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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-07
WASHINGTON INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW

Seattle Sta Kleen Spark Plug,
capitalized at $4,000, incorporat-
ed recently to deal in mechanical
! devices and novelties.
Walla alla-Hydrotherapy de-
partment completed at sanitarium
at cost of approximately $4,000.
Shelton-Joe Wohleb, architect,
to prepare plans for construction
of $4,000 city hall building.
Wallula-New state highway
from this place east to vicinity of
Van Sycle canyon now in use, re-
placing old county road crossing
Walla Walla river at Three-Mile
bridge.
Pasco-C Construction progressing
on post office building.
! Gle Elum-M. C. Miller saw mill
will resume operations.
Marysville-White Feed Co., of
Everett will open branch store in
this city.
Walla Walla-Lyon & Price COM
pleted gravelling new part of the
highway thru town.
Hoquiam- Olympic Transports
ton Co., capitalized at $4,000, In
corporated to operate autos for
transportation of express, freight
and passengers.
Tacoma received for fur
! ishing chlorine gas supply for city
water department during year.
Toledo-Mrs. Lizzie Arrinton in
stalled big new refrigerator in her
general merchandise store.
Chehalis-Wabash Coal Co. re-
ceived contract to furnish coal at
Old Folks home.
Lakeside approximately 5 miles
of new paved highway will be COM
pleted in next six months in this
district.
/ Everett-E.E.Pu rdy & Sons will
erect mortuary at Wentmore and
Pacific avenues.
Chehalis-$15O,O0O post office
building to be erected in this city.
Longview-City laundry rebuilt
and resumed operations.
Oroville received for con-
struction of inspection station.
WenatcheelPlans being consid-
cred for proposed furnishing of
domestic water supply for entire
Wenatchee Valley by gravity, thru
development of storage facilities
on Mt. Stuart.
Seattle Improvement of local
waterfront which will involve ex-
penditure. of approximately ST.
zoe, 900, approved.
| Cotton. F. Konen received
$122,911 contract for grading and
surfacing 8.4 miles of eastern di-
vision of Inland Empire highway
from here to Idaho line.
Tenino Hugh C. Runyon leased
Wade's barber shop.
Shelton-C Construction to start
in near future on chlorination
plant and connecting sewer trunks
to cost approximately $4,000.
Ilwaco- Ben Wise win open q
store here.
Colfax-At cost Of over $1,000
Smiths Bakery installed automat-
lie bread slicer and wrapping ma
chine.
Kelso-Nick Corea erecting adj
dition to his store to house ex-
banded grocery, meat and clothing
business.
Shelton Construction progress
ing rapidly on new Junior High
Ischool building.
Colfax-First Savings & Trust
bank installed electric ventilator
in cash vault.
Cashmere Automatic sprinkler
system installed in Schmitten Box
factory and plant.
Dayton-Local street improved
| Toledo-Plans discussed for i'm
proving highway southeast of here
to Knab district.
/ Seattle-Pantages theatre re -ou-
ened for business.
Bellingham-Dr. j. w. Kawlor,
osteopath, plans building private
hospital to cost about $4,000.
Miss Frances McManamon left
Wednesday for Cheney, where she
cnov.f &bo xrv<olr <x>I ~,xskk $~s1-I L.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-07

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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-07

Manley Gest spent the vacation
period at Hayden Lake, Idaho.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-07
Miss Gallop to Attend
Club Meeting January {
EAST KENNEWICK

Miss Gallop of the extension
department of w. S. C. and Mrs.
Mary Davis will demonstrate col
lars and sleeves at the home of
Mrs. j. Bryson Brown Friday aft
ernoon, January 5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Home to ROOSt

