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Friday May f
Valley grange, 8 pm. !
Needle club, Mrs. D. F. Cresswell.
Strawberry Festival, at Highlands
clubhouse. a.-s:t. s RI. f.
Yakima Valley district Federation
meeting at Benton City.
Highland Improvement club, 8 pm.
Saturday, May s.
Dance at Finley grange hall.
Kennewick Irrigation Dist. meeting
at 7:3O pm. Gascoigne & Fyfe
office.
Columbia Irrigation Dist. meeting,
1870 pm. :, ~
Sunday, May g.
See churches.
st. Joseph's Altar society will meet
with Mrs. F. III. Lincoln.
Union Labor picnic in city park.
Monday, May -
Library Guild with Mrs. w. T.
/ Tracy.
Band practice at high school.
Tuesday, May s.
Kiwanis
Rebekah
Schubert club.
Wednesday, May g.
Methodist church luncheon, IL pm.
Kennewick bridge club, Mrs. L. E..
johnson, / o'clock luncheon.
General aid M. E. church.
Fourth division aid M. E. church.
Christian Ladies' Aid
Thursday, May 10
Chamber of Commerce.
Pink and Green club.
Friday, May IL
American Legion Au iliary, Mrs.
M. S. Kinkaid, at 2 o'clock.
Courier-Reporter Cooking school at
Liberty theatre, 2 to pm.
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Mrs. Mae Whitney, Mrs. J. R.
Ayers, Mrs. A. Serier, Mrs. George
Stradford, Mrs. j. A. aHtch, Mrs. T.
w. Payne, Mrs. A. F. Brown, Mrs. H.
Ell. Peter, Mrs. Herbert Misner and
Mrs. G.. w. Sherk are among the
members Of the Kennewick Women's
club who plan to attend the Yakima
valley district convention Of Federal
ed Women's clubs which is being held
in the Kiona- Benton City community
hall Friday, May 4. Mrs. E. j. Brand,
president Of the Highlands Women's
club, is program chairman for the
day.
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A Mothers Day silver tea will be
held in the English Lutheran parlors
on Wednesday, May Is from 2:3O to
5 pm.
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KENNEWICK RESIDENTS IN
ACCIDENT AT WALLA WALLA

Mrs. e. v. Carpenter received cuts
.On the face over the eye that necessi-
tated eight stitches to close, and Miss
Pauline Moore broken wrist Sunday
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Mrs. Payne and a group of her SUM-
day school class drove to Walla
Walla Saturday evening and enjoyed
a theatre party and supper.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
WHAT NEBRASKA FARMER THINKS
Tho Christian Science Monitor:

To The Christian Science Monitor:
IN vour issue of July IS, Mr.. Edwin D. Canhaul
ronorts that farmers of the West are largely ia
yorable to the crop regulation program. This
or,os as q surprise to me because farmers here
.oor, m he almost unanimously opposed to the en-
++ro scheme. ! have attended many meetings OF
fr,,ers locally and in other parts of Nebraska
and can remember only three men who nave a2-
uroyed of the plan and two of them objected 70
details A neghbor who farms and feeds cattle by
the hundreds, buying in Denver and selling IN
CHICAGO said that he had not been able to md one
farmer in favor of it. Editors of farm papers ana
leaders of farm organizations should know the
sentiment of their people, but sometimes their
statements are coored by their own opinions and
NAV not reflect the true picture of what the man
on the farm is thinking.
II is to be hoped that Mr.. Canham will visit
Nebraska the home of the Farmers Union, which
i still coneratuatng itself that it maintained con-
troll of its own co-operatives instead of surrender
inc to Government control He will be able to find
in the Nebraska Union Farmer wide-open forum
for the editor and individual members who appre-
ciate and make extensive use of the freedom of
the press If he should chance to pass through
York county it would be pleasure to introduce
him to some farmers who also appreciate and use
freedom of speech. These men have balanced their
budgets through fair weather, rain, hail, bowling
winds at twenty below zero, and weeks of winds
straight from the deserts of the Southwest with
temperatures between 100 degrees and 10 de-
grees They have held on through market reverses
and even the handicaps imposed by government,
either under the pretext or in the endeavor -
"hep the farmer" These men have well-defned
opinions about having the management of their
business taken away from them and turned over
TO politicians who are not able to balance their
own or the public budget-Nat R. Simmons, York.
Neb.
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NOT MY BURDEN
By WICKES WAMBOLDT.

to do these exercises, if we so
choose. Every day we are faced
with questions that we should
answer courageouslv and worth
lily. We can duck these questions
if we so choose. We can meander
through life like a stream. Did
you ever think what makes a
stream so crooked? 1t is so crook
ed because it meanders. 1t always
follows the line of least resis-
lance.
This it not a very high type
world. 1t is a sphere of crude
souls. You can not meet anybody
in this world who has not some
thing wrong with him. We are
here, l think, to get the things
that are wrong with US right.
What kind of place would a world
Of perfection be if all the people
in this world were transported to
it just as they are? The place
would not long be a place of per-
lection. The inhabitants of this
world if moved to heaven just as
they are now, would turn it into
hell in twenty-four hours; for
they do not know how to behave
themselves properly; they do not
wish to behave themselves prop
erly. Our politicians would steal
the golden streets. The pearly
gates would mysteriously disap-
pear overnight.
However we could turn this
world into a paradise overnight
if every person in it could get
himself right overnight and start
the next day with the answering
determination to play his part
sincerely, honestly and benef,
GENTLY.
We are not going to be here
very long. While we are here, we
should do our bit toward making
this world better place in which
to live and thereby demonstrate
our fitness to live in a better
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OUR COUNTRY NOT so BAD

The more I see of the governments of other
countries, the irmer the conviction that this one
we have over here in the United States is worth
keeping.
Of course, Senators and Congressman who some
times forget the seriousness of public business and
conceive of their offices as agencies for getting
their friends jobs whether they are fit or not, is
nauseating.
But even with all Of this sort of prostitution
of duty, it's better to have whole warehouse OF
public servants even poorly representative OF the
people and no better than half qualified for the
public issues they handle than to have lance
corporal like Hitler running the whole works.
Julian S. Miller in Charlotte Observer.
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ECONOMIC ERROR

Mark Sullivan, popular newspaper writer, says
plenty in the following:
''To picture either nature or God as engaged in
a conscious act of vengeance which visits itself
upon whole country, is pretty fantastic. That
can be dismissed Yet there is this to be said.
The drought has the effect, many perfectly log-
cal minds, of calling vidid attention to the eco
nonic error involved in the destruction of plenty
To these, the destruction of food when there was
hunger in the world was a mistake which now,
because of the drought, takes on the dignity Of
tragedy. ~ One can feel sure that Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Wallace, if they had it to do over, would
not follow that policy again. Monroe ENQUIRER.
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that ~ private profits an be retained
banded sales resulting rates.
HEADING up the administration is National
Power Policy Committee charmaned Secretary of Interior
Harold ckes and stated by members groups dealing with
and the utilities.
The Roosevelt Federal Commission loaded with progress.
sves is engaged in three inquiries
munition.
First the congressional mandate
W. Norris of Nebraska make complete compilation
all electric light and power company charged every
city
EPC also studying costs OF generation transmission
butionthe third carefully concealed
oompanesand under executive order is engaged
survey OF all power resources and feasibility
The Federal Trade Commission received
permission to continue its utilities investigation until 1885,
will
regulation. 1t has more companies to investigate
And the IVA is checking local
must them before
the Electric Home and Farm Auhorys
refrgerators heaters and other appliances.
Copyright, 1884 NEA Service Incl ~-s @-'-t q 80
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Others and thereby tit themselves
for a sphere in which the square
deal predominates.
1t is not your responsibility or
mine to see to it that this world
is made perfect. Your response
bilitv and mine is to see to 1t
that we ourselves live as construc-
lively and wholesomely as post
BILE.
look on this world as a school,
a university, in which we are ex-
pected to learn the business OF
living, or at least learn at it. We
have laboratory problems con-
stantly put up to us. We can sim
cerely and honestly work on these
problems and get the answers and
fit ourselves for more important
problems and for higher places
generally, or we can play hooky
! dodge our studies, evades our les
sons and be nothing that anybody
can depend on.
Every day we are faced with
exercises in life. We can refuse
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-10
NRA'S FIRST BIRTHDAY CALLS FOR
NO PARTY
tBy BRUCE CATTON

