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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
NOW PLAYING At
LOCAL THEATERS
rIRsr SHOWING

MUSIC BOx-Tyrone rover
and LINDA Dsrnell in sDaytlms
WIFE, los. s:os. 7:os. 10 90:
also Randolph scott and Mar
garet Lindsay IN 40 900 Men,"
ii:so, also. $40. ass.
RIvIERA--Charlcs Starwtt ana
Iris Merideth IN Outpost OF
the Mounties," i2.25, 800, s.2S,
7:50. 1o.25. also Jane Wyman
and Allen Jenkins in "Torchy
Plays With Dynamite" i1.5o,
400. 4.25. ESQ. Q as.
ROXY DEL Crea and
Brenda Marshall in Espionage
Agent. :05. 4:o5, 7:05, 1905:
also Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy In Flying Dueces,"
RETURN SHOWING
BEvERIY-CAroie Lombard
and Cary Grant In In Name
Only" also Fred stone and
Rochelle Hudson In "konsa."
BLUE MoUsE---Jeanette Mac
Donald and Nelson Bddy in
The Girl OF the Golden West"
also Clark Gable and Nyrna
10y In Test Pilot"
COMMUNITY - CLARK Gable
and Charles LAuRhton In "Mu-
tiny on the Bounty" also The
Jones Family In quick Mil
lions."
KAY sTREET-olnger Rogers
and David Niven In Bachelor
Mother" also Victor McLAelen
and Tom Brown In 'kx-
PARk-virginia bruce ana
walter Pidgeon In Society
LAWYER. also Roy Rogers in
In Old caiiente,"
fR0CToR--Basii Rsthbons
and Nigel Bruce in "The Ad-
ventures OF Sherlock Holmes"
also Edith Fellows and Dorothy
Peterson In "Fave Little Pep
kEx--Chcstcr Morris and f.u-
ellie Ball In "F1ve Came Back"
also Otto Kruger and Rochelle
Hudson In "A Woman Ia the
REALART--Bobby Breen and
Alan Mowbray in way Down
South. also Jane Withers and
Leo GARLIC In Chicken wagon
Family
SHELF gorge RAFT and
James Cagney IN Each Dawn
Die also Dennis O'Keefe in
The KID Prom Texas"
kINsEf-B o b by Breen and
Alan Mowbray In way Down
south" also James Gleason In
MY Wife's Relatives"
TENFLE--John Garfield ana
Priscilla Lane in "FprH Dsush-
ters": also william Powell and
Annabella in The Baroness
and the Butler
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

fine combination
And now n word about Outpost
Of the Mountiess 1t is very out
doorish. is action-laden throughout,
and Is favored with a fine ro-
nance.
This picture gives a boost to that
splendid law enforcement body. the
Canadian Mounted Police. In the
starring role 10 the popular Charles
Starrett, with Iris Meredith as his
lady fair.
Also on the program Is a short
subject, "Trans-America," which
gives a glimpse Of what modern air
transportation is like. A huge
mainliner takes off in New York,
and in Is hours lands in Los An
geles. Just like that, only faster.
JOS. NJ.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

however. the term took on . comic
connotation when more and more
films began to emphasize the COM
edy In the institution Of hen-peck-
ing. That's one Of the reasons why
we used It In our current produce
tion, Daytime WIFE II Ia one
way Of letting the public know not
to expect . serious picture"
When . producer wants to put
drama and domesticity into a title
now. he generally uses Bride"
according to Griffith.
Daytime WIFE," a gay romance
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
Just In Case!
NEW "JUvE, TEAM

1.-TWO Thoroughbred" RKo
Radio film featuring the new
Juvenile team. Jimmy Lydon and
Joan Brodel. revolves around the
love of an ill-treated, lonely orphan
boy for a thoroughbred colt ON his
misery uncle's farm.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

title Of "The Flying Deuces"
and the deuces are wild :.
both of them, Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy.
Before losing our reason entirely
by trying 20 concentrate on the last
named production. permit me to
say a word for Espionage Agent"
Here Is one Of those good
little pictures one doesn't know
much about, a sneaker, il you
please, which comes and goes
without much ballyhoo but
which happens TO be first rate
entertainment.
The story IL an interesting one.
well told, and the cast Is an excep-
tionally able one.
As for the "Deuces"
Laurel and Hardy ;. they are
back on the screen for the first
time in more than a year in a
feature length picture. The
story has to do with the For
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
WIFE VS.. SWEETHEART

The choice between remaining
with his wife or clipping with his
old college sweetheart is the prob
lem which faces Alan Marshall In
Rko Radios Married and IN
Love-" Helen vinson and Barbara
Read are the women in the case.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

Joel McCrea and Brenda Marshall while more
monkey business than imagine goes the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Laughs For Sale!

