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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
The News In Hanford
By Mrs. M. e. Slauens

Mr.. and Mrs. Ormas Evett and fam
lily visited the Audley Evett family
at Kennewick on Sunday.
Mrs. c. F. Wooten returned from
Walla Walla on Fridays stage. Mr..
Wooten, who underwent an operation
for appendicitis at the Veterans hos
pital at Walla Walla last week, is
getting along nicely.
w. M. Alger, Nathan Alger and
Mrs. Ralph King returned to the
Coast Monday after spending week
Little Shirley Jean Harris Of Yak
ina, who has been visiting at the
Heard home, returned Monday.
Mrs. John Conkie entertained at
dinner on Sunday In honor OF her
husband whose birthday was Sunday.
Other guests were Eerl Knaub Of
Vernita and Miss Edith Dc Rigio
whose birthdays occurred that week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Waldorf of
Everett, ]. H. Strasser of Elma, Mr..
and Mrs. w, E. Bishop of Walla
Walla, Harry g, Reuther of Seattle,
and Baptiste Rergagna of Gle Elum
"S1S oA1oAS lAE OUT VI VOWu people
who came over to vote on Saturday.
Mrs. T. E. Kamerer entertained
Saturday evening at bridge in honor
of her husband, whose birthday oc-
Cured that day. High honors went to
Mrs. E. r. Griner and second high
to Mrs. Guy Dayton. There were nine
present.
The Ladies Aid meet Thursday,
May 7, at the home of Mrs. E. R.
Griner.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Weber, Jr.
and little Melvin came over from Sc
attic the latter part of the week.
q. ur.ior returned Sunday but Mrs. Web
Der and Melvin remained for longer
visit. She is visiting her parents in
Kennewick at present.
Mrs. VIM. Fillmore, who lives at
the gas fields, was taken i'll while at
tending the ball-game Sunday. She is
at present at the Planters hotel, but
will be able to leave the latter part of
the week.
Fay Davis's parents of Freewater
spent the weekend at the Davis home.
Mrs. Rodgers, of Milton who came
over with them will remain with her
daughter, Mrs. Davis, for more ex-
tended visit.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
COLD CREEK

Robert Schlosser was called to Sun
nyside, Friday, April II by the death
of his brother, Charles Schlosser.
The birthdays of E. E. Meeker and
Glenn Drawn were celebrated at the
Meeker home Saturday evening,
Aprsil 10, with a party.
Mrs. Myrtle Chambers, who win
tered her flocks last winter at Cold
Creek, in moving her sheep this week
to the summer range on the Colville
reservation in the northern part of
the state.
j. w. Wilson made trip to Pros
ser Sunday to bring home Mrs Will
son, who has been spending a few
days with her mother, Mis-. Hall.
The latter, who was operated on for
the removal of a goiter about three
months ago, is still very weak.
Russell Brown made a business
trip to Prosser Thursday Of last week.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
LILY POOL IDEA POPULAR

Have you a lily pool in your yard!
Many White Bluffs garden lovers are
putting these in, this spring, ana
stocking them with goldfish and
aquatic plants and without doubt
they lend great interest as we'll as
beauty to an otherwise featureiess
garden.
Some of the pools are made OF
cement and vary in size and shape
according to the taste Of the builders,
others are made by sinking an iron
tub or barrel in the ground but all
are very effective.
Discussing the question of the ef-
feet of aquatic plants on mosquito
control. the q. s. Department of Ag-
riculture says that there is little that
is practical in this idea although
some plants give off large quantities
of oxygen which collects in the form
Of tinv bubbles at the surface of the
water. This fact has been considered
as a possible clue to the toxic erect
of the plant on mosquito larvae. as
# has been demonstrated that large
quantities of oxygen are 1atal 70
these larvae.
The plants also, in areas where
thew make luxuriant growth prevent
nnosoitoes from breeding by SO COM
nletely covering the surface OF tne
water with their leaves that mosquit-
oes can not deposit their eggs. Inc
nlants themselves, however, are not
toxic to mosquitoes, since dead OF
dying plants furnish an exceliens
food for larval development.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
IN B TWEEN

