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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
South American Republics Enter
 Era of Industry
fCortinued rom rage onel

iOObllHutu IrOm rage O0ef under industrial expansion. It is fortunate in having the worlds greatest coffee district at it's door. But Sac Paulo no longer rests on coffee. It has profited by the abundant water power in this part of Brazil and has set itself to man uiacture the goods Brazil's 35, 5,000,- 900 inhabitants require. Cotton, wool, jute. leather, wood and all sorts of metals are converted into the articles required by Brazil and neighboring countries.
 Rio de Janeiro has also been in dustrialized to a considerable ex- tent. It is Brazils greatest shoe center and has important cotton mills, hat factories and other in dustries. It also manufactures wallpaper.
 Brazil alre ady manufactures all the ordinary wearing apparel required by the masses and is rapidly extending it's fac tories for the manufacture of more luxurious articles because living standards are rising rapid ly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20

leading roles with William Russell, Carol Nye and Paul Panzer, sup porting stars. The story starts as follows:
 Mary Carlton and her invalid father, a wealthy cotton planter, live secluded life on their plan tation. Mary's brother Bob. how ever, has left for the Northg to en- ter the business world. Mary re- ceives q letter from Bob in New York-he is facing death in the electric chairi q am not guilty, . the boy writes, but there is not q chance to prove my innocence. . lie implores Mary 10 keep the hor- rible news from their father. The plot then develops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
Man So Nervous Feels
 His Stomach Jump

T got so nervous my stomach felt like it was jumping. Vinol entirely relieved the trouble. I feel better than in years. "-J. c. Duke.
 Vinol is a compound of iron, phosphates. cod liver peptone, etc. The very FIRST bottle makes ycu sleep better and have BIC appetite. Nervous, easily tir e q people are surprised how QUICK the iron, phosphates, etc, give new life and pep. Vinol tastes de- iicious. Butler-Maufo Drug Co.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20

NoTE:-ohseryations St. Paul. Dutch arbor Kaciak aa Prince Rupert cisco made am,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
 "GIRL FROM CHICAGO" AT LIBERTY TONIGHT

Warner Bros production, "The Girl From Chicago will be shown at the Liberty tonight with Con rad Nagel and Myrna Loy in the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
DOUGLAS NEVIS
BRIDE OF FEW WEEKS HONoRED AT SHOWER

Complimenting Mrs. Olgat An derson, formerly Miss Una Grove, who was recently married, com munity shower was given in the Odd Fellows hall last evening. Ten tables of whist were played for entertainment, honors being won by Mrs. Egbert Loomis, first, and Mrs. { Etta Bringdale, consolation, yand cut prizes.
 Practically all of Douglas and Treadwell, where the bride spent most of her life since she was about three years old. was repre- sented in the beautiful gift that was presented her, that of an cleo trle coffee urn set with butterfly tray.y
 The shower was concluded with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
JAPANESE TEA IS
 TO BE DAINTY AFFAIR

Special decorations to produce an oriental atmosphere. are being prepared for the silver tea to be given by the Ladies League to- morrow afternoon for the benefit of Japanese Missionary work. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. s.
 Weather Bureau

Forecast for Juneau and vicinity beginning today: Clearing colder tonight Thursday ccder rate
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20

The pressure is high throughout Alaska the
 
 south of Aeutian lis high the Pacific Vest >ward Gales reported in the rain has fallen Southeastern been attended by much lower slightly colder weather the extreme North where it Il yesterday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

The business ot THE CAPITAL LAUNDRY is not for sale. We are in business to stay with a view of increasing our service and to this end we have pur- chased a NEW DELIVERY TRUCK through the Connors Motor Co.,, of Juneau Try our service and be convinced.
 THE CAPITAL LAUNDRY. adv. Mrs. E. P. Curtis. Prop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
INJURED AT A. l.

