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Evening star., 1939-02-28
|Sistie Dali
develops a
|FomN Talent

Washington is telling an amusing
story about Sistie Dali, favorite
grandchild of President Roosevelt.
The facts leaked out from the school
attended by Sistie, it was revealed
today by Look magazine in an arti-
Gle on Mrs. Roosevelt and her
grandchildren.
Sistie, a White House resident for
three years, was sitting in class,
sticking out her tongue.
why, Sistie, what are you do
ing?" asked the teacher.
I'm trying to touch the tip of
my nose with the tip of my tongue"
replied Sistie, unabashed. MY
grandfather can do it, and my
grandmother can do it, and my
mother can do it. And now I'm
practicing so I can do It,"
Evening star., 1939-02-28

varied monopolistic practices in 13
different industries
Some of them," he said, directly
affect the consumers, others provide
materials to a multitude of small
industries, and still others are of
primary interest to the producers of
raw materials who must sell In
market where monopolies are the
only buyers. Cases Of double mo-
nopoly occur, where the industry
controls both the raw material
prices which it pays and the prices
at which it sells its product.
These examples will also indi-
cate the fact that at times raw
material may pass through several
layers of monopoly before reaching
the final consumer, who must pay
the costs of all these interferences
with competitive trade. Finally, the
commission has selected examples
Of both large and small industries,
to illustrate the fact that bigness
and monopoly, although often re-
lated, are not always found to-
gether"
AS this latest phase of the Monopoly
Committees inquiry got under way,
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission announced its investment
banking section has begun a study of
the distribution of certain public
offerings of securities during 1898.
In connection with this study,
the S. E. c. addressed letter to
security dealers and underwriters
who participated in these offerings,
requesting data which would show
the geographical distribution of the
securities and the types of pur-
chases to whom they were sold.
This project carries forward the
investment banking sections study
of the private placement of securi-
ties which was announced by the
monopoly Committee January 27.
1899. 1t forms a part of a larger
study of the investment banking
process, capital formation, savings
and their impact upon the capital
markets, which the commission is
undertaking.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Nathan Sternberq
Ended Own Life,
Coroner Declares
Hundreds Near Auto
When Realty Broker
Fired FutuI Shot

Nathan Sternberg, 53-year-old
real estate broker, found shot to
death in his automobile at Con-
necticut avenue shopping center late
yesterday, was declared a suicide
today by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
Hundreds of late rush-hour shop
perS were near the automobile when
Mr.. Sternberg, who lived with his
wife at Cathedral Mansions. 5000
Connecticut avenue NV, fired a 49,
caliber bullet through his heart.
A former business associate, Har-
old X. Acker, 81, of 7542 Fourteenth
street NV, had driven Mr.. Stern
berg's car into a filing station at
350l Connecticut avenue NV. and
had gone into the wash room. He
left his friend in the back seat of
the car.
David H. King. manager of the
station, said he saw Mr.. Sternberg
shifting about" in the back seat
and when he turned toward the car
a few minutes later he did not see
him.
When Mr.. Acker returned to the
car he found the doors locked and
Mr.. Sternberg slumped in the back
seat. After forcing the door, he
discovered a revolver on the floor
OF the car and blood was flowing
from a wound in Mr.. Sternberg' S
chest. He died instantly. The
sound of the shot was muffled by
the tightly closed windows and a
blanket and overcoat Mr.. Sternberg
apparently had held over the re-
volver.
Mr.. King said he must have been
standing within 10 yards of the cal
when the shot was fired, but failed
to hear anything
Coroner Macdonald said Mr.
Sternberg had been in i'll health
and had been despondent for some
time over financial difficulties.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Sharpe
Continued From First Page.)

