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The Washington times., 1932-11-22
CHAPTER 27

At five that morning, when
light lay across the dew on the
grass and birds were waking,
Elizabeth rose, cramped, her
face sodden with tearc
"Fred," she wrote, sitting
there at her lit, desk, Pred,
] can't marry you. can't.
Forgive me-and please forget.
Don't try and see me. / shall
not see you If you come-not
ever"
The warmth at her heart was
gone, the singing had stilled.
She felt a chill there, as OF
death itself.
Waiting for Louisa's inevita-
ble question was not hard.
Nothing was hard any more,
the white night had been en-
dured, the letter written. When
the question did come, several
days later, it was pronounced
with an utter casualness.
Have you reached a deci-
sion?" ss
"We-will not be married"
"Ahl You have told him?"
pursued Mrs. Sheldon with de-
nberate malice, a rhetorical
question merely. She knew
even as she wrenched the knife
In the young woman's breast
how it afflicted her own. She
waited for an answer, not need
ing one. 1t came on the breath
Of a whisper.
MO"
Although Mrs. Sheldon had ex-
pected the negative, although
Sc had considered nothing else
possible, she was conscious of
triumph. It was so frankly an
admission of impotence. an
other link in the chain, another
letter.
Not at Home
Van Alstyne did not take his
dismissal easily. Day after day
4AAo SdA OuAA1CN AL db I41C OI1C1"
don drive, he walked up the
shallow steps, put a belligerent
finger or the bell, met, event
ually. the professionally regret
full eyes of the servant. Mrs.
Sheldon is not at home-Mrs.
Sheldon is not at home.
The even, courteous tones,
the blank face of the man.
servant-like an obituary in
the Book of Etiquette-Mrs.
Sheldon is not at home.
His many letters, impas-
stoned, angry, accusing, plead
ing, came back unanswered and
unread.
He asked himself, walking
the wild, autumna1 beaches
why? In name Of God and JUS
tice, in the name Of love-why?
Senseless and cruel and wrong.
He had had her in his arms,
he had felt the flame kindle
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When Manners
Are Correct
By MRS. BEECKMAN
Introduction

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
Joan and I had a disagree
ment in school the other day
and we have decided to write
to you for your service. This
is our problem:
Joan said that one always
introduces a young girl to a
young man. I think one should
intrdouce a young man to a
young lady. If the latter is
done, one would mention the
girls name first.
In introducing a 'Mr. Jones"
to a Miss Elliott" one would
say, Miss Elliott, may I pre-
sent Mr.. Jones?"
Am I right or is Joan?
M.
You are right. A man is in
troduced to a woman, even If
the man is a very old gentle
men and the girl is a very
e ~oung girl.
And the form Of introduction
is correct, Miss Elliott, may l
present Mr.. James?"
"Is" and "Are"
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
Which is the correct form to
use, three and two IS five, or
three and two ARE five?
r.
Three and two ARE five, u
correct.
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everything, and If I don't tell
fef I fear I shall lose her.
Should I or should I not tell
her these things?
WORRIED.
Be frank with her, by all
means, and if she is the type of
girl who would make you a de-
sirable wife, she will help you
keep your courage and will not
make demands. These days,
when money is so scarce, it is
the greatest mistake in the
world for young men not to be
absolutely truthful about money
matters with girls they hope
some day to marry.
Unless girls belong to the
gold-digger sisterhood they will
not expect expensive entertain
ment, and if they are gold-dig-
gers, you're better off without
them.
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sketched is an ideal type, en-
tirely of elastic which is the
two-way stretch type that
stays in place no matter what
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The Rhymins
Optlmist
Never Kill Faith

Never Kill Faith
Kill anything
On the whole wide earth,
Kill the JOY of spring
Or a young child'S mirth;
Kill the mounting flame
OF ambitions. fire,
Kill love, kill dreams
And the hearts desire.
Kill all of these,
And you deal but death;
But never, never
Kill mans faith!
For when faith is done
He must go bereft,
An empty one
Who has nothing left.
No stars by night,
No sun by day
Belong to him
Whose faith you slay!
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Try This
Recipe

