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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

Kennewick Teacher What do
you know of Margaret of Anjou :?
Buddy She was very fat.
Teacher What authority have
you to say that?
Buddy Well, the book says that
among Henry's stoutest supporters
was Margaret of Anjou.
Wise or Otherwise
Offensive wives make defensive
husbands.
It's the worse kind of luck when
you have that kind.
Everybody knows that a busy
body has nose for scandal.
Women will find heaven awfully
dull if they have to wear the same
style of robe all the time.
Young people, very truly remarks
a local man, may have a good time,
enjoy themselves, and have a good
crowd at their social affairs-with-
out smoking cigarettes or drinkink
liquor. Now, read that again, and
let it soak in.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

full boards. Employers will be call
ed upon to obtain labor from these
agencies and the workers must be
registered and listed by the state.
Then the employers must permit
the boards to say whether or not
worker who claims to be a car
penter can be used as a common
laborer except by and with the con-
sent of. such man.. Also employers
will be hard put to make any wage
changes abter the Job is once
started, unless the board says it
shall do so.
These are a few of the parting
shots found in the measure.
But here is just what it means.
There are today $4,000 unem-
ployed persons in this state. The
act provides that the worker out Of
a job for two weeks shall be en-
titled to draw SO per week and
$3.50 for each dependent. Taking
the minimum of $40 per week, the
fifty thousand would require $780,
900 weekly, $4,000, 900 a month, or
$24, 100000 year.
1t will cost another $1,000 Or
more to administer.
The state pays one third or S.
600, 900, about six mills in tax in
crease. The employers pay one
half or $4,000 or $1,0OO,OO0
month, almost one third of the
total industrial payroll Of the three
basic industries, at this time, lun-
Der, logging and mines.
The answer is simple:
If enacted into law, there will
be no industrial payrolls. There
will be no employees. There will be
no business and no wage earners.
In fact there will be such a wild
scramble to get outside of the bor-
ders of Washington, by property
owners, business interests and
even workers that many will be
hurt in the stampede.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28
P CS
BY JIMMIE K. BROWNE


Although it is called the ssUnem-
ployed Insurance Act" the initial
i've filed by Carl Brannin of Seat
tie, Secretary of the Seattle Labor
College, can more truthfully be
labeled San Act to Bankrupt the
State" If by some unusual freak
of circumstances it should be
adopted, it would do just this. In
cidentally the enactment of the bill
would Instantly solve the unem-
ployment problem. Every man,
woman and child in the state would
be found a job on one of the
boards, agencies or bureaus, Great
ed, or could go to work as an in
spector, snooper, examiner, or
what not, for the state.
The bill creates new board to
handle unemployed insurance. This
board given unlimited powers, adj
ministrative, legislative and even
judicial, is all powerful. The Gov
ernor names it. The director of
labor is the first member. Organ
lied labor has the other and the
employers have the third.
Each will be paid $4,000. The
act fixes this. However, it does not
limit salaries to be paid secre-
tAries, assistants, or the director
of employment to be named by the
board. This board creates a bur-
eau Of employment. This bureau
takes over all employment agencies
municipal or county, operated in
the state, and can, if it so desires,
establish one with corps of
clerks and assistants at every cross
roads, and probably will, during
times of economic depression or on
election years.
The board can establish branch
offices whenever and wherever de-
sired. The Bureau can do the same
thing.
The actions of the board and of
the labor bureau are not subject
to court review. Each and all are
all powerful, the act expressly set
ting all laws of statutes governing
similar bodies which are forced to
deal with Investigations.
All of these bureaus and boards
are to be paid from the new fund.
This will be created by a general
tax levy in the state to raise one
third: employers of labor will pay
one half prorated on their pay
rolls. The workers will pay one
sixth until such time as it is found
the assessments equal one-twelfth
of the payrolls when the state will
pay two-fifths of the excess and
the employers the other three
fifths.
The picture becomes brighter
from the Comunistic point of view.
All labor and all employers must
ultimately come under the regula-
lions and rules of these all power
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28
U. S. TwO-CENT STAMP @
PROBLEM SOLVED

