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Evening star., 1928-10-27

Settlement of the New Bedford tex
tile strike after a long-drawn-ou
struggle, disastrous to all concerned. is
made the occasion for pointed comment
on the folly of ineffective and waste
full methods of adjusting such contro-
versies.
1T is impossible at this time to esti-
mate the total cost of this strike or to
predict the length of time it will take
to recover from it." says the Spring.
field Union. Practically all Of it rep
resents a total economic loss and the
strike has turned out to be merely one
waste of this method Of settling in
dustrial disputes. With a different
spirit in evidence on both sides in the
beginning the huge cost and the wide
spread suffering and injury caused by
the strike could have been avoided.
The settlement now agreed upon or
one equally satisfactory could just as
readily have been reached apparently
without one days cessation of work" "
The Asheville Times reasons that
such an industrial war is no more
defensible than armed conflict to set
tie international disputes that could be
settled around a conference table" and
continues: IF nations could be forced
to pay in advance the cost of wars, 1t
would be one of the most powerful
guarantees of peace. If the employers
and employees Of the New Bedford tex
tile mills could have foreSeen the course
Of their conflict over wages, they
would unouestionably have compromised
last April rather than now"
y X
In it's discussion of the cause of the
trouble, the Chicago Daily News ex-
plains that "the strike was a protest
against a 10 per cent reduction in
wages, but the workers also resented
the failure of the employers to give
them notice of the intended action"
Although forced to accept compromise
on the wage question, the strikers won
clear-cut victory in their grievance
against lack of proper notification OF
the proposed reduction, as the News ex-
plains: What finally led the seven
unions represented in the council to
vote in favor of return to work under
the reduced wage scale was an addi-
tional concession of the manufacturers,
who promised to give 80 days notice of
any future contemplated change in
their employees pay" The strike could
have been prevented the Chicago paper
contends. by more effective arbitration
and mediation machinery"
Observing that "one would not easily
find an example of a strike that so
completely failed to pay any one con-
cerned'' the Brooklyn Daily Eagle is
interested in the fact that "the strike
has shown how we'll the country could
get along for cotton goods during al
most half a year without the services
of nearly 10000 workers in the New Bed
ford mills" and pictures the entire in
dustry of the city as having to address
itself ito the difficult task of recaptur-
ing a market that has temporarily gone
elsewhere. 1t will require the workers
and the owners TO do their utmost to
come back" predicts this paper, as it
advises both sides in the strike that
they have so strong an interest in COM
mon that they may we'll dismiss an.
tagonisrn and work together"
The half year of idleness" OF the
textile mills around New Bedford,
Mass. has been costly ard burden
some experience for mill owners and en-
Evening star., 1928-10-27

