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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21
VISIT THE WEST AND ALASKA.

That is the slogan advocated by the New Yofi Herald Tribune in Western Travel section Ill l1 edition of Sunday, April 29, last It reinformee it's slogan with invitations from the Governors O most of the States of the West and from Gov Jchn w Troy of Alaska.
 Gov Troy's invitation to Eastern vacationists i the first one quoted in the Herald Tribune special section. The Governor said:
 am happy to the medium of the New York Herald Tribune to invite travellers from the East to come to Alaska this sum-
 
 Alaska has much to offer Summer trav- elers comfortable weather, scenery gorgeous beyond description, days of pleasure and re- taxation aboard modern steamships sailing north through inland passage
 When Eastern travellers reach Alaska, we would like to have them stay awhile-stop over in towns, meet our people; go strip fishing (sportsmen claim that the thrill of catching a thirty pound salmon on light line pole is equal to any they have known); climb our mountains or fly over them; vlslt Mckinley National Park where Mount Me Kinley towers 10000 feet above level to claim her place as the highest mountain in North America; our glaciers; hunt big game with guns cameras and see our mining and fishing industries.
 Ask your travellers from the East to come West this year-and come North, also Alaska will welcome them
 Information is given in another article about the country and it's "matchless scenery, it's game resources outing opportunities, rail and water trans portation climate and other features Included 1T the illustrations used were pictures of Mt. Mckinley and the town of Seward, ocean terminus of tht Alaska Railroad.
 The entire section filled with accurate ano timely information about Alaska the American and Canadian West It should result in stimulating interest in travel to those sections
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21

Tomorrow, Harper finds strange things behind the locked door.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21
"You do as say, Andrews!"

of the other prints. Connally began to ply his shovel.
 The official car, in which Harper had come from Headquarters to the house on Powhatan Terrace, stood at the curb, the uniformed chauf- feur at the wheel.
 "How fast can you get back into town?" Harper asked as he got in.
 "Oh, about twelve minutes, or if teen. Where do you want to go, Ser. geant?"
 "The Austerlitz."
 With the siren sounding, they went plunging on as speedily as was possible with the streets so snow-laden and the visibility so poor. But the chauffeur's most ex- pert efforts could not make good his estimate, for it took him exactly twenty-two minutes to reach the Austerlitz.
 The detective walked through the ornate lobby and went to the marble fronted desk. The night manager and his assistant, both of whom had been introduced to him earlier in the evening, greeted him. Has every thing been quiet?" he asked.
 The manager nodded. "All serene, Sergeant. It's not very likely that we'll have any trouble in a place like this."
 HARPER turned away and walked II over to the secluded corner where Camera Eye" Jacoby had en. sconced himself, quietly watching from behind a spread newspaper Flows everything, Jacoby?"
 "All quiet along the Potomac, Ser. seant."
 Harper crossed the lobby and stepped into an elevator. As the doors slid open and Harper emerged on the twenty-eighth floor, the two detectives on guard there turned tC see who had arrived. Markison was one of them, the other Central Dis trict man whose face Harper recog nized, but whose name he did not know.
 The topmost floor of the Auster litz was divided between two suites The one to the left of the elevator, was Dufresne's. the one to the righ that of the Hon. Royal Sanders tlnancier and ex-Senator, who wal abroad at this time. His suite hac l been closed for months and the door, locked and sealed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21

SYNOPSIS: Tiso men. one Om- cer HdniiH and tue other 0ppar- eatly the politician aud contrdctor, Pierre Dutresne. hdve been found shot to death in Dufresne's P01p- hdtdn TelTdce house. Ser0ennt Har- per. in char0e. had left Dufresne drunk in his apartment at the Austerlits short achHe before Uhere they had discussed series of threatening letters the contrdc- tor had received. Harper leaDes to driUe dolCnto1Cn, 0iUtno orders that no one shall disturb the snoio about the DutreSne house.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21

Whatever of the Old Guard may think about it, the Roosevelt Administration undoubtedly has public approval and that is what counts these days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21
THE ROOSEVELT POLL.

The Literary Digest whose celebrated national election polls have almost made it unnecessary to count the votes for President accurate have they been, is trying out new one It is polling to determine whether the country approves President Rocsevelt's policies. If it does good job maybe
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21

fan dancer is one up on nudist in that she has installed hand-operated cooling system.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21

Nature, at last reports, still trying to bring some relief to the farmers of the Midwest, and having even than the A. A. A. crop reduction plans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21

Be it so humble there's no place like home for hearing what people think and say about you.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-21
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SHOWS
 INTEREST.

