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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
Electric Chair Is Used
 First Time in Illinois

JOLIET, H., Dec. 15. - The electric chair as an instrument of death was used in Illionis to- day for the first time in triple execution. Dominic Bressetti, John Brown and Claude Cook were electrocuted for the murder last May of Will Beck, a farmer.
 Beck was slain in the door of his home when the trio at tempted to rob him. He refused admittance and Brown shot him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15

tion on the screen is so natural, Iso perfectly typical of the joys and sorrows of a middle class family, that one has a feeling of invading the sanctity of the home.
 Crawford K Kent, distinguished stage and screen star, plays the role of the husband; William Bake well, the son, and Joyce Coad, the girl. Members of the supporting cast include Mabel Julienne Scott, Sam Allen and Charlotte Stevens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
NORTHWESTERN
 COMING NORTH

SEATTLE, Dec. 15. -- Steamer Northwestern sailed at 9 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with so passengers aboard, the following for Juneau:
 w. c. Stanson, Miss M. Olan- ton, H. o. Roberts. John H. New man, I. Goldstein, Charles Gold stein, Mrs. William Garster, H. Messerschmidt, Biship Crimont and Priest, ]. Kloss, R. B. Rass- mussen, w. A. Schnehal, Mrs. l.. Johnson, Phyllis Johnson, Mrs. Cameron, F. M. Cameron, c. J. DeMille and four steerage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
Difficulties of World
 War Are Being Settled

LUCIANO, Switzerland, Dec. 15. An official communique has been issued by Sir Austen Cham berlain, Foreign Minister Briand and Foreign Minister Stresemann, the essence of which was that the Ministers are determined to do everything in their power to arrive as soon as possible at a complete and final settlement of the difficulty arising out of. the war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
ANOTHER" IS AT
 COLISEUM SUNDAYN

Countless thousands of theatre goers the world over whose mem- ory of the brilliant work of Belle Bennett in Stella Dallas" is still vibrant, are acclaiming the work of this notable star in Mother as surpassing her prior effort.
 Mother" accredited one of the most artistic and thoroughly en- tertaining pictures ever produced by F'BO. comes to the Coliseum Sunday for two-night run.
 The screen play is suggested by Kathleen Norris widely read story.
 The family consists of husband. wife, boy and girl, an the evolu-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
Secret Sessions of
 League of Nations se Council in PrOgres.

LUCIANO, Switzerland, Dec. 15. The fifty-third session of the League of Nations Council, so far as public meetings are concern ed, has adjourned. The Council then began secret meetings to discuss the Paraguay-Bolivia dis pute.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
FLU DECLINES
 PART OF WASH,

SEATTLE, Dec. 15. - While influenza is apparently spreading in Portland and nearby territory in Southwest Washington, it is reported on the decline in Cen tral Washington where it has been most extensive.
 Spokane also has apparently seen the peak of the epidemic and the opinion of most health officers in the Pacific Northwest is summarized by Dr. A. Stunt, Director of the Washington State Department of Health. who said, from his bed where he is confined with flu that it is prevalent but not serious. If everybody with cold or touch of flu would stay home, we would soon be rid of it."
 The death toll from the flu and pneumonia today stood about 50 while it is estimated that the number of cases in Washington, Oregon and Idaho ran well into the thousands.
 The daily average of cases in Portland, during the past two days, has jumped from 30 to GO. Across the river at Washougal, Washington, schools have been closed when number of cases of scarlet fever were found in- termingled with the main flu sufferers.
 At Bellingham health authori- ties have turned their attention to IS smallpox cases which over shadowed the cases of influenza.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15

Mrs. Margaret Emerson Mo Kim Vanderbilt Baker Amory (above). who embarked on her fourth marital venture when she became the bride of Charles Minot Amory, of New York, less than a month after obtain ing a divorce in Reno from Raymond T. Baker, former di- rector of the mint. She was 6est married to Dr. s. H. Me- Kim, of Baltimore, but di- vorced him in 1911. Later she married Alfred Gwynne Van- derbilt, who was lost on the Lusitania.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15

