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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-11-26
Clarks Observe
29th Anniversary
On Thanksgiving
SISTER COATS

1t was a day of double celebra-
ton yesterday for Capt John M
Clark, steamboat inspector, and Mrs
Clark.
1t was 20 years ago yesterday that
Capt. and Mrs. Clark were married
in Seattle, the date being Novem-
Der rs, 1908, and it was a Thanks
giving day.
The Clarks, who make their home
aboard their vessel, the Alma, OBJ
served the occasion quietly. and in
typical sea-going fashion, went
ashore for dinner.
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HARRI ENTERS HOSPITAL

has entered Virginia Mason Hos
pltal in Seattle for medical treat
ment, according to a wire received
here today at Mr.. Harris Machine
Shop offices
He is expected to remain there for
several days under doctors obser-
vation
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Chicago Measures
Descending Dust

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. g. = Frbm
$4,000 to 10000 tons of dust descend
upon Chicago every month. accord
ing to figures compiled by the city's
smoke abatement department.
The figures are obtained from a
check OF twenty-five stations, scat
tered throughout the city which
set jars out in the open to catch
the dust that falls Their contents
then are weighed and analysed lin
a laboratory.
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WEATHER BUREA
THE WEATHER


vicinity beginning at 4 pm,
tonight Saturday
winds.
Southeast tonight and
the southern portion portion
Southeast Alaska tonight and
portion; tonight throughout Southeast moderate
strong Icy Strait
Cross
Forecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf
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SANDS ABOARD MORAN

Walter Sands and his wife, the
former Agnes Patterson, also a SON
Louis Sands, are aboard the Prin-
cess Norah for their Juneau home
after an extended visit in the west
ern states.
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WHITE is ON PRINCETON

E. j. White, resident engineer for
the Bureau Of Public Roads, re-
turned to Juneau on the Presby-
terrain mission boat Princeton yes
terday after being at work on the
Sitka- Halibut PoinE road project
and other road activity near Sitka.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS AT A. NJ. TO-DAY

Seattle anporb, cloudy temperature 49, Blaine cloudy
or partly cloudy 34 Alert Bay cloudy &c. Bull Haror cloudy
Triple Island; partly cloudy cloudy
pert partly cloudy Ketchkan cloudy cloudy 80;
ge cloudy 49, Petersburg cloudy 49, Ska
frries 81 Hawk Inlet cloudy cloudy
3d. Soapsone Point cloudy 3d.
a. Cape Hnchinbrook anng St Elias raining
dy 3 Yakaaga cloudy Chitna cloudy o. Mccarthy cloudy
Anchorage cloudy 25 Fairbanks partly cloudy
Ruby, partly cloudy 7; Nulato,
Juneau Nov. q. = Sunrise. 1913 am; sunset, pm
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SILVER TEA

st. Luke's Guild Tea will be held
in the Parish Hall Saturday after
noon, Nov. 81, starting at 2 o'clock.
Everybody welcome. adv.
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DIR. DAWES RETURNING

DR.. L. P Dawes, who has been
south and east for several months,
is returning to Juneau aboard the
Princess Norah
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Dramatic critics in Germany
must have special permit from
the government to practice their
profession.
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WEATHER SYNOPSIS

prevailed from the Aleuars
souheastward to Dixon Entrance the
1882 Kodiak,
Mackenzie Valley
at Fort Simpson This
along the
the northern West Coast
States generally remainder the field
of observation
colder skagway southwark to northern
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-11-26

Oscar Wilde wrote one of his
famous works, "Salome,p in French.
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Try The Empire classifieds for
results.
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Try an Empire ad.
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Colorful Ceremonies Are Part of VIRGINIA
Rhododendron Festival and King Coal
Jubilee at Norton, in the "Trail of
the Lonesome Pine Country"
Called the Nations Loveliest.

