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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Butter-and-Eggs, Weed

buttcr.8n0-EgBS, WceU
Butter-and-eggs or yellow toad
fax is common wayside weed with
yellow and orange flowers. In colo
NAL times it was planted in gardens
and sometimes was boiled wit
milk for a fly poison. It is some
times called wild snapdragon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07

Mrs. ]. S. Kennett returned on
Tuesday after two weeks visit with
her daughter at Harrington.
Kennewick Valley Grange enter
tanned Locust Grove and Columbia
Valley Grange Friday evening with
a negro minstrel and refreshments.
Wilson Talbot is home from w.
S. c. to spend the spring vacation
from the LIST to the 18th of April.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society Of the Methodist church
met Tuesday with Mrs. G. G..
Campbell.
The first division of the M. E. Aid
Society will meet Wednesday, April
Is at the home of Mrs. Dan Beegle.
The Samaritan Bible class of the
M. E. Sunday school will hold the
regular monthly social Friday eve
ming at the church with a pot-luck
dinner at $50.
Theo Lampson and Norma Berg
helped Eunice Campbell celebrate
her birthday last Friday night
when she entertained twelve girls at
a slumber party in her fathers
tourist park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Collins have moved
into the house owned by A. J.
Thompson, known as the old Tuttle
place.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07

Birthstone Corner War Relic
Old Birthstone corner, in Boston,
Is said to have been so named be.
cause OF the birthstone used in max
ing gmpowder being stored in the
church during the War of 1872.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
The Julian Aims

The Julian Alps is range of the
Carnic Alps between Yugo-
slavia and Italy, with charming val
leys and lakes comparable in seen
cry to the Alps of Switzerland
Mount Triglav is the highest peak
and Lake Bled, in the range. is a
summer resort.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Admiral Nelson Lost Eve. Arr

Admiral Nelson Lost Eye, Arm
Admiral Nelson lost his right eye
during the battle Of Calvi; not long
afterward, in an assault on Santa
Cruz, he received a wound which
made the amputation Of his right
arm necessary.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07

Warming Pans Made Of Silver
Warming pans, usually thought OF
as having a copper or brass pan.
were sometimes made of silver and
one such is recorded as having been
offered to Samuel Pepys.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
CARDS OF THANKS

We wish to express our apprecia-
ton for the kindness, sympathy and
for the floral offerings at the time
of the demise of our beloved hus-
band, Frank Viles.
Mrs. Viles and family.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
About Our Faults

''Dar ain many of u.s." said Uncle
Eben, 80 free from fault dat we
cen take chance on de argument
dat could start If we tell other peo-
pie bout their'n."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Cities Built on Islands

Cities built on islands include At.
lantic City, N. j.: Key West, Fla.
New York City, Venice, Italy; Am
sterdam, Netherlands; Stockholm.
Sweden; Singapore; Portsmouth.
England; Hammerfest, Norway;
Flushing, Netherlands; Leningrad.
Russia.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Harpooned Whales Dive Deep

HarpOOned Whales Dive Deep
Harpooned whales have been
known to dive to a depth Of 5000
feet, where the pressure of water is
more than ton per square inch.
In fact, says Golfers Weekly. one
once plunged downward for more
than mile and broke its upper
jaw by the impact on the floor
Of the ocean.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Junior Auxiliary
Ito Be Entertained
with Easter Party

KENNEWICK VALLEY - Mes
danes F.. E.. Sands and Ben VAN
Patten are entertaining the Junior
Auxiliary of the Legion at an East
er Party Friday afternoon, April 8.
All daughters of Legionnaires are
invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Books Of Ancient Egypt

-s BOOKS OF Ancient ESypt
In ancient Egypt and Babylonia,
books were not valued SO much for
new ideas or knowledge they con-
tanned as for the old, time-tried lore
they preserved.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Tea Leaf for Salad

-: Tea Leaf for Salad
The Chinese consume their tea
as we do. generally speaking. but
they also use certain virgin vari-
ETY. of tea leaf as a salad.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Seattle Trip Is
Enjoyed by
|RivervieW Seniors

FINLEY-Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Benson, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold With
am and children accompanied by
the seniors of the high school, spent
the weekend in Seattle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Small Boy Suffers
Burns on Face