An office worker asked an associate
how to spell the name Of the great
Roman amphitheater.
"C-o-l-l-l-s-e-u-m," spelled out the
other
That doesn't sound right to me-" re-
piled the questioner. Let's look it up
The big dictionary was queried first
of ALL He couldn't find 1t under col
loseum" or coliseum"
The other tried colosseum" in a
small dictionary. with no success. Then
he tried colosseum"
We'll. that's funny" said the first. in
the tones of despair which come to
every one who can't find what he wants
in a dictionary.
IT give 1t up" The second was
angry about 1t. Why weren't diction-
aries SO put up that the man who
didn't know how to spell a word would
be helped instead of hindered in his
search?
Suddenly the man who wanted to
know how to spell the word had a
bright idea. He had tried 90 and "a, -
now he would look for Coli"
Sure enough, there 1t was:
Coliseum.
The alternate spelling was given as
colosseum"
mo wonder we couldn't find it,
growled the other.
I'm other words" laughed the first
"if you don't know how to spell word
you are out of luck when you consult
a dictionary"
Often even highly educated persons
become puzzled over locating a word
If one gets off the track in the first
place and gets the wrong vowel In his
mind. it becomes a real difficulty to
discover the correct spelling.
1t is as II the word desired is de-
liberately hiding from the searcher
The larger the dictionary, of course,
the better chance the culprit word has
of escaping the eyes of justice.
For this reason many persons find II
expedient to keep several dictionaries
at hand, ranging from the great tome
to the small one, which Is practically
nothing but a word book
The word book thus becomes spell
ing book simply, a collection to which
one has recourse when desiring to know
correct spelling. not definition.
Because there are so few words under
any given letter, 1t become a conipara-
lively easy matter to find the fugitive.
Even If one Is forced to look at every
single word. he is able to discover the
missing one through sheer perseverance,
something which he could scarcely do
in the great dictionary, owing to its in
clusiveness. 1t is one thing to look
through 500 words and distinctly an
other to wade through 5000 of them.
Where the small dictionary too often
falls down. of course, is through its
very paucity. The 500 words which 1t
gives under certain letter, for in
stance, may be the exact 500 for which
one has no use at the time being. The
50lst word was the one wanted! This
inadequacy OF the smaller dictionaries
Is one which cannot be helped, since
they have been abbreviated for a pur-
pose. and good purpose. The only
remedy Is to keep small one, a me-
dium size and a large one. Thus the
diligent searcher after knowledge meets
his words coming and going. and is
able to make his selection from all the
words there are. or from few of them,
as time and chance may determine.
X
Another good point of the abridged
dictionary Is that it tempts one to
use 1t where the great unabridged,
through its sheer physical proportions,
deters even the most avid searcher
for truth
The great dictionaries. with all due
Evening star., 1928-10-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Getting the Low Down."
We're envious of the Might supreme
That gratifes Ambitions dream.
And yet the Caliph, as we know,
Forth in humble garb would 20
Saying unto his trusted friend,
Let us from empty pomp descend;
For am weary of the praise
That greets me, though know my ways
BY candor might be counted queer.
] must be often insincere.
I'm weary of the soup and fish.
scorn the precious, polished dish.
reprehend the raiment fine
Where mocking Wallets stand in line;
And all the rest of the display
I meet In F'lattery's array.
So, let us study, without fear.
Hi-jacker Gunman, Racketser:
Let's go by night throughout the town,
Forsaking smiles, to face the frown
That warns us, In the common fate.
AS we'll as Love, there must be Hate"
Evening star., 1928-10-27

not be trusted to maintain peace with
big stick" And the only President
of the last half century about whom it
can be declared that not a hostile shot
was fired during his administration was
the friend of the Navy"--the author
of the advice. Speak softly and carry
big stick"
lCopyright 1923. hy Paul v. Colnns.l
Evening star., 1928-10-27

The custom of tearing up telephone
books for confetti purposes represents
individual waste that means an item to
be calculated into demand for increase
of rates TO the subscriber.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Unlimited money cannot encourage
any political aspirant to confident hope
that an election can be conducted on a
cash-and-carry system.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
Motor Competition.

us there much competition in the
automobile industry?"
More than ever" declared Mr.. Chug-
gins. Manufacturers are now in rivalry
to show not only who can build the best
car. but who can put up the best politi-
cal band wagon
"Eloquence," said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, lis a gift of the gods, to be
used with discretion. 1t causes an error
of statement to be remembered beyond
the power even of eloquence to correct
it,"
Evening star., 1928-10-27

A straw vote cannot be expected to
extend much encouragement to farm
relief The cost of straws is nothing, as
compared to the value of hay.
Evening star., 1928-10-27
Dream Song.

We have sung of the dreams
That delight us anew.
But sometimes the Nightmares
Are all that come true.
A fair landscape CLEANS
But the taxes are due;
And only the Nightmares
Are sure TO come true.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

The Missouri bard who resented mis-
treatment Of his "houn' dog" may have
to include a verse to the effect that
you've got to quit kickin' my Tammany
tiger around"
Evening star., 1928-10-27

The American public is versatile and
never fails to demonstrate that it can
take its politics as seriously as it does
its foot ball.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Motor accidents are SO frequent as
TO suggest the propriety of including the
cost Of insurance policies in the price of
every automobile.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Unidentified registration lends
dramatic element to the election
Enter, the mysterious stranger"
Evening star., 1928-10-27
Lengthy Introduction.

