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Evening star., 1939-10-22
HAPPY BINDINGS
by
ARTHUR BARTLETT
en E~wsn
0ts,xiss by Rebsst Eswesst

and women are working, schemlng, fighting to
put happy endings on the stories of tomorrow
More than thirty-flve years ago young
underling in the Department of Agriculture
was given the job of classifying and mapping
the soil of Virginia county. As an after
thought his instructions added, TRY to find
out why so much of the lands of that section
are so very poor" So Hugh H. Bennett
walked over farms that had once been the
mainstay of prosperous agricultural civiliza-
ton, that had yielded the bounteous crops
to build great manor houses and support great
families - but on which now he saw only
gaunt, beaten. ragged men and women, pour
ing sweat into red clay that Knocked their
efforts to make living
Here was tragedy, and Bennett didn't like
it. Good American farm families we're being
turned into rural slum- jewellers, with all the
tragic consequences of slum life Ever since
then. through Republican and Democratic
administrations alike. Bennett of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has been working to save
farmers and their families from the tragedy
of an impoverished soil. Lately we have been
hearing lot about erosion There have been
scores of magazine articles about it, several
books. even a successful moving picture
They all stem back to Hugh H. Benefits
adherence of the tragedies that he found on
Virginia farms And today on thousands of
American farms, the soil is staying put
thanks to his efforts; and the lives of those
dependent on it. today and tomorrow, are
that much more fully insured against tragedy
Probably no group of men and women has
done more in our time to bring about happy
endings to our daily life stories than those
in the medical profession, with its great
advance in preventive medicine l remember
waving goodby one day in my schoolboy
years to two young friends, brother and
sister. never saw them again; few days
later they were both dead of diphtheria. 1t
was tragedy to me. To their parents, it
was much greater tragedy. But it seldom
happens now. because hard-working doctors,
happy ending addicts, have found the way to
nip it in the bud.
A few years ago a young Boston doctor
named George R. Minot faced death. He had
diabetes, and he knew what it meant: gradual
weakening, then the end. He didn't know
that at the same time another young doctor
named Fred Banting. up in Toronto, was
working day and night in laboratory -had
given up his practice and sold his surgical
instruments to keep himself alive while he did
it hunting for a different ending for dia-
betes. happy ending
Banting found what he was looking for:
insulin. 1t changed the course of thousands of
life stories that had been headed straight for
certain tragedy. Among Others DR.. George R.
Minot came out from under the shadow of
Evening star., 1939-10-22

Tie end dsetiens Of oil koeets kat opeeor short
stoss ss'ios end ssmifefen articles thus WEEK MAGAZINE
wholly etievs Any which koeeens 10 Be Tie
fko Of LIVING deod entirely eenedsnto
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
PREPAREDNESS AND DOING
SOMETHING ABOUT 1T

Editor. The Times: We must
plan ahead; this is the way we
get ahead. Planning requires
foresight and courage. Too many
of us speed into program with
no plan as 10 where we are CO.
ing. We race 10 town in our
cars and when we get there we
are nervous and race back home;
yet not one of us would try TO
build house without previously
drawing up plans. Bridges cam
not span rivers unless plans
have been made. II we want the
United States TO keep out of
European entanglements. every
L. S. citizen no matter the race,
color or creed, must cooperate
under one plan.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once
said, THE human race is di-
vided into just two classes -
those who so ahead and do
something and those who sit and
inquire why it wasn't done the
other way
National defense has been the
big theme in congress the past
month. II is a good thing that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
QUESTIONS TO IeS
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven Of
these test questions Turn to
the Woman's page for the an
swers
!. Name the strait that sep
arates Greenland from the
North American continent.
.. II a child Is born to nat
urslized American citizens IN a
foreign country. IS he also an
American citizen?
3. Name the justice OF the L.
$. supreme court who recently
retired.
I. What is the rate Of letter
postage 10 England
5. Name the surveyors Of
Mason and Dixon's line
8. What is the highest hand
in poker with the deuces wild ,
{. For what invention IS Eli
Whitney most famous.
s. OF which state IS Nashville
the capital,
Q. In which standard time
zone Is the city OF Cleveland,
Ohio
10. In whs, year did the Boer
war end?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
HOROSCOPE
Tuesday. March !. 1889

