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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06
WOMEN INSANE YOUNGER

Insanity among women seems to
reach its peak about five years ear
lier in women than it does in men,
Director of Business Control Olaf L.
Olsen has concluded after having
gathered statistics on the admittance
of patients to the state hospitals dur
ing the past ten months. This study,
incidentally explodes the charge that
counties have been dumping senile old
people onto the state for only 20.8
per cent of the patients were 60 or
over, 1872 per cent being between Is
and 60 years of age. Hospital stats
tics show aged insane patients do not
live long after their commitment.
A total of 929 patients were adj
mitted to the three state hospitals be-
tween September 1, 1924 and July 1,
1925; 1913 at Steilacoom, 226 at Medi-
cal Lake and 345 at Sedro Wooley.
Men led SIS to 351. During the same
period the net increase of attendance
was 24O, indicating $50 received, died
or were paroled. This net increase of
"a month is startling to state Of
ficials as during the ten years from
September 80, 1914 to September 80,
1924, asylum population increased
1880 from 2744 to 1924. This was an
annual average of 1OS or per month
as compared with the present "a.
New asylum statistics show during
the past ten months "A new patients
were between the ages of Is and 20.
Between 30 and 35 and 35 and 40
came the largest number of women,
40 for each period. Women's total
i'-n,,ed from 81 between 25 and 80
and after 40 fell off to 35 between
&c and As. Men ran evenly between
20 and 80, rose to So between 80 and
35 and So between 35 and 40, then
jumped to "a between 40 and 45. Be-
tween Is and so the total was Sc.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06
LET'S GO!

WE DON'T think the county COM
w missioners will go thru with
their plans for a new county court
house, in view of the almost unani-
nous opposition to the proposition
from the east end of the county
However, the agitation they stirred
up has apparently resulted in some
real good for Kennewick. The city
council has caught the building bug
and are considering the erection of a
city hall. The present quarters, to use
the wording of the county men, are
Inadequate, insecure and wholly un-
fitted for the purpose" The lease
money now being paid would care
for the interest and depreciation on
a new building and still leave funds
for the repayment of the bonds. If
the city hall can be built without in
creasing local taxes it seems to us
that everyone would favor the plan.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06
THE AVERAGE COUNTRY TOWN

THE average cuontry town, such as
i we find them all over Washington
Just a hamlet, a village, an aggre-
CATION of contented peoples the
backbone of America and includes the
elements of its most wholesome life
The average small town is COM
posed of persons who form a grading
nucleus of the surrounding country;
and skirting the stores in such towns
are other small industries serving the
surrounding countryside.
The sphere Of influence of the av-
erage town has been greatly increas-
ed by the development of the automo-
bile. Where in years past it required
a day off to travel fifteen or twenty
miles to town, it now is a matter of
small moment.
There is feature of automobiling
that does not particularly aid the
small town. Thus the towns sphere
of influence has been widened, so has
the sphere of influence of the nearest
large town. In some counties the
largest towns business has been in
creased greatly by the use of the au-
tomobile by persons in the surround
ing territory, but the business of the
smaller towns in the same county has
not been proportionately increased.
Everything depends on local condi-
lions, of course. What is the largest
town in some counties is an average
town in others. There is no hard and
fast rule; but as general thing the
increased radius of trading afforded
by the use of automobiles will not aid
the average small towns if there are
larger centers within comfortable au-
to riding distance, unless the business
interests of the smaller town are wide
awake.
Salvation of the small town under
such conditions is for it's merchants
and business men generally to make
every effort to keep themselves be-
fore the public. 1t is fatal to permit
the village to be regarded by auto
owners as a mere widening in the
road toward the larger town. The
small town should make its influence
felt, should be made to exert an at
tractive force on the surrounding ar
ca. Enterprise and wide awake meth
DDS are necessary. If not, the other
larger town-usually bitter rival
will monopolize trade.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06
TELEPHOTOGRAPHY

THE FIRST advertisement ever
= flashed across the continent from
Pacific to Atlantic coast by the newly
invented telephotographic process,
was received in New York recently
when the complete layout and text
for an advertisement for the Cali
fornia Pear Growers association was
wired from San Francisco to New
York in seven minutes. The trans
mission was made over telephone line
from a Photographic negative.
This is just another tribute to the
scientific progress constantly made
by private industry in America, in
the interest of public service. While
the rest of the world is talking about
getting telephones, there is one for
almost every home in this land and
our own American telephone system
has progressed step farther and is
actually reproducing photographs ov.
er its telephone wires almost instan.
taneously.
Is it any wonder other nations
turn to the United States for help ir
developing their telephone systems
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06
would be a general benefit.

It seems fairly assured that sur.
taxes will be reduced to 20 or Is pc,
cent in the next session of congress
and income taxes may be entirely
abolished in the lower brackets.
Excessive federal estate taxes or
larger estates act in exactly the same
manner as excessive federal surtax.
es. 1t is, therefore, obvious that rea.
sons for reducing either apply with
equal force to the other. Il
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06
PAINT NOW,

This is the best time in the
year to paint. / have had
years of experience and can
guarantee results. lie use
1000 pure paint, made of
white lead zinc and linseed
oil. My prices are lowest
Let me quote on your work
and show you colors. -
SIGN S-A1 Kinds
Pan American Wall Papers
ARCHIE DURBIN
la Phone 1851
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

LET REASON RULE IN TAXATION
TT BECAME evident some time ago
= that the buncombe about taking
the rich" had failed. More and more
it is understood that the high flying
surtax and estate tax rates largely
miss their mark and their reduction
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

KENNEWICK'S parking problem
has not yet reached the stage
where autoists have to carry BIZ
cycle to get to the office after they
have found place to leave the jit.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

n MERE mortal man never realizes
Z : how weak he is until he tries to
quit smoking.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

these animals became very scarce but
you can get $500 for a Chicago ban
dit and they are exceedingly plenti.
full.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

mo safety device has yet been in
vented to take the place Of the
one just above the ears.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

A WOMAN can't catch ball like
: : man, because the man is easier
and bigger to catch.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

TT is better to begin at the bottom
= and work up than to begin in the
middle and stay there.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

THE part Of an auto that causes
more accidents than any other is
the nut that holds the steering wheel.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

COME men who howled for indivi-
- dual drinking cups in times past
are now ready to take a swig Of any
old flask.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

lVOU can always tell good look
ing woman, but you can't tell
her much.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

a WOMAN promises to be ready
: in minute. But she never says
which minute.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

BUSINESS is like sleep-the hard
= er you work the easier it comes.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-08-06

NOWADAYS it is a long lane that
: has no flivvers parked in it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Many a Bacon Bat

has been spoiled by a skirt.
Tell every girl you know who
is going away to school how
important it is that she has q
pair Of wool tweed knickers.
Sizes Z to IS years. S4.0j.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10

just before lights 90 out
one likes TO be adorned in
smart pajamas of fine sOisette.
trimmed with silk frogs and
braid. In twO-piece styles. In
white, flesh, orchid and SKY.
S3.gS,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Striking Frocks

With youth fashioned in
every seam. Of lustrOus black
satin, crepe romain and geOrg-
cite. Trimmed with gay col
ors TO accentuate their charms.
ANY number of smart styles to
be found. $3.50.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Hemmed CrOcheted
Spreads, SITS

A dandy value. Spreads in
size 64xS8 inches, just what a
boy or girl going away to school
will need. Ideal for single beds.
SATIN marseilles spread, Tx
94-inch, 'hemmed ready for use,
in smart patterns. suitable for
y or twin beds. $3.50.
JOSKE'S SECOND FLOOR
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Place Your Order Now

for Colonel Mitches Winged Defense On sale our
Book Department You'll find this most interesting
book. Be place your order early.
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Beautiful Hand
Painted Tray-$2.29

Here is something new in
serving trays that will delight
every housekeeper. These
trays are hand painted on
glass.
In beautiful gold, silver and
m gsny finished wood
frames, with FURNISHED cor
ners and removable backs
waterproof. Here are two Of
the designs you'll find them
in.
JOsKEs STREET FLOOR
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Real Savings ON
School
Supplies

Tip Top pencils, dozen 3oc.
Cedar pencils, dozen 3Oc.
All you can carry, Big Chief
tablets, &c.
Composition books, &c.
Loose leaf filters, pacakge &c.
Blue Bird drawing pads, &c.
King Fisher drawing books, &c.
Artista water colors, BIC and
% 43c.
Drawing and construction
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Book straps, SC, 10c and lie.
Pencil boxes, &c, 12c and tic.
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each.
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Dictionaries
And Standard Books

