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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-08-26
Safe Taken
From Store

A safe containing approx
mately $500 was removed from
the Benton Auto Parts store at
30S Avenue c in Kennewick
some time Wednesday night, it
was reported to the police.
Entry was made by forcing
open a rear door. The safe was
heavy enough, officers said, that
il would take two men to carry
il.
Police said there was no evi.
dence of an attempt to open the
safe in the store.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-08-26
Finley Briefs

FINLEY, Aug. 26-Miss Betty
Whitney celebrated her fourteen.
tn birthday Monday evening. Re.
freshmentS were served to sew
eral friends and relatives.
Beverly Wilcox was the over.
night guest of Shirley Larkin OF
KenneWick last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Pate have
located a place near Dayton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-08-26
Woman
Visits Mrs. Dowd

Guests for the day in the
home of Mrs. H. A. Dowd of
Pasco, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Rhy.
shart of Honolulu visited We'd
nesday. Accompanying the Rhy-
STARTS to PaSco were their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Dick Price Of Seattle,
with whom the Rhysharts' are
spending their vacation. =.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
A Shortsiqhted Stand

The American Association of University
Professors seems to be a victim OF the
type of intellectual shortsghtednesS that
the Educational Policies Commission of
the National Education Association warned
against in its recent report on communism
in the schools. In that. excellent report,
since approved overwhelmingly by the NEA
in convention, the commission called on
the Nations educators to face the realities
of the world about us"-realities which
require positive steps to meet the threat
of totalitarianism.
The NEA commission, headed by DR.. John
K Norton, of Columbia University and
including President Eisenhower of that
university and President Conant of
Harvard, declared: THE national interest
requires that educators take candid view
of the world about them and shape school
programs to help discharge the obligations
which that diSordered world presents" To
that end among other things, the COM
mission recommended that Communists
be excluded from the teaching profession.
But the American Association of Uni
versity Professors apparently has turned
it's face away from realities. 1t has adhered
10 lCS previous SCdIlQ IIldI SO lung DIS Vic
Communist Party is legal political party"
its members should be allowed to teach.
But the associations jealous concern for
maintenance of academic freedom has led
it astray For surely only the short
sighted still cling to the notion that the
Communist Party Is the same as any
other political party.
Those with clearer vision have seen
abundant evidence that communism as we
know it today is more than political
philosophy 1t is, as the NEA Commission
aptly termed it, "a movement character
lied by conspiracy and calculated deceit"
whose followers have surrendered their
intellectual integrity. This is not an ap-
praisal by Red-baiting extremists. 1t is
the considered Judgment of twenty of the
country's leading educators who unani-
mously signed the NEA report, indorsed by
resounding vote of approval by the NEA
convention, representing more than AGO.
900 teachers The Association of Univer-
sity Professors should come out of its
ivory tower and take a closeup look at
the realities which the NEA has seen with
so much clarity.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Joint Chiefs Chuirmunship

Chairman VinSOn OF the House Armed
Services Committee has shown good judg-
ment in deciding to drop his plan for
exempting the National Military Estab-
lishment from any change under the
Hoover Commissions reorganization pro-
gram. His proposal ran counter to the
broad reorganization authority which
Congress recently gave the President-an
authority which can be effectively checked
by congressional veto, should Congress so
desire
Mr.. Vinson, meanwhile, has another plan
which, if he does not drop it himself,
deserves to be rejected by Congress. This
is his proposal for a civilian chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He wants to
guard against the creation of military
dictator" but the civilian chief of staff
idea is carrying the antimilitary dictator
movement too far.
Both Mr.. VinSon and his committee have
some basis for their fears that the broad
| language of the Senate-approved merger
| improvement bill might pave the way for
the setting up of super chief of staff.
Herbert Hoover warned the committee that
provisions of the bill authorizing an officer
| of superior rank to preside over the Joint
Chiefs and empowering the Secretary of
Defense to enlarge this officers duties and
authority might pave the way for single
chief of staff. There is good reason to
| oppose such an over all chief, in view of
| Germanys difficulties with the system in
! World War II.
| But there is no merit whatever in the
anomalous proposal that civilian be in
stalled to preside over the Joint Chiefs
The Joint Chiefs of Staff is and should re-
main military body. It's chairman should
be a military man, thoroughly familiar
with all phases of the military establish
ment. He might well be retired Officer
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Justice Should Be Prompt

