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be elected, MT. Goddard announced The question of maintaining the circuit on a four-club basis or changing it to three, will be settled All questions pertaining to League administration will be threshed out and definitely disposed of.
 It is understood that the four organizations entering clubs in the League since it was first formed are willing to sponsor them again this season. It is said that plenty oi material is available to make up four strong, evenly matched teams that will be found fighting it out throughout the schedule for the pennant
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Ice cream, brick or bulk. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors. adv.
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CITY LEAGUE
 PL ANS TO BE
 MADE TUESDAY
Organization Meeting for Season to Be Held Next
 Tuesday Evening

Plans for this seasons baseball schedule and a reorganization of the City Baseball League will be discussed at a meeting of players and fans to be held at pm, next Tuesday at the City Hall. The call for the meeting was issued to- day by E. M. (Win) Goddard, pres ident of the organization All men desiring to play and all fans inter ested in the sport, are invited to attend.
 Officers for the current year will
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Old papers at the Empire.
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PONTIAC

The new PONTIAC Big Six, built by Oakland, exemplifies the value offered in General Motors Products = providing car of exceptional beauty, per formance, comfort and size at prices ranging from $1060 to $1195 fully equipped-delivered in Juneau.
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GAMES YESTERDAY Pacific Coast League

Sacramento B. Los Angeles l. Mission 5; Portland 2. Hollywood 6; Seattle 2. Oakland 6; San Francisco 5.
 National League St. Louis g. Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 5, 1; Boton 6, 5. New York IA; Philadelphia 5. Chicago Pittsburgh postponed on
 account of rain.
 American League Cleveland T; Detroit 4. New York g. Philadelphia 1. Washington 3; Boston 1. Chicago 5; St. Louis 4.
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The records of two million BUCKS = and the fact that motorists buy more than twice as many BUCKS as any other car priced above $1200 Cat the factory)-reflect the policy of progress and permanence which has enabled BUICK to lead year after year.
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Through CHEVROLET, the worlds largest builder of auto mobiles, General Motors offers both economical transportation and quality at low costa Six in the price range of Four from $850 to $960 Juneau fully equipped.
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the gravel was laid and tamped for the walk. With a good turnout of Legionnaires tomorrow, the job can be completed, according to of ficers of the Legion.
 Commander Edward Hermann today made known that at the next meeting of the Legion, the Spanish American War Veterans will be the special guests of the post. Invi- tations are being sent out by Charles E. Naghel, himself a Span ish-American War Veteran, and any veterans who do not receive invitations are asked to go to the meeting with the assurance they are welcome. Matters of special interest to Spanish American War veterans will be discussed at the meeting.
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ATTENTION MASONS

A stated communication of Mt Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. & A. M will be held in the Masonic Tenn pie at 7:30 o'clock Monday even- ing. Work in the E. A. Degree Visiting Brethren welcome. By order of the w. M
 CIiAS. E. NAGHEL, adv. Secretary.
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BROWNS LOSE
 TO WHITE SOx
 IN LAST CAME
Two Homers Hit in Eighth, with Two On-Fifth
 Score in Ninth
(By Associated Press)

