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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-06-27

KNIT SUITS-The ever popular knits, in pastels are really smart. Two or three-piece suits may Be found in the Juneau stores, and at moderate prices too!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-06-27

mart women who wear them They're comfortable But slacks, to be smart, must be as carefully se- lected and as fitted as your town suit.
 SPORTS JEWELRY Cork and nuts That's not a crazy com bination at all It happens to be the material from which sports jewelrr is made And for the first time in history, probably, there is a set of jewelry to be used exclusively for rough-it clothes. "''
 String your wrists and neck with cord from which dangle lacquered nuts that are really good kitchen varieties of hazel, niggertoes, all monds, and such. They are crude as crude-but clever. Definitely in keeping with active sportswear, and that's what makes them fashion
 Corks, if they are halved and painted with bright Indian-like col ors and strung on hempen cords. they decorate your slip-over sweat CTS, your sports shirts, your slack suits with a necklace and bracelet of these silly cords.
 Nuts and cork are two definitely appropriate trims for really active sports clothes. Don't wear these crude things in town And don't wear dressier jewelry in the coun- try. f,s GatA e4.. n KEEP UP-TO-DATE ! Bring a frock up-to-date with new pastel bolero Sometimes the simplest thing will do it.
 BECAUSE EACH and every one is a two-timer, you can double up on their uses. Wear them with MANY things. That's why they are econo- mical. May be worn over light print frocks, dark silk dresses, and over summer formalS.s .9 .,,,,.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

posed of in a manner suggesting that
alleged offenders have gained "immu-
nifty from prosecution"
But If the records reveal no such
suspicion, the police would be placed in
a position of defending themselves
against this serious allegation. What do
the police propose to do about it?
In almost every city where the ugly
numbers racket has been permitted to
mature and to grow powerful, as it has
in Washington, the story Of police pro-
lection" and the corrupting of public
officials by the payment of large sums
OF protection money has been heard.
There are those who even contend that
without protection" the numbers could
not survive. Now grand jury charges
that this has occurred in Washington.
Is the stain to remain?
The Presidents signature will make
law of the bill passed by Congress
amending the gambling laws with ref
erence to the numbers racket. The law
has been requested for many years by
the police and the prosecutors. When
they get it, what will happen? WASH
ington is waiting to find out.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
The Persons Unknown.

The indictment Of three alleged num-
bers operators on charges of conspiracy
to defraud the Government of income
taxes due on profits from the numbers
racket contains one serious charge which
will not escape the attention of police
and prosecutors.
Who are the persons unknown" to
whom money was allegedly paid to OBJ
tain Immunity from prosecution for
violations of the laws of the District OF
Columbia prohibiting gambling?"
These persons are unknown to the
grand jury which returned the indict-
ment. If .the charge is correct-s
matter which must be decided later by
. trial jury-are the persons to continue
unknown?
The only persons who could secure for
gamblers immunity from prosecution are
the police and the prosecutors. The
records Of the court should reveal
whether any cases brought into the Of
flee Of the prosecutors have been dis
Evening star., 1938-04-05

before the American Oriental Society by
University Of Chicago scientist. Miss
Wln1fred Smeaton, discloses that the
social practice of tattooing dates back
about 5000 years in Egypt, North Syria
and Babylonia.
At the dawn of civilization, she re-
ported. tattooing was a practice essen
TALLY confined to women. Sometimes
the designs were animals, but more often
combinations of lines, dots and simple
geometric designs, corresponding to many
modern tattoo patterns. Said Miss
Smeaton:
Little statuettes or hgurines of women
nave come to light in Egypt and Meso-
potamla which have designs on their
nuoe bodies, either painted or scratched
onto the surface of terra Gotta or stone.
Ihe supposition that these designs in
dicate tattooing is strengthened by the
TACT that In these same parts of the
world today women still practice the art
OF tattooing. Arab women of the desert
are skillfully tatooed on the faces, hands
and various parts of the body. Also the
Old Testament mentions the practice of
marking the body"
Inc wars OF ancient Babylon were not
racial conflicts, as history has assumed.
according to report of DR.. Thorkild
JACOBSEN, who has conducted extensive
archaeological work in Palestine. The
evidence is clear, he said, that Jews and
Sumerians were not regarded as distinct
race groups but that both became in
VOWED IN the political patterns of the
CITY states of the period with intense
commercial and political rivalries.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Britain and France Not
Truly Democratic Poware

