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NET PRO TO LEAVE D. C.

Jimmy Mitchell, tennis professional
at Columbia Club for the past two sea-
sons, has been appointed to a similar
post at the Country Club of Virginia.
at Richmond, and will leave for his new
Job about March is.
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SEEKS FAIRLAWN PILOT.

Boys Club basket ball team is
scheduled to meet the Fairlawn quint
tonight in the club gymnasium and the
Fairlawn manager is asked to call the
manager of the club five at the club,
National 1899, as soon as possible.
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YANKs SIGN HOAG.

SACRAMENTO, Calf February 3
(P).-Meryl Hoag, young outfielder, sold
by Sacramento to the New York
Yankees to report this year has
Strengthened out his contract Difficult
ties and has signed.
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BY MALCOLM CAMPBELL.

~ AYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb
ruary 3.-Why do think
- can better the world land
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will be fortunate if it gets as good as
draw next time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-11

roughly, 69 million urban, 54 mil lion rural.
 There has been Increased clamor from states with greatly increased city populations for readjustment of representation. Short of some most improbahly action by the Seventy-first Congress, a reap portionment for the Seventy-third Congress, to be elected in 1882, will take effect automatically on the end of the Seventy first Congress March 4.
 States May Redistrict
 Under that reapportionment the question of redistricting to adjust to population shifts will arise for each state legislature. What they will do about it will be their indi- vidual affair. It will be out of the hands of the federal govern ment.
 Many states have not tackled that thorny political problem for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-11
OFFICERS FROM TALLAPOOSA TO BE ENTERTAINED
Lieut.. Comd'r Dench and Staff Among Guests at
 Chambers s Meeting

Tomorrow will be United States Coast Guard Day at the weekly Chamber of Commerce meeting, it was made known today by G. H. Walmsley, Secretary. Lieut.. Con- mander c. H. Dench, captain of the Tallapoosa, and his staff of officers will be guests of the Cham Der at it's weekly luncheon at the Arcade Cafe.
 ' w. J. Mcdonald, President, and L. c. Pratt, Secretary, of the Cor dova Chamber of Commerce, who have been here for the past 10 days, will also be guests.
 A communication relative to the establishment of a Seattle Alaska air mail route has been received from Delegate Sutherland and will be submitted to the meeting. One response has been received to the Chambers suggestion to the can neries that they employ all pos sible Alaska labor this season. Oth- CT communications of interest will also be read.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-11

years, one not for half century
 Yet what the states do could
 conceivably completely alter the
 political relativities in the house
 could even change radically the
 character of many state dele
 gations to the national con-
 ventions of 1882, since they are
 based on congressional districts.
 Party leaders in the Seventy-sec- ond Congress unquestionably will have an eye on development of the redistricting process.
 It is an added uncertainty for them since the issued for 1892 they attempt to make must be consid- cred for the appeal they make in the congressional as well as the presidential campaigning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-11
SITUATION IS
 PECULIAR FOR
 72ND CONGRESS
For First Time in History Both Branch es
 Ride See-Saw
Continued from page 1.)

