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Evening star., 1938-08-09
A Dirty-Nosed Pooch.

At any rate until Paul Bunyan's blue
eyed OK, Babe, comes to town, three
cheers for little. dirty-nosed pooch in
San Antonio, Tex, that daily for two
weeks has brought his mistress dollar
bill of origin as mysterious as his own.
There is something incredibly and de-
lightfully fanciful about small dog
with nebulous pedigree and dirty nose
bringing money from no one knows
where. Where Is the treasure cache?
Perhaps the little animal has found the
pot Of gold at the foot Of the rainbow
or has acquired a Midas touch in the
Land of Make Believe. Perhaps the
world is not too much with us after all.
And yet, again. perhaps you can still
fool some Of the people some Of the
time.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Know the Natural Beauties
Of Your Own Country

taste. One need not leave the country
created. If you cannot travel, read.
Know the natural beauties Of your own
country. They are unequaled anywhere
on earth. The booklet, NATURAL
SCENES OF THE UNITED STATES,
offered by our Information Bureau de-
votes a full page with illustrations and
descriptive matter to the most famous,
the most typical natural scene IN each
State. Attractively printed in soft green
and brown tones. Ten cents, postpaid.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

This doctor and myself were out healing
the sick, not only in the day time, but
most any night all night. Like most all
doctors. this one prepared himself to
practice medicine through sacrifices by
his family.
All during my lifetime I have had in
teresting acquaintances with doctors. No
letter would be adequate to describe the
position the doctor fills through his SCI
entific effort and sacrifice to keep Amer
lea we'll. These angels of mercy" are
giving us their lives: the benefit OF all
their experience and ingenuity for all
time to come. No other profession is
expected to keep abreast of the times to
fulfill the obligation to mankind as is
the doctor. I do not believe the morale
of the profession should be lowered by
bureaucracy.
ROY NJ COFFMAN.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
On Faith.

On Faith.
I listen to the speaker who
Before the crowd Is giving
His theories, both the old and new,
About mans mode Of living.
I take a doze till the applause
Compels me straight to end it.
I'm sure the speech is good because,
I don't quite comprehend it.
Here is no quip nor idle jest,
Nor droll satiric story.
Tis oratory at its best,
A burst Of mental glory.
A study of life's greatest laws,
I'm frank to recommend 1t.
I know it must be good because,
I don't quite comprehend 1t.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Macdonald i'm Palestine.

With characteristic energy Britain's
young colonial secretary, Malcolm Mac
Donald, has plunged into the task of
resolving the difficult problem of Pales-
tine by sudden secret trip to the scene
of the terrorism which has persisted for
more than a month.
In his two-day visit, during which he
mingled with Jews and Arabs on the
streets of Jerusalems old city, con-
ferred with high British officials, and
made an inspection tour by air over a
large part OF the Holy Land, the enter
prising British Minister had an opportu-
nifty to learn some Of the problems which
confront the high commissioner, Sir
Harold Alfred MacNfichael, and his aides.
In a statement released for him in
Jerusalem after his departure for Eng
land the Colonial Minister expressed his
governments eagerness to play It's part
'in restoring peace to Palestine on a
basis Of Justice to the two peoples whose
home Is there and that will be our con-
slant endeavor during the times that
lie ahead"
This pledge Of justice to both sides,
Jews and Arabs alike, is welcome, for the
Palestine question more than most others
before the world at this time is one
of right against right rather than right
against wrong. This makes it the more
vexing. Each faction has a good case,
and it will take the wisdom of Solomon
to arrive at a solution that is anywhere
near satisfactory to the contending
groups.
But If there is a man in Great Britain
qualified to find a human and equitable
solution that man is the worthy son of
the late Ramsay Macdonald. To him
more than to any other was due the
settlement with Fire which ended the
long reign OF bitterness between England
and the Irish Free State. His patience
and forbearance toward the emissaries
from across the Irish Sea won him
hearty acclaim In Parliament and the
appointment as Colonial Minister last
May for the specific purpose Of settling
the Palestine trouble.
The commission headed by Sir John
Woodhead also has completed its study
of the partition plan advanced by the
British royal commission about a year
ago, and will meet with officials of the
British Foreign Office next Monday.
Little time is being lost in bringing the
partition plan, which is stoutly opposed
by both Jews and Arabs, to a showdown
and either putting 1t into effect with
speed and efficiency or dropping 1t alto
gether in favor Of some other plan, such
as federation.
Time is Of the essence, however, and
whatever is going to be done should be
expedited to the end that terrorism,
which has brought deaths to 200 and
injury to more than 500 since July 5,
should be promptly suppressed.
Mr.. Macdonald returns to England
prepared to bring peace to the Holy
Land as quickly as possible on basis
Of justice and equity to all sides.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Last Word in Optimism.

