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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-15
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vocal opposition 70 the bill s
Charles MeSary. n oregon.
Republican candidate for wee
president IN the last general
election. he. Ike Senator SEN
ator Bone. was supposed u have
joined the opposition but from =
different motive. Partisan Ore
gonians expected hin 70 oe
against the bill because he IS a
Republican and the measure vas
a request Of the Democrat. Pres
ident Franklin Roosevelt. who
broke a great tradition when he
vas elected for a third term.
But because he also IS big
man. Sen. MeNary refused 10
take part in a futile debate
against a measure he knew was
going to pass and which he be-
lieved was necessary TO the well
fare OF this country.
And this isn't all. The folks
who are chatting because the
aid-to-Britain virtually makes
the United States officially q
partner Of Great Britain In
the worlds greatest war
'hasen't seen nothing vet
And no matter what happens,
IL will he smart 70 make the
hest of 1t. The time has long
since passed when We might
have taken n different course.
The price has heen set and
were going tn paw.
The esteemed Post -intelligen-
Ger in an editorial pointing out
the problems of the new mayor.
includes this paragraph:
His most immediate and
gravest responsibility Is the ap-
pointment of a new chief Of
police. There is no use blinking
at the fact that. rightly or
wrongly. Seattle believes some
of its policemen are in league
with forces that control vice and
gambling.
This is an intolerable situa-
ton -. II cannot-and for that
matter should not-be remedied
by shutting down penny ante
dice games in cigar stores. Seat
tie is sufficiently realistic net 10
seek To be Sunday school
town"
In those last two sentences
will he found the reason for
the situation of which the
Post Intelligencer complains.
Bank tellers and other de-
faulters who are serving SEN
fences In the Mcneil island
and Walla Walla penitentiar-
les, did not begin by taking
large amounts. They started
on a 'penny ante" scale and
got In so deep they couldn't
get out. Gamblers are not
created by starting with the
big games. II that were the
case there would be fewer
gamblers. They start with the
penny ante.
Just like drunkards. They
start with sip, become patrons
of the social cocktail bar gradu-
ate into moderate drinkers"
and after that it's easy to
qualify for the drunkard class.
It's nice to talk about want
ing to get rid of gambling and
vice and the suspicion that the
police department may be mixed
up in It. but Seattle won't pay
the price. It wants to save the
apples In the box but doesn't
take out one that is beginning to
develop a rotten spot.
As for being Sunday school
town. II might be smart to
start something like that. II
would be novel and interesting
and exclusive, with an adver-
Using value greater than CALI
fornia's alleged climatic viz
tues.
But don't worry folks-there
won't be any Sunday school
town"-not for a while. anyway.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-15

work left unfinished by others.
II you have invented job send
the story and picture TO John
Xix, care of this paper Strange
as II Seems pays 81 for each job
inventor featured.
TOMORROW: Gem of Forget
fulness.
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Mr. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN tnls col
umn IettEfz must E1Ts uana@ and
address Of HTftaH 0uIF Initials
I'll Be published zhsn requested
Evening star., 1941-05-01

compel payment of wages to appli-
cants for employment whom the en-
ployer was never bound to hire.
Authority for SO unprecedented an
exercise of power is not lightly to
be inferred"
Administrative Absolutism.
When a great liberal like Justice
Stone chides his reactionary col
leagues 1t Is bound to awaken the
bar associations of the Nation and
the citizens generally to the dam
gerous trend in centralized govern
ment. First comes the rule of ad-
ministrative absolutism whereby
commissions and boards are given
wide powers by a submissive Con-
gress controlled by the Executive.
Then a Supreme Court packed by
the same Chief Executive issues new
doctrines of law making the ad-
ministrative absolutism of the gov
ernmental board, commission or
agency complete.
Once President Roosevelt asked
the American people in radio
speech to point out whether any
single liberty had been taken from
the citizen. He also said that new
instruments of government had been
built up under his administration
which in the hands of another
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Strikes Called Defense Bottieneck