Oat MacarOOnS
INGREDIENTS:
2 eggs.
"a cup sugar.
tablespoon melted shortening.
2 cups rolled oats.
l cup cocoanut.
" teaspoon salt.
" teaspoon vanilla.
2 tablespoons cornstarch.
/ teaspoon baking powder.
METHOD: Mix in order given
and drop by teaspoons on a
creased pan Bake in a $50
degree FL heit oven 20
minutes.
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WASHINGTON FASHIONS : By Wilma LdviIe

IL and IA inches, and is priced
S.. With it we've sketched q
marvellous new bandeau, Of
jersey, batiste or net. 1t has a
beautiful natural uplift effect.
and is especially good for the
woman with a too-small bust.
It is good in sizes up to SO,
and is $3.50.
An AlI-In-One
The one piece garment
Sketched has been called the
"Debutante," because so many
slim young girls wear it. The
girdle part is made of elastic
and a gauzy material, so it will
mould the figure into slim.
lovely lines. The front panel
goes up under the bust, to hold
the tummy perfectly flat, and
has no sides to punch. The
bandeaux buttons onto this
panel and is the uplift type.
There are pantie effects, straps
and all, so it will serve for
undies, too, and the straps are
removable. It's a wonderful
garment to wear under tight
fitting evening clothes. and it
comes in two lengths Of girdle.
IL and IA inches. 1t is good
in sizes up to 38 also, and is
priced only $2.95.
For further fashion infOr-
nation, or for the name of the
store where you can find these
garments, write Miss Laville in.
closing self-addressed, stamped
envelope, or call District $3.50,
extension 199.
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Secrets Of Health
By DR.. Louis A. Bisch

tFamOus Authority on Health and Psychology
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Every few days she brings home two smooth
little packages. And adds them the slowly swelling
collection in the closet. She has a bright look like
a squirrel bringing in another NUT little girl
collecting doll.rags. ~
She says she looks bright because she is bright;
bright girls begin their Christmas shopping early
before the flies up North, the ponsettias
flare down South, and Thanksgiving fan-far has
begun! And she says, do not worry about her miss
ing any of the Christmas atmosphere the Christmas
outlay sparkle and newness, for the simplest soul
could tell you that there will be gifts forgotten
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you do, and has not a seam in
it. 1t is high-waisted to take
care of a possible roll at the
waist, comes in two lengths,
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27

because if he refused to go or evaded service, he became a deserter, and was dealt with as a criminal-such are certainly en- titled to decent compensation for their services.
 Is there something in the Con- stitution about involuntary ser- vitude?" Seems like there were several million who were made slaves during the war period and to obviate the stygma 1t would be we'll for the govern
 ment to pay it's obligations just i as willingly as it gave it's "cost plus ten per cent" to the money bags. AS compared to the cost lplus ten per cent, the demand;
 of the war slaves is a mere bag
 atelle.
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
BRING FEM IN

It is not long since Governor George A. Parks issued a state ment through the Associated Press asking citizens of the
 states not to come to Alaska and
 to keep their money to spend in
 their own territory. Added to
 which we have the salmon in
 dustry importing labor, union fishermen, peons, whiteslaves, and what not. The resident labor
 IS invited to go to hell.
 The man or men who come to Alaska at this time will not be
 the type that comes just to get a nice easy vacation. They will be men who will be coming with |the determination to go through the woods and over the ragged hills, banning their ways up stream and gorge always look flor the illusive gold They will be men who can go into tEe woods with a blanket, gun ara ammunition, a bit oI salt, tea and sugar and live of the land
 And they will come out With q bit of gold to pay for more sup plies For another drive af;cr thc illusiye metal.
 Bona fide settlers are never objected to even though the times be most trying. Imported labor, labor which comes ana takes the cream of the season and return only to spend theii earnings are most undesirable l in Alaska. Those should be in vited not to come to Alaska ano 1 to stay out. Others, men of will and determination who will de- velop the resources are men worth going after. They should not be discouraged by any off
 cial or any other person.
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
RoOTLEGGER IS
OWN ACCUSER

Harry Johnson, Indianapolis, proved to be the easiest arrest made by local police for a liquor law offense.
 I've been selling liquor and want to be arrested" Johnson said as he appeared at police headquarters. My wife and I have had trouble over the liquor and I am 6isgusted with the business. It's not the right place to raise my four children and I want to stop it."
 Police found alcohol, beer, wine and whiskey at Johnson's home, then arrested him on a liquor sharge.
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
AND WHATLL YOU HAVE?

