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this material relief still continued 70
increase according to figures Oh lhe
mast six months, indicating that
,.onev for relief was % per cent more
fhan for the same period Of last year.
since the beginning OF the present
fiscal year, october /, 1925, hte society
had paid out S34, ,796. as compared with
s27 .404 for the first half Of the pre-
vious year.
Increased Cash Relief.
The increase in cash relief was
shown to be reflected in the larger
number of families cared for by the
society, the number during the first
half Of this year being 1,149, as com
pared with ,05S in the first half Of
last year. In these families there
were 4,S76 persons, of whom 2,69S
were children undAr sixteen. The
total number Of families aided during
the whole of last year was 1,4l3, com.
prislng 6,104 individuals, Of whom
$40 were children under sixteen
Washington was shown in ma
tional survey reportey by Mr.. Ufford
to rank 18th in the amount Of expendi-
lures for relief per hundred thousand
population. The amounts Of cash dis
bursed in the cities surveyed ranged
from $3,527 per month per 100000
population down to S63f, as compared
to Washington's ST ,070 per 100000.
In the campaign opening today the
Joint finance committee Of the Asso-
ciated Charities and Citizens Relief
Association has adopted for a slogan,
"Your Money or Their Lives" AS in
previous years, the goal of 10000 con-
tributing members has been set, the
different classes Of membership being
based on the amount of the contribu.
tion as follows: Associate, 81; active,
SIS: special, $40; supporting. S25; sus-
tanning, $50, and capital, Sl0o.
Cites Success OF Club.
Mr.. Ufford announced the success
ful continuance Of the Dollar-A-Day
club founded two years ago and now
built up to a membership of 80. Three
persons have signed, he said, for half
a dollar a day.
Three resolutions were adopted. ex
pressing appreciation for the address
of the evening, for the cooperation of
the press of Washington and for the
use of the hall.
Corcoran Thom, vice president,
presided. The invocation was by the
Rev. DR. Frederick w. Perkins, pastor
Of National Universalist Church. The
chairman of the nominating com
mittee, whose report was unanimously
adopted, was Walter S. Pratt, jr.
Ushers Of the evening were Junior
League members: Miss Jane Austin,
Mrs. Gordon Cats, Mrs. Claude
Langlais, Miss Marion Darrah. Mrs.
Edward X. Morris and Mrs. Gerald
Linke.
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MOST DELICATE TUBE KNOWN
USES ONE-BLLIONTH AMPERE
New Device Requires One
Fortieth OF Energy Used
by HouSefIy.
Many Uses Possible for In
vention of 28- Year Old
Scientist.
snarfal Dispatlh 10 The star.

Special Dispatch 10 The star
NEW YORK. April "a grid tube
that operates on approximately one
hillionth OF an ampere Of electrical
energy described by scientists as the
most delicate device yet developed in
electrical research been perfected
in the laboratories Of the Westing
house Electric and Manufacturing Go.
The device is SO sensitive that g
human hand placed near the Erid
plate Is sufficient 10 operate 1t. rms
act causes the tube to glow and dis
charge energy sufficient to actUate
relay.
Has Three Electrodes.
One-billionth Of an ampere comes
very close to being nothing at all
The baFest measurable bit OF energy.
4 housefiy walking one inch vertical
lv in one second eXpends enough en-
ercy to operate 40 such tubes at the
same time There is sufficient energy
in one ounce of fuel oil to operate the
glow tube 4 900 100000 times An
ordinary electric light requires 90,
GOO .000 times as muCh energy.
The apparatus consists OF three
electrodes. There is a negative and a
positiye, the latter being surrounded
bv grid. which constitutes the third
aIectrode. This tube has no heated
filament and, therefore, does not con
enme anv energy when not operated,
If a voltage is applied between the
positive and negative electrodes par
ticles of electricity called free cleo
irons attach themselves to the grid.
When the grid is thoroughly insulated
these minute particles OF electricity
cannot escape, thus preventing the
tube from passing any current. Nhen
q persons hand is passed near the
plate a means thereby Is provided Tor
removing the small charges of elec-
tricity. The result is that the tune
Immediately passes q current large
enough to operate commercial .~s
Tube Filled With Neon.
The tube is filled with neon, a. sex-
tremeIv rare gas extracted from the
air and emits n characteristic orange
glow. This gas is inert to chemical
action.
The commercial applications Of this
device are still uncertain but the Iol'
lowing have been assured:
Fire urotection--Used for this puf-
nose the smoke or flame would serve
10 operate the tube the same as the
hand passed near it.
As a burglar alarm the grid Of the
tube can be attached to desk, window,
drawer or vault Instantly on beng
touched the tube would operate a re,
Law. The fate of the burglar would
he determined by the nature of the
equipment installed lie could be
given a good sound electric Wallop
on the head, or the apparatus might
be so arranged as to sound an alarm
Flame control for plants that EN-
plov gas furnaces-Serving In TINS
agency the glow tube would insure
that the pilot flame was Kept BURN
Evening star., 1927-04-05
Best Homes
For the Price

