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New Britain herald., 1930-02-28
STARTS TRIP BY PL.tNi,

New London, Feb. 2S Pl-Mrs. Nancy Schoonmaker, publicity direc- tor of Connecticut College for Wom- on, left New York yesterday to fly to California, expecting 10 make the voyage in two days. and begin a three weeks lecture tour on the sub ject of international Relations and Present Naval Farley"
New Britain herald., 1930-02-28
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l tEy Herald GorieverD
 Ur the many 1arces which have |attcmptcd 10 mako tho American
 public laugh in the last few years, . "I Want My Nlfr." a u,sr enter jaIum,ut al Parsons thcarr. liar. Q l ford. bids fair 10 enjoy a prolong," { success. !, rpplrs Wuh amusing lines and situations and is rarri. ! along at IL fast pace. \ populac' which profcssls 10 na bored hv tho
 ordinary events ol lite vii ind rc- lief here.
 Amnes,a and psychology enter into tho plot with genuinely funny results. Alfred Towdcr d bachelor ot wealth, is recovering from an at ! tack of amucsia during which he forgot his identity for three weeks and wandered about the country. His widowed sister. Mrs. CeceliL Bordon, solicltous for his welfare, arranges an imaginary wedding for 1 him, telling him that, during the vacation Of his mental faculties. he married Janet MacaulcN. Tho young lady agrees to act her role of the bride after many urlsEiyiuEs. Far Quhar Nools, q British paychothoor- ist, who insists that his name is pronounced "Iaws," conceivcs the scheme and helps to carry it ou.. The resultant tangIe, especially when another young woman appears on the scene, is conducive tQ hilarit Y in high degree.
 The cast Is ideally adapted to this form of play. Spring Byiugton sets the speed as Mrs. Bordon, q gushing young widow carried away with cn- thusiasm [ her brothers happi- ness. Gerald Oliver Smith scores in the role of the British psychothcor- ist, u bit obtusc and inclined 10 Dc the popular Caricaturc of d bally something or other. Herbert YoL helps nightly with his intcrprcta- ton Of inc amnesi4 victim Marion Abbott Is 100 per cent as the solid, matter of fact spinstcr who believes that facts are facts and should be faced Patricia Barclay is nice in the character Of the girl in the case and Edward Ficlding's work as Dr. Pomberton is tlawless.
 T Want My Wife" is thoroughly enjoyable farce, with no let downs from beginning to cud It IS at Parsons for the rest Of the week.
New Britain herald., 1930-02-28
MALTBIE HEADS COMMISSION

New York, Feb. -6 ,Pt-Gorernor Franklyn D. Roosevelt today an nounced the appointment of Milo F. public service commission to sue ceed William A. Prcndergast. re- signed
New Britain herald., 1930-02-28

In addition to making his initial bow as General Crack, Mr. Barry more also. plays the father of his character in the prologue, and en- acts his fathers ghost in later scenes.
 The exceptional cast appearing in his support. includes Lowell Shor- man. Marian Nixon, Armida. Hobart BosWorth. Jacqueline Logan, Otto Matioson, Philippe dc Lacy, Andres dc Segurola, Douglas Gerard, Will liam Non Brinkon, Theodore Lodi, Nick Thompson and Curt Rayfield,
 Alan Crosland, whose adroitness in painting dramatic canvasses on q wide scale, places him among the top-notch talking picture directors, directed this sweeping tale of court intrigue and gypsy love.
New Britain herald., 1930-02-28
LEAVES BREW TO BROTHER

Detroit, Feb. eS UP)-Direct- tions that his "cIothes and home brew" be given 10 his brother, Fred, were contained in the will Of Charl.s C. Duerr, filed for probate here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN WAS AUTHOR
 OF ALASKA RAILROAD BILL.

