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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06
N|IE!''W|| ]! CORPS IS CREATED, ARMED FRENCH FORCES
Munitions Output Is Con
 trolled by Army Ex- perts Tn France


 PARIS. June 6.--France has cre- ated new corps in her army--~a group of experts to supervise the manufacture Of armaments.
 Tn it's recent session. the cham Der of deputies voted to give 30 trained army chemists and indus trial experts supervision of the na- tion's munitions. en
 They are stationed in IS factor les where shells. cannons, fuses. rifles, tanks. gases and all the in struments of modern warfare are being manufactured by i5,0o0 work err ~
 In time of war the experts are to be the skeleton of staff con- trolling the favorite factories. About i8o.00O workers would be em- ployed in arms factories then.
 Marc Rucart, a member of the chamber of deputies commission on the manufacture of armaments predicted that the next step would be the creation of new cabinet job-the post Of minister Of arma- ment-.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06

sAcsAMBNToA-one House leg stature has been voted down by California Senate. ...
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06
NEW SOCIAL GROUP
 TO DANCE TONIGHT

The Social Club, a new social group composed of members of the Moose Lodge, Moose Legion, and Women of the Mooseheart Legion will hold it's initial meeting at the Moose Hall with an informal pro- gram and dance tonight,
 The committee, consisting of one member of each Moose unit, cor dially invites all organization mem bers and families to attend the meeting in order to enjoy the pro gram and to hear the speakers ex- plain the purpose and future plans If the new club.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06

ceok of the Territorial Depart r1aerh oi Education, was passcn- ger for Craig and Victor Anderson for Wrangell.
 Prom Wrangoll, the plane was to continue to Ketchikan to return here with Carl Wirth and others ebcard the Alt HsidsBers'd When il burned near that city last even Ing, according to Verne Gorst, head
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06

Weeds ably present the greatest problem in maintenance of a. lawn. unfortunately, there is only one practical method of eliminating the most troublesome: : cfabgrass, dandelions and plan tain-that is by hand weeding. A good rule for all handing wedding, and one especially effective in the case of dandelions, is to cut the roots as far as possible below the surface with spud, or aspara- gus knife or some similar tool. Am nonia or slilphate will kill chick weed but ordinarily it is better to cut cut the patches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06

cialists, the old soldier again show ed himself, clad in his imperial generals uniform at several rallies of war veterans.
 Alexander von Linsingen was born February 10, 1850, at Hildeshein in Hanover. On graduating from the military academy at Lichterfelde he received his commission as Lieu tenant in 1869. He took part in the Franco Russian war of 1870- n and was decorated with the Iron Gross.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-Rooming and boarding house completely equipped and furnished, to care for rcomers and board for Is to 20. We'll es- tablished and popular. Will sell reasonable. Must leave account of i'll health. Phone 423 for appoint ment..
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06
COAST BOEiNG PLANE MAKES CHARTER TRIP
 TO KETCHIK AN TODAY

This morning at o'clock the Gorst Air Transport Bceipg boat left its Juneau base bound for Craig, Wrangen ands Ketchikan,4 with Frank Knight, pilot and Eric Schutte, mechanic. Norman B.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06

of the company. The plane is to return by way of Craig to bring MT. Cook back on the return trip. It is due here this afternoon. MT. Gorst said.
 Yesterday afternoon MT. and Mrs. Harold Stabler and their son made a Scenic night over Menden- hall Glacier in the Gorst Boeing boat piloted by Knight
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-06

Henry Clay Reynolds of Hagers- town. Md, recently took his first air plane ride at the age of 97 at Mi ami, Fla.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
Retreat?

