Window Dressers
Profit from Study
of Passing Crowds
(Bt Associated Tress)
ESSEN, April 21.—An Essen firm
recently made a study of the psy
chology of window dressing and kept
a record of the manner in which
crowds look at show windows.
This disclosed that 646 persons
looked at the bottom of the display,
411 looked at the center of the win
dow, 1S9 persons looked at the left
side, 177 at the right side, and 67 at
the top. Of those who passed the
window during the observation, 219
did not look at all.
Weighing only two pounds at birth
the balfy son of Howard Stuteville
of Houston, Texas, was expected to
live at last report.
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SUIT OVER SALE VESSELS
DISMISSED BY FEDERAL COUR1
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 21—The Su
preine court of the District of Colum
bia dismissed the suit of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Line to prevent the
sale of five California-Orient liners tc
Robert Dollar and associates.
Rowing for Women
Finds Enthusiastic
Advocates in London
—
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, April 21.—News that tin?
I Faculty of the University college ol
| North Wales has barred baat racing
! among its fair students on the ground
I th^t the exercise is highlv injurious
j to ‘hem has aroused the \arsity girls
: in c-r ter parts of England, who con
teiiu that the action is not justified
by p,:st experiences.
“If properly trained there is no
danger of straining the heart,” said
Miss Evelyn Cunliffe, president of
the London University Women’s Row
ing Club, recently. “If one takes the
proper care to avoid all sweets and
chocolates, new bread, pastries and
other choice bits so often served at
afternoon teas, for a long time in
advance, there is no risk at all for
rowing aspirants,” Miss Cunliffe con
tinued. “We are the oldest London
women’s crew and practiced inter
varsity racing before any other Lon
don university.
“I do not advocate mixed boat rac
ing. As yet we are not able to cope
with men, and I don’t think we ever
shall be, as there is no sport in the
world in which strength tells so
much as rowing. I have never seen
a case of ill effects from rowing, as
all our candidates must have strong
hearts to be allowed to take up train
ing. Rowing as a sport for women
is on its way to enjoy greater popu
larity here than hockey, judging by
the strides it has made during the
last two years.”
Many old tools formerly used by
Edison have been added to Henry
; Ford’s museum.
—
The Colorado house killed a bill
I providing for 90 minutes religious in
struction each week for school boys
! and girls.
Deposits of $1,500 were shown in
j a bank book found on an aged beg
gar who died in Gary, Ind.
I “
i Three Boy Scouts from far-away
India are making the land portion ot
: a trip around the world on bicycles:
having left Bombay in October, ar
riving at New York recently. They
are now crossing the country on theii
way to San Francisco.
Telephone Main 81
Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jerviee
ADMIRAL LINE
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
April 7 April 14 April 19
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
April 21 April 28 May 2.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
ALEXANDER. PRESIDENT
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR MAY 10,1925
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
P^'"mE MADISON 13*. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
Exchange Rate Vexes
American Employes
in Foreign Countriei
, (By Associated Preas)
NEW YORK, April 21—The Am
erican dollar In some parts of tin
world is not always good. The Na
tional Foreign Trade Council re
ports this is particularly true in the
majority of “silver” countries of the
Far East.
The council says that the ups and
downs in foreign exchange there, the
ratio between what money of one
country brings in money of anothei
work a hardship on resident Ameri
cans who cannot figure family bud
gets with a reasonable degree of cer
tainty. They never quite know just
what they will get when they con
vert their American dollars into the
coin of the realm.
Employes in foreign service of Am
erican export corporations have been
the hardest hit, the council says.
Each month, when they come to cash
the otherwise welcome pay check
home offices send out in some form
of dollars, they find it a gamble as
to whether it will win or lose. The
chance of profit is discounted by the
corresponding risk of loss. American
export houses are accordingly taking
up the problem in hope of evolving
some method of paying foreign sal
aries which will eliminate the pres
ent hazard.
The situation was first brought of
ficially to the council’s attention by
an American corporation having a
large branch in Singapore, Straits
Settlement. The concern paid its
employes there in drafts against the
American dollar, issued in the form
of a revolving letter of credit.
Recent strength in sterling ex
change, however, was reflected by
sympathetic strength in the Straits
dollar, with the result that the num
ber of Straits dollars realized by em
ployes in selling their drafts in Am
erican dollars dropped preceptibly.
The council started investigation
to see whether others had found any
way to circumvent this difficulty. Un
der the method used for U. S. gov
ernment employes, the treasury de
partment fixes a definite exchange
rate for three months’ period. The
government worker is paid under this
rate, with the option of accepting
payment either in gold of silver.
If in Singapore, for example, the
exchange rate for American dollars
was down, he took gold; protecting
himself against a loss. If dollars
were up he took silver and netted a
profit.
A rate so fixed, however the coun
cil found, comes only within 90 days
of accuracy. Furthermore it caused
the government itself to take the loss
much more than would probably bt
desired in a commercial enterprise.
The council then canvassed leading
manufacturing exporters in steel, oil.
construction and electrical goods.
There was no uniformity in their ac
tions.
Customers Remembered
in Tobacco Mans Will
(By Associated Press)
RELFAST, Ireland, April 21.—Hugh
R. Wallace, a Belfast confectioner
and tobacconist, made provisions for
all his old customers in his will, ai
lowing each of them a month’s supply
of goods on a baSis of their forrnei
accounts. “I love all my old customers
and wish to see them well and prosper
ous,” read the will.
Wallace left $70,000 part of whicl
went to charity.
PALESTINE TRAVEL GROWS
JERUSALEM, April 21.—During tin
1924 calendar year 70,613 travelers am
> returning residents, excluding immi
, grants, entered Palestine, according t<
a report in the March issue of the gov
ernment bulletin of the Palestine gov
ernment. This figure, it is added
surpasses those of previous years.
The number of immigrants, the ove
whelming majority of whom were o
Jewish origin, w’as more than 15,00'
in 1924.
A large button, a salve box lid, ;
ball bearing and the top of a sal
cellar were removed from the stom
ach of 5 year old Margaret Freemai
of Iowa City, la.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
COURT REFUSES TO ALLOW
DISLOYAL ATTORNEY PRACTICE
(By Associated Press)
, OLYMPIA, April 21.—The Supreme
* Court today denied Elmer S. Smith,
the Centralia attorney who defended
the Centralia assassins a rehearing
on an order disbarring him for “hav
ing advocated and approved sabotage,
syndicalism and a general violation
of the laws as a mean of social re
form.”
Film Stars Lodge
Protest Against the
Invading Public
(By Associated Press>
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., April 21.—
Motion picture stars who live in this
Los Angeles suburb, in common with
others of their profession, are not
averse to publicity, but when the rub
ber neck wagons exceeded what is
locally regarded as the limit they
promptly called upon the police for
help.
The trouble started with the sight
seeing auto busses. The advertising
slogan “personally conducted tours
to the homes of motion picture stars”
proved a lure, the operators found,
that, seldom failed to get a load of
passengers out of a downtown hotel
lobby in Los Angeles.
Arriving in Beverly Hills they park
ed in front of some film favorite’s
home, and the chap who was bark
ing through the megaphone would
say something like this:
“Here we have the residence of the
sheba of the movies. The lady in
white sitting on the verandah is her
sister. The gentleman sitting on
the left is her fourth husband.” All
of which was embarrassing and an
noying to the objects of attention.
The sightseers even got bolder and
would venture into the private ground
surrounding the homes.
So the residents got together and
confided their troubles to the chief
of police. The lumbering busses
may still travel the streets of Bev
erly Hills, but they are met with the
order to keep moving.
A. B. Ballaguer w'as found walking
in the streets of New York with no
tlothes on.
ALASKA BEEN
ABLE MAINTAIN
GOOD BALANCE
SEATTLE, April 21.—A dispatch to
the Seattle Times from W. W. Jer
mane, its Washington correspondent,
said that Emmett A. Chapman, of the
Far Eastern division of the Depart
ment of Commerce stated, “The devel
opment of Hawaii and Alaska has 4
been remarkable in the last decade,
in view of disturbed conditions thru
out the world. They have been able
to maintain favorable balances of com
fortable proportions and their trade
which with a few lines excepted is
with the States, has prospered. Both
have experienced temporary reverses,
following the war, but each recovered
quickly. The one weak spot in the
economic structure of each Territory
is a lack of diversification. Alaska is
almost wholly dependent upon the de
mand for its fish, copper, furs and
precious metals. Both territories are
attracting more tourists each year.”
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAl
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAl FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
ALASKA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
April IS
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16th
May 23
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd.
May 30
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd
May 30
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
NOTE—Northwestern due April 11th will go to Kenai before sailing
south.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD. ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
i which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
s over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
l road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
>
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
> and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
r further information write
> THE ALASKA RAILROAD
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t ANCHORAGE ALASKA <
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Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices