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Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08
THE" ISSUE ARRIVES

Whatever truth there is in the aphorism that "al things to him who waits there IS no denying that fate has been exceedingly kind to the nations galaxy of protean artists going to make up the greatest show on earth" 1. e.. its national politicians.
 Here they have been eavesdroppng, studying the planetary system and consulting asroogers in search ot an issue when To! it springs up like mushroom over night d. ,
 The great issue is, "Who is Liar?" or "Who is the Biggest Liar in the Naton?"
 All of which is eminently fitting III this day ot dd your stuff" We have champion pole stters, champion hog callers champion sufferers champion spaghetti eat ers prune eaters, egg suckers, ad nauseum why not
 On this momentous question may hang the fate Of the nation It gives Secretary Mellon chance to escape from the hraldom of champion dodger and shy his hat into the lists the candidate of the American Legion, who claims he qualified when he claimed there not money enough in the Treasury to compensate the boys tor war service It gives every member o Congress chance to return home and say to his constituents: Wel we nave arrived in the list of big shots n the political racket' Forget about such things prohibition birth control financial panics world court League of Nations the Sno Japanese facas debt cancellation separations racket eers teethng babies, bunions and warts
 The Gardner-Hoover thing comes as a mama from heaven to the political racket It lacks in comparison to the Capone brand in that it guarantees equitable division of the spells without mussng things up with undgnifed caryings-on Sub-machne guns and pineapples may be put back the shelves and each man may manufacture poison gas without running afoul of the BriandKelogg peace pact or the grape brick statute.
 It should be received with open arms by the drys in staying off the second prophecy of Noah thus, allowing the Kansas drought take of the threatened deug and stimulate business activity in converting the liquid flame throwers of the vets into suphurated hydrogen gas.
 It is forecast that Capone will pool his interests with certain Wall Street bankers in the event of this championship being embodied into the ethics of the nation and thereby prove that lying to the income tax collector nothing more than qualifying round for the Big Time class of disciples of Ananias.
 it so develops that lying is considered bad form, it indicates that swinging back to the Victorian a own wife
 For once both rings of the national political circus will have the campaign song:
 "Sonebody lied
 Somebody lied to me, etc.
 The greatest danger of the campaign lies in on from the League of Nations, paragraph making the thing international in it's scope In that event the fraers of the Versailles treaty could swamp the works with champions and take the cup back to Europe leaving nothing better than bunch of secondrate fibbers
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08

The SS Victoria is scheduled to sail for the South at II a. m. to- morrow, according to marine bull letin posted by the local office of the Alaska Steamship Company.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08

W. T. White, animal husbandry man, with the Department of Agri- culture, is due to arrive i'll the city on the train tonight from the Matanuska Agricultural Experi- ment Station, enroute to his Ju- neau headquarters.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08
MRS. PEABODY DEAD

NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (P) - Mrs. Royal Garfield Peabody, widow of the organizer of the Brooklyn Edi- son Company, died at the age of 73 of heart disease.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08
ROUND-TRIP VISITOR

MT. Ripper, representative of the Alaska Steamship Company, was a round-trip visitor on the SS Vic toria which arrived in port this morning. This is MT. Kipper's first trip between Seward and his head quarters at Seattle.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08
PIONEER NOTICE

Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Elec- tion of officers and other import ant business. Remember Friday, December Il, at Ogle's Garage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-08

Charles Nelson, Latouche resi- dent, is a visitor in Seward while the SS Victoria is in port and will return to his home on the South bound sailing of that vessel.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Magazine Publisher
Is Held as Big0naisl

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 QN.
s).-Felipe Veracoechea 80,
magazine publisher and film
producer, today was held under
$4,000 bail on q bigamy charge
after two motion picture actresses
had claimed him as their hus-
band. Mrs. Carmen Veracoechea
testified she married Felipe in
New York in 1927. Mrs. Baquita
Santigosa Veracoechea said she
married him in Los Angeles last
October
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
NJ DONALD MAY
invoke AID Of
PARLIAMENT
Special Session Discussed
To Avert Crisis Which Is
Called FIeeting ProbIe m

LONDON, Aug. ia special
session Of parliament =, may be
summoned to cope with Britain's
financial crisis.
Summoning of parliament is
being seriously discussed by party
leaders, and a special session is
q distinct possibility" it was
said.
"Crisis Fleeting"
This development followed q
decision by Prime Minister ].
Ramsay MacDOnald'S cabinet
economy committee that the ma
t1On's budget must and win be
balanced" Spokesman stressed
the fact that the country Is
sound and the present crisis but
temporary.
The economy committee, which
has adjourned for the weekend,
will meet again Monday.
Conservative and Liberal lead
ers, who returned to London
from their vacation resorts at
the behest Of Premier Macdonald.
said q tripartite agreement on
cooperation to overcome the
crisis was likely.
They scOffed st the, idea Of
Conservative.Liberal pact to throw
the Labor government out Of
office.
Both opposition parties, how
ever, agree that the economy re-
port being framed by the Labor
government is too drastic.
Budget Cut Sought
The Conservatives want some
slashes in the budget plus a pro-
tective tariff and an increase in
revenues. The Liberals are in
sympathy with the Laborite plans
to levy additional taxes on the
wealthier classes.
Stanley Baldwin, former Con-
servative prime minister, aban-
doned his vacation at Aix-Les-
Banis to take a hand in the stu.
alton.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

The crown jewels Of Denmark
are protected by an elaborate sys-
TEN. ANY person getting too close
to the treasure in the Castle of
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

Rosenberg accidentally sets off a
device which starts a deafening
outburst of bowling sirens and
jangling bells.
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

These cameras will take clear,
clean.cut photographs. They are so
easy to operate that even a child
can successfully use one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08

not against it. But many of these
same homemakerS will run vacuum
cleaner any way over these rugs.
Run the cleaner either with the nap
or across 1t, not against it. You will
notice that the rug will appear darker
in places, and the surface will not be
smooth and even when the cleaner is
run against the nap Carpets minus
maps (Smooth-face). or with vertical
pile do not require this particular
handling.
Hooked rugs should not be cleaned
with a vacuum cleaner. In these floor
coverings, no stitchery hold the loops
in place 1t is the pressure of one
stitch against the other plus the pres
sure of the strands of the textile weave
through which strands are forced. that
hold the loops or the cut pile firmly
The suction of vacuum cleaner will
draw out the dust and dirt eXcellently.
but 1t also pulls the strands. These rugs
are peculiarly fashioned and must be
specially handled.
When running a vacuum cleaner be
on the alert to spy any needle, pin,
tack, vicrola needle, hairpin. bit of
wire, or any smallest sharp article. 1t
does vacuum cleaner no good to suck
up such things which may work through
the bag and make tiny prick points in
it. Be sure to see that the brush is
kept cleared from hair, threads, or
Shreds Of any sort that naturally get
entwined sbout 1t each time the cleaner
is used. Also be careful to empty the
bag often. A vacuum cleaner will serve
you well If you use it and care for it
adequately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
MILADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS.
Reducing Diet.

