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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
Seattle c. OF c.
Program Enjoyed

Although counter attractions cut
down the attendance at the Com
mercial Club meeting last Tuesday
evening those who were present en-
joyed the program put on by the
Seattle Chamber Of Commerce mem
bers on their goodwill visit to the
Island.
The visitors were entertained al
dinner in the Masonic Hall at Burton
There were about thirty In the party
from the city and they, together with
seventy-five or hundred members Of
the Island Commercial Club enjoyed
the excellent dinner served by the
ladies of the Island Community
church. Members of the high school
orchestra played throughout the din
ner, and there was also a good pro-
gram of community singing, led by
Rev, Carstens.
After the dinner the crowd went to
the high school where the program
of the evening was carried out. The
singing of the mems chorus of the
Chamber delighted every one. These
men have been singing together fol-
the past thirteen or fourteen years,
and although their leader, Arville Bel
Stadt, of radio fame, spoke more Oh
less flippantly of their skill, they are
indeed Joy to listen to- They sang
three groups of songs.
The speakers of the evening were
Judge King Dykeman and Judge
Stephen Chadwick, who told of the
work being done by their organization
not only in Seattle, but all over the
state. Realizing that the welfare Of
the largest city of the state depends
on the prosperity of the entire state
the Chamber of Commerce has COM
mittees to render assistance in any
emergency that may arise. judge
Chadwick is the chairman of the COM
mittee functioning most actively in
this work. He gave the assurance,
that if properly presented the PROPOSE
ton of securing government bulb
farm for the Island could be furthered
through the work of his committee.
Other visitors who spoke during the
evening were Harold Champion, secre-
tary of the Consolidated South Dis
trict Commercial Clubs; Christie
Thomas, secretary of the Seattle
Chamber OF Commerce; Bob Jones
and Geo. Ryan, president and secre-
tary of the West Seattle Commercial
Club.
All who spoke expressed a deep APP
probation of the hospitality extended
to them. and desire to assist the Is
land with its problems, not as a big
brother, but as neighbors and friends.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
GOOD TURNOUT FOR
GRADE COMMENCEMENT 1

Despite the counter attraction of
the concert at the high school last
Friday evening the auditorium of the
Vashon grammar school was well fill
ed with interested parents and friends
of the fifteen eighth grade pupils who
received their certificates. Mr.. Rodney
Ackley gave fine address, full of en-
enlargement and advice for the boys
and girls who expect to enter high
school next fall.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
MERELY A COINCIDENCE.

There has been considerable sur
missing as to why two doctors and the
deputy sheriff all left the Commercial
Club meeting simultaneously last
Tuesday evening.
One doctor was called to care for a
man suffering the after-effects of the
extraction Of tooth: the other doc
tor was summoned to attend a sick
baby; while the deputy-sheriff was
called to apprehend a beach-comber
at Colvos that was reported helping
himself to everything in sight. No
fatalities were reported
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28

National Parks. Its
mighty well han
died. and you are
spl ly con-
conducted through
1t by a fine bunch
of trained Park
r a n gers. T o m
Boles is the Gener.
al Superintendent.
comes from Arkan-
saw and knew my
Wife ars ago.
She dident see half
OF IL for gossiping
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
LOCAL BOY SCOUT
AWARDED HIGHEST RANK

Boy Scouts on the Island will be
glad to learn that one Of the boys who
began here at the Boy Scout Club
House with Scout Master Ira Thomp-
son has been awarded the highest
rank in Scouting. At the Boy Scout
Court of Honor held last Wednesday
evening in Seattle Lewis Smith was
awarded the rank of Eagle. Lewis is
now a member of Troop 2O2 In Seattle.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
NEW FLAG POLE UP
AT ISLAND CLUB

With everyone helping in the good
work the new flag pole at the Island
Club will be up for Memorial Day.
The place has been much improved
by the flower beds recently put in by
the Vashon Gardens. While the club
purchased the plants from Mr.. Hoshi,
he and his children did all of the
work of making the flower beds and
planting as a contribution to this Is
land institution.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28

lately. couple OF
weeks ago l was
prowling around,
My Wife and l,
trying to scare up
something new to
see. We h a v o
bummed around
over quite q mess
of t h e s 9 United
States and frag-
ments Of Europe.
so Just any little
thing wouldent
make much of n
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
LODGE CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY.

Fifty members of the Island Re-
bekah Lodge gathered Tuesday eve
ming to celebrate the fifteenth birth
day of the organization.
After the regular work of the eve
ming, and the initiation Of a new
member there was good program
and supper, the feature of which was
huge birthday cake.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28
LOCAL COOP TO
ELECT OFFICERS

The local branch OF the Washing
ton Coop. will meet at the Island
Club Tuesday evening, June End for
the purpose of electing officers for the
coming year.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28

BEVERLY HILLs.-Well all know
is just what l see and Say, Brothers,
I have seen something right here
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-05-28

Rattlesnakes are not as common as
they used to be, in fact, they never
were.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09

something that must be eventually paid, and to
pay it now will help many more veterans than it
will if the payment is not made until 1915 By
that time thousands of the veterans will be dead
and will never see any benefit from this compen-
sation.
To pay these certificates now will evenly dis
tribute the money over the nation where it will go
.rectly into the channels of business.
1t beats the administration scheme of starting
big public works for the relief of unemployment,
because only a small part of the money expended
on public works reaches the workers, for the con-
tractors and sellers of materials would absorb the
greater amount of the money so expended. The
workers would only get the crumbs that drop from
the table that could be saved to the employers by
the use Of labor-saving machinery.
The veterans of the war are mostly men of
small means and many are in dire need of this
help at this time. We know of something like It's
veterans in the vicinity of Milaca who could use
this money to great advantage just now to pay
their bills and supply the necessities of life And
this is doubtless largely true over the entire coun-
try, for very few of the men who served in the
war have been able to establish themselves in a fl
nancially independent way since the big upset
made in their lives by devotng their life and for
tunes to the nation in the conflict.
And why should anybody bubble over paying
these veterans their due? They periodically placed
their lives and fortunes to the hazards of war
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09

and battle for this nation, and they are entitled to
every consideration Many who did so gave up
their lives and it was only sheer good fortune Of
the others that they escaped like sacrifice. The
nation cannot do too much for those who fight its
battles
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon and
other millionaires who have never budged out of
their tracks to serve their country in the army,
are objecting on the theory that it win cost too
much money to pay these men their due. They
endeavor to make patriotism a matter of business
and would calculate the service of these men in
terms of a few dollars. To them it is business
transaction, and perhaps part of the plan by
which these same millionaires enriched themselves
during the war while these men were wading in
mud and slime and facing death in its most hor-
rible FORMS
Away with the quibblers over the service of pa
riots. Give the veteran his lue, even if million
aires must pay larger income tax. Enough taxes
have been refunded to big business through the
generosity of the administration during the past
year to pay large part of this bonus.
When this nation can afford to spend billions
in building a Panama canal and nobody feels a
nickle poorer for it and would not know the canal
had been built except for reading about it in the
papers, it surely spenl enough money to repay
In some small measure at least, these veterans who
served in time of need.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09
WHAT CAPITALISTS SEE FOR 1881

Very rarely has new year begun with finan-
cal opinions on the immediate future j great
peTpleSdty. "A. ID. NJ. in the N. Y. Times.
Carl Snyder, Of the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, says he agrees with Sir Charles Adds,
British authority, that the present depression is
THE most serious in 100 years"
In 1880, U. S. exports fell off 26 per cent from
1929; imports fell off 81 per cent A Berlin dis
patch to the N. I. Times states that: American
sales to Germany sure TO have lower value
than in 1929" A London dispatch saws. "The COM
ing years outlook or revival in mutual trade be-
tween England and America is not considered
promising
Another London report says that city is 'hesi.
tant IN forecasts, but Conditions IN British mar
ket give little ground for hopeful expectations"
From Berlin, general European forecasts say:
1880 is ending without any clear sign of world
trade revival" Then it adds in effect, that cap
itallsts still hope capitalism is not done for, by
saying: 1.-THE idea that the present business crisis
is exceptional, that it foreshadows permanent de-
cline, is rejected everywhere"
Paris reports say: "We still faced with a
crisis. There is a feeling that we have not yet
emerged 1t is not felt here that the coming year,
at any rate until its close, will witness the
end of this process. There is great lack of assur
ance."
America must recover first" say Rome reports
At Cleveland, Lionel D. Eadie. of the American
Capital Corporation, says: "The unemployment
situation next year would be more acute" Col
Leonard P Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co.. says:
The present depression is deeper than any, tho so
far not the longest the depression of 1881 to 1885
having lasted forty-five months" Ayres is willing
to give it time.
collection of opinions from American capital
;sts in the N. y. Times is headed as showing:
Temperate Optimism" Bankers, however, CAP
praise Future Cautiously The Times preudes
the bankers words by saying that they are: "Even
more-than usually conservative in their apprasals
of>the economic outlook"
Rome G. Stephenson, president of the American
Bankers Association, illustrates the above By be-
ginning his remarks with an "If." Arthur Leh-
man says: "We must now await the return of con-
fidence, which, in my opinion, will be slow"
Willis H. Booth, of the Guaranty Trust Co.,
whistles bravey: "We will have to forget our
troubles; time will measure the upturn" George
V. Mclaughlin, of the Brooklyn Trust Co., says he
does not venture to set the approximate date
TO: reversal in the downward trend.'
Lewis Z. PiersOn of the Irving Trust Co.. says:
tine business spirit of the country is greatly in
need of keying up. Recovery will be slow. This
depression in some form may extend well through
cut the year 1881"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09
NEGROES FACING
PEASANT STATUS

New York -FP- All attempts
of American negroes as a. group
to set up complete economic sys-
tenn of their own dual to the white
system are doomed to failure, and
the only possible solution of the
problem of race relations is for
the negro and white worker to get
together, said DIR. Abram Harris
of Howard University to an inter-
racial seminar just concluded. The
seminar had 81 members of whom
16 We're negroes and the rest nor
thern whites. 1t travelled in a spe-
cial Pullman car, and visited nine
southern cities between Nov. II
and Nov. 81, studying race rela-
tons through meetings and per-
sonal contact. 1t was conducted by
Hubert G. Herring, executive d.
rector of the committee on cultur-
al relations with Latin America.
Harris view was attacked bv a
churchman who insisted that the
churches had done important work
IN BRINGING the races together.
Harris replied that "interracial
work" in industry to date had con-
sisted in bringing the negro work
ers to the white employers.
Everywhere the seminar found
that barriers reserving certain oc-
equations in the south exclusively
for negroes are breaking down.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09
PAY THE BONUS NOW
(Park Region Echo, Alexandra. Mimi

kFark region Echo, Alexandra, MINI.
A bill has been introduced into congress to pay
the adjusted service certificates of the veterans of
the World War now, instead of waiting until the
year 1945, originally intended One of the chief
reasons for doing so is that the three and onehaf
billion dollars paid out in this manner would be
great help in overcoming the present depression
in this country, as the money would be spent all
over the country by the veterans in paying up their
bills and securing the necessities of ife It would
take total sum of OO,511.7S to pay the GER
tficates held by veterans in the state of Minneso-
Ia alone and this gives some idea of the vast sums
that would be put into circulation in the various
states.
This would be big step in relieving the present
business depression and would be more practical
measure than anything else that has been prOpos-
ed. For one thing it is money that is due these
veterans and is not charitable handout. It IL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09

the prices they ask. Great Falls
advertise grapes 3 lbs. for 25c;
sweet potatoes 8 lbs for Csc; let
tuce 10 cents, big head; celery 2
punches for 29c.
Another store advertises bar
gains like these: Carrots and peas,
Dolly VaVrden No. 2, can, per can
19c; Dried Peaches 2 pounds for
39c; imported fish balls, pound
can 29c; Dolly Warden 21a can
sliced peaches, 25c. This same
store has some Rome Beauty,
Winesap. and Black Twig apples
from a fresh car but keep the
prices secret. 1t also has some Gel
cry, lettuce, fresh tomatoes, cab
bage, oranges, bananas and cram
berries in stock for those plutes
who have money enough to buy
them-prices are disclosed upon
request.
Now over at Lewistown the
price is: Ripe tomatoes, ID. 25c;
cauliflower, Id. &c; green pepers.
ID. 30; parsnips pounds 25c; cab
bage 10 lbs 25c; onions, dry, s lbs.
for 25c; carrots 10 lbs Csc; grape
fruit, 4 big ones heavy with juice
% cents but in PlentyWood they
sell two small ones for 80 cents.
They say its the freight that
makes the difference. In Lewis
town you can get two pounds of
ripe bananas for 25 cents and in
Great Falls three pounds for 25c.
1t will also be noticed that in
the ads of these so.called mer-
chants that bargain prices are
quoted on things people don't buy
like asparagus tips, pigs feet, ETC..
and the things people really eat
there are no advertised prices.
Next week we will compare
Plentywood hardware prices with
the Gamble store at Williston and
grocery prices with those quoted
by the M. w. Savage Company of
st. Paul. The difference IN prices
is astonishing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09
U.S.. NEEDS A new
GIANT INDUSTRY
Americans May Be Forced to Emf.
CRATE in Search of Labor In the
Not Far Distant Future.

Washington, Jan. 2.-Despite its
still great open spaces, the United
States was seen today as destined
IN time to join the older nations
whose people must emigrate to
distant lands.
Only development of an entirely
new giant industry was seen stand
ig in the way of such a happening.
pictured by Chairman johnson Of
the houes immigration committee.
The Washington state represen-
tative whose committee has Just
approved a two-year immigration
suspension bill, said "the United
States can postpone but not ulti-
mately escape population and liv.
ing conditions of the older coun-
tries."
He named Canada, Australia,
Africa, Mexico and South Amer.
can countries as direction for emf.
grafton.
eve have lots of unoccupied
land in the United States" John.
son said, ''but it is apparent that
farming under our standards Of
living is not profitable.
"On New Years day, we might
reflect that more than 100000
boys and girls became of age in
the United States last year. Many
of these are at work, others have
Joined the ranks of the unemploy-
ed-there to jostle elbows with the
elderly, the skilled and the newly
arrived aliens in the scramble fol-
jobs.
Each year the use of labor say
ing machinery is greater. Each
year the number of citizens coming
of age is larger. In spite of this,
we are still an importer of immi.
grants. How long can this 90
on?"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09
J TIE WASHINGTON SCENE !
By LAwKhSCE TODD Federated Press s

prlsonment is provided in the Hill
for false representation by anI
farmer In order that he NAV Cet
loan. But the House conferess
who respond to the White HonSs
whip, delivered an ultimatum -
the senate conferees. They saiS
that unless the word 'feed" wa.
left out, they would never aoreo
to any drought relief bill Tn
Senate committee had to accent
the dishonest or cruel phrase On
cident to crop production" or c4t
nothing.
FARMERS CAN EAT HAY
Of course there is a cynical suu
gestion that American farmers aTo
work animals, or work stock %
named in the bill, and hence thew
will be entitled to eat part of t5s
hay, mill feed or ear corn thai
may be purchased with the loans
granted under this scheme. Rnt
this was not emphasized in debate
Most of the speeches that critic
cised the report were very mild in
tone = reproachful and sad rather
than angrily protesting. Senator.
had "gone on record" and Then
gone home, because they thouObi
that the capitalist press wonlJ
convince the general public that i
was the anti-Hoover element that
was blocking relief to the farmer.
!I!I!!!
CHANCE YET TO GET FOOD
Thus the Hoover-Hyde refusal 70
stand for any "dole" of food n
farmers or to unemployed workers
had its Christmas triumph. B1t
whether the question is settled 20
long as hunger clutches at mors
than million farm families. and
at four million workers families
even Hoover doubts. Congress re-,
turns January to face an ava
lanche of protests from those
whose Christmas was bleak and
whose New Year has scant signs
Of happiness. The administration
has still to get its appropriation
to carry out the purpose for which
the $45, 100000 loan fund has been
authorized. There is still time for
human action. And there is steadi-
ly increasing pressure from the in
dustrial states upon congress to
begin feeding the UNEMPLOYED.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09
SOME MOTHER JONES STORIES

Memories of Mother Jones, now
laid to rest in an Illinois miners
cemetery are told by Marlen Pew,
editor of editor & Publisher %
who was in the thick of the fray
as a reporter of dramatic labor
strikes in the early part of the
century. Pew came to know Bill
Haywood, Mother Jones, Gene
Debs and a host of other labor pi-
oneers. He writes of Mother Jones:
] "All of the "boys" who covered
the strikes of coal miners, both in
the anthracite and bituminous
fields, at the opening of the cen
fury and later, were acquainted
with Mother Jones. Reporters with
prejudices against the organized
labor movement spoke of her as a
little mad or as an evil-tempered
fanatic who enjoyed the emotional
excitement of a strike campaign.
Others knew her for what she real
lywas, a woman of remarkable
character, flaming cause-spirit and
astonishing capacity for self-sac-
rifice.
Mother Jones was one of the
most interesting and at times a.
musing characters that ever cross
ed my path. Long after the fam
Gus strike of the 147,0O0 hard coal
miners was settled in 1902, she
would occasionally visit New York
and drop into my office for a BIZ
of gossip and perhaps a couple OF
dollars if she CHANGED to be broke
She was then nearly 70 years OF
age with figure so slight that
doubt if she would weigh 10(
pounds, hair white as snow anc
skin deeply lined with criss-cross
wrinkles. But little blue eyes deer
set and sparkling, told of mental
vigor and dauntless zeal.
We reporters saw this aged wo.
man leading strike picket forces In
the towns of Hazleton, Nanticoke
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, usual.
ly supported by crowds of sympa.
thizing girls and women. Her spe.
cialty was violating labor injunc.
tons and / dare say she was ar.
rested and bailed out 20 times dur.
ing her career.
! Year sage when the New York
Horse Show was the crowninp
event of the social season attract.
ing the so-called "Four Hundred
l asked Mother Jones to attend 2
matinee at Madison Square Gar.
den and write a report of her ex.
periences. / escorted her around
the famous horseshoe" a tier Of
boxes in which the most fashiona.
bic women of the city were seated
Mother Jones stood in amaze.
ment and disgust as she behel6
the daughter of a vastly rich Wal
Street banked dressed in a clotI
Of gold gown, then a novelty. She
shifted at the top hat and cutawa1
dudes and when told that a neck.
lace which one woman was wear
ing was worth $150,00O, remarked
that with the sum she could bu1
warm coats and decent shoes
for all the miserable miners wive,
in Pennsylvania and West Virgin.
La.
! The old lady could not endure
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-09

much of the horse show and pres
emily made her way out of the
garden, walking toward Third Ave.
where, at the corner of 2Sth St.,
she beheld a long line of tenement
children standing outside of the
Fleishman bakery awaiting closing
time when stale loaves would be
given away. Mother Jones wrote a
remarkable story and, Of course,
drew sensational comparison be-
tween luxury on Fifth Avenue and
poverty on a parallel avenue only
two block to the east.