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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-04
DAILY LESSONS
IN ENGLISH
By w. I, Go, .rn

Words Often Misused: Do not say
. The dinner was followed with a
dance" Say, THE dinner was fol-
lowed by a dance
Often Mispronounced: Incongru-
Gus. Pronounce in-kong- groo-us, o
as in on, 90 as in look, accent second
syllable
Often Misspelled Vicissitude; one
| C, two SIS
Synonyms: Freakish, odd, whim-
steal, capricious.
Word Study: Use a word three
times and it is yours" Let us in
crease our vocabulary by mastering
one word each day. Today's word !:
/ Intercede; to act between parties
with view to reconcile differences.
Friends interceded for them, and
peace was restored"
/ Try The Empire ciassifieds for
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-04

Corn is attacked by more insect
pests than any other crop grown
in North Carolina.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-04
DIAMOND Mine

WORCESTER, Mass, May 4. =
Holy Cross is one of the few colleges
in America that make money from
baseball. In the five years that Jack
Barry coached, the school made
s105,oo0 from its diamond mine.
Advance reports indicated the
1889 spring wheat paintings in the
United States were II percent un-
der 1888.
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the notes he heard a Swiss peasant
girl sing, is simply pleasant fiction,
having not the slightest foundation
in fact. He could not have done
it had his life depended on it, as
his varied gifts and requirements
did not include a knowledge of
music, of which he was profoundly
ignorant. He had not the slightest
musical taste and could not tell one
note from another.
when Payne sent the manuscript
of "Clari" to London he drew on
the managers of Covent Garden
Theater, through Bishop, for f9O the
balance then due him, and this
fact shows how utterly wanting in
truth is the oft-repeated statement
that when he wrote the opera he
was in straitened circumstances.
He was at this time occupying luxu-
rious lodgings in fashionable quar-
ter Of Paris.
Perhaps the most thrilling quar-
ter Of an hour of Payne's life was
when Jenny Lind sang Home, Sweet
Home to him. The occasion was
the Jenny Lind concert in Wash
ington the night of December II,
1850. The assemblage was perhaps
the most distinguished ever seen in
a concert room in this country. The
immense National Hall (site of the
present National Theater), hastily
constructed for the occasion, was
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Army WoudBe Football College Training

business-like scale. But every school
scouts players and this is one of the
most interesting phases of the sport.
Men from all walks Of life serve as
volunteers for their alma mater. 1t
may be the minister. banker, ply
sician or ordinary businessman
through whom a college scans the
pigskin horizon in a particular vi
cinity. He may be a former player
or merely an enthusiastic devotee,
who needs no occult power to de-
tect a good punter, a smart, shifty
halfback or brawny tackle. If the
scout is not an amateur, he may be
one OF that group, strictly in the
minority, willing to supply informa-
ton on prospective recruits for a
small fee, say $25. And there is
service in Texas, primarily inter-
ested in sending boys in that area
to college, which supplies gratis
business-like prospectus of the
youngsters athletic and scholastic
ability.
Every coach, of course, follows
the high school career of players
who interest him through scouts,
friends or newspapers. Some have
compact and revealing indexes en-
bracing everything from the color of
the prosect's Aunt Minnie's hair
to the size of his collar, and each
little characteristic is painstakingly
noted so that a coach often knows
more about the boy than he does
himself. Not infrequently, the coach
delegates an assistant to visit the
boy, sound him out on coming to
his particular school and unearth
vital facts about his background
THUS, If a situation later arises
wherein a recruit complains of the
food, lodging or some other matter,
the coach is able to tell instantly
whether the protest is justified or
whether the boy is developing into
a trouble-maker. The officials know
exactly what their players are ac-
customed to, and ordinarily see that
they get a little better than they ex-
pect-to assure good relations.
After contact has been established,
the prospective candidate may find
himself invited by an alumni to
meet some of the boys. He will be
impressed with the fact that grad
yates of this particular school are
unusually successful in their busi-
ness and professional pursuits, and
the implication is that he, too, will
enjoy the same progress and pres
tige. He may be introduced as
coming all-American at good old
Backwash u, and his vanity will
wax fat on the applause. Later he
may receive couple of spare"
tickets one Of "the boys" will dig
out Of his vest pocket with "Lemme
see If I haven't a couple I'm not
using" and they will be for one
Of the schools better games. After
the fanal whistle, a casual invita-
ton to inspect the buildings or stroll
over the campus may follow, and
the comfortable, happy life of the
place Is drummed into his ears.
