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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31
The Tacoma Times Editorial and Feature Pages
. Our Opinion S.
. Steel Trust Grip Broken

When the first blast furnace in Henry
]. Kaiser's steel plant At Fontana, Cal.
was lighted today il marked the beginning
of the end of the steel trust grip on the
Pacific coast. Frequently reference has
been made in this column to the desirability
of the development of the steel industry
in the west. Numerous efforts have been
made along that line in the last sixty years
but always there was the combination of
the steel manufacturers in the east, aided
and abetted by the railroads, to throw a
monkey wrench in the machinery. Mr..
Kaiser was fortunate in having the organ
ization and backing TO 90 ahead with his
project The necessity 10 obtain steel for
his ships was the motivating influence, of
course, but he has broken through the old
precedents and prejudices. That will make
it easier when industrialists in the North
west get ready to go ahead with a steel
plant.
In that connection 1t is gratifying to
note that the Wilkeson coke plant here is
about ready to begin operations. The
company is headed by Corydon Wagner,
vice president of the ST. Paul & Tacoma
Lumber company. Founders of the st.
Paul < Tacoma Lumber company, with
other pioneer industrialists in Tacoma,
discovered more than half century ago
that adjacent to this city there were de-
posits of the finest coking coal in the coun-
try, an important element in the manufac-
ture of high grade steel. Construction of
a modern coke plant here and Henry
Kaiser's successful bucking of powerful
opposition encourages the belief that
another dream of the men who helped
establish the city of Tacoma may soon be
realized. Nothing will do more for the
industrial development of the Puget Sound
country than building a modern steel
plant out here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31

Industrial activity VIII close
year At peak levels. expected to
be surpassed next year wPB
rules that all orders for machine
tools must now be accompanied
by photostatic copy Of preference
certificate wPB now rules
on all sales Of new and used tire
retreading and recapping equip
ment Z. There is a lumber short
age: Canada TO end ban on log
exports to United States
typewriter rentals come under
OPA control a. Of Feb. /. 1s4s
and win 60 only to users engaged
In war activities Incoming
steel orders ahead Of production
despite dip IN bookings and In
creased output Food sales
show slight decline: seasonal:
Hosiery deliveries win be on an
allotment basis next month: goes
for all types wPB lifted ban
on wool In lounging robes.
Fur prices to be placed under
ceiling: perhaps after seasonal
fush has ended oPA win
issue rztioning certificates TO
lumhermen In need Of laced rub
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31
. The Price Control Job

Though there has been no official an
nouncement. Prentiss NJ. Brown. defeated
for reelection to the United States senate
from Michigan by his Republican oppon-
ent. appears TO be the possible choice 10
succeed Leon Henderson as head of the
office Of price control and rationing The
Detroit News says the appointment of
Senator Brown was indicated even before
Henderson's resignation was announced.
II that were the case the politicians are
wondering why he should have gone to the
trouble of seeking reelection TO the senate
with odds a little less than even. The
question is political one and is left for
the politicians to answer.
Senator Brown is described as a man
who knows the American people, partieu-
larry those west of the Alleghenies, which
Henderson did not. He is said TO have an
orderly, constructive mind, and ''can
handle himself very well in a rough and
tumble battle from which he energies with
the respect of both sides"
But neither he, nor anyone else, can take
charge of rationing. and become thereby
a popular hero. Rationing is the most
ticklish job in the country today.
The fact that he is popular with Con-
gress, and that Leon Henderson is not,
may change the attitude of that body to-
ward the office. but it makes him no
friends among the people. Rationing is
already a headache, and it will become d
continuous migraine when more books
have been issued. more articles are ra-
toned, and more time is consumed by mer-
chants and customers in fulfilling the
necessary requirements. And all the blame
will be placed on the head of the system.
If it develops that the Michigan friends
know what they are talking about and
Senator Brown takes on the mantle of
Leon Henderson as he slips out of the
senatorial toga, a lot of people instantly
will not like him. Even some of those who
agree that rationing and price control are
necessary, and who will obey all the rules
and regulations, won't like him.
How well he gets along under those cir
cumstances depends on how big man he
is-provided he gets the job.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31
. Your Opinions
Liberty

Editor. The Times: Most pleas
ing of Christmas gifts this year
was a trinket portraying the
Statue Of Liberty. purchased at
its base by one Of my family dis
lodged from home by war.
II is the more valued because
the donor knows the symbolism
to me Of that statue and the
Liberty Bell and all our ancient
relics; Proclaim Liberty"
Proclaim liberty throughout
the world unto all the inhabitants
thereof; il shall be a jubilee unto
them" Yes indeed. if We should
do IL.
For that is all the common
people, the little people of the
world, want-to be left alone.
free to work, to produce. to raise
their families, to express their
talents, to play. laugh and love.
and IN the course of normal liv-
ing. to advance the world a little.
each according to his individual
bent.
And that is exactly what the
Machiavellian politics and out
worn economics of their govern
ments prevent them from doing.
in this epoch Of the great regres-
sion and of intermittent madness.
Proclaim liverty TO the people.
What a clarion blast this favored
country might sound, What hope
we might inspire, what tumult
arouse. How we might topple
dictators everywhere
We might-but will we? For
the proclamation must be one of
deeds-not words. Liberty is not
declared; il is created. II is not
inherited; it must be fought for
and recreated generation after
generation or it is lost.
A nation indifferent to jim
crow laws, poll-tax disenfraneh-
isement, mounting profits from
war. and an economic system that
in peace compels wholesale des
truction OF food while children
starve-such a nation can never
sound that clarion call.
II is time for a new affirma-
ton. a new creation Of liberty.
Both must come from the people.
as have all gains Of freedom in
the past. Not only within the
Axis nations are those powerful
ones who would achieve military
victory only for the purpose Of
fastening their own sets of chains
more firmly on the peoples of
the world.
They may be known by their
willingness to cooperate with
anti-Hitler Nazis. anti-Musso-
lini Fascists. decadent royal FAM
lies and reactionaries every
where.
WIN America stand for liberty
here and abroad. will America
cooperate with the peoples Of
Europe. Asia and Africa. or with
their masters and would-be mas
tiers? That is the question Of the
century.
ROBERT J. PEARSAI-L
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31
Trade Winds: Blow Hot and Cold as Old Year End,

goes for implanted furniture i. E.
Christmas retail lived up to ex-
pectations Of most optimistic.
Treasury department Victory
fund drive went across better
than most optimistic anticipated:
hut does not mean one should
not continue to buy war bonds
Delaware a Hudson Com
pany offers 10 refund outstand-
ing LIST Ref Mtge As of le43 via
10 per cent in cash and balance
IN LIST q Ref Mtge Is of 1858 -.
Bethlehem Steel Cons - SIS
Of 1889 being switched into Unit
ed States Victory bonds
Louisville q Nashville Ext Unif
3iss Of 1850 retained for invest
ment but amply priced =. Bush
nessman's risk; eertain-teed prod
ucts Deb "A" 5iss Of le4s: con-
frolled by celotex Iowa Pub
lie Service LIST Mtge S%s of 1919
retained for income Inland
Steel LIST Mtge If IS of 1861
get double "A" bond rating but
amply priced.
New England Telephone &
Telegraph LIST Mtge "A" SIS Of
1882 taken on price dips for in
come and not distant maturity
businessman's risk: Column
han Gas & Electric Deb IS Of
1882 investment positions
retained in Memphis Union Sta
ton LIST Mtge IS Of 1889 new
Rochelle Water LIST Ntge "A
5z's Of 1881 taken for not dis
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31
He Knows or Finds
The Answers
BY John Hir

channels. Your debts are due
no matter where the company
moves. You contracted to pay
and must do so.
Mr.. Fixit: l. IL possible for
young woman to learn to fly:
What would the cost be?
All private planes have been
grounded on the west coast so
you won't be able to learn for
the duration.
49,
Mr.. Fixit: Could you tell me
where the roller skating Kinks
are In Tacoma? When are they
open: Is 1t safe for my IS year
old girl to 90 to them:
X. w.
You will find skating Kinks
listed in the classified section
of your phone book. We know
no reason why you can't send
your daughter to them. We know
lots of youngsters that 60.
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in ground food administration
released 1000. 900 cases Of evap-
GRATED milk peanut demand
running far ahead Of supplies
despite increased paintings
OPA ruled current maximum
prices on pepper fair and ade-
quste."
Steel industry's federal tax bill
for 1912 nearly equal to govern
ment's total expenditures for
peace year Of 1912 more than
80 tons Of metal a day pass
through Philadelphia mint turn
ing out coins
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31

role in the ". S.
war effort. Who
is he
?. How many
women are now
e m ploy d in
A m e can in
dustry: 4,000.-
900: 5000, 900;
IS. 756. 900; S.
900, 600?
3. How did
metal shortage
come home to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31
. WAR QUIZ

1. AS head of the War Man
power Commission, this snowy
haired gentleman has an important
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-12-31

