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3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1937. Daily Alaska Em piré lished « rery evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE FYING COMPANY ot Second and Main Streets, Jubeau, Alasxs Butered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class aatter. Grover reported from Washington yesterday in Jhel Empire relative to the traffic slip that is responsible for some of the so-called “unrest” against govern- ment in this country? The theory of born to rule |doesn’t get over in America. Another sure sign of spring—the Republicans are talking convention. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. =~ % o ¢ Delivered br carrler in laneau and Doulas for §1.25 per moni AREE l'.u , postage paid, the following rates: “Iskibibble” in the Orient apparently has been mo-.mm'x:."fi: in advanos, $13.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; | e nted by “so sorry.” Bubscribwes will confer a favor if they will promptly notity | % the Bustmess Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- avery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. In the Cards | (New York Times) Professor J. B. Rhine of Duke University has been the target of brickbats hurled by psychologists who question his conclusion that some human minds are gifted with what he calls “extra-sensory percep- tion.” He asked students who had demonstrated a certain “psychic” ability to call cards in a shuffled pack of twenty-five. Their responses were so much better than what was to be expected on the supposi- |tion that chance alone was at play, that in his opinion {they could not be dismissed as mere guesses. Where- 'upon the storm broke. Strange to relate, most statisticians are with ‘Rhine. They do not like his mathematical procedure, but concede that the one to be preferred would not yield widely different results. A few industrious mathematicians are already applying the more rigor- ous method to Rhine's case, a staggering task wl'wn |the number of possible runs that must be directly icomputed in a deck of twenty-five cards composed of five identical suits amounts to 623,360,743,125,120. But |the little work already done (a sample is presented in the current issue of Science by Professors E. V. Hunt- U |ington and T. F. Sterne of Harvard) makes it plain AMERICA’S SILK-CLAD ANKLE !that Professor Rhine's conclusions cannot be easily RULES JAPAN |demolished gt | Not a few psychologists find comfort in the belief With Japan sweeping over China, we talk of ‘that the methods of statistics must be wrong. If this guns, of battleships and aerial defense bases. But is so, insurance companies should have been bankrupt is it not true that Japanese success, economic and long ago. After evolving for about three centuries it military, rests in large degree on the comely silken Would be strange, indeed, if the special case presented clad ankle of American womanhood? by Professor Rhine should make it necessary to cast Recently a group of coeds at Northwestern Uni- overboard a system of mathematical logic which has versity in I;:V'\n\wn 1IL, in protest against the Jap- proved its merit time and time again and on which 5 e 3 5 " * " business men and Governments rely in formulating anese invasion of China, abandoned the shimmering y _ L - policies that affect millions. silk stocking in favor of cotton. Silk, they said, s | Whatever the statistical argument may be, ques- Japanese while cotton is a good old American product.|tions must be answered. Why is it that sleeping drugs And were not the girls entirely logical in their thinking? | pull down the score of a telepathist or clairvoyant to Being university students they evidently were:what it should be according to the laws of chance? aware that the annual import of silk from Japan to Why does caffeine raise it? Why can some of Rhine's the United States since 1930 has averaged in excess Mmore gifted “psychics” make high and low scores at of sixty million pounds with an annual value of be- | Will? And lastly, why is it that when a pack of called tween two and three hundred million yen. In Am_;mrds is matched with a similar shuffled pack, the erican cash that is around $100,000,000 a year we pay (‘Oll!