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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
TO HEAR CRY
GOING, GOING.
GONE ON SAT.
Script Auction to Provide
s Substantial Gifts and Fun
for Town Visitors; Kids to
get in Show Free
Come to town Saturday.

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Bring the family purse and all
the scrip you have been able to
accumulate during the past month
for there will be bargains galore
and entertainment aplenty. The
town folks are putting on their
party manners and dress and will
endeaver in every way to see that
you profit materially and have Z
good time, too.
The merchants are making
special offers of their merchan-
disc for that day, they will have
the flags out and their clerks will
wear bouquets and be dolled up in
their prettiest manners and-may-
be-their new white hats.
For the kids = free show has
been arranged, from one until
three. After that time the regu-
lar price will prevail for all, but
with this difference two-bits d
the admission price viii be ac-
cepted in scrip. The show is one
Of the newest releases-in fact is
playing this week in Spokane. It
is Zane Grey story, Z favorite
story with all his many readers,
Heritage Of the Desert" Short
subjects viii fill out the well Sc
lected program. It's q specially
good show.
In the afternoon in the street
between the bank and the thea
tire the auction will be held. Here
hundreds Of articles win be put up
at auction, payment to be made
only IN the scrip which the mer-
chants have been giving out for
the past month
The articles to be "sold" consist
Of large list Of new merchandise,
the most valuable of which il 4
single horse cultivator. A fine
chair, Kodak, groceries, tools,
dishes, q fish bowl, dresser set,
electrical appliances and all sorts
Of useful articles will be put up
to the highest bidder.
Judging from advance informa-
ton the auction should prove to
be lot Of fun for everyone. The
merchandise is good and the
money is gift from the merch-
ants-so everyone who attends
will profit.
Accept the invitation sent you
from the Kennewick business men
and come to their show staged for
your benefit and enjoyment next
Saturday.
Note-Word was received this
evening that the show would start
at IL instead of 1 o'clock, so have
the kids come early to this fine
western feature.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
RELIEF DRIVE
TO STARTED
ON OCTOBER 19
Committee Asks Large Guam
titles Of Outgrown or Out
moded Garments for Re-
Mobilization; Situation Bad

The local relief committee has
set Wednesday, October 10. as the
collection date for used clothing.
The place has not yet been deter
mined, but it will probably be the
city hall.
A greater need than has ever
been experienced in this commune
ity is becoming apparent. Fam
lies which never before have
been compelled to accept aid will
have to accept charity this year,
according to members Of the COM
mittee who have been investigating
conditions thruout the district.
Some families have been provi-
dent enough to acquire fruit and
vegetables enough to last thruout
the winter, but the problem Of Sc
curing adequate clothing is prov
ing too much, in some cases. The
committee, sensing this unusual
need, is asking that housewives
turnout the whole district, go over
their wardrobes and select such
outgrown and outmoded garments
as they feel they can spare and see
to it that the committee knows
about it.
Preparations have been made
for renovating the clothing n d
where necessary it will be made
over and made serviceable. Much
is needed and the hearty cooper
alton of everyone will be urged
and indeed required. Don't delay.
Select what you can now and noti-
fly the relief committee Chairman
at the office Of the county agent.
Do your share cheerfully.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
BIG COUNTIES
GET BREAK IN
DIVISION NOW
Voters to Decide Proposal
to Give Every County at
Least One Representative;
Provides Better Grouping

In our state legislative district,
the last two years have seen two
different and distinct apportiOn-
ment measures in operation. Two
years ago, Benton county was
linked with Yakima county in q
senatorial district, having one
senator. Benton county under
the then existing apportionment
act had one state representative.
Each county had at least one rep
resentative. Under that system
our state legislature had been
formed for many years.
In 1880 initiative No. 81 was
enacted into law by vote Of the
people. 1t provided for redis-
tricting of the entire state ac-
cording to the 1880 federal cen-
sus. In the reapportionment Of
state senators and state repre-
sentatives Benton county was
placed in q district with Ska
mania ,Klickitat and Franklin
counties, which were allowed one
senator and two representatives
Obviously under such apportion-
ment one county will be without
any resident representation. The
result in the larger counties is
that three Of them have suffi-
cient representation to control
the legislature while some of the
smaller counties have no repre-
sentation whatever.
On Nov. 9Th this amendment
will be either adopted or re-
jected by a vote of the people. Il
provides for a House Of SO MEM
bers and a Senate Of as members
up to and including 1871. When
the result of the 1910 census has
been recorded the permanent house
membership will be 80 and the
senate membership will be 40, be-
ginning with the 1913 session.
Each county is given at least one
state representative. No county
can have more than 81 percent Of
the maximum membership. No
representative district shall ex-
tend from one county to another
and no senatorial district COM
prise more than three counties.
After each census there shall Be
q reapportionment and st the first
biennial election thereafter sena-
tors in the odd numbered districts
shall be elected for two years and
in the even numbered districts for
four years. Thereafter senators
from odd numbered districts run
for four year terms. If the leRis-
lature fails to reappOrtion after
each census the governor shall re-
district the state by proclamation.
The bill, If adopted. will allow
Benton county one representative
and will place us in q senatorial
district with Franklin and Adams
counties. It's adoption Is consid-
cred advantageous to our c0un-
ties for three reasons:
1. 1t will insure Benton county
one representative. This advantage
is common to all small counties.
2. 1t will place our county in
the same senatorial district with
two other counties Of similar size
and whose interests are more
nearly in common with ours than
some counties in our present dis
trict.
g. The representation Of the
more populous counties will be
curtailed SO that they will have
less opportunity to control legis-
iablOn.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
SPEAKERS TELL.
US TO SQUASH
POSAL 62
Say Coast Hunters Want Com
troll Of All Game Laws; Bin
Would Create New Expense
and Add Political Power

