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Seward daily gateway., 1927-07-22

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 APOLOGIES ARE ACCEPTED
 That pays occasionally register protest at of the cracks made with reference to Alaska is realized and especially when jocuar way the Territory is made the butt of rdicule-and by Cheechako. We heartily resent this immensely proud of Alaska home.
 Some weeks ago the Gateway took occasion to read the riot act to salesman who wrote East from Seward about the terrible Alaska weather and high price of ham and eggs.
 Read what his boss has to say:
 Abject Apologies to Our Alaskan Friends
 The Frozen North Isn't Frozen After All
 We are beginning to believe that one H B. Lee Buzza representative is the prize kdder of the Great Northwest Recently it his good fortune to take trip through the frozen North in search of Greeting Card orders Whereupon he got the Editor of Greetings in peck of trouble
 Mr. Lees familiarity with the Alaskan country being much greater than those of who live many thousand miles away, he capitalized this less intimate knowledge by sending the folk back at Crafacres some spectacular photographs showing the hardships endur ed while in search of the elusive order
 It now appears that there isn't any such thing hardship" in Alaska and that MT Lee spoofng the whole crowd and one in the bunch familiar enough with Alaska to know that MT. Lee was writing messages the cards with his tonguein his cheek and grin his face
 Now Alaska sounds cold to the person who has been within several thousand miles of the place. Eevry time manufacturer down in the States who wants a for his product that makes the cold shvers up and down your spine he it "Alaska-th Alas kathat The result is fell for Mr. Lees scenes and made, what supposed, neat little story out of the cards which he mailed back from time time.
 To and behold, we had than started on the next issue of Greetings than along red hot letter of protest from Ewyn Swetmann of the Seward Drug Company in which he took the Editor and Mr. Lee severe ly to task for magnng Alaska in general and Seward in particular In the meantime Mr. Lee had confessed to the Editor that his pranks had not been intended for pub hcaton and had been perpetrated for the purpose of making of the Craftacre folk shudder at the thought of Alaskan travel
 So were all wet and didn't know it! Seward on the day MT. Lee there was than Minneapolis where the furnace fires still burning merrly in many a happy home Struggling with winter in these parts at the present time, it is only natural that thought of Alaska bit frgid
 We will greatly appreciate it. however if the Seward Chamber of Commerce will buy up and burn all those Alaskan postcards which Seward merchants appear have on sale and willing to sell The local newspaper could do good work in protesting against the prac- tce of offering misrepresentave post cards in the Sew ard stores Otherwise, one>else may also regard them as authentic
 Anyway our apologies to our Alaskan readers!
 We present two pictures which show Seward as is It looks good to ugood enough that Seward dealers ought not to be guilty of selling any other kind of picture cards
 
 : Rui!ders' Sunnes .
Seward daily gateway., 1927-07-22
NORTHERN NOTES

Thomas Smith of Nenana, who |entered St. Joseph's hospital two weeks ago, is feeling better, it is re- ported from the hospital.
Evening star., 1927-04-25

attempt by his mechanic to repair the
damage it was decided that the only
thing to be done was to tighten the
ship as much as possible and then at
tempt a landing on the one good
wheel. Accordingly, three hundred and
fifty pounds of ballast was thrown
overheard. Observing these prepara-
tions, and realizing that Chamberlin
had decided to come down, officials of
the field sent up another plane with
message painted on 1t to land at
Mitchell Field. Soon after this, with
consummate skill, the pilot landed
safely, to receive the heartfelt congrat-
ulations from all of the large crowd
who realized the seriousness of the
predicament from which he had ex-
tracted his small party of flyers.
The plane can be repaired in two
days so that no delay is expected in
the hop-off for Paris, but mishaps such
as yesterdays make the hair turn
prematureIy gray and force realization
that frail airplanes still must be treat
Ell with extreme care if they are to
carry human cargo safely through the
skies. One sheared bolt in the under
carriage almost spelt doom for four
people and that they escaped is trib-
ute not only to the field organization,
but to the coolness in peril of the pilot.
In spite Of yesterdays accident, spon-
sors of the plane are undiscouraged,
and preparations are going ahead rap
idly for the thirty-six-hundred-m mile
flight to the French capital. And it
is a safe bet that all of those who wit
messed Yesterdays near fatality will
breathe a sigh of relief if the sturdy
little monoplane succeeds in its guest
Evening star., 1927-04-25
The Best Face.

