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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05
THIRTY YEARS AGO-1910

One of the first celebrations in
the state in the observance of when
women first received right to vote in
Washington was held here at the
home of Mrs. Caroline Kitten on
Columbia avenue.
Farmers in the lower valley along
Finley and Hover way were reJoic-
ing over the fact that electrical
power would be available for pump
ing by the time spring work opened.
The new motion picture house
was opened i'm Kennewick on
Thanksgiving night. The seating ca
pacity totaled 40.
Pipes were laid to furnish water
for the Richland school house and
the new Zimmerman building and a
fine system of lights had been in
stalled in the high school gym.
MIR. and Mrs. L. E. Johnson and
little sons left for Sunnyside, where
they spent Thanksgiving at the
home of Mr.. Johnson's parents.
The Highlanders were to have a
clubhouse in which they would hold
their social functions. A subscrip-
ton list had provided funds and
the building was to be completed in
the spring.
Wheat hauling in the Locust
Grove district was about over, the
Anon brothers finishing on Monday
and Emory Owens on Friday.
Carl and Jimmie Gregson, Earl
Berdett, Meals, Bryson Brown and
Jimmie Doyle of Horse Heaven were
in town unloading a car of barley:
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05
RATIONING IN REALITY

Before Germany undertook to
change the economic set-up Of Den
mark, the Danish people were able
to carry on trade in a free and pro-
fitable way. They were proficient
in raising enough food for their con-
sumption, of producing enough to
supply the national hunger and that
outside their country. Since the in
PRODUCTION Of the Nazi policy, the
Danes have altered their way of
living and principally of eating.
People of the former Industrious state
Of Denmark are killing one million
OF their pigs, which is 1-3 the total
number, because they have nothing
to feed the pigs. The former wise
system of Danish housekeeping has
undergone change in papering and
carpeting.
The fishing industry of Norway
Is crushed due to the need of oil and
gasoline by Hitler's war machine. No
fish to supply a hungry people be-
cause they can't run fishing boats.
Poultry Is scarce, eggs are a rarity
and there Is little flour remaining.
In the land Of the Swiss, where
milk, butter and cream. A family
Swiss name famous in dairy pro-
ducts and its herds, the influence of
the Nazi hand is felt. Where there
was much to spare in the country of
the yodel for themselves and neigh
bOrS the Swiss now must ration their
milk, butter and cream. A family
Of three will have one pound of
butter a month and cream cannot
be sold. And it goes on and on. Just
bear this in mind as you sit down to
your Kennewick dinner table.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05
9O2 Reporter JANUARY Consolidated April l.
April 1914 at O. at Kec
SNaNssss AsaN@SDa&9N@NJA@ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

cember remained although it be-
came the twelfth month of the year.
The winding up of another So weeks.
We usually feel the Importance of
January because it is starting up
out on another voyage, but De-
cember is more important as it is a
time of reckoning of what we have
left undone, what we have accom-
plished in the past year. Then is
when we should review our accounts
and take inventory. December is so
full of holiday festivity in Kenne-
wick that we are so busy shopping
and preparing for Christmas that
in keeping the festive spirit alight
we are closing the last page in our
life's year book.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

cident in Seattle but were not seri-
ously hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vic Nelson spent
Thanksgiving at the home Of Mrs.
Nelson's sister, Mrs. Yves Rider at
the Gas Wells.
MIR. and Mrs. G w. JinkenS re-
turned Monday after having pent
the holidays visiting in Asoton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John George Jr. and
Leonard George left Monday for
Loup City, Nehr., where they will
visit for a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. @. Muncey are
the parents of a daughter who was
born at the PaSco hospital Satur-
day morning.
Richland friends received word
this week that Mrs. Hilbert, former
Richland resident, is i'll in the Dea-
coness hospital in Spokane.
Joe Willard and John Dam at
tended a Masonic meeting in wana
Walla Tuesday evening.
r. r. Mcintosh was a Walla Walla
visitor Wednesday.
Mrs. Virginia Colley who teaches
school at Wapato spent the holi-
days visiting her parens, MIR. and
Mrs. George Colley.
MIR. and Mrs. Jobdell of Buena,
MIR. and Mrs. Al Clonninger and
children were Thanksgiving day
guests at the j. G. Cloninger home.
The Methodist Ladies Aid will
hold a bazaar and used garment
sale December 18th. Watch for
later news.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw and MIR. and
Mrs. G. S. Ellington We're dinner
guests Thanksgiving at the Rev.
Daniels home.
MIR. and Mrs. Bennett and daugh-
ter Of Walla Walla were guests this
week at the Rev. Daniels home. Mrs.
Bennett is the daughter Of Rev.
and Mrs. Daniels.
Mrs. Harold Nelson is recovering
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

We believe that there should be
some place in every young mans
life where he is taught to work with
his hands and permitted to give ex-
preston to the creative instinct
with which every young man and
young woman is endowed. The
young life is denied the experience
of creating something with the
hands that has been conceived in
the mind, has missed a great and a
necessary experience to a fully
rounded, fully developed life. The
creative instinct in man harks
back to the dawn of creation when
the God of the Universe created the
earth and then stepped back and
viewed his handiwork and pro-
nounced it good. This instinct has
been impaired to men and women
and should be given expression. In
our opinion the time is coming
when every high school in the land
is going to give every student a vo-
cational training course in which
young men and young women will
be taught to work with their hands
to create with the hands a thing
conceived in the mind. Any educa-
ton without such training falls
short of its purpose. There is a Gull
tural, an educational value in the
training and coordination of the
mind and muscle found in no other
way. Without coordination of mind
and muscle no education is COM
plete.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

We are in favor of universal
compulsory military training. We
believe it is more democratic than
the practice of enlisting soldiers in
to our army. Under the universal
military training program every
young man would be called upon to
give some service to his country. I'm
der the program of enlistment the
only men who are indicted into the
army are those who have a keen
sense of patriotism and obligation
to their country and its government.
The country and those who are not
possessed with these young mems
unselfish idealism have no right to
take advantage of their generous
impetuosity. This is every ones
country and because of it is every
ones country it is every ones
obligation, and duty to render it a
measure of unsilfish, patriotic SER
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

Refusal of the Federal Social Sc
curity Board to approve Initiative
No. al, as predicted by the Wash
ington State Taxpayers Association,
leaves in doubt both the states pro-
portionate obligation under the new
law and the status Of present bene-
ficiaries. Should legal action de-
termine that the state must start
paying increased benefits at once, a
shortage of funds will probably oc-
cur before the legislature can make
new appropriations, thus perhaps
depriving present recipients even of
their present measure of support.
Action to determine validity of the
new law will p robably be taken, if
only to protect the interests of pres
ent beneficiarieS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

The force of America is like a
sleeping giant. It awakens slowly,
but once it is aroused it is a force to
be reckoned with, the like of which
no other nation of the earth can ap-
proach. We have come to the time
in the history of the race that the
machine is the important element in
peace and war alike and there is no
country that can approach America
when it comes to producing ma
chimes whether for peace time pur-
suits or for war. In this field we
have no peer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05
/ DO
! YOU
KNOW

There is a 1900 mi,e p,.,..
Crest Trail which traverses th sS en-
cade Mountains Of the poSss S-
Northwest and the Sierras 20 S S,l
fornia north and south fr ~ VS ~
Canadian to the Mexican -. ne
The entire distance may be- trs S,uet
on foot or horseback. RouVh a oS.
trails for overnight use have S Sa
established by United states yeea
est service at key points. H0e'
This trail within wash,r....
State has been under develonroSS..a,
by the Forest Service since Io9o ~
cooperation with outdoor cluhs T,, ~
detours it is 53l miles IN isu m.I
within the state. Eight orpanIssS
outing and hiking clubs Of Wssbins
ton reported more than i5OOOO NAE
days spent by their approximats,.
J, 400 members on the Cascade 60.
Trail during the last season NJ.
trail winds close to Glacier psss e
Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helene
and Mount Adams.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

vice. We have noticed this also
that the boys who have given ser
vice to their country have an appre-
citation for its institutions above
that possessed by those who have
evaded and avoided such service.
They know what it means. They
have given something of themselves,
of their lives to it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

A headline in one of our dailies
states: Court Decides Teachers
Can Wed at Will" A local young
lady teacher, who frankly admits
she would rather be instructing two
or three children of her own than
twenty or thirty of other peoples
children, desires to know what the
court means by this "At WILL"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

purchased lots and was to begin the
erection of small iron factory.
w. B. Paulson was recent owner
of the 40-acre tract Of I. Smith ly-
ing west of the Columbia Irrigation
waste ditch.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

t from pa a recent cent, major Operat,o,,
,v The Young woman's club
WEDNESDAY w Snl afternoon at the sO met
7,5 Mr.; and Mrs: c. A. RUM l..
OF Mr. and Mrs. Ward RUM re hone
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

The feeling that we should give
every possible material aid to Great
Britain in the present war, is grow
ing. There is a feeling that while
Hitler may not disturb this coun-
try if he defeats England, the
chances are considerably less than
he will disturb us if England de-
feats him.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

In the same period that there
were $4,000 deaths from German
bombs in England, there were 10000
deaths from auto accidents in the
United States. War it seems can
not be prevented, but it cannot be
said that automobile accident
deaths cannot be greatly reduced.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

It rather flatters our ego that our
guesses on the election and the war
have been as good as the guesses OF
the experts. They missed it, and so
did we.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05
DECEMBER

Back when the Emperor Julian
formed a calendar for computing
time, December was the tenth month
OF his year, as its name implies.
Since that time the calendar itself
has changed, but the name of De-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

Few families get into debt or suf-
fer hardship because Of the pur-
chase of strict necessities and things
for the home. 1t is the extras, the
foolish expenditures for knlck-
knacks that are soon relegated TO
the att or the dump heap and for
things that have little value, that
unbalance the family budget.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-12-05

1t has been reported by South
African farmers that many storks
migrating to South Africa from the
Netherlands carry messages tleo 10
their legs stating ''We inhabltants OF
Bergen-op-zoon tell you that Ger
man occupation of our country rs
Just hell"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
COUNTRY CAN'T AFFORD MORE
Relief CUTS, President SAYS

WASHINGTON OPP - No more
cuts should be made in WPA rolls
this summer and fall, President Roose-
welt told his press conference May
II as he sought to ward off attacks
being made on the pending WPA APP
preparation bill in the house.
Personally, the president added, he
would like to see the relief program
expanding to take care of all the
needy. He admitted that all of the
needy are not being taken care of,
either by the federal government or
the public and private relief agencies.
The presidents comments were
made as he attacked proposals in the
house to earmark relief funds for
specific projects. Such practice, he
declared, would lead to pork barrel
legislation situation, each member of
congress trying to grab off project
for his district
He also took stand against the
proposal by Rep. Woodrum 3D., Va.)
to turn some of the proposed $685.
100000 appropriation into public
works program.
If 100 people in a locality were
on relief, the president said, the ex-
penditure of funds on public works
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22

dam or school hundred miles away
would by no means provide all those
individuals with jobs.
He pointed out that the unemployed
are men and women with homes and
not numbers that can be uprooted and
shifted about the country.
He went on to say he did not think
the country could afford to cut more
people off relief this summer and fall,
particularly since the relief agencies
were by no means taking care of 1907
of the needy.
Woodrum, always an opponent of
adequate relief appropriations, at
tackled the pending measure in the
house declaring that government
should adopt "a more conciIiatory at
titude toward business" as a substi-
tute.
Rep. Cannon 3D., MOI, who under
took to pilot the bill through the
house, took exception to report filed
by an appropriations subcommittee
charging the WPA with many past
misdeeds"
Cannon said it was startling to find
the subcommittee made scant mention
of the millions given work by the
WPA and the vast public improve
ments of the agency.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
Bankrupt Trolley
Line Rescued by
Union Workers

WHEELING, w. Va.-(FP)-A once
bankrupt electric railway system is
now being successfully operated by
the 240 union workers who bought ii
from the auctioneer in 1888.
Serving 100000 residents of Wheel
ing and nearby communities, the Co.
operative Transit Co. operates 70
trolley cars over so miles of track.
The company also operates 81 buses,
having bought out the competing lines
that had siphoned business away from
the old Wheeling Traction Co.
How the union members saved their
jobs and the trolley system is told
in the April 81 issue of The Union
Leader, organ of the Amalgamated
Assn. of Street Electric Railway e.
Motor Coach Employees (AFL).
Vice Pres Fred Gigs of Division
1O3 recalls that in 1881 the old trolley
company was "a dead horse" Started
in Civil war years as horse-car line,
the system had become in 1887 the
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
PRESIDENT ASKS
s1,182,oo0,00
FOR ARMS

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-I Immediate
appropriation of $S96,OOO,00O and au-
thorization for the future expenditure
of 1886, 900 was asked of congress
for a fourfold military program by
President Roosevelt in a dramatic
personal appeal.
Assembled senators and representa-
tives greeted the presidents request
with shouts of approval and legisla-
tive wheels were set in motion to
grant the demand within the next few
days.
In the presidents message he limited
at possible foreign ventures, declar-
ing, "An effective defense by its very
nature requires the equipment to at
tack an aggressor on his route before
he can establish strong bases within
the territory of American vital in
terests."
Declaring that the details of the re-
quested appropriations and authorize
ton would be given congressional
committees later, the president asked
for immediate appropriations of $685.
100000 for the army, $250,0OO,000 for
the navy and marine corps, and $780,
100000 for the president ito provide
for emergencies affecting the national
defense"
Authorizations requested were for
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
PATENTS FOR
PRODUCTION ARE:
kept HIDDEN
Rv KAY ELLES

Rotary plows have been talked of
for many years; but various difficult
ties have been heretofore encountered
in their handling of certain types of
sticky soils and in pulverizing stubble
and vegetation.
Now G. o. Matter, an engineer of
Portland, Ore, has at last removed
these difficulties of operation by ap-
plying power to the rotary blades
themselves, properly synchronized
with the forward motion of the mech
anism, so that the oblique helicoid
cutter gives a downward slicing cut
with backward discharge. This at
the same time pulverizes the surface
vegetation and will clean the blades
and aerate any sort of soil.
This new rotary pillow has success
fully demonstrated that with a 6 foot
cut, inches deep, using 30 h. p. at
power take-off shaft, will completely
prepare 1.S acres of average soil per
hour. This is one third the h. p. re-
quired to make a like cut with an
ordinary plow which at similar trac-
tor speed would plow but Z tenths OF
an acre per hour After which one
must, of course, follow up with disc
and harrow before seeding; while with
the new rotary pillow the seed bed is
all prepared with the one operation.
1t is claimed that the rotary pillow
will completely prepare the seed bed
at a cost per acre for labor and fuel
of 43 cents; while the blowing alone
with the same tractor and a 14-inch
two bottom pillow costs $1.14 per acre,
still leaving 1870 more preparation to
do with the Disc harrow and packer.
Science and technology are fast
eliminating those ardous man-hours
the farmer must put in, and lessons
the necessity for so much hired help.
Then, too, a fellows investment will
probably be less, because there will
be no call to invest in discs, harrows,
nor as large tractor. oh! yes and
the sheds to house the machinery can
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
VICTIMS OF
NEGILANTE RAID
AWARDED $4,000

