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Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-15

Booked At JaiI-H. C. Boyer, Al,
was booked at the county jail late
yesterday On a charge Of grand
theft having been brought here by
Sheriff Ware and T NJ. Sharp,
chief criminal deputy, from Kent,
Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-15

Or. A. b. Hanson. dentist. New
Professional Bldg. Phone 3S 9to
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-15
L. A. Hay
Flax Market

CASH FLAX
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-15

Sues For Car - Grace Pico has
brought action against William
OBrien. Brawley constable. ct al,
asking damages Of $500. charging
unlawful possession of an automo-
bile belonging to plaintiff
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
 TIDES TOMORROW c . .
ESTEBETH DISPATCHED
 TO SEARCH FOR ROB'T JONES, CAPT. STRONG

After a report from Annex Creek yesterday afternoon that Robert Jones and Capt. William Strong, who left here for Taku last Fri Jay, were experiencing engine trou- ble when they stopped at Annex Creek on their way down, J. F. Mullen, United States Commission CT this morning dispatched the Estebeth, Capt. Jim Davis, to search for them.
 The men put into Annex Creek on Friday and though the engine vas of the Lou, 45-foot gasboat was giving them trouble, continued to Taku. Because of the fact that there is no place near Taku to put into for safety, it was consid- cred advisable to send out the Es- tebeth, Judge Mullen said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
ALASKA LINE NOT TO CHANGE SAIL SCHEDULE DATES.
Ch a m b CT of Com merce Hears Company's Re-
 ply to Request
Continued from Page One)

sons letter said, the Alaska line maintained service at terrific cost to itself.
 However, Wilson intimated in his reply, the Saturday sailing would be resumed before March 2, it increased business conditions warranted that action. He asked the Chamber to realize his com pany's position and to give co-op- eration. No action was taken by the Chamber, either at its Board meeting Tuesday, or today
 Secretary Curtis Shattuck re- ported that at Tuesdays Board session it had been decided to telegraph authorities in Washing ton, D. C., requesting that the most westerly route possible be adopted by the engineers in plan ming the Alaska United States h. ternational Highway. Upon sug- gestion from the floor today, how ever, it was decided to send let ter.
 Representative Joe Green of Hyder presented petition from the Stewart, B. C., Board of Trade last week, asking for cooperation in working for a western route through Canada, so that Southeast Alaska ports might be connected with the road
 The other chief business detail was the appointment of three new Juneau delegates to tomorrow's meeting of the Territorial Cham Der of Commerce here. The new men-John Jones, George Folta and Charles Naghel-replace Pres ident R. E. Robertson. R. J. Me Kama and G. H. Walmsley, who will be unable to attend.
 Although the strong Taku wind and illness forced a depleted at- tendance at today's luncheon, brief talks were heard by two visitors. Both Nicholas E. Bolshanin, dep uty Collector of Customs at Sitka, and James H. Wheeler, Petersburg and Wrangell druggist, spoke.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
 TODAY,N.Y. EXCHANGE

