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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
. WAR STORIES
IN STAMPS
An ex-kine Comes Home
To Fight for England

WHAT love Of family and of his
" country could not do. war has
accomplished. David, duke Of
Windsor. former ruler of the Brit
ISL Empire. has returned from his
three years OF self-imposed exile
to serve in Britain's army.
The duke has resigned his COM
mission as field marshal and will
serve in the field at the lower
rank Of major general. The tenn
porary resignation was accepted
by his brother, King George VI,
and the new appointment made
effective on Sept. 8, the day Great
Britain declared war on Germany.
AS Prince of Wales, Windsor
was under fire more than once
during the World War, and his
persistent efforts 10 reach the
front gave those officers entrusted
with his safety numerous head
aches. AS future king. his life
was not permitted To he endsn-
gered.
The duke is no stranger 10 Hit
Ter or TO Killers methods. He was
in Austria before the snschluss
and visited in Berlin. Most OF his
exile, however. has been sDent IN
France.
The dukes portrait IS shown on
the British stamp. above. issued
during MS brief reign as Edward
VIII. He became king on Jan.
20. 1885, upon the death Of MS
father, George v. and sodicsted
on Dec. II. 1895 His marriage %
the Ameriean-born Mrs. Wallis
Simpson followed n June. 1887.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

attitude of the last three months.
They praised, particularly, his
attempt to reduce governmental
expenses, to transform the de-
partment of commerce into dy-
manic agency for aiding business,
rather than a mere museum of
statistics, the Roosevelt-Murphy
determination to correct evils
within labor unions as well as
among the employers. In a more
humorous vein they sent word
of their rejoicing that Tommie
Corcoran no longer appeared to
be the administrators fair
haired policy-maker. With only
a few exceptions, they approved
his foreign policies. especially
his apparent switch to an isola-
zionist stand.
One explanation. of course, is
that economic conditions are
looking up. 1t confirms Roose-
velt's private belief that his re-
forms will work-and that he
will be forgiven for them-if both
government and business quit
squabbling and get down to bust
ness. Chief significance in the
reaction, perhaps. is the fact that
II may tend to shove the ad-
ministration further toward the
right in the presidential year of
1910.
Perhaps no telephone company
in the United States has more
silent phones on its list than
that at Washington. A silent
phone" is one which cannot be
rung except on permission of the
owner. And every fifth-rste Of
fetal at the capital, figuring that
possession of such a privilege
helps to denote his rank. wants
one as soon as he is sworn in.
Strange as it may seem, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's and Mrs. Roose-
velt's are not the most difficult
10 ring up. F. D. r. can be got
ten through Steve Early or Miss
Marguerite LELAND if the mes
sage is urgent enough. and you
don't have to be a cabinet men,
Der or a diplomat to talk with
him MslvinG Thompson or Mrs.
James Helm-her personal and
social secretaries-may or may
not put you in touch with the
First Lady. She, too, is gracious
in answering random callers.
The two personages most fire.
quently wanted on the silent
phone" happen TO be Mrs. Wood
row Wilson and Mary Roberts
Rinehart, the novelist. People
want Mrs. Wilson to ask her to
speak before their clubs or TO
obtain contributions for their
pet causes. Would-be writers
want Mrs. Rinehart to suggest
plots, to tell her they have al
ready solved her detective serials,
to ask her 20 read and criticize
their own books. Another who
ranks high in popularity in this
class Of phone customers is
Harold L. Ickes. His most re-
cent callers seek ms ear 50 that
they can tell him how to found
a new liberal party. But Mr..
Ickes isn't listening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
Keeping Up-fo-Defe

Bossy won't need to swish her
tail any more. A trap that
sweeps the flies off cows has
been invented by a department
of agriculture staff worker. The
equipment brushes the flies off
animals as they are led through
it, and the flies are lured to COM
partments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven OF these
test questions Turn TO the
woman's page for the answers.
/. On which continent is the
Libysn DESERT
2. Name the representative
from Michigan who died recently
In New Orleans.
3. How long is hand" used
in measuring the height Of
horsesg
4. What is the annual salary
Of the vice president Of the L. S. :
5. OF which state Il Little
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
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An Inside Picture of Finan.
cial and Political America

WASHINGTON-"Unce George" Norris announcement
that he will seek reelection 1912 that the states
who have made the senate great parliamentary body
the last quarter of century nearing the end of the
political trail Others who follow him into retire.
ment include Carter Glass of Virginia William Edgar Borah
of Idaho and Hiram w. Johnson of California.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
Rock the capital?

