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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10

Bull Moose Defect
Killed Horace Greeley
But His 0rest Newspaper
Lives After 100 Yssn
Only Three Editors
In = Century
HORACE GREELEY's ven
II ture into politics a. the
presidential candidate of the
Bull Moose" movement Of the
early seventies, marked the b.
ginning Of the end for the great
est personality in early jour-
nalism.
The movement was started by
Carl Schurz. editor OF the St.
Louis Westliche Post, with q
platform designed to end the
regime OF the carpet baggers"
In the South, provide civil serv-
ice reform and reduction Of
tariff. Supporting the move
ment was q group OF the great
est newspaper editors the eoun-
try has ever known. Included
were Samuel Bowles. Springfield
Republican: Horace White. Chi
cago Tribune; William Cullen
Bryant. New York Evening
Post: Edwin Lawrence Godkln.
the Nation: Murat Halstead.
CINCINNATI Commercial. and
Henry Waterson. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Two OF the group-Bryant and
Godkin-deserted the new party
because they disagreed with
Greeley's views on the South,
but the others stayed with him
through a losing fight against
U. S. Grant. Greeley carried
only ak border states.
That defeat was Greeiey's
death knell. The strenuous
campaign wore him out physi-
cally and, combined with the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10
TTcuT An Inside Picture of Finan-
LII u IL i ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON - Wendell Willkie astonished
close friends recent visit to the capital with the
intimatlon that he might not be averse to heading
third party in 1914 Although he mudded the political
waters with this revelation he did shed fresh light
his own attitude toward both the COP and the Roose
adnni
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10

commissions have their fees
standardized and must greatly
increase their businesses if they
can live. Those who exist on
income from investments note
the declining interest rate and
the certain curtailing Of living
comforts.
But the great group who
plant and raise and cultivate the
food OF the nation or who toll
to milk a herd of cows or care
for a flock Of poultry. are the
folks with a real kick. They
put in longer hours, work harder
on the average and live poorer
than any Of the other groups.
and they get the least pay of
anybody. I hope somebody u
born soon with enough brains to
work out a plan whereby those
who are the foundation OF all
living should be decently COM
pensated for the toll and sacri-
flee they give for humanity
c. w. VAN SCoYOC,
orting, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10
NOT TOO LATE

Editor, The Times: A recent
letter in one of the open columns
said IT did no good to write to
Washington because the mail is
not read. Let me assure every
one the mail IL read. The writer
received a reply recently from
Vice President Wallace in which
Mr.. Wallace stated, "All of us
are hopeful that 1t will never be
necessary for w to engage in
war We are simply in dis
agreement as to the best means
for keeping out of war" A card
from a friend In Topeka. kans..
says that out OF 10000 Letters
received by u. S. Senator Cap
per 1860 were anti-war and
only 400 favored going into war.
Congressman Coffee urges Us
all to continue our efforts, -
don't give up, Write every day
"A postal card IL sufficient.
MRS. J. J. KERWIN,
Member Emergency
Peace Committee
RI. 5. Box 2es. Puyallup.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10
FARMERS. PRODUCERS
GET WORST OF IT

Editor. The Times: As we
listen to announcements of great
w increased taxes TO finance
the defense program. we also
listen to the announcements OF
compromises Of labor capital
clashes over increased wages
and better working conditions.
We learn that in these COM
promises labor Is demanding
that the profits made by CAPT
tai on labor or defense work and
IN any lines stimulated by the
emergency conditions. be shared
with them.
Those demands OF labor seem
reasonable when we arr told
that production industries have
marked up their goods and prod
ucts several times since the
emergency began. II these two
groups were all that were af-
fected by this compromise,
everybody would Be happy. But
there are q few other citizens
among the rank and file q hu-
mainly thar look on these in
crsases with concern. not TO say
alarm.
Those folks VINO exist by re-
failing and have their prices
fixed for them on both SIDES Of
the ledger. note that the costs
OF doing business increase con-
stantly BY taxes. higher rents
and higher prices for goods pro
dueeu by organized labor. Yet
they are called shylocks Il they
inerea@e their prices to Try to
get in balance. II there IL much
increase. the government viii
start ar investigation
Those In professions anc OF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10


The ie40 Republican nominee
has taken a plague on both
your houses stand toward the
ma jor parties 70 which he once
belonged. Ne thinks that the
majority Of GoP-ers. inside and
outside congress. are hopslessly
wrong IN refusing to follow the
president In his foreign policy.
But he feels that FDR's domestic
program. particularly the admin
istration and management of 1t.
has not improved since the days
when Willkie was head OF Com
monwealth 4 Southern.
n both groups continue In
what he regards a. evil ways he
believes that te44 might be an
excellent year In which to try
To lick them. His friends have
claimed since November that
he rolled up his large vote with
out much active assistance from
the COP organization. So they
maintain he might have q good
chance. II he could win the non-
nation on a ticket combining the
best features OF both old parties
ROW STARTED OVER
RADIO SITUATION
FEC Chairman James p. Fly's
handling Of the order warning
MIC to divest itself OF the Blue
network has stirred an internal
row within the commission. II
also provoked fear Of the
manner IN which the majority
could exercise It's power over
radio in the event OF war censor
ship.
Fly has known for months
that Commissioners T. A. N.
Craven and Norman Case were
opposed to the majority's break
up plan. He knew also that
they had been working diligently
on a minority report scathingly
critical OF his proposal He
promised to withhold his formal
order 80 that their views could
be publicined at the same time.
But he distributed his ultimstum
to the press without giving them
any advance notice. Moreover,
he sent It around on Saturday
afternoon. which made II eN-
tremely difficult for them 10
whip their objections into shape
end rush them 70 newspaper
offices.
The Fly press release was one
OF the most amazing IN the
memory OF veteran newspaper
correspondents Instead Of an
nouneing the two members dis
sent In the first few paragraphs.
Il contained only q brief note
in the final page that the CON-
mission was not unanimous.
Shsrpest barn IN the Craven
Case minority report was the
suggestion that government ex-
srciSe Of monopolistie power IL
mors dangerous than the radio
trust the Fly group insists on
smashing.
The British will withdraw
..anA "a. nrnitn ~ thalr ALaallar.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10
PULSE OF.
THE PUBLIC
MOTHER

Editor The Times: On the din
ing room table IL a centerpiece
OF flowers that was arranged by
loving hands and. somehow. the
beauty OF Il radiates the charm
Of the one who placed 1t there
Mother. In the bowl are hlacs of
lavender hue. fragile bluebells
and lilies OF the valley. delicate
ly white. The fragrance, like the
personality of the one whom we
honor spreads through the room.
II Is q remarkable fact that
almost every man who has
achieved something worth while
will tell you he owes Il TO the
influence OF his mother. Some
times he can explain just how
her training affected his life and
his character. Often, however.
he cannot give you details-he
can only state the fact.
John Golden, few years ago
one Of the greatest theatrical
producers, hit upon the real
secret Of a mothers power and
influence. When he was asked.
Was your mother pretty shrewd
about training you ," he replied;
"Nol She didn't train me-she
just loved me"
That was enough. And II IL
enough for anybody.
You don't have to explain the
tremendous Influence your
mother has had on your life You
can't explain II. anyhow. just
accept Il; thank God for II. and
put 1t down a. the biggest gift
you have ever received
HOWARD CARL ERICSSON.
SAL So. Birmingham.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10

Do not say. she only mad one
dress" instead say she had
only one
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10

The British will withdraw
major units Of their Aediter-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-10

IVAN THE TERRIBIE
Ivan ~, crowned N 1647 a.
the first tsar OF Russia. suffered
fits OF temper that at times
amounted almost TO madness.
His destruction OF Novgorod and
Evening star., 1941-09-29
SpeciaIties Improve,
But Other Stocks
Remain Mixed
Sugars Move Higher;
Many EorIy Gains
Are Wiped Out
By VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, Sept 29-Buylny
fuel was strictly ratloned in todays
stock market and, while speclalles,
principally sugars. managed TO make
headway a wide assortment was
unable to shift to the recovery route.
At the start the list acted as
though it might be ready to re-
verse it's recent doWnSWlng. trac-
tional advances were we'll distributed
for a while with isolated gains of
| a point or so in evidence. Demand
quickly subsidized and advances for
leaders were eliminated in numer-
Gus instances. The direction, except
for a handful Of favorites, renamed
cloudy to the close.
Dealings never attained even a
semblance of speed and transfers
for the full proceedings Of around
100000 shares were among the
smallest for a five-hour stretch in
month.
The principal question plaguing
bullish forces. brokers said. was
I lust how far the Federal move for
drastic price restraints in business
and industry would go. Although
| Wall Street believed the 6 per cent
profits price ceiling advocated by
| the Treasury virtually was out the
window the feeling persisted that
efforts to keep down big corporate
| earnings would continue.
The war news apparently was
more or less of a side issue and do
mestic developments provided moth.
! ing outstanding.
Steels were sluggish throughout.
| Sugar company shares regalned
popularity as world quotations for
this staple scared.
Among laggards were Anaconda,
n. Y. Central, Boeing, Glenn Mar
tin. Westinghouse, Texas Corp,
American Smelling and Consoll-
dated Edison.
Junior Bonds Gain.
Selective demand for loans Of
speculative rating was a steadylng
influence in today's bond market,
although the general corporate list
was slightly mixed near the final
hour.
Secondary and bankrupt" loans
of the carriers were the principal
movers, and gains were generally in
fractions. Turnover, for the list as
a whole. was small
Australian AIS and IS dropped
several points in foreign list where
| steadiness was the rule. But volume
in the "AuSSieS' was negligible,
Ahead in the corporate sector were
American Telephone 3i.s Of 81 and
3s of Sc, Baltimore e. Ohio con-
vertibles. St. Paul IS, Erie SIS of rs,
Illinois Central 4sa Missouri-Kan-
sas-Texas IS. Southern Railway Is,
Wabash 1st IS. Texas Corp. IS. Third
Avenue adjustments, International
Telephone IS and Continental Oil
254s.
United States Governments held
about steady, though few Of the
non- taxable group we're advanced
shade.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
World Tin Production
Far Above Year AGO

=
NEW YORK, Sept. 29-World
production of tin in August was esti-
mated at 21,3O0 long tons, against
l8 400 tons in August, 1910, and out
put for the first eight months of the
year was 168,600 tons. against 49,
500 tons in the like period last year,
the International Tin Research and
Development Council reported today
in its statistical bulletin.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
MS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
Stock and Eales

StOFk ana SHIeS-
Dividend Rate. Add 90. High. Low. Close
NH Nh d h pftr) 8. Is S.
N Y Shipbldg Qg) IL 30Ss 30A 30A
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Visible Grain Supply

NEW YORK. Sept. % LP)-Vlsible
supply Of American grain showed
the following changes from a week
ago lin bushels: Wheat increased
100000; corn increased 1895 900:
oats decreased 1250O0; rye increased
460 1000, and barley increased 25700O.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
London Prices Firm.

LONDON. Sept. 20 .Pl.-The stock
market closed firm after a quiet se5-
sion in which price fluctuations held
to a narrow range
A few speculative Kafirs. selected
industrial shares and home rails at-
vanced slightly. Cunard, on tr0
basis of earnings reports for l94',
was up, British loans opened highc .
and held to the new level. Industri7
gamers included British America
Tobacco and Imperial Chemical In
dustrieS.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Money Market

NEW YORK. Sept. 90 lP,.-Can money
steady. L Der cent. prime commercial
paper. IA per cent Time loans steady.
5000 days l u: 4-6 months, 1lz per cent
Bankers acceptances unchangeo 5000
DAYS, ~. per cent: 4 months. ,s-is per
cent: SIS months. ss-is per cent Reds
count rate, New York Reserve Bank, l per
cent.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Metal Market

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 lP.-Copper
f.as. New York, .25 nominal Tin
steady: spot and nearby. $500: forward.
$500. Lead steady; spot. New York,
East ST. Louis. spot and forward, 7.25. Pig
iron, No z, fob; Eastern Pennsylvsnjiss' js
Aluminium. virsin 90 per cent, ZOO; anti
mony, Chinese spot 1880. Quicksilver.
1913 oo-194 90 Platinum, pure, 500.
Chinese wolframite, 2500-26 90. Do
estic scheelite, "a 90.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
London Tin Prices

LONDON. Sept % Pin steady
$3.50 15s bid. $3.50 asked.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
MHAI STOCKS nIn.
Government Bonds
Over the Counter

NEW YORK. Sept 90 tP-Over-the-
counter United States Government bonds
Treasury.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Odd-Lo Dealings
Bv the Associated Press

by INt HN6UUIdIPU PItSS,
The Securities Commission reported to-
DAY these transactions by customers with
odd-lot dealers or SPECIALISTS on the New
York Stock Exchange for September q.
O54 purchases. involving @5I61 shares
! ,1!0 sales. involving 20 0a@ shares in
Guiding - short sales involving 3Og shares
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Federal Lond Banks

NEW YORK, Sept 90 4P,.-Federal Land
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Stock and Sales
Approximate Sales Today

Approximate Sales To-day
II 100 AM 10000 1900 Noon 100, 900
100 PM 240 600 200 PM 290,0 900
Total 5000 400,0O
Unit of trading. ten shares
In bankruptcy or recetvership or being
reorganized under Bankruptcy Act or se-
curities assumed by such companies
Rates of dividend in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the last
auarerly or semi-annual declaration Un-
less otherwise noted special or extra div
idends are not included
Ex dividend Yr Ex rights Also extra
or extras d Cash or stock Paid last
year Payable in stock Declared or
pald so tar TINS year 4 Accumulated div
idends paid or declared this year.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Bonds

BY Private Wire TO The Star.
Approximate Transactions Todoy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

And stil IL has never arrived.
Still II is so faint that il takes a
big telescope like the one on
Mount Wilson-the l00-inch-
to capture the finer details OF
the cloud.
Even At its great speed it may
never arrive. so far as the
human race is concerned. For
before It does. II man follows
the way OF other previous in
habitants OF this earth-thou-
sands OF species which have ap-
peared and disappeared. leay-
Ing only fossil remains--he will
be long gone from this sphere.
The fastest thing known is
light. II travels l66.33o miles
Q second. or 67o.ssl 900 miles
an hour. Nearly SIX BILLION
miles a year.
Well. the Crab Nebula is
5000 light YEARS away!
Its gases will be long. long
tine-multiplied by millions OF
long. long times-arriying here.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

little over 6.16 miles a minute.
A new U. S. Army bombing
plane is said to exceed 500 miles
on the level and to attain 700
miles an hour in a power dive
a bresth-takine speed, more
than 10 miles minute.
The University Of Virginia
device, az $500 miles an hour
may be an outpost" Of a new
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

great race horse. ran q mile in
minute and 342-5 seconds.
S. c. Wooderson. English run
ner, did a mile in 4 minutes and
Ga seconds.
John r. Cobb. English ex-
perimenter drove his specially
built racing automobile 1897
miles - hour on Utah's Bonnie
vile Flats on Aug. a. 1874
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

speed frontier to be attained
when the principles are deveI-
oped more fully and applied TO
other types OF machines.
Seven hundred miles an hour
-. $500 miles an hour
That is travelling!
But 800 miles a second-old
Crab Neubla's rate
THAT Is speedingi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

CODD was driven AT a spec
of 369.7 miles per hour.
miles q second-but it's faster
than anything on this earth.
The greatest speed record
achieved by a man made device
was announced in December
last year before the American
Physical Society in Philadel-
phia.
This device, originated at the
University of Virginia by DR.. J.
w. Beams. physics professor.
and DR.. Leland r. Snoddy, and
announced at Philadelphia by
Lloyd E. MacHattie. graduate
physics student, attains 1900
miles per hour-or IS miles a
minute.
The device, a super-Speed ro-
tor. consists Of small steel balls
spinning in a vacuum.
The small spheres. like small
ball bearings. and small steel
rods. are suspended with mag
nets inside the vacuum chamber
and spun at 100000 revolutions
a second.
This speed OF course. Is lin
tied to the confines Of the ma
chine.
Streamhned trains have made
lbs miles an hour. Equipoise
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

Visualize yourself travelling
800 miles per second.
You could 60 from Los An
geles to San Francisco and
back. as the crow flies. in
fraction over a second. In
the time it would take you
TO say "one hippopotamus."
Experts sometimes use exact
words TO measure second of
time when they have no watches
or Instruments handy; tests
show the average person pro-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

Astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory,
Pasadena, Calf have "cocked" the expanding gases of
supernova bg star at this speed rather the APP
pareny remaining enormous gas clouds Of what a
known super back in 1904 A. d. In that year. sS7
years ago. japanese and Chinese reported
this big
Supernovae stars which appear suddenly in the
sky where has been before and apparently the
result of terrific explosions of What
in the spot where the 1854 A. d. supernoya appeared
this enormously exsndng cloud of gas Because of the
shape of this gas cloud Is called the Crab Nebua.
The front of this exploding gas body is coming
AZ the rate or eo0 miles or course tie
back OF 1t is recedmg from the rate. =
AT that speed you would think the gas would arrive
here In the SCI years since the supernova
by the startled japanese and Chinese the resulting gas
cloud has travelled % 39 945 6O0D00 miles That more
than TWENTY-FIVE TRffff0N mics
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

two-million-year orbit around
the sun there is at least one
comet that travels so slowly
you could outrun 1t.
George w. Bunton OF Griffith
Observatory says that-makine
some assumptions as to its
shape and path = this comet
probably travels no faster than
three miles an hour! This, how
ever. is for only briefly. as IL
slows down for the enormous
curve it makes somewhere out
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

nounceS the syllables In almost
exactly a SecondD
In less than four seconds. at
800 miles second. you could
span the continent from San
Francisco to New York.
In half a minute you could
whizz around the world
Now you probably have an
impression that all is great
speed out in the stellar spaces.
SO 1t is surprising to learn
that at one spot in its enormous
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09
Astronomers Clock
Gigantic Super-Nova
Sighted in 1854 A.
BY WAGNER WHITE

Eight hundred miles second Two Million eight
hundred and eighty thousand miles hour Twenty five
BILLION, two hundred and twenty eght MILLION, eight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-09

in space Just before it starts
back on its journey toward our
sun.
BY the time it reaches our
sun the comet, OF course, is
vhizzing along as we expect a
heavenly body to whizz. The
body has been seen only once
in 1864.
In our planetary system We
have a sluggard-the planet
Pluto. This planet. more than
3,000000,000 miles from our sun.
but part of our system. never
theless. ambles along at about
2.9 to 3.07 miles a second.
That seems slow-after 800
Evening star., 1941-12-31
Routed by Seton Hall,
Terps Oppose City
College Of n. Y.
Face Another Stern Foe
After 1859 Trimming
Sturts 3-Gume Juunt
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpcCldI DlSpdlli 70 1ut oLdE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Mary-
lands travelling Terrapins hoped
for a decided change of fortunes
against City College tonight after
absorbing a 59-15 shellacking at
Seton Halls hands last night in the
first of a three-game Northern series.
But City, still smarting from the
sting of its first defeat by wyoming
several nights ago. is expected to
lay it on the Terps again. for the
Lavender employs the same fast
breaking tactics that Seton Hall
uses. Maryland's only hope lay in
getting a better view of the basket
than it had against Seton Hall The
Old Liners simply couldn't get set
against the Jerseymen and their
shots weren't even close most Of
the time.
Seton Hall started with a rush,
rolling up a 1912 advantage in the
first half as Bob Davis and Bob
Holm led the assault. It did even
better in the second half, holding
Maryland to three points after bot
ting up Ernie Travis, who paced
the Terps with four buckets.
Reserves played most of the final
period. but Maryland found them as
difficult as were the regulars.
Evening star., 1941-12-31

pro or amateur, champion or near
champion. Bring 'em all on" The
boys kick in a buck apiece, with the
purse going to the winning team.
Volney Burnett did a "a on Course
A, which happens to be only one over
par, and won a chunk of the cash.
But Price claims if he gets back
on his putting stroke he'll get back
some of the dough he has kicked in.
my putting is terrible" grinned
Price. "And when he can't putt he
doesn't have a chance" yelled one
of the boys from the back room.
The answer to that one Is easy.
Who does?
More Golf Ball Rationing.
One of the major golf manufac-
turning firms has gone in for golf
ball rationing. New York headquar-
tiers of this outfit, which sells popu-
lar line of clubs and balls, has in
formed the local pros they will re-
ceive their 1912 supply of golf balls
on a rationed basis. What the basis
will be Is not yet clear but 1t will be
cleared up in a few days. Order is
coming out of chaos in the golf ball
business, with the manufacturers
having surveyed their probable
needs for 1912. But golf balls won't
be easy to get.