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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-31
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Pile Is on Fire

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reaching the bass Il ne blaze.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-31
Jap Forces
Stalled for
Time Being
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON Secretary
Of the Navy Frank knox sald
today that the Japanese feet
has retired from IN scene In
the Soiomons and that the
first round" Of the Soicmons
battle II over.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
. q ur Opinion So
. LET'S Not Sci The World on Fire

The National Board Of Fire Under
writers reports fire losses in the United
States during January and February totaled
S66. 3Ss 900. or 26 per cent more than IN
1871 for the same period. II that doesn't
make you burn. maybe this will; The waste
Of that smoke and flame represents enough
to outfit almost 800 900 soldiers, or build
1900 fighter planes. and what We couldn't
do with 500 fighter planes in the Philip
pines or Australia now.
Some of the increases in fires can be
attributed to increased production The
more men working and the more plants
producing the greater the chance for fire.
but all of US must be more careful about
tossing matches and cigarets aside. Let's
have lots of smoke and fire and spark, but
shoot them at the enemy, not at our own
stockples.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
. TEST QUESTIONS

Can You answer seven Of these
test questions Turn to page
seven for the answers 80
1. Egypt IL an ally Of Great
Britain or the Axis powers
Z. As Commander-in-Chief of
the Army and Navy. has any
President worn a military uni
FORM
3. Name the river tina. floats
for i,76a miles through Alaska.
4. What organization Of men
was called The Invisible En-
pire" in this country
5. Yosemite Falls is In Colo
RADIO. Wyoming or California
9. Drowning persons always
rise three times before sinking;
true or false
I. How many days comprises
= fortnight!
9. Which island Is known as
Queen of the Antilles ?"
3. The Canterbury Tales were
written by Mark Twain. Godfrey
Chaucer or Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow.
10 Name three common pois-
BUSINESS snakes found throughout
the United States.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
. Get Ready

You are going TO do lot more toward
winning this war than you are doing right
now. II you do it with a smile, so much
the better. But you are going to do it
and how.
Things you have't even thought about
are going to happen to you. You doubt
that? Well, just look back year ago or
even less. Suppose someone had forecast
that today you'd have no cuffs on your
pants. that you'd turn in an old tooth paste
tube before you could get new one, or ride
bicycle instead of an auto-if you have
bicycle.
You would have laughed and gone on
listening to that radio commentator tell
ing you the Japs would be soft touch for
US big rich Americans
Get ready brothers and sisters. there1l
be some changes made before you win this
war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11

The states congressional delega-
ton, together with those of Oregon
and other western states is making
vigorous fight in congress to get
more cash for forest fire protection
this summer. Congressman John NJ.
Coffee, who has been deluged with
requests for action, says the group
is doing everything possible 10 re-
store appropriations that have been
cut to the silly point as far as money
for forest protection is concerned.
An economy bloc in congress
sharpened its axe on "non-defense'
expenditures and slashed five mil
lion appropriation for timber fire
protection to a paltry two million.
They rejected pleas of government
officials, state executives, the lum-
Der industry, and the budget bureau
for restitution of the original
amount.
Even the five million is far too
scanty sum TO adequately protect
our huge timber stands from fire
and foreign foe this year. East
erners seem to forget that the Pacific
Coast is theater of war operations;
that now more than ever it is a criti-
cal situation as far as threatened
sabotage is concerned. They forget
that getting out the raw timber is as
vital to defense as are metals.
Northwest solons want at least 10
millions to cope with the problem.
To protect our forests is a first
line of defense. To skimp the funds
is to cut off our nose to spite our
face. Shielding our forests from fire
isn't "non-defense"; it is defense of
the first caliber. 1t is to be hoped
our solons can convince their col
leagues of the need for the desired
funds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
He Knows or Finds
The Answers

