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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-10
PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
CHRIST OR MARS?

Editor The Times: Let no
man interpret the Scriptures
with ubiquitous purpose.
81 am the Lord thy God: thou
shalt not have strange Gods be-
fore Me-Thou shalt not make
to theyself a craven thing. I am
the Lord Thy God, mighty
jealous, visiting the iniquity of
fathers upon their children unto
the third and fourth generation
OF those that hate Me; and
showing mercy unto those that
love Me and keep Ny command
ments."
Thou Shalt Not XIII
BLESSED are the peacemakers:
For they shall be called the
Children of God"
Does any man dare TO deny
these precepts?
JACK KERWIN, JR.,
r. 3, Box 2es. Puyallup.
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Stories in
Stamps
fother Leaves George VI
Famous Stamp Collection
. q q o . o Q o Q q Q D

fother Leaves George VI
Famous Stomp Collection
7 IKE President Roosevelt, King
- George VI Of England is a
philatelisi. His father left him one
OF the finest stamp collections IN
the world, and he has maintained
IL ever since his death.
Canada, as q part Of the British
Commonwealth Of Nations, shares
the mother country's fierce devo-
ton TO its king. This was clearly
shown by the enthusiastic recep-
ton given 10 King George and
Queen Elizabeth on their 1889
visit 10 the dominion.
The 1897 portrait stamp above.
was one OF the British empires
coronation series.
George VI. third OF the House
Of Windsor. was born Dec. "a,
1898. son Of the late George V ard
Queen Mary. He succeeded TO tsS-
throne Dec. 10. 1895. after his
brother, Edward VII, sbdicsted
70 marry Mrs. Wallis Wsrfeld
Simpson. an American.
The king Is as conservative N
dress IS Edward was daring.
Along with philstsly. his hobbies
are gardening. ternls- so1 and
esKtnz
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the controversy over freedom
of religion" in the Soviet. Keen
~ conscious of the Importance
OF this dispute in affecting pow
erful u. S. sentiment, F. d. r.
has sought advice from some of
the smartest men in the sects
involved.
They are urging him TO re-
verse his field. Instead Of de-
Tending his original statement
that there exists freedom of
worship in Russia, they want
him to take the offensive. They
have counseled that he use his
good offices TO persuade Stain
TO show greater hberality
toward religionists. Under this
plan the president would emerge
as the champion who killed
atheism and anti-religious phi
losophy in the Soviet. This
would require cooperation from
Stain The first step was
F. d. RS press conference state
ment Friday that he has in
structed W. Averell Hartman
and Ambassador Steinhardt to
talk the matter over with the
Red dictator.
The affair comes at a par
ticularly inopportune moment
for the administration and for
England. Washington has en-
tertained hopes that powerful
religious influences. especially
the Catholic church. could be
won over to the idea Of herald
ing the snti-Hitler movement as
a holy crusade" There seems
slight chance that the Vatican
can be enlisted in the enterprise,
in view OF its historic policy.
But some of F. D. RS aides
were opumists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-10
AN EMPLOYE OF THE
METROPOLITAN PARKS.
CHILDHOOD TRAGEDY

Editor, The Times: The Good
Book ssys: Children will suffer
for their parents sin" and that
brings to mind q tragic court
house scene where a child was
torn from parent to parent as
she cried bewilderedly. Il want
10 20 10 Daddy" The mother
kept the child. Busy with her
career as torch-singer. she placed
her in a home pending the out
come Of the custody battle.
There, refusing TO eat, crying
for her daddy. this hapless child
finally passed away. Medical
men said she died OF "a nervous
disorder" They should have
said she died OF "a broken
heart"
Standing over the child's
grave. the parents still refused
TO look az each other. And so
there viii always be hatred and
war. for ve can never learn, not
even through the sacrifice Of q
Christ or a little child.
We shall always have these
things-tne bombing Of q city.
the death Of a child, hatred and
greed. God himself tired 10
teach US and seems 10 have
failed SEVERN HERNESS,
TAPS So. G 81.
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When Washington ordere
weapons from manufacturers in
the early days of the conflict,
the latter went into the market
and gobbled up the necessary
metals, chemicals, rubber, etc.
They built up tremendous stock
piles on the mere showing of
their official contracts, at a
time when existing scarcities
were not anticipated. But the
war department, on the basis
OF new information from our
observers in Europe and else
where, ordered numerous changes
in design. In some instances,
particularly with respe TO
planes and tanks. the modifica-
lions required complete recon-
struction Of weapons already in
the works.
Often the raw material had
been processed to fiji the origi-
nal order. and could not be
adapted TO a. revised design. 1t
became SO much waste. In other
cases the material had been
placed in stock. but could not
be used pending a study of pro-
posed alterations. That explains
why factories not yet in large
scale production have supplies
of stuff badly needed elsewhere.
No fault attaches TO the milf
tary planners. The confusion is
an inevitable concomitant Of
overnight advances in the sci
ence OF modern warfare.
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AMERICA MOVES
SANELY ON

