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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-02

life lovers and sportsmen. as
WeH as commercial net fish
e'men, owe you a rote Of
thanks. You're done a fine
job. And so hare the Tacoma
members of the House. erery
blasted one of them. They
considered the peoples man
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-02
Why Faith in Boxing Drops

WITH the brazenry expected of those who feel
" Mike Jacobs and the New York boxing commission,
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-02
TOday's Sport
Parade
BY HENRY M'LEMORE

United Press staff Correspondent
ABOARD 5. :. LURLINE.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
THE JOB HAS
JUST BEEN STARTED
California Iegionnaire)

The comprehensive report TO congress
by the Dies committee on SubVerSlVe and
un-American activities presents conclu-
Sive and unansWerable arguments for
continuance of the committee, with ade
quate time and funds and under the same
leadership.
The astounding wealth Of alarming
facts amassed in the 40,000-word report
is the more amazing i'm the light of the
fact that the committee had only five
months and Il paltry appropriation of
$4,000 to do the job. Congress probably
never made more penuriouS provision for
a major committee. and probably never
got as much for its money.
In spite of insufficient time and funds,
and in spite of obstruction and open an
tagonsm, the Dies committee succeeded
in unearthing shocking picture of ram
pant subversion, touching every part of
the country and reaching into the struc-
ture of government itself.
The task has been we'll done, but only
begun. In the committees own words,
it has merely scratched the surface.
Due to limited time and funds, it was
unable to make thorough investigation
on the Pacific coast, where the extent OF
un-American activities lis very grave.
The report IS significantly signed 10y
the entire membership of the committee,
including minority which either re-
Trained from active participation in all
its Investigations or dissented from some
of its procedure.
1t gave the country the most complete
understanding it has ever had if the
manner in which agents of foreign gov
ernments have bored into our national
life for the purpose of changing or de-
Stroying the American system of govern
ment. 1t uprooted Communist, Fascist
and NaZi subversion indiscriminately. 1t
exposed the enemies of America where
it found them.
The request of the committee that it
be continued for two years, with an ap-
preparation of at least S150,000 is justi-
fed by every consideration of patriotism
and of concern for national welfare and
congress should require, not merely re-
quest, other governmental agencies to
assist and support its work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
SPOKEN WITH AUTHORITY
lTnl larn 4 dNanca-R Z AniStarl

The Ri. Rev Dr. Edmund Walsh, vice
president of Georgetown university lead
ing figure in Catholic educational circles
and one time representative Of the Pope,
for Catholic interests in Russia, recently
gave public address in which he denOun-
ced Communism. Dr. Walsh is one of the
foremost students of subversive activities
in the United States Excerpts from his
talk are educational. He stated: when
a man like Harry Bridges, who is delib
erately seeking to change our form Of
government, is allowed to remain, while
so many are depOrted on mere passport
technicalities, it is a very strange situa-
ton"
Furthermore, there would be no Hit
Ter today if there had not first been a
Lenin and a Stain. One is the offspring
of the other, and there is no fundamental
difference among them except that the
latter are of the left. Hitler, of course,
is of the right"
Speaking Of the vehement protests of
the liberals in defense of prosecuted Jews
Of Central Europe, he said: "They are
quite right in protesting such Outrages,
because liberty is an indivisible principle,
but when they could have defended the
two million prosecuted Christians in Rus
sia. they declined to do so on the reason
ing that it was purely 'an internal af-
fair"
The doctor really knows his Commu-
nists and FasciSts.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
You re Telling Me-

The last TWO one-round victories
Of Joe Louis are easily explained
He doesn't want to be investigated
by the wages and hours administra-
ton.
Fur bearing fish have been found
in Colorado. Wen wager that
friend husband, as usual, is the
poor fish.
In Zanzibar. males do all the do
mestic work, including laundry and
nursery jobs. A country apparently
without any Of the benefits of civili-
Zation.
Mussolini says democracies are
too stupid to be dangerous. You
have to be smart, I guess, to be
dangerous.
A young man adVertises in
Cleveland newspaper: Experienced
six years in accounting, purchas-
ing and sales, 25 years old, will
marry daughter, niece or sister if
necessary TO obtain good position
Things must be worse than we
thought.
We have noticed an increasing
tendency by certain radio comedians
to rebuke audiences for not laugh
ing at their jokes Well brothers,
free speech, free ears.
Detroit is starting a drive for the
1914 Olympic games. It should be
appropriate TO stage such stunts as
broad jumping, high jumping and
hop step and jumping in the
worlds automobile capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Famous Sayings