Life in many of its aspects Is so
cruel that numbers of individuals
learn In the course of years to fear
1t. Circumstance crushes the hearts
OF sensitive men and women, and
each days quota of pain and sorrow
sobers the receptive mind. The race
suffers, and it happens that the
kindliest of its members bear the
brunt Of its agony-the self-centered
mob, ignorant, 1liberal and violent,
has its egoism for an armor against
any fellow-feeling. charity or mercy
that might by chance disturb its
dominance of the human scene.
But the problem of survival in the
world is complicated for the sentient
few by the fact of their love for those
who despitefully use them. Those
who cannot hate are handicapped in
the struggle to exist. They lack the
power to strike back. Their gen.
erosity provides opportunity for their
exploitation by the greedy, their peace
ableness furnishes invitation for their
abuse by the vicious. Yet even when
their cup runneth over with accum-
ulated misery, they cannot protect
themselves by the use of weapons
equal in character with those Of their
Evening star., 1935-03-23

financial centers' from operating COM
panies only to replace it with the
clammy paw of the bureaucrat. There
is no benefit in moving the control and
benefits Of operating companies from
their localities to Washington"
Replying to the Presidents charge
of utility propaganda, the Cincinnati
TimeS-Star contends that more than
any peacetime administration before
it, Mr.. Roosevelt'S administration has
used propaganda" This view Is held
also by the Charleston Is. c. Evening
Post, while the stand that some hold
ing companies may be useful in ex-
tending service and improving rates is
taken by the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin.
Right Of the utilities to defend
themselves when under attack is sup
ported by the New Haven Journal
Courier, while the Long Beach (Calif)
Press-Telegram offers the argument:
There are abuses, to be sure. There
are both petitions and protests that
are mischievous propaganda and queS-
tionable politics. These should be
curbed by an aroused public senti-
ment, but care should be taken not to
Stifle justiflable public response to is
sues that are honestly debatable."
The Akron Beacon Journal hopes that
action will be confined to getting a
better deal for consumers" and the
Roanoke (Va) World-News says:
There are many abuses to be remedied
before the utilities field can be restored
to full public favor. But we do not
see that either well-managed COM
panies or innocent investors need to
be made to suffer because the Govern
ment has been negligent in the past
in the exercise of its right of super
vision"
Many of the worst abuses of the
holding companies in the boom era"
advises the New York Times, died OF
their own excess. Others have been
corrected by State commissions or
State Legislatures. If any remain for
congressional attention, under the
commerce clause. let them be set forth
in the bill and subjected to regulation
at the hands of the proper Federal
agency without setting the entire in
dustry on its head"
Evening star., 1935-03-23

adopted permanently. Independence
of thought, he knows from his read
ing of history, has been q fruitful
asset in the past-the Nations art and
science, if not its normal prosperity
and progress, have been the cultural
result of independent genius applied
to circumstances, and even the great
mass movements of the populace have
had leaders. Shall all this rich ira
dition be tossed overheard capriciously
to make room for machine psychol-
ogy of willing slavery to single set
of fixed ideas?
Theoretically, a dozen men should
be able to create better sonnet than
one man working alone; actually, "too
many cooks spoil the broth" And the
same rule applies to social issues. A
regimented democracy would be, in
effect, an institutionaliZation of the
least common denominator of national
intelligence. Let it be conceded that
every individual then would enjoy alb
solute equality with every other in
dividual. Would everybody be happy?
The answer is NO"
Charles Darwin was right when he
postulated the pragmatic utility of
variation. Differences serve useful
ends. and unrelieved uniformity signi-
fies form of death. 1t follows that
the current tendency toward a mega
tive state socialism should be resisted
by such portions of the population as
believe that personality is a sacred
trust deserving to be defended Free
dom as we'll as bread is wanted in
America, and surely there must be
at least few citizens still extant in
the land who prefer to do their own
thinking and who view with distrust
the growth Of system which would
penalize non-conformity.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
STARS. MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.

BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

sentially that Of light. or 1876, 900 miles
a second.
Now some of the methematicians
of the School of Advanced Studies at
Princeton, with which Prof. Einstein
himself is associated, have taken the
trouble to subject the idea to critical
analysis. The result, according to
note in this weeks Science. is that
they find in order to explain the
alterations of the orbits of earth, this
velocity of gravitron propagation must
be several million times that of light.
For Mars and Venus a minimum
speed of $4,000 times 1856 900 miles
second would be sufficient. For earth
the requirements would be about
100000 the velocity Of light. The
existence of such unimaginable speeds
in the universe Is considered at least
as fantastic as anything which has
come out of the theory of relatively.
y
DR.. F. A. Vening MeineSZ of the
Netherlands Geodetic Commission,
who four years ago co-operated in q
Navy Department-Carneg Institution
expedition to investigate variation Of
gravity in the Porto Rico Deep, soon
will start on the most ambitious of all
his gravity expeditions.
It will be general gravimetric sur
vey Of the South Atlantic and Indian
Oceans. Thus far most such surveys
have been in the Northern Hemi-
spheres. Geophysicists believe that DR..
Vening Meinesz may be able to shed
some light on the reasons for the ex-
istence of the mid-Atlantic ridge, the
great submarine mountain system that
extends North and South through the
middle Of the ocean.
Gravity measurements at sea are
possible only on a deeply submerged
submarine with special implements de-
vised by the Netherlands scientist him.
self.
The "cold light" of the flrefiy can be
produced in the chemical laboratory
but it costs 25,000,00o times as much
as the same amount of light from elec-
tricity.
The duplication of the FREELY light
has been accomplished in the re-
search laboratory of the General
Electric Co First a mixture of
luminol, sodium hydroxide and water
is placed in a glass tube. Into this
second mixture of potassium ferro-
cyanide and hydrogen peroxide is al
lowed to run A bright glow results.
1t is essentially the same operation
as that which takes place in the
FREELY.
The insect. however, produces the
chemicals In its natural processes and
there Is no cost to be considered. But
producing the same amount as would
come from very large-sized FREELY
by the laboratory process costs $25. |
1t can be duplicated for a ten-thou-
sandth of o cent.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
Individual Thinking.

DR.. Lyman Bryson, professor of edu-
cation in Teachers College, Columbia
University, presents for public atten-
ton the problem of the effect of the
shifting of social control and RESPONSE
hility to the State. Writing on re-
cent trends, he argues that current
changes inevitably will have marked
influence" on American family life.
industry, the school and the Govern
ment. Larger use of socialized wealth
in education, health, recreation and
general service to the people," he says,
is likely to accelerate regimentation.
A "sameness /" is spreading across
the continent and into every nook and
corner of American life"
To some, of course, there will seem
to be little danger in drift toward
collectivist thinking" but to others a
certain peril is involved in an unnat-
ural development Of disciplined
mass mind. DR.. Bryson submits that:
''The unwieldiness of democratic
forms in a widely scattered nation of
125, 10000 people; the corruption and
deluding of the voters which mechan-
ical communications have made easier;
the reduction of regional differences
by these same communications-all
these and other influences appear to
work against the original conception
of individualism and democracy" And
he adds the warning: Independence
may cease to be a doctrine as it grad
ually ceases to be a possibility"
Granted that a united front is de-
sired in time of emergency, a by
standing philosopher well may won-
der if such a doctrine ought to be
Evening star., 1935-03-23

obeys the doctor and finds a home
in a quiet cottage in Cornwall. The
theatrical world soon forgets her, but
after weeks Of bitterness she finds at
Polpendor q new standard of value,
through a small boy who attaches
himself to her as a friend-and
through the small boys father. Her
career Is not as completely finished as
she thinks, for after two years her
health Is restored and she Is brought
back to London and a star part by a
successful playwright Then Michael,
apparently at the point Of death,
needs her; she abandons the play.
Just going into rehearsal. and goes to
him in Cornwall. In spite Of an
other comeback, her career is ended
by Michael and his father; but we
leave her ecst,;tically happy, so it's
all right. Elizabeth Carfraes stories,
well written and packed full Of
wholesome sentiment and ideals. give
pleasure to many who are tired of
problems and do not particularly care
to know all there Is to know about
the sordidnaas and parysrainns Of LIE.
Evening star., 1935-03-23

