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The Washington times., 1933-08-16
Mona Lisa's Secret

Many have stood, as I have
stood, in that gallery of the
old masters in the greatest of
all art museums, the Louvre
in Paris, and marvelled over
the mystery of that smiling
woman'S face-intrigued by the
enigmatic curve of the lovely
lips, and the bewitching, elusive
smile in the lovely eyes. And
the question which rises in the
mind of everyone who stands
before that little painting, that
tiny treasure Of humanity, no
bigger than a napkin, is: What
thought lies behind Mona Lisa's
smile?" What is the beautiful
lady of Florence thinking
about? What is the secret Of
that strange, elusive, mex
plicable smile?
DR.. Maurice Goldblatt, cele-
brated art critic of Chicago,
steps forth in the news to tell
us that the most famous OF
all smiles-the smile which has
become a synonym for woman's
witchery upon man, was the
result of a geometrical trick
worked by the greatest mind
the world has ever known,
with few exceptions. For the
artist, Leonardo da Vinci,
achieved that Mona Lisa smile
by fitting the lips of the
portrait so that the ends, curV-
ing in a complete circle, would
just touch the outer corners of
the eyes if the circle were COM
pleted. The arc of another
circle forms the outline of the
graceful head and this second
circle is exactly twice the
diameter of the first.
DR.. Goldblatt tells us that
the effect of the two circles
is to cause Mona Lisa's eyes
to focus upon her lips, this
creating Liza's mind that is
hers alone through all eternity.
The Washington times., 1933-08-16

Fortunate alike for the honor
and the commerce of the
American people is the failure
of the Farm Adjustment Admin
istration attempt to force the
Philippine Islands into an un-
fair sugar stabilization agree
ment which was intended to
include the sugar producers OF
continental United States, the
Philippine Islands, Hawaii and
the foreign Republic of Cuba.
This negotiation collapsed be.
cause the group Of special
interests that incubated it were
not able to agree upon the
division of the spoils.
Almost the only point upon
which these special interests
could agree was that the burden
of sacrifice involved in the plan
proposed should be chiefly
borne by the people OF the
Philippines.
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
The Human Side of the News
Marvellous Career of Leonardo da Vinci
By EdWin C. Hill

Science has numbered the
stars in their courses and set
up traffic lights along the
Milky Way. Science has dis
sected the rose to its last vel
vety filament. Science has
weighed the sunlight and
drained it Of its colors and
chemicals. But all Of the
passion for exactness which fires
these seekers after the hidden
secrets of nature cannot alter
or minimize the majesty of the
eternal celestial parade, or
add or detract from the glory
of the sun or tell us why a
rose smells so sweet.
And now comes one who is
an artist, not a scientist, to
explain by mathematics and
geometry a mystery which has
haunted the imagination Of
mankind for four hundred
years-the secret Of the smile
of La Gioconda, the battling
and bewitching smile Of Mona
Lisa.
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
The old-fashioned villain was
more frank about it. He

And THAT, dear children,
simply illustrates the difference
between the "single" and the
double standard" so often and
so widely discussed, these days.
Woman thought she was at
tanning a great fright" when
she helped herself to the right
to experiment with love. Now,
she is beginning to wonder If
she wasn't doing herself a great
wrong. For more than dec
ade she has been handing man
all the good breaks and dealing
him all the winning cards,
while she has been dealing her
self the joker.
There has been much dis
cussion, lately, as to whether
or not a modern man demands
that a woman should be bet
ter than he is. All of which
is tommyrot. It isn't because
men demand 1t, that a wise
headed, clear-sighted, modern
girl sets a clean, high code
for herself and lives up to it;
it's because her own feminine
soul and instinct demand it;
because nature demands tt
and because it makes her
HAPPY.
A normal-minded woman
cannot live mans way and be
happy. Biology and nature are
all against her. And she can't
change the rules Of the game.
Every woman is born an es-
sential monogamist-a one-man
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

