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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08
DICK DOUGLAS
 COMING NORTH
Will Leave Seattle on May l5-Be Greeted by
 Gov. Parks

SEATTLE, May 8.-Dick Doug las, one of three Boy Scouts who went with the Martin Johnson Ex- pcdition to Africa, will leave here May 15 to hunt bears on Kodiak Island. The boy is scheduled to leave New York during today and will arrive here next Tuesday. He will be entertained by the Boy Scouts of Seattle and civic organi- zations.
 At Juneau, Alaska, he will be greeted by Gov. George A. Parks.
 In Westward Alaska, Douglas will be taken by guides to shoot on Kodiak Island and it is also ex- pected that he will accompany a boat of the whaling fleet for a few days trip.
 The trip is being sponsored by George Palmer Putnam, publisher.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08
Introduce Bill
 To Regulate .Mouie Industry

WASHINGTON, May B. Senator Brookhart has in- troduced g bill in the Senate to regulate the Motion Pic ture industry. The bill is aimed at the alleged op- pressive measures employed by the larger producers and distributors against the In- dependents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08
CONFINED TO HOME

Mrs. Wallis George is confined to her home suffering from an injury to her hip. While the injury is not serious she will probably be laid up for several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

J. D. Burchard, one of the well known interiorites, is a passenger for the Westward on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

N. D. Sheppard, one of the big traders in the interior, with head quarters at Mountain Village, is a passenger aboard the Alaska west bound.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

D. M. 2othweli, local broker, re- turned on the Alaska after calling on the trade in Southeast Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

R. Huddleston, prominent resi- dent of Valdez, is passenger vest bound on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

s. Wallstedt has returned to Ju- ncau, a passenger on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

H. Bloom, Fairbanks merchant, is westbound passenger aboard the Alaska,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-08

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Navy Rule Reform
Awaited by Samoa

American Samoa. happy under the
guardianship of Uncle Sam. though IL
dislikes the temporary naval rule. an
ticipates a propitious finding on the
part of the commission which. in &C
cordance with the Samoan bill. is to
determine the future administration OF
the island group. This measure. one OF
the last to be signed by President Cool
idge, was the occasion for picturesque
celebration by the large number OF
Samoans In Hawaii. 1t provides for the
formal cession of the islands to the
United States, a point strangely over
looked in the more than quarter CEN
fury since Uncle Sam occupied what Is
now American Samoa. The commission
for which the bill provides will include
two chiefs of eastern Samoa. two
American Senators and two members OF
the Lower House who are to recon-
mend to Congress the form of govern
ment that should be set up permanent
". There has been vigorous objection
to the present American naval rule as
autocratic. However. American Samoa
is healthy. and SamoanS there have
been enabled to live more nearly as
their ancestors did than the natives OF
any other islands in the Pacific which
are really under the control OF whites.
Moreover, the Samoan race is not dying
out. which is in marked contrast to
that of many other South Sea peoples.
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Fascist Journalist
Silenced by Iron Hand

One of the stormiest petrels of Fas-
cist journalism is for the moment, II
not for a long period, silenced.
Emilio Settimelli, editor of an ex-
tremist Rome daily paper, made the
mistake of using the same vulgar and
Incorporate language he is accustomed
to employ against Americans, French
and other foreigners In discussing two
fellow Fascist editors chosen by the
Fascist hierarchy for membership IN
the new Chamber of Deputies.
Settinelli wrote an editorial deplor-
ing the inclusion in the next Parlia-
ment of a miserable, idiotic. provincial
newspaper man painting under misap-
propriated war decorations and an Illicit
admission to the bar, man whose pat
ent cowardice and monumental asinin-
ity dishonor Italy and Fascism, but who
always manages to ally himself with
another editor passing as a poet, but
chiefly known as a profiteer and. like
wise admitted to the Chamber"
This is an attack such as may be
found almost any day in one OF three
Roman daily papers. The difference this
time is that it was directed against two
men who have enjoyed the highest of.
fees in the Fascist party and are still
influential enough to be approved by
Mussolini for places In the new Par
lament.
Although half of the offending edi.
torial was devoted to idolatrous praise
of Mussolini and all his works, the vitri.
Ole editor was summarily suspended
from all Fascist party activity and hi'
party membership withdrawn by thu
party secretary, Augusta Turati. SETH
melli made an abiect apology for nj:
offense and surrendered editorship o.
his paper. known as the "A and z Of
Fasctsm"
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MICHAEL MACWHITE.

