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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
CITY BOWS ITS
 HEAD IN TRIBUTE
 TO HEROIC DEAD
Exercises are Held in Elks Hall and at Wharf and
 Cemetery

Juneau bowed her head today in 'everential tribute to the nations heroic dead. All business was sus- pended to permit residents of the city to gather for exercises in commemoration of the gallant sons and the devoted daughters who. have made the sacrifice of life on the altar of their country.
 Before an assembly that throng- ed Elks Hall, Memorial Services were held at Il o'clock this fore noon. They were followed by the strewing of flowers on the wate~s of the harbor in honor of the sailor dead and by the decoration of graves in the cemetery in mem- ory of fallen soldiers.
 An interesting incident of the ex- ercises at Elks Hall was the in troduction to the audience of J. N. Carver, Juneau's only surviving soi- dier of the great host that marched and fought for the Stars and Stripes in the Civil War.
 Royal Shepard In Charge
 In the absence of Thomas J. Pet rich, commander of the Juneau Le- gion Post, Royal Shepard, vice. commander, presided at the exer- cises in Elks Hall.
 The program was opened with the playing of America" by the Juneau City Band.
 The invocation was pronounced by the Rev. O. 0. Saunders, pastsS of the Presbyterian Church. I'm. mediately afterward, MT Shepard introduced MT. Carver. The lat ter's hearing is impaired and he bears the infirmities of age. He did not rise from his chair, but was enthusiastically applauded by the assembly.
 Christ In Flanders" vocal solo, was rendered by Brice Howard.
 Recitations By Miss Jarman
 Tn Flanders Field" and Am erica's Answer were recited by Miss Muriel Jarman.
 The address of the day, which included an eloquent exposition of the plans and purposes of the Am erican Legion, was delivered by Major L. E. Atkins, U. s. A.
 The benediction was given by the Rev. William G. LeVassuer, pastor of the Catholic Church. The exercises were concluded with the Star Spangled Banner ' played by the City Band.
 Immediately after the program in the hall, procession was form ed by Boy and Girl Scouts, school children, members of the American Legion and the public, and, head ed by firing squad led by Frank A. Metcaf. proceeded to the wharf of the Pacific Steamship Company ] Flowers were strewn on the waters and taps were sounded by Thomas Redlingshafer.
 Prayer By Capt. LeScher Capt. R. B. Lescher of the Salva- tion Army offered a prayer fol those whose lives had been losi at sea in their country's cause. The firing squad discharged three vol leys.
 The procession then went tC Evergreen Cemetery. At the Legior Plot there, the Rev c. E. Rice, dear of Trinity Cathedral, invoked Di- vine blessing Wreaths were plac. ed on graves The firing squat against gave volley salute. Tap: were sounded. As the band played the Star Spangled Banner" MT Shepard raised the flag from half. to full-staff, and the formal exer' cises of the day were concluded.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
CHINESE DESPERATELY ILL

A Chinese, 65 years old, is des- perately ill at St. Ann's Hospital. He is an employee of the Libby, McNeil and Libby cannery at Taku, and was brought to Juneau yes terday on cannery tender.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30
SEVERE TREM0R
 SHAKES SEWARD

SEWARD, Alaska, May 30.-The heaviest earth tremor felt here Tn years shook the city at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night. The tremor last ed approximately 30 seconds. No damage resulted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

UNDEGOES OPERATION
 Mrs. Edwin Sutton successfully underwent surgical operation at St. Ann's Hospital this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-30

tcontinuea on Page Two,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
From CITY to Farm.

From the San Antonio Evening News.
This country's rural population In
creased curing 1880 for the first time
in 10 years. The Department of Agri-
culture attributes that back to the-farm
movement to industrial unemployment
in many cities. When one has no job
the old farm is indeed attr 2ctive. Over
production is problem in both city
and country, but-barring drought-the
rural dweller has this advantage: he
can live at home. The average healthy
farm family effectively can reduce a
surplus of potatoes, canned vegetables.
garden truck. pigs, poultry and dairy
products. Low prices affect the ag"i-
cultural producer only as to what he
sells, net as to what he consumes at
home.
Recognition of those economic facts
has led many a farmboy to return
home until times get better" For
similar reasons numerous families
not yet thoroughly citified-have turned
back to farms on which they at least
can work FIR a living. Accordingly, the
department estimates the farm popula-
ton at 27,43o, 900 on January /, last, as
compared with 27222,0o0 a year pre-
viously. Even that increase leaves 95.-
100000 people in the cities and towns,
so the United States is likely to remain
predominantly urban.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
Pigs Got Potlicker
In Southern Maryland
ro the Editor OF The star:

TO the Edltor OF The star:
Reading in The Star the COM
ments of the press of the country on
Senator-elect Huey Longs agitation of
be "dunked" or "crumbled" in pot
Ticker has filled me with regret and rage.
Hailing from the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, it is needless for me to state
that many savory mess of hogs jowl
and turnip greens has bsen cooked in
my mothers kitchen. My regret and
rage arise from the fact that we never,
even in hard times, suspected that the
ticker residue that was left after the
jowl and greens were lifted was fit for
human consumption. However, I doubt
If the knowledge would have done us
much good, for my father always kept a
few hogs and he was one of those kindly,
old-fashioned men who even had con-
sideration for his hogs, and as they
always evinced such a gustatcry enjoy
ment of the potlicker, 1 seriously ques-
ton whsther he would have allowed
us to deprive his hogs of it.
Anyhow, it seems to me not so much
question of "dunking" or 'crumbling,"
but instead what kind of a vessel to
serve it in. Should it be served in a
soup plate, a bowl or in the plain regu-
lation trough? If the trough is elected,
then we suppose the cook or house.
maid shall be delegated the task of
standing by with stick to administer
lusty wallops to the larger and stronger
members of the family when they show
an inclination to take an unfair advan-
tage of the weaker ones by crowding
them aside in their efforts to get more
than their share.
My dear old mother invariably made
several corn pones for hsr church oyster
I,1r "a 4aszfYc
they were always in great demand. We
got lot of comfort out of those corn
pones, but I shall never cease to be
thankful that she was spared the bitter
blow of discovering that she, all her
married life, had been dispensing such
an epicurean delight as potlicker to
pap's pigs.
Well, we all do inadvertently miss
some of the good things in life, but
alas and alack, we cannot all be Sena-
tors-elect from Louisiana!
S. H. MUMFORD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEwELL.

It Is not always in the after years
that we are inclined to give the schools
the credit for any love of books which
yet It IS fairly certain that the grade
school curriculum gives the average
child q good foundation In the great
books of the world.
We were reminded of this the other
day when we happened to be waiting
for a public vehicle near school house.
1t was a long wait, there being some
hitch in the appointed transit schedule,
some such delay as occurs in even the
best laid plans of officials.
While We were waiting school was
out, the pupils broke forth with the
usual shouts, the girls and the boys
thronged to the car stop.
X X X
Adopting the air of a preoccupied
adult. we kept our eyes open, and soon
saw that several of thu youngsters were
carrying books, not only the necessary
ones used in their studies, but one for
reading" There is a difference.
One had copy OF "Gulliver's
Travis" and another, we saw with
great appreciation, had Stevenson's
Treasure Island"
It was a great relief to see that the
boys were still reading those good old
things. Sometimes we have had the
idca that they were too old-fash1oned
to appeal to the modern boy.
Upon occasion we had thought, too;
that maybe whole new list of "juve-
niles" had grown up, in which the fine
older things had no place.
Perhaps we had fancied, as in a
nightmare, "Alice in Wonderland was
not sufficiently sophisticated.
Here our fears were set to rest. Here
on one corner were gathered two of the
greatest of them all, and 1t was a
pleasure to r;alize, on this chilly Win
ter afternoon. that the boys and girls
still read them.
A good book may, in the infancy of
its career, require q formal review to
help launch it. but after that, if It has
the stuff of greatness in 1t, it makes its
own way, with the aid of its loving
friends, its admiring readers.
It was in this way that the books Of
childhood days were circulated. Whence
else, and how else, did we get the
"hunch' to read Alice In Wonder
land" and Robinson Crusoe,' and
swiss Family Robinson" and 'Gul-
liver's Travels" and Treasure Island"
and BLACK Beauty?
We are sure to the point of convic-
ton that we read no formal book re-
views about them, when we were a
child, any more than one youngster we
saw on the strest corner there had read
a critique on 1.-THE Bobbsie Twins Down
on the Farm"
OF all the kids" who came out of
this particular school, this one was our
favorite. His skin was naturally dark,
and tanned besides. His eyes were the
exact color of his cheeks. His coat, the
type boys fancy, was the same color
His aviator cap, with goggles, was tan,
too.
He looked for all the world the in
carnations of modern Brownie; and as
he dropped his book by the trunk Of
the big tree, shed his coat and hat and
proceeded to shin" his way up, his ac-
tons resembled those of Brownie, too.
\
When he came down, the "Bobbsie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
Facts Sought AS to the
Assessments for Curbs
TO the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
AS passed by the Senate, the bill for
levying assessments for roadway i'm
provement contained the following as
part Of Section IL:
Sec. IL. The Commissioners Of the
District Of Columbia are hereby direct
ed to cancel all assessments for i'm
provements completed within three
years prior to the date of the approval
of this act, levied under the authority
OF the act of July 81, 1914, (38 Stat,
524), and September /, 1916. $50 Stat,
7l6), relating to the assessments for
the paving of streets, avenues and
roads, or under the act of August z,
1894 (28 Stat, 250), relating to assess
ments for laying curbs ="
The Star announces that the Com
nlissioners have approved the wording
of three form letters to be sent to per-
sons seeking refunds of payments on
assessments under the Borland law
1914 and as amended 1916.
If the language of Section IL order
ing cancellation of all assessments
under the law of August Z. 1894, for
laying curbs, is part of the bill as
approved by the President on February
81, 1881. why is not the public informed
that assessments for curbing are also
Cancelled? And should not this i'm
portant information be set before your
readers?
The average individual hasn't time
to hunt up the language of the law
as finally approved, but this is a matter
of widespread interest and naturally
there is a reliance upon The Star to
give us complete information or seek
JOSEPH w. CHENEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06

