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The Nome nugget., 1939-02-22
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED

The Nome Daily Nugget carries several forms of printing blanks for your convenience - Dredge Logs, thawing and drill reports Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode Location Notices. Vouchers,
 Special Power of Attorney forms
The Nome nugget., 1939-02-22
Franco Will Keep Italian Troops
 Til Final Victory

ROME, Feb. P (P)-Mussolini confirmed reports that Italian troops were at General Francois disposal until final victory" He made his reaffirmation in tele- gram acknowledging greetings from Franco on the occasion of a big military review in Barcelona when Italian legionaires march ed past General Franco on par ade.
The Nome nugget., 1939-02-22
Catastrophe

PENSACOLA, Florida, Feb. 21 tA1 - Two men are dead, eight airpfanes are wrecked and a Lieutenant Ostergen was found in a wrecked and burning plane near McDavid, Florida, about 25 miles north of Pensacola.
The Nome nugget., 1939-02-22
Airplane News

Pilot Sig Wien made a trip to Bluff and Solomon, yesterday, re- turning to Nome with Allan Lee from Solomon. Dick Lee return ed to Nome via dog team.
 Pilot Jack Jefford left Nome this morning enroute to Bluff, Solomon, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet; thence across the Portage, and to St. Michael, thence returning to Nome via Unalakleet. He will carry mail and express.
 Pilot Hans Mirow left Fair banks for Nome this morning, flying his newly purchased Ira velair plane. It is unknown whe- ther there are any passengers enroute here. The plane is ex- pected to arrive this afternoon, weather permitting.
 The Pacific Alaska Airways mail plane left Fairbanks this morning enroute to Nome, and is expected to arrive here some time this afternoon. Bob Gleason in charge of PAA operations, is making the trip.
Evening star., 1939-03-27

and marvel at its mystery. He was
at once the most fortunate and the
least lucky of composers. Fate treat
ed him as the cat leases captive
mouse, yet he did not cringe to his
destiny. The requiem the stranger
asked of him was, he believed, his
own; but all the more reason why he
should pour into it the richest ex-
preston of his soul. Meanwhile, he
would write operas though he died
for them. His grave went unmarked,
nor did he need a monument. Even
his name is holy; the spirit for which
it was an earthly label is forever
immortal.
To know Mozart intimately, it has
been said, is to be on terms of friend
ship with the best of melody. 1t
might be claimed for him that he is
the gentlest of the harmonists. The
beauty of his achievement is Olym-
plan, but it is gracious and congenial
throughout. Its strength is like that
of good physician.
Listening to symphony No. 40 in
G Minor" one hears Joy articulate,
happiness made free, love unafraid,
fellowship made real. 1t is good to
think that Mozart must have been
acquainted with these things and
wished to share them.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Mozart

Those who presume to suppose that
human genius is subject to explana-
tion probably never have heard of
Mozart. His father was musician,
but heredity does not account for
miracles. Neither does a specialized
environment produce a magician.
Thousands of artists have children
altogether empty of talent. SINH
larly, the schools, however inspired
or inspiring, bring forth pupils rather
than masters.
Mozart was himself-unique, pecu-
liar, distinctive. His performance
was mature before he was out of
pinafores. He had played to Kings
before he had graduated from knick-
erbockers. The whole span of his
life was but thirty-f1ve years, yet he
left more than six hundred compost
tions which, after a century and a
half, remain unsurpassed OF their
kind.
Read the story Of his strange career
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Reduction in Crime

The third annual report of the
Washington Criminal Justice Asso-
citation notes a marked decrease in
the number of serious crimes COM
mitted in the District last year and
attributes this healthy condition
primarily to increased police eff
cheney and the speedy trial and pun
ishment of apprehended offenders.
1t may be assumed that Major
Ernest w. Brown, police superin-
tendent, will continue to maintain
his department on high plane of
efficiency, but it remains to be seen
whether the same thing will be true
of the United States attorneys Office,
where rests the primary RESPONSE
bility for bringing prisoners to trial
promptly.
There is no doubt of the desire of
United States Attorney Pine and his
associates to maintain their past
good record, but the recent action OF
the justices in abolishing the third
criminal court may make this a
physical impossibility. Declaring 1T
is generally accepted that the most
effective crime deterrent is the GER
tainty of speedy trial." the report OF
the Criminal Justice Association ex-
pressed the conviction it was the
maintenance of three criminal courts
last year which made possible the
trial within four weeks after indict-
ment of nearly three-fourths Of the
felony cases.
Since the abolition of the third
court ear,y this year, the trial docket
has fallen a little behind. Should
this trend continue despite the best
efforts of the prosecutors staff, the
need for re-establishing the court
will become imperative. 1t is situa-
ton which should be watched closely
by the Criminal Justice Association
and all others interested in effective
law enforcement.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
port while dividing up the possessions

