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League when he's got control is wild
Bill" Hallahan of the Cardinals.
Irving Brame, Pirate twirler, has been
the easiest for the former D. S. sand
lotter thus far
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Members Of the Old Dominion Boa
Club will hold their annual election o
officers and Board Of Governors tonigh
at meeting scheduled to be held q
the clubhouse at 8 o'clock.
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Of command. The ordinary peace-time
staff, equipped to handle permanently
based and more or less static Air Corps
units, cannot spread itself to care for
the situation when the units are con-
centrated and begin campaign OF
mobility. It was found that not only
the general and special STATS must be
enlarged, but that there must be subor-
dinate advance and rear guard STATS to
prepare the way for the movements OF
a large force and to clear up the Work
Of abandoning a temporary base.
This means that Air Corps staff train
ing must play an increasingly important
part in national defense. and that in
case Of an emergency requiring mobili-
zation and rapid movement Of the Air
Corps there must be thoroughly trained
officers Immediately available to care for
the greatly expanded work Of the staff.
The maneuvers were designed to test
the ground organization of the Air
Corps, the airport and airways systems,
command and communications systems
and factors other than those involved
in mere flight training and combat
operation. These aims were realized.
Ground Crews Important.
1t was found that a!rdrome discipline
is just as important as air discipline,
and future operations at all Air Corps
posts will stress this phase Of training.
Airdrome discipline involves the han
ding of units on the ground, and unless
the control on the ground is of high
order the success of the whole opera
tons may be endangered.
The maneuvers showed that the prep
aration of airports must include not
only surfacing for normal airplane OPP
erations but for refueling and servicing
of planes. At one of the mid-Western
airports the field was disable by the
planes but not by gasoline trucks, and
refueling was seriously Handicapped. 1t
finally became necessary to taxi the
planes one by one to the closest point
approachable by the trucks.
The rapid servicing and maintenance
of large numbers of combat planes at
temporary airdromes also revealed a
number Of short cuts which will make
for greater efficiency in handling If the
need ever arises for mobilization OF
great fighting air force.
Though the maneuvers revealed that
there is not an airport in the country
large enough to handle even a quarter
of an air division, this is not regarded
as a drawback. There is no need for
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Post Office Is Held Vital to Development
of Aviation and Merchant Marine of L. S.

