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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-02-14
PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL
LEGISLATION"?

LEGlOlLf11 1O1N
nURING the past few weeks
- glowing propaganda has been
coming in relative to bill pur-
ported to he conceived in the in
terest of modern progressive school
legislation. Quantities of material
have been written for insertion in
local newspapers lauding the mea-
sure. Well written speeches have
also been received which are de-
signed to be delivered verbatim by
local spell binders telling how pro-
gressive the measure really is. The
bill has finally been introduced
and a copy is now here. It is the
Showalter Common School Bill.
AS far as this section is concern
ed, the bill meets none of the
claims made for it and apparently
it is for the benefit only of larger
centers and a crowd Of petty poll
ticians. If it did not have the pre-
liminary laudatory propaganda and
then tend to make this section of
the state the goat, the bill could
be dismissed from the mind along
with a dozen other asinine and
malicious proposals to regulate
the schools that come up at every
session Of the legislature. This
measure, however, has a powerful
well organized machine behind it,
and may pass.
AS far as the larger centers of
the state are concerned, the bill is
either harmless or beneficial, but
here it is a different matter. BEN
ton County and Kennewick would
be decidedly the looser. Not alone
would taxes be higher, but money
for school purposes would be less.
In addition to this, the schools
would be seriously handicapped in
the proper administration of their
own affairs. In this particular
there are several extremely silly
handicaps placed on local admins
tration. According to the propogan-
da, there are provisions that will
stake the schools out of politics." a
very commendable thing-few will
deny. This has been used as catch
phrase for getting support. A very
careful analysis, however, fails to
disclose any such provision, but it
does find when the thing is laid
bare, several cunningly devised
sections that are the direct anti
thesis Of keeping the schools out
Of politics, It would provide an
open sesame for the common
garden varient of peanut politician
at whose mercy the schools would
be subject everafteff.
There is need for a certain
amount of progressive and remed-
sal school Legislation at the pres
emit time of course. Very few OBJ
serving people familiar with school
affairs, however, would contenance
a monstrocity such as this for this
section of the country. 1t is purely
piece of section legislation wear
ing the mask of progressiveness.
The proponents have control of
the state teachers organization
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-02-14
JOKES
Walter Knowles

Paul Shoemaker Cat Shirley's)
Give me a sundae.
Shirley-Sorry, but all / have
left is Friday night.
Violet Boyer says ring on the
hand is worth two on the phone.
Bob Sig.-"Can you swim well %
Bonnie H.-"No, but l can sure
wade"
Herb Crawford-"Have you any
brown ties to match my eyes?"
Ed. Neuman-"No, but / have a
soft hat"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-02-14
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HEDGES

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Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Williams with
their daughter, Leita, went to Mil
ton, Oregon Friday to visit with
Mrs. Williams relatives. Mr.. Viii
liams returned Sunday, the wife
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-02-14
DUBLIcITY for a community

DUBIICITY for community is
= greatly to be desired, Of course
providing that the news is accur-
ate and favorable to the district
In a coast paper this week appear
ed an article, under big headlines,
stating that the weather here had
caused much damage to fruit and
Gin many cases, it is declared, the
young trees have been killed." Not
only is this very undesirable pub
Lefty, but the statements are not
true, according to some Of our best
fruit farmers. AS matter of fact,
these growers state that while the
peaches and apricots have been in
jured, still there will be fair
crop Of both. The cherries have al
30 suffered slight loss, but not
enough to materially decrease t Inc
crop. So far as known, there has
been no tree loss. Residents of
the district, as we'll as correspond
ents, should be extremely careful
about broadcasting this sort of In
formation. Il does no one any
good, and might possibly do ire
mendous lot of harm.
Call Washington opens its arms
to Herbert Hoover" They might
even open their cellars for US il
we had as many jobs to give away
as he.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-02-14

