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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
Franchise Given
For Lakes Line

Only erecting poles and stringing
the wire remains TO complete the
new 15.0oo-volt transmission line
10 the Tacoma city light lakes dis
trict substation. Utilities Commits
sioner r. d. o'Feil said Friday.
He has been notified that the
county has granted Its franchise to
run over county roads without 4
contribution of city power for
county traffic lights. which was
asked at first.
There Is q line to the substation
now. but II 10 carrying all the
load II can and 10 no recent ex-
pansion has been possible In that
district.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
Narra Advises
u. S. Use Tact
Club Heors Speech
On Lotin America

An appeal TO American business
men TO learn more about their
Latin American neighbors II they
expect TO trade with them was
made here Thursday night by T.
r. Ybarra. international journalist
and son Of a Venezuelan states
man. who addressed the Tacoma
Knife and Fork club.
Members Of the club filled the
Crystal ballroom of the Hotel
winthrop for the dinner meeting,
at which r. D. Metzrer presided.
Ybarra warned that Americans
have been untactful In some Of
their South American dealings.
while German firms have gone out
Of their way to get the business.
Business with Argentine
haa suffered. ~ said, from .
frank rivalry which the rich
and cultfvsted south Ameri-
can nation feels toward the
United statea. Brazil. ON the
ethsr hand. b strongly pro-
Amsrican, Ybarra aaid.
The speaker. whose biography,
''young Man Of Caracas" has be-
come q best-seiicr in this coun-
try, advises that relationships be-
tween the United states and
Spanish Portuguese speaking
neighbors be placed upon more Of
the human relationships basia.
Ybarra's father was q vene-
xuelAn general. cabinet minister
and governor Of six states In that
country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
METER INSTRUCTION

Motorists using the parking
meters were warned Friday oy
Chief of Police Einar Langseth to
use the crank and turn the tn
dicsting needle TO a starting posi-
ton after depositing their nickel
The chief said the department had
received many complaints from
motorists who insisted they had
paid the nickel but had been
booked for improper parking.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
Electricians Wages
Are Discussed Aqoin

Wages Of city electricians were
discussed briefly by the city coun-
ell again Friday. though without
development Of an answer to the
union officials who appeared
Thursday with a request for in
creases by Jan l.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
To Announce New
Officers of Club
Lumbermen Meet
On Friday Night

Names Of new officers to serve
during 1912 will be announced at
the banquet Of the Tacoma Lum-
bermens club Friday evening at
Hotel Winthrop.
Approximately 500 men are ex-
pected from the west side of the
mountains from Bellingham TO
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
TWO AUTO FIRES

TIE fire department was called
upon To extinguish fires in two
automobiles. The first came in
Thursday at e:51 p. m. from 11os
So. 18th st., and the second Friday
ut 2 .. m. from 1t1h and Fawcett
ave. The latter machine. owned
by Paul Boirture. was damaged
TO the extent Of $40. the depart
ment said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
Precinct 20 Meetinq

A Civilian Defense meeting will
be held for residents Of precinct 20
at 7:so p. m. Friday at 1925 Es.
S4th st
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06
No DAMAGE FROM FIRE

A fire az the Western Lumber
Manufacturing Co. AZ 25oT East
18th ST. Thursday night WAS ex-
tinguished before any damage had
been done. the fire department re-
ported Friday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06

You help yourself when you buy
Z. S Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-06

Buy u. 8. Bonds and save'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April % = This
being spring, when no one wants to
talk about unpleasant subjects, you
might care to spend a few moments
on next years taxes inasmuch as
everyone else will be talking about
them when Congress gets around to
considering what it will do on the
matter.
Right now. the washington air
Is full of tax butterflies. evasiye
insubstantial things that fit from
office to office. coming from you
know not where
The tax research boys in the
Treasury have been collecting all
the information they can, getting it
ready for the House Ways and
Means Committee, which must
draft the bill. Every possible new
source OF revenue is being consid-
cred, with the hopeless assurance
that all won't produce enough, no
matter how high the rate, or how
low the level reached. The prob
lem is to raise additional taxes for
5.efense-set your own figure al
from one to five biilions-in the
least Objectionable way possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
I'M LIBYA

tChriStian Science Monitor)
British reverSeS in Libya are probably
more spectacular than fundamental.
Desert warfare is unlike ordinary land
warfare 1t is not fought inch by inch.
Because Of lack of water and the diff
Guilty of maintaining supply lines he who
fights and runs away will fight long
way back another day Advances and
retreats are the shortest distances be-
tween remote cities and GASES
The sWiftnesS of the recent British ad-
vances and the current British retreat is
an illustration of desert tactics, which
have been likened to those of sea war
fare in which contact with the enemy
counts but the distances covered in man
euvering do not necessarily measure sue
cess or failure
Nevertheless, British reverses have
come at a time when they may exert
downward pull on British prestige
throughout the Near East How should
they be accounted for?
Neither the failure to take TripOli nor
the unpreparedness of the British forces
is necessarily attributable to anyone's
neglect. The British may have felt that
more depended on the Balkans than on
Lbya. Moreover, the object of Cen
ersl Wavell's campaign was not primari-
ly to gain control of territory but to de-
stroy the Italian forces.
Unless success in one theater balances
the retreat in another. however, the loss
of Libya will cause many to wonder
whether some British military minds are
still prone to underestimate the strength
and resourceful mess of their Nazi oppo-
nents. The memory of earlier campaigns
in the present war makes this thought
more disquieting than do mere desert dis
tanceS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
SOMEBODY'S APPLICANT
WILL BE UPSET

The proposal of the California State
Federation of Labor to reapportion the
state senate on a population basis is a
vital matter to every rural county III
California, Imperial among them.
Somebody's going to take a terrible
drubbing before the last has heen heard
of the plan. The somebody will be either
the California State Federation of La
Dor or the traditional American system
of checks and balances in government.
If the labor groups applicant isn't upset,
the whole food basket of agricultural
California will be.
The CFL's attempt to revamp the state
senate is obviously nothing in the world
but an attempt to subjugate all of Cali
fornia to the will of organized labor.
If it succeeds, such counties as Imperial
might as well fold up, as far as any hope
of recognition by the state government
goes. Our legislative fate would be as
unhappy as the life of flea in flea
powder factory.
The state senate represents the only
protection Californias so-called cow
counties have at the present time The
state assembly, dominated by Los An
geles and San Francisco, would never
give second thought to any region COM
paratively unpopulated by voters if ii
were not for the senate.
Agriculture keeps California going,
yet in the proposed new senate agricul-
ture would have a voice weaker than the
moral code of fifth coumnist.
Obviously, the labor chiefs want the
revision because they control large vot-
ing blocs in the metropolitan areas and
have been unable to dominate the voting
of the rural counties. Thus, with state
senate made up largely of senators from
metropolitan districts, they feel that they
could control the legislature and impose
their will upon the more thinly populat-
ed counties.
Considering labor alone. the revision
would be bad enough. Laws would be
passed which would force unionization
upon the rural counties, where agricul-
tural employers can least afford to pay
for the salaries of racketeering labor
leaders. But labor laws are not the
only consideration in this scheme. The
cow counties would suffer on every sim
gle legislative count, and that without
an opportunity for redress. Highway
appropriations, legal protection Of all
kinds against the depredations of an un-
scrupulous majority, adequate develop
ment in which state help is needed,
voice in state policies-all would be de-
MED to the smaller counties under such
plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

is in process of being liquidated
once and for all.
The interesting part of it is the
relationship of these vast subsidies
to the free enterprise system Tt
is just one more evidence that we
have never had a completely "lals-
sez-faire" policy of on-interference
of government in business.
The government has always med
died. with business. One of the
first acts of the new government
after the Constitution was first
adopted was TO set up a protective
tariff which is a restriction of
free competitive selling. We have
in our day had mail subsidies for
shipping lines and airplane lines
whose development was nationally
desirable. None was anything like
as huge as the land subsidies grant
ed at a period which began 90
years ago, and are only now being
liquidated.
There is not, and never has been,
an economic system which flourish
ed entirely without direction, res
friction, encouragement, or med
ding" in one manner or anoher.
by government.
When people talk of a free en-
terprise system" they are talking
of something that is always matter
of degree.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
EVERY REPRESENTATIVE
PLAYS HIS OWN GAME

1t is only natural, and as it should be,
that every senator and assemblyman in
Sacramento is interested first and fore
most in getting everything he can for the
people of his own district Our govern
mental setup took this fact into consider
alton in establishing the legislature as it
is today. There is representation on a
basis of population, achieved in the as
sembly. There is representation on a
geograph phical-political basis, achieved in
the senate. Between the two, the people
of the whole state are adequately repre-
sented. One acts as a brake upon the
other. 1t is the system Of checks and
balances IN government.
Suppose, however, that this were done
away with, and senators as we'll as as
semblymen were elected on population
basis. The first result would be that
Los Angeles, most thickly populated
area in the state, would be able to impose
its will upon all Of California Los An
geles, in fact would BE California, as
far as lawmaking goes. Most of the mon
ey taken in through taxes would be spent
in Los Angeles. Most of the improve
ments made by the state would be made
there
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

stitutes.
Another idea is that as the de-
fense effort increases prosperity by
putting mole people to work at
better wages, demand for consum-
ers' goods will increase. With the
productive effort tied up on de-
fense work, however, there will be
a shortage of consumers goods,
and therefore prices will go up.
Taxing out of existence the added
income of the workers, just to keep
prices down, is one proposed cure,
and as you can see it's only slight
~ worse than castor oil
The wackiest proposal of all is
the idea of flexible" taxes. They
would be changed from month to
month in an effort to control the
economic factors and initiation
mentioned above.
If you haven't had a headache
III long time, and want one, come
on down to Washington and help
write the new tax bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
IT TAKES A.
GOLD MINER
Tulare Times)

