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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

The Shaffer barber shop was
sold this week to Milton Libby and
Ralph Harper, who have assumed
management. Mr.. Shaffer will go
to the coast to spend a few
months. The new proprietors are
both experienced men in their
line, Mr.. Libby having just finish
ed three years experience in the
barber shop of beauty parlor.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Inc Garden Tracts bridge club
a nae with Mrs. C. C. Day on Tues
say afternoon with two tables of
members and a guest table. Mrs
nasch held high score in the club
auu Miss Lucille Withers was
a aa the guest prize. The
S seSs meeting will be held at the
hume OF Mrs. F. N. Sigmon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Inc Altar Society met with Mrs.
: W. Hawkins Sunday afternoon.
10. Inc Misses Dayl Miller and Lii
r au crowley, owners of the M. &
=, sWeete Shoppe, left Monday
h. ing for few days vacation to
M spent at Milton and in the Blue
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Miss Silver Mcguire is expected
to arrive Friday evening from
Helena, Montana, where she is a
student at Inter-Mountain college,
to spend her vacation with her
father, w. C. Mcguire and family
of 113 Kent Street.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Mrs. w. N. Wilson of Walla
Walla visited with her daughter,
Mrs. Vernon Bird on Monday. She
was accompanied by Warren Will
SON of Beaverton, Oregon, whom
Mrs. Bird hadn't seen for % years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Lincoln
and daughter, Margaret Mary of
Toppenish spent Sunday visiting
with their parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
F. n. Lincoln and Mrs. j. M.
Hawkins, and took in the ball game
in the afternoon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11
Alex Mcdonald. foreman for the

Alex Mcdonald, foreman for the
Fred Rebman road building COM
pany, and his crawling crew ar
rived Monday evening from Lewis
ton, Idaho and have started work
on gravelling the Kennewick-Ply-
mouth road. They have just COM
pleted a contract near Lewiston.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Richard Lane of Portland, a w.
sc. student and classmate of
Thomas Brown, came home with
him and is spending the week at
the home of Toms parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. F. Brown on Kenne-
wick Avenue.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

j. r. Minugh and children, Jean
and Richard, left for their home at
Harlem, Montana Saturday morn
ing, after spending week visiting
his father-in-law, ]. A. Hatch and
family.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Eldred Peacock, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. A. Peacock, who has at
tended Harvard university, left
Cambridge, Mass, last week and
stopped in New York Wednesday
on his way home by automobile. He
is motoring to the coast with
classmate. He is nephew Of Mrs.
L. J. Aldrich.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Mrs. C. A. Florine, who went
thru the Portland medical clinic
more than two weeks ago, is still
in the hospital receiving medical
treatment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-06-11

Phillip Hawkins and Francis
Koelker spent the weekend in
Portland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
MONDAY, MARCH g, 1881
Unemployment Relief

Mere mention of the term-unemploy- ment relief-causes enough mental twists and quirks to send any man to an aieniSt to-day. The expression has been rather overdone but there is nothing that better fits the situation. However with a view towards removing this bugaboo from our midst Senator William H. Hackett of New Haven spoke at some length and with much feeling before legislative committee last week The senator asks an ap- propriation of Sl000 so that the state may name commission of five to study the causes and effects of industrial depressions, not neces- sarily the present one but the periodic ones with which the nation is familiar.
 Senator Hackett considers such depression and consequent lack of employment as dis ease that can be cured by proper treatment. He points out that medical science has kept pace with the times and is prepared to combat the most dreaded of diseases. It has pitted its skill and ability against the forces that lay low the strong. These results have only been at tained after years of research work and experi- mentation. The same thought and study must be applied to an industrial depression. The subject should appeal to Connecticut inasmuch as this state is highly industrialized.
 A let-down in our industrial activities means corresponding let-down in the lives of three -fourths of our inhabitants, dependent in one extent or another upon the steady whrr of the wheels of our many and diver sihed plants As Senator Hackett puts it The individual on account of lack of en- poyment is forced to lower his standard of living is weakened physically and mentally and ultimately made victim of despair That condition probably exists now. Each community is meeting it as best it can with limited resources. But how much easier 1t would have been to combat these depressing forces had we anticipated their coming.
 In recommending study of unemployment insurance Senator Hackett follows in the foot steps of personal friend and collegemate of his, U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner of New Ycrk. The Wagner unemployment insurance bill was agitated before congress during the winter Of course such forms of insurance must be approached cautiously That's why we are merely passing through the dlagnostic stage of it now. The day will come, though, when some practical plan will have to be put into operation. What form 1t will take remains for the survey, research, and exper- ments to show. Medical science still seeks crre for cancer. The industrial world with the aid of the state might well cast about to find why we have industrial depressons, how they may be prevented or better still how they may be combatted when they do ocur.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
Builders and Buildings

The building trades, according to the presl- dent of building company have been "sav- iors of the country" How so! Because, he explains, by preventing wage cuts, they have prevented ruinous deflation of building values If building were deflated to its pre-war figure" he says. most of us would start to build. Then all structures would go down in value, with tremendous losses to owners, insurance companies banks and other lending agencies. By their stand for the maintenance of wages, these unions will lead us back to prosperity.
 That's one way of looking at the matter. And there may be good deal of truth in 1t. Such deflation as has occurred in the build ing industry - which is mainly in the cost of materials - is now regarded by many economists as beneficial because it tends to stimulate new building.
 This deflation has really gone farther than most people realize. One authority says that the dollar today will buy more than twice what 1t would in 1920. It is obviously good time to build, unless we build too much At present there isn't much visible danger of that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09

on horsemeat and dogmeat. while money held for them at Washington was spent on useless irrigation. He represents Montana Indians as dying IS times faster than whites He ob- served Sioux drinking dirty creek water for lack of wells and living on an annual income of $l5.94 apiece, with riches held in their name by the Indian Bureau. He says the general Indian death rate triples the national rate, and the tuberculosis rate is seven and one-half times the white rate.
 The race is being destroyed. Of more thap 100000 Indians estimated to have been alive in this country when Columbus discovered America. there were left in 1924 only l62.- 900 full bloods and total pure and mixed of 100000. He tells of 86 Indian claims which, at the present rate. will be dismissed by the Court of Claims in 2210 A. D. The book is dedicated to the first Congress that will eradicate what Lincoln 70 years ago called an aceursed system" May it be the next congress-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09

Why is it that when womens
 skirts grow longer. a business de-
 pression is approaching, and when the skirts grow shorter. good times
 are coming? Professor Baker
 Brownell's query to a Northwestern University class.
 The greatest number of failures
 are among those who were pam-
 pered or dependent children-Dr AL
 fred Adler.
 People of Michigan do not want
 school teachers who smoke.--
 Charles McKenny, president of Mich igan State Normal school. Business becomes better when people feel better about it.---Sir Reg inaid McKenna.
 I leave the American people to fudge between General Butler and myself, and am satisfied to abide by their verdict.--Al Capone. an- gered by reports that Butler had said l the gang chieftain would be deported when public opinion became aroused.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
NEA Service Writer

IN EkfA SCEvACC vvEAtNA
 Washington The ambassador who tells this story would be very sore if his name were mentioned. Ambassadors, above all other per- sons here, feel that they must pre- serve their dignity in the public eye. But it's a good story, just the same. He was entertaining the finance minister of his country. His family was at the time in the homeland. It's big embassy, but the man who opens the door and also drives vis- itors up to the ambassador in the elevator was having night off. The ambassador and the finance minister had a joint dinner date. The amhas- sador undertook to operate the ele- vator as they started, in stoveplpe hats, to the ground floor.
 Between floors the elevator stuck. That was about 7:30 p. m. They stay ed in that elevator until after II D. m. There were no seats.
 What on earth did you talk about?" asked your correspondent. Everything in the world until my man returned" seid the ambas- sador. "Of course, before very long we were sitting on the floor. The one thing I remember is that told him that our diplomatic establish ments abroad were in serious need of more liberal appropriation to keep our plants in good repair. For instance. I said, the elevator. Since then we have been able to afford a new elevator. But don't you ever publish this story or I will kill you with my own hand"
 | One can always make the over- worked girls of the U. S. Employ ment Service happy by passing along the word that Washington IS just as bad a place as any other to which to come looking for Job. Folks out of town appear to be stim ulated every time congress appro- priates a few hundred million dol- lars for something or other. But the fact is that there is less than the ordinary opportunity for govern ment jobs. :.
 The Civil Service Commission, it may be noted, is holding fewer ex- aminations than ever, and the ex- planation given Is that resignations from the federal payroll are down to a minimum. That's natural enough, of course, because ordinar- fly when employees leave $he govern mn service-except on retirement they are leaving to take more luc- rative jobs in private business. Just now, pr1Vate DuSlneSS HdsH very many posts to fill.
 And there are many persons who used to work for Uncle Sam who left him but still retained their civil service status. who are trying to get back after falling victims to the de- pression and joining the ranks of the unemployed.
 
 The death of the widow of Ad- miral Dewey of the Spanish-Amer- ican War fame recalled the fact that for more than 12 years his name was carried in the Washington tele- phone directory by Mrs Dewey for sentimental reasons. Last year, be- fore she died, the telephone com pany persuaded her to drop it, and the listing became that of Mrs Dewey.
 The idiosyncrasy was not confined
 to Mrs Dewey. One knows of othei
 widows in the capital, whose hus-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
The Wet Candidate

Senator Robert M. La Toilette, Jr, of Wis consin in an interview with the Philadelphia Record states that President Hoover will be rcnominated by his party in l932 and that he will run on strictly dry platform There will be no split in the republican ranks over the wet and dry issue, the Wisconsin senator ayers. In that event we wonder just who will champion the cause of the anti -prohibitionists in l932. If the republican party fails to heed the storm signals set for it in the now famous Wiekersham report we don't know who will The democrats really ought to if they intend to stand by their Jeffersonian principles, but the dry south and west claim that the wet north doesn't control the convention.
 Offhand one might claim that the time IS ripe for third party not necessarily to be labelled -Prohbtionist but to be the party of those democrats and possible liberal republicans who believe in the doctrine of states rights. We rather imagine that Senator La Toilette has the right angle on the situation, He might have put it more harshly by stating that the republicans will straddle the liquor issue as best they can. Remember they have to face the storm of criticism that will follow if they cast the Wickersham report overheard. That committee was going to do big things for Mir Hoover. It did even bigger things than he imagined. It set minds to working on pos sble solutions of the hopeless tangle in which we are now enmeshed
 And when people get to thinking about is sues which come right home to them it isn't always wise policy to go against their grain. Politicians may assert that prohibition isn't campaign issue just as they cry that the tariff is purely an economic problem. Maybe so. but both have been injected into politics too much to be divorced without long hearing. We honestly believe that more people in this nation are concerned over the prohibition question than any other that has confronted us since the World war. It is topic of con- versation in any circle It provides endless de- bates. It will continue to do so until pro- hibition has been decided one way or the other That's why we claim there must be a wet party in 1852. Hoover is advanced as the dry candidate. Who'll be the wet3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
IN BARBARY na AH AMkA NEW NORkER5CtV

The Flo Ziegfeld of North Africa is one Sherif Mahomet Mamouni. He is one of the superior showmen of the world.
 Down in the souks of Fez he has shop of leather goods and ham mered silver and other trinkets for the eye of the tourist. Around the corner, another of those slimy, smelly highways leads to an ordi- nary door of Moorish design. It seems to be part and parcel of the local picture that the filthier the exterior, the more beautiful the in- terior.
 So it is with the sherif. The guides "steer' the spending visitors out to be jolly and rotund gent, who might pass for a Broadway comedian in an exatic music show. He keeps guest books and has thousands of American signatures. He knows his ballyhoo and his sales manship.
 Seating his guests on the most luxurious silken pillows, he claps his jeweled hands a couple of times and out come a couple of lovely hand maidens bearing huge silver incense burners from which pour the fumes of sandalwood.
 A couple of more signals and more attendants appear with steam ing silver urns where mint tea-the national drink here-is being brew ed. There are sweetmeats and cakes and dancing girls, and by the time
 that atmosphere" has been well established, smart "come on" gent suggests a visit to the Sherif's shop. Of course, one does not have to buy. Just look around. The tourists
 leave, with sandalwood still intoxi- eating their nostrils, and arms load- ed with souvenirs.
 A nice racket. if you asked me. I was so confused by it all that I
 started leaving by the wrong door Just as I was swinging it open 8
 dozen voices screeched at me. had
 almost entered the part of the house where the women dwell-about as serious an offense as one can ina zine, in these parts.
 GILBERT SWAN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09

Scattered fragments from the notebook of a Barbary wanderer:
 I wonder if modern chemists, with all their didoes and scientific know ledge, will ever be able to recapture any of the "lost'' colors~ such as I have come upon out here? Such. for instance, as the exquisite Persian blue, found in the upper filings of the Kutubia tower of Marrakech? They tell me it has never been du- plicated in all the passing centuries. And it Is the loveliest shade ever have beheld.
 Tombs of kings crumble, but TO- nance remains ever fresh.
 Thus, have just come from wan dering through all the remains of the tombs of the Saadion kings. These were hidden from the eyes of all outsiders until the French stum- bled upon them a few years ego. In the massive Moorish carvings overhead may be found clues to all the cathedral architecture I have glistens dully in the half light There is damp and clammy sense of antiquity; a sense, too, of intrusion. A souvenir hunter in the
 party slips bit of broken tiling into his pocket. shudder.
 The guide points to two, particu-
 larly prominent slabs of stone, tri- angular in shape and close to the flooring. "There,' he remarks, cas-
 ually, ''lies the white queen and her
 black husband"
 For the moment, time is wiped away. The Arabian Nights seem to
 be brushing past. Their comes tale of dark-skinned ruler who
 wanted a white queen. Along the pirate coast the word was passed
 that when ships were seized or scut- tied, search should be made for a beautiful white woman, And so. in time, they dragged white-skinned
 woman into his royal presence. Who was she? Where had she
 sailed from? Did she languish into
 death or did the exotic orientalism
 of her new life enchant her? None can answer. In the gloomy crypt you trip over the stone that holds forever the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09

Farmers of Massachusetts report unusually good signs for heavy maple syrup yield this year. The winter has been of such nature that the sap is sure to flow heavy and long. they say. A few farmers whose trees are &C., cessibe have already tapped them. The re- mainder are waiting for the recent snows to melt so that they can get their lines estab- lished and paths cleared to the sap house. It won't be very long now before the familiar sap buckets or pails will be eheery sight along our own state highways. The Tor rington-L -Litchfeld road always presents pleasant picture in maple sap time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09

December he will make the subject an issue in the house Just at present he is studying immigration figures and records with an eye to affecting certain reforms that will cut down illegal entry into this country. While most of us are familiar with the term. "bootlegger" we don't usually connect it with immigrants However there is increasing evidence every year that the number of immigrants boot legged across our border lines is large one And in addition to that there are shrips ar irving in every harbor and landing visitors every day in the week. They don't land through the ordinary channels either. And oftentimes it is many years before the govern ment finds out it has visitors who have no legal right in the country. It it good topic that Mir Lonergan is tackling. We wish him luck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
TO=DAY'S SELECTED POEM
GYPSY MARCH

(By Rose E. Sharland in The Christian Science
 Montor) q Jade beads he hung on the south hawthorn
 hedges
 Earrings of beauty just minted for Spring; Catkins he swung the trees in the sedges, Piping the while to bird the wing Rare gold he hid in green, sleepy hollow Celandines holding the glow of the sun; Cried-"Here are stars! There thousands to
 follow!"
 Tossed his first primrose, and spring had
 begun. Over the piowed lands-the red lands of Devon Over the Somerset nillsides and coombes Roamed March, the gypsy, his eyes clear as
 heaven
 Sweeping the sky with his bundle of brooms Sweeping the clouds till the gold sun was smiling Showing the blue tAat is ever behind, Whistling to buds and blades, fute-notes be-
 guilIng,
 Combing the grass with a sea-scented wind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09

Nothing is sacred in these days of keen competition for water rights. Hartford IS reaching out for available water supplies for it's metropolitan district with an eye to the future when the city will be called upon to take care of the numerous towns surrounding it. It proposes to dam the east branch of the Pennington river and create a storage res- ervoir of considerable size. However, if this dam is ever built it will force many residents of Barkhamstead and Hartland to abandon the homes that have been theirs for years. Not only that but it will bury three cemeteries at the bottom of the reservoir. The bodies will be removed from the graves before the dam is completed and transferred to other nearby burying grounds or an entirely new one prepared. However. that is nothing new, according to Caleb M. Saville, manager of the Hartford Water Works. He says that the Nepaug reservoir covers three former ceme- teres. Before water was impounded by the Nepaug dam the graves were opened and the bodies removed. In another section of the state the highway department is trying to secure part of family burying ground to eliminate curve in the roadway. However. the Hitchcock (of polo fame) family to whom the property belongs is putting up determined resistance to attempts to desecrate the cemetery
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
Indian Massacre

Massacre book by Robert Gessner of the faculty of New York University, is not pleasant thing to read. The massacre has been perpetrated by the whites on the Indians, through neglect for many years. In making his study. the author lived with the Indians for three years and made himself familiar with the conditions he writes about He in- eorporates the findings of many government experts and senatorial committees.
 He found Northwest Indians forced to live
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
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GRANTS COMMAND


 On March 9, 1864, General Ulysses s. Grant was appointed commander in-chief of the entire Union armies. His appointment came after his success against the south in the bat ties of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Folt Don- elson and Chattanooga. Grants first move as commander was to foresake his original plan of trying to lead his western army to Atlanta and the sea Instead, he assumed personal charge of the army of the Potomac. At this time the federal forces united to make it's memorable march against the south.
 The appointment of Grant to su- preme command of the federal armies crowned the military career of a man who entered West Point against his will, and wno admitted in his writings that military life was distasteful to him.