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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions =? Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
1. To the words of what pop
ulsr anthem is the air OF Ana
creon in Heaven" sung?
2. What liz a bird organ?
5. Under what government de-
partment does the U. s. Marine
corps operate
4. Which of the following u.
s. presidents failed to be elected
when running for a third term.
James Monroe, James Madison
or Theodore Roosevelt?
s. Where is Duke university =?
6. What two Republicans were
appointed by President Roose-
welt to his cabinet?
I. Is ammonia q chemical ele-
ment?
9. The leader Of which polit-
ical party was recently SEN
fenced to a term in jsil7
.. Does a foreign born child
take the citizenship Of adopting
American parents.
10. Who divided the ancient
kingdom of the Hebrews
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY "a

Again the stars promise a
fairly fortunate day. News that
is significant may be expected
in the morning. This is a day
favorable to trade and COM
merce. The moon enters Libra,
a sign stimulating to ambition.
Heart and Home: The dispo-
sition to start things impulsively
will be irritating at the end of
the week. but members of the
family may be unusually ener-
getic and restless under this
sway. Good luck should attend
the workers OF the household,
whether 1t be in regular employ
ment or In domestic tasks. In
the evening there is an aspect
encouraging to change and ad-
venture.
Business Affairs. This is a
lucky day for signing contracts
or entering into new associa-
tons. Bankers and brokers have
the forecast Of a busy week.
Speculation will be encouraged
as the first month of spring
draws near. Activity in exports
is presaged. Extension Of good
neighborliness with Canada is
indicated. Mexico is to COM
mand extraordinary attention in
Washington. d. c.
National Issues: Agricultural
problems will be much under
consideration in Washington
where men of many minds will
make the session of congress I'M
usually interesting. Campaign
policies may interfere with GER
tain aims of ambitious states
men. Oratory will increase In
volume each week until the flow
of words is reduced by strict
procedure.
international Affairs; The
decade of the ie40's has been
long designated as most threat
ening to jewellers of the planet
earth. The fact that Virgo is
involved in the CONGREGATIONS
associated with war portents Is
read as pressging issues In which
the common people will be con-
spicuous. This has been inter
preted as presaging conflict be-
tween the proletariat and the
financial dictstors. but events
are read as indicating a contest
between democracy and Com
munism-
Persons whose hirthdste II Is
have the sugury Of year Of ex-
panding business and increasing
prosperity. Many a dream may
come true in 1910
Children born on this day viii
be strong. practical in ideas and
uniformly fortunate. These sub
lects Of Pisces usually marry at
an early age.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
PULSE OF
THE PUBLIC
SPROULE SHOCKED

Editor, The Times: l was
shocked, nay. I was ashamed to
find in the daily press how some
misguided persons had conspired
to abolish the beautiful and
historical name of Columbia
ave. and tag US with a number.
II puts these misguided people
on a par with those who would
tear down the ancient, aborig-
inal appelation of the lofty and
beautiful eminence from which
the city OF Tacoma derives her
proud cognomen and replace 1t
with the name of an obscure
foreigner.
The name Columbia hanks
back in various forms to the
early ages. Colon, Colonna,
Columb, or in its Latinized form
Columbus. 1t was the name of
Gray's little ship in which he
discovered the great river Of the
West and named it Columbia. by
which he gained for the United
States an empire.
Columbia ave. as is passes our
prettiest park, Lincoln. should
have a footbridge to connect
with the Lincoln high school. the
greatest high school in our state.
Hurrsh for Columbia, Lincoln
and Washington.
nnn>T~s
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
BRlGHTENERS

The souls and lives Of men are
much more serious than farm
ers' crops. Senator Ebert ID.
Thomas (Dem.. Utah.
We are forced to destroy peo-
pie innocent of this war. people
we have no reason to hate as q
nstion.-President Kyosti Ksllio
Of Finland.
The cause OF Finland In its
present struggle against ami
hilstion is srousing the Ameri-
can people 10 an understanding
of the realities Of the communist
sggression.-Maj. Gen. John +.
Organ. U. S. army.
II We could get Hitler and
Stain, Daladier and Chamber
lain 10 come on this stage and
shake hands. the war would soon
be over and ali would be lovely.
David Sarnoff. chairman. radio
division Of Metropolitan opers
fund campaign. addressing
Metropolitan opers-goerA
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MR.. FIxIT
He Fixe, Thing,

