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THE FOURTH TODAY
Perhaps it was a bit different'
how we celebrated the Fouth of
July. A lot of messages were
brought to the public from plat
forms of oratory, many campaign
speeches were furthered from‘
stands festooned with bunting,
freedom cited in heroic epics from
Concord through Cornwallis,
school children squirming as the
ceremony went past comfortable!
‘sitting time’. Whether the mean-3
ing of the Fourth dealt with our
struggle for political independence,
as it originally stood back in 1776,
or whether the Fourth signified
that the human race should be free
and not slave, made the event
enough for remembering. Then
Independence Day was a fire
cracker holiday with all the trim
mings. There will still be the
speakers who will draw a number
of listeners, still oratory reguard
ing the necessity of unity for a
united people in a United States
among United' Nations. True lib
erty-loving people will continue
to pursue their right to happiness
even though gas rationing may
keep them from attending a Fourth
of July celebration. They may not
be observing the holiday this year,
sticking to their drills and lathes
as the factories cry hurrah by
turning out weapons that are used
to make independence a certainty.
Maybe the yearly 4th of July
picnic has been called off because
the automobile has gone to
war—and so have many of the
drivers. But what of it, this cur
tailment of picnics, lack of public
speech-making, restriction of cars
on the highway? In the hearts of
all of us, stamped in letters of red,
white and blue, sounding notes as
loud as firecrackers, soaring in
spirit as high as clouds over Ba
taan and Corregidor, floundering
victorious trhu jungle mud, writ
ing in blood,.still beats the cry,
throubs the urgent plea of liberty
for all, unity and no substitutes.
Thisisthewaytodaywecele—
brate the .Glorious Fourth, and
deeper imbedded in all'of us the
the reverence for what this. day
stands. A ,
COLLEGES CARRY ON' |
The first full'ym of instruc
tion in the country‘s schools and
colleges has come to an end and
we see youth exchanging campus
togs for military regalia in many
cases. They are handed their
sheepskins and their commissions
as they leave the classroom .to
enter a changed world. There havel
hen many discussions during the
winter in regard to the altered
courses of study under the warl
emergency program, of the quick
ened pace of study, shortening the
lines of study and through more
concentrated work. Many colleges
have offered war courses and .the
college campus has been abloom
with uniforms of various branches
of the service. Physical educaion
has been heavily stressed in most
institutions and certain colleges
Pul oo o ' ‘ \
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Into Your War Workers Lunch! ‘
Be sure at least two slices of bread go into
that lunch-box—more if the job calls for
speedily burned up energy
BELMB'S BETTER BREAD
Now baked in the new revolving oven, makes
every loaf perfect. We use none but the best
ingredients, so it’s always fresh—makes de
licious toast". .
0! Course, It's Enriched!
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Kennewlc
' Bakery
NATIONAL €DITORIAL_I
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ghave altered semester periods to
Idivide terms because of students
{called to the front at various times
during the college yefi Col
leges and universities e ad
justed themselves to the prevail
ing condition and in spite of the
worry of many of the populace»
regarding the slowing down.of the:
liberal arts courses as the war?
has brought emphasis upon the
manual arts still eduCational in
struction goes on, maintaining high
academic standards and prepar
ing the student for physics, chem
istry, mathematics, engineering.
navigation, cartography, foreign
languages. They will preserve the
liberal arts program and assume
it fully after the war, not sacrific
ing it entirely because. of war de
mands None of us here in Ken
newick are worrying about the
higher branches {of learning.
SMALL BUSINESS
Going deeper into war manufac- ‘
ture we have had a better under
standing of the three fields that
have been prospering, such as la
bor, agriculture and large industry,
some mildly and some wildly. But
consider the small business, har
inessed by increased tax, bound
with regulations and restraining
lorders, having difficulty keeping
‘help because of higher wages in
factories, difficulty 'in securing
supplies, struggling to .get gov
ernment contracts when able to
produce the goods. This is an
other one of the concerns for our
consideration. This country can’t
afford to have its small, inde
pendent business houses closing.
