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Evening star., 1940-09-20
Fundamental Question
OF Business Is Profit.

How shall I do this? Let's re-
sort to common sense again.
The handspring Of economic
activity in this country Is provided
by individual initiative by men
going into business and risking
success or failure.
What makes a man go into
business? Many Of you are busi-
nessmen. Think back minute.
What did you ask yourselves
when you were trying to decide
TO start in business on your own?
Well, you asked a lot of ques-
tions. Questions about costs,
about markets and about methods.
But they all came down to one
fundamental question. What you
were trying to find out was
whether, after meeting all ex-
penses, there was going to be any
thing left over for a profit.
That is the question that every
man who wants to start busi-
ness has to ask himself. 1t doesn't
matter whether the proposition is
a gasoline filling station or the
formation of a great corporation.
1t all comes down to that one
question. Is there a chance Of
profit that will justify the risk?
Now, what has the New Deal
been doing? 1t has been pursuing
policies which increase the diff
Guilty of answering that simple
question. 1t has. increased that
difficulty in many ways. 1t has
done it by making unpredictable
changes in laws and regulations.
It has done it by setting up
punitive taxes. It has done it by
increasing red tape, by investiga-
tions and by other nuisances that
add to costs. 1t has done 1t by
vesting broad discretionary powers
IN the hands Of administrative
officials. many Of whom are
Evening star., 1940-09-20
Answer Lies in Stimulating
Production, Revising Taxes.

Now taxes are an extremely
complicated subject. But the
principles to be applied are sim
pie. One object must be to get
the maximum amount of tax rev.
enue up to the point of diminish
ing returns and in accordance
with the ability to pay.
OF course, the best tax system
in the world will not balance the
budget for us at the present
time. Besides the ordinary ex-
penses of the Government we
must bear the staggering cost
of a defense program. Also, until
we get the unemployed back to
work. we must spend large sums
for relief. And it is our social
duty to maintain and expand a
program of old-age pensions and
aid to the blind, the needy, and
dependent children.
we cannot hope to pay for all
these things by raising taxes.
That would crush industry and
cause more unemployment. The
best we can do is to stimulate
production Immediately and re-
wise the tax system SO that it
will not act as brake. In max
ing that revision common sense
Evening star., 1940-09-20

are going to pay 1t in thousand
indirect taxes levied upon the
clothes we wear, the food we eat,
the automobiles we ride in and
everything except the air we
through paying all this we pay
more In the loss of opportunities
that results from the burdens
that the tax bill places on every
type Of American business &C
tivity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-08
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes THINGS

To receive attention IN this cnI-
umn letters must give name ana
address o. writer Onlv Initials
vii be published when requested
Dir. Ffxit: I would like To
know N \ girl must he 10 IN
order 20 he a witness Mt = mar
riage. Y. y.
The witnesses must be of age,
so a girl serving as a witness
should be at least Is.
Mr. Fixit: Can Won give me
the local number of the Copper
smiths union thai prevailed
here during the war and a few
years afters In order 10 drive
TO Bremerton does one have tn
pass over more than one toll
bridge: KOPERsMITH.
There must be someone In Ia
coma who has a record If the
old coppersmiths' local number
but numerous inquiries haven't
found him yet.
You don't have to pass over
any toll bridges, If you wish to
drive around through Olympia
and Shelton. Taking the Mar
rows bridge route, 1t is the only
bridge you must cross, either
toll or free.
Mr.. Fixit: Does America pay
European countries interest on
the gold they bring In and store
here. or do they just charge
storage fees? ID. Il. r.
Most of the gold flowing to
this country has come In pay
ment for purchases and so be-
comes the property of this gov
eminent or of American banks.
Where the metal is stored here
purely for safekeeping, there is
a fee charged. No interest &. is
paid.
MIR. Fixit: How much il a so
cent piece worth dated 1915,
with n lady's head with a wreath
around IL and Liberty on the
wreath over the forehead
BERT II.
The only 1915 half dollar quot
ed as worth anything extra is
the commemorative one for the
Panama-Pacific exposition. No
ordinary 50-cent pieces dated
after 1878 are listed. Incident
ally, the lady referred to is
known more generally as the
Goddess of Liberty.
MIR. Fixit: 1 would like to get
In touch with someone with n
car to make a prospect trip In
central Oregon. located a ledge
some years ago and now would
like to get samples for assay.
The one l accept win stake the
claim In partnership.
BERT CRATER,
Box l62, Washougal. Wash.
We pass this on TO any reader
with an inclination to prospect.
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The Americas March Together

By the Act of Havana the 81 free nations of the
world unanimously that part of that world is to
be the of power politics in other continents Prac
tica means of preventing it set up.
This is the Monroe Doctrine glorfed. What the United
States proclaimed its policy the united
policy of all 81 American nations Machinery is provided
TO make it stick The result of the Havana conference
greater and better than many hoped
A light has been raised in dark world dam has
been built to halt the spread of totaitarianism.
In other part of the world would such meeting be
possible No other would do what the United
States has done-deliberatey orbear its power to
coerce its neghbors yet win them by patient argument
and to its point of view. The Havana agreement is
triumph of and decency world which has been
bowling to force alone.
Let no one think however that this settles the whole
matter Comment in European newspapers already shows
that American unity inuriates the otatarians The Ger
man. Italian Spanish and Japanese efforts to gain political
influence in South America will be redoubed.
But abandonment of the grandiose cartel scheme
the slightest legitimate objection that Europe might
make to American unity.
The American countries will trade with ALL but they
will insist trading equal terms, with special adj
vantages to any, and privileged political positions
snapped for a boatoad of wheat, beef, copper
Havana marks a beginning not an ending Let there
be no decisions Having set up the rules, must all
play the game The United States set up light be-
fore the world wrote set of rueshe League of Nations
Then it refused to play This time must play out the
game.
As Leopoldo Melo the Argentinan delegate said at
Havana, Eve all made concessions" We must all make
them in future if weld the Americas all the
firmly together No change of administration, change
of personnel in the state department must be allowed to
shake the that has been painstakngy built
for than decade
Both parties presumably in favor OF developing Pan
Americanism 1t would be nationally serviceabe for the
opposition party to place itself squarey behind the Act of
Havana assuring sister republics that this phase at
least of American foreign relations beyond either per-
sonality party
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get-and to come back into the
fold. johnson, moreover. still
heads the democratic division
entrusted with corralling the vet
Grams vote for the New Deal.
The appointment of Ed Flynn
of the Bronx as Democratic Ma
tional Chairman will win no votes
for the president, in the consid-.
cred opinion of liberal and con-
sentative party members. The
4S-year-old, gray-haired Flynn is
a pleasant, likable fellow and an
able citizen, but he has definite
liabilities.
Unlike James A. Farley, Ed is
small-town, parochial sort of
chap. His political horizon has
been bounded, not by five bor-
oughs of Manhattan, but by the
Bronx alone. He is a typical
metropolitan machine politician,
and as such he is anathema to
New Dealers like Harold Ickes.
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, hitherto
friendly to FDR's third-term am
billions. despises Flynn more
deeply than any other New York
politico.
Tammany Hall leaders and dis
trict workers consider him a trail
tor because he deserted them to
bask in the legal and patronage
sunshine of the New Deal. He
backed FDR's mayoralty candi-
date in 1933-McKee-and help
ed to turn city hall over to La
Guardia. Lastly. while sheriff of
Bronx county many years ago,
he appointed Dutch Schultz. the
notorious gangster. as a deputy
sheriff. Ed should be meat for
Tom Dewey when the latter
takes the stump for Willkie.
The Flynn appointment con-
firms democratic politicians be-
lief that FDR is losing his politi-
cal acumen. In their private con-
versations they express the opin-
ion that the supposedly shrewd
Roosevelt has not made a smart
political move in more than two
years.
AS one of them wildly phrases
it: "A political outfit - like a
baseball team-can last just so
long before it cracks up. And
when it disintegrates. it breaks
up fast. Like the Yankees. the
New Deal is cracking up before
our eyes, although we don't real
ize ii yet"
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Stories in
Stamps

