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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven Of these
test questions? Turn to the
Woman's page for the answers.
l. Who Is rep~tedly the high
est paid actress in the world.
2. Is il true or false that
spider-threads are often used for
cross hairs in gun sights?
3. What Is the purpose of the
XVII amendment TO the consti-
tuition?
4. Does a thunderclap precede
or follow the flash of nghtning7
5. What is the name OF the
article Of food that Is made Of
Indian corn-meal with milk.
salted and baked on a griddle ?
6. Which horse won the Amer
lean derby in 1902
I. What agency Of the gov
eminent issues passports?
s. What Is the name of
Father Divine's" church,
9. What Is the fundsment Of
the human body
10. What 10 a juke boxl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
HOROSCOPE
THURSDAY, SEPT. s

Adverse planetary aspects rule
strongly today. 1t is a date for
safeguarding financial resources.
Foresight should be keen. but
the unexpected is likely to hap
pen. Accidents may be numer-
Gus.
Heart and Home: Letters to-
day will bring more happiness
than social contacts. Women
should conserve their strength,
for the nerves may be sensitive
and the judgment Enthusiastically.
Inclination 10 overdo will be
compelling to many housewives
who should use their heads as
well as their hands. Girls
should delay search for employ
ment. The stars encourage a
critical attitude among persons
who have influence over human
destiny.
Business Affairs: This should
be favorable date for CONNER
cial transactions OF minor inn
portance. Unusual demands upon
manufacturers as well as ex-
traordinary readjustments in
trade relations are presaged. In
days Of prosperity foresight
should prompt careful prepare
ton for future exigencies. Ex-
IRENE caution should be exer-
cised in choosing men and WOO
men for trustworthy positions.
National Issues: While many
government officials mark time
until after election day, events
Of supreme Importance for the
future viii cause sudden aware
ness of those dangers stubborn
ly denied by isolationists. Inten-
sive training of army, navy ana
air forces will prove most sue
cessful. The United States. In
mechanical methods of warfare
Is to prove superior through
strange inventions.
international Affairs: Though
astrologers have foretold a
weakening Of colonial ties the
British Empire is TO realize
splendid loyalties from colonies
and .dominions - assuring ulti-
mate victory. Canada Is TO gam
greatly in importance and TO be
closer to the United States than
ever before Italy viii lose much
prestige through internal dis
turbances while France win suf-
fer extreme humiliation through
Nazi power over is customs md
institutions.
Perzans whose birthdste Il .
have tie augury Of a year OF
hard work which win be for
tunate II its results Dangers
in automobile travel are mol
Gated.
Children born on this DAY
probably will be serious and
thoughtful. talented and indus
trious- Success viii come 70
them Girls may be fond OF
dress and display.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
HE is FOR THE
BIG FELLOWS

Editor, The Times: How often
someone says that certain can
didate for office is for the Big
Fellows" meaning that he rep
resents only the wealthy classes.
We also hear that others are for
the Little Fellows" meaning
labor and the poor.
The irresponsible politician
thrives on class war. AS long as
he can make the electorate be-
heve that the welfare of labor,
the unemployed. and poor. is
detrimental 10 the interest Of the
wealthy, and whatever is bene-
fetal to the wealthy will be det-
rimentai to the poor. he can by
pretending To be fighting on the
side Of the poor. keep himself
on the public payroll. which Is
not being poor.
The real fact is that the only
way TO help the capitalists or
business as a whole. make more
profits. at this time. would be
to bring about a greater produc-
ton and sale Of goods and serv-
ices in the nation. and the very
same thing is the only way Of
helping labor. the unemployed.
and poor, as a whole. get a high
er standard Of living. This being
true. why do we need so much
class war;
Do you know that il was the
promotion of. and aiding and
abetting class war. that destroy
ed democracies Of Europe
OSCAR c. ERICKSON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

