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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-05-03
BIG School Carnival

Final details have been completed
for the Bailey Gatzert Carnival to
be given from 7 to $50 pm, Friday,
May 5, in the school.
With Mrs. Duwe, chairman of the
ways and means committee in
charge, an evening of fun and enter
tainment is being planned. In addi-
ton to a talent show in the auditor
ium, concessions of a fish pond, bak-
cry booth. needlecraft booth, refresh
ments, pant sale and movies will
be featured in several rooms.
Newly elected officers of the PTA
are Mrs. Wax, president; Mrs Bed
ford, first vice president; Mrs. Oda
second vice president; Mrs. Hall.
secretary; and Mrs. Drummond.
treasurer.
outgoing officers include Mrs
Agbalog, Mrs Smith, Mrs. Komoriya,
Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Full, all
of whom have served for two years.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-05-03
NISEI CALENDAR
MAY

MAY
6-St. Peters Mission bazaar. II
am. to 8 pm. Dancing from $3.50
pm. to IL pm.
- Bellami's anniversary dance
1T Happens Every Spring. in Rain
bow Room of Edmond Meany Hotel
Music by Bumps Blackwell's junior
band. Hours from pm. to IL mid
night.
7-Methodist Duzzers to present
"Hi-Lo" revue in church.
7-Shoyukai children's May Day.
IL - Lotus Starlettes to present
calico Mood, stag stagette- dance
in Buddhist auditorium.
12-Spring Concert at Japanese
BAPTIST Church. 8 pm.
20-Valeda S spring informal dance
26-Lotus acknowledgement me-
mortal services.
27-Oldtimers Dance sponsored by
Lotus Shoyukai from $50 pm. to
1890 am. in Buddhist auditorium.
Music by Vern Mallory and his or
chestra.
29-Synkoa skating party in Rol-
lerland 1890 pm. to 1890 am.
JUNE
24-Sheyukai general meeting and
social.
25 - Nisei Veterans Committee's
annual picnic at Shadow Lake.
JULY
10 Annual picnic sponsored by
Shoyukai.
AUGUST
IL e. 13-Shoyukai bon odori.
SEPTEMBER
3-LotuS YBA annual bazaar.
3-Dance sponsored by Lotus Mer-
curry.
Back School social sponsored
by Shoyukai.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-05-03
q RECOMMENDED READING

For all those who are looking over
the new car field before buying, and
those who are just naturally inter
ested in cars, we recommend the
new Consumers Union" report
May, 1880.
characteristics and specifications
are given for all the new cars in
this unbiased report, which empha-
sizes that there is no such thing as
a "best car However, based upon
a factual summary such as this, the
new car buyer can make a more in
telligent selection of the best auto
mobile for his particular require
ments.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-05-03

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. 1850
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-05-03
BY HARRY l. TAKAGI
q WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE
RAUNIERS1

