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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-13
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
/. In what country is Great
Slave lake.
2. For what labor organization
do the initials LILA. stand.
8. Which city in South Caro-
lima suffered from an earth
quake in 1885,
4. Which varsity crew won
the four-niile race AZ the recent
intercollegiate Rowing sssocia-
ton regatta at Poughkeepsie
S. Name the capital OF Georgia.
6. What is the product of S
multiplied by 1-37
I. Which state has the motto,
Sic semper tyrannis
9. What IL the correct pro-
nunciation Of the word psro-
chial.
Q. With what sport Is the
name Gene Mako associated,
10. What is a gendarme.
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:: YOUR ! HOROSCOPE ::

training. II Is not an auspicious
date for seeking support from
friends and relatives In for
warding ambitions.
The national problem Of relief
will be more difficult to solve
than in the past and now will
Be accepted As 4 permanent
rather than an emergency task.
Persons whose birthdate II Is
have the augury Of q year of
steady advancement and grow
ing economic security. Specu-
lation should be voided.
Children born on this day
probably win be Of \ happy,
cheerful disposition and active
mind. Subjects Of this sign
usually have good judgment and
many develop unusually reliable
business sense.
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THURSDAY, July Is, 1888
Although this y the thirteenth
q the month It il q lucky day.
according to astrology. Bencfic
aspects rule strongly from morn
lng until night with little adj
verse influence.
II u preenzinently a date for
projecting important enterprises
and for expanding projects ale
ready well started. Many OPP
portunities to gain wealth Will
b present Ia the domain Of big
business.
Commerce win be stimulated
through coming weeks when the
need Of q strong merchant
marine IL to be demonstrated
convincingly. Trade with the
Orient win present new prob
lens.
This should Be Z fairly lucky
day for women II they do not
encroach upon privileges and
opportunities long enjoyed by
men. Satisfaction will be at
tanned In domestic tasks and
household interests.
Astrologers point out that
this Il still . mans world 80
far ~ money-making Ia con-
cerned. Competition In all the
professions viii be keener than
ever through this year. but in
1910 world events may lessen
sex rivalry.
There 10 . sign favorable to
mild love affairs. Under this
sway there may Be an inclina-
ton for young men to take for
granted their ability to win
hearts and maintain popularity.
The planetary government
promise success to those who
rely upon their own talents and
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BRIGHT MOMENTS
IN GREAT LIVES

Sir William Gilbert. Of the
famous Victorian duo of Gilbert
and Sullivan. whose operas
"Pinafore." The Mikado' and
many others are fsvorites even
to this day. was a very witty
conversationalist. and many of
his bon mots and puns have been
handed down through the years.
Upon one occasion Sir Will
lam heard OF a certain London
theater manager who had cast
his mistress In q stellar role.
then proceeded to puff her in
the press.
''Humpf." said Sir William.
THE fellow Is blowing his own
trumpet"
White elephants" are solt
quickly with a Times Want Ad
Call Main 3i5i.
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a commission to regulate freight
ard passenger rates and require
certain services which were not
then provided. Lobbyists repre-
sentlne the Northern Pacific and
the oregon Railway & Nayigs-
ton company put the pressure
on delegates who could be M
nuenced by their arguments and
the proposal was killed.
sixteen years later some OF
the main provisions Of Wash
ingfon's first railroad commits
sion bill were prepared In the
private car of an official OF
the Oregon Railway 4 Nan-
CATION company. The car was
parked In the Northern Pacific
yards just below the Tacoma
hotel where q steering COM
mittee was In session writing
a program for the convention
which WAS to meet the merit
day and nominate Albert Y.
Mead as the Republican candi-
date for governor.
Everything considered, the
railway commission proposal
was quite liberal. A commits
sion law was passed by the next
legislature and Gov. Mead made
an honest attempt TO enforce 1t.
A bit of disturbing news from
Olympia outside the convention
related to a movement to union
ize the retail clerks in the cap
ital town and make the organ
ization statewide. Olym a
clerks were working from s or
o'clock in the morning to $50
and at night. One of the lead-
ers in the movement said that
among all the workers none led
such unnatural lives as the retail
clerks.
In his own case he said he
left home in the morning be-
fore his children were up and
they were In bed by the time
he arrived home In the eve
ming. At that rate he won
dered how long II would be
before the children forgot that
they had a father.
The retailers argued it would
be an imposition on the public TO
operate the stores on an eight
or even ten-hour basis. Many
housewives, they pointed out.
liked to get their shopping done
early in the morning so they
could have the entire day for
other duties. In other cases the
family shopping was done after
supper" and any change in the
traditional hours certainly would
have bad effect on business.
When all their arguments
failed the clerks .contiaaSsSp pro-
motion of the union' tceO and
planted the seed for the shorter
hours in retail stores today. And
while everybody is glad the
clerks now have an opportunity
to become acquainted with theil
children, it sometimes seems ia
shoppers that opening TINT
comes pretty late and closing
time is around before they
know it.
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Editor, The Times: | have been
following articles in The Times
dealing with the new setups for
WPA. / have worked on WPA
ever since it started and have
been on quite a few jobs and
heard lots of talk dealing with
same. Ii seems now that most
talk is what setup we are going
to have and what will happen in
1910.
Lately there have been nation
wide surveys of what is going to
happen in 1910. OF all the talk
going on and all of the trouble
in foreign affairs, most people
think it would be a bad thing TO
have a change in the present ad-
ministration. l myself think it
would be bad thing.
According TO the recent sur
vey that was taken there were
a. per cent against new ad-
ministration and "a per cent
for il. and the other 80 per cent
could not see where there would
be any difference at all. 1t looks
as though the 80 per cent do
not know what they do want.
They would surely go one way
or the other If it came right
down to il.
1t is hard enough to get relief
now and what they do get is
Just existing. What would or
will happen If there is a change
in administration? l think my
self If Roosevelt were to run a
third term he would be elected
by a large vote. II seems that
most people l know would rather
see him elected than anybody
else. Lots of folks say they
wouldn't vote for anyone but
him.
In the article. What the Man
on Relief Is Saying there Is
the question: What do you blame
for the present unemployment
in this country? There are four
answers to that question and 1t
seems il is blamed mostly on
answer No. increasing use Of
machinery.
Lots of people look at IL that
way and lots OF people don't.
for one, don't.
The only way / can see that
the slack OF unemployment Is
going TO be taken up is TO work
out a pension plan of living.
Take a man off SIS years OF age
and give him $50 a month
pension and he could get along
fairly well. Don't give him less
than that.
How many jobs would be va
Gated each year. How many
men, married and single. would
have Jobs 10 step into: Our
million or so high school and
college graduates could find the
jobs they were trained for.
What will happen TO the million
or so that graduated this year
VIII they all find jobs.
When the old folks are PEN
stoned off and the new fellows
are put to work. have a kind OF
tax and put II in the pension
fund For instance, a 81 q month
tax from each would put
millions in the fund and when
the pensioner spent his money
Il would be in circulation. 1
would gladly give that tax to
get a good job. and many more
are like myself.
! am not q politician or any
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LIGHT
Continued From Page one)

The secretary of the treasury
wants to set up loaning au-
thority consisting OF himself,
the secretary of agriculture.
Public Works Administrator
John NJ. Carmody and Jones.
This board would pass upon all
applications for loans under the
grandiose program. But, in adj
dition, Morgenthsu has created
a managing director OF the fed
eral bank. whose decision would
be virtually final in all cases.
1t is suspected that he expects
to name the managing director
and thereby control the setup
from start 10 finish. He would
thus have the whip hand over
Messrs. Hull and Jones.
From past experience the Cor
coranites know that Henry
doesn't sympathize with their
money tossing ideas. Despite
frequent setbacks. he has fought
for conservative financial, tax
alton and monetary policies.
They thought that they had out
Unanswered him when they won
FDR over TO this novel financial
plan. But he may have the last
laugh yet.
The WPA strike has handed
President Roosevelt one of the
worst headaches of his admins
tration. It threatens TO ALLEVIATE
the two labor organizations -
CIO and AFL-which have been
his stalwart supporters. at least
publicly and politically. 1t may
disclose that Uncle Sam is as
hsrd-boiled an employer as the
economic royalists' the presi-
dent has been condemning ever
since he took office.
WPA Administration Hsrring-
ton. with FDR's backing. is the
man who insisted on a 130-hour
working program for people on
relief. Not the presidents con-
gressional enemies. Mr.. Harring-
ton is also responsible for the
decree that those striking for
more than five days viii be drop
ped from the federal rolls and
also deprived of local home re-
lief for their obstinacy. But II
a private employer locked out
his men after a five-day strike.
he would be hauled up on the
NLRB carpet and ordered to
give them back their jobs. And.
under Hopkins-Perkins dictum.
the strikers would be fed and
financed by the federal govern
ment while out Of work.
The incident is chiefly impor-
tant because IL may slienste the
wPA vote in la4o--s group on
which the New Dealers relied to
force the nomination and cleo
ton Of one OF their own kind.
II tends 10 bear out sstute James
A. Fsrley's 1855 post-election
conclusion that The WPA is q
political liability rather than an
asset"
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PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

thing like that but just 100
per cent American citizen.
would like to see something
done to give others like myself
a good living. When l get old l
would like to see my sons have
something to work for besides
WPA or living on relief.
G. w. cox.
Route 4, Box 7s5.
NO MENACE TO LABOR
Editor, The Times: Some are
opposed to the Townsend plan
because they have security in a
retirement fund for their particu-
lar group. Few of this class have
read the provisions or funda-
mental principles of the Town
send plan yet some of them write
letters to discredit the plan.
Judging from the arguments
put out, these writers get their
mininformation from others who
are mininformed. The Townsend
plan proposes nothing that these
writers say they have heard
from opponents of the plan.
These special groups voice no
objection to the state pension
plan. The greatest opposition
to the state pension comes from
the ones who are compelled by
circumstances to accept it and
the main objection is that they
cannot receive old age assist
ance without pleading a state of
poverty for themselves and also
their children.
That rule is there because ii
Is basic in the national security
act and must be conformed to by
state law, else the state receives
no matching dollars from the
federal government. Congress
is proposing an amendment TO
the social security law to enlarge
the old age assistance payments
and lower the age eligibility that
would call for many millions
more of state matching dollars.
Perhaps that is why there is no
amendment offered to eliminate
the pauperizing requirement.
Anyone can read and under
stand the basic principles of the
Townsend plan and an UMPIRE
JUDGED person can see the good
resulting from the enactment of
this plan. Millions have been
converted to the idea and more
are joining the ranks each day.
One thing I believe the Town.
send plan will do and that is.
II will redeem the WPA pswned
to the money lenders. II that
is an American principle then
] attended the wrong school.
Our present taxing system is
a menace TO labor and holds down
production. But under the
Townsend plan. the tax is used
in system Of financing the
purchasing power Of all the
people which would create
demand for the products OF in
oustry. Then the inventive in
genuity Of a progressive people
will be a God-send instead Of.
as now considered. a menace to
labor.
Now in some localities bank
ers refuse 10 lend 10 farmers II
the money is to be used 10 pur-
chase labor-saving farm naaehin-
cry. Another term OF new deal
and we will be confirmed to
hoe. shovel and wheelhsrrow in
order 10 make = bare living.
MAUD HANDY.
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Convention Gets Monkey
Wrench from Yelm
Prohibitionists Lose
Petitions in Fire
Farm Delegates Bring Up
Railroad Control Issue
Olympic Clerks Want TO
Meet Their Families
A FTER about week Of pre-
II liminaries and political spar
ring the convention which was
to frame the constitution of the
new state of Washington had
settled down To business. The
report which reached Tacoma
this day so years ago revealed
the woman suffragists and the
prohi b tionists strengthening
their lines and preparing for a
stubborn fight on those issues.
The convention delegates
kere very much disturbed
over the number of snti-suf-
frAge petitions which were
coming In. Typical was one
from Yelm community, head
I'd by J. c. Conner, threaten
Ing 10 organize a movement
that would kill the constitu-
ton II IL included a provision
giving the vote TO women.
Threats of that character had
an effect on some of the dele
gates who were committed TO
the votes-for-women program.
Several of them changed their
votes in the belief that by so
doing they could save the con-
stitution.
J. T. Eshelman, one of the
prohibition leaders. caused Ju-
bilation in one group of dele
gates and CONSERVATION in an
other when he reported that pc
titions bearing the names of sew
eral thousand prohibition advo-
Gates had been burned in the Sc
attic fire. He wanted the pro-
hibition issue sidetracked until
new petitions could be prepared,
a proposal to which the high
license crowd seriously objected.
Although they permitted other
delays and alterations in the
convention program, they were
sticklers for the rules of pro-
cedure when it concerned the
prohibition issue.
In spite of the efforts Of
some of the delegates to keep
1t In the background, the cap
ital location issue continued to
plague the convention. As far
as making local prejudices
was concerned, 1t was just as
hot an issue a. votes-for-
women and prohibition. II
the convention took the re-
sponsibility Of fixing the cap
ital, preiudices of other local
tiles which wanted IL would
be aroused and the whole con-
sttution ieopardized. Wisely
the delegates washed their
hands Of the whole matter and
told the voters to settle ii
themselves.
A split that developed as the
convention went into the second
week centered around the rail.
road commission issue. Dele
gates from farm districts were
insistent that the constitution
provide for the appointment OF
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SCIENCE NEWS

No more faulty golf swings,
if Mr.. Golf Fan uses the club
recently designed by Matthew
Aitkin of Brookline, Mass. He
has patented a practice golf club
with an electric light. The bulb
automatically lights when the
golfer executes his swing cor
rectly.
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the jinx," Sir Taynely gets
special room. Created by the
Jordan Marsh company, he be-
came so popular that he goes
everywhere-in 1887 he attended
the coronation.
SUNLIGHT UNDERGROUND
Because the sun is never over
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head in the United States, 1t
cannot shine deeply down YER
teal mine shaft.
Yet, strange as it seems,
miners at the bottom of the
2,000-foot Fremont mine shaft
see the sun for so seconds twice
a year-in May and August.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-13
KEEPING UP TO DATE

Italian ladies. seeking 10 en-
hance the beauty Of their eyes.
dilated the pupils with extract
from seeds Of the deadly night
shade. and thus gave the plant
the name. Bella Donna, meaning
beautiful lady.
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MR.. FIxIT
He fixe, Things

To receive attention IN this col
nmn letters must give name and
address az writer Only initials
ELL I've published when requested
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THE ltTH GUEST
Impeccably dressed, Sir Tayn-
ely Wrghte sits in on many a
meal at the Boston Parker
House-yet eats nothing, drinks
nothing and says nothing.
For his services in attending
banquets of Is persons. to break
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-13
ToDAY's COMMON ERROR

Do not say, The children Of
the poor show the effects Of their
deprivation: say. priyation."
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-17

if you desire to be filled with re-
hRious fervor.
The Busy Bee Club, Mr.. J. C
Batsel, president, is living up to
its name and desires your patron
age.
The Eureka Club is second to
none. Mrs. Lena Cobb, president.
Our Missionary Society, Mrs.
Hattie Martin, president, has taken
on new life, as all indications point.
WELCOME HALL NEWS
Fisherman's Club
The Fisherman's Club will meet
on Tuesday night. All members
are asked to be present. This is
one of the outstanding clubs of
Welcome Hall Community Center.
Each week they grow. The club
is headed by Mr.. /. R. Hagan.
Mrs. e. H. Warren to Organize
Club
Mrs. Warren, wife of the Boys
Workers, will organize a club for
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-17
Report
Real Support In
St. Peter Rally

Sunday afternoon, March 6, 80
of the So team leaders in st. Peter
A. NJ. E. church of Minneapolis
55th Anniversary Rally made
optimistic reports on the progress
of the rally.
Contributors thus far and
amounts are 81, Theo. Beal: So, E.
L. Boyd, Mae Boyd, Mike Brown,
Georgia Harris, E. R. Thomas,
Sally Thomas, Mrs. ]. l. McHie
and W. H. Mcclellan; $3.50, Mrs.
Lillian Parkinson; 81, Mrs. Maude
Chandler, Rev. S. F. Coleman;
$1.75, Percy Manley, Mrs. Gertrude
Smith; $3.50, Mrs. Bessie Lewis,
Jas. Lewis, Virginia Lewis, Cecil
Newman and De Velma Newman;
81, Esther Stovall, Sam Pantell,
Mother Collins, Robert Wallace, M.
Collins, Fannie Anderson, Alice
Slaughter, Mrs. S. F. Coleman, l..
Cooke, W. H. Hammonds, E. H.
Payne, Mrs. Laura Mcclellan,
Pearl Clark, Ella Worcuff and Mrs.
Leona Clark; 75c, Stanley Nc
Intosh and Ruth Lewis; SOC, Leila
Thomas, C. Moppins, Belle Glover,
Wallace Partee, H. T. Russell; zoe,
NJ. L. Cannon; 25c, John Atkins,
Blanche Judy, John Thomas and
Iva Carter.
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girls ranging from the ages 14-1s
Mrs. Warren plans to begin heI
club with q formal meeting and
dinner, at which time Mrs. Clar-
ence Mitchell win speak.
Stewardess Group
The Stewardess Group win meet
Thursday afternoon at 2 p. M. The
members of this group viii be glad
to have any person to join or at
tend their meetings. Mrs. Hayden,
wife Of the pastor of St. James
A.M.E. Church, will be guest
speaker.
Clipper Club
The Clipper Club viii meet Tues
day afternoon. The boys are now
engaged in making model air
planes. Boys who are interested
in this work are invited to attend.
DramatIes
Mrs. Louise Woodford will meet
the class in Dramatics on Thurs
day at P. M. and again at $3.50
P. NJ.
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WAYMAN A.M.E. CHURCH
NOTES

Services at Phyllis Wheatley
House, 500 Aldrich Ave. N.
Sunday school 9:45 A. M. Thos
Lamgum, Supt.
HOO A. NJ. Sermon. Rev. E. A.
London. Pastor.
The Busy Bee Club will give a
social March 21 at the residence
of Mrs. Corrie Brown.
The church is putting on a $1,000
rally. The captains will be calling
on you shortly. Any help will be
appreciated.
Mrs. Hattie Martin is indisposed
with a cold at this writing, 539
Bryant Ave. N.
The Wayman Sunday School is
having a 'get-together" Saturday,
March Is, from 2 to 5. Everyone
will be notified in time to know
when the party will be.
Don't miss our morning services
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-17
COLORED AGENT

The Acme Hospital and Life In
surance Company, 819 Pioneer
Bldg, St. Paul, has added to their
sales force Mr.. Lee Turpin, 683
Carroll Ave-, phone Dale 3347. Mr..
Turpin has proved to be a very
energetic and capable salesman for
this reliable company.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks 10 the friends and neighbors
who so kindly remembered Us dur
ing the recent death Of our wife
and daughter, Mrs. Mae Porter,
who died Wednesday, March 8.
The beautiful floral offerings and
acts shall long be remembered.
w. A. Porter, husband,
Mrs. Emma ]. Taylor.
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I'm MeTnOriam

In love and reverence we have
kept green in our memory loving
thoughts of Frank and Margaret
Williams, our blessed parents; Ed
ward, Arthur and Joseph Williams,
our brothers, and other family
members who have passed this
way.
Mrs. Cassie Hill, Norman VIII
liams and Mrs. Nellie Thomp-
son.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-03-17

Eva Jessye is a native Of Coffey-
vile, Kansas, and is a graduate of
Western University in Kansas and
Langston University in Oklahoma.
She was a winner of gold medal in
four fields-poetry essay, music
and oratory. Her choir gained its
first big fame in Gershwin's
"Porgy and Bess," then went on to
score hits in many movies. She