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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21
COMMENCEMENT

Commencement week! What a
time for the fifty-odd youths who
have completed the first twelve
years of their education. For some
it will be the end of school days
others will carry on in institutions
of higher learning, where they may
or may not add to their fund Of
knowledge - to their education
surely.
In either case it is commence
ment. To the one group, the COM
mencement of the actualities with
which they will be confronted dur
ing the remainder of their lives. To
the other group. commencement of
a different type of education than
that which they have been able to
receive in the lower institutions.
The fifty young Kennewick citi-
zens may well feel fortunate that
they are living in these times.
Transition in conditions is now
moving so rapidly that they are ex-
periencing a new phase in which
the youth of the land are destined
to play leading part. Never be-
fore in the history of this country
were the prospects for positions and
advancement so bright as for the
youth of today.
New developments will provide
many new opportunities for the
youngsters who are just now start
ing on the battle Of life. New de-
velopments in every line Of human
endeavor are being brought to light
and with them the still newer
possibilities of advancement in every
field.
To the graduates at commence
ment time we say: More power to
you! You are fortunate, indeed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

vim Liebel, jeanne Skinner, Charles
Smith, John Lawrence, Donald
Rokkan, Melva Abkin, Donna Bill
ingsley, Kenneth Waggoner. Ira
Lampson, Wilma Gravenslund, Jo-
anne Utz, Jimmy Turrnan, Billy
Liston, Rebecca Liston and Carol
Vincent.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21
Washington School
eWs


Before the close of our school
year we wish to express our appre-
citation and to extend our thanks to
the parents and townspeople who
have helped in various ways to make
dur school year profitable and pleas
ant.
Parents and friends have con-
tributed clothing which some child
rem needed greatly during the cold
winter days for warmth. The XII
wants furnished us with hot soup
and even larger quantity that that
provided by them last year. To
the Community Chest we are in
debted for our free milk which was
given to those children who were
underweight and who did not have
it to drink at home. For our school
picnic on Wednesday the Courier
Reporter made us generous dona-
ton for our cooky and ice cream
fund. Many of the parents sent
cookies from home in order that we
might have plenty for all. For all
these services mentioned we feel
most grateful and appreciative.
At the assembly on Thursday the
following children were presented
with certificates for their faithful
service in the halls and on the play
ground as councilmen by their
chairman, Miss Mains. Verdine
Foraker, Freddy Thompson, Ronald
Johns, Effie Curtiss, Bunny Chavez,
Joyce Utz, Claude Shattuck, Jessie
Moore, Emma Mae Tolliver, CAL
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

Those who have peen neither alb
sent nor tardy this year are: Fifth
grade, Fern Knopp, Eldor Kempf
and Richard Faulds. Fourth grade,
Ira Lampson, Norma Alexander,
Robert Mason and Dorothy Rosson.
Third grade, Jimmy Blair. Second
grade, Edwin Campbell, Warde Fell
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

So far twenty three initiatives
have been filed for the people, Of
the state to ponder and possibly
initiate into law. One of them con-
tains four hundred pages Of type
matter. A Philadelphia lawyer
couldn't figure it out, let alone IN
ordinary citizen who isn't particu-
larly interested in the intricacies OF
the law. How on earth can we
possibly know whether it is a good
law or not? Possibly out Of the well
ter of words there Is actually some
thing that we ought to give SER
ious consideration to. However, it
it question at that, whether the
ordinary layman is qualified to
make law. He cannot possibly
hear both sides of the question and
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

Last week there was meeting OF
representatives of municipalities
held at Wenatchee. Delegates dis
cussed matters which they consider
ed important and several interest
ing angles of city business were
brought out. One of them was the
matter of cities going into the util-
ity business. Up in Bellingham the
city attorney reported that due to
the 40-mill tax limitation law and
the fact that assessed valuations
had decreased to such a low point
the municipality was having q
strenuous time in making ends
meet. In fact, the city would be
running in the red If it were not
for the fact that they were able to
set aside $500 a month from their
city light plant. Here is the point
IF the plant is making that kind
of a profit, the rates should be
sharply reduced. Other wise they
are making the customers Of the
service pay for more. than they are
receiving Athey are being taxed
through their utility for the city's
operating expenses. It's an unfair
method of raising funds for the OPP
Grafton of the regular municipal af-
fairs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

