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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-15
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-15

the usual spot behind Paradise
Inn and the hour o'clock.
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made NJ the transportation
desk In the Inn BY II O'Clock
SUNDAY morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-15

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Evening star., 1941-07-22
Suggests Giving c. c. c. Boys
Industrial Training in Emergency.

To the Editor of The Star:
What is to become of the Civilian Con-
servation Corps? With an expand
ing Army and a demand for help in
industry, not many boys are enrolling
Some 264 camps have been closed. Un-
less something be done about it, more
will have to go. The c. c. c. has been
well thought of by the nearby commu-
mites The boys have proven themselves
to be gentlemen. The conservation work
that has been done and that is being
done will pay dividends to the Nation
in years to come. Not only have the
forests been conserved, but also young
manhood. The youth who has been ir
the C. c. C.-because of good food,
healthy exercise and regimerted life
comes out just about physically perfect.
1t has cost millions of dollars to build
these 1,500 camps throughout The length
and breadth Of the land. 1t would be a
shame to abandon such a successful
experiment.
And yet something extra must be
offered to attract the boy who wants
to become wage Garner. Henry Ford
has young men in his factory whom he
pays to go to school part of the DAY and
the rest of the time they are in his
factory learning to become skilled work.
ers. The boys in the c. c. c.. think.
would be attracted to . program which
Evening star., 1941-07-22
The New Commissioner

In nominating Guy Mason to sue
ceed the late Melvin c. Hazen as a
member of the Board of Commits
| sioners the President made a Selec-
| ton which has been very favorably
| received by residents Of the Capital
| who have known Mr.. Mason per-
sonally.
To those who do not know him,
and their number will be large since
he has not taken an active part in
public affairs for some twenty years,
it will be gratifying to learn that he
has been a resident of the District
for almost forty years and that dur
ing this period he has followed
closely as a citizen observer the dis
cuSsions Of public issues affecting the
National Capital.
Mr. Mason, in his own language,
will take Office when confirmed by
the Senate with mo policies planned,
no commitments and no obligations.
In other words, the new Commits
Sioner will start from the beginning
That means, on its face, that he is
assuming a difficult task and a heavy
responsibility. The duties of a Dis
trict Commissioner are exceptional,
since he is in the paradoxical posi-
ton of representing the residents of
community who have no voice in
his selection, while being responsible
in fact to the Congress and to the
President. This is a circumstance
which, to say the least, adds to the
problem faced by a Commissioner,
but at the same time it offers real
opportunity for public service by a
man of ability and determination
who enters upon the task prepared
to devote to it the time and effort
that its Importance deserves.
When Mr.. Mason assumes his new
duties he will know that he has the
heartiest best wishes of the residents
Of the District, who look to him and
his associates for effective leadership
under a form OF government which
denies to them any voice in the selec-
ton Of the Congress which prescribes
the rules and regulations under
which they must live. For these
reasons, it is both natural and proper
that the residents of the Capital
should feel that the Commissioners,
serving as liaison men between a
voteleSS community and its legisla-
tive assembly, should be selected or
the basis of their ability and their
desire to promote the welfare of the
city. There is good reason to sup
pose that Mr.. Mason will prove to
be an excellent choice in both
respects.
Evening star., 1941-07-22

and drainage Improvements, road
side Identification, highway lighting,
Fairgrounds, safety sidewalks and
traffic signals. In making its selec-
ton the committee undoubtedly will
try to choose those projects which
provide the most benefit to the resi-
dents of the metropolitan area.
If the committee decides its proper
function is to build roads, it's ex-
penditures may lead other authori-
tieS-the State and county-to spend
some, too The result would be more
new roads than otherwise would be
constructed. Even If the engineers
road recommendations are not
adopted, however, they will serve
useful purpose in focusing public
attention on an important subject
and may even hasten the conStruc-
ton of needed roads through Fed
eral or State funds.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Out of Tune

Probably the greatest collection of
alibis in the country is accumulated
by the draft boards. Excuses range
from the highly ingenious to the
pitifully trivial, but experts on the
boards, most of them married and
with a good practical knowledge of
the alibi and its habits, are usually
able to handle the situation salts
factorily.
In Oklahoma the other day a
young man asked deferment on the
grounds that he was a jitterbug. He
seemed to regard it as equivalent to
drug addiction, for he claimed that
his life would be completely frus-
trated If he were unable to hear a
certain hot band in his vicinity.
Draft boards, unlike businesses, do
not use the slogan that the customer
is always right, and they were obliged
to inform him that he was off kew
and would have to report for a tun-
ing-up period.
The young man should not feel
discouraged. While it is true that
neither the bugler boy nor his
mechanized equivalent play synco-
pated hugle calls, he will have a
chance to learn a lot of new steps,
such as column right, march"
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Behring'S Discovery