Nineteen hundred and thirty-five
has had an unhealthy start.
The country has had the worst scar
let fever Winter in recent history. In
fuenza and meningitis are more prev
alent than during the past two years
The general death rate is higher. A
curious fact is that there has been
two-year measles epidemic. The
prevalence of that disease in 1894 was
the highest on record up to that time.
But this years curve for that malady
of children, as compiled in the office
of Assistant Surg. Gen. r. c. Williams,
is identical. Hitherto there has always
been a sharp drop in the incidence
of measles after an epidemic year.
The anomaly has been hidden by the
great increase in scarlet fever.
Scarlet fever, according to Public
Health Service doctors, is a disease
which still def1eS sure-flre methods OF
prevention although considerable
progress in immunization has been
made in recent years.
Attempts at active immunization
had their beginning with the work OF
the Russian bacteriologist Gabrit-
schewSly in 1910. He prepared an
antigen made from a culture If the
organism responsible for the disease,
the ubiquitous hemolytic streptococ-
Gus, which had been isolated from the
heart blood of children recently dead
of the malady. This was only indiHer-
emily successful. but pointed the way
to future progress.
Little additional advance was made
until 1924, when the Dicks of Chicago
demonstrated that a sterile filtrate
from a culture of the streptococcus
produced in certain individuals, when
injected simultaneously, the symp-
toms of scarlet fever except for the
active throat infection.
For purposes of active immuniza-
ton they prescribe series OF f1Ve
graduated doses Of the toxin given at
weekly intervals. It produces salts
factory immunity in from 80 to 80 per
cent of those treated. Severe con-
stitutional reactions. however, are
relatively frequent and largely for
this reason there has been no general
application.
Within recent years the research
staff of the Public Health Service has
experimental with the production OF
more potent toxins and of a toxoid
containing the immunizing principle
but which does not produce any
symptoms of the disease. The re-
suits, they report. have been highly
favorable, although the experimental
work is still in progress and the
product Is not yet available. I'm
munization tests with limited num-
ber of susceptible children have
shown that one dose of this toxoid
will produce immunity in over 30
per cent of those treated.
The most ambitious recent effort to
fit the observed alterations Of the
planets with the theory OF gravity Is
that of Sir Shah Sulaiman, noted
Indian mathematician.
His theory, purporting to disprove
much of the idea of relatively, was
recently declared by DR.. Harlow Shap-
ley, professor of astronomy at Har-
ward, as one of the outstanding scien-
tific contributions of the year.
But in order to explain the known
anomalies in the planetary orbits the
Moslem scholar was obliged to predi-
cate the existence of "gravitrors," par.
ticles far below the range Of percep.
ton. With o propagation Ralocity ss-,
Evening star., 1935-03-23
les. Their spiritual elevation

adversaries. Their spiritual elevation
Is too high for their own good.
William Morris, English poet and
painter, may be cited as example. In
one of his noblest passages he tells
how. he sees and hears the brutality
OF his environment In q suburb OF
London. In the street under his win
dow passes an endless parade Of vice
and sin. But his reaction to the
spectacle is not the passion Of re-
sentiment. Rather, it Is the passion
of pity. There, but for the grace
of God" he cries, "go L" And his
genius. his wealth and all his dreams,
to the last moment Of his career, he
devoted to the masses that Knocked
him.
Benedict Spinosa also was char
acter united by temperament for
the rough h-and-tumble society of his
times. His days were spent in
philosophic solitude, grinding lenses
and pondering the riddle of the uni
verse. For more than a century after
his death he was stigmatized as an
atheist and blasphemer. Then, at
last. he was understood and appre-
ciated. On the three hundredth ami
versary OF his birth, celebrated in
1882. he was called "the gentlest Of
the sages."
But Morris effort to help mankind
was more to be commended than
Spinosa's Love is useless unless it be
manifested, and those who are hurt
by their fellows have in their pain
an object lesson in the need for the
courage which charity and mercy
should have. Retreat from the strife
is no solution. Instead, 1t is better
to abandon self utterly and to go upon
the battlefield. a sacrifice, If necessary,
to love rejected and denied.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
Utility Propaganda Charge
Creates Sharp Controversy

President RooSevelt's active SUPPORT
OF the Wheeler -Rayburn bills to regu-
late holding companies in the public
utility field has aroused a spirited de-
bate over the effect of such legislation.
The Presidents charge that leaders in
the industry have been using propa-
ganda is echoed in some comments,
while others reply that the admins
tration itself has made liberal use OF
propaganda.
"Mr. Roosevelt" suggests the Chi
cago Daily News. lis now talking like
Grover Cleveland in the days when
the Sherman law was being forged.
Cleveland attacked the communism
of pelf' as Roosevelt now aSsails 'pri-
vate socialism, If Mr.. Roosevelt hewS
to this line consistently, N. R. A..
A. A A. and many others of the
alphabetical gadgets of the New Deal
will have to be junked or profoundly
modified"
THE President is right" according
to the Sacramento Bee, ''in declaring
the private utility holding company is
device which does not belong to
American traditions of law and busi-
ness. Its record has branded it as
vicious, an interloper in the field of
commerce. The country stands be-
hind the President in his courageous
fight"
Need of regulation of such COM
panies is emphasized by the Rochester
Times Union. the Portland Oregon
journal and the Geneva IN. " Times.
while the Newark Evening News feels
that difficult measures may be fitted
together to curb the scandalous abuses
and colossal greed that have brought
the system into such grave diSrepute."
The Kansas City Times refers to ''the
parasite top company" which generally
has defied regulation" The Youngs-
town (Ohio) Vindicator feels that the
President lis on solid ground" and
will win new support" The Austin
(Tex.) American looks for "a straight
lineup on Congress Of those who are
for and those who are against the
holding companies and their masters"
Arguing against the Presidents posi-
tion, the Providence Bulletin states:
There is no gain, it is apparent. in
lifting the controlling hand of Q few
Evening star., 1935-03-23

Of these, but simply q mode Of ap-
proach to any given problem.
Doubt of authority is at the base
of 1t.
He who bows the knee too much
to human authority Is in grave dan
ger, in any line, Of cutting himself
of from the resplendent God who
made all.
There are more things in heaven
and earth
Thinking for ones self is not revo-
lutionary, 1t is just common sense,
and has been done since man was
man, although often enough little
has been said about 1t.
Some Of the real progress Of the
race has come out of 1t.
When it is backed with intelligent
study and training it goes on to
make the grand discoveries which are
the heritages Of mankind.
* II
But what shall not be said, in lit
tie, for plain everyday thinking for
ones self.
1t, too. is mighty, though the con-
CeuL may De small.
He who refuses to be browbeaten
by the edict of authority, although 1t
be in a very small matter, such as
clearing up green" tank, will have
in small thing a vast satisfaction.
He will enjoy the famous crystal
clear aquarium while his neighbor
labors over a pea-soupy one
l,
have inward satisfaction.
He will have it, that is, unless he
has too slavishly swallowed the mod
ern doctrine of bowling low to au-
thority just because it is authority.
That is where the trouble to the
soul comes in.
1t may be convenient at times to
assume the "timid soul" air.
1t may pay.
But surely it plays smash with the
soul of man.
1t is a pleasant occupation for the
inquiring mind, as distinguished from
the accepting mind, to question what
ever comes up.
Though it comes with the trump
Of angels and the glitter of mighty
armaments. still may it be questioned
in the secret places of the heart.
Nature IS sly in the earth when,
silently and secretly, she prepares to
bring the tiny, frail first leaf above
the earth.
The soil may be clay, hard and
imperviou5; the shoot may be peony
tip, crushed by fingernail; yet surely
it comes through the crust of the
earth, and smiles diSdainfully at the
authority Of the hard soil.
Nature has three worlds for life, the
world Of air the world Of water and
the world of blood.
We think so much Of the first two
worlds. that seldom does the average
person stop cnce to think of the great
silent world of the blood streams Of
life.
Yet, the world around. they must
total many billions upon billions Of
gallons, a vast internal sea for the
habitat of scores Of microscopic crea-
lures.
This vast sea is inhabited alas by
creatures called parasites The latest
of these is the dog heart worm, which
passes part of its life in the mosquito
and part in the dog.
These things are silent they make
no noise, but veritably exist as we'll
as any.
Yet say to your dog owning friend,
your sick pet may have heart worm"
and he probably will laugh you to
scorn, because he has never heard of
the thing.
He who thinks for himself never
laughs.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Out Of Place.
Uncle Jim knocked his pipe free from
ashes
And prepared to address a remark;
He has intellectual flashes
That often illumine the dark.
"One cause Of the troubles we're
know'in',
In the sky or or on land or at sea,
Is folks who insist upon goin'
Where they've not any business
to be-
THE mint that is turnin' out dol
lars
Sends a man to do gardenin' work.
The farm hand is buyin' white collars
And in dance halls the gigolos lurk.
The bad boys a Jail are evadin'
And appear amid frivolous glee.
We're bothered by people paradin'
Where they've not any business
to be-"