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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

FRIDAY, MARCH "a, 1899

After the early morning. ad-
verse aspects rule strongly to-
day. according to astrology. 1t
is well to distrust ones judg-
ment under this CONFORMATION.
Women are subject to slim
ulating and promising planetary
influences which should be BEN
eficial for domestic activities.
This is an suspicious date for
club meetings and for public as
semblies managed by women. IL
is favorable to peace movements
which will be more educative
than preventive where was is
concerned. future events will
prove.
Theaters will profit as we'll as
amusement projects. Games and
other escape" pursuits will be
popular.
Uranus is in place read as
presaglng distorted views on
public questions and a tendency
to think foolishly, Wise con-
illusions houl d be sought
through study. Propaganda will
flood the radio and the news
papers.
Some issue that changes the
relations of capital and labor
advantageously for all is indi-
Gated by the stars, Gradually
adjustments beneficial TO the
public as well as those active
in industrial contests are fore
cast
Saturn and Mercury are in as
poets that seem to warn OF eN-
traordinary results of the eco
nomic depression which will en-
velop Central Europe Crises in
Egypt and Palestine will assume
new grave possibilities.
Mars in threatening place is
read as presaging extreme labor
difficulties in the Middle West
and certain Central states. In
dustry will have busy summer
but may be disturbed by condi-
tons retarding and hampering
production.
Persons whose birthdate II is
have the augury OF a year Of
thrilling experiences. Unexpect-
ed fortune is foreshadawed for
many ana temptation TO indulge
in excuses may be strong
Children born on this day
probably will be physically and
mentally strong These subjects
OF Aries may have interest In
science or be devoted TO the
arts. Many are natural leaders.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

we have now. II costs sos per
month to send him to poor
house. about S126 to maintain
the WPA. and 5000 per month
to send Junior to a CCC camp.
Who receives most of this money?
Where does it go? 1t is COM
puted that IS billions is spent
yearly for crime and billions
for poor houses. Why not give
all the money to Grandpa so
that he can build that new
home. buy new furniture, travel,
and send Junior TO college.
Roosevelt states that one
third of our population is i'll
housed, ill-fed. and ill-clothed.
Why not take this means of CIV
ing the money to the elderly
folks Join Townsend club
and thus make the country safe
for democracy and also Chris
tan community.
CHAS. KASTLE,
oil FaWcett, Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
The VIZ Century

The war index of the Twentieth Century is eight times
greater than all preceding centuries.
So found Harvard professor who analysed 902
and 1915 internal disturbances in the past $500 years
reported in the Commentator War would almost the
normal state of SPAIN for found to have been
81 cent of the years of its history England
than half the me Sc per cent France just so
per cent
The United States may be proud thankful BOTH
than only Ia cent of the time the Declaration of
Independence has been time
But whatever our Twentieth Century may find to be
proud about brag but little its record even
the turbulent past which to the history student
little but succession of and instructions exceeded
In violence by our own time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can YOU answer seven of these
test questions = Turn TO the
womans page for the answers.
l. What is a photometer
.. What Is a birdie" in golf ?
3. What Is the httoral OF a
country?
I. Name the state flower Of
New York.
5. What is the chemical SYM
Dol for radium
6. or which country is Sofia
the capital
:. In which river are the
Thousand Islands
s. Name the owner Of the IA
nous horse War Admiral.
q Name the chairman 81 the
Federal Communications Com
mission
10 What does Urss MAJOR
mean7
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
A Book A Day

America is short-story ma.
ton. Perhaps so because we
can read them on the run.
Enthusiastically, they fit into
our scheme of rapid-fire living
and in any event there is much
to be said for this form of fic-
ton
The years have produced some
masterpieces. ref e ctin g the
whole tempo of our national
life. You get the most Of these
in bulky. significant anthol-
ogy, Bedside Book of Famous
American Stories (R AN m
House: so. 1t is all-inclusive
from the quaint old classics OF
Washington Irving to the new
est master OF the modern short
story, John Steinbeck.
You feel after you have
dipped deep at many points that
the editors, Angus Burrell and
Bennett A. Cert, have omitted
nothing vital to each period.
Here is the fine artistry of Poe
and Hawthorne, Melville and
Henry James on the one hand,
and on the other the sharper,
smarter style of Edna Ferber.
o. Henry, Hergesheimer. Dreis-
er. In between you find Edith
Wharton. Mark Twain. Bret
Harte, Frank r. Stockton. Poe.
Bierce, Aldrich, Howells, and
nearly so others.
A second collection of short
stories issued by Random House
at $3.50 is "Sirocco." by Ralph
Bates. MI Bates gives you Is
portraits in all. two of them al
most novelties. They sweep
across the broad canvas of the
unfortunate Spain, depicting its
life under monarchy, republic
and the current civil war Mr..
Bates himself has fought in the
front lines at Madrid. For the
most part his pen draws
graphic stroke. He is invariably
dramatic.-P. G. F.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
Mr.. fIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this col
umn letters must give name ana
address OF writer Only initials
will be published when requested
MIR. Fixit: What nation holds
the official world record a. tn
the greatest altitude attained by
manned balloons I. VI.
The balloon record was set in
1885 by two u. S. army captains,
orvil Anderson and Albert Ste
vens, who reached the altitude
of %. 066 meters. or about 1877
miles, over South Dakota.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII You please
tell me what year the song
Golden slippers" was written:
In 1914 l wrote n song about
the biography Of Pancho Villa
during his rampage in Mexico.
The tune To this song WAS similar
to that of Golden Slippers"
however the song itself was not
copyrighted. X. VI. II.
Golden Slippers" was written
long before 1914. by James A.
Bland, sometime around 1s45.
II the similarity in tunes arouses
your suspicious, you will have TO
suspect yourself with sub
consciously initiating.
Mr.. Fixit: Are jurors chosen
from list Of citizens: Or
does one have 10 be a registered
voter to he eligible for jury
duty: NJ. W.
Jury lists are made up from
the tax rolls. Naturally, the
qualifications include citizen
ship.
MIR. Fixit: Please tell me
where l may obtain informa-
tion concerning fishing boats
and fish canncries In Alaska:
q. X.
Fish cannery crews go north
from the latter part of April
until around the first week in
July, so applications to the can
ming companies should be in
soon, If not already. Applica-
tons must be made with indi-
vidual companies. of which you
will find many listed in the Sc
attic directories. under Can
neries.' They report that in the
past few years there has been
much more experienced help
available than the industry
could absorb.
Mr.. FiNit: To settle n discus
sion Will you please tell us who
the Three Smart Girls" were:
We know Dcanna Durbin was
starred but are uncertain about
the other two. MRS. A. l.. A.
The other two principals in
that movie were Nan Grey and
Barbara Read.
MIR. FiXit: My hoy has drop
ped out of school because he
could not get along with other
boys. He cannot get job and
am afraid he will run wild.
do You think the CCC would be
a good place for him? G. II.
The Civilian Conservation
Corps is not reform school and
prefers boys who can get along
with others. Camp directors
specify young men of good char
acter. Undoubtedly one of the
camps would be a good place
for your boy. but he would have
to qualify in character as well
as economic need.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
, STORIES
IN STAMPS
Fur Troders Opened
Conodo's Wheat Country


Conodo's Wheat Country
THE prairie Canada the British
king and queen will see this
year was a barren wilderness just
100 years ago when the first white
explorer in the west, La Veren-
drye. camped one night at the
junction of the Assinboine and
Red rivers. But La Verendrye
saw the spot might prove impor-
tant in the future, so he erected =
crude fort.
II was not used, however. for
the fur traders were yet TO come.
They arrived in pack, some 6S
years later. Two packs, in fact;
the Nor'-Westers of Montreal and
the Hudson's Bay company. I'm
mediately there was bitter con-
test for the control of the west
and both companies built outposts,
Fort Gibraltar and Fort Douglas.
Then came Lord Selkirk. ag-
gressive head of the Hudson's Bay
company. II was Selkirk who
saw that the country opened by
the fur traders was farming
country as well. so from lSii-l5
he brought hundreds of settlers
into the fertile Red river valley
from his native Scotland. And.
despite all manner of hardship
and danger. they stuck it out.
The fur traders. meantime. car
ried their struggle TO bloody end
that brought the merger of the
Nor'-Westers and the Hudson's
Bay companies. With peace. Fort
Gibraltar was renamed Fort Garry.
II became vital trading post and
settlers depot. Meanwhile, set
Element was growing up outside
the fort itself and the pioneers
called il Winnipeg, from the Cree
words, Win. meaning murky and
Nipiy. water.
Thus Canada's plains were
opened. Old For; Garry is shown
above on current Canadian
stamp
Copyright 1888. HEA Service, Incl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

William L. Austin. director Of
the census. believes that next
years viii be the most impor-
tant and significant census ever
taken in America. with the pos
sibie exception OF the first one
that Of 1890.
The census. as he sees il. is
Uncle Sans periodical stock
taking. in which the old gentle
man studies his assets In the
way of human beings and nat
ural resources. And a great
many things have happened to
those assets since the last stock
taking.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
OLD BOOKS CALLED
1T MOUNT TACOMA"

Editor, The Times, 7 rad
Mrs. Doore's letter saying the
geography she studied called our
mountain Tacoma. l have
book published by the Chamber
of Commerce in 1889 showing
pictures OF and discussing Taco
ma. In it the name of our noun
tain is Mount Tacoma.
I would like TO suggest that
we call the new bridge the Ia
coma-Gig Harbor bridge. Il
would be easily located by peo-
pie coming to our city and would
advertise Gig Harbor as well as
Tacoma NJ NJ I.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
SCIENCE NEWS

Science is busy putting the
ancient product, maple sugar.
into new forms. The tangy tree
sugar, which was eaten by In
dams and pioneers before re-
fined sugar was available. is be-
ing transformed into attractive
bricks. graduated sugar. and
powdered icing sugar. Tendency
Of the bricks to mottle or be-
come too hard has been elm
mated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

Editor, The Times: Referring
to "Bund' members by Mayor
LaGuardia of New York as i'm
ternational Coolies it is well to
remember that they are not the
only coolies. The whole country
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
HOW CAN 7 7 2

Q. How can make q subsu-
tute shoe lining II the original
lining of the heel has worn
through :
A. Cut a piece Of adhesive
tape. warm II slightly. and press
firmly over the worn part
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
OF ESTIONS TO
BIZ. ANSWERED

First and foremost. saws Mr..
Austin. there is the question of
unemployment. What has the
depression done to US Exactly
how many people are out Of
work now As for the people
who have Jobs. what kind OF Jobs
have they Are they making
enough to support their families
decently9
How about the young people
who have reached working age
during the depression years
How many Of them have jobs,
and how many OF them have dis
placed Older people .
There have been profound
population shifts in the last 10
years. The 1885 agricultural
census showed that the long
farm-to-city migration had been
checked, and that the number of
small farms in the United States
had increased by 100000 since
1880. Has that shift been halt
ed? Is the tide moving the other
way again-and. if so, how fast
is it moving?
The census will answer all of
these vitality important ques-
lions, and many more besides.
1t will cover manufactures. from
the biggest factories in the coun-
try to the smallest. It will pro-
vide complete picture of retail
and wholesale trade. an up-to-
date tabulation of mines and
mining activities. a survey of the
entire farming set-up. and full
listing of lands under irrigation
and the crops they grow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
Bruce Cation
Tacoma Times Washington
correspondent
BY BRUCE CATION

NASHINGTON-The Census Bureau Is already pre-
pairing for its big Job year Congress has not yet eggs
lated appropriated for the 1910 and the field men
won't start going with their pencils and NOTEBOOKS u
I'll the second of next January But the preliminary Work
l. .llrdn-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

probably Be more than rs 600
OF them
CHECKING
BIRTH RECORDS
One thing that keeps the
bureau busy year IN and year
out is verifying birth dates for
people who want to prove TO the
Social ecurity Board that
they're old enough TO receive old
age benefits.
Birth statistics have been
kept so sketchily in most parts
OF the country. until recently.
that only the census records will
give person the proof he
needs. Last year more than
100000 requests for age verifi-
cation We're received by the
bureau. and some 5000 people
came down in person to make
the checkup
Conferences To discuss the
scope of next years census are
still going on The population
census was discussed just re-
Gently, conference on manu-
features and mines will be held
shortly, and there will soon be
big one on wholesale and retail
trade.
There are some things about
census-taking I've never been
able to understand. says Mr..
Austin. up to the Civil war.
for instance, we were purely an
agricultural country; yet the
first census of agriculture was
not taken until 1s40. After the
Civil war we developed rapidly
as business country-but the
first business census was taken
as late as 1890"
Copyright, 1887
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
MAY COVER
HOUSING

1t may do other things. too.
Its scope is set by congress. and
this year there is a good deal of
pressure to broaden the census
field and have it include a study
of housing. The pressure comes
from such business groups as
real estate boards and construc-
ton firms and such government
agencies as the federal housing
administration and the u. S.
housing authority.
This country has gone a long
way since 1890" remarks Mr..
Austin. There will have to be
a number of new inquiries in the
1910 questionnaires.
Wen have to give consider
alton to birthrate. which has
been falling for the last few
years. If the decline continues,
We'll soon have stabilized pop
ulation, with birth and death
rates about equal"
The Census Bureau is going
concern all the while, since it
conducts many inquiries at far
less than l 0-year intervals.
Right now it has about $50
permanent employees, plus per-
haps an equal number of tenn
porary ones. The director. Incl
dentally, is the only employee in
the bureau who isn't under civil
service
The big army of field workers
next year won't be civil service
people, of course, as most of
them will work only few
weeks. At the peak, there will
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

To receive attention IN this col
umn letters must give name and
address OF writer OniY initials
Will be published when requested
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

probably Be more than rs 0oC
OF them
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
SHOULD REMOVE
"COOTIE" CAUSES.

oil Fawcett. Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

He that beIieveth and is baptized shall be saved but he
that believeth not shall be damned.-Mark 1916.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27
GREAT HORSES MARKED 1895 RULE OF TURFD0h

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27
NEW YORH

NEW YORK - The tremendous
IN growth in interest in skiing
within the last few years is re-
Elected in the activity Of local and
neighboring park commissions pre-
pairing for what they hope will be
winter with plenty of ice and
snow.
New York City and Long Island
park commissions are going ahead
with plans calculated to entertain
skiers and skaters by the thou
sands. A year ago on two good
week-ends at Bethpags state Park,
Farningdale, L. l., 10000 old and
young devotees scattered over SKI
and sled runs.
In New York City there are
81 lakes, 127 wading pools, 2
sprayed handball courts and Il
tennis courts waiting for the Their
mometer TO dip below freezing
Thirty coasting hills and ID SIX
runs need only a few inches o.
snow 10 bring out thousands o.
winter sports lovers.
Bethpage promises Innovation
which should add much 70 the en-
ioyment Of skiing on the Farm
ingdale hills. There will be a pow
er-driven tow rope on the So0-foo
hill. and for those who wish 10 q
in for the fancier phases, horse
Will be available for ski-loring.
Long Island and New Jerse.
commuters may be roofing for
late fall and an early spring, bu
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27

tendon ssahlscols followed vita
sptAined ligameat and the
Admiral retired 70 jesa his sirs.
ola Man O War. At stud
There were other tragic mo-
ments ~ Chieo and nesisy
stumbled 1t Santa Anita and
were destroyed. Tho fsliy ferida
lest her life during tire Spin
away ~ saratoga romroaa
Juvenile champion Ut 1875. died
Of an abdominal disease that
hadn't been encountered IN
quarter century.
Although h~ couldn't win
title for himself. Iohnstown woa
two for his stable. wslliam
Woodward topped Americas
owners with winnings of ssss.-
100 and Sunny Jim FitzslFnmons
led the trainers with more than
s4oo. 00o. nehInd Woodward
came c. $. Howard with sass.-
TOO and nrann with s22i.hta
Their trainers, Tom Smith and
Lou Sehaefer received credit
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27

season the top money winner
with S1S4.5 SIS. He lowered the
world record for a mile and
three sixteenths. He whipped
every top-f1ight horse in Amer
lea. His most notable victories
were the Preakness. the Airing
ton classic. the Hawthorne gold
cup and the Narragansett and
Pimlico specials. His record
was nine wins. two places and
three shows in Is starts.
The star OF Challedon didn't
rise until that Of Belair Studs
Johnstown had set. Big John
was the dream horse" Of the
spring. He won the woodhaven.
the Wood Memorial and the
Kentucky Derby. After bad
race in the Preakness he won
the Dwyer and the Belmont
stake and he clipped dozen
track and world records in work
outs. He captured seven Of
nine starts for Sis7 SOS and
then he broke his wind for the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27
Henry McLemOre Says:

PASADENA, Cal Two Of
Tennessee's best players will start
the Rose bowl game with knees
so bad that II they were horses
they would be destroyed.
One is George cafego, all
America halfback. and the other
is Bob Suffridge, all-America
guard.
Cafego is In such bad shape in
the vicinity Of his knees that he
was unable to attend the Christ
mas party given TO the team by
Clarence Brown, famed Hollywood
director and graduate of Tenn
essee. Cafego was hurt in the
game against the Citadel two
months ago. In cutback off
tackle everything in his left knee
went, as he puts it, "all to heil,"
and since that time in games
against Vanderbilt, Kentucky and
Auburn he has played a total OF
two minutes.
He didn't get In the Van
derbllt game Mt all. lasted
four plays against Kentucky.
and went out on the second
play against Auburn. IL Is
even money that he won't last
more than one play against
the Troians of Southern Cali
fornia. Coach Bob Neyland
says no one will really kno"
his condition until the first
block il thrown on him.
IF he withstRnds the first block,
he'll be in there for a while,
Neyland says. IF he doesn't
well. we'll have To do without him.
Take it from me, an ole
authority on knees, cafego won''
even last one play. because NJ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27
Oregon Bows
To DePauI j

CHICAGO-A tenacious De Paul
basketball team held a two point
lead three minutes last night to
nose out Oregon. national collegiate
champions, 1887 in a neck and
neck battle.
Simultaneous sounding of
the timers gun and referees
whistle, calling foul on DE
Paurs Possner, brought a pro-
test from Oregon's coach,
Howard Hobson, that kept the
squads on the floor an extra
five minutes at the close Of
the game.
Hobson asserted the whistle pre-
ceded the gun and that his men
could reject the free throw and
try for a long goal. Officials re-
jected the claim and the resulting
free toss missed to leave De Paul
In the lead.
No more than four points sep
arated the teams at any time in
the game.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27

simple reason that he ran faster
than any horse should.
BINELECH No. s
The third was Rimeleeh, the
eocky son Of late Black Tonev.
undefeated two-yesr-old cham
pion. and heavy winter favorlte
10 raise Col Z. Il. Bradlsy's
Kentucky Derby score 70 five.
Blmelech whipped everything he
met for winnings Of xiS5 .oe0
and By the end Of the year
there wasn't an owner in the
nation willing to meet him At
weight for age.
Back Of the big three came
two South Americans. c. ;.
Towards Kayak II and Scr
teado. The former wen the
800. 600 Santa Anita handicap
and the $50, 900 Hollywood gold
cup for earnings OF Si70.sT5 for
eight victories in IL starts and
was accorded the four-year-old
crown. Sorteado ran only one
great race--the Manhattan ham
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-27
, WINNING BASKETBALL
Colorado Screen
COLORADO SCREEN

University Of Colorado, coached
by Forest Frosty Cox, uses this
screen formation:
The maneuyer starts with Play
er No. 2, who shoots bounce pass
into No. 5.
As No. 5 receives ball, No. 4
crosses In front OF basket as lndi-
Gated. No. 3 breaks toward basket
with No. 2 screening off his guard.
There are four options on this
formation. The first opens when
No. 4 cuts. The second il open II
the screen is successful. The third
Is opened II the defensive men
switch. II none Of the cutting men
shake loose, Player No. 5 takes
the fourth option which IL q pass
out TO No. /, who moves over for
the emergency.
NEXT: The Butter 0ffense.