Editor The Times: An always
interesting and very earnest
contributor 10 the columns Of
this paper indicated recently
that the socialists. with deep
and unique profundity are look
ing forward for fifty years or
so when a new social. political
and economic order will be es-
tablished in our country in ac-
cordance with their desires.
Maybe so.
In the eighteen-eighties. not
to go any further back. the an
archist movement was exceed
ingly noisome in this good
democratic United States. and
we were to have new order"
all fixed up for us which was TO
be just what the doctor pre-
scribed. Well, after consider
able haranguing and dire proph-
ecying and good deal of dis
turbanee and a hay market riot
with innocent people killed and
a legal hanging bee, Emma
Goldman and her group and the
predictions and promises Of the
anarchists were forgotten.
Democratic America moved on
as before.
In the nineties. gay or other
wise. the great Populist move
ment which was one thing in
the South and something else in
the North. hloomed profusely
and promised without reverse,
only 10 finally .wither and die
and be forgotten.
Late in the eighteen-nineties
very distinguished legal light
and reformer OF the country de-
elarec. al q mass meeting in
New York, that unless our gov
eminent policies were radically
changed three per cent Of the
citizens OF the country would
own its entire wealth within
ten 20 twenty years. But demo
cratic America moved on and
forward as before and the Dire
ful predictions missed the mark
by about a million miles.
IN the early nineteen hun
dreds. the doctrine Of Socialism.
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PRAISES PARK BOARD

Editor. The Times: l am not
an educated man, but I am
man who appreciates the things
that have been done for me.
I had job which paid SIS a
month with the WPA. l work.
ed in the Tacoma parks. For
my ability as a worker, or for
some reason, I was offered a job
in the park system by one Of
the commissioners, paying 81 a
day. In a years time I was
jumped to SIPS a month and
now the park commissioners are
giving all the park employees a
raise of Is per cent or more on
Jan. /.
/ have never worked for any
one who has treated me more
kindly than l am being treated
now.
At least one-hslf of the park
employees who are now working
in the system like myself have
been on relief or have worked
on the WPA. Practically every
mechanic now working for the
park system was employed as a
day laborer at 81 a day. Now
they receive between $50 and
$3.50 a month, with two weeks
vacation with full pay.
That is the reason for this let
ter. l am grateful and l am
sure each employe feels the
same and each Of us know that
the park commissioners are do
ing their best TO pay wages as
high as can be paid with the
money paid in. in taxes.
I want to support my family
the way any American citizen
should support his family and
thanks 10 the Metropolitan park
commissioners can now do
that.
AN EMPLOYE OF THE
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whatever that may mean,
gathered some momentum under
Eugene Debs and others. IN
nineteen-~venteen and eighteen
an outstanding member OF the
organized Socialist movement
declared repeatedly, we are
making such Roadway that by
the time of another presidential
election or at most the second
there will be no Democratic or
Republican candidates. Social
ism will sweep the country. The
Socialists apparently believed
this. too, but democratic Amer
lea has moved on just as be-
fore.
Meanwhile the produced re-
serve wealth Of the country has
trebled. the wages OF workers
have practically quadrupled, the
aged are at least moderately
pensioned, day laborers for the
most part ride to their work in
their own automobiles. as why
not? We have practically as
many automobiles and tele-
phones and radios and other
modern luxuries as all of the
rest Of the world put together.
If we leave England out of con-
sideration. England, incidental
ly, is another more or less demo-
cratic nation. Oh, it is awful,
but democratic America moves
on as before.
ROBERT S. DOUBLEDAY.
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TTrITT An Inside Picture of Finon-
Ll0a ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-Frequent and wholesale revision in
army bueprnts for planes tanks and big has con-
trbued to the shortage of materials for both civilian
and national defense production. 0PMs preliminary sur
veys of inventories place great deal of responsibility on
the war departments doorstep.
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~. -
EJIIl0I19j
C|2.EllzCNlE;3