Junius B. Wood, a newspaper correspondent of reputation and integrity reported in a recent issue that he had found liquor openly offered for sale in the large eastern cities. In New York he said, and the restaurant was above reproach, he seated him. self at table in full view of the passing thousands. The manag- CT, unaware of his identity, and uncaring, came to him as he read the menu.
 Would you like wine. brandy cordial, anything with your meal?" inquired the manager.
 We know that these things are true. Everybody knows that they are true. Why immunity should be conceded in cities which have no patience with prohibition we do not know, but we can guess. And nobody cares particularly It is such instances as this, flag rant, notorious and unrebuked, that make a farce of the cap- ture and conviction of the minor bootlegger, and that reproacn our American justice and the spirit fair play. We know that Capone was and is the scandal ous fact. We know that the pow CT of Capone continues in Chica- go while the big shot himself is in jail. We know that the federal government did not convict him for violations of the federal prohibition law, which made fer him his blood-stained millions. but for neglect of the income tax. And yet some of us insist that prohibition is still the noble experiment, and that 1t is trea- son to country and to conscience to declare otherwise,
 Are we a nation of liars and double e-crossers. who dare not
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?

From every direction in South east Alaska comes the pliant "What will we do this summer to prepare for the wlnter?' And no one seems able to offer any plan to cope with the situation. The laborers, the business men are all developing long faces and a pessimistic attitude all of which does not make any bright. CT prospects.
 For more than ten years, the Alaska Native Brotherhood has offered the plan that would have prevented the present economic distress and which would have allowed Alaskans to enjoy the present era of hard times with out any attendant lack of even the ordinary pleasures of life.
 For during the past several years that organization has urg- ed the complete, absolute abo1- ishment of the fish trap system the employment of resident fish ermen and labor and a curtail- ment of the salmon pack. The abolishment of the trap system would have allowed the employ ment of at least 3O,O0O fishermen and as many resident laborers in place of the imported oriental problem. Curtailment of the pack would have insured adequate .es- exponent of salmon to tn ( spawning grounds without all | t ne attendant discriminatory rules and regulations promulgat- ed by the Bureau of Fisheries.
 The problem of the fisheries | is not only the conservation q the salmon but the conservation ] of residential population. With cut labor market for the labor ol Alaska there is nothing to stay | in the territory for. There IS nc inducement for newcomers fol without labor or other oppor- tunity to secure even a modest living migration is from rather than to Alaska.
 During these several years while the chambers of commerce appreciate the truth of the con- tentions of this organization and | it's mouthpieces, they have pre- fered to sit by indifferent t. the pleas. They have done noth- ing to aid in the solution of the problem.
 They will pay a very hlgh
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price for their indifference and


 as conditions become worse and the demands of the wholesalers become more strict they will pay a higher price for their indif- ference. In the end the natives of Alaska will live off the land and with a little aid from the government, they will get through while the burden upon others, laborer and business, will become greater.
 It is time that the business men learned that gainrully en- ployed laborers are greater asset to Alaska than the unpro- ductive fish-trap system and i'm lported cheap oriental labor. Too late, perhaps they will learn.
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
Just One Moment

