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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
SEEKS EXPLANATION
FROM POLICE DEPT.

Editor, The Times: The letter,
warning to Gamblers" by
Harry II. Johnston. should GER
tsinly give this city food for
thought.
Must we accept this condi-
ton among our city employees ?
The salaries of safety depart
ment employees are matter OF
public record, yet a great many
taxpayers wonder why the ma
jority of policemen are able to
drive expensive cars, live in
beautiful homes, own summer
places and have many Injuries
that other families receiving the
same income could not possibly
afford. Is Mr.. Johnston's letter
the explanation
1t might be interesting to jot
down the addresses of few of
these public servants and when
in their locality. take a look at
their homes and then try and
figure out how they do it.
Some have claimed business
men of our city want gambling
joints TO run wide open. Why?
II John Doe loses his weeks
salary, how can he pay his
grocer, butcher and landlord?
He can't! He has to stall them
off. The next payday he des-
perately tries to recoup his
losses and loses again. Then,
collection agencies get his bills
and collect. retaining half. The
grocer, butcher and landlord are
business men. but do they profit
by receiving only half Of their
due money?
Perhaps the civil service COM
mission can explain why one po-
lice officer is permitted to run a
prosperous drinking club down
town | always understood civil
service did not allow members
to indulge in business activities
outside their jobs as city en-
ployes.
What is the reason names of
bootleggers are becoming as
familiar as the names of our
neighbors ? All a pc. son has to
do is glance at the headlines OF
notice and find the same
names and addresses repeated
regularly for liquor violations.
The taxpayers are the employ
ers of the safety department
and have a right To demand
honest service of all their en-
ployes. ADA WOoDMAN.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

senior citizens of Washington
$40 per month, one-half of which
will be paid by the national
government.
In Pursuance to motion
passed by local 121 w. A. o.
p. u, I am soliciting through
your columns for volunteer cir
culators for Tacoma and Pierce
county. We have accepted the
gauntlet thrown us by our state
headquarters of securing $4,000
names and need all the help we
can get.
We are not circulating petit
tons on No. 141 because we
want charity tmis-used world.
On the contrary, we are doing
it because a decent standard OF
living is our due as compensa-
ton for the services we have
rendered society in our younger
days. We know, and you know,
that $40 per month won't give
us a first class living! 1t will
only be a step in the right di-
rection and tide US over until
a decent national pension can
be secured; for to live, we must
eat
Volunteer eireulators of Pierce
county. please write. or come
into county headquarters of w.
o. A. p. u, 1109ia Broadway,
Tacoma.
CAPT. w. f. WESTERMAN,
Chrm., Publicity Committee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
HOROSCOPE
SATURDAY. MARCH so


This is not an important day
In planetary government. The
morning Is unfavorable to the
plans Of persons In authority.
In the later hours there may be
keen common sense manifested
by persons in many walks of
life.
Heart and Home: 1nformality
among young persons will be
marked at this time when there
will be definite turning point
toward oldtime manners and
customs. Too much liberty will
have put an unfortunate stamp
upon many girls in college and
in society. Hasty courtships
will be ignored frequently and
parents will assume extra fl
nancial burdens.
Business Affairs: Construction
will be pushed this spring when
homecoming will be unusually
popular. Among well educated
and wisely trained young men
and women there will be little
lack OF employment. Adult edu-
cation results will be evident
in the interest manifested in
household arts and in efficient
use OF money. Order and sys-
tenn will be desired by many
formerly careless regarding
housekeeping details.
National Issues: Ambitious
public projects may be delayed
at this time when competition
among the states will be bitter.
Military training camps will be
costly through the summer.
Pacifists will criticize the spend
ing necessary in preparedness
programs. Those who read the
stars warn that only when a
nation is strong In defense can
II be assured OF freedom from
aggression.
International Affairs: Mexico
Is to provide news more or less
sensational before autumn.
Changes in government heads
may cause anxiety in the United
States. Diplomacy again will
bridge unfortunate incidents az
fecting owners of property in
the southern country. The good
neighbor policy will be success
full. at least for a short time.
Persons whose hirthdate 1t is
have the augury Of a year OF
unusual success. Those en-
ployed will gain approval and
may expect increase OF salary.
Children born on this day
probably will be energetic and
enthusiastic In their right yoea-
tons. These Arians usually are
successful, for they are intelh-
gent and industrious.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

The Farleyites started with
the assumption that F. D. r.
does not want a third term for
himself; they based that find
ing on his recent behavior and
private conversations. They also
agreed that his favorite is not
Secretary Hull, contrary to over
whelming public opinion. Their
second most important con-
clusion was that he wants to
create a state of confusion at
the convention, but a confusion
which he can control and use
for his own purposes.
At the proper time. in their
opinion. he will serve notice
that the convention must re-
nominate him or name Attorney
General jackson as the stand
ard-bearer. All F. D. RS other
fayorites - Messrs. Hopkins,
Douglas and Murphy - have
fallen by the wayside or been
ditched, and only Bob remains.
Rightly or wrongly, that is the
Farley factions conviction. And
they regard Mr.. jackson as an
interloper-also as man who
cannot be built up into a win
ming candidate between now
and November. And. Of course,
the nomination of the A. G.
would mean that another New
Yorker-namely, Mr.. Farley
could not be chosen for second
place.
The outbreak of aerial blitz-
kriegs over Europe was respon-
sible for postponement Of the
congressional inquiry into the
administration sale of planes
To Great Britain and France.
The White House convinced
0uIEftSS titdk II 6ulil f1uA di-
pear to be handicapping the
allies at the very moment when
the belligerents were carrying
the war into the skies.
A great deal of confusion
shrouds the controversy between
the treasury CMorgenthaul and
the war department (Woodring-
Johnson) over the kind Of planes
the allies should be permitted
TO buy. Contrary To reports.
it is not a personal squsbhle-
AesSrs. Woodring and johnson,
in opposing the export Of Ger
tain types, have merely relsyed
the considered views OF our
military experts. They have
simply submitted technical ad-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Right or Wrong
About People
BY DONALD A. LAIRD ,
Ph.D., Sci.D.
Author of 1ncreasing Personal
Efficiency

Apparently people do not have
as much fun as they want, al
though they may have more fun
than people with dispositions
that would curdle milk think is
good for them.
Today all over America. for
instance, more than half of the
women and more than one-third
Of the men reading newspapers
will turn to the amusement
pages of their favorite paper,
most of them in search of some
thing to do, of some way to have
more fun. We know this from
our analysis of how some $4,000
people read their newspapers.
l wonder il women really have
less fun out of life than men do!
The way they read their news
papers suggests that this is the
sad truth.
1t shows up even in the adj
vertisements they read most.
We have studied how several
thousand housewives read some
500 food advertisements. More
of these women were drawn to
the advertisements which show
ed how fun could be had with
the food being advertised than
TO any other ads. Not quite half
as many were drawn to the adj
vertisements which told about
the purity of the food.
Perhaps there is more drudg-
cry than men realize in prepar-
ing a meal, and most women
quite naturally want to read
about 1t in a way that helps
them forget the boresome rou-
tine.
This business of not getting
enough fun takes in more than
Just the kitchen grind. Our new
evidence from advertisements on
things beside food, for the past
two years. show definitely that
people read most Of the adver-
tisements which have light
touch, which entertain rather
than instruct. Those which en-
terrain are read much better
than the average advertisement,
particularly by the women and
to the tune of an increase of
around so per cent of the past
year.
Why have people let life be-
come so humdrum Or has the
present generation had so much
fun that they have exhausted
the pleasures of ordinary enter
tainmentg
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time Help Sleep?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
AZ FER MANY YEARS

more about each others bnsi-
ness than Is absolutely neces-
sary for life 10 90 on. Neigh
bors gossip about each other
and sometimes not without mall
ice. But. on the whole. neigh
eors are the people TO whom
one does turn for help IN an
emergency and for comraseship
IN common task A reign
borhood IS made up Of Nigh
bors whose ideas and interests
are assumed to be pretty much
alike.
But how different the picture
becomes if we get into the habit
of dividing up neighborhoods
into two-thirds fortunately stu
ated neighbors and one-third
less fortunately situated. and
the two hating each other and
plotting each others undoing.
People then cease 10 be neigh
bors and folks and become in
terests and pressure groups and
anti-social forces and classes.
Interests and groups and class
es don't watch each other from
behind the window shades to
see how many quarts of ice
cream the people next door are
having for the dinner party.
Neighbors in our war of classes
watch each other to see whether
the people next door are plant
ing dynamite under our door,
step or poisoning the water
supply.
A little less social conscious
ness and bit more neighbor-
illness might do this nation a
lot Of good; like Secretary Ickes
dropping In ON the du Points to
borrow a cup of sugar; or John
L. Lewis offering TO sit up a
spell while William Green went
out for a bit of fresh air.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
BRlGHTENERS

The British landed 10000
Australian and New Zealand
troops at the Suez canal. Prob
ably to harvest that celery Dis
raeli was talking about.
Those Social Security workers
in Baltimore, arrested after a
strip-tease stag party, are dis
illusioned by the lack of security
in their social lives.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
FOR PETITIONS

Editor, The Times: The most
valuable possession of a nation
is its inhabitants. Satisfying
their requirements is paramount
and should be the first con-
siderstion of the nations Of
ficisls. Unfortunately. only too
often that is not the case. The
lives and welfare OF our citi-
Gems are of only passing interest
TO politicians who place prop
erty rights above that of human
rights.
Public officials seldom do any
thing for the benefit of the
under privileged whom they
recognize only when they are
seeking office, 80 we OF the
Washington Old Age Pension
Union are circulating petitions
for the placing on the November
election ballots a proposed law
that viii. II passed. give the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Mr. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention n this coll
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer. ONLY initisls
will be published when requested
Mr.. FIxit. VIII You kindly
print Mrs. D. ID. Rooseyelt's
address. the one where she
would be most likely 10 get 1t
berselfs
A READER
The Roosevelt addresses are
The White House. Washington.
D. c.. and Hyde Park. Dutchess
county. y. Y. But all you can
expect your letter TO do.
wherever you send IL TO a per-
son who receives a. much mail
as the first lady. il TO add effect
TO the hundreds or thousands Of
others on the same subject.
At any address. IL viii be
opened and read by a secretary
and classified.
Mr.. Fixit: was wonderin
n you could send me the names
and addresses Of private indI-
yiduals or firms Interested In
buying white fir pulpwood. 1
know where ] ean get some
timber but I don't know who
viii buy II. STANLEY W. c.
The st. Regis Kraft Co. and
Rayonier. Inc, in Tacoma both
buy small percentage Of white
fir pulp wood from private in
dividnals. They prefer hem
lock, however, and usually take
white fir only where a little of IL
Is in the same tract where the
hemlock is being cut.
Mr.. Fixit: would like to
know where ] could write to
obtain my birth certificate.
WAS born In st. Paul. Mimi, In
the year 1915. MRS. W. q. p.
Write to the State Bureau Of
Vital Statistics, st. Paul. Birth
records in Minnesota have been
kept on a statewide basis since
1900.
Mr.. Fixif: Could you give
me- any information where 1
could buy guinea pigs for breed
ing stock. 1 have been unable
TO find any paper or magazine
that advertises them for sale.
J. II. w.
You can get them from stahl,s
Outdoor Enterprise Co, Inc.
New City, N. Y, and nearer
persons who offered them some
time ago were L. e. Lyman. at
Milton, and a gentleman at 3617
So. NJ St, Tacoma.
WI EtAit. SOutu you tell me
just when the troops will arrive
here from California +? Also,
how are they coming back, on
boats or In trucks.
MISS J. l.
1t. Gen. Dewitt has ordered
them to move out of Camp Ord
at Monterey May Is. Arrival at
Fort Lewis should be several
days later and probably stretch
ed over most of week. There
is no official word on how the
soldiers will be brought back.
but the rumor among army
men left here Is that at least
part of the force will come by
motor truck, and probably all
by land.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Census Privacy and
Surgical Brosdessis
Some Comments on the
Row in Congress
And an Observation by
Mrs. Roosevelt

And an Observation by
Mrs. Roosevelt
A FTER al the fuss raised in
I congress about the character
Of QUO itions the 1910 census
takers are supposed 10 ask. the
coiumnist Of the New York
Times rises To inquire what all
the rows about anyway. Il IL
so good that II is herewith re-
produced. II is probably much
more interesting than anything
that could be CLEANED from the
local grist In the present mental
state of this column conductor.
Here it Is:
One reason for refusing to be
upset by the inquisitive census
bureau and the right of privacy
is the horrid doubt that the
American people don't really
care for privacy. In this place
yesterday mention was made OF
what is presumably the first
surgical broadcast on record.
A man In Seattle had his
appendix removed and near him
an announcer gave a cut-by-cut
and stitch-by-stitch account over
the microphone. After this 1t
seems odd to object to a few
census questions about wages,
rent and marital status because
they are an invasion of privacy.
Quite different is the picture
which fancy calls up on con-
nection with the 1850 census.
The enumerator will not carry
census blanks to fill out, but
only microphones. He will say,
Mr.. Doakes, please tell the
nationwide unseen audience how
old you are. how many children
you have, how much rent you
pay, and all other items that
were formerly between you and
the government but which are
now everybody's business
And Mr.. Doakes will cheerfully
tell all before the mike.
On this same question of
census and privacy Mrs. Roose-
welt a few days ago seems to
have gone to the heart of the
matter. She said that In small
towns almost every one knows
everything about his neighbor
anyway.
Most official blank forms, like
income tax reports or census
enumerator's sheets, have spaces
in which the citizen is instruct
ed not to write; they are for
the collector or the cashier or
the enumerator or some other
governmental person. Perhaps,
in the 1850 census blanks there
will be a corner marked. DO
not write in this space; reserved
for neighbors."
The neighborly touch is, in the
main, the friendly cooperative
touch. Neighbors possibly know
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

vice, for 1t Is not their job to
decide how much assistance the
United tSates should give the
allies. That is the presidents
function; he has said that he
will aid the democracies with
methods short of war
Congress, however, is in no
mood to relax the regulations
specifying what sort of military
equipment may be sold abroad.
The legislators insist on two
things: ID keeping this country
out of war and 90 safeguard
ing its military secrets. Whether
F. D. r. can convince them
that his present policy meets
these two requirements is still
a question under discussion be-
hind closed doors.
Personal clashes between two
bosses of booze may eventually
precipitate a congressional in
quiry into the liquor business
in the United States. The two
czars of alcohol are w. +. Alex
ander, Federal Alcohol Admin
istrator, and Wesley A. Sturges,
executive director of the Distill-
ed Spirits Institute.
Mr.. Sturges was drafted for
his present post because the
distillers realized that eondi-
tons of the traffic were bad
and constantly getting worse.
He was given the assignment Of
cleaning up lest the ever-ready
prohibitionists take advantage
of the situation or the govern
ment clamp down. His first act
was 10 institute a system under
which the industry would police
itself from the distillery to the
bar-room and cocktail lounge.
Ella borate rules and regulations
are promulgated in this purity
movement.
Last week, however. Mr.. Alex
ander summoned the distillers
to his office for a severe lee
ture. The only policing they
need. he told them. is to obey
the laws. He intimated that he
regarded the Sturges system as
nothing more than self
admiration society. And II there
Is any policing to be done, he
warned. Uncle Sam viii do IL.
Meanwhile, even vets on Capitol
Hill begin 10 think It might be
a swell idea 10 have = look al
the way repeal has worked.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Offensive Against Syphilis