One Of the questions that come most
frequently to this column is about how
to lose weight. A large proportion of
these questions are, unfortunately, from
girls who wish to reduce below the
normal weight for their age and height.
Such weight reduction is, of course,
dangerous to health, as we'll as to
beauty. Then there are the mature
women, who are really too stout, for
whom reducing is a health measure.
They should, however have a doctors
vidual needs. Between these two
classes are the slightly overweight peo-
pie, who could and should lose a few
pounds by exercising moderation at
the table and also between meals.
Dieting fadS have been much con-
demned by physicians, and rightly: so,
yet there always seem to be women who
are ready to risk their health and
beauty in the pursuit of slimness. One
of the freak diets that has no doubt
started many of Its votaries on the
road to ill-health and premature loss
OF beauty Is the Hollywood 18-day diet.
which is analysed in a recent issue of
q health magazine.
1t Is all very well to condemn such
diets on general principles. but mod
ern women demand q reason for such
t4boos. If the 18-day diet will accom-
plish its purpose of pulling down
weight. why should it not be given q
warm welcome by all overweights?
There are at least six points, aside
from monotony OF menus, that are
brought out against this particular diet
scheme, and they also apply to most
other reducing diets of this class. First,
Is their low caloric value, which pro-
-duees ~tOo-Fapid q, loss Of weight with
consequent flabbineSs and wrinkles
The second point is deficiency in pro-
teins Of meat. eggs, milk and cheese,
which are essential for normal build
ing and repair of muscle tissues. There
are cases Of kidney disorders in which
doctors prescribe diets very low in pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was taking me for little ride In
the car before supper, and we went
passed horse shoe laying in the street,
me saying. G., pop, there's a horse shoe,
lets stop and pick it up for good luck
I'm a highly educated man and ony
ignorant people are superstitious, pop
sed.
Meening he wasent. and I sed, But
G, pop, If you don't pick them up when
you see them its bad luck.
That's diffrent, perhaps better stop,
pop sed.
WITCH he quick did. and there was
! fearse bang from behind. being the car
in back of us humping into us, and the
man yelled, Hay, whats the big ideer,
you big stiff, don't you know enough not
to stop like that without giving a signal?
And pop put his he'd out and looked
back. saying, MY little boy here had a
sudden attack Of superstition, and what's
more, you're big stiff yourself.
And he quick started again, and we
hadent hardly got up to the next block
when there was another kind of fearse
bang, being one of our hine tires punk
turing itself. and pop drove over to the
cerb and stopped again. saying, Coun-
found it, blast it to blazes, this is some
more of your good luck, is it?
No sir, G WIZ, pop. its the start of
bad luck for not picking it up, 1 sed.
and pop Sed. Yes yes, l Suppose so, go
and tell that drivel to African canni-
balls with rings in their noses.
And he get out and started to take
the wheel off. me thinking. G.. better
quick go back and get that horse shoe
SO we wont have any more bad luck.
And Snuck away and ran back and
picked up the horse shoe and brawt 1t
back and started to throw it on the
back seat Sd pop wouldent see me, ony
I slitely missed my aim and there was
still another kind of bang, being the
little glass window in the back breaking
in about 600 peeces.
The rest being too sad to repeet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Your Baby and Mine

Quite frequently, when the baby has
been introduced to bottle feelings and
discovers now easily he may have his
feelings, he becomes dissatisfied with
nursing. But ordinarily when a baby
declines to nurse it is because the food
Is SO scanty or so difficult to get that
ne refuses TO make the effort
Mrs. r. r. writes: MY baby Is 1ve
months old and does not want to nurse.
he VIII take mouthful and then turn
away. / just wear myself put with
MN. would you suggest giving him q
bottle? II SO, what milk and how
much shall I give him? He Is getting
cereal twice a day now. I also have
trouble with constipation and have to
give him enemas every day. Thank you
for your advice"
AS have not the slightest inkling
OF the baby's previous gain, find It
impossible to tell you how much milk
to use. Formulas are not figured hit
or miss, but are based on baby,s age
and weight, so without that informa-
ton cannot judge how much nour-
ishment he needs. The constipation is
just a natural consequence CT the small
intake of food.
There are two suggestions I would
make. Have the baby's mouth exam
ined to be sure there are no sores in
1t that might make nursing painful and
difhcult. Then send me self
addressed, stamped envelope for the
leafiet on early feeding from six weeks
TO one year, and also the leafiet on
How TO Figure Sweet Milk Formulas"
With these two leaflets and the assur-
atlce that baby is well and able to eat,
you can go ahead from there. Do weigh
the baby and find cut what he is gain
ing weekly. That is of vital importance
the first year of his life.
Mrs. j. p. L. contributes the following
suggestion: II have noticed in your coll
umn several times that mothers find it
difhcult to wash the child's hair with
out taking great care net to get soap
In his eyes. solved the problem very
simply by using the white of an egg
instead Of soap. Hair dressers recon-
mend this method, and it leaves the
scalp clean and the hair soft and
glossy. This costs but little more than
soap shampoo and is one nice way of
using up the egg white when a mother
is using just the yolk for the baby's
formula"
1t has always been my understand
ing that the yolk was Just as valuable
for cleansing as the white. Why not
use the whole egg?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
A Sermon for Today
BY REV. JOHN R. GUM.
Successful.

