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COPYRIGHT 1915 u T". noun! 0' KUPPINHIIM" - H O O , lip/leWMW/ 6’ THE STORE WITH A REPUTAT/UN Courier-Reporter Classified ads get big results at little cost. A cent a word a week. Try' em. Ours is Going Fast Two Cars of Roslyn Special Mine- Bun. in Ten days! We are selling it for Six Dollars at our bins. It is the best cheap coal—try it. ﬂlf you will have the highest grade, take Hiawatha -—it always pleases. Our Union Paciﬁc Rock Springs is standard coal for a medium price. Our wood is good— very dry, but not too high. Buy it,- try it. Phone 261. Kennewick Transfer Co. THE COURIER-REPORTER, KENNEWICK, WASHINGTON Ull2 Kmfmmrk manner-Reporter Issued Thursdays by the KENNEWICK PRINTING 00., Inc. A. R. GARDNER, Editor The "where" Rates Euneral—A Payable in Advance Est. Mar. 27, 1902 Yakima Benton Div. The Better—A Payable in Advance Est. 3:11, 24, 1908 Coxsorliildated—$2, $1.50 per year. Interest, $1.00 per year. Entered as Second-Class Matter April 2, 1914, at the Post-Office at Kennewick, Washington, under the act of March 3, 1879. THIS PAPER is of the opinion that when the state good roads association voted to ask the legislature to make the office of county engineer appointive instead of elective it took a decided step toward efficiency and economy in highway development in the state. There is a common tendency, we fear, to attach too little importance to the office of county engineer. More money can wasted through incompetency in the engineer’s office than perhaps any other county office. It often happens in some of the smaller counties that there is not a competent engineer in the county or if there is one he refuses to dabble in politics to the extent of becoming a candidate. Under the present system an engineer is invariably chosen not because of his qualifications as an engineer but because of his ability as a campaigner or his party affiliations. The taxpayers of a county are inclined to hold the county commissioners strictly to account for any road building program and to criticize them severely for any faulty construction. It is not infrequently the case that the commissioners are operating under the handicap of an incompetent engineer or one who is antagonistic to their plans and ideas. If we are to hold our commissioners to strict accountability in road matters, we should lift this handicap and give them the power to engage an engineer who knows his business and who will hold his job only so long as he does his duty. One trouble with our present system is that the improvement of public highways is regarded as everything except what it really is, a work that requires expert knowledge and the application of business principles. Until it is recognized that road building demands technical skill, the taxpayers’ money will continue to be wasted—wasted in original location and construction and wasted in maintenance. HOW TO HELP YOUR COMMUNITY AND US PEOPLE, both in towns and in the rural districts can help us out wonderquy in the way of printing a live newspaper by either phoning, dropping a note or telling someone connected with The Courier-Reporter of happenings in their districts. Here is what E. W. Allen, head of the department of journalism of the University of Oregon, says: “It is not enough for a live community that advertising should be correctly used to promote general prosperity. The home newspaper is a social and intellectual thing as well as a medium of business. One cannot serve the community better than by seeing that interesting items get to the editor. The editor is no mind reader—call him up and tell him. To do so is the neighborly thing, the kind-hearted thing—a courtesy not to the editor alone, but to everyone in the district who might be interested in your little items. “If you can once get all your people in the way of voluntarily pouring these interesting scraps of news into the weekly paper you will add immensely to the general freindliness of the community. You will be helping to make your hometown the kind of place where people want to stay and to which former residents want to come back. ‘ “So try to get ideas into the paper. Write a little for it once in a while. Don’t let the editor do all the thinking for the town. If you publish ideas you will start others to thinking and they raise by just so much the general level of intelligence. “Encourage the home paper to be a business, social and in. The intellectual center of the community. It will richly repay. OUR WORLD POSITION THE CHICAGO HERALD’S financial editor shows how a year of war in Europe has transformed the United States from a debtor to a creditor nation. His resume of financial transactions is interesting. Neutral