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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
GRASS ROLLS
IN CAR LOTS
Season Now Under Way
But Prices Start at
Low Point

The first solid carload of the IA
nous long green asparagus for
the 1892 season was rolled last
evening. Another car was dispatch
ed tonight and at least one more
will roll tomorrow-possibly more.
From now on, with a continuation
of warm weather, ! the shipments
should increase rapidly.
While prices are abnormally low
for this time of the year, it is ex-
pected that the California compe-
tition cannot last much longer and
a recover in price is hoped for. In
asmuch as the quality is so much
better than ordinary, little diff
Guilty is anticipated in increasing
the prices.
While the earliest shipment Of
grass which has rolled from here
was March IL, Manager Lee n.
Lampson, of the Washington Early
Crops stated today that the sea-
son this year was not so terribly
late at that. Last year the first
commercial shipmen was made on
the 10th Of April.
In. addition to asparagus picking
activities q crew is employed at
the Big Y loading out the balance
of the 1881 apple crop. The ship
ments are being consigned to num-
erous points thruout the nation.
Manager Desgranges said that all
indications We're that the remand
er of the fruit would be cleaned
up. The apples are bringing about
a dollar box, he said.
A crew of box makers is busy
at the Y, getting crates ready for
the strawberry season, which is not
far off in the event of rising tenn
peratures. A like crew will start on
crate work at. the Early Crops
warehouse soon, it was learned.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
CREAMERY IN
NEW BUILDING
Formal Opening is to be
Held Later; Operate
New Equipment

The Twin City Creamery Co. is
now doing business from it's new
building, having moved from the
temporary quarters the first Of
the week. While the new place has
not yet received its finishing touch
es, the work can be carried on.
Manager Paul Spreen is plan
ming for a formal opening for the
latter part Of next week, at which
time refreshments and entertain
ment will be provided.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
TO CHECK ON
CARaDRIVERS
Licenses Must be Carried ;
Must Obey Traffic
Signals

Kennewick police reported to-
day that David Hopkins of Pasco
was arrested by Highway Patrol
man Marvin Carnahan for operat-
ing an automobile without a Ii
cense. Hopkins was fined SIS and
costs in Judge ]. A. Hatch's court
yesterday.
Officer Carnahan declared that
q drive is to be started on check
ing up on drivers licenses soon and
warned that everyone operating a
car is compelled by law to have
his license with him at all times
when driving. iisass.s1
~ Chief Of Police DeHaven also
announced that q campaign is to
be- started on Enoturistsscwho do
not heed the stop signs In Kenne-
wick. The chief declared that Of
tenders would be given the book.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
Test Tomorrow

Tests are to start Friday at the
Highlands pumping plant, accord
ing to an announcement made to-
day by engineers. The first runs
will be to adjust the pumps and
get the newly installed equipment
in order for the irrigation season.
It was said that some water
would be available for the High
lanrs by the first Of the week.
The engineers said that the
pumps would have capacity of
Sd second feet or about 24,300 gal
Ions Of water per minute. ST -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

Hunters Cafe is to undergo a
new remodeling program and
eight new booths are now in the
process Of construction, and win
be installed about the middle 81
the coming week.
With the completion Of this work
carpenters are to begin construc-
ton on tea and banquet room,
that will be annexed to the regular
cafe.
Mr.. Hunter said the banquet
room viii be used for parties, ban
qnets, bridge parties and various
social functions.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
Fresh Feesh!

One of the most positive signs
OF spring is indicated when anglers
get out their last years fishing
gear, and begin to relieve them of
the confinements Of winter.
Sporting goods dealers in Ken
newick declared that the move
ment has started, and that a good
business was done on fishing IL
censes and tackle of various des-
criptions.
A number of anglers returned
from the first day of the seasons
try on April I, and reported good
catches.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
First Golf

The first golf tournament of the
season will be played on. the local
course Sunday with a combined
team from Lind and Ritzville. The
first foursome will tee off at 1890.
Ritzville is planning to bring a
team of 20 down, while Lind will
have about a dozen. Ladder lead
ers on the Kennewick-P asco club
are requested to. be. on. hand on
time. asEs..-.--,,.s..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

The Business and Professional
Woman's club met Monday eve
ming at the club rooms and held the
annual election of officers. Esther
Hatch was reelected president;
Velma Nevlow, reelected vice
president; Leone Skeen, secretary;
Marie Speigelberg, treasurer. Plans
were completed for the annual APP
pie Blossom ball to be given April
16 at the Highland club house.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

A number of fishermen who tried
their angling luck at Lake Kahlo-
tus Sunday reported seeing a flock
of 13 exceptionally large white
wild swan. The sight was said to
be very rare as the birds are ex-
ceptional here, and are very few
in numbers, due to the numbers;
killed before they were protected
by game laws.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

At last we. have q positive sign
Of spring. Glancing down the street
WEI see members, Of the Business
Girls club daslfing here and there
making plans for their annual APP
pie blossom ball. The date has def
.initeiys been set for April Is / and
all signs point to the feet that thay
will have the same good dance. sas
usual. 81 ii:-.bess.issts-ssi -: SIS ..ssy
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07
Official Paper

The Kennewick Courier
Reporter was named the of
ficial county paper at the
commissioners meeting Mon
day Of this week. Beginning
July first all the official pub
locations for the county will
be made in this paper.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Horn and
small son and Mrs. Horns father.
w. n. Skinner, all formerly of Mo
bridge, s. D. were visitors at the
S. S. Carman home last week. Mr..
Horn was transferred by the rail
road company to St. Maries, Idaho
last fall and then later to Neppel.
Washington, where he is now To-
Gated as depot agent. Mr.. Skinner
is Mrs. Carman's brother.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

The Mesdames A. C. Simsen, r.
v. Bunts, Bruce Mclean, Fred
Wenzloff, j. d. Brandt, Bertha
Simpson and daughter, Louise,
spent Wednesday afternoon play
ing 500 at the home Of Mrs. Ger
trude Gray. Mrs. Bruce Mclean
won first prize and Mrs. Bunts
consolation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

The Literary. Guild met Monday
at q dessert luncheon with Mrs. W..
s.. Walters her home in the Gar
den Tracts The annual lIelection
of officers. was heidi Mrs. IL s.
Whitney was elected chairman and
Mrs. Cora McKain. secretary-treass
urer. .4its Il
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

l.ii:sMrs. l. w. Soth left for her
home in Seattle Monday after
spending . week In Kennewick vis-
iting- friends and looking after her
property interests. Mrs. lSoth lis
one of the: pioneer mothers of Ken
newick and has spentsthe past year
with her children in Seattle, who
are attending the u. Of w.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

Mr.. and Mrs.. UDarge Rokkan and
two sons Billy and Donald left on
Monday for the East, being called
there on account of the sickness OF
Mr.. Rokkan's father.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

Rev. H. F. Hammer left Monday
noon for Seattle to attend two
day PASTORAL conference in that
city. On this trip he will also vis-
it the Pacific Lutheran College at
Parkland and complete arrange
ments being made for contest to
be given by the aChoir of the
West" at Kennewick the second
week in May.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-07

The Altar Society of st. Joseph's
Catholic church are planning to
hold card party at the Moose
Hall Thursday evening, April IA.
Pinochle and Five Hundred will be
in play. Mrs. j. M. Hawkins, Mrs.
J. F. Lincoln and Mrs. Burns
Brown are on the kitchen commit
tee.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Too Many Knives
Slicing Local Funds

In their efforts to pare down departmental estimates for
the next fiscal year. District Government officials should bear
in mind that these estimates will be subjected to further
pruning after they leave their hands.
Together with residents of every other community in the
country Washngtonians want their governmental costs
duced to the minimum.
But they do want essential governmental activities
tailed the point of nffcency and they do not want to
see their city slide backward to few dollars
The newly created committee reported to have
approximately $00O000 from the estimates of department
heads.
where the Government setup this money has been
saved has been revealed is highly improbable that
department officials asked for $1O0000O0 worth of
sary frils
the District Commissioners have chance slice further
ture.
They have proven themselves masters of the art of scng
District estimates, although they have in reality very small
financial interest in local affairs
On the whole, with $10000000 cut already made there
Is danger that by the time Congress finishes with the
next local appropriation BILL many necessary improvements
will have been sacrificed and many desirable services em
mated.
In preparing the coming budget it should be remembered
that the appropriations for the year cut to the
minimum.
This accomplished by stopping virtually all progress
and by eliminating projects
Some day that progress will have be and those
deferred projects started
This may be the time to take the slack created by
the current BILL but the Commissioners should take into
count the small total of present appropriations in estimating
for the coming year.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Burn Him at the Stake!
He Told the Truth

