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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Improved Status
Noted on Holiday

NEW YORK = Turkey graced
more tables Thursday than at any
Thanksgiving within the last 10
years.
Six factors were seen as contrib
uting to this improved status:
THE nations vast industrial
machine, speeded by defense pro-
duction designed to make the
United States secure against any
threat from abroad, was operating
at levels above the peaks of 1929.
unemployment was declining
slowly and steadily, with the pros
pect that by the end Of 1941 fewer
people would be without jobs than
at any time in 10 years.
3-Wages, salaries and payrolls
showed steady increases
4-The cost of living thus far
has shown little upward trend.
5-The total national income
this year appeared certain to reach
about $4,000. 900, 900. the highest
figure since the record of $50 1885,
900, 900 set in 1929.
Savings deposits were the
highest in the nations history.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
High School PTA
Picks President

GIG HARBOR C. y. Parks Of
Midway has been elected presi-
dent OF the High School PIT. A.
10 fill the unexpired term OF Mrs
NJ. l.. Carlson. Mrs Carlson is
moving from her home at Crom-
well TO Tacoma A vote OF thanks
was passed 10 Mrs Carlson for
her services as president for nearly
two years and she was presented
with a bouquet OF flowers.
The Tuesday Bridge club met
at the home OF Mrs. F. Il. Treutle.
with Mrs. NJ. NJ. Pike entertaining.
Honors went TO Mrs. A. Richard
son, A. s. Monzingo and Mrs. G.
Ford. Mrs Jessie staser took
the cut prize.
Install Stoves
Two new electric stoves are
being installed in the home eco
Monies department of the Gig
Harbor high school in place OF the
ldfRe WOOD range.
Two thirds of the Lutheran
missions are robbed OF home sup
port by the war and their cause
will be presented at the churches
Of the Peninsula Lutheran parish
ON Sunday Mt the following times
Cromwell, $50 a. m: Gig Har-
Dor, IL a. m; Wollochet, p m,
and Olalla. S p. m.
Mrs. G. G. Hanson of st. Adams.
Maine. arrived by plane last week
to be a guest for the winter at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
o. ID. Parkman of Purdy.
The Amateur Garden club will
meet at the clubhouse on Tues
day for 1890 dessert luncheon
with Mrs. Clarice skansie rs
hostess. The regular meeting will
follow, with a study hour under
direction of Mrs. Olive Skansie.
Attend Party
Mrs Ben Pearson and son, Mr..
and Mrs. r. NJ. Cole, Mrs. Phil
Pearson and children. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Pearson and sons. all of
Warren, attended the 25th we'd
ding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Pearson. at Tacoma, on Sun
day afternoon.
Prize winners at the card party
sponsored by the Burley Hall
association were; Bridge, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose Moore: pinochle
Mrs. Osterholm and Ed. Lund.
Leroy Ravn Of Burnley. who is
with the CCC. Is now stationed al
Quilcene and will be spending
week-ends at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Morgan OF
Burley spent the weekend with
Mrs. Morgan's parents in Seattle
Mrs. Mary Corpron Is also visit.
ing relatives in Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Complete Two
WPA Projects

Two WPA school projects IN
Pierce county have just been COM
pleted, il was announced Thurs
day.
One is for the Elgin school
where WPA allocate 1854.
matched by school funds of S235
to install plumbing fixtures, a new
septic tank. painting and regrad-
ing grounds.
At the Buckley school a WPA
crew constructed double tennis
courts, erected 450-foot chain
link fence. built a concrete drive
way, sidewalks and bicycle shed.
This project required S4,e76 fed
eral and 1851 school funds.
Work will start soon on the re
roofing, painting and repairing of
the McMillin school. This Job will
take S1,703 federal and $500 in
school district funds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Seattle Girl Bride
OF McChord Soldier

SEATrLE-In the beautiful set.
ting of the brides home here STAFF
Sergeant Eugene o. Hurt was
married to Miss Charlotte Nc
Farland Sunday night. Capt. T. =
Cordill, McChord Field chaplain,
read the ceremony.
The bride was dressed in formal
gown of white. carried Bible and
an orchid. Her sister. Miss Jean
Mcfarland. was bridesmaid. Ed
ward II. Guptill served at best
man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Two Volunteers
From Puyallup

