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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-19
TWINS ARE TO BE
HONORED TONIGHT
AT DINNER PARTY

For twins Astrid and Ingvald Var
ness Holm, whose twelfth birthday
is an event of today, a dinner party
is being given this evening by then
mother, Mrs. Ture Holm at the Holm
residence on Sixth Street.
Present for theaffair WillbeAd-
rienne Glass, Katherine VarnesS
Dorothy Reck, Patricia Olson, Helen
Anderson, Delp hine Furuness
Yvonne Scott, Donald Scott. and
Alfred Brown
Following dinner, which is to be
served at $50 o'clock, the guests
will play informal games and later
attend the theatres.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Alexandria, S $1,O2O,623
Budget Approval Slated
al Correspondent of The Star

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 30
Alexandria's 1899 budget totaling
about $1,000, ,e23.34 is scheduled for
approval by the City Council tomor-
row night
The council held a public hearing
and has held about score of execu-
tive sessions to consider the budget.
Some alterations have been made in
these sessions from the estimates of
City Manager Carl L. Budwesky, it
was learned, but the exact figures
on items have not been announced.
An increase in salary of S. month";
ly for all police and paid firemen is
one of the changes believed to have
been authorized at a recent execu-
| tive session.
No changes are to be made in the
present tax rate of $3.50 for each
500 assessed valuation on real estate
and $3.50 per 500 for personal prop
erty.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
New Virginia Business
Licenses Due Soon

State business licenses for opera
ton during 1889 are due on Jan
uary /, it was announced today by
Harry K. Green, commissioner of
revenue for Arlington County, Va.
| The deadline for payment without
penalties is January 81, he said. Ap-
plications for renewal of licenses
will be mailed from available records
at the commissioners Office, but fail
ure OF a firm subjected to the tax
to receive such application does not
lessen the responsibility to apply. he
| said.
One of the classifications included
is restaurants, the fees for which
were changed in rates at the last
session of the Virginia General As
| sembly. Restaurant operators must
now furnish figures on sales, rather
than purchases, and fees will be
based on these figures. The total
1888 sales figures must be reported.
Other classifications on which a
license fee is levied, but which re-
main unchanged from previous
years, are the following: Amuse-
ments, amusement parks, carnivals,
motion pictures, theaters, architects,
attorneys, auctioneers, bowling al
leys, building and loan associations,
collection agencies, contractors, den-
lists. civil and electrical engineers,
garages, hotels, junk dealers, laun-
dries, lodging houses, wholesale and
retail merchants, pawn brokers, ped
dlers, photographers, pool rooms,
real estate agents, slot machines
(other than gambling devices); soft
drinks, tobacco retailers, under
takers, venders of medicine, veterin-
ary surgeons.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Adequate Heating
And Light in Schools
Are Demanded
Conduit Rood Citizens
Also Hear Plea for
Library Branch

Adequate school heating and
lighting were demanded by the
Conduit Road Citizens Association
at its meeting last night in the Pail
sades Park Fieldhouse.
The District Commissioners were
called upon to include an item in the
deficiency appropriation bill to pro-
vide them in the motion by Ellis r.
King, delegate to the Board of
Trade. The association voted to CO.
operate with the Francis Scott Key
School Parent Teacher Association
in urging the measure.
Bridge Over Canal Asked.
To facilitate strolls along the tow
path of the Chesapeake e. Ohio
Canal, simple little rustic foot
bridge over the canal at the foot of
Norton street NV. was proposed
in another motion by Mr.. King, who
said the bridge should be part of
the 100000 canal development
program.
A new branch library was termed
the most deserving and necessary
single item on the whole program of
improvements for the Conduit road
section. in a report on the Bureau
OF the Budget hearings by Walter d.
Cunyus, president of the unit. He
called for an item in the 1910 budget
for the new branch.
Express Buses Asked.
Express service on the Potomac
Heights bus line was proposed by
Charles E. Rich, delegate to the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
He charged that many Conduit road
residents are forced to stand during
the afternoon rush hours because
passengers going to Georgetown get
on first and take up the seats. He
suggested that no passenger be per-
mitted to get off between Twentieth
street and Massachusetts, avenue
and the transfer point, Thirty-fifth
street and Reservoir road NV. Mr..
Cunyus referred the matter to a
committee under Mr. Rich.
The most beautifully decorated
home in the area will be selected by
committee composed of Mrs. H. J..
Stimer, Mrs. Rose Perkins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. J. w. Roberts
and Mr.. Cunyus, in order that the
association might suitably recognize
the homeoWner' handiwork, it was
decided after motion by Mr.. Rich.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Odd Tables Reduced

Regular Sl.25 Walnut End TobIe bIe----z5c
Regular S32 Blonde Maple End TobIe-Sl2.5O
Regular $40 Acoeio Wood Modern
Occasional TobIe 60 GA
ReeuIor s35 Solid Mahogany Drop-Leof
Console TobIe e- cly
Regular SIS Blonde Walnut Modern Coffee
Toble . eIz OA
Regular SIG Modern Wolnut End TobIe -Sz.zz
Regular S22.75 Modern Wonut Coffee TobIe 50. .96
Regular S39.75 Solid Mahogany Lomp
'oo'e
Regular SIS Round Walnut Occasional
ToD'e S28.67
Regular SIS Modern Walnut End TobIe,
blue gloss top op--------------------
Regular Sl3 Solid Rock Maple Knitting Tobe sc. .(;2
Regular SIS Solid Wonut End TobIe SA "A
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Odd Bed Room Pieces

Regular S34 Royon and Silk Choise Lounge Sl3. 80
Values to SIS Odd Lot Bedroom Chors and
Regular S26 Solid Mahogany Chest Of
Regular $3.50 Solid Maple Post Bed-S7. .22
Regular S3l WoInut Desk Chest R.zz
Regular S2e Solid Maple Chest on Chest Sl7.2I
Values to S5.75 Odd Lot Of Boudoir Lamps --&}5c
Evening star., 1938-03-12

Of thousands Of individuals, are at the
highest peak on record.
The current Used Car Week is an in
dication of the strenuous effort being
made by large industry to break down
the public's sales resistance and start
capital moving in the channels Of trade
again. While the leaders of the auto
motive industry are to be commended
for their enterprise in undertaking q
united campaign on a Nationwide front,
all business recognizes that the sort OF
prosperity it wants to see restored is a
day-by-day proposition, and not a squirt
under the impetus Of a special drive.
But the auto industry's current CAM
paign should at least serve to convince
critical Government officials that in
dustry is doing its part to revive busi-
ness. Unless Government shows as much
initiative by moving to put its own house
in order and follow sounder business
policies, the public may be expected to
continue unwilling to spend and afraid
to invest for some time to come. None
can deny 1t has had ample cause for
its caution.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
Nazi Demands Cauged
BY Treatment of Serbs
To the Editor OF The Star:

TO the Edltor OF The Star:
I wish to commend your correct pres
entation of the situation in Czechoslo-
vakia in your editorial on "The Masaryk
Spirit" which appeared in The Sunday
Star.
The sincerity of the Nazi demands for
autonomy for the Germans of Czecho-
slovakia may be gagged by their treat
ment of the Lusatian Serbs. These
latter are Slavic people living in East
ern Saxony and Southern Prussia. They
were once free and at another time ruled
by king of Bohemia, but now they are
completely enveloped in a sea Of Ger
manism and apparently doomed to COM
plete Standardization. Not only are
they not granted autonomy, they are
not even permitted to enjoy the most
elemental rights of human beings.
They are not permitted to maintain
schools or publications in their own
language; they are not even permitted
to use their native language in public.
On the other hand, in Czechoslovakia
the Germans represent minority which
was once dominant and which is now
abusing the civil and political rights
which it enjoys under Czechoslovak de-
mocracy in an attempt to destroy that
same democracy and to dismember the
state which guarantees those rights. AS
an example of perfidy and unworthiness
that is difficult to match, and probably
impossible to exceed anywhere in the
world. EDW. WOLESENSKY.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

