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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
Will Hold Picnic On
Saturday, August Is

The local branch of the Washington
Coop and the Vashon Island Fruit
Growers Association will hold joint
picnic at Ellisport, Saturday, August
is to which all members and friends
are invited.
The women Of these organizations
are noted for the excellence of their
cookery, and feature, by no means
unimportant, will be the judging of
the pies and cakes brought to the pic
mic.
There will be program of races
and sports for the youngsters Of all
ages, from six to sixty, both boys and
girls.
There will be good speaker sent
out from the county agents office,
but he will not be permitted to talk
on the condition of the berry and
other small fruit market, the present
state of affairs in the poultry bust
ness, or 10 JalK Snop IN any Other
form. His problem will be to enter
tain, not to instruct.
In other words this is to be real
cid fashioned picnic, where everybody
brings food that will be all put on a
large table from which you will help
yourself. Not one of those high-brow
affairs where you bring your own
lunch for the family and "the Or
ganization will furnish coffee and
cream" The picnic will be Just as
much fun as the one last year was,
only more SO. So on Saturday, August
is just plan to forget all about the
usual worries and come out for real
time.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
GIRL ORCHESTRA COMING.

Those who enjoy dancing will be
interested to hear that on next Satur-
day night the orchestra Of girl music
ians from Tacoma that proved so
popular last winter will again be
heard at the Odd Fellows hall. Center.
These young ladies have the
mastery Of a variety Of instruments,
and plenty Of spirit in playing them,
so dance at which they play is
bound to be plenty lively.
On their several appearances here
last winter the girls made dancing q
mighty popular indoor sport, and 1t is
anticipated that there will be q big
crowd on Saturday night to welcome
them back to the Island.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
First Unit OF
Road Finished

This week the first unit of the farm
to market road on the West Side,
from TONNES Store to the Cove road
was completed and turned over to the
county by Rogers-olds, the contrac-
tors in charge of the work. These
men have run into a lot of hard luck,
particularly in the neighborhood of
the Cove M. e. church, where it was
necessary to build bulkhead that
cut deep into their profits on the job.
Bad weather has delayed the work,
and while the Island people had oc-
,casion to complain over the delay in
completion it has been equally trying
for the contractors.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
Record Attendance At
TheB. Y.P.U.Assembly

They are having a record breaking
attendance at the B. Y. P. U. assembly
at Assembly Point in Burton which
will be session from August Bird to the
18th. 405 had registered on the first
day, some 1850 more than ever arrived
on the opening day, and there are still
more coming.
Camp Sealth was requisitioned for
more cots and by the second day,
with more tents arriving, all were
nicely and comfortably fixed for the
twelve days session.
The interesting program promises a
very profitable and entertaining time
for all in attendance.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
AIRPLANE VISITS ELLIsPoRT.

Ellisport has been visited several
times lately by an airplane which
landed gracefully on the harbor and
motored up to McClintock's Point,
where 1t took on passengers for sew
trail trips. This was an unusually in
teresting sight for the many visitors
on the beach. Among the Island peo-
pie noticed among the crowd were,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Poutney and
children, the Fentons, Mr.. and Mrs
Wilbur, Mr.. and Mrs. George Schmith
and baby, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Fuller, Mr.. and Mrs. Hearst, the j. H
and Louis Roddas and Mr.. Frank
Kingsbury..
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
JUNIOR oRTHopED1c MEETING

The Junior Orthopedic Guild met
at the home Of Mrs. Wallace Beall on
Saturday afternoon with a good at
tendance. Plans were formulated for
carnival and dance to be given at
the Community Club on Wednesday
evening, August 10.
This idea was stimulated by visit
Of the girls to the hospital the previ-
Gus week, where they saw their bene-
ficiaries, and realization was brought
home to them of their own good for
tune, and their duty and pleasure to
contribute to Others
The girls always enjoy these after
moons and the dainty refreshments
that Mrs. Beall serves.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
GOING TO CAMP ON
MERCER ISLAND

A number of the younger boys in
terested in Scout work are planning
on leaving next week for the Friend
ly Indian" camp on Mercer Island.
Some will remain one, and the rest
two weeks. Those who have SO far
definitely decided to go are Charles
Kimmel, Donald Urquhart, Robert
Beall and Sherbie Heath. Jack Peter
sen had planned all summer on hav-
ing this experience but fate death him
an unkind blow in the shape of whoop-
ing coughs and quarantine until the
opening of school.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
ENTERTAINED AT NORWOOD

Members of the executive committee
Of the Vashon Island Commercial
Club, their wives, and few other in
vited guests enjoyed last Thursday
evening spent at Moxtwood, the
hospitable home of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
II. Miller.
The entertainment features Of the
evening were furnished by Mrs. j.
Smith, of Seattle, and Mr.. Geo. Hicks,
of New York. Mrs. Smith sang sew
eral songs. She will be remembered
us having sung on the Island broad
cast few years ago. Mr.. Hicks, an
announcer for the NBC, gave an in
teresting talk on the various phases
Of radio entertainment
All present enjoyed the evening
greatly.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06

bend OF the Verdi.
girls river. My Fa.
ther settled 1t Just
after the Civil war,
same old log house
weather boar d Q d
over. Most of the
farmers are all rails.
ing EN- a good gar.
den and getting
ready to try and off
set a tough winter.
What they going to
do with people this
w inter ANYHOW?
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
CARS COLLIDE.

A collision of the Weiss delivery
truck and the Heydeen Ford occurred
last week at the Menees corner. No
one was hurt but the Heydeen car was
badly damaged, and fender of the de-
livery truck smashed Mr.. Heydeen,
who recently returned from the hos
pital, and is not yet as strong as he
was before his illness, was badly
shaken up.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
JOINT S. S. PICNIC.

The Presbyterian Sunday school
and Ladies' Auxiliary will hold joint
picnic at Ellisport beach next week,
Tuesday, August II. All parents and
friends are cordially invited to come.
All bring lunches and the Sunday
school will furnish refreshments.
Rev. E. G. Randall.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
VISIT sNOQUALMIE FALLS.

On Wednesday Of last week party
of Island women enjoyed trip to
Snoqualmie Falls, although all of the
water they saw came out Of faucet
Those in the party were Mrs. Ange-
nette Lee, Mrs. LaChappelle, Mrs
Frank Robertson and Mrs. Jeffrles,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
GOES VETERANS HOSPITAL.

Word has just been received that
Carl Wick is doing as well as could be
expected after the operation for APP
pendicitis which was performed this
morning. Mr.. Wick went to the
Veterans Hospital at Bremerton,
where he will remain from three to
six weeks receiving treatment.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06

Before election the offlce-seekers
talk great deal about wanting to be
Servants Of the people," but after
they are elected their chief thought
seems to be making suckers of the
people.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
New Candidates
q For New District

Recent visitors to Vashon Island
were George P. Fishburne, of Tacoma
and H. I. Kyle, Of Enumclaw. They
met as many Of the Island people as
they could in the few hours they were
here, and were not only delighted with
the scenic beauty of the Island but
enjoyed meeting those who call the
Island "hoVe."
Mr.. Fishburne has announced his
candidacy for congress from the new
sixth congressional district created by
this years legislature. He has been
practicing law in Tacoma since 1905,
and has kept himself informed of all
economic and political problems that
have risen in the state and nation
during that time.
Mr.. Fishburne has been a Democrat
all of his life; was National Com
mitteeman in New York in 1924, and
at Houston, Texas in 1925. He served
as State Committeeman from Pierce
county for one term and is now serv-
ing his second term in this position,
and has twice been on the platform
and resolution committee for the
Democratic state convention. However,
Mr.. Fishburne is Progressive Demo-
crat. He believes that in this day the
people demand to know more than
whether candidate for office is
Democrat or Republican, and want
also to know whether he is a pro-
gressive or stand-patter. He states
that there is gradually forming across
both the old parties a liberal and con-
sentative party, and as liberal it is
to this new party that he belongs,
altho he must file as Democrat.
Mr.. Fishburne was born in Charlotts-
vile, Virginia, near which are Month
cello, the home of Thomas jefferson,
and the University of Virginia which
Jefferson founded in the last years OF
his life. He graduated with a B. A.
from the Washington and Lee. at Lex
ington, Virginia, and from the Uni
versity of Virginia, where he COM
pleted his law course. He has held a
public office only once, namely as as
sistant United States attorney of the
western division of the western district
of Washington from 1914 to 1918.
The new sixth district which Mr..
Fishburne seeks to represent embraces
all of Pierce county and all of King
except Seattle and it's suburbs. A new
political unit like the sixth district
usually creates new economic unit so
the destiny of Pierce county and
Vashon Island and the rest of King
county will more or less be identical.
It will therefore be the duty of the
new congressman from the sixth dis
trict to do all in his power to pro-
mote the welfare of Pierce County and
of King county within the boundaries
OF his district.
1t is an interesting coincidence that
opposed to Mr.. Fishburne in the 1882
campaign will in all probability be
Rex A. Roudebush, member Of the past
legislature, and author of the bill
which created this new district. Mr..
Fishburne and Mr.. Roudebush have
been intimate friends for many years,
as we'll as good friend professionally,
and they do not anticipate that their
warm personal regard will be lessened
in any degree as the result of the
coming election.
Mr.. Kyle, who accompanied Mr..
Fishburne to the Island is an attorney
of Enumclaw, and one of the best
loved and most public spirited pro-
fessional men of that little city.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06
BUS RE-PAINTED.

One Of the White buses, belonging
to the Island Transportation Company
has been newly painted shade of
yellow that makes it easily seen. It
has also been practically rebuilt and
is as good as new.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06

papers here lately.
for that's all could
do. You know the
other day coming
home from the big
Claremore celebra'
ton on the Plane !,
either eat some
thing that dident
agree With me. at
lunch In FL Paso,
where we stopped,
or 1t was the gen.
eral effects OF what
| had stacked In
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-08-06

BEVERLY HILLS.-Well all know
is just what read in the papers. And
l been doing lot of reading in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
Golf and Tennis Films.

The moving pictures now rate one
hundred per cent In golf and tennis.
For the silver screen will soon present
for the edification of the public the
greatest golfer and the greatest tennis
player Of all time. Bobby Jones, wizard
Of the fairways, capitulated to the lure
Of the films some weeks ago, much to
the CONSERVATION Of his followers over
the green hills and dales, but much to
his own development Of the Jones ex-
cheouer. Now comes big Bill" Tilden,
master racket wielder Of them all, who
has dominated tennis for longer time
than Bobby Jones has golf, with the
announcement that he is to retire from
the amateur game became he has sign
ed q contract with q moving picture
company.
Jones and Tildenl What names to
conjure with in golf and tennisl No
more - at least in Tildens case - will
they delight cheering thousands by their
mastery Of their respective games. No
more in amateur competition will big
Bill" ace his opponent with one of his
bulletlike serves, comparable in power
and intensity to that former flashing
meteor Of the courts from California,
Red" OLoughlin, whose serve was
o'ort all he had. but which was sum
cient to carry him to high honors. No
more will crowd of rabid golf addicts
marvel at the effortless rhythmic
grace with which Jones propels q tiny
white ball three hundred yards down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

Why cannot people do what they say
they will?
They range from persons who freely
make promises out Of clear sky, as 1t
were, without compulsion, to those who
are forced to promise something or
other.
In any event, they promise to do
something-and then fail to do IL.
Their actions, whether great or small,
strike at the very foundations of civil
lization.
For to be on time, and especially to
keep ones promise in being OH time,
is great deal in world where the
watch and clock take on vast impor-
lance.
There may be dolce far niente lands,
where time Is diSregarded, where all
goes to the tune of tomorrow, but surely
the United States is not that country.
We, as a people, believe in prompt
ness. We demand 1t OF our trains ana
ilplanes, and wish 1t from our friends.
70 be late is not national falling.
II anything We are ahead OF time"
We want to see the whole show.
The man who tells you he will do so
and so, or be at such place at GER
tain time, or will be to see you at a
certain time, thereby demands accept
aI1CS Vi Ills WOlu
deal. were to question him, whether he
would do as he says, he would regard
it as bringing his integrity into question.
And promptly fails to do what ne
has promised.
The action shows q complete dis
regard Of you. the other, for he cannot
know how much wasted time ana m
convenience he causes,
I,o vz,oiYld not T1rOp1iSp ALL might be
well. Then no one would be forced TO
wait for him! But when he promises
to be at Such-and-such place, he ought
TO be there.
In all honesty, one may submit. he
ought to be there. Dentists have Sys-
tenn of making such culprits pay for
broken engagements, but the scheme
cannot be extended to take in the per-
sons Of whom we speak.
The victims. as always, are those who
trust their fellow men.
He said he would do it."
Such is the sublime faith Of many a
person as they wait for a shadow which
does not materiali2e.
HE said he would be here"
Such Is the faith In the spoken word,
alas, often doomed to disappointment
It seems that those who do not do
what they say they will, scrupulously,
might FURNISH up their own idea of
their own word
A mans pledge, especially when I'M
solicited. ought to be taken seriously
by himself before all the world.
Others might disbelieve him if they
hked-he could not prevent that-but
there is one person in the world to
whom he can be true, and that is him
self. And If he disappoints that fell
low, whom will he not disappoint?
So many of these promises which are
made and broken are of little moment,
but that is no excuse for them, for in
their aggregate effect upon the charac-
ter of one involved they are of great
importance.
There is no exact measure, of course
of the harm done by such failures
Teachers no longer stand over one, as
they did in school, to mark down de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01

dc not proceed to give It form and
substance in ships and guns? In q
universe hardly ever before 50 torn
With .arious internal animosities and
international rivalries, any one Of many
Of them capable Of igniting another
world conflagration, is this the time for
craftsmanship to minimize the import
ance Of effective defensive establish
ment?
The new year opens with the fervent
hope, rather than the assured promise,
Of maintained peace. With no scintilla
Of warlike or aggressive purpose in the
heart Of any American statesman or
citizen now alive, the United States
cannot and will not be suspected of
Interior motives in proceeding, by steady
stages, to build the treaty Navy Lon
don gave us. Congress has the duty to
take corresponding steps, the small
voice of the pacifist group to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. The people
should ask Congress to join in the New
Year resolution to see the treaty feet
launched without delay. It's estimated
cost of billion dollars, more or less,
spread over eight or ten years, as is
projected, works out at q per capita
expense of roundly eight dollars.
Could there conceivably be any
cheaper life insurance than that-na-
tional life insurance? 1t is a previously
small premium for Uncle Sam and his
122, 100000 children to pay for guar
antees against loss of, or damage to,
the things the Republic holds most
dear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
A New Year Navy Resolution.

President Hoover today formally pro-
claims the London naval treaty to be
In force. Last night Secretary Of State
Etimson, who had so potent q part in
its conclusion, acclaimed the pact as
. happy sugury for peace" His
eulogy would have carried even a
greater appeal to the national magma
ton If Col Stimson had coupled with 1t
an exhortation TO Congress TO build the
treaty navy.
The Nation could make no finer New
Years resolve than to determine that
the parity feet our delegates achieved
ut London shall actually be laid down,
completed and commissioned. The
moment the President declares the limi-
tation agreement to be effective. 1t
becomes law. Before the Executive
proclamation became possible, ratifica-
ton Of the law was voted by the United
States Senate, as Is necessary in the
case Of q treaty with foreign powers.
The country hears much nowadays
Of law enforcement and law observance.
It Is true that the naval pact is not
law in the sense Of being a statute that
Is mandatory. In other words. while
the United States under the London
treaty has the right to build so-and-so-
many ships Of such-and-such types, it
Ii not compelled TO construct them. But
the American people, unless they were
grossly mistaken as TO the declared
purpose Of the London Conference. ex-
pected that our delegates were going
TO 1t to attain definite object, and
having secured It, would proceed to avail
themselves Of the implied advantages
Over and over again, from the lip:
Of President Hoover and other author.
lied srokesmen. the assiirsnce has cnrns
that the overtowering victory we won
ct London was the achievement Of
equality at sea with the greatest nava
power In the world, Great Britain
@ what avail 10 that victory. II W
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
Electric Rate Adjustment.

The Public Utilities Commissions in
quiry into the electric light rates under
the consent decree entered ten years
ego and its subsequent determination to
seek further concessions for the con-
Slmers. with or without court action, is
not to be interpreted, as Mr.. Ham seems
to interpret it, as desire TO muddy the
waters, and destroy a beneflcent and eff
ficient system of rate adjustment or as
an expression Of classification with the
results Of that system.
The Public Utilities Commission has
resfhTmed its approval of the system of
annual adjustment of rates on the basis
Of earnings, wherein the public, as well
as the company, receives the benefits of
the excess profits. The point is that
earnings Of the company under the con-
sent decree have exceeded the expec-
tatiorS OF those who framed it in the
beginning They have become excessive.
The public has shared in the benefits,
but il hss not shared enough. The
facts that rates IN Washington are
relatively low-among the lowest in the
country-snd that the system of fixing
rates here has won the praise of
financial and public utility journals
throughout the land are all beside the
point TIE point is that the system
can and should yield even greater bene-
fits 10 the public without injuring the
company.
The new rates, which now become
effective, are not satisfactory from the
point of view of those who contend
that they are still too high and remain
too high in the face Of the Public Utili-
ties Commissions admission that the
companyis returns are excessive. But
here one should give the Public Utilities
Commission the benefit of the doubt
1t has first taken what it could get
without fighting. And having put into
effect the lower rates, it has determined
to make its real battle. The Public
Utilities Commission would not have
shown good judgment had it delayed
the undoubted benefits of q rate reduc-
ton while 1t undertook the possibly
tedious and long drawn-out process OF
amending the consent decree. 1t is
better to take all that can be gained
under the decree as it stands, and pro-
coed to later revisions on the new basis
The continuance Of the principle en-
bodied in the consent decree depends
upon the company. The Public Utili-
ties Commission hopes that satisfactory
amendments may be agreed upon with
the company without litigation. If
there Is failure to agree, the only re-
course will be an abrogation of the
decree by reopening the old fight over
valuation. This would necessarily in
volve q revaluation, which is an alto
gether desirable thing anyhow. The
best advantages to all concerned would
lie, however, in q substitute form OF
agreement between the Public Utilities
Commission and the company that
would continue the principle now in
effect, but would take cognizance OF
some of the undoubtedly sound objec-
tons raised by william NICK. Clayton
for the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons, and Peoples Counsel Keech.
The Public Utilities Commission is To
be commended for the course it has
adopted.