This country not
defense for the oemocaces fighting
and in hurry. Walter Fuller president
speaking Philadelphia
the end of 1912 the United States unsurpassed
national defense Mr. Fuller head of the Curtis Publishing Co
however, that this accomplished
as they have gone on the first four months of this
the loss of 5778l6 of production This time
would have been sufficient worked soldiers
with the latest rifles
ammunition
the bottneck
minimize pro-
Where there official criticism has fallen
industry.
In practically strike that has taken place. the unions have
concessions AS in the of the bumnou coal strike
forced did elda the call patriotism
President
all citizens sacrifices
called except general way
such sacrifices it has not been noted.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
u. S. Half Measures to Fail
AiI-Out Effort to Deliver Goods to Britain Held
Essential if Hitler Is to Be Defeated

shipping within a reasonably well
patroled lane, above which regular
flights of protecting aircraft are op-
Grating back and forth between two
points: Say Iceland And Scotland,
as suggested by Maj. De Seversky.
This can be supplemented as geo
graphical and weather conditions
permit by out-and-back patrols from
the British Isles, and by bombing
attacks on the bases from which the
German planes and submarines are
operating. Both these operations are
dependent for success on an ade-
quate number of aircraft of proper
qualities for the job. Which is, in
turn, dependent to an increasing
extent on keeping the sea lanes
open for the arrival of American air
craft and supplies
The use of aircraft carriers is
possible under certain conditions
where the advantage outweighs the
very considerable risk. Smaller car
riers, conveyed from merchant YES
sells, would furnish an almost ideal
answer to the air menace, but can
not be provided in time to make
such difference this year. 1t should
be kept in mind that the real air
danger is not so much direct at
tack by aircraft as the aircraft act
ing as "eyes" for the submarines.
In the Mediterranean, carrier borne
fighters were found to be a COM
plete answer to Italian scouting
planes seeking to direct italian
bombers and submarines to British
warships. They almost always sue
ceeded in shooting down the scout
before it could direct the attacking
force to its target.
Mines From U. 5. an Answer.
Another means of dealing with
the submarine is the mining of the
harbors where it turks, or of mar
row waters through which it must
pass. This again is a matter of
industrial production-and delivery.
Only American production made
possible the great North Sea mine
barrage in the last war; only Amer
ican production will make posi-
BILE extensive and efflcient mine war
fare against the German submarines
in this war.
To sum up-what is wanted now
is not some little additional move
which helps little bit. or seems to;
what the military situation de-
mands is an outright, full speed,
national effort to deliver the goods.
Nothing less will be of any serv-
ice, nothing less will give us any
assurance of victory. We are en-
gagged in a struggle with a ruth
less. powerful and resourceful
enemy who is sparing no effort of
any sort to attain his ends. Such
an enemy cannot be defeated by
half-measures, by trying to see how
much we can hold back instead of
how much we can accomplish. Every
American, on the plain basis of
common sense, ought to be able to
agree-whether he thinks British
survival is important or not-that
we should make up our minds what
it is we want, and then take such
steps as are calculated to get it.
There is no time for further false
starts and shadow boxing. In fair
ness to the British people as well as
to our own, either we should give
our help in full measure, or stop
pretending and half-doing what we
can only hope to do with the exer-
else of all our strength. all our in
genuity and all our courage.
tCopyriRht, l94I, New York Tribune, Inc
Evening star., 1941-05-01

