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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
HOROSCOPE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10

This is a fortunate day in
planetary direction. The morn
ing hours are stimulating to in
dusrry. 1t is date lucky for
signing contracts. Women are
well directed by the stars.
Heart and Home: This is a
day most fortunate for women
who may expect much love and
appreciation under this rule of
the stars. 1t is a happy we'd
ding day that brings long asso-
citation and progressive prosper
ity. Places Of entertainment
are under good aspects. This
is a lucky date for starting on
vacations or pleasure trips.
Fame for women who perform
distinguished public service is
forecast. A leader in educa-
tional reforms is to gain great
influence through the preaching
Of thrift and the simple life.
Business Affairs: Home-seek-
ing will be widespread as wise
men and women desert crowded
centers of population. Trade
and industry should flourish
through the summer. Money
will be spent lavishly in efforts
to influence public opinion. In
terest in the national political
campaign is to be increased by
a sensational incident In mid
summer which will cause alarm.
The need of a President who
has superpowers as a diplomat
and is a fearless leader will be
recognized.
National Issues: The seers
warn against the dissemination
Of propaganda that stirs class
consciousness or sectional pre-
JUDGES. Subversive agencies
viii pursue novel policies that
appeal to the young. but patriot
ism is to have an added appeal
to the great mass of American
people. Unless a miracle hap
pens the United States Army.
with strong aviation forces. will
assume unusual activities.
International Affairs: Terrific
loss of life in the European war
will cause great concern in all
parts of the world. since the
dead must be counted in terms
of what they would have ac-
complished il they had been per-
mitted to live.
Persons whose birthdate IL is
have the sugury Of a year of
gain through good investment or
inheritance. Happy romances
are indicated for many.
Children born on this day
probably will be polite. sensitive
and studious. Legal and literary
talents belong to Gemini natives.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

Mexico has been performing interesting laboratory
experiments in recent years. and social experimeners
this side of the Rio Gande could do than to study
them
When the oil interests of the Americans and British in
Mexico appropriated Mexican oil workers felt festive
They that there would be limit to easy work.
short hours and constantly higher that they them
selves were to and run the oil industry
So what happened? So just two years later the oil
industry CURLY instructed by the begin
to pay its accumulated back taxes and begin to its
obligations How? By eliminating unnecessary jobs and
creating ones, by reducing wages of the
highypaid workers and eliminating overtime except in
emergencies
The lesson? An industry must pay its way, matter
under what circumstances is operated and unless
Is produced not be returned to workers. matter
what the aim.
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QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven Of
these test questions Turn to
Women's page for the answers.
/. Name the first President
of the German Republic.
2. Where are the Black Hills +?
3. When it is autumn in Ar
gentina what season is it in the
United States?
4. Name the largest province
of Canada?
S. Were Noah Webster and
Daniel Webster related?
s. What was the baptismal
name of Buffalo Bill ?"
Z. What is the total full men,
bership in the Congress of the
United States?
s. Which suit in playing cards
has a one-eyed king?
9. Was the Titanic or the Lu-
stania sunk by a German SUBJ
marine?
10. How many rows of stars
are in the American flag?
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national income. On the pres
ent basis, for instance, it
amounts to slightly more than
$4,000, 100000. So a ninety
billion annual take should net
Uncle Sam about nine billion
dollars each year, and that on
the basis of the present tax
structure. In ordinary times
in peace times-that would viz
tually amount to balancing Of
the budget. A sensible overhaul
ing of the existing tax laws
might produce an additional
three billion a year, and permit
slow but steady reduction of
the towering national debt.
But the WARMTH rearma-
ment-has changed all that. So
long as the emergency lasts.
Uncle Sans annual expenditures
regular and extra-will be al
most twenty billion dollars a
year-or almost so per cent of
our present national debt.
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PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC

Editor, The Times: Our Ian
guage has no words to describe
the stupidity and horror of what
is happening in Europe. Yet one
of the most effective 1914-1s
slogans is missing; no one
claims that this is a'war to
end war" Not even the Roose-
welt administration advances
hope of settlement which will
prevent future world conflict.
This is clear gain. 1t means
that the basic cause of modern
war has become so apparent to
great masses of the people that
1t is unwise to attempt to fool
them any longer on that score.
Yet one might imagine great
err honesty than is being prac-
ticed. For example. consider
"our" concern over the fate of
the Dutch East Indies, situated
between the continents of Asia
and Australia. Some may i'm
agine "our" interest is humani-
tartan. But no one could inflict
greater cruelties upon the ma
tives and imported Chinese
coolies than did the Dutch East
Indies company over two hum
dred years of rubber production.
nor were conditions improved
when the Holland government
took direct control in the late
1e20's. However, the Duponts
now own 1872 900 acres of rubber
plantation. which has yielded
$4,000, 900 profit in the past 10
years: the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber company has equally
valuable holdings, and the Hol-
land government was able to
squeeze $3.50, 100000 from its
holdings from 1880 to 1889.
With Dutch control broken.
who will take these profits, the
price of which In death and suf-
fering is recounted by Howard
Wolf in "Rubber-A Story of
Gold and Creed? Is not that
the whole question, to solve
which young Americans may
presently be forced to die?
Touch our present foreign
policy at any point and you will
come upon the same concern for
profits. In Brazil, in one island
prison, Dictator Vargas holds
5000 opponents of his rule. Is
it his democracy" we would
save-even at the price of our
own--or the profits on our half
billion dollars of investments and
loans? AS for saving the Brit
ish empire, just now I have
learned over the radio that I am
unAmerican and probably a fifth
columnist because l would not
sacrifice my sons TO that.
ROBERT J. PEARSALL,
5715 So. Park Ave.
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Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this col
address OF writer Only initials
viii be published when requested.
Mr.. Fixif: Please advise the
best way to clean a down quilt.
VIII the down be ruined, II
washed In soap and water:
MRS. 4. z.
II the quilt is very valuable
one. 1t might be safest to have it
laundered professionally. II it
is not, we'd suggest washing it
Approximately the way you'd
wash a pillow. You might be
able To wash 1t without taking
the down out of it, If the cover
is only a light cotton one, but If
it has a heavy cover. the quilt
would not dry.
II the cover Is heavy, take the
down out of the guilt a you
would from pillow, and launder
it separately in sudsy water,
tepid, so the oil will not be taken
out of the feathers. Dry the
feathers in the shade. Hot sun
also would remove the oil.
Mr.. Fixit: Would you please
tell me where ! could get some
bamboo for basket making here
In Tacoma? Also, where could
l ge' a root of bamboo TO be
able to grow some myself?
MRS. v. G.
II is reed, not bamboo, which
is used in weaving baskets. You
can get ii at the Tacoma Seed
Co, sos Pacific ave. Bamboo
roots can be obtained from
Miethke's Floral a. Nursery Co.
Mr.. Fixit: DO you know of any
market for Angora woole And
what price Ia being paid per
pounds Wis.
II there is any market for
angora wool, Mr.. Fixit would
like to know. Most of the BUSH
ness In the angora wool indus
try has been in selling the rab-
bits to prospective wool raisers.
II any one who has tried it has
any recent information, will he
please write to Mr.. Fixit?
Mr.. Fixit: i am searching for
a book, the title of which Is "The
World In Perplexity." The library
and book stores are unable TO
find II for me. EFT.
That looks like the title of a
religious or political tract. 1t
may be the type of pamphlet not
indexed for Libraries. Perhaps
some reader has heard of 1t.
Mr.. Fixit: Here Is a sure cure
for moles. Get one-pound pack
age Of lead arsenate. Open the
moles' runway where they push
up the dirt. Place therein about
one tablespoonful Of the powder.
Replace the dirt and bid your
friends goodbye. E.E.
Thank you for the suggestion.
But II you aren't careful with
the lead arsenate, bid all your
friends goodbye, not just the
moles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
AFTER MANY YEARS
By {. 7. SHORT

by David Leslie. Tht latter
memorial had the effect of fan
ming into a flame the spark
Jeff bv Jason Lee and congress
finally made a friendly gesture
toward the Oregon cou ntry.
FINALLY on the evenin & of Oct.
8. 1889. there was hel d IN the
old Green Street fGetnodist
church in New York a meeting
that was to bring a re acton In
the then unheard of CITY OF Ia
coma a hundred and enc years
later. It was a gath ering to
make final preparations for tne
departure of the mission sry snip
"Lauzanne, and bid farewell TO
the missionary family enlisted
for service in the NORTH west.
Those in the party who
were to have a direct bearing
on Puget Sound werel Jason
Lee and wife, whose m arriage
to the missionary c. plonizer
nearly caused an insuI rection
in the Oregon missio n; the
Rev. Gustavus Hines, " ife and
one child; the Rev. J. r. Rich-
mond. VI. D., wife ar ID four
children, and Miss Chloe
Clark, a school teacheit The
three latter were to be as
signed TO the mission which
Jason Lee had determi ned to
establish at Fort Nisqu ally in
the midst of the territory con-
trolled by the Puget Sound
Agricultural company.
It was the greatest mis- sionary
expedition ever to leave the east
coast for any port. The writer
of history of the Catholic
church in Oregon so referred to
it. Father Blanchet, WHO was
connected with a Catholic mis-
sion in what is now Lewis coun-
ty, had this to say of the ehSpedi-
ton:
NO missionaries werel ever
dispatched to represent the vari-
Gus sects in any land under more
favorable auspices than were the
ladies and gentlemen of the
Methodist Epis copal thurch
amidst the wilds of Oregc n"
The favorable auspice IS" to
which Father Blanchet re ferred
were the result of the over
whelming Oregon sentimer IT Gre
ated by Jason Lee; adequate
financing, and the efficie Mt or
ganization which charact priced
the expedition.
Finally there came the part
ing. The tug towed the Lau-
zanne outside the harboi., the
sails went up. One member of
the party who will figure in
ceremonies at Point De fance
park, Chloe Clark, wept. 1t was
not altogether due to sorr DIV at
leaving the home folks; it was
partly that she feared she would
be unable to live up to tn z high
standards of the Christie IN re-
ligion she had set up for her
self.
The narrative continues to-
morrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

100 Years Of Methodism
On Puget Sound
Missionaries TO Again
Appear at Fort Nisqually
Thrilling Days Of 1910
To Be Re-lwed
ONE of the last events on tne
" program of the Northwest
conference of the Methodist
church which meets in Tacoma
this week will be a pilgrimage
to the reconstructed Fort MIS-
quslly at Point Defiance park
where there will be staged a
ceremony celebrating the one
hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Methodism on Pu-
get Sound. Characters in the
party which Jason Lee assigned
to the mission at the original
Fort Nisqually in 1910 will be
impersonated and a service
typical of those at the mission
will be conducted.
The celebration will be more
than the observance of the
hundre h anniversary of
Methodism on Puget Sound.
1t also will be in part a COM
memoration of the establish
ment of the United States
government authority in the
Oregon country, for IL was the
influence of Jason Lee and the
Richmond missionary party at
old Fort Nisqually which def
nitely awoke congress to the
danger of losing the North
west to the British.
When the Methodists came to
Nisqually there had been no
thought of Tacoma. There had
been some loose talk about a
railroad to the Northwest but
nobody took the project serious
ly except those who expected to
derive some profit from opening
the new country into which
settlers were slowly trickling by
wagon train.
Jason Lee had sent memoir
ial to congress in 1888 urging
the government to do something
to establish the dominion of the
United States and set up the
machinery to maintain law and
order and guarantee to the
settlers the rights of citizenship.
A year later congress received
another memorial from a group
of seventy missionaries headed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
Stories in
Stamps
U. S. RoiIrood Stamps
Log Behind Moderni Fro
DRAMATICALLY. A merica,

ALPHABETICALLY, merican
railroads still are in he pre-
World War period. Last cf U. S.
postal releases picturing a rail.
road train was the 5-cent parcel
post stamp above. issued h 1912.
Streamlined trains have entered
collectors albums by recent issues
OF Italy, Rumania, Meth erlands,
Manchukuo, and others.
The first train pictured on a
U. S. stamp was the old-fa rhioned
wood-burner on the Scent value
of 1869. The type of Loo pmotive
used for the stamp desi IN was
older than that in general use in
1869.
The 2-cent Pan-America n issue
OF 1901 shows an up-to-dat, eight
wheeler of the Empire Sta tie Ex-
press. A train of this typ, set a
speed record of ll2 miles a hour
IN 1898.
A train also is pictured On the
1876 Centennial stamped en-, ,eIope.
m design incorporating Pony
Express rider.
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when it shuts off automatically.
Thus, Andrew can do his plow-
ing while he sleeps. The device
will disc, drag, roll, plant and
cultivate as well as pillow.
This year / am reorganizing
the farm into 40-acre fields"
says Andrew. This will give
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

