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PULSE OF
T HE PU BLIC
ORIGIN OF FIFTH
COLUMN REVEALED

Editor, The Times: The first
fifth column was in Madrid.
Gen. Franco was sending four
military columns TO converge
on that city from different di-
rections. At that time he said
he had a fifth column" within
the city.
They were not aliens, COM
munists. socialists. members OF
labor unions or proletarians.
They were Of the aristocratic
class, including ex-officisls, 80
bitter against the new deal
ish" men ana measures carried
by election that they were CO.
operating with German and
italian invaders.
The fifth column was next
heard of in Norway. Major
Gushing received most Of the
headlines. He was sufficiently
aristocratic to have received an
order of knighthood from Eng
land for services rendered while
an attache of the Norwegian
embassy in Moscow. Others in
eluded commanders of forts.
notably Narvik, and one ex-
member OF the cabinet. They
did not like or intend to endure
labor party government, head
ed by premier who. at one
time. was member of the
/. w. w. in the Washington
woods.
Scanty information from Hol-
land reveals that fifth column
lists met the invader at the air
port. Its leader was IAN i'm
portant barker" In Belgium 1t
was composed of army officers
who failed to blow up bridges
in advance of the invading army.
Fifteen generals in the French
army, together with members Of
the intelligence service were said
to be involved. Two ex-premiers
and high ranking generals are
the visible heads of new fascist
France.
These are men who said in
the past: Better Hitler than
Blum; who spread fake rumors
of a communist uprising in
Paris: whose loyalty to the two
hundred families of France was
a form of patriotism.
Clear acros" Europe a fifth col
umn has been group of I'M
portsnt socis, or financial per-
sons who were threatened by ad-
vsncing democracy II was they
who made a deal with Hitler
to open the gates TO his armies
in return for special privileges.
The question OF whether Hitler
will keep his promises viii be
answered iu the future.
JESSIE r. KASTNER
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NEED PROTECTION
BIG FLEET OFFERS