More than $50 local residents
were interested enough in InitiA-
tive No. 81 to attend meeting ct
the theatre Monday night to hear
A. R. Schumann, Of Yakima tell
why the measure should be de-
feated. 3:
Mr. .Schumann explained how
the proposed measure would take
control of the game from the
county officials and place it in the
hands OF an expensive state conn
mission. He picked to pieces the
arguments made by the propon-
ents of the bill. He defied any
one to show where tax money had
been spent in preparing pamph-
lets against the initiative.
He charged that the passage Of
the bill will open the Yakima val
ley to hunters from the coast who
will come in each year and slaugh-
ter the pheasallts and overrun the
land of the farmers
DR.. O.. L. LSlgar, also Of Yaki-
ma, accompanied Schumann to
the meeting and also spoke against
the measure, as did Charles L.
Powell Benton county prosecutor,
Knute Hill, of Prosser, who pre-
scented the attitude Of tn eGrange
on the bill, and Judge Matt Dris-
coll also spoke against the pas
sage of the initiative.
The meeting was one Of q
series to be held by the Benton
county association between now
and election date in order to
build up a strong OPPOSITION to in
itiative No. SO.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
SECOND WARD
HAS TWO NEW
COUNCILMEN
City Cuts Pay of All It's EN-
ployees when 1888 Budget
is Made; MiIIage is Raised
Slightly in Spite of 1t

Once again all the chairs around
the long table ut the CITY hall were
filled, when Mayor Alfred Amen
read the oath of office to Frank
visger and Irving Gleason Monday
night. The two residents Of Che
second ward held up their right
hands and swore they'd do right
by our Nell.
Monday evening was the time
set for hearing objections 60 the
tentative budget to be adopted by
the city for the coming year and
the councilmen spent long hours
in trying to wbittle down the ex-
penses Of the various departments
to balance with the estimated In
come in the way of taxes.
With cut in valuation Of over
$128.00e considerably less money
can be raised with the same mill
age levies. Whittle as they might
the council found IL impossible to
manage with the same levy az
was made last year. However,
a reduction Of $4.2z5 was made In
the operating expenses Of the city
for next year, Just about half Of
which was made In salary cuts.
Last year the millage was 1925,
while this year It viii require
24.71.
Grouped under departments, the
budget as finally adopted Is as
follows: Street and alley. cut from
S10,2 to SS.575; police, from
$S.420 to s1.955: treasurer, from
S805 tot $685.; clerk, from $2.015
to $1.S45; fire department, from
81 500 to $S25: attorney from
$500 TO $50; health department,
left at $500.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
VALUATION CUT
CAUSES LOSS OF
$4,000 REVENUE
County Budget Lowered by
Cuts in All Departments;
Possibility Of Losing Agent,
Club Leader and Nurse

The county commissioners held
q public hearing on the tentative
budget at the court house Mon
day, and so numerous were the
taxpayers in attendance that the
commissioners room was made
quate and the hearing was held in
the court room.
Representatives from all parts Of
the county were present, nine or
ten being in attendance from this
end. Most of those who spoke at
the hearing were strong for drast-
ic reductions in the cost Of opera
ton, but none was specific As to
what activities should be eliminat-
ed.
Most Of those who spoke signi-
fled their desire that the office Of
county agent should not be abol-
ished. As but three Of the county
offices are under the direct con-
troll Of the commissioners, it APP
parently was understood that these
would first feel the pressure OF
the financial stringency on the
part Of the county.
The three offices which are OPP
tional with the commissioners are
the county agent the club leader
and the nurse. Inasmuch as the
agent and the club leader have the
bulk Of their salaries paid from
other sources, their cost to the
county is not considered excessive.
The commissioners have indicated
that the cost Of the office Of the
county nurse is more than balane-
ed by the savings she has made
possible in the INDECENT funds and
In other ways, the commissioners
are slow to abolish that office.
Routine business occupied the
board Tuesday and the budget
will again be taken under, advise
ment, preparatory to adoption, the
remainder OF this week. It is I'M
detstood that additional cuts will
be necessary in some Of the de-
,partments and that the road dis
trict levies have each been cur
tailed q, 900, making 4 saving over
last year In county road work Of
So, 900. In order to balance the
income something more than twice
this sum is necessary, according
to the preliminary budget fig
ures.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06