1 The following are closing prices Of various issues today on the New York Stock Exchange, furnished by the Wilson Fairbanks and Com pany's Juneau office: Alaska Juneau IS, Amer. Can 1l2ha, Amer. Power & Light 3as Amer. Radiator Is, Amer. R. M. 25Ss, Amer. Smelting 351a, Amer. T. & T. 1o42, Amer. Tobacco 82A Amer. W. W. 13as, Anaconda 1O5s Armour N 5ss, Atchison Topeka 49A.
 Atlantic Refining 24, Bendix 151s, Bethlehem Steel SIS, c. P. 127s, Caterpillar 38la, Cerro de Pasco 41, c. & O. 427s, Chrysler 38, Container "B' Az, Cont. Can 6414, Cont. Oil 17k, CurtiSs-W Wright 2%, du Pont de Nemours 94.
 Flee. Auto-Lite 25Ia, Fairbanks Morse 19, Gen. Electric 23A, Gen. Motors 3114, G. N. 14A, Homestake Mining 365, Howe Sound 451l, Hud- son lo1a, Houdaille- Hershey B" 8.
 Int. Nickel 22A, Johns- Manville 51A, Kennecott l61a, Liggett & Myers 105, Liquid Carbonic 27A, Loew's 32A, Lorillard 197s, Mar shall Field 10ls, Mathieson Alkah 29A.
 Mcintyre 3312, Montgomery Ward 28, Nash IT, N. Y. c. 18ss, N. P. 18ls, Penney 17a, Pullman 48si Radio 5, Reynolds Tobacco ATE, Sears Roebuck 365s. S. P. 16ls. r
 socony IA, Sperry 91s, Stand. Oil Cal. 303s, Stan Oil N. J. 41k, Texas Corp. 19@, U. s. Rubber 14k, U. S. Smelling 1O91z, U. s. Steel 37%, West. Air Brake 24ls, West. Electric 38B, Woolworth 52A, Calumet & Hecla 3Ia, Hudson Bay Mining 12A.
 Averages-Up .38.
 Spot silver-54Ac.
 Toronto. Vancouver and Seattle mining exchanges: Bralorne s9.65. Bremner 421ac at soc, B. R. x. 17c. Cariboo Gold Quartz S1.27, Col conda 35c, Montana Consolidated 24c, Nabesna roc at $1.l0, Pioneer Gold $9.75, Premier S1.49, Silver smith 7c, Sunshine $l1.00, Cresson Gold $1.12h at s1.371a.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
PIERCE DIES SERVING OUT
 TIME, PRISON
Fc. ner Seattle Banker Under Long Sentence,
 Passes Away

SEATTLE, Jan. 17.-Ahira E Pierce, aged A years, former Vice President and Manager of the de- funct Home Savings and Loan As sociation of this city, died yester- day in the prison hospital at Walla Walla where he was serving a 20 to 50 year sentence following con- viction of charges growing out of the collapse of his financial enter prises.
 Pierce died as result of agina pectoris. He had served less than been in the hospital practically all of the time he was in the Walla Walla prison.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
Fire Regulations
 Criticized by Judge

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. I,--Be- fore special meeting of the fire commission, Municipal Judge Dan iel s. O'Brien branded the traffic ordinance which requires street cars to stop at the sound of fire engine siren as dangerous to the life and limb of fire fighters and passers-by."
 The danger occurs, the judge said, when a street car stops when partly across street intersection Judge O'Brien referred particular ly to the accident in which fire man was injured when his engine struck a California Street Railway car at 18th and Tennessee Streets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
JUST RECEIVED

New shipment Of imported cups and saucers at The Nugget Shop.
 --ady.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
ATTENTION WOMEN OF THE MOOSE

Regular meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at Moose Hall Social and entertainment to follow meeting and all Brother Moose are invited to attend.
 GERTIE OLSEN, -adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
OLD NEWSPAPERS

In bundles for saie aG The Elm pire office, 25c. Fine for starting
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17

For general repsr work, old or new, call Henry Gorham. Phone 2553.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17

Japanese imports of Unite q States raw cotton are three times as large as those of the United Kingdom, second largest importer of the American product.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
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FOR RENT = TwG-room furnished apartment. Phone 5601.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
ATTENTION

Al lENIlON
 WOMEN OF THE MOOSE Regular meeting tonight at o'clock at Moose Hall Social and entertainment to follow meeting and all Brother Moose are invited to attend.
 GERTIE OLSEN, -adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
Marine News
SteaAer Movements
NORTHBOUND

Northland scheduled to arrive
 at 10 o'clock tomorrow night. SCHEDULED SAILINGS . Victoria scheduled to sail from Seattle January 19 at 10 am. . Zapora scheduled to sail from , Seattle January 19. . . Norco scheduled to sail from Seattle January 21 at g pm. , Princess Norah is scheduled |, to sail from Vancouver, Jan , uary 25 at g D. m. ( SOUTHRnIIND SAILINGS , Northwestern scheduled south ( bound about January 24. ( LOCAL SAILINGS ( . Kenai leaves every Wednes- ( . day night at 6 pm, for , . Sitka and wayports. |, . Dart leaves every Friday at , . 2 am. for Petersburg, Rake ( and wayports. ( ss (
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-17
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NOTICE

When advertisers put in ads they sometimes don't wish to be bothered with phone calls and answering doorbeIls, so we give them a box number, such as Box 10-A. Empire.
 People wanting to answer these ads should send letters addressed to the box number listed. We will see the adver- tiser gets them.
 THE EMPIRE
Evening star., 1935-10-16
The Naval Medical Center.

Progress toward the consummation of
a project greatly to be desired is indi-
Gated by the recommendation to the
Bureau of the Budget for the approval
of the spending of some $3,200,00O for
the construction of a new naval hospital
in this city. If this approval is
given-and of that there should be no
question-the item will be included in
the naval appropriation bill for the COM
ing fiscal year and this work can then
be undertaken.
The development of the Naval Medical
Center. which now replaces the naval
hospital and medical school administra-
ton, has long been pending. From time
to time for considerable period of years
additions have been made to the initial
equipment, which consisted of the estab-
lishment of the Naval Observatory.
These additions have been veritable
makeshifts, not designed as part of a
broad plan, undertaken with occasional
appropriations to meet urgent, immedi-
ate necessities.
A few years ago the proposal was made
Evening star., 1935-10-16

for the transfer Of the hospital establish
ment to another site, with correlation to
the Army Hospital. This was not favored.
It was decided, wisely, to maintain the
Nays institution upon its present site,
with such extensions as should be re-
quired. The enlargement of the area
conforms to the general plan of public
building emplacement west of the White
House group, which has been in process
of development. 1t is now contemplated
to provide at the western end of the
rectangle, flanking the river boulevard, a
site for the new home of the Navy
Department. Should that be done, as
now appears likely, the development Of
the Naval Medical Center on an adjacent
area, now in part occupied by the pres
ent equipment, would be altogether ap-
propriate.
There is an element of urgency in the
immediate proposal for construction.
The quarters now in use are not suitable.
They are indeed in some respects haz-
ardous. They have been characterized
as f1re-traps. 1t is unthinkable that the
wards of the Nation, under medical care
and treatment, should continue indef-
nitely to be exposed to peril through mis-
taken economy and procrastination.
Evening star., 1935-10-16

brated Influence of Sea Power Upon
History, 166O-17ss." The volume Gre
ated a sensation, especially abroad.
Theodore Roosevelt called it classic, :"
British and German StrategiSts quoted
it With Endorsement and Japanese au-
thorities specified it for use in govern
ment academies. Mahan confirmed the
judgment of his admirers by publishing
a companion work of equal merit, In
fuence of Sea Power Upon the French
Revolution and Empire, 1793-lSl2."
But credit for his labors was but re-
luctantly accorded by his superiors at
home. While Europe was ringing with his
praises and crowned monarchs were
competing for the honor of his presence
at dinner, he was informed by his chiefs
that it was mot the business of naval
officer to write books" Even when Ok
ford and Cambridge gave him honorary
degrees and the American Historical So
ciety elected him its president, he still
was more feared than appreciated in
official circles where "expansionist poll
cies" were unpopular. He retired in
1906, but continued to write until his
death, December /, 1914-a few months
after the beginning of the Great War
he had foretold.
Possibly he was too far in advance of
his age In any case, all parties now
admit that his realism was justified. A
man of war, just now christened for him,
testifies to that fact.
Evening star., 1935-10-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Saga" as in all his other triple novels,
do not come conveniently to suit the
plot. for there is no plot" in the older
sense, the dramatic sense of scenes and
episodes.
No doubt that was why Galsworthy
admired Dickens, who saw human be-
ings first and above all. In this Dickens
was one with his admirer. Their meth
ods conceded at no other point.
The plot which is a human being is
one we all know.
Wherever we work, however little given
to observation, this is something that is
unacceptable.
We are like the character in Moliere
who expressed surprise that he had been
speaking prose all his life.
Here all of us have been meeting
plots, seeing plots. hearing plots, living
with plots, and never once suspected it!
Or do we?
No doubt many person has an un-
realized ambition to write novel, whose
essence, however one puts it, is plot,
either In the old sense or the new, either
as character manipulation or simply as
human beings.
The essence Of real life is that things
seldom happen as they do in the old
time plotted novels. We all know they
do not, and yet we read and enjoy-at
least some still do-the works Of Dickens
and others who rely On surprise and the
like.
Why?
Because, above all, and first of all, they
knew their human nature.
If such a master of the new school as
Galsworthy read and loved and respected
the work of Charles Dickens, the rest of
us must.
Reviewers unconSciouSly copy each
other, and you scarce can pick up re-
view of a novel today without finding in
1t the phrase come alive" 1t is applied
to both characters and entire books.
This character does not quite come alive;
this novel does not, either, according to
a reviewer.
What does this mean but that the
pilot" who or which is each human being
has not been entirely visioned? 1t has
not been glimpSed closely enough to be
understood by the reader Creviewer +,
hence he says, and probably justly. that
the character or the book seems wooden
to him.
The great gulf between the great novel
and the mediocre one lies right here. If
it could be explained, so that others
might understand 1t fully, every novel
might be a masterpiece. Since it can
never be fully unraveled, there is no
such danger. Some books will continue
to delight and amaze the world and be-
come a light to future ages. The vast
majority will have their little day in the
bookstores, and then fade from human
sight, except now and then, and here and
there, forever.
But the plot who is each human being
goes on. Each Of us is living story for
somebody, whether We realize it or not,
and always for ourself. The title of this
masterpiece is a." and it has long life
or a short life, as the fates decree. Its
pages are days, and its characters not
one but many. We are all stories.
Evening star., 1935-10-16
Ego.

Ego.
Oh, let the People Rule, say I!
Their will must be supreme.
They'll build for us as years go by
A perfect social scheme.
No doubt they'll need ere they have done
Suggestions not few.
I only ask to be the one
Who tells them what to do.
The rocks of Truth they'll stoutly raise,
With Wisdom for cement,
Till wonder-stricken nations gaze
With knees in homage bent.
A little share will do for me
While patriot bosoms throb;
ask no more than just to be
The man to boss the job.
II de world jedged man by what he
starts" said Uncle Eben, "instid O. by
what he finishes, every page in de city
directory would be full O. great men"
Evening star., 1935-10-16
Mahan.

The Navy Department is we'll advised
to keep alive the name of Rear Admiral
Alfred Thayer Mahan. He was, per-
haps, in some danger of being forgotten
by the public in general, if not by his
successors in the maritime services. Yet
1t would be difficult to cite any other
character of his class or time so richly
deserving of remembrance.
Washington knew him we'll. He was
the son of soldier who taught at West
Point for nearly half a century and
wrote a series of approved textbooks on
engineering, fortification and field prac-
tice. One of his two brothers chose the
Army, the other the Navy, and Mahan
himself appears for while to have had
some trouble deciding which Of several
courses he should adopt. To the ever
lasting advantage of his country, he
finally preferred the sea. Graduated at
Annapolis in 1859, he went through the
Civil War without attracting special at
tention. Then followed twenty years of
routine duty, at the close of which he
was captain. drifting on the lines of
simple respectability as aimlessly as one
very we'll could"
1t was the establishment of the War
College at Newport that gave him the
opportunity for which all his study and
experience had been fitting him. He was
invited to lecture on tactics and naval
history, and the fruits of his school room
activities came out in 1890-his cele-
Evening star., 1935-10-16

A human being is the best plot, John
Galsworthy once said, and he knew, for
he was a great writer.
So the people one meets in the daily
life are plots, then?
Surely.
Every man has his own novel, II only
he could get it out of him, it has been
said.
Every human being is story, If one
could read him Alright.
These hurrying figures in the streets,
these persons jamming one another in
busses and street cars, these impatient
automobile drivers
All plots! And each such "plot" in
tent on something, evidently, from the
scowl on brows, the staring eyes, the
insensibility to the mass.
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1t is the "ruling passion" as a great
poet called 1t, which makes the plot.
Modern psychology has ruled out such
indefinite terms, but there was great
deal of good in them, after all.
They came before the age of science,
but better than science, some may think,
they had human nature in them.
Let us stick, then, to the ruling passion.
One man Is covetouS, another generous.
One man bankers for power, another
for money.
The ruling passion" of the next is
kindness.
OF the next, cruelty.
Here is one man who values comfort
more than anything else in the world.
Probably he doesn't realize it himself,
but it is very plain to all who know him.
1t is interesting to realize that Gals
worthy thought Charles Dickens the
greatest English novelist.
1t was because both were preoccupied
with human beings. Otherwise their
methods were entirely different.
The modern writer, whose death q few
years ago was great loss, did not think
of plot" in the sense of plotted"
His novels, in the best modern manner
Zone made familiar in this country by
the works Of Sinclair Lewis, particularly
seldom make one character pop out of
door just as another pops in.
He deals, rather, with the uneventful
life Of everyday, but shows the reader
the eventful character of it.
Galsworthy'S work as novelist, dram
atist and Short-story writer made him
a three-facet man. Any average good
writer would have won fame in one
branch and thought himself pretty clever.
Nothing shows the amplitude of John
GalSworthy more than the fact that,
although a great playwright, he seldom
used stage methods in his novels. The
o. Henry kick is seldom found in his
short stories.
Both Charles Dickens and Alexandra
Dumas, the elder had definite stage as
pirations, and probably each would have
been gladder to have gone down to pos
terity as a dramatist than as a novelist.
1t is significant that Galsworthy, who,
as a playwright. was far superior to
either or both put together, never tried
to make his novels simply plays in writ
ten form.
He did not use the old trick of making
characters expediently appear and dis
appear, as through stage doors.
Exits and entrances, in The Forsyte
Evening star., 1935-10-16
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Danger of ExaggeratiO,