flaging his plans, but it is be-
ceeding the $4,000, 100000 in
crease in the national debt since
1882.
When the indirect costs of
drinking alcohol are figured
they have just about equaled the
national debt. All told these
costs reached 500, OILS, $50 ,226 on
Jan. /, 1910. Included in the
gross costs of bottled spirits
and beer from 1888 to 1889 were
public revenues totaling $5,40S,-
1855 less than II per cent
of the total drink bill. The liquor
industry paid an estimated
seven billion dollars in wages,
$3.50, 100000 for raw materials
and half a billion for trans
portation costs and miscellane-
Gus. A return of S15,25S, 765, $50.
In addition to swelling the
liquor industrys Golfers, the
American public has contrib
uted heavily to the Is billion
dollar annual crime bill each
time he buys drink. His con-
tribution to crime cost is based
on the estimate that liquor is
responsible for 16 per cent of
annual crime bill. To avoid over
statement this 16 per cent has
been charged against liquor only
for 1868, with an average of
less than half that total figure
for 1933-35.
Looking at these colossal
totals Americans have started
scratching their heads and Won
dering If maybe he isn't paying
too big q price for his liquor in
alcohol-bred disqualification, in
broken homes, in disease, in pow
erty, in highway deaths, in
many social evils, in lowered
efficiency and in actual cash.
MRS. REGINI BENNETT,
5000 So Yakima.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
ALCOHOL COSTS MORE
THAN L. :. RELIEF

Editor. The Times: The aver
age American citizen is canny
individual. He may believe for
a little while what he's told by
the propagandists. but pretty
soon he gets to thinking things
over. That is just what is hap
pening to the alcohol question.
When Americans start to realize
they have spent more for liquor
than they have for government
relief, they get to wondering
about il.
On Jan. /. 1910. the drink bill
cost s2o.l65. $50. 226, exceeding
the total spent for relief by
seven billion dollars and far ex-
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me a spiral field containing
about thirty-two acres"
BY putting the corner areas
into grass or hay crops, or let
ting them stand idle, Andrew
figures he automatically reduces
the crop production to fit the
government farm pregnant
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
CROP ROTATOR

Frank w. Andrew, Palmyra,
H., farms by remote control"
His tractor and pillow are at
tached by cable to a fixed wheel,
and the tractor goes round and
round the field in a diminishing
spiral until 1t reaches the center,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
ITcHT An Inside Picture of Finan-
Ii u IL i ciul and Political America

WASHINGTON President Roosevets request for
authority to call out the National Guard for extraterri
torial service surprise to the military upon
whom he has relied for advice in the past The idea
sold to him by the ordinarily mild Harry Woodrng and
Chief of Staff Marshall
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

The governments shrewdest
economists predict a national in
come of at least $50, 600. DOC. 900
for the calendar year Of ls41,
provided the European war and
American rearmsment continue.
This increase over the estimated
1910 figure of $4,000, DOC, 900
has tremendous implications.
But il also reveals the acute
tax pains which the American
people will suffer because of
Herr Hitler.
Federal revenue usually aver
ages about 10 per cent Of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

never saw brothery, affectionate greeting in
my lfe-Speaker William B. Bankhead describing meeting
between President and Vice President Garner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