Everybody who has
seen them agrees that
t h ere is nothing in
Washington to compare
with these Lifetime
Homes" at
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Among the $4,000 who, clad only in
light running costume, participated in
the last rush to the new diamond field
at Elandsputte, Africa, were 120
women
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3.OO5 Home Savers

have already joined forces this
wear in the HUMAN SALVAGE
work of the Associated Chari-
ties and Citizens Relief Associa.
ton.
10000 GIVERS are urgently
needed TO enable these FAMILY
WELFARE and CHILD.CAR.
ING SOCIETIES TO continue
their home-saying work.
VII you be one OF these:2 II
so, please fill out the following
blank and mail to
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX-
lsting between cen Floyd =, Moore apd A. r e
porting Co. with Offices in the Earle Build.
ing Washington. D. c.. was on the LIST day
Of April 1927. dissolved. Mr. Moore viii
hereafter be the sole proprietor of this busi-
ness and will assume all liabilities contracted
FLOYD E. MOORE.
A. +. GALLAGHER.
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NOTICE 10 ~IUChH0LUEkS.
The annual Election Of Officers and Direc-
fgns OF the Washington Six Per Cent Per
manent Building Association VIII he heid
At the Office Of the Association. 62a T street
= w. on Wednesday. May 4th. 1927. Polls
open from o am to ) pm.
L. G. 0STERMAYER.
Secretary.
WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
debts contracted by any one but myself.
Mrs. NJ i. HAMBURGER. 1896 9TH st. NV.
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nished and planted. Lawns put in firEt-class
condition with rich soil and manure. F, A.
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/ HAVE PURCHASED. BRADBURN BAT
one having claims against business present
before April 8, 1897 CHARLES l.. JONES.
6Id Pa. ave, sc. %
WANTED RETURN LOAD OF FURNI-
fuFe from New York, philadelphia or Balti-
more SMITHS TRANSFER AND ST0R"
AGE COMPANY.
FURNITURE REPAIRING AND UPH0L-
stering al your home; estimates furnished
Address Box 45-V. Star Office
ALL PERSONS TAKE NOTICE THAT
am responsible for no bills or credit Of any
mature unless CONTRACTED personally
G. G. FfNNACOM. JR.
10 One ST y W -
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Payments may be made in monthly quarterly nsament
YOUR MONEY OR THEIR LIKES
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Ord Preston Treasurer Joint Finance Committee Associated Char
ties and Citizens Relief Associations 1922 1h Street N. W
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
INCOME TAX REPORTS

On account Of the price received for
apples last season, it is not probable
that there will be great many at
White Bluffs who will have to pay
an income tax. Still there arc few
unfortunates whose gross income was
large enough, in order to comply
with the income tax law, to compel
them to make out a report. To the
average man who does not keep an
intricate set of books these reports
are nightmares. However Uncle Sam
is going to help and has arranged
to have deputy collector of Internal
Revenue at the office Of Gasco.gnc
and Fyfe in Kenncwick all day Fei'-
ruary 81 and until ncSon February %,
and at Yakima from March to Is,
inclusive, to assist taxpayers in pre-
pairing their returns. He Will no.
come to White Bluffs. No charge
is to be made for this service. These
who fail to make return on time are
subject to penalty Of not more than
$4,000 or Imprisonment for not
more than one year, or both, and II,
addition 25 per cent of the amount
of the tax.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
THE DAIRY INDUSTRY
IN HEALTHY CONDITION

