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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
THE RAINS CAME
Copyright lss;. 1888. 1919 hy Louis Brcmfielt
Distributed By L.drer syndicate

banyan tree which grew in the
very center Of what had been he
compound was still there but there
vas no trace Of a single house.
not so much as a post or beam
emerging from the muddy water.
And then he l.new what he could
not believe was true. The houses
with every one in them. men and
women. children, babies grand
parents. whole tiny village, had
been swept away completely into
the mad current OF the roaring
river by that first wall of water.
Quickly he thought Of the Smi-
leys and Raschid, and the Jobne-
kars and their fragile, silly pink
house in the low part of the town
near the wells of the Untouchables.
and OF Miss Dirks and Esketh. one
dying of cancer in the tiny bunga-
low and the other Of plague IN the
old Summer Palace. and the Ma
harajah and Maintenance in the
vast new palace with its dozens
of fragile towers and pinnacles and
minarets.
He thought: I've got TO get out
of here. I've got to find out what's
happened to them" and pushing
with all his strength. he found his
way against the water, back to the
house. but as he climbed on to the
veranda it seemed to him. by the
reflected light from the burning
town. that the water was rising
again.
Inside the drawing room he was
certain Of il. On the stairway 1t
as whole step higher than when
he had left.
In the little house perched on
the rim of the dam close by the
safety gates there had never been
more than two guardians. and on
the night of the disaster there had
been only one, for the head jobedar
had gone down into the town 10
spend the night with his wife. an
excursion which did not save his
life for he was drowned with all
his family when the great wave
crushed their house. The guardian
who remained behind was timid
black little man, and at the first
shock of the quake he rushed out
of the little house into the rains
along the wall of the dam. There
he found no safety for almost at
once he heard before him, above
the sound of the rain, the roar of
rushing water through barrier, and
when he turned and ran in the
opposite direction the same sound
came toward him out of the dark
ness. Then the safety gates tot
tered, groaned and fell, and sud-
denly the whole lake, seven miles
long and three miles wide, poured
out with a wild roar into the valley
below.
The electric plant, with thirty
one men who worked there, was
simply overwhelmed and swept
away and afterward nothing of it
was found at all but only great
hole where it had been.
Down the wide flat valley the
wall of water rushed, sweeping
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Good I aste
7 oday
BY EMILY POST
ITO the Bride and Groom

Dear Mrs. Post: At the we'd
ding breakfast we are serving a
very limited amount Of cham
payne. When, during breakfast,
should this be poured and the toast
proposed? And how does the best
man. who I understand is the one
10 propose the toast, collect the
attention of every one The
bridal party is having a separate
sit-down table and all the other
guests are being served at buffet.
Answer: 1t would be practically
impossible TO attract every ones
attention unless there were very
few guests present and all Of them
were TO be collected in the dining
room at the same time. At A
buffet, champagne is proffered to
each person who has put what
ever he is going 10 cat on his
plate. Then any one of two OF
three who are standing together
lifts his glass. attracts the atten-
ton of the others and says, To
the bride and groom" At the
brides and groom's table the
champagne is poured after the
first course has been eaten and the
best man then rises and proposes
the toast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
DOCTORS WARN
FOLKS WHO ARE
c0nSTlPATED

II Is SAID constipation causes many
human Observation-Disclosures. lack Of
saerEy and mental dullness being but .
1ew. But DON'T WORRY
For yean . noted Ohio Doctor. Dr..
=. n. Edwards. successfully treated
SCORES Of patients for constipation with
hi famous DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
-nov sold BY druggiss everywhere.
0live Tablets. being purely vegetable.
oss harmless They not only gently yet
thoroughly cleanse the bowels but ALSO
aaaist liver bile now TO help digest fatty
Soods- Test their goodness TONIGHT
without fail! l5s. sos. co. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
To Get the Best Cough
Remedy, Mix 1t at Home