Music Conclave" will bring to the
festival quaint vestiges of Chaucerian
speech and Old World ballads Down
from the mountains will come native
flddlers, banjoists, guitarists, ballad
singers, folk music bands, group sing
ers, yodelers and dancers to perform
under the direction Of Richard Chase,
an authority on American folk music
THE Jefferson Is in truth
mountain paradise. And here the
great rhododendron-the blue blood
OF all mountain flowers-is indeed
the queen of beauty. This patrician
branch Of the laurel family grows to
height of 80 feet, and its waxy bell
flowers blossom in great conical clus-
tiers, frequently 10 inches long and
from 6 to inches in diameter. 1t
sometimes grows in thickets so dense
that sunlight and scarcely a drop
of rain penetrates the tangled bow
ers, yet its sweet chalices are always
dewy with crystal spray from the
tumbling mountain streams
Cloaked in the mists of antiquity
is this regal flower. About it clings the
aura of romance, the dignity of high
honors and the blight of superstition.
The ancient Greeks and Romans en-
tWlned its leaves into wreaths, the
laurel wreath crown of highest honors.
This tabled plant was sacred to
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United States Bureau of Mines, made
the statement that national resources
of coal, oil and gas are dwindling
so rapidly that industry may begin
to feel "the cramping hand" of a
shortage of some fuels within decade
or two. He said estimates indicate
that the amount of oil In the ground,
recoverable by current methods Of
production, is about $4,000, 100000 bar
rels. A little more than a billion
barrels of oil were produced in this
country during 1896. But, accord
ing to George w. Holland, director
OF the petroleum division of the De-
partment of the Interior, it is impossi-
BILE for us to continue to extract oil
at this rate from the earth, to the end
that the estimated 10000, 100000 bar
rels available will be withdrawn over a
longer period than l3 years.
Dr. Fieldner was of the opinion,
however, that unless new fields of
natural gas are discovered and great
er social control" of present resources
exercised, this fuel will be exhausted
within Is to 20 years.
As early as 1924 President Coolidge
authorized the formation of the Fed
eral Conservation Board, consisting
Of the Secretaries Of War, Navy. In
terror and Commerce. and this com.
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Bv Louis Seldinq.

JUST before embarking upon the
Jefferson Island picnic Presi-
~ dent Roosevelt signed bill,
which, while prosaically charged
with the conservation of the Nations
petroleum resources for two more
years, represents one of the most
glamorous and ancient of industries.
The Connally "hot oir' bill, grow
ing out of the Supreme Courts de-
cision against the petroleum clause
of the old N. R. A. code and at that
time made effective until June 16
of this year, has just been extended
by House amendment to the orig
inal bill for permanent legislation
as passed by the Senate.
A dry sequence that-yet behind it
there might be unrolled panorama
carrying us back to old Noah him.
self, caulking the seams of the ark
with pitch at the Lords command,
or little basket floating on stream
in Egypt lined with pitch and bearing
the infant Moses.
That panorama would include, too,
the slime pits of the Vale Of Siddim
and asphalt blocks dug from the
buried streets Of Babylon. It would
recall the famous bitumen pits of the
Fountains of Hit and the building
of the Tower of Babel. 1t would make
us see again that gulf of fire" de-
scrlbed by Plutarch when he related
the deep interest of Alexander in that
fire which streamed continually as
from an inexhaustible source" in
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Apollo, used in religious ceremonies
by the American, Indians and for CEN
turies it has been the temple flower of
Japan. Yet, strange to say, we Amer
leans know very little of these gor-
geous wild flowers, so sought after
and tenderly cultivated by other ma
tionS, especially England, China and
Japan.
In the Southern Appalachians, par
ticularly in the forested recesses of
the Cumberlands, the rhododendron is
now at the peak of its glory. Acres
and acres Of its Waxy white and pink
and purple bells blanket the hillsides
and border the hard-surfaced high
ways. The most exquisite episode of
the Norton festival is the rhododen-
dron pageant masque, featuring a
ballet OF 100 dancers and starring
Howle Fisher, formerly premiere dane
er of the Metropolitan Opera, and his
little blond dancing partner, Annette
Baird. Surrounded by her court of
princesses in a bower of rhodo-
dendron, Miss Nancy Peery, daughter
of the Governor of Virginia, was
crowned Queen Rhododendron III.
IN CONTRAST to the patrician dig
nifty and grace of the Rhododen-
dron Ball is the King Coal Jubilee, a
riotous mardi gras in which jolly Old
King Coal and His Fiddlers Three
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Nation Has Been Slow to Awake to Dangers
of Exhaustion of Irreplaceable
Natural Resource.

