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“My Thirty Years
(Fried's struggle to get to sea
and the ups and downs of his
life as a seaman, brought a
measure of reward In his first
foreign shore leave. There is
education In travel, romance
ano lore in every port, he found
and here he gives a few remi
niscenses.)
By CAPT. GEORGE FRIED
(Copyright, 1929, Associated Press)
CHAPTER V.
Sailors, I believe, are afforded
wonderful opportunities to develop
themselves mentally. Travel is
educational. Aside from the rou
tine duties aboard ship, sailors are
permitted to go ashore in foreign
ports. Shore leave is granted usu
ally by the heads of the various
departments, such as deck, engine
and steward’s departments.
It is natural that every mar
and we, went ashore in a small
boat. The heat was terrific. There
was little to be seen except natives,
thatched huts and tropical plants.
This was nothing new to me, but
most of the fellows in our boat
started on a promenade, going to
this point and that, but not having
been in the Navy very long myself,
I decided, after a hasty survey that
under no conditions would I be left
behind. I returned to the beach
where our boat lay and sat down
under a palm and waited patiently
for the other fellows to return. They
laughed at me, of course, but I had
the satisfaction of being on hand
when the boat was ready to pull
off.
Sightseeing trips in various lands
' have been very valuable. I have
I had opportunities to study art, ar
chitecture and the customs of vari
ous people. Every sailor likes to
read history, the chief reason prob
A sailor has every reason to enjoy life . . .
■wants to leave the ship as quickly
as possible, but It is also obvious
that a skeleton crew must be aboard
at all times, so the various depart
ments can function smoothly. On
board a naval vessel or a tramp
steamer efforts are made by the
officers to divide the shore leave
between men so that one group
goes out first in one port and the
next in the other, and so on.
In the American service, for in
ctance aboard the America, the crew
la also divided into groups, but in
this case they are granted shore
leave Only in the two terminal
ports, Bremerhaven and New York.
When the America calls at Cher
bourg, Southampton, Plymouth or
Queenstown, it is impossible to al
low any one to leave the liner, as
the passengers’ baggage and freight
are taken on as quickly as possible
and the vessel resumes her voyage.
Again in the case of the Ameri
ca and other trans-Atlantic liners,
the members of the crew have
large numbers of relatives and
friends in those ports, and spend
practically no time in sightseeing,
unless it is their first trip. In the
Nftvy, however, it is different. Most
of ihe members of the crew divide
themselves into parties and the
first two or three days arc devoted
to sightseeing. After that, if the
ship remains longer, the men seek
whatever diversion they can find.
The American sailor is not as bad
as he is plainted. Sightseeing trips
develop his mentality and often I
have seen sailors go to the ship's
library to get volumes pertaining
to the particular city or country the
ship is headed for, so that they can
acquaint themselves with the cus
toms and ideas of the people they
will visit.
It is true that they spend money.
They often spend all they have in
a port. In recent year, however,
through the cooperation of banks
and saving institutions, these men
lay aside part of their earnings for
a squall.
I have been in many ports in
foreign lands and I have always
found enough entertainment and
sightseeing trips to interest me. I
cannot point to an> port that left
me more impressed than another,
but I do remember a time that my
shlb touched one of the Azore is
lands. The vessel was anchored
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ably being that he gets first hand
knowledge. He sees monuments,
places of historic interest, gets facts
from natives that would leave more
than an impression upon him than
the written word.
The historic data gleaned from
books, however, fills the gaps that
very often are not supplied by the
guides and natives.
A sailor has every reason to en
joy life. The routine is varied by
new places, new faces, and I re
member v/hen going ashore with
groups of men we headed first for
the best restaurant in town and
ordered the finest meal from soup
to nuts, irrespective of the cost.
After a man has been under strict
discipline abord ship, it is only na
tural for him to relax when he gets
ashore, but in all my experience, I
cannot recall an incident in which
a sailor did not behave himself as
a gentleman in the ports we visited.
Fellows will sometimes get drunk
and that is only natural. However,
in the Navy patrols are sent from
the ship to prevent their comrades
from becoming disorderly and if an
occasion should arise the men are
recalled.