‘('.]dencvs ave niwsyn Sist Wikt e Sheory ol pro~ 4 S bability demands? It looks very much as if Professor Japan for silk, which, incidentally, is on the free list. \phine has discovered something that psychologists In other words there is no tariff against its impor-|should inv tigate and explain instead of charging tation. |him with self-delusion, carelessness and mathematical And so eager have we been *o get that silk that|incompetence. until the last few years silk trains over the trans-| continental routes from the Pacific Northwest rushed | across the country under special orders. Everything| was sidetracked for the “silk special” which was| (Philadelphia Record) traveling under penalty of heavy loss unless it arrived | In his new book, “Sun Spots and Their Effects,” at the eastern silk factories from Seattle and Vancou-|Dr- Harlan True Stetson, noted astronomer, devotes More recently the Japanese‘m"”’ attention to the theory that sun spots are mys- ver in a stipulated time. teriously related to bus s bo § have acquired fast silk ships and now most of the! AR AIHSSS ELosIus NAG deprgs.sxons. spots are at their peak R A (The notion is that when sun traffic is direct from Japan to the east coas!.. via the we have good times, and when they are at a low ebb we Panama Canal, and it is little short of surprising the haye slumps. speed with which the Japanese push those silk freight- | This theory, of course, is not new. But Dr. Stet- ers across the ocean to the lucrative American market. son is one of the most famous scientists to give it And why shouldn’t they? The United States takes Bs‘his imprimatur, plus the explanation that perhaps percent of the total export of silk from Japan and in SUn spot activity makes itself felt through ultraviolet 1935 that percentage was actually valued at 32&911.009demuon which varies the vitamin content of the yen or approximately $109,637,000 in American money. |P12nts Which men eat. Increased vitamin content, But why did those university girls choose cotton? ‘.::m::d:‘;i‘:d S SR Foo peRsy s tica uel 8 Why not rayon? some will ask. The coeds at North-| AI] th “emo e _the endoopits gic, i 3 : 9 2 | his no doubt is very learned. But despite western probably also were aware that Japan is second |the eminence of Dr. Stetson, despite his charts show- in the world in production of rayon and its total an- |ing parallels of sun spots and business cycles (which | nual output in recent years has been valued at murejsomo scientists put in a class with astrological tables), than 20,000,000 yen. But it is true that no such large |wWe remain politely unconvinced. ; portion of that came to the United States as in the On Dr. Stetson’s theory, how to explain the fact | silk trade. {that when the U. S. slump was at its bottom, France | There are countless other articles which flow into |Stll Was enjoying prosperity, while England iong since | this country from Japan, helping to keep up its mili- had passed Lwr slump bottom and was well on the way | tary funds. Toys are a big item; linens, dishes and, fo recovery? And what of the fact that when the | 0 U. S. boom was at its height, France was deep in des- of course, the Japanese oranges with which we all are|pajr and the whole of Central Europe was bogged so familiar at this season of the year. down by depression? (We refrain from examining | But silk is this country’s golden word to Japan— the record in the Far East, because Orientals are pro- | 85 percent of Nippon's total annual output flowing|bably immune from sun spots anyway.) into the American market. : In short, Dr. Stetson's theory holds up only on | There is much talk of boycotting Japanese goods.|On€ assumption: that the sun and its spots are 100 It is suggested against the invasion of Alaskan fish-|Percent American. And while we yield to no one in eries in the Bering Sea; it is suggested in protest our patriotism, we can't swallow that. against the present invasion of China; it is whipped to a new fervor with the sinking of the American gun- boat Panay in the Yangtze river. But the fact re- mains that the one boycott which would have drastic effect on Japanese coffers would be the cutting off of her silk trade with this country. With American women and their silken-clad ankles rests the success or failure of an economic boy- cott against Japan. If the girls decide to forego silk hose and other silken garments it will be just too bad financially for Emperor Hirohito and his warriors. But you can predict what they are going to do.| Experience has taught us the folly of certain fore- | casts, ALASEA CIRCULATiON GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for tepubioation of all news dispatches credited to it or nov otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news onblished herein. Are the Sun Spots 100 Percent American? A party of New York sportsmen announce that | everything they bag on their hunting trip in Canada | will be sent to New York hospitals. This probably will include the guides and the less nimble members of the party.