too rapid for such gentle slopes-every-
where the sea; and from these hills the
ships are seen that carry the sons and
daughters Of Ireland away to America
and freedom.
Born on a Farm.
On one of these farms MacWhite was
born. On a nearby farm Michael Col
Inns, Sin Fem hero, was born. He
and MacWhite were boyhood friends.
And MacWhite, a boy, would see the
relatives of those who had sailed for
America gathered upon those hills wav-
ing their handkerchiefs. waving their
aprons as the ships went by, In futile
farewell to those upon them. Those on
the ships could not see them upon the
shore. nor see the men turn back, the
woman left alone, her apron over her
head, sobbing as the twilight came on.
But the boy Michael saw.
And as he saw there entered into his
imagination, as into that of so many
other Irish boys of his time and the
times of his fathers. the dream of an
other world-something beyond these
hills, this sea, boundleSS and vague as
his own imaginings.
Some of them answered 1t and be-
came soldiers of fortune. Some of
them, like MacWhite answered 1t and
became more than soldiers of fortune
perhaps you might call them soldiers
of a dream that came true.
Tucked against the corner OF one of
the little hills still stands the school,
house where MacWhite received the
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SKEPTICISM PREVAILS
OVER PROMISES OF IL. c."
Unemployment in England Can Be
Ended i'm Year, Declares Former Pre-
mier i'm Critical Political Battle.

men, Churchill and Lloyd George, are
the ablest, as they are the most ambi-
tious, of contemporary public men in
Britain.
A "Lib-Lab" combination, on the
other hand, would be difficult to arrive
at, because of the great hostility be-
tween Macdonald and Lloyd George,
although 1t is clearly advocated by
Philip Snowden, who was chancellor of
the exchequer in the first Labor cabi-
net and would normally hold the same
post in any new government. A pro-
poSal for such combination would GER
tainly endanger the solidarity of the
Labor party. while one must question
Lloyd Georges ability to carry the
whole of his Liberal group over to the
Socialist camp. Whether he turns right
or left, he seems bound to lose valuable
fractions of his own party.
lie Keeps i'm Limelight.
Laying aside the mathematics and
politics of the prediction calculation,
one must concede that Lloyd George
has already succeeded in appropriating
to himself the best of the limelight.
The passing of time, while it has turned
him white, has not seemed to diminish
in the smallest degree his supreme art
as a politician and his marvellous flair
for popular interest. All things con-
sidered. this may well be his last gen.
eral election, but even If in the end he
proves as unsuccessful at the polls as
was William Jennings Bryan himself,
he will have the satisfaction of having
dominated the hustings right up to the
moment the votes were counted.
And, as l have said on the day after
election he may find himself sitting ION
the top of the world" controlling the
necessary votes without which no cabi-
net can be formed. and open to pro-
posals from the leaders of both the OPP
posing parties. Thus while he may
never again be master, his chances to
be kingmaker are rosy in the extreme
and If he is the kingmaker one may
safely calculate that he will annex the
royal share alike of popular attention
and applause.
Thus while nominally the issue of
the coming election is the unemploy-
ment of the masses, Lloyd George has
already transformed 1t into a question
Of his own unemployment
Copyright. 1929
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only formal educational instruction of
his life, at the hands Of an oldtime,
old-type Irish schoolmaster.
Where He Went to School.
This master had to walk Is miles
to the school daily. On the way was a
crossroads where he could comfortably
sit to wait for a possible jaunting car
so that school might begin at or at
IL. as fortune favored.
When he entered the room he would
choose any of the boys handy to re-
ceive the necessary dozen or so whacks
with his cane. All were mischievous
and all were bound to be equally guilty,
SO really it didn't matter which got it.
From the schoolhouse window the
master could see the chimneys of sew
eral houses No one, either master or
boys, ever had any lunch. They. all
alike, were too poor for that. But along
in the afternoon, from his elevated
seat, the master could observe which
chimney showed slight plume of
smoke, indicating the brewing of tea
on the hearth within. He then would
dismiss the school for the day and re-
pair to the cottage whose chimney had
shown signs of life. The pupils could
depart on their own affairs.
For the boy OF genuine intellectual
White was such boy. Receiving no
nand-rolled educational pellets. he
must needs forage for himself. Forage
he did.
Every book that any one owned In
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Ancient Japanese
Omens Are Explained

This is the year Of the serpent, ac-
cording to the ancient Japanese zodiac.
which still is watched with great inter-
est by majority Of the population.
Astrologers have been spending the
past months studying their mysterious
charts and preparing their prophesies.
The person born in the year of the SER
pent is generally quiet and gracious in
his conduct. according to Prof. Taxa
shima one of the most famous astrolo-
gers in Japan and a man whose WORD
is taken as gospel truth by many.
The temperament OF such person
Is suited TO almost any kind of work,
but If he will enter the priesthood he
will be pre-eminently successful. The
profession of artist, teacher or doctor
is also advised Girl babies born this
year will be beautiful males will be
fortunate, but because of politeness will
miss some opportunities to improve
their personal stations in life.
Though the general outlook Is opti-
mistic, the professor has words of warn
ing. Those born in this year mus
watch their love affairs because each
sex will be especially attractive to the
other. Diseases which. particularly
in women, should be guarded against are
consumption. stomach trouble and
mslanchQ4la -. - ------.
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men of four or five generations ago
for Bonaparte Did not great part
of the successes of these leaders rest
upon the fact that they were more or
less foreigners in the countries they
ruled? Disraeli was, after all, a Span
ish Jew; Bonaparte was Corsican-a
Corsican who, leased by the richer and
brighter French boys while a student
in the Ecole Militaire of Brienne, NUT
tered in his half Italian, half French
language: "Ah. / want some day to
take my revenge on you, Frenchmen"
In the same way nothing is more I'M
English than the ger,ius of David Lloyd
George. 1 could not help feeling this
constantly during the years following
the signing of the Versailles treaty,
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The Lloyd Georgian Enigma


first long way behind; nobody taking
any note of him. You can see him
and here Mr.. Lloyd Georges fists be-
gain galloping-"com along, and at
last passing them"-the orators fists
were still galloping passing them one
after the other and getting past the
winning post first to the dismay of all
the experts"
Then, after a long pause:
THAT is the Liberal horSe!"
This recent scene is typical OF Mr..
Lloyd Georges eloquence and Of the
magnetic grip he frequently succeeds in
obtaining on a British audience.
We today are receiving the same i'm
preston of Mr.. Lloyd George as the
generation of our grandfathers felt in
England for Disraeli and the French
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the neighborhood was borrowed and
thumbed before Michael was in his
teens. His next step was inevitable.
When I was in Dublin I had the
pleasure of meeting one of Ireland's
most famous. living characters, Tim
Healy, once a member of the British
Parliament, then governor general OF
Ireland.
Take Road to Dublin.
Healy himself was Cork man and
famous throughout the British Isles
for his unfailing wit He used to say
of the part of Ireland from which Mac
White comes:
In Cork they have 10 children in
the family. When the eldest is is
his father gives him a loaf of bread
and leads him out into the road and
points the direction and says:
That's the road to Dublin! and
gives him a kick behind"
MacWhite was the youngest, not the
eldest, of his family. But he went to
Dublin, just the same, at is.
There he took the examinations for
the bank and passed them and got a
small position.
In Cork he had known Collins, the
Robin Hood of Sim Fem. In Dublin he
met and became the friend of Griffith,
was poor-a compoSitor-then gradually
building up the press which, as fast as
it was suppressed under one title,
changed Its name and emerged under
another.
I do not know whether Griffith. Gin
fiuenced" MacWhite, except that Grlf-
fifth influenced all with whom he came
in contact as mortar influences
bricks into a structure. At any rate,
x1.t nsSsxrtrr
and subsequently dreams he had upon
those hills near Clanakilty. For he
was one of those Irish boys who dream
ed not alone for themselves but for
Ireland.
In Dublin there were more books to
be had His room was bare of fur
niture and low in food, but 1t was filled
with books. The boy had the I'M
formulated feeling that in the possess
sion of languages lay some hidden
power. He began to study them by
himself, from grammars and diction-
aries, without tutor. He went all the
way to Sanskrit and Hindustani that
way, picking up the fundamental
tongues of Western Europe as he went.
Delegate to League.
Years after, when he became a dele
gate to the League of Nations. the
, SJTdnReTleSS Oh IllS dCCcNt COuiu uc nc
counted for. He could speak many
languages fluently. with rich yocabu-
larry. But he had learned them. first.
from the printed page. and not by ear.
BY passing some more examinations,
and at the age of ID he got position
In bank in London.
1t was living. 1t was also an OPP
portunity to have share in the then
already well defined policy which Grit
fifth called the Hungarian policy of
passive resistance"
1t was q curious sort Of passivitv
And its meat Is In the story they tell
in Dublin of the Jewish rabbi who made
speech against conscription:
And If they try to put 1t upon us"
this rabbi cried to his congregation In
Dublin. I'VE will get out into the Wick
low hills and fight till we die"
In Dublin MacWhite was one of a
group who wrote and syndicated articles
for the cause of Irish independence:
they wrote them in all the Continental
languages and printed them every
where they could get them into type.
Dreamer though the boy had been.
he had been far from dreamy He had
observed. He had guessed the value
Of farm eo-operatives to agricultural
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Ireland. He got himself position as
teacher of English language and letters
in Danish school that he might study
the Danish system first hand. That
was for Ireland.
For himself, was the opportunity to
get the Scandinavian languages. Then
There was German. He knew a little
German, but not enough. Rucksack on
back. he spent his vacation tramping
through Germany. making VOW to
speak not one word of English.
Forms Farm Co-Operatives.
Then back to Clanakilty again. to
organize farm co-operatives. Not cent
for himself did he take.
One of the most successful co-opera-
ives in Ireland remains about Clanakllty,
a going concern today.
OF to the continent again, wandering,
tramping. studying languages. writing.
Always writing something for Ireland III
a foreign paper or contributing TO
Grifith'S protean formed press in Dub
lin. always in touch with the Sim
Fem.
Now enter the other MacWhite And.
to understand him, take a look at the
new Minister of the Irish Free State
as he stands there today in drawing
room in Washington, re-incarnated as
the diplomat.
Observe his big frame: his powerful
shoulders: his quick eye: his swift
gesture: his vitality Observe, too, that
though he weighs nearly 200 there is
not bit of fat there.
And so observing, try to persuade him
to tell of his adventures. A veil of
sensitiveness slides down. He is full
of good stories, told in a rich Cork
occapt-a hout other DeODle He Is fllll
of reminiscence-about other people.
He makes you laugh and he gives you
the thought of a tear-about other
people. He is annoyingly difficult-and
Irish.
From other people you find some
things out.
Being Irish-and this kind of Irish
when war broke out could he be far be-
hind? This was no slim. frail starvel-
ing, writer and linguist though he was
Joined Foreign Legion.
He found himself in Paris; he joined
up at once with the Foreign Legion
He was sent with detail of Foreign
Legion roughnecks to the United
States to boom a Liberty Loan. AS
they marched up Fifth avenue. some
one in the crowd, observing MacWhite's
face. cried:
You amt no Froggy!"
mo comprendre!" MacWhite clipped
out.
He was called back to France and
sent to the Eastern front He knew
Gallipoli. He lay with the Legion. I'M
relieved for 80 days. in the water-log-
ged trenches of Macedonia Twice
decorated. promoted from the ranks,
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horse race in my life" TN saying
so he was making bow to the Quaker
side of his audience).
And, after pause:
But I'll go to one next week" (And
with that he relieved almost all Eng
landD.
There are men here who can correct
me If 1 am wrong. Sometimes there
is a great surprise-the horse that the
knowing ones think will win is long
way behind and another horse, not
supposed to be in the running. comes
cantering in. 1t is all due to atmos-
pheric conditions. There are certain
conditions in which the hashy ones are
no good. And you can see the horse at
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could not foresee what the future might
bring in this part of Europe. etc.
next demanded a hearing and de-
clarcd that / could not follow the rea-
soning of my British colleague. 1t was
not possible, said. among other things,
to be more Russian than the Russian
government itself; and since that gov
eminent had recognized Lativa. Es-
thonia, etc.
Lord Curzon, not in the least shaken.
was about to reply to me when Mr..
Lloyd George rose with an air Of an
noyed impatience and said in a de-
tached way:
IT have listened to two opposite views
I agree with Count Sforza."
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but with none SO constantly and so
deeply as with Lord Curzon. 1t was
one of those rare cases where a man
is irritated by every mannerism and
every word of another.
A striking episode is still fresh in
my memory. When the question of
recognizing the Baltic States came be-
fore a meeting of the Supreme Council,
NJ. Brian, who was presiding, began
by asking the opinion of his colleagues.
Lord Curzon was the first to speak.
With the solemn Victorian, eloquence
which he never forgot to use on any
occasion. he spoke for good half hour
upon the inconvenience and stupidity
of committing ourselves definitely with
regard to the rising Baltic States; one
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when the chiefs of the Allied govern
ments used to meet for weeks at series
of peripatetic supreme councils, from
Boulogne to Paris, from Spa to London
His first great clash was with Asquith
And who is more English than Asquith
and his wait and see" policy?
He always used to come to the
Supreme Councils accompanied by Lord
Curzon and occasionally by men like
Churchill, Bonar Law. Austen Chamber
lain and Lord Derby. With each one
in turn he had sharp disagreements,
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BY COUNT CARLO SFORZA,