I In this way fights are prevented
among the men and with the
townspeople, so the situation is al
ways under control. In my experi
ence, however, I never have wit
nessed any of our naval men cre
ate any disturbance that would ne
j cessitate drastic action by the lo
cal authorities.
We send out no patrols from the
America for the simple reason that
the two ports we touch when shore
leave is granted are so large, and
have so many diversified interests,
that the several hundred men in
the crew quickly disperse and are
lost in the cities. They are then
no different from the civilians.
There are occasions, however,
when men miss the ship. If that
happens on the other side the man
is deported on another vessel of
our fleet or is held until the arrival
of the ship from which he is classi
jfied as a deserter. However, dis
cipline usually keeps the crew in
tact.
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ATTENTION!
j For Carpenter Work of any kind
—shop or city—Call Handy Andy.
Phone 488.
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HOOVER LIFE STORY
READS LIKE EXTRACT
FROM FICTION PAGE
By L. A. BROPHI
(A. P. Feature Editor)
WASHINGTON, March 5.—Her-]
bcrt Hoover in becoming thirty
first Chief Executive of the United
States enters upon the greatest ad
venture of a life filled' with the
stuff of which fictionists make
plots.
As he made his way to those well
bandied words of ambition’s goal—
fame and fortune—he could easily
have stepped into character in
many novels.
| There was, first, Hoover, the or
I phan. Then the young American
mining engineer, braving the mys
j teries of China. Then Hoover, the
powerful and opulent American en
gineer at ease in Cairo or West
Branch; San Francisco or London;
in the great cities of the world, in
Russia, Mexico, Burma, China.
Romantic adventure and riches
came to Hoover as she shoved his |
shoulders into places on the globe
where white men had never gone
before. The long trail has taken
him over the South African veldt,
through the Australian bush, into
the storied jewel mines of the Pha
roahs in Asia Minor and into the
iron mines of the Romans in the
Alps.
Comes Into Destiny
The odessy of adventure leads
down broad Pennsylvania Avenue,
and the chubby-faced Quaker boy
of Iowa comes into his destiny.
In background, training and in
achievements, Hoover is distinctly
a different type of executive than
any gone before. Many executives
were soldiers. Hoover was, too, in
a manner of speaking. He served
a machine gun at the siege of
Tientsin and he helped put down
riots in Russia, when the first rev
olution died abortively.
Herbert Clark Hoover is 53 years
of age. He was born August 10,
! 1874, in West Branch, Iowa. At
: nine years of age, he was left an
! orphan.
Jesse Hoover, the village black
| smith, his father, died of typhoid
fever when the boy Herbert was
i six. The mother, Huldah Min
' thorn Hoover, provided for the fam
j ily—Herbert, Theodore, his older
brother, and May, the youngest—
as best she could—but she died of
I pneumonia three years after the
j death of Jesse Hoover.
After the mother's death, Her
bert went to live with his uncle,
Allan Hoover, a farmer of Cedar
County, Iowa, not far from West
Branch. Brother Theodore—“Tad"
—went to live with another uncle,
and May remained with Grand
mother Mlnthorn.
Changes Home Again
At the age of 10, Herbert went
to live with another of his mother’s
brothers. Dr. John Minthorn, who
had opened a Quaker settlement in
Oregon. Herbert attended an acad
emy that Dr. Minthorn had found
ed, doing chores to help pay for his
keep.
His next jump was as an office
boy in his uncle’s real estate office
in Portland. A chance remark of
a stranger upon the mysteries and
possible profit in engineering, start
ed Hoover on his career. He de
termined to work his way through
Leland Stanford university in an
engineering course.
Upon being graduated, he worked
in a mine in Grass Valley, Calif.,
then became affiliated with a Lon
don firm of engineers and thence
forth strode rapidly into his career.
West Australia was his first call.
Then China, on a government mis
I sion to develop iron and coal de
poslty; then an engineering trek
j over the globe.
He leaped into world notice in
' handling distraught American visi
i tors in London in 1914 after the
i outbreak of the world war, and
I from then on, his efforts in human
I itarian work took up his time until
him
! President Harding gave him the
(portfolio of Commerce Secretary in
1921.