So turbulent is the world, there is
no opportunity for proper celebra-
ton of the bicentenary of the finding
of Russian America by the valiant
Danish explorer Vitus Bering. Under
the patronage of Peter the Great, he
had set out to determine the relation
between the old and the new worlds"
Scientific knowledge was the purpose
Of the expedition. The natural re-
sources of the peninsula were not
appreciated. So far as colonization
was concerned, the Cars already
were possessed of more land than
they could furnish with Inhabitants
But Bering was man Of more
than ordinary vision. Born at
HorsenS in Jutland, he joined the
navy of the Muscovites as a youth
and spent the remainder of his life
altogether thirty-seven years-in
that service. The supreme enterprise
of his career began at st. Petersburg
on February 5, 1725. Proceeding by
land across Siberia to Kamchatka, he
built ships on the western edge Of the
Pacific and examined the Asiatic
coast as far as 67' N BY the autumn
of 1928 he was certain in his own
mind that there was no bridge" to
the North American Continent. His
observations he carried back to the
Empress Catherine I. She appointed
him a captain and directed him to
return to Okhotsk to prepare for
second venture in quest of passage
across the top of the globe
Local Siberian bureaucracy delayed
Behring'S final effort until 1741. On
June 4 of that year he sailed from
Petropavlovsk in the st. Peter. Nov
ing in a parallel line to the Aleutian
Islands without being aware of their
proximity, he reached volcanic isle
which he called st. Elias, July 16.
This achievement made him the
America from the east. He now was
sixty and, though he did not guess
the fact, near to his end. The
weather hindered him and on No
vember 8 his vessel was wrecked on
the island in the sea which is called
by his name. Little better than a
naked rock" the place in which he
sought safety gave him only a spot
on which to die. Perishing with
scurvy and believing his voyage a
failure, he lay upon the ground in
helpless resignation. "The sand COL
lected and drifted about him, half
burying him alive. He would not
suffer it to be removed, as it afforded
him grateful warmth" Relief did
not come to his tortured body until
December 8.
Long afterward-on March 80,
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Prince Georqes Rouds

The need for better highway en-
frances into Washington from Prince
Georges County, Maryland, is en-
phasized anew in a comprehensive
road report submitted to the County
Advisory Committee by its engineer.
The report suggests ways of utilizing
alternate routes by improving exist
ing roads and building new connec-
tions so as to relieve congestion on
the Baltimore boulevard, the Defense
highway and Central avenue. Re-
suits of traffic counts are cited to
show that roads which would form
parts of the proposed alternate
routes are not carrying their share
Of the existing highway load, while
the main thoroughfares are heavily
eongested.
The Advisory Committee is an
agency created to recommend to the
county commissioners ways of spend
ing within the county's metropolitan
area the proceeds of an 100000
general improvement bond issue. In
considering the engineers sugges-
tions the committee will find that
close cooperation with State and
county authorities is important.
Both State and county roads are in
volved and the county certainly does
not want to spend money from its
bonds for projects which the State
intends to build anyway. 1t is de-
sirable, too, that roads should be of
the same general construction, not
changing from gravel to paved sur
facing at the end of the metropolitan
district.
In addition to the engineers road
report, the committee has before 1t
requests for funds for town street
Evening star., 1941-07-22

1857, to be exact-Secretary Of State
william H. Seward purchased Rus
sia's claim for ST 100000 To him also
the United States owes the name of
its largest territorial possession
Alaska, from the Aleut word "alak'-
shak" meaning "a great country"
His contemporaries jeered at the
folly" Of the transaction at the
moment when it was announced.
Their descendants, however, recog-
nize his wisdom and, rejoicing in
their hold upon an invaluable north
western bulwark against danger in
the Orient, pay grateful tribute to his
memory. For Bering, also, there are
thanks to spare.
Evening star., 1941-07-22

would give such pragmatic and def
mite education. They, from a practical
standpoint, cannot be sent to a factory
to learn trade, but why cannot a fac
tory especially one engaged in defense
industry send foreman or instructor
to camp. At the end of six months
the boys who took his course would be
given certificates furnishing evidence of
their proficiency. These would be pass
ports to jobs and eliminate months of
painful apprenticeship. The boys would
be able to demand better wages 1t
would save industry the expense of ex-
Fermentation which is a concomitant
OF taking on green and untried employees
1t would give the c. c. c., besides its
other benefits, the allure attached to the
average trade school. The c. c. c. has
an educational program now, but 1t is
too general. This would be something
specific. Each camp in certain districts
would represent different defense prod
uct. A boy could thus select the camp
with the project which most appealed to
him.
II we cannot bring Mohammed to TIE
mountain, let us bring the mountain to
Mohammed. HUGH w. FISHER.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Quotes British Appeal
For American Help.


