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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-11-08
THE BOY SCOUTS.

The Boy Scout revival resuIull.g from the visit of Fred E. Baker Area Scout Field Executive, IS attracting great interest in Juneau, but not more than that most worthy organization deserves The Boy Scout movement which extends throughout the world is very promising institution It stands for better and more useful boys and for the build ing of better and useful citizens. There IS nothing by which measurement of the good that must necessarily out of this organization can be made but it is easy predict that score years hence the effect will be apparent in the affairs of men throughout the world. It would be a wonderful thing for the country and all Of its communities if all the American boys who are eligible would become active members of the or ganzation.
 This is appropriate occasion to commend the selection of H. L. Redlingshafer of this City to be District Scout Commissioner. MT. Redllng- shafer has given a great deal of valuable time and very intelligent service, backed by true Boy Scout spirit to the institution. The work that has been done under his direction and that of his associates in Juneau has already done much good. A lot of boys in this community are better boys and are well started the road toward better citizenship through their work.
 The Boy Scouts and those who are directing their activities are entitled to the enthusiastic support of all the people of this section and Alaska and of people eVerywheret -,-a~.., e
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Mir. Hoover on the Business Situation.
(New York World.)

Mir Hoover's statement on the business Stua- tion after the spectacular break in the stock mar ket, is carefully worded. One may search it in vain for any indication of purpose to affect the course of the market His whole aim seems rather to have been to prevent the demoralization in the speculative markets from spreading into the field of general business He makes two references to stock trading and both of these carry an implied censure of speculative He speaks in the first place of the construction and building indus tries being affected "by the high interest rates induced by stock speculation" and again he attributes the slump in grain prices to the behavior of the stock market. but the rest of the state of the production and distribution of commodities and prosperous basis
 efforts of the preceding Administration to stimu- late the stock market whenever it showed signs of growing stale Both MT. Coolidge and MT Mellon in 1927 and 1928 repeatedly ntervened in the con- test between the bulls and the bears and they were always on the side of the bulls The Street still remembers how day early in January 1928 after sharp slump in the market following huge increase in brokers loans, the White House broke all precedents by issuing statement that neither the President nor the Secretary of the Treasury saw any danger in the increase of such loans and how on the following day the market scared and the "big board and the Curb both had the most active day in their history up to that time
 MT. Hoover has wisely refrained from discuss Ing the technical situation in the stock market He has no intention of batting the bears or of serving as picador to the bulls
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If the Boy Scouts will just be good Scouts Il
 fears for their future need be entertained.
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ECONOMISTS AGAINST SHOOT HAWLEY TARIFF BILL.

Ninety per cent of 196 of the Nations leadin economists are opposed to the provisions of tn Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill, the New York Universit Bureau of Business Research revealed recent when it issued a summary of answers to tarit questionnaire
 Lewis H Haney, Director of the Bureau of Busi ness Research commenting upon the verdict ( the economists, said:
 The economists to whom the question: naire was addressed all members of the American Economic Association and the great majority of them are professors of economics in the leading universities and colleges of the United States. Presumably they are among those best qualified to judge the economic merits of the proposed legislation. The sole purpose of the inquiry was to get an accurate summary. No effort was made to obtain extended discussions or arguments. Incidentally, it should be noted that the only selection used in mak- ing up the list the care taken to insure the inclusion of all the best known names and the exclusion of those connected with agricultural colleges who might conceivably be biased in the interest of farmers.
 The replies from all over the try. The largest number (thirty -eighD came from New York State. There sixteen from the District of Columbia, fifteen from Ohio, eleven from Massachusetts, eleven from Illinois, eleven from Connecticut ten from Pennsylvania, nine from California eight from Wisconsin and six each from New
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CAPITALIST SAYS.
 SARCON BROUGHT. BACK HIS HEALTH.