political party might wreak havoc
on American democracy.
The New Deal coterie of five
hand picked justices who came
from the official group of the New
Deal has now revealed how easy
it is for a Fascist type of govern
ment in America to do anything
1t wishes under the guise of con-
stitutionalism. They never had such
an intention of course, but the sf-
feet of their decisions is just the
same. For the New Deal court now
has definitely declared that what
Congress writes into a statute or
omits therefrom is secondary to
what a New Deal agency or COM
mission may say and that its power
extends to any punishment which
will in its own judgement "effectuate
the purposes of the act" A few
such words In all future laws and
democratic government as we have
known 1t will be at an end.
tReproduction Rights Reserved)
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Will DO II they MAI. u. FIELDING Eliot.
encounter Nazi raiders, nor just how
and by what means any measure
of protection is to be afforded to
merchant shipping by means of
these patrols. There seems good
reason to believe that the new situ-
alton is not greatly different from
the old neutrality patrol" which
has been in effect for months.
To begin with, we ought to re-
feet on the time factor. We are
faced, In the North Atlantic Ocean,
with a definite military problem,
limited in its solution by period of
time during which Germany must
win over the nation we are, in our
own interest, trying to help, or aban-
don hope of doing so. If Germany
cannot prevent our help getting to
Britain, eventually she will lose. II
she can do so, she will win. The
time limit within which she must
win is fixed by the rising curve Of
our war production, as modified by
our ability to get that war produce
ton into the hands of the British.
This is essentially problem whose
solution is q military one, and is
concerned with the taking of meas
ures to insure safe delivery of our
cargoes at British ports. Either we
should be prepared to help in assur-
ing such delivery, or we are wasting
our material most recklessly and
uselessly.
AI-Out Effort Necessary.
We should, therefore, make up our
minds what it Is we want. II we
want Britain to win-more, II 1t Is
so important to us that Britain
should win as to constitute a vital
national interest-then we should
do everything we can to get our war
production to the place where 1t
Is needed.
We are not doing everything we
can now. The new patrol system is
not such an all-out effort, even II
it includes instructions to shoot at
such German raiders as our patrols
NAV chance upon. Patrol, indeed,
is not the answer to the submarine.
All this was gone through in the
last war. We ought at least TO be
able to begin where that war left
off. instead of having to go back and
start all over again with the first
reader, so to speak. We paid enough
for the tuition.
The answer to the submarine, as
far as the use of surface vessels go,
is convoy-the assembling of mer-
chant ships in groups, which pro-
ceed under definite escort through
the submarine zone. Thus, as Win
ston Churchill. writes In The World
Crisis" patrol vessels and destroy
ers, instead of being dissipated on
patrol over wide areas. are concen-
trated ut the point of hostile at
tack, and opportunities Of offensive
action frequently arise"
1t may be said, that we have not
yet determined to take offensive ac-
ton. But II not, then we should
not be making this effort at all. for
only offensive action In sufficient
force to accomplish the object will
see 1t through. The British and our
selves combined have probably
enough patrol craft for an efficient
convoy system, but we certainly have
none to waste on methods, which the
experience Of 1917 showed to be all
but useless.
Air Attack Method Necessary.
Convoy does not, OF course, give
us an answer to the problem of air
attack on merchant shipping. You
cannot provide 250-knot air escort,
which can accompany 7-knot con-
voy. Here the only answer is to keep
Evening star., 1941-05-01

demand Congress for legislation deal with the situation all the
compelling
bill
send bill the
possible
by taking out the so-cald
industrial plants would
continue through the leaving shops open and closed
committee,
rule and prevailed substan
beoud what took place behind the closed
a offered that
of approved.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

lem Of the North
Atlantic sea
lanes.
We are told
t h t American
forces will pa
troll" the waters
Of the Western
H e m isphere a
thousand miles
to seaward, or
t W o thousand
miles, or even
wherever may be
necessary. B u t
we are not told
what our patrols
Evening star., 1941-05-01
SuIfaniIamide Now Used
For Rheumatic Fever
Pv the Associated Press.

Fv the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-Sulfa-
nilamide, wonder working curative
drug, is starring in new role-pre-
venting occurrences of rheumatic
fever.
The drug has no value in treating
acute stages Of the disease, but daily
doses prevent fiare-ups after the
flames" subside, the Philadelphis
Heart Association heard yesterday.
DR.. Alvin r. Coburn, assistant pro-
fessor Of medicine at Columbia Uni
versity, told Of giving sulfanilamide
to $50 children convalescing from the
dreaded disease which injuries young
hearts.
Only one had a recurrence during
three years, he said. while without
the treatment 30 to so OF the chill
dren probably would have been
stricken again.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Courage, Jersey Citoyens.

