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The Washington times., 1932-08-08
Three-Minute
Journeys
- By Temple Manning
Alaska-Land of Gold and
Majestic Beauty

Alaska-Land of Gold and
Majestic Beauty
If you are searching for a
place Of marvellous scenery,
grandeur, rare beauty, drama
and vivid contrast, there is no
need to sail abroad for It,.
Make the trip to Alaska, and
forever after draw on a mine
Of golden memories.
Tourists are beginning to
discover" Alaska, and steamers
sail out of Seattle with larger
groups of Alaska-bound vaca-
tionists aboard. While they
may not find gold in modern
Alaska, they find things inf
nitely more precious-beauty
rest, refreshment, health and
a nearer communion with Ma
ture, eternally great and glo-
rious.
They see the midnight sun,
the cleaning northern lights,
tremendous glaciers and vast
mountains that rise in cold
majesty, straight and steep,
from the very waters edge.
Side by side with gloriously
hued flowers and green trees,
they see everywhere wide white
wastes Of snow and ice.
Steamers out of Seattle make
the journey through the I'm
side Passage" its whole 1000
miles sheltered by the long
archipelago that stretches north
from Seattle. Snow-clad noun
tains rise so abruptly from the
waters edge that one seems to
be sailing through canyon.
The Skagway trip takes five
days, and en- route the steamer
stops at Ketchikan, the terri
torial capital; Juneau and Fort
William H. Seward. Returning,
the ship calls at Sitka and
passes the base Of the famous
Taku Glacier, a mile-wide river
of ice between 200 and 5000 feet
high.
At every town there are relics
Of old Alaska-villages Of In
dians, with their fascinating
totem poles. Forests, streams,
trees and flowers are incredibly
beautiful, for in summer Alaska,
so cold and majestic in winter,
is a land warm with sunshine
and resplendent with flowers.
From Fairbanks a railway
takes the visitor to Mount Nc
Kinley National Park, most
northern of all our national
parks, rising to an altitude Of
10000 feet.
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Old Hickory Fumed
and Fused

When Jackson entered
upon his Presidency he
found that preceding ad-
ministrations had been un-
able to secure a settlement
with France over the spolia-
ton claims growing out of
the Napoleonic war. He sent
Rives, of Virginia, as Minis
ter to France, with special
instructions to get a settle
ment. The Virginian, grand
father I think of Amelia
Rives, the novelist, had no
great difficulty with the
ministry of Louis PHILIPPE
and a treaty was made.
Under the terms, the
French were to pay what
they owed, and we were to
permit their wines to enter
our ports duty free. The
American Congress immedi-
ately passed the legislation
to carry out our part of the
agreement. But the French
Parliament met and ad-
journed, time and again,
without doing it's part.
Old Hickory fumed and
fused. Then he sent Ed
ward Livingston to Paris to
force payment. He found
that the trouble was that the
Parliament did not like the
King and preferred to en-
barrass him by making it
appear that he had betrayed
the interest Of his country.
Lafayette, with whom Liv-
ingston was familiar, sug-
gested that Jackson show
his teeth; and Jackson sent
a message to Congress which
showed all his teeth.
At which France was out
ragged.
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Auto SpOngers

Auto SpOngers
You may not have an objec-
ton to lending your car to a
friend who is a good driver.
But there are comparatively
few such drivers.
Don't ask a friend to let you
use his car.
He may not refuse but more
than likely he will find an ex'
cuse not to.
An automobile represents a
big investment to most people.
There are few owners who do
not worry when another takes
their car.
No matter how unskillful a
man is in driving he seems to
think he can drive as we'll as
the next one, and his own car
better than anyone else.
He knows and you know that
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Adams Hated
Jackson Personally

Now note the strange
combination of pettiness and
greatness in Adams. He had
been defeated for reelection
to the Presidency by Jack
son. He hated jackson per-
sonally. He left the White
House before the Inaugural
ton, refusing the usual cour-
tesies. He had not called
at the White House once
afterward. All of which
was petty.
But in this controversy
he saw only his country and
it's interests endangered by
party-his own party. Jack
son ceased to be the man
and became, in Adams
mind, the head Of the ma
tion-his nation. And Adams
took the floor in the House
in a brilliant and spirited
defense which was a devas-
tating excoriation of Web
ster and the Whigs-his
people.
In sheer eloquence and
force, this speech has never
been surpassed, but for
some strange reason no ref
erence is made to it any
where, as far as 1 know, out
side my own "Party Battles
of the jackson Period"
And having risen to the
heights, Adams, with victory
his and Jackson's, resumed
his petty personal attitude
toward jackson and con-
tinued, despite an invitation,
to remain away from the
White House.
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n OF ! II q
safety that way, and so we
invent other hide-outs from
the pressure of life.
Drink and dope; they're OBJ
vious hide-outs for weak and
hurt souls.
Sickness; that's a more subtle
hide-out. Sometimes it is very
hard to discover that sickness
is a hide-out. The woman who
has sick headaches. The man
who has nervous indigestion.
A Grand Hide-out
Doesn't the woman really
have headaches? Yes, she does.
But nine times out Of 10 she
has really wished them on her
self to suit her own ends.
Headaches are a grand hide
out if you want to escape
housework, or to get your own
way with a rebellious family.
Many a husband has been held
in line for a lifetime by the
invalid wife" racket.
And that nervous indigestion
which the office force knows so
well? Was there ever a better
akbi for secret anger and be-
Wilderment?
Grief, too. can become a hide
out. That seems a cruel state
ment, doesn't it? Yet many a
sorroWful soul makes grief a
convenient escape from RESPONSE
bility. Remorse. There's a
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ONCE-OVERS

1t matters little how well you
can drive. There Is a possibil'
ity of your being wrecked by
the inefficient driving Of some
other motorists.
Borrowing car can become a
habit as we'll as any other kind
Of borrowing.
Your friends would like you
better if you did not ask such a
favor.
Possibly you could pay for
any damage you might do but
this fact does not give you the
right.
You are exceptional If you
would want to lend your car
put yourself in the other fel-
lows place and don't ask to bor-
row his machine.
There are too many auto
spongers.
Copyright. 1881 King Features
Syndicate. Incl e..
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'Mouquin's' Will Reopen
In a Year

It begins to look though the 12year prohibition night
about to end
Every State in the Union aligned against except
Brewers making plans and getting options equip
ment in order to begin Congress egazes beer
And interesting is the that Louis Mouquin
Of the famous catering family of the prevostead era pre-
pairing to reopen his restaurants in New York.
Mr.. Mouqun has bought and stored million gallons Of
The best vintage wine in France.
believes that within year. 1s months most can
sell it here legally.
also says that he will cheerfuy pay any tax the
1nent levies it.
he sell it at profit, help Uncle SAM and still not
"soak'' his customers
Yes begins to look though the nightmare over
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DENNETT CLARK, the
ID son of Champ, has writ
ten a biography of John
Quincy Adams which ought
to be, and undoubtedly will
be, interesting. No man ever
lived who was so petty in
small things and at the same
time so heroic in big things
as the son Of John Adams.
It is not easy to think of
his as a lovable personality.
He was selfish; he was veno-
nous toward his rivals and
political foes, and he did a
most harmful thing when he
kept a diary in which no
man of his time, with Mon
roe alone excepted, came
out without lashing. 1t is
easy to prove from this diary
that almost every public
man of his day was an
ignoramous or a scalawag.
But like all the Adamses
he was a lover of his coun-
try and rather independent
of party. In this connection
we may illustrate both the
pettiness and greatness of
the man.
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Why Is Clark
Writing the Book?

I wonder what drew Ben
nett Clark toward John
Quincy Adams. He must
have stumbled onto some
thing of this sort which
aroused his curiosity, It
is possible that his father
was an admirer of the old
fighting parliamentarian.
1t is not remarkable that
Bennett Clark, politician,
possible Senator this year,
should have decided to write
a book. It is dollars to
doughnuts that this was an
ambition of Champ Clark all
his life. He wrote but one
his reminiscence, which is
a mine of history. This was
at the close of his political
career; his son is writing
one at the beginning of his.
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The French
Fleet Sailed

