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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19

Mrs. Carlyle Horn is chairman OF
the breakfast which is to have
Golden Jubilee theme. She is being
assisted by Miss Louise Frohmader.
Miss Florence Dunseath and Miss
Alice Bender. Flowers for the
table will be in the gold motif with
baskets of mixed spring blooms
about the room.
Planned for the program are a
skit by Misses Phyllis Winkler.
Alice Bender. Janet Pearson, Hazel
Evans and Lucille Zenk. and an
Hawaiian dance by Miss Rodella
Hokum who will in her dance
distribute corsages of violets and
yellow roses. Musical numbers
have been planned also by the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19

Members of the club who are
making their trips and the names
OF their boats are as follows:
Messrs. and Mesdames l. J. Leon
ard. Gadget: Herbert Syford, Asari:
Bert Bradley, Betty b; Gershom
Rowland. Bounty; Victor England,
Dagmar; +. T. Stevens, Romance:
Jack Shapiro, Mary Ann; Henry
Marks. Cappy Kicks; Ed Cooney,
Elphreen; Paul Riggs. Picaroon:
Bud Martin, Atlas; Al Faithful.
Rosal; Jack Lowman, Tillicum.
Frank Rybin, Attica; Ted Worth
ington, Blanch d; Ruben Carlson.
AFRO; II. d. Thompson. Suitsus:
Glen Sherman. Majo II; Norton
Clapp, Carmelita: Roy Mayberry,
Ruby; Charles Ogden. Mijoy: Ben
Lewis, Skipper Ireson: Tom Mairs,
Dorothy III; w. r. Emery, Helen
b: Lorenzo Mansfield. Happy
Hour: William Gray, Riptide; Rob-
ert Martinolich: c. A. Kintz,
Clara V; F. II. Langelsnd. Myr-
Lil-Dor; w. H. Van Horn. Red
Wing: w. H. Ostruske. Willow
Peg: Judge L. f. Risedorph, STAN
ley; DR.. and Mrs. Carl A. Ander-
son. vesle Viking: Capt. and Mrs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
Mason Methodist Groups
To Worship at HEIGHTS

In the absence from the city
of the pastor. DR.. Roy Leslie
Smith, in attendance at confer
ence at Bellingham, there will be
no worship service Sunday at Ma
son Methodist church, but in its
place an all-day worship service
at the lodge at Epworth Heights.
Transportation for early groups
will leave the church at A. m.
Anyone in need of transportation
or able to furnish such is asked to
advise C. E. Davis, PR 322S-R,
president of the mems class, who
with the Fireside, and Epworth
league groups are in charge of the
days services. Later transporta-
ton may be planned.
Church school at the lodge will
be under the direction of DR..
w. ]. Carr, 10 o'clock, with men,
bers of the women's classes, Mems
Bible class and young people of
the Fireside and Epworth league
in attendance. Groups remaining
at home will meet as usual, per
arrangement of last Sunday. The
lower departments of the school
will meet in the usual way. For
the morning worship at the
Heights at II, DR.. George F.
Hopkins will preach, announcing
his own subject.
At 100 there will be pot
luck dinner and at o'clock. there
will be service with the young
people in charge.
The speaker of the afternoon
will be c. J. Shaw, general sec
rotary of the Y. NJ. C. A, who
has but recently returned from
Montreal, Canada, where he at
tended the international confer
ence of Y. M. C. As. His subject
will be Youth, Democracy and
Religion"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
Advertising Group Plans
Annual Breakfast Sunday
Affair at Winthrop TO Be sendOf for Delegates TO Con-
venton Of P. A. c. A. in Oakland June 1879;
Mrs. Carlyle Horn Is Chairman

Annually the highght of social activities for the Tacoma
Girls Advertising club is the yearly spring breakfast which
will this year be held in the Green Room of Hotel Winthrop
Sunday morning at $50 o'clock The affair will also be
nature of farewell endof for the representatives of the
club who will attend the annual convention of the Pacific
Advertising Clubs Association in Oakland June 1929.
The delegates will be Mrs Rose Harrison president of the
Tacoma group; Mrs Marjorie Hatfield and Misses Anita
James, Alice Bender Phyllis Winker Louise Frohmader and
Mary Mcdonald.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
To Conduct Services