Mrs. F. S. Hicks arrived on Friday
mornings train to be present at the
bond election and to visit old friends
for awhile. She says that little OAR
lene Fairbanks is down with the
mumps at the home of her grand
mother, Mrs. Peterson, with whom
she lives, and her sister, Arliss, stays
with neighbor lady in Seattle and
goes to school. Arliss is not very
strong and intends to come over here
after school rs out, to spend her
vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Beers and two
children Of Yakima were weekend
guests at the parental T. H. Beers
home.
Mrs. E.. W. Heards father. J..
Alger, and brother, Nicholas Alser,
and her sister. Mary Jane Gay. who
have been visiting at the Heard home
the last week, left Monday morning
for their home in Raymond.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Heard We're
visitors at the Guy Harris home IN
Yakima week ago Monday. Shirley
Harris, their granddaughter, came
home with them for a weeks visit.
Mrs. Guy Harris, accompanied by
her father-in-law, Guy Harris, ST.,
drove over from Yakima Sunday and
thew were guests at the Heard home
for the day. They returned to Yakima
in the afternoon, taking with them
Shirley Harris who had spent a week
with her grandparents.
M. and Mrs. B. Bergagna of Gle
Elun1 were weekend guests at the
B. Salvini home.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. McGlothern
were business visitors in Yakima
Tuesday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
No investment promises such returns
as the few cents put into a little
want ad in the Spokesman
Ihe First Lick"

XX7HEN you slip a tray Of
wv custard into your automat-
ic refrigerator, click shut
the door and 60 out for drive,
confident of a frozen dessert when
you come home-mousse, ice
cream or parfait-do you ever re-
call what an event freezing ice
cream" was, not SO long ago?
You were just a youngster then,
hut you watched with eager eyes
while mother beat up the Gus
tard and father got the ice. maybe
from the ice-house, and put it in
a heavy gunny-sack to pound 1t
up with the axe. Then there was
the job OF carrying up coarse
salt. perhaps from the cattle barn,
to add to the chopped ice. Next
the gunny-sack and maybe news
papers were pressed into service
to wrap the not-so-air-tight freez-
er against inroads of warm air.
"My Turn Next!"
AND then your turn came! II
was fun, at first, to turn the
creaking handle-but the fun
lasted much too long. II there
were brothers and sisters, you
took turns and whiled away the
hours down in the cool dampness
Of the cellar arguing as to who
should have "the first lick"-the
first thrill Of licking from the
dasher that creamy and unbeliev.
ably cold vanilla cream!
What would you have thought
could you have opened refrig-
orator door and beheld a self
frozen substance bearing the en-
tfcing name Pineapple Moussei
1t is no better, but 1t will rival,
at least. that first lick" Heat
two cups Of crushed pineapple.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
Early New Haven

In it's earliest days New Haven
was called Quinnipiac by the Indians
and it was also called Roodenberg by
some of the early colonists.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Jones ant
three little daughters drove down from
Winesap last Tuesday and visited
that Of E. ]. Jones. They returned
at the Walter Jones home and also
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Asmussen and
their two children Doris and Maurice
Of Mansfield, spent the weekend a,
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. D.
Gooch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph odell and chill.
dren visited at the Frank Odell home
last week.
Joe orsll had his air-plane out
recently for the first time since last
fall. He overhauled the engine and re.
paired the damage done to the wings
BY woodpeckers. This Is the first time
Joe has been up since he was 80 badly
burned at the garage.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Carson Of Seattle
are spending week with their son,
A. L. Carson. The Carsons have re-
Gently bought the tract known as the
E. A. Brown place.
Mrs. W.. H. Wehmeier of Seattle
spent the weekend in Hanford. She
had as passengers Mr.. and Mrs. Mark
Whelan, Mrs. Margaret Earls and
Miss Branin. This is the first time
Mr.. Whelan has visited in Hanford
since losing his eye-sight. He recog-
nized the voices of his old friends and
it was pleasure to talk to them even
tho he could not see them.
jennie McConnachie drove to Top
penish Friday to bring home his
mother who has been visiting her son
Raymond and family there for over
week.
Mrs. Robert MacDonnel drove to
Yakima Friday. She had as passengers
Mrs. ]. w. Fenley and Mr.. and Mrs.
J. ]. Dwyer. The two latter went
from there to their home in Seattle
Rev. H. A. Noyes, r. S. Bixby, G.
p. Mansfield, Miss Mary Cox and
Miss Ina Bernice Dayton attended the
Sunday School convention held in
Kennewick last Saturday. Reports of
the convention will be given Sunday
morning May 3rd, at S. S.
Mrs. Frances Hicks came over from
Seattle on Fridays train and is visit
ing friends in the valley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT
URGE CHILD PROTECTION

