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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-22
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions ? Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
/. Is there any food that
especially nourishes only the
brain?
2. Are bats blind
5. What Ia the royal color OF
England?
4. Who wrote the Americans
Creed
5. Which of the three principal
islands of the Virgin islands of
the United States. st. Croix. st.
Thomas or ST. John. is largest?
6. Does the constitution of the
United States guarantee to every
citizen of the United States who
is 81 years of age or more, the
right TO vote?
Z. Which race horse won the
Arlington classic in 1e402
S. Name the fifth largest city
in the United States.
Q. Where is johannesburg
10. Did Germany conclude
treaty or an armistice with
France?
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MI. FIXIT
He Fixes THINGS

To receive attention n this eel
unan LETTERS must give name and
address O. writer OnIs initials
VII Be published whsn requested
Mr.. Fixit: Would you please
tell me- the qualifications for m
air hostess Could You also let
me know the subjects that would
ne best To take during my high
school years. A READER.
The first requisite for a stew
ardess Is that she must Be
graduate registered nurse. For
the courses to take in prepare
ton for that. you. might call
upon the directors Of the nursing
schools AZ Tacoma General and
ST. Joseph's hospitals.
A hostess. or stewardess. must
Be unmarried. between five feet
two and five feet five inches tall.
weigh 30 pounds or less and be
under 25 years of age. The rest
of it Ia personality and ability
to meet the public.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII you please In
form me rs to how n person
must 90 about 10 obtain an old
age pension l am past the PEN
sion age and a Daughter of the
American Revolution. Nv great
grandfather was an officer In
the American revolution and
have no near kin. y. G. ID.
You would go through the
same procedure As any other
person. II you call at the county
welfare office you will be in
formed whether you qualify by
need. age and residence for state
assistance. There Is no pension
for descendants of soldiers.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII Won kindly tell
me when the U.s.s. Yorktown In
due for overhaul In the Brem-
erton navy yard and for how
long, T.. VI. r..
For some time the navy has
given out no information about
the schedules of ships. You can
write a letter to the ship in care
of the postmaster at San Pedro.
but there is no reason to believe
the dates for its arrival in Brem-
erton will be revealed until 1t
arrives.
Mr.. Fixit: | would like To get
In touch with someone who would
help me get a patent on n good
invention. The invention can he
seen working and IL not compli-
Gated. j. L. G.
We suggest you talk to Mr..
r. I. Elliott in the Rust build
ing. who is a patent attorney
and can advise you.
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1t really dates back to per-
sonal conferences which Willkie
had with Roosevelt on the IVA
Commonwealth and Southern dis
pute. The Consolidated Indian
an discovered a weakness which
he thought was peculiar to
F.D.R., but actually is common
to all presidents land doubtless
will be to him. if he wins, in
November): Faulty factual in
formation.
Presidents necessarily are de-
pendent upon departmental un-
derstandings for specific acts.
They are usually supplied to
prove a point of view, rather
than effectively.
What crystallized WILKES
plan was his now-famous ap-
pearance on Inf orm on
Please" in which he out-experted
the experts. and in Town Hall
debate with Bob jackson. In
which he was generally accorded
victory laurels. Months before
the Philadelphia convention, the
candidate told friends that II he
were nominated he would make
the challenge in his acceptance
speech.
Willkie never .coddled much
hope that F.D.R. would accept,
but told campaign planners at
Colorado Springs that either
way the challenge would win. If
the president declined, COP.
stumpers could harp on the ac-
cusation, all through the cam
paign. that Roosevelt didn't dare
face showdown with the
G.OP.-er on actual New Deal
merits. II would be the first
time that the hand of Roosevelt.
master-bluffer. had been called
and il would be great COP.
fodder.
L F.D.R. should accept. Will
kie argued that every advantage
would be on his own side. The
debates necessarily would be on
the New Deal record, with the
president perpetually on the de-
fensive. A so per cent good
and 40 per cent bad record. in
any administration. is excellent.
but Wilkes plan was 10 con-
cede some 20 per cent as good.
no debate. The discussions that
would come to q decision would
be the so per cent bad part Of
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the recorder more probably,
just the worst half of the so
per cent-on which Willkie be-
heves he would have a heavy
factual advantage.
On many angles the president
would have to be under wraps"
unable even to use all facts at
his command, for reasons of pol
icy, or personal obligation to his
underlings.
Accepted or rejected, the Indi-
anan told his aides in Colorado,
he had everything to gain by
the challenge and nothing to
lose. and they agreed with him.
Professional radio men check
ing their tally-sheets on Will
kie's Ellwood speech, give F.D.R.
a clear edge in radio technique.
but rate the two men even in
being radio-genic.
In technique, they rate Will
kie's voice timber as rich as
FD.R's. perhaps richer; pro-
nunciation is a stand-off. as
Willkie ran his full script with
out flub, as F.. D. r. usually
does except for a few Groton-
Harvard colloquialisms. The
presidents most notable mispro-
nunciation is accenting the sec
ond. instead Of third syllable of
caribbean"
However, In enunciation, Roose-
welt is crystal clear, while Will
kie draws only the rating of sat
isfactory. At Ellwood the COP
er repeatedly dropped out inter-
mediate syllables from such
words as particularly" and he
swallowed some closing sylla-
bles. willkie made fewer read
ing mistakes from script than
F.D.R. usually does but he camo-
tagged them much less deity.
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GST5!5F5a,y2ZzasRRsE