Every farmer tries 10 select the crop
in which the chance appears good for
shortage, and ushally finds that mil
lions of other farmers figured the way
he did. In this sea Of uncertainty it is,
perhaps, wo::th while to urge the claim
of dairying as the safest Of all lines to
engage in. 1t has many by-products and
none has yet reached the point Of
saturation. Milk, sugar and casein are
recently factory products and butter
milk powder shows a yearly increase
in demand. No line OF farming, says
the U. S. Department. of Agriculture
can so readily and indefinitely increase
its profitable sales as dairying."
From the facts and figures available
we can reasonably expect the prices
of dairy products to remain at profit
able average level for at least number
Of years. What the avesage .dairyman
wants is not more cows but better
cows, better care and better feeding
methods.
The increase in number of dairy cows
and dairy production from year to
year is not sufficient in p1lopo Lion to
the increase in demand and increase
in population, so that the high prices
for dairy products are natural and not
artificial.
A lot of educational work has been
carried on during the past five years
to encourage diversified farming, es-
pecially dairying, and this in connec-
ton with high prices has resulted in
more extensive dairying and conse-
ouently thousands of cows that were
formerly used for other purposes are
now used fo- dairy cows. The addition
al effort to increase dairy production
has not been sufficient, as will be not
ed by the importation. In 1918 the
experts of butter from the u. S. were
over "a million pounds in excess OF
the impciss and in 1923 the imports
were nearly 18 million pounds in ex-
cess of our exports.
Dairying cannot be largely increased
in one single year or even in three
Yeas time, because it requires three
or four years to grow cow and a
cows mortality, or the average number
that drop out each year fo- one cause
of another, is 18 per cent, so that out
of every 100 average cows on Jam
uary 1st, 1926, there will be cnly SO
left on January 1st, 1928.
In 1924 we had quite drop in the
butte.fat prices and many dairynen
feared an over production, but in trac-
ing UP the situation we have noticed
that at that time manv factories closed
and many reduced their operating cap
aci,ies, hence throwing thousands Of
we, Ana-n out Of employment and cut
ting eff their buying power, 50 these
men were unable to buy high priced
tu'ter. This resulted in cold storage
hutter piling up and prices wee re-
drced but as soon as the factories re-
opened, this surplus amount Of storage
butter was quickly reduced and prices
~
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
BELIEVED SOFT FRUIT
HERE IS UNINJURED

So far the wet prophets have it.
Nearly every night the radio weather
forecast for Eastern Washington is
rain and snow" or "local rain or
snow" And the weather has been
running true to the forecasts. 1t
doesn't rain or snow every day but
the sky is cloudy and threatening when
moisture in some form is not falling.
The frost is gradually leaving the
ground and very little of the moisture
is running off. 1t is too wet under
foot to do much pruning or other
outdoor work and unless there is some
drying out weather pretty soon there
is going to be quite rush in the
spring.
The temperature has been hanging
around the moderate" point and if it
were not for the slush underfoot it
would be quite pleasant.
Some of the growers who have been
making an investigation lately say
that every codling moth they find
is dead. Whether they were killed
during the freeze in September or
during the low temperature in Jam
uary is not known but in any event
the moths seem to have put in hard
winter. If their casualties are as great
as new seems probable, the spray
problem will be partially solved, at
least for this season.
1t is not believed that the low
temperature in January injured any of
the soft fruit in this valley. Horti-
cultural experts say that the danger
point is between Is and 20 degrees
below zero. None of the thermometers
here got below Is degrees and that
low point was reached in only few
isolated spots. In some of the other
dsstrictb especially ION the higher
ground, where the temperature got
down to 20 below, it is thought that
the peach buds have all been killed,
as witness the following news item
taken from the Yakima Herald:
Peach buds are killed generally
through the upper valley and to a
large extent in the lower valley, it has
been found by F. E. Thompson, who
has made a survey of the situation.
In his opinion the valley will not
have over 30 per cent of the crop
shipped in 1926. Districts examined
by Mr.. Thompson are Mob Hill, Fruit
vale and the Parker bottom.
I'm these sections there will be no
crop, he averred, and the tonnage
that the valley will ship will come
from high ground. He has looked in
to the situation as far down the val
ley as Zillah and will in the near
future make trip to Benton City.
Peaches cannot stand temperature
of Is degrees below zero, hence it is
no wonder that the buds are killed
where the temperature was 10 de-
grees below zero, he pointed out. The
damage is due to the January freeze
and not 10 the September freeze, he
said, as the buds were all right before
the zero weather this month came.
The Yakima valley shipped 1243 cars
Of peaches in 1926. No damage to
other fruit has been noted, he said"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
WANT puLMoToR