available. When there are men
wanted in the Psnsms canal
zone or elsewhere on United
States war projects away from
home. the U. S. Employment
Service knows about them.
Your registration with that
office will take care Of you. Our
advice would be 10 look for
war job nearer home.
Mr.. Fixit: When my daughter
was married. In applying for her
license. she gave her right name,
but gave a wrong address and
also her wrong age. She was
over 81 years of age when she
applied for the marriage license.
Would these false statements af-
feet the validity Of her mar
riages Could I have the mar
rage annulled: MRS. Y. r.
Even il she had given the
wrong name. too, false state
ments of that nature wouldn't
affect the marriage. A person
might be accused of perjury for
false swearing on the spplics-
ton, but still would bs married
unless one Of the parties obtain
% an annulment on grounds like
fraud or coersion.
Mr.. Fixit: To settle an argu-
ment, will you please tell us
how high the price Of sugar went
In World War No. IL Also, WAS
II rstioned everywhere In the
L. =. A READER.
In 1917 wholesale prices OF
sugar were as high as $500 per
100 pounds and IN 1918. after
the food administration began
rationing sugar throughout the
country and made block pur-
ehases Of the entire Cuban crop.
the price was around s7.45. That
would make the retail price 10
cents a pound and higher. II
was sold at times nv hslf-pound
lots.
Mr.. Finit: Can you tell IN.
what would take out o-Cedar
nil STAIN n 10 On sheet, and
pillouossss and . house dre~s.
MRS. 8. n.
A commercial cleaning SOL
vent Or alcohol. or ore after
N. other. should work Use
clear. white hlotting paper under
III. stained spot vhen cleaning
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
. HOROSCOPE
SATURDAY, APRIL II

After the morning hours hene-
nc aspects rule today. There are
adverse planetary influences
which may cause misunderstand-
ings among labor unions.
Heart and Home: Women are
under a most fortunate rule of
the stars while this configration
prevails. II is a time TO test
ones fate in a cherished Ambi-
ton. Persons who represent
destiny are likely TO be helpful
to those who seek employment.
Romance in which girls attract
men IN high positions is believed
TO be prevalent under this sway.
Business Affairs. According to
the seers the war is TO demon
sfrate that business has produced
the strongest American men.
Merchants and manufacturers
will prove 20 be more efficient
in time OF peril than many men
trained for war. In this Arma-
geddon. directors Of industry are
u contribute even more than GER
tain army officers. while owners
~ merchantmen will become az
important as naval commanders.
National Issues: The question
~ where IS the right place 10 end
the American policy ~ kindi-
ness toward foes as wen rs
friends will be bitterly discussed
as evidence OF fifth column &C
Invites accumulstes. The fact
that the United States Is actually
in the war viii be slowly real
ized OF al least tsrdily acted on.
The time 70 be sternly hostile 20
. enemies o. every class mas az
rived and may be ignored IN Ger
tain places
Persons whose birthdste IL Is
have the augury Of a year Of
activity that brings success
Benefits and pleasant surprises
pre- foretold.
Children born on this day prob
ably viii % ambitious ss well
as brilliant IN intellect. Great
successes in which there may be
reversais are indicated for boys
and girls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
. Mr.. Fixit

Mr.. Fixit: Men have got de-
Tense jobs In all parts of the
L. - Lots of men have got iohs
On naval and army bases In
Alaska and Pearl Harbor. Well,
what I'm trying to get nj IL
that l would like 10 get some
kind of a defense job in or
around South America, not In
the L. 8. Would you please tell
me where I could go TO get n
Job In south America
LEE NJ.
You would have to be a high
Unframed construction engineer
10 be useful to the government
on base project in South Amer
lea. II is q different matter
from building bases on compsra-
lively uninhabited areas in the
North. South America is full Of
people now. especially along the
coasts. so all the good unframed
or semi-skilled labor needed is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11

wealth and one large city had
demanded that contractors sub
init confidential specifications
for weapons, ships. planes and
buildings as a check on pur-
chsses subject 10 taxation. The
boys scared. wheeupon they
provided that only Uncle Sam
himself-not secondary eorpor-
ations should escape the gas
and sales imposts. Fourteen of
the p antssonistic governments
have now withdrawn their oppo-
sition and the innovation seems
likely To become law.
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HERE'S MORE ABOUT
CLAPPER
CONTINUED From Page One)

