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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Watch Kitchen Efficiency

Home builders are cautioned by
Federal Housing administration Of
ficials not to condense the kitchen
50 as to make it too small for use.
A kitchen can be efficient even
though it may not be as small as
Pullman-car kitchen. Despite the
fervor for "step-saving." a happy
medium should be maintained be-
tween the Pullman kitchen and the
old-fashioned kitchen. The kitchen
does double duty. 1t serves as
cooking center, and at the same
time it is a storage place for dishes,
utensils. cleaning materials, and
other household gadgets and equip
ment. Sufficient space for storage
is of vital importance in the plan
ming of kitchen for small mod
ern home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Adequate School Lunch

To maintain a good food balance,
the noon school lunch should include
milk, fruit or tomato juice; one pro-
tein food like eggs, meat, fish or
cheese; bread and butter, and one
vegetable, preferably raw. The
vegetable may be used as a sand
witch filling, or it may be celery
stalks, carrot or turnip sticks with
salt. Whole wheat bread should be
used at least half of the week for
these lunches. Cookies or cup cakes
are preferable to sliced cake be-
cause they carry much better. If
the teacher serves one hot dish at
noon, the children should know the
menu a week in advance so the
mother will know just what to send
from home to complete the lunch.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Windows Are Important
In Appearance of Home

Windows are all-important in con-
trolling the outside appearance of a
home and it's inside decorative eff
fects, as well as contributing to the
comfort and happiness of the occu-
pants, according to a recent issue of
a leading builders magazine.
Some of the newest home building
ideas for cutting costs and increas-
ing quality apply to windows. And
that is fortunate since the public
taste seems to be more and more
toward glass, cheerful interiors and
sunshine. Analysing the work of
some of the country's most success
full operative builders brings out the
fact that they are practically de-
signing their best selling houses
around its windows. In their most
profitable homes the windows are
something more than mere openings
in the wall. They have far greater
role than that of letting light in and
keeping out wind and rain and snow.
They are utilized as one of the most
effective of sales points in focusing
attention Of the prospect, whether
he's buyer or a renter.
Picture windows decide many q
home sale by framing a favorite
view. Use of peach colored plate
glass often adds to the beauty of a
scene. And a picture window over
the sink or a corner window may
be the means of lifting that kitchen
to a new plane of beauty and cheer
the difference between a domes-
tic workshop of drudgery and an in
viting unit of the home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Polarized Light Used
In Engineering Tests

Scientists are using shadows and
rainbows to prevent train wrecks,
floods and other disasters-by the
use Of polarized light to analyze
strains on bridges, dams and other
structures, according to Prof. M. S.
Ketchum of the Case School of APP
piled Sciences, Cleveland, Ohio.
Until rainbow tests were applied
In testing bridges" said Ketchum,
assistant professor of civil engineer
ing, many engineers grossly over
estimated the strength of materials
needed in certain parts of the struc-
lures. They then were at a loss to
explain why their work gave way
occasionally with disastrous results"
Ketchum explained that engineers
now make models of bridges of cell
Iluloid =, or other plastics, place
weights on them, shine polarized
light through the semi-transparent
model and observe the distortions
manifested in the form of rainbow
shadows"
'The principle involved" he said,
ais that polarized light, which is
caused by the passage of ordinary
light through polaroid crystals vi
tbrates in one plane only.
"If this polarized light now is
passed through glass. gelatin or plas-
tics, it will cast a shadow similar
to rainbow. But when a strain is
put on the material, the shadow is
distorted and the greatest distortion
occurs when the strain is greatest.
Thus it is very easy to see where a
break would occur and where more
strength is required"
Ketchum tests models of machin-
cry, dams and other structures.
The models of dams are made of
gelatin-sometimes as much as IS
pounds of the material being melted
to make one model dam.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Barometric Pressure
Affects Mans Health

