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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-10-03

Is dead to God when he is ly-
ing for the devil."-Billy Sun
day.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-10-03

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
Keeping Americans Free and Equal

More than 160 years ago, Thomas jefferson decreed
that all created free and equal" and those
words nation launched.
The Jeffersonian conception Of equality has been mod
fled from time to time but above everything the meaning
that the Colonial patriot meant to convey that the
nation he helped found must be kept free of castles in the
that they existed in the old world His idea to
establish nation devoid only of ears and barons and
fuda landowners but also of all the hackes and evils for
which class society stood.
Today that tradition is being menaced President James
Conant of Harvard university recently told those parc
pang in the 72nd birthday observance of the University
Of California at Los Angeles
DIR. Conant conceded that modern college youngsters
inclined to at the phrase, equality of oppor
tuny. 1t Is up to the universities to make
lutonary changes in their methods of preparing young
folks for aduthood the educator said. The idea of
casteess nation must be revaized given impetus in
colleges, he maintained.
But is it enough merely to preserve the ideal? Isn't
American society whole largely responsible for pre-
serving the equality tradition by giving the youngsters
with brandnew diplomas chance to the things they
learned in school? How anyone the hopeful
graduate job when the existence of from eight to IL
million unemployed remains uncomfortable reality?
Educators do their part in renovating the school
system to meet the needs of chronological America
It's up to those of not in college to find way to make
of this talent When do. the idea of equality
will become living thing. 1t won't need to be pumped
into anyone.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
SATURDAY. APRIL 8

Until evening benefic aspects
rule this day. The morning
should be well disposed toward
executives. II is a lucky day
for women who seek employ
ment. Good news of general
interest is predicted for the
United States.
Heart and Home: Women are
subject TO stimulating influ-
ences which should help them to
accomplish a great deal in what
ever vocation they follow. The
rule Of the stars is fortunate for
housewives who should be able
to obtain adequate returns from
financial expenditures. Girls
may anticipate romance today
when young mems thoughts turn
away from practical matters.
Business Affairs: Building
construction will be active in
many parts OF the United States.
Manufacturers win push work in
many industries where labor
conditions should be satisfac-
tory. There is a sign which
seems TO indicate erection OF
coasts defenses. The Pacific
coast is to focus extraordinary
notice.
international Affairs: Euro
pean dictators are To suffer III
nesses or even death. Those
who read the stars have discov-
cred evil portents for Hitler. but
there is a sign believed TO warn
OF the close Of rulers career in
another country. The year is to
be marked by mortality among
men in high places. those who
influence human destiny.
Persons whose birthdate Il Is
have the augury Of a year OF
good fortune TO which happy do
nestle conditions contribute.
Children born on this day
probably will be highly intelh-
gent and industrious. They may
be exceedingly witty and mag
netic. commanding numerous
friendships.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
AFTER MANY YEARS
BY {. T. SHORT

governments interest. Carrying
insurance on deposits made the
government an interested party,
and federal funds were put in to
keep things going until the in
stitution could be taken over
and operated as unit of a Sc
attic bank.
Whatever the cause. it doesn't
alter the fact that 1t was the
federal bank guarantee act that
saved the day. Add that to the
crop loans, soil erosion control,
and a few other activities pro-
NOTED by the New Deal, and
party politics becomes a risky
business.
The Adelphians' big day in
Spokane was preceded by the
200-mile drive from Chelan,
which began at 6 o'clock Thurs
day morning. Part of the route
was through the wheat country
where there is every indication
of a good crop. With market
prospects now indicating at least
a dollar bushel, it looks like a
good year for the wheat grow
ers. The big operators who can
produce for 40 cents a bushel
or less. will clean up. The small
err operators whose costs often
exceed rs cents a bushel, will
have more ready money than
they have handled for some
time.
So far this has been an inter-
esting trip, parti cularly for
members of the chorus who are
making the tour for the first
time. II is new experience to
come into town where only the
main streets are paved and the
plumbing fixture business has
not reached the saturation point.
There also have been a couple
Of instances where some man.
euvering was necessary to work
out the housing situation salts
factorily. In one north Central
Washington town where birth
rate seemed TO have slowed
down, two members of the Choir
us were quartered in a mater
nifty home. AS luck would have
il a patient arrived unexpect-
eddy about 6 a. m. The staff of
the home became so occupied
with the patient that they for
got about their guests. The
Adelphians slept so long past the
rising time that the bus was
more than an hour late in get
ting away. .
When this is being read we
will be in Connell. center OF one
of the rich wheat districts where
the crop looks like a hundred
per cent That ought to mean
good collection. And do we
need it,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
Stories in
Stamps
Moyon Artists Invented
Comic Strip Balloons"