Rev. Julius Lee, well known
evangelist from Norway, will con-
duct services beginning June IS
and closing June 30 at Elm Evan
gelical Free church, 18th and So.
l. SITS, c. NJ. Myrdahl, pastor. Ser
vices will be in English Sunday at
IL a. m. and 7:30 p. m, with Scan
dinavian mass meeting at p. m,
and services week nights at 730
ID.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
Miss luckenbihI Leaves
For California and East

Miss Ethel Luckenbihl will leave
Sunday for San Francisco where
she will attend the National Retail
Credit conference. From San
Francisco she will 20 on to New
Orleans. then up the east coast
to visit friends and relatives
IN Boston. Washington. ID. c.. and
then on to New York. She will
Be away until the middle Of July.
Lend-a-HAnd circle, The Kings
Daughters and Sons, will meet at
Lincoln park Wednesday for a pic
ME lunch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
T abIes Reserved for Club
Dancing Party Saturday
Models Announced for ntermission Gay Nneties Style
Show al Club Of Hearts Affair in the Root
Garden Of Hotel Winthrop

The finest wardrobe of the faires lady of the Cay
Ninetes will be modelled the nermsson of the Club of
Hearts dance Saturday evening in the Winthrop Roof
Garden The affair will be of the gayest in weeks
ceedng the celebration of the state jubilee in July and many
large tables have been planned for the affair
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
Engagement Of Miss Grubiss
Announced at Party

At q party honoring the BIRTH
day Of her sister, Miss Angelina
Crubisa Thursday evening, Miss
Ann Grubisa announced her en-
gagement to Mr.. Walter Karnopp.
The bride-to-be Ia the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. N. Grubisa while
her fiance is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Karnopp of Sumner.
Games were played during the
early evening and later 4 buffet
supper was served, ralisman roses
and white carnations centering the
supper table. Favors at games
were awarded to Miss Mary
etepanich, Misses Catherine and
Ann Gavigan and Miss Mary
Docherty.
Guests were the Misses Evelyn
panian. Ann and Catherine Gavi-
gan. Edith Crabar. Katherine and
Angelina Grubisa and Mary
etepanich.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
O.E.S. Dinner
To Be Festive
Mrs. Nichols Committee Is
Arranging Large Con-
!. venfion Dinner

Among the important plans
for guest entertainment dur
ing the grand chapter session
of the Order of Eastern Star,
June 1924, are the dinner and
breakfast planned for visitors
by local members. The dinner
honoring the presiding Off
GERS will be one of the most
outstanding events of the
meeting and is being arranged
by Mrs. William B. Nicholl,
matron of Tacoma chapter.
Honor guest at the affair will
be the associate matron, Mrs. Jes-
sie Beltore Hedges. and Mr..
Hedges, and Mrs. Leach. who win
gather with approximately 200
matrons and patrons and their
escorts In the Roof Garden Of the
Winthrop Friday evening. June %,
Ut $50 O'Clock.
Acting as 4 reception commit
tee to the honored guests will be
the officers Of the Pierce County
Matrons' club OF which Mrs. Irene
Dicky Of Narada chapter is presi-
dent, vice presidents. Mrs. Helen
Hodges. Ivy chapter. and Mrs.
Jane Kinnear of Naomi chapter,
Mrs. Eloise Somervell. Lewis chap
ter secretary. and Mrs. Sally Lam
ham. Acacia chapter treasurer.
Those who will decorate the
room and tables with red roses in
honor of the grand matron. Mrs.
Rose L. Mund. are Mrs. Mary Brad
bury, Mrs. Mary Thompson and
Nra- Jane Kinnear. Program fea-
lures will be arranged by Mrs. Ru-
dolph Bowman and Mrs. Nicholl
and the ticket committee includes
Mrs. Grace Kallendar, Mrs. Thorn
~ Vimont and Mrs. Leslie Cou-
brough.
Mrs. Nicholl Is asking that res
ervations for the dinner be made
BY noon on Friday. June 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19
Annual Commodore's Cruise
Attracts Many Yachtsmen
Members Of Tacoma Yacht Club Make Overnight Trip
TO Anderson Island; Barbecue and Races
on Calendar for Weekend