RAINIERS?
The current plight OF the Seattle
Rainiers is a matter of considerable
concern to the citizens of munich
patty such as ours, often called the
best baseball town west of Brooklyn
New York; We might even go so
far as to say that the present situa-
ton is fast approaching the status
of civic catastrophe.
In the past, Seattle teams have
been buried in the cellar after the
first month Of play. so the sight of
the Rainiers as upside down league
leaders at this stage Of the season
is no particular novelty. However,
seldom before. if ever, have we heard
of a ball club losing % out of its
last "a decisions, which was the tab
Ulation on the Rainiers after last
Sundays doubleheader with San
Diego, at which time the current
losing streak had extended to nine
consecutive games. Offhand, this
correspondent can't recall any Sc
attic team with a comparable rec
ord in the past. Our memory. how
ever. extends backwards only as far
| as Wade Red" Killefer and his 1923
| champions. so we do not presume to
pose as any authority on the subject.
Be that as it may the situation of
the present Seattle team has a GER
tain morbid interest for many fans,
including yours truly. At the start
of the 1850 season, the Rainiers were
not rated as pennant contenders,
but neither were they expected to be
the worst team in the league. Fifth
place finishers in 1949. the Rainiers
were expected to find niche in ap-
proXimately the same spot this year
Then what's the explanation for the
present tailspin into the depths of
the leagues basement?
It's easy to give a capsule eXpla-
nation: mo hit, no field, no pitch
which would be true enough as far
as it goes AS an analysis, however,
ii falls short of being adequate be-
cause it doesn't explain WHY a
bunch of players, most of whom are
rated as of Glass AAA calibre, aren't
holding up as team.
AS far as your correspondent is
| concerned the real reason for the
Rainier misfortunes lies in the fact
that due to age, physical condition,
and lack of ability on the part of the
players, there is no nucleus of play
ers who can play game in and game
out over the stretch of a season.
Pennant contenders usually are built
| around at least five or six players
who will start close to ninety per-
cent of the seasons games. These
players. the "class" of the team,
will supply most of the hitting, take
care of the key fielding spots, and
will hold the team together when
interchangeable substitutions are
made in the remaining positions
The present Seattle roster contains
no players who will come even close
to playing $50 games this season,
Colman has the ability, but his legs
won't stand up. Heath and Judnich
can't hit lefthanders Schuster Frey,
! and York used to be able to play
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committee to review records of APP
plicants for Military Government
and vice chairman of the Inter
American Conference on Conserva-
ton of Renewable Resources. He
also was deputy chairman OF the
U. S. delegation to the United Ma
tons Scientific Conference on Con-
serVation and Utilization of Resour-
ces.
He is a member of the Presidents
Advisory Committee on Management
Improvement in Government; the
board of directors of the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Foundation, and several
etsrans organizations.
He was appointed Secretary of In =
ierior December /, 1919.
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The n. W. Times Mailbag

for the coming NVA (Nisei Veterans
Association Talent Jamboree, my
vote carried great deal Of weight
Our" choice. an eye-appealing bit
of womanhood, Miss Takae Tanino
90. naturally. you must have guessed
Could you, rather, would you for
ward to this office, in my care, a
few shots of this long limbed beauty?
A photograph such as that we saw
would do very we'll Our drab office
could very well stand a few pictures
of Northwest pulchritude to liven
it
Is the grass much greener on our
side of the fence? With anticipation
Yours truly,
Frank 1wanaga
Public Relations
Editors note: The long -limbed
Nisei beauty's picture is on its
way.)
LIKES OUR FOTOTIMES
Chicago, Ill
Dear editor:
You folks really have a grand
] paper and the Fototimes is okayi
Sure look forward to the goings- or
of Seattle
Sincerely,
Eddie SatO
Editors note: Thanks, Eddie.
And how are you progressing as
l an artist i'm the Windy City?)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-05-03

MISS TANINO Is SHARP
Los Angeles, Calf.
Dear sir.
A few months ago, we in this Of
flee were delighted to see your offset
pictorial section Needless to say, the
pictures were scanned with grea :
deal of enthusiasm, each member
picking what he thought was the
ideal Washington beauty.
Being director of public relations
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Letters to The Star

M street. where there is a traffic light
four miles from the District line. About
three fourths of mile of that distance
is through the congested area previously
mentioned.
Several deaths and numerous near
accidents have already occurred. That
more children have not been killed is
due, not to the watchfullness of drivers
passing through. but to the extreme
vigilance of parents who are afraid to
permit their children to cross South
Capitol street unattended on their way
to daily or Sunday school.
How many more people must be al
most hit. injured, or killed crossing
that street before Mr.. Keneipps seven
criteria are met? How can a daily or
even an hourly traffic count indicate
that an agile and alert adult must wait
up to ten minutes to cross that volume
of traffic-and then sometimes have to
jump out Of the way of a speeding car
which has appeared unexpectedly? A
personal inspection Of the area by Mr..
Keneipp during various hours of the day
and evening is certainly in order.
Joseph Wegbreit.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Regardless of Doomsdoy

For some reason or other (nobody seems to
know just why) the sun and the moon turned
blue over the North Sea few days ago. People
in parts of the United Kingdom and Denmark
saw it all very clearly-a more factual thing,
apparently, than the flying saucers and transu-
cent bath tubs that have been said to be soaring
about in our own American skies Hardly less
interesting than the phenomenon itself, however,
was the reaction it caused among certain individ-
uals. Forgetting the old saying about "once in
a blue moon" (which suggests that there have
been such celestial hijinks in times past), they
grew jittery and feared that the end of the world
was at hand. And then what did they do? They
rushed to their banks to draw out their money,
determined to take it with them regardless of
the oncoming doomsday. Whatever the psyche
logists and psychiatriSts may have to say about
the property instinct or human conduct under
stress, there can be no doubt that our race of
bipeds has a lot of oddity in it, And perhaps
that's just as well: 1t tends to make life
interesting by injecting little absurdity into
what might otherwise be an unbearably somber
state of global affairs, with or without weird
discoloratiops in the heavens above us.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
The Consumer Cannot Win