American children this Christmas?
Answers on Page !
Evening star., 1942-10-19


of the time when this youthful
labor will be available.
In this field I have something
more than a journalists knowl-
edge, because I have been as
sociated before and during the
last vacation period with an at
tempt to find a solution for this
problem under something ap-
preaching laboratory conditions
taking a certain number Of
carefully recruited city high
school students and placing them
on farms in a limited number
of rural counties, under super
vision, and with a careful check
ing of the results. I refer to the
work done in Vermont and a
bit of New Hampshire by the
Volunteer Land Corps.
Like every problem involving
the lives and work of human
beings, the problem of putting
adolescents to work in an en-
vironment strange to them is
much more complicated than it
seems at first sight. Unless the
whole matter is handled with
intelligence, sympathy, under
standing of youth and under
standing Of farmers; unless pro-
vision is made for adjustment
of human relations; unless an
esprit de corps is created
amongst the recruits; unless both
farmer and recruit are mentally
conditioned for the new rela-
tionship; unless provision is
made for insurance; unless COM
munities are organized to well
come the recruits and brought
into collaboration with them in
such problems as recreation-un-
less these and many, many more
problems are foreseen and pro-
vided for, the Embellishments
and the turnover as a result of
such maladjustments can render
the program useless.
Hard to Ration" People.
For people are not things. 1t
is easy to talk of "rationing"
manpower, but it is infinitely
harder to ration people than it
is to ration sugar or machine
tools. People, as it happens, have
lives of their own-tastes, wills,
capacities, ideals, demands, de-
sires and all sorts of other flesh
blood-mind attributes which re-
sist "rationing."
Adolescent youth is no excep-
ton. Yet If the schools would CO.
operate by shortening the school
year, as has been suggested by
the President, and if the organ
ization of Is and II year olds is
properly conceived and executed,
the exodus of such youths to
farms can not only supply the
Nation with millions of man
Evening star., 1942-10-19

drawing to a close. Whether the
entire city Of Stalingrad will fall
into the hands of the NaZis or
whether the Russians hold on to
their present positions is re-
garded in many competent quar-
ters as relatively immaterial. The
Germans may withdraw in the
event they are not able to push
the Russians farther eastward.
Hitler's forces have failed ut
terly in what Is believed to have
been their strategic objective
the destruction of, Soviet Field
Marshal Timoshenko's armies.
They have succeeded, however,
according to these same sources,
in their endeavor to destroy the
productive power OF one of Rus
sia's greatest industrial centers,
which Is now in ruins and will
not return to it's former glory
until the enemy has been pushed
from the Volga to the west.
Attain One Major Objective.
The Germans also have sue
ceeded in one major objective
the capture of Russian regions
which serve as the terminal of
the principal pipe lines from the
Caucasian oil fields. The Ger
mans won't get the oil from
these fields, because they are and
likely will remain in the hands
Of our associates. This is an ad-
vantage for the United Nations.
But the fact that the Russians
also will be unable to get oil from
Caspian Sea area will be a Sc
we're blow, because about IS per
cent of the fuel for Soviet tanks
and planes formerly came from
that region. The remaining oil
sources are not adequate for an
army the size of Russia's.
The Soviet's generals do not
believe in defensive warfare.
When their situation seems most
hopeless they still find ways and
means to press an offensive in
some region even if such a drive
does not make any material
change in the battle lines. It's
Evening star., 1942-10-19

ment, deserving more attention than
it got.
One reason is that Mr.. Hopkins
closeness to the President makes it
| reasonable to assume that he re-
fleets the latter's political views.
Aside from his announced support
of Mr.. Bennett for Governor of New
York, which was inevitable, the
President has made plea to the
people to vote. That is all that rea-
sonably can be expected from him.
An appeal for a Democratic Con-
gress would be resented by the
voters, as it was during the last war
when made by President Wilson.
And an appeal along the Hopkins
lines would clash with the Demo-
cratic Committees campaign and
seem unfair to Democratic candi-
dates who follow the President as
the titular party leader.
Gives Voters Free Choice.
Yet, Mr.. Hopkins is undoubtedly
right when he says it makes no diff
ference whether Republicans or
Democrats are chosen so long as
they are good men. One assumes
that all candidates want to win the
war and since, prodded by Mr..
Willkie, the Republican party has
now shaken off it's isolationist ties
and is committed not only to the
Roosevelt foreign policy but to post
war international cooperation, there
seems no way by which the result
could give aid or comfort to the
enemy or seem q reputation of the
President.
This is a fortunate thing. 1t will
enable voters ito register against the
presidential rubber stamps and
against both Democrats and Re-
publicans who have been subservi-
ent to the farm and labor lobbies
without fear of damaging the ma
tional interests or lessening the
power of the President to conduct a
successful war. On the contrary,
the replacement of such members
with men of greater independence
! and intelligence ought to help him
in that direction.
No greater boon could come to the
country now than a Congress that
will resist the demands of pressure
groups for special consideration and
insist upon greater competency upon
the part of the executive.
Need Vigilant Congress.
What the Nation needs is Con-
gress that will uphold the President
on, every proposal for increasing our
military might, but vigilantly press
for a cessation of favoritism and
New Deal politics, with which the
war management is saturated-a
Congress that will probe, prod and
constantly keep its finger on the
weak spots; that will expose inefn-
cheney and demand an end of the
blacklists and prejudices which keep
Evening star., 1942-10-19

