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Evening star., 1928-12-04
The Imnasse in the East,

Absorption in the presidential elec-
tion and other domestic affairs has di-
verted the attention of Americans from
the grave international situation which
persists in the Far East. Japan and
Nationalist China are now in the fifth
month of their apparently insoluble
differences. The deadlock gives no sign
of being broken. While it lasts the
world at large is bound to look upon
Sino-Japanese relations as a potential
powder barrel. The imagination does
not have to run very far af1eld to en-
visage the illimitable consequences of
any explosion which might come out
of it. AS the first power to accord rec
ognition to the new c. s2:ees Ec7,2'''' Ec.22'''' =
ment at Marking, the United States
has a paramount interest in develop
ments on the other side of the globe.
Japan and China are at loggerheads
over three basic questions. The first
concerns claims for loss of life and
property resultant from disorders and
armed clashes in Tsinan, Hankow and
Nanking. The second point of contro-
versy relates to the revision of the Sino-
japanese treaty of commerce and nav
igation, negotiated in 1896 and abrupt
ly terminated by China in July of this
year A third bone of contention in
wolves the adjustment of financial and
economic relations, including China'S
demand for tariff autonomy.
On all of these issues the two coun-
tries have exchanged diplomatic COM
munications which at times were not
devoid of bitterness. In particular,
Japan holds that China was guilty of
a high-handed violation of interna-
tional law in abrogating without notice
Tie 1896 treASs.
Two factors er7s-r .-reo the Sino-Jap-
anese imbroglio which. while not spe-
cifically connected with any of the
points at issue, overshadow all of them.
Japan on her part doubts both the sta
bility and the solvency of the Nation
alist government, while China remains
more than skeptical as to the purity of
Japan's policies and purposes in Man
churia. Marking is anxious to obtain
control over the foreign relations of
China's great province in the north,
while Japan views with alarm the pos
sible consequences of such control over
her vast economic interests in Man
churia DR.. WI, the special commits
sioner of Nationalist China now in
Washington, puts the Manchurian sit
uation graphically when he says that
until the provinces allegiance to the
Marking government is fully and for
nally acknowledged two flags will fly
in China-the flag of Marking and the
flag of Mukden."
Still another factor which has en-
tered into the Far Eastern situation is
the new accord between Great Britain
and Japan for cooperation" in China.
It is claimed to be "a simple under
standing intended to check possible ex-
ploitation of differences between for
eign powers by the Chinese govern
ment." In former times the so-called
Great Powers presented united front
vis-a-vis China. But that concert seems
TO have come to formal end with the
action of the United States in recogniz-
ing the Marking government and con-
cluding with it separate treaty with
out waiting for action by the rest of
the world
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talists that, ell together, are standing
In the way Of that poetic temper out OF
which alone the great works of literary
art are assumed to spring. Very much
of this book is finely suggestive-that
part of it which rises legitimately from
the students trained activities. When
it touches upon life, however-the life
that is progressing so encouragingly
outside of the study-at this point the
book sounds like utter nonsense, for
whose support the author has chosen.
not in complete security. 10 of our out
standing writer's.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

Gunmen sometimes are not caught
until other gunmen decide to give them
up. The mysterious secrecy of Chinese
colonies has been initiated in the under
world life of our own time and people. A
way should be found to snap out of
remote ancestral complications.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
Unrest.

Unrest.
Our present comfort we disdain.
OF some inhospitabIe land
We hear and take an aeroplane.
An exploration is on hand.
Our sympathies are led afar
Unto some strange and cherries spot
We really like 1t where we are
Yet want to be where we are not.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

the filing of the Whitney estate fig
ureS, is received by the Admission Star
with the statement that such vast per-
sonal fortunes are almost inconceivable
to the average man here in the South"
but it expresses the hope that "as for
tunes accumulate in this State of Ala
bama, our men of wealth will likewise
remember in their wills our institutions
of learning that are doing such Won
derful work" The Omaha World
Herald, observing that "the worlds
financial center gasped" when it
learned of the size of this estate adds
that "a generation or so ago it wouldn't
have gaSped at an announcement like
this; it would have dropped dead"
Tributes to the abilities of both Mr.
Whitney and Mr.. Ryan are paid by the
Scranton Times, which states that the
latter, while he belonged to time and
shared the views of financial leaders
now dead, nevertheless was able to re-
tain his hold on the public imagina-
ton up until the very end" The Grand
Rapids Press, recognizing American OPP
portunities, declares These two boys
the blueblood and the redblood-began
far apart. but became in the end two
VI d Iype-Ild1 1UWoIhIIlS, SLItWu, Ic-
sponsible executives. Thomas
Ryan's great opportunity to rise from
poor boy to man of wealth came be-
cause the elder Whitney wished his es
tate protected and properly managed"
Fortunately this is a prosperous
country" says the Duluth Herald, 'by
other measurements than that of Payne
Whitney's fortune or that of Thomas F.
Ryan. 1t is prosperous country meas
ured by the number of its people who
are gainfully employed at good wages
and on comfortable hours of work. 1t
is a prosperous country measured by
the number of savings bank accounts,
by the number of people who own good
stocks and bonds. by the number of
people who own their own homes, by
the number of people who own auto
mobiles and radio sets and monographs
and pianos and washing machines"
Evening star., 1928-12-04

Your constituents say your speeches
are not as good as they were in days
gone by"
Perhaps the present oratory does not
show so much mentality" admitted
Senator Sorghum, but neither does
some of the voting"
Evening star., 1928-12-04

After a manful effort to correct it.,
Vice President Dawes will be compelled
to leave the United States Senate to its
own fate.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
But They Won't.

From the Lansing State Journal
If the army of hunters now in the
North woods would bring us each
Christmas tree. the trip could not be-
put down as O total loss.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

No great sympathy is extended to the
left-overs. Some of the best jobs in
the business world have been given to
lame ducks"
Evening star., 1928-12-04

Jud Tunkins says game laws will
never be strict enough to prevent a
large section of the .populace from go
ing hunting for nothing when they
might be getting something by work.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

A big show charges $3.50 for seat
in Washington, D. c., and gets $3.50
in New York. The Capital of a great
Nation still commands Difference.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

A statesman who has nothing to say
is often one who has large ideas, but,
just at present, no audience.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

Gavels will be in order on Capitol
Hill. 1t is feared that hammers also
will come into attention.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
Mernher nf the Assnciafed Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
TO the use for Republication OF all ] ews dis
patches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication CT
special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1928-12-04

When MusSolini refers to his ambi-
tious expectations he must be recon-
ciled to a candid scouting of his pre-
vious fulfillments.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
It's Different Now.

From the Toledo Blade
Ananias did pretty well for the op-
portunity he had There were not so
many things to lie about in his day.
Evening star., 1928-12-04

A mission of good will is regarded as
a highly valuable enterprise. Any busi-
ness man will say that good will" is
among his most important assets.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
Smiling Sky.

Smiling Sky.
We've each had some sorrow
In days drifting by.
We're striving to borrow
A smile from the sky.
The twilight is glowing
When daytime is gone.
Bright colors are showing
Again at the dawn.
Well wait for the morrow
With never a sigh.
While learning to borrow
A smile from the sky.
-
de trouble dat you makes foh yoh-
SELF" said Uncle Eben, usually gives
you de privilege Of braggin' dat you
did purity good job"
Evening star., 1928-12-04

When many physicians are sum-
moned there IS not any reliable strength
IN numbers.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
Speed the Day.

From the Toledo Blade
It's easy to foresee the time when
there won't be room for more parking
signs.
Evening star., 1928-12-04
Things Waiting to Be Said.

why do you insist on allowing your
wife to drive the carr"
IT want to hear what happens" said
Mr.. Chuggins, when Henrietta de-
cides to discard restraint and talk to
a bicycle cop the same way she does
to me-"
There is gold at the end of the rain
bow" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town. Like other beliefs, this persists
because no traveller has been able to say
it is untrue"
Evening star., 1928-12-04
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
coy. GREEN IS. RENOM|NATED BY MICHIGAN 6. Q. P.
Close Race for Nomination in Detroit Congress
 sional District

