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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-13
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Editorial
John Tweet

This year our school is once more
taking up debate, an activity that
It has not participated in for sew
eral years. Our team has already
had one debate and for its first
time It made a surprisingly good
showing against the experienced
Toppenish team, losing on a close
decision by one vote. The subject
for this, and all following debates
of the season, is Resolved: That
the federal government should
adopt the policy of equalizing edu-
cational opportunity throughout
the nation by means of annual
grants to the several states for
public elementary and secondary
education" This is a very practi-
cal subject for high school debate,
as it makes US realize, when we
hear both sides of the question, to
what expense TIL e government
whether state, federal or local
goes to provide our education and
help us to understand some of the
problems that are part of our ed
vocational system.
Among school activities debate
has much to make it worthwhile.
The experience gained from it can
be of much practical value, espec-
tally later on. 1t is always an adj
vantage to be able to express your
ideas clearly in public and to know
how to give convincing arguments.
There is also the companionship
which comes from working with
others ON team, and the chance
to meet students from other
schools.
Aside from the values of debate
in itself, we are glad to have an
other activity added to those OF
the school. It is almost always
found that the school with an ac-
tive, wide-awake student body is
one that engages in many actlvl-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-13
DECEMBER STAFF

ties, and our school could do very
well with a few more. A good de-
bate team representing us will do
much to give other schools a bet
ter opinion of US, so if we all give
ours the support they really de-
serve we shall have an outstand-
ing Improvement to add to our
student organizations.
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Thursday. December IS. 1884.
Sports
Burchell Taylor


y
The second team as well as the
first team ended the season with
victory, winning over the Future
Farmers club PIT.
The starting lineup for the Sec
ond team was Paul Rorick and
Athol Jones, ends; John Tweet and
Jack Swayze, tackles; Everett
Clifford and Stanley Harter,
guards; James Green, center; Les
ter Brown, quarterback; Roger
Jones, half; Glen Nagley, fullback
and Dean Nagley halfback.
The starting lineup for the F. F..
A. was Van Niman and Floyd,
ends; Stafford and Harsch, tackles;
Shields and Pardini, guards; Cal
son, center; Lincoln, quarterback;
Aaron Foraker, half; Charles
Peter, fullback; Bill Hembree,
halfback.
Basketball
Friday night, December IA, we
are having basketball game at
the high school with Mac Hi, first
and second teams. Let's see big
crowd out to root for our team in
their first game Of the season.
Their success depends to q very
large extent upon you.
buy Christmas Seals-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-13
MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS

If ballot were to be taken as to which
is the most popular holiday, which one would
get the votes? Would it be July Fourth
with all its noise and picnics? Would it be
Thanksgiving with its gorgeous feasts
Only one guess is necessary on this cleo
ton 1t would of course be good old Christ
mas. That is the one that fingers the most
in our memories, to which the most magma
ton clings, which brings back most clearly
the faces of the past, which presents the
most vivid picture of scenes that were bright
est.
The tumults of July Fourth, the sports
of Labor Day, the fat birds of Thanksgiving,
are soon forgotten. But those tender scenes
of Christmas, how they linger in the mind!
Those old pictures bring back the faces OF
dear old friends who have marched on be-
fore, parents, grandparents, many others,
who deprive themselves of things they need
ed, that they might load up old Santa with
the things we had dreamed Of but could not
provide for ourselves.
What scenes of family jollity come back
In those galleries of memory! Loved persons
now silent were then bubbling over with gal
lety and fun, waking the homes with their
laughter, playing tricks and joining with the
children in kid games, finding youth again
after the lapse of long years of toll and an
xiety.
What is it in Christmas that thus turns
labor and anxiety into merriment and for
getfulness of unhappy thought? Clearly it
is but one thing, that for a day we acquire
the giving spirit. Instead of striving for our
selves, we begin to think of other folks, and
what would make them happy.
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s.sMALL TOWN STUFF

= THAT'S small town stuff is a phrase Of
ten heard. People make that remark when
they hear something that they consider UNI
suited to modern life. What do they mean by
it, and is small town stuff necessarily unde-
sirable?
Many of our finest people came from
small towns. A very disproportionate num-
Der of leading business men and statesmen
originated in small towns Small town stuff
must have been rather helpful to them. They
learned things in small towns that were OF
value.
Small town life helps people to become
democratic. Everybody speaks to everybody
else, and if anyone is sick or in trouble, the
neighbors are quick to offer substantial help.
If that is small town stuff, it is very much
needed in larger places.
!, There are some phases of small town
life that are not so good. The people of many
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day evening at the Lee M. Lamp
son home.
-BHB chsistmas Scols-
You pay for Christmas Seals
but once, but they work for You
all year round.
-Buv Christmas SeaIs--
Miss Thelma Anon and Mrs.
Leigh Beamer spent Saturday in
Yakima.
buy Gu istmas SeaIs-
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Beed and
Mrs. L. III. Raymond were Satur-
day visitors in Yakima.
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than five years-maybe he'll find me
changed--thaf he'll be disappoint-
ed. IL couldn't bear that"
"Whal are you talking to yourself
about?" A .boyish voice spoke at
Madge's elbow. us Christmas hav
ing its effect upon you. or Is It the
Thought of a certain young man
who is coming this EVENING""
Both. I guess" Madge answered
tightly. Then. turning to her broth
err she spoke nnre seriously. Rich
ard. do do yoli think Ben will have
changed very much do yOn think
he will like me MS well as he used
tor
well. shouldn't be surprised II
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-13
ToYLAND-

IOYLAND-
Once year the children of our homes
set out in search of a new country which can
be called Toyland. They stand open-mouth-
ed before store windows, and drink in the pic
ture furnished by dolls, toy automobiles
and fire engines and children's sets of tools.
They flatten their little noses against the
plate glass windows, and long for admission
into such kid heaven, where all these things
might be theirs.
1t does not necessarily follow that child
must have many costly toys. Some times the
children that have the most, are the most
unhappy IF child has too much, he is like
" to trifle with each tool or toy, until he
never learns well the use Of any of them.
These children are the ones who seem to take
delight in smashing the treasures of toyland,
and reducing them to kindlingwood.
The thing that seems to give child the
most pleasure is to feel that he is older
than he is, and is doing something that older
people do. Children like to play they are
grown up. They imagine themselves big men
and big women and glory in this fancied ma
turity.
Those of us who are parents have the
rare privilege of leading our children into the
delights and destinations of Toyland. To see
a childs mind grow under this stimulus, is
like watching some beautiful plant develop
it's leaves, buds and flowers.
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Jokes

Jack Swayze-"You know, I've
seen about everything there is to
see."
Bud Walters-"Have you ever
had delirium tremens Z"
Jack-"No, / guss not?"
Bud-"Well, then, you amt seen
nothin' yet"
Buy Christmas Seals-
No one can figure out why that
New Yorker gave away his mill
ion-dollar legacy. What else would
any one do in these days of "Share
the Wealth" clubs, poor relations,
inheritance taxes and kidnappers?
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Freshman Poetry Department

Freshman Poetry Department
I'd like to be a Senior,
And with the Seniors stand,
A fountain pen behind my ear
A note book in my hand.
I would not be a president
IT'S hard to be a king;
would not be an emperor
For all that wealth would bring.
/ would not be an angel,
For angels have to sing;
I'D rather be a Senior
And never do a thing.
-Buu Christmas Seals
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Miss Bonnie Brown and
Lawrence Scott Married
EAST KENNEWICK

Miss Bonnie Brown and Law
renee Scott were united in mar
riage last Sunday morning at the
Methodist church with Rev. H. C.
Vincent officiating. They left inn
mediately for trip to the coast.
The annual Christmas party of
the Fourth Friday club will be held
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Activities
Marian Gleason

Assembly was called Monday by
the Sigma Club to advertise the
big football banquet scheduled for
Thursday night, December IS. A
crowd of 200 is hoped for.
The representatives from our
Boys and Girls clubs are busy
constitutions for our clubs.
Look for a report on it next week.
buy Christmas Seals-
At least, the rolling stone doesn't
gather moths.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-13

