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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-11-07

London, England-Early this week
London enjoyed the first bombless
night in two months. For So con-
secutive nights the city had suf-
fered air attacks from ,Nazi bomb
ers, which now seem to have shifted
their activities northward to Scot
land
Evening star., 1940-06-02
ZuxMzm

GRANDMA. We dared Richard Connell,
whose rib tickling Grandma" story appears
in this ISSUE to uncover bit of his private life
for THIS WEEK readers Here are some
excerpts from his answer:
when l was eleven covered murder
case for my fathers newspaper in Pough-
keepsie, New York. He cut out the big words
with blue pencil and gave me ten cents for
my work. have been a professional writer
ever since.
MY first short story, written at thirteen,
had to do with jealous husband who, for no
good reason, pushed his wife into lard vat.
The black pearl earrings he had given her
turned up in his pie and he went mad One
story led to another, and have done four or
five hundred. used to write ghoulish stories,
but now do mostly funny ones, as life and
people seem funnier to me, the older get
Hollywood is good place to live and to
work. All boys and girls of sixteen are six feet
tall and weigh 200 pounds 1t is great place
Evening star., 1940-06-02

and renew your spirit. Come rdcdtOn
Here in United States you can discover every
variety of vacation pleasure that invented No
matter what you SEEK matter what you DESIRE America
can give it to you fully and generously
Now that June is here there is irresistible harmony
in the song of the open road calling out into the
try, calling me out into my Amerca
Soon, like millions of you everywhere, shall pack my
swimming suit my hiking Shoes my sungasses my camera
fill the gas tank and with the morning my eyes
and song my heart take to the open road Where shall
l go? What does it matter? may meet you in tourist
camps dude ranches youth hostes on the seashore
mountain trails in state parks, in national forests,
Mississippi steamboats,, in shermens lodges at the big
fairs in elegant hotels in simple wildwood cabins
Wherever co. shall all be redscoverng the peace and
the freedom the beauty and the magncence of this land
we live in
We shall be Americans on vacation
Once vacation consisted largely of packing trunks and
going away somewhere to be dressed up You can still
do that you to- but and of every
finding out how much fun is to leave the trunks and
heavy sucases at home with business worries and
concern for tomorrow and sally forth like explorers with
light pack and great expectations.
Most of us 60 in the family But necessity
for vacation Thousands of ride away trains and
buses Thousands take to bicycles to boats and
Canoes to old shanks These bkers and hkers and
sailors and padders may possibly have the best vacation
n the truest of the world of all of They go
slowly and each lake blinking blue through the trees,
each sunset each colorng immediate and
thrilling experience. Robert, young friend of mine, last
cycled youthhoste trail through Massachu
sets, New Hampshire and Vermont and declared it the
best vacation he ever had. And the cheapest too
For the motorst, America is vacationers paradise.
Nowhere in the world there many broad smooth
highways that lead to strange and intriguing and beau
tif places Nowhere do the hghroads call nsistenty
for you follow and the lowoads too the little dng
byways
VI COURSE you go rocketng off across the United
States if you choose making 500 miles day. Dragging
about mileage and missing every good thing along the
way But that's work. not vacationing and is dangerous
too. But you want and richly satisfying expert
ence do what have been doing every for years.
Quit the highway, off onto little road where the
leaves brush the sides of your and spice
blows in the windows
Evening star., 1940-06-02

for grandmas, too. The grandma in my story
ing in one of those super wonder marts,
peppery old party who knows her buckle
berries. Only yesterday saw her buying
some, and assuring the market man that they
better be good. as she was not to be put upon
Not being put upon is, think, the salient
American trait. Grandma will never lose it.
hope the rest of us don't.
Evening star., 1940-06-02

ONE out into America this sum-
mer!
Come out and see the country
you live in. Come out and see
the country where peace lives,
and freedom, and democracy.
Come for a week, a fortnight,
a month. Pack your troubles in
your knapsack, your automobile
trunk, your suitcase. Drop your
workaday cares, forget war and
diplomats and politicians.
Come out and relax your body
Evening star., 1940-06-02

