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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
BY GEORGE A. FITCH

A Ii over China today they
are singing song:
we have no shoes. we have no
bread. we have no guns:
But wait-the enemy will give
them 10 us"
The heavy Chinese broadsword
l brought home with me from
Chungking Is such gift" II is
hand-forged from a length OF steel
rail stolen mt night by Chinese
guerillas who risked their lives TO
get II. They had to tear up the
tracks and carry the rail away
under the very noses OF Japanese
troops patroling the north-south
railway In occupied territory"
from Hankow 10 Picking.
Almost all the steel used by the
famous Eighth Route army and
that OF Marshal Yen Shi-san, the
model governor" of Shansi, is OBJ
tanned from the Japanese In just
this way. l have seen three differ
ent types of revolvers made from
such stolen steel rails, some crude
and awkward. others beautiful
pieces of mechanism. All were
made to use Japanese ammunition,
for they count on the enemy to
give" them the bullets. too.
When ! was in the Northwest
Of China, they offered TO stage a
raid for me, to show me how this
was done. Unfortunately. I could
not wait the week they said was
necessary to journey to the rail
road and back.
Today the steel rails still are
being forged into weapons, but the
guerillas now complain that Japa-
nese shoes and uniforms are %
worn and ragged and their food 80
poor that II hardly pays TO risk
life and limb to obtain them. That
Is a striking contrast with what
] saw In Marking two and a half
years ago. The Japanese army
then was well clothed and shod
and fed with rice and fish and
other foodstuffs, imported from
Japan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
SONGS. PLAYS
BOOST MORALE

CINGING has taken the country
by storm. Soldiers sing Justify
hey march to the front.
In helall never forget q concert
.umme in Northwest China last
orches,rsThere was a make-shift
cello made a dozen pieces. the
gallon gasolin an American five
well enough. bum. They played
of a hundred niwas the chorus
held me spellboundoices which
the yellow River. hey sang
-ecently
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
TO ELECT OFrvcrpS

The Farmers Educational and
Cooperative Union of Arn.r,es
Evergreen local 800, win m.s, :,
S p. m. Friday in the North p,,v
allup gymnasium to elect off,cs-s
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
DIVORCE ACTIONS

Divorce actions were on file in
superior court here Thursday for
Emma s. against Brown S. Fricke,
grounds non-support. and Lucille
z against George T. Thompson,
cruelty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
CLUB WILL NOMINAL

The West End Civic and I'm.
provement club, meeting atsp m.
Friday at Franklin school. win
nominate officers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
Daniel Frohman, Famous
Theatrical Producer, Dies
The Curtoin's Coming Down. He
Tells Physician. Before Expiring

NEW YORk-Shortly before midnight "Wednesday BY
earod Daniel Frohan stirred in MS bed at the Leroy
sanarum here and muttered The curtains coming down
hrsdar The famed theatrical producer dleo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

composed cantata In 10 parts. IL
was like nothing had ever heard
before. neither classical Chinese,
nor western. but something new
which they had created themselves.
II was born of infinite suffering
the voices of the river. the work
ers, famine. exiles. the grief of
women. Some OF those plaintive
and stirring strains still ring in
my ears.
The radio Is widely used. Every
town and hamlet has its public
loudspeaker where the people gath
err to hear the news from Chung
king and RUNNING and kweivang
and the pep-talks from headquar-
tiers.
But the theater is the most in
teresting and powerful propagan-
dist. The audiences go wild, sol
diers draw deep inspiration from
plays of patriotic sacrifice. l re-
call especially one given in Chung
king by a group of Japanese cap
tives, about how three brothers
went to China to fight. became dis
illusions about their Japanese
cause. and ended converts 10 the
Chinese principle that AL men are
brothers"
Such converted prisoners are
the authors of leaflets distributed
among Japanese troops IN China.
II is hard to say how much effect
this propaganda has had, but ]
have talked with Japanese prison
ers who complained that "the glory
has gone out of war"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

OF course China will win"
She was eight years old.
NEXT: Japanese girls imam"
bombers rs radio operators,
while Chinese youths, we'll
organized, perform tasks like
moving an entire university
thousand miles intact.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