THE modern comic artist, who
first circled a group OF words
and drew a line down TO the
mouth of his comic character to
indicate speech, may have thought
he had made a great discovery.
but he was merely copying what
artists of ancient Maya were do.
ing $500 years ago.
But far more important 10 the
average Magyar than the speech
scrolls carved upon temple walls.
was the remarkably accurate call
endar, pictured on the Guatemala
stamp, above, one of a recent
series OF four low values. Upon
this calendar depended the prepa-
ration of fields, planting of seeds
and harvest.
The Magyar civilization devel-
oped in northern Guatemala dur
ing the early years of the Chris
tan era, reached its peak about
the eighth century and had all
most disappeared when the SPAN
iards came TO Mexico. The Mayan
priest-astronomers based tn cir
chronology upon movement Of
planets, made il exact 10 a day
within period of 374,400 years.
which is as accurate as the cslen-
dsr Pope Gregory devised 1000
years later.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

HATEFUL ANNIVERSARY

Editor The Times: April 9th
marks fateful day, the twenty
third anniversary of Americas
entrance into the World war,
"A War to Make the World Safe
for Democracy" "A War to
End War" What mockery
from the vantage point of today!
A second world war is already in
progress and this time we are
being psychological and propa-
gandized with the slogan DE-
mocracy Versus Fascism and
Communism"
Thousands of American boys
sleep in Flanders field and thou
sands more still live as physical
and mental wrecks of the stall
wart young men We sent to
France in 1917. Let us not for
get that these boys left homes
and native land to fight on for
eign battlefields, facing the mud
and blood of the trenches, bombs,
machine guns, barbed wire en-
tanglements, poison gas, and
even death itself, for approx
mately s1.25 per day. Yet at
the same time inhuman profit
GERS amassed fabulous fortunes.
In the United States. $4,000
new millionaires were created.
Senator Homer Bone states that,
according TO the records of the
treasury department, profits in
some instances reached the mark
of 300. 900 per cent. Bethlehem
Steel corporation. during the war,
gave its president 81 100000 a
year just as a bonus.
Is the European war being
fought in the interest of democ-
rscy? Many of Britain's leading
scholars. including such men as
Harold Isky. the Dean of Canter-
bury. and H. C. Wells, veteran
novelist and historian, maintain
that the war is imperislistic.
Quoting from a recent statement
by Mr.. Wells. 1T is the system
OF nationalist individualism and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
P USE OF
T H E P u BLIC
PLANNED ECONOMY"

Editor The Times: The other
day someone in your columns
made the statement that all
planned economies are dicta-
torships. This is one of many
statements that people make
without clear thinking. Dicta-
torship as l understand it, is
where one man or a small group
determines what is to be done;
while a democracy is where a
majority of the people who are
interested do the determining.
Ford Motor company is a
planned economy and a dictator
ship, while Tacoma City Light
is also a planned economy but
democracy. It always depends
on who are the owners.
J. p. NIELSEN
Puyallup.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
War Horrors on Main Street

