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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

OPM FINALLY
ANGRY AT JAPS

A stranger walking into
OPNs offices and conference
rooms these days would think he
had stumbled into the locker
room OF q losing football team
between the halves. Production
Manager W II. Harrison. a
snappy A T. 4 T. executive,
holds get-togethers Of manufsc-
turers almost daily. He talks 10
them like a hard boiled coach
begging them to go out and pro-
duce for dear old Uncle Sam
The team which has got OPM
mad is Tokyo.
Money Is no object" he tells
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
Wars Pass, But Christmas Is Eternal

1T cannot be a merry Christmas this year; the
Aprospects for happy new year are not bright;
and goodwill toward men is scarcely the worlds
outstanding characteristic at the moment.
Does that mean that the Christmas season is
mere mockery?
No. The wars with which stubborn man has
flooded his world will pass. But Christmas re-
mains eternal. What is eternal does not die, now
now not in the future
Even the birth Of the child Jesus in the manger
at Bethlehem not achieved without the human
suffering and travail which seems TO attend the
bringing forth of all good. The world is in travail
today, and the hope is not dead that out of this
period of war and pain and hatred may be born
time of peace and quietude and love.
TT cannot be merry Christmas in the old sense.
To be merry, the dictionary AYERS is to be full of
mirth and good-humor, gay, sportive jovial, pleas
ant. This is scarcely Americas mood today, nor
should it be. The gay light-heartedness with which
we are accustomed to greet the Christmas season
IL scarcely fitted to a country defending itself
against sudden and unjustifiable attack, fighting
for its fe its institutions, its future. But that
light-hearted Christmas revelry is not, after all,
the essential thing about Christmas
Since that night in Bethlehem thousand wars
have mangled and crucifed humanity. Yet is
Christmas forgotten? A thousand times il-wil
has obtained the temporary mastery over that
ancient promise of goodwill toward men, yet in
the hearts of millions of men the flame of good
surface to light the world more, just as when
the glory of the Lord shone down on the shivering
shepherds in old Judea.
True merriment we can not have in these out
of-joint times, for that implies an innocence and
freedom from care that no would even wish
to achieve while best youth is facing death for
our sakes from Iceland to the Philippines But
even as we grid ourselves for the grim struggle,
can, each one of us within himself keep alive the
certain knowledge that in the end peace and good
will can be made the victor.
A N era of peace and goodwill could be made to
"A follow allied victory. Failing that, the world
must slump back into era of hatred and de-
spondency.
We shall fight all the better for the Christmas
vision of the multitude of the heavenly host pras
ing God and saying,
Glory to God in the highest. and on earth
peace, goodwill toward men,
! don't why We have to let Hitler upset morals
Mary Jane Carpenter sorority president at the University
Of Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
DOUBTS
SANCTIONS WAR

Editor, The Times: How A. L.
Cook as In Dec. 10 Pulse
while seemingly person of
some constructive mentality,
would try to logically impress
his God into this vast world
slaughterfest is beyond this
humble soul. And he dares i'm
ply affirmation of science and
philosophy" Also, we may just
tune into the life waves of
Gods invisible nature" and we
viii win this war"
Regardless of religions world
wide promise - not restricted to
Judaism or Christianity that
Jehovah is the God of the whole
human family - all of one
flesh" - Father of all'-"God
is Love'-etc., Mr.. Cook claims
somehow to know that we have
sanction and partisan co-opera-
ton of an Infinite with our
capitalist democracies.
Excluding all fatherly sttri-
butes common to any sane dad,
Father God will aid certain mem
bers of His universal family as
associated with one certain Rev.
Cook - Old Testament fashion
to kill their brothers, sisters,
babes and the sick by starvation.
torture, and blood-letting so that
calm. may follow horror. A sort
of Divine sequence. And this
despite Goddess" Russia's sue
cesses ION their own
Why does not Cook confine
responsibility for greed, hatred.
fanaticism, lies and murderlust
10 us human animals so we may
logically put the finger upon
causes? Why overlook his
Genesis where God quit His
creating. pronounced everything
OK. and rested? No mention
made of multiplying cause and ef-
feet later. Yet Mr.. Cook con-
dones world violence with its I'M
speakable agonies as Gods will
primarily. If We. the allies, con-
trolling nearly all the earth. can
not crush our hungry. more
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