The following enthusiastic state ment was made by John O. Spen- cer, of 498 Sixty-third Ave, West Allis Milwaukee, who for thirty years was actively engaged in the
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Oregon Welcomes New Families.
Business Chronicle, seattle)

During the month of August the land settle ment department of the Oregon State Chamber Iof Commerce recorded the establishment of 100 new families Oregon lands. This means that the State Chamber had more or less to do with the advent of those settlers. It further reports assurance from several hundred more families that they will come to make their homes in Oregon
 The influx of arrivals three times great as in August of last year. Investments totalng ,000 $100000 larger The new Oregonians purchased 1000 acres of land most of it already producing farms
 For those interested in knowing results of the constructive work of this land settlement agency over the period of the six years it has been func tioning: than 4000 new settlers have been obtained and these have invested approximately s1 100000, chief in 1420OO acres of land
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The fellow who sings your praises never gets as large and enthusiastic an audience as the gos- sip who spreads tales of your misdeeds-(Cin nati Enqurer)
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Jersey and Oklahoma. Other States were Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, Arkansas Colo rado Delaware, Georgie, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington
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Pat Burns, whose opinion is entitled to respect says the time has come to give Peace River Q direct outlet to the Pacific This is no snap udp ment He knows all about Western conditions And what he knows, he knows-(Prnce Rupert Empre)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-11-08

Those Democratic majorities in Tuesdays cleo tions will not discourage the Insurgent Republi-
 cans in their Senate insurging.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-11-08

tourist is person who can name every town where ne mas had puncture or got stung on the price of a sandwich-(St Joseph Mo News press |
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AVOID A TIE RACE.

buss full of school children hit by train, at Chilliwack, Monday afternoon. Don't try to beat the train Chances are, you'll lose. And it's the riskiest thing in the world to calculate the speed at which
 train is approaching-( -(Prince Rupert Empire)
 But even worse than losing a with train to a crossing is to make tie of it. When an automobile and train tie in a race the auto mobile always gets the worst of it. By all means throw the contest if you that you cannot win it easily
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New York voters apparently no harm il
 having a little fun one goes along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06

These figures indicate the continued POPULAR
ity of these concerts. What they do not tell,
however, is the fact that the explanation of the
instruments and the lectures on the orchestral
compositions are as fascinating to elders as to
the children It seems extraordinary, perhaps,
that so few of us are yet aware of our need of
it. To attempt to put orchestral music on a
sound basis with any public is a waste of time
SO long as the audience does not know how to
listen to that kind of music. Undoubtedly the
most ignorant person can enjoy great melodies
or harmonies well played by a fine orchestra;
some pleasure will remain, even though the list
ener is doubtful whether he has just heard
violin or bassoon. But to enjoy music in this
fashion is as anemic pleasure as to look at
paintings for the drawing only, without noticing
the colorS.
The superiority of the orchestra over piano
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symphony concerts, as many men and women
have done, without knowing how the various eff
fects are produced, why certain kinds of passages
are likely to be played on wood-wind, others on
the brass, others on the strings; why it is that
violin can produce effects impossible for other
Instruments why even the bass fiddle has inim-
liable personalty-to remain in ignorance Of
all this is to endure an intellectual Illustration
the more tragic because good will and high ideals
have been spent to bring it about, and all the
information necessary to avoid the failure could
have been acquired by an average audience in
the course of very few hours. -..--
MORE than one thoughtful person has asked
why we in the United States do not make
faster progress in the arts. We spend enormous
sums of money to subsidize admirable perform
ances and we attend the concerts in large mum.
bers, yet we do not become, as we might expect
to, generally musical people. Let us ask in
turn why out of all the boys and girls, men ana
women, playing tennis in the United States so
few plry E:th outstanding skill, or why out OF
all thole studying the piano, let us say or sing
ing, so few arrive at musical competence. .
The answer is simple-they have not been
properly trained. 1t is our amiable faith az a
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lies precisely in that rich variety of color which
most of US have not learned to listen to. do
not mean merely that we are not sure which in
strument is producing each particular effect: I
mean that we have not learned even to notice
the difference in effect-just as in painting
many of us have not learned to see important
graduations of shade or tone.
TO bring this information before large audi
ences especially of the young is service of
the utmost Importance When the radio is per-
fected it will carry such education to all COM
munities, but at present the outline of the mu-
steal composition is carried by the radio more
effectively than the characteristic tone of each
instrument For training in such distinctions
we still must go to concerts like these offered
by Mr.. Schelling.
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we're explained and enjoyed. Now that Dr.
Damrosch is to devote his time exclusively to
chlIdrenS concerts over the radio, both series
will be continued this season under Mr.
Smelling.
It is unnecessary to describe to the American
public the gifted personality Of this brilliant
pianiSt-composer, nor to tell readers of his
charming methods for interesting children in
his beloved art. The youngsters who have fol-
lowed his concerts during recent years, espe-
cially those who have taken pains to keep one
of those delightful notebooks which he recon-
mendS. think CT Ernest Schelling as their elders
have long thought of Walter Damrosch, with
personal friendship and gratitude have heard
more than one person speak of the crowds that
pour toward Carnegie Hall on Saturday morn
ings hundreds of eager youngsters clutchng
their notebooks and pushing their way into what
they know is entertainment, and what turns out
% Dr. education of the finest sort.
The record of attendance at these concerts IS
impressive. Since 1925 more than $4,000 per-
SOns have attended the concerts in Aeolian Hail
and Carnegie Hall. those given at the James
Montague High School in the Bronx and the
Girls Commercial High School in Brooklyn and
thGse given in Newark in cooperation with the
public schools
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YOUTH TO MUSIC

there is still q dis
position to feel that
training of this sort
is good IL one can
afford 1t, but 1t is
not essential for 3
happy or a prosper
GUS life. Only a few
years ago even the
professional educator
inclined to this Phil
istine view. Little in
our schools and al
most nothing in our
col lie ges indicated
any faith that
knowledge of the
arts was necessary
for that pursuit of
happiness to which
Americans are en-
titled.
We are beginning
now to think diff
ferently.' From quite
unexpected quarters
such Cinderella SUBJ
jects as music re-
ceive testimonials
which almost embar-
rass with their eIo-
quence. We are be-
ginning to UNDER
stand that it is actu-
ally bad for a human
being to live with
suppressed talents or
aptitudes, or with
neglected tastes for
admirable things.
N ture punished
such Illustrations by
enfeebling our nerv-
GUS system or by TAX
ing away our cour-
age and OR Self-re-
spect. And in ths
intellectual realm we
b e o m e concerned
nowadays over that
3 kind of incidence
which permits us to
drive an automobile
without having the
slightest curiosity as
to what is under the
engine hood. It is
no longer a swager
gesture to say that
we don't know the
carburetor from the
crankshaft-our ga
rage man tends to
that. The garage
man may, ! n d e e d,
keep the car in mo-
ton, but. apparently
that is more than he
can do for our minds.
When this indo-
lence appears in the
arts we have, unfor-
tunately, been too
long habitated to it
in that field to be
greatly shocked, but
we are beginning to
b e sensitive even
there. To play a
piano for years, yet
remain in ignorance
Of the mechanism
which harnesses the
finger stroke to the
vibrating strinet 10
bad for us intellictu.
ally, even though the
musical results, like
the aut o m o bile
transportation, m O Y
by chance be saris-
flying. To spend q
lifetime listening to
laNv men and yuOunn,,
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ITVH z chill
" dren'S con-
" certS a n q
Az the junior
ttaStra

concerts given by the
Philharmonic SYM
ph0ny Society under
the leadership OF
Ernest Schelling are
announced for the
current Winter in
three series of five
Saturday mornings
each. beginning Oc-
tober IL. These con-
certs have become
an institution in
New York, and their
significance in the
general musical life
of the country is SO
great that the be-
ginning of their
seventh season next
Saturday d C S e rves
more than a word or
two of comment.
The idea OF bring
ing orchestral music
To young people.
with explanatory
talks upon the vari-
Gus compositions, we
owe. first, to d..
Frank DamroScil
and, later. TO his
younger brother, DR..
w a. ter Damrosch.
who for a number
of seasons now has
provided invaluable
education and enter
tainment of this sort
for children. with
the cooperation of
the New York Sym
ph ~ Society.
Dr. 'Olmrosch gives
his rutiOn largely
q the -IuSic as COM
positions. and his
Singullrly adroit
comments have FOR
their purpose TO
point out tie themes
and their develop
ment. the structure
of each movement,
the relation of the
movements to- the
whole work. Ernest
Sch ,lling'S con cert
for children. inaugu-
rated through the
generosity of Mrs.
Charles E. Mitchell,
Mrs. Z. II. Hartman
and a group of other
WON N interested in
music. have from
the first sought to
explain to children
primarily the instru-
mentS of the orcheS-
ira.
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DURING the last
SEASON. since the
amalgamation of the
Symphony and the
Philharmonic. these
tao valuable series
have run side by side
MIR. S C hel ling'S
concerts for children.
I'm which the youth
ful audience learned
10 listen for the tone
color of the various
instruments. and DR..
DamroSch'S yOung
peoples S Y m phory
concerts. in which
the CO m poS itionS
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permanent and not very important job,
since his impracticality would always
keep him from getting anywhere. Still,
the generous Mr.. Forster had never
complained, and her father would still
have been working for him, If he had
lived.
She had known nothing Of the nature
of her fathers actual laborS during
those four years, but she did remember
the passion that had inspired them and
the hope of sudden great fortune that
had still been burning in him the very
night he died. He'd begged the doctor
for enough of the drug to keep him
going for a few hours more. Those
memories couldn't be reconciled with
the sort of job this man was talking
about Why was he trying to make 1t
look like that? Why couldn't he have
said II financed some experiments that
your father expected great things from,
but they never came to anything. y
That would make a better story. It
and he was trying to look generous It
would saddle her with an obligation, at
least to gratitude.
Well, then, why had he gone out of
his way to lie about it? That was the
question in her mind when he wound
up his speech with the suggestion that
she pack up her trunks and move into
this palatial apartment of his this very
afternoon. And the word trunk"
struck a spark from it.
1T may be-" Claire had said at lunch
in discussing Forster's reason for ad-
vertising for her, that he thinks you've
got some paper of your fathers that he
wants." but she'd added that she didn't
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FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT.

- UDDENLY the door opened and
Mr.. Forster, supported by one Of
his canes and on the arm Of the
- man in the blue serge suit, came
into the room.
He paused just inside the door for
q sharp, family puzzled look at her, as
If he'd expected his appearance to pro-
duce some sensation that hadn't come
OF. Then he gave away what had been
in his mind by saying, We've already
met today. you see"
YES" she answered, little vaguely,
81 know"
The puzzle that had again come up
sharply in her own mind was why he
should have taken her being here for
granted. She couldn't talk to him.
though, during his slow, painful
progress toward the big :hair she'd
assumed was his. After he was seated,
he indicated the chair at the end of
the desk as the one he wanted her to
take. Then he said to his attendant,
That's all; you needn't wait"
Was 1t imagination on her part, or
had he given that order as If he meant
something special by it?.
81 suppose you've been wondering
why sent for you," he said, when the
man had left.
So he'd sent for her, had he? Most
likely he'd left message of some sort
at the office, thinking she'd receive it
there. That pretty well disposed of her
misgiving that she'd been lured into a
trap If he'd contemplated anything
like OBTAINING her here against her
viii, he wouldn't openly have sum-
moned her to his apartment. He
thought she'd come in answer to his
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SYNOPSIS.

Rhoda Mcfarland calls herself Rhoda
White after the death of her father, whose
last years were clouded by misfortune and
disgrace. She meets Martin Forbes, q re-
porter, who has seen in the papers an al
asking for information REGARDING Rhoda NC
Farland. He had heard a man named Max
Lewis talking to q woman about Rhoda, and
Farland. Rhode finally admits that IL is
Her apartment is burglartzed when she and
her housemate, Babe Jennings. are absent,
and just prior to the appearance of man
who says he is a city directory employe, and
while she is wondering what next. a
stranger, Claire Cleveland, writes her. say
ing that her father as his death had certain
papers belonging to her (Clairel. Rhoda
says all her fathers papers are in sealed
trunk in her apartment Claire seems to
know all about the misfortunes of the Nc
Farlands and warns Rhoda against answer
ing the ad inquirinS as to her Whereabouts.
She says that she believes it to be the work
enemy Of Rhoda's father. Later Rhoda
learns that Forster is Max's uncle. When
she arriveh nome, the sealed trunk is gone.
She goes at once to Clartes apartment, GER
tain that the trunk Is there. But 1t isn't.
She wishes she had listened to Martin when
sented his advice and also his amaZement
that morning when she reached the once
in an automobile, having accepted lift
from an old man who saw her and Babe
waiting tor a car. Meanwhile Martin has
called at Rhoda's apartment in time to see
Max Lewis leave it with a trunk. With
Babes help he gets it back, but Rhoda does
from her apartment to the hotel where
Forster lives. Almost before she realizes
what Is happening she is shown into Fors-
terS apartment.
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summons. Well, it wouldn't do any
harm for the present to let him go on
thinking so. The less she said for q
while the more she'd learn. So her
answer was merely q heSitating admis-
sion that she had wondered what he'd
wanted Of her.
He seemed little put out by the
way she phrased it. 'T don't want any,
thing of you at ALL" he assured her
earnestly. 1.-THE only thing want is
to do something for you. This is going
to be the best thing you ever did, COM
ing to see me-" :
Her intention was to look like a
supplemented child Of hearing about
Santa Claus, but it was clear she wasn't
much OF an actress; for he added in
Stantly:
you look as If you don't quite be-
lieve that. Well, I don't wonder, after
all the hard times you must have had.
tell you anything about me?"
That was the connection, then-a
part at least Of what Claire had been
telling her at lunch was true. The
question strung her mind to the highest
pitch OF alertneSs. She answered it
with cautious vagueness.
II don't know. He may have"
We'll of course" he said, you were
a pretty small girl when I hired him
Let's see, how old were you?-when you
left California, / mean"
Twelve" she told him.
II was four years your father worked
for me, and it's two since he died-Six
years. So you're 18 now. Well, we'll,
young ladyl And he never told you
anything about me at alp"
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NO" she admitted, 81 don't think he

NO." she admitted, 81 don't think he
did"
81 know about you, though" he said
II even saw you q few times out walk
ing with him in the park, and so on.
I remember your red hair. That's how
recognized you this morning. And
I'm glad found you at last. There
have been times when was about ready
to give it up"
why were you so anxious to find
me?" she asked.
He seemed to regard the question as
unnecessary, if not almost brutal.
"Why?" he echoed. "Of course, I
wanted to find you. I'd never have
lost you If I hadn't been sick myself
when your father died. was a mighty
good friend to your father. You might
say I was the only one he had. He was
fine man. Smart, too; there's no
snartness don't get you anywhere with
out that.
still and all. didn't complain. He'd
have been working for me right now if
he'd lived. So when I began to get
better from my sickness and found out
that his only child had gone off, nobody
knew where, felt bad about it and
began looking for her. And now have
found you, it's load off my mind, you
"And what I want to tell you is that
you've found friend. That's the long
and the short of it. I'm an old man
old enough to be your grandfather
and I'm still an old bachelor, without
chick or child of my own. So want
you should feel you can come to me
with any Of your troubles; ask me for
anything you want-within reason, taht
Is.
"I can give you a better job than
you've got. You could come here and
do secretary work for me. Settle down
and live right here, too. I mean that.
You can go home and pack your trunks
and move in here this afternoon. The
fact is, it would suit me if you did that
very thing"
Rhoda had to admit to herself that
this was, intrinsically, good plausible
explanation of his search for her. She
had, as it proceeded, found herself
wondering why she wasn't believing a
word of it. There was nothing about
it she could disprove; there was only
one thing she could confidently label as
false-and this wasn't logically very i'm
portant. He'd spoken of having hired
her father-by implication for some