Rock the capital?
6. A scalene triangle has two
sides equal. all sides equal or no
sides equal?
Z. What is the name of the
animals that live in colonies and
build dams?
s. Name the secretary Of war
during the U. S. participation in
the World war.
Q. Which team won the ma
tional professional football cham
pionship in 1887
10. Name the unit OF currency
in Italy.
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VII Be puhlished when requested.
Mr.. Fixit: Last fall my hus-
hand ordered some fruit trees
from . nursery In Yakima Then
. couple Of weeks ago we found
that . local nursery would give
ux q better deal. We wrote TO
the Yakima one and asked 20
cancel our order which II sup
posed 20 come In Feb. They re-
fused. saying that = nursery
order Ia different from ordinary
merchandise and they viii force
us TO take the order when II
comes. They said II we didn't
want that to send them SI-50
and they wouldn't force us to
take them. Can they: And why
should we pay them xl.50 for
expense TO cancel the order:
j. v. d.
II you signed contract to
to take trees from the Yakima
nursery. which IT Is presumed
you did, you undoubtedly can
be held To It. A lawyer would
have to advise you on that after
seeing what kind of agreement
you signed.
From a point of view of fair
ness. It would be reasonable that
you compensate the nursery
some way for growing the trees
you ordered and preparing them
over q period Of several months
no they could be shipped and
replanted successfully.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you help M
10 get the path fixed that goes
down to Salmon beach. After
the last rainfall most Of the
path subsidized and now In very
unsafe even In broad daylight
and dangerous ut night. II
something In not done soon,
someone will be killed as In one
place there In just n slippery
place to cross the path.
SAFETY-FOR-ALL-
The city department of public
works has been informed and
promises IT will get at the job
right away.
Mr.. .Fixit: Please answer, II
possible. About ten or moro
years ago \ man was killed nc
5th ave. and jackson 1T. In Sc
attic. Was his real name ever
learned and his kin located II
30, where were his relatives and
what was his real name: At
time Of death his name was
given ~ Ralph Crowley, 722
Charles st., Seattle. Also what
Ia name Of person who draws
cartoon "Wash Tubbs," and ad-
dress, pleases
MR.. w.
II II is significant enough to
you to know the real name of
the man, you might write to the
King county coroner's office In
Seattle. You are getting rather
far back in history for place
where anonymous persons and
sudden deaths are as common as
in that part Of Seattle.
The artist who draws Wash
Tubbs" is Roy Crane, address
NEA, 1900 w. Sd ST., Cleveland,
Ohio.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
roDAY.s COMMON ERROR

Do not use as" as a casual
conjunction in sentences like the
following: Excuse my short
letter as I am overwhelmed with
work" Omit las" and in writ
ing use q semi-colon instead
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
RUBBER STAMP TIRES

Carving his name and address
on the rear tires of his auto,
George Spencer, of Springdale,
Pa, recently made a coast-to-
coast trip, printing his legend at
80 miles an hour. Wells under
the tenders supplied ink.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

DILIGENCE" COACHES
Cumbersome French coaches
that never exceeded six miles an
hour were originally known as
"diligences."
Tomorrow: Invalid's Master
piece.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
AppRECIATIoN FROM
EAST SIDE CHAPEL

Editor, The Times: My heart
carries weekly pulsation for the
excellent service your staff has
rendered this little institution in
by-gone years and want you to
know that we fully appreciate
this kind support.
You have never failed us. Your
daily visit to our reading room
is looked forward to in glad ex-
peetation.
The East Side chapel joins its
forces in wishing you each very
happy and prosperous New Year.
V. d. POOLE,
Manager, East Side
Chapel and Commisssry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
The Forty" Dynasty Comes In:
Retrospect and . Look Ahead