politics he cut q figure that adorned it.
An early exponent of the La Toilette
school Of Progressivisn, he was an I'M
compromising advocate Of the things
that Fighting Bob" stood for. A par
tisan Of partisans, Henry Allen Cooper
never forfeited the respect of his oppo-
nentS, for they recognized In him a
statesman of intrepid courage, incor-
ruptible integrity and unvarying high
minde6ness. He often seemed greatest
when espousing the most unpopular Of
causes. He was one Of the earliest adj
yocates of independence for the Phil
ippinss. He opposed American entry
into the war against the Central Pow
ers, yet supported his countrys cause
valiantly in Congress once the die was
cast. AS veteran of the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, Mr.. Cooper's
experience was rich, his counsel saga
cious, his industry inexhaustible.
In 1915, when the fiscal relations be-
tween the District of Columbia and the
Federal Government were in process OF
adjustment, the Wisconsin Representa-
tive's support Of square deal for dis
franchised Washington was unfagging
and effective. No member of Congress,
whose committee assignments through
the years have required him to concern
himself with District affairs, ever ap-
preached them in fairer or more gener-
Gus spirit than Henry Allen Cooper. He
deserves to be gratefully remembered IN
these parts for that service alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06

the manuscript Of history of the
Russian revolution which he intends
soon to publish. Also salvaged were
some letters from Lenin, which Trotslzy
values highly.
Trotsky was lucky there on Prinkipo
Island, as he was lucky at Moscow in
getting out of his jam with Stain and
the Central Executive Committee of the
Communist party just ahead of an order
to stand up in front Of firing squad.
Had Leon been a little later in his
Moscow break he would probably have
suffered the fate of scores of others
who have crossed the dead line laid
down by Stain, the fate that almost
certainly awaits the fourteen Menshe-
visits who are just now going on trial
at Moscow--on a nationwide radio
hook up-for anti-revolutionary activity.
Exile was Trotsky's sentence. Perhaps
that has been harder than death, for
one so tremendously in earnest as the
erstwhile New York journalist and the
partner with Lenin in the estapiSn-
ment of the Bolshevik regime.
Naturally, inasmuch as Stain REGARDS
Trotsky as an enemy of the reVolution'
the flames that arose from the villa on
Prinkipo Island were at once believed 10
have been of incendiary origin, with
the Moscow conlmissars as agents pro-
vocateurs. 1t would be so satisfactory
to Stain for Trotsky and his manu-
scripts and letters and documents 10
pass out of being, as if by some vista
ton of Providence. But that hypothesis
seems to have been quickly discredited,
faulty stove and flin1sy structure
effected the combination, and but Tor
that rabbits foot Stain would have
been relieved of his possible nemesis.
Now the fire has served to advertise
the fact that Trotsky is soon to print
the inside account of the Russian revo-
luton. And that will be another story
altorether
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06

