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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24

In that city. with his son, he conducts
a real estate business and q success
full mercantile business, owning and
operating Renton's largest mems cloth
ing store. His ability to conduct wise
ly his own business, coupled with his
experience gained during his term of
office as County Commissioner from
the South District from 1918 to 1924
makes Mr.. Dobson feel that he is fully
qualified to conduct the affairs of
King County on business basis,
eliminating all needless expenditure:
of the taxpayers money, consistent
with the wise execution of the duties
involved in the office Of County Com.
missioner.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
WORD FROM ABROAD

A letter received from our traveller,
G. August Peterson, written aboard the
s. 8. Stavangerfiord states that IT am
Just going along the coast Of Norway
now, 1900 miles from Vashon- Had a
wonderful trip over the sea, calm and
fine. Have been sitting in my steam
er chair in the sunshine and feel
much better, which is, Of course, the
best news possible to his many Island
friends. In conclusion Rev. Peterson
sends greetings to his friends, stating
that he would write more when he
landed the next day. ~
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
ISLAND TRAFFIC PROBLEMS TO
BE CARED FOR

One of the Island visitors on Satur-
day was Capt. Owen McGill, who, ac-
companied by Officer Victor Pigg,
spent the entire afternoon and even
ing here. They most efficiently took
care Of the unusual amount Of traffic all
Vashon caused by the carnival, as we'll
as visiting other parts Of the Island.
Since the death Of Officer Pautski
no regular visits have been made to the
Island, but Capt. McGill states that
while the appropriations for his de-
partment do not permit of an officer
here at all times two or three visits
will be made each week, and with the
cooperation Of local people he feels
that the situation can be handled
nicely. He stated that he wished to
thank the Island people for their CO.
operation in the past and expressed
the hope that 1t would continue in the
future.
This week officers will be here
checking up on licenses and headlights
and drivers with out-of-date licenses,
no drivers licenses, improperly adj
justed lights, no rear lights, or "one-
eyed" drivers will be cited in court
and fined, the minimum $25.
Capt. McGill has reputation for
unfailing courtesy and is at all times
ready and willing to cooperate in any
manner possible. He asks that any
one who knows of conditions that re-
Quire his attention to call him at the
County City Building, Main 5000. and
he will be glad to render the necessary
service.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
BRoADRIPpLE VISITORS

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A. Dresser and
daughter Harriet, of Lafayette, In
diana, are guests of DR.. nellie Parker
Jones and family. They have been in
Del Monte, California, where Mrs.
Dresser and Miss Harriet attended
the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, Nation
al. Miss Dresser was delegate from
Purdue University and Mrs. Dresser
is alumni advisor of the Purdue chap
ter and represented Purdue and De
Paw University Sorority Alumni at
the convention.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
TRoNAs-sHArrUcK

Stealing march on their friends
Arnof Tronas and Phoebe Shattuck
went to Seattle Tuesday accompanied
by their mothers, and with the ne
cessary witnesses were married by
Judge Wright in the County-City
Building.
The young couple returned to the
Island and are at home to their
friends in the charming little home
that they had all ready for occupancy
at Dockton.
The best wishes Of wide circle Of
acquaintance are extended to thess
young people as they start on their
journey together through life.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24

months, and was with them Sunday at
the laying of the corner stone at the
A. d. Cook residence at Quartermaster.
Rev and Mrs. E, E. Duley returned
Monday night from visit with their
daughter at Bremerton and a trip to
Hoods Canal.
Some over two hundred Masons from
Lafayette Lodge, Seattle, spent Satur-
day afternoon and evening at Assem-
bly, Point, enjoying the bathing, the
cool of the park, and the supper.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
Wittenmyer, 81 Years In
County Treasur's Office As
ChiefDeputY Seeks Election

George G. Wittenmyer, veteran dep
uty treasurer, filed Wednesday, July
10th, for county treasurer, to succeed
his present chief, w. w. Shields who
is ineligible for reelection.
Mr.. Wittenmyer, an active member
of the Pioneer Association of Washing
ton, has lived continuously in King
County for fifty-fiye years.
He said: II am asking the voters to
promote me on my record Of twenty
seven years continuous service in ev-
cry department of the office.
For the past fourteen years I have
been directly connected with the finan-
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
Burton News Notes