At midnight Sunday said farewell to 1888. In some
it wasn't bad year and what faults there may have
been largely the result of proeate ancestry The
hereditary faint back ten to the beginning of the
thirty dynasty The first thirty in under false
representations.
Things looked 80 good that they even fooled President
Herbert Hoover and the farseeng Mr. Meen secretary of
the treasury, and Tacomas mayor James Newbegin All
the United States the newspapers of JAM l. 1880,
carried the optimistic predictions of President Hoover and
Secretary Melen And in Tacoma like other cities, the
emphasized the front put up by the young 1880
The 1880 bluff played all bluffs do in time.
We struggled along trying to undo past mistakes without
seeming to accomplish much but the constant dropping Of
water viii away the hardest sone and glmmer of
hope appeared here and there
When 1889 arrived there were good many pessimiss
who like Job continued to expect the worst But in spite
of that drawback things continued improve Evidently
proftng by of the mistakes of the past.
The result that 1889 went its way with record of
last days that exceed period since the first OF the
"thrty" family came breexing in with false front and
travelling bags filled with gold bricks.
Now here's 1910 coming In the front door while
the last Of the thirty" family leaves by the back
way, probably glad to quit.
At first sight this representative of a new decade
T. the calendar Of ye.rs-the first member Of the
breezy $780, but there Is air Of substantially that
inspires confidence. The countenance Of the new
conner has open friendliness and is unafraid.
There substantial evidence that things about ready
for the sort Of regime that 1910 portend There
lot of readjustments to be made and oumoded
parts of the economic system need replacing but at least
there is something encouraging with which to start The
dust bowl" in the Middle West is having the heaviest fall
Of in ten That plenty of moisture to
produce abundant crops for which there prospects of
good market That means good business generally.
Out west there is substantial foundation which to
u No re ~ are
sound development from the Rocky mountains to the
Pacific.
In particular of the west, there never
such evidences of things that longer prospects
but actuaties The Narrows bridgeone of the greatest
enterprises of that character in the wordw be completed
in June great shipyard with contracts already signed is
under construction Every day just at the edge of Tacoma
brings actualty the largest apane base of the
United States army The volume of home building in the
Puget Sound has been better in ten years
To be there things which pessimiss or
obstructonists lay hold but there which
point in the direction of substantial upbuldng The
teria with which to work is here the people WILL
1910 only be the best since the late twente
but it can be the beginning of long period of decent
happy living for al who want 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
GRIDIRoN GIRL

Strange as 1t seems, the Es-
Gambia. Ala, high football team
has but 10 men on the field!
Eleventh player is pretty Lu-
verne Wise. II, a 115-pound
kicking threat to all enemy"
teams. She is q junior student.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
AN APPRECIATION

AN APPRECIATION
Editor The Times: The rep
resentstives of your staff COW
cred the postoffice accurately
and ably wrote up the matters
of news interest We were sbls
to give last year. It is always
q great pleasure to me to be
associated with them.
! wish you and all the other
members Of your staff happy
New Year.
C. p. FIsHBURNE,
Postmaster.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

Oppression il easily borne than insult.-Junius
The world Is comedy to those who think; tragedy to
those who feel-Henry Walpole.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay innocent
person And all the people shall say, Amen-Deuteronomy
27:25.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

Forgiveness the most necessary and proper work Of
every man.-Lord Herbert.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02

NEW YORK - The qui ct
Frank and Anne S. Hummert
have given almost as much en-
ployment to actors and actresses
as any producer l could name.
They are the creators of some
20 ether-wave scripts, and they
cater to a weekly audience of
some half a billion Americans.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Helen
Menken, Van Helm, Ethel Bar
rymore, Erin O'Brien-Moore,
Alexander Kirkland-they've all
worked and are working on
Hummert programs. These
etherized Hummert shows give
promising young people enough
money to stay on Broadway.
The Hummerts themselves are
prodigous workers. Their yearly
output is some $4,000 words
the equivalent of 65 fair-sized
novels. All are written either
in their Park Avenue office, Col
onial style and pastel-colored, or
at their estate near Greenwich,
Conn.
Frank Hummert is an ex-
newspapermen from New Or
leans. He has ridden with the
Texas rangers and did publicity
work for the government in the
last war. His wife, Anne, is an
ex-newspaperwoman.
BULLETIN
BATTALION
Those unfortunate people
whose business keeps them wan
dering from office to office in
the midtown rush. and who re-
tain a passion to keep up TO the
second with the European un-
pleasantness, have developed a
bulletin eye" Somewhat like
the celebrated Sidewalk Super
intendents who readily know OF
the whereabouts of knot hole
through which you can squint at
working steam shovel. the
bulletin eye" can detect a news
flash from far away.
Most of the radio stores en-
force a NO War News" policy
on their sample wares. and in
dependent merchants in other
lines don't seem TO believe that
a crowd drawn by such bulletins
will do much buying.
Further downtown, there Is
the newsreel theater which OBJ
hgingly types up the latest re-
ports and posts them. in dupli-
cate. next to the box office.
The New York Times, decid-
ing that it wasn't worthwhile
TO keep its electric sign running
all day, has compromised on
manufactured bulletins of the
war, tackled up al a strategic
points around the building. And
in huge display window are
map references for the military
student OF events on all fronts.
But for those VINO pride them
selves on being as wel-informed
as any foreign desk in metro
politan newspaperdom. it's pos
siole 10 hang around Radio City
and get the news as soon as the
copy boys who tear bulletins off
the tickcrs.
An OIL company maintains a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-01-02
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixe, Thing.

