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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-14
HOROSCOPE
SATURDAY. DECEMBER "A

This il rather doubtful day
In planetary direction. Adverse
aspects are active. 1t is day
for putting the affairs of bust
ness in order.
Heart and Home: This is a
lucky day for meeting new
friends Of the opposite sex. but
romances well begun may langu-
ish under this sway. Young men
men may be inclined toward
fickleness and Inconsistency This
is not favorable date for maxi
ing decisions. Women may be
much concerned about the fam
lily budget which is near collapse
from holiday preparations. The
evening should be propitious for
obtaining a loan from the head
OF the family. but il is not wise
10 shop for costly things under
this configuration. Judgment
may be misleading.
National Issues: With the
changing world. the men and
women who have been leaders
under old regimes will reach the
end of their careers. The death
of a statesman who was active
in advocating outworn ideas is
forecast. The Winter will be
time when an unusual number
of conspicuous figures will dis
appear from the national capt.
tai. Benefits for distinguished
refugees are prophesied as part
of the Christmas celebration.
International Affairs: In the
British chart there are signs
that give hope OF victory,
since the stars presage
more substantial help from the
United States and the Domini-
ons. The problem Of educating
the children in England Will be
OF great concern. Shipping losses
may be sustained through the
work Of fifth column agents oil
the treschery Of a seeming
friend
Persons whose birthdats IL Is
have the sugury OF year of
progress in business or profess
sion. The aid Of Older persons
will hasten success.
Children born on this day
probably will be ingenious. re-
sourceful and versatile. They
may be strong in their loves and
hates.
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State to Run Narrows Ferries

Final decision that the state toll bridge authority has
the responsibility for operation ferries between Tacoma
and the peninsula good time Following ruling
of the state attorney that the county had legal
right to operate ferries contract for their operation the
state toll bridge authority announced it would provide
vice adequate for the situation. And that is just what
Pierce and kitsap residents want.
James Davis acting state highway director announced
further that it the states intention concentrate
ferry service between Sixth and PIT Fosdck Again
that is what majority of the public and ferry desire
Apparently the right track as far as
operation of ferries is concerned least until Mar
bridge is erected All of which will make folks
happy indeed
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PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
GRAPES OF WRATH

Editor. The Times: You who
saw the movie of Grapes of
Wrath" noticed that the hate
promoting author intended TO
depict the fruit growers of Cali
fornia as having grown fat and
wealthy at the expense of the
underpaid fruit pickers. They
were pictured riding around in
the most expensive cars. They
also had their own Gestapo TO
shoot down any agitators.
l do not doubt that there are
some wealthy farmers in Cali
fornia. but l do doubt very much
that they made their wealth
from farming of late years.
Many a wealthy business man
has a farm for hobby. Anyone
who understands farm conditions
knows that the farmer can not
be expected TO pay wages equal
to that paid in price stabilized
industry. The fact is that the
present price of farm products
only equal SIS per cent of the
price received by the farmer 25
to 30 years ago. while wages
paid in industry have trebled
during this period.
Also anyone should know that
when the fruit is ready it must
be picked or you lose the crop.
The farmer can not afford to al
low the labor leader to stop the
harvesting Of the crop. Only the
government can afford 10 allow
that. imagine the farmer would
gladly pay two or three times
as much wages if he received
prices for his products that
would allow the wages.
A politically minded admins
tration. during the World war
No. l. irresponsibly allowed
wages and prices to double and
even treble in industrial pro-
duction az the expense Of the
farmers. farm labor. and tax
payers in general. The same
thing seems 10 be happening
again. II is this that has caused
the great disparity in farm prices
compared 70 industrial prices.
Also the great disparity between
wages in industry and that Of
farm labor. Il is and mas been
the main cause OF unemploy-
ment.
I cannot understand why some
NJ the people should be allowed
TO profit by war. while others
must make sacrifices 20 the ex-
tent Of losing their lives. Can
you honestly say that all groups
receive equal representation and
consideration in government > Or
do they receive according 70
their political activity and
power
OSCAR c. ERICKSON.
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MR.. FIXIT
He Fixes THINGS