ne VII continue to - pre<l-
dent Of willamette university.
N institution which grew out
Of = school established BY
szsaa IL zsszsz sa1z assszsaa I.
Fort Nisqually was closed
Historical quibblers may aues-
tion the authenticity of the
foregoing. but the connection
can he traced
There are two reasons for the
dual capacity in which DR.. Bax-
ter viii function. As soon a.
his election 10 the bishoprie was
announced. the Willamette board
was deluged with applications
for the presidency. Obviously
choosing DR.. Bakers successor
from among 80 many applicants
some of them prominent fig
ures in the educational world
should not be undertaken hur-
riedly.
Another reason Is the situa-
ton at the university which,
with the College Of Puget Sound,
represents the higher education
al interests of the Methodist
church in the Northwest.
The last year under the adj
ministration of DR.. Baxter has
seen many important develop.
ments undertaken but not COM
pleted. Included Ia the new
S150.000 science building under
construction and the proposed
expansion of the music instruc-
ton facilities.
With all this, DR.. Baxter also
has been the directing spirit in
the preparations for the hum
dredth anniversary of the uni.
versity in 1e42-something in
which every community touched
by the influence of Jason Lee
viii be concerned.
It's going TO take some time
TO shift those responsibilities
and continue the status of Meth
odism's second greatest school
in the Northwest. Oregonians.
of course. will, and they are en-
titled to that privilege, assume
that this phrasing is inspired by
prejudice due to association.
But let that pass.
Getting back to the job of
bishop, this man Baxter has
something which begets con-
fidence even on short acquain-
tance. There Ia inspired the
belief that he is going to be
n good tonic for Methodism
and Christian education In the
whole Northwest.
A comparatively young man
he celebrated his 4sth birth
day last Sunday-he is of the
stock that came from the from
tiers. He was born in the log
cabin home of Methodist
preacher in the backwoods Of
Ohio. He has what 1t takes
background built on the tradi-
tons that made this country
great; education, broad experi-
ence, and a sense of humor.
When he comes up here, as he
will before long. Tacoma should
turn out to greet him. It will
be an acquaintance worthwhile.
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ARMY WILL BENEFIT
TACOMA MERCHANTS

Editor. The Times: Il would
behoove Tacomans to be alert to
the opportunity now knocking
at our gates.
Twenty thousand men are now
stationed at Fl. Lewis and Nc
Chord field. and 1t is likely that
number will be expanded to
10000 within a few months.
A demonstration of what this
will mean TO Tacoma was given
last week. Approximately $780,
900 was spent among our people,
In addition to what was spent by
themselves. This figure Is over
and above the amount normally
spent by FIT. Lewis and McChord
field proper.
Our store rooms will be rent
ed. Real estate will become
more desirable. Local farmers
will have a stronger market.
Tacoma will become, in fact,
live city.
However, we must do our
part. We must make these boys
welcome. They will want good
entertainment and Tacoma must
supply it. We will need more
skating Kinks and more of the
better class theaters.
To be certain of this influx OF
new business, we must first let
these boys know that they are
to be accepted here as neigh
bors. We must have places Of
information as to where they
can go for the entertainment
desired.
We must make the most of
our natural advantages, such as
the 9th ave, lagoon. We must
realize that Tacoma will go in
the way which its citizens
boost II.
JOHN w. CORLISS,
FE-IE Dr-al.,.a.,
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Rendezvous With Destiny
The command is forward !