specially located and specially designed
to meet the peculiar requirements of the
Postal Service, in such cases the rates
of rental are necessarily high enough
to permit the owner to recover sub
stantially all his investment, plus q
moderate profit, within the term Of
the lease. It needs no complicated
analysis to demonstrate that such an
arrangement is costly and unbusiness-
like in the extreme During the term
of the lease, the Government must pay
the full value of the building In rental
and at the end of the term has nothing
to show for its expenditure, since the
building remains the property of the
leaSor It is obvious that there would
be a substantial saving in operating
costs If the department had the author
ity to erect its own buildings for these
purposes.
The President submitted a recon-
mendation to Congress at it's last ses-
sion for legislation granting this author
ity, and bill was introduced accord
Kelly of Pennsylvania. which. after
hearings by the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds. was passed By
the House without a dissenting vote.
The measure was unanimously reoorteS
to the Senate by the Senate Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds. bu6
was blocked on the floor by the objec-
ton of Senator La Toilette of Wiscon-
sin. colleague of Senator Blaine, chair
man Of the committee investigating post
office leases.
So. for the present, the department
is still saddled with the extrayagant
leasing system. We expect, however,
to submit this matter again to Con-
gresS in December, and. since the next
session Will be the long session. we be-
lieve that It will not be possible for a
single Senator to defeat this necessary
legislation. Meantime, we are making
no long-term leases on extensive metro
politan properties. In instances where
1t is apparent that it would be more
economical for the Government to ac-l
,quire and own buildings for stations,
branches or garages. we ar5 making
temporary arrangements for quarters
as our present leases expire, with view
to removing to Government owned.
quarters as promptly as possible after
Congress has authorized the building
program which We have recommended
In conclusion. may I say that it is a
great pleasure to have an opportunity
to bring cur problems directly to the
attention Of those who use and support
our service. I thank you for your in
terest and attention.
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Dwight HalD then was pretty sure to be tapped
for Skull and Bones, numerous freshmen land a
dwindling number OF sophomores) Wouio go OUT
for the "Y.'
Laughs at Senior Societies.
Now out comes the Hardness Hoot this
Spring with an article by junior who dares In
print, and over his own name, to laugh at the
senior societies and their pretentions, to comment
with a lot of shrewd common sense on the SAD
fact that Yale men slave to make the Record
board the News board or the headsnlp OF
the religious society, not for any love OF ntera-
ture, journalism or religion, but in order TO get
tapped He declared of the societies, The
standards they set up create an arncia,
izations have become burden and repressive
force it is time to end the play"
The article was not sneer. and 1t is pleasant
made the senior who did it come to his room,
refusing to sanction the public exhibition OF
choice. 1t was sensible. well reasoned article:
based on the belief that the overaccentuation OF
the societies, dramatzed at Tap day, put false
standard On certain accepted lines OF under
graduate achievement and hence was chldlsn
and outmoded. 1t couldn't have been written,
and certainly 1t couldn't have been printed at
Yale 20 years ago. 1t shows the undergraduate
of today in a new and attractive light.
Nor. to Judge by the Hoot, is the Yale under
graduate entirely happy about al his new ST.
100000 libraries, house plans and ne ike IN an
Haven" we find this interesting and family
MeckeneSQue paragraph:
THE English university's cult of the gentleman
has invaded Yale ana Harvard, DOCn Oh WnOH
proclaim themselves as primarily adherents OF
the ideal of the scholar To begin with, of course,
the importation of the house plan Is steal.
It is an attempt with the help of girder Gothic
and unlimited Hardness millions) to ape the
natural evolution of seven centuries at Oxford
by a revolution of seven years at Yale. 1t is the
wish to give modern American colleges varnish
of the ivied softness and social sanctity native
to the English institutions 1t is akin to the
average Americans abject obeisance to visiting
European royalty or to the mid-Western grocery
salesmans urge to be a grand exalted wizard OF
the order of the Caribou. But the cult OF the
gentleman, perhaps fitted to England's tea sip
ping hierarchy, has no place in serious Ameri-
can university. If Yale desires to produce
scholars as it processes to do, its concern cannot
be with elegant substitutes and fowery romance
ings In placing all its new emphasis upon social
life, architectural magnihcence and size, 1t Is
losing sight of the true ideal of university. It
has gone into a mad chase for doubled millions
of money; it is erecting dozens of buildings quite
out of line with sane development, merely to
comply with the offers of philanthropsts. 1t is
still slave to capitalism and supine to the seduc-
ton of unneeded endowments."
Isn't Impressed With Gifts.
All of which may or may not be true, but
at any rate it Is the voice of an undergraduate
not afraid to speak UP in the presence Of his
elders, and not unaware Of what he thinks
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BY JOSEPH 5. EDGERTON.
TINE roaring propellers Of the
Army's lighting planes have
spoken the answer to problems
which have troubled those
charged with the Nations aerial
defense for years. The shadows OF the
souadrons, cast from Chicago to the
National Capital, have spelled the way
to increased national security.
For years officers Of the Air Corps
have recognized the necessity for operat-
ing mass formations. The day Of the
individual fighting pilot passed early in
the World War, and long before the
close of the war squadrons were flying
and lighting as units. This process has
gone forward until it became apparent
that the Air Corps must plan for the
operation not only of squadrons but OF
air brigades and divisions as units.
It long ago became clear that If there
is another great conflict the war birds
will gather in great hocks, the various
types depending upon each other for
safety and effectiveness. They will
function together as q hunting pack-a
scourge of the skies.
Down below. among the treetops, fly
ing IN the valleys and behind the hill
tops. will roar the deadly attack planes,
seeking out and destroying enemy
strongholds on the ground. At nearly
the same level may ny small fast
bombers, a type now undergoing close
study.
Fast Pursuit Planes.
Above them probably will come fast
two-seater pursuit planes, armed fore
and aft. This is type new to Ameri-
can aviation, and is the result of man
euvers similar to those which have just
been concluded. showing forcibly the
need for a special type of convoy fight
ing plane. Still higher will come the
great bombardment planes with their
terrible loads of crashing death.
At the highest level of ALL out of
sight of the naked eye and out of hear
ing of the keenest ear, will fly the
human eagles Of war-the pursuit pilots.
Swathed in leather and fur, depending
upon electricity to keep hands and feet
from freezing and goggles from crusting
with ice and upon oxygen fed them
through tubes to sustain life. the pur-
suit pilots will patrol the bitter thin
ness of the upper air-fierce atoms in
the mighty ocean of sky above the
ranges of clouds. up in the frozen spaces
where man may not live save by the
arts of science.
Thus the armies of the air will fight
in battlefelds six miles high and miles
across. The infantry divisions may fight
only on single front. The front" of
the air division extends in all direc-
tions, including the vertical.
Only Skeleton Division.
Though the Army must handle the
operations of an air division largest air
unit proposed in the table of organiza-
ton, there never had been an air divi-
sion assembled prior to the exercises of
last month. Even that great force was
only skeleton air division. less than a
third the combat strength Of a full
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ton we will be able to revive and
maintain our shipbuilding industry,
that eventually we will again be car
rying substantially all of our own COM
merce in our own ships. and regain the
commercial and maritime independence
which was ours hundred years ago.
The air and ocean mail are the out
standing special services entrusted to
the Post Office Department. AS you
see, these services, in their more i'm
portant phases, are not strictly postal
in character. I have time to speak
briefly of but one of our problems
which has to do with the regular postal
business. During recent months post
office leases have been the subject of
considerable publicity, from which some
of you may possibly have gained the
notion that there has been some ir-
regularity. or even fraud, connected
with contracts for the rental of post
Office buildings. While this matter has
been under investigation now for more
than a year by a select Senate COM
mittee of which Senator Blaine of Wis
consin is chairman, am glad to be
able to say that no evidence whatever
of irregularity in connection with any
post Office lease has been developed.
Started In st. Paul.
The lease inquiry had its beginning
in charges which were presented to a
Federal grand jury in st. Paul, Mimi,
to the effect that there had been
fraud in the negotiation of the lease
on the parcel post station in that city.
This particular case has been before
the courts since early in 1928. when the
payment of rent was suspended by the
department. About two weeks ago, the
United States Court of Claims entered
a judgment in favor Of the owners of
the building for the unpaid rent, no
evidence whatever having been pre-
sented to sustain the claim that the
lease had been fraudulently negotiated.
While this court decision effectually
disposes Of the only definite charges of
fraud made in connection with any
postal lease contract, it does net alter
the fact, which We have repeatedly
called to the attention of Congress, that
1t Is poor business for the Government
to lease from private owners the
quarters which 1t requires for post
Office stations, branches and garages in
the large cities. The department now
leases about $500 buildings for such
purposes throughout the country at u
rental cost Of about $10,00o,0O0 year.
Because many Of these buildings were
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division. A full air division would have
1888 airplanes mostly bombardment
and pursuit; 1000 officers and $4,000
enlisted men.
The 1st Provisional Air Division, Or
ganized last month, had 672 atrplanes,
mostly observation types; 720 officers
and 644 enlisted men. 1t was merely a
shadow of a full division, but 1t served
its purpose, and the Army now has a
yardstick with which it can measure
with some degree of accuracy its re-
quirement should the day ever come
when it must put its strength into the
skies.
The problems the Air Corps had to
solve had TO do mainly with the ground
arrangements necessary to handle the
operation Of division Of fighting
planes Problems of command and of
communication also were Of great i'm
portance.
Entire Division Must Move.
An air division must be ready and
able to move on short notice, and to
move rapidly and far. 1t must move as
a whole-planes and crews, mechanics,
supplies, tools, equipment, headquarters,
communications-the whole organiza-
ton. The Air Corps never had moved
a great aerial organization, and could
only theorize on the problems which
would be involved. 1t found that such
a movement could not be planned on
paper; that there we're too many ele-
ments of uncertainty, too many I'M
known factors involved. The only real
solution lay in actually moving an air
division under conditions as nearly as
possible Stimulating those of a field
campaign.
To solve its problems the Air Corps
created the 1st Provisional Air Division.
1t simulated the conditions of a great
emergency. and drafted all its planes
and a majority of the planes of the
National Guard. 1t summoned for &C
tive service pilots Of the 10 National
Guard squadrons and called out for the
first time flying cadets in the Advanced
Flying School, Kelly Field. Tex.
The result was the LIST Air Division.
Chemically it was the precipitant-the
element which alone could resolve the
troublous murk of speculation and pre-
cipitate out the hard crystals Of fact
which were so eagerly sought.
Movement Complicates Command.
1t was found, first of all, that the
rapid movement of a great air force
tremendously complicated the problems
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Revolt on the Campus
Students Refuse to Comply With Rah Rah Traditions

As he Is the person in the process of being
educated, and hence for whom all the 1una-
ing to have him thus intelligently vocal. And
it is pretty obvious, from this and other pas
greatly impressed by gifts. of millions and by
huge libraries end chapels. What he would
much rather have is a larger number OF inspn-
To turn from Yale to Harvard, we find
somewhat similar revolt which has been
going on this Spring. led by the student daily
paper, the Crimson. Harvard hasn't any Tap
day, and now that the house plan is working 1t
begins to look as if it wouldn't much longer have
any societies, which have never been secret ana
which chose their members chiefly according to
the social positions of the boys families. But
Harvard is imminently threatened with new
chapel This chapel, for which graduates have
raised nearly million dollars Is to be memo
rial to the Harvard men who died in the Great
War. There is already at Harvard a huge in
credibly ugly and almost totally disused memo.
rial hall for the Civil War dead. 1t is proposed
to put the new chapel in the yard, where the
present chapel stands, across from the huge ana
ugly pile of the university library. To balance
the huge mass of the library this chapel is to
have a mammoth tower.
Speaks for Masses.
When the news broke an undergraduate wrote
in the Crimson that two architectural wrongs
didn't make right and that to 3,, balance 3e tne
balance a hppopotamus with giraffe" And ne
went on 1.-THE administration has long pursued
the attitude of benevolent disregard of under
graduate opinion. as well as of opinion of any
sort It's claim of paternal, royal even divine
omniscience may in many cases be justified. But
in this instance it seems to the writer that the
voice of the masses should at least make itself
felt in protest. This, in other words is call TO
arms. When, so years from now, the memorial
chapel stands with the still unburnt memorial
hall as a monument to uselessness. it should be
known that the present college generation at least
was in opposition"
The grounds for this opposition which was
widespread in the college, were partly archi-
tectural partly feeling that to put million
dollars into a memorial which would be visited
by Just about Is undergraduates day Qew, If
any, more attend chapel now that 1t is not
compulsory was wasteful, sentimental gesture
toward outmoded past and quite strongly
feeling that the war were better forgotten than
perpetuated In Christian church.
Would Include Germans.
Many undergraduates urged that II the chapel
must be built the names of the three Harvard
men who fell fighting on the German side should
also be inscribed therein. To hurl, as many
graduates did, the term pro German at them
made no impression. They were babes when the
war was fought. That kind of hate is not in
them. With cold logic they reiterated that
Christian memorial to Harvard men who died
fighting for what they believed was right should
include the names of those who were born to
believe Germany was right.
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GREAT deal of nonsense is talked and
written about the genus undergraduate.
This has been especially true since the
war. The undergraduate has been war;
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ALASKA INTERESTS
(Continued from Page Threel.