In four states, however, each with two Republican Senators sit ting, Democrats have replaced Re- publicans as governors since cleo ton and now wield the appointive power. In fifth state, with one Republican and one Democrat Sen ator, there has been a similar shift of appointive power.
 In another with a Republican and Farmer Labor Senator, a Farmer Labor Governor has reliev- ed a Republican. In still another with two Republican Senators, an independent Governor has taken over from Republican. In one state with two Republican Senator's, a Republican Governor has re- placed a Democrat
 Any of these shifts of ap-
 pcintive power in the states
 may have vital bearing on par
 ty alignment in the Senate at
 any time.
 As it now stands the Republican majority of one rests only on the constitutional power of the Vice President to vote in case of a tie. Yet this is merely the statisti- cal, the nominal picture of the sit uation in the Seventy second Con- gross. In fact, few important legis- lative issues in years have been decided on strict party lines in either house.
 Party Lines Never Even
 There always is fringe of nor nal regulars among both Repub- licans and Democrats who stray over the party dividing line on specific votes. Even that would be sufficient to determine the result in either house of the next Con- gress.
 It has been unluporGant in the Seventy first Congress because of the size of the regular Republican majority in the House That al- ways has been big enough to en- gulf the wandering vote and it will be eliminated in the Seventy second Congress.
 Mere important has been the
 split on the Republican side in
 the Senate which threw legisla-
 tive control, except in rare
 cases, into hands of a Demo-
 cratic Insurgent Republican CO.,
 aIition. Democratic defectiOns
 to join Repu b Ii can regulars
 offset that only in final stages
 of the tariff fight.
 Again, however, Republican lead- ership was able to rely on the House majority either to defeat in conference or to modify sharply Senate coalition measures not in harmony with administration views. The Senate growled but ultimately yielded.
 That last legislative ditch will be missing in the Seventy-second Con- gress.
 Rural Areas Dominate
 Still the picture is incomplete. In the Seventy-first Congress it has been calculated that 268 mem bers represent rural constituencies from A states, while 160 represent urban districts in 35 states. The other IT members were elected at large.
 The 1930 census shows the dis tribution of population to be,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-11

The the odds and ends to Cean House. And with this end in view all
 We dued off the dived brought to light all the things that had failed sell We of this toher plenty mistakes and marked them make the prices low that folks will talk about for months to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-11

a that the brings about Some last daysome two days And maybe three days But readily read the prices
 long And is why not urging anybody to Come Early IT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY TO DO THAT All need that the sale begins at nine in the morning. and that buy all need at these prices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
Birth Rate Declines
In Hawaiian Islands

HONOLULU, HawaM.-Though Ha-
waii has a high percentage Of children
to total population. proof Of the fecun-
dity of several of the races which make
up the cosmopolitan group, latest sta
tistics show an apparent falling on IN
the rate of increase. AS matter OF
fact, there has been an actual decrease
in number of births in Hawaii in 1880
81, according to figures issued by the
bureau of the territorial board OF
health. The 10,S21 births for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1881, Is decrease
Of AZ, as compared with the previous
year. The death rate has been some
what checked, particularly infant NOR
tally. So the rate Of population IN
crease does not accurately reflect the
fall in births.
Hawaii does not fear that the birth
rate will be disastrously reduced, for 1t
still continues large. There is, now
ever, q perceptible decrease In the birth
rate of the oriental races here-Japa-
nese, Koreans, Chinese and Filipinos-
and few people who live in the islands
pay any attention to the DOGGY OF Ha-
wall turning into an Oriental posses
sion" There is nothing to indicate the
future government of the Islands will
be greatly different from what 1t is
today.
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EPoland's Birth Rate IL Per 1000;
100000 Weddings, Million Births

decline win be felt in the next few
years, on account Of the diminished
number Of births during the war, 1t will
be followed by new gains when the
postwar generation, now attending
school, begins to marry.
Polish monographs point out that be-
fore the war marriages averaged only
100000 annually in what is now Po-
land, against. 800, 900 today. Also that
until recently Germany held the lead
in increase Of population.
Germany Faces Handicap.
Another point emphasized by mill
tary writer's is that today there are g.
600 900 Frenchmen between 20 and 70
years cid and 100000 Poles. or a total
of 100000 against 100000 Ger
mans Of the same age, making an al
most equal balance. But with Poland
birth rate increasing and Germany
declining, the scales will turn heavily
against Germany as socn as the post
war generation becomes Of military age.
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BELGRADE-while Jews In other
parts OF Central and Southeastern Eu-
rope complain Of increasing nl-will and
INTERCHANGEABLE American Jewish
Congress recently heard report on the
Bubject-those Of Jugcslavia express
themselves as contented. The Jugoslav
Zionist Congress has Just inscribed in its
golden book" reserved for recognized
friends of the Zionist movement, the
names of Premier Peter Zivkovich and
Foreign Minister Voya Marinkovich.
The Jewish people must work for
themselves, but they seek moral help
from other nations" said Dr. David Al
oalay, president of the congress, in an
ncuncing the honors. I'VE know that
our first friends were Great Britain, the
United States of America, France ana
Our own country, JugoSlavia.
Our country, Jugoslavia, was the
first country after England to recog-
ME Palestine. The JugoSlav people
knew what servitude meant, and url-
derstood at once the aspirations OF the
Jewish people From its very beginning,
the Jugoslay government was favorably
inclined toward Jewish people and the
be taken as an example OF how people
should set toward another people living
in its midst. The Jews Of the whole
world are glad and proud to know that
Jews in Jugoslavia are well treated.
we Jews want to be thankful for
this Jugoslav kindness, and 1t Is for
this reason thet we have decided to in.
scribe the names Of the premier and
the foreign minister in the golden book.
The former has shown his sympathy for
the Zionist movement en- many occa-
eions. During the last session CT the
Ie7Q1le of Nations the latter was the
only delegate to take UP the problem
of Palestine, which he discussed with
sympathy for the Zionsts."
"You have the moral help Of the Ju-
roslav government in your noble task,
said M. M. Nikolich, who represented
the ministers at the meeting.
Son,akirnes q private observation Is a.
sienificant as an of1ciai manifestation
81 have recently been treated by . Jewish
4 dentist who was recommended TO me by
= a Croat Roman, Catholic and Monte
4 ngrin member OF the Eastern Orthodo,
aChurch. His ONCE 10 always crowded
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WIVES
BY BRUCE BARTON

~ ECENTLY I visited the
- home of a man whom
IN I have admired for a
good while.
He has no particular genius.
Starting in a small way, he
has steadily grown in capacity
and self-conf1dence, and now
occupies an important place.
After the evening in his
home I felt that, for the first
time, I understood the secret
of his progress. His wife is a
grand character.
She doesn't pretend to know
much about his business, but
her every look and action
made it clear that she thinks
he is the greatest fellow in the
world. What he has done Is
to try to live up to her con-
ception of him. And in doing
that he has had to become a
bigger man.
In re-reading a Life Of
Abraham Lincoln" the other
day I came across a pretty
story. Influential people were
constantly petitioning him for
the promotion of friends or
relatives in the Army. But on
one occasion the sole recon-
mendation received by him on
behalf of a second lieutenant
who desired promotion was
from that officers wife. This
rather pleased Lincoln, who
thought that it was much to
the mans credit that his wife
believed in him, and he wrote
to Stanton:
Executive Mansion,
November IS, 1861.
"Hon. Secretary of War:
my Dear Sir - Please
have adjutant general as
certain whether second
lieutenant of Company D,
I'd Infantry-Alexander Z.
Drake-is not entitled to
promotion. His wife thinks
he is. Please have this
looked into.
yours truly,
"a. LINCOLN"
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WARSAw.-Poland Is jubilant over
khe latest census figures, which show
Ii net. birth rate Of II per thousand,
Ahe highest in Europe.
, The population, on January 1, accord
ing to figures just compiled, was over
81 200, 900, an increase in 10 years Of
4, 600, 600, or 14h per cent.
More than 100000 marriages were
contracted in Poland during 1880, and
more than 100000 children born,
though half Of them died. It is the
4 net Of more than 100000 which gives
the ratio Of II per thousand of which
Poland Is so proud today.
Soviet Ratio High.
Only Soviet Russia, most of which
, Is Asiatic, shows higher ratio. Cor
responding ratios in other countries
are: Bulgaria, 15.9; Japan. 1856; Italy
Alb; United States, 10.S; Germany, 6.3
| These comparisons are regarded as
of the highest importance for Poland's
I future as a world power. Although a
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I thought it would be inter-
eSting to find out what hap
pened to Lieut.. Drake, and so
I wrote to my friend Col. F.
H. Payne, Assistant Secretary
OF War. He replied:
"I inclose a memoran-
dunn I have received from
the adjutant general which
shows a probability that
brakes promotion ulti-
mately resulted from the
Presidents inquiry of No
vember Is, 1851. Note that
brakes commission as first
lieutenant and as a cap
tain were both dated De-
cember 26, 1914 fine
Christmas surprised"
The faith of the wife won
out.
The position of wife is one
OF the few positions in the
world not subject to the laws
OF competition. If my secre-
tary Is no good, and yours is
excellent, I can fire mine and
hire yours. If my wife is no
good I have no such privilege.
Her job Is guaranteed to her
by law. No matter how badly
she may discharge 1t, she can
still hold on.
There has been a tendency
in recent years to underesti-
mate the Importance of the
job. Many women feel that
it Is not an adequate life
work. They run their homes
with one hand" and carry on.
a career with the other.
Some succeed. MANY mere
ly put on a slipshod perform
ance in both the Office and
the home.
1t still remains true, in nv
old-faShioned opinion, that
the most influential and inn
portant women in the world
are those who, by their faith
IN their husbands, make
them more important.
tcopyright. 1884,,
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BY C. PATRICK THOMPSON.

