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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-27
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WEDNESDAY. DEC. 28. 1888
 Mingled good and evil planetary influences ae potent today, accord- ing to astoloey indicating appre- hension as well as pleasant eXpeeta- tion for many
 While business plans important projects. labor continues under 2 sway that is mtayofahle to the fullest development Of national re- sources Manufacturers will have nu- meeous difficulties.
 Good feeling will prevail long after he holiday season. A period of pros perity is progno nosticated, but may precede amazing international de- velopnnents.
 Tne stars presage recognition of able professional men who will as- sume public offices Of responsibility.
 The United States is to be hailed las foremost power n the world within two decades it ls prophesied. out cannot Isolate itself from Euro pean and Asiabc spreading con- 'licts
 In the spirit of peace and good will national solidarity should be at- tained astrologers declare as they @oresee surprlsine and sudden crises abroad
 This is a happy date for hospiJah- ties It is a lucky wedding day and most promising tor family reunions and informal entertaining
 Warning is given that dishonesty win be discovered among specula~ tive employees and greed fer money waH cause diverse crimes
 Air travel is under a stimulating configlration which seems to tndi- cate increased airplane transporta- tion
 Persons whose birthdate if is have the auguy of a year of gain and accompanying disillusionment Ar tists should profit
 Children born on this day prob ably will be imaginative and ideal isttc Subjects of this sign may be exceedingly optimistic and success ful.
 Woodrow Wilson President of the United States. was born on this day 1856 Others who have celebrated il as a birthday include William F. Chandler onetime Secretary of the Navy 1835 Catherine Maria Sede- wick. author. 1789
 Copyright, 1938)
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PETITION Preanhie

Upward Of 500 square mes Cl the west site of Kenai Peninsula is till- able and grazing land superior to any other section of Alaska Gov ernment experimental farm records and private investigations have placed this area in the front rank Of agriculture and open to settle ment The reputation of this section has not only spread throughout AL aSka but also the States, as the dif- ferent Towns on the Peninsula bear witness from the correspondence constantly received from persons de- ening to settle here. Many families have come already and are busilv engaged making a home on lands accessible to the beach or the one short road leading from Homer in land a few miles.
 The land accessible from beach and road is now covered by satis- fled homesteaders who are making a wonderful agricultural showing con- sidering the very limited market they can serve.
 There are literally hundreds of people who would immediately move into the country and carve out pros porous farms for permanent home if they could get to and from the land by road or even a trail that would some day be a road They do not wish to use their homestead rights on a piece of land that may prove later to be off the coming ni2hwav distance of 10 or 20 miles. Therefore. if survey were made of 9 highway leading from the present end of the Seward -Kenai road down through the best agricultural areas and terminate at the Town of Homer locating and marking the route permanently so that settlers could follow it and take up adioin- ing land. then the whole route would be transformed into a beehive of &C., tivlty. The people would start mak- ulS tlleE nome knowing that by the time they were ready for business the highway would no doubt be well under construction. The element of doubt as to where the highway will run when it is constructed is the chief barrier holding back the de- velopment of the Kenai Peninsula
 Petition
 NOW THEREFORE. WE the undersigned residents of the Pen insula hereby earnestly petition the Alaska Road Commission. or other proper Departments to immediately survey and permanently locate the route of trunk highway connecting the Seward-Kenai Highway which now ends at Russian River) with the present short road leading north from Homer
 We respectfully ask that the sur Yeyors trail be well brushed out. and
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WESTERN HEMIsPHERE SOLIDARITY