suspected of not following the
political doctrines Of the party.
Not that they did much breaking,
but they did butt in occasionally,
impairing local operations. At
the representations of the gen.
eral staff these men have been
placed in the ranks and are just
other members of the fighting
forces.
1t appears that, despite denials,
Stain has intrusted the main
task of drafting the strategy of
the war to Marshal Shaposhnikov,
probably the most brilliant mill
tary mind in the Soviet.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
This Changing World
President Now Holds Most Complete Picture
Possible Of Situation on Russiun Front

great Importance is that 1t keeps
the spirit and morale of the troops
high. There is nothing more de-
pressing to an army than to be
kept on the defensive all the time.
The lack OF the necessary fuel
little Is known of the Russian re-
serve stocks of oil and gasoline
may prevent Field Marshal Sha-
poshnikov, who is believed to be
now directing the strategy on all
fronts, to follow the advice con-
tanned in the late Marshal Foch's
historic statement, MY right is
crushed. My left is in retreat.
am attacking with my center"
Professionals Take Over.
In Russia as in Germany. the
matter Of conducting the war has
been placed exclusively in the
hands of the professionals. 1t is
no longer a secret that Hitler
makes no decisions unless they are
recommended by his general staff.
He is, in other words, the super
lative rubber stamp serving the
military leaders. Until last De-
cember, when he ordered an Of
fensive against Moscow in an
effort to give the Russian capital
to the German people as Christ
mas present, Hitler took an active
and decisive part in the formula
ton of all war plans.
The Moscow offensive was
taken against the better judg-
ment of Hitler's generals. 1t was
a complete flop and resulted in
the Germans being pushed back
hundreds of miles in Southern
Russia. The territory subse-
quently was reconquered last
summer at fantastic price, but
this reputedly cured the Fuehrer
from debating strategy.
In Russia until very recently
Stain, while less active in formu-
lating strategy, had the last say
in military operations. He also
had his civilian political COM
missars with the army and they
were able to break any military
man who might be even vaguely
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Maryland U. Campus Club

The first meeting of the Campus
Club of the University of Maryland
will be held at 2:30 pm. Wednes-
day in Anne Arundel Hall instead
of III the home economics building
as was previously announced. DR..
II. C. Byrd, president of the univer-
sity, will address the meeting, which
viii be presided over by Mrs. Joseph
Vial,
Evening star., 1942-10-19
Medical Supplies Sent
To Russiu Excellent
BY the Associated Press.

- e~AS Asoo1Aog0u EESbB.
MOSCOW, Oct. 1.-two Ameri.
can of1cials said yesterday after an
Inspection Of United States medical
supplies sent to the Soviet Union
that "the quality is excellent; all
they need is more"
At the invitation of the Soviet
Red Cross and Red Crescent Socie.
ties. Capt. John r. Waldron, physi-
clan attached to the United States
supply mission. and Robert Scovell,
Red Cross representative, went to
Red Army base hospital to look over
materials In service.
The equipment included surgical
instruments, drugs, blankets and
hospital garments.
THE Russians seemed pleased
with everything" the Americans
| said.
Evening star., 1942-10-19
New TriuIs Reported
For Won Pupen Attack
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 19.-Reuters said
the Germans broadcast an Istanbul
dispatch reporting the Turkish ap-
pellate court had quashed 2O-year
sentences imposed on two Russians
convicted Of implication in bomb
ing attack on Franz Won Papen, Nazi
Ambassador to Turkey, last Febru-
ary "a.
This report said the court also set
aside 10-year sentences imposed on
two Turks and ordered new trials
for all four defendants.
The conviction of the Russians
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chosen Tor Con-
gress so long as
they are good
men who want
to win the war.
Coming from Mr..
Hopkins, W h o
used to be our
most bitter par
t S a n, holding
t h a t no on e
should be elected
to anything who
was not "one of
U.s." this was a
n0tahle St. q T. o.
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placed a strain on Soviet Turkish
relations for a time, the Soviet Off
cial news agency contending the
bombing was a Gesuapo plot and
that the Russians had nothing to do
with it.
The bomb exploded near Won
Papen and his wife on an Ankara
street.
Evening star., 1942-10-19

money; 50 much
money t h 1t it
would make me
50 rich that I
wouldn't be able
to pay my in
come tax next
year.
Here is the
idea: M ke it
compulsory for
the women In
the armed forces
to play poker
with the men In
Evening star., 1942-10-19
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In the Presidents last speech
he emphasized the need of mo-
bilizing high school students for
vacation work on farms. This
is a small segment of the total