and are using many gullible school
leaders for furthering the mea-
sure. Space in an editorial does
not permit a minute running crit
icism of the bill; but for this sec.
ton it means higher taxes, with
less money for the schools, (the
difference going to the larger cen
ters); local boards deprived to a
large extent of control of their
districts; and, throwing of the
schools in the maelstrom of poll
tics.
A measure of this kind should
be acted upon by q vote of the
people after careful study; rather
than railroaded on the sttutes by
high pressure manipulation of po-
litical past masters at Olympia.
There is eminate danger of its
passing. Act Immediately with
your Legislative representatives
or this section will be the sorry
goat.
During every Legislative year
there comes to the surface an ar
ray of long cared proposals dealing
with the public schools of the
state. Some sessions there are
more, and some there are less.
Some measures are sponsored by
cults, varying in degree of color
atom; some by private interests
with private advantage to gain;
some by political groups, for the
fancied glory attached thereto; and
some by groups with a genuine,
honest endeayor to right wrong,
but with an imperfect analysis of
the problem to be met. Nineteen
hundred twenty nine appears to
he banner year for such flotsam.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

near the per cent constitutional
limit.
With a strong demand for a new
Broad Ripple high school, the school
city is unable to issue bonds for the
building.
The civil city. with its present
bonded debt and other issues
authorized or incurred. will have a
margin Of only s2,5OO,O0o bonding
power left.
Plan Many improvements
Many civil city Improvements
costing far more than this amount
are planned. including sewer con-
struction work costing more than
100000: street widening which
must be started soon in a major
wav: elevation of the belt railway,
which must be financed partly by
bonds: food prevention, involving
more than 100000; new GameWell
fire alarm system. required BY the
fire underwriters, to cost 100000,
and possibility Of the city having to
help finance purchase and removal
of the two churches on the war
memorial plaza.
The survey also will show present
bonded Indebtedness Of each de-
partment Of government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
c. OF c. WILL
PLAN TEN-YEAR
COUNTY BUDGET
Improvement Program Sur
vey viii Be Worked Out
by Commerce Group.

A program Of needed major pub
lie Improvements in Marion county
for the next ten years will be
worked out b. the Chamber Of Com
nlerce. cooperating with govern
mental bodies. william II. Fortune.
civic affairs chairman. announced.
In this way the more important
improvements may be listed first,
and not be crowded out BY minor
projects which would exhaust the
bonded indebtedness limit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
TENTH DIES IN
HILL RUM WAR
Deputy Sheriff Killed, Two
Wounded in Gun Fight.

BIZ United Press
PIKEVILLE, KY. May 1.-THE
tenth man to die in a crusade TO
clean up the moonshine district Of
eastern Kentucky was killed and two
others wounded in a gun battle just
outside Pikeville.
Lon Robinson, deputy sheriff, was
shot to death and Sid Drivette,
United States commissioner here,
and Bruce Little, alleged bootlegger,
we're wounded in the battle Thurs
day.
Robinson and Drivette directed a
drive to clean up Happy Hollow. a
district in the Cumberland noun
tains near here, which they say is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
Budget Needed

Need for such budget is seen in
the fact that with many permanent
Improvements planned. bonding
power of several of the units is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

stopped Little and started to bring
him in.
En- route. Drivette said. Little
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17

dew a gun. pressed it against Rob-
inson's side and fired. The deputy
fell dead
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-17
THY INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

panion. Elisha Cole, were supposed
to bring some liquor into Pikeville.
Just outside the town the officers
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
Editorials
IELC0hE FILIPINO
STATESMEN

On December 30, there IS expect ted in
Seattle the arr wal Of the Legislative
mis- ST on from the Philippines to attend the
present session Of the Anne rican Congress,
fIuenoe in the assafe Of any resolutio on
iowa I'd the so lutiou OF the so-oa lied Phil
ppine problem.
We We leone this bunch Of Filipino
tate smsn, and may re express our hope
that the mission they have De carried out
to the be st Of thei capacity, which We
know they would.
The prospect of Philippine indepeu-
dence, I least, the conces sion Of
gre ater autonomy to the Filipinos in the
ma u a gene Mt : their own gov eminent is rosy
at this part ioular time. Ams rican congress
smen are almost uuau imous n favor of
Philippine indie pen dence, after What have
occurred in Congress- in tbs debate over
the tariff bill, and the ex1usion OF Fi1-
iPinos.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
no MORE LOAN FROM The
CLUB HOUSE 7UHD

The other might the Members Of the
board OF trustees OF the Filipino Club
house Fund met and decided not tive any
more loans from the clubhouse fund. This
deoi sion vas ocoasio nsd by the appeal of
Filipino student for financ ia1 help,
under the vary conditions in which
the boa I'd of trus tees loaned hundred
long ago. The board decided that more
vi any g0g 5as
except for the purpose for which that funt
IS intended.
The board Of trus tees has acted with
good oOmmon sense. That clubhouse fund
IS for the bull ing or puroha Sc of a per-
name Mt FILIPINO c1ubh ouse and the money
should be spent only for that purpose.
The DO ard OF trustee should have used
this same jud em en- 1.-THE wisest they have
done so far--at the very beginning, when
the first appeal for loan was ma de to
them. 1t seems funny and Id Gu 1oqs tina
and deny the same to ano Their, under the
very CO dit ions required, sup
posed1y required, by that inte11i gent
board. The ction Of the boa I'd of trus-
tees smaqks Of ms 1ncerity Of purpose and
The FoRUM firmly believes that to
serve the best interests of the c Tub
house campa sn, no loan should be made
cut Of that 81 200 in the club house
fund, and the board of trustees sh ou1d
have acted wiser in not gran ting that
loan that they made short time ago.
ssssssssss.sssss
RIAL DAY AND OTHER NATIONAL
o Y
Re In RS
Rial Day and other national HOLIDAYS in
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29

Filipino tcsohine corps continues to make
progress consistent vi ia that made since
Pio tos6Siae ApsP whio6 IN Pro
fessioual training, will compare favor
of the ri
States and Europe. Dir tor L. Bewley
Phi!iPp!ne su. Of Ed.
70 9s:tsr hS" much SSqqE3:
home shat is harasssd by debt and wAsre
the wolf is always scratching at the door
---Dorothy DIX
Life, al though it takes US many years
to discover it, is only another name for
youth dies, phys ioai Per seOtion and beau
yssuity is 4ortsiiy MI, prids goes down
!" '"' ..:........ a!.:" IT,!
Keep, love and you can meet everything
else wi tn undi smayed front; but when
stocks and Bonds you have 1aN Will not eusran-
.:.:..:::.......
As Amer lean exclusion is directed
G s sSsas
DEAN toarado BEN1TEz
.....................
Democracy is tempted to think that
81 S 4css iyt PEA
men and far from fit for l'a a5sr RbPPar
AND MOI LET US SMILE
Coed tat end Of semester): Nov that you
have kissed ne, Pro fessor, What do
you think?
Prof.; You'll fail. I need you in my
class next term.
First sailor' I'm in favor of bigger ma
vies.
Second sailors Yeh, and more ports.
Stude; See that guy there? He's going
through oo1legs by oariuf for baby.
SX-S1ude; he's lucky. I got kicked out
Tor the same reason.
Doctor: Your little boy has abs o1ute1y mo-
,,,, hearinG in one
willie: There, Nav, and you've been wa sh-
ing it every day for nothing.
They say you master Of all tongues -
1es--of all except one--that Of my Wife"
modern girl, my son, is like re-
o931t automobile. The old chassis
..................
teacher3" A0'-
mo, J couldn't show up one nieht and she
wanted me to bring wri item excuse 81 enedl
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29

Democracy is tempted to think that
degree means an education. But many Doc
tors Of Philosophy grossly uneduc to-
men and far from fit for lsader ship.
DIR. Glen FRANK
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29

IF the work in profe siora
Filipino teaching corps oontinu
roeress consistent With that n
1870, VIC shall have within q d.
1ipino teaching personnel which
fessioual training, will c ompart
ably with the teaoLiue pcrsouno
best educ ational sys toms of the
States and Europe. --Diroc tor L
Philippine B.
Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1929-12-29
.Crappyo Statements

7 defy anyone here to stand up and
say that he observes the Ten Command Inc n s
100 per cent. IF he does, want his
ioture the most nonure al liar in
the world. ---Dr. T.. Mat \ e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
MADGE
VINCENT.
AHe Gaye+y
Ladies of the jury"

MRS. MINNIE MADDERN F1sKE,
who long since has been known
simply as Mrs. Fiske, a charming trib-
ute to a great artist, has found one Of
her happiest vehicles in some time in
her present comedy. Ladies Of the
jury" which continues at Erlinger's
Theater, New York.
In this satire on present-day juries
Fred Ballard has satirized two impor-
tant points in juStice-the indifference
Of jurieS to the question in hand and
the ease with which jurors may be
Swayed. The first act is In the court
room, where the defendant is being
tried for murder, and the last two in
the jury room, where the evidence is
being weighed and where a verdict is
reached on the 124th ballot after 48
hours.
Mrs. Fiske plays the role of Mrs
Livingstone Baldwin Crane, a poised,
cultured, travelled, educated woman.
who takes her jury duty seriously and
who believes from the evidence that
the defendant is not guilty
Mrs. Ftske is said to believe that
women are important factors on juries,
and as so many men fitted by breeding
and culture and knowledge of life avoid
90 FHie, ~ 40 oAAe uuGy OF WoHen LII tHe
same sphere to undertake the job.
Although audiences rock with laugh
ter, Mrs. Fiske believes that the comedy
carries its message, and perhaps the
next time those who see it are called
for jury duty they will accept it in the
proper spirit and be more interested in
rendering just verdict than In simply
finishing the case as soon as possible.
Ladies of the Jury" Is likely to be
seen at the National Theater here early
in the new year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Light Ahead.

ALTHOUGH the legitimate theater
"A was eclipsed in Washington last
week, news from and concerning COM
ing attractions booked for the National
Theater is not discouragtng.
Mrs. Fiske. in the delicious modern
comedy, Ladies of the Jury" seems to
be gathering the crowds at the Erlanger
Theater. New York. where the play has
been running to large audiences for
eight weeks. Wilton Lackaye upholds
the dignity Of a Judge in the first act,
scene and the first of its kind, it is said
to appear in a comedy.
At the Court Theater In the metrop-
oils. Bertram Robinson and Howard
Lindsay's comedy. Your Uncle Dud-
ley" is moving gayly on with Walter
Connolly and Mrs. jacques Mar
tin featured, and Beatrice Terry,
George Barber Gan old Washington
favorite, by the way, Eleanor Hayden,
William Haworth, jr., and other nota-
bles in an excellent cast.
These two attractions are booked for
the National in the due course of
events.
william Gillette, in Sherlock
Holmes and, incidentally, in his final
farewell to the stage, is making the
atrical history at the New Amsterdam
His temperance Is not only "a colos-
sal old -timers' reunion" but it is draw
ing the patronage and delighting the
hearts of the progeny OF the old-timers
| and their collateral associates of two
generations as well. Washington is tc
have It's chance the week beginning
January 6. So that the future Of the
legitimate theater In washington Is oil
least something more than hopeful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Otis Skinner Coming.

4 INVOLVEMENT has been received
by Manager Cochran Of the Ma
tional Theater that Washington is to
have the pleasure of seeing Otis Skin
ner in "A Hundred Years Old" the
week beginning January 81.
Among the wiseacres of the theater
significance is attached to this an
nouncement, in that "A Hundred Years
Old" Is a Frohman attraction, which
under circumstances heretofore prevail
ing might have been booked to a local
theater other than the National. Some
regard it as an indication that the clos
ing of the Belasco Theater and the I'M
certainty surrounding the continuance
of Polls as an amusement house may
result in bringing to the National,
Washingtons lone legitimate theater,
many of the attractions that heretofore
have been booked elsewhere and new
attractions that might have been so
booked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
New Plays on Broadway