Most of shudder at the thought of living among
the terrors Of modern mechanical Far from combat
zones, get the filters when read of Europeans
struggling daily with the threat of bombs artillery fire.
floating mnes hostile submarines.
We don't realize that many of invite deliberately
the death hazards day by day which people at
forced to take The Family Economic Bureau of the
Northwestern National Life Insurance company has taken
great pains to figure out:
When lodging busy American street in
the middle of the block your chances of sudden death
almost exactly the as those of European
in city under bombardment during the time it takes
you to reach the opposite curb
A drinking driver puts himself and his passengers
under the same hazard il he aboard contra
band-carrying ship passing through submarine
The driver who does go m. p h. at night has 20
per cent greater chance of getting killed than do stu
dent pilots at army and navy flying schools
The housewife who cleans with naphtha, benzine
or gasoline is under twice the hazard that faces the
student air pilot.
The driver who goes through stop sign incurs
death hazard only 20 per cent less than that of
sailor in the British navy, aboard ship in the
We don't need to call conference of diplomats end
casualties. All need is little common sense,
applied thoroughly over all of the populace.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
ENGLAND AND GERMANY

Editor The Times: There are
$1,000 Germans in England, yet
only 120 of them are informed.
That shows the difference be-
tween the two nations. England
Is humane, Germany is harsh.
Gladstone was a great Chris
tian statesman. who. when the
Turkish atrocities of the 1Ss0's
were at their worst, stepped
down from his retirement TO de-
clare that the numbering must
stop. or England would know
the reason why. 1t stopped.
Hitler is incapable of moral
Indignation like that. Not count
ing the United States, the Brit
ish empire is the best governed
nation in the world. Just see
how happy Canada is. 1t is a
case of mother and daughter.
And just note the magnifi-
cent roll of the great men in
Great Britain - Shakespeare,
Addison, Tennyson, Macaulay,
Gibbons. England emphasizes
the pen; Hitler's Germany wor-
ships the sword and the horrors
OF the concentration camp.
England is our best friend.
When Commodore Dewey sailed
into Manila harbor an English
fleet was lowering not far
away. TO help If necessary.
The aims of the British en-
pire today are instinct with the
sermon on the mount. God bless
the British empire from east to
west, from pole TO pole,
J. P. RAWSON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can You answer seven of these
test questions ? Turn 10 woman's
page for the answers.
/. Where is the Matsnuska
settlement
2. Must bottled-in-bond whis-
key be at least three. four or five
years old
;. Where did General Lee sur
render 10 General Grant?
4. Does the San Francisco
Oakland Bay bridge in Cali
fornia have a single span. or six
spans
5. Name the Democratic whip
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06


umn Letters must give name and
address OF writer Oniy Initials
will be published when requested.
Mr.. Fixit: Would You please
tell me II there " any place I
can find = pamphlet from the
daffodiI parade? wM. r.
There was none published this
year.
Mr.. Fixif: Can you tell me
why the garbage man won't
pick mp clippings piled beside
the garbage can. @. NJ. y.B.
II the garbage man knows the
clippings will be there. he will
pick them up, the department
informs US. Reason II doesn't
Is that the trucks are so much
more heavily loaded at this time
OF year they can't take on un-
anticipated materials like that.
There also has been some diff
Guilty where garbage men picked
up what looked like discarded
clippings and then had a fuss
raised because they were slips
piled inadvertently near the gar
bage can. 1t is safer and better
to phone the garbage depart
ment. so 1t will plan on picking
up your extra stuff. II 1t is not
much. there will be no extra
charge.
Mr.. Fixit: We would like 10
know II when n house II quaran-
tined for scarlet fever. II any
one IN allowed to leave. We were
told only the person having IL
had 10 stay In and the mother
and father would be allowed TO
90 out. Will you please enlight-
en- ms TO the laws? READER.
Wen have to refer you to the
city or county health officer.
Quarantine rules for scarlet
fever vary with each individual
case. depending upon whether
persons involved are food handl-
ers or have work like school
teachers where they are likely
To come In contact with children.
Mr.. Fixit: Can you tell ME
the number OF grams of carbo-
hydrate, protein and fat per hun
dred grams for caIayos. Also
what vitamins do they contain?
p. II.
A calavo. avocado or alligator
pear, as you choose to call 1t,
contains per 100 grams an aver
age of i gram of protein, IA of
fat and Z of carbohydrates. That
weight provides 156 calories.
Vitamins A and B are present.
Mr.. Fixlt: Could you please
give me the time OF the Ice break
at Fairbanks for the last four
or five years as soon as possible.
A READER.
We've checked the Alaskans
We thought might know and none
seem to have kept account. You
might be able to get that infor-
nation by writing to The Alaska
Weekly, Seattle.
Mr.. Fixit: l have n diary Cor
manual ms II was called then)
Of my great, great grandfather.
II was 100 years old In 1886.
Can you tell me where I can find
the valuation Of the same.
MRS. A.
Unless the diary tells of some
historical event in which your
great, great grandfather was in
volved personally and would shed
new light on 1t which the gov
eminent or some state historical
society might want, there would
be no value except to YOU.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

