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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-10-07

cit has always been INV .
tion," declares Elton r
that a man is Just abon
as the things that make NJ.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-10-07

Most Kennewick men usually out
crow their bad habits when such
habits aren't fun any longer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-10-07

AS A. F. Brown sees ~ =,
man who makes a cleannn Ve
Street and gets away WITH y \
janitor. u
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-10-07

There is talk of an entirely new
gross earnings tax on business. This,
coming on top of the present cor
poration income tax, the profits and
loss levy, the surplus tax and other
taxes, might make it impossible for
business to maintain expected divi-
dends, even in a time of heavy or
ders. There is no organized move
ment behind such a tax, however.
Business is worried about the gen.
eral tax policy, and about the con-
tinued government deficits which
will require heavy new taxes Of some
kind-unless an unlooked-for re-
trenchment in government spending
occurs.
In conclusion, it should be point
ed out that some experts feel that
the present business recession is less
important than it seems, that the
political and tax situation will work
out without doing too much damage
Best guess is: The short-term out
look for commerce is favorable and
the long-term outlook Is in the laps
of the gods.
According to Business Week OF
September 10, q dollar of earning
power could be bought for $11.49 at
that time, as against $18.17 a yeal
before.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

Moral SuaSion can be effec-
tive only when it is backed up
by a readiness to go to war.
Since all the people Of the
United States are anxious to
preserve neutrality and stay out
of any European war, the use Of
moral suaSion in a quarrel which
is no concern of ours is an act
of meddling. Or are we pre-
pared to follow up such med
ding with a show of arms?
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II was but recently that we
learned the lesson that the use
of moral force alone in the face
of an armed power is like toting
a toy pistol before a gunman.
Fortunately, President RooSe-
welt, in his capacity as Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy, was able
to find out early in his life
what moral Suasion CANNOT do
in an armed camp.
The recipe now applied by Am
bassador Dodd, professor of his
tory, was also tried out by an
other distinguished professor Of
history, Woodrow Wilson, in the
first year Of the World War,
and found wanting.
President Wilson adhered to
the theory Of moral suasion as
a means Of keeping us out OF
war. But the British and Ger
man navies in 1915, through
their illegal seizures Of American
ships. quickly disposed Of that
theory.
The arguments and diplomatic
representations by our State De-
partment proved Of no avail. It
was discovered that a moral at
titIde is inadequate to defend
the rights of a neutral among
nations run amuck.
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The experience Of President
Wilson was shared by Franklin
D. Roosevelt, who became con.
WINGED then that there is no
surer way Of inviting war than
to resort to moral SuaSion VITA
out being prepared to use armed
force.
Unless a nation is prepared to
defend its neutrality 1t cannot
maintain neutrality.
The alternative Is for the
United States to withdraw all its
vehicles of commerce from the
highways of the world, to bring
all Americans residing abroad
back home, to sever trade rela'
tions with all foreign nations,
and to retire into a rigid shell
Of complete isolation.
Even such an impracticable
course would not safeguard
America from attack by the
victor in any coming world war.
Long before Woodrow Wilson
learned how best to maintain
neutrality, George Washington
learned it during the NapoleoniC
wars and handed it down tc
posterity in these prophetic
words:
1.-THE most -incerc neutrality
is not q sufficient guard against
the depredatiOnS Of nations d
! war. To secure respect to . neu
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

were once as clear and def.
mite as the rules Of bridge.
But nowadays a girl has to
play it by intuition-and with
her fingers crossed.
Girls still continue to- read
all the advice on how to choose
a husband, even though the
choice" in an average WON.
ans life is about as limited as
that in a table d'hote menu.
So susceptible is the average
woman, that she would stick to-
q perfectly useless husband
forever. II he would Just re.
frain from saying How fat
you are!" and keep on saying
How cute you are!"
In some places, a man can
drink only when sitting down
in others only when stand
ing up. But to the woman
who's waiting for him to come
home to dinner, it doesn't
make the slightest difference
whether he does it sitting
down or balancing on his head.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
Carrier Boy Tour

THREE carrier boys of The Washington Times are
i fully deserving of the congratulations they are
receiving for having won by their good character and
general diligence, extensive tours of Europe as the
guests of William Randolph Hearst
The boys, John Alfred Nuhn, Otis Johnson and Her
bert Banks selected from all of the carriers of
The Times by series Of tests ending in examination
by committee of disinterested citizens.
The Times is proud of the manner in which the win
of the trips met the tests and glad to award them
an exceptional opportunity for study and pleasure.
To the members of the examining committee, who
had no particular interest in any boy and who gave
freely of their valuable time this newspaper grateful
The committee consisted of Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the Board of Education; James G.
Yaden president of the District Department of the
American Federation of Government Employees; Charles
NJ Fyfe, managing director of the Boys Club of Wash
ingon; Major Ernest W. Brown, head of the Metropo-
tan Boys Clubs and Francis G. Addison r. banker and
representative of the Washington Board of Trade.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
DO YOU BELIEVE IN WITCHCRA]

MO, it isn't a joke!
~ It's an honest-to-gOodness letter from real people
actually residing in San Antonio Tex, in this of
Lord 1887 And believe not they want to know whether
believe in wches And promise to base their settlement
of a family feud on my decision.
Dark and dire details are not given but penfuly
apparent between lines Your guess is as good as mne
has evidently been raising Cain with an erstwhe happy
home. Hence the queries:
DO you THINK THERE IS ANYTHING IN WITCH
Can people harm you by casting spells on your house or
person?
Can an outsider cause dissatisfaction between and
wife and cause them to divorce or separate?
"This is problem, and what problem it has become
in these past years My wife and will be waiting for your
answer We have to depend so much that we
promise to take your advice whatever it is and we hope
you will speak out and tell US right hard.
Do I believe in spellsH
Getting ready for good big bellylaugh, aren't you
stranger Better hold until you hear Which is
lido!
Yes F. believe in spells. What's more I've seen them
work I've person put The Evil Eye another person
and his homeland I'VE SEEN THAT EVIL EYE WORK.
each dreaded accident happen Just such accidents r be-
leves being 'wiled" upon him now. Hearts broken
homes wrecked happiness destroyed and regulations dragged
in the mud Yes have murder leap bloody and
horrible in answer to that secret CALL
Surely don't all this! I most surely do. And
will you if you'll stop and think For have seen spells
at well the dreadful harvest OF tnosS
spells" Every day. all around you they happening in
every fehappening surely though actual witches rode
real broomsticks devlish errands.
there aren't any wches9 No. there aren't any witches
in the literal physical Maybe there but
don't need them
WE CAN RAISE ENOUGH HE'LL OURSELVES! WE
CAN MAKE OUR OWN VOODOO SPELLS OUT OF OUR
OWN SECRET HATE AND ENVY, JEALOUSY AND
GREED . . OUT OF OUR OWN UNCONTROLLED FEAR.
-. WE CAN AND WE DO BREW BLACK MAGIC MORE
POTENT THAN ANY WITCH EVER KNEW.
And that is what's happening not only to these trusting
frightened folk in San Antonio but to millions of seemingly
educated and enlightened modern Americans HATE builds
its evil Eye surely in New York Chicago and San Fran
cisco as it ever did the Jungle And FEAR gives
it the power it seeks.
Yes, F, spells ARE being woven round you reaching
out to hurt and destroy home the spell OF some
ones POISONOUS DESIRE AND HATE.
But no spell earth harm you and your WIFE, UNLESS
YOUR OWN FEAR GIVES 1T POWER. Hate can't touch
you unless you believe in it. Jealousy can't break your
hearts if you keep those hearts closed against it.
that goes surely for you and stranger as 1t does
for poor frightened F.
Copyright Features Syndicate 1no9
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

some Of his statements. For
instance, he told the COM
mittee:
"The personal property tax
doesn't raise revenue. It raises
q race Of liars"
He evidently joins with the
school that the District tax
collection Is not so good on
intangibles and personal prop
erty, for a moment later he
waved a personal property re-
turn blank and declared:
Thursday, I'm going down
to the District Building to
make out my tax blank and it
will be the lOnelieSt day in
the year for me. Very few
others will go down there and
tell the truth like I'm going
to-"
Some Of those present
thought his statement was Q
plC exaggerated.
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HERE Is ONE ExPLANA"
TON:
Some people are wondering
how the newspapers were able
to print pictures of the
activities on Jefferson Island
when newSmen and photo
snatcherS were barred.
One OF the photographers
says that a picture service
bought 10 81 cameras, loaded
them with film and gave them
to 10 friendly members Of
Congress with the hope that
out of the 10, one would be
lucky or smart enough to
make a picture that would
stand the test of reproduction.
When the members arrived at
Annapolis after the island visit:
the cameras were collected ana
some of them were worth print
ing.
JUST A FRIENDLY WARM
ING!
Quite a few people working
at the Capitol here found that
in driving to and from work
they can make good time by
using the Mall drives. Some Hind
it's pretty open travelling ana
they can make more than the
law allows. But it's liable TO
cause grief now.
A light delivery truck with
a driver who also thought It
was all right to do above %
started down the drive late one
afternoon. At the first inter-
section there was q policeman
on q motorcycle. The truck fol.
lowed the mounted cop well
within the law for the first
block, Here, the policeman
turned off to the right. Inc
truck speeded UP.
The policeman in the mean
time had just gone down to
the next drive running parallel
to the one on which the truck
was speeding and paced him
for the length Of the drive
caught him and was asking
about the necessity for speed,
etc., when I passed him. fore
warned and very cautiously keep
ing well below %.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
The Senate and Taxes

WHATEVER kind of tax bill may finally be
w adopted for the District Washingtonians will
have the consolation of knowing that the Senate Dis
trict Committee has attempted to solve the local fiscal
problem in reasonable and sensible manner.
If the House had been governed by the same prln-
cples of Justice and the National Capital would
not be embarking on new fiscal year today without
knowledge of how it is going to meet the deficit to be
created by the authorized 1888 spending
Senate consideration of the legislative monstrosity
which the House passed got off to suspicious start
when the Senate committee promptly eliminated the
indefensble punitive tax on chain stores.
REMOVAL OF THIS PROVISION FROM THE
BILL DEMONSTRATED THAT SENATOR WILL
LIAM H. KING AND HIS COLLEAGUES ON THE
COMMITTEE ARE SEEKING TO INCREASE THE
REVENUE OF THE DISTRICT, NOT TO VENT
THEIR PERSONAL OR POLITICAL SPLEEN ON
GROUPS AND CLASSES IN A VoTELEss COM
MUNITY
Continuance of this spirit the part of the commit
tee and of the Senate whole will mean that the
city will in the end get tax bill that is tax bill and
not political weapon wearing the disguise of a
measure.
It u.s. of course too much to expect that the tax bill
as finally enacted will be satisfying to all people.
Naturally tax bill would please all, and certainly
no bill imposing taxes on people without the right
to vote on the measure could be received with any de-
gree of pleasure.
The fact however that the Senate has given the resi-
dents the city chance to be heard after such chance
denied by the House will tend to improve the
ception which the measure will receive when enacted
Many suggestions have been given to the Senate
committee.
Nearly all of them vast improvements the
tax schedule passed by the House.
Many of them would reduce to minimum the addi-
tional burden which would be imposed Washington
fanrn of CONGRESS- annronriate funds
to meet the Federal Governments obligation to its
National Capital.
The preliminary action of the Senate committee ndi
Gates happily that that group will try to find the least
oppressive program which will meet the actual
need of the community.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