Just a thoughtful moment at the graveside of those who paid the supreme sacrifice to perpet- nate the institutions of freedom set forth in the Declaration or Independence and Constitution of these United States. The grave may be that of men of the col- lonial times, of the days of re- bellion against the injustlces under the government of King George III; it may be that of the man who wore the Blue or the Gray when father fought against son and the house was divided one against the other, or it may he the grave of the man who helped take Texas from the Mexicans, or it may be the grave of the Spanish American War veteran and again it might be one who paid the penalty for the ereeds and averaciousness ot the world in the late World War All those men paid a price for the perpetuation of a demo- cracy with principles of freedom as is promised by no other na- ton.
 We shed a tear for those men who gave their very fife blood III defense of those institutions and we shed still another tear for the institutions of freedom and de- nlocracy which have been lost by this government.
 In Flanders Fields the peoples grow red for shame at the wrongs and injustices and greed of the world. So Lord God Of HoSts Be with us yet, lest we forget lest we forget"
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let the left hand know what the right hand does? Are we a land of sanctimonious pretenders to rectitude? Wonder are the facts. They accuse us. We cannot con- sider the liquor problem to be settled, and our dignity as a people to have been regained,
 until we determine whether we
 are dry in theory or in fact Portland Oregonian.
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
A POPPY IN MEMORY
 Contributed

May 27 and 28 will be Poppy Dav in thousands of cities and towns throughout the United States. On that day the Amerl- can Legion Auxiliary will take its bright red poppies, made by the hands of disabled men, out on the streets and offer them to the public to be worn in memory ot the men who gave their lives for America in the World War. On that day funds to carry forward the Auxiliary's vast program ot relief and rehabilitation during the next twelve months will be raised.
 The wearing of the poppies is a touching tribute to the World War dead. It is the individual act of homage to the individual men who gave their lives for their country in 1917 and 1913 There is no finer way to keep alive the spirit of remembrance than to ask every American to wear a poppy once each year.
 The poppy sale, too means work for disabled veterans who could not possibly find other means of supporting themselves and families. It gives them in teresting worthwhile occupation with which to pass the long hospital hours and it gives them money for the many things the government does not provide, money to send home to strug- gling families made destitute by their illness. The poppies sold in Petersburg this year have been made at the Walla Walla hospi- tai.
 Finally, the poppy sale fills the rehabilitat ation and relief funds of the Auxiliary Units and De- partments and enables the Aux Hilary to carry on it's vast pro- gram for the benefit of the war sufferers and child welfare Every little flower sold on Poppy Day means that the Auxiliary will be able to do just that much more for unfortunate veterans and their families in the year tO come. The need for the poppy
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funds is greater this year than ever before. Let us each one help to make Poppy Day in Peters
 burg a generous day of gratitude for services we'll done.
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
PAYING TAXES

A school tax collector was asked How are you making out this year" and he replied, "Mak- ing out? How can anyone make cut with the men without money to pay their taxes?"
 Be it remembered that since inception of the tax law the territory has collected more than $850,000. And this year the great majority are unable to get hold Of the necessary $5 to pay the taxes. So what is the territory going to do about it?
The Alaskan., 1932-05-27
QUIT HELPING