Everybody has been wondering
what Uncle Sam is going to do
with all the two-cent stamps when
the new three-cent stamp act
comes into effect. To destroy all of
them would certainly be a vast
waste indeed. The Senior class
has meditated over the idea and
believe they have solved the prob
lem. Due to the mailing of the
large number of commencement
announcements and photographs
this week, Kennewick will have no
surplus of two-cent stamps!
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PRESIDENT REPORTS
GREAT PICNIC SATURDAY

Lester Brown, president of the
Freshman class at the local school
reports that the Freshman picnic
Saturday, April % was a great
success.
The picnic was held in the park
at Walla Walla, where all records
consuming ice cream were broken
five gallons in fifteen minutes,
no more; no less.
Fred Mills bus and one car
We're used for transportation. The
class left Kennewick at seven o.
clock in the morning and returned
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ASPARAGITIS

A disease seems to have spread
thru the Kennewick high school.
In many classes you see one or
more students asleep. Upon ones
asking the individual what tn e
matter is, he glares at you in the
most insolent manner. Other SYM
ptoms are that of grooming when
he stoops over and frequent feel
ing of his back. On probing deeper
into the disease we find that it is
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Thursday. April %. 1920

sons rs sister in PrOsser.
,,,r mr. and m Mrs. John BleichDer ~
Seattle. visiting in
Miss zorb, a teacher at s. p..,-
Episcopal church at wall, o. ,I ranls
Pencil home. 'ne >. B.
Miss Patricia Carlen 90 ~.
was w ,; a weekend S visitor at the b aSco
OF Miss Barbara HauscbiIS nome
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28
SENIOR ANNOUNCEMENTS
ARRIVE FROM PORTLAND

The Commencement announce
ments have arrived and are ready
for distribution at the printing of
flee. This years announcements
are a product of Dank and Com
pany, Portland, Oregon, and the
class feels that they are of the
quality and style necessary fol-
such an occasion as graduation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

Asparagitit. This terrible malody
is caused by the cutting too much
asparagus. 1t seems that there Is
little or no cure for the disease
except to get used to it or it eases
up gradually as the season dwin-
dies. -
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Published weekly by Pupils of Kennewick High School

from Walla Walla after having a
great day of fun, at about four
thirty. Coach Jacobs as guest of
honor and Miss Savage, Freshman
class sponsor, acted as chaperones.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

STUMP PULLING, any liz
each; 400 a day with !
'S o. IS See Horace Wray, or r WRIT
Yakima. u oereet,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

FOR SAIE-Gallon lars. 10c. :
Plowman's. Oarrels.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

wANTED-lOO feet Of woven vi-.
9 to 4 #. high. Telephone is S;Ie
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-28

FOR SALES fresh cow. ;,
Moon, Finley, Wash. = :.
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
Hamstringing the Army
If the House Has It's Way

The House bill cripple the Army by retiring officer
out of every six will before the Senate.
If the Senate has any patriotism
It will make short work of this pfng pacifist proposal
Such reduction would be suicidal to national defense
It would force the Army withdraw 30 per cent of the
regular officers duty with the National Guard the
Organized Reserve and the Reserve Officers Training Corps
would force many officers studying in the special
schools quit their work there handicappng
the Army its efforts keep abreast of the highly technical
knowledge demanded by modern warfare
It would compel the War Department to cut down the
faculty at West Point thus interfering seriously with the in
structon given to future officers
It would also reduce the already small corps of officers
drascay that in the of many months would be
wasted in forming National Army and training
point where it could fight.
This reduction put through the House by little group
Of pacst Congressman who happen hold important
mttee positions.
Their ringeader is Congressman Collins of Mississippi who
knows rather less about national defense than the late Viii
liam Jennings Bryan.
AS MIR. Bryan knew NOTHING you can gather just how
much Mr.. Collins knows
But fortunately in scheme of Government when one
House of Congress makes fool of itself its be
corrected by the other.
The House of Representatives led by Mr. Collins
few Others has made egregous fool of itself in this in
stance.
The Senate has the opportunity change all that If it
has one oa OF the wisdom with which it sometimes credited
it will.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