If you're not using IL. sell IL with
Fast Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 315l.
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lieved here that he will mobilize
the guardsmen some time during
June. One date quietly men,
toned is June Is, which happens
to be only nine days before the
Republican national convention
and a month before the Demo-
Gratis convene at Chicago.
If and when the militia is or
dered to the field, it will prob
ably do most of its training and
maneuvering below the Mason
and Dixon line. In that climate
and territory they can be tough
ened for the most probable area
of service in the event of a Hit
Ter triumph-Porto Rico, South
America, Caribbean possessions
now owned by the British, the
French and the Dutch.
Roosevelts suggestion las
aroused fierce opposition on Cap
itol Hill. To his critics-both
Democratic and Republican,
looks like an attempt to engen-
der a hysterical state Of mind.
However, it is also admitted that
perilous times may lie ahead.
and that the guard does need
training in the field.
Several topnotch GOP-ers will
land in Philadelphia for their
convention with novel and
audacious proposal, but one
which seems to be making head
way where least expected. 1t
will call for a shrewd gamble in
the form of Wendell Wilkes
nomination, with either Taft or
Dewey for running mate.
They will argue with the back
room boys that a Republican
victory, under war conditions
is at best an uncertainty, wheth-
er F.D.R. runs or not. They
will also contend that the NOM
nation of typical old-fashioned
politician-a Taft or Wander
berg-or youngster like Dis
trict Attorney Dewey will insure
defeat. Therefore, they believe
that a beleaguered COP should
take a chance-make some risks
scrap tradition-and name the
ex-Democratic businessman.
Wilkes nomination, in the
opinion of this powerful faction,
would have another advantage
in these critical times. Be-
cause he has been a registered
Indiana Democrat. because he
has not been professional
party worker and organization
man" his selection could be
played up as proof that the Re-
pubicans had strapped personal
partisan politics for the dura-
ton"
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F. D. r. is carefully camou-
flaging his plans, but it is be-
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PROTESTS TAX PLAY

5000 So. Yakima.
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The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer
when he meeteth him. he shall slay him-Numbers 35 10
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Tourney Ends With South
Carolina Second, Cita-
del, UNC Tied

COLUMBIA, S. c., Feb. 24.-P-
the Southern conference boxing,
championship tonight by winning
the light heavyweight and heavy
weight bouts in the 14th annual
tournament here.
Clemson amassed a total of 10
points, six more than it's nearest
rival, South Carolina. The Citadel
and the University of North Caro-
with 10 points each.
The varsity of Maryland, 1889
champion, was fifth with six points.
Duke and Virginia Tech had three
each while N. C. State wound up
with a + -.
Clemson went into the finals with
Is points and needed only one win
in five bouts to regain the title
which it won in 1888. Losing two
of the early matches and forfeit
ing another, the Tigers had to- wait
until the next to the last match
to triumph.
Harvey Ferguson, the 1888 light
heavyweight champion who did not
box last year, won a close decision
from Israel Leites of Maryland and
the tournament was Clemson's. An
anti-climax was Warren Wilson's
triumph over South Cardinals top
seeded Dick Baxter in the heavy
weight go.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
F. R. WINS AGAIN
IN FIRST BALLOT
Continued From Page One)

interest that S6S of the 1900 eligi-
hle voters marked the printed bal
lots, a number equal to the aver
age regular primary.
"There was as much interest as
in a regular election" said Chair
man Joe johnson of the Seminole
democratic executive committee, who
arranged for the vote. There has
been so much talk about a primary
in Georgia We thought We would
give our people a chance"
The President received 800 votes
in the four rural precincts of the
county, and 511 in the Donalsonville
town precinct.
johnson recalled hat in past cleo
tons here Seminole has proved tt
be a sentiment sounded for the en-
tire state.
"In 1886 when we held the frs
primary the county voted 661 fol
Roosevelt and 120 for former GOV
ernor Talmadge,' he said. "Then las
year Seminole lined up for Senator
George, first, Talmadge second ant
Lawrence Camp third in the United
States senate race. They finished lr
that order" Camp had the backing
of President Roosevelt in that race
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
TURKEY PREPARES
FOR WAR In EAST
Continued From Page One)

wartime basis, inaugurated obliga-
tory labor system in the Eregli coal
basin.
Under the plan, expected to be
extended quickly, workers in all in
dustry would not be permitted to
leave their jobs.
General staff officers arrived from
Ankara for final steps in organizing
~lstanbuls defenses against any pos,
slble air and sea bombardments.
More British and French techni-
clans arrived to help NAVE the
couontry ready or war. Turkish
newspapers predicted that wal be
tween the Allies and Soviet Russia
was certain, especially if Russia be
comes an important source of sup
plies.
1t was asserted that in such case.
the Allies would move immediately
against the rich Baku oil fields of
Russia, on the Caspian sea.
The newspaper Yeni Sabah, close
ly connected with the Turkish gov
eminent, declared both the logical
and legal justification already exist
FOR Britain and France to declare
war on Russia"
Official quarters reiterated t h a t
Turkey was ready to fight to de-
fend her OWL security.