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TWO NAVY SEAPLANES !
 MAKE TRIP TO SITKA

The Navy seaplanes Juneau and Sitka piloted respectively by Lieut. Comdr. A. w. Radford and by Lieut.. (j.g.). l.. P. Pawlikowski,S re- turned to Juneau about o'clock yesterday afternoon after lmak- ing an official trip to Sitka.e Major Malcolm Elliott, U. s. A., and R. H. Sargent, of Washington, D. O., also made the flight to Sitka.
 Rough, bumpy air, frequent rain- squalls, and heavy rain from Hawk Inlet to Juneau, was far from ideal for flying
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TRANSFER sUBsTATIoN

Postoffice Substation No l, which has been operated at the Butler Mauro Drug Company's store on Front Street, for many years, was today transferred to the store of the Juneau Drug Company in the Valentine Building on Front Street. This was announced this morning
 by Mrs. J. T. Spickett, Postmistress.
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LEDUCs HAVE GIRL BABY

Announcements received in the mail aboard the Alameda state that baby girl, Constance Mary Leduc, was born to Mir. and Mrs Arnold A. Leduc, in Portland, Ore. on July IT. MT. and Mrs. Leduc are former residents of Juneau. He was employed as linotypist on The Empire and Mrs. Leduc was for sometime leader of the orchestra at the Coliseum. They were mar ried here about six years ago and have been in the States for the past four years. fr
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RESEARCH WORK CARRIED ON AT GLACIER BAY BY DIR. W. s. COOPER OF UNIV VERSITY
 OF MINNESOTA; INTER GLACIAL FOREST

est, about quarter of mile from Muir Glacier, and found that ther had been two levels of forest buried one on top of the other at different intervals, which proved that one forest had grown, flourished and been buried by gravel deposits upon the surface of which the pro- cess was repeated, the two forests finally being covered by ice thous- ands of feet thick" ie
 pr. Cooper made similar studies
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FIRE ALARM TEST

The City Fire Alarm System will be tested Sunday morning starting at o'clock.
 Boxes 1-9 and 4-9 will be sound- ed. Any other alarm sounded will be answered by firemen.
 (Signed) J. L. CRAY, adv. Chief of Fire Department
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NOTICE

Commening Sunday, July 27th ali cars will not be allowed on Front Street PAVED SECTION be- tween the hours of 4:30 a. m. and 7:3O a. m This will enable the City to wash and clean the street properly. This order is to be eff fective every Sunday until further notice.
 GEO. A. GETCHELL, adv. Chief Of Police.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-27
NO GAME PLAYED

Indictment weather prevented the scheduled game last night between the baseballists of the Navy Map pers and the Cutter Unalga.
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AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

~ Gastineau Robert J. Rogers, Fairbanks; Roy Jones; Dr.. and Mrs. R. H.. Will liams, Skagway:: MT. and Mrs. J. w. Gucker and son.
 Zynda
 MT. and Mrs. H. L. Simonds, Bellingham, Wash; F. O. Schef- fauer and daughter, Miss Louise Scheffauer, San Francisco.
 Alaskan
 Melvin Christensen, Bellingham; A. M. PimenteI, Tenakee; Jack Petersen, Seattle; and w. Peko- vich, Funter.
 Have you tried the Five o'clock
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NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS

Dog taxes due on July. 1st, and are payable to City Clerk Ham, mock. adv.
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Dell F.. Sheriff, Juiieau's plano tuner. Hotel Gastineau. adv.
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Have you tried Jne Five O'Clock Dinner Specials at Mabry's Cafe?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-27

We visited an inter-glacial for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-27

Spectacular Place
 Incidentally" continued Dr. Cooper, i've were fortunate enough to get into Johns-H Hopkins Inlet, which is usually closed to naviga- tion because of floating ice, and we found it to be the most spectacular place in this vicinity. The Inlet goes into the very heart of the Fairweather Range and the lofty peaks at the head of the Inlet lowered above us at height of 10000 feet. Mt. Fairweather itself was only a short distance away. Johns Hopkins Glacier is at the head of the Inlet and is very active in iceberg discharges. The Inlet is eight miles long and we were able to cover about four miles of that distance. We also saw two other glaciers that were coming down tremendously steep mountain sides, and which ended in the water. -t
 we visited an inter-glacial for
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The Westbrook Trio. who will
present part of the program at the
benefit musical to be given by the
Women's Guild of the Central
Union Mission February II at the
Willard Hotel.
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If steel is the barometer of bank
balances. the kilowatt hour rises with
industrial progress, the inchage OF
shelves in the Patent Office is equal
to the number of millions that Yankee
genius has coined on this earth. IN
ventive economics
Figures, facts and mileage do not
compose the epic of American irven-
tion. Why do the Patent once shelves
rroan? Not from the tonnage OF print
ed paper, but from the staggering
weight of ideas. dreams, imaginings
and hallucinations that streaked and
flashed through creative minds. Where?
In atticS, shelves, barns, Easements,
prisons and sheds. The spark of bril-
lance is kindled in the lowliest novels.
The down-at-the- frayed- at-tne-
collar inventor still fiouriShes in these
states Great laboratories and research
institutions offer Improvements and al
Ciitions, but the divine creation that
erects industries, revolutionizes life and
writes deafness names is most often
born in abject poverty.
"They call 1t scientific age, SAID
a Patent Office official. THAT may be.
HIT when you look into the history OF
American invention you find that the
.rnilestones were planted and founda-
tions laid by men who were not scien.
fists in arv sense of the word Mere
Sinkerinr mechanics. so-called mad
AAsn and fools among them. Unlearner
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of this innovation. but didn't believe.
Three thousand officials chartered a
special train and came to be convinced.
They saw. Edison conquered.
But paper carbon broke down too
easily Some other substance must be
found More than 5000 vegetable
growths were tried out. Everything
carbonizable was substituted. One hot
day Edison picked up a palm leaf fan
and noticed it was bound with strip
of bamboo.
japanese bamboo was better than
anything he had used heretofore. Then
began a 100000 quest that reflects the
restless spirit of invention. He wanted
grasses and flbers. He sent one man
to China, others to Cuba, Jamaica,
Ion. India, Burma and Japan. The
plant collectors faced death and torture
in jungles. But the inventor got his
grasSes-bales of grasses. And in the
end, the original piece of Japanese
bamboo was the best natural electric
filament found the whole world over.
Next he built the first central light
ing station and power house, the ia
nous Pearl street plant in New York.
He slept there on a cot and attended
to the thousand details that arose daily
out of failures of machinery and in
efficiency of assistants.
In one of those laboratory accidents
that always happen it was learned by
later experiments that If carbon fla
ments were packed in graphite and
baked, they glowed better in a globe.
These were created" filaments. Soon
DR.. w. D. Coolidge learned how to
make tungsten malleable and the ideal
f1lament came into use The old yell
low electric light was replaced by a
white glow that not only Is more
healthful to the eyes but cuts the
housewives electric bill in half.
The crusade for better lighting has
not ceased The last word, researchers
say, will be cold" light such as comes
from a glow-worm.
CAMUEL F. B. MORSE was never
~ reared to be an inventor. He was
painter of note and distinction, a
member of the British Royal Academy
and an acknowledged n1iniaturist. He
won a gold medal In sculpture. Re-
turning to America after studying art
in England, he was welcomed home by
many enthusiasts in Boston, but no one
bought his paintings.
In 1892, he was returning from Eu-
rope on the packet ship Sufly. He
spoke with a man named DR.. Charles
jackson. who showed him an electric
magnet and told of experiments by the
Frencflnan Ampere. Morse learned
that the great Michael Faraday con-
sidered the speed Of electricity as in
Simultaneous.
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discovery. Yet as much as 1000 years
ago the power of steam was not only OBJ
served but an ingenious toy was made
end put in motion by it at Alexandria
in Egypt,
What appears strange is that the in
ventor of the toy should not perceive
that steam would move useful ma
cllinery as well as toy
X X
THAT was the Emancipation talking,
not as rail splitter. or a presiden-
tial candidate, or court advocate, but
as one who himself had received letters
patent for an invention.
Lincoln spoke before the Golden Age
of Mechanics. At that time, the total
number of patents granted American
inventors was about 10000. In the SO
years beginning with 1870, about 1,300,-
600 patents were issued from Washing
ton. Great Britain, ranking next to
Yankee ingenuity, issued 5000 during
the same interval. And over the world
the total number granted was probably
100000. But when Lincoln wrote,
only 10000 letters patent had been
issued on this earth.
We count inventions as Bob Ingersol
counted them, as the ages OF man:
From den to rilansion--froni leaves
to clothes--from the pipes OF pan to ar
orchestra from a crooked stick TO 9
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plow-from hieroglyphics to printing
from echoes to nographs-trumpet To
elephone-slavery to freedom-appear-
ance to fact-and fear to reason!"
Aladdin's lamp threw no such light as
electricity sheds on mankind. What
difference, then? Aladdin rubbed a
lamp. whereas, we push a button.
The paternity of electricity is. long
and involved. A German monk was
bothered by birds eating his grain. so he
devised a machine to electrocute the
vandals, Some years later, famous
telegraph operator was bothered by
cockroaches eating his lunch. He killed
the pests by electrocuting them, too
That was Thomas A. Edison. Europe
studied electricity for many years be-
fore Franklin enchanted bolt of light
ming and caused deadly current to de-
scend from heaven. Theoretically, and
on the strength of present knowledge,
Ben Franklin should have been killed
But he survived for other work. His
experiment marked the marriage cere-
mony of two forces, man-made sparks
generated in a laboratory and electricity
shot from lightning bolts. They were
the same!
When Viola first demonstrated that
electricity flows in current. he brought
the invention before Napoleon. But the
Nightmare of Europe shrugged his mill
tary shoulders and said, THAT toy OF
yours has no earthly value" Had he
harnessed that '"toy," the Corsican could
have fought all Europe with single
battalion
When the wizard of Menlo Park de-
clared his intention to Invent a small
electric lamp to replace the arc type,
his announcement brought forth signs Of
regret that young man should sacrif1ce
his talents to hopeless tomfoolery.