PTNALLIP P Pierce county
draft board No. l Thursday an
nounced Il would send two men
20 the induction center on the 18th
floor OF the Washington building
Friday
The two chosen. both volunteers.
are Donald LIE Munich. SO. n
Route 3. PuyaIiap. and Merrill Lou
Davis. "a. Of Fairfax.
Draft board officials here said
Wednesday they had dispatched
a second batch Of IS question
naireS To registrants. First IS were
sent out last week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Americas Must
Join Hands TO
Combat Perils

BUENOs AIREs-President
Robert M. Ortiz appealed to-
day for = broad program Of
cooperation among American
nations to combat subversive
doctrines and Ito establish their
defense against foreign perils."
The Argentine president is re-
covering from an Illness which
five months ago forced hin, TO
delegate executive duties to
Vice Presidsnt Ramon S. Cas-
tillo.
Ortiz said he did not regard
n imminent a threat Of phys
ical occupation" of any part Of
the South American continent,
but that the chief peril was in
the ideas of dissolution"
spreading through various coun-
tries. He asserted that a conn
munity Of ideas" was not
enough and was only a compile
ment to a program of action or
technical cooperation
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Largest Glaciers
Found in State

on the slopes o the big vol
canoes. Rainier. Adams. Glacier
and Baker. the state Of Washing
ton possesses the largest existing
glaciers in the mainland OF the
United States. Mount Rainier i
recognized as having in its 3
glaciers. that cover 20 square
miles. the most extensive single
peak glacier system IN the =
states However. only small rem
nants OF the once extensive valley
glaciers are found today in the
Cascades. Measurements on SIX
glaciers on all sides OF Mount
Rainier show an average recession
since 1920 % from 221 feet 70
70.4 feet each year in the position
OF the ice front. The Nisqually
glacier has reeeded an average Of
44.3 feet per year from 1887 TO
1887.
The towering volcanic peaks OF
the Cascades IN Washington State
are generally thought OF as being
extinct. However, Fremont report
ed both Mount Baker and Mount
Saint Helens as in eruption in
1s43, and Mount Baker also was
active in 1884. 1856 and 1870.
Presence Of hot springs. steam
vents. solfataras. and lava flows
and deposits so recent that ero-
sion has been negligible. indicate
that another eruption could con-
ceivably occur from one of the
peaks Of the Cascades. II is ex-
tremely unlikely. however. that
any such eruption would be power
ful enough to be dangerous or
damaging.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Youths Deny Desert
SloYing OF Father

SHOSHONE. Ida.-Three youths
appeared in district court late
Wednesday and said they were not
guilty OF the desert torture Staying
of their father. Charles Sanders.
II was the first time Mrs. Flor
ence Phillips. Is. and her brothers.
George, l6. and Joseph. 20, ap-
peared to answer charges they tied
and abandoned Sanders TO die of
thirst and hunger in the desert
north OF here
Judge n. II. Sutphen tentatively
set the date OF trial for Jan. -
after Defense Counsel Paul s. Had
dock requested additional time TO
prepare ms case.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22

ambassador TO France. The paper
said "Pershing's task would be
facilitated by the personal friend
ship that has bound him to Mar
shall Henri Petain for % years"
Col. Vernon Wiley. Lord Barn
by, a prominent British industrial
list and member of Britains central
electricity board which controls
England's wartime output OF pow
er. and the former Banning Grange
were married at Bryn Mawr. Pa.
The couple will go to Nassau, Ba-
hsmas, leaving there by clipper for
Lisbon and London.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Reported Auto
+ ound in Ditch

Sidney Lee Curtis. 3s-year-old
Olympia carpenter. found Wednes-
day evening sitting in his ditched
car near Ponders Station, was held
IN the Pierce county jail Thursday
for investigation.
State Patrolman Mike Wayne
said he drove down the highway
In pursuit of Curtis car after get
ting q report IL was weaving dan
Eerously. The officer didn't see
Curtis driving, 30 flied no charge
when he booked him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22