WASHINGTON. - The capital
newest human storm center is
muscular x-congressman named
Thomas r. Amlie, who sits alone
in a remote office here and COM
munes with his own melancholy
while abe Senate tries to decide
whether he is too radical to be
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
President RooSeVelts nomination
of him to that post took the Senate
by surprise. II also surprised MI
Amlie. A three-term congressional
veteran who ran unsucceSsfully Tor
the Senate last year, he looked like
inst another lame duck until the
presidential finger pointed to him.
He is tall, quiet, intensely serious
and looks like prosperous farmer.
When he talks, MS drawl now and
then has a broad Scandinavian in
Election. He lacks the nervous man
nerims most men have; doesn't fid-
die with things or shift his position
while talking The current cry that
amuseS him; he remarks that he
vigorously fought the Communists
in his effort to start a farmer-labor
party q year or SO ago and was de-
nounced III Communist publlcatlonS
as a red batter.
A Wisconsin Progressive OF the
Ieft-o t-of-the-LaFollettes persuasion,
he came down here in 1881 advo-
eating a five billion dollar public
works program. In 1882 he was
calling for ten billion dollar pro-
gram. In 1888 he advocated a pro-
duction- -for-uSe system for the un-
employed; suggested it, he says, be-
fore he heard that Upton Sinclair
had the same idea. BY 1885 and
1886 he had gone on to advocate
rlan for a controlled system Oh
farm and factory production.
All Of this, he feels, was not radi-
calism; it was rather search for
Il middle OF the road line that
would save the country from haV-
ing to make a choice between the
extreme right and the extreme lett.
IF there is any middle of the
road path it can only be main
tanned if we reverse the process OF
economic contraction" he says.
This process, which makes 20 per
cent of our people live outside OF
our economic system, sooner or later
makes people turn to their emo
tiOnS for guidance.
What happens when they do? He
illustrates. Suppose there has been
a shipwreck, and II men are adriit
in a life boat which has room for
Just II. One man is due to get
thrown overheard; and he will be
the man who is different from the
rest. "If I'm a SWede and the
other II are New England Yankees,
they'll pitch me out" he says. Then,
he adds, the men who do the
throwing will go on and try to make
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Looking Toward
Tomorrow

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Feb, 6.
CUP)-The subway car of tomor-
row-a veritable 'straphangers
Rolls-Royce"-made its appearance
today.
II is a streamlined. air condi-
toned car, built in three sections.
of flexible units. Its body is OF
aluminium. and it's wheels are
cushioned in rubber Green mohalr
seats are like those of a cocktail
lounge. and its walls are studded
with mirrors for the benefit of lady
"sardines.'
The designers believe the new
car will eliminate swing and sway
to such an extent that jitterbugs
could dance without loss of a single
beat upon its polished floors. 1t
will be so silent in operation, they
believe, that passengers can con-
verse in whispers.
The new car will have its first
test run in New York over the
tracks of the BMT system early in
March. 1t was built in the rambl-
ing shops of the Clark Equipment
company.
Pioneering done in the develop
ment of aluminium for aerenautlcal
use has enabled the incorporation
of the latest forms of duralumin
in the car. according to S. K. Col
by, vice president of the Aluminium
Company of America.
The aluminium body will make
the car at least one-third lighter
than those now in use, it is estl-
mated. This prevents wear ana
tear on the roadbed and the car
itself. Use of rubber in the wheels
and cradles minimizes noise and
makes for smoother riding. And
the triple section construction pre-
vents sway and rail-grinding on
curves. Operating cost is about
one-third less than previous cars,
and will result in a 33 per cent
lower maintenance cost. The aver
age train will consist of about
seven cars. The trains can make
60 miles an hour. if necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
YES, IT CAN STILL
HAPPEN HERE