many more. So disturbed was
Senator Gillette of Iowa that
he demanded senate investi-
CATION OF these fifth column ac-
Invites in Octiber. 1910 The in
curry was blocked by the admin
istration. which feared that such
action might provoke Tokyo to
war
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

cism or suggestions for improve
ment. The judges sit down to a
table set with knife and fork, a
glass Of water. and a tart apple.
They taste each cut of meat or
fowl, note its flavor. aroma, tex
ture and color. mark their find
ings on a prepared card, and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
SO THEY SAY

To Try TO put the lid on labor
organization IN this country at
this time would. IN my opinion,
be disastrous. William II.
DAYS. chairman, Defense Media
ton Board
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
Micah Said II Could Happen. and II Did
The Beginning OF Christmas
Herods Blunder and the Bethlehem Babe

The prophecy was not ful-
filled for several hundred years.
Then one night. in a stable Of the
Bethlehem inn. there was born
the King predicted by Micah.
The event was revealed only 10
q significantly = group Of
humble shepherds and three wise
men from widely separated parts
Of the then known world,
brought together by a mysten-
Gus common impulse.
1t might be thought that an
nouneement Of the fulfillment of
the Prophecy of Micah would
have created rejoicing through
out the world, but il did not
There were too many selfish peo-
pie. Just as there were when
Woodrow Wilson tried to estab-
lish the machinery to maintain
world peace, and just W..here
are too many persons today
hoping for profit out Of the
present world turmoil. One of
these was King Herod. who was
more interested in easy living
than he was in the welfare OF
mankind. He was alarmed,
though. by repeated rumors that
the child was born to be a king.
Herod and his advisers. in
Guiding the tax gatherers who
had been picking the Hebrews
pretty clean, went into 4 con-
ference.
I'VE got to do something
about this" said Herod. "Of
course we know Ii Is just fool
ish talk, but the people have
gone crazy about this child,
born in a manger. and whose
parents appear TO he An oh
scure pair from mp country.
They are talking about prophecy
Of king to be born In Bethle-
hem, and l don't like It,"
The more he heard about il
the more Herod was worried,
and he finally became convinced
that there was something in
what he first referred to as
al IL -
council together again.
IF there should be anything
to this" said Herod, IN lose
my job and all you fellows will
be out, too"
In the days of Herod the way
to get rid Of a political enemy
was to kill him, and that's what
they decided to do with this
poaaible contender for the
throne.
But things didn't work out
that way. The mysterious but
powerful influence that brought
the wise men from three widely
separated parts of the country,
warned Joseph to ''take the
young child and His mother and
flee into Egypt"
Herod and his crowd were al
ready to settle the question Of
who was going to be king. but
they found only the empty
manger.
That is the story of the first
Christmas. The family disap-
peared so completely that the
incident was forgotten except
by a few inspired souls. They
continued to hope, and one day
there appeared in the temple a
young boy who argued with the
elders. He had a clear complex
ion. honest, fearless eyes, and
err a n ding that aston
ished learned men.
II was the Babe of Bethle-
hem, who had been spirited
away from Bethlehem, grown
to youth. The rest of the story
will be good reading tomorrow.
You help yourself when you buy
r. e naferez R0pds
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

