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Evening star., 1934-05-27

YOUTHFUL town clothes take taf-
feta seriously in trig little suits
with crisp white organdie tops. With
slightly longer skirts, they're perfect
for daylight dining or in matinee in
navy. brown, checked. plaid and polka
dot patterns. Checked and dotted
taffeta dresses with short sleeves and
white linen collars occasionally are
accompanied by plain jacket. Yel-
low is favorite for blouses with both
blue and brown. as complement to
fresh un-tanned compilations.
Taffeta accents continue smart.
Ribbed sheer suits in dark colors are
given gay contrast with checked tai
feta tie and cuffs, and are worn with
matching plaid taffeta breton sailor
Plaid taffeta blouses accompany navy
alpaca suits, and here again the taf-
feta note is repeated in hat or acces-
sorry.
Flowerv ensembles with finger-tip
matching jackets and organdie collars
are dotting the landscape in both dark
and light prints. These white lingerie
trimmings are everywhere. and revers
that fall like soft jabots or swing
round the neck scarf-wise are a cool
and ingeune touch. Velveteen two
thirds coats over printed frocks make
grand combina tion, in navy, brown
and butter yellow
The cape silhouette is very much IN,
Evening star., 1934-05-27

Barbara Bell Pattern No. 125S-B is
designed In sizes IA to 20 and 80 to
AZ. Size l6. or "a, requires 5% yards
of either IS or 80 inch material.
Every Barbara Bell pattern has an
illustrated instruction guide that is
easy to follow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
RESPONSIBILITY ON BUSINESS, ALSO.

Faith in America and in ourselves was the real text of an inspiring address by Merle Ihorpe' eo'oi of Nations Business before the thirty -elghth annual dinner of the Indiana Bankers Association recently Like other present expressions of the counrys eao ing writers on commerce and finance, MT lhorpe conveyed warning to business not to oVerao all attitude of gloom. With faith regained, he said, There will be a normal exchange Of what each has to offer the other in this complex and vital modern society And thrift sacrifice and good judg- men will not be penalized for the slothu neer-oo- well and the irresponsible
 We Americans" declared MT. Tohrpe "are impetuous and impatient and, above all emotional. Our memories are short. Only five years ago other nations were sending commissions, private ono or fical to study and report And may l recall to you their findings" These, he said, were that with only seven per cent of the earth's population the United States had more purchasing power than all Europe combined; has created and owns more than one-half of the worlds wealth; consumes one- half of the worlds coffee one-half Of it's tins; an equal share of it's rubber one-fourth of it's sugar; two-thrds of its crude petroleum and three-fourths of it's silk With only six per cent of the worlds acreage this country harvesting more than one half of the worlds foodstuffS it extracts 60 per cent of it's minerals; has developed and uses nearly 50 per cent of it's railways and electrical energy and on it's 100000 miles of paved highways operates s2 per cent of the entire world output of auto- mobiles
 And B. c. Forbes, noted financial editorial writer noted recently: After all the responsibility fol bringing about better times rests just heavily upor business leaders as upon President Roosevelt It is the duty of every employer, of every respectable citizen, to make the best of unalterabe facts and conditions and to exert every effort to keep the country going in the right direction, economically and employment-wise" :"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
Reforming the Machinery.
(NeW York Times.J

Senator Norrs's sincerity and unselfish desire to improve the Government and the conditions of his fellow-citizens have long been evident that even the opponents of many of his theories and pro- posals have fondness and nobody can help having respect, for him. If for the moment, he has been checked in his effort to make Presidential elections go the way of the lame ducks, he is still full of heart and hope and the reforms which, he is sure, would bring about "a more nearly perfect democ- racy" One of these paths to perfection is the substitution in Nebraska of a small unicameral for the ordinary American bicameral Legislature
 When I die" he says, "any benefit to my country is wiped out unless I reform, not the law, but the machinery of government" Here it seems to us, he falls into common error of re- formers. AS a class they seem to be persuaded that by changing the mere mechanics of govern ment they have achieved automatically an immense improvement in the Government. Modern wisdom
 flung away the method of electing Senators ordained Iby inexperienced ancestors. Democracy may have been made more perfect but has the intel lectual distinction of the Senate been increased? The novces of 1787 thought they had good reasons for providing different methods for the selection of the members of the House and Senate Reform, democracy perfecting itself has ordained that there be two popular houses distinguished from the other only by longer term of service
 So to the old nominating machinery of caucus and convention succeeded the heaven-born direct primary The gories of this changeing we all know. The bosses baffled. The poor but honest and able, candidates seldom lost. The standards of nominee for office climbed higher and | higher Senatorial primary campaigns always Arcadian, inexpensive, above suspicion. Here again Senator Norris has had chance to see the value of reforming the machinery of government. Yet what could be finer than the spirit of this in- corrigble perfecter of democracy and ntroducer of new machinery of government? If Washington is unworthy of her opportunities Nebraska shall go on to perfection.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
A WORD FOR FICTION.

Gen. Robert E. Lee had old fashioned ideas about reading. When he heard that his daughters were finding relief from the anxieties of wartime by reading novels he wrote from camp that novel-read- ing waste of time and suggested thay devote themselves to study of the ancient classics, A knowledge of the classics in his young days was a necessary accomplishment of gentleman.
 Evidently Gen Lee felt it was good for women as we'll But his idea of classics was limited to the work of Greek and Latin authors They represented the literature of the past It was the style as late as the Civil War to regard the past with veneration vastly more worthy than the present. But classic means nothing more than belonging to the first class Trevelyan, in speaking of his uncle, Thomas Harrington Maeaulay, said Macaulay had the vast satisfaction of seeing himself become a classic in his time
 There were between the Greeks and the Romans and the beginning of the modern long centuries of intellectual darkness The world not producing any literature of moment, and men of learning came more and to regard the ancient writings with almost superstitious reverence But we have a flood of literature Our own English liter ature is richer than that of any literature in any other language, ancient modern, and of it Is truly classic
 In the writing of fiction we have developed a new art. In a society of stress and strain a novel Is refuge from the and troubles of every day There would not be so many of them if they did not fill definite intellectual and social necessity Of course, dutiful daughters and probably they were brought up to be dutiful, for Gen. Lee said "duty the subinest word" we know the young women in Richmond dropped their novels and took to the old classics. Yet there be no doubt they did not find in them that absorption which took their minds from the insstent clamors of war alarms about them
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
FUNDAMENTAL VALUES.

Are real estate mortgages worth nothing as investments? That is what many banker recently has asked Before 1929 no one would have dreamed of such question. Real estate represented funda- mental values If everything else were to prove shaky that at least was fixed and certain. Yet as the depression pursued its course real estate was affected It suffered did everything else
 But real estate did not run away it did not melt into nothingness. If it farm, it still is farm with as great a potentiaty in corn and wheat as ever. If it was residence, it still is a residence beneath whose roof people be sheltered If it was great city building, it still is that with its hundreds of tenants pouring in and out in the daily work. Even if it was only vacant lot i offered an opportunity for the erection of build ing to serve human neds Mortgages on real estate in some instances have been in trouble because tn,
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declining earning power of the people prevented specified interest and principal payments WMcn were easy in good times With the return of better times that trouble will disappear.
 To say that securities based good real estate are questionable is not the truth. In some parts of the country have been overly enthusiastic over the worth of farm and city property. How ever in the vast majority of cases this has not been so Real estate is, and always will be, the basis of the wealth of the people The bankers and directors of great insurance companies, with the statistics before them, know this They know. too, that to doubt the value of real estate is to doubt the future of America.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
"This Grave Menace" !"
(New York World Telegraph

Persons who appreciate the uphill road that stretches before the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee will welcome the support pledged by the President in his message to Congress yesterday the past has been wrecked by wires pulled through executive departments
 The Senate Committee is going up against the strongest and toughest of vested interests including the arms steel and chemical industries Some of these interests have used governments as rocks and people as paWns in an international game of profits So it is especially reassuring read the Presidents charge to the executive departments ito cooperate with the committee to the fullest extent" Senate ratification of the 1925 munitions trade treaty, which the President requested would be wholesome gesture now. But that treaty is so full lof loopholeS more significance is to be attached to the Presidents hope that the coming meeting Tn Geneva will agree upon stronger convention It IS diffisult to understand why the President
 failed Tn yesterdays message to ask for passage of the pigeonhoed arms embargo bill, unless he has in mind an even more effective measure now in formative stage. Even action in relation to the Bolivia Paraguay conflict, where Amercan-made munitions deal death on both sides of the Chaco- as proposed in the Pttman resolution-will not cover future conflicts
 Out of the worldwide agitation for peace and sanity, out of Senate's projected inquiry should come something than fine phrases The menace is great. AS described by the Presi- dent:
 The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starva- uon Tn ofoer to enable governments to gage Tn mad race in armament which if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in small measure to the
 uncontrolled activities of the manufactur- CTS and merchants of engines of destruc-
 tlon, ana It must be met by the concerted
 action of the peoples of all nations
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
Shop m nuneau
LIFE PROTECTION
 AT COST

$500 Mutual Life Protection for $70O; approximate total cost $13.00 per year; non-nedical, ages 5 to 75; all races; dues waived after 15 years. Strictly mutual, non-profit Life Protection at cost. Write for particulars. Dept. A, FAMILY M J T U A L BENEFIT ASSOCIA- TON, Heard Bldg, Phoenix, Ari- zona -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
-g@ -o7z.nole4 at E ROCKING HOUSE
BY WALTER (. BROWN.

