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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Abandon Plans For
Daylight Time Here

Despite Governor Martins recon-
mendation that all communities OF the
state adopt daylight saving time in
order to make the time schedules uni
form, it looks as though White Bluffs
and Hanford will continue to use the
standard time plan.
While a number of individuals in the
community we're of the opinion that
the plan would work out to the better
satisfaction of the community, those
few business houses which have tried
it report that the results were not as
anticipated. While perhaps making in
tercourse with the larger towns and
cities of the state easier, it led to some
degree of confusion within the COM
munity, and several of the houses have
now changed back to the original time
schedule.
Other communities of the Yakima
valley are also having some difficulty
over the matter. Kennewick has def
nitely turned down the daylight saw
ing scheme, while Prosser, formerly
opposed to it, has now signified it's
intention of setting the clocks an hour
ahead, and is endeavoring to line up
the other nearby communities to do
the same Both Grandview and Sunny
side are opposed to the change, Pasco
is undecided and Yakima is firmly es-
tablished on the new schedule.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Free Band Concert To
Be Held Friday Evening

A free band concert will be offered
Friday evening at eight o'clock. The
band will be assembled next the j. G.
Lloyd Office on Federal avenue. Every
one is invited to attend.
The Boy Scouts will have charge OF
the parking of cars. IF there is a
good attendance Friday, said F. A
English, band master, 1--WE will con-
tinue giving concerts all during the
summer" The band is also planning
to play Decoration Day and will ap-
pear in their new uniforms for the
first time that day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25


Checks payable in balance of the
United States:
Charge per item......3c 7c 13c 19c
Three factors enter into these
charges, said Mr. Kincaid, one being
the time, stationery and postage nee
essary to receive, make record OF, send
out for payment and record advice
of payment of each item; another
being the interest figured on the am
CUNT of the check from the time it
is paid or credited until the bank &C
tually receives the money for the
item and the third being the cost OF
shipping in and insuring in transit
the currency and silver necessary to
pay the cash demands arising because
of the checks Heretofore these costs
were absorbed as general overhead
expense and taken care of principally
by interest received from loans and
investments. Now that these funds
cannot be loaned, these costs must be
taken care of by those receiving the
service.
For a, number of years the bank
has had schedule of charges fer
checks drawn by the customer on the
bank which took into account interest
on the average balances. This will be
altered for the time being to charge
of three cents for each check drawn.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Poppy Sale Directed BY
Legion Auxiliary Women

Poppy Day" will be observed In
White Bluffs this year, on May q, the
Saturday before Memorial Day. Mrs.
Ora Luddington is chairman of the
poppy committee of John Lindblad
unit of the American Legion Auxiliary.
The unit is making extensive prepar-
ations for the observance of the day
and hopes for the full cooperation OF
the residents of the valley.
All contributions received from the
sale of these peoples will be used for
relief work among the disabled vet
Grams and their families, the bulk OF
the money going to support the relief
activities of the local Auxiliary unit
among needy families in this valley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Travelling Wheel Will Be
Given Grange by Finley

Finley Grange will be the guest OF
the White Bluffs Grange next Thurs
day evening, June 1, when they will
present the travelling wheel to the To-
cal Grange.
A picture program, consisting OF
several hundred lantern slides in re-
lation to degree work of the Grange,
will be presented by the visitors. Mem
bers of the Hanford Grange have been
extended an invitation to attend this
meeting also.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Benton City Man Sent to
Reformatory at Monroe

In a recent session of Benton county
superior court, Judge Matt L. Driscoll
sentenced two men to prison., attend
ants said
Harvey Hallett, who pleaded guilty
to grand larceny, was sentenced to
from six to 18 months in the reform
atory at Monroe, and Albert Borsum,
pleading guilty to the theft OF bee SUI
pers, was sentenced to 60 days in the
county Jail. Hallett was charged with
stealing three tires and disc wheels
from George E. Scott OF White BUTTS
Leo Larsen, who also pleaded guilty
to the charge, will be sentenced later
The homes of both are in the benton
City district, and Borsum's home is
near Finley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Bank Changes
Will Go Into
Effect June !
NECESSARY UNDER NEW sTABILI-
ZATION ACT; CHARGES BASED
ON SERVICES

