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KEEPING STEP WITH THE 1sG1oH:- (Aocompli shnsnts).
In one year 5000 school Awards were pre-
sented by American Legion Posts and Auxiliary
United.
LAS Posts carried citizenship schools for
foreign-born.
900 posts carried On occupat1oua1 Introduction
Over los 700 copies Of the Flag Code wore dis
tr1buted.
Over 600 Post Education ccmittess formed
to work With other local interested agencies
on plans to keep the schools open during tho
economic depression.
Practically all Posts cooperate With educar
tioa1 groups in the promotion Of American
Education Week and consti tuition Week.
1914 Boy Scout Troops sponsored by American
Legion Posts.
Over ons-half million boys participate IN the
Legion Junior Baseball program each sumner.
The Legion helps in the enrolment Of cand1.
dates for CHIC. camps and In the mA1neerF
anos Of R.o.T.c. units in high schools .col-
1eges and universities.
Hundreds Of Posts help promote National Youth
Junior Rifle Clubs have been organised by hun
dreds Of posts.
Al Clubs have received the attention or
large number Of Posts
7lol Posts Interested themselves In the eli
mination Of fire hazards.
5000 Posts have organized emergency re-
lief corps.
This Is part Of tho program carried out by tho
Legion it Is organised. HOW 1T rs ORGANIZED
Tt Is organized by departments and posts. MEMBER
ship is in the national organization by aff1at1on
with O post. There SO departments. one in
every State In the Union. in the District Of
Columbia and others in territorial possessions Of
United States and in certain foreign countries.
There 200 posts established in every part Of
the United States and throughout the world.
Because there Is natural desire to perpetsate
associations formed under the hardshtps Of war, IL
one reason to join q veterans organization. fhens
too, Is comadeship and strength in organtza-
tion. Individually, may weigh but Titles or
ganixed. voice and influence Will be as far
reaching organization. The legion 10 nom
political and 1t 10 non-sectarian. Those OF you
who eligible TO Join our rankss ask TO join
for the comadeship Of fellow veterans.
q. Henaf1a1. AdiutAnt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
Veterans Slate
Dance Saturday

GIG HARBOR = Peninsula post
No. %. American Legion. and Her
man Uddenberg post No. 1854.
v. r. W., with auxiliaries, will
sponsor the annual all-veteran
Christmas dance Saturday night at
Victor hall. Proceeds win be used
for the Christmas party held an
nually at the Vaughn high school
gymnasium for needy children.
Ladies' Aid society of the I'm
manuel Lutheran church Of Crom-
well will serve the annual lutefisk
dinner Saturday evening at the
church.
Midway PIT. A. will sponsor a
card party Friday night at Mid
way hall with Mrs. Eric Peterson.
Mrs. r. II. Berkheimer. Mrs. Dunn
and Mrs. B. Parks as hostesses.
Proceeds will be used for the an
nual school Christmas party.
Mrs. Gilbert Peacock and sons.
Frank and Steve, of Tenakee.
Alaska, are visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. z. Shaw. Mr..
Peacock win return TO the harbor
In the spring.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
Here's Chance for Band
Musicians

Vacancies In tine National
Guard band offer an oppor-
funlty for several young mu-
sicians In Tacoma and vicinity
10 join m organization out
standing among the military
bands of the Northwest. Two
years ago the band was award
ed first place In q contest
among the music organizations
It the annual state encamp-
mcnt Wherever the group has
appeared II has maintained lts
reputation for musiclanship and
the high character Of the COM
positions played
Membership In the National
Guard organization carries
with n opportunity for band
instrument instruction and sn
interesting music experience. In
Guiding two weeks mt the Ma
tionaI Guard camp with COM
pcnsation.
Applications for tryouts may
BE- made At the National Guard
armory Tuesday night at 1880.
Applicants must be not less than
IA warn old
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

Since establishment of the bust
ness three months ago, the Acme
Loan & Jewelry store at 254 So.
18th st. has developed thriving
business. according to H. Edward
Molin, manager of the store.
I'VE felt that a store of this type
was needed in Tacoma" Molin said,
land are more than pleased at the
reception we have had from resi-
dents of Tacoma and vicinity"
The Acme Loan & Jewelry store
features all types of jewelry, lug
gage, musical instruments and
miscellaneous merchandise, as well
as loans. Molin is native Of
Washington and has lived in Ia
coma rs years. He attended local
schools and for several years was
engaged in the Photographic BUSH
ness. His father, the late Henry
l. Molin. maintained a loan and
jewelry business here for many
years.
Associated with the Acme Is a
watch repair department, owned
and operated by J. F. Lichtenberg,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

without state help.
Like Macawber. we kept hop
ing something would turn up,'
said a school board official 1t
turned up. but it was wrong"
When We left him, Francis
Adamsd looked like a very puz-
zled and unhappy lad He wants
that diploma by June 50 he can
get into the army air corps school
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

II you're not using It. sell it with
Fast-Action Times Want Ad.
Call Main 3i51.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

their pants off again."
Says a father:
the schools should stay
open, but put some new men
on the school board. These
guys waste our money"
Says a mother:
81 don't think the teachers
pay should be cut because
they have lot Of responsible
ity for our children, but we
don't need brass bands and
dances In the schools"
STATE LAWS
HELD TO BLAME
Cr1ix NJ the uafter Hos IN eta q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
By NEA service

TOLEDO-spectacle Of a met
ropolitan American city Of 300,-
900 barring the doors Of its schools
and temporarily abandoning its
whole educational program in mid
year because OF lack Of funds has
become a tragic reality here.
More than 10000 students
packed up their books and went
home Nov. %. They'll return in
January--if schools open then. II
not, therell be even more weeks
OF this economic vacation.
Here's the story in words Of
those most concerned:
Says the board Of education
president. peppery. bald Edward
Z. Evans:
1.-THE public won't accept
any more taxes. We warned
them we'd close the schools II
they didn't give us more
money. Well, the education
Of their children Is their head
ache, now"
Says high school senior. Fran
els Adamski, IT:
II want 10 finish my educa-
ton. need n diploma to get
n job"
Says a teacher. Russell Brown:
ITS n tragedy for the kids,
but we teachers can't keep on
without pay"
Says taxpayer, Walter Baert-
schi:
"H the education board
pulls another election to try
to raise dough, well knock
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
slAIE Laws
HELD TO BLAME

crux OF the matter lies In state
laws, say school board officials.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
Stadium Alumni
Dance on Dec. q

Stadium high school alumni will
hold their annual Homecoming
dance on Dec. 81 in the high school
gymnasium. Pat Johns. president
of the alumni. will be chairman of
the dance. Johnny Longs orches-
ira will furnish music. but no def
mite committee member appoint
ments will be made until Christ
mas vacation when students ar
rive home from college.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

hand out false propaganda at cleo
ton booths. They have offered
a" marks to students working
for them az election time.
The schools have on hand
$50. 900. and 1851 900 from the
state subsidy is due this week.
Why must we close schools , To
force a deceived public to vote still
higher taxes"
Toledo, once wealthy indus
trial town, is making last ditch
fight against the quixotic econom-
les Of today and she's fighting
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

who has worked at his trade in
Tacoma for 10 years.
Lichtenberg is also a Tacoma
man, born and educated here. He
has been employed in watch repair
ing departments of several leading
jewelry stores here and has also
maintained his own business for
nine years. He features fine watch
repairing and guarantees all his
work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

Schools legally can get funds from
two sources only; specially voted
real estate levies when taxes ex-
coed the ten-mill limit; and the
state school foundation fund.
subsidy from which Toledo gets
81, 300, 900.
Worst hit town Of its size dur
ing the depression, Toledo saw
realty values drop to half their
1929 average; saw assessment
rates sliced; school income from
taxes drop from more than four
million to just over two million
dollars.
Teachers have been working at
anywhere from SO TO So per cent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09

of their base salaries. From 1893
to 1885. IS per cent OF their pay
was In script.
Since mid-August Of this year.
teachers have received only two
weeks pay. By January. they Will
have lost in unpaid salaries a total
of nearly four million dollars in
seven years.
BY the time school closed. red
ink on the school books showed a
deficit of S603.671. Were school
to keep until January l, an addi-
tional s4oO, 900 in teacher salaries
would be due. boosting the deficit
to more than one million dollars.
The board Of education says it
Just can't take IL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
SEEK TO FORCE
TAX ELECTION

They say they'll probably settle
by forcing another tax levy cleo
ton.
Heading the pro-levy forces is
President Evans. sprightly and
sixtyish. He was first elected to
the board when his son. Eddie Jr.,
was the high school football hero.
He sums up the problem:
This is a case Of lost revenues:
Of unwillingness by real estate
owners to carry a heavier tax bur-
den; of lack of a scheme to create
new income; and a public apa-
thetic TO school welfare"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
CALLS TAX LEVY
CIVIC BURDEN"

Leather-lunged Walter Baertschi
Is the most voluble of the oppon-
ents TO the tax levy. President of
share-the-wealth organization
called Friends and Neighbors, Inc,
he takes credit for quashing the
proposal at the polls in November.
School boardmen say large real
estate holders approve his stand.
Once vigorous hacker of Father
Coughlin, he has now split with
the radio priest.
He says:
1--WE want to make real estate
an attractive investment and add
to employment. Why burden the
beleaguered home owner who is
on relief with taxes upon taxes T?
Our teachers salaries are too
high. The minimum pay here is
81 $50 while in Columbus, a COM
parable town, it is only $1,000.
The maximum pay here is $3.50
while in Columbus it's $4,000.
CHARGES SCHOOL
SITDoWN
THE school officials and teach
ers are staging a sit down strike
and are holding the schools as ran
som.
THE board of education has
employed little school children to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

off her beautifully curved arms,
he noted-and she made him tell
her again about catching, the Mexi-
can in the hills. One topic led to an
other, and before long Shot Rogers
was showing off again.
mo, ma'am," he was saying, Sc
riously but brightly and with en-
thusiasm, Indian smoke signals
aren't noth-aren't anything much
to learn. The redskins were good
with them, but white people could
use them, too, and did so. Look-Tll
just built up a little fire and show
you!"
In no time he had a fire going. He
showed her how to dump green
brush or leaves on it to make q
sudden thick column of smoke. She
evidenced high interest, and SO
Shot Rogers-who could be a stern
and highly efficient man-ran boy
like up the hill and whistled to the
black boy Midnight to bring him an
old saddle blanket. With that, Shot
showed Lorena how to cut of the
column Of smoke, sending puffs Of
it in what might have been crude
dots and dashes Of the Indian times.
"Only Of course they didn't have
no-didn't have any code like that"
he explained. '"They had a code. Of
their own, though. and it could be-
read for miles,"
"How interestingly declared Lo-
rena, and meant it.
Eyes, ma'am. You try II YOUR
SELF" :
She did, and it was fun and she
told him so. !
Lets have our own CODE" she
suggested, giggling like a campfire
girl might do want to? Let's see,
I'll make three puffs, then-'
He grinned at her then, though.
"Nawp! No, you're trying to
make Boy Scout out Of mel" It
suddenly occurred to Shot that he
was being kiddish, so he sat back
down on the log feeling rather en-
barrassed. "You go ahead and play
any time you want to. Make a lot
of puffs. Maybe I'll-well, let's say
tn Apaches are about to scalp
you or something, and so I'll ride
up shooting and rescue tn fair
damselw -
He blushed at his own speech.
Lorena laughed gaily and he
blushed again.
Then she came and sat down be-
side him, and saw that his muscles
were 1.-the and hard and that his
bare head was really pretty in the
sunshine because the blond Of it
seemed to capture and hold the
golden rays. It occurred to her, sit
ting there, that this was an exceed
ingly lovely morning despite the
trouble they had known. A lot Of
birds were singing and she felt like
singing herself. She supposed it was
all due to the cleansing rain.
(To Be Continued
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

,sl.illaNa, E,.55t Harold Dahl .s,sj
HH{fold; Dahl, lOf 4 Champaign, Ills,
EAlA llong twenty AmericanspriS-
dfekso fsWar freed by General Fran
cisco Franco. Dahl, Republican
aviator during the civil war, was
shot down and captured IN july
1897. Sentenced to death but re-
p5ieyed after anSappeal by his beau
SlIu! actress-wife, he had been held
!. captive ever since.
ICentrolPress
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

EDITORS NOTE: DR.. Clendening has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained BY
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For any one pamphlet desired. send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with three-cent stamp, TO Dr.
Logan Clendening, in care Of this paper.
The pamphlets are: Three Weeks Reduc-
ing Diet, indigestion and Constipation,
Reducing and. Gaining, Infant Feed:
Diabetes, feminine Hygiene" and The
Care of the Hair and Skin.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

Russell Bradshaw, 80, is shown in
custody after sitting atop no.
foot spire at the New York Worlds
Fair, threatening to jump if any,
one came near him. Finally he
agreed to come to earth if Mayor
LaGuardia would promise to run
for Office again. Cynics said there
was press agent in background.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

had thwarted them this time. Four
did so come in, but the others ar
rived Saturday morning, bedrag-
gled and tired. Shot ordered them
to rest up for the dance that night.
Shot himself felt pretty good
Saturday after breakfast, and all
at once found himself with nothing
to do that day. He didn't want to
start on another scouting expedi-
tion-at least not until Sunday.
And George Brazee wouldn't let
him help with any of the ranch rou-
tine.
"Darned if don't feel like rich
man or something!" he told Lorena,
perched on the corral fence there
in the sunshine. She had come out
and climbed up with him, watching
some young stock get roped. "Us
military boys got time on our
hands, until the dance"
aren't you glad 2" she smiled.
Maybe this is the time to teach
me to shoot a pistol, as you prom
ised."
"Say!" he beamed, pointing at
her with his hat. "Say, Miss
LOrena-shore"
They got guns and ammunition
and walked quarter-mile toward
a high cliff. Shot did a little DEM
onstrating first. He threw up a rock
the size of a walnut and cracked it
into bits with one pistol shot. She
gave him deserved applause.
He tried a few more stunts-he
was very young man then, show
ing off-and the sociability was
high, even if the lesson was lag
ging. In a little while, though, he
set. up some targets and got down
to business.
/ Now you want to squeeze it,
ma'am, not pull, or you'll jerk off
the bead" he tried to tell her. Then
he reached to show her, putting his
rough tanned hand over her pink
one that held the gun. Before he
realized it the move had brought
him very near to Lorena. His chin
was almost on her brown curls.
and he caught abruptly the strange,
incompatible scent of woman, a
delicate sweetness and a subtletv
which was almost narcotic to him.
He swallowed hard.
"Lordy!" he murmured.
Whats the matter?" she asked.
curiously, looking up and very nat
urally smiling a little. The move
further disturbed him. He took a
deep breath and lied.
Il was-I was wishing I'd of
brought you-I had brought you a
lighter gun," he said. Never mind,
though. You take a quick aim, then
squeeze. Go on, you'll get the hang
of 1t quick, Til bet"
She got the hang Of it. They
spent an hour practicing and then
they sat down on a cottonwood log
to talk. He watched her while she
f1uffed her hair-the motion showed
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

L. ]. O.: "My 11-year-old daupA.
ter had the bad luck of bringing
lice home from school and | iust
don't know what to do to rid her Of
this humiliating affair.""
Answer-Iassume that thelicears
on the hair Of the head. They NAV
be on any part of the body. A very
good way to kill off the animals and
devitalize the ova is to apply raw
petroleum. mixed with equal parts
of olive oil. 1t should be thoroughly
applied to the scalp for one or two
nights, followed in the morning BY
a shampoo with soap and water or
tincture Of green soap. In child II
years old probably it is possible to
sacrifice the hair entirely and then
treat the scalp with ointment Of
ammoniated mercury. If the hair is
not sacrificed, a fire-toothed comb
should be assiduously used to De.
tach the nits.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

the other pair-children-the onset
of asthma was ten months and elev-
an months.
Experience of Two Sisters
A personal observation of mine
concerns two sisters. One had fall
hay fever from the age of fifteen.
The other was free until the age of
twenty-eight, though exposed to the
same environment. Then she devel-
oped severe hay fever II fall and
spring type both.
The doctors haze 1t. Every doctor
who has made important contribu-
tions to the study Of hay fever had
the disease himself.
John Bostock, of Liverpool, de-
scribed in 1919 his own case of a
periodical Affection of the Eyes
and Chest" which came on in the
middle of June every year and lasted
until the middle Of July. 1t con-
sisted Of Inflammation of the eyes,
Irritation Of the nose, producing
sneezing, which occurs in fits of ex-
treme violence" He was allergic to
grasses, the common type of hay
fever in England.
Scoffed, Then Believed
John Elliotson, Professor of Med
icine at London University, knew "a
very sensible and superior woman
who thought it was the pollen that
caused her hay fever and rash on
her hands," He said this sarcastic
cally, but afterwards was convinced
that hay fever was caused by
"farina" (pollen). Bostock did not
know the cause.
In America Morrill, Wyman, Pro-
fessor of Medicine in Harvard, him.
self suffered severe attacks, and
proved that the ragweed was the
cause Of fall hay fever by wrapping
some in a paper, carrying it to the
White Mountains, and on opening it
induced an attack in all the men,
bers of his family (187O).
w. P. Dunbar of Hamburg, Ger
many, in 1895, and R. C. Lowder-
milk of Galena, Kansas, in 1911,
gave pollen extracts to themselves
to relieve their own hay fever; DR.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

THE PHANTOM cowboys who
had been at work on the far mesa
came in about sundown Thursday
and hit the sky with anger because
they had missed the night fight.
They had been refused permission
to go with Rogers scouts earlier in
the week; now they felt doubly
mistreated. However, there was
deal of further work to be done.
All day Thursday had been given
to bringing in the dead Mexican
and burying him, and to sending
the other dying one in to Blanco.
Man power being short that day.
Shot Rogers himself had dug the
grave, and after the services there
he and George Brazee filed it and
covered it with stones.
Hes forgotten man." Shot had
remarked, wiping off the sweat of
labor. But Mr.. Brazee hadn't said
anything; he could be silent for
hours at a time.
On Friday the ranch hands had
to ride to Grown valley, tie ropes
around the dead and now bloating
cattle, and drag them to a central
ditch. Crude oil and some gasoline
hac to be brought and poured on
the carcaSSes and then fire set to
them. Jerry Dale himself directed
this. AS scientist of the ranch he
warned that so many dead stock
would create a potential disease
danger, because other stock would
have to be grazed in Crown valley.
The burning was a smelly, sicken-
ing business. And yet, Lorena Ham,
1lton stayed in the valley there all
day, helping old Jasper prepare the
noon meal that the men ate from
the chuck wagon. This latter fact
afforded welcome relief from the
unpleasant task at hand.
Hits tn best grub we've ct in
five years!" one puncher drawled,
over a tin cup of coffee. 1T amt no
sand and gravel on tn meat, ner in
tn bread dough, ner even in tn
sugar can. by dadsi"
Jasper snarled at him and the
group all guffawed, echoing their
thanks to Lorena. She herself
squatted cowboy fashion on one
heel and drank her coffee with
them. But Jerry Dale sat posses
sively near her during that half
hour respite for lunch. His conver-
sation and his manner indicated at
all times that Miss Lorena Hamil-
ton was some exquisite creature
which he alone had discovered
brought in and expected to own ex--
ciuslvely. He strutted a little ir ii.
perhaps unconsciously.
Snor Rogers sat with his boss.
George BraZee, and didn't saw 4
word to Lorena during the meal
although he did share the humble
privilege that all of them had of
looking at her. Sho./was picking
MS teeth with a stem of tough
grass-a luxury in which Jerry
Dale, incidentally, did not INDULGE
"nen ne spoke to his boss.
Mr. Brazee, the work here can
De done in another two hours IF
IT'S all right, I'll just ride around
ana see # the Mexes left any sort
OF sign. That many of them might
nave cropped some kind of trail'
tnat would remain even through
the rain.''
60 ahead, son." the older man
nouoed at once. "You do whatever
you think best in this matter"
1ut Shot didn't find anything.
tsoiied stones and gravel and sand
ana trash had obliterated ar1v nos
slole trail. Shot knew the Meyicans
lidu escaped back into Mexico. He
and his army" would have to
start again from scratch. He knew
ms scouts would be drifting in that
nlGht fipllrino also that
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17
Bv LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.

CLEANED from DR.. Warren T.
Vaughn's currently published book
on Allergy, the following notes on
Hay Fever.
Heredity. Hay Fever in twins.
Among six pairs Of identical twins,
three pairs both had hay fever. In
the cases of two pairs, the mothers
also had it. In a pair of identical
twins, one was sensitive to pollen,
one to food.
In two other sets, both twins had
asthma. One pair was adult and did
not remember the date of onset. In
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

SYNOPSIS

YXNOPSIS
LCEeTrlA HAMILTON mas come 10
Arizona to visit her uncle
GEORGE BRAZEE, owner OF Phantom
ranch. whose leading cowboys are
JERRY DALE. college pred newcome,
who Is fascinated by Lorena. and
SHOT ROGERS. who finds himself in
love with her.
YESTERDAY: Because Lorena ls SYM
pathetic over Jerry's wounded hand.
he makes further advances. which
she diSlikes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
B. F. G.: "Is the flow of natural
lubricants lessened or injured BY the
use either of mineral oil or psyllium
seed?"
Answer: No.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-17

the other pair-children-the onset
of asthma was ten months and elev-
an months.