No better evidence OF the need for more
Federal judges could be cited than the
delays which have developed in two
important cases pending in New York.
The shortage of judges in the busy South
ern District of New York has resulted in
the poStponement until october of the
Coplon- Gubitchev conspiracy trial and of
the retrial of the Alger Hiss perjury case.
Neither the defendants nor the prosecu-
ton in these cases should have to wait so
long for the machinery of justice to
operate. Yet there is no alternative.
The congested condition of the New
York courts dockets has been aggravated
by a succession of long -drawn-out trials,
of which the current prosecution of eleven
Communist Party leaders is an outstanding
example. That remarkable proceeding has
been going on for six months. A large
number of complicated admiralty cases has
added to the log-jam. Yet the Southern
District courts have exactly the same num-
ber of judges today that they had in 1910,
when a twelfth resident member of the
bench was added. Meanwhile the annual
total of civil cases has more than doubled,
the pending case load has more than
tripled and the interval between calen-
daring and trial has grow steadily.
New York is not the only jurisdiction
where Federal justice is being seriously
handicapped by congested calendars and
insufficient judges to reduce the conges-
tion Our own District Court of Appeals
and District Court are similarly over
burdened, and so are many other court
districts There is hone of earlV relief
fortunately. Both Senate and House have
approved bills to provide new judges for
the critical areas. This legislation is pend
ing in conference. 1t should not be diff
cult to reach agreement on this vital
measure to reinforce the administration of
Justice in Federal cases
Evening star., 1949-07-12
OsIer Centenary

One hundred years ago today William.
OSler was born at Bond Head in Upper
Canada. His career, from its start, was
remarkable. Three great instructors
guided him into his vocation. Abandoning
theology, he entered the Toronto Medical
School in 1868. Thereafter he studied at
McGill, in London, Leipzig and Vienna
Returning to Montreal as a professor in
1875, he transferred to the University of
Pennsylvania in 1884 and to Johns Hopkins
in 1888. Before he was forty he was famous
as a teacher, clinician and consultant.
DR.. Oser's activities, however, never were
limited to any one field He was cele-
brated diagnostic authority, successful
practitioner, a skilled and usually trium-
phant medical expoSitor. His talent as a
writer and critic was notable and his
principles and Practice of Medicine"
published in 1891 was an immensely popu-
lar text in English and in half dozen
other languages, including Chinese. To
call him "the doctors DOCTOR was to pay
him only part of his due He also was the
public's physician, the most widely quoted
medical personality of his time.
Oxford summoned him to be Regius
professor in 1905 and he spent the re-
mainder of his life in England, ceaselessly
busy up to the last as curator of the Bod
leian Library and delegate of the Uni
versity Press as well as devoted worker
in the laboratory and the lecture hall
When he died, December 20, 1919, he was
eulogized by Baltimore associate as
probably the greatest figure in the med
ical world; the best known, the most influ-
ential, the most beloved" King George v
had created him a baronet in recognition
of his services
Some Washington contemporaries recol-
lect Dr. OSler as he was in his prime. His
gentility, his unconcealed fellow-feeling
his grace of expression. his quaint humor,
his searching philosophy of accumulative
knowledge-thoSe qualities form a COM
posite legend which insure his remem-
brance. The centennial observed today in
the English-speaking countries to which
he belonged is only single occasion for
acknowledging the valuable contributions
he made toward human conquest of
circumstance.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
The Reed and the Lyre