The chairman introduced a man
Who was renowned throughout the clan.
We sighed, as he kept on his feet,
"A chairman ought to take a seat"
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Every campaign brings forward a few
names for the waiting list of the Let's
Forget It" club.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Oil scandals have become more than
a passing stimulation to popular resent
ment. They have become habit.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

DE science folks say dar is bigger
suns out IN space dan de one we does
business wifi" said Uncle Ebcn. After
dat hot Summer all I asks is dat dey
keeps deir distance"
Evening star., 1928-10-27

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New Political Ecnnamy.

do you object to business in poll
tics?"
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum.
Il could make lot more speeches if it
weren't for the. high cost of radio time. F"
Evening star., 1928-10-27

Jud Tunkins says he likes old friends,
and in all this feyerish argument he
wonders what has become of evolution.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all ews dis
patches credited 10 it or not otherwise Cred-
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication of
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Evening star., 1928-10-27

THEODORE W. MOVES. Editor
Evening star., 1928-10-27

@ Please name town having
population Of 1000 that Goes not have
electricity.-W. G. A.
A. Exeter, r. l.. and Moore. Tex,
are towns of about 1000 population
which do not have electricity.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

@. Did Emil Jannings play the lead
ing male role in The Docks Of New
York?"-J. j.
A. Emil Jannings did not play In the
picture entitled THE Docks x New
York" In this picture Geores Ban
croft was starred.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

@. How big is the largest kite in ths
WORLDS. M.
A. What Is said to be the largest
single surface kite in the world has
recently been made by the boys in q
Los Angeles military academy. It
measures more than 80 feet from tip
to tip.
Evening star., 1928-10-27

@. What are the periods In early
italian art?-M. OF.
A. The earliest period Is called the
Gothic (about 1250-14O0); that from
1400-1500 Early Renaissance; that
from 1900 to 1900 the High Renais-
sance; after that the Decadence.
Evening star., 1928-10-27


A prize award in literature not as
we'll known in this country as our own
various awards is the James TAFT Black
Memorial Award Two prizes are given
annually under this award one Tor
the best novel and one for the best
biography of the year. The award was
founded by the late Mrs. Janet Goats
Black in memory of her husband, who
was a member of the Black publishing
firm of London. Each prize amounts TO
$50 pounds. or about $1,000. Winners
of the novel prize have been Hugh Wal
pole. D. H. Lawrence. Walter de la
Mare, David Garnett, Arnold Bennett,
e, M. Forster. Liam O'Flaherty and,
this past year. Francis Brett Young,
for his famous novel Love Is Enough"
CARLYLE is an unfailing resource for
the biographer, probably because OF his
dyspepsia and his supposed marital un-
happiness. rather than because of in
terest in his philosophy Not even the
many-volumed biography of David Alec
Wilson, not yet completed, with all its
advantages of family connections and
family papers, has served to check
temporarily other biographers. with no
obvious advantages at all. Norwood
Young, in Carlyle: His Rise and FALL"
shows the Scotch philosopher as quer-
ulous and quarrelsome from childhood.
at ODDS with the world both publicly
and privately. Carlyle's scholarship is
belittled, his sincerity is impugned, his
egotism is denounced. In fact. Mr..
Young seems to feel considerable ami
mostly toward his subject.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
GOOD FAITH COUNTS FOR NOTHING.

