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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
RABIES CONTROL.
NOT 4 RACKET

Editor, The Times: / confess
to being a little weary of these
reader letters which profess TO
believe that the effort to con-
troll rabies is a racket. More
than that, ! fail to see why the
word of a dog lover like Albert
Payson Terhune should carry
more weight than researches of
scientific men who give their
lives to studying such things.
The scientists have no doubt
that rabies exists. and neither
do they think IT particularly
rare. II is too frequent for COM
fort
| sat on jury while back
in case where a child died of
rabies. There was no doubt in
the testimony of her physician
what she died Of, and her .suf-
fering had been frightful.
These doubters should be led
into a dog hospital and made
to watch the agonies of a dog
which dies Of rabies. They
should be told that child has
practically no chance even with
Pasteur treatment. If it has been
bitten in the face, because the
bite is so near the brain where
rabies eenters.
But most of all I should like
to know definitely, what the
racket consists of Certainly
no veterinarian profits by a ra-
bies scare. If anyone thinks
veterinarian likes 10 see case
of rabies come TO his hospital.
with the chance that he may
himself be bitten and have To
endure Pasteur treatment they
simply don't know what they
are talking about. His family
lives on pins and needles all the
time the danger exists for fear
he will be bitten.
And when dogs are tied up. as
at present, the veterinarian
business is cut in half. because
tied dogs do not get rat poison,
they do not get sick from forag-
ing in garbage cans, and they
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24

~ III tAtAlL n AAA AAAAAaAH
The best board Of directors
for the corporation itself vas
the board OF the Standard oil
company in john d 5 day and
for sometime thereafter. Per-
haps il is still true. Every direc-
tor vas the head OF some i'm
portant activity Of the COM
pany They met every day and
actually ran the company John
D himself was never 4 director
Of any company save the |. S.
Steel for a while.
Vow a man may be a director
of dozen. 20, so companies. OF
course he is not a director since
he does not direct He cannot
possibly know what is going on
in the company. And in the end,
IN most cases. ne is not sup
posed to.
That's not why he is director.
He IS representing some outside
interest that Is exploiting the
corporation or he Is there for
the inside information he can
get or he is representing some
inside interest that is exploiting
the corporation OF course this
Is not true Of all directors or all
corporations. But it is true of
4.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
HOW CAN | q? 7 7
BY Anne Ashley

Q How can clean white kid
gloves
a. Clean with a solution Of
II drops OF ammonia and half
pint Of spirits o. turpentine
Mix. Put the gloves on and
apply the mixture with a brush.
repeating until clean. Then hang
IN the air TO dry.
q. How can treat tired
eyes
a Mix a solution Of salt
water. as hot as can he borne.
Wiring a clean cloth in this solu-
ton and place over the eyes
Repeat as often as the cloth
becomes cool.
What IS a good menu for
waffle supper
4. country sausage. fried
apples. waffles and coffee
Maple syrup and butter should
be served with the waffleS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
DICTAToRs AND SPAIN

Editor, The Times: have
always been under the impress
sion that the Loyalist party in
Alfonso and disrupted the So
Spain was the Communist party,
the group which deposed King
called democratic government of
Spain.
Even If this is incorrect, there
would be no reason for revoking
the neutrality laws. Does the
writer of this idea imagine that
II is necessary?
AS far as Spain is concerned
II is inevitable that Gen. Fran
cisco Franco, Rebel leader, will
be victorious. | am no prophet,
but for the many inhuman
things he has ordered done. he
will die by the bomb Just as he
has lived by the bomb. A die
tator will never be popular in
Spain. The Spanish are the
people who like to do things
tomorrow and dictators want
things done right now,
Now let us quit thinking
about Spain and think of our
selves Let us get behind Presi-
dent r o O s e velt's rearmament
plan. Let us see TO it that we
have enough airships so that if
attacked we could darken our
skies and leave not one inch of
space to drop bombs to blast our
children into eternity.
Now ] have heard the isola-
tionists sing their tune: there
arc people who still believe that
we could build wall around
the U. S. and be perfectly safe;
we could, If some wizard would
put bomb-proof roof on top
of IL.
President Roosevelt was not
merely making a speech when
he assured Canada at the open
ing of the ST. Lawrence bridge
that if Canada is ever assailed
by a foreign nation, America
would fight. He knew that we
would have to fight
AGNES K McCIOE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24