The Floriculture club will meet
Monday, October 10 with Mrs. Ia
dia Durbin at her home on Cas-
cade street for dessert luncheon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Art GLASGOW and
Dorothy were Sunday evening WIS.,
itors att h eJ. Nadig home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
ENDORSED

A resolution endorsing the ac-
ton taken by the state dairymen's
association was passed this noon
by the local Chamber of Com
merce. The resolution endorses
the work of the association and
supports the laws now passed re-
garding taxing butter substitutes
and labelling the same.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Anon of the

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Anon of the
Locust Grove community have pur-
chased the George Sheppard five
acre tract in the Garden Tracts.
This is one of the pioneer tracts
with 9. modern five-room house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anon plan to take
possession this fall and make it
their home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-10-06

D. ps :. Smith, it A. F. Brown, Geo.
C. Dn,d towards, ]. C. Swayze. ID
businasuai and c. c. Williams were
day afs. visitors in Prosser Mon
afy bpa. on the county prelimin-
uges at the court house
Evening star., 1932-05-08

There she found the old man-tall. bent,
with white whiskers But he was playing the
songs she had heard Sergei play. 1t must be,
she decided, Sergei in disguise. After feign-
ing a musicians interest she unmasked him
one afternoon.
the spy. Then out Of love, she too confessed
that she was spying, for his kisses had famed
an affection almost to q passion ."
Some days later, she administered the
drug-remained miserably through the night
and when morning came and Sergei awakened.
she thrust his papers back into his numbed
hand-and fledl
So the baroness after many hurts, believes
at the moment at least-that she will never
again take the marriage vows
Where, by the way, do men with secret
papers hide them?" she was asked.
Generally in the most obvious places"
answered the ex-spy. "The tales Of agents who
them In their clothes refer chiefly to those
who are trying to get out of the country
Under ordinary circumstances, important pa
pers are to be found in trunks, suitcases pock-
cts and even bill folders.
The hiding places selected by men are
sometimes funny. Once I turned up q most
important paper by merely opening a pock-
ct comb case. A small paper had been folded
around the comb several times. 1t was lying
could have taken it at any time In fact one
maid did-and I was that one!"
Incidentally, Baroness Jensen said that in
all Of the work she did she never once met
such thing as an uninteresting man.
II do not mean" she explained, that all
the men have met attractive or that
they were interested in me. No-but every
one, whether he were Russian general or a
Partisan taxicab driver had either enough van
hr1lt Str hilua itu To
make him worth talking to, for little time at
least.
My work forced me to study the men I
was ordered to get state secrets from. I found
that vanity was the greatest weakness in every
single one of them.
Most OF them did think logically, seemed
to have code vastly more honorable than the
code of women have met, and seemed far
less capable of petty jealousy. But fiattery
usually won away their secrets. wonder why
so many American women overlook the power
Of fattery men"
Evening star., 1932-05-08

"well, this poem is all yours. any way the
critic averred. "All I did was to point out what
was wrong and make more less indirect
suggestions and you got the idea so quickly
every time that I confess 1 was staggered"
But this is not the poem with which won
a million dollars" objected Ruth. trihe
conscience smitten.
"Oh yes it is-Substantially-wit some
posthumous changes posthumous as to Ruff.
All you need is a super opportunity And I
believe that opportunity is here. When this is
republshed in big newspaper tomorrow you'll
be famous, not merely because Of its excellence,
although it is well deserving of fame on that
score but because of the 81 100000 you are
getting for it from the man you converted into
a human being This story and poem with
its light. unusual philosophy, will go around
the world. If you can write more human-in-
terest poems on any subjects there1l be a real
demand for them. That's my prediction. See
if I'm not right. And I'll do anything In my
power to help you. Now for your photograph.
And while you're getting it, may use your
telephone?'
Surely" she replied and soon he had the
city editor on the wire.
ITS great story" he was saying. I've got
it all, with poem and picture. The poem is
peach, enough to transform a skyscraper into
a Westminster Abbey Greatest character stunt
Evening star., 1932-05-08
EKs Counted BY Plane

