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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08
"YOUNG APRIL" IS
 AT PALACE SUNDAY

Rich comedy, young love ana joyous melodrama blended into a delectable entertainment treat that describes Young April the De Mile special production di- rected by Donald Crisp, which comes to the Palace TheatreL Sun day. Joseph Schildkraut, Bessie Love and Rudolph Schildkraut are featured.
 i.s"Youhg April is an adaptation of Egerton Castles novel of the same name, by Jeanie Macpher- son and Douglas Doty. They have skillfully put into use an entirely new twist and treatment to the mythical Kingdom type of photo- play, taking advantage of all the picturesque color and brilliancy of exotic setting, costume and royal personages. which bringing realism comedy in abundance, and human ness of characterization to it's aid
 The result is entertainment as refreshingly new as it is full of punch, coiof,. thrills and spice. The two Schildkrauts take their real life relationship of father and son into the films in Young April, T Rudolph playing the role of king. JosS vh that of Crown Prince. Miss Love appears as a grand duchess who must marry the prince, though she has been reared in Americt and has never seen him.
 The Prince rebels but. gives ii, and goes to Paris to take a finsl "fling"-and there meets the grand duchess, who is indulging in a shopping orgy, incognfto. They fail in love with each other, and the Prince, not knowing she is the grand duchess, renounces his rotal heritage in order to marry her. By so doing he loses his chance to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08

NEW YORK-This is a Cinder- ella story of sorts about little girl with long pigtails and the shyes sweetest smile in North Texas, who grew to lovely woman hood married a prince and a for tune. then discovered she couldn't be happy in a life of luxurious idleness.
 In Drle1, the story of Hope Hampton,- famous beauty, motion picture actress and newest star in the operatic Armament. who found, to her dlsmay, that heaps and heaps of money are-paradoxi- cally-more of barrier to success than no money at all; and that luxury can erect more obstacles in the path of achievement than ne- cessity ever thought of.
 She won out. finally, but the trail was long, torturous and rocky. In the annoiincement recently of the Philadelphia Grand Opera com pany that the talented Miss Hamp- ton-in private life, Mrs. Jules Brulatour-has been engaged as featured artiste for the 192S-29 season, her bitter, uphill fight against riches came to a happy end. She. had achieved her goal.
 Screen Didn't Satisfy Her
 The pretty Texan obtained a need of recognition in motion pie lures but somehow a career on the silver screen didn't entirely satis- fy her.. She wanted to sing. When it became known that she intended to challenge Fate in the form of costly operetta (of which her husband was the prin- cipal backer), the serious-minded looked upon the enterprise as just another case of devoted million naire paying the freight'fto please his pretty wife. Never was their judgment so flonted.
 For when the piece, My Prin- cess" reached it's New York pre- mieTe, the beautiful star flabber- gasted her critics by revealing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08
------------------- BILLIE DOVE IS AT
 PALACE LAST TIMES

Billie Dove, rirst Nationals new est film star. is regarded as one Of the screens most beautiful women not only by the public but by some of the most famous artists as well.
 During the making of The Stol- en Bride her latest picture, which is now at the Palace for the last two times tonight, Miss Dove was sketched by James 8 Montgomery Flagg and Arthur William Brown.
 This feature is magnificent ono from story, cast and settings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08
ATTENTION MASONIC

There will be stated com munication of Mt Juneau Lodge No. 147 F. & A. M. in the Ma sonic Temple a777s: 30 o'clock Mon day evening. Annual election of officers and work in the M. M Degree. Visiting Brethren cor dially invited. By order of the ". M. CHAS. E. NAGHEL,
 adv. Secretary
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leading male role, and an excel leift supporting east that enibra aees
 sleh well-known players as Jed
 Ftouty, James Mason. Roy Laid lfw, and Josephine Crowell Bred In Old Kentucky" is vivid and thoroughly worth while presenta- ton, and will do much toward in- ereasing Miss Dana's already enor- nous army of admirers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08

marry her, loses his citizenship, is ordered into exile--and his schem- ing uncle is to get the gill,
 That's the story, but tie end is thrilling.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08
FORGET-ME-NOT TEA ROOM
 N0TICE

Hereafter all cakes will be baked in our kitchen as Mrs. Herman is not doing our baking.
 -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-08
SHOE REPAIRING

All kinds of ladies. mems and children shoes repaired. Rubber heels put on while YOU WATT MICHAEL VAGGE.S Shoe Shop across the street from Goldstein's Emporium on Seward Street. adv.
 
 LET Almqufst press TOUT Suit We cal. and deliver. Phone 528.
Evening star., 1928-11-27
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

President Wilson will head ENJOYS
from the United States to the Peace
Conference and he will be accompanied
by Secretary of State Lansing, Col. E.
M. House, Secretary of Agriculture
Houston and Henry White, former AM
bassador to France. Inner polit-
ical developments in Germany are
moving with lightning rapldity away
from chaos and Self-deStruction toward
the only salvation poSsible-reconstruc-
ton on basis determined by ma
tional convention to be called at the
earliest possible moment. Soldiers and
workmen's councils call a general con-
vention in Berlin in response to a uni
versal demand Cologne soldiers
put price on the former Kaiser's head
and offer $4,000 for the staying of
him and his son. There seem to be
no official documents in existence in
Germany of the KaiSer'S abdication.
A telegraphlc message to Berlin Is said
to be the only record of Wilhelm's ac-
ton. Twenty-Seven German sub
marines were surrendered to the allies
today, bringing the total thus far turn
ed over up to ia. 1t is reported
that German soldiers in Eastern Poland
are looting and burning all along their
way and treating the inhabitants
cruelty. Wholesale massacre of
Jews is taking place in Warsaw and in
Western, Central and Eastern Galicia.
Evening star., 1928-11-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Don't they think they're smartP
sneered the middle-aged woman to hel
companion.
She was referring to a group of high
| school students who occupied most oi
| the other seats in the street car.
The boys and girls were talking 1r
| the loud, clear tones usual to youth
louder than necessary, of course, be-
cause they secretly hoped to attract
bit of attention.
Youth is Just more honest about at
tention than age. either middle or OLD
It wants to secure the notice of others
and usually does so, especially in this
day and age.
No maxim of the elder days has
fallen any harder than the one which
declared that children should be SEEN
not heard.
Today they are both heard and seen
particularly on public vehicles. The
clear tones of their adolescent voices
ring out above the grinding of street
car wheels or the noise Of the bus
engines.
They want to be noticed and they
are noticed, if in no other way than In
the language quoted.
Don't they think they're smart?"
AS a matter of fact, perhaps the kids
do have just bit of suspicion that
they are rather "cute" in what they
say and do, but it is equally so that in
large, general sense they scarcely de-
serve such sneer.
Between the raucouS youngsters and
their too, too, Staid elders the dis
eliminating will unhesitatingly prefer
the former If for no other reason than
tInA t1,nxy oil iun tn In ttN
and joy Of life.
Their ineXperience, which makes them
resort to loudneSs and crude wit, may be
forgiven in the light of their counte-
nances. The thing for the oldsters tC
remember is that they, too, were once
like that!
Is 1t not remarkable how easily many
men and women forget the actions OF
their own youth? To watch them. In
the gravity of their maturity, one might
think they were born so, but relatives
could tell few pretty stories about
them as boys and girls.
One Is sometimes led to believe that
they do not really forget, but simply
choose to make out that they do. Yet
reflection often leads to the opposite
belief, that many grown men and
women actually do forget how they
dCLCu, 1CIJ ldlkGu DIS yOullSSGSIS.
1t is difficult to see how they can,
but the sad fact is that they do. So,
when riding on street cars, they are led
to say, Don't they think they're
smart?"
X X X
Perhaps memories of childhood re-
main with some persons longer than
with others, just as there are some who
claim to remember happenings from the
age of or 3 years.
Most men and women can recall
incidents which occurred when they
were years old, but have difficulty
remembering anything that happened
prior to that. Some undoubtedly not
only fail to remember anything of their
own adolescence, but above all they re-
fuse to recall their moods, likes and
dislikes, which really are more i'm
portant than chance occurrences, as
interesting or exciting as the latter may
have been.
Evening star., 1928-11-27

