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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26

as folk songs-a description of her dress, vocal anecdote about a tor eodor who went to Spain and came back, and one which already has been picked up by American orches- tras. It's called: Mama To Quiero' and the opening line translates into: Mama, I want a lollypop" slee Mama, want lollypop" -- slice your Three Little Feeshes.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
There is TO substitute for Newspaper Advertising
Hollywood Sighh An1 So~~1j
. AssI,. e..

HOLLYWOOD Cal July 26The freight rattlng out of the big city station (w all the tricks that things possible sound stage) and the fugitive jump through the He strengthened after impact looked wildly about pulled the door protrdng Quickly rasping dangling of his George confirmed cinema criminal making getaway again
 'I Stole Million" Georges since quit Paramount protest the nnumerabe they handed him. His first after that break which he shared accommodations hoosegow James Cagney In that Cagney circumstances, criminal Paramount, Bros and Universal they all to lens for stripes.
 it George himself coming point of right that through putting the boy roleslat play anything the will endorse at the box-ofce
 "Who T." ito quarrel with theatres reg ster?" the balcony You're the Tipped Scarare' and forthwith became great those things happen Holywood')
 "Ihe public" Raft, seems to thrill doesn't and somebody has play the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
MRS. CASHEN ENTERTAINS
 FOR GUEST, MISS PEPOON

Miss Lucille Pepoon; house guest of Mrs. Thomas Cashen for a brief visit before leaving to teach in the East this fall, was the honoree at a tea given by Mrs. Cashen at her home yesterday afternoon.
 Bouquets of bachelor buttons and cinnamon pinks decorat ted the rooms. Mrs. Charles Tuckett as sisted in the serving. More than twenty names were on the list of invited guests.
 Tonight, Mrs Cashen is enter taining another group of ladies in honor of the visitor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26

still believe does As long the believe I'm that somebody the weekly accordingly I'll go right playing em."
 His rebel endencies"as all those squabbes with mount brought outhave had result for which duly grateful don't to every scene and don't have get off at the every picture what's important they bit further proving that crime doesn't pay This part I'm doing the here's how of steering of crime and suspicion of crime" . s,.qe
 that's settled George and Mack Killer Gray his dim bodyguard leaving the picture for visit Holland Switzerland France Par in time for the Chantly racing they hope When they get back contract covering three more movies in he'll play the gent that doesn't get asked to the homes for tea.
 last did that different character in Souls Sea? The fellow with curly hair who sang and TO- manced heroicaly? remembers it? Not the of them the other days talking George definitely type gangand stuff the the swarty alley boy He get sympathy which kind must have but picture him the dashng type, you?"
 Can YOU?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
CHOP SUEY DINNER

Following a chop suey dinner held Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Lorraine Johnson. members of the Legion Auxiliary who were present for the no-host affair held a short business meeting. The re- mainder of the evening was spent in playing Chinese checkers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
KRoNQUIsT VISITED DAM

Although he didn't get to the San Francisco Fair, Arne Kronquist, who returned home yesterday from his vacation trip south, reports that he enjoyed a fisit to Boulder Dam besides seeing his sisters in Seattle and Ellensburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
MRS. FLEEK HOME

Mrs. Elroy Fleek returned home on the Columbia from her trip to Portland, Oregon, where her young est child received medical treatment at the Masonic Clinic. that was entirely successful. With her other two children, Mrs. Fleek also spent some time visiting relatives in Ari- zOna. ..s...s.s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
Mrs.WiIeoxHostess
 Yesterday Afternoon

Mrs. H. O. Wilcox entertained with dessert and two tables of bridge yesterday afternoon at her Calhoun Avenue residence for her guest, Mrs. Mertie Smith who is visiting here from Kalamazoo, Mich. , ssa4ss m
 Honors for cards were won dur ing the afternoon by Mrs. Oscar Olson,. high; and Mrs. Norman Cook, low. The hostess also pre- sented the. honoree. Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Noble C.. Ricketts. who will soon leave, for the south, with guest prizes. ea
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
MOVE TO DOUGLAS