Council, he had joined in the coun-
ellis stand in favor of retaining the
present setup of the Board of Edu-
cation.
In October, 1897, Mr.. Sharpe was
elected president of the Community
Center Council of which he had
been a member for a number of
years.
The new board member was born
in Philadelphia in May, 1881, and
came to the District in 1905. He
attended Philadelphia schools and
studied at the Philadelphia School
of Industrial Art and the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts.
For while he was an engraver
of bank notes at the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. Even while
Government employe he was in
terested in civic affairs and was &C.
tive in the passage of the Civil Serv-
ice Retirement Act for Government
employees.
During the World War deserved as
assistant secretary of the Liberty
Loan Committee of the District.
Later he was a member of the con-
gressional commission for the clas-
siflcation of Government salaries.
For time he was associated with
the United States Chamber of Com
merce and after that was field di-
rector of the La Sale Extension Uni
versity of Chicago.
In 1923 Mr.. Sharpe was made
executive assistant in charge of
public relations work for the WASH
ington Railroad &, Electric Co. SUBJ
sequently he became assistant to
the president and public relations
director of the Potomac Elecric
Power Co.
Mr.. Sharpe is a director of the
Board of Trade. trustee Of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
soclation and member of the
Better Business Bureau.
He was one of the organizers OF
the Community Chest here and still
is a trustee of the Chest. He also
is director of Children's Hospital
and the Travellers Aid Society.
For many years Mr.. Sharpe has
aided in the promotion and man.
agement of the city's Fourth of July
celebration and the Cherry Blossom
Festival.
AS for his fraternal interests. he is
a member Of Cathedral Lodge, No
40, F. A. A. M; Mount Pleasant
Chapter, No. l3, R. A.: Columbia
Commandery, No. 2, K. T., and is a
Shriner.
| He is a member of the Columbia
Country Club and lives at 293C
Forty-tifth street NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Monopoly
Continued From First Page.)

factor in prolonging and deepening
the collapse of production and en-
ployment.
"Artificially high prices appear to
have been factor in the unwhole-
some lack of buying power that has
so long interfered with recovery. In
1886 and 1887 it seems that artificial
and excessive increases in prices
were in part responsible for limiting
the growth of prosperity and turn
ing the curve Of production down.
ward.
The fact appears to be estab-
lished that price and production
controls. set up in the hope of OBJ
tanning larger profits at the expense
of the business system as a whole
have succeeded in so poisoning the
whole system as to defeat even their
own purpose"
Explaining that he was using the
term capitalism in the sense of 8
broad relationship between producer.
and consumers operating for theil
own interest in the hope of eco.
nomic gain, Mr.. Ballinger traced
the rise and fall of numerous cap
ltalistic systems through past cen.
turies. In each instance he blamed
the destruction of the system tc
the rise of an individual or a groul
who arrogated to themselves monop.
olistic powers.
Here on American SOIL" he said
another stretch of free enterprise
has precipitated the old historic
struggle-the efforts of democracy
to save its partner, capitalism, from
its ancient foe-predatory business
practices which destroy free enter
prise.
New Names Are Used.
LEST the people learn the lesson
OF history, the dark powers of con-
centrated wealth choose in each new
struggle new name for themselves,
avoiding the old names that carry
the historic smell of tyranny. Tyrant
Satrap, Pharaoh, Kahn, Caesar, EN-
peror, Gear, and Kaiser, have left
their sulphurous trail across the
pages of history.
To-day in Europe they have new
names. In America, we call the lesser
rulers business leaders and corpora
ton lawyers, the great ones are
simply kings-oil kings, match kings
soap kings-hundreds of them. The
great overload who will draw them
all together into a perfect pluto.
cratic dictatorship has not yet ap-
peared. But there are portents in
the heavens which betoken his op-
portunity.
The question whether capitalism
in the world at large has now
reached another autumn, the be-
ginning of long winter of darkness
and stagnation, is hardly an
academic one. Some of the greatest
industrial areas of the earth are
already organized in dark-age forms.
Freedom has been not merely lost,
but repudiated and cast out. The
future, abroad at least, so far as we
can see, points toward destruction
rather than toward new triumphs
OF progress and improvement in the
standard of living"
13 Industries to Be Reviewed.
Mr.. Ballinger advised the COM
mittee the commission is prepared
to review for it the workings of
Evening star., 1939-02-28

throughout the country and contains
articles on sports, politics, art and
campus events. Among those listed
as sponsors Of the magazine are
William G. Bullitt, United States
Ambassador to France; Lily Pons,
singer; Jascha Heif1tz, violinist, and
Count Rene de St. Quentin, French
Ambassador to the United States.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
D. c. Student Edits
MAGAZINE in French

Edited by John H. Arlington, 20,
of 1920 Connecticut avenue NV,
VII, an intercollegiate magazine
published in French, made its ap-
pearance today.
Arlington, son Of Mrs. Gertrude
M. Arlington, is q senior at Yale.
He Is the recipient of the Washing
ton Yale Club scholarship and is q
graduate of Central High School
class of 1884.
VII will be circulated in colleges
Evening star., 1939-02-28

escaped with $50 taken from the
cash register, $1.50 from visitor In
the store and quart Of whisky.
Mrs. Helen Mantzouris, wife of
the proprietor, and Bill Efdimis were
the victims.
This is the same store held up
January IA by a bandit armed with
q wrench. In this case the bandit
was captured after q chase Of three
blocks by Nick Mantzouris, II, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mantzouris and q
Mckinley High School athlete.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Central High PIT. A.
Dinner Scheduled

The Central High School Par
ent-Teacher Associations annual
mother-and- daughter dinner will be
held Saturday night at Barker Hall
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and X
streets NV.
Speakers will include Miss Helen
Coolidge, assistant principal OF
Central; Miss Helen Cook, director
Of Girl Reserves, Y. w. c. A.; Miss
Laile Eubank, welfare worker, and
DR.. Lima B. Mathes, organizer Of
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Forget About Ii

Charged with attempting to mur.
der her little sister, 15-year-old
girl was arrested In Belfast, North.
ern Ireland, but the magistrate dis
charged her with the admonition to
wipe this thing out Of your mem
ory altogether"
Evening star., 1939-02-28

the first church federation in
America. Mrs. Lyndon H. Baylies,
president of the PIT. A., will make
a welcome address, and Mrs.
Prentiss D. Sale will direct group
singing.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Liquor Store Robbed
OfS15Oin Holdup

Two colored bandits held up
liquor store last night in the 1000
block of Seventh street NV. and
Evening star., 1939-02-28

ireland has a campaign against
unWarranted war ScareS.
Evening star., 1939-02-28

Prices Cut Again
In Our Great Rebuilding Sale!
THE carpenters aren't the only ones
l. who can use chisel around here,
Ours comes out with sharp edge to-
morrow There are still about 1000 gar
ments to be cleared out before we pre-
sent you with our new store. Plenty of
furnishings and hats! .. Prices are
slashed again We can't put up much
Of "front" right now, and we have no
Evening star., 1939-02-28

$500 NECKWEAR S2.15
soc SHIRTS AND SHORTS for 81
$10O SUSPENDERS CSC
$1.5O SUSPENDERS 93c
$100 CRAVAT HOLDERS S----59c 59c
ST 100 BELTS AND WALLETS S------------5 sec
SOC PACK OF 25 RAZOR BLADES .---------19c
ALL WOOL AND WOOL MIXTURE HOSE y Price
Csc HANDKERCHIEFS- EFS------------------2f for 25c
SOC HANDKERCHIEFS EFS--4fO for 81
75c HANDKERCHIEFS ------- ----3 for 81
SPECIAL! WHITE HANDERCHIEFS - IL for 125
(2) $8.95 COCKTAIL COATS. Small sizes ----- S3.95
Cd $3.50 COCKTAIL COAT ---------- S5.75
(2) $3.50 COCKTAIL COATS S---- --------- S6.25
CD $3.50 BROWN FLANNEL ROBE Large size S6.25
Cd $3.50 MAROON FLANNEL ROBE ---------S3.75
(2l $895 FLANNEL ROBES ---- ---------- 81. so
(3) $1,000 FLANNEL ROBES. Small g. medium, $500
$1O.95 FLANNEL ROBE. Medium size-S6.75
$3.50 TO 50 90 SHIRTS
Evening star., 1939-02-28

(2) $25 s1LK-L1NED ROBES Large Sizes so
(2) $500 SILK-LINED. Large sizes ST. SO
"a $1675 SII.K-LINED ROBE $ $3.50
(6) S1O95 SILK-LINED Robes All sizes---S545 As
Evening star., 1939-02-28

Entire Balance of Robes and Cocktail Coats & Suit!
REDUCED AT LEAST *!
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

There is an old maxim That
grandfather used to recite. It ran
something like this. Count that day
lost whose low descending sun views
from thy hand no worthy action
done" It is splendid rule for in
dividual rule for individual human
progress. It is also splendid rule
for community progress. The town
that cannot see at the end Of the
year some definite steps Of progress
made is in danger. Communities
Like individuals, cannot safely stand
still. They must go ahead or they
will slip back. The sureSt means of
preventing this is for the leader
ship of the community to select
some project each year for the ben
eft and improvement of the COM
munity and center all effort and all
resource upon this one thing until 1t
is accomplished. The reason why
many communities do not get ahead
and progress is not because they dc
not attempt anything but more Oft
en- because they attempt too much
and scatter their effort and re-
source One project, however small
if followed through to its conclusion
is worth a dozen big things that are
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06
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TEN YEARS AGO-1929
The Richland cash store burned
to the ground before the fire could
be controlled.
There was to be no Fourth of July
celebration in Kennewick ten years
ago. Kennewick merchants had re-
ported more sales of fireworks than
the previous year.
Long Liz" power boat Of Burns
Brown was rapidly being put into
shape by members of the Bachelor
club for summer cruises on the COL
umbia.
Ella Linn was elected president of
the Business Girls; Bee Sherk, vice
president; Lucille Sandberg, secre-
tary and Fladys Speegle, treasur-
err +,
Evelyn Olbrich, who was in nurses
training at st. Vincents hospital at
Portland was spending a week visit
ing her mother here.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. WaShburn and
sons were on fishing trip to Ida
no, where they claimed the fish to
be full grown.
The Mt. Gable chapter O.ES. Of
Hanford held special meeting to
hear the report of Mrs. F. A. Eng
lish, who was a delegate to the
Grand Communication held in Ia
coma the previous week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

II used to think I wanted to raise
a big family" a reader of this pa
per said in this office yesterday,
but when see how hateful and
selfish and inconsiderate some
children are to their parents, I don't
feel that I have missed much be-
cause I didn't raise big family. I
know three families in this town in
which the parents are heartsick over
the way their children treat them.
The parents have done without
much to educate and provide for
them but there is apparently not a
vestige of appreciation. shown on
the part of the children. They are
hateful, spiteful and vindictive and
say the most cutting things. I don't
know that family is worth that to
anyone. am certain it isn't to
me-"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

There are thousands of people in
this country who have laid by a
competence for their old age in a
home and savings. They have not
made it through winnings in sweep
stakes or at marble games or slot
machines. Though they have never
drawn large salaries they have
achieved their enviable security and
independence by systematic savings
and investments through life insur-
ance. postal savings and small gov
eminent bonds, purchased system
atically through their productive
years. They are examples Of the
results Of planned thrift and self
denial, and self-discipline. They are
the salt Of the earth.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06
TWENTY YEARS AGO-lsl9


Five sons and fourteen grand
children assembled at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Henderson to
help them celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary. This was the
first time in the past % years the
five sons had been under the par
entail roof. ...#
Kennewick was planning q big
Fourth Of July celebration includ-
ing a parade, address at the Cha
tauqua grounds; Pasco-Kennewick
baseball game: races, boxing con-
tests, airplane rides and dancing.
Mrs. George Albright received a
painful injury when q sprayer
wheel passed over her foot crushing
it badly.
Sherman Muncey Of Richland was
a patient in the hospital here.
The Anon park at Richland was
to be scene of gathering Of young
people for the Epworth League in
stitute Of the Walla Walla and The
Dalles districts.
Nine boys helped Robert Brown
celebrate his ninth birthday at his
home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

The steamer Todd had been taken
off the Friday run by the Columbia
Steamboat company. The second
and fourth Monday Of each month
the steamer Gem was making ex-
ira trips carrying combustibles, but
no passengers.
The Kennew,cK youngsters won
from the Pasco lads by a score Of 10
to 8. The local boys were lined up
as follows: catcher, Gravenslund;
pitcher, Tracey Howe; first base,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

Flying blind is an expression used
by airplane pilots. It means that
owing to weather conditions the
way cannot be seen and pilots must
depend upon instruments and me-
chanical devises to keep their
courses. This is just what happens
to buyers who buy without reading
the advs. They go from store to
store wasting valuable hours search
ing for something to supply their
needs. The advertisements in this
paper chart the buyers course and
serve as the guiding beacons to
make buying easier.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06
TALKING OF TURKEY


It was just last summer that we
wrote about the work they were do
ing on the watermelon to make il
the right size to fit in family ice
box. Some fellows were expert
menting and had developed fruit
that was about the size Of q canta-
loupe and could be stored easily
Things are moving mighty fast and
you have to keep on your toes.
In the old days this was country
Of big families and larger appe-
titles. Turkeys had to be big to Sc
cure place on q self -respecting
dining table then. Fifty-pounders
were commonplace. But today the
Department Of Agriculture Is work
ing hard to produce a turkey that
will be small enough to fit the
small pans in the small ovens of the
small families with the small in
comes. Come Thanksgiving We may
be surprised in Kennewick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

"Air We going my way?" The
young fellow who has been planning
to take to the road this summer and
hoping to go places and see things
by cumming" has been given a
word of advice from Jeff Davis. the
King of Hoboes. He warns that al
ready there are about 10000 young
sters on the road and an expected
$4,000 by July. The odd jobs to be
found are scarce and the risk Of
hunger, jail and association with
criminals is common. Folks in Ken
newick will do their best to keep
their young off Of the road for such
travelling IS apt to produce trouble
and sorrow. It is too often that the
paths aren't straight.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

Clinton Copeland: second n
Slaugenhaupt; third. Glenn u,.. Nsu
s short se'op' Warren Leard; r s,''
field Walter Rich; left field, ', saa
Sexton; center, Frank Moran ''A'
A special school meenng and .,.,
ton was TO be held for tho -. WE
IF authorizing the school directo, ~. :
put in new heating plant IN ~ "
high school building, e
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

plant would cost $1,000 and be oper-
ated by an 8-horse-power electric
motor.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Howe gave q
wedding reception and dinner for
Mr.. and Mrs. /. N. Mueller in their
new home Just after their return
from a honeymoon trip.
Mrs. Frank Lyons accompanied by
Maurice. Beulah and Fred went to
North Yakima to visit at the Clar-
ence Lyons place.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

merely talked about and never fin
ished. The town that selects one
thing and completes it before an
other thing is considered can point
at the end of the year, to a program
of accomplishment, that will bring
pride and satisfaction to every cit
izen Of the community. The town
that follows such a program con-
sistently year after year is bound to
make an enviable record of prog
reSS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

The Grays Harbor County Public
Utility District hopes to sell $780,
600 four and one-quarter percent
revenue bonds and buy for 1884,
600 the Grays Harbor Railway &
Light company, the privately owned
utility company now serving this
district. Increasing the capitaliza-
ton of this utility by five hundred
thousand dollars does not seem to
be in line with reduction in rates
which consumers were led to be-
lieve would follow public ownership.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06
A NEW WRINKLE


There are some women who never
take an interest in affairs other
than those around their home and
village. Some say they are too busy
to read. But there will be all Of
these souls aroused when they dis
cuss and make a feminine attack on
Mr.. Hitler's latest edict. He feels
the lack of manpower wasted in the
manufacture of cosmetics and de-
mands a 80 percent reduced pro-
duction. This goes far after tell
ing the ladies to have babies, do
without bread, join the army. Some
thing will make our women folks
interested in international affairs
and this is it! When you place a
ban on beauty preparations, "them's
fightin' words, Mister"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06

It is well to remember when
tempted to spend money with out of
town merchants that no job was
ever created for any local citizen by
money spent out of town. It's only
the money spent at home that builds
local prosperity.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-07-06
THIRTY YEARS AGo-1sos

The A. J. Ross Mill company Of
Portland had the contract to install
an electric Feed Grinding steam
rolling mill for the G. 81. Collins Co.
The capacity Of the plant would
then be two cars per day. The