DRINCESS ELIZABETH, IA
year-old heiress presumptive
to the British throne, and her sis
ter, Princess Margaret Rose, 10,
will not leave England, despite the
threat of German invasion. Sug-
gestions that the royal children
be sent to safety in Canada or 9th
er dominions have been rejected
by King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth. The princesses are pic
tured on the 1899 Canadian stamp
above. concentrating the visit OF
king and queen to Canada anc
United States.
Princess Elizabeth and Princess
Margaret Rose have been evacuat-
ed to a secret residence in the
country. There they continue
their studies and their work IN
the Girl Guides. Elizabeth is sec
ond in command of her Girl Guide
unit.
England's probable future queen
is an expert horsewoman, plays
golf, enjoys fishing with her
father. She collects stamps and
national dolls, takes piano lessons
and studies cooking under the
royal chef
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QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
1. Maggots are baby magpies,
larvae OF insects. or disease
germs injecting cattle?
?. Who wrote. "Oh. East is
East and West is West, and
never the twain shall meet?
5. Which U. S. President died
one month after his Inaugural
ton?
4. Where is the range of
mountains known as the Hindu
kush7
S. Who is David o. Selznick?
g. Why can't man marry his
widows sister?
:. For what industries are the
following cities noted: Detroit.
Akron. Minneapolis
s. Who Is the husband Of Sonia
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Correctness for the VanquiShed

The Germans occupying Amsterdam seem deeply hurt
and genuinely disappointed by the attitude toward them
of the Dutch has happened that when German officers
entered restaurant for instance all the Dutch patrons
quietly got up and left This sort of thing is annoying
So the Dutch Borgomaster has felt moved to issue a
proclamation to the effect that Il notice that everyone
is conducting himself correctly and respectfully toward
the German Army of Occupation
That is really too bad because evidence indicates
that the conduct of German occupying troops
quest is complete. is beyond reproach is sad that
the Dutch find themselves unable to forget the 10000
civilians killed and the 10000 wounded in the attack
Rotterdam May "a
The standards of just what is correct conduct toward
q conqueror need to be more closely defined.
The greatest need in the labor picture today for better
management the labor side-Wilam S. Knudsen, Gen.
eral Motors president
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HOROSCOPE
THURSDAY, AUGUST /,

AhoRcDhhs ADJUST
Benefic aspects rule strongly
today. It Is most fortunate for
men who have capital to invest.
Whatever pertains to manufac-
turing or building is well direct
ed. The evening is fortunate for
women at work or play.
Heart and Home: During the
early hours today there may be
uncertainty regarding plans for
the family. The stars presage
the best opportunities for wage
earning for the young members
who are well-trained. 1t is a
fortunate day for love affairs,
although in a world of economic
revolution many changes of GUS
toms and living conditions are
to be accepted. Economy should
be a watchword among persons
of wealth as well as those who
are less opulent.
Business Affairs: Plans for a
busy autumn will now be safe,
for the stars seem to promise
stimulation of industry. Mer-
chants will profit and commerce
will undergo change that will
prove fortunate for the United
States. Leading financiers and
heads of corporations will coop
crate closely with the govern
ment to the great advantage of
national preparation for ade-
quate defense.
National Issues: Adjustment
to rapidly metamorphosing so
cial and business conditions viii
engage the attention of states
men. As the western world at
tains wider power. the United
States must assume great re-
sponsibilities with its expansion
of Importance. The duty of sal
vaging what is best in civiliza-
ton from the wreckage of older
countries will inspire tremend-
Gus projects. The remaining
months of the year will be SUI
premely eventful.
International Affairs: South
Africa continues under a con-
figuration presaging tremend-
Gus changes. Airplanes will be
conspicuous among the causes
of upheavals in trade and gov
eminent. Naval movements will
affect commerce. The results of
the second world war viii be felt
in the places farthest from Eur
ope. Refugees from many coun-
tries will find future homes in
Africa.
Persons whose birthdate II is
have the augury of a year of evo-
luton through severe tests Bush
ness should be watched carefully
and all risks should be avoided.
Children born on this day will
probably have charm Of manner
and sturdiness of character.
Many of these subjects of Leo
have talents Of high order.
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any convenient and outstanding
part of the thing you wish to
discredit, carefully omit to say
anything good about it, and ac-
centuate it out of proportion as
a cartoonist does human fea-
lures. When it has been made
monstrous enough. proceed to
carry it to logical conclusion"
which will be exaggerated and
extreme, too, but if you have
accepted the original exaggera-
ton you cannot escape the con-
clusion.
Intentionally, or otherwise, the
college students have failed to
state that we have had con-
scription before and are not
fascist, or that a recent poll
shows that Ga per cent of the
American people approve of con-
scription. They fail to admit
that volunteer enlistments are
failure, according to the army
chief of staff, or even mention it.
They say nothing of our danger,
presumably wanting to put off
the work as long as possible,
like Britain did, and like her
depend on "muddling through
somehow" even as We did in
the last war. II won't be so sue
cessful this time; warfare is
mechanical now. Britain might
not be able to help us as before.
Another false statement is
that freedom of conscience will
be violated, = there is definite
provision made for exempting
genuine DIRECTORS. / am afraid
that these college students can
speak with no more authority
on account of academic affilia-
lions than anyone else, and they
have repeated dope from the
horses mouth" that has all the
earmarks of coming from an
equine of Trojan breed. Let's
not be civic illiterates, it isn't
smart, or dramatic, or patriotic.
o. B. GERMOND,
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P ULSE @ F
T HE PU BLIC
PIONEER WOULD SEE
ENGLAND SUFFER

Editor. The Times: Permit me
to present a few thoughts per-
tanning to the imperialists now
the fashion in Europe.
NV ancestors were German.
Scotch. Irish and Norwegian.
Fathers father was Norman
French: his mother of the mon
grel royal blood, a daughter of
the Victorias, cousin of Lady
LaLashure. This makes me a
fourth cousin to King George of
England and his democratic
brother, Edward, who refused
to be treated as a sire, breeding
royal snobs. was born in
Washington territory before
Grant was president and grew
up among noble Indians and
humanity-loving cougars. I ac-
quired much of the Independent
spirit of those early associates.
Why should we become in
volved in the present war on the
side of the London bank-con-
trolled government Who dis
closed this war? Mussolini was
a hero when he was buying Brit
ish ammunition to blast Ethiopia.
Hitler and Mussolini were pa
triots when using British NUM-
tions to blast the peoples gov
eminent of Spain. Hitler was a
noble humanitarian when Great
Britain made a pact with him
in 1884, allowing him a navy
one-third the size of Britain's
and IN airforce with twice the
power. hoping Hitler would use
these weapons to overthrow the
u. S. S. r. Hitler was a loved
brother when he sent 10000
government troops to help Eng
land and France To overthrow
the people of Finland, murder
ing $4,000 helpless Firms.
DR.. John Bull is only being
forced to drink the medicine of
his own making. Let ii be a
lesson. FRED U. ROBIN.
Rt. 1, Box 75-B, Chehalis.
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The som e W h a t overlooked
clause provides that any West
ern republic may demand estab-
lishment of a trusteeship over
territories in this hemisphere
owned by foreign power. Three
nations, chosen by vote of the
twenty-one republics, will exer-
else this authority when and if it
is deemed necessary. So far as
is known--and so our interna-
tional lawyers interpret this pro-
vision-ite applies to Canada as
well as to Martinique, Trinidad,
the Dutch West Indies, etc. II is
all embracing. incidentally, a
demand for such action can be
made upon almost any pretext.
It is not dependent upon any
action by Canada or Great Bril-
tain which threatens to involve
this hemisphere in the European
conflict.
If-as many expect-Herr Hit
Ter eventually achieves economic
and political domination over
any of the South American ma
tions. he would probably seek to
make trouble for the British
and the u. S.-by fomenting a
movement for a Canadian trus-
teeship that would remove ii
from the sphere of British influ-
ence. The idea may seem far
fetched at the present moment.
but some of our hard-headed and
realistic diplomats forsee possi-
bilities of trouble in this situa-
ton.
President Roosevelt has pri-
vately justified his bouncing of
Louis Johnson on the ground
that il is always the prerogative
of cabinet member to select his
own assistants. Therefore, he
argues. he had to acquiesce when
War Secretary Stimson demand
ed the right to name a personal
friend and a Republican in place
of the extremely efficient West
Virginia Democrat.
Johnson's friends. who resent
the treatment accorded him,
have pulled the record on FDR.
They insist that this is the first
time that the president has SUBJ
scribed to this theory. Secretary
Hull, they point out. certainly
did not ask for the appointment
of Ray Motley as under secretary
of state; all Hull asked for. and
he threatened to resign unless
he got his price. was Moley's
resignation.
Henry Wallace most assuredly
did not ask for such assistants
as George Peek and Jerome C.
Frank. whom he subsequently
purged out of agriculture. Nor
did Henry Morgenthau want the
assistance of T. jefferson Cool
idge. who has recently declared
for Wendell Willkie. In the past
FDR has done his own picking
Of subordinates. and cabinet
members had to take EN- wheth-
er they liked 'em or not.
The summary discharge OF
johnson has become a political
cause celebre. It threatens to
ALLEVIATE many. many democratic
voters. That explains why FDR
is so anxious to retain Louis
that he sent Thomas C. Corcoran
