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10 Reform a Crook, Shoot Him.

he has committed is beirg found out. So he
goes out OF the prison a reacy-made novice
for new and dangerous crime.
so RIME would be decreased if new punish
ment were instituted in prisons. L adj
Vocate disciplinary prisons, where punishment
is short and sharp where prison life would
be made so unbearable that the prisoners
would never repeat the offense. It is absurd
to put man in prison and deprive his family
OF his work for months when the same results
could be accomplished In three weeks
Prisoners should never be allowed to get
used to Jail. In four cases out of five the
food and other accommodations a prisoner
receives are better than what he has been
accustomed to. He is allowed concerts, books
to read and visitors for his entertainment
Along with disciplinary punishment in
prisons there should be inaugurated a system
OF suspended sentences. It is absurd to send
to prison, to associate with criminals a post
man who has been detected stealing letters
The mans ruin is completed before his sentence
is begun. There is no sense In contracting him
with the hardened criminal
For the professional thief, jail has no
terror. 1t is just an inevitable inconvenience
like the measels of childhood
"One lass of thief is exceptional in many
respects, from his fellows. The highly spe-
cialized gangs who cross and recroSs the
ocean a dozen times a year, making a living
by fleeing passengers at cards, are in a class
by themselves. Generally speaking, they are a
respectable lot of men'with wives and families
They are thrifty souls who have reduced thiev-
ing to a science. They are the only thieves
1 know OF who Systematically save money and
eventually retire with competence.
Generally speaking, the British criminal
differs from the criminal of every other
nation. His thieving is unaccompanied by
violence. The professional gunman is un-
known. burglar of my acquaintance who
found his partner carrying a revolver when
they were going on a job broke off the enter
prise to give his companion a good sound
thrashing. Heavy sentences for the armed
burglar have made him an almost extinct
species In England.
There Is only one effective weapon in the
hands Of the law for dealing with the criminal
and that is terrorization Burglars are by
the way, very timid class Their night
mares are visions of a householder armed
with . revolver. There is not one burglar in
hundred who does not go through life with
this horror hanging over him."
Copyright, I9Se)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Smoke Consumer DESIGNED.

A CLEVER and easily constructed smoke
consumer for large boilers has been made
with three little piles of fire brick The first
pile is built in a square, in the combustion
chamber, with one corner pointed toward the
wall at the end of the fire box. The slanting
sides divert the flames coming from the fire
box to the rear of the combustion chamber Off
to either side. short distance behind the
first pile or battle, two others are built against
the side of the combustion chamber in tri-
angular form, in such way that they return
the flames back toward the center line of the
combustion chamber and along the two rear
sides of the square battle
When a fire is on full blast, these three baf-
fies become white hot and, through their heat
keep the temperature CT the combustion cham
Der so high that when fresh coal is fred the
temperature is sufficiently high completely to
consume all the volatile gases which are given
of first and thus prevent the clouds of black
smoke which are seen frequently emerging
from SmokestackS.
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problem. considered from any angle of the
nauseous, unesthetic and tyrannical famili-
arities that have helped toward this disinte-
grafton. We talk more of the happer age,
the delicatessen mother the hip-flask brother
and the hard ridden father
The root of the evil lies deeper than what
would seem to be the more or less ephemeral
problems of the fiapper who is already ebso-
lete, or the so-called hip-flask brother who at
best is only product of passing law that
must either right itself or be destroyed
The root of the evil lies in fathers unre-
strained crouch, in mothers look CT head
ache, in brothers intelicate household habits
and in everybody's tendency to let down the
amenities that make propinquity bearable.
Almost every one must know the secret
sense of shame with which you realize how
much more readily the remark or the act CT a
relative can get on your nerves, than that
same remark or act coming from a stranger.
Well, the answer is simple enough. Your
familiarity with the relative is something
horrible. contemptuous and unbeautiful You
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
FIre7c0od Technique.

