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The Washington times., 1929-06-14
LISTEN WORLD!
Meet the Wife!
By Elsie Robinson

neishbors, still care for my wife
and home and my little son. He
needs his father as he needs his
mother, his own roof tree, his
dog, his sunshine out here In the
one-family home district.
A good sound thrashing might
possibly solve the problem but L
don't happen to be a woman
heater. So I'm just sticking 1t
out like Jack and Jim and Blu
are doing-and hoping doggedly
that some day things will change.
My next door neighbor is no
better off. His wife happens to
he a party hound. Bridge parties,
theater parties, dancing parties,
and. I suspect, gin parties make
up her daily budget. And, or
course, they're so much more fun
when husband isn't there. Just
We Girls.
On the left our neighbors are
older folk. Her complex is auto
mobiles. That car goes day and
night with Mrs. J. at the wheel.
Mr.. J. doesn't say much. He just
raises roses and kills snails and
reads the Saturday Evening Post
until Mrs. j. gets in. 4-.
And so it goes. Our unmarried
girl friends spend the first fresh
years of their lives in offices and
then go husband hunting. They
frankly announce that they won't
be housekeepers. but think their
charms will suffice to keep any
man ensnared while they recuper-
ate from their years of toll" The
married women are all Of piece.
Not fast, not vicious-just drifters
drifting away from all that is
fine and admirable in woman life,
What's the answer? l think
it's this. MODERN MARRIED
WOMEN HAVEN'T ENOUGH
RESPONSIBILITY. Their homes
are ready made, their meals are
in a great meSaure factory
cooked. their children are taken
in hand first by good physicians,
then trained kindergarten work
ers, later by fairly efficient private
or public schools. their housekeep-
ing is done by machines or by the
use of outside help and their
husbands are too busy to require
wondering about.
And, remember-we're all fam
flies of just moderate means. All
the men work hard you would
think that their women would
expect to work and sacrifice in
the same measure. But AMER.
ICAN WOMEN ARE BEGIN
MING TO GET THE IDEA THAT
JUST BEING A WOMAN is
ENOUGH TO ENTITLE THEM
TO LIFELONG SERVICE AND
PROTECTION.
The American husband is Ger.
tainly getting the small end of
the bargain. FRANK. s,
WelI-what's YOUR answer?
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