Your general well-being as well
as the weather may be signalized
by the barometer. according to DR..
William F. Petersen, pathologist and
bacteriologist at the University OF
Illinois.
The next time you feel crouch
coming on consult the barometer.
1t is ten to one, says DR.. Petersen,
that the barometric pressure will be
going up.
The doctor asserted that air pres
sure plays an important role in
health. Sudden death and even
spring fever are some of its effects,
he commended.
Pain in an Assessed tooth may
be caused in some degree by high
atmospheric pressure; the ability of
an athlete to perspire and the tone
of his muscles vary with the air
pressure; the nervous, mental and
even digestive systems react to the
stimulus of air pressure.
In normal persons, DR.. Petersen
said, high barometric pressure in
creases the blood pressure and you
feel full of pep. However, when the
pressure makes the blood sluggish
the effect is to put you in the dumps.
Changes in atmospheric pressure
work the hardest suffering on the
young, old and sick. Ordinarily
healthy persons, the doctor ex-
planned, can readily adjust their
bodies to outside influences.
DR.. Petersen said that changes in
the barometer should serve as
warning to physicians to be especial
ly watchful over their patients.
On the basis of survey the doc
tor concluded that the death rate is
in direct proportion to the ups and
downs of the atmospheric pressure.
Sudden increases or decreases in the
pressure, he declared, often will
show an adverse effect on patients
who appeared to be on the road
to recovery and sometimes the shock
is so great it causes death.
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Automatic Radio Signals
To Flash Flood Warning

Radio flashes soon will be the Ilti-
mate in warnings Of fash floods
along the far-flung watershed of the
lower Colorado river.
The Public Works administration
had announced that system Of auto
matte radio signaling devices would
be installed to warn headquarters Of
the Lower Colorado River authority
in Austin, Texas, of sudden changes
in the rivers stages.
The radio signals will supplement
a system of Is gauges continuously
recording fluctuations in the foOt-sec-
ond flow of the treacherous Colorado.
The warning system has been
worked out to protect the interests
of landholders in the rivers water
shed and the facilities of the giant
flood reduction and power produc-
tion project following completion of
the $22, $4,000 PWA job next year.
The gauges already are in operation.
Five automatic radio broadcasters
will be installed. They and the
gauges already in use will be COM
plemented by reports from "a other
rainfall gauges being established in
the river dra image area. Some of
the rainfall gauges are as far as 300
miles from the nearest of the four
dams on the lower Colorado.
Because the lower Colorado is
''fash stream" sluggish one day
and a torrent the next, it is neces-
sary to watch indications of rise
and fall consistently to operate the
dams to obtain adequate flow for
consistent power production, and at
the same time provide proper
storage space for flood waters.
, Much Of the experience now being
utilized in perfecting the flood warn
tings system was obtained by the riv-
er authority and PWA engineers dur
ing the disastrous Colorado river
floods of late in the summer Of 1888,
when the torrent first went out of
control in far western Texas, and
several weeks later spent itself by
pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Returns From Visit
With Father in Texas


returned last Wednesday from
GLENN and Amarillo, Texas, where
she has spent the. past three weeks
visiting with her father. who is i'll.
G. G. Sturman of Spokane was
an overnight guest at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Tony Mayer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell Peter of
Woodland spent the past weekend
visiting at the Harley Peter home.
MIR. and Mrs. A. E. Misner and
Ladieu Misner. of Melrose, Idaho
were weekend guests at the Herb
Misner home.
Mrs. F.. r. Kelso of Walla Walla
visited with Mrs. Gladys Kelso last
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Kippes and
Miss Esther Kippes of Walla Walla
where they are employed at the
cannery, were Sunday visitors at
the M. L. Kippes home.
Mrs. John Kish and son Alvin
and Mrs. zindel were visitors at the
w. S. Green home last Tuesday.
George Lape was a business visit
or in Spokane on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hinckley
moved to the Arthur Hinckley place
last Saturday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Medieval Castles

In medieval times feudal lords
home literally was his castle. But
more than home in most cases
was this castle. It was fortress
into the protection of which the feud-
al lord and his retainers could with
draw to stand a sustained siege
when beset by enemies. The term
castle (from the old French and
Anglo-Saxon casteD itself originally
meant a circular mound of earth,
f1attened on top and surrounded by
a ditch. Around the crest of it's
summit was a palisade.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
a1p9so,
4 YOU
KNOW?