trail flag requires : nava! force,
organized and ready to Vindicate
it from insult or aggression.
This may even prevent the ne
necessity Of going to war"
This warning is as true today
as it was when first uttered. II
anything, the spectacle of the
Old World today brings it home
to us more poignantly than
ever.
Since George Washington sum-
married. the lesson Of his eX-
perience for us, the movement
for world peace developed among
the civilized nations. But along
side of pacificism, militarism
made even more powerful strides
forward.
In the days Of George Wash
ington militarism was a class
profession. It was a dynastic
weapon. Today militarism is q
mass psychoSis. It is a weapon
Of peoples in uniform.
If the tyrannies Of the age Of
Washington were not amenable
to reason and moral persuasion,
the modern relationships are
even less so.
While Woodrow Wilson had to
learn from experience the lesson
which Washington passed down
to the country, he never com.
pletely unlearned his predilec-
ton for moral Suasion. It Is q
prediction which Ambassador
Dodd presumably possesses. No
good can come Of it. The time
to preach to Europe is long
since gone.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

Representative Nichols said he
was never much impressed by
this argument because when the
Government takes over a piece
of land they build a big building
on it and fill it with employees
who pour their salaries into the
city and more than make up for
the loss Of taxation.
Senator Copeland said he
didn't want to indulge in any
prophecies, but what was the
District going to do when the
big buildings are empty. Senator
William H. King Immediately re-
torted:
"That'I never happen"
BENJAMIN C. MARSH who
identified himself as "just a
taxpayer" in his testimony at
the Senate District tax hear
ings was quite vigorous in
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
Bravery Is Not Enough

TAPT. B. H. LlDDEL HART an Engishman, is one of
~ the foremost military critics of his time
He has studied the capture of Bilbao by the Spanish
rebel forces and finds caused by "a decisivey SUI
perior technical appliance -the airpane
useless he says for the Basques to attempt to
hold their trenches and fortified positions when they could
be and were bombed from them by the air.
Victory when the rebels obtained mastery of the
air and sent the superior technical appliances" to
which the defenders had reply.
AS military critic, Capt. Lddel Hart takes into little
consideration the old strengths in war-bravery fighting
spirit the will win Because unless backed by modern
'materiel' they cannot prevail.
What prevails is the machne-and notably the air.
plane
Spain, not LIKE Spain.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

Perhaps, in their heart Of
hearts, they miss the exiled. gay
Edward, but the thrill is there
Just the same, for o presentar
ton at the British court is the
nearest thing to a title Of no
bility that can come to IN
American woman, short Of mar"
rage with a foreign nobleman.
We may be a democratic
country but our ladies adore
the social prestige that comes
from being presented at a royal
court. It's an old English Gus
tom, this being presented at
court. And yet it never Stales
in the eyes Of Londoners: nor.
it seems, in the eyes OF thelr
cousins across the water.
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At every such ceremony there
is always an enormous gallery.
The commoners Of London are
invariably out en- maSSe along
the Mall leading to the gates
of Buckingham. They are there
early and by the scores OF
thousands, standing four and
five deep and feasting their eyes
on the young ladies who sit IN
their limousines expecting to be
stared at, and certainly are
stared at, while they wait for
the hours to pass and Big Ben
at Westminster to toll $3.50,
which is the time for the open
ing Of the palace gates.
Then is the reward for the
early corners They are able TO
get the vantage points in the
great picture gallery OF the pal.
ace through which, at $3.50, and
to the strains Of God Save the
King" George the Sixth and
Queen Mary, in state robes, lead
the procession into the grand
ballroom, where the court Is to
be held.
1u6 pd1HOO1n OCSOPAOS oAA0 SAA
tire west wing Of the palace. an
apartment magnificent and mas
sive. It is q cathedral interior
with a dais, and with the royal
canopy and thrones taking the
place Of the altar. Red Is the
dominant color of the walls and
the hangings, and huge white
and gilt candelabra provide the
illumination Of the gorgeous
scene.
Outside, in the picture gallery,
await the hundred and more
ladies In white court dress, three
white feathers in their hair
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

