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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
BatO1ls for Cops Cause
 Big Laugh

PARIS, July 27. Paris traffic policemen now carry white batons 10 inches longer than usual This, said a writer in Parisian weekly, is to enable them to scratch their backs more easily.
 Boulevardiers laughed, but they laughed even louder when the joke become so widespread that the police department replied to it.
 The sticks were longer, eX- plained a communique, to prevent motorists from running over the traffic policemen, since they can be seen more easily.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
Golden Rain

ORCVILLE, Cal, July 27. Tn this gold country they know what to do after heavy rains such as California has been experiencing. Hunt of steambeds from which the oVerburden of sand has been wash ed away has resulted in discovery of number of gold nuggets. One picked up by J. D. Bragger was valued at $50.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
Short Story

PUEBLO. Col. July 27.-A Pueblo woman was baffled by the forms it was necessary to fill out before paying her personal and corpora ton income taxes so she employed a tax expert
 His fee was SIS.
 The tax we three cents.
 She paid with a postage stamp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
Husband, Wife
 Talk in COdo

LLWCHMYMYDD, Wales July 27. = When w. H. Williams leaves his home on the Caernarvonshire coast for nearby Barsey Island, he and his wife continue their domestic talks in Morse Code
 Williams is the official operator who keeps the island in touch with the mainland. His wife is as expert in this job as he.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27

and Mrs. William Hillman, MT. and Mrs. William Shaw, MT. and Mrs. Audrey Maloney, MT. and Mrs. George Johnson, MT and Mrs. Clar ence Ferguson, Mrs. Alice Cole MT. Anthony Bockmore, and MT. Albert Vile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
Marry Young

r ENNIS. Mont, July 27-Fifteen- r-old Robert Clark and 14-year- old Jessie Love have set up house. keeping" near Ennis and their
 friends believe they are the young
 est couple ever married in Montana.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
Marries Father, Then Marries His Son

PUEBLO, Col, July 27.-Forty two years ago Justice Perry c. Dunlap, while justice at Ordway Col, recited the civil marriage ritual for MT. and Mrs. Charles Rockwell
 A few days ago he performed a similar service for Mir and Mrs Ben c. Rockwell The bridegroom is a son of the couple Justice Dun lap married at OrdWay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27

$250 for driving a steam roller without a license.
 The juggernaut jockey was hail. ed into court after he had collidsd with a parked car.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
RAMSEYS VISIT HERE

MT. and Mrs James s. Ramsey ol Ellensburg, Wash, are round trip pers on the North Sea. While in Ju- neau, MT. Ramsey renewed acquain- tances with his former associates during the World War, especially Al Zenger. of The Empire. They were buddies.
 MT. Ramsey is in the hardware business in Ellensburg, associated with his father.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
.Juggernaut
 Driver Fined

MAESTEG, Wales. July 27. = A man was fined $5 here for driving a steam roller without due care and attention" And an additional
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
MONSON RETURNING

Al Monson. PAA pilot, is a pas senger aboard the steamer Paranof. which left this morning from Seat tie. ending his annual months va cation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27

John Keats, famous Englis h poet was the son of a livery stable keeper
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
MRS. JERNBERG RETURNS

Mrs Mae Jernberg, who has been in the States for the past few weeks, returned to Juneau this on the North Sea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27

Lode and pracer location notices for sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27

The King salmon ascends the Yukon for more than 2,250 miles, travelling from 20 to 40 miles a day
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-27
Latest of series

An engraved reproduction of the White House is the distinguishing feature of the new 41a-cent stamp, latest of the series to be issued.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Drunken Driving.