What's this heresy that hear from the Prohibition
Rureau-the very Gibraltar of the noble experiment?
1t cant he so and yet believe not, it is.
p Sanford acting director of the bureau in the absence
of Colonel Woodcoc says that power earth keep
people from drinking if they want to.
Also that prohibition has not cured drunkards-and few
other incredible statements the order.
But let Mr. Sanford tell the tae and if you have tears
prepare to them the detection of one OF the
chief upholders of the forces of righteousness.
"Nothing on Gods Uorld," declares Mr.. Sanford,
"cnn keep a man from, making Wine or beer in his
home and drinking all of it if he wants.
"No laU uUiH take au0y the peoples taste for
+ alcohol.
"T believe it is impossible task to find man
uUo has been cured of the drink habit by the Eight
eenth Amendment.
remained a drunkdrd after the dW Went into effect,
and probably aIUdyS WiH remain
"Any uDhere he may be, he alUOoyS get liquor
of some sort, and probably Wtu do sO'
Wild words, these!
are grevously in young Mr. Sanford is in
FOR hour when his chief gets back the
Job And the AnSaloon League will feel like burning him
at the stake-or something
It took to say it.
We admire Mr. Sanford's heart if not his head.
will doubtless be into darkness by the
thatbe the Potomac but he has had his big moment
He has told the bosses what he thought of them and their
racket.
It was foolish but what satisfaction it must been
to him!
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Don't Kill Yourself
You May Lose Your Insurance

Suicides providing problem for life insurance
panes which, according to gossip in those quarters may lead
to general agreement among them to insert clause in
policies refusing payment the beneficars of pocyhoder
who take their Unsupported the States will pass the
necessary enabling laws.
AS by the vice president of
company:
"Too many poicy-hoders Who Would think
OF profting through the crime of h0Ue felt that
suicide justified feeling apparently that self
eHacen1ent expidtiOn.
"Sef destruction, Uhen life insurance is nUolUed
and the suicide clause is longer operative, takes
funds from other policyholders for payment of the
suicides beneficiary
at is deliberate eUaSton of responsibilities uUhich
! the suicide cannot WiH not discharge in other
UOGyS."
probable that refusal pay the insurance of
suicide would the lives of many useful persons who need
lessy do away with themselves in moment temporary
dependency.
The head of household may sometimes does commit
suicide the only method he relieving the distress
of his family.
have solved his problems and given him many years
achievement and happiness.
Insurance companies might well petition the States the
right to make this change in the policies they issue.
IT would not only benefit them but would probably have
marked effect in checking the suicide for the nation
man with insurance is Also generally speaking more
valuable citizen than without.
Any that will keep him alive and useful and
his family from the stigma that attaches obstruction is
certainly worth taking,
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

DllG GLlSIS 1911 "
That's what you're thinking?
Don't! You're wrong! Yes, l
know; things look pretty dark
and, from our little perspec'
tive, there doesn't seem to be
any improvement. But look
back, and look deep. Look back
far enough, and deep enough.
There is a plan. There is a
reason and an explanation for
everything. And if you can
once find it, you'll never again
feel so bitterly bewildered by
life, as though God, Himself,
Knocked you. Instead, youH
feel that even the tragedies OF
life are fighting challenge?
MuddIe of Life
Frank Townshend, the Eng
lish philosopher. has given the
explanation of life's muddle in
that strong and beautiful book
Earth"
The world that is today,
grew out of the world of yes
terday;
And the earth of tomorrow
is forming in the earth Of to-
day.
And you. and I,
Belong to the world OF to-
day;
Having come from yester-
day;
with a journey to make
into tomorrow.
That is why we sometimes
find it uncomfortable,
stopping where we are"
Why is life as it is? That
is why-because life is growing.
The world that is today grew
out of the world of yesterday,
and the men of today grew out
of the men of yesterday.
1t is a long story. You can
not read that story by looking
at the earth in your back yard,
or reading your grandfather's
diary. You must look further;
look deeper. Look back into
jungle. shadows, jungle fear and
cruelty. Look back at the
earthquakes and tidal waves,
the glaciers and fires that
nodded our earth of today-at
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