TIMES AND INTO THIS NEW
DEAL AS INEVITABLY AS
WE CAME OUT OF CAVES
INTO COMMUNITIES.
Why did men move out Of
caves? Because caves became
too small to hold the growing
race.
Why have we come out Of
the Good Old Times? Because
those Good Old Times became
too small to hold our growing
need. Things began to pinch
things began to tester and
fight there in the darkness Of
our small, private programs
LIFE WANTED OUT. AND
LIFE CAME OUT.
And now where do we go
from here? We go into plenty
of danger and discomfort-as
the race has always gone when
it took a step ahead.
AND IT'S GOING TO BE
TOUGH ON EVERYONE!
For even if, by some magic,
every man could have a job
tomorrow and every debt could
be cancelled, that wouldn't put
us back where grandpa was.
For the New Deal implies more
than getting new jobs. 1T i'm
plies getting new thoughts, new
attitudes. new programs for
every department Of our lives
or those new jobs won't last
long enough for us to sign the
payroll.
aiming exactly what?
Meaning that slowly, but surely,
the Rest of the Gang, are
going to have a say about
everything you do, everything
you have. What you earn. :.
how you earn it. what you
eat and wear. where you buy
it. ., your family life, your mar
riage, your fitness for either.
how you train your child. :.
how you keep your home. E.
what you save. what you
spend on yourself and on your
needier neighbor. slowly but
surely, these erstwhile "per-
sonal problems" will become
matters for national concern.
private rights" are going
:. going. ALMOST GONE!
Presently we will recognize but
one right-HUMAN RIGHT.
AND THE PERSON WHO
ISN'T WILLING TO PLAY
BALL ON THAT SCHEDULE
WILL BE JUST OUT OF
LUCK!
So-what? Do get busy?
Stop waiting for the old times
to get back. Begin studying
these new times. these new
ideas. these new needs. Thank
God you're living in the SWELL
est era that the world has
ever seen, but don't kid your
self that it's going to be any
snap. Watch Washington dish
it out
AND THEN BE A SPORT
AND TAKE TIL
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Ino.)
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
Unfair Plan

Under the proposed plan, the
sugar producers OF tn e
Philippines would have been re-
ouired to curtail their estimated
production of sugar by 80 per
cent, although the sugar
growers of Hawaii and Porto
Rico would have been asked to
curtail their estimated pro-
duction by only S per cent.
And no curtailment of estimated
production was to be asked OF
the cane and beet sugar pro
ducers of continental United
States.
The Philippine government
gets its main support from the
Philippine sugar industry.
By exporting sugar to the
United States. the Philippine
people are able to purchase
here those things that they
cannot produce in the islands.
They are also enabled to pay
their foreign Indebtedness and
to maintain the Ahipping which
provides travel facilities to and
from the iSlan1s.
This shipping is largely
American. Most Of these for
eign debts are due to Ameri-
cans, and most Of the pur-
chases which the Philippine
people make abroad are Ameri-
can products.
To ask the Philippine people
to curtail their estimated pro-
duction Of sugar by 80 per cent
would be asking them to throw
away that much Of their reve-
The Washington times., 1933-08-16

The great Leonardo was q
master mathematician and
engineer, as we'll as a master
painter, one of the great
geniuses produced in 10000
years by the mind of man
struggling toward divinity. He
was the illegitimate son of a
merchant and a peasant, and
lived ST full and remarkable
years from 1852 until 1919.
His other great masterpiece is
the painting of The Last
Supper" which is tragically
fading upon the plaster wall of
a little church in the city of
Milan.
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
Sugar Agreement Failure
Fortunate for Country
BY James T. Williams, Jr.'

nue. which goes almost entirely
to Americans.
The Philippine Islands today
is the best market the United
States has for cotton goods,
dairy products, canned sardines
and galvanized iron sheets.
In 1929 we sold to the Philip
pines directly from our market
$15,O00,000 worth of cotton
goods. In addition, the Philip
pines purchased from other
countries $6,5O0,00O of cotton
goods which we're made from
raw cotton exported by the
United States to these coun-
tries.
The Washington times., 1933-08-16

ure. It isn't a
generous ges-
ture which is
going to fix up
a little tempo
rary slump .
m a k e e. very
b body comfort
able . usher
back the Good
Old Times.
The New Deal
isn't a gesture,
at all. It's the
beginning Of a
NEW ERA .
A NEW LINE
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
WORDS FROM WISE MEN

