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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-18

Bernie Neuman has successfully
passed requirements for entrance into
the u. S. Air Corps, as flying cadet
and will be sent to March Field, at
Riverside, California as member of
the .31st Pursuit Squadron. He re-
turned from Spokane last Friday eve
ming after being there the past two
weeks, and while there made flight
over the flooded areas in Northern
Idaho to Kellogg and return, with
one of the pilots of the 10th Obser-
walton Squadron.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-18

- The Camp Fire girls met this after
noon at the home of Mrs. Vane Wild
er. Mrs. Reed has resigned as guard
ian and Mrs. Vane Wilder has accept
ed the position. Ellen Wysong was
elected president. Vicky White, vice
president; Vivian Higley, secretary;
Anna Marie Mueller, treasurer and
Dorothy Liston, scribe. A song lead
er will be appointed at the next meet
ing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-18
at 7:30 the Prayer and
NAZARENE CHURCH
w. l.. Hanson. pastor

Sunday school at 10. -
Morning worship at IL.
N.Y.P.S. hour, $50.
Evening service, 1880.
: Prayer meeting, Wednesday at z.
We are planning for Bible Con-
ference and Stewardship Campaign
with Rev. F.. R. Cline in February
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-18

Touchet town team plays the Ken
newick town team at Kennewick next
Wednesday night at o'clock at the
high school gym. This class Of basket
ball is very fast and worth going to
see.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-18
CHURCHES
+ + j. + + + + + i 4 + + + + I
Unity Center

Public classes held every Wednes-
day afternoon at the Masonic hall in
Kennewick, teaching lessons in
Truth" Everybody welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-18
$1,000 RECEIVED
BY SOLICITORS
IN CHEST DRIVE
Committee Reports Itemized
Disbursement of Funds Col
lected to-Date; CWA Saves
Fund

For the benefit of the contributors
to the Community Chest, the COM
mittee wishes to report as follows:
To date there have been collected
$4,000 and pledges were received
amounting to $181.05. These pledges
will be paid at different periods dur
ing the next four months. The total
represents about GO percent of the
budget. In view of the fact that the
CWA relief funds have greatly re-
duced the demands for local relief,
the committee made the following ex-
penditures to, date:
Salvation Army .$100. 90
Red Cross ............................. 10000
Washington Childrens Home 10000
Boy Scouts ..--....----...-------.-. 1860
Older Boys Conference .... 5000
Local Relief Committee --..-.-. 10000
Printing, stamps, etc. ..-.-........-.. 1890
In addition to the cash to the local
relief committee, there have been
made available, through the Commun-
ity Chest, donations of vegetables,
services, one dressed beef, etc. A
considerable quantity of milk was
also donated to the Chest Committee
and this in turn is being used at the
Washington school for the benefit of
the children at that point. The COM
mittee believes that it will be able to
increase the payment to the local re-
lief committee by another $3.50 as
soon as the pledges become due.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

The fight against Henry Ford by
the administration has taken an en-
tirely new trend. The government,
having successfully SHE'D away from
any court battle over the awards of
the army contracts, has resorted to
what is plainly petty annoyance in
order to bring Mr.. Ford under its con-
troll. These annoyances have assumed
the procedure common to spoiled
children who will use mean and irri-
tating methods to gain their ends.
The most recent development in the
governments campaign to force the
Ford Motor company to submit it
self to the dictatorship of the automo-
bile code comes in form which is
particularly obnoxious. The new law
provides for loans direct to industry,
passed in the closing days of con-
gress, has been so worded that the ap-
plicant for loan must promise not
| to use the money so received in any
dealings whatsoever with any firm
which does not fly the Blue Eagle. No
names of firms are mentioned in this
provision but it is obvious that this is
merely another childish attempt to
coearce firms not under the codes.
Then, although it is not supposedly
a malicious act, the government radio
Inspector simultaneously recommends
to the federal radio commission that
the licenses of the three Ford radio
stations be not renewed. The inspector
made this Recommendation after his
report stated that one of the stations,
an experimental one, was not in use,
that was used only six minutes an
hour to communicate with the Ford
Great Lakes vessels, and that the
third had made many contributions to
radio, especially in the study of radio
beams in night flying.
This persistent and childish attitude
of the administration is becoming a
little nauseating. The Ford Motor
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