the upheavals and convulsions,
freezingS of desolation and fires
of adversely that nodded the
human spirit of today.
A Stupid Weed
Out in your back yard is a
small weed called "horsetail
rush" A stupid, scraggy thing
it seems, yet it is a hangover
of the great reeds and grasses
that lowered over the primeval
swamps before ever there were
trees.
Deep in your spirit there are
traits which seem to have no
place in civilized world-ter-
rors and lusts you blush to ad-
nit. How did they come there,
in a decent person like you?
They "came there" because
they, too, are hang-overs from
those far-off days when man
was a shambling brute, ruled by
terror and lust.
You grew out of that man
of yesterday, but you are still
bound by him. Even your flesh
still beats tags of his jungle
flesh which are a nuisance in
twentieth century life; and
your spirit bears more tags,
which make human society
the muddle which it is. And
yet, slowly but surely, man is
drawing up out of the muddle,
out of the jungle, into another
life and another land.
You grew out of that man
of yesterday, and the man of
tomorrow is now forming in
you. He is forming in your
most trivial acts, your slightest
decisions. Every time you take
a step forward, you lift that
future man toward the stars.
Everytime you take a step back,
you thrust him back into the
jungle.
Don't despise life. Don't try
to run away from it. 1t is the
greatest moving picture show
on earth. Move with it!
Copyright, 1892, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

manage" cajoIe, flatter. coax
and hoodWink the husband;
and the husband felt that he
must jolly, coddle, bully and
baby" the wife.
Thanks to economic equality
and because OF economic neces-
sity, there are more merger
marriages today than there
ever have been since the days
of the early settlers and the
covered wagon, when women
worked and fought side by
side with their men. And there
were no mol!uSc wives and no
stepping husbands.
There are many kinds of
merger-marriages. I know OF
at least three, all of them bril-
liant successes.
The first is that of a bril-
liant professional man, whose
WIG ulCISC 1lSI 4I4C INV 1lIo
career; saved his PENN e S,
handled his financial affairs,
took care of his digestion, and
boosted him to the top of his
profession.
The second is that of a
popular woman writer, whose
husband, a successful business
man, has found time to devote
himself to her ambitions, pro-
tect her interests, manage her
business affairs and quadruple
her income. Also, to star HER,
and to relieve her of all the
petty business details which so
cramp a writer's style and
make life a torment.
The third is that of a bust
ness man and a business
woman who started a small
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
jackson Not in
the Least Alarmed.

One day a delegation
called, but before the spokes-
man could get set for his
pathetic appeal old Jackson
broke in with seeming fury,
telling the delegation to 60
to the bank for relief. So
terrible was his apparent
anger that the delegation
quailcd before the old man s
frown and as speedily as
possible beat a retreat to tell
about the bars of the town
that jackson was crazy as a
March hare.
1t was Immediately after
the departure of this delega-
tion that Wise entered the
room.
He found old Jackson
seated in his chair, roaring
with laughter, and slapping
his knee with glee, while
tears of joy coursed down
his old cheeks.
"They thought me mad,
WISE" he exclaimed, "they
must have thought me mad,
Well, I can do as good play
acting as any man when the
stage is SET
No one was ever better
served than Jackson and he
knew the entire story Of the
petitions and delegations.
His own organization in the
community whence t h e y
came saw to that. He was
not in the least alarmed,
for he knew the people were
with him and understood the
part the bank was playing
to coerce them into striking
hands with their enemy
against jackson. The dele
cations at first angered
him-because he knew. But
as they continued to appear,
with bank money in their
pockets, the old man saw the
comedy side, just as Van
Buren had in the case of the
Clay appeal, and made the
most of it.
Andrew Jackson never so
completely lost his head that
he did not known precisely
what he was doing.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