The lyre Is not less beautiful,
Because an odte1t reed
GiDes forth a minor melody
TO meet a simple need.
Nor is a gentle Day OF speech
Less than a battle-cry.
One hour Is for the cheering cro'Dd,
Another for sigh.
A crystal goblet, finely etched,
An earthen cup, each can
Bear mater equally as 1DeH
TO any thirsttng man.
There must be room for eDerythang,
The fragile and the strong;
Time for the music of the reed,
Time for the Tyres s1Deet song.
HLDEGARDE WALLS JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Letters to The Star
Sees Tide Turning
In Favor of Cadet Corps

sees llde turning
In Favor of Cadet Corps
To the Editor of The Star:
About this time year ago cry went up
to disband the Washington High School
Cadet Corps. All over the city principals,
teachers and students agreed: western al
always WINS
Then, Woodrow Wilson High School came
through to win the annual competitive drill
in bang-up style. Rating first and second,
Wilson's two companies, b" and "C'. really
broke the jinx.
Although the competitive now is nine
months away officers and non-coms are pre-
pairing for the coming year. new high
in Cadet enrolment is expected. At last
people are beginning to realize that the
Cadet Corps. stepped in tradition. truly is
a fine organization. one of which any boy
could we'll be proud.
JAMES SCHUETTE.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Suggests Ways of Disposing
OF Cigarette Butts
To the Editor of The Star:

In recent editorial entitled Butts and
Psychology" one Of your editors writes that:
Everybody with common sense ought to
know that in SO out of 100 cases. when
man puts a (cigarette) butt in coffee cup,
he does so solely and simply because there
is no place else to put it, He should be
interested in the following, which I think
will disprove his statement.
The places where one may drink coffee
and smoke cigarettes may be generally class
ifed into places outside and places inside.
Places outside present ne difficulty. because
flick of the finger should easily dispose of
butt or if one is in a locality where fire
is hazard, the butt can be ground under
the heel. Or If one happens to be barefoot,
it can be smashed on the ground with the
fingers.
Places inside offer greater obstacles. One
may smoke either at home or away from
home. If at home, the well-bred smoker
should have an ash tray or other receptacle
available. If away from home. he may be
In either some one else's home or public
Evening star., 1949-07-12

as is the case with General Eisenhower,
now serving as temporary chairman. If
any civilian is to overrule the Joint Chiefs
or side with one faction or another among
the members, he should not be a sub
ordinate of the Secretary of Defense, how
ever capable he may be as a civilian ad-
miniStratOr
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Voters Neglect of Suffrage
Attributed to independence.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor OF The star:
In one of your recent editorials you say,
in part. that it is hard to understand why
citizens who have the right Of suffrage
can take that right SO lightly; that 48 per
cent of the voters. in the last Presidential
election, failed to vote.
There is no enigma concerning the vote Of
that election. Neither candidate represented
the sentiment Of the majority Of his party.
One was positive candidate. who promised
everything from Missouri mules shoe to
the capstone of United States Capitol while
the other, negative candidate, handed out
platitudes from the mountain tops.
The people have become too intelligent
and independent to follow man who does
not carry the blessings of his party. 1t has
not been many years since voters who could
neither read nor write the English language.
were herded to the polls by the hundreds,
and voted, with no more idea of what 1t was
all about than cattle before slaughter.
People, generally speaking, do not vote
like that any more, and they should be COM
plimented for their independent spirit rather
than condemned. It is possible. but not
probable, that at least few Of the self
styled leaders of the two major parties have
learned something from the last election.
r. A. BARBER.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Thinks d. C. Commissioners
Should Get Pay Raise
To the Editor OF The Star:

Regardless Of the fact that the House de-
cided that the three District Commissioners
didn't need pay raise and excluded them
from the so-called top salaries BILL I think
The Star in fairness to the Commissioners
should ask that they be included in this bill.
In recommending the raise, it should point
out that as Washington has grown in the
past several years so have their duties and
responsibilities. GUY HALL.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

culties and maintain a healthy economy.
The question to be debated now is whether
deficit financing, or pump-priming, is a
good instrument to that end or whether
it threatens to be more hndrance than
q help
Evening star., 1949-07-12

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
1Driter, although it is permissible for
1Driter kno1Dn to The Star to use
a nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