Announcement gha- tae 2l American Republics to the Pan-Amencan conference have unanimously agreed to pac o soHdauty and defense indicates thal tae nations of ue Western Hemisphere are n closer accord than theg have actually beer for .ueat many years
 In be decades since he first Fats-Amencan con- Ference met ia Washington tortynne years ago hopes for great cooperation economic social political between he two Americas have risen fallen and risen again 4 the arst meeting treaties of arbitration and fog tariff adjustments were adoped and these sub- ject provided for continued discussion at later com , ferences Mexico City l90l D. Rio de Janeuo l906l Buenos Aires lal0 Santiago d92s Havana 1G23'
 While outwardly harmonious there was 9 good deal of secret feal and hostility toward the United St8tes Tt most 0i these conferences and not much accom- pishment 10 record Moi mal tac meeting at Monte video in l255 was there an apparent change m atti- tuoe toward the Colossus ol the North That con ference, as President Roosevelt said alterwafd re- moved former fears and convinced other nations Of American sincerity and determination to remain q good neiahbos.a
 American policy n tne live years Jhat have tol- lowed have further won Latin Americans 10 a belief that the Colossus of the North can be good negl-bor 0I particular influence Nas President Roosevelts attendance at the special Inter-Amercan Conference fal the Maintenance ol Peace held at Buenoa Aite. ia 1886
 h Iae century and more that has known Pan American n She movement has often seemed more senttuont than real Pres oeweea One two con- th3ents have b-an weak. Their cultures different. Thor economic Interests and ambitions have been far apart Great physical distance epasatas the chief ports oi The two Americas New York Tor instance, bene o00 mics nearer to Hamburg than to Rio de Janeno
 Though President Monroes words warning Euro peap nations ghat we should consider any attempts or thel part 10 eXtend her system 10 any portion og tbs Hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety have become American doctrine many Latin Amenoans have in this statement a desire on inc part of he United States to domina and control Che rest of the Americas
 Recently Che two tnen,s have drawn closer Aflines have s2anned tfe ocean and momtaia ban liegs shipping service has been improved Culilral contacts have been ncrsasea and strens thened Eco- homie bonds hare been .ofeed The Monroe Doctrine has been expanded o De less exclusively doctrine of the United stafes There has also developed some community of interest arem fear q European aesres- sion. particularly actatonal aggression even though Iatin America in the decades since casting otl the yoke span has had dieatoys after it's own fashion.
 n most tatn-Anafloan countries the alleged Fascist penetration with is resulting political and economic effects has been made the easter by the presence of German. Italian and to a much lesser extent Japanese colonies They serve as oatposts Of
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Six minutes after you tell Chief of Police William O. Freeman of the well-known police force of Evanston, Ill, that you haven't had a drink today, honest" he can tell whether you are telling the truth by means of this "drunkometer." The subject is required to blow up a toy bal loon. The breath from the bal loon is sent through 3 red fluid. If the subject has had a drink, the fluid turns lighter. until, if bo be drunk. the liquid turns color less. The "drunkometer' was in vented by Dr. E. H. Herger Of the Indiana College of Medicine.
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M 0 D E K N ETIQUETTE
By Roberto Lee

Q. Is 1t good manners for host or hostess to discuss the high cost of foodstuff. while at the table?
 A It would be very tactless to discuss such a subject with guests at any time 4 representative guest might pull out his wallet and offer a contribution
 Q, Is it good taste for one to use heavily scented body powder?
 A. No With many people it has the significance Of ones attempt to conceal other objectionable odors.
 Q. When introducing 9 man to a woman should the woman's name always be mentioned first2
 A. Yes. Miss Lincoln. this is MT Allen
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on YEARS AGO
 AO From THE EMPIRE
DECEMBER 27, 1918


 Carl Chrisuanson, an employee of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com pany at Perseverance, received a scalp wound at the mine and was being cared for at St. Ann's Hos pital by Dr L. o Sloane.
 J D Helps. Juneau agent for the Standard Oil Company. was to ar rive on the Alaska from the south. Gov. Thomas Riggs was not leav- ing Washington for Juneau until January 15, later than originally planned, according to word received here by Acting Governor Charles E. Davidson, in a telegram.
 V. A. Paine. a business man Of Juneau was in Seattle and was staying at The Pennington.
 
 E. A. Abercromble, interested in the .Cannery business at Ketchikan. and Mrs. Abercromble, arrived from the north III Seattle it was learned. Dr w A. Borland, Of Hoonah. ar rived in Juneau on the Estebeth and was at the Gastneau Hotel
 W B. Kirk. of the Butler-Mamo Drug Company was passenger for Seattle on the Jefferson.
 ". A. Clark. who had been i'll with influenza. had recovered and was at his office in the Juneau Hard wage Company
 M T Truesden, employee of the c w Young Company. who had been i'll at his home with influenza for several days, was al work again Weather Highest 3l lowest 31; partly cloudy
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RACK rR0M sIlACWAY

