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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Prison Revolts.

When a member of a modern organ
lied community breaks the law written
for the protection of all, he is, upon
conviction Of his crime, sent to prison
for term of years in punishment. In
some States the taking of life is pun
ished by death. In almost all
cases, however. the penalty for crime
is imprisonment. Places are provided
for the detention of those who are thus
sent away for period. They must be
strongholds, and there must be rigid
discipline for the convicts. In modern
times harsh physical punishments are
not permitted. The utmost that may be
done for the correction of breaches of
prison rules is to put the offender in a
solitary cell, out of all communication
tainments have been furnished the in
mates Of the prisons, recreation has
been afforded for the sake of their phys
ical health, good and ample food Is
supplied for their sustenance.
The man who breaks the law Is a
rebel against organized society. When
he is sent to prison he is rebel against
authority in spirit If not in fact. He is
usually hoping to defeat the rules of
his confinement, to escape that confine-
ment throughout his term. In every
p~Son the more radical of these rebels
plot to break through to liberty. Some
times they find enough of their own
kind to form an escape squad" At
some favorable opportunity they seize
q guard, overcome him, take his weap-
ons, perhaps kill him and dash for the
doors. Now and then these men escape
for a little while. Few, however, can
long evade pursuit. The percentage
of successful prison breaks is so low
that the attempt Is almost surely to be
written down as a failure before it is
made.
During the past Summer a veritable
epidemic of prison-escape plots occurred
in this country, with outbreaks at sew
eral of the largest penal institutions,
all with loss of life. Great damage was
done to the buildings. These revolts
were presumably planned through some
secret communication between prison
ers. Yesterday, at Canyon City, Colo.
another desperate attempt was made
with heavy loss of life and much de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

wish to let the reading public know
that the mountain people have not been
entirely neglected, and that from our
efforts, hampered though they have
been by inadequate support, there has
sprung q body Of well taught, intelli-
gent citizens. We have some 1900
communicates of the church, hundreds
of children in schools, men who are
as fine, outstanding churchmen as you
will find anywhere. We have college
graduates who have come from our
mission schools to college and made
good, even to the extent Of Phi Beta
Kappa keys! We have young man in
his last year at the Virginia Seminary
and he Is considered one of the finest
men there. These results are to be
seen by any one who is interested
enough to come to Charlottesville and
let us take him into the Blue Ridge
on tour Of our missions. There might
be many times as many such results If
we could spread out as we have fire.
quent opportunity to do.
ELIZABETH E. VINEGAR,
Secretary for the Archdeaconry Of
the Blue Ridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

Q. In what year were the railroads
Of the United States changed to stand
ard gauge?-O. H. K.
A. The pioneer railroad builders in
the United States were wise enough to
adopt but one gauge, the standard" of
feet 81a inches between rails, thus
enabling cars to be transferred from
one system to the other. Nowhere else
in the world was there such a uniform
construction of railways and materials
as in the United States.
@. What was the glass shade on a
candle called?-R. E. S.
A. 1t was called hurricane shade.
Q. What is the present flag Of China?
e. B. D.
A. The present flag of China has
red background with blue field in the
upper left-hand corner, in the center of
which Is q white sun with triangular
rays.
@. De we see only half the moon
crescent Shaped-becauSe the shadow of
the earth is on it?-J. N. r.
A. The shadow of the earth striking
the moon produces an eclipse. The moon
is a dark Opaque body; only the halt
turned toward the sun is bright, the OPP
usually invisible. AS the moon revolyeS
around the earth different regions of
the illuminated half are turned toward
us. This causes the phases of the moon
@. Where Is White Russia?-R. j. M.
A. White Russia borders on Poland.
It's capital city is Minsk. It Is Just north
Of the Ukranian Republic and due west
from Moscow.
@. Who founded the Marshall Still
man Movement, which helps prisoners
get started on the right path when they
are released from prison?-M. I.
A. AlpheuS Geer is its founder and
leader.
Q. Why did Peale give such unusual
names to his children?-N. F.
A. The artist is said to have given
his children the most distinguished
names so that he could boast himself
the father of Raphael, Angelica, Kauff-
man, Rembrandt, Rubens and Titan"
@. How long has Farina been in the
movies?-L. E.
A. Farina-in private life, Allen c.
Hoskins-was born in Boston, August 8,
1920. Farina embarked on his screen
career at the age Of IA months.
@. What work is being done on the
Nicaraguan Canal?-A. H. E.
A. The work on the Nicaraguan
Canal will be supervised by the Inter
ocean Canal Board, consisting Of five
military and civilian engineers ap-
pointed by President Hoover. Mai. Dan
I. Sultan of the Office Of the chief Of
engineers has been placed in direct
charge of the work. At the present time
there is a picked engineering battalion
numbering 400 officers and men survey
ing the route of the proposed canal. The
work Of surveying will take two years
and it is estimated that 10 years will be
needed to complete the project.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
All Other States and Canada.
Member os the Associated Press.
A Thrice-Welcome Guest.