do not get hurt by automobiles
The amount Of profit on any
number of innoculations for ra-
bics would not offset the loss a
veterinarian experiences from a
rabies quarantine.
| will admit that we are sur
rounded by rackets, but l am
positive that the rabies quaran-
tine is not one of them.
MARGERY STALLCUP SMITH,
BIT So. G. ST
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24

named entirely ny the stock
holders and composed only NJ
men who are actually owners of
large amounts Of stock - that
they have an interest in he cor
poration's health That board
should be an auditing super
Visory. scrutinlzing, question
asking board.
Having made this suggestion,
/ vas surprised to receive let
tiers from two corporation eXecu-
tves, one of them well-known,
telling that such a plan had been
installed in their corporations
for some years and had worked
ft-eil
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
TWO GROUPS MAY
SOLVE PROBLEM

Corporation managers, Off
cials and directors make far
more money out of the inside
dope of the opportunities for
cutting in on exploitive adyen-
tyres than they make out of
their salaries. That ought to
be stopped
| once suggested that there
should be two boards. One
should be a board which ac-
tually runs the corporation and
has complete control over its
buying, selling. administrative
problems 1t should be COM
posed entirely of the executives
of the corporation with repre-
sentatives of labor on it.
There should be another board
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
SCIENCE NEWS

Samples of the deepest ocean
bottoms will soon be placed be-
fore scientists for study. through
use Of newly designed steel
rope seven miles IN length. A
l00-horsepOwer engine Will oper-
ate the five-ton cable, which
will reach 10 the deepest pool
OF the oceans. Construction 81
such = rope has been deemed
impossible heretofore. At its
end viii be attached = scoop for
sampllng ocean floors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
Flame Game

Fire chasing like football is being smpified for the
spectator
The fire laddies of Orange n. j., sporting white
numbers, eight inches high the backs of their shiny
rubber coats The bystanders thereby determine which
OHara and which Muigan the firemen handle the hose
and ladders.
Business reasons not fan demand, inspired the stunt
Company officers will be better able direct their
q distance with the aid of the numbers
Like it not however it would that the fire
fighters will be handicapped by increasing number of
the chase the fire engine variety of people, of whom
might offer odds which fellow will rescue the blond
beauty the third floor.
And wouldn't be too surprising to find mawker
the sdelines shouting, you can't tell who the smoke
eaters without q card!
All have teaches to trust the Creator for all
I bnv. -Ep,ar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24


their goods Preliminary sta
tistics reveal that British trade
with Berlin has increased since
Munich, confirming Washing
Ton understanding that several
unpublished agreements or con-
cessions-were negotiated on
September 80.
Ambassador Joseph p.
Kennedy will make no more
eN ira curricular telephone
calls direct TO the White
HOUSE when--and if-he re-
turns to London. For an
emergency message of this
sort-Mr. Hull never did
like this nnorthodox method
Of diplomacy - contributed
to the official chilliness
which enveloped him on his
return home.
During the height of the
Czecho- Sovlakian crisis Mr..
Kennedy reported on prospects
To Mr.. Hull in writing, but gave
the lowdown to the president by
transatlantic telephone. I'm
fortunately, the facts which he
furnished the White House pre-
scented an entirely different pic
ture from the information he
slipped to the secretary of state.
When Mr. Hull outlined the sit
uation to Roosevelt. the latter
questioned the statement. ex-
planning that he (Roosevelt) had
more correct data. The presi-
dent was referring to the tele-
phonic message
Hull begged to differ. explain
ing that his understanding had
also been confirmed by Ambas-
sador Bullitt at Paris. Then
even more unfortunately for
Kennedy ~ 1t developed that
what he had written to the state
department was the real stuff,
while his special tip to the
White House turned out to be a
wrong steer
The ambassador undoubtedly
thought he was relaying new
and more accurate dope, but YOU
can't sell that idea to some of
Hull's friends at Washington.
The public contracts
boards new scale of wages
for steel companies doing
business with the govern
ment should soften up John
L. Lewis until the next time
-erhaps mol lily his re-
sentiment over prospective
withdrawal of Donald
Wakefield smiths renomin-
alton of the NLRB.
The new rates We're aimed,
consciously or unconsciously, at
Bethlehem Steel. which has re-
PEELED C1o efforts to organize
its employees. The new standard
requires payment of o. L cents
an hour in the northern area
tBethleheml, As cents in the
South and intermediate rates
for two other zones. Bethlehem
now pays about S6is cents an
hour for unskilled labor. The
original scheme, which Miss
Perkins favored, provided for
only two scales n for the
North and IS for the rest of the
country. But her experts in
sisted that such system would
be excessively discriminatory
against northern steel makers
and won her over TO the 4-zone
plan after 10 days of backstsge
argument.
Numerous small companies in
the North protest bitterly that
the differential penalties them
as well as Bethlehem, placing
them at the mercy of southern
competitors. But Mr.. Lewis is
a favorite at Washington, while
Bethlehem's Eugene Grace is
not. Administration higherups
still resent the big bonuses to
him revealed in SEC corporation
listings.
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
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John T. Flynn

