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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
|L AW LECALIzINC. BEER IS FAVORED.
 BY UNION LABOR
William Green Is Reelected President by Ameri-
 can Federation

VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 15.- After defeating two motions ad- vocating repeal of the Volstead Act and of the Eighteenth Amendment, the American Federation of La- bor at today's session of its annual International convention, adopted without debate the recOmmenda- tion of the federations executive council for enactment by the next Congress of a law permitting the manufacture and sale of beer of not more than PTS per cent alco- holic content.
 President William Green was re- elected head of the labor organiza- tion.
 Resolutions were adopted endors- ing the federal employment serv- ice, approving Filipino indepen- dence, opposing military training in schools and urging the greatest pos sible restrictions against immigra- tion for the protection of United States and Canadian workers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
C. H. WALMSLEY BACK
 AT HIS DESK AGAIN

G. H. Walmsley, Juneau agent of the Pacific Coast Coal Company, is at his desk attending to busi- ness again. He spent quite while in St. Ann's Hospital, where he underwent surgical operation, and then afterwards stayed at home for some time in order to recuperate. It may be week or so before he will be able to walk with out a cane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
Mrs. Bronson, Former Resident of Wrangell,
 Is Dead in Seattle

SEATTLE. Oct. 15.-Funeral serv- ices for Mrs. Drusilla Gore Bron- son, resident of Wrangell, Alaska for more than 30 years, will be held tomorrow from St. Mark s Cathedral She came here two years ago following the death of her husband. who was in the Gov ernment service at Wrangell, and resided with her daughter Mrs. Buschmann.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
Boys Marooned l2
 Months in Wilds

OTTAWA, Ont, Oct. 15.-Four youths from the north of Scotland who have been living for year in the wilds of Baffin Land, have been rescued by the Canadian govern ment's Arctic patrol boat Beothis, a wireless message received here says The boys were on the shores
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
FATHER, SON
 DIE IN FIRE Bodies Are Found Alter Store Building Is
 Destroyed

VANCOUVER, B. O., Oct. 15.-J. Hoy, storekeeper, and his 70-year- old father, were burned to death when fire destroyed the store build ing near 100-Mile House in the Cariboo district. The two bodies were found in the embers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
THE MARTHA SOCIETY

The Martha Society meets to- morrow at the home of Mrs. Ray Peterman, Mrs. w. L. Coates as- sisting. Cars will leave the Pres byterian Church at 1:30 pm. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
BEE STING CAUSES DEATH

MERGED, Cal, Oct. 15.-Stung by bee John Keppe, 50 years old. fell from ladder while paint ing on ranch near here and was killed. The fall broke his neck.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
HAMOFF LEAVES HOSPITAL

George Hamoff of this city who entered St. Ann's Hospital last Thursday, left the institution today for his home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
M. S. WHITTIER IS BACK

M. s. Whittier, assistant United States Collector of Customs, re- turned last night from a business trip to Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15

A Berlin scientist claims to oper- ate half volt electric motor with energy derived from sunlight react ing on a photoelectric cell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15

With the aid of electric light a Utah scientist claims to have pro- duced sugar beet seeds in one year instead of two.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15

of Frobisher Bay where their craft was wrecked twelve months ago
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15
CARD PARTY TONIGHT

The American Legion Auxiliary will hold card party tonight in the DUGOUT. Play starts prompt ly at 8 o'clock. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-15

Approximately 70 percent of all the raw silk used throughout the world is exported by Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
Volta, Dakota, Volga

A former head of our Farm Board says the small individual farm must make way for the cooperative farm, basic factor In the Soviet Fve-Year Plan. Thus we see the oldest industry now in several cycles of its development. In Russia it is in the third stage In America it has passed through the first and second In the African colo nies, the first is just being nurtured.
 France is pursuing, in its possessions, the task of transforming the ways of iwing of the natives. the purpose being to make of them peasants whose housing, clothing and food, will represent higher standard of living and whose equipment will permit more intensive production. Diffusion Of European farming methods is being effected notably in the Upper Volta colony, in the heart of the Sudan. This is done by means of three farm schools. In addition, there have been created. in various places. family operated farms for natives. which are equip ped with livestock and suitable tools and machinery Besides the three farm schools. there are to be reckoned in the Upper Volta at present 38 family-operated farms possess ing in all, 2l9 oxen trained as draft animals and 57 blows.
 But with December wheat at 46 cents - just four cents more than the protec- tive" duty imposed by the Hawley- -Smoot Tariff Act Yankee farmers reading of the present Colonial Exhibition in Paris will probably remember the words of that wartime song of their A. E. F. days
 How're you goin' to keep em
 Down on the farm
 After they've seen Paree?'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
Remedy In Hands of People

The average retail price of gasoline has decreased more than 48 per cent in ten years. while the gasoline tax rate has increased 2650 per cent. adding } to g per cent to the price of fuel. These two facts are the hghlights of survey recently made in fifty representative cities of the nation. On March l. l93l, the average retail price of gas. exclusive of tax. was l4.46 cents per gallon as compared with 28.25 cents in 1921. The average tax was 3.86 cents per gallon as compared with .O0l4 in 1921 when only l6 states taxed gasoline.
 The gas tax is justified in behalf of good roads. but legislators are busy running it to death. Last year the states collected S522.- ll0,96l from the tax. new high record, in spite of the fact that less gasoline was used in 193O than in 1929. This represents an income of about $l 100000 day and takes no account of taxes collected by coun- ties and municipalities.
 Gasoline producers. through increased ef- ficency. have been saving motorists money that the states have been busy taking away. High prices of gasoline" today are largely high gas taxes The cure is in the hands of the voting public
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13

his own income tax: how the Secretary of the Treasury divorced his wife by pulling wires for an enactment of a special law. which was repealed under cover" when he no longer needed it.; how one Senator plays "footie" under table with his dinner hostess; how Lindys courtship progressed uneeretan- ty: how Dawes and Stimson behave in London: how the personalities of the press react to and write up the scene - all dished up in chapters with such titles as The Man Who Stayed Too Long" (Mellon). The Court Jester" ( Dawes), Egg Charley" (Curtis), Little Memo; the Wonder Worker" (Morrow). Wrong Horse Harry (Stmson).
 If some details among so many light and serious facts are muddled. there is undoubt- edly revealing truth in the book. Coming at this time of economic and disarmament conferences and of tuning up for the circus that is presidential campaign. it will serve as a textbook in spite of it's well-spieed flavor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13

There has been more enthusiasm than logic in many so-called cures for crime. Ceaseess demands for more and more laws. more and more restrictions, have uncon- scously been an ally of the underworld. If America is "lawless" country. it is largely the fault of our lawmakers. The wealthiest securest and most aggressive underworld in existence has become established. Recently we have been treated to exposes of the re- lations between criminals and police and judges. We have been shown how clever lawyers, aided by technicalties, can save the most hardened thug or murderer from jus tice We should have learned by now the utter folly of passing more laws in the hope nf curbng the criminal The statute books through their complications are often his b,st friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
Volsteadism For Machine Guns

.. One new tax which the public would ~ welcome IS an excise on the sale and poses ]. sion of firearms; one extension of federal ~ power which even the most ardent Jackson = ian would embrace is the denial of the facll- = .ities of interstate commerce to the murderous -- tools of the racketcer
 s. Following the shooting down of five = children by gangsters in New Yorks Little 1. Italy the publisher of one of our largest s.cbains of newspapers has issued an appeal . flor action by the next Congress to curb the :. ..unregulated manufacture and sale of arms / Some time ago President Hoover. when ap- -. preached with respect to federal legislation - ito curb racketeerlng, announced that gang :. ,,sters presented purely local problem which -. the states could not expect to shit to the :. -senera government. Now the Department s of Justice states what was already made ~-elear by the Al Capone indictment in Chi
 s@cago that it can deal effectively with the - -gangster only through such subteriu2es as :. the income tax law. The federal govern r ment in the Volstead and Mann acts con- < cerns itself with wine, women and song, but
 it seems that Gan2sters and racketeers cor
 ruptng the civic life of the nation and
 amassing stupendous profits. are not sub feet 10 the same national solcltude.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13