port while dividing up the possessions
Of third parties.
1t would be ingenious to believe, OF
course, that the frank suggestion of
Representative SABBATH, chairman Of
the influential Rules Committee, for
more and better log rolling" is OPEN
ing the door to something new in
congressional manners. That special
interest blocs frequently have acted
In concert as a means of achieving
their distinct and differing objectives
is known to all close observers of our
legislative system.
And it probably would be unfair to
criticize too harshly the veteran ILL
nois legislator for being merely naive
where others have been secretive.
But since the cat is out of the
bag-in fact, frolicking about the cor
ridors Of the Capitol-it is not amiss
to register protest against any such
means of deciding on the merit or
the amount of appropriations. It is
difficult, for instance, to envision any
effective log rolling along lines of
keeping expenditures within reason
able limits.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Another Site Proposed for
Municipal Auditorium.


Many articles have preceded this one
relative to the pros and cons and why's
and wherefores of this and that location
for the new auditorium and stadium
To date there has not been presented
an appropriate site suitable for such
structures
A site OF this nature must have:
l. Adequate parking facilities.
q Central location.
3. Away from center of business.
a. Railroad facilities.
5. Water facilities
6. A site that will lend itself to a quick
dispersal of crowds.
7. A site that will not disrupt the gen.
eral run of business.
8. A location where land values are not
high and where a structure of this kind
will be in harmony with its surroundings.
9. A location where traffic can be easily
controlled.
10. A location where expansion can
take place without crowding out other
buildings, etc.
There is only one location in the metro
politan area of the District of Columbia,
and when 1 say metropolitan area, I
mean Arlington County and other thickly
populated districts that would be expect
ed to patronize events to be held in such
structures.
Therefore, let's forget the provincial
attitude with regard to the location as
being purely Washington proposition,
h,1t OF Lo -,
from a metropolitan proposition.
1t is we'll to remember the tremendous
development of Arlington County at pres
e1t and look to the future for a site that
will be centrally located 10, Is or Is years
hence.
Such site lies between Arlington
Cemetery and the Memorial Bridge. This
is the only site in the metropolitan dis
trict that meets all of these requirements.
Take map OF the District and draw a
line from north to south and east and
west through the center of the District
and you will see that the site mentioned
herein is within ~ miles of Eighteenth
and G streets NV, which is about the
center of the District
1ulS ldllu Is IiOW OWIleu Dy CIle Govern.
ment. The Pennsylvania Railroad passes
through the location, the Boundary
Channel and Potomac River are adjacent.
Traffic for Georgetown and the western
part of the District can use Key Bridge;
traffic for the north and central part can
use the Memorial Bridge, and for the
east and southeast, the Fourteenth street
bridge.
The picture could be balanced by put
ting the stadium on one side of Memorial
Drive and the auditorium on the other.
Let's all get behind q move for this
location. C.. II. sPINK.
March n.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrGcewel,.

