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SIX Large, attractive rooms, title bath, shower. Hardwood floors 175 Edson Ave.
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From here and there It's Frankie Masters originator tone rhythm who along the of
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Lost and Found

HAVING LOST Passbook No. 7645, issued by The Sanditz & Traurig Co.,, I hereby apply for new one. Thomas McGrath, Jr.
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WHY PAY MORE?

"MONEY BACK
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 40 Other Beautiful Cars
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FOR RENT

102 SOUTH ST.-Six rooms. All im-
 provements. No heat. Dial 4-4861.
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MERIDEN ROAD B. family. ex- ceptionally low. H. W. heat. Oil burner. l.. J. Curley. 3-5169.
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Automobiles

SM Auto Springs, Axles, Etc.
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8-ROOM-House, oil burner, h. W.
 heat, new roof, completely recon. ditioned, large lot, Whittemore Rd.
 Middlebury. Phone 8 to 5. 4-0191.i
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PAINTING = Paperhanging. floor refnishing. Tavano Decorators: 40-44 Scovill St. Tel. 4-0694.
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Merchandise

30 Business & Office Equipment SLIDE RULES-ALL TYPES
 25c to $9.50, instruction free. DAVIS & NYE 60 BANK ST
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Real Esfate For Sale
Houses For Sale
An Unusual
 Buy
D. T. HARRINGTON, Inc.

Real Estate-1nsurance
 Steamship Tickets Al West Main St. Dial 3-3112
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HOTCHKISs is MOTOR

389 West Main St. 25 Willow St..
 Dial 3-3l77
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Personals

GET A RECORDING-Of your own voice on our new machine, soc up. Mecca Music Co.,, 203 Bank St.
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Business Service

5l Business Services Rendered
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DRESSES completely restyled $l.00. Shortened 35c. Goats made to order $7. H. Ciresi 36 Winchester St. 3-7259.
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FIVE NICE Large rooms at 240 Cherry St. 3 flights up. Inquire 78 Savings St. 4-5238.
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For Rent Real Estafe

FIVE LARGE RooMs-7o Vail St..
 first floor, with heat. Dial 4-1508.
Evening star., 1939-09-13
HE EvENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. c..

that as yet there had been no ad-
vance in prices for 1t.
Agricultural commodities presented
differing problems at the production
and the retailing end, Mr.. Roosevelt
said. The price Of cotton was so low
that the South would 60 broke If
it were not for soil erosion payments
and export subsidies, he added, but
it should go up in spite of the big
carryover.
The President said the existing
price of wheat was we'll below parity,
or the figure deemed necessary to
give the product the same pur-
chasing power it had in 1909-14
However, he continued, parity was
not going to be So, SO or IS, but, he
thought. somewhere around $1.15
or $12O.
The cost of bread to consumers
would rise to very inappreciable
extent If wheat went up to parity,
he asserted.
Evening star., 1939-09-13
EnIisfments Jump
For All ; Branches
OF Military Service
Applicants for Marine
Corps Service Rise
Here About $500