Several days were spent, last week,
at the Heating home, by their two
nieces, the Misses Margaret and Mary
Bentell of Seattle.
Mrs. n. Montgomery and two chill
dren are over from are over from
Vancouver, B. G. for the seasons stay
in East Burton at Mrs. Morrison's
home.
Prof. Clinton Smith and wife from
Hollywood are spending the summer
vacation with their aunt, Mrs. Bates, at
Paradise Cove. Mr.. Smith is instructor
of history in Los Angeles Junior Col
lege. and Mrs Smith is vice principal
of San Fernando High School at Los
Angeles.
The Staples family, Mrs. Staples,
Alice, John and James, are on motor
trip to the beaches, and other places
that will afford them rest and quiet
a two weeks needed vacation.
Miss Verona Armbruster left recent
ly for Denver, Colorado, where she will
spend two weeks visiting friends.
Mrs. James Mcintyre was week
end visitor with her daughter, Mrs.
Byron Smith in Tacoma
The Puget Sound Power and Light
Co., have provided camp ground at
Lake Tapps for their employees, and
hither Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Brammer
and little ones will HE for two weeks
vacation beginning this week.
Mrs George Mathis and Mrs. WILDER
Durham and two children drove over
from Granger, Washington, including
vashon Island in their trip to the
Sound, and call at the Chas. Crist-
man home. Mrs Mathis is sister-in-
law of Mrs. Cora Mathis Cristman.
Mrs. Alice Olson Finrow and family
are over from Spokane for visit with
the home folks.
Mr.lJ. H. Quinlan was surprised this
week to receive call from Edward
Wangel, jeweler, Of Denver, Colorado,
a man whom Mr.. Quinlan got him his
first Job as jeweler at Fort Collins,
Colorado, thirty-one years ago.
Cousins of Mr.. Frank Enochs, Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence B. Getz, Of
Philadelphia, Pa, came through by
train to Vancouver, B. c., and from
there to Seattle by boat arriving at
the Enochs home Sunday for a few
days visit, which they promise will be
prolonged the next time they come
west.
John Gammell is home for few
weeks vacation escaping the heat now
sizzling up things in the city of Mil
waukee, Wisconsin. John has finished
his course with the Westinghouse
Electric Corporation and is now a
direct employee.
The name of Mrs. Ethel Whitfield
Shutters will come as q surprise. to
Ethels friends who had not heard
that after graduating with honors as
nurse from the Battle Creek, Michigan
Sanatorium and receiving her diploma
from the state as well Us college she
decided to get married and keep in
training the rest Of her life. And H.
p. Shutters, and accountant, with q
Battle Creek business firm, must have
decided that a nurse to soothe when
the ills of life assail u.s. would be a
comfort and Joy forever, and here
we add our blessing and congratula-
lions. Ethel is visiting her folks, the
Whitfields, in Tacoma, for q couple Of
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
First Vacation in Thirty-three Years


Sounds like fairy story, but our
good friend, Ed Ramquist, assures us
that on next Monday. In the company
of Frank Bibbins, he will start out on
the first vacation he has had In SO
years, to be gone for ten days. He says
he doesn't know where he is going,
but he does know that until he gets
back he is not going to do any wor-
rying over whether we are properly
clothed, cleaned or pressed here on
the Island. In other words, 1t is up
to us to take as good care OF ourselves
as we can until he gets this vacation
out of his system. Here's hoping that
these two gay young men have the
time of their lives.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24

DR.. Grandy and his X-Ray have been
working over time taking pictures Of
the injuries of Camp Fire girls from
Camp Sealth. During the past week
six of the girls have been brought to
Vashon to have determined the extent
of injuries received when the young
ladies were turned loose In the wide
open spaces of Vashon Island.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24

publican nomi-
ma tion for
prosecuting at
torney.
With the ex-
ception of a
period Of gov
eminent service
as q 3 sistant
United States
hVtUElley, Hllu
or my service
during the
w orld War,
Miller has
spent the past
t W e MT % n e
years in law
practice ii, Se-
attic. He polled
a heavy vote
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
TIRE WARDEN TO VISIT ISLAND
WEEKLY

This office has been asked to an
nounce to the public that the state
fire warden. Clayton COPYRIGHT, and
county fire warden, Walter Bissel, will
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
Carnival Visitors

Among the visitors from off of the
Island who attended the Carnival last
Saturday was our representative, L. Y.
Williams, of Kent, as full of enthusi-
asm and interest in the Island as ever.
Accompanying Mr.. Williams was his
neighbor, F. L. Allen These mem
own two Of the prettiest places in the
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24

each be on the Island one day week
during the summer. All applications
for fire permits must be made to the
office Of Mr.. Bissel in the County City
Building. All cases of fires should be
reported to this same office. In cases
of emergency call Main 5000.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24

cial end, as head cashier and chief dep
uty treasurer, handling all banking and
distribution of accounts with a yearly
turnover of s6O,OOo,OOO. That these
vast amounts have been properly ac-
counted for is attested to by both state
and county auditors.
1.-THE office is a big financial institu-
ton and l do not believe politics
should be allowed to play part in the
selection of its head Qualifications
should be the factor.
Mr.. Wittenmyer has the endorsement
of thousands of King County taxpayers,
both large and small, as well as most
of the well known and leading real es-
tate firms of Seattle.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-24
CHARLES II. MILLER
ENTERS CAMPAIGN
FOR PROSECUTOR

Charles Fl. Miller, long active in
Seattle and Alaska affairs, yesterday
announced his candidacy for the Re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-09

Here are some of the coolest, daintiest,
and most practical aprOn-frocks you
could select for arOund-the-house
wear! Fashioned from sheer printed
handkerchief lawns with cleverly de-
signed pockets. Will stand lots of hard
laundering.
BLOCKS Basement Store
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04
Roads Make Farm Profits

Profitable farming is dependent upon good highway
transportation. The better the roads the moro profitable
the farming. This is the conclusion reached by a sur
vey recently conducted by the agricultural experiment
station of Cornell university.
More and better farm-to market roads enable Ameri-
can farmers to transport their products quickly and
cheaply.
In the state Of New York it was disclosed that formers
living on paved roads drove their trucks TBS miles more
a year, on the average, than those living on dirt roads.
Further, while but one-half of farmers on dirt roads own
trucks, t~wo-thirds of the farmers served by paved roads
have them.
Several states are now conducting campaigns to pro-
vide rural districts with all-weather roads. Thousands
Of miles of expensive main highways have been built
which arc of little benefit to the farmers until feeder
and link roads are built connecting them with rural dis
tricts. The situation in the southwest of the Slope is a
case in point.
Such feeder roads would be of value to town and city
merchants who would gain business that is now kept
away by impossible roads. They would attract tourists
by opening up new territory and relieve main highways
of congestion. Such roads must be built If agriculture is
to keep up with the march Of progress.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04
Teaching Old Dogs

V1erre f1auCe 1rIUuneJ
"You cannot teach m old dog new tricks" runs an
adage that has come down from antiquity. Nobody now
knows who first expressed the sentiment, but Myron w.
Stearns has no sympathy with 1t.
MI. Stearns, a former member Of the University of
California faculty. is a leader in the modern adult edu-
cation movement, and declares that it is silly I'D danger
Gus to. apply the old saying to the man or woman past
40 who has been deprived of opportunities of learning
in earlier years.
In fact, he asserts that the myth that a middle-aged
person cannot acquire new knowledge or learn the routine
Of a new job Is responsible for much unemployment and
human hardship.
There is no physical difficulty in learning after 40,
and the same brain is not only In good working order,
but should be even stronger and better able to assimiate
new information than the immature, youthful brain.
Mr.. stearns says that people past so learn as readily
as young people in high school. In - "Nv cxtc:,5.on
classes, also, he has found that those past middle age
absorb new knowledge as rapidly as most college students.
Further, the evening classes in the high schools enroll
thousands Of men and women past the age of 40, as our
educators will readily reveal.
You can teach an old dog new tricks" II the dog
be represented by mankind.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04

nation. washington and Oregon can remember when the
woodsmans one great diversion was a semi-annual drunk
that invariably ended in an epic fight--a fight in which
steel-spiked shoes descended Justify on brawny bodies. a
fight in which eye-gouging and hitch kicking were &C
copied as perfectly proper methods of %offense, a fight
which as like as not would tear down a whole building
and think nothing of it.
That is the lumber camp tradition. But now-golf
courses! Something has changed, somewhere.
Rowdyism is more intimately interviewer with our past
than We usually think. The lumber-jack was only one
among many; sailor, cowboy, miner. longshoreman, steel
worker-all of these were hairy-chested, rough -and-t ,ln-
BILE trades with no niceties or refinements.
But the old order does change, and the lumbcr-jack
is like the rest of us. We seem to have lost the frontier
forever. somehow. If they can build golf courses adjacent
to lumber camps, our riotous past has been cternally
buried.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04

scarface AL Capone gave a chill
dren's party at his Florida estate the
other day. You just can't keep that
fellow away from a racket.
And they say that Scarface gave
all the little boys marbles to shoot.
The senate passed q bill to reduce
Mexican immigration. There's nothing
like taking q step now to make u
in~augurations safe in the future.
Did you hear about the New York
traffic cop who apprehended the
mayor for being q J. Walker?
X * *
Today's definition: A person who
crosses the street against the light
is q Jay walker; one who does the
same lighted up is a joy-walker.
"Humor in Ads Found to Attract
Women. Buyers" Headline. And
those are just the sort Of ads which
q husband finds anything but funny.
Let's hope that that Austrian who
can play the piano with his feet is
capable Of producing sole stirring
music.
y 4 y
Because they thought it meant
| something else, several factions of
| Chicago gangsters r said to have
rushed to the loop to see the demon
| stration Of shorts.
Copyright, 1880, NEA Service, 1nc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04
The Professional Reformer's Monument

A great barrier to crime prevention is the reformer.
He continually asks for more laws, in spite OF the fact
that unenforceable and unnecessary legislation has be-
come the great American joke. He cries, at one time,
for ~stricter punishment for offenders, and at another
for less punishment. Cold logic and intelligent analysis
of facts mean nothing to him. He is ruled by his emo
ton. His monument is the tens of thousands of laws
that now burden the statute books.
1t is a historical fact that most of the great reform
movements have turned upon themselves and become
boomerangs. The movement which eliminated in the
New York anti-revover law is an example. A few months
ago the Brooklyn grand jury petitioned for the laws re-
peal!
American prisons are overpopulated, yet many of the
worst criminals remain at large. practically immune from
punishment by virtue Of legal technicalities that make
justice %impotent. The law-passing mania has been pro-
ductive Of the greatest period OF lawlessness in our his
tory.
Fewer fool laws and better enforcement; judicial pro-
cedure that finds out the facts, instead of discussing
irrelevant technicalities; more efficient, better paid and
better equipped police departments; quicker. surer ar
rests and convictions of malefactors-in this direction
lies crime prevention.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04
DR.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet addressed to him, care Of
The Tribune.
Enclose a stamped addressed
envelope for reply.
fear, anger or covetousness influence
their behavior

1ear, anger or covetouSneSS influence
their behavior.
There is no doubt that many of the
mental completes r formed during
childhood by wrong training and in
fluence. and the whole afterlife may
be handicapped unless the viewpoint
can be corrected. The completes which
are so easily formed may be much
more difficult to untangle. You should
make every effort to get rid of them.
just as you would q weed in your gar
den which was crowding out some
choice flowers or fruits.
Many people are thwarted in their
efforts to attain the things they de-
sire, but this should not be discourage
ing or an indication to quit. Some of
the finest things in life are difficult
to obtain, and the striving to obtain
them is often more valuable than the
actual attainment.
It is a good plan for us to form good
habits every day Of our life, for then
we will instinctively do the proper
thing. If one is slovenly in appearance
at home and careless with ones speech
n is also apt to do this in company
when one desires to make q good i'm
preston. Even when no one is watch
ing it is well to be neat and orderly.
and when alone to think kind and
generous thoughts.
Continued in tomorrow's article.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04
Why Not Be Decent to Japan?
Duluth Hcrald)

\Ou1uUk1 I'LL 4OJ
There Is a movement on foot in congress to take Japan
out of the list Of nations whose immigrants are barred
and to put it with the rest of the worl! on a quota basis.
Congress never did a stupider thing than it did when
1t went out Of its way to insult a sensitive people by
refusing to include Japan among the quota nations.
That did not mean opening the doors to Japanese i'm
At the outside, a quota on the same basis
as the rest of the world would admit a couple of hundred
Japanese a year, which surely need not alarm anybody.
But congress, largely at the urging of Pacific coast
states, refused to take this decent way of controlling
japanese immigration. Instead, it insisted on insulting
the whole Japanese people, branding them as inferior
because Of race and color, by including them in the list
Of races against which the immigration bars are totally
prohibtve.
Japan is a good friend. a good customer. and a willing
participant in all our aspirations to world peace. Neither
she nor her people are inferior, and history records no
more undeserved insult by one nation to another than
that atrocious act of the American congress.
The prospect for this redress is good. 1t is especially
good since the Pacific coast states, which led in the
vicious fight for exclusion, seem now to favor this move.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce has Endorsed 1t.
and the Los Angeles Times cordially supports the Port
land action.
This decent courtesy should be performed anyway
It will be especially gracious If the states that LED the
way in the wrong direction help now to lead the way
in the right direction.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-04
Editorial Comment
During My Administration
cleveland Plain Dealer>

The versatility of viii rogers is well known. But
his political career has apparently been too much over
looked. True, Will has garrered a vote or two for presi-
dent along about the fortieth ballot of recent Democra-
tic national conventions. However, this does not spoil
wins amateur status; at least not in national politics.
But he was mayor Of Beverly Hills, Cal. once and now
Beverly Hills comes crashing through with the biggest
percentage gain so far shown by any town in the 1890
census. In 1920 she had 674 citizens. A few years later
she made WIN Rogers mayor. Now her population is
1929.
There's a record for you! With such figures in his
platform, there's no office for which Will may not aspire,
especially in California where their reverence for popula-
ton is only surpassed by their perpetual alteration Of
climate.
Claremore, Okla, has not yet. kicked in with its 1880
figures. But when they look at this Beverly Hills count
they'll appreciate what they lost when they let Will
20 west.