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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Yak1n1d-laAI StdituS tuTOuSlous
the business district were designated
by the Yakima city commission in an
ordinance intended to give larger
parking space in present congested
places.
Observation-Disclosures of the Wash
ington Nut Growers Cooperative as
ISOLATION predicted here last week
when they were in session that de-
cidedly short crop of walnuts and
probably short crop of filberts are
expected in Washington this year.
Dayton-The Goth annual Dayton
Days ended more than ordinarily
successfully, it's managers declared.
Despite heavy rainfall, the races were
not noticeably hindered Craig TulPs
Blue MILDLY, winner of the derby, was
crowned by Queen Shirley ellis.
Ridgefield-The American Legion
Junior Baseball league of the fifth
district will have 80 games this sea-
son. Ten rounds of three contests
each, two rounds each week, will
constitute the program. The season
opened June 16 and will close July
IL.
Ephrata-First aid stations will be
established soon at Hanley's service
station at STAFFORD, and at Vests sta
ton at Marlin. Decision to install
the stations was the result of meet
ing of the Grant county Red Cross
chapter, at which it appropriated nee
essary funds.
Tacoma-Dr. A. G. Stewart, Ia
coma, was elected president of the
Washington State Society for Mental
Hygiene at the annual meeting last
week. DR.. Austin ]. O'Leary, Spo-
kane, was named second vice-presi-
dent. Problems of psychiatrists,
state institutions and specialists were
discussed.
Olympia-Oral notice of appeal to
the supreme court from Thurston
county court judgment was made last
week by the state, declaring part of
the unemployment insurance law I'M
constitutional. On May 81 Superior
Judge D. f. Wright handed down a
memo-opinion overruling the states
demurrer.
Aberdeen - Now that they've
caught-or rather found-a sea SER
pent near here, Aberdeen citizens are
at distinct loss to classify it with
any known species of marine animal.
The serpent, which has a goat-like
head, teeth like a dog. and eyes eight
inches apart, has an all-over length
of IL feet and a weight of 1900
pounds.
Neppal-some 1900 persons, un.
here at the south end of Moses lake
last Sunday to dedicate the Burke
Neppal highway, new link in the
state cross-state system which cuts 20
miles between Seattle and Spokane.
Governor Martin, although delayed at
Grand Coulee by the storm, arrived to
make the dedication speech.
WalIa Walla-Part of the 5000
bonus money due inmates of the state
penitentiary will be used to win free
dom for about 120 prisoners, P. e.
Mahoney, secretary to the warden,
has announced. He said convicts no.
titled him that some of the money
would be added to a fund already
pooled to carry on a court fight
against sentences imposed by the new
prison pardon and parole board.
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What do get for my pains? Palms. that's sohat get!

his place was taken by the bootlegger
"a furtive and unreliable mercenary
who lacked the solid qualities of his
predecessor. AS a conf1dant he was a
washout. In many instances he could
scarcely speak English and he had
neither the time nor the patience to
listen to outpourings Of the heart. He
had troubles of his own.
But the urge to conf1de persisted
and eventually the volunteer advisers
rose to meet the demand AS Brother
This" and uncle That" they invited
radio listeners to send them their
problems, and although they did not
guarantee results in the manner of
vaudeville clairvoyants, they offered
more soothing balm to aching hearts
they offered nation wide publicity.
Lonely, misunderstood mortals had
audible proof that their sorrows were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

HoIbrook Gets Pains for
Pains He Takes to Aid
His Friends.

receiving the attention of the entire
country; they could air their griev-
ances on a coast-to-coaSt hook-up.
WHAT should like to know is how
w these volunteer advisers got
their start. Obviously they weren't
born omniscient. They must have &C
quired by experience the knowledge
that gives them their present prestige
But how, in the days of their ap-
premiership, did they persuade any
one to listen to them? 1t is easy
enough to offer advice; the trick is to
make people come around and ask
for it.
No doubt they started in a small
way, perhaps as back-seat drivers
One can picture radios Brother Ben
at the age of 4, being taken out for a
the way home, papa comes to cross
roads and slows down uncertainty,
eBetter turn left here, papa" Brother
Ben" pipes up. Papa does SO, and
sure enough, Brother Ben" is right.
His career as an adviser is launched
And 20 years later, beautiful mis-
understood wives weep on his shoulder
f1guratively speaking, and ask him
what they ought to do next.
But in the meantime, If his counsel
is to have the proper authority, he
should have lived and suffered. In
order to advise disconnected Darby
and jittery Joan whether or not to
make the long trek to Reno, he should
have gone through the divorce mill
several times himself. Before at
tempting to advise worried foster
mother whether or not to inform Betty
Lou that she is an adopted child, hi
should have been one himself so that
he can get the adopted child's view
point. And how can he honestly tell
the confiding felon that crime doesn't
pay, unless he had committed a few
felonies on his own account?
For years have bene hoping that
somebody would come to me and ask
my advice abou. something-any-
thing. So far, nobody has. Instead
have to go around offering advice
as if it were so many sample packages
of breakfast food.
THE other day I saw a motorist try
ing to drive his car up West 1880
street, Just off Riverside Drive. The
street was icy, and his rear wheels
simply spun around. you can't gel
any traction that way" said to him
"Try driving up at an angle" So hi
aimed his front wheels at the curb
Continued on Filth Page.l
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LIE TRIED the experiment on I'M
selected groups of students and
others. The shufled deck would be laid
face down on the table. DR.. Rhine
would pick off the top card and, with
out looking at it, lay it aside face
down. The student would guess what
it was anc his guess would be recorded.
Thus the professor would go through
the whole pack. Hundreds of times
the experiment was tried and hundreds
Of times it came out just as was ex-
pected. The guesser was right once
out of each five guesses.
Now, il any individual could make
better record, it would be an indi-
cation that something more than mere
chance was operating. Anybody, Of
course, might have run of luck.
Once in while he might call 10 or
more cards successfully-as many a
doughboy who has played blackjack
can bear witness. But the chances
against doing it are very high The
chances against doing it twice in sue
cession are higher still, and the
chances of doing it three times in sue
cession would be something like one
in million. Just what the chance
would be for any particular degree of
success on any particular occasion can
be calculated by a simple statistical
formula
DR.. Rhine noted that some did better
than others on repeated trials. Those
who corformed strictly to chance were
eliminated and the star performers
retained. They were put through
test after test and the superiority of
their scores to pure chance calculated
The results were astounding. The
chances were many millions to one
that some of the best consistent
guessers hit upon their correct answers
by pure accident.
Finally group was selected whose
average of correct guests was not five,
but nearly ten. Some individuals do
considerably better than this. In some
way, these successful subjects were
able to sense" the design on the card
they could not see. They had no SEN
sorry contact with it. They couldn
see it, smell it, hear it. taste it or touch
it. Yet they could tell what it was
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curiosity in his makeup. He never
asked you: you told him.
Although he had never met Mrs.
Jones, for example, he knew that at
approximately 1890 pm. she was q
negligible factor in Mr.. Jones life.
Around midnight, however. she suf-
fered a Jekyll-Hyde metamorphosis
and became. in her husbands words,
"a veribatle-no, veritable-hell-cat on
wheels" who ruled her home and
family with the ruthless despotism of
q Roman tyrant. And about 2 am,
as surely as dawn follows darkness, she
underwent another change and as
sumed the role of "the sweetes' lii
woman in the whole wi worl'. I
mean it Jerry; you think I'm JUS SEN
timennal, but It's q fac'.'
In 1920 the old fashioned bartender
went the way Of considerable fesh. and
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ume is called "Old New England') Mr..
Higgins has made Washington his
home for the past is years. His verses
have been published widely in maya
zines, but "Gongs of Earth" is his
Radio Advice Givers Dis.
place Barkeepers as
World CounseIors.
By Weare HOlbrOOk.
IS an old axiom to the
effect that nothing is so cheap
as advice. Yet there are dozens
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effect that nothing is so cheap
as advice. Yet there are dozens
4 Of people today making money
and very good money, too-solely by
dispensing advice. I don't mean the
doctors and lawyers and other profess
sional men who are trained to know
more about specialized subjects than
the rest OF us. They have always been
with us, and their function is accepted
as necessary and inevitable.
But there are other advisers who
have come into prominence lately; not
specialists, but versatile performers
who are ready to wrestle with any
problem presented to them, catchas-
catch-can. No matter what your Diff
culty-whether it be financial, social,
domestic, organic or psychological
they are ready to lend an attentive ear
and tell you what you ought to do.
There was nothing like this gen.
Grafton ago. I am sure. The news
papers offered occasional stereotyped
advice to the lovelorn anG hints to be-
wildered investors, while the women's
magazines were willing to answer any
questions pertaining TO household me-
chanics. But the problems, even when
specific, had an impersonal tone which
led to q general suspicion that the
editors made them up themselves. as
Alfred Harmsworth did when he in
augurated his weekly magazine. "An-
swers."
Only within the last decade did the
public confessor make his appearance.
He was no doubt one Of the many
phenomena resulting from prohibition.
The urge to relieve secret sorrows by
talking about them is ever-present In
US; and an audience, Of even one per-
son, can bring the roses back to the
cheeks Of an undernourished ego.
In the -volstead era this need,
along with other things was filled by
the bartender. Night after night he
listened to impassioned recitals Of the
wrongs and injustices to which man
kind is subjected. Keeping preoc-'
cupied eye on the free lunch counter,
he listened patiently as he polished
glasses, nodding sympathetically at the
proper pauses in the narrative.
LIS presence was soothing. His
bulk and dignity added weight to
his replies and he knew exactly the
right reply to make to each question.
for he had heard them all before.
vicariously he was spectator at every
domestic drama In the neighborhood,
yet there was not . scinttlla OF morbid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Bv Thomas X. Henry.

PACK of playing cards may
~ have thrown open the doors
~ to new world.
\ The latest developments OF
one Of the most paradoxical and
amazing experiments in the history OF
science were revealed to a group OF
Washington psychologists and educa-
tors the other night by DR.. j. B.
Rhine, associate professor Of psy-
chology at Duke University.
The implications are so far-reach-
ing that they battle the imagination.
The human race may be about to
shake off the letters of space and
time.
DR.. Rhine is a matter-o fact scien-
fist, devoted to the rigid, scientific
method in all things. He never ex-
pected his experiments to turn out
as they have-but facts. are facts,
whether they transcend common
sense" or not. Some of his findings
certainly do.
When he first came to Duke, five
years ago, he arranged laboratory
experiment which, presumably, would
disprove claims for mind-reading and
clairvoyance-at least SO far as they
applied to the ordinary run of people.
From the beginning of recorded his
tory there have been reports of such
occurrences. Some Of them have been
studied by reputable scientists, but for
the most part with unconvincing re-
suits.
All these have been isolated in
stances. Investigators have had to
depend on the stories of individuals
which might, or might not have been
unconsciously falsified. There has
been no standard situation, no pos
sibility of scientific control. And
admittedly, there has been a great
deal of fraud.
DR.. Rhine prepared pack Of play
ing cards. There were 25 cards in the
deck. The customary symbols on
playing cards were replaced with geo.
metrical designs-a cross, star, a
square, etc.
There were five cards for each design
that is five marked with square
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WITHIN AND OUTSIDE POLITICS
Current Books Include interpretations of Public Life and
Records of the Hoover Term-Boom and Depression,
Poetry, Crime, Biography and Just Thoughts.

Of one more ex-advertistng man from
the rapidly dwindling list Of those who
have not yet Joined the ranks Of the
prophets and written books about what
Is the matter with America. Mr.. Rorty
succumbs Sound the trumpets, beat
the drums!
How many are left-one wonders
of these keen young pen drivers who,
before the depression, were so smartly
riding the boom in the Offices Of agen-
cieS which paid them salaries that
made capitalists Of them all, and who
are now so kindly pointing out to the
Nation its mistakes and tenderly urg-
ing it to take Karl Marx to its bosom
and sin no more? And what will they
do when salaries are being paid once
again? Oh, well-let us not be cyni-
cal. That is not one bit nice.
Mr.. Rorty, then, deserves our thanks
for, in his present work, he has re-
minded us of a character whom, In
recent months. we had almost for
gotten This was Gumbril, the hero
of Aldous Husley's mordant and &C.
complished "Antic Hay Gumbril,
you will recall, found his life to be
chiefly succession Of hard benches
which had to be sat on, 50 he in
vested in a pair of trousers with a
pneumatic seat.
Mr.. Rorty, making his journey of
research into the question Of what
is wrong with America, drove. SO he
tells us, $4,000 miles in a motor car
Did he, one wonders, avail himself Of
Mr.. Huxley's suggestion? Or did he
just suffer for truth? One has read
his book, and one still does not know.
One has read his book and there are
many things that one still does not
know. A coincidence. no doubt.
But here are the things that he does
tell us. Here are the secrets he dis
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its pieces. It is never very bad. So
much praise, short of admission OF i'm
mortal genius, is all that can ever be
bestowed on a poet, from the very high
nature Of his undertaking.
Verses Of many types are to be found
in the little volume, but one quotes
one of the lighter vein, as having per-
haps more interest to the general. MIR.
Higgins can, when he tries, be grave
enough and In some passages he evokes
that eerie sense Of haunting presences
that requires very delicate writing skill
indeed. But one liked his "Tolderol-
loll," too. It goes as follows:
Il like the drone, the idling shiftless
wag,
The wastrel who will neither toll nor
spin,
The winking one. the philosophic brag,
Because his art and mine are kith
and kin.
I like to watch his windy wagging
joWls,
To hear his lavish lies enhance a
tale,
To mark him when his eyes grow large
as owls
To add their magic when inventions
fail
like his loud outlaws, his slow dis
dams
When some veracious, duller mind
intrudeS
To question the strange nlalady Of
brains
That work in such beguiling lati-
tudes.
like his vain composure and his
And fear the truth will triumph when
he dies"
Although New Highlander by birth
(and q fine group Of verses in the vol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

first collection. 1t is to be hoped that
the book meets with success. Its un-
sentimentally romantic quality, its pre-
occupation with the world beyond the
world, make it particularly agreeable
at a time when most poets are dedi-
or the new subway. 1t is, in short, in
much of its stuff, true poetry and not
Fourth of July oratory of the prevail
ing style. One repeats that it de-
serves some reading.
SUFFER- OF CALIFORNIA. BY Julian
Dana. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
THIS is biography of the man who
first of all IN America struck it
rich. 1t is done in an easy, narrative
style that seems likely to commend it
to the ranks of popular non-fiction
1t deserves the success. 1t is clearly
the work of hero-worshipper, but II
is rich and exciting reading.
One confesses ones surprise at the
adventures which crowded the life
of the discoverer of gold in California
or rather the man who owned the
gold that was discovered. One had
rather imagined that that discovery
was the chief event in his life. Blu,
not so-the present biography is al
most at its close before the date Of
the gold strike is reached. It is moi
a story Of mineral riches found. but
one of the peaceful (when possible)
| development of life on the land
almost idyllically ordered in the ancient
natural feudal fashion of the human
kind.
Indeed, the picture of Suffers estate
before the strike. as gathered from hi.
own diary, is plainly indicative thai
he considered the gold as menace te
more valuable order of resources. Tt
quote from this diary is to give the
reader glimpse of a life of sowing
and planting, fishing, building, sheep
and cattle raising, spinning and weav-
ing and other rustic occupations-with
the births Of children or an occasional
dance duly recorded. Toward the end
he begins to mention with repeated
concern that more people were flock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

five with a cross, five with a star, and
so on with the others. Now, after
such a pack was shufled. what would
be the chances of any one naming cor
rectly the symbols on each one, from
the top of the pack to the bottom,
without looking at them. They would
be, of course, exactly one in five.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Japanese Rice Short.

Japan, which consumes vast guam
titles of rice, finds the last year
none too good, for shortened
crop due to bad weather conditions
served to reduce the crop to point
way below domestic consumption, and
large quantities must be imported.
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closes. There is, he says, great deal
of unemployment in America. Too,
the unemployed are not happy. Relief
administration is prostituted to politi-
cal purposes and relief allowances are
seldom adequate. The working people
of America have no spirit. If they did
they would demand the things they
need. AS it is, they will probably
allow the country to drift into another
war under the impression that q war
will help them by bringing about
higher wages. And new war will
wreck us, or what little there is left
of us.
That is about the sum of it. One
has read it all in three dozen other
works put out by Mr.. Rorty's ilk in
recent months. One will say for him
that not all OF these authors have
written so smoothly and professionally.
He is a good journalist. But to re-
viewer it is just another sonnet writ
ten to his ladys eyebrow.
One does not blame Mr.. Rorty indi-
vidually, either. It is only when these
books accumulate. and one sees men
tally the well paid author making
copy of the misery Of his fellow, swoop-
ing down on this town at evening,
darling around to the transient shell
tiers and interviewing the salaried
ones who dole out the pittance, has
tening on to the local labor union, II
it Is in a district where there has
been any of that kind of wretchedness,
rushing then back to the hotel to get
it all noted down, and doing three
more towns the next day-that one
feels certain wrath and contempt
and mockery. As Mr.. Rorty's book
unfolds one gathers more and more
the impression Of q PROSTATE giant
swarmed over by termites. Organizers
wherever there was misery, salaries
were being paid to organizers to con-
troll it. He interviewed these gentry;
they were cooperative" They gave
him copy. And the people went on
starving
Perhaps, when there Is miserv
enough, we. can all get jobs Of that
sort.
PERSONAL PLEASURES. BY Rose
Macaulay. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
MISS ROSE MACAULAY Is prob
AVA ably one OF the most accom-
plished writer's Of the informal essay
living. She is, moreover, one Of those
rare artists whose ear for prose meas
ures is never wrong. In her new vol
ume-the first to be published after q
long silence-she writes nothing Of
very great importance but contrives to
furnish us with much delightful read
ing. Her essays here cover q wide
range Of subjects, from albums" to
Turtles in Hyde Park" If you enjoy
a writer who writes seemingly from
sheer enjoyment In demonstrating her
skill, you cannot do better than to buy
this book and make Miss Macaulay,s
Personal Pleasures" your own.
GONGs OF EARTH. BY John Lee
Higgins. Boston: Bruce HUMPHREYS,
Inc.
THIS book of verse by q Warrington
! author stands well above the aver
age level Of current poetry. It Is, in
fact, refrsshingly good IN number Of