Off for a quick tour of the old world
is our Secretary of the Treasury, presum-
ably briefed in eleven languages and many
dialects to say I'm sorry, boys You catch
me at bad time"
Evening star., 1949-07-12

y
The best way to get rid of slug daintily
is to use SALT
1t is rather dirty trick, no doubt of that,
but it works. Not as usually done. just a
sprinkle and no more.
No, the thing to do is to sprinkle him
literally, and then do the same thing again
in half an hour.
This supposes keeping him in view, of
course.
1t is not too difficult to do, since the
creature progresses almost as slowly as the
tortoise.
Copper sulphate also may be used. but it
is not as good as the SALT and has some
danger attendant on it's use.
The slime exuded will wash off or neutra-
lize most of the first application, but becomes
powerless to do so when the second dose
is put on within half an hour.
Humid summer weather is ideal slug
weather.
If slugs could sing they would chant:
In the good old summertime,
when we slugs are full of slime!"
The slime is the slugs road to freedom
1t keeps him from harsh irritants met in
his nightly rounds.
1t enables him to use his foot" in getting
out of difficulties
Their supply of slime is not endless, that
is one reason they cannot go too far from
their hiding place.
Being nocturnal they live during day.
light hours under leaves and old stones. In
the garden, they even bury slightly beneath
the earth.
Usually they come into the light in the
daytime only on wet, cloudy days. Sunshine
and lowered humidity tend to dry up their
secretion.
Eggs are laid in soil in summer. It is said
that weather conditions regulate the number
to appear next year. If the weather is hot
and humid when the young hatch they will
grow we'll before winter sets in. If there Is
a prolonged dry spell Immediately after the
Matching, most of the young will not live,
thus there will be a dearth Of them the next
year. These are such creatures of moisture,
both externally and internally, that they
cannot long survive dryness.
This is shown by the fact that they never
come into kitchens, even basement kitchens.
as are found in some old-fashioned houses,
to get into ovens, but always select laundry
tubs and moist corners. Actually, they do
not often come into houses. but are found
mostly on concrete and brickwork just out
side
Where plants seem to have been damaged
by slugs, lime and SCOT may be sprinkled.
These are substances they do not like.
Poisoned bran has been suggested. but it
has the dangers Of all poisons, and usually
the small number of snails is not worth the
danger to other creatures.
Slugs hibernate in severe winters, but only
partially in warmer ones.
They are classed as terrestrial pulmonate
gastropods, or snails in which the shell is
represented by an internal horny plate over
lying the respiratory cavity.
Snails are vegetable eaters and cause
much damage in Europe to garden and field
crops. but do not do so much here.
Two common slugs may be mentioned.
The small one less than an inch, is native,
whereas the larger one, about 4 inches long,
is European species.
Some slugs climb trees after food, and let
themselves down on a thread of mucous
secreted by gland in the foot"
They are ugly things, from human view
point, but not to be sneezed at.
Just use saltl
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Washington.
D. c., Information Bureau. 316 Eye st. NE, Wash
ington 2. D. c. Please enclose three 90 cents for
return postage.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

A labor bill passed by the United States
Senate is totally unacceptable" to Bill
Green. And who, some are asking, does
he think he iS-John L, Lewis?
Evening star., 1949-07-12

place. If in some one else's home, few
steps to the bathroom or kitchen should
result in finding means of disposal. If in
public place. word to the waiter should
bring an ash tray. And, If there is no waiter,
there is probably saucer and if there is no
saucer, then putting the butt on the floor is
not i'll hammered, as the management prob
ably expects it. EUGENIA KELLER.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Who first made the statement that "all
men are born free and equal"?-A. E. R.
A. The words are found in the Constitu-
ton of Massachusetts,. 1880, where it is
stated, "All men are born free and equal,
and have certain natural, essential and un-
alienable rights" The Declaration of Inde-
pendence expresses the same thought in
somewhat different form.
O. To what extent does the earths axis
wobble?-G. P.
A. The pole Of the earth has wobbling
motion Of few feet as measured by
changes in the latitudes at various stations,
but has not exhibited systematic motion
in any direction during the time of accurate
measurements.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

@. BY whom is certified" milk certified?
H. r. B.
A. Under the American Association Of
Medical Milk Commissions, there are set up
local medical commissions which inspect
and have inspected the milk Of certain
dairies, which, when passed, are certified.
This milk can be either raw or pasteurized.
and is Of very high quality.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