We need small business to keep
our monopoliesfiin tow. They must
hold. ‘
FAULT FINDING
I § 'Kennewick man says one
‘rgood reason if no other, for keep
‘ing busy, is that there isn’t so much
itime for finding fault with folks
and perhaps. he has something
there! No matter how sweet the
disposition we are most apt to
pass criticism upon the nature,
bringing up, education, habits,
and purse of our fellow-men. With
not so much spare time we have
to curb our judgment and since
"fault finding is a trait found in
most all of us, 'there is a heap of
criticizing going on around about.
Few or us have a good answer for.
what business it is of ours what
the other fellow does or has. What
we find as closeness in one we
are liable to criticize in another!
|as being a, spendthrift, one per-‘
son is selfish and bigoted and an
other is wasting himself on others
and another is too tree thinking.
There is a long list of iaults we
have found. And Ave seem to be
continually adding to it. Maybe
keeping busy will help to make
us more charitable and surely
this is a blessing enough to keep
idle hands and minds occupied.
_ There is no ceiling on the price
one-may pay for experience.
The Courier, est. March ’27, £902
:‘rhe Reporter, est. Jan. 24, 1903
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IR. E. REED, Editor and Publisher .
, mudated April 1. 1914
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We are drifting into an era. of
paternalism. This is evidenced by
the fact that most any scheme
which for the government taking
care of us by old age pensions and
a multitude of other gratuities
meets with general approval. We
{seem to think that if the govern—
ment will take over the task of
caring for us our troubles will be
over. We can play and sing
through the long summer days of
life and when the fall and winter
of age comes we will be taken
in by our rich Uncle Sam who will
provide for us from then on out.
This is quite a contrast to the old
days when grandpa and grandmal
were young. In that day boys!
and girls were taught to work and
save that they might be inde
pendent in their old age and not
have -to appeal for charity from
public funds. Under this system
the thrifty and the frugal provided
for themselves and the wastrel
and the shiftless and the spend
thrifts came to old age with noth
ing. Under the new plan all re
sponsibility for the future is re
moved. Uncle Sam will take care
of that. When the program gets
under way and we can all follow
the plan of “Eat, drink and be
merry” while we are able to earn,
because we will be assured the re
sponsibility from from~then on out
is Uncle Sam’s, not ours. It-will
be interesting to note from the
standpoint of its effect on .future
generations which plain the bet
ter. .
The disastrous spring ‘floods
again remind ‘ this nation or its
profligate folly of cutting the tim
ber from its watersheds and its
failure to provide flood water res
ervoirs along its feeder streams of
its main rivers. Enough money
has been spent buildingdikes and
levees and dredging river chan
inels to effectively care, several.
times over, for flood ‘waters at:
‘at theirvsource, along small feeder ’
streams] Timber has 'been cut!
Idown to the water’s edge in many
yplaces resulting in a maximum run
off of rainfall, though it is a well
known fact that the run of! in
timbered areas is negligible. Na
ture hasawayofmakinguspay
for our follies. Nature can't stop'
us from cutting timber, straight
ening streams, 'building too close
to the river channel, or in tail
ing to care for flood waters at
their source, but she can make
us pay for it when we do—and
each year she does, and each year
we cry about the damage andl
the loss and then go heedlessly on,
in our way of error inviting dis
aster again and again. She will
wear us out and in the end have
her own way as she has had since
creation’s dawn. 1
During an investigation of the
construction of the big ordnance
plant at De Soto, Kan, by a' Sen
ate investigating committee, testi
lmony submitted brought out the
fact that there was an enormous
waste of material and labor in the
construction of the plant. - The
greatest waste was in the item of
labor. Men wholly inexperienced
and in every way unqualifid for
he work, were certified to the con
tractors. Though high wages were
paid little service was receive
from many of the men. Not all
the waste in war is caused by the
enemy on the battlefield. Much
of it is results on the home front
where greed for the dollar seems
‘to quickly outweigh patriotism in
too many instances.