Editor. The Times: Write
your congressman to keep us out
Of war" We see Il in every
newspaper. II is the slogan of
the isolstionis,s, but what a fu-
tility il is. Of course your con-
gresham will keep Us out Of
war-if he can. What he needs
is a formula for keeping US out
Of war and that is quite 4 diff
ferent matter. One thing Is GER
tain. following the isoisuonists
will only get US into q war in
which we will have to fight the
whole world alone. The great
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want him TO stay on the side
lines, and not rampage the
stump for President Roosevelt
or any other nominee. IF. H,
as his friends call him, has been
mute since the Willkie nominal
ton. He is on record as favor
ing a third term for F. D. r.
But he has not committed HIM
self in any direction.
The fact is that Willkie aims
to corral all the progressives
who SHE'D away during the
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
regimes; his insistence on the
nomination of the liberal and
human Charley McNary is an
example of it. And if he can
kidnap LaGrardia back into the
COP. he will crack several mill
lions of Demonstrating Iiber-
ais wide open.
Cordell Hull has fatty told
the president he will not accept
a vice-presidential nomination
with the president or anybody
else as the head of the ticket
The conversation occurred during
the Philadelphia convention, but
F.D.R. did not divulge whether
he or some other Democrat was
to head the ticket. He simply
asked the secretary of state
whether he had any serious OBJ
lection TO taking second place.
II would be unfair to quote
Hull's reply in detail, but here
is a summary OF it:
Because OF his age and other
personal reasons he has no wish
to run for president, let alone
vice president. If the Demo-
Gratis win next November, as he
told Roosevelt. he would like 10
continue as secretary Of state
- which he will if Roosevelt
should be IRE candidate and VIC
torious. The sweet, human, con-
scientious Cordel Hull has no
other ambition than to get this
country-snd the world in gen
eral-back 10 economic and poll
ticsl normally"
No matte who wins in No
vember-Willkie or a Democrat
the secretary OF state figures
that he viii be drafted 10 advise
the new administration.
The "old man" seeks no high
office; he simply wants 10 be Of
service. In fact, his crIading
spirit sometimes inks the pres-
dent.
Army generals and brigadiers
and colonies and majors are
slightly miffed at the prefsren-
tial treatment which has been
accorded the dozen corporation
chieftsins srmoned TO the capt.
tai as aides to Edward r. Stet-
tinius OF the Knudsen defense
commission
For years the general staff
and their underlings - shaved
and sweated in the fiat, two
rooted Munitions building down
near the Lincoln memorial. On
humid days in July and August
the clerical force has had 10 be
dismissed at two o'clock in the
afternoon for fear Of an cpl
demic Of sunstrokes. These same
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unbearable conditions still pre-
vail with respect TO the gold
braiders and their subordinates.
They still sweat and prepare war
plans on top of desks that no
self-respecting corporation would
stand for-furniture dragged up
from the cellar.
But the snappy Ed Stettinius
soon changed all that as far
as his corridor was concerned.
Housing at least ten corporation
tops, his $500 corridor in the
Oft broken down Munitions
building has been air-conditioned
and supplied with modern ma
hogany furniture. But are the
admirals and the generals sore ?
The political and journalistic
scouts which Republican Nom
inee Willkie left behind him at
Washington have made several
delightful discoveries. From their
perusal Of editorials in Middle
West and border states they are
encouraged to believe that their
man will sweep territory hither-
to conceded to the Democrats.
For instance, no great or in
fluential newspaper in Tennes-
see will support the president if
he runs again. In Kentucky,
Henry Watterson's Louisville
Courier-Journsl has inveighed
agsi INST third-term tradition.
Other Southern and border
newspapers have editorialized IN
the same VEN. At Philadelphia
the owners, publishers and edi-
tors of some of the nations
greatest newspapers indicated
that they would back Wi,lkie
rather than Roosevelt or
Democratic substitute.
It's a natural" as the Will
kie people see it. He is good
copy" human and celebrating.
So was Roosevelt-there was no.
body more operate than he
when he combatted the dull,
Herbert Hoover eight years ago.
But, so the Willkie folks hope.
F. d. RS charm has worn thin,
while their hero's is fresh as
the political dew.
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Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention In th. c, :.
unn letters must give name and
address Of writer Oriv Initials
VIII be published whsn requested.
Mr.. Ffxif: hear a committee
Of 100 was formed 20 lend all
assistance possible TO England.
As long n we are supposed TO
be neutral, couldn't a commit
tee be formed TO assist Germany,
II one felt inclined: What would
the government do, or would u
be all right: CD. 0'BRIEN.
Theoretically. a committee
could be formed TO aid Germany.
There are some groups which are
at least friendly toward that
nation. As long as such organi-
cations do nothing regarded by
the department Of justice as en-
dangering the security of the
United States, there In nothing
the government can do to them
when the two nations are not at
war.
Mr.. Fixit: i would like 10
know what 10 do TO get rid of
the large red ants around q brick
building. For the past two
months they have been going up
and down the walls and I'm
afraid they have nests on the
roof. We have tried different
things from local stores but no
help. ] hope you or your readers
know Of remedy. LIZ.
The first remedy for ants is
to 60 over the entire premises
and remove all food accessible TO
them. Keep all your food in ant
proof metal or glass containers.
Then you can try busting the
runways Of the ants with sodium
fuoride powder or bait them
with a syrup poisoned with arse
nate of soda. A formula for that
Ia a pound of sugar dissolved in
a quart of water with 125 grains
of arsenate of soda added. This
should be boiled, strained and.
when cooled, soaked into
sponges. The ants should carry
the poison back to their nests
and cxterminate the whole COL
ony.
II you try that. be careful in
preparing the syrup to keep 1t
out of range of humans or do
nestle animals.
Mr.. Ffxit: Would YOU settle
m argument between my mother
and me: Next week I'm 10 and
being q girl am I not Of age TO
do n ! want or have my parents
authority over me until I'm IL.
! know ! can get married than
without their consent.
MISS b.
A girl has a right to marry at
is without her parents consent
but where business is concerned
she still Is a minor and subject
to their will as long as she is
single and living with them. II
YOU depend upon your mother
for food, lodging and clothing,
you can expect to do most of
the compromising to settle your
arguments, even after you reach
81.
Mr.. Fixit: Would you please
answer the following: My mother
married . German in June, 1926.
who hadn't got his citizenship
papers. Did my mother lose her
citizenship: BETTY r.
She did not. Marriage to an
alien after Sept. %, 1922. did not
change a woman,x citizeushin
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Willkie tacticians do not look
for or want Mr.. La Guardia's
active support in the campaign.
Paradoxically, they figure that
it would b. as much Of a him
drance as help. But they do
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AFTER MANY YEARS
ByE SHORT