@. Is the place of Evangeline's burial
known?-V. B.
A. Near the left wing, at the rear of st.
Martins Catholic Church, at st. Martini
vile, La. is the grave of Evangeline, the
heroine Of Longfellow's famous poem.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
This and That
BIZ Charles E. TrdcetDell

Dear Sir:
Sometime in what appears to be your
infinite wisdom please tell us something
about plain old garden slugs
This summer has brought a plague Of
them to our house and garden.
II don't mind them so much in the yard.
but in the house is too much. They come
in the basement, and drink in the laundry
tubs, and their silver slime is left all over
the place. ..s,- .-.
II wouldn't touch one Of the things for
words but is there any way of getting rid of
them from a nice safe distance?
''Yolrs II En
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-16
Could It Be A New Plying Saucer?"

VICTORIA, B. C. (P) - What with strange objects" and "mys- terious high-speed airplanes" clut- tering up the sky over the Straits of Juan de Fuca it's getting so respectable aircraft won't be able to find a place to fly in that area.
 Latest "strang object" reports comes from the first officer aboard the Chinook, the Seattel to Vic toria car ferry, and it is vouched for by the quartermaster and look out.
 Yesterday they saw a bright light in the sky moving towards Victoria at about 2,000 feet"
 "It was moving from side to side and up and down much too sharply to be a plane" the officer said.
 Last Saturday high speed mys- tery plane was spotted leaving a VapOr trail over the Straits.
 The latest object" was "too er- ratio to follow with binoculars and it was too dark to see any shape"
 "It came within a mile of the ship ad then spiralled swiftly up wards through the overcast"
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-16

Says Robert Owen to William Allen: All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer"
 Says the Well-intentioned but fanatical Eugenist: 'The world is getting crowded with mental de fectives! Save the future genera tions by sterilizing the unfit"
 Says the expert Sociologist: The idiot and imbecile are segre- gated. They cannot propagate. The Weak-minded are less fertile than normal people and have a shorter life span, and most of them fill their niche anyhow in the worlds work. No danger at all from future detectives"
 Says the expert Biologist: "We know but little of human heredity; but we do know that 95 per cent of the mental defeCtiVes come from normal parents and that sound children from mentally weak par entS are common. We do know that crime and immortality are not inherited. We do know that ster- ilization removes neither desire nor power to act, and that to let sterilized, unrestrained del n = quents loose in the world would but cause further immortality, in sanity, and disease.
 Says the Historian If the fa- natical Eugenists had had their way in the past, many famous and brilliant men and women would never have been born. Tn fact,
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-16
News of the World At A Glance ---

Continued from Page One) sion at Lake Success to consider what it is going to do about inter nationalizing Jerusalem. Israel has defied the U. N. decision to control the city by making 1t Is raePs permanent capital Many U. N. delegates said the trusteeship council is faced with a hopeless task.
 A three-day wildcat strike that incOnvenienced millions of Lon donerS ended today in four of Bri- tain's nationalized electric power plants. The 2,700 strikers went back to work without wage gains and the lights came on again.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-16
Catholic Information
Sterlization? what say we all of us?

there can be found In almost ey- cry family tree mental defectives somewhere along the line. And that, reader, applies to your fore bears ad ours and to those Of the Eugenists themesvcs."
 Says the Catholic Theologian: Man, as a person, owns himself under GOd-and has a right to all of himself and to the preservation and operation of all of his funC- tionS. But as all mems bodies and souls belong to God, no one has right to mutilate any part of him self or of any man except when no other provision can be made for the good of the whole body. TherefOre-tO use the words of Pope Plus XI: This theory of eu- genicS is to be held entirely blame worthy, false and condemned" ."
 Says the modern Prophet: Woe betide the rest of us if any present or future Hitler, with his pagan doctrine of race sacredness, ever dominates the world! Beware! For the time may come when
 Says Robert OWenschmidt to Wilhelm von Allen: All the world is queer save thee and me, so let's go sterilize everybody. But being that thou are a little queer, I'll start right now on thee."
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