At a luncheon, usually after the
football season, he will meet the
coach, . Jolly. witty chap, unbenev-
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filled to overflowing, notwithstand-
ing the big price for admission and
the fact that the weather was cold
and raining.
Among the notables present and
occupying front seats were President
Fillmore, Daniel Webster, Henry
Clay, Gen. Scott and John Howard
Payne. Jenny Lind opened with
'Casta Diva and followed with the
Flute Song lin which her voice
contested rivalry for purity and
sweetness with flute in a duet)
then the famous Bird Song and
next on her program the Greeting
to America.
+ "All the pieces were applauded ap-
parently to the full capacity of an
enthusiastic audience, and Mr.. Web
ster, who was in his most genial
after-dinner mood, emphasized the
volume of plaudit by rising from
his seat and making Jenny pro-
found bow, as if responding for the
country to her Greeting But when
the Swedish Nightingale answered
the encore by turning in the direc-
ton of John Howard Payne. and
giving Home, Sweet Home, with all
the wonderful tenderness, purity
and simplicity fitting both the words
and the air of the immortal song,
the difference was at once seen be-
tween the mechanical applause -
and that elected by the touch of
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alumnus with a well-padded bank
roll will send a boy through COL
lege. But the clubs handle all
money in other instances and school
officials have absolutely no knowl-
edge of the financing of an under
graduates education.
Alumni Pays Bill.
Again, you encounter cases where
a promising players high school
grades are too low to pass an in
stitution's entrance requirements
and he is obliged to make up the
deficit in a prep school. In such
cases alumni will foot the bill for
a year or two at the school where
the candidate not only can study
but play good brand of football
as well, so that when he finally
reaches college he is more highly
polished player. There have been
instances of boys playing three and
four years of high school football,
two and three at prep school,
another year of freshman ball and
three years on the varsity. And
while this is the exception, few
college players ever reach the var
sity without at least one year Of
prep schooling in addition to their
high school play. This process ap-
pears to have become rule of the
modern era, and players without
that extra experience are woefully
outclassed when they line up against
more seasoned opponents.
Well, how does all this affect a
boy? Does he emerge from his COL
legiate cocoon tramp athlete with
out a degree, accustomed to soft,
high living, and without the mental
ability or material means to sustain
himself by the same standards? Or
does he go out into the world a
wiser, better man who has realized
the ambition that fired his zeal and
motivated his entrance into college?
There was q time when the danger
of sending a boy off to college and
receiving a dullard and shiftless
athlete in return was rampant, but
that was back in the days when it
was possible to recruit dock hands
or anybody of the street for an i'm
portant game. Competition is too
keen in these trying times for stu
dents to squander time, ignore
studies, and devote themselves ex-
clusively to the pursuat Of pleasure
They can't play indefinitely, so they
prepare themselves for the time when
they will be cut adrift and forced
to shift for themselves.
And playing days, since We men
toned it, have been drastically cur
tailed. In the beginning, it was
possible to play four full years at
college, and In rare instances be re-
called couple of years after gradu-
alton to help out against some bit
ter and dangerous rival. Then came
the freshman rule, limiting varsity
men to three years of play after
one year on the freshman team.
Then followed a rule prohibiting
playing after the class with which
the player enrolled had graduated,
which was aimed at abolishing the
practice Of transferring to another
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stirring song after attending re-
view of Federal troops at Baileys
Cross Roads, Va, follows:
1T would be impossible for me
to say how many times I have been
called upon to rehearse the circum-
stances under which I wrote The
Battle Hymn of the Republic 1
have also had occasion more than
once to state the simple story in
writing. AS this oft-told tale has no
unimportant part in the story of my
life, will briefly add it to these rec
ords.
