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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this col
sddr. OF writer Only initisls
viii be published when requested
Mr.. Pixit: As 10 ID. T., who
wanted The Face on The Bar-
room Floor and The Girl with
the Blse Velvet Band, I have
them and many more. Songs
and poems are my hobby.
W. n. MARTIN.
10s5 so. Union ave.
Thank you. Wen leave II to
the reader who wished them
TO get In touch with you.
Mr.. Fixit: What must = person
% 10 get . new tire. n the car
n used by q Waterman for a
number Of buildings and stores
and he has 10 use the car every
night In the week 10 take care OF
his duties? Car cannot he run
with three tires. Would this
ear be classed N essential:
NJ. G. M.
Half the people in the country
are waiting for the answer 10
that question, which the tire
rationing boards eventually viii
have to settle by individual cases.
You'll have TO wait until those
boards are organized and ready
TO take appeals. Retreaded old
tires apparently are going to
have TO serve most car owners.
Many persons. maybe you, who
have regarded their cars as es-
sential, will have to learn to get
along by bus, bicycle or afoot.
Mr.. Fixit: Have you got the
address Of some place where I
can write and get all free In
formation possible on singers,
musicians, etc? p. w.
Your best course would be TO
buy or read at a library copies
OF such magazines as Etude.
Musical Courier, Pacific Coast
Musician, Hollywood Bowl mag
azine. MUSICAL West or Musical
America.
Mr.. Fixit: Please tell me
where some Of the sheep ranches
are and their addresses. Would
like TO get some sheep skins:
A READER.
Sheep ranches can be found
around Ellensburg in this state
and Pendleton. Ore. You might
write TO the chambers of COM
merce of those cities, If you
can't get aheep skin more
simply through a local leather
goods or fur dealer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06

In demanding that the democ-
racies put first things first"
Churchill set forth In a cryptic
manner the Russo British thesis
that the allies main and i'm
mediate effort should be de-
voted to the utter defeat of Hit
Ter on the continent. He argued
that the Japanese and Italian
appendages could be wiped out
easily once der fuehrer was
buried without military honors.
Although the president acted as
an impartial arbitrator, he is
understood to share this grand
viewpoint. But he softened 1t
with promises that Uncle Sam
would undertake to protect all
m m bers of the democratic
brood.
The Dutch, Chinese and Aus
tralians believe II would be
simpler and m u h wiser 10
smash the laps and Italians
first. Then with allied forces
released for the main theater
Of war, they think the Nazis
would fall quickly. The Dutch
also feel that the other plan OF
campaign will subject their
East Indies 10 utter destruction.
The Australians have the same
fears. The Chinese think that
their four years of lonely re-
sistance should be rewarded by
immediate relief from the
ABR alliance. These difficult
ties will be smoothed out eventu-
ally, but the solution will require
some painful decisions for them
and for the people Of the United
States. C'est la guerre!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
Youth Renowned Wealth
To Found Monostic Order
.ssssssssssssaas q

THE story OF . rich lad who
renounced wealth and inheri-
lance to embrace proverty is the
biography Of St Francis Of Assist.
founder Of the monsstic order. the
Franciscans.
The stamp above, issued BY
Italy in 1926 on the seventh CEN
tenary of the death of ST. Francis.
pictures a group Of monks bury
ing their leader.
ST. Francis was born Giovanni
Bernsrdone in 1882. near Perugis
Italy. His parents were wealthy
The lad had a high spirit and nat
ural enthuSlaSm-snd was ofisn in
trouble.
In q petty feud Of the times IN.
boy (rensmed Francesca because
OF his fathers fondneSs for the
French) was taken prisoner and
was forced 10 serve a years ~
avity IN Perugis.
While in prison he CONTRACTED
an illness and during the period
OF eonvaleseence spent much time
IN religious musing. In lzOs he
MADE pilgrimage 10 Rome, broke
with ms family. and conseczstsd
himself to poverty and religion.
81 Francis gathered eonvsrts
around him and originated The
monssiic order Of 81. Frsneis IN
lzOs- AT the first general Asssrn-
oiy Of The order N lzIs there yevs
mort tnen 5000 nsscnhess Present.
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between Press and White House
are more cordial today than
they have been in several years.
Price plans to form an opera
ton committee which will con-
sist OF the information chief
tains of the various departments
whose news releases touch the
conduct Of the war. He may
ask q committee OF correspond
ents 10 sit with his agency as
an advisory body. They will
try 10 agree on the type Of ma
terial which ought not to be
published. Then that kind of
information will be withheld at
the source. Dispatches and edi-
torials O criticism, provided
they do not reveal confidential
data, will not come under the
ban.
The Press has already reveal
cd that II knows how 10 keep
secrets as well as peddle them.
Although many knew in advance
OF the ACKNOWLEDGMENT meet
ing last August. the prime
minister's coming 10 washing
ton, the real damage al Pearl
Harbor, the Roberts boards
itinerary and many other his
torie events, no word crept into
their stories until the news was
officially announced at the
White House. IL hooks a. II
censorship VIII BE Nike ths
measles uncomfortable bat not
fatal.
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PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
CONTEMPLATE JAPAN