TO the Editor Of The Star:
In an editorial appearing in The Star
OF March %, 1898, you attempt to COM
pare the population and other resources
OF the non-democratic powers with those
OF the so-called democratic powers.
Your inclusion in the latter group of
the go sister American republics" is
interesting, and certainly open to debate
The most glaring inaccuracy, however
IS your inclusion of France and the
British Empire among the democratic
powers. -0
European France and the Kingdom
OF Great Britain may properly be placed
IN that group, but France controls in
africa and Asia millions of Colonial
serfs' such as you credit to the Italians
Inc British Empire, likewise, contains
hundreds of millions of individuals who
nave no more to say about their govern
ment than do the inhabitants of the
Fascist and Nazi states. The British En-
pire Is collection of nations, some.
such as Great Britain, Canada and
Australia. democratic and self-govern-
Ing, and others, such as India and other
parts OF Asia, and huge tracts of Africa,
completely at the mercy and command
OF their rulers in distant London. What
has the Indian to say about whether or
not he should fight for imperial inter-
ests IN Europe? ]. M. WHELAN.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

An early spring, which bursts into
full thing but some will feel that the rest
of the landscape has not caught up
with it.
There is no background of the best
type. The grass was not green enough,
the foliage Of few things had come out
plentifully.
Here and there green, but not enough
OF 1t. All the more distressing, then, to
some eyes, the great patches Of yellow
and pink and white, as glorious as they
were, as pleasing to eye, heart and mind.
When is spring not a spring?
When it doesn't develop quite accord
ing to the old settled plan Of the years
Of our own growing up.
Those years set the pace for all the
springs to come.
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Even the Weather Bureau oficials
have given over pretending that the
weather has not changed
Every one knows it has changed.
Why, in those old days, before the
World War of unfortunate memory,
spring came in slowly.
1t eased into town gradually, bit by bit.
Everything warmed up together, all the
grass and the shrubs and the trees and
the flowers unfolded bit by bit.
There was no hurry up process, then,
no sudden bursts of blossoms overnight,
forced by untimely and sudden heat as
If IN a greenhouse.
These hurry-up springs are not so much
to the liking of those who believe in eS-
tablished processes.
Mainly, from the gardening stand
point, it is a problem of background.
Many lawns, for instance, are in
slightly moth-eaten stages. Not all
lawns, Of course, but many Of them.
What is more discouraging to the aver
age home owner than to witness a yard
which receives no care whatever come
out with the incest grass in the neighbor-
hood?
Sometimes such gardener is likely to
feel. at least for time, that the less one
does to the yard, evidently, the better
He will snap out of this pessimistic
mood, however, when he realizes that
there are many factors to be taken into
consideration. First and foremost is
the original lawn. Give a yard good
start. and 1t has very good chance Of
keeping 1t. 1t is much the same as good
birth. Nothing can take its place.
Here is good sod, put down in winter
when it was brown and sere. Actually,
1t looked more like dirt than grass.
Days went by, and nothing happened.
Then, with the touch Of warmth, came
new life, and within a few days the
brown look was gone, and in few more
days there was green, and plenty of it.
The man who put down that sod knew
what he was doing. He knew it was good
grass, at bottom no matter how it looked.
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Too early and sudden a spring, some
Will feel, does not permit the proper re-
ception committee
Evening star., 1938-04-05

beautifying the city and protecting the
health and property interests Of the
greatest number.
Presumably the commission would ex-
ercise restraint in enforcing the pro-
vision and would order the termination
of conforming use only when the
need for such action is urgent and clear,
and then on basis that would work
the least possible hardship. Should the
commission fail to observe these prin-
ciples, the aggrieved parry would, Of
course. have a right Of appeal to the
courts, which could set aside any action
shown to be arbitrary or unreasonable.
But, should such case arise, the
property owner would sustain substantial
loss before his rights could be judicially
determined. In view of that possibility,
Congress can lose nothing by examining
this phase Of the proposed law with ut
most care before giving it final approval.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
New Zoning Law.

