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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04

brings you ITOCkS LOT every
size (from four years to size 52)
for almost any occasion. Each
has been designed to bring you
the ultimate in style in it's par
ticular class and all claim a new
high in simplicity and comfort.
Ultra-Smart Dress.
It's nice to know you're easy to
look at even if the occasion is only
another breakfast session. That's
why the ultra-smart dress at the
left is so handy to have. Note
the clever detail all the way
through even to the inverted skirt
pleat. See how beautifully the
sleeves set-in-you just know at a
glance how simple it is to put to-
gether. Cotton, of course, is the
material.
Typical of Youth.
The surest way to be big little
body is to wear dresses that are
as expertly planned as the grown
ups. The little number above,
center, has the smart styling of a
sub-deb's frock. 1t is typical of
youths freshness and activity,
and is one model that gets little
girls complete endorsement. 1t
is the number one dress for the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
YOU CAN THROW CARDS
IN HIS Face
ONCE TOO Often

WHEN you have those awful
w cramps; when your nerves
are all on edge-don't take it out
on the man you love.
Your husband can't possibly
know how you feel for the simple
reason that he is a man.
A three-quarter wife may be
no wife at all if she nags her hus-
band seven days out of every
month.
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go "smil-
ing through" with Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t
helps Nature tone up the system.
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals Of life: /. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. APP
preaching middle age."
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
Barnyard Hens Help
to Raise Pheasants

Portland, Ore.-China pheasant
hunters in the Pacific Northwest
can doff their hats to the drab
little barnyard setting hen in
thanks for their days of good
shooting, because without her
help their days of good shooting
would be few and far between.
You have the word of Frank
Wire, Oregon state game super
visor on that point.
Barnyard hens are necessary
to pheasant raising, Wire said,
because the mother pheasant
loses her maternal instinct when
in captivity.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
Home Heating
uin+c By John Barclay
n11lGO Heating Expert
Building Furnace Fire Is Easy
Operation When You Follow
Few Simple Rules

IT'S really no trick to build a
L good furnace fire, quickly and
easily. ~.
Leave a layer of ashes about
two inches deep spread on the
CRATES. Spread about two inches
of coal over this layer of ashes.
Over the coal, place a generous
amount of neutrality-suspicious.
and light, dry wood.
The turn damper in the smoke
pipe and the ashpit damper should
be open wide. If the ashpit damper
on your furnace is in back, open
it and also the ashpit door in
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
Use Of Modes+y

A just and reasonable modesty
does not only recommend elo-
quence, but sets off every great
talent which a man can be pos
sessed of. It heightens all the
virtues which it accompanies; like
the shades in paintings, it raises
and rounds every figure, and
makes the colors more beautiful,
though not so glazing as they
would be without it.-Addison.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
Deafness Cure Is Found
If Patient Can Take Il

Condor, Ore.-The main problem
seems to be how to get the horse to
stand still-and to arrange for the
lightning.
Anyhow, John F. Crane, rancher.
says that good jolt of lightning
can cure deafness, in horses at
least. An old horse of his, he said,
was floored by a heavy bolt and
struggled to his feet able to hear
as well as a colt.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
n nA

By LemueI F. Parton

NEW YORK.-Young James Del
~ mage Ross rode bicycle from
Chatham, Ont, to New York city to
get job as chemist. He got the
DE. job, but noted that
resting IS everybody in the
Pifing to factory did moth
Youno Ross ing but work
1900 pestles. Pestling
seemed piffling, so he pedalled back
to Chatham and kept on going, on
his bicycle, on foot and on boats.
He's been around a lot and now, at
sixty-four, the President hands him
a job which no mere pestler or ped
aller could handle - boss of the
Bonneville project, the biggest dam
in the world. He will resign from
his S. E. c. post to become admin
istrator of the huge power plant.
Mr.. Ross was for 20 years head Of
the municipal power development
of Seattle. His selection for Bonnie
vile is taken as an administration
declaration that it is going all the
way through on its power plans.
He has not only been a vigorous
champion of public development,
but he has fought for public distribu-
ton. Here, he says, is the kernel
of the whole business. He says pri-
vate companies could manufacture
power at possibly lower cost than
could the government, and makes
his fight on distribution costs. He
stakes out big regional power hook
ups through the Northwest, existing
and planned. His policies are ag-
gressive and far-reaching and his
appointment would seem to sharpen
the disagreement between the Presi-
dent and the power companies.
He has taken and administered a
lot of punishment. Several years
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
Scenes of Shakespeare

If you read "The Merchant of
Venice in that city, you should
read Hamlet at Elsinore in Den
mark, Macbeth at CLAIMS in Scot
land, "Romeo and Juliet" at Yer
ono, Italy, and in Windsor forest,
England, the play of the merry
Wives"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04

ago, a newly elect
ed Seattle mayor
tossed him out Of
his power plant
job. They recalled
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04
What of
the Creed?

Dealers cannot avoid being the rad
ical party. I have said this many
times in these columns and it is
more evident now even than when I
reported upon the situation earlier.
The conservatives can and should
have voice in their government
even if it is only an opposition voice
that constitutes balance-wheel.
Proceeding from that premise,
therefore, there can be little argu-
ment that the principles which the
Republicans advocate should be
drawn from principles of govern
mental policies that have proved
sound. That is to say, the Repub-
Leans cannot afford to attack Mr..
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04

OSIlI dll0 tllS pOWC1 CO11lEoi1Co.
He has taken and administered a
lot of punishment. Several years
H. ago, newly elect
Anot0s HoW ed Seattle mayor
to Absorb tossed him out of
pun;sbuent his power plant
job. They recalled
the mayor and named a mountain
after Mr.. Ross, a rocky peak over
hanging the Skagit river, which MIR.
Ross wants to rope and hog-tie for
the good of all concerned, as he
sees it.
Then his partisans, just to show
that they were with him, spotted up
a mountain side, on the Cascades,
for a Gutzon Borglum has relief,
like the sculptures of Presidents in
South Dakota. The project is still
being worked up.
His was one of those "roll your
own educations. After his bicycle
trip to New York, he headed for
the Alaska gold fields in 1898, BIZ
cycling to the fade-out Of the road,
tramping up through Edmonton,
making his own boat for the rest of
the trip.
Later, in Seattle, he helped de-
sign the first municipal power plant
and stayed on the job 80 years.
He loves kilowatts and amuses
himself in his rambling old house by
r., keeping a copper
Keeps Trick ball in the air with
Gadgets in no visible support
HE House and by frying eggs
in an electrified
pan held in his hand. On his living
room table is a book on the natural
sciences, published in 1882. He says
it started him on his career and he
keeps on reading it.
He was consulting engineer for the
New York power authority when
Franklin D. Roosevelt was COVER
nor; also consultant for the st. Law
renee seaway and power project. He
went to Washington as consultant
for PWA power development and
later was appointed a member of
the S. E. c.
AS he caroms around mountain
cliffs, a violet by the roadside brings
a yell to the chauffeur and a screech
of brakes. He just has to get out
and look at it. He is childless, but
he and Mrs. Ross have reared five
children.
M RS. ANNIE NATHAN MEYER,
4VA founder of Barnard college, is
against women s'scabs." II feel it
would be BETTER" she says, eff
Lady tScabs' scabbine for lowe ~
Are Bdne to wages, would seek
Mrs. Never out new fields in
which there would
be no competition with the men,"
Mrs. Meyer dislikes being called
feminist, but, in her early youth, she
dropped her subscription to Godey's
Ladies' Book and urged women to
do something on their own account.
Women as people have been her
absorbing life interest.
She was an anti-suffragist, but
now qualities her opposition. She
thinks women ought to be honest
and admit that, when they take
job, they are out for a husband.
And that, she thinks, is as it should
be. She has written is plays, 8 of
which were produced, some of them
on Broadway.
She is small, merry, white
haired woman, living her life with
keen zest at seventy, in her book
Uttered Park avenue home. She is
known as a writer, lecturer and
playwright.
g Consolidated News Features.
WNTT CerviCa
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Liberian President
Points to Progress

Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. %
(ANP)-President Edwn Barclay
speaking at the recent celebration
of Liberals Goth anniversary of
Independence took occasion to
dwell upon his c%ountry's desire for
peace and to outline something Of
the progress it had made since its
establishment. President Barclay
said:
"In the present state of world
affairs, | think it is not out ofplace
for me, on this occasion, to reaf-
firm our attachment to the ways of
peace, our desire for friendly CO.
operation with the citizens of other
states, whose legitimate concerns
bring them to Liberia, and u will
for honorable commerce with all
peoples.
Ninety years, is, indeed, a short
period in which to judge the capa-
city and progress of a people.
Progress is relative, and, so far as
this nation is concerned, any judg-
ment on this score must be related
to the circumstances Of its ori-
gin, the means at its disposal for
effecting it's purpose, to the manner
in which those mean have been
utilized, and to the posture Of its
affairs in the present as compared
with conditions at the beginning OF
its national life. Ninety years ago
the Republic of Liberia comprised
three small settlements not exceed
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
PROF. JOSIAH WADDLES

ing 1900 square miles, with a
population not exceeding 10000.
Tt was a state always on the de-
fensive culturally and politically
against the overwhelming cultural
pull and the numerical superiority
of the surrounding INDIGENOUS bar
barous peoples. Today the Republic
has expanded to an area Of A 5000
miles, and contains a population Of
over 100000, with its authority
not only unchallenged, but both
accepted and respected in even the
most remote sections Of the terri
tory.
1T is not appropriate at this
sine for me to make a comparative
statement of developments which
have taken place in this Republic in
the political, social, cultural and
economic aspects of the life Of the
Liberian people. But I am happy to
be able to say that, on a just as
sessment of these several factors
over the ninety year period, sub
stantial progress has been made
and is continuing to be made"
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
The Story:

The Story:
How many people IN Omaha
know or have given much thought
to the fact that today is Enamel
patton day-the 18th anniversary
of the day President Lincoln signed
the bill freeing over four million
Negro slaves.
To many of us, it is something
we read about in our history class,
and haven't given much thought to
since. But il meant freedom, a new
life to a whole race Of people.
And on September 9th, Omaha
Negroes, under the sponsorship of
the Omaha Guide, Negro newspa-
per, will hold an Emancipation Cele
bration. This event viii be held at
tho Elk's hall, 1920 Lake street, in
honor Of Civil War veterans and
their families.
But today WOW recognized the
real anniversary with a special
program on the regular man on the
street broadcast which many of
you undoubtedly heard. Tive former
slaves, two of the very few still
living who were freed by the Eman-
cipation Order, were presented on
this station at 12:45-the regular
man on the street period.
The two, Mrs. Sarah Simmons,
and Professor Waddles, told Of
some of their reactions and memoir
les of that memorable day. And
"a year old Mrs. Simmons, who by
the way hadn't been out of the
house for nearly a year until she
accepted the invitation to come
down and appear on the program,
was very thrilled at her reunion
with Professor Waddles. Professor
Waddles, she remembered when
she met him during the program,
had taught her children down in
Texas years ago.
The SO year old professor was
just as happy. The two have lived
in Omaha for many years without
meeting.
This special program was pre-
scented with the assistance of Editor
Galloway and Miss Childs Of the
Omaha Guide whe made it possible
to secure the old people and ar
/. range for the program.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
League to Sponsor
Exemption Campaign

In a statement by DR.. Vernon Il.
ILomas. president of the Nebraska
lit.rue Of Taxpayers and Home
G~Aers, which is sponsoring the
homestead Tax Exemption CAM
paign. it was explained that the
ttarks upon the campai q for tax
free homes epearing II the larger
naboxs of the state are character
lstic of the campaign for this cause
II all other states. 1t !. ai,b char.
afttYistic of such campaigns ttst
&C largest minority &c the local
pers support the prop 9 : AM in
- manner bring the truth tn the
+. elple.
pr. Thomas urges members of
ti'e League and other Supporters of
Ia. exemption for Hofes to keep
in mind the evils of loss of value
through excessive taxation--the
loss of homes and farms in Nebras-
ka because of the tax lien.
Regardless of another draught
year in Nebraska and business con-
ditions Of below normal the home
and farm owners of Nebraska are
burdened ~ having levied upon
them this year a 8 per cent in
| crease in the state levy.
The universally accepted basis
for taxation is ability to pay" and
TIE ownership of an equity in home
orfarm by no means indicates abil-
ity to pay. When 80 per cent of the
wealth of the state is escaping
taxation lis now exempt) it is
simple nonsenseto state that taxes
lost cannot be replaced and of our
Sc opponents are exaggerating the
losses.
Pertinent to this is the survey of
Homestead Tax Exemption made
under the supervision of Edward
b. Schmidt of the University of
Nebraska wherein it is shown that
from 27 typical school district of
Lancaster county, and average of
only 81 per cent is indicated. OPP
ponexts are claiming a loss of as
high as 40 per cent .
Replacement of losses in school
funds from other sources would be
a simple and easy matter. Some
forced economy and r equitable
assessments would make the adjust
ments in other tax divisions.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Five New Members
On Uni Faculty

