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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-26
PRESBYTERIAN

Calvary-3516 So. D st. Rev.
w. F. Folsom, pastor. Services
IL a. m. and 7:30 a. m. Sunday
school, 9:45 a. m.
Ffrst-Tacoma ave. and Division
ave Rev. J. Renwick McC ullough,
pastor. Services IL a. m. and 7:45
p. m. Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Immanuel-No. 9th and ] SITS,
Rev. Harold B. Long, pastor. Serv-
ices IL a. m. Rev. Holland Burr,
preaching.
Manitou Park-Services IL a. m.
Sunday school, $3.50 a. m. Navy
men, guest speakers. Fellowship
dinner at 1890 p. m. In park.
Oakland-So. Saith and Proctor
SITS. Rev. Clarence Weyer, pastor,
Services IL a. m. and s p. m. Sun
day. school 9:45 a. m.
Sprague Memorial church-57th
and So. Warner. Rev. Arthur B.
Van zante. pastor. Services ILLS
a. m. Sunday school 10 a. m.
WESTMINSTER Bible Church
So. G SITS between 5th and 6 SITS.
Rev. Adam B. Hunter. pastor.
Services IL a. m. and 8 a. m. Sum-
day school, 9:45.
Westminster-So. 50th and L
SITS. Rev. w. o. Benthin, pastor.
Services. IL a. m. Sunday school,
9:45 a. m.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-26
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN

First = 9Th ave. and Grant SITS.
Rev. J. George Cunningham, pas
tor. Services IL a. m Sunday
school 9:45 a. m.
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N~DEPENDANr

Independent Bible Church-Divi-
sion ave and G Sta Rev. Roy
Talmadge Brumbaugh, pastor.
Services IL a. m. and 8 p. m. SUM-
day school, e:45 a. m Prayer at
Il p. M; meeting Of young group.
Tbs p. N.
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SALVATION ARMY

Corps No. 2-1114 So. 18th st.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Pierson, captains.
Services IL a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Sunday school GAS a. m.
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
THE ABILITY TO
ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY

One of Americas foremost business
leaders recently declared that in his
opinion the greatest asset young per-
son can have in beginning the climb to
success is the ability to accept respon-
sibilty.
Sometimes responsibility comes to him
who seeks it; sometimes it is forced upon
a comparatively passive individual; but
it never rests for long upon the person
who is afraid of it.
Success, whether it is measured in
wealth or position or happiness, carries
with it responsibility. There can be no
true success without responsibility.
All of us have experienced at one time
or another the evaporation that comes
from dealing with some person in pub
lie or private enterprise who is afraid
TO answer a question or make decision
So it should not be hard to understand
how such fear can stand in the way of
success.
The inability to accept responsibility
is due largely to fear. 1t is the fear of
consequences the fear of being wrong.
Yet it has been wisely said that the per-
son who never makes mistakes never
does anything. We have almost univer-
sal admiration for the man who, being
wrong, admits his mistake and acts TO
remedy it. By the same token, we have
almost universal distrust of the man
who refuses To attempt anything for
fear he will be wrong. And why not?
There are employers who keep their
help in a constant furry of fear be-
cause they insist on making every deci-
sion that has to be made, even though it
concerns only the question of whether
to address letters in blue or black ink.
They are in the minority, however. The
average employer hires others because
there is too much work for one man to
do in his business. He wants people
who will perform their jobs without run
ming to him every two minutes with some
new question involving thing they
themselves should decide And he is
usually highly elated to find one among
his employees who is ready, willing and
capable of making decisions, who will
take the blame if things go wrong, and
who will carry on to successful con-
clusion if they are right.
The bigger his business, the more the
employer needs someone who can accept
responsibility
Young people who have learned that
lesson stand far better chance of forg-
ing to the top than those who say, 81
don't know-you'll have to see the boss
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
LEARN TO SWIM AND
LEARN TO LIVE

Contra Costa Gazette
Illuminating and encouraging is the
report that in the last three years 1000
children and adults in Contra Costa
county have participated in learn to-
swim campaigns conducted by the Red
Cross and the WPA recreation agency
In addition to providing for hundreds
of persons the instruction that will per-
nit enjoyment of one of the finest of
sports, these agencies have made ma
terial contribution to safety and the pre-
servation of life
The program is one that has made a
welcome advance in the last few years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Willis 1horntons Editorial On
Where Justice Might Beget Injustice

On Congress, and on the legiS-
lature of every state which leVieS
an income tax, now rests a grave
duty.
Each should pass laws which will
guarantee that injustice shall not
proceed from the new decision of
the U. S. Supreme Court permit
ting states TO tax incomes of fed
eral employees, and the federal gov
eminent to tax salaries of state
employees.
For, Immediately the court re-
versed its longtime course sup
porting mutual immunity from
such taxes, every person affected
became theoretically liable for past
taxes. That is, a federal employe
who paid no state income that he
did not have to, now becomes IL
able for that same 1894 tax because
the court now holds that he owed
it.
1t is easy to see how grave injus-
tices might proceed from strict
enforcement of any such procedure.
To go back as far in some cases
as IL years, and say that citizen
must pay now, today, taxes for all
those years when highest authority
ruled he did not owe them, would
be thoroughly unjust.
The Constitution provides that
no ex post facto law may be passed
That means a law may not be
passed which today penalties you
for something you did yesterday
but which was then quite legal
Yet it would seem that a court
decision can have the same effect
making you liable today for some
thing you did yesterday, even tho
the same court yesterday said you
were not liable.
The remedy to prevent any such
injustice seems to be for Congress
promptly to pass law exempting
state employees from back taxation
and for such states as have income
taxes to pass similar laws specific
ally exempting federal employees
from similar back taxes.
General approval will probably
meet the courts change of view.
Good sense surely indicates that
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
A VICTORY
OVER CRIME
[ Riverside Press }

Crime costs America fifteen billion
dollars every year.
Turn that over in your mind a few
times, and then decide that no force in
the world is capable of whipping its
economic and social evils save that of
public sentiment When public senti-
ment is aroused, records show it is fully
equal to the task
For instance: IN the past six years
Chicago has achieved fifty per cent
reduction in crime, a record unequalled
in American cities. Public sentiment is
to be credited with this wonderful crime
reduction.
And this reduction is attributed large
ly to a vigorous public demand for
changes in criminal court procedure and
a rigorous enforcement of the laws by
the police department.
1t is certainly difficult to realize that
that city once darkened by gang war
fare and enslaved by racketeers, as no
other city in the nation, has now become
a city wherein it is safe to live
All of which indicates that widespread
corruption is neither inevitable or insol-
uble. Public sentiment rightly applied
can do the trick Chalk up a victory
for public sentiment.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

WASHINGTON.-The next bitter
and sensational scrap in Washing
ton will be the fight over the pend
ing war profit staX measure. The
bill is about as drastic measure
as any taxation bill ever offered in
Congress.
It would confiscate corporation
profits in excess of 6 per cent, and
would tax individual incomes so
heavily that very rich. men would
wind up with their taxes exceed
ing their earnings.
Naturally. bill like that is 60
ing to stir up tremendous opposi-
ton. But the thing TO remember
about it is that the proposal is
direct and legitimate descendant of
the famous Senate munitions inves-
tieation of few years ago.
The bill was not hastily drawn,
as has been charged 1t was draft
ed by the munitions investigators
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

On one occasion he went lis hours
without sleep, nearly five days.
I asked him for six rules which
would help readers of this column
to improve their sleep. To my as
tonishment he replied that there
were no six rules which will help
everyone! He also said that au-
tnorities did not even agree on what
constitutes good sleep. Here are
his own words:
AT present there is no accept
able objective criterion as to what
constitutes good sleep, although
there are many and varied views
and opinions on the subject Then,
q bit further along he gives his
own opinion Of how to obtain salts
factory sleep. It'll astonish youl
Here it is:
My own view is that most peo-
pie will benefit from establishing
and maintaining regular habits OF
existence. That involves keeping
regular hours for your activities
work, play. meals, AMI sleep. Sleep
is a highly individual matter and
rituals and procedures that are
found helpful by some, NAV actu-
ally interfere with the sleep of
others"
In other words, what may help
one person sleep may keep another
person awake. So don't believe all
the gush you read about sure ways
to go to sleep. They may even
harm you.
Another astonishing thing he
found out is that sleep is not pro-
duced by fatigue substances, but is
a habit acquired to prevent serious
fatigue. You don't go to sleep be-
cause you are fatigued, but because
You may become seriously fatigued.
I have boiled down siX of Dr.
Kleitman'S statements so that YOU
can cut them out if you wish to-
l. Daytime maps do not impair
your night sleep
2. Most people actually sleep
mere than is necessary.
3. DO not worry about OCCASION
al loss Of sleep. II will not seriously
harm you.
A. It is easier to fail asleep in
the spring and in the autumn than
it is in the winter
5. You are not at your best when
YOU wake up in the morning, even
after refreshing sleep You will
be in your best from when your
body temperature is highest This
for the average person will be dur
ing the middle Of his waking hours
OF the early afternoon.
6. You sleep most soundly the
first two hours you are asleep.
Now here in one column YOU
have six OF the most important
things discovered after sixteen
years of experiments. The principal
and most helpful thing to be deriv-
ed from this is that your worry
about insomnia is an important
factor in keeping you awake. For
get 1t ana go TO sleep.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
HITLER CANNOT
MAKE IT STICK

Whatever else Adolf Hitler does, he
cannot shoulder off onto any other ma
tion the blame for what happens in
Europe. He has already attempted to do
that picturing England as an aggressive
nation fomenting war in Central Europe.
The facts will not bear out his conten-
ton.
England does not propose to send
troops, nor to encourage any other ma
tion to send troops, into German terri
tory, or even into territory which Ger
many recently captured in direct viola
tion of the Munich pact
England proposes merely to guarantee
that other nations of Central Europe
shall be defended against Nazi aggres-
sion.
If Hitler tries to take over Poland,
for example, England will fight with
Poland. On the other hand, if Poland
attacked Germany, England would not
fight. England's role is purely defensive.
If there is to be war, Germany must
be the aggfessor
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

three years ago, and they took SIX
months, with Treasury Department
assistance, to do the job.
On the committee then were SEN
ators Bone, Clark of Missouri,
George, Nye, Pope, Vandenberg and
Barbour. All except Pope are still
in the Senate, and all are in favor
OF the bill.
Objections to the bill so far are
chiefly two. First, the individual
income tax rates it provides for ap-
plication in time of war are SO steep
that, in states which levy income
taxes of their own, a rich man
would be taxed more than the total
of his income.
In New York, for instance, man
with an income of 100000 a year
would be liable Tor state and fed
erai income taxes totaling $526000.
A million dollar income would be
liable To taxes totaling $l06l,0O0.
The other objection is that these
crushing taxes, plus the conflsca-
tory corporation taxes, would make
ii impossible to fight any war, un-
der any circumstances whatever,
since they would simply stop the
processes of industry and commerce.
But the bills sponsors are ready
with answers.
First of all, they say, it win be
simple to work out in the Senate
Finance Committee an adjustment
which will keep state and federal
rates together from taking more
than mans total income.
Second. they remark that if the
bill operates SO as TO keep the
country from getting into any wars,
that is just swell That's what it
is meant to 40.
Beyond that, though. there is the
argument that the country's ma
chinery not only could function i'll
wartime under this taxation law,
but that through the law the eoun-
try would pay its war costs as it
went along. One estimate is that,
If this measure had been in eX-
istence in 1917, America would have
come out of the World war without
any added debt
Underlying all of these arguments
there is The vast wealth of material
about wartime profits. That mater
ial, collected during the munitions
investigation, shocked the country
when the investigation was on; the
bills sponsors believe it will do SO
again and will rally public support
to pass the bill.
Senate Nye flips open the pub
lished record of the munitionss.iy s
vestigation and points to sectia
recounting the governments trouN
bles during the last war. The cop
per industry refused TO produce at
the price proposed by the govern
ment.
The steel industry refused to fill
wartime orders until prices had
been stabilized at levels satisfac-
tory To the industry. The Dupont
company refused to build great
powder plant which it alone was
qualified to build until it was as
sured Of what it considered suffi-
cient profit
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
You re Telling Me-

It's a good thing we aren't Elm
stein. The temptation would be too
great TO utter piece of arrant non
sense and then step back while the
world gasped its admiration.
Radio has become popular with
African natives They've discov-
cred, no doubt. that commercial an
nollncements are swell for soaring
away marauding lions.
It's easy to tell that next year
will see another national political
campaign. Politicians have already
begun to study the remarks of
Thomas Jefferson.
Nom would be more enthusiastic
about Dads golf game if he'd prac-
tice his swings with a fly swatter
The Spanish civil war cost $40
000000000 and 100000 lives. The
latter half of the bill has already
been paid.
Hitler, says an admirer, has the
soul of poet. Then, for heavens
sake, why doesn't he spend his
springs writing poems?
One New York mystery that will
never be solved is why everyone
during rush hours wants to get into
the same subway car at the same
time.
In the United States alone there
are said to be over 100000 aStrolog-
ers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

government employees, no less than
the rest of us, ought to bear their
share of maintaining the govern
ment. And the old objection that
allowing states to tax employees of
federal government agencies, and
the reverse, is striking at those
governments themselves will ap-
peal to few.
The decision is right and long
needed But it ought not to be
allowed TO become an instrument
of oppression in its first applica-
ton.
To penalize a man today for an
act which, when he did it yester-
day, was perfectly right and legal,
is atrocious, and both federal and
state governments owe a duty to
head off any such unfortunate
results of an otherwise sane deci-
sion.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
NEWSPAPERS SHOW
STEADY ADvANC CEMENT
[ lPortefVille RecOrder)

Like all other institutions, the news
papers are under critical fire these days.
1t is time of criticism, and of eXamina-
tion of things as they are, to see if they
can't be made better
Newspapers, being edited by human
beings aren't perfect But they have
been making a conscious effort, especial
ly during the past 10 years, to improve
themselves. And they have made great
progress.
A recent study of them by the North
western National Life Insurance com
pany shows these things:
They give their readers from 250 TO
500 per cent more information than they
did so years ago.
They print far more explanatory and
background material to help readers TO
understand what news means.
They print wealth of pictures for
merly not available
Editorial opinion has largely been
eliminated from news columns.
Much more material on science health
and beauty, and subjects interesting to
women is presented.
More able by-line comment is printed
by writer's who may differ with the poll
cies of the paper thus giving readers
varying points Of view ON events
Every institution must improve or die
And anyone can see, by going TO the Ii
brary and looking at newspapers of so
years ago, how greatly newspapers have
improved, and are still improving, 10
meet the needs of the times.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
INTERESTING
PEOPLE:
BOB GROVE HAS RIDDEN
FARTHER UNDERNEATH
HIS BOAT THAN IN IT

1t was his automobile that first
drew attention. The dusty coupe
was parked on Sixth street in Ell
Centre. Inside sat Robert w
Grove, whose card said he was as
sistant Boy Scout executive with
Headquarters at the courthouse.
On top of the coupe was a boat,
resting firmly in a wooden frame.
Pardon the curiosity, but what
are you selling?' he was asked.
Bob's grin showed a full set of
teeth. For the next Is minutes he
explained the intricacies of his
craft.
shes 13 feet long, sails about
as fast as a Snipe, weighs between
1875 and $50 pounds and cost $l8
to build" he declared. She's gone
thousands of miles, but most of
that distance has been over dry
land!'
Bob, whose work keeps him on
the move around the Imperial
Yuma district, promoting Boy
Scout activities. decided some time
tbBO W bfihC Ilio ANlll Will
him ON trips, so he devised the
novel means of boat toting.
She has sailed in the ocean,
on Saltan Sea, on the Colorado
river and just about everywhere
I've been, in all kinds of weather
This is the boat that Bill Raine
of Westmorland used TO rescue the
others recently when their boat
capsized on Salton Sea-" he ex-
planned.
Bob made the craft himself while
attending UCLA about three years
ago. He used the machine shop
there and designed the hull him
self, as well as the sailing rig.
The boat has tiny ribs covered
with canvas. 1t is decked over ex-
cept for a cockpit about four feet
long
My wife and I are going TO
take a vacation in her this sum-
mer," he declared. Wen probably
go to Meade Lake behind Boulder
dam and sail there
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

but study sleep.
Cne of these
men, Dr. Nath-
aniel iKleitman.
of the Univer-
sity OF Chicago,
is, probably, the
greatest author
ity in the world
on sleep. He has
studied sleep
just sleep, and
nothing else
for sixteen years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Hints OH Etiquette

In fashionable and exclusive cir
cles, the tuxedo never is worn to
strictly formal affairs. The swallow
tail coat and opera or high silk
hat constitute the only correct at
tire for men.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Grab BaQ-
0ne-Minnte Test

one-Mmute Test
|. What country first began work
ON the Panama Canal?
2 Who was Vice President when
Abraham Lincoln was President?
3. What is a truffle?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Dale


Do you remember reading last
summer about two men who went
into Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky,
to study sleep? They lived down
there for 80 days and did nothing
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Words of Wisdom

Courage consists not in blindly
overlooking danger. but in seeing
and conquering it.-Richter.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

All gases are colorless except
when put into a tube and subjected
to electricity. Then they glow with
lights of their own.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
thoughts for the Day

Then PLATE said unto them Why. what evil hath
he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly,
Cruelty hirn.-Mark 1914
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

TeleVision broadcast of operations
is a possibility. What a cheerful
thing to tune in on from a sickbed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Today's Horoscope

Today's Horoscope
A happy year is forecast Tor to-
days birthday children. There will
be many social pleasures, courtship
and marriage A baby born ON
this date will be very popular with
the opposite sex.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Barbs-

Arrangements have been COM
pleted for a Ramanian edition of
How TO Win Friends and Influ
ence People. Gee, if Rumania had
only had that book a few weeks
agoi
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

Official population of Soviet Rus
sia is 170,126,000 No, Mr., Hitler.
you can't work your minority trick
there.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
Photographs

Natives of New Guinea called
birds Of paradise birds of the sun"
because they join in loud choruses
at sunrise
When a young man in Finland
in olden times fell in love and went
ccurting he Woye a rug for his
bfide-to-be.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05
One Minute Test Answers

One Minute Test Answers
|. France, in 1881.
2. Hannibal Hamlin.
g. Any of the various edible
fungi that are found beneath the
Ground
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

Joan Crawford and Franchot
Tone celebrated with divorce
dinner. Hollywood's formula for
being companionable, though mar
ried, is, apparently, not to be mar
Ted
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-05

Congress has ShelVed the WPA
investigation for a time. Proving
that there is one thing slower than
a WPA worker-Congress.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-03
Injections e| o
Veins

fore, nature has provided valves so
as to hold a column of blood until
it is crowded upward. When these
valves break down, the veins are
swollen at that point and become
torturous.
In treatment, formerly the only
measures available were to wear
elastic stockings, or removal by op-
Grafton. In addition to those, there
has now been developed the method
of injection, which is a great boon
to many patients. r.,
/. !, .''The principle Of !. the infection
method" writes DR.. Otto Meyer, Of
New. York, in the magazine. Health
and Wealth, "is to. inject a nom
poisonous solution into the varicose
veins. This causes them to shrink
(be Deliberately. The inner wall Of
the vein swellss all around, meets in
the middle of the opening and grows
completely together
These treatments can be given in
the doctors office and it has not
been found necessary to rest for
any length of time after the treat
ment. The patient can leave the
dcctor's office and go about, the or
binary duties right away. The doc
tors of my acquaintance who spe-
cialize in this Injection treatment
are busiest during the lunch hour.
The patient can go back to work and
spend the entire afternoon there.