The cry regulation for recovery" rings from West to East in the legislative halls of Canada, said recent Associated Press dispatch from Ottawa Never before in any year were beheld so many efforts by lawmakers to put industry, finance and business under Government supervision it added. In radogram to the New York Times, Charles A. Seldon correspondent for the New York publica- tion quotes high British official saying
 Great Britain is much concerned
 with developments in Washington than in
 Geneva. The Geneva conference is con-
 cerned entirely with world quarrels and the
 possibility of making them less deadly. Presi-
 dent Roosevelt is trying to the
 economic dstresses which make us all re-
 sentful, suspicious, irritable and in a per-
 petua mood for quarreling
 There is no doubt Seldom declared about the tremendous interest of the British people in the Presidents national recovery program and it is by no means confined to financial and political groups. The press of every British commonwealth reflects deep interest in the progress toward industrial re- covery registered in the United States in recent months and universally expressed growing admra- tion for the spirit of solidarity displayed by the American people
 In an editorial headed "Roosevets Courage" the official organ of the Irish Free State recently de- clared
 MT Roosevelt is seeking to overthrow that
 super government which private control
 places above peoples and governments His
 success may mean the solution of the econ
 omic crisis which has rven his own country
 and brought more suffering to the world
 in one year than four years of the World
 War.
 Unlike our destiny of IT years ago, we now lead in the restoration of human and property values and with infinitely invigorating incentive.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Welcome Failure of Forecasting.

Welcome Failure of Forecasting.
No disposition will be manifest to
scold the weather man for the failure
Of his prediction yesterday that the
thermometer. already scoring a sea-
sons low ON Friday morning, would
plunge to ten degrees below zero this
morning. That kind of miss" is
more appreciated than successful
forecast of bitter weather. The drop
Of the temperature to six and half
below zero was amply predicted on
Thursday and everybody who read or
heard 1t was forewarned. If all did
not believe or credit it the RESPONSE
bility did not rest on the Weather
Bureau. But If the forecaster had
promised rise and the mercury had
gone down to the former low, or worse,
last night or this morning there would
have been ground for complaint. As
it was, the minimum Of six degrees
above zero, q spread Of twelve and q
half degrees between forecast and fact,
was a wholly agreeable surprise.
The average of forecasting accuracy
high. Once in a blue moon q severe
storm is missed, as on the occasion
Of the Inauguration of President Taft,
when a fair and clement day was off,
cially predicted and a smothering,
bitter, blockading snowstorm came
along to wreck the arrangements for
the great ceremonial. But that was
twenty-five years ago, and in that
period weather forecasting has i'm
proved, as facilities for the gathering
Of meteorological information have
been expanded, and rarely now does
"Old Probabilities" fail to give warn
ing of a serious disturbance. It is
evident that something happened in
the ether to change the course of the
winds and to bring about the differ
ence Of twelve and half degrees be-
tween the minimums of Friday and
Saturday mornings. If anybody made
needless preparations to Withstand the
predicted low mark of ten below zero
the blame must rest upon the myste-
rious forces that sometimes fool even
the wiSest Of prophets.
Evening star., 1934-02-10

moderately instead Of running off on
a printing-press spree has been suf-
ficiently demonstrated to merit future
confidence"
The New York Herald Tribune feels
that "in recognizing the gain in the
direction of Stabilization. which the
proclamation makes possible, 1t would
be folly to shut ones eyes to the fact
that it leaves the country still long
distance from stable and secure cur
repcy." but the Atlanta Constitution
feels that nov that uncertainty has
been removed, the business of the
country will proceed without fear OF
an upset over the question Of what
the dollar is worth" The Akron
Beacon Journal. in echoing this hope,
says: 1T will have sedative effect
upon all the partisan orators and
money changers who have been shout
ing that failure to peg the dollar at q
fixed figure was creating unrest in
the market places and 'retarding
business recovery"
"The new American dollar is not
'devalued' dollar. measured in gold"
contends the Danbury News-Times.
1T is the same hundred cents dollar,
but gold is worth more" The Raleigh
Times. however, holds that lit Is
utterly metaphysical to say that q
paper dollar representing so many
grains of gold is the same dollar that
previously represented twice as many
grains" The Asbury Park Evening
Press thinks that 'by devaluation the
dollar has been brought to approxi-
mately it's true value" and the Port
land Oregon Daily journal holds that
dollar incomes must be increased to
the predepression level if the Nation
is to regain its ability to meet its obli-
cations" The Watertown Daily Times
says: If devaluation works out as
Mr.. Roosevelt expects it to. the dollar
will not buy as much as it formerly
did. but there will be more dollars in
every mans pocket"
whether the devaluation will have
stimulating effect on the industries
of the whole country only the future
can determine" declares the San Jose
Mercury Herald, but that it will have
an immediate effect on the gold in
dustry of California is a certainty"
The Houston Chronicle points out
that dollar devaluation has undoubt-
edly improved prices for our farmers
and exporters, and has guarded our
producers against the low prices of
those countries which preceded us of
the gold standard" The latter point
Is brought out also by the Sioux Falls
Daily Argus-Leader, in recalling DEM
ocratic criticisms of what it termed
"the Republican robber tariff"
The Indianapolis Star, the New
York Times and the Wall Street Jour-
nal are in agreement with admins.
tration leaders that the effect of de-
valuation on prices will be positively
determined only after a considerable
lapse of time" The Richmond News
Leader thinks that much will depend
upon the success of the Government
in ascertairing the proper percentage
OF devaluation."
Evening star., 1934-02-10
maintain q strong" foreign policy,

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especially as against Germany. II
parliamentary elements with no other
axes to grind than selfish partisan pol
itics and other professional trouble
makers can be curbed long enough to
give Frances new regime Of elder
statesmen a fair chance to remodel
national life on rational lines, the
arrival of the Doumergue cabinet Is
designed to usher in new and fruit
full era on the lately turbulent Seine.
The enthusiastic acclaim with which
the veteran premier himself is greeted
by the Partisan populace is an omen
of good promise. But his cabinet Of
eminent names will have to do some
thing to justify its existence. It
must deliver the goods the French
people are waiting for or 1t is likely,
despite its distinguished individual
merits, to be thrown out of Office as
unceremoniously as were so many
less notable governments before 1t.
France will expect deeds from its
cabinet of stars.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Dangerous Winter Sport.

When snow falls in Washington
the children quickly take TO the
streets for shedding. They disregard
warnings Of danger and run desperate
risks. Some blocks are here and
there closed to traffic to give them a
chance for coasting, but these op-
portunities for comparatively safe
Shedding are few, for the traffic de-
mands cannot be widely denied for
the sake of the few hours of sport
which the snow affords. The great
est care on the part of motorists is
necessary to avert accidents. The
shedding children do not safeguard
themselves, indeed they cannot do
so on even straight stretches of
pavement. To the careful driv-
ers these conditions are q ter
ror and to the children they are a
grave menace. One practice of the
siedders is especially to be warned
against, that of hooking on behind
machines without the knowledge of
the drivers. Long queues Of children
trail behind the cars and when cor
ners are rounded some of them are
overturned, throwing them into the
path Of other vehicles.
Not all Of these sled users are
youngsters. Elders revert to their
childhood sport of Winter and go
forth to risk their limbs in the ex-
hilarating pastime of tobogsaning,
and they are in many cases the most
daring in taking chances. Parents
must at all seasons warn the children
of the grave danger that is run
whenever the street is used as q
playground, and especially in Winter,
when the snow affords . chance to
slide swiftly over the surface in one
Evening star., 1934-02-10

child learns that houses were not al
ways built Of wood, brick or stone,
but that long ago people Of very odd
appearance lived in caves, then later
in grass-covered huts built on poles
planted in lake bottoms. He learns
also that before clothes were bought
in shops whenever they were needed
people made them from grass. bark
and fur; and that there was time
when food was not cooked, because
there was no fire. He sees pictures
of men walking and carrying loads
on their backs. other pictures Of
various beasts of burden, then pictures
of covered wagons, coaches. automo-
biles and airplanes instruction is
most pleasantly conveyed and the pic
lures, 1913 Of them, half of which are
IN five colors. are fascinating to read
ers of any age.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
A Cabinet of Premiers.

II Is certainly a dazzling array of
names which Premier Doumergue has
assembled to help him steer the
French ship Of state back into normal
channels after the buffetings 1t has
survived this week.
No fewer than six former occupants
Of the premiership are in the new
ministry-veterans all in the tortuous
game of French statecraft. They in
elude the former President himself
and Messrs. Andre Tardieu and
Edouard Herriot, without portfolio;
Louis Barthou, foreign affairs; Albert
earraut, interior affairs, and Pierre
Laval, colonies. Another appoint
ment of interest Is that of Marshal
Petain, World War commander in
chief, as minister of war. 1t Is the
frst time in years that French
cabinet. includes men who are not
members Of Parliament-an innova-
tion which suggests that other new
departures may be in store under the
Doumergue administration.
The cabinet is slightly Leftist or
advanced Liberal in complexion, al
though the Socialist faction headed
by Deputy Leon Blum is left unrepre-
sented.
France now has a Government
which reflects many schools of thought
and includes men with records of high
service. 1t bears every indication Of
being truly a ministry of national
concentration and union, as we'll as q
cabinet of all the political talents
Internationally the roster reads like q
combination that win project auc
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Is Homemaking
A Profession?

