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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-28
HOW TO GUESS YOUR AGE"

We all grow older and hesitate to admit it but sometimes catches up with us this business of age.
 Here are suggestions from trade paper Spinning Reels" about How to Guess Your Age, and there is not of them that has not been encountered by most people at time another
 Tt seems that they building staircases sleeper than they used to. The rsers higher there are more of them something Maybe this is because it is so much farther today from the first floor to the second floor but I've noticed it is getting harder to make two steps at time anymore. Nowadays it is all I can do to make step at time.
 Another thing I've noticed is the small print they're using lately. Newspapers getting farther and farther away when hold them, and have to sount to make them out The other day had to back halfway of telephone booth in order to read the number the coin box. It is obviously ridiculous to suggest that person of my needs glasses but the only other way I can find out what's going on is to have somebody read aloud to me, and that's not too satisfactory people speak in such low voice these days that I can't hear them very we'll
 "Everything is farther than it used to be. It's
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twice the distance from my house to the station now, and they've added fair sized hill that never noticed before. The trains leave sooner, too. I've given up running for them because they faster these days when try to catch them.
 "A lot of other things are different lately Barbers no longer hold up mirror behind me when they've
 finished so can see the back of my head and my wife has been taking of the tickets lately when we go to the theatre They don't put the material into clothes anymore either. I've noticed that my suits have tendency to shrink especially in certain places such as around the waist in the seat of the pants, and the laces they put in shoes nowadays much harder to reach.
 Even the weather is changing. It's getting colder in winter and the summers hotter than they used to be- I'd go away if it wasn't far. Snow is heavier when I try to shovel it, and have to put on rubbers whenever I go out because rain today is wetter than the rain we used to get Drafts severe, too It must be the way they build windows
 People are changing too. For thing they're younger than they used to be when was their age went back recently to alumni reunion at the college graduated from in 1943that is, l933-l mean 1923 and was shocked to see the tots they're admitting students these days The average age or the freshman class couldn't have been more than seven They seem to be more polite than in my time though Several undergraduates called me Sir and one of them asked if he could help me across the street.
 "On the other hand, people of my own age are so much older than realize that my generation is approaching middle age define middle age rough- ly as the period between 21 and 110 but there no excuse for my classmates totterng into state of ad- vance sentv I ran into my old roommate at the bar and he'd changed much he didn't recognize me-
 ".Youve put on a little weight, George, said .1ts this modern food George said It seems to be more fattening' How about another Martini?' said. Have YOU noticed how much weaker the Martinis are these days?'. Everything is different George sao- Even the food you get. It's more fattenlng
 ".How long since I've seen you, George?' l said Tt must be several years Think the last time was right after the election, said George. What election was that? George thought for moment. Coohoge' he said. oh, said
 q got to thinking about poor old George while was shaving this morning I stopped for moment and looked at my own reflection in the mirror
 "They don't seem to use the same kind of glass in mirrors anymore
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sign, and are even working on a submarine to intercept other sub marines under the sea.
 At the start of the last war, the Navy was caught completely un- prepared for submarine warfare and the losses were staggering. This time, elaborate preparations are being made, even in peacetime, for submarine attacks. Some of the Navy's plans remain secret, but it is permissible to outline the fol- lowing plan for sub defense.
 The seacoast will be sown with mines, harbor entrances screened with submarine nets, and harbor bottoms driven with spikes. Patrol planes and blimps will prowl for subs along the coast
 Experimenting the air patrol will be the Navy's twin-engine P2V, which can fire machine guns, rock cts, depth charges and bombs all at once. For long-range scouting trips, the Navy will start produc- tion soon on a four engine, armed to-the-teeth seaplane-the PB2Y. Blimps which can now be refueled at sea from tankers, will also play an important part in antisubmar- inc warfare.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

O. guest house party where there are servants should he orders to these servants?
 A. required the guest should make her wants them the servants O. Is necessary persons when being intro duced.
 do is sufficient but it is always nicer you do repeat this greeting
 O. isn't it the mans duty to nave the with her?
 A. Yes always also the last dance
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turbulent history. It's the problem of what action, if any. should be taken against high officials who casually pass out, for all the world to read, our most jealously guard ed atomic secrets.
 Two recent examples of irrespon- sible talking on the part of res ponsihle officials" have brought the whole problem to a head.
 First, Sen. Edwin Johnson, Dem., Colo, a member of the Congress sicnal Atomic Energy Committee, blurted out details on the power of our present A-bomb and the news that we are working on bomb l. eco times more powerful. He added that our scientists hope to devise means of prematurely exploding bombs headed our way.
 Secondly, Curtis Mitchell, form CT Deputy Director of Information at the Pentagon, recently revealed that the U. s. stockpiles of atom bombs are located in caves in the southwest.
 The latter was a secret known to this columnist and others, but never tefore revealed until Mitchell burst into print.
 Much as the AEC worries about the safekeeping of it's secrets, its experts have reluctantly conclud- ed that nothing can be done to button the lips of high officials.
 The basis for this decision, in the case of Senator Johnson, is two-fcld. l, Legal action against a high-ranking Senator on the Congressional Atomic Committee might result in severe Senate re- taliation in the form of reduced appropriations, blocking of con- firmations and time-consuming in- vsstigations; 2, to take action against Johnson would, in effect. tell the world that Johnson's story was true.
 The AEC fully realizes that fail- ure to take action against such violations may lead to the revela- ticn of further details of our most secret program. Caught in this un- happy predicament, the AEC has decided to keep its fingers crossed and do nothing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-28
THESE DAYS
GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
THE HALF-CENTURY-H

At the beginning of the Twen- tieth Century, it was generally as- sumed that all the civilized na- tions would sooner or later achieve freedom; that the people would be able to select governments of their own choice. Americans were parti- cularly interested in the spread of the Republican ideal of representa- tive government Whenever, in the previous century any people over threw an absolute monarch and established some form of parlia- mentary government, Americans supported their efforts.
 Thomas Jefferson had expressed the American ideal when he said C. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and ty- rants. It is it's natural manure. y Thus, in 1905, when, after revolu- tion, the Russian people were given constitution and a duma was established, Ameri(lrt; generally assumed that the day of liberty had dawned for that country. Sim ilarly, when in 1911, China over threw the Manchus and after a civil war, Sun yat-Sen established a Republic, with a constitution modelled after ours, hopes ran high that an end was in sight for feud- alism the world over.
 Actually, such revolutions really failed. The outward forms of gov ernment changed, but the marrow of national and racial tradition was unchanged. People quickly reverted to what they knew. Autocracy, With
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 had been married Decemoer in the Arthur Fox who performed the attended by the brother ana Donald Haley and the brides mother Nrs bridegroom the managing eotor o me Empire by which Pegues formerly been employed
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 the Margnta had passengers the Gabriel Menager Nativity who Svedeen Robert Coughln o the Magnita and the temporarily replacing vacation preparatory to trip to
 the meeting of the Light Brigade O. Lutheran Church.
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Daily Lessons in English %x. v [. GORDON

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management
 District Land Office

Anchorage, Alaska
 November l, 1949
 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that Frank R. Townsend has made application for a homesite under the Act of May 26, 1884 GAS Stat. 809) Anchorage Serial No. 010561 for tract of land described as situated on the south east short of Pot Hole, a cove on southwesterly side of largest island of the Inian Island Group. Latitude 58o IA 48@ N, Longitude 1862 20' 24" w. Plat of U. s. Survey No. 2668, containing 4.61 acres, and it is now in the files of the District Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the District Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the sta- tutes.
 GEORGE A. LINGO
 Manager. First publication, Dec. IA, 1949. Last publication, Feb. 8, 1949.
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Merry-GO-ROund

Civil Aeronautics Administrator Del Rentzel has grounded an air force experimental balloon that was supposed to make test flights over Syracuse University. Rentzel over ruled a committee of air force, air lines, and CA representatives, be- cause Syracuse U is less than a mile from the approach to the con- gested Syracuse Airport. The State Department can't make up its mind whether to ship arms to Europe in blaze of publicity or under strict military secrecy. The Army says they change plans ev- cry other day. Conrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany, has privately told the State Department that his recent appeals for West German army were strictly for home consumption.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-28
Get Your PRESTONE at Mad 80-tf
UNITED STATES OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management

UNITED STATES OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management
 DISTRICT LAND OFFICE
 Anchorage, Alaska
 October 10, 1949 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that John L. Donohue has made application for homesite under the Act of May 26, 1884 GAS Stat. 8O9 Anchorage Serial No. 011058 for tract of land situated on the West shore Tee Harbor adjoining Survey No. 2266 on the east and Survey No. 2388, Tract B on the Tee Harbor Group of Homesites, Lot J. Lat. 58o 24' 40" N, Long. 1340 45' 35~ w. Plat of U. s. Survey No. 2753, containing 1.18 acres, and it is now in the files of the District Land Office, Anchorage Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the District Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the sta- tues.
 GEORGE A. LINGO,
 Manager. First publication, Nov. g, 1949. Last publication, Jan. 4, 1850.
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all its cruelties, continued ill Rus sia; feudalism continued in China. But not so in Turkey, where the revolution was fundamental, remov- ing the obscurantism of the Os manli and setting the patterns for new nation that could eventually become a part of the western world 1 The Osmanli had been mighty empire, which had already begun to wither in the 18th Century. By 1 their own efforts, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania and Bulgaria had made themselves free and there was trouble elsewhere.
 The young Turks" encountered little resistance in unseating Ab- dul Hamid (1909) and in establish ing a Republic. The individual who emerged out of this revolution to lead his people toward Westerniza- ton was Enver Pasha, assisted by his successor, Renal Ataturk, both of whom are regarded among Turks as fathers of their country. The | Turkish Republic made amazing strides throughout the period under discussion.
 Persia also attempted republicism but the revolution only served to establish a new dynasty. It was not until after World War I that the great feudal houses of Europe, the Hapsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, the Wittelsbachs, etc., were deprived Of their rights and possessions. Wood- row Wilson had enunciated the doctrine of self f-determination; that is, the right of each people to de- termine what their government should be, and Wilson established the doctrine of nationalism as d world policy.
 Thus, a number of Republics came in existence: Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Balkan countries, like Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece, changed monarchs and extended party governments. For time, some were even controlled by dicta- tors.
 The most world-srak.ng of all IL 4 revolutions was, of course, that ! which deposed the Czar of Russia and which ultimately fell under the control of Lenin and Trotsky, lead- CTS of Bolshevism, followers of the Communism of Karl Marx. They established a world state, contrdAed
 by IA men. For Czarist imperialism, | they substituted the Universal
 State concept of Marzism; for human freedom, they substituted
 the dictatorship of the proletar- tat. They worked out new tech- niques for industrialization and for4 political control of other nations. Under Stalin, Russia became one of the two most powerful nations o.l earth.
 Germany and Italy both went through revolutionary processes. Germany attempted Republicanism which failed; she finally accepted the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler which terminated in war and in the l division of the country. Italy de- veloped a mixed system, retaining it's king but also accepting the dic- tatorship of Mussolini, which ended in war However, Italy is now a Republic in which American and Russian influences vie for control. The Austro-H Hungarian Empire was split up. Hungary also is now a Communist dictatorship; Austria is a tragic Republic. Spain has be- come a dictatorship under Franco. The Republics founded by Wood- row Wilson are all now absorbed in the Communist world.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-28
LOOK and LEARN &sy &. c. GORDON

How market" derive its name?
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Why is it that our benevolent and paternallstic Uncle Sam considers establishing party prices for what the whte-colar worker has to sell?
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20 YEARS AGO f{TE FIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER 28, 1929

Gustavus stock ranch was m Juneau OH ouSi ness registered the zynda Hotel
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Iangseh been awarded the Brunswick raoio given way by Ludwig Neons Jewely Store
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The Washington kerrY-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON

Continued from Page One)
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all its cruelties, continued in Rus
 sia; feudalism continued in China.
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Weather: High, 39; low, 36; snow.
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Hyder five defeated Thane by score o1 zf4zo4o III lg tournament Eks alleys Metcaf of the Hyder qu high score of 19O and high total of 552
Evening star., 1949-11-18
Swiss Tourist Executive
Due Here Today on Visit

A party Of nine executives OF
the Swiss Tourist Industry, tour
ing the United States for . month,
were to arrive at the Hotel Stat
Ter today for = two-day visit to
Washington.
Object Of the tour Is to observe
what this. country offers the
travelling vacationists and to
study ways in which these oner-
ings are presented to the tour
planner.
Today the group was to study
the program Of operations used by
the American Automobile Asso-
citation In catering to motor tour
lists throughout the country.
Later the Swiss will visit the
washington Board Of Trade for
q round-table discussion Of
methods Of operation Of the Hotel
Statler and q reception at the
Swiss Legation.
Evening star., 1949-11-18
Churchill Urges Seat
For Western Germany
In European Assembly
~ me Assoejoted Press

LONDON, Nov. 1s.-Winston
Churchill demanded yesterday
that Britain support the new West
German republic for seat IN
the Assembly Of Europe.
Mr.. Churchill was replying to
Foreign Secretary Bevin In q
House of Commons foreign affairs
debate.
Mr.. Churchill raped Mr.. Bev-.
ms policy on dismantling Ger
man industrial plants and Brit
aims support OF Communist
Czechoslovakia for q seat on the
United Nations Security Council.
On the recognition Of the Chi
nese Communists. Mr.. Churchill
said Britain should act only after
consultation with the common
wealth and the United States.
Agreed to Slow Dismantling.
Mr.. Bevin ranged over the whole
of Britain's foreign policies.
On Germany, he said. Secretary
Of State Acheson and French For
eign Minister Schuman agreed
with him recently In Paris to q
slowing up Of dismantling OF Ger
man industrial plants.
The dismantling originally was
designed for reparations and to
curb dermany's industrial war
potential. The Germans want the
dismantling stopped.
I'VE said we would slow down on
dismantling Of some Of these plants
but large numbers Of other plants
are still being dismantled," said
Mr.. Bevin, "and I hope the House
will support us in saying that In
no circumstances we shall give
way on war plants, or that type OF
thing"
Assurance on Security.
I'VE want assurance on security.
We want the economy Of Germany
| to be put on a proper footing and
play its part In an tntegrated
European economy, but We want
to be sure that the security side
Is properly looked after" Mr.. Bevin
&rgued.
Britain. he said. could not agree
that West Germany should be
admitted to the European Assem-
bly, by q majority vote Of its IL
members.
Mr.. Churchill disagreed. Besides
calling for British support for
quick admission Of West Germany
to the Assembly. he also indicated
that If the Conservatives returned
to power they would not pursue
dismantling much further.
Evening star., 1949-05-05

What I had left out Of account
was that this is a land of miracle.
The miracle of Greece Is the
people of Greece.
Nothing in Greece ever has
been satisfactorily explained for
the historical record. From where
came the Greek language. which
first enabled Western man to
think and speak in terms of rea-
son and logic? From where did
the Greeks come? BY what COM
bination of circumstances did q
small city-state of a few thousand
souls produce in a comparatively
short time. like a sudden new
flower, Socrates, Plato. Pythag-
oras. Hippocrates, Euclid. Phidias,
Aeschylus, Sophocles? Why does
every beginning of understanding
Of why we are what we are begin
with this city from which I
write?
Where New Faith Was Born.
BY what miracle did q Jew OF
Tarsus, later known at st. Paul.
trek his way to this city In a day
when the sun of the gods of Par
nassus was setting. to proclaim on
the very stone-the Acropolis-
where stands the most perfect
pagan temple the West ever has
built, that a new God was born,
a God of suffering and love?
And why was 1t from that stone,
that mount. and no other. that
Christianity was to spread
throughout the world?
Evening star., 1949-05-05

that he must offer Illinois the
biggest budget in her history,
totaling $1.055. .000. 900.
Gov. Stevenson has succeeded
In cutting operating costs by
dumping the free-wheeling Green
payrollers who. alas, included 40
State editors. II the Stevenson
administration could be compared
to Mr.. Green's only In this sector
he will score.
But as he tersely told the Legis-
lature: Only one-third of the
budget is for operation Of the
State government: two-thirds is
for construction. debt service. tax
refunds and for distribution to
local governments for education,
highways. welfare. and for pay
ments to the aged. dependent
children and others. In particular.
the welfare payments are rising
and promise to continue to do so.
Cites Uncontrolled Factors.
With brutal frankness the new
Governor admitted he was not
doing the most provident budget
ing, especially In q time of eco-
nomic uncertainty like the present.
But he listed various factors over
which the State had no real con-
troll: Increased population, which
means more aged and more chill
dren In schools. the pressure on
the State for more welfare serv-
ices and the necessity of matching
Federal with State funds.
These problems are, Of course.
Evening star., 1949-05-05
This Changing World
Communist Advances in South China
Strengthen Red Hand in Germany

armies Of occupation. under which
Russia would withdraw her forces
about so miles from the German
border while We would pull our
troops back 1000 miles.
The Soviet has shown keener
interest than formerly In having
the economic and particularly
the industrial-life Of Germany
restored as soon as possible after
the German republic is re-eStab-
lished. The Politburo expects
this rejuvenated state TO be as
sociated as closely as possible with
the U. s. S. r. This hope Is
based on the economic advantages
it can offer the German people.
rather than on the establishment
of Communist theology in that
country.
Reds Offer Markets.
While the Western Powers can
make but scant promises. such rs
temporary benefits from the
European Recovery Program. Mos
COW is able TO tell the Germans
even now that they can have-if
they follow an intelligent CO.
operative policy with the East
the vast Far Eastern markets
which Russia Is not in a position
to satisfy.
These markets in the past were
dominated by the Western Powers,
which now are being rapidly and
effectively expelled. The Ger
mans. who long competed for Far
Eastern trade-exports OF cheap
manufactured products and i'm
ports of vital raw materials-feel
that with Russia's help they may
get almost q monopoly on that
vast portion of the world. pro-
vided they follow a policy of
cooperation with Moscow rather
than with the West.
The estimates of the policymak-
ers in the State Department. who
believed that America could do
business with the "agrarian re-
formers" headed by Mao TIE
tung. have missed fire. Regard
less Of what the feelings of some
Chinese Communists leaders may
be, Russia now Is the dominant
power in the Far East and con-
trolls not only the various govern
ments which are mushrooming In
the liberated" areas. but also
their armies.