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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-15
JuNGouIsT FUNERAL

Funeral services for Kenneth Jungquist, who died here March % from suffocation aboard the boat Norland were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the c. W.. Carter Mortuary chapel, the Rev. Father LaVassaur officiating. Bur- ial was in the Catholic plot in Evergreen Cemetery. The body has been held at the mortuary pending word from his wife in Minneapolis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-15
INTERNATIONAL SKY TRAIN ON
 FIRST FLIGHT I
Successful Trip Is Ma dc from Miami, Florida,
 to Havana, Cuba

HAVANA, May 15.-The first In- ternat'onal Sky Train arrived here safely late yesterday afternoon af- ter a 300-mile flight from Miami, Florida
 The first Of .e s-iders, lowed by an airpiane, landed before cheer ing crowd of 50,ooO persons in front Of the Capitol.
 The police had to employ clubs and fire into the air to quiet the demonstrating throng.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-15
DRIVERS LICENSES READY

Vehicle orcrs..cc,->- licenses for the two-year period ending May 31, 1897, are now available at the office of the Guy Clerk. Fee, $l
 Drivers must procure their new cards by June l. Get them now and avoid the rush. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-15
SKAGWAY PIONEER
 CALLED BY DEATH

Two weeks after the death of his wife, P. J. Flynn, of Skagway, for many years connected with the White Pass and Yukon railroad, died Monday in Skagway, according to word received here. He was widely known in Skagwa and throughout the Territory.
 Mrs. Flynn died but a short time ago and Mrs. James McAlister of Juneau, a daughter, has been with her father since that time. MT. Me Alister, connected with the Terri torial Auditors office, left immedi- ately for Skagway on receiving word of MT. Hymns passing.
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

w II u II NJ W. van LOOn
belonged in the pew of the col.
umniStS.
And so I went to my old
friend Arthur Brisbane and I
said, What shall I do? In the
first place I am in the habit of
writing books, and I think in
terms of so many hundred pages
rather than so many hundred
words. In the second place, you
must know my point of view.
In many ways Except abil-
ity) I have a great deal in com.
mon with my fellow townsman
Erasmus. Like the late Desider.
ius I am averse to all violence.
I hate fighting. I don't know
whether this is due to a streak
of personal cowardice. The
thing has always puzzled me. I
have often been in danger of
life and limb. I have survived
Shipwrec'.: and fire and revolu-
ton and battle. But always
when an actual emergency oc-
ours I invariably find that I
am able to behave as well as the
professional hero.
Early Training
mot, however, because at
heart I enjoy such things. I
hate and loathe and detest
them, and I would gladly give
10 years of my life if at the mo-
ment they happen I could be a
thousand miles away. My out
ward calm is merely matter of
early training. AS q child it
was endlessly hammered into
me that, because I had been
born with so many advantages,
I was also expected to set good
example. And because I knew
perfectly we'll that nature had
not endowed me with any par
ticular gift of leadership, I was
forced to train myself into a
sort of behavior that was en-
tirely artificial.
The moment all the natural
dynamos inside me have been
paralyzed by fear, the auxiliary
motor, which is of my own crea-
tion, starts to work automat-
ically. That and that alone has
thus far saved me. But if fol-
lowed my own incliHationS, I
would much rather keep away
from all strife.
And now look at the world
in which I find myself. It could
be a good and happy world.
There is enough, food in it to as.
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROULand

and nothing tickles him more
than to clean and cook the fish
and share a can of beans with
some backwoodSman.
In the late Arnold Benefits
funniest book C'Buried Alive~,
a world-famous artist poses as
his own man-servant and has
the time of his life, until he is
discovered and exposed" and
has to go back to being a
celebrity"
Almost all real celebrities are
as shy as stricken deer, look
like anything BUT celebrities,
and will run from a reporter or
a camera. While almost any
plain, everyday person is CRATE
full to be mistaken for somebody
in the limelight.
A school teacher is always
flattered when you tell her that
she doesn't LOOK like a school
teacher. And a show girl is al
most as thrilled to be mistaken
for a Park Avenue debutante as
a debutante is to be mistaken
for a screen star.
Nobody can give you so
much sound business advice or
so loves to pose as a man OF
flawless judgment as the man
whose wife runs "shoppe. "
while he looks for a job that is
worthy of his talents. And no.
body can tell you more about
how the country ought to be
run than the man who can't
run his own family or find the
money for the rent.
No doubt it's the same, away
out in the jungles. The monkey
wishes he had a beautiful name
and could roar like a lion. And
the giraffe wishes he were as
agile as a monkey and could
climb tree.
The truth is that we are
never quite satisfied with our
selves, unless we are terrific
egotiSts. And even then, we may
only be posing as egotists and
secretly wishing we were some
thing different" Nobody is
really conceited, down under
the skin.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

that never have and never will
grow beyond the age of 10 or IL.
II have got to fight for the
ideal of perfection in a world
which has since many years &C.
cepted only one standard, the
standard of leaving well-enough
alone and devoting just enough
of an effort to an attempt to
get by
"I have got to fight for the
notion, familiar to the Egyptians
ard to the Greeks and other
tribes, dead and gone these last
two thousand years, that moth.
ing really worth while has ever
been done on this planet for
mere money, and that every
thing of lasting value has been
done for the sheer love of it.
And I have got to fight for this
notion in a world that has re-
duced everything - absolutely
everything-to a state of none
tary values which befouls every
CIl1ng IL COucheS.
"I am firmly convinced that
no great work of art or litera-
ture or craftsmanship or busi-
ness has ever been truly great
without containing speck of
nobility somewhere in its inner
most being. And when use the
word nobility people stare at
me as if I were going to tell
them a story about some absurd
medieval knight in tinplate
armor, and they seem to be un-
der the impression that that
particular notion about human
behavior had died out with some
such grotesque figure as the
famous Don Quioxote.
IN THE CENTER
IT grant you that History
seems to teach that by and
large the world only proceeds
by letting the pendulum swing
violently from one side to the
other. But even as a small boy,
a swing or a merry-go-round
made me exceedingly uncom.
Portable. Hence I offer the par.
adox Of some one who with al
most revolutionary violence
wants to fight against all revo-
lutionary violence; of someone
who does not believe in blood.
shed, and who therefore, with
complete equanimity of soul,
would sign the death warrant
of those who advocate blood
shed to bring about their own
particular millennium, whether
it be that of the extreme right
or the extreme left"
Whereupon my old and good
friend answered, well, that
ought to start discussions and
make people think. Suppose
you try it in just your own way,
and see what comes of it?"
I have been trying it now for
almost three months, and 1
think that I owe my readers,
who have sometimes wondered
where 1 stood, some definite
statement. 1 stand exactly in
the center. That may not be a
heroic position. But when every.
body is rocking the boat, the
man in the middle has some
times been able to prevent it
from being turned over.
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

tie women yearn to be tall and
Willowy and stunning?
Why do intellectuals enjoy
posing as simple and childlike,
while the prosaic and common
place love to think of them.
selves as among "the intelli-
gentsia?"
Oh. well-for the same rea-
son that a comedian always
longs to play Hamlet and a
brunette always plans, sooner
or later, to be a blonde at any
price!
At a party, it is always the
prize bromide" who insists on
getting off all the wiSecracks
and being the life of the eve
ming. While the professional
humorist usually mopes around
looking like a dark cloud and
never speaks unless prodded.
He simply WON'T be funny"
The young assistant manager
Is always delighted to be mis-
taken for a magnate or a
banker, and usually dresses the
part even to the boutonniere.
While the banker enjoys moth
ing SO much as getting into his
shabbieSt old clothes and going
fishing. He loves to think of
himself as creature of the sod;
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
Man in the Middle Sometimes
Keeps the Boat Upright
By Nelson Harding

fight. I have got to fight for
tolerance in world which has
elevated intolerance to one of
the primary virtues. have got
to fight, not for International
ism, but for that supernatural
ism which used to exist in the
days of the Romans and in the
Middle Ages, when nationalism
in the most narrow sense of the
word is gradually being incor-
porated into the laws of the
land, when every country has
turned its hand and its face
against every other country,
and when that childish and un-
worthy slogan of Right or
wrong-my country!' is used by
every twopenny dictator or
would-be dictator to gain a fol-
lowing among the sort of people
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
Hendrix Willem van Loon

sure all of us three meals a
day. There is enough material
in it-wool, linen, silk-to clothe
all of us decently. All of us
could have a comfortable roof
over our heads. The machine
has given us an abundance of
leisure. Our artists and our
writer's are capable of filling
that leisure with beauty. And
nature has provided us with a
playground of which no intelli.
gent man ever need tire.
II happen to see that it is a
mess, and I am still foolish
enough to believe that it could
be immensely improved by the
application of a little common
sense. But since nothing has
ever been accomplished without
fighting for it, I have got to
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
Speech Must Be Free
Says This Court

