The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-01-02

tired, came out
& with revolver
and killed the
b. secretary. There
e. ~ .---.-.-l is no news in
:. this, except that
'n"f nS"""e Mrs. Reisman is
to be tried by a jury Of II husbands
and one bachelor. 1t would seem
that one or two women might have
been placed on the jury; if man
were tried by IL wives and one
spinster, he might complain. How
ever, If all IL husbands should read
their consciences frankly they might
make the best possible jury for the
accused woman.
The highest navigable body OF
water on earth is Lake Titicaca,
1900 feet above sea level, belong
ing to Bolivia and Peru. T."
Uncle Sam has agreed to send
experts and show those countries
how to stock the lake with fish.
Some physicist might answer this
question: -.....
T. twill the fish be affected by the
high altitude as human beings are
affected, or would the fact that wa
ter with its ball-bearing molecules)
is not compressible keep the fish
from knowing whether the atmos-
pheric pressure is great or slight?"
An English professional beauty,
Rosemary Andree, convinced that
her figure is the worlds most beau
tiful, is challenged by an Ameri-
can girl named Mardee Hoff. Miss
Hoff's friends say her figure is bet
ter than any since the Venus Ac.
croupie was cut out of marble.
Mardee Hoff's figures might interest
you: Age, twenty-one; Titan hair ;
bust, 81; hips, So; waist, "a; thigh,
1919; ankle, s.
Nothing is said about what Is
back of the forehead, or the size
Of the head, but both are probably
satisfactory. Science says, 'Intelli-
gence goes with beauty" and that
is probably true, except when in
telligence is spoiled by fattery.
You read with horror about the
number Of deaths by automobiles
on highways, and then read with
surprise the report that $4,000 per-
sons were killed in their homes by
accident last year, making the
home about as dangerous as the
highway. The real danger is care
lessness. The fault is with human
beings, not with automobiles.
Men that work in crowded rooms,
travel in crowded trains, sleep with
their windows closed, may learn
something from the sad fate of vast
schools of salmon crowding In to
spawn. Their great numbers ex-
hausted the oxygen in the water
and they foated on the surface
dead.
An ancient Jewish writer said !:
"The blood is the life" He might
have added: Oxygen is the life of
the blood"
Members Of congress are both
cred by thousands of letters from
advocates of the Townsend plan,
asking,
"Will you vote to give everybody
past sixty $500 month pension, or
will you not?" .a
Doctor Townsend says many con-
gressmen have promised to support
the bill. You would ask: Have
they told how to get the $4,000, OOO,.
600 that the Townsend plan would
cost every year? =. - e
The Republican party decides to
hold it's 1896 convention in Cleve-
land, casting 81 votes for Cleve-
land, 80 for Chicago and 6 for Kan
sas City. Each city had offered
$150,000 as it's contribution to con-
vention expenses. The delegates
will spend more than that, and
then there is the glory. - s.
In Peiping, Chinese students,
young men and women, "stormed
through the streets" demanding that
China defy Japan and fight to pre-
vent further seizure of Chinese ter
ritory. Many students were wound
ed, 10 killed, 20 Chinese girls in
the front rank defied bullets.
Students shouting Down with
japanese imperialism !" cannot do
the work Of airplanes, tanks and
explosives. No use in shouting If
you are not prepared for war.
Those who have doubted that this
earth is round, including one col
ored clergyman in the South, who
writes frequently on the subject
would be convinced by photographs
of the earth taken in the strato
sphere, 1900 feet up. Forty thou
sand square miles Of the earth's
surface appear on the photograph
as section Of the sphere.
g King Features Syndicate, Inc.