There are no grounds on which
drunken driving" may be condoned To
. comparable degree, however. there is
little justification for the lack of uni
formity and scientific approach to the
problem Of testing an arrested driver for
intoxication.
In recently completed Nation wide
study, New York State bureau found
that such tests included the repeating of
catch phrases, walking chalk lines. writ
Ing names and the picking up OF hair
pins. In some cities, as in Washington,
first judgment is passed by the arrest
Ing ofncer, who simply pronounces the
suspect intoxicated and asks the court
to convict on this testimony primarily
Drunkenness is condition for which
medical science prescribes more accurate
and exacting tests than the layman's
opinion as represented by that of the
arresting officer or the arrestees ability
to repeat around the rock the ragged
rascal ran"
In view of the elements of public
danger involved in the offense, when
established, it should be punishable by
reasonably severe penalties. But with
increasing severity in penalties, there
should be increasing vigilance in protec-
ton Of individuals from false arrest and
unjust conviction.
Judgment, in other words, should be
as scientifically exact as is possible,
predicated on tests imposed by medical
men prejudiced neither for nor against
the law or individuals, but concerned
only with applying their specialized
knowledge in the public good.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

years eleven months and twenty-seven
days old.
Similarly. research has developed the
fact that the average President Of the
United States from George Washington
to Calvin Coolidge was flfty-four years
and four months Of age at the time Of
Inauguration. Twenty-eight Chief Exec
utives. three Of whom-Lincoln, Garfield
and McKinley-were assassinated, sur
vived an average Of sixty-eight years six
months and twenty-six days.
With regard to the presiding justices
OF the Supreme Court, John Jay to
William Howard Taft, it has been estab-
hshed that the average age for entering
Into ofhce was tifty-fve yearz four
months and t~enty-eight days: the
average duration Of life seventy three
years nine months and ten days.
All Of which seems to indicate that
an arbitrary discrimination against rel
atively young men and women OF forty
Is lnequitable. If citizen Is deemed
competent to pilot the ship Of state at
nfty-four. he surely ought to be worthy
OF employment in some minor position
aboard that ship when fourteen years
younger. BY the same logic, a judge
taking up the burdens Of a place on the
highest tribunal in the land at fifty-five
furnishes a precedent for the engage
ment Of legal talent for government
bureaus and private business organiza-
tions at the same maturity.
1t appears that there has been a good
deal OF nonsense talked-and unfortu-
nately practiced-in the matter Of age
handicaps. Medical examinations prob
ably would be fairer than mathemat.
1cal rule of the type currently prevailing
IN the Civil Service and in many indus
tries and trades.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Spain's Vertlul,.

Dawn OF 1888 sees Spain, after exactly
one and half years of sanguinarv civil
war, fighting what seems destined to 20
into the history of that fratricidal strife
as the conflicts Verdun, although, from
the hard-pressed government stand
point, the French Army's victorious
slogan, Thou shalt not pass" may not
find its counterpart in Loyalist success
IN holding Teruel. More than two hum
cred thousand troops, about equally
divided in strength between INSURGENTS
and government troops have been at
grips for more than ten days in an
attempt to possess the ancient provin-
clal capital. Almost overnight it became
the pivot alike of Frances major hope
OF crushing Loyalist resistance and of
the governments su, rene effort to SUD-
press the rebellion.
Ihe surprise attack, which resulted on
December q in the recapture of rebel
held Teruel and about five hundred
square miles of threatening salient.
compelled Franco prematurely to crl-
centrate on that front the bulk of his
armies which had been Held in readi-
ness for decisive sixty-mile drive to
the Mediterranean The objective of that
long-heralded offensive was to cut off
Catalonia, inclusive Of Barcelona, from
the rest OF government Spain. Conscious
that 1nsurgent recovery OF Teruel, vital
junction on the direct road crossing
Spain from Santander through Burgos
to the coast above Valencia, would be a
heavy blow to government morale, be-
cause OF its offensive and defensive value,
the Loyalists were also required to bring
up the flower Of their own army and
equipment to hold the lately-won gains,
1t is for their final retention tnat the
spanish Verdun is now being waged with
an intensity which converts it into the
biggest battle Of the campaign. On New
Years Eve Insurgents claimed to have res
cued their decimated garrison In Teruel
after several days of desperate fighting.
and to have expelled the "Marxists"
IN "a tragic rout," Government reports
admit surrender of strategic positions in
the outer defenses, but deny the citys
loss. Madrid comedies the outcome of
the war may well be determined on the
freezing. blood -streaked heights around
Teruel where both sides are now putting
forth supreme herculean efforts. With
Frances italian and German air SQUAD
rons, neutral observers think, the final
decision may rest.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