The command Is forward
Forward marches America to a destiny. It is no
less than the creation of the greatest and finest civilization
the world has seem
Our task bigger than misery defense of what
We already That do and will do. but that
Is not enough The negative defense of what have
and what has BEEN is not enough. France knows that.
Why has this sudden determination arisen 10 defend
America Not for what America has been. Not for what
II is We defend the America that is to be-
There divisions of opinion which to obscure the
essential unity of America. Have you heard say,
Il do not believe the United States should defend itsef?
1t better to defend frontier the Thames, the
Amazon at the Standardization 1t is better TO make
all liable TO service at oncewhat stress shall be laid this
or that defense arm, this or that plan.
But behind all this lies the inspiring response of all
self against whatever force tries intmidate assa
YOU? The small chickering's details of lost
IN the chorused response, I'VE arel
America is mastering her might TO defend the future.
For unto the future of the world given What hope
there for the world in ant-hl natonasm that climbs
to physical might the murdered hopes of that they
might be free and have meaning to themselves?
There is
New techniques will come, ways of conducting the
affairs of But in America still lies the worlds best
hope of building better in the future-a in which
men may be truly free.
Bearded Walt Whitman saw this vision of the future
many ago. Today feel something of what he felt
when he wrote:
The earth. FESTIVE, confronts a era, perhaps
general divine war;
No one knows what will happen next-such portents
fill the days and nights:
The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retir-
ing in shadow behind me-
THE unperformd, more gigantic than advance,
advance upon me-
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THURSDAY. AUGUST %

This is not an important day
in planetary direction. Good and
bad influences may contend IN
the daylight hours when labor
should gain long-desired powers.
Heart and Home: Women are
under a CONFORMATION disturb
ing and depressing to them.
Their ambitions may be curbed
by unexpected events that will
change the current of life.
Strange duties will be placed
upon many who must serve the
state and the nation. This IL a
time in which to see conditions.
economic and social. in their
true relations. There must be
a separation of essentials and
non-essentials in planning for
coming months.
Business Affairs: This Is a
day favorable to executives who
have demonstrated their ability
and foresight. American meth
DDS that have been successful in
trade viii be applied To govern
ment with success. Repercus-
sions from the war will be keen
ly felt in Wall street where
market fluctuations win be dis
turbing to the financial world;
old systems of managing money
will be changed or improved.
National Issues. Unjust treat
ment Of persons Of foreign birth
should be avoided. Prejudices
should be eliminated. While
novel phases of suhversive aetivi-
ties will be discovered, spy hys-
terra should be overcome. Vot-
ers who have the highest ideals
of democracy will be swayed by
candidates, ambitions for many
changes, but experience will be
the principal requisite for the
victor. Preparedness is to prove
tardy in achievement as democ-
racy Is more and more i'm
perilled.
International Affairs: Kings
and queens whose thrones have
been taken from them will ex-
ercise a power TO be recognized
within a few years. the seers
prophesy. Stable government
and strong alliances will evolve
for the Americas from the waste
and horror Of war The United
States VIII benefit from the
talents and experience of refu-
gees who find a haven here.
Quotas will be altered 10 that
arts and handierafts may be
transplanted. Refugee scientists
and educators will contribute
much 10 the new world.
Persons whose birthdate il is
have the augury of a year of
good prospects and increased
success. Promotion efforts may
he profitable.
Children born on this day
will be clever. prudent and seri-
Gus. They probably will have
charm Of personality as well as
strong minds and healthy bodies.
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The Bio Woods

When the white came to America, much of our vast
country great forest We cut the trees, wantony
carelessly, because they seemed nexhaustible.
We came to regret it. Thirty years ago, wise
began realize that had squandered patmony.
began conservation of the trees without which
lives but a meager life.
Today 900 of nationally owned and adj
mnistered forest land is in sght-there today
than 900 nearly 10 per cent of total
We on the way, by taking thought and planning
storing the wealth carelessy squandered BY
doing So build for the future and enrich life
in the present
Yet the little band of "conservatonsts' who began
shouting for this 80 years ago regarded fanatics
We owe debt their foresight and their persistence
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SITUATION OF YOUTH
VERY DIFFICULT

Editor. The Times: Returning
to Tacoma, picked up one of
the innumerable thumb jerkers.
He was Is. gaunt and pale. and
his first words were, My feet
have given out. Is there any
place in Tacoma where a person
can work for food ."
A few years ago, his father. a
farmer. had received a consider
able sum for Withholding land
from cultivation, i.e.. for not
producing food. Later. the farm
was taken by a mortgage. The
youth was now homeless. His
right hand was bandaged. Far
Their south. someone had at
tempted to rob him of his last
50 cents, and in the fight. his
hand had gone through a win
dow.
He wanted to get to Yakima,
to work in the apple harvest.
After that, IF l can only find
a place where I can work and
so to school-u I could get
through high school. think I
could work my way through
college A fellow can't get any
kind of regular job now with
out q high school diploma, any,
way"
/ couldn't even tell him GER
tainly where he could work for
food. Concerning the army. he
said, 81 don't want TO waste
three years. Anyway, after three
years of that, I guess I'd forget
all about education"
I wish I knew what to saw to
such young Americans. might
offer them hope from willkie.
but I recall the last days of the
Republican regime, when the
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PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

roads were even more .thickly
lined with job-hunters. And
Willkie says, I'VE cannot rebuild
our American destiny without
sacrifice, even without suffer-
ing" Roosevelt says the same
thing in other words, forget
ting that "One-third of the peo-
pie are still ill-housed, ill-clothed
and lifted" There is little en-
couragement here.
1t would be easy to rave
against Mussolini, who in 1880
said to the Italian people. IT an
nounce to you the beginning of a
hard period" or against Hitler,
who later promised to substitute
cannon for butter. But these
youth are intelligent: they might
draw the easy parallel.
ROBERT J. PEARSALL,
5715 So. Park ave.
DEFENDS GALLUP POLL
Editor, The Times: In Satur-
days Times a Puyallup reader
is very much opposed to con-
scription and doubts the Gallup
Poll on that question. He says
that he has never been asked
for an expression from Doctor
Gallup and therefore the poll
is "moonshine.
Having been asked to give my
opinion on the Gallup Poll and
followed it for years in The
Times, I have every reason to
think that the poll as it is taken
gets as near an accurate poll of
the vote as 1t is humanity pos
sible.
have been able to estimate
the votes in the United States in
several elections. I came within
10000 votes of guessing the
Landon vote in 1886. I was off
on the Roosevelt vote. Roose-
welt got more votes than I gave
him, I figured that Roosevelt
would get 10 per cent increase
and the returns showed over Is
per cent over 1882.
Despite the big NOISE Will
kie is making and his long
speech of invective against the
president, Roosevelt will get a
large majority of the popular
vote and around 400 electoral
votes in November.
The Literary Digest polls were
always close to what happened
and when they guessed so badly
in 1886 the great magazine died
in a very short time after the
election.
l served seven years in the
Washington National Guard but
no one wanted to fight during
my service. II I had my way
every healthy boy would be made
to serve at least three years in
the National Guard. I have four
sons. one in the navy in the
last war but the other three BOYS
were too young for service. II
they must go to war. / want
them to be able TO load a gun
and have enough courage to pull
the trigger.
II. H. COLLIER.
Lake City.
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Troops Have Omnibus Look:
Maybe II Can Happen Here
- Ne 4.eechsnized" Amy s.il
Requires Hay and Oats
Absenf-Minded Professors;
A Pair OF En-
Meet Or. Bruce Baxter.
The New Bishop
HITTING the high spots In
= four counties notable for in
teresting historical background
-Thurston, Lewis. cowlitz and
Clark = and dipping over into
Oregon was a revealing first
of-the-week experience. Though
the battle" in which approx
mately 10000 troops maneu-
vered in the area between Camp
Murray and Cowlitz county had
been fought, there were thou
sands of tents in the open
spaces, tanks and pieces Of
heavy artillery; hundreds Of
army cars carrying sunburned
and tanned regulars and nation
al guard men: quartermaster
trucks loaded with fuel and pro-
visions for the field kitchens.
It was an ominous picture, and
inspired the thought that per-
haps 1t can happen here.
After having heard so much
about "mechanizing. the army
II was something of a surprise
. to see the traditional army
mule and hundreds of horses
tied to the picket ropes along
the highway ut Fort Lewis.
The older generation hasn't
seen so many horses In years;
the younger generation
doesn't know there are that
many In the world. Though
tanks and trucks have taken
over the heavy end of the load,
there stlll seems tn be a place
for the mule and the horse In
the army.
If the narrative of the dip into
Oregon were told in detail-it
included a drive in the dark over
unfamiliar trails in the Silver
creek recreation area there
would be some reference to
couple of absent-minded profess
sors at the College of Puget
Sound. That, however, is a good
story to hold over the heads of
two popular members of the
faculty.
The interesting experience of
the overnight stay in Oregon
was a visit with DR.. Bruce Bax-
ter, newly elected bishop of the
Methodist church in the Pacific
jurisdiction, and president of
Willamette university, Salem.
DIR. Baxter's position In
unique and will be for a year.
Besides being a bishop in an
important area In the united
Methodist church, for a year
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SO THEY SAY

I've been washing windows for
II years. and Just broke them.
Joseph Zarcek, n. Y. window
washer who suddenly tossed
chairs through IS apartment
windows instead of washing
Their
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CYNICAL VIEWPOINT

Editor, The Times: The Brit
ish lords and the dole, the Amer
lean billionaires and the subsis-
tence wage are fertile soil for
column activity. Maintenance
of the gold standard by such
economic methods are too costly
to continue.
Humanity considers iiquida-
ton Of the individual. whether
by killing or slow starvation. the
equivalent of the mathematical
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An Inside Picture of Finun-
Il u IL / ciol and Political America
Ry RAY TUCKER

WASHINGT0N-Wendell Wilkes Ellwood challenge to
F. D. r. for face-toface campagn-ssue debates la Lin
Douglas the COP candidates pet dea which
he has nursed fondly for months
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WE BELIEVE IN
MIRACLES

MIRACLES
Editor The Times: Many seem
worried about our defenseless
condition. Although the govern
ment has appropriated billions
for defense. very little arma-
ments are being produced. Are
we not being consistent in this ?
Since when has the politicians
and the great majority of the
people believed that more pro-
duction Is necessary
Have we not been taught late
years that we can get higher
wages, salaries, old age pensions,
social security. and a higher
standard of living by reducing
the hours of labor and produce
less goods and services? Now.
then, IL we can get all this by
less work and less production,
why can we not get a larger
navy, more tanks, guns and
planes by the same method?
We believe in the miraculous.
At least 30 per cent of the
people have very little faith in
more production. They think
that more abundant life for
all can be brought about by
legislation. This has been the
popular economic philosophy for
many years. II you do not think
so, listen to the speeches of the
average candidate for office.
We have one consolation in
this: the French people were Just
as foolish. I see that the Ger
man government offered to sell
a great amount of ornaments
to Brazil. Why not try to buy
some from them? They evident
~ believe in production.
OSCAR c. ERICKSON.
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Dictaton by well-ntentioned groups to what
pictures shall shall not be shown not to mention
dctaton from groups with to grind would stutfy
the art.-Wil Hays, movie car, in annual report.
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axiom; namely. things that are
equal to each other are equal to
the same. 1t matters not If
called parliamentary law or JEFF
ferson g. democracy.
Five-cent meals abundant
life), criminal endeaver to MAIN
tain the profit system for the
rich; religion Ia cloak used by
some persons in this world who
will be warm enough without
one in the next, and conscience
fthe fear of being found out).
constitute a blessed trinity only
in the minds of the privileged
predatory few.
MRS. HENRY BROWN,
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Some these aliens better citizens than many of the
native-born Americans know-Representatve Diekstein
n. Y. in debate reapportionment.
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h-fN-1 kAYO
Strang a. II seems. in the
same ring the same night. Pres
ton Brown defeated In one round
each: Harry Law. Jack Rear
don. Sammy Willis. Young Sam