FORMER Italian MlnlStpF OF FOTtIEH hHHIIS
and Ambassador to France.
" VEN those who believe that they
are inoculated against all forms
= of political wizardry are fire.
L. guently captured by the per-
sonality of David Lloyd George.
At Yarmouth, a short time ago, dur
ing one of his most important speeches
in the campaign for the coming cleo
tions, he conquered not only his audi
ence buff only for II hours-the
whole of England.
He had interrupted his speech and
was gravely consulting his notes. He
raised his Silvery head and, while every
one was expecting some substantial
statement. he began:
Gentlemen, l have never seen a
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BY ANNE HARD.

7 T IS hard to write of Michael Mac
White, new Minister of the Irish
Free State, in the tongue Of the
SaSSenach
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BY FRANK ii. SIMONDS.

AN Lloyd George come back?
A AS the British campaign gets
into its rather feverish swing
~ no question is more frequently
No in, tho election
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But within few months after the
1880 census is taken the facts will be-
come known as to the relativs sizes of
all the aspiring cities in the United
States. Heads will be lifted in pride
or bowed, or land this IS more likely
than the bowling of headS) the results
produced by the census takers will be
challenged and Strenuously aSsailed as
inaccurate.
Since the Senate has joined in one
measure, the legislation fE his census
and the proposal for a reapportion-
ment of the House of Representatives,
1t is certain that, by reason of the
shifting of population, some states will
gain in representation and others will
lose nthe basis of the figures of the
coming enumeration.
And that may make difference in
the type of legislation that will come
out from under the Capitol dome. and
it may also influence tie selection in
1882 of the occupant of the White
House for the subsequent four years.
And then again 1t may make no Diff
ference at all.