One long in India says no one knows
where an elephant goes to die. According to
the returns the whole thing began in Maine.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-13

Height of presumption: A Washington
hostess running over to the White House for
the loan of some So dishes.
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Europe hasn't much time to touch off
it's threatened war if it is to get the boys out
of the trenches by this Christmas.
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4 REALLY am nervous,
Madge CrOwell admitted
to herself as she dropped
one of the ornaments she
was hanging on the Christ.
mas tree. .Well, who
wouldn't be In my place
Ben has been gone more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Arms Makers Plan for Big War Profits
Aid the Spanish Workers!


Calling on all Communists and sympathizers
to exert the utmost energy in aiding the Spanish
workers by supporting the drive of the International
Labor Defense eliminating in International Soil
darity Week, Dec 10 to 16, the Central Committee
of the Communist Party, U.SA. has issued the
following statement
Though thousands of them have been slaugh-
tered and tens of thousands are in prison, the
Spanish workers continue and extend their heroic
struggles against the Lerroux- fascist regime
after the October armed uprising
The chief task before the workers of the entire
world in behalf Of the Spanish workers is to rally
international solidarity and substantial aid against
their executors and oppressors. The International
Labor Defense has undertaken an intensive drive
to collect funds to organize mass demonstrations
and in every way possible to help the Spanish
workers in their fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
BOSSES MAP
NEWPROGRAM
TO Give F.D.R.
By Milton Howard

NEW YORK.-Following the an
nouncement of a new open shop
drive made at its open session on
Monday, the National Association
OF. Manufacturers yesterday con-
tinued to set the stage for a new
drive for profits at the expense of
the American working class and the
labor movement by presenting, in
response to Roosevelt's recent in
vitations, a program for recovery,
demanding the immediate estab-
lishment of policies that will pro-
vide sound foundation for faith
and confidence" of private capital
At the same time, complete sup
port of Rooscvelt's policies by mo-
nopoly industry was express by A.
P. Haake, Managing Director of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, who hailed Roosevelt's poll
cies yesterday as realistic"
Hail Roosevelt Wage Cut
AS evidence of the realism"
which the leading induStrialists of
the country approved, Haake cited
Roosevelt's recent slashing of wage
rates on all federal work relief
projects as "the most significant
single evidence of that recognition
of fact"
Meeting in the second day of its
sub-sessions, preparatory to the en-
larged Congress of American In
dustry, that will bring the coun-
try's leading industriahsts together
on Dec. 5 and 6 here at the Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel, the National
Association of Manufacturers pre-
pared to lay its proposals before the
Roosevelt government with assur-
ance that it will get what it wants.
1t was made wholly clear in the
submitted Program For Recovery
that the new recovery" drive now
being worked out with the closest
cooperation of the Roosevelt N. R..
A. heralds not only an organized
effort to spread the open shop, but
blunt attack on all relief for the
unemployed.
The drive to reduce all govern
ment expenses, except, of course,
debt and interest payments to the
bankers and bondholders, aimed
mainly at relief appropriations, was
further emphasized in the program
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
UNITED FRONT
is BROADENED
IN c AS 7 lie
lspeelaI to u. palIy workerl

