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The Washington times., 1930-11-07
MARRY-GO-
ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

The Road to Reno
A modern girl marries the
first time for adventure, the
second time for love. the third
time for money - and, after
that, Just for a change.
The old.faShioned man, who
used to marry a woman and
then try to remodel her, now
has a son, who marrieS one
and then promptly trades her
off for another model, when
her style and pep give out.
Now that the drug business
has gone chicken-salad, the
cigar stores have gone literary,
and golf has gone midget, it is
probably only natural that mar
riage should go delicatessen.
An unfamiliar perfume, or
even a blonde hair on q mans
coat lapel may mean nothing
much-but q woman knows
that her sway is over when he
kisses her with his eyes closed.
A popular paragrapher wants
to know what q modern wo-
man does with all the time
which the old-fashioned woman
spent In getting into her corsetS
and buttoning UP her shoes.
She spends it, dear heart, In
counting her calories, powder
ing her nose and watching for
runs in her stockings.
II q man would show the
same care and fine discrimina-
ton in selecting his women
friends that he shows in select
ing q 10-cent cigar, all the
lawyers in Reno would be rid
ing in flivers and having their.
last winters hats pressed.
The older q man gets the
more expensive his romantic
adventures become. It takes
champagne and square diamonds
to make q triple chin look like
the answer to a flapper'S prayer.
Success comes from realizing
your possibilities and acl1iev-
ing them; happiness comes
from knowing your limitations,
and not stripping your gears,
by trying to break your own
speed limit.
(copyright. 1880. King Features
syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1930-11-07

When two gangsters stroll casually into public hospital
and kill patient it begins to dawn the average citizen
that the gang situation is serious.
That occurred in Newark N. j. the other evening It win
again in other cities.
The patient, dead did not happen to be desirable
member Of society he known "The Ape The title
seems to have been fitting.
He might well have been Godfearng, taxpaying head Of
family however, and he would have been bumped off,
just effectively R had incurred gangster dspleasure
In New York the other day two shot down at the
steps Of church by others who had taken them there in
q
The two who shot advised to pray and pray
quick They did, but the prayers did keep bullets out
Of their backs
Even cynical public, accustomed to read daily of
gangster ouag shocked at this cold blooded
action.
Perhaps the hospital killing will make equally lasting
impression for the hospital the modern sanctuary shelter
ing within its walls the diseased the injured the crippled
Certainly the churches and the hospitals be kept
sacred from gangdOm then nothing and America should
admit that it has ceased to be civilized is marching toward
anarchy
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For the last week I have been
sitting at the bedside of an
old lady Of IS. She did not
know that I was sitting there,
although Al years ago she gave
me life. But my face, like all
other living faces, had ceased
to interest her. She was too
busy with other matters to
think about us.
Terribly sick. pneumonia
... there's hardly a chance"
said the doctors and nurses,
bending above her, counting the
slipping pulse, waiting tenSely
for the crisis. But there was
no tension about the little fig
ure, lying there so calmly-no
fighting or fear. Rather, there
was strange, triumphant COM
poSure and an almost amused
contempt! It was as if she sur
veyed us, not from a sickbed,
but from the high vantage Of
those Of long lively years.
She had seen so much, left
so much In those IS years.
She had made them SO thor
oughly hers-taking all they
had to offer, with a fine dis
dain for price. Pain, loneli-
ness, risk, inconvenience, pow
erty, hardship-these coditions,
which loom so large to us TO-DAY
and which we. escape at any
cost, had. been mere incidents
to her. One accepted such
things with proper indifference
in her day. They were inevi-
table, but non-essential. The
important thing was life.
And now, dying, the impor-
tant thing still was life. What
did it matter whether she died
today or tomorrow, as long as
she had lived while she lived?
Back from their. wandering
came the fierce, old blue eyes
=. acknowledging our faces,
laughing at our fear. No pre-
tense in that laugh =. genuine
amusement at our callow COW
ardice. How soft we were, we
modernS :. how ignorant and
poorly bred, that we should
fear death that we should
think death greatly mattered.
For fear was a child's trick.
Her breed did not fear. They
knew that only life mattered.
Life-that was the great thing.
To live life fully-regardless Of
such trivial Interruptions as
pain. To be so alive that one
could face even death trium-
phantly-that was the great
thing. That was the test.
Living, not dying-that was
the test. Death? Any fool could
die. Every one has to die. There
was nothing distinguished about
dying. But there was some
thing distinguished about liz.
ing-really living.
And she had lived! In spite
The Washington times., 1930-11-07
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