Editor The Times: Beginning
with the incidents Of some six
thousand years ago, which. in
cidentally, involves no trifling
stretch of time, history shows
that the human or mortal man
has had ravening thirst for
blood and impelling laundering
for war. bloody, terrible, useless,
destructive war; poor fools!
From that time of beginning,
all of the history and legends of
the world have held aloft as the
bright and shining light of all
succeeding eras the conspicuous
incidents of human slaughter
and dirty intrigue. War was
tops and was always on, some
where.
Only few, at any period,
were sufficiently enlightened to
see that thu total abolition Of
war was a consistent hope.
And so, the warlike being in
majority and only a few loving
the peace which would displace
war, war was perpetually on.
Those who slaughtered most
were the heroes of that day. On
down the ages has come the
records and the echoes of war;
bloody war, needless war, costly
war; war always undermining
the good Of the world Of the
time. And, God alone knows
why this should have been so.
But war has become less Spar
tan and more sinister In it's
methods: less vslorous and more
reptilian.
There is where the Japanese
In particular have arrived at the
unpleasant conditionahties which
they can neither accept nor over
come. The world is not moved
nor does it hesitate at all when
q toe Ia stubbed.
Throughout all the annals Of
history, with more written Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
NAILS WON'T CRACK,
BuT PEOPLE BLUE

Russian representatives here
and at Moscow have furnished
the British and ourselves with
the first authentic reports on
Psychology among the German
people and military. They were
able to submit this evidence
because OF the vast number of
prisoners they have taken and
because the Kremlin has an ex-
cellent spy system inside Hit
hers realm.
The Soviet reporters warn
against any belief that Germany
will crack up overnight. But
they feel confident that the
strain OF 20 months Of war and
failure TO attain quick triumph
are slowly creating a defeatist
spirit among the Nazis. This
attitude has been heightened BY
der fuehrer's promise on october
and that Russia would fall in
a few weeks with the implied
hint that then would come an
end to aggressive warfare out
side the boundaries OF the Reich.
Recent reverses are wiping out
the jubilant memories which
greeted their soldiers unpre-
cedented triumphs in Western
Europe and the Balkans.
Army officers seized before
Mascow and Rostov spoke bit
terly Of their new commander
iE-ehief. They confirmed the
hitherto unverified suspicion
that his generals almost muffin
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
PRESS RELATIONS
OF FDR CORDIAL

Censorship Director Byron
Prices off-the-record promises
and plans have relieved Wash
ington correspondents - and
their home editorx-that they
may be deprived Of access TO
legitimate news or rushed off
10 a concentration camp without
warning. Fact il that relations
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06

800 br an c h
offices OF this
service scatter
ed about the
c o u ntry 30
there - one
ne ar sV ry
town of an y
Importance at
all. Now that
this service has
en- federal
ized and taken
out of tn e
h a ds of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06

war than of anything else, there
u not an incident to compare,
for evil consistency, with the
recent, unprovoked attack by
Japan upon Japan's friend, the
United States of America.
1t was the United States
which, years ago. opened the
way for Japan to come out into
the world and become one of us.
The United States has sncour-
aged and aided Japan, and
Japan reciprocates with sneak
ing, hellish attack upon our
Hawaii and upon our Philip
pines.
There have been atrocities and
cruel Strengthening of fellow men
IN war before but never such
eonsummate reptilian methods.
ROBT. S. DOUBLEDAY.
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Under ideal conditions. the
army or navy would say, dandy
Plant A has Just what IL takes
for what we want and let EN-
bid on a piece Of this. Employ
er A gets contract, workers keep
on working, and everybody 10
happy and gets lousy prosperous
on war orders.
But too often these ideal con
ditions don't exist. The plant 10
too small, or IL can't quite con-
vert, or the USES and the cDD
and the army and navy don't
co : operate. Nothing happens
after the surveys are made and
employer A, sore and discour-
aged, shuts up thu plant and
starts looking for q Job right
along with his employees.
II is TO overcome these diff
culties that CID and USES ara
bending their best efforts now.
CID was late getting reorgan-
lied under Floyd w. Odlum to
meet its problem after a false
and somewhat ineffective start.
II will be heard from more and
more during 1912. USES, just
federalized into more eohe-
sive unit and with a young new
director in the person Of John ].
Corson, has yet to make its
mark. But il there Ia any one
agency which has the primary
job of modifying the nations
manpower for maximum war
production. II is the United
States Employment Service.
OPM's labor division calls for
shipyard or aircraft workers by
the thousand. USES tries to
find them.
SERIOUS UNEMPLOYMENT
In spite of all the demand
there is for manpower today, the
biggest problem Is still unem-
ployment. Army and navy may
pick off from seven to 10 mil
lion of the best men. Govern
ment civil service will take it's
millions more. In the highly
skilled trades, employers bid
against each other. Specialized
training groups hks the mer-
chant marine or the aircraft fac
tories call for their quotas.
Farm labor may run short next
year. New powder and shell
loading plants in remote non
industrial sections drain their
areas of the available labor sur
plus.
In spite of this, there are still
some five million unemployed,
and the estimates of additional
workers who will lose their Jobs.
as plants making goods for nor
NAL civilian consumption are
forced to shut down through in
ability to get metals and raw
materials, run as high as two
and a half million. 1t is a para
doxical situation n there ever
was one, 10 find the country In a
war boom with a potential Nm
employed force of seven million
or so.
The temper OF the times, says
Corson, is to let the little fellow
60. Instead of helping the small
manufacturer or dealer find war
jobs and keep going, the ten
dency has been to sacrifice this
productive capacity If 1t can't
readily be converted to war
work. When that happens, the
problem Ia to find jobs In war
industries for the displaced
workers.
In some cases It's easy. Shut
ting down of an automobile as
sembly plant at Norfolk, Va.
simply meant that the auto me-
chanics went to work in the
shipyards. Or displaced tire
workers at Akron drove over TO
the powder plant at Rsvenns, o.
But most of the time II isn't 80
easy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
By PETER Epsok


The Taoema Time. washington Corresponaeht
WASHINGTON = If the system worked right these
- things should happen when a small business faces
shutdown because it not obtain materials 10 continue
making things for civilian consumption:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
TrTTT An Inside Picture OF Finon.
Ll0a ciul and Political America
By RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-A friendly disagreement has broken
out among anti Hitler nations the long conduct
of the World Manifestation most vivid during
the Roosevelt Churchill conferences and in subsequent
discussions between FDR and representatives OF our
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06

The employer, foreseeing m
evitsble shutdown. should call in
USES, the United States EN-
ployment Service. There are
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06
SNAKE BITE REMEDY

The alcohol in whiskey, II
poured into the wound left by
the snakes fangs, has a certain
antiseptic effect-while II i'm
bibed 1t increases the heart ac-
ton and speeds the venom
through the system rapidly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-06

led when he ordered them to m-f
take the invasion of Russia last
June. Most German military
leaders are avid historical stu
dents and they recalled Napol-
con. The entry of the u. s.
into the conflict disheartened
the older commanders who re-
membered Chateau hierry, st.
Mihiel and the Argonne. Al
though refusing to indulge in
undue optimism. Stains spies
and psychologists perdict that
Berlin's mustachioed stateman
cannot survive another twelve
months OF battlefield setbacks.
PRICE INITIATION
SCARE SUBSIDIES
Earlier fears of an era OF Az
gravated price initiation are sub
siding in financial circles at the
capital. Basic reason for the
more hopeful attitude is the be-
lief that the conditions which
produce the phenomenon--ex-
cess buying power and a re-
duced quantity Of goods-may
not show up. Here Is how
brsad -s n d-buttsr economists
paint the picture for the aver
age citizen:
National income for 1912 Ia
estimated at between one hun
bred and one hundred and ten
billion dollars frightening
figure. Unless controlled, this
potential purchasing weapon
would prove devastating to our
national economy. But it is
hoped that at least forty bill
lions will be expended for war.
The administration would like
TO increase the figure to fifty,
but that appears an impossible
ty at present. another eighteen
billion dollars will be handed
over to Uncle Sam In the form
OF excise, income send CORPORA
ton taxes. States and local
communities will cut In for an
other fifteen billions. A size
able sum will be used TO pay
off old debts or placed in saw
ings. 1t is probable that more
than seventy-five billions will
be sopped up by these means.
A large percentage will be
passed out again, thus feeding
inflationary flames. But a great
deal will 60 to factory workers
who will save against a post
war depression. Many will spent
their windfall for things they
have lacked for ysars-food,
clothing. amusements, better
homes-and specialists hope
that prices will be controlled by
legislation. Anyway these srs
the official economists' New
Year greetings 70 thu worried
customers.
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u. 3. WILL PAY

Editor. The Times: A news re-
port says that Churchill. speak
ing in the Canadian House of
Commons. is "scornful of the
Axis; his speech Is filled with
iibes and tRunts." He shows
that all that will be necessary
to extirpate the enemy is to take
an army of invasion into the
homeland of both. This will be
with the aid of an American
expeditionary force OF eight to
ten million men, and will not
last more than ten to fifteen
years.
Another report issuing from
high London Authority states
that il 10 necessary to hold
Singapore. Since the British
navy cannot do this, it will have
TO rely on the American navy
to do so. True, American mill
tary authorities admit that we
must be reconciled to losing the
Philippines.
In this connection, we have
been told frequently on high
Washington authority in the
past that all that has saved
America has been the British
navy. So that we have turned
over destroyers, airplanes and
other equipment. Now we must
also protect the British bases In
Asia.
We have been a little short in
one item of the lease-lend aid.
Britain wishes beer TO keep up
morale of the British Tommy.
Another report asks why
Russia does not attack Japan.
Russia is driving Hitler back on
the west front, practically I'M
aided. We know, OF course.
that Russia is a very inefficient
and backward country. But why
does not Russia attack Japan?
II Russia would make such
an attack; If the American navy
will defend Singapore, and send
ships and planes and beer to
England. and an expeditionary
force 10 Europe, the British navy
will continue to defend America,
and Churchill will point the
finger Of scorn al the enemies
We will pay the bills.
S. SIMON.
A THANH 1oU"
Editor, The Times: You and
your organization have been
good 10 us during 1871. and the
years before. Your staff has
shown US the utmost courtesy
and consideration always. II was
through your cooperation We
have prospered.
Gratefully We thank you, and
WISH you all q most happy and
prosperous new year.
B.. B. BUSSELLE.
Commander, Rhodes Pest,
American Legion.
Won helm yourself when you b.
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A THANH YoU"

You help yourself when you buy
4, S. Defense Bonds
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-06

RN THE last war a literary friend of mine
in the AEF was astonished one day to be
= detailed to unit of truck drivers.
but never drove an automobile, sir"
he explained to the commanding officer.
Learn snapped the officer with fancied
military bluntness.
And while experienced chauffeurs Ian
guished At KIP, my friend began to learn
truck driving - from the ground up.
Many folks. remembering similar incidents
in 1917, assume that much the same thing
prevails in today's Army. know, because l
have Just seen basket of letters from selec-
tees, from their parents, from their we'll
wishing employers. voicing the wistful hope
that Reginald won't be another square peg
jammed forcibly into round Army hole.
The answer 10: He might be - but the
chances are better than 20 to l that he
won't be.
And to those potential soldiers who ask
that ever-recuning question. 'Fiow can
escape being an Army misfit?" my answer
il even briefer: BIB YOURSELF!
III explain that presently. Meanwhile,
let me make q fiat statement which you can
take into the service with you or quote to
anybody else whose number Is on the way up:
This Army II just - loathe to make .
company clerk out Of an expert welder
- 1t IL to use trench mortar for anti
aircraft work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-06

Today the Army is selecting, testing and
developing men with the same scrupulous
care that it has always selected equipment.
For this is a new kind of war "a techno-
logical war of experts, specialists, and really
professional fighters. And the most vital
part of our effort is not the mass production
of planes, tanks and guns - but the mass
selection of men with the sLills to handle
this Intricate equipment efficiently.
This crying need is Johnny's best guarantee
that he won't become an Army misft.
Today's Army has about 1900 different
kinds of specialized jobs. To fill those jobs,
deluge of man power pours In through 80
big Reception Centers throughout the coun-
try. And to funnel that flow of man power
into its respective channels, we find some
thing new in the Army: the Personnel CLASH
fication Service. New, that is, on its present
scale.
Already numbering more than 600 officers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-06
INTERNATIONAL

The results, together with lot of other in
formation about the soldiers abilities and
experience, are recorded on punched and
scalloped qualification card that follows the
soldier like shadow.
Next Tuesday, perhaps - or next month
requistion comes through for 5 Spanish
speaking interviewers, 8 watchmakers, 80
bakers and 4 tailors. A steel-pronged sorter is
thrust into the files and out come the names
of every linguist, every matchmaker, every
baker, every tailor who confessed to those
respective talents when interviewed!
When you realize that every single man
in our Army of millions will have card
record of his civilian talents and military
skills - you must concede that tOday's
Army is making an effort unprecedented
in history to fit the square pegs in square
holes!
How we'll that effort succeeds depends upon
many factors the most obvious being the
men entrusted with the classifying. Their re-
sponsibility is great 1t may even be matter
of life or death for the soldier; defeat or VIC
tory for the Army. But decisions must be
made fast
The Reception Centers can't wait. The
Replacement Training Centers can't wait.
The specialist schools must have their quotas.
The new divisions can't wait. The transports
can't wait. What's happening in the Aeutians
and Africa can't wait. Hitler and Hirohito
Tw-I7-t-47
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and over $500 enlisted men and non-coms,
these specialists are working like beavers
interviewing, testing and classifying the selec-
tees, and making assignments in the light of
the facts about their qualifications as related
to the pressing needs of the different services
Many of these personnel men are former in
dustrial employment managers or teachers.
Supplementing their long experience at assay
ing human material are more than lao mod
ern mass-production devices - notably the
Aptitude Tests and the Achievement Exami-
nations.
Wide CoveEoge
! HERE are tests for clerks; for telegraphers;
for ground-crew mechanics; tests for truck
drivers, for range finders, for map readers.
for bombardiers, for warrant officers, for
applicants to Officer Candidate Schools.
Testing commences almost the moment the
new man lands at the Reception Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-06

How can you avoid being one of the ArmY's
nisfits? The first rule TO remember: Be
yourself! And here are other pointers
by Waller v. Bingham
Evening star., 1942-02-26
4 More Colleges TO Train
Quarfermasfer Officers

The Universities of Alabama and
Washington, Texas A. and M. and
Michigan State College were Sc
lected by the War Department to-
day to train officers for the Quar-
termaster Corps as part Of the
Reserve Offlcers' Training Corps
program.
Previously only Harvard had a
quartermaster r. o. T. C. unit. The
our additional institutions were Sc
lected on a geographical basis and
Harvard will continue to serve the
Northeast.
To qualify for the quartermaster
r. o. T. C. training applicants must
be under Is, full-time college stu
dents and must have completed the
basic r. o. T. c. course or its equiva-
lent.
Formation of six Negro military
police battalions for domestic serv-
ice has been authorized, the War
Department announced at the same
time. They will guard factories,
warehouses, bridges, power houses
and similar installations.
Each battalion will include about
500 enlisted men, especially selected
for intelligence and physique. One
battalion, the 732d, already is being
formed to serve in the 9Th Corps
Area with headquarters at Chicago.