—Wall Street Journal. Unless business gets its breath, says Pat Harrison, | | we shall all suffer. As the Great Quarterback must | know, there are penalties for piling on.—Detroit News. | e | | And the old expression still seems to hold good, “not a chance.”—Louisville ~Courier- Journal. Chinaman’s | | | No matter in what direction a tax is hurled, it "always hits the ultimate consumer.—Omaha World- Herald. Buffalo Traffic Paralyzed by Blizzard Is it possible that it is such incidents as Preston HAPPY BIRTHDAY The Empire erxtends congraiula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: DECEMBER 15 Edward J. Giovanetti R. B. Mclver Steve Gatana James Gilkey Patricia Diana Coolin Donna Jean Jewett D | 20 Years Ago From The Emplre L DECEMBER 15, 1917 In his Christmas message, the Kaiser proposed to make a Christ- mas peace offer. In case of its re- jection it was announced that he would assert that the Allies would be responsible for the bloodshed of 1918. Ofiicers for the ensuing year elect- e DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordon e LR Words Often Misused: Do not say, “our letter has been received, and in reply to same we wish to say.” Omit to same. Often Mispronounced: Circuitous. Pronounce sur-ku-itus, first u as in fur, second u as in cute, i as in it unstressed, third u as in us Company, was found to be not guilty {weariness. unstressed, accent second syllable. Often Misspelled: Questionnaire. Observe the two n’s. Synonyms: Quickness, agility, ment got through presenting its and new plays unfavorably received alertness, dispatch, haste. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Focalize; to bring or come to a fo- cus; to concentrate. “Light is fo- calized in the eye, sound in the ear.” —De Quincey. | A BECECITURHREE T L LOOK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon AR 1. Can a bedbug food? 2. Were any portraits of Colum- bus painted from life? 3. What is an idiosyncrisy? 4. How much helium is required to lift one pound? 5. What is the distance from New York City to London, by the north- ern route, in nautical miles? live without ANSWERS 1. Yes; they have peen known to live for a year without food of any kind. 2. No. 3. A peculiarity of constitution or| temperament. 4. Approximately 154 cubic feet. 5. 3,313 miles. e e MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberia Lee il Q her brother’s fiancee, would it be all right for her to give a shower for his bride-to-be? A, as it might cause criticism on ac- count of the relationship. Some other girl friend could do so with propriety. Q When writing the letters R. S. v. p. on an invitation, is this form correct or should it be written R. S. V. P2 5 A. Either way is permissible, but the first style is preferred. Q. If a woman extends her bare hand to a man, should he remove his glove before taking her hand? A. Yes, but not if her hand is gloved. Let us in-, | If a girl is a close friend of It would be better not to do so,| | jed by Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. & A. Masons' were: William M. |Fry, Louis L. Harding, John H. McDonald, J. R. Willis and E. D.| Beattie, Elected to offices in the Eastern Star were Mrs. Mary Bus- |sey, Louis E. McCoy, Harriet Case, |1da Case, Pauline McBride, Clem- .entine Wahlgreen, Anna Webster. J. H. Hewitt, who for the past several days had been on trial for having been one of the alleged rob- bers of the Chichagoff Gold Mining by the jury and was at once set free.} {The chances for conviction had | ;luok(»d very good when the Govern-| |case, but when Hewitt took the tand his straightforward manner} oon swung the balance to his side Miss Adele Frisbee, stenographer | and filing clerk in the Land Of—; fice, left for the South on her an-, inual vacation. W. H. Thompson, of the Dream|2nd on the Pacific Coast feeling] heatre, It for the south to spend the Christmas holidays with his family in Seattle. | At an informal housewarming, Ju- neau friends inspected the many /improvements that had been made| to the Winter and Pond Studio. Members of the Winter and Pond staff who received visitors were E. {P. Pond, Lloyd Winter, Thomas |Gagnon, S. S. Gamby, Wilfred Leiv-| ers, Miss Neillie Orchard and Miss |Thelma Cupples. W. C. Weigle, supervisor of For- |ests for Alaska, left for his head- \quarters at Ketchikan on the Jef- ferson. | e | ! R. E. Murphy, DuPont Powder (Company manager, Was