While a normal amount Of water
delivery is being made from the
ditch this year, Manager Frank Ma
son reports that he is wasting more
than ever before known in the his
tory Of the canal. This is due, he
says to the excellent condition the
ditch has been put in this winter.
The berms along the sides were cut
this winter and some little fear was
felt along the beginning Of the sea-
son on seepage through the cut.
This fear was allayed, however.
when the unusual silt condition was
noted. It has acted as perfect
seal and the water is ample for all
conditions this year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

If a full report were printed of
the proceedings Of the county COM
missioners, citizens in this end of
the county, large number Of
them, at least, would no doubt have
been astounded at an action which
the board took at their last month
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21
THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
A short time ago the Brookings
Institute published q study which
has received an extraordinary
amount Of attention from industri-
alists, economists and others-be-
cause that institution enjoys an in
ternational reputation Of being nom
commercial, non political and UNI
prejudiced. It searches for the
truth nothing but the truth.
The purpose Of the study in ques-
ton was to point a way to general
recovery. A vast array Of statistics
was analysed, assorted, briefed. And
the gist Of its conclusion Is that
recovery can be brought about not
by higher prices, as some seem to
believe, but by lower prices with
their corollary of increased purchas-
ing power.
The authors Of the report point
out that new techniques have made
It possible to cut the cost Of pro-
duction and distributing most Of
the things the people use, and that
the savings accruing from this
higher industrial efficiency should
be passed on to the people that is,
the consumer. These findings con-
firm the beliefs Of a legion of econ
omists and practical business men.
It takes no economic genius to UNI
derstand that when prices are fore
ed up by law regulation or restric-
tions- consumer purchasing power
goes down, at the expense Of pro-
duction, employment and Industrial
activity; and that when prices are
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-05-21

he Courier. est. March 81, 1902 :
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
MUSSoLINI ALWAYS RIGHT

The American Freeman has been asked "Can
YOU explain why Musson insisted on keep
ing minister to Ethiopia at Adds Ababa as long as
possble?" The following answer is given
Mussolini had the pretty notion that it would
take his mechanical armies only four months 20
reach Adds Ababa. He therefore instructed his
minister to remain at his post until the soldiers
rived, in order to be hand to negotiate quick
naace This all goes to show what shrewd and
realistic thinker Mussolini is!
Instead of marching right on to victory his troops
have heen treated like so many monkeys, and by
miserabl-suppied, black Philippians! The armies
of Halle Selasse permitted Mussolini to enter the
country knowing that the terrain at certain places
would make Italian victories impossible.
History now proves that Halle Selasse right
and Mussolin was wrong. The war has been GO
;.,. an for four months and Mussoni has practi-
COLI, potbno to show for all his wasted millions
less than one-hf Of one per cent OF Ethiopian soil
hos baep invaded. and there are strong POSSIBLE
ties that even this light hold may be broken. At
any yate Nussolni can't win decisive victory and
no is faced bv the return of the rainy season, which
will compel complete cessation of operations be-
cause of immObhlty.
The Ethiopians however, will be able to continue
with . certain volume Of guerilla maneuvers. And
Mussolini will have TO continue shipping vast and
extensive, stores of supplies to 100000 men in a
corrar If tbe Dark Continent that isn't worth a
days fighting.
This reminds me of the standing motto on the
front mage of RomeS largest newspaper, which
reads: "Mussolini is always right! Always right
The record shows that he always has been wrong
SO wrong that his regime is endangered, his fl
nances are exhausted economic bankruptcy faces
the nation the tourist trade is dead, raw materials
can't be imported for Italian industries because OF
the lack of foreign exchange world opinion is anti
Fascist. the Philippians nut is too hard to crack,
sanctions are wearing down Italian resources,
mechanical leg.As are of slight value in mountain
Gus Ethiopia. Fascist bOmbers spend thousands OF
dollars worth OF bombs to destroy property worth
nerhaps few hundred dollars, Italian soldiers have
resisted Mussolinis orders to proceed to East At
RIGA. so large Italian hotels went into bankruptcy
in single week because of the stupid destructlOl
of the tourist trade, the cost of living is rising,
gasoline costs about 1925 per gallon, meat is be-
vond the purse of the average citizen. Yes, Musso-
lini is always right!
AS I've said before, all we need dom order 10
turn the United States into paradise, IS to obey
the Injunction of our nearFascists and join IN the
chorus: What this country needs is Mussolm!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
WHAT WE OWE TO MACHINES