To the Editor Of The Star:
If so. who is engaged in practicinp
IT? In every newspaper on the wom-
ans page and in every magazine for
women there are constantly recurring
articles to that effect-articles writ.
ten gerenally by unmarried women.
we read them carefully and then
turn to the advertising columns under
Help Wanted-Domestic, and find the
following type which occur almost
daily.
Housekeeper and nurse, unencum-
bered. for child l8 months. Employed
couple. $50 a month.
General housekeeper, must like
children, stay nights. EMPLOYED
couple. Room, board and IS q week
Housekeeper-Settled, white wom-
an, unencumbered. general house
work, some laundry and care of two
children. Must be strong and cap
able. References required. Room,
board and small salary.
Is 1t any wonder that the domestic
servants want code?
Isn't 1t reasonable to ask who is
dong the home making, if any is
being done-the mother who gets a lob
or the domestic servant who does all
OF the work and cares for the chill
dren for sweat shop wages?
Under the new deal there is a
growing tendency for the married
woman to apply for and get a posi-
tion in one of the emergency organ
izations. Her chances of getting a
good one are better if her husband
has a position in one of the Govern
ment departments. In fact, it is
general practice, understand, that
If a man is getting less than $4,000
a year his wife is fired, while if he
is getting more than $1,000 his wife
is hired.
As result the above types of ad-
vertisement become more or less con-
tinuous, and the poorly paid domestic
servant does the housework and trains
the children, If any is done.
There is a question in the minds of
many Of us whether there is any rela-
ton between juvenile delinquency and
the above home-making practices.
Why shouldn't the domestic serv-
ants have . code? Unless misun-
derstand, the codes protect both the
skilled and unskilled laboring man. If
SO, why can't protection be granted
to the skilled and unskilled laboring
woman in domestic service? Under
the present arrangement she has no
protection, either as to hours of labor
or salary. If you analyze what the
phrase stay nights" means, it is evi-
dent that, after a days work. she must
stay at home with the children in
order that her employers may 60 out
again at night several evenings in
the week.
While so much is being done to wipe
out the curse of the sweatshop in In
dustry, can't something be done for
this large group Of unprotected women?
GERTRUDE VAN HOESEN.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Watchful Waiting Attitude
Follows Dollar DevaluatiOn

The attitude Of observers on the
Presidents proclamation devaluating
the dollar to 59.06 per cent Of its for
mer gold value might be summed up
in the expression "Watchful waiting"
The frankly experimental nature Of
the program is recognized, as well as
the possible danger of uncontrolled
imitation. but majority of the edi-
torial writer's express confidence in
President Roosevelt's ability to cope
with future developments.
President Roosevelt has acted with
characteristic boldness and determine
tion, and if the new gold bill works
out according to his expectations. not
only the United States but the world
will date a new epoch from his sign
ing of it Wednesday afternoon" de-
clares the youngstown Daily Vindi-
Gator. The calmness and confidence
of the Nation upon the threshold OF
ali experiment which may touch
vitality the fortunes and livelihoods of
every citizen are good auguries for its
success" believes the Hartford Daily
Times, while the Wichita Beacon re-
marks that the American people
experience another economic revolu-
tion with as little concern as the aver
age individual in passing the time of
day"
The signing of the gold bill by
President Roosevelt yesterday aftet
noon," says the Goshen Daily News
Times, was one of the most mo-
mentous events of the recovery pro-
gram. Just what it will accomplish
no one knows, not even the President
himself or his advisers, although they
all have theories which they hope will
work out" The Haverhill Evening
Gazette. agreeing that the success of
the program cannot be determined
ahead of time, asserts that I'VE do
know, however, that fortitude, patience
and vision are necessary on the part
of the people to supplement the dar-
ing. vigor and vision of the President"
The South Bend Tribune and the
Rock Island Argus are convinced that,
with experts in wide disagreement, the
only thing for the man in the street
to do is to hope for the best.
The Chattanooga Times points out
that "in devaluating the dollar the
United States has done, rightly or
wrongly. what many other countries
have done to their currencies" since
the World War. "Mr. Roosevelt has
struck a balance about halfway be-
tween the demands of extremists on
both sides of the gold question"
thinks the Cleveland News, while the
Buffalo Times is satisfied that "the
will of the administration to move