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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-07-16
GET YOUR PENCIL!

In the new phone directories just
issued there are a couple of cor
rections. J. p. Brannon's number
should be 27O1, and Ed Montgom-
ery's should be 1882, The follow
ing should be added: C. B. Ashby,
12x5; d. B. Jones, 31S1; and c. T.
Sykes, 1872.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-07-16

Miss Margaret Moulton is ex-
pected to arrive from Moscow,
Idaho Friday morning, where she
has been attending summer school
and will spend several weeks va
cation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. M. Moulton, ..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-07-16
MOTH CATCH

Following is the record of cod
ling moth catch in IL traps oper-
ated by Horticultural Department
from July / to Ia, inclusive: 146,
66,272,25S, 1S1, 564, 624, $50, 947,
955, 4S3, 354, 249, 800.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-07-16

II. L. Barbee, M. G. Clark, Rob
ert Farnsworth and William Smith
came over from Pullman Friday
evening and spent the weekend
with their families. They are at
tending summer school at w. S. G..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-07-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Durdle and
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Whitbeck Of
the construction crew of the p. p.
& L. left Tuesday morning for
Moro, Oregon, where they will be
stationed for the next few weeks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-07-16

ton and take part in discussions
concerning available results in re-
lation to their specific problems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19

ersham commission did with incidentally similar con-
clusions-but every year since it became the law.
They are experts not alone in crime but on the
proper method Of correcting crime conditions For
that reason their dsapproval of prohibition and their
recommendations that the prohibition amendment be
repealed entitled to far serious attention than
similar opinions by other groups and professions
Whether not the bar association as a body de-
cides to take active part in Kidding the country
Of che law its members heartily disapprove the
vote of the membership is another milestone forward
in the march toward repeal
This country often exhibits an almost superstitious
veneraton for the law and respect for the opinion of
lawyers The knowledge that two-thirds of the legal
profession holds no brief among the many others in
its brief cases. for the prohibition law may strengthen
the backbones of many timd citizens who oppose
the law.
Finally, the bar association referendum should
shed considerable light on the blind faith of those
who still hope that somehow, some time prohibition
will be enforced
Without the moral support of the legal profession
enforcement OF the law with its other handicaps
would seem an impossible task.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Oxygen Combats Muscular Fatigue

After the rest the one that had
oxygen RECEIVERS and works again.
The muscle that had no oxygen
fails to recover; it does not con-
tract again.
AS explained by DR.. A. V. Hill,
Nobel prize winner in medicine, and
Foulerton, professor of the Royal
Society, a good runner of the sprint
distances, going at full speed. would
need more than thirty quarts of
oxygen per minute if he we're re-
quired to continue the speed of the
100-yard dash for a long time.
1t has been found by measure
ment that a mans heart and lungs
can supply him with about one
seventh of that amount, so that he
can not go on at such high speed
for more than a fraction of a min
ute.
He gets tired and acquires what
the Psychologists call an oxygen
debt" The tiredness is due to the
appearance of a substance called
Tactic acid in the muscle fibers.
AS much as one ounce of Tactic
acid appears when a man runs 100
yards as fast as he can. Fatigue
of a muscle occurs mainly due to
the formation of the Tactic acid.
The purpose of the oxygen is to re-
move the Tactic acid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE BFoGS

! lieve that the literature of 100 years
hence will be enriched by the ex-
preston of people long inarticulate.
A certain fertility, in all logic, can
come from fields which have been
forced to lie fallow.
But as yet I do not see the green
sprouts. I am not prepared to
admit that Turgeniev and Dos
toievsky already have been crowd
ed from the bookshelves of posterity
by the fact that the most popular
Soviet novelist has managed to
place a serial with Cosmopolitan
magazine.
Nor have I much enthusiasm for
authors in America who are dis
tinctly labeled as the emouthpieces
of the working class. In most cases
this title of "Laborer's Laureate"
never came from the proletarians
themselves, though I would make
an exception in favor of Upton Sin
clair.
And so in parting may I cup my
hands and shout in the direction
of Hollywood: Don't let them scare
you! Be yourselvesl And when you
stick to that, you can touch the
very heights of Street Scene"
1Convrioht 1o21 b,, Tho r,;r,asa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19