of everything, she had lived!
Lying, frail as a shell on her
piled pillows, her dying eyes
laughed and challenged our
living ones.
They passed us by lightly
was there pity in that light
ness?-and slowly turned, as if
facing another circle. What
did she face? What lay be-
hind that deeper recognition
that prouder challenge that
ran like a flame through the
transparent flesh? Did she
see Them, then-those Others
Of her race who had already
run the gauntlet, who now
stood watching, invisible, while
she made the crossing?
I do not know. She did not
say. But for a night it was
like that. For a night the life
in her stood ablaze and defiant,
contemptuous Of slipping pulse
and failing breath. FOR A
NIGHT SHE ASSERTED L1FEl
Then suddenly with the morn
ing she slept - and woke to
live!
For life, she had. always in
sisted, was the important thing
the only real thing.
Copyright, 1880, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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ent geological knowledge, and
an accurate delimitation Of
that domain, which will be
ineligible to any properly
trained zoologist, who Is not
necessarily a specialist in some
particular, and often narrow,
field.
It is virtually impossible to-
day even for specialists, in diff.
ferent fields, to specify the
number Of species In some
particular group Of life forms.
The estimate Of the number Of
mammals, for example, ranges
from 5000 to 10000 depending
on particular views entertained
as to what constitutes species.
Fifty years ago even, specialists
were able to recognize a species
readily and allot it its proper
place In scientific classification.
In the days Of Linnaeus, says
Salman, it is likely that a very
experienced ZoologiSt might
have been able to recognize ct
sight any one Of the four
thousand species Of animals
that were then known.
There are vast numbers Of
animals known, Of which de-
scriptionS have been recorded
somewhere. Indeed, it Is esti-
mated that today, the num-
ber Of described species Of
animals is near 100000. This
would be, roughly, IT'S years
ago. But the biologists have
not yet adequately sorted these
out in species, and perhaps
one-fourth to one-third Of this
number would be dropped after
further investigation.
Taxonomy, which is only a.
technical name for the claSsi-
fication and systematization Of
knowledge, deserves, as Calman
has recently pointed out, the
most respectful consideration
Of biologists today. Much Of
geological knowledge. Of a de-
scriptive form, will be little
useful, unless properly systema1
tized.
Copyright, 1880, International
Feature Service, 1nc)
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Hearst Papers Advocate

]. Peace and um.ity Witb all nations; entamgting
alliances auth none" as advocated By George Wash
ington.
z proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no state b haze less than tvo Senator's.
Legislation to enforce prompt constitutional reap
porttOnn'ent IN the House of Representatives
3. A separate DepartmentNot the Army, of the Macy
and Of the Air Forces, Gn united uader Secre-
tGfy Of National Defense.N
4. Federal action to the limit of Federal posOers to
abolish tutterncy tn The United States under a
Secretary of Education
s. hstcGtiom of the President on the first of jan
- Nary folloacing November election.
s. SeecttOe immigration to admit only those suited
for American citizenship
z Deportation of undesirable aliens
g. Complete publicity for income tOzes.
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zealwags possess neither, hence
the spectacle Of the bedevil-
ing processes now going on,
and the breadliners ever becom-
ing hungrier.
I resent the harsh and brutal
statement Of Brigadier MCGEE,
Of the Salvation Army, in your
issue Of October 80, when he
says: IF they" (breadliners)
"get the things needed for
nothing. then thousands roll
into the city from other cities.
News that one can get cloth
ing, food and lodging in a GER
tain city for nothing spreads
like wildfire throughout the
country; but such a stupid
and aSSinine statement can be
made by unscrupulouS exploit
ers Of breadliners In any city.
REXOBO DAN O'BRIEN.
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Too Low for a Breadliner
NOT Too Low for Uncle Sam.

