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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
The Judge Judged

It is an awesome thing to Judge a fellow man.
Endowed with divine wisdom insight, but equipped
with only the regular complement of human knowledge
peudices and feelings any thoughtful must hesitate
before passing judgment on fellow being.
Society being what it is must have judges to enforce
necessary for the safety But those judges
hear about with all possible restrictions seeking to in
sure that the innocent be not wrongly convicted Even
such ordered public justice is falble enough.
But when individual men, bodies of men, rrespon-
ebe and sefapponted begin to judge their fellow
nothing but horror and injustice follow.
There is in Atlanta Ca, who knows this. With
others of his kind he presumed to Judge others BY night
faces hidden these sepponted judges went forth to judge
their fellow One drank too much they thought One
not true to his wife, they suspected One dared to join
night Judges came and took them away and whipped them,
drunk with the power of numbers and secrecy and violence
One victim died of their Judgment"
But there came day when this young Georgia
was brought to orderly judgment The court gave him
hearing and chance defend himself and he represented
BY counsel. And it found him guilty.
He had seemed to himself brave figure by night when
surrounded by his gang he looked through the Sits in his
hood and watched the lash bite into the barred back
But now he cried out that he had been framed pleaded
with the court to be allowed to go home his wife and
children He buried his face his wifes shoulder and
sobbed He who had presumed to Judge others crnged
before their judgment of him.
Let all who incline to Judge severely their neehbors
picture to themselves the misery of this wretched Georgia
boy who must now learn in prison the liberation which
society had somehow failed to teach him elsewhere
Let all such reread the words of the gentle Orlando in
"As You Like IT."
i will chde breaher in the world but myself against
whom know most faults"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
SATURDAY, MAY 4

This Is an unimportant day In
planetary direction. 1t is time
to wind up business deals and
favorable for negotiations with
labor or for engagement of new
employees. The stars smile on
persons in authority.
Heart and Home: This is a
fortunate sway for preparing to
entertain guests. Recreation is
recommended as there may be
need of escape from household
matters. Among women small
deceits are likely to be more
often practiced under this con-
figuration than under other
planetary aspects.
Business Affairs: The stars
favor capitalists who will be gen.
erous in contributions to human
welfare. This is an suspicious
time to collect aid for public
movements of every sort. Relief
needs viii cause efforts to estab-
lish practical methods of meeting
unemployment. The stars bode
drastic changes beneficial and
promising. Warning is given
that now is the time when fur
Their dangers can be ayerted. for
the future is to bring grave de-
preston.
National Issues: Prestige OF
the United States is to be so
great that the nation is embar-
raised by demands upon its
wealth and its strength. Inter
national incidents of serious po-
tentialities are to multiply and
neutrality policies are to be for
gotten as American sympathies
focus on oppressed and persecut-
ed peoples in Europe and Asia.
international Affairs; Naval
movements on the Pacific ocean
win assume more importance as
the summer approaches. Secret
pacts between Japan and the
Soviet government may interfere
with the United States in plans
for oriental trade and commerce.
Subversive agencies will enlist
the sympathy Of young persons
who are writers or college stu
dents.
Persons whose birthdate IL is
have the augury Of q year OF
happiness. Financial interests
win be satisfactory. Young and
middle-aged viii be interested in
romance.
Children born on this day.
probably will be industrious and
ambitious. They may possess
unusual artistic talents in which
they viii gain fame.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
Stories in
Stamps
Gutenberg Pictured
On German Foir Issue