holding their white feather rams
and their four feet of train. Ana
yet they also serve and only
stand and wait while the diplo-
matte corps is received by their
Britannia Majesties. After that
one of the moments supreme IN
the life of each of the ladies to
be presented.
One by one the Lord Cham
berlain calls out their Names
and one by one, in stately steps,
they make their way from the
doorway into the glittering ball
room and over before the
thrones curtsy for the King,
a curtsy for the Queen. That
is all: there isn't any more.
They have been received at the
Court of st. James. And not
est. James," if you please LOT
Henry the Eighth was the one
who cut off that final super
fluouS IS"
Formal enough, you will say,
but nothing like the tormallty
of even Victoria's time. Then
the presentations were in the
afternoon, and four curtsleS
were required, and everyone
stood throughout the long cere.
mony. The queen bows ABOUT
twenty times = minute through
the entire three-hour ceremony:
and the Kings bow, q no1 OF
his head, is noticed about ten
times a minute.
incidentally, the King has to
endure none Of the handshaking
ordeals which fall to the lot OF
an American President. For the
King, according to custom.
shakes hands only with peers
of the realm, with foreign oIn-
bassadors, and clergy Of the
established church.
And now, in case there are
some ladies who might have am
billions toward making two curt
sizes at the Court Of st. James,
let them remember that the
few seconds Of splendor are pre-
ceded by months Of heArt,break-
ing preparation, even after the
Lord Chamberlain has granted
the request Of the American
Embassy that they be sum-
moned before their Gracious
Majesties.
But why bring this up? Try
to stop the lady who has the
chance to curtsy at st. James!
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

SAS SS' NS>@~~~ .
vanity.
Better an evening at home
with q lively book than a
stalled OK and champagne at
a night club with a deadly
bore.
There are lots of things that
a pretty girl can do to wreck
her looks and kill ner charms
besides skinning her hair back
of her ears and wearing a
Ounce cap for a hat-but none
funnier or more effective.
To be too attractive makes a
girl talked about. But II she
can Just get herself TALKED
about, she doesn't need to be
attractive. The men will come
around anyway.
In her teens, a woman looks
forward to love; in her TWEEN.
ties she expects it; in her thir-
ties, she strives to inspire it
and, after forty, she cynically
open her purse-StringS and pre-
pares to buy a good imita-
ton.
The rules Of the love-game
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

C o p e a n d
a S k e d tn Q
R e pr esenta-
tive if some
consideration
shouldn't b e
given to the
fact that the
Federal Gov"
ern m ent is
taking ov e r
some very val.
liable land in
the city which
being tax free
cuts into the
city'S re v e..
mics.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
Keeping Out of War
BIZ Isaac Don Levine

HAT long forgotten phrase Moral Suason, has bobbed up
again in the vocabulary of American diplomacy in the
face of the menace of another European conflict
Ambassador William E. Dodd representing the United
States in Germany reported have xerted moral suason
upon Berlin effort to restrain it from
committing an act of in Spain.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
The Human Side of the News
Blu Edwin C.. Hill

TINE day of July redetter day the lives Of four
teen American women for this day they presented
at the Court James make their curtsies to the King
and Queen ON their thrones in Buckingham Palace.
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
Marry Go Round
By Helen ROUlGI1d

TNRAFFIC RULE FOR LOVE- Never try to head off man
who determined to get past you Give him the road
and save yourself from big jolt and lot of dents your
The Washington times., 1937-07-01
The Greatest Show on Earth
Ru Frank Miller Smith

LWAYS loyal to the District, Senator Royal s. Cope
n land took little dig at Representative Jack Nichols
at the District tax hearings that raises possibility anyway
The Washington times., 1937-07-01

In discussing the fiscal rela-
lions between the District and
Federal government, Senator