DETROIT, Sept. .5.-Gov. Fred W. Green, Republican, was renomi- hated for Governor in the State primary yesterday, receiving in 1927 out of the States 3.1S4 pre- cfncts, 260.532 against 1o2.902 for former Lieut.-Gov. George Welsh. Luren Dickinson. incumbent. in Q lesser number of precincts, was leading for the Republican nomi- nation for Lieutenant Governor with 3,436 votes against 93,494 for Fred Woodwork. .s
 In the Democratic contest for Governor, Frank Sawyer was lead- ing Theodore Elderdink by 5.652. Democratic returns are meager.
 In the Republican Congressional contests, Representatives James c. Mclaughlin, John c. Ketcham, Mcleod were renominated. In Grant -I Hudson. and Clarence J. the First District Representative Robert II. Clancy and former Rep resentative John B. Sosnowski were making a close race.
 Ill cases where the Democrats have entered more than one can- didate for Congress the returns are too meager to definitely indi- cate the winner.
 Clancy and Sosnowski
 Congressman Robert H. Clancy and former Congressman John B. Sosnowski have been persistent opponents in the Detroit Congress sional district. Clancy was Secre- tary 10 Congressman Frank E. Doremus, for many years a promi- nent Democratic National leader. When Doremus died Clancy was elected to succeed him as a Demo- crat Two years later Sosnowski, running as a Republican, defeated Clancy. At the next election Clancy ran against Sosnowski In the Republican primary and was successful.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
TREADWELL COMPANY
 PLANE IN NORTH

A four passenger and pilot Fair child monoplane, with oollapsibls wings. was on the deck af the Dorothy Alexander. in port Mon day. The crafi is a duplicate ol that used by Mears and Collyer in their round the world trip.
 Built at the Long Island fac tory of the Fairchild company, It was flown from New York to Sc. attfe via San Francisco by Avia- tor Lemke. who was aboard the steamer, 10 deliver it at Skagway. He expects to return south and will fly for William Randolph Hearst upon his arrival in the East.
 The plane is equipped with a Wasp 410 H. P. motor, and is the properly of the Yukon Treadwell Mining Company.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
Attractions At Theatres
MYSTERY CLUB" IS
 SHOWING, PALACE

The Mystery Club" now at the Palace, is a thrilling comedy dra- ma with a most unusual turn of plot having to do with an organi- zation of milllonaires known as "The Mystery Club" the mem- bers of which believe that they are able to commit all sorts of Expectations without being dis covered by the police, whose meth oHs they decry.
 4 To this end they agree that six Members are to be selected, each df whom posts large sum to be forfeited in the event that his 4fheme goes awry. In the midst df their plans, crime after crime M committed by some mysterious Agency. The members of the club suspect each other and are compelled to spend thousands of dollars in order to divert the suspicion, of the police and out side world from the organiza- ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05

expect to remain in Juneau about ten days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
irving a, a conclusion concerning .

irving al a conclusion concerning .
 candidates fitness for the presi-
 dency: perhaps the gals consider
 their menfolk equally ridiculous in
 their adhesive plaster relation to
 mere parties.
 The fact that the charming wife
 of the Democratic nominee used to
 do her own work" is both an asset
 and liability to her husbands
 campaign. Many of the fair voters
 are outspoken in their praise for
 her as a helpmate and candidate for mistress of the White House: others frown upon her culinary &C., complishments. Likewise the cul- tured wife of Nominee Hoover. To many of her sisters. she Is regarded as the ideal personality for mistress of the White House. and they speak with bated breath of her social tri- umphs abroad. Still others seem to resent the suggestion of Superior" ity." although 1t Is never phrased in just that way.
 Their menfoik are going about the cam mpaign in the usual. business-like. orthodox style. attending meetings. framing speeches. raising funds. Build up the bankroll and get out tho vote--these are the shibboleths of the campaign.
 Women. thoughl-there's no ac- | counting for them. 1 know-for I'm one oS 'em.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
WHITE FLANNELSr
 1 NOW AT COLISEUM

In preparing White Flannels, '
 the Warner Bros. picture now at the Coliseum Theatre, the direc- tor, Lloyd Bacon. looked at life instead of at the screen, and the result is that he has turned out as human a Dhotoplay as the season has recorded. The story con- cerns a Polish mine boy who is forced by his mother to go to col lege. She wants him to be a gen. tleman. The simple tale of their homely ambitions is full of honest laughter and tears. And there are big thrills at the end. Louise Dresser plays the mother, Jason Richards, the boy, and Virginia Browne Faire, the girl in the case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
ZANE GREY ROMANCE
 COLISEUM TOMORROW

Paramount has filmed another of those red blooded stories from the faeile pen of Zane Grey,i and this high-powered Western drama. "Forlorn River" will make it's local debut at the Coliseum tomor- row.
 To the lively plot, teeming with the romance and adventure of the northwest cattle country, has been added spirited cast, featuring such sterling favorites as Jack Holt. Raymond HattOn. Arlette Marchal and Edmund Burns.
 As in all Zane Grey productions, the locations were chosen with the greatest fidelity possible to the actual locale of the original etory.s In this instance, Zion Ma tional Park in Utah. was used as background. giving the picture scenic setting of unsurpassed natural beauty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
s'svNcnpATiNc SUE" COMING TO PALACE

Tom Moore and Corinne Grif- filth in "Syncopating Sue" comes to the Palace tomorrow and one oE the funny scenes in this clever story Is the experience of the two under one umbrella during a rain storm.
 ''It isn't the getting wet that anhoys me-" said the Irish screen hero. tits the way you get wet whAn yon try to divide an umbreI- Ia with a woman
 "A woman always wants the umbrella held tilted bit. sort of like a big picture hat over her head. We'll. when the tips of the darn thing aren't knocking yoaaF hat off. they are dripping water In your ear. or splashins lo~h your neck"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
By SHIRLEY kiRkE lntcf national Illustrated News Staff
 Writer

Writer
 "AsHINGTON.-While Herbert w Hoover hibernates In his beautiful Paio Alto. Cal. home. awaiting official notification of his selection as Republican standard bearer. and Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee. sticks to his knitting in the State House at Albany. a new--and curl ously disturbing--factor has arisen to plague the political wiseacres. Briefly. 1t Is the discovery that the wives of tho candidates are rival a.pirants for the position of mis- tress of the White House in about as real a sense as their husbands are rivals for the presidency.
 That is to say. lots of votes will be cast for Mir. Hoover. or for Gov ernor Smith, in accordance with tho voters personal preference for Mrs. Hoover or Mra Smith. rather than In accordance with any particular preference as between the official nominees of the Republican and Democratic conventions.
 You can hear Mrs. Hoover's and Mra. Smiths personalities con- trasted with ono another as . def- initeiy recognized campaign issue at any gathering of women. To "mere mem it scems queer way of ar-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
MARTHA SOCIETY

The Martha Society will hold the first regular meeting of the season Friday. September ', at 2:30 o'clock in the church par Ter. Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren and Mrs. Arthur Ficken will act aa host teases. -ady.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
CRAIG sAwMlLL SOLD

The Craig sawmill, which has been owned by the Bank of Alas ka since it's foreclosure on the property almost ten years ago, was sold last week to Henry Keller of Craig. MT. Keller took immedi- ate possession.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
FOUR GOVERNMENT
 AUDITORS ARRIVE

F. F. Conway, M. 1T. Knee, F. H. Acuff and s. A. Conley. auditors from the Comptroller Generals of flee in Washington, D. C., were arrivals in Juneau Monday.
 While here they will audit the accounts of all fiscal agents. They
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-05
MISS ooRMAN LEAVES

Miss Edna German, nurse at St. Anns Hospital for some time, left Juneau on the Princess Charlotte for her home in Seattle. Miss German has been in ill-health re- gently. Mrs. Helen Mayette, train- ed nurse of Ketchikan, arrived on the Aleutian to take the place left vacant by Miss Germans depar- ture, and began duty at the hos pital last evening.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-04-06

had ever been held in the capital.
'Tree That Owns ITSELF" an oak
in Athens, Ca, which owns the land
on which it stands through a deed
made by Dr. w. II. Jackson, a men,
Der of the faculty of the University
of Georgia, when the opening of a
street through that land threatened
its destruction.
Scythe Tree, in Waterloo, n. Y.
When Wyburn Johnson enlisted in the
Union army in 1861, he hung his
scythe in a crotch of small tree, to
be left there until his return. He
was killed in battle and the tree in
its growth enveloped the scythe I'M
til now it is firmly embedded in the
trunk with only the point showing.
Wesley Oak on st. Simon's island,
Ga. Under this tree both John and
Charles Wesley, founders of the
Methodist church in America, preached
Webster Tree near Franklin, n. III.
On this tree Daniel Webster hung
his scythe when he decided to go to
Dartmouth college and ''the path from
this tree led Webster to congress and
to the office of the secretary of state.
he twice refused the nomination for
vice president and in both cases the
head of the ticket on which he would
have been elected died in Office"
Council Oak In Sioux City, Iowa,
beneath which Lewis and Clark
camped and held one of their first
councils with the Indians after leav-
ing st. Louis.
Battle Ground Oak at Guilford
Court House, N. c., also called the
Liberty Tree. 1t stands on the bat
tie ground of Guilford Court House,
fought March 10, 1881, "the battle that
won the revolution" since CORVALLIS,
costly victory there led directly to
Yorktown and his surrender. Gener-
al Greene is said to have tied his
horse to this tree during the battle
Kentucky Coffee Tree in front of
the Yer Planck mansion at Fishkill-
on-Hudson, occupied by Baron Steu-
ben during the revolution. The first
meeting of the Society of the Gin
cinnati was held under this tree.
Live Oak at Pomona, Calf, mark
ing the spot where in 1887 the first
white settlers camped in the Pomona
valley.
Abraham Lincoln Tree in DEBORAH,
Iowa, a blackberry planted by Holm
Finn in memory of the martyred
President on April q, 1865, the day
which the governor of Iowa had
designated as day of mourning for
Lincoln. The tree is now 10 feet
high and nearly II feet around.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-04-06
New Bulletin Includes In
formation on Regulations.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
The benefits and limitations of par
eel post marketing of farm products
as disclosed in study of the oper-
alton of this form of selling over a
period of IA years are set forth by
the bureau of agricultural economics
in publication, Marketing Farm
Products by Parcel Post" just issued
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. f.
When the parcel post law, went into
effect in 1913, says the author, Lewis
B. Flohr, there were many and varied
ideas as to the part it might play in
marketing farm produce. Some per-
sons declared that it would solve the
farm marketing problem. There has
been a continued and slowly increas-
ing volume of marketing by this meth
cd, he says, but the quantity of farm
products passing through the postal
service has not reached the proper
tions expected by the enthusiasts and
is relatively small part of the total
marketings of farm products.
The departments new bulletin in
cludes information on the parcel post
regulations and requirements, the
ways and means of making contact be-
tween producers and customers, the
necessary business attitude and man
agement of the business, and the fac
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-04-06

surfaced roads are emphasized when
1t is realized that material from pc
troleum identical with the 100000
year-old road material in the Califor-
MIA asphalt beds, and others like them
In this and South American countries,
is being utilized today in the con-
struction of asphalt macadam high
ways, a type evolved from the orig
lnal macadam roads of crushed stone
originated by John Lowden McAdam,
the noted highway engineer, born in
Ayr, Scotland, in 1856. American
macadamized roads originally were
named after the canny old Scot and
the method of construction now fol-
lowed is the same as that which he
perfected except that the stone IA
now asphalt-bound instead of water
bound to better withstand the present
day motor traffic.
Macadam roads were the first hard
surfaced highways. In this day and
age the term "hard-surfaced roads" in
cludes all the paved types such as as
pnalt macadam, sheet asphalt, as
phalt-concrete, brick, cement and
granite block. 1t is our modern
hard-surfaced highways that have
made possible the great expansion Of
the motor car industry, and the de-
velopment of the great oil companies, |
which curiously enough produce from
petroleum the fuel for the motor the
lubricants for the parts, the asphalt
for the pavement and for the garage
roof, the same material also serving
for the glossy black paint. the insu-
lation for the battery and the filler
for the tires. Asphalt has entered so
extensively into road construction In
the United States that there are now
in service, 1,173,000,0O0 square yards,
or 10S,S00 miles, of asphalt roads-an
area greater than all other paved
types combined.-Boston Transcript.