Thou shalt have good success. -
Joshua, la.
Did you ever stop to think that you
can be as successful as anybody? You
can be. You may not have as much
ability as the other fellow has. Your
advantages and opportunities may not
be equal to his. You may not equal
him in the results you achieve. But you
can be just as successful.
When is man a success? One Is q
success from the moment he begins to
do his best. And the converse of that
Is equally true No matter how much
one has accomplished, he cannot stop
and be called a successful man. When
one ceases to do his best, he ceases to
be a success.
know We usually associate success
with goal that has been reached. But
what goal? Easy street? Easy street
is street of failures. Wealth? Mil
lionaires are more often miserable than
merry. Position? I observe that the
peanut has been exalted o a high place
in the commercial world. Fame? II
would not give peck of refuse wheat
for all in the world that is called fame"
said the famous Edmund Burke.
The only goal worthy to be associated
with success is the goal of a useful life.
have reached that goal. But it is a goal
you have to keep on reaching over and
over. every day, to keep on being sue
cesSful. 1t is like the legendary bag of
gold at the end of the rainbow. 1t
keeps receding before you as you ap-
proach it, leading you on, still achiev-
ing, still pursuing" always striving to
attain higher and higher mark In use
full endeavor.
If you are doing something worth
while and useful, and doing it well ac-
cording to your ability and advantages,
and meanwhile keeping yourself alert
to perceive and grasp new opportunities
as they present themselves, you are al
ready SuccesS-as much so as you
ever viii be, or anybody else ever
will be.
Success Is something that Is measured
by how well you do, not by how much
you do. For you, its standard OF
measurement is not what somebody else
has achieved. but what you can achieve.
Therefore, If you have an adequate
passion of desire and a sufficient in
stinct of pursuit to consecrate yourself
to its attainment. you can be as sue
cessful as anybody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
BEDTIME STORIES
By Thornton
W. Burgess.

was no sleeping with a noise like that.
No, sir, there was no more sleeping
for aim that morning.
That Is yellow Wing the Flickag.
but where under the sun is he to make
such noise as that?" muttered Farmer
Browns Boy. He got out Of bed and
went to the window. Just as he got
there Yellow Wing beat another long
roll. Cautiously Farmer Browns Boy
peeped out There was Yellow Wing
with his head to one side listening
picture of content and self-satisfac-
ton. Then he beat out another long
roll.
Farmer Browns Boy chuckled. "You
are better than the best alarm clock
ever heard" said he, talking under
his breath. mo one can sleep with
such q racket going on. I ought to
scare you away, but you are having
SUCH a good time I can't do it. hope
you are not going to get me I'D At
this hour every morning"
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08

over he flew up to the Old Orchard.
hoping he might find Mrs. Yellow Wing
there, for she had not returned from
the Sunny South with him and he was
impatient for her arrival She wasn't
there and he few to a tree growing
close by the back porch of Farmer
Browns house. He looked down on the
roof of that pomrch and suddenly 1t
struck him that that roof didn't look
like the roof of the house. To begin
with 1t was red.
THAT is queer looking wood" thought
yellow Wing. Eyes. sir; that is queer
noticed it before. I wonder If it is like
other wood"
He few down on the roof and found
that his claws didn't hold on it, and
that was queer. However, that roof was
nearly flat, so it didn't matter. He
struck 1t with his bill and the sound
made him jump. Yes, sir; the sound
made him jump. He struck again,
harder than before, and his eyes
sparkled. The best drum he ever had
had in the Green Forest didn't COM
pare with this. He beat long roll
rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat. What a drum! It
was wonderful. At least 1t was Won
derful to Yellow Wing. He tried it
agai<.
Never was there such a drum!" cried
yellow Wing, and tried to dance for
joy
Have you guessed what Yellow Wing
had discovered? It was a new tin roof
that had been painted red. Yellow
Wing hadn't happened that way since
it had been laid. No small boy with a
new little red drum ever was more de-
lighted than was Yellow Wing He
tried drumming in different places The
result was always the same. There had
been joy in his heart before, but now
he couldn't contain himself
So 1t came about that very early the
next morning when there was just light
enough for him to see to get there
Yellow Wing was on that tin roof. At
once he began beating his long roll,
Observation-Disclosures, rat-a-tat-tat-tat-
tat. Such a noisel In the stiffness of
that early hour it carried for long
distance.
IT guess that If she is anywhere
about Mrs. Yellow Wing will hear that, "
said Yellow Wing. talking to himself.
II wonder what she'll say. She'll Won
der where am and what kind of a
drum have. My, my, my, just listen
to i'll" and then he beat q double roll,
Observation-Disclosures
Now, Farmer Browns Boys bedroom
had window opening on that porch
roof and that window was open, for
he believes in fresh air. With the first
Observation-Disclosures he opened his eyes
with a start Gracious mel" he ex-
claimed. What Is going on here?
What a racket"
There was long pause. He closed
his eyes sleepily. 1t wasn't quite time
to get up. although he is an early riser
He was just beginning to dose of when
again came that rat-a-tat-tat. There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
FOOD PROBLEMS
BY SALLIE MONROE.
Dumplings.

Dumplings may be used to exc out q
stew.
To make dumplings mix two cupfulS
of -four, four level tablepoonfuls of
baking powder, a half teaspoonful of
7alt. Work in two teaspoonfuls of but
ter or other shortening and gradually
add three-quarters cup of water or milk
Wien well mixed roll on lightly Toured
board. cut into circles or small squares
and cook by dropping into slightly salt
ed boiling water.
Or if you like you can grease a pud-
ding dish. put the dumplings in, cover
closely and bake in the even for Is
minutes. Dumplings. cooked in this
way and served with thickened gravy
make a good dish without any meat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08

teins, but for the average person this
food element must have its proper
place.
Deficiency in suficient calcium,
ducing diets.
One of the chief objections to dras-
tic reducing diets from the physicians
viewpoint is that they undermine health.
A deficiency in vitamin A. which builds
up the body's resistance to infection, is
the sixth dietetic error found in the
18-day reducing diet. According to
this article. vitamin A Is found in
butter, cream and whole milk. These
are foods commonly excluded from I'M
scientific reducing diets, which usually
and skim milk, or no milk at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
SPRINCTIME
BY D. C. PEArTK.
Early Season

Spring does not arrive at the same
| time everywhere, even within sight of
| the Capitol dome. 1t is several days
earlier IN the city than in the country,
and sometimes several weeks, and this
| for two prominent reasonS-flrst, that
the atmosphere of a city, sheltered
from winds and warmed by chimneys
| and heated buildings, is warmer, and
| also because garden flowers are actually
more early blooming, naturally, than
| most of our wild flowers.
Even in the country you can wander
the open fields without meeting much
more than q rather scared-looking vio-
let or two. Only in the woods are the
anemoneS and windf1owerS, the Spring
beauty, the wood rush and the tiny
Pennsylvania sedge, the hepaticaS and
starry chickweed and toothwort in
bloom. The dark loan of the forest
absorbs the suns heat readily; the
shelter of the trees, even though leaf
less, counts for much. And obviously,
| too, the wood flowers need to do their
blooming now; by June the shade will
be so deep that few are the blossoms
| that will be happy in it.
OF all the little, ground-loving bios
SONS that bloom in the steep, rocky
woods above the Potomac, the quaintest
are these two kindred, Dutchmans
Brooches and Squirrel Corn, and there
Is one other, of the same delectable
little family, the golden corydalis. All
three are rare, so rare indeed that it
will take quick eyes to see them, but
they are not unflndable.
The Wildfiower Protection Society has
quite rightly taken these wood dryads
under its protection. A very little pick
ing would reduce their thin, brave little
elfin ranks. However, the eyes of the
abhorred wildhower-snatcher are not
generally sharp. Such folk seldom VEN
ture far from the running boards CT
their cars. sidetracked on a country
lane, and so these three small treasures
will be fairly safe from the thoughtless
destroyers. Folk who love flowers
enough to climb steep river cliffs come
generally, I am glad to see, to admire
and not to pluck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Prnnes.Nnt Filling.

Soak some large prunes overnight
after washing. Wien they are ready
to- bake, remove the stones and wipe the
fruit dry. Chop some nut meats rather
fine and mix with them an equal guam
tity of maple or brown sugar Beat
the white of an egg very stiff and into
1t fold the nut-and-sugar mixture Fill
the cavities in the prunes with the
mixture. place then on pan and bake
in moderate oven until they are
plump Serve either hot or cold.