1t is a funny thing that nation which owes so
much to up-to-date machinery as America does
should be so mOrtally afraid of them.
The man in the street talks about machines which
put men outof work. The highbrow speaks or
chronological unemployment Both of them mealI
the same thing and both Of them are scored OF 1t.
Yet when we look back, we might have hard
time figuring just how the country would have
grown great and rich without these same labor
saving pieces of machinery.
The Mccormick reaper during the Civil War,
made the wheat belt more productive than ever be-
fore in spite of the fact that most of the ablebod-
led young farm hands were in the army. The decline
of child labor is due as much to development Of
semi-automatic factory machinery as to the deve-
lopment of a social conscience
We have the Panama Canal Ito mention just one
great engineering work. because someone discoV-
cred that steam shovel could dig out the dire
faster than could a score OF men with shovels and
pick-exes. The automobile age came upon us,
breaking down provincialism and freeing US from
isolation, because Of the mass production system Of
manufacturing.
1t is this whole scheme of increasing mans pro-
ductivity by turning more and more of his jobs
over to the machines that has led us up to the
CnreSholu OF the great age OF fleHCy-Nhlcil' De-
fore We get through with it, should be the bright
est age in human annals.
The Machinery and Allied Products Institute OF
Chicago recently released a study of machines and
jobs, pointing out that the age Of chronological adj
vancement has, in point of fact, increased employ
ment.
Americas population increased 21S per cent be-
tween 1870 and 1880; the number of jobs in the
same period, increased POI per cent. In the long
run, machinery makes us better off as people and
not worse.
There is no reason for fear of machine. 1t is
here to stay and is coming in more advanced and
produced form. It's our duty therefore, not to
fear it but to learn to handle it to better advant
age
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
STAY HOME CHICKEN
By WECKES WAMBOLDT

gone at and conducted in the
right way. The subject is really
q deep one, and calls for real
thought and study.
Your seed merchant should
have planting instructions which
apply to your particular locality.
If he has lot, your State Agri-
cultural Experiment Station has,
and will cheerfuily send you data
which will enable you to get val
liable outdoor exercise, to furn-
ish yoar table with valuable prod
ucts, and to provide yourself with
valuable fun.
And persons who have chick
ems and dogs should right now
begin thinking about their neigh
bors' no ne gardens.
It is unklnd, unchlistian, I'M
social fof anyone TO let his chick
ems or his dogs modest a neighbour
garden-and chickens and dogs
will do that very thing if given
their liberty.
1t is extremely discouraglng 20
a man who has pretty vegetable
garden coming on the find that
his neighbours chickens have been
scratching it up and eating it off,
and that his neighbors' dogs have
been romping over it and trampl-
ing it down.
During the growing season,
chickens should be securely fenc-
ed in; and dogs should be requlr-
ed to take their outdoor exercise
by means Of a leash attached to a
sliding ring on telegraph wire
suspended between two points.
And city councils should see to
it that the home gardener is en-
couraged and protected by hay
ing, and enforcing, ordinances
which will insure him his inalien-
able right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit Of happiness.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
HOW MUCH A BILLION is
age