Mr and Mrs F M Policy returned on the Baranof from Skagway where they spent the Christmas Holidays with their son Dr Clayton Policy and Mrs. Policy.
The Washington times., 1938-03-19

Hoyt, a poet and a painter who
looked a good deal like Elinor.
committed suicide In his apart
ment in New York. Benet, his
friend, found his body, and has
written a little about it in a
preface to q book Of Hoyt's
poems, but, like Nancy writinf
Of Philip, he did not write Of
the way he died.
That was the same year that
Morton Hoyt, the second
brother. married Jean Bank
head, daughter Of Speaker Of
the House william Bankhead,
in Bar Harbor. Elinor went to
the wedding, but she did not go
to Nancy's debut the following
year, in washington, although
she was a guest at a second
dance for Nancy in 1922.
"she had on black and silver"
Nancy wrote, with q coronet o.
shiny patent leather leaves in
her hair, which sounds hideous
but in fact did actually make her
look like a slightly mournful
Bacchante. Elinor had as good
a time as my contemporaries
or and seemed full Of gaiety
and spirits"
DUT as their circle widened,
Horace and Elinor were
drifting apart. The bonds that
had weathered almost 10 years
Of voluntary exile were broken
little by little, and, in 1928, Eli
nor sued for divorce In Rhode
Island.
Already she was beginning to
live much of her life in New
York. Her poetry was winning
her fame. With q background
of years Of love and care and
beauty, Elinor wylie was on her
way to being the great lady she
ultimately became.
Her divorce was In the same
year that Nancy also won back
the freedom she was almost
ready to give away. The bril-
liant younger sisters engage
ment had been announced to
Lieut.. Frederick Wiseman-C Clark
of the British navy, and the
date was set and q day before
the date, May 10. with the house
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full life Of Washington.

full hfe OF aSnlngCoA'
EoUR years later, Mrs.
Il wylie gave her husband
the divorce he had sought so
long. Elinor and Horace
tired of travels in war-torn
Europe, were back in Amer
lea, and they were married
in Boston.
They lived on Mt. Desert
Island, sometimes in a cot
tage, one winter in an apart
ment over a Bar Harbor gro
Gerry store, where Elinor
wrote her snow poem, "Vel-
vet Shoes" In the first sum-
mer Of their marriage, young
Philip Hichborn, Elinor's
son, was sent by his family
to visit them.
She won his instant devo-
ton, and they were friends
until her death.
In 1918 Horace and Elinor
came to Washington and
took a little house on Florida
Avenue. Their life was quiet,
unhurried. They m ad e
friends with Sinclair Lewis,
who was writing main
Street." and with William
Rose Benet, who had been at
school with Elinor's brother,
Henry.
Elinor was writing and
Horace was working in the
wartime Railroad Admins
tration. They were quite
poor, for the long sojourn
abroad had been expensive.
And when he had left Wash
ington with Elinor, he had
left his wife and their four
children and most of his for
tune with them.
IF any Of their old friends and
L acquaintance still wished an
opportunity to show their dis
approval of the elopement Of
almost a decade before, none
was given.
In 1920. young Henry Martyr
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selves rather bad-tempered.
1t may be that talented
Nancy's reverence for her
sisters genius is so great that
she finds uncomfortable the
pain Elinor endured in his
death by suicide.
Or perhaps Horace Wylie,
in some way of his own, kept
pain from touching Elinor,
30 that Philips death was as
unimportant to her as Nancy
makes it seem.
1.-TWO years after Elinor
L left Washington with
Horace Wiley, her husbands
friend and neighbor, Philip
filed suit for divorce. He, of
course, named Wiley, but the
notoriety of a divorce in
which is named a correspond
ent could have meant little to
Elinor and Horace. Society
could not ostracize two
people who already had os-
tracized society.
In the winter of 1912, the
same winter the suit was
filed, young Hichborn left
Washington for California,
leaving his young son at
home. But. West Coast or
East, travel or stay-at-home,
m a d e sm all difference.
y-eight-year-old Philip
could not forget his wife.
He came home from Cali
fornia one afternoon that
March and hurried to the
home of his sister.
Martha Hichborn then was
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BETTY NOVEL;
.Ostracisn
Of Society
Left Them
Unscathed
,ally alive, and young.