At Forks, ON the Olympic PENN
sula the average annual rainfall is
u feet. Yet at Sequin, (pro-
nounced Skwim) approximately 6o
miles from Works, the average an
nual rainfall is II inches and was
1903 inches in 1899.
Sequim and its surrounding ter
ritory is the driest spot on the Pa
cific Coast excepting some places
in Southern California.
At sequim $1,000 acres are under
irrigation and up to 10000 acres is
being prepared for irrigated farm
ing. Dairy cattle in the Sequlm
area produce the greatest proper
ton of butterfat per cow of any Sec
ton in the United States. Sequlm
also is credited with being one OF
the healthiest spots in the United
States,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Red Ink COlOring

Red ink is sometimes colored with
the powdered bodies of minute red
insects called cochineal, which are
taken from the cactus in Mexico,
Central America and Peru. Other
red inks are made from brazilwood,
imported from Central and South
America.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Labrador Tea

Labrador tea is the popular name
for a small evergreen shrub Of the
heath family which grows in boys
and swamps in Greenland, Canada
and the more northern parts of the
United States. The leaves are tough,
densely covered with a brown wool
on the under face. They are fra
grant and when crushed have been
used as a substitute for tea.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
HensOns Return Home
From Lodge Convention

WESTERN HORSE HEAVEN
Mr.. and Mrs. D. l.. Henson were in
Yakima the first part of last week.
where they attended the convention
OF the I. 0. 0. F.. and Rebekah
lodges. They returned home Thurs
day afternoon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04

Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Meyer and
house guests, Elaine and Earle Tay-
lor, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Higley
and family were Sunday visitors at
the home of Reverend j. A. Pine at
Burbank.
Al Knight visited at the home of
his parents Saturday from Walla
Walla, where he is employed at the
Libby'S cannery.
Mrs. John Kish (nee Winifred
Zindell) and small son, Alvin, who
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-07-04
Townsend Delegate
Leaves for Convention

HIGHLANDS Morrison left
last Wednesday for st. Louis, Mo.
as a delegate to attend the Town
send convention being held there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
War Fears Add Deaths
In u. S., Says Professor

Hate and fear rising out Of the
general war in Europe will undoubt-
eddy be responsible for many deaths
in this country, Prof. w. Don Craske
of the Chicago College of Osteop-
athy recently told the Illinois o.
teopathic association.
High blood pressure resulting
from the tension, excitement and
Illustration of modern living ac-
counts in part for the increase in
the heart-disease death rate" said
Professor Craske. This strain,
which has been aggravated by the
worries of the depression and recess
sion years, will now be further inten-
sified by the intrusion Of war fears
and war news.
Millions of Americans fear we
will be drawn into the European
conflict and, additionally, the out
break Of the war has increased
hatreds many Americans have
against one side or the other.
Hate and fear have extreme
physiological effects. Tension
caused by these powerful emotions
causes the heart beat to increase.
the minute muscles in blood vessel
walls to contract and the internal
organs to labor under pressure"
Warmongers or others who act to
increase fear and hatred, he con-
cluded. are enemies Of public
health. He pointed out that the
death rate for heart disease in the
United States is twice that Of its
nearest rival, cancer. and three and
a half times that Of tuberculosis,
accounting in all for about one Of
every six to seven deaths.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
GUNS:
Instead of Butter

New York state planned to incor-
porate three anti-aircraft regiments
in its National Guard outfit. Two
of these would protect New York
city, and a third would look out for
the western part of the state. New
York's historic Seventh Fashion
able) and Sixty-ninth (Irish) infan-
try regiments would be converted
into anti-aircraft units, according to
the scheme. This would class them
as, officially, "coast artillery"
1t was reported from Washington
that some 100000 old World war RI
fies and $500 w. W. field guns would
be sold to the allies, plus ammuni-
ton. This stuff is not considered
Satisfactory" for U. S. require
ments, but might help to replace
material lost by the British in Elan
ders-material which, the Ger
mans said, would serve to equip no
less than 40 fresh Nazi divisions.
A ruling by Attorney-General Jack
son appeared to have cleared the
way, legally, for highly profitable
sale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
THE WAR:
Enter Italy

After nine months of watching his
ally Hitler carry on the actual war
fare against France and England,
Benito Mussolini has finally thrust
the armed force of Italy into the
European conflict. In dramatic
announcement the Italian dictator
told his people and the world that
his country had decided to enter
the war on the side of Germany.
From Berlin came reports that
the first Italian troop movements
had been directed into French Riv-
iera, even as Mussolini was notify
ing British and French diplomatic
officials that special train was
ready to take them out of his coun-
try as war against their native lands
was already under way.
Italy's main war aim as outlined
by Mussolini is control of the Medi-
terranean by that country.
This grave development presented
a truly serious military problem for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
NAM
In the menus

'Gy Said q Washington official, here
sperforoe anonymous, to your CORE
spondent: 1--WE must stop Hitler,
and save. the. British empire. We
simply must! But if we save the
British empire a second time, we
will have to take it over, lock, stock
and barrel"
q Peter Cannon, age Is, of Long
Island, Joined the regular u. s..
Eighteenth infantry. He was the
sixth Cannon brother to enlist.
Gannons now have been joining up
with Uncle Sam for just 10 years
since 1890. This is supposed to con-
stitute a regular army record, and
a sarcastic pacifst spoke of 'fGan-
non-fodder."
G Said parliamentary Deputy Sam
Yalck of Chile: ALTHOUGH myself
am the son of German, born in
Chile I firmly believe that our gov
ernment should investigate the ac-
tivities of Nazi elements here"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
Believe 1t or Not,
Goods Really Do Study

The Chicago Vassar club has re-
vealed the answer to what co-eds
do with their time. A time survey
conducted by Vassar's Student Cur
riculum committee showed that the
students spend an average Of 43
hours week on study.
The 11-week survey, watched by
educators all over the country,
showed that the college woman of
today Cat least at Vassar) studies
an average of Az hours more each
week than the coed of is years ago.
Educational institutions throughout
the nation have written to the famed
Poughkeepsie college for informa-
ton on its survey and for copies Of
the booklet where Does Your Time
Coz" which was distributed to 1000
Vassar students.
The students were asked to record
the number Of hours spent on aca-
demic work, exercise, sleep, college
activities, absence from college, Gull
tural and miscellaneous activities.
The records Of 901 students were
found acceptable for the survey.
Although 43 hours was the aver
age figure, the hours of study varied
from high of 81 to a low Of 20
hours week. A detailed analysis
of time spent on individual courses
also showed an uneven distribution.
Other hour averages for typical
college week were: exercise, 3.5;
sleep, 55; college activities, 3.5; SELF
help, Q; cultural activities (unre-
quired lectures. good books, plays,
operas). S; time away from college,
IL; and miscellaneous, Sc.
Dean C. Mildred Thompson saw
the neglect of exercise as the most
unsatisfactory finding of the COM
mittee.
A special study was made of the
reports of the freshman class. in
order to determine how its needs
and abilities differed from those of
the upper classes. The survey
showed that the freshmen studied
longer than members Of the other
classes. spent more hours sleeping
and less time away from college. y
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
Political Oratory
Doesn't Win Votes