a passenger | {for Seattle on the Jefferson. | Weather: Highest, 12; lowest, 10;, Snow. | -—ee | ESTEBETH SAILING | - Motorship Estebeth sails Thurs- day evening at 6. Have all freight on dock at 10 a.m. adyv. H.S. GRAVES | “The Clothing Man” | Home of Hart Schaffner and | Marx Clothing " GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 212 Phone 4753 FLOOR YOUR HOME WITH OAK—Nature’s Gift Everlasting GARLAND BOGGAN PHONE 582 Buy Your Floors with a GUARANTEE SATISFACTION IN FOOD QUALITY AT UNITED FOOD CO. TELEPHONE—16 T"COME IN and SEE the NEW STROMBERG-CARLSON RADIOS J. B. Burford & Co. “Our door step is worn by Satisfied Customers” = g‘ Buy and Read The ALASKA NOW ON SALE Fred Sabey & Tom Nadea at Legion Dugout Phone—Green 119 THE VOGUE— Correctly Styled Clothes For Women The B. M. Juneau, The worst December snowstorm in ten years paral zed traffic in Buffalo, N.Y., where street cars and automobiles were tied up in mounting drifts. Heavy s ,ow fell in many parts of the Middlewest and East. l Behrends Bank Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars _|bidder for cash on the 11th day of | Horoscope “The stars incline but do not compel” THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937 Benefic aspects rule strongly to- day, according to astrology. It is a sway conspicuous for workers ot many sorts. Clerks and others employed in| mercantile pursuits now will be in demand. It is a fortunate day for all who buy and sell. The aged come under a fortu- nate direction of the stars. Their counsel will be sought and their experiences will be valued. Under this configuration leaders in business and in politics may be concerned regarding the outlook for peace in the new year. Conferences will be held and newspapers watched for the latest bulletins. Women are under planetary infiu-' ences that cause nervousness and DIRECTORY & DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. s PROFESSIONAL FRATERNAL SOCIETIES GASTINEAU CHANNEL B. P. 0. FLKS meet every Wednesday at p.m. Visiting brothers welcome. N. C. BAN- FIELD, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secre- tary. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DEN1IST Roums 8 and 9, Valentine Bldg. TELEPHONE 176 DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENTE {OLDSTEIN BUILDING ] They may be irritable| and unreasonable. It is a day to| stay at home. Theatres may be poorly patronized i | Motion pictures may be criticized al; this time when newsreels will Next month there is a sign be-| lieved to be favorable to the spec-| ulator and promoter. Those who! are wise will be conservative their investments. | A boycott will be widely discussed | ‘may be strong regarding the Orient and its possible perils. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of great good fortune. For women social activi- ties are indicated. ! Children born on this day prob- ably will be keenly interested in human nature, imaginative and gift- ed. Subjects of this sign reach fame that lasts. H Jane Austen, novelist, was born on this day 1775. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Ludwig von Beethoven, composer, 1770; Arlo Bates, writer, 1850. Tho- mas Starr King, clergyman and au- thor, 1824. (Copyright, 1937) | | NOTICE OF SALE No. 4096-A i IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVISION NUMBER ONE, AT JUNEAU. I SAM ROSENBERG, Plaintiff, vs.! |C. H. MacSPADDEN, and MRS. C. M. MacSPADDEN, Defendants. | PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY | GIVEN that by virtue of a writ of |fieri facias (or execution) dated the | |8th day of December, 1937, issued | out of the District Court of the Unit- ed States, First Division, Territory of Alaska, on a judgment rendered in said court on December 7th, 1937, in favor of Sam Rosenberg, plain- | | | |Mrs. C. H. MacSpadden, defendants, | |T have on this 8th day of Decem- ber, 1937, levied upon the following described real property situated in Ithe City of Juneau, Alaska, and de- | scribed as follows: | All of Lot No. 1 in Block No. 215 of the Casey-Shattuck Ad- dition to the Town of Juneau, Alaska, together with the tene- ments, hereditaments and ap- purtenances thereunto belong- ing or otherwise appertaining together with the rents, profits and issues thereof; of said real property for sale at pub- lic venue to the highest and best January, 1938, at the hour of 10! o'clock, AM. at the front door of| the Federal Building at Juneau, Alaska. WILLIAM T. MAHONEY, | United States Marshal | By WILLIAM J. 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