The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-09-13
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Highway Safety Month
Universal Draft Wanted
Nazis Warned Against Jews
Strikes and the Lord


In proclaiming September Street and
Highway Safety month"
States issuing the call possess
twenty-one million of the nations au-
tomobiles, and they average twenty.
six thousand seven hundred deaths
from automobile accidents annually.
The nations grand total" is thirty
thousand five hundred such deaths.
Details wired by Mr.. G. d. Newton
OF Hartford, Conn, show that this
year thus far deaths from automobile
accidents are running 20 per cent
ahead Of last year, meaning probably
thirty-six thousand deaths for 1884.
Secretary Of Commerce Roper, chair
man of the national conference on
street and highway safety, urges con-
certed action through the nation, and
there is certainly need of 1t.
The increase in deaths, unfortu-
nately, indicates increasing reckless.
ness among Americans, and, more un-
fortunately. increased recklessness In
drinking. o.
The New York State American Le-
gion demands q new law that would
give government the power to draft
everybody In case Of war, with power
to control all manufactures, rail.
roads, etc. The national government
assumed all those rights and powers
Loot ffron xr,a,116 n q uof In, with.
out any special law.
Many would advocate law forbid.
ding any wholesale CONSUMPTION of
American youth or cash without pre-
liminary vote, allowing the people to
express their opinion. The nation may
not be always as foolish as it was last
time. ~ - ~~ ~
Rudolf Hess, chosen to succeed Hit
Ter If the Lord should take the chan
cellor, warns members of the Nazi
party not to employ Jewish lawyers,
recommend any Jew for official or
other positions, and Nazi party mem
bers must not associate publicly with
Jews. That should suit self-respecting
Jews, IL some Of the things that Chan
cellor Hitler said concerning the moral
character Of Nazis recently executed
by his order are true. ,.~......--
Northern strikers of the "hard- boiled,
herman type" may cry "Crisisl" read
ing of strike meeting In North
Carolina that turned into a religious
camp meeting with prayers and loud
cries of 'Amen," Mr.. Lawrence, elo-
quent strike leader, telling his follow
ers, "Trust in God, for he is with us,
as he Is with all those whose cause is
just" e.
Scoffers may remember that Crom-
well also prayed and took the Lord
for his partner on all occasions, and
what he did to privilege and power
was good deal He is one man that
never lost battle; he cut of the
kings head, and his enemies feared
him long after he was dead.
The eloquent Mr.. Lawrence told his
strikers, .sThe first strike on record
was the strike In which Moses led the
children of Israel out of slavery, from
Egypt" The first strike, some would
say, Is described by Milton, telling of
Lucifer and his attempt to rule In
heaven. Others would say that Eve
was the first striker, bored, with no
one but Adam to talk to, delighted to
meet the serpent, although she was
sorry later and wished she had not
struck against the rule concerning the
forbidden tree. .E
Another courageous f1ier, > Douglas
Davis, was killed while striving to
win the Thompson trophy race at
Cleveland just after he had broken
another record. Col. Roscoe Turner,
who recently again broke the Pacific
to Atlantic record, won the Thompson
trophy.
Davis, a modest young Georgian,
Just before his death had beaten the
land speed record. going above 3Oe
miles an hour. He will be content to
have that record engraved on his
COIuDSlOuc. Wcucli, WIZ set lu6 pre-
vious record, was killed recently trying
to do better. This country has many
brave fliers. -e.--.- z
Improbable things do happen. At
Ark, Leon Brown and Ho-
mer Stewart, rival candidates for
deputy clerk, each got 754 votes. The
learned DR.. Newton 81. Brown of Ar.
kansas State college says, with one
election a year, such thing, according
to mathematical probability, would not
happen again before the year 1865, 19e,
or 1885,, 1852 years from now.
A scientist Of South Africa an
that the puff adder's venom
Is the basis of new drug producing
amazingly good results In treatment
of epilepsy, 20 per cent of patients
cured, "a per cent greatly improved,
according to an interesting article by
Gobind Behari Lal. In this country II
Is understood that the puff adder,
swelling out his cheeks, cobra-fashion,
only pretends to be poisonous. Per-
haps Africa has worse puff adder.