JOHANN GUTENBERG. printer
y of the worlds first book, and
the 500th anniversary OF the in
vention of printing are commem-
GRATED on one OF Germany's new
issues OF four stamps, honoring
the Leipzig industrial fair. Gu
tenberg and his Bible are pictured
on the 3-pfennig brown stamp.
reproduced above.
The inventor of printing made
his first discovery as a boy. He
had carved letters on wooden
blocks, accidentally dropped one
in a pot of dye. The block was
laid on a piece of chamois, and
the letter II" printed on the skin.
From this beginning, Gutenberg
developed the use of movable
metal type, printed his first works
as early as 1910. produced the fa-
nous Gutenberg Bible in 1850.
Of the 800 Bibles Gutenberg
printed, only AZ are now known
to exist. Many of these have
been discovered in ancient mon-
asteries of Europe. Eleven copies
are now in United States, three in
the collection OF J. P. Morgan.
The copy in the Library of Con-
gress was purchased in 1890 in
the Vollbehr collection. DR.. Voll-
behr paid s375,0o0 for the Guten.
berg Bible.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

past few weeks, our navy, much
of the Atlantic and most of the
Pacific fleets, are holding their
naval maneuvers near Guam and
in Japan's backyard, so to
speak. What a fine impression
this must be making upon the
military lords of Japan, and
how they. these war lords of
Japan. must be saying to the
people of Japan. we. Japan.
must have a larger navy to
combat the u. S. navy. The u.
s.. talk of peace and her actions
do not square.
A war between U. S. and
Japan would mean death to
hundreds of thousands of our
youth, probably, and most likely
millions. Have these boys or
have the Japanese boys done
anybody wrong? The only
wrong that I know they have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
AFTER MANY YEARS
By E. T. SHORT

That Is what Rojestvensky
tried to do. He took his YES
sells into the straits but he
didn't crush the Japanese navy.
Though greatly outnumbered,
the Japanese engaged the Rus
sian fleet in what was said to
be the greatest naval battle of
the century. Rojestvensky's
flagship was badly damaged and
he was seriously wounded. Al
the end Of about twenty-four
hours of furious fighting, those
of the Russian vessels that
could do so scurried away and
finally sought refuge in Manila
harbor.
The naval battle was the turn
ing point in the war. Japan was
prepared to press the conflict
when President Theodore Roose-
Welt proposed an armistice and
a peace conference. The COM
batants accepted. The usual
diplomatic sparring followed.
but a few weeks later the rep
resentatives of the two nations
met in Washington to negotiate
permanent peace.
There was more sparring. The
Russians threatened to with
draw unless Japan's peace
terms were modified. Japan
stood pat and it looked as II the
fight would have to be resumed
when Roosevelt again inter-
vened.
1t looked like a hopeless case,
and Roosevelt was criticized for
mixing In the trouble but he
persisted in an appeal for q
negotiated peace. The result
was a compromise in which ia
pans demands were MODIFIED
and Russia also made some CON-
cessions and peace treaty was
signed Aug. 20. 1908.
Japan agreed to cancel the
demand for indemnities but did
get 5000. 600. 600 in cash to cover
certain expenses connected with
the war. Then both nations
borrowed money from United
States bankers to repair the
damage done by their SHY
fighting.
There have been many points
of similarity in the administra-
tons Of the two Roosevelts. II
is not beyond the realm OF hui
man possibilities that the second
Roosevelt might be an influence
in ending the greatest conflict
in his age. Just as the fEst
Roosevelt was.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
Nothing Sacred

One by mere mans last citade have been falling
Ever since the turn of the century, have been
advancing farther and farther into the field of business
Directly after the World they Pumping into
equality in politics. With prohibition they invaded the
speakeases and with repeal they bossomed in the cocktail
bars Even this last masculine refuge lost to man.
But he still had close harmony. The old barberhop
chords dear to the masculine heart when blended above
flowing bowl in sou-srring if not always accurate
harmonies were still little masculine domain unvaded
In Buffalo the other day somebody staged barbershop
harmony contest Three girls entered. And won!
Three Girls! Is nothing sacred?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04

