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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-10
. Our Opinion So


"a there xaSteful and inefficient use of
manpower in our big Tacoma shipyardf
This writer doesn't know, bat ne thinks
somebody in authority ought 70 find out.
The widespread rttm0rs and gossip
either should be seotehed or authenticated
and # the latter. corrective measures
taken.
No doubt there has been exaggeration.
but the stories are difficult 20 ignore
because most originate with yard employees
themselves.
Over in Seattle the situation has
broken into the open. with charges that
yartis knowingly employ more men than
they need and that employees are loafing.
As result. Dave Beck. reamster union
chief has asked that the department of
justice investigate.
II such an Investigation is ordered. it
doubtless will cover Tacoma yards. too.
The union labor leader is right in
wanting this ugly subject dragged into the
wholesome light of day.
Says Beck. Men VINO deliberately loaf
ON the Job in shipyarus or N any line of
work. directly or indirectly related TO VIM
ming this war. are out and cat traitors 20
their country, and should be treated as
such.
we have no use for them and we know
how 70 separate them from their Jobs. We
don't want them in the Transfers union
and | know every other union in the eoun-
try feels the same way about IL.
We are entitled TO know the truth. SO
that we may ne protected. not only against
men who would knowingly loaf on the war
effort. bat also against writers who ac-
euSe war workers Of loaiing. This inveSti-
Beck declares. and ne speaks truly.
that organized labor has am intense desire
to serve IN AL Ways TO win the war.
lie goes ON. If there are traitors in
our ranks We win throw them out
Ana II there are ShipyaroS or other
war industries deliberately loading up with
surplus men, they. too. are traitors and
should be publicly known rs such.
Surely workers and management alike
VIII want this topic aired as soon as
possible.
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. HOROSCOPE
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10

Eeneffc aspects dominate n
re horoscope FOR today There
a sinister omen affecting a
bcr. however. IRE new moon of
us cate. "a wnien mere > a
1aruai eclipse Of re Sun. brings
cceerrng promise or BrltaIn.
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fortunate tate or n a sing
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aac contracts rat Affect re
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start rev ENTERPRISES = begin
1ew employment touay. Many
women vii e ADDED q ire rall-
1uns enEEged n var Industries.
lslrts should seek technical tram
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sc1col II college Pupgrams or
-ney MI e needed next vesr.
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BRITISH IMPERIALISM
IN l>nfA

Editor. IRE Tunes Raymond
Cispper writes q a stight cen-
sorship On fnaian affairs. 1
depior-e rat censorship. What
happens n India concerns every
American. Continued hlandeg-
NIX there nav eeSt re lives Il
nv sons. or ye0rs. n q ycu
ycUnx men who -~sd THIS.
Leading Asiatscs are watching
events tners. What thev see
may decide whether thsy finally
SIDE WITH me United Nations OF
Jspan. WITH her siogSn ot Asia
Ter re AsiStseS. ladiA s e
them ne aeid test cd ire United
Nations ciaim thAs they are
nzhtEag fer freedom
rrey believe Tadia should be
frvs. AMI taey Anow. 4 ire
Auaericsn people 90 nee. the llnx
and honorable recora og thaE
Congress evhteh represents ne
vast tFl'i1a masses and ASA the
nfcre advanced 81 re Nfczlems.
rres SlscN that re president q
ire Congress 3 a Nosleua.
rreV SncW taeS re Indian
p-0nte feaT JaP.ness npenaf-
sna 70 less t-Sn they hate Eng-
hsa Imperialism. sna &c rive.
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MSaass. Singapore ara Sllr-ra.
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sTEST QUESTIONS

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-10
. May Cut Reserve Requirements

Effective August 20. the reserve re-
auired against net demand deposits Of
New York and Chicago member banks vas
reduced from % 20 u per cent.
When all member bank reserve require
ments were raised - the maximum PER
mitted by law last November, L left men,
Der banks with excess reserves of about
-. zoe. 900. 600 BY August 70, tins figure
had been further reduced by 81 .30O,00o,
400, leaving a balance OF S2.lOO 100000
lust before the requirement was lowered.
According 70 the Alexander Hamilton
Institute. the decrease IN excess reserves
since November has been primarily due
% two factors: (al increases n monetary
circulation; and co. Increase N member
bank deposits.
The banks were called upon 70 pour
some 81. 600 100000 of additional money
into general circulation between November
l ana August .. They obtained this cur
teney by drawing against their reserve
balances IN Federal Reserve banks.
During the same period. the amount
which member banks were required 10 have
on deposit &C Federal Reserve banks NJ
creased by about Sl.4o0 100000. This was
due 70 the increase N member banks de-
post liabilities which. in turn. was caused
by the banks large purchases of United
States securities.
Thus. the increases in circulation So
600000000) and in required reserves ST.
4o0,000O001 drained about $4,000. 10000
from excess reserves in the ten-month
period
Further reduction in reserve require
ments are 70 be expected. not only At New
York and Chicago but for al classes of
member banks, as the volume of monetary
circulation and the purchase of Treasury
obligations BY banks continued to grow.
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A Deity believed. : Joy begun.
A Deity ador~l : 10y advanced:
A Deity beloved. : Joy raSturvd.
Zach efenea of eiety del,ght IN
spires. Young.
Sho,lid We. N ire worlds ripper
wears. nestect
0sosks ancient ssneteaftss. and
adore
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r.ase.l ? Bryant.
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The army and navy need at least
100000 typewriters. Anything 70 AID
more punch
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The world has lot fewer Kings these
dayS~-hut there still are plenty OF people
VINO should be crowned.
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The early Ord may get the worm.
bur VINO wants to ger ND ana get ms own
breakfast
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LINooLN's SECRET