SYNOPSIS: 4 policemen aud q stranger, the ldtter dpporently q ,ndn tcho has tried to kill Pierre Dufresne, hdve been found naur- dered iu Dufresne's house. Ser gednt Hdrper at last hos f0und q fhreqd to DO on-dnd tt leads to Pierre DnfreSne. Dufresne's butler has admitted .hdt his master otDned reuoluer of the size used to kin the stronger. Noto, in the presence of Hdrper's superior officers, tho butler denies tue statement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

A professor of literature criticises the work Of the younger novests not being well-finished But he overlooks the fact that the boys and girls of today dig up lot of raw material in their writings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

Boston physician has devised method to determine in advance the sex of babies. However, after that Canadian incident how about some way to ascertain how many?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

Sally Rand says her dancing is art Which makes us admire the oldfashioned hoochie kooche dancers they. never claimed their dances were art-Atchi- son Globe)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about that Canadian who became father five consecutive times in single day that he had no income tax to claim exemption from-(Ohio State JournalD
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

The French fliers came across, all right but the trifhng sum of $400o0o0,0o0 which France owes the United States is still over there-( Boston Globe
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

We have tea tasters, wine tasters etc. and a Mlssourl veteran of many sand storms claims to be able to tell Dakotas apart.-t Detroit News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

When tempted to use more words than neces sary consider the section foremans message to the roadmaster: NO. did not whistle. Please send another handcar. - Toledo Blade)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
NOTICE

The Rainbow Girls request the pleasure of the DeMolays presence at an informal dance at the Scot tish Rite Temple, Friday, June IS at 9:30 pm. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

Puphcty for the 1884 fair almost intimates that nose who visited Chicago last year were suckers Indianapolis Star)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

Hundreds on the relief rolls and there is shortage oi labor in the bean and Irish potato tieids.-tJ Jacksonville Times -Union)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12

Weather for the preceding 24 hours, was cloudy with maximum temperature of 54 degrees and a minimum of 45. Precipitation was 10 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-12
20 YEARS AGO
JUNE 12. 1914.
From The Empire

JUNE 12, 1914.
 Major Lee H. French, who or ganized several of the big ditch companies of Nome, and Charles E. Heron, also formerly of Nome, were westbound passengers on the Northwestern. They were going to Seward in the interest of the Nor ris-French Construction Company, recently organized, of which mem bers were Clyde L. Norris, we'll known Seattle and Nome contract or, Major French and MT. Heron. The latter was well known here and was chairman of the Repub- lican Territorial committee. He had acquired a fortune promoting the sale of western properties.
 Committees for the Fourth of July celebration were made public. Those to have charge of the var ious committees were, Reception Gov. Strong, Mayor Beck, B. l.. Thane, B. M. Behrends, Charles E. Davidson, H. J. Raymond, Charles Goldstein, P. J. Kennedy, J. c. McBride, Henry Shattuck, John Olds, James McKanna, P. L. Gem melt, Harry F. Cain and J. H. King. Finance, Harry F. Fisher, Guy McNaughton, Robert c. Hur- ley and H. J. Raymond. Sports James E. Barragar, Sim Freiman, Tom Radonich. Charles w. Car ter. Harley Turner and J. L. Gray Entertainment. Milt Vim, A. Flick en, V. A. Paine, George Mccarthy, George Kohlhepp; Decoration, P. E. Jackson, Arthur Ferte, O. Leaf green, J. E. Kcndrick and E. J. Marjorie; Transportation, Willis E. Novel;. J. w Rummel, Frank Iar- vey, S H. Ewing, I. Sowerby, AL len Shattuck and John T. Spickett.
 Following the meeting of the Elks. members were to have a treat, in the nature of entertain ment when King Cotton, George A. Greenlee and Max Peyser, trio of cabaret entertainers, had offer ed to put on several numbers.
 Weather for the preceding 24 hours, was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 54 degrees and a
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
LoWenkeIIers
Menu Popular

DaShing about up Connecticut
Avenue way one just naturally has
to drop in at the Lowenkeller,
swanky "stein-lifting" Bavarian
night spot. and beer garden which
Is rapidly acquiring an enviable
reputation among the Capitals
cosmopoliteS.
Nightly you will see many of
the Capital "Blue-bookers" gath
cred about the festive board en-
joying the excellent dinners on
which Chef Requard, has created
his super reputation. The popu-
lar midday luncheons of those
tasty salads and cold cut platters
are just the treatment for the
jaded appetite.
Horace Happy" Walker and
his orchestra must be credited
with a large measure of credit for
the popularity of the Lowenkeller.
Their music lends just the proper
touch to one of the most attrac-
tive al fresco resorts Washington
can boast.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Harmon Sinos
In MoyfIower
Lounge

