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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08

make your triangle pattern. The
size suggested in the sketch
makes very striking border. If
a very strong, bright color is used
for the plain triangles, narrower
border in this design will also
make a good showing.
NOTE: Mrs. Spears has pre-
pared for our readers a set of
three Quilt Block Patterns from
her favorite Early American de-
signs. Included in the set is the
kaleidoscope, and the Whirlwind.
The third is the Ann Rutledge,
which Mrs. Spears sketched from
an original in the Rutledge Tav-
ern at New Salem, ILL.,, where Abe
Lincoln boarded, and where he
courted the proprietor's daughter,
according to the romantic legend
so familiar to movie goers. It is
an unusual variation of the Nine
patch, and rich with historical
background. For set of three COM
plete patterns, send 10 cents in
coin to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10,
Bedford Hills, New York.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08
Strange Facts
\ Bound to Match
-Four DR.. Sun Days
. Fear Civilization .

A New York bookbinder makes
a specially Of covering his books
with material most appropriate to
the subject matter. For example,
he will bind a book on ostrich
farming in ostrich skin, one on
prison life in zebra skin, one on
dermatology in human skin, the
Bible in lambskin and The Mer-
chant of Venice in sharkskin.
=sM%
China observes four national hol-
days in honor of DR.. Sun Vat
sen (1866-1925): His birthday, the
anniversary of his death, the date
of his first installation as presi-
dent of the Chinese republic and
the date of his Imprisonment at
the Chinese legation in London.
The Jicaque Indians of Hondu-
ras, despite their primitive man.
ners and customs, are so fearful
of the disease germs Of civiliza-
ton that they will not use, or even
touch with the bare hand, any pur-
chase or gift from a white man
until it has been disinfected for at
least two days.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08

sanitation and cleanliness that ap-
proximate army barrack life, but
there the similarity ends with a
bump.
l think this policy is right. The
manpower problem is the least of
our military puzzles. Under the Sc
lective draft principle used in 1917
1918 we can get the very cream of
our crop of youth with practically
no delay whatever. By intensive
training they can be taught in a
few days more than the average
CCC boy knows about military serv-
ice.
But the selectivea., service idea
won't work at all if it's burdens do
not bear with absolute fairness on
every class of men within the draft
ages.
Proposals now being discussed are
not to require CCC boys to- join the
army but to encourage and to per-
NIT them to volunteer. They have
that right anyway in peace, but
if we have to raise big army for
war we will have to have selective
service. After that starts, volun-
teering must end. You can't have
two classes-the events" and the
"sents" under the selective system.
This country, as never before,
needs men like Senator Borah. You
can count his like on the fingers of
one hand.
He and I have had disagreements.
He was great disagreer. You
couldn't have a whole senate of
Borahs and still have either party
organization or much cohesion in
the senate itself.
Alone with such a few veterans
as Carter Glass, he simply did not
play in the pork-barrel game of po-
litical patronage. He was so strong
ly entrenched in the goodwill and
confidence of the people of his state
that there was no necessity to do
that
But we need quota of such men.
1t is the antidote for personalized
power. Like Thomas Jefferson, he
had sworn eternal hostility toward
any form of domination over the
mind of man. He voted and acted
as he thought and believed-and he
always thought and believed sim
cerely. With this controlling princi-
pie guiding him, he paid scant atten-
ton to party policy, presidential
prestige or popular reaction-if any
of these influences interfered with
what he thought was right.
In private life he was as gentle
as woman.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08
GENERAL
JOHNSON
:. 0!!.,.!!.'d!!!:Hc.''''.:'
Firms in Gallant Key Battle but
We Should Either Discard Neu.
trality or Make No Loan /. the
CCC and the Army.
By HUGH S. JOHNSON