Looking for substance with a high
melting point to withstand the white
hot glow of luminous electricity ne
hit upon carbon. Charred paper mount.
ed in an airless glass vessel did MOI
stand UP more than 8 minutes. he
turned to the metals, abandoned them
for carbon, dropped carbon, came BACK
to metals, then returned to carbon
again. After perfecting his vacuum
pump. he managed to char cotton
thread so that it glowed behind sealed
glass walls for 40 hours. Thus the nrs'
disable electric lamp.
For all those 40 hours, Edison anc
his STAFF were fascinated so that sleep
and fatigue were forgotten. The IN
vestigation leading up to that expert
ment cost him $4,000. Hence, every
hour the lamp burned represented an
outlay Of $1,000.
Then substituting strips of carbon.
lied paper for thread. he constructed
several hundred of the new lamps ano
erected them about his house, labora.
tory ans the town. New YORK nearc
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in scientific theory and ignorant of
laboratory practice.
"As matter of fact, the great in
ventors more often took little note of
established theories in physics and me-
chanics. OF course, the one outstand-
ing exception is radio. which grew out
of the Hertzian wave theory"
Examine the 100000 inventions on
file and you will find certain mind cre-
atio1s which blaze brilliantly as the
mainsprings of progress. They are rel
atively few, and the evidence tends to
show that they are the main trunks
from which, later, minor developments
have stemned. The fundamental In
ventions served not only as material
foundations, but as stimuli for awaken
ing dormant talent.
X X X
INVENTION in America is suci1 ma
: ticnal trait that it is better pro-
tected and esteemed higher here than
in any other country. And so popular
that statesmen, prosateurs and poets
have embraced it for both pleasure and
profit.
What are these fundamental inven-
tions? In agriculture, Whitney's cot
ton gin and McCormick's reaper; ir
transportation, the Westinghouse air.
brake and the Wright brothers air.
plane; in telephony, Yell's teiephon,
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Thus. with an enviable training IN
art and no background in science, ne
was struck by the strange idea OF cleo
trical communication. He stopped
sketching human figures in his notebook
and filled it with sketches of crude cleo
trical devices.
AS ne landed in New York he told the
captain: Should you hear of the tele-
graph as a wonder Of the world. re-
member that the discovery was made
on board the good ship Sully."
No mechanical skill. little knowledge
of science and beset by poverty, he la
bored on Geographic communication for
three years. In 1885 he was appointed
professor of art in the University OF
New York and there met Leonard d.
Gale, professor of chemistry. who as
sisted in the construction of appara tus.
Then Judge Stephen Vail gave him
financial assistance.
In January, 1888, the first telegfaphic
message sped over Morse's instrument.
1t was: "A patient waiter is no loser"
| That was Just a laboratory test. AT
length Congress appropriated $50, 1000
for an experimental test between Balti-
more and Washington and on May "a,
1874, these words, What hath God
wrought" leaped gap of 40 miles and
IctuAhCu WA0hAA q ACN 1ANho Va o "esS~AA'
A LEXANDER GRAHAM BELL,
Z teacher of deaf nutes. He said:
"If can make deaf mutes talk I can
make iron talk
He had held an interest in the must
cal telegraph, but the dream of speech
transmission. the conveyance Of human
voice emissions. wrapped him In ecstasy.
He set about inventing talking tele.
graph.
Bell lamented Il do not have q SCI
entific knowledge Of electricity" A
friend replied: Get it!
And he wrote 20 his mother: II am
beginning TO realize the cares and arlx-
ieties of being an inventor. I had to
put OF pupils and classes, for flesh and
blood could not stand much longer such
strain as have had upon me-"
Installed in an attic with q $9-per-
week assistant, Thomas A. watson, Bell
divided his time between the musical
| telegraph and the telephone. Forty
weeks they sweated and groaned, ard
40 weeks brought nothing more than
faint squeak from the baby telephone.
Imagine what thunderous roar would
cut loose If all the telephone voices in
the United States were to let loose In .
single chord!
His chance came during the Centen-
! NAL Exposition in Philadelphia. He
| exhibited from small table In the
/ Education Building Another freakish
ltoy and its crazy inventor, the specta.
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contradicts himself. All that is known
was summed up by Lincoln thus:
"All creation is mine and every
man miner.
I'm the beginning the mine was I'M
opened, and the miner stood naked and
knowledgeless upon it.
FISHES, birds, beasts and creeping
things are not miners, but feeders and
dodgers merely. Beavers build houses,
but they build them in nowise differ
emily or better now than they did
5000 years ago.
Man is not the only animal that Ia
bors, but he is the only one who inn
proves his workmanship.
"Of all the forces of nature should
think the wind contains the largest
amount of motive power, that is, power
to move things. Take, for instance. IL
linois; all the power exerted by men,
beasts and running water over and
upon it, shall not equal the hundredth
part of what is exerted by the wind on
the same place. And yet 1t has not be-
come proportionately valuable as a mo-
tive power.
1.-THE wind is an untamed. unhar-
messed force, and quite possibly one Of
the greatest discoveries hereafter to be
made will be the tanning and Harvesting
of It,"
"The use Of steam power Is modern
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and Berliner's transnitter; In warfare,
Colts revolver and Hollands subma-
rine; in photography, Edison's talking
machine and Berliner's lateral disk
records: in moving pictures, eEdison's
kinetoscope and Jenkins protector and
SO on. The list might be quadrupled
and thus include practically every
handspring of invention. Or 10 tnven-
lions form the grand facade to monu-
ment of American ingenuity.
Making selection of basic inventions
is not fraug1t with as much dif1culty
as simply naming the first achievement
of man.
In little-known, but intensely in
teresting essay on Invention ana DIS
, covery" Abraham Lincoln said:
Mans first discovery was his naked
| ness.
"His first invention was the fig-leaf
apron: this simple. article, the apron,
made of leaves, seems to have been the
origin of clothing, and the most i'm
portant improvement made in connec,
| ton with clothing was spinning ana
A million people have asked them
selves. What was mans first inven-
| tion?"
Making fire with drills and bows,
saw some. Another authority claims
that mans first invention was the al
phabet, by which he learned to record
| speech. But this was very advanced
creation, although it seems to have
! been invented as far back as 1000 years
ago by the Phoenicians.
one lawyer has already told how the
| aluhabet inventor might have petit
| toned the Phoenician patent office for
| protection. His application would read:
| st claim the art of writing words by
the use of letters, each of which has q
different elementary sound, which LETT
ters. when sounded collectively and in
/ the order of their arrangement will
make the composite sound which is the
| spoken word.
| So man founders In the history of his
/ creative talent. The more he seeks tc
4 name this invention or THAT discovery
as afirst. the more he confounds and
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BY DON GLASSMAN.