Some years ago the Indianapolis Water Company
fought vigorously for principle that rate making
should be on the basis of reproduction new 1t estab
lished that as legal basis.
Translated into common language that meant pub
lie utilities and especially the water company, could
collect basis that would permit it to pay dividends
on sum equal to the cost of rebuilding the system.
1t meant that rates did not have any definite rela-
tonship to the amount of money invested nor was
there any pretense that the rates should safeguard
real dollars put to a public USE
That was established in the days of high wages for
labor high prices for materials high valuations on
whatever real estate used by the company.
Months ago, The Times suggested that if this was
fair and legal basis in times of high prices it should
be applied in periods of deflation 1t suggested that
people were forced pay increased valuations in
prosperous times, they should be given service on
basis of low valuations in times of depression. Upon
that basis the city and the South Side Civic Clubs de-
manded reduction of water rates.
The valuation of real estate holdings placed on its
farm lands for rate purposes is illuminating
Low marsh lands, useful for no other purpose
than as possible future supply of water, listed at
$3.50 an acre at time when the most productive farm
lands are selling at $50 acre and less fertile farms
have no sale value at any price.
There is no pretense that the company ever paid
$3.50 an acre for these lands 1t might be embarrass
ing if the company enticed to show how much
it paid for the canal
The claim of the company that its canal is used
for industrial sites becomes CHASTITY jest when there
are idle factories and no demand for new ones.
The claim that in the residence sections the canal
could be converted into the sites for stately homes
and should be valued accordingly for rate purposes
force when realtors find it impossible to sell sites
in any place at any price.
What is true of its real estate claims is true also of
the cost of rebuilding the distributing system and it
must be remembered that this company established
the principle that it could charge, not what it
actually paid for labor, but what it would cost in
labor market that had reached its peak of wages It
is true also of the cost of materials needed for pipes
and for machinery.
Anything than rate fixed upon fair APP
praisa of these properties at present values should
not be accepted by the people
Those marsh lands must be listed at their present
sale value-and that what they would bring at
sheriff's sale. In this city there success in
selling any land for taxes,
The cost of reproduction should be established on
the basis of what it would cost to hire labor in this
city at this time. Evidence that point could be
easily obtained from the thousands who are now ap-
peang daily for the chance to work for basket OF
groceries.
This company established the rule. 1t is their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A MOTHER commission has finished its job. The
N war policies board the other day handed its
findings to congress. 1t had been set to the task OF
discovering how war burdens could be distributed
equally among the whole American people.
First of ALL it might be interesting to note that
besides several senators and cabinet members who are
automatically exempt from CONSUMPTION, the COM
mission was made of six cabinet members. Its wit
nesseS included the federal governor the
president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the
chief of staff of the army.
Not plain ordinary private among EN-. And
their findings not those of plain ordinary private
either
man and every dollar to gain victory as quickly as
possible was rejected by the commission as quickly
as possible.
1T would be-" they announced, nothing short of
conhscation and sociastic besides and such sweep
ing method of equalization of burdens would be
both unweldy and unnecessary"
XXTH1E some of their decisions are excellent it
w seems to me that the ideas of these gentlemen
about confiscation are bit vague In plain terms
they say the taking of mans dollars would be
hScation while the taking of his would not be.
A goody number of the martial brigade and sew
eral ladies of the D. A. r. have written to me with
stern unbraiding They say my views childish.
What would do if became reality and we
had to fight it out for the Philippines?
To enlighten them, I may say, that shall cheer
the boys when I see Charlie Schwab of United
States Steel marching at the head of a company
privates, when Du Pont his manufactured powder
on the battlefield, and when men like Hiram johnson
and Senator Borah, who prattle about Our Country
go out to defend it.
In other words, will be for wars when the old
men who make thera do some Of che fighting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
u, S, Not BANKRUPT