MAY DAY is CHILD HEALTH
DAY, proclaimed President Hoover,
pursuant to a resolution passed by
Congress requesting such proclaim
alton. He stated: "The responsibility
for the well-being of children il a
community responsibility as we'll az
an individual duty" He also "com-
mends for consideration" the "Chil-
dren's Character" as set forth by the
White House Conference in Child
Hath.
Tie Caracter bespeaks:
"For every child HEALTH PRO-
tectinr from BIRTH TO ADOLES-
CENCE, including: Periodical health
examinations and. where needed,
care Of specialists and hospital treat
ment, regular dental examinations
and care Of the teeth; protective and
preventive measures against commun.
icable diseases, the insuring Of pure
food, pure milk and pure water"
The Magma Charta Of Childhood
marks the berth Of new era for
American Children, yes, for the
American nation, as truly as did the
signing of the "Magna Charter" by
Kink John Of Runnymede in 1915
give to the world new conception
Of individual rights.
The ideals and the aims of the
scientific medical world, for which
the health leaders have been striving
for years, are embodied in this Char
ter.
The America of tomorrow will
be super-nation, if it's children re-
ceive all these blessings, concludes the
Public Health League of Washington.
The pessimists tell us there is no
progress, but certainly we have made
a great advance from the horse and
buggy days when parents claimed the
right to withhold from children all
health protection if, by some whim
or caprice, they desired so to do.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30

A Feast of Hope
!. All. men are guests where i ne doth
hold the observation-disclosures.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Rev. L. c. Krug, Pastor.
"Fight the good fight Of faith
1 Tim. 6, IL
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
ii a. M, Divine Service
Bible class meets Wednesday even
ing at o'clock.
Confirmation Class Saturday, $3.50
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30

Mrs. L. N. Fry, Allatd-Vernita
correspondent of the Spokesman. is
suffering from a badly wrenched
knee caused when she caught her
self from falling down the base
ment steps at the Vernita school
house LIST Saturday night
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
Tid-Bits for Mice

Bait your mouse traps wi! Pump
kin seeds. Mice like them.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30

and three-fourths cup of sugar.
two teaspoons Of gelatine soaked,
in two tablespoons cold water and
two tablespoons Of lemon juice.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-30
How Not to Work

Some men are born unemployed,
some achieve unemployment, and only
the willing workers have unemploy-
ment thrust upon them.-Boston Eve
ming Transcript.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16
RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF
THE NEXT WAR
(FrOm the Portland, Oregon News)

\rTOm the EOIHldn0, OregOn NSWSJ
1t seems to have been determined, by the bank
rupt minds that operate the world, that the only
solution for present troubles is another war;"
A new war will, it is hoped, kill off surplus
labor This is obviously the easiest means of get
ting rid of it, and the chest minds WILL as usual,
take the easiest way
1t is so much easier 30 start a war than to
apply common sense to world ills
Well, if are going 10 have another war, we
might as well have some rules for it. The last
was fought, as the politicians say ''irregardless'
of rules-and it was pretty much of a mess. We
offer, for public approval, model set of rules
/. That the manufacturers of army raincoats
be compelled to wear their own product, pay their
doctor bills when stricken with pneumonia,
and defray their own funeral expenses.
2. That all congressman and senators voting fol
war be given the choice of enlisting in the shock
troops or being shot the capitol steps
8. That all manufacturers of war supplies be
hanged when their profits reach the milion-dolar
mark.
a. That uplift agencies, charged with the moral
welfare of the troops, be prohibited from shipping
cash registers into the zone.
5. That all FOur-Minute speakers he shot at
the completion of their first two minutes of ora
tory
6. That all holy men who announce to their
congregations that the Almighty is fighting with
be dispatched to interview Him personally on
the subject and find out
Z. That each battleship, cruiser, destroyer and
submarine carry, excess baggage, one or more
stockholders in battleship building concerns
8. That the secret service be restrained from
the discovery of "enemy plots" every time some
body turns on light in the parlor.
9. That paper manufacturers be prohibited
from entering the shoe making trade.
10. That restaurant proprietors near concentra
ton camps be enjoined from having two menus
one for civilians and one, the higher prices, fol
soldiers.
II. That college professors be stopped from
delving into history to prove that the enemy al
ways was low-down scoundrel, anyway.
IL. That the cause of war shall be clearly
stated to the people as the reduction Of unemploy
ment, and not disguised ga holy war to saw
civilization
There are, of course, many rules needed
But these will suffice for starter. We sugges
their adoption by luncheon clubs sewing circles
debating societies and other cultural agencies AM
their transmission, with resolutions urging thei
passage, to congress.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16
FULL YEARS WORK

