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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
Rites Held For
 RoderiCk Mcleod

Burial services TOT Roderick Me Leod, who died Thursday morning, were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary The Rev John A Glasse officiated
 Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander sang several beautiful numbers.
 At the grave, the Sea Scouts blew taps, followed by an echo from the hillside.
 Pallbearers included Jimmy Lem ieux, Henry Satire, Bobby Karstein, Orval Osborn, Grant Ritter and Edward Fields.
 The deceased is survived by his mother, Mrs Peggy Mcleod.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
TWO GAMES ROLLED,
 BRUNSWICK ALLEYS

The Triangle Inn five beat the ArcticS in a close game in the Commercial League bowling on the Brunswick Alleys last Saturday night, by a score of 2280 to 2264
 Last night the Federals swamp ed the Gastineau Grocery by a score of 2422 to 2209.
 Tonight the Brunswicks play the Pay'n Takit five.
 Scores Saturday and Sunday nights follow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13

Green Room although it's decor is blue--sat an actress by the wall, directly under three scowling pot~ traits of Claude Rains. Her name. I was told, is Isabel Jeans. She was brought from England by Di- rector Anatole Litvak for a role in "Tovarich."
 There was nothing out of the ordinary in Miss Jeans lunching there, nor in the scowling portraits of Rains-except that Miss Jeans happened to be the first in the Claude Rains matrimonial parade of five.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

Gastineau
 Fred L. Bullock, Margaret Dun nigan, Seattle; l.. w. Penninger, Juneau: Robert c. Wakelin, C. Rob- ert White, A. L. Florence, Seattle; Sam Baker, San Francisco; R. Mu- sett, DuPont; w. A. Sherman, E. Butler, Juneau; Otto F. Wilde, Jr., Entrance Island; MT. and Mrs. G, Wooton, Chehalis. Wn.; Mrs. M. Pekovich, Funter Bay; J. A. Berg, Tenakee.
 Juneau
 Ethel Leconti, Portland, R. Rob- inson Rowe, Juneau; MT and Mrs. Clinton Mork, Seattle; Mark Ja- cobs, Sitka.
 Lloyd Albrigt, Hoonah; George McCluskey, Chichagof; M. Gold berg. Hirst- -Chichagof; Andre W Hoffman, Wrangell; John Ludden Funter Bay; John Dotson, Amalga Frank Riddlecome, Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
IT MAY NOT LAST

No one would go so far as to say the United States government was deliberately subsidizing the island defense system. After all, under the Philippine independence act, the is- lands won't belong to this country after a few years.
 Also as independence hears, it is likely the benefits the Philippines get will dwindle from year to year They enjoy preferential trade stat us at present; but American farm CTS don't like the low tariff on Philippine sugar and vegetable oil so the pressure will be on increas- ingly to shut the islands out.
 But the fact remains that during the costly job of setting up the de- fense system and organizing the government, a steady flow of mon- ey from the United States is helping the islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
Pigs Is Pigs"
 Author Is Dead

FLUSHING, N. Y, Sept. IS. -
 Majorie Butler has received word of the death of her father, Ellis
 Parker Butler, 67, author of Pigs Is Pigs" at his home in Housatonic, Mass. Buffers health had been failing gradually during the past several months. He is survived by his widow, three daughters and one son
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
COUNCIL MEETING

There will be meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the City Hall of the Douglas City Council to take care of such matters as need at tention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
ATTENTION O.E.S.

Juneau Chapter No. meet Tues day, 8 pm. Robert Morris ceremony entertainment and refreshments. All Eastern Star members invited.
 adv LILLIAN G. WATSON, Sec'y
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13

ure reduced to seven on account of the epidemic of humps and colds
 Several cases among the white children were also reported this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
REWRITINC OF SCRIPT ME ANS HOLLYWOOD FUN
Not Slipshod Business as Average Person Believes
 Reasons Galore
By ROBBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Sept. 13.- Producer B. P. Schulberg was on the set of his Blossoms on Broad way" watching Richard Wallace direct Shirley Ross, Johnny Arthur and extras in a scene outside the Zanzibar cafe. It was a suffocating day, and the sound stage tempera- ture was an estimated 10 degrees warmer inside. Sehulberg sat there, wearing hat, coat and vest. and sweltered-but stayed
 Asked if he spent much time on the sets, even on days like this, he said All the time-when we're not rewriting the script"
 Hollywood Pastime
 Rewriting the script" durin g production is Hollywood's favorite pastime. Not as slipshod business, either, as you might think. Scenes read well on paper and don't play" Actors get twisted on per fectly good words and call for sub stitutes. Entrances and exits, well timed at the typewriter don't click on the set. Or somebody has a new idea, a "gag" or a twist
 On the sidelines, Edward Arnold, the star, and William Frawley of the supporting cast were comparing notes on their script. Revised yer sions are delivered on different colored paper.
 q know mine is final" said Arm old. Its on white paper"
 Final said Schulberg, until noon."
 Unique Cafe
 The Zanzibar cafe, designed by Art Director Albert D'agoStino, is unique in two ways. First, it is a reproduction of no existing night club, and second, 1t is not Ha- waiian in motif Hollywood is in the grip of a Hawaiian frenzy, with new hula spots opening all 1 bllt biiIlt. II U dSOobuiO SJdIJS dil African cycle in night spots, he'll deserve a plaque or something from this department.
 There are cafe ideas to be had too, from the dive in Panama that is a setting for Submarine D-1." Lloyd Bacon was directing a free for-all fight between two large groups of sailors in this spacious, hot and gaudy bar room. with the usual flamboyant tablecloths and the usual beaded portieres.
 The fight was free-for- r-all, but it still had to be taken several times, there being no such thing as free dom before the camera. Strangely, it was a fight without Pat O'Brien. Pat was outdoors, practicing soft ball with other sailors. But the fight, as lunch was called, was moving his way.
 Tho p;cf,.ra nm fha yVaU
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
MUCH IMPROVED

Mrs. Bert Hampson, who entered st. Ann's Hospital several days ago, is reported much improved.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
MuMPS ON RAMPAGE

From an attendance of 19 for the
 first days enrolment in the gov ernment school, Friday saw the fig
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
The Picture on the Wall

Bacon, usually one of the flashi- est Of dreSsers, had made conces- sions to the weather. He wore blue serge trousers, a shirt with a red stripe so faint that you had to get close to sec it's resemblance to the mildest of peppermint sticks.
 In the lunch room still the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13

Bengal is the largest of the In dian provinces in population.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13

for 1937 is roughly $33 100000, ot which about $8000,00o is for defense
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13

Empire classifieds pay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
U. s. Government Aids Philippine
 Armament Plans

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Evening star., 1937-04-09

would require immense fills Of earth OF
great area at the base in order to assure
stability. These fills would encroach
upon the park space in terms OF scores
of acres, utterly destroying large part
OF the forest growth the preservation
of which was one OF the specific purposes
of the establishment Of this reservation.
Even bridges, however artistically de-
signed, would intrude upon the scene de-
structively and in complete inharmony
with the general setting.
The cost of any form of transverse
roadmaking would be enormous, by fill
or by bridge construction. No estimate
has thus far been attempted of this ex-
pense. The District, which would have
to bear the greater part of such a cost,
has not sought and will not seek such b
perversion of the park space for a du-
bious advantage. The best course would
be to cut the item out OF the District
bill. If the subject is considered as of
sufficient Importance to warrant an in
quiry into the need, let there be an
authorization for study which will en-
brace not only the engineering features
of the plan but the actual conditions
which are now-it Is to be believed er-
oneously-advanced as warrant for this
innovation, which is close to vandalism.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

lessly-and the result is prosperous
farms; they are rigidly conservative
and the harvest OF their traditional
independence is a degree of social har-
mony and progress rare in any country
in any period of history. Years pass
without the placidity Of their valleys
being even temporarily disturbed
Not long ago, however, New Deal
serpent invaded their Eden. The Federal
Government offered them sixty thou
sand dollars for the construction of a
so-called consolidation" school. Most
communities would have been delighted
with the proposal. But the Amish are
peculiar. 1t happens that they object
to borrowing. Debt is a thing they
abhor. Also, they are possessed of a
passionate prejudice against being OBJ
ligated to strangers. They have been
self sufficient for generations, and even
in season of general distress they wish
to continue so to be. To take money
on any terms from President Roosevelt
would violate their religious convictions
What they can earn, they want; but
nothing else than the proper reward
for their hire will they consent to re-
ceive. At the moment, delegation OF
elders is appealing to the courts for
protection against the grant they have
rejected in conference assembled. The
spectacle leaves their fellow citizens
gasping. But little can be done about
it. The Amish are peculiar.
Evening star., 1937-04-09
Peculiar Amish.