the center of a swirl of struggle
between the power magnates of
the world--some to acquire the
device, mere to destroy 1.-THE
would-be salesman grew exceed
ingly wroth, and presently strove
to prove his point by use of his
iron pointer as a cudgel.
Probably Leo v. Smith has
neither cudgel nor design to sell;
but his offer to display ma
chine he has built, which will
demonstrate how unemployment
can be ended under capitalism, is
reminiscent of the above expert
ence. Nor would the struggle
over such a device be less furi-
Gus than the struggle over a
successful perpetual motion ma
chine-for all do not want un-
employment abolished. Never
theless, I do not anticipate any
congestion in the roads leading
to Mr.. Smiths home.
AS for the rest of his latest
letter, the architectural and
other artistic glories that
marked the Gothic period and
particularly the Renaissance, are
matters of common knowledge.
had also believed that everyone
knew that these glories were
based on serf labor, as the
glories of older civilizations
were based on slave labor, and
as the splendors of our modern
cities are based on wage labor.
Most people certainly know that
never has labor received, in gen.
eral, moro than subsistence in
return.
Poverty was excusable, prob
ably necessary, in the past. The
utterly unique fact in our pres
ent machine civilization Is the
possibility OF abundance for all
the stupidity of poverty.
ROBERT J. PEARSALL.
5715 So. Park Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
PROTESTS STATEMENT
WAR is INEVITABLE

Editor The Times: In the edi-
ton of April % there appeared
two news items upon which I
desire to most vigorously COM
ment: l, Rough Sailing Is Pre-
dicted for Navy Increase Bill"
and 2, war Between U. S. and
Japan Inevitable, Says Rear
Admiral Joseph X. Tausig."
For months many of the
higher ups in our navy have
been trying, in order to get
enormous increases, in addition
to the most generous increases
already granted, to create a war
hysteria with Japan. Our con-
gress a few weeks ago refused
their demands to appropriate
money to make the Isle of Guam
a military Gibraltar in the
eastern Pacific, and now for the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
First Roosevelt Made
II Work
Maybe Franklin Knows
A Few Tricks. Too
Hitler a Fine Subject
For Demonstration

ONE Roosevelt did it; maybe
" another can.
Thirty-five years ago Russia
and Japan were having a series
of terrible battles. The navies
of the two nations had been en-
gagged for several months. Ships
operating between Tacoma and
the Orient arrived here with
their decks dented by bits OF
shells the combatants were
shooting at each other.
The battle had been going on
some time when the Japanese
navy outshot the Russian fleet
and chased the cars gunboats
into Manila harbor. In the
meantime there had been quite
a stir in this country and IN
Europe because Japan was be-
coming so aggressive. Perhaps
If the Japanese could send the
Russian bear scurrying to cover
they might get big ideas and de-
eide to grab a chunk of the
United States or Canada, or
might even annex the Philip
pines or the British isles.
The trouble started with one
of the periodical disputes over
boundaries on land. The cars
board of strategy attempted TO
disconcert the japanese by a
naval attack but 1t didn't work
that way. With the first APP
pearance of the Russian navy,
Japan modified her sea forces
but did not attempt TO engage
the Russian fleet. Instead, the
Japanese navy appeared to be
trying to avoid the Russians and
finally withdrew into the straits
Of Formosa.
Admiral Dewey. who was adj
vising the United States about
the necessity OF protecting the
Philippines. also volunteered
some advice to Admiral Rojest-
vensky, commander Of the Rus
sian fleet. The best way to
teach Japan lesson, said he,
would be for RoJestvensky 20
follow the Japanese fleet TO its
hiding place and force the fight
ing with q sudden attack
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04

American pupnc scHSts. NaeAi-
can authorities privately con-
eede that foreign arrivals have
reached huge proportions.
Dies can hardly be blamed
for cspitalizing perhaps over
capitalizing- revelations of Hit
ler's Trojan horse" technique.
But the fact is that onee-skepti-
cal officials here have grown
alarmed; the SCOTS have been
shaken out Of them. Washing
tons concern over this problem
accounts for creation of the new
spy division" in the department
Of justice.
Even close friends of James
A. Farley locked their eyebrows
at apparently inspired claims
that he now commands suf-
ficient delegates for the presi-
dental nomination If F.D.R.
bows himself out of the national
picture. 1t appears that the
politicos are playing cagey
game even though it involves.
deception of such a popular fig
ure as the national chairman.
Local bosses want to make no
commitments until they know
the presidents plans. With the
exception of a very few, they
are most excellent bandwagon
jumpers. So the easiest way to
dodge the opportunities of friends
of other candidates - Garner,
McNutt, Clark. Barley, etc
is to serve notice that they favor
denomination of osevelt.
When pressed for their second
choice-and any alternative cam
didate will enjoy an advantage
Gus spot if F.D.R. does not run
they fall back on Jim" No
rival can buck a Roosevelt-Far-
ley preference. even though he
may suspect that it is a stall.
Farley = make no mistake
about its the best loved poll
teal figure in the Democratic
party, except for the president.
The politicians would be only
too glad to nominate him for
first or second place If they
thought he would be acceptable
to F.D.R. and could win. But
they are extremely dubious on
both counts and, as the president
recently said to a visitor, they
hope Jim won't be too dis
appointed if he finds that he
can't make it,"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
POVERTY is STUPID

Editor. The Times: In a hotel,
not one of the best, in Ogden,
Utah, the writer once found a
hawk-nosed person selling rights
in a perpetual motion machine.
He had a drawing of the ma
chine; the money was to be used
in building working model, so
a patent could be secured.
When the writer suggested
that II there were merit in the
idea. that shabby hotel and
crude drawing would already be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
Mr. FIXIT
He Fixes Thinus

~
To receive attention In this coll
umn letters must give name and
address OF writer Only initials
VIII be published when requested
Mr.. Flxlt: Please tell M
how many gallons of oil tank
win hold. IL l. IS inches by
IL inches. II. 8.
You'll have 10 find a third
dimension before anyone can
give you the cubic measure of
your tank. Or, IL 1t Is a cylin-
drical tank, you'd have to tell
which of the figures you give
Is the diameter and which the
length.
Mr.. F1xlt: l. there another
museum In Seattle beside the
one nj the University OF wash
ingfon and Art museum? Also
where Is the wax museum In
Seattle? II none In seaftie,
where can l find one near Ia
coma? MRS. p. A. A.
There Is ship museum at the
Ballard locks in Seattle but We
can think of no museum of any
size other than the state museum
and Henry Art gallery on the
university campus and the Sc
attic Art museum In Volunteer
park. The Seattle Chamber of
Commerce has an Alaska mus
cum.
Somewhere In Seattle's skid
road area you would undoubtedly
find some small wax museum
but there Is none publicly recog-
nized and none at all In Tacoma.
Mr.. Fixit: Can you tell me
whether the state Of Washing
ton has lifted the ban on cou-
pons? MRS. II. NJ. II.
The 1889 legislature made
coupons legal.
Mr.. Fixit: Do wages for labor
always have 10 be paid, n moth
ing has been paid In the last
two years? r. ID. w.
Wages stand as the first lien
against property where labor
has been employed. You can
get more specific advice on that
from the State Department of
Labor Il Industries office In the
Perkins building, Tacoma.
Mr.. Fixit: Please tell me
where l may obtain a bicycle
built for two. w. II.
You will find In the Tacoma
phone directory a good list of
bicycle dealers, to which you
could add the department stores.
Any of them can order a tandem
bicycle for you.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you tell me
how 1 can get the lies history
Of some famous women, for In
NJ n d me Schumann-
heink. / should also like to get
Helen keller's. And Carrie ia
cobs Bonds. Would like them
for my scrap book. c. M.
You can find the best bio
material on persons
like that In current magazines.
That would necessitate going to
the nearest library with a good
collection, looking up
references In the Readers Guide
to Periodical Literature and then
reading through them. If you
want clippings, you'd have to
find the magazine issues you
want In second hand magazine
stores.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04