music, as distinguished from musicians,
without losing the respect of the latter.
The genius fertile and varied enough
to leave the world great music that is
also genuinely popular music need be
jealous of no one."
Perhaps his power of musical con-
struction was inferior to that Of
Beethoven" observes the Flint Daily
Journal "but in poetic impulse and
sheer beauty of composition he was far
superior. Above all, Schubert was a
poet. While most poets express their
poetic thoughts in words, Schubert ex-
presses his in melody, and every one Of
his compositions is beautiful poem.
X + X
His technique Is discussed by the
Providence Bulletin with the statement:
He avoided many of the stern essen
tials of musical compositions which
might have enabled him to fix in noble
form countless fragmentary things
which sprang up within him. Beetho-
ven persistently, through mastery of
fundamentals, wrought many an in
spired theme into lasting beauty. But
1t wasn't Schubert's way. Like that Of
Burns, his genius was lyrical. 1t could
be inspired, not forced. He was essen
TALLY singer who heard rich harmo-
nies attending the melody that sang it
self in his brain. Words provoked him
to song In the heart of Burns the tunes
of Scotland were the immortal words;
in that of Schubert words evoked song"
The Springfield Union thus sum-
marizes his work: "The greatness ex-
pressed in surging passion, in wild re-
bellion, in high-f1ung challenges to fate
is not found in the music Of Franz
Schubert. To him fell the simpler, but
no less meritorious, duty to interpret
in tone the richness and the sweetness
of the human spirit. So he endures. q"
Evening star., 1928-11-27

Those who take care to recall the
! way youth thinkS-the way their own
youth thought-will never fall into the
error of being offended with the actions
and words of boys and girls.
| There will come occasions, of course,
when even the most indulgent will want
| to WELD a paddle or a neat birch
| of common sense to smart-aleckism no
matter what the ages of the respective
parties.
Those who really remember their own
youthful days will realize that boys and
girls especially of the high school age,
honestly think that they know it all.
knowledge has no greater champion
than hign school senior. Those who
have gone out into the world, as the
saying is, may have reached point in
their careers where they are willing
to admit that goodness of heart. for
instance, is often of more importance
than keenneSS of intellect.
You could never get high school
senior to admit that in any other way
than as pure theory. II can see cases
in which it might be true" he would
say with lofty gesture, "but-"
His hesitation would tell the wide,
wide world-and undoubtedly he would
be hoping that he had an audience
that he refused to admit the actual
supremacy of heart over head In any
contingency whatever.
X * X
Mixed with this loyal belief in the
utter efficiency of knowledge, as ex-
emplified by themselves, they have a
bland and childlike fear that some one
will refuse to credit their knowledge.
They realize that hitherto, in the
economy of nations, life and living has
been hogged by the "groWn-ups," hence
their sometimes startling attempts to
sop up bit of real life" ON their own
accounts
To make a noise in the world That
Is the secret wish which learning, and
slight admixture of the So-called in
feriority complex, fixes in the mind and
heart of the average school boy and
girl.
More of them than many of their
elders would be willing to suspect are
firm believers in the cynical wisdom of
Francois Duke de la Rochefoucauld,
that "self-love is the dominating spring
of human action" With this, however,
they mix the simple love of childhood
for legend romance, love and music, SO
that the resulting blend is a compound
which holds all the longing, all the
aspiration of the race.
1t is because we believe firmly In the
youth of America, despite its flair for
noise and ostentation, that we cannot
agree with the dictum of the sour
faced woman.
Middle-aged America might we'll take
a leaf from the notebook of the school
boys and girls. 1t Is a big-Scrawled,
much foolishness and much common
sense, since the writers thereof come
from the stock that they do, and will
shortly be, in their turn, the staid
middle-aged
Just a few years, just little time,
and these same loud-mouthed, jostling,
pushing laughing youngsters will be
sitting on street cars-probably the
same old ones-in their turn tempted
to say. Don't they think they're
smart"
Evening star., 1928-11-27

mand. II the supply necessary to meet
the demand can be met with shorter
hours OF labor. 1t would benefit little
the industry to insist upon longer hours
of labor than are necessary to meet
the demand. Rolling up of surplus
commodities in the end is no benefit
except perhaps to the consumer through
a reduction in prices because of glut-
ted market. But such conditions in
turn reduce the employment of labor
and the purchasing power of the public
Here in Washington members Of five
building trades engaged on several large
building operations are working on the
five-day schedule proposed by the
American Federation of Labor presi-
dent. This is the result of voluntary
agreement entered into between the
contractors and the workers. If the
arrangement works well, it may happen
that the five-day working week will be
further extended in this city.
The Federal Government itself has
taken cognizance of the principle in
volved in shorter working hours for
labor. Before this country entered the
World War and during the Wilson ad-
ministration Congress enacted and the
President signed the Adamson eight
hour law, applicable to railroads, by
which 1t is stipulated that eight hours
shall be the working day of railroad
workers.
1t is an old saying that all work
and no play makes Jack dull boy.
The corollary is that all play and no
work makes Jack a worthless human
being The part of wisdom is to find
the happy medium which will give the
working man and woman opportunity
to find even higher standards of living
and at the same time retain them as
useful, productive citizens. In some
occupations it may well be that a five
day week of forty hours is not prac-
ticable or really desirable. But in
trades requiring concentrated and skill
ed labor the shorter hours may work
to the advantage Of both the employer
and the laborer.
Evening star., 1928-11-27
Only a Courtesy Call.

The course of true love never runs
smooth Already there is some criti-
cism of the fact that Mr.. Hoover's
visit to the different Latin American
countries will be so brief that any
knowledge he obtains of their problems
or desires will be altogether superficial
and confined to what he may learn
from feeting glance through port
hole or the window of his train. His
brief calls at Honduras and Salvador
may strengthen this criticism. A dis
patch from Chile a few days ago de-
scribed the public chagrin over the fact
that only one day is to be allotted to
Peru, one day to Chile and two to
Argentina. And his visits to Honduras
and Salvador were measured in hours
not days.
But this criticism cannot express the
true sentiment of Latin Americans
Evening star., 1928-11-27
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

, Egyptians, the Jews, no doubt during
their captivity, learned the art OF wood
carving and the making and worship
Of idols"
@. How long did Holland work on
the submarine before he was success
ful?-T. M.
A. Hollands first boat was built in
1875, but it was not until 1900, after
a series of severe tests, that the Gov
ernmcnt ordered the first one built for
the Navy. Eight of the vessels were
ben February 18, 1546.
O. When did the labor movement for
shorter hours start in this coun-
try?-P. M.
A. Agitation for a shorter work day,
stated concretely as a demand for a
10-hour day instead Of the dawn-to-
dark day, was begun in the United
States in 1880.
@. How can a $40 gold piece be worfh
only $40 when labor and transportation
costs have increaSed?-L. H.
A. Its coinage is free. Therefore, a
$40 gold piece is always worth the same
amount, regardless of the cost of min
ing the gold or minting the coin.
@. How are the metric systems Of
weight. capacity and length re-
lated?-W. N.
A. All measures of length end in
meter. of capacity in liter and Of weight
| in gram. For practical purposes 1t is
assumed that one cubic decimeter equals
one liter and one liter of water weighs
one kilogram.
| @. What is the sound made by
| crickets and locusts called?-M. M.
| A. The song or noise made by crickets
and like insects is known as stridulation.
@. What is the largest water wheel
| in the world?-R. S.
A. The one which supplies the an
cient City of Hama with water for
drinking and irrigation is probably the
| largest. 1t is 10 feet in diameter and
| is built of wood upon an iron axle.
@. received locket from Australia
bearing the inscription Kiaora. What
does it mean?-R. H. G..
A. The word Kiaora is Maori term
used in toasts. 1t may be interpreted
as be well or be happy.
@. Are any of the members of Presi-
dent Coolidges cabinet of foreign birth?
IN. Z. N.
A. All we're born in the United States
except James j. Davis, Secretary of
Labor. He was born in Tredegar South
Wales. He came to this country when
8 years old.
Evening star., 1928-11-27

whose unfailing courtesy is national
characteristic. Mr.. Hoover's visits tc
their republics are cut short by neces-
sity. And they were never intended as
anything but series of brief calls.
If Mr.. Hoover we're bent on a barn.
storming tour or a trip to boom trade,
it might be pointed out with good
grounds that he cannot accomplish
much by rushing in and rushing out
again. But he has no Interior motives
in these short visits. He is merely call
ing. as it were, and leaving his card.
If his time in each capital permits him
to do no more than shake hands, 1t
will have been time we'll spent.
The tone of his first two addresses,
one Of them at Honduras and the
other at Salvador, indicates the nature
of his visits. He did not tell his dis
tinguished hosts at Honduras or Sal
vador what he knows of their national
problems or of their aspirations. He
talked to them as members of a family
of nations here in the west, interested
In the common task of developing the
mutual respect and understanding that
forms the basis Of international friend
ship. And in Peru and Chile he will
probably expand upon this theme, with
out attempting to tell the Peruvians or
the Chileans of his conception of the
Tacna- AFRICA affair or of his under
standing of their difficulties as inde-
pendent nations.
One feels sure that throughout the
tour Mr.. Hoover's hosts will realize the
extent of his travels and the conse-
quent limitations upon his time, and
that they will unite in wishing him
farewell and Godspeed without embar-
RAISING expressions of regret over his
inability to linger.
Evening star., 1928-11-27
Unwise Criticism,

In chiding the Traffic Bureau for Its
orderly and unostentatious effort to pro-
mote greater degree of safety on the
streets by scrutiny of the driving rec
ords of persistent violators of the regu-
lations and calling to account those
who have shown by their general de-
| fiance to reasonable rules that their
| driving conduct is open to question, the
District division of the American Auto
mobile Association is doing no service
to the community. For some time past
the traffic Office. determined to smooth
the way for reissuance of operators
permits on July I, 1929, has been quiet
ly mailing out form letters to those
whose records showed large number
of minor offenses or one or more major
| offenSeS. In the letters to trivial but
regular violators of the regulations the
recipient has been requested to appear
at the traffic office, but in the cases of
serious violations the motorist has been
ordered to appear and show cause why
his permit should not be revoked. It
is this practice that the American
Automobile Association characterizeS
"as further evidence of the harassing
to which motorists Of the District are
being subjected by the traffic directors
Office"
With long list of notable civic ac-
complishments to Its credit, it is sur
prising that the motoring body should
wander so far afield as to place its sup
port apparently behind the minor Of
fender against the regulations, with per-
haps ten or twelve arrests within a
period of six months, or the major Of
fender who, as the case may be, has
been arrested two or more times for
reckless or drunken driving, but who,
through an oversight Of the policeman
in making out the papers, has been
charged only with first offense each
time. 1t is these two sharply defined
classes that the traffic office is seeking
to bring into line, either through CO.
operation or discipline, as the facts in
each individual case merit, and the
person or organization which seeks to
defeat such desirable program is in
deed placed in poor light before the
public,
If a motorists record shows ten or
twelve arrests In short period for any
offense, however trivial, he clearly is
not in the proper frame of mind as to
his duties and obligations as citizen,
and if his record shows repeated seri-
Gus infractions it indicates that pres
sure must be brought to bear on him
to mend his ways before tragedy occurs.
Each driver who is brought into the
Traffic Bureau by means Of the letters
is given a courteous hearing by the as
sistant director. He Is asked regarding
his knowledge of the regulations and
his cooperation is sought. He is then
| either warned to turn over a new leaf
or his permit is revoked, as the circum-
| stances may warrant.
There has long been a nationwide
demand for q strict operators permit
law in every State and the District
BY the program just instituted by the
traffic ONCE Washington seems in q
fair way to have such law and tactics
which hamper or delay will be looked
upon with disfavor by the great body
of law-abiding motorists.