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men come into his shop to get their hair bobbed.
 Men are so unreasonable they'd | be perfectly content with their wives faces as they are and wouldn't growl a bit about the cost if instead of having them ! lifted they would spend the money going to cooking school to i'm prove their cooking.
 They say many hands make light work and if mother had them all on her instead of hay. ing them parceled out among the family she could get through 2 heap quicker
 The reason there are not more divorces is because the average husband is nothing like as honery around home as a screen hero is.
 There's nothing more useless than a flashlight with a dead bat tery unless it is a husband who can't give his wife anything but love.
 The reason some men make 2 success of their business is be- cause they have so much higher opinion of themselves than their wives have of them.
 No man really knows what sor- row is until his face begins creep. ing up over his forehead.
 The cynic says a reception is just an opportunity for a lot of old hens to turn out catty re marks in wholesale lots.
 Evidently an insurance company that would issue policies these days against a husband or wife's affections being stolen would go broke in less than six months.
 The feeling we have after look ing at some of the girls we pass is that either the fashions or Ma ture should show more heart.
 Mean Brute "A woman of few words" began Mrs. Crouch.
 '1s like the Ooneksagt," he growled. There ain't no such animal"
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Same Thinq

Same Thing Blinks-You look like a flivvef that has lost an argument with an express train. What happened to you, anyway?
 Jinks-Oh, I just tried to con- vince my Irish neighbor Hoover was a better man than Al Smith. Hints on How to Tell Them
 Apart
 If it is talking hats it is a female; if it is talking pitch CTS it is a male.
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We'll! We'll!

SHE TALKED. ."-Headline. Could anything be any more re- markable?
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More or Less True

Middle-aged is that time when man gets sore at his barber be- cause he has begun to let wo-
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Zero in Information

Television will leave the key holes nothing to do but act as q parking place for keys.
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Popular as a Sunbcnnet

 Although they'll wear most any thing, The modern girls, l fear, Don't think a halo is so much In the way of headgear.
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,, wisconsin is for Smith. Al is for what made "i"auSee famous, you know-(Dallas News. l.
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Her Experience

Your husband says he is a prophet" remarked the naighbor.
 Well" retorted his wife, "as
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-24
Passinu Observation

The only difference between a highwayman and a gold digger is that the gold digger uses a smile instead of gun. Al
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-24

Old papers fol sale at The Empire
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Modernized Proverbs A good engine is more to be desired than fine upholstery.
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Everybody Will Agree to This

The mandolin and uke,
 And cussed saxophone, s Were surely made for those Whose heads are solid bone
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Mean Brute

"A woman of few words,' began Mrs. Crouch.
 'Is like the Ooneksagt," he growled. There ain't no such animal"
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGEF
 THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION
Evening star., 1928-12-19
The Treaty and the Navy.

The Kellogg treaty renouncing war
has received the overwhelming support
of the Senate foreign relations commit
tee. It goes to the Senate from COM
mittee without reservation and with
out amendment, and in its present form
doubtless will be ratified, when the hair
splitters have had their say, and when
the supporters of the naval building bill
have been assured that the measure will
pass.
The treaty was held before the Sen
ate committee for two weeks, This is
not an unreasonable time for treaty
which is considered of great impor-
tance. However, in a short session OF
Congress time is the essence. 1t is re-
markably easy for measures to be lost
in lam at the close of such session,
with the annual appropriation bills de-
manding and obtaining the right OF
way. For this reason Chairman Borah
of the foreign relations committee and
other supporters of the treaty will urge
that it be given prompt consideration
in the Senate. At one time the hope
was expressed that the Senate would
ratify the pact before Christmas, offer
ing it as a gift of peace and good will
to the world. But with Congress ready
to recess on Saturday for the holidays,
hope of such action has practically
been abandoned.
The large majority by which the
treaty was approved in the foreign re-
lations committee is clearly indicative
of what may be expected in the Senate
itself, once the treaty is brought to
vote. Fourteen of the Senators were
recorded in favor Of the treaty, two
against it and two failed to vote one
way or the other. The last two were
Senator Moses of New Hampshire and
Senator Mclean of Connecticut, Re-
publicans. The two Senators voting
against the treaty in committee were
both Democrats, Reed Of Missouri and
Bayard of Delaware. Senator Moses is
strongly in favor of immediate action
on the cruiser bill for the Navy, and
his activities, which have been in part
responsible for the delay in reporting
the treaty to the Senate, have been due
in no little part to his desire to bring
the cruiser bill before the Senate as its
unfinished business before the treaty,
renouncing all war, shall have been
taken up in that body.
There is no good reason why the
treaty and the cruiser bill should not
go along together. The treaty is re-
garded as q great step toward interna-
tional amity. The United States Navy
needs new and modern cruisers. 1t is
essential that the pending bill should
pass. The treaty leaves every nation
free to fight defensive war, although
it pledges all that sign to abstain from
waging an aggressive war. The United
States win go to war only as a meas
ure of defense. But it must be in a
position to defend itself.
Evening star., 1928-12-19

