The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-04

flcatlOns but reaffIrmlng orange IN
terest in every form of genuine child
welfare, education and development.
The National Grange voted to fav-
or:
A high export or an actual embar-
60, on logs and unfinished lumber not
yet fabricated into industrial pro-
ducts.
Immediate completion and operation
of Muscle Shoals by the government,
Or its lease on such terms as will
insure the production of fertilizer for
the farmers at cost, but strictly UNI
der the terms of the water power act.
Reorganization of the postal SER
vice and adjustment of salaries and
administrative methods to increase
the efficiency of the department.
Closer supervision of movie picture
films and rigid cleanup of objection
able features.
Energetic efforts and liberal state
forts to stamp out bovine tuberculos-
is, in the interests of public health.
Energetic efforts and iberarl state
and federal appropriations to check
the spread of the European corn-bor-
er.
Full endorsement of the income tax
principle, federal and state.
A well-defined policy by the Unit
ed States Department Of Agriculture
directed towards economic adjust
ments, rather than increased produc-
ton, as the immediate need of the
American farmer.
Continuation of the immigration
restrictive laws enacted the past year
and objection to any letting down Of
the bars on the "ineligible alien"
clause, or otherwise permitting the
admission Of the yellow race.
A non-partisan ballot in municipal
elections.
Support of the federal farm loan
act and its defense against legisla-
ton that would have a tendency to
interfere with the provisions of the
act or to compel increased interest
charges to farmers.
Rigid enforcement of all laws, fed
eral and state, and positive opposition
to any weakening of the Volstead Act
for enforcement of national prohibi-
ton.
Full publicity for income tax re-
turns.
More thoroughly-trained teachers
for rural schools; plain, practical and
serviceable rural school buildings,
with proper sanitary equipment, but
without extravagent expenditure of
funds; ample Fairgrounds to be pro-
vided in all plans for new school
buildings in the open country.
Endorsement of vocational train
ing and especially increased instruc-
ton in agriculture; health inspection
work in the pubic schools with proper
teaching in physiology and hygiene;
stress the necessity for making the
spirit of rural school teaching point
towards country life instead of away
from it.
Urging the department of agricul-
ture at Washington to use its utmost
energies towards balancing produc-
ton in future agricultural planning.
Such reorganization of the railroad
labor board at Washington as shall
give the public larger instead of re-
duced representation.
The National Grange opposes:
Any shifting of bureaus or other
activities from the department of
agriculture to the department Of
commerce.
The creation of any new bureaus or
departments in federal or state adj
ministration.
Federal or state aid for reclama-
ton, irrigation and colonization pro-
jects, until such time as it is clearly
apparent that the available agricul-
tural acreage of the country must be
increased.
Daylight-saving, or any other time
system that shall interfere with the
universal operation Of Standard time
in all states and parts of states.
All reductions in tariff rates on
dairy products, which rates are de-
clared already so low that American
dairying are suffering seriously from
foreign competition.
The use Of milk or any milk pro-
ducts in combination with vegetable
oils to manufacture limitation but
ter
Any universal school Capitalization
or consolidation policy, on the ground
that school questions are purely local
in their nature.