The death last week OF George
Sa!ogines from carbon monoxide gas
poisoning has started an agitation
in White Bluffs looked toward the
acquiring of pulmotor for the COM
rmunity. The pu,motor, as most
every one knows, is an instrument
used in resuscitatisn in cases OF
drowning, electrical shock, gas poison
ing and ictfer accidents where the
vital organs of the body have not
been injured or impaired. 1t is claim
ed it often accomplishes wonders.
However, by it's very nature, it is
an instrument that is used only oc-
kasioaally and L. L. Perry, local
manager Of the Pacific Power
and Light company says the one in
Pascc had an aggravating habit Of
being out of order on the few oc-
casions it was called upon. to perform.
This fault, though, could be corrected
if the instrument were left in the care
Ct some one who would keep it in
repair.
Mr.. Perry says that the Pacific
Power and Light company conducts
first aid and resuscitation schools
to which all employees are required
to attend. Meetings are held in each
district monthly and at many Of these
meetings firas ,aid and resuscitation
experts are called in and contests in
the work between selected teams
from among the employees, staged.
In this way all the employees be-
como qt-ite proficiers I'm renetring
first aid in cases of cuts, burns. shock,
etc. Cases are on record, he says,
where victims of electrical shock
have been brought back to conscious
nesa alter heart action had ceased
for period Of an hour or more.
Any employee of the P. p. & L.,
Mr.. Perry says, will be glad to render
any assistance they can in first aid
work in cases sSf accident.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
CLUB MEETING FEB. 9

The February meeting Of the Wo-
mans Club will be held in the assem-
bly, room Of the Lutheran Church
Wednesday, February 9. An especially
good rtogram is promised, the topic
of the day being American Art and
Artists, the discussion Of whose work
will be more interesting by an ex-
hibition of certain of their pictures.
Mrs. F. c. Koppen will have charge OF
the program. Hostcsses for the day will
be Mrs. A. T. Hostetter, Mrs. Francis
Moody and Mrs. Shaun Kelly. Ar
rangcments have been made to have
the children cared for at the O'Larey
LONE while tie club is in session.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting Of the Com.
munity Club will be held Tuesday
evening. February 8, at Liberty
hall. Included in the business to
be transacted at this meeting will
be the election Of officers for the
ensuing year, and good attend
ance of club members is desired.
EDMUND ANDERSON, President
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
TO SELL MILK ROUTE

A deal in which Walter Tomson i'd
to purchase the dairy business Of W..
S. Angle, is now pending. The deal
involves the fine dairy herd of Mr..
Angle and the milk route he has es-
tablished. Starting with one custo-
mer, Mr.. Angle has built up a fine
business and has given splendid SER
vice. II the transaction goes through,
Mr.. Angle plans to devote his time to
the rural mail route and his ranch.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-02-04
SCOUTS 70 ENTERTAIN

An entertainment made up Of a
short play ard II moving picture at
Liberty Hall on Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary %, is being planned by the Boy
Scouts. A fuller announcement will
be made when the plans are all ma
tured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-07

town and up the hill to the house Of
Mrs. Birch, who employed her.
"You needn't hurry the next dozen
pairs" Mrs. Birch said as she rather
grudgingly counted out $2.76 in
change. "There doesn't seem to be
the call for bootees there has been.
Do you know this, Miss Ballard?"
She looked hard into Amelia's troubled
brown eyes with her shrewd greenish-
gray ones. II should think you could
find some real work to do If you need
1t, like housekeeping, now. Take Mrs.
Pease, right in your own neighbor-
hood. She has been with Judge Fame
ever since his wife died. And see what
he pays her! Fifteen dollars a week.
Her board alone would come to that
I've heard they have chicken three
times a week and fresh cream every
day"
Amelia laughed. But she walked
away with her pitiful basket, her
cheeks flaming, her heart like chunk
or Ice in her breast. She had $2.76
In her purse. And the taxes were
due. Suppose she should not be able
to pay the taxes? Why, they would
sell her property as they had sold old
Jenny Waters. But the hurt that
smarted worst came from her inability
to persuade Mrs. Birch that she was
crocheting bootees for pastime merely.
Mrs Birch had perceived Amelia's
desperate need.
"Oh. If only my folks had trained
me to be something besides a parlor
ornament she thought "Of course
they couldn't foresee that / shouldn't
consent to marry where / didn't love.
or that fathers wonderful invest
ments were to become worthless
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THE EVENING STORY