The other day Associated Press despatches from Washington told of the defeat in the House of Representatives of bill designed to legaze the payment of funds already appropriated by the Territorial Legislature to certain Territorial officials Delegate Sutherland, who opposed the measure successfully. declared it's enactment into law meant the entrance of bureaucracy into Alaska.
 Today there is actually but Federally appointed officer in Alaska who could come with in the scope of the defeated bill He is Secretary Karl Theile For a number of years the Terri toral Secretaries have been paid salary of $2,000 per year for performing certain duties at the request of the several successive Alaska Legislatures, beginning with the first Up to 1927 there has been no difficulty about Che matter. Last year, following the adjournment of the Legislature. suit filed attacking the legality Of this item, and others including salaries for clerks and stenographers in the offices of the Governor and Secretary, extra compensa- tion for the presiding officers of the two Houses of the Legislature and sother extra legislative expenses not covered by Federal funds then exist ing and other minor items The question was fully argued before Judge T M. Reed who dis eussed the legal and administrative principles involved in lengthy opinion handed down on May 31, last year In it he held that existing statutes barred the payment of the items for the salary of the Secretary of the Territory and for wages earned bystypists stenog rallfers and clerks in overtime spent doing the wdrk involved dur ing the session and in winding up the affairs after adjournment All other items were held to be legally valid and proper forms of expendi- ture.
 It is apparent that the House measure spon- sored by Judge Curry as Chairman of the Com mittee on Territories, was designed to remove the existing legal barriers that prevent the pay ment of MT. Theile's salary out of funds described in the bill as having been already appropriated by the Legislature. There doesn't to be any basis in this for charge that it would per nit bureaucracy to enter Alaska. No question has been will be, raised by anyone that the Secretary hasn't performed the duties imposed on him by the several Legislatures, that it not efficiently done. No doubt be enter tained that for doing it the Territory has prom ised the Secretary that he would be paid at the 7 rate of $2,oo0 per year. Judge Reeds decision estopped it from carrying out it's part of the agreement until certain legal inhibitions were removed The Delegates opposition to the meas that would have removed them thus makes it impossible for the Territory to carry out it's pledge.
 The whole matter Is, of course one of fac tional politics. It is unfortunate that faetonal disagreements should have been dragged in to the end that the Territory cannot in good faith live up to it's agreement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
A Tree Lives On.
fNew York Worldly

tNew York World.)
 Nothing perhaps. could make us more sharp ly aware of the hot rush of time the endless feadJustment of human tastes and enthusasms, than certain despatch which has come by the Associated Press from Tennessee ''The lonesome pine which figured prominently in the romance by John Fox, Jr., still stands" this despatch in- forms us.
 Then 1t cannot be very many years since the romance of June and her city lover and mountain feuds and the tall old tree whispering Ill the wind was famous thing among us. It cannot De very many years since the boys and girls gathered around the piano of an evening and gave their voices throbbingy to the song which the tale inspired Does anybody remember the words?
 In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
 On the trail of the lonesome pine
 In the pale moonshne our hearts
 entwine,
 June carved her name and carved
 mine sse
 Oh, June! Like the mountains I'm blue;
 Like the pine, I lonesome for
 yeu-u-u-u! In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
 On the trail of the lonesome pne
 Yet even though the good health of the tree assures us that not many winters have passed over It, the times of the story and of the song seem long ago and far away John Fox Jr, is oead and his romances thick with dust frltz Schef, to whom the Trail of the Lonesome Pine was dedicated, is playing the part of q maid in New York play
 The speed of modern life gives 10 a tree the air of antiquity and permanence that hangs about the Pyramids
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
A First Duty.
lcincinnati Enauirer.l

Dr. John MeDowel of New York City, in a recent lecture at Lane Seminary, enunciated a truth which should be impressed upon the thought of every religious communion in this country for it's importance cannot be too strong ly emphasized
 ties itself with any particular social economic or political theory is courting new division which can only serve to weaken it's power and impair its influence"
 Dr Mcdowell refers to spiritual power and influence If church does not possess these elements 1t no longer can claim affinity with the mission entrusted to it's care
 Churches broadly successful in matters of administration and finance, rich in membership. yet may be as devoid of spiritual essence and Influence as the pyramids devoid of soul
 it is the thought of Dr Mcdowell that spiritual essence and force are bartered away and other various outside activities
 This appears to have been the view of the Founder of Christian faith, and also of that militant apostle who dared even the brutal and maehcent humor of Nero in zeal of evangelism which remains without parallel in the story of religions development
 MT Mcdowell is merely calling the churches nome He makes evangelism the first duty of the church. He declares that the social and educational work of the church always must be secondary to evangelstic ssefort and ,setyity speclheally Social service and Christian educa- ton are not substitutes for evangelism, but sup- pements' T
 The distinguished minister was trying to pet little old wine into new bottles so to speak. It fervently is to be hoped that Dr. McDowelI,s recommendation of age-old divine advice may in- spire some of our latter-day ministry to the mar 1ormance Of a church's first duty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
REBUILDING A DEPARTMENT

Recently the Department of Commerce cele- brated the twenty-ffth anniversary of it's found ing. Linked with Labor matters it was erea ted as the Department of Labors and Commerce in 1903 and later the two were separated both now functioning under different executive heads Although ninth in the order of precedence the Department of Commerce in the past eight years has been so re-organized and rebuilt that it's work is regarded as equal in importance to the country particularly to the business interests as that of any other of the executive branches of the Government.
 The Coneressional Directory defines the func- tions of the Secretary Of Commerce as being the work of promoting the commerce of the United States, its mining, manufacturing, shipping. fish ing and transportation interests" In carrying out this work it has its agents throughout the world we'll in all sections of the United States Under Seereatry Hoover experts have been drafted into he Department from all branches of the industry and what was in earlier periods looked upon purely formal functions something to be looked after by underpaid clerks has been made over into actual, serviceable work promoting foreign trade. utilizing the Bureau of Census for something more than mere enumera- ton of population, putting it to work assembling vital statistics affecting commodities supplies business movements, systematic campaign in the elimination of waste standardization of every day commodities, efforts to stabalize business by eliminating low and peaks.
 Commenting MT. Hoover's program, the New York Times recently said:
 History will some day record the sig
 nifcance of these moves and the philos- < ophy that lay behind them. At the close
 of the war period the country was con
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
UNITED STATES
Dcpartment of the Interior GENERAL LAND OFFICE

Ecuartment of the Interior
 GENERAL LAND OFFICE
 U. S. Land Office,
 Anchorage. Alaska.
 January 16. 1928. Notice is hereby given that Earl Wesley French, entryman, together with his witnesses, Joe Mckenzie, and John Cryderman, all of Haines, Alaska, has sub- mitted final proof of his home stead entry. serial 0691S, for the NEA NWA. NV A NEA, section 24, SEA SWA. section 13, T. 2S S. R. 53 Y. c. R. M and 1t Is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office within the period of publication, or thirty days there after said final proof will be ac- cepted and final certificate is sued.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register First publication, Feb. 29, 1928. .ast publication. Apr. 1. 1928.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
Who Do Candidates Stand For?
Ketchikan Chronicle. }

m the Democratic field there is no contest iof heiekates to tho national convention Six are nominated and according to their convention eohNf9nent they are to vote for AT Smith for nominee fof the Presidency. In the Republican iAftyi however, there some half dozen candi- ua'es TOT delegate while only two are to be choseh. of all those in the field only one has committed himself. Gus Gelles, running for dele gate to the Republican National Convention an- nounces that he stands for Herbert Hoover for the nompatlon The others have said not a word. Ihere are only two to be named delegates and Tn all fairness to the voters of the Territory they owe it to the people of Alaska to let it he known whom they favor for the nomination and the Presidency.
 Unless those who seek seats in the national eohVensions say whom they favor the people of Alaska will be voting bIindly an unfair tbing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-10
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
By SAM HILL

And We Don't Mean Maybe If we were wiser than young folks
 today, We'll say the spankings did their
 part For We remember mighty doggone
 well They very often made us smart.