Conflicting planetary aspects
are active today, according 10
astrology. The morning may be
time of INDIGESTION and confusion.
Threatening labor troubles
may disturb certain industries
with rush orders. The stars give
little promise of solution Of in
dustrial difficulties.
For executives there is prom
Using sign today that is read as
indicating public sympathy with
those who suffer losses through
strikes or sabotage.
This should be a favorable day
for merchants to extend their
trade or to make improvement
in their stores.
Late hours today are auspic-
ious for conferences and for pub
lie addresses. The spoken word
will assume more Importance in
American life as the radio adds
amazing improvements TO its
broadcasting systems.
Inventors will profit this spring
through the introduction Of many
o. their latest mechanical de-
vices. Airplanes will add many
safety appliances,
Japan is TO reap from the fields
of death at this time when there
may be unrest and discomfort
among many subjects Of the
Mikado. Crises in military af-
fairs are presaged in China and
Spain.
Foreign affairs Will assume
great Importance in Washing
ton. The policy OF the United
States in dealing with interna-
tional problems will be strongly
criticized by the public, which is
not cognizant o. underlying
causes for diplomatic moves.
Persons whose birthdate it is
have the augury Of year Of
prosperity and success Woman
may be fortunate through in
heritances.
Children born on this day may
be dignified and relia BILE These
subjects Of Pisces often are adj
mirers OF ceremony and display.
They should be careful where
accidents on the water are pos
sible.
Copyright. 1887
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
Will Those Who Have
Money Take A Chsnce7

As Economist John Flynn recently pointed out one of
the things that holding back business recovery the
creasing reluctance of those who money to risk
cept things.
The old cycle of three generations from shirt-seeyes
to shrseeves has been interrupted investment devices
and also by an increasing tmidy moneyed people
Perhaps the chances make money fewer than they
used to be- and perhaps increasing taxation and other
factors have loaded the dice against the man who puts up
the money. But there is also increasing timdity
increasing feeling that capitalism is entitled return
whereas the principle used to be that capital is entitled
to chance to make profit.
As Flynn well noted. capitalism and free enterprise
as system depends just much the losses does
: the gains and the continual wping of accumulated
capital is just much fuel to capasms gas tank the
piing up of new.
That is why recent advertisement is fascinating
Oil stock promoters used to advertise things You
couldn't lose. Big money just ahead by riskng pit
lance, only there was practically no risk.
The SEC and other things have put an end to that.
The advertisement in question entirely frank. gamble
being offered The promoter wants drill oil well
land he has acquired He hasn't the money SO he Of
1ers to take in partners who will take chance IF
They (geologsts) wrong am going to wind up with
nry hole in the middle of ranch If they right,
then headed for discovery well >.
If you are willing to take gamble where you will
eher lose every dollar put it up very many
dimes what you put in am going to ask you and
10
That's certainly fair enough and refrehingly honest in
comparison with 1928 come-on ads for oil stock But will
ss4here be takers?
Don't forget that il the unsung money tossed into
dy holes that built America less than the welauded
pioneers who hit OIL Step up gents you your money
: and you takes your choce!
Is the weknown pioneer spirit dead the spirit of Danl
Boone and Davy Crockett of Bill Cody and Brigham Young
the spirit of Steve Brode Hey dollar Come from
under that mortgage and take a chance!
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Continued From Page II

