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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
Everything Set
For The Big Show

The time-next Wednesday evening.
The place--Union high schoo! gym
nasium.
The event-The big and snappy New
Years Eve dinner-dance, cabaret and
night of whoopee for the benefit of
the orthopedic hospital in Seattle.
Immortal Casey struck out at the
critical moment, but Vashon Island
has risen grandly to the occasion and
will knock out financial home-run
for the Orthopedic. That is now as
sured. Everything points to sell-out
of table seats. The eleventh hour rush
for tickets is beginning to- gain head
way.
The party is going to be even better
than the Vashon Island Auxiliary of
the Orthopedic at first promised. 1t
is going to be one of the greatest eve
nings of fun and festivity in the
Islands history
The cabaret program is being with
held. 1t is going to be sprung as a
surprise on the big gathering. Those
unable to attend will read the details
in next weeks issue of the News
Record. 1t is known, however, that
the specially acts are local and that
both Seattle and Tacoma talent will
contribute numbers that will add to
the festivity Of the evening. The out
Of town talent is the best and snap
piest obtainable. There won't be a
dull moment at the party, either dur
ing the dinner or during the social
hours that follow until the Old Year
has been laughed out and the New
Year laughed in.
( Besides the rlo-host tables, there
will be any number of tables for those
who buy individual tickets.
The magnitude and the brilliance Of
the party will be due to the hard work
of long list of loyal Islanders, both
members and non-members of the
Orthopedic Auxiliary. All are striving
TO make the party roaring success,
with the holiday spirit dominating
everything. More donations are need
ed, including lots of potatoes, beets,
lettuce and the like, and also dona-
tons of money. The tinkle of the
cash register is welcome music to the
earnest and unselfish women who are
laboring to help make up the Ortho-
pedic hospital deficit. Those making
donations should call Mrs. @. j. Robin
son, Black 801.
More and bigger tables and card
tables are needed. Thos willing and
able to lend them for the evening
should call Mrs. E. Gates, Black 143.
Names of patrons who have made
reservations at no-host tables not
previously announced, follow: Mrs.
William lie Roy Baird, Mrs. Knighten,
Mrs. Kate Forbes, Mrs. Josephine
Preston, Mrs. M. G. Phelps, Mr.. and
Mrs. Tronas, Capt. and Mrs. Wiman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Flenner and guests, MIR.
and Mrs. william Shakespeare, MIR.
and Mrs. w. K. Beamer, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. E. Keating, Miss Julia Black and
guest, Miss Marcia Forbes, r. W. F.
Martin, DR.. Cowden Laughlin, Lester
Laughlin, David Compton, Ferguson
Beall, BOP Harmeling and Phil Green.
The Orthopedic hospital in Seattle
needs $4,000 to break even on this
years work, and all tine proceeds from
the big New Years Eve celebration
will go that fund.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
IMPROVEMENT CLUB TO MEET.

President Kenneth Van House an
nounces meeting of the Burton I'm
provement Club Thursday evening,
January 9th, at which the principal
speakers will be @. A. Stevenson,
secretary Of the Tacoma Chamber of
Commerce, and Mayor Tenant, OF
Tacoma. Full announcement of the
evenings program will be published in
the ws-Record Of next week.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
CHRISTMAS CONCERT.

The Presbyterian choir will give
their Christmas concert on Sunday
evening. After faithful practice under
the direction Of Mr.. Geo. 3. Schmidt,
this choris IL expecting to render a
fine program. y
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
D. A. R. MEETS.

The Elizabeth Bixby Chapter D. A.
r. will hold its regular monthly. meet
ing Saturday, January Srd at the
Watseka Lodge. A no-host luncheon
will be served at one o'clock.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
MRS. JAY DIES IN SEATTLE.

Word was received that Mrs. James
H. Jay Of 1913 32nd Avenue, Seattle,
an old resident of the Island, passed
away Monday morning. Funeral SER
vices were held from the Home Under
taking Parlors at 200 o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25

There have been more exclusive
predictions" in the daily press as to
what the Law enforcement Commits
sion will recommend on prohibition
than stars in the Heavens on cloud
less night.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25

The meringue on pies will be fluffy
and will hold its shape better if it is
not beaten too dry and is baked in a
moderate oven.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25

Some men place such high value on
themselves that they cannot pay
dividends on their capitalization.-Dr.
e. M. Noyes.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
Masons Elect
New Officers

Masonic orders have elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
Mark P. Waterman Lodge, No. III
F. &, A., M.
The following officers were installed
Saturday, December goth:
Worshipful Master-E. B. Harmel-
ing. !.
Senior Warden-v. G. Coutts.
Junior Warden-M R. Dunsford.
Treasurer-Wm. D. Garvin.
Secretary-R. w. F. Martin.
Robert Burns Chapter, No. As r. A. NJ.
Excellent High Priest Coy
Meredith
King-C. G. Kimnel.
Scribe-Matt H. Morrissey.
secretary-R. w. F. Martin.
Chap1ain-S. j. Harmeling.
Captain of Hosts--A. w. Ganly.
Principal Sojourner-L. @. Beall.
Royal Arch Captain-M. L. Tjoms-
land.
Master of the srd veil-M. R. Duns-
ford.
Master of the End veil-v. g.
Coutts.
Master of the LIST veil-E. E. Ander-
son.
Sentinel-A. B. Cook.
At the installation of these officers
for 1921 Excellent Companion VIM.
Ferguson Grand Master of the 3rd.
Veil and Right Excellent John G.
Heinz, Deputy Grand High Priest of
the Most Excellent Grand Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons of Washington
were the installing officers.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25
yashon Island Commandery,
No. 2R X IT 49,

NO. ~ N. X.
The following were elected for 1881
and will be installed January 18th.
Eminent Commanders. H. Peter
son.
Generalissimo-C. G. Kimmel.
Captain General-Matt II. Morris
sey. IA
Senior Warden-F. A. Weiss.
Junior Warden-M. L. Tjomsland.
Treaslrer-Chas. England.
Recorder-R. w. F. Martin.
Island Chapter, No. ITO o. E. S.
The officers for 1881 are as follows
Worthy Matron- Elizabeth Hearst.
Worthy Patron-Arthur Polltney.
Associate Mathematician Williams.
Associate Patron - Martin Tjoms-
land.
Secretary-Bess Woods
Treasurer-Cora Bennett.
Conductress- Grace Peterson.
Associate Conductress--Dolly Tjoms-
land.
Chaplain-Anna Bowling.
Marshal-Bernice Hansen.
Organist-Selma Van House.
Adah-Shirley Coutts.
Ruth Caroline Bacchus.
Esther-Anne RainquIst
Martha FRANKIE shattuck.
Electa-Hellnie Dunsford.
Warder-Anna McCrary.
sentinel-Maurice Dunsford.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25

Merchants report that their holiday
business this year has been practically
on par with last years.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-12-25

Gwen Allen ........................... Gwen Reese
The Mother ............................ Amy Lewis
The Father ........,................ Bobby Lilly
The Children ..,....................Pe Peggy Stone.
Peggy Bentley, Mary Nelson, Billy
Poage.
A Visitor ............... Thomas Nedderman
Santa Claus ........................ Joe Milligan
Mr.. Black ................-........... Joe Little
Mrs Adams ........:..............E Evelyn Barger
Two Old Maids
PEGGY Bentley and Maude Edison
Santa's Legal Adviser. Harry O'FIanlon
Judge ........................ Art O'Hanlon
AL other pupils were in the choruses.
I On Friday afternoon the pupils Of
the school very much enjoyed
Christmas tree, on which was found a
gift for each child, as well as a special
treat furnished by the P. T. A. Mrs.
Ernest Little and Mrs. Matsuda also
surprised the pupils with gifts for
everyone.
School will reconvene on Monday,
January S, after is day holiday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
John Macdonald Is Found

The Governor of California, in the statement &C
companying his refusal to grant a pardon to Thomas
j. Mooney, admitted that the states case against
Mooney rested largely upon the testimony of one
John Macdonald. The California supreme court, in
declining to recommend a pardon for Warren K.
Billings, likewise rested it's opinion on the testimony
Of Macdonald.
Macdonald was one of two men who testified that
they saw Mooney and Billings plant the bombs that
killed ten men and wounded forty others during the
San Francisco Preparedness day parade in 1916.
Governor and supreme court admitted that the
other witness, F. c. Oman, had lied and that he was
not even in San Francisco at the time of the ex-
plosion. They took notice also of the fact that Mac
Donald in 1921 had repudiated his testimony.
They declared, however, that they doubted this
reputation and said that effort should be made to
find Macdonald, so he might be questioned again.
The Scripps-Howard newspapers have found Mac
Donald. He repeats his reputation of the testimony
that sent Mooney and Billings to prison for life and
says he is ready to return to San Francisco to be
questioned by the Governor and the supreme court.
1t only remains, therefore, for the Governor and
the California high court to go through with the part
they have laid out for themselves.
Macdonald, by his own statement, is a lara
confessed perjurer," as the supreme court called
him, while at the same time insisting that his evil
dence swearing away the freedom of Mooney and
Billings must be accepted.
But the Governor and the court want him. And
here he is.
We are glad to have found him. There are few
things more important to the welfare of this republic
than that this case of Mooney and Billings be dis
posed of, and disposed of properly, once and for all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
NJ. E. Tracy
IN Spite of All That Has Been
Said, Cash Still Counts
More Than a Good Record
IN This Country.
SAYS;

TIVE THOUSAND suckers hang
Il around a New Jersey cemetery
all night to see a much-advertised
ghost do his, her, or its stuff.
Just what went wrong, no n
seems to know. Maybe the ghost
and the manager fell out owe the
split.
A Bronx medium quotes the late
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as pro-
claiming from he spirit world. you
don't know nothing YETI
AS Emmy LOUIS uncle Charlie said.
No more we do
The saddeSt part of it is that we
are as much at sea with regard to
things earthly as with regard to
things heavenly, and you don't need
to bring up Communism, MuSsolini,
or the Scopes case to prove it.
From Spain comes the report that
laws to "humanize" bullhghting,
passed under the Rivera regime,
soon will be repealed.
Dealers in bTO~ken-down horses
want more Of them gored to death;
spectators, eager for a bigger kick.
want burning darts used again; and
children under IA, demanding the
rights of flaming youth, want to
attend the show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14

business. Farmers, on the other hand, contend the
board hasn't done enough.
Thus the situation is muddled badly, and appar-
emily almost as far from solution as it was eight or
nine years ago, when the question became a national
issue. Senator Capper Of Kansas is advocating pur-
chase Of 100000 bushels Of wheat, to bring up
the price in fact, but Chairman Legge has said no
more will be bought.
There seems to be no way of dispoSing Of that
already on hand. Talk of the export debenture is
being renewed.
1t was not to be expected that the farm board
would be able to effect an economic revolution in
a years time, and that would have been necessary
if farmers were to be put on a parity with industry
and business. Next year, perhaps, the propaganda
FOR smaller crops may be effective, although there is
little in past experience to indicate that it will be.
Meantime, the farm problem will be an issue in
the next session of congress in December, probably
more important than ever before, and may have far
reaching influence in the November elections.
The administration and business leaders will be
concerned because of the lowered purchasing power
of the ~country's greatest market.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14

Editor Times-I see by the paper
that President Hoover, after several
months of hard fighting for the
benefit and relief of the disabled
veterans of the World war, at least
succeeded in putting the measure
through.
It is remarkable what great things
Mr.. Hoover can accomplish. Just
imagine the sunshine that has taken
the place of the shadows on the
faces of those disabled veterans
when they read IN the paper what
MI. Hoover mas done for them.
A veteran who is blind, deaf, and
with both arms and legs on, is en-
titled to $40 a month.
Of course, ne is not worthy of
that enormous amount of money,
but considering that he is slightly
handicapped physically is the main
reason for MIR. Hoover's generosity,
although that is a small item in the
measure.
Just listen to this one. This not
only takes the worries away from
the sick veteran, but imagine the
relief it brings to those mothers who
furnished their sons for gun fodder
in the great war.
I call it a great" war because OF
the great relief Or. Hoover is hand
ing out to The veterans. I know ii
was a small wal and I didn't amount
to anything, for I spent almost two
years in France end other countries
on the other side OF the pond during
that small uprising and 1 know from
experience what a ittl' thing it was
The main point I'm getting at is
this other measure proclaimed In
the great relief oil just signed BY
MI. Hoover. Car. you imagine g
man getting the enormous sun Of
So a month, when there isn't any,
thing wrong with the veteran out
side Of having tuberculosis or ar
arm off or some other minor disease
or affection
The majority are married. but
that doesn't add responsibilities
After paying the rent, grocer anC
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
DT \ Conn., FREDERICK
NEAOOlN oy Lands