second robot released about four hours
after the simultaneous test gave good
agreement with the Anacostia airplane
record, indicating that its sounding was
now in the new air mass.
Use of similar balloon carried robots
at heights of $4,000 feet to measure the
changes in violet radiation from
the sun with altitude is reported by Drs.
R. Stair and w. w. Coblenz of the Bu-
reau of Standards. In this apparatus a
radio frequency wave is modulated by
the response of a photo-electric cell, the
response being proportional to the
amount of ultraviolet light falling on
the CELL
Up to about 10 miles the same amount
Of this invisible radiation is indicated
as falls on the surface of the earth At
this height the transmission begins to
decrease, indicating that the robot Is
passing through the thick blanket of
the rare gas ozone which serves as a pro-
tective coat of armor for the earth
against these death-dealing bullets of
light. At the highest attitudes attained
the radon starts up again, showing that
the balloon has passed through the ozone
belt
With the use Of these robots, perfected
by Bureau of Standards scientists. 1t is
now possible at relatively small expense
to, keep constantly informed on what is
going on far above the earth's surface
where great deal is happening all the
time with a good deal of influence on
human welfare-without riskinp anv
lives in perilous flights.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
Radio Cited as Aid to
Good Neighborliness
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Now that adequate short-wave radio
broadcasting channels have been opened
between the two Americas, the United
States Government, backed by its entire
business and industrial system, is wisely
taking advantage Of the new aerial edu-
cational service to further strengthen the
spirit of solidarity and harmony among
the nations Of the Western Hemisphere.
In this respect the radio can well serve
as the lateral instrument in President
Roosevelts foreign policy of being good
neighbor.
Central and South Americas are great
countries, fertile and productive; their
products are needed in North America;
our products may be advantageous to
those countries. Trade agreements be-
tween all three might be beneficial to
all. This is as things should be. Aside
from the marketing angle, there is that
phase of friendliness among the peoples
of these countries and ours. We can
learn much from them, and they, from
us, in the way of culture. Good will is
the pathway to peace and prosperity.
Let the United States make the most
Of it. FREDERIC G. FROST.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
Saving Psychology.

AS analyzed by Charles F. Speare,
noted financial writer, in The Sunday
Star, the current business slump is laid
to reversal of the mass spending psy-
chology that prevailed after the bank
moratorium of 1888.
He recalls that popular philosophy
developed then that it was not worth
while to save money, for bank deposits
had turned out frequently to be in
secure and funds invested In securities
were subject to heavy depreciation.
Thus, through a what's-the-use atti-
tude, spending boom developed that
definitely helped business. But a boom
based on such an insecure foundation
was bound to burst soon, and now an
inevitable fear reaction has set in.
With confidence restored in banks
through the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation guarantee of deposits up to
$4,000, the public has become unwilling
10 spend and afraid to invest" De-
posits, made in the names of hundreds
Evening star., 1938-03-12

Is arbitrarily assigned to the local ad-
ministrations. There are no Federal
funds available.
Federal relief, other than that in the
social security classifications, is the
oretically emergency relief. The Gov
ernment has not yet admitted to itself
that 1t has undertaken q permanent
obligation. The emergency, starting in
1929, affected chiefly those who were
able to work for whom there were no
jobs. Scarcity of jobs could affect only
indirectly, however severely, those who
were unable to work anyway.
Naturally the Federal Government is
loath to extend its burden. Not since
F. E. r. A. days has 1t contributed
directly to aid the unemployables. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has maintained consist
emily that the Federal role was purely
an emergency one, that it was i'm
practical and unwise to take over the
historic functions of State, city, county
and private agency.
But apparently the social security
provisions for relief-partly supported
by the National Government but locally
administered in accordance with stand
ards established In Washington-has
opened the way for a demand that the
same system be extended to all in need
of relief. Communities, such as the
District of Columbia at present, find
themselves unable to bear the burden.
One result Of this is an appalling in
equality. Folks may be starving in one
city, whereas a reasonable standard of
living is made possible for them across
State line few miles away.
Apparently Mr.. Taft would have the
Federal Government undertake some
thing on a much larger scale compar-
able to what 1t now is doing for the
blind, the aged and the dependent
children.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
Cooperative Medicine
Is Not an Innovation

To the Editor Of The Star:
In recent months the press has been
full Of information regarding co-opera-
tive medicine. Much has been said pro
and con and the impression given is
that this Is an entirely new subject. AS
a matter Of fact, 1t Is very old. The
high-type general practitioner has
always realized that a very great part
of his duty to the public is to Gull care
fully the cases which come to his atten-
ton. He is sort of clearing house for
the suffering public. His duty is to steer
his patient into the various specialties
whenever the occasion demands. Un-
fortunately, the greed for money and an
unjustif1ed feeling that to call for con-
sultation or to refer to specialist is
indicative of inefficiency have led too
many physicians to treat cases they are
really not capable OF treating, in an
effort to hold their patients. This type
Of doctor is the same type who advertises
himself as physician and surgeon, treats
everything and refers nothing. This Is
the type Of quackery which led George
Bernard Shaw to write Kill OF the
Hungry Doctors and Well Have Health"
The well-meaning physician has al
ways practiced cooperative medicine.
He has at all times surrounded himself
with men who have specialized in the
various branches of medicine and surg
cry. This does not mean, however, that
every time patient confronts him with
sore throat" he will refer him to an
otolaryngologist or throat specialist. Such
procedure would be carrying reference
too far. In medicine, as in anything
al i,,Ip 1aa Ia
don't usually take shoes to a shoemaker
to have him put in pair of laces. That
IS nonsense! But, when shoes need soles
and heels, the shoemaker is the one who
should do the job. That is sense!
Organized co operative medicine
seems sure to come, but it will never be as
acceptable and as satisfactory as having
your own private physician. Worthwhile,
sensible people will always rebel against
being tagged just because they are sick.
After all, we must admit that most of
the diseases which attack us will termi-
nate without treatment and we would get
we'll without doctor. But who wants
to take the chance of not getting well?
Who wants to suffer unnecessarily?
Who wants to lose time in illness? En-
gaging the doctor is the safeguard
against all of these.
Paying the doctor to keep you we'll, as
is practiced in the Orient, is the best
method of all. 1t is more economical and
better in every way to maintain health
than to restore health. I find more
people each year ready to accept this
type Of relationship with the physician.
Fees can be scaled to meet the ability of
the patient to pay and the poor could
obtain the same sympathy and thorough
ness in treatment as the rich. Cooper
alton between doctors would give every
one the benefits of specialties and the
best that medical science affords. Inter-
ference by the State will disrupt this CO.
operation in large measure. Most doc
tors have been carrying on this cooper
alton for years and will continue to do
SO because they know it is right.
c. HERBERT MARSHALL.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
Puerto Rico Is Proper
Name of the Island
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t might be all right for the Billings
Gazette or the Ironwood Times to over
look an act of Congress, but for The
Washington Star to be little behind on
the grist of the congressional will calls
for correction instruction or just a sug-
gestion. February II you published an
editorial commemorating the anniversary
OF the Spanish American War and you
used the old spelling to designate Puerto
Rico. The copy desk should be informed
that Congress passed a law some years
ago restoring the Spanish spelling.
During the early years of the occu-
patton an Americana" in the govern
ment seems to have applied his version
of simplified spelling and the island be-
came known as Porto Rico" Porto
means nothing in either Spanish or Eng
lish. Puerto means port" in Spanish
and Rico means rich and was adopt
ed by Ponce de Leon, who described the
island as Puerto Rico" Rich Port The
Americanized spelling of Spanish word
was simply mistake. 1t would prob
ably have been as much of mistake to
have attempted using the translation,
Rich Port'-it wouldn't have sounded
4ulte 81 SOOO.
And now that have gotten that out
OF the way, and before you get to think
ing that am a chronic kicker, let me
declare that thought the editorial was
very good one. The facts were well
presented and although a resident of
one OF the islands involved in the war, l
enjoyed reading the high lights of the
encounter as you marshaled them.
incidentally, wonder if your readers
know that Puerto Rico has imported
more than $4,000, 100000 worth of Ameri-
can merchandise in the 40 years that
have elapsed since the Spanish -Ameri-
can War? We started off by buving
$8,0OOO,000 worth of American products
in 1901 and last year our requirement
was for more than 100000 900 worth of
continentally produced agricultural and
manufactured goods. The Philippines
cost Uncle Sam $40, 900 900 in cash. =
Puerto Rico was acquired without pay
ment and yet the United States has
piled up 10-figure trading account for
her merchants in this small island as a
result OF the war. This is not to be taken
as an argument in favor of having some
more wars, but is to serve as brief note
indicating that there was profit in as
suming responsibility for Puerto Rico.
r. MENENDEZ RAMOS.
Commissioner.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.

doors is the outdoors-that Is, the little
pool outside will receive the benefit Of
all the sunshine and fresh air there Is
The smallest pool will hold consider
ably more water, in the first place, than
an average inside aquarium.
The interchange of oxygen between
the air and the water will 60 on at an
accelerated pace all the time.
The two fishes which we advocate will
not only have plenty of oxygen, some
thing they rarely have enough Of inside,
but will constantly receive the benefit
of unwary insects which fall into the
pool. These are rare fishfood.
An angleworm or two, in an incautious
moment, may crawl over the edge and
fall in.
If they do, the goldfshes will have
the treat OF their lives, for there is
nothing they like better than hshin'
worms.
Watching them pull a worm to pieces
may not sound like an edifying sight,
but actually the average human cannot
regard an angle worm as exactly form
of life, somehow.
One goldfish will grab the head end
Of the worm, and the other the tail.
The tug of war begins. The worm is
both slippery and resilient The horny
mouths of the fishes must do a great
deal of work before biting off a segment.
The common practice is for the fish
to swallow about an inch or so of worm
before beginning the chewing. The
other fish is trying to do the same thing
to the other end
An average small goldfish, say inches
long counting the tail, will make twice
its length and more than four times it's
weight in few months in the smallest
outdoor container.
If concrete pool is decided upon, the
proper mixture may most easily be
secured from one OF the ready-mix firms.
Even the smallest pool is best made
according to standard directions, includ-
ing sloped walls, with a bottom slab at
least inches thick, and walls of
inches.
If you want big pool. all right-but
our advice is to try a little one first
off, and see if you really like water gar
dening. Some do, and some don't, but,
of course, it is fashionable to pretend
that all do, just as all persons are sup
posed to like dogs, whether they do or
not
Seasoning of the concrete walls is a
necessity. If the aspiring pool owner
does not want to do this, let him stick
to wood or metal tubs. Contrary to
advice sometimes given galvanished tubs
do very nicely Both plants and fishes
thrive in them
Fresh concrete construction is full of
alkali, so strong that 1t will kill fishes
in few days.
This must be drawn out, either by the
use of a mixture of water and some
weak acid such as vinegar, or simply by
water alone. Either process requires
days. If plain water is used. the pool
should be filled, and kept filled for at
least two weeks, then all this siphoned
out and the process repeated for another
two weeks. Even more frequent filings
with water will be helpful.
1t is trouble, of course. but we'll worth
it, as the builder will realize when he
puts in his two fishes and finds how
happily they get along.
Start pool at once, if you propose
to have one at all. But do not attempt
to put in any sort of lily until May.