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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes THINGS

To receive attention In this col
umn letters must eive name and
address OF writer ONLY initials
VIII b published -hsn requested.
Mr.. FIxit: Could You please
tell me where I can have . rug
made out Of old eIothings Also
how viii ! find out about going
20 Moosejaw. Canada DO you
have 20 have citizenship papers
or birth certificates We plan
20 drive but don't know what
routes N. NJ.
You can get rugs made to
order for you at the Hardness
Rug Cleaning 4 Manufacturing
Co, at 1912 South Tacoma way.
Driving 20 Moosejaw. Sask..
should be reasonably easy from
now on through summer by go
ing 10 Spokane on highway 10
and then north to the border
and main Canadian highway by
way Of Standpoint. Idaho. II
you are United States citizens
by birth. IL would be smart 10
carry birth certificates. IL you
can get them. Your voters reg
istration cards should be suf-
ficient. however. for readmit-
lance to the country. II you
are citizens by naturalization,
we'd strongly advise carrying
your citizenship papers with
you.
Mr.. Fixit: What In the cost
for two people and q car TO
ferry from Point Defiance to
Gig Harbor? DO they charge
for babies? How far II II from
Gig Harbor 10 Bremerton
MRS. r. A.
You can't make that trip any
more. The ferry runs from the
end Of Sixth ave. in Tacoma 10
Point Fosdick. Cost for a car
and driver and one passenger is
so cents each way. There liz no
charge for children under six
years OF age.
Mr.. F1xit: We are troubled
with our water pipe filling up
with rust and scale. DO you
know Of anything that can be
put through In the water that
would clean this out? ID. 8. 4.
The only recognized remedy
Is replacement Of the pipes In
which the rust originates.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you give me
some information on the re-
quirements OF q hostess ut an
army post. How would 1 20
about getting the position?
VIVIAN b.
1t is probable that all such
positions are filled now. but you
can write To the Ninth Corps
headquarters at the Preside,
San Francisco, for an applica-
ton form. Requirements include
ages of rs to 40 for Junior host
esses and 80 to 30 for senior
hostesses. in most cases college
education, some musical ability
and training. ability 10 manage
cafeteria and some other
talents
To Hilda NJ, who inquired
some time ago about storage of
= fur coat. Larchmont Furriers,
ut Route 5, Box els, Tacoma,
adds Its name 10 the Hst pre-
yfOusly given.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

tipoff on her new strategy.
At first the secretary of labor
resented the creation and the
activities of the m diation
board. She regarded the new
agency as a rival and hostile
organization. She gave orders to
her conciliators to 60 the limit
to promote Acknowledgment
peace, in the hope of placing the
Dykstra unit In a fifth-wheel
situation. But then the state
agencies began to step in. They
achieved astonishing successes.
They had closer contacts with
labor and management repre-
sentatives than federal inter
viewers did.
Gov. Murray ID. Van Wagner
had the General Motors strike
on the way to settlement almost
before IL began. He got the dis
putants together and poured oil
on troubled waters. But Miss
Perkins. who waited several
weeks before certifying the coal
strike to the mediation board,
handed the automobile dispute
To the new agency almost over
night. She did not want Gov
ernor Van Wagner to get the
credit.
American aid to Britain's dis
tressed merchant and naval
vessels has placed the United
States in the war definitely as
an active combatant.
Although the figures are sup
posed to be secret. at least 20
British warships have entered
our harbors for refuge or refit-
ting within the last six weeks.
A wounded British battlewagon
now Is undergoing repairs At
Pearl Harbor In Hawaii. cruis-
srs and destroyers damaged In
action against the German raid
srs clog the ways from Phils-
delphis TO Florida. American
shipbuilders have quit work on
our two-ocean navy vessels in
order to make the crippled Brit
ish warships seaworthy.
British demands on our ship
building facilities present q
grave problem. We are trying
to build 500 cargo ships. zoo for
ourselves and 400 for Great
Britain. IT is the greatest ship
building effort in all maritime
history. But. as We have in
formed the British. we cannot
turn out these vessels on time
and also repair their wounded
battleships.
The marines will not win the
next war If the publicity bureau
OF the war department can stop
them. The doughboys always
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06
PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
IRISH IN AMERICA

Editor, the Times: A yellow
1rishman is about as common
as a hearse with a wheel miss
ing. Bancroft's and Bozman's
histories of the U. S. quote:
In It'll Benjamin Franklin
went to Ireland TO enlist the
sympathy Of the Irish. BY 1774
there were $1,000 Irish immi-
grants to America. Joseph Gal
loway, a Royalist, testified be-
fore the house Of lords that one
half of the American troops
were Irish, one-fourth Scotch
and English and the other fourth
native Americans. The brave
Lafayette and Kosciusco came
later.
Charles Thompson Of Derry,
Ireland, issued the Declaration
OF Independence. Those of Irish
birth signing: Charles Carroll,
James Smith, George Taylor,
John Rutledge. Matt Thornton,
Thomas Mexican, George Read,
Thomas Lynch and Robert Paine.
Hancock and Whipple were irish
on their maternal side.
Irish governors of colonies,
1700-17SS, were six Irishmen
governing the Carolinas. Della
ware and Pennsylvania. So
eager were the Irish to help
America they didn't wait for a
Declaration of Independence,
and one year before Washing
ton took command, valiant Gen.
Sullivan struck the first blow
on Dec. IL, IVA, Selling Forts
William and Mary. Newcastle,
n. H, capturing Is cannons and
100 barrels of gun powder, later
effectively used by the 25s Irish
heroes at Bunker Hill.
Next military stroke: May
IL. 1878, when jeremiah o'Brien
attacked British off Machias on
Maine coast. J. Fenimore Coo
per calls this battle The Lex
ington Of the Seas" Intrepid
Jack Berry is called Father
Of the American Navy" scorn-
ing a high British position and
a bride OF $4,000 offered by
Lord Howe, remaining with his
little flagship. the "Effingham.
So keenly did Washington APP
preciate this heroism that he Sc
lected as his bodyguards for the
duration Of the war nine native
born Irishmen names given in
history. The Irish general, Ste
phen Moylan. was Washington's
aid-de-campe and Col. Fitzgerald
his secretary. John Flynn, an
Irishman. rowed Washington
across the Delaware.
A stone slab in Washington.
D. C.. gives Washington's public
thanks 10 the Irish for their
help. $4,000 was given his SUI
fering troops for food by the
Sons Of 81. Patrick" and IN
1850 S517 900 by Irish alone in
Philadelphia.
References: Bancroft's, Boz
mans. North American Review
MARY CLEARY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

have figured that the marines
came out on top In 1e17-1e1s be-
cause Of their superior brand of
publicity. Today the army Is
getting the headlines.
The war department has or
ganized a publicity setup that
is the envy Of private establish
ments-bankers, public utilities,
organized labor. It's newspaper
establishment at Washington
comprises $50 persons, includ-
ing some of the best newspaper
men in the country. Whenever
a crack managing editor or re-
porter or publicist enlists or is
drafted, they call him to WASH
ington and give him an officers
commission. He IN too valuable
a man for actual army service.
Their assignment is to interpret
and sell the draft army to its
mothers and fathers and wives
and sweethearts.
Total number employed in
army publicity here and through
out the nation is about 400, in
GLIDING clerks and stengraphers.
They scout camps and canton
ments each morning, and ferret
out juicy news items for the de-
location of the folks back home.
Despite all the ballyhoo. the
system Of subletting national de-
Tense contracts to small firms
is not working. In the opinion
OF topnotch o. P. M.-ers 1t is
the weakest spot in our whole
national defense structure.
Prime contractors eventually
must resort to using this idle
plant, now estimated TO total
20 per cent Of the national pro-
duction capacity.
Under prodding by various
federal agencies, cities and
counties and states made a
careful survey OF idle men and
machinery in their areas. They
forwarded these charts to the
o. p. NJ. at Washington. and
sat back with the expectation
OF getting orders in a hurry,
With q few exceptions. they still
are sitting and waiting. The
army and navy will not do bust
ness with small contractors
They prefer to deal with the bis
boys. Moreover. the prime con,
tractor IL held responsible by
the army and navy, and he N
hesitant TO parcel out stuff 4
firms he does not know or trust
President Roosevelt Is quit
Disguised with the failure Of thil
bits and pieces project" as /
IL known in England. For tn
sake Of speed and also TO pre-
vent unnecessary plant expan
sion. he is insistent that idl'
factory space and machinery b
utilized. So you may look 70
q hard breakdown In this fell
one Of these days
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06
MAJORITY OPPOSE WAR

NFhoOAsAA vi EOSE WAN
Editor The Times: Regarding
the present debate, war or no
war, let me quote President Lin
coins closing words in his speech
at Cooper Institute Feb. 27,
1850: Neither let us be SIAN
dered from our duty by false
accusations against US, nor
frightened from ii by menaces
of destruction to the govern
ment, nor Of dangers to our
selves. Let us have faith that
right makes might, and in that
faith let us, to the end, dare do
our duty as we understand it.
The following are Franklin d.
Roosevelt's own words in 1898:
The fabric Of peace on the con-
tinent Of Europe. If not through
out the rest of the world. is in
immediate danger. The con-
sequences OF its rupture are in
calculable. S hould hostilities
break out, the countries involved
will most certainly be lost under
circumstances Of unspeakable
horror. The economic system Of
every country involved is GER
tain to be shattered. The social
structure Of every country in
volved Will be completely
wrecked.
The L. s. has no political
entanglements. II is caught In
no mesh Of hatred. Elements Of
all Europe have formed its
civilization"
The above quotation sounds
very much like George Wash
ington- believe at least 90
per cent OF the people will whole
heartedly agree with the above.
This is the reason the Gallup
poll shows IS pct. opposed to our
entering the war, and Is pct.
are for Us going 10 war.
o. o. MORRIS,
ortinE, WASH
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

war; debt TO the u. S., but
logically we don't, and this be-
cause America should have
minded her own business and
stayed out of the world war. II
she had done so, the allies would
have made peace with Germany
in the spring of 1917, thus saw
ing over million British,
French, American, and other
lives and preventing the subse-
quent rise of fascism and naz-
ism Winston Churchill in 1896.
And one more. please:
When any political regime is
faced with a domestic economic
breakdown, it invariably seeks
to divert the public mind to
foreign adventures"-Boake Car
ter (2-10-4D.
II you will search the records
you will find some of the same
propaganda was used back in
1903 in favor of England. We
find Fisher Ames. later presi-
dent Of Harvard university,
quoted: England is fighting our
battles and the battles of
humanity"
Let's not be stampeded into
war. Defense of our own con-
tinent is our sole concern.
P. KEESLING.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

and Hitler will continus 70 dis
trust each other. but play the
Axis game together.
Persons whose birthoate n Il
have the sugury Of a year Of
varied ups and downs. Good for
tune may lend TO unwise ex-
travagance in the family.
Children born on this osy
probably viii be serious. artistic
and wen-bslsnoed. They may be
strongly individual ana q bit
sharp-tempered
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06
TTcuT An Inside Picture of Finan-
L. II IL i ciol and Political America
By RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-MadameP Perkins has adopted new
technique settling national defense strikes Her almost
immediate cerfcaton of the threatened General Motors
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06
SAME PROPAGANDA FOR
WAR REAPPEARS AGAIN

Editor. The Times: May ! cite
two quotations in answer TO our
local war monger. F. L kerzie
The American VINO seeks by
force TO reform Europe is a
maniac" - Thomas Jefferson
Legally Ne owe this (worid
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

It's always easy 70 tel on
which side your bread h hut
tered just drop II on the
carpet.
kits have been worn since
1926. Scotsmen always have
been known for their thrift
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

other machine tools TO form his
patterns. He then machined all
the parts and assembled the
model. The only finished parts
he bought were the hands on the
four pressure gauges, and Mr..
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

To Hilda NJ, who inquired
some time ago about storage of
q fur coat. Larchmont Furriers,
ut Route 5. Box 21S, Tacoma,
adds its name 10 the hst pre-
viously given.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-06

The marines will not win the
next war If the publicity bureau
OF the war department can stop
them. The doughboys always
Evening star., 1941-12-21

dents order would be followed by
others. No figures were quoted at
that time, however.
In fixing the new figure around
II 900, an official said yesterday that
it was desired to make it as easy as
possible" on Government workers.
The basis of selection of the agen-
cies to go, Mr. Smith said, was
not the importance of the agencies
to the war effort. but rather whether
it was essential that the agencies be
actually located in Washington
Mr.. Smith said that the continued
mushrooming of the war agencies
would bring an additional 10000
employees to Washington before July
!, according to Civil Service Com
mission estimates. The commission
yesterday issued monthly personnel
totals and showed 1901 employees
here as of october 30. This was an
increase of $500 over September and
represented a growth of $4,000 since
the first of the year.
Along with the Commissioners,
District officials to attend the Sen
ate House conferenc. tomorrow will
inclIde Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, di-
rector of highways; William A. Van
Duzer, traffic director, and Walter
Fowler, budget officer. Officials Of
the Board Of Trade and John Darby
and Jennings Bailey, jr. of the Pat
ent Law Association also were in
vited by Chairman McCarran.
Evening star., 1941-12-21

and that this sort Of information
would continue to be In demand.
The question of moving. it is be-
neved likely, now will be presented
to the Budget Bureau in this light
in other words, whether it is more
desirable to have records right at
hand for the service agencies, than
to move them to Philadelphia where
the 1400 S. E. C. employees are
headed.
l,750 In Social Security to Go.
The announcement that 1,750 en-
ployes of the Old Age and Survivors
Insurance Bureau Of the Social
Security Board would be sent to
Philadelphia disclosed abandonment
Of plans to construct a building in
Baltimore where these workers-en-
gagged on claims-would be housed
with the rest of the Bureau which
now is in the Gambler building.
The Social Security Building here
was built to take care OF this entire
unit, Of approximately 1000 persons,
but when the new structure was
taken over for defense needs, a move
was started to build in Baltimore
Bids for the proposed building were
opened last month, but it was said
yesterday that the shift could not
wait.
The Employees Compensation Com
mission. also scheduled to 90 tc
Chicago, will leave a staff here, SO
Evening star., 1941-12-21
employees Of a total Of $50 being due


for that assignment.
DR.. George Mitchell, assistant ad-
ministrator of the Farm Security
Administration, whose 900 employees
60 to st. Louis announced plans last
night for the retention here Of liai-
son Office and units dealing with
defense housing. The F. S. A. is urg-
ing, however, that key personnel
make the change, although DR..
Mitchell said that in hardship
cases, or in the cases of likely re-
placeables, transfer to other agencies
remaining in Washington may be
approved.
1T is felt that 1t is so important
that We carry to ST. Louis COM
plete staff of personnel able TO train
employees recruited there that Farm
Security shall be most reluctant to
concur to release to transfer in the
majority of cases." he said.
Conforming to an earlier an
nouncement, special Office will be
set up by the Public Buildings Ad-
ministration tomorrow to move the
Offices and household goods of the
personnel of the IL agencies in
volved in the decentralization
order.
Several real estate and trans
portation experts have been called
here, Administrator Philip 3. Flem-
ing said, TO expedite the leasing
Evening star., 1941-12-21
and remodeling Of Offices, to find

and remodeltng OF ofnces, to md
homes for transferred personnel and
to move household furnishings and
office equipment to the five cities
named in the transfer order.
They will also assist affected en-
ployes in the termination of their
leases or, in the case of property
owners. in renting or selling their
homes and will assist them in find
ing new homes"
Liaison officers will be appointed
in each of the decentralized
agencies to report to the Public
Buildings Administration the spe-
cific needs of the personnel to be
transferred, such as the type of
home desired, amount of house
hold goods to be moved and ar
rangements to be made in connec-
ton with their living quarters here.
Employees will be given perhaps
as long as six months to shift their
homes. to enable them to find suit
able living accommodations More
than 10000 square feet Of Office
space will be released here by the
changes, the Federal Works Agency
said.
The word that the next decen-
tralization wave would take some
10000 or $4,000 employees out Of
Washington was in line with the
announcement by Budget Director
Smith FRIDAY night that the Presi-
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Decentralization
Continued From First Page

far better to move other agencies
than the Patent Office"
Officials concerned with the de-
centralization program said that
President Roosevelt simply ordered
the changes under his general ad-
ministrative authority just as he had
done a few months ago to send the
Home Owners Loan Corp. to New
York and to transfer the Grazing
Service of the Interior Department
to the field.
While reports had been current
Evening star., 1941-12-21
CHRISTMAS
DIAM A. oND
BA ARGAINS

UnusuoI voIues from esto.es,
unredeemed pledges and other
sources. We own Q Iorse pre-
war stock and ore in q position
to sell substantially below mar
ket prices. Other borsoins
ovoiloble.
Evening star., 1941-12-21
All prices include
federal tax

DIAMOND. 81, carats brilliant: this w
make a beautiful ring VIXEN r'oT'teH tn
your taste: Diamond ONLY. $ian.
DIAMOND, l.. carat. in r'sti-um mourt-
ing set with Me-ouise and two ro,lnd,cu
diamonds; a brilliant gem and a f-7e buy
DIAMOND. 1.41 carat: gem quality. fine.
white. perfect ard American cut We chal-
lenze any comparison on this lovely gem
DIAMOND, 20 carat: same quality as
the 141 advertised above; cannot be
duplicated at S515.
DIAMOND. 102 carat: fne quality: Amer,
lean cut, absolutely perfect; in diamond
platinum mourning. S423.
DIAMOND. .'.-carat in 6..diamond plati-
can sell this $3.50 value at S235.
DIAMOND. 53 carat: in s-dismond plati-
mum mounting: an elaborate ring for S145.
DIAMOND RING lady's: white. sparkling
aem: approximately IA carat. set n oia-
mond and yellow gold mounting. S105.
carat diamond set in 6-diamond plf tinum
mounting unusual buy at SIS.
DIAMOND AND RUBY RING dome
shaped: nne. lively. deep color ruby and
!? brilliant full-cut diamonds; bargain
DIAMOND DINNER RING. Morquise dia-
mond center and 12 smaller diamonds set
in platinum a sound buy at SIS.
DIAMOND AND RUBY COCKTAIL RING.
four brilliant. full-cut diamonds and
Oriental rpbies in setting that will grace
any fair hand S115.
DIAMOND CLUSTER ANTIQUE Typ
RING; brilliant stones; yellow gold with
black enamel; must be seer: special. Sl03.
1s-DI sMoND AND BLACK OPAL cLUs;;
TER: these cut diamonds and lovely oosl
maEe an unusuallv stunning combination,
srd priced onlv S11s.
nIAMoND ANTIQUE a real old ring v'tN
i've good-sized diamonds: heirloom tTpe;
DIAMOND HAMILTON WATCH: graceful
lines - diamonds effectively ARRANGED
. splerrdid timppiece ard an ornerH-t ~
distinction; we challenge comparison a.
S"15.
DIAMOND AND PLATINUM WATCH; Nne
monds: strikingly beautiful, At pre-whr
price of Sis.
HAMILTON WATCH. lady,s, solid coral
gold, set with 4 large, full-cut diamonds
and genuine rubies: s117.
WEDDING RING 7-diamond platinum:
large, full-eut stones; either channel or
ffshtail settings; So.
naodernise the lady's enRssement ring: ve
have fine platinum and yellow gold mount
fnEs with side diamonds as low as S1s.
STAR SAPPHIRE. e71a carats: clear st.r
fair color; not the finest stone IN the
world, but an attractive buy At s1s5.
JADE BRACELET: seed pearl and lad.
eombinatio>; mounted in l4-eara' soiio
DIAMOND CAMEO PIN: large head, whit.
gold frame. sparkling diamond; an unusual
SOLID GOLD SPRAY, set with brown
Zircons: an unusually effective hano-maoe
Evening star., 1941-12-21

Walrus grain tsplit
coWhide,' separate shirt
compartment q pock-
cts for toilet articles;
choice Of black or
brown, "a and 26
inches.
Evening star., 1941-12-21

Smooth. top Erain
leather in russet, Brit
ish tan, redwood. Plaid
lined. Holds 2 suits
and all the accessories.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
Ni(oIai Named
as Golf Alternate

OChuck Nicolai. Mount Clemens
and Macomb County Open
Champion as we'll as state left
handlers titlist, was named alter
nate yesterday on the Metropoli-
tan Golf Association team for a
match against the District out
fit.
Captaining the MGA squad
will be Jack Winney, who will
lead the golfers into the annual
match next Sunday at Red Run
Scheduled to play on the MICA
team are Sam Kocsis. state anna
teur champion; Ziggy Zawadski
former State amateur titlehold-
err; Frank Connolly, MGA Open
Amateur champion; Jimmy
johnson and Art Pony, of De-
troit's National Public Links
champions; Woody Malloy, Bill
Fenwick, Frank Babis, Jack
Ross, Junior District match play
champion; Jay Law, Fred Gen
lex. Bob Gajda. Max Evans, Nick
Uzelsc, CHUCK Thornton and Ray
Ala. Nicolai and Stan Biola were
named alternates.