MT. and Mrs. Earl Wilson have relocated their residence from Treadweil to the Campbell Apart ments in Douglas. Miss Marjorie Whitaker, sister of Mrs. Wilson, ac- companied them to their new home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
VAGABOND PLANE
 CLEARS FROM HERE

The hydroplane Vagabond which has been parked on the Douglas beach for the past week awaiting its passenger, Don Robinson, Con- tinental Can Company representa- tive, to complete his work here, sail ed away yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-26
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
NORTH COAST MAKES CALL

With a good sized tonnage of freight for this port the steamer North Coast docked here last night for a 3 or hours stay, during which time tourists strolled about town and enjoyed themselves
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
MORE INCOME FOR
MORE PEOPLE
(ChriStidn Science WOnit0r)

Summaries just released by the Treas
ury show that aggregate net income re-
ported in income tax returns in the Unit
ed States for 1887 was 10.4 per cent
greater than for the preceding year-a
total of S21, ,23S, ,574, 1913.
An interesting sidelight is, however,
that notwithstanding this higher total in
come, the tax liability for 1897 was 6 per
cent lower than the year before. This is
explained as being party due to the in
creased deductions to which taxpayers
were entitled in calculating the taxable
portion of their income, and large part
of the increase in these deductions was
on account of other taxes paid. An illus
tration of the old truism that taxes can
reach a point at which they begin to be
self-defeating.
Another interesting fact in the study
is that the expansion of total income
came about notwithstanding a decrease
in the number of millionaire incomes re-
ported. There had been 81 persons who
received incomes of S1,000,000 or more
in the twelve months of 1886 Among the
returns for 1887 the number of such in
comes was 40. Fewer millionaires-but
more aggregate income. Without any i'm
plication of complete equalltarlanism,
that is a wholesome situation
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
MEMO FOR
FUTURE REFERENCE
WaH Street Journal J

Senator Barbour of New Jersey an
nounces that he will introduce bill to
reduce interest rates on federally lnSur-
ed and financed home mortgages. He
proposes a reduction from present level
of per cent to three per cent. His reas-
oning is that government should not seek
to obtain profit on its interest with home
owners, that its apparent profit is illus
DRY if interest rates keep a reservoir of
capital idle, and that this action on the
governemt's part would result in "a gen
eral drop in interest rates by banks, life
insurance companies and other lending
institutions He believes these institu-
tions will find the lowered rates profit
able.
If lower interest rates than they are
now asking would be profitable" to the
private lending Institutions one might
ask why they do not lower their rates,
as they are free to do, without waiting
for congress to act on HOLC rates. But
aside from that, Senator Barbour's in
tended bill has an important significance
in respect to "self liquidating" loans
made or to be made by government agen-
cies. 1t pointedly suggests how difficult
it will be to keep these projects self-liq
uidating until they are liquidated. AS
lender, government may be expected
and can be asked to deal generously with
borrowers, particularly if the latter
should run into any sort of hard luck.
In case the HOLC mortgages were re-
duced to 3 per cent and the government
should in future find itself compelled
to pay we'll above that rate on it's borrow
ings and refundings, would Senator
Barbour introduce a bill to raise the
Hole rate correspondingly? If he should
forget to, would any other member of
congress attend to that little matter?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
BEATING The HEAT

You cannot make it cooler by smashing
you thermometer, but you can save your
self lot of grief by follwing a few
commonsense rules when the weather is
extremely hot.
The first rule of all is to recognize that
it is hot, and act accordingly.
You wouldn't run footrace down Main
street when the temperature is 120. Gear
the rest of your actions to that standard.
Remember that your system needs
salt, lost to it through excessive pers-
piration. A teaspoonful of salt day is
good insurance.
Above all, remember that use of alcohol
is dangerous in hot weather; excessive use
of alcohol is many times fatal. If you
must drink alcoholic beverages, drink
lightly. Preferably do not drink at all.
If you are so or more, guard especially
against unnecessary exertion.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
War Grows More SAVAGE with Progress