Webster's New Ideal Die
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ster's New International Die
tionary, index gold stamped,
$500.
Webster's Collegiate Die
tionary, thin paper edition, art
canvas binding, $500; leather
binding, $3.50.
Roget's Treasury of Words,
by C. o. S. Manxon ". X.
Whiting, nearly 500 pages,
S1.00.
Every day use Of English,
by NJ. H. Weseen, this book
is valuable for office use as
we'll as the school room, $500.
JosKE's SECOND FLOOR
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10

is assured when girls gather
I'D in Nell's room 10 consume
innumerable sandwiches, etc.
You'll miss half the fun unless
YOU have a ravishing good look
ing silk robe to wear. These
are robes Of quilted satin. Tai
lored effects, lined. In peach.
purple. pink, etc. Sizes 80 70
20. S10.9j.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10

School Boys and Girls viii
Haze q Need for Good
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Hats for the Trip Up to

You just know S12 20
you'll be a sub
ject Of admiration on the train.
In veIOurs, such clever shapes.
You'll adorn them. Trimmed
with nobby effects. To be hal
in bIuce, tan, grey and black.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Golden Hours

may be spent in class rooms,
but the ones many girls treas
ure are ones that mark the
proms, the recital, the frat
dances, etc. No wise girl will
fail 10 take lovely evening
frock or two. OF georgette.
beaded or simple. $3.50 and
up.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
Rayon indies the Go

Oh. look. girls, Ct OQ
mere are slips. AO
boomers. Petticoats, also jeT-
ssy stepins and vests. In just
the sizes and colors you want.
Come early before they have
all sold out.
JOSKE'S THIRD FLOOR
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-10
St. Denis Bath Salt Bag Csc

The second shipment is here bag gassne paper
which You'll find the amount OF salts IN these
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Evening star., 1925-05-27

discussion as to the presence of Eng
lish troops in Spanish territory. These
moves led to American concentration
at New Orleans against the English.
and gave us the victory. 1t was the
only land battle of the second war
with England of which Americans
could think with much satisfaction.
In national politics he strove against
Federal encroachment on the consti-
tutional rights of the States, and he
fought effectively against the rise of
special privilege, monopoly and 1.-The
interests" about which millions of
Americans still talk and vote. His op-
ponents jeered him for being uncouth..
They jeered at his alleged illiteracy
and at his vulgar ways He was an
American pioneer. He had not been
trained in the polished manner Of the
best society" of the East, and he
despised both the manner and the 80.
ciety." Many of the charges made
against Andrew Jackson were made
against Abraham Lincoln when he
was rising to prominence and when
he became great.
Evening star., 1925-05-27
A System of State Parks.

AT the fifth national conference on
State parks, at Skyland. Va. with a
full representation present of all of the
4S States, plan proposed five years
ago for the establishment of a system
of State parks is being discussed and
promoted. The slogan OF this move
ment is "a State park every 100 miles. 3"
Its purpose is to encourage and pro-
mote the development of State reserva-
tons comprising sections of the great.
est natural beauty.
Many of the States now have such
parks, but in the main the park.
making enterprise has been left to the
Federal Government In many of the
States are areas which, like the pro-
posed park reserve embracing the Blue
Ridge in Virginia, the great Smoky
Mountains in Tennessee and the Nam.
moth Cave region in Kentucky, are Of
exceptional scenic character. remain
for designation and preservation.
Each State should be proud to create
such a park, to preserve its choicest
Not all Of the States possess great
natural wonders like the Yellowstone
or the Yosemite or the Grand Canyon
or the Mammoth Cave. Not all OF them
have mountains or lakes. But each Of
them has some particularly character.
istic attractive area which is signifi-
cant of the State itself. of it's char
acter. its natural disposition" so to
speak. That area should be set apart
permanently as monument Of State
pride.
If this plan is successful this coun-
try will possess a park system unap-
preached for variety and beauty and
significance. Each State will have it's
own playground. Interstate travel will
be encouraged and promoted. Better
acquaintance between State residents
will result. With 48 delegations pres
ent at the Skyland conference there
is reason to hope for a practical begin
ming soon upon this inspiring plan.
Evening star., 1925-05-27
The Democratic Chairmanship.

Reports in political circles point
to the probable selection of Repre-
sentative Oldfeld of Arkansas as the
new chairman of the Democratic
national committee to succeed Chair
man Glenn Shaver, whose retirement
from the Office has been forecast for
some time. Mr.. Oldfield is at pres
ent chairman of the Democratic con-
gressional campaign committee and
has been preparing since the last
election to wage a vigorous campaign
for the election of a Democratic
House of Representatives in 1925.
The choice of Mr.. Oldfeld for
chairman of the national committee
will be the first move in the direction
of restoring harmony in the Demo-
cratic ranks, which were disordered
by the fight for the presidential
nomination in 1924. Efforts of the
best Democratic minds have been
bent upon restoring it ever since the
Madison Square ballyhoo.
Chairman Shaver, who was the
personal choice of Candidate John w.
Davis. has been holding the office
until harmony could be restored. He
made 1t known that he would not
turn it over until a successor was
chosen who would be acceptable to
both the Smith and McAdoo factions:
If Mr.. Oldfield is named, as now
seems altogether likely. he can prop
erly be called the harmony" chair
man. Recent communications be-
tween Gov. Smith and Mr.. Oldfield
and between Mr.. Oldfeld and Mr..
McAdoo upon the occasion of the lat
ter's recent visit to Washington, are
said to have tended to the reported
decision of the party leaders to ask
Mr. Oldfield to accept the Office.
Mr.. Oldfeld will be eminently sat
isfactory to all the Democratic fac
tions. He is one of the most popular
men in the House of Representatives
and is held in high regard for polit
ical acumen and managerial ability.
He has demonstrated his political sa-
gacity in conducting the affairs of
the congressional committee and is
given credit for saving as much as
was salvaged from the Democratic
wreck in 1924. Democrats are look
ing to him to make the Republicans
realize that they have a real fight on
their hands in the congressional cam
paign of 1926
Evening star., 1925-05-27
Andrew Jackson.

Men who hold in particular regard
the memory of Andrew jackson are
protesting with animation against a
biography of that famous American
recently printed At Nashville rep
resentatives of patriotic organiza-
tions have held a mass meeting to
express sentiments against the au-
thor and the periodical in which his
article was published.
The first reaction of educated men
to this pother is as to why a new
biography of Andrew Jackson should
be published. All available informa-
ton of this remarkable man has
been printed. Scores of competent
writer's have sifted all matter relat-
ing to Jackson and have published
their conclusions on his character.
Any new biography must be a re-
hashing of old stuff.
From the brief press notices it
would seem that in the biography of
Jackson under discussion or dissen-
sion many of the stories told against
Jackson In his life are set anew in
type. Jackson's enemies were nu-
merous and voluble. In what they
told there was often much truth, but
not enough to take from him one
whit of glory. Jackson was born,
reared and entered law, politics and
soldering in Tennessee when it was
a frontier country. He was not a
learned lawyer, but he knew all the
law necessary for his practice and
as much as other lawyers and the
judges of his place and time. People
in what was then Far West cared
nothing for mere law, but insisted on
rights, then closer to natural rights
than in the Atlantic Coast States.
A large number of these people knew
Jackson to be a man leader.
In war he had no military book
schooling, but more military sense
than 80 per cent of the schooled sol
diers of his time, and perhaps of ours.
BY crushing Indian power in the
Creek War he made possible concen-
tration against the English of all mill.
tary resources in the South. He drove
the English out of Florida. then Span.
ish territory. without waiting for
orders from Washington. Washington
would probably have had a diplomatic
Evening star., 1925-05-27

Gree inland with 80 men and found
q country to which he gave the name
Vinland, because of the abundance of
wild grapes. The Sagas relate that
about the year 1000 a rich Greenland
settler with 60 followers founded a
colony inc Vinland. but Morse tradi-
tions give us nothing as to what be-
came of the colony.
There is no doubt that NorsemeD
mace a settlement in Greenland; It
is quite easy to accept the Sagas as
authority that they went to Vinland,
and it does not strain the Imagination
to think that Vinland was the coast
Of New England. Mortimer was a
name given by more southerly peoples
TO those of ancient Scandinavia, or
Sweden. Norway and Denmark. They
were bold and venturesome. and
among their conquests were England
and part of France. AS invaders of
England they were called Danes, and
as invaders of France we have called
them Normans. They established
themselves in parts of Russia and in
the Orkney and Farce Islands, car
ried their colonizing operations west
to Iceland. and without doubt con-
tinued west to Greenland. 1t Is plau-
sible that from Greenland they wan
dered south and made a settlement
in kinder climate. If the Macmillan
expedition comes upon ruins in
Greenland clearly of Norseman origin
of 10 centuries ago 1t will have gained
formation.