The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-11
Mrs. Riggs and
 Son Arrive to Join Family Here
Wife of Former Governor Renews OldFriendshlps
 on Alaska Visit

Mrs. Thomas Riggs and Thoma Riggs Jr., arrived in Juneau on thu Yukon today to join former Cover nor Riggs and Miss Lisette Rigg! who have been in Alaska for tht last ten days.
 Both Mrs. Riggs and her son. whC left Alaska sixteen years ago. art glad to be back in the Territory which had been their home for many years.
 "The town has grown so," Thomas Tommy to his old friends in Jul neau who knew him when he was "so high'-said today "MemorieS of a small boy did not include paved streets and all of the new buildings in town"
 Juneau's smart shops especially impressed Mrs. Riggs. who was over- joyed at meeting again her old friends, seeing once more Juneau and the same beautiful mountains that surround it.
 For the last several years Cover nor and Mrs. Riggs, and their fam fly. have been living in Washing ton. D. C.. where Gov. Riggs is a member for the United States of the International Boundary Com mission. Previously, since their de- parture frc2l Alaska in 1922, their home had been in New York City.
 However. their real home, Mrs. Riggs said was their farm in Duch- ess County, New York, only twenty miles from the Hyde Park estate of the Roosevelt family.
 Juneau friends were interested in stories that became national news in the spring of 1886 about Tommy Riggs and the Veterans of Future Wars. And MT. Riggs is in- terested in finding out more about the Juneau organization by the same name that was started at the same time by Willard Gallemore.
 At Princeton, where Tommy was a junior at the time, the organlza- tion was started as burlesque on superpatriotism for financial ends.
 Started in fun, when the Veter- ans of Future Wars became nation al news, the idea took hold upon the country with such rapidity that the promulgators of the plan soon found they had more upon their hands than they had bargained for.
 Tn no time we had 50.000 mem- bers and 500 posts of the VFW, Tommy said.
 Tommy was national treasurer Of the VFW and official lobbyist-and really a lobbyist. for the organiza- tion had him registered with the Clerk of the House of Representa- tlves and it was his duty to seek bonuses for the veterans of future wars.
 Graduated last year from Prince ton, Thomas Riggs Jr., is attending graduate school at that University, and specializing in English.
 Travelling is a hobby with the Riggs family, and both Tommy and Lisette have made interesting trips to Europe. Two years ago Tommy and a Princeton classmate jour neyed over most of Europe, third class, with a couple of bags and a portable typewriter-th typewriter a matter of great interest to most of their third class travelling com panions, most of whom had never seen one, and begged for the pri- vilege of striking the keys just to see what happened
 The previous year Lisette Riggs spent in Europe, most of her time at Biarritz and in Belgium where she taught English in a convent near Brussels
 Gov Riggs and Miss Riggs. will Mir Ogilvie member for Canada of the Boundary Commission, vii return to Juneau on the Haida to- morrow. from trip to the Portland canal on official business of thu Commission.
 The Riggs family and MT Ogilvit will remain in Juneau until July 2t when they will sail south on tht Alei1tian