WASHINGTCsi.-If we want to
take hand in the wild European
war game, let's do it above the
board, discard our neutrality and
take the consequences. Sending
money to the Firms to buy our "sur-
plus agricultural products" in full
knowledge that they do not now need
them, do need arms, and can and
will sell them to create credit to
buy arms, is just another Roosevelt
tan "clever little scheme"
The fight on the Finnish front is a
key-battle. 1t is a dangerous flank
attack in the war between western
and eastern Europe. The defense
ranks with the highest of all mill
tary traditions. 1t is strangely like
the heroic stand at Thermopylae.
There a handful of Greeks held off
a Persian steam-roller waiting for
Spartan assistance which could have
brought victory but never came.
Yes, Finland which is the narrow
eastern gate to Scandinavia, is de-
Tending the left flank of all western
Europe. AS those endangered ma
tions value eventual victory, they
ought to rally to her not only by
furnishing credits to enable her to
buy arms here, but in every other
way. Our case is different. With
all the goodwill and admiration
possible we must still remember
that this key position is in Europe
an warm which our people almost
unanimously wish to have no part.
WASHINGTON.-The question of
using CCC as an army reserve or
pool of possible recruits in case of
war is being agitated again. The
project won't get far.
Even though the subject was APP
preached with the greatest caution
and RIO such purpose was announced,
the first smell of it aroused howl
of protest from one end of the coun-
try to the other.
The complaint was and still is:
"Why should the very poorest of
our youth be put out first as cannon
fodder?"
The average CCC company knows
hardly enough about military drill to
fall in for roll-call. 1t does live in
barracks under rules for hygiene,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08
Speaking of Sports
Lands Ruling
Checks Illegal
Diamond Deals
By ROBERT McSHANE

(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
ON NOVEMBER IL, 1920, follow
~ ing the worst scandal in base
ball history, major league club own
ers selected Judge Kenesaw Noun
tain Lands as the man to set their
house in order.
1t has taken a full 20 years-since
the Black Sox scandal of 1919-for
some club owners to realize that
they chose a man who is fearless,
honest and has the courage and de-
termination to do the job for which
he was selected.
His recent ukase directed against
"cover-up" deals cost the Detroit
Tigers 81 players whose talent was
valued at 100000, and $47,500 cash
which Lands ordered. paid to IA
other players in lieu of making them
free agents.
A baseball cover-up deal is one in
which a club which Ostensibly holds
a players contract is merely hold
ing it for some other club. The COW
er-up is contrary to the laws gov
erning baseball. These deals usu-
ally fall into one of two classes
"gentlemen's agreements, in which
nothing official is put into writing,
and false transfer papers.
Practice Not New
These subterfuges are not new. In
1906 three National commissioners
drew up what is believed to be the
first rule striking at such practices.
Infractions of the rule can be traced
back to the year of its inception.
Even as late as 1888 Lands struck a
strong blow by liberating more than
100 St. Louis Cardinal controlled
players.
Baseball men today are worried.
National attention has been focused
once more on the structure of the
player contract which sends a play
er into virtual serfdom from the
time he enters organized baseball
until he retires. Once a player
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08

IL
signs his name on one-year con-
tract, he is chattel of that club,
whether it be cellar-position minor
or top-ranking major-league club.
He can be sold, paid and traded as
the owner desires. Even though
the contract expires in one year the
reserve clause makes him the prop
erty of that club for life, or until he
is traded, sold or drafted.
At the end of each season every
organized club sends to headquar-
tiers a reserve list" and the law
governing it reads:
"Thereafter no player on any list
shall be eligible to play for or ne
gotiate with any other club until his
contract has been assigned or he
has been released"
Fighting a Lost Cause
Which means that no player, re-
CARELESS of reason, can sever con-
nections with that club and 60 out
and sell his services to the highest
bidder. All he can do is try to
hold out for few more dollars
when contract-signing time comes
around. In case the club owner
does not agree with him on a salary
increase the player is licked before
he starts. If he refuses to play he
is suspended and therefore ineligi-
bic to play in organized baseball. A
trip to civil court would result in
blacklisting. Baseball is >tight-knit
fraternity.
If major league club owners ex-
ercise any judgment whatever they
will see the justice of his decision
against Detroit. More than that,
they will applaud it. Rulings such
as this have restored the confidence
of the American people in baseball.
The national pastime is fortunate
to have Judge Lands as its czar.
AS helmsman he is unequalled in
any other sport.
Baseball fans of the nation know
that. Therefore it behooves club
owners to keep their skirts clean of
any unethical practices which result
in the public's loss of confidence in
the sport.
His decision against Detroit may
bring renewed efforts on the part
of what little opposition there is to
Lands to relieve him of his office.
The rules, whether fair or not, are
on the books, and it is Lands job
to see that they are obeyed. Detroit
is a case in point. They paid for
breaking the rules. There may be
other club owners guilty Of infrac-
tiOns of the baseball code. If they
are, it would be- best for them to
straighten out their affairs in double
quick time. BasebalPs present play
er contract system could not with
stand close public scrutiny.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08

WEARY DESPONDENT
nl0 C. Crying spells, irritable
UUnL n. nerves due to functional
monthly" pain should find
areal woman friend" in Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. TRY III
Lydia E. Pinkhaln's SdsPSua5
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08

-. Mrs. Bob Taft helps Girl Scouts
blo,o out birthday candleIights. She can
also blo,U about making better speed,
than her senator husband
SEC E. r. Stettinius, able
young head of the U. S. Steel cor
poration, is high among the posi-
bilities for assistant secretary of
navy, made vacant when Charles
Edison was elevated to the cabinet
-. Townsendites have picked St.
Louis and June 80 as the place and
date for their convention this year.
Politicos are much interested in the
timing, because it is before the two
national nominating conventions. In
1886, Townsend teamed up with Fa-
Their Coughlin against both Roose-
welt and Landon.
War Pessimism.
The confidential war reports re-
ceived by government agencies have
not been too optimistic of late re-
garding the Allied positions.
This pessimism has nothing to dc
with the sudden mobilization of the
Dutch and Belgians, which had be-
hind it only the fact that the canals
which constitute the best defense
against Germany were frozen, and
the lowland countries suddenly real
lied how easy it would be for the
Nazis to cross.
Chief reason for pessimism is the
very mediocre success of the Brit
ish blockade, plus rumblings of new
conversations between Russia and
Germany.
How far these new conversations
have gone is impossible to say.
But they revolve around the Rus
sian failure in Finland and the fact
that the Russian transportation sys-
tenn has broken down. This gives
the Germans an excellent excuse
to become the technical doctors of
the Soviet.
In fact, Foreign Minister Won Rib
bentrop, who has been under lot
of German army criticism for ne
gotiating the Russian pact in the
first place, now sees this as a gold
en- opportunity to reueem himself.
He has proposed to Stain that Ger
many take over Russia's transporta-
ton and industry, but only if she
has completely free hand.
Whether Stain accepts is anyone
guess. But if he does, Russia and
Germany together will constitute the
most powerful region in the world,
ruled by two dictators, stretching
from the Rhine to the Pacific.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08
Pieced Border for
Kitchen Curtains
Nv RUTH WYETH SPEARS

no YOU remember this old
- fashioned Saw Tooth quilt pat
tern? It has been used for the
border of many a handsome quilt.
It is so effective and so simple
to piece that it should serve more
decorative purposes. Here it trims
kitchen curtains of unbleached
muslin. 1t surprises one a little
to see how modern it looks. Cut
a piece of stiff paper in a perfect
square and then cut diagonally
through the center. One half will
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08
1%imoIM@
ea MIaHf; INV
Mrs. Borah May Write Mrs,
Taft Can Speak New Con.
: versations Between Nazis and
Soviet Worry Allies.
By DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT ALLEN

WASHINGTON.-Plans for the fu-
ture are, still uncertain for "Little
Borah" as Mrs. William E. Borah,
widow of the senator, is affectionate-
ly known. Except for one thing-tfe
decision to give up the spacious,
beautifully furnished apartment in
which she and the senator lived for
many years. 1t was their only
home. They had none in Idaho.
When they returned there in the
summer they lived in a Boise hotel.
The senator left small estate
which, with the $4,000 which wild
ows of members of congress re-
ceive, will enable Mrs. Borah to live
comfortably. Borah could have
made big money, but he always re-
fused. He had many offers of le-
gal cases; and few years ago he
was handed contract by news
paper syndicate for $4,000 to write
a weekly, 1,200-word article. But he
rigidly adhered to the rule that he
was an employee of the people and
that they were entitled to his full
time.
Borah was so meticulous about
this that when, during his fourth
term, congress increased senatorial
pay from $500 to $4,000 a year,
he refused to accept the addi-
tional $4,000: until reelected.
Mrs. Borah has a sister in Mos
:. cow, Idaho, and another in Port
land, Ore. She will visit them be-
fore deciding where she will set
tie permanently. In the past, she
has had number of requests to
write about Washington and about
her many experiences in the Off
cial and social world. She has
always declined, but now she may
turn her gentle wit and charm to
such work.
Merry GO-ROund.
Mrs. Bob Taft, wife of Ohio's G..
o. P. "favorite son." doesn't play
bridge, but she can make a better
political speech than her husband
-. The SEC is quietly Investigate
ing a Wall Street "bear raid" on
securities of the $800,000,000 Stand
ard Gas & Electric company, fol-
lowing inside reports that the raid
was staged by utility interests as
part of a campaign to discredit the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-08
Fill the Mind

Fill the Mind
Study rather to fill your mind
than your Golfers; knowing that
gold and silver we're originally
mingled with dirt until avarice or
ambition parted them. Seneca.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25
. On the Side
By E. v. During,

So noW is come our joyfuPst feast;
Let every man be jolly;
Each room Nth icy leaves is drest,
And every post With holly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25
MISS ROBINSON

so You stable. Weary brutes guard
caoused hands ragged shepherds neeng
side
Born in manger-as another mothers babe had
been Born the hopeless hardps laborers
more forgotten drudge world where all workers had been
beasts of burden through centuries of darkness.
RUT that night the darkness broke That night hope at
~ last to desperate souls Above Your bazed
angel sangand humanity Wisdom
and Charity and Brothery Love riding do You honor!
Long since that light first dawned for working
Yet today while the inns blaze with reve Joseph still knocks
at the barred DOORS Mary still embles the the
shepherds still SILVER above their cany should
have kept that star blazing that ringing have forgotten
there in greedy hearts for the love that all
to share.
Jesus back!
Come back, Christ Jesus!
again Bethlehem Knock at our drugged
minds barred hearstear the
selfhne Make You pity
waiting helpless and hopeless Make willing You
willing to share their lot and their burden And
Your infinite frndlnes grant may again
hearts today, in the manager of a humility.
JESUS, COME BACK!
Copyright Featu ndcateI ~.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

have stayed away like this,
without a word. Its all
over" she mourned.
Katie's motto in romance
was to be sure first and sorry
afterwards. When she finished
work that afternoon she
looked in the telephone book
and found that Hugh Banner
man III had an office in Wall
Street. Just before closing
time she presented herself to
a sleek and startled recep-
zionist.
Tell him it's a friend of
Miss Iris divers" said Kate.
Don't forget the name"
I'm not likely to forget
that NAME" was the retort.
Then Kate found herself
facing the man whose like
ness she busted daily on Iris
dresser. In the picture he
was smiling. Now he looked
worried, upset.
"Sit down and take it
easy" said Kate with solicit
tude. Iris amt sick or met
with an accident. i came
about her Christmas dinner"
Bannerman had remained
standing. At the mention of
dinner, Katie saw him stiffen.
"She told you she had a
date" she plunged on. "Well
I'm the date"
A CHRISTMAS HISTORY
Hugh Bannerman started,
then suddenly began to laugh.
So did Katie. Then they both
sat down, and she gave him
the history of Iris's past trio
of Christmases. But this
time 1 want you to have her."
she finished. "Sure she can
come to my place any old
year"
The boys twinkling blue
eyes neither mellow brown
ones. Better hang onto her
this year" he said quietly.
Next Christmas you can't
tell" He was smiling now,
just like in his picture. But
couldn't you invite another
guest, Katie"
you mean" she gaSped.
But she knew. of course, that
he did. Lets keep 1t a
secret" she said with a
roguish wink. Lets the pair
of us give Iris big surprise"
And on Christmas Day,
with mistietoe deftiy hanging
from all four doors of Katie's
fiat, they did.
THE END.
TOmOrrow's short story:
Treasure Island" by Denis
Morrison.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

then, the Christmas bells will
ring out the death knell of this
ancient disease of mankind.
So we hope you have pur-
chased your Christmas seals and
that you will continue to use
them if you have any left even
though Christmas is over.
In accomplishing this object.
most of it will have to be done
by public health work in de-
liberately roofing out cases in
the population and sending them
TO sanitaria. This work is
called case-finding.
How many sanitarium beds
will it take? In 1888 it was
estimated that there were 1872
institutions in the United States
with 10000 beds which could be
used for tuberculosis cases.
This is one and half beds per
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25
By HOLLIS STARNES

mas Katie asked Iris: "Where
are you steppin' out for
Christmas supper with His
Nibs ?"
The girl burst into tears.
Bit by bit Katie learned what
had happened.
"Sure the poor lad thinks
you're off with another beau"
she said. Hes jealous. You
must tell him the truth"
But Iris said she never
would. If he really cared,
she reasoned, he wouldn't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

Katie when her fortunes failed
10 come true.
People of the theater, have
ever lived by faith and hope,
and even. the modern Lean
take-it" Iris longed also in
her heart for love. But this
Broadway beauty wanted a
more stable sort of devotion
than anything she had yet
been offered along the Gay
White Way. Iris had ideals
along with her devastating
charm. To the typical Broad
way man, she was an enigma.
This year it was mid
December before she thought
of the oncoming holiday. She
had opened on Broadway
Thanksgiving week. in the
first good part of her career.
and the play already looked
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

and 81 per
C e n I from
1880 to 1910.
If the av-
erage decline
of approx
mately one
third every 10
years can be
m a / n tanned,
the tuberculo-
sis death rate
in 1850 would
be 80; in 1860
81: in 1870.
IA. and by the
year 1000, if
there is any
Christm nc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

annual death. 1t is estimated
that a minimum of two beds for
each annual death are needed IL
a good case-finding program is
carried out. This will mean about
$4,000 more beds than we have
at present available.
The case-finding method is
necessary because so many peo-.
pie with tuberculosis do not
realize that they have anything
the matter with them.
They go on with slight symp-
toms, do not seek medical advice
and, in fact, many cases feel bet
ter than people who are not sick
at all.
Only when some dramatic
event occurs, such as a hemor-
rhage from the lungs, or the dis
ease becomes so extensive as to
cause real disability, do they
realize their condition and ask
for diagnosis.
A great deal of advance could
be made IL these people would
learn to recognize their symp-
toms in the early stages and
seek advice.
ONE EARLY SIGN
One early sign is hemorrhage
from the lungs. This naturally
frightens and depresses the per-
son to whom it occurs, but It
may be blessing in disguise be-
cause it is sufficiently dramatic
TO make him seek medical adj
vice, and also because il is not
necessarily a sign of late tuber-
culosis.
In fact. it may occur quite
early-certainly early enough for
successful treatment.
Another significant thing is
pleurisy. In any pleurisy where
the pain is bad enough to put
the patient TO bed and result in
fever and disability for several
days, 1t should be regarded as a
premonitory sign of tuberculosis.
OTHER SYMPTOMS
Other early symptoms are IA
tigue which is unnatural-that
is, fatigue which cannot be ex-
planned by the amount of exer.
ton or work done.
OF course. cough and expec-
toration, afternoon fever and
night sweats may be early or are
likely to be late signs.
There are. however, many
forms of cough which are not
called cough" One is a cold
that hangs on, or recurrent colds
in the Winter. All these demand
careful examination.
Remember that in many cases
the primary complex occurs in
childhood but that a danger per-
Rod is in adolescence when the
reinfective, chronic form OF tu-
berculosis Of the lungs develops.
The number Of these cases In
creases through the twenties and
thirties. and the mortality peak
is reached during the thirties.
In this age, then. the syrnp-
toms and signs which I kave IN.
dicated should be Of p<kticular
significance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25
Daily Short Story

like a hit. As if this were not
bounty enough, after three
long years Of poverty and
heartache, Iris had met the
one man she felt she could
ever care for.
Over last Christmas tea
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25

tea with plenty of leaves"
and tell her guests fortunes.
These had a ring of sameness.
for always there was money
and success" in store. Iris
also included a glowing ro-
nance. No one ever berated
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-25
Better Health
By DR.. Logan Clendening

TUBERCULOSIS IS worth
writing about because the CAM
paign is hopeful.
The death rate has dropped rs
per cent in 40 years. 1t dropped
33 per cent from 1920 to 1880