The consumer stands to lose, one way or
another, if the Public Utilities Commission orders
a readjustment of rates for electricity supplied
by the Potomac Electric Power Company to
Capital Transit and the District Government.
According to figures furnished the Commission
by Pepco, individual light users have been the
victims of discriminatory rate system-one that
permits Capital Transit and the District to buy
electricity far below it's cost of manufacture In
a six-month period these losses totaled $57837O,
Pepco asserted while household users of current
were paying $857, ,216 above production cost.
The power company's figures have been chal-
lenged for accuracy. They need careful checking
by the PUG. But if they prove to be reasonably
accurate the conclusion is justified that small
consumers have been carrying share Of the
deficits caused by inadequate charges for street.
car operation and street lighting. This is
manifestly unfair and should be corrected. But
any correction of the inequitable rate schedule
will hit the general public from other directions.
Capital Transit already has warned that any
substantial increase in its power bill would
necessitate another fare raise. And an increase
In street lighting expenditures by the District
eventually would have to come out of the pockets
of the taxpayers The prospect indicates that no
matter where he is or what he doeS-the con-
sumner cannot win.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
This and That

the younger set is still with us, including
the catbird, thrush, thrasher and tewhee,
I remain,
Sincerely, o. E. C.
Water birds are a study all by them
selves. Here we have the herring gull
and the ring billed gull and occasionally
some others.
Down in the bay are the ospreys and
others. Ospreys draw to their nests
grackles, which feed upon the fish the
ospreys bring to their young. Ospreys
and grackles get along very well to-
gether.
The herring gull is the most familiar
along the entire Eastern coast. They
follow the ships, looking for food. They
will eat carrion as we'll as fresh fish,
being a sort of aquatic vulture, in this
respect. They are smart and will drop
clans on the shore to open them.
All of our local gulls like millipedes.
even angle worms: that is why they
flock to the green grass along shore and
in some of the parks.
They will fly to garbage cans, even
places where garbage may be dumped, as
it was sometimes in the old day.
Gulls often fly far inland, and follow
the plow. to get worms.
Gulls nave square tails, while terms
do not, as rule.
Gulls fly with their bills nearly on
a line with their bodies, while terms
carry their bills pointed down.
The gull is the one which alights on
the water.
The tern hovers and plunges for food.
Evening star., 1950-09-30

Barnee Breeskin, the leader of the Shore
ham Orchestra, wrote the music. My
wife--she was Corinne Griffith of the
movies-wrote the words. It's been pub
lished by Leo Feist. Minnesota and
Michigan and score of high schools
are using it with different lyrics.
And the fans Just look at the pic
lures on these walls. That's Jesse Jones
throwing out the first ball of our first
Washington game. That was in 1887.
He had never seen a football team until
7 got him Interested
Read the framed telegram over there.
Never mind, I'll read it for you. Thank
you for your wire of sympathy and best
wishes for my recovery. I sincerely hope
Sammy Baugh will slam his way to VIC
tory in every game of the season and lead
the team to signal triumphs over it's ad-
versaries. My best wishes to you and
every member of the Redskin team
Signed: Carter Glass;"
"Hc used to motor in from Lynchburg
every Sunday to see the Redskins
play. Just look at these pictures of
celebrities in attendance at the games.
That's Jimmy Byrnes and his wife. They
were regulars. There's Eisenhower. That
was taken in 1945. He had just flown
into New York that morning from Ger
Evening star., 1950-09-30

This research will go on, regardless of the FEC
attitude, and the commission ought to keep an
open mind toward these developments, with a
view to giving the public the benefit promptly of
any major improvement.
Meanwhile, if CHS is permitted to carry out
its plans for regular color broadcasts at an early
date, TV set owners will have to decide for them
selves whether to convert their present sets SO
to receive CHS color-and thus miss black-and-
white programs (unless special switches also are
nstalled)-or stick to black-and- white television
on the regular channels. In short, the color TV
outlook is as confused as mechanically produced
color picture would be on an ordinary black
and-white receiver.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Exit of d Champion