to the traditions of the "profes-
sion of arms"
For instance, it seems hard %
believe today but when more than
100000 troops locked in the deatky
struggle that swept for three days
across the little Pennsylvania VII
lage of Gettysburg, only one ci-
william was killed. That was Jenny
Wade. a housewife struck by a
stray bullet while at her house.
hold tasks.
You have only to measure that
against the Spanish or Chinese
wars to realize what terrible
change has come to warfare in the
rs years since Gettysburg. The
bombing and starving of civilian
populations, men, women, and
children is now accepted as COM
monplace of all warfare, and every !
country which has war plans at
all (Which means every major
country has plans which include
these measures. n
Further, the steady rattle of
rifle-fire in Spain, long after the
war is over, as the prescribed 10y
alists fall beneath the avenge of
rifles of Franco, shows what may
be expected now that the re-
doubled horror of class hatreds
has beer added to the older hor-
rors Of war itself. 1t would almost
certainly have been the same had
the Loyalists won, only with a diff
ferent roll of victims.
Yet, as Herbert Hoover pointed
out human courage rises far a
bove any terror yet invented" The
fact that any romantic aspectSs
war may have had are outmoded,
does not make the worlds leaders
less ready to resort to it.
Surely one can hope that some
will listen to the proposals of the
former President that food ships
be allowed to run blockades, and
that bombing be confined to mill
tary objectives. They are not the
proposals of an idle dreamer, but
of a man who has had as great
experience with this phase of war
as any man living.
Perhaps such making of rules
for the grim game of war is not
practicable today, when all tie
old rules have been abolished. Per-
haps We are back to the days of
Genghis Khan. "a
If so well-intended a humani-
tarianiSm as Hoover's meets no.
thing but sneers and shrugs, we will
have all the more reason to fear
that it is so.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
WHAT MADE BURGUNDER
INTO A MURDERER?

Robert Burgunder, suave intelligent.
handsome, has come to the end of the
trail
1t led him to prison and possible death
In Arizona's gas chamber
1t might have led him if he so willed
1t, to heights of accomplishment.
What made young Burgunder, posses
sor of brilliant mind, into criminal in
stead of useful citizen? What made
him wantonly take the lives of two men?
Nobody, not even young Burgunder
himself, can answer those questions. The
best psychologists and experts in behav-
iorism can do'is speculate. If, through
their speculation, another young man,
somewhere in the future, is saved from a
similar fate,p it will be worth while.
The clearest clue to what made Bur-
gunder the criminal he is comes in the
testimony of the grief-stricken parents,
when considered in the light of his own
story as told from the witnes stand in
Phoenix. 1t cannot be said that Burgun-
der's parents are to blame because he is
a criminal. Had the young man himself
possessed any strength of character at all
the thing his parents did would not have
turned him into criminal.
Evidently he had no such strength of
character.
In that, perhaps, the parents may be
partially to blame. 1t is evident from
testimony at the murder trial that young
Burgunder had leaned upon his parents
all of his life for moral and spiritual
strength. He had depended upon them to
make his decisions to protect him against
temptation, and to get him out of the
youthful scrapes he got into.
He was, in current terminology, a
mammals boy" All his life he had de-
pended upon his mother to make his de-
cisions, to keep him from being bad"
and to sympathize with his unusual ma
ture.
Out of the greatness of her love for
him, his mother evidently met his de-
mands upon her strength-and in so do
ing weakened his character, instead of
strengthening it.
A human being, whether boy or girl,
man or woman grows strong in charac-
ter only in conquering problems. A child
must make his own decisions when his
mind is able to cope with his problems,
or he will depend on another all his life
to decide things for him. A baby must
use his own feet if he is to learn to walk
he must also, later in life, use his own
mind and exercise his own character if
he is to learn to think rightly.
Parents can help most by teaching
their children to help themselves, not by
allowing them to avoid responsibility.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