MADRID, Dec. 4 (By Cable "A
resolution to join in united front
with the Communist and Socialist
Parties of Spain and complete
readiness to enter into the Workers
Alliance were the outcome of an IL
legal meeting held today OF the
CASTLE division of the Anarcho-
Syndicalist Trade Union (C.NT).
All those present agreed con-
corning the condemnation of the
sabotage and betrayal of the Cen
trail of Anarchists IF. A. II and
resolved to disrupt all relations with
Garcia Oliver, leader of the F. A. I.
of Catalonia. The voting of the
united front rapprochement with
the Communists and Socialists was
declared, not only on the basis of
direct actions but of the entire
struggle for power by the prole-
tariat.
Workers Enter declarations
All the decisions of the meeting
were announced to the G. N. T. Ex-
ecutive. The hundreds of thousands
of Anarchist workers of CASTLE in
dicated that they would uncondi-
tionally enter the revolutionary
declarations of Asturia, Galicia,
Leon and those of a greater part
of Aragon, Catalonia and Andalusia.
In the question of participation
in the next elections of town coun-
ellis, it was resolved not to place
Anarchist or Syndicalist candidates
in office but to recommend that
members vote for candidates of the
united Workers Alliance. Wherever
such nominees would not be put
up the voting is to be in favor of
Communist or Socialist Party can
didateS.
The government announced the
arrest of the leader of the red army
of Asturias, Ramon Gonzalez Penja,
in the village of ALBANIA. He had
been hunted for weeks by the secret
police network. Two days ago two
adjutants of the red forces and an
assistant of Penja, Sanchez Dutor,
were seized. Their lives are in the
greatest danger.
At Barcelona a secret meeting of
the Communist Party was invaded
by the fascist police and Is workers
were arrested. Arriving at Pam
plona, IS revolutionaries from Gijon
and II from Barcelona were arrested
and nearly all we're court-martialed
and sentenced to 80 years impris-
onment. Incarceration in the cold,
dark and damp dungeons of the
medieval Fortress San Cristobal
means slow death.
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This campaign is to eliminate in International
Solidarity Week, Dec. 10 to is with mass actions
before the Spanish consulates in every city in the
country where these consulates exist, in demon
STATIONS before the National City Bank, and the
international Telephone and Telegraph Co. Offices
as these organizations have supplied tens of thou
sands of pesetas to the fascist forces of Spain.
THE Central Committee of the Communist
Party appeals to all Communists to all sympathizers
to all workers. to exert the greatest energy in
rallylng support for our Spanish brothers
Make International Solidarity Week a mighty
mobilization of support for the heroic Asturias
lighters for the embattled Spanish workers and
peasants! Show your solidarity with our Spanish
brothers by your deeds in your trade union in
all mass organizations, by making these demon
STATIONS success. by collecting funds for the
defense Of the Spanish workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Red Mayors
Elected i'm los
French Towns

PARIS, Dec. 4.-Communists we're
elected to mayoralties in 165 towns
and cities throughout France, &C
cording to the final tabulation of
the recent elections.
With 100 per cent of the coun-
cillors Communists in 156 of these
towns, Paris is now completely sur
rounded by industrial cities admins
tered by elected Communists.
These returns reveal the immense
pressure being exerted on the reac-
tionary French government and ex-
plain the recent frantic shufTling
of ministers and cabinets and their
defeated efforts to saddle French
workers with a fascist dictatorship.
Only the widespread influence of
the united front of Socialists and
Communists could so effectively
have held off fascism and increased
the power of the French proletariat,
it is everywhere admitted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Coughlin Knew Of Plot
For US. Fascist Army,
He Tells Daily Worker
Radio Priest Declares
Himself Opposed to
JObless Insurance
BY A. B. MagiI
Especial to the Daily WORKER

