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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02

NIT. Eight years ago this monS
she suffered a paralytic stroke ilU ~.
which she never fully recovered -. ~
former health. Altho her oeasn :.
a shock to her family ana irie ~
as she had been in her usual i's -
Thursday evening and slept W. W
through the night, taking III az as',,
S in the morning and passed '''
before ten O'Clock.
She is survived by five clliiU ~
and five grand children. lhes ana
Mrs. r. @. Macmahon, Miss D, ~.
zwanzig, nurse at the U. D ri
rine hospital in Seattle, MIS- rS.. ri
L. Deffenbaugh of Horse lcyl
Ed zwanzig of Ephrata, c. W. y @
of Pomeroy and one daughter, IN me
Lyndell. who died in l9OS ~ ,,rr,
age of three years, besides D and
and Lester Zwanzig OF Poine, a.,ton.
Allen. Robert and Richard D'
baugh Of Kennewick. .r
Funeral services were heio ,nsa,
the Mueller Funeral Home o o 4
afternoon at 2:3O with the w. uss
c. Vincent officiating. Buri"' ~,
made beside her husband III "
Riverview Heights cemeter"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02
HIGHLANDS

Arthur Craig, who has been a
patient in the Pasco hospital with
a badly infected leg, was brought to
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
White, Sunday. He will not be able
to work for several weeks.
Joe Woods received the sad news
Monday that his sister, Mrs. Min
ME West of Stockton, Mo. has pass
ed away.
Paul Hembree of Tacoma visited
Wednesday and Thursday at the
N. l.. Foraker home
The Durham family moved We'd
nesday from the Garden Tracts to
the house on the A. H. Meyer ranch
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Soper and
family arrived Tuesday from Edge
mont, S. D. and are stopping at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Rey-
more. MIR. Soper reports that the
roads and weather were so bad the
trip took ten days. Mr.. Soper plans
to locate here permanently.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02
Hold Charter Open for
Pro America Chapter

A Pro-America chapter was Or
ganized in Kennewick on Tuesday
evening at the home of Mrs. j. H.
Siegfried, with between 25 and 80
ladies signifying that they wished
to become charter members. An
election of officers took place with
the following officers being elected:
Mrs. j. H. Siegfried, president;
Mrs. M. M. Moulton, vice president;
Mrs. c. A. Powell, recording sec
rotary: Mrs Russell Day, cores
ponding secretary and treasurer.
The meeting days were planned for
the first Wednesday of each month
with a luncheon at Genes. Anyone
interested is urged to attend the
next meeting There will be an
outside speaker of note at each
meeting who will discuss topics of
interest to the organization.
This is a fairly new movement,
having just been organized in 1888
Anyone interested in becoming a
charter member can do so by get
ting i'm touch with any of the Of
ficers mentioned or Mrs. Ruth Hen
iken before Monday as the charter
will be open until that time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02
PASCO CONGREGATIONAL
CHOIR TO SING HOLTER'S
LIFE ETERNAL" CANTATa

On Palm Sunday evening, April
S at 7:3O o'clock, the choir of the
Congregational church. under the
direction of Miss Marion Rice, will
present Fred Holter's beautiful Eas-
ter Cantata, Life Eternal" The
cantata deals with the events Of
Holy Week and treats the suffering,
death and resurrection of Our Lord
in never-to-be forgotten harmonies.
The cantata is a delightful blend
of the scripture stories with inspir-
ing music.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02

to Coronado Beach in a bus. travel
ing on a narrow peninsula about a
mile long with the bay On cur left
and the ocean ON our right. Battle
ships could be seen from here. Our
BUS was ferried froln this peninsula.
At last we arrived at Tit Juana
All over were MeXicanS. At Caesars,
where we dined, we were very
thrilled. The floor show was just
perfect consisting of Mexican sing
ers, and beautiful lady dancers. You
might hear tangos and rhumbaS
over the radio and sit fascinated,
but there's something thrilling
about seeing the actual. We girls
kept remarking how lucky we were
and pinching each other.
After buying curiCs, many of the
girls had their pictures taken on a
mule with Mexican hats on. took
a few snapshots, of one of the bar
keepers and dancers. am hoping
they are good.
In San Diego we visited an old
Mission on Preside Hills about 166
years OLD. Here we saw banana trees
and beautiful gardens. the wishing
we'll and we also heard a very in
teresting talk about the origin Of
the place. I am particularly fond OF
San Diego-the blue narboi with
sailboats and battleships contrast
ing. This harbor was in a big
arch of green land covered with
palm trees and other kinds. Here
and there were white stucco houses
with red tiled roofs The city just
breathed-the navy.
We then visited the Exposition.
I will tell of a few interesting things
the Commerce building showing
miniature Southern Pacific Rail-
road exactly reproduced on natur-
al looking hills and valleys. We
also saw the shakespeare ship of
Stevens and Anderson, old carriages
and ultra-modern cars. The Alas
kan girls had their picture taken
in a real snow sled for the news
papers. The Hall of Science Build
ing was very interesting. Press a
button and you could see an ex-
ray of a live-size photo of man or
woman. There was beautiful music
coming from somewhere as we
walked over the grounds feaStinp
our eyes on a large pool with CON-
dolas in the center! We walked over
a span with palm trees below COL
ored every color from indirect
lighting. This was in the evening.
We had dinner at the Cafe of the
World. The orchestra was grand
and the cafe perfect! I got Paul
Termine's, the Lucky Gypsy band
leader, autograph and Bonnie Har-
riSon, the violiniSt.
(To be continued next weekly
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02

Where Buyer and Seller Meet
Courier-Reporter Want-Ads.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-04-02

It pays to read the advertisements
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Moro Castle Penalties.

The conviction of the captain and
chief engineer of the Moro Castle and
Of an executive of the operating corpora
ton on charges of criminal negligence
will not, Of course, lessen the tragedy of
September 8, 1884, when more than 1874
persons lost their lives as that ship
burned off the New Jersey coast. The
two officers are sent to prison for two
and four years and the company execu-
tive is given suspended sentence of one
year and fine of $5,0O0 The company
itself is fined $4,000 The public con-
Germ in this case is not entirely that of
the penalty, but relates to the possibility
that these punishments may assure
greater care in the maintenance of sea
passenger service upon the basis of ef-
ficiency and security.
Thirty-one years ago a steamship
burned in the East River of New York
with a loss of 1,021 lives. The master of
the boat was tried and convicted and
died in prison. That would seem to have
been, sufficient to assure continuous un-
remitting and dependable precautions
against disaster for all time. But the
lesson OF the General Slocum horror, it
is painfully evident, has been forgotten.
Despite improvements in the develop
ment of every conceivable safeguard
against such happenings, this second
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Off in High Gear.

In his address to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, in session in this city
few weeks ago, Chairman Farley said:
"Our opponents will make this the bit
terest and certainly the dirtiest political
struggle that any of us here can remem-
ber." These words have been verified
promptly. The campaign of 1886 has
started already on high key of vituper-
alton, charges and counter charges. At
the present pace, set months before the
nominating conventions, this fight will
probably be one of the most spectacular
In the history of American politics.
Last Saturday night former Democratic
Candidate Alfred E. Smith set the pace
with an excoriation of the Democratic
party for its betrayal of platform pledges.
Yesterday John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, addressing
that body in convention in this city,
styled Mr. Smith "gibbering political
jackanapes" Last night Senator Robin
son, fellow candidate with Mr.. Smith on
the Democratic national ticket Of 1928,
assailed his former campaign associate
with you're another" attack.
With the campaign thus in high gear
more than four months before the first
of the nominating conventions, there is
every prospect that records for vitupera-
ton will be broken There are enough
third-party possibilities in view, with the
Townsendites and the Talmadgeites
threatening to throw more than the
usual number of hats into the ring, to
assure wide range Of rabble-rousing
rhetoric. This quadrennial appeal to the
electorate may indeed be q record
Evening star., 1936-01-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ernor in 1923, and was appointed to the
United States bench at Louisville IN 1870
by President Coolidge.
Representative Treadway Republican,
of Massachusetts is curious to know
why the Treasury requires funds Tor
"abrasions on gold COIN" seeing as how
there's no more gold in circulation to
suffer wear and tear Addressing the
House the other day on that item in the
deficiency appropriation bill, Mr.. Tread
way said: II think the definition of the
word abrasions' is rubbing off For
merly we had the pleasure of jingling
gold coins in our pockets, and the Gov
ernment made allowance for abrasion.
Our pockets have now been stripped OF
gold, but the allowance for abrasion still
goes on. If the administration has taken
all the gold in the country and stored it
in that tremendously expensive vault
down in Kentucky, what earthly need is
there for money to pay for any abrasion?
How are the edges going to be rubbed off
protected vault?"
M. S. Szymczak of Illinois. who draws
the 12-year term on the newly conSti-
tuted Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve system, pronounces his name
as if it were spelled 'Sim-chak." Now
and then he adds this phonetic spelling
to his signature on letters and docu-
ments in order to facilitate its proper
rendition. Mr.. Szymczak used to be
college professor of economics and phi
losophy. but was city controller Of Chi
cago when appointed to the Federal Re-
serve Board, in 1888.
Another one.time well-known digni-
tary at the Capitol, Col. Edwin Pope
Thayer, secretary of the United States
Senate from 1925 until 1888, has just
hung out law Office shingle in Wash
ington. Colonel Thayer is an old-time
Hoosier crony of former Senator jim
Watson, who retains residence in WASH
ington while practicing law at Indian
apolis and Chicago.
Senator OMahoney, Democrat. of Wy
oming points out that the bill introduced
by Representative RamSpeck. Democrat,
of Georgia. which would require all first
second and third class poStmasters to be
appointed under the civil service law.
effectuates the objectives sought by bills
previously introduced by himself and
House Post Office Committee Chairman
Mead The legislation in question, ac-
cording to Senator O'Mahoney, lis the
most important expansion OF the merit
system since the Wilson administration" }"
Senator OMahoney, First Assistant
Postmaster General in early New Deal
days, believes the country will not fail
to note that the recent objection to con-
sideration of the legislation was raised
by one of the principal leaders of the
party which is doing its utmost to mis-
represent Postmaster General Farley as
a spokesman" The objection emanated
from the ranking Republican member of
the House Rules Committee.
(Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Facts to Be Learned.

The chairman of the Canadian Civil
Service Commission is in Washington
making study of the civil service prac-
tices in this country. If he is interested
particularly in the merit system, as un-
derStood and practiced in Canada, his
study should not consume much time.
There is not much left of it any more,
and what there is can doubtless be set
down in brief memorandum. But II
he is interested in the merit system as
widely practiced now, sometimes under
the name of the spoils system, he has
much to learn
He will discover, for instance, that the
educational and other qualifications OF
an applicant for Federal job are OF
relatively minor Importance compared
with the applicants political persuasion
and whether the applicant happened to
be For Roosevelt Before Chicago. He
will find that an applicants place OF
residence in the United States may
qualify or disqualify him from holding
a position IN the Federal service, re-
gardless of his ability efficiently to per-
form his job. He will find that If a
man or woman is married and has a
wife or husband already in the Federal
service such status may fall within the
category of mortal sin and dlsbar the
incumbent or applicant from further
consideration
He will find, in short, that efficiency
and merit in the Federal service have
been largely displaced as primary con-
siderations by the zeal of hungry poll
ticians to place deserving constituents
on the Federal pay roll. And more sur
prising still, he will find that American
taxpayers, through ignorance or lack OF
interest. are permitting the politicians to
get away with it.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

shocking disaster occurred. The ques-
ton comes whether the standards Of
equipment and personnel are high
enough and whether the inspection Of
ships that take passengers to sea is ade-
quate. The Government service, 1t is
well known, is not large enough to cover
the field. Due to insufficient appropria-
tions it has not kept pace with the in
crease in shipping and in public patron
age.
No penalties applied to those who
failed in their duty either as company
executives or as mariners will assure
the protection that is demanded and
that car be provided only by the organi-
zation OF an inspection service sufficient
to cover the field and to insure the MAIN
tenance of the highest standards in con-
struction. in operation and in discipline
in all circumstances.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
breaker for plain talking, high temper
and rllthleSSneSS.

breaker for plain talking, high temper
and ruthleSsness.
One voice that would have added richly
to the vocabulary of campaign invective
has been stilled by death. Were Huey
Long on the scene the literature Of the
1896 presidential contest would doubtless
have been greatly enriched with express
sions of vehement animosity. He has no
successor in this field of pungent phrase
ology. But there may be initators who
will scour the dictionary for strong Ian
guage of scorn, denunciation and con-
demnation.
Under the rules governing the use Of
the radio certain forms of speech are
barred, and possibly the intervention of
this medium of communication, which
will be taxed to the utmost throughout
the campaign, will serve to compel the
moderation of some of the language that
otherwise might be employed. The short
and ugly word" of which Theodore Roose-
welt spoke is not explicitly denied the air,
and it may be heard with variations. Mr..
lewis "jibbering political jackanapes"
may inspire other efforts at elaborate,
mouth filling excavations. The talents
of ghost writer's, who are free to permit
their fancy to soar high or to proceed In
the other direction in search of pungent
phrases, will be in demand There are
some strong words in the English lam
guage and without doubt they will be
mustered for service before the votes are
cast in November to the end of surfeit of
SANDER with perhaps scarcity of sense.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Frances Financial Plight.

Compared to the S11 300 O0O,O0O which,
according to Secretary Morgenthau. the
United States Treasurys divining rod will
have to locate during the next seventeen
months, Frances financial needs seem
like very small potatoes. Yet the trans
action she is now negotiating in London,
comprehending British loan of $780,
100000. more or less, is one Of the most
stupendous, as we'll as significant, devel-
opments of its kind on postwar record
in Europe.
The French government, it hardly
needs to be said, is far from impoverished.
1t still possesses huge gold reserve, Sec
ond only to that of the United States,
but the national cash box at Paris is
running dangerously low because of
steadily decreasing revenue, and the
problem of finding money to meet cur
rent obligations has become grave in the
extreme. The principal reason which
recently impelled M. Laval to resign from
the premiership, apart from his purely
political vicissitudes, was to leave to his
successors in Office the hapless and
almost hopeless task of setting the re-
public financial house in order.
To that end former Premier Flandin,
now foreign minister in the new Sarraut
cabinet, has gone to London. Formally
and officially his mission there, together
with President LIE Brun, was to represent
France at the funeral of King George.
Actually, as now disclosed, M. Flandin's
purpose is t. discuss with the Baldwin
government far-reaching proposals de-
signed to ease Frances desperate fiscal
plight. The way has been paved for
some time, and the Bank of England the
British treasury and the big Five" joint
stock banks expressed readiness to ac-
commodate the French. A loan, 1t is said,
would have been granted weeks ago, but
M Laval resisted any operation that
carried the peril of revealing the weak
ness of the French position to foreigners.
Now, according to London dispatches,
NJ Flandin is seeking aid in the form
of credits for the Bank of France run
ming anywhere from s250000,000 to
S500000,0O0. In exchange the French
government is understood to be ready to
offer commercial facilities to Great
Britain. British trade in France is now
hampered by import quotas and tariff
barriers.
1t would be natural to suspect that
Paris believes the hour ripe for seeking
important money favors in London be-
cause of British eagerness for French
aid in the event of an Anglo-Italian
clash in the Mediterranean, and it
would be no less logical to suppose that
Britain would gladly exploit the situa-
ton to assure herself of French CO.
operation. Another wheel within wheels
is revived nervousness in France over
German e-militarization plans in the
Rhineland and the wish for guarantees
of British support to ward off that dam
ger. The British government and nation
are in no mood at the moment to enter
into new political or military commit
ments so the chances are that any ex-
tensive cash advances to France at this
time will be on the exclusive basis of
finance and trade quid pro quo arrange
ment.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Class Discrimination in
Traffic Law Enforcement
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star:
It seems that even in the campaign
to save lives and stop reckless driving in
our fair city the poor pay and the rich
get by as usual. 1t has been the policy
of our Traffic Court to issue a writ of
attachment in speeding cases when col
lateral is forfeited. According to news
item in your paper today it seems that
regulation must read serve attachments
against certain classes" think 1t is
time for some one to come forward and
insist on a rigid enforcement of our
traffic regulations, regardless of class,
creed or color. HENRY D. REED.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Music.
The trumpet has mighty tone.
With pleasure 1t is heard.
It charms us by its voice alone,
And never says word.
The fiddle will proceed to sing
A sweet but wordless song,
And while it doesn't tell thing,
Keeps stringing us along.
The kettledrums with rhythmic beat
Will pass the time away.
The clarinet is low and sweet,
With not thing to say.
And so the orator will try
To make us all rejoice,
Not by his thoughts so much as by
The music of his voice.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
His EvensOng.

We talked of men in a club room,
And somebody mentioned one
Who rode rough-shod in his commerce
And never stopped in the run;
Knocked them cold in daily scrimmage
Had his way by iron will,
Saw life as feasting table
Where he always took his fill.
Then somebody broke silence
BY saying of this same man
That when he spent night with him
In the quiet twilight span
This hard-boiled giant of commerce
Did thing few men would dare
In the room they shared together
Knelt down for an evening prayer.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
The Significant Point.

The speech read into the microphone
last night by Senator Joe Robinson was
a good speech, as such speeches go.
Those who heard it may have been I'M
pressed by the possibility that while the
sonorous voice was Robinson's voice, the
pen was the pen of Nicholson or other
astute ammunition manufacturers at the
Democratic National Committee. But 1t
was. nevertheless, a good speech, as such
speeches 90. If it lacked the spice and
iuiciness of Al Smiths patented brand
of campaign oratory, it was laid out along
tested and approved lines. 1t attributed
the defeat of Smith-and Robinson-ln
1928 to greed and privilege hiding behind
q murkv and malodorous smoke screen"
terrifying enough as curtain raiser, to
make the audience sit up and listen, and
It cleverly brought in the thirty pieces
of silver" and the base betrayal OF
fundamental American principles" right
at the start.
With these and other explanations OF
what happened to Al Smith in 1923,
when he was waging clean and hon.
orable campaign in behalf OF common
men and women" the speech attempted
to explain what has happened to the
unfortunate Al since. He has been 'en-
throned in the camp Of the enemy" He
has changed sides and his outlook has
undergone transformation. He has left
the little shops and fish markets" and
turned his gaze to the "gilded towers and
palaces of Park avenue" He has become,
in other words, traitor and turncoat.
AS for his attacks on the New Deal
why, if one is speaking Of the incon-
sistency between campaign platforms
and performances, listen to how incon-
sistent was Al! Who is AL Smith to
talk of inconsistency? Has he not been
lust as inconsistent himself?
There were points in the Smith speech,
however, which could not be answered.
The chief one, to which may be attrib-
uted the intense interest in what Smith
told the Liberty Leaguers, was the fact
that the duUQOr OF uIldL UcVdSUdClIlS dI.
tack on the New Deal was the former
standard bearer of the Democratic party;
that he was speaking for an element in
the Democratic party which, whether or
not it has been bought or bribed by the
enemy hiding. in the golden towers and
palaces of Park Avenue behind murky
and malodorous smokescreens has nev-
ertheless shown marked signs of walking
out.
What undoubtedly impressed the radio
audience last night was that Senator
Robinson, defending his party, was doing
it by an attack on his own former run
ning-mate and his party's own standard
bearer in 1928 That was undoubtedly
the significant point in Senator Rob-
insons speech, indicating the nature of
what has happened to the Democratic
party in three years of the New Deal,
containing its ominous prophecy of the
nature of the campaign just beginning.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

The Townsend plan might restore
dignity to the home. With father and
mother drawing 5000 month impetuous
youth may see the propriety of being
kind and gentle and even obedient.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
No BUYERS. ANYWAY.

From the New York SUM-
A story from London says that the
British colonies are not for sale. 1t is
just as well, for with the Christmas
bills coming in there would be poor
market.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

seph Robinson referred to the story of
Jacob and Esau, without making direct
reference to the fact that Jacob was OBJ
viously trying to sit into new deal with
q four flush.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

If the generously artistic Mr. Hopkins
promotes too many actors new relief
problem may arise on behalf OF audiences
demanding their money back.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

Applicants for bonus will have to be
fnger-printed. They probably will not
object. 1t is habit of thought among
sailors to favor every means of future
Identification.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Self-Advertiser.

From the New York Times.
Eating lots Of carrots and tomatoes
helps the power of vision in the dark.
Another vegetable that can be easily
identified in the dark Is the onion.