A LMOST all members of Admiral Byrd's expedi-
IA ton to tie south pole now are vainly looking for
work.
The very least we could do for our heroes would
be to give them a job cleaning up the confetti we
threw at them.
There's one man who knows what Mayor Jimmy
Walker is up against in having to glad hand incom-
ing whales day after day and tell each of them how
Incompatible he is, and that man is the newspaper
reporter who has to write up the home entertainment
was the horseradish thereof.
The papers say that the automobile is chasing the
camel out of North Africa, which must be very dis
concerning. coming as it does just after Dwight Nor
row chased him out of New Jersey.
DOSSIBLY Al Smith didn't attend Tammany'S
l. Fourth Of July celebration because Tammany
knitted him for investigating two Tammany states
men, who later were sent up.
Smith knew what the penalty would be, but he
dd his duty just the same, and he's entitled to credit
for that.
President Hoover will get quick action on the Lon
don naval pact because the hot weather soon will end
senatorial debate.
The way to get action in congress is to change
meeting time from winter to summer.
Oregon has started identifying her public high
ways, a thing many other states have done, but which
Indiana has neglected sadly.
We should plant trees along every state road.
= y y
THOSE fathers of the republic who looked down
Il upon our Fourth Of July celebrations must have
been gratifed by our extensive celebration, particu-
larly by that th1ee-round prize fight between two
ladies in Indianapolis.
q
The new waldorf-Astoria hotel will have gold
plated door knobs, but they will be just as hard for
the guest from the provinces to find when he blows
in from the night clubs.
It's practically impossible for a man to get the
electric chair in Indiana.
Dreytus Rhodes Of Vincennes was charged with
the murder Of a policeman and pleaded guilty and
was given the chair, whereupon his attorney got a
new trial for him and a jury gave him the death pen
atty, since which time he has been granted five stays
Of execution and now the Indiana supreme court has
given him another new trial
If you catch cold while bareheaded, we suggest
that you do not take your hataod to our supreme
court
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
All Dodged

When Attorney General Ogden threw
his brick at Lafayette without naming that
city, every other city Of Importance in the
state lodged.
That is more significant than whether
this one city decides to reform and its officers
embark upon a period of enforcement of
laws.
When citizens of other communities be-
lieved at first reading that their own cities
were Just as lawless and officials just as blind
to offenses against prohibition and gambling
laws, it indicates something more funda-
mental than mere laxity OF the part of a few
officials.
The same conditions did not prevail
under local option and state liquor regula-
ton. They came with the eighteenth amend
ment.
If the charges of Ogden in regard to La
fayette be true, the officials who have been
lax belong to both parties. If that laxity
is as great as charged, then the prominent
citizens of that community must have known
about it. 1t is not on record that they pro-
tested, either to Ogden or to local officials.
That means that there is little demand for
enforcement.
Had there been widespread robberies,
arsons or other crimes, the citizens would
have organized themselves into posses and
run down the criminals. The same citizens
who would have taken a gun to enforce
other laws have probably made the bootleg
ger rich with their patronage.
The vicious part of the situation is that
citizens have no respect for any law and that
officials understand the attitude of the public
and get busy only when some one calls at
tention to their lapses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
But. Seriously
MOT all which base been set

MOT all which base been set
~ down so far is intended Sc
riously, but it is we'll in earnestness
to inquire into the quality Of growth
rather than its quantities.
Few communities ever have been
able to avoid matching a high
birthrate with a corresponding rise
in the ratio of deaths.
For the good of all, population
might proceed at a reduced pace I'M
til we have more parks, more air,
more jobs.
The Nautilus lived a long time
ago; it does not seem to me that
any economist has been able to
shatter his fundamental proposition
that population tends to increase
more rapidly than means Of sus-
tenance.
Nautilus had no conception of
improvements in agricultural ma
chinery, farming methods and
means of quick distribution. But
the fact remains that no city ever
has grown fast without adding
nightly to its slums and to its army
of the deserving poor.
1 would be more enthusiastic
about New York's increase if I
knew that somewhere people
planned new schools and hospitals
and recreation centers in advance to
serve the need of each new battalion
of arrivals.
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
The Voice of the Flame