sioner Cuno H. Rudolph efforts were
afoot to obtain banner, that official
having submitted to Congress a bill
looking to that end. Designs good, In
different and bad-though few Of the
latter-have been proposed or offered
from official, Semi-official and private
sources. More than one appropriately
embodies the coat-of-arms OF George
Washington. Prize contests have been
proposed The artist who prepared the
designs for the Flag Book aforemen-
toned has said that at that time he
noticed the lack of a. proper District
flag and later he sent to The Star sew
eral tentative simple and effective de-
signs. The Daughters of the American
Revolution have used their utmost en-
deavors to establish an official dis
tinctive banner and have sponsored leg
islation looking to that end, the meas
ure having once progressed so far as
passage by the Senate and favorable
report by the House District committee.
Even some cities, like Baltimore, pos
sess distinctive and appropriate en-
blematic banners of their own. There
is actually time between now and March
next for the proper authorization, de-
sign and manufacture of District flag,
but that such a sequence will occur is
entirely unlikely. 1t is not too early to-
day, however, for the proper officials
and other proponents Of the idea to
initiate efforts which shall have borne
fruit by the same date in 1888.
Evening star., 1928-12-19
Boulder Dam.

The Boulder Dam bill, so long fought
in the Senate, has finally been sent to
the President for his approval. When
the measure is signed, as it is predicted
Il will be, it will launch tremendous
engineering project which is expected
to benefit millions of people who live
in or near the Colorado River basin.
> The bill, which authorizes vast
project to deal with the food waters
of the Colorado River, the construction
of great plant for the development
of hydro-electric power, and contem-
plates the irrigation OF hundreds OF
thousands of acres OF land in the
States through which the Colorado
River flows, has been whipped into
shape, which satisfies the States in
volved, even Arizona. The measure has
been pressed for approval by Senator
Hiram Johnson of California in the
Senate and Representative Swing OF
the same State in the House-the john
son-Swing bill.
California has a peculiar interest In
the measure, which does not apply to
the other States. Not only does 1t
wish water for irrigation and power
from the great dam which it is pro-
posed to rear, but it wishes to protect
the sixty-five thousand people who live
in rich Imperial Valley from the pres
ent dangers of disastrous flood. In
that valley four hundred thousand
acres of land are under cultivation,
and the total property value is esti-
mated at one hundred million dollars.
The Colorado River has its source In
the high mountains of Colorado and
Wyoming 1t has few tributaries in
New Mexico. The rivers flow is in q
southwesterly direction through Utah.
Arizona. Nevada and California. After
crossing the Mexican boundary, it flows
| for a hundred miles and empties into
the Gulf of California. The great river
has an annual average discharge o!
seventeen million acre-feet of water
The flow varies, however, sometime:
reaching twenty-five million acre-fee
and sometimes running as low as nin'
million. The project proposed in thu
Boulder Dam bill would in great meas
lure preserve the flood waters for irri
gatiop and do away with the DANCE
Evening star., 1928-12-19
Bolivia's Wise Decision.

Bolivia has accepted the Pan-Ameri-
can Arbitration Conferences good offices
! in adjustment of its military dispute
with Paraguay, and the chances now
are strongly, If not absolutely, in favor
of a peaceful settlement.
In message addressed to Secretary
Kellogg. as president of the conference,
the Bolivian government limits its ac-
ceptance of conference mediation to an
! investigation of the attack on Fort VAN
guardia by Paraguayan forces-the i'm
mediate cause of the recent sanguinary
clashes between the two countries. The
resultant conflict is described by Bolivia
as an act of "unjustified aggression"
The La Paz governments vigorous
language on that score indicates plain
ly its expectation that the Washington
conferences inquiry will find Paraguay
guilty and justify Bolivia in demanding
that moral reparation" hitherto de-
manded as the price of peace. The
basic issue of the boundary controversy,
BoIivia's note to the conference points
out, is not Immediately at stake. Since
1927 it has been a subject Of arbitral
consideration by Argentina, under an
agreement signed by both Bolivia and
Paraguay.
All else may be relegated for the time
being to the realm Of secondary con-
siderations in presence of the outStand-
ing fact that in all probability war has
been averted in South America. That
is no mean achievement for the con-
ference of the eighteen American re-
publics, which week ago laid aside all
the other business awaiting them in
washington and concentrated on an
urgent, vital and tangible peril to peace
in the Western Hemisphere. 1t was
sunreme test. Pan-America suddenly
and dramatically found itself face to
face with chance to function actually,
instead of accidentally, in the domain
of conciliation. The opportunity was
grasped. Peace, not war, has won.
The result is the writing of mighty
chapter of pan-American history with
in the brief span of ten days. The
Bolivian -Paraguayan imbroglio may not
be the last of its kind to imperil inter-
American relations. But its prospective
ly blood.ess adjustment sets a mark
which cannot fail to be a guidepost OF
transcendent value for the future.
A word of commendation is due the
League of Nations, along with the major
credit belonging to the pan-American
nations themselves. Bolivias capitula-
ton to wisdom was made, as she points
out in a note to M. BRAND. president
of the League Council. "in accor1 with
the lofty suggestions" that the good
offices of the pan-American conference
be accepted. Bolivia's high-mindedness
is equaled only by the sagacity OF the
League in recognizing pan-Americas
ability and determination to remain the
arbiter of pan-American destinies.
Evening star., 1928-12-19

of disastrous high water. After leaving
the mountains and entering the canyon
region, the river picks UP great guam
tity of silt which deposits along the
lower end of Is course. BY building up
its own river bed in this fashion. the
river becomes very unstable in its lower
course. The Imperial Valley is sep
arated from the river only by low
range Of sand hills. The valley is
actually below sea-level and the river
flows from one hundred to three hun
dred feet above the floor of the valley.
A part of the flow of the Colorado
River is diverted into a canal at a
point just above the international
boundary. This canal runs through
Mexico and re-enters the United States,
where its waters are used for irrigation
in the Imperial Valley. 1t is now pro-
posed to build an all-American canal.
AS payment for the right of way of
the old canal, Mexico has the use of
one-half of the water from the canal.
Arizona in its fight against the john
son-Swing bill has urged that it be
guaranteed a share In the rivers flow
large enough to make possible extern
sive irrigation projects in the future,
although the State is not yet ready to
use large additional quantities of water
Nevada has similar interest and both
wish to be safeguarded in the amount
of water power for industrial and min
ing purposes. The bill as it has been
amended takes care of the demands
of these States in large part.
The dam, which will be erected prob
ably at the Black Canyon site, which Is
thirty miles away from Boulder Can
yon, is to be twice as high as the
highest dam now in existence. The
entire project is to cost in the neigh
borhood of one hundred and sixty-five
million dollars. 1t is expected, how
ever, that in the course Of fifty years
the entire sum will be repaid to the
United States Government. The de-
velopment of hydro-electric power
either by the Government or by pri-
vate enterprises is left optional in the
bill,
Evening star., 1928-12-19
A Decorous Device for the District.

Flags, as always, will be the out
standing feature Of the forthcoming
Inauguration, in so far as color is con-
cerned, in both ceremonies and in public
decoration. Naturally the National
Emblem and the tricolor bunting will
predominant, but other designs, appro-
pirate, traditional and inspiring, will
also be seen at frequent intervals. Here
will be seen the special ensign of the
President, of cabinet officers; the colors
of Army branches and marching units
and probably of many Of the forty
right sovereign States. Any authorized
flag of the District of Columbia, seat Of
the Nations Capital, wherein the whole
celebration will occur, will not be noted
because it does not exist.
With the ceremonies but little less
than three months of, it would be
highly desirable if the District owned
a proper flag which it, as host of the
occasion, could unfurl in conjunction
with the Stars and Stripes. 1t is on
Just such occasions as this that the
need is most acutely felt. That it does
not possess one is not the fault of many
interested persons. including members
of Congress. But it is such compare
lively simple and inexpensive matter to
authorize the design of banner that
Congress, in the stress of greater busi-
ness, has brushed the matter aside:
The District of Columbia has utilized
more than one stop-gap design or COM
position in the way of semi-ofticial
emblem. In the Flag Book published
by the National Geographic Magazine
a decade ago no D. G. banner is shown
or described, although the flag used by
the. local National Guard, principal
item of which is George Washingtons
juvenile hatchet, is. On a business
mems booster" trip down the Potomac
a few years ago worthy, although not
particularly distinctive, banner was de-
signed, was furnished by a public
spirited citizen, and was unfurled from
the steamer, which also bore the Dis.
trict Commissioners to accompany anc
contrast with the displayed banners
representative of the Old Dominion anc
the Old Line State The official seal o.
the District formed the device, witt
buff, white and two shades of blue fo
a background. No official 20. K" ha
yet been put on this, however.
As far back as the days Of Couanais
Evening star., 1928-12-19
Widely Differing Views Aired
In Prohibition Funds Debate

good faith, out of sense Of puzzle
ment and bewilderment produced by an
indefensible and thoroughly obnoxious
condition" The Syracuse Herald (in-
dependent) asks, "If it is true, as
many contend, that the late election
involved a clear mandate for earnest
and effective enforcement, why halt at
a limit which means nothing but a
virtual waste of public money on an
inadequate and futile program?"
X X X y
Charging hypocrisy in the provision
of a smaller amount for enforcement,
the New York Evening World tinde-
pendent) argues, 'If prohibition car
be enforced for $500, ,000,0 900 a. year, how
dare a dry Congress appropriate less?"
The Hartford Courant (independent
Republican,, also demanding the end
of "pharisaism and hypocrisy" wishes
to know, in the light of the election
why Congress should hesitate for one
moment to appropriate the $500 100000
needed to end the grave abuses"
The Cincinnati Times-Star (Repub-
lican) thinks that "a statute against
crime that is avowedly enforced one
ninth has some inherent defect" and
that perhaps it Is in the definition OF
the crime"
mo one has seriously proposed that
Congress appropriate that sum for pro-
hibition," the Asheville Times (inde-
pendent Democratic) remarks, and 1t
concludes that enforcement of pro-
hibition will limp along as usual, in the
absence of some other as yet unknown
method of having the law obeyed.
The Cleveland News independent Re-
publican) agrees that the smaller ap-
preparation "can hardly buy more eff
fective reform enforcement than usual.
Even the hundreds of millions do not
appeal to the st. Louis Times (Repub-
lican). for it asserts: 1.-The Times be-
lieves that neither $500 100000 a year
nor thousand million year can ef-
feet a thorough enforcement of the pro-
law have been to produce within the
ranks Of Federal employees as corrupt
and shameless horde OF bribe takers
as ever degraded positions OF trust
The Akron Beacon Journal (Republi-
CAM predicts, year by year the costs
will rise until soon prohibition will be
the most costly part of our Govern
ment and still liquor will then be just
as plentiful as now"
In support of the present service
rendered, the Santa Barbara Daily
News independent Democratic) quotes
with satisfaction from the report from
DR.. Doran, prohibition chief, the esti-
mate that "the amount of liquor
brought into the country Is less than
one-eighth of that smuggled in a year
ago."
Evening star., 1928-12-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Barring only the Hoover cabinet
no other topic arouSes more continuous
speculation in Washington than Presi-
dent Coolidge's occupation after March
4, 1929. AL he will say on the SUBJ
ject is that one guess is as good as an
other. The President does lend a good
deal of basis for the expectation that
he and Mrs. Coolidge will pitch their
tent at Northampton, Mass, at least
for a time. It Is understood that a
whole carload of personal belongings
has already been shipped to North
ampton for storage. The Coolidge
law Office in the old home town has
been maintained, with the Presidents
will retire to private life pretty rich
man. Friends estimate his fortune at
something around 100000. which will
provide him a handsome income even
In the unlikely event that he dedicates
himself to career of leisure. The
latest suggestions about Mr.. Coolidge S
future activities include the chairman
ship of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Ccmpany's board and the
presidency of the National Life In
surance Co. of Vermont.
X X X X
The American Legion has mobiliZed
to oppose the pacifist drive against
the cruiser bill awaiting approval of
the Senate. The Legion'S national
legislative committee Is calling upon
its numerous branches throughout the
country to telegraph members of the
Senate strong appeals for passage OF
the cruiser measure, regardless OF the
Kellogg anti-war pact and in advance
of the ratification Of the treaty If posi-
BILE. The Legion favors the multilateral
pact, having indorsed it at the recent
but 1t takes the view that the needs Of
the country at sea are such that the
cruisers should be built, as proposed
Senator Hale, Republican, of Maine,
chairman of the Senate naval affairs
committee, heartily welcomes the sup
port of the Legion. He regards 1t
very effective Offset to the opposition
of the various and vigorous anti-pre-
paredness groups.
y 4 X X
Representative Charles M. Stedman,
Democrat, of North Carolina, one OF
the veterans of the House, Is facing
a possible contest for the seat he
has held continuously through nine Con-
gresseS. The Greensboro district,
which since time immemorial has
turned in heavy Democratic major
tiles, gave Maj Stedman a lead OF
only 588 votes on November 6. There
are intimations, though not yet official,
that his Republican opponent, June H.
Hardin Ca man, may contest the elec-
ton. Maj Stedman Is, in point of age,
the oldest member of Congress. He
will be 88 in January. Stedman's
proudest claim to fame Is that he
served with Lees army during the
entire Civil War, and was wounded
three times. He surrendered at Ap-
pomattox. He looks so much like Rob-
ert e. Lee that movie producers have
made several futile efforts to induce
him to portray the great Confederate
leader in war films.
Evening star., 1928-12-19
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHrLANDER JOHNSON
Facing the Enern,

Facing the Enemy.
For every i'll that comes to mind,
Science remedy will find.
Remember how. in days gone by.
We bravely joined to "Swat the Fly"
Though we have made the Fly behave
We still encounter dangers grave,
AS the Pneumonia germ draws near
To vitiate the atmosphere.
So, Scientists, please gather round
And lend intelligence profound.
A noble purpose to affirm.
oh, teach us how to Swat the Germ!
Evening star., 1928-12-19

It must be admitted that at least one
monarch is a success. The world re-
joices in any happiness the King OF
England may enjoy and honestly SYM
pathizes when hours of illness befall
him. Even the citizen radically in
clined fair -mindedly admits that there
is no fault In being born to throne,
and that there is great honor due to
one who holds his relationship to the
people in terms of affectionate SYM
pathy