Ray Daily, P. L c. student,
counted among his Christmas gifts
a surprise package from a friend
in North Dakota.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

Mr.. and MIS-. Robert {. kassel-
man and their son and daughter
in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Russell l.
kasselman. were among the guests
az a Christmas day party given
by MIR. and Mrs. Russell Whitmore
of Olympia
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
EVEN WOUNDS
AID SPIRIT

ON the other hand. Chinese mo-
" rale is rising I talked to a
young officer in Ichang who had
been wounded five times. l found
him living for the fifth time on a
hospital bed" which was only a
few boards covered with mating
in an abandoned movie house. He
was a modest fellow. as were so
many similar men with whom !
talked. and he said in his quiet
way that as soon as he had recov-
cred he would be back at the front.
Each wound" he said earnestly.
has given me more self-confidence
than / had before"
In Yenan I was a guest al a
dramatic performance al Lu-shan
Art academy. A little girl brought
her autograph book to Mao Use
Tung. who sat beside me. and then
courteously asked the foreigner"
TO write something. too. wrote
line or two. ending up with a
flourish. China will win" The
words were translated for her.
The little girl, both of whose
parents were killed by the Japs-
nese not long before. turned UP
her nose in terrible scorn. looked
toward me with smszement. Why
4. does he write that" she asked
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

Annabel Miller. senior al c. 2.
S. 10 spending the Yule season
with her family in Bremerton-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

Orrin and Gordon Blair. with
their mother. Mrs. Margaret Blair,
are planning TO spend part OF the
holiday visiting relatives in Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs. John Psdur, 5l7
No. Sheridan ave. are the parents
Of q son born on Christmas day
al Tacoma General hospital.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-27
STARTS ON PAGE ONE

Miss Marialyce Bourland. at
tending school in San Francisco,
and friend Marjorie Lowson OF
Hilo. T. H are spending their
holiday vacation with the for
mers mother. Mrs. Lillian II.
Bouriand, 719 No. X ST.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
Modern Alphabet Linked
To Ancient Copper Mines

Because the Egyptians mined
their copper in the Sinai peninsula
1000 years ago, the poet can put his
immortal sonnets into IA B Cs"
and the schoolboy can learn his let
tiers today. according to Waldo H.
Dubberstein Of the University Of
Chicago.
The secret and controlled Egyp-
tian hieroglyphic system of writing
was changed to an alphabetic sys-
tenn probably by some local Semitic
wise man" who came into contact
with the Egyptians during their
work on the peninsula, DR.. Dubber-
stein, research associate Of the ORR
entail institute of the university. said
recently in lecture.
Psychologists are now able to
trace the development of the alpha
bet, with fair certainty, to it's origin
shortly after 1000 B. c." DR.. Dub
bernstein said.
From its origin in the Sinai Pc
ninsula the new system of writing
which needed only some 80 symbols
instead Of the many hundreds used
in hieroglyphic writing understood
by only a select few, gradually
worked it's way up along the coast
Of Palestine and Syria.
Eventually it reached the ancient
city of RaS-Shamra, where the
natives wrote on clay tablets in
Babylonian cuneiform characters.
They were so accustomed to writing
on clay that they maintained that
medium, changing only the sets Of
symbols they had been using.
Both the present-day alphabet and
the ancient hieroglyphic systems
have a common ancestor in picture
writing, he said.
Writing" he said, sis continu-
Gus streamlining process. For ex-
ample, the picture Of man is re-
duced to picture showing only his
head. BY further step it becomes
merely few strokes which repro
duce the sound Of the word. Sue
ceeding generations formalize the
strokes into a letter-symbol"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
RECOMMENDATIONS Differ

In Quebec they spell it Toilette.
Most of the towners call it Jollyet
but a few ritzed it to Zholy-aye. In
Wisconsin there is a burg spelled
Allouez. Natives say Al-o-weez. Pur-
lists claim it should be Al-o-way.
In Egypt, one would say Ky-ro;
but the division point on the Illinois
Central is Kayrow. If you are
buying a ticket in Peoria to the
adjacent Mason county town you
ask for a ducat to San Joz. If the
transaction is made at San Francis
co for transportation to the main
town of Santa Clara county the pro-
nunciation is San Hosey.
Layfee-et might horrify an alum
nus of the Sorbonne, but it'll get
you where you want to go if you
are headed for the Wabash settle
ment. Perhaps photographers would
hold out for Terra Hote but most
Vigo county folk still call it Terry
Hut.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
MilitdrY Services Held for
Velnu Clyde Clark

