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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16
AXELSON APPOINTED 1
 YAKUTAT OBSERVER

E. M. Axelson ot yakutat, who has been in Juneau on business, will be the new United States weather observer at Yakutat on his return it was announced today by Meteor ologist Howard J. Thompson of the U. s. Weather Bureau. MT. AXel- son sails for home on the North western.
 The last time I was here Gold Creek went on a rampage" said the Yakutat pioneer, and now l hear it is flooding again. I hope people in Juneau won't blame it on me. Anyway, it's time I was get ting home"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16
HOOP PRACTICE
 TONIGHT FOR DE
 MOLAYS, DOUGLAS

DeMolay and Douglas hoop teams will hold a practice session this ev- ening from 7:15 until o'clock in the Juneau High Schol gym. the second of the season.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16
H A,P P Yl@-l414t1, ' :. ,s -AlBI RsT Fl DEHY

The Empire ertends co7agratula- tions and best a0iShes today, their birthday anniuersdry, to the telyoD- ing:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16
Tn WronssPews'
(New York Times)

fNeW York TimeS)
 Out in Oak Park Chicago's biggest and strongest minded suburb Communist is invited to speak in church. Now complaint against the Reds is that they don't go to church fhensseves and make it mighty unpleasant for those who do But all this Communist gets when he does join the worshipers is eers, catcalls threats of election and warning to show his face again in the House of God
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16
SHEPARD LEAVES ON NORTH
 SEA FOR KETCHIKAN TRTF

Royal Shepard was passenger sailing for Ketchikan on the North Sea. He will be away about ten days on business for H. R. Shepard and Company. si I.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16

It seems to be what is known in the race track world a claiming MT. Farley claims New York Illinois and Ohio and MT. Hamilton claims New York Illinois and Ohio Then, of course, for good measure, the two generaissimos claim the other 4 states too.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16
LAST RITES FOR OLAF
 SWANSON HELD SUNDA

Funeral services for the late Olaf Swanson, pioneer who died, sudden ly last Sunday night in Douglas
 will be held, Sunday afternoon, ac- cording to announcement made thi.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16

Announcement of the Christmas Ship is reminder that the holidays right around the corner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16

Al Capones idea all right but he chose the wrong field. It has worked nicely in Russia, Ger many and Italy-Detroit Free Press.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16

Iowa State College researcher reports that pedes trans close heavy motor traffic are mildly affected by carbon monoxide But it's the gas still in the motors that takes more lives than etha vapors of battefieds Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16

Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard of the original nudstS.-Manchester Union.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-16

Washington archvists have just discovered 5o- r-old treaty with the Navajo Indians that has been fulfilled. Probably one of those blanket ar ngements-Philadelphi Inquirer.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Brief Reviews of Books

times with great crises in other times.
ELECTRICITY FOR USE OR FOR
PROFIT? BY Bernhard Ostro-
lenk New York: Harper & Bros.
Popular Interpretation of the prob
lem Of electric power to the American
people.
DRUMS IN THE BALKAN NIGHT.
BY John I. B. McCulloch. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Another young couple turn their
wedding journey into copy. during
which they have an interview with
Queen Marie Of Rumania.
MAN IN THE MAKING. BY DR..
Thomas Graves. New York: G.P.
Putnam's Sons.
Mans evolution from the first group
Of animal life cells to his present
remarkable estate.
Fiction.
SHOCKS. Algernon Blackwood. New
York: E. P. Dutton Co.
Ghost stories by an old hand.
THE WONDER BOOK OF TRAVEL
ERS' TALES. BY H. c. Adams.
With an introduction and illustra-
tions by II. Van Loon. New York:
Lveright Publishing Corp.
From Sindbad to Capt. Cook-a COL
lection of great yarns. Worth having.
AS THE MORNING RISING. By
Sigrid Van Sweringen. New York:
BenZiger Bros.
Fictionized story Of the life Of Eliz-
abeth Seton. founder of the Daughters
of Charity in this country.
HERE WAS A MAN. BY Norah Lofts.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Woman writes a novel about a man
she admires, always dangerous thing.
And the man in this case Is Sir WAL
ter Raleigh, who has been executed
once.
JING. BY John Taintor Foote. New
York: The Derrydale Press.
A dog story. Exquisitely Illustrated
by Alden l.. Ripley.
Mysteries.
MURDER AT THE MOTOR SHOW.
BY John Rhode. New York: Dodd
Mead & Co.
A DR.. Priestly detective story. Pretty
good.
THE CONCRETE CASTLE MUIR
DERS. BY Francis Gerard. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
Scotland Yard gets its man again.
Poetry.
AN ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH AND
AMERICAN POETRY. Edited with
an introduction by Mark Van
Doren. New York: Reynal &
Hitchcock.
The English, Irish and American
sections of the new enlarged edition
of Mark Van Doren'S Anthology of
World Poetry"
Evening star., 1936-10-31

ONE Of the very earliest books on
divination. published in 1885, is
Mother Bunch's Closet Newly Broke
Open," which gives many and sundry
methods whereby. on Halloween. one
may learn about ones future life
companion. One suggestion was, "The
first time you hear a cuckoo sing,
look under your left shoe and find a
hair of the color Of your wife's or
husbands hair without the aid of the
devil" The devil seems to have had
a great deal to do with the securing
of life companion in this intriguing
book.
Divination today has somewhat re-
gained the professional status of an
cient times. While the legal attitude
toward this profession is not always
favorable, the number Of those de-
string to learn about future events is
on the increase, according to avail
able data on the subject. This pro-
fession in its many phases is not
listed separately in the census of 1880.
but information secured from some Is
large cities gives a slant on the atti-
tude toward the practice of divination
in some sections Of the country.
The State laws of Texas and Colo
RADIO prohibit fortune telling. while
city ordinances forbid 1t In Los An
geles. San Francisco, Salt Lake City,
Buffalo and Atlanta. Phrenologists
may practice In Salt Lake City by
paying a license fee Of $25 a year
and in Buffalo by paying $50. Ac-
cording to some State laws, persons
practicing divination in any form are
classed as vagrants and as such may
be prosecuted, but some reports indi-
cate that it Is practiced without re-
gard for these laws. Two cities re-
quire license for fortune telling in
any form-in Washington the fee Is
$3.50 and IL are registered for the
current year, while Miami, with q fee
Of $825, reports none licensed
Evening star., 1936-10-31

and Delphi, were consulted by the
wisest and best of the pagan Greeks.
The government at Rome appointed
official fortune-tellers o. the state,
who from the flights of birds or the
appearance presented by the entrails
of sacrificial victims. made pronounce
ments as to coming events. The
early Germans drew favorable or I'm
favorable signs from the snorting or
neighing of consecrated white horse.
Palmistry was known to the ancient
Chinese and was practiced generally
by the early inhabitants of Europe,
India and Egypt. All the early Asiatic
tribes had favored ways of predict
ing future events and sorcerers were
common among the American Indians.
Although divination did not have its
origin in fraud, it easily lent itself
to fraudulent uses. Perhaps it was
for this reason that Moses prohibited
the practice of divination, and that
Saul expelled those having familiar
spirits from his kingdom. Records,
however, show that Saul himself con-
suited the Witch of Endor shortly
before the battle in which re was
killed. The practice of foretelling
future happenings by the movements
of mice, likely, caused Isaiah to in
clude mice in the list of the a3om-
inable things Of the idolator.
After the third century # this era
many Christians practiced Biblio-
NANCY, predicting the future by the
passage on which the eye happened
to fall in q random opening Of the
Scriptures.
During the Middle Ages divination
regained. partially at least. its early
prestige, for iI is reputed to have
been taught In the schools and col.
leges of that time. The literature
and drama Of all countries from the
Middle Ages to the middle Of the
nineteenth century are full Of allu-
sions to fortune telling.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

but the car started on the downgrade
and kept picking up speed. I reckon
it was going about so miles an houl
when me and another fellow jumped
I landed in heap of rocks and il
was lucky did, because at least they
gave way. If it had of been concrete
1 would have broken my neck. But
I skinned my foot and bruised up my
leg and sides pretty bad. They took
me to the hospital at Spartanburg anc
later to the Emergency Hospital here
in Washington. That car went OF
miles before it finally slowed down
1t reached an upgrade and that
stopped the momentum it had picked
up and slowed it enough to get il
under control"
This week Brooks plans to return
to his job ION the road" but he
remarks little wistfully that % years
is long time to carry trays on NOV.
ing trains and he'd like to be round
home more now" With a confident
smile he says, II think I'm going to
take advantage of Mr.. Roosevelta
offer to write him when he gets
elected again, because it sure would
be nice if I could get one Of those
messenger Jobs in the Government
service!"
Evening star., 1936-10-31

which contributed the renaissance of
the fifteenth century.
There have been numerous efforts
to present in popular language the
story Of this sensational intellectual
expansion, which is probably the most
significant development in the history
of the present. Mr.. Darrow's book
differs markedly from most of the
others. They have been content to
tell OF spiral nebulae and electrons,
OF photons and expanding univers1s
But they often leave the critical lay
reader with an obvious and justifiable
question: How do you know?
Mr.. Darrow tries to answer this
question. He describes the technique
of physical experiment. 1t Is well
enough TO tell the reader that there
are 10000, ,000, 900 100000 miniature
solar systems in the head of a pin.
Here one is told how they are
counted. The book is not easy read
ing. The techniques Of navigation
can't be made quite so thrilling as
accounts Of voyages into space. But
there could be no voyages without
the navigation. II. r. II.
THE GOLDEN HEART. BY Richard
Strachey. Harcourt, Brace & Co.,
New York. 295 pages. 81.
Mr.. sTRAcHEY's novel Of a fake
medium and his zany friends is
a curious blend Of light and savage
satire. 1t is imaginative, but un-
skilled: the plot is deftly manipulated,
but, withal, quite unnecessary to this
type Of novel; it is easy to read, be-
cause the author frequently strikes
of sparks Of wit and observation, but
it leaves a hazy impression because
Of needless Joycean obscurity in GER
tain passages; some of the humor is
quiet and pungent or bold and devas-
tating, while some Of it is mere pun
ming. It's splendid example of the
yes-and-no novel.
Readers of conventional light fic-
tion will be amused by its clever
story. but offended by its eccentric
style. Beerbohm- Coward fans will
Evening star., 1936-10-31
NOn-FictiOn.

On-Ficti0n.
NULL YOURSELF TOGETHER,
- BABY! BY Sylvia Of Holly
wood. New York: The Mac
4 fadden Book Co.
The energetic masSeuse describes
short cuts to what is known as charm.
PRELUDE TO PANIC. BY Law
renee Sullivan. Washington: The
Statesman Press.
A White House reporter tells Of
the spread of panic in the banking
crisis Of 1888.
WESTWARD BOUND IN THE
SCHOONER YANKEE. BY Capt.
and Mrs. Irving Johnson. New
York: w. w. Norton Co.
Another young couple go around
the world. This time in a deep-sea
pilot schooner.
HISTORY OF ART CRITICISM. BY
Lionello Ventura. New York: E. P.
Dutton Co.
A historical review Of critical ap-
proaches to art, from the earliest
lNNOIN NNu l1HlC W lNItllj yCdlS.
CRIMES OF THE HIGH SEAS. BY
David Masters. New York: Henry
Holt g. Co.
Stories Of crimes in ships and the
methods by which they have been
solved. Exciting stuff.
GARI-GARI. BY Hugo Adolf Ber-
natzik. New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
Anthropologist and cameraman
makes journey into wilder Africa.
THE PRACTICAL PUPPY BOOK.
BY Dorothy K. LHommedieu. New
York: Windward House.
Care Of the infant dog.
THE FUTURE OF LIBERTY. BY
George Soule. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
Examination Of American social
system apparently to see If it can
be changed without being changed.
Nice reading for the social-minded.
THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY.
Francis Pickens Miller. Chapel
Hill: The University Of North
Carolina Press.
Examination of the American social
system. apparently to see if it can
be changed without being changed
See above.
CONCERNING PROGRESSIVE REV.
ELATION. BY Vivian Phelps.
London: Watts & Co.
Reconciliation of science and re-
ligion.
WING SHOTS. BY Albert Dixon
Simmons. New York: Derrydale
Press.
beautiful.
IN THE SHADOW OF TOMORROW.
BY Jan Huizinga. New York:
w. w. Norton Co.
Comparison Of the crisis Of our
Evening star., 1936-10-31

The schoolmarm shows herself up in
a rather unfavorable Light. She is a
person fitted by position and education
to lead the community. Instead, she
fears even to listen, she fears to in
volve herself in the life of the COM
munity. and when finally her emo
tions are involved in spite of herself
she sinks to the level, and below Of
her neighbors instead of helping them
to rise. She leaves Canebrake as she
found it feud-ridden, moonshining,
mountain backwoods.
Part of the charm of this volume is
directly traceable to the accurate yet
artistic line drawings Of seed forms
scattered through all the pages. These
were drawn by Marie Lawson, who
also drew the decorative little uni
corn on the jacket and the fanciful
frontispiece.
Seeds" is the sort Of book that
Evening star., 1936-10-31

uation. What If Roosevelt Wins?
This question is asked Mr.. Earl Brow
der who. it seems, is running for Pres
ident himself. Mr.. Browder hopes to
become First Executive by way of the
Communist ticket. The alternative,
What If Landon Wins? is asked of
Mr. Norman Thomas, sufficiently we'll
known as first contender for the So
cialistS.
Briefly, Mr.. Browder (and by his
photograph he has a nice sort of
face), says that if Roosevelt wins the
eventual revolution will be STAYED off
a bit because Roosevelt is sufficiently
liberal toward the underprivileged to
keep them from rising for a while yet
anyhow. The issues, says Mr.. Brow
der, are between the forces which
make toward fascism and those which
oppose it.
Mr. Thomas says that if Landon
wins nothing in particular will happen
because nothing is going to happen
anyhow. Nothing. Mr. Thomas plain
ly implies, ever does happen anyhow.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

Mercury adopted this pee-wee size.
and the reviewer waits with horrid
fascination from one delivery of the
Atlantic to the next, fearing to see
that bulwark of solid Victorian size
appear in tabloid shape, which, If it
happened. would be something like
hearing Wallace Beery speak out of
the screen in a childish piping treble.
But to get back to Coronet.
1t Is unique in its subject matter
It seems to be an effort to combine
the best features Of half a dozen diff
ferent types Of periodicals. 1t hank
ers after the New Workers. humor, it
admires the pomp and circumstance
of the magazines which specialize in
expensive photography, it reaches
nobly after the higher things Of life
and obviously, at the same time, hates
the notion Of being "highbrow," it
contains fiction and non-fction and
personal interviews with prominent
people. 1t is, on the whole, sort of
Esquire Fortune-Vogue- New Yorker
and it costs thirty-five cents. 1t is
the first Of the manifold variety of
Evening star., 1936-10-31

the ballet proper, written in TYPICAL
tingaling, small e. e. cumming style.
is preceded by synopsis of the four
acts into which the production is
divided.
Episode One" opening upon
glorified revival-meeting of the slaves,
dances through Haley's melodramatic
acquisition of Eliza, her husband.
George, and their child, by means
of the mortgage threat held over op
Marse Shelby's head. Episode Two
gives us all the ice-cakes and blood
hounds of the Eliza -and-child chase.
and introduces George and Eliza to
the friendly arms of the Quakers.
In Three" enter Little Eva and
Topsy, Tom and the familiar trap
pings of the New Orleans estate of
the St. Clare's. Tom. on the block, IS
bought by villain Legree for a finale.
Episode Four" presents Legree's
flogging Of Tom into Little Eva's
heaven, beyond Legree's whip and
beyond his comprehension. cummings
ends his synopsis typically. and we
get a rather complete insight into
this ballet in black and white from
his final paragraph:
Unaware that the actual Tom is
far beyond his reach, and that merely
the mortal efigy remains, Legree.
now absolutely satanic, resumes the
flogging of what he supposes to be
his victim. At the moment of Toms
physical death. murderous perversity
is confronted by its opposite. Creative
Nature: the white killer cringes be-
fore an apparition, symbolizing to his
distorted senses the vengeance OF the
entire black race. AS this apparition
dissolves in the reality of Classy
(Eliza's mother). Legree's mentality
crumbles; the former prodigy of brute
strength becomes miserable insect, !
consumed by the merciful radiance
of eternal things. Classy kneels at
Toms feet. Eliza with her child |
triumphantly enters, followed by
George. The raptures of liberation
are Stilled as wife and husband fall |
humbl, beside Tom. In the midst |
of this new sorrow, Eliza recognizes
her mother, who sees, Dut does not
know her. Then the sight of Elias
child reminds Classy of Eliza. as a
little girl; and, beholding her now
daughter in the mother of this child,
Classy embraces both Eliza and George. |
Suddenly transcending their person.
alities. the ecstacy of the three brown
protagonists overfiows. To Judgment
trumpets Death enter. black like Tom:
and, lik. Toms body, Death itself
disappears: Appears the Heavenly
Host"
The form and style Of the ballet
which follows, in detail, Is Cummings
OF The Enormous Room, Is S, and
which, if one Is cummings fan,
makes Tom" another book to buy.
D. 3.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Halloween Magic Reflects Practice of All the Ages

FORTUNE telling is not the only
phase of the Halloween celebra-
tions which can be traced to the
time when this was New Year eve.
The connection with the primitive
Festival of the Dead explains many
of the Halloween customs for which
no explanation could be found In the
church observances of All Saints and
All Souls days.
The Halloween torches of the Irish,
the bonfires of the Scotch, the Coel
Coeth fires of the Scotch, the T1ndle
fires of Cornwall, and the present-
day bonfires on Halloween all COR
respond to the bonfires OF the pagan
Festival of the Dead in remote times.
Other customs, and even names ia
miliar in the merrymaking OF Hal
loween, are traceable to the Roman
feast to the goddess o. fruits and seeds,
Pomona. The Romans on this night
opened for the first time the Winter
stores laid up during the Summer.
and this ancient practice propapiy Is
the source of the names sometimes
given this night-Nutcrack Night and
Snapapple Night.
The Celts also associated the idea
Of a harvest festival with this ILL
omened night of the pagans, for one
early writer says the observance was
"a solemnitv kent on the eve Of No.
vember / as q thanksgiving for the
safe ingathering of the produce Of
the fields"
Thus the nuts and apples without
which no Halloween celebration is
complete find their origin as part
of the early Roman festival to Po-
mona, while "sheet-clad" figures. dart
ing about the streets, decorative
witches. bonfires and fortune tellers
trace their beginnings to that far-on
time when Halloween Vas New Year
Evening star., 1936-10-31

would make an ideal "hostess gift" to
a garden-loving weekend entertainer,
TOM. by E. E. Cummings. Arrow
Editions, New York; 50.
THIS truth he holds to be self-evi-
dent: That nothing Is so good
that it cannot be made better-pro-
vided e. e. cummings does it.
So. with even such a veteran, dog
cared classic as Miss Stoves Uncle
Toms Cabin" cummings was not sat-
isfied.
Tom" a starspangled newfangled
ballet" version of the old vehicle
in black and white, is the result. 1t
is Tomeliza Evalegree done up in
dance. song and symbolic gesture.
Taking liberties with the original
Cabin is somewhat like drafting a
new version of the Lords prayer. but
not an impossibility to e. e. Thus,
Evening star., 1936-10-31

hLLOWEEN fortune telllng
- traces its ancestry to the time
when Halloween and New
a Years Eve and the beginning
of the three-day Festival of the Dead,
celebrated by primitive peoples all
over the world. The days of this
festival, October 81. November l and
2, correspond to Halloween, All Saints
and All Souls days. The year began
with the evening rising of the Plei-
AIDES, therefore the ancient day began
at sunset. The sunset-beginning of
the day was a prevalent belief even
in some sections of this country until
the middle of the last century.
Halloween was the best time of the
entire year to foretell the future, ac-
cording to the beliefs Of many ancient
peoples-Peruvians, Pacific Islanders,
Japanese, Hindus, Persians, Egyp-
tians, Romans. They also believed
that every one had the power Of
divination on october 81, which prob
ably explains the present Halloween
fortune telling. Witches, devils, and
all kinds of misunderstanding spirits
played pranks on unsuspecting per-
sons, and the spirits Of ancestors were
believed to wander over the earth on
this particular night.
DESIRE to know future events has
been characteristic Of the
human race through all the ages.
Consequently, divination has welded
a surprising influence upon the lives
and beliefs of peoples everywhere,
from remote times to the present.
Most forms of divination-one au-
thority lists 55-were known to all
early peoples. Predicting future events
developed into q regular science, In
timately associated with the religion
of the ancients. The oracles, Dodona
Evening star., 1936-10-31

find the idea to their liking. but will
miss the deft touch of the real master
of minor pieces. Devotees of the
Messrs. Walpole and Priestley need
not apply.
MOUNTAIN PATH. BY Harriette
Simpson. Published by Covici-
Friede, New York.
CTILL another story about school,
~ marin in the back mountain regions
of Kentucky, where moonshining and
feuds are still very much the order
of the day. This attacks the situa-
tion from the woman's angle, the
viewpoint of the mountain woman,
bred to suffer in silence and do moth
ing to ameliorate her condition. The
delineation of characters in this book
is especially noteworthy, being clear
and definite, without being over
drawn, one feels.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
FAULKNERS STYLE DWARFS MATERIAL IN NEW NOVEL
IN THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
Corone Newest of the Ies Starts Life With Big Aspirations
Thomas and Browder Scrunze the Nations Future
Under the Old Parties; Richberg Speaks.

pee-wees to go in for illustrations in
biz way and so 1t marks departure,
or. no doubt, something. 1t is worth
buying. although to the reviewer, the
small page does not lend itself at all
convincingly to elaborate photography
SCRIBNER's. which like the Mer-
curry, underwent a change of for
mat last month, issues its second
number in its new form and it too
seems very like an approximate New
Yorker. This is only in appearance.
however. Scribner's continues to be
serious in content, and there is q
slightly humorous discrepancy between
the solidity Of some Of the articles
and the frivolity of the pictures. You
cannot jump from Victoria to Edward
VIII Just by deciding that you are
going to, 1t seems.
Scribner's first article this month is
q double interview on the political Sit