down TO make way for hotel.
The site where an assassin tried
to kill Secretary Seward en- the
night Lincoln was assassinated
is occupied by q theater On this
square lived Theodore Roosevelt
while the White House was
undergoing repairs. b croft
when he seized California, found
ed the naval academy at Annap-
oils and wrote his histories.
On one corner Dolly Madison
spent her old age as the belle
of the town. after her husbands
death. On another corner lived
the Corcorans who helped 10 fl
nance the Civil war and founded
the famous art gallery at the
Capital. And, of course. on the
southern fringe the president
of the United States has his
home.
II anybody has any ideas or
money. to spend on such a res
toration. they can start the
historical ball rolling by getting
in touch with Governor Draper
of the Federal Reserve Board at
Washington, D c. As a II. c.
boy who moved away and made
good in a big way. he IS keen
for this sort of saving and thrift.
Attorney General Frank Muir
phys closest friends are fearful
that he il too sanity person
to live long in Nashington's po-
htical world. They wish they
could persuade him TO pull some
rough. human stuff at his press
conference.-the say damn" or
hell" now and then.
The new A. c. has admittedly
captivated Washington. but no.
body knows how long he will
continue TO charm. His chief as
set is that he is so different
from his predecessors-the gen.
ial. easy-going Homer Cummings
and from almost all his cab
met colleagues. They are weary
and worn and bored with the
game OF national politics; they
carry on in a sort Of humdrum
manner. But Frank, new and
strange TO II all, is breezing
about and smashing the politi-
cal furniture. Hes sort Of
Savonarola bent on reforming
the reformers.
Although Murphy is an ardent
admirer OF the president-an
vice versa the betting is that
the man from Michigan won't
last long on this political earth.
Forgetting that 1910 is Just
around the corner, ne will prob
ably insist on departmental ac-
ton which would be. politically
speaking. embarrassing and un-
timely. As Harlan Stone did
when he occupied the same post.
Murphy might want to prosecute
the wrong people. And that
would be Just too bad-for him
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
Labor Civil War Nav End

The two-year civil in American labor has had the
zane effect putting sack of rocks the
back of already running uphill 1t has been tre-
: enendous drag.
Therefore it mighty good that John L. Lewis is
willing for his clio unions to go into conference with the
/: AL at the presidents mediation meetings
II labor peace be achieved at these meetings il will
be threefold blessing to the nation. Labor will gain in
more work hours and better mutual understanding with
business Business will be able to put capital to work
with the confidence that plans will not be baked by inter-
union feuds which business can have control.
And the nation will gain tremendously whole be-
greatest wealth is the product of the combined
efforts of American labor and business
Real labor peace the thing most needed right now to
bring back the prosperous times which America deserves
The whole country looks the medators forget selfish
interests and devote every effort to working out happy
compromise to the present tragic situation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
COAiMENDS SELECTION
OF AVENUE SITE

Editor. the Times: The glad
tidings that Tacoma is TO have
a new federal building was the
best news for many years, for
several reasons. One is that il
will locate the new building on
the main thoroughfare of the
city. Second. that 1t will re-
move number of eye sores
that were an offense 10 the
optics since this writer wander
ed into Tacoma over 40 years
ago; and thirdly and last, it will
dispense with the Tacoma prece-
dent of tearing down a good
building to erect a new one.
People of the south end had
two choice locations for Hotel
Winthrop. One was the four
acres belonging to the Union
Pacific where. with the help of
Divine Providence. the combina-
ton courthouse and city hall
will shortly stand for the con-
venience of all citizens and the
glory of the greater Tacoma.
Our second choice was the
one happily selected by the
agents for the federal govern
ment. for which is due them the
praise of all good citizens. If
the hotel had been erected on
this site it would have been
living advertisement for this city
for generations. That another
monument in stone will arise is
something that We can all glory
in.
Resolutions were recently
passed by the jefferson Square
Improvement club asking for
joint meeting of city and county
officials. This is something that
concerns all good citizens and
the future OF Tacoma. A monu-
ment TO the immortal jefferson.
one of the worlds greatest
statesmen. and strong massive
edifice that will stand for econo-
my in the civic center of our
city. as near the population and
geographic center as can be
found. This city is growing to
the south. II must take the
path of least resistance and jit-
tering efforts to push IT up a
hill will be in vain.
]. A. SPROULE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
PROPOSED NATIONAL
RECOVERY PLAN

Editor. The Times: House
Resolution No. ? tHR2) now
pending in congress. is receiving
ominous attention from econom-
ic metaphysicians. These as
THEOLOGICAL financiers call any and
all measures TO solve the nation
al economic debacle their own
deliberate scheming1 crack
pot funny money non
spiritual and plead for addi-
tional lad ibituml time. Allow
them a half century longer in
so years all will be well so far
as most OF Us are concerned. be-
lieve II or mott for their intensi-
fled scheming.
There is a long list OF rosy,
descriptive terms for tHR2). The
Townsend National Recovery
Plan: Eleanor. impossible; Ed
fantastic" Hugh :. Johnson.
"gro,esque and homogeneous"
Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
4NttN sNltiAt. lfptiN GdlAl,
ridiculous Harry Hopkins.
"eockeyed:' Jack Garner. I
never heard OF it." and many
others equally expressive and
authoritative. Their intelligence
is reflected in the Blue Eagle
and in the alphabetical derange-
rent and melange.
Honest. old fashioned Doc
Townsend is a ''crackpot The
greater the national debt the
greater the national wealth -
Enjoy Happy days are here
again" prosperity deficit. a
little longer and the New Deal
zigzagging will give Us such a
degree OF vertigo We won I
know anything are care less.
Dtsillusion yourselves since the
Ship Of State is now in the hands
Of the infsllible Cohen-Frsnk-
furter and the more infalllble
Corcorsn Murphy.
But. somehow. We are just
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
Keeping Up With The Law
By BYRON BENTLEY, LIB.

The Capitol Always objected
when a power and light COM
pany erected series of 90-foot
steel towers across the road
from its airport and erected a
high tension line carrying 1922
900 volts of electricity. The COM
pany replied that it bought the
right of way, and the owner of
= a piece of land cannot be de-
prived of its unrestricted use by
the wishes of neighbor.
The supreme court of Indiana
has just settled the matter in
favor of the power company.
Said the jurists:
THE establishing of an air.
port upon plaintiffs land in no
way affected or limited the
right of adjacent landowners to
use their land in any manner
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
. STORIES
IN STAMPS
Goreos Soved Lives
To Build O Canal

THE scourge of yellow fever and
i malaria finally defeated the
French in Panama. Against these
odds they surrendered the dream
of the greatest canal in history.
But a quiet, soft-spoken physician
in the American army made the
vast project possible.
He was William wfor d
Gorgss. Fresh from brilliant
success in Havana, where he nd
the city of yellow fever, Gorgas
was appointed chief health officer
of the Panama Canal Zone when
the United States took Il over in
1904 TO conquer the Job the French
had given up HIS first task was
10 save lives and he lost no time.
The French had lost four per
cen; OF their employees yearly from
yellow fever IN the Canal Zone.
Uncle Sam planned 10 put from
$4,000 TO 10000 men on the canal
project. which meant that perhaps
1900 would die annually unless the
area was MADE safe Tor WoI ATnen-
Gorgas made II safe
SO safe, IN fact, that within =
few months after his arrival
Gorgas was offering $50 to any
person not a member OF the health
department notifying OF case of
yellow fever IN the Canal Zone.
Moreover. there IS no record that
the award was ever made
The result was . Canal Zone fl
for any workman when Uncle
sam began construction Of his
gigantic project. a physician had
paved the way for the engineers.
Gorsas. who died in 1920. IS shown
above on a current Canal Zone
stamp. enlarged.
tCopyright, 1873. NEA Service. Incl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06

Mr.. Fislt: nv first citizenship
papers were stolen. When and
where can I get a copy of them
q. y.
Go TO the nearest office Of the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service. which Is in the Federal
building. Tacoma II you can
tell where and when you obtained
your papers, there should be no
trouble getting a duplicate copy.
Mr.. FiNit:. Please tell me the
name of the new NPA admin
istrator and his address.
VI. n. {.
II you mean the national adj
ministrator. he Is Col F. c.
Harrington and his address,
Works Progress Administration,
Washington, d. c,
Mr.. FiNit: Il unemployment
insurance transferable from Ore
gon 20 Washington worked
recently for about seven months
In Oregon. but now reside, I'M
employed. In Washington. n IL
Il transferable, where can I APP
ply near Tacoma
X. o.,
Buckley.
II you have unemployment in
surance credit in any state. you
can apply for them through the
Washington State Employment
Service. just as you would for
a claim on this states funds.
You can register at the Buckley
city hall on Thursday without
coming TO Tacoma. II eligible.
your checks will come from Ore
gon until your credit is ex-
hausted.
Mr.. f1Nit: Please print for
me how 10 address letter 10
Governor Martin and will he per-
sonally open IL. or II his secre-
tary opens II, do they often an
swer without the governor look
Ing II over \ READER.
To be properly formal. you
should address your letter: His
Exeelleney the Governor" or
The Honorable Clarence d.
Martin. Governor of Washing
ton. Olympia" Your letter may
begin Your Excellency:' or
Sir.
There Is little likelihood that
the governor will see your letter
at all unless ii contains some
thing his secretary regards as
important, and virtually no
chance that the governor will
open IL personally.
Mr.. FiNit: Where can get
information as TO the 1910 CEN
sus taking 4. J.
You could write To William
l.. Austin. director; Bureau of
the Census, Department of Com
merce, Washington, ID. c.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

we are planning ahead. Perhaps
we are inviting war. But If we
don't plan. war will be inviting
us. The Bible predicts that there
VIII always be wars and rumors
of wars until the end of time. |
am beginning to believe this is
quite correct. Why not be pre-
pared to safeguard our own in
terests and protect our own
homes Il that time comes that
we are compelled to do so?
CLARA NOVELLI.
4049 So. Puget Sound,
Tacoma, Washingt
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
SCIENCE NEWS

Your pet dog does not need to
miss his meal when you are
gone. In fact. he can have it
right on the dot. A recent in
vention has fitted an automa tic
feed box with an alarm clock
control When the alarm goes
off circular lid in the top of
the low rectangular box lifts
open, permitting the dog to eat
from it as he would from
bowl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06

and for any purpose for which
they might have used it before.
Had the defendant chosen TO
erect flagpoles, factory CHM
neys, or tall buildings across the
whole of its land, and several
times as high as its power line,
it was within its rights notWith-
standing it might have entirely
prevented the landing of air.
planes at plaintiffs airport"
The airport was afraid that
plane might accidentally fly so
low as TO contact the wires and
inJure its passengers. In such a
case. the court said. the plane
would be a trespasser toward
whom the landowner owed no
duty to keep his premises safe.
Capitol Always VS.. Power &
Light company, IndianaD
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06
BLACK AND WHITE
BUT READ ALL OVER

OF the 100 different species OF
plants reaching tree sire In Can
ada, 81 are conifers. which form
80 per cent OF the Dominion's
standing timber.
Delaware. New Hampshire. and
South Carolina each had their
own president at one time. The
title was changed to governor by
South Carolina in IT'S. by the
other two states in 1892.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06

Of Communist party members N
this country is small but ne
declares that at least ten million
neonle belong to organizations
which are TO greater or lesser
extent dominated and directed oy
the Communists.
Those people don't want a
big party membership, he eN-
plains. The Communist looks
instead fer people who have no
program who are wandering IN
a daze He has program. and
he sells it 10 the dissatisfied
bourgeois - he uses them and
then losses them overheard.
THE united front is definite
menace 10 this country. The vast
majority of its members aren't
Communists - but the phrase
ology. doctrines and so on are
framed BY Communists. These
modern liberals, for instance,
resent being called Communists,
but their policies tend in the
direction Of Communism
Complaints that his commit
tee has spent too much time in
vestigating Communism and too
little investigating Naziism leave
Mr.. Dies cold. He sees these isms
as simply two facets Of the same
thing.
One, he says. is national So
cialism; the other, international
socialism. Both. he feels. stem
from the notion that government
ought 10 cure all evils. that the
individual can't solve any prob
lens for himself: and this. he
adds. is a notion commonly
shared by many modern liberals.
Il don't call those liberals
liberals at all, he remarks.
HE'S A
BUSY BOY
The past year has been tough
one on Mr.. Dies. He lost Is
pounds in weight, and has got
so that he doesn't sleep we'll. His
daily routine for months has
been home-office. office home;
onl y twice in six months has he
even gone to movie, ne says.
He has a wife and three sons.
and in the old days he was a
good bit of a family man: now,
he says, his family hardly sees
anything of him.
But he feels that the worst Of
it is over. He won the formal
approval Of congress by an over.
whelming vote.
His committee now will have
enough money so that he can
spare himself some of the spade
work. From now on, he says, it
will be going places.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-06

old-fashioned enough to want
HR2 enacted into law. Pay as
you 60, pay off the national
debt, and not establish Ameri-
can economic royalists" on
parity with British economic
royalists,' who enjoy perpetual
annuities from their repudiated
national debt.
How glibly the 100 per cent
New Dealers tell us that our ma
tional debt Will never be paid.
JOHN SMITH.