Beautiful and impressive services
were held Tuesday, September IT,,
in tribute to Velma Clyde Clark,
43, 7s7 Rondo Avenue, who died
Thursday, September IL, at the
Veterans Hospital. Mrs. Winona
Jenkins, soloist;; sang GIVE Done
My Work.; and services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Joseph Jackson, as
sistant pastor of St. James A. M.
E. Church. Last honors were given
at the cemetery by the blowing of
taps, and the flag was given to the
bereaved widow, Mrs. Elizabeth
Clark.
Relatives who came from out of
the city for the services included
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Randall of
Chicago, Mrs. James Taylor of
Galesburg, Illinois; and Mrs. Lu-
ellie T. Crutcher of New York City.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20

Rev. Marion Boyde Patrick,
newly ordained elder of the North
western Conference of the African
Methodist church, was appointed
to the pastorate at historical st.
James A. M. E. church, of Mime
apolis, Minnesota, the pioneer and
Mother Church of the Northwest
ern Conference.
The young Rev. Mr.. Patrick is
twenty-nine years of age and has
resided in St. Paul, Mimi, for
over twenty-eight years. He is a
product of the public school sys-
tenn of that city and graduate
of Mechanic Arts high school.
While in high school and college,
Rev. Patrick starred in football
and was an all around athlete. Rev.
Patrick received his college and
theological training at San Mateo,
California Junior College of Cali
California, Hamline University in
St. Paul, Mimi, and Northwestern
Evangelical Seminary.
Rev. Patrick has been very
prominent in the development of
the religious work among young
people of the Twin Cities and the
Northwest. He was elected presi-
dent of the Young Peoples Con-
gross last July and appointed Dean
of Religious Education of the
Northwestern Conference. Having
been associated in social and rec
reation work in the Twin Cities, as
Boys Worker at the Halle @.
Brown House and Welcome Hall
for many years, Rev. Patrick en-
joys a wide contact with many
young people and is expected to
develop the young peoples activ-
tiles in his church community.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
John Thomas
To Address
Church Women

On Thursday, September 26th
at 2 p. m. the Minneapolis Coun-
ell of Church Women will present
John F. Thomas, N. Y. A. super
visor active in Twin City Youth
groups as the principal speaker at
Aldrich Avenue Presbyterian
church, Aldrich Ave. So. and 35th
st.
This meeting in charge of the
interracial committee of the coun-
Gil, headed by Mrs. George F.
Maetzold will be the first of the
1940-41 season.
Mrs. Maetzold is also a member
of the Minneapolis Urban League
board. Her committee with the CO.
operation of the Urban League or
ganized a speakers bureau of
Negro women last year. Thirty
two engagements before groups of
white church women were filled.
All women regardless of church
utilization are urged to attend this
meeting of the council and all
others held on the fourth Thurs
day of each month at various
churches.
Names Of churches where these
meetings are to be held may be
obtained by calling the council
office, Bridgeport 1881, Urban
League, Atlantic 6917 or Mime
apolis Spokesman, Bridgeport
1896.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
Arsenic From Tobacco

DR.. Edwin E. Barksdale of Dam
vile, Va, advises persons unusually
sensitive to arsenic not to smoke.
Some persons, he reports, develop
itching and Inflammation of the skin
if they absorb any appreciate
amount Of arsenic. After studying
several persons afflicted in this
way. he discovered they got their
arsenic from tobacco, and could rec
ommend no cure except to stop
smoking. The arsenic in tobacco
comes from the arsenate of lead
with which farmers spray the grow
ing plant to prevent horn worms
from destroying it, DR.. Barksdale
reported. No other insecticide
serves the farmers purpose so well,
he said, because the arsenate of
lead has the property of adhering
to the tobacco leaf. There is no
known way Of removing the arse
nate of lead during the curing or
manufacturing processes, he added.
But only the representative and al
lergic suffer. St
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
DIR. Grace Carlson To
Seek Senator Post
On Socialist Ticket