The Amish are peculiar In many
curious ways, their neighbors in Penn
sylvania agree, they are different" 1"
For instance, their clothing habitually
is shapeless and colorless. They make
a fetish of monotony in appearance.
Personality is factor which they dis
count in favor OF a least-common- de
nominator type Of social conformity.
They exist according to regimen and
rule-with every detail of conduct and
manners provided by philosophy of
drastic simplicity.
But they seem to be happy. Visitors
to Lancaster County find them con-
tented with their lot. They labor tire
Evening star., 1937-04-09
No Need of Park Cross-Cuts.

Before any serious consideration is
given to the project of establishing a
series of through traffic routes across
Rock Creek Park-whether by dikes or
bridges-an exhaustive study should be
made of the traffic conditions which it
has been suggested are such as to re-
quire this trespass upon the public res
ervation, one of the most attractive and
valuable features of the Capital. Such
a study would unquestionably disclose
that there is no urgent need for such
straightaway shortcuts at the expense Of
large percentage of park area if dikes
were created. AS has been already
stated, by far the greatest volume OF
traffic at present is north and south or
parallel to the general lines of the park.
The park roads are undoubtedly used
to great extent for convenience because
the roads there permit an uninterrupted
flow of traffic. Those VINO now use the
roads do so largely because of the COM
fort and ease of park driving in set
ting of beauty that is not equaled any,
where in the world in the vicinity of
large city.
To carry this traffic across the park
transversely by either dikes or bridges
would doubtless facilitate the movement
of vehicles, but those using such routes
would deny themselves the pleasure that
is now derived from passage through
scenes of sylvan beauty
AS for the proposed dikes or embank-
ments for carrying the roads, which it
is alleged are necessary for the accom-
mediation of transverse traffic, it is to be
borne In mind that these embankments
Evening star., 1937-04-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

teresting than the sight Of q fine robin
seeking Its dinner In the grass.
What wonderful fellows these robins
are! No one ever saw q puny robin, q
robin with headache, or even q robin
with q stomach ache.
Each specimen Is perfect. It may be
that Nature never made a sickly robin.
Surely 1t would be hopeful to believe
that In some one department of life and
living, at least, she turned out a perfect
race. When We contrast the beautiful
birds, each one as like It's ancestral type
as can be, with the sickly specimens OF
humanity which are observable on all
sides, we may wonder why it is that
animals so tend to be perfect and man
so imperfect.
Go to the Zoo and see the lions and
tigers. Though Gagged away from the good
earth, which they love, confined so that
their great muscles get practically no
exercise, they nevertheless seem as 1.-the
end supple as any specimens could be.
Maybe they are, although they have their
ailments, too, without doubt. Authori-
ties say that Gagged animals are, in a
sense, better off than uncaged ones and
have a better chance to live long. Freed
OF the necessity for constant watchful-
ness, they soon grow accustomed to their
new lives. Cats, including the domestic
sorts, easily form habits These habits
may be entirely at variance with the
ancestral patterns, but grow to be no
less strong, in few years.
4 r 4
In an exceptionally dry Spring, such
as this had been at the time this was
written it may be necessary to use the
old hose.
surely few amateur gardeners look for
ward with any pleasure to the use Of
the garden hose too early. Normally
that Is necessary only in the middle OF
Summer, when hot suns and lack of rain
combine to dry out the soil.
Ihls season winds have taken the
place OF hot suns. A good wind has a
very drying effect as every one knows.
Often the amateur gardener does not
stop TO realize how winds may dry out
the soil to considerable depth. Thus
season OF coolness, combined with
winds, can do more to dry out the earth
Than warmer and hotter days.
IL may be necessary, then, to unlimber
the garden hose ahead of time, If the
season has been such as to cause the
ground to become baked, when normally
1t would be moist
Many persons have a bad habit of
really not watching soil conditions. Ask
them, on cloudy day, when rains seems
eminent, whether the ground is moist,
they take their cue from the skies, evil
IDENTIFY, and declare it is, not only without
thought, but even without looking down
at the ground.
Actual inspection of the earth is essen
tial. This Is the only way to know
whether garden is dry or moist. Look
Ing at the clouds won't do It is neces-
sary to look at the earth, and then to
act on what one sees.
II the ground is really dry, no matter
what the month, in Spring, it should
receive water.
This especially applies to grass and
particularly to newly seeded areas. Grass
seed will not germinate in dry soil. And
after watering has once begun on such
plots it must be kept up, unless, of course.
adequate and seasonable rains follow.
Artificial watering is never as good as
the real thing, but often enough it is
much better than nothing.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

A dry, dusty Spring-
A most unusual season it had been
before the rain, but still the leaves were
uncurling on the shrubs and the fishin'
worms coming up to light and air.
Normal rains bring EN- up, but this
year the dryness seems to have had the
same effect.
Three living creatures are fond Of the
worms-the robins, the fishes and the
human interested in fishes.
There are two species Of humanity,
In this regard, the fisherman, who wants
to fool the fishes with worms, and the
aquar1st, or aquarium enthusiast, who
wants to feed them with worms.
There is no better "live food" for all
types of fishes, both goldfish and tropical
specimens, than this same earthworm.
Smaller specimens may be fed to all
fishes larger than guppies; large ones
need to be pulled into pieces except when
fed to large goldfish and the largest of
exotic specimens.
since the stomach Of the earthworm
contains vegetable matter, the fish which
eats 1t gets both animal and vegetable
food. mixed diet is best for practically
all animals, evidently.
One OF the truest signs of Spring is
the leaf OF the Virginia bluebell, now
pushing its way through the SOIL
This small favorite does not come into
bloom until early May, but 1t is an almost
infallible sign of the season.
BY the time it bursts into its little
flowers, 1t will be Spring beyond doubt;
the first leaves already apprise US Of
the season.
Usually there is distinctly more of a
springlike feel" in the air than this.
Moisture is essential to this feeling, but
Spring may come without it, even though
everything happens to have been dry
before
There is moisture in everything. 1t il
at the heart Of all fiber. Living things
may last long time without having an
ADDED supply This Is possible because
there Is hidden intelligence In all things.
This Intelligence begins to conserve mois-
ture Tor Its purposes, once 1t realizes that
the supply is not normal
That is why rhododendrons, for in
stance, curl up their leaves when the
temperature drops below Is degrees
ABOVE zero. These plants will survive
OIL ehtAcly uIy summer, Such as was
experienced hereabouts In 1880.
The leaves will be too dry and yellow
The ground will be so baked that it will
be cracked all around them, with real
nssures showing. Still, the plants will
survive, because Nature has a way of
utilizing what moisture is left in the
tissues OF the plants themselves.
~
Those earthworms which came up in
such numbers that cloudy morning were
doing SO, without doubt, because in their
queer intelligences they realized that the
day was cloudy
They were, in other words, seeking
moisture.
They do not like their habitat too
moist, but neither do they prefer it dry,
Their constant rustling through the soil.
according to researches, ameliorates the
worlds topsou. Without them, some
claim, there would be no agriculture as
We know it.
Certainly the robins, fine birds, would
be hard put to 1t to live without them.
Nothing in bird observation is more in
Evening star., 1937-04-09
Fresh Spanish Tension.

Although after five months of the siege
Of Madrid military conditions have
never been so favorable for the Loyal
lists, the international aspect of the
Spanish civil war has suddenly taken on
new tension. 1t is the consequence of
Italian charges that the French general
staff has hagrantly intervened in the
strife by sending general and twenty
five officers actively to direct operations
of the government armies, including an
imminent large-scale offensive. Recent
rebel defeats northeast of Madrid and
on other fronts are attributed in Rome
to the fact that Loyalist operations have
passed under the supreme control of the
Paris war office, plus the alleged circum-
stance that extensive French and Rus
sian military equipment, especially pow
erful aircraft and field artillery, has
latterly been placed at the disposal of the
MadridValencia authorities. Categori-
cal claims of high powered French inter-
vention are put forth in newspapers
known to speak Mussolini's mind. They
are coupled with a sweeping indictment
that both France and Russia are now
openly violating the non-intervention
agreement.
Paris is persuaded that this officially
inspired italian outburst springs from
two causes-f1rst, from remorse over the
crushing repulse of blackshirt forces at
Guadalajara, and, secondly, from desire
for plausible pretext to dispatch Fascist
reinforcements to bolster Frances tot
tering fortunes. Whatever the motive,
Italy's accusations and alarms amply in
dicate that the Spanish fire is by no
means divested of the danger of flaming
into European conflagration. Musso-
lini is chafng bitterly under the blow
to Italian military prestige. He is
strongly suspected of hankering for an
opportunity to avenge it by sending the
insurgents enough additional troops to
turn the tide in their favor. Reported
impending arrival of Gen. Goering, the
German air minister, on second visit
to Rome is associated there with Italo-
German plans to wipe out the stain on
the Fascist escutcheon. Any substantial
move In that direction would almost GER
tainly provoke Anglo Franco Russian
hostility, and perhaps even counter
measures.
At the moment these developments
within Spain are aggravating the inter-
national situation, the insurgents find
themselves in conflict with Great Britain
over an air attack on British warships
near the Island of Mallorca. The Medi-
terranean feet has been instructed to
swing into instant action in the event OF
further molestation, and destroyers have
been detached to protect British ship
ping. Ever since Mussolinis spectacular
expedition to Libya and proclamation
of his "protectorship" over Islam, British
suspicious OF Italy's underlying interest
in Spain-to augment Fascist power in
the Mediterranean-have been height
ened. Altogether, the tragedy that
turned the peninsula into shambles
has once again assumed phase threat
ening the peace of all Europe.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

A sit-down strike attracts interest be-
cause of novelty in Technology. 1t is
related to the old stand-up strike as the
ancient horse and buggy is related to the
modern automobile. The same appli-
cation of power to overcome the law OF
gravitation is involved. The chief ques-
ton is one of technique with incidental
embarrassments through the intrusion
of the human element.
Evening star., 1937-04-09
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Nightfall.

Nightfall.
The sunset had been gorgeous; vivid rayi
Trailing to rose tints in the Eastern
sky;
AS the sun sank vagrant breath OF
wind
Wandered among the treetops with
sigh.
Then came the night. On dense, mys.
ter1ous wings
1t swept the heavens of each crimson
bar;
While thru it's darkening pinions there
shone forth,
Detached and beautiful, . single star
Evening star., 1937-04-09

Base ball players go to the highest
bidder, but they enjoy life without fear
Of any Simon Legree to chase them
across the Ohio River on floating cakes
of ice. Their fate is never so harsh as
to diminish their personal enthusiasm
when the President of the United States
follows the me-honored custom of toss
ing out the ball at the opening game.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

A plain thinking ard yet an eloquent
Thomas Jefferson's own opinion of the
idea OF destroying the cherry blooms in
order to make room for a marble classic
memorial in his honor would be worth
while if there were any means of de-
ducing it from his writings.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

AL Smiths devotion to orderly govern
ment is well known. The people like to
hear him talk, but his views are being
so ably expressed far and wide that he
may have taken trip to Europe under
the impression that radio just at present
does not need him.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

Attack on the Supreme Court did not
measure the fact that each of it's mem
bers is popular figure on his own ac-
count, recognized before appointment for
legal knowledge and for devotion to the
cause OF humanity.
Evening star., 1937-04-09

Some Of the comments on the U. 8.
Supreme Court seem inclined to contem-
plate 1t as new and startling discovery,
without feeling sure whether to 70 after
it with microscope or telescope.
Evening star., 1937-04-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Neglected Slogan

Neglected Slogan.
In the old days, so swiftly flown,
That sought the best and feared the
worst
That admonition, Safety First!"
Men risk their hearts in frail romance,
On fortunes vast they take a chance.
We see our hopes like bubbles burst
And give no thought to Safety First"
In vanity the braggarts shout
While common sense is ushered out.
Strange foibles soon may be dispersed,
AS We recall plain Safety First"
Evening star., 1937-04-09

The Dionne quints have reflected
honor on Doctor Defoe. His ideas for
rearing children to a safe and happy
maturity are interesting and his pro-
teges should esteem it debt of graft
tude to demonstrate the correctness Of
his precepts for development into mature
life.
Evening star., 1937-04-09
A Safe Sit-Down,

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinei.
Two Bloomington, ILL.,, wives staged q
sit-down strike for Easter clothes. Evi-
IDENTIFY they were not concerned over
any harm that strikebreakers might ac-
complish.