him loose he will start straight for the
judges house. He acts possessed to
get over there. The judges house.
keeper. that horrid old Mrs. Pease,
gives him--chicken / can't permit 1t.
And yet IL 1 continue to keep him
fastened up here he will hate me. oh,
Moses, darling! Be reasonable. Can't
you understand that you are all I've
got left?" Amelia's sweet voice trem-
bled. She reached out an appealing
hand, Offering caress. Moses flew upon
her. bit her finger, left an ugly red
scratch upon her slender wrist. She
gave a cry of hurt and dismay. Then
with a desperate swiftness of move
ment she snatched off her apron,
threw 1t over his head, unfastened his
collar and let him go free. With long
leaps Moses raced across the street.
Amelia sat down upon the back steps
and stared long and hard into the
distance, 1t was fully 10 minutes be-
fore she was able to go in and apply
iodine to her wounds.
Moses did not return until bedtime
He came home looking fat and fit with
traces of cream on his whiskers. No
he did not care for supper. thank you.
And he was cold to his mistress. She
in her turn could not forget that he
had deserted her for the judges chick
en- dinner. But she decided to let him
take his freedom as he would.
Next morning Moses again disap-
peared before breakfast. Amelia
missed him dreadfully. When one is
intolerably lonesome even cat Is COM
pany. After lunch she took her bas-
ket Of finished work clear across the
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paper. leaving me poor and helpless.
Times change and I haven't changed
with them"
She went round her house by the
shaded path that led to the back
door. On the steps sat a stout elder
ly man with twinkling blue eyes full
of humor and sound sense and keen
wisdom. A pair of crutches rested
beside him. Upon his knee was the
wheedling Moses.
II brought him home. Amelia"
said the judge. HE hung on to my
shoulder while / limped along on
crutches. Pretty near broke my leg
this morning falling off q stepladder
while I was trying to get n dish
wanted off the top shelf of the cup
board. You see, I'm keeping house
alone today. Mrs. Pease has left
me-went yesterday to visit her
daughter"
II am sorry" Amelia replied stiffiy.
The Judge picked up his crutches,
pushed Moses off his knee and arose.
He looked at Amelia's cold face and
turned away. Here, go back to your
missus." commanded the man.
Amelia gave q hard, dry sob. II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-07

r N conjunction with the announcement of the new
series Packard cars it is with qualification that we
- open simultaneously Washingtons New Packard
Service Building with it's sixty thousand feet of floor
space. Here you will find one of the largest most
modern and completely equipped establishments Of it's
kind in the country The building adjoins former
service station and located at Seventeenth Street and
Kalorama Road in the heart of the northwest resden
tal section. gA. .S9@aE
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: ~ Billiards. lips frightened and
IA her eyes followed more closely
A "A her flying crochet needle. In
the mirror opposite--she had
placed it there on purpose-she could
see Judge Fame getting out of his car,
going up the front steps of his house
across the street. AS usual, he looked
in her direction. AS usual, she sat
at the window, the curtains wide
apart, and pretended to he unaware
of his existence. 1t was her only
comeback. Yet she sighed.
Amelia was so and a pretty woman.
although the gold lights IN her hair
had given place to silver, and there
were few lines about her brown eyes
She lived alone in a house much too
large for her upon an income much
too small for even a frugal soul who
thought love was done and all the
future held for her was an endless
succession of baby bootees crocheted
at % cents the pair. Some days she
earned nearly a dollar. The dollar
went to pay taxes. For Amelia was
determined that Judge Fame. whom
she had loved always. should not see
her ousted from the home where she
had once lived in plenty.
She smiled at the sound of the door
ne slammed in manlike evaporation
at her indifference. But the smile
faded as she heard another sound--a
prolonged caterwauling from the back
yard Flinging aside her work. she
dashed from the house. Moses, the
great gray cat which was her sole
companion was tethered to the clothes
line. More than ordinarily he was
Directing to restraint. When she at
tempted to soothe him he Kissed and
made strange, resentful sounds in his
throat. His eyes burned upon her
like two incandescent lights.
ooh, DEAR" moaned Amelia, "if I let