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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

THE United States is not only fortunately
situated in having almost q monopoly
ON commercially available helium, but the
Nation is getting its helium better and cheaper
every month.
The construction Of the production plant
at Amarillo, Tex, has been responsible for q
highly eficient output Of the gas which is so
vital to the development Of hghter-than-air
craft Where q few years ago helium was
almost prohibitive In price, and even then
nothing but q laboratory plaything, it has
reached the point where the one plant turns
out more 100000 cubic feet month and the
cost has dropped to $14 thousand cubic feet.
The plant at Amarillo was designed and
built, and is operated by the Bureau Of Mines
Of the Department of Commerce. During
September, S47, $40 cubic feet Of the gas was
produced, of an average purity Of 97.7 per cent.
The operating cost of the plant for the
month was $14,609.31, but there was a return
of $3,000.79 for the natural gas sold after the
helium has been extracted. This brought the
total cost to the Government, $11,608.52
The results of the September operating con-
firm the opinions of Bureau of Mines officials
which were given before construction of the
plant had started. They believed that the
operation costs would be much lower than at
the Fort Worth plant, which has since been
abandoned because Of the exhaustion Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

IFS dificult to see just wherein lay bigotry in
this amity established between grateful people
and o compassionate God.
= THE old-fashioned Thanksgiving o. men and
- women who had titled the earth, and gar
nered the stock, and minced the meat and
builded the fires, and fatted the turkey, and
scooped the pumpkin, and rendered the fats,
and roasted the pigs, and pressed the cider,
and beaten the biscuits was somehow a hitch
ing of the finite to the infinite.
Not that this chronicler bankers for the good
old days Of open fireplaces and cold backs, but
the feast OF Thanksgiving, as practiced In the
New England Of q century ago, does seem to
put to shame the rather snide, frOm-the- teeth
out turkey-and- foot ball observance Of today.
The sturdy families with the soil ground into
their hands and the wind beaten into their
faces, who gathered, with bowed heads, around
the homemade Thanksgiving dinner of a GEN.
fury ago, do not cause one to throw his hat
into the air for q bouillon-cube civilization Of
hling-cabinet apartment houses.
Here is the way the family called Average
Middle Glass Is more apt to do It today:
It is the last Thursday in November on Et
Cetera street. New York City For dinner there
is timed soup, strengthened with cubes; 6S-cent
cold-storage turkey, timed mincemeat, aided
and allotted by the family bootlegger, and q
frozen pudding which has been achieved by the
electric refrigerator on the lowly beginnings Of
timed milk and some sugar.
Father says a daub Of grace and has the
carving knife snatched out of his hand by
Genevieve, who insists upon cutting into the
turkey herself, because she has learned in
domestic science class that fathers methods
are "putrid old fashioned" and that the proper
way to carve is to follow the boneline and cut
the meat lateraly.
Willie is going to the foot ball game and
cannot wait for the turkey course because Of
q "hot date" with "sweetie." Glow do you
get that way, MON? Family together one day
in the year? What's the big idea? Who said
families should ever get together? Nav, I
don't want any turk. Coupla franks from q
hot-dog stand at the stadium entrance have
got il all over that cold storage bird of paradise
1ostD.
Sadie (call me Sally, II you expect an an
swer out Of me. Who'd you think you were
naming, anyway, when you named me Sadie?
Come to life and call me Sally, just risen,
enters with her kimono wrapped around her
90 tightly that 1t fits her like . wet sheet.
She wishes Mr.. and Mrs. Thanksgiving would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
Seek Better Mine Signah.'

A CAMPAIGN is being conducted by the Bu-
reau Of Mines to improve the system Of
signaling from mine-shaft cages. Such sys-
tenn is in use in the majority of the mines.
At present If a miner wishes to signal, he can
only do so from the various levels of the mine.
This often results In accidents OF serious, If not
fatal, nature when, through some emergency,
the fall or rise of the cage should be halted and
a miner in the cage reaches out to a signal as
the car goes by
The Bureau of Mines believes that two or
more independent systems of signals should be
developed, one of which, at least, should be OPP
cradle from within the car.
The cost is believed to be much less than the
annual compensation paid because of accidents
resulting from inadequate signals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

'uv fixed on Friday for turkey and foot ball.
so that the office could have a three-day week
end to catch up on sleep. Father, who feels
like walking, but gets burning feet from the
asphalt, retires beside the kissing radiator in
the living room. Eddie turns on the radio and
accompanies jazz orchestra at Roxy's with
his "euk."
The twins now clamp on their red berets,
twist their powder puffs into the tops Of their
rolled stockings. don the latest craze-mirror
bracelets, which enable you to zee who is
promenading behind you-and start out to join
the upper Broadway parade. Mother, who has
q contract bridge party on at 8, hires the
janitor's wife at SO cents an hour to come
up and do the dishes, while father dozes be-
tween twinges from the "euk."
Not SO pretty, as pictures go. Not 50 stall
wart as the scene of that same social stratum
of yesteryear, nor in the key Of the Hoover
proclamation for this year, which reads In part:
Nov, therefore. I, Herbert Hoover, PreSi-
dent of the United States of America, do APP
lpoint and set aside Thursday, the twenty eighth
day of November, as day Of national thanks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
AFTER w AR.
By John Kingston Fineran.

TictorS are bored, and Victims bitterly
BezUaI the chances that haze brought defeat,
Afd break their SzUordS, and a barren tree
Hang UP their hGrbs, and hate the bread they eat,
The conqAerorS they serOe, the impotence
OF their zVeak arms against the brutal might
OF stronger men, and most, the common sense
That points a calm ccebtance of their plight.
When 1Uear are Ozer, and the struggles cease,
The ugly rage and the dull aUeariNeSs
Are to the once embattLed G0VftI peace.
VictOr and odnqmiShed, tn their hearts confess
That aVheM the bitter truth at last is said,
The only Mndefeated are the dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24
Photo by FAIRY Van Tine.

natural gas field. The costs at the Fort Worth
plant averaged $34.7O per thousand, which
makes the showing at Amarillo al the more
impressive.
Bureau officials believe that. as the opera
ton continues at Amarillo, the costs and purity
win improve even further.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

cooking" butter were not only no better. but
not so good, as the modern and more scien-
ttf1cally planned ones It Is debatable, too,
whether the hot breads, Toured GRAVES, fried
foods and multitudinous combinations Of that
day that is gone were not harder on digestive
processes than even fathers inert afternoon
beside the radiator.
Besides there Is something horrible in the
Overworked spectacle Of grandmother drudging
away in the kitchen for days, even weeks, be-
forehand, in order that the family Thanks.
giving dinner might be consumed IN 20 minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

THE externals Of city life have, Of course,
- done much to change the rudiments OF
conformity 70 the spirit Of the day, but IL does
seem that souls are getting badly squeezed In
the jam.
There is not much left of that early Pilgrim
spirit of mans thanksgiving for the miracle OF
fields that flower and earth that yields.
Thanksgiving is the day that turkeys shoot
up in price and foot ball rivals clash It is
the jubilee of the gluttonous, the repentance
day Of the overindulgent, the fourth Thursday
In November that means blue Friday at the
Office under a boss too snide TO call 1t week.
The old spirit of lover the river and through
the woods to grandmother'S house we co. has
vanished but this Is not plea Of the laboriOus
externals Of the day that was grandmother's.
It is the opinion of this chroniclec that ''the
pies grandmother used to make" in the days
when you differentiated between table" and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23

Roller rolled to Vale who tossed the pill to Shorty Roberts. With a double killing set-up, Shorty muf- fed the throw and both men were safe instead of out.
 Inc lost opportunity apparently unsettled Pete Schmitz, as he hit the next two batters up, Rasmus- sen and Dickson, and forced Bon ner across the plate with the first score of the game. With three men on the paths, Killewich at tempted trick throw to Vale at short and heaved the pill into left field and Roller rambled across tho rubber. Pete frightened up then and famed Balog, Niemi and Manning.
 The Islanders chalked up two more tallies in the third stanza With one away, Andrews fly was dropped by Nello in left. Bonner singled and Andy went to third
 He scored while Killewich tried to stop Bonner's theft of second. Bon ner romped home few seconds later with the fourth and last run made by the Islanders. Box Score and Summary
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23
D0UGL MOOSE IN FIVE
 INNING BATTLE
islanders Win Thursday / to l-Moose Errors
 Factors Tn Loss

The Islanders urounce the Moose last night at City Park by score of to l playing better ball all round for the victory The game was called at the end of the first half of the fifth frame, ow- ing to darkness.
 Manning held the Moose to two hits in the five frames, one, a three-base blow by Killewich, com ing after a walk to Bill Roberts, scored the latter for the only run made by the local team.
 Was Only Earned Run And it was the only really earned run of the game. all the Islanders markers coming on misplays. Doug ] las showed over two men in the second inning Bonner singled
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23
Sport i, S1ants ALAN cJ.GouLD
By ALAN J. GOULD GA. P. Sports EditOr)

Sometimes the first 66 years are the hardest Four years ago, sat with Connie Mack in the tow cred, neatly ordered office he occu- pies at Shibe Park when not poised on the edge of the dugout, score card in hand, directing the field play of the Philadelphia Athletics. q though this was to be our year but it seems that fate is against us," said Connie. He looked old and weary. His youthful team had blown" a good lead; cracked in the stretch under the strain of a tight pennant race.
 Two years later, in 1927, l sat for an hour in the same office, listening to Connie label the Yan- kecs as one of the greatest teams of all time in a year in which Babe Ruth S5 Company made the Amer ican league race runaway.
 But for bad breaks we might have made it closer, but do not think ours or any other club could have stopped the Yanks this sea son"
 Shift the scenery to indicate tht lapse of two more years. It's Au gust, 1929, and hot; hotter in Phlla' delphia than most places. Connie removes coat, collar, tie and final ly his shirt, somewhat apologetl cally. His visitor perhaps would like to do the same.
 There is a gleam in the Old Mas tcr's eye that wasn't there lou years ago, or two years ago. Il his 67th year. Mack's step springier. his kindly eyes twinkle Soft-spoken, quiet and courteous.
 This is THE year. You can SC what it means to Connie in nearl every word and gesture. Too man disappointments, the caution of a old caupaigner keep Connie soma what reserved. But it takes n scientist to tell that to this leal lovable man of nearly three scol and ten. the American league per nant that now seems certain to his for 1929 means more than ar of his past achievements,
 Docs he consider the pennai won2 <,
 well I'm p-oud of the way tf boys have gone along. We are gcod position now. We Ea' al! the adyantage this year La
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23

Commercial jop prirting at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23
ROY DOUGLAS IS
 VISITING JUNEAU

Roy Doug-as, wei known South east Alaska canneryman, now op- erating a cannery on Prince Will liam Sound, and Mrs. Douglas, are Juneau visitors. MT. Douglas cannery has closed for the season with a full pack of 30,000 cases.
 MT. and Mrs. Douglas will leave here on the Prince George for Prince Rupert. From the latter point they will visit Jasper Park for a time and proceed to Seattle by rail
 MT. and Mrs. Douglas are wei i known in Juneau. For severa years MT. Douglas was superiA' 1 tcndent of the Tee Harbor cannery Later he was in the Ketchikan dis trict for several years as cannerS superintendent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23