prices. At least Finance Min
lister II. X. Kung says the farm
ers feel better when they have
a large roll Of bills. Therefore
they like the war. But If there
were deflation. and less paper
money in their pockets. they
would think themselves less
prosperous.
The same thing goes for the
coolies, Once they got 80 cents
q day. Now they get $40 or
more. because the shortage OF
Ia Dor gives them leverage and
thus wages are tagging less than
is usual in an initiation.
Government employees on
fixed salaries have been hit
the hardest. The government
issuing them commodity cou-
pens on which they can draw
fixed quantities Of supplies,
regardless Of price. from gov
eminent subsidiLed co-opera-
tive stores.
Nevertheless. the momentum
Of the inflstionsry movement
has caused real alarm, and II
was felt necessary 10 restore
confidence in the currency.
Hence the appeal for American
and British loans. The govern
ment is just now issuing savings
bonds redeemahle in American
money, the theory being that the
Chinese will put money into
these and thus draw off surplus
currency.
Aside from the expansion OF
currency. II Is also Il fact OF
extreme Importance that there
is little aside from food on
which 10 spend money. Further
more. there is boarding OF COM
modities. as is usual during in
flations. Even merchants are
not anxious to sell their goods.
They would rather hold them for
higher prices later on.
Ii Is hoped here that the
American loan, of which
s20o. o00. 600 u for the pur-
po~e Of backing the Chinese
currency. win check these
dangerous tendencies. The
situation !. not out Of con-
troll. hut II has hem rsring
~ fast that there IL danger
Of control being lost. Hence
the attempt now 10 put On
the brakes.
The initiation doesn't endanger
ChinSs war effort. as the rice
supply Is assured and the Chi
neSe soldier needs little else.
The government Is nanufsetur-
ing small arms in more than 800
srsensls that were moved back
In the retreat from the indus
trial areas OF the coast. The
big gap Is in planes and other
heavy stuff which must come
from America and Britain
That. rather than initiation. is
the real problem. China won't
fold Up Just because Of initiation
But Il she can't get weapons she
cant fight. which Is the erux Of
the Situation now. The problem
Is not one for economists 50
much as for shipping snd
transport rsnius who can find
= wsy - tut weapons into will
ma HANDS here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
STRATEGIC ROADS

Editor The Times. In 1884,
when Marcus Whitman tried to
drive the first wagon out 10
Oregon. his idea was that the
Northwest could no conquered
and held only II roads were pro-
vided for the settlers in time of
peace and for military emer-
gency in case OF war. 1t was
for this reason that when Wash
ington was made n territory In
1883. the federal government
appropriated S25 900 for a road
along the Columbia from The
Dalles TO Vancouver. $50. 900 for
a highway from Vancouver TO
Steilacoom. and $500 for the
Byrds' Mil road and its extern
sion. the Citizens road through
Naches Pass to Walla Walla.
Even when warclouds gather
ed in the Far East and We knew
that trouble was coming with
our oriental neighbors. we still
talked idly Of a road to Alaska
and did nothing. We were at
peace with the world. and we
thought that our mighty navy
at Pearl Harbor. our fifty
thousand soldiers at Fort Lewis.
and our armada Of bombers and
fighters at Mcchord Field were
a perfect guarantee of security.
Then came Sunday. December
seventh. and we were Jolted by
the discovery that the enemy
not joke at all.
Now We wish we had taken
we had been joking about WAS
which tanks and guns and sup
warning. but the road over
plies should be laundering north
Is not there. Should Alaska fall
ON that account, our state
would be next. and here In our
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
. Your Opinions

hills and valleys would COM
mence the Battle Of America.
We wish now that we had a
road through the Cascades caps-
BILE of carrying the mightiest
tanks and the heaviest guns. The
$4,000 spent on the Naches
Pass road in 1888 helped TO
shorten the Indian War of 1888.
a little disorder that cost the
nation five million dollars.
Have we time to build the
Naches road Perhaps not. but
IT is worth trying, for II the West
becomes a battlefield we will
have to pay q fearful price for
lack of the road.
NELS BJARkE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
BANKERS HOURS"
AREN'T JUST 10 tor