Charlie Nicholson got a resounding
hand at the Democratic cOnclave when
his name was mentioned in connection
with the congressional victories of 1880.
It's an open secret that the greatest
political ballyhoo artist Of all time Is a
good deal more than that in the party's
high command. Few matters of major
moment are decided at headquarters
without consultation with the scholarly
director Of publicity Nicholson con-
tracted to remain in the National Com
n1itteeS service only up to the time of
the 1882 convention. But it's dollars
to doughnuts that he'll be tmportuned
to stay on the job. He probably can
write his own ticket. Mr.. Nicholson
voyage to the South in order to help
the resourceful Charles stoke up his en-
CINE for the fray that lies just ahead.
AS he did long before the 1880 con-
gresSional election, he intends clearing
for action betimes with respect to the
battle Of 1882. It won't be long now
before Michelson's devastating mimeo-
graph batteries will be barking.
Former Gov. Nellie T. Ross of
Wyoming, Democratic national vice
ties, flung subtle challenge at the
males of the species when she adj
dressed the national organization She
limited that Democratic women are
more than ready to do battle for the
cause, but wouldn't mind little more
wooing than they're accustomed to.
Gov. Ross, of course, was gently taunt-
ing the traditional lords and masters
of Democracy for their reluctance to
look upon the newly enfranchiSed sex
as full political partner. The Demo-
cratic sisters aren't scbbing on that
score as yet quite as audibly as the
Republican women. When the latter
talk of the recognition" they've had
at the hands of Herbert Hoover, whom
they modestly claim to have elected,
the lamentations are loud and occa-
sionally lurid.
X X
who's going to be Democratic ma
tional chairman in 1892" this OBJ
server asked q National Committee
power wielder. "Whomever the presi-
Dental nominee Selects was the SEN
tentious reply. I'm 1920 Cox picked
White he added I'm 1924 Davis
chose Shaver In 1928 Smith selected
Raskob. History will repeat itself next
year."
tcopyrisht, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

Did you ever write letter TO Fred
eric j. Haskin? You can ask him any
question of fact and get the answer in
q personal letter. Here is q great edu-
cational idea introduced into the lives
of the most intelligent people in the
world-American newspaper readers.
It is a part Of that best purpose of a
newspaper-service. There is no charge
except cents In coin or stamps for
Haskin, director, The Evening Star In
formation Bureau, Washington, d. G.
O. Were there more automobiles
sold in 1880 than In 1929?-C. A. H.
A. The production Of automobiles
In the United States IN 1880 dropped
to the lowest figure since 1922. The
output amounted to 3,350,000 cars in
1880 as compared to 5,35S,000 cars in
1929.
@. How long has the game of bill
lizards been played?-J. G.
A. Frank Menke's Al-Sports Rec
ord Book says that there is no definite
record. Some authorities declare that
the Egyptians played billiards hun
dreds of years before the Christian
era. There is evidence that the
Greeks INDUCED in billiards about 400
BIC.
O. How does the number Of visitors
from other countries compare with the
number of immigrants who come to
this country?-F. r.
A. In the fiscal year ending June
80, 1880, there were GAL 100 imni-
grants. Those coming as visitors, stu
dents or other reasons for temporary
stay numbered 204,514.
@. Did Edwin Booth remain on the
stage after his brother, John Wilkes
Booth, assassinated President Lincoln?
G. S.
A. He retired from the stage, but
upon the earnest solicitation of his
friends returned to the boards in 1866.
He was very popular actor. In April,
1891, he retired to the Players Club,
which he founded and to which he
gave more than S250,000.
Q. Were ships cut in two during
the World War to get them to the
seacoast?--C. B.
A. Large ships were cut in two TO
bring them from the Great Lakes to
the coast. The vessels were cut in
two by means Of an acetylene torch
while in dry dock. The sections were
then boarded and calked, after which
Tile QOCk was 1OOQeu ana CIle SecJlOlS
were hauled apart and lowed. The
halves were later rejoined and made
seaworthy.
@. Are there glaciers on Mount
Whitney?-F. M. A.
A. The Geological Survey says that
there are no glaciers on Mount Whit
ney. On the east side of the peak,
however, large snow banks form each
Winter.
@. What is the orphan Brigade?-
j. M. r.
A. The Orphan Brigade was the
popular name of Confederate brigade
Of Kentucky infantry which was or
ganized October 20, 1861. 1t camped
at Boone, near GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Just
far enough over the Border to avoid
conflict with Gov. Magofin's proc
lamation declaring Kentucky a neu-
trail State and forbidding either Fed
eral or Confederate troops to occupy
any post within it. The frequent
change of commanders due to army
loss, and the long service of the bril-
gade outside of its home State, occa-
stoned the use of the name.
Q. How old is the Oldest grave in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06
Trotsky,s Good and Bad Luck.