To welcome distinguished strangers
within the National Capital gate has
long since ceased to be a novelty in
Washington. But it is not INDUCING in
exaggeration to say that no guest from
overseas has ever set foot on District of
Columbia soil whose coming was more
cordially greeted and eagerly awaited
than the British statesman arriving to-
day.
For it Is no mere mission of interna-
tional courtesy or ordinary official az
fairs that lures Prime Minister Mac
Donald to our seat of government. He
has crossed the ocean to bring about the
closest possible union short OF an al
lance between the two great branches
Of the English-speaking peoples.
Let all concerned, American, Briton,
European, Asiatic, mark we'll that the
rapprochement which the British pre-
mier and the American President seek
Is the establishment of nothing even
remotely savoring of formal political
partnership. 1t is not even an "entente
cordiale," as such a compact is COM
monty understood in international poll
dcs. What Britain and the United States
contemplate Is a frank and friendly
understanding as to their mutual aims
In so far as these concern, first, their
own relations, and second, their nlu-
tual relations to the world at large.
Stripped of descriptive non-essentials,
the Macdonald Hoover interchanges
during the next momentous week can
be called a peace conference. Through
them all, peace-how best the American
and British commonwealth can pre-
serve twill run like the leitmotif Of
an opera. 1t will be the Alpha and
Omega of their discussions, their aspira-
lions and their definite hopes.
Preliminary to the realization of their
goal, Premier Macdonald and President
Hoover will take up the issue that i'm
mediately gave rise to the British chief
tain's trip, naval limitations. That is
sue still presents it's difficulties, though
its thorniest and basic aspects are fairly
well settled in advance. The British
Navy has accepted the principle OF
parity with the American feet. Dis
crepancies in certain directions remain
to be ironed out. That this is an early
probability cannot be doubted.
Ramsay Macdonald is thrice welcome
to America and in Washington. We are
familiar with the romantic and brilliant
type of career which he personif1es.
We greet him with especial warmth
because of his mount to his present
eminence from the humblest beginnings.
We meet in him the scholar a. well as
the statesman. We recognize in him
the incarnation OF the new spirit of
liberalism, which has overtaken a war
ridden and war-weary Old World.
We hail the prime minister's pres
ence on the Potomac and crave for him
the realization of the high hopes which
inspired his journey; for they are the
hopes of the American people, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
SHOOTING STARS.
ny pHnANDER JOHNSON.
Santa Claus Tariff.

Santa Claus Tariff.
Old Man Tariff, drawing near,
Brings a hope or else a fear;
Favored ones he will respect,
While some others he'll neglect
Old Man Tariff wins applause
While he's playing Santa Claus.
Old Man Tariff, bringing toys
To the Good Financial Boys
And forgetting protest strong
From the Boys who Get in Wrong
Old Man Tariff wins because
He Is still our Santa Claus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

His success as detective should
easily render Officer Allen independent
of police duty while he qualities as one
of our leading magazine writers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

Stresemann was only fifty-one years
old. Hindenburg is much older. World
must still be shouldered
bv men advanced in years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

A mother never believes her boy could
be guilty of a crime. This fact is one
Of the things that render motherhood
sublime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

Big business Is magnificent success,
except in minor instances, when it I'M
dertakes more business than it can in
diligently attend to.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Test.Tube Terrors.

From the Elmira Star-Gazette.
They might Just as well scrap their
guns and armor plate, anyway, seeing
that the next war will be decided by
chemistry,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

The law of averages works out, even
in the weather. But a freshet, follow
ing q drought, affords small satisfaction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
Sincere Banuueting.

The banquet will be fine, they say,
As dishes come across.
Though viands rare are on display,
ThereN be no "apple sauce"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

"You have been accused Of being a
CRATER"
Everybody knows" said Senator sor-
ghum, chat have no great fortune.
II I had, wouldn't be accused. I'd be
overwhelmed with f1attery."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
From Best to Worst.

TEOm DCSs ~ vvv@~
$50 your daughter is married.
EYES,"
"She used to say she wouldn't mar
ry the best man on earth"
"she didn't. The family opinion Is
that she went to the other extreme"
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@. Where Is White Russia?-R. J. NJ.
A. White Russia borders on Poland
It's capital city Is Minsk. 1t Is Just north
Of the Ukranian Republic and due west
from MOSCOW.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

@. Who founded the Marshall Still
man Movement, which helps prisoners
get started on the right path when they
are released from prison?-M. I.
A. Alpheus Geer is its founder and
leader.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27
UNDERGOING REPAIRS

The coast guard cutter Unalga, in command of Com Edward s. Addison, is now undergoing her annual overhauling at Lax eUnion ~lrydock at Seattle. It is expected that all repairs will be made by April 1 and the cutter will sail from Seattle about April 12, for Dixon's Inlet, where she will com mence her annual summer patrol enroute to Bering Sea.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27
M. $. DISCOvERER BACK FR0M SCUTN
 BRAND NEW BOAT
WILL RESUME WESTWARD REIN FOLLOWING THE ARRIVAL
 OF s. s. ALASKA

A new boat from keel up, the M. IS. Discoverer, Capt. Heinie Berger,
 returned to port last night from
 Seattle after an absence of three
 months during which the vessel
 received a complete overhauling
 and remodeling emerging from the
 shipyard fully equipped with every thing new and modern in all res poets. Captain Berger has been busy all day showing his craft to his many visitors.
 1 Captain Berger will entrain for Anchorage in the morning return ing to Seward Saturday to await the arrival of the steamer Alaska from Seattle on which liner fur buyers will arrive to board the IDiscoverer for Iliamna bay where Stevenson and Bailey are holding a fur sail on April 10. Captain Ber- ger will await the completion of the sale brining the buyers directly back to Seward
 Enroute to Iliamna bay the vessel will make the usual ports of call. His schedule for the coming season will be compiled and announced shortly.
 Captain Berger states that the remodeling and equipping of his boat cost approximately $l0,O0O the engine alone, the sum of S2,2OO. The vessel will now make 10 miles and hour and aside from the num- erous other innovations, has sleep ing accommodations for l2. Thirty tons of freight, mostly gasoline, was brought up from Seattle
 Five men sailed from Seattle on the boat, including the engineer, Bob Stewart, local resident, and Olaf Olsen, cook, who is back in Alaska again after three years in the states. Captain Berger reported that soon after his arrivl last night a member of the crew phoned him to the effect the marshal and GUS toms agent were searching his boat, presumably it was thought, for liauor. Naturally, Captain Der ger was indignant with the recep- tlon committee, he said
 The voyage north was without incident and was marked by fair But one stop was made. and that at Ketchikan. He left . Seattle just week ago last Sun day.
 Captain Berger stated he will give a special rate throughout the months to prospectors go- 1g or coming from Nuka bay. The fare will be $10, one way. he said, md d,SIl
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27
AMERICAN CONSUL IN
 MEXICO REPORTED KILLED

FL PASO, Texas, March 27, (P)- Unconfirmed reports say the American Consul, w. T. Blocker, i1as been killed during the street fighting ill Nazatlan, Mexico. Other dispatches received here state the rebels army has taken a rositicr in the outskirts of the city and fiohting is now on. The rebels are in virtual possession ot the city. Heavy casualties are re- nortel, in the street fighting.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

Willie Kennedy has been arrest led and charged with petit larceny lat Craig.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

LEDGERS. JOURNALS, INDEX ED FILES ETC. Schaliercr's Alas ka Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

Al meat ana pot,ins else in the Frye -eruhn Meat Msrke.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

WE CARRY THE BESr BRANDS )F CANDY MANUFACTURED Iil THE UNITED STATES BOTH IN BULK AND BOX. The Candy Cot tage.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

CLEANLINESS and the best of meats our motto. Fry -Bruhn's.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

Seattle ice cream and fresh candies at Sylvia's.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-03-27

SALE ON WASH BOILERS. J.. GRAFT.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
More or Less True

| More or Less True
 The trouble with marrying for love is that it is something she can't wear and he can't eat. To an d-fashioned man a wom- an using her lips to hold cigar cite is about like farmer using an $8,O00 limousine to carry his hogs to market.
 Every wife knows that if she treated her husband the way he thinks she ought to the day would have to have twice as many hours in it so she could get all the things done for him he would expect her to do.
 You can't make good omelet out of three-year-ol eggs and you cant make cute flappers out of forty-year old hens.
 Mother is that person the child ren treat like queen one day in the year and expect to be their slave the other 364
 Evidently the reason not more children grow up to be great suc- cesses is because you have to train your own instead of the neighbors and the neighbors have to train their own instead of yours.
 The only thing mother fin d S harder to do than stopping growing old is trying to stop daughter from being modern with the rest of the girls
 Girls used to wear thick clothes to keep what was underneath warm but now they wear em as thin as possible so none of what's under meath will be hidden.
 Before some of the thin sisters start taking the stockings off their legs they ought to put more flesh on them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
STATE OWNERSHIP OF LANDS.

There will probably be general rejoicing through out the West on account of Secretary Wilburs sug- gestion that the Federal Government turn the pub lie lands over to the separate States in which they occur. This is by means the first suggestion of that sort but as far as recall, it lis the first time that Cabinet member has made it. The change ought to be made It ought to have been made many years ago.
 It has now been almost forty years since the wise Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama attempted to bring about the transfer of all the unappro- prated lands and natural to the different States in which they were located He urged that control Of the lands of a State was an essential condition precedent to self-government.
 Senator Morgan right. No State really has self government when very large part of the soil of the DState is owned and controlled by the Ma tiona Government Government and control of the soil and natural resources go hand in hand
 More power to Secretary Wilbur. Let the good work proceed without delay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12

amounted to 11,168,4o6,693 cigarettes shown by the report of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
 This represents gain of than 1,500 OO0 OoC or approximately 16 per cent. the figures ot sos 22O88O for April, and it exceeds by thar 2,200o 100000 nearly 26 per cent. the figure ot 8891 803107 for May, 1928
 Seldom in the past has monthly cigarette pro- lduction been than 1o,ooo,00O0O0 end be- fore in the history of cigarette manufacture has it exceeded Il 900 100000 The reasons generally cited for this record breaking increase include new process of blending and toasting, the adoption of the cigarette by great numbers of and ex- tensive newspaper advertising.
 The return in taxes to the Government shows an increase greater than $6 100000 the same month in 1928 collections totaling over $33500000 pared to $26670000 for May, 1928. The tax on cigarettes for the first eleven months of the rent fiscal year amounted nearly to $310000000 as against $272 100000 for the period of the last fiscal year, increase of more than $36,7OO,000
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
That SpoiIs Him

Mother: Daughter, dear, I'm afraid that young man is a bad egg"
 Daughter: Hes all that and even worse"
 Mother: What do you mean?" Daughter: He's bad egg that's broke"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Progress As She Am

Progress As She Am The world do move and at old fashioned things, We find this foolish modern gen eration scoffin'; And we're behind the times if couples now,
 We ask how long they have been wed, stead of how often.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12

"A Prince or King may renounce his claim to a throne for the love of a lady. But usually the love for the lady begins to cool shortly and with the process the claim to the throne seems to have an irresistible lure Prince Carol for example, is look ing over the boundary fence into Rumania with great yearning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
ALONG LIFTS DETOUR
 Hv HAM HH,Y
Zero in Broadcasters

Blinks T hate to have to listen to him."
 Jinks: Say, I'd rather listen to the alarm clock on a cold morning. :"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Proof Enough

'If you have no radio now why are you so sure you wouldn't like one" asked the radio salesman
 Because" growled his victim, the people above me, below me
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Ignorance Was Bliss

In the days before magazine ad- vertising became an art-or science -or whatever it is-many a man went right ahead and succeeded because he was so dumb he didn't know he had to use the right kind of dental cream to be able to do it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
We'll, Neither Have We

Have you ever heard of a home ly woman going into beauty par Tor and coming out so improved that her husband didn't recognize her?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Things You Ought'a Know

Dead Ones are those who refuse to go in for the Night Life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Can You

Imagine Anything more futile Than A traffic cop Trying to convince A woman Who's doing it She CAN'T Drive the wrong way on a One-way street?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12

Nothing else humanizes a great man as the publication of his golf score-(Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Motor Car Production
 Approaches New Peak

WASHINGTON June G. De- partment of Commerce records cov- ering 151 motor vehicle makers in the United States show that 570,086 more passenger automobiles were produced during the first four months this year than last.
 If the same rate of increase is maintained the total production of this type of car in 1929 will be ap- proximately 5,500,0O0 compared with 3,827, ,849 in 1928 There is a cor responding increase in the current production of motor trucks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Add MOurnful Ditties

Let's shed a salty tear
 For Helen Que; You'd think she was a peach From a rear view.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12

The people of Juneau will welcome Capt Addison and his officers and men of the Unalga bacK to their headquarters at Juneau. We feel safer when they are about And, we like them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
Real Things

He's a hundred per cent pacifist all right"
 Huh! He even wouldn't engage in a war of words.p
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
He's Right

Pa" said the kid, what is a hot pursuit?"
 "Stoking an ocean liner in the summer" replied his dad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-12
We'd Even Bet On It

Our guess is that dietitions are like reformers and put out those menus of things you don't like for other peoples use, not their own.