Ni'AS AAAilSS1
The great game of gold mining was
being discussed at meeting of mining
men the other day The rising cost of
materials it was disclosed, of equip
ment, labor, social security levies unen-
ployment taxes, etc, in some instances
are upping the cost of recovering a S35
ounce of gold to nearly $40
The speeches were waxing hot when
up rose a Siskiyou mining man, Frank
Smith, who has one of CALIFORNIA; big
gest hydraulic mines under development
in the Happy Camp area-to deliver
himself of this terse but eloquent COM
ment:
THE cost load is heavy, particularly on
the smaller operators, and it's rising.
But, gentlemen, there can be only three
things baSlcally wrong with gold mine.
Those are insufficient financing, insuffi
cient management-and insufficient gold
in the ground.
aside from these considerations,
there's very little that can stop gold
miner"
That succinct observation would do
credit to a professional economist; the
analysis will fit any business Grocers,
stockholders, farmers and businessmen
in armies have tripped headlong over the
thin shoestring Of insufficient financ-
ing" Bad management" has ruined
countless ventures. But Insufficient
gold in the ground is the complete and
final Illustration in any mans business.
IF you can recover on all three counts,''
Smith declared, you've got gold mine
but it takes all three And for dry, un-
wordy gems of wisdom, it still takes, it
seems, an American farmer-or a Cali
fornia gold miner
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Uranium Crackers
Traffic Test

Traffic safety is being given in-
creased emphasis by police and
civic driving associations as the
number of cars on streets and
highways shoots up Whether you
are a driver or a pedestrian, you
will find it helpful to know the
answers to the following traffic
questions.
l. What are the generally ac-
cepted hand signals for making a
right turn, making left turn, and
stopping?
q What does an octagonal eight
sided) highway sign indicate?
3. What is the meaning of the
colors red. yellow and green when
used as traffic signals?
4. If required to make a sudden
stop, would you (a) take yoEr
foot off the gas and put your left
foot on the clutch; (b) remove your
foot from the gas and put it on
the brake; (c) jam hard with both
feet on the clutch and brake?
5. If the car ahead hogs the
middle of the road, is it all right
to pass him on the right?
ANSWERS
l. For a right turn: left hand
held upraiSed at about a 45 de-
gree angle with window level for
left turn: hand held horizontally
out the window; for stop: hand held
down at 45 degree angle with win
dow level, palm back.
2. An octagonal highway sign in
dicates a stop is required.
3. Red indicates stop; yellow,
caution, or walk; green, go ahead.
4. In making a sudden stop, re-
move foot from gas and apply it
to brake, leaving car in gear to
keep it in better control and to
help slowing down.
5. Except where traffic lanes are
marked, it is generally unlawful
to pass on the right, and risky be-
cause driver of other car cannot
see you as well, may cut in to the
curb
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
by Willis Thornton
An Era Comes TO an End

An era of some of the vastest
subsidies ever offered by govern
ment to private industry is COM
ing to an end.
Ninety years ago a developing
America wanted railroads, and
wanted them badly. So it offered
land grants to those who would
build them. More than 158,00000O
acres of land were given to rail-
road companies-an area almost
equivalent to the whole Atlantic
seaboard from Canada to the Gulf,
Usually they received great tracts
alternating on either side of their
right-of-way
This subsidy didn't cost the tax
payer anything directly. Land was
what the United States had the
most Of and giving it away to rail-
road builders by the millions of
acres did not seem extravagant SO
long as the needed railroads got
built. But it was a SubSidy-and a
subsidy SO generous that those who
received it couldn't even use it all
In 1910 a new transportation act
was passed, providing for the re-
turn to federal ownership of mil
lions of acres of this land. The
whole system had become antiquated.
For many years much of the time
of the General Land Office and
the Interior department was spent
in adjusting claims concerning it
The government had retained for
itself certain priviledges for trans
port of its property and employees
at reduced rates. The tax situation
changed. Now the whole venture
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
by Paul Harrison ;.
HoRywoods Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

er for good in his community,
responsible for good roads, rural
education and the founding of an
agricultural college that has 300
students. The money he receives
from Warner Brothers will endoW
the Bible school he long haI
planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Barbs

An agricultural college is feed
ing cows saWdust. How will you
have your plank steak?
Misery doesn't love company that
stays for dinner.
Looking at the bright side-sup-
pose you lived at the North Pole
and hubby stayed out all night?
Whenever you feel like turning
up your nose at people, remember
the law of gravity.
Artist Marries Model"-head-
line. At last. the model wife!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCIE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, April 18 = They
turned out with the brass band and
the flags today to welcome Sergt.
Gary Cooper home from the wars.
Actually, he hasn't fought a lick
yet or captured a one of his 1872
prisoners, but the cameras will
shoot The big battle sequences of
Sergeant York" in a week or SO.
The gray-camouilaged transport
"Chioan" is docked at the pier Gin
one of Warner Brothers huge
sound stages and a double line of
doughboyS in overseas caps anc
olive drab uniforms come tramping
down the gangplank. A frantic
crowd waves and cheers-200 extras
dressed IN the long hobble-ski
and buttoned shoes, the flat-croWn-
ed derbies and high collars of May,
1919.
The band plays Dixie" and po-
lice clear the way for delegation
of silk hats that steps from
bunting -draped touring car. One
OF the group is Congressman Cor
dell Hull of Tennessee-and even
without makeup, Actor Charles
TroWbridge shows a startling re-
semblance to the secretary of state.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions coiced by editors elsewhere.
1hey do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
AFTER
% YEARS

Standing on the SidelineS, taking
in every detail and beaming behind
his glasses, is a ruddy little man
Jesse LaSkY, associate producer of
Sergeant York. He has waited %
years for this moment. He talks
about it with pardonable pride be-
cause It was his persistence-not
movie money-that finally made
the scene, and the whole picture,
possible
That's a long time to wait for
anything, isn't it?" he asks. "I've
been trying to get THIS on film
ever since 1 saw it happen, May
%, 1919 l was vice president of
Famous Players-Lasky then, with
offices in New York, and l stood
at my window, on Fifth Avenue,
and watched the parade go by. l
knew then that l had a great mo-
ton picture-if l could get it.
Il told one of my men to see
Sergeant York and sign him up;
money was no object, to go as
high as he needed That night l
saw Florenz Ziegfeld and he said
he was going to put York in an
set with Will Rogers. Later. Lee
Shubert told me he was after York,
but none of us got him. My man
came back and said he had talked
to the Sergeant. He had listened
silently then said, Uncle Sans
uniform, hit amt fer sale That
was his sole and final statement.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
So They Say

1t happens that l do not believe
in censorship, and it happens that
I know I reflect the opinions of
the President of the United States
on this subject.
Lowell Mellett, head of the Of
lice Of Government Reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

We want peace, if we have to
fight for it-but that doesn't mean
we have to send our boys abroad
tC fight. 1t means that if we are
fully prepared TO fight, we won't
have to fight.
Estelle Sternberger. director
World Peaceways.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

There is but one objective, and
that is TO defeat aggression.
f. Fuller, Jr., Office Of
Production Management.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
WANTED LAND
NOT DOLLARS

1T wasn't that he didn't need
money. All his family owned in
Tennessee was some poor hill
acreage and he had his heart set
on some good bottom-land, but the
World War hero turned down Of
fers for endorsements and per-
scnal appearances that totaled a
quarter Of a million dollars
Last year, when Lasky started
trying to sign up the Sergeant, at
least for his life story if he would
not act, he found him just as
stubborn.
York had been a Conscientious
objector on religious grounds. and
had lost his exemption appeal case
in every. court, but American his
tory, with such mountain idols as
Dan1 Boone, finally turned him
into a fighter.
Lasky made four trips into the
Tennessee wilds, finally got the
hero's name on contract. One
of the most tedious trips was when
Lasky, with a court stenographer,
started digging out the facts of
York's early life. Friends and
kinsmen were agreeably voluble
with recent anecdotes. but when
asked about the period when York
was something of a heller, before
he joined a church, the hillsmen
stared stonly and said only, THE
Sergeant, he We're good man"
The Sergeant, now So, is a pow
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
TWO SIDES
TO THIS

What effect taxes have on savings,
consumption anu the general econ
omy must be taken into considera-
ticn and here you can start a
tight. One side argues a tax on
savings would discourage invest
ment of savings funds in new in
custries. The other argues that
since savings are now at the high
est levels a tax on savings would
Iorce this money into circulation
and thus improve business.
Up that same alley there has
been advanced as a defense measure
the idea that taxes can be used
t. control prices and prevent in
tlation If aluminium is scarce, for
example. Il tax on aluminium goods
would raise the price and force
people TO buy less expensive sub
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Thought for the Day

God be meroiful unto us and bless US and cause hls
face to shine upon us-PsalmS 67:l
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

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