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official end of end-lease operations. This the smallest total for lend-ease since such shipments began to taper off In July of last year, the con- trary, end-lease shipments were 92 per cent higher by value and they formed S53S 800000 50 per cent of that months exports of merchandise from the United States
 These figures that although exports for last July actually $68000000 below those for the month of 1945 yet the largest portion consisted of regular commercial exports Because of the abnormal N great needs of countries abroad for factory goods and materials however current exports cannot be used as yardstick by which to estimate future prospects of foreign trade In contrast domestic Urade reflects the naturally marked rise in prices of the past year. traceable to higher labor costs and slack ened price controls Retail trade in the United States in July totaled S7,654 ,00000 sum more than 27 per above the retail trade of the corresponding month last year In part this also indicates the increase in kinds of merchandise made available.
 Apart from the comparison of recent changes in trade it should be plain that at the moment the entire national economy extremely sensitive to anything which affects business at the point where consumers buy finished goods As domestic trade is overwhelm ngly the predominant force, pressure exerted upon that by higher costs from mounting demands of labor affects employment and the ability of industry produce for immediate needs To that consideration everything else must be subordinate.
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GIRL SCOUT NEWS NOTES

Girl Scout Troop No. Il held their regular Halloween party on October. 31 in the Lutheran Church parlors, which were tastefully decorated by the Husky Patrol, led by Ruth Bloomquist Refreshments were made and cooked by the Shooting Star Patrol, led by Vir- ginia Whitehead.
 Games were played by the Apple Blossom Patrol. Prizes were giv- en for the best costumes and for tunes were told by the witch.
 We had two visitors, Mrs. Castner and Mrs. Mcdowell. They are two members of the committee. That ends our meeting of Oct. 3l.
 On November T, last Thursday, we met in the usual place and elected new leaders and assistant leaders. We had shadow-graphing and planned to send gifts to diff ferent lands.-Natalie Dapcevich, reporter.
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NEEDED IMPROVEMENT

During the current shipping strike the people of
 neau have begun to realize more than ever the value of air transportation With shipping tied up for more than two months the mail continues to come through by air and even though the cost is high much needed food and other supplies have been flown in. Alaskans continue to travel between here and the States and since November at greatly reduced air fares.
 However unless some means of improving the field is found Juneau may be without air service in l948- just a year hence
 The DC-3s which have served the Alaskan area so well are declared to be obsolete of January l940 after which they will go out of existence as commercial passenger carriers At present Civil Aeronautcs of- ficals will not clear the Juneau airport for the opera tion of larger ships. An experimental flight with four-engined DC4 was recently carried out without nshap but officials will not open the Juneau airport to such equipment unless additional 1900 feet or runway added
 It is apparent that some way of building that additional 1900 feet must be found soon if Juneau wants to continue its air service after next year The project is beyond city finances Cost would run be- tween S3oo0OO and $500000 probably.
 This is something that can bear looking into by the city officials and the Chamber of Commerce. No time should be lost
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REVAMPING WAGNER ACT

Members of the National Labor Relations Board are now holding a significant session which may bring changes to that most con- troversial of domestic questions, the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In fact, the NLRB may beat the COP Congress to the draw and take the initiative in changing the magma cnarta of organized labor.
 Unquestionably sour relations were root cause of the election turnover, and many COP Con- gressmen were pledged to remedy it.
 Members of the NLRB, there fore, have summoned a conference of 25 lawyers representing labor and 25 lawyers representing man. agement for a frank discussion of what's wrong with the Wagner Act.
 Following this discussion, some members of the board propose go ing to Senator Wagner and sug- gesting that, as one of the crown ing moves of his long and dis tinguished career, he propose cer- tain changes in the act himself. Leader of this inside move is Jim Reynolds, brother of war corres- pondent Quentin Reynolds and Truman's latest appointee on the beard
 Chief proposals under consider ation have to do with placing more responsibility on lahors doorstep and giving employers redress against labor for irresponsible acts.
 The two most important pro- posals so far suggested are:
 l. When a union violates a con- tract, it can be held just as responsible as a violating employ CT.
 2. Employers, as we'll as labor, should be able to ask for a vote on union recognition and on strikes.
 Note-This is the first time the
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The Irish of Notre Dame tried to make a football rooter for their side out of Adm. Chester w. Nim- itz, grandson of a German-Ameri- can hotel-keeper, by giving him an honorary degree just before the Navy-Notre Dame game in Balti- more.
 However, the treatment didn't take. Nimitz showed up for the game an even more enthusiastic Navy rootef than before The Ad- miral said he was out to "get re- venge" on Frank Leahy, the Notre Dame football coach, for defeat ing him in three or four horse shoe matches in South Bend.
 The South Bend matches proved ]. conclusive win for Leahy, a Navy physical education officer during the war, for he had bested Nin1- itz in a previous match at Pearl Harbor
 "Leahy pulled fast one on me at South Bend" alibied Nimitz with a wink We were playing partners and he picked a better partner"
 Note-Since the Irish iootballers came out on top, Nimitz is think Ing of getting revenge by challeng- Ing their coach to another horse shoe duel
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The Washington Merry-6o-Round
(Conttnuea rom Page One)

(Conttnned rom Page OneJ sylvanian, lived long time in London, and just didn't rate as an Arkansan any more. All jobs for the state were handed cut by the White House clique, usually oper- ating through Senator Mcclellan, the other Arkansas Senator. Full bright got nothing.
 So now the Arkansas boys are claiming that Fulbright merely is piqued, proposes that Truman step down because he is jealous and job hungry. All in all, there's ter rifle stew among Arkansans in the nations Capital.
 Note-Inose who know Fulbright don't concur that jealousy is be- hind his move for a Republican in the White House. Actually, Fulbright pioneered the most inn portant policy this nation has ad- opted in years - the resolution adopted during the war whereby world cooperation became the fixed policy of both political parties. Full hright's far-sighted statesmanship is largely responsible for Senator Vandenberg participation at the conferences in Paris and New York.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. [. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN say "A girl of old old" girl girl of ten years"
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: humbl formerly um-bl
 OFTEN Sleight (skD. Distinguish from SLIGHT kindly tender, compassion ate
 times and it is yours" Let
 vocabulary by mastering word each Today word darker shade imputed o -envy.,-Macaulay.
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STILL NEED HOUSES

A minor response received by Mayor Waino Hendrickson to our editorial last week pointing out that unless 16 housing units found soon and offered to the of the Coast Guard cutter Wachu sett Juneau will lose annual $120,000 payroll plus supply orders to other Alaskan community that will go out after it.
 A few Juneauites called Mayor Hendrickson and he was able to secure a few more houses. However, more are needed.
 If you have house for rent-even for few months-telephone the Mayor.
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20 YEARS AGO TIT fME EMPIRE
NOVEMBER II, 1926

Amice been declared official holiday business this night in A. Hall and A. City Band Place then march selections before the opening of the dance
 purchased the Conke residence Douglas
 Stanley Tenakee Matt Hahn Kilisnoo
 annual Parish Bazaar open this night
 Weather High fl
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LOOK and LEARN %. sy c. GORDON

What embargo? a regulation  What dungeon Indian which l46 Engshmen confined 23 survived the ordeal? 4 What vessel grounded What the first by Rudyard Kipling? ANSWERS:
 government prohibiting deparature entry ships of commerce ports
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  The Light Failed"
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POLITICAL CHAFF

President Roosevelt had an old saying, Let me know how big the campaign contributions to the par ty are in the last days of the fight, and I will tell you who will win
 The Democrats took in $500, 900 of big contributions in the last hree days-but this time it didn't york.
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really to thank Drew Wallace con- tinued. Tt didn't hurt us bit"
 Yes" concluded Rogge, we should both feel grateful. I've never felt so happy now that I'm out of the Government"
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Shifts in Foreign and Domestic Trade
(NeW York Sum

(New York Sum
 Extremely abnormal conditions that lately have affected foreign trade of the United States plainly indicated recent figures exports In July latest month for which complete trade records available the value of exports was $825 000 Included in that sum were lend lease shipments that amounted to $33,- l95 OOO made to fulfill contracts drawn before the
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NLRB has seriously proposed op- ening the Wagner Act for re- vision. Hitherto, revision was summed on the ground that once reopened, labor enemies would gut the entire act.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE SaprRrA Sy LEE

When applying for position should offer to shake either A. No; it the employers place offer to shake hands dinner the dinner afterwards?
 "A Before the afterwards
 What should call his wife when introducing her to his social acquanances?
 A. My wife"
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Soldiers of Czarist Russia used to be given a bag of 2 1-5 pounds of sunflower seed day as an iron ration.
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EASTERN STAR ANIMAL ROLL CALL

Tuesday, November 12, 8 o'clock. All members requested to be pres ent to answer Roll Call.
 Alice Brown, Secretary.
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THE FIRED-BY-TRUMAN" CLUB

Former Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace and former Assist ant Attorney General o. John Rogge met unexpectedly in the corridor of a Seattle hotel the other day Both men had been fired by President Truman, after their suppressed views were aired by this columnist.
 Well" Wallace said, welcome to my club"
 I'm glad to sign up with you" replied the ex-Justice Department Attorney.
 You and I can both thank Drew Pearson for our being out of the Government" Wallace said.
 Yes Rogge agreed.
 And I think we 10th ought
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Picket Line
(Was shingtOn Post

Senator Guffey shares with Senator Mead the dubious honor of having scored perfect record from the CIO viewpoint by voting just that organization desired 12 key coming before the Seventy ninth Congress Last Saturday he earned the right to be scored 100 per cent plus by refusing to pass an AFI picket line to attend wedding reception or the daughter of former Secretary of Commerce Wallace in his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel.
 MT Guffey's noble gesture should put to shame the recreant head of the United Mine Workers, who did hesitate years ago to stride past pickets laying siege to the hotel in which he quartered MT Lewis prestige among his following did not suffer as a result of that act. Nor do suppose that Senator Guffey would have lost many much-n votes in the coming election had he initiated the Lewis example
 Only fanatic champion of organized labor would banish himself from bed and board because he had the misfortune to be housed in strike-bound hotel It only slightly less foolish to refuse to visit anyone living in picketed hotel If the picket line came to be regarded as barrier to the entry of homes, lot of innocent people would find themselves in state of siege deprived of food and other necessities Under such circumstances peaceful picketng would soon de- generate illegal terrorstic practice that the most ruthless labor leader would find hard to defend
 We call Senator Guffeys attention to the definition of the word picket" in Websters International Die tionary. "A person posted by labor organization at an approach to the place of work affected by strike to ascertain the workmen going and coming, and to persuade or otherwise influence them to quit working
 there" In other words the picket line is established to induce fellow workers in the struck establishment to join with the strikers If workers not directly concerned choose their sympathy by refusing to patronize establishment involved in disputes with it's employees that is their affair. But to proceed on the theory that the mere crossing of picket line is under all circumstances affront to organized labor shows complete misunderstanding of the purpose of pcketing and tends to make the practice public nuisance calling for remedial action
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Page Horatio Alger and bid the campaIgners for child labor laws give ear!
 It can be done. It's not just fairy tale, this gory of rising from newsboy to millionaire. For 9roof there is Louis R. Lurie of San Francisco. He vas born in Chicago in 1884 and he sold newspapers )n it's street corners and went into the real estate business at 19 you'll take his brothers word for 1t ae made and lost a million by the time he was 21. And now he is back in Chicago buying two La Sale Street skyscrapers in $15,000000 deal From neWsboy to milionaire-and in real life, not in Ragged DICK, 'Tattered Tom" or Luck and Pluck
 We salute the evidence. We salute even more profoundly the reformers because they have made possible less spectacular successes not for few but for the many who are the sinews and the flesh ot the nation.
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NfMITZ AND THE IRISH
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Herman Weiss had purchased the conke residence in
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-04-25
Historical Backgrounds
By Margaret Thompson

administered by the secretary OF
interior. The strength of this
plan lay largely in the fact that
it made possible the employment
of adequate personnel, of hydrau-
lie engineers, soil experts ana
other technicians qualified to
make soil surveys, compute the
amount of water needed to irri-
gate it and plan the system of
reservoirs and canals necessary
to bring water to the land.
Theodore Roossvslts Con-
servation Program
The federal reclamation act was
largely the work of Theodore
Roosevelt, who had become presi-
dent of the United States upon
the assassination of Mckinley the
previous year. One Of the initial
projects Of Mr.. Roosevelt's was
conservation, with particular en-
phasis on reclamation and forest
ny.
President Harrison had set
aside reserves in Oregon before
he left Office and these were in
creased by President Cleveland.
In the tracts reserved by Cleveland
there were 10 townships, which
included Crater Lake. And just
before he left Office in 1897 he
issued a proclamation increasing
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continued from last week.
M. limited States government
- came to the aid of western
nIs ;ssation in 1893 when the U. S.
la.a,lcsical survey set up gazing
ssst; S along the Yakima river
s'a'.J etermine how much water
70 available for irrigation. And
'was 1904 the Carey Act, named
u IN rs ;ts sponsor, Joseph M. Carey
1ol wavoming, authorized states in
81. .y;d regions to select one mil
, us acres of public land within
!t LIZ boundaries which was 1rrig-
t ~. The lands were to be sold
a. sD'e the state to settlers at fifty
~ .ss,+s an acre. Water to irrigate
s vas to be furnished by
sur;rate corporations, which would
R Hast bonds to obtain the neces-
s n 1900 it was apparent that
A.. Carey plan would not work
an. ~. in 1902 the federal reclama-
.;cn act was passed, putting
1 s Sam directly into the bust
sass Of building dams and canals
md making water resources
!, ssu , for irrigation on a large
ecsIe By the provisions Of this
at the greater part Of the pro-
csc;ls from the disposal Of public
lands goes into revolving fund
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the reserves by nearly 20 mil
lion acres, most of which land
was in the Olympics, the Cas-
cades and the Rockies in the Pa
cific Northwest. Said the Wash
ington Standard, Olympia's lead
ing newspaper: eff there was any
act of President Cleveland yet
required to render his memory
odious to the people of this state
he afforded it as he stepped down
from Office by setting apart $685.
O78 acres of land in the state of
Washington for forest reserves"
But there was to follow Re-
publican president whom they
were to hate even more. Presi-
dent Roosevelt created a conser-
walton commission to study forest
ed areas IF the public domain
with a view to withdrawing all
which, were deemed necessary to
watershed protection and to in
sure future timber supplies. The
name "for s t. reserves" was
changed to national forests and
the Bureau Of Forestry in the
Department Of Agriculture was
re-christened the United States
Forest Service and given juris-
diction over the national forests
which previously had been un-
der the jurisdiction of the de-
partment of the interior.
The most outstanding event of
President Roosevelt's administra-
ton was the calling Of a White
House conference In 1908, which,
since it included the governors of
"a states, was essentially con-
gress of governors. Present also
were members of the cabinet, the
supreme court and Of congress.
Following addresses by the presi-
dent, and number OF scientific
men on conservation problems
pertaining to soil, minerals for
eSts and inland waters, the gov
errors passed resolutions recon-
mending state conservation COM
missions and pledglng themselves
to work with the national con-
servation commission. Oregon
already had a state board Of for
estry0
The timber lobby was thor
oughly aroused. Private interests,
despite the fact that they already
had the cream Of the timber,
were bitterly opposed to the pol
icy of taking public land out Of
their reach. And congress re-
sponded to their pressure by
passing legislation denying the
II =
forest land. But Teddy" out
smarted them by signing. an ex-
ecutive order setting aside the
reserves recommnded by Chief
Forests Pinchot before he signed
the bills denying him the right to
do so. In his own words, his OPP
ponents turned hand springs in
their wrath"
However, many 1umbermen to-
day are grateful for the action,
for they know they would have
littlespr no timber now for their
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mills were it not for supplies in
the national forests.
ofe9on Timber Fraud Cases
There was plenty Of popular
support in the Pacific Northwest
for the presidents action. The
public had long been resentful of
the high-handed measures used in
appropriating timber, and These
practices finally brought about a
series of land fraud prosecutions.
The fraud consisted In getting
title to government land through
collision and corruption in the
General Land Office. Ethan A.
Hitchcock, now secretary Of in
terror, became suspicious and sent
special agents West to investi-
gate. Finally he detailed to the
case the famous detective, VIII
liam J. Burns of the secret SER
vice of the treasury department.
Burns first secured confessions
from those clerks in the Land Of
flee through whose hands fraud
ulent papers had passed. Francis
]. Heney was then appointed
special prosecutor to take charge
Of the Oregon cases. The practice
here had been to file dummy set
tiers in a group and so get solid
holdings in large tracts, which
when the transactions were COM
plete went to land and lumber
companies. In the cattle country
illegal fencing was run so as 70
include thousands Of acres Of
public land. Such practices grad
ually came to an end, following
number of convictions. And
the large cattle and wool inter-
ests hated him as venemently as
did the timber interests. Says
Charts A. Beard:
I'm the summer of 1906 cattle
and sheep owners TOR the first
time were forced to pay for their
privileges on the American public
domain. No doubt the new rule
was painful to men accustomed
to freedom; and in an attempt to
regain their old rights they kept
up running battle with the Of
ficers in charge Of the federal re-
serves"
In December of 1906 President
Roosevelt withdrew for settlemnt
"a, 0OO, 900 acres Of mineral land in
western states, including Mon
tana, Washington and Oregon.
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There has been no general in
crease IN our prices since they .Oeye
frozen by the Government early IN
1912.
So our situation today u that
whatwe BUY costs US 1916 prices.
We win be paying average hourly
wages 500 above 1941. For what
we SELL we get only 1912 prices.
This condition cannot long be
met out of our present low rate
of profit.
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And the following February he
sent a special message to congress
asking that the government be
authorized to retain title to all
coal lands, with a plan Of leasing
them for mining purposes. Al
though not acted upon at the
time this later became our ma
tional policy-a policy which has
kept the great phosphate beds of
the Pacific Northwest in public
ownership.
Inventory Of Natural Resources
Theodore Roosevelt's conserva-
ton commission was the forerun-
ner of the natural resources plan
ming board established by PreSi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt In our
own day. Its function was to
study all lands owned by the fed
eral government, take inventory
of the natural resources found on
them, classify them into land-use
areas according to the dominant
resources of the respective types
of land, and make recommended
tons for the wise use Of each
type.
The land so hurriedly with
drawn as forest reserves contain
ed in addition to forest much
park land and grass lands, which
called for reclassification. There
were in the Cascade and Rocky
mountains, vast regions Of highly
scenic alpine lands at high eleva-
tons valuable for watershed pro-
lection and for inspirational and
recreational use. For such the
establishment of national parks
provide the WiseSt use for the
greatest number of people.
The lower mountain slopes are
characterized by heavy forests, OF
saw timber. To classify such
lands as national forests provides
for future logs to keep saw mills
running and to supply wood pro-
ducts for the needs Of the people.
On the eastern side of the Cas-
cade and Rocky mountains the
lower slopes are characterized by
vast open areas covered with nu-
tritious grass. Grazing is the nat
ural use for such land, with con-
Sensational management to insure
a permanent yield Of grass for the
benefit of beef and wool produc-
ers.
Other portions of the public
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the Columbia river and its trib-
utaries-to be used by man for
the generation Of electric power
and the irrigation for thirsty
acres.
Continued next week..