The many cases of the laws anarchy in America
cited by the Wckersham commission in its opinion
caused by lax official habits by sporadic
abuses by individual judges and prosecutors
Other critics in them alarming national
tendency to permit the use of the courts by power
full special class interests. Among the latter is
Norman Thomas, this country's leading Socialist He
cites the Mooney Billings in California
typical of this dangerous tendency:
THE extreme but unfortunately not untypca
instance of the breakdown of justice is the Mooney
Billings case in California. The conviction one
of the most despicable frameups known to history.
For years. the evidence has been available.
Amy one who can read English knows that these
labor agitators are innocent Judge Griffin, who
perjury in the case, has been leading advocate of
MONEYS unconditional pardon.
yet as write. both men still are in Jail. In
their case it has not possible in the judicial
murder of sacco and vanzetti, for their jailers
prejudiced public to wrap around the nakedness
of class injustice the rag of belief in their guilt.
They in Jail for one reason and one reason
only. They were reckless fighters in the open shop
war which both sides fought relentlessly in San
Francisco Men of property believe that it is easier
to keep agitators in Jail than to put them there
And state and federal courts, quick to do justice
to property, can not intervene
How about 1t, California;
Can the state let either of these challenges standP
Whether Mooney and Billings are victims of a spo-
radio lapse of California justice whether, Nor
man Thomas charges, they are victims of "claSs
war" the ugly stigma remains
Governor Rolph could wipe out this stigma.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Frnzen Money

Efforts of the administration and the federal
Eerve system to give moral support to the move
ment for releasing frozen banking assets are wise.
Financiers of the country estimate that several
billions of dollars are tied up in assets of banks
which have failed and in Withdrawals of funds from
sound banks by fearful depositors This process, if
it developed far enough would tend to strange credit
at time when the country needs sound and legiti-
mate use of credit for business revival.
Doubtless part of the difficulty is psychological at
least to the extent that all of tend to be overcau
tious today we overconfdent in boom times
There growing criticism of bankers who held
a credit surplus but making virtually no loans.
When there is so much idle money in the country,
why is it almost impossible for a home builder or
business man to get credit? This is the question
peated constantly.
Some bankers in the boom period made the mis-
take of thinking too much from the point of view
of the borrower who wanted money, rather than of
the interest of the bank stakeholder depositor
whose money being loaned. The bankers job
is the very difficult of protecting the interests
of both borrower and depostor
To hit upon any rigid generalization of banking
depends upon applying experienced Judgment to each
individual loan application.
But it clearly is possible for the federal reserve
system with its wide knowledge of the credit situa-
ton, to decide from the national point of view when
the amount of frozen assets has reached the danger
point and to take such action possible to improve
conditions.
Under the law the federal reserve system is not
allowed to loan funds directly for the release of
frozen credits in defunct banks but there nothing
to stop it from giving support to sound banks which
help free such credits. That, according to au-
thoritatve reports, is what now is being attempted
Like any financial policy, its value will depend
upon the judgment and skill with which it is APP
piled But, believe the administration and fed
eral reserve authorities are on the right track.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
A Low Bow for Sylvia

TT is a magnificent performance
L of Sylvia Sidney. I don't see
how anybody on the spoken stage
can command greater intensity of
emotion and interest than is possible
to the screen player. At least, l
hope not. The high points of Street
Scene" left me wilted from excite
ment and sodden with weeping.
One tiny facet in the crowd Sc
quence 1 would have altered. The
director evidently wished to suggest
the cosmopolitan nature Of the block
and the manner in which men of
all sorts were drawn into the rush
toward the stricken house.
But the detail Of this was too
exact, 1t becomes mere catalog-
ing when first you see the face of
a German and then a Negro ana
then a Chinese and so on. Here
simplicity would help.
And 1 think that the cause of
straightforward story telling will be
furthered all along the line as soon
as there is frank recognition of the
fact that the picturegoing public Of
America is bourgeois. Not much
help can be had from the intellec-
tuals-either proletarian Or aristo-
cratic.
In saying this, I am defending
an old tradition Shakespeare was
distinctly an author who aimed
straight between the eyes of a
middle-clasS public. He was not
to be swayed by whatever was the
equivalent of the New Republic in
those days. Nor would he have
been greatly influenced by an
Elizabethan Daily Worker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The experiment can be tried in a
simple way by comparing two kinds
of exercise. If you chin yourself
on a bar your muscles become I'M
able to respond in a few minutes in
the Ginning exercise because the
bending and swelling presses on the
blood vessels and interferes with
the blood supply.
However, if the limbs are NOV
ing freely and the blood circulates
easily through them, violent exer-
else such as swinging Indian clubs,
using the weights or gymnastics
may be INDUCED in for long time.
The important factor in this con-
nection is oxygen. The muscles
have in themselves enough food
material to take care of that used
up by work.
1t has been suggested that the
flow of blood carries away poisons
that are developed by the muscles
in their work. No doubt, poisons
are carried away. But the crucial
experiment may be made of letting
two muscles work, one with oxygen
and one without.
The one without oxygen wears out
in few minutes. The one with
oxygen goes on working for long
time.
When both are fatigued COM
pletely they are allowed to rest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Tariff Trade Losses

The United States had an "unfavorable" balance
of trade during August, the first for any month since
May of 1929 The value of our imports exceeded the
value Of exports by million dollars, although the
balance for the eight months of the year remains
in favor
Buying more than we sell may may not be
cause for worry. II we have too much god-more
than half the world suppy-and our excess of pur-
chases its export, so-caled unfavorabe bal
ance might be beneficial.
There is no doubt, however, that the continuing
decline in foreign trade is matter for
August exports $165 100000 compared with $297
785,O00 last year. Imports s166oOO OOO whereas
last year they we're $2184270OO. Our August exports
for five years before 1880 have been in excess of
s375, 100000.
Declining exports, of course, mean smaller pro-
ducon of goods closed factories, and idle
men. 1t means the destruction of the export margin
which in past years has absorbed SURPRISES, and
which President Hoover economists and business men
have said made the difference between prosperity and
hard times.
There are variety of reasons for the shrnkage
in foreign trade. Commodity prices have declined
everywhere. Buying power has been curtailed at
home and abroad Conditions in many countries
unsettled American factories being established in
foreign countries
Chief among these reasons, however, is our own
tariff law the rates of which in many instances
stitute virtual embargo against foreign goods The
law has provoked reprisals throughout the world
which keep out American goods 1t has created ami
mosities which injure the American markets And
since we unwilling to accept goods in exchange
for own, foreign countries lack of payment
Thus the effect of the Hawley- Smoot tariff reveals
itself in cold figures The indispuable fact of in
dustral stagnation takes the place of theories.
There be legitimate reason for delaying
tariff revision and revivng foreign trade, which is
essential to the return of prosperity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
SURPRISES Are MANY


MOST industrial metals, DR..
WI Jeffries points out, owe their
usefulness chiefly to their high
Elasticity, that is, their ability to be
bent or otherwise worked into a
variety of shapes and forms.
History does not record the dis
cover of Elasticity of metals" DR..
JeffrieS says.
The discovery that cold hammer
ing increases hardness, however,
can De imagined as an unexpected
but welcome surprise. When it was
found that bending piece Of metal
hardened it, but Strengthening it
again did not restore the original
softness, no doubt there was an
other surprise.
In fact, the whole history of the
study has yielded one surprise after
another and the end is not yet.
Three of the four usual proper
ties determined in the tensile test
pertain to Elasticity; the elastic
limit which represents the begin
ming of plastic flow, the per cent of
elongation and per cent reduction
OF area. Torsion, shear, compress
sion and beam tests also involve a
measure of some form of plastic de-
formation.
Gradually through the centuries
the major facts regarding Elasticity
have become known as the result of
manufacturing, using and testing
metals and alloys. Certain treat
ments were found to affect the
working qualities favorably and
certain other treatments found to
affect favorably the utility"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
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TAKE DEAD MAN HILL

Sept. IS
ON Sept. 10, 1917, the French
" captured LIE Mort Homme
dead Mans hilD and Hill 3O4, the
two eminences that overlook Verdun
and around which for three years
the bloodiest battles of the war had
been fought.
An observer wrote Of the victory
With every minute of the pass
ing night the thunder of all those
thousands of guns was getting more
and more appalling.
When the men went over the
parapet and the French barrage be-
gan. everything in the way of noise
that had gone before was dwarfed
and it was barely possible to hear
even the whining of the shells
travelling directly overhead.
Every gun in every battery was
working at red-hot speed. And with
that hurricane of sound and fury.
the light began to dawn and a gray
bank of mist grew out of the dark
ness ahead, so that we seemed to
be looking down not upon land, but
on the sea rising up from our feet
to meet the sky, as though France
actually were defending her. shores
and hurting flame and iron at an
invisible feet"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Grain Is Studied

DEFORE the microscope was used
ID to study metals, much atten-
ton was given to the appearance of
the grain" of the metal.
"a fine grain was needed for
most industrial purposes" DR.. JEFF
fries continues. Fine grained metal
could be drawn into wire with less
breakage and a higher degree of
roundnesS than coarse-grained wire.
High temperature favored ease
Of working, but tended to produce
a coarse grain. This led to low fin
ishing temperatures.
Some metals or alloys were found
to be brittle at high temperatures
and some more brittle at low tenn
peratures. The practice early de-
veloped of trying a number of work
ing temperatures for the purpose
of ascertaining the most suitable
range.
1T was learned that hot working
could be carried on without hard
ening or without exhausting plas-
ITCHY, but that cold working, espe-
cially the higher melting point met
ais, resulting in hardening and sub
stantial exhaustion of Elasticity. It
also was learned that relocating
such cold-worked metal would re-
store softness and Elasticity.
About fifty years ago there be-
gan a new epoch in these studies.
The microscope came into use as a
powerful tool with which to study
structures and physical measure
ments were undertaken with suffi-
clent precision to learn something
OF the minor changes accompanying
plastic reformation.
1T was soon found that hot work
did not elongate permanently the
existing grains, but that cold work
did"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19

away wholly by the extraordinary
excitement which is created in
Street Scene" There is a touch Of
very high talent in the manner in
which the murder is accomplished.
I had feared closeups of the dying
woman and the man.
Naturally I expected that a huge
face of the angry stagehand, dis
torted with rage, would be slapped
across the entire screen. Nothing of
the sort occurred. There was mere
ly a rush up the stairs, cries from
the street, the shots and the crash
of broken glass.
And then, with inspired speed, the
screen shows the people coming
from all directions, the sweep of the
ambulance through the crowd and
most poignant of all-the daugh-
ter trying to edge her way through
the people on the stairway of the
81" structure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19

Health Magazine.
IF a muscle is taken from the
L body and stimulated once every
second its contractions will become
slower and slower, and weaker and
weaker. In few minutes it will
be unable to contract at all.
If these contractions are traced
and recorded one above the other
the curve of contractions at first is
tall and narrow. AS the muscle be-
comes tired the contractions get
weaker and slower, until finally the
muscle simply will not move at all.
The first effect of the fatigue is a
slowing of the contraction rather
than a weakening. Those who have
run long races know that near the
end of the race the legs do not seem
to be weak but they simply will not
move as fast as we want them to
move.
If the blood supply is cut off
from the one set of leg muscles and
permitted to go on in the other set,
and if the muscles are then stimu-
lated, the muscles without blood be-
come fatigued much more quickly
than those that are receiving blood.
In fact, the muscles without blood
seem to become paralyzed in few
minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Hard to Believe

CECRETARY OF WAR HURLEY
~ is quoted as having said that
we are in the Philippines by right
of conquest, that 100000 inteIli-
gent natives want us to stay, and
that the other 100000 don't I'M
derstand the issue.
1t is hard to believe that Mr..
Hurley made such statement at
such a time, but that does little
good, since he hardly could stop
the argument by denying it.
Whatever our attitude may be,
independence has become live
topic with Filipinos, and they are
passing up no excuse to talk about
If
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
M. E. Tracy

Whatever Our Attitude May
Be, Independence Is a Line
Topic With Filipinos, and
They Pass Up No ETcuse
to Talk of 1t.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 Six
IL leaders of the recent naval
mutiny in Chile have been tried,
convicted and sentenced to death,
but the people clamor for mercy.
England's naval strike results in
promise of the government to
talk things over if the strikers will
be good.
The lady who bit one New Jer-
sey cop the other day, hung a pic
ture frame on the head Of another,
and slapped a constable, is fined
only SO.
Are we losing some of the old
iron, or growing more temperate
and intelligent?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Let us Remember
NNAHATMA GANDHI is in Lon

NNAHATNIA GANDHI is in Lon
1V1 don for the purpose of gain
ing home rule, if not independence
for the greatest colony ever held by
any nation.
Whatever may be the immediate
outcome of his efforts, there can be
no doubt of their ultimate success.
We are approaching the end of
that gorgeously romantic era of
plumber and exploitation which was
ushered in by Columbus, and which
began to fade on July 4, 1776.
In discussing the Philippine
question, let US remember that our
own country once was a collection
of colonies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN has a comfortable
~ philosophy. Comfortable that is, for men, He con-
tends that should think of matrimony until
he has reached so. BY that time he has learned to
understand himself, has enjoyed varied experiences
and hence is ready to settle down and give some
attention to wife.
1t is not surprising that women do not take to
philosophy. So many of its learned followers fail
to sympathize with them. Mr. Nathan, like others
before him. formulateS his theories without consult
ing the tastes or the happiness of any his own
Or does he really believe that women enjoy
marrying 50-year-old men?
That is hardly likely Nor can it be possible that
he would 500 broaden his ideas as to advocate that
women of 40 or As, which is a consistent standard
for mating.
Knowing men as he does he surely must realize
that when overrpe bachelors their thoughts to
matrmony, they always cast sleeps eyes at fair and
unsuled 20-year-old maidens. This has been the
custom of elderly gentlemen from time inmemorial
MIR. NATHAN viii have to admit that this plan,
1N1 if followed by all, would leave the old, as well
as the young, girls in pretty much of a fix. The
woman past 80 would be doomed to perpetual spin
sterhood, while the gay young one would have to
marry regular grandpa.
George Jean, who has long way to go before
he reaches the half-century mark forgetS that at
that age most have developed paunch. or a
bald spot an upper plate; that they neither
gallant ard generous they used to be, and
hav prediction for the chimney corner.
The only people who really love 50-year-old men
their mothers. their daughters, their wives of
long standing. We advise Mr.. Nathan not to trust
himself TO his own philosophy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-19
A Whole HOLIDAY

IN this hectic day of worry over
Il too much wheat and cotton it is
startling to discover an overproduc-
ton in whale oil, not because of
lessened demand, but because mod
ern methods of killing and trying
have increased the supply out of all
reason.
In 1919 the bill amounted to
10000 whale, but in 1929 it had risen
to $4,000.
Being thoroughly organized, the
whale industry could call halt,
which is exactly what it did.
Though most people are unaware
of it, we are in the midst of a whale
holiday, not for one year, but two.