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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-15
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By B6MX

was scolding If she could get
some real information for him
Before leaving. she quickly
changed into a dark suit and slip
ped a small flashlight into her
purse. With plenty of time at her
disposal, she drove her own car,
leaving 1t in a garage half a dozen
blocks from the Court ST. house.
and then taking a street car to the
nearest corner.
She walked past the house on
the opposite side of the street. and
as everything looked as usual,
crossed over.
1t still lacked several minutes to
nine when she slipped into the
dark areaway of the house.
The luminous dial on her watch
showed one minute to the hour
when she took it from her wrist
and put it in her bag. 1t might
betray her she suddenly remem-
| bered, in the darkness. Family
she could hear the radio going in
side the house and wondered if it
played constantly.
A moment later, she saw the
lights in the house across the
street, Mrs. Ferrari's, where she
had rented a room, suddenly 90
out. The crossing light up the
street went out. too. She missed
its reflection on the pavement.
Now is my chance" she
thought. and moved swiftly over
to the coal chute. Grasping it by
each side. she lifted and il swung
free in her hands. Vic had been
right The alarm was attached TO
the regular lighting system.
AS quietly as possible. she
scrambled into the dark hole. hung
by her gloved hands for a moment
and then letting herself down,
breathed a sigh of relief as her
feet touched the floor The chute
door swung back into place and
she was in complete darkness.
Stopping for what seemed an
hour. but really was little more
than a minute. she listened. She
heard a woman's voice coming
family from some place upstairs.
She appeared 10 be shouting.
Madge thought she heard another
voice reply, but couldn't be sure.
II had a much heavier. deeper
quality. probably that of a man.
That was good. Apparently.
there was no one on the ground
floor of the house. She dared Ia
risk the chance of using her flash
light. She took it from her purse,
and swept the blackness ahead of
her
She saw that she was in the coal
cellar. but that the fuel had been
shoveled away from the window.
That was why she hadn't encoun-
tered II when she climbed in.
Ahead of her was wooden door.
and she cautiously walked 10 il
and was relieved to find it un-
locked.
Again. she risked her flashight.
She could hear sounds of feet NOV
ing about on the floor above her
now. and clearly heard a woman S
voice calling out that she had
found some candles.
Near the coal bin was a furnace.
and she could feel the warmth re-
Elected from the closed fire door
II had been nippy in the mornings
and evenings lately. although the
weather hadn't turned cold yet
Mrs. Engle evidently believed in
being comfortable.
Skirting the furnace. and again
using her flashlight carefully. she
came to small room A quick
: sweep with the light showed that
il was unoccupied. A stairway lee
upward from the far end to tn,
; first floor of the house.
She heard a woman's voice 4
} little more clearly now. but eouk
? not make out what she was saying
Continued on Page Is. Column S
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-15
Lemon Juice Recipe
for Rheumatic Pain

II you suffer from rheumatic or
neuritis pain, try this simple mex
pensive, home recipe. Get a pack
age of Ru-Ex Compound, mix it
with quart of water, add the
juice of lemons. Often within as
hours - sometimes overnight -
splendid results are obtained. II
the pains do not quickly leave you.
Ru-Ex will cost you nothing to try,
as it is sold under an absolute
money-back guarantee. Ru-Ex is
for sale and recommended by drug
stores everywhere. adv.
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TEST QUESTION ANSWERS

Below are the answers to test
questions printed on the Editorial
page:
l. Bud Fisher.
2. A merciful blow.
3. Gulf of st. Lawrence.
4. First person shot in the
American Revolutionary war.
s. Five hundred miles.
6. A burying ground.
7. Participation by agents or
sympathizers inside enemy lines.
s. Yes.
Q. Light.
10. d. w. Griffith.
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MaCaroni Dish
For Warm Nights
Ry MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Service staff Writer

