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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-04-11
sHiryARps LEAGUE

sHfryARDs LEAGUE
Frank Whitman rolisd the hikh
fetal IN the matches ~ shs Snip
yards l~sEus workers 81 TIRE
Broadway alleys "Wednesday,
shooting soT in the Sigh, circuit
with asa for the hssh single zane
If Nth Day ard Night leagues
pill riested ysisfan 80 ire
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classic Ir,stf
fRcoms Truck sales after ~innins
the fret half championship % ths
Classic league continued siFcns aNf=
ms the second semester and Wscnsss
day nisht on the fisY Nor slieY.
eliminated 80 only rsnalnins flssi.
a nj - a.
rcand half title ana taks nc Classic
league championship without rlsy-
off
Members II IN. nes champion
team are Captain Mine wsvfes Al
nsrsno Dave Wilson. Hslns Hsde-
man ana Russ Anderson
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~ the Classic circuit eent - oisnn
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eho checked In ~fth sse, including
77s same. ,hs high single cf me
rses, nlue Nshons Won three from
psnkos Drugs Tacoma Truck sales
splli even with Model Lumber ana
Dahl rsinu won three from Olympic
Dairy.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-04-11
COLISEUM BOOSTERS.
COLISEUM ALLEYS

Until last night the simonds
Saws and johnson Paints wer. tied
for first place in the Booster
league. simonds Saws lost four
points and johnson Paint won four
points which broke the tie n.
Peters was nigh with a 532 series
and r. Gsdd rolled 7Of single
game for those honors
Hooker Plant 74os % "a Jord.ns
Bread ASIA tsls hiEh game. Keller
20s high seriss Rogers $40
Hooksr Office 1884 % " Defiance
Lumber 2s3s -. hish game v DTsr
zOi hish seriss Hoffman ST
Krssm Krgs, Bread 77ii a. "
Kfshbisl ls2 high seri.s r ys,sp
Pos, ONO. zss9 q. - sinona.
Saw 24ss % han gam. Osde
2o4 high efiss p osdd sac
John.on Paint z7so - " Bis ba1
ia hlsh seriss Peters ss7
SIXTH AvsSU. crsTrR
Roy Huriburt with 235-20s iss
sO7 vAs high man In IN. West
End l.as1. matches last night
Osbsr high Eoofss Included Ted
cllft sts. y Jensen tz2. Frso Porn
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Are.le IL. Cream z4ss ID. Bo4lins
Center Lunch 1884 a. y Huiourt
high single zse. Aeries sC7
Sim Ays alisYs z1sT a.. Fleh-
field Stations ziis %. hisn snsl.
H. Burns 1913 ssriek SO
Hammond Laundry 2oss 90 JsFesn
A. Slater z3sz a. q Davis hlzn
single ist ~. EnssFson sish asFiss
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Dofris Esnsics rolled q SO pin
score for tns hish totai in Ire
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league on The Play Nor sDsFs TIE
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s<T5es Ess siso nlsn
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-04-11

thhhLfssioN, W. ha.-hank
banning, back behind the plate
since his attempted conversion
into an outnelder failed, clouted
two homers yesterday 10 pace the
New York Giants 10 6-3 win
over the Cleveland Indians.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-04-11
OKLAHOMA CRY. okla
GoLnsRORO. \. CT

GOLDSBORO. y. C.-The Phila-
delphis Phillies blasted out an
easy 12-4 victory yesterday over
Winston Salem OF the Piedmont
league, The Phils yesterday laced
out 10 hits. five Of them home
runs.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-26

highest beauty and joy. Alas!
how dreary would be the world
If there were no Santa Claus. 1t
would be as drear a. if there
were no Virginias. There would
be no childiike faith then. no
poetry; no romance to make toler.
able this existence. We should
have no enjoyment, except in
sense and sight. The eternal
light with which childhood fills
the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus?
You might a. we'll not believe in
fairies! You might get your
papa to hire men to watch in all
the chimneys on Christmas eve
to catch Santa Claus, but even if
they did not see Santa Claus
coming down, what would that
prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus,
but that is no sign that there is
no Santa Claus. The most real
things in the world are those that
neither children nor men can
see. Did you ever see fairies
dancing on the lawn? OF course
not, but that's no proof that they
are not there. Nobody can con-
eeive or imagine all the wonders
there are unseen and unseeable
in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's
rattle and see what makes the
noise inside, but there is a veil
covering the unseen world which
not the strongest man, or even
the united strength of all the
strongest men that ever lived.
could tear apart. Only faith.
fancy, poetry, love. romance, can
push aside that curtain and view
and picture the supernal beauty
and glory beyond. Is it all real?
All, Virginia. in all this world
there is nothing else real and
abiding.
No Santa Claus? Thank God;
he lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virginia. nay,
ten times ten Thousand years
from now he will continue to
make glad the heart of child
hood.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-26
There s.a Santa

One day in September. 1897. q
letter in the handwriting of .
child came to the editor of the
N. Y. Sun. He called Francis P.
Church. an editorial writer, to
his desk. Here. take this letter
and write a reply to it," the edi-
tor said. Church. somewhat dis
gruntled at being assigned such
q trivial task. returned to his desk
and with an air of resignation.
began to compose his answer.
The result was an editorial which
appeared in the Sun for Septem-
Der 81. 1897, and which has been
reprinted by request more
millions of times than any other
piece of newspaper writing. 1t is
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
We take pleasure in answering
at once and thus prominently the
communication below, expressing
ut the same time our great graft
fication that its faithful author is
numbered among the friends of
the Sun:
Dear Editor am eight
years old. Some of my little
friends say there is no Santa
Claus.
Papa says: IF you see it in
the Sun it's So
Please tell me the truth
rs there a Santa CLAUSE"
Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia. your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected
by the skepticism of a skeptical
age. They do not believe except
they see. They think that not
thing can be which is not com
prehensible by their little minds
All minds, Virginia, whether
they be mems or little chiIdren's.
are little. In this great universe
of ours man is a mere insect. an
ant, in his intellect, as compared
with the boundless world about
him. as measured by the intelli-
gence capable of grasping the
whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus. He exists as certainly as
love and generosity and devotion
exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
For Cleaner EIeesions

The experiment of the Hatch Act - and even its sponsors would be first to admit that 1t was an experiment, not 6 final and complete solution of the elec- ton problem = has been distinctly worth while. The first reaction is likely to be that the act was failure. After all, one of its chief provisions was aimed at limit ing to $3,O00,00O the amount that any party could spend on national election. In this, the act failed. The Senate in- vestigation committee found that the Republicans spent nearly SIS, 5,000, 900, the Democrats more than $6,000,000. Even those are probably not the entire sums spent, for there is no way to tabulate every dollar that may have been spent by ob- scure organizations or individuals.
 The committee recommended tighten ing up the act and all federal election laws, and this will probably be done. The old difficulty crops up that attends the making of all law: how can the law be written SO as to achieve exactly the results desired, and no others? That is not so easy. But the general lines are clear. The remedy for most abuses lies in publiciZing them. The people are S~~AASAs VAASAA VAACy EAAVW vA4C U4 0vk1 nUOuV a situation, they can be trusted to act honestly, and, in the long run, wisely. That was Lincoln's faith; that is the American faith
 What is the danger in campaign con- tributions and campaign propaganda? It lies not so much in the amounts spent, as in lack of knowledge of just who is putting it up. The scurriiousness of many campaign tracts and dodgers is redoubled by lack of exact information on who is responsible. If that factor is known, the electorate is generally able to gauge the value of the material. Every campaign contribution of any size, not only to the regular national parties, but to any organizations working in a po- litical election, should be known. Every piece of campaign literature should carry names and addresses of the responsible persons issuing 1t; the vague name of some ephemeral organization is not enough.
 The key to honest elections lies there, and it is there that Congress should bend its attention in tightening the Hatch Act. It is in the dark that the foulest deeds are done; well-lighted goldfish globe is the best guarantee of honest elections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
A Thought for Today
Memorable Occasion

It's hard to let this week pass by with out saying few congratulatory words on the 59th birthday of the Knights of Co., lumbus. Councils all over the country are observing Founders Week now in commemoration of the granting of a char ter to this great Catholic lay order by the Connecticut General Assembly back in 1882. Here in Connecticut and par ticularly here in Waterbury there should be more than passing interest paid to such an event as this.
 After all Waterbury was the birthplace of the founder and guiding spirit of the K. of c. in its early days, the Rev. Michael J. McGivney. And 1t was in Connecticut that the society really came into any thing like real significance. Brothers of Father McGivney contributed close to forty years to the office of Supreme Chap lain, an office now held by another na- tive son and relative of these McGivney priests. All these things make a close tie between this city and the K. of c.
 Oddly enough the society today boasts the same principles that so appealed to Father McGivney and his little band of Catholic lay-men back in 1882. Its aims are no different today than then. It is in times like the present ones, too, that the value of such Christian endeavor as is that of the K. of c. is best exemplified.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
Don't Spend It First

Members of the Legislature have just been told that industrial boom conditions here in Connecticut will probably swell state income $6000,000 more than antic- ipated. This is good news and we hope that 1t will be hailed with the proper spirit. Such show of enthusiasm should not include an immediate desire to spend this additional revenue we are going to receive in the next two years. And a certain amount of caution should be displayed in dealing with such a sit- uation.
 There is still need of good economical government here in Connecticut despite any such jump in tax returns. Most of us have seen how the states income has been steadily gaining of recent years, but ex- penditures have managed to keep pace. If the state could keep an even keel through 1941-43 and have millions Of dollars left over after all it's bills were paid, that would be the remarkable achievement. After all we can't take too much credit for getting in extra taxes when 1t is simply due to business reasons.
 We will have plenty of use for increased revenue in the coming two years. We have heavy bonded indebtedness on ac- count of recent expensive highway prof ects and institutional expansion. To take up the,income slack the officials at Hart ford SgR to figure in sizeable reductions in this Indebtedness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
Army Day, 1941

Because the anniversary of the United States entrance into the World War, April 6, which has in recent years been celebrated as Army Day, falls this year on Sunday, the President has set April 2 as the day this year in which the nation pays tribute to its armed forces. This year, the United States has different army, one that is made up of a more representative cross-section of the people than has been usual, and one which is against a definite emergency.
 For these reasotns, Army Day 1941 should be and will be more solemn and generally observed occasion than usual. Especially in today's world, the United States Army represents the last instru.- ment on which the American people must rely, should all other means fail, of exerting their will. We are proud of that army, present and potential, and on Army Day we shall say so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27

Senator Alfred L. Bingham doesn't like the way rich New Workers" are pouring into Fairfield County to take up their residences in order to escape the state income tax of New York. He wants Con- necticut, therefore, to set up a state in- come tax, so that we'll catch these "fel- 1ows'. Unfortunately all of us would be caught in the same net. If there's going to be state income tax in Connecticut, it's going to apply to those of us who work and live here, as well as the trans planted individuals who may work out side of the state. And if we had state income tax we'd probably drive out of the state a good many people whom we enjoy referring to as Connecticut residents. And Westchester County would just love to have these people move back across the state line. We don't think Connecticut should complain that New Workers are moving in to escape taxes. After all they do pay taxes here and they certainly aren't liability. We'd call most of them assets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
WHY NOT LIEF HOOVER, ME WHEELER AND LINDBER0H GO OVER TO GERMANY
 AND LIVE THERE

Editor of the Democrat:
 Why does Mir. Hoover think that e measure of temporary food relief to the German-slave countries war rants breaking the British blockade "a weapon relied upon to win final victory; the one hope of freedom for these unhappy people?
 Does MT. Hoover wish to see ( German world with It's accompaai- ment of inhuman horrors for all save the masters of tyranny? Per- taps he Is . pacifist. since he al. lowed our navy to drop below the treaty strength during his adminis- traticn while the army has had no consideration from any Republican president since 1920.
 Back in the Post" of December 18th, there was an article describing the German thefts of food from conquered countries which were used to manufacture war materials % 900 GOO tons of potatoes from po- land and Norway were turned into alcohol for motor fuel Sugar reQui- sltioned from Holland and France, was made into nitro-glycerins. while
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
Spike the Rumors

Canadian officials are again worried py rumors spreading over the United States that food is being closely rationed and that gasoline has gone to prohibitive prices of 90 cents gallon. Neither these nor other rumors of difficulties for Ameri- cans travelling in Canada have the slight est foundation of truth. There is good reason to suspect that these rumors have been deliberately started and spread by those who have an interest ir preventing transfer of American dollars to Canada
 Canada quite frankly seeks those American dollars, because she needs them to send back to the United States for war materials and her tremendous ordinary purchases. But in 1940 Amer ican travel in Canada slumped badly. No doubt part of that slump was due to IT. diculous rumors: This is the year to travel in the Americas, in Canada, Mexi- co, or other hemisphere countries. Spike the rumors which seek to reduce this mutually advantageous travel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27

battered ranks following enact- ment of the lend-lease bill. But as c pep session 1t proved about as inspirational as @ pallbearers' convention.
 Most of the i8 legislators pres- eft were willing to call 1t day, despite strenuous pleas by the four hosts and Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Q covert Roose- yelt.hater, to "keep up the fight" against aid to Britain.
 Wheeler belligerently served no- tice that he had no intention of ''hoisting the white flag, would carry on Q radio battle against the end.lease program. Walsh ful- minated about turning over naval equipment to the British. Nye, somewhat extraneously, declared he was drafting a bill for c iia- tionwide advisory" referendum on the question of war.
 However. they got small re- Sponse. The majority agreed with Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho that the best strategy is to Hay low" for the time being in view of the established policy of Aineri. can aid to Axis foes.
 ? "Y'll probably vote against the seven billion lend-lease appro- priation," the Idaho Senator said, but I can't see that we'll gain anything by continuing to blast away. We were licked badly and might aS we'll admit it. Roosevelt has us backed Into . corner and it would be fool. ish to continue the fight until we ret another issue we can sink our teeth into. Otherwise, we may run into . backlash of pub. lic resentment. Let's bide our time until Roosevelt makes an- other move we can capitalize on."
 The meeting broke up on this note.
 UNDER THE DOME
 At least $500,oo0, 900 of the $7,. 000,000,000 lend-lease appropria- ton will be expended on sgricul- tural commodities. As tentatively
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27

Those arguments at Hartford where it is claimed that this city is misrepresent- ing its financial picture are becoming so nonotonous that most of us don't pay much attention to them any more. We only feel some pity for the city officials who must be subjected to the same sort of complaint every time they face legis- lative committee So far as we can see it's been the same plaint right along, but that's as far as it's got. No effort has been made to prove anything; there prob ably won't be. It's just question of the objecters pitting their word against the defenders and asking the committee to decide.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
Press Comment
McKEssoN AND ROBBINS
(BridReport post)

q sNDSA6VVPOSt SV0V
 Report of McKessoa and Robbins for the year 1e40 under the reorgan. ization is encouraging for all whs have faith in the basic concern despite the Coster scandal. Tn 1040, before federal taxes were paid, net profitS amounted to $6,' 904 ,8i0,-the largest year in tfs history of McxesSon. Robbins. Oul of these earnings must come federal income taxes, interest on indebted ness reorganization expenses, etc. The net earnings on the whole capitalization will not be large but the fact that Mclxesson and Rob. bins is going concern is cheerful to the hundreds of persons em- ployed by the firm.
 To these persons, the revelations of the Cogter scandal came as Q double shock, first the revelation that such duplicity was practiced and second, the thought that Nc. Kesson and Robbins would sink to ruins because Of those unhappy revelations and what they implied.
 The fact Of the matter 6 that the late '. Donald Co6ter was apparent. ly 60 busy. keeping his inflated in. ventoyies from being discovered that he didn't have sufacient time to promote the real business of the concern. T'hrlistee William J. War. dall who headed his own wholesale drtighouse before the merger brought him into McKesson and Robbins, has made a much better selling record than the so.called genius.
 Since our own community has SC large a stake in the continued sue. cess of McKeEson and Robbins be- cause of the number Of persons eul' ployed at the plant in Fairfield, VI print these encouraging figures With the hope that loll may prove as even better year,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27
In Today's Mail

from Normandy, cider apples fur. nished acitates, the inhabitants of that province being forbidden to use their own orchards.
 When members of the Free French organization disapprove of breaking the blockade, also people who own property in "unoccupied" France. why does Mfr. Hoover con- tinue this fight by radio and propa- ganda?
 Of course he made his great suc- cess at similar work twenty years ago but conditions ere not the same now.
 The greatest humanitarianism to- day ts to sacrifice everything to beating Hitler as soon as possible. restoring to enslaved nations the right to eat their own potatoes and pigs, to use their own sugar, fats and grain as they require them.
 Instead of forcing Englands hand. let Hooverites appeal to Hitler, the thief and gangster, whose followers spend millions in the. United States in the effort to prevent aid to Brit ain and Greece.
 Why not let Messrs. Hoover. Wheeler, Lindbergh and Nye go and live in Germany. taking pleasure trips through Poland, etc., observing the beautiful wave of the future" If it swamped them, they never would be missedl" i ETsxxADuTH CURTIS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27

aluminium does contain Q small percentage of magnesium, appar. ently the Stetttnius rnaSterminds did not know that there IS no known process for recapturing the magnesium from scrap aluminium. It boils off when the scrap is melted.
 FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
 Moguls of the powerful Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation are ready to say "tlncle" and make peace with the Administration.
 Up to Q year ago the Farm Bureau was the fair-haired boy on farm policy, largely due to the suave astuteness of Ed O,Neal, Federation president, and his per- soi1al friendship with Roosevelt. The organization carried Q lot of weight with the President and Wallace, so that hundreds of It's local dealers got lush federal jobs administering the vast AAA pro. gram.
 But at heart most of the Fed. eration's generalissisnos never were very hot about the New Deal, and last year they began demanding greater local control aimed at rui- ming the program themselves. And In a showdown over domination of the Federal Land Banks, Wallace rapped them over the knuckles and the battle was on.
 Soon 1t spilled over into the po- litical arena, when cornbelt Farm Bureau leaders, led by ambitious Earl Smith of Illinois, dumped the Roosevelt-W Wallace ticket and put in some heavy licks for Will-
 Willkio's defeat knocked the props from under the boys and behind the scenes they have been getting increasingly jlt-
 tery because they've always ways leaned pretty hard on their "in" with the reigning admin
 istration. With many Jobs and
 other gravy" at stake, the prospect of being in bad with the powers was not healthy.
 So, reverting to the old real- istic axiom, If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," the boys have propositioned Clifford Townsend, Defense Agricultural Advisor and former New Deal governor of In- diana, on being their peace- maker.
 Townsend was one of the or- ganizers and first leaders of the Farm Bureau In the Midwest. Yet when he stumped that area for Roosevelt and Wallace last fall he bumped up against the bitter op- position of many of his old asso- ciates. So he has not yet de- cided whether to be peacemaker.
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