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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23
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to the parents. In other words,
the child is sent home as near cur
ed of every ailment as is possible
to do 50.
Since the great masses Of people
have learned the objects and
workings of the Shriners' hospi-
tails, many have made wills and
.bequests to this institution; have
contributed thousands Of gifts,
toys, candy, articles Of clothing
and many other useful things to
patients.
Of the thousands of dollars CIV
en- directly by friends of the in
stitution, not one penny is used
for overhead expenses. This mon
ey is used for the direct benefit
Of the children. As one little item
of expense, is a complete outfit of
new clothing, including shoes, CIV
en- to each child when he leaves
the hospital.
The budget expenses of the hos
pital includes the salaries Of the
Chief surgeon, superintendent, as
sistant superintendent, night SUI
perintendet, office secretary and
bookkeeper and two orderlies. In
addition small sum is paid for
the board of 6 student nurses.
These funds are taken from the
budget provided for by the Nation
al board of trustees Of Shriners'
Hospitals for Crippled Children.
The school board of Spokane
provides school teacher who Is
under the jurisdiction of the city
school system and the children are
given regular daily school work.
Those who are not able to sit in
the school room are given bedside
work by the teacher. These child
rem receive more personal atten-
ton than is the case in a large city
school.
A new physical therapy depart
ment fully equipped, has recently
been completed at q cost Of $10,-
BOO. This was the gift Of q Spo-
kane woman interested IN the
work being done In the hospital.
This department Is one Of the fin-
st in the West and is most valu-
able in treating the numerous in
'antile paralysis cases.
The average length Of stay In
he hospital per patient 1t the
Spokane unit is about 80 days.
The hospital keeps 20 little
children in the hospital at all
lines and there is always q wait
ng list. At the present time there
s q waiting list Of 81.
The hospital is always open to
,isitors and at all times an effort
s made to acquaint anyone inter-
.sted in the institution with its
workings.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23
Kennewick Coffee Shop
Has New Management

The Kehnewick Coffee Shop
was taken over on May 10 by Fred
S. Roseborough, who formerly
operated restaurants in Phoenix,
Arizona and Spokane.
Describing his plans, Rosebor-
ough said: 81 intend, within the
limits Of present food and help
shortages, to serve the best pos
sible meals at the lowest cots"
Mrs. Roseborough and the chill
dren, Fred Jr., age Is; Patricia,
age 10; and Michael, age 4, will
arrive in the city about June I.
Roseborough as been In the rest
aurant business for seven years.
He Is . meber Of the American Le-
gion Post No. I, Of Seattle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23

You are invited to hear q Bible
lecture, "World Woes-Why Per-
mitted?" Sunday, May 18th, z pm.
Followed by Watchtower study at
8:15 p. m. at Kingdom hall, 28-10
Alder Ave. Jehovah Witnesses,
KenneWick. Admission free. No
collections.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23
. the Churches

BETfuEfEM LUTHERAN
The Church Of the Lutheran Hour
Divine services Sunday at 11:0O
q. m.
Sunday school at 1000 q. m.
Walther League Wednesdays at
800 p. m.
Tune in on ''The Lutheran
Hour" every Sunday from $50
1000 q. m. over .KUJ, Walla Wala
or over KPKW from 10000
p. m.
You are cordially invited to our
services.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
XonnoWick Avonuo q DoY3on
NR2vs&eAaR YA1asn u Gana

X0nnoWick Avonuo @ O0Y3o0
ltinae1oe, John b. Co0n
Sunday school each Sunday at
0:45.
Morning service ct 400. Good
music and pastoral message.
Junior high fellowship at 600.
Senior fellowship at 700 p. m.
Joint program with pictures
from the Holy Land.
Monday, 2 p. M, Scouts.
Tuesday, 8 p. m, Brotherhood
dinner program.
Friday, 8 p. m, Samaritan Bible
class lawn party with Mrs. Alice
Trier, 113 N. Benton.
Always q friendly welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23

Needle Club
The Needle club met Friday,
May 18th, with Mrs. Paul Stone.
They made plans for their annual
picnic in the park to be held Fri
day, June z. It will be potluck and
each member should bring her
own service.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23

Unity class, under the direction
|of Rev. Buelah Scot, meets each
Monday evening IN the banquet
room at the Arrow Grin. The pub
lie = cordially welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-05-23

The state Of New York Is the
largest producer Of buckwheat,
with Pennsylvania second, Mich
iRan third and Maine fourth.
Evening star., 1946-06-05