ANTICS. Like Bruce and the Spider, famous
in legend, we now hear of Dr. Finn and the
Ant. Many years ago DR.. Donovan B. Finn,
then powerhouse employee, became 50 curl
Gus observing the antics of humble ant that
he attended night school to study chemistry
and biology Pursuit of knowledge gained him
a university degree and employment in his
chosen field, first as a chemist at Niagara
Falls, then in study of seacoast fishing as
Chairman of the Salt Fish Board Now he is
Deputy Minister of Fisheries for Canada,
position of importance - but to the lowly ant
which first stirred his curiosity he gives credit
for his success
Evening star., 1940-06-02

COMING! A new series of Joseph Harring-
tons famous Harden House" stories The
first story "Gilded Cage" will appear in
next weeks ISSUE Nj.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

state superintendent did follow the Of the
legislature sharing the work and responsibility of the
spondence work with the educational section Of the
W. A. that these things brought about topheavy admin
raon with inevitable conflicts of authority which results in
varying degrees of inefficiency
There intent to be harshy critical OF the
superintendent it intent charge
that Miss Reardon did not make effort make
this educational facility of value the people of the state
We all realize that organizing department by the
sponbe official requires time and making and recognizing
before workable plan of organization effected 1t is
quite common human failing for official to rush the
work get the department working in the
possible time This fault must be shared by all of
official because few of stop realize what
involved demand too much speed from officials
However, such mistakes have been made in the first two
the administration of the correspondence school,
the of being corrected With light of publicity
being directed toward it, perhaps there will be hesitation
the part Of political forces to employ for political
the simple fact that sorey agency
ally become its main and only mission and its degree
provide jobs for politically deserving be entirely eliminated
We hope that the small increase appropriation will be
favoraby by the legislature order that the
iona facilities for the children of the unable attend
school may be increased. Surely the legislature will realize
that if provide educational facilities
children who otherwise would be deprived of Them cost
of about $40 EACH the state will be making sound and ee
tive investment for its future.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

What then mandate? Putting the election puzzle
together it amounts to this:
The American people above all to maintain the peace
of the and this end they
policy of opposition the dctators by methods
short of
Social Welfare First
The American people strong effective national
Tense This rapid and the complete u
zaon of wealth. productive capacity and man
the benefit of the nation and its people The major
people reject the idea that this be done by bust
leadership in the interest of business
The American people want butter we'll guns They
only full production for Defense but full production
the social welfare This breaking the hold Of the
privileged upon wealth and the productive sy
eneimination of the monopoly boenecks to business
Brooklyn and Cleveland speeches promised effective
against monopoly and they expect to make good
that pledge They also expect you maintain
the social gains of the past eight years.
The American people determined to and
tend social and political democracy
This is the mandate and if you make good upon it, you
the American people united behind Since the
there has been much talk of unity But there
only kind of unity in this country unity pro-
gram solves fundamental problems the
interests of the people whoe.-The New American
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
A LUCUBRATION