posed OF many musicians at varied
points, is to have an entirely new form
OF pleasure in harsh world
1t Is not an easy way of listening, 1t
might as we'll be admitted. Perhaps
some persons will never be able to
achieve 1t, just as many honest people
ind cantatas, for instance, beyond them.
once the effort is made, however, and
some little progress made in the art, the
listener to mass bird music has a source
OF constant entertainment, if he lives
in the suburbs.
Dwellers in the deep city have some
approach to it, especially in spring and
summer, but too often even when the
performers are present the city noises
tend to oblterate them entirely or to
blurr their best efforts
1t Is only in the suburban areas where
there are more birds and less noises.
that this delicate music is heard to per-
fection.
Inere is curious paradox here.
Each bird slngs-perhaps that is better
than to say plays, SO powerful is CUSTOM
as loud as little caliope.
Yet the effect of all of them is soft.
This fact alone proves the relation to
symphonic music. In human orchestras
OF greatest size every player, individually,
is rather loud, except in passages marked
piano. Yet the total effect of a SYM
phony orchestra is soft. There is a solid,
powerful, yet wonderfully soothing SUBJ
stratum of underlying sound, popularity
called the bass, which acts as foil to
the higher pitched instruments.
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There are, of course, among the birds,
no gigantic croakers which might act as
equivalents to the cortrabass instru-
ments of the orchestra. yet it is fact
that somehow these tiny musicians. in
their total effect, do secure something of
this effect
One will have to listen long and long
before he begins to realize just how this
happens. Here again the answer is easy,
we believe. Each shrill piping is back
grounded, solidly based, on nature, her
self.
There is what might be called an in
audible noise in nature, which the more
poetical in the older days insisted on
calling the music of the spheres.
You cannot get it in the city. Too
many automobiles there Too much
crowded living. But in the suburban
sections it is easily apprehended. We
perceive what is presented through the
senses. We apprehend what is presented
to the mind whether through the senses
or by any other means This is true of
bird music, and peculiarly so of this great
background music, which is the very
noise of nature alive. We may not COM
prehend this but We may apprehend it,
and until we have done so we cannot say
we ever heard bird music as We should.
But we are in the right place to hear it if
we listen with mind and heart as we'll as
with ears.
Evening star., 1939-03-27

One OF the real features which dis
tinguishes suburban from city living is
bird music.
Dwellers in the great section of more
open country which encircles the city
hear the songsters all spring and sum-
mer, but often fail to realize just what
they are privileged to hear.
1t is not long, however, after a family
moves to the suburbs, that its members
begin to be conscious of something en-
tirely new.
Sometimes several years must 60 by,
however, before they quite realize the
pure delight of this wonderful music,
and what makes it SO.
When they do they discover that by the
use of feeding stations, and consequent
attraction of birds which winter in this
area, they can have bird music the year
around.
Birds do not, as rule, sing as much or
as we'll in fall and winter, but some Of
them, such as the song sparrow, have
a. fund of melody at all times.
from time to time, enlivens the symphony
music of birds.
Perhaps it is not a stretch of words
to call this music symphonic.
Symphonic music is pure, or absolute
music. and this is precisely what the va
ried songs of the birds are, taken as a
whole.
One little bird song by itself, is merely
song, but when they are regarded as an
ensemble they take on some of the dy-
manic aspects of symphony music rather
than of chorus
This comes about because Of a very
simple reason. Bird music is, after all,
instrumental. 1t has no words. Despite
the best efforts of the imagination to
place syllables to their calls and cries
their songs, called-they are pure ut
terances, vocal, it is true, but with the
tonal effect of strings, pipes, reeds and
so on.
1t is possible to make trombone, for
instance, initiate human laughter. Every
one who has heard the Wabash Blues"
knows how this is DONE Experts on the
trumpet, so beloved in modern dance
orchestras, can make that instrument
do all but talk, actually. Very little i'm
agination is required to read words into
the sounds issuing from some hot
trumpet.
X X
Whatever bird music may be called,
or however regarded, there can be little
question that it has two effects, the in
dividual and the mass That is the
listener can consider it bird by bird or
as single composition.
Each way Of listening has its rewards
Surely there is no more fun in bird OBJ,
servation than to learn to identify each
bird from its own song
On the other hand, or ear, to be able
to hear the bird music in given neigh
borhood as single composition, COM
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Wants Drastic Curb
On Drunken Drivers.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Edtor OF The Star:
1t is estimated that responsibility for
81 per cent of our automobile accidents
lies at the door of the drunken driver
Has anything been done about it? Plenty
of talk, but little action.
The remedy is simple though drastic
Revise the rule as to what constitutes a
drunken person. Forbid driving after
drinking. 1t takes very little liquor to
take the edge off of caution and increase
the confidence of the drinker Cancel
the permit of every one caught in viola
tion-and never restore the privilege
That will stop most of the offenders
Those not deferred will be taken out of
circulation.
Will this be done? No. there are too
many people who want to drink and trust
to luck when they drive. Besides some
bigwigs might lose their permits. Life is
cheap What does it matter if we kill a
few of our excess population? Let's keep
on talking about it and do nothing.
March 81. z. p.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Turn on the Heut

1t is a fairly we'll established prin-
ciple that the bigger a bill is, and
the more people that owe it, the
longer it takes to pay and the less
necessity for so doing. In the case of
World War debts, for instance, Uncle
Sam will be doing we'll if he gets any,
thing from Europe before Buck Rog-
ers and Company succeed in routing
the invading Martians in the twenty
fifth century and making the solar
system safe for whatever it needs to
be made safe for at the time. Mean
while trade seems to go on as usual,
and probably nothing serious will
happen as long as Europe isn't
more than five or six wars behind in
its payments.
Perhaps with this rule in mind,
the county commissioners In a Mid
western State just simply didn't
bother to pay gas, water and
electric bills for their little big
house. But, alas, soulless corpora
tions, unfamiliar with European GUS
toms, shut off gas, water and elec-
tricity from the jail just as quickly
as they would have done from the
home OF John Smith, delinquent pri-
vate citizen. Dependent as it was
upon gas heat, the once snug barred
cottage grew so cold that it was i'm
possible to maintain its normal cell
life. The warden called up the near
est judge for instructions what to do
with his fourteen prisoners, a feat
which he was able to perform because
in an absent-minded moment some
one had paid the telephone bill. The
judge pondered The law said that
prisoners must be warm; he went at
it the other way round, and decided
that If they weren't warm, then they
couldn't be prisoners, whether they
liked it or not. Much to the disgust
OF all hands, they were dumped un-
tremendously out into the even chill
lier outside air until the county paid
up on the American plan.
When this formality was COM
pleted, the warden politely invited
his charges back. All accepted upon
being assured that the jails modern
conveniences once more were at their
disposal.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Wants Income Tax Collected
From Government Employees.


To the Editor of The STAR
Why all this clamor in Congress about
taxes? Wouldn't that bill requiring all
Federal and State employees to pay Fed
eral income tax help settle the problem?
What has become of the bill?
If the lawmakers of this country ap-
piled the Golden Rule" they would be
paying their share of the Federal income
tax with the rest of us. If they were
patriotic citizens they would think twice
before going in for Government spend
Ing spree for the already overburdened
taxpayer to meet. Since there is no law
that legally exempts Federal and. State
employees from paying their fair share
OF Federal income tax, why aren't they
being dealt with as would be dealt with
If evaded my obligation to the Federal
Government?
If the buildings in the District of Co.
lumbia owned or rented by the Govern
ment are not taxable, Congress should
consider this when the question of ap-
preparations for maintaining our schools,
police force, fire department, parks, ETC.,
is discussed. The appropriations allowed
for our public schools are disgrace to
the Nation.
know only too well that we people in
the District of Columbia have no voice
in Congress. We seem to be just sub
jects of the United States, not citizens
of the United States. And few of the
congressman take any pride in their
National Capital. F.A. J.
March Al.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Drug-Mude Champions

Long and vainly in their smoky
laboratories the alchemists of the
Middle Ages tried to do two things
change lead into gold and find an
elixir of life.
The physicists and chemists of the
past three years have accomplished
the first objective. They can make
gold in routine fashion-at cost of
few thousand dollars an ounce.
The second dream is farther from
realization. Probably it will never be
realized. But, starting with the vita
minis about twenty years ago, there
has been succession of.drugs which
seem to raise human efficiency to a
noticeable degree without apparent
counterbalancing i'll effects. Any one
of them, it is likely, would have ap-
peared to the alchemists as the long
sought elixir of life.
The latest is the amino-acid gly-
cine, in the form of gelatine obtained
chiefly from the hoofs of COWS and
horses. Reports of physicians at the
Long Island College of Medicine are
that it raises greatly the endurance
level of athletes. And in the pecu-
liar action of this substance, as it
appears from the preliminary re-
ports, may lie the secret of all this
drug-induced efficiency. 1t acts as
muscle grease" 1t does not add to
the inherent human capabilities.
Neither do any of the other physical
and mental efficiency drugs. It facili-
tates the release Of capacities already
present.
Man cannot raise himself by his
own bootstrapS. Not a whole drug
store full Of drugs will produce the
superman. But the superman, it may
be, already exists and has existed
from the beginning. All the physical
and mental capabilities he ever will
have are present today. Advances,
which sometimes seem little short of
ridiculous, come not from increas-
ing them but from releasing them.
That seems to be the function of CIV
cine, and cortin, and the various syn
thetic hormones, and benzadrine sui
phate and all the rest.
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Log Rolling