facts have come out. One is that
some of our greatest leaders and
thinkers have had unusually large
brains. For instance, the size of the
average brain is 1850 grams. Tur-
genev. one of the foremost nov
elists of all time, had colossal
brain, weighing 2,012 grams.
Thomas A. Edison had an un-
usually large head, and he said
that his head grew in size until
he was an old man. Charles Dar-
win. who laid down the principles
of evolution, also had an ltnsual-
ly large head, and he. too, said
that his head grew until the very
end of his life Flinders Petrie.
learned British Psychologist Che
is ga says that his head is still
growing. And SO it would seem
although it has not yet been
proved that the human brain
continues to grow almost until
tho end of life.
1t has been established that you
can think as clearly at seventy
as at thirty. The difference is that
you cannot think as fast. You re-
quire more time, but you have the
added value of experience behind
your thinking. In other words, If
two persons were given a problem
TO solve, one young and the other
10 years old, the younger one
would reach his conclusion first;
but it would be no better than
that of the older one-perhapS
not as good.
Right here, today, in the United
tates are elderly people who are
doing outstanding jobs.
There's a former auto mechan-
ic named Ford in Detroit who has
done pretty well for himself. And
he's doing pretty well for himself
today, too. Yet he is seventy six.
He said recently. II accomplish as
much work as ever. l know what
to leave out. and what to delagate
To others"
Wilber L. Cross, former Cover
nor of Connecticut, is seventy Sc
ven, and yet he thinks as clear
and does his work as well as at
forty. Walter p. Chrysler. is sixty
four. Ida M, Tarbell, who created
a profound sensation with her ex-.
pose of Rockefeller some years ago.
has Just written her autobiography
at eighty-two. Sigmund Freud, fa-
nous psychoanalyst, is now eighty
three years old and is still writing
and studying
And so it goes. There seems to
be little doubt that your brain will
continue 10 grow as long as you
live. The important thing is,-use
it! Don II say, I'm old I've done my
work. Let others do it now" Tighten
your schedule. Do less physical
work, but keep on directing. think
ing, and making the most out of
life until the very end.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

WASHINGTON. - Three things
seem to be on the dirt farmers
mind these days. They are tractors,
landlords, ana the WPA.
Written in lead pencil - mis-
spelled and ungrammatical, often
enough - some hundreds of the
most interesting documents imag-
Unable repose in the files of the
Department of Agriculture's Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics. The
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

bureau gets them more or less by
accident, but they are an invalu-
able ross-section of the farmers
state of mind.
Every year the bureau sends out
a QUESTIONABLE to some $4,000 far
mers. Each farmer fills it in with
information about population
changes in his particular township
or section and returns it, that way
the bureau can get a pretty ac-
curate check on rural population
shifts.
But a lot of these farmers turn
the QUESTIONABLE over. before mail
ing it, and write down their own
comments on the farm problem.
the state of the nation. or life
in general.
A Kansas farmer, for instance,
writes as follows:
There is condition existing
on farms in this locality which can
work no good. I am contributing
to the evil along with the rest.
Five of the farms listed in this
report are usually vacant or oc-
cupied by temporary residents Who'll
ly or in part on relief. What takes
their place? The farmer who has
a better fcothold rents another
farm, buys a tractor and combine,
puts larger area in small grain,
and runs two farms instead of one.
1t may be modern but it doesn't
have a very bright future"
And an Illinois farmer says:
Our hired man is hired the
year round at $40 per mo. Says
he believes he will join WPA's who
he says have short hours, off days,
plenty of leisure, and always look
ing for surplus relief stuff and get
paid for following the lines of
least resistance
An Iowan contributes this:
"To survive it becomes necessary
for us to use tractors and farm at
least 200 acres alone to make it..
Hired help difficult to secure at
less than WPA prices, consequently
the farming operation are turning to
labor-saving machinery in SO far
as possible"
A Texas tenants wife writes in
dignantly about the QUESTIONABLE:
why does the government want
TO know these things? The Gov
either can't Or won't do anything
to help these people. The WPA
either can't cr won't give all that
need work job. I wish there
wouldn't be baby borned in the
whole U. S. in 10 years"
examined some scores of these
documents. Over and over those
notes recur-too many tractors. too
many small farms being combin-
ed into large ones. too many tenants
being driven onto relief. But some
blame pure human cussedness. like
the Illinois farmer who-after dis
cussing various reasons for the
shortage of nired men-makes this
observation:
Then we come to the individual
who is too lazy to work. He gets
in an auto and either sells stock
foods or patent medicines or some
ether worthless things and he al
ways finds plenty of suckers to
bite on the bait he has to offer
Then man that owns farm in
these days is considered of no con-
sequence. All he is good for is to
slap good stiff tax on"
But 1t isn't all gloom. Let an
Iowan close the story:
Very few changes In this local
ity Very few closing out sales. All
farmers seem quite content"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

all through life.
He has diScDv-
cred that great
intellectual rea-
ders have had
heads that con-
tinued to grow as
they lived, and 1t
is believed that
the brains of
persons must have
grown too.
Some surprising
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Dale
Carnegie