company is admittedly living up to
all the provisions of the automobile
code, and is even going further in the
way of wages and hours than the code
demands. However, this seems to
mean nothing to the would-be dicta-
tors in Washington, who refuse to
recognize the facts because Mr.. Ford
will not place himself under their
dominance by signing away his rights.
Liberalism has evidently taken on a
new meaning in Washington.
Henry Ford accomplished the same
things that NRA is now attempting to
accomplish, years ago in his plants,
to-wit: higher wages, fewer hours
and better working conditions. The
annoyance to which the administra-
ton is subjecting Mr.. Ford is an in
suit to a citizen Of this country, and
another bit Of evidence of the irrit-
able and mean tempers Of reformers
when they are thwarted.
Besides, these statesmen who are
trying to jam every idea they may
give birth to down the throats Of the
people, have evidently forgotten, OF
never knew, that MIRA and all its off
shoots have at no time received the
mandate of the American electorate
Detroit Saturday Night.
Congress has adjourned. But the
! eyes Of the public are still turned or
Washington. And most of them, figur.
atively speaking, are fixed on the
treasury building.
The last congress, like its prede.
cessor, was extraordinarily expensive
1t appropriated billions, and the bud.
get, which has contained wide gar
between income and outgo for some
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

time, is still further out Of joint. In
brief, legislation activities of recent
months have done nothing to mitigate
the tax problem-they have made it
considerably more imposing than it
was.
1t may be taken for granted that
much of the money appropriated will
serve one good purpose or another.
Perhaps none of it will be wasted.
That, at this time, is beside the point.
We are reaching the stage where the
businesses and individuals can no
longer pay heavier tax levies-and
where many relief activities, because
of their cost, are hampering, not for
warding, recovery.
Government is precisely like an in
dividual. Every citizen knows of the
useful things he would like to buy.
He can't buy them because he hasn't
the money. 1t isn't case of what he
wants to dot is case of what he
can do with the means at his disposal.
We have lost sight Of that individ-
ualized idea Of government spending
and states, counties and cities have
been even worse offenders than the
federal government itself. 1t is an un-
questioned fact that investors are put.
ting money into tax-free bonds, where
it does nothing for the sake of indus
try, because of the fear that taxation
will continue to take most of the pro-
fit out of private business. Jobs are
lost, factories are closed, homes and
farms are foreclosed, industrial de.
!! velopment is brought abruptly to a
| halt-because of high taxes.
These are facts, not hot air. Cos,
of government is our greatest and
fastest growing problem.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

There seems to be a reversal of the
attitude regarding a county nurse.
For the past couple of years there
have been objections raised when the
county attempted to include in its
budget an item for this purpose. Dur
ing the short periods while the coun-
ty has been without the services of a
nurse, the need for such an officer
has become evident. Civic organiza-
tions all over the county are now re-
questing that the commissioners make
provision in the forthcoming budget
for the employment of full-time of
ficer to handle the cases in the county
where the usual service is not COM
prehensive enough. It would seem that
this service is Of sufficient import
ance to ] Justify its continuance. The
commissioners are neutral in the mat
ter-they will provide the service if
there seems to be general demand
for it. Epidemics such as we had
this summer will no doubt bring
enough attention to bear so that cit
liens will express their wishes in the
matter to the commissioners at bud.
get time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

FAIR
The local fair, as such, will not be
held this year. The board, after a SER
ious consideration.and investigation Of
the attitude Of both farmer and bus
inessmen, has come to the conclusion
that this year successful display
cannot be financed. We are sorry to
see the show dropped-even for the
one year. Perhaps, tho, it will be like
discarding a favorite piece Of furni-
ture. A fine thing in it's time, with the
passing years it has become worn out
and needs replacing.
While the fair is to be dropped, the
idea of a fall festival seems to find
a great deal of favor. Some sort of
e celebration where the town and
country folk lcly mingle and have a
good time has been decided upon, al
though the details have not yet been
worked out. Undoubtedly a day or
days will be selected some time this
fall when the people in this district
will be invited to forget their trials
and tribulations for the time and come
to make whoopee.
Should conditions and a general de-
mand for the resumption of the fair
next year justify the work and ex-
pense, undoubtedly the fair will be
put on. For the present some other
plan will be substituted.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19
SHARE

SHARE .,S... !
Every business, we suppose, has
certain lines in which there is not nor
can there ever be profit. Merch-
ants carry many things which they
handle at no profit. Service institu-
lions have certain activities which are
non-profit lines. Yet these things are
necessary to the rounding out of the
business as a whole.
Thus it is with farming. Some crops
can be made to bring in more than
the cost of production, while others
are required to round out the years
program. This is especially true
where a cannery product is concern
ed.
Farmers are complaining that the
handling of string beans for the can
merry, for instance, is merely matter
of swapping nickles. Overlooking the
need of the cannery for this product,
and losing sight entirely of the value
to the community of the cannery as a
means of maintaining the fresh mar
ket prices on other commodities, they
are, in some instances, refusing to
harvest their bean crops.
While not advocating that farm
er need figure on selling his crops at
cost to a cannery or any place else,
nevertheless, we urge that the farm
ers consider the value of the institu-
ton to the community and make sac
rifices to keep it operating thrucut
the season. The businessmen Of the
community who have financed the
project are making considerable sac
rifices as their share in the effort and
the farmers certainly should do their
part.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