My Dear Bruce:
Whether one denies God and says
only that there is a tendency or trend
in nature or one lays claim to Divine
plan, there seems unanimity among
scientists in the belief that the world
moves in a certain direction.
Well, that sounds common place
enough But any attempt to under.
stand the present conflicts and appar-
ent contradictions in our social eco
nomic life requires that we keep these
facts constantly before us however
| trite they sound. And it is the fail
ure to recognize these truths that
make change so costly, bloody, and
slow.
The whole universal scheme seems
one of evolvment, change, movement
change in climate, change in land
formations, change in animal and
plant life. Our happiness seems de-
pendent upon and in proportion to the
extent of our understanding of this
plan or trend of all nature and our
ability to adjust our life accordingly.
So, aside from the universal plan or
trend, nothing, generally speaking, is
static, everything dynamic Again,
except when we talk of our socio-eco-
nomic problems in terms of this uni
versal plan or trend nothing is I'M
alterably and eternally true and good.
/ think the point can be proved:
Take for example the concept of De-
mocracy Why do we fight over that?
Why do SO many who proclaim a be-
lief in Democracy do what you and
think the most un-democratic acts?
1t is because they think of Democ-
racy as something static. They iden-
tify Democracy with some set of pres
ent institutions which however good,
God and nature says must give way
to something still better. They do
not think in terms of a universe NOV
ing, evolving. They fail to recognize
Democracy as an ideal-a conception
of human worth, belief in the dig
nifty of man. May say that there is
of the divine in man.
Do l make it clear? Well, no.
What l mean is that when these sim
pie folk see an institution criticized
they think Democracy attacked
And what do they do then? They
deny the very essence of Democracy
the essential dignity-may say, the
divinity of man by subjecting him to
indignities. They tar and feather
him, imprison him, deny him the right
to live his life as God has given him
to live it.
Bruce, I've got to say this to some
one, and of course you are to attack
it. And I've got to give another H.
ustration.
Take for instance the World war.
What is it? Do we mean to save the |
status quo? Well, we won't. The |
plan or trend says no and when that |
S so no Individual no power, no army |
IAN alter the end, can change the |
Ultimate result.
Of course l don't want Hitler to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

win You know I've staged verbal
battles against him for years. But by
the way, he hasn't even noticed me.
What | want to say is that as far
as this Swede sees it there is a trend
towards a collectivist economy, inter-
national inter-dependence, a break
down of national barriers, world in
tegration by which l mean a trend
towards a federation Of nations rather
than a large number of small nations
attempting to be self-sufficient. Does
MT that seem plain? Can we stop it?
because we know so little of man as
such, we will step on each others
toes, get excited, get panicky, and
shed blood OF course we will But
let us not imagine as we did after
World war No. that we are again
to restore the status quo. Do you're
member how we challenged progress
and nature and divided one economic
unit between two nations giving the
raw material to one and the factory
end to another?
Will we try it again?
The war is the result of our in
ability to keep up with natures trend
Well fight it out now. But we won't
alter the inevitable result. And
doubt that either Germany or England
will be the cock of the roost That
is not the sOlution.-J. M. P.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

BOZeman, Mont,
November 3, 1910
Mr.. H. S. Bruce, Editor
The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont.
Dear Mr.. Bruce:
While my subscription has not yet
expired, | enclose herewith check for
$500 to renew. And it will be all
right with me if it is renewed at
$500 a year. | have never, as a
former Montana newspaper publisher,
been able to understand how your
Board of Directors ever expected to
get by" on subscription price of
S100 a year in this sparsely settled
state without other sources of rev.
enue. 1t just can't be done without
a subscription list far larger than any
newspaper publication ever has had in
subscription rate to $500 or even $3.50
a year. Then you should be allowed
to get bunch of subscription solicit
ors and allow them $1.00 for each new
subscriber. In this county l have
talked with many persons about your
and few of them even
know about it. The Peoples Voice
needs publicity for itself, and plenty
of it, if it is not to meet the fate of
all other liberal, honest and fearless
newspapers which have been launched
in this state in the past 80 or 40
years The Peoples Voice has done
excellent work. Its contribution to
the election of Mr.. Ford as governor
is the most valuable contribution to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
RADICALS BRAINIER
Than SCISSORBILLS,
PROFESSOR FINDS