DEMONSTRATION, so often termed the
thief OF time, has a way of melting out q
little punishment that teaches lesson Take
the case of fire wood. Locust, one Of the less
expensive woods to burn and one not SO popu-
lar. because it makes a slow. hot fire. rather
than the fiashy blaze that makes a fireplace
romantic, serves him Ill who delays in prepar-
ing it in the proper lengths
When green. locust cuts easily as do all
green woods, but when it has seasoned it be-
comes so hard that it will take the temper
from saw, If the saving is kept UP for any
length OF time Sometimes it is necessary to
use little Oil on the teeth of the saw to make
the saving little less arduous.
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parents. bound by the same blood ties and liv-
ing under the same roof.
The exceptions of course to the pickering
families need no comment here. That they
exist and in numbers, helps to redeem the en-
tire tormented institution. Every family that
dwells in peace and unity and quiet, with dig
nifty toward one another and tolerance, is bal.
ance and power to a dwindling institution that
deserves to survive
What sense of all-well-with- the-world it
would be, If. driving down that street of homes
one night, one could have the feeling that
suddenly every home in the rows of houses
was on to ITSELF What If suddenly the
mothers in homes would stop nagging the
children stop pickering, the fathers stop al
tercating
Home-life would be the blessed cradle it de-
serves to be, and isn't.
Copyright 1930)
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Painting Of R0di0t0ry.

EXHAUSTIVE tests have shown that, for real
heating efficiency, radiators Of domestic
heating plants should be painted rather than
bronzed. Painting over a surface already
bronzed has the same effect as painting over
new surfaces The radiator enamels should al.
ways be put on while the radiator is cold in
order to produce a more even distribution of the
paint and improve the general appearance of
the finished job. Radiator enamels should al.
ways be thinned with turpentine instead of oil,
when they are found to be too thick for ap-
plication.
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have in the past exchanged ugly harsh words
with him; you know how unpleasant he can
look and be with no collar on and that little
round spot from his collar button showing ON
his neck. You have had your head bitten of
by him for asking a civil question, and 10
minutes later have beheld him ia the absurd
antic OF trying to impress a stranger with his
manner and magic. You loathe him for what
you know he can be at times.
EAMILY-LIFE has furnished the relationship
Famiy-life, the restraint from which
youth so passionately wants to break free:
family-life. the tyrannical institution which
can make even the supernal relationship of par
ents and children haggling, mean affair.
I would rather live in a boarding house
than in the average family. There at least is
the dignity of restrained behavior and YOU can
go into your room and close the door without
being party to any of the chickering's, wran-
glings and abusive banter which seems to be
the prerogative Of persons born Of the same
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ones. Crippen would not steal but would
murder his wife. There are others that come
in this class.
Were 1T not for this stupidity on the part
OF the criminal and his habit of specializing
police could not cope with crime.
The real criminal cannot be reformed. He
may get too old for his job or he may possibly
get a violent attack of religion, but during the
period of his mental and physical activity it is
humanity impossible that he can be directed
into straight thinking. Prison is merely a
penalty of the game and he accepts it philo-
sophicaly.
'SNowADAYs. when imprisonment is light
ened by concert parties. radio, motion
pictures. when the criminal is allowed associa-
ton with his kind and can even smoke in most
prisons, the time passes much more quickly
than it used to, but the effect upon the moral
character is negligible.
prison only puts the fear of the law into
the non-criminal classes. For the intentional
criminal it is a home. Judges are divided in
opinion as to whether long or short sentences
have the more reformatory effect. But the
length of sentence matters little. The only
thing that will greatly reduce the number of
men who are in and out of prison year after
year Is alteration of prison regime
Until a prison is really horrible place at
which the prisoner turns and shakes his fist,
there will be little or diminution of crime.
In Exeter Prison saw a man under 40 who
had been sentenced more than 40 times to
that institution. There are those who make q
regular practice OF committing crimes in order
to get into prison to tide them over the long,
cold winters
There is little mystery about the genesis
of the continuous criminal. The young and
accidental offender finding himself in the
company of experts, is attracted to them He
has gone into the prison, perhaps. feeling
honestly ashamed of himself and depressed
by sense of his abominable conduct which
has been dinned into him by the attitude
of relatives and friends and by the shame and
disgrace Of his conviction. Being human, he
Is anxious to find an excuse for his crime
In the prison he meets a class which does not
regard his act as a crime at all. He finds
a sympathetic audience in the old offenders.
Gradually his angle Of judgment takes an
oblique slant. He hears that the only crime
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- THEORETICALLY speaking, the fam
lily is the finest unit in the scheme
of social organization.
say theoretically, because ever
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-06