Down on the farm, bout half past four,
slip on my pants and sneak out of the door.
Out to the yard run like the dickens,
TO milk ten cows and feed the chickens,
Clean out the barn, curry Nance and JiggS.
Separate the cream and slOp all the pigs
Work two hours then eat like Turk,
And, by heck, I'm ready for full days work.
Then grease the wagon and put on the rack,
Throw jug of water in an old grain sack,
Hitch up the horses hustle down the lane,
Must get the hay in fer it looks like rain.
Look over yonder, sure as I'm born
Tattle's the rampage and cows in the corn.
Start across the medder, mile or two,
Weaving like I'm windbrOke, get wet clean through.
Get back to the horses, then for recompense, =
Nance got straddle the barbed wire fence.
Joints all a-achng, and muscles in a jerk
I'm fit as fiddle for full days work.
Work all summer till winter is nigh,
Then figure up the books, and heave a big sigh.
Worked all year, didn't make thing
Cost less cash now than had last spring
Now, some people say that there amt no hell,
But they never farmed, so they cannot tell.
When spring rolls round l take another chance,
While the fringe grows longer on my old pants
Give my spenders hitch, my belt another jerk
And, by heck, I'm ready for full years work
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16
FARMERS SHARE
IS SIX CENTS IN
BREAD DOLLAR
He Was Getting 16 Cents at the
Time When the Farm Board was
Opening Up Shop.

Sir Sydney Campbell, British
economist, criticizing the farm
board writes:
"The main object of the board
was announced as securing a larg-
er percentage of the consumers
dollar for the producer. At the
time of the boards inception only
sixteen cents of every dollar paid
by the Chicago housewife for
bread was getting back 10 the man
who grew the wheat.
"After more than two years of
striving toward that end the Unit
ed States wheat grower is getting
only six cents of that dollar. Bread
in Chicago, center of the worlds
largest producing area, which at
this time has an unprecedented
glut, is dearer than it was in Eng
land at the worst crisis Of the
war"
Having reduced the famer's
share Of every dollar paid fol-
bread, from Is cents to 6 cents
why should the farm board be call.
ed a failure? On the other hand
the suspicion is growing through,
out the west that It has been %
unqualified success In increasing
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16
From Labor)

Christopher Christ fOrty-eight, who said
he had lived until recently at 24S w. 4Sth ST.,
collapsed early today on Eighth Ave-, just be-
low And ST. Physicians said Christ was suf-
fering from starvation. Christ said he had
spent yesterday walking about the city seek
ing employment. He was taken to Bellevue
Hospital."-FrOm the New York Post, Oct. 1.
However, although Christ came to Manhattan
and found place to lay his head, it was not for
lack of good hotels. While Christ was wandering,
homeless and starving, through the streets, from
Washington the voice Of President Hoover was
booming over the air, saluting the opening of the
new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Why should Christ have no bed? Here 1900
guests assembled in the fortyseven storied palace
of excusiveness, to listen 10 the fat-head executive
Of American capitalism gable from Washington
as follows:
~Our hotels have come to be conducted In
far larger vision than mere profit making . +.
The epezing of the new WaldOrf-Astori
carries ON a great tradition in national hOspi-
tally"
But Christ held no invitation. National hospi-
tally" did not register
The N Y. Times sang thus of the opening night:
Every dining room has been engaged for
tenight For the fruit cocktail only, there
will be 10000 oranges, pears, apples and pine
apples. There win be zoe gaIlens of soup. 100
pounds of fresh Russian caviar, and 1909 bob
sters. Vegetables and meat run up into the
tons"
But Christ was broke. Christ didn't even hear
Hoover's speech from Washington telling how the
Waldorf-Astoria was not at all interested in "mere
profit making" Thus it came about that the pa
pers reported:
Physicians said Christ was suffering from
starvation"
Jesus Christ!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16
rum WAR IN CHI
.CACO FLARES UP