Il distinctly remember that a
feeling of encouragement came over
me as drew near the city of Wash
ington at the time already men,
toned. thought of the women of
my acquaintance whose sons or hus-
bands were fighting our great battle;
the women themselves serving in
the hospitals or busying themselves
with the work of the sanitary COM
mission.
I'VE were invited one day to at
tend review of troops at some dis
tance from the town. While we
were engaged in watching the
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ably interested in the youngsters
particular case. Frequently, the
coach's sunny disposition becomes
clouded after the candidate safely
Is in school; but, as a whole, col
lege coaches go out of their way
to help their men.
The off season is the hardest and
most trying period in a coach's life.
Whipping a team into shape and
pointing it for the big game is childs
play, but getting the players is a
headache. Thus, the coach has to
make the rounds of alumni chapters,
refining up at every hitching post to
slap old Talburt, OF, and Hester,
%, on the back, and ask about the
family. "How's that halfback COM
ing along?" and You look good
enough to hold down an end for us
this year-and we really need good
one" Not infrequently he must talk
fast and cleverly to keep their minds
of last seasons disappointing team
and save his weather-beaten neck
from the ak.
Now, while this practice is general,
1t isn't universal, for there are nu-
merous ways of attracting talent.
Certain large schools whose teams
have long stood In the forefront Of
college ranks decide on which play
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Hostessing on
Airlines Is
Studied
By Joseph S. Edeerton.

Ranking second only to the motion
pictures as "glamor career for
young women, the profession of air.
line hostess has proved such a
source Of attraction to American
girls that 1t has been made the sub
ject of a special study by the United
States Office of Education.
AS result of the studies, compiled
by Robert w. Handbook, senior
specialist in the trade and industrial
education service, it is possible &C
curately to draw composite picture
Of this envied young woman, the
airline hostess.
She is, first of all, a registered
nurse. She possesses charm, per-
sonality, poise, evident intelligence,
a general attractive appearance and
clearly indicated refinement: good
moral character; the ability to wear
clothes well, to speak distinctly. and
to use good English; and evident
enthusiasm for employment as an
air hostess.
She is unmarried, is S feet 8 inches
sesAA oAo virgins Aboub 1lO
She maintains herself in the pink Of
physical condition and must pass a
rigid physical examination each six
months.
She has had three weeks of srec!s!.
training and two familiarization
flights before taking over charge Of
the passenger cabin of an airliner.
She started at pay rate of between
$85 and 500 per month for a six
month probationary period and will
receive ultimately a maximum pay
OF about $135 per month, with addi-
tional funds for expenses while away
from home base. She provides her
own uniforms, however.
She works not more than 110 hours
per month or 40 hours q week. She
(See HOSTESSES. Page CD
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ers they want and 60 after them
with a cut-and-dried proposition.
They bluntly promise certain things,
tuition, room and board, books and
laboratory fees, in exchange for
work on the gridiron. They neither
waste nor mince words. It's q
business deal to be accepted or re-
jected.
Other schools mail form letters
to a couple Of hundred boys, inform
ing them they have been selected
as candidates for scholarships. If
interested, they are instructed to re-
port to the school for a two-week
training course. During that time,
they are graded physically and men
tally, and certain group is selected
for scholarships and the remainder
cut adrift-usually to be picked up
by smaller college.
Scholarships granted for athletic
prowess are outlawed at q majority
of colleges, of course, especially
those aspiring to high rank in edu-
cational associations; but this is no
barrier to importing good men. All
funds are handled through the
alumni or clubs Of former athletes
who earned major letters ordinarily
called the "" Club or the "X'
Club. Sometimes an enthusiastic
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school, or saving good men for an
other season when talent would be
scarce.
Currently in all conferences trans
fers are barred, and if a player gets
into any game-even for a split sec
ond-and doesn't play again all year,
it still counts as full year of COM
petition. Then, in the Pacific Coast
Conference, at least, the mere regis
tration of a player binds him to
that school for the duration of his
college career, and he automatically
is barred from performing for any
other school in the group.
And as for studies-well, students
must make the required grades re-
gardless of their athletic ability, and
it is becoming rare to find a pro-
fessor sympathetic with the athletic
department. Make the grades or
pay the penalties of ineligibility, is
the ultimatum, and 1t is q pleasantly
surprising discovery that many ath-
letes are good students when they
want to be. They also take diff
cult courses, such as engineering,
pre-law and pre-medicine, business
and scientific studies. Physical edu-
cation leads the list on the athletes
program, but that, too, has pro-
gressed beyond the kindergarten
stage and is getting tougher and
tougher.
But, getting back to our question.
does this exposure to education and
a better life help scholarship grid
men? Yes-emphatically. yes. Talk
with coaches who have drafted boys
from mining sections, from back
woods communities, from unproduc-
tive farm lands, who have lifted
them from filth and squalor and
seen them go on to better way
of living, and you have to agree
that scholarships pay big dividends.
And those boys whose parents might
be able to send them to college, who
come from the middle strata of the
population are helped, too. 1t opens
up broad avenues of opportunity be-
yond the campus that ordinarily
would be unavailable to them. 1t
urges them on to vaster fields OF
endeavor. These boys give a fair
amount of work in return for an
education and room and board, and
a scholarship is the happy medium
for providing this exchange of serv-
ices.
Evening star., 1939-08-27
By LetviS F. Afchison.

There may be no frost on the
pumpkins, nor even any pumpkins,
but already a horde of American
youth is trudging off to hundreds of
far-flung college campuses, turning
their footsteps toward a career in
the halls of higher learning and
fame or oblivion on the gridiron
1t is the class Of 1889, treading
blithely along the same pathway Of
thousands who have gone before,
dreaming the same dreams, harbor-
ing the same hopes and lured on
by the same promises. And no pio-
neer ever braved a harder, more
dangerous trail.
Who are they? Where do they
hail from? What brings them?
What are their chances in this Cruel
ing battle of the survival of the
fittest? These questions have been
asked before, answered vaguely, and
they still prick the curiosity.
Ostensibly, the youngsters are the
incoming freshmen football players
of our collegiate system, recruited
from crowded cities, crossroad ham
lets and farmlands scattered
throughout the Nation. No me-
tropolis is too large, no town too
small to obscure their talents from
the search of those who seek their
services. The bait dangled before
their eyes depends on their ability
and that, too, will decide their place
in the scheme of things.
And scarcely will they have laced
on their cleated shoes and settled
down into a muscle-building but
monotonous training routine be-
fore search for their successors
will be under way-just as vigor-
ously and intensively as the one
previous. It's an unending cycle, and
the arc grows wider with each pass
ing year.
Schools Scout Players.
Schools which hope to place at
least fair football teams on the field
each year, teams that will not whip
the world but merely make a decent
showing for the alumni, are obliged
to keep tabs on prospective students
Those institutions which make q
practice of turning out powerful
elevens go into it on a vaster, more
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Oats, the famous comic opera star,
in her declining days.
Payne again visited Washington
in 1888, at time when he was bus
lily engaged in writing for various
outside periodicals and newspapers,
and again in 1842, when he re-
ceived, on August %, his appoint
ment from President John Tyler as
consul to Tunis, having been rec
commended for the position by the
great Daniel Webster and William
l.. Marcy, then a member of the
Mexican Claims Commission and
Secretary of State from 1853 to 1857,
both men being his personal friends.
The saying that politics makes
strange bedfellows" fits in well with
Paynes experience as an American
consul, for in less than three years
after he reached Tunis he was re-
called by President Polk, who de-
sired the sinecure for a constituent
of Senator Thomas H. Benton of
Missouri, who had formerly held the
Office.
In 1849 Payne was again back in
Washington, endeavoring to secure
from President Taylor a return to
Tunis, but without success. How
ever, Millard Fillmore, who became
President after Taylors death, on
July 9, 1850, seems to have been
more susceptible to argument and,
after all others had failed, made
the appointment in February, 1851,
it is related, upon the final appeal
made by a "noble-hearted young
woman Of Washington"
Death in Africa.
The author of Home, Sweet
Home" died in Tunis, Africa, on
April 9, 1852. His sickness was long
and painful, but he was not without
friends in this far-off country of
North Africa, and here Thomas F.
