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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13
An Optical Colossus.
(New York Times.)

Six million dollars for a deeper penetration of space and a searching examination of suns, clusters and gaaxies! It is huge sum-yet only a fifth of the cost of batteship-that has been granted by the International Education Board for the construction of 20O-inch reflector in design
 Ing which the astrophysiciStS of the California In Stitute Of Technology and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have furnished a notable example Of scientific cooperation Into installation which will unfold new marvels of the heavens have gone five years of invention that would have done credit to an Edison, of experimenting with aluminium films on glass to reflect starlight, of trial castings of huge blocks of glass (one of them 120 inches in diameter and therefore larger than the great lghtcacher of Mount Wilson,, of thorough exploration of the West for suitable mountain site small army lof experts has cleared away doubts and solved technical problems of extraordinary difficulty. Yet only the preliminary work has been done. Perhaps another five of self-sacrifice and devotion will be needed before this colossal eye will sweep the skies.
 It the historic, roughly mounted 72-inch reflector of Lord Rosse, built in 1845 and still in use in the early Eighties, that first resolved blurs of light far out in space spiral nebuae Only ten years ago the famous 1OO-inch mirror of Mount Wilson made it's first revelations new means of determining stellar distances with struc
 ure and scale of the Milky Way clarified dameters of stars measured with precision that would have seemed incredible half a century ago, new light thrown on the constitution of matter outer nebuae rushing away at prodigous speeds and thus support ing relativstic belief in expanding universe surely the record is unparalleled in the astronomy of our time. Scarcely advance in theoretical Knowledge acquired in the last decade but owes somethng to the unrivalled power of that mighty mirror Yet it is advance that only whets the appetite for avid light grasper-a glass of twice the diameter and fully ten times the collecting power of Mount Wilson's 1oO-nch mirror. How minute instruments in comparison with the celestial unverse!" exclaimed Fl Karakat, the Arabian astronomer who built the great observatory of Cairo in the twelfth century Seekers of truth among the stars echo him eight centuries later.
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while she's always at least fifteen minutes late. it's now twenty min utes after the time was due to meet her"
 TRAFFIC was disappointingly | light as they returned swiftly to the city. and Norman Dale, as sisting Judith to alight, asked If they couldn't resume the discussion Esoon.
 T really don't know" Judith an. swered. We're leaving for the Rio DiabIo basin June first and Big Tom is quite liable to keep me working evenings to catch up with his other affairs before we go. Suppose you telephone me?"
 q will, or else I'll see you at board meeting. or drop down for a chat while Toms off ol one of his wifes pink teas"
 Judith hurried into the hotel lobby. discovered Clia hurrying in behind her, and turned to accept the red haired girls apologies.
 "As if you weren't late. too." pro tested Ciia preceding her into the Tnlain dining room, "and didn't see you crawling out of Norman Dales car?"
 'Umhum." admitted Judith as they were seated at a window table. any objections?"
 Plenty" retorted Clia with the frankness of an old school friend. don't want you suffering from an gina pectoris or some other heart ailment."
 What do you mean? Is there anything wrong with MT. Dale?"
 No. That's the trouble. He's so completely all right every woman who. ever sees him wants to take him home for keeps"
 "Money?" inquired Judith guile lessly.
 Not much. Doesn't need it. Not that he's so heart breakingly hand some, but he has got nice sort of he-man look about him. There's a lot of millionaire mamas of mar riageable daughters willing to make up the deficit if he'll only promise to love, honor and cherish their off spring. How he's managed to reach the ripe old age of twenty-eight without exchanging his freedom for franchise is beyond my powers" fCopyrtoht. f9S4, by Jednne Bopman)
 Tomorrow, cIa and Judith cook
 up story.
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Judith Lane
Lv JEANNE BOWDfAN

1 how, due to traific ligSts. one-way thoroughfares. or pcrchance the in- clination of the man at the wheel, Judith found them speeding across the arch of the bayou bridge with the queer town of little homes lying beyond in the dusk.
 On the crest of the arch, traffic caught and held them a fieeting mo- ment. Judith looked down on the roofs of the little always re. minds me of library" she confded, "the roofs are like colored bindings of books turned upside down :. think I'd like to live in one"
 No" countered her companion, meshing gears, You should live in a house with slim white pillars and a green roof. green shutters and window boxes with pink gerani- ums." And then in the sheltered in. timacy of a storm -assailed coupe they talked of homes and houses.
 I've never lived in a house." Ju dith confided. tits always been con struction camp shacks. tents. hotels. apartments and once. while Dad was building a bridge, I lived in a monastery, deserted of course"
 "It would have been deserted once the occupants hau seen you," came the chivalrous response and Judith tilting her head forward to laugh. caught glimpse of the clock on the dash board-"please 1 must go back, I'm meeting Clia Sanford, and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13
Chapter Two NOR MAN DALE

IUDITH'S stenographic training J her practical and technical knowledge of engineering and the trust Tom Bevins was able to place in the daughter of lifelong friend, made her invaluable to him.
 At first the work seemed to her like compromise between engi- neering and business domesticity and then gradually she became more the stenographer and less the engineer. And as she caught up the loose ends of daily work and wove them into the pattern of the con. struction company's business. her respect for the office wives" of the world deepenel until it verged on pride ill a profession.
 The moon-faced clock brought Judith to the realization she was due to meet Clia in five minutes.
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She scurried to the locker. pulled the perky delft blue hat to smart angle, donned the jacket of her new suit, whisked powder-puff aeross her nose, lip stick across her lips and grabbing letters to be dropped into the mail chute darted out of the office to the elevator.
 The letters slithered down the glass chute like one-winged pigeons. Judith heard the elevator doors clang open. She stepped briskly into the car, then-"Oh," she said breathlessly looking up into laugh ing dark eyes which seemed amused at her start of surprise.
 Working late, aren't you, Miss Lane?" asked Norman Dale, junior partner of the firm to which she had just mailed letter.
 "No." she countered. just using the office as waiting room, had a late appointment" And under her breath words were singing "the perky blue hat the trim new suit let the rain ruin them. they've served their purpose. Nor. man Dale has seen mo as something other than cog in the office ma. chinery."
 "My cars just outside and it's raining pitch-forks. May take you wherever you're going?" THE elevator had made swift descent to the lobby before Jul dith had recovered her breath suffi. ciently to respond to Normans in vitation.
 For two years she had been watching him across the width of the board room table; a barrier as definite as the social wall which seemed to rear itself between aspir. ing young stenographers and prom ising young lawyers.
 Dale, Lampere and Morrison had been retained by the Bevins Con- struction company to handle it's le. gal affairs since the inception of the company, and Norman Dale. assum. ing his fathers place with the law firm, at the elder Dale's death, had gradually assumed his duties.
 Now that the toard table and it's symbolical barrier had been re- moved, Judith found herself re, spending to Norman's invitation with a still breathless-"Id so ap. preciate it."
 The car was at the curb. The Rice was four blocks beyond. but some.
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took his fight to the floor of the House seeking to get amendment through
 Although he was not successful, he did make an impression with the force of his argument. He cited the sums appropriated for the Indians outside Of Alaska, showing average of between $5e and $6O per capita as compared to $29 per capita for those in the Territory And this' he declared lis simply an illustration of what has been going since Alaska was taken from Russia"
 The Delegates efforts failed, not because he did not make out strong case, but because the House is committed to policy of rejecting amendments that will increase the sums allowed by the Com mttee on Appropriations for any of the many activities of the Government. And though in this instance the amount necessary would have been insignificant the danger lay in breaking down a rule that has become practically ironclad.,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13
BAN REMOVAL MAY NOT BE
 SUFFICIENT.

The announcement that the Government, at the instigaton of President Roosevelt will lift the quota ban on import liquors raises the question If this action will in itself be sufficient to reduce the excessive retail prices being charged for liquor in the legitimate trade. It has been observed in the past three months that when large new quotas are made available for importers, the buying of whiskey and brandy abroad is sluggish It has also been observed that there large quantities of very inferior whiskey being put the market. Finally, it is generally admitted that prices so high that bootlegging has not been curbed as drastically had been hoped
 Raising the quota ban imports however, should help Some of the hesitancy to buy foreign liquors at prices that would at least reduce somewhat existing high quotations has been due to the fact that the quota system made it impossible to obtain constant and adequate supplies. Dealers feared to make reductions in prices when they knew they would be temporary and would have to be discontinued as soon the import stocks were exhausted This would be cured if there were no quota barrier.
 As long there is import duty of $5 per gallon spirituous liquors, however domestic dis tilers will take advantage of it to charge all the traffic will bear The supply of local whiskey, properly aged is far below the current demand. It takes years to properly age whiskey Therefore, it will be long time before the supply overtakes demand even though there is no quota barrier for the foreign distilers to negotiate Certainly there IS no need for both the quota system and the high import tax. They alternative methods of con- trolling imports. It is not necessary to use them together
 In abandoning the quota system, the Administra- tion can at least compel the American dstillers to maintain higher quality of whiskies than they are doing now. It can insure some reduction in current prices although the $5 import will oper ate against reasonable prices since in addition to that duty, there is a $2 Federal tax and in most States sl tax is added, making total of $8 per gallon That is more than good whiskey cost the consumer in pre-Prohibition days, is also than it ought to cost now.
 There is only one way in which bootlegging can be stopped: that is to give the consumer better whiskey than he can buy from the illicit dealer al cost that is comparable to the bootlegged variety
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SYNOPSIS: Judith Lnne's friend, the newspaper girl Clid Sanford, just has called to sdy she must fit- terviet1 Judith as the "pertcct ste- noOrdpher." Woitin0 to 1oil Chd, Judith recalls the Blindness of her employer "Bi0 Tom" BcDins uho has 0dtched over her since the death O. her en0ineeT fdther. She just has taken q letter rom Big Torn 10 his attorney, Morton Ldm- pore. tohich said that Bio Tom picnncd to be0in construction on on obnndOHed dam project fn vest cru Ter6s thronGh the fdilure Of iohioh naay small farmers had been Tttiiled.
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A SINCERE EFFORT FAILS.

