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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06

will come soon. That's some con- solation.v
 As the two dumbbells in Par don Us" who offer a policeman drink of bootleg whiskey and are consequently sent to jail, Laur- el and Hardy participate in some of the funniest episodes in which they have yet been seen on the screen.
 The picture runs the gatnut of prison life with the comedy team making all kinds of blunders, es- caping in the guise of 9lored cot ton pickers and making a crest
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06

California leads all states in number of pilots and in number of aircraft holding federal licenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06
ELKS TO STAGE. UALPROCRAM; DATE CHAN GED
Mothers Day Program Will Be Given by Lodge
 Next Wednesday

The annual program given by Juneau Lodge No APO, B. P. O. Elks in eommemoration of Moth CTS Day will be held next We'd nesday evening at 8:20 o'clock, it was announced today. Usually the lodge holds its exercises on Moth CTS Day, but due to the fact that Sunday is opening day for the City League Baseball season, and that many local residents spend Sunday at cottages on Glacier Highway, "Wednesday evening was chosen instead.
 A tribute to Mother, which will be given by Mrs. J, D. Van Alta, will be one of the features on the program.
 The lodge ritual for the occas- ion, which includes special music appropriate to it, will be follow ed. A complete program will be announced later.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06

Daily Empire Want Ads Pay
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06

fallen return when they are cap tred. But all's well that ends well and when they handle riot and turn out heroes everybody for- gives them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06
CALL FOR BIDS

Bids for filling with rock under the gridiron in the rear of Charles G. Warmers Machine Shop will be received at the office of the City Clerk up to 8 pm, Friday, May 6. Specifications may be seen at the City Clerks office. Right reserved to reject or accept any bid.
 THOMAS B. HUDSON, adv Mayor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06

Officers of the Hawaiian Na- tiona1 Guard include approximately 80 men of Chinese, Korean and Japanese ancestry, excluding mixed bloods
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06
COMEDIANS GET
 LOTS OF BUMPS
 IN PARDON US"
Laurel and Hardy Have to Take Punishment
 to Create Laughs

Comedy may be fun for those who sit in comfortable theatre seats as they laugh at the antics on the screen, but it's quite an- other story to the players, ac- cording to Laurel ana Hardy, whose first feature-length comedy, Par don Us" is now leading the pro- gram at the Capitol theatre.
 For the comedy pair admit they took a lot of punishment" in the process of getting laughs for their initial venture into full length pie lures.
 Hard-BoiIed Convicts
 AS inmates of a huge penlten- tiary filled with hard-boiled con- victs and unsympathetic wardens, Laurel and Hardy are subject to all kinds of insults and hardships. They are pushed into more than one pool of mud and water; they are thrown out of bed; they are mauled and manhandled; they suf- fer at the hands of a none too gentle prison dentist and are in general made the butt of the en- tire prison congregation.
 Spirit of Fun
 But it's all in the spirit of fun" remarked the pl1ilosophic pair, land if we occasionally get an extra hard kick in the pants we always remember that payday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-05-06
WOMEN OF MOOSE
 PLAN ACTIVITIES

At the last regular meeting Of the Women of the Moose, the activities for the coming summer were thoroughly discussed. There will be a picnic and other events including one more card party, which will be given in the near future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
Bridges


 As civilization develops it builds roads and bridges. Especially bridges, for it is cas- fer to move about without roads than with out river crossings. The Romans were the great builders of transportation facilities in antiquity. Then the English. Now we Amer jeans have taken our turn. In generation we have covered the land with good roads, and now we are engaged in building great bridges on a scale unprecedented in any country or age. Any one of dozen bridges built in this country in the last ten years would have been wonder of the world generation ago. And greater viaducts are planned, most notable of them all the one to span the Golden Gate at San Francisco.
 A preacher observes: "A bridge is built with truth, in obedience to physical laws. From the blueprints to the concrete mixer, there must be honesty. Liars cannot build good bridges" A philosophic writer on business topics looks ahead little. The final test of today's physical civilization. he says, will be in the ability of our gov- ernments to maintain such structures as bridges If our civilization ever went the way of Rome. the culverts would stop up first. converting the farming country to marsh. and next the bridges would rust and fall in The concrete would not rust, but it would crack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08

We were greatly interested in one of the closing addresses made by Representative Augustine Lonergan of Hartford. candidate for the U. S. Senate on the democratic ticket. He called attention to the wealth of talent present in the democratic party in the event of Governor RooseveIts election today. He pointed out that there would be no difficulty in the governor choosing a Cabinet if he limited his choices to such men as Alfred E. Smith, Owen D. Young. Albert C. Ritchie. Carton Glass. Newton D. Baker. etc. We might differ with the congressman in this respect A Cabinet made up of the above men might be hindranee rather than an aid to any president It would be per haps top-heavy in talent. There is such a thing as surrounding yourself with too many brilliant men. In addition his age might make Carter Glass ineligible. Better men might not be available than the above. but when all assembled these great minds would surely conflict.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
old Era About to Pass
 Away, Says Novelist