Lounging indOlently in a pool hall,
cigarette dangling Imply from one cor
ner of his sagging mouth one type of
American youth has learned, parrot-like,
to say these last few years:
"A young man amt got a chance any
more. 1t amt like it used to be when
dad started
The youth, and the overly lenient fed
eral and state relief officials who have
encouraged his defeatist attitude, ought
to learn by heart the story of Walter
Bonne of Long Beach, who went to San
Francisco looking for job He got a
job, too, after pestering railroad officials
day after day. He was hired as night
watchman for the railroads miniature
exhibit at the San Francisco fair.
Not much chance to succeed, being
just a night watchman. Bonne didn't
look at it that way. He went around,
daytimes, to other exhibitors. He lined
up other night watchman jobs. Pretty
soon he was earning S175 a week, in
stead of S25.
The railroad liked the way he worked.
1t hired him at S160 a month to super
wise a bus route He hired two assistants
to take care of the night Watchman jobs,
and paid them $40 a week each.
Bonne'S income now is more than 500
a month. He started with nothing but a
desire to work
So, you see, it CAN happen here, even
now.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
GERMANY STILES PRESS,
SPEECH AND NOW HUMOR
SPEECH

Il seems a trifle absurd to remind
ourselves that a dictator must dictate
if he is to remain a dictator. yet in free
America where we sometimes take our
liberty too much for granted it is wise
once in a while to remind ourselves OF
that fact.
effectively, as if watching something
from a long distance, we have seen Nazl
Germany bind its press in ties OF ab-
solute censorship, so that no newspaper
can say anything the Nazi party rulers
do not want it to say. So, also, have we
noted in passing that loss of press free
dom was followed, as it always Is IN any
country, by loss of free speech, and later
by denial of the right of public assem-
blage If you lived in Germany 1t would
be worth your life to criticize Adolf Hit
ler on street corner, and you would be
assured of immediate extinction were you
to gather a large group of friends about
you before you uttered the criticism.
All this has been very nebulous to the
average American. He hasn't been able
to visualize it, so foreign is it to his own
concept of government.
The latest Nazi move is something Am
orleans can imagine, although they may
never be able to understand it.
Propaganda Minister Jaul Joseph
NTOeDDelS last Ntth dllliOuIICCu lIIel HSlN-
after no comedian must crack joke at
the expense of the Nazi party. Further
more, if any comedian so far forgets
himself to joke about Hitler, then those
who hear him must not laugh.
There you have dictatorship at its ulti-
mate.
Imagine ordering America not to laugh
at good joke about President Roose-
welt. Or, for that matter, imagine the
President not laughing at a good Joke
about himself (He'd go mad if he did
MT, with congress the way it isl
Perhaps Germany has unconsciously
supplied us at last with the reason die
tatorhip will never succeed in America.
They might take away our liberty. They
might take away our property They
might take away our honor.
But, by all that's holy, if ever they
try to take away our sense of humor,
therell be revolution
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

their action seem logical-so they'll
have to develop hatred OF the
man they're tossing out.
Mr.. Amlie doesn't think he got
very far in his fight for a middle
of the road path. His best efforts
of the last eight years, in fact, he
looks on as failure. But he does
MT feel that he can be called radi-
cal.
Born in North Dakota OF Nor
wegian descent AZ years ago, Mr..
Amlie was educated at the Unlver-
stiles of North Dakota, Minnesota
and Wisconsin and hung out his
shingle as a lawyer in Elkhorn,
Wis. He has been president OF his
home town bar association ana
commander of its American Legion
post
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
Pioneers, Social and Mechanical

With every passing week and
month it becomes more desirable to
settle the controversy with Mexico
over the appropriated oil fields TAX
zen from American control.
Both countries would profit from
settlement; neither profits from the
present chaotic situation. But be-
yond that, there are definite rea-
sons who both countries are losing
out by the delay.
Here are some simple and power
full reasons why each country is los
ing out by inability to adjust this
matter:
UNITED STATES: Export trade
to Mexico has taken terrific dive.
Exchange by Mexico of oil for Ger
man machinery and manufactured
goods is eliminating a natural and
valuable market and turning 1t over
to foreign countries which are GER
tain to use it as an entering wedge
for their political PHILOSOPHERS.
Further, the unsettled condition
of relations with the nearest OF all
the Good NeighborS Is a bad eX-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06