Try something different for din
ner to surprise the lazy warm
weather appetite. Sausage suz-
cites will certainly be different.
And they will be good food at the
same time. To make them, place
pork sausage links in frying pan.
half covered with water and bring
to boil. Boil minutes Pour off
water and fry over moderate heat
Turn frequently as they fry. Cook
between II and II minutes. Wrap
each sausage in a wheat cake. Sc
cure with toothpick. Serve with
maple syrup. On the same menu
have bowl OF mixed salad green's
with some finely shredded cabbage
added.
Here's macaroni dish for warm
nights. Saves kitchen work and
can be a meal-a dish. Have a
raw vegetable salad on the menu.
To make 1t, prepare macaroni
and cheese according to your IA
vorite recipe. Prepare six pork
sausage links as given above.
Place them in bottom of casserole.
Then arrange macaroni and cheese
on top. Bake macaroni until done.
Lamb on skewers always sur
prises the family into hefty appe-
tites. 1t sounds more complicated
than it really is. Serve with
mashed potatoes and fresh peas. or
brocon rice and stuffed eggplant.
LAMB EN- BRoCHETTE
One and one-half pounds y Inch
thick lamb steak from the legD,
p cup French dressing. bay
leaves, sprig thyme. u mush-
room caps. tomatoes, cut in.
quarters.
Have meat cut in 1-inch pieces.
/ Place in bowl and cover with
French dressing to which bay
leaves and thyme have been add
ed. Add l peeled Glove garlic il
desired. Let meat stand 5 hours
or longer. Preheat broiler to 10
minutes. Remove meat from
dressing. Dip mushroom caps and
quartered tomatoes in dressing.
Arrange alternate pieces of lamb,
mushrooms, and tomatoes on metal
skewers. Place on broiler rack.
Broil inches from medium heat
about 10 minutes, turning occa-
sionally.
TOMORROW'S MENU
BREAKFAST: CIR pefruit
juice, pork sausage suzettes,
maple syrup. coffee, milk.
LUNCHEON: Cream of to-
mato soup, watercress. sand
witches, gingerbread and whip
ped cream, tea, milk.
DINNER: Lamb en- bro
Ghetto, creamed new potatoes,
green peas, sliced fresh pine
apple, cocoanut layer cake, cof-
fee, milk.
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Good Taste
Today
BY EMILY POST