Followed then some months
Of swashbuckling and sword
rattling, with the French
deputies protesting loudly
against the "insult" to
their country and warning
Of the "long sword of
France. :" This was all for
home consumption, but it
had an ominous sound over
here.
At length the quarrel be-
came such that the French
and American ministers were
withdrawn and the diplo-
matte game was left in the
hands of the charge DAT
faires. Matters grew worse.
1t was rumored here that the
French fleet had sailed un-
der sealed orders for parts
unknown. Everyone feared
it was for American waters.
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Jackson Won Out
Without a War

Congress was then about
to adjourn for nine months.
War might be forced upon US
anytime, for Jackson was not
the man to back down. He
thereupon asked Congress
for an emergency appropria-
tion Of three millions to be
used in case of necessity in
strengthening our coast de-
fenses.
This was added as an
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accident, un-
e m ployment,
poverty. Try
ing to escape
from intang-
ible thi ngs,
too. IrkSone
responsibility.
Critics S m.
CO mpetition.
M o n otonouS
routine. Hate
full discipline.
Hard work.
A n m a ! S
hide in holes,
but we can
r0f | n n
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and she could tell you every
one Of them. But she WON'T!
When you glance around at
an assorted group OF your
friends husbands, you may be
inclined to wonder how and
why their wives came to choose
them out Of the whole wide
world. But, there's REASON!
When a woman stands at the
altar and gczes up into mans
eyes, she sees in him exactly
what she's looking for-and a
lot of things, besides, that you
never imagined.
It may be that she sees Gods
Gift to Women"-and it may
be that she sees merely IAN
answer to prayer" an escape
from the office grind, the daily
monotony and the family nag
ging.
It may be that she sees in
him a Prince Charming, a con-
quering hero or a devastating
caveman. Or she may see in
him merely someone to mother,
to nurse, to coddle or to IRE
form" Someone whose ways
need mending, whose digestion
needs watching, whose backbone
needs stiffening, and whose
soul-or whose money-needs
saving.
It may be that she sees in
him a life-companion, a pal and
a running-mate, someone with
whom to build a career, a home
and a complete life.
Or it may be that she sees
only a shining adventure, a gay
experiment, and a bright and
irresistible playmate.
She may see a fascinating
"man-about-town"-the perfect
escort and ideal dinner-com.
panion; someone to go places
G6d ",s&''Fs ,s
Y1BE oE1EN
AKH&ks' s'''''''
MXlI !
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The Storm
Howled

But the Whig politicians
had outraged the nation by
playing politics with an in
ternational crisis and almost
leaving us at war without an
appropriation for defense.
The storm howled.
The Wings, especially Web
ster, were excoriated and
became alarmed.
Webster spent the vaca-
tion preparing a sophiscated
defense which he intended
should put the blame on
jackson.
The Democrats were pre-
pairing to go after Webster
when John Quincy Adams
literally pushed them aside
to assume the leadership in
the defense of jackson.
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amendment to the naval ap-
preparation bill.
1t passed the Democratic
House and went to the Whig
Senate, where it was made
the football of politics. Web
ster and Clay held forth at
interminable length on the
indiscretions" of jackson
and the danger that he
would force us into war.
They talked so long that
Congress e n d d constitu-
tionally without a vote-on
the amendment or on the
main bill.
Thus, with war seeming
almost certain, not a penny
had been appropriated had
the Navy.
That was the day Jackson
ordered John Forsyth, his
Secretary of State, to send
something like an ultimatum
to France.
Finally England offered
mediation and Jackson won
out without a war.
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Sons of John Adams
And Champ Clark
Bu Claude G.. BOUers

Author The Party Battles the Jackson PERIOD he Struggle
for Democracy in America" jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era and other important works.
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How England Does It
And How We Don't

How England deals with the drink traffic and how the
United States does not is told graphically by Winston
Churchill British statesman, in current magazine article
that interests all Americans.
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Hide-OutS