Two boats left the Tacoma Yacht club Saturday on
the twoday Commodore cruise annual affair." Anderson
island.
large beach fire and barbecue scheduled for Saturday
night while Sundays program will include for the j.
Leonard trophy for power boats with sail boat as
observers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-19

Davis from the Queen City Yacht
club in Seattle, Dutch Maid;
Messrs. Martin Stockwell. Mar
june; Rad Pratsch, White Cloud;
Paul Billings, Fellowship; Dick
Reynolds, Sail Ho; Floyd Sum-
mers, and w. w. Gaureau. Mar
leo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Governor, Spare Those Lanes

It was evident at the legislative hear ing this week at which elimination of the motor vehicle testing lanes was suggested that good deal of public sentiment is still in favor of their retention A month or so ago you might not have believed this, for everyone was being assured that the popularity of the lanes was confined to very small minority of the driving public of Connecticut. The Hartfo-l hearing showed quite the opposite to be true. A show of hands at the Capitol proved that of those present more than a bare majority wanted the tests con- tinued.
 We feel pretty sure that there would have been no real sincere effort made to eliminate the testing lanes this year had not Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin. made such elimination campaign issue. Down in Fairfield County there seems to be more opposition to the tests than else where in the state. It was in thi. county that motorist started a petition to ouSt the lanes which he kept on his front doorstep so that every passing motorist might affix his or her signature. It may be that the State Motor Vehicle Depart ment'S official lanes in Fairfield County were not handled as expeditiously as in other counties, but other than that we can't see why one county should suffer from the inconvenience more than an- other.
 If some changes are made in the pres ent procedure of having motor vehicles tested twice year, we hope that it will be to facilitate the passage of cars through the testing apparatus. That seems to be the main difficulty now But any plan that is adopted or if the present system is left untouched cannot be any better than what goes on now Something must be done to allow the Motor Vehicle Commission to spend money on estab- liShment of permanent or semi-pe- lna- nent testing lanes and thus to make it possible for motorists to get their cars tested regularly without subiecting them to the inconveniences they now undergo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Book-Burning Folly

Hitler's book-burning, fortunately, cannot be so effective as were those of the conquerors of Alexandria, although he seems to follow line of reasoning similar to theirs. It is said that the general in charge when that city fell was asked to spare the famous library. He hesitated and then wrote to headquarters for instructions.
 The reply was explicit. If the Alex andrine books agreed with the Koran, which contained all essential truth, they were unnecessary and might as we'll be de-troyed. If, on the other hand, they contained anything contrary to it, they should be destroyed. It was a case Of heads we win, tails the library loses, so the contents of one of the greatest libra ries ol all time were used as fuel for the public baths of the city.
 Similar unreasonable reasoning seems to guide the actions of dictators today. There is one difference. Much of the treasure destroyed in Alexandria was lost to the world forever. In Germany, and anywhere that books are now destroyed or forbidden, the injury is chiefly tenn porary and local. The same books may be had in more tolerant parts of the world, and may be read even by citizens of the destructive government when they travel in other lands. The burners de- prive only themselves and their own peo- pie of this wealth of human thought.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Don't Let This Happen

Officers of the Visiting Nurse Associa- tion have decided to end their current campaign for funds with which 70 finance activities of this very fine organization during the coming year. They close the 1889 driv- with the goal of $16,000 not reached In fact more than $5,000 is still needed to g the Visiting Nurses suffi- cient funds to mair ain for another yer the many excellent and needed services that they have been giving resi- dents of Waterbury for so many years This is indeed fortunate and should n 0t happen here.
 We wonder if everyone realizes what retrenchment of the work of the V. N. A. may mean. We don't think that many of us do. For if we did there would be an immediate and sponta.- aouS rush on the parts of thousands of people to donate their small contributions. And that would be enough to raise the desired fund total and insure the city of receiv- ing during the coming year the many perform and that are really expected of them as they go about their daily tasks of bringing health into thousands of homes that might otherwise not show t.
 As the week closes and Waterbury faces possible loss of Visiting Nurse assistance with its consequent shifting Jf responsibility and financial burden to the city itself, we direct an appeal to the thousands of men and women, old and young, who have not hearkened to the pleas made in the last few weeks to give something. Your last-minute donation may mean the difference between success and failure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Pacific Flying