supposed to ELSIE ROBINSON
be smart for Ma and the kid
to be just girls together. In
fact, the modern mama who
isn't taken for her child's sis
ter is considered museum
specimen.
Time was when mother was
a mother, and daughter was
a daughter, and rarely the
twain did meet.
But nowadays. thanks to an
increase in beauty-shop tech
nique and a decrease in mater
nal intelligence, thousands of
mothers and daughters are do
ing a Sister Act-WHICH IS
RAPIDLY BECOMING ONE OF
OUR MAJOR PAINS-IN-THE
NECK.
For though it may look lovely
to see mama sharing daughters
clean, girliSh fun, what happens
in the home when the missis
becomes a sweet young thing?
The HOr-e Suffers
Plenty! Dishes pile up in the
kitchen sink. Bills pile UP in
the department store. Dad
comes home to an empty house,
munches something out of the
ice box, wonders, in irritated
bewilderment, where the girls
have gone.' And, for further
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
The Federal Share
Senate Yields to Emergency

The per the Federal share of the upkeep of the
National Capital proposed by the Senate subcommittee Dis
trict appropriations can accepted only temporary
pedient
It cannot and should be taken indicate admission
which the committee recommends is the fair
and equitable which the nation should expend for the
maintenance and improvement of the Capital
The people of the District not unreasonable
They that Federal finances in bad shape and that
Is necessary for the Congress wherever it can
Wasngtonans will accept the suggestion that in these try
ing economic times may be to cut down on the
amount to be spent on their city during the coming fiscal
pences of the financial situation has preserved its stand in
favor of Federal contribution of $9500000 did this by
taking that and then deducng from 10 per cent as
provided by the policy of the Senate in dealing with all appro
priation bills.
In deliberations of the Senate group and in its decision
on the controversial matter of fiscal relations there ap
parent the anmus which showed itself the work OF
the corresponding House group.
Senator Bingham and his colleagues sympathetic to the
needs of the National Capital They realize that the people
who alone support the Federal city in the man.
which its position requires :,
They have however been forced in dealing with the local
BILL cognzance of the depleted condition OF the
Treasury . ,
The Senate committee has wisely dregarded the preudced
findings of the Mapes Committee The bills which spo
acten at They should all be thrown into the
waste basket in the end.
But complicated situation which has developed re-
suit of those bills demonstrates that in the very near future
the Senate and will have to appoint impartial joint
committee to determine finally question of fiscal relations
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
A Hoax? Here Is a
Reality!
Claude G.. BOWers

help from Mr.. Hoover, he
must have been bitterly dis
appointed;
But now we are approach
ing a controversial subject
on which the President has
taken a stand, against any
bond issue of any amount to
put the jobless to work on
public construction. One day
he says to the Senate that
individuals and local govern
mental units must bear the
burden of the Federal Gov
ernment s economic crimes
that have wrought our ruin;
and the next day the heads
of the leading municipalities
in the country meet in con-
ference and adopt a resolu-
tion calling for the floating
of a prosperity loan to pre-
vent starvation and to put
the unemployed to work on
wages they can and will
spend with the merchants.
One after another, these
men, face to face with hu-
man misery, announced that
the local governments have
reached the end of their
resources IN doing the work
of the Nation Government
in meeting. not a local but
the Nation problem.
On the same day Gerard
Swope, representing, not
politics, but big business,
comes forth with a similar
demand that the Federal
Government no longer shall
ignore the desperate plight
Of these millions who are
turned adrift as debris upon
the current of economic
ruin.
Conceding that all thus
far done for business, banks,
railroads and corporations
has been done properly, the
fact remains that the most
serious and pressing prob
lem before the nation today
is that of the millions denied
their inalienable right to
work.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

himself miserable with a cute
little playmate half his age.
These can hardly be called
sacrifices; because you can't
sacrifice a love that you don't
possess.
But, when a beautiful screen
star deliberately goes to Reno
and cuts the matrimonial
bonds, because her still devoted
husband cannot endure to shine
in the reflected glory of her
fame, she makes the supreme
sacrifice to love-and maScu-
line vanity.
I have always maintained
that art-particularly a Wom-
ans art-and marriage are the
oil and water that won't mix.
Some day, the world may go
completely COED, even in ar
tistic circles. But, as yet, there
is a lingering feeling in the
masculine breast that woman'S
place is in the background
or, at least, just step to the
rear.
Funny! Two men can work
together, perfectly amicably, on
the stage or the radio or in
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