The element of imitation caused nv
Government borrowing will disappear as
the budget gets into balance. There is
less saving now by individuals, and, in
many cases, past savings are sinking.
Such men in the streets as are able
to forget current problems and to think
ahead are asking how this boom will
end. Will it be in big burst or will
it deteriorate by slow degrees? That
depends upon what economists call
cushions. One such cushion will be
a considerably higher level of savings
than that which We had in 1929, even
after current depletions are accounted
for. We saved full years income, and
that will not disappear suddenly. The
other cushion will be the capacity of
adjustment of production to the new
conditions which are ahead. No one
can tell how soundly balanced our in
dustrial development will be. There
may be an overexpansion in some lines
and underdevelopment in others. New
companies will ultimately face a struggle
for existence. The old law of survival
Will prevail. Only prophet with ON
niscience could tell in advance what
will happen.
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Evening star., 1946-06-05
FREIGHT Train

Sloarly and tUearily the train cronls
along the tracks
LIKE an ancient and numbering ttred
old beast:
Flat cars and black gondolas, tank cors,
bor cars,
From somewhere in the West, pounp
sone,Dllere East.
Great Northern and Union Pacific,
B. & o., Santa Fe;
Cattle cars and mountains of sulphur,
heaps OF gray shule,
Lumber and grain and black oil. This
is the life blood
OF America coursing toreper throuphs
her Deins OF rail.
Chicago, Rock Island, Sedbodrd, Atlantic
Coast Line;
Sun faded maroon and rrimy brick.
red OF old cars:
They haze ,Ouited in sidings through tho
rains of the years,
They haze ridden night upon ntott
under prairie stars.
The Dheels clack toeorily Edstwdrd: ut
the end OF the train
The brakeman matches the land 10Th
inscrutdble eyes;
Once more the ragDeed and Jimson
spring up in the tracks,
Green and eternal. triumphant In
cf1,der fHed ties.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Make 1t Whole Hoo
From the Memphis comm.reial. Anna,

FROM the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Certain members of Congress, who
have opposed every move made in the
direction of imposing adequate re-
sponsibilities on organized labor and are
scared within an inch of their lives by
the nebulous threat of union blocs OF
voters, want to investigate the operation
Of the Nations coal mines Well, II any
investigation of the coal industry Is re-
quired, 1t is one that goes whole hog
and takes In John L. Lewis and the
United Mines Workers that he keeps in
his vest pocket. Mr.. Lewis is always
quick to claim how important he and
the mine union are in the coal industry,
and there is at least some slight reason
to believe that he has. from time to
time. and in his own lovable fashion,
exerted influence on its development
and lack thereof. If we are going to
investigate anybody in the coal business,
let's investigate everybody In the coal
business.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Our Unhappy Boom
By Raymond Moley

The boom which We are experiencing
Is what the late President Roosevelt
would have called "ify." If we had been
told in the dark days of the war that
almost all the characteristics of boom
would be present year after victory,
We would not have believed we could be
as unhappy as we are. II we were told
that over $4,000 900 would be employed; :;
that agriculture would produce as much
with two hands as with three before
the war; that the Federal Reserve Index
of industrial production would be over
ITO per cent of 1899, and that depart
ment stores would be selling at rate
Of $50 per cent of 1899, we would have
assumed that full prosperity had come
once more.
There are other evidences of we'll
being. Despite our gastronomic priva-
tions, we eat II per cent more per capita
than in 1889. The quotations of indus
trial stocks have increased in two years
by half. The list of boom character
istics might be extended indefinitely.
But confidence, the essential ingre-
dient of well-being, is absent, except in
some political circles. Aside from the
unhappiness caused by shortages of all
kinds, the feeling prevails that this
boom Is temporary affair. While Civil
ian Production Administrator John D.
Small is predicting an employment rise
to 57,0o000o by fall. there is no real
confidence that jobs will remain SO
plentiful Agriculture, now in its great
est season, will be turning at least
2,000, 900 people loose after September.
Good judges Of trends believe that a
considerable amount Of the current
clamor for goods is psychological. It is
pointed out that when production rises
there will not only be a direct satisfac-
ton of much Of the demand, but there
will be less feeling of urgency because
of the prospects of ample goods. This
psychological aspect Of imitation has
been common in the past. It is like
the man who rushed to bank during
run and said, IF my money is here,
don't want it.. If it is not here, I want
it," There is some Of this in the current
demand for goods. Fear, and not need,
is q large element In the situation.
That viii disappear when q normal sup
ply Is in sight.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Future Fighting Ships

That authoritative but unofficial
compendium of naval facts and fig
ures, James Fighting Ships" is not
yet ready to concede that navies are
obsolete or even obsolescent. Issuing
its first edition since the close of
World War II, the reference book
envisions surface fleets of the fu-
ture battling each other with atomic
bombs, torpedoes and rockets and
countering aerial atomic attacks
with electronic and atomic weapons.
Francois E. McMurtrie. editor of
the volume, points out in a fore
word: so long as the bulk OF the
worlds essential commerce, whether
in food, raw materials or manufac-
tured goods has to be transported
by sea. merchant vessels will be re-
quired to be protected against every
form of sea attack-arguing a cor
responding tenure of life for the
man-of-War." James editor fore
sees. therefore, an era of intensive
scientific research in naval warfare
for the purpose of enabling surface
ships to Withstand and counter
atomic attacks by sea or air.
The future trend of this re-
search will depend in large meas
ure, Of course, on the outcome of
the Forthcoming atomic bomb tests
at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. Since
the most effective of these tests,
the underwater explosion, is not to
take place until next year, naval
experts will not be in position for
another year or SO to determine
very definitely the role of surface
ships in an atomic age Until all
the facts are known it behooves
our naval planners to proceed with
caution. Meanwhile it would be
risky indeed to assume that the
atomic bomb warrants consignment
OF surface ships to the junk heap.
James forecast undoubtedly reflects
the present thinking of American as
we'll as British and other naval au-
thorities, namely, that fighting ships
will still be fighting for some years
to come-but with strange new
weapons, armament and tactics.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
Mr.. McGehee's Trip

Representative McGehee of Mis-
sissippi is chairman of the Judiciary
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee. This subcommittee has
two important bills before it, both
passed by the Senate and both of
extraordinary importance to the
people of Washington. One of the
bills provides new approach to
slum clearance and redevelopment,
and has been under consideration
since the fall of 1943; the other au-
thorizes Federal grant toward
construction of a highly necessary
hospital center, with three of the
city's important voluntary hospitals
contributing their own assets. 1t
has been under study for more than
year.
Mr.. McGehee finds it necessary to
60 back to Mississippi for a stay of
several weeks. He therefore pro-
poses that both bills be delayed until
he returns. The delay, in each case,
Is likely to prevent action by the
House at this session. And that
means not merely a waste of all the
time spent in the long hearings, in
both House and Senate. but the al
most certain death of these impor-
tant bills without ever reaching
vote either in the House District
Committee or the House itself.
This delay, this smothering to
death of the bills, is not necessary.
If Mr.. McGehee has to go to Missis-
sippi the bills could be handled by
some one else. II Mr.. McGehee in
sists on handling them himself, then
his duty is to stay here until they
are disposed Of.
Mr.. McGehee's trip to Mississippi
should not be permitted, by the
House District Committee, to kill
two bills of such great Importance
to the people of Washington. The
slum- clearance measure is ready for
vote in the House District Commit
tee tomorrow. That vote should be
taken and the bill put on the House
calendar for the earliest possible
decision.
Evening star., 1946-06-05

while neither state nor labor assumes
its responsibilities and risks, and the
consumer is left unprotected. The fnan-
cial power of unions is vastly increased.
but not their responsibilities, and agree
ments made with them through the in
tervention Of Government agencies have
the force of legislation.
X x x
Mr.. Petrillo's union now collects royal
ties on phonoeraph records and the sum
runs into millions. I see no objection
and find it just that the musicians who
make the records should share in the
profits derived from them If an author,
or a group of authors, write a book they
receive a percentage of the sale price
as long as it is in print. But they do
not receive both payment and royal
ties. Whatever advance is made is a
first lien of the publisher on authors
royalties Only after the lien is lioui-
dated do further payments to the author
continue. Nor can I see why the royal
ties should not be paid directly to the
musicians themselves as they are to
authors.
Under Mr. Petrillo's conditions fine
musicians who create records of popu-
lar and enduring appeal are contributing
out OF all proportion to Indifferent art
lists, and I cannot believe this is good
for music, nor fair return to musicians
in proportion to their effort and talent.
Nor, considering how Mr. Petrillo's union
is run, do think it wise to put such
immense financial power into his hands.
In fact, more and more of the gains
OF workers are going not into their own
pockets but to increase the power of
their leaders.
One wonders whether our authorities
clearly see whittier We are drifting. It
is toward the creation of just what
American radicalism has traditionally
fought-enormous and irresponsible mo-
nopolies of financial power divorced from
public responsibility. It's logical direction
is not toward democratic socialism, or
competitive enterprise, but toward syn
dicalist-fascism.
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Evening star., 1946-06-05
Against the Dark

