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The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09

wait from eight to 16 weeks before
he can apply for it. If he quits
voluntarily without good cause, he
must wait eight weeks.
@. Before a man can get the
money, what must he do? Before he
applies for the aid he must register
at the state employment agencies to
be set up soon. If there is an avail
able Job and he refuses it, he must
wait three weeks longer than the
above named waiting periods"
@. If man is out of work be-
cause of strike, is he eligible for
unemployment insurance? No pay
ments will be made him while he is
laid off by labor disputes still go
ing on in his place of former en-
ployment.
@. Will everyone get the full SIS
a week when out of work? No, If
eligible under above requirements
he may receive SO per cent of his
full-time weekly wage. The law de-
fines "full time weekly wage" as the
weekly earnings such employe
would average from his job is en-
ployed at hourly rate of earnings
and for the full-ti1ne week hours
applicable to such employee.
@. Is man eligible to receive
money if he works only a few
weeks in a year. No, he must have
had 40 weeks employment within
the 104 weeks preceding the date OF
application or 26 weeks of work
within the So weeks preceding.
@. After he has received the Is
weeks of unemployment insurance,
is a jobless man eligible to get any
more money if he is still out of
work? Yes, he can get one week of
benefits for each Is weeks of en-
ployment during the 260 weeks
preceding the date he became un-
employed.
@. Is there any insurance paid
for those partially employed? Yes,
the law allows him half of what he
would get if totally unemployed,
plus one dollar.
@. What if he moves to another
state? The state unemployment
commission can provide for recipro-
cal benefits if the other state has a
similar law.
@. Can an employer deduct his
two per cent contribution, along
with the employees one per cent,
from the workman's paycheck? No
if he tries to, the worker can COM
plain to the state commission.
@. What other safeguards does
the state law set up to make sure
the employees getting and keeping
the insurance due him? Prohibits
him from waving any right to the
money; prohibits paying more than
10 per cent of the amount involved
to a lawyer as fee; makes the
money nOn-asslgnable and not sub
ject to levy or punishment.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
Governor Explains
Unemployment Law
Employer, Employe Contribute
To Fund To Pay Wage To I'm
employed; Limitations Given

OLYMPIA, January 10 = Cues
lions about administration of Wash
ington's unemployment insurance
law, operative today, have flooded
the office of Governor Clarence D.
Martin.
The United Press today presents
in question and answer form some
of the details of the law which is
expected to provide up to SIS a week
for eligible persons out of work af-
ter January /, 1888.
@. Will one per cent be deducted
from all workers paychecks start
ing with January /? No, the state
act exempts anyone working for a
religious, charitable, scientific, lit
erary or educational corporation or
organization. It also exempts those
in concerns employing less than
four persons.
@. Do employers pay a federal
tax on top of the state tax? No,
although some employers pay a
federal tax, starting at one per cent
this year, two per cent in 1897 and
three per cent thereafter. Employ
ers who have not given work to at
least eight persons in 20 weeks
of Ehe year also are exempt from
the federal tax. Up to 80 per cent
OF the federal tax will be credited
to an employer for contributions
to state insurance funds.
@. Do all workers have to pay
the state tax? No. In addition to
the above exempt classes, no one
working for a concern which hires
less than four persons at least Is
weeks during the year is subject
to the state tax.
Q. Will deductions be taken out
Of pay checks Immediately? Prob
ably, since Governor Martin adj
vised employers to set up reserve
fund Of their own and their en-
ployeeS' contributions to avoid flu
ture bookkeeping tangles when the
state commission is appointed.
@. What governs the amount of
money a person may receive after
January l, 1888 if unemployed?
The number of weeks of past en-
ployment, with limit of not more
than Is weeks of tNoless insurance
in any consecutive 52-week period
@. How long must a worker be
out OF a job before he is eligible to
these payments? The law provides
an aggregate waiting period of six
weeks within the So weeks pre-
ceding the start of any week of un-
employment for which benefits may
be paid.
@. Can a man who was dischar-
ged from his job get unemployment
insurance money? Yes, but he must
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
THE COUNTY BLoTTER