In order to improve the condition Of
the local bank while operating under
the sterilization act, new law passed
by the last session of the legislature,
certain service charges will be levied
on deposits in the bank.
w. j. Kincaid, cashier of First Bank
of White Bluffs, sent out letters this
week to customers having deposits In
the bank prior to the bank holiday,
advising them what was being done
towards getting the bank in position
to operate on an unrestricted basis.
The letter also advised that these SER
vice charges would be put into effect
on June LIST to help defray expenses
of operation under the Sterilization
act.
New deposits made during the period
the bank is operating under this law
are treated as trust funds and are
kept in cash on hand or deposited in
reserve banks; the funds cannot be
loaned and no interest can be paid
thereon. This makes for safety Of these
deposits but as the funds cannot be
loaned it deprives the bank Of the in
terest and requires that other methods
of earnings be resorted to for payment
of the operating expenses of the bank.
Mr. Kincaid states that the bank will
make small charge for most OF the
services rendered, which will include
charges for handling checks drawn on
out-of town banks, a revised schedule
of charges for checks drawn on this
bank, exchange for drafts and charges
for safe keeping of papers, etc. The
following schedule of charges for
checks drawn on banks out of town
has been handed to the Spokesman as
substantially the charges that will be
made:
u s-ss Is
On checks payable in Washington,
Idaho. Oregon and California:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Kitty Ball Teams To
Be Organized in Valley

All efforts to organize baseball
team in the valley having apparently
failed White Bluffs fans are planning
to organize several kitty-ball teams to
provide some entertainment during the
summer months.
Several of the local men have been
busy for the past few days lining up
players for two teams. Eighteen players
will be needed before the game can
be gotten underway, and they hope
that once the pastime becomes estab-
lished here more teams will be en-
tered.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Mrs. Bradley Markets
First Local Berries

Mrs. j. A. Bradley brought the first
local strawberries to the White Bluffs
stores Saturday While the Bradleys
and other growers have been shipping
berries in small quantities for somo
time, they are very slow to ripen this
spring.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Memorial Day
Observance At
School Lawn
PROGRAM WILL START AT 10 AM.
(STANDARD TIME; CIVIC
CLUBS IN CHARGE

Memorial Day in White Bluffs May
80, will be observed by program at
the high school at 10 o'clock, Pacific
standard time, parade to the ceme-
terry and the customary decoration of
graves. The committee in charge of
the preparations is: j. E. Fouty, chair
man, of the American Legion; Mrs.
j. E. Fouty, of the American Legion
Auxiliary, and Mrs. F. A. English o,
the Womans Club.
The Boy Scouts will have charge Of
the parking of cars.
The complete program is as follows:
Serenade .... "Starlit Night"
White Bluffs Band, F. A. English,
Director
Rev. H. A. Moves
Duet
Louise Shinn and Aletha Hemker
Address of the Day,
E. F. Newton, Commander, John
Lindblad Post
Skit
Mrs. j. B. Tromanhauser and
Evelyn Barge, assisted by the
Rhythm Rubes
Band Quartet
White Bluffs Band
Parade to Cemetery
Benediction,
Rev. H. A. Noyes
Firing Squad Salute. Taps"
Decoration of Veterans graves by
The American Legion
Selection. "Rock Hill" (Dirge)
White Bluffs Band
The parade will form on the road
in front of the high school immedi-
ately following the Cannonade March.
ALL Legion members, ex-service men Of
all wars, American Legion Auxiliary
members and Boy Scouts are urged to
join in the parade. The parade is under
the direction Of DR.. E. F. Newton and
j. E. Fouty, who have planned the
following lineup:
/. Commander, American Legion.
2. Officers.
3. Colors and Color Guard.
4. Commander, Firing Squad.
5. Firing Squad.
6. Band.
z. Ex-service men.
American Legion Auxiliary.
9. Boy Scouts.
10. Anyone else caring to march.
All stores in White Bluffs will be
closed on Memorial Day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Mysterious Note Found
In Bottle by Paul Schicka

While working near his wood pile
Saturday, Paul Shicka noticed an
empty bottle among the timber. About
to throw it to one side, he saw piece
OF paper inside and opening it found
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25

A trace of precipitation was recorded
on the 10Th; O9 of an inch on the
goth; .O8 on the 21st, and OF on the
23rd
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
Immediate Action Urged
On Power Referendum

The Taxpayers Relief committee
this week issued statement from it's
headquarters at Everett, signed by
Chairman A. E. Mckee and Secretary
Joseph II. Smith, which says:
s"This statewide organization OF
taxpayers has this object in view: To
prevent needlessly adding to the tax
burden of payroll industries, home
owners, farmers, and small business
men. Our first effort is sponsoring the
referendum of the Bone Power Bill.
Gall this referendum does is to give
the people of the state opportunity to
express their will. We do not believe
the legislature was acting in accord
with public opinion when it passed
this measure as the voters had pre-
viously overwhelmingly rejected the
measure.
"This referendum does not raise any
issue as to desirability of municipal
ownership. 1t is entirely within the
province of any community to have
municipal ownership of public utilities
If the majority of the citizens OF that
community want it, but no community
should be forced to accept as a part
of their own local affairs the municipal
power trust of other cities. The Bone
Bill gives Seattle and Tacoma unre-
stricted authority to extend their mu-
nicipal plants anywhere in the state
| It destroys home rule and unless re-
ferred, the rest of the state will have
to help carry the tax burden of Sc
attic and Tacoma, for if these plants
are extended over the state it mean
more property off the tax rolls anc
more taxes for every citizen outside
Seattle and Tacoma.
I'VE must have 10000 valid sigma
lures of registered voters, and thu
signed petitions must be certified by
registration officers and returned to thu
Taxpayers Relief committee by Ma!
81. That will hold up the Bone Bill
until the people have opportunity tt
vote on it, otherwise it goes into OPP
GRAFTON June z, and it will then be to-
late to protect the taxpayers of TIN
rest of the state from Seattle ant
Tacoma politicians"
note which read:
"Spt adrift Of Wopotctooo Wash Sim
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
MOTH CATCH

From the three moth traps at Han
ford and at White Bluffs, the follow
ing moth catch is reported:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25
THE WEATHER

Temperatures during the past week,
as recorded on the government ther-
mnmeter at Hanford, were:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-25

note which read:
"Set adrift at Wenatchee Wash, Sun
day morning, May 20, 1928.
High Water, $40 am"
The identity Of the person sealing
the note In the bottle is unknown, as
there was no name on the note.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-29
SUBSISTENCE FARMING

NTHEN the administration set aside S25,-
w 100000 to experiment on subsistence
farms, it started something the finish of
which is matter for the seventh son of
seventh son.
None of the new deals experiments is more
interesting than this one; few of them have
more completely unpredictable consequences
The fact that the experiment is beginning to
prove enormously popular indicates that we
may bump into those consequences a lot
sooner than we expect.
The idea is to set up colonies of small
homes, each surrounded by garden sufficient
to provide its owner with most of his food
stuffs. Occupants of such homes would hold
jobs in industry; some would work in coal
mines, some in factories, and so on
The jobs would give them their income
and the gardens would give them their food;
If an industrial slump cut the4r jobs out from
under them, they at least could keep on
eating regularly until things picked up again.
That's the program. Now it develops that
the government is being overwhelmed with
regular flood of demands for subsistence
farms. The director of the project already
has received applications which, if granted,
would run the cost of the experiment up to
$4,000 100000 Letters are coming in at the
rate of 1000 day.
Here is pathetically eloquent testimony to
the forgotten mans fear of insecurity and
also to his dislike of ordinary urban life. Fur
thermore; it is pretty fair indication that
there will be plenty of sentiment in congress
in favor of extending the scope of the whole
project.
These applicants are voters; you can de-
pend on it that their congressman are hearing
from them.
We are likely, then to hear more rather
than less of the subsistence farm idea in the
future. And it is high time for us to figure
out just where such program would lead us
if it were expanded greatly.
Would it-as some critics say-establish an
American peasantry? Would it depress in
dustrial wages and cut agrculture's markets?
Would it solidify the population in such way
as to diminish the f1uidity of labor to a dis
astrous extent?
1t might do all those things; it might do
none of them. 1t is up to us to find out.
The best way to find out is to try it and
see; and that seems to be just what we are
going to doom a larger scale than any of
us had expected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-29
A GREAT 15-CENT BOOK

TWENTY years ago a remarkable man
wrote a remarkable book. At the time it
was written, the book was read widely and the
author was known widely Yet neither of them
then had attained the full stature to which
they have grown with the passing years.
Today the author has become one of the
most famous men in America, and one of the
most trusted.
And the book, which made predictions that
were considered drastic and startling twenty
year ago, has been fully verified and justified
by the events which have taken place during
the succeeding years. It has been proven by
time
The book is entitled "Other Peoples Money"
and the author is Justice Louis D. Brandeis of
the supreme court of the United States
new edition of this work-costing only is
cents-has just been issued. The issuance of a
new edition Of such an important work. and at
such low price, will serve to introduce Justice
Brandeis volume to generation that is largely
unfamiliar with it-but a generation which is
very familiar with the conditions against which
it warned
This new issue of Other Peoples Money" is
one of the 15-cent volumes which the National
Home Library Foundation of Washington, D. c.,
is publishing in an experiment aimed at intro
ducing good literature to the masses of Amer
lean citizens. Twelve volumes are available
already in what the foundation calls the
Jacket Library
Recently Indianapolis was selected as one of
the cities in which the experiment of distribut-
ing them through news stands was to be made.
1t is expected ultimately that these books,
which now include and will continue to present
some of the worlds best literature. will be sold
as widely as are the most popular magazines.
Even grocery stores are potential outlets for
the publications of the foundation.
Justice Brandeis' book-the latest publica-
ton in this interesting experiment-gin come
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-29
UNCLE SAM, BANKER

TTNcLE SAM now is the largest stakeholder
~ in the largest American bank outside of
New York City. He attained that position by
buying, through the RFC, something like
$500O0000 in preferred stock of the Cont
mental Illinois Bank and Trust Company, the
sale having been approved just the other day
by the banks directorate.
Among all his other interests Uncle Sam
nowadays seems to be becoming a banker in
a pretty extensive fashion. Just where all this
is going to end is not at all clear.
An imaginative person could be forgiven
for believing that he saw taking shape, some
where on the horizon ahead, complete ma
tionalization of the nations banks.
And a sensitive person, mindful of recent
disasters, almost might be forgiven for be-
lieving that that could be a good thing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-29
TO DISSIPATE THE FOG

THE outstanding Republican leaders have
Il had a conference on party policies in
Washington, conspicuous among them being
Ogden Mills, Senate Republican Leader Nc
Nary and Senators Reed and walcott. It is
reported that the conference was much be-
logged with gloom, owing to the lack of any
outstanding issue which the party can pro-
claim with prospects of winning on it.
Come to think about it, what. in the name
of private initiative and rugged individualism,
could the Republican leaders concoct as a ma
tional platform of their party at this time?
The Democrats seem to be considerably
bent on stealing some of the important fea-
lures of the loved and lost Republican tariff
policy Gold standard and Roosevelts mon
keying with the price of gold? Why, an enor-
nous multitude of western Republicans are
cheering Franklin for what he has done and
is doing to gold Prohibition issues? Dead
as Caesars ghost. Foreign relations? Pauper-
ism, and the Democrats have recognized Rus
sia Why, there doesn't seem to be a Gus
tomary, ordinary issue that Republicans can
seize by the tail and pull their party out Of
the hole.
1Tues a OVHlOCIdIlC COuSItSS DlOdtSu Will
power Is likely to commit awful blunders but
even It's suicide could not deprive Roosevelt
of the peoples confidence in him as their
leader who lea6s, Besides, party cast down
by its own blunde.1z hardly is to be resurrected
by the plumbers { athers.
When party belfast with stomach
tumor, anemia. weak blood circulation fatty
degeneration of the nsart, atrophied cerebrum
or such, it is quit customary to administer
some sort of a stinu ant. Gentlemen leading
the Republican parv why not try another
: noble experiment in proclaiming for, sincere
iy. honestly working for the good old-fash-
Toned Abe Lincoln policy-government of. by
and for the people? Your party nursed on
that, at once became strong and fat with po-
litical spoils on that, and the people are hot
footed after Just that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-29
M. .TracySays:

WITH the government offering to buy gold
w at $3406 and silver at 641a cents an ounce,
the ratio stands at more than fifty to one That
is long way from the Bryan proposition OF
sixteen to one. Incidentally, it is long way
from anything like a fixed ratio or Sterilization.
AS long as the dollar in gold fuctuates its
value in silver is bound to fluctuate and as long
as the value of silver is fixed, while that of gold
is movable one finds it hard to see any trade
advantage except to producers of silver. Even
the producers of silver can not be sure OF what
they will get in actual money.
We are getting multitude Of values for the
dollar. 1t is worth one thing in gold another in
pounds another in the general commodity index
and so on. Making it worth specific amount in
silver only causes silver to f1uctuate. The same
thing would occur in a fixed price for any serv-
ice or product. Nothing can be stabilized until
gold is stabilized
A S long as the government reserves the right
N to move gold up and down at will, the
whole price structure must move up and down,
with everybody trying to guess what his or her
peculiar product will be worth.
We assume, of course. that the objective OF
this complicated monetary campaign is Stabili-
cation and that the coinage of silver at fixed
price is part of the strategy. Tt certainly cain
not be regarded as serving a very constructive
purpose by itself. If intended as maneuver by
which to force other nations into gold pact, it
may work AS things now stand, however, it
appears to have increased rather than allayed
public bewildernent.
We still are operating on the gold standard,
though payments in that metal have been
suspended, and we still are endeavoring to fix
the value of the dollar by changing the price Of
gold arbitrarily.
Under such conditions fixing the price of sill
yer merely ties that metal up with the move
ment of gold.
The ridiculous side of the situation is re-
vealed in the simple fact that, while there is
only about fourteen times as much silver as gold
in the world, the latter is rated as worth fifty
times as much an ounce.
A MOTHER tlling-RegardIess of what we do
n with silver, people will not use it as COM
mon medium Of exchange because Of its weight
and inconvenience. If large amount of it is
coined, the government has no choice but to
keep it as a reserve fund in vaults. BY no
stretch of the imagination can silver be
modern business than back-stop, a guarantee
quantity of bullion held in storage to sustain
public credit.
AS Professor Kemmerer~ points out, are
through with cart wheels" The fact that 90
per cent of our business is carried on by means
of checks and drafts, and that ninety-nine out
Of every 100 people would rather have dollar
bill than a silver dollar shows that the hard
money era is over.
People don't want hard money and they
won't accept it unless and until they have lost
confidence in paper money. There are just two
reasons for metal money-hrst. to make small
change and, second, as a reserve to maintain
confidence