Freedom of the press and freedom of speech these days
of regmenatve experimentation in Washington need all the
support they get.
Hence the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court
case deserves nationwide commendation.
The Court said
"The right to comment freely, and criticize the
action opinions and judgments of courts is of primary
importance to the public generally Not only is good
for the public but it has salutary effect
and judges uUeu"
No dissent from that from laymen at least.
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

Does marriage actually fail
because we expect too much of
it, because we demand fantastic
results which could never occur
outside fairy tale?
Our sturdy forefathers had
no such notions, made no such
demands. They didn't live-hap-
py-ever-after or even expect to.
Life to them was a grim af-
fair, and marriage was all-of-a.
piece with the rest of the per-
formance. Marriage worked no
miracles, granted no exemp-
tions. 1t was we'll. if possible, to
find a sympathetic partner, but
life had to go on even if you
didn't.
There were no perfect mates.
AS for lasting happiness, only
children or towards desired or
expected it.
Husbands and wives took
each other for better or worse,
and lived alter marriage as
they had before, patiently, la.
boriously, in the fear of God.
Was Abigail frequently
peeved with her Amos?-Did
Jonathan sometimes long to
wiring his pretty Priscilla's
neck? She undoubtedly was
he undoubtedly did. But what
Of it? That was life and they
could take it.
SOFT LIVING
But we moderns cantor
won't. Why? The answers
plain.
The machine age has made
living so soft that we've evolved
a sitting-pretty standard. We
no longer regard hardship as a
cross Of God or a natural con-
dition. Unhappiness, to us, is
an unnecessary nuisance, stu
pid mistake-and a personal
affront.
Why should we ride in a slow
car if money can buy fast
one? Why should we sleep in
a hard bed when our neighbor
has a soft one?
And-by the same reasoning
why should we be miserable
with the wrong mate when, by
a little searching, we can en-.
joy perfect bliss with the right
one?
But can we? Or are we build
ing our hopes on hokum? And
was grandpa right when he
made life come first, and gave
love and laughter a place far
down the line?
Copyright 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-17


President Roosevelt arrived
at the Executive Mansion and
announced that he was willing
that reporters fire questions at
him as rapidly as possible and
that he would or would not
answer them as he deemed ad-
viSable.
In this crOsS-fire Mr.. Roose-
welt is forced to answer spOn.
taneOuSly questions asked.
In the Hoover regime, re-
pOrterS wrote out their cues
tiOnS before press conferences
so that the Republican Chief
Executive might be prepared
for the Interrogation.
(Cor wright, 1885, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-01-17


and reports of wire tapping.
But they cannot prevent Mr..
CLAWS from investigating his
own men.
Secretary Ickes secured the
designations of two investigators
recently.
The report was as usual that
it was for the good of the Serv-
ice.
The truth WdS that the In
terror detective agency made
inquiries about the tUo men
Who had been engaged in in
UeStigdting and reporting on
other people.
It was charged that the in
veStigatorS who were later let
out did not agree with Mr.. Ickes
on repeal and that they had
been making serious personal ef-
fort to increase the revenues Of
the United States Treasury.
Representative Sol Bloom,
Democrat, of New York, has lost
an important argument with his
Republican colleague, Represen-
tative Hamilton Fish, jr.
Fish, arch enemy and thorn
to the Administration, selected
the finest suite in the New
House Office Building.
Bloom also wanted the same
suite.
Bloom had not been in Con-
greSS quite as long as Mr.. Fish.
Consequently Fish is qu1rtered
in the best suite in the office
building.
Bloom took less luxurious
quarters where he now debates
the advisability of being a good
Democrat.
Leroy Pelletier, former secre-
tary to Henry Ford, who is a.
familiar figure around Washing
ton these days, always wears a
flowing black tie.
The Michigan pony raiser
would not appear without that
tie, although at one time he
scOffed at the idea.
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