Glen Kirkham IS nursing several cuts about the head and an injured collar bone as result of a fall from one of the line shafts in the Alaska Juneau mill while at work Monday night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
ATTENTION BcY SCOUTS

All Boy Scouts, members of Troops No. l and No. 2, are re- quested to assemble at the High School Building at 7:30 p. m. today. Important.
 fSignedI D. RAMSAY, adv. Asst. Scoutmaster.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20
10 AL "A "A
Barom. Temp. Humidity lVind Velocity Weathe
CABLE END RAII0 REPORTS
TO-DAY

Low sa. m. Sam. Precip. Ram. temp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs Weather
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-20

refreshments served by the East |ern Stars of which Mrs. Anderson Is a member.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21

and italy and west of q line drawn
form Trieste to Danzig, with all the
other sections Of the earth settled by
peoples from this area. In all these
countries medical science has enor-
mously decreased the death rate, but
not sufficiently to catch up with the de-
clining birth rate. For example, the
birth rate in England and Wales in
1927 was only 40 per cent of the rate
from 1908 to 1913 In Germany it was
only AZ per cent. These people own the
greater part Of the undeveloped lands of
the world.
The second group includes Spain,
Italy and the Slavic peoples of Central
Europe. Both death rates and birth
rates among them are falling, but the
former faster than the latter. The in
dications are. however, that they even
tually will strike balance between the
two rates.
The third group includes Russia,
Japan, China and India with total of
1880 million out of the 1870 million
total human population of the earth.
The ratio of the birth and death rates
is varied only by famines, pestilences
and wars. These naturally intervene
when a population becomes too large
for its resources. They can be de-
pended on to keep down the popula-
tions of India and China.
Russia alone still has breathing space.
Even under the present unsatisfactory
economic conditions it is adding $780,
900 yearly to its population. 1t has
room for them. It presumably will
double its population in about 35 years
and by 1000 AID. will rival China or
India. 1t is the only country left with
much expansive power combined with
the territory in which to expand.
Such are the trends. They afford
the basic data upon which any predic-
tions of future history must be based.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
Careless Housewives
of II. s. to Re Counted

From the Long Beach PresS-Telegram.
The American housewife is to come
under critical scrutiny within the next
year, as to her carefulness, or lack of
carefulness, in causing accidents in the
home. A survey is to be conducted
under auspices of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, in collaboration
with the United States Department of
Commerce. This is to call to account
the housewife for accidents in the home
due directly or indirectly to the care
lessness or ignorance of women in the
home.
IF a woman leaves the matches
where the baby can reach them and sets
the house on fire, If she forgets to put
the medicine on the high shelf, it is not
an accident but direct consequence of
failure on her part" These are the
of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs. Mrs. Sippcl says that she feels
that such survey as is projected
will bring home to the entire country
the lesson of woman's responsibility in
the home"
Women are proverbially more careful
than men in those things which might
cause serious accidents. But there are
too many preventable accidents in
homes, just as there are too many pre-
ventable mishaps out in the realm where
men are chief figures. In the general
movement for safety, it is well that
the safety Of the home be conserved, as
well as the safety of the factory and
the safety of traffic. In word, the safety
movement should include all places
and all functions where the lives of
human beings are menaced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21

walk and the damage Is DONE Driving
IN city these days under any condi-
tons has long since ceased to be q
pleasure. It is hard work, requiring
intending vigilance.
To the parents Mr.. Harland suggests
that a few minutes each day spent In
repeating to young children the danger
Of death that lies In the streets would
make the children more careful. Such
warnings are not always effective. Re
peating them, however, is a precaution
not to be neglected.
The time may come in washington
when portions Of some streets will have
to be roped of in eongested sections as
Fairgrounds for children. That time,
happily, has not come. But children are
going to be in the streets. They are
going to dart out from the curb in play
as long as there are children. Motor
lists, knowing the hazard exists, must
always guard against it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the various questions involved. The
particular task assigned 1t is to
weigh the advisability of bringing all
the educational forces of the Govern
ment under an assistant secretary or
undersecretary of education, to func-
ton in one of the existing executive
departments. Some of the boosters OF
separate department OF education
think the undersecretaryshipi idea is at
accepted as such. Others. OF die-hard
tendencies, say department or nothing. y
II X
Yale alumni are no respecters of
Hoover administration sensibilities-
perhaps because Harvard is bagging so
many major appointments at Washing
ton Be that as 1t may, old grads at
the New Haven commencement on June
l8 made mercileSSly merry over pro-
hibition, with Secretary of State Slim
son, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
and Attorney General Mitchell looking
on. From the side lines, they saw 1000
former Yale classmen executing high
inks of which ruthless ridicule of pro-
hibition was the feature. PlacardS
making fun of the eighteenth amend
ment and the Volstead law were car
ried In procession. The climax OF the
alumni frolic was reached when a
mock speakeasy was set up in the dis
tant right field of the base ball grounds
and emblazoned with appropriate signs.
One read: Push En- UP, Tony" and
another: 1908 to 1928-Twenty Beers
Later"
X r
Washingtons happiest daddy at this
commencement season is Joseph P.
Tumulty, President Wilson's famous
secretary. whose son, Joe" junior. has
Just been graduated No. out of the
Harvard Law Schools class of 400, with
the rating of maxima cum laude. Young
Joe" got his A. B. at Princeton three
years ago, after making Phi Beta Kappa
and winning one of the senior class
honors, the James Gordon Bennett
prize. with an essay on THE Democratic
cation of American Politics" At Har-
ward during the past year Tumulty was
made an editor of the Harvard Law
Review, an outstanding distinction.
tCopyrisht, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
Capt. Klotz' Letter.

The most generous attitude to take
toward the action of Capt. R. G. Klotz,
engineer for the Public Utilities Com
mission, in writing a letter to the peo-
Piles counsel prejudging the merits of
the case for higher carfare now before
the commission and outlining a method
for settlement is that Capt. Klotz has
allowed his personal opinions to carry
him beyond the point of ordinary dis
erection. What attitude the Public Utili-
ties Commission will take remains to
be seen.
Capt. Klotz presents the view that
the companies need more money and
that they should receive it through a
Io-cent cash fare and three tokens for
IS cents, with lower rates for school
children and universal bus and street
railway transfers. He is not culpable
for holding such views; any more so, In
fact, than had he proclaimed his opin-
ion that the street car companies were
overvalued and that car fares should
be reduced. His culpability lies in speak
ing out Of turn. AS an official of the
Public Utilities Commission, which now
has the case before 1t and has ar
ranged for public hearings next month,
his attitude should be one of stony ST.
lence. His outbreak, in the form Of an
open letter, renders without value the
testimony he might have been called
upon to submit at the proper time and
in the proper place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
Pan-American Highway
By 1910 Being Pushed
rrcr, The San Anton,o rxnrcss

From the San Antonio Express.
Pan-American Highway Associations
recent convention at White Sulphur
Springs CIV. Va appealed to Congress
to appropriate funds for building the
United States portion of splendid
boulevard from Canada to Argentina
linking all the Americas.
The associations program calls for
finishing the project within" the next
10 years If all the work had to be done
within the decade. the task would be too
great; but a goodly portion of the high
way already is built. The remaining
problem is to link together the loose
ends of present roads.
The route across the United States
from Detroit to Laredo largely Is paved
already. Canada has done its share and
Mexico is building roads rapidly: the
highway has been improved to Mon
terrey and work is being pushed to the
City of Mexico Central American
lands, Colombia, Peru Ecuador. Venezu-
ella. Brazil, Argentina and other South
American countries also are engaged in
read-building campaigns, modelled after
the United States system. So the Pan
American Highway is far more than a
dream.
A little more than year ago Anne
r. Tschiffiey, Argentine horseman,
reached San Antonio. after three-year
ride from Buenos Aires. However, not
ponies from the pampas, but motor cars
from the States, will travel the Pan
American Highway most.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
Harvard Asks Public
For Records of Stars

People who have access to files of
old newspapers, letters or family records
are urged to search these documents for
news of shooting stars, falls of meteors
or fireballs in the heavens and to report
anything that they find to DR.. Willard
j. Fisher at the Harvard College OBJ
Servatory, Cambridge, Mass. The branch
of astronomy which deals with these
celestial objects has made great strides
in recent years through the study of
meteor statistics, much as safety experts
study the statistics of highway acct
dents to discover at what hours of the
day or week or month such misfor-
tunes are most common. Nowadays
astronomers at the professional OBJ
servatories and the numerous amateur
observers who have been organized by
the American Meteor Society and SINH
lar organizations abroad keep reason
ably good watch of the sky for fire.
balls and shooting stars. Also, pres
ent-day remarkable appearances are
usually reported in the newspapers and
come to the attention of experts. In
former decades, however, this wide
spread interest in meteors did not ex-
list. Only the most unusual events,
like the great showers of shooting stars
in 1899 and 1888, were recorded widely
and remembered. 1t would be a help
in formulating theories of where me-
teors come from and of how they travel
through space, DR.. Fisher states, If the
many earlier meteor falls which must
have been noted in local newspaper
items, In family diaries and the like
could be recovered. To search the
country's store of such documents es-
pecially for this purpose would be too
expensive, so that the meteor scien-
lists hope is to induce everybody to
be on the lookout for such items and
to send in any that are found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
Plans of Macdonald
Called Cheering News

To the Editor of The Star:
Sir: Your columns have Just given
readers the most cheering news item
that has even been printed Two men
known and trusted by earth's leading
nations are to meet in friendly fashion,
without any diplomatic fiummery or
rubbishy rodomontade and discuss
definite plans for real and present dis
armament.
Small hope was there when militia
ristS and navalists foregathered at
Geneva, ost ensibly for that purpose,
that any real advance would be made
in such a cause. Admirals and gen.
erals could hardly be expected to COM
NIT professional hari-kari; nor could
foreign Offices and departments Of
state dare to outstep their dyed in-the-
wool traditional policies.
But now We learn that Britain's
foremost man, Premier Ramsay Mac
Donald, is coming to Washington to
meet the chosen man of America, Pres
ident Herbert c. Hoover, and, if pos
sible, arrange for an actual experiment
in real disarmament; permanent and
progressive decrease in the world naval
and military establishments. Not only
Russia and the Scandinavian countries
have expressed their desire for such a
move, but the plan has been more than
once tried and proved its entire pos
sibility, its lasting success.
One might almost call it the Monroe
Doctrine; for it was on Monroe's
birthday, April %, 1918. that he an
nounced to the American Nation the
signing of the Rush-Bagot arrange
ment, by which Richard Rush for the
U. S. A. and Sir Charles Bagot
for Great Britain agreed, instead
of preparing for the next war, as Brit
ain was proposing to do, by putting
a more powerful navy on the Great
Lakes, which are part of our Northern
frontier, neither party should in future
have a single warship on those lakes
and by a further tacit understanding
! no additional forts or garrisons on the
3,000-mile boundary line running west
ward from those lakes.
Every one knows the success that
has attended this total disarmament
No shot fired or sword drawn in Ito
years!
A more modern success has been
scored by Sweden and Norway who fol-
lowed the same course in 1905. The
privilege now presents itself to Presi-
dent Hoover and Premier Macdonald
to pursue the same method on the 9TH
er wide world waters that has proved
itself not only possible but mutually
| profitable on the Great Lakes.
If the Kellogg peace pact means what
il says. let our faith in it be proved by
our works. EDWARD BERWICK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
Search for Cancer
Cause Given Boost

From the st. Louis Times
The United States Senate has just
adopted a resolution which may lead
30 eminent results when the Senate
commerce committee begins its search
for the hidden causes of cancer and
their elusive cure, and engages the aid
OF the Public Health Service and the
National Academy of Science and the
executive and independent departments
of the Government in the quest which
has baffied medical and surgical sci
ence. The resolution directs the sub
mission of a report to Congress.
Cancer has been a Scourge of the
ages. Medicine has found serums
which make many diseases once
thought deadly almost innocuous. but
cancer has baffiei its art. The progress
of the inquiry. which. it appears, viii
be remarkably well equipped for its re-
search labors. will be followed with
eager interest. by the whole scientific
and lay world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21
The Growth of Peoples.