DR.. Grace Carlson, who recently
resigned as vocational counselor
from the state department of ed
ucation, has entered the race for
United States Senator on the
Trotskyist Anti-war Party ticket.
Her friends and supporters are
now collecting the necessary sig
natures to place DR.. Carlson's
name on the ballot.
DR.. Carlson was educated at st.
GATHERINGS college and at the Uni
versity of Minnesota where she
was an instructor in the Depart
ment of Psychology. She is a
charter member of the Minnesota
State Employees Union Local 10,
and a member of the St. Paul
branches of the Urban League and
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People; a
delegate to the st. Paul Trades
and Labor Assembly; and national
executive board member of the
Workers Defense League.
She will campaign on a program
opposing imperialist war, fascism
and totalitarian dictatorship; for
trade union control of military
training, and for trade union wages
in the military forces and trade
union hours and wages on all de-
tense and public works programs.
She calls for genuine economic
and social equality for women, and
the right of Negroes and youth to
job opportunities. She stands for
a national labor party based upon
and controlled by the trade unions,
and for a Socialist United States
and a Socialist world.
Because of legal barriers the
name of the Socialist Workers
Party cannot appear on the bal
lot, and DR.. Carlson is running as
the candidate of the Trotskyist
Anti-war Party. Minneapolis cam
paign headquarters are at 919
Marquette avenue; St. Paul head
quarters at 1873 East 9Th street.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
Use Airplanes to Locate
Center of Old Civilization

How the modern airplane has TAX
en- man on a fight into time-go-
ing back 5000 years in one or two
hours-is related by DR.. Erich F.
Schmidt, of the University Of Chi
cago's Oriental institute. DR..
Schmidt made many such flights in
Iran, where he was field director Of
an archaeological expedition. Through
aerial observation, he explained, it
was possible to find rich areas new
er before acknowledgements of an
cient civilization.
From the air." declared DR..
Schmidt, 1--WE have been able to fol-
low routes followed thousands Of
years ago by caravans. We have
found mounds covering ancient cit
les. Some of these places would
have required weeks or months to
locate by an overland route. They
were found in few hours by air"
In one venture, Dr. Schmidt laid,
aerial Psychologists few for 214
hours to find the route of an ancient
overland caravan. It took three
weeks Of overland tracking to fol-
low this route after it was discov-
cred by air, but it led to sanctuary
Of the Assyrian empire period Of
about 800 B. c. AS result there
were uncovered many valuable OBJ
jects relating to the period.
THE exploration Of this place."
said DR.. Schmidt, gave a remark
able picture Of the mixture In this
remote place Of the sophisticated As
syrian and the rough mountain cul-
lures"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
7Ss|ZE7 Q Rep s; !l!5 q ): s =! :,

to conform with the shape Of your
fingers. Avoid claw-like hands by
all means. But shapely nails can
enhance the appearance Of stubby
fingers, can add to the beauty Of
well-fOrmed fingers.
Frequent swimming parties, the
outdoor Sun-all have contributed
to today's condition of your hair. It
probably Is dry, and may even be-
streaked. Oil shampoos will help.
Or you can massage Oil into the
scalp and leave it overnight, remov-
ing it first thing in the morning with
a good shampoo. A good hair color
ing will cover any streaks and give
an appearance of naturalness.
Brush your hair more frequently.
the brushing invigOrates the scalp.
Most of US shamefully neglect to
brush our hair during the summer,
and, therefore, must brush it more
frequently during the cooler periods
of the year.
Yes, it's time to recondition our
beauty. It's an endless job, isn't it?
But how satisfying it is to have
other women and men pay
us the tribute that good beauty care
merits. An honest effort, backed up
with the careful selection of mate
rials,-and the battle can be won.
Let's never forget that beauty
means romance!
What are your beauty prob
lens? Write: Marie Downing,
Larieuse Beauty Bureau, 1909
LindeH Blvd, St. Louis, Mo-,
and she wiH be glad to answer
them. Be sure to enclose self
addressed, stamped envelope.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20

For the second consecutive year,
Theodore F. Allen, of the North
American Life and Casualty Com
pany, has qualified as member of
the Black Cat Club and the Jinx
Chasers Club, two honorary acct
dent and health insurance organ
izations.
Membership to these organiza-
tons cannot be bought, but is
determined by outstanding produc-
ton on Friday, the 18th. It is con-
sidered a glory that accident and
health organizations covet through
out the nation. According to last
years estimates, only one out of
every 500 agents is usually sue
cessful in achieving this award.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20

The spring and the fall of the year
always are periods of change. Now
is the time to reconditiOn the home
for the winter months .. the time
to remove furniture slip-cOvers, and
brighten the home for the next few
months of indoor activities and
living.
This suggests to me the need for
a bit of beauty reconditiOning And
most of us need just that after three
months of summer activity {. and
summer heat which many times
causes us to be negligent in our
beauty routine.
Chances are that the summer sun
hasn't benefited our faces. We're
probably tanned. The skin is drier.
New squint lines can be found
around the eyes. A series of pro-
fessional or home treatments is
needed, backed up with good
cleansing cream and night cream
regularly used.
The reason 1 emphasize ''regu-
larly" is that during the heat of the
summer, it is difficult to do any
thing regularly, especially anything
which means eXertiOn. But now
that summers heat is gone and we
have the invigorating GOODNESS of
fall, we can make repairs for our
negligence the past several months.
Use creams regularly, and the skin
soon will soften once more, will
seem to tighten in color and appear
more beautiful.
Summers outdoor activity is not
the best conditioner for hands. They
may need expert attention. At least
they'll need considerable personal
attention. Use a hand-lotiOn fire.
quently. Manicure the nails and
cuticle. And remember how impor-
tant it is that the nails be shaped
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
New Pastor
Makes Request

Rev. Patrick is urgently re-
questing the attendance of all
members of the Trustees, Stew
ards, and Official Boards, respec-
lively, as we'll as all of the mem
bers, old and new, at a church
conference Immediately following
the regular morning church SER
vices, Sunday, Sept. %.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
WELCOME HALL NEWS

Girl Reserves: Welcome Hall Girl
Reserves will open Tuesday, Sept.
"a. All girls wishing to join be-
tween the ages of eight to twelve
years are invited to be at the first
meeting.
Bible Conference: Rev. William
Hicks of Shreveport, Louisiana,
will speak Oct. IA through Oct. 20.
There will be good music each eve
ming with various church choirs
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
St. Paul Woman
TOCOnduct NAACP
Drive In East

Baltimore.-Mrs. Juanita Jack
son Mitchell of St. Paul, Mimi,
arrived here, Monday, to conduct
the campaign of the Baltimore
Branch of the N.A.A.C.P.
Mrs. Mitchell, who was former
ly a member of the national staff
of the organization, will serve in
volunteer capacity for five
weeks. The goal of the campaign
is $4,000.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
Card of Thanks

Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Hunt, 1915
Burr Street, wish to thank the en-
ployees of the Pullman Company
and the friends of the late Harry
Robert Gray for their kindnesses,
sympathy and beautiful floral offer
ings during his illness and subse-
quent death.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20

and Twin City Jubilee Singers CO.
operating.
Adult Education Classes: The
public is cordially invited to attend
the adult education classes. Call
for detail information, DA-9650,
office hours 900 A. M. to 500
P. M. daily except Sunday.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20

Gertrude Lippincott, director of
the Modern Dance Center of Min
neapois, will personally conduct
class in the modern dance at Halle
@. Brown House during the fall
and winter program.
The public will remember the
most spectacular performance the
group gave at Halle last winter
when the "Saga of America" was
presented.
Modern dance is more closely re-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20

thanks to the many friends who
gave their kindness, sympathy and
beautiful floral offerings during the
illness and death of my beloved
husband.
Mrs. Elizabeth Clark,
Wife.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-09-20
In MemOria1n

In sad and loving memory of my
dear husband J. T. Monroe, who
left US two years ago, the 21st of
September, 1888.
His Wife Florence,
and Family.