(Continued from Page rhreel service; 1,4O6 in professional ser vice; 6,O99 in domestic and per sonal service; and 374 in industries not specified.
 A device that it is thought may prove of much worth in Alaska is the subject of a patent issued a couple of weeks ago by the U. s. Patent Office to John V. Rowley, of Fortuna, California. It is a de- vice for extracting mineral-bearing sands or "pay dirt" from beds of streams when they are at freshet or flood stages. The arrangement is to have troughs having screens across their open tops buried in the bedrock below the stream. The pay dirt" moves by gravitation or is pumped along the troughs to the side of the stream, where it is position to be carried away from the stream so it may be subject to extraction processes. The pre- ferred method is to construct the conduits by excavating through bedrock and during the period of low water. The device will then be ready for high water and will function to carry off the fine ma terials, these materials carrying the precious metals.
 4
 The fact that the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce excursion to Alaska that sails from Seattle on June 13, will have among its numbers the President and Secre- tary of tn Chamber as well as pr. James, Chairman of the Trade Committee, indicates tha toppor- tunities for investment in the north will not be overlooked.
 The attention of the large per sonnet will be directed to the var ious resources that invite capital for devlopment.
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THEATER PROGRAMS

Those people attending the Lib erty theatre last night are loud in their praise of the splendid program. From hysterical laughter to copious weeping every phase of entertainment and interest was provided.
 The comedy was the first "tal- kie" heard here and took the house by storm.
 The feature was a wonderful drama depicting the trial of an unusual murder case. Events leading up to the trial and all the court proceedings was masterly handled and kept the intense in- trest of the audience to the end.
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MAY WAS RAINY

Temperature was unusually low during May and the precipitation was the third greatest on record for that month. There were 10 more rainy days than the average and the sunshine was less than two-thirds of the average, accord ing to a weather report in the Juneau Empire.
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EPISCOPAL SERVICE

Thursday, June Il at 7:3O, St. Peters church. Bishop Jenkins will conduct service and give a lecture on the famous Oberamer- gan Passion Play. All are invited.
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4th OF JULY PRIZES

Brown & Hawkins will give the following prizes to winners of the Annual Fourth of July Marathon Mountain race: 1st prize One pair of Florsheim Shoes; 2nd prize One Hardeman Hat; 3rd prize One $200 Cheney Necktie.
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PHOTO FINISHNG-ENLARGING
 Ten hour service. Rolls of film brought in before 10 a. m. out at s p. m. same day. ALASKA SHOP.
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Seattle Ice Cream at ALASKA SHOP.
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If you haven't tried HORLUCK'S Danish Ice Cream you have missed something good. Sold only at the Candy Cottage.
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The best ice cream yet! HOR- LUCK'S Danish Ice Cream. Candy Cottage, sole Seward agent.
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NOTICE

Beginning May 1, the price of Mems Half soling will be reduced to SITS pair.
 SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
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Don't miss the 'Talkies!"
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A FIGHTING HALIBUT

Halbut do not always submit supinely to the blow of the kill CTS club when they come over the rail A 35-pound fish came aboard the new halibut boat Lane during recent trip, according to the Pacific Fisherman. The fish still had the hook in it's mouth as it lay in the checker and Capt. Ras- mus Kvinge, owner of the vessel, leaned over to extract it. AS he did so the halibut gave con- vulsive flop, striking Capt. Kvinge heavily above the eye and open ing a long. ugly gaSh.
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.G|CANT|C D|R|C|BLE's
 WEIGHT |S EXCESSIVE

WASHINGTON, July IA. R- The navy's new giant dirigible, Ak ron. was said at the department to be several thousand pounds heavier than the specifications called for, but the dirigible was said to be sat- isfac:ory in other respects and the navy expects to accept it.
 The contractor faces the penalty of $25,OOO for the 14,00O pounds of extra weight.