DEoPLE often worry when
L they forget.
Yet forgetting has distinct ad-
vantages.
Have you ever stopped to think
what 1t would mean If We re-
membered everything?
BY remembering everything l
mean being able to consciously
and through an act of the will. TO
recall at any given moment any
thought. feeling or experience we
may have had from the cradle up.
Needless to say, our minds
would soon he a hopeless muddle
and hodge -podge.
But nature has provided against
this contingency. 1t has given
us an unconscious or subcon-
scious mind. as well as con-
scious one, into which uncon.
scious mind all our experiences of
the past are stored away.
Just what this unconscious
mind looks like, just exactly how
our thoughts are arranged, no.
body knows.
We do know, however. that Ger
tain parts of the brain have to
do with certain functions-for in
stance, that the thoughts and
mechanisms connected with vision
are situated in the posterior part,
or rear of the brain.
The speech center is on the left
side, a little above and in front
of the ear.
We also know that the nerve
cells controlling movements of the
limbs are placed along a fissure
at the middle and near the top
of the brain--along the so'called
fissure of rolando.
In fact, the right half of the
brain is relatively dormant and
functionless. Practically all o.
the work is done by the left side.
The unconscious mind is not dis
tinguished from the conscious by
any special or peculiar kind of
structure.
The whole brain, really, forms
the basis and structure of the un-
conscious.
The conscious mind ts really
nothing but a phase OF the uncon.
scious, that part of the uncon-
scious. if you will. which we EN-.
play in waking life, that part by
means of which we come into con-
tact with the world in which we
live and with the people with whom
we associate.
Coming back to the faculty of
forgetting, it is assumed that few,
if any, ideas, impressions or ex-
periences of any kind are abso-
lutely forgotten.
Perhaps special effort or spe-
cial set of circumstances is re-
quired to bring back to conscious
ness the buried unconscious mem
ory
Nevertheless, practically every
thought or idea or association that
has emotion attached to 1t can be
recalled somehow.
Yes, forgetting has advantages!
All of us have been thwarted in
our ambitions, all have suffered in
one way or another.
It's a good thing we cannot
think of these things all the time
or at the spur of the moment. If
we did, we would be harping con.
tinually on the past and would
probably do little, il anything, else!
Always be careful, anyway,
about criticising the ways OF ma
ture.
Everything that the body and
mind does has a reason, purpose
behind it.
To keep on forgetting things
which, on the surface. 1t would
seem, we ought to remember, may
s. very hpn0ptnk, h not delthr.
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MEET the Wife!
NI Not the sensational lady
who crashes into divorce courts
or scandal headlines but the av-
erage. youngish married woman
who presides over a score of COM
Portable homes and apartments in
your own home street. Here she
is, as her husband sees her-as
thousands of American husbands
see her What do YOU think OF
her and of the marriage of which
she is a part?
Dear Elsie Robinson:
- am interested in reading the
accounts OF married life which
appear in your department-par-
ticularly the complaints of the
wives. 1t is my belief. and the
belief of every married man of my
acquaintance that MEN GET
THE WORST OUT OF IT IN
MARRIAGE NOWADAYS.
Take MY case. Married eight
years ago. at 2S have across
the dinner table from me
strange woman who still re-
sembies in face and figure the
girl 1 once married for love and
a home-a woman who once had
similar ideas and habits-but who
hardly shares an interest with
me now. Yet we grew up to-
gether. If ever two people had
the chance to know each other,
we did. But marriage has done
something to her
l am young still. like dance
music. the theater, the dances,
the affection l craved at twenty.
| haven't grown stale or shabby.
/ like good books and the thines
that make for culture. I'M
ALIVE.
She's alive too-but she's un-
happy, restless, explosive. Moth
ing satisfies her. The boy is a
baby no longer. The house is los.
ing it's newness. The garden is
dull. Our friends, old and new,
are dumb"
I've given her all the freedom
the modern wife is supposed to
need. She tried a business VEN
ture of her own, with my hearty
encouragement, but ediIy
wearied of that because s'every.
one in the business world is
crooked" 1t isn't for lack of va
catioIl-she packs on a weeks
notice and starts out for a ten
day stay with the home folks.
Returns after three days because
they're so hard to get along
with" Other men? Sure. We've
had some of that too. Sometimes
just silly, but one, at least, serious
business. But it develops that
papa" Is the best of the lot
after all--at least he seems to be
the best provider.
Why don't l DO something?
Because, like my friends and
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One Way to Get Fire

Continued from First Two Columns)
food or protect itself Therefore when your little boy
wants gun or bow and arrow, jackknife remember
that he is expressing desire inherited through ancestors
going back million years.
And it is the same inheritance that his fathers pas
sonae desire go out fishing to kill something That
also is inherited from the Of million years ago
Interesting pictures these also USEFUL they make
- Iki6k Ir thinking che one activity worth MhlA
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WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Lowliness is young ambitions lad
der
Whereto the climber.upward turns
his face;
But when he once attains the up
most round
He then unto the ladder turns his
back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the
base degrees
By which he did ascend.
Shakespeare
Fear is lack of faith. Lack
Of faith is ignorance. Fear can
only bs cured by vision,
The Washington times., 1929-06-14
MEDITATTONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Clothes Unmake tn0 "OnaH
GGNNEN look much better
W1 dressed up than women
do" observes a masculine writer.
OF course they do! When
man dresses up he dresses UP.
He carefully covers all his un-
slightly features-his knee cap,
his Adams apple, his elbows and
shoulder blades.
when a man sets out to wear
clothes" he wears CLOTHES.
Nothing could be purer or more
kissable looking than a man in
an evening suit just after q shave
and a shower.
But when a woman sets out to
''wear clothes" she starts taking
them off. When she dresses up
she undressss. Undressing for
a dinner party" she calls it.
Sn0 lFduhly dIO NJ HAofSAs
covers her vertebrae, her elbows,
her clavicle, her shoulder blades
and as much of the rest of her as
the fashion permits at the mo-
ment.
She has heard of the "female
form, divine" and it would never
occur to her that a spiked elbow,
a padded neck, rocco legs or a
clavicie like a pair of epaulettes
could ever detract from its CLAM
orous divinity.
Only an artists model could
look her best in the present re-
vealing style of evening, gown.
And a young and luscious artists
model, at that.
ANY woman over forty who
bares her back. arms and neck in
a modern evening gown and the
cruel, relentless light of a ball
room, might just as well carry
the family Bible along. The. date
of her birth is written all over
her.
After forty the average WON.
ans neck begins to look either
like a cream puff or like yard
of discouraged chiffon that has
been left out in the rain.
Fat and flesh are disenchanting
and bones and scrawniness are
positively pathetic. Many a
woman who thinks she Is a reve-
lation of beauty is just an open
confession"
An over-ripe actress can still
play girlish roles as long as she
will stick to sports clothes, or.
to flattering furs, or even to
bungalow aprons. But the mo-
ment she ''undresses for evening
clothes" she gives the au1ience
a shock and robs it of all its
illusion.
Goods greatest gift to woman
is economic independence" says
Juliet Wilbur Tompkins, and the
next greatest is rouge"
Yes, and the third greatest gift
is sports clothes, and the little
jackets that women are wearing
with their evening gowns. Those
blessed, kindly little jackets that
hide so much nudity!
Nothing is such a strain on a
mans imagination and romantic
fancy as q half-nuds woman.
Baroness may be moral and
healthy-but It Il not healthy Tor
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The Washington times., 1929-06-14

We learn wisdom from failure
much more than FROM success.
We often discover what will do
by finding out what will not do;
and probably he who never made
mistake never made a discovery.
Smiles.
Better to stand 10000 sneers
than one abiding pang, such as
time could not abolish, OF bitter
self-reproach.
DE Quincy.
Example. u. 4 dangerous lure;
whsra the waAp sot. throukh the
- - -. - 5.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-09
TAXES OUGHT TO BE REDUCED.

The Territorial treasury at the end of January
contained nearly million dollars, and Treas
urer Walstein G. Smith predicts that at the end
of the fiscal year March 81, the record will be
broken. He says there will probably be $1,500,-
600 in the strong box at that time This will be
than $125,000 greater than the Treasury
balance at the end of the fiscal year two
years ago. This result is in spite of the circum-
stance that CT the two years of the biennum
gave us one of the smallest salmon packs in
recent Alaska history
The recital of these facts is evidence that
taxes ought to have been reduced two years ago
In spite Of the circumstance that the appropria-
tions that time were larger than necessary,
the Territory has collected enough money from
the taxpayers to meet all current expenses and
increase the Treasury surplus.
Not only is unnecessary taxation unjust taxa
ton but it is bad business. Every dollar that
is taxed out of the people is dollar taken out
CT business that would be contributing to de-
velopment if it were not shut up in the pub
lie treasury. No agency can make such eff
fectve use of money as the agency that created
it. When money is taken away from the agency
that created it a slowing up process follows.
The Legislature that meets in Juneau next
month ought to reduce taxes. It ought to reduce
taxes because the present revenue laws produce
more money than the Territory needs to meet its
necessities and it ought to do so because of the
effect it would have upon those whom we would
like to have invest money in the Territory. Moth
ing would contribute more to the development
of Alaska than to have it known that the Terri
torial Government is honest and thrifty and that
it is being careful of the rights of those who
have money invested here. Nothing would make
that known generally and so plainly as an
actual reduction of the taxes
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-09
CHRISTMAS TREE FARMING.

Raising Christmas trees has turned out to be
of landowner at Pocono Lake, Pa, according
to reports to the Forest Service, United States
Department of Agriculture Since beginning to
raise the trees large scale this has
reduced his 35-head dairy to Z, and he stated his
intention this year to go into the winter with
only head.
landowner Reading, Pa, has sue
cessfully raised Christmas trees on 1000 acres
of rough, stony ground where hardwood reprouces
rather rapidly Here it is necessary after setting
out the young trees to go through the once
twice during the first three seasons of the
trees growth in the field and cut the young
oak, maple, beech. and birch reproduction that
is inclined to take possession of the ground be-
fore the young eyergreens become established.
The owners of an S0-acre farm of high-prced
land near Lonville Pa, has had his land in
20 years
L. H. Buzzell, of Elkins w. Va. after visiting
these three plantations this summer determined
to make Christmastre growing the sole activity
on his farm, according to report to the Forest
Service In the last two years Mr.. Buzzell had
already planted 10000 Norway spruce and Nor
way pine.
tree growing is a business that should not be
gone into without thorough investigation of mar
ket possibilities and consideration of proximity
to markets, competition from natural producing
areas close by, and other factors
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-09
A Loan We Ought to Make.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. J

Seattle Post-IntelIigencer.)
There is one loan to our Central and South
American neighbors that Congress ought to be
quick to authorize and our public opinion no less
quick to ndorse.
We ought to lend the services of as many of
our engineers as our Southern neighbors require
and we spare to help them in carrying out
the road building programs upon which many
of their governments entering.
These engineers should be taken from our
Army and Navy and our Department of Agri-
culture because they have had abundant exper-
Porto Rico, Alaska, Haiti and in Continental
United States.
Coed roads are the greatest need Throughout
Central and South America today. They reinforce
public tranquility, they raise the standard of liv
ing and promote prosperity.
Under a law of Congress enacted several
years ago have sent naval mission to Brazil
to help train the Brazilian navy, and another
one to Peru to do the same for the navy of that
most friendly nation.
Nicaragua has btained from most COM
petent Marine Corps mission to officer and train
the National Guard. And to Cuba we have
recently sent military mission to assist in
training a Cuban air froce
President Coolidge has again called upon Con-
gress to authorize constructive loan of SIM
liar sort to the Southern Republics that request
| it. This Congress easily do this at the short
session by an amendment to the law under which
we lend the services of Army Navy and
Marine Corps missions for purposes of training
This amendment would authorize the sending
of engineering missions to those Republics re-
questng assistance in the building of good roads
President Coolidge has shown Congress a way
in which it can give prompt and practical sup
port to the program of closer relations with Cen
trail and South America which President-elect
Hoover is championing with his
Southern journey.
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THE BEST GIFT.

DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon, famous clergyman
author of In His Steps, and for many year
editor of the Christian Herald, and even We
contributing editor of that publication. neve
writes but that he says something worthwhile
He is always temperate and reasonable--ver.
unlike the present editor of the paper tn,
name of which was household word when DIR
Sheldon sat al the wheel
In recent issue of the Christian Herald
DR. Sheldon wrote:
Like most of the subscribers to the
Herald, l had good many Christmas
presents. Here is short list: fountain
pen and pencil, account book clothes
brush, box writing paper, dressing gown
three - neckties (from brother-in-law
who did it to get even with me for last
year,, address book; (have four al
ready and more than three hundred
Christmas cards, many of them beauti-
full works of art
But the best gift ] had friend.
ship Expressed in the presents, and
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attention to the red of the traffic
lights.
Cupid can bring a woman a heap
bigger baby baby than the stork
can.
Some women give you the i'm
preston they get more pleasure
out of nursing a crouch than they
ever did out of nursing a baby.
A wife can get just as peevish
about having to wait on her hus-
band as he can about having to
wait on her.
Some men get married because
they fall in love, and some get
married because some girl wanted
Ia meal ticket.
The can opener enables a wife
to get a meal in about one-tenth
the time it used to take, but we
never have heard of one using the
time saved to get her husbands
socks darned and the buttons sew
ed on his clothes.
The reason wife thinks gamb-
ling is a sin is because every time
her husband bets on a sure thing
they have to stand the grocer off
and she has to give up getting the
new hat she's been wanting.
1t would be an awful shock to
many man to discover his wife
had another lover, but wha. would
surprise him most would be that
any man could get a thrill out OF
kissing her
If man didn't have a shirt to
his back he would feel he was in
pretty desperate circumstances
but there's many girl today
thinks it's smart to go through
the winter without one on hers.
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New York World. }