The St. Louis Browns lost their first game of the season yesterday to Chicago, the White Sox taking the final game of the series, 5 to 4.
 The White Sox were held score less until the eighth inning when Grouse and Metzler hit homers, sending in Clancy and Kamm. In the ninth, Cissell and Metzler work ed a double steal, Cissel going home with the winning run.
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The honeymoon is over when she begins to wonder why she used to spend so darn much time dolling up to catch such an oil can.
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MILL WOOD for everypody. See
 Femmer. Phone IA. adv.
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LET AmquIst Press Your Suit. We call and deliver. Phone 528.
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such harshness that the dungeons Of the
Middle Ages do not suffer in comparison.
An these charges are repeated by a
subcommittee of the National Crime
Commission headed by ex-Gov. Lowden
Of Illinois. There are approximately
$500 such local jails in the United
States. They receive 10 per cent of all
criminals who are sentenced to prison.
The subcommittee urges that the States
take over as soon as possible the funcs
ton Of carrying out all prison sentences.
Apparently encouraging progress is
being made in this direction. The more
progressive States are abolishing their
county jails and keeping all prisoners In
central institutions where there Is some
pretense at scientific management,
where offenders are not herded together
indiscriminately, where there is curb
on both harshness and laxness, and
where reasonable sanitary standards can
be maintained. But the movement in
this direction has no more than started
It's progress seems destined to be slow
and costly.
Counties and cities, of course, hest
tate to yield their local prerogstives.
They are blinded by proximity to the
defects of their own institutions. More
over, the number of prisoners is too
great for the States to handle without
extensive building programs and enor-
nous increases in the appropriations for
prisons. On this point the subcommittee
makes one practical suggestion-that
probation and the collection of fines by
installments be substituted for short
term prison sentences wherever possible
In the interest of decency, it is
essential to get rid of the county jail as
soon as possible. For the present, at
least, the way to accomplish this is far
from clear
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Electric Heater Works
While Everybody Sleeps

Automatic hot water for breakfast or
for the morning bath, produced by cleo
tricity while the family is asleep, is a
suggestion made by Mr.. w. Holmes.
British electrical engineer, In a recent
talk before the Institution of Electrical
Engineers in London. During daylight
hours electric heating of household
water is impracticable, Mr.. Holmes adj
mits, because of the cost of electric
current as compared with the cost of
coal or gas. But the demand for elec-
tricity Is much less during the night
than in the daytime. Electric power
stations shut down a part of their ca
pacity. which means that they are
working less efficiently than if the cleo
trio load" were uniform throughout
the "a hours. This makes it good
economy, Mr.. Holmes urges, for cleo
trio power companies to quote very low
rates on current used during the night
to heat water or other uses. The water
thus heated Is stored in special tanks
covered with Notwithstanding material.
like asbestos. Thus the nights accumu-
lation stays hot all day. while the out
put of electricity Is used for other pur-
poses. Automatic control devices use
just enough electricity to heat the water
to the right temperature land keep 1t
there during the night. HBen they turn
off the electricity until the next night,
when u VIII be cheap againu :.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC EILLIAM VILE

to the Gregorian calendar, Mrs. Di-
mockS correspondent explains, is re-
sponsible for the mix-up.
President Coolidge intimates pretty
plainly to White House visitors that he's
going to write professionally--now and
then, at any rate. If not regularly
when he resumes private life. RooSe-
welt and Taft will be his precedents, If
he cares to justify any literary or jour-
nalistic activities on that score. Mr..
Coolidge's state papers reveal him as
the poSSessor of terse, staccato style
of statement that conduces to what edi-
tors sometimes call reliability" The
late Col. Harvey once said it was a
Jacksonian style. The President is fond
of short sentences. He will be interest,"
ing on almost any subject to which he
puts his pen, but If he wants to start off
with bang he couldn't do better than
tell the world why he did not choose
to run in 1928.
Paul w. Chapman, head of the group
that has just bought the United States
and American Merchant Lines from the
Shipping Board for $l6,300,000, was
born and reared far from salt water. He
halls from Jersey County, ILL.,, and has
peeIi iOeItlIleQ WIN CnlCag0 banking
and finance since graduation from high
school in his native town in 1899. Chap
mans first job was as Office boy in
N. w. Harris & Co., Chicago (now the
Harris Trust 81 Savings Bank. He be-
came specialist in the purchase of
municipal bonds. Since 1912 he has
been at the head of his own investment
company in Chicago. Recently Chap
man organized the Hoboken Shore Rail-
road, which owns and operates freight
and terminal properties in Hoboken.
Water, gas and other public utility in
terests are also within the scope of his
activities. Although Mr.. Chapman him
self has hitherto never been interested
in oceanic affairs. he says his forbears-
Connecticut people-were seafaring folk.
X X
All seven woman members of the next
House of Representatives-Con
women Kahn, Norton, Langley, Rogers,
Mccormick, Pratt and Owen-are to be
guests of honor at luncheon of the
League for Political Education In New
York on March 7. Several of them will
make speeches. The fairer of the polit-
ical species will be welcomed by men, in
Guiding former Attorney General George
w. Wickersham and United States At
torney Tuttle of New York.
Copyright, 1929
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Uncle Sam Still pemurs.