Two items reminding you Of Czars Russia but happening
this week in proud and liberty loving republic
WASHINGTON-Police raided the home of a newspaper
assigned to the White House They broke up party
given by his 16year old daughter girl friends frightened
his wife into Mysteries and searched high and low for still
that informer said operating there
There still and no liquor in the house
BOST0N-James J. Donovan, assistant prohibition admin
strator in New York said he had been suspended for
taking drink and giving drink to two had always
considered close personal friends and who have since
learned working for the higherups in the service to
get evidence that would sustain charge against
invited them to my home for dinner One asked if
drinking anything and said No. not anything for nearly
two years. They both begged for drink and had
to go out to neighbor's house and borrow pint"
The average man in breadlne, without dime in his
pocket would refuse job that required him to pry into the
affairs Of others to frame up friend he might be down
and out but he could not stoop to that.
Your Government stoops to it, and you pay it to do
The Washington times., 1930-11-07
Science and Life
By Archibald Henderson,

70 the lay mind, science ap-
pears to have reached a state
Of high perfection. A vast
number Of scientific journals,
monographs, books and publ.
cations Of various sorts are con-
stantly pouring from the
presses Of all civilized countries,
from Argentina to Japan, from
Russia to New Zealand. Science
is being SyStematized, cata-
logued. docketed at many
places on the earth'S surface
There are journals issued with
the sole object Of taking &C
count Of the contribution to
knowledge, in this, that or the
other field. There are die
tionarieS Of science, encyclo-
pediaS Of knowledge, which
should tell you all you want to
know.
Yet, such Is far from being
the case, In certain branches Of
knowledge. Systematization Of
knowledge has fallen far be-
hind knowledge itself. In this
branch Of science, or that, there
are great holes, vast gaps,
which clamor to be filled. This
is particularly true in the case
of zoology, : certainly not the
least important Of the sciences,
since It deals with the most
fundamental and universal Of
all subjects studied by man,
namely life itself.
r. we go back to Linnaeus a
century and three quarters ago,
we find that only about 1870
species Of animals were cata-
10gued in the first volume Of
the tenth edition Of his
SyStema Naturea. What pro
gresS in the systematic study
Of zoology has been made since
that time? OF course, q per.
feet torrent of titles flows
through the pages Of the
geological Record each year.
But this is all highly special
lied knowledge for specialists:
What IS needed is a complete
record Of the domain Of pres
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Prohibitions Sad Showing
And a Few Other Matters.

The elections demonstrate demonstration needed
that national prohibition toerng the brink The public
lad it's chance to express its disgust with the Eighteenth
Amendments stupidies and crmnaities expressed it
For the first time since 1920 the way is definitely
opened for change.
The elections demonstrate further that far business
Ooes little can be expected from Washington With Demo
Gains in Congress and with Republican in the White
House YOU can draw your conclusions as to the outlook
there The wise citizen will to call the Government
"a edo something and will start to do something hmseK
He has been too prone look to Washington for light and
leading out of slough he may realize that he must
turn to himself for the motive power ne dOes he VIII get
somewhere but not otherwise
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KNOWLEDGE
TEST

Fill each blalsk:
l. A Siphon is used to
water.
2. A - is q device for
working under water.
8. A dirigible is a balloon
run by a -.
4. Lava is melted -.
5. Gluten is an ingredient
Match correctly:
s. perniciouS
select
z. chivalrouS
excuse
8. choose
gallant
8. reverie
destructive
10. apology
dream
Do you know:
II. Who discovered the pro-
cess Of purifying milk?
IL. Who made the first ther.
mometer?
IS. What are the smallest
blood vessels called?
IA. What is the best gas for
balloons?
is. What Is the inStrament
used In artificial respiration?
(Answers ON Magazine Page.I
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"Use Brains, Not Bullets"
Plea Of This Peace Worker
Editor, Washington Times:

Flea OF Tn1S FeaCe worker
Editor, Washington Times:
The last 80 years has wit.
messed an entire revolution in
science, physics and mechanics;
but, sad to say, matters politi-
cal and religious remain mired
in the sixteenth century slough
Of despond. The last reported
achievement Of the former is
the Stratoplane, scheduled to
travel 500 miles an hour, at an
elevation, If needed, Of 10000
feet. Add to this achievement
new high explosives Of unprece-
dented destructive power, and
poison gases of threefold deadly
potency and yet there remain
preparedness" politicians per.
petually prating of security"
This security" Is to be
achieved by adding armament
to armament - frontier forts
and floating fortreSses, march
ing men and murderous ma
chine gun tanks, travelling 40
miles an hour.
Short Of any actual outbreak
Of war, the sham invasion Of
London, staged some months
ago, should convince the
denSeSt Of statesmen of the
utter impoSSibiIity Of guaran-
teeing security" anywhere.
In that invasion rs planes in
vaded London from the north.
London, forewarned, was de-
Tended by an equal number Of
planes, plus anti-aircraft guns
and balloons. In spite Of all
these preparations the invaders
dropped 200 bombs (duds Of
courSe) over selected targets,
and retired without losing a
single plane. Evidently ''pre-
paredness" furnishes no "se-
curity."
What may?
A Well-known titled diplo-
mat has lately published that
the last World War was caused
by the acknowledgement and
stupidity" Of all the parties in
volVed. Lloyd George says,
WARS are precipitated by
motives which the statesmen
responsible for them dare not
openly avow." Should their
acknowledgement and stupid
ity" again threaten to involve
the nations in another war.
let it be decreed that these
gentlemen, armed with machine
guns, shall themselves be first
in the field, and turn those
guns on each other before any
Of the best young blood of the
world is sacrificed. They will,
before coming, by their mis-
management and stupidity, to
extremitieS, find it convenient
to submit their case to de.
cisior1 by the international
Court Of Justice or League of
Nationals, and settle their DIFF.
ferences by brains, not buI.
let's" and thereafter to build
friendships, not battleships."
EDWARD BERWICK.
The Washington times., 1930-11-07
Help Districts Unemployed

The Washington Chamber Of Commerce doing fine work
IN seeking to bring employers and unemployed together
The list Of those registering for employment Is 151 It
viii grow the chambers efforts successful they
doubt will be-
Every soul in this city interested in seeing workers and
jobs together We all enlisted this fight to better
conditions Let every citizen think the matter over and re.
solve 70 help there work Of any kind to be done there
any kind done do it now and benefit your fellow man.
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problem to be dealt with hui
namely and with understand.
ing.
This certainly aspires to be
a bread line epoch. The age Of
the HooverS and prosperity?
Herbert is a busy man these
days. What a tragedy if the
unemployed should get the
astute notion that the bread
line problem is something that
The Washington times., 1930-11-07

breadliners must solve, it would
indeed shock our complacent
and indifferent brothers and
sisters who are not forced to
fully seek elusive jobs and eat
out Of garbage cans in the rich
est country in the world.
Unemployment is the para
mount question today. It needs
knowledge and wisdom to solve
it and our mediocre political
The Washington times., 1930-11-07

# you do anything well graf
itude is lighter than a feather;
II you have done anything
wrong, the peoples wrath is
heavy as lead. -Plautus.
Books without the knowledge
Of life are useless, for what
should books teach but the art
Of living? johnson.
The Washington times., 1930-11-07
The Bread Line Depicted
By DAN 0'Brien Himself

Editor, Washington Times:
Well, you have q longer bread
line in your city this winter
than you had last winter, and
1t is becoming longer and longer
as days go by, not q joyful
phenomenon to be sure, but q
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WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

A great many people want to
be devout, but no one wants to
be humble.
LA Rochefoucauld.
When the man to whom you
speak does not understand, and
when the man who speaks does
not understand himself, that Is
metaphysics. -Volta1re.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-24
By L. E. ZAvITZ GA. P. Staff Writer

ALBANY, Feb 2s.-Shades of carly Dutch traders may chuckle with satisfaction soon as ocean tong vessels again leave this city for distant ports.
 Less than a century ago, Albany was one of the principal seaports on the western side of the Atlantic. sending it's own ships to the h. dies, Europe and even China.
 With the increased draft of mod ern vessels it became impossible for many to make the 160 mile trip from the open sea up the Hudson river from New York, and in the last 50 years few ocean going ships have been seen here. The historic Hudson has been turned over to passenger steamers of shallow draft and canal boats.
 Now the new port of Albany, farthest inland seaport of the Unit ed States, is preparing to open its docks to world shipping.
 Deepening of the Hudson for 90 miles south of the city, a projec
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-24
PARKS LACKING
 OFFICIAL WORD
 ANENT CHARGES
Not Advised by Depart ment of Charges Against
 Lomen by Andrews