drive always has been popular with
voters and that it appeals in particular
to the small-town people and farmers
who now are cooling to the New Deal.
X * 4
But Mariner 8. Eccles, chairman Of
the Federal Reserve Board, and an
author of much of the spending policy
of the first New Deal, takes a different
view. He says:
'The development Of the industrial
process itself has created larger units
and has brought into being various forms
of organization of both capital and labor.
Rather than attempt to revert to earlier
forms of organization, 1t seems to me
that our best hope lies in developing
that form of organization for capital
and labor which will best further the
public interest. Thought must be given
to the best form Of organization that
will insure an adequate representation
of the public interest involved In price,
wage and production policies"
This very guarded statement of very
important man in the Government serv-
ice is the expression of the viewpoint
Of the planners. They believe that gov
ernment, in some way or other, must
take hand in setting the key policies
Of big industrial groups. in order to as
sure that the wheels will go round with
out recurring periods Of def>tion and in
f1ation.
But the signs suggest that the Presi-
dents formula again is to call for dose
of deflation, followed by bigger dose Of
imitation, and favored with a dash of
planning. Whether the result will be q
revived leadership remains very doubtful.
toopyrtsht. 1oSsJ
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Myths.

Prof Thurman w. Arnold of Yale
University has written a book entitled
The Folklore OF Capitalism" in which
ne explains that the myths Of business
and industry and commerce ARE on the
way out"
A similar study, 1t would seem should
be made of the folklore of socialism and
communism. Conceived by romantic
visionaries, they reflect such genius for
imagination as the profit system-with
all Its faults a natural and not an
artificial growth-never could boast.
Consider, for example, the personal
history Of Karl Marx. Barred from a
university faculty for his revolutionary
opinions, he begins his literary career
as contributor to a radical paper which
soon is suppressed. Joining Friedrich
Engels in Paris, he shortly is obliged to
nee to Brussels. Later, returning to
Germany, he is tried for treason and,
when acquitted, is enled. A second
attempt to settle in Paris fails ana he
crosses 70 London, where his efforts to
reorganize the Communist League and
to establish literary review prove
abortive. Three Of his children die Of
starvation, and he writes his grief into
"Das Kapital"-the unreadable "magnus
opus" in which he foreshadows the New
Deal with Al its dreams Tor "centraliz-
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Now We See.

Automobile owners in the District.
having bought their new license tags at
1888 rates, will be interested in some
sleight-of- hand work by the Districts
budgeteers Last year, it will be recalled,
the automobile weight tax was proposed
as substitute for the personal property
tax on motor cars. But when the pro-
posal emerged from the so-caled Com
mlssioners' Tax Committee, it was not a
substitute tax at all, it was an additional
tax. And the highway department at the
District Building and one of the auto
mobile clubs demanded that the funds
from the weight tax be segregated as a
part of the gasoline tax funds; that is,
that they be used only for highway i'm
provement and not for general tax fund
expenditures.
That was finally agreed to- 1t neces-
STATED raising, for the general fund,
money to meet the general fund deficit.
There was no deficit in the highway
fund. Raising additional funds to meet
the general fund deficit meant additional
taxation. But the automobile folk, with
their eyes on new deserts of concrete
and new ways to spend money, were as
happy as larks
Now comes the news that the Bu-
reau of the Budget proposes that $685.
600 be taken out of the gas tax fund-or
automobile tax fund-and used for the
purpose of lighting the streets, this item
previously having been financed from
general taxation. Having obtained an
increase, in other words, in automobile
taxes for the purpose of highway i'm
provement program and having insisted
that new taxes be levied in order to per-
init the so-called segregation OF automo-
bile taxes, 1t is discovered that the new
automobile tax receipts may not be used,
after ALL for highway improvement but
that large slice may be diverted to
street lighting.
Use of gasoline taxes for lighting the
streets may be logical form of diversion,
although lighting the streets should be
as much a charge against the community
as against the special class of automobile
owners. The point is that once large
fund is accumulated-such as the au-
tomobile tax receipts-in advance Of its
appropriation, the money is easily used
for something other than that for which
1t was raised.
Automobile owners have their higher
personal property taxes on automobiles
to pay; have the additional weight tax
to pay; have the increased gasoline tax
to pay-and instead of obtaining
promised highway Improvements It is
proposed that they now shoulder, as a
class, the cost Of lighting Of the streets.
They probably will be shouldering other
burdens, as well, before spring.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
LIABILITIES OR ASSETS
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d. L. D. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON:

mist has dreary time Of 1t and he con-
tributes nothing to the sum of human
happiness. Reasoned and reasonable
optimism concerning men and things
is far better habit. The world is not
set forward by the cynic or the un-
generous critic. Its forward stages have
been marked by the zeal and intelligent
hopefulness Of those who, like Robert
Louis Stevenson, believed in an ultimate
decency Of things"
The true reformers as well as those
who through applied genius have en-
'riched life and benefited their fellows
have ever been the men and women who
refused to acknowledge defeat. II fall
ures and disappontments have come,
they proved but spurs to greater efforts.
1t Is In this spirit that we would ap-
proach q new year. To do other than
this Is to make difficult the way of the
future. This certainly was the unfailing
attitude OF the Master. An unfriendlv
and unkindly world could not change
His approach to it. Even where His most
trusted friends failed Him He would
not exercise harsh condemnation or dis
clpiine. He met every condition with a
generous understanding OF BACKGROUNDS
and temperamental deficiencies. II men
mad sinned, He sought to show them a
netter way and encouraged them to fol-
low It, He was true physician, dealing
with human maladies and always with
diagnosis that was penetrating and
kindly. He awoke in men and women
a deep desire to rise to better things.
His is the example our world needs
To-Day. We have shown a bad spirit
these recent years. Suspicion and hate
nave colored too largely our judgments
Lev the new year witness better spirit.
II the old ledgers Of life show discrep-
ancies and unhappy conditions, let us
put them away from us and open a new
set OF books, determined that we will not
carry forward the harassing liabilities
OF the past. There are assets to be dis
covered II We will but look for them.
assets in ourselves and in human nature
generally. Let us make progress through
forgetting, yes, and forgiving. and 50
make the year 1888 better and more sat-
1sfying than 1887.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

That time Is broken into definite and
prescribed periods and that We meas
ure life by years. Is q wholesome and
salutary arrangement. We keep the
record Of our business transactions by
the calendar year and we register our
liabilities or assets by the same reckon
ing. AS we close the books for the year
1887, We draw down the balances and
appraise our successes or our failures.
No matter how satisfactory or unsatis-
factory the results may be, we open 4
new set Of books with ireshened de-
termination to make the year ahead
better and more satisfactory than the
one that has passed.
BY like standard Of appraisal we
measure our development along other
lines; our domestic and ,home condi-
tions, our moral and intellectual i'm
provement, our relations to our fellows
and the world in general. 1t must be
that we find increasing satisfaction or
establishment as we survey the condi-
tions Of life about us and our relation
to them. 1t would be a tragic thing If.
as the years multiply, we could feel
no sense of reasonable self-satisfaction
In these things It would be still more
tragic If we were constantly to recur
to conditions and experiences that were
disappointing and reminiscent of fail
ures of one kind and another. There Is
virtue, and let us recognize 1t, in the
division Of time into years. If we recog-
nize this. we will take advantage Of it by
closing the records of 1887, no matter
what they may disclose, determining
that the beginning Of a new year is to
be marked by fresh start, coupled with
the determination that no shadows Of
the past shall overcast the new page Of
the future. This obviously means fol-
lowing the maxim Of him who declared
that progress Is made through oblivion
OF the past"
st. PauIs rule is expressed in the
words: Forgetting the things that are
behind and reaching forth unto the
things that are before" This does not
mean losing the benefit of experience
and trial, it does mean living our life
hopefully and expectantly. The pessi-
Evening star., 1938-01-02