The lower House of Congress has re- fused to vote funds for an air base at Guam, thereby reassuring Japan and a good many Americans Our people do not want to get into quarrel with the Japanese. There is not so much conces- sion to Japan, however, as might be supposed from that item alone. The rest of the program for air bases in the Paci- fife and Atlantic was almost unanimously approved. There are appropriations for Hawaii, Midway Island and Wake Island, all on the air route to the Philippines of which Guam is the last stepping g-stone. There are also nearly $9,OOO,OOO for big air base for Kodiak Island in Alaska, about 2,5O0 miles from Japan, and nearly $3,000,000 for an air base at Sitka, Alaska.
 The Japanese will probably not like those improvements, either. But it is hard to see how they can complain. They have been building air bases on many islands in the Pacific, some of them pretty close to American territory The surest thing about this whole business is that we don't want any trouble with Japan. For that reason it may be unwise to build any strong Notifications west of Hawaii. But surely we have right to fly peacefully and to expand our flying facilities in the Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

gress is trying to correct was given lately in broadcast by Secretary Harold Ickes, regarding conservation of natural re- sources. He showed that authority for this important branch of government &C., tivity, supposed to be concentrated in the interior department, is actually divided among so many different branches and bureaus scattered around Washington that it is almost imnoss: ,e to safeguard precious resources. There car. be no logi- cal objection to such reorganization as the one now proposed, if it is reasonably safeguarded against political abuse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
COLORING NEWS BRINGS BLAST FROM COP.
 CLUB HEAD
March 10, 1859. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:


 Editor. Waterbury Democrat: A statement in the Waterbury American last night relative to the activities of the Young Mems Re- publican club meeting held the pre- vious evening at the Hotel Elton naming John McHugh as the spon- sor of a proposal that the club amend the bylaws so as to lift the bar against office holding on the part of members over 40 years of age which was rejected, so the paper stated, was erroneous. The proposal that was defeated was made by Attorney Maurice Gruskay, which was presented by him read that the delegates to the state convention April IA and IS ap- pointed by President Harold Post be instructed to vote to have the by laws of the organization changed so as members of the club over the age of 40 years would be eligible to hold office.
 In my opinion the proper inter- pretation of the news by newspaper men is due the subscribers and ad- vertisers in the paper and I believe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
New Reorganization Plan

It begins to look as if the executive branch of the government will be reor- ganized, departmentally, during the pres ent session. The changes obviously will not be so drastic as the program proposed to the last congress, which was voted down because so may critics insisted that it gave the chief executive too much power. They will be intended to increase governmental efficiency by ironing out the present complex system.
 Governmental functions are now inter- woven in way that no good business institution would tolerate. The purpose is described as aiming to introduce into the federal administrative system more of the efficiency of private enterprise This can be done, in hundreds of cases, by putting bureaus and departments where they logically belong, simplifying opera tion and saving money.
 A good example of the evils which con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

This winter may go down on the rec ords of Waterbury, as we'll as other com munities throughout the state, as one of the slipperiest we have had in a good many years. If you think back you'll recall that you used your chains on your car more often, you may have been stuck at the foot of some hill more often. Certainly the city had te sand again storms that apparently weren't amounting to much proved to be dis rupting to all traffic. In this way the winter of 1938-39 has been unique.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale who is an authority on toxicology, particularly in reference to alcoholic ef- fleets on the human system, failed to con- vince a legislative committee this week that Connecticut law should provide for scientific test to prove persons unfit ness to operate a motor vehicle, based on his alcoholic consumption. One cocktail for the average individual would be all that would be called safe for driver to consume prior to operation of his vehicle on public highways, according to the Henderson test And such tests would have to be voluntary. The real purpose of the bill, however, was to call attention to all drivers how little ar amount of alcohol makes them incompetent to op- crate their cars safely along streets or roads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11

they appear in Washington in civilian clothes, with a brief case as their only weapon of defense. They take notes, like college boys on the desk-arm, and smoke only between classes.
 MACHINE GUNS
 There is feeling of relief when the class is over and they go down to the rifle range. This is some- thing they know about. They take up a pistol and fire at paper target of a man, 100 feet away. Good score. Next try the machine gun.
 "I don't know so much about these things" student says. We've got one on the rack back home, but nobody knows how to handle it. and it doesn't get used much"
 FBI finds that municipal po- lice have almost no experience in handling that famous weapon which is the favorite of gangsters, teh Thompson sub-machine gun. Even after preliminary "dry in- struction" (handling the gun, without firing), the average score will be only 55 per cent, meaning that only 55 of 100 shots strike the body of the target. At the end of the 12 weeks course, how ever, the average score will be 85 per cent.
 A good cop is supposed to know how to disarm an opponent, but FBI takes nothing for granted. They dress their students in gym shorts, two men together, and put them through daily drill in gun snatching with guns. Crust Hoover to omit none of the stage props)
 RECONSTRUCTED RAIDS
 The dramatic flare in the FBI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Press Comment
PUBLIC woODLoT
(Boston Post)

The folks of Solon, Me, do not intend to pay extra taxes for welfare recipients without getting something back from thsm iI enc way of labor. So, at their annual town meeting, citizens demanded, and succeeded in putting over, the purchase of a wood- lot, where those who get allotments of supplies and cash will have to work out the equivalent in wood- chopping. Of course, there will be no insistence on forcing those who are not physically able to work. But it is cinch that the $500 spent for the woodlot will prove good invest ment in reducing the welfare rolls by eliminating those who do not want to work for what they get from the public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
In Today's s Mail

it should be the duty of newspaper men in all fairness to persons men, tioned in their news articles that they see that such persons are not misquoted or misrepresented.
 May state here now that the col- bring of news to suit the selfish in- terests of individuals is injurious to the Republican party. Qualification of all elements in the party is es- sential for a united harmonious campaign in the coming election which I believe would ultimately lead to victory. That cannot be ac- complished by the misrepresentation in the press or through propaganda derogatory to individual Republicans spread by peanut politicians who are the Charlie McCarthys of so-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Book A Day
New Books Turn Eyes Abroad

What happened at Munich is pretty much history by now. What the world may expect next as a re- suit of this unprecedented capitula- tion of the democracies is some thing else again. Two books, ad- ding to the welter already written on the crisis in Europe, go far to answer that and lay down an em- phatic warning for the future
 They are Betrayal in Centrai Eu- rope" by G. E. R. Geyde (Harpers, $3.50) and Europe in Retreat" by Vera Michels Dean, (Knopf, $2). The first is written by a veteran foreign correspondent and the sec- ond by research director of the Foreign Policy Association. Both hew to the same conclusion as to what we may expect after Munich.
 We may expect anything. This is so, says MT Geyde, for instance, because the British and the French sold out Austria and Czechoslova- kia, first laying down a smoke screen Ill their own countries to do it. It is so, says Miss Dean, be- cause the great mistake at Munich was the failure to exact from Hit Ter a guarantee for tomorrow or even a definition of the limits of Germany's eastward expansion.
 The result is a historic precedent, namely, encouragement of terri torial aggrandizement without fighting. The world is to hear no end of this. The only "out" for democracies, these writers believe now, is a new resurgence against fascism, something more than mere lip service.
 Another book important to under standing of the shifting world scene is "An Atlas of Current Affairs" by J. F. Horrabin, (Knopf, $1.50) Re- plete with "A graphic maps and brief text, it spotlights at glance the background of affairs from Ara bia to zanzibar.-P. c. F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Selected Poem
MIGRANTS

(Reginald M. Cleveland in the New York Times) new note marks the cawng of the crows That call across the fields at break of day. Even the raucous crying of the jay
 Yields now to liquid music that he knows.
 Mid swelling twigs there comes the flash of wing And shrill, sweet pipngs sound A restless cloud, The warblers northward- bound proclaim aloud Their mission as the harbingers of Spring. The smell of quickening earth is in the air. The spirit wakens from it's Winters sleep To slough its sadness. There's tryst to keep With life again. with bossoms in her hair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-11
Daily Almanac

Sun rises 6:12 a. m.; sets 5:53 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Last quarter of the moon tomorrow after noon about half past four. It's sign of fair weather at any time of the year and may be all that is needed to break up that Sunday jinx under which we're been suffering for some few weeks