Life has become rather hard on Leon
Trotsky, but he is at least alive, and
that is a great consolation. His latest
experience suggests that he carries a
rabbits foot, for he was undenisbiy
lucky in his bout with fate on Prinkipo
Island. in the Sea Of Marmora When
q faulty stove set IRE TO the himsy
wooden villa IN which he has lately
been living, and which he intended 70
quit within month because its ownsr
would not repair it. there was barely
time for escape. As 1t was the erst-
while co-ruler Of Russia got out clad
only in his n.ghtclothes. He was un-
able to save even suit Of clothes. He
aaGt many Of his documents. but saved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-06

Twins" came near being orphans, for
he forgot all about his book, while he
ran across the street to q small bit of
parking, covered with large pieces Of
crushed stone.
Soon he was throwing stone all over
the nearby landscape, but In such an
urchinish fashion that no one could
take offense at him. AT least no one
did.
We never saw a boy throw stones
with less vindictiveness. just how he
achieved this result it was difficult to
explain.
If any of his comrades had so scat
tered. rocks miscsllaneausly over the
corner, they would have come in for
the hearty condemnation of the two
elderly ladies on the opposite corner.
We felt sure, as we watched him, that
If we, at similar age, had gone
through the like fnaneuvers, we would
have been "bawled out" In proper
fashion.
But this youngster provoked only
smiles. God is good to some people.
X 4 X X
Even when a chunk Of blue stone as
large as your fist hit one of the ladies,
ker- plump, on the breast of her cow
coat, the culprit only grinned, and be-
gan throwing 'em the other way.
Perhaps you do not understand how
stone can make a noise, ker-plunk,
on cow-coat. or maybe you do not
even know what cow-coat is.
Well, a cow-coat formerly belonged
to COW, or similar creature, as an in
tegral part of itself And som. way or
other, even after it gets made up into a
locks like a COW. That is why we call
it a cow-coat. You can almost hear
it moo.
When such a coat is struck by a
fairly large stone, thrown from the
willing fingers of 9-year-old boy, it
mak;s sound acutely resembling 'ker-
PUNK" or probably just plain PUNK
would be nearer it.
We were standing about six feet from
the lady, and the queer sound so at
tracted our attention that we looked
around to see what CAUSED it.
We were just in time to see the stone
drop to the ground The lady looked
largely astonished, but aside from that
appeared to b. nothing put out about
It, Just as If getting wllacked with a
fair-stZed rock was part of the day S
program. Which, no doubt, it is, if one
insists on waiting for car near a
school.
Say, Jimmie" said our 1aVoflte
urchin, as he came back across the
street. (Jimmie had poppy blue eyes
and Straw-colored hair. If he had
thrown rocks, every one would have
been angry
IT bet you can't guess what my dad
is reading to me now" he continued.
The blue-eyed one fixed a disappearing
look upon the "Bobbsie Twins"
"That?" he asked
Nav" said the urchin. "'Gu1li-
ver's Travsls' It's about a man that
goes to place where the people are
so big that he Is little"
That's crazy" said his mate.
But it really was a splendid book re-
view, and one Of the bsst, the mouth
to-mouth recommendation which car
ries the great things of literature tri-
umphantly from one generation to an
other.
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Henry Allen Cooper.

YestsI lay, amid his native hills near
Racine, Wis, Henry Allan Cooper was
laid to rest, as the Nation he SO long
md honcrably served moIned the
passing OF the fstaer Of the House OF
representatives. 1t is not oiten given
to American public msn TO serve their
country practically unisterruptedly for
thirty-eIght years, as the Nestor Of
the Lower Branch Of Congress did.
Mr.. Cooper dill not contrive to fas.en
his name upon legislation that viii
cause him to be remsmsered in cen
nection with the laws Of the land. yet
for more than generation Of national