II you were to count silver dollars at the rate
of so minute, working 10 hours day and 800
days year, it would take you nearly 81 years to
count $1,OO0,0OO,OOO. In other words, if you were
to begin counting at this rate on your twenty-frsJ
birthday you would be almost 83 years old by the
time you finished your first billion. Work it out
for yourself. Sixty times 500 would give you
$1,000 an hour. Ten times that would give you
$4,000 day and 80 times that would give you
$16,20O,O00 counted in years time. Dividing
1920, 900 into 100000 900 would give you 61 ~
Or the number of years required to count one
billion.-Eugene Ashcraft in The Monroe Enquirer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DUTCRER-

will be similar to AAA's. TheO-
lretically, at least, local committees
will have to visit each farm and
appraise its desirabilities from the
' standpoint of conservation and
sound farming methods in relation
| to general standards handed down
/ to them and to the rate Of pay
ments-per acre.per commodity as
decided in Washington.
The completely voluntary nature
of the program. and the fact that
IL extends to all crops-instead Of
few basic commodities, as under
iAAA-seems to leave huge ele.
ment of guesswOrk in plans here.
The innumerable types of farming
TO be found in individual areas
and states add to the problem.
The soil conservation act now
says payments are to be made on
annual basis of:
1. Total acreage Of crop land.
/ 2. Acreage of soil crops.
8. Changes in use of land, such
as letting land lie fallow or plant.
ing new types of crop.
! 4. Percentage of farmers crop
which corresponds to percentage of
national crop in the same commod.
ity which is consumed dOmes.
tically.
WALLACE and Davis start with
w the National Resources Boards
curvev. which says 25,000,000 to
! 35 900 900 acres have been ruined
for farm purposes by erosion, about
100 600, 900 acres are moving rap.
idly in that direction, more than
100 900, 900 are beginning to erode
badly. and most of the remaining
200 600, 900 tend to decline in pro.
ductivity.
obviously impossible is the task
in the first year of moving to save
thn 2CO,O 100000 endangered acres
while irving to maintain fertility
of Tho other 3O0,OO0,OO0. The ex.
font m which small start can be
MADE is limited by the appropria.
tion Of S5OO,OOO,OOO for the 1869
"cnmvrirht 1896. NIIA Service. Innh
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03

The season is approaching when
the nature of man makes him
yearn to scratch in the ground
and to smell fresh earth.
The time to think about the
home garden is at hand-and the
home garden is not only a good
thing about, but a good thing to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
HOW WE LIKE TO FALL FOR A
GOOD SCARE!
D.. pRrCE CATION

By BRUCE CAIIUN .
Once upon d time, IN the dark oaSS -
the Revolutionary War, skinny little
American army was advancing on strong
British outpost. The Americans were ouI-
numbered and had no chance at all, unless
they could put over a good scare.
So they sent an honest cOuntryman on
ahead. He reached the British camp at the
double. rolling his eyes and painting heaV-
ilv. and announced that limitless numbers
Of well-fed American soldiers were ad-
vancing to overwhelm the British.
The hirelings of King George took HIM
at his word and decamped hastily, and the
Americans walked in and took possession
Of fort they never could have won II they
had had to fight for it.
Just what happened to the honest coun-
trvman is not known, but his descendants
seem to have COLI, led nice jobs as radio az
nouncers and news corresponu hts. IheE
are the people who have to make drama
tic story out of every hing.
If somebody's wood lot burns, they make
? terrible fores, ire out OF it; II ram
strikes Hicksville, they turn it into de-
vastating ctoudburst. They run tent
perature at the drop of a hat.
All this is called to mind by some recent
happenings in Evansville, Ind.
Evansville sits on the bank of the ONO
river. and short time ago that river had
GOOD deal of ice in it. And the first thing
ANYBODY knew, the nation was being told
that this ice jam was wrapping up line
flood for immediate delivery to Evansville,
4 radio commentator spoke OF 4O-toot
wall of water that was about to break on
the city Another radiO-er got dramatic
and breathless about an impending disas-
ter. An excitable news correspondent
raised the height of the wall of water to
148 feet.
Red Cross disaster experts rushed to the
scene prepared to set up concentration
camps for no fewer than 10000 refugees.
Everyone, in fact, got all worked up eX'
cept the people of Evansville. They have
lived beside their river for long time, and
they know Just about what it can and can
not do to them.
They strolled down to watch the ice
gorge go out, which it did quite peaceably
some Of them went out into their sur
rounding lowlands on vain hunt Tor 1000
victims, of which there were none; ano
then everybody went home, feeling as Ii
someone had let them down rather badly
In other words, it was al false alarm
stirred up by excitable folk who never
learned the first lesson of a REPORTER
keep cool and find out exactly what is hap
pening before leaping for the telephone
And in some way we seem to be letting our
selves in for a good deal of this sort OF
thing these days.
We have to make things exciting. We
insist on having breathless drama served
up to us, morning, noon and night. The
stratagem that licked the British seems t.
have us licked, too.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03

