0,1,3 OUR PsoeaAM To Tell the Truth as We See It. To Do Our Best for Seattle and the Northwest DECEMBER 9, 1941. . . . .v AN: INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEW ALL THE NEWS TO PRINT MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED Associated 1' entitled exclusively to the use for repumlcatio? 0? a? new. dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper all? local news of spontaneouyorigin published he?eln' mgm' 0? republication of all other matter herein are also reserved- No Turning Back From Task For Peace-Seeking Nations ONGRESS has declared that a state of war exists between the United States and the Japanese Empire. The Senate was unanimous in this declaration. In the more numerous House, only one feeble voice was raised in dissent. Regretfully, and yet ?with honest indignation, the President had asked that Congress take this action. And what else, in the name 'of common decency if there were no stronger motive, could Congress do? The case afforded no oppor- tunity for further parley and procrastination. No emergency could have been more immediate and pressina. Japan had taken the initiative, not only in premeditated, treacherous and murderous assault, but also in dragooning the helpless Emperor, sometime ?Son of Heaven,? proclaiming that a state of war existed. A into .95. 11g, :5 ERE was no room for temporizi and Congress was in no mood to tem- porize. The unscrupulous enemy, long schooled in methods made infamous by Hitler, had struck without warning; and not until after striking had seen fit to say why. No pacifist, however. ardent; no isolationist, however sincere, could react in any way but one to such a demonstration of hostility; none could fail to sense the instant need of resistance and full reprisal. 51?- similar action was almost concurrent. Britain?s premier had given unequivocal promise that in the event of conflict between the United States and Japan, Britain would declare war on the latter within the hour. Britain didn?t need to wait for that. Japanese attacks on British territory justified the declaration which preceded ours. And so at last the battle lines are clearly drawn for war involving more nations and more people than any heretofore waged in a troubled world. There is new to be no turning from'the grim task until the enemies of humanity and peace ., hatched. . 36 Jr'- 35 if I 7 When War News ls Delayccl, 52? . f?fThere's Always Good Reason HE first American victim of Japan?s treacherous attack has been identified as Robert Tyce, killed by machine-gunning from a Japanese plane at the civilian airport he owned near Honolulu. In the widely-distributed on- slaughts of Sunday there were no less than 3,000 casualties; no less than. 1,500 fatalities. Oppressed by sense of instant loss, the American people must brace them- selves .in realizatiOH-thatqthis was but the toll of one day of war. They have wit.- nessed' only the first fruits of the assailant?s insane fury. - Inevitany there will '8 have been routed back and buried inthe burrows where their evil plans were PRIVATE LIVES By Edwin Cox WHEN JAP my To DRAW . A BEAD ON is (mane FOXY GENERALIESIMO GIVES DINNER PARTIES FOR 1 IN A LONELY GROVE 3/ if WROTE. FOR HOURS WlTl-l CLOSED 1r- Lil-(E TO EYE- STRAIN You MIGHT my THE METHOD useo BY snot/anus GREAT WM. 5. ocAos-roue no COMPOSINCT His SPEECHES. moron/mus AND ARMY THE IN (T . TAMARA PET whim GOES WALKING In TINY REPLICAS OF HER FAMOUS MlsleEss's BALLET surpass! More Demands; More More T?axes; More ASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec. have always taken the view that'both sides of any problem should he presented fairly and fully. I have repeat- inIlation?that it is only an indirect adjunct to overall price control. The contrary view that taxation is the direct method and price-fixing only the indirect adjunct' is so simply and clearly presented in the following letter, which I received today from one signing him- self by the pseudonym "Cantillon," an early laissez? faire economist, that I am setting it out in full: ?Mydear General Johnson: ?sometime ago. in one of your columns, you held up to scorn and ridicule the position that?a- proper fiscal policy?taxation?can be utilized to prevent inflation. As): happen to hold'this? view; I fake'the liberty of writing this letter and risk offending you be more such news. It will keep coming until that fury is stifled in defeat. such news there can be little or no forewarning; and there'will be times when?the?exigencies of war may require brief suppression. As to this, .the judgment of those charged with the conduct of America?s part in war '?may not be Questioned._ We may only hope they will not, except for sufficient Ereason, withhold news, be it good or ill, from or 5 immediately concerned or Efrem the nation as a whole. I at war; all of us deeply involved, whether at fighting fronts or at hoine. Steps to be taken to win the war cannot be heralded to the world, nor subj?cf?dto risks of'eavesdropping enemies. Even the boldest strategy must be . by characterizing your owu position as superfi cial and wrong. do not contend that