When the House Committee Appropriations was considering the Interior Department supply bill Delegate Dimond sought to get increase in the amount set up for aiding Alaska's Indian population He was unsuccessful there and later
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Under present conditions it seems that French Premier stays in office just long enough to locate his hat and window overlooked by the throwers of paving blocks.-(Macon Telegraph0
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13
2n YEARS AGO
MARCH IS, 1914.
Prom The Empire

MARCH Is, 1914. | People of Juneau were looking forward with eagerness to the an- nuai Elks' ball to be held on March l9. A treat in the way Of musical program was being planned to begin at 8:30 o'clock to be followed by dancing and banquet. Decorations were to be unusually attractive and everything was being done to make 1t an outstanding event. Arrangements were in the hands of the house committee, J. H. King, H. J. Tur- ner and Benry Erie. It was to i be for Elks and their ladies.
 Territorial Senator Henry Ro- den, one of the leading members of the Territorial Legislature, was a passenger on the Northwestern, bound for Juneau. He was on his way home after an extended vis- it to his native Switzerland, the first he had made since leaving as a boy in the sos.
 George R. Walker, U. s. Attor- ney for the Third Judicial Division, in Alaska, who was in Juneau at the Cain Hotel, predicted that AL aska would soon go dry.
 
 Weather for the preceding "A hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 43 de- grees and the minimum 35. Pre- cipitation was ,63 inches.
 The young bachelors of Juneau were to give a Hard Times" ball on the night of St. Patrick's Day, March IT, and much interest was being manifested in the affair.
 Monte A. Snow, of Treadwell, spent the day in Juneau visiting friends.
 The committee soliciting sub scriptions to the stock of the as- sociation that was to purchase and maintain recreation park in Ju- neau, had fine success on the first day of the campaign and obtained 5000 or approximately one-third of the amount to be raised.
 "The Bachelors Honeymoon" musical comedy, presented by the Alaska Dramatic Society, under the direction of H. Molvor, was a great success.
 MT. Lovegrove, as Jobson, the gardener, was the source of many laughs. The characters portrayed by Mrs. Britton and Miss Nina Jorgenson were the real life of the play. A. H. ziegler and MT. McIvor also acquitted themselves like professionals while a special Merrillty by Dorothy Haley and Ruth Merrill, won rounds of ap- plause.
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Ripley Believe It NoD says this is really l940 instead of 1884 A. D. Well, depression does drag slowly and it may have been ten instead of four years have been discussing it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

Now that France seems to have won complete success in it's battle with the rioters isn't it time she was approaching Uncle Sam for Victory Loan?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

Perhaps President Roosevelt will turn out to be the only man who ever beat the stock market Buffalo Courier -Express)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

Ten thousand chickens were stolen in Indiana last year. Looks like there must be lot of ragged individuals over there who still believe in the theory of chicken in every pot.-(Ohio State Journal)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

Hitler Planning War in Five Years.-Headline. Future planning seems to be making progress in every field except Newark, Ohio Advocate
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

When last MT. Ogden Mills was wondering why everyone was driving the other way in Iway street-( Detroit News) li isssil' .i4ls si
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

Monte A. Snow, of Treadwell, spent the day in Juneau visiting friends.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

George R. Walker, U. s. Attor- ney for the Third Judicial Division, in Alaska, who was in Juneau at the Cain Hotel, predicted that AL aska would soon go dry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

Weather for the preceding "A hours was cloudy with rain. The maximum temperature was 43 de- grees and the minimum 35. Pre- cipitation was .63 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-13

The young bachelors of Juneau were to give a Hard Times" ball on the night of St. Patricks Day, March IT, and much interest was being manifested in the affair.
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while she's always at least fifteen
 minutes late, it's now twenty min.
 utes after the time was due to meet her"
The Washington times., 1934-05-08
Players to Offer
Famous Classic

The third attraction Of the
National Players season, opening
Monday night May IA, will be
Aaron Hoffman's comedy, "Wel
come Stranger which ran for
two full seasons in New York
and ten months in Chicago.
For this play the National
Players will be augmented by
Robert Fischer. professor OF
dramatic arts in the National
Institute of Municipal Arts, New
York, to play the role made
famous in the original company
by George Sidney. The lamented
David Belasco attested to the
talent of Robert Fischer in this
tribute: Il consider Robert
Fischer one of the finest char
acter actors of our contemporary
stage"
welcome Stranger" is described
as one of the most human plays
that has ever been written. 1t
tells the story of a sweet minded
man who goes to a small New
England village and is Inundated
and Stunned because of his Jew
ish faith. The friendly interven-
ton of an aged inventor, one of
the jokes of the village, saves him
from Punishment and further dis
grace. Woven into the plot
fabric is a poignant love story
that registers as a dramatic
classic.
The full strength Of the Ma
tional Players will be enlisted for
the presentation of welcome
Stranger" including Ruth Abbott
and Roy Roberts. The play also
will mark the return to the E
Street footlights Of Freddy Sher-
man as juvenile.
The Washington times., 1934-05-08
Roadside Group
Opens June 19

That most novel of all summer
pastimes of New Yorkers and New
Englanders, barn" theater-going,
will be open to the local drama
devotees on June 10, when the
Roadside Theater, Washington's
own barn" theater, situated six
miles beyond Bethesda on the
Rockville Pike, will open a season
of summer stock with a good old
melodrama, The Octoroon, or
Life in louisiana" by Dion Bouci-
cault.
Alternate presentation of the
most popular mid-nineteenth cen
tury melodramas with Broadway
hits of the past few seasons that
have never been produced in
washington by either professional
or amateur companies, is an
nounced by Walter Pick, general
manager of the Roadside Theater.
Such a program will insure the
atrical entertainment of wide
variety, under ideal conditions,
away from city heat and traffic" "
Mr.. Pick assures US.
To reach the Roadside Theater,
one drives Cor is conveyed by
street car, bus, or airplane) out
the Rockville Pike six miles. Just
opposite the far end of the Con-
gressional Airport landing field, a
macadam road meets the pike.
About ITS yards down this road is
the Roadside Theater.
The Washington times., 1934-05-08

191l-The Graf Waldersee is
carrying the Rubinoff family to
the United States. Somewhere in
the Atlantic lose my youth
am IA and feel old with the re-
Sponsibility Of earning a living.
The captain likes music. I play
for him daily and eat first class
food. What is the song about
Tommy Tucker who played for mis-
Supperp
I yearn to see the Stakus Of Lib
erty. We land in Philadelphia. It
Is years before I see the greatest
Of all torch bearers.
My thoughts fly. 1t is 20 years
later. The possibilities Of radio
set the amusement world afire.
Everyone is auditioning. I do 1t,
too, with special arrangements,
and q well rehearsed orchestra.
The coffee distributors like it.
Their program is the only radio
commercial have played to date.
On January II, 1881, I am intro
duced to radio America by Rudy
Vallee, as a conductor and SoloiSt.
1912 My first conducting as
Signment, at Forbes Elementary
School in Pittsburgh where the
family makes its home. An Or
chestra Of 10 and 12-year-olds. The
principal, Joseph McDermott, pays
me q dollar q week of his own so
The Washington times., 1934-05-08

much modesty never got a col
umnist anywhere.
IA. Don't boast. Let the other
fellow take the bows. If you must
talk about yourself. use the I'VE"
style instead of the "I." Why
get raped for being an egotist
when it isn't at all necessary?
Don't tell your readers what a
great guy you are. Let them
find out for themselves. Be mod
est, Leonard. It pays.
Is. Never steal from the other
fellow. If possible, read care
fully every column that is pub
lished and scrupulously avoid u.s.
ing anything that resembles an
other mans style. An imitator
is never a true success, Leonard,
so create your material yourself.
16. If rival columniSt hits
upon a good idea, my boy, grab
it for yourself the very next day.
Don't worry about being called
an imitator because, no matter
what you write, you'll be called
that anyhow. Steal all you can
from the other fellow and, if he
squawks, to hell with him.
II. Print as many contributions
as you can. People like to see
their names in the paper. If
you don't print lot of contribu-
tions, the folks will squawk be-
cause you're not giving them a
break. Remember that.
18. Watch out on the number
Of contributions that you print.
Don't go in for that angle too
heavily. If you publish too many
contributions, the folks will
squawk because you're being lazy.
Remember that.
I regret that I've come to the
end of my space, Leonard. be-
cause I have many more things
to tell you about the gentle art
Of columning. I hope that the
foregoing will be of assistance to
you, as it is the product of years
of experience.
Don't mention it, my boy.
Don't mention it,.