a COMBINATION of snow and an airplane
has materially lessened the work of the
Biological Survey in determining the size of
the elk herd in Yellowstone National Park and
in addition to decreasing the work has made
the count more nearly accurate.
1t Is the desire of the survey to keep the
herd within a limit of 10000 animals as an
increase OF any extent over this maximum
would make the herd unwieldy to handle The
2O,ooO-mark has almost been reached The
count Tor the fve-year period between the
present census and the last one five years ago
shows an increase Of GIT animals to q total
of 1885
The maintaining Of the herd at the estab-
hshed figure is of importance because the
range facilities Of the park and nearby pre-
serves would be seriously threatened by
larger number Of feeders As matters stand
now. 1t is necessary for survey officials to raise
nay and store it for Winter feeding of the
animals disastrous year about IL years ago
when Winter feeding was not adequate re-
duced the herd to less than l0, ,000
Evening star., 1932-05-08

you ever heard of. This girl made a human
being out OF miser and then put it all into
meter and rime"
Good work, Benny" yibrated the diaphragm
at his ear Hurry in with it. We've got a
job to midnight for you here in the Office
writing that story and Rene Roscoe's column
for tomorrow. Renes temperamental bunch
of nerves-had a scrap with the boss and quit.
Now the boss says it's up to you to show
what you're good for"
"Whee-yewl At lasti"
DENNY almost lost his breath in amazement.
- Had he been Iaboring under q delusion?
Was there, alter all. some poetic appreciation
in great skyscraper newspaper of1ce? Was
there, indeed, muse in his own Office on top
of the Merchant Tower?
But Benny was a real poet. Instructive truth
or was there an admixture of something
more sentimental?-meant more to him than
anything else He couldn't do anything other
than what he did
I've got a better idea, Mr.. Rogan," he al
most yelled Il don't want to conduct that
column. This girl here is the one to do it.
Shes just full of ideas-human stuh-nothing
wild about them, either. Give her tryout-
let her do it for a week. I'll edit her copy, and
you can re-edit it. II she doesn't make good
I'll take over the job any time you say So
Evening star., 1932-05-08
Taft0oing Painful

TATIOOING. as practiced by the natives of
: some Of the Pacific Islands, is really . mark
Oh iortitude for the operation Is hardly what
could be termed gentle. The usual custom
among tribesfolk Is to prepare tattooing in
ssrument Of bone with teeth cut in to marx the
Design. This is dipped into q thick mixture of
charcoal and water and 10 pounded into the
skin by means Of piece of wood The opera
ton Is painful but effective IS the markings
ia@ lifetime showing up as black spots on
the brown skins of the natives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-24

graduated from the Military Academy
the year before the Spanish-American
War, and during the World War, after
various duties in the United States, COM
manded the seth Field Artillery Brigade
from November 4 to December 26, 1918.
He was detailed to the finance division
Of the general staff February Is, 1919,
later serving as assistant to the chief
Of finance From 1928 to 1928 he acted
as special assistant to the chief Co
ordinator of the Bureau Of the Budget.
The newly appointed officer, who
takes the rank of major general, Is q
native of Baltimore and was appointed
to the Army from the District of
Columbia. Col Coleman has had just
a year less active service than Gen.
Carmichael. He served with the 9lst
Division in France, participating In the
Ypres-Lys and Meuse-Argonne offensives
and in the Lorraine defensive sector.
Col. Coleman was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for "excep-
tional executive and administrative
abilities" in the handling Of supplies
and transportation from August to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-24

years it was decided that weakened
stones should be replaced and ING
cause Of the cracks should be eLII,i-
mated, instead of merely f1lling C.ie
cracks or strengthening weakened par~S'
as formerly.
Michelangelo, designer of the dome,
described as one of the worlds bullotiIs
masterpieces, is relieved by SehaUoi
Beltrami of many criticisms. II was
the poor work done on the dome altIi
Michelangelo's death, says BeItlaiiii'
that caused the cracks.
The aged artist, who tore down Hiu I
of the half-built cathedral TO erect Ine
present st. Peters, spent II years oii
the work.
Destruction of the partly erected
structure caused much criticism, 50
Michelangelo hurried the work, orect-
ing crews at night. He kept ms piaLis
secret throughout, but left dlrectloiiS
for the completion and a large Iiou .'s
of the dome, which is $50 1eet III CIT
conference.
Beltrami's conclusion is that the up
per part of the dome was bulIt WITHOUT
that careful supervision M1chelangelo
gave, and the straining Welght oA the
massive stones fell unequaIly.
Strain on Opposite Walls.
Long cracks, he thinks, opened along
one Of the 16 ribs running down 10
buttresseS, and eventually mucn OF the
weight threw undue strain on IIe sup
porting walls, causing succession Oh
cracks.
Parts of cracked stones were NOR
tised together during successive repairs.
but Beltrami, having practically free
hand In his task and whatever money
he needs, is taking out broken stones,
replacing them, and to a certain extent
rebuilding overstrained portions.
Eight Of the 16 buttresSes Will be I'm
ished this year. The other eight and
repairs to windows probably will take