ROYAL OAK, Mich, Dec. A.
Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio
priest and organizer of a new po-
tentially fascist movement called
the National Union for Social JUS
tice, in response to questions by
your correspondent today declared
himself opposed to unemployment
insurance.
Concerning the revelations made
by General Smedley Butler that
powerful Wall Street groups had
tried to get him to organize fas-
cist army, Coughlin stated that he
knew all about it six months ago
and still knows many things that
have not been revealed. He refused
to discuss it further and denied that
he had been approached by these
Wall Street interests.
The statements came in the
course of a press conference in
which Father Coughlin, while pro-
Tossing to be opposed to both CAPT.
talism and Communism, declared
that he was pinning his hopes on
President Roosevelt as the savior
of the country. IF Mr.. Roosevelt
doesn't make good, we're done for, !"
he said.
Does that mean there will be a
dictatorship" reporter asked.
Eyes," Coughlin replied. 1.-THE
President is the last man up in the
ninth inning with two out He may
not be the best batter in the world,
but he's the only one we've got"
The radio priest, a vigorous lusty
man of AZ, was shrewd enough not
to oppose unemployment insurance
categorically, leaving himself room
to do an about-face when pressure
of the masses will make it expedient
to do so. 81 favor the State secur-
ing the right to work for every man
so he can save for the future" he
said. "The trouble is that fifty per-
cent OF our population is uncu1-
tured In regard to saving. A man
earns a hundred dollars a week and
will squander all of it.
Calls Insurance Stopgap
Unemployment insurance is only
temporary stopgap and it means
taking away individual initiative
1t may be necessary now, but after
all, this F.ER.A. money that's being
spent is really unemployment insur-
ance.'
In the course of the conference
Coughlin, who has repeatedly de-
nounced j. P. Morgan and other
bankers, referred to Morgan as "a
lovely person" and said the bank
ers were not to blame, the fault
lying with the system under which
they were functioning.
He denied that his movement was
being supported by financial inter-
estS or that he was tied up with any
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
UNIV. RANKS
RAISE SLOGAN
GUST LEWIS
BY Amy Schechter

| PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. A.
'Pile up the vote for the rank and
file candidates on the International
ballot and expose the election rob-
berry by the Lewis machine, demand
special convention to bring
charges against Lewis, and sweep
the Lewis machine out of Office in
the Pittsburgh District" This was
the call broadcast by the confer
ence of rank and file U. M w. of A.
miners from Westmoreland County,
Fayette County and the Pittsburgh
District, held at Arnold City on
Sunday, Dec. 2, to plan final action
on the International and District
elections scheduled for Dec. IL.
1t was a fighting conference re-
flecting the rising anger of the
miners against the action Of the
Lewis machine in ruling off the
ballot John F. Sloan Of Danville,
Illinois, rank and file candidate for
U. M. w. Of A. president and the
other rank and file candidates for
International Office endorsed by
hundreds of locals throughout the
country.
Favor Special Convention
The conference emphasized the
fact that John L. Lewis has admit
ted the eligibility of these candi-
dates for Office by placing John F.
Sloan, as we'll as George Green Of
Shenandoah District 81, and James
Emery of Danville, Ill, on the bal
lot as candidates for q. M. w. of A.
delegates to the A. F. Of L. con-
vention emery also as candidate
for teller, proving that ruling them
off as candidates for leading Offices
is only the latest machine election
stealing tactic.
Speakers from several locals re-
ported that the members got so
hot when they found that the rank
and file slate had been kept off
the ballot that they voted to pack
up the ballots and send them back
the way they came with a protest
telling Lewis what he could use
them for"
The conference decided after dis
cussion, however, that negative &C
ton Of this sort would only play
into the hands Of the machine, and
voted unanimously to get out the
largest possible vote for those minor
offices for which the rank and file
candidates had been permitted to
run, as the most effective means of
exposing Lewis robbery of the
presidential election, of registering
the will of the rank and file, and
mobilizing the membership for the
fight for special convention.
Growing sentiment was reported
from all the districts represented
for the latter demand. Twenty
local unions went on record at a
conference held at Hamarville. Pa.
a week ago, 1t was reported, in
favor Of a special convention.
The conference gave detailed con-
sideration to the elections in the
Pittsburgh District for which q full
rank and file slate headed by the
old union fighter Charley Nolker.
president Of the Curtisviile local.
was nominated with the endorse
| fCOutfnued NJ, pnop %
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for unity, stating "the Socialist
Party heartily believes in working
class unity"
2. In the same breath this pious
declaration is refuted. However"
they say, "the national executive
committee hereby decides not to
conduct negotiations for united
front with the Communist Party or
so-called splinter groups until the
next national convention" In other
words, they believe heartily in
working class unity" but not for
two years-until 1886!
8. They could not close their eyes
to the increasing participation of
Socialist Party branches and local
organizations in united front ac-
lions with corresponding Commu-
mist Party organizations New Or
leans, Chicago. Newark, Trumbull