Reade, the British consul, and four
Sisters of Charity, Rosalie, Jo-
sephine, Marie Xavier and Celeste,
were very devoted to him, and we
are told, read books to him when
ever he was able to listen. He was
very gentle and thoughtful of those
who administered to him, and it
was a pleasure to care for him, the
sisters said.
With impressive religious cere-
monies his remains were inferred
in this faroff place, in the Prot
estant Cemetery of st. George.
On January S, 1883, the body of
Payne was taken from the grave
where it had rested for 81 years
and forwarded to this country, at
the expense Of w. w. Cochran, and
here, on June 9. 1888, it was re-
inferred in Oak Hill Cemetery, the
grave being marked with a marble
bust of the author.
At the time of the exercises at
Oak Hill, 56 years ago, The Star
in covering the event had this to
say of Payne's immortal compost
ton:
THE air of Home, Sweet Home
was taken from an old Sicilian
vesper and adapted to the song by
Bishop. The popular story that
Payne caught it by marking down
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maneuvers q sudden movement Of

maneuvers q sudden movement Of
the enemy necessitated immediate
action. The review was discontinued,
and we saw a detachment of soldiers
gallop to the assistance of q small
body Of men who were in imminent
danger of being surrounded and cut
off from retreat. The regiments re-
naming on the field were ordered
to march to their cantonments. We
returned to the city very slowly, of
necessity, for the troops nearly filed
the road. My dear minister was in
the carriage with me, as were several
other friends.
Sang During Drive.
ITO beguile the rather tedious
drive we sang from time to time
snatches of the Army songs so pop
ular at that time, concluding, I
think, with
John Browns body lies
A-mouldering in the ground;
His soul is marching on
"The soldiers seemed to like this,
and answered back, Good for you'll
Mr.. Clarke said, Mrs. Howe, why
do you not write some good words
for that stirring tune?' 1 replied
that I had often wished to do this,
but had not as yet found in my
mind any leading toward it.
Il went to bed that night as usual,
and slept, according to my wont,
quite soundly. I awoke in the gray
OF the morning twilight, and, as I
lay waiting for the dawn, the long
lines of the desired poem began to
twine themselves in my mind. .
Having thought out all the
stanzas, I said to myself, I must get
up and write these verses down,
lest I fall asleep again and forget
them So with sudden effort,
sprang out of bed, and found in the
dimness an old stump of a pen which
remembered to have used the day
, before. I scrawled the verses almost
without looking at the paper. l had
learned to do this when, on previ-
Gus occasions, attacks of versifica-
| ton had visited me in the night, and
I feared to have recourse to light
lest l should wake the baby, who
slept near me. I was always obliged
to decipher my scraWl before an
other night should intervene, as it
was only legible while the matter
was fresh in my mind. At this
time, having completed my writing
I returned to bed and fell asleep
saying to myself, I like this better
than most things that I have writ
ten"
Popular Hymn.
An unusually popular hymn that
also had its origin in Washington,
was God Be With You Till We
Meet Again The words of this
appealing poem were written by the
Rev. James Eames Rankin, the
music by w. G.. Toner At the time
this piece was written the Rev. Mr.
Rankin was pastor of the First
Congregational Church, at Tenth
and G streets, where President Cool
idge worshiped. The piece was sung
at this church for the first time.
THE Old Oaken Bucket" was writ
| ten about 1917. 1t is still a good
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nature that makes the whole world
Prolonged Uproar.

nature that makes the whole world
kim
Prolonged Uproar.
Before the first line of the song
was completed the audience was
fairly off its feet and could scarcely
wait for pause to give expression
to its enthusiasm. People ordinarily
of the undemonstrative sort clapped,
stamped and shouted as if they were
mad, and it seemed as if there would
be no end to the uproar. Meantime
all eyes were turned upon Payne,
small-sized, elegantly nodded,
gray-haired gentleman, who biushed
violently at finding himself the
center of so many glances.
A piece that will live as long as
the Government itself, and even be-
yond that time, is Julia Ward
Howe's Battle Hymn of the Re-
public which competent critics
have declared to be the best of the
many beautiful songs written during
the Civil War period, and which
was written in the Willard Hotel in
this city.
You will probably recognize it by
the chorus:
GLORY, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on"
Mrs. Howe's own version of how
she was inspired to write this soul