Of water q few moments. until dis
solved. It's no trouble st al. and .akes
but . moment No cooking needed.
Put the PineI into a pint bottle and
add your syrup. This gives you s full
pint Of very effective and qusrk-ectius
cough remedy. and you get about -four
times as much for your money. II
never spoils. and 10 very pleasant
children love it.
You'll b amazed BY th. way II takes
bold Of coughs. giving you delightful
relief IL loosens the phlsgm. soatnss
the irritsied membranes. and help,
clear the sir passages Money refund
ed 4 net pleased IN every way. .a,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Memory Is Bright
On Tooth Brthddu

STAFFORD, n. HIN celebrat-
ing her Tooth birthday, Mrs. Mary
J. Cummings of Bow Lake, held
open house and told her visitors
that she had voted for every Re-
publican president since woman
suffrage was granted She also
went unscathed through the great
Chicago fire of 1871.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Answers 70 Test Questions

Below are the answers 10 ties
questions printed on the editoria
page:
l. Solid. liquid and gaseous.
?. The Neva.
3. Colorado
4. Arce de Triomphe, in Paris.
5. Criminology.
6. William Henry Harrison.
Z. New York.
s. Mu-ze'-um: not museum.
Q. Chiromacy.
10. Agra.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Does Mother Rise TO Shake
Hands,

Dear Mrs. Post: viii you tell
me about a detail Of greeting and
leaye-taking Should l rise from
my chair to shake hands with a
young man friend of my daueh-
ter p? For example: When they
both come into the room to say
goodnight before leaving for a
movie or dance? If this is a
man whom ] have never met be-
fore, would your answer be any
different?
Answer. You would rise to re-
ceive a friend of your daughter
Just as you would rise to receive
visitor of your own. But IL he
Is some one who is often at YOUR
house and he merely follows your
daughter as she comes into the
room to say goodbye, you would
merely say goodnight to your
daughter and Goodnight, Jim" to
him, without rising or even offer
ing your hand-unless he ap-
proaches your chair In this case
you would of course shake hands
but not necessarily rise.
lntroductions At a Reception
Dear Mrs. Post: (a) Does every
one have to be introduced to every
one else at wedding reception >
ID And is it improper to seat the
guests at a home wedding
From descriptions of weddings
given at home I've only been able
10 gather that the guests stood.
and I'm wondering if this is a
convention or in most cases
necessity.
Answer: (a) 1t would not be
possible to introduce them all un-
less the reception were to include
scarcely more than a dozen per-
sons. tb) In most cases 1t is
necessity. If you have very
large house and can supply enough
small chairs these are usually
rented from caterer they are ar
ranged in rows and people seated
exactly as in church.
Copyright, 1881
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14

Although we have a fairly &C
curate estimate Of how much gold
has been mined in modern times.
we have no way Of knowing how
much Of that gold has gone back
70 Mother Earth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Matter Of Probriety
Discussed By Women
Question of Whether or Not Girl Should Visit
Mans Room Is Subject of Debate
BY CYNTHIA GREY

The question, Shall girl visit in his or
apartment? has occasoned quite bit of discussion this
department with many letters pro and expressing the
opinions of the writer's Here few received recently:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14

Perhaps this is not true and II 1t
Is, Why speak OF II >"
Those who are eager 10 spread
scandal generally can find a lot of
cleaning TO do in their own yards.
Discouraged" for instance. who
recently wrote an ugly opinion OF
other human beings. ] say hurrah
for the Sophomore" who answered
that letter.
Let us look in the mirror and
examine ourselves. II we correct
our own faults VIC won't have time
to waste on the mistakes Of others.
READER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Other Opinion

Dear Miss Grey: ] agree with
Mrs. Post that no girl should visit
a man in his rooms or apartment.
While gossip is an ugly thing, we
must respect IL for IL can do a lot
toward making us unhappy and no
one wants to be that. Too. gossip
can do its ugly share toward maxi
ing others form the wrong opinion
of us and who wants anyone TO
have such an opinion?
l realize that the gossip should
be ignored, but the plain fact re-
mains that only too many people
are willing to believe and listen TO
1t. Why then, give the gossip a
chance OF work his vile tongue in
your direction? IL you do some
thing innocently and some gossip
pounces upon II TO do you harm.
let IT go and ignore him. but never.
II you are a sensitive girl, deliber-
ately invite gossip for you viii find
II coming your way so swift and
fast 1t viii make your head swim.
b. b,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Savory Swiss Steak
fServes 81

Savory Swiss Steak
fServes 81
Two pounds round steak, 2 table,
spoons flour, u teaspoon ginger,
y teaspoon mixed herbs, tea
spoon salt, tablespoon Worccs-
tershire sauce, teaspoon prepared
mustard, / cup boiling water, s to
10 small onions.
Cut steak in serving pieces. Mix
flour. ginger. herbs and salt. Roll
meat in mixture. Brown the pieces
OF meat very quickly, a few at a
time, and place them in a / y quart
heat resistant glass saucepan.
Add the Worcestershire sauce,
mustard and hot water. Arrange
onions over the top. cover the dish
and bake in a moderate oven 1850
degrees F.) about / u hours or un-
I'll meat is tender. Serve in the
same dish.
Spiced Meat Balls
tServes 6. About 16 balls)
When the night is cold, spiced
meat balls keep both the heart and
budget warm.
One pound ground beef steak.
II pound ground pork sausage, n
cup mashed potatoes, l egg beaten.
y cup milk, II cup fine bread
crumbs. ! teaspoon salt, 4 tea
spoon pepper, u teaspoon nutmeg.
J. teaspoon allspice. !. teaspoon
cloves. / teaspoon dry mustard, 8
tablespoons flour, / cup tomato
PURGE.
Mix meat, potato. egg and milk
together. Combine bread crumbs.
salt. pepper and spices, then blend
with the meat mixture. Form into
about IS small balls and roll them
in flour. Brown on all sides in
small amount Of hot fat in a Ia
quart saucepan. Pour tomato PURGE
over the meat balls. Cover and
bake in a moderate oven 1850 de-
grees F for about As minutes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
HANDLES
Draperies suitable TO Furnishing

Draperies Suitable 10 Furnishings
Linen. chintz and homespun
draperies are appropriate in Co.
lonial room. such as early Ameri-
can bedrooms where poster beds,
patchwork quilts, hand hooked
rugs and roomy mahogany high
boys furnish charm. Rooms fur
nished after the Southern Colonial
manner in lovely Chippendale,
Sheraton or Hepplewhite pieces.
need fine damask or satin drapes
and upholsteries.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
RECIPES

A savory Swiss steak is Just
what a skiing appetite yodels for.
And the family budget gives its
blessing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
fkEt-At All Drug Stores
with Purchase Of Single Csc Tube
PHILIPS s ".ss g.
Tooth Paste

Get at least one Of these gorgeous
All-Purpose" dishes night now.
Better get fDol You'll find hundreds
Of everyday uses for them. Take
advantage Of this truly amazing
offer - made just to get you TO try
The Tooth Paste of the Movie
Stars" Go to the nearest drug store
or toilet goods counter - see this
cleaning. crystal-clesr, rose-tinted
dish - and get one by purchasing
25t tube Of Phillips Mn Of Mag
nesia Tooth Paste Or, two dishes
with the SOC tube. Don't wait. Act
fndayf
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14
Lingerie Touch Revives Plain
Eroek

Frock
A touch of crisp lace will revive
your interest in the plain frock
you bought last fall to wear with
your new costume jewelry. Youth
full and flattering is square bib
and matching titred cuffs Of dainty
shirrcd lace on a net foundation.
This comes in chartreuse, pink
and blue as well as white.
One-Woman Skirt Marker
Even the woman who doesn't
make her own clothes often has
occasion TO alter hemline. A new,
inexpensive marker that she can
operate by herself does the job
quickly md accurately. The eadget
consists of a small metal container,
rubber tube and rubber bulb.
Clamp the container (for powdered
chalk on the edge of a door. Pres
sure on the bulb blows the powder
ed chalk in a line around the skirt
as the wearer turns about.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-14

Copyright, 1881
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20
Lower Third Lives
OnDeficient Budget

"The level of living maintained by
the entire lower third of the nation
falls below the minimum requirements
for healthful and decent living, and
few even of the middle third are able
to enjoy what is customarily called
an American standard of living" con-
cludes the National Resources com
mittee in it's recent study of Con
sumner Expenditures in the United
States"
The top half of one percent of the
nation received nearly 10 percent Of
the $50 billion consumer income in
-36-or almost the same sized
slice of the national income as did
10 million families, one-third of the
total families in the United States, at
the other end of the scale.
The lower third of the nation, with
incomes under $780, spent 50.2% of
their income on food whereas the
upper half of one percent, with in
comes of $4,000 and over, spent only
6.2a6 of their income on food. Though
spending over half of their income on
food, the lower third account for only
1910 of the nations food bill and
spend only $3.50 per capita weekly
Tor food. Moreover, this figure in
dudes the estimated money value of
produced food, amounting to |
1870 of food expenses for families |
With incomes below $500. For farm |
antilles, the value of home-produced |
God represents 50e6 or more of total
God Expense"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20
Page Three

Curtis Publishing Co., publishers of
The Saturday Evening Post, has been
filed In supreme court by DR.. Jerome
Davis, former president of the Amer
lean Federation of Teachers (AFL).
Stolberg had referred to Davis as a
communist
NEW YORK.-Christmas shoppers
should beware of buying German
Christmas tree ornaments and toys at
Sears, Roebuck & Co., F. w. Wool
worth Co., S. S. Kresge Co. and other
stores, the Intl Union of Playthings
& Novelty Workers (CIO) has warned.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the 1907
wage increases won by technical
workers recently under the Init. Alli-
ance OF Theatrical Stage Employees
(AFL), the Screen Actor Guild (AFL)
is demanding 1870 increase for $500
movie extras.
PITTSBURGH.-PIan for a Joint
drive by the Clio and the United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) to organize the
aircraft industry were approved here
at a meeting of the JAW executive
board
CHICAGO.-The first year OF the
American Newspaper Guild (CIO)
strike against William Randolph
Heartss Herald-American ended De-
cember 5.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20
us. C. ofC. Inspires
Government Hatred
Ickes Declares

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Angry ex-
ception to statements from the United
States Chamber of Commerce was
taken here by Secretary of Interior
Harold l.. Ickes in a letter to the
chamber made public by him.
Unless there are facts not yet dis
closed to me | shall be forced to the
conclusion that this episode only con-
firms my previous estimate as to the
place of the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce in ss-government rela-
tions.
THAT estimate is that under a mask
of seeking cooperation the profess
sional association-office holders who
dominate the policies of the chamber
are Gripping every practical effort at
cooperation by trying to keep mem
bers interested in the chamber by
keeping them fighting mad at the
government, Ickes wrote.
One of the incidents arousing the
ire OF the expressive cabinet member
was press release from the chamber
stating, "A factual report showing
that the electric utility industry is
fully prepared to meet any emergency
now in sight, without further intru-
sion by the government into the pow
er business, was issued today by the
board of directors of the chamber of
commerce of the United States"
Ickes said he had Immediately re-
quested a copy of the report. 1.-THE
reply to our request for copy of
the report was that no copies were
yet available for distribution" Ickes
wrote, I'VE then requested, as the
government agency concerned, that
we be permitted to examine a copy
Of the report in your office. The re-
ply was that no copies would be avail
able until later in the week.
II hope that the utility industry
will be better prepared to meet a
power emergency than you were to
meet this report emergency. Evident
y, as seems to be the practice of
he chamber in most matters, you
lave produced your conclusions first
md hope to fill in your facts after
Yards"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20
MRS. ROOSEVELT
CRACKS DIES
Committee

WASHINGTON. - (FP) = Another
| slap at the Dies committee-althoug
an indirect one-came from the White
House here as Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
welt observed, in her syndicated col
umn, the 14Sth anniversary of the
Bill Of Rights on December Is.
Though the column did not mention
the Dies committee by name there
was little doubt in the minds of OBJ
servers here that it was the commit
tee she had in mind. Recently she
spent two days listening to witnesses
before the committee.
IF you are not accused of being
a communist these days you may be
communist front and now you may be
a communist transmission belt and
these names apply both to individuals
and organizations" Mrs. Roosevelt
wrote.
81 don't question that all three
kinds of people exist but | begin to
wonder whether some perfectly inno-
cent people may not be suffering be-
cause of fears which are being
aroused. Shortly timid people will
not dare to stand for the things in
which they believe because some may
imagine that they are any one of these
three dreadful things or that they are
countenancing them in somebody else.
1t is really going to take quite a
person with great in
difference to what may be said about
him to join an organization, even
though the detectives as they are pre-
scented seem in accordance with his
beliefs -.
Lets fight realities with all we
have. Let's fight for our democracy
and our Bill of Rights and wherever
we find things in which we do not
believe let's be free to express our
selves but let us pray not to be domi- |
mated by fears or disturbed by night |
Mares"
Publication of Mrs. Roosevelt's col |
INN in the Scripps-Howard and other |
papers followed by one day the re-
teration by President Roosevelt of |
Rep. Jerry Voorhis' ID, Calif.) con-
of the committee of which
lie is a member.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
Federated Press)

|
WASHINGTON. = Increased actor
on criminal violations of the wage
hour law in Maryland was asked o.
succeeding grand juries by a retiring
federal grand jury in an unusual re
port made public here by the wage
hour division.
WASHINGTON. An attempt by
Gov. John w. Bricker (R.) of Ohio
to throw the blame for the Ohio relief
crisis upon the WPA was slapped
down by WPA Commissioner f. c.
Harrington and President Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON. - Construction of
farm homes, to rent for around S425
a month, will be started next spring
the U. S. Housing Authority an
nounced
.WASHINGTON-The wage-hour law
is being used as an excuse to hike
prices by some industrialists who are
not paying the required wages, AS
sistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold told the Temporary National
Economic committee.
WASHINGTON. - The Department
of Justice believes antitrust laws are
applicable to labor unions, Attorney
General Frank Murphy told AFL Pres
ident William Green.
WASHINGTON Redoubled effort
in the drive to organize building
trades workers was asked of CLIO re-
gional directors and industrial union
councils by clio President John L.
Lewis.
SAN FRANCISCO-Bef a packed
hearing room in the post office build
ing, Gov. gilbert L. Olson Cd testi-
fled on the opening day of the La
Toilette committee Investigation of
the Associated Farmers and other |
anti-labor groups. Olson sternly re-
buked district attorneys and sheriffs |
who had been involved in the recent /
cotton strike.
TORONTO.-Their iron hand of Can
ada's defense regulations came down
upon Sec. Charles H. Willard of the
Canadian CLIO, who was arrested and
held without bail on a charge of max
ing statements intended or likely to
prejudice recruiting, training, disci-
pine or administration of His Maj
esty's forces" At the same time Clio
headquarters here were ransacked, as
well as those of the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee and the Toron-
to Newspaper Guild (both CIO),
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WPA
workers who took part last July in
he protest against reduction of the
wage standard were found
guilty of conspiracy on December
by federal jury which had weighed
he case As hours.
BUTTE.-An injunction to force the
Anaconda Copper Co. to comply with
| state law providing for an S-hour
day has been sought J
n a suit filed by the init. Union of '
Nine, Mill G. Smelter Workers (CIO).
CLEVELAND. = Sixteen thousand :
and childless Clevelanders ;
rimly faced the prospect of subsist- l
ng on apples and white flour supplied
" the Federal Surplus Commodities
,orp. until the first of the year as
he Ohio relief crisis deepened and !
low John w. Bricker (R.) continued y
is refusal to call special legislative :,
ession.
NEW YORK,-A $4,000 libel suit a
gainst Benjamin Stolberg and the "