Sensing the widespread antagonism
towards the longshoremen's strike,
the A. F. of L. now issues the state
ment that organization is not in any
way connected with the movement.
Mr.. Green declares the situation is a
local one entirely. And when the pub
lie can realize that the whole thing
Is part of Communistic movement
started and sponsored in Russia, ane
headed in this country by an alien
perhaps they will become interested
enough to demand that the whole
thing be settled at once. Public opin.
ion can do it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

Calvin Bridges prominent biologist Pasadena Calf
believes the creating will be the worlds safest
miles
capacity OF
people There will be glass break accident anoth
Bridges contend
He shown holding model of the vehic
viii be tese ed
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-19

Mich With bum ers spare tire and tire lock. tho
LIST price of Standard Models is SIS additional;
Master Models, $40 additional List prices of com.
111erciaI quoted fob. Flint, Mich Special
equipment extra Prices subject to change without
notice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
TRIBUTE TO THE LIVING

THOSE people IN SneIoy' M1cn' WHO cIuDDeo
l. together to express their appreciation of
the services that a country doctor had rem
dered them over many years had an idea
that would stand a good deal of copying.
Probably you saw the story. The doctor
was William L. Griffin, who is rs now and
who, in his forty-six years of practice in and
around Shelby, has brought something like
$500 babies into the world.
Furthermore, he didn't stop at that; after
bringing these youngsters into the world, he
did all that he could to make the world a
pleasanter place for them.
Thus, during the years DR.. Griffin and his
wife provided a home and schooling for
ffty-two boys and girls. For decades their
house has always been open to young men
and women.
Through it all the physician made his
regular rounds, following the steady grind of
the hard-worked country doctor, despite the
fact that he had been left permanently
crippled by an accident in 1902.
So, all in all, the doctor deserved the big
celebration that several hundred of his
grown-up babies" put on for him.
Now there are men like this in every town,
big and little; men of whom it truly can be
said that they are the salt of the earth. They
seem to have been born into the world for
no other purpose than to do a lot of hard,
ill-paid, and rather thankless work for other
people.
Nearly all of us, at one time or another,
have been indebted to some such person.
But usually we just take it for granted,
saying and doing nothing to show our thanks
until it is too late. BY and by the man dies;
and then We loyalty send flowers to his
funeral, and fall in behind his coffin as it
goes off to the cemetery, and tell everybody
we meet what a fine man he was and how
much we owe him.
The interesting thing about this demon
tration at Shelby is that the people didn't
wait for the funeral.
A man like DR.. Griffin never gets much
in the way of a material return for his
services. He does what he does because of
some inner compulsion, some light in his own
heart that makes the way of service and self
sacrifice the only possible way for him.
The least we can do, when we know such
a man, is to copy these Michigan people-and
rally round with the flowers and the fine
words while he can still enjoy them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
AMERICA AS is

NNE Of the finest pictures of America and
~ American life as it really is, stripped of
the glamorous adjectives Of Fourth OF July
speakers, is contained in the reports on hous-
ing conditions now being released by the
department of commerce.
Statistics on Columbia, S. c., are the first
released on a southern city. And Columbia is
not singled out as a horrible example. Her
housing conditions are, we suspect, as good as
other cities of her size.
And how do the people of Columbia live?
Out of II 500 homes in the city, $500 range
from crowded" to greatly overcrowded."
More than half of them have heating
apparatus of less efficiency than a heating
stove.
A total of 4,102 have neither gas nor elec-
trio lights.
More than TOO housewives are without
gas or electric heating appliances.
More than 4.4OO do not have indoor water
closets.
Only $500 have tubs or shower baths.
Only 1895 have mechanical refrigeration.
We may talk of SURPRISES and lack of work
for the unemployed.
But if in the housing field alone, America
were to build herself to a point of decency,
there would be work for all for years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
POLITICAL VOODOOISM

ESOTERIC inner circles of G.. o. P. propa-
~ ganda are acclaiming the deity as their
instrument of vengeance upon the new deals
farm policies of crop control. The divine gov
eminent, they intimate, has stricken twenty
seven states w-yh the scourge of drought to
teach the AAA economists the errors of their
way.
Such political voodooism might appeal to a
tribe of savages. For two very good reasons it
will not appeal to Americans.
First, Americans know that crop control as
a means of curtailing unmarketable SURPRISES
is neither a new nor a Democratic doctrine.
1t is so logical an answer that Messrs. Coolidge
and Hoover themselves proclaimed it loudly
and long. The only difference is that the
present administration did something about it.
Next, the people know that the Roosevelt
Administrations farm policy is not one of more
crop restriction, but of economic planning.
SpSn a policy can mean crop restriction one
season and crop expansion the next, depend
ing upon the practical need.
We believe that Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, one of the ablest men ever to sit in
a cabinet, will meet this new problem in agri-
cultural planning with the same honesty and
vigor that he and his assistants met the old
one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
ENCOURAGING SIGN