English tunes apparently
brought here by foreign agents of
Sidney are further enlivening the
always gay proceedings at the
Mayflower Lounge, that rendez-
vous where so many people drop
in from luncheon time until early
morning closing.
Buddy Harmon sings not only
the songs of British Isle manufac-
ture but the domestic output as
well. Sidney's melody men with
their violinS all over the place fur
nish dance rhythms at the cock
tail hour and after 10 p. m, that
certainly please their audience.
Its a pretty haggard looking bunch
at the last curfew strains because
Of the many request numbers.
Manager r. L. Polio is reported
ordering a few more lounges,
chairs, tables and other furniture
for his wonder room. When the
fall season gets underway, he can
foreSee a bit of seating problem.
This will all come from the same
workshops and to order as did the
original creations.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

over big. They have been held
over at Club Michel after four
Cor was it five) weeks on the
Shoreham Terrace. Extra wait
ers in the Heigh-Ho taproom.
Business is leaping t. Hear the
Lotus bands rendition of From
Now On" and New Moon Over
My Shoulder" from Student
Tour" Gene Powers, of the
Mayflower lounge crew, can't
seem to make up his mind. He
has been making the rounds with
several debutanteS recently
One Of the towns much better
trumpeterS turned sout a hot
chorus on the radio Monday eve
mig, and had never played the
number before! "A certain young
lady about town was very much
disturbed last week when an item
pictured her drinking cocktails"
You see, she professed to be a
teetotaller.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Celebrities Visit Hangar Club

Hangar as Mrs Ed Mclean and
a party Of friends spent an eve
ming enjoying the new M. C.
and his remarkable floor show.
And the same evening Helen
Morgan caused necks to crane as
she brought her party to this
unique club.
Supporting Mr.. Taps on this
weeks bill are Miss Joan Moss,
NB.C. vocalist; Miss Virginia
Lee, acrobatic dancer.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

With that slightly mad master
of ceremonies, Maurice Taps,
filling the whole Washington
Airport with his gay nonsense
this week, the Hangar Club, that
aerial spot just over the Potomac,
has become a mecca for those
night club patrons who like
something different in the way
of an evenings frolic.
Wednesday night the famous
Hope diamond glinted at the
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

fering a unique speciality. Be
sides his masterful manipulation
Of the grand keys he is present
ing a sole Interpretation Of his
own symphonies with the ortho-
phonic. Very, very clever. Bill
and Marge are the floor show
stars and don't be surprised If
your waiter breaks out with an
operate aria. Mr.. Lake has tai
ent all around him.
The new after-the-Show club is
a converted church and Chinese
restaurant. Gilded decorations
and soft silks replace stained
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

open on Sunday, September Is.
Manager Guy Scott is very en-
thusiastic about his new crew of
music-makers. Says they're really
big-time.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Lake Enterprises

Col. James jefferson Lake is
becoming a Ninth Street institu-
ton. His black and gold room
opened last Sunday night and
has surely added to the gayety
of Washington's Broadway. AS
an after-the7Show lure it is draw
ing bumper crowds for dancing
and floor entertainment.
Frank Young of WMAL is Of
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

open on Sunday, September 16.
Manager Guy Scott is very en-
thusiastic about his new crew of
music-makers. Says they're really
big-time.
At Shorehan
Lafayette and LaVerne, those
talented dancers at the Shore
ham, have received an offer from
Hollywood, it is reported, offer
ing them featured spot in a
new George Raft picture. Can't
decide whether to take it or go
to Europe. They, by the way,
will be held over to star in next
weeks show.
On Wednesday night, the spe-
cial gala occasion which are
weekly high-spots at the Shore
ham, will be called "a Night in
Hollywood" which should be very,
very interesting.
At PoWhatan
Ed McCauley, champ song sell
ler of the Robbins Music Com
pany of New York, was a Pow
hatan roof visitor the other night.
Their big song hit now is Love
in Bloom" the fastest-selling dit
ty of them all right at present.
Robbins publishes all M-G-M
movie numbers, and are still
cleaning up on Sweetheart
Darlin'" from Marion Davies
Operator 49," That song, by
the way was originally titled
There's a Tear in Your Eye"
Short Shorts
Short Shots: The Cotton Club
has a fan dancer, Amy Stephens.
Said to be the last word in tor
rid stepping and adroit feather
manipulation. :. if you are per
suasive enough, inveigle Pete
Macias into playing his own ar
rangement of selections from
Girl Crazy. Jimmy Santmyer
probably will remain at the Cling
ham Club this Winter. Where
will Les Colvin go?. Kathryn
Cunningham, of the Willard
forces, is now yachting on the
bay. The Reyes are still going