season we had to do the chasing and found the strain too much when we finally caught up with the Yankees. --.e club is playing steady ball now and ought to win, but we don't take anything for granted.
 You know" and Comics grey eyes twinkled, i've kind of sur prised 'em this year. They didn't think much of us in the spring training. I'll admit we didn't look so good and I talked pessimistically. But I really felt this was our year and I just wanted to prevent and chance of over-confidence or the folks expecting too much of us"
 How do the folks" feel now?
 well, you know it's sometimes astonishing. They come to get autographs and pictures every day. Some people think we have won already. They send me all sorts of gifts and Connie waved his hand at an assortment. T get let ters from all over the country, ad- vising, warning, even threatening A lot of them as much as tell me if we don't win this year they arc off us'."
 Whats the main reason for the As big lead?
 Well, good, steady ball. But mostly confidence now. Once the boys found they could beat the Yankees and beat them decisively they hit their stride We beat the champions in their own groundt and we beat them here. And wher i've won it was by good margin: while they just barely beat us wher they did, like that 2-1 game Jack
 Quinn lost to Waite Hoyt, due tC
 two misjudged flyballs.'
 Connie dwells upon the littl' things that have meant improve ment, greatness in Grove, Earn shaw and Walberg, his pitchin; "big three; in Simmons, Cochrane and Foxy" as Mack calls hi , sensational young first basemar
 Yes, they are all great, but the ol' master deftly parries any attemp i. to have him say they are an , greater, if as great as the famou s machine he guided to four pennant and three worlds championship
 from 1910 to 1914.
 . With the old As it was spec y and defense, though we also ha v cood hitting. Now it's mainl n hitting. and we have plenty of tha : but we also have good pitching fe o defense"
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Killewich 3; missed grounder, Rol- Ter l; struck out, by Schmitz 6, by Manning 4; bases on balls, off Manning 4; hit by pitcher, Ras- mussen and Dickson by Schmitz
 Umpire-Barragar.
 Scorers-J. Schmitz and H. Mes serschmidt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23
GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League

Hollywood IA; Oakland 13. Mission 6; Sacramento 3. Portland 10; San Francisco 3. Seattle 8, 9; Los Angeles T, 1
 National League Chicago 16; Philadelphia '. St. Louis 5; Boston 4. Brooklyn IS; Cincinnati 9. Pittsburgh 6; New York 2.
 American League St. Louis 10; New York 0. Chicago 4; Philadelphia 3. Washington 6; Detroit l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23

SUMNARY-earned runs, Moose l, Douglas none; three-base hit, Hillewich; two-base hit, Manning muffed fly-ball, Neilo 1; muffed throw, L. D. Roberts l; wild throws
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23
NOTICE TO EAGLES AND
 AUXILIARY

Special meeting tonight in Doug las to meet Conrad Mann, organ izer. at T o'clock. Ferry leaves Ju- neau at 6:15 o'clock. All mem bers requested to be present. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-23

Bill Casey is still at No. 8 Will loughby Ave. with the best TO- BACCO and SNUFF CURE. Hours 2 D. m. to T p. m. Call and we will demonstrate. 20. Box 327. adv
The Washington times., 1929-04-08
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

s. What the first school founded in New England?
During what the sent I'VE have met the
and they ours?
8. What does Noel
10. What is Utopia?
II. What troubadours?
II. Who is called the father of Italian literature?
Complete these quotations.
13. "The borrower is to the --."-Bible.
IA Cheer the is yet to come"-Philander Johnson
To- Thus conscience make of al.-Shakespeare
Answers on Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-04-08
COUSIN CORA'S BOY
.Ru Herbert KGufnlan.

FAMILY ties went out Of style when production records
IL came into fashion.
Smart concerns aren't wearing EN- nowadays
The Rothschds are notable excepton--and they held
together mainly because they worked apart
aver the first knew better than keep his and eggs
lin one basket and you observe they're still scattered from
London to Vienna but not quite exercising the financial
authority of previous century
Consanguinty dividends don't mix The bonds OF affec
tOn and duty aren't inviting capaheve deaulted too
often.
Wherever there is partnership Of relatives it's sailing
through stormy seas and The brother sign usually
that strength has weak partner and shrewdness
handicapped by dead weight
ndiscipne feminine interference petty jealousy and bitter
personalities always upset the appcart and throw monkey
wrenches into works Mrs. Cain regularly assures her
that Abel does too little and draws too much And
Carnegie be it noted didn't send for Cousin COras
son."
Rockefelers Standard Oil could originally stand.
Field found his associates climbing up the balance
sheet. So did Hartman
Napoleon lost years before through deegang
diversified jobs to Jerome and Joseph.
with the lesser Bonapartes but they
couldn't divide genius So when the great emergency
they fell short.
Even he occasionally owed sceptes where he paid in
shal's batons.
LOYALTY and efficiency deserve first day
throne French history and heed bitter penalty Of
msdistributed crowns.
Munsey left his folks at home and forty millions
Lock the family entrance and abolish the inside track
Don't fill all your drawing rooms with half fares. Then
you'll have space left to reward efficiency it out
grows day coaches.
Ambition won't be kept out of good berths-heyre too
plentiful elsewhere
Ability doesn't much time shaking empty plum
After young Cyrus Simmons graduated and reported the
plant the old met him at the offios door:
This isn't your department And it's long journey from
spoke shave to a swivel chair
You'll have the whole distance and punch your way
up from the time clock.
Between whistle blows we are not related
You shan have your chance at the expense of organiza
ton morale.
Don't expect succeed my business until you succeed
in it,
| Copyright by Daily Kaufman,
The Washington times., 1929-04-08
Hoover For Reduction of Taxes
On Earned Incomes

u EDUCTIoN of earned incomes favored by
IN President Hoover when financial conditions Of the Treas
ury warrant and his attitude will have farreachng effect in
the fight of Hearst newspapers bring about this relief for
hundreds of thousands of American citizens
Secretary Mellon already record for reducing these
before any other reductions in income tax leves
This combination of Hoover and Mellon is strong one
Supported by Hearst newspapers satisfactory results win be
achieved for those who bear heavy burden upon
their earnings.
The country is marveousy prosperous. This prosperity
however fully shared by all classes Much Of goes
the rich and weodo fully able bear the Federal
imposed upon their unearned incomes Those who every
dollar they get the entitled to lowering of bur-
dens.
perty should share with the Government in taxes allowing
the country real workers to put aside future
of the money paid by them into the Treasury
Doctors lawyers, business men, school teachers salary
workers Disseminated against in income tax schedules
which should be made equitable.
The Washington times., 1929-04-08
Rifle Practice For Girls

ID 1FLE practice for high school girls of Washington
N condemned by citizens silly" misuse Of tax
payers money and preparing them Ito shoot their hus
bands if ever disposed
Pistol practice for high school girls would be petter for
them than rifle practice though this too, might be open
the pessmsc charge of teaching them how to shoot
future husbands
Few homes possess rifles. Few will become
hunters of big little game soldiers Pistol practice
would instruct them handle weapons use them
Ito protect themselves and their homes against ey disposed
Out West in the old days women did know how to handle
pistols and to protect themselves and their homes when
their husbands or brothers long distances away
Washington is not in the West but there bad
men and more criminals in this city than in any
three Western States in the wild West days.
Rifle practice for school girls may temporarily attract
them fad but girls not going to persist in gaining
efficiency in this direction None of them is safe say
give thought the possibility of shooting their future
husbands.
One critic thinks they should be taught about
ling and housekeeping Money spent in that direction
asserts would be well expended Girls may be good cooks
and good pistol shots Why shouldn't they be adept
both?
The Washington times., 1929-04-08

IoR many animals from the little prairie dog out West to
the huge polar bear in the North Nature makes the cold
weather bearabe by enabling them to sleep through it.
This interesting picture of mother polar bear and her
young will make human mothers wish that maternity
as simple for human beings as for bears
The mother bear, in interesting condition. reres for
long sleep when the cold weather She takes her
place for alternating under overhangng ledge Soon
she is buried Of Her breath melts
hole to the upper air so that she breathe.
While she is asleep the bear cubs born tiny things
almost hapees used to be believed that the mother bear
liked them into shape after birth hence the expression
unlocked cub
Just how sound the sleep Of the mother is nobody knows
At all she and the cubs stay Winter retirement the
little finding their way natural nourshment the
mothers accumulated fat supplying them with food and her
body keeping them
In Spring they all out and start life in the
shine The mother merably thin full of energy, savagey
dangerous you approach her, The little cubs beginning bust
their account
That human mother weighing ninety pounds should have
child weighing ten pounds and polar bear weighing 1000
pounds give birth to little cub weighing few
not very good division of responsibility.
But Mother Nature knows best