Editor The Times: A North
west paper recently carried an
outburst recently by a reader
which would be quite amusing
were II not for the fact that his
remarks will no doubt be taken
seriously by readers who know
little or nothing Of the work
hours in the banking business.
The reader apparently wants
hank clerks and tellers to work
some IS to Sc hours in order that
he and other workers" can get
their checks cashed after they
are through with their days
work. It's really too bad.
Banks-and refer only to
banks, not mortgage loan, stock
and bond brokers and various
other gentry that incorporate the
word banker" into the descrip-
ton OF their business are I'M
doubleday making the greatest
effort OF any type OF business in
the country 10 see TO II that the
employees keep within the 40
hour week. Unfortunately there
are far too many people who
jump at the conclusion that
bankers. and that includes
everybody from the lowly mes
senger TO the brass-hsts. work
only from 10 a. m. 10 5 p. M"
as printed on the front door.
At the close OF the banking
hours there is the entire accu-
mutation q work that has come
in through tho various tellers'
windows to 10 taken care Of.
Bank employees can't quit work
the minute the whist. blows
A brief word Of what the
bankers are doing in the war
effort. They furnish free Of
charge the clerical help neoes-
ssry 10 handle the sale Of bonds
and stamps; they pay the post
age and Insurance In cases where
the bonds must be forwarded:
they furnish safe-keeping facil-
tiles for the bonds without
charge. One Seattle bank has
six regular employees who devote
their entir. time 20 this business
alone.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
, Democracy in Action

So democracy doesn't work. il not only
works at home but it works at the front.
A 23-year-old American doughboy in
Australia is a millionaire who gets spending
money in 500 bills. On duty he chauffeurs
a lieutenant who used to be a soda jerker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11

off The lead entered his chest
and ranged upward under the
skin 10 his throat, where Wood
succeeded in coughing it up
This couldn't happen again in
q million tries" was the verdict
OF the attending physician,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11

Your postmaster car tel you
b. ~ invest IN I. g. DEFENSE
Bonis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
LOUIS X. wooDFoRD.
HI RETR ACTs

Editor, The Tines: wrote a
piece that appeared in The
Times the first part OF Deem
Der. where ! condemned the New
Deal Democrat party. national
defense. labor. etc 7 wish now
u withdraw the remarks 7 wrote
~ that time. am sorry for
everything I wrote. ! pray to
Cod thsf Arne1cs -rsv - saved.
JAMES 6 RABCOCK,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11
MIkADO
BY John Hir

MIN ADO
The Mikado," Gilbert and
sullivan operetta. has been done
in swing version with a colored
cast that played to capacity
houses all over the country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-11

fhEAh SHO1
Dewey Wood, a veteran OF the
first World war. WAS investi-
eating disturbance in his
chicken house when he bent over
and a gun dropped from his
belt. Striking the floor, 1t went
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-16

thesis that state and local govern
ments now are financially able to re-
assume some of the functions and OBJ
legations which, during the depression
years, they relinquished to the Wash
ington treasury. Last year, according
to the National Industrial Conference
Board, state and local governments
collected in taxes about nine billion
dollars-a half-billion more than in
1910, and billion more than in 1898.
The federal government is going to
have to raise nobody knows how many
billions to fight this war. Under the
circumstances, the states and counties
and cities and school districts should
undertake larger share of the costs
of relief, roadbuilding, street improve
ments, sewer installations, grade
crossing eliminations, etc.
The concept of home rule and local
esponsibility-th most basic of our
institutions suffered a severe set
back when the depression made the
smaller units of government fnan-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-16
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