To receive attention n this col
umn lettrrs must giFs name and
address o. writer ONLY Initials
VII Be published when requested
Mr.. FIxli: Where would a
persen 70 to SEEK employment
at Fort lewis or Camp Murray
Also. what il the address Of the
Edison Vocational school at Sc
attic JOSEPH HYLAND.
NinIock.
For q job. 20 TO the contrac-
tors employment offices on the
reservations; you will have to
have or arrange for union men,
bership. The Edison Vocational
schools are al $40 Ea. Olive. Sc
attic.
Mr.. f1xit: Il u unlawful for
the postmaster 20 pass out mail
without stamping the time when
received at destination I no
ticed II Is stamped when re-
ceived for mailing but not at
destination. How should o let
ter he addressed TO the post
master general? J. =.
Post offices don't time-stamp
their incoming mail any more.
they used 10 do II. years ago.
There's no law about IL: just
the common practice Of the de-
partment. according TO depart
ment rules. As for the second
question. merely address your
letter to Postmaster General,
Washington. d. c.
Mr.. Fixit: I read In your col
umn some time ago that a dol
lar made In 1879 was worth s..
n 50. where and from whom can
I get s. for such n dollar:
A READER.
nv check with the coin list
suggests a misunderstanding by
you. / find no listing of 1879
dollars worth more than 81.
Mr.. Ffxit: Please tell me what
day Dec. 2s, 1884, came on
was u Saturday or sunday:
Also Feb. IL. 1887 There's
birthday dispute. MRS. VI. VI.
Dec. rs, 1854. fell on Sun
day; Feb. Il. 1887, fell on a
Thursday.
Mr.. fxit: Please tell me what
Judge Blacks home address Is;
also his office address. n he has
one. MRS. l.. j. NJ.
Address him in care Of the
u. S. Court Clerk, Federal Bldg,
Tacoma. and communication
will be forwarded. His residence
address is not available. though
his home was in Everett at the
time he was appointed TO the
federal bench.
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For the Red Cross

In these days when the Red Cross of America seeking
funds all the country to carry its mecifu work
people likely think the need restricted of
the closing of much European territory benefcient
mission.
is we'll therefore point out that relief totalng
339501 has been distributed to 10 nations OF this
489 has gone to the victims of the Nazi air
attacks upon Britain. Considerable American bounty has
also gone to Finland and China.
The need of the Red Cross for money great because
the calls it and will be increasingly great In
world where many values being destroyed America
and its Red Cross almost the last best hope for stricken
people everywhere
the helpless.
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QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven OF
these test questions Turn TO
the womans page for the
answers
l. Name the wirehaired ter
rier that appears with Myrns
Loy and William Powell in the
Thin Man" series.
2. The glider distance rec
ord 10 more than 200, 800 or
400 miles
:. Name the president If
France at the time Of the first
World war.
4 Which former United
States senator Is an apostle Of
the Mormon church
S. II the weight Of the sun
one hundred thousand. two
hundred thousand or three
hundred thousand times that
OF the earth
s. The expression The
world must be made safe for
democracy" was coined by
Thomas jefferson. Abraham
Lincoln or Woodrow Wilson .
7. Was Edgar Allen Poe
born in Boston or Baltimore
6 Which newly elected high
government Official speak 5
Spanish fluently7
Q. In which century did Geng-
his Khan fight
10. From what part OF the
tree does the spice. cinnamon.
Gomez
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Stories in
Stamps

A NGLO-GRECIAN friendship II
syrbolized by the stamp
above. bearing portraits OF King
George l of Greece and Queen
Victoria. The stamp commence
rates the 18th anniversary of the
ceding TO Greece of the Ionian
Islands, a commonwealth under
British protection from 1915 TO
1854.
Britain gave up the islands TO
increase the prestige of George,
the. Danish prince Britain picked
10 succeed the Bavsrian, Otto.
When Greece won independence,
under the protection of France.
Russia and England, Otto was
chosen TO rule: He was ousted by
military revolt in 1862.
Greece has announced issue OF
a stamp to commemorate the VIC
tory over Italians at Koritza.
The first Greek stamp is .
classic. This issue Of seven values
picturing Hernes or Mercury In
winged helmet. was released IN
1861. The same stamp was issued
for IS years and the design re-
manned practically unchanged un-
I'll the Olympic Games issue OF
1895.
There are l57 principal varie-
ties Of the first type, readily OH.
ferentiated' by paper, quality ana
/ color. The rarities are found 10
differences Of color.
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a reason for a breakdown on
this practice, and they may have
IL now.
But in this particular issue
the A. T. a. T. was smart. They
might have obtained funds from
the r. +. c. at liz per cent.
They might have demanded
since much Of the expansion has
been necessitated by national
defense requirements-the bene-
fit of the five-year amortization
plan on the new moneys use.
But. at a private get-together
with President Walter Clifford,
the local telephone heads con-
cluded IL would he wiser to keep
out Of the Government clutches
a. long "a possible. Therefore.
they got their S140, 00O.0 900 from
banks and insurance companies.
They were taken over by the
post office department in the
World war. and they don't want
any repetition Of that expert
ence.
The SEC-ers are concluding .
confidential study Of the system
under which corporations have III
nanced or refinanced themselves
through private offerings. rather
than with public flotations super
vised by the federal agency. A.
vet the investigators have reached
no conclusions. But the A. T. & T
financing hits them like a slap in
the face-and they don't like il.
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PONDER CHAPEL
APPRECIATES HELP

Editor. The Times: The old
sdsge that big business men
never think of anything but in
terms Of money does not always
run true. There are a few who
have no nature Of benevolence
il is true.
We would like TO mention
few kind Tacoma business men
who have given US a lift out
here IN the Ponder district in
regard TO some much needed
building material for use Of
the Ponder chapel. Such kind
ness cannot possibly 60 unnot-
iced.
4. II. Hooker u. presented
the chapel with fine ping
pong table. We will have some
form Of recreation. Through
the thoughtfulness Of c. L.
Griggs Of the St Paul mill we
have hope Of obtaining a little
lumber. Phil Garland is giving
Us some plywood. Our latest
good friend is Axel Oxholm,
from whom We viii receive also
some plywood, TO be used TO
finish up a small room as a So
cial-recreation and class room.
We have also received a beau
tiful picture of Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, autographed by
her. and taken in her study in
the White House.
HOMER AMUNDSEN.
p. :. Box 2O3-H. Tacoma.
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productions for national defense,
especially at a time when the
time element is OF such great
Importance. we can look for gov
eminent action. To see labor
conscripted is not beyond the
realm of possibility.
II labor is conscripted. wages
will be set once and for all time,
at what level no one knows.
Unions will be at the end of
their usefulness as far as wages
are concerned. Your golden
goose will be baked, boiled and
fried. Many of the leeches who
have been insidiously leading us
and slyly bleeding US will dry
up under the beams OF a too
warm sun.
Perhaps that Will indeed be
the end of all this petty bicker-
ing that has kept this glorious
country in a steady senseless
uproar for years. selfishly de-
priving children of their joy at
Christmas time, proper food
most Of the time. and the work.
ers themselves the right to work.
A. J. KIRON.
South Tacoma.
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Neither Britain nor the crown
colonies own all the land and
water front the United States
must take over, in order TO i'm
prove the harbors as naval or
military centers. The property
stands in the name Of natives
or wealthy interests in England.
And they are demanding a swol-
len payment for the acreage
this country needs.
Local interests also insisting
that island contractors he given
the awards for deepening chan
neis. filling In land and erecting
the necessary hangers, admin
strative buildings, wharyes. In
short. they demand that II he
an all-British enterprise.
So far the army and navy
have not acceded to these re-
quests in toto. But they realize
il will create i'll feeling-snd
forestall any real community Of
interest or hemisphere good
Wilt they don't come through
with the payoff to the local, but
legal, bandits.
Washington pohticos with
even a slight understanding Of
Minnesota politics and person
alities still are chuckling over
Governor Harold Stsssen's APP
pointment Of Joe Ball as United
States senator. They think they
know why this 34-year-old re-
porter was named for the high
post. instead Of numerous wish
ful and distinguished Minneso-
tans. including two college pro-
fessors.
Those in the know regard the
appointment As signal that
Hsrold's hat il in the presiden-
tial ring for l9s4-that he
thinks his hero, Wendell WillLie.
will have vanished from the
political picture by that date.
Joe. as a smart journalist. did
a lot TO hsllyhoo the governor
back home; ne helped to keep
him in the headlines. Already
Senator Ball has begun = ma
tional buildup for his senatorial
patron at the capital.
Despite the rule that new
Corners 10 Capitol hill should re-
main silent for at least a year.
he has rushed into print with
proposal that congress stsve off
national defense strikes by
adopting Minnesotss cooling
off period" He has other Stss-
senesque ideas up his sleeve
which viii be propounded in due
time.
Joe. Il appears. is 10 serve as
the governor publicity man
and national sounding-board; he
is 10 keep Harold in the public
eye.
The American Telephone &
Telegraph Compsny's private
placement OF a Si4o. 600 600 Sc
curity issue has sngered certain
New Dealers. II may influence
the tone Of the report now in
preparation on the need for new
laws or regulations forcing these
issues 10 be registered with the
s. z. c. They have long wanted
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UNION STRENGTH
ITS WEAKNESS