Fond as we are of celebrating anniver-
saries, we let the Blue Eagles first birth
day slip by without so much as wishing
the old bird many happy returns OF the
day.
The truth probably is that hardly any
body knows Just what to think of the crit
ter
That is partly due to what has hap
pened to the bird since it Clipped its shell,
and partly 10 the peculiar psychological
circumstances under which it was born.
The Blue Eagle was the product of de-
spair and hope.
When the National Industrial Recovery
Act was passed, we were in a mood to ae-
cept almost any program. Congress mir
rored the national mind pretty accurately,
in those days, and Congress was disposed
to approve practically anything that called
for definite action.
There was a widespread conviction that
the only truly fatal thing would be to go
on drifting, and that even to do the wrong
thing would be a great deal better than to
do nothing at all.
On top of that, we conceived of the
NRA as a great new charter under which
the crooked places would be made straight
and the valleys would be exalted. 1t was
going to enable capital and labor to lie
down together like the scriptural lion and
lamb; it was going to protect the consum-
er, preserve the small business man, teach
the monopolist who was boss, and usher
in nothing less than the evening before the
millennium.
Well-we've had it for a little more
than year, now, and one hardly qualities
as a pessimist by remarking that it has
done few of those things. We are, in fact
more or less disillusioned about it. And
that disillusionment itself is a significant
thing
In the first place, we are no longer will
ling to accept any kind of action just be-
cause it is action. We have caught our
breath and we are ready to be critical once
more. Finding the NRA less than perfect
We have no hesitation in saying so.
Second, and more important, we are fan
from being agreed on the direction that
our chart for the future should take. Some
of US assail NRA because it goes too far
and some of US assail it because it does moi
go far enough. Sc 81
We have not yet taken the trouble 10
think our way through. The job of re-
building is going on, but we don't agree
on what the house should look like when
finished.
By the time the second birthday comes,
we ought to be prepared to say just what
we want the Blue Eagle to do for us. If
we are, we can then get bird whose
birthdays win stir US to a little more en-
thusiasm. ..-sSr .-. 49,
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Congress has backed the administration in its
policy of spending hundreds of millions on huge
power projects and stimulating public power
plants wherever private rates are unsatisfactory.
Secretary IckeS has lent S50.000,OO0 of PWA
money to build public plants.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, buying and
building facilities in its territory is selling power
at about half the price charged elsewhere.
Official warning has been issued that rate
scales approXimating TWAS must come into effect
throughout the land.
The squeeze play is directed at watered securi-
ties, holding company plundering, excessive rates
and other forms of financial racketeering which
made the power trust'sa stencil in the national
nostris.
1t is based on the partially demonstrated theory
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A man asked me recently,
what do you expect to get out
of your fight for good govern
ment? You don't expect to get
good government, do your
"There is one thing l do expect
to get" l told my questioner. Il
expect to get myself into such a
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state of thought
and behavior that
by the time I die,
l shall be fit to
live in a better
world than this
one. There is
another thing |
hope to achieve :
l hope to be able
to influence some
other persons to
take an earnest
interest in dong
real service for
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essolene gaasaatse, sM9o1HER pEREosNAyct

own eyes that foolishness out
west, and l am living in hope. If
what he sees does not make him
call in some of his doodie-bug
brain-trusters and get down to
good old Andrew Jackson-Grover
Cleveland administration, he'd
better remember what happened
to the other Roosevelt, after ali
his big doings. | think Teddy
carried Pennsylvania.
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A hick town is place where you can't
criticize anybody who is absent without
offending a relative who is present.
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BEHIND TIE SCENES M
ASHI|NG1ON
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEi Service STAFF Correspondent.