In "Before the Curtain Falls" an anonymous novelist declares that the turmoil and suffering of the last two decades have been the final act in great world drama. The play is about over now, and the curtain is about to be rung down, Our form of society, our kind of civilization, is through.
 You may not share in this idea in the least. But you will find Before the Curtain Falls" stating the case for 1t with hot anger and, now and then, with real eloquence.
 The narrator of the novel is the son of decayed Virginia gentility. He grows up just as darwning in- australian begins to- despoil his town. He goes to Harvard, moves on to Europe to join the Ameri- can ambulance corps in 1915, be- comes an American intelligence officer in 1917, and goes to Rus sia and the Balkans after the ar- mistice with the American relief organization. Then he comes home to witness the rise of the Coolidge boom and the collapse of 1919.
 It is from the. things this man sees during those years that the argument about the approaching change is drawn: and surely, there was enough of folly, cruelty and tragedy in those years to warrant the most doleful of conclusions. Unfortunately, our anonymous au- thor isn't quite up to his job. He has a page of powerful writing here and there, but most of his book is very poorly constructed. self conscious and suited. '
 Published by Bobbs- Merrill. the book sells for '$2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
MAYNARD ISLANDS
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 According to recent hydrogra- phic reports, some of the islands in the Pacific have been up to strange pranks of late. Much to the disappointment of astronomers, the tiny island of Sarah Ann has dis appeared from her accustomed place on the face of the sea. To all ap- pearances she would seem to have sunk beneath the surface of the ocean, probably overcome by lone- Iiness and a sense. of futility. Un-- like the famous isle of Yap, she was never to cut a figure in inter- national politics, for nobody wanted to hitch cable to her or put a coal bin on her shores for passing, ships.
 Now, just as use has been found for her at last, word comes that she has vanished entirely; In fact, she has not been seen or heard from for fifteen years and she has ben stricken off the charts where all good islands are entered. Her passing is a great loss to science: For astronomers have calculated that she was the only dry spot where a solar eclipse scheduled for 1887 would be total and where a temporary observatory might be set up to study the darkened sun.
 Meanwhile, another island that would not stay where it belonged has ben sighted by an American freighter somewhere to the south west of San Diego. Whereas Sarah Ann,s movement was vertical. this new island appears to be moving horizontally and to be headed to- ward the California coast, AS Sarah Ann is the only island in the Pacific whose absence has been noted, it may be that she and the itinerant island are one and the same and that she has been ram bling about the ocean all this time. looking for companionship and employment. If so, and since she Is covered with good growth of trees, the Hollywood people might tow her in and tie her up as ''lo- cation. for their future South Sea pictures. She would have a home ana job, and Art would gain what Science has lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08

There seems to be one difficulty in Russia that even the fve-year plan hasn't as yet overcome. And the moral to all Americans visiting the country is to avoid toothaches or else bring along supply of gold. All available gold is carefully watched by the government. As a result dentists are unable to furnish this metal for filings when it is demanded Patients must fetch their own gold to the dentist who melts it for the pur- pose Wedding rings are being sacrificed in great numbers in order to still jumping nerves in the molar regions. Incidentally the government supervises the job of melting up all trnkets and sends the result to the den- tist in flat discs. And some people praise the plan!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
The Pictures Spoiled

The intrusion of the religious issue into Waterbury's election campaign yesterday was the only sour note in an otherwise regula- ton performance of the quadrennial pageant. It is too bad that local republicans must bear the brunt of the blame for this uncalled for means of persuading voters. We say local republicans, because the bit of propa- ganda was mailed from the Waterbury post office and hence was obviously placed there by some local person or persons. It is too much to believe that out-of-town people came to the city for the sole purpose of mail ing out campaign literature.
 Doubtless other sections of the country were treated to similar attempt upon the part of astute politicians to wean away dem- ocratic votes We thought that the religious issue was dead and buried four years ago. But evidently there are those in our midst who believe in flaming the fires of discord as long as they can reap profit in pubic offices thereby. Personally we don't care for that kind of electioneering. If anything IS to be said against the characters of the var ious candidates it is much better to do it in person, rather than by whispering or letter method.
 Desiring to be impartial in this dirty work we don't think that any blame should be placed upon local g.o.p organizations, unless some one or all arc courageous enough to admit sending out the disparaging clip ping. But the fact remains that as long as silence is maintained there will be those of us ready to believe the many stories that will be circulated now as to the sponsorship for this cireularizing of the city in a des- perate last-minute effort to influence dem ocsatic voters not to place their confidence in the Roosevelt-G Garner ticket
 We are afraid, though, that the effort was wasted in Waterbury. At any rate the results so far today seem to indicate that Waterbury isn't affected by the religious is- sue. It wasn't in 1928, either when 1t gave Alfred E. Smith such a handsome ma jofity. There is certainly no apparent good reason why Waterbury democrats should have been solicited to make religion an issue in todays election. It quite plainly was a. bold end of the day drive for loose votes. Assuch it deserved the scant consideration 1t got.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
Marching to Washington