Editor. The Times: Is there a
limit TO a unions usefulness and
have We reached that limit We
have been riding up on the flood
tide. wages are the highest in
history. working conditions the
best. labor has advantages IN
dreamed OF so years ago Let
US beware We are not left high
and dry by receding tide. 70 De
half buried in the sand where
we will remain 10 the end Of
time
II the striking unions interfere
too greatly with the necessary
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TIcuT An Inside Picture of Findn-
Ii u II i ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-Unce Sam may still have to pay a
pretty penny for the British naval and air bases recently
acquired in the destroyer deal Worst of is according to
navy negoator that of these hidden costs appeared
in the original contract pubczed by President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill
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tine TO set up the tents even
Il there were enough 70 so
around. The boys in the gray
uniforms who believed sincerely
in their own cause kept them
too busy.
OF course this isn't war
yet-and there's a difference
between q training camp and
an army camp, but the
thought persists that possibly
some of the lads may he
little soft from too much easy
living. Or could II be that
some of the parents are too
much concerned?
Then there comes TO mind thu
story of 15-year-old John Sager,
an epic of the early days on the
Oregon Trail. John Sagers fam
lily started for the Oregon coun-
try in the spring of 1874 with
a dozen other homeseeker fam
lies. The father and mother be-
came i'll and died at Soda
Springs in the Bear river coun-
try. Besides John there was left
a six months old baby. two sis
tiers. five and eight. and a
brother eleven. The other men,
bers OF the party wanted 10
send the children back, but dur
the night John packed them and
their few belongings and started
out on the trail.
When they were compelled
10 abandon the wagon John
took the baby In his arms, put
the other two girls on the
cows back and with the
brother bringing up the rear,
continued on the trail 10 Ore
gon. Food supplies soon were
exhausted. There was only the
decreasing small quantity of
milk which the weary and
emaciated COW was giving.
Day after day they plodded
on. Winter came and they
walked bare footed in the snow.
some res leaving blood in their
ira,
La in November the five
ragged. emaciated children
the baby barely breathing. ar
rived at the Marcus Whitman
mission, near Walla Walla
Miraculously. under the minis
trations and prayers of Mar.
cissa Whitman. the baby was
revived and the entire group
lived to tell an almost unbeliev-
able story.
One wonders what the Sagers
would not have given for a tent
warmed by an army stove in
which to sleep at night.
But there's another army
story. An orderly in Fort Lew
is hospital lives with mis- wife
and 11-months-old baby in a
small house near the south city
limits. Another baby is due. The
orderly is on duty a. m. to I
p. m. seven days week. Nc
six or eight hour days or five
day weeks in the army.
The income isn't sufficient
with rent, payments on a wash.
ing machine. etc.-to hire any
body to stay with the mother
and baby. Part of the time the
mother is too i'll to put wood ir
the stove; the fire goes out and
the baby becomes cold. A sup
erior officer told the orderly
he had no business getting mar
ried on his pay. Might be, but
its little late To talk bout
that now. The salary. by tn.
way is $50 a month, with 4
s14 allowance for rations. Com
pared to this problem. living ir
tent with an army stove anc
no obligations except to obey
reasonable orders and eat three
meals day is easy.
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ToDAY'S COMMON ERROR