They were good. those days.
,ancy wrote.
NANCY and Elinor and Benet
N and st. vincent Millay and
Earl van Bechten and Car
Van Doran and Stephen Vim
,ent Benet and Ernest Boyd
md Dorothy Parker and Frank
in p. Adams and a dozen or 50
,rhers went about New York,
Meeting ut the Algonquin, or
Marta's, or at Elincr's apart
lent. Gf.
They were the enchanted pec-
.e, the people who lived the way
ther people wanted to I've
orking and Playing and study
~ aud talking The old world,
ne world Of washington and tts
,cial laws and its whispering
as gone.
Now Elinor reaped the re-
,rd Of the years. Someone
nee wrote thai her "Miranda's
upper" was the result Of .
,ip 20 virginia where she met
nd won the admiration OF
annes Branch Cabell. But u
as really just q story Horace
vile had told her.
She and Edna Millay were
le principal women poets OF
,eir era, nor has anyone threat
led their joint pedestal since.
nd each word Of Elinor's prose
ad . precise magic. 50 THAI
ach thing she wrote for the
,ookrnan or the Saturday Re
lew Won further fame.
But Eliror went back to Bur
~. she went to England IN the
,pring Of 1923 and she stayed
md wrote in London, In Burley'
n Henley, walking again the
.I.a h.6 walked With
Nylie.
she died. really, partly In
ngland snd partly in America
ae two countries she loved best.
At Henley, in the summer.
slinor. coming down q flight OF
,arquet stairs to join her hosts
Il breakfast, fell. She did not
NOW then that her fall was the
.esult Of a stroke, slight stroke
,ut the beginning Of her illness.
NoNsIDERATE, afraid that
y her friends would believe
hat she was taking her acci'
lent too seriously, Elinor did
lot tell them Of her fall. she
lad breakfast with them despite
he pain in her back. and that
lay she went up to London Dy
rain, not knowing her back was
,roken.
She was in pain often after
hat, and one morning she awoke
o find that a side Of her face
was paralyzed. It did not mar
he loveliness Of her face, but
It frightened her. She came
back to America.
Benet met her boat and tooK
,er back to their apartment that
Elinor loved. and there they
went on with their work. Elinor
finishing Angels and Earthly
Creatures" her beautiful SON
nets,
They were working the n1gng
IF December 16, 1928. It was
the eighteenth anniversary o.
her flight with Wylie. Benet was
bringing her a glass Of water
when she looked up at him, from
the manuscript beside her. !:
SIS that all it is?" she asked
and when he bent over her sne
was dead. 8 1
A few people ssuffer always
that many may have happiness.
Probably those, living and dead
whose suffering was 80 long ago.
know now that the pain ana
bitterness paid for q priceless
gift to the world In the poetry
that lay beside her when sne
died. /
1898, by washinEten. Llmes:2
~.~sA~~NNes~ @'-'NseS7
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AT THE height Of I'll
nor Wylie's career r. Sn, sSs
wa. was often with Edna M g.
t,.in vincent Millay, the two o'
taaea9 ta.endS holding uncon.
tes tested first place amonr
1ooo,v Ioo women poets. of the
Eighteenth st. N. W, to find
a little group of servants
gathered at the locked door
of a sitting room.
The sitting room was part
of a suite occupied by "Mr.
Philip" and when they broke
down the door they found his
body. The pistol lay beside
his outflung hand.
'T have stood it as long as
I could" " he had written. II
have been despondent ever
since / was deserted. Good
bye to you all. I pray my
son will net inherit the un-
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TN A day made kinder by
l. it's memories of war, and
buster with fear of general
catastrophe than with its gos-
sip of individual tragedy, it
seems as though Philip might
have spared his sensitive wife
that note. He had spared
himself the divorce court.
There is no record Of what
Elinor thought and said and
did when she heard of
Philips death. But its effect
must have been tragic for her
sister so to ignore it in her
study of the poet.
Horace Wylie must have
done all he could to protect
her from grief. They trav-
eled, the two Of them,
throughout Europe, Elinor's
latent talent, already appar-
ent in early poems, develop
ing in the sun of Wylie's SYM
pathy.
Elinor's education had been
that of any young woman of
Washington. Horace Wylie,
20 years older, had travelled
and studied. He was her first
real teacher, ripening the raw
genius that might never have
unfolded in the prim, care
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TRAGIC ROMANCES OF WASHINGTON a1r Soal
EHn0r Hoyt s Marr1Age
To WyIIe Ends in
DiUOrce Court