From the Scranton Times.
The 1898 prize for supreme optimism
must 60 to that benighted soul who
suggested sending an invitation IRE
jected, of course) to Mussolini's Italian
government to participate In an inter-
national conference to arrange emigra-
ton of political refugees.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Information on Group
Health Association.

To the Editor OF The Star:
K 1NDLY print. sometime. the salaries
paid the officers of the G. H. A. We
know about what an M. D. receives
there. Also how much interest will they
pay back to the H. o. l.. c. on the $40,-
900 they took from the American people.
The clerks already have been assessed
$40 this month. Will they lose their
jobs If they don't pay and drop out of
the G. H. A.? M. MARTIN.
In reply to Mr.. Martins inquiries, The
Star prints the following statement, fur
nished by Group Health Association,
Inc:
AT meeting of the membership of
the Group Health Association, Inc. it
was voted to repay the $4,000 advanced
the association by the Home Owners
Loan Corp. The G. H. A. trustees there
fore suggested an assessment to be paid
in small monthly installments to accom-
plish this objective. This assessment
later was deferred, pending a compre-
hensive program to be drawn up by the
advisory council and submitted to the
trustees for their consideration.
The question of interest on the H. o.
L. G. advance to G. H. A. has never been
discussed. No clerks were assessed $40
this month, as the letter to The Star
states. The question as to G. H. A.
members losing their jobs If they do
not pay any future assessments Is ridic-
ulous. There is no connection between
membership in G. H. A. and employ
ment under H. o. L. c. or other agencies
Of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
&C. H. A. officials serve without sal
ary."
Evening star., 1938-08-09

A man in Sacramento stole merry
go-round. but man in Worcester, Mass,
evened things up by making off with
hearse. The Outstanding philosopher
notes with pleasure the tendency of bal
ance to maintain itself In human as in
cosmic affairs.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Inflated Land Values
Like Watered Stock.

IN YOUR issue OF July 81, London A.
p. Correspondent Walter M. Harrison
presents gloomy outlook for Britain's
agriculture in telling of her shrinking
food acres" The trouble with English
agriculture is that the land Is too costly
for such use-made so by the Tory
policy of taxing everything but land.
AS we'll understood by land owners at
least, taxing land cheapens 1t by taking
from its sale or rental price, an effect
quite in reverse Of taxing land products.
Great Britain agriculturally is q land
of tenant farmers. The Labor govern
ment secured provision for evaluation
of all her lands apart from improvements
to serve as the basis Of small land
value tax. The Baldwin government
following not only repealed this pro-
vision but relieved agricultural lands
Of the small "poor-rate" tax in effect
from the time Of Queen Elizabeth. and
this extends to unused urban lands.
Hence the greater "shrinkage in food
acres" since the World War, due to
higher imitation of land values. Taxes
on landlord incomes from land rents,
though used in part for subsidies to
agriculture, are no help to the farmer.
The result is higher rents as leases expire
that more than absorb the subsidy bene-
flts. A Western farm journal has called
attention to like results OF our New Deal
aids to agriculture. Inflated land values
are to farmers as watered stocks are to
corporations. Though representing no
real value, they reckon in the capital
figure, upon which there must be re-
turn to keep from falling into the red.
The real need of British farmers and
our own as we'll is q new deal in taxa
ton. WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Questions that need investigation fire.
quently arise and the public still re-
joices in the fact that money can be
found available for proper series of
inquiries. 1t may be asserted that right
will triumph regardless Of expense.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Among the planners of beauty for the
District of Columbia, there may be those
who assume that getting rid of some of
the Japanese cherry trees will be ad-
vantageous on the theory that they af-
ford encouragement to various Oriental
insects yet to be developed.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Some of our prominent statesmen will
apparently be content with indorse-
ments of contributions which will en-
title them to be known as regular COL
umnists for the Congressional Record.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Twenty Years Ago
The World Var Day by Day
August 8, 1918.

The advance between Montdidier and
Albert continued, to make the extreme
allied penetration of the German lines
IL miles, Morlancourt was taken, and
the German strong point Of Chipilly
outflanked.
In another sector, the Lys Valley, the
British forced 4-mile advance on a
10-mile front. American forces cap
tured Fsmette. Seven thousand pris-
oners and numerous guns were taken.
eixty-one German planes were De.
stxoyed.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Problem Of Change In Tax
System Discussed.

To the Editor OF The Star:
nESP1TE statements to the contrary,
any change in a tax system is a
social and an economic problem. Despite
the constant increase in services rend-
cred by a modern municipality or State,
the people most able to pay, or most in
sistent upon the benefits of such services,
are most forceful. and active against any
increase in payment for them.
1t is automatic that cost of government
may be reduced by decreasing the ex-
penses OF the several departments. in
the face of the steady increase over
term Of years. Such a reduction involves
a reduction of salaries and expenditures.
reorganization with higher efficiency,
and higher salaries for more capable
executives and administrators. Such
changes must meet stubborn resistance
from political pressure and organized
labor, battling for higher standards OF
living from the bottom upward.
Grants in aid by the Federal Govern
ment for public works and the unem-
ployment load, have caused increased
Indebtedness in civil divisions. which de-
mand increased taxes for their repay
ment. This makes 1t unwise to reduce
the pay rolls until greater national in
come produces larger revenues from ex-
isting taxes, direct and indirect, due to
general business exchanges. Such an
interdependence Of human social rela-
tions, human nature and economics may
be resolved. however, II the citizenry
will wait patiently and confidently for
the analysis of community needs. re-
sources, functions. rate and direction Of
growth, and the cost and machinery Of
collection. This Is clear; the increased
dependence upon Federal revenue and
independence Of control can not pro-
ceed together.
CHARLES M. THOMAS,
President Federation Of Civic Associa-
tiOns
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Alphabetic Demonstration.
rom the Worcester Gazette.

From the worcester Gazette.
The danger OF war may not be so
great as some observers fear. A doesn't
dare attack B because is just waiting
for that chance to attack A, and, even
If that should happen, D is ready to at
tack c, while E, given half chance.
will quickly jump on A.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Mexico is said to be experiencing
period of hard times. 1t is to be hoped
that the Latin country to the south will
be able to benefit by the serious effort
amongst various Peoples to improve her
situation.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Applause.

"People don't care as much for fervid
oratory as they used to-"
mo" answered Senator Sorghum;
"the success of speech depends very
largely on the popularity of the man you
happen to be DISCUSSING"
Evening star., 1938-08-09

A Danish scholar named Weidenreich
while engaged in a lecture at Copen-
hagen, announced the theory that all
Europeans originally came from Pales-
tine. An advocate of the Nazi doctrine
Immediately left the room. Unfortu-
nately a German decision on this ele-
mental question of human beginnings
is not % easily reached.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Apprehension.

The pessimist goes on his way
BY grim forebodings ever vexed;
He can't enjoy a sunny day
For fear it's going to rain the next.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

There are traces Of esteem to be OBJ
served in the comments of Mr. Tydings
and Mr.. Lewis. Both have been in poll
tics too long not to appreciate each
others good points.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Eminent statesmen find conspicuous
reference not merely to their own po-
ltical desires but to what their wives
want. The game Of politics is not so
simple as 1t was.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Opposes Socialized
Medicine.

Medicine.
To the Editor Of The Star:
no PEOPLE really think they want to
- socialize medicine? II they think
so, are they really thinking? have as
sociated with doctors since was II
years of age and I am now over 40. My
first association was with young doc
tor in Virginia with whom I spent all OF
my vacations. This doctor drove horse
and buggy in country practice, and
would dri<e in weather (all day except
when roads were closed and then he
rode q horse) that no other human be.
mg q business man would dare brave.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

1t may be possible to persuade citizens
around Krum Elbow to exercise a little
delay in adopting as national anthem,
MY Apply Little Udson River One"
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Endurance Appreciated.

80 you think my writing that book
was a remarkable achievement" said
the gratified author.
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. II
don't see how you managed to stay
awake through the first four chapters,
let alone the whole book"
Evening star., 1938-08-09

1t is proposed to place pictures Of
movie stars on postage stamps. The
theory that the post Office has had quar-
rels enough will call for new attention.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Cincinnati continues to reflect glory
from the fact that she is still Just across
the river from the really great political
State Of Kentucky.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

Success in politics." said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, depends on taking
the credit or avoiding the blame for
what was going to happen anyhow"
Evening star., 1938-08-09
In Hot Weather.

In Hot Weather.
Don't eat, don't drink,
Don't work, don't think;
Let merriments be small;
Shun care or strife;
The rule of life
Is scarce to live at all.
"A party platform" said Uncle Eben,
makes mighty hopeful readin'. But
20 does . peomissoey nots."
Evening star., 1938-08-09
All Other States and Canads
Member Of the Associated Press

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the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
AL rights OF publication OF special tcheS
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
Going Back.

Prom the Fond du Lac Reporter.
New York is slipping. Nobody tried
TO sell binoculars for . closeup Of that
seventeenth.door window ledge walker.
Evening star., 1938-08-09
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Please tnclose stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1938-08-09

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Evening star., 1938-08-09

@. How is pulque made?-R. 8. H.
A. The beverage is made from heavy
liquid (agua mieD extracted from the
maguey plant, and after two or three
day period Of fermentation in a cloth
vat 1t is ready for distribution. Some
dealers mix the JUICY pulp with sodium
bicarbonate and cube sugar to make It
potable longer.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
WHITNEY GIVEN
) TO 10 YEARS,
GRAND LARCENY
Bankrupt Broker, Former
President N. Y. Sto OK
Exchange, Sentenced

NEW YORK, April 11-Richard
Whitney, bankrupt broker and for
mer President of the New York
Stock Exchange was today SEN
fenced to serve from five to ten
years in prison for grand larceny.
Whitney pleaded guilty to two
indictments charging first degree
grand larceny in misuses of secur-
tiles entrusted to his care by the
New York Yacht Club and also
his family.
Judge Owen B 0 h an sentenced
Whitney five to ten years on each
indictment, the sentences to run
concurrently.
Whitney took the word Of the
judge calmly. He will serve his
sentence in Sing Sing Prison.
Charles Tuttle, Whitney's attor-
ney, made a long plea for lenieney.
District Attorney Dewey recon-
mended a substantial punitive SEN
tence."
Under time off and good be-
havior, Whitney can complete his
sentence in about three and one
half years.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
Doors Are Closed to Court
Of St. James for Some OF
u. S. Citizens; Kennedy Acts

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Jo-
seph P. Kennedy, American AM
bassador to Great Britain, has
closed the doors of the Court of
st. James to American women who
are merely visiting London.
Ambassador Kennedy has written
to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Re-
publican of Massachusetts,, that he
considers undemocratie the prac-
tice of American Ambassadors sell
Getting each year a small number OF
young ladies from a long list of a
very few, if any whom the Ambas-
sador has ever seen"
Accordingly. Ambassador Ken
nedy has concluded to contine pre-
sensations of only those families
of American officials in England
and members of American families
domiciled in England
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
five BURNED
TO DEATH AS
AUTOSCRASH
and Four Children
Die-Father Badly
Burned

YAKIMA, April 11.-Mrs. Lyman
Thew and four of her children were
burned to death near here last
night when their car caught fire
after a slnashup.
Lyman Thew was repairing the
car when a car driven by Marvin
Eekins struck the parked Thew
car at high speed.
Thew was critically burned at
tempting to rescue his screaming
family, but managed to pull one
of his five children, Ruby, out OF the
frey trap while nearby residents
rescued Marvin Eakins and his
son Bobby, Z, before the Eakins au-
tomobile also burned.
A. j. B. Thola quenched with
a garden hose the flames that lapp-
ed Ruby's body, the critically in
iured child took look at the pyre
and cried.
Lets pray. My mother, my sisters
and brother are dead"
Mrs. Thew, Eugene, 6, Helen, 8,
Marion, 4, and Douglas, four months,
represent the dead list.
Witnesses said the Thew car was
standing on the highway in the
thoroughfare and was unlighted.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
Nenana Ice
Is Almost
4 Fl. Thick

Ice on the Tanana River at Ne
mana still is nearly four feet thick
approximately the same as it was
six weeks ago.
Reports from Nenana today, says
the Fairbanks News-Miner of last
Friday, were that the average thick
ness is only a fraction of an inch
less than four feet despite thawing
weather. The daily melting of snow
on the ice forms a slush which
freezes at night.
To date, the ice has not showed
signs of rotting.
The ice is firm. with no open
water on the surface of the ice
sheet. The snow has melted from
the river banks, and the hills across
the river from Nenana are almost
bare of snow.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
s1,25O,OOO,OOO.0O
May Be Spent in
Next Few Months
White House Conference
Finds Need for Pump
Printing Great

WASHINGTON, April 11-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Congressional
departmental leaders today agreed
that $1,25O, 100000 is needed in ap-
preparation for work relief during
the first seven months of the fiscal
year beginning the first of July
WPA alone has compiled a bud
get estimate of a round billion dol
lars which was submitted to Con-
gress in January as the need for the
entire new fiscal year.
The billion and a half to be ap-
propriated will be spent in WPA and
other relief activities during tins
fiscal year.
The White House conference also
agreed for an additional $4,000 900
to be appropriated for the CCC dur
ing the next fiscal year to enable
the CCC to maintain its existing
1850 camps. If the money is not
appropriated, three of the camps
will be abandoned July l.
Senator Barley said the propos-
ed expenditures would be half
pump printing"
Public Works Administration
needs for the year were discussed
but no details of the discussion were
released.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
FRANCE, ITALY
PLANNING Get
TOGETHER NOW
New Government of Pre-
mier Daladier Is to Fol-
low British Policy

PARIS, April 11.-Quick efforts
to end the differences with Italy is
predicted in Parliamentary quarters
where the new Government OF Pre-
mier Daladier is said to be planning
to fall fully in line with the British
Conciliatory policy.
1t is reported in high quarters that
an extraordinary envoy will be sent
to Rome promptly to discuss a set
tlement of problems disturbing the
relations of France and Italy.
Discussions, it is said, will follow
the British negotiations for Italian
friendship and understanding OF
problems, primarily the question re-
garding the warfare in Spain and
recognition of the Italian conquest
in Ethiopia.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-11
DR.. TOW NSEND
LOSES Ape AL,
SUPREME COURT
Highest Tribunal Refuses to
Review Jail and Fine
Sentence

WASHINGTON, April II. = Dr..
Francis E. Townsend has failed,
through the Supreme Court, to es-
cape a 30-day jail sentence for con-
tempt of a House Committee.
The highest tribunal in the land
today refused to review the de
cision of the United States Court
Of Appeals of the District of Col
umbia which upheld the jail SEN
tence also a fine of 500.
The Supreme Court consented to
review the decision of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals which held that
the proposed constitutional amend
ment to abolish child labor, is no
longer before the states for ratifica-
ton.
The Supreme Court refused to re-
view the litigation in which the
Government is seeking a ruling on
the constitutionality of the Bank
head cotton production control act.