Chicago, Oct. 49, A bullet
torn body, identified as that of
James L. Quigley, arch foe of
Frank McErlane in internecine
gang strife for south side beer
privileges, was found in a drain
age ditch near here today.
Linking the assassination with
the killing of McErlane's chauf-
feur, Eddie Fitzgerald, and his
sweetheart, Marian Miller, police
expressed conviction the turbulent
district is again in the throes of
bloody liquor war.
Quigley was suspected of killing
Fitzgerald. The chauffeur was
dragged from a saloon and shot
down on the sidewalk by a trio of
men, one of whom was identified
as Quigley. When these witnesses
were called into court, however,
they refused to repeat the identifi-
cation and the case collapsed.
A few days later a machine gun
crew drove past Quigley's home
and poured a stream of bullets In
to the front of the house. The next
night the cunning crew returned
and again sprayed the house with
slugs. Police called to the scene
by alarmed neighbors, arrived just
in time to witness a third machine
cunning but the assailants escaped
McErlane and his henchmen, EC
"Spike" O'Donnell, were thought
by police to have perpetrated the
attack. This theory gained weigh
Thursday when McErlane's bulle
SCARED car containing the bulle
riddled body of Miss Miller wa
found near his stronghold. This
) female had been shot to death a.
had her two dogs.
. Neighbors told police that Nc
Erlane had left an apartment witt
Miss Miller after hurriedly pack
ing their belongings and the sup
! position was that the pair wa
fleeing from their enemies.
No trace had been found Of Nc
I Erlane.
Quigley, according to police
: withdrew from the McErlane-O
Donnell combination several week
: ago and after recruiting a gan
$ of hoodlums, began muscling int
the territory controlled by hi
S former associates. The McErlanc
e ODonnell alliance also was bein
s harassed by a group headed b
: Danny McGeorgehan, Joe CainsI
o and George Downs. AS a result
+ police said, reign of terror e,
d lists among liquor dealers of IL
y district while the three faction
e strive for the upper hand.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16

free preventative medical service given to school
children. None of the children examined were
given milk since they were weaned and they had
meat only on rare occasions. The only change in
diet was the berries they might be able to pick.
The average family of these West Virginia miners
consists of seven persons
DR.. Fox also reports that the non-union miner
in that state owes the company anywhere from ST
to SIT for every two weeks work he puts in.
She also reports that 20 per cent of the chill
dren die because of lack of nourishment to enable
them to resist disease.
Perhaps John D. might send eight dimes to
these miners If he could read this report.
What gripes is that they call this civilization.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16
GERMAN REICHSTAG CONVENES
UNDER ARMED POLICE GUARD

Berlin, Oct. IA The reiehstag
heavily guarded by police against
disorder, convened today with the
reorganized cabinet of Chancellor
Breuning seeking a vote of conf
dence to continue the dictatorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The nationalist opposition, fight
ing to overthrow the government
and have a general election did not
appear at the start of the session.
The entire cabinet, frock-coated,
was seated on the government
bench. Breuning was pale and in
tent. AS soon as the session con-
vened, Ernst Torgler, a communist
demanded withdrawal of the police
forces around the reichstag; Will
relm !Groener, minister of defense
whose police powers were made
much wider in the cabinet reorgan-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-16

How light from the giant S,''r
Arcturus, 240 trillion miles n*;E.
will open the science exhibits ~ \
Century of Progress C'a."ae
1888 Worlds Fair. is shown Ia I.ie
above photo-diagram.
At 9 p. m. of June l, l:r.::;. Ii'Ni
which left Arcturus in 1897 year
of Chicago's first worlds f;::" r
will reach the earth's surface una
Yerkes Observatory at williams
Bay, Wis. Light travels at the
rate of 10000 miles second.
At Yerkes Observatory the star
light will be focused by means of
the ffty-inch telescope on a tiny
photo-electric cell. The impact of
this light will cause an electric
effect in the cell which, amplified,
will send an impulse over wires to
the exposition grounds.
This impulse will throw the nee
essary switches to open the science
exhibits, turn on brilliant Hum
nation and start pOnderOus ma
chinery whirling.