The Russian delegate to the United
Nations Economic and Social Coun-
Gil has shown marked lack of logic
in objecting to Council report
favoring the creation of a sub
commission on universal freedom of
information. In his view it is quite
incorrect" to put this matter ahead
of such questions as the defense of
minorities and the elimination of
discrimination, especially on the
basis of race and sex" This is a
weak argument. In the first place,
the Council has no intention what
ever of giving secondary considera-
ton to these latter problems, and,
in the second place, the subcommis-
sion can do much to throw light on
the very subjects about which the
Russian delegate seems so solicitous.
Certainly, the whole field of
human rights can be understood
better and dealt with more effec-
OAFCAy Ill q WOl1u W1lClC ldCtS are
made known and not hidden. Gen.
sorship, secrecy, iron curtains"
thrown up against responsible OBJ
servation and reporting-these are
things which self-evidently initiate
against any international effort to
eliminate or reduce such evils as the
exploitation or oppression of minor
tiles and racial, religious and other
forms of discrimination. To the ex-
tent that barriers of this sort can be
broken down, progress toward full
justice for the individual can be
advanced. Contrariwise, to the
extent that they remain standing,
progress must be at best halting.
Looked at in this light, therefore,
the move to set up United Nations
agency on universal freedom of in
formation, instead of being quite
incorrect" is actually a logical and
Evening star., 1946-06-05
The Atomic Bill

The unanimously approved Senate
bill on atomic energy is so sound in
principle and so intelligently drawn
that it should experience little diff
Guilty in being adopted by the House,
despite reports of some opposition to
1t in that quarter.
Designed to establish supervision
over the domestic development OF
the most revolutionary power in his
tory. the legislation is itself revolu-
tionary. But it is necessarily so, be-
cause it is addressed to a problem
new in human experience and there
fore calling for unique and far
reaching methods of control Months
of exhaustive hearings were held
before the Senate's special atomic
committee introduced the measure
in its final form, and no matter how
unprecedented it may be, there can
be no doubt that the best scientific,
military and political thought of the
country went into the writing of it.
The bill provides first of all for the
creation of five-man civilian COM
mission to be appointed by the Pres
ident and confirmed by the Senate.
The commission would own, operate
or control virtually every physical
resource and research activity hav-
ing to do with atomic development
for scientific. military and industrial
purposes, though it would encourage
private enterprise wherever the ma
tional security permitted. It would
also be empowered to establish Sc
crecy regulations making violators
liable to fines up to $4,000 and i'm
prisonment up to twenty years.
These are very great powers, but
the Senate bill sets up an admirable
system of checks and balances to
guard against their abuse. 1t pro-
vides, too. for sufficient flexibility to
allow for changes making the law
conform with any future interna-
tional agreements or with problems
that may be raised by later develop
ments in the young science of nu-
clear f1ssion. For all its authority,
the commission would not operate
as an absolutist agency. 1t would be
obliged to consult with a military
liaison committee appointed by the
Secretaries of War and Navy and
authorized to appeal through them
to the President in the event of dis
agreement over security questions
Further. it would function with the
help of a presidential committee
made up of nine civilian experts, and
its overall program would be open
to constant study by a permanent
Joint congressional committee oi
nine Senators and nine Representa-
tiveS.
Such an arrangement would seem
to be quite capable of getting the
Nation off to a good start in devel-
oping and exploiting the vast poten-
tialities of atomic energy. Military
and civilian interests are alike pro.
Evening star., 1946-06-05
On the Record
By Dorothy Thomson

/ confess to being disturbed by the
coal agreement for reasons of principle
and precedent. Government wage-fix-
ing is. in any case. dubious matter
and distorts the conception OF collective
bargaining
Under the agreement, the Bureau of
Mines is to prepare a code of standards
and rules pertaining to safety condi-
tions. This is a legitimate function of
Government-as much so as the crea-
ton Of fire laws and trafic regulations.
But inspection is to be carried out by
mine safety committees appointed and
paid by the miners union. do not
see, first, how the Federal Government
can delegate to non Government bodies
the policing of its own regulations. The
Supreme Courts invalidation of NRA
was on the issue that Government could
not delegate its functions and RESPONSE
bilities.
Nor do see why the operators should
be left out altogether except as recipi-
ents of the miners reports, after which
they are compelled to take certain ac-
tions under drastic penalties.
+**
A miners health and welfare retire.
ment fund is created by a tax of cents
per ton on coal. 1t is to be administered
by three trustees, one appointed by the
coal administrator, one by Mr.. Lewis and
one by the two appointees. Again, the
operators are left out.
A medical and hospital fund created
by wage deductions can properly be ad-
ministered by the union, as provided in
the agreement, if in harmony with
democratic procedure, the rank and file
agree to the compulsory tax.
It seems to me that We are drifting
into kind of syndicalism which bears
considerable resemblance to the eco
nomic system of Mussolini and Hitler
Owners and managers, without change
of ownership, become instruments for
carrying out DEGREES and regulations es-
tablished by the state and labor
front" Wages are fixed, not by collec-
tive bargaining but by Government fact
finding boards, and management is in
creasingly deprived Of responsibility