But the gods hear mems
hands before their lips.-Swin-
burne.
4 4 4
A sudden thought strikes me;
let us swear an eternal friend
ship. H. Frere.
\
Though lost to sight, to mem
ory dead.-George Linley.
The Washington times., 1933-08-16

Applause is the spur Of noble
minds, the end and aim Of
weak oneS.-C. C. Cotton.
X X
1t is folly for you to be sulky
toward him whose power is
superior to yours.
And made almost q Sin Of
abStinence.-Dryden..
The Washington times., 1933-08-16
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

woman: and no matter how
often she may experiment with
love or marriage, she is al
ways seeking for the ONE
MAN and the one genuine,
ideal love. She is never salts
fled or content, until or unless
she finds these.
The modern man is awfuily
strong for what he calls "the
single standard" until he hap,
pens to fall seriously in love.
Then, all of a sudden, he
ceases to be modern" and
becomes as old-fashioned as a
tallow-dip and as primitive as
Adam. He wants HIS woman
to be a one-man woman!
There must have been some
thing, after all, in those quaint
old Victorian ideals and codes,
just as there was in those quaint
old Victorian remedies. That
onion-syrup your grandmother
poured down your throat and
that mutton tallow she rubbed
on your chest CURED you OF
what allied you.
And that old-fashioned femi-
nine code Of one-man love GER
tainly brought the average girl
more peace and happiness, got
her to the altar more quickly
and safely and kept her hus-
band more steadfaSt, than the
Mexican divorce idea or the
companionate marriage racket.
It's splendid to "know life"
and to be clear-eyed and So
phisticated. But you don't have
to commit murder or to go to
Jail or to join a band of racke-
teers and shoplifters to know
what crime is. And you don't
have to experiment with love to
find out what love is.
Love Is something at which
no woman can PLAY without
So e.: .A9SS=>
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The Washington times., 1933-08-16
The New Deal Means a
New Age

Don't kid yourself about this
New Deal.
It isn't an emergency meas
The Washington times., 1933-08-07
RESCUED BY DOG

UTICA, N. Y. GN.S0.-Dusty.
a shepherd dog, smashed through
the panel on the kitchen door,
ran upstairs and woke his mas
ter when the house in which they
live on Eagle Bay road burned
to the ground. Donald Burnap,
the lucky master of the dog, es-
caDed
The Washington times., 1933-08-07
Times Daily Pattern
Pattern 1927.

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The Washington times., 1933-08-07
FRIENDSHIP KNOT

The quaint title Of this
quilt, Friendship Knot, is ap-
propriate to the design made
Of small scraps Of material,
joined together with a knot Of
plain material. Like the pop
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used. The varieties Of colors
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well into many rooms. The
patchwork design can be en-
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small quilting motifs at the
center and corners Of the
block.
Pattern 41O comes to you
with complete instructions for
cutting, sewing and finishing,
together with yardage chart,
diagram of quilt to help ar
The Washington times., 1933-08-07
PATTERN 41O

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
KARNESLEAvES FOR KETCHIKAN
 TO SPEND WEEK

To meet with the School Boards of Ketchikan and Charcoal Point at a joint session to be held by them next Monday afternoon, An thony J. Karnes, Commissioner of Education, will leave here tomorrow or Sunday, it was announced today. He expects to be absent about a week
 A movement is on foot to con- solidate the Ketchikan and Char coal Point public schools. Efforts to reach a satisfactory agreement on the terms of consolidation so far have been unsuccessful.
 MT. Karnes was asked by both Boards to assist them in the mat ter. He said the consolidation was for the best interests of both schools and expressed his con- fidence that a solution to the difficulties so far preventing an agreement would be reached.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
M M|CR AT|ON OF
 SEAL HEAVIEST
 IN MANY YEARS