Danger of Exaggeration.
Contentment is blessing rare,
AS often has been stated.
But if we do not have a care,
1t gets exaggerated.
The oyster lives inside his shell,
No social pleasures seeking.
His house is strong and bolted well,
The roof is never leaking.
In Incidence from day to day,
He dwells without resentment,
Until dredger comes his way
And skaters his contentment.
Contentment is blessing rare
But sloth is not improving.
He might have lodged that bill of fare
If he could just keep moving.
Evening star., 1935-10-16

Col. Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to
bark to Senator Borah'S siren call to
make monopoly the paramount G. o. p.
issue supports the view that the Repub-
licans are bent upon nominating an out
right conservative for President as their
sole salvation in 1896. More and more
of them apparently are coming to be-
lieve that the party must offer the coun-
try the strongest possible contrast to
the policies that Franklin D. Roose-
welt typifleS. Unless that is done,
with respect to both candidate and
platform, some Republicans feel their
chances of smashing the New Deal
will be hopelessly handicapped. AS
things are now shaping, conserva-
tism. symbolized by twin slogans like
Stand by the Constitution" and Turn
the spendthrifts out" is the program on
which the elephant will pin its hopes.
Col. Roosevelt's allegation of scan
dalous waste" and his emphasis on
that issue and constitutionalism. rather
than on monopoly. echo Herbert's
Hoover's recent onslaught against the
administration. Current indications all
point to standard bearer who will
personify enlightened conservatism as the
W ILOOSCNClOiSlll. quill bSiiA-
encles presage the nomination OF
Hoover type of Republican rather than
one of the Borah stripe.
Reports from the Middle West allege
that the Committee for the Nation is
strong for Borah for President. At any
rate prominent spokesmen OF the COM
mittee, now engaged in selling their
IN ft,n
try, express enthusiasm for the Idahoan'S
candidacy, presumably because they
think he shares their currency views.
Committee leaders are addressing meet
ings of bankers and picturing how man.
aged money" has operated in other coun-
tries which have gone off the gold
standard.
Secretary Hull's appeal to business not
to jeopardize the cause of peace by en-
gaglng in risky and temporary trade"
is destined, Washington international
authorities believe, to impress foreign
countries as we'll as our own. 1t is in
line with present efforts of the League
to induce reluctant member nations, as
we'll as outsiders like Germany and
Japan, to refrain from profitable deal
ings with Italy. Secretary Hull's argu-
ment that the sooner war in Africa is
terminated the quicker will business be
stabilized all over the world-and that
this is infinitely more important than
trade with belligerents'-is expected to
carry weight abroad, too.
X X
Fer years tens of millions of dollars
annually have flowed into Italy from
Italian quarters in the United States.
The total of these Immigrant remit
tances" always bulked conspicuously in
Italy's financial and economic calcula-
tions and has been an important item in
her national wealth. That is one OF the
reasons why Mussolini resented the
enactment of our quota laws, which
drastically cut down the number OF
Italians eligible to enter this country.
Should the Leagues attempted financial
strangulation of Italy tend to curtail
export of funds to that country from the
United States, the effect would be seri-
ous It is a question whether President
Roosevelt's warning to American citizens