40 some | II | II z
about.
One can get
just as much
wholesome eXer-
else with a spade
"a rake and a
hoe-as with the
finest set Of golf
clubs ever manu-
factu re ia n d
the one pays fl
nancial dividends
while the otheE
costs money.
An astonishing
pl1oOtitv If Vppq-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03

tables can be grown on a small
plot through intelligent selection
of things to be planted, scientific
rotation of crGps, and careful
tending.
Some vegetables are adapted
to following others, and should
planted 50 as to be coming on
when the others come off. And
Just so much of each kind should
be planted at a time as can be
utilized when it natures. For
instance, ali the sweet corn
should not be put in at one time.
1t should be planted so that a
fresh supply will be ready every
two weeks.
The home garden offers plen-
ty of opportunity for scientific
thought and action. 1t is a fas-
cinating and profitable game when
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03

81 could not say anything against the National
administration because it has helped me when |
could not help myself writes Georgia farmer
Such will be the attitude of millions of our fellow
citizens whose attitude toward Mr. Roosevelt is to
be appreciated. What the Administration has pro-
digally done to help those who WOULD NOT
HELP THEMSELVES is quite different story
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
~ RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Sprvicc stan CorrcSpondcnt

VTASHINGTON-The new farm
w program. in its first year will
be a crude makeshift insofar as its
administration and operation are
concerned.
Transforming farm relief. into 4
soil conservation plan is a giganti-
cally complicated administrative
job. Farm experts believe they
could work out good sound sys-
tenn within a year which would
achieve their goals.
They are doing the best they can
in a few weeks and there is more
confusion and difference of opinion
than progress.
The individual farmer, planning
his crops for the year, wonders
what he must do to qualify for the
program and its payments. He
won't know for weeks, perhaps
months, whether. assuming he has
a 3OO-acre farm, he will be expect
ed to plant so, 100, or $50 acres
in soil-building or soil-conservipg
crops or both.
Congress passed law giving
Secretary Wallace and Administra.
tor Chester Davis enormous power
and left them with a correspond
ingly enormous job of planning
and administration.
OK million farmers theoretically
- are eligible to receive money
for participation in the program.
Fewer than 100000 received AAA
benefits. Now must be determined.
1. Standards of performance on
each farm which will make the
producer eligible for payments.
2. Amounts of grants for which
each farmer will be eligible if he
participates.
8. Mechanism for checking up on
his compliance with the standards
which he agrees to maintain for
this year.
Administrative technique-reach.
ing the long arm of the national
plan down to individual farms
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-03
BIBLE THOUGHT
AN ANALYSIS OF THE l2ist PSALM

AN ANAL Si1 va 1850
I Dstermination-'I WILL
H. Aspiration-'lft up mine eyes to the hills
I'll. Administration whence cometh my
help" ". - -,
Nv. Realization-"My help cometh from '"'
Lord" ". p 49,
y-Preservation-"T Lord shall preserve thee
from all evil; he shall preserve thy SOUP wv o'.'
Elmer L. Tiedr.