Christmas and ths year vas
1915 that the L. $. navy tugs
Patapsco and PatuNent took the
pair Of vindjammers 10 their
perilous Jobs The Red Rose and
the Red Fern wee dressed
especially for the occasion: Al
metal fsstenings. fittings and
hardware had been insulated
with a thick coat OF tar IN def-
erence to magnetic mines.
The little sailboats spread
their wings, let go their tow
lines and commenced their first
sweep in the teeth Of . bitter
gale.
The fifth mine swept up ex-
ploded close aboard the Red
Rose, lifted her clear Of tho
water and opened her seams.
She pumped constantly there.
after as she continued TO sweep.
BY the time the two sailboats
had swept across the mine fields
a half-dozen times-with mines
booming too close for peace and
with monotonous regularity
the winters gale had become so
stiff the windjammers couldn't
continue their work and neither
could the tugs lay 10 close
enough TO pass a tow line.
Wallowing in the wracking
seaway. the 10-inch main top
mast Of the Red Rose carried
away at the crosstrees. A sea-
man volunteered to clear the
dangerous wreckage. and did.
Such was the weather and cir
cumstance that the two gallant
saiIboats were written off the
navy's books ~ lost. There was
an officer and nine seamen
aboard each ship.
However, ais well that ends
well-and several DAYS later the
two battered little ships arrived
in different seaports of Scot
lands coast.
That all happened some 20
years ago. The incident involv-
ing the only sailing vessels do
ing service during World War I
as part Of the American fleet
has been forgotten by almost
everybody. But not quite. You
see, Just the other day the Sec
rotary of Navy conferred the
Victory Medal with Minesweep-
ing Clasp upon all hands who
served then aboard the Red
Rose and the Red Fern.
BALLAST DEPT.
Those of you who didn't have
a chance to visit the American
Sailor may rightfully look
forward to the treat upon later
date the skipper did coast
guard duty on Puget Sound for
years told US he certainly
intends to bring the big train
ingship here again soon :. And
speaking of the American Sailor
=. how do you suppose it hap
pened that she didn't have any
rat guards in sight offhand
we can think of several reasons
tin collars should have appeared
on her mooring lines And
furthermore while mentioning
the American Sailor Byron
Turner. onetime a seagoing gent
who swallowed the anchor to be-
come an auto electrician on the
beach here tells us he made
the maiden voyage in that ship
:. ~ years ago A new
radiobeaeon viii be established
at Willapa Harbor on Oct. 20
along with a new light Per-
haps you noted it elsewhere :.
but a tugboat named Herbert
Hoover assisted the tugboat
Franklin ID. Roosevelt out of diff
ficulty the other day on the Mis-
sissippi it's sure a small
world, Ell? We hear that
the boys who are going in for
a little dogfishing hereabout 4.
are finding it a right nice thing
these days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-10

SMALL CHEESE MAKERS
VICTIMS OF SQUEEZE

England's demand for L. s.
cheese has resulted in mixup
which is critical for the small,
independent dairy professors OF
the Middle West. Their plight
il comparable TO the little fell
lows" in industry who have been
unable 10 wangls orders from
national defense agencies or
prime contractors.
Lease-lend administrators have
placed vast orders for cheese on
behalf Of Britain. No butter is
being shipped abroad because OF
general lack OF refrigersting
equipment on cargo ships. The
emphasis is on goods which be-
come more nutritious with age.
The big dairy professors sppar-
emily fOresaw such n possibility
early in the game, and bought
up machinery and products es-
sentisl 10 the manufacture OF
what England needs. The small
er companies are suffering from
the squeeze They find II
almost impossible 10 obtain pm
ority ratings for the equipment
they require.
Farm representatives at Wash
ington are holding Indignation
meetings all over the lot They
have laid their complaints be-
fore Agriculture. but official. in
that agency sppesr helpless.
They have no more drag with
OPM than do individual process
sors. But the situation has made
for bad feeling in areas already
non-interventionist in sentiment
RELIGIOUS ISSUE
President Roosevelts pohuco-
religious advisers figure that he
-
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We don't get around as
much IS We once did in our
rooster DAYS. so that prob
ably accounts for the fact
we just now learned that
the United States navy had
two sailing vessels actually
participating in World
War l.
Tire two doughty little ships
were the Red Rose and the Red
Fern. and they were wooden
keteh-rigged fishbosts charter
ed from Britishers but manned
by American bluejackets.
They were mustered INTO our
navy at the end Of the war for
the sole purpose Of sweeping the
great mine fields laid down in
the North Sea by our warships.
Il was three days before
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HORSE JUMPS GUN

Wien, on July :, 1906, the
horse George s. Davis ran away
for five furlongs before the race
started. the stewards could have
ruled that he was a non-starter,
and all wagers would have been
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-10
ToDAY,s COMMON ERROR

Never use the present tense
in telling Of a past event; az
She said mot ssys) 70 me,
don't love yos Anymore
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GOVERNMENT DEBT

So far the collector OF inter-
nal revenue has not figured out
a way TO pay Clara Phillips the
six mills change owed her. Miss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-10

II you hear such twid) rumor. say to the person
who tells you Would you be willing put that in
writing so check it?-Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, Amer
lean Red Cross
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its sentiment by shelving the
proceedings. One prominent
member remarked that Down
in my state what the govern
rsnt has done 10 known a.
eonpoanclng . felony
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-10

Your postmaster can tell you
how 10 invest In U. s. Defense
BondA
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Phillips. who says she wishes
her income tax would be as
small this year paid a lawyer
to make out her return. His
fee was considerably larger than
the tax
Tomorrow: Starvation Year
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RELIGIOUS ISSUE

President Roosevelt's pohuco-
religious advisers figure that re
can stiu come out On top IN
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To receive attention n fhis cof-
u=nn aettsrs must Sc usne and
sddrekE q zTitfr Only Initials
81 - published when <uesfed
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r. 3, Box 2ss, Puyallup.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

which might endanger the publ
welfare ano honor of Germany.
Eldred D. Kuppinger. acting as
sistant chief of the Division of Con-
trolls of the State Department. which
supervises the law under which Nj
Auhagen is being prosecuted. ex-
planned its operation and said Mr.
Auhagen failed to register as re-
quired.
Contends He Wasn't Asked.
Defense Counsel Alfred S Holmes.
oss-examining Mr.. Kuppinger
contended the State Department did
not asS Mr.. Auhagen to register,
although he had corresponded with
it. Mr.. MCNulty objected TO the
defense attorney arguing the law
with the witness and Judge Briggle
sustained the objection, saying the
court will instruct the jury on
the law Of the case.
A State Department registration
form and supplemental form relat-
ing TO alien registrations were in
troduced in evidence by Mr.. Holme=.
Mr.. McNulty asked Mr.. KupplnCe~
if a similar form was sent 10 Nj"
Auhagen and he answered that /.
was.
The defense planned TO open i
case possibly tomorrow.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