Lacking official information rela- tive to charges against the Lomcn Reindeer Corporations policy to- ward EJkino reindeer owners, Gov. George A. Parks today declined to go into that matter as it was pre- sented Saturday in press dispatch es received by The Empire.
 The charges. which asserted the Lomen interests were gobbling up Eskimo deer herds and graz. lands, were reported to have b-en filed by c. L. Andrews, formerly teacher of a Government school at Deering, and for many yeas 8 resident of the Territory.
 Gov Parks took over administrn . ticn of the reindeer section of the Department Of Interior late last year, when it was transferred from the Bureau of Education where it had been for many years. B. B. Mozee, superintendent of the work on Seward Peninsula, was contin- ued in that capacity under the Governor. He will arrive here to- morrow night on the steamer Alas ka for a conference with Gov. Parks on the deer situation generally.
 T have received no official ad- vices about the reported Andrews charges" Gov. Parks said today. My only information on them is that contained in The Empires story of February g, and a tele- gram received from Carl J. Lomcn requesting an Investigation be made without delay.
 "Of course, if the charges are filed, such an investigation will be made. And it will be complete enough to satisfy everyone con- cerned. Rsycnd that, there is nothing further that can be said at this time"
 The Governor pointed out that none of the grazing lands have been leased so far to anyone. Many applications for leases have been received by the Interior Department and are under consideration, but none have been issued and will not be until after field investigation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-24

authorized by the federal govern ment in 1926, will be completed within a few months at a cost Of s11 100000.
 Keeping pace with the dredging of the river, the Albany port dis trict composed Of the cities of Al bany and Rensselaer,, has con- structed nearly a mile of concrete piers extending along both sides Of the river. Erection of terminal
 tructures, including transit sheds warehouses, cranes, rail ends and storage warehouses for lumber and grain will be started early in the spring.
 Four large railroads converge on Albany and these will have direct connections with the docks. As AL bany is the eastern terminal of the New York State barge canal system. and is the center of vas. network of trunk highways, the new port is expected to have all the advantages of natural con- oentration of land and water trans pert facilities.
 The Hudson is tidal arm of the
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sea, Tt least as tar as Albany. The tide has daily rise here of al most four feet, and the difference in sea level at Governors Island, in New York harbor, and Albany is only slightly more than one foot.
 The new depth provided in the upper Hudson, 27 feet at minimum low water, w%ll amount to at least 30 feet at all stages of the tide. At that depth, nearly 90 per cent of all cargo ships in the world can navigate.
 Four years ago, federal engineers computed that the deepening of the Hudscn would add more than 30,- coo coo tons to the 1,50O,000 river traffic annually Economic bene fits expected from the new port have steadily increased since then with the growing demand of the middle west for improved sea ous- lets.
 The new port will bring Great Lakes shipping 16o miles nearer to the sea. Compared with Montreal, the great inland seaport Of Canada ocean going vessels leaving Albany
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-24
AT THE HOTELS
Gast;ncau

Gast;ncau
 Jean Allen, KetchiIan; L. s. Golf fin, Seattle; E. Wentworth, Ketchi- kan; Mir. and Mrs E. s. Tofee, Se- attle; S. Wailstedt, city; Charles J. Odermat, Ketchikan; J. r. Igom, Cordoya; w. P. Armour, Prince Rupert; Catharine Mclaughlin, Se- at5le;. w 0. Filters, Portland; TIo- mer Jewell; F. J. Hart; Mrs. Mary White and three children, Hoonah: Mrs. Thomas Murray, Hoonah.
 Alaskan
 Charles Taylor, Juneau; MT. and Mrs. w. E. Ross, Teppen6off Bay; Miss c. Ross, Teppenkoff Bay; J. Peterson, city; J. B. Joseph, city; Mrs. E. M. King. Seattle; John Perrino, Haines; John c. Berg Auke Lake; George Honoff, city; Frank Bongard, city; B. II. Bon gard, city; C. L. Archibald, Seattle O. Nelson, Hoonah.
 Zynda
 H. Ahrenstedt, Sumdum: John B. Mashall Fur Valley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-24
MANY FISHERMEN
 ATTEND ANNUAL
 DINNER SATURDAY

Forty-seven members of the Ju- neau halibut fleet attended the sixth annual dinner given in their honor last Saturday evening at the Bergman Hotel by I. Goldstein, pro- prietor of a local fishing goods store.
 This affair has become an annual event, and is always given on the eve Of the departure of the fleet for the halibut banks preparatory to the opening of a new season.
 Practically all of the boats are expected to leave the harbor this week, and exodus will probably be- gin tomorrow or Wednesday. Sev- eral boats are already scheduled to take bait and ice tomorrow.