Bishop J. R. Crimont, accompan- jed by a priest who will assist in the holiday services in Juneau at the Catholic Church, is a passen- ger northbound on the Northwest ern.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
Spreads Ant Paste on
 Toast Thinking it Is
 Honey; Seriously W

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 15. Florence Clayton, aged 21 years, is in serious condition as the result of eating toast for breakfast on which she had spread ant paste thinking it was honey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15

They will please all-Christ- mas greeting cards. Call at the Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15
WE MAKE ENLARGEMENTS
 Alaska Scenic Views adv

Old papers for sale ar the Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-15

Can't be beat anywhere. cards to please the most fastidious Samples at Empire office
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
RELIGION 0VerpIaYed

This has become a whispering
campaign for several reasons. First,
the party division does not conform
to the division of public opinion on
many important questions.
Second, many of the problems IN
volved are too scientific to make a
thorough discussion of them inter
eSting.
Third, the prohibition question
not only finds both parties split, but
claims more of the spotlight than
it deserves.
Fourth, too much attention has
been paid to religion, not only by
the forces of intolerance, but by
those who claim to be against them.
AS in every other campaign, there
are just three groups of people to
be considered in this one. First,
there are those who will vote the
Republican ticket regardless.
Second, there are those who will
vote the Democratic ticket regard
less.
Third, theree are those who think
independently and who are trying to
make a rational decision.
The latter group is the only one
that can be moved. It is above
whispering wise-cracks and bunk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
SAYS:
politicians talk scientists

WHILE politicians talk scientists
w study. The college of cleo
tronic research of San Francisco,
offers $4,000 for an apparatus to
measure the energy of diseases. In
Boston, they have begun to turn on
and off lights with radio. Com
panies with mail contracts are
ordering fast planes to establish a
Neutrality-suspicious. service between
the east and west coasts.
Most of our problems and achieve
ments have come to be mechanical,
rather than political.
Except in the suppression of old
fashioned crimes, and in the main
flamenco of old-fashioned law and
order, the functions of Government
have changed materially during the
last fifty years.
Statecraft is no less responsive to
invention and innovation than the
home. The average householder of
today finds himself compelled to
call on the services Of many experts
in order to take advantage of mod
ern life. Government faces the same
necessity. Farm relief, water power,
foreign trade, the tariff and many
other things have grown complex,
like plumbing, surgery and interior
decoration.
The call is for trained men, rather
than wisecrackerS.
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NUEER

came to examine drop of the water, he forgot all
about the PEPPER Millions upon millions of microbes
swimming about in the water.
He wrote all this to the Royal Society in London.
You can't blame the open minded members
If that famous organization for being Skeptical.
The society commissioned two of its most Skillful
members Robert Hooke and Nehemiah Grew, to build
the best microscope they could to brew pepper-water
and then examine drop of it.
Nov. IS, 1871 is a historic day. For on that day
Hooke brought his microscope to the meeting of the
society and while the members crowded around him
in excitement he let them look through the lens and
see the germs for themselves
A little later the members elected Leeuwenhoek a
elbow of the society
1t proud day for the Dutch janitor when he
received the great diploma of the society in a silver
carrying case with the socieys coat of engraved
upon it,
ct will you faithfully all the rest of my life
Leeuwenhoek wrote back to the members of the
society.
He meant what he said. For he carried on obser-
7ation after observation and faithfully set down the
most minute details in letters to the society.
The Royal Society sent one of its members, DR..
1olyneuX, to interview him.
He let the doctor peer through his microscopes but
he would not let him touch them.
Moyneux offered to buy one, but no amount of
money could tempt the Dutch janitor. His lenses
were too precious to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
Gossip and Prejudice