. The new worlds heavyweight boxing cham
pion says graciously, that he hopes to be as great
a champion as was Joe Louis, But Ezzard Charles
probably is fully aware of the magnitude of the
job of enualling the exploits of the fighter he
defeated at Madison Square Garden-with an
assist from Father Time. Few who saw the
bruisfng contest, either at ringside or through
television, believe that Charles could have de-
feated the Brown Bomber of a decade ago.
Joe told reporters that after the first three or
four rounds he realized he was washed up" Age
was beginning to tell by then and its effects
became increasingly noticeable as the rounds
passed. It saddening to those who had
followed the remarkable career of the former
Alabama cotton picker to see the change that
two years of inaction and SO birthday anniver-
saries had wrought in him. Joe Louis exit was
edged with sentiment not only because he was
great fighter but clean one-both in the ring
and out of It.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
The Biq Chief From Ninth Street

many-When he heard about the game
he hurried here. That's Gen. George
Cattlett Marshall putting heavy wool
socks over his wife's shoes. 1t was one
of the coldest Sundays we ever had for
Washington game.
That's Bill Corum. You say you were
working in New York in 1887? Then
you must remember his lead on the ar
rival of the Redskins when we beat the
New York Giants and went on to the
national championship. It was: AT the
head Of 150-piece brass band and TO-
600 fans, George Preston Marshall slipped
unobtrusively into New York today
There I am at Baileys Beach New
port in 1925 lunching with Mrs. A. j.
Drexel Biddle. Julian Sloan and Julian
.Girard. That picture of me and Jack
Hearst was taken in Havana. That's
with Jimmy Walker just after arriving
in Germany on the Bremen. That's I
and Buddy de Sylvia. The couple arm
and arm in the center of that picture
is Tony Biddle and I. There am with
George Vanderbilt and Eddie Ricken-
backer
$50 you were in New York during the
Roosevelt Raceway days? That story
about the millionaire Washington laun-
dryman taken to the cleaners? Not a
thing to it. I didn't lose nickel on the
Roosevelt RaceWay. was just hired by
a lot of mlllionaireS to manage it.
Here's picture of it. Look at those
turns. You could run around them faster
than you could drive car. What crazy
idea of show! It was the most boring
thing I ever watched. They lost about
million and half in two seasons.
"Why they picked me to run it, don't
know. I never drove an automobile in
my life. Used to have chauffeur-now
my wife drives me.
Reminds you of Tex Rickard and
his 500 mi]lionaires of the Madison
Square Garden Club? I had more mil
lionaires in on that Raceway than Tex
Rickard ever thought of. Just look at
this picture of my board of directors.
"You say you come from Buffalo? I
remember playing in vaudeville there in
1915 at Mike Shea's theater in Court
street. Yes. did lot of trouping. Still
got lot of the ham In me. But the
theater doesn't owe me anything. In
1919 I paid the first $4,000 on this
building Ghe Palace Laundry building
on Ninth street, from the profits of one
seasons management of the old Belasco.
That's when we started to branch
out-branches all over town. I created
the slogan Long Live Linen and put it
on every store front. Some one wrote
letter to The Star and said: George
Preston Marshall is Communist. The
signs mean Long Live Lenin.'"
Evening star., 1950-09-30
By Charles E. TroceweN
A. J. Bascolm.

Gulls are marvellous flyers, being able
to take advantage of every wind
People at sea often wonder If 1t is
the same flock of gulls following them.
They sometimes say it is impossible, it
must be a new group. but the fact is
that gulls are capable of long, long
flights.
California gulls love to eat field mice,
and in doing so flew to Nevada. In Salt
Lake City may be seen a monument to
the California gulls which came from
1848 to 1850 to eat millions of crickets,
and so save the crops.
.Gulls are wonderful people" and de-
serve all the protection we can give
them.
Using water pistol on the squirrels
and pigeons is not bad idea. A better
one. however, is to put out enough food
for all.
Hungry creatures, spying and smelling
good food, are going to eat it. They are
"only one times one" as the poet put
it, and know no better.
If enough food is given, there will be
enough for all, and this in turn will save
the human factor in the scene from be-
coming too excited about something that
does not rate red face. After all, there
are so many ills in the modern world
that thoroughly deserve our attention
there is not much sense in becoming
upset over squirrels, as long as they do
not invade ones house. That, as some
homeoWners have discovered, is matter
worth worrying over.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
Strickland Gillian.
Crowded Bus

In the cause of public safety I write
the following experience during 35-
minute ride home on a w. M. & A. bus
about $40 pm. Tuesday. AS the bus
left the terminal at Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue. NV, it was full.
with people standing in the aisle.
At each stop more and more people
we're taken on until passengers were
even standing crowded up into the wind
shield and on the step at the door of the
bus. The passengers had moved to the
rear of the bus and the bus was jammed!
1t was impossible for the driver to see
anything to the right>of the bus.
This is terribly dangerous procedure.
and steps should be taken to see that it
is corrected. We should not wait until
another accident occurs and then cor
rect matters.
A. J. Bascolm.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
BY George Kennedy

MO ONE except couple of cigar
store Indians was in the Office
when the interviewer entered. But
voice, apparently coming from private
bath behind the opposite wall, immedi-
ately began to fill the room.
Just got off a train and I'm changing
my shirt" the voice said Look around.
Those cigar store Indians are registered
with the Office in the Department Of the
Interior that keeps track of genuine
Americana. One was in front of the
drug store of DR.. Keeley, at Dwight. Ill.
the man who started the Keeley cure.
The other is from an old Georgetown
tobacco shop"
minute later, George Preston Mar
shall followed his voice into the room.
He's six feet two, weighs 206 pounds
the healthiests syoungest-looking man OF
54 you ever saw-hair parted little to
the right of center and slicked down just
as 1t was in his high school days.
$50 you want me to talk about the
Redskins" the voice continued. II can't
tell you why they are the most popular
football team in the country.
Their popularity is. something you
have to experience; you can't just be
told about it. If you want to find out
about it, step in Sunday on the first
game of the season at Griffith Stadium,
against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Wherever they play on the road they
outdraw other visiting teams. During
the war our gross for six games-box-
Office alone, not counting the conces-
sions-was three quarters of million
dollars.
Here's a hand that has sold a lot
Of tickets" Mr.. Marshall picked up
from his desk an upright sculptured
hand, life-size. with fingers outstretched
as if to pass the ball. TITS the hand of
Sammy Baugh. A sculptor named Henry
Lyon did it for me in Los Angeles.
THE Redskins are Washington in
stitution! But Holiday Magazine runs
a Washington edition and never men,
tions them. What do you think of that?
When Redskin game is on the
air it blocks out all opposition. Their
Hooper rate is the highest in radio
higher than presidential speeches, in
cluding those of the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt. AS many as 80 per cent of the
radio sets in use have been found to be
tuned in on the Redskin game. People
here don't realize that every Redskin
game is broadcast in Boston and Hart
ford and Atlanta-on 18 eastern stations
in all and 10 FM stations.
"The Redskins are the only profess
sional football team with successful
song. You know Hail to the Redskins.
Evening star., 1950-09-30
FALLS CHURCH, Va.

FALLS Cf1OhCf1, va.
Dear Sir:
"a recent visit to the Atlantic Oceans
most popular resort has given me first
hand knowledge of the habits OF sea
gulls.
IT observed three separate kinds, the
largest of which alighted on sea wall.
and seemed to be as large as an average
duck, same coloring and blunt beak,
while those I have seen in fight over
the Potomac are no larger than pigeons.
"The jetty extended full city block
into the ocean. The larger birds were
seen there, gathering their food in flight;
hundreds of smaller. darker specimens
about the size of starlings seemed to
gather their food from the surf as each
wave washed up.
ITO the many who have inquired con-
corning squirrels, I have some encour-
aging news, it being understood that
those who cater to the birds do not wish
to kill the squirrels but want to frighten
them off long enough for the birds to
get their share.
MY brother-in-law, who maintains a
window feeder, uses glass water pistol
about the size of regular revolver,
which shoots stream of water about
Is feet.
II think this is very humane and keeps
the squirrels at bay until the birds have
fed. Hoping this will solve the squirrel
problem, and assuring you that all OF