Hide Outs
We're all trying to get away,
trying to escape some unpleas-
ant reality.
Trying to get away from some
obvious danger like sickness or
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'"When I was Chancellor Of
the Exchequer," says MIR.
Churchill, "I received between
$500, 100000 and $7OO,OOO,OOO
per annum from taxes on
liquor.
"Tf taxation Of the same
rigor we're imposed in the
United States a yield Of any
thing from a billion and
quarter to a billion and a half
would inure to the authorities.
"Al the hundreds of mil.
lions Of dollars which in Great
Britain afford a welcome and
indispensable relief to the over
burdened taxpayers in the
United States pour out in far
greater volume into the pockets
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not only Of bOOtleggers, but Of
that hide0us underworld which
thriveS upon them.
'I am well aware Of the
argument that the State must
on no account profit from tax
ing anything so wicked as al
cOhol. But bOotlegging was the
first-bOrn child of Prohibition.
Racketeering was its second
offspring. kidnapping is its
latest baby.
''He must be a strange fellow,
purblind, wrong,headed, ruth.
less in heart, who for the sake
of his fads wills Obstinately
that such a process shall con.
tinue."
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Mr. Churchill also points out what temperance training
and careful regulation the liquor trade have accomplished
1e1s he Says there $4,000 convictions for drunken
ness in England.
In 1880 there were $4,000
Tn other words inoxcaon has been reduced MORE THAN
TWo.THIRDs in that period by common sense measures
There is tariff sense but we import little
Of it from England anywhere else.
Perhaps in time shall start manufacturing 1t mere
Let us hope We need it than motor cars electric
iceboxes bathtubs, Congressman.
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What Wives Don't Tell

A woman, on the other hand,
may have half a dozen reasons
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
By T. E. Powers
BY Helen Rowland

q and she could tell you every
one of them. But she WON'T!
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posed to bring luck on a
smaller scale. AS in the case
of the tiger, this good fortune
has to do mainly with matters.
of health, part of the theory
being that if one is we'll and
strong it is possible to achieve
almost anything.
Needed a Job
One day there hobbled into
my compound at Katong a
lame emaciated Chinaman who
announced that he wanted a
job. 1t developed that he had
made the journey on foot all
the way from Singapore. which
is eight miles away. He had
heard from Chop Joo Soon, a
Chinese bird trader in Singa-
pore, that I was looking for
a tukenia (boy-of-all-taSkS) and
he presented himself as an ap-
plicant for the job. He was
obviously incapable of doing the
work he would be called upon
to do in the position he sought,
I was forced to turn him down.
telling why only when he plead
ed for an explanation. I gave
him a few coins and arranged
with a native gharry waila
(hack driver) to get him back
to Singapore. The poor devil
would never have lasted out
the return trip on foot.
A few days later had occa-
sion to call on Chop Joo Soon.
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'"WILD CARGO"

(Continued from Magazine Page
make anyone suspicious. 1t
looked like a crude effort to con,
ceal something.
Shortly after the dying tiger
went into his final cAnvulsionS,
the bos'n, all solicitude, appeared
on the scene. 1t was too bad I
had lost another tiger, he told
me. Such a fine one too. But
the animal was dead and he
hoped I would not mind his
asking me for the body. The
chief steward now had a tigers
gall bladder and he. the bos'n.
would like to have one too.
Could he take possession of the
body?
1 didn't answer his question.
Instead I asked one-a very
pointed one. What I wanted to
know was whether he had ac-
cess to the ships rat poison.
The Culprit
AS the boS'n started Stammer-
ing out a reply, Lal, who had
been watering and feeding my
birds. appeared on the scene.
master" said Lal. Il saw the
Chinaman near animal cages
this morning. I think he put
bad medicine in tiger box" y
Are you sure this is the
man." I asked
Lal then said that there had
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By Frank Buck