Concluding Instalnemt of the Tragic Romance of
EItnor Hoyt and Horace Wyhe
NF Philip Hchborn first husband of Enor Hoyt, Nancy
" Hoyt, his sisterinlaw, wrote:
Philip died few years later really remember him only
as a very handsome boy rather badtempered."
There nothing in Nancy biography of her sister to ex-
plain why she that and why her casual illusions to
he Young lawyer who married her beautiful sister are them
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the most beautiful woman in
Washington and remained so
until she died. She had been
married to James G.. Blaine,
jr., and that marriage had
ended in divorce. Now she
was the wife of Paul Pear
sail, a naval officer.
TIER devotion to Philip
IL was legend in Washing
ton, and it was said at the
time of her death five years
ago that she never recovered
from the shock of that after
noon in 1912 when she re-
turned to her home at 1901
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full Of guests from abroad, Of
trousSeau and wedding presents,
Elinor found Nancy weeping. u
"Why get married If you don't
want to?" Elipor asked. with
the simple philosophy she her
self had followed. And Nanc
didn't get married.
Elinor did, though. In Oh
tober she married Benet, a poe
like herself, though not as goor
a one. And after that Elinor
career came to full flower.
She was part of the New Yor.
group Of friends respected lol
achievement in the literary
l920's by their elders. an6
adored by their Juniors. Prob
ably of them all, Elinor will
live longest, and certainly OF
them all, Elinor was the most
beloved by the group itself.
IN the years that have paSset
4 since then, many things have
happened to Elinor and to her
family and her friends.
Nancy has been twice mar
ried, and has herself become
famous for her novels. Head
lines proclaimed, in 1882, an in.
terview in which Nancy said she
had been in love with Smith
Reynolds, the tobacco heir who
married torch-singing Libby
Holman, and died mysteriously
after a party at his home.
There were headlines again
last year when Nancy, at Bar
Harbor, set out for a drive with
a taxi driver. who said they
planned to marry. They were
home again in IL hours, the
"elopement" a failure.
Morton and Jean gathered
newspaper banners with their
marital vacation" during which
he re-courted her. In 1928, Nor.
ton leaped from the deck of
an ocean liner, repeatedly on
the dare Of a sub-deb, although
he himself said he did it just
to show that a good swimmer
could be rescued alive. Again
he married Jean, and again
they we're divorced. He lives now
in France.
Horace Wylie is in New York,
living in an apartment in Green
wich Village, and he doesn't
speak of Elinor. He has friends
with whom he talks Of old days
in Washington, in Paris, and Of
new books and pictures. Still
charming, still. understanding
he is also still silent.
Martha Hichborn is dead, and
so is the baby Elinor left. Will
liam Rose Benet has married
again, since Elinor's death.
But in those days, the middle
1s20's, they were all alive, all
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happiness of his father"
There was one more SEN
tence, an apology for spoil
ing the rug"
Wash in g t o n in 1912
mourned handsome, bad
tempered Philip, whose man
ner of death had justified, to
itself, the periods rigid code
of behavior that Elinor had
violated.
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tcopyright, 1sss. BY washlnEton. Tines,
Evening star., 1938-06-22

Of whom a. woman is so Jealous "a
she is of her husbands first wife.
1t is gall and WormWood TO know
that she wasn't his first love: that
she didn't sit at the first table, and
that all that he can give her Is
warmed over affection and rehashed
romance. And you would think that
common humanity would keep him
from rubbing it in by forever drag
ging No. ! into the conversation and
eulogizing her virtues for the benefit
of No. 2.
However, plenty of men do this.
II you are going to marry one who
is given to holding postmortems over
your predecessor, you will be wise
to put a stop TO it before marriage
Otherwise, you will have TO listen to
it for years-and years-and years.
X X
DEAR DOROTHY DIX: am en-
gagged to a girl who is very high
tempered and hard to get along with.
If can't get along with her while
we are single. how can I do it after
We are married? A. r. c.
Answer-You can't. Marriage is no
cure for temper. 1t merely increases
it and gives it scope and power. Better
listen to your guardian angel, who is
trying to save you lot of trouble