ALWAYS when things are
Ahard and men are unem-
ployed in numbers the ten
dency of the people is to
turn on those in power
unless there is leadership in
those in power working for
the good of the people. Thus,
when Andrew Jackson made
his fight against the national
bank, then the "money
power" and the bank and
its dependents did all within
their power-and it was
great-to bring suffering on
the masses, the people saw
through the ruse and stood
by jackson.
If the Democrats today
thought as little of the good
of the country as the Wings
did in the 1905 they would
be whipping the people into
an hysteria against the Ad-
ministration. And it would
be no more than the Repub-
licans did at the time of the
panic of 1898, though this
panic was on the way when
Harrison gave up his office.
The hysteria the Wings
sought in Jackson time
had a practical purpose. 1t
was to persuade the people
that the rechartering of the
bank was necessary to the
restoration of good times;
that jackson fight against
an embryo plutocracy was
depriving men of work and
profits. To do this the
money power resorted to
extraordinary methods.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
ONCE-OVERS

1t is possible for you to COM
mand about so much.
Others are able to get more
because they have the knack,
the know-how, the desire, so
strongly that they are willing
to submerge interests alien in
order to possess it.
But you have divided your
time, thought, attention and
energy in too many different
ways.
Consequently instead Of one
objective you have had many
and reached none.
You do a lot of wishing but
not enough work to gain your
desires.
Everything worth while re-
quires effort of some kind.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Destroyed Clay s
Play-Acting

Thus once, when Van
Buren, the Vice President,
slated for the succession,
was in the chair, Henry
Clay, who was hoping to de-
feat him as a Whig, rose,
dripping with pathos, to
plead for the unfortunate
victims of Jackson's stub
bornness. AS only he could,
he painted a touching picture
Of the poor in dire distress.
1t was really a fine piece of
rhetorical eloquence. The
purpose of Clay was to turn
popular wrath on Van Buren
as partly responsible for the
distress. Toward the close
of the lugubrious recital,
which everyone knew was in
sincere, Clay appealed d.
rectly to Van Buren, begging
him, because of his "well-
known influence" with Jack
son, to 60 to the White House
and personally appeal to
jackson to change his policy
for the sake of the suffering
nation.
1t was such a strange
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Comedy In the
Proceedings

In every nook and corner
it subsidized men to peddle
petitions pleading pitifully
for 2 recharter in the Gin
terest of humanity" 1t de-
veloped later that great
numbers of the names signed
were bogus. Also that many
business men, depending on
credit, were coerced into
signing. These petitions
were sometimes sent by mail.
More frequently they were
taken to Washington by a
delegation-the expenses Of
which were paid by the
bank.
Reachin g Washington,
these delegations all fol-
lowed the same course. They
would find a bank Senator to
present the petition in the
Senate, making it the occa-
sion for a pathetic appeal.
Next, they would 60 to the
White House to plead with
the hard hearted Jackson to
do something for the suffer-
ing people-by yielding to
the domination Of the bank.
Because everyone in Wash
ington knew precisely how
these petitions were secured
and who paid the expenses of
the delegations, there were
numerous elements Of COM
edy in the proceedings.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Take that word merger" "

for instance, which is his pet
synonym for marriage"
Every happy marriage is a
merger. And, unless marriage
is a merger, it's a flop!
The trouble with marriage,
today, yesterday and forever, is
that it is too often a gamble,
an adventure, a racket or a
graft. A matter of "give-and-
take'-in which one does all
the giving, and the other does
all the taking.
When marriage is a merger,
you pool your interests, your
assets and your responsibilities,
and share your profits and
pleasures as we'll as your prob
lens and troubles. That is the
Perfect Marriage-the fifty-fifty
marriage!
The matrimonial merger is
based on reciprocity-and on
mutual ambitions, loyalty, fair
ness and love. Quite a differ
ent proposition from the old
fashioned marriage, in which
the wife felt that she must