The capitalistic press an l sympathizers are up in arms against the full payment of the adjusted compensation. This paid-up compensation is an oc- ligation that the government has undertaken to meet in 1945. There is no denial that it is a legal debt and that it will have to be met sometime.
 During the World War ove- four million citizens were draft ed into war service-Whether they would go or not. They had to leave lucrative position, con- forts of home life and ease to enjoy the dirty muck, the lousy stinking life in the trenches with but little shelter. They enjoyed the munificent sum of $50 American service and $33 foreign service. From which they deducted eff married) $15 for dependents, $25O to $7.5O for insurance and the balance they divided up between laundry, smokes and what have you for nothing.
 The pay-triotic citizens who remained at home were employ cd at wages that soon brought automobiles and other means of |locomotion to and from work. The hiring corporations pay triotically under took contracts with the government at "cost plus 10 per cent" and they were alarmed sure they got their ten Der cent after making the gov ernment pay plenty for its supplies.
 General Spruce
 Capt. Disque, retired army officer was placed in charge o1 the spruce division. The staff Of this division had no touring cars and it spent $47,255 in pub fishing a History of the Spruce Production Division"
 In the air service the govern ment spent more than one bil- lion dollars and sent not one single air plane to the front not one. We ordered Liberty Motors from the Packard Com pany and they developed a fine |8-cylinder machine. This twas not suitable" so 12-cylinder machine was ordered. New ma chinery was installed and after ten months, our patriotic off cials called for the 8-cylinder machine again. Between Sep tember 4, 1917 and February 9, i1918, the Packard Company, in taking the new motor through Its growing pains, made over one thousand changes, and the Ford Company, by March 21, 1918, nearly a thousand" And if you believe that these pay-triotic companies paid for these changes in equipment to turn out war products, just go jump into the lake.
 War Debts
 Since 1914 the obligations of the United States have exceeded 26 billions of dollars, Seventeen billions of which were obliga- tions of the government to it's citizens in order that the allies might be given assistance. Fol- lowing the war the United States forgot all of the pre-war obliga tions of the Allies and since the war these same nations have ob- tained II billions of dollars and this they are asking a vacation from paying with no end to the vacation.
 All of which leads up to the declaration that the claims of the drafted soldier the man who went to war not because of love of war or excitement but
The Washington times., 1932-03-18

These are the reasons why more women IN
America wear A. S. Beck Shoes thon any
other make.
These are the reasons why in 7yeors AS Beck
has grown from II stores to 100.
These are the reasons Why in announcing our
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voIue-giving never before equoled in the
shoe industry.
Go today to your nearest AS. Beck store and
see the superb new Spring styles. 800. Copies Of
$50 SIS shoes selected for Us by Mrs. Reginald
Vanderbilt .. .mode with all the important con-
structon features found only in expensive foot
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sewn, hond-Iosted-with the custom-mode
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And today the price is 1925.
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shoes S. fut Identical workmanship
eahe styling with the shoes bought before ot$
sold A. Beck Shoes fhun before history This
voIUme-o the muu possible
TO the S. quality at the Of $3o5
pledge ourselves moteo
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stgned A. S BECK SHOE CORP
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h 10 other retailer in the country can bring
y you shoes like this at $3.95. This is
bold statement but the following focts back it
up. "'A.S S. Beck was the first retailer in America
to give you at S. >.
HAND-TURNED, HAND.LASTED SHOES
BENCH-MADE HAND-SEWN SHOES
GENUINE PYTHON AND JAVA LIZARD
49,. QUARTER SIZES IN OPERA PUMPS
ACCURATE COPIES OF HIGH-PRcED STYLES
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NOVA. S. Beck continues this Leadership in
the shoe industry by offering the same fine
materials, workmanship, styling, at the remark
able new low price Of $3.95.
Evening star., 1932-09-21
SCHOOLS SURPASS
1881 MARK BY 1865
Second Days Enrolment To-
tails 79,751-CentraI Still
Leads Senior Field.

The day public school enrolment
reached a total of 7s,754 late yesterday,
which is 4,363 more than the second
days enrolment last year.
OF this total, the teachers colleges
enrolled 914, or 251 more than a year
ago. The senior high schools enroll
ment was 14142, gain of 827 over
last year The junior high schools
yesterday registered 1853, which was
gain of 1868. The elementary schools
had 49,079, or 1857 more than a year
ago. and the vocational schools re-
corded gain of 155, with an enroll
ment of 97l.
Central High School continued to lead
the senior high field with an enrolment
of 2,740, to record gain of 101. Nc
Kinley was second, despite the fact 1t
enrolled 80 fewer children yesterday
than on the second day of last year.
The total roll was 2,512. The new
Roosevelt High School still was below
its anticipated 1920, with an enroll
ment late yesterday of 1,437. Western
showed loss of 13 students, with an
enrolment of 1,577.
Dunbar High School led the colored
senior high field with an enrolment
yesterday of 1,484, which was a gain
Of l27. Armstrong gained 103, with
1872, and Cardozo gained 146, with its
enrolment yesterday Of 606
Yesterdays total enrolment was ap-
proximately $500 more than that of
opening day.