IT isn't often that you get a second edition
= of a worlds fair-especially in this mod
ern era, when a great explosion seems to
start under greater handicaps than was the
case a generation ago.
But the Century of Progress exposition, in
Chicago, has now officially begun it's second
season, and the record is a rather remark
able one.
1t indicates, in the first place, that Chi
cago is putting on a pretty good sort of show
for it's visitors. If a large number of visitors
were not expected, the fair wouldn't reopen;
and there wouldn't be a nance of getting
them if those who went last summer hadn't
made favorable reports.
Furthermore, it shows that the country is
in better health financially than it was a
couple of years ago. A lot of money is going
to be spent at that fair this summer.
The mere fact that people have it to spend
is a pretty good sign of returning prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS

CONGRESS promised the Filipino people
~ independence within ten years, providing
the Filipinos, among other things, reduce their
annual shipments of cocoanut oil to the
United States to 44S, 600, 900 pounds. Then,
while the Filipinos were in the act of accept
ing the independence contract, congress levied
a destructive tax upon that industry which
supports one-fourth of the Filipino popula-
ton.
Congress spoke with the voice of Jacob,
then acted with the hand of Esau.
President Roosevelt now asks congress to
redeem our national honor by reconsidering
the cocoanut oil tax. AS spokesman for the
American people, who believe their govern
ment should be honorable, the President could
not do less.
The Filipinos buy hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of American farm and factory
products. It is not wise to destroy their ca
pacity to buy from us, either now while they
are still American citizens or later when they
achieve independence. In the Philippines is
and our own welfare demands that we cling
to it.
Nor can we afford any blunder that will
lose friends in the Far East, wher delicate
international complications call for careful
American diplomacy. Nothing should be per-
mitted to happen that will cast doubt upon
the good faith of the United States.
In the Pacific arena, we need customers
and friends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

with contracts, and is based on commerce
powers of the federal government.
Furthermore, the Arkansas law made the
error, as pointed out by the court. of basing
it's ban upon the emergency, whereas the
law was a permanent one and no end-of-
emergency expiration date was fixed. Most
of the other emergency laws" state and fed
eral. have such a period fixed.
Chief Justice Hughes opinion carefully
limited the courts ruling to attempts, such
as was here made, to curtail payment of OBJ
LEGATIONS incurred before the act was passed.
The concurring opinion of the four con-
servative justices, seeking to compare the
Arkansas law with the Minnesota mortgage
moratorium law which the court previously
upheld by a ga vote, is not convincing. AS
Chief Justice Hughes pointed out, the mora
torium law had a definite date of expiration
and made an effort to be fair both to creditors
and debtors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
REAL SILK WORKER
LIKES E JOB
BY a BOarder.

By a Boarder.
Why worry about the heat on the
fourth floor? You are not there, il
we are reaching for the sky and
walking up and down the aisle. We
receive a pay check each week.
We are not walking around the
mill in the hot sun or rain wearing
out shoes and reaching for some
thing we failed to get.
We were asked to wash hot forms,
but not forced to clean them.
Any factory where you work,
either union or open shop, you have
to keep your machine clean and do
it on your own time.
1 have been at Real Silk more
than six years and truthfully can
say I have been treated fairly by
the E. M. 3. A. at all times.
/ have had a vacation every year
and every one else could take one
if they asked for it. 1 never was
forced to work when sick. I never
have heard any department head
tell employees if they didn't like it,
they could quit.
j. A. Goodman has been truthful
and treated every n Squarely.
I am thankful to be a Real Silk
boarder as a check every week from
$40 to $27 looks good to any girl in
these days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

said if she had taken a second
thought.
Seven weeks is a long time for
just one thought. She just couldn't
take it. When she didn't win every
thing she just laid down on the job,
I will say she is just one out
of that whole organization who feels
that way. I, for one, feel like we
have gained considerable Roadway.
No, we didn't get what we wanted,
but I will bet it will be a better
place to work from now on. I feel
like the national labor board treat
ed us like children, just trying to
pacify us until october.
We are just as strong now as we
were on strike, and when the Octo-
Der election rolls around there is
going to be some flying %colors, but
not the E. M. B. A.
There will not be any underwear
makers or janitors to vote against
us, just those who are eligible to
have the honor of belonging to
branch No. 80.
If that vote last fall was on the
up and up, we would not get an
other vote this fall, but it would
have been in force for the duration
Of the NRA. That proves one thing
to me, that we we're right in our
action, otherwise we would have
been forgotten entirely.