developments, consult our di-
vorce records; our juvenile de-
linquency records. That's what
happens when mama stops be-
ing mother and becomes one
Of the girls.
But isn't it lovely for her to
stay young like that?"
No, it isn't. It's lovely for
mother to stay young; but not
to stay young like that. A
giggly, girlish maiden is a
treat; but a giggly, girlish ma
tron is usually a tramp. And her
claim that she's ''looking-after
daughter" is merely a high
powered alibi for her personal
cutting up.
Yet aren't there many fine
mothers who are real compan-
ions to their daughters? And
don't daughters need guidance
by their mothers?
There are. And they do.
But no mother who does a
sister act with her daughter
is fit to act as a guide. The
very fact that she enjoys ado
lescent gaga as a steady diet is
sufficient proof that she hasn't
a spoonful of brains.
Muscling In
Nor does such a mama want
to guide. She isn't romping
around with daughter to shape
daughters interests.
SHE IS SIMPLY TRYING
TO MUSCLE IN ON DAUGH-
TER'S FUN. A fact which
every daughter in the sister act
realizes and resents.
DESPITE MAMA'S PROTES-
TATTONS THAT THEY'RE
SIMPLY INSEPARABLE" NO
DAUGHTER EVER WANTED
HER MOTHER TO BE HER
GIRL FRIEND.
There is a breach between the
generations which no amount of
beauty treatments or jazz tech
nique can fill. Be she ever so
beautiful or beloved, Mama is
always an intruder at the feast
of youth. And if daughter per-
mits her to tag along, it is only
because she thereby makes
mama a partner in crime and
thus divests her of unwelcome
authority.
Daughters do not need advice
and protection. and they will
accept it if administered in a
regular home by a real mother
clothed in the dignity of her
office. But they will not ac-
cept it from a synthetic play
mate who insists on sharing lip
sticks and pick-ups.
But in these days, unless a
girl is watched all the time"
If a girl has to be watched
all the time in these or any
other days, then what that
girl needs is a keeper, not a
SIDE KICK.
AND NO GIRL WAS EVER
KEPT FROM GOING TO
THE DOGS BY HAVING
MAMA GO WITH HER.
Copyright, 1882, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
UnWiSe HectOring
Glassford Needs Help

Superintendent of Police Gassford in dealing with the
'bonus performing difficult and thankess task
with rare skill and ability.
Criticism of his conduct with poor grace from
few members of Congress.
They attempted place the chief in unavorabe
light charging that because he feeding and sheterng these
men he is to blame for their being here
General Gassford took this task after the came
here did it simply the interest of law and order
Any of transient is potential menace to the
peace and comfort of city The becomes danger
Gus when it is half starved and poorly lodged
that danger which General Glassord trying to avoid
There is no way that these be induced leave
the city until they do of their free will.
The best thing that the city authorities do to try to
keep them in order while they here
General Gasford has undertaken to do that after all other
agencies have SHE'D away He deserves help instead of
hectoring criticism.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

AND so it was a hoax Ia
"A bit of play acting for
the entertainment Of the
groundlings-a smart piece
Of politics to sharpen the
dull pencils of the propa-
gandists. Belasco in his best
days would have been proud
of the stunt. This, then, the
story as it now appears:
When Mr.. Hoover made
his impetuous rush for the
Senate Chamber, after hav-
ing dashed off a message
with his usual facility with
the pen, and the Senate on
the same day passed the tax
bill there were loud cheers
from the faithful.
Butt now appears that
on last Monday night the
President, in conference
with Senators of both
parties, positively knew that
the tax bill would be passed
on Tuesday. Knowing this,
he knew that there was no
necessity for his speech, as
far as the passage of the
bill was concerned.
But he "could not sleep"
on Monday night; and the
cold grey dawn at 5 o'clock
found him bending over his
desk in the preparation of
an elaborate message urging
that which he knew had
been agreed upon. 1t ap-
pears from the message
that he had come into pos
session of some new grave
facts. He did not have
these facts when the con-
ference adjourned at a late
hour on Monday night; he
got them during the sleep
less hours from midnight
until dawn. These facts still
are his secret.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
100000 People
In Abject Want