WASHNGTONThe New Deals big play against
power trust is operating all fronts.
inquiries
future development under They all tie grim
until cheap electricity
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PRAYING FOR RAIN

Unitarian preacher, remarking upon the despera-
ton of western farmers who have resorted TO
prayer for rain, says he doesn't think that the
weather can be changed by that method.
A lot of prayer is waster, to be sure, in trying
to wheedle God out of something that man thinks
he is bound to have, or he perish
But if one stands pat on the Bible, one will not
accept this preachers summary dismissal of the
power of prayer.
Elijah prayed for rain and it rained and nc
prayed again that it would quit raining and II
quit.
And if one believes in Deity that put together
the laws that govern the weather, one ought rea
sonably to believe also in Deity that could sus
pend the laws which He arranged in the first place
Religion is not as foolish as men try to make II
out to be-Julian S. Miller in Charlotte Observer
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The shape of the mouth is changed by
pulling the teeth. Another way rs to pull
the wrong wiseerack.
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You needn't believe his story of success
if his old mother still takes in boafdefs.
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The student who had made the arrangements
Cor tho broadcast was certain that answer would
como He remained in the newspaper offices unit
four O'Clock the next morning awaiting report
AND THE RAIN CAME;
God had manifested once again His love Io'
needy men,-both His children and the unsaVeo
"For He sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust" Matt. 5;45).
Newspapers promptly reported rains through inc
area where the broadcast had been made-Sunday
School Times.
ITO be continued)
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ALMOST CIVIL WAR

Something like state of civil war exists in New
Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
And as might be expected, Huey P. Long, Unit
ed States senator former governor, and self-styed
Kngfish of the state, appears to be at the bottom
of it.
There has been no sanguinary fighting yet, al
though Huey P, with the connivance of the gov
ernor of the state, his tool has called out the
militia, and the mayor of New Orleans, opponent
of the Kingfsh, has armed hundred or extra
policemen.
Bloodshed certainly is not at all improbable in
such situation
And that would be civil war.
1t doesn't make much difference what was the
immediate cause of the trouble. If it was not
what it was it would be something else. 1t was
bound to come
Senator Long is attempting to control the voting
lists and the coming congressional election in the
city of New Orleans-by military force under q
subservient governor
The stake is two congressman, who will or will
not be subservient to Senator Long in Washington
Now the court has granted an injunction re-
straning the militia from carrying out the COVER
nor's orders, on petition of the city authorities
which names Senator Long as "conspirator and in
stgator" and Governor Allen "as but tool
1t is mighty near civil war; and all because 9
large number of the people of great state vii
stand for the mouthings and the Vaccinations OF
political demogague.-Rock Hill Is. c. Herald
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FLOATING ISLANDS OF

THE first tee planted honor mother oar Big SSE
Parkas shores of Lake Ancam, READING Pa on
3. This known as the Initial Mothers
Tree Since that time Forestry has
designated the white Mothers Tree
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place.
Yet however futile our efforts
here seem TO be, we should re-
member that actually no effort
for good is lost. 2 h',- s1z&zzsz..
Evening star., 1934-03-31
|SMALL DWELLING
AWARDS ARE MADE
New York Architect Gets
First Prize in Annual
Competition.
Roger H. Bullard, New York archi-

Roger H. Bullard, New York archi-
tect, has been awarded the gold
medal for the prize winning design
in the fourth small house architec-
tural competition sponsored by Bet
ter Homes in America, it is an
nounced by the American Institute
of Architects.
Mr.. Bullard won the medal for
designing a story -and-a -a-half cottage
on the estate of S. A. Salvage, Glen
Head, N. Y. A California firm and
10 architects. among them Royal
Barry Wills of Boston, gold medal
winner last year, we're given honor
able mention by the jury of award,
of which F. Ellis Jackson Of Provi-
dence, r. l., was chairman. Each
section of the country was represented
in this years competition.
"Of Mr.. Billiards. design it Is felt
that the plan was admirable, COM
pact, convenient, well lighted. and
well aired" the jury said. This ex-
cellent arrangement is considered
terial other than the cut stone en-
ployed. 1t gave expression to the
feeling that the family living there
was compactly knit together, snug
under the roof. In addition, the en-
tire presentation was outstanding, and
the landscape work of Ellen Shipman
was of noticeable quality"
First honorable mention In the
same class went to Miller & War
necke, architects, of Oakland, Calf.
Reinhard M. Bischoff of West Hemp
stead, Long Island, and Randolph
Evans of New York also received hon.
orable mention in the one-and-a-h half
story class.
The house of Miller & Warnicke
was splendidly presented, and their
photographs unequaled by any other
exhibit" the jury declared. THE
irregularity of the site was we'll
taken care of, and the plan did not
diffuse. 1t lacked, however, a di-
rectness and simplicity Of treatment
noticeable in the medal winner. In
the house of Mr.. Evans the treat
ment of the garage was well handled
as a unit with the porch off the liv-
ing room"
In the one-story class first honor
able mention was awarded to Milton
L. Grigg, architect of Charlottesville,
Va. William l. Garren Of San Fran
cisco, Calf, and Edwin B. Goodell,
jr., of Boston, Mass. were also given
honorable mention.
Mr.. Grigg's exhibit was satisfying
because of the extreme simplicity of
treatment for a house of this sort. "
the jury reported. "Crudity and
Evening star., 1934-03-31
HOME BUILDING
PROGRAM BRINGS
DIVISION OF OPINION