Paul Rhea, small son of Rev. and
Mrs. Rhea, was badly burned Sum-
day afternoon when he bumped in
to his brother, who was carrying
a teakettle of hot water and spill
ed the boiling water over his face
and shoulder, The last reports are
that he is recovering rapidly.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Richland News Items

Residents Of Rland and vicinity invited to give their dc1
publicity informing the correspondents in the neighbor
hood Of the happenings in the community.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-04-07
Mrs. BerthOlet's Yarn
& Knit Shop

Free Style Show-modeling of knit
garments from Chicago.
Saturday Afternoon, 3 pm. at K. of
p. Lodge Hall, Pasco, Wash.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

On, the little old red schoolhouse
on the hill,
Oh. the little old red schoolhouse
on the hill,
And my heart with JOY Ger
flows,
Like the dew drop in the rose,
Thinking of the little old red
schoolhouse on the hill!
tFrom The Male Quartets Compen-
dunn
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25
Again The School Bell Rings Out
For 100000 Young Americans

They're Going Building That's Vastly Different from e Little
Which Books Teaching
But the Spirit of School Days" the Same Throughout the Years
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ONE Monday morning
during the next two or
three weeks, more than
26,000,00O young Americans
will be streaming along our
country roads or through
the streets of our villages,
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

are to come in, is setting to the
schoolhouse. Oh, what is mar
tial glory, what is conquest of an
empire, what is statecraft along
side of this? Happy is the people
that is in such a easel"
If indeed within the walls of
the Little Old Red Schoolhouse"
(symbol of all our free schools)
there lies, as Wood says, 1.-The
secret of our nations greatness,
then one of our greatest national
heroes should be the man who,
hundred years ago, had just
started to carry the gospel of
free schools throughout one state.
For after winning his campaign
in that state, his ideal spread
eventually to all the others.
Horace Mann was his name.
Born near Franklin, Mass, on
May 4, 1895, Mann's youth was a
bitter struggle to get the rudi-
ments of an education. He nev-
er attended school for more than
10 weeks in any single year up
to the age of fifteen and he had to
braid straw in his fathers farm
house to get enough money to
buy his books.
Mann worked his way through
Brown university, also through
law school at Litchfeld, Conn,
graduated, hung out his shingle
and soon built up a prosperous
law practice. He went into poll
tics, was elected to the state SEN
ate and chosen president of that
body. And then on June 1, 1887,
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C Western Newspaper Union.

secret of our nations greatness,
take your stand some winters
morning just before nine o'clock
when you can overlook a circle
of some two or three miles ra-
dius, the center being the Old
Red Schoolhouse. You will see
little figures picking their way
along the miry roads, blowing
through the deep drifts, cutting
across the fields, all drawing to
the schoolhouse, Bub in his wam-
mus and his cowhide boots, his
cap with earlaps, knitted COM
forter about his neck; and little
Sis, in a thick shawl, trudging
along behind him, stepping in his
tracks. They chirrup Good
morning, sir!' AS far as you can
see them you have to watch them
and something rises in your
throat. Lord love en-! Lord love
the childreni
And then it comes to you, and
it makes you catch your breath
to think of it, that every two or
three miles all over this land,
wherever there are children at
all, there is the Old Red School
house. At this very hour a liv-
ing tide, upbearing the hopes and
PRAYERS of God alone knows how
many loving hearts, the tide on
which all of our longed-for ships
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ry facilities, all were emphasized
in his lectures and in his writ
ings.
Mann was influential in getting
his state to establish the first nor
NAL school in the United States
at Lexington which opened its
doors July 3, 1889, to three young
women.
Within the next decade Massa-
chusetts spent more than $4,000
900 on school buildings and equip
ment and had established so new
public high schools. Gradually
Mann's influence spread through
other states and by 1843, when
he was ready to retire from this
work and return to a political
career Che was elected to con-
gress to succeed John Quincy Ad-
ams), the public school move
ment was gaining impetus all
over the United States and Mann
was national figure.
Today the first object one sees
when he approaches the Massa-
chusetts statehouse in Boston is
statue of this pioneer educator.
And not without good reason is
there a bust of him in the Hall
of Fame at New York university.
among those of statesmen, au-
thors, artists, inventors, explor-
ers and military heroes. None of
them bears prouder inscription
than that which is written below
his. It is: "The common school
is the greatest discovery ever
made by man." For that was the
credo of Horace Mann.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

