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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-06
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes Thing,

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unan letters must give name and
address Of writer Onls Initials
viii Dc published xnen requested
Mr.. Fisit; Would YOU please
tell me what course to take IN
high school 10 become nm air
plano mcdaniel
n. n.
A scientific course would seem
wisest, with machine shop and
automobile shop classes worked
In during your third and fourth
years, II such training is avail
able. Under the present high
school system, with little voca-
tional specialization, about the
best thing you can do is get as
good a general education as pos
sible.
Mr.. Fixif: My grandmother
wiIled n ranch 10 my mother
that WAS 20 he left 10 me when
she WAS through with IL. Short
~ after 1 finished grade school
my aunt asked for a s9-year
lease on m acre or two where
she wished 10 build a summer
home. Mother and I both signed
the lease. Now we find she has
taken about = third Of the entire
ranch and has fatty refused 10
fulfill promises made when the
lease WAS made. would Hike
10 know just how this lease
would be considered ~ 10 legal
ity. I was not more than Is Mt
the date Of signing.
MRS. A. II.
You are asking for lawyers
advice 80 you'd better ask
lawyer. II your mother signed
the lease as your guardian, 1t
would appear to as distant an
onlooker as Mr.. Fixit that il was
entirely legal. Until a lawyer
examines the documents, any
opinions would be only guesses.
Mr.. Fixit: Is an 1854 half
dime worth anything: II so,
where could II he turned in?
A READER.
They are rated as worth sc
to Csc. We don't mean you
could sell one for that high a
price. Mr.. Hewson, at 903 Pa
cific ave. might be able to quote
you a price, and there are other
Tacoma old coin handlers whose
names we seem to have lost.
Among the large dealers in the
country are Henry Chapman,
1888 So. 18th st, Philadelphia,
and B. Max Mehl, The Numis-
matte CO.. Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you tell me
II there In sales tax added to
\ bill that had balance left
on II after May I. 1892 This
WAS a balance on food that was
not taxed before May 1. II You
do not know, where can ! 20 In
Tacoma 10 find out about this
sales tax:
The tax should not be charged
on foods purchased before May
|, which were not taxable until
then. If you wish to argue with
the State Tax Commission, you
can find its Tacoma office in
the Rust building.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you give me
the address OF the Country Home
Magazine? think perhaps IL
might be In Kansas.
MRS. IL. c.
Rural flavor to magazine
doesn't mean that it is published
In the country. Country Home
is a magazine OF the Crowell
Publishing Co.. $50 Park ave.
New York City.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-06
ECONOMIC yAGARIES

Editor, The Times: Some time
ago l had an argument with a
highly educated man who said
he was an economist. He was
telling me that if the employees
of the nation did not put up a
continual fight for their rights,
the employers would beat them
down to a starvation wage. II
this is true the employers would
all have to go. into bankruptcy.
This fellow had studied every
thing but thinking.
I mention this simply be-
cause ii represents the popular
thought of the day, We shall
analyze this and see if 1t is
sound reasoning. As an illus
tration: Let us suppose that l
am one of those greedy, hard
boiled dollar chasing Industrial
lists that the reformers talk
about. (Even the supposlnon
gives me feeling of authority
and Importance OF course, l
would be anxious to get high
profits. I find that in order to
get the profits l must sell the
goods TO the people. Someone
must have enough money 10 buy
my goods, therefore other em-
ployers in the nation must em-
ploy enough people at suffici-
emily high wages so that the
employees can buy my goods.
II can see beyond the end of
my nose. ! will be anxious that
the other employers do not de-
stroy my customers by cutting
off their buying power TO the
extent that they could not buy
my goods. OF course, II very
selfish, ] would not be so anx-
ious to pay my own employees
high wages. but you can feel
assured that would want John
Jones. who is a big indusu1alist'
to keep his employees on the pay
roll at buying wages, and John
Jones wants me TO employ more
men at buying wages so that he
can sell them more goods. So l
watch John Jones TO see that he
does not chisel on wages, and
John Jones watches me.
Now why should the business
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-06
Divide on Womens
Rights and Booze
Two issues Split State
Convention Delegates
"Cow County" Contingent
Opposes West Siders
EIlensbure Goes After
State Capital

Sioic So1iioi
WHILE one of the most no.
table Fourth of July cele-
brations in the history of the
Northwest took place at olym-
pia in 1889, there also was en-
acted in the old state house
scene that was to leave its i'm
press on coming generations.
During an intermission in the
celebration delegates from the
legislative districts Of Washing
ton territory met to organize
the convention that was to make
the constitution for the new
state Of Washington.
Several days of lobbying and
caucussing preceded the OPEN
ing of the convention. Delegates
from the eastern part of the ter
rftory were seeking to control
the convention and elect Judge
George Turner, president. The
west side delegates were trying
just as hard for control and TO
put Judge John p. Hoyt, of Seat
tie, in the chair. 1t was case
of the COW counties against
the big fellows in the cities,
a situation that has cropped up
in nearly every session of the
legislature SINCE.
For several days before the
convention support of the east
and west side candidates was
evenly divided. Both were good
men.
The chief argument against
Judge Hoyt was that he was
an advocate of woman suffrage.
That put Judge Turner on the
spot. To say that he held views
on the suffrage question con-
trary to those of Judge Hoyt
meant that he would be the tar
get of the suffrage forces, and
they were pretty strong in Judge
Turner's home town. So he kept
still.
Judge Hoyt, however, made
no bones about declaring his
position. Suffragist wives of
the delegates turned the heat
on their husbands. A caucus
Just before the convention met
showed a majority for Judge
Turner and he was elected at
the first session of the conven-
ton.
Preliminary to the convention
public sentiment was centered
on two issues-woman suffrage
and prohibition of the liquor
traffic. The lines were sharply
divided.
1t is significant that the OPP
ponents of women suffrage
were for the most part OPP
ponents Of prohibition, though
there were exceptions. Pro-
ponents of prohibition were
for the most part advocates OF
the anti-saloon provision in
the constitution.
One of the arguments of the
anti-suffragists and pro-saloon
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-06

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-06

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Evening star., 1939-10-07
Postmasters Will Get
Ride in Mail Planes

Postmasters from all parts of the
country who will be here next week
will be given an opportunity to fly
In the planes which transport the
mail to and from their stations, it
was announced by the Post Once
Department. What is asserted to be
the largest fleet Of transport planes
ever seen here will be. on hand.
Further demonstrations of the
latest developments in the air mail
service will be held on the Mall
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
when the new pickup device for
handling mail to and from the
ground while the plane is in flight
will be shown in operation. There
will also be demonstration flights of
the new autogiro mail service being
operated between the roof of the
Philadelphia Post once and the
Camden, N. j., airport.
It was also announced that Miss
Katherine Wilson Of San Francisco,
who has been designated Miss
American Aviation for 1885," will
serve In a similar capacity in greet
Ing the postmasters here.
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Davis Ignores Protests
To Address German Ra||v
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 7.-Dis-
daining appeals that he refrain
from speaking, Senator James J..
Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania
told a huge German rally last night
he had "lived too long in this
country not to know my rights"
I'D have kept my appointment If
I had to get a handcar and pump
my way from Washington" he told
the cheering assembly of 1900 per-
sons celebrating the 256th anniver-
sary of the founding of German
town.
Swastikas, displayed at previous
celebrations, were not in evidence
when Senator Davis took the
rostrum.
Answering the protest of the
American League for Peace and
Democracy to his appearance, the
Senator declared: Il challenge any
body to find a more loyal and patri-
otic group than the Americans Of
German descent in Pennsylvania.
Fortunately in this hour of propa-
ganda and counter-propaganda the
American people are not asleep.
Their first and last thought is for
the preservation of America"
He ended his speech with a plea
for preparedness, urging a national
defense which will permit no
foreign power to vision destruction
of our civilization"
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Still Crowd Shy, Garbo
Lauqhs in New Picture
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. Its a new
Garbo who laughs her way across
the screen, but it's the same old
Garbo who shuns the crowds adula-
tions at her premieres.
"Ninotchka," the secluded Swede's
latest, was unveiled last night be-
fore an adimring audience, but II
Greta was there she donned a dis
guise so successfully that it fooled
the perennial previewers, adept at
penetrating her deceptions.
"Ninotchka" gives Hollywood's s
most aloof actress q chance at
satire, and she handles it expertly.
She is portrayed as a product Of the
Russian regime, machine-like in
dividual without emotion, who goes
to France and is captivated by Paris
and Melvyn Douglas.
For a third of the picture she
doesn't smile. Then, suddenly, she
laughs uproariously.
Her lines were well timed. Most
Of those which sent the previewers
away chuckling were barbs at Eu-
ropes politics.
Ernst Lubitsch, who produced and
directed the film, saw to it that
Garbo does not entirely dominate
the action. Douglas has q we'll
tailored part which he executes ex-
cellently.
Garbo got the biggest laugh when,
with wave of her hand, she dis
missed Douglas butler, announcing:
I've want to be aloone.'
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Blood Paternity Test
Ordered by Court

Justice Jesse G. Adkins In Dis
trict Court has signed an order
directing that Mrs. Mary E. Beach
1000 block Bladensburg road NE,
and her month-old son, John War
rem Beach, shall appear before DR..
Oscar B. Hunter, at his Offices,
1885 I street NV, Monday morning
for blood grouping test, as an
other step in a dispute over the
paternity of the child.
The jurist's order requires that
the mother and child submit to
the test for comparison of their
blood with the blood of James E.
Beach, alleged father of the child,
who denies paternity. The blood
grouping test is to be taken in the
presence of mother, child and reputed
father, as well as Attorneys John
Paul Jones, representing Mr.. Beach,
and John T. Bonner, who repre-
sents the mother.
In July Mrs. Beach brought a
maintenance suit against her hus-
band, but he advised the court that
he Is not the father of the child.
Under an order signed by Justice
Daniel w. O'Donoghue, Mr.. Beach
is required to pay 81 weekly for the
support of his wife and an effort is
being made to have the court re-
quire him to pay So additional for
support of the child.
The projected blood grouping test
may not materialize as ordered, be-
cause Mr.. Bonner has served notice
that he will carry the case to the
United States Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Beach told the court that they
were married in January, 1897, at
Ellicott City, Md.
Evening star., 1939-10-07
|roquois Unmo|ested
So Far Despite Nazi
Warning, Navy Says
No UnfovorubIe News
Heard From Refugee
Ship on Way to u. S.
3y the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSS.
A Navy spokesman's cryptic OBJ
servation that mo news is good
news" gave reason to believe today
that the steamship Iroquois was
proceeding unmolested on its voyage
across the Atlantic with Americans
fleeing the European war.
A German official advised the
United States on Wednesday the
ship would be sunk before reaching
this country. The implication Of
the message, as made public by the
White House, was that it would be
destroyed by Britain or France and
the blame placed on Germany.
Capt. Edward A. Chelton, the
ships master, wirelessed the Mari
time Commission several times yes
terday that the vessel was proceed
ing uneventfully. It is scheduled to
reach New York next Wednesday,
The Navy has sent warships to
protect the Iroquois, but has not
divulged whether they have reached
the ship. President Roosevelt re-
marked at Hyde Park yesterday that
it would be unwise to make public
any information. The Navy spokes-
man pursued this policy here last
night, refusing to give out any news
but remarking that mo news Is
good news"
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Rev. R. W. Sanderson
Funeral Rites Held

Funeral services for the Rev. Rob-
ert w. Sanderson. "a. were held at
the Free Methodist Church, Twelfth
and M streets NV, today. at 2p.m.
Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Sanderson died Thursday at the
home Of son, Frank K. Sanderson,
6431 Brooks lane, Brookmont, Nd,
after short illness.
Born in Bond County, ILL.,, Mr..
Sanderson entered the Free Method
ist ministry in 1881. Most of his life
was devoted to pastorates in the
Central Illinois Conference of the
Free Methodist Church. During
1920 he was supply pastor for several
nearby Maryland churches. He had
lived with his son for seven years.
Besides his son Mr.. Sanderson is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma c.
Sanderson; another son, Walter B.
Sanderson of Washington; five
daughters, Mrs Mayme Sterling and
Mrs. j. M. Gleason, both of this
city; Mrs. r. c. Smith Of Seekonk,
Mass; Mrs. E. L. Goodrich of Terre
Haute. Ind, and Mrs. G. w. Robert
son of Rapid City, s. Oak.
Evening star., 1939-10-07

From 1902 until 1912 he was as
sociate professor of surgery at Johns
Hopkins University. Then Harvard
named him as professor of surgery
While at Johns Hopkins the sharp
eyed, keen-minded surgeon intro
duced conservatism in the operating
room and new procedures.
He developed the use of the cross
bow incision for operations at the
base Of the brain, decompressing
operations in tra-cranial hem
orrhages in the newborn and sue
cessful treatments for facial paraly-
Sis. His idea Of the anesthetic block
ing OF the nerve trunks later became
one OF the fundamental principles
of surgery.
His stay at Johns Hopkins brought
him the friendship of Sir William
Upon his death in 1919, Lady Osler
appealed to DR.. Gushing to write her
husbands biography.
The World War started while he
was at Harvard and in the spring
OF 1915 he embarked for France
where he served with the British
French and later American forces
During this period he held the ranks
Of major, lieutenant colonel and
colonel and was named director OF
Base Hospital No. S, Harvard unit
attached to the British Expedition
ary Force.
Back from the war, he returned to
his duties at Harvard and the hos
pltal in Boston, where he remained
until the age limitation ruling forced
retirement in 1882.
The next year Yale named him its
first Sterling professor of neurology
He was identified with the university
in that capacity until his retirement
in 1887, when he received an emeri-
tus rating and became director OF
studies IN the history of medicine
and an associate fellow of Trumbuu
College.
He was born in Cleveland, April
8. 1869. one of nine children OF
Henry Kirke and Betsey M. (Wil-
liamO Cushing.
Evening star., 1939-10-07

president Of the German League of
Nations Society. In 1923 he was
named vice president of the inter-
national convention of national So
cieties favoring the League. This
work so engrossed Won Bernstorn
that he declined in December, 1924,
to be a candidate for reelection to
Parliament. Since 1926 he had been
chairman Of the German delegation
to the League OF Nations disarma-
ment meetings.
Aided Plan for Disarmament,
In 1881 he helped prepare the plan
for drastic disarmament which Ger
many submitted to the disarmament
conference at Geneva. The count,
however, gave up active participa-
ton in the cause before the confer
ence convened.
In memoirs, published in 1896, he
said competition in ornaments, in
the course of history, always has led
to war"
His book criticized wartime Ger
man diplomacy as "a political in
adequacy that flung us helpless at
the mercy of an incompetent mill
tary dictatorship" Germanys mill
tary position would not have deteri-
GRATED. he said. had not the unre-
Strlcted submarine warfare been un-
dertaken with the result that the
United States was brought into the
conflict.
Born in London in 1862.
Count Won Bernstorf1 was born
November IA, 1862, at London. There
his father, Count Albrecht Won
Bernstorff, a Mecklenburg noble
man, represented Prussia first as
Minister and then as Ambassador.
After spring his childhood years
In London, the son was sent to high
school at Ratzburg. In Holstein. At
the conclusion OF his course in 1881
he joined the artillery, serving as an
officer until 1889 when he Joined
the diplomatic service.
During the next 13 years he filled
posts at Constantinople, Belgrade,
Dresden. st. Petersburg and Munich
In 1902 he went to London as coun-
selor of the embassy and four years
later was transferred to Cairo as
Minister. From the latter post he
was Transferred to Washington as
Ambassador in 1908.
He had son and two daughters.
The latter became the wives of
Counts Won Pourtales and Won Low
enStein.
Evening star., 1939-10-07
New Potomac Bridqe
Dedication Today
Al Hancock, Md. ''
Gov. O'Conor and
Four Governors to Be
Among Visitors
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANCOCK, Nd, Oct. -Four
Governors and a host Of other celeb.
rites will held this little COM
munity dedicate the new milion-
dollar bridge across the Potomac
River today.
Despite last-minute efforts Of the
contractors and State Roads Com
mission employees, the ceremonies
will see the bridge not quite COM
pleted, but the necessary finishing
touches will not interfere.
Residents from this section will
get In on the party at about 2:30
pm. when Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor
and other official visitors arrive
from the Woodmont Rod and Gun
Club, where they are scheduled for
luncheon at 1890.
Gov. O'Conor, in the dual role
OF host and guest, will welcome the
visitors, then deliver the dedication
address.
Barring the intervention Of off,
cial business, visitors expected by
the dedication committee include
Maryland Senators Millard E. Tyd-
ings and George L. Radcliffe; Sem
ators Joseph Guffey and James J.
Davis of Pennsylvania; Senators
Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd Of
Virginia; Senators M. NJ. Nicely and
Rush Holt of West Virginia; and
Cows. Arthur H. James of Penn
sylvania; Homer A. Holt of West
Virginia and James H. Price, of Vir-
ginia.
A number of other Congressman
also are expected, as we'll as road
commission representatives from the
four states.
The all-steel and concrete span,
when finished, will cost slightly more
than $972,000. Nearly a mile in
length, it will carry a double lane
of traffic over the Western Mary.
land Railroad tracks and the Chesa.
peake and Ohio canal on the Mary
land side, and over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad tracks on the
| West Virginia side.
1t replaces smaller wood and
steel structure that. for years, was
threatened with destruction every
time flood waters rolled down the
Potomac. The new bridge is well
above the flood stage.
The bridge was started in May,
1898.
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Cushing, Noted Brain Surgeon,
Dies of Heart AiIment
Futher Of Mrs. james
Roosevelt Wrote
Prize Biography
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 7.-Dr.
Harvey Williams Cushing, whose
pioneering in modern brain surgery
won him worldwide renown, died to-
day at the age Of TO years.
The surgeon, professor emeritus Of
neurology at Yale, had been in poor
health for some time. He died at
New Haven Hospital at 2:45 am. (E.
s. TD of heart ailment.
DR.. Cushing, whose medical serv-
ices during the World War were re-
warded by the United States with
the Distinguished Service Medal,
was admitted to the hospital
Wednesday. His name was placed
on the danger list Immediately.
Author Of Prize Biography.
The surgeon, author of the 1925
Pulitzer prize-winning biography,
the Life Of Sir william Osler," was
the father -in-law of James Roose-
welt, son of President Roosevelt.
DR.. Cushing's body will be taken
to Cleveland, Ohio, his native city,
for burial there next Tuesday at
Lakeside Cemetery.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Monday at Center Church,
historic Congregational church on
New Haven's Green. They will be
conducted by the Rev. Sidney Lo-
vett, Yale chaplain, and the Rev.
George Stewart of Stamford.
Hospital officials announced that
DR.. Gushing died of coronary oc-
clusion. Several members of his
family were present.
Mr.. Roosevelt twice visited the
Gushing home here after becoming
President. The first visit was sew
eral years ago when the Chief
Executive came to New Haven to
receive an honorary degree from
Yale. In 1885 Mr.. Roosevelt stopped
at the Gushing home for luncheon
during a campaign automobile tour
through Connecticut.
When DR.. Gushing was graduated
from Harvard with an M. D. degree
in 1895, after attending Yale, there
lay before him an unexplored field
in brain surgery, especially as 1t
dealt with humorous growths. After
much painstaking research for 10
years he penetrated the mystery
surrounding this phase of surgery;
within the next % years he had re-
duced the danger attached to deli
cate srain tumor operations to q
point where it compared favorably
with major abdominal operations.
Performed Many Operations.
In the 20 years that DR.. Cushing
retained the dictatorship of the Pc
ter Bent Brigham Hospital at Bos-
ton and was identified with Harvard
he performed as high as three and
four eight-hour brain operations a
week, collected some 1000 brain tu-
mors and stored them in bottles and
taught $500 students from all parts
of the world.
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Detroit Welcomes New
Legion Commander
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 7.-Raymond J..
Kelly, new national commander of
the American Legion, was given a
noisy welcome home today as he ar
rived in the city for the first time
since the Legion Convention closed
at Chicago.
A Legion parade formed at Union
Station headed by a platoon of
mounted police. Mr.. Kelly was es-
corted to City Hall. where the
formal program of welcome was
held.
Mr.. Kelly has been Detroit cor
poration counsel for several years.
He is taking one-year leave of
absence to devote himself to Legion
activities.
Evening star., 1939-10-07
Indion Summer Weather
To Continue Tomorrow

The city today basked in Indian
summer weather, which, with the
addition Of some cloudiness, was
scheduled to continue tomorrow,
according to the weather man.
BY midmorning the temperature
showed 76 degrees and decreasing
humidity of so per cent. Yesterday
at the same time the humidity was
Is per cent. Lowest temperature
today was So at 6 am.
Cloudiness Is due to develop to-
night and continue tomorrow with
slightly warmer temperature, he
said.