YESTERDAY through Patent Office and counted
miles of shelves supporting records of 100000
ventions will be 1905 miles next year 125
2029 AID the Shevage will have stretched to 500
miles!
the sensational commentary national culture
its heterogeneous life has yielded nothing more
American than this museum of inventive progress -,
shelves higher shelves and build
million invention occupy enc and inches
invention rate five inches Reckon
proxiaey $0Oo0oo Multiply $4,000 inches to the
100000 and the estimation of Americas
material wealth yesterday approxmaes
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Patent Office Has Become Great Museum of Material
Representatives, May Have Little Bulk, But Ideas
Represented Are of Incacuabe Weight-Many
| Mind Creations Blaze Brilliantly as Main
| springs of National Life.
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CHAMPION OF A GOOD CAUSE

The Minneapolis Tribune during the
past several weeks, has spent much
time and space in the fight against
the Hawley tariff bill and for agricul-
ture in general. That newspaper de-
serves great deal of credit for it's
fight for the farmer, because its argu-
ments are logical and are carrying
weight. 1t is no little effort for a
metropolitan daily such as the Trib-
une to come 20 the front in the face
of tremendous political odds and
champion certain issue. 1t has TAX
en- up the cause of the farmer because
it has vision to know that the farmer
plays large part in feeding the
world. Although we are not a sponsor
for legislation to help a certain in
dustry, we do believe that if legisla-
ton is passed for one industry it
should at least be passed to help an
other of like or greater Importance,
which is in distress. Legislation, such
as the Hawley bill, would help certain
industries that already are making
good and would neglect certain others
which need help.