Editor, The Tines. Raw re-
cruits are constantly streaming
into Fort Lewis. They present a
problem which Is characteristic
of undisciplined boys. and since
there will be q constant stream
Of these raw recruits coming into
Fort Lewis throughout the years
of military preparedness. the
problem will be a continuing one
for the city of Tacoma.
There are many thousands Of
picked men at Fort Lewis and
McChord field, the flower Of
America, chosen on the basis Of
physical perfection and normal
mentality. II is absurd to enter
tain for a moment the thought
that these clean young soldiers
have introduced social diseases
into the community or are
going 10 do that. The city is
establishing a clinic for the pur-
pose Of combating the spread Of
social diseases. Since the soldier
is picked for physical perfection.
il follows that the reason for
the city's clinic is to combat a
social condition which the city
itself presents TO an army Of
clean young boys. In short. we
can't blame the poor soldiers for
a contamination that is already
here. the extent of which is due
to dirty politics.
But in effect the clinic is only
a makeshift If nothing is going
to be done about the rapidly
spreading condition Of uncon-
trolled prostitution which has
insinuated itself throughout the
city's business district. leaving
scarcely any part uncontsmin-
ated. The most vicious aspect is
the solicitation going on in beer
pariors and gambling joints by
girls and women who escape
medical inspection because OF the
laxity and indifference Of the
public health department under
the mayor. The Development of
an organized racket which oper-
stes prostitution. gam bling e.
punch boards, etc. for what is
called the payoff," a huge
money tribute. threatens 70 con-
troll the citys politics.
Unless the mayor and the city
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

Of those early speed COPS could
mount MS wheel and be out Of
sight In = cloud Of dust ~ the
time the old two-cyiinder engine
machine could be eranked into
action
Tacoma thea was q great
bicycle town. Lincoln gulch
was spanncd BY the highest,
longest and only exclusive hi
cycle bridge In the world.- A
system Of bicycle paths ex-
tended from Point Defiance.
through the city and over the
prairie to the lakes.
Quite evidently one of the
purposes of the history was to
get over to the public the
thought that police officers were
poorly paid and the tenure Of
service uncertain. The "spons
system. was credited with re-
sponsibility for whatever criti-
cism there might be in any po-
lice department. This paragraph
is significant:
Good pay gets good men
In any walk Of life. Poor pay,
such as the police Of Tacoma
receive, IL fitting for run
down politicians and decrepIt
friends and relatives Of ward
heelerx. Chances Of advance
ment In the service are poor,
and the higher offices Of the
department. are too often filled
with Incompetence"
Civil service was proposed as
a remedy for the political turn
over in the department. To pro-
vide the better salaries. an in
crease in police court fines inn
posed on gamblers and disorderly
women was proposed. It was
argued that certain forms of
vice could not be kept out of
seaport town; the best way to
control them was segregation in
a restricted district" under po-
lice surveillance with a system
of monthly fines that would sup
port the police department.
This comment follows: TIA
coma has been singularly free
from shame in her police depart
ment. The wrong men have beer
discovered and dropped from thu
service before they have had tim,
to do harm. These cases have beer
so few that they are not worthy
of mention, but that not more Of
them have existed is not becaus,
the men have been receiving gooC
pay and have not been overworked
Neither is it true because the OF
portunities have not been plenti
full"
In other words. Tacoma wal
singularly fortunate in the charac
ter of men in the police depart
ment. A historian today coul'
make the same statement.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes THINGS

Mr.. Fxit: Would You please
tell me when they began giving
birth certificates In Virginia and
Kansas ELS.
Birth records in Virginia are
available from 1883 to 1896 and
from 1912 to now. The gap is
not explained. Kansas has them
back to 1911. You might find
earlier records with the town
or county clerk of the place you
were born.
Mr.. Fixlt: A friend Of mine
would like to sell some vacant
lots he owns I'm q nearby city.
However. as he Is getting an old
age pension, he feels he would
not be allowed TO do this as the
government has n lien on all his
property. Is this true? II. ID.
On the contrary. the state
would expect him TO sell such
property. II he Is able to do so,
and use the money as a resource
as long as II lasts. There Is no
lien on the property as long as
he Is alive. so he Is free legally
to do what he wants with it.
but he should discuss it with his
welfare department representa-
tive.
Mr.. FiSft: I have a 1911 dime
with n Liberty head on II. I'D
like to know II II Is worth any
thing or II u h a counterfeit.
The head faces just the opposite
Of latest issues. 7. c.
II isn't listed as a premium
coin. II probably isn't a coun-
terfeit, unless IT thuds when
dropped. but q bank teller ~fll
be glad to test it for you. and
incidentally. stamp 1t counter
felt. II II Is.
Mr.. Fixit: I have . piece Of
property that Was decided to me
before 1 was married. In case I
should pass away, I've been told.
my wife has no claim TO the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
SO THEY SAY