The seal migration this Spring off the coast of Baranof Island has been the largest in recent record, according to advices re- ceived by Capt. M. J. O'Connor, Assistant Agent of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. The mammals are still passing off, shore in large numbers.
 One boat containing Tn di a n hunters, five in number, is operat- ing out of Sitka So far p seals killed by them have been authen- ticated, it was reported today by Special Warden w. R. Garster, who arrived last night on the patrol vessel Widgeon, Capt. Clyde l. Dell
 Other boats may start out with hunting parties shortly. The mi- grafton northward usually ends about the middle of June. Hunting operations last until well along toward the end of the run.
 The Widgeon was dispatched to- day to Taku Harbor to destroy a beaver dam erected across the mouth of a salmo on spawning stream there. Frank and George Bach were taken out to dynamite the obstruction Two years ago a dam was destroyed in the same To- cation.
 Monday the Widgeon will pro- ceed to upper Lynn Canal to place markers at the mouths of salmon spawning streams, designating the area closed around each. It vii return to Sitka sometime nex week
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
HITLERITES
 CAUSE RIOT
 IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, May 26.-Rioting broke out late yesterday on pier in connection with the arrival of Hitler's repre- n tatives at the forthcoming Chicago World Fair
 -Hitlerites, composed of sev- eral thousand men and women, be- came enraged when the Germans were transferred from liner to a tug and brought to the Battery.
 The Manhattan police had to level guns at the crowd before it quieted down. Several persons were arrested.
 The Anti-Hitlerites displa ed banners condemning the 'sNazi murder-terror regime" in connec- tion with the treatment of the Jews.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
EARL E. BROCK
 CONVICTED OF
 MANSLAUCHTER
Case with Alaska Angle Has Ended in Seattle
 with Jury Verdict

SEATTLE, May 26. = Earl E Brock, of Spokane, Wash, has been convicted by a Superior Court jury of manslaughter and first degree assault for fatally shooting Isaac Smith, aged 40 years, and the wounding of Miss Aurelis Stachowski, in a hotel room here a month ago.
 Miss Stachowski testified sht worked for Brock for several years in Spokane and later opened a beauty parlor with his aid. She said she later left Spokane and he pursued her, both to California and Alaska and sought a recon ciliation.
 The woman said she returned here, Brock located her and they had quarrel, terminating in the shooting, in which Smith was ar innocent party.
 Brock will be sentenced next Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
Trade Und Business This
 Week Better than for Any
 Week During Past 3 Years

Reports of steadily increasing employment continue to be re- ceived from the centers devoted to the production of steel and allied products.
 Autos, textiles, rubber goods shoes, leather and lumber of course are leading and indices are indi- cative of a quicker tempo of in dustrial activity which has now become too accentuated to be att tributed merely to a seasonal rise, . the review concludes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
Attempt to
 Rob Starts
 ToughFighl
Two Baseball Players, h. cluding the Great Art
 Shires, Mess Up Party

LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 26.- Arthur, the Great, Shires, and Jimmy Adair, American Associa- tion baseball players, are among five persons charged with malicious assault after a fight in which Jack Beacon received fracture of the right leg.
 Shires and Robert Armstrong, another of the five, were cut and bruised and were treated at a hospital, then ordered to report to the police.
 Shires told the police the fight started when an attempt was made to steal $125 from Carrie Potts who was also cut and bruised.
 During the brawl Shires was hit over the head with chair by another woman at the party"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
M0RCANSECRETS
 N 0W IN HANDS .0F co M M l TEE.
Partnership Contract Sub mitted to Senate
 Investigators
CONTENTS MAY BE
 ISSUED TO PUBLIC
List of Depositors in Pow
 erful Financial Firm Also Sought

