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The daily independent., 1937-08-07
What Other Editors Say
The Clothes of Men


1t is still not easy to persuade men to change
the type or color of their clothes. There is Men
Dress Reform party in England which recently held
a contest for new ideas in King Georges Hall,
but the display does not seem to have impressed
either the judges or the spectators. No first prize
was awarded.
Second prize went to something for evening wear
with jacket and trousers of dark blue chiffon velvet
light blue silk shirt and a dark blue. sash or
cummerbund Another evening outfit took third
prize black waiStcoat lined with white silk, worn
with shoulder-length cape and q red cummerbund
this time The Associated Press says the contest
ants marched by in clothing resembling every
thing from tennis shorts to half dressed tootman
or Spanish bull-fghter in an off moment.
The prophetic mems clothes in H. G. Wells
film, The Shape of Things to Come" did not ap-
pear nearly as attractive the costumes designed
for the ladies' The truth is that pretty girl looks
enchanting in almost anything whereas it is hard
to dress a man except in the most conventional
garm without making him look effeminate. There
has been some movement, however, towards more
color. Dark blue can be worn for evening as well
as black but the point is that it looks black.
Sports wear is becoming gayer and mems under
wear is one item where there is blaze of color
compared with the almost universal white of few
tire is the use of trunks only instead of the bath
ing suit, on most of the beaches of Europe and
ARmerica.-Toronto Daily Star.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
THE
ONCE OVER
BY
III. I. PHILLIPS
copyright, 1887, by The Asso-
copyright, 1887, by The Asso-
cIated Newspapers.)

Letter From A Soviet Executive
Dear Ivanoff:
Well, things are certainly
booming here in Soviet Russia. We
are in the midst of a great in
duStrial revival. You can get an
idea how great II is from the fact
that executions have reached an
all-time high. IF the boom keeps
on. nobodys life will be safe.
All my subordinateS are in a
state of jitterS'. too. due to the
fact that they have worked very
hard and succeeded in building
up The business far beyond their
fondeSt hopes. AS long as this
factory was Just stumbling along
and getting very little business,
nobody was in jeopardy, but the
minute we took it over and made
it a great success we became can
didates for the firing squad. Moth
ing makes Stain more furious
than the news that an industry
is so efficient it is Tagging behind
orders. 1 am beginning to think
l was a sucker for being so ef-
ficient.
Executives and engineers are
being shot everywhere on ac-
count of the great industrial
boom and whenever they see a
rush if orders they begin making
their wills and saying goodby to
their friends. Some of the factor
les have instituted what they call
farewell parties. Whenever a
company makes an annual report
showing record strides, The exc
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

cutives throw these farewell par
ties, knowing that they will prob
ably be bumped off during the
next quarter as Wreckers OF in
duStry.
Just as soon as a factory is so
successful that it gets swamped
with orders, the executives might
as well get ready to be shot for
crippling the morale of the Rus
sian people. If you want to know
how good Russian business has
been you don't ask for a regular
company business report. You
Just get a list of executed engin-
GERS and compare it with the exc
cution figures in the last quarter
ly report. That will tell you every
thing.
Well, I cannot write any more,
as my assistant has just notified
me that another tremendous or
der has come in which will swamp
us more than ever, and I hear the
phone ringing, which mus be a
summons from Stain. Remember
me to all, and tell everybody I
died unashamed of building up
the business.
Yours,
Gregory Latvitch.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
Asa1ND
Nv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

ed his crusading instincts agalnSV
monopoly during the fourteen
wears he was in Congress. There
he was chairman of the Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Committee,
although as his critics so frequen-
tly pointed out, there was not one
navigable stream or fish-pond
of any value in the entire district
of Tennessee which elected him.
1t was as a member OF this
Committee that Davis fought
Warren Harding's move for
ship subsidy-a move IN which
Franklin Roosevelt now has been
more successful. 1t was also as a
member of this Committee that
Davis Waged the frs legislative
battle against the big radio COM
panies and their drive for mono
poly within the industry.
1t was this early experience in
framing radio legislation which
may cause the President to move
Davis from the Federal Trade
Commission, which is functioning
smoothly, 20 the Federal Com
munications Commission, which
has been funCtiOning like mad
house.
Price-FiXing
Judge Davis is a rare sight
when he gets wrought up during
Trade Commission debate
against unfair trade practices OF
monopoly. To him not only the
letter of the law, but the spirit of
The law must be obeyed.
Once when a large mail-order
house was found to be selling
goods TO retail stores at price
cheaper than they sold to whole
salerS, Judge Davis made the case
his own pet. The Commissions
chief counsel had ruled that al
though THIS was a very unfair
trade practice, nevertheless there
was nC,hing in the Robinson
Patman Act which made it lille
gal.
Judge Davis cheWcd his pencil
thoughtfully. Finally he brokeout:
You say there's nothing in the
law which makes that illegal.
Well. we'll see about that. You
let me write the opinion on that
point. The trouble with you boys
is that you don't know the law. >
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
NOT READY
FOR 1T

IOS - Il
in this weeks issue OF Lib
rt,. IN which he mildly rebukcs the Presl-
dent for his expenditure of billions for WORK
relief. instead of using those same DliilonS
for the rehabilitation of the unemployed tlru
producers cO-OperatlVeS
Sinclair argues that the wages PAID 10
wpA and kindred workers have been spent
for food clothing, rents, services ana aiiiliSe-
ments and gone right back into Wall Street.
whereas if the money had been spent III
establishing cooperative farms and factories
in which the unemployed could have pro-
duccd their own food, clothing and other
commodities, they would have added other
billions to the nations wealth.
And whereas relief work has degraded
many of its recipients and weakened the
morale of millions. cooperative farms ana
factories operated by the unemployed in
production for use would have strengthened
the morale of those workers and i'll lnnllm-
erabIc innstanccs fitted them for greater use
in private industry.
It's the difference between giving a man
q Dalr Ol SlOcS ullN plSt\iliS III 'iiN i'>'N -
that man the tools, materials and lnstruc-
tions for making his own shoes and shoes
for his neighbours.
Mr.. Sinclair's philosophy would be bomb
proof in Soviet Russia or in the Scandl-
navian countries, but in America 1t runs
counter to the American system OF produc-
ton for profit. If workmen made their own
shoes, shirts and pants, imagine the plight
of the private shoemaker, shirt maker and
pants maker! And what of the merchant
who sells these commodities?
Mr. Sinclair is appealing for socialistic
ideal in land which still favors capitalism
with all of its faults. We are, individually
and collectively. people who would rather
battle for self than cooperate for the COM
mon good. And we shrink from tie idea OF
any form of avowed dictatorship, while sub
mitting to exploitation on every hand by
forces which we do not apprehend.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
Summer TrayeStry

Tonight I leave for fairer shores,
Tonight I join the care-free bores
Who'll help me rock away two
weeks
Upon a porch that cracks and
creakS.
For fourteen days and fourteen
nights
The topic will be-appetrtes,
And after that-obesity,
I'm angular; they'll envy me.
Each meal they'll store their
moneys worth,
The while they swell in limb and
girth;
I'll watch them gorge the live
long day
And lift Sheir sun-tanned arms
to pray
For miracles of alchemy,
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
A LOCAL man just back
from New York City one
day this week professed to
he amazed at having dis
MAKERS OF
AMERICA


be amazed at having dis
covered Joseph p. Knapp hard at work i'll
his tower offices on Fifth Avenue.
Here is man who has founded the great
est publishing business in America and at
the age of seventy-thrcc is still plugging, un-
deferred by the heat and humidity of New
York in midsummer
Why? The answer is that "Old Man Joe
Knapp finds more fun in his work than he
81 could find in fishing goling, loafing or ly-
ing around in the shade. Here is rich man
who doesn't even own yacht, and who
wouldn't have one if it were presented to
him as a gift
Lies great satisfaction for Mr.. Knapp is
in doing and achieving, making employment
for thousands of his fellow men and max
ing lots of money that he can spend not
on himself-but in making more jobs for
more people and making life generally more
Interesting for everybody. And he resents
being called a publisher. Il am Joe Knapp
printer he will tell you explosively; And
when Joe Knapp dies and his dust has been
thrown to the four winds, hope the Big
Boy up yonder will say, There goes the best
goddam printer on earth'"
There are millions like Joe Knapp in this
blessed land; they are the boys who thru
their tireless industry have made America
great.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
Smiles

Rapid as a divorce denial !.a
Hollywood.
Rare as addressing a head vat.
er by his last name.
Outstanding as a dissenting As.
SiS.ant movie director.
Al DOMAINE
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

The latest report from HGT'
wood is that Mr.. Morague dg'
les he broke into any roadno.S
but insists that if any such T.
cident happened they waved l1
through.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
SHORTAGE

According to standard school book In the
year 1S47-48 potatoes formed the sole food of the
Irish peasantry"
pupil thus transcribed it: In the year 1847
48 potatoes formed the sole food of the Irish peas
antry Edinburgh Dispatch
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

Henry Ford says the day VII
come when all diseases Will b
licked before they start. i NAV
soon be possible to turn in the d!
ache for a new one that talas
in half as much territory.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

That fourteen days again may see
Them sailing homeward sleek as
swans,
And think they look like Lily
Pens.
Hilda GroWald.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
With the HumOrists
SOMETHING FOR HIM

Are all the bridal parties over now?'
''Yes-all but the kitchen shower for the groom.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

of the benches we once placed Oh the court
house square?
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

after such an incident. and ytlI
a horSe-piStol within close reach
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
DEFINITION

Hollywood: Where every child acts like a movie
star-and too many movie stars act like children.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
+ REM ID Louis Graves,
editor of The Chapel Hill
Weekly, w hic h occupies
SUGGESTS
A QUERY

HTSl PIdCt among dlStln-
guished North Carolina weeklies since The
Independent went daily, is now advocating
sidewalk seating.
Louis thinks we ought to return to the old
custom of placing seats or benches on our
sidewalks in front of stores and other places
of business. Harking back to the good old
days, Louis reflects: Reared back against
tree trunks or the wall of a building, the
citizenry could and did achieve an unhurred
state of amity, fellowship and felicity that
now seems TO have been lost in the frantic
rush of the age of the automobile
Which suggests the query: What became
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

1t seems only yesterday we were
planning where to go for Mem
orial Day and Fourth of July.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07
VISITORS from north of

VISITORS from north OF
THE GRAPE the Mason and Dixon line
MYRTLE are always impressed by
the Grape myrtles which
spread their rosy clouds of glory over
Southern landscapes. The Grape myrtle
blooms for hundred days while other
hardy Towering shrubs shed their petals III
a few short weeks. And, like the Short-leaf
pine, it will thrive anywhere in our South
ern coastal soils Let's plant more Grape
myrtles.
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

The principals in a New York
chicken racket case suddenly
pleaded guilty after standing trial
for several weeks. Suggestion for
a proper headline: Eggs in
Chicken Case Talk Turkey"
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

Prime Minister Chamberlain
WrGce a letter to MuSSolini as
suring him of England's warm
friendship, and Benito replied
with an assurance Of love and
kisses. Both boys are resting as
comfortably as can be expected
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

UPTON SINCLAIR is out
)Y in an open letter to Presl-
dent Roosevelt, published
:: Ali. u,oat'S issue of Lib
The daily independent., 1937-08-07

Judge Davis probably develop
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
"The PIainSman" Ends Tonight at
 Coliseum Theatre
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur Star in Pioneer Picture
 Last Times Tonight

Over 2,000 Cheyenne Indians from the Tongue River reservation were put to work by Cecil B. DeMille in the battle scenes of the latest epic. ~The Plainsman,' with Gary Coo per in the title role, which ends to- night at the Coliseum Theatre.
 The Indians were used to re-enact the massacre of General Custer and his Seventh Cavalary at Little Big Horn on June 25th. 1876, which has an important place in the story The scenes were taken at Little Big Horn under the supervision of sey- eral Cheyenne braves who took part in the battle.
 Jean Arthur plays the role of Ca lamity Jane" in The Plainsman, opposite Gary Cooper, who recreates Wild Bill" Hickok, noted plains- man who fell in love with the hard fighting frontier beauty when he was sent into the West by the gov ernment to find out who was selling rifles to the Indians in violation of Ia government order.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
Ke Wins S5O,300,
 But Stage Money

GARY, Ind, Sept 28.-Rudolph Danek won $50,300 in a golf tour nament here but his net profit was only nine new golf balls.
 The $50,300 was all stage money, won in bets with fellow competi- tors in Gary's S1,OO0OoO golf tour nament."
 Taking a tip from the headlines given St. Paul's $5,000 open and Chicago's $l0O00 open, Herb Wal ter, pro at the Gleason Park course, conceived the "$1,00000O tourna- ment." He gave each player $10,- GOO in stage money at the start. They were to get it on their games or shots by other players and the fellow finishing with the most mon ey won the tournament
 There were such bets as $1 900 for the first eagle, $100 .|r the first ball holed out on each hole and, in addition. the foursomes made up forfeits whereby players who drove onto the wrong fairway had to pay the others $l00 each A lost ball cost player $200 and he also had to pay $100 to each man who helped him hunt for it.
 Most of the players wound up broke.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28

friends, gave a party at which the place cards were unflattering cari- catures of his guests-so unflatter- ing that one of the pests threat ened to punch him until it became known that the artist was also an expert amateur pugilist.
 The editor of small midwest ern weekly newspaper who visited New York and fetched along a flock of homing pigeons so that any news stories which might de- velop could be hurried back to his typesetter- in waiting.
 And, finally, the lady from out of town who began throwing pret- gels when she had one too many, and that other gal who, denying from the depths of the psycho- pathic ward that she was crazy, explained: T just had twenty or thirty scotch and sodas, that's all"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
YELLOW BELLANCA LANDS IN CHANNEL
 ON WAY TO INSIDE

A trim little yellow Bellanca Skyrocket seaplane dropped into Juneaus harbor this morning at 7.30 o'clock from Seattle, and hop ped off two hours later for Fair banks. The ship is being flown by Lon Brennan for Frank Pollack of the Pollack Air Service at Weeks Field at the Golden Heart city.
 Gene Meyring, former Juneau aviator, flew the craft through here recently on his way to Seattle with c. I. Paulsen, owner of the plane then, and wealthy mining man who spent the summer Investigating mining property around Fairbanks, employing Gene Meyring as chauf- feur pilot. Ownership of the plane has now been transferred to Pol lack at Fairbanks.
 With Lon Brennan when he Mrs. Brennan, Mrs. Viola Hall, Miss Dolores Hall, Miss Della Hall, and Jack Hall. E. Hubbard, a mechanic, formerly at Boelng Field, Seattle, also accompanied Brennan, and will be employed by Pollaek.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
Camille" Is Ideal Show for
 CarbO, Taylor
Brilliant Cast Supports Two Stars in F eature at
 Capitol Theatre

The coupling of Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor for Camille proves to have been a stroke of screen genius.
 Produced by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer and George Cukor directing and brilliant cast in support, the Dumas love story is an ideal vehicle for the two most glamorous stars of the modern screen. The picture closes its engagement at the Capitol tonight.
 The distinctive direction which Cukor demonstrated in his recent work on Romeo and Juliet" has been equalled in Camille" Added to this, the characterization of Marguerite affords Garbo the most perfect role of her striking career and Taylor, as Armand, the lover, is superb.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
FILIPINO BOUND OVER
 IN PETERSBURG CASE

Tony Flores, Filipino, accused of .assaulting Dave Phillips. Indian, with an axe at Petersburg has been bound over to the Grand Jury, according to Assistant District Att torney George w. Folta who re- turned to Juneau on the North Sea after going to Petersburg in con- nection with the caae. At the hear- ing in Petersburg, it was alleged, Folta reported that Phillips had tried to break into Flores apart- ment and finally pushed the door in. As he did so, Flores is alleged to have hit the Indian over the head with an axe and thrown him out in the street, where, it was charged, he hit him several times more.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
FLYING CLUB STILL
 WORKING ON PLANE
 WRECKED IN SPRING

Gastineau Flying Club members are working feverishly trying to get their Aeronca seaplane back in the. air. All summer the little ship has lain a barred skeleton in the shops of the Alaska Air Transport, following a sorrowful day la t spring when a club member crash cd the ship.
 One float has been repaired, one wing rejuvenated. repairs made to the fuselage, and the engine has had a complete overhaul. Wilfred Lund, Mark Storms, Scott Ford
 and Bob Daley, members of tn
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
ROAD PLANNED TO
 AID MINING FIND,
 CHICKAMIN GLACIER

Approval of plans for building road from the end of the Texas Creek Highway near Hyder to the mining property of L. c. Thornton at Chickamain glacier was given today by the Territorial Road Con- mission. It is. expected the cater pillar road about three miles in length will be built next spring.
 Thornton, tunneling under the Chickamain glacier ice, has found gold reported to run as high as $81 ,OO0 per ton. Extensive operations on the property are anticipated for the spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
ARTHUR FICKEN ON
 WAY SOUTH TO BE
 JUNIOR AT U. OF w.

Arthur Ficken, son of MT. and Mrs. A. J. Ficken, sailed for the south aboard the Princess Louise to enter his junior year at the University of Washington.
 MT. Ficken, a major in Forestry, has spent the summer here in con- nection with Forest Service work. He will not return to Juneau next summer since he will attend a national camp to continue studies of forestry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
By ROBERT COONS
IS IT ROMANCE?

HOLLYWOOD. Cal, Sept. 28. - Intimate report on the love life of boy star, Mickey Rooney:
 At 16, Mickey's affairs of the heart already are numerous. Some of the girl friends are film young sters, like himself, but just as many are not. Strangely enough, they are all alike in one respect: none of the girls is more than five feet tall.
 The reason? Well, Mickey him. self is five feet two, and he can't bear to be seen with a girl taller than himself. He has almost de- spaired of growing any taller, and it irks him. For time he used to measure himself every day against a black chalk mark in the shower. But the only way he could move the mark up was to stand on tip toe. Then he began affecting mil itary haircut that bristles in front. It makes him look an inch taller The fact that it also makes him look as if he'd just escaped from reform school is beside the point.
 Counting at School
 To be a Rooney date" girl must dance as well as be short. A Rooney date" invariably means high school or country club dance. His $10 a week allowance, out of which he buys his clothes, allows him about one date a week. His gang still considers too much dating sissy, but one week is all right if you treat it in the offhand, man-o -the-world fashion. You may even be seen at an occasional pre- miere with a young lady, because it's the accepted thing, but other wise you've got to go easy on this love stuff and prove you can take it or leave it. That's the code
 The schoolr oom at Metro is somewhat limited as a juvenile lldbSllllldhCl, loA OliSIC oAC OAly two girls in the school anywhere near Mickey's age. They are Judy Garland, IA, and Betty Jaynes, 16. Judy used to be Jackie Cooper's steady, but since Jackie started at tending Beverly Hills high school that romance seems to have wa vered somewhat. IF fact, it was Mickey who escorted Judy to the premiere of his Captain Courag- eous." But he took Betty Jaynes to the premiere of "The Firefly" Now that Mickey and Judy have been teamed in new picture Thoroughbred Don't Cry'o furth- CT developments are breathlessly awaited.
 Business Comes First
 Mickey, of course, is a very busy young man, and it's a wonder he has any time for girls at all.e There are his song writing, his orchestra, his bowling team and whatnot, and now that autumn is approaching the girls with designs on the Rooney heart are warned to make the most of their time now. In few weeks he'll be giving them up entirely. Football practice gets un- der way any time now and with the Rooney Blue Devils" getting into training, there1l be no women on the Rooney schedule until New Years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
ELEANOR SALOUM TO SAIL SOUTH AFTER
 BAN IS ENDED HERE

Mrs. J. F. Saloum, who was to have left for the south aboard the Northwestern with her daughter, Eleanor, will not be able to make the scheduled trip now until the health ban is lifted.
 Mrs. Saloum will take Eleanor to San Francisco for an eye examina- ton as soon as children are allowed to leave Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-28
FIRST LIGHT FROST
 APPEARS IN JUNEAU

The first frost of the year ap- peared in Juneau last night, ac- cording to the Weather Bureau. The frost was a light one and was not general over the city. however. The first frost last year appeared on September 30.
 Like on September 30, last year, the temperature last night in Ju- neau was 38 degrees above zero.
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