The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, EVGHT OCLCEK L} 1N EXACTLY ONE HOUR. TtL MEET MY GORGEOULS DUCHESS AND TOGETHER WE'LL Go To GET OUR MARRIDGE L\CEANSE AND BEFORE: THE ClLOCK (A} THE STEEPE STRIKES TWELVE, WE SHALL BE MAN AN\) WIFg, —- 3 / 7 | SAY, YOUVE BEEN HANGIN \ " AROUND THIS CORNER FOR ThE \ LAST TWOo HOURS =GIT A MOVE ON YERSELF » NBR BLOCKIN THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1928. By BILLE DE BECK / \/nw\l WELL SR, VERY WELL, SR, I'M SO HAPRY, NOTHING COLLD MAKE ME LOSE MY N\ BAtanCE - / (NELL'S sEWSY WHERE /CAN SHE @€ 2z TS A 'QuawTer To TWeEwNE ‘(C.L SIDE WAaLK WaN 3 PNl BLOCKING: Thg T GOOD NEHT= HERE ComEg THaT\ SAME TP - I CERTANLY DON'T GEY CHED FOR ‘J(‘\o ON - k T AT iN y ANYBODYS WAY uP HERE~ B85 By KIRKE L. SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 this busing of being a he federal government a full-fledged municipal ying certain soverign r 8 advantages as well as disad- ages. st at present, however, Wa Prop- )n’s more than half a million manent residents and the army motorized tourists flowing con- dly through its streets are ng—and cussing—the practi. penalties attached to being eted on a fiscal year basi any government dep seems almost impos e your way in any direc ny distance without encoun ng a “street closed” s ahead ets ripped and as by some titanic shell b Direct route ] ult to find in a city N by its numbered and letter:d s but with a separate 1gonal hues superimposed it rec r gridiron to tion gysten .5 Confi‘xsing “circles” or Washington 1 call 'em “circuses” in Lon i for some reagon kunown only to Londoners—are the hubs whers 1 right angle streets and Hll fazonal avenues intersect. i avoier of Washingion experien I il recall the difficulties he faced * il ne ever tried to pursue his afcor on the first vis strect-spoke of one of t wheels' to the ci 4 that on a lone side wjth intermediate neck - very crossing of the -spokes, and so sslect the tion of his own, original from the opposite rim of the way stro onran cirel \dded to this normal traffic cthplication, beginning July 1 when the street work and sewer budect funds for the current f # year became available to the Dis- t of Golumbia authorities, there rukes it look as though Washing- ton was being rebuilt, hastily, from the ground up. Even the strect car companies have caught the fe- vat. New funds for the nuge fodderal building program have lded to that confusion in certain ns, Wherever an appalled or tourist turns he is faced by ominous “detour” commands . tho . Newer and quger City Pert of the trouble i3 duc to the ¢n and | up some | attend the ()fllr‘rl v such a street upheaval as | \WASHINGION YSTANDER fact that lup. Washington Day by day it is taking on one of the world's gr It is chiefly noticeable by the | street widening campaign now sev- |eral years in progfess. W I)l]fl('ki f glorious old tree ing the sidewalk edges before mod- est brick houses that sit far back off the property line behind flower and tree decked “front yards,” thave been sacrificed to the onward march of progress. ‘Ten to twef. ks have been added to the e- { hicular roadw and mighty traf- | fic thoroughfares resulted. The | old,sleepy, peaceful look and habit |of this huge village among the great commercial municipalities of no greater population,is passing. But as each project of street widening is finished, an army of gardeners f the steam-shovel and conc: crews. New tree plantings a |in almost "before the wr I(ln old has heen hauled away. e — | TWHO'S WHO | AND WHERE || . Belle G .simpson, National >resident of the American 1 Auxiliary, left this on the Yukon for a tri about two m south ths’ duration. Be. sides other offi visits, she will Ame AN Lo;,hm Con- ention to be held in San Antonio, | m Myren and E. F. Herr, Mann left on the Yukon this morn. ing for Ketchikan where they will fattend the Ame | vention, |be hela thes H. B. C Seattle Hardw Comp: a for Ketchikan this morning on th Yukon. M. 8. Wilson, salesman for the| {Mutual Taper Company of Seat- tle, left Juneau on the Yukon th morning. Mrs. A Ketchikan will B on the Yukon. e secretary of the Sha held there this week. Mrs. L. iiann left today VYakima via Seattle on the Yukon. She received word recently of the fliness of her mother who lives in Yakima. ————— 91d papers for sale at the Em))ire. Your grocer returns your money instantly if you d SCII“Mlz'- best Co"o- ° 19 Spices on’t like © Tea o 31 Extracts orn- | fox | is growing more and more the appearance of t capitals. DOUGLAS NEWS CHURCH PROGRAM TCNIGHT is invited to attend the program which is to be given this evening in the Congre onal Church. Starting § o'clock, it will include sev- 1 entertaining numbers among lch will be “the ‘moving pic- tures of Alaska scenery and. also Everyone and enjoy y foot slashes from the wide side- | | ! mp close on the heels | ot Coeds Sp-..d Little " The { | salesman for th- Clark left today ™or | chile American| 2 2 Legioh Conventlon which is to be| TS . G R O YRR D 0 Y {for |ticn under | tot; : con. |07 which an Legion Con-| . | without, Department ¢f Alaska m“ S01 local scenes, by En An-| drews. i 8 e A | | BOARD MEETING A ug of the N % Ithe Congregational be ‘held this evening at 7 d'elotk Eugene P. Carver, Jr, of Boston [at the home of L. D. Hammock. | is the new national commander of et the Veterans of Foreign Wars. JOHN MARTIN GOING TO U He was elected at the national | convention in Indianarolis- Trustees of Church will A meet son of Mr. left ¢ | John Martin | Mrs. Andrew | Yukon this {to enter the and | the | morn 4 University ¢f Wash- ington. The young man is one ‘nr the recent grdauates of the Douglas High School, having been | = Z7 ictorian of his ¢ B! s | sident of the ted Stu- dent Body other school activitie - e ALASKA DOCKS HERE Two thousand cases of emply the direction of the! cans constituted a freight ship- found that the average[ment which the Als unloaded mount expended was §i here for the Doug sland Pack- eéxcluding that spent for cloth ing Company rday after- Only 0.6 per cent noon. while one per cent is spent Iu| non-essentials, that is, things for which the girls could not account For Amusements, Claim CORVALLIS, Ore Sept 20, coll latively little 1 musement, Orgeon State (()“(L( has fouhd. A ~HI\IV\| Ishowed co-eds spend 2.7 per cent l)f their yearly colle e incc social life, amusements and kindred th Mildred senior in I)!v college, who made the investiga Bas] faculty, is s Women compiaiii a lot about how The, 1928 Model DRAG S \\\ For ample | inuous perform ransportaticn the WADE roc to you as the m economical drs handling, wends itself wtistactory, “For Juneau Young Hardware Co. 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