Ct am able to safeguard the lives
OF women and children. Mayor
Frank Hague of Jersey City, address,
ing a gathering of Veterans of
Foreign WarsD
Today the sun falls with greater
serenity through the bars of the
prison at Secaucus where the more
articulate of the political dissidents
Of Jersey City have so often found @
resting place. Now along Snake Hill,
that beetling mound upon the
marshes which you see from the
train window short way out from
the Penn station, the uniformed
paupers move with a firmer tread.
Down the mean streets of the Hook
and among the sweatshop rookeries
Of the water front run the glad
tidings. Ais right with our Jersey
world. Frank Hague is about TO
defend US.
Hearing the repercussions of the
overseas guns against democracy. We
had faltered for a little space.
Gnawing fears beSet us lest the
foundations of representative gov
eminent were somehow being as.
sailed. Another Jersey City election
is due in May. An / there were covert
hints that the boys had the ia votes
already in the ballot boxes and
that in jersey City, at any rate,
government of, by, and for the
people was more matter of cam.
paign oratory than election day
reality.
How could we so cruelty havs
misjudged our perennial defender?
1t took but a single speech from
His Honor to the assembled veterans
to restore to all good Jerseymen and
true that faith in our fundamental
freedom which is so essential in
times like these. Let the women
and children laboring in the fields
and factories of the Garden State
have no fear for the morrow no
matter what totahtarian powers
come against them. His Honor is
out there to safeguard their precious
lives. Let them take courage in the
thought that therell always be
Hague.
Radburn. N. J.
McALISTER COLEMAN.
Yesterdays Times had a two
column editorial called Let Us
Face the Truth" In spite of the
fact that truth-facing and fact
finding are rare qualities, you don't
find many who admit that thew
hate truth-facing. The only truth
that we have learned to face is that
too often We don't know what the
truth is. 1t happens that our pres
ent conception of the truth coin.
cides with the Times exposition:
That we are srming solely for ons
reason. I'VE are arming against
Hitler's Germany-a great predatory
power in alliance with Japan"
Not TO Add ROndO, Ark.
Sir: In re National Poetry Week,
can some one tell us why poets,
when they are feeling gregarious,
flock to, say, Peterborough, N. H,
or Middlebury, VT, when they have
such places to pick from as Verse,
Wyo.; Rimer, Pa: Sonnette, Mont;
Muse. Okla; Octave, Ariz; Bard,
Calf; Bardstown, KY: Meter and
Singers Glen. Va, and Foote Miss
Or Appolo, Pa; Oracle, Ariz., and
Prophetstown, III. Or even Clio,
Ala; Thalia, Tex, and Urania, La.
Have they never heard of the
eternal fitness OF things?
PAUL H. OEHSER.
q n y
Hitler is only So. and they say
that he never will understand Ath-
ems; that 1t always will be Greek to
him. Well, give him 2s years
Remember Cato. r. P. A.
Released By the Bell syndiestsJ
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Limit on Commodity Prices


prices commodities
limit which charge
Already has been fixed for steel Nothing whatever however
regarding ceiling Labor production
vitality production
production caught pncerke
will either bring about Government operation
trial plants
itself is patriotic Some of its leaders, however
hinghe situation
Evening star., 1941-05-01

plans from the point view really
thoroughly regmened
before 1t suc however for the needs of the Russian
attack the territory
different scale than Napoeons fully expected by MOSCOW Stain
knows that his armies will be able
like his imperial predecessors he relies distances and the lack of
supplies With the United the British Empire the
and Russia the those looking the
situation from that
domination o a was
Evening star., 1941-05-01

ana any agency
w h e n ever the
New Deal courts
say the word.
Action by Con-
gress-the law
making body--is
app arently no
longer necessary.
Even h o u 6 h
Congress d o e S
not prescribe q
specific penalty,
any government
tai agency can
think up its own
penalty and ap-
MY Il Five ills-
Evening star., 1941-05-01
Moscow Expects Germon Attack

dairy importance. But now, 1t is
more than obvious to all who are
in the know that Stain is aware
that sooner or later the Germans
will try to grab big hunks of the
Russian bear.
The U. S. s. r. is still Russia;
that is to say, happy-go-lucky
nation without any desire to con-
form itself to the tremendous effi-
Evening star., 1941-05-01

HE opinions the ,0riters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to giUe all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
The Political Mill
Special Rule to Speed Vinson Bill
Provides Club to Deal With Strikes
By GOULD LINCOLN,

providing a
handling national defense
commanding position yesterday when the House Rules Committee
substantial reported special rule consdera
of the This the longest step yet taken by members Of
national
program.
legislation dealing with the strike situation believing the
Evening star., 1941-05-01

increases in wages, to force con-
cessions In the matter of overtime
and double time, and to bring about
the CLOSED shop" Strikes have been
settled through the efforts of the
National Defense Mediation Com
mittee, but only after shutdown of
plants that have cost the workers
themselves millions of dollars and
delayed essential production for de-
fense. There are new strikes con-
Evening star., 1941-05-01

the President and through his Ma
tional Defense Mediation Committee.
They are still ready to oppose action
on the VinSon bill.
This measure, however, will lie on
the Speakers table, ready to be-
called up at any time-a club which
may readily be swung if the strike
situation increases in seriousness.
Many members of Congress feel very
strongly that something should be
Evening star., 1941-05-01
The Coming
Tower

"A Sorrows Crown Of Sorrow"
An, once the month was merry,
And life was lovely, somewhat;
But things are different, very.
For it's now the month OF Come
What.
1t seems to us that the figure
about rejection for training, com
pared with the figures for acceptant
for military service in 1917, are ia.
lible. Something like 43 per cent {
the applicants are rejected; in 19l /
and 1918 1t was about 80 per cen;
But we were wholly in that war; tn
need was considered more pressin
than it is thought to be now; an
emotion is not up to the 19i7-18l
point, when hundreds of thousand
many over draft age, volunteered
In the remote-we believe that it ]
remote-event that we are as mucl,
In this war as we were In the othe
one, watch those rejection figures 60
down.
HOW ABOUT JAMES AGATEf
SIR sir; speakins Of type. what about
Irene odoni. Hank Goudy. Charle
Baskerville and the Garsmond rife
PALM.
OF course, the newspaper H. OF r.
should include Condensed Winchell
Hearst and Post Oldstyle.
The Innings of today's clouds are
only nickel-plated at best, but the
war is responsible for one of the
Innings. For our tolerant citizens.
even those who are professionally
tolerant, have ceased being irritat-
ingly fair. Ever so many of us have
stopped thinking that maybe the
other guy is partly right, or, If
wrong, not wholly phony. AS the
only minded person left in o
prejudiced world, we think that the
President made a mistake in saying
what he thought-and what mill
lions of the rest of us think-about
former Col. Lindbergh, and we
think that Col. Lindbergh was
wrong to resign his commission, and
that the Secretary of War was
wrong to accept it.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

strikes national
see no sense in such soppages of work recently
soft which
program cuaed
not intend strikes
The coal strike apparently been settled though there
details work
serious that the President had to interfere.
Evening star., 1941-05-01
u. S. Offices
Furnishing
Power Hit
Fronkfurter Opinion
In Wagner Act Case
Held Fur-Reuchinq
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The power to send a citizen to
Jail or to subject him to heavy
financial punishment rests now with
any bureaucrat in the Government
Evening star., 1941-05-01
BY Maj. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

We are being presented. appar-
emily, with another half measure,
another palliative, another indirect
approach to the vital military prob
Evening star., 1941-05-01


the eas-Rusia.
against the
the British the Russian ruler Alexander refused enforce
waged successful defeated
of the territory.
achieved achieved
Fuehrer in days weeks
Britain mpregnab fortress
Germans will unbelievable difficulties reducing
they direct will fantastic
most military rags the feat achieved the
u. S. Still Stands in Way
Like Napoleon, Hitler is aiming the Egypt
succeed in taking both.
definitely
There is the United States which will
between 1895 1914 technical
20
have not thinking
Hitler which the
without trouble few hours arplane
had which shooting hundred sailing
the Channe But Hitler while reducing nnnema thing
yetand unlikely shorten materially military
the distance between the United States
she does not the United States
she played when
impeialisc Napoleon
possibility of establishing continental Napoleon
dreamed enforced eventually this country indusa
the
in the long will make the
dominated them this
control the laneseven If the British Isles
mission for while
Moscow Expects Germon Attack
they bear resemblance what happened the French
the last century.
Hitler they would the of the world proetarsn revolution
Evening star., 1941-05-01

Two volcanoes could be seen In
eruption at the same time recently
In Southern Chile.
Evening star., 1941-05-01

Europe WlIu Ihc COHqUeSCS OF NApO-
leon and - his fall.
The position Of the Fuehrer is
about the same as that of the French
conqueror in 1904 or 1906. Hitler
has the whole Of the old continent
in the no low of his hand-except
for Britain and Russia.
Like the Little Corporal (the
title Napoleon cherished most), the
German private number one" is
bent on the invasion and the con-
Evening star., 1941-05-01

"A Sorrows Crown Of Sorrow
An. once the month was merry.
And life was lovely, somewhat;
But things are different, very.
For it's now the month OF Come
What