Residents of Beardstown, ILL.,, where
foods have driven all to second
stories, are putting the best face on
things by joking at the situation.
There is at this place, fortunately
none of the distress and misery which
have afflicted those at other points.
Row your boats right in," one
merchant has painted on the front of
his store. 'Tie your boat to the door
knob and wade right in,' says an
apparently, is the last thing to be
washed away.
AS long as there is life there is
hope, and as long as there is any
humor at all in a situation the aver
age American community will try to
find it and utilize it. Instead Of mop
ing over conditions, a real American
town makes the best of it. No doubt
these same fun-loving residents of
Beardstown have been among the
first to contribute to the Red Cross
fund for sufferers at other places.
In the meantime, there is plenty Of
water and plenty of happiness in
Beardstown. Dogs gather in groups
on portions of land still out Of water;
cats keep close to home; telephone
calls have increased from 10000 to
$4,000 day. Girls have taken unani-
mously to knickers, flannel shirts,
neckties and hip boots. Every one
is making the best of the situation.
Evening star., 1927-04-25
Deeper Complications in China.

A few days ago it seemed as though
the Chinese situation had reached the
limit of complexity. But now other
complications have set in and the
western mind is completely befuddled'
II was hard enough to follow the
course Of affairs when the break came
between the moderates Of the Canton
ese government and the radicals at
Hankow, leaving Chang Kai-shek, at
Nanking, facing his Northern 1oes
across the Yangtze and a possible at
tack by Hankow troops on his left
flank, with Feng, the Christian gen.
eral," in the offing as commander-ln'
chief of the Hankow armies. But now
comes word that Gen. Tang Sun-tse has
been dismissed by the Hankow gov
ernment and is at present under the
orders of Chang Kai-shek and is NOV
ing at his command against Chang
Tso-lin, the Northern leader.
But this is not all. A Shanghai
vernacular newspaper publishes a
dispatch from Shensi that Feng Yu-
hsing, the Christian general, has is
sued a declaration against the Han
kow government, processing adher-
ence to the principles of Sun Yat Sen,
which are the main platform of the
Nanking moderates. And again, de-
spite these apparent accessions to
Chang Kai-shek and secessions from
the Hankow government, Peking OBJ
servers express the belief that Chang
Kai-shek's expedition northward has
spent it's force and that the National
ist tide has reached its flood and will
now ebb.
Such contradictions are not ex-
planned. 1t would seem in all logic
that If Chang Kai-shek has won over
Tang Sun-tse, and il F'eng, the Chris
tian general, has broken with Han
kow and professed the principles upon
which Chang Kai-shek's government
is based, the latter would be in
much stronger position than hereto
fore.
The fact is that there is no real
understanding of what is going on un-
der the surface in China. Intrigue is
the essence of the situation. Bar
gains are being made secretly be-
tween military commanders. Combi'
nations are being formed. There is
apparently no real fealty. 1t would
seem at least, however, that the radi-
cal movement had been checked, and
for that there is occasion for rejoic-
ing. But any speculation as to the
outcome Of this Chinese puzzle is
futile.
Evening star., 1927-04-25
Airplane Frailty.

The uncertainties of flying were
never more vividly illustrated than in
the accident which yesterday befell
the Wright -Bellanca New York-Paris
airpIane. Christened Columbia" in
impressive ceremonies, the ship that
had created a new worlds record for
endurance by staying aloft more than
81 hours Immediately proceeded to
demonstrate the frailty of its con-
struction by stripping its landing gear
as it took off for its baptismal flight.
In it were Clarence d. Chamberlin,
the co-pilot of the duration expedition,
q mechanic and two small girls, one Of
them the daughter Of the owner Of the
plane.
Observers were Mortified, as soon as
the plane left the ground, to see that
the left wheel of the undercarriage
had broken loose from the body and
was sagging down from the fuselage.
They knew that serious injury or
death awaited those in the plane if the
pilot was not apprised Of the acci-
dent. They knew, likewise, that, even
with the knowledge that the undercar'
1iage had cracked, Chamberlin would
have to call on all his skin to get the
ship safely to earth.
Within a few minutes other planes
were circlind the Columbia" the me
chanic in each case holding up wheel
TO warn Chamberlin. He Immediately
looked over the side and saw his
\ broken undercarriage. After vain
Evening star., 1927-04-25
Fog-Piercing Light,

A light that will pierce fog is an
nounced by London inventor who in
a recent demonstration penetrated q
chemical mist with the rays of the
lamp. If tests prove the invention
practical, the potentialities are unlim-
tied. Ships at sea, airplanes and auto
mobiles could be equipped with such
lights and put to rout their worst
enemies, fog and mist. That many
lives would be saved and accidents
avoided is "a certainty. There is no
more hopeless feeling, whether in air,
plane, boat or motor car, than to be
enveloped by an impenetrable fog. The
world is blotted out and no eyes are
strong enough to pierce the gloom. If
the new light proves a success its ben
efits to mankind will be enormous and
an eager world will watch with in
tense interest the results of further ex-
periments.
Evening star., 1927-04-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

gold griffin on a green field with the
insignia "Virtute ct Eide, simple
words meaning Virtue and Faith.
x * 4 4
Tom Hehin, the Alabama Democrat,
deprived of his Senate forum by the
adjournment of Congress, is contlnu-
ing through the Summer what he
labels his patriotic talks" before such
organizations as desire to hear him
and make satisfactory arrangements
with him for his appearance. Henln
is to be a headliner at Indiana Kan
meetings next month, and is scheduled
to address a mass meeting In Terre
Haute, under Klan auspices, on Me-
mortal day May 80. He promises TO
continue his attack on the knights
of Columbus in general and Gov.
Smith of New York in particular. i
am tearing the hide off Al Smith,
Hef1in announced in Washington TINS
week. The Alabama Senator is BOOST
ing Gov. Vic Donahey of Ohio Tor the
Democratic nomination. "Donahey,
he saws, ''is a winner. He is Protest
ant and a dry"
When Mrs. Eli Baldwin was buried
the other day at Ellwood, Ind, at the
tributes bore the card of the Secre-
tary of Labor. James ]. Davis. Thirty
wears ago when Jim" Davis was
tin plate worker back in Indiana, he
boarded with Mother" Baldwin. Her
dodgers slept four in room and two
in a bed, and the future cabinet officer
recalls how he got into difficulties with
his roommates by continual burning
of the kerosene lamp past midnight
that he might study while the others
wanted to sleep. Davis never forgot
his landlady, nor did she forget her
lodger, who afterward rose to fame
and fortune. Her motherly regard,
her sympathy and understanding
Davis has never ceased to praise to
the skies.
An interesting sidelight on the
earnestness with which the West is
tackling the problem of reforesting
her wasted timber lands is contained
in an address delivered this week in
his home State by Solomon Levitan,
State treasurer of Wisconsin. Plead
ing for a bigger tree crop; he told
other half on privately owned lands.
distributed a million and a quarter
young trees for planting purposes,
about half going on State-owned
forest lands and the other half on
privately owned lands. The only
cost to the owners was defraying part
Of the transportation charges of from
a to "a a cent apiece. Two million
Seeding trees will be distributed in
Wisconsin this year, according to
Treasurer Levitan.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-04-25
Coolidge Farm Relief Plan
Is Praised and Condemned

ready the Federal Farm Loan Board
is lending to the farmer" and that
the farmer is being financed by all
manner of cooperative farm organi-
cations that have been borrowing
money at cheap interest rates from
Federal sources" The Memphis Com
mercial Appeal (democratic) remarks
that "if such method will draw any
mods and smirks from the dissatisfied
republican farmers, we must admit
1t isn't difficult to start a filtration
with them"
The Sioux City Tribune (independ.
enD expresses regret at seeing Sen.
ator McNary drawn into a shallow
political scheme of this kind" The
Dayton Daily News independent
Democratic) looks upon the situation
as one in which Mr.. Coolidge's
tariff friends see that they have put
themselves in danger" and says sit
will be interesting to see at what
price Mr.. Coolidge's friends can now
contrlve to bring the farmers back
into the old partnership
The farm relief advocates have at
least established the necessity for
some kind of action" in the judS.
ment of the Rockford Star Gnde-
pendenO. THAT has evidently touched
the White House. Mr.. Coolidge NAV
come forth with a plan which will
be better and more workable than any
of the previous proposals." The Provi-
dence Journal independent declares
there is reason TO believe that tho
White House could help the farmers
out of their troubles if some of their
so-called leaders would step aside long
enough to give the President a
chance"
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Cnde-
pendent Democratic) and the Santa
Barbara Daily News, independent
Democratic) find great significance in
the interest shown in the farm prob
lem by the United States Chamber OF
Commerce. The former paper adds;
Certainly Mr.. Coolidge's stay in the
West should not be the occasion for
the widespread advertising of farm
relief plan whose purpose shall be
purely political. Such political strategy
likely would have disastrous results
for all concerned
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
independent Republican,. however,
concludes that practical farm relief at
the next session of Congress is a
prospect calculated to establish an
entente cordiale during the Presidents
Summer in the West" And the Phila-
delphia paper commends the plan with
the statement that Ito lend Govern
ment financial aid to agricultural CO.
operative warehousing and marketing
is in line with sound, established Fed
eral policies" The Schenectady Ga
zette independent Democratic) thinks
that 'if there is no price-fixing and
no equalization fee the Presidents
final approval will be Forthcoming"
but sees no prospect of approval for
class legislation which would result
in increasing the cost of living to con.
sumers."
Evening star., 1927-04-25
Shakespeare Shrine
Proposed in Maryland

To the Editor of The Star:
The efforts of Shakespearean schol-
ars in America to assist in rebuilding
the recently destroyed Shakespearean
theater in England are commendable.
While the subject is uppermost in
the mind Of the public, how many
Americans know of the beauty of
Tudor Hall, the family home of the
famous Shakespearean actors Junius
Brutus Booth and Edwin Booth
(American), near Belair, Md? This
tract of land lies in all its beauty al
most yet wooded, romantic soli-
tude."
Here would be an ideal place to
have an American Shakespearean
shrine. Here, indeed, q place where
Shakespearean plays could be given
in a playhouse by the best actors of
our day. Here. on pike between
Baltimore and Philadelphia and within
two hours drive of the National Capt.
tai, Shakespearean lovers could find
a delightful week end retreat hearing
Shakespearean plays. This place
should be preserved for America by
Americans. There is no more fitting
place for such memorial in America
than this spot. Short Winter seasons
would permit of giving plays there
from May l to almost November Is,
in an almost open-air theater.
Here the thousands of tourists and
students that wend their way east
ward each year could stop over and
see Shakespeare played as it can be
best interpreted by amateurs and pro-
fessionals, or enacted on the screen.
Let us not forget to honor Junius
Brutus Booth and Edwin Booth, and
other Shakespearean actors, who have
passed beyond.
Let us also honor those of our
Shakespearean actors and actresses
of note now living, and convert Tudor
Hall, IL possible 10 obtain, into ma
tional shrine of some value to this day
and generation.
FRANCES NJ. DAWSON.
Evening star., 1927-04-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWELL.

A stormy evening in mid-Apri
brought a touch of Summer to Spring
adding but another note to our curious
weather.
Despite the disclaimers made at
the Weather Bureau. that there is
nothing unusual about it, most ordi
nary folk will continue to insist that
this is not the sort of thing they
knew as q child
Why, we can remember when
Spring really was Spring.
And what is it now? Either Win
ter or Summer, as every one knows
The old, delicious days are no more
In the attitude of the farmer of
1000 years ago, as pictured by Lu
cretious in his Mature of Things, u
we lament the days gone by, and
say that Spring is not what she used
to be.
Formerly, when Spring came, il
meant something definite. 1t meant
balmy days, gently cool nights, won.
derful evenings. Spring in those days
stood for the nhildest temperature the
Northern Hemisphere has ever ex.
perienced.
The term temperate zone" meant
something when we were young,
Then fellow could loll around on the
grass and catch nothing more than
a bad cold. If he tries it now he gets
pneumonia.
Passing years do not account for
the difference. No, the seasons are
changing, and we heartily defy the
experts of the Weather Bureau to
change our minds. We are "sot'" in
this matter.
oI1I I1H
reau himself were to personally assure
US that records over So years prove
there is no fundamental change in
clare, although not to his face,
Bunk
Who, we ask you, ever heard of a
long drawn-out electrical storm in the
middle of April, following a day
when 17,897,567,331 plant lice were
born every minute, it was so hot?
Between am. and pm. rose.
bushes became covered with the
aphids (the fancy name for plant
lice). These are little green fellows
that coat growing things in the
Spring, preferably at budding time.
These are the cows of she ants.
The thermometer on the back porch
(north side, in the shade) registered
slightly better than 80 degrees in the
late afternoon.
Winter underwear began to cling.
The thought came to spray the rose
bushes, to kill the lice. A trip to the
basement unearthed the spray. The
can Of nicotine sulphate, 40 per, cent
solution, was removed from the larger
tin can in which it is kept sealed.
Two teaspoonfuls were mixed with a
quart of soapy water. We wanted
the solution to cling lovingly to the
aphids.
The mixture was placed in the can
of the sprayer, and the rod showed
down.
Nothing happened
Not bit of spray issued from the
nozzle. This is the trouble with many
articles laid away over Winter. When
they come out in the Spring, some
thing is the matter with them.
Well, there was nothing to do but
take the thing apart and see what
was the matter. The directions said
to pour oil down the small hole, and,
If that did not work, to remove the
cotter pin.
Not knowing a cotter pin on sight,
we hopefully looked around for any
thing that resembled any sort of pin.
Finding no component part of the
sprayer that even remotely resembled
Evening star., 1927-04-25
Railroad Music.

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad has taken a forward step in
installing musical four-tone whistles
on it's suburban service engines.
Not only will the shrieks of the ordl-
nary locomotive whistle be a thing or
the past in those favored districts, but
a big saving of coal will result to the
company.
The c., B. & @. has figured out that
it requires fourteen pounds OF coal
to blow the old whistle one minute,
whereas only FIVE pounds are needed
to sound the musical ones for the
same period of time.
Thus suburban residents who COM
planned will no longer be awakened
from slumbers by shrill blasts. but
will be lulled to deeper dreams by the
harmonious whistles.
Perhaps engineers might even come,
in time, to be able to play tunes upon
the new instruments, and thus salute
homes with "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" or
some other appropriate lullaby.
If the whistle works in service as
it has in tests it will be installed on
all Burlington trains, it is announced.
And why not? The ear-splitting whistle
is relic of the past, when railroads
were new in the land, and some noise
had 70 be made that would cause the
natives to jump for their lives.
Today, as the land builds up, the
right of persons to some peace and
quiet is coming to be more and more
recognized. It may turn out that the
Burlington road is not saving itself
money alone, but is rendering legiti.
mate service to all those who live
along it's right of way.
Those who dream Of the time when
Evening star., 1927-04-25

the United States will be freed from
the unnecessary din which now besets
it will take heart from this latest ac.
tion of great railroad. If so stern
a business institution as a railroad
has found it good business to make
music where noise prevailed before,
maybe other businesses which indulge
in thoughtless noise-making may take
heed before this country loses its ears