was surprised to find the
lame wouId-be tukenia in the
shop. He explained that he
had heard from Soon that I
was expected and had taken
the liberty to call on me. He
humbly begged leave to apply
for the job again, earnestly
informing me that he had hit
upon a means of overcoming
disabilities. A friend of his,
he eagerly explained, had told
him where he could secure
some powdered leopard gall at
a price he could meet. A few
years before he had tried to
purchase some of this wonder
working substance, but he had
not been able to meet the ex-
orbitant price asked. Now he
knew where he could get some
cheap and his problem was
solved. So was mine, If I
still wanted a tukenia.
I was forced to pretend that
I had filled the vacancy. He
never would have understood
my lack of faith in powdered
leopard gall.
1 recall an even weirder ex-
ample of how superstition works
in the Far East. I will tell
that story tomorrow.
(TO Be COntinued)
Copyright. 1882. b-S Frank Buck ana
Edward AHthOne. Distributed by
King Features Syndicate, Inc,
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been some doubt in his mind
earlier in the morning-or he
would have told me tnen-Sut
now he was sure this was the
man he had seen
II kill you" the bos'n cried.
giving Lal a look that tailed
with his threat.
Turning to Lal I instructed
him to find the chief steward
and bring him at once. The
boS'n and I stood glaring at
each other as the boy left to
carry out my orders.
A few minutes later Lal re-
turned with the boss of the
Hinans, Want another tiger
gall?" I asked him. All smiles,
he nodded his head till 1
thought it would come off.
"All right" I said, take this
tiger and skin it."
During my conversation with
the steward the bos'n was 60
ing through some movements
that I didn't exactly like, but
I said nothing. He was beckon-
ing angrily to Lal and point
ing meaningly to his sheath
knife.
When I finished talking to
the Hinan boy, l addressed the
bos'n-with my fist. I clipped
him right on the chin and
sent him spinning across the
deck AS I have said, it is
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so Mr.. Ruralfax was in
vited to one of his city cous-
ms Swank society functions.
Was he equal to the occasion?"
mo. he said he couldn't
descend to their moronic level"
WhoSit-Why did MacGregor
fish without any bait on his
hook?
WhatSit-B ecause he and
O'Brien agreed that the first
one to catch a fish would pay
for the hire of the boat.
you say that Tobasco Ma
DISCO, the tenor, fought on the
high seas during the war?
didn't know he was in the SER
vice"
II said he fought on the
high 'C's'-fNr the doughboys
in France. The Pathfinder.
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Yokohama. Finishing
Reclamation Project

YOKOHAMA QN.S0. IT h e
510-acre reclamation prof e ct
started some time ago in the in
dustrial district of Yokohama is
nearing completion. and many
valuable sites and freight hand
ling facilities are being made
available to commerce, according
to report from Vice Consul Hay
ward G. Hill, Yokohama. The
project, when completed. is ex
pected to add greatly to the in
dustrial advantages of the city.
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Snappy Wise-Gacks

Hambone-Did Bertha speak
her mind when you told her
you loved another?
Beanpot-Yes, she said moth
ing.
Byrd-You say someone has
taken money from your pocket?
Maybe it was your wife.
WiSe-No, some money was
left.
Lissen-I hear so much about
halitosis. I don't know what
it is.
Hurja-That'S plainly evident
to anyone who gets close enough
to talk to you.
Towers-Why didn't you in
vite DR.. Highfee to your party?
Spires-I was afraid he might
forget and charge for his visit.
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Monopoly on Trucks
Erpected in Persia

BUSHIRE, Persia.-The rumor
is current among automobile deal
ers that the importation and dis
tribution of motor trucks in Persia
will soon become a government
moncroly.
This is of special interest to the
United States, as 80 per cent OF
the trucks imported into Persia
are American made and form by
far the most important item OF
trade between the two countries.
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VdcdtiOnists Carry
Canoes on Railroads

PARIS-Along with tennis rack
cts, golf bags and the rest OF their
baggage, vacationists this summer
may take their canoes, if they
are going to spend their holidays
anywhere in France.
The French state railways an
nounce that uncrated canoes will
be carried in the baggage cars of
passenger trains. The vacationist
must pay the relatively small ex-
cess baggage charge of $3.50 per
200 miles for this aceommoda-
ton.
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An Epic of Big Game Hunting

a tigers gall bladder was
out an animal that would have
brought me not less than a
thousand dollars.
The Chinese are almost as
sold on the leopard's gall blad-
der as they are on that of the
tiger, the principal difference
being that the leopard is sup
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bad business to strike a men,
ber of a ships crew-but I
knew I could show plenty of
provocation. The mate later
thanked me for hitting the
skunk.
So it goes. Because a Chinese
bos'n wanted the magic key
to permanent good health
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Herewith is the solution to yes
terday's puzzle: