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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-03-26

cost of feed and returns for butter
fat above feed cost. II. T. Skeels of
Stevens county, who has built up a
very nice herd, gives much of the
credit to keeping records regularly
year after year, and he considers one
of the greatest advantages was the
interest which the records aroused in
himself and his sons.
Know What You Are Selling
There is an advantage in knowing
for yourself the amount of any pro-
duct which you deliver to a buyer.
1t is well for you to weigh your hogs
or your grain before you deliver
them. 1t is just as important that
you know the amount of butterfat
which you deliver. Your cow testing
association record shows month by
month the total amount of butterfat
produced bv your herd. You can es-
innate from this fairly closely the
amount of butterfat delivered to the
dealer during the month. So long as
your figures compare favorably with
those of the dealer, on the average
month after, month, you know that
You are receiving fair treatment.
The tester carries a skim milk test
bottle and can test the skim milk.
from the separator. There have been
instances when the testers salary
has paid with the butterfat saved
from the skim milk.
Production Increased
A summary of cow testing associa-
ton work in the state of Washing
ton shows that the average produc-
ton per cow tends to increase as the
herds stay in the association year af-
ter year. In 1920 the average prOduc-
ton of all cows completing the year
in cow testing association was 29S
pounds of butterfat; in 1921, 30S
pounds and in 1923, 1913 pounds.
The summary of the Snohomish
county Cow Testing association shows
that in that association the average
butterfat production per cow was in
1920, 292 pounds; 1921, 304; 1922,
1922; and in 1923, 346 pounds.
Nine herds kept continuously in the
Pioneer Cow Testing association of
Freeborn county, Minnesota, from
1911 to 1920 increased 40 per cent in
butterfat production, increasing from
pa pounds to 341 pounds.
If any dairyman wishes to advance
rapidly he should by all means join
a cow testing association, stay in it
year after year and base his methods
of breeding and feeding On his cow
testing association.
All poultrymen and any others in
terested are urged to attend the reg
ular meeting of the Yakima Valley
Poultry association On Thursday,
March &c, at pm. in the Commune
ty club house at Prosser. Among the
topics of interest to poultrymen will
be discussion on Producing hatch
ing eggs" led by E. r. Wells. Other
important subjects will be up for dis
Evening star., 1925-04-10
Jean De Reszke.

Jean de ResZke, idol of opera going
generations from 1872 to 1903. who
died the other day in his 10Th year.
has Joined the great group of artists
of the past of whose skill naught re
mains but affectionate memories.
Thousands of persons are alive today
who listened entranced to the pre-.
eminent Polish tenor who, with his
brother Edouard, also splendid
singer, formed an unparalleled operate
team, and who retired from the Amer
lean stage shortly before Caruso, sue.
cessor to his laures. burst in all his
glory on the western world. One by
one they will drop away, and De
Reszke will have joined the legendary
figures of the past
So far as can be learned De Reszke
left behind him no reproductions of
his marvellous voice. If there exist
old-fashioned cylindrical records, made
at time when the talking machine
industry was in its infancy, and when
the great foreigner was past his prime
and unchallenged supremacy, they are
unlisted in the catalogues of the great
makers. Reproductions of the voice of
Adelina Patti, his great competitor,
may be had, but they were made when
the great diva was we'll past 60 As
in the cases of Jenny Lind, Ole Bull.
Campanini and many others no ade-
quate vestige of De Reszke's art re-
mains except in the recollections of
those fortunate enough TO have heard
him, nor are such memories transmit
ia BILE
How much more fortunate is the
public of today. For its benefit Won
derful voices and marvellous skill in
Instrumentation are perpetuated in
every tone and shading, recorded un-
der the most favorable circumstances.
at time when their possessors are in
the full flower Of their art, to be
brought ever-fresh and perfect out of
the past, simultaneously, if desired.
with the reproduction on the silver
screen Of every physical expression
and gesture.
Evening star., 1925-04-10