Jaekson's Hole and
Golfers Hell
1910 Rendezvous Of
Oregon Trsilers
Garry on Work Started
By Ezra Meeker
ONE Of the men who brought
" national recognition to Ia
coma and made the pioneer
wagon route to Puget Sound one
Of Americas greatest highways
will be honored again when the
Oregon Trail Memorial sssocis-
ton meets at Jackson's Hole,
Wyo.. Aug. 1920. II was Ezra
Meeker. Pierce county pioneer.
who came over the immigrant
trail with his OK team in 1882.
who founded the Oregon Tran
Memorial association.
At an age when most men
had retired. Meeker obtained
a yoke Of oxen. a prairie
schooner" such as the immi-
grants used, and started out
to mark the old trail. When he
had staked the old route he
undertook to create a public
sentiment that would make the
trail into a great national
highway. How well he sue
ceeded Is emphasized at sue
ceeding meetings Of the or.
ganization which he founded.
Every meeting of the ASSOC
citation is a memorial to Meeker,
the Pierce county pioneer. as
well as tribute TO the thou
sohds vi lug ecu AiNlNANudilsls
who braved unknown dangers
and fought their way to inde-
pendence. At every meeting
those sturdy old characters who
didn't know the meaning of de-
feat are extolled as the builders
OF the west.
This years meeting, besides
honoring the Pierce county pio-
neer and founder of the Oregon
Trail Memorial association, will
emphasize the value of contri-
buttons made by other distin-
guished characters to the de-
velopment of the Northwest.
Travelling by automobile, MEM
bers Of the association and 9TH
ers interested in the objective,
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TTcuT An Inside Picture of Finan-
L. i'll i ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-The Wilkie people are casting frta-
tious eyes at Mayor Forello Henry LaGuarda of New
York The quiet word has been passed around that this
intense New Deaer-ex-Repubican and ex-Sociast and
exindependent-may be asked to join the Wke Cabinet
should the latter he eectd
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EXPRESSES THANKS

Editor The Times: Ny term
of office now having expired.
I wish to express my spprecia-
ton TO you for the space so
generously given TO the Tacoma
council. knights OF Columbus,
in the past year.
W. G. HOFFNER.
Past Grand knight
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oceans protect US" they say.
What nonsense,
The oceans are highways for
those who control them. We
proved that ourselves in 1917
and 1918 when, in few months,
we transported two million men
across the Atlantic to fight in
France. Even the problem Of dis
embarking on a hostile shore is
being solved by the airplane.
Whether we like it or not, the
future of America depends on
the success of the British fleet.
II we doubt that we have only
TO consider our position in case
that fleet is defeated or IN the
hands of Hitler. The billions we
have appropriated will not be-
come effective in military way
until about 1914 and are only
an encouragement to an ag-
gressor TO act quickly instead
of waiting until his job becomes
more difficult. So my advice is,
don't write your congressman
unless you have something worth
while TO tell him, something
which faces the facts as they
are and not as you would like
to have them. Otherwise you
only befog the real issue.
II you must write, tell your
congressman TO help the British
by every means possible. For II
they win We can breathe easily.
II they lose? Well. with the
cocky Japanese in the Pacific
and Hitler in the Atlantic, the
fiction of our isolation would
become so apparent that even
the most reactionsry isolation
list would recognize IT, but
hardly in time TO do US any
good. z. G. STONE
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look on America my second home. America gave
greatest professional opportunities and has always
been very good to me-Max Schmelns German heavy
weight.
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AN APPRECIATION

Editor The Times; The Par
ent-Tescher associations Of Ia
coma have completed a most
successful year in the cause OF
child welfare. We wish TO say
a grateful thank you" to The
Tacoma Times for the fine pub
licity and cooperation given our
organization through our chair
man. Mrs. John Pesrce.
We appreciate very much the
space given each week TO the
calendar. special publicity and
courtesies extended to US by
your society department
MARJORIE MICHAELSON.
Corresponding Secretary, Tacoma
Council Of Parent-Teacher AS
sociations.
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BIGGEST TREE HOUSE
Hundreds of feet tall. Hercu-
les. giant Sequois 81 feet around
the base, Is one OF the strangest
abodes. In 1897 Jesse Hoskins.
with auger and chisel and in his
spare time. built a room Is feet
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GLASS METEORITES

GLASS METEORITES
Origin of strange. green-hued
bits of glass picked up in b.
hernia was q battling mystery,
until similar specimens were
found in Australia. when they
were believed from outer space.
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Mr.. Fixit: Would you please
answer the following My mother
married . German in June. 1926.
who hadn't got his citizenship
papers. Did my mother lose her
citizenship: BETTY r.
She did not. Marriage to an
alien after Sept. 20. 1922. did not
change a womans citizenship.
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he that refuseth instruction despiseh his SOUL but
ne that heareth reproof getteth understanding
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To receive attention In thi. c, :.
ur1n letters must give name and
address Of writer Only Initials
VIII be published when requested.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Action Expected Soon
On Anthracite Coal
Proration
Suggestions Of james
Reported Approved
By Operators
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22-Dows Jones
g. Co., financial news agency, said
today early action is expected by
Gov. James of Pennsylvania on the
plan of the anthracite coal industry
to stabilize its operations through
ALLEGATION of production tonnages.
In a dispatch from Philadelphia,
the agency said suggestions made
by the Governor had been approved
by the operators. It continued:
THE changes, which it is UNDER
stood were of a minor character,
were made last week, so that 1t is
expected the plan will be on the
Governors desk any day now for
his consideration and action. 1t is
understood the Governor is in SYM
pathy with the plan to stabilize the
industry, which is backed prac-
tically 100 per cent by the anthra-
cite operators and whole e-heartedly
by the miners
"One of the changes, it is under
stood, had to do with the commit
tee which will govern the ALLEGATION
plan. Originally it had been pro-
posed that this committee consist of
seven members, three to represent
the operators, three the miners and
one the Governor. The amended
plan increases the committee sto
nine members, increasing the num-
ber tosrepresent the State to three.
All nine would be appointed by the
Governor"
Evening star., 1940-01-22

Termed FruiNess
Treadmi|| Effort
Handy & Hormon Says
Goal Forther Away
Despite Purchases
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-The bull
lion dealing firm of Handy & Har-
man today pictured the United
States Government in a fruitless
treadmill effort to attain the OBJ
jective Of the 1884 Silver Purchase
Act.
The act directed the Treasury to
buy silver until its holding amounted
to one-fourth of the Nations none
tary metal stocks or until the quota
ton for the metal in the open mar
ket reached $129 an ounce, the
price fixed by law for valuation OF
silver in money use.
A tremendous gold inflow from
foreign countries, mainly Europe,
nullif1ed silver acquisitions in the
Treasury's attempts to reach the
gold-silver ratio specified in the act.
Handy & Harman, in an annual
review OF the market, figured the
Government was 291 600 900 ounces
farther from the goal than when
the act was passed in June, 1884,
despite purchase of 1900, 900 900
ounces in the past five and a half
years.
The firm commented the figures
again proclaimed the futility of
attempting to meet the require
ments Of the Silver Purchase Act"
Treasury purchases for 1899 were
estimated at 341, 400 900 ounces, in
cluding 100000 from domestic
ores. Total Treasury holdings at
the end Of 1889 were placed at
1880 100000 ounces, including coin
in circulation.
World production of newly mined
silver was put at 266 600, 900 ounces,
the same AS in 1888. United States
output was recorded as $1,000 900
ounces against 58,80O,0O0 in 1898.
The decline was Offset by larger out
put in Canada, South America and
elsewhere. Mexico, leading pro-
ducer, had 100000 ounces against
100000 in 1898.
Supplies in the world market from
Chinese stores. however, were fig
ured to have dropped to 10000 900
ounces from 234,3OO 900 in 1898.
Spanish sales fell to 100000 from
100000. The Indian government,
on the other hand, sold 65O00,0OO,
contrasted with only 100000 in
1898. the firm estimated.
Fools honk at intersections; good
drivers slow down.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. Jan. % (Pl.-The foreign
money market withstood with complete
stability today one of the. most intense
week ends of marine warfare since the
European conflict started.
cluding the British pound and French
franc, remained unchanged in relation
to the dollar.
Late rates follow tGreat Britain in
dollars, others in cents)-
Canada:
Oficial Canadian Control Board buying
rate for United States dollars 300:
selling rate, Ill 90. Open market rates,
Montreal in New York. SS.06H; New York
in Montreal. 1880.
Europe:
Great Britain. demand. 1861; cables,
3a6R; 60-day bills, 3.94h: 9O-day bills,
Belsium. 1883; Denmark, 1898; Fin
land 195n; France, 224a4: Germany,
40.25n benevolent, 1900: travel un-
auoted; Greece. 0.73n; Hungary, 17.6On;
Italy, sos: Netherlands. 1915; Nor
way 2273; Portugal. 3.67n: Rumania.
0.63n; Sweden. 1888; Switzerland. 2243;
Yugoslavia, o.35n.
Latin America;
Argentina, official 2977; free, % .s5;
Brazil, official sos; free. 5.10 Mexico,
16.75n.
Jspan, .a4s; Hong Kong. a4.7s;
Shanghai. 500.
!Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated. n Nominal)
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Chicuqo Livestock