Pelletier was a close friend Of
Ebert Hubbard.
On one occasion Hubbard sug-
geSted to Pelletier that he was
one of the few men that could
wear a flowing tie. Pelletier
scoffed.
Later. Hubbard sent him a
tie. PeHetier hid it dwdy. A
friend of Hubbdrd'S tDuS sent
as an eniSSary to persuade him
to wear the tie. Pelletier re-
fused.
Hubbard tried new methods.
For six months he sent Pelletier
a card, each day asking:
Are you wearing that tie to-
day?"
Even that did not affect
Pelletier.
Hubbard ,DaS lost at sea. A
year later mutual friends Suo-
oeSted to Pelletier that in
tribute to his old friend he
should WeGr the tie. Pelletter
1Dore it.
He has worn it constantly
since that time.
The Squabble between Stephen
Early, White House Secretary,
and Theodore G. JOslin, secre-
tary to the former President
Herbert Hoover, concerning the
Roosevelt method of handling
news, is amusing most Wash.
ingtOn newspaper men.
Regardless of whether they
agree with Joslin that there is
a certain method of spreading
propaganda, they believe that
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

he former
Hoover Secre-
t airy is not
the on e to
m a ke t h e
charges.
When JOS
lin was in the
White House
there was a
d e I i nj t e
m e t h cd of
muzZling the
p re SIS that
does not hold
true in the
r 90 S e v e ] t
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

books. True
lovers, ou
were assured,
lived-h a p p y
ever-after in
real life as
surely as they
did in make
believe.
But suppose
they didn't?
7 n e n, o I
course, they
weren't True
Lovers. LiV-
j n g-happy-ev-
CRATER W a S
the proof of
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

one and every.
thing by vari-
Gus methods
e v e n delveS
into the ac-
tivitieS of its
own member
ship.
Louis R.
G la Wis, the
chief of the
or ganization,
was under fire
recently b e.
cause of al
legged inveSTi-
g a tt on S CT
high officials
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

day. The invi.
tation came
as a complete
surprise, and
to be p er-
fectly honest
I d o u b t e d
W h e t h er I
would be able
to do what
was expected
of me. It was
n o t exactly
modesty that
made me heSi.
tate. But I
W o n d e re d
VI h b or I
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

Three months ago my present
editors asked me to write them
a daily article of general COM
ment upon the affairs of the
The Washington times., 1935-01-17

4ONC.
AS a child you accepted this
ruling without question. AS an
adult, you-and 121,000,000
other romantic citizens
cling to it.
But how about our dreadful
divorce record-over a million
divorced persons in America to-
day-millionS more who would
be divorced if it were not for re.
ligious, social or business rea-
sons?
These persons once believed
they were rapturously, lastingly
in love. Why did that rapture
turn to GOODNESS and hate-end
so often in court?
DANGEROUS DOZEN
DR.. Hubert S. Howe thinks he
knows why and proceeds to tell
in the January issue of Good
Housekeeping" Like most of us,
DR.. Howe seems to think that
honeymoons should last for
keeps. Why don't they? He cites
a Dangerous Dozen" of reasons
in answer, all variations of our
human selfishness and childish
ness.
These, says he. are the rocks
on which marriage is wrecked.
Steer clear of these and you'll
live happyever-after.
But will you? Is marriage
based on conduct? Will True
Love last if you act pretty to
your partner, and end in the di-
vorce court if you don't? Or Is
there a deeper menace to mar
riage, a menace based on those
romantic notions We acquired
as children,
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
The Greatest Show
On Earth
By John Snure, T.

Secretary of Interior Harold
L. IckeS, whose organization Of
investigators investigates every
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
Words of Wise Men

thing that nobody believes proved often
Shaw
The greatest may ask foolish question and then
Wolcott.
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
What Should Married Folk
Expect

"And so they were married
and lived happy ever after"
Remember that joyful ending
to your fairy tales? Nor was
that ending confined to story
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
OLD FAVORITES
7 Remember, I Remember

7 7CCUECVEOE79 1CE77TEWTUET i TUUTIO 11UUW
I remember, | remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peepng in at morn;
He. never a wink too soon
Nor brought too long day.
But now, often wish the night
Had borne my breath away!
I remember, 1 remember
The fir trees, dark and high;
used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky.
It was a childish ignorance;
But now tits little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when l boy
IReuders are nvted to send to the editor their sug
gestons of old favortes among the poems for reprntng
tn this Space
The Washington times., 1935-01-17
''SOmething Different"