Commissioner ". o. Douglas has gotten around 10
old and irritating SUBJECTIVE corporation director He
thinks they ought be paid Certainly something ought
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24
ToDAY's COMMON ERROR

Do not say. That will be the
ruination of me-" say. That
will ruin me-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-24

All have teaches to trust the Creator for all
have not seen.-Emerson.
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MR.. fIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this col
umn letters must giTs. name and
address OF writer Only initials
will be published when requested
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their goods Preliminary sta
tistics reveal that British trade
with Berlin has increased since
Munich, confirming Washing
tons understanding that several
unpublished agreements or con-
cessions-were negotiated on
September 80.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Block Sox Win Tough Come
In Counter Betting Coup.

The series was killed as a betting
proposition by them, but the actual
f1xers did pull one more coup-a
counterstroke-on the sixth game.
The Reds we're leading by four games
to one in the 9-game series. Cincin-
natl businessmen thought sure their
team had the great White Sox on
the rum They put up a reported
$6O,OO0 on the result of the game.
The Sox, tipped off by Abe Attell
and his fellow-fiXers, really worked
for that one. They won it the hard
way, in 1O-innings, with Weaver,
Gandil, Felsch and Jackson scoring
Ironically, their task was made all
the harder by the fact that Dick
Kerr, strictly honest, was dazed and
ineffective. In the fifth inning, he
tried to steal second base with Eddie
Collins already on the bag.
It's been the fate of the Reds to
run up against two of the greatest
ball clubs of all time IN their two
widely separated World Series cam
paigns. One great club wasn't trying
One will be. And in the end. defeat
by the Yankees will satisfy the wild
est Red fan more deeply than the
sort of victory his team won in 1919.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
K. Of T.. Horse Show
Opens With Ponies
Leading Way

The fifth annual knights of Co.
lumbus Horse Show got under way
this morning at the Meadowbrook
Saddle Club on the East-West high
way with several pony classes pre-
ceding the regular horse events this
afternoon.
Features on the early program
were junior jumpers, lead line and
junior road hacks. The main at
fractions this afternoon were triple
bar, touch and out. departmental
costume class and A. s. P. c. A,
horsemanship event.
The judges were K. c. johnson of
Norfolk, Va; Otto FUR, Middleburg,
Va, and Maj. r. M. Steward Rich
ardson, Forrest Landing, Md.
The show will continue tomorrow
at l o'clock and close later in the
day with the hunter and Jumper
championship awards.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Grissom Hits, Hur|s
New n. |. Champs
To Bigger Lead
Mccormick Only Regular
In Starting Lineup;
Tribe Boes Twin Bill
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