T INTO the van Of the internal party
struggle to end the emergency
government In England as quickly
as possible, on the gamble that the
electorate will return Tory ma
jcrity pledged to end free trade and
bring in an era of national protection
looking to an eventual imperial eco
nonic coordination, has sprung Win
ston Churchill, always the stormy petrol
of whatever party in which he happens
to find a roosting place at the moment.
Under the Lloyd George regime, VIM
ston was for perpetual ccalition-he
was sitting pretty then. But he was
left out of the national government
that has taken hold in England; con-
sequently his anxiety to club 1t and to
replace it with new regime in which
he can claim high place is q play
essentially In character.
that the most brilliant, able and YER
satile of Englands public men is side
tracked in time of grave crisis.
He is only 81, incredibly experienced,
a veteran compared to Stanley Bald
win Che was member of Parliament
at q and a cabinet minister at 34(,
gifted with prodigious powers OF work
and possessed Of more energy and drive
than the whole of the Cabinet of Ten
cling career dotted with the high min
isterial Offices he has held-commerce,
colonies, navy, munitions, home affairs,
war, air and the treasury.
Plays Polo and Hunts.
He Is a conciliator-no individual
played a bigger part In the Irish set
Element. He is acknowledged by all
literary critics the best living writer OF
English narrative prose. He also plays
polo despite his weight; hunts boar In
France, now that he cannot hunt fox
in England; lays bricks with skill and
aplomb and belongs to the bricklayers'
union, and in the intervals OF playing
politics, he paints.
Why have the two Chamberlains,
Hoare, Betterton, Cunliffe-Lister. Gil
INCUR, Londonderry, been taken IN. and
the bigger and more famous ChurcnlIl
left out? There is one official reason.
He withdrew some time ago from the
Tory shadow cabinet" because he Is
for the strong arm in India and against
the Baldwin-Irwin policy of concilia-
ton and round-table talks. But there
is also another reason: he is q dan
gerous man.
He is in one sense the most danger
GUS man in England, because he is the
ablest, the most audacious, because he
loves power and is of militant tenn
per, and because he Is the only man
in sight made Of good sound dictator
timber There Is a murmurouS UNDER
current Of talk just now about the
possible need of having dictator ready
and groomed, If only for such a job
as Poincare undertook with virtual die
tatorial powers in France when the
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Churchill the Fighter
Emergency

tonheads," few think of him very
seriously. If there is to be an English
Mussolini Mosley might be permitted
to grow into Balbo, but only into
a Balbo.
Churchill is another proposition alto
gether. He was born in Dublin, where
his grandfather was viceroy. His father
was Lord Randolph Churchill, third son
of the seventh Duke of Marlborough,
and a Tory peer-politician Of great re-
nown in his day; and Lady Randolph
Churchill was the former Miss Jennie
Jerome, whose beauty, dash, vivacity
and Intelligence took English society
by storm.
Such a bold, brilliant and unusual
pair as Lord Randolph Churchill and
his transatlantic wife. might have been
expected to produce a bold, brilliant
and unusual son. And they did not
disappoint. There Is something Roman
about Winston Churchill. He resembles
one of those robust leaders Of the old
republic who cultivated with equal ardor
politics. oratory and the art OF war; who
knew how to get their way in the
popular assembly by argument and
cajolery before going forth with con-
sular rank to command an army in the
field; and who could sincerely reconcile
the conflicting interests of the public
ton and the pushing of career.
AS BELTS descendant of Marlborough,
the best soldier England ever had,
Churchill managed to see more fighting
by the time he was 26 than hall
the generals In Europe. He had ell
bowed and showed into the thick of
it in the Cuban forests and jungles, the
savage mountains of the Mainland Pass
in India, and the deserts of the Sudan,
and the South African veldt.
Gets Thrill From War.
War indeed has provided him with
his greatest thrills and his most specta-
cular opportunities. He was in charge
Of the admiralty when the World Wal
broke. He modified the British fleet
ahead Of the British ultimatum, so that
the worlds biggest machine for sea war
fare lay ready to function at the touch
OF an electric button when the British
cabinet pronounced for war.
But once he had got the machine
ready 1t was not for him to fight It
That was Jellicoe's job.
So We find Churchill dashing off tc
Antwerp, intent upon marrying the Ger
man flank with composite force OF
marines and armored cars. The ad-
mirality was left in the air. Churchill
was having the time Of his life His
circus was finally knocked to bits, halt
Of it captured; and military experts
still quarrel over the question of wfeth-
er Churchill's effort was big and bril-
liant and deserving of more support
than 1t go, or whether It was folly and
should have been hquidated earlier.
He devised the Dardanelles campaign
and the military experts are still argu.
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MISUNDERSTANDING HURTS
AIMS OF MONROE DOCTRINE
Reaction to Mexico's Recent Reputation
on Entering League Bares Wide
Variety of interpretations.

hand that the views OF both parties are
misguided by an erroneous understand
ing Of the doctrine, equally pronounced
on both sides.
Much Misunderstood.
The Monroe Doctrine is probably the
most misrepresented and least under
stood principle in contemporary inter-
national relations. 1t Is problem IN
which, paradoxically as it appears. both
parties are at once right and wrong.
The Latin Americans are right in
opposing any attempt to establish q
foreign political control over their own
domestic affairs and in upholding their
inalienable right to govern themselves
as they please. But they are wrong in
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Oswald Mosley openly aspires to the
role, but although he hastily returned
from Riviera smart set Fairgrounds to
be on the spot and pronounced the
new government "a set Of united NUT
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just a Few.

From the Ann Arbor Daily News.
Newspaper headline says "man-made
static to be eliminated" However.
there may be two or three raoso an
nouncers who deserve to be spared.
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Abstained.

Prom the New York Bun.
DR.. Dickey. home from explorations
IN the Brazilian jungle, introduced one
novelty; he refused to compare trafnc
conditions In the Jungle with those at
Fifth avenue and Forty-sepond street.
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atmosphere will be heavily charged
with cordiality and hospitality. but
concrete consequences Of world i'm
portance can hardly be expected. 1t
will be very much the same kind of
good Will visit that Mr.. Hoover paid
to Latin American countries on the
eve of entering the White House. The
benefits to flow from M. Laval's So
journ In the United States will be
psychological rather than definitely po-
litical. The things France would like
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Officials Have Name
Inscribed in Golden Book" by Jews

since definite appointments mean moth
ing in the Balkans-with Gentle pa
tients
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franc was being run on the map. For
no one knows what may happen when
the national government discharges its
economy job and breaks up.
In parentheseS one may observe that
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

YHEN Pierre laval, premier Of
I France, sets foot on Ameri-
! can soil in october and COM
munes with President Hoover
and Secretary StirnS0n the
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War SoundIy Financed.

Democrats have proud record OF q
century and quarter on honest and
equitable taxation and Government
financing. No war In history was more
soundly financed than the World War.
The Wilson administration arranged
the payments Of the war debt over DE- :
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