ample supplied by Secretary Ickes.
He cites the case Of the East Texas
oil field, so miles long and from 312
to 10 miles wide. 1t contains about
100000 acres of productive territory
and approximately $4,000 oil wells.
TWo-thirds of the flowing oil wells in
Texas are in this area, and the field
produces currently about Is per cent
of the national crude oil output. This
amounts to nearly as much as the
aggregate production Of all wells in
Louisiana, Kansas and New Mexico,
the three States which rank fourth,
fifth and sixth in output. At the time
of its discovery, the field contained at
least one-fourth of all the oil reserves
of the United States.
THE operation of the East Texas
oil field shows clearly" stated Secre-
tary Ickes. 'how the State and Federal
governments may work together to
prevent waste and increase the ulti-
mate recovery of OIL The studies of
the fields engineering staff have in
dicated that production rate of from
425,000 to 100000 barrels a day will
result in the maintenance Of an ap-
proximately constant reservoir press
ure and prolong the flowing life of
the field. According to testimony of
the Texas Railroad Commission. this
method Of control has conserved
energy to such an extent that esti-
mates of recovery Of oil from the field
have been raised at least 30 per cent.
Such an increase would amount to
about 100000 900 barrels, which would
be equal to the discovery of go aver
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mission submitted five reports. the
last in 1882. The concern of Presi-
dent Coolidge has been reiterated in
one form or another by each succeed
ing President, and in the early part of
the Roosevelt administration the
President wrote John N. Garner, as
president of the Senate, and Henry T..
Rainey, Speaker of the House, call
ing attention to the serious situa-
ton" confronting the oil-producing
industry.
"As the Congress is doubtless
aware" wrote the President, "a seri-
Gus situation confrcnts the ou-pro-
ducing industry. Because oil taken
from the ground is a natural resource
which once used cannot be replaced,
1t is OF interest to the Nation that
its production should be under reason
able control for the best interest of
present and future generations"
Investigators had unanimously
agreed that oil had been ex-
tracted without regard for future
supply. Flush" production. a wide
open flow and unrestrained gushing
forth of oil, which exhauts the reser-
voir energy quickly and uselessly, was
the order of the day. Moreover, this
form of production leaves underground
and unrecovered fully 80 per cent OF
the oil originally in place.
CALLING the attention of Congress
to these facts, Secretary of In
terror 1ckes commented: If the sup
ply OF oil were such that the needs
OF the Nation could be met by skim
ming off the cream and leaving the
milk, I never would have advocated
any degree Of control 1t is an in
teresting fact that of the crude oil
produced from 1881 to 1884, inclusive,
only 10 per cent was at cost Of 40
cents barrel OF. less. The average
cost was 80 cents a barrel, but only
60 per cent was produced at or below
average cost. If our oil reserves were
ten or more times larger than they
are, we might indulge for a while in
the profligate outpouring of oil which
is involved in unrestrained low-cost
flush production. But with our linz
tied supply we cannot afford to lose
the reserves in those fields where oil
Is pumped to the surface through
stripper wells, even though the pro-
duction may cost more"
It was on this occasion that secre-
tary Ickes recommended that the Con-
nally act be made permanent legisla-
ton without change or modihca-
tons"
With Inauguration Of the first Con-
nally act, we became nationally con-
scious Of the term "hot-oil," used to
designate contraband oil shipped IL
legally from State to State after pass
age Of legislation prohibiting such
traffic.
The effect of the legislation on the
oil industry and conservation of oil
resources Is best il)G'strated by an ex-
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tons OF coal and iron shipped from
this section during the last so years
the entire area is still pregnant with
untapped mineral deposits. The only
arsenic mine in North America is
found in Floyd County and in Smyth
and Washington Counties are the
most extensive salt mines in the
United States. The richest mineral
resources in the Appalachian range.
according to geologists, are in Scott
County. and all of it entirely unde-
veloped.
But that is not so in Wise County,
the scene of the festival, here all but
about one-tenth OF the 496 square
miles of the county are or have been
in some state of coal development.
Its coal veins are everywhere, even
cropping out along the roadsides,
pasture lands and hillsides-always
the hillsides. Millions Of tons of Wise
County black diamonds" have al
ready found their way into the fiery
furnaces of great manufacturing CEN
ters, yet experts claim that coal can
still be mined here for at least 200
years.
X ING COAL is more than king in
this land; coal is directly or in
directly the where-w -with-all of almost
every person in the county and will
remain so, for the Government has
bought only the surface Of the forests,
the oil and mineral resources being
reserved by the original owners.
But some Of the picturesque phases
OF the industry are rapidly disappear
ing, especially the dancing serrated
flames from the rows upon rows Of
coke ovens that used to illuminate tho
night sky as faithfully and much
more remuneratively than the moon
and stars. Until recent years Norton
itself was literally surrounded by this
picket of helching smoke and flame.
But at last the coal industry came to
realize that gases and other valuable
by-products were lost by the wastefuI
process of coke burning. So now the
old ovens are falling into decay. Cons
forever is the black pail of smoke and
coal dust that once permeated the air
and covered even the leaves OF the
forests with layers upon layers Of
coal dust.
Again the lush, almost tropical
shrubbery, gratefully spreads its
mantle of blossoms and cool, pungent
foliage over the entire land. Thus in
a few short years science. industry
and the resourceful vigilance of tho
United States Forest Service has
given the beautiful Cumberland forests
back to God and to the American
people.
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RENEWED LEGISLATION PROTECTS PETROLEUM RICHES
Two-Year Extension of Connally Hot Oil
Act Is Counted Upon to Protect Against
Abuses in Oil Production.

Mesopotamia and the mysterious and
eternal flames at Baku
What in all the history of the
world can be more fascinating than
this black gold rushing from the
heart of the earth to run our motors,
light our streets, warm our homes,
make in short the greatest individual
contribution to progress that any
one commodity has ever made, from
Noah's ark to the heating switch
on your own wall?
With the renewal of legislation de-
signed to protect this resource and
safeguard against the wastefulness
that was fast threatening us with a
prospect of exhaustion of a vital
reserve, We are reminded vigorously
OF the timeliness and far-sightedness
OF legislative action.
When the Cole committee, on jan
uary 2, 1885, submitted its report to
Congress on the problem of petroleum,
1t filed one of the most interesting
and comprehensive surveys that has
even been submitted to that body,
treating the subject with color, au-
thority, fairness and impartiality.
When it is realized" asserted that
committee, "hoW imperative and alb
solutely essential petroleum and it's
products are to the Nation not only
in war times but in peace times az
well, any threatened or possible ex-
haustion Of such a resource is of Sc
rious consequence"
"PETROLEUM is admittedly ire
placeable," the committee wrote.
"The quantity of petroleum in known
fields and pools is capable of fairly ac-
curate determination. With the guam
tity of known reserves established and
the discoveries in the future entirely
problematical, 1t is natural that the
conservation Of this very valuable re-
source has claimed the attention of
the Federal and State Governments
as well as of the petroleum industry
for some time"
It was war time that shattered our
complacent obsession that the United
States has all the oil it will ever
need"-an idea entertained not only
by the general public but, to a de-
plorable extent. by Congress and the
Federal Government.
Even the oil companies" one in
vestigator stated, were seemingly
ruled by the conviction that no one
now living would ever see a shortage
of oil caused by exhaustion of the oil
fields"
Warning forecasts followed war
time estimates Of our petroleum re-
serves, and Congress and the Gov
ernment were awakened to the need
for guaranteeing oil supplies adequate
to meet the rapidly expanding mill
tary, naval and civil requirements.
Attention was given to the necessity
for postponing the day when the peak
Of production would have been passed
Evening star., 1937-07-11

signed and created to glorify the three
fold purposes of the celebration. The
so entertainment features" he further
explains, present more varied pro-
gram than any three-day celebration
staged in the United States or Cam
ada Mr.. Campbell has been an asso-
ciate director of the Covered Wagon
and dramatic director of the Yorktown
sesqui-centennial and % other major
celebrations in the United States.
The "Fiddlers' Convention and Folk
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BY Myrfa Ethel Cawood.
SSTHE most beautiful scenery in

SST HE most beautiful scenery in
the United States declares
Western conductor, lis in
the Cumberland Mountains
Of Virginia" After viewing America S
natural wonders 40 years it is not
strange that this veteran trainman
should prefer those picturesque ridges
where the skirts of Virginia, Tennessee
and Kentucky are stitched together
with pine needles and pin oaks and
embroidered in great clusters of rho
dodendron bells.
This glorious land. known through
out the world as the Trail of the Lone
some Pine Country and now the JEFF
sferson National Forest. was created a
national forest by presidential procla-
nation and was formally dedicated at
High Knob, near Norton, the first of
this month during the Virginia rho
dodendron festival and King Coal
Jubilee.
Although new national forest, the
Jefferson long has been famous in
story and song. Within its 3,5OOOOO
acres, extending from the Natural
Bridge of Virginia to the Kentucky
border-almost 400 miles-are laid
most of the scenes in the novels of
John Fox, jr. Here nature in lavish
mood planted rich minerals and many
mysterious and inspiring natural won
ders. Among these are mountains of
every conceivable shape, unexplored
caves, the only region in the world
where the fairy stones" are found
and Natural Tunnel, whose yaWning
crater and sheer walls could, and with
room to spare, swallow up both the
great Natural Bridge of Virginia and
Niagara Falls.
The Jefferson's forests are now
splendidly groomed, verdant and
abloom with mountain laurel and rho
dodendron. Its natural woodlands,
cooled by tumbling mountain streams
and dancing waterfalls, are within q
days drive of half the population of
the United States and destined to be-
come the playground of millions seek
Ing surcease from the sweltering cities
Of the Atlantic Seaboard.
TOWERING above the town of Nor
- ton, and almost in its front yard is
High Knob, more than 1900 feet above
sea level. From this picturesque van
tage point parts of three States are
clearly visible. On its lofty pinnacle
the Undersecretary of Agriculture M.
L. Wilson, the Governors of Virginia,
Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky
and North Carolina and other high
ranking Government and State Off
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At


its people. 1t is young in recorded
history, for only during the last gen.
Grafton have railways, automobiles
and hard-surfaced roads made it &C.
cessible to others than the native.
The vanguard OF the "coal rush"
was few farsighted industrial barons
and flnanciers from Pennsylvania
who came to Southwest Virginia after
the famous Pocahontas coal vein was
discovered in Tazewell County in the
1870s. Yet despite the millions of
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and the Nation would know long
strain of actual lack of oil.
AS result Of Investigations during
this period, the wasteful prodigality
of operations in the oil fields was
brought to national attention. It was
more fully recognized, too, that the
United States, with lavish hand, had
divided its oil with the rest Of the
world, freely permitting nationals of
other countries to acquire holdings of
our territories. Moreover, such ma
tionals represented countries that had
closed their doors to American oil
companies. AS one report put it,
THE United States had been eat
ing its cake as rapidly as possible
without thought as to the size of the
pan in which it had been baked. It
was also recognized as probable, If
not equally obvious, that the coun-
try whose oil is first exhausted,
whether by waste, use or gifts, may
in consequence the sooner become de-
pendent on and even at the mercy of
other countries for what in this age
has become one of the greatest neces-
sites of life"
A FEW days ago, in New York
= City, DR.. Arno Eeldner, chief
Of the techuologic branch Of the
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cials gathered to solemnly dedicate
the Jefferson ITO the people of the
United States for their use and ell
joyment forevermore.
The Jefferson. the rhododendrons
and the coal industry furnished the
inspiration for the music of the Vir-
ginia rhododendron festival. This
music" says c. Beverly Campbell, di-
rector of the festival, was especially
written by nationally known COM
poser, and even the dances were de-
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are given a dizzy whirl by the dane
ing coal nuggets, after which he is
crowned with "diadem of black
diamonds"
For coal is really king in South
west Virginia, that triangular strip
of the Old Dominion wedged be-
tween Kentucky and Tennessee 1t is
a region practically unknown to the
outside world, and indeed many sons
of Virginia have grown up with fab
ulous misconceptions of this land and