Australia whose government has entered business on wholesale scale. is in the midst of financial crisis. The country IS suffer- ing from shrinkage in national income of $50O,O00,000. During. the past five years growing adverse trade balances have been met by loans abroad With unfavorable trade balances and markets, Australia IS be- hind billion dollars. Deficits extending into millions of dollars annually have been created by improbable government-owned businesses Public ownership may spell dis aster both to industries and workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13

During l930 ten states conducted Save A-Life motor vehicle inspection campaigns. Close to 3.500,000 cars were examined as to brakes lights. horns. steering meehan- isms and the like. More than million of these had defective brakes. 100000 had unsafe headlights. 2l9.000 had defective steering, and thousands more had other de- fects of smaller importance. The faulty equipment was corrected. with the result that during the month in which the cam paigns took place and the month following. most of the states enjoyed decrease in &C., cidents. The value of inspections. like the value of laws requiring examination of driv- ers is not open to doubt. There is every reason to believe that large proportion of automobiles using the highways are defect i've. and that brakes steering or lights. might fail in an emergency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
Spotlight On Washington

There are few skeletons left in the nd- lions secret closets after those trotted out in bright red book labeled, Washington Merry -Go-Round recently published and dedicated To those who still reach for the brass ring
 Every one from the President up and down is stripped No authors name ap- pears. however. Those familiar with the writing mannersms of Capital news report CTS guess the anonymous work to be the product of group who did not choose to remain inactive and bored when the Seventy first Congress passed on.
 There is a good deal of back stairs gossip in the first two chapters headed Boiled Bosoms" and Searched Futlty," but the book gets down to paragraphs on economic in the chapters on the Senate and the conditions and some challenging crIticismS House The latter is treated with real humor under the title. The Monkey House" Our relations with Europe and South America are well aired in pages on the State Department and various ambassadors and ministers.
 How Melons rule has resulted in mose han thfee billion dollars in rebates to cor porations huge estates and wealthy taxpay- CTS and has Topped about $l,5o.ooO off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
NEA Service Writer

INEh E3CAN NANO NvHstCh
 Washington - Automobiles. go important in the American econ- omic system and recognized by the average citizen in his concep- ton of proper living standards. are big factor in the prevalence of unprevented crime.
 Not only because criminals of all types--even including "gamb- lers. prostitutes, bootleggers and narcotic peddlers"-- use them in their business. but also because. the Wickersham commission asserts in its report on police, that traffic problems and duties have increas- ed so rapidly that there is gen. eral lack of adequate patrol ser vice in cities throughout the country.
 Traffic difficulties are becoming more serious and automobile acci- dents fore frequent, according to the commission experts, who cite a National Safety Council record to compare our 12.000 homicides last year with 32,500 deaths on the public highways and approximately 100000 injuries in automobile accidents.
 That this number will increase in proportion to the number of vehicles in use on the highways and the number of miles travelled can not be doubted by and person who has studied traffic statistics, 1t is declared. From present tn- dications there is reacon to be- licve that there will be greater use of streets in the future with n con stant increase in the death curve.
 The police will find it increas' ingly necessary to approach tn. problem, first, through engineering | principles, then education. anl fam ally, without too much emphasis through appropriate enforcement methods. But meanwhile: Traffic problems have increased so rapidly that most of the execu tives' time and all of the time o n very large proportion of th' force IS used to keep the traffic moving and without too much con gestion along the city streets.
 "As q result, large sections of community are without police pn trol, and in three of the large cit les surveys have shown that ther' were no policemen on sections out side the hours of 8 q. m. and m. To some extent this condition pdevaiIs throughout the Unitc' States"
 But hundreds of scientific mel have been studying traffic for year and disagree as to the solution 0 the preplexing problem. the repor says. Traffic rule enforcement | ineffective unless 1t Is accompa nied by both engineering and edu cation. It is pointed out that th
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
Quotations

The railroads never will get back the travel constantly turning to private automobiles. The public likes to ride in It's own car. But when business is good again, the railroads will be in business as in- evitably as evcr-Daniel Willard, president of the E. & 0. By mastering resignation we school ourselves to much restraint. -Rafael Sabatini.
 l have seen librarians worried because boys and girls take out cheap and ridiculous meIodramatic | stories. but 1t is a great deal better for them to read trash than not to read anything.-Prof William Lyon Phelps.
 The most delightful association with people comes when you use the river for the morning face wash and the woods for a living room.-- Ruth Bryan owen.
 The usual way to All a vacancy is by stealing somebody from some other store. The resudt of such q procedure is to pay $5000 for q per- son who Is probaly not worth more than $2500. or else you wouldn't get him. Every store own CT should organize a corps of re- serve material for executive jobs This reserve should be carefully trained.--Walte Flowing, in Ma tion's Business.
 To the doctor the only thing that Is imortpnt is tomorrow and what 1t may bring to the little sum oi knowledge we have.--Dr William J. Mayo.
 Any man. philosopher or minis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
TODAY IS THEA
 AHNHIYl4ERSAN &lgAZA
JAPANESE MISSION ARRIVES

On Aug IS, 1917, a Japanese com mission, headed by Viscount K. ls- hii, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary arrived in the Uni ted States on mission of good will.
 At a dinner given to the mission the following day, Viscount 1shh said:
 "We are here to say that in this tremendous struggle for thoso rights and liberties America and Japan are bound together; that when the victory of the allied forces is secure, America and Japan should so live, that your sons and our sons will have a certainty of good neighborhood.
 "In the dawning of this new day of stress and strain let us forget the little molehills that have been exaggerated into mountains to bar our good relations.
 ... Jet us together fix our eyes upon the star of principle which shall lead us tugether most surely to a participation in the triumph of the right, to a certain victory in the greatest, and. let us hope. the last great war in human his- tory"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881
Putting The Democrat Right

We have to thank our contemporary, the Meriden Journal. for just little ray of sunshine in respect to a few Well-meanlng suggestions that we uttered week ago in regard to the local police department 5 handling of the Wright murder case. be Democrat was not only taken over the hurdles publicly. but privately, and to find someone at last who in our opinion goes our editorial even one better, again restores our faith in the fairness and intelligence of mankind.
 The Waterbury Democrat had it's say and intended to let 1t go at that, having no ax to grind with the local police department, but since the opposition papers here and others in town were so prone to jump on our neck. we take pleasure in offering what our Meriden contemporary has to say in defense of our friendly criticism. It is as follows:
 The Waterbury police department
 hopped enthusiastically into the
 Wright murder case in Wolcou. The
 detectives worked like beavers in run
 ming hither and thther to be photo- graphed in different poses with the
 principals in the sordid affair and the
 county coroner found himself sur
 rounded with city cops anxious to do
 his bidding.
 This was a soft case. you under
 stand, some glory to be grabbed off
 without any mental effort and no more
 physical exertion than driving around
 in a city auto. It might serve. more
 over, to detract public attention from
 series of baffling burglaries in Water bury of late.
 Policemen are not so dumb when
 it comes to hiding imperfections and making the most of situations that
 tend 10 glorfy them. But going out
 of their jurisdiction for the purpose of
 impressing the taxpayers of Waterbury
 with their diligence. did not set well
 with the Democrat which said l be local detective bureau should conhne
 its work to crime in our own city.
 The fact is that Waterbury should and did act when the case first broke.
 Thereafter it should have been handled
 by the constabulary of Wolcott. aided. -. if necessary, by the State police. l here . was no justification for taxpayers Of
 Waterbury paying for police work m G. Wolcott any more than there would
 have been for New Haven or Merden
 paying for work on the recent unsolved murder in Wallingford. But then there 1. is little danger of city police, State . police or the county authorities trying to horn in on town cases unless there .. is some easy glory to be grabbed off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
The Stage Coach Passes

It is some years since the automobile was allowed to enter the Yellowstone. Thou sands of people still remember with pleasure that even after motor cars went almost everywhere else. they were still forbidden in that western playground. The stage coaches with their four or sixin- hand were part of the Yellowstone charm.
 Now the fourth hands have gone from the Aberfoyle- Trossachs run in Scotland. I IWenty-sx horses, two four in hand coaches. 3 brakes. wagonettes and other vehicles were to be sold at public auction recently, The motor bus now takes tour sts along this historic route.
 So passes another link with the past. Tourists of the old ways will remember the coachman's horn and the jogging of the horses with pleasure. Tourists of the pres ent and future will have a wonderful time and never know what they have missed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
Here, There And Eueryl0here
TALKING OF ADVERTISING.
Houston Chronicle)

With apologies for boosting It's stock-in-trade. q newspaper yet may point out that advertising has played an essential role in the economic progress of America.
 Our machines have been built. their production doubled and treDl- ed because there was an American public ready to buy the goods they could produce.
 Now, willingness to buy is not altogether q matter of ability 10 buy, as we are seeing in the midst of the present depression; there k included also the feeling on the part of the buyer that he Is en- titled to the things offered for sale that he is not aspiring too high In the world. not being unreasonable in his requirements.
 Americans have been brought to want good automobiles. more and better bathtubs, radios, refrigera- tors, better clothing, better house furnishings and better homes. And they have been brought to believe that 1t is proper for them to have these things; that they are not wasting their money in getting them.
 This belief has made possible the huge development of American ,n- dustry and the huge increase of wealth in this country making the average American, with his ever | increasing purchases, better off than if he had saved his money 1 and thereby forstalled the develop | ment.
 That belief has been generated largely by advertising. It could not have persisted if 1t had been unsound, but. being sound, ad- vertising has implanted 1t and fos- tered 1t, and helped the nation to reap the benefits.
 Advertising. such as no other nation has known, has held con stantly before the eyes of Ameri- can readers, the illustrations of good cars and good clothing and good homes, and the hundreds of | things associated with them, and advertising has inevitably made the reader believe that he is entitled to
 these things.
 | The movie has helped. but news paper and magazine advetising has
 done most of the work. Without them we all undoubtedly would be
 living on q much lower plane. ma
 terially speaking. and would have
 less wealth than we now have to
 show for our abnegation. | We may be sure, in the future
 as in the past, advertising will
 break the way for the ever advanc-
 ing scale of American living.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-13
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETT
By RODNEY BUTCHER

Hoover Conference on Traffic. Composed of experts from every activity touching the automotive and transportation field. 'is still struggling along hoping to find an answer for some of the many diff faculties presented by increased congestion on street and highway due to the increasing use of auto- mobile.
 Motor cars present still another problem to many police. for all though larger cities usually sup ply automobiles to their police In "countiess numbers" of small forces of one to 10 ment, in Sher- ifs, ofgces and manw of the small state police units the policeman must supply his own. Forced to buy this and other equipment. policeman borrows monty, often $500 of $500 and of. ten from politicians. and "he must do his job with halter around his neck f which he may never clear himself. The Wickershoam experts say this initial frequently leads an officer into fraft.
 Each and every town, 1t Is con. cluded, should furnish all las enuipment.