GENERAL hundred years be-
~ fore the first Christmas.
there lived in Western Asia on
the International highway be
tween Egypt and Asyria. man
named Micah. He was a sort Of
confidential adviser To Hezekiah.
the reform king who ruled over
the Hebrew people.
Things in the kingdom were in
pretty bad shape when Hezekiah
became king. He Immediately
began rebuilding the cities which
had been damaged by war and
neglect He built the great
Jerusalem squeduct and other
public works. and. what was
more difficult, attempted to
clean up the corrupt public
morals. He made a good start
but died before the job was fin
ished.
Among his other activities
Micah had been helping the king
by telling the people that their
troubles were due largely to bad
public morals. Too many of
those in high places were like
the corrupt politicians of this
age. The mass of the people
ignored the teachings OF the
prophets. They violated the
commandments to suit their own
convenience or desires. They
laughed at those who placed any
value on personal character or
morals. Two cities-Jerusalem
and Samaria-were particularly
warned by Micah that if the
people did not mend their ways
there would be destruction and
suffering worse than anything
experienced by the Children of
Israel.
After this Pronunciation Micah
mentioned another place, the
little village of Bethlehem,
covered with vines and olive
trees. The people Of Bethlehem
had kept the faith. and had been
sort Of left alone by the "pro-
gressive" and "broad-minded"
people of the cities. OF that
village. Micah said:
But thou. Bethlehem,
though thous he little among
the thousands of Judah, vet out
Of thee shall come forth unto
me (one) that is to be ruler In
Israel"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
An Inside Picture OF Finon-
Ll0 III ciol and Political America
By RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON - Adolf Hitlers active part in timing
the Japanese attack the United States is revealed in
detail placed in the hands of senators and passed
the state department the department and the
ito
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
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eat a slice of apple. The taste
of the sample is gone and they
are ready for the next. BY con-
slant, careful trial and error
methods, the u. s. Government
strives to improve the food on
the American table already
the best in the world!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26
HOLIDAY FARE

Department of Agriculture
secretaries. executives. labora-
tory workers -ordinary people
with average likes and dislikes in
the matter Of food. are invited by
the Bureau of Home Economics
to taste test food and offer criti-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

You help yourself when you buy
u. 6. Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

don't why We have to let Hitler upset morals
Mary Jane Carpenter sorority president at the University
Of Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-26

To receive attention IN thi. col
umn Letters must sire name and
address OF writer Onls Initials
VII be publshed when requested.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23

attic there is ample for construction of
bedrooms while the full basement features Chryser Air
temp ofired furnace. Bruce streamlned floors laid
throughout the house. while the green shutters and
boxes enhance exterior attractiveness
AS interesting the price the house is the in
which Currier built
Assembly line methods bit startling Henry Fords
first horseless employed the home The
walls built sections Curriers' mill Doors and
windows set place and the applied
the plant The eight sections of the manufactured
the mill and the floors laid including noum Heat duc wiring
and plumbing set in the walls and pyboad nailed the
interior sections Of the home
Then 81 in alwas carried Royal
Oak and ready for within the amazingly short
OF 2i2 days!
The Royal Oak model for sale Currer planning
highway TenMle The price dwellings will
be $3.50 plus the price OF the lot
notice the federal government that and
when bids the S50000O00 Defense City mentioned
recently Sidney Hman associate director Of OPM it would get
bid from Lumber Company Currer
bid for the would he approximately S32500O00
For the statisticaly minded here the
Royal Oak model which from 10 until 10 daily
and Sunday.
Living 1872 Kitchen 80 by 1917 bedrooms s5
by 1I6 and 11.2li by l16i.
way picture there1l be specialization
of housing the owcost field unless private industry
through with revolutionary plan for building which will
a home within the financial reach Of wage-earner.
And the Detroit lumber dealer who climbed from S5 month
of S3000000 confident that his plan
revolutionary enough and sound enough the housing bust
ness for private industry.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Guests Listed

Among those invited TO partici-
pate in Sundays opening program
are State FILA Director Raymond
NJ. Foley; Joseph p. Wolff, COM
missioner of buildings and safety
engineering; Joseph Hoffman.
vice president of the Builders
Association of Metropolitan De-
troit, and Harry O. Nelson. newly
elected president of the Plumbing
and Heating Industries Bureau.
This years Ideal Home its a
story and half American Colonial
was designed by Hewlett and
Luckenbach Detroit architects,
and was built by Areid c. Peter
son on an attractively Handicapped
80 by 149 foot corner lot.
The home is furnished through
out by J. l.. Hudson Company.
Starting next Sunday, November
30, the home will be open from
10 a. m. until 9 p. m. daily and
Sunday through the closing day OF
the 1912 Detroit Builders Show
which will be held at Convention
Hall February 1922.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Windows
S U bstituie for Glass
Evolved in London

Few glass windows smashed In
London air raids are replaced by
glass. says the London correspond
ent Of Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry, publication Of I h c
American Chemical Society AS a
rule. special window fabric. con
sisting Of wire mesh or cotton net
impregnated with ccliulose acetate
plastic, is nailed on wooden bat.
tens and fixed in the window
frame.
II has become general practice
with large broken plate-glass win
dows TO fill the window with ply,
In which n small glass window is
inserted to give prospective Gus
toners view of the wares within
"The general method Of manu-
featuring window replacement
fabric" it is explained. Consists
In the passage Of loosely woven
fabric, suitably prepared to give
n rigidity, through n dope OF
ceIIulose acetate and plasticiz-
ers. The fabric IL immersed I'm
the dope and IL Withdrawn nj n
allow rate. Preliminary drying
the solvent takes place while
The fabric Is more fully dried or
seasoned by a protracted drying
ON cloth while being passed
slowly over heated cans"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Realtors Will
Directors

Two broker members and two
owner members will be elected 10
the board of directors Of the De-
troit Real Estate Board next
Tuesday. Polls will be open from
/ p. m. TO ) p. m at the board
offices.
Owner members nominated by a
special committee are William j.
Bayer and J. F.. MCGOWAN. Broker
members nominated are Arthur +.
Bassett. Fred r. Bigelow. Joseph
O. Busch, Frank A. DeBoos, Ken
meth Draper, 6. c. Hadley and
A. II. McClatchey.
At S p. m. Tuesday balloting
will he transferred 20 the Savoy
ard Club, where polls will be open
until s p. m. Following the cleo
.tion members of the Detroit Real
Estate Board will hold their an
nual party at the Savoyard Club.
Attendance 10 this event is re-
stricted TO board members.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23

The base Of The. construction cost
index employed by the board 5
division of research and statistics
is the average month Of l935-l939
The index now stands AT 1853
the corresponding 1910 period :
was 1929.
or cities which have reported
six-room cost estimates for the
October period, Is registered in
creases of more than 5000 for the
past quarter. with the largest
increase 5000 occurring Al Cam
y. !. In the district of the
.ieral Home Loan Bank Of New
York costs have risen $1,000 10
81 500 since last year.
Bank board economists point out
that recent United States Depart
ment Of Labor statistics show that
the greatest wholesale price gains
-iat-e--ocrurred IN lumber - up
almost II per cent; paint and paint
materials, up IL per cent and
plumbing and heating supplies, up
per cent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Architects Will
Hear Crane
Former Detroiter
Returns Recently
From London

An insight into what British
architects are doing in the further
ance of a postwar program, with
special reference 10 how American
architects can benefit from their
experience, will he given members
of the Detroit hapter of the
American Institute OF Architects
AT dinner meeting al the Wardell
Hotel next Friday night by c.
Howard Crane. internationally dis
tinguished architect of Detroit and
London.
Crane. who formerly lived here
and who still maintains Offices
here. has been engaged on many
large British projects in recent
years. He has just returned from
London.
Crane pointed out Saturday that
l. on d on citizens now go about
their business as if nothing had
happened
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
1912 Ideal
Home Opens
Next Sunday
Visiting Hours
From 10 A. M. TO
2 P. M. Daily

Leaders In the building trades
industries and governmental Of
.ficials will participate in cere-
monies next Sunday marking the
formal opening Of the Detroit
Builders Show 1912 Ideal Home
al San Juan and West Outer
drives.
The home is closed all this week
TO permit completion of interior
decoration.
Ernest q. Knight, president OF
the Detroit Builders Show, will he
in charge of the ceremonies. while
Edwin J. Drummer, secretary of
the Builders and Traders Ex-
change. is chairman aof the ar
ranCementS committee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Currier Home
Open To Public
Pre-Fabrica ted House
Attracts Thousands
BY LAFE ALLEN
Detroit Time. Real Estate Editor

CURRlER wants to turn out houses the way Henry Ford
Il
And the first presbricated home manufactured by the Cur
Lumber Company any Curriers' ambition good
achieved.
Currier gained nationwide recently when his bid to
defense dwellings Wayne Mich $4,000
than the lowest bidder tossed out by the federal govern
the
CIOorganed Currer firm would touch off OF AL building
q federal
dampen he the industrial
ization of the building business.
Al Crooks road and Cherry street in Royal Oak the Detroit
mbeman built model OF the home he offered TO build for the
federal invited the public with
public housing thus far Detroit
accepted
invitation here's what they found the relatively low price Of
So $50 (S325 down and sd "a MONTH would buy
An insulated % by 30foot home with two bedrooms.
living room, kitchen dnette and In the unfinished
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Appraisers Will.
Hear Tdnney

William Tanney of the First
National Bank-Receiver, will dis.
cuss market conditions affecting
better class residences at the
November meeting of the Society
of Residential Appraisers next
Friday night at the University
Club.
r Tanney has made an intensive
survey during the last two years
of sales and offerings Of homes in
Palmer Woods, Sherwood Forest,
Humans Golf Club, the Crosse
Pointe communities and similar
neighborhoods.
The society will also elect It's
1912 officers at the Friday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Material, Labor
= Costs Rise
Increase Spread
Over Last
Il Months

Material and labor costs In
volved in construction OF stand
ard six-room house in September,
1e4l, stood in total 1872 per cent
above such costs for the same
period of 1870 economists Of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
announced Saturday.
While building supply costs dur
ing the l2-month period rose but
1913 per cent as against l5.2 per
cent increase in those Tor labor.
bank board figures for the last
30-day period reported upon
August-September-indicate con-
tinued though slight reversal ~
that relationship: materials gained
Is per cent against 06 for labor
from July 20 August and l6 per
cent 10 labors 06 per cent for
September.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Architects 10 Hear
Talks on Color

All architects in the Detroit
area are invited 10 attend a din
ner meeting sponsored by the
Detroit division of the Michigan
Society of Architects al s p. m.
next Tuesday AT the Wardell Ho-
tel as guests of the Glidden Com
pany. c. r. Smedley. Glidden chief
color engineer. and Miss G. r.
Probeck. color consultant and
practicing decorator of Cleveland.
will be the main speakers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Building Permits
Total S856,730

Building permits last week to-
tailed 1856, 100, compared to 1901
800 for the same week last year,
Joseph p. Wolff, commissioner of
buildings and safety engineering,
reported Saturday. Seyenty-four
of the permits were for single or
two-family dwellings, Wolff said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23

The committee will seek mate
rails and equipment which do not
involve use of critical metals.
Effort will also be made to secure
adjustment of FILA procedures to
the constantly shifting price struc-
lures.
Further effort will be made to
analyze the part which publicly
financed housing should play. and
the place which private enterprise
Is equipped TO fill in the defense
housing picture.
Hugh Potter Of Houston, Tex, Is
chairman of the committee.
Other committee members beA
sides Miller and Potter are Will
liam j. Levitt, Manhasset, N. Y:
Herbert u. Nelson, Chicago; John
Mowbray. Baltimorei j. c, Nich-
OILS. Kansas City; Ellis Stonesops
San Francisco; Waverly Taylor,
Washington, d. c., and Milton W.
Morris, San Francisco.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Miller Named
To Committee
On Building
Group VIII
coIIsborate With
Federal Agencies

George W. Miller, prominent
local builder and member of the
Detroit Real Estate Board, has
been named to a rine-man home
builders emergency committee to
work with manufacturers and
.OPM. FILA and other federal
agencies in the solution of the
present critical problems confronts
ing the building industry.
The committee was set up In
Washington by the Home Builders
Institute of America, the National
Association of Real Estate Boards,
and other organized groups to COLI
laborate with the federal govern.
ment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
S110, 100 Volume
Reported by EIsed

The Elsea Realty and Invest
ment Company closed rs sales for
a total volume Of $4,000 during
the first half Of November, Staun>
ton M. Elsea reported Saturday.
The Elsea deals included Is sin
kles, seven fats and one store.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Heat Control Expert
To Address Realtors

Fl. T. Kucera. Chicago heat COM
troll expert, will address members
of the management division Of tho
Detroit Real Estate Board next
Tuesday noon at the Savoyar1
Club.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Advance Registrations

Advance registrations for the
Miami convention OF the United
States Savings and Loan League.
December Is. are piling up 70
record dimensions. according n
Paul Endicott, Pomona. CAL
president.