Judge Wickersham in his Juneau speech and others throughout the Territory said the Alaska Railroad bill was introduced by him and was his bill The bill authorizing the Alaska railroad which became a law was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator George E. Chamberlain of Ore gon Judge Wickersham introduced bill in the House of Representatives but Senator Chamberlain got his bill through the Senate before Judge Wick ersham could get action his bill in the House. When Senator Chamberlains bill came down to the House from the Senate it substituted for the Wickersham Bill and the latter passed into the discard. The House then passed the Chamberlain Bill The chief difference between the Chamberlain Bill and the Wckersham Bill was that the Chamber lain Bill appropriated $40OOO0oO and the Wicker sham Bill only S35,000000. Judge Wickersham or else in the House succeeded in getting the Senate appropriation cut from $40ooO000 to s35- oo0oOO George Grigsby as Delegate to Congress, succeeded in getting another appropriation for ST. 100000 for the railroad Only S12ooOooo would have been necessary if the Chamberlin appropriation had not been cut down in the House.
 The father of the Alaska Railroad legislation was President Wilson He got Senator Chamber lain and other leaders in the Senate and House interested in the proposition. The man above any else probably to get President Wilson inter- ested was Charles G. Hefner of Seattlethe present Democratic nominee for Congress in the Seattle dis trict He visited President Wilson at Princeton be- tween his election and inauguration and urged him to adopt a Develop Alaska policy and urged the railroad from the coast to Fairbanks the best to that end.
 Judge Wickersham supported the Government railroad proposition and made very able speech for it in the House But Senator Chamberlain got his measure through the Senate before Judge Wick ersham got his through the House and is the real author of the measure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
THE EIGHTY-ROD STRIP BILL"

Judge Wickersham declared in his Douglas speech that the Eighty Rod Strip Bill a deparamental measure and that George B. Grigsby who introduced It, was only performing routine work The bill it is true had the approval of the Department of the Interior, but it induced to approve by Dele gates Sulzer and Grigsby
 The Eighty Rod Strip" legislation provided that half of the lands along the water front and back for eighty rods could not be entered by home steads or others. The suggestion that it be re- peaed was preached to Secretary Lane by MT Sulzer and the editor of The Empire. Several times they had the matter up with him and Edward c. Finney, Solicitor of the Interior Department Representa- tives of the Interior Department in the field in Alaska were canvassed and they supported the re- peal proposal So did Gov. Riggs At the first the proposition was anything but departmental meas ure. Department officials said it of the pieces of anti-monopoy legislation and they were afraid that the muckrakers-who already had held back Alaska development immeasureably would set up a howl
 After the death of MT. Suzer, MT. Grgsby his successor, followed the proposition through to the passage of the bill by Congress. He got the favor able report on it from the Department of the Interior
 Strip Bill and procured it's passage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

Congressman Ruth Owen wants a child welfare department in the Federal Government This is the kind of department that used to be found in each home Cincinnati Enqurer9
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
THE SULZER SELF-GOVERNMENT
 MEASURE.

Judge Wckersham, in his Juneau speech, called attention to the circumstance that the provisions of the Alaska Organic Act regarding liquor and gam bling copied intosa self-government measure that introduced in Congress by Delegate Sulzer and supported by the editor of The Empire. Judge Wickersham did not call attention to the really important sef-government provisions of the Sulzer Bill that caused the editor of The Empire support it and to which he referred in the state ment he made before the House Committee on Ter rtores.
 The Wickersham limitations on the power of the Legislature regarding the liquor traffic and gambling inserted in the Suzer Bill for the reason that Judge Houston, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, declared that he had information that the demand in Alaska for a full Territorial form of government solely demand to restore the saloons and gambling in that Territory. While he did not disclose who were his nformants it was known by Mir. Sulzer that Judge Wickersham a very frequent visitor at the office of Judge Houston Judge Houston had also been in communication with Mrs. Hatcher, of the packers of the William Mahoney campaign for the Democratic nomination for Delegate Judge Houston told MT. Sulzer that he would not and he did not believe the committee or the House of Representatives would consent to give power to the people of Alaska to change in any particular the laws with reference to these sub jecs.
 MT. Sulzer was dry and attempted to get the Democratic platform in Alaska in 1916 to incor- porate a Prohibition plank in their platform. He opposed in this by the chairman of the Com mittee the same William Maloney whom Judge Wickersham's friends attempted to nominate in the Democratic primary in 1918 for Delegate to Con- gress However, MT. Suzer would have left it to the people of Alaska to determine for themselves had it not been that Judge Houston made it plain that he would defeat the measure if that were done.
 Judge Wickersham says that Delegate Suzer was able to get his reported from the Terri tories Committee. He did not try for the reason that the Territories Committee members were all also members of committees that had legisa- tion of one another to consider and the Chairman said that he did not believe he would be able to get another meeting of the committee fol weeks (This was in early 1918 when the United States was taxing all her energies to get troops across the Atlantic1 While Judge Wckersham was coaching Judge Houston the probabilities that the latter was in good faith in the premises. The only hearing of the Sulzer sef-government measure
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
JUSY SILLY; THAT'S ALL.