make life miserable for both OF us
My business keeps me away from
home much of the time, and while
l am away, I make all sorts of good
resolutions. Then | come home, find
he has done something wrong again,
and l nag and bully and shout. This
keeps up from Saturday night until
Monday morning, and has gone on
until I have lost FIFTEEN YEARS
of my boys life
Aren't you sorry, from the bot
tom of your heart, for a father
with a problem like that? And
don't you think the solution lies
within himself? l felt that the best
way for me to help him was to
quote from a book by Earl Locker
The White House Gang Here is
the story:
Young Quentin Roosevelt was
member of this White House Gang.
One day the boys conceived the
brilliant and agonizing feat of TO-
cussing mirrors to flash sunlight
through the windows Of the Army
IA
sent to the President.
Did Theodore Roosevelt rush out
and yell: What in the name of
common sense are you doing? Do
l have to drop the affairs of the
nation to attend to you? Come
upstairs this minute, and you just
wait Until l get through with you!"
Mo- He called his personal aide.
Captain Archie Butt. Scribbled out
a message and sent Butt downstairs
with full instructions.
Captain Butt found the gang and
said: Boys, they are going to signal
something from the top Of the War
building ="
The War building! Signals! What
boy could resist that? A moment
later figure appeared on the roof,
and with flags signalled:
YOU, UNDER THE TREES, ALL
OF YOU, ATTACK ON THIS
BUILDING MUST IMMEDIATELY
STOP. CLERKS CANNOT WORK.
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS IN
TERRUFTED. REPORT WITHOUT
DELAY TO Me, FOR YOU-KNOW-
WHAT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
How could you help worshipping
and respecting a father who had
the imagination to treat you like
that? The boys knew they were
in for it. But their pride had been
spared They hadn't been humiliat-
ed.
And when they filed crastfallen
into the Presidents study, he still
kept up the game. With an abSo-
lutely straight face, he, pretended
to conduct a court martial and pro-
nounced them guilty.
Let me get back to this letter
from the man who wants to regain
the love CT his son If he had writ
ten that letter to Theodore RooSe-
welt, what do you think Roosevelt
would have advised him?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Photographs

February is the favorite wedding
month with Bulgarian and Ru-
manian brides.
On Feb. IA, 1903, an act of the
United States congress created a
department of commerce and labor.
Its head or secretary was made
member OF the presidents cabinet.
In 1913 the department was divid-
ed by another act of congress, into
two departments - those of COM
merce and labor, with the Secre-
tary of each a cabinet member.
The coconut palm does some
thing no chemist has yet been able
to do. The plants roots usually
are in the salt sea water of
lagoon. Somehow the salt in the
water is strained out so that the
sap in the fruit is sweet water free
from salt.
In Guam, one of the Ladrone
islands, formerly owned by Spain
but now possession of the Unit
ed States, tin cans are planted in
the ground to furnish iron for
growing vegetables.
II IS reported that 5,400 600 citi-
zens OF the city of New Tork ride
the subways.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Smile Awhile

A young man lives in the future;
An old man lives in the past
For youth, time is moving too
slowly;
For age, it is moving too fast.
A young man dreams of the glad
ness
The years just before him will
bring;
An old man dreams of his plea
SureS
When life held the magic OF
spring.
But youth and age are in error!
The present alone can convey
The joy and cheer and content
ment
We seek as we journey llfe's way.
Today is the time to be happy!
No matter how young or how old,
It's always today that must bring
us
The blessings our fortunes unfold.
LAWRENCE HAWTHORNE.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06

ample. The whole of natural and
cordial relations with acroSS-the-
river neighbors is being upset.
MEXICO: The trade into which
Mexico is being pitchforked is an
unnatural and unsatisfactory one,
providing no needed foreign .eX-
change. Evidence of the political
penetration which accompanies it
is already seen in anti-JeWish riots,
FaScist-type expulsion of newspaper
correspondents.
Political opposition is beginning
to arise as business grows Stacker.
The U. S. silver buying policy, on
whose tax proceeds the whole Mex
ican budget is based, is in danger
1t is under attack as a general pol
icy, quite aside from its Mexican
implications 1t might be abandon
ed when the present law expires in
June.
While even friendly Americans
are unable to defend FaSciSt-llkc
expulSionS like that Of the New
VI L llIltS COl Iil
friendly ones are already demand
ing strong measures and delay
feeds their fires. One New York
paper insists that "A lot of Amer
leans are saying: Why not just &C
down there and take over MeXico?'
A Wall Street lawyer is organizing
a petition to use our whole armed
might" to get back the seized oil
wells. A congressional investigation
of American-M Mexican relations i
being demanded.
Those in both countries who want
decent. normal. friendly relation'
are Handicapped by delay, which
helps extremists in both countries
Anything can be settled, glVer
the mutual will to settle it. 1t is
time that responsible officials OF
both sides of the border recognize
that delay is doing infinite harm
to both countries. No effort shoul(
be spared to settle not only thu
controversy, but set a preceden
that will open the road for progress
sive development on solid groun(
for the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Barbs-