A natural and quite proper hest
fancy felt by hostess, who is put
in a position which might very
easily be misunderstood. is de-
scribed in this letter: Il am giving
homecoming tea for bride
who is one of my best friends. In
addition to all the friends that we
have in common, am also invit-
ing a number of friends of my
own to whom she is unknown. My
question is: What shall / do about
asking half a dozen women who
are total strangers to me but
whom my guest of honor has asked
me to invite? The reason I hest
tate is that they are socially very
prominent-judging by the fact
that their pictures as well as their
names appear frequently in the So
iety columns of our newspapers.
This fact makes me feel that in
wiling them may seem to them
pushing thing to do"
To this l do agree that your
motive might be misunderstood by
them if they were less than most
intimate friends of your guest of
honor. On the other hand, if they
are intimate friends of hers. then
it could not be other than all
right to invite them. In other
words, the fact that they are
strangers to you has little to do
with it. The whole question is.
has she told them that she asked
you to invite them or is she put.
ting you in a false position
Wonderful Harold"
Dear Mrs. Post: How can one
girl get another girl to stop talk
ing all the time they are together
about her boy friend? I'm sick
to death of hearing OF him and
nothing but him-on and on! /
wish l could get this girl inter
ested in other topics. but try hard
as l can, she's right back on the
subject of Harold" It's Harold
is so clever, He saws Harold
told me Harold is so won
derful" the entire time.
Answer: When a young woman
has an obsession of this kind. there
is very little that can be done
about il unless you know her well
enough to tell her what you think.
and have furthermore a very light
but firm way of telling! In this
case you might be able to say.
looking al your watch: Now look
here, Minnie, I'll let you talk about
Harold for five minutes by my
watch and then you have TO stop. "
Or. IF you mention Harold more
often than once every Is minutes,
you've got 10 pay a forfeit" Or
If she Just talks and does not ask
for answers from you, you can
perhaps train yourself not 10 hear.
You might also in this case be
thankful that she does not ask
you TO interpret a significant
meaning behind every common
place remark he happens TO make!
"Ma'am" l. Up Again for
Discussion
Dear Mrs Post: II child
doesn't know the name Of some
one. how can he say anything but
yes ma'sn."7 I believe you have
said that. except for certain sec
tons Of the country. a child is no
longer taught to say "ma'am
Answer: He tries to add word
or two to no" or yes" Such as
Yes, I'll tell Mother" or, No,
Mother isn't home" would be all
right, 1t is the abrupt yes OF
no" that cannot sound other than
impolite.
Copyright. le4ol
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PULLMAN - One Of the most
outstanding Of the younger dehat-
ers at Washington state college Is
Ted Allison. 242I So. 42d st, Ia
coma.
Allison has participated in 81
debates for the college, and in u
other speaking contests. He Is a
member of the Forensic circle, de-
bate honorary. According 70 W. II.
Veatch. debate coach. he has an
excellent chance Of making the
varsity team next year.
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Dear Miss Grey: I have worked
for almost 10 years now and am
amazed, when I consider the diff
cult situations that have confront
ed me, to know that I have actual
ly kept my temper under the most
trying Of circumstances.
I have not always found IL easy
to control myself. but working in
4 store and waiting on unrcason-
able women has done something
for me. Al least 1t has taught me
to possess something they do not
have--and that is good manners.
have had to deal with shrill-
voiced. -pinching and doubt
full females for so long that the
sight Of a woman makes we want
to run. I mean a certain type of
woman, for in all fairness / must
admit many, many Of my women
customers have been sweet and
lovely.
But to get back to the impos-
sible ones. They are the girls CD
who are positive they are always
right. And invariably the person
who Is sure she Is always right is
bound to be unpleasant. At least
have found this to be so and
should know. after having worked
In q store for almost 10 years.
N. w. s.
II Ia easy TO know how you
feel. Usually when we have TO
deal with an unreasonable per-
son we can at least have the
satisfaction of enjoying a give
and take game
But not so with the the clerk.
She has to be patient and serene.
Although at times, unknown to
an employer. some clerks are
supercilious and impudent ito
customers who don't look mon
ied) still the fact remains that
most salesgirls are pretty heroic
when we come to think of II.
And wcll-mannered.
It Is too bad the customer
ever got wind OF that slogan
"The customer is always right
For there is type of Gus
toner who can't take it. II
has made her a pain to sales
girls. who have to grit their
teeth and remember their pay
checks to keep from saying
something that would indicate
the customer might be wrong.
Being always right this
customer-type feels it Is her
privilege to run down the mer-
chandize offered her II she
doesn't like 1t, or believes it is
too expensive. instead of say
ing calmly II isn't what she
wants.
II she Is tired and cross from
crowding too much shopping In
one day, she doesn't bother to
cover 1t up and be gracious to
the clerk who is serving her.
II she isn't in the mood to
make up her mind, or If she
has always had a hard time
making decisions. she just says
"Send it," with the mental
reservation. "rll return II II /
don't like il tomorrow" Not
only she, but her more consid-
crate sisters. pay for this. They
pay for 1t in higher prices
for II costs money to deliver,
then pick up package (which
may by that time look handled)
and return It to stock.
II she is bent on impressing
the clerk with her affluence--
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she will not say frankly how
much she wants to spend for
an article. but will play guess
how much with the hard
working clerk. Any article that
is perfect-but costs more than
she wants TO PAYS turned
down with some long-winded ex-
PLANTATION.
II she takes dislike TO the
clerk, and is shopping with an
other woman. she'll make re-
marks loud enough to be over
heard. about how dumb the
clerk Is.
Always right Well, hardly.
Responsibility
Dear Cynthia: The woman (who
was old enough to know better)
made by blood boil when she sent
in that very wise letter which
stated that marriage happiness is
entirely the responsibility of won.
en-. Further, she said that most
woman's door.
How foolish! And how sicken.
ing, when you think that such
talk came from a woman.
l have been married II years
I have done everything l possibly
could to make my husband COM
Portable and happy and the only
thanks | ever got was the knowl.
edge that he spent his money on
other women, liquor and gambling
He has ruined my health by his
brutality and has black and blued
every spot of my body.
l weigh ia pounds and he
weighs almost 200. but when I get
my divorce, which will be soon,
this woman will feel very SNUG,
l am sure, to criticize me and say,
There is just another example of
a woman wrecking marriage"
Don't make me laugh. / have a
black eye and split lip my hus-
band gave me and II hurts me to
laugh. MRS. f.
Evening star., 1940-06-07

NEW WIDER SHAPES IN SILK FOULARDS AND SILK CREPE
ALL WITH RESILIENT CONSTRUCTION WOOL LINING
There's only sole like
|ote getting here this maker who grade
foeture had 5000 regular Shelves
wanted to house and first
them fost mildly And you'll you
like
storne Saturday they only fou Imported
domestic silk Twill Fouords and All
have silk tps All have
popular bold choNe effects Better for Dad YOURSELF
(THE HEcHT co, MANS STORE, MAIN FLOOR
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05

with coal oil lamps, and heated
with fireplaces. They did most OF
the work about the dormitory, ano
brought their own reference books
for study. They had little socia.
life, as the girls of today look al
it. They were allowed to have gen
tlemen callers" only at holiday
time, and when they had officially
sent out "At Home" cards.
But they had come to a school
that was, to them, a miracle. For
years certain groups, and certain
individuals in North Carolina had
seen the great need for the train
ing of women teachers. In the
eighties, after North Carolina haG
begun to come out of the chaos
Of war and reconstruction, DR.. Nc
liver and DR.. E. A. Alderman, and
often Mrs. McIver, went all over
the state holding Teachers Insti-
tutes. 1t was while working with
these groups that DR.. Never and
DR.. Alderman realized the deplor-
able condition among the teachers.
Many of them had little or no
education. They began their cam
paign, which lasted for many year
to arouse enough interest for a
teachers training school to pro-
cure a state appropriation. Sever
al times committees presented res-
olutions. Once it failed to pass by
only a few votes, and had it passed
the Normal would have been CO.
educational. The idea of giving ed
ucation to women alone was grow
ing slowly and most painfully.
Finally, in 1891, the legislature
brought into being the State Nor
NAL and Industrial school. Two
Raleigh men, R. S. Pullen, and
R. T. Gray, gave a site of ten
acres in Greensboro, and Green's
boro raised $50, 900 to bring it here.
Today after 48 years of growth
that vas at times just as painful
as the growth of the idea, the
school stands on that same hill
side, a monument to the men and
women who strove for it's found
ing, and to the purpose incorpor-
ated in the first catalogue: ITO
give such education as will add to
the efficiency of the average wom-
ans work in whatever walk OF
life her lot may be cast
Instead of two buildings, there
are 48. Instead of a student body
Of 223, there are 2,256. Where a
faculty of Is stood %valiantly against
a tide of poorly trained students,
there are 226 today. Three courses
of study we're offered then, a nor
NAL course, a business course, and
a home economics course. T h e
first year 81 girls received diplo-
mas in these three courses. Today,
Woman's college offers five de
grees, an A. B.: a B. S. in Secre-
tarial Science; a B. S. in Home
Economics; a B. S. in Physical
Education; and a B. S. in music.
For these five degrees there are
fifteen major departments, a
there is still the one-year CONNER
cial department giving a certifi-
cate as it did f~orty-seven years
ago. In 1899 there were 1872 grad
yates receiving these degrees.
In that early day the library IA
cilities consisted Of 1900 books, and
such additional reference books as
the girls could bring from home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05

glad to know she ) recuperating
following an operation at James
Walker Memorial hospital.
Miss Della Copeland, of Kinston,
is the guest of. Miss Alice James
at home on Market street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert C. Cant
we'll, III, have returned to the city
following their wedding trip and
are now making their home at {
South 9Th street.
Mrs. T.. Wallace Barber and
young daughter, Susan Struthers,
have arrived from Columbus, Ga,
to visit her mother and grandma
Their. q
Mrs. Clark Mebane, of Reds
vile, arrived Friday afternoon to
spend the weekend with her mo-
Their, Mrs. Edward Weaver, at her
home on Grace street. 4
Miss Mildred Buck, Miss Beulah
Sammons and Miss Elvera Willett
have gone to Portsmouth and Nor
folk, Va, for a visit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
president; Heide Davis, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Mary Bryan, secretary:

president; Heide Davis, v~ice-presi.
dent; Miss Mary Bryan, secretary;
Mrs. Callie Bordeaux, treasurer;
program committee, Charles Du.
ling, Miss Carlton, Mrs. Wayland
Bland; hospitality. Miss Elkins.
Mrs. Florence Myers, Miss Belts,
Mrs. Marshburn, Mrs. Rochelle:
publicity, Mrs. Leon West, Mrs.
N. c. Blake, Mrs. Roy Rowe; vel.
fare, Mrs. R. v. Biberstein, Mrs.
David Lucas, Mrs. C. R. Taylor;
mbership, Mrs. E. M. Thomp.
son, Mrs. James Bordeaux. Mrs,
Norma Sawyer, Mrs. Martha Bat.
son; finance, Mrs. Callie Bordeaux,
Mrs. j. H. Burnette, Mrs. Jack
Brown, Mrs. Ed Batson, Miss Stan.
ton.
Mrs. E. T. Pullen and Mrs. C. F
Davis have closed the Pullen cot.
tage at Wrightsville Beach and re.
turned to their homes here. Mrs.
Davis expects to occupy her new
nome, the former Paddison resi-
dence, within a few days. Mr..
and Mrs. j. R. Lewis have moved
INTO their new home on Highway
~ on the southern edge of town
X. G. johnson, of Raleigh, was 4
business visitor in Burgaw today. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
Woman's College Of University
Will Note Founders Day TODAY

GREENSBORO, Oct. 4.-On a
fall morning in 1892, DR.. Charles
Duncan McIver, president of the
new State Normal and Inustrial
school, which had just opened it's
doors for the training of women
teachers, met personally at the
Greensboro station most of his ca
ger 223 students. So anxious was
DR.. McIver tosmake his school a
success, so anxious was he to
make his girls happy, f'at he went
from one end of the platform to
the other, asking if there any
more girls for the State Normal
school, and smiling a welcome.
One of them, who sat timidly
and fearfully on her suitcase in
the station that morning, has writ
ten of the cordially with which
DR.. McIver greeted her, took her
suitcase, and carried it for her.
On every October S, Woman's
College of the University of North
Carolina celebrates the anniver-
sary of the opening of that small
school. DR.. McIver took the girls
that morning to a raw, red hill
side west of the city, where they
found two buildings, Administra-
ton and Brick dormitory.
It was fortunate that the new
corners were girls in earnest about
education, for they saw only those
two buildings, standing on t en-
acres of red mud, and off to the
left of Administration one lone pine
tree. Some of them saw a young
woman working busily about the
tree with a whitewash bucket. 1t
was Mrs. Charles Duncan McIver
who had been the inspiration OF
her husbands long years Of cam
paigning for better teachers in the
North Carolina, who had fought,
and pied, and Travelled by his side,
and who was now, when the school
was a reality, working to save the
schools one bit of beauty from the
destruction of workmen.
AS students of the Woman's col
lege of this year look back upon
the students and the college OF
that fall day they see girls in leg
of-mutton sleeves, in S w ee pi n 6
dresses, and several years older
than the girls of today, for most
Of them came to the State Normal
as graduates of other schools. They
were housed in a dormitory lighted
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
CITY Will Receive Bids
Or Uniforms On Oct. l6

The city commissioners will receive
bids until 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning, October 16, on proposals for
furnishing uniforms for the: police
and fire departments. J. r. Benson,
city clerk and treasurer, said yester-
day.
Proposals will be received at the
same time for furnishing police caps.
to be made Of same material as uni
forms and to include the necessary
insignia, Benson said. Further in
formation may be obtained by apply,
ing at the office of Mayor Thomas
e. Cooper, commissioner of public
safety.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05

Today there is a library of rs, 900
volumes.
In 1892 there was but one resi-
dence hall. Today there are IS.
Then there were a few recitation
rooms in Administration building.
Today there are several buildings
devoted to class rooms alone; one
of them named for DR.. McIver.
There is an auditorium seating g..
600 persons. There is an infirmary
with go beds. There is an Alumnae
building, Library, and S c i en- C e
building. There is Curry Demon
stration school, where girls learn
to teach.
There were in 1892, IS girls de-
fraying their W expenses at the
State Normal. That spirit of ear
%nestness about education has never
died. There are today 600. -
There have been $500 graduates
of the college, and today they are
in Sc states and II foreign coun.
tries, carrying on the work started
that fall morning in 1892.
Admission for students in 1892,
was difficult to define. The cata.
logue said they should be able to
analyze any ordinary arithmetical
problem; read any ordinary Eng
fish page fluently at sight; ex.
press thoughts clearly in writing;
answer fairly well any questions
on English grammar, Geography,
History of the United States, and
History of North Carolina. They
should be sixteen years of age and
in good health. Today require
ments for admission are s-.ndard-
lied. Applicants must have Is &C
ceptable units of credit. T e y,
must be sixteen years of age and
in good health. And what would
the girl of 1892 think of the series
of intelligence tests given the new
girls of 1889 for placement infor-
nation?
Many of those pioneer students
and faculty are still at the college
today. Miss Mary Petty, of the
Chemistry department.; Mr.. E.. j..
Forney, treasurer of the college,;
and DR.. Anna M. Cove, though
now retired, are still here. Miss
Minnie Jamison, Counselor, and,
Miss Eta Spier, Professor of Ed
ucation, yer among those students
whom DR.. McIver me- at the sta
ton. The coachman who drove DR..
McIver that day is still at his
post in Administration building.
''Zeke' has done his part in the
building Of the college.
Today Woman's college, built on
the foundations laid by men like
McIver and Alderman, is one of
the largest woman's colleges in
the United States. Its p h y S C a |
equipment has probably exceeded
the dreams of it's founders. Its
spirit cannot be defined. 1t can
but be measured by its students,
it's faculties, and three men who
have led it McIver, Foust, and
Jackson. 2