1t occurs to me that the thoughts of
my British correspondents during these
critical months might be of interest to
readers of The Star. These brave
Britains express with frankness how they
feel about their American cousins. They
write in part: The flower of European
manhood lies buried We do not know
how many have been lost by the British
Empire and would not be allowed to tell
II We knew, but we have lost the flower
OF our manhood. and hope to keep up our
end until you get over here
Thank God, we are better when We
are up against hard thing than when
We are doing well. We Anglo -Saxons are
never so dangerous as when we are
nearly beaten. Energy force of char
acter comes of knowledge. We ask you,
Is it not worth the while of your great
Nation, the whole of it, to make this
effort? What will you be fighting for?
VIII you not be fighting for that very
Declaration of Independence you held
for 150syears? Are you not fighting for
those very words, those magnificent
words which We so often think no one
but Britain could have written: We, the
representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, appeal
ing to the Supreme Judge of the World
for the rectitude of our intentions. do
solemnly publish and declare that these
United Colonies are, and of a right ought
to be, free and independent states
Apply those words to our war TODAY.
substitute for the words these United
States these States of France, Holland,
Belgium, Poland, Greece, Norway, Swed-
en-. ETC., and your Declaration is theirs
today. And are you not fighting the
same powers of evil as them"
ERNEST CHARLES RICK.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1oeIl.

Mostly this bird does not indulge In
such maneuvers.
These are left for the mockingbirds
and cardinals, and some times the little
wrens. The latter is one of the most
daring of birds, when protecting its
nestlngs. Despite its size, 1t will tackle
anything.
Sometimes catbird will take possess
sion of a porch, and defy all comers, in
cluding the owners.
In small towns persons who like birds
have been known to give up the use OF
a porch, when a nest was in the vine
on it.
And nobody as far as we ever heard,
got nervous prostration out of 1t.
We do not believe that q cat can be
given nervous breakdown by prevent
ing it from catching birds.
The animal probably has some obscure
disease, such as kidney trouble, which
makes it thin and nervous for time
Many cats get thin in the summer,
anyway.
Now that Chessie has been taught his
lesson in regard to birds, he should be
allowed to resume his prowling in the
woods.
1t is not likely, after the catbird's
| lessons, that he will modest them But
he will get good wholesome cat sport out
OF catching snakes land other small
deer" as Shakespeare insisted on phras-
ing it.
Cats, as humans, are subject to many
diseases, some of which show their first
effects as great nervousness.
Years ago, when we had Jack Spratt,
the first sign of the mslady which car
| ried him away in two years, was an
extreme nervous condition, which made
him jump at the slightest sound.
The cat was in such a state that the
slightest crinkling of newspaper made
him jump so that it was most unpleas-
ant to watch him.
That was the time he took to living on
the dining room table. with the result
that the family gave up the use of 1t for
many days, eating around in chairs. as at
party.
7 iiiC ilCIl OSlS 4lIUuCtu III Dig tprOO-
ably guinea by the professors was the
/ result of a constant and never-ending
! series OF physical battles which the
animal could not overcome Just what
such experiments are supposed to show
is difficult to determine, despite the
| scientific language used. We believe
that cruelty is cruelty, whether scien-
tific or blitzkrieg.
Cats. as animals. fall into two classes
| professional bird killers and occasions,
Killers. Probably not one cat in a hun.
ored belongs to the former class. despite
popular impression to the contrary.
Most cats have real contempt for
BIRDS. They honestly do not think them
worthwhile, as game, in which belief
/ they differ from man, who has exter-
minated the millions upon millions OF
/ passenger pigeons and now is in the pro-
cess OF exterminating the turtle doves
| The red herring of the cat killing of
blros cannot obscure the fact that man
Is at once the greatest enemy of bird life
ana at the same time he is its greatest
friend, just as he is both his own worst
enemy-as witness what is going on in
the World-and yet his own best friend
! AT least he could be, if he weren't a fool.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
"HYATTSVILLE, Md.

