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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03

/; The Epworth League will hold a
social and business meeting at the
home of Mrs. w. F. )Ashby on the
evening of Friday, April a.
Rev. Calender of Kennewick and
DIR. Hawk, of Ellensburg conducted
service Friday evening in the inter-
est of the World Service movement.
The regular p. T. A. meeting Will
be held on the evening of April IL.
The program will consist of cantata
given by the school under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Hopkinson.
Miss Fern Hampton was appoint
ed as the Sunday School delegate to
attend the convention to be held Fri
day at Whitstran hall near Prosser
She will also speak at Prosser or
Thursday in the county oratorical
contest.
Mr.. Henry of Milton, Oregon ar
rived here the last of the week where
he is staying with his parents, M
and Mrs. E. X. Henry. Mrs. Henry
and children will follow as soon al
she and their new baby son are abb
to travel. They will have charge Of
the Burpee property for the coming
year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03
OUR BIRTHDAY

beginning this week the Courier
- Reporter has ten years behind
it. April 1, 1914 the Kennewick Cour-
Ter and the Kennewick Reporter were
consolidated and since that time Ken
newick has had only one newspaper.
AS to how well the one paper has
served the community is not for US
to say. We only know that we have
endeavored to give the community
the quality of service it has the right
to expect. Our aim has been to be
fair, frank and honest, without re-
proach for those who have not
agreed with us, and with consider
alton for the rights and beliefs of
all. While we claim no credit for it,
we do on this our tenth birthday, re-
joice in the fact that the community
is not torn by political, religious, or
social strife nor commercial jealous
les, and our best wish for the COM
munity is that it may grow, not alone
in numbers, but in the spirit of coop
Grafton, friendliness, and mutual
helpfulness.
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THAT APPLE PLAN

EvERY apple grower in the district
= should attend the meeting Satur-
day evening called for the purpose
of considering the cooperative mark
citing plan worked out by the North
west Fruit Growers commission.
Members of the commission will be
present to fully explain the plan.
This is busy season for the or
chardist. But no matter how pressing
are the demands of his. orchard, the
importance of those demands cannot
outweigh the Importance of perfect
ing a system for the orderly and
profitable distribution Of his prod
ucts. He can gain nothing by being
busy now unless his fruit can be sold
at profit this fall and winter. 4.
There is no necessity for dragging
out and postponing the work of or
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03
PREJUDICE AND TAXES

THE people are pretty well aware
= by this time that tax rates and
taxes are two different things. When
rates are marked up, taxes do not
necessarily rise, too; on the contrary
if the rates are fixed at too high a
level, capital seeks a way to escape
taxation on its income, and the taxes
actually received are reduced.
Demagogues in Congress, although
perfectly aware that such is the case,
do not hesitate to play on the pre-
JUDGES of their constituents, and
glibly assert that high surtax rates
mean high surtaxes and big contri-
button from the rich toward the ex-
penses of government. Posing as the
friend of the man of moderate means
those politicians would in reality in
flict on modest incomes an undue pro-
portion of the cost of government
that ought to be borne by the wealthy
class, and would be borne by that
class if the Mellon rates were to pre-.
vail.-Wheeling w. Va. Lntelligencer
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03
BETTER MEN IN PUBLIC OFFICE
MARK SULLIVAN, one of our ma

MARX SULLIVAN, one OF our ma
AvA tionally known writer's on poll
tical subjects, discussing the hyster-
ia that has eminated from the ma
tional capital, says that available
men of capability are shy of not only
accepting cabinet positions or trying
to help clean up the alleged scandals
in Washington, but it is getting in
creasingly impossible to get really
good men to run for any public Of
flee. Mark is longtime discovering
that fact. Nowadays altogether too
many of our office seekers must have
the hide of. rhinoceros, an unbound
ed conceit, willingness to give up
self-respect, and above all be suffi-
GENTLY alert mentally to figure out
what will sound good and appeal to
emotions rather than logic, and adopt
them with catch-phrases and other
sugar-coated devices to force them
down palatably. Of course, good can
didates seek office, and we are not
going to political chaos; the Amer
lean people in the long run have too
much common sense to allow them
selves to be always duped. But it is
q good idea occasionally to "take
stock Of our political trend. For the
past few years we have been placing
too high q premium on political bunk
artists and demagogues, and not pay
ing quite enough attention to our
thinkers and real leaders. To get the
best from our citizenship, through
public office, we must ever be alert
to sift the chaff from the wheat
Chehalis Bee-Nugget.
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NAV have are secondary to the right
of the citizen to worship God as ne
sees fit and to make the education OF
his child a part of the plan and pro-
gram of his worship. The parent
however, has no right paramount to
that of the child. The child has the
right to be educated. And as safe
guard to that right the state should
and does require the parent to edu-
cate the child. But further than this
the state should not go. The parent
has the right to say how and in what
manner his child shall be educated
so long as it is educated.
The editor of this paper considers
the opportunity to attend the pub
lie school upon an absolute equality
with every other child of the conf
munity, the greatest privilege secur-
ed to his child under the constitution
of the republic and the laws of the
state. Under no circumstances would
he consent to sending his child to 9
private or parochial elementary
school. He looks upon the free public
cshool as Americas greatest agency
of Representation and believes It
would be splendid thing were every
child in the land to attend. But this
as well as many other desirable ends
cannot be attained by the prohibition
or compulsion of law.
In sending his child to the public
school the editor does so believing
that its education can be carried on
there without abridgement of the
child's spiritual welfare. There are
those, however, who believe the pa
rochial school is necessary to the
child's spiritual well being. They have
a right to that belief and to the ex-
cercise of the privilege based upon
that belief, within certain limitations
Every private and parochial ele-
mentary school should be supervised
by the states department of educa-
ton, their courses of secular study
should be identical with those of the
public schools, and elementary secu-
lar classes should be conducted in the
English language only.
One court has declared the COM
pulsory school law cannot stand upon
the statute books of Oregon. The cit
liens of Washington should rise
above religious prejudice and in a
spirit of tolerance in keeping with the
fundamentals of true Americanism
keep the proposed bill not only of
the statute books, but off the ballot
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03

ganization. The plan which the COM
mission will submit should be given
prompt consideration. If the growers
of this district can and do approve
the plan let the organization work
proceed. If they cannot unite and or
ganize under it let the decision to
discard it be arrived at without dilly
dallying.
Not only should the growers at
tend the meeting but as many busi-
ness men as possible should be there.
The business men are as vitality inter
ested as are the growers. While the
members of the commission are al,
bona fide fruit growers, the move
ment for controlled distribution of
the Northwest apple crop is not nec-
essarily a growers movement. The
undertaking was fostered by the
State Chamber of Commerce and the
work of the commission was financed
by bankers of Washington and Ore
gon.
Locally the business men have
shown willingness to cooperate and
the Commercial club has voted $50
to finance the work of the local or
ganization committee. This action
should not be the end of the bust
ness mans interest. He should take
his place alongside the grower and
help put the plan into operation.
Growers and business men alike
in their consideration of the plan
should assume a broad and friendly
attitude toward the general question
of cooperation. They should look fol-
sound fundamentals rather than for
minor imperfections, bearing in mind
that a cooperative plan for market
ing the apple crop of the Northwest
cannot be perfected in a few months
in a year, perhaps not for several
years.
It should be remembered that, af.
ter all, the ideal plan is not the Cal
ifornia plan, the New Zealand plan
nor any other plan which can be
brought into being full-fledged, but
the plan which can be fitted onto ex-
listing conditions in the most har-
monious manner-the ideal plan fol-
the Northwest at this time is sound
fo,,rdo%;ou ,,v>ov, which IN h,,i1d uof
the California plan, the New Zea-
land plan, but the Northwest plan.
1t should be remembered too that
the object sought is to build CO.
operative marketing plan. Things
cooperative can be built only through
cooperation. We cannot build CO.
operative future except that we be-
gin cooperating now.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03
THE SCHOOL BILL

THAT the Oregon compulsory
= school law has been declared un-
constitutional by federal court judges
does not surprise the Courier Report
er. The law had its origin in religious
prsjudice and intolerance, and is not
in keeping with the spirit of the con-
stitution.
In the opinion of this paper the
court went to the very heart of the
thing when it declared for the con-
stitutional right of the parent. What
rights the private or parochial school
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03
VOICE WITH FIVE oc1avEs
Austrian Utters Notes Whose vib-a
tions Range From az Up to
LAO in Second.

At a recent meeting of the Austrian
society of experimental phoneiics IN
Vienna. Doctor Rethi presented
Michael Prita, age forty-four. whose
voice possesses the remarkable range
Of I'VE complete octaves.
The deepest note uttered by this sing
er was q bass f corresponding to ~
vibrations per second and two octaves
lower, therefore, than the deepest note
which can be produced on the violin.
The only previous record of so low
q tone In the human voice is that Of
q bass singer named Fischer. who lived
In the early part Of the Eighteenth
century. Prita also rendered upper O
with its full artistic value.
Beyond that the notes passed into
the head register and into falsetto
resembling q soprano, says the Eng
lish Mechanic quoted In the Scientific
American. The highest notes emitted
were the upper F (demi-semi-quaver).
and on exceptional occasions upper A
(demi-semi-quaver). corresponding to
1,74O vibrations per second which is
ono note higher than the highest sung
b. Patti.
Squeezed Out Of t.
1.-The idea Of your doing while 1
was singing"
"You were singing lullaby. weren't
your"
Eyes"
Then 1 couldn't pay your art any
higher compliment"-Boston Tran
script
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03
HOVER NOTES

=
. . . . . = = . = = = = 2
M. Gill division foreman on the
S. P. & 8. was in town Monday and
Tuesday.
Mrs. George Stevenson and little
son of Kennewick were Sunday visi-
tors at the E. E. Toothaker home.
The monthly business and social
meeting of. the Ladies Aid was held
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. E. X. Henry.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-04-03

Cooperation and Production


We are continually hearing the cry
of over production and the reason for
low prices to the grower on his APP
pies. Let us see what the produc-
ton really has been.
Five-year total average production
for the entire United States:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-07

responsive reading: PRAYER by Rev.
w. 7. Bennett; solo. Miss Jennie
Bennett: remarks by past county
president. Mrs. Martha Boynton OF
st. Adams: reading. Annie Merrick;
remarks by Mrs. Jennie Randleit Of
Pittsfield. county president Of the W.
Z. r. L.: solo. Sada Frasier: re-
marks by Mrs. Anna Nining ot st.
Adams: remarks by Rev. W. T. Ren.
nett: singing, "Some Glad DAY."
closed with henediction.
Tuesday evening the Civic League
OF Maine, gave n moving picture
show, Lest We Forget" nj the
Methodist church. The pictures were
very much enjoyed by n large audi.
ence.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Scott Of Sa-
battus. have been guests OF Mrs.
Jeanette Barnes and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. SilaS Woodbury. Of
Kittery Point are visiting with
friends in town.
Miss May Moore OF Dover passed
several days last week with her
brother. Bonnie Moore and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Frost and
daughter, Beatrice. were in Tits
field sunday.
Gordon Lamcreau has moved his
family to the Gray place on the
pond road.
Mrs. Jennie Randlctt, county
president of the W. G. II. 1. was tho
guest of Mrs. T. II. Farnum Wed.
nesday night.
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han. Robert Rolfe, Maurice Moore.
Wilbur Mccarthy and Edwin Hsrri-
man: While She Sleeps, flowers and
Brownies; dance, Brownies; song.
They Toll Not, school; song, Q What
JOY and rapture. flowers; song, The
Sweetest Things, by all excepting
Brownies.
The proceeds OF the entertainment.
which is understood TO be a generous
sum. VIII be used in beneftting the
schools as they have needs. After
the program, a social hour with
games and marches, under the SUI
pervision OF Supt. r. G. Cakes, was
enjoyed. Ice cream was also for
sale.
Walter Gle of Boston was in
town last week and on Saturday
night opened his picture show for
the season. After this the pictures
will be given every Tuesday evening
at Giles hall during the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert 5. Fogg and
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Benedict of Con-
cord. \ II. visited their father,
George o Fogg and other relatives
at Readtield last week. They re-
turned TO Concord on Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank b. Lewis Of
Boston, Mass, passed a few DAYS
with Mr.. and Mrs. f, w. Lewis ar
irving Friday and leaving for home
Monday.
Pomona meets with Readfield
Grange on Wednesday. June II.
Regular injecting of Readfield Grange
Saturday June 9TH.
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READFIELD
Village School Children
Present Enjoyable Cantata

One of the most enjoyable enter
tainments of the year was given on
Thursday evening, last week, at the
Grange hall by the pupils of the viii
lage schools under the direction of
the teachers. Mrs. Myrtle l.. Cakes
and Miss Louise A. Palmer.
A cantata, The Brownies Whis-
per-" was presented. The parts
which consisted of speaking. trios.
quartets and choruses. were well
chosen and especially pleasing. The
Brownies, sunbeams, rain drops and
flowers, were all in appropriate cos
tunes, which made a beautiful bit of
color against the stage setting. The
audience showed their appreciation
of the careful training and pains
taken by all connected. In making the
play a success.
Mrs. Blanche Mallett by whom
music has been taught in the schools
during the winter and spring terms,
was the accompanist during the eve
ming. Mrs. Mallett also gave special
attention in the preparation Of the
musical parts of the cantata. The
primary school orchestra which was
lead by Miss Christine Fogg, gave a
pleasing selection as an opening
number.
The following is synopsis
of the play and parts taken by
the pupils: Part /, scene, In the
Garden: Flower Song, chorus all
the pupils; The Raindrops song,
Mary Wood, Nellie Chaffie and Flea
nor Rolfe: Brownies song. Timothy
Mccarthy, James Handrahan, Robert
Rolfe. Maurice Moore. Wilbur Nc
Carthy and Edwin Hartman: The
Daisies. motion song, Helena Tibbetts.
Regina Mayberry and Opal Adams:
The Roses, trio. Arlene Daley, Laura
Mccarthy and Marguerite Mccarthy:
The Lilies, trio. Louise Nickerson.
Martha Steward and Elizabeth Coop
er; The Pansies. trio. Faris Manter,
Maybelle Johnson and Muriel Web
Der; Sweet-Peas, trio. Virginia But
man. Rena Smith and Rachel Norton:
song by schools; march of the fow-
ers. The part of the gardener was
taken by Ernest Cady and that of
his daughter, by Ruth Wood: Little
Barbara Rolfe as "one of the sweet
est things on earth" surely was all
she was intended to represent.
Part II, Garden Scene: Sunbeams,
song, Helen Mason, Hildreth But
man. Annette Tibbetts and Charlene
Tibbetts; The Flowers Lullaby.
chorus; The Whisper, Brownies,
timothy Mccarthy, James Handra-
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Church NpfiCoS

Sidney Methodist Church, Rev
Weston p. Holman. pastor: After
noon worship at 80, followed by
Sunday school, Ernest Lewis super
intendent.
United Baptist Church. Rev. F. s.
Bernauer. pastor: Morning service,
1870; there will be a solo by Mrs
Bernauer entitled Just for Today"
by Jane Abbott; Sunday school, l.
noon; J. T.. 5.15 p. NJ: s. T., $50;
Peoples service. 80 +. NJ.
All Souls Universalist Church.
Rev. II. G. Mann, pastor: Morning
worship. 1890. subject The En-
blem of Christian Civilization": Sun
day school follows morning service :
Y. p. c. L. at 6 o'clock, subject In
His Steps" leader Helen GAYLORD:
the ushers will be Chester Blake and
Emery Mann, and the collection will
be taken by Margaret Folsom and
Dorothy Haynes.
Methodist Church. Rev. Weston
T. Holman, pastor: Morning wor-
ship. 1870. subject of sermon THE
Kings Business; music by Young
Peoples Chorus; Sunday school
11.4J, Fred A. Wyman, superintend-
ent: Epworth League at $50: Hap
ply Hour service at 80, consisting
of interesting praise service with
sermon by pastor; midweek service
Thursday evening at 100 o'clock.
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business trip to Augusta on We'd
nesday.
DR.. and Mrs. Morrison OF Weeks
Mills were guests at Indian Heart Inn
Tuesday evening.
Miss Marion Mitchell of Lewiston
were the guests OF her sister and
, husband. Mr.. and Mrs. William Jacob
: at the Jacob Cottage over Memorial
, day.
Three little girls, Helen Weber.
Florence Plaisted and Dorothy Has
kell were made very happy on Mon
day by q trip to Augusta with their
teacher, Miss Annabel Jones.
George Crosman of Portland with
his daughter. Mrs. Helen Durgin and
, three boys also Miss Ruth Hull ar
rived at their cottage on Friday. Mr..
Crosman and Miss Hull returned on
Monday but the Durgins will re-
main for the summer.
Charles Keen is expected back
from Massachusetts on Saturday.
Mrs. Lottie Stevens. who is caring
for Mrs. Lizzie Fernald. passed sum
, day with her children in Augusta.
At the morning service next Sun
day at the Chapel, Rev. Mr.. New
man Of Colby College will deliver
the Baecalaureate sermon to the
Erskine students.
The Gospel Team sent out by the
Yearly meeting of the Friends will be
present at meetings at p. NJ. and
at $50 p. NJ. 1t is said that Rev.
Herschel Folger of Lynn will be one
| of the speakers. Everyone is cordially
invited 10 attend these services.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. y. Jones with Mrs.
Jones sisters, Mrs. Pritchard OF Fall
River. Mass. and Mrs. Hill of Ne
braska visited their childhood home
+ in Nassalboro Tuesday.
Cony Weber made a business trip
to Augusta, Tuesday.
Miss Susan Fairbrother OF Augusta
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Rosalinda
Choate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Halloweu and
! Miss May Mitchell made an auto
trip TO Augusta Sunday.
Harvey II. Jones of Lewiston was
the guest of his mother. Mrs. Mary
w. Jones, Memorial Day.
CHINA
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BOWDOIN

NORTH-Mr. and Mrs. L. l.. Doug
las from Lisbon Falls were in North
Bowdoin on Wednesday and visited
the scene Of Mrs. Douglas childhood
home. the w. y. Chase place.
\ son. George Clifford, was born
on Sunday, May % to Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Card.
Mr. and Mrs. Il. r. Vernev last
week made a trip to Moosehead Lake
going by automobile.
The new baby born recently 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Farnum has been
named Charles Eastman.
Mrs. Huldah Denham recently OBJ
served her s9th birthday at her home
in the borough. when about 20 Of hcr
friends and neighbors gathered to
pay their respects to this remark
ably active lady.
Mrs. Helen Farnum from Lewiston
haS lately been visiting her son,
Clair Farnum and family.
Funeral of NJ. r. Small
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday afternoon for the late
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THE FOUNDATION STONES

1599-16S7-Dcscendan OF John Alden
and Priscilla Mullins.
1S6S--Aug. %: Frank L. harrington Of
Augusta. his father, married Cordelia
Wilson, his mother.
1872-Sept. II: Frank G. harrington
was born In Augusta.
1s9O-June: Graduated from Cony High
school. Augusta.
1890--Sept.: Entered Rowdoin College.
Pitcher for varsity nine two years.
1S94-June: Graduated from Bowdoin
College with high rank.
1s94-Sept. 5: Married Miss Martha
b. French of Bismarck, North Da-
kota. She was native of Augusta
but family had moved west. Also
descendant of one of the oldest
American families. Vice regent of
u. A. II. Active in church and civic
affairs.
1So4-9G-Prlncipal OF high school at
Machias.
1S95-June 10: Daughter horn, Mildred.
Graduate of Cony High and Mount
IIolyokc College. Married RAYMOND
w. son of Hon. and Mrs. Willis f.
Swift of Augusta. Died June IL.
1920.
1897 Principal Of high school at
of Amos X Butler.
|, law In office of Leslie G. Cornish,
now chief justice of the supreme ju-
dtcial court OF Maine.
190O-02-Entered Harvard Law School
and mastered three-year course In
two years,
19O2-Admittcd to Maine Ear (Kenne-
hcc) and opened law office in Angus
tn. Has practiced there since.
I90%-Electod assistant secretary of
Maine Senate. Reelected in 1905.
19o7-Elected Secretary of the Senate,
and reelected in 1909.
i9O5-Jan. 90: Son born. Frank Alden.
Graduate Of Couy High and now
freshman ut Bowdoin College.
19O3-o6-City clerk Of Augusta land
again for one year in 1900.
19o7-l7-Member Of Augusta Board of
Education. Harrington Grammar
school named in his honor.
19l3-16-U. S. commissioner for three
years.
19t7-2t-President Of Augusta Y. NJ
c. A. one of leaders in movement
that built Y. NJ. G. A.
1917-Elected member Of Maine House
and served as Republican floor lead
err.
I9t9-Reelected to House and chosen
speaker.
, I9e1-Elected to State Senate.
1923--Reelected to Senate and chosen
president of that body.
Trustee Lithgow Public Library. Trus-
tee of Augusta Savings Bank. Mem
Der Alumni Council Bowdoin College
Member and regular attendant Con-
gregational church (First Parish)
Members of Lambda Chapter of Zeta
Psi. A Mason. an odd Fellow. mem
Der of knights of Pythias and Au-
Eusta kiwauis Club.
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HARRINGTON NEARS END OF
LONG CANT AICN IN RACE FOR
! REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR
GOVERNOR; HIS POLICIES

' Making the acquaintance of
a hundred thousand or so
people is not a hard task pro-
viding one has enough time
say a half score years. But
when one undertakes to get in
touch with the same number in
the space of six months, the
proposition assumes an entire
ly different aspect.
That such a task can be con-
summated is being exemplified
in the campaign Of Frank G.
Harrington Of Augusta, candl-
date for the Republican nom
ination for governor. For the
past five months he has de-
voted practically all Of his time
to travelling, with a resultant
widening acquaintance reach
ing to the fartherest corners OF
the State.