On Political Path
Hoover’s first steps on the po
litical path were timid and some
what uncertain. In 1920, the ques
tion was publicly raised as to
whether he was a Republican or a
Democrat. He received a few votes
for the Republican Presidential
nomination at the same time prom- j
lnent Democrats were supporting'
him. He settled the issue by mak- J
ing a personal announcement that
he was a Republican.
The head of vast projects—it was
:r—ii.—_j—!-|-:—a
| UP THE LADDER WITH |
| HOOVER
1874—Born August 10 at West |
| Branch, Iowa.
1395—Graduated ih engineer- j
| ing from Leland Stanford uni- |
J versity.
1899—Married Lou Henry of |
| Monterey, Cal., and began.ca
reer as an engineer,
j 1914-1915—At height of sue- |
| cess as world renowned engl- j
| neer, served as chairman of the |
; American Relief Commission in
| London.
1915-1919—Chairman Belgian |
[ relief.
| 1917-1919—U. S. Food admin |
| istratOi*. —
| 1920—Vice chairman Prcsi- j
| dent Wilson's second industrial j
j conference.
1920— June 11 received 5‘i j
| votes at Chicago for Republican j
| nomination for President on |
| first three ballots; 5 votes on j
i fourth, then name dropped in |
| the Lowden-Wood fight.
1921— Appointed secretary of :
commerce by President Hard- j
ing.
1928—June 14. nominated at |
Kansas City as Republican oan- |
| didate for President.
1928—November G. e 1 e c t c d j
i President of the United States. |
| 1928—November 20, began |
South American tour.
| 1929—March 4, inaugurated |
| thirty-first President of the!
| United States. |
estimated at one time that 175,000
men were engaged on jobs control
led by his firm of engineers—Hoo
ver was unknown to the world un
til he became engaged in war re
lief work. Then his name be
came a household word.
Those stormy war days in Lon
don formed an eventful chapter
in the crowded life of the new
American president. When he war,
urged to take over Belgian relief, ho
perforce, had to choose between
giving up a lucrative business with
great fortune inevitably in sight,
and enter a field without hope of
financial remuneration. Some cf
his business associates naturally
felt he was letting them down.
Fed Millions
Hoover, the Administrator of vast
public affairs, emerged in that
period. He fed millions of people
and he handled millions upon mil
lions of dollars. Later, as Ameri
can food dictator, his duties were1
tremendous and he actually was the
food dictator of the world whCn he
returned to Europe as a member
of the supreme economic council, i
The Department of v Commerce ■
made notable progress during the
Hoover regime, in speeding up cf
vital processes and in extension of
old facilities and the creation of
new ones. Radio camo into his
ken and his ideas and thoughts
helped to draft stabilizing regulu
j tions for tfiat volatile industry.
The Hoover forces entered the
Kansas City concention quietly, ef
ficient, and every one shortly knew
that it was all over but the shout
ing.
I Herbert Hoover takes up his high
post with the greatest public man
date ever given a president.
DOUGLAS
NEWS
MINING COMPANY
IS REORGANIZED
1 At the annual meeting of the
Douglas Mining Company, which
i was held Saturday evening prepara -
! tions for another year’s activity
were made with the election of a
'new Board of Directors as follows:
John Peusi, F. A. J. Gallwas, L.
\V. Kilburn, Joe Kendlor, W. E.
Feero and Axel Kromquist.
; The Directors then reorganized
by re-electing the following offi
cers: F. A. J. Gallwas, President:
Guy L. Smith, Vice-President: L.
1W. Kilburn, Secretary, and John
Feusi, Treasurer. Mr. Kilburn was
also chosen to act as manager for
the company.
A satisfactory report of the year’s
activities, covering the assessment
work and development of the prop
erty was rendered by the manager.
: Sufficient values were shown in as
says made to encourage further de
velopment of the claims and this
was agreed upon by those present
at the meeting.
I
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE PARTY
Complimenting Mrs. J. O. Kirk
liam, whose birthday it was, about
25 ladies gave her a surprise party
I last evening at the home of Mrs.