Politics is an essential vehicle for
the expression of public opinion.
When there is no public opinion to
be expressed politics degenerates to
the level of a game and becomes a
nuisance.
So long as parties stand for def
mite principles Of government, or
mobilize around issues which chal-
lenge public interest, they serve a
worthwhile purpose.
When they become divided with
ing themselves, when their align
ment no longer conforms to the
principles and issues about which
people are thinking, when the per-
sonality of candidates, rather than
the problems of government, assume
primary Importance, parties repre-
sent little but means of obtaining
or holding office.
Under such circumstances gossip
takes the place of sound discus
sion and prejudice becomes an ex-
cuse for sentiment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
SERVICE
Health of School ChiLdren-NO. 10

| termine whether the child is prog
ressing along with the other chill
dren of its age in the grade. If it
fails to progress, she must be able
to account for the failure either
through lack of physical or mental
equipment.
An instance is recorded Of a child
failing in the fourth grade, who
nevertheless was found to have a
mental age far beyond her actual
age.
When the child was advanced in
her work, she kept up easily with
those in the superior grade. Her
difficulty was a sort of contempt
for the work being given to her in
the grade in which she originally
was placed.
Children in school are not lazy.
Ordinarily habits of lazineSS are
more likely to afflict the adult than
the child.
The child's apparent lazinesS may
be due to sickness not sufficiently
severe to incapacitate but just
enough to cause depression. Some
times the lack of mental ability is
mistaken for lazineSs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
Einancier Called In

Politicians wrote the Versailles
treaty, but financial experts had to
straighten it out. Without the
Dawes plan, Germany would still
be demoralized and Europe would
be in a state of chaotic unrest. The
Dawes plan did not go far enough,
because of political interference.
Those who depended on CAB for
their prestige could not bear to have
the reparationS question entirely
settled. They had sense enough,
however, to call in better men.
Whatever else it may have &C
complished the Dawes plan sold Eu-
rope the idea of letting financiers
solve financial problems.
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright 1928. BY The Ready Ref.
erence Publishing ComDanvl
BY W w WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A--ace; Killings. @
queen; Jack X-any card lever
than IO.)
AS a general guide to winning
play, the following plan is offered:
1. Let game be your object If
you are the declarer.
2. Let the prevention Of game
be your object if you are on the
defensive.
8. Determine your losing cards
and plan to convert them into
winners.
4. Draw trumps unless there Is
some good reason for delaying.
In these chapters various prin-
ciples governing the manipulation
of the cards have been explained
and numerous winning plays have
been illustrated.
1t is not enough, however, to
know merely what these tactics are
you must be quick to recognize
opportunities to use them in actual
play.
They are all based on sound logic
your ability to select the strategic
moments to apply them will make
an average winner of you. OF
course, there are other subtle plays,
used by experts, but these are the
fundamentals.
During the game, the novice
feels a certain amount of tension.
1t is the same feeling which the
inexperienced actor encounters.
At bridge it may be overcome by
hesitating before beginning to play
The time for a careful analysis
of the situation is when the bidding
has been terminated.
Again, the Importance of plan
ming your campaign before playing
a card must be stressed. The de-
clarer should try to find a way
to convert losing tricks into win
ming tricks before he touches any
card in the dummy.
The player who approaches the
game with the spirit that there is
a problem to be solved, does not
consider the loss of a game or two
vital, does not complain about poor
cards or hard luck and does not
vacillate during the progress of the
game; will not only find ever-in-
creasing fascination and relaxation
in the game as he progresses, but
will gain the enviable title IF being
a most acceptable partner wherever
bridge is played.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
An Epidemic of Dictators