To receive attention N this col
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer Only initials
viii be published when requested
Mr.. Fi,it: Can you tell me
the address Of the writer George
AIDE. A READER.
His home il at Hazelden Farm,
Brooke. Ind
Mr.. fixit; l. black n color?
How high IL snoqualnie falls ?
How high IL Niagara?
JACK X.
Webster defines black as the
darkest color"
snoquaimie falls has drop
OF 26s feet; Niagara i67 feet.
Mr.. Fixit: Can you tell me II
you put small trout In a fish
pond with goldfish II the trout
VIII eat the goldfish when they
get grown up! W. &. b.
You may feel certain the trout
viii eat any other fish they can
catch which are small enough
10 swallow. We saw one which
got itself caught by trying TO
swallow a perch almost as big
as II was. 80 doubt you will
enhance the safety of your gold
fish by giving them trout as
plsymates.
Mr.. Fixit: We are newcomers
10 the scenic state of Washing
ton and plan TO make our home
here. Have In mind TO locate on
the Peninsula hut before ! buy
would like to know II you have
any authoritative idea As 10 what
the toll will be over the Mar
rows bridge upon completion.
}. G. X.
The price OF trip over the
bridge will have to remain a
mystery until the Washington
Toll Bridge authority sets 1t.
General idea is that the toll will
be approximately the same as
present ferry fares. 1t probably
will be subject to adjustment ac-
cording TO the volume of traffic
so revenues will be sufficient
to make the project pay out.
Mr.. Fixit: l. too. have one Of
those Swiss bells marked "ls78,
Chiantel, Fondeur," which 9TH
ers have written about. II IL In
the key Of G Sharp.
HENRY FARCY,
RI. 9. Box AS, Tacoma.
Any Of the other bell owners
interested?
Mr.. Fixit; Might ! point out
an apparent technical error In
your reply TO 8. N, Feb. l8?
IL Is not confinement that makes
the essential difference between
explosion and burning. The DIFF
ference Is simply a matter Of the
relative rapidity Of flame propa-
CATION. Confinement merely In
creases the effect of explosion or
burning by concentrating and
directing Its force. In q motor
cylinder you do not have fluid
gasoline but a mixture Of gaso-
line vnpor and air. carefully pre-
mixed 10 explosive proportions.
Therefore the mixture explodes.
In n Diesel engine the heavier
fuel is sprayed In q finely divid-
ed but liquid form into a mass
Of air preheated by compression.
Heat ignites the fuel but II does
not explode In the true sense.
r. G. MILNE.
Thanks also to Dixon West
colt. who explains that gasoline
and Diesel oil never really ex-
plode, that explosion is destruc-
ton of the molecules themselves,
usually occurring with nitrogen
compounds. which are unstable
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
Your HEALTH
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

The posters and advertise
ments which used to mark the
residences of the famous spe-
cialist" on venereal disease have
almost completely disappeared.
Seldom does one see, in these
modern times, the anatomy
shows with the wax models that
inspired fear and trembling in
the young men and women who
timorously studied the speci-
mems. No longer is it possible
for the come-on man, with few
discrete whispers, to start the
boy or girl into the office of the
famous quack who frightened
the adolescent into long course
of unnecessary treatments.
The campaigns of the news
papers in the United States, the
education that has taken place
through the efforts of the federal
health service, the state health
departments, the American Medi-
cal Association and the Ameri-
can Social Hygiene Association
have had definite results. Yet,
even today, the ignorance which
still prevails regarding the So
called social diseases, the shame
and the terror of being found
out" make II possible for many
careless and unthinking drug
clerks and many unprincipled
charlatans to thrive on venereal
disease quackery.
Recently a study was COM
pleted as to the extent OF medi-
cal charlatanism and unethical
practices of druggists in 80
cities. Most druggists can be de-
pended on not TO violate the laws
or the ethics of their profession
by diagnosing either syphilis or
gonorrhea from a description of
symptoms and by treating these
diseases with remedies purveyed
over the counter; yet, there are
still a few unethical and unprin-
cipled charlatans both in medi-
cine and in the drug field who do
not hesitate TO disseminate death
for a few pennies.
The American Social Hygiene
Association has compiled a list
of 80 nostrums frequently rec
commended for sale by druggists
The federal government, through
the Food and Drug Administra-
ton and through the Federal
Trade Commission has obtained
court orders against many of
these nostrums but. unfortunate
ly, the manufacturers change
the names Of the products, move
from their old locations, and per-
sist in their quackery.
Representative OF the Ameri-
can Social Hygiene Association
interviewed 1855 men as TO what
they would do in case they had
venereal disease. OF these. 65
per cent AZ once recommended
some remedy which could be
purchased in the drug store for
sef-treatment. Certainly it is a
strange type Of friendship which
causes a man 10 suggest to a
friend such a dangerous pro-
cedure.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
, STAMP NEWS