all price increases can be prevented bya proper tax policy (and I do not; be- lieve that it is desirable to prevent all price in- creases), but only that the major problem of? infla- tion can be solved in this way; and if this is done, the scope for price control and difficulties thereof would be greatly diminished. My position can be stated brie?y. ?The price of oranges in any town would rise if more of us? decided to buy more oranges and if it were not posSible to increase the available supply; similarly the price would rise if the supply were reduced. ?This. of course, is a simplified but very accurate description of what is now happening With respect to goods in general. You are aware of the fact (and By BRIG. GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON edly stated that taxation is not the way to control Pay; More Purchases; e'mand; Ad lnfiniium have called attentionto it in your column) that, it we are to make an all-out effort, the supply of con- sumer goods will have to be reduced. The resources .used in their production have to be transferred to, produce militaiy supplies. . . ?At the same?time, people have larger incomes, due to more and higher rates of pay. Having larger incomes, they want to buy more. As they can?t buy more. they drive up the price of the things they do buy. - I "In the case of oranges we can stop the price increase if we can stop people from trying to buy so many. 1n exactly the same way, if we can step the people from-trying to buy so much of everything, we can prevent a rise in the price of everything. This we can do by taxation. . ?If wehavejan income of $2,000 and only $1.500 worth of goods are available to me at present prices, the simplest way of preventing a price rise is to pre- vent me from spending more than 51.500. This can be doneby getting me to save or hoard $500. .For obvious reasons, the best of all ways is to collect $500 in taxes from.me. "To repeat, do not contend that all price in- creases can be prevented in this way, but only the general ones. When this is done. then will the price- fixers have a chance of managing the special problems. - "Very truly yours, - ?Cantillon.? it WELL, Cantillon, old boy, if you are going to pay me more and more as I ask for more and more to buy more and more and then you tax me more and more to prevent me from buying more and more. and then I ask more and more, etc, etc., etc., ad nauseum thought this was inflation, governed by; discretion, perhaps by official secrecy, until ends sought have been accomplished. The American people are determined and courageous. They know this war must and will be Won. Meanwhile, with respect to many details, they must also be patient. 5% 55 it? First Duty ol?a Citizen: 1 Mincl Your wn Business NE recurrent thought assailed the mind of many a Seattle citizen during the if. course of that fantastic afternoon when news of the Japanese attacks in the Pacific began to reach American shores. The thought was that from the moment the firstbomb fell upon Pearl Har- bor, the world would never be the same again, for Americans. All unwilled by us, our way of life had suddenly been marred and altered. Already Seattleites note unusual things happening. Motor vehicles are stopped as they cross the Lake Washington Floating Bridge. Major buildings are patrolled by police. Guards are on duty along the waterfront. Air raid wardens are constantly on call. 36 ~52; 0 one can be blamed for being curious as to the meaning of these proced- ures. Yet it is a curiosity that in most instances should be left unsatisfied. the problems of patrol. I Cooperation is the first duty of every Seattle citizen these days.. And One way in which everyone can cooperate is by going quietly about his own affairs. One of the most useful things a citizen can do in this emergency is mind his own business. ance of their complete loyalty to the United States. Their devotion to the land of their birth, as a matter of fact, has never been in doubt. Their present role is not a pleasant one, and in that they are deserving of sympathy and the respect due to any citizen. . 3 In any event, this is clear: It is not the part of private citizens to heckle dr I harass these or any other nationals. If there are aliens to be watched, undoubt- Hedly the government bureaus have been advised, and will do the watching ef- fectively. .. X. a 5:5 viz" EADERS of Seattle?s large group of American-born Japanese renew assur- . . WNW- A handful of interested questioners can soon become a crowd, increasing ASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec. away the subtlest piece of war propaganda is the announcement that. the Soviet; government has started a chess-tournament in the beleaguered city of Moscow. While Dr. Goebbels is shrilly warning the war- weary Germans that a Nazi defeat means the destruction of the German people, his Soviet counter? part calmly replies ?Pawn to King's One can see these devotees of the'gambit declined and the Four Knights game, with head bowed over the chessboard, studying the next move. The stukas gambol overhead, the roar of drum- fire swells from the west. Panzer units slash and worry away to the north and the south. Far. far removed from the scene of danger, Reichsfuerbrer Adolf Hitler paces his well-warmed headquarters and issues statements that Moscow is already captured and that the Red armies are? every? where in retreat before his advancing adjectives. (That withdrawal from Rostov-on?Don?? Think nothing of it! The Red snipers made the city too unhealthy for the Germans?a sin against God and man l?and anyhow Marshal Timoshenko?s troops for which the lives of Russian women and children are naturally forfeit), ?Bishop to Queen's Bishop's is all a: sits with shoulders hunched over his desk in the Kremlin, Litvinoff flies towards the Western Hemisphere. The R. A. F. bombs Hamburg rather thoroughly and Goering tells Pelain that it's time to break the Armistice. "Knight to King?s Bishop's ?3 HE Libyan desert smokes as great herds of Axis tanks. like trapped elephants. mill around and Seek to break through the British ring that traps them. Mussolini bounces his air-marshal and the Ital- ian look around for British to whom they can surrend?r. America launches new warships, settles the coal strike, and the tanks and planes and guns roll off the assembly?lines. "Rook to King's Bishop's Square (Castles)." suddenly out-numbered the Nazis?another crime While All Over +he'World, They Serenely Ponder?Chess Problems By JAY FRANKLIN . Leningrad and ,Sevastopol still holding out. Hitler?s ?puppet-goverpment at Helsinki spurs on the reluctant Finns to try 'again at the Murmansk railroad. The Japanese army starts another he to the effect that the Soviet army has been withdrawn from the Far East. and the Japanese troups stand poised on the frontier. of Thailand, waiting for the . end of the rainy season. More Imperial troops arrive at Singapore. Japanese bombs fall on the Burma Road and Chiang Kai-Shel: calls for aid from the democracies. The Red army recaptures foxtrteen villages 0n the Kalinin front. The Russiansoil is soaked with Ger- man blood. ?Essen-on??y?lihecls? litters'the Russian plains with rusting, twisted metal.? . A bomb explodes in Jugoslavia. Nazi ~kill a couple of hundred Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, French and Dutch. . Even Franco?s Spain displays little enthusiasm for Hitler's slaughter-house. Washington makes a deal with Mexico, ending the. oil-headache with repeated application of gold and silver. "Pawn to Queen?s It? 1' allies conduct a rear-guard battle. In pivotal America, a coalition of Republicans and prehistoric Democrats,? block contact of prices. Con- gre?ssmen strive hard to alienate labor's loyalty by unconstitutional curbs of the right not to work. Japan ioins the knife-in-the~back inner circles with bombs dropped on United States Pacific bases even while Japanese peace envoys are still talking in Washington. ?Pawn Takes i! there is any symbol of slow?motion and fore? knowledge of the meaning of developments. it is chess. Minutes. hours, day and weeks may pas; but still they cluster around the board pondering the next move. If Moscow holds out as long as the average chess- tournament, Hitler will not keep his promise to the Germans that he will capture the Soviet capital this year. And behind it all is the haunting thought of that final dreadful move ?Knight takes queen (checkmate)." it . Sometimes the Salesman Can +0 Say Than Henry EW YORK, Tuesday, Dec. 9.??Every once in a while I wake'up In the middle of the night with a start and a heavy feeling in my chest. Within a second or two I realize what the trouble is. It?sthe result not worrying about the syndicate salesmen -who traipse around this country selling my column to newspaper editors. Frankly, I wouldn?t like to have their job. .What in the world do salesmen say to editors? During my sleep- less hours I have often pictured what went on after the ?jgood mornings" were over, the door closed and they got down to busmesshalf-nightmarish idea of the dream I have often had of the proceedings: Salesman: Well, I've something here I think you?ll like. You oughta buy Henry McLemore?s column. Editor: Henry McLemore? Never heard of him. Salesman: Vile ill]! How areyou today? How?s the family? You're looking great. I swear, J. B., the years haven?t changed you a?bit. . Editor: Say. what does McLemore write about? Salesman: Listen. I can answer that. He really has a range of subjects. He writes about dogs, dentists, Ickes. autumn leaves, hair cuts, how to carve a turkey, Christmas presents, Mrs. Roose Editor: Yeah, but does he ever touch on the world situatmn? Does he know there is a war going on? . - Salesman: J. B., how's that grown bay of yours coming along? The last time I heard of him he was a freshman at Amherst. Smart boy, that kid. Lots of promise. Editor: He?s a junior now and doing all right. But does McLemore know the world situation? at: a: as Averaging B?s. ALESMAN: J. B. I swear he does. He knocks off Japan one morn- ing, woering the next, and John L. Lewis the day after that. If he doesn?t know what is going on, then Mark Sullivan, Dave Lawrence, Walter Lippman, Ralph Ingersoll, Dorothy Thompson and those other heavy thinkers are doing him wrong. Editor: You mean he reads all those people every day? Salesman: Reads ?em! He memorizes 'em. Not only that. he doesn?t miss a word of Maj. George Fielding Eliot. Hanson Baldwin or any of the military experts. His house is just a mess of thumb- tacks,- maps and pilfered information. Editor: What; about Ralph Ingersoll? Does he keep up on Inger- soll and all those interviev?vs? . . Salesman: That?s McLemOre?s meat. 