''SOmething Different"
Why is it that a man al
ways secretly longs to be some
thing which he is NOT? And
why is a woman never salts
fled with herself just as God
made her?
Why do tall women always
wish they were "cute and pc.
tite?" And why do plump lit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-10-04
Telephone Pioneers Make Plans
For Membership Enrolment

Harsch, chief operator, Oakland, and
Mr. Talbot.
The Maryland chapter now COM
prises $50 members including tele-
phone men and women from all Sec
lions of the state.
Organization of the Telephone Pho
neers of America with which this
chapter is affiliated, originated with
Henry w. Pope, who in 1880 had or
ganized the National Telephone Ex-
change Association. With the assist
ance of Charles R. Truck and Thomas
B. Doolittle, the organization was
founded. The first meeting of the
Telephone Pioneers of America was
held at Boston, the birthplace of the
telephone, November 2 and 8, 1911.
Theodore N. Vail, then president of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, was the first presi-
dent of the organization. DR.. Alex
ander Graham Bell, the inventor, who
spoke the first words by telephone
March 10, 1876, was the speaker at
the initial meeting of the telephone
pioneers.
William Chauncey Langdon, his
torical librarian of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, in
a book on the subject, Telephone
Pioneers" points out that Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor of the tele-
phone, was the last of the great in
dividual inventors. Working alone,
DR.. Bell thought out the theory of the
electrical transmission of speech, dis
covered the proper use of the undula-
tory current and invented the tele-
phone. Development of the telephone
as an instrument, as a communication
system, business organization and
public utility has been the result of
team work, Mr.. Langdon points out.
The membership of the Telephone
Pioneers of America, he says, is made
up of those whose work through a
notable number of years has con-
tributed to that development. In the
spirit of comradeship these men in de-
veloping the industry were brought
into closer fellowship that resulted in
the organization of the pioneers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-10-04
NUTTLE URGES ACTION ON
SECONDARY ROADS

Actually millions of dollars are
now available for improving Mary
lands unimproved roads over which
thousands of farm people must travel
in their daily marketing, buying, and
general activities" said H. H. Nuttle,
President of the Maryland Farm Blu
reau Federation, in Baltimore today
1.-THE Farm Bureau has actively
and persistently called the attention
of the rural people of the state to the
possibility of having many miles of
mud or other unimproved roads
greatly improved in the road program
made possible by government relief
funds. The necessity of bringing
these matters to the attention of
county officials, in order that they
may get projects formulated, has also
been urged" said Mr. Nuttle.
"If such road building projects are
not made available in the counties
of Maryland, it will only be because
of lack of active interest on the part
of those charged with the RESPONSE
bflity of securing these funds. Since
the Government is providing such
large sums of money for public
works projects, certainly no county
or group of farmers living upon I'M
improved roads, can conceive of any
expenditure of public funds where
the labor provided could be put to a
more useful purpose.
"In the interest of the counties it
will serve two distinctive purposes.
1t will get large number of farmers
ON an improved or year-around road,
and second, it will conserve. in the
interests of the ceuRties of Mary
land, their regular maintenance
pass before votes are counted.-In-
dustrial Review.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-10-04

Newly elected officers Of the Mary
land chapter, Telephone Pioneers of
America, are making an earnest eff
tort to onroll ell eligible employees in
this organization, which is comprised
of men and women with twenty-one
years OF more service in the telephone
industry.
Milscn E. Gerber, Baltimore, gen.
oral commercial engineer, IS presi9-nt
Ct the ch2ytcg, succeeding j. W. Tai
bot, Baltimore, general plant manager
Of the Ckccc9cak and Potomac Tele-
phone Company of Baltimore City
operating in the state of Maryland.
Other officers are w. H. Smith, Bal
timore, traffic superintendent, south
ern district, vice president, and Her
man F. Thomas, Baltimore, senior
clerk, plant construction, secretary
and treasurer. The executive COM
mittee consists of Miss Florence E.
LIE Maitre, senior clerk, revenue ac-
counting, Baltimore, Miss Mary E.