detailed sew chart included in eacn
pattern, how quickly and easily
you can finish them. You don't
need experience. Even beginners
enjoy working with these simple
patterns.
Tailored Dress of Pique.
If your daytime wardrobe needs
replenishing for the remainir :
weeks of summer, make this nice
tailored dress of pique or gingham,
and see how refreshed and COM
Portable you'll feel. Later on.
wear it for fall in challis, jersey.
or flat crepe. The short sleeves,
easy Waistline and action pleats
in the skirt make this dress very
easy to work in-and the deeply
notched collar and patch pockets
give it finish enough so that it is
appropriate for street wear, too.
Tiny-Waisted Afternoon Dress.
Here's the type of dress that all
important fashion sources show
for fall! The shaped, rather high
square neckline, the short sleeves,
pulled at the top, the gathers that
give you fiattering bust fullness
and the very. very small waist
these are all new notes. Just five
steps, too, in the sew chart. For
immediate wear, make it up in
dotted Swiss or voile. Your fall
version should be(thin wool, crepe
de chine or rayon jersey.
The Patterns.
No. 1862 is designed for sizes "a,
36, 38, 40, AZ, "A and 46. Size 36 re-
quires 44 yards of 39-inch ma
terial
No. 1861 is designed for sizes II,
IA, 16, 18 and 20. Size IA requires
Az yards of 39-inch material; ia
yards ribbon for belt.
Success in Sewing.
Success If sewing, like success
in any other field, depends upon
how you approach the task in
hand. To help you turn out clothes
professional looking in every de-
tail, we have book which plainly
sets forth the simple rules of home
dressmaking. The beginner will
find every step in making a dress
clearly outlined and illustrated
within its covers. For the expert
enced sewer there are many help
full hints and suggestions for sew
ing short cuts. Send Is cents lin
coins) today for your copy of sue
CESS IN SEWING, a book every
home dressmaker will find of
value
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, Room 1920,
211 w. Wacker Dr., Chicago, III.
Price of patterns, IS cents Tin
coins) each.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
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he did an amazing thing
He gave up his law practice
and his position in the state SEN
ate to become secretary of the
newly created Massachusetts
board of education. Foolish and
visionary" even his best friends
called him, ''to barter his pros
poets for political life for a post
where returns are so small and
where his efforts are spent in rid
ing from county to county looking
after the welfare of children who
will never know whence the bene-
fit came.
But Mann, the visionary,
thought differently about that.
At that time the Massachusetts
public schools, although they had
been in existence nearly two cen
turies, were in a pitiful condi-
ton. One third Of the common
wealth'S children had no educa-
tional opportunities whatever.
The new secretary began his
work with little encouragement
from the authorities of his state.
But he was undaunted by this
fact. For the next 10 years he
worked increasingly to carry the
gospel of free schools throughout
Massachusetts. Better buildings,
qualified teachers, longer terms,
efficient teaching methods, libra
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

Back during the World war. tear
gas was one of the weapons of
military offense. Many a crucial
objective was gained while its de-
tenders were weeping. helplessly.
But next year. perhaps, tear gas
will find a new use and one far
removed from violence. II will
help produce weed-free putting
greens for the nations golfersl
j. A. DeFrance. of the Rhode
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25
GAS, ONCE WEAPON, NOV KILLS WEEDS

Island experiment station, traces
the use of tear gas to kill weeds
back to the shell-battered No
Mans Land of France.
In the present practice the soil
destined for the green is placed
In a large box and several holes
drilled in the earth. Down each
hole are poured a few drops OF
liquid tear gas. a canvas cover
applied and left for two days
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25
Smart Dresses for
Now and Later On