THE tense situation thus de-
Il veloped calls for prompt ac-
ton. 1t also calls for calm
attitude toward the problem of adj
Justing government finances.
The United States has not reached
a point where the defeat of a five
hundred million-dollar tax bill
means bankruptcy, or anything like
it.
Indeed, the United States has not
reached point where it could not
reduce running expenses by that
amount if it had to.
The worst phase of the situation
is the dawdling by which it has
been permitted to take on the ap-
pearance of crisis.
Lack of foresight is at the bottom
of this mess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Senator Watson
states that ION account of the fact
that our government faces deficit
of three billion dollars, the Ameri-
can Legion has decided not to ask
for additional bonus"
I wish to inform the public that
the American Legion has asked for
full payment of the bonus in
Senator Watsons state, and fur
thermore 95 per cent Of all vete-
rams have asked for payment.
We have been hearing Father
Coughlin speak on the radio every
Sunday and he has explained all
facts and details regarding the bo-
nus payment, and also Congress-
man Wright Patman of Texas in
his speeches and articles in the
Plain Talk magazine has expls ned
all facts concerning bonus payment.
I think Senator Watson is trying
to "pasS the buck" Anyway, bigger
and better headlines are not going
TO help balance the budget, and
bigger and better riots and killings
are not going to feed the millions
of unemployed. Most of the banks
are closed in your state, and bill
lions have been sent to Europe.
You know these things, but We
are not going to be killed or paid
off with jokes. What does the sena-
tor expect a jobless, hungry veteran
to do-Stand in breadline while
the government that owes him talks
of deficits and hands him a lot of
bunk about prosperity just around
the corner, while at the same time
this government is eating UP the
other half of his bonus s-ud APP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
HEALTH SERVICE -
Death Rate Lowering Is Shown

sif1cation of New York's population
by ages, the chart shows that per-
sons from IS to 81 amounted to
1873 per cent of the total population
in 1880, as compared with 275 per
cent in 1880.
These figures show more clearly
than ever that science and medi-
cine must concern themselves more
than ever with health for those
past middle age in life.
Declining death rates for older
persons show that progress is being
made, but the decline for adults still
is far below the decline for the
younger groups.
For example, the death rate for
children between and now is
less than half the 1900 rate for both
boys and girls, while the rate for
adults between go and 81 has de-
clined approximately per cent.
The difference in some of the
older groups, while still substantial,
is somewhat less.
One interesting thing to note is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
M TO-DAY 50
/WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
GGa ofAGN
GERMANS TAKE BAPAUME
March IS

ON March Is, 1918, hard-pressed
~ British troops were forced to
evacuate Bapaume, Nesle, and Guis-
card, as dozens of fresh German
divisions were thrown into the lines
in an effort to smash communica-
tons between the British and
French armies.
German officials claimed the cap
ture of more than 1900 prisoners
and much equipment at Bapaume.
German news agencies announced
that the Fifth British army was
demoralized completely and was be-
ing taken from the front.
Three French divisions were
thrown into a gap between the
French and British lines and held
on to their positions despite massed
assaults Of German shock troops.
Losses in the great battle being
waged in Picardy were running into
many thousands daily.
General Pershing announced that
two regiments of American troops
had taken position on the Picardy
battle front.
They were the first American
troops to engage in major conflict
in the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25

that death rates for females in
New York are lower in every age
classification than for men.
This is true of the group between
Is and 30, which was the only one
to show an advantage for the men
in 1920.
After As, the difference be-
tween death rates for men and
women becomes more pronounced.
These figures, while showing
little not already generally &C
copied as truths, show that actual
facts bear witness to progress
man has made in preserving life,
and indicate that further prog
ress may be expected.
Much work, of course, remains
to be done with the older CLASH
fications. But the work has been
started, at least, and a drop in
this group similar to the one al
ready accomplished in the infant
groups would mean many more
years of life for millions of
people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H RR0z%

pasSerby to call his attention to
the extraordinary resemblance. But
there is always the risk of confu-
sion in these fugitive suggestions
linking clouds or statesmen to dumb
animals.
by the mass, and It's like a cam
Ell indeed"
"Methinks it is like weasel"
1T is backed like weasel"
The Speakers Softer Side
d ATHER than bid for the easy
IN acquiescence of some party
Polonius to whom Honest Jack
might be sold as eagle, antelope
or avenging lion, should prefer to
stress his humility. Here is the
Timid Soul-the Caspar Milque-
toast of the political arena.
Even in the White House he
hardly could bother anybody much.
Very few would know that he was
there, and certainly, as he came up
the backStairs in his stocking feet
and democratic way, there would be
no clatter to speak of.
1t is an old and ancient tradition
that the White House becomes more
homelike when it is filled with the
patter of little politicians feet.
Even the shoes of Herbert Hoover
will not pinch the toes of John
Nance Garner.
But 1 wonder why the club wishes
the voter to measure him with a
yardstick? Wouldn't footrule do?
Copyright. 1892 by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Beer Would HeIp

A DISTINGUISHED clerg yman
L n said the other day that mo ma
ton ever drank itself into prosper
ity." Maybe not, but a nation has
drunk itself into the grip of gangs,
as the last twelve years of American
history prove.
AS long as the American people
pay $1,0O0,000,0OO in profits to rum
runners, this government will not
lack a source of revenue, except as
it permits itself to be blinded by a
visionary conception of reform.
AS senate subcommittee pointed
out last week, 2 cents pint on
beer, without any great increase of
the volume we now are consuming.
would produce 100000, 900 each
year.
With that gold mine untapped,
why the hurry to exhaust other
* vces of revenue?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
MANY Varieties

THE petroleum technologist can
l. turn out many kinds of gaso-
line today, DR.. Haslam says.
"A gasoline has been made which
under ordinary conditions will burn
only with wick as kerosene does,
but which in spite of this is salts
factory under many conditions as
an automobile fuel" he says. ON
the other end of the scale are the
aviation gasolines, which burn rap
idly under almost any conditions.
THE first is satisfactory in
tractors and special automobile en-
glnes in warm climates in summer,
but in extremely cold weather a
gasoline more like aviation fuel
must be used if satisfactory opera
ton is to be secured.
The difference in the two is large
ly in the proportion Of highly vola-
tile constituents left in the fuel.
The separation and handling of
these materials so that they may
be added to the fuel at will, making
the finished gasoline fit exactly the
need for it, has been a major prob
lem of chemical engineering now
solved successfully.
Lubricating oils, he adds, are also
affected by cold, and many Of them
become solid or nearly so at low
temperatures.
However, it is necessary to ham
die them at all temperatures and
to have them retain their valuable
properties even in cold weather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Better Refining

NM conservation has been helped
~ by improvements in refining,
according to DR.. Haslam.
While the automobile of decade
ago consumed approximately sixty
one barrels of crude oil annually, in
recent years the motor car, with
more speed and power, requires only
forty-one barrels, due to the ever
improving methods of refining" DR..
HaSlam says.
otherwise, the increased per-
Torrance of motor cars would call
for a. proportionate increase in the
demand for oil.
TO accomplish this conservation
in petroleum, one of the greatest
contributions of the petroleum
technologist to the nation, the in
dustry has been forced to produce
more gasoline from each barrel Of
crude oil and make it of a higher
anti-knock value to meet the de-
mandS of better automobiles for a
better fuel.
Sterilization of gasoline, making
for greater ease of motor car op-
Grafton in localities experiencing ex-
IRENE high and low temperatures,
consists in adjusting the volatility
of the fuel.
This sterilization is achieved By
saving the lighter, more volatile
parts of gasoline, from season TO
season, and adding them as re-
quired to make the finished product
fit exactly the demands imposed
upon it,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Economy First!

THERE are three ways of meet
l. ing such situation as we face.
First, by cutting expenses; second
by ludicious borrowing, and, third,
levying taxes in proportion to the
ability of those who pay. Of these
three, taxation should have come
last.
Before it goes any farther with
tax bills, congress should see what
can be done to white down ex-
penses. After that, it should see
what can be done to finance the
government with short-term bonds.
When it finally reaches taxation,
congress should give some attention
to bootlegging and the various
forms of racketeering which are di-,
verting hundreds of millions of
dollars annually into the channels
of vice and crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
Gr0zCing of Roses