For three years the Ad-
ministration has belittled
and sought to ignore this
human problem. For more
than two years it juggled
figures to minimize the num-
Der out of work; and, by
so doing, handicapped well
fare organizations in raising
the funds necessary to pre-
vent starvation. Six months
ago Mr.. Hoover was reported
to have protested bitterly
that the state of unemploy-
ment was exaggerated.
But the American Fedora
tion of Labor denied it.
And social welfare Or
ganizations denied it.
Now comes Gerard Swope,
a representative of big
business, who may make
more of an impression upon
the President, with the state
ment that as many as 9,OOO,-
600 breadwinpers are now
cut off from the means Of
earning their bread by self
respecting toll.
This means at least &c.
100000 men, women and
children who are in abject
want.
And this means almost 25
per cent of the American
people.
Nothing yet done for bust
ness, railroads, banks has ac-
complished anything for
36,00O,00O. On the contrary
there are hundreds of thou
sands, if not millions, more
of them on the streets today
than there were before these
measures for the relief of
the banks, railroads and cor
porations had been passed.
There is an absolute GER
tainty that by autumn an
other vast corps of the un-
employed will join the army
of the dispossessed.
And so long as this in
creasing reduction and de-
structiOn of purch a sin g
power continues, the stores
will increasingly suffer, and
the factories will send more
workers into the streets.
We have not a nice little
fire-we have a mighty con-
flagration. Congress has de-
termined to try water. TIL"
danger is it will resort to a
squirt gun, and accomplish
nothing commensurate with
the need, instead of bringing
all the fire-fighting facilities
of the nation to bear upon
the flames.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

all over the
place, scoot-
ing off to see
some perfect
ly marvellous
fellow two
cute liz trick
b / on d e S I!
You'd never
g u SIS they
were mother
and daugh-
ter.
You see a
lot of that
sort of thing
nowadays. It's
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
A Mysteriously
Phrased Speech

Or was it? The speech it.
self was mysteri Ously
phrased. In fact it proposed
a sales tax, advocated by
Senator Reed, whose con-
ference with the President
preceded the announcement
of the dramatic appearance
in the Senate. Was it a
desperate last hour effort?
An effort, perhaps, but
more apologetic than des-
perate. For Mr.. Hoover in
words declared himself
against the sales tax, and
then proceeded to advocate
a sales tax under another
name. It was the counsel
of fear and timidity where
leadership of courage was
required.
Thus the phrasing of this
phase of the speech precipi-
tates a spirited controversy
in the interpretation-some-
thing by no means new with
the statements and speeches
of the President. If Sena-
tor Reed, a fortnight man,
who says what he thinks in
unequivocal terms, expected
The Washington times., 1932-06-06

just in order to play together.
But, not until then, will they
learn the meaning of true ito
getherness," which is the Ideal
Marriage.
AS for the double-track-career-
marriage, in these days of tran
Sition, it takes an awfully big
man and awfully wise and tact
full woman to make them work,
without wrecking the whole
train, and "divorcing for love-"
Copyright, 1892. King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
DO YOU KNOW

Going to bed too late is one
of the contributory causes of
rheumatism, from which disease
over 10000 London children
suffer.
Police of Belfast are round
ing up holders of fake auto
mobile license plates.
In the last six years, 1919
coal pits in Great Britain have
been closed.
Authors and composers of
Germany have united to pro
tect their movie and radio
rights.
The Washington times., 1932-06-06
ONCE-OVERS

Your wife needs amusement
and she needs to feel that she
has an equal partner in caring
for the children.
You say you need rest and
recreation but you do not need
it any more than she does.
You get out among men and
can keep abreast of the times
among active adults while she
must care for the babies at
home and settle the neighbor-
hood quarrels precipitated by
one Of your Sonsy perhaps.