provement of industrial and public
protective measures. But only little
is done towards thorough-going rad
ical improvement.
Instead, public discussion centers
on the economic damage caused by
strikes and lockouts. In the first six
months of 1941, there were only 125
strikes throughout Canada, affecting
about 81, 400 workers and involving the
loss of about $4,000 working hours.
That is just about the time requisite
for the production of 40 bombers.
eff these figures are compared with
the foregoing accident statistics, it
will be seen what trif1ing thing has
been over-stated for only too trans
parent reasons. The trade union press
rightly says that, SO long as there is
no compulsion for economic and indus
trial undertakings to protect their
workers adequately, such circles have
no right to criticize any loss through
strikes, or even to demand military
counter-measures. Their negligence is
inflicting damage fixe or six times
higher on the man-power of the ma
ton and on the arms program"
In Great Britain, further sharp
increase in industrial accidents has
been reported for 1940 The number
of fatal accidents rose to 1,372-24 per
cent over that for 1889, which was II
per cent above that of 1888.
The number of non-fatal accidents
was 230,607-20 per cent over the 1889
figure, which was per cent above the
1888 total. The increase, as might be
expected, was in the arms industry.
Statistics show that the increases
are chiefly traceable to the influx of
new unskilled or semi-skilled workers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-16

Billions of dollars are being spent
and will be spent on planes, ships,
tanks, guns and other military equip
ment. By purchasing a defense savings
bond-whether worth $1,000 or only
$25-or even by purchasing 10-cent
defense stamp, each individual man,
woman, or child can make it that much
easier for the government to obtain
the money needed to carry out our
unprecedented war program.
The defense program is of particular
value to wage earners. Not only does
it give them an opportunity to help
their government, and at the same
time to set aside some savings for
future emergency, but it offers them
an effective tool with which to combat
and help prevent an infationary in
crease in prices which, as rule, would
hurt wage earners and lower salaried
workers more than any other groups
in the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-16
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1912.
DEAD ISSUE

Roger Babson and other financial
writer's just can't seem to get it
through their heads that strikes in
war industries are no longer live
issue. They keep harping on the sub
ject, handing out windy advice to labor
and pontifically warning against the
wrath to come unless labor outlaws
strikes
Evidently they don't know that labor
has outlawed strikes and that strikes
are tout" for the duration of the war
This doesn't mean there will be nc
strikes while the war is on. There
may be some, just as there were here
in the World War and as there are
now in Great Britain, a nation facing
a ruthless and desperate foe across
only 20 miles of water.
But strikes will be few and far be-
tween. They are "out" by the action
of labor itself, by the very nature of
the war crisis.
Discussion of war strikes is wasted
time and effort-time and effort that
might be better employed by the
aforesaid financial writer's
This all seems plain enough to the
ordinary citizen, but the financial
writer's, some of them at least, just
can't seem to understand the situation.
Neither can some members of Con-
gress, columnists and others Or maybe
they do understand, but have become
so used to talking about strikes that
they go on in sort of mechanical way,
parrotmg the same old stuff and hardly
realizing what they are doing.
Or, again, maybe they hope that by
spouting the same old, old stuff, they
can here and there kindle a spark of
prejudice against organized labor
Whatever their motive, they are put
ting on silly performance by discuss
ing dead issue.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-16
BEVERAGE INDUSTRY
FIGHTS LIQUOR EVILS

The alcoholic beverage industry is
doing it's part to win the war by pro-
duction of munitions, but at the same
time must act to prevent another era
of bootleggers and prohibition, Robert
Barry, director of public relations, Ma
tional Distillers Products Corporation,
told an audience in Middletown, Ohio,
Monday night.
Barry spoke at the Manchester Ho-
tel before the Butler County unit of
the Buckeye Liquor Dealers Associ-
alton.
Emphasizing that the industry did
not desire to parade its patriotism,
Barry insisted that report should be
made on work in progress to prevent
evils that might provide arguments
for enactment of prohibitory legisla-
ton.
The subject of his address was "The
National Beverage Industry Goes to
War"