II appears that Mr.. Hoover will find
tt1e World Court, along with his many
other troubles, waiting on the White
House doorstep. The Wilson, Harding
and Coolidge administrations having, in
turn and in vain. attempted to take the
United States into the Permanent Tri-
bunal for International Justice, 1t will
presently be the task Of the Hoover
administration to undertake the Job.
That became certain yesterday, with
the delivery by Secretary Kellogg of
Identical notes to the World Court men,
Der nations. The notes inform those
powers that the proposed revision of the
tribunals protocol would not furnish
adequate protection for the United
States. The protection which is de-
manded is stipulated in the fifth
reservation adopted by the Senate as
condition precedent to American
adherence to the World Court.
The reservation in question is a
double barreled affair. One portion de-
clares for public sessions on the courts
advisory opinions. Another part, which
Is the ny in the ointment, provides that
eny advisory opinion touching the
United States should first be consented
to by this country. To this provision
the member nations have withheld their
consent.
To the plain American citizen I'M
versed In the technicalities and niceties
of law and of legal phraseology, II
would not seem that insurmountable
obstacles are here presented. Secretary
Kellogg's communicate to the court
governments indeed suggests that some
other formula" satisfactory to all con.
cerned should be possible. Undoubtedly
the present visit to Europe of Eliht
Root, Americas elder statesman, Il
directly related to pending events. Thu
State Departments notes reached thu
other side just about the time Mr. Roo
had arrived there. Before he left thi
country, he was in consultation with
the President and the Secretary o
State. 1t was tacitly admitted that tn
former Secretary of State and distin
guished international jurist was intriste'
witt, an unof1cial mission to smooth on
the GrinklAa which havs artisan In on
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Patriotism, devotion to public service
and high type of personal and offcial
integrity are qualities found by the
press in its appraisal of the late Edwin
DENLY, who was forced out of the
cabinet as a result of the Teapot Dome
oil scandal. None questions the loyalty
or honesty of DENLY, and most observers
agree that he was the innocent victim
of what the Asheville Times describes
as 1.-The bold and constituencies scheming
of FALL Doheny and Sinclair"
Representing the attitude of Detroit.
his home city, whose welcome home was
notable aftermath of his resignation
from the Washington Office, the Detroit
News says of those who participated in
the demonstration of affection and con-
fidence: while there were many who
said he had made mistake in trans
ferring the naval oil lands to the In
terror Department there was no friend
who knew him well who breathed
doubt of his integrity. The most they
would admit was that he was the victim
of misplaced confidence in the honesty
and honor of men he deemed as upright
as himself. Though the judgment
of history on his acts as a public official
is far from determined as yet. there can
be no doubt as to the love and esteem
of the great multitude of his friends"
DENLY was brave and gallant soul,
a patriot and a gentleman. No, history
will not deal harshly with his memory"
proclaims the Roanoke Times, while the
indianapolis Star offers the Judgment
that time may be essential in rendering
an impartial estimate of certain features
of his public life, but his country al
ready accepts him as loyal and honest
American citizen" The FL Paso Herald
AYERS that whatever his official mis-
takes, he was of fine personal character
and a stanch patriot" and the Saginaw
News pays the tribute: Edwin DENLY
was as honorable man as ever lived:
he was an exceedingly useful man to his
his patriotism was of the kind
which serves, and serves well. and his
quality is best testified to by the honor
in which he was always held among his
own people"
He gave generously Of himself In
patriotic service, and severe as the blow
must have been to him which prompted
him to resign from the cabinet" accord
ing to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, iii
Is gratifying to know that 1t was Softened
by the repeated and wholehearted ex-
preSsions of confidence on the part OF
those who knew him best" The Ashe-
vile Times concludes. Thus a man Of
splendid integrity and strong devotion to
The highest interests of the Nation was
brought under public reproach by the
bold and constituencies scheming of
Fall. Doheny and Sinclair"
Paradox though it seems. DENLY was
100 innocent" the Worcester Gazette
asserts. Too trusting he was, too
simple for his post. The worst that
Fan be said, perhaps. is that he was
not keen enough to be truly efficient |
Secretary of the Navy" That he was |
I victim of dishonest schemes and OF !
MS own confidence in others Is the view |
held by the Kansas City Journal-Post |
md the Altoona Mirror.
MANY times we have seen similar |
remarks the Schenectady |
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County Jails.

The county Jail, time-honored Anglo
Saxon institution, long has been under
fire.
Every organization which has investi-
gated these prisons has had bad word
for them. Again and again gruesome
pictures have been presented of their
cruelty and filth. Apparently their
administration generally is marked by
corruption and ignorance Of the funda-
mentals of scientific punishment. They
are the breeding places Of criminals.
They exercise no influence for redemp-
ton. Some are distinguished for a
singular laxness Of discipline. others b.
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negotiations for entry into the World

negotiations for entry into the World
Court.
There can be no shadow Of question
that public opinion in the United
States overwhelmingly favors American
participation in the World Court under
proper safeguards. Last September
Charles Evans Hughes, former Supreme
Court justice and Secretary Of State.
was put in nomination for one Of the
Court judgeships by twenty-six nations
and was subsequently elected by the
League of Nations to fill the unexpired
term of another American, John Bassett
Moore, resigned. Mr. Hughes expects to
sit in his new capacity at The Hague
during the coming Summer.
1t would be wholly incongruous that
so pre-eminent representative Of the
United States, though he will not
formally in that capacity
should be a Judge of tribunal from
which tweedledum and tweedledee con-
were banishing his own
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"And when Jesus knew it. He saith
unto them. Why reason We, because
We have no bread? Perceive We not yet,
neither understand? Have We your heart
yet hardened?
Having eyes. see We not? And having
ears, hear We not? And do We not re-
member?
when I brake the five loaves among
five thousand, how many baskets fun
OF fragments took We up? Tney say
unto Him, Twelve.
And when the seven among four
thousand, how many baskets full of
fragments took we up? And they said,
Seven.
And He said unto them, How is it
that We do not understand?
And He cometh to Bethsaida; and
they bring blind man unto Him, and
besought Him to touch him.
And He took the blind man by
the hand and led him out of the town;
and when He had spit on his eyes, and
put His hands upon him, He asked
him If he saw ought.
And he looked up, and said, see
men as trees, walking.
after that He put his hands again
upon his eyes, and made him look up;
and he was restored, and saw every
man clearly.
And He sent him away to his home
saving. Neither go into the town, nor
tell it to any in the town.
X x *
We make no apologies for quoting
at length from ST. Mark; there is moth
ing that we could write which would
be as good; 1t was pleasure for us
to renew our acquaintance with the
old, old story: we feel that many others
may make that acquaintance again
with equal profit and pleasure.
Too many of us are led astray from
childhood's teaching by the urge and
pull of the great roaring world in which
we live; we are as children facing a
new world, overcome by the crash and
noise and the lights, forgetful of even
ago.
There is all too much of tendency
on the part Of alas! far too many people
to forego their Bible, as reading, for
the sake of the latest best sellers
The Bible is the one continuing best
seller" of world literature; its place
stands secure while ephemeral volumes
come and go. and If by reason of some
| quirk or fancy they reach sale of
| 100000 copies they are outstanding
successes; but the Bible sells into the
millions of copies every year, and has
done so for many, many years.
X y X y
"'Men as trees walking Why does
! that odd combination of words. from
whose poem we know not. come to
mind?'"
1t came to mind because the word
combinations of the Scriptures arise to
bless and heal whether one knows from
whence they come or not.
The "oddity" of many of these
phrases is precisely the quality, in a
literary sense, which makes them stick
in memory.
Much OF the Bible is poetical in
structure and inherent thought. See
| how a modern poet has deity used this
phrase in his poem:
MORTALITY.
In the green, quiet wood, where I was
used.
In Summer. to a welcome calm and
dark,
I found the threat of murder introduced
BY scars of white paint on the
wrinkled bark.
How few old friends were to be spared!
And now
see my friends with new eyes here
in town
Men as trees walking, and on every
brow
A pallid scar, and all to be cut down.
GERALD GOULD.
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Another Unjust Verdict.

The million-dollar increase in the
lump sum, voted by the Senate
partially to offset unjust financial
burdens placed upon the unrep-
resented citizens of the District, is
stricken out in conference and the Fed
sral contribution to Capital maintenance
remains at nine million dollars-that
magic" sum that has become emblem
attic of the whimsical inconsistencies
of congressional handling of the Dis
trict's affairs.
A familiar story is repeated in the
yielding of the Senate conferees to the
stubborn attitude of the House. The
short time remaining of this short ses-
sion makes prolonged fight over such
q politically inconsequential measure
as the District appropriation bill utterly
futile. The fight could amount to moth
ing but friendly gesture on the part
of the Senate, which has usually been
willing to Judge the Districts case on
Its merits, and not upon preconceived
opinions based on an elastic process of
reasoning that can be stretched con-
veniently to cover any situation. The
Senate yields, but the fair attitude of
its members once again offers hope to
the District that at some future day
financial equity for the District may
be won.
1t is understood that the House con-
ferees based their stand on the fact
that the Districts tax ana other rev.
enue, plus sum OF nine million dol
lars, is sufficient to cover the needs as
shown in the appropriation BILL and
that the District has accumulated, in
addition, surplus to Its credit in the
Treasury. These needs that are COW
cred In the appropriation bill do not
include such items as the municipal
center, the airport or Mr.. Cramton's
generous plan by which some sixteen
millions of dollars are to be spent by
the District on parks, Fairgrounds and
parkways. But more important still Is
the fact that the framing Of the District
bill is the result of vicious circle that
viii always confine the alleged needs"
OF the District to those items to be paid
for out of District revenue plus the nine
naillion-dollar lump sum. The Budget
Bureau sees to that. The Budget Blu
reau is not legislative body, but it fol-
lows legislative precedent. It requires
District items to be kept within the lin
its prescribed. When items exceed
those limits, they are ordered stricken
out. When they are stricken out, the
House decides that they are not asked
for and therefore not needed. As they
are not needed, an increase in the
bump sum is unnecessary.
At this short session of Congress the
District could have expected little more
than it got. 1t has obtained the salts
faction, however, of seeing the Bureau
n Eficiency's report, substantially up
holding its contentious, printed as one
more OF the public documents that form
Its collection of briefs. 1t has seen the
Senate once again champion its cause.
It looks forward to the time when alb
solute necessity will force reason where
Justice. so far. has been unable to pre-
vail.
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SHOOTING STARS.
"----------------------------
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Starting New Years.
We started year all over,
Greeting January One.
We said, 1--WE shall dwell in clover;
We are sure that the right has won."
But we listen to prediction
So eloquent and so strong,
That leads to a sad conviction
That something may still be wrong.
The banners will soon be ready
And We'll gather in bold array,
Where each hope is strong and steady
On Inauguration day.
II that New Year turned out badly,
We will join the gay refrain:
On March Four we'll be cheering gladly
And we'll start the year over again.
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A spare-time statistician might de-
velop some interesting figures showing
how much valuable time will be saved
by typists and compositors when they
can simply say President Hoover" in
stead of spelling out "President-elect."
1t Is very small item. But in an age
Of efficiency everything counts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20

Despite the stampede for publicity,
cigarette advertisers have somehow been
restrained from registering claims as to
which brand it was King George smoked
when he emerged into comfortable con-
valescence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20

When the words of Abraham Lincoln
and George Washington are forcefully
recalled each February, the public feels
like getting away from modern political
best sellers and getting back to the
classics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20

Love is an all-dominating influence.
Aviation requires close concentration of
thought and observation. A question
is raised as to whether an airman ought
to go on flying when he is engaged to
be married.