'Just between the two of us, he is the only paid-up subscriber to PM. McLemore has made up his mind'there will always be a says he likes tb watch the staff support the administration on one page and belt it because of its labor stand on the other. Editor: Has he got a feud? Salesman: 4A what? - 1' DITOR: A feud. All successful columnists must haves feud. Our readers are nuts about reading how this columnist'doesn?t like this columnist, and all about how their trouble started over a scoop in 1913. 1 . . Salesman: No, he hasn?t. J. But he is looking for one. You buy him and I?ll promise that within two months he will haVe picked on Dorothy? Dix and fussed at her for telling Lovelorn that she shouldn?t have kissed him goodnight, even though she did know he had three children in night school. 7 Editor: Okay. I?ll takeMcLemore' for a one?daytrial. Salesman; Thanks,- J. B. You'll never regret it?until you get his copy. 'The . Rosary' Yields Fortune To Man Who. Didn't Write By DALE HARRISON. NEW YORK, Tuesday, Dec. ,do?not writer poems for gold, yet poems have within them sometimes the making of fortunes. One. ofthe most successful songs of all history is "The Rosary.? In that strange way which people have, nve?speak .of it generally as ?Ethelbert Nevin?s ?The Rosary?.? and few men'stop to consider that in one sense it wasn?t Neviu?s Rosary; any more than it was Robert Cameron Rogers?. .. .. . Rogers, then a,citizen of Santa',Barbara',- Calif, wrote poetry in the fine traditibn that 'a'ge'ntleman shOuld be able to turn a neat verse as part of his equipment of a gentleman. From time to time he dashed off poems of much charm and tender beauty, and he did so not because it held any prospect of reward but. because he liked to. 1i it in note, a struggling composer namedEthelbert Nevin. In his capacity as a leading citizen of Santa. Barbara and a splendid host, Rogers invited Nevin to dinner: and after the coffee and brandy the two men wandered into the library. The conversation was desultory, polite. Each man was trying to find a congenial subject of talk. Nevin picked up a book that lay on the table??The Rosary, and Other Poems.? He expressed surprise when he noted that the author of the book was his host. 4 "Yes, I write verse now and then," Rogers said. ?Little things, you know. Nothing pretentious.? 'Nevin politely opened the book and read the first poem. .?The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, Are as a. string of pearls to me. I count them over, every one apart, My rosary, my rosary.? ?It is beautiful,? he said. I . AM a composer," Ethelbert Nevin went on. ?Would you permit me to try my skill with this poem?set it to music ?By all means,? Rogers replied. "You are .most welcome to do so.? ?Let us draw up an agreement," Nevin said. ?By no means," was Rogers? answer. "'It is a little poem. If you set it to music. that will be all it?is nothing which could possibly have wide appeal, even with such music as I am sure you could give it.? - )3 money,? Nevin persisted. ?If we setdown an. agreement, we 'will know how to share." 'r . Rogers laughed. "'That is hardly likely Nevin,? he said. welcome.? I . ?The Rosary" has earned nearly a million dollars for Ethelbet?t Nevin and his estate. - . it ONE learns in New York that it well to have definite agreements written down, no .matter how vague the undertaking may appear or how uncertain, the outcome. To those of us who come here from small places, where agreements are reached orally, and where men do their part without thonght of legal procedure, this business of putting everything down on: paper at first seems amusing and unnecessaI?Y- Invar'iably we come to know it is important. THE NEIGHBORS . By George Clark to become a matter of importance, Mr. ?Go ahead and write yourmusic?if you Wish, and _o SENTENCE SERMONS WE ARE T00 ?To judge?an by the crowd we see them with. judge men by the amount they have inithcir pockets. There is no need for hysteria. There is no call for persecution. The United States has a yeliable and efficacious Federal Bureau of Investigation. -?To estimate men too little by what they have in their hearts. ?To judge people by their mistakes and failures. ??To think too little about the heroic fights they have made. ??To judge our friends by the way they praise us. pay too little atlention to them when mg. . heroin. WM A "And your other sister, deer. I?ve got to knowher address, whether theyshow us our faults. her children are boys or girls, and about how big she is around the hip.? . \Vhat?s he writing a column for? "Butsometimes songs become popular, and earn large sums of HERE came "to visit in Santa Barbara 21 young man of no national