Vanity Fair-against, indeed, what
passed in Europe as civilization itself.
X * X X
EEDYA puts concretely, in one of his
semi-soliloquies toward the end of
the play, the Tolstoyan dilemma as it
actually faced him in life, or as 1t SEEM
ed to him looking back on his youth
from the seclusion of Yasna Poliana.
Mr.. Ben-Ami's performance Is Of
varying quality. He is least successful
in the earlier scenes, where he appears
in ordinary business clothes and is still
to be taken by an American audience
as the equivalent, let us say, of the
everyday American business or profess
s1onal man. Here he seemed artificial
and constrained and burdened by an ac-
cent which is still by no means perfect.
In the later scenes where he has be-
come frankly a shaggy, ragged down.
and-outer and more f1orid. eccentric
style fits the part, he was much more at
home, and gave a performance full of
understanding and tragedy.
Miss Josephine Hutchinson as Lisa,
Fedyas wife, was another of the large
cast who brought reality and emotion to
her part, while Egon Brecher, always
one of the best of the Civic Repertory's
players, did a picturesque sketch of the
down -and-outer who was convinced that
he was a genius. Miss lie Caffeine
herself appeared for but a moment as
Princess Karenina, Victor Michaelo-
vitchs elderly mother, in a makeup
which was in itself an interesting tour
de-force. Miss lie Gallienne is always
an interesting illustration of the i'm
ponderables of the acting art. She has
intelligence, taste. energy and industry,
courage, public spirit and can doubt
less tell her associates Just how they
ought to do things, and yet however
she may understand what ought to be
done can rarely strike fire herself. But
life is like that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Bill Tops EN- All.

RnL ROBINSON. Washington's IA
nous Negro musical comedy and
vaudeville star. tops the tap-dancers for
the second successive year in the all
American choice of professional stage
dancers announced in the January issue
of the Dance Magazine.
Applying the custom of the late Wal
ter Camp to the army of performers
who have appeared in Broadway eye
and-ear shows during the year ending
November Is, the Dance Magazine
awards its 1929 honors, in the order
Ingenue-Evlyn Laye, Bitter Sweet;
Jeanette Macdonald, Angela" and
Boom Boom" and Louise Brown,
Lady Fingers"
JuyenileSJack Whiting, Heads Up;
John Barker, Follow Thru" and Noel
Coward, This Year of Grace"
Prima ballerina-Harriet Hector,
Show Girl; Tamara Geva, "Whoopee,"
and Albertina Vitak, This Year of
Grace"
Eccentric females-Violet Carlson,
Sweet Adeline"; Nell Kelly, Boom
Boom, Street Singer" and Marie CAL
lahan, 1.-The New Moon"
Eccentric male-Clifton Webb, 1.-THE
Little Show; Nick Long, ir., Street
Singer" and Jimmy Savo, Almanac"
Tap or buck, female-Ruby Keeler,
Show Girl: Mary Jane. "Whoopee, +"
and Estelle Fratus. Sketch Book"
Tap or buck, male-Bill Robinson,
"Blackbirols": Will Mahoney, Sketch
Hello Daddy"
Team-Ayres, Karels, Rasche and
Myrio, Almanac; Dolores, Eddy and
Douglas, Broadway Nights" and Ted
and Sally, Scandals"
Comedian-Eddie Cantor. "WhoOpee";:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22

companion, means $3.50, with not
much left out Of a $40 bill for
taxicab or car fare and nothing
at all left for the little supper,
however frugal, which used to
follow so congenially and reason
ably an evening at the playhouse.
y X
The uplift of prices is about the
only serious effort for dramatic
uplift made in many years.
X X X
The theory has always been
that no matter what a production
demanded in the way of financ-
ing, the public would meet the
price cheerfully if the offering
pleased its fancy. The number
of outstanding successes has
grown less and less, and the
profits would not average in so
as to make up for the steady
drain on the public's purse and
patience.
It has been habitual for the
theater to celebrate itself as a
realm of tinseled make believe,
where money rewards tend to
touch the clouds and where the
theater fancier presides as a
Prince Fortunatus whose pocket
book is lined with eternal gold
It is the enchanted realm where
the village lass saluted as Hay
ville'S queen of beauty expects
confidently to drop her customary
duties and become the fairy prin-
cess of Broadway.
Every individual connected with
the theater has the spotlight
sense, and even though he may
not appear in actual view, feels
the thrill of egoistic pride con-
corning the moments in which
the performance may depend on
him, whether he be a musician
engaged in supplying the mystical
emotional influence of melody, OF
that stage Aladdin whose ham
mer and nails create castles over
night. Each and every one be-
lieveS that Prince Fortunate;
waits to serve him. It has beer
left for Washington, D. c., the
Nations Capital, to leave nothing
but the placards outside the lobby
doors as signals Of disillusion-
ment.