Continued From First Page)
ket, as they fear low-cost conStruc-
ton program would do.
These persons argue that enough
already is being done or is about to
be done for the building trades and
the building supply industries.
They point to pending legislation
which would permit the Home Owners
Loan Corporation to llberalize its pol
icy and furnish money for reha bilita-
ton, modernizing and even extensions
OF existing buildings. 1t now is lin
tied to financing essential repairs. In
addition, they say, there is the slum
clearance program of the Public
Works Administration. providing for
construction of a non-competitive ma
ture.
Over and above these things it is
stated, is the vast accrual of repairs.
needed but put off until they can
be put of no longer.
Evening star., 1934-03-31

This is the third OF series OF
articles on historic homes in Wash
inqton. Another UiH appear on
this page merit Saturday.
Evening star., 1934-03-31

~ ICH in fame and story. the
Oldest residence on Lafayette
Square is a worthy ne.gnbor
i \ to the White House whose
pillars are family discernible
through the budding trees diagonally
across the park.
A hundred years and more have
failed to alter the Stephen Decatur
house. Time has mellowed the square,
almost severe. facade. but the old
mansion stands at H street and Jack
son place just as it did on the Spring
morning when Decatur was brought
home fatally wounded from his duel
with Commodore James Barron.
Built 1t for Bride.
The mansion was only year old
then. Commodore Decatur had built
it for his young wife in 1919 with
prize money from the capture of
enemy vessels after the War of 1872.
Since that time the house was oc-
cupied by Baron de Neuville the Min
lister from France; Baron de Tuyll,
the Minister from Russia, and from
1925 to 1888 by three successive Secre-
taries of State-Henry Clay in Adams
cabinet and Martin Van Buren and
Edward Livingstone in JackSon's cab
met
The mansion then became the home
for two years of Sir Charles Vaughn.
the British Minister, as pointed out
by w. B. Bryan In his "A History Of
the National Capital
H.
bought by Gen. EWdard H. Beale, a
friend of President Grant and it was
inherited by TruXton Beale, who re-
sides there now.
Dignity Enhanced by Grill.
The mansion was designed by Ben
lanln H. Latr0be. Three stories high,
its plain lines and spacious accom-
modations achieve a dignity en-
chanced by graceful grill-work bal
comics at windows on either side Of
the colonial door.
Perhaps the most dramatic chapter
in the history of the old house relates
to Decatur's brief occupancy. During
1906 he had married a beautiful and
talented Norfolk girl, the daughter of
wealthy merchant.
Wishing to provide her with a suit
able home, Decatur built the mansion
after he was ordered to Washington
upon the close of the second war with
Great Britain.
"A round of festivities was planned
for the season of 1920 in honor of
the newly married daughter of Presi-
dent Monroe" writes Bryan "First
of all, the doors of the hospitable
| home of Commodore Decatur we're
opened and a splendid ball was given.
But in the course of a few days the
doors were again opened to admit the
mortally wounded body Of the master
of the house, who had fallen in a duel
fought with Commodore Barron on
the field at Bladensburg which had
early received its baptism of blood"
Barron. smarting under a grievance
which had ranked for a decade,