President Rowland Haynes, Of
the University of Omaha, today an
nouncea the addition of five new
members to the faculty of the uni
versity. The new appointments are
as follows:
Dana /. Warren, A. B. and Phi. d.
from Yale, his appointed assist
ant professor Physics. A scholar
ship student at Yale and a member
of Phi Beta Kappa, DR.. Warren
has had an interesting career which
includes two years of teaching at
Doshisha university, Kyoto. Japan,
where he served as a missionary.
DIR. Warren was born in Japan. He
will live at 2431 Bauman street
with his wife and daughter, Betty.
Wilbur T. Meek, A. B. Princeton
and M. A. Columbia university, has
been appointed to the teaching
staff of the Economies department
to replace DR.. Harry Severson, who
is on leave of absence for a year
inconnection with a u. S. Govern
ment agency. Mr.. Meek is a gradu-
ate of Central high school and is a
member of the New York Chap IA,
American Institute of Banking.
William K. Noyce, whose ap-
pointment was announced last
spring, was appointed to the teach
ing staff of the Chemistry depart
ment. He has his A. B. from Doanc
college and his M. Sc. from the
University of Nebraska
Harry A. Rositzke, A. B. from
Union college, M. A. Harvard and
Phi. D. from Harvard, new assistant
professor of English, has held
many fellowships at Harvard in
GLIDING the University Fellowship F.;
the Harris Fellowship and the
Dexter Travelling Fellowship. He
is a Phi Beta appa and instructed
English at Union college. tutored
in English at Harvard. DR.. Rositzke
plans to do much research through
tests and recordings of midwestcrn
speech and dialect.
TCbert Huffman, assistant in
a:lrctor in Painting and Sculpture,
has his B. r. A. from Ohio State
university and has resi- led in Oma
has since September, t93i. An out
star i,ng athlete at college, he par
ticil ated in the Col t.a Gloves
tournament here last &intcr.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Dies After Assailant Hanged

St. Louis, Sept. % (ANP)-Nine
months after his assailant was
hanged in Louisiana last January,
Dan L. Perkins, white, geologist
and oil man of Shreveport, died
Wednesday at Barnes hospital Of
a gunshot wound inclicted in his
head at the time of the assault.
Perkins was shot August 10,
1886, with a shotgun fired by Tom
Howard, a neighbours employee. He
was convicted of shooting with in
tent to murder and rob, a capital
offense in Louisiana. Perkins I'M
derwent an operation, recovered
sufficiently to resume moderate
activity, but a brain abeess develop
ed and he was brought here to Bor-
nes hospital for treatment April
18th.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Con Men to Get Chain
Gang in Hots Springs

Hot Springs, Ark, Sept. %
~(ANP)-Confidence men and pick
pockets who planned to spend the
winter in Hot Springs were given
a tip to stay away Tuesday when
Mayor Leo P. Mclaughlin author
lied his police department to re-
establish a downtown chain gang
for such offenders who have al
ready started arriving to prey on
winter visitors.
The chain gang treatment for
petty offenders was inaugurated
last year. Those convicted in NUM-
cipal court, wearing large balls and
chains on their ankles, were put to
work sweeping the principal bust
ness streets. Mclaughlin said it
was effective.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22

Gomrade July Miles, 280S No.
2Sth street, also gave some inter-
esting points concerning the Civil
War and pre-Civil War perod.
MI. Miles was born in Mobile,
Alabama, So years ago, a slave. He
also fought during the Civil War.
At the age of II, Mr.. Miles ran
away from his owner, with five 9th
CT slaves and went down to the
Alabama Bay.
Forty-five years ago he made his
home in Omaha. He resides with
his wife, Mrs. Mary Miles, 23o8
No. Goth street.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Lambda Officers Resign

Now York, Sept. % amp
Mrs. F. K. Norman Williamson,
active, and energetic New Yorker,
rendered her resignation as region
al director of the Iota Phi Lambda
Sorority this week shortly after
the meeting of the national execu-
tive committee held in Washington
Mrs. Williamson was joined in her
action by Mrs. Mabel Hopkins, wife
of Claude Hopkins, the orchestra
leader. Mrs. Hopkins was second
vice president of the organization.
No reason for the retirement of
these officers was given.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
WOW and c vii War Vets
Join Guide in Emancipation Program

the WOW officials.
Mr.. c. C. Galloway
The Omaha Guide
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear SSir:
| wish TO thank your for your
courtesy IN asking for a copy of
the story we carried OF last nights
Newstower about emancipation
day. It is very flattering to receive
such communication, especially to
me, as I wrote It, and I am sure,
to Foster May. who gave it. l am
really very glad TO be able to send
you a copy of the story.
I also wish to thank YOU for
your gracious invitation to attend
your celebration. I have not spoken
to Mr.. May yet about the matter,
but | am sure we will both do our
utmost to arrange to be present
however, I do not as yet know
as yet what our working schedule
will be next Monday. We very
rarely know in advance just when
we will have a little free time.
And before I close, I wish TO
thank you and Miss Helen Childs,
on behalf of Mr.. May, the Station,
and myself for your cooperation in
putting on our special program
yesterday. I think it was a very
interesting program which should
have given many people an insight
into just what the Emancipation
Order meant.
Hanging you once again,
I beg to remain,
Sincerely yours,
Soren Munkhof
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Expect College Report Soon

Raleigh, N. c., Sept. % AMP
-Holt Mcpherson, white, editor of
a high point newspaper, is expected
to submit his report on conditions
at the Greensboro A. and T. College
by Oct. 1st, Gov. Roey declared
Thursday.
Mcpherson was appointed as an
outsider to investigate complaints
lodged by alumni of the institution
under the direction Of the board Of
trustees had failed to satisfy the
two alumni factions.
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22
Interview Civil
War Veterans
BY Helen Childs

Today, September 22nd, we are
concentrating the 74th anniver-
sary of the signing of the Emanci-
patton Proclamation by President
Lincoln, who "a years ago set four
million Negroes free from the bond
age of slavery.
Interesting facts pertaining to
their knowledge and experience of
slavery were related 10 your cor
respondent by the following. The
first to make a statement concern
ing slavery was Mr.. Josiah Wad-
dies, who resides at 2715 No. oath
street, Mr.. Waddle was born SO
years ago a slave in Springfield,
Mo-, and was a slave for Ia year.
lie was a slave of John Lier, also
his mother and four sisters and
brothers. He states that his master
was a hard man and beat him
many times. At the age of ID he
enlisted as a drummer boy in the
10th U. S. Infantry, composed of
Kansas Negro volunteers an. serv-
ed through the war getting through
the thick of the fight at TT. Gibson,
Cabin Creek, and Helena, Ark. He
got his name from j. Waddle who
owned his father, Thomas, before
the days Of freedom.
For the past 81 years, Mr.. Waddle
represented Omaha at the G. A. r
A few years ago he organized a
band under the moniker Of "Wad.
dies Ladies Concert Band composed
of IA colored girls from the ages
of Is 10 %, who were the grant
daughters and great grand daugh
ters of Civil War Veterans anC
former slaves.
Mr.. James Kennedy who is also
known as dad" Kennedy to many
Omahans, also related many inter
esting facts to your reporter. HI
lives at 2513 No. Goth street will
his wife and daughter. His exac
age is unknown, although he be
Eeves he was about Is years IL
when the Civil War broke out. II
was born in Sterling, Ky. Hi
mother and five brothers and sis
tiers were slaves on the plantatio.
of jim Kennedy. His father wa
sold about two months before hi
birth.
Mr.. Kennedy told Of his excitin
experience during the Civil Wa
when the Union Jackets came t
his house, the first shot that wa
fired frightened everyone, ever tn
dogs that he was so fond of. II
followed the dogs that ran out c
the house and went into a cellar f.
"safe keeping" where he stage
until all of the excitement ha
passed from the place.
Today we dedicate this colum
to u own Civil War veterans VIII
so bravely and courageously fougi
and endured the hardships of tn.
|, great and worthy battle, and keI
/, their trust in God, and came oil
more than victorious-a free ms
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22

Station WOW and b~roadeasting
staff joined with the Omaha Guide
Wednesday, in concentrating the
Emancipation Proclamation signed
BY President Abraham Lincoln, "a
years ago. The following is the
text of the Newstower Broadcast
and a letter received from one Of
The Omaha guide., 1937-09-22

Outside the Wine Palace at the
1889 Worlds Fair on San Francisco
Bay will be a growing sample of
each variety of CALIFORNIA; 226,000,
600 wine grape bearing vines.