Do know the happy adventure of growing your
home garden Success with hard
rules followed OF everybody
pretends Of garden
Whether already whether
Washington ready
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with Of experience that will give all the information
need for table living
filled with beautiful this fill below
for this buletin-and start the happy adventure.
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copy the bulletin
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25

NEW YORK, March 25.-Grati-
IN flying as defeat of the sales tax
may be. no time should be wasted in
applause. The governments fiscal
condition is acute, not because of
any fundamental weakness, but be-
cause of loose talk and unwise
schemes for its correction.
Proponents of the sales tax have
succeeded in nothing so well as in
creating the impression of desper-
ate state of affairs.
In their zeal to put this oppres-
sive measure across, they have i'm
piled that there was no alternative,
that the government must have so
much cash by fair means, or foul.
that capital was so scarce, or scared
as to make the sale of bonds doubt
full, that the deficit was so great as
to make a 10 per cent pay cut for
federal employees of no consequence.
Opposition to the sales tax has
been characterized as radical, if not
Communistic. Those against it have
been charged with pandering to
class consciousness. The campaign
in its behalf has been pitched on a
scale calculated to brighten timid
souls. 1t has been presented as a
child Of dire necessity, and its fail
ure has been portrayed as nothing
less than a national calamity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
The Case of Dale

The demand of George Dale that the
encouragement of the United States in
vestigate his indictment to determine
whether the local district attorney or grand
jury has been made the subject of imposi-
ton seems reasonable.
The treatment of Dale after his arrest
suggests a vindictiveness that was in itself
suspicious.
Tt was common gossip upon the streets of
Muncie that Dale would be kept in jail over
the weekend, no matter what bOndsmen
might be obtained in advance. That rumor
became fact after the arrest of Dale, a
strong contrast to the treatment afforded
those arrested in Anderson on the same day.
Dale publicly charges that he is the vic
tim of attacks by those whom he prosecuted
for the very crimes he is charged with pro-
tecting.
He submits to the encouragement that
he has eliminated notorious and costly graft
in connection with public contracts and that
grating on public contracts and protection
of crime have always been twin evils. Both
exist or neither exists in any city. That
sounds reasonable.
Dale calls attention to his record for econ
omy. He has reduced the tax rate. He has
a surplus instead of deficit so common In
other cities.
The appeal of Dale has the ring of SIN
cerity. 1t does not sound like the whine OF a
guilty man appealing for favors. 1t is open,
not secret. 1t has the note of outraged citi-
zenship which believes that this government
should not be imposed upon or used by
vicious elements to destroy effort to serve
the public good.
The record of the prohibition department
in this state has not invited unquestioned
confidence. The disappearance of large
amounts on repeated occasions of confiscated
liquors from the federal building suggests
the resale of this liquor for profit or its dis
tribution for political favors. A department
that has established such a record might
easily lend itself to the sinister purposes of
those who are no longer able to pillage the
public funds.
Something more than the fate of Dale is
involved. If innocent men can be forced to
the costly process of trial and Defense il
mayors who strive to serve the public are to
be Inundated and destroyed without reason
and by imposition practiced upon any part of
the machinery of justice, the people should
know it.
If Dale is guilty and his charge baseless,
an investigation by the attorney general will
fortify it's case If innocent, public confidence
in courts can be increased by prompt apology
by the government through its chief legal
officer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of HyKeiz, the
Health Magazine.
FURTHER cheering news for per-
II sons more than SIS years old
may be found in recent bulletin
of the city of New York depart
ment of health, which shows that
death rates for 1890 are lower in
every classification than they were
in 1900
Another fact brought out in the
same bulletin shows that the per-
centage of persons more than IS
years old has increased every ten
years since 1910.
For example, in 1900, 2.79 per cent
of the population was more than IS;
in 1910, 2.84 per cent; in 1920, 3.11
per cent, and in 1880, 1888 per cent.
From these figures it will be noted
that the percentage gain between
1920 and 1880 was more than twice
as great as the percentage gain
from 1900 to 1920.
To go more deeply into the clas-