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Entered as Second Class matter. April 2, 1914 at P. O. at Kennewick. Wash., under act. of March 3. 1879
God Bless America
Chapin D. Foster, Chehalis Advocate
It’s easy to sing “God Bless Amer
ica.” The tune is catchy, the words
appealing. We must do more than
Just sing “God Bless America.”
It isn’t hard to salue the flag as
the parade swings past.
There is nothing difficult in re
peating the flag Salute or Ameri
ean’s Creed if there are enough peo
ple in the group to carry us over
forgotten words.
We can sing the Star-Spangled
Banner—through most of the first
verse.
Yes, we've taken our patriotism
the easy way, too busy to bother
about holidays save as vacation
days. We couldn’t be bored by
speaking programs Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Armistice Day or
Constitution Day.
It’s time we assumed more than
‘the easy privileges of citizenship.
We do have the greatest country on
earth for opportunity, liberty, free
dom, Justice. Why? Because men
and women in the yesteryear didn't
take their patriotism the easy way. ‘
Today challenges us to be worthy
of those who gave far more than lip
service—Valley Forge, Concord, Lex
ington, Constitution Hall, Wilder
ness, Andersonville, Vicksburg, Get
bsburg—“God Bless America" was
written there in blood.
Visit those shrines of American
Mom and preservation of this na
tion indivisible, with liberty and jus
ties for all, takes on new meaning.
God has blessed America more
richly than any other nation on
arth. ItlstlmeforustoblessAm
«lea. with loyal, devoted, consecrat
ed service, and not leave this privi
lege entirely to (30¢
A Chamber of Commerce is as a
rule worth to a town just what its
manners make it. If it is made up
at live up and coming business and
mimional men it gets things done
and stirs up business for a commun
ity. That is why our Chamber of
Commerce gets things done. It is
made up of energetic, live wire, go
getters, who, not content to wait
until business comes thir way, go out
“ter it.
It is easy to cheer for the home
team when the home team is win
ning. It seems to be the natural Im
pulse of people. The home team
needs the cheers most when it is
losing. Men and women are like
that too. The time when they need
encouragement is when things seem
to go against them, not when they
no on top of the wave, and strange
]: enough the plaudits of the crowd
are always given to a man when he
is winning and doesn’t especially
need them.
Used & New
Cars & Trucks
SEE
OR CALL
GENE B%ULDING
E. C. Smith Motor Co.
PHONE 2400 KENNEWICK
HELP! '
A rope just out of reach won’t save
a drowning man! Insurance that .
just misses giving full protection
to all your property will not save
you from financial loss when a
financial loss when a disaster
comes.
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SWEET NOTES
Hearts and flowercs, lace and
verse, seep through the mails on
each Valentine day, to gladden the
heart of sweethearts around Ken
newick. Don't be a husband who
wouldn’t send his wife a Valentine
Day remembrance, for fear you
might start a precedent! Don’t say
she would rather have a gift of
worth than a dime verse. From
tips you gather here and there, you
will find that every woman is flat
tered and pleased when she receives
a sentimental rhyme that teems
with cupids and arrows. Get sweet
this year and find the most affec
tionate poem possible with hearts
and flowers abounding on its front
and in your own script pen “To One
I Love.” There is no excuse tori
being too busy, not having theJ
dime, couldn’t find a suitable one.
Get the valentine spirit and please
the lady fair.
ON FAITH .
When the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln comes this year, pay es
peiial tribute to the man for his
great faith in his country. He be
lieved so in the union of the state
that he gave his life in the cause
that the nation might be preserved
as a unit. Today, with the amount
of feeling against defiling the in
stitutions handed down from the
early years, when human liberty
seems to be at stake, when freedom
lies on the alter of sacrifice, then
indeed do we need to reflect upon
the faith of the man Lincoln. Lin
coln was torn apart within him
self by war, his spirit was for peace
while he watched a nation sooth and
rage as it struggled for a cause. He
withstod the abuse and curses that
were heaped upon him, threw them
off and forgave as he tried to unite
in friendship state with state. Lin
coln thought deeply, and never
jumped to conclusions, never passed
over 'thoughtlassly or made an ex
cuse for an action. He was never
easy on himself. The deed was
done, he faced the issue and con
sequences. He did not applaud his
triumphs nor did he attempt to
hide his failures. Such traits found
in Lincoln would be helpful traits
in present day statesmen.
IN HIS MEMORY
Thomas Edison obtained 1,150 in
vention patents and his influence in
science and industry has since been
felt though he passed from this life
years ago. Those patents included
the electric light bulb, the first dyn
amo and power and lighting sys
tem, the motion picture, the phono
graph, the principles of the radio
tube. Rather an influence in our
lives, was he not?
Born on February 11, in a small
Ohio town, Edison lived to give the
world such a contribution that his
discoveries cover and investment
of over $35,000,000,000. His direct in
ventions give employment to about
6,000,000 people. Well might we
salute his name on his birthday as
that of one of the world’s greatest
benefactors to humanity.
The man who has learned how to
make a living off a piece of land
has accomplished a great achieve
ment. He has solved the problem of
his existence—a problem which may
never be solved who live from hand
to mouth, dependent upon some one
hiring them for odd jobs now and
then as occasion demands. Being
able to win an existence from the
soil is real achievement and in
sm-ance of security.
