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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
Grade School
Presents Play
And Operetta
TOM THUMB WEDDING AND
CASTLE OF CARELEsSNEss
PLEASE AUDIENCE

Those who attended the TON
Thumb Wedding" and "The Castle OF
Carelessness," presented by the grade
school ON Tuesday evening, December
10, witnessed very enjoyable per-
Torrance.
The Tom Thumb Wedding, presented
by the youngsters OF the first and sec
Ond grades, was a revelation from Ihe
standpoint Of showing what the tiny
tots are capable of doing, with proper
direction. The mock wedding Included
all the elements Of a real one, and
an elaborate one at that, dignltiea
ushers, excited guests. soloist, maids
and matrons of honor, demure bride,
embarrassed groom and solemn preach
err, delivering a solemn ceremony. 1
The Castle of Carelessness, presented
by the remaining four grades, was an
operetta in two acts. 1t consisted OF
a series of clever songs and dances
intermixed with dialogue, based around
a number of lost articles. These ar
ticles had miraculously come to life
and were enjoying themselves in the
Castle of Carelessness, while waiting
for their owners to reclaim them.
The elaborate costuming represented
the expenditure of a great amount OF
effort by the mothers and grade school
teachers, but it was we'll worth it, judg-
ing from the effect it produced on the
audience. The costumes possessed an
interesting variety; Dutch dolls, Irish
dolls, Negro dolls, Scotch dolls, French
dolls, vegetables, toy soldiers, Indians,
a monkey, an umbrella and numerous
others.
The second act of the operetta rep
resented courtroom scene ia the
Castle OF Carelessness in winch the
owners OF the lost articles appeared, to
be reprimanded by the judge for their
carelessness. In the finale, owners and
property were reunited. and all joined
in q last burst OF song before the final
curtain.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
r. F. D. Patrons to Receive
Instructive Handbooks

about fifty years ago, one OF our
Grange women went to city to visit
a friend. On her return, she discussed
at Grange her trip and asked this ques-
ton: II cannot understand why the
government carries the mail to people
who have paved streets and live close
to the post office, and does not carry
the mail to us farmers who live on
mud roads miles from town.
That question may have been asked
before, but the question OF this good
farm woman came up in Pomona
Grange, and later in the State Grange
and still later in the National Grange
with the result that year after year
the National Grange declared for the
adoption of rural delivery as matter
of Justice to agriculture"
The foregoing are the two opening
paragraphs of an article by l.. j. Ia
Dor National Grange Master, dealing
! with the origin of the rural delivery
service and published in twenty page
booklet entitled Your Postal Service.
Mr.. Tabors article is only one of many
in connection with the postal service
published in the booklet which also
contains much accurate information
pertaining to that service, particularly
compiled for rural route patrons.
Both Rural Carriers o. c. Young Of
| White Bluffs and M. r. Slavens Of
Hanford have purchased quantity o.
these booklets for free distribution tt
the patrons of their respective routes
If those who receive the booklets viii
read them carefully and thorough,
they will gain much valuable and in
teresting information regarding thei
postal service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
History of Valley To Be
Published in Spokesman

Since the residents of the valley.
through the medium of the irrigation
district, acquired title few months
ago to the irrigation property here,
the Spokesman has been gathering
data on the history of the valley since
the beginning OF it's irrigation. 1t is
being written up in story form and it
is hoped its publication can be started
next week. 1t is rather lengthy and
will be continued through several is
sues of the paper. 1t is believed it will
be unusually interesting not only to
those living in the valley now, but to
any one at all familiar with early days
here.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
One House Burns, Another
Saved, in Two Fires

Fire of an unknown origin Thursday
night of last week completely destroyed
the house on the state settlement tract
known as the Dimond place, between
the Shaun Kelly and b. F. Arnald
ranches. No one has lived in the house
for some time, the transmission lines
had been disconnected and the win
doWs and doors were securely locked
and nailed up. The fire was discovered
about midnight by Wilmot Morford,
when he stepped out on the porch of
his home before going to bed. He
called some of the neighbors but the
flames had gained such Roadway that
nothing could be saved.
The fire extinguishers owned by the
town are responsible for putting out a
fire Sunday morning that threatened
to destroy the Edmund Anderson cot
tage in the north part of town that
is occupied by the George Chase fam
lily. The water pipes had frozen up
during the cold weather and Mr.. Chase
was attempting to thaW them out with
q homemade torch. 1t Is presumed
that the fire started when some old
canvas in partition became ignited
from the torch. The blaze had gained
quite little Roadway when discovered
and only the prompt use of the ex-
tinguishers saved the house, as it was
impossible to get water to the flames
ONLY minor damage to the cottage re-
| suited from the fire and it is being ad-
| justed by the insurance company.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
THE WEATHER

There was not much sunshine in No
vember according to the report OF CO.
operative Observer Gabriel Jadden, in
charge of the government weather sta
ton at Wahluke Sixteen days were
entirely cloudy and nine were partly
So while only five were clear There
was three fourths of an inch of rain
during the month but the minimum
temperature was only Is degrees above
zero on the oath, and the maximum
rose to sixty-seven degrees on the 10th.
Temperatures of the past week, as
recorded at the government weather
station at Hanford, were.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
Bill Angle Tells How
Thew Build Roads in South

Those living In this country where
muddy roads are almost unknown will
be interested in reading the following
letter written by William S. Angle and
printed in the National Rural Letter
Carrier, published at Washington, ID.
c., and circulated among the thou
sands of rural carriers In the country.
MIR. Angle was the second rural car
rier at White Bluffs. He moved to
WOODBURY., Kentucky, about four years
ago in an exchange of routes with
james Pipkin, In order to make COL
lege education possible for all OF his
seven children. His letter follows:
This is good time to stand to-
gether and back one another up so
am enclosing my order for 200 hand
books. would hate to see the carriers
let you down after showing the conf
dence in us that you have shown.
Il have just been reading the Car
rier' and was interested in the letter
of Brother n. A. Morris.
II was also interested in Brother Nc
Coy's unique way Of fixing his bad
roads. ! also have been getting some
road work done. have a four-mile
stretch Of red clay, through a poverty
stricken community, that they have
been trying to get graveled for 10 years
THE usual procedure is for the coun-
ty to furnish trucks and drivers AND
the property owners pay for loading
the trucks spreading gravel and fol-
gas and oil.
I'VE could not get the trucks, neither
could we raise enough cash. SO I got
the county to match us $3.50 for all
we would haul with teams. Everyone
living on the road donated from five
to 20 loads and we got the gravel do.
mated. The harlers after hauling Their
donation we're paid SO cents per yart
for the balance hauled. With the eX.
ception of one man, who gave $25, NJ
one living on this road put up cent
and they came out all the way from
ST TO $35 each TO the good beside!
getting about one and half miles O
road suilt. There was about $l25 raised
of which i paid about one half. but i
will save me about that much in aux
iliary service this winter.
THE county has promised TO finlsf
out the road next summer.
Cooperation not only gets thing
done but makes friendships as we'll
VIM. S. ANGLE"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
Buy Christmas Seals.
Local Matron Critically
III In Pasco Hospital

Mrs L. E. Jackson became suddenly
very i'll last Friday and was taken to
Pasco, where she has since been under
the care of physicians at Our Lady OF
Lourdes hospital. Her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. l.. Sutherland, of Spokane, and
her sister, Mrs. George Voshell OF Pas
co, and brother, Robert Sutherland,
of Spokane, were summoned to her
bedside, her condition for time, be-
ing very serious. Last reports from the
hospital however say that she is Slight
ly improved.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
4-H Club Achievement
Day Program Saturday

The All clubs of Hanford and White
Bluffs will hold their Achievement Day
program at the White Bluffs high
school auditorium Saturday afternoon
December II, at 2 o'clock
Mrs. Mary Davis, assistant county
agent, will be present, and will be ac-
companied by Miss Lois Brue of Ken
neWick, winner of first prize in the
county style show and a close second
in the National Style Show, in Chi
cago, who will give report of her
trip. Besides the parents of the mem
bers. any one who is interested in the
All club work is cordially invited &c
attend the program. During the after
noon refreshments will be served by
the White Bluffs All Luncheon club
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
Buy Christmas Seals.
Cold Weather Stops
Work at Priest Rapids

The cold weather has stopped all
outdoor Improvement work being done
at Priest Rapids and this work will
be held up until the weather mode
rates. The small crew working inside
of the power plant repairing the pow
err wheels expects to finish by the last
of the week all that can be done until
new parts arrive, when it is expected
the Job will be finished in a short time
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15

At the annual election of officers
of the Hanford Masonic Lodge We'd
nesday night, C. S. Kline was made
Worthy Master for the coming year;
r. E. Gibbins, Senior Warden; DR.. E.
F.. Newton, Junior Warden; George
McConnachie, Treasurer, and Norman
p Anglin, Secretary. The remaining
offices are appointive and will be filled
by the new worthy master at later
date.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
Judge Slavens Receives
All Of lis Votes Cast

At the irrigation district election
Tuesday for the selection of one di-
rector for a three year term Judge
C. r. Slavens received all of the lis
votes cast to succeed himself as a
member of the district board. The
unusually cold weather and the alb
sence of any contest contributed to-
ward the small vote cast. 1t is esti-
mated that there are about 200 land
owners in the district eligible to vote.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15

The party that had been planned by
the Eastern Star members for their
children and that was to have been
given the evening of December 81, has
been postponed on account Of 60 much
illness, until a later date.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
Buy Christmas Seals.

Five cars of c grade apples were
purchased by the Womans Club Of
the Milwaukee railroad for the benefit
of the unemployed Milwaukee workers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15

Buy Christmas Seals.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
THE DRIVE IS ON!

thousand subscribers by March 18th il
drive primarily drive to build the United Farmers
organize many thousands of farmers every a.
struggle better existence for themselves families
We must thousand subscribers starter -
our goal of fighting organization United St
But we must that do reach these farmers -
subscribe organizationay well thru the paper task win
only DONE than that We must determine everv far
the Producers News the sn
against evons lower taxes against the oppression and %
capitalist We build Committee f A.
local Of the United Farmers League township in ~
locality where have subscribers to the Producers News Tho
the and duty of the United Farmers League and the
sby of the township and county secretaries that be AGO.
pshed not their task alone 1t is the duty every reader 81
Producers News TO it hatin his community CO,o
Of Action local of the United Farmers League.
want help you have question you want a..
wered you get in touch with the county or TOWNSHIP
organization of militant farmers write National Off,
the United Farmers League Box a. Superior Wisconsin
coming week. reader ought be able get one %
year six months-but a starter lot Of far
can't dig dollar right offering seven wee
subscription during the of the drive for
cents These twObit subscriptions be lots Of Pam
each That is send in four twubt subscriptions at H
At the bottom Of the print blank be used for Az
purpose Let's who will send in the first blank filled out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

moving their war fleets toward
the China sea the imperialist
agents IN the Chinese Marking
government refuse to declare war
on the japanese. They refuse to
lead the masses of workers and
peasants in struggle against the
invaders. They know that the
struggle of the Chinese masses is
one not only against the Japanese
invaders but against all imperial
list domination and exploitation.
Their refusal to lead the masses
in struggle is a continuation of
the treacherous role they have al
ways played-for the bankers of
the United States, England and
Japan and against the Chinese
masses.
The attack on the Chinese mass
es Is an attack on the workers
and farmers of the entire world.
The war Preparations by the Unit
ed States and the other imperial
list powers is the first step into
q new world slaughter where they
plan to bleed and MAIN millions
of workers and farmers sons for
imperialist profits. They plan to
use the workers and farmers of
the United States in the attack
on the Chinese masses, the Chin
csc Soviets and the Soviet Union,
Hands off the Chinese masses,
American workers and farmers
defend your Chinese brothers
against the attack of your com.
mon enemy-WaII Street and the
imperialist government of Toxic
Demand the withdrawal Of all Am.
erican warships and troous from
Chinese waters and soill Protest
against the new irnDeriaIisi
slaughter Demonstrate against
the bloody war makers of wal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