II is much better 70 say. He
went 20 bed" than IN say. He
sought his downy couch" Most
modern beds are not "downy.'
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by John Hix

Crops were left unharvested.
debtors paid up their bills and
cattle were slaughtered and
distributed among the poor.
The world did not end. but
Miller's followers chung to him
until his death in 1s49.
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the millennium for some time
between the equinoxes of
1894.
Excitement over the proph-
ecy scared when. in 1s43, a
great comet appeared and
Miller became seriously i'll.
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Let US pay more attention 10
what government aid NAV do 20
US as well as what IL may do for
us--Clsrk L Brody. Michigan
Farm Bureau official
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A little more than a hundred
years later there was another
war. This time il was to prevent
dissolution of the democracy for
which the boys of '76 fought in
the snow. The men of this later
army were housed in tents part
of the time but there were many
occasions when they slept on the
bare ground with only single
blanket for covering. They pre-
pared for bed by gouging
couple of depressions in the
earth with bayonet-one for
the shoulder and the other for
the hip. The late A. V. Fawcett
said that was much more COM
Portable than trying to sleep
with twelve in a tent made for
six. One could not turn over un-
less the other eleven turned too.
There were weeks at time
when this army did not have
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SO IhEY SAY

We've got to say where We
stand in the world About all
we have in common now is our
desire for comfort. Herbert
Agar. editor, Louisville Courier
journal.
The election means unity with
Canada and South America. II
means q new balance Of power
In the world.-Tom Corcorsn.
administration adviser. announe-
ing his retirement from public
life.
There Is no question that
''flesh-snd-biood- drama is stag
ing successfully. a comeback
with a vengesnce.-Philip W.
Rice. drsmstist.
Profits will necessarily have to
become secondary and national
security first.-Nsvy Secretary
Knox.
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END-oF-THE-WORLD MAN
One of the strangest ex-
amples Of mass hysteria swept
the United States in the 1s30's
and 1s40's when William Mill
er forecast the end of the
world and the beginning of
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they Make S|uife . rlea
Citizen Soldiers
What About Thet Camp
In 1872
And the Pioneer Boy on
The Oregon Trail
L a telephone conversation the
L other day the writer Of this
column was told that II he had
more Of the instincts Of an
American citizen instead Of be-
ins a blind follower Of the new
Deal ne would use this space TO
damn the Roosevelt administra-
ton for modifying lot Of boys
before the camps were ready to
care for them. II was a crime
against humanity 10 compel
these boys TO live in tents with
only small army stove for
heat: TO drill and 60 on long
marches in the rain: walk
across a muddy field to the mess
tent. etc.
There undoubtedly is some
discomfort among the thousands
Of young men at Camp Murray
and other mobilization centers,
but while the TRADE against the
administration went on there
was recalled another army camp
in the winter of 1875
a group of American
soldiers under command of
George Washington camped in
the snow, without tents. cloth
ing In rags, some of them
without shoes and only the
most meagre rations. Prob
ably no other army In the
worlds history ever carried
on campaign under worse
conditions. They are the men
who made il possible TO estab-
fish democracy on the Ameri-
can continent.
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