CHICAGO, Jan. % Up, (U, S. Dept Of
Agriculture) .-Salable hogs, $4,000: total,
$1,000; senerally l5-a5 lower than Fri.
top, SO: bulk good and choice 1S0-220
pounds. 55O-1O: 22O-24O pounds. $4,000:
most 240-270- pounds butchers 510-40;
270-300 pounds 500-20; good. 400-550-
pounds packing sows' 4.15-5o; lighter
salable cattle 1000: salable calves,
1000; general market slow: shipper de-
mand narrow: medium to strictly good
steers predominating; suggesting small
supplies finished offerings; choice steers
steady: all others unevenly, steady to %
lower medium to good grades with weight
showing decline: heifers steady: cows
steady to weak: bulls fully steady; vealers
steady with undertone weak: largely fed
steer run; comparative short-feds predom..
mating; most early sales, l 90 upward
on shipper account. top, 1910 paid for
weight. H. so: most heifers $50 down;
sprinkling above 1000; cutter cows 5.25-
SO; Gamers: 4:s5-5.oo; practical top top
selected vealers, 13.00-50; stock cattle
steady
Saiable sheep 10000; total, $4,000; fat
lambs and yearlings active: strong to
around Is higher good to choice .yooled
lambs, 9;25,50 to local packers; best held
$50 and above: good slaughter yearlings,
500: sheep about Stead dy; scattered native
SLAUGHTER ewes C5-T6
Evening star., 1940-01-22
| Decline in Foods
| And Rents Seen
In December
BY the Associated Pre-

By the Associated Pre-.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-A decline
in the cost of foods and rents dur
ing December left the average Amer
ican worker little extra cash in his
budget, the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, private statistical
organization, said today.
Total living costs that month were
6 of per cent less than a year
earlier. They were Is per cent less
than December, 1929, but 10 per cent
higher than the low point of 1888.
Food prices were IA per cent below
November and % per cent under a
year earlier. Rentals dropped L of
l per cent from November but were
S of per cent higher than Decem-
ber, 1888.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
U. 5. Rubber 10 Keep
Fisk Plants eusy,
Davis Declares
Company President
Answers Predictions
Of CurtutiIment
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-F. B.
Davis, jr., head of United States
Rubber Co., promised today con-
tinued operation, probably at even
higher capacity" for the plants at
Chicopee Falls and New Bedford,
Mass, which his company recently
purchased from Fisk Rubber Co.
A minority stockholders group,
led by Whitfield Reid, Springfield
(Mass) attorney, has opposed the
transaction. He contended, among
other objections, that it might mean
closing or smaller production for
the New England plants.
Fisk property and assets have
been transferred to U. S. Rubber,
but Reid's group, at a stockholders
meeting at Wilmington, Del, last
Friday, was able to block a proposal
for dissolution of Fisk.
'The purchase toward the end of
last year by our company of Fi,k
was based on our need for adoi-
tional production facilities to meet
the requirements of our tire GUS
toners" Mr.. Davis said.
Toward the end of last year,
Fisk was using only a little more
than half of it production facilities,
at time when United States Rub
ber Co. needed more facilities. At
the same time, our company felt
that it was better for the economic
balance of the country, as we'll as
the whole tire industry, to utilize ex-
isting capacity rather than to build
additional plants.
From the beginning of the nego-
tiations that eliminated in our pur-
chase of the properties of the Fisk
Rubber Corp, it has been, and is,
our intention to continue the pro-
duction Of the Fisk brands. Then,
at the Fisk plants, and as rapidly
as Is possible, We intend to add pro-