Gallwas. Contests furnished the
pastime of the evening, prizes for
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IT’S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON’T THICKEN
Use a SAVAGE HEALTH MOTOR to retain your
GIRLISH FIGURE
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Free Trial in Your Own Home
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Alaska Electric Light & Power Co.
Juneau Phone 6 Douglas Phone 18
which went to Mrs. Rose Davis and
Mrs. W. F. Snyder. Musical enter
tainment was rendered by Mrs. R
R. Brown and Mrs. G!cn Kirkham
Mrs. Kirkham was presented with
a number of gifts amongst which
an Alaska picture as the group
gift.
The Ideal Girl
1
Nel! Chapman of Grove Hill, Ala.,
has been named ideal girl at Ala
Dama Woman's college, Montgom
ery.
Benefit Dance
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i
MOOSE HALL
March 23, 1929
> Good Music
Gentlemen, $1.00
Ladies Free
DANCING, 9:30
COOLIDGE LEA VES
AXIOMS TO HISTORY
—
WASHINGTON, March 5.—Every
; president departing from the White
House leaves as a kind of memo
rial, some excerpts from his public
addresses that serve to indicate the
trend of his thoughts.
There are many such expressions
from the addresses of Washington,
Lincoln, Grant, Wilson and other
chief executives. History has not
yet made plain which of the axioms
pronounced by Calvin Coolidge will
be best remembered.
Among some of his most striking
sentences, however, arc the follow
ing, taken from his addresses over 1
a long period of years:
“Men do not make laws. They do i
I but discover them."
I “Don't hurry to legislate. Give
| administration a chance to catch
up with legislation.”
! “Work is not a curse; it is the
prerogative of intelligence, the only
means to manhood, and the meas
ure of civilization.”
“Today it is not the battle fleet,
but the merchant marine which in
the end will determine the destiny
of nations."
“Money will not purchase char
acter or good government.”
“Good government cannot be
found on the bargain counter."
"We need more of the office desk
and less of the show window in
politics.”
“The people who start to elect
n man to get what he can for his
district will probably find they
have elected a man who will get
what he can for himself.”
“Laws do not make reforms; re
forms make lav/s."
“There will come out of govern
ment exactly what is put into it.”
“What men worship they will
become."
"Under our national government
the states are the sheet-anchors of
our Institutions.”
"Men show by what they worship
what they are.”
"The realities of life are not
measured by dollars and cents.”
"The humble walk hand in hand
with Providence to immortality.”
"The classic of all classics Is the
Bible.”
D'ANNUNZIO IS WORKING
ON MUSIC AND NEW PLAT
GARDONE RIVERA, Italy. March
5.—Gabriele d’Annunsdo in his re
treat here is working off and on
at a play, easing his mind by the
composition of music when writing
palls on him. At least that is what
he told the two famous actresses,
the sisters, Irma and Emma Gram
matics, when they called on the
poet recently.
D'Annunzio gave them the latest
photograph of himself, taken in a
moment when he was “registering
surprise.” The autograph he ap
pended described himself as “an
unresigned old corsair of the Adri
atic.”
DOUGLAS REGISTRATION
NOTICE
Beginning Friday, March 1, the
registration books will be open at
the home of the City Clerk, Third
i and H Streets, for registering qual
[ ified voters for the general city el
j ection to be held Tuesday, April 2.
I The books will be open Saturday
afternoon and evenings at the
Clerk’s office, Front Street, and. will
close Saturday, March 30.
FELIX GRAY,
—adv. City Clerk of Douglas.
WE MAKE ENLARGEMENTS
Alaska Scenic Views adv.
Introducing the 1929 Patterns of
A rmstrong’s
Linoleum s
The Accolac finish cleans as easily as
glazed tile.
Durable and Decorative
THE
Thomas hardware Co.
Juneau, Alaska
EMPIRE
If you want to sell anything—use
a Classified.
If you want to buy anything—use
a Classified.
If you have a room to rent, or house
or an apartment—use
a Classified.
These little classifieds
daily.
Try them—use
a Classified.