Judge Wickershams declaration in his Juneau spech that the First Division in the next Alaska Legislature would be a cipher if the Democratic Legislative candidates elected because, he said the majority of the members of the Legislature will be Republicans, was ridiculous to the point of stiffness. Party differences have been taken into account in the Legislature No one ever pro- posed that they ought to be taken into account until MT Gardner and MT Scott attempted to justify their surrender to MT Paul by advancing the idea that the party label the thing of most importance The party label has not figured lin the selection of presiding officers other em- poyees of either branch of the Legislature in committee assignments in legislation
 We venture to predict that notwithstanding the efforts of professional politicians they will not be taken into account in the next Legislature
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
CATCHING AT STRAINS.

After President Hoover and Ex-Presdent Coolidge have been working overtime to convince the people that was responsible for the stock market crash that caused the business depression, but that lit was due to worldwide conditions the Republican National Committee comes out with Nationwide charge that John J. Raskob, Chairman of the de- feated Democratic Party responsible for it all. The Republicans must be catching at straws if they think the people will fall for that sort of stuff.
 There many reasons to think the Democrats have overworked the charge of Republican respons- bity for hard times. But there is million times better for their position than for the absurdly silly charge that Raskob did it al-or had anything to do with it. It listens like desperate eleventh hour shout of agony for relief from God knows where.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03
High School Debating.
(NeW York World.)


 Debating is abolished as a school activity in Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn because it develops according to Principal Lieberman, "a smart-aleck attitude based on a win-at-any cost ideal" Far better then debates for educative pur- poses, MT. Lieberman thinks, round table dis cussions symposiums devoted to seeking the truth rather than winning victory. Such symposums will discuss topics touching upon the social sciences literature music and other arts, well current developments in pure and applied science"
 It must be admitted that seeking the truth is less the object of high school debating than winning victory. Interschoastc debating especially has de- veloped into game with almost as definite rules and strategy football The deadly Journalism of the thing the of books of argument avail able to both sides and the ingenuity of the coaches leave little room for originality initiative on the part of the debaters. On the other hand, the ele- ment of actual combat the competitive instinct, does not enhance interest in debates school activities Educators will follow with interest MT Liehermans success with his symposium club as substitute
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

May the best men win.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

The Republican Congressional Committee is not ipaying favortism between vets and drys. It sent $100O0 to Montana to help elect wet Republican over a dry Democrat for Senator and like amount to Colorado to help elect dry Republican over a lwet Democrat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

was at the suggestion of Judge Houston who said that he would like to have a statement from the editor of The Empire (who was anxious to answer calls from New York and reluctant to stay over in Washington another day in order to make it)
 The less Judge Wickersham digs into past political history the easier he will find it to get voters of today to forget about the things that caused the people to eliminate him from Alaska politics for ten years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

Only those who vote tomorrow will be entitled to kick during the next two years if the Legislature dcec not meet with approval.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

While the elections this year in doubt there seems to be to doubt that if people would vote the way they drink the vets would have a landslide.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

By coming out for the repeal of the Eigh- tenth Amendment both parties in New York stand
 to lose the speakeasy vote. (Macon, Ga, Tele- graphJ
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

Title for history of American politics from 1920 to 1880: From Water Wagon to Band Wagon -(New York World)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-03

It will all be over tomorrow. All that will re- main will be to tell how it happened
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14
Speeding Up Indictments.

The new practice of bringing prison.
ers charged with felony directly into the
grand jury room after arraignment in
Police Court should prove a desirable
method Of eliminating some of the diff
ficulties facing Government prosecutors.
These are the difficulties that arise from
loss Of witnesses, difiiculty in rounding
up the witnesses and the fact that
memory suffers concerning important
details after a long period Of delay.
With the witnesses in hand and the
crime fresh in the minds of those con-
cerned, the matter of presenting the
case satisfactorily to the grand jury
should be easier. The reform seems
worthwhile.
The plan is not to be confused, how
ever, with a step that would hasten the
trial of prisoners, once they have been
indicted. That is another matter en-
tirely. A quick Indictment merely puts
another case on the court docket. In
the District Supreme Court there are
now some 900 cases on the criminal
docket. The judges in the criminal
division have been increased from two
to three. The addition should hasten
the disposal of criminal cases BY a
third, but any important trial, such as
the pending proceedings in connection
with indictment of r. H. Smith Co.
officials. will throw the Ie0sI rnsrhineru
behind again.
It Is desirable that men accused of
felony be saved the delay between
their arrest, arraignment and presenta-
ton Of the case before the grand jury
No man should be forced to spend any
time behind the bars until his case has
been heard by the grand Jury and the
element Of doubt as to his innocence
justifies his incarceration until trial.
But after the indictment of the ac-
cused, the period he spends in Jail OF
free on bond should be cut to the mini
mum, and the minimum should b.
measured by the time required by the
prosecutor and defense counsel TO per.
feet their cases and appear in court
The theoretically perfect arrangement,
would be found when the courts were
waiting for the trial of the accused
AS 1t Is now, the accused must wait
until the courts are ready to give him
his day. The wait for the day in
wolves months, even years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14

ing It's existence, he pays high tribute
to President Hoover's wise action in
bringing the leaders of business and
labor together one year ago and thus
contributing in great degree to an
avoidance of those conflicts which so
often in the past have complicated our
periods Of depression and delayed our
industrial recovery" Then Mr.. Nor
row eulogized the Presidents dignity
and wisdom" in the conduct of Amer
ica's foreign affairs and, speaking with
special knowledge, Mr.. Hoover's "in-
itiative and driving force" in connection
with the London Naval Conference.
The Newark speech is not the utter
ance of a political Brutus, come to
bury Caesar. 1t was exclusively a mes
sage Of praise. 1t will enhance Dwight
Morrow's reputation as a politician and
a statesman. After all, he is only fifty-
seven years old. The White House will
still be here in 1896, If the Republican
party, In Its sagacity, decides to turn to
New jersey and the United States Sen
ate for presidential timber six years
hence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14
Mr.. Morrow's Future.

Anybody who has crossed the country
in recent times cannot have escaped the
conviction that Dwight w. Morrow has
impressed his personality upon the pop
ular imagination to a remarkable degree.
Some people attribute that phenomenon
to the New Jersey statesman's choice
Of son-in-law. Others explain 1t on
the basis Of Mr.. Morroy's ambassa-
dorial exploits in Mexico. Probably the
best diagnosis Of his sudden national
renown is his bold stand for repeal of
the eighteenth amendment The boom
in Morrow stock dates from the hour,
five months ago, when he nailed wet
colors TO his mast as 1 candidate for
the United States Senate from New
Jersey.
Whatever the cause, Morrow for
President" on the Republican ticket Is
slogan which has achieved amazing
currency. Naturally 1t echoes the more
enthusiastically from lips that are
parched and which are clamoring here,
there and everywhere for obliteration or
modification of the existing liquor laws.
Perfervid Morrowites, anxious for anti
prohibition action with a minimum, of
delay, have conjured with his name for
1882 Promising the wishes which are
father TO their thirsty thought, they
have jumped to the conclusion that
Herbert Hoover is destined TO be one
term President" and anointed Dwight
Morrow as his candidatorial successor
two years hence.
Last night at Newark, from the same
platform whence he stirred wet emo
tons in May, Mr. Morrow seized prompt
occasion to scotch his premature presi-
| Dental boom. Il look forward with
! pleasure and confidence" he said, Ito
the opportunity of voting two years
I from now for the denomination and re-
/ election Of Herbert Hoover" That will
not be interpreted. of course, by super
Morrowitcs as meaning that the former
Ambassador has definitely and posi-.
lively withdrawn his hat from the 1885,
ring where It has never formally been
But the friends of both President Hoover
and Mr.. Morrow are entitled TO fee
that the latter has at least done hii
part TO clear the O. o. p. track for 1913:
and leave 1t, rs is additionally don,
under our politico-presidentia system
to the incumbent, provided the lattei
aspires to perpetuate himself.
Nor is Mr.. Morrow at all minded h
exploit TO his immediate advantage tn
economic depression through which tn
United stat&. in common with the res
Of the world. Is passing. Acl<nowieeg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14
The Capitol Guides.

In the incoming session of Congress
an effort will be made, as 1t should, 70
abolish in the Capitol Building the
system of fee-charging guides and TO
replace it with a paid guide service, 50
that visitors from any part of the
country will be shown about the Capitol
Building free of charge.
The fee guide system in the Capitol,
instead of free guide service, has long
been criticized and severely censured
by prominent members of Congress as
well as by the steady flow Of tou lists
1t has been declared "a shame" on the
Government TO allow visitors to be
charged toll before hcirg shown about
their Capitol In other buildings or
hAe sightseeing tours Of the Capital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14

had drawn white lines on the road, in
between which cars were supposed to
park. In several instances the fire plugs
were in between these lines. Sergt
Whitehouse commended, however, that
the lines were drawn to show the angle
at which the cars were to park, not
where.
Another defendant, j. A. Grant
pointed out that there were so many
fire plugs in Rangitikei street that II
they were cut out there would be no
parking area left.
\
Workmen Find
Mystery Styles for Women.
The Bulletin, Sydney. A suburban
store recently found itself in possession
OF large secondhand stock, most OF
1t years out of fashion. Carrying out
renovations. workmen started to de-
molish a cavity wall that acted as a
partition iin the STATS retiring room.
Where THE cavity should have been
was packed with odds and ends of flap
pers' raiment, pushed we'll down out OF
sight. The lower the wall dropped the
older the styles, until the workmen were
unearthing mysteries that girls now
adays only read about. They we're all
discards, of course; and 1t was just as
obvious that the disorders had aban-
doned them for selections from the
goods they were supposed to be selling.
*
Chile Sees Movies
As Education Medium.
FL Mercurio. Santiago.-The Univer-
Sity of Chile has placed the seal of its
approval upon what Is known as the
educational Aim" 1t has found after
careful inquiry and experiment that the
screen many be adapted to the instruc-
ton of children, even Of kindergarten
age, in a way that does away with the
impediments Of book and blackboard
methods, and that 1t Is means of
imparting knowledge that is actually
enjoyed by the younger generations.
The text book, in this epoch, is too arid
an adjunct. Children remember and
understand what they see in animated
pictures. 1t requires cons for them to
assimilate the same information from
pedagogues or the printed page.
The University Of Chile is of the opin-
ion that not only history, art, natural
science and physics can be inculcated
by the screen, but that even arithmetic,
geometry, rhetoric and photography are
ing the long catalogue of subjects which
may be taught by means of these ami
mated pictures.
How much more, for instance, will
children know of the men and women
of ancient Greece and Rome, when they
see them moving and acting upon the
screen, than they possibly derive from
descriptions of these persons in a his
tory book? The Odyssey, the Aeneid,
the Trojan War, the assassination Of
Julius Caesar, and the campaigns of
Hannibal and Scipio Africanus become
vivid, veritable events, never to be for
gotten nor misconceived when children
behold them in all authenticity of cos
tune, action and environment. How
much deeper an impression they receive
of Ulysses. Hector, Cicero and Cleopatra
when they see these personages in living
pantomime!