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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-11
Basketball Friday


The first basketball game of the
season will be played in the high
School gym Friday with Pasco.
Though it is too early in the season
to Judge the two teams on the basis
of comparative scores real battle
is promised as both teams are COM
posed of experienced men.
Pasco is figuring on having what
is considered by them the best team
in years and, comparing the men of
the two teams Individually, they must
be given a slight edge, however,
Kennewick with four lettermen back,
while none of them could be consid-
cred stars, are depending on their
teamwork to win.
The probable lineups for the game
are:
Kennewick Pasco
Elliott G Hawker
Hitchcock G Rodgers
Anderson C Van Slyke
King F Buchanan
Brown F Jensen
The girls will also play, and while
Kennewick has been winner in the
majority of the previous contests,
Pasco will have an even chance of
winning this year.
The games will start at 1880.
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Letters Presented to Football Men
Fourteen lettermen were present
ed with their letters by Coach Lee
Fevre at the football banquet last
Thursday night, Of these fourteen,
Duffy, Boyer, King, Mylk, King, Ka-
dow, Soth, Miller, received their first
letter, while Captain Brown, Elliott,
Anderson, Hitchcock, and Waldorf
received their last high school foot
ball letters.
Speeches were made by Captain
elect Soth who talked on the pros
poets for next year. Mr.. Failor spoke
on the benefits derived from foot
ball and Captain Brown responded
with a resume of the past season.
Roy Johnson entertained with two
solos which were enthusiastically en-
cored.
Great credit is due the Home Econ
omic girls who arranged the banquet.
The tables were arranged in the form
of X, were beautifully decorated
and the menu was very appetizing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-11

Discouraged Actor
mo Christmas tree this Year,
no" replied Mrs. Bliggins.
"Children outgrown tinsel and toy0r
sNo. Father lost his ambition -
play Santa Claus"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-12-11

The girls will also play, and while
Kennewick has been winner in the
majority of the previous contests,
Pasco will have an even chance of
winning this year.
The games will start at 1880.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
A MOST PROMISING OUTLOOK

Industrial conditions in the Birmlng- ham district could hardly promise greater progress and expansion for the coming wear. Many announcements of new proJ- ects. enlargements and betterments nave been made from week to week approach ing the New Year. Some of these Tn, dicate special stimulus for larger and more profitable records and achieve ments: nearly all of them point to better times and conditions than for years ana more prosperity than at any time In the history of the district.
 In the last few days some of the head- lines in The Age-Herald are indicative of the trend of industrial activity ana improvement not only for the early 1u- lure. but in some instances for the pres ent. Here are few of them: "Sloss. Sheffield To Light Two Blast Furnaces; "Central of Georgia Buying New Equlp- ment:" Republic Plans Great Expan- sion: :' "Southern Pacific Places Big Orders With T. c. I. Plant" "lndustrlal Work Totals $15, 5,000,000;" Bank An nounces Stock Increase"
 These are typical of the many an nouncements of expansion for the ols- trict for immediate or early consum, nation. There are many others that auo inspiration to the industrial outlook. Not only has the Sloss-Sheffield, for instance, ordered the relighting of two addltlonai furnaces. but several mines will lmme- diatelv resume work, giving employment to hundreds of workmen. The by-product coke ovens to be erected at Thomas by the Republic Iron and Steel Company VIII renresent an investment of more than two million dollars Purchases of new eon;nment by the Central of Georgia and other railroads entering this district, ,,,,,ch of which is manufactured here, will ,.,n into the tens of millions of dol lars. All the railroads traversing ths section are hard put to it to handle the heavv increase of traffic. The construc- t;on nrogram in the industrial field alone will cost around thirty million dollars, xvhils the erection of commercial ana residential buildings for the year rep resent a total investment of about thirty million dollars more. Not the least slg nificart of the industrial indications IS the increase of capital stock ot the bank of Ensley from $100,00O to Sz0O,oo0, while increasing it's surplus to $loo'ooo and carrying undivided profits ot more than $50,00O. oe urogress in this district give an ldea o1 its recent expansion and offer every, promise of continued development ana prosperity. The New Year will start out with the most favorable industrial out, look in the history of the district, and every indication of continued progress for a long period. Not even the chronic dyspeptic or confirmed pessimist: can find anything on the industrial horizon that even resembles suggestions of hard times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25

Child, do not know what is going on until it is all over. Even then, many of them do not know what actually happened. While the conference sits at Genoa, Gen. eva or somewhere else, decisions are reached through the foreign offices of London, Paris and Rome. Even the United States takes hand in these pro- ceedings.
 MT. Child is at some pains to try to dis illusion those of his fellow countrymen who think that a conference or league of nations is the ideal way to keep peace in the world and to dispose of interna- tional disputes, and that these agencies do what they are supposed to do. Most informed persons know what MT. Child is trying to tell the American people. We see evidences every day of the old fashioned secret diplomacy at work. But MT. Child, who brides himself on being a practical person, cannot convince us that the diplomats dare go as far today as they did formerly in juggling with the destinies of mankind. Two or three men may still make the important de- cisions, but they are more answerable to public opinion than ever before. For this state of affairs, which makes even the boldest of diplomats hesitate, we are indebted to the League of Nations and the growth of the conference idea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
Forum Of The People
Why Not Tell All?
WHY NV To the Editor of The Age-Herald

To the EQlLOr or luc aSc-AAcioAu'
 On Sunday you had an editorial about the comments of the press on the career Of the late Samuel Gompers. Many papers stated that Gompers was opposed to socialism and but not one said he was single taxer. As single-taxer, Gompers could not favor socialism or communism. The single tax philosophy is opposed to such isms. l wonder if there was design in the failure to state that Gompers was a single-taxer. fear that there was.
 A similar thing happened when our General Gorgas died. Gorgas was prouder of being a single-taxer than he was of his achievements at Panama. Yet when he died not conserva- tive daily paper stated that he favored Henry Georges single-tax plan. Nay, more; when wrote to two daily paper in Alabama asking them to say that General Gorgas was single taxer and to publish an extract from one Of his speeches in which he proudly proclaimed himself a believer in the George philosophy, both failed to comply with my request. wish to see if The Age-Herald will act after the manner of the other papers.
 No person can live in this world without using land in some way. This truth points to the supreme importance of the land question. Yet some daily papers, schools, and churches are afraid to discuss it. Think of it
 s. M. DINKINS.
 Selma, Ala, Dec, 9, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
MAKING THE MAILS PAY

Postmaster General New is putting forth great effort to obtain support TOT his bill proposing radical increases Tn the rates for the transportation of news napers through the mails. He has sug- oested the increase with others as means fol. obtaining money to meet the nroposed increase in salaries of employees of the postoffice department.
 MT. New contends that the postottlce denartment should be so reorganlZed ana it's revenues so enhanced that 1t can meet it's expenses. This is in spite ot the 1act that the department has never been looked upon as revenue producer. put rather for convenience of the people Tn establishing contact with others and Tn developing business, which, in turn, would meet the cost of government. Records show that since the postofflce depart ment was organized it has yielded net profit to the government only two years' In every other year the cost Of operation has been greater than the revenue pro duced by the service.
 If MT. New is successful in making the rates for the transportation ot news papers in line with his proposal he Will take business from the mails and give It to the express companies. The increase will be so great III mdHy AhoN"ilN0o Cii'N the newspapers will be forced to find other methods of transportation The Kansas City Star has pointed out that, under the New plan, the postage on one subscription delivered at Lawrence, Kan sas. less than fifty miles from Kansas City, will be twenty cents a week. In other words, the postage on the one news paper will be as great as the amount re- ceiyed for that newspaper. Yet postage is only small item in the publication of a newspaper.
 It is true that newspapers are granted q low rate in comparison with the rates on other classes of mail. This rate, how ever. was not intended to establish paternalistic policy in favor of news papers, but to put newspapers within reach of all classes of people, the theory being that dissemination of knowledge means an improvement of business and social contacts. The wisdom of this policy has been shown by results. American newspapers have wider circulation than any others in the world. One can hardly find home where at least one newspaper is not received daily.
 If transportation rates are made greater. the circulation of newspapers will be reduced. This was the experience of newspapers when an increase was made to care for heavy war expenditures. Newspapers will be forced to pass at least A portion of the additional burden to the reEfs In the endfhe loss will be borne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
A Pathetic Danger

Bootleggers have specially trained con sciences. in the first place. Besides. boot leggers selling poison liquor really don't have to concern themselves over what may betall their victims The dead do not tell tales The blinded enjoy a proverbially fat chance of proving whence the poison originally came and the poison-crazed-well they can trouble chiefly their keepers and the psychopaths
 In nine cases out of ten, the bootlegger screens himself from the law by go-betweens By the time his poison has done it's worst on the ultimate consumer, the trail back to the source is usually lost. It is, therefore. al most entirely the consumers lookout. He is free to trust fake labels and accept the as- surances of the liquor peddler, but he will do so at his own risk, and about the only thing the police and medical authorities of his community can do to save him from him self is to warn him.
 Bootleg liquor is a standing danger to the lives and health of those who. with pathetic trust, drink it. Vigorous activity by the fed eral dry navy and heavy storms along the Atlantic coast, it seems, have combined to demoralize Rum Row The normal supply of imported liquor is dwindling at a time when the holiday demand has set in and when bootleg profits have started to soar. The metropolis is being flooded with poison liquor the rankest connections. of wood and de natured alcohol, synthetic gin and hair tonics.
 Anything colored goes for the holiday sea son. and the New York hospitals and under takers are telling the story The casualty list. with it's score and more of dead since the first of the month. with its blinded and in sane, has startled the New York city health commissioner but, while warning the people, he admits that neither his department nor the police can help those who trust the boot legger.-DetrOit Free Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
FI7T1rRE OF THE DEMOCRATS

Jesse H. Jones, director of finance of the democratic national committee, IS not one of those who believe that the great majority against the democratic party in the November election will mean the loss of influence in national politics and bring about other alignments. He takes the sensible view that the party suffered a defeat just as it had suffered defeat Tn other elections but that defeat does not and will not bring destruction.
 The principles of the party are right {; therefore, the party cannot be destroyed; That is MT. Jones' view And he pointed to records of the past to show that he IS correct. "It was founded on principles that will live as long as free people rule the world" he said. ''Neither individuals, factions nor temporary issues can serl- ously affect the party. It has had many vicissitudes in its more than 13O years or existence, but always comes back more virile and alive than ever before. The principle-equality of opportunity for all men-will survive and anything else IS a makeshift and will be of short duration.
 MT. Jones could have said, furthermore, that the policies advocated by the party in the effort to have this nation meet It's obligations as the leading nation ot the world are correct and that, although tenn porary defeat may prevent the early establishment of those policies, the day will come when the American people will lend their endorsement and will approve the program.
 Although the democratic party finds itself defeated and in debt after the cleo tion, MT. Jones does not see cause for worry, not even over the deficit of three hundred thousand dollars. He believes the democrats of the nation will make a a favorable response to the request for funds at the proper time. In support ot this belief he has the party's record. There was a deficit four years ago, yet it was overcome before the party entered he fight this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
A CHECK ON DIPLOMACY

Richard Washburn Child says ln the Saturday Evening Post that the old-styie secret diplomacy is still paramount m Europe. He tells us that covenants openly arrived at" are largely a myth; that the stuff that is placed in the "inter- national show windows" is nothing more nor less than window-dressing. In this category he places most of the work done by the League of Nations and the numer- ous conferences held in Europe since the World war, at which, the man in the street was told that the nations would sit around a council table and frankly discuss their problems.
 According to MT. Child, whose diplo- matic experience abroad, at Rome, where he was the American ambassador, and elsewhere, enables him to speak with knowledge of his subject, the important business of nations is still transacted in the old way. Most of the delegates to an international conference, sayS MT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

N TAYBE I've harped on it before, but WI it does seem to me that the most com mon failing of our imperfect humanity is not to take advantage of the chances that are offered us. It is my firm conviction that once a week, on an average, each of us has a chance to do better. We do not see because we do not look. Here is a sample:
 We've got to do something for Mary Ellen Carnes" I said to Frank Fisher months ago.
 "Why?" asked Frank Fisher. "Why doesn't she do something for herself? Trouble with most widows is that they think it is some ones duty to be a meal-ticket. They're used to living easy"
 Rough, tough, and cynical That's how rebuked Mir. Fisher, anyhow. But he said that there isn't being on this earth with fair health and fair sense who cannot make a good living-a GOOD living, mind you-by merely taking thought. Most of us, he said, and being sour philosopher he also specified most widows, will not think.
 Mary Ellen Carnes, he said, is a strong young woman who was notable cook during that happy period when the late Carnes was providing for her. Q'm quoting from the rude Mir Fisher, mind.) Since then she has become a mass of soggy dough. Cries most of the time because she thinks she will first be evicted and then starve:
 Why" said he, doesn't she bake some of those pies and cakes and biscuits that Frank Carnes used to rave about? I'll bet she could sell 'em.
 Being a coarse, rough-grained bucko mate sort of a man, he forthwith hiked right out to the establishment of the late Carnes and told Mary Ellen about it in fashion that I have no doubt was charged with sheer brutality. Anyhow she took his advice, and today our evening dinner is practically spoiled if one of her delectable pies is not on the table. And Mary Ellen is on the way to riches.
 cho speaks of Franklin Fisher. "That wonderful man" she says
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
CHI R IST M A s

Although the spirit often groans under the burden of Christmas giving, it re- covers wonderfully under the stimulus of Christmas receiving. The mellowing influence of the Christmas spirit has long been acclaimed, never more happily per haps than by Charles Dickens with his immortal Cricket on the Hearth. Dickens, with his wonderful fidelity to everyday life and emotions, merely set forth in convincing, dramatic style the potency of the reason to delight the young, mel low the old and melt the cold-hearted. No matter what it costs there is no doubt that Christmas brings more genuine joy than ever accumulates among us at any other one time.
 There is a Santa Claus, if not in the flesh with visible beard, pack, sleigh and reindeer, at least in the joyous spirit that permeates the land. Many grown ups may pretend that it is all for the children, but if so it is remarkable how unanimously everybody sets about to celebrate a children's holiday, and how much of the surprise and joy no children share in. To say that we do it only for the children is too much like the old ex- cuse an adult gives for going to the cir GUS. It is curious that adults select only these two, from among multitude of childhood joys, in which to participate. The pleasure of adults seems too spon- taneous and genuine to warrant the idea that it is filtered through the emotions of childhood before it reaches them.
 Although Christmas is technically Christian festival, it is all-embracing in it's appeal, knowing neither race nor re- ligion. Perhaps that is the true spirit of the Christ whose birth is thus celebrated. Charity for all, malice towards none, as Lincoln phrased the more ancient Chris tian tenet of peace on earth, good will to men. It is, in word, the Christmas spirit that ought to be nourished among men and among nations, for 1t IS lncon- ceivable that peace on earth, good will to men was ever meant to apply to only one season, one sect, one race, or one nation. It is rather the foundation of all upright and amicable human relations.
 There is no Christmas gift more sim cere nor valuable than sentiment of charity and good will to humanity that is permanent, lasting throughout the year, year in and year out. It would prevent murder, robbery, trickery, harsh dealing, violation of law, begging, and all the various ills that spring from man. kinds active or passive callousness. It would forever banish war upon earth and would bring about that utopia that the visionaries invent and dream about.
 What this world needs to lift it onto that plane of happiness all can conceive as desirable and of which all have had a glimpse is nothing more nor less than the everyday adoption of those time honored virtues that man has extolled since the beginning of recorded time and the conception of which doubtless first lifted man out of his original savagery and set him apart from the brutes. Though it has been repeated over and over until it has become almost trite, what is there after all that this world needs more than peace on earth, good will to men?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
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Amos Q. Pipp Wants Mir. Claus Ousted in
 Favor of Younger Men in 1926.

Amos Q. Pipp Wants MT. Claus Ousted in Favor of Younger Men in 1926. Dear Editor:
 Will you permit me the use of your cols. to urge the removal of Santa Claus from the office over which he has 80 long provided and the substitution at once of a younger and more vigorous man?
 The world has changed so completely and its requirements have been so greatly revolu- tionized since Mir. Claus first took office that it has been only natural he should find the pace too swift and fall behind. It is now very evident to all stockholders that MT. Claus is not able to handle the business adequately and that the time has come for his retirement and the appointment of a successor of the 'pep, vigor, vim school"
 What is needed is modern young man with an up-to-date scientific knowledge, with particular reference to electrical and mech anical engineering, and with the alertness born of modern business. Children today do not want games and toys and candy canes. They want radio sets, radio parts radio parapher- nalia, electrical amusement devices, construc- tion sets, etc. MT. Claus is too firmly set in the old traditions to realize this and knows so little of radio that he was totally unable to comprehend the letters written this year by radio enthusiasts. He still thinks vari- ometer is an automatic toy. and that a loud speaker is some kind of a talking doll.
 MT. Claus is distinctly old-fashioned. He is completely out of touch with the times. l therefore urge his immediate removal for in- competency, inefficiency, and mismanagement, and the appointment in his place of that keen minded business marvel, that alert efficiency wizard, that dynamic, forceful, aggressive live wire Elmer Jay Zipp, better known as Go Get Elm Zipp."
 MT. Zipp is not sentimentalist. He is producer. He gets results. He does things He is the man we want in Santa Claus shoes Away with sentiment and let us get down to cold efficiency
 Yours truly,
 Amos Q. Pipp. P. S.-Mr. Zipp has been approached and will take the position. He has prepared a number of stirring Christmas slogans for 1926, among which are "Zipp Delivers The Goods !' "When You Want Thing Quick Ask Zipp!" If It's Zipp It's Pipp!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-25
The Right Word
OVERHEARD
UVEKHEARD Overheard Try and get it. Criticism: The right word is "to." Corrected Try to get it.
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSON

OVERHEARD
 Overheard: Try and get it. Criticism The right word is "to." Corrected: Try to get it.
 Overheard: Me and Frank will come. Criticism: The subject is "I'-and the speaker should always name himself last. Corrected: Frank and I will come. Overheard: There ain't no use. Criticism Never use aint. Never use two negatives, as in There isn't no use.' Corrected: There isn't any use. Overheard: His real reason for going was because he was urged.
 Criticism In such a construction as the foregoing, use that, not because. Corrected: His real reason for going was that he was urged.
 Overheard: I only need two. Criticism Place only near the word it modfies.
 Corrected: need only two. Overheard That's what he done. Criticism: That's what he has done" would be correct. Use done with has, have, and had Corrected That's what he did. Overheard Has he drank the water? Criticism: Use drunk with has, have, and had.
 Corrected: Has he drunk the water? Overheard: What kind of a time did you have? Criticism: Never say kind of a. Corrected What kind of time did you hDyp1