Real progress toward business
expansion and unemployment.
or increased employment. can
only come when there is a sense
Of certainty. and stability in the
conditions under which business
must be conducted.-Tom NJ.
Girdler. chairman. Repu bile
Steel Corporation.
One book at a time. fully sa-
vored. will bring tho reader the
most lasting enjoyment-Mrs.
David Hayes. literary critic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

council adopt a drastic plan of
regulation. the business and
shopping district will become a
veritable sink of iniquity. and
whatever a medical clinic can do
will be like shoveling back the
sea Of evil with a teaspoon.
There is now a population Of
5000 at Fort Lewis and 1900
at McChord field. In one month
there will be $4,000 at Fort
Lewis. and according to reliable
estimates there will be 10000
within four months. The increase
will also be large at McChord
field.
Anybody can see that the
rapid influx Of a large popula-
ton of soldiers in such a short
time makes it foolhardy to If
more a danger until the danger
engulfs the city. The mayor
and the city council already
take the attitude that the situa-
ton is out of hand and there is
nothing to be done about it.
The citizens Of Tacoma do not
believe that. but the placid
acceptance by the mayor and
city council of the inevitable CD
and their complacency in defeat.
emphasizes the seriousness of
vice conditions to the writer
who wishes to point out that
the problem will be many fold
when the population at Fort
Lewis reaches 10000 with a
great increase also at McChord
field.
An expectation that the mill
tary authorities may help police
the city Is entirely unfounded.
They are not going to share
in any of the responsibilities Of
Tacoma's department of public
safety. They don't want to.
Nor do they want to transgress
or trespass on the rights and
privileges of the citizens. Con-
sequently. atever policing
viii be done by the military au-
thorities will be limited to in
fractions of discipline by the
soldier and to keep him out Of
jail.
In view of all this. the mayor
and the council had better wake
up and move with all speed be-
fore the problem actually does
get out of hand. Gambling, the
punchboard racket. must be
eliminated. The beer parlors
and the conditions of prostitu-
ton must be brought under
control. z. L. CURRIER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
roDAY's COMMON ERROR

Never say. 7 didn't think you
would want that much" say. so
much as that"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

II you're not using it. sell it with
q Fast Action Times Want Ad-
Phone Main 3151.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

To receive attention In this col
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer Only initials
VIII be published when requested.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
DEFENDS POLICE

Editor. The Times: A few
smudge pots have again been
set going recently in regard the
vice spots. the red light
splotches and the gambling
places alleged TO be existing in
Tacoma. A large percentage of
our citizens would like to have
the addresses - for reasons Of
their own-if they they do not
already have them. In connec-
ton with all this. there is the
specific or inferred charge that
the police department Of the
city Is SOM h ow responsible.
The same thing has been heard
a thousand times as any can tes-
tify who have been in touch with
political and sociologic condi-
tons anywhere.
From Bangor 10 San Diego.
from Miami to Tacoma IL is ever
the same Heed the fevered
words Of any from anywhere
and their home town is just too
swfully immoral for anything.
And quite likely. for that matter,
this is true. But the police de-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

Says Mayor Ephriam J. Still:
"Lawnside Is a beautiful little
town of neat homes and 1900
inhabitants enjoying complete
autonomy"
Lawnside came into being in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
CLEANuP'NEEDED TO
PROTECT SOLDIERS

4s05 So. Ferry st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05
NEGRO TOWN

NEUhO IOnN
Founded 100 years ago as a
haven for freed Negroes in the
north. Lawnside, N. j.. stands
today as Americas oldest incor-
porated community Of Negroes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-05

Mr.. Fixit: I have q piece Of
property that Was decided to me
before 1 was married. In case I
should pass away, I've been told.
my wife has no claim to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
No More Need Be Said

Everything that possibly could be SAID
or done to influence a vote one way or
another for tomorroW'S great election Is
finished. The outcome is now up 10
the millions of American men and women
who will troop to polls all over this great
country of ours. It's grand and glorl-
Gus feeling on the eve Of national cleo
ton to know that every American OF
voting age, who is duly registered in some
election precinct, may enter private
booth and cast ballot as his OWE con-
science dictates. There are few countries
left where this may be done today. We,
Americans, should be rather proud OF
this fact.
AS a consequence of it, too, every voter,
young, old, infirm, the sick, the needy,
rich and poor, should vote. Vote because
you want to exercise your rights as an
American; vote because you want 10
elect to public office a man or woman
whom you feel will justify the faith you
are reposing in them by your ballots. We
are not attempting tonight to sway the
voting public one way or the other. These
columns have contained many Weighty
and sound arguments during the past few
weeks for the endorsement of the Demo-
cratic Party. They may 60 unheeded;
they may have fallen on fertile ground.
But we are only conscious tonight of
the fact that tomorrow gives all of us
one chance to prove our equality with our
fellowman. His vote counts for no more
than ours. When he checks off candi-
dates names or pulls lever it means no
more than when we repeat the same
operation And win or lose tomorrow we
still are all free and equal. Let there be
no pause in our daily endeavors over the
outcome Let the winner eXult with
due modesty and regard for others feel
ings let the vanquished take solace IN
the fact that it was good fight
Win or lose this is the United States
of America, a glorious land in which to
live. Let's keep it that way for future
generations to enjoy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
OuisIings, Be Warned!

What the name Benedict Arnold has
come to mean to the United States, the
name of Vidkun Quisling now means to
Norway. Quisling is the wretched turn
coat who betrayed his country for rag
of power. Now even that may be taken
from him. Drawing possible German
displeasure, the Norwegian Storting or
Parliament, has formed a coalition
against any possible government headed
by Quisling.
That gives the Germans the alternative
of either trying to gain Norwegian good
will by throwing Quisling down, or of
forcing him on an evidently nauseated
people. If it be to their advantage, they
will certainly throw him down. For the
pitiful fate of the traitor is always to earn
the contempt Of his own people, and the
distrust of those to whom he sold out.
Let any potential American Quislings
who may have forgotten the miserable
latter days of Benedict Arnold survey the
unhappy position of Vidkun Quisling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04

noon when he whined, we knew he
was digging under a stone for a
chipmunk."
Many lives start out that way
and end that way. The first en-
thusiasm is for big things. This
dwindles into satisfaction with lit
tie things. Life ends at last with a
whine. as we dig under stones for
chipmunks.
There is nothing so hard in life as
TO maintain through the whole OF 1t
the ideals we had In our youth -
to start out for a deer and never
to be satisfied until We get it, There
is nothing 50 dismal as the whine OF
q man who In middle age apologies
for having given up his youthful
ideals, or In old age looks back and
Is sour about the whole thing. The
decline Is pathetic = from deer to
fox, from fox 10 ehipmunk. from
the deep baying OF hound on the
trail OF something big 10 a pitlful
whimper NJ the day. end, as q man
declares himself satisfied with Q
ehlpmunk.
Decline Is not inevitable, II oes
ours because men are satisfied with
something less than the best,
Al Rights Reserved - Bahson
Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04

We are appalled, at the slaughter of
civilians in Europe by indiScriminate
bombing. How many men, women and
children have been snuffed out in Lon
don and Berlin while going about their
daily tasks, we do not know, though fig
ures released from both countries show
the toll in mounting thousands. Mean
while, the death toll of our own streets
and roads has also mounted, in the first
nine months of this year, to 1880. That
is 1900 more than in the same period
last year, the National Safety Council
reports.
The man, woman, or child suddenly
struck down on the highway without
warning is just as dead as the bomb vic
tim; the sorrow of their family and
friends is just as great; the loss to the
country as telling. And however useless
war may be, it is no more useless than
the death we permit to stalk our streets.
The season of slippery payements and
rain-dimmed Windshields is upon us.
Don't let death thumb a ride in your
scarl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
Germanizing the Dead

Probably the thing that will cause MAJ
ism to fail in the end is certain lack of last
saving grace, humor. We don't mean
humor in the crude sense of ability to
see joke, but in the broad connotation
of certain sense of the fitness of things.
In Alsace, perennial shuttlecock of the
German-French game, the Germans are
now campaigning to make the district
German" once and for all. Alsatian
men named Henri, for instance, have to
change that name to Heinrich. But not
only that. All tombstone inscriptions are
also to be in German.
No Nazi will see anything wrong in
that. But there are plenty of others left
in the world who will, and it is more than
possible that it is little stupidities, little
obtusities, little callouses over the more
tender parts of the spirit, which will some
day stop the Nazis where the tanks and
turrets failed to stop them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04

capped when traffic is at its height. The
extreme width of the roadway, too, makes
it very hazardous to attempt to cross once
darkness has fallen. There might be eff
fective use of lighting at the several cross
walks to lessen the dangers.
But the trouble will not be entirely
removed until traffic moves just bit
slower along West Main Street. Perhaps
it's feeling of security that motorists
have in the wide street which makes
them go so fast, but something causes
almost everyone to accelerate speed as
soon as this section of the roadway is
encountered. Cut down the speed along
here; give pedestrians safety aisles; and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04

Saturdays heavy rainstorm was the
first of any considerable size that Wa
terbury and the state in general had eX-
perienced for quite some few weeks,
months to be exact. AS a matter of fact
there might have been few alarms about
a water shortage here and there through
out eastern United States had not rains
been more or less general this past week.
1t was just year ago, it may be recalled,
that many sections of New England and
New York city started to feel the effects
of a dry summer and fall. 1t lasted most
of the winter in metropolitan New York
the huge populace, It's doubtful If there
will be repetition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
Mark the Date, Sept. 7

1t has not yet been marked down on
the calendars as a public holiday. But
September has been marked by Eric
Sevareid, European news commentator.
That was the day, Sevareid notes, when
the Nazis began bombing London's East
End, and to him it marked the end Of the
British ruling class.
While the war goes, while the bombs
fall, social revolution is going on in
Great Britain, Sevareid believes, thus
adding his observation to those of many
other foreign commentators who have
noted the same thing. When bankers
and cabmen sleep side by side in the
same shelters and hairs breadth on
the cross-wires of a bomb-sight are all
that determines whether death falls on
Buckingham Palace or Stepney pub,
something happens that will not be ended
when the bombs stop falling. This, too
we ought to remember when we try to
calculate the effects of war upon the
world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
Will II Solve Problem?

II has been suggested by the City Plan
Commission that two safety aisles" be
constructed along the center OF West
Main Street from a point west OF the
Soldiers Monu..lent all the way down 10
Holmes Avenue, not one continuous street
dividing strip, but two. While this, no
doubt, viii provide more protection for
pedestrians we wonder II II will be
cHfe.ail for the situation along this
stretch OF roadway
10 be- sure people seeking 10 gel from
one side OF West Main tO The other any
place from the Willow and Meadow
Streets Junction all the way down 10 The
Soldiers Monument are terribly handl'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04

BY the time Waterbury gets parking
meters they will be firmly established
in a good many other Connecticut cities,
judging by the latest reports, The Board
of Police Commissioners is moving slowly
in adoption of the plan, more or less on
account of the fact that it is waiting for
the proper ordinances to be set up to
govern installation and use of the meters.
If they aren't put into operation before
the first of the year, it will probably be
another six months before they can be
set up, as no one will want to bother much
with them during the winter months but
will probably wait for spring. Meanwhile
other Connecticut communities are wax
ing more and more enthusiastic over the
meters A few years ago there were all
sorts of complaints but it's just the OPP
posite today. They seem to provide an
other link in the plan to provide more
safety along our streets and highways