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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
Ashes of Fred Tracy Scattered
 On Gulf Alaska
Ceremonies Take Place Aboard Steamer Alaska
 at Widow s Request

CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 20.-The ashes of Fred B. Tracy, veteran steamship agent and connected with the Alaska Steamship Company at Seattle, where he died last fall, were scattered on the Gulf of AL aska Wednesday in ceremonies on board the steamer Alaska.
 Capt. c. c. Anderson, command ing the Alaska, conducted the ser vices two miles off Cape St. Elias.
 The ceremony was performed at the request of Tracy's widow.
 Tracy served as steamship agent at Anchorage before coming to Cor dova in 1918 as agent and then la ter being transferred to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NoRTHBOUND

. Mount Mckinley scheduled to arrive Monday.
 SCHEDULED SAILINGS
 Northland scheduled to sail from Seattle at 10 o'clock to-
 day but will probably be de- layed until late this after noon.
 . Dorothy Alexander scheduled to sail from Seattle at noon today but delayed until later in afternoon. e Northwestern scheduled to sail from Seattle 1 pm. today. Q Yukon scheduled to sail from Seattle am. tomorrow. Q Princess Louise scheduled to . sail from Vancouver g pm. o tomorrow. Q Prince Rupert scheduled to c sail from Vancouver August 23 at pm. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle August 24 at am. North Sea scheduled to sail 6 from Seattle 10 am. August 27. Evelyn Berg scheduled to sail from Seattle pm. August g 27. 6 Princess Charlotte scheduled c to sail from Vancouver 9 p. | e m August 28. 2 oOUTHBOUND SAILINGS . Baranof scheduled south g bound at 5 o'clock tomorrow q @ afternoon. Prince Robert scheduled d southbound 4 o'clock tomor- row morning. Q Prince George sch he eduled d
 southbound midnight Sat (
 Q urday.
 Q Alaska scheduled southbound { next Monday. . LOCAL SAILINGS ( . Estebeth leaves every Wednes- . . day night at pm, for c 0 Sitka and wayports. ( c Dart leaves every Wednesday ( . at ' am. for Petersburg, Pert . . Alexander, Rake and way c . ports. ( A q a q q q q
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
Young Democrats
 h Session Today
Addresses Are Ma de by Presidents $ Wife,
 Son and Farley

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 20.-- The Youn0 Democrats swung into an important part of their Third Biennldi conyeAClon today witl4 oa- dresses by Mrs Franklin D. Roose- welt, wife of the President; Post master General James A. Farley and James Roosevelt headlining the program.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
GEORGE BRINGS ONE ID JUNEAU
 ON LAST TRIP

7T~r'ev Shlar wae tho sole Juneau passenger arriving here on the l.lnce George. Capt E. Mabbs and Purser A. F. Evans, as the stately steamship. carrying 179 tourists. docked last night at 6:30 o'clock on it's final northbound voyage this season.
 Two tour parties were aboard The Powers Alaska Tour of 19 per sons was conducted by Guy A. Bing- ham of Rockford, III, and the Wolfe-Way tour C7 21 persons was under the direction of Miss Lucille Moot of Chicago
 The scheduled return is Sunday at m On the north voyage the George carried 17l2 tons of freight, most of it for the Polaris-Taku mine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
CAROLINE BACK,
 MINOR REPAIRS

Four members of the hunting party aboard the Campbell Church yacht Caroline, Capt. Jim Sande remained at Port Snettisham foI goat hunting while the vessel re- turned last night at o'clock fo1 minor repairs here
 Accompanied by four guides, those who were scheduled to hunt today are M Drury, Joe Donohoe and August and Rudolph Schilling, Jr They are in two camps
 Returning to Juneau with the yacht are Rudolph Schilling, ST. and F. Bain. The yacht is sched- uled to return to Port Snettisham tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
ItcEliiElg Skill Eczema E 0rture

Now that clean, powerful, penetrating Moones Emerald Oil is available at first class drug stores all over the country, thousands have found speedy relief from the almost unbearable itching and torture of rashes, Eczema. Athletes Foot, itching toes and feet. poison sivY and other ex- formally caused skin troubles.
 Not only does the itching almost in stantly cease and burning subside, but healthy healing is promoted.
 Ask your own druggist for an original bottle = ereaseless - stainless. Satisfaction guaranteed or money cheerfuIly refunded.
 Butler Mauro Drug Go.
 sells lots of it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
MRS. INEZ PARRISH
 LEAVES FOR SEATTLE

Mrs Inex Parrish left for Seattle aboard the Prime C4laelot.a fol- lowing a stay of nina mon g n IL neau with MT anI Mrs. J. w Me Daniel.
 Mrs Parrish will remain in 5c- attle where her son is in school and hopes to return to Juneau with in year or so.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
MRS. STOLFI, SON
 SAIL ON CHARLOTTE

Mrs. Henry Stolfi, wife of Lieu tenant Stolfi of the U.S.C.G. Tal- lapoosa, left with her son, Russell, aboard the Princess Charlotte for the South
 Lieutenant and Mrs. Stolfi will make their future horne in Alabama where Lieutenant Stolfi has been assigned to shore duty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
Ketchikan Bond Bill
 Passes Senate; Sent
 To House for Action

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. - The Senate has passed and sent to the House the bill authorizing the City of Ketchikan, Alaska. to issue S250,- GOO in bonds for street, sewer, wa ter and utility system eonstruc- ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20

European nations closer.
 Eden, the newspaper said would replace William OrmsbyGore as colonial secretary. Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, will replace Viscount Hailsham as lord chancellor, and Sir Samuel Hoare, home secretary, would take over the eXchequer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
17LEAvE HERE ON CHARLOTTE
 THIS MORNING

Seventeen persons left Juneau for the south this morning at ' o'clock as the Princess Charlotte, which had berthed from Skagway two hours earlier, sailed fer Vancouver
 Leaving here were: John J. Key ser. Mrs. E. Krause, T. Krause. h. ez Parrish, Mrs C. E. Harland R. T Shannon, D [. Wallace, S Al- len. II. Smythe, R. D. Taylor, C. Edman, T Watanabe, A. Papp, L. Arness, H. Stolfi, Russell Stolfi, Mrs. V. L. Arnold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
TIDES TOMORROW
HONE EYMOONERS ARE
 GEORGE PASSENGERS

MT. and Mrs. Jacques A. Des Bailets of Montreal, Que, are en- toying their first days of marital bliss as round-trip passengers on board the Prince George, which spent last evening in Juneau.
 The honeymooning couple are both members of prominent Mon itreal families. The bride is a daugh- ter of Julian Smith, a utility baron in the QueSec city, while the groom is nephew of Jules Hone, Mon- treal travel counselor, and a mem- Der of a prominent family.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-20
RETURNS FROM WORK

Thomas ODonnell, who has been working at the Alaska Pacific Sal mon Company plant. returned to Juneau on the North Sea.
Evening star., 1937-05-25
Boys Club CAMPAIGN.

The Star Is glad to indorse the current
campaign to raise seventy-five thousand
dollars for the support of the work of
the Metropolitan Police. Boys Club.
Sixty-three citizens, representing every
neighborhood within the boundaries OF
the District of Columbia, are the spon-
sors, and their altruistic effort deserves
the commentator of the entire COM
munity. The money solicited will be
spent to develop and maintain the four
branches of the organization established
IN 1894 by Major Ernest w. Brown, su-
perintendent Of police, as one Of his
constructive endeavors to make the Ma
tons Capital safer and happier place
tn which to live.
Need for the club is demonstrated by
the fact that branch opened only a
month ago already has enrolled thirty
three hundred members, and the effl-
cheney Of the club idea is proved by 4
forty-five per cent decrease in juvenile
delinquency in the past two years. The
alternative to such guidance and direc-
ton as the club provides would be that
anarchistic type of neglect which leaves
boys free to follow the line Of least re-
sistance into crime and misdemeanor in
Evening star., 1937-05-25

fnitely more costly. Patiently. 1t would
tax the Imagination to conceive Of a
wiser investment for civic benefit than
a generous endowment Of the city's
under privileged youth.
The matter, however, stands In want
of no labored argument. Either one
responds instinctively to the appeal or
one rejects it thoughtlessly and selfishly.
The average heart, it may be presumed,
will be sympathetic, and the fund should
be collected promptly and without over
much difficulty. Few Washingtorians
will desire to resist the petition of .
future generation which is appreciated
affectionately for its qualities Of manli-
ness, intelligence and courage.
Evening star., 1937-05-25

The little girl cuddles shivering new
born puppies to her breast. A child Is
born.
Seldom in literature has there been
such terrifying picture as that Of these
six human beings buried for weeks
under the snow. Nobody but an Eskimo
who had lived through the experience
could have portrayed 1t.
The storm ceases. Father and son
burrow like moles to the surface of the
snow and start hunting reindeer, their
only hope Of escaping starvation. For
days they wander In the star-dotted
darkness. At last they arrive at mound
Of snow which. their noses tell them,
covers a tent. They are starving. They
burrow their way in. They are greeted
by two women who look like their own
wives. They are in deadly fear. This Is
some foul enchantment. Demons have
killed the women, taken possession of
their bodies, are now about to eat the
luckless husbands.
At length the women persuade them
that they are, after all, themselves and
not demons. The hunters, Of course,
darkness. They never know this and
NCUooS UCGWCCIl CIlCIlloClfCS dS W ~lllCIl
of the devils picked up their tent, fami-
lies and all, and brought it after them.
Now the occasion for thus empha-
sizing the work of Taeki Odulok is not
necessarily because he is great nov
elist-although he seems to be-but be-
cause there seems to most people some
thing luMcrous In 4 blubber- -eating
Eskimo engaged in any artistic pursuit.
Yet there is every prospect that the next
few decades will see the birth of q
Eskimo school Of art and literature. The
American painter and the Russian nov
elist together have made q big start.
And why not? The snow people should
be-and very likely are-the most in
telligent race on earth.
One might say that they were in
credibly dumb to get themselves into
such an inhospitable environment. How
it happened nobody knows. There Is
one theory that they are the descendants
of the people Of Ice-age Europe who
followed the glaciers northward.
But once there it required first-class
brains to survive. Very likely the whole
of modern civilization is not so great
an intellectual accomplishment as has
been that of the Eskimo In merely keep
ing extant.
Now he Is acquiring contacts-paints
and typewriters and Alphabets.
He Is on his way to his place In the
sun.
Evening star., 1937-05-25
Sesquicentennial.

, The national celebration of the sesqui-
centennial of the Constitution properly
should begin today. It was on Nav
rs, 1857, that the convention summoned
to frame the basic charter of American
liberty first met at Philadelphia. The
place Of gathering was the same city,
the same building, indeed the same
room, from which the Declaration Of
Independence had emerged eleven years
earlier. A more fitting scene could not
have been selected. Representing the
best and most constructive thought of
thirteen self-governing commonwealth,
the delegates by general consent were
regarded as "the best brains of the
land" Some Of the signers, perforce
were absent-Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams at the moment were in Europe
on the business of their country-but,
Is Dr.. Henry william Elson says In his
History Of the United etates," an
Evening star., 1937-05-25
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Last year the Bureau Of Indian Affairs
found prodigy among the Point Bar
row Eskimo-a landscape and portrait
painter Of real genius.
And now, from the other side Of the
Arctic, comes an Eskimo novelist of even
greater genius. Strange is the story of
Taeki Odulok. He is Yukagir. one Of
the tribes of nomad Siberian Eskimos,
who herd their reindeer over the barren
tundra around the Arctic Circle.
The red revolution in 1917 and its
aftermath Of counter-revolution which
swept over Siberia reached even to these
remote tribes and they were lined up on
one side or the other. Among other
nomads swept into the Soviet Army was
Taeki Odulok. Until 1925 he was a
soldier, but in the course Of his SOL
diering he acquired the groundwork Of
an education. He aroused the interest
of the government and in 1925 was sent
to Leningrad to study.
His first novel, Snow People" is the
result of this study. It Is the simple
history Of the family life Of family of
Chuckchee, neighbors of the Yukagirs,
who lead much the same sort of no.
madic existence. There is the bare
thread Of a plot which serves to sus-
tain interest in probably the most vivid
tale Of primitive life ever put on paper.
Taeki Odulok writes as an Eskimo
about Eskimos. He is describing way
of life which to him seems natural. He
doesn't have to get inside another mans
skin or strain himself to think in the
pattern Of foreign race. But he has q
keen appreciation Of universal human
PSYCHOLOGY, and his characters stand out
not as types but as movable human
beings.
There is father and mother. son
and daughter-in-law, little girl and
newborn baby. They do, with perfect
naturalness, incredibly filthy things Mo-
body but one of their own could have
recounted these things without arousing
disgust-but the remarkable genius of
this Eskimo novelist does it and still
keeps his characters likable and good
men and women, as they doubtless are
in real life. He doesn't consciously
stress the fllthiness of their lives. 1t
of events. And in some of his descrip-
tions of nature he hits the heights OF
true poetry as the following:
In the lar distance something oarK
was descending on the snow. 1t was
the sky. There were holes in 1t and
twinkling lights shone through them.
Those were the stars There was some
thing big and white moving among them.
That was the moon"
The long night falls on the Arctic.
The family crawls into its big skin tent
when the stars are blotted out and the
bowling wind warns of the coming snow.
The tent is buried under feet Of snow.
The people huddle together in hot,
| fetid darkness. Devils howl in the wind.
Evening star., 1937-05-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRACRHELZ

How many have noticed the "blood"
Of the Iris? A reader has, and sends
the following note:
Dear Sir: presume you don't have
time to write answers to questions, but
perhaps you can work this subject into
your very interesting daily column,
which I always glance through, and
often profit by (as the talk on gladloD
though don't have time to watch birds
or raise goldfish.
Il admire the joint workings Of your
soul and intellect in expressing your
discoveries In your refreshing way.
Il have noticed before this year that
the purple Iris, standing in vase drops
a purple liquid not easily removed from
mahogany table. I wonder II this could
be used, or has, in making dyes or ink,
and why 1t is so deep in color, or colored
at all?
Does the flower, in wthering. throw
of the liquid Of the veins Of the blos-
som in such profusion? 1t appears that
the blossom withers quickly, and in cut
ting this amount OF juice is squeezed
out and falls. Very sincerely yours.
M. s. r."
, ++++
The iris in its many species formerly
had more uses, in addition to that Of
decoration, than it has today.
Orris still comes from the root. Much
of the violet perfume in the cheap
and medium price classes Is really dis
titled from the iris.
The stain from the common iris has
been used in the past in making tests
for comparative alkalinity and acidity
Litmus, of course, is much more used
for this purpose. Litmus Is blue color
ing matter got from lichens. 1t is turned
red by acid, and restored to blue by
alkali
A type Of washable ink could be made
from the iris, but as dye-stuff it would
be almost useless, since it would be
washed out too easily. This is the
trouble with many otherwise excellent
dyes which the Indians used As long
as they did not get caught in the rain
without their umbrellas they were all
right.
Our correspondent will see that we do
not know much more about the blood
Of the iris than she does, but we are
always glad Of an excuse to write about
the flower.
What a beautiful flower, and what q
wonderful name
No wonder the ancients used the iris,
or fleur-de-lis. as symbol Of royalty
the three parts Of the formalized flower
denoting wisdom, faith and bravery.
Our name, iris, comes from the Greek
| goddess Of the rainbow, Iris, herself
Somehow it seems one Of the most
colorful names in the world, and one
| cannot help but marvel that it has not
been used more.
One seldom meets a woman named
| Iris.
Now why is that?
Iris, in itself, is beautiful name.
Its connotations are lovely, the colors
| Of the rainbow the glossy green of
| lawns and leaves after the rain. the
| out-coming sun, the general Joy OF
mankind.
And above all. in the sky, the messen-
ger OF hope itself.
The iris, brought to earth, does its
level best to make rainbow in our
| gardens.
That 1t succeeds more than any other
beautiful flower in which there Is a range
| Of shades may be disputed, but that is
| nothing against it in the least.
Evening star., 1937-05-25

security act cases, in the opinion Of
many who are opposed to the Presidents
plan to increase the membership of the
Supreme Court, so as to infuse new
blood" into that tribunal, has put an
other stumbling block in the way of the
court bill. But 1t seems quite clear that
whether or not the court bill becomes
. law, the Interpretation of the Consti-
tuition by the Supreme Court has taken
. nsw turn. and along the lines desired
BY the President
Evening star., 1937-05-25

Do not roses give US q garden rainbow?
Tulips do the same.
The gladiolus, in its hundreds Of spe-
ctes, makes Iris alive in every back yard.
So what's in . name, indeed?
But that Is nothing against iris, the
flower. surely. It belongs to the big
4 Of the flower garden-rose, peony. iris
and gladiolus.
Without this quartet, gardening on an
average scale would not be what It Is
with them. or even part Of them.
There seems to be little question that
the so-called bearded, or German, Iris,
the general favorite with most persons,
needs to be dug up and reset, after
dividing, about once in four years.
Short Of that, q planting which last
year may have bloomed profusely will
dwindle away to practically nothing,
as far as blossoms are concerned.
Yet the temptation to leave them As
given for failing to disturb them. Let
no one be surprised, however, II they
fall to bloom up to standard.
The sight Of = glorious Towering in
another yard, when ones own iris are
planter to do something about It,
Fortunately. the iris Is one plant which
may be dug up and transplanted at
blooming season Is always good.
II care is TAKEN iris may be taken up,
divided, and transplanted when in full
bloom.
So it may be seen that this Is an ideal
flower for the beginner, and that is
more than true. 1t is perhaps the
ideal flower, since 1t gives luxuriant
beauty in almost any yard.
Its rapid spread enables almost any
one to give away to friends bushels Of
rhizomes within a few years, and these
almost invariably do well, 50 that this is
one flower which may be given with
real appreciation-especially from the
receiver.
There are many "naturab" among the
iris, in addition to the lusty made" va
rieties which enterprising hybridizers
have evolved.
The average gardener would do well
TO look up the native iris more, rather
than remain enthralled with the new
comers, those tall nne creations which
have set the iris world ago4 in recent
years.
Many flower lovers do not know that
there is tiny iris, not more than
inches high, which may be grown to
perfection in the rock garden.
Also there are Spanish iris, which
comes from bulbs, and the wonderful
Japanese iris, which grow from a mop
OF roots, without the rhizomes OF the
German kinds.
A garden filled with native American
Iris (many grown In Louisiana) would
be q wonderful hobby for the person
who might wish to specialize q bit.
We know a tiny nook, in an otherwise
useless space in garden, where grow
several varieties OF plants used in medi-
cine. and while this spot would appear
nothing but collection OF weeds, to
the person who did not know, those who
have been initiated find in 1t some Of
the most famous herbs in all the world.
An al-American iris garden would be
wonderful thing, provided, Of course,
the proper soil and climatic conditions
could be secured In one place. Maybe
so, maybe not, but at least some Of
them could be grown.
Evening star., 1937-05-25

ADLER body Of statesmen has not assem-
bled in modern times, nor has any as
sembly met with truer motives or pro-
duced grander result"
George Washington and BENJAMIN
Franklin were present. The most
learned lawyer" was James Wilson Of
Pennsylvania, later to serve on the
Supreme Bench, but 'for profound
knowledge Of constitutional law few sur
passed the youthful James Madison of
Virginia" afterward to be President.
Also well to the front were Alexander
Hamilton, the Federalist philosopher,
destined to die at the hands of Aaron
Burr with his work unfinished: Robert
Morris, the hnancier Of the Revolution;
Gouverneur Morris, the author of the
decimal system Of money; Edmund RAN
dolph, Governor Of Virginia; John Rut-
ledge, South Carolina's brilliant orator;
Charles Pinckney, subsequently to be
an envoy to France and twice candidate
for the White House; Roger Sherman,
cut: Rufus King and Elbridge Gerry.
The citizen soldier who had been COM
mander-in-chief of the continental
armies was elected chairman. He &C
cepted the responsibility with no illu-
sions, saying: If, to please the people,
we offer what we ourselves disapprove,
how can we afterward defend our work?
Let us raise standard to which the
wise and the honest can repair. The
event is in the hand Of God"
Little of the Constitution was new.
Much of It," declared Viscount Bryce,
"is as old as Magma Charta" Still more
Of it, probably, traced back to the
Holy Scriptures. DR.. Elson summarizes
the unchallenged fact when he writes:
THE trainers cleaned from history, from
the mother land, and especially from
the various State constitutions. 80 On
the whole, the instrument was q COM
pilation, not an original production. It
was the elimination Of the institutional
growth of two centuries-a tree with
trunk and branches purely American
grated on an English root"
Remembering these things. It is gsod
that the celebration Of the Constitution
should occur In 1887. The observation
will educate the people to understand
the campaign which currently is being
waged against their freedom. BY the
end Of the year the masses should COM
prehend the emergency and, providen-
TALLY long before that date, should dis
cover the proper answer to return to
those who would destroy their funda-
mental heritage in the interest OF some
allegedly expedient innovation imported
from Moscow. Rome, Berlin or other
and even nearer center Of alien sophistry.
Evening star., 1937-05-25
Everyday Science
In Simple Language

This attractive 48-page booklet is filled
with questions and answers that have
been asked most frequently Of The Stars
Washington Information Bureau, such
as: Why is snow white? How are ocean
waves produced? How is rayon made?
Why does magnifying glass magnify?
The stories Of the sciences told in this
book do not attempt to cover the field
fully, but they do point out the high
lights. OF interest to all who wish to
understand the ordinary happenings Of
everyday life. Helpful to boys and girls
as we'll as grownups. 1t gives the answers
you have always wanted to know Order
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Evening star., 1937-05-25

Markets are described as moving with
in = narrow margin with q hope for
action on unexpected trading. There
Is always something to cheer the atten-
tion no matter how the market happens
to be going. II q man fails to find 1t
satisfactory he can initiate Mr.. Van
Devanter's course and check up on It
both practically and theoretically.