Patents
u. S. A. to Frank M. Spray, Lots
1885 Sec. 239-28.
Deeds
Estate of George w. East to j. A.
Clayton, SEA Sec. 24-40-H.
A. w. Johnston to Monroe Watt,
$50 acres in SE4NW4 Sec. 16-39-27.
William Glen Miller to Leonard
Hutchinson, ct ux, 51s acres OF tax
No. 18 of North II acres Lot 2 Sec.
27-38-27, $175.
Albert Reinert to Miners & Mer-
chants Bank of Ketchikan, Alaska,
Tract 4 and 1874 acres in Tract "a
Furey, East, Pau and Musson's
Plat NO. 2, $40.
w. S. Moore, ct ux to r. B. Wor-
den, Lot II Blk. 10, Malott, ST..
Albert Bruno to w. ID. Mallory,
ct ux, Lots to IS incl. Block 10
Grand View Add. to Oroville, $3.50.
r. S. Meader ct ux to Frank j.
Hanus, Patent No. 1854, Homestake
No. 2 mining claim, in Sec. 1885,
Is, 81.
kansas City Life ms. Co. to James
T.. Stout, SW4SF4 Sec. ID; Lot l
NW4NF4 and NE4NW4 19-32-25,
5000.
Elgin Land co. to B. e. Gregory,
Lots 3-4-5-6 SE4NW4; NW4SW4
Sec. 1896, with exceptions, $40.
Roy State Bank to VIM. T. Per-
kins, Lots IL Block co.; Lots IL
Block "B" Ellis Forde Orchard Plat
No. I. $40.
James Wagner ct ux to John
Woods, a tract of land between G.
N. Railway right of way and River
in Sec. 26-38-27, $40.
Noah Woods to John Woods, q
tract of land between G. N. Ry and
River, Sec. 26-38-27, l ga acres, SIS.
Oroville Lodge No. 255, I. O. o. F.,
to Mrs. Carrie B. Wiltfong, Graves
Q and in E2 Lot So Riverview
Cemetery, $25.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09

merous state-owned cars whose
drivers had failed to secure their
plates despite the fact that they
were free of charge. Violators were
cited to appear in justice court.
Chief William Cole said similar
canvass of autos would be made all
over the state to speed up buying
of 1886 licenses.
Up to today only % per cent OF
the states 100000 motorists hac
their 1896 plates.
The statewide drive on drivers
with old plates and no drivers IL
censes was launched today. Cole
ordered patrolmen to "tie up" al
vehicles without certificates of IT,
tie until the operator showed his
title and 1886 vehicle license.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH

DR.. Paul Ashby is expected here
Wednesday, January Is, for after
noon and evening.
The midWeek meeting will be de-
voted, henceforth, to Church. School
efficiency studies.
Better attendance marked the
first Sunday of 1886. It's a line
habit for all the year.
G. H. SCHREIBER.
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RECEIVES HEAVY PENALTY
FOR VIOLATING GAME CODE

SEATTLE-One of the heaviest
penalties of recent record for game
code violation in Washington is
being paid by John Medlin, Chelan
county, who is serving out In Jail q
fine of $500 assessed him following
his arrest by Game Protectors Fred
Roundy and John Brender.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
THIS COMMUNITY IS GROWING

TIME increased enrolment the Nespem schools reflects the
growth of this community The small number that attended
school the old building has each month during the past two
years until the enrolment has reached 325.
When the building planned considered large tor
number attending that time but there indications that
school housing problem for this district developing
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
BETTER ROAD NEEDED

TIME of the stage from Nespeem the Okanogan
valley largely because of poor roads after of
ton again stresses road Okanogan valley The
department should the cooperation of the
pushing completion Of the Npelem Dsaute Omak road
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
State Cars Slow
In Getting Plates
Employees Are Lax In Buying
1886 Car Licenses; Even
When Free

OLYMPIA, January 10 State
employees are as lax as any other
motorists in getting their 1886 Ii
cense plates, Patrolman George
Fisher tagging" 48 cars parked
around the state house this morn
ing with their plates.
Included in the number were nu-
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1936-01-09
COULEE DAM WILL sURPASS THEM ALL

WITH pouring Of Grand Coulee dam is interest
ing that National Geographic Society has listed the
completion Boulder the premier engineering event OF
1885
Other projects Of major Importance cited were:
The bridging of the Mississippi river near New Orleans
The Little Belt bridge in Denmark.
Identification of the Pennsylvania railroad between New York
and Washington
Changing standard of $50 miles of the Chinese Eastern
Railway between Hardin and Hsinkng.
Inauguration of great ship Russia connecting the Baltic
and White seas.
Completion Of highway between the Texas border and Mexico
D. F.
Opening of the Moscow subway system.
Placing in service Of the worlds largest steamship Nomande
The completion the Grand Couee dam bringing with the de-
velopng of the Columbia basin will surpass them ALL
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-30

to wind a piece of twine around it again and
again
There is but way to save the white
man." thin. cackling voice came from the
doorway, bringing Ezliee to her feet with
start
"Maman Celie!" she exclaimed in surprise. 1t
was the mamdloi - the high priestess herself.
The old woman wore red robe and feathered
headdress In her hand she carried a gourd-
rattle wound round with snake vertebrae. Ezliee
Frustrated herself before the old priestess.
"Oh. Maman the charms have failed. He is
dying. I must save him. What shall do?"
Maman Celie pointed to the hills. "The Dam
balla Come. our people are waiting"
In the moment of silence that followed,
strange choking sound = like death rattle -
came from the sick bed. Ezliee turned toward
Brent and, as her eyes fell on his dim form
diffused in the Pickering light and gauzy net
ting, a strange calmness settled over her II
will come" she told the mamdloi. Together they
walked down the narrow path from the house
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worlds record holder In the pole vault today
Az high school boy and q college athlete
he lacked the dough-" When he turned out for
track las q high school boy) he wore pair
Of sck-soled tennis sneakers, while the other
boys wore nicely spiked shoes. He had no money
to buy spiked shoes he USED HIS MIND
and picked an event that didn't especially need
spiked shoes. He became pole vaulter!
IE SPENT all his spare time pole vaulting,
and today he holds the record
There too is Martha Worst, typist who won
a place on the American Olympic Games worn
ems track squad as javeln thrower She paid
her own way from San Francisco to Provi-
dence, r. l. No one believed In her enough to
back her, she saved and borrowed enough
to make the trip. Her faith in her own prowess
has won SUGGEST
There are limits to achievement once the
demon fear has been banshed!
Look back over some of the worlds finest
individuals. There Theodore Roosevelt,
whose mind leaped ahead of his bodily energy
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a. . boy but In later life carried him to the
hsaghts There was Helen Keller, born deaf
dumb and blind-bNt she has become an inter-
national figure.
would remind you, too, of Robert Louis
Stevenson whose tubercular weakness would
have ruined many a less strong character but
who managed to lead the world in his own line
of writing.
Annette Kellerman who reminds us of the
young sports enthusiasts Of today fought her
way from invalidism tn radiant health and gave
the world one of its finest sports women.
Think too of MiltoA wandering about this
world In the ebon atmosphere of blindness. His
Paradise Lost" will r,main for all time one
of the great English c'essics-yet men with all
their faculties dare to ,sy they cannot achieve!
Actually man uses very small part of his
mental strength when he fears and is bound by
inhibtions which terrorize and paralyze him.
Have faith in yourself!
STEP OUT FROM THE CROWD AND BE
YOURSELF! BREAK TIL T P u E t. S
CORD AND BE FREEl
JEAN RENDLEN.
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"DAMBALLA"
By John Richard Finch
Sixtv Seconds From Life

Yes know. must stop them" DR.. LaRoque
started the car, and stepping on the accelerator
sent the machine speeding over the rough
treacherous road.
Wildly the drums sent their message through
the night - boom, boom boom, boom, boom
The rumble seemed sometimes to come from
great distance, like rolling. far-off thunder be-
yond hidden valleys and over mountains far
away. Then again. 1t sounded muted - close at
hand - just beyond the next turning. More
frenzied, deeper came the notes. Then-with a
final unearthly rumble ceased
h JEITHER the doctor nor the native boy
N spoke AS the car speeded over the road
each in his own mind was following the ritual
They were too late nothing could stop the
ceremony now!
Finally, the drums began to boom again -
this time slow and measured soft new
rhythm. The ceremony was over!
Involuntarily DR.. LaRoque slackened the
speed of the car. A few moments later the two
distended yellow eyes of the machine fell upon
a group of natives in the road. DR.. LaRoque
slowed down, stopping the car beside an old
man. The black mans eyes were burning with
a crazed fanatical light
There was blood on the ground - red, young
blood Not from a cock, nor goat nor yet a
bull, but human blood fresh and bright DAM
this time; she did not fear; she came to him
smiling The girl Ezliee has been offered to
Damballa!" Mumbling to himself, the old man
continued down the road his mind possessed
by the Voodoo ritual to which he had been a
witness.
Francois buried his head in his arms and
sobbed DR.. LaRoque swore softly between
cenched teeth. He knew the girl had sacrificed
her life for Brent offering to Damballa
e.. LaI
saved her life once - all Haiti knew that! She
owed her life to him. and now she had given it
to save himi The terrible futility of the CHASTITY
sacrifice appalled, the doctor, for, from what he
could gather of Brent's symptoms and condition
from Francois he knew nothing could save him.
A grim silence lay about Brent's house like
black pail as DR.. LaRoque walked up the
steps and looked in at the open door. The dim
flame still fickered in the coconut shell which
the Haitian girl had left on the table, throwing
ghostly illumination about the room Dimly
through the mosquito netting, DR.. LaRoque saw
Brents still form He walked slowly over to the
bed and, parting the netting, looked down at the
artist. Amazement spread over his face. Quickly
he laid his hand on Brent's forehead. It was
cool - the fever gone; he was sleeping a deep,
peaceful sleep; except for weakness, he would
be well when he wakened. An icy chill crept up
the doctors spine strange intangible fear
gripped him, as softly In the distance, came the
dull booming of the Voodoo drums.
Copyright 1885.
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Isl Ii PAR "

1T runs like an inverted fairy tale, The House
That Jack Built turned inside out But in
North Borneo things like this are apt to hap
pen.
Because cholera spreading in Brunei
city of many waters, young Charlie Wyman got
wife he didn't particularly want, and the
Sultan Akmed renewed his youth.
Wyman sat on his verandah slipping a cool
drink watching the gaudy Chinese kites rise
and fall in the breeze, murmurng oninously
over palm huts. Cholera had Brunei by the
throat. There nothing he could do about 1t,
or about his clutch factory, which had closed
until the plague lifted. His English syndicate
wrote letters: "Was Wyman running a dye
business, and what about dividends? Why
should few sick natives stop production?"
Letters and kilograms lay on the bamboo table
beside his glass.
and damnably persistent Alice in London.
When would he send for her? Wyman muttered
aloud. Didn't she know the Sultan allowed no
white women in Brunei?
Wyman squirted the soda recklessly, and
listened to the snarling dragon tails of the
kites.
Brunei's brass founders and money-lenders
had closed their doors. Only the silversmiths
shops were open, selling tons of amulets to
Malays who strung them about their necks and
locked themselves in thatched huts to avoid the
cholera devils The outlying kampongs were
sealed. Chinese gambling houses had barred
their doors.
The Malays accused the Chinese of calling
down the plague with their kites; the Chinese
chartered that the water gods were angry with
the Malays for drowning a south China money
lender, and this was curiously true. The natives
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TWILIGHT the colo, of undersea gloom sifted
into the room, casting a CHASTITY blue-gray
tint upon the fever-burned face of the white
man who tossed restlessly untidy bed
draped with mosquito netting. At intervals, ne
mouthed meaningless, disconnected words-his
eyes full of strange mad lights-following which
he would lapse into ftful slumber, accompanied
by a raspng labored breathing. only to waken
again to continue his delirious mutterings.
Cary Brent was dying.
Despite, the silken warmth of the Haitian
evening clammy GOODNESS - the chill of death
- was in the room. Beside Brent's bed crouched
a slim native girl, her frightened dark eyes
watching his gaunt agonized face, scarcely
recognizable with it's weeks growth of beard
and hollow, burning eyes. Ezliee worshipped this
white man. Her thoughts Travelled backward six
years to a night when Brent alone and unafraid,
had walked calmly into the midst of frenzied
group of natives to rescue her. then whimper-
ing panic stricken girl of fourteen, from the
sacriicial altar human offering to the
Voodoo gods Since that night she had never left
Brent And now when his life hung in the bal
ance she seemed powerless to help him. Ezllee
parted the netting about the bed and laid an
ebony hand on his brow. Fearfully. she drew II
away and rising to her feet. hurriedly crossed
the room to a cupboard Cropping in the dark
ness she drew forth coconut shell filled with
oil in which foated tiny wick. She touched
match to it and clear slender flame sent weird
lights and shadows dancing about the room.
From the depths of the cupboard Ezliee took
a stuffed bag made of red cloth. Shaped like
water Jug. the bag was tied with grimy rib
bon surmounted by black feathers. This she
placed on a small pile of stones before the
flame and falling to her knees poured out en-
treaties TO Voodoo gods to spare Brents life.
Somewhere in the ambient darkness, the dull
booming sound of drums sent its persistent
note treading across the air, as the Haitian girl
swayed back and forth before the Pickering
light
4 /AD mutterings from the bed interrupted
MI Ezliee's ritual. Alarmed. she returned to
the bedside, forced some water between Brent's
lips then re-crossed the room to the door and
looked anxiously out into the night. Two days
ago she had sent Francois, her brother to Port
au-Prince for white doctor but he had not yet
returned Ezlee had seen men in the grip of
this fever before Nothing could save them
unless the Voodoo gods decreed. She began to
cry softly
In the distance came the rising crescendo of
the Voodoo drums, a frenzied booming rever-
berating through the still night relentless
savage weird. Shadows, darker than the night,
stole by the house, answering the persistent
summons of the drums Ezliee sobbing now
turned to Brents bedside. Taking a wooden
doll from a stand, she rubbed it softly against
the back of his hand then began painstakingly
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dumped their refuse into the water under the
huts, drew up the same water for washing. The
cholera spread.
"A LYMAN had sent for the doctor at Labuan,
wv but word came that he was busy with
his own village. He'd sent along several win
chesters of medicine, with directions to try a
bit of clutch on the worst cases-pfeferably on
his enemies. 1t would kill or cure.
Clutch was the juice from the bark of swamp
mangroves. It made valuable dye used for
tanning leather and giving light khaki shade
to fabrics. How it might work in a mans stom-
ach
Up the steps came the little gray Bandahdra,
the Sultans prime minister He was hesitant
fattering fellow-the messenger boy of Borneo
royalty. He bowed.
"The Sultan Akmed is so fond of you Tttdn.
He wishes that you come to him." The Malay
squatted on the steps, grinning.
II am also fond of the Sultan" Wyman lied.
He is sakit, sick?"
Worse, Tman," the prime minister winked,
"he grows DID,
Wyman followed the Ba,iddhara to a dugout,
then up the frail landing stairs Of the palace
a hut slightly larger than the rest topped by a
corrugated tin roof. A Sikh guard saluted,
pointing the way to the reception chamber The
prime minister bowed and disappeared.
1t was small, sitting room, barely furnished
with thick mating, square green desk. Be
hind the desk sat the Sultan in bent bamboo
chair, fat wheeling Malay draped in loose
yellow sarong.
"Tabay, Tnan! Apa Kaba? salute you, lord!
What news?" The old man bent forward eag-
erly. Allah Is good to have spared you from
this plague"
Wyman smoked ceremonial cigarette light
ing It from a beeswax candle He wondered
what the Sultan wanted. His hosts teeth were
Jet black, his mouth scarlet, from bete nut his
shrewd little eyes were as cruel az thirty years
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Baseless Fears Of Unknown
Reduce Men To Mere Puppets

TOR so many centuries man has believed him.
self the puppet of fate that he has come to
accept this as his irrevocable heritage.
NOTHING WAS EVER FURTHER FROM
THE TRUTH
MAN CAN BE AND CAN ACCOMPLISH
ANYTHING UPON WHICH HE WILL SET
HIS WHOLE HEART AND SOUL
HE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING THAT HE
CAN IMAGINE!
In this sketch the artist has drawn for you
the picture of fate holding the strings, which
control mere man as he moves about the stage
Of life. See how slender is the cord = now
easily 1t may be broken!
BUT THE PUPPET CANNOT THINK!
Can YOU think?
Are YOU afraid to call your soul your own?
The Great Master taught men to try all
things and hold fast that which is good =
but we are afraid to try all things! Why?
Because we have been taught fear!
We fear that we may offend conventions, fear
that we may die fear that we may starve or
20 without roof over our heads.
Pause and think a moment!
THINK HOW GLORIOUS LIFE WOULD
BE IF WE WOULD STOP BEING AFRAID!
Said Job, THE thing I greatly feared has
come upon me-" and it has been true of mar
ever since.
xE INEVITABLY attract the thing we
SONA~
accomplish the thing that most occupied his
thought - 80 it is with object dreaded.
WE CAN ACCOMPLISH ADVERSE THINGS
AS WELL AS ADVANTAGEOUS ONES
What do you fear most? Loss of position?
Then you are courting disaster! No fearful en-
ployee can deliver his best Fear paralyzes the
Imagination, weakens the system, robs man of
spontaneity and makes him inefficient and un-
healthy.
Remember that to do your best fearing MOTH
Ing, means that you shall accomplish the thing
most desired. You will have the courage to
present new ideas will make yourself invalu-
able to the firm and build wholesome friend
ships winning respect - If you will BE YOUR
FREE BORN SELF!
DO RIGHT AND YOU NEED FEAR NO
MAN.
The world is full of jobs II you are capable
there will be more jobs than you can handle.
Step out from the crowd and be yourself.
Refuse to be bound by the cords of fate or
superstition.
Learn to walk with your face upturned to
the rain Get out in the open air, let the wind
blow through your hair, watch the moon come
UP over the distant mountains and thank the
Great Creator that you are alive
If you're young it may be that you'll scrub a