Congressional definition of govern
mental fiscal policy, in this instance
the measurement of appropriations,
by a system of bartering between
rural and urban legislators is indeed
a strange commentary on the work.
ingS of one phase of our democratic
system.
Carried to extremes, such an ar
rangement for determining how
much money is to be taken out of
the public treasury has an intriguing
resemblance to current procedure on
tho part of Europe's strong arm"
gentry as they lend each other sup
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Says Judges Should Not
Appoint School Board.
To the Editor of The Star:

The Griffenhagen plan for the reor-
ganization of the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia substitutes city man.
ager for the present board of three Com
missioners. Efficiency and economy re-
quire concentration of authority. which
can always decide quickly and act
promptly.
Legitimate complaint against the
School Board, as at present organized,
can be directed against the lodgment Of
the appointing power in the judges of the
District Court of the United States for
the District of Columbia. In the first in
stance, this appointive power was taken
from the Commissioners because of the
alleged practice of nepotism, as the men,
ory of the older citizens will recall. The
lodgment of the appointive power of the
Boards of Education in the judiciary is
exceptional among American municipali-
ties
The power to appoint usually carries
with it the duty to observe, discipline
and remove the appointee for misdeeds.
Our judges have denied that they have
the right to remove their appointees, and
consider that they have performed their
duty when they appoint the members of
the Board of Education. They give
themselves no further responsible con-
Germ in the matter. This makes the
Board of Education the only self-respon-
sible body in the whole category of posi-
tons under the Federal Government.
Even the President of the United States
and justices of the Supreme Court are
subject to Impeachment When the
Commissioners appointed the Board of
Education and held themselves respon-
sible for their conduct, several members
are known to have been removed upon
complaint and trial. There is no reason
to presume that the appointees by the
Commissioners fell any whit short, in
character, caliber or quality, to those Sc
lected by the judges.
The board complains against the Grif-
fenhagen report that any Board of Ed
ucation should be representative of and
responsible to the citizenry at large"
This was the idea when the school au-
thorities were appointed by the Commits
sioners and were amenable to them but
not since the appointment has been vest
ed in the judges The unfortunate Mar
ian Anderson incident illustrates this
principle. Those who are dissatisfied
with the decision of the board have no
recourse either to the judges or to the
Commissioners. They are compelled to
Evening star., 1939-03-27
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
Nightmare.

Nightmare.
They tell us of the demon rum,
Which works disaster great;
And how the demon greed may come
In time to wreck the state.
But there's one demon worse than all,
1t bids our comfort fly,
AS indigestion's pangs appall-
1t is the demon pie!
1t brings us dreams of terror strange
Throughout the weary night,
And painful tremors fiercely range
Our beings when it's light.
So let us rally 'gainst this foe
And shout the battle cry:
Down with the cause of all our woe!
Down with the demon pie!"
Evening star., 1939-03-27
To Puderewski

On human hearts you play-not KEYS
alone
Your touch is swift and light as the
bright wings
OF butterflies-And then your piano
sings
OF dreams and hopes that mankind's
soul has known
Through all the ages. Our griefs deepest
tone
Vibrates in masters music, when her
strings
Are wakened by your hands-Your great
mind brings
Still finer beauty to the music's throne.
1mparting radiance to our weary lives.
You stir souls depths one fathomed not
before
And show undreamed Of vistas through
your art.
Borne on the waves Of song our spirit
strives
To reach eternal Beauty's peaceful
shore
As your hands Lift the sorrows from tho
heart.
1RENA APoPLAwsKA-LIuNIwEBER.