Applications for enlistment in the
United States Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps have increased rapidly
here since Friday when President
authorized increases by executive
order.
Spokesmen for the three branches
Of the service feel confident of read
lily increasing their personnel as au-
thorized.
Applicants for Marine Corps serv-
Ice have increased here about $50
per cent; for Navy service about IS
per cent, while the Army continues
to have many more applicants than
1t can take care of Immediately.
The Navy, which is to increase its
personnel from Ill 900 to 145, 900 is
reported going a little slowly" in
enlistments because of the desire to
enlist as many men as possible who
have had service. AS an inducement
to re-enlist, those who have been
out of the service less than eight
years are being taken back at their
old grades.
New Yorker Is First.
Meanwhile, Albert James Windle,
eX-machinist mate, second class,
whose home address is New York,
became the first to re-enlist here.
The first man in the country to be
enlisted under the new broken
service regulations was Irwin Doug
las Sprague, eX-gunner's mate, third
class, in New York
Upon recommendations of Rear
Admiral Ross T. McIntire, chief of
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
waivers are being granted by the
Navy to permit the enlistment of
men with slight dental defects which
do not affect the general health.
This action was recommended after
study of reports on applications
showed that in certain sections of
the country only per cent of
applicants could meet the Navy's
general dental requirements for en-
listment.
Marine Applicants Increase.
The Marine Corps, which must IN
crease its strength from 1890 to
$4,000. likewise is taking back men
at their former ranks if they haven't
been out of the service more than
four years The number of Marine
Corps applicants here has increased
about $50 per cent, it is said. during
the last few days. Due to the very
strict requirements, however, it is es-
timated that only about per cent
are being accepted.
Many young men have applied at
the local Army recruiting station for
enlistment in the Reserve Corps, to
be ready for service in the event the
United States goes to war, but many
of them have to be turned down
because a year of active service is
required to make them eligible for
the Reserve.
Evening star., 1939-09-13
AL Smiths Son Seeks
CounciImunic Post
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. ia 1899
model brown derby flew into the
political ring today.
Alfred E. Smith, jr., son of the
happy warrior" who once governed
New York and Wed unsuccessfully
for the presidency, announced his
candidacy for the City Council A
councilman's salary is $4,000 a year
Young Smith, 38, lawyer. was
born on downtown Madison street,
where his father started his career,
but now lives on Fifth avenue.
The elder Smith now contents
himself with operating the En-
pire State Building and making oc-
Evening star., 1939-09-13
President Watches
Commodity Prices
To Prevent Soarinq
Mentions Copper, Steel.
Cotton and Wheat as
Of Particular Interest
BY the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt, recalling that
the price of copper went up to %
cents pound during the World
War, said yesterday he did not want
a repetition of that because it would
come out of the taxpayers pockets.
The President observed at his
press conference that he was watch
ing commodity prices and mentioned
some of them specifically.
He said everyone knew a lot of
copper could be produced at 1914
cents pound and bring big profit.
He referred also to steel, but noted
Evening star., 1939-09-13

business In this country should the
United States 60 to war.
The editor, recognized as an au-
thority in the steel industry, told the
Advertising Club 40 per cent of the
income Of business would be re-
quired to finance a new war, while
the safety factor between profit and
loss now Is but per cent.
Evening star., 1939-09-13
Pusher

Pusher
SACRAMENTO, Calf (R.-The
"pusfer" engines used TO assist
trains up long grades gave Fred
Keller an idea. He has invented q
pusher trailer, in which the second
unit Of big truckloads will have its
own power plant.
Evening star., 1939-09-13
Disaster Feared With War

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13 (P.-
John H. Vandeventer, editor of Iron
Age, predicted last night ultimate
economic disaster" for rank and file
Evening star., 1939-09-13

NEW YORK.-STARS CHILDREN ARRVE-Robert Montgom-
jr and his sister Elizabeth children of Robert Mont
star still in England with his wife, shown
they arrived yesterday aboard the British liner
dora Star which brought AL stranded Travellers including
Americans, home from the European ship
changed nine times and without lights during
her 12day avoid Uboats brought
gold earmarked for the Federal
amounting $160OOOOO Wide World Photo.
Evening star., 1939-09-13

casional excursions in his brown
derby.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-24
Brandeis Stood Like a
Lighthouse as Tides Changed

Among the graves necessities of government at the mo-
ment is the finding of Justice Brande the
u. supreme court who approximately fill his shoes
In integrity in steadas adherence to fundamental prin-
epes Justice Brandes has stood for than 20
like great lighthouse unmoved by the and tides
of American life which swired about his feet That is
10 say that Brande aloof from life Ii merely say
that the current of American legal thought has passed
alternately to the right and left of Brandes position which
has always remained grounded unshakeaby the rock
the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
Today il is interesting to note the comment his
Ing from the active judicial because of the
keenest and most obviously sincere regrets being
pressed in conservative quarters.
Yet when Brandes nominated to the court by Wood
Wilson, tremendous hue and cry up from almost
the quarters which euogizng his Six
former presidents of the American Bar association objected
ExPresident Taft spoke against him. Every Republican
Peoples Money" cited against him as proving him
radical" Only after long and bitter fight he
firmed.
Yet today many of the same elements which fought
him 90 years ago realize his greatness and lament his
retirement. Why?
Because Brandeis with incorruptible and inmovable
frmness has stood by his guns Dsrustfu of great
centraons of power in the business world at the time of
his appointment land thus radical in terms of 1870
Brandes equally dsrustfu of great concentrations of
power in the governmental world in 1886 land thus almost
. conservative in terms of 1856.
His uncompromisng stand for the personal liberty and
dignity of the individual place of appeal for working
men in 1916 against great business combinations which
submerged them Today the regard for rights
IL place of refuge for business who feel submerged in
swelling governmental power.
Brandeis said: IAN intoerant majority swayed by
passion fear be in the future it has often
been in the past to stamp dsloya opinions with which it
differs"
One justice for al men, rich poor-that stamps the
great judge Justice Brandes has been great Judge and
the good wishes of who hated and feared him
follow him into whatever fields of activity he chooses for
his remaining years.
public acts To choose worthy one of Frank
lin Roosevets most pressing duties
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-24
QUESTIONS TO TES I
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
womans page for the answers.
/. What is the most common
nickname for the state of Ala
bama?
?. Under W h i c h government
department is the bureau of the
census
8. Which state does Senator
Gerald P. Nye represent in the
L. S. senate ?
4. Name the saltiest body OF
water in the world.
5. Which card in the ordinary
deck of playing cards is known
among sailors as the devils
bed-post'
8. What is the correct pro-
nunciation of the word invalid,
the adjective meaning not valid?
Z. Should widow continue 10
wear her engagement and we'd
ding rings?
S. To what general family of
birds do the falcons belong?
Q. In which city is Independ-
ence hall
10. Which is the first perma-
nent tooth IN a human being?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-24
PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

of automobiles, radios, aIrplsnes
and rayon products were made
between 1926 and 1929, yet al
most two million men lost their
jobs between those years
Your editorial says that be-
tween the years of 1929 and 1886
that out of all employed Ameri-
cans. those employed in industry
rose from % per cent to "a per
cent This means very little If
the base declined, for example,
% per cent of a thousand men
would be larger than "a per cent
of 500. However, for the sake
of argument, let US grant an in
crease OF one whole percent of
men employed in industry. In
the same period, the population
increased four per cent u. S.
census: 1880, population, about
1872 million; m a d 1888
population, 127 million; increase
of five million or four per cent;
and unemployment increased 300
per cent as shown above. Against
this background, the slight gain
of one per cent Is very poor
showing in fact, loss.
Another way of viewing it is
from the reports of commercial
employment agencies, which re-
port that in August, 1929, there
were 264 men applying for every
100 jobs; in August, 1880. 1000
were applying for the same num-
Der of openings. A year later
there were about 5000 men after
the same 100 jobs This is an
increase of from about pig men
per job to so for each Job.
You declare that the two in
dustries of automobile and steel
manufacture alone employ more
men than in the days of
clumsy hand machinery. Ger
tainly. There were scarcely that
many men alive in those early
days. For instance. in 1880. the
entire population was about 90
million. and Of this number prob
ably about 10 million were men.
When we consider the growth of
other factors, however, this claim
means exactly nothing
You further say that employ
ment in steel increased % per
cent after the installation OF GER
tain power machinery. What you
did not say IS that the increase
in production rose sharply due
to the heavy increase in export
Of munitions. For instance, ship
ment of munitions 10 England
rose $50 per cent. TO France 1900
per cent. This does not include
our own increased armament
program. Thus. the apparent in
crease in employment became
loss against this background.
This Is aside from the fact that
preparation for war is an un-
healthy sign. War can only make
bad matters worse.
Machines can and should help
man, not hurt him. But so long
as production is restricted TO
two thirds OF our present cspac-
ity 10 produce. while two-thirds
OF the population live below the
standards Of decent subsistence.
il is not helping him. II will do
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LIGHT
Continued from Page One)

supports the Lee scheme, which
provides for 20 cents pound for
cotton and S125 bushel for
wheat. These prices would be
guaranteed producers for the
portion of their products con-
sumed at home, and they would
sell the balance abroad for what
ever the market could bring.
That wouldn't be much, in view
of the prices for exports Secre-
tsry Wallace is forcing on the
world market.
The vice presidents attitude
may present his political enemies
with the chance to damage his
1910 prospects which they have
been waiting for Whereas the
STl2, 100000 annual subsidy is
financed by taxes levied on those
within income brackets, the bur-
den of payment under the Lee
Garner scheme would be inn
posed on all consumers. whether
they paid income taxes or not.
That will be a dangerously provo
cative issue next year.
Behind President Roosevelt's
determination to rearm Great
Britain and France lies his sim
cere belief that these European
nations will never again ask any
western country TO send men to
fight their battles. In some Cir
Giles there is suspicion that an
unwritten agreement to this
effect preceded the decision to
let them buy our planes.
The United States and Can
ada. too-will simply serve as a
continental arsenal for Great Bri-
tain and France in event of
conflict. Washington hears, al
though the diplomatic report
cannot be automatically confirm
ed, that London has made def
mite pledge 10 Canada that she
will be exempt from any demand
on her man power. If so, IL is
presumed here that the same
promise was eXacted and given
for the U. s. A.
No foreign nation. of course,
could call on Americans II the
United States wished TO stay
aloof. What our government got,
specifically, was probably an
assurance that if Paris and Lon
don were permitted TO modernize
their military machines with our
assistance. they would be able TO
handle their own fights without
Uncle Sam entering the ring. In
other words, We viii supply the
gloves but not stick our fists in
them.
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Keeping Up w 18th The Law
BY BYRON BENTLEY, LIB

late court.
A doctor in & small COM
munity or village, not having the
same opportunity and resources
for keeping abreast Of the ad-
vsnces in his profession. should
not be held 10 the same stand
ard Of care and skill as that en-
ployed by physicians and sur
geons in large cities
The court explained that in
this case. Pasadena and Los
Angeles are so near together
that the medical methods pre-
vsiling IN one city should be
familiar 10 the doctors in the
other A Los Angeles doctor
testified that in mis- city good
medical practice would require
an N-rsy in a case Of this kind.
Pasadena doctors should display
the same skill as Los Angeles
doctors. although a different
standard might be expected IN
Gulsh. for the stars seem 70
Physician, California;
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-24
DO MACHINES
INCREASE ENVIRONMENTS

Editor. Tine Times: Recently
you published an editorial laugh
ing off the idea of chronological
unemployment as a superstition
to be put alongside the black-cat
idea. After poking fun at fig
ures to prove chronological I'M
employment, you produce few
Isolated and unrelated figures TO
prove the contrary. To have any
real significance, figures of en-
ployment must be put beside
figures showing unemployment,
population, production and wages.
II is the ratio and general di-
rection that tells the story, not
some isolated fact.
Before launching into such
figures, may | point out that
there are two outstanding phe-
nomena in our times-increased
mechanization and increased I'M
employment. Are they totally
unrelated? If increased me-
chanization does increase en-
ployment, then unemployment
cannot increase. But it is in
creasing. In 1920 there were Ia
million unemployed; in 1929, our
so-called prosperity year, ga
million. more than doubling I'M
employment; at present we have
10 10 II million unemployed,
more than trebline unemploy-
ment. The comparison is with
each preceding figure)
The peak of employment was
reached in le1e-20. with Ia mil
lion unemployed. Production in
creased. however, to 1929. while
unemployment rose to ga mil
lion men. Increasing numbers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-24
MACHINE PROFITS
NOT TO BLAME,

Editor. The Times: Now ap-
pears Mr. Moody to accept the
challenge of the editorial, Ma
chine VS.. Unemployment, on be-
half of democracy.
Were | asked to side in the
controversy, l would undoubted-
ly root for the editor. Both
arguments being based on sta
tlstics, however, l would not
waste postage stamp, were it
not for the opportunity of pick
ing up Mr.. Moody's gauntlet.
He ends his avalanche of fig
ures with when pressed for a
solution he throws up his hands,
as do all price system econo-
mists and politicians. That Mr..
Moody, is where you're wrong.
Whether l may be classed as
an economist or not. I do not
know or care. AS | have ii,
there seems to be different kinds
of economists. forming two dis
tinct classes, we have those who
deal and rely on statistics
meaning on from now, back to
then -; and the analogists
who dissect from the beginning
to the end until what makes il
work is found.
Whichever way il is. here is
one individual who as yet has
never thrown up his hands until
he has arrived at a solution. l
hereby challenge Technocracy to
let me prove to them that: the
machine is no more TO blame for
unemployment than the gun"
is for shooting someone. II SIM
ply was not loaded" that is
all. Furthermore. l promise 10
show how unemployment can be
curbed within comparatively
short time with the capitalistic
system that profit is no more
to blame than the machine: that
the machine can be made to
work for the benefit of mankind
instead Of being a liability on
the manufacturer pocketbook.
while ne Is as anxious as you are
to work them and pay you good
wages besides.
In short, | promise 10 show
Technocracy that-Just like the
rest of us thus far-they have
been making 4 sad mistake IN
regard to our system Of wealth
distribution.
! can assure Mr. Moody that
am not speaking through my
hat, and that am in dead
earnest.
take my hat off to Technoc-
racy for al least trying 10 help
themselves and fellowmen. Any
such movement deserves great
credit. That which is not COM
mendsble. is the refusal by any
one group 10 accept the posi-
bility Of an error in calculation
Technic and science part right
there LEO Y. SMITH.
p. o. Box s4s. Tacoma.
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To receive attention IN this COL
umn letters must r!ve name and
koafess OF writer Onlv Initials
vin be published vher requested
MIR. FiSit: Please tell me n
person loses his or her old
age assistancc-not getting more
than Sls per month"; he hap
pens 10 get some odd jobs for
week or two, If he II able to
do it, Also tell me where
could sell thin lead paper. the
kind they Use for wrapping
yeast, etc. SUBSCRIBER.
AS a general rule. occasional
odd jobs are not considered suf-
fieient source of income to cause
an old age grant to be Cancelled.
II would depend. though. upon
their regularity and the amount
earned, and is a matter for the
welfare department TO settle.
There is almost no market
now FOR tin or lead foil because
so little OF 1t really is tin or lead.
Much Of II is aluminium. which
burns up instead Of melting. II
you have a large quantity, you
might show II to any Of the Junk
dealers whom you find in the
Tacoma directory. They do not
express much interest.
Mr.. FiNit: According 10 Gen
eral Craig German workman
IN an sirplane factory gets one
mark, or "a cents. for rs hours
work. Can You explain TO me
how Chinaman can live on a
i cents per hour. or IL this
some more propaganda
Information about wages and
industry in present day Ger
many Is too meagre for us 10
settle any arguments on the
subject The general probably
is right. Your quotation on the
Reichmark is a little low, any
Why Af.7tIA tAAlAdilkt IhAt II
little more than 40 cents.
That may buy more than here,
because some German food
prices have been pegged. There
are persons in our deep South
living, though very poorly. on
so cents a day. so il isn't beyond
the imagination that German
wages 60 that low.
Mr.. Fixit: In regard 10 the
party who inquired about sale
Of Stradivarius yiolins. I would
like TO say that there are no
genuine Stradivarius violins I'M
accounted for. still he may have
a good copy that might he worth
money. II he has one OF the
years l716 10 1886 and cares TO
bring II TO me, | might he able
TO tell him something about II.
ZEPH FAUST.
1904 So. Thompson Ave. Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-24
BRIGHT MOMENTS
IN GREAT LIVES

Lewis and Clark two Of Amer
icas greatest explorers. were
nearly two and a half wears
making their great expedition to
the Pacific Northwest. Before
they left. President jefferson
had begged each to keep COM
plete journal of their travels.
Between Missouri and Montana
the small party Toasted on buff
falo and deer. After crossing
the Rocky mountains, however,
they often nearly starved. On a
number of occasions they had
only roots to eat. Their flavor
wasn't pleasant, and neither the
two leaders nor their followers
enjoyed the diet. But they never
let their sense Of hunor bog.
After the initial such meal,
Clark, never forgetting his Jour
nal. took II up and wrote: Din
ner. Roots. Pain IN stomach"