Political oratory, as far as win
ming votes is concerned, is the bunk,
according to DR.. Allen L. Edwards
Of Northwestern university, who re-
Gently described an experiment he
had made.
To make his test, DR.. Edwards
used three groups of listeners. One
was composed of strong believers in
the Roosevelt administrations New
Deal. The second group was COM
posed of strong anti-New Dealers.
The third group was made up Of
neutrals.
Then DR.. Edwards recited as
strange a political speech as has
been made for many months. Half
Of the speech was stirring tribute
to the New Deal The other half
was a strong condemnation, de-
nouncing everything the New Deal
has attempted.
DR.. Edwards then sat down, get
ting ringing applause from both
sides, and the listeners were given
an examination to test what they
remembered Of the speech.
The memory results were just
what you might expect.
Those who favor the New Deal
remembered the sections that
praised it.
Those who hate the New Deal re-
membered the sections that criti-
cized it.
1t indicates, DR.. Edwards conclud-
ed, that you remember what agrees
with you, and don't remember much
else. He put it in somewhat more
scientific terms.
Material that harmonizes with
respect to an existing frame of ref
erence," he said, lis learned sig
nificantly better than material that
conflicts with the same frame Of
reference"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21

the hard-pressed French armies.
While they have been expecting the
move for some time, they were so
busy fighting off the German adj
vances in the north that the
spread of battle to the south weighed
heavily upon the high command.
1taly's chief value to Hitler as an
ally lies in the fact that the nation
is geared to strike fast-in the blitz-
krieg manner so well liked by the
Fuehrer. Military experts general
ly agree that Italy is not in an
economic position to successfully
wage long and costly war.
Naturally reaction to Italy's en-
trance into the war was varied. Here
is brief summary of this sentiment
from the various world capitals:
London-An information ministry
communique declared that prepara-
tons of the allies to meet Italy's
war bid were complete and that
Britain and France know how "to
meet sword with sword"
Berlin-Cheering crowds hailed
the reports as being added evidence
that the end of the war for a vic
torious Germany was at hand Hit
Ter wired Mussolini that he was glad
Italy had come in ''of her own free
will"
Washingt0n-President Roosevelt
declared in speech made the same
day as Italy entered the war, that
Italy had scorned the rights and
security of other nations" by this
move. He promised material aid
to the opponents of force"
Politics
Premier Reynaud dropped zap
peaser" Daladier from his cabinet,
and it looked as if "appeaser"
Chamberlain was also on the way
out of the Churchill dictatorship.
Churchill and Chamberlain had
been on bad terms from way back,
and this was ChurchilTs chance to
get even. Furthermore, the British
veterans back from Flanders were
especially bitter with Chamberlain
and his friends because of the lack
of British airplanes to hold back
Goering's daredevils.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-21
Biggest Gun in World
Was Made by France

One of the biggest guns the world
has ever contemplated was begun
in Britain during the Great war. It
was a 20-inch monster, firing a shell
weighing two tons. 1t was designed
to the order of Lord Fisher. first lord
of the admiralty, but the Germans
gave in in time. The gun was never
completed.
Lord Fishers gun would have
made Germany's big Bertha" look
silly: big Bertha" gun with a
range of rs miles, was only a freak.
1t was designed to spread terror by
its unexpected and startling range.
rather than by the destruction of its
shell. The caliber of big Bertha"
was only 8A inches, and its 800
pound shell carried only 80 pounds
of explosives.
big Bertha" did. however.
achieve the highest muzzle velocity
ever attained by any man-propelled
object-5.000 feet per second. or
3,4O0 miles an hour.
The French. during the World
war. made the biggest gun the world
has ever seen. 1t was monster
with bore of 20ls inches. and
barrel rs feet long. Its shell weighed
$500 pounds.
One smack from this gun on Fort
Malmaison. in 1918. put the fort.
then the strongest ever built, per-
manently out Of action.