Everybody will be interested to some extent
in the Governments announcement that July
it will begin to put its new paper money into
circulation. The notes will be only two
thirds the size of those now in The fact
that this reduction happens to correspond very
closely to the shrnkage in the purchasing power
of the dollar since 1914 will probably afford
lot of material for jokes, but there are number
of excellent reasons for the change.
The new size is not wholly experiment 1t
has been tried out in the Philippines and found
highly satisfactory, being easily handled
and counted and less bulky in the pocket or bill
fold. OF even greater Importance is the saving
of S2,0OO,000 year in the cost of engraving
In making the change the Government has
adopted radical alterations in the designs and
chosen a new kind of paper which the en-
craving is to be done, to make counter
feiting more difficult and more easily detected
The new money will be issued through the ex-
change of WORKOUT bills for new ones by the
banks. With two sizes circulating at the same
time there may be some inconvenience at first,
but any difficulties of this sort will be short
lived.
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The always excellent and unusually accurate
Ketchkan Chronicle says Assistant Attorney-Ge Cen
eral wild Bid Donovan born in Michigan.
Mr.. Donovan is a native of Buffalo, n Y, holds
two Columbia degrees and worked his way up
in the National Guard and in the World War
until he Colonel of the old Goth regiment,
mostly made up of New York City residents. The
"Old 69th' is often referred to as the Irish
Regiment" Father Duffy was its Chaplain dur
ing the
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specially in the cards, many of which
contained personal words, written with
pen Friendship is one of the rare
things in this world that cannot be
bought with money nor lost with pow
erty.
1t is that eternal fact in human
relations that preserves our faith in
human nature. 1t kepes us optimistic
in the midst of what sometimes seems
like a very bad world. Friendship is
the unselfish side CT life, True friends
are not trying to get something out of
us but to share something with us
One of the finest things that Jesus
ever said was, mo longer do l call
you servants, but friends" And he
said it, not as superior Being, con-
descending or patronizing, but as Com
panion with men who needed that fell
/ lowship more than anything else.
y No one is poor who has friends.
And no one is rich who has none.
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More Or Less True

You can't make them believe it,
but a lot of girls who economic
so much on material for skirts
would be even more attractive if
they would show the same thrift
ness in the use of paint and pow
der.
The "red" IN the lips doesn't
mean stop, and this may explain
why so many youths pay so little
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Olympia Olympian.)

III the new Government at Washington can
remove little of the stupid red tape that en-
tangles the matter of immigration and naturali-
zation, it will be doing the country real service
A Kansas City woman is going to visit Eng
land, accompanied by her three year-old SON She
was born abroad, and although her husband is
an American, she is classified as a foreigner
and consequently had to get varius kinds of
official papers to enable her to re-enter the coun-
try when her trip to England expires.
But that isn't the funny part of it at all Her
infant son, born in this country, is an American
citizen, even if she isn't. So when the two
board the liner for England he must go aboard
by one gangplank and she must use another one
Come what may, the majesty (and idiocy) of the
law will be upheld.
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And That's That

A new toy can made a child hap.
by, but it can't make it as happy
as it can a woman to pass up an
other woman who looks fatter than
she does.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
But think how the other WON
an feelsl" observes the Boston
Globe
HUH Don't waste any pity on
her, she's just as confident she
doesn't look as fat as the other
woman.
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ANY Mi an

ne'er like being home alone at
night,
For | admit though of my cour-
age | Oft boast,
The noises | don't notice when the
family's there,
When I'm alone, sound like the
wailings of a ghost.
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Meaning Which

80 you have been on the water
wagon for a year. Ell? Any better
Off" asked the old friend of Jones.
Well he sighed, 81 think I'd
be a heap better off. but my wife
doesn't agree with me.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-09
TAX NOTICE

Second payment Of taxes are
now due and payable Same will
become delinquent March LIST,
1929. at which time 1000 penalty
and so interest will attach.
H. r. SHEPARD,
City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-09
Won Know Her Kind

Bill: What kind nf 81, is
Betty"
jim: Well if it is something
she oughtn't to know she knows
It, and if it is something she ought
to know, she doesn't.