| 'The average economic radical Is
young, well-educated, intelligent, nom
religious, and usually native-born," are
the findings of Goodwin Watson, pro-
lessor of education, Teachers College,
Columbia.
Over 1,400 of Americas most promi-
nent psychologists, on September at
Pennsylvania State College at the an
nual meeting of the American Psy-
Geological Association, heard Profess
sor Watson make this report, which
was given full column in the New
York Times of September 6.
The findings of Mr.. Watson are
based upon study of 745 men and
women who came for vocational guild
ance to the American Association for
Adult Education.
The radical is no more likely to be
man than a woman, and is usually
in the ranks of the employed. The
radical is neither mentally nor phys
ically maladjusted; and size Of income
has no observable relation to radical
ism. Some with the highest incomes
were found to have radical beliefs.
Many Radicals Are Agnostics
Professor Watson declared that a
striking feature of his study was that
AZ percent was found to be non-re-
ligious. Apparently there is much in
common psychologically, between
breaking away from faith in the tradi-
tional economic order and breaking
away from the faith in the tradition
al religion" he declared.
Mr. Watson reported that nearly
one-third of the teachers studied were
found to be radicals. Next in line
are those engaged in the arts and sci
entific professions. In citing the
higher incidence of radicalism among
college and graduate students, Mr..
Watson said:
students of revolutionary periods
in history have pointed out that one
Of the first signs Of the coming trans
is the desertion of the old
order by the inteIectuaIs, those with
'eady minds"
Cleveland Workers Studied
DR.. J. E. Janney, of Cleveland Col
eye, also reported the result Of his
study among the unemployed and en-
)loyed workers of his city. After in
erviewing 313 persons on relief and
62 persons with jobs, Dr. Janney said
hat there Is little II any evidence of
lass consciousness among Cleveland
elief clients. Two-thirds of those on
elief expected to be off the rolls with
n one to five years, and definitely
expected the employment situation to
e bettered in the next 10 years. They
onsidered the present economic sys-
EN- to be quite sound, and not to be
famed for the fact that they are
temporarily disemployed." On the
Their hand, those with jobs were
luch less imistic.-Northwes Or
anizer
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
The Correspondence School

understood that increase in the appropriation the
state supervised Correspondence School to be asked
OF the coming legislature The appropriation for the BIZ
ennium was 900 or S17,500 for each year.
We have stated before in this column that think mis-
takes have been made in the administration of act We
have stated that opinion the employment business
manager at salary of $4,000 did appear necessary that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
400 S. Grand, Bozeman, Mont,
November "a, 1910

400 S. Grand, Bozeman, Mont,
November "a, 1910
Editor, Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont
Dear Mr. Editor
You will find enclosed one dollar to
pay for one years subscription. I
have been getting it since the first
copy Jerry O'Connell sent to me- l
like your paper very much but l don't
agree with you all the time. You was
bitterly opposed to military conscrip-
ton, I was 1000 for it. l think it
is the only way to get the right kind
Of an army and the only democratic
way. One other thing l didn't feel
very good toward you was the way
you treated Jerry O'Connell You
said a lot Of nice things about Free
bourn and Judge Ford but never one
word for Jerry, he was beaten in 1897
by Senator Wheeler and DR.. Town
send and all the money interest the
first district was disgraced in sending
the fellow they sent. l have nothing
against Miss Rankin but she has been
away from the state over 20 years.
She did not deserve this office. Jerry
always has worked for the old people
labor and the poor and | felt you
should have done all you could to help
him. AS ever, yours for success,
THOMAS E. RICHARDSON.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27
OPINIONS OF READERS


submitted
effectively.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-27

the general welfare of the people OF
Montana that any newspaper has
rendered in the more than fifty years
of my residence In the state, in my
opinion.-W. A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-01
(NEA Telephoto)

at once. But does he need them?
 You don't know. For the child's sake
 make sure. Have his eyes examined.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-01

the eyes.
 So, If your child needs glasses, by all means see that he Is given them
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12
JOHNSON ANALYZES
LIVESTOCK SITUATION
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
tons.
These are facts that have been
established through the passing
of only a short period of time and
we are obliged to accept them as
such. If these facts mean any
thing to the businessmen ,educa-
tors and leaders of our communi-
ty, who through their contacts
made in their various vacations
have the opportunity to assist in
the development of an industry
that would be beneficial not only
to themselves but their posterity,
thereby fulfilling their mission of
having made the world a little
better place in which to live, we
believe it would be in keeping to
forget this animousity between
the beef and dairy types Of farm
ing and try to promote that which
might be adapted to the best in
terest of the individual involved,
that we might have bigger and
better Ashe county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12
MANY NEW BOOKS
ADDED TO THE LIBRARY

Continued from Page One)
dreth" a $4,000 prize novel, by
Harlow Estes, with a setting on
a New England coast and a cast
of characters that are very much
alive and human. ''The Hamlet,
by William Faulkner, who is a
native of Mississippi and writes
with much humor.
Coed Home with Nice Peo-
pie, by Josephine Lawrence, was
published last year but was pur-
chased along with others since the
author is a favorite with many OF
the patrons Of the library.
There are twenty selected books
for one and two teacher schools
available here now.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12
TAKING ORDERS FOR
LIME AND PHOSPHATE

Ashe county farmers are in
vited to place their orders for
lime and phosphate at the farm
agents office in jefferson.
Those who have not gotten
their tobacco marketing cards are
urged to do so by applying IN
person at the office.
Farmers who have reached
their goals in compliance with the
1910 AAA program can now sign
applications for payments, MIR.
Rich states.
He also announced that a group
of six farmers purchased a car
load of feed oats. Delivery was
made at a cost of fifty-three cents
per bushel.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12
or Santa Claus Was Born in u. S. 4.

EUROPE brought Christmas to
IL America, but America gave
Santa Claus to Europe.
When the early Dutch settlers
came to America, they had never
heard of Santa Claus. Old st. Nicho-
las, who brought them presents each
December 6, changed rapidly in the
New world.
His name became abbreviated and
altered to Santa Claus, and his ex-
ternal appearance underwent great
changes. From a lean ascetic he
was transformed into a jolly, fat
old fellow. His pale face became
the color of rosy apples. He laid
aside his canonical robes, inter and
pastoral staff to become clothed in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12
N. c. May Be First In Nation
To Set Up Home Guard Units

Raleigh. = North Carolina will
be among the first, and possibly
3I1e very first, state in the coun-
Try TO organize home guard unit
under the supervision of the War
Department, Governor Hoey said
this week.
Hoey said he expected to re-
sceIue orders from Washington in
"a few days in regard to the or
ganization, and that North Caro-
lima would form such a unit as
soon as the orders arrived.
War Department officials have
assured the Governor that, since
North Cardinals National Guard
was in the first group of guard
elnits to be called for national
services, North Carolina would be
among the first states to have
home guard units.
The home guardsmen would
perform duties formerly handled
by the National Guard, and
would be available for any emer-
gency within the state.
The Governor disclosed that
most members of the home guard
would be men So years of age or
older. who would not be subject
20 the draft. A few younger men
ExlHo either were below the draft
age of q or who were rejected
Dy draft boards also might serve,
he added.
Hoey made public letter to
Elan from Brigadier General J.
Tan B Nets, state selective SER
zF2ca Gfficer, in which Nets re-
commended.
-AItl1ough the American Lee
agiun and other organizations have
offered to organize units within
ahesr memberships, and although
6hsse organizations can be of
1ntath help, Z doubt the wisdom
III limiting either the officer or
the enlisted personnel to the
membership of any particular
CIVIC body"
-"Men subject to the draft
ssfnult4 not be taken in, since Off
<sSs alla men should be discip-
Tined and trained to efficiently
meet any state emergency which
may arise. They should be rea-
sozrdb1y physically sound"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12
WHITETOP NEWS

Frank Farmer visited in Horse
Creek Tuesday.
Miss Edith Paisley and Miss
Joanna Anderson, teachers al
Whitetop school, spent the week
end with home folks, who reside
at Mouth of Wilson.
Mrs. Gladys Harriger made
trip to Radford, Va, last Sunday
returning with her were two ME
ces, Misses Wilma and Mildred
Waiver, who are attending college
there.
Mrs. Lettie Sheppard, who has
had some trouble with her foot,
is getting better now.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-12-12

Hoey said he agreed with the
two recommendations, and hoped
that the legion and other groups
would cooperate in every pos
sible way in the organization of
the units.
II should like to feel that the
home guards are thoroughly rep
resentative of the communities
where they are organized" the
Governor said. "Great care should
be exercised to see that they will
be a permanent value to their
several communities and to the
state"