Three armies are said to be organizing now to march on Washington. One of them is composed of Communists, one Of northwestern farmers and one of sailors out of work. Perhaps the latter should be called navy. Anyway, all these expect to arrive at the national capital at about the time Congress assemblies. and they may be joined by Heaven knows how many more lines of unfortunate and dseontened citi- zens in quest of some form of relief.
 To these and all others, the only friendly thing to say is. stay at home!" No good can come of such expeditions. and much harm.f There are easier, wiser, safer. more effective ways of saying anything to the gov ernment that needs to be said. The plight in which the bonus expedition found itself during the last session of Congress should suffice in itself to deter others from repeat ing that experiment..
 Speak or write to your congressman about it. Send word to your senator Peti- ton the President, if that seems desirable. But stay away from Washington, at least in organized bodies and large numbers The city is not adapted to Such visitations. can not provide accommodations for them. IS imperlled by them hygienically and polite ally. Armies of any kind, armed or unarmed. demanding anything, have no place in any seat ofrcivil government. At its worst this practice threatens governmental stability and breeds revolution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08

Regardless of the outcome today this state must shortly take hrmer stand on the subject of public utilities laws than it has of recent years If the democratic regime
 of Governor Cross did nothing else but cali attention to the need of revision of the laws it would be enough to earn it place in history. Of course the efforts of Albert Levitt the independence republican candidate for governor in today's contest, cant be overlooked in this respect. The Bedding man has displayed an immense amount of eour- age and perseverance in his campaign against the electric power interests which have held Connecticut politics pretty much under their thumb of recent years. However, it can't be said that when democratic governor was chosen he preferred to ignore the claims that Mr Levitt made. He had few opinions on the subject and few ideas of dealing with it. He was naturally limited in his intentions towards disrupting the present system under which public utilities are controlled by hostile group of legislators. It required some little effort to procure information of the public utilities commission With a per- fectly good body in existence it seems 2 shame to hedge it around with restrictions which practically make it worthless in many
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
Here, There And EUeryDhere

est critics of the governor have been such republican office e-holders as Senator Reed and Congressman Beck of Pennsylvania. The presi dents suspicion that the gover- ,nor's slip indicates black con spiracy to take the supreme court over if he is elected, is obvious hyperbole.
 It Is notable, indeed, that the president himself sufficiently qual- flies what he says about the dis interested ness Tof the court by dating his remarks from the Civil War. For 1t is true, of course. that his own party was born more or less in direct opposition to one of the courts most famous de- cisions. We refer to the Dred Scott decision in 1856 which almost abandoned the matter at issue to strike q gratuitous blow at the doctrine stated In the Missouri compromise that the congress had power to establish freedom in the territories. The new republican party under the leadership of Fremont and Lincoln was built ciple; the whole republican lead- NASAAp dL 0hCSss CSt uP el SA1AAOh CA accusation and the country rocked with their charge that the whole decision was a democratic plot.
 Abraham Lincoln was naturally one of the leaders in the hue and cry. He was, indeed more moder- ate than most when he warned the people, "Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and yOli DreDar0f yOur oWR limbs tO wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others. you have lost genius of your own independ- ence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who arises among you. And let me tell you, that all these things are pre-, pared for you by the teachings of history, if the elections shall promise that the next Dred Scott decision and all future decisions will be quietly acuiesced in by the. people"
 How familiar the tone if not the contenti
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
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fund -raisers in the democratic organizations who were appealing for Roosevelt contributions with the hint of material reward. These are the type of friends which 9 candidate usually can afford to re- pudiate.
 But most of the political leaders and organizations which fall in behind a candidate cannot very well be repudiated because they represent so many votes. The sev- eral pro- Roosevelt senators named the support of some of whom gave Roosevelt reason for pride were depended on to carry. their states for the ticket, Tammany to hold New York and so on.:
 Hoover was surely as dependent on the unsavory elements of the in the democratic party.
 For instance, the notorious Boss Bill Ware of Philadelphia. One of the reasons Hoover seemed likely to lose Pennsylvania was that Ware and his gang didn't seem to care whether he won on not.
 It was even whispered that the City of Brotherly Love might give Roosevelt a break on election day. So Hoover made overtures to Ware and even asked him to in- troduce him on the occasion of his Philadelphia speech. And Ware did.
 All over the country you can find persons or groups. whose existence is Q source of woe to believers in decent government, supporting one candidate or the other. If a cam didate were at any time to- lose that class of his friends" in it's entirety, he probably would face certain defeat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
So They Say

