economic unbalance, the fact that it is trying offers some
encouragement. With the best inteDects of the country working
overtime to diagnose the troubles of some of the branches OF
farming, farmers themselves will have to do most of the actual
solving. In the wheat problem it begins to look as if the gigantic
task of organizing the industry comparatively may be fostered by
the government, directly or indirectly. While some critics may
claim that the government should keep hands off, the situation is
so intense that paternaism may work out better than a laissez
faire or "handsoff' policy.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-07
SINKING FUND" is THE CORRECT NAME

How much more satisfactory is would be to the people of
Montana, who pay the taxes which keep up city, county, state and
governmental maintenance, to know that a portion of their an
nual, or semi-annual, tax money was being put in a permanent
road and building fund and was drawing interest, compounded
annually, instead of knowing, as they now do, that for every dollar
they put up for the actual construction of either highways or adj
ministrative buildings, they must put up another dollar for interest
on the bonds required under the present system to float the prof.
ect.
How much more county road and building construction work
could be done if the taxpayer knew that his tax money, by being
put in bank at six, or even five, per cent interest, would about
double itself in twenty years, and that the county would then be
enabled to do two dollars worth of necessary public work for every
one dollar of the money actually paid into the county treasury by
the taxpayer; instead of the county now being able to actually do
only about fifty cents worth of such work for every one of the
taxpayers dollars, because of the other fifty cents having been I'M
productivity expended for interest and project engineers fees,
under the present system?
How much more money would the banks, then, be enabled to
loan out to local progressive citizens for legitimate and community
building enterprises from the funds that are accommodating as the
result of the taxpayers deposits? The merchant and manufac-
turer who must figure on a somewhat higher profit on their in
vestment because of the nature and extent of their commercial risk,
would be willing to pay the ten per cent asked by the banking in
stituhons for their loans; the home-buyer and farmer would be
willing to pay the reasonable interest of eight per cent for the use
of the money necessary for him to carry on; the bank would
be making a reasonable profit on the use of the taxpayers money,
which they borrow at six per cent and loan out at eight and ten
per cent; and the people of the community would then be able to
get two dollars of public work done for every dollar they put up
in taxes, the other dollar coming from the interest on their dollar,
which about doubles itself every twenty years through the process
of compounding.
Under the present system, a Sinking fund.- must be provided
to take care of the interest payments, as well as the principal, and
about the most appropriate name that could possibly be found
for it, for the money which is now being paid out in interest, in
stead of being put into the county treasury to be banked for its in
terest-earning power, merely sinks, and sinks, and sinks.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-07
1T HAS A HOLLOW SOUND

A prominent Montana grain dealer was heard to make the re-
mark the other day that the cooperative wheat marketing move
has done the farmers of Montana immense harm and that
can not possibly do them any good because it is economically
unsound. And yet the grain dealers organization has spent, and
is spending, large sums of money in fighting cooperative market
ing and in kicking every possible obstacle in the path of the move
ment. Grain dealers as a class have the reputation of being pretty
shrewd business men and so perhaps we may be pardoned for wond-
erng why these same gentlemen are wasting so much good money
fighting a movement that they contend is bound to fail anyway.
AS we have remarked before on this page, why don't the grain
dealers await the inevitable failure" of cooperative marketing
cOmplacenty instead of loosing their costly dogs of war?
And that statement about the harm the cooperative move
ment has done the farmers has a rather hollow sound when we
remember the system of offering advances on wheat that was in
augurated by the grain trade when they began to feel the pressure
of the cooperative movement and the higher grades that a great
many farmers have been getting the last couple of years. The fact
of the case is that if the cooperative movement went under to-
morrow it would still be worth every cent it has cost. But the
trouble is that if the cooperative marketing organization should
fail, the advances and the other concessions that have been made
by the grain trade would fold up their tents like the Arabs and
silently steal away"
The truth Of the matter is that the grain trade is pretty badly
scared over the cooperative marketing movement and is very far
from being convinced that the movement is economically unsound.
We do not blame them for putting up fight. If you and / were on
that side of the fence we would be fighting too.
The producers have everything to gain and nothing to lose
through cooperative marketing. If the movement is kept in the
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-07
General Condition Abroad

$780, y 900 to 1928, $4,000. Exports
of copper to Germany for the same
period dropped rs million pounds,
and lead exports Is million pounds.
Germany's cotton purchases declined
45 per cent during the same period
and France and England also have re-
duced their cotton purchases.
Any further increase of political or
economic troubles in the countries Of
Europe is certain to be reflected In
decreased buying power on their part.
Even France, which is at present, APP
parently, the most prosperous Of the
European countries, is building up a
mountain of debt and fixed charges
which constitute an ever-increasing
burden upon her people and a menace
to their prosperity. More than two
thirds Of her budget is now required
to meet the interest on her three
hundred billion franc debt, and adj
ditional borrowing Of fifty billion
francs is planned.
Great Britain is most seriously af-
fected by the continental situation
and she is finding her problems Of
adjustment to these abnormal condi-
tions increasingly difficult. During
the first half of 1923, production was
on a higher level than in the year
previous, but in Great Britain, as
here a slump in production began
with the late spring and has since
continued. Whether this may be re-
garded as a definite reversal of trend
or merely a temporary cessation, is
the question. It seems certain, how
ever, that until conditions on the Con-
tinent are improved, there can be
little real improvement in the British
situation, and activities in Great
Britain will be below normal. De-
Ginning markets and increasing I'M
employment are manifestations of the
difficulties faced.
There has been some apprehension
in regard to the probable effect on
British markets of the release Of the
accumulated stocks in the Ruhr, es-
pecially of iron and steel products,
but it is believed that the long-starv-
ed markets Of the unoccupied area
will absorb most of these stocks.
However, if exports to Germany from
the Ruhr are still forbidden there
would appear to be every prospect Of
heavy dumping on the English mar
kets.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-07

The problem of ultimate recovery
of Europe, turning largely as it does
upon some settlement Of the repara-
tions question, seems to become daily
more complex, states the current is
sue of the Guaranty Survey, publish
ed in New York.
Dramatic developments have mark
ed the last month. The intolerable
financial and economic burdens i'm
posed upon Germany by her policy
Of passive resistance in the Ruhr dis
trict have had their inevitable effect.
The German Chancellor has been
forced to the frank admission that
further resistance is futile and an eff
fort was made to meet the French
demands. This nov on the part Of
the German Government has so far
served only to precipitate greater
unsettlement. Food riots, political
disorders and a widespread disruption
of social and economic life have fol
lowed.
While France has apparently won
a victory in the Ruhr, it promises
to be relatively barren so far as any
immediate advantages are concerned
the Survey says. Germany has been
so weakened by this struggle that
she is far less able to pay now than
before the Ruhr occupation. Trade
and industry have been so thoroughly
demOralized that much time must
elapse before it will be possible to
produce an export surplus that will
afford credits for reparations. In
due course, payments in kind will be
resumed, but it has already beer
proved that such payments are liable
to cause serious economic dislocatior
in the creditor country.
1t becomes clearer every day that
the problems involved in the a
ment of Preparations are immensely
difficult and can be solved only BY
the highest economic and financial
skill exercised in a spirit of concilia-
ton and mutual concession. a spirit
which is notably lacking at present
The reaction of the European stu
alton upon the United States is de-
finitely reflected in the decline of
our exports to Europe. For the year
ended June 80, 1923, u wheat ex-
ports were 155,OOO,OOO bushels, as
compared with 2OS. 100000 for the
previous year. In that period our
exports to Germany declined from