THE Walt Whitman scent blue
Il stamp Of the poets group Of
the U. S. Famous Americans series
will be placed on first-day sale
Feb. 20, at Camden. N. j.. where
the poet spent the last 10 years
OF his life as an invalid. Although
Whitman lived and wrote in the
Victorian era, he belongs 70 the
10th century. He dared defy con-
yentions, predicted 3 brighter flu
ture for democracy and the aver
age man. Leaves Of Grass" is
Whitnsn's best known work. His
poetry IS read today in IS trans
lations.
Turkey has issued . -connen-
orsiive series Of eight stamps
marking the first anniversary Of
the death OF Kemsl Atsturk. The
dictator IS shown IN seven poses.
The eighth stamp shows his resi-
dence in Anksrs A souvenir
sheet Of one value shows Atsiurk
in evening dre<A
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
SO THEY SAY

With all our knotty problems,
there is not one which cannot be
satisfactorily settled IL the
groups involved will sit around
a table and talk it overflow.
Clifford z. Townsend of Indiana.
The generations come and go,
but the institutions of our gov
eminent have survived. - Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes
of U. S. supreme court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24

hey don't dare TO head the
certain GoP-ers prophesy that
the industrial exodus from New
York assures their capture OF
that state in the presidential
and gubernstorisl elections next
fall.
The American navy is laying
down its newest ships on the
basis Of lessons learned from
the naval engagements in the
present European conflict. OFF
the record. the shipbuilders con-
fide that vessels now In the
blueprint stage-the 12.700-ton
cruisers and the slightly larger
destroyers-are moneys"
The larger cruiser type will
be based on a combination of the
German pocket battleship Graf
Spec and the 1o,000-ton ships
which have long been the MAIN
stay Of the cruiser flotilla. They
will carry more s-inch guns.
more anti-aircraft artillery. have
a slightly faster speed, addi-
tional safety devices for the
vital electrical equipment, and a
great deal more armor plate. 1t
has been impossible. however. TO
devise protective armor for the
ships bottom against the de-
structive magnetic mines. To
install such armament on so
light ship would be to make
it top-heavy. The new $4,000
ton battleships will have this
protection.
As against existing 1,500-ton
destroyers and 1,s50-.on division
leaders, the new vessels of this
class will range from 1000 to
5000 tons. They will be baby
cruisers" with heavier guns.
greater maneuverability and
finer defense against planes.
Despite these innovations, our
navy is going ahead slowly and
conservatively. 1t is making no
attempt to match Hitler's re-
ported 17,000-ton cruisers or
Ttaly's 4,000-ton estroyers.
Uncle Sam figures he can afford
to wait for few more tips that
may be forthcoming from future
naval clashes.
Republican National Chair
man John Hamilton assumed his
office almost four years ago I'M
der slight cloud. He headed
a campaign which ended more
ingloriously for the COP than
any other battle in its history.
He Immediately got in bad with
his own sponsor-Alf Landon-
largely because he was sup
posed to have struck up too
close a friendship with Herbert
Hoover.
Topnotch GOP-ers have re-
Gently revised their opinion Of
the Kansas redhead. In a period
of Democratic victories and in
dustry's natural fear of admins
tration crack-downs, he has paid
off the deficit and wound up
with small balance in the bank.
He has aroused enthusiasm
among the rank-and-file, espe-
cially the younger generations,
which contrasts sharply with the
rather lowly state of the ma
tional organization. He and
Frank Mailman, jr., have done a
smarter and more effective pub
licity job than the famed James
A. Farley and Publicist Charles
Nicholson.
Barring unforeseen happen
ings-possible involvement of
the United States in war
Hamilton has built the party
into better shape and stimulated
more confidence and belliger-
ence than it has exhibited since
1928. If the COP doesn't have
a $3.50 chance next fall-as
their spokesman predict it
won't be his fault. And il
should be remembered that no
Republican chairman in the past
had to face such powerful set
of enemies as the popular Roose-
Welt, the astute and lovable Jim
Farley, and billions in federal
ban1a,,ta 80 opa Lind ~ apnthar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
COST OF MEDICAL CARE

Editor. The Times: Every
mouthful Of food goes toward
rebuilding our bodies and gen
Grating energy. We build ac-
cording to our intelligence and
knowledge OF nutrition; as to
how we are doing. results speak
for themselves.
Only 10 per cent are in per
feet health. per cent are sick,
and 81 per cent are ailing, and
our daily expenditure for doctors
and medicine is approximately
$4,000, 900. When people get
killed by automobiles $4,000
year, we call that carelessness-
What DO you think?
W. r. ZACHRISON,
I0e East e6th 81.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
IN NEW YORK
ON ROUTE TO FLORIDA
BY GEORGE ROSS

oAN Nv. - ~ AAOAhaA"
Heading down south one of the
things you notice is the remark
able number of factories a-light
all night, and the snow still
heavy on the ground south of
the Mason-Dixon line.
Then there are shanty towns
on the wrong side of the railroad
tracks, some of which make the
roadside bivouacs OF Steinbeck's
Joads seem palatial in compar-
ison.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24

II is extremely important that
those Of Us who believe in indi-
vidusl liberty and freedom tslk
much Of this freedom a. the
present time. DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president, Columbia
university.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
roDAY's COMMON ERROR

Do not say. Each page should
b carefully numbered through
out. omit the word throughout;
il v unnecessary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
- UT cial and Political America

WASHINGTON wave of fear sweeping Demo-
cratic ranks is responsible for the failure Of John Nance
Gamers movement to promote vigorous antithird term
campaign within the party. majority of practical poll
ticos sympathize with the vice president - have in
formed him privatelybut they don't dare to head the
anti Roosevelt narade
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
CHILD COMPOSER

Strange as it seems, the crea-
tor of that immortal lullaby,
Rock a-Bye Baby was a 15-
year-old girl. who died childless
this year at Sc. The woman was
Mrs. Effie I. Canning Carlton,
once an actress, who conceived
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24

the music while tending a rest
less baby for a neighbor.
HOME ACCIDENTS
Despite popular beliefs to the
contrary, the bathroom is one
Of the safest places in the home!
Statistics compiled by the Ma
tional Safety Council from
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
NO DOLLAR
HAMBURGERS

I had To come all the way
down here TO hear the prize
Brooklyn gag. A fellow passen-
ger told me he knew a Brook
Ignite who got a CCC job and
went into the forest primeval
for the first time in his life. He
returned with a fistful of rattle
snake rattles.
where did you get them ?"
exclaimed the CCC boss.
"Off'n a woim," said the
Brooklynite.
Observing life on a train, you
note that Nah Jong is edging
bridge out of first place as a
club car game. and that dining
car prices are down to sensible
levels and everybody is happier.
Reading the papers, you find
every time Tallulah Bankhead
has anything to say on any topic
she Is literally quoted in Wash
ington. where her pappy is
speaker of the house.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24
THE FAIREST
In THE LAND

Passing through Washington
recalled the time Mrs. Roose-
welt stepped out of cab at
function in New York and asked
csmersmen not to snap her.
The lensmen agreed because
the presidents wife has always
been so obliging. That is. all but
one representative OF a small
photo service. He set his flash
bulb off and Mrs. Roosevelt re-
marked; That wasn't fair. TIM
going 10 get back into the cab
and ride around the block and
when step out again all Of you
can snap me-
Shortly after John L. Lewis
characterized Vice President
Garner as a whisky-drinking.
evil old man. Garner was inter
viewed by a reporter and in a
humorous endesvor to live up TO
the description, gave out a daily
diet which included fried rattle
snake meat. AS matter of fact
Gamers physician restricts him
10 a mild menu.
AN OLD GAG
COMES TRUE
Everybody on the Champion
seems TO have a tip on the
horses At Hislesh. Ours looks
good too.
We learn from the Phladel-
phis Records Hollywood column
that Arthur Caesar has sold
Brooklyn Bridge 10 Warner
Brothers. It's the frs, time We
know Of that venerable span has
been sold in a legitimate trans
action.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24

To receive attention N this col
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer Only initials
will be published when requested.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-24

Those soho governed least are governed best"
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
DR.. KILDARE PICTURE
OFFERED AT CAROLINA

Today is a day OF constant VOL
ders. We accept as ordinary and com
monplace many things that only a
few years ago would have been SCOT
fed at as fairy tales" Particular
w is this true in medicine, where
science every day unearths some
miraculous treatment. One of these
modern wonders forms the dram
attic highlight of one Of the most
gripping medical-detective romances
in wears. "Dr. Kildare's Strange
Case" fourth of the DR.. Kildare
series, with Lew Ayres and Llone'
Barrymore, opening today at the
Carolina theatre. You will see the
working of the insulin shock treat
ment bv which hundreds Of dement,
ed patients are being restored to
sanitv. This is one of several thrills
in the new picture which blends
comedy, romance. mystery and grip
ping details of life in a great nos
pital. Based on a story by Max
Brand and Willis Goldbeck, 1t pre-
sents the young doctor and his older
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
"GULLIVER'S TRAVELS" is
FEATURED AT THE BIJOU

Paramount has kept the promise.
made two years ago, that the close
of 1889 would see that studios first
~full-length animated cartoon reach
the screen!
The result is "Gulliver's Travels"
"a spectacular Technicolor treatment
of Jonathan Swift's classic of clas-
sizes, brought to vivid life by the
magic pen of Max Fleischer and
his two hundred assistants and
scheduled for it's local showing to.
day at the Bijou theatre.
With eight new songs and breath
taking color added as extra attrac-
tions, 'Gulliver's Travels" heWs
close to the line Of Dean Swlft's
immortal story of the English sea-
man who got shipwrecked on the
shore of a land no n had ever
visited before, a country of peanut
sized people, the tallest of whom
measured no higher than "Gulliv'
er's'' boot.
All the elements of romance, fan
tasv and humor that made SWlfts
yarn live through the centuries have
been painstakingly transferred TO
the screen, including the biting sa'
tire on politics, international rela'
lions and human institutions.
The program also includes a Sport
novelty and the latest News events
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
WINS
OVER WHITE HOSE
Senators Drive Out 10 Hits
To Capture Engagement
With 1910 Score

CHICAGO, May 19-P-The Chi
cago White Sox still are looking for
their first home victory of the Amer
lean league season.
Washington opened a series with
the Sox today by clouting three
pitchers for 10 hits and a - TO 10
triumph, handing the home team it's
ninth straight defeat at Comiskey
park.
The Sox tried valiantly to over
take the Senators in the last of the
ninth, scoring five runs, four of
them on home runs by Joe Kuhel and
Eric McNair but the rally fell short.
The Washington attack included
home runs by Johnny Welaj, Jim
Bloodworth and George Case. Mike
fresh also hit for the circuit for the
SoX, who occupy the league cellar.
Ted Lyons started for Chicago but
lasted only three innings during
which he gave up nine hits and sew
en- runs and tossed two wild pitches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-20
Red Army To Unleash Drive
Against Hawaiian Islands Soon

HONOLULU, May 10 Up A
make believe Red" enemy I'M
leashes a lightning invasion of the
Hawaiian Islands this week, and
for three days $4,000 United States
troops and a portion of the fleet
will concentrate in defense of the
island of Oahu.
In the greatest experiment of its
kind ever held under the Ameri-
can flag, the civilian populace and
naval units in the vicinity will join
in the first territorial "black-out"
Thursday night, the beginning of
the Red" invasion.
Some time between $50 and 9
p. m. enemy planes will begin
a simultaneous. attack on all the
major islands of the Archipelago.
Radios will announce the alarm,
street lights will blink, whistles
and sirens will blow to warn the
civil, military and naval popula-
ton to extinguish all lights Wis
ible from the air.
The defenders are three ma ior
commands of the army's Hawaiian
department, under Maj. Gen
Charles D. Heron, whose sub.
ordinate commanders have put
their troops through a weeks in
tensive field training.