The American Social Hygiene association is confronted
with tremendous tasone that depends for its
wholly upon the willingness of citizens everywhere to
operate The associations fight against venerea disease
mpeded by the aura of disgrace and the implications of i'm
morality which have arisen around syphilis and gonorrhea
Recent figures of the association show that out of
every 20 persuasive cent of the populations In
fected with syphilis The incidence of this disease is 80
times greater than that of tuberculosis 2S times greater
than nfante paralysis and Is times greater than dph-
iberia
This is matter of serious for all of society
Medical men are helpless to relieve this condition unless
victims brought them Organizations like the Social
Hygiene association should not be left to battle alone
Every citizen should be helpful in the fight to
this scourge he is willing To contribute his bit in the
war on infantile paralysis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

financial experts of the age.
When the gold fever was at
its height, the two calmly an
nounced they had discovered a
mine OF diamonds, rubies, sap
phires and emeralds.' Despite
the common geologic fact that
these stones never occur to-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Count US Out, Thank You

loud voice telling to mind own business, bel
lowed forth the Atlantic few days agohe voice
Of Oliver Stanley, Britans secretary of state for
Mr.. Stanley apparently resented American armchair
war; declared that the beigerents will the way they
fit Britain is not amused by attitude toward her
war
But at the same time Mr. Stanley demanded that Britain
and France be left to handle the in their way be-
it their he bandy announced that nenrals
can't stay out of that it is their much its
Britains There millions of individuals all the
world whose thought is how keep out of but
despite their efforts they in " the secretary
said
Yes Mr. Stanley we're in t-nsofar as we have been
dragged in against WILL We don't think it's war,
you would have believe because didn't have
thing to do with starting it. We didn't want to start.
Imbued with ideals of American democracy we felt all
along that the need have begun.
Oh it's not all your fault You will say that part of
II is your fault but people feel differently about that
here They feel that the motives for carry back
somewhere farther than the eye and that perhaps
in the tide of that led up to actual conflict
weren't altogether bameess.
But that isn't important to The things that
rights neutral nation. As long as
we're not violating international law don't like to have
our mails censored We don't relish having merchant
stopped and searched when they entirely nno
cent missions
It's no good trying to frghten or threaten to
your side We're not biting We're staying out of this
war Did you get that WE'RE STAYING OUT.
We don't like Hitlersm. But neither do we like war;
If you people in Europe must to in Europe count
out We do much better this side of the Atlantic.
There are republics continents living together
peaceful neighbors We like it that We don't want
to change it
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
SO They SAY

Every time turn on the
radio TO hear a little religion,
art of literature. all can get
is the voice Of the senator from
Ohio TAFT balancing the bud
get. - Senator Tom Connally
tDem., Tex
We should have the courage
TO tell Cromwell and his law
fully-wedded fortune. Doris
Duke. TO get the he'll out Of this
republic. = Representative Mar
TIN L. Sweeney Dem. ohiol.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

An Inside Picture Of Finan,
cial and Political America

WASHINGTON-Jim Farey's unconditional announce
ment of his presidential candidacy preceded by
conferences in which he and his allies tried to anayze
the presidents position and purpose in the 1910 The
conclusions they reached help to explain lot about the
national charmans new political aggressveness.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
DIAMOND swINDLE

DhtHo&SD o"sAND1
With an investment of $685.
900 in coarse, almost worthless
diamonds, Phillip Arnold and
John Slack, San Francisco pros
pectors, in 1871 perpetrated an
amazing swindle that netted
them 100000 at the expense of
some of the greatest mining and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

West Virginian made of getting his reward when
he sent brief back to the C. O. D. He would
trust human nature little more, perhaps, II he didn't
know it well.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

gether. respected mining engi-
neers and biologists fell for the
bait and large European and
New York jewelers. and capital
lists formed a company to pro-
mote the enterprise.
A government geologist dis
covered the fraud. Arnold and
Slack were never prosecuted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

Italian fight promoters got disguised with charges of
partially in boxing decisions they made judges of the
entire audience Now spectators throw pop bottles at
each other
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

To receive attention n this COLI
umn letters must ElYe name and
address Of writer. ONLY inifisls
xill be published when requested.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

"Those scho governed ieaat ara governed best"
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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NEXT: Does Exercise al Bed
time Help Sleep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-18

Here is roast beef at its very best Every piece has
been carefully aged before sending our markets This
means utmost tenderness and finest flavor ANY chef
will tell you that aging the secret Of the good meats
served in fine hotels. You have this same enjoy
ment on your table at home by buying Sanitarys
Guaranteed. aged beef. Your money back II we're
wrong