While the bill which proposes the enact
ment of new zoning law for the Dis
trict, introduced by Chairman King of
the Senate District Committee. is a
distinct improvement over existing legis-
lation. it contains one provision that
should be made the subject of careful
study before final action is taken on
the proposed measure. The salient fea-
lures of the provision are stated in the
following sentence:
"The Zoning Commission may in its
regulations, provide for the terminatio..
OF non-conforming uses, either by spec.-
flying the period or periods within
which non-conforming uses shall be re-
quired to cease or by providing a formula
or formulas whereby the compulsory
termination of non-conforming use
shall be so fixed as to allow a reason
able period for the recovery or amortiza-
ton of the investment in the nom
conformance."
Under this provision, for example, the
commission could order the discontinue
ance Of store in residential zone even
though the store may have been in
existence for many years prior to the
enactment Of any zoning legislation.
The sponsors of the legislation concede
that the exercise of such power would
be debatable both as a matter of law
and Of policy, but they argue that the
step should be taken to meet contingen.
cies that might arise In the program Of
Evening star., 1938-04-05

This committee, as is we'll known, is
attired in old clothes, and equipped with
rake, spade and trowel.
The first operation is the raking Of
the leaves, all those specimens which
have gathered in the fence corners and
along the hedges.
In recent years there has grown up
feeling that perhaps too much polishing
OF the home ground Is not so good, that
1t stirs up the grubs of inimical insects,
and offers possibility Of harm to plants
II uncovered too soon.
There is another reason there for q
long slow spring Many plants run risks
II their winter covering is taken of too
hastily.
How one longs to dig in the yard, when
sudden spring overwhelms a city! But
many years Of experience have warned
the home gardener to 60 slow.
Too many bushes blooming at once
overcome his caution. He throws 1t to
the winds, and uncovers everything.
The red tips Of peonies come up with
rush. Beautiful new leaves of the
climbing roses clothe the vines, and
everywhere there are sights and sounds
Of spring.
Who can blame the gardener for wish
ing to live dangerously, as the dictators
demand?
There is no real satisfaction, however
IN q sudden spring, that throws the
gardener off balance, and makes him
tend to forget his hard-Won experience.
Better the old-time spring, with its
slow, cautious approach with its nicely
greenlng grass and plenty of leaves
everywhere before the flowers begin to
put in appearance.
Not that we cannot afford to have
unusual springs, now and then. No
doubt they are good for that portion OF
the mind Of man which longs too much
for stability and balance. Yet hasn't
man right to dream of order, when
the whole universe seems hung upon it?
One Of the best things about spring is
that it comes to the small garden quite
as neatly as to the large one.
plot 20 by 20 feet holds spring just
as we'll as 10 acres.
The air, OF course, comes everywhere,
and 1t is this spring air which is really
spring, after all.
There is a feeling to it, a scent, all
inescapable.
Ihere may be as much honest effort in
the little place as in the big one, but
With a great deal less poW-Wow.
1t Is the pow-woW to everyday gar
denlng that SO many people dislike.
They have come out of apartment houses,
in their middle age, without any train
Ing at gardening. and they suddenly
find it quite the thing"
They think they are having a fine
time but really they are bored to death
and don't know it.
The little garden, then, would be
great release.
II you have little yard, be glad,
and make the most of it.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Let In the Light!