The first thing to remember is that even a nut has a vote. They mean well, and am always per- fectly polite. John F. Killeen. who guards the Democratic National Committee against cranks.
 won't say anything about sal- aries. Let your conscience be your guide.
 Mrs Lucille Trimmer, taxpayer, asking New York City's Board of Estimates to reduce expenses.
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 My way of going is lovely. Elizabeth M. Trivett, in note she wrote before leaping to death. from the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson river.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08

Washington.-A political candi- date isn't to blame for his rela- lives, but his enemies hold him responsible for his friends. Presidential candidates suffer most of all from their friends friends unwanted or otherwise but they seldom lost any impor- tant number of votes on that issue because each major party candi- date is always bound to be encum- bered by admirers and supporters with whom it would never occur to him to be associated if he were enjoying the privileges of private life.
 President Hoover desired to avoid associating himself with the Republican Len Small ticket in Illinois when he went to speak there. But in that case there was much question whether the Small ticket wasn't a liability to Hoover rather than an asset. If Small had been more popular than Hoover in Illinois, the president needn't have worried about appearing arm in arm with his party's gubernato- rial candidate.
 knocks on account of his friends during the campaign. The demo- crats probably wuold have retali- ated more in kind, pointing to some of Hoover's notoriously smelly supporters had they not been counting so heavily, on many nor mally republican, votes and so feared to discourage anybodys' af- factions.
 At the outset the republicans were scornfully pointing to Senators Huey Long of Louisiana, Burton Wheeler of Montana and Clarence Dill of Washington, who had been conspicuous in Roose- velt's support at the Chicago con- vention, although not enormously influential.
 Afterward President Hoover un- dertook to frighten the east by pointing out that such other "dan- gerous radicals" as Senator Norris of Nebraska, Senator Cutting of New Mexico and Senator LaFol- lette of Wisconsin were supporting Roosevelt. Of course the naming of such distinguished progressive leaders seemed slightly amusing at the time, but Hoover doubtless was well advised in believing that he could damage Roosevelt in some quarters by citing them as the governors friends.
 w. c. McAdoo and w. R. Hearst, also Roosevelt supporters, were friequently used by the republicans to antagonize some voters. And 1t was easy to persuade others that they should vote for Hoover sim- ply because John Garner was Roosevelts' running mate.
 Nor would Roosevelt have repu- diated Tammany hall. which is anathema in many areas or similar corrupt democratic machines in other large American cities. The worst type of campaign friends were exposed by the re- publicans in the form of certain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
Down With The College

Alfred E. Smith in the current issue of New Outlook" of which he is the editor, finds himself not at all satisfied With the workings of our far-famed electoral college which actually elects the president and vice and you, Mir and Mrs Voter, as you may fondly believe Although many thousands of American voters may cast their ballots in the hope of having them influence the course of our national government in the ensuing four years oftentimes those ballots are wasted on the Gesert air. They amount to actually nothing.
 The 1928 election gave President Herbert Hoover an astounding total in the electoral college. but he only secured 58 per cent of the popular votes cast throughout the na- ton His electoral vote really was 83 per cent of the total which is rather large and more than enough to win as any and all ot us can quite plainly observe. In the eyes of the editor of New Outlook" this is ob- viously unfair to the beaten candidate who, in this particular instance, happened to be himself We don't think that Mir Smith is trying to smooth over his 1928 defeat TOT make excuses for his showing. It was good so far as popular votes are concerned.
 Editor Smith thinks that abolition of the electoral college is in order. Others are of the same opinion Recently in these col umns appeared some observations of mem bers of Congress in this direction. A con qressman from California has before the House now measure that would entitle each presidential candidate to proportion. ate share of votes in the electoral college as his popular vote in the state earned him. A majority of electoral votes would win. In his article Mir Smith said nothing of this arrangement, but he did conclude his re- marks in this fashion. Personally. l favor the direct population election of the Presi- dent and Vice-P President. -
 It does seem as if popular vote should count in the election of the president and vice president as much as in that of a U. S. Senator representative state official. etc. As it stands today one mans vote for president in Connecticut hasn't the weight of another mans in Arkansas. When the electoral college was established there were few people in this country who had many definite ideas on the way it should be governed. That's why they didn't mind having the leaders go down t. Washington and elect president and vice president Bu as time passed the people didn't elect lead CTS to do this important duty but selected electors who had to vote for the candidate of the party for whom they themselves stood.
 Where once the electoral college was an actual working political body it now is nothing but piece of machinery. Its vote is ordained before the actual electors are chosen. We know that the democratic cleo tors represent so many votes for the demo- cratic candidate if he is successful in one state. and viee-versa on the republican side. Even under the suggestion from California