The ratio Of birth rates to death rates
is a fundamental factor in human rela-
lions.
Perhaps 1t is the most fundamental
of all factors. 1t determines the trends
of populations. 1t usually can be found
at the bottom of all the great elemental
human divisions, Of which wars are the
more or less superficial phenomena.
Presumably it is impossible to strike
a balance between populations and re-
sources. This being the case, for cen
turtles to come, great masses of people
will suffer from time to time from hun
ger or threats Of hunger. Consequent
ly, since self-preservation is the first
law Of nature, they will attempt to seize
upon the resources of their more for.
tunate neighbors. This may take any
number of forms-war, peaceful pene-
tration, mutual agreement. 1t is i'm
possible to make definite prophecies
The fact remains that no people viii
starve If 1t can help it.
The American Sociological Associa-
ton has just issued an Interpretation o.
racial population trends as they appear
from the most recent available stats
tics. Some striking facts are revealed
The peoples Of the world are divided
into three sections-those whose birth
rates are declining faster than theil
death rates, those whose birth rates arr
declining more slowly than their dealt
rates, and those whose birth and dealt
rates are uncontrolled except by tn
forces Of nature. The first section in
cludes all Of Europe north Of SPAN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21

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| ton, D. G.
O. What States manufacture the
most airplanes?-M. C.
A. Of the IS States producing air.
planes, Kansas and Ohio lead in the
production of planes for civil aero
nautics. New York makes 60 per cent
of the planes used for military pur-
poses.
/ O. Who is the president of the So
ciety of American Magieians?-A. w.
A. c. o. Harden, a brother of the
late Houdini. was elected president of
the society in May.
@. How old was Clarence Darrow
! when he was admitted to the barr
F. r.
A. He was 81. He was born in 1857
and was admitted to the bar in 1878.
| @. Is there a college Greek letter fra
ternity to which only men of Italian
parentage belong?-P. A. G.
A. There is an Alpha Phi Delta fra
! ternity, the membership to which is
limited entirely to young men of Ital-
ian parentage. The first chapter was
established at the University of SYRIA
+ cuse about 1912 and since that time the
number of chapters has grown to about
20. The Beta Chapter is located at
Columbia University. This is probably
the only italian Greek letter fraternity
in any of the colleges of the United
States.
@. What are the sequence of foot
! falls of horse doing the running. walk
/ gait?-J. H. p.
A. Right fore, left hind, left fore
! right hind. This is the same sequence
as in walk. The only difference is in
the speed.
@. Can the Prince of Wales become
King of England If he is unmarried
/ when the King desc. M.
A. The marriage of the Prince OF
| Wales is not necessary to insure his
succession to the throne. There have
been unmarried Kings of England. II
| the Prince of Wales should die without
issue the Duke of York would become
King.
! @. Why are the lines dividing the
time zones so irregular?-F. j. H.
| A. The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion fixes the boundaries between these
zones. Often they are made to depart
from the halfway position between this
| standard meridians in order to suit the
convenience of railroads or to meet the
demands of certain communities af-
fected.
I O. How may one determine whether
Oriental rugs have been bleached anc
treated with chemicals?-M. G.
A. In some cases Oriental rugs are
bleached and treated with chemicals ir
order to soften the garish colors result.
ing from aniline dyes and to give then
sheen, and such rugs are likely to weal
out quickly. Sometimes this bleaching
is SO skillfully done that even exper1
judges of rugs are deceived, but there
are few signs that even an amateur
can recognize. If cheap, crude dye:
have been used, the darker colors gen.