nations have secured $64,750,000 in cash or credit from the United States. The belligerents have secured $772,000,000, and though $114,000,000 was advanced to Canada, that is not called a war loan. Of the total advances, not including the loans to Canada, $35,000,000 has matured, leaving $801,750,000 outstanding. It is estimated that since the war began fully $1,000,000,000 of American securities owned abroad have been bought back. The best informed bankers are quoted as saying that by payment of debts abroad, export of commodities and the return or use of balances another $1,000,000,000 has been liquidated. Thus our debt to Europe before the war has been offset by nearly $3,000,000,000, and the process of liquidation is still going on at an accelerated rate without impairing our own resources. If the war continues for another year, says the Herald, it will probably make the United States the greatest creditor nation in the world. Should the war end tomorrow, the United States would be in a position to dominate the financial world. But whether the nation’s strength would be utilized is another question. As the Herald says, we cannot merely sell; we must also invest. That was how Great Britain and Germany gained predominance abroad. PRICES FOR PUFFS THE EDITOR of an Eastern paper has grown peevish. He has been pestered so much by people desiring free pug that he facetiously refers to himself as the “Peerless Prince of M. APPOINTING A COUNTY ENGINEER. Purveyors.” He thinks he has done enough for social queens, ministers who are looking for free advertising, people who have legislative fads they wish to push and organizations which want free publicity. So he has evolved the following scale of prices for public: For telling the public that a man is a successful citizen, when everybody knows he is as lazy as a hired man, $2.70. Referring to a deceased citizen as one who is mourned by the entire community, when he will only be missed by the poker circle, $10.13. Referring to one as a hero and a man of courage and one who will stand by his honest convictions, when everybody knows that he is a moral coward and would sell out for thirty cents, $6.21. Referring to some gallivant female as an estimable lady whom it is a pleasure to meet and know, when every man in town would sooner see Satan coming, $8.10. Calling an ordinary pulpit orator an eminent divine $60 cents. Sending a doughty sinner to Heaven, $5. Referring to a deceased merchant who never advertised in his life as a progressive citizen, $4.99. Lambasting the daylights out of the demon rum at the request of the local prohibition committee, $6.77. THE FARMER'S BIGGEST INTEREST MAN in another state was once asked which of his several A investments paid him the highest rate of interest, and he promptly replied that it was the $1.50 that he paid on his subscription to the local paper. “One day I wanted to buy a cow,” he said, “and was intending to make a trip of about 15 miles to get one that I knew was for sale at a certain price. But just before starting I happened to pick up the paper and noticed that a nearby neighbor was offering one of the same breed at a dollar less than the other one. He really sold it to me for $4.00 less. I saved a long thirty-mile drive and $4.00 in cash because I had paid a dollar and a half for the paper. That is just one instance, but as a matter of fact, I saved both time and money in fifteen or twenty different ways during the year, and all through reading the ads in a paper that had cost me but a dollar and a half a year. I consider that $1.50 the best investment I ever made, and I am investing as regularly as the year rolls around, and always with the most satisfactory results.” ALFRED BERGERON. Concert Violinist For Teachers and Advanced Pupils Violins furnished free of charge for beginners. Harmony taught with violin instruction. European methods used. I have studied under some of the best teachers of the world and will gladly play for you at my studio. For terms of instruction, see JAS. A. VAN NORSDALL, or A. BERGERON at his jewelry and music store. Cottman Apts., Room 2, Gold Band Dinnerware. AT SPECIAL PRICES, Gold band dinner plates, each - 10c. " " cup and saucer, pair - 10c. " " bread and butter plates - 6c. " " sauce dishes, each - 6c. " " vegetable dishes, 25c and 35c. We are still selling 5 and 6-qt. preserve kettles at 15c each. E.S. McDonald Company, PAINT and VARIETY STORE, AS USUAL. $221 - "Lve'riti'sii" 3 - "We again quote prices on heating stoves that will get the business. If you are in the market, you can not overlook our offer. Come in and look them over while the assortment is good. Kennewick Hardware Company The Pioneer Store Thursday, November 6, 1916. 