The impression has been created that
the revised plans for site and design of
the Jefferson Memorial have received
the approval OF the Commission of Fine
Arts and the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Is this correct? If either or both of
these bodies have overcome all of their
previous objections to site and design
and have given unqualified approval,
such approval should be made public. It
would constitute powerful argument
for the memorial at time when skepti-
cism continues to exist both as to the wis
dom of the site and the appropriateness
Of the design.
On the other hand, If the approval of
the Commission of Fine Arts and the
Park and Planning Commission has
been requested and has not been forth
coming, that is matter of great i'm
portance which concerns Congress and
the peope.
Again, if the advice of these agencies
has not even been sought, then it is
high time that both the Commission of
Fine Arts and the Park and Planning
Commission be asked formally to give
such advice. 1t is incredible that the
Jefferson Memorial Commission would
fail to take advantage of a favorable
report; it is almost unthinkable that the
commission would deliberately ignore or
conceal an unfavorable report or would
proceed independently of the expert ad-
vice which these agencies are in posi-
ton, in fact are empowered, to give.
In other words, let in the light! The
Presidents recommendation for an ap-
preparation to begin the memorial Is in
complete without the approval OF the
Commission of Fire Arts and the Park
and Planning Commission and if sent
forward over their disapproval would be
contrary to sound public policy.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Facing the Austrian Fact.

DE facto' recognition of new situa-
ton in foreign country means, in SIM
pie English, facing plainly accom-
plished fact. That is what the United
States is about to do with respect to
Austria. 1t does not denote that this
country acknowledges the validity of
termanyS seizure of authority at
Vienna, considers it irrevocable, or con-
dones the methods by which it was ac-
compllshed. In diplomatic lingo, Wash
ington has not yet accorded Hitler de
1ure' Chat is, formal or legaD recogni-
ton OF Austria's enforced union with
the Reich. Nor is there immediate pros-
pect OF any such action on our part.
even though Great Britain, Italy, Japan,
1nsurgent Spain, Turkey, Poland, Czech
osloVakia and several minor countries
have extended de jure recognition of the
late Danubian republics present status
as Nazi province.
The Washington doctrine of nom
recognition of political changes wrought
py force or aggression has hitherto pre-
vented recognition of Japan's CONQUEST
OF Manchuria or of Italy's annexation
OF Ethiopia. Neither of those cases Is
quite Identical with the unique condi-
tlons under which Austria disappeared
as nation. Manchukuo theoretically,
Is sovereign state; Ethiopia, a colonial
unit of the Italian Empire-each with
nominal administration of its own. In
AuStrlas instance, her Minister to the
United States formally notified the State
Department that his government had
ceased to be. that its legation had been
closed, and all its authority. appurte-
nances and attaches were taken over, bag
and baggage, by the German Embassy,
just as Austria itself was "eingeschaltet"
dncorporated within the Hitler Reich.
This country is therefore merely taking
cognizance Of an obvious new state of
affairs which has been brought about.
Burglarious as it is, We are confronted.
IN that immortal Clevelandism, by
condition, and not a theory.
Presumably, along with "de facto" ac-
acknowledgement of German control over
Austria the United States will call Ber-
Inns attention to some practical issues
that arise. We shall want to know what
the Nazis intend to do about the $26,-
100000 relief debt Austria owes us. To
be determined is whether the ex-republic,
which enjoyed most favored nation
American tariff treatment is any longer
entitled to it, as part of country which,
because of discrimination against our
goods, was deprived of most-favored
privileges.
These are not questions which may
prevent eventual de jure recognition of
Anschluss. But the United States has
not the urge to stamp the Nazi conquest
with quite SO precipitate approval as
Great Britain, which has compelling in
ternational reasons of her own for rub
bing the Nazi fur in the right direction.
Even realist Downing Street cautions
the Germans that it reserves its atti-
tude toward all those questions in re-
spect to treaties and other matters re-
sulting from the fact that Austria has
ceased to exist as a sovereign and inde-
pendent state"
Evening star., 1938-04-05
A New Collection
OF Old HYMNS

Favorite Hymns is a collection of the
best-loVed hymns of all denominations.
In their great distress the peoples Of the
world seem to be turning to the consola-
ton OF religion. In this new collection,
prepared In response to many requests,
there are Isl hymns. complete with
words and music. Your favorite is prob
ably among them. The book is by 9
inches in size, and has an attractive.
durable colored cover. Completely in.
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cents to cover cost and handling.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
The Next Struggle.