TO receive attention n this col
umn letters must give name and
address of writer. Only Initials
vii be publixhed when requested.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1940-09-01
Foreign News

Amid the greatest welcome given Governor
of the Bahama Islands, the Duke Of Windsor pledged
his efforts to help the colony meet its wartime prob
ems
An automobile, trailer and two truckloads of lug
gage removed from the ship. The festival at
mosphere of this city of 10000 persons did not
penetrate the council chambers where the induction
monies carried with traditional pcmp and dignity
White-wigged Chief Justice O. B. DAILY, robed in red,
administered the oaths The Duke used all of his
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
in responding
Many uncertainties facing the French people to-
day. Seven million fled homes, and the country is still
under armistce, not permanent peace, with Germany
Scattered soldiers ordered to demobze and turn in their
arms, still haunt the roads seeking lost families Thous
ands of them are in nternment in the occupied
Thousands in unmarked graves Until the
refugee problem is settled there be normal func
tioning of agricultural INDUSTRIAL and professional life
Rolling railroad stock has deteriorated disappeared
Gasoline is precious thing doled out only official
orders and then usually in the mnutest quantities.
less The coming of winter threatens to bring olting
hardships upon the whole French people and to
bat this the has promised strict authoritarian
rule. The government has told the people the ma
TONS dead will be among the accusers, when those al
legedly responsible for the and defeat tried
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1940-09-01
Continued From Last Issue)
Progress Of The Negro From Slavery
Until Now

After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln events
followed in rapid succession. Andrew Johnson became
president and his plan for reconstruction OF the south
states the southern states passing the Vagrancy laws
to aid in handling the Negro, the black Codes
passed by the southern states for social control of the
Negro the Freedman's Bureau, established in the War
Department. whose duty it toook after the interests
of the emancpaed Negroes securing for them labor
tracts, settling their disputes aiding them in building
cottages and carrying general educat iona program
Carpet-bag rule, the Ku KluX Klan movement, whose
primary plan to brighten and ntimdae the nearly
freed Negro We also find coming into being the share
cropper and tenanancy in the South This system
in which the landowner broke up his land, furnished
everything and rented the land to Whites and Negroes
and settled the by dividing the The lien
system also conducive of great social ills because
mortgagng the crop before produced caused much
unjust treatment BY 1874 Negro farmers in Georgia alone
had acquired 100000 of land. The white farm
gobbed up the land from the old plantations and
soon the South was leaving the old mansions and evil
dences of life showing all hands.
Cotton the chief crop because that is what the
Negro knew BEST In 1870 300O000000 bales were
raised, 5750OO0 bales in $780, and in 1883 T.
the system better than slavery because instead
of 172 pounds in 1860, they producing 222
pounds per in 1888.
In the field of education the American Negro was
captvated by the philosophy of Booker T. Washington
compared to the later philosophy of W. E. B. Dubois
Washingtons philosophy is given best in his words
"By the side Of industrial training should go mental and
moral training, but pushing of abstract knowledge
into the head little We want more than mere per-
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1940-09-01

can Government, when he said:
Thou too, sail on O Ship of State,
Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
Humanity with all its fears,
With all its hopes Of future years
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
We know what Master laid thy keel
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast and sail and rope,
What anvils rang what hammers beat,
In what forge and what heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope
Fear not each sudden sound nor shock,
lis of the wave and not the rock
lis but the flappng of a sail,
Asd not a rent made by the gale
In spite of rock and tempest roar,
In spite Of false lights on the shore,
Sail on nor fear to breast the sea,
Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1940-09-01
Your To Where Are Use

of ndianas 16 suchand normally boasts 1923 persons
But when Willkie gave his speech it like every other
crowd that may be 100000 100000 and included the
proverbia rch man, poor man. beggar man. and thief
There were many outstanding statements made by
him and some of them follows:
'Therc something of forthrightness in the man
in which he reminded the nation that way Of
life is in competition with Hiters way of life and that
sacrifices must be made"
The two simple principles of taxation aa
stressed Taxes shall be levied in accordance with eac
ones ability to pay and the primary purpose of eVyin
them must be to raise money We must raise money
less relative to the people We must do it without
nfcting the poor the present dsproportionate oae
Of hidden taxes.