DR.. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smith
sonian Institute in Washington, D.
c., is conducting a most interesting
experiment. He is trying to learn
whether the brain keeps on growing
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
War is savagery at best.

wa 40 o'No6Niy az DScus
1t is idle to hope that it can
ever be played like a game of
football, with penalties for infrac-
tions of the rules. 1t always was,
and always will be a reversion to
the brute.
True, there have been chival-
rous gestures in war, and many of
todays feelings about war date
back to dim recollections of sto-
ries of past days when sometimes
men showed decent instincts even
in the heat of battle. Even when
the World War broke out, there
were still some canons of what a
soldier could do, and still be true
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Hints on Etiquette

At this time of year thousands
of people are sending postcards to
friends. Remember to write your
full name, or at least your first
name, and not merely initials. Even
the initials of intimate friends may
puzzle the receiver, at least for
time, and annoy him or her.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
SATURDAYS HOrOScOpe

If your birthday is today, you
may look for a romance in the
year Just commencing. 1t will come
when you are travelling, changes
in your life making travel neces-
sary. The child born on this date
will be a 'home body"-very fond
of old ties and customs. He or
she will be affectionate, loyal, for
tunate in most things, and pos
sessing some occult ability.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

Sure way to peace, says con-
gresham, is for all Americans, in
time of war, to go into the house
and shut the door. But what if the
enemy leader barks: Come back
now, and see if you can do that
more carefully!'
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. Which state first gave suf-
frage to women?
2. How old must man be to
become president of the United
States?
3. In what city are the Heights
of Abraham?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Words of Wisdom

Is there not some chosen curse,
some hidden thunder in the stores
of heaven, Ted with uncommon
wrath, to blast the man who owes
his greatness TO his country's ruin!
Addison
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
Barbs

The President asks Congress for
S25000O to help the immigration
service keep up with its work.
Wouldn't it be simpler to give it
less work?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

Senator Andrews advocates a con-
gressional resolution, asking the
public to read the Bible The pub
lie might we'll recounter with a res
olution, asking senators to read it
too.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16
You re Telling Me-

Restaurant association head says
mattresses should be pretty, graci
Gus, charming and well educated.
What's he trying to do-take our
mind off our meal?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

Hitler's new airplane has a conference
room in it. Here, undoutable, Der Fueh-
rer will often get Europe up in the air.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

The senate judiciary committee reject
ed proposal for public referendum on
war 1t would never do to have us decide
whether we should die or not.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

81 thought it would be nice to go for a
trip said a woman skipper who spent
three years sailing 10000 miles Just
little run around the seven seas, as it
We're.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

One of the rarest gifts a man
can receive is a sincere compliment.
1t not only costs nothing-it isn't
even taxable
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

The average man uses but 10000
words in a lifetime, we read. Shucks,
some women we know use that many
in a single evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

Weatherman sees rain, says head
line. Maybe it's just the perspira-
ton pouring off his brow
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

More and more, the word, obey"
Is being deleted from the feminine
half Of the marriage vows. That
term has been accorded about as
much respect as an international
treaty
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

European nations, we read, con-
cede the United States victory in
the 1910 Olympic games. Naturally,
thre's no dough in that.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

Psychiatrist says women factory
workers work more contentedly if
operating violet-colored machines.
The machines he has in mind, no
doubt, are 16-cylinder streamlined
motor cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

louisiana State University: the
prexy vanishes, tiger is taken to
football games. All. at last-there's
that school we've seen so many times
in the movies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-16

Another nice thing about sum-
merits impossible now to lose
money betting on the outcome of
football games.