now aide to the Secretary of Navy.
was lieutenant on this same
Saratoga % years ago when she
was the Pennsylvania Nautical School
ship. with headquarters at Phila-
| delphia.
When Secretary Jardine starts in
to save money at the Department of
Agriculture. in pursuance of the
Coolidge economy program. he will
do so as a man who once knew the
/ department intimately from the in
side. Most people thought Jardine
| was newcomer there when he joined
| the cabinet few weeks ago. AS a
| matter of fact, he was member of
| the department for three years-1907
| to 19l0-fn the capacity of assistant
| United States cerealist, in charge of
dry land Investigations. His job was
| to know all about the growing of
| grain-corn. wheat. oats and the like
| both from the standpoint of cul-
| tivation and with regard to disease
| and treatment. DR.. Jardine is the
only member of the present cabinet
| Che is almost the only one on record)
who was graduated into executive
command from the departmental rank
| and file.
!
| Washington tourist-bound, brings a
| rush of business to the Government q
auto tourist camp" in Potomac Park
| adjacent to the river and the speed
way. More than hundred arrivals
| register day there nowadays. 1t Is
+ Main street on wheels, democracy on
! balloon tires and typical America in
| tents. Every State in the Union is
| represented, and every age OF tour
| ist and car The camp is admins
! tered under the direction of the su-
| perintendent of public buildings and
| grounds. This is Uncle Sans official
| welcome to his tin-can children:
This camp. is your home during your
visit Please use it and regard it as
| such 1t is desired to make your stay
| pleasant and comfortable. The manage
| ment desires faithfully and courteous
| ly to serve you" Charges have gone
| up since last year. 1t now costs SO
| cents a night per car, instead of 20
| or $3.50 week. Tourists may remain
a maximum of IA days. Two days is
the average. This years innovations
include a camp bathhouse, with hot
| and cold running water. In August
| 200 or 800 arrivals a day are COM
| mon.
| The newly composed Washington
| diplomatic corps contains five envoys
who knew one another in the FaI
| East. Signor de Martino, the Italian
| Amba ssador; DR.. Franitsek Chval-
kovsky, the Czechoslovakian Minis
ter, and Dr. A. c. D. de Graeff, the
| Netherlands Minister, once were
simultaneously stationed at Toxic
Baron Won Nathan, the German Am
bassador, was a colleague at Pekine
| of Mr.. Matsudaira, the Japanese Am
| bassador, when the latter was secre-
tary of Nippon's legation in China
Peking, by the way, figures conspicu-
ously in the changes in the Americas
and German ambassadorships, re.
spectively, in Berlin and Washing
ton. DR.. Schurman goes to Germany
| from China and Baron Won Maltzar
comes to America from the same coun.
| try. Oriental diplomacy seems to b,
considered a good training school fol
diplomacy in Washington.
| Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-04-10
American ENTERPRISE.

The news is out that "America's
millions of cotton users have been
freed from foreign domination of
tadeless dyes through the discoveries
of chemists employed in the color
trade<laboratory of the Department of
Agriculture" The new. comes in the
form of statement by the chairman
OF the division Of dye chemistry Of the
American Chemical Society, which wa
made at the sixty-ninth meeting of the
society. 1t was said that fadeless vat
dyes are being made in the United
States at lower cost than German
dyes. For a hundred years, or longer,
it has been a saying among Americans
that foreign dyes are best" We lave
also said, 1T is strange that we can.
not produce dyes that stick Much
foreign trade has been kept from the
United States by the belief, or by the
fact, that American dyes were not SO
good as foreign dyes. If we can now
make them as good and unfading as
some of our commercial competitors
make them, and make them as cheap
we have set up a highly important in
dustry, and the way is clear to selling
more millions Of dollars worth of dyed
textiles in America. and Asia.
There has also been a belief, prob.
ably unfounded, that American woolen
goods were not SO good as foreign
woolens. There seems no reason why
American woolens should not be as
good as any other woolens. We raise
the sheep and the wool. We have the
weaving machinery, and if American
manufacturers want to put as much
virgin wool in cloth and blankets as
English and German manufacturers
they can do it. W. have made much
woolen goods mixed with cotton and
Evening star., 1925-04-10

shoddy. or secondhand macerated
wool. for the home market, but no
doubt the cheaper kinds Of wooden
goods in Europe are also adulterated.
There is no reason why d yard or
American all-virgin-wool cloth should
not be as good as that character of
cloth made In any part OF the world.
We sell our cotton fabrics in many
parts of the world in competition with
German and English spinners, and 1t
is quite likely that We will be able to
compete with them in woolen goods.
There used to be, and to some eX
tent still is, superstition that Eng
lish and German steel is better than
American steel, and that foreign
razors, penknives, etc, are better
than American. There is no doubt
that some foreign blade steel is better
than some American blade steel, but
poor steel is sold in the home markets
of England and Germany, and, of
course, at low price. American high
tension steel or tool steel and the like
is as good as any that science knows
how to make. American tools. saws,
axes, razors and knives are famous in
foreign countries. There are few
things Of manufacture, perhaps moth
ing, that we cannot make as well in
the United States as they can be
made elsewhere, and it is our business
TO set ourselves to the job of doing
it and keeping down the cost that we
shall get such a share Of foreign trade
as we may deserve. Our higher wage
scale and better living standard are not
necessarily a handicap. 1t ought to
be an advantage. High-priced labor
should be more intelligent and eff
ficient. and the incentive to invention
and use OF labor saving machinery is
keener.
Evening star., 1925-04-10

cars will be required to transport the
park busses, and the train will run
directly from Cleveland to Livingston,
the nearest gate to the Yellowstone
National Park, and thence driven 60
miles to the reservation. Fortunately,
the hotels in the park were not
harmed by the fire.
Each succeeding year shows in
creasing appreciation on the part Of
the touring public Of the wonders Of
our several national parks. A Gov
ernment bureau supervises the up
keep and improvement of the national
parks, appropriations for which Con-
gress generously provides. The Gov
ernment goes to great pains TO care
for the roads furnish transportation
means and hotel accommodations, as
we'll as preserve the wild life within
their areas. The officials and employees
in the park service enter into their
work with great enthusiasm.
All visitors to these parks testify to
their wondrous beauty, and express
the wish that they can come again and
have their friends share their ex-
periences.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
National Parks.

Advance reservations by organiza.
tons and others for accommodations
in Yellowstone Park this Summer are
said to warrant the expectation that
more than 100000 persons will tour
the Yellowstone Reservation this sea-
son. The park officially opens June
IS, and 10000 reservations have al
ready been made for the Summer. With
the prospect Of busy season in view,
work in preparation for the accom-
mediation of the expected multitude of
visitors is being expedited and i'm
provements are being put in. Although
the Government reserve will be open
June IS, the park will be ready for
sightseers June 1, it is announced.
A million-dollar fire recently de-
stroyed much of the parks transporta.
ton facilities. To replace the trans
portation system the largest contract
for motor coaches ever awarded has
just been made with a Cleveland firm
with an agreement to operate their
plant day and night until June to com
plete the cars. A train of 60 freight
Evening star., 1925-04-10
College Athletics Start Debate
Among Faculties and Editors

Revival of the often-made charge
that American colleges give too much
attention to athletic contests has
aroused a general discussion of pres
ent-day educational methods Col
lege leaders are being quoted in the
nress, not only on this subject, but
also on methods employed generally
for the correct training of the mind.
The New Haven Register, published
at the seat of a university which has
been noted for its position in inter-
collegiate athletics. quotes DR.. Henry
g Pritchett, president of the Carnegie
Founda tion FOR the Advancement of
Teaching, as giving this warning:
To-day the outside activities of the
college overShadow and run counter
to the intellectual life. Athletics, in
large measure professional in its
methods and organization, fills larger
place in the eyes of students and
even the public than any other in
terest.'
The Register for its own part con-
tends: ut can hardly be claimed that
actual participation in athletics by
its students has injured the academic
standing of any college. Most of the
objection is on the score of foot ball,
and foot ball engages the active in
terest of the student body and the
public for less than three months or
the year. It must be remembered that
if large profits were not made on
foot ball gate receipts many of the
minor sports, which give healthful
exercise % hundreds of students,
would have to be discontinued"
The Spokane Spokesman Review
heartily indorses the criticism of DR..
.. Pritchett and sees in the present sit
'uation too much athletics, fraternity
and sorority interests and activities.
social diversions, increasing atten-
tion to attire and adornment, to say
nothing of the automobile and other
advertisements, which are described
as growing obstacles to the acquisi-
ton OF a liberal education,
A powerful lure to that element of
youth that wants "a good time and
seeks it in the pleasant atmosphere
of institutions carried by generous
philanthropy or public taxes
x X
Comparisons made by some critics
Evening star., 1925-04-10
GENERAL ARMSTRONG
ARCHIBALD HOPKIN s

dorm to the music of far tropic
~ Where Mauna Loa, with her smoky
Ger verdant isles looks regnant down,
He took, in Natures school, her high degrees
The oceans sweep in storm rippling breeze,
midnight stars the dizzy mountain trail,
Life meath the sky, the saddle and the SAIL
The tumbng surf, the hills the lofty trees,
His spirit formed. till lusty manhood
Full of high purpose to uplft and bless,
Strong to endure lfe's utmost toll and
learnngs quest he left his island shore,
Thirsting for truth, careless of pelf fame,
ager serve; and found open
Straight from the sheltered charm of college days,
Stirred by the mighty conflicts high appeal,
He buckled on his sword with flaming zeal
Not in the strife to win soldiers bays
from lowliest lot the oppressed to raise
To manhood's plane; and when the goal
Rank and renown crowned duty nobly done
Back from the field returned to peaceful ways.
Charged with the Of helpless thousands here,
He IN toiled wrought planned
train the darkened mind, the heart the hand
All today is his. and him,
Hero and founder, leader beloved and
A. beacon light the years never dim.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
Herriot's Lease of Life.

Premier Herriots victory in the
French Chamber Of Deputies yester-
day. when he was sustained by ma
.fority of 40 votes, may prove to be OF
Pyrrhic nature, but it serves for the
present The vote was the smallest
hat he has received on any issue or
moment since he assumed ONCE.
Eighty-seven members of the Chamber
abstained d from voting, more than
enough to have turned the tide against
the premier had they cast their bal
lots. Their silence indicates at least
their refusal to support him, though
at the same time it shows an un-
Willingness at this moment to pre-
cipitate a crisis upon the financial
question. Thus Herriot retains his
premiership by negation rather than
affirmation.
This maneuver OF the Socialist pre-
nrier was daring. Harassed by criti-
cism, menaced by the, detection Of his
own forces, confronted with a finan-
cal situation of extreme gravity, he
elected to go before the Chamber ag-
gressively, and in three-hour speech
he placed the burden Of blame for the
country's present fiscal difficulties
upon the postwar administrations pre-
ceding his own. The move succeeded.
though it put Herriot and his ministry
in precarious position.
Yesterdays success does not guar
antee the continuance of the Herriot
government. since the ministry's own
financial measure, designed to relieve
the acute fiscal situation. is yet to be
brought into the open for discussion
and action. The measure itself is
being rewritten at present in the
Chambers finance committee. 1t is
understood that it proposes a compul-
sorry tax collection. Should it emerge
from committee with that feature it
IS doubtful whether the premier can
secure its passage. Should he fail, on
this final test Of strength in the
deputies he must, Of course, resign.
That issue will probably be met next
week.
In his spectacular defense. which
was at the same time an aggressive
move against the opposition, Premier
Herriot drew upon his last reserve of
strength. That he won in the vote by
less than so, with 81 members silent,
is a warning, of which he is doubtless
well aware, that he approaches the
supreme test.
a change Of ministry now in France
might seriously complicate the inter
national situation. 1t would be es-
pecially important in view Of the ap-
preaching German election for the
presidency. 1t might, indeed, have an
effect upon the German campaign in
which Hindenburg stands as candidate
for President in the name Of the pro-
monarchical parties. A French scan
dal over finances and a chaotic par
liamentary situation at Paris would
greatly hearten the militant Germans.
Thus it is possible that caution will
prevail at Paris next week, and that
partisan politics will be modified for
the sake of the international balance.
Evening star., 1925-04-10
Headlights in Washington.

Although Washington is badly in
need Of an adequate and ineligible
headlight law, there are many who
believe that if Traffic Director Ell
bridge carries out his announced de-
termination of blanketing the District
with headlights turned on full blast
there will be more confusion and
danger in the night traffic condition
than there is at present.
If headlights are to be turned on,
and no dimming allowed where there
is insufficient street illumination. 100
per cent enforcement of the law is
necessary to protect the motorist as
well as the pedestrian.
Experience in the States has shown
that 100 per cent enforcement is not
possible, even with many more police
men than are available in the District,
SO that if the new law takes effect
the automobilist will find himself
driving on well lighted Sixteenth
street faced by a battery of bright
lights, half of them probably adjusted
and glaring. and the other half
binding SO that he will be unable to
see where he is going.
Admitting that Director Eldridge
has made an intensive study, in CO.
operation with Bureau of Standards
experts. on the entire headlight prob
lem, and that he is amply qualified to
know whereof he speaks. it is an
obvious and easily ascertained fact
that no State, no matter how stringent
it's regulations, has been able to elm
lights.
On that basis is it reasonable to as
sumo that the police of Washin gton.
efficient as they are, can accomplish
the superhuman and regulate each
and every headlight on each and every
car, and. more important stfn keep
them regulated despite the Jars md
jolts which will destroy in time aNy
adjustment, so that it will he safe for
every one to have bright lights?
There is no protest against a head
light law. Washington should have
one, and have the best that can be de-
vised. But while the no-dimming edict
has been found to be effective or
country roads without other lightine,
it is emphatically not applicable to a
city like Washington, where in many
sections the streets are sufficiently IL
Illuminated.
= ,-+-
while adjusted headlights are not
binding the dividing line between the
adjusted and illadjusted light is small.
With this fact in mind, and the ad-
mitted inability to stamp out the glar-
ing light, it should be obvious that
headlights in city should be used
sparingly and with common sense, and
not be forced by law to be turned on
at full power.
There are many streets in Wash
ington where motorist should use
headlights, because Of poor illumina-
ton. This is particularly true in the
suburbs. But let US not have legislation
which will force every Tom, Dick and
marry W pilHu ptopie all over the city
by headlights which, despite the law.
will be binding.
For this reason it is to be hoped that
Director Eldridge will consider that
he is dealing with a city, and not
sparsely populated country where
there are no lights at all, and strike
out the no-dimming clause in the pro.
posed law.