hs tfanscontinentaI trip in
June is generally regarded as an
attempt TO test his popularity
with the people and the politi-
clans. Besides his public ap-
pearances. he will consult the
local bosses and pulse fingerers
in every state he visits. What
he learns from them may be the
determining factor when. as now
expected. the convention indi-
Gates that he can have the nomi-
nation II he will take it. He will
also enjoy the advantage of
knowing the identity of the COP
nominee.
Key Democratic leaders are
sharply split over his reelection
prospects. Their own personal
prejudices and ambitions shape
their viewpoints as much as their
regard for the president and the
party. The palace guard
Messrs. Ickes, Hopkins, Cohen.
Corcoran-want him to make the
try for obvious reasons. So do
m like Mayors Hague and
Kelley, who figure that he will
help to elect their local tickets.
But If he talks with hard boiled
realists like National Chairman
Farley, Vice President Garner
and Bennett Clark = Which he
probably won't-he will receive
the frank advice that he cannot
brave the third-term tradition
and get away with 1t.
tional revelations as a result of
his undercover investigation of
the scope and operations of
Fifth Column" in the u. s.,
Mexico and South America. His
mail on the threat of an internal
invasion has increased ten-fold
since the Norwegian affair, and
he insists that his check-up has
struck foreign dirt.
Communists, Nazis and Fas-
cists have penetrated churches,
civic clubs, the colleges, labor
unions and youth groups, accord
ing to the tall Texan. Thousands
are now working in key fac
tories and business concerns.
Trained propagandists have been
sent into Mexico by the thou
sands under assumed names, in
GLIDING some of Berlin's and
Moscow's ablest trouble-makers.
The influx of aliens below the
Rio Grande, he maintains, is far
greater than complacent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
First in IS Years

In June event viii which has not happened in
the United States in 10 years.
batteshp win be launched. Two of them, in fact
They first since 1921 Probably considering the
losses to the British fleet in the present European war; the
United States has the worlds most powerful navy
We were in that position once before At the Wash
ington conference after the World proved that
would stop building battleships others would We still
feel that But If others insist have alternative
and the the shpways at Brooklyn and Phila-
delphia
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
So ~. o sss o si..s.s ,ss r...r 1s

along the line. Originating prior
to 1853, 1t was reorganized in
May, 1917, and last year showed
a profit of $1,421.ss.
LU SHUN'S SUCCESS
Strange as it seems, when Lu
Shun, noted modern Chinese
author, submitted his Real
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
An Inside Picture of Finan-
cial and Political America


WASHINGT0N-President Rooseyets third-term de-
elsion may depend upon whether he satisfy himself
that ne will be winner in November He will take
no chance walking out of the White House defeated
and discreded chief executive So far the primaries and
private eanyasses have furnished conclusive evidence
that ne can successfully violate tradition.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04

Story of All Q" to the Picking
Morning Post, they ran 1t in the
wit and Humor" column. The
editors soon learned their mis-
take, however. 1t was a serious
satire on classical modes of biog-
raphy and was later reprinted
as a sell-out.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04
FARMERS RAILROAD

FARMERS RAILROAD
Unique among railroads is the
Arcade and Attica line in New
York, only 1886 miles long, op-
Grated the year around by IS
men and women selected from its
1856 stockholders - farmers and
small bushes smen who live
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04

done was to demand work from
their respective countries, who
deny them the right to live.
Perchance could it be that they
should die because society can.
not provide them with employ
ment?
Are we going to stand for
statements like the rear adj
miral's? I won't and further,
l am writing to our state con-
gressional delegation, and I
suggest similar action by read
ers. Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty. We should
think and talk peace, not war.
Our secretary of war said Rear
Admiral Taussig was merely
voicing his personal opinion.
The masses of the japanese
people do not consider it so. He
should be reprimanded. as was
Ambassador Cromwell to Can
ada by Secretary Hull recently.
We had better mind our own
business.
w. A. RICHMOND.
SEATTLE spirit"
Editor. The Times: Seattle's
treatment of the Satkos is just
another little bit of the Seattle
spirit" which we have seen so
many times in the past. Over
the name of our mountain and
many other things. Strange,
city that could be big" acting
SO pettily and jealously of a
sister city one-third its size.
There's one way to make this
bully come off its high-horse.
Boycott Seattle! Let's try 1t.
MARY I. WEBSTER,
1923 So. C st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-04

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