When sober scientists undertake to put on a show.
they usually can stage something that makes ordinary
vaudeville wonders look simple.
A group of the General Electric Company's en-
gineers the other day set up a radio device to make
light waves audible, just for the edihcation of the
convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
First one of the engineers held a lighted match in
front Of a photo-electric cell. A dull rumbling, like
thunder, came from an attached loud speaker. Then
a Neon lamp was passed before the cell. A steady
mum proceeded from the loud speaker. Following this
an ordinary incandescent bulb was put in front of the
"mouthpiece," and a roar that almost shook the build
ing was forthcoming.
There we're other tricks Of a similar order. A spe-
cially made German lamp produced a noise like the
siren of a fire engine. A Swiss lamp made a noise like
a boot owl. A battery lamp gave out sounds like the
humping Of a bass drum. And so on, through marvel
after marvel.
Now all of this, on the surface, may not look like
much: but it is Just a reminder of the fact that
scientists have uncovered a whole universe of pro-
found mysteries. lying hidden all about us. Listening
to the queer noises made by light waves is a miracu-
lous act, when you stop to think about it. The me-
dieval alchemiSt hunting for the elixir Of life was
never on the trail of anything half SO thrilling.
Tennyson, observing a common flower blooming in
a chink in a stone wall, remarked that if he could
but fully understand that bit of vegetable growth,
from beginning to end, he would know what God and
man is The modern scientist is in the same posi-
ton. If one could understand fully this business of
light waves that produce thunder, drum beats and
siren walls, one would have a clearer picture of the
universe than any mortal that ever lived.
All OF which is just another way of saying that the
earth is compacted of profound mysteries. The scien-
lists are poking into these mysteries bravely, but each
one when solved merely uncovers a new one beyond it.
Tf1ev df0ovor srf o,ov-I, e. - 49, - "a
in a world of wonder.
And that, perhaps, is their chief service to us. Who
can be ~cockSure, in a world where the tiniest flame
can speak with a voice like thunder?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
SCIENCE
Man Fast Is Learning the
Benefit of Getting out in
the Sunshine.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

THE summer sun invites hu-
\ mainly to come outdoors and
most business men are wise enough
to heed it's call at least once or
twice a week.
There was a day when the aver
age business man paid SO little at
tention to the weather that he
didn't know whether it was raining
or clear outdoors.
But now that he has learned the
value of ultraviolet radiation-to
say nothing of the fun of playing
golf-you find him sneaking away
from the Office whenever he gets
the opportunity.
Man at last has learned what an
finals seem to have known in
Stinctively from the beginning of
time, namely, that there is health
in the rays of the sun.
Of course, there also is danger in
the sun. The man or woman who
has been indoors almost continu-
ously for eleven months of the year
is inviting trouble if he lies on the
bench in the hot sun for Two or
three hours on the first day of his
vacation.
Surburn can be extremely n
pleasant. What is worse, it can be
extremely dangerous. Severe illness,
including septicemia or blood poi
soning, can be caused by excessive
Sunburn.
But the person who accustoms
himself gradually to the summer
Jul is certain to benefit from it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-14
Capone Grows Social

T IKE some other rising young
IL business men, Scarface Al Ca
pone faces two problems; first, to
keep out of Jail; second, to get into
society.
Having found Miami too hot, he
buys a thirty-f1ve-acre ranch in a
neighboring county. On this ranch
he proposes to build a "palatial resi-
dence," with tennis and handball
courts, a swimming pool and a nine
hole golf course, all to be sur
rounded by a ten-foot wall.
Capone is making an orthodox bid
for social recognition.
If the fruits of his labor are suf-
%flcient, he probably will obtain it.
In spite of all we have said to
the contrary, cash still counts for
more than record in this country.