Within day or two the Senate will
begin consideration of the revenue bill.
AS redrafted by the Senate Finance
Committee, 1t Is new, unlike anything
the President and his Treasury aids have
proposed and unlike the measure passed
by the House. The Senate committee
has discarded the Roosevelt theories Of
taxation to a very large extent. Gone
Is the undistributed profits tax, for ex-
ample. What will be the attitude of the
administration leaders in the Upper
House toward this measure when it shall
have been finally laid before them?
Unless the President is willing to take
lying down the tax revision as proposed
by the Senate committee, there will
be another historic battle in the Senate
battle in which the President stands
good chance of coming off second best
The Senate committee is overwhelm-
ingly in favor of the bill as it has been
redrafted. But that does not necessarily
whelmingly in favor Of the BILL The
committee, 1t happens, contains a num-
Der of anti-New Deal and the more
conservative Democrats. 1t is an impor-
tant committee. Membership in the
committee is eagerly sought It's men,
bers, therefore, usually have been in the
Senate for some time. Many of them
became Senators long before Roosevelt
became President. They did not ride in
on the Presidents coattails.
Senator Pat Harrison OF Mississippi is
chairman of the committee. If it had
not been for administration interference
he would have been chosen Democratic
leader of the Senate last summer after
the death of the late Senator Joe" Rob-
tnson. Mr.. Harrison did not measure
up to the Presidents idea of a New Deal
Democratic leader of the Upper House
Thumbs were turned down on the Mis-
sissippian 1t is now Senator Harrisons
turn to do bit of thumb turning. Fur
thermore, Mr.. Harrison is firmly con-
vinced that the Government should
really do something to aid business in
this period of depression and is rallying
other Democrats to the idea. Reforms
may be all right-aS the President says
they are-but in the opinion of Senator
Harrison and some other Democrats, it
is necessary first to save something to
reform.
This battle over the revenue act will
be far more significant, really, than the
battle over the Presidents reorganiza-
ton bill. If it is won by Senator Har-
rison and the group which believes with
him, the administration will receive
setback of major proportions. The bill
will, of course, have to 60 to conference
with the House. But that it will be re-
stored to the original form of the House
bill. after it has passed the Senate, is
not at all likely.
President Roosevelt will be in posi-
tion to defeat the new revenue bill, If
he cares to do so, by the process of
vetoing it, Presumably, a two-thirds
majority in both houses to override a
veto could not be obtained A veto would
continue the present revenue act in
effect until new law could be passed.
With the country clamoring for tax re-
vision, which the President has admitted
is needed, he would not enhance his
popularity by vetoing the measure.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

President Roosevelt has numerous
appointments yet to be made, if he
carries out his present purposes. 1t is
impossible to say whether those hoping
to be benefited are happy or scared.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Kipling wrote great deal that pleased
the reader but which won him few trust
ing admirers. To Ripple" is not good
politics, although it is still rated as one
Of the fine arts.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

The appearance of a design for the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial may remind
old-timers of the many years the Wash
ington Monument had to linger in a
state Of incompletion,
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Respect may be claimed for a states
man by naming high school after him,
but it does not Immediately and COM
pletely stop the argument.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Newark, N. j., has deposited in a
museum Its oldest school house, erected
more than century and a half ago.
They built better structures in those
days, as regards durability.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

old boom town that the river on RAM
page nearly wiped out. Only four or
nve houses now remain. He claims, 1t
Is said, that he is grandson OF the
late Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria.
There Is nothing to show that he will
have the support Of the administration.
however. In his race against Senator
Clark.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Those who study the United States
are still wishing it would say something
that the baseball writer's can handle
with intelligent enthusiasm.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Pope Plus XII makes it clear that not
only has he recovered from illness but
that he is ready to lend a hand in
patriotic work that is to be done.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

1t is impossible to assume that every
play deemed worthy of a Pulitzer prize
would during his lifetime have been
regarded by the donor of the fund as
worthy of prize.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Princeton gives favored personages
the benefit Of simplified discourse and
as a publisher Einstein purposes to take
advantage of this.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
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