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Sen- ators Investigating the House oi Morgan debated today whether tc let the public know how the power ful firm, to whose door cam C governments asking for help, is controlled.
 The Senate Investigating Com mittee had the facts in a copy of a partnership contract sub mitted by the Morgan Company for the Senators private informa- ton.
 Secret Session
 A secret session was called this morning to decide whether to make this contract.
 The investigators are also seek ing list of those who have $l00,- 900 or more on deposits in the Morgan Bank.
 Makes Decision
 Late this afternoon the Commit tee decided to withhold from the public the list of debts owned by the Morgan partners to the Nor gan Company but no agreement has been reached on the question of publishing the partnership ar ticles under which the firm operat- es. The list of individuals having more than $10O,000 on deposit with the firm will be made available to the committee The question oi publication will be decided later
 Plain clothesmen today guarded Morgan.
 New Revelations
 George Howard, President of the Utilities holding organization oi the United Corporation, testified the corporation acquired the util- ities stocks from the Morgan firm in 1929 at S12,O0O,OOO less than the market price.
 Further Revelations
 Besides stating his United Cor poration was controlled by Morgan and Company, and the United was affiliated with companies doing p percent of the electric and gas output business in the Nation Howard said the United received from Morgan and Company various utilities concerns in the boom days at $12O0O,O00 less than market value.
 Howard said the banking house in consideration for. this had ob- tained dominance over the United Corporation affairs.
 Late this afternoon the investi- gation recessed until next Wednes- day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
INDIAN BOARD
 IS ABOLISHED
 BY ROOSEVELT
Governmental Reorganiza. ton Program Begin
 ming to Work

WASHINGTON, May 26. - The Board of Indian Commissioner created more than 50 years ago to act in an advisory capacity 10 the Indian Bureau, was ordered abolished yesterday by President Roosevelt as part of the govern mental reorganization program.
 The order becomes effective in 60 days unless two thirds of each House of Congress disapproves
 The Board of ten served with out remuneration other than ex- penses. The duties of the Board have been transferred to the De- partment of the Interior
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
AMERICAN LEGION TO HANDLE FOURTH OF
 JULY CELEBRATION

In response to a request Dy the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, the Executive Committee of the Afford John Bradford Post No. 4 of the American Legion, will handle the arrangements for the Fourth of July Celebration this year, it was announced by the committee. To make arrangements, the com mittee will meet at the Dugout on Monday, May 29 at 8 o'clock in the evening.
 Five hundred dollars have been appropriated by the Chamber of Commerce to be used for the cele- bration and will be turned over to the Executive committee of the Legion,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
AMERICA WILL RESORT TO NEW
 TRADE TACTICS
Official Quarters Announce Program Is Already
 Contemplated
MOVE WILL HINGE
 ON 2 CONFERENCES
Nationalistic Feelings May Arise Both at London
 and Geneva

WASHINGTON, May 26.-
 The United States Government,
 said official quarters last night,
 will be armed for an economic
 war if the International efforts
 at world economic conference
 fail to achieve lowered trade
 barriers.
 At the same time officials
 expressed concern lest strong
 NatiOnalistic feelings in var
 iOus parts of the world should
 lessen prospects of success,
 not only in London but also
 the arms reduction cOnfernece
 in Geneva.
 Although hopeful that such course will not be necessary, of ficials said definitely, though pri vately, that the United States putting itself in position to em bark on a policy of comparativ commercial independence with tn rest of the world and work out more self contained national econ omy if efforts of Internationa action fail.
 The legislative machinery unde which this will be brought about if necessary will include a farr bill and industrial bill plus tarif powers which the President to receive shortly. Al have a bearing on the loosenin or restricting of trade activitie.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26

NEW YORK, May 26.-Trade and business this week, said the Dun -Bradstreet Review today, has shown a more consistent improve ment than any week during the last three years.
 The rise in general business has been lifted to a level sufficiently high to reveal it's stability which appears to be fortified adequately to withstand the usual seasonal recessions of the summer months. says the review,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-26
WYNN GODDARD AND SON
 LEAVE ON ESTEBETH TO
 VISIT MRS. F. l.. GODDARD

To visit his mother, Mrs F. L. Goddard at the Goddard Hot Springs, E. M. Goddard accompan- jed by his son, Jack, left on the motorship Estebeth last evening Mrs. E. M. Goddard has been visit ing at the springs for several weeks.
 MT. Goddard will return to Juneau in a week or ten days and Jack will remain with his grand mother during the summer va cation.