Captain John T. Clemens. ot
me Lincoln museum. Washing
ten. .. O.. 3 satisfied nat -Aera-
ham Lincoln used TWO cots alter
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another paper FOR he original
Clemens has discovered these
marks On Lincoln papers signed
IS cary IS ne year 1sS2. and
continuing every yesr until 1855.
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. Clapper

Uncontrolled Prices VIII
Cause Serious Troubles
Ruthless Taxation Certain
Under Program Of :. D. r.
President Noders+s IN His
Demands FOR Control
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-29

as he does for the many other
fascinating sidelights on these
cartoonists. Soglow is the Char
lie Chaplin of the comic-strip art
lists. Pantomine is his rare gift.
Two other youngsters who are
making American history are
Milton Caniff and Lichty George
Maurice Lichtenstein). Caniff's
gift to the nation is TERRY and
the Pirates" Caniff started on
the Dayton Journal-Herald as an
office boy. On the Columbus Dis
patch he spent six years learning
cartooning and getting a B. A. at
Ohio State. First, to the Asso-
ciated Press in New York and
then to the Daily News. There,
Captain Patterson, who has faith
cred more successful cartoons
than any other American, helped
him work out the adventure back
ground of TERRY and The Pr
ates," laid among the bandits of
the China Coast, with a snaky
woman as the gang leader.
Terry and the Pirates" is another.
of the many-millioned circulation
attracters. It's art style is con-
sidered so good that a New York
gallery exhibited it's drawings.
At 35, Caniff finds his characters
in one of the most dynamic Sec
tors of the world-as real life has
caught up with his strange ad-
ventures.
Lichty, Of the Chicago Times, is
one of the few new cartoonists
who believes a strip should act
ually be comic and not merely
title. The nation knows his Grin
and Bear 1t" as one of the most
intelligent and simple set of COM
ments on the frailties of man. No
solemn philosopher is this 36-year-
old artist who was born in Chi
cago and who prides himself on
having been expelled from the
Chicago Art Institute. He first
came to notice when he won first
prize in the 1928 College Humor
CONTINUED on Page Five)
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it, the "phenominal growth" and
popular appeal" of "Superman"
lis due to the fact that America is
land of hero worshippers. Sup
erman" is the ultimate in heroes"
It's. hard to tell what America
will read-to judge by the wide
variety of comic strips" that are
successful. And anyone who has
the distorted notion that Jews
aren't part of it, interpreters of
and symbols of America should
examine the history of "L'il Alb
ner," the creation of AL Capp.
The exploits of Abner are so vivid
in the minds of his readers that
when, as part of his cartoon, Capp
described a sadie Hawkins
Day." when girls could propose
to boys, almost 400 colleges, uni
versities and cities staged
Sadie Hawkins Day." in Novem-
Der. It is becoming an annual
custom on many campuses. Life
Magazine gave the celebrations
huge display.
Capp reports that he failed in
geometry nine times in his Bridge
port high school, from which he
never graduated He did go to
several art schools, the first of
them the Pennsylvania Academy
of Arts. His first experience
came in 1928 when he was asked
to substitute for a cartoonist who
had just quit the Associated Press.
Capp attributes his success to
Ham Fisher, cartoonist of Joe
Palooka." The latter was the
first one to give him a chance, as
one of his assistants. When Capp
got chance to perfect his own
idea of strip he chose a south
ern mountain family; called them
the Misunderstanding hokum
with yokel. United Press took the
feature. Capp, who lives in New
Hampshire and works in Boston,
is one of the most successful car
tonists in the country-now that
he's all of 33. Over 500 news
papers publish his strip.
Such is fame today that Harry
Hershfield is better known for his
gifts as an after-dinner speaker
than as the gifted cartoonist and
humorist that he is. "Abie the
Agent" which introduced some of
the most famous Yiddish phrases
into : the American language, is
the eighth oldest comic strip in
existence, Sheridan reports. Hersh-
field, a native of Cedar Rapids,
Ia. boasts that the only art train
ing he received came by way of
several months at the Chicago
School of Illustration. From copy
boy on the Chicago Daily News he
progressed through various stages
until he became sports cartoonist
on the San Francisco Chronicle.
Arthur Brisbane gave Hershfield
his chance as he did many other
cartoonists. Few may remember
desperate Desmond" WIFI C h
Hershfield created in 1910. It
was on the style that has become
popular today. One of the char
acters was Gomgatz, who, from
time to time, spoke Yiddish. The
old Nathan Straus used to love
that Gomgatz, who was a cannibal
chief. Straus suggested to his
close friend, Arthur Brisbane,
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toon to himself. From that idea
emerged "Abie the Agent" in
which Able and Reba were the
first "Mr. and Mrs" Brisbane
once called "Abie the Agent" "the
first of the adult comics in Amer
lea" Hershfield still considers
himself more the philosopher than
the humorist, although his gags
of today become the vaudeville
COMICS wisecracks of tomorrow.
Hershfield has tried to depict the
"alrightnik" of the lower and up
per middle class. And America
has found that an "alrightnik" is
the same whether he's a Jew or
a Christian.
Father of Boob McNutt"
The other day Reuben Lucius
Goldberg saw his son indicted as
an ensign in the United States
Navy. He has achieved a status
that he could not have dreamed
of back in 1907 when he wrote
and illustrated his first Foolish
Question No. l." a series which
since has become a part of the
American language. RUDE Cold
berg might even be considered a
President-maker- perhaps Pres
ident-breaker is a better word.
When Paul V. McNutt, former
Governor of Indiana, was a candi-
date for the Democratic nominal
ton for President, people said he
could never make the grade with
a name like that. It reminded
Americans of Boob McNutt."
That's how a comic character can
become part of the flesh and blood
of millions. Today, RUDE Cold
berg is a "high-class' editorial
cartoonist, who draws the daily
cartoon for the extremely conser-
vative Republican New York Sun.
Until the war came along, Gold
berg could be depended upon to
use his gift of the pen and pencil
for acid comments on the New
Deal. That's a far cry from the
crazy inventions which used to
delight tens of millions of Amer
leans. His cartooning days start
ed on the San Francisco Chronicle,
in a city which seemingly sprout-
ed more cartoonists than any
other. Then he went to New
York. There one famous charac-
ter after another emerged. His
expressions became more famous
than Presidential messages. mike
And Ike, They Look Alike"
"Boloney" and "Life's Little
Jokes" were among the many
phrases that were part of an era
and Of a people.
Milt Gross, born in the Bronx,
was the first to write Yiddish in
English. His ''Nize Baby added
to the rollicking laughter of the
loony 'twenties. Then came such
comic-strip characters as That's
My Pop" as cruel and yet as fun
ny a commentary on male vanity
as appears in our Sunday sheets,
and Count Screwloose." Otto
Soglow is more morose and de-
mands better mind for the I'M
derstanding of his silent Little
King" Nobody would believe that
Soglow used to do cowboy draw
ings for Western Story" but
Sheridan vouches for that story,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-29
Masters Of The Comic Strip
Heroes of the Millions
BY PAUL B. GREENE

"Superman" is song. He is a radio program. He is
cartoon. He is the greatest crcuatiOnpuer in Amer
can journalism. This giant of who scars through
the air smashing villains and rghtng wrongs is the idol OF
of millions of American boys and girls Millions OF
adults think that he is the ideal hero for their youngsters
follow. He is much part of the thinking of America
Babe Ruth, George NJ COhan and President Roosevelt
DerhaDS more.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-29

Two young fellows, Jerry Siegel
and Joe Shuster, both Of Cleve-
land, are responsible for the most
phenominally successful comic
strip of the last decade. These
lads, in their middle twenties,
earn $4,000 apiece from Super
man."
What the comic strip artist
knows about the mass mind is
shown in the appointment by the
Office of Facts and Figures in
Washington of Lee Falk to super
wise the preparation of foreign
language broadcasts. Falk is the
author of Mandrake the Magi-
clan" and 1.-THE Phantom"
The first comprehensive story
of these masters of the American
mind is told by one of them, Mar
tin Sheridan. His book, Comics
and their Creators" (Hale, Cush-
man and Flint is an important
addition to Americana. Joe Pa
looka's joining the army can do
more for national morale than all
the communicates of the War De-
partment. Dick Tracy routing
out the gangsters accomplishes
more for law and order than three
books by Edgar Hoover. Who
and what these comic artists are
is one of the keys to American
character.
800 Papers Garry "Superman"
Now, take "Superman. The
text is written by Siegel. The
characters are drawn by Shuster.
800 newspapers print their work
every day. Youngsters who get
discouraged easily can profit by
the example of these boys who
first created "Superman" when
they were in high school. For
five years they peddled him from
syndicate to syndicate. Each one
said "Superman" was fantastic
and unsellable. J. S. Liebowitz,
publisher of monthly comic maya
zines, thought he'd give the boys
a chance. He did in the June,
1888 Action Comics Magazine"
Today 100000 people read the
exploits of the man who flies over
skyscrapers, protects the poor,
avenges the innocent. Siegel and
Shuster have created the stream
lined 20th-century Robin Hood.
There's a magazine called Super
man." which has a circulation of
100000. "Superman" is an ami
mated cartoon which Paramount
has undertaken to distribute for
three years, one month. At
Baltimore library they now issue
a list of books in the children's
department labeled "Superman
Recommends" The results are
astonishing. AS Sheridan explains