of the senator
8. What is the nickname for
the small statuettes presented
annually TO outstanding film
players by the Academy Of Mo-
ton Picture Arts and Sciences
Z. Has the United states ever
issued three cornered postage
stamps
s. What is meant by rococo7
Q. Is the Cape Of Good Hope
the southernmost tip Of Africa
10. What English mariner dis
covered Canada?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

navy's fleet of 1.200 ships cannot
compare numerically with the
1921 vessels of the army, which
include ferryboats, tugs, mine lay
ers. crashboats. seagoing dredges
and three 13.000-ton transports
operated by the Engineers and
Quartermaster corps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

plans in talks with men he c;
FDR still prefers Attorney
General Jackson for first place.
but he does not figure he can
put Bob across in view of the
Garner-Farley factions antago-
nism. Therefore he will compro-
mise on the secretary of state
IL he can retain control. His vice
president choices run, in order.
about as follows: Jackson, Su-
preme Court Justice Douglas.
Supreme Court Justice Murphy,
Secretary Wallace, Mayor Flo
relic II. LaGardia of New York.
Any one of these men, in the
presidents opinion, will give a
liberal balance to the slate. Chief
significance in the list of politi-
cos is that the names of Farley.
McNutt and Ickes do not appear
on il.
Roosevelt realizes it will be
difficult for him TO handpick
both the candidates, but here is
his strategy: When and if the
convention bosses name Hull Tor
any other quasi conservative
candidate), he expects them to
phone him to ask if he will cam
paign for their selection whole
heartedly. In return for such
a promise, he will set up the
condition that they permit him to
pick the vice presidential nomi-
nee.
Mayor LaGuardia's rooters-
and there are several in the
presidents immediate family
have emerged from White House
political conferences in a cocky
mood lately.
1t may be wishful thinking on
their part, but the LaGuardians
believe that their hero, despite
his reputation as a political ro-
mantle, may get the nod. BY a
process of elimination, they brush
aside his rivals for second place.
They maintain that National
Chairman Farley will never stand
for Jackson or Murphy. They
understand that Justice Doug
las will not step down off the
court, he has said so privately.
Wallace, in their opinion, will be
discarded because he cannot
bring sufficient strength to the
ticket.
The LaGuardia people spout
extremely practical politics in
their private sales talks on his
behalf. For one thing, they ar
que that his record as mayor
would appeal to the civic-minded
in populous cities. They insist
that his liberal views would cor
raj the votes of thousands in the
important states of New York,
Pennsylvania and Illinois. Last
ly. and most pointedly. they con-
fide that, if Tom Dewey should be
the COP nominee in first or Sec
ond place, nobody could tear him
down more effectively than New
York's head man. LaGuardia
himself is not too optimistic
about his chances.
German subsidiaries of several
key American corporations have
been incorporated in Hitler's war;
making establishment as COM
pletely as if he were the owner,
production manager and boss
foreman-which, in effect, he is.
The corporations established
their factories in Germany long
before der fuehrer rose to power.
Though Americans retain con-
trolling interest in most instances,
they operate both domestic and
export business under Hitler's
dictates. He could hardly exer-
uncoordinated enterprise that is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
GEORGIA HONEY
by John Hix

Bees, strange as it seems, pro-
duce $1,000,000 annually for
Georgian farmers. from cotton
honey, beeswax, renting bees to
pollinate orchards and from the
actual sale of package bees and
queens.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

~ -
THINGS are looking up in
4 Chelan valley. To the income
from the fruit crop and some
diversified farming is being
added the payroll of mining
operations at the head of the
lake. Though the mines have
been worked some time. it is
only in the last few years that
an attempt was made to bring
them to full production. The
principal output is copper and
gold. The market for both
products is good and the pros
poets are that the payroll will
increase.
In the city of Chelan, where
the Adelphians put on a concert
Wednesday night, preparations
are being made for the 1910
tourist season, another source of
income in this part of the val
ley. Lac Chelan is favorite
summer spot for inland residents
and attracts a goodly number
from the Puget Sound country
also.
Just ahead of the Adelphians
In Chelan was a group of North
Central Washington community
leaders here to discuss ways
and means to increase the tour
list income. Speakers were Henry
J. Gillies, of Seattle, president
of the Washington state ASSOC
ciaiton of commercial organiza-
tions. and Rufus Woods, pub
Usher of the Wsnatchee World.
What added inspiration to the
meeting was the prospects
that the completion of the
Grand Coulee dam holds for the
entire Northwest. II seems rea-
sonable to assume that when the
power duction units are
working at fun capacity and the
water is being poured over a
million and half dry acres, an
increase of approximately a mill
lion can be expected in the
states population.
Part of that population will
be employed as producers on
the farms: the others will be
employed serving the producers.
Any way you look at II the
prospect is favorable.
Quite boom to nominate
Rufus Woods for governor on
the Republican ticket is develop
ing in the valley. Rufus isn't
committing himself but seems TO
be in one Of those states OF re-
captivity which requires quite
bit OF pushing to develop into
anything positive.
To one looking in from the
outside there seem TO be reasons
for caution. Present indications
are that the platforms of the
two major parties viii be wide
apart on issues vital 10 this part
of the state. Only recently one
OF the leading banks got into
difficulties and would have been
closed had il not been for the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
ARMY VS.. NAVY

ARMY VS.. NAVY
Strange as 1t seems. the United
States army today has nearly
three times as many vessels as
the United States navy. according
to the Army and Navy Journal.
Although largest in the world, ex-
cept that of Great Britain, the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
An Inside Picture of Finan-
cial and Political America
LIG HIT

Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt feels so confi-
that his forces will control the Democratic national
convention that he has already written out list OF the
he would like see nominated for second place on
ticket headed by Cordel Hull He makes secret of his
plans in talks with men he trust.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
ToDAY's COMMON ERROR

Never say. Il don't guess YOU
remember me-; say. u think
tor presnmel that you do not
remember me-"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

The love of money and the desire for freedom to make
and equality TO pursue the current ideals of the United
States-Dr. Robert NJ Huchins president University Of
CHICAGO.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06
Mr. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this COLI
umn Letters must give name and
address OF writer OniY Initials
will be published when requested
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

uncoordinated enterprise that is
the worlds disease, and it is the
whole system that has to 60. 1t
has to be reconditioned down to
its foundations or replaced. 1t
cannot hope to 'muddle through
amiably. wastefully, and danger
ously a second time
We live in dangerous days.
Youth stands helpless while the
war clouds thicken. 1t is our
sacred patriotic duty, as Ameri-
can citizens, to form an impreg-
nable barrier and say, mo, this
terrible thing shall not happen
again"
MAUDE n. RICHARD.
1921 So. L st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-06

Mining Adds a Bit TO
Chelan Valley Income
Tourist Business Also
Helps Pay the Bills
Rufus Woods Being
Doomed for Governor
Adelphians Pick Up Some
New Experiences