ing credit in the hands Of the state, I"
reclamation Of waste lands, more even
distribution Of population. thereby elm
mating great cities" state ownership
Of means Of transportation and COM
munication," state management Of pro.
ductive enterprises" Compulsory labor
and the combining OF manufacturing
with agriculture" etc.
To translate his hopes into realities
Marx POUNDS the International Work.
Ing Mems Association in the interest Of
the workers of all the world" An
anarchist element" however, bursts the
bubble. "The Franco-Prussian War and
the Paris Commune brought about q
condition which 1t could not Withstand. !"
Headquarters are moved to New York
IN 1872, but the organization shortly is
forced to dissolve" Thoroughly frus-
trated. Its sponsor languishes in misery
until 1883. His final activity is a quar-
rel with German radicals who are guilty
Of mot conforming entirely to his con-
ception' OF how to achieve universal "in-
dustrial democracy"
But the tragedy Of Marx is not unique.
A glance at the biographies of other
inhabitants Of the radical hall of fame
proves that practically every one Of
them lived and taught a fairy tale-to
their own eventual disillusionment II not
to that OF their bewildered followers.
The list is long. including as it does
spartacus. Rienzi. savonarola, Wat Ty-
Ter. Sir Thomas More, John of Leyden,
Rousseau, Jean Paul Marat, Danton.
Claude saint-simon, Nietzche, Tolstoy.
John Brown Of osawatomie, Henry
George. Jean Jaures and Kirl Lieb-
knecht and a thousand other voices cry
ing in wilderness out Of which 1t un-
fortunately is impossible to climb into
heaven on . stepladder.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
The Star Of January 2, 1888, thus re-
views the dangerous situation in Euro

Inc Star OF January 2, 1888, thus re-
views the dangerous situation in Euro
Threat of General pea5 p.anaa ana1rs All, :,,.. =,
War in Europe. the crowned heads
and diplomats Of
Europe as we'll as the trading classes,
who find business paralyzed by doubts as
to what the future holds forth, will agree
with the Hungarian statesman who said
yesterday that the present gloomy un-
certainty is worse than war itself
THE worst feature of the existing sit
uation is that 1t bids fair to last for
long time. Austria is making those gen.
eral preparations for an offensive move
ment against Russia which may mean
only assurance against possible exigencies
or may mean an aggressive hostile pur-
pose. The Hungarian premier, Herr
Tisza, says that Hungary does not seek
war but that II war comes she will not
shrink from it, and that Russia must
submit to such rectification Of her
western frontier as will prevent her from
troubling Europe for long time to come
The line on which Herr Tisza believes
the boundary of the future may be drawn
will cut of about quarter of the finest
eNAAASSAs AAo" "AOAAAA ASuooAuAA GLuAOHC. ~
is on this ground, which extends as far
east as the 35th meridian east from
Greenwich, and north and south from
the Baltic provinces to the Black Sea,
that the bulk of the fighting will be
carried on in case war comes.
ut seems to be the better opinion
abroad that active hostilities will be de-
ferred till summer. This is because CAM
paigning in Russia in midwinter is an
undertaking too serious to be entered
upon without the gravest necessity. An
other reason exists in the fact that
neither side has yet fully measured up
it's forces. Should the combination con-
sist simply of Austria and Germany,
with armies in round numbers OF .0OO,-
900 and 2,500000 men, respectively
against Russia, with defensive force of
about 100000. activities might begin at
almost any time. But the chance of
another brush with Austria and Ger
many might tempt France into the field
with her 2500, 900 men. and in that event
1t would be to the interest Of all parties
to wait till the weather was warmer and
the means of subsistence in the invested
country greater
Then. 1taly's position as member
of the Triple Alliance is to be considered.
Her total army, including mobile militia,
numbers about 100000 men and makes
her very important factor In the con-
test. England has so much on her hands
already that 1t Is doubtful whether she
would be willing to engage any Of her
land forces. But her powerful navy will
probably be placed at the service of Ger
many.
why all Europe trembles at the
thought of a general war can be UNDER
stood from study of these figures. The
crash of battle between 100000 men
on the side of the invading powers and
half that number shrewdly disposed for
defensive and harassing warfare, to say
nothing of the engagement of the navies
Of at least six powers and perhaps seven.
would be at once the most magnificent
and the most terrible military spectacle
the world has ever witnessed"
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Maturity.

The current movement in behalf Of
matured workers has brought forth
some interesting statistics. For example,
It has been discovered that the average
age Of the signers Of the Declaration OF
Independence in 1776 was forty-four
years eight months and fourteen days
Also, 1t has been ascertained that the
average sponsor of the immortal procla-
nation Of freedom fved to be sixty-f,ve