1 We believe the time is coming
twhen there will be established at
necessary points in the country vo
icational training schools for young
§men and young women who desire
lto fit themselves to do some useful
‘work, with their hands. Young men
‘and young women graduate from
high school and college and drift
aimlessly about for a year or two or
three trying to fit into a world for
which they have noapreparation or
training. It occasions a great eco
nomic waste. The theory that a limit
should be put on the number of
men trained for work in a machine
age is selfish and wrong and causes
a greater economic loss and injury
than could possibly be occasioned
because of a surplus of skilled and
trained workers. ‘Why not complete
the education of our young people?
It is estimated that soil erosion
is costing this nation over three bil
lion dollars a year. Much of this
loss is preventable.
The government can draft young
men into the service and require
them to do its bidding in the pro
gram of national defense, but the
radical labor leaders are still free
to gum up the program at will.
The big problem before the Am
erican people is not should Presi
dent Roosevelt be given more power
, or more money to spend, but wheth
‘er it will be to the best interest of
the United States to have England
defeat Hitler. If it is to our best
interest to see Hitler defeated then
anything that will make this pos
sible is justified. It should be under
stood that our concern for a victory
by England is not because we might
be partial to England, but because
we feel that the American way of
life stands a better chance of en
during with England the victor.
A local man who doesn’t use to
bacco in any form figures that in his
forty years abstinance he has saved
around S2OOO. {He doesn’t have the
S2OOO and can’t explain what he has
done with it. .
Jitney Jones complains that his
preacher doesn't preach to hit the
sinners. The last time that Jitney
was at church the preacher talked
about the sin of stinginess in the
matter of church support. Though it
was over three months ago Jitney
has not been to church since.
The most sadly mistaken individ
uals in this country are those who
believe that it will make no differ
ence to this country if Hitler de
feats England. If Hitler defeats Eng
land he will take over our South
American trade as well as our
European trade and we can’t stop
him unless our workers are willing
to work for thirty cents a day and
take their pay in South American
food stuffs. Without foreign trade
many of our large industries will
be forced to close and dismiss their
Workers. T hnsisioata?i-18waw
workers. This is not a hysterical
view of the situation, but a very
sensible and rational view of it.
The first improvement in flour
in‘7s years, or since the introduction
of the rolling mill in the manufac
ture of flour, is to be made soon ac
cording to the officials of the Mll
- National Federation. Vitamins
heretofore removed in the milling
will be introduced into flour. The
vitamins of wheat are found in the
wheat germ. These have been re
moved from all white flour because
of the public preference for white
flour. The new flour. itis claimed.
will be more healthful. There will
be no difference in the dppearance
of flour with the vitamins and the
present flour without vitamins.
If Russia had any dreams of
European domination she shouldn’t
ask for a better opportunity than
she now has. All Russia has to do
is to stand by. sharpen her sword,
sell all the food stuffs and supplies
she can to the warring powers and
when they fall exhausted step in
and take over.
Hitler, who has overrun seven na
‘tions and taken from their people
everything that would aid him in his
battle for world domination. new
objects because England seeks help
from the United States.
, It requires three years to build
‘a. modern battleship. Building bat
'tleships is like taking out fire in
surance. They have to be built when
they are not needed in order to have
them when they are needd. It's too
late to take out fire insurance after
the fire has started. Its too late to
begin to build battleships after the
war has begun.
Norway’s Bishops Scone Nada
Stockholm. Sweden All Nor
wegian Protestant Bishops have
joined in a statement to their dio
mes condemning the Nazi rule in
Norway as deliberately encouraging
a contempt for all law and abetting
an era of violence toward the peo
~ple of occupied areas.
_anENNEWICK (WASH) COURIER-REPORTHI‘_
PICKED UP'
AROUND TOWN
“It took my akxto to prove to me,"
swears R. J. Peterson, “that you
can't always believe in signs."
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According to Shirley Larkin, a wo
man who looks stylish to other wo
men need not worry about what ef
fect she will have upon the men.
“The nation that always stands
fully equipped for war,” says Herm
Schmidt, “is uflsally let in peace.”
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It looks to us at the jig saw puz
zlec has been st red away with the
cigar store Indian.
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“If you have to make a choice.”
sighs Howard McGhee, “I prefer to
being in a rut rather than a ditch.”
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“The trouble with many of the
true life magazines,” thinks Minnie
Reese, “is that the stories are too
true to life to be interesting.”
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Kenny Desgranges says the south
ern beach pictures show just about
as much girl as they did last year.
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“Money is the root of .all evil
perhaps,” sighs C. H. Yedica, “but
in this case who wouldn't want to
be a little bit bad?”
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“A real American of courage and
daring," says Dr. Stone, “is one who
will come right out and say he does
not like grand opera.”
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“You will see a man advertise
publicly for his lost dog," remarks
Fred Mills, “and try to hush up the
fact he has lost his wife.”
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“One good thing about the les
sons we are learning today," says
Olav Otheim, “they teach us what
we shouldn’t do in the tomorrows.”
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xAccording to Ed Lope the old law
of supply and demand has run
rampant in local homes for a num
ber of years, and been completely
understood!
AEOlLClalmsFonl
‘ Washington, D.C.—ln a formal
statement by William Green, Presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, it is claimed that this union
had a majority of the employes of
the Lincoln and River Rouge plant
of the Ford Motor Company. Offi
cials or the company, which recently
lost a defense order or several mil
lion (although it was the low bid
der) because of its open-shop labor
policy, refused to discuss Mr. Green's
claim to the unionization of the two
plants.
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