NEWARK OPP - Damages total
ing $4,000 were awarded May 10 by
a federal grand jury to seven negro
migratory workers who were stripped
naked, beaten and covered with white
paint by a mob who attacked them in
their shack at Cranbury, N. j., last
August
None of the nine mobsters involved
appeared in court. When they were
tried last summer, they offered no
defense.
"This is a great victory for the
Workers Defense League in its objec-
tive of protecting the rights of all
workers, but especially negroes and
migrants" WDL Sec Treas. David L.
Clendenin said. The WDL took up
the defense of the migrants immedi-
ately after last summers attack, and
posted $500 reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of the defendants.
"The attack by the mob on the
potato pickers served to concentrate
attention on the whole problem of
negro migratory agricultural workers
in New Jersey, who are brought up
from the south in trucks by contrac-
tors, herded into unsanitary and fire
trap barns and chicken coops and de-
prived of political and civil rights"
Clendenin continued. Township Of
ficials expected that the incident
would be forgotten as have similar
ones in previous years. They tried
to delay arrests and then to white
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
ABOLITION OF POLL TAX CALLED need
TO COMBAT wealth Concentration

Legislation necessary to maintain a
Republican form of government in each
of the states, it is within the power
of congress and it is the duty of con-
gress to take such steps as will effect
the widest possible distribution of po-
litical power.
zone such step is the abolition of
the poll tax as requirement for vot-
ing in federal elections. This is a
minimum necessity"
Others who testified in favor of the
Geyer bill were Walter Polokoff, rep
resentating the CLIO, J. G. Luhrsen,
Railway Labor Executives Assn, J.
Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of
t ehImproved Benevolent Protective
Order of the Elks, Alton Lawrence,
southern representative of Labor's
Nom Partisan League, and Rev. Fred
E. Maxey, president Of the county
council of the Workers Alliance of
Jefferson county, Ala.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

Today the whole day was just about
lost for me and / guess maybe III
have to arrange my affairs so | can
get out to the capitol some other day
than Tuesday. There's going to be
two holidays on Tuesdays this year;
July 16 and November and then a
day or two after each one of them
to kind of get your bearings again.
Some of the AABF members are going
to need guides on those days after the
election holidays.
Well there wasn't very many guys
around the state house today. They
were down to the democratic conyen-
ton; that is, that's where they were
supposed to be. / know few of
them that couldn't make it because
they attended a special meeting of the
AABF last night and felt kind of dis
solved today. | kind of had to feel
my way around a little too, after last
nights meeting to save the country
from the republicans. 1t was quite a
job too and some of the republicans
got right in and helped with every
thing; even helped wash glasses.
This morning | dropped into the
q guess dropped" is a
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-22
How Close Are We to War?

How Close Are We to War?
How close is the United States to
involvement in the European war?
That question is in the minds and
on the lips of everybody in Washing
ton today. And everybody who asks
the question also supplies the answer
"We're standing so close to the preci-
pice that it wouldn't take much OF
push to topple us over" That's the
universal opinion.
Persons generally credited with
knowing what is going on were say
ing a month ago, well be in this
thing in about eight month" NOW
they're eliminating the phrase, IN
about eight months
Those with their ears glued to Capt.
toll Hill these days fear that almost
any kind of an incident" could STAN
pede congress into declaration OF
war.
The day following the nazi invasion
of the Low Countries, we asked an
isolationist senator what, in his opln-
ion. congress would do if the president
asked for a war declaration. He
scratched his head, pondered for
moment or two, and then said:
~ believe that in the senate we
would not be able to muster more tnan
from is to 20 votes against war, ana
in the house probably only from %
to rs votes"
That was a rather startling state
ment, since congress is supposed 10
reflect the overwhelming sentiment OF
the American people in opposition 10
war under any and all circumstances,
except in case of actual invasion OF
our shores.
Today war feeling on the part Oh
members of congress-expressed not
so much on the floor of the senate
or of the house, but rather in cloak
room, corridor, and restaurant CONVEX
sation-has somewhat subsidized. What
it will be tomorrow nobody knows.