According to statistics. both ma
tional and local. the answers look
like they're going to be on the
boom side of business legers.
Most of the Il million young
men of draft age are active mem
bers of the buying class upon
which successful domestic econom-
les depend; there arc approximate
ly 10000 of them IN Pierce county
alone.
Tacoma retailers. however,
are particularly fortunate due
la their proximity to the rap
idly expanding military en-
campments at Fort Lewis, Me
Chord Field and Camp Muir
ray. providing influx of trade
amply counter-balancing the
other factors.
At first glance. the picture
didn't look too good to the mer-
chants. in prospect of losing that
important market. But now II
seems likely only one in 20 will be
taken for military duty before the
middle of next year.
In addition, a survey of all
buyers shows that ~ per cent
of retail credit purchasers are
outside the draft age; IL per
cent within the draft age are
eligible for exemptions; and
only about four per cent are
actually liable TO be removed
from the buying market.
Meanwhile. payrolls and employ
ment are substantially higher than
year ago; national retail sales
are from two to 90 per cent great
er in various sections of the ma
ton. Federal experts confidently
predict a gain of 10 per cent in
retail volume to be averaged
throughout this winter. despite
/ possible loss TO the market OF
draftees, representing four per
cent of their customers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Double Anniversary
Dance on Saturday

staff Sergeant ard Mrs. Nasicek
OF Fort Lewis. and Mr.. and Mrs
William Vasicek OF Tacoma. viii
celebrate a double anniversary. al
a dance given in their honor a.
the Czech hall on the Airport road.
Saturday. Nov. IS. The dance Is
free. and everybody is welcome.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Retailers Here Will Benefit Due
To Proximity Of 3 Army Stations

The economic aspects of military conscrption have
sened questions to retail merchants loan companies
and banks-and the will the difference be-
tween slump and boom for the mercantile world.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Tacoma National Guardsmen
Enjoy Life at Fort Worden
MonY OF Them Return Home Week.-Mrs.;
Recreation at Post for Those Who Stay

Corporal Louis Errgo of the several hundred Ia
coma National Guardsmen stationed Fort Worden came
home for Thanksgiving dinner and took brief time out to
describe how Tacoma spend their lives these days
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22
Astronomer Is Dead

FLORENCE. Italy - Guido Al
FAM. famous Italian astronomer
and head OF the Florence observa-
tory, died late Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22

Deacon Shem browne, of Bos-
ton. was the first professional
artist in America of whom there
is record.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22

/ Errigo accepted the change
philosophically. however. and he's
enjoying life in the army. Hes
a member Of Battery F. 24sth
Coast Artillery fHarbor Defense1
Regiment. His IL a machine gun
unit.
Life up there now il pretty
much routine" Errigo reports.
But the first five weeks we
spent most of our time on rookie
drilling. Nov We spend many
hours on machine gun drill every
day, with an hour or so off for
recreation. Every Wednesday
morning we take a long hike. with
full packs and all equipment. But
fast. We walk at a four-mile-an-
hour pace. And that's fast with
a pack on"
Time for Recreation
The men at Fort Worden have
plenty OF time off. including Satur-
day and Sunday. most OF them
coming home to Tacoma on those
days. It's q 130-mile trip by auto.
Wednesday afternoons. also, they
are free, but that's the day OF the
morning hike and they don't do
much Of anything except think
about the hike, according to
Errigo.
Errigo says the regular army
men stationed there didn't have
much use for the guardsmen at
first.
Look, girls, the national guard
is here! Whoops, my deal All
sorts OF things were said.
But we get along all right
now" Errigo grinned. They
found out we could do everything
Just as well as they did. Get along
fine now"
Have Dances, Too
There's plenty of amusement
for the soldiers. There's
bowling alley. movie and. of
course, a non-com officers club.
Every week. there's dance for
non-coms and every two weeks
there's a dance for everybody.
Plenty of girls. They send two
large trucks to Port Townsend
two miles away. which come back
full Of girls and then take the
girls back home after the jig is
over"
Windows Opened
The huge 12-inch guns at the
fort fascinate Errigo. He says
he never had heard so much noise
as when one of those guns are
fired. All the windows in houses
for miles around are opened on
days announced for gunfire. Errigo
said. Otherwise most OF them
would be broken by the con-
cussion.
Those guns are really some
thing" Errigo explained, some
what at loss for words. Really
something"
Asked about the food the Ia
coma boys were getting, Errigo
grew expansive. TITS good" he
said. And we're all putting on
weight"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-22

Above chort shows how 900 applications to one Jorge
credit bureou divided up Dro oee, time of survey
but subsequent change Il SO would otter per
cento9es greatly Eoch figure obove cho represents 40
cases.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

break of the European war last
September.
The cost Of providing net system
for major American harbors, it is
estimated, would be $22, COO 900 aApl
Congress las been asked to sppro-
pirate the additional $40 1000, 600 re-
quired for such project. Al this
fund has not been included IN next
years naval appropriation bill,. now
nearing enactment, it is safe to
assume that many months will elapse
before such. a project can be under
taken on a large scale.
In view of'the known efficiency
OF such nets, however, the proposed
immediate expenditure Of the So OOO,-
900 fuAd seems to possess consider
able merit.
'Anti-submarine nets wex. used
extensively and successfully during
the first World War, in conjunction
with submerged mines. Fouling of
such a net by submarine gives i'm
mediate warning to surface vessels
and depth charges spell quick doom
f1- the trapped invader even should
1t succeed in breaking through the
mesh. The fact that such nets are
used acts a. powerful deterrent
to undersea raiders and consequently
contributes to the safety of inclosed
harbors or naval bases.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
which goes far beyond the clarifying

which goes far beyond the clarifying
stage.
Some farm groups are said to favor
this complete exemption on the
theory That If the law increases
processing costs it will add to the
farmers marketing costs. Even If
this is true 1t is taking narrow view
Of the economic problem confronting
the country today. Unless the buy
ing power Of the millions of low-paid
workers and the unemployed is re-
stored, the farmer will not find a
market for his crops. And If one
large field of processing is excluded,
it may be difficult for Congress to
resist demands for similar treatment
Of other industries.
Wage-hour regulation, like any
new venture in Federal control, could
be carried too far, but the present
standards of 80 cents an hour and
a 42-hour week are not drastic, if
applied with reasonable provision for
unusual situations.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Submarine Nets

Any war against the United States
must come by sea and air, since it Is
argued by military authorities that
only the grossest of negligence on
our part could enable any potential
enemy togain sufficient foothold in
the Americas to launch serious
land attack. ".
The proposal of the Navy Depart
ment to construct great anti-subma-
rine nets to be strung across the
mouths of our major harbors quickly
in case of emergency, therefore, is
one which possesses unusual interest
as passive means of defense.
It has been announced that the
Navy Department. has asked for bids
for furnishing essential parts for
such net system. The nets would
be fabricated at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, California. Two million
dollars has been made available
for this purpose by President Roose-
velt under the terms Of the limited
national emergency proclamation
issued by him soon after the out
Evening star., 1940-04-28
AGood Move

Chairman Bulow's prediction that
the Senate Civil Service Committee
will reject the Keller Nichols amend
ment in reporting out the Ramspeck
civil service extension bill is welcome
news for thousands of Government
employees who would be penalized by
the restrictive provision that Senator
George Of Georgia, member of the
committee, properly characterized as
Clumsy"
The committee undoubtedly was
impressed by the argument of the
Civil Service Commission that the
amendment is unjust and unwork-
able. The commission pointed out
that an impossible administrative Sit
uation would be created by the at
tempt to withhold civil service status
from all employees hailing from States
which have more than their allot-
ment of positions in the depart
mental service here, so long as any
State is under quota.
Chances appear good, too, that the
Senate will 60 along with the COM
mittee in the light of the Senate
action Friday in turning down an
apportionment amendment to the
labor-Federal security bill, and there
is no reason why the House should
not follow suit.
The House passed the Keller
Nichols amendment on the strength
of arguments that the Civil Service
Commission has been ignoring the
law which allocates positions here
among the States on the basis of
population. The commission prompt
ly refuted this contention and
showed that the dislocation of ap-
portionment figures resulted from
World War employment conditions
and the difficulty of getting residents
of distant States to accept low-sal-
aried positions in Washington.
With the lengthy committee hear
ings ended, it is to be hoped that
the bill will be sent to the Senate
without unnecessary delay so it may
be speeded toward final passage.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Necessary Amendment

Little time remains for any ex-
tenslve amendment of the District
Unemployment Compensation Act at
thls session. 1t is to be hoped, there
Tore, that the House District Commit
tee will give immediate attention to
the proposed compromise amend
ment recommended on Friday by
Representative McGehees subcom-
mittee and that every effort will be
made by the District Committee to
have this amendment adopted and
sent to the Senate without further
delay.
This compromise amendment pro-
poses merely that the District Act be
brought into line with the National
Act by reducing the pay roll tax
from to 81 per cent, wiping out
the tax meanwhile on salaries in ex-
cess OF $4,000. Benefits under the act
are at the same time liberalized as
to maximum payments, duration of
payments and eligibility for pay
ments. These liberaliza tions do not
60 as far as labor representatives
sought to 60. But the pending amend
ments should be regarded merely as
temporary, and not as the final
amendment which is desirable.
Simple justice demands expeditions
treatment of the compromise amend
ment. The District is not only collect
ing a higher tax than is required
under the National Act and higher
tax than is paid in the States, but is
increasing an already large, frozen
and wholly unnecessary reserve fund
which has reached nearly $4,000, 900.
This excessive taxation should be
ended and the pending amendment
would represent partial remedy.
In proposing the compromise
amendment, Mr. McGehee's sub
committee has, for the time being,
abandoned any attempt to put the
desirable employer rating system-or
merit system-into effect In an in
creasing number of States such sys-
TENS are being incorporated into
State laws and the system represents
a highly meritorious principle in un-
employment compensation. Because
so little time remains at this session
of Congress, however, it is futile to
press for the experience rating now
and efforts should be confined to get
ting through Congress the compro-
mise plan.
The present law calls for adoption
of an experience rating plan begin
ming next January l, under which
pay roll taxes would range from is
per cent to per cent, depending on
the record shown by the employer
in stabilizing employment. This plan
is not considered altogether salts
factory, but perfecting changes must
now be deferred until early in the
next session of Congress.
Evening star., 1940-04-28
SUPPORTING POWER
By the Right Rep. james r. Freeman D. D. ILL., d. D. c. L.
Bishop OF W1Shn0tOn

Isaiah KILLS: II, the Lord thy God, will
hold thy right hand, saying unto thee.
Fear not: I will help thee"
The conception of God as revealed in
the Bible Is one that might properly be
called progressive In that 1t rises, step by
step, from the more primitive and alb
stract to that which speaks more init
mately of His relation to the world and to
His children.
From early childhood to our latest
years the persistent query upon our lips
is, who or what is God?" It is q query
that begins with the dawn Of conscious
ness and, like many other Of the great
questions of life, it never seems to be
wholly and adequately answered. We
read In the Bible, From everlasting to
everlasting Thou art God," and we think
of Him as eternal. Again, we find Him
repeatedly described as the God Of
Hosts" or the God Of History" but here
there is nothing that suggests His intil
macy with the common, everyday things
Of life. These abstract definitions make
us think of Carlyle's expression in which
he speaks Of an Absentee God" and we
are bound to believe that to many he
seems little more than this.
The above text from Isaiah is one of
the finest descriptions the Bible contains
of the intimate relation Of God with the
individual. There is no doubt about It..
during these straining months through
which We are passing, mems minds have
been reaching out for more personal
realization of a God who is in some very
intimate way related to the common con-
Germs Of everyday life. The story from
the battlef1elds suggests nothing more
evident than this yearning after closer
and more real fellowship with God who
is actually related to the concerns Of the
individual life. Probably no creed or sys-
tenn can adequately express for us this
conception of personal and companion
ing God.
It was such a Divine Father that Jesus