Amid all the jubilation Of the Gin
cinnati Reds, somebody forgot to
shut Oh the ignition.
With their National League pen
nant clinched Thursday, the Reds
played their scrub team against the
Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday and
won, 81.
That eccentric elbower, Lefty Lee
Grissom, scattered seven hits and
knocked home one Of the Cincinnati
runs with a triple. It was the Reds
sixth straight victory In less than a
week against the Buccaneers, but
nobody cared.
Mccormick Protects Record.
The only regular Red to start was
Frank (Buck Mccormick. ambitious
to acquire an endurance record.
He was relieved In the third, the first
time he has missed a single inning
at first base in two years.
The st. Louis Cardinals had a day
OF idleness in which to lick their
wounds. Rain forced postponement
of their contest at Chicago and also
various other major league engage
ments.
In the only other National League
firing the Brooklyn Dodgers and
Boston Bees divided a double-hea
er, assuring the Dodgers of berth
in the first division and freezing
out the New York Giants.
Tom Early won the first game
for Boston, 2-1, on four-hit pitch.
ing. He had a no-hitter until the
seventh. Seventh hurting by Hugh
Casey in the nightcap won, I'll, fol
the Dodgers, who were helped b.
four Boston errors.
Tribe Takes Two.
Cleveland swept double-headel
from the Detroit Tigers, 4-3 anc
80, in the sole American League
competition and took a f1rmer griI
on third place.
Mel Harder, who hit home rur
in the fourth, got credit for tn,
first victory, although Bob Fellel
worked the last two innings. A
Milnar pitched the shutout secone
session, abbreviated to five inning
because Of darkness.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Brewers to Quit Pro League
If BoIstered Basket Team
Fails to Win This Year

New York club when Troy took over
the Kingston franchise.
Brown, & forward, is a graduate Of
Temple and has played with King
ston, Wilkes Barre and Troy in pro-
fessional circles in the last two
years.
The elusive. half-pint Schonfeld
now living in New York, may bring
crack performer in exchange
Mickey paced the local outfit in reg
istering points last year and is q
colorful, aggressive player.
Other Squad Members.
Carroll Shore, one of the finest
scholastic players ever produced
here and later a member Of George
towns team, will try for job, while
Otis Zahn, Whitley Wilson, Ben
Goldfadden, George Freilicher and
Ralph Bennie will be retained from
last years team. Bennie's injured
knee, which threatened to termi-
nate his sports career, has responded
to treatment and he will be carried
as the eighth man on the squad.
Heurich will continue to use the
brewery gymnasium as the site Of
most home games, but plans to shift
more important tilts to the re.
modelled Riverside Stadium across
the street. The Riverside plant
which also will house Eastern Anna
teur League hockey, currently il
having its face lifted.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Maybe milk is the drink that wins
golf matches. Maybe the various
soft drinks and the tigers milk that
some of the boys use as their in
spirational medicine isn't as good as
cows milk for victory squirt. Or
maybe only Ed Merkle would know
about that. Ed, you know, is the
great disciple of milk as winning
drink for men who would win on
the links. He won a quarter final
match in the Columbia Country
Club championship with the aid of
one of our better dairies and now
Ed, again with the help of some
anonymous COW, who probably Is
chewing her cud In some nameless
pasture around town, is in the final
of the championship, where all he
has to do is to whip George F. Miller
to win the title at one of the bigger
country clubs around Washington.
It may be a sermon in a few words
for the lusty Scots who 60 in for
heavier stuff than milk to win golf
matches. Or maybe there's some
thing to Merkle's milk diet. We
wouldn't know about that. But
there's no question about the fact
that Ed plays better after a straight
drink of milk.
He had to play well to lick Luther
Steward, jr., in the semi-flnal round
yesterday and he'll need all the in
spiration he can get to lick Miller
today. Any golfing gent who whips
Iron Man" Martin F. Mccarthy,
as Miller did yesterday, is no push
over, even for guy who drinks
milk. Martin was the red-hot
favorite to win the crown. He was
runnerup last year, and in 1887 he
was runner up to Billy Shea for
the District championship at Co.
lumbia, which may give you an idea
that he likes the course. But Miller
whipped him 3 and 2. =
Milk can win the final, but it will
take all the "oomph" Ed Merkle has
to do it. Here were the pairings in
the seven flights today; first flight
George F.. Miller VS.. Ed Merkle;
second flight-Charles w. Hoover
VS.. c. H. Severance; third fight
Bond p. Goodies VS.. Dolph r. Ell
more: fourth flight-W. w. Curtiss
VS.. E. S. Thackerston; fifth flight
David S. Hendrick VS.. Dr.. r. F.
Dunmire; sixth flight-John Redd
VS.. William G. Gelong; seventh
flight-James L. Wright VS.. Henry
Elliott.
Congressional Tourney Nears End.
Over at nearby Congressional nine
flights of golfers were going through
the second round in their club title
tourney today, with more than q
chance that two Georgetown kids
one an alumnus, and another still a
college boy-would meet in the final.
The two are Billy Dettweiler, now
q budding G-man, and Billy Shea,
the youngster who was licked In the
District championship final last
week. They are in opposite brackets
and with the brand Of golf they
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Tech Eleven on MettIe
Battling Episcopal

Tech High School, touted as hav-
ing one of Washington's strongest
schoolboy elevens, journeys to Alex
andria today to play strong Epis-
copal team on Hotchkiss Field.
The game is the first of the sea-
son for Tech, and the first under its
new coach, Artie Wondrack, who
recently was appointed to fill job
resigned by Rusty Thompson.
While Episcopal already has
shown its strength through a tri-
ump over Eastern last Saturday, the
invaders are confident they have a
surprise in store for the Virginians.
Don Cockrille, quarterback; Angelo
Catucci and Charley Green, half
backs, and Jim Miller, fullback, were
to start for Tech. The game was
scheduled for 2:3O.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

professional basket ball on Slight
ly gaudier scale again will be pro-
NOTED by Chris Heurich, jr., here
this year, but If it fails to gain fair
support the youthful promoter
frankly admits he will chuck the
whole business overheard.
1t will be a more formidable out
fit than the club which finished last
in the American League last year,
for Heurich already has agreed to
financial terms for the purchase of
Jimmy Brown and Mac Posnack
from the Troy IN. " Haymakers
and also is planning to employ
Mickey Schonfeld. former George
Washington University ace, as
trading bait for another star.
Posnack Likely Manager.
The deal which would bring Brown
and Posnack to the Brewers already
has been completed except for a
personal interview with the players
by General Manager Mcdonald, and
no hitch is anticipated from the
standpoint of salary. The deal is
for straight cash.
Posnak, who probably will be
named playing manager of the club,
is guard who was a member of
the st. Johns wonder" quint of
several years ago. He moved to the
Evening star., 1939-09-30
No Reason Why He Should
Hove Left Big Leagues.

1t was this impact that caught
Frank Frisch on his way along
the glory road.
Later on Pepper Martin was hurt
and other things happened. but
the loss of Delaney and the two
Deans was more than any ball club
could stand. It was worse than
taking Dickey, Di Maggie, Ruffing
and Rolfe away from the Yankees.
On that night in Florida we re-
called that the two Deans had
turned in 90 victories for the two
previous seasons, plus World
Series championship. Frisch could
look forward to As or so games a
year from this pair alone. He could
figure in more than 200 winning
games from the Deans within the
next five years.
So you can see what happened
to Frank Frisch, all beyond his
reach, when the avalanche hit him.
Frisch was just as good a mana
ger when his Cardinals took the
big dip as he was when they won
World Series. With Delaney and
the two Deans, all three young and
strong, ready to 60 the route, he
had more than a few pennents in
easy reach. There was no reason
at all why the Fordham Flash ever
should have been dropped from the
main show. He always belonged
there.
But looking back to that moon.
Lit night in Florida can see the
toughest break that ever flattened
out the manager of ball club. And
the odds against such q break were
at least 100 to l.
Evening star., 1939-09-30
Di Maggie and Mize
.Cinch Big League
Stick Crowns
Kreevieh Gusts McQuinn
From A. l. Big Ten
With End at Hand
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Awarding
of the major league hitting cham
pionships to Joe Di Maggie of the
New York Yankees and Johnny
Mize of the st. Louis Cardinals now
is only formality.
The two sluggers who have led
the American and National Leagues,
respectively, for many weeks coasted
into the final week end of the base
ball campaign with insurmountable
margins.
Di Maggio's 1882, while far be-
meath his hoped-for 400, still was
"a points better than the mark of
Jimmie Foxx of the Boston Red Sox,
who was removed from competition
month early by an appendectomy.
Mize's mark of .352 was IA points
above the 1888 figure of his team
mate, Joe Ducky- -Wucky) Med
wick, who beat him out for the 1897
batting championship by a narrow
margin.
AS the leagues prepared to draw
the 1889 curtains, the big ten" hit
ters of each circuit marched with a
virtually solid front. There was not
a single change in personnel in the
National League, and the only one
in the American returned Mike
Kreevich of the Chicago White Sox
to membership and dropped George
McQuinn of the st. Louis Browns.
The 10 leaders in each league: