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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-04
Answers TO Test Questions

Below are the answers to test
questions printed on the editorial
page:
/. Department Of the interior
2. Any object worn as q charm
to ward off evil.
8. Germany, Austria Hungary.
Turkey and Bulgaria.
4. Jack johnson.
s. The place where a crime was
actually committed.
g. James Hamilton Lewis.
Z. Wine.
q. kom'- blatant: not kom-bat'-
ant.
2. North sea.
10. Phi. ID.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-04
Sarcastic Husbands
Are Social Bores
Men Who Feel They Must Be Witty at the
Expense of Wives Are Tiresome
BY CYNTHIA GREY

Dear Miss Grey: wish you would tell few of the wise"
husbands who feel it necessary bete their wives Just
how stupid and silly they look and sound other people
My sister married of these boys Heees that
in order to be entertaining he make fun of her. Of
course that gives his audience big kick although
that most of his listeners would like to do the ckingin
his direction MRS f.
don't blame for being dis as silly
guted No quite stupid wife expense
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-04
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IS THERE 4 CURT

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

seen, for now pending in congress
are measures to toss relief back
into the states lap, to junk all
present agencies for a new federal
unit, and take politics out of relief.
Workers Alliance is primarily inter-
ested in the latter.
Chief puzzle facing West Vir-
ginia's Rep. Clifton Woodrum and
his relief subcommittee is whether
reliefers should or can be denied
the right to organize for a patiently
political purpose. Already on rec
ord are several disturbing facts.
Samples:
(D Though David LASER denied
he is Communist, most official
Westinghouse rate him distinctly
pinkish. Workers Alliance Secre-
tary-Treasurer Herman Benjamin
boosted to committeeman that he
has been Communist for 20 years,
also that he reported personally to
Moscow last year on the Alliances
activities.
(2) Alliancers have threatened
ana may some DAY exert pressure
on congress. When President
Roosevelt asked an 1915, 900, 900 de-
ficiency relief appropriation, the Al
lance asked 81 ,000, 600, 900. Congress
coughed up $725, OO0,0 900. When the
White House asked restoration of
the $3.50, 100000 cut, Mr.. LASER
turned on heat and threatened to
ballot all reliefers on protest march
to Washington.
Probable outcome will not be an
attempt to dissolve the Alliance,
but Fastening of back-to-the-states
legislation in the hope that individ-
ualized relief setups will give the
union less chance for unified ma
tional front.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

This bolero's got what it takes
to make you the star. Puff sleeves
$50 feminine and a lacy stitch
that rolls off your hook with amaz-
ing speed! Use two strands of cot
ton. Pattern 6149 contains direc-
tons for making the bolero, also
illustrations of it and of stitches;
material requirements.
To obtain this pattern, send IS
cents in coins to The Sewing Cir
Gle, Household Arts Dept, 259
w. 14th ST., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
DATE BOOK

MAY 14-Mother's day, with
Golden Rule foundation honoring
Mrs. Ilias Compton of Wooster,
Ohio, as American Mother for
1885,"
MAY liking George and
Queen Elizabeth of Britain ar
rive at Quebec for North Ameri-
can tour.
MAY 17-Germany to conduct
one-day census with $50, 900 volun-
,tary workers, expected to show
accurately for first time the ex-
tent of Jewish emigration.
MAY 30-Generalissimo Fran
cisco Francois triumphal entry
into Madrid, accompanied by
Italian and German troops. Ital-
ian Count Galeazzo Ciano and
German Field Marshal Herman
Goering expected to participate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Politics

To stand a chance of winning
1905 presidential election, Repub-
icanism's two biggest jobs for 1889
are ID stopping any premature
boom which might shatter party
unity, and (2) win support from
Democratic leaders who have aban-
doned the New Deal. These objec-
tives clash because few Democrats
will desert their traditional political
faction for nothing more stable than
the hope that a suitable candidate
can be found. But the G. o. P. is
tackling both jobs with fingers
crossed:
Candidates. Most favored presi-
Dental nominee is youthful New
York District Attorney Thomas
Dewey, whose sensational racket
busting record is offset in veteran
political minds by the realization
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

lookouts by telephone network. r.
F. Cooke, district ranger, in a short
chat with all stations listening, can
put out list of practical questions.
Later the guards answer the ques-
tons. At other times they submit
questions based on their work-what
to do under certain conditions that
might arise. If another guard lis
tening in cannot supply the right
answer, the question is passed to
the higher-ups. These practical
problems often put the headquarters
staff to the test.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

1000 pages, is expected to be off the
press by July l.
The handbook will contain figures
on industrial production, employ
ment, value of products, cost of ma
terial for the more than 5000 coun-
ties in the United States, compare
BILE data for every city of more
than 10000 population, and similar
information for industries COM
puted on a national rather than a
county basis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Trend
Hoto the tUind is blowing

@@OSN SfeO SN"s~ 70 otocNHsS
Observation-Disclosures June
Z, the British government will as
sumo complete control over the
British Broadcasting corporation,
strictly supervising all news bull
letins and launching an army-re-
cruiting campaign.
IMMIGRATION-Infux of ali
ems to the u. S., at low ebb dur
ing the depression, is on increase
with Jews leading the pack. Fig
ures: $4,000 Jews have entered
in the past three years.
WEATHER - u. S. winters
have grown milder since 1900, but
trend will soon be to cooler, wet
ter phase of weather with more
rain in summer and lower tenn
peratures in. winter. Authority:
j. B. Kincer, chief of U. S. wealth
er bureaus climate and crop
weather division.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Forest Service Trains
Lookouts by Telephone

Training lookouts at isolated posts
in the national forests and keeping
them ''on their toes" would be diff
ficult problem if the inspector or SUI
pervisor could talk with his men
only through personal visits. The
United States Forest service solves
the problem by telephone.
In the Mount Baker National for
est, for example, headquarters of
fee is connected with field men and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

WASHINGTON.-The department
of commerce announced plans for
the distribution during the summer
of a new business service.
1t will be known as the Industrial
Market Data Handbook" and will
represent the first marketing survey
of American industry that has been
presented in this form. 1t was orig
inally requested by the National In
dustrial Advertisers association.
The manuscript, comprising about
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Naming Railroad Cars

Naming cars is a system on the
Canadian National Railways. Sleep
ing cars-the company operates its
own-are named after stations.
Chambrette, or room, cars have the
names of Canadian seaports. Par
lor and parlor buffet cars are named
after Canadian lakes, while Cana
dian rivers lend their names to cafe
parlor and cafe coaches. Compart-
ment observation sleeping cars bear
names of capes, while observation
cars are named after forts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
SAFETY TALKS
Driving Ability

THE National Safety council re-
L ports that automobile drivers
reach the peak of their skill and
ability after 20 years of age.
Recent studies, said the council,
indicate that drivers under 20
years of age have the highest &C
cident rate. This rate decreases
quite steadily to the age of about
so, and then increases sharply.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
How Women
i'm Their 4O's
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for a woman during hen
change usually from SO to So, who fezrs
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells
Get more fresh air, s hrs. sleep and II you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
especially for iCorteH- 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance. thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change Of life WELL
WORTH TRYING!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Times Attrition
Marks 'Ole BiIP
AndHis Creator

dom. Bairnsfather says his revised
character reveals signs of age, but,
for that matter, so does the car
toonist.
The slow attrition of 20 years since
a slender youngster created "Ole
Bill" in trench in Flanders, has
added to his bulk, had taken toll
of his thatch of wavy black hair.
Bitterness came, too, as when he
returned all his war medals to the
British government in protest
against it's treatment of veterans.
Somehow, despite the wide
and varied exploitation of Bill
books, lectures, a play, "The
Better Ole," a syndicated piece
and so forth-Bruce seemed to
get the short end of it all. He
is said to have received some
$4,000 out of $500, 900 earned by
his black and white creation.
Putting on his own review,
"Ullo," he lost $40, 900, and after
that events led him straight to
bankruptcy, liabilities $4,000,
assets negligible.
He was born in India of a long
line of army forebears and began
life as an electrical engineer. Of
recent years, what with lecturing,
writing and drawing, life is said to
have dealt more amiably by him.
Collected for transfer from his
y post as ambassador to Argentina
to the government of Gen. Francisco
Franco in Spain, Alexander w. We'd
Our Ambassador old. bears us with wi +
To Spain Packs him such assets
Diplomatic Bag as are implied
in the long ex-
perience of career diplomat, a
man of tact and diplomatic deft-
ness, combined with broad humani-
tartan sympathies.
Mr.. Wedden was educated at
George Washington university
law school and the University
of Catania in Italy. Appointed
private secretary to the minis
ter to Denmark in 1908, he en-
tered the consular service two
years later as consul at Zanzi-
bar. He spent two years, 1872
IA, as consul at Catania, going
thence to Athens as consul gen.
eral.
Retiring from the diplomatic serv-
ice in 1928, he returned six years
ago, filling various consular posts
until his appointment as ambassa-
dor to the Argentine.
g Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
5000 Mayors in u. s.

The number of mayors in the
United States is approximately 49,
600. This represents most incor-
porated places in the country, with
the exception of certain towns in
New England which are governed
by town councils.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Collateral Behind Notes
Is Guarantee of Payment

"It is to be remembered that
goods for export go in larger guam
titles and that necessarily larger
sums of money are needed to ham
die the transactions. In addition,
we have found that, in many in
stances, the buyers were what can
be termed as good credit risks, but
they were unable to make payments
of such large sums at one time.
Nor were the American manufac-
turers able to wait for three or four
or five years. To do so would ex-
haust their resources. That is where
we come into the picture.
'Take a case like this: A South
American railroad company wanted
to buy some locomotives. Those
things cost money. They wanted
American engines. But they wanted
to pay the bill on an installment
basis. We agreed to take about
60 per cent of the notes. Com
mercial banks with which the man.
ufacturer was dealing agreed to
take over the remainder on a short
term basis"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
CITY With Largest Area

I The city of London, with an area
of 693 square miles, is the largest
in the world. Los Angeles GAO
square miles) has the largest area of
amy city in the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Humble and Just

Thy sum of duty let two words
contain 20 may they craven in
thy heart remain!) be humble and
be just.-Prior.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions are
expressed in these columns, they are those
of the news analyst, and not necessarily
of the newspaper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

SENATOR TAFT
.. tUelcomed an Insulting uItimatuni."
that he has no administrative expe-
rience. Second choice is Michigan's
able Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. Trail
ing far behind are Ohio's ambitious
Sen. Robert Taft, his home states
Gov. John w.. Bricker, and ex-
President Herbert Hoover. Since
most danger of a premature boom
centers in Washington, minority
leaders in both houses Gorgeous
Sen. Charles McNary, Massachu-
SETS Rep. Joseph Martin) are re-
portedly urging their colleagues to
avoid commitments. On the G. o.
P. calendar are party dinners, each
of which will hear a potential candi-
date. One such affair, originally
scheduled to hear both Candidates
Taft and Bricker, was split two
ways when Governor Bricker's
name took greater importance.
Coalition. Possibility of Democrat
ic support for a Republican candi-
date started during last autumn's
purge" and grew when President
Roosevelt pumped for liberalism
over partisanship. This seasons
rebel congress gave it more i'm
petus, and in late April Mr.. Roose-
welt told junior Jackson day cele-
brants via letter that the Democrat
ic party must uphold New Deal prin-
ciples to win next year.
Selling the cudgel, Ohio's Taft
labeled the letter an Insulting ulti-
matum." Said he at a "Republi-
cans-on-the-March" banquet: "To
the President, anyone who disagrees
with him is moved only by preju-
dice and is disloyal to his lord
and master. The Republican par
ty . welcomes them (anti-admin-
istration Democrats) to our party
councils. There is no fundamental
difference between us which cannot
be reconciled."
Meanwhile New Dealers on Capitol
Hill thought the Presidents letter
was highly significant. Louisiana's
Sen. Allen ]. Ellender thought Mr..
Roosevelt was asserting aggressive
leadership to block a "reactionary
candidate" in 1910. Pennsylvania
Sen. Joseph Guffey thought what he
had believed all along-that Mr..
Roosevelt should seek a third term.
Europe
From his Paris Office, the Chicago
Daily News Edgar Ansel Mowrer
apparently sent first word of Der
Fuehrer's crafty scheme to devalu-
ate President Roosevelt's peace APP
peal. The scheme: Germany asked
individual nations whose peace Mr..
Roosevelt said is threatened, wheth-
er they felt menaced by Germany.
Said Mr.. Mowrer: ''It is the old
story of the wolf asking the lamb
whether it really believes that
wolves sometimes eat lambs"
Though Mr.. Mowers revelations
and subsequent diplomatic maneu-
vers took the edge of Herr Hitler's
plan, democracies had little reason
for glee. In the week preceding
Der Fuehrer's Reichstag answer to
Mr.. Roosevelt, both dictators and
democracies made frantic efforts to
line up Europe's few remaining neu-
trails, all of them located in the
Balkans. At negotiations end, the
Rome-Berlin axis had won a signal
victory by the simple procedure of
jerking a Observation-Disclosures
from under the tottering Balkan
entente. Hemmed in north and
south by Hungary and Italy respec-
lively, the Belgrade government
joined Germany, Italy, Spain, Hun
gary, japan and Manchukuo in the
anti-Communist alliance, framed a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Relief

Workers Alliance is a WPA union
which thrives mainly on contribu-
tons from reputed 100000 (out of
2,756,000) U. S. reliefers. From it's
Washington headquarters go fire.
quent mimeographed statements for
newspaper men and persistent lob
byists to plague Capitol Hill. Of the
latter, most famous is Theodore o.
man who had his face slapped by
Georgia's fiery Rep. E. E. Cox dur
ing debate on the $3.50, 000,000 de-
ficiency relief bill. Workers Alli-
ance's most famous officer is Pres
ident David LASER, who last year
drew from Aubrey Williams, then
deputy WPA administrator, a terri
BILE prediction statement for WPA
consumption: "We've got to keep
our friends in power The men
you are going to (elect) should be
those who stand for projects such
as WPA sponsored"
Though Harry Hopkins squelched
further Williams outbursts, David
Lasser's reliefers no doubt took the
Williams advice. Whether their
vote was big enough remains to be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
Solution of Unemployment
Is to Encourage Industry

What" asked Mr.. Pierson, "iS
the answer"
His reply was quoted as the intro
ductory paragraph. He seemed
fully to recognize all of the difficult
ties confronting the United States
at the moment. Further, there was
every evidence that Mr.. Pierson is
one of the few officials of govern
ment who are aware that the solu-
ton to our unemployment problem
is to assist industry so that it can
re-employ workers. Unless indus
try can be encouraged, it appears
that the nation is going to continue
with 10000 900 unemployed as it has
for the last few years. found it
refreshing, therefore, to hear Mr..
Pierson talk about how few dozen
large factories have been kept open
and with relatively full payrolls be-
cause the export-import bank was
able to help foreign buyers who
wanted American products but
could not pay cash for them.
For reasons that I will mention
subsequently, however, had some
misgivings about the operations of
the export-import bank. I doubted
that there would be repayment of
money advanced by the bank.
"Well, the default is thing that
happens to a greater or less extent
wherever credit is extended" Mr..
Pierson explained. eff there were
never any defaults, there would be
no risk attached to banking bust
ness. But, unfortunately, that ele-
ment must be taken into considera-
ton. The fact that there is credit
risk is why this export-import bank
was organized. OF course, there
were other reasons, but the instabil-
ity of some foreign governments,
the lack of exchange and such con-
ditions made it necessary for our
government to step in and help
those who are trying to export
American-made goods:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-Progressive educa-
ton has been pushed around a
lot lately. The Bellwether Lincoln
school of New York has been back
6 VIZ king as
OfLeaUing Chap other Daniel
With 81 Comero Boones Of tn e
educational will
derness. From the right came the
charge that they just let the young
sters fool around with toys and tools,
without rubbing in any real educa-
ton.
Here's field goal for the other
side. At the somewhat ultra Foun-
tain Valley, progressive school Of
Colorado Springs, the boy, David
Hare, scion of a highly placed New
York family, was given carte
blanche to build his education
around So camera. The idea, as
in all progressive schools of those
few years back, was to give the
green light to any creative impulse.
But, at %, here is Mr.. Hare
with New York exhibit of cam
era pOrtraiture, with President
Roosevelt among his subjects,
and with famous artists and
photographers, including Arnold
Genthe, cheering him as the
Leonardo da Vinci of the cam
era" Specifically, they agree
that young Mr.. Hare has proved
indisputably that the camera not
only may be, but now is an in
Strument of the highest artistic
expression, and that he demon
strates an absolutely new meth
cd and medium of color pOr-
trait photography.
His three-lens camera allows the
superimposing of color images, in
the manner of the color-printing
process, and makes possible shad-
ing and emphasis in the service of
mood. His is the first and only color
portrait exhibit in the country. Art
lists and prominent society folk are
boiling with enthusiasm over Mr..
Hare's achievement.
he is tan, shy, perSonable
young man, somewhat inarticu-
late, as he filters life through a
lens, and hesitant in any other
form of expression. As was the
young Lindbergh. There is the
same "We" combination here.
Whether he knows the preposi-
tiOns used with the ablative or
whether he stumbled across the
"Bridge of Asses" is not re-
vealed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04

WASHINGTON.-'I am supreme
ly confident of one thing-we are
making a dent in the job of getting
back some of our foreign trade
that was lost to other nations in the
last few years. Nobody can be sure
that we ever will get all of it back,
but / am hopeful because this little
institution of ours here is showing
that it can function safely and sat
isfactorily."
That statement, perhaps, is the
best summary can give of the
philosophy of Warren Lee Pierson,
the president-and pretty largely
the heart and soul-of the export
import bank. Likewise, it rather de-
lineates the program of that little
known federal agency; because Mr..
Pierson is determined to see Amer
lean products, farm or factory, NOV
ing as of old into the hands of users
and consumers in foreign lands.
Moreover, to analyze the outlook of
the man is to reach conclusion
that he believes the way to restore
people to jobs in this country is to
assist American farms and factories
in the sale of their products.
1t is curiously true that some of
the federal agencies which are doing
important work and doing it eff
ficiently are least known to the gen.
eral public. They have no staff of
press agents; they seldom "break
into print" yet they seem to be
serving all of the people well.
Department of commerce reports
have been showing how our exports
have declined through many
months. The records give one the
impression that the lines on the
chart, showing totals each month,
are in race to see which one can
dive faster or deeper. I have Won
dered where we were headed, as a
nation of producers. Secretary
Hull's reciprocal trade treaties have
been getting exactly nowhere; and
have done so at enormous speed.
Secretary Wallace's ideas for sell
ing our farm products have proved
to be nothing but dreams and, like
dreams, they vanished the next
morning, except that perhaps the
next day Mr.. Wallace's publicity
staff announced another plan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-05-04
AUiatiOn

U. S. isolationists to the contrary,
each European dictator encroach-
ment apparently has its repercus-
sions on this side of the Atlantic.
Looking ahead, observers are now
sizing up the results-to-be of a very
likely dictator coup, the unifcation
of Portugal with Spain through an
externally inspired revolution.
Two Portuguese landmarks, the
Azore islands and Lisbon, are vital
stopping points on the southern
route of Pan-American's transatlan-
tic air service which is scheduled
to start this spring. Over nearby
routes from Europe to South Amer
lea fly German and Italian lines
which would like a slice of lucrative
U. S.-to-Europe air business.
Since Spain's puppet Dictator
Francisco Franco would share Por-
tugals spoils with his two friends,
Germany and Italy, those two ma
tions would gain aviation rights at
Lisbon and the Azores, thereby hold
ing monopoly over south Atlantic
airlanes. Still open to U. S. boats
would be the northern route from
New York to Southampton, excellent
in summer but risky in winter.