to California by special plane to
beg the former assistant secre-
tary Of war to forgive and for
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team and a prison band and
orchestra provided the music.
It was the first time in Is
years that an inmate team had
played outside the prison walls
Fifty inmates. chosen only for
their part in the program and
without regard to record or
term length. went to the down.
town ball park. They left the
prison in a bus at O'Clock ana
returned shortly before midnight
Although two or three Officers
accompanied them. the men
were in no sense under guard.
One of the reasons for a
great deal of prison trouble is
too much of the men-without-
souls philosophy. The credit
for a policy which permits a
half hundred inmates 10 spend
the night at a public event
outside the prison walls and
brings every one of them
back, should be split two
ways. p. e. Mahoney, acting
superintendent, who believes
that a man Is a human being
inside as well as outside prison
walls, and the men themselves
understand and appreciate de-
cent and humane administra-
ton.
A MOTHER little cloud no larg-
a er than a mans hand that
has potentialities for spreading
over quite an area is the an
nouncement in popular Seattle
tea room that certain tables are
reserved for non-cigaret smok-
ers. Those tables are always in
demand.
THE University of Chicago is
nearing its 50th anniversary.
Fifty years ago the land on
which the great educational
plant now stands was a swamp.
Fifty years before that Chicago
itself was only struggling
frontier city. From the begin
ming the university was imbued
with the pioneering spirit Of the
men who were its founders.
When John D. Rockefeller
made his original grant to estab-
fish the University of Chicago
he meant to give it the intel
lectual leadership of our great
midwestern empire. William
Rainey Harper, its first presi-
dent, has been called "a steam
engine in pants" He planted in
the institution that devotion to
inquiry and research which still
distinguishes the school.
Because the men who made
the university never ceased TO
learn as well as teach. it has
become a world focus for post
graduate students who now
make up half of its enrolment.
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When Jimmy" Davis Shot
From Gafun Dam
Hiehliehi in a Prison
Picture
Another Little Cloud That
May Spread
c,PEAKING Of golf. the best
- story comes from James H.
Davis, who served for many
years in the state legislature and
took a world vacation when he
was elected grand sire of the
Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows a few years ago. In the
discharge of his duties as the
international head of the order
he spent several days IN the
canal zone. On one of his sight
seeing trips he was taken to the
Gatun dam, great earthen
fill, on which a golf course had
been developed.
In spite of the temperature
120 degrees in january num-
Der of the canal attaches were
playing golf and invited the dis
tinguished guest to join them.
20 no, not me-" replied Jim
my That's a game I never
played. I couldn't hit that ball
on a bet"
His host. however, insisted
that he try one shot to prove
that he couldn't hit the ball.
Then the unusual happened. The
ball was teed up. Jimmy" took
a driver and made a mighty
swing.
Beginners luck was with
him. The ball rose In a mighty
arc into the sunlight and then
scared off into the canal.
THAT" said Jimmy was my
only golf experience"
For purposes of Hollywood
revenue, prison inmates may be
"men without souls" but that
isn't the picture that comes
from the Washington state peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla in the
last issue of "Agenda," prison
magazine. 1t refers to the re-
cent charity performance at
community field in Walla Walla
when a prison team played
thinning game with the Junior
Chamber of Commerce ball
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work of fingers. He can whittle,
drive nails. remove bottle caps
and, in fact. do almost anything
you could name.
Last May Edward attained the
highest honor in his graduating