uniformed force, Sergt. McCarty de-
clared:
Yes, but not under present con-
dltlonS and circumstances"
1t. Barrett was called to the wit
ness stand just before the subcom-
mittee adjourned for the day and
submitted at the request of Acting
Chairman Hebert list showing that
officers attached TO the Sd precinct
had been assigned to l.l36 private
functions between January l and
June Is this year. Five hundred and
eighty-tWo of these functions occur
red in his own precinct. he said. and
the remainder in others. The func-
tions included private social affairs
concerts, ice hockey games and
basket ball games.
The subcommittee will resume the
investigation at 10 am. tomorrow
Called as the principal witnesses
are Acting Capt. George Little in
command of the Fugitive Squad
Detective Sergt. Joseph Shimon
who is assigned to the Office OF
Edward Curran, United States at
torney for the District, and Capt
Harvey G.. Callahan of the First
Precinct, who on his first appear
ance before the subcommittee last
week made the startling disclosure
of the existence of an alleged
"Gestapo" in the department which
spies on other officers.
The reason for the recall of Capt.
Callahan was not revealed.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Lawes Will Retire
After Il Years as
Sing Sing Warden
Noted Prison Official
Plans to Write
And Lecture
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y, July 7.-On a
bleak winter day 81 years ago an
automobile bearing a grim -visaged
passenger drove through the grounds
of great cluster of gray buildings
on the Hudson River.
1t was the Christmas season and
although New Years Eve was near,
the man in the car was far from
gay.
He was Lewis E. LaWes and the
scene was Sing Sing Prison, where
he was about to become the new
warden.
His misSion-to tame the riotous
priSon-Was a tough one. but the tall
husky warden fulfilled it, Now, at
81, he is retiring.
Behind him is a record of 36
years of service in New York State
penal institutions and 81 years at
Sing Sing; ahead of him writing.
lecturing and many causes which
have long interested me-"
nc SuUilllltCu ilIS icSlslldJlOll
Thursday to John A. Lyons, State
commissioner of correction, asking
that his retirement become effec-
tive July Is, when he will be eligible
for a pension of $4,000 a year.
In his tenure, he has been re-
sponsible for 36,750 prisoners, but
only two violent escapes occurred
He credits this success to an
iron-hand-i a-velvet-glove policy:
Il have always attempted to steer
a straight course. avoiding coddling
on the one hand and brutality on
the other"
Despite arduous duties requiring
his virtual 24-hour seven-day week
ly attendance at the 126-year- -old
prison, Mr.. Lawes found time to
write many books and articles on
prison life and to give technical
advice for motion pictures dealing
with penal institutions.
Sing Sing is noted best for hous-
ing the State death chamber and
here, each time prisoner was cleo
trocuted, lay Mr.. Lawes' greatest
trial.
He was a bitter foe of capital
punishment. but was forced to Of
flciate at 303 executions. These he
arranged with heavy heart and al
ways turned his head at the mo-
ment the switch was thrown.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Effort Made al Trial
To Link Auhagen TO
Goebbe|s Office
Government Witness
Stotus Greater Than
That Of Editor, Says

An attempt TO link Friedrich
Ernest Auhagen. on trial as Ger
man agent. directly with the Nazi
Ministry of Propaganda il Berlin
was made by the Government to-
day in District Court.
The defendant is charged with
failing to register with the State
Department as agent of a foreign
principal and the prosecution, head
ed by George McNulty. special as
sistant to the Attorney General.
sought to show from Mr. Auhagen' s
passport in 1888, on which the Ger
man consul-general in New York
had made a notation. that he en-
joyed special status under the or
ganiZation of DR.. Joseph Goebbels,
German propaganda minister.
DR.. Robert M. w. Kempner of
the Institute for State and Local
Government of the University of
Pennsylvania former legal official
in Berlin and a specialist on Ger
man laW-testifled for the Govern
ment that Mr.. Auhagen had a
status greater than that of an
editor, because the Propaganda
Ministry determines who is quail
fed to be a leader of public opinion
Reads German Provisions.
DR. Kempner read TO Federal
Judge Charles G. Briggle of the
Southern District of Illinois. here
on temporary duty in Criminal
Court No. 2, and the jury, the
provisions of the German law. which
he said DR.. Goebbels promulgated
whereby a person holding a po-
sition such as Mr.. Auhagen held
must be German citizen, an Aryan
must have the ability TO influence
public opinion >and be enrolled in
an official catalogue.
According to the Government
testimony, Mr.. Auhagen was con-
nected with the Propaganda Minis
try and the Reich Press Chamber
and that under the law, he was not
permitted to publish certain infor-
nation in the press and he was
bound to withhold information
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Weather Report

Bureau
District OF Coumba-Mosty occasional
showers this afternoon tonight tonight p
tomorrow considerable cloudness with local
thundershoWers afternoon
VIgnaMoSty
tonght tomorrow generally
showers afternoon
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cloudness
and local afternoon
warmer tomorrow, cooler Wednesday,
West VgnaMosy cloudy with local hunderstorms
tonight
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Clear Weather Expected
To Return Wednesday

Occasional showers probably VII
continue for another day or two. tfo
Weather Bureau said today. Tho
precipitation here for the month IS
already 2l4 inches above normal It
has rained every day for the past
six days.
The bureau predicted rain tonight.
warm weather tomorrow morning
and a thunder shower in the after
noon. A gradual tapering off of the
rain is expected tomorrow night or
Wednesday.
The total rainfall for the month
up to am today was 297 inches.
with the normal only .83. However,
the city is still 43l inches below
normal for the period beginning
January l because of the drought
during the spring.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
II. Barrett Accuses
Chief Of Detectives
OF 'Favoritism'
Police Investigators
Also Told How Spies
Have Humpered Work

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