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THE KENNEWIGK (WASHDIGQON) COURIER-W
GEARED FOR VICTORY
' A member of the local rationing
‘board remarked recently that the
’work of all ration boards would
;be easier if the CPA heads in
‘Washington would stay out of print
land refrain from being interview
ed by newspaper reporters. Stories
have‘ come out from time to time
that this or that month there would
be plenty of tires, sugar, fuel
oil and gasoline. These are not;
the facts and have not been the‘
fact since rationing started. The
result is that local people assum
ling that the CPA heads know,
think that local people are holding
out on them when their applica
tions for tires are held up or de
nied. Our work wiuld be a lot
easier if Washington would stay
out of the newspapers with its
wild reports. We are going to do
lthe best we can with everybbdy
and the job is a tough one at best.
Congress became so aroused
over the matter of strikes in war
industries during the duration that
‘a drastic antistrike bill was passed.
iThe action of congress represents
‘the sentiment of the greater part
of the people of the country to-‘
day. People are not - concerned
over the petty trifles of a few
cents an hour -in wages or arbi
trary working rules. They are
concerned with winning the war,
'and everything else is secondary to
that. The _men whose sons are
fighting on the battlefields are not
inclined to mince words or actions
when a group back home in safety
and security lay down On the job.
The fact that an antistrike bill
was even necessary is a reproach
upon those whose actions inspired
its passage. ‘
The old type of obituary, after
giving the essential facts of the
Ideceased’s life, then proceeded with
an eulogy of the many fine virtues
of the departed one. The better
form of obituary today does not
inclpde such a recital. It gives
the? essential facts of the indi
vidual’s life and assumes that the
mdem who are interested know
the rest. .
! England, which has prided itself
on the observance of international
law in time of war, has slipped
from her high place of war, time
chivalry and has stooped to in
dulge in savage atrocity unbe
icoming of a civilized country.
lShe has begun re-broadcasting to
gGermany, Hitler’s old war speech
,es.
I note, a local man said yester
day, that the government which
has been pursuing exactly the
opposite course for the past 10
for 12 years is novq going to ask
;all of us to pay as we go.
We never read of the conquests
of air power in this war but that
we think how Billy Mitchell was
court martialed by navy bran
hats for advocating air power and
airplanes as a supporting arm of
the navy.
A man shouldn’t try to lddhim—
self too much, both he and his
car are a year older than they
were last year—and both show it a
little.
‘lt is reported that the japs when
cornered would rather die than
surrender. This is an instance
in which we believe the japs by
all means should have their choice;
The tattered condition of our
ration books is but evidence that
‘we can’t eat ofir 'sugar and burn
{our gas and have it too.
Lét’s not worry too much about
what the world is coming to. It
may run into a detour any minute.
A steam engine is much like a
man. The more it blows its whis
tle the less power it has to turn
‘the wheels. ‘
‘ When a Kennewick woman says:
"I look like a wreck today.” it's
very bad manners to agree With
her.
Dumb animals are the one: that
grow old without over-taxing their
heartsinanefforttobeyounz
again.
If insects can't think. then 110‘"
doalltheantsinasquaremile
figure out where the picnic is?
You won’t have to hunt hand
to find people around Kennewick
who don’t believe in law or any
thing else when it interferes with
their own interests.
In By-Gone lily}
Being Items Culled tram Our
Files of Ten, Twenty, Thirty and
Forty Years Ago.
The Columbia Courier for J une,
1903, states that—Prose:- will have
a his 4th of July celebration this
year.
- That—lt is rumored that Pasco
is going to have a newspaper in the
meat future.
That William Switzler of Uma
tilla came here Wednesday and
brotfit a carload of horses which
he 'pped to Canada. He has
Ishipped quite a few horses before
lthis summer.
The Kennewick Courier for June
1913, states that—The Grape Car
nival will be located west of the
Collins Co. warehouse, on the lots
between Kennewick avenue and
Front street.
That—Nearly three quarters of
an inch of rain fell in Kennewick
valley last Sunday. This is quite
an unusual amount of moisture
for this section at this time of year.
That—Phil Bier came through
Kennewick Tuesday on his way
ltrom -Walla Walla to North Yak
iima, where he will have charge of
some electrical installation work
‘for the P.P.&L. Co. He came
overland in the company’s Frank
lin. ,
The Kennewick Courier-Report
let for June 28, 1923 reports that
,_m m: v.l: W mywflzs
‘last carload 'ot Kennewick: 1923
cherry crop. There have
been 14 full carload: and the ex
press shipments will bring the to
'tal to 17 cars. The average price
;ror the Bing: will be around 12
icents to the ‘grower. Most of the
‘crop he been marketed in Chl-
WONDER IF MY BOY
GETS CHURCH’S ‘IN ENGLAND . ..
Work at CHURCH 5
Essential now —— and postwar!
cauncn GRAPE JUICE COMPANY - KENNEWICK
1913
1923
cago with car shipments to Min
neapolis. Oakland and Texas.
That—Digging of early potatoes
has halted owing to a slump in
prices. All markets are reported‘
full of California stocks and the
iprice tumbled in a week from SBO
oto S4O a ton.
That the Kennewick box factory
started operations this week. and
by next week will be filling its
first orders for peach box shook.
As soon as orders for peach shook
have been filled the factory will
begin the manufacture of pear
and apple boxes.
The Kennewick Courier-Report
er for July 6, 1983. states that Miss
Elsie Turner took delivery or a
new Fond deluxe coupe this morn
}ing. The car is bright yellow with
red menu-uncomm
lbinafion. She wm use the eu- this
WE CAN threaten you
with dire consequences if
mu don’t carry sufficient
urance. on. your. prop
erty, but we can’t make you
‘ buy it!.
Yet it’s true that losses
00¢ngl ungpectedly am: at:
us en on can ens
affordy to stun: them.
Get. sound,. dependable
Hartford insurance, NOW.
from—
-216% Kennewick Avenue
Kennewick Phone 1281
While I’m working here at Church’s
I often think about my son.
He’s Overseas. In England, the last
We heard. I can’t help wondering
As I syphon the mellow rich grape juice
For bottling, if some of it will find
Itswsytohim. lliketothinkof him
Snacking his lips over a glass
Andsayingtothekidacrossthetable...
“My Dad helps make this stuff. Boy! .
You should see 'the grapes they grow
In Kennewick where I come from. They’re big.
So big the bunches make the branches sag.
They’re ready to burst with juice from the
Hot sunshine. They say the sun and soil
We have back there makes perfect grapes-
Gosh! This stuff tastes like HOME.”
Thinking of it makes me proud of my job.
Perhaps in my way, I’m helping America with
The biggest job we ever tackled. Our boys
Are doing the fighting. We’re doing the
Working-4min: things going at home and
Seeing that there’s food for everybody.
Together—we can't help but win!
1933
winter going to and ‘
school in Umatilla. 1"- 'o‘
That the Finley and “
school districts will be N
dated this year. The [pad-1‘
tion last Friday carried M‘
trlcts and plans are M‘
der-way for the amalgam.
That—apparently the K
ity picnic arranged to: “A
tion's birthday celebraugu ‘
success. Many comm ‘ '
flavor-able nature have 5..“
weather was delivered on M.
all the events of the 4. ~
run on schedule win. ._‘ .
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features of the day we; -...
tine bands fl om White “I
was the making of the ~~
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the White Blutts legion Mm
sponsors the band and hln
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