Why are big industries like baseball, movies and
ry-cleaning setting up "dictators" to settle all dis
Sputes?
II The latest it is reported is the cleaners, who are
said to have offered Theodore Roosevelt Jr, sort of
VIII Hays job for their organization.
Perhaps it has something to do with judicial
system. In the of the movies for instance, the
Impression seems to be that court would be
etent to settle the complicated questions which arise
between star and producer.
Probably this is true Certain it is that such
uestions now almost never are tried in courts Mr..
lays irons it out. Likewise in baseball Car Lands
cities it.
So now, if combination of dry cleaners should
get into wrangle over distribution of territory
percentage to be paid for chemicals or price cutting
they want Big Boss of their own to act as judge
jury and sheriff for it's settlement
Disregardng for the moment this new evidence of
powerful consolidation or organization-what used to
be called so complete that
the industry ndorse its DEGREES by such eco
nomic methods boycott and the blacklist, it is
evident that this is all business taken away from the
courts.
Why is industry sidestepping the courts? Chief
Justice Taft gave the answer, in stating that
justice delayed is justice denied and that the Amer
i:can judicial procedure had become so slow and
cumbersome that it is of avail except to measure
long purse against short one with the advantage
always on the side of the long purse.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis also gave an answer
when he asked President Wilson to get Congress to
create what he proposed to call Federal Trade
Commission, which would hear and decide matters of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26

industrial dispute without resort to the techncaty-
chained law courtS-a body which would tend to end
bludgeonry in industry
Which is to say that the courts have-in meas
ure-broken down. In quite large measure. Courts
are resorted to now only last resort Merchants
take losses rather than htigate Courts no longer
stand for justice; they stand for litigation. And
litigation is expensive for the ordinary purse
Courts used by big business in labor disputes
to issue njunctions- onesided injunctons They are
used to try small crime and misdemeanor They are
used to enforce the laws of inheritance
But outside of these activities the courts have
been found quite useless Litigation is thing not to
be afforded by ninety-nine people out of hundred
1t is looked as almost disgrace by many and
with terror by more.
A judge no longer is regarded as just and benign
Not the average Judge He is regarded as graduate
lawyer, ready to serve class, and not above still
taking fee.
So we see industry boycottng the courts and crea&
ing its own machinery for settling disputes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26

/ The child who is not capable OF
carrying on the work is likely to
become Indifferent after repeated
failures. He gets no satisfaction
from his work and therefore puts
all his attention on the things that
interest him and which give him
satisfaction.
Children respond to their en-
vironment and feel their emotions
more greatly than do most adults
The child who appears to be lazy
cannot be cured by force, punish
ment, ridicule, or humiliation.
Laziness as a symptom demands
the most careful investigation
First, the child must be complete
ly studied to exclude as a cause
subacute infections of the tonsils
and adenoids, decayed and infect
ed teeth, bad hearing and vision
and intestional disorders.
Next, its mental capacity must
be determined by psychologist ex-
aminationS.
Finally, study should be made
Of its relationships TO health and
Of its general emotional attitude to-
ward life.
Next: Skin Diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26

TT is almost inconceivable that
Il that Mexico with her lightning
passion calmly could wait all these
weeks for the insanity experts to
pronounce Obregon's assassin sane
1t is fine for Mexico to curb the
mob instinct, but she is headed for
something worse if she surrenders
to the alienists who make mockery
Of our courts.
n
With Art Goebel flying from Los
Los Angeles to Cincinnati in fifteen
hours, our State lines lose their
original dignity and become mere
pickets on the national fence.
Now that daylight savings time
has packed his shawlstrap of con-
fusion and retired to chuckia Ger
his devastation until the spring of
1929, when he will resume, long
suffering humanity can make date
and keep it without the assistance of
blue prints, adding machines and
mathematical wizards.
After this election our churches
will contemplate the empty pews of
those they have driven out and they
will yearn in vain to undo their
folly.
Our Protestant churches have all
the empty pews they need without
making more.
We were for prohibition during
the fight for the Eighteenth Amend
ment and we are for it still, but we
would not rip up the bridge from
earth to heaven to crafty any band
Of men on earth!
The honey bees of New Jersey
earn twenty-five percent on the in
vestment, which is a lot more than
nine out of ten presidential bees turn
over to our statesmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
Questions and AnSzOerS

about sixty miles. It is an upland
district about seventy miles from
the coast and nearly 200 miles
southwest of Sydney and about 300
miles northeast of Melbourne. The
plain on which the city is situated
has an altitude of about 1900 feet.
The climate corresponds roughly to
that of Chattanooga, Tenn, or
Asheville, N. G. The name Can
berra is of native Australian origin.
but its meaning is not known. It
was associated with the district be-
fore the idea of new capital came
into existence.
What are the dimensions and
weight of a ten dollar eagle gold
piece?
Diameter, 106O inches; thickness,
$50 inches; standard weight, 1915
ounces, Troy, or 258 grains.
How should an oil painting be
cleaned?
Wash the surface gently with a
soft cloth or fine sponge, let dry
aid rub gently with a soft flame.
cloth moistened with pure olive
oil. The w0 Tow softens the accumu-
100 e--o'-" :'--' 80 ''-' end thu
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26

IF Portugal persists in its purpose
4 to make all its people wear shoes,
it will furnish a market for count
less millions of high shoes, stored
in American attics, all of which
went out of circulation when low
cuts took possession of the Republic.
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Our complex society is as delicate
ly constructed as watch and when
the wind wrecks the existing order,
pestilence, famine, crime crawl forth
as in Florida.
We are utterly helpless in our re-
lance on each other.
Our ancestors could issue a
Declaration of Independence against
England, but we dare not issue one
against our neighbor.
Il
We know that DR.. Walsh of Ford
ham University is right in saying
that thoughts upset the health of
people, for every time the people of
Indiana and Illinois think of their
horrible political conditions, it
makes them sick!
n n
MuSsolini is mistaken when he
thinks he can organize a political
system which will perpetuate the
Fascist scheme of government, for
it will perish with the death Of its
builder.
Institutions which are the SEad-
ows of great personalities vanish
with those personalities.
The king has a successor, but the
genius has not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
BIZ DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MaFazine.

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TN his common sense discussion Of
Il the everyday child, DR.. Douglas
A. Thorn considers especially the
responsibility of the teacher in
molding the personality of the child.
Her influence is second only to
that of the parent, and in many
cases is even greater than that of
the parent because of the fact that
she sees the child during it waking
hours over a far longer period than
does the parent.
She acts therefore not only as a
teacher, but also as a counselor and
adviser, and in many cases is sec
ond only to the physician in de-
veloping a proper emotional atti-
tude toward life.
1t must be remembered that the
teacher is also a human being, sub
ject also to emotional upsets and
that her reactions invariably in
fluence those of the children who
work with her.
The teacher must be able to de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-26
Success in Exile

It Is not always true that rolling
stone gathers no moss or that those
who flee under fire are towards.
Major E. A. Burke, who died in
Honduras on Monday, had not only
been an exile from his native land
for forty years, but had led one of
the most romantic and picturesque
careers on record.
A telegrapher at 10, he was placed
in charge of a division with 500 men
under him at II. At "a. he had
risen to the rank Of major in the
Confederate Army. At 80, he was
elected State Treasurer of Louisiana,
and became a dominating factor in
the Democratic organization of that
State for the next ten years, during
which time he bought and merged
two newspapers.
At 48, with nineteen indictments
against him, and with the charge of
Incorporating 100000 in State
bonds, he took refuge in Honduras,
where he started life over again.
Under such circumstances, most
men would have found themselves
too bitter and discouraged to make
good. Most men would have solaced
themselves with drink, gone in for
revolution, or sunk to the level of
tropical indulgence.
Major Burke came back, not only
rehabilitating his fortune but estab-
fishing an enviable reputation as a
man of great ability, sound judg-
ment and superior culture in his
adopted country. Two years ago
the indictments standing against
him were quashed and he was left
free to return to Louisiana, but
chose to remain where he was.
! Some lives appear to dispr ove
many of our pet proverbs and
platitudes.