There are two sides TO every ques-
ton, the serious and the sensible, and
the new bill at the Roxy theater has
to do with both of them. The serious
L. dealt with In. .Esnio.aoa A..u4 y
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

The companion picture brings
Randolph Scott. Preston Foster
and Margaret Lindsay in an avia-
ton thriller titled 10000 Men
Year"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
Pover And Linda Dae CoSta At The Music
Action Dominates New Bill
At Mike Barovic Riviera

There is abundance of "oomph" at the Riviera We
that the that there lot of action the kind
that makes forget that it's raining outside if it is and
1t yesterday afternoon when founced into seat for
the first showing of Torchy Plays with Dynamite and Out
nos If he Mountes
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
Daytime Wife" Casts Young
Fsvorites in Comedy Role.
10000 Men Year; Randolph Scott and
Preston Foster Share Honors

The term wife" has finally to mean of all things
comedy when used in motion picture title according Ray
mond Griffith. associate producer At goth CenturyFox
When pictures began had starring Power Linda
such dramatic lss Wife with today
Past a wfss
Crffith ssid- ~As time passed rected
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Preventing Accidents

Many agencies are at work in the
United States to prevent accidents
of various kinds. Some of these are
general in their scope, others conf1ne
themselves to specific types of acci-
dents. But the broadest, and one of
the most effective, is the program
carried on under the auspices of the
Red Cross. This embraces not only
accident prevention instruction, but
training in first aid designed to re-
duce the number of deaths, to relieve
suffering and to prevent complica-
tions due to mishandling of injured
or ill persons.
The Red Cross has recently an
nounced program designed to speed
up the rate of it's instruction, with
a goal of a million new experts in
first aid within the next three years.
The program was inaugurated on
national scale in 1910, and required
twenty-five years to train the first
million. Up to the present two mil
lion have passed the courses, and
staff of approximately twenty-five
thousand instructors is carrying for
ward the work.
The accident toll of the Nation is
so great-nearly seventy thousand
persons a year lose their lives on the
highways or in their homes alone
and the general knowledge Of first
aid is so limited that the problem is
one of major Importance. Those
whose work brings them close to the
problems Of safety and first aid,
ambulance surgeons, nurses and doc
tors in emergency clinics, instructors
in the subject in such organizations
as Boy Scouts, have daily evidence Of
this lack of knowledge. The appall-
ing errors made in diagnosing the
simplest symptoms in accidents or
emergency illness, the fatalities or
permanent disabilities which result
from over-zealous efforts to move
victims Of accidents and shocks, the
unnecessary deaths Of heroic but
uninformed rescuers demonstrate
the present incompleteness of the
national education in such matters.
Great strides, however, have been
made by the Red Cross as well as by
kindred organizations toward cor
recting this condition. Volunteers
numbering hundreds of thousands
are offering freely their time and
energy to save lives. They deserve
gratitude and encouragement.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

greater degree of independent, ex-
pert research in performing their
appropriating function. In support
OF this contention. he points out
that, in most cases, the committees
hear only one side-the testimony
of officials recommending the items,
and who are naturally imbued with
a desire to see the work of their re-
spective agencies progress. The Sen
ator finds no fault with this
enthusiasm Of agency officials to go
forward, but believes an impartial re-
check would be helpful to Congress
in making its decisions.
In general, the same idea of con-
gressional budget committee has
been put forward by Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio. '
OF course, If Congress undertakes
this innovation, it should exercise
care not to build up a, large, un-
wieldy agency that would, in itself,
constitute a substantial new item
OF expenditure. It could not be tried
successfully as one man job, but it
should not go beyond a limited staff
OF qualified experts.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Program for the CAPITAL

One of the most comprehensive
programs for the development of the
National Capital was adopted last
week by the Park and Planning
Commission with the cooperation of
such officials and agencies as the
Public Works Administration, Public
Buildings Administration, the Dis
trlct Commissioners, Board of Edu-
cation and the National Park Serv-
ice. Under the plan a ten-year
program of public works will be
mapped, based in part on an in
ventory of the past ten years pro-
gram.
Although the benefits of such a
method of building finer city are
obvious, Washington has needed
such a plan for many years. The
current restraint shown in the bud
get estimates for 1940s street pro-
gram is an example of an excellent
effort to correct the construction
planning of the past. The outlay for
highway development has been held
to minimum pending various stud
les, including the survey by District
and Federal units of transportation
habits of residents of the metropol-
itan area. When these studies have
been completed a comprehensive
plan which will cover many years to
come can be developed
Under the wise guidance of such
agencies as the Planning Commis-
sion and the Fine Arts Commission
Washington has been developed as
one of the worlds beautiful capitals.
But the past has seen, too often,
more or less piecemeal progress en-
numbered by pressure group demands
of various kinds, and occasionally
accompanied by too great huctua-
tions in the burden of expenditures.
The work has been carried out with
each project as an individual unit,
rather than as an integral part of
co-ordinated whole.
Entirely aside from the elimination
of pressure for individual projects
and the provision for planning pro-
grams covering the actual needs of
the community regardless of the time
which will be required for their COM
pletion, the plan should result in a
greater equalization of the annual
load on the city's revenues. 1t will
permit the formulation in advance
of accurate estimates of the amount
of money which will be required, and
it will allow for the interlocking of
public and private construction in
such a way as to tend to level off the
hills and valleys of employment and
construction costs.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

ed benevolence, Is a fine thing, but it
must be sustained and buttressed by
something other than humanitarian good
will. To have sustained interest in the
welfare of others and to be responsive to
the appeals of the needy must be mott
waited by love that is self-sacrificing
and that is kin to Him who said: Great
er love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends"
Despite all the ills and misfortunes
that have attended us in recent years,
it is conspicuously true that we occupy
place today in the family of nations
that is most favored. AS we survey our
broad estate with its mixed population,
comprising the peoples of many tongues
and races, we are made to realize that
the unity of our life and our freedom
from conflict and strife are in demon
stration Of the wisdom of those who in
times remote made us Nation. While
occasional strife and disorder manifest
themselves, we are the people singu-
larly united and, compared with other
nations, singularly prosperous. True,
there are spots here and there that be-
tray weakness, inequity and an ungen-
erous judgment, but in the main we are
bound by ties indissoluble and unchang-
ing.
1t is this condition of unity that must
make us factor in the decisive judg-
ments that affect the harmony and peace
of other races and peoples If we can
hold to the Christian standards that we
believe are fundamental to our own peace
and security and if by these standards
we can appraise our responsibilities to
those who lie outside our borders, we
shall give to America the foremost place
as the peacemaker and conserver of
human rights.
There is fine passage of an ancient
prophecy that says: They that shall be
Of thee shall build the old waste places;
thou shalt raise up the foundations of
many generations, and thou shalt be
called the repairer of the breach, the
restorer OF paths to dwell in
Unto whomsoever much is given, of
him shall be much required
Evening star., 1939-11-19

was increased to 106; by December
IS the total is expected to be above
110. This does not include extra Sec
tionS, which now are being operated
frequently. There are at present
nearly 1,400 passengers using the
local air terminal daily; by mid
December the total is expected to be
more than $500 passengers each
twenty-four hours.
If good circulation is a sign of
a healthy Nation, as of a healthy
individual, then this remarkable
growth in air traff1c-a growth
which has been rising to new all
time records month after month for
more than a year-is not without its
significance to the Nation. The man
agement Of Washington Airport is
to be commended for its effort to keep
pace with the necessities of this fast
est-growing form of modern trans
portation.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Country Roudsides

Although the fight is far from
won, the forces in Maryland which
have been campaigning for protec-
tion and rehabilitation of the land
scapes which border the States high
ways have reason to congratulate
themselves. The annual convention
OF the Maryland Garden Clubs Fed
Grafton has received report from it's
road Identification council which
indicates definite progress, prin-
cipally through a proposal to press
for a zoning bill at the next session
of the Legislature.
This undoubtedly is the most ef-
fective method of controlling all
types of unsightly development, but
when it is combined with efforts on
the part of its proponents to obtain
the cooperation of signboard ad-
vertisers and land owners, it should
be assured of success. Virginia has
had this experience in clearing it's
roads. The Garden Clubs of Mary
land have obtained pledges from
many large companies to keep their
signs off the new Governor Ritchie
highway, and within the past week
an Annapolis citizen who had sought
to erect filling station along the
road, bowling to the popular opposi-
ton, voluntarily withdrew his plan.
Such methods have proved more sue
cessful than the rather doubtful legal
means by which the State Roads
Commission sought to bar the station
by refusing easement over a ten
foot strip of State-owned land which
borders the right of way.
All these means represent progress,
but they are limited in their scope,
since new campaign must be waged
in each case. They lack the strength
of permanent, firm policy of the
commonwealth. In this respect the
matter is of national Importance. A
suggested uniform act for develop
ment and control of roadsides has
been advocated for several years by
the American Automobile Associa-
ton. A report to the associations
current convention in Washington
reveals the slow pace with which
such an act can progress. Last year
bills embodying the proposals were
introduced In seven State assem-
blieS. Legislative action was not
completed in single case.
Such conditions, in view of the
progress which touring motorists OBJ
serve in Canada and Mexico, should
receive the attention of larger
number of voting and articulate
citizens.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Budget Control

The suggestion by two Senators of
opposite political faiths that Congress
set up it's own budget staff to check
the appropriation requests of Gov
ernment agencies is worthy of con-
sideration.
With the public debt fast ap-
preaching the $45,0OO, 100000 statu-
tory limit, and with every indication
that heavy expenditures will be ap-
proved for national defense, unem-
ployment relief and agriculture, there
are likely to be new demands in the
House and Senate this winter to scale
down less urgent projects to make
way for these essential outlays: An
increase in the debt limit at the COM
ing session is strong probability.
Several times in recent years econ
omy-minded lawmakers have sought
an easy path to retrenchment by
proposing some fiat percentage re-
duction of all supply bills, but this
method was quickly discarded for
the obvious reason that it is unscien-
tific and permits no consideration of
the relative merits of items. The
percentage method would hit the
essentials along with the non-essen-
tials, and probably would cause per-
sonnel to bear the brunt of the saw
ing, since certain fixed obligations,
like interest on the debt, and con-
tractual obligations would have to
be excluded from a percentage cut.
The creation of a staff of experts
to scrutinize detailed items and sep
arate the projects that could wait a
few years from those that justify
immediate expenditure, would be
more businesslike and less harmful
way of approaching the problem.
1t may be argued with some force
that the Federal Budget Bureau
already checks the estimates of the
department heads before the Presi-
dent sends them to Congress, and
that, therefore, the proposed con-
gressional budget staff would merely
duplicate that function.
The fact remains, however, that
even after the executive budget Of
fee has exercised it's best judgment
in approving one item and rejecting
another, the House and Senate still
perform the function of reviewing
the budget recommendations. They
may, and sometimes do, disallow an
approved estimate and authorize one
that did not win executive in
dorSement.
The contention of Senator Adams,
Democrat, of Colorado, one of the
sponsors of the new plan, is that
the committees of Congress need a
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Airport Growth

Washington Airport, despite the
rapid development of its great Fed
eral rival, the Washington National
Airport, at Gravelly Point, has been
compelled to undertake an eXpan-
sion program Of its own to keep pace,
even temporarily, with the amazing
increase in airline traffic which
month after month is establishing
new national records.
Although the Federal Government
has neglected to negotiate contracts
or agreements with any of the air
lines for their transfer to the Ma
tional Airport following it's antici-
pated completion next July, there is
thought to be little doubt that they
will make the move, voluntarily, be-
cause of the infinitely better facilities
which are to be provided by
Uncle Sam.
Despite the threatened loss of its
major source of business, however,
Washington Airport is carrying on
In an effort to keep abreast of the
requirements of air transportation
in the National Capital. During the
past month more than 250,000 cubic
yards of earth fill have been put in
place along the airports water front
to end the flooding of this low, filled
ground during Potomac River fresh
cts. Within the past few days con-
struction of an addition to the pas
senger terminal building has been
undertaken to provide needed space
for airline offices.
On November Is the number OF
daily scheduled plane arrivals and
departures at Washington Airport
Evening star., 1939-11-19
THE CHALLENGE OF PRIVILEGE
By the Right Reu. James Freeman, D. D., ILL., d. l.,

The standard of judgment by which we
measure our responsibilities is found in
the privileges we enjoy. When the
Master of men gave His Judgment con-
corning mans obligations to his fellows,
He said: Unto whomsoever much is
given, of him shall be much required" I"
He was speaking of stewardship and OF
the ultimate judgment that must be
passed upon those to whom little or much
is given.
AS we stand again at the threshold of
another Thanksgiving Day to appraise
the values we hold as people, We are
not alone called upon to be thankful for
the blessings God has conferred upon
us as Nation, but we are likewise COM
PEELED to regard those blessings in the
light of our obligation to those to whom
such blessings are denied.
Judged by such a standard, America
must be regarded as the benefactor Ma
ton of the world. While it is true that
charity begins at home" yet if it stays
there it becomes menace rather than
a blessing. While we may consistently
avoid entangling alliances we cannot
with national self-respect ignore the re-
sponsibilities that are ours in the face of
the privileges we enjoy. A great Nation
at peace in warning world has laid upon
1t obligations of such a character that
they must eventually be recognized in
helping to rebuild and restore those ma
tions and peoples upon whom the dire
results of conflict have fallen Beyond
this it is not unreasonable to believe that
the ultimate Judgment upon which world
order and peace is to be secured rests
with Nation such as ours 1t is char
acteristic of America to be responsive to
the cry of afflicted peoples.
There is an idealism that resides here
that on repeated occasions has given
demonstration of its charity and good
will. We are bound to believe that the
fine impulses that now and again char
acterize us as people spring from a
deep and unchanging Christian convic-
tion Altruism, which is devotion to the
interests of others, kind of disinterest-