Dear Sir:
Here is a man -bites-dog' story of a
cat and a catbird.
The other day the cat and the bird
few around the corner of the house, the
bird just above the cats head and
squawking loudly.
II clapped my hands and yelled
'Chessie, let that bird alone But was
mistaken. The cat was not pursuing
the bird: the bird was chasing the cat
And this scene is repeated every time
the cat ventures out of the house.
Now Chessie is not a puny little
kitten but the 12-pound descendant OF
long line of alley cats and this bird
has him absolutely buf1aloed.
Last night Chessie crept cautiously
out the back door. The bird appeared
from nowhere and swooped down on him.
hurting invectives.
The cat retired with haste and little
dignity under the back porch. But the
| cocky little catbird wasn't satisfied with
| routing his enemy.
He strutted up and down trailing his
wings and shrieking, within a foot or
two of the poor bewildered covering cat
When I stepped out on the porch and
told the bird to go away and stop worry
ing the cat, he merely few to a tree a
| few feet away and sat there swearing
at me-
Later he brought his girl friend and
strutted his stuff in front of her, which
I thought was going too far.
Perhaps I am to blame for Chessie's
confusion. This spring I petted and
praised him every time he caught mole
but scolded and smacked him if he so
much as looked at bird.
%+*
Now he regards me with a puzzled
and hurt expression He has two wounds
on his shoulder which I hope he. got in
an honorable midnight brawl with an
other tomcat, but they could have been
caused by a birds sharp beak
"Chessie is getting thin and listless anc
the veterinarians pink pills don't seem
! to help. Do you suppose he is on the
verge OF a nervous breakdown? I re-
member that some Yale professors few
! years back induced a neurosis in a pia
| by thwarting its natural instincts anc
presenting it with battling problems.
"Chessie isn't much of cat. in my
husbands opinion. I am the only human
being whose existence the cat acknow.
ledges, which flatters my ego and make!
| me fond of the animal Have YOU an,
solution of the problem? Up to this tim,
he has ranged the woods around tn,
| house, killing snakes, rabbits and mole.
and bringing them proudly home, anc
battling with everything else that ven.
lures on the place, including dogs seyera
| times his size. But now he skulks under
the bed, dull and languid. all because h.
is gentleman who has been taught
not to hurt the pretty little birds anc
nasty catbird is taking advantage O.
| this and making him seem a coward
Sincerely yours, M. L. P.
|
| AS soon as the catbird's babies havt
grown up, the bird will stop worrying the
| cat.
| 1t is only a rare catbird, every now
and then, which takes to flying al
animals at nesting time.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Gardeners

No,U NTH frefieS is ahoht
My larpn and garden In the night,
And I behold, as n,ortals may,
My day fade into yesterday.
Its hedoe-shears clasped ,ctthtr my
hand
1t is not quite the thing I planned,
This day that fotDered from the
ddtUn
No, there are weeds upon its ld,Dn,
And many toorn of slot0 regret
ReproacheS me tonight, and yet,
There is a scent Of fotUerS nop,
And frefteS dance-I knotU somehow
There lipes beyond this hedge of sky
A better Gardener than I.
GEORGE GREENWAY.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
The Issue Is Clear

The President, in urging Congress
10 extend the time of service Of all
men now under arms, has laid his
cards on the table.
In terms which permit of no dis
pute, he showed how the Army Of
the United States will disintegrate
If it becomes necessary to demopilize
two-thirdS of its men and three
fourths of its officers this fall. He
asserted, and he is obviously correct,
that it would be a year before the
Army again could reach an effective
strength of 100000 men.
Alluding again to the external
danger threatening this hemisphere,
the President reviewed the history
of Nazi aggression and concluded
that the danger today is greater
infinitely greater-than when the
Selective Service Act was passed
almost year ago. Surely there will
be little disposition in Congress
which soon will have voted for the
SGdSsSI lIls OOIoL VI 9OZ,OOO,OOO,UOO 1Ol
defense, and which even now is pre-
pairing to pass a bill authorizing the
seizure Of private property, to deny
that the danger exists.
The President also touched on our
obligations to the other nations of
this hemisphere, and the fulfillment
Of these obligations is vital-to them
and to us. There is no use blinking
the fact that of necessity our neigh
bors look to this country for defense.
If we proceed to destroy our capacity
to defend the Western Hemisphere
by Wrecking our Army now, the
Latin American states will have no
choice in event of threatened aggres-
sion but to make the best peace they
can with Hitler.
Finally, the President took up the
so-called breach of contract" issue
This contention, born Of desperation,
that We are bound by honor and
contract to discharge two-thirds of
the Army at the end of year has
no foundation in fact In passing
the Selective Service Act, Congress,
as the President pointed out, pro-
vided definitely that if national
danger later existed, the one-year
period of training could be extended
by action of Congress-" That being
the fact, and it is a fact, the only
questions are whether Congress will
acknowledge specifically the exist
ence of an emergency which it has
freely conceded by implication, and
whether that will be done without
unnecessary delay.
1t is almost incredible that there
should be any serious disposition to
resist the taking of a step which
obviously is so essential to the ma
tional security. And Congress, If
there is to be a prolonged delay, will
have to assume full responsibility
for the consequences.
AS the President expressed it, time
counts. 1t is a vitally important
factor Within two months, should
Congress fail to act, the Army of the
United States will start to melt away,
and in short time we will be left
without means of self-defense. That
Is fact which has been made crystal
clear, and those who would gamble
with the Nations security-should
they have their way-wilI be held to
strict accountability by the American
people should national disaster be
the fruit of their efforts.