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CABINET GUESSES
Politicians and newspaper men are busy picking
President-elect Hoover’s cabinet, just as they are
guessing what President Coolidge and Governor A1 Smith
will do when their terms of office expire.
Here are some of the cabinet guesses: For secretary
of state, Ambassador Morrow or Senator Borah; for sec
retary of the treasury, Mellon, reappointed; for attor
ney-general, “Wild Bill’’ Donovan, at present assistant;
for postmaster-general, New reappointed, or Good; for
secretary of commerce, possibly Dr. Julius Klein, foreign
trade expert; the rest not even guessed at. Some believe
a Southern man will be given qn important cabinet post.
Whether any of these guesses will prove correct is
just another guess, because Mr. Hoover himself recently
said:
“Any truthful declaration on the cabinet members
will be announced by me and all other statements will be
based on theory and conjecture.”
In the meantime, Mr. Hoover is homeward-bound
from Central and South America; a combination busi
ness and pleasure trip, no small part of the pleasure be
ing a temporary respite from the importunities of office
seekers.
Alaskans will be satisfied with those whom Mr. Hoo
ver appoints to his official family.
Oil seems to effectively lubricate the machinery of
justice in favor of those charged with its manipulation.
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RESIDENTS MAY PROFIT BY !
FARM “NUISANCE” BANE
OF AGRICULTURIST
' trans- j
[formed what was considered a nui- j
sance into one of the most valua • j
ble products of Alaska. It is short j
tundra moss, which lies like a car
pet over approximately three
fourths of the Territory's 500,000
miles of surface.
Short tundra moss has become a
I standard poultry feed in Germany,
|which is now exporting large quan
tities to the United States. One
shipment of German moss to the
Pacific coast consisted of 20,000 !
[tons, valued at $10 to 20 a ton.
Hitherto moss has been the bane j
of the agriculturist, who used five [
to free the soil cf its encumbrance.
Large areas were burned to reduce
+he mosquito breeding fields. Now
the farmer’s attention has been di
rected to the value of the moss, he
is pr-paring to conserve it, a .1 t v ■
that process make it pay a fair pro
portion of the cost of clearing laud :
for the plow.
Tt is said this hitherto worthless
material promises to exceed in
value the gold production of Alaska
to date—some $300,000,000.
Father Geo. H. Woodley, who |
has been a visitor in Seward since ;
last Saturday, departed today for
Anchorage.
lT. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Chart and Tide Tables. SCHAT. | |
LEllLll S ALASKA SUOP. &
Don’t overlook, hearing
the new “Okeh” records at
Sylvia’s. You il be surprised.
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la to Have an Old English Yuletide Festival
d- —
When old Thomas Tusscr, born
fifty years before Shakespeare, wrote
' At Christmas, play and make good
cheer. *
For Crrlstv.’s conies but once a year.
he K.ado certain the success of "The
Farmer's Dally Diet," a grandparent
of "Poor r.r y-jud's Alumnalllled
-.yith Rober agrlcfiltutsl lor* and so
cr,r»r maxims o? thrift and honerty
I.ujlisi.u-.jr: I'.r.v; needed no urging
i ■> follow 7 ussr.i n welcome advice,
and hive celebrated Joyously the
"*Twel.« Jir.ys of Christmas," except
c .ring Ins Reformation and under
» .e reglm3 of the Ironsides when
fc .ch festivities were frowned upon.
Hut 14 remained for Dickens and
Washington Irving In America to re
vive with tholr tnnglu pene the old
Yuletlde eptrtt.
We In the Sts tea navo long fash
ioned our Ohilstntas celebrations on
the model sf the rid English Christ
mas, which we find memorably de
scribed In the writings of Dickens
and Irving. But during the coming
Christmas the festivities hallowed bv
six centuries of English tradition will
come alive as never before; and for
their setting they will have the city
of Victoria, B. C.. which has been
called "a corner df England on the
Pacific coast.” Here, In the Empress
Hotel, an Old English Yuletlde Fes
tival Is to open on Dec. 22. The
holly and Ivy and rosemary, cele
brated In English song, all flourish
In Victoria, and will furnish the tra
ditional setting for the carolling,
the wassailing, the mumming, the
Twelfth Night merrymaking, the
Yule log, the mistletoe, and the
other delights that warmed Geoffrey
Crayon’s heart.
Harold Eustace Key, director o!
Canada’s major music festivals, is
arranging the musical programs for
the nightly concerts at the Empress
Hotel. He has In hand a represen
tation of "Wardle's Christmas Party'1
as Immortalized by Dickens In the
Pickwick Papers. This Is to have a
running commentary of Yuletlde
music to set off the charming foibles
of Its lovably ludicrous characters.
Dr. Healy Wlllan of the Toronto
Conservatory of Music has composed
for the occasion Incidental music tc<
“The Chester Mysteries"' a Christmas
play selected from a group of me
diaeval pageants which used to be
enacted by the trade guilds of Ches
ter. England, dealing with the time
less theme of the shepherds and the
Babe of Bethlehem. The first per
formance of these Mysteries was In
1328. exactly six hundred years ago.
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8 O’CLOCK — ONE: SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
LIBERTY I
THEATER |
the CHARMING LITTLE:
SALLY O’NEIL
with
OWEN MOORE
in a modern day comedy-drama
BECKY
An unusually good presentation of the modern flapper
with all her sins and virtues—Up to the minute in every
detail—Just how far should you go for money— Who can
draw the line—If one girl goes farther than another is
that proof that she is lower.
LAUGHS — LAUGHS — LAUGHS
And yet with al! the comedy in this story it is also very
interesting as a discussion of modern morals—Laugh
yourself to knowledge
AND WITH IT WE WILL SHOW A
FOX NEWS AND A FABLE
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