HERE are two perfectly charm
ing fashions that will fill
definite place in your life if you
make them up Immediately n
pretty cotton or cool silk. And they
are so perfectly in key with flu
ture fashions that you should by
all means repeat them later III
fall and winter materials. You'll
be surprised, when you study the
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

towns and cities and all of
them will have a common
objective-the school house.
For it is the "first day of
school" and across the broad
expanse of these United
States thousands of schools
will be swinging wide their
doors to receive the mem
bers of this youthful. army
who are coming to take
their places in renovated
and refurbished classrooms
to begin another year of
learning.
As Mother watches Bud and
Sis bustling away between eight
and nine o'clock on that Monday
morning, perhaps she will find
herself humming the tune of that
old song quoted above. Of course,
she realizes that it isn't little
old red school house on the hill"
any longer. It's been replaced
by a more modern structure that
is painted white and has, per-
hapS, over the door a little name
plate which tells the passer-by
that this is a Standard School" ;"
Or it may be big brick or stone
edifice-a modern consolidated
school" for the children of num-
Der of districts.
And there have been other
changes, too-in equipment, in
the books the children study, in
the teaching methods. For we
have ''gone modern" in our
schools as in every other phase
of contemporary life. And yet,
for all these transformations,
there's something unchanging,
timeless, eternal. about school
days"
That's why Mother smiles to
herself as she softly huns that
old tune In Bud and Sis, as
they trudge away to school, she
sees herself as she was in those
halcyon days which now seem so
very. very far away-the days
of her own childhood. And for a
little moment she drinks deep
once more at the Fountain of
Youth!
But quite aside from our senti-
mental attachment to the Little
Old Red Schoolhouse on the Hill"
as the symbol of an era in
American life that is gone for
ever, there is another reason for
our regarding it with something
akin to reverence. In his "Back
Home" sketches (first published
In the old McClure's Magazine
and later collected in book form)
Eugene Wood wrote this interpre-
tation of the social significance
of the Little Old Red School
house:
Perhaps it wasn't little, or
old, or red, or on a hill. It
might have been big and new,
and built of yellow brick, right
next to the Second Presbyterian,
and hence close to the branch"
so that the spring freshets food
ed the playground, and the water
Tapped the base of the big rock on
which we played King on the
Castle'-the big rock so pitifully
shrunken of late years. But no
matter what the facts are. sing
of the Old Red Schoolhouse on
the Hill and in everybody's heart
9 chord trembles in unison-we
are brethren knitted together into
one living solidarity. And lhis,
if we but sensed it, is the Union
of which the federal compact is
but the outward seeming. It is
a union in which they have nei-
ther art nor part whose parents
sent them to private schools. so
as not to have them associate
with that class of people. It is
the really truly Union.
Ii you would learn in fact the
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-08-25

And heard the tremble of her
voice
As if a fault confessing.
I'm sorry that I spelt the word,
l hate to go above you,
Because" se"-the brown eyes lower
Because, you see. love you"
Still memory to a gray-haired
man
That sweet child-face is show
ing,
Dear girl, the grasses on her
grave
Have forty years been grow
ing.
He lives to learn, in life's hard
school,
How few who pass above him,
Lament their triumph and his
loss,
Like her-because they love
him.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Back of that poem, one of the
most famous in the English lam
guage, is this story:
1t was written by Whittier for
the magazine, Our Young Folks,
when Lucy Larcom was editing
it. She had sent Whittier several
pictures with the request that he
write verses to accompany them.
Thereupon he replied:
Dear Friend Lucy: | could not
make verses for the pictures but
l send thee herewith a bit, which
| am sure is childish, if not child
like. Be honest with it, and if it
seems too spoony for a grave
Quaker like myself don't compro-
mise by printing it. When l get
a proof I may see something to
mend or mar.
Thine truly, J. G. W."
However, Miss Larcom did not
think it ''too spoony" and evi-
dently when Whittier received a
proof of it he did not find in it
anything to "mend or mar" So
it was printed in Our Young
Folks and Immediately became
popular. Later Whittier confessed
that he was the little boy in the
poem and that the little girl, who
had so naively confessed the rea-
son why she was sorry that she
had spelled correctly the word
that had sent her above him to
the head of the class, was Lydia
Aver.
Whittier died in 1892. Ten years
after his death the manuscript of
his poem, together with the letter
which he wrote Lucy Larcom
about it, was sold for $540. Other
manuscripts of his poems were
sold at the same time and
brought more than $4,000. This
money was used to keep up the
old Whittier homestead near Ha-
verhill, Mass, his birthplace and
the scene of his immortal Snow
bound
This homestead has been made
into a Whittier museum with all
of its furnishings remaining as
he described them. Visitors there
today may see, among the other
relics of the Quaker poet, a sam
pier made by Lydia Aver, the
loyal little friend who had said
to him Il hate to go above you"
On this faded square of cloth
are embroidered the words:
And must the body die?
This mortal frame decay?
And must these active limbs of
mine
Lie mouldering In the clay?"
There was something singularly
prophetic about that poem which
little Lydia's patient hands had
embroidered upon her sampler.
For she died soon afterwards at
the age of eleven. But in the
hearts of thousands of Ameri-
cans, who may not know her
name but who do know the poem
written by the friend of her child
hood, she lives forever.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
PROPOSES AVIATION
BE PUT UNDER|.C.C.
Senator Truman Believes Post
Office Department Dominance
Should End.

Domestic airmail now is yielding
Once Department dominance over
Office Department and dominance over
air transportation should be relaxed,
Senator Truman, Democrat, of Mis-
souri, said today in advocating reeu-
lation of airlines by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Senator Truman was chairman of a
subcommittee of the Senate Committee
on Interstate Commerce which has
favorably reported the McCarran-Lea
bill to transfer control of airline
operations from the Commerce De-
partment to the I. c. c.
The airmail must not continue to
dominate aviation, but must take its
place as merely one of several factors
passengers. express, service to cities
and especially the national defense"
Senator Truman said.
Under I. c. C. regulation, Mr.. Tru
man declared, the broad principle of
public convenience and necessity
would govern the management of air.
line affairs. The change is needed, he
said. to remove present restraints
which are seriously hampering the
alr transport industry in its efforts to
cope with the present business re-
cession.''
Evening star., 1938-01-03
RULE OVER PRESS
HIT BY ACKERMAN
DictatoriaI Control Perils
World Peace, Columbia
Dean Declares.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Dean Carl
". Ackerman of the Columbia Uni
versity School OF Journalism today
denounced dictatorial control of the
press as a black plague" threatening
world peace.
Dean Ackerman, reported to Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
the university. on his world study of
the growth of censorship and sup
preston, declared:
1T is significant, I think, that no
nation where the press is free from
governmental control is today directly
involved in the war in Spain or China.
Where there is freedom of thought
and expression" he added, "as in the
British commonwealth, Switzerland,
Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Argentina and the United States, the
national state of mind toward inter-
national relationships is as different
from the present situation in Brazil,
Russia, Italy, Germany and Japan as
day from night"
Dean Ackerman said peace between
nations could not exist unless peo-
pies are education day by day to be-
come familiar with international re-
lations and to understand their i'm
port and influence upon domestic life
and conditions.
This cannot be accomplished ex-
cept through the freedom of the
agencies of communication"
He said the character of news from
the United States had led to doubts
in ctator-ruled contries of the abil-
ity of democratic governments to face
the dangers of internal disorder and
war.
News of the industrial warfare in
the United States this year has had
a profound influence wherever print
ed" he said.
1T is doubtful whether any other
news subject telegraphed from the
United States has been so injurious
to democracy. Combined with the dis
tribution of crime news, this flow of
evidence of the difficulties of a great
and powerful democracy has had the
effect of slowly undertaking conf
dence in the efficacy of democratic
Institutions"
Evening star., 1938-01-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Today.
Dinner and card party, 500 Club
Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Kismet Council, Roval
Arcanum, 1Ol5 L street NV, 8 pm.
Tomorrow.
Meeting, Oriental Council. Roval
Arcanum, 1015 L street NV, 8pm.
Meeting, Electrical Contractors As
sociation. Pepco Building, 8 pm.
Meeting, American Federation of
Government Employees, Hamilton Hotel,
spm.
Meeting, Progress Club, Hamilton
Hotel, pm
Meeting, Stenographers, Typists and
Bookkeepers, Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Hamilton Club, Hamilton
Hotel, pm
Meeting, st. David's Society, Powell
Junior High School, Lamont street and
Hyatt place NV, 8 pm.
Meeting, War Department Local No.
26l. N. F. F. E., 7l0 Fourteenth street
NV, 8pm.
Meeting, Pan-Hellenic Association,
ehoreham Hotel, 8:15 pm.