Mrs. Sprague of Berrian visit
ed Mrs. Kennett Saturday.
Lee and Neil Lampson and Joe
Osborn went to Pullman Tuesday.
Mrs. C. E. Hunt went to La
Grand, Oregon last week to at
tend the funeral of a friend.
Will Blair of Kahlotus visited
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry
Blair Sunday.
Dorothy Larkin of Horse Heav-
en- spent the weekend with her
grandmother, Mrs. j. C. Dennis.
Mrs. Ukhart of Yakima came on
Saturday to visit at the home Of
her brother, B. 1. Whitney. Mrs.
Whitney accompanied her home
on Monday for few days visit.
Alice Purvis is a patient at the
Linn hospital.
Wilford Roupe of Benton City
had tonsil operation at the Linn
hospital this week.
Mrs. Viola Mcclure spent Sum
day with home folks at Walla
Walla.
Bee Mitchell has gone to Port
land.
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BUSINESS BETTER

The Courier Reporter believes
that there is much improvement
IN the business conditions in this
section, and that within the next
few weeks it will be even better.
There has been so much talk of
"hard times" that the people as a
rule think nothing else. Money is
not as plentiful as in former days
but at that people have money to
spend for what they want. Talk
ing "hard times" will certainly
not bring more money into circu-
lation.
Recently the owner Of one of
the largest stores in Kennewick
stated that the volume of business
done this year has exceeded that
of last year to the present time by
. large margin. The Courier-Re-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-06
A PEACEMAKER'S DAY

4 RMISTICE Day touches the
American heart very pro-
foundry. We all remember how we
longed for peace on November IL,
1918, and how the whole nation
shouted for joy when the news of
peace came across the seas. 1t
represents a day when the peace
makers triumphed over the war
makers. At that time there were
two sets of opinions about carry
ing on the war. There were many
who felt that the time had not
come to stop fighting, that it was
no use quitting until the foe was
ready to surrender unconditional
~. A great many have held that
opinion during recent years, and
have felt that the troubles which
have since so stirred up the world,
were due primarily to the fact that
the war stopped too soon. And
yet, as we view conditions today,
it is hard to see how they would be
any better if the fighting had kept
on three or six months longer. 1t
would have cost the lives of hum
dreds Of thousands of young men,
and billions in money. Hate would
have been still more embittered.
The truth is that the nations of
Europe had fought to the point
Of exhaustion and none of them
was ready to go on. With all the
doubts and questions that our peo-
pie have raised about the war since
then, it does not seem that they
wanted to go on at that time, or
regret now that they did not keep
fighting longer.
So the peacemakers won the de-
bate, and the warmakers yielded. |
It should be so in the controver-
sizes Of the future. Some tell us
that there always have been wars !
and always will be. But it seems !
incredible that the human race,
which has solved so many diff !
eulties, and has way of conquer
ing all problems when it really de-
cides that it wants to, should fall
down in this effort to abolish the
menace of war which is by far the
greatest evil that afflicts this old
earth.
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porter believes that many of the
other wide-awake stores and bust
ness firms have enjoyed a similar
prosperous patronage. When we
check up on the amount of bust
ness we have done this year and
compare it with The volume of last
year the result generally is quite
satisfactory.
Wouldn't it be fine for all of us
to start talking good times" in
stead of talking hard times?" It's
all habit anyway, and talking
against the best interest Of our
splendid little city and country is
only resulting in injury to each of
us. Let's resolve to boost instead
of knock and before we realize
what has brought it all about bus
mess conditions will become much
if not normal again.
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years in Canyon County Jail. That
was little over six years for each
one he ate. You would have to eat
at least ten or more to get life ac-
cording to Colorado Justice. He
didn't stay there that long. Along
in 80 when Civilization and the
Denver Post hit us, why them and
other papers started a campaign
to release him. There was tight
election coming on and them be-
ing Republicans, they wanted to
let him out hoping he would eat
up some more Democrats before
November 4.
After this Packer fellow was re-
leased from the Jail, he went TO
Cripple Creek and Inserted an adj
vertisement in the local papers,
asking for men with means to ac-
company him on a prospecting
trip. Not q soul went. Oh Yes! /
forgot to tell you he was son Of
a missionary, and in his youth had
spent some time in the South Sea
Islands. That how he acquired this
taste. A missionary, lawyer, .
Harvard graduate. I want to tell
you illiteracy is a blessing.
e. 4
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wrote me and told me OF case
of man named Packer in Colora-
do, and so ! wrote a daily prescrip-
ton aDout him, stating the Judges
charge to the Jury, and admon-
ishing him for eating up all the
Democrats in the Country. Ii he had
just eat up Republican why the
Judge, Ga fine old type Demo-
crat from Arkansas) would have
perhaps given the man a pension
instead of a sentence. Well now
we got that much straight.
Well now comes long and very
interesting letter from man
named N. E. Guyot, whose letter
head says Kingman, Arizona, and
he gives me the exact details of
this last case. But wait, let Mr..
Guyot tell YOU.
ut was in the Northwestern
part of Colorado, San Juan noun
tains, ten miles from the town OF
Lake City, on plateau that is
called on Government survey, Can
nibal Plateau 1t was here that
Packer through severe snow
storm devoured his prospector
companions" Now those are some
mere facts, but here is the things
l want you to get. It's the history
Of this fellow Packer before he
started in subsisting on the minor
ity party. Packer was Harvard
graduate, and graduated in '66. He
was a law student and started prac-
ticing in Boston. What I am get
ting at is that the only case of a
person willfully devouring human
flesh was by the Alumni Of the
great Harvard. So Harvard has not
only produced the least understand
able English in our fair land, but
produced the only living Cannibal.
Then he was lawyer, that of
course seems natural, their profess
sion is an offshoot of the cannibal
profession, they generally skin EN-
alive. Packer did have the good
taste to destroy EN- and get EN- out
Of their misery. Most Lawyers de-
light in seeing their victims suffer.
It was the winter Of ~ and 70.
There was six Companions, and
they were all well equipped with |
provisions. But in the snow they
got lost from their Burros. Mr..
Guyot In his letter says that it was
The first time, and perhaps the last |
that lawyer was ever permitted
10 accompany a band of prospect
,rs into the mountains. He always |
waits til they go out and find it |
hen he gets his share by showing |
I'm where to sign their name. But |
Packer was afraid they would come |
pack and find another Lawyer SO
he just went along with EN-. But
amt that strange that a Lawyer |
s never allowed out with Prospect
ors?
Well it seems there was dissen-
ion from the start over allowing
aim to come along, and in his trial
afterwards, he said that he heard
hem plotting to kill and eat him.
But that didn't go with the Judge
md Jury. They knew no men could
yer get so hungry that they would
lat a Lawyer.
Now / was wrong in one little
about the case. / had
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heard that ne
was hung. He
was not. Colo
RADIO was then a
Territory a n d
the game laws
did not protect
D e m o c r a t S .
Even to this
d a y in S o m e
states it would
not be consid-
cred illegal 20
eat one. So they
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Five percent seems a pitifIl
small return on our money until
you've tried to get ten percent and
lost your principal.
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MON -
=5|'|l'I!31

Mr.. Smith-How do you find
your new wife?
Mr.. Rippy7Just call up some Of
my friends homes.
| Carl Williams says
Golf is a game taken up by
men after they begin to lose
| interest in the ladies. So far
! haven't cared thing about
golf"
He-How do ghosts get in the
houses?
She With skeleton keys, of
course.
Seeing To 1t That Things Will Not
Be Done Any Worse Is A Big
Job Around Most Any
Place
80
Harry That lawyer of mine has
a nerve.
Willy-WIhy so?
Harry-Listen to this item in his
bill: "For waking up in the night
and thinking over your case, S."
DO NOT SQUANDER TIME, FOR
THAT IS THE STUFF LIFE rs
MADE OF.
'sIn my experience" said a young
Kennewick man, 81 have found few
men who were not ready to follow
a carnival Off"
Freddy-May I have just one
more kiss?
Hazel-No, Freddy, you won't
have time. It's nearly eleven now
and the trolley you're going to
catch passes at twelve.
WHEN A WOMAN is CORNER
ED AND DOESN'T KNOW
WHAT TO SAY SHE MAKES A
NOISE LIKE A LAUGH.
= .
Miss Ring Likely, give me a
sentence containing the word
Ezekiel"
Ikey-Five times five eseliel to
twenty-five.
At election time it isn't necessary
to believe everything you hear be-
cause SO often the men who say it
don't believe it either.
We call our Bankroll Georgette
because its so thin.
Kennewick Bride-I've tried sew
eral recipes in that cook book, but
they all have mistakes in them.
Another thing that we never ex-
pected to see but have, is sus-
penders that will stay on the
shoulders.
Fred-If I asked you to marry
me what would you say?
Sadie Guess.
Fred-Well- what would it
rhyme with?
Sadie Guess.
To win your game is important
but it is far more important that
you should be governed by the
rules of fair play and good sports
manship and, win or lose, give
credit where credit is due.
DoctorAWhere shall vaccinate
you?
Kennewick girl-Oh, anywhere;
it's bound to show.
One way to overcome illiteracy
in the United States would be to
make the restaurants serve alpha
bet soup three times a day. The
most hopeless fool is the one who
says he can drink or let it alone
Rest is all right, but too many
Kennewick folks who never get tir-
ed from work are taking It.
SOME KENNEWICK PEOPLE
ACTUALLY APPEAR TO
CULTIVATE UN-
HAppTNECS
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A western firm said eff we could
collect the accounts owing, we
could continue" That little word
eff" tells the whole story, and
tells the story of many local bus
inessman who is in difficulties
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1t is one thing to practice econ
omy, but quite another to quit
buying. Often the judicious expen-
diture of money represents wise
economy. There is a vast differ
ence between economy and hoard
ing.
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If there's law against ganb-
ling, why is marriage INDUCED in
so freely?
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AM Changed NOW

We never expected to live to see
the day when. vitamins or Galleries
would mean anything in our life
we got married. Hillsboro News
Herald.
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More money in circulation is the
best remedy for unemployment.
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Nose trouble is produced by
those who do not produce anything
else.
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.Z'':'1
WILL -
ROGERS

BEVERLY HILLS.-Well all ]
know is just what read in the
papers, or what / find out one way
or another.
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EAST KENNEwICK
Grange viii
Elect Officers, Nov.

Regular meeting of Valley
Grange Friday, November z. This
will be election Of officers and all
members are urged to be present.
The G. A. Rupp family spent
Sunday at Cornell.
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Here a couple
of weeks ago 4
wrote a Sunday
Article and it
mentioned IN e
Bonner p a r t Y
at Donners Lake
a $ being o u r
only case Of
C a n n j b a lism
e v e r practiced
in our abundant
Country. w e IL
then some man
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Mrs. Gladding went to Seattle
Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. Harold Motter and
Allen were dinner guests Sunday
at the j. S. Kennett home.