Continued from Trent Pagel
among them is on the question of
who should lead in the slaughter
of the exploited masses and as to
who should receive the greatest
part Of the loot. They are all, the
United States, Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan part of
the same class of bloody butchers
and exploiters. The troops, the
workers and farmers sons of the
imperialist countries, that are be-
ing sent TO Shanghai, are being
sent there to drown the militant
Chinese workers in their own
blood and to secure for the bank.
ers of the imperialist powers the
right to exploit the Chinese work
ers and peasants and to coin Their
life blood into gold.
While this slaughter goes on
the disarmament" conference Of
the butchers is opening in Gene
va. The conference was opened
on Tuesday by Arthur Hender-
son, British Socialist, and leader
of the Labor Party, the betrayers
of the British masses for the
bankers, and the agents of the
bankers in the exploitation Of the
Indian masses. This traitor tC
the masses had the brazen eff
frontery to refer to the Kellogg
Peace Pact and the League Of
Nations as agencies for peace al
time when the leading capital
list powers which had signed thes,
acts were moving all of theil
forces to Shanghai for the attach
on, the masses Of China.
eft is imperative that all sig
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

They are determined that thai,
seed requirements shall be dete,.
mined by the amount of land th.v
will seed rather than by the poE.
teal and economic interests Of the
County Agent, and of the loesl
and county committees appointed
by him.
The United Farmers League the
mass organization of these small
and middle farmers, insists. there
fore, that the local committee and
the county committee which shah
have supervision over the coming
seed loans shall be composed sole
! ly of farmers. These committees
will be in a position to obtain
whatever other aid they may need
What seed a farmer needs viii be
determined not by a gang Of stool
pigeons and enemies of the farm
ers but by the farmers themselves.
Only then will it be possible for
the farmers Of the county to get
what seed it is possible to get un-
der the seed loan regulations.
The United Farmers League Of
Sheridan County is prepared TO
furnish you with list of farmers
/ for appointment to the local seed
COMMITTEES and to the county seed
loan committee. These recon-
mendations of the United Farmers
League will be Of farmers who
have the respect of all Of the far
Imers in their communities. The
farmers will know that their seed
requirements will be dealt with
justly by neighbors who know
their needs and not viciously by
non-farmers who have been their
! worst enemies in years past and
! who have only recently shown
themselves TO be still antagonists
to the life interests Of the farm
Iers, by their activities on the feed
. loan committees.
The farmers Of Sheridan COun'
! ty are continuing, under the lead
ership of the United Farmer
League, their determined efforts
to have the stool pigeon count!
agent removed and the office o
county agent abolished.
Yours truly,
RODNEY SALISBURY,
State Organizer,
United Farmers Lesgu'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

natories to the League of Ma
tons covenant and the Kellogg
BRAND pact should make it thea
business 10 insure the strict OBJ
servance of these two great
safeguards against acts of vio-
lence and war"
While the United States dele
gates participate in the "disarma-
ment" conference, the Uniteo
States Pacific battle fleet is on
its way to Hawaii where begin
ming February 10, "war games" of
over seventy battleships will take
place. These "war games" are
preparations for the war In the
Far East, for the bombing Of Chi
nese cities and for the murder Of
the Chinese workers and peasants.
Forty more vessels of the Atlantic
fleet are sailing toward the Paci-
fic coast where they will also en-
ter the "war games" at the end
of the month.
The capitalist press admits thai
the ships are provisioned for
many months at sea.
"Al ships were fully provi-
stoned and equipped for many
months at sea. Although the
fleet movement was an annual
routine affair of the navy and
had nothing to do with current
developments in China, officers
reported that the warships were
"ready for any emergency"
The emergency" that they are
waiting for and are planning fol
Is war in the Far East, open par.
ticipation in the war in the Fa,
East by the United States.
While the Chinese masses are
being slaughtered by the tens Of
thousands and the imperialists are
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
1 900 New Subscribers by March 16, 1882
CRISIS SLASHES
LIFE INSURANCE

During the past year over $780,
100000 has been loaned to insur-
ance policy holders by the insur-
ance companies of the country ac-
cording to a statement to a sub
committee of the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee on Dec.
%, by F. H. Ecker, president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company.
In admitting this Ecker revealed
that the life insurance of the toll
ing masses has been depleted rap
idly during the two years of the
crisis. The working class has
been borrowing everything IT
could on its life insurance just as
it has withdrawn its miserable
savings from the savings banks
thruout the country in order to
exist.
Ecker stated this in his own ia.
shion as follows:
"Of course, we think ID is an
unfortunate thing that loans
should be made on life insur-
ance policies. They defeat the
purpose of the insurance. 1t re-
suits often IN the pOlicyhOlder
reducing his estate that he had
anticipated leaving, and the lOan
in effect, often becomes a loan
from his widow and his chill
dren. We do our utmost to dis
courage loans on policies. They
are unfortunate for another
reason, that they are a prolific
source of lapsatiOn."
The life insurance of the work
ing class that was so loudly Pre-
claimed by the capitalist class
now seeping out. The only life il
surance that the toiling massC
have is mass organization for in
> mediate relief against the capita
list class and its crisis.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05

could not get any more out OF
him, then the bank foreclosed on
him.
WHEREVER A BORROWER
is INVOLVED TO AN EXTENT
WHERE HE CANNOT BE EX-
PECTED TO WORK OUT FORE
CLOSURE is NECESSARY FOR
PROTECTION OF THE BANK
AND THE NATIONAL FARM
LOAN ASSOCIATION THRU
WHICH THE LOAN WAS
MADE" HE SAID.
The pound of flesh policy of the
Federal Land Banks was openly
stated by John Fields, of the Fed
eral Land Bank of Wichita: "Our
standing rule has been that there
would be no sense in fOreclOsing
ON a borrower, If we could get nc
more return as rent. So operating
we have been able to keep Ou
business in good shape"
so OPERATING, operating sc
that they got the last cent out Of
the farmers before they forecloseC
because they could then get more
out of the land by renting it Il
some other farmer who had beer
Idriven from his land somewhere
else and was willing to attempt t.
pay the amount the Land Banl
demanded as rent by shaving him
self and his family still further.
$1OO, 100000 TO THE BANKERS
Of the total Of SIPS, 100000 ad
ditional capital for the land bank
800, 100000 will go to the inves
tors In the bonds of the feeders
land banks. The remaining $25
100000 will be used to offset an
defaults in payments by farmer
of their loans due WHEN II
THE JUDGMENT OF THE d.
RECTORS CONDITIONS JUST
Fly IT." This means when the
cannot get any more out of tn
farmer by evicting him and rem
ing the land to some other sma
farmer who has also been evicte,
This is one of the Hoover "rt
construction" bills - reconstru,
: ton of the interest and dividend
of the capitalist class at the e.
pense of the toiling masses.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-02-05
DOings of the
Advance Guard
Farmers Need Own Paper

~ OWA 0R~A
The drive is on. We must have
another thousand subscribers be-
fore the middle of March. Our
friends are getting busy every
where. They are going to try and
make it several thousand instead
of one. From one community we
have been assured of $50 subs for
the drive. Getting them in Jumps
like that is what counts, but don't
wait until you get pile of them,
send them in as fast as you get
them. Then go out and get some
more. We must organize the
farmers before they are all kicked
off the land. Getting the Produc-
ers News into every community is
what is needed and what we must
have. Here is what somebody die
for us last week:
The Active Ones
L. F. Barrett of Sanish, N. D.
lcomes in with three more sub.
scriptions.
| John o. Hanson, Chisago City
Mimi, writes us a letter and say'
lin part: 81 am pleased to notic'
activities of the U.F.JA in Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Montana, Nortl
Dakota and other places. Enclose,
find dollar for which send me U
F. L. program"
Ben Is the Adviser
| A Keymoolen, Ca7enovia, MINI
writes: "Ben advises me to sen
for a copy of your paper, The Pro
lducers News, you will like it
Ben tells me. l have an idea