The tax collector with his hand
in the citizens pocket seems to be
rolling up his sleeves.
Bourbon Prince Leads Troops -
moves a casual reader to the
thought that those cut-rate whisky
wars are growing terrible.
It does seem odd that Russians
who earn only a few cents a day
should be standing in queues in
Moscow to pay $1.50 a pound for
bananas.
Pity tomorrow's historians who
will have to debunk today'S his
torical characters.
All other things having failed
bank night is hereby recommended
TO Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace for aid with the farm problem.
Almost 70 per cent OF the In
mates of Sing Sing prison once
were newsboys
Honduras, Central America, is an
AGRICULTURAL and cattle raising
country, and has coastline on the
sea Of 400 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Grab Bag
One-MinMte Test

/. How many columns has the
ordinary sized newspaper?
2. Is the velocity CT sound in
water greater or less than its vel
ocity in air?
8. What is the only animal that
has rudimentary speech center?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06

it here:
II have one of
the finest boys
in | h e world.
He's a Boy Scout,
he's good looking
and I'm proud OF
him. Yet l am
losing his love.
When he dis
obeys his mother
or does things
wrong, l fly into
a tantrum and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Dale
Carnegie

received a letter from a father
last winter which l answered in
one of my radio broadcastS, but it
is so poignant and the subject SO
important that I'm going to repeat
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Hints on Etiquette

1t shows very poor taste indeed
to be gruff and lose ones temper
while talking over the telephone.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
Words Of Wisdom

A judiciouS silence is always bet
ter than truth spoken without char
ity.-De Sales.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06
TOday's Horoscope

The coming year will be an event.
ful one for those born on this date.
Exercise all your originality to gain
in whatever work or business you
are engaged in, for by novel meth
ods you will meet success. Other
wise a normal course will be yours
throughout the year. Children born
today will be best fitted for scienti-
fic pursuits and studies. Uncommon
knowledge will be their particular
forte, and they will be persistent
in its pursuit.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06

One Minute Test Answers
/. Eight
g The velocity of sound in water
is the greater.
3. The monkey.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06

February is the favorite wedding
month with Bulgarian and Ru-
nanian brides.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-06

Fur bearing fish have been found
in Colorado. Wen wager that
friend husband, as usual. is the
poor fish.
Smyrna times., 1939-04-27

will be the speaker John G.
Leach, of Wilmington, will preside.
Invited guests include: Gov Rich
ard c. McMullen, U. S. Senator
John G. Townsend, U. S. Senator
James H. Hughes, Congressman
George Williams, Lieutenant Gov.
Edward w. Cooch, Mayor Walter
w. Bacon, Mayor Frank Collins of
Newark, and H. Fletcher Brown
Of Wilmington. The association is
composed of all teachers in the
state engaged in vocational, agri-
cultural, home economics, distribu-
tive, and commercial fields. Other
officers of the association are:
Frank P. Hall, vice-president; Miss
Margaret L. Kane, secretary
treasurer; DR.. r. w. Helm, Ralph
Snowberger, William e. Haines,
William Henry, Mrs. Nellie N.
Barkley, Cecil Ford, and G. 5.
Rothenhausler, executive commit
tee.
Smyrna times., 1939-04-27

deposits are low and the interest
rates are high. From these points
it is derived that relief, railroads,
taxes, laws, and tariff are against
the South.
There are several possible rem
edies to the situation in the South
one of the most important being
the education of the United States
to the idea that it is only fair and
necessary to help the South.
Federal aid could be given to
schools, remaining under state adj
ministration, to help equalize edu-
cational opportunities. The South
should be protected in the world
market as the North is protected
in the domestic market. We should
organize industry in the South
and balance the nation economical
ly Finally, there should be in
ternal communication and trans
portation improvements as an aid
and a binding to our southern
brothers.
Dorothy Cooper