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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-01
OUT OF HOSPITAL

A. J. Balog returned home Sum- day from St. Ann's hospital where he has been receiving treatment fol injuries received. He expects te be able to return to his work in another week.
 Chas. J. Anderson who has been under treatment in St. Ann's hospital for the last month or more is back in Douglas again having been released from the hospital yesterday.
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COLE DISPUTES l ]. RUSTCARD OVER
 FISCAL STATUS
Auditor Says Suspended Appropriations Prevent
 ed Current Deficit

CContinued from Page one.)
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By ROBERT H. BAKER Professor of Astronomy, Univer-
 sity of Illinois)

| Professor of Astronomy, Univer- sity of Illinois, | fURBANA, Ill, Nov. 1.-November l4 is red letter day on the as trcnomical calendar. On this date the earth passes near or across the orbit of the swarm of Leonid Eeteors.
 If the swarm is at the crossing point when the earth arrives, we shall plunge through it and col llde with multitudes of these me- teors. There are no traffic regu- lations at celestial intersections. The consequence of such collisions would be a fine display of shoot | ing stars.
 Moderate Shower Last Year It must be understood that as tronomers are not definitely pre- dieting spectacular meteoric shower on this date. No one can say in advance whether the earth shall encounter a congested region of the swarm or merely some of the stragglers. That remains to be seen.
 The Leonid swarm travels around the sun once in B years in an elongated orbit. At intervals of B years the earth passes near or through this rather long swarm for two or three years in success sion. Last year, in the middle Of November, the earth collided with enough of it to produce 3 moder- ate shower of meteors.
 Leonid showers have occurred over more than thousand years A record of one of the early dis plays reports that "the stars fell like rain" The meteoric showers in November, 1883 and 1866 were so brilliant that superstitious per- sons feared the world was about to end. Not only a few meteors fell at the next encounter, in 1899 and 1900.
 Most Meteors Small
 The Leonids are go named be- cause they seem to spread in all directions from region in the constellation Leo. The brig Int streaks really are parallel. We notice the same effect in the case of the parellel rails of a track, they seem to diverge from a point in the distance.
 Meteors are pieces of stone or metal. The majority are scarcely larger than the head of ccm- mon pin. When we clillide with them, they plunge through the alt mosphere with terrific. speed and usually are entirely consumed by the friction of the air. While they are being consumed they leave bright streaks in the sky, which we call shooting stars.
 Some meteors are large enough to partly survive the intense heat of their flight through the air, so that they fall to the ground. And a few of these meteorites are large indeed, For instance, there are two great masses of nickel-iron, in Africa, weighing about 50 tons each, which fell out of the sky. Thousands of meteor ties ranging in weight from many tons down to few ounces are preserved in museums.
 There are exceptions. Probably not one in a million is large enough to reach the ground. There Is nothing to fear from the Leonid shower of November IA, even if it should rrove to be a spectacular one
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P. T. A. MEETING TONIGHT

Second regular monthly meeting of the Douglas Parent Teachers Association for the Fall term will be held this evening in the school assembly hall. A good program has been arranged to which the public is invited.
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DOUGLAS NEVIS
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
 HAS QUIET HALLOWEEN

Because little Frankie Hubbard their schoolmate, is critically i'll in the Government hospital in Juneau, the children of the Gov ernment school voted against the usual Halloween hi inks. Never theless, the candy man was a visit or at the school yesterday and the last half hour of the session given over to story reading.
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HALLOWEEN PARTIES ARE z ENJOYED AT PUBLIC SCHOOL

At the close of regular sessions yesterday afternoon, several of the
 grades in the public school were treated to ice cream and other good Icsl.s in celebration of Halloween by their teachers.
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COUNCIL MEETING

Postponed from last week, on account of a political rally, the monthly session of the Douglas City Council for transaction of routine business matters will be held tonight in the City Hall.
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a
 The little double-ender- in winch trs long cruise will be made, will its of the type of pilot boats used off the stormy coast of Norway. She will be sturdy craft 32 f,st over all, Il feet beam and 5.6 fc1t draft. The vessel will carry $50 feet of canvas, 5,00O-pound iron keel as ballast and will be equipped with 15-horsepow,r auxiliary engine for use in going in and out of harbors. There will be private stateroom, a main saloon, galley and tanks capable cf carrying large gas and water supply.
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GARD PARTY TUESDAY

The third of the series of card parties by the Catholic Ladies will be held at Parish Hall Tuesday evening. Prizes. Halloween atmos- phere and decorations. Everybody welcome. soc. --ady.
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NOTICE

I will not be responsible for any debts incurred by my wife, Bluette Daniels, from this date on. -adv. s. DANIELS.
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true as is proven by the same ex- planation."
 i The last published Territorial balance shows some $311,000 on hand, MT. Cole said. Ut is ab- viouS, therefore, if the appropria- tions withheld, which aggregate $362 ,963, had been made, instead of having cash on hand to con- duct normal activities for the re- mainder of the year, we would have a deficit" declared the Au- ditor.
 He listed the suspended approp-
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Visit Several Towns

VIsit Several Towns
 MT. Cole was undecided as to his plans for the Ketohikan cam paign. He said it was possible he would made a radio address there and take no part in any public meeting.
 From Ketchikan. he will proceed to Wrangell and then to Peters burg, returning here about the end of the week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-27

for three. Under present conditions it is hard for
an employed miner to earn $40 month
II miners are injured and apply for workmen's
compensation relief, they are fired On TOD of this
they are compelled, on penalty of being discharged
to trade at company stores where prices are from
80 to so per cent higher than in competing private
, stores.
Hence, starvation and disease stalk even in the
families of employed miners. 1t was natural that
even these independent frontiersmen should turn to
organization in the sheer effort to i've
The United Mine Workers came in during 1921
but wre driven out by the Klan. In 1927 they made
another effort but were discouraged when the sheriff
arrested their leaders and organizers. In 1881 thew
encouraged organization, but did not come into the
field personally put the union behind the Ken
lucky miners.
Hence Kentucky members of this union have all
the disadvantages of unionization and none of its
advantages in strike benefits and the like
This led to formation of an independent Kentucky
union and to afaliation with the l. w W. These
gestures proved equally futile So the situation pro-
vided fertile ground for the work of the radical
National Miners Union. The Kentucky miners have
no interest in Moscow-most of them never have
heard of it-but the radical union offers them the
only available chance to escape starvation if organza
ton succeeds.
The operators, controlling the courts and politics,
fought even the conservative United Mine Workers
The appearance of the I. w. w. and the National
Mine Workers Spurred them on to a declaration of
war against unionzation.
Mine guards were sworn in as deputies, Chicago
gunner were imported the militia was sent in relief
stations and soup kitchens were blown up and fired
upon in the effort to starve the already emaciated
miners into subsection.
The miners are rfemen with tradition running
back to Daniel Boone. They retalated and in sew
eral clashes have worsted the deputies and gunner
But the latter have the law and political forces on
their side. Some 335 men are in jail charged with
murder, criminal syndicalism, banding and confed-
Grating and the like. Some forty-four are under
indictment for murder.
However one regards conditions in this area, no
body of intelligence describe them as civilized
Or decent. Before start to pull the Japanese off
the backs of the Chinese we well might assure these
old-line Kentucky Americans of some of the rights
and amenities of civilized society.
Before attempt to teach morals to Hawaii we
could afford to elementary decencies to honest
American workers. Otherwise, we shall make Com
munists out of the least Communistic type in all
American society.
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The War in Kentucky

The recent assault Edmund Wilson, Malcolm
Cowley and other leading American writer's who at
tempted to visit the Kentucky mining lends
special interest to the authoritative article on War
in the Kentucky Mountains by Sterling Spero and
Jacob Aronoff in the American Mercury
From the standpoint of race and nationality, this
kentucky radicaliSm presents unique situation The
epithet of damned foreigners" can not be lodged
against this group They are descendants of near
Mayhower stock who settled in this area in revo-
utionary or pre-revoutionary times
They hundred per cent Americans who not
more than decade ago formed the backbone of the
Ku-Klux Khan in this area.
The industrial setup is part and parcel of the BIZ
luminous coal industry throughout the country
overproduction of COAL declining prices and growing
competition of oil and other fuels. Hence, there is
a pathetic amount of unemployment even when the
men are not on strike.
few big operators, like the United States Coal
and Coke Company, belonging to the United States
Steel Corporation, do fairly thriving business and
pay decent wages But many operators, especially
the smaller ones merely keep their mines open few
days each week chiefly to prevent the ruin of mines
and machinery through total cessation of work.
Laboring and living conditions incredible out
side the United States Steel mines and one or two
other large plants. Miners get IS cents ton for
their coal but dishonest methods of Weighing make
it necessary for them to deliver four tons to get paid
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-27
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE funniest argument advanced by the Ameri-
i who does not believe his country should join
the world court is this They only want to use us
he says with profound and knowing look, they
think they get to assume their economic bur-
dens.'
Well, now we've never been in the league but If
Europe hasn't used us, don't know what you'd call
it. And if we are not helping with her economic
burdens perhaps this financial load we carry is a
mere Pigment of the imagination.
We are out of the world court if there's any salts
faction in that but most of hard cash already
sunk across the Atlantic. Billions of national
wealth are squandered in loans to Germany, France
England and others, and there seems small chance of
getting it back.
IF the men of the oil industry for instance, had be-
haved as stupidity in their business as American
statesmen have in international affairs, we should
condemn them unanimously for their folly. The way
they Salvaged their failing business was to use their
heads
They met, formulated plans. set up system of
proration and cooperation with one another The
fact, doubtless will be pointed out that few I'M
principed ones have found small loopholeS to break
rules does not detract from the excellence of this plan
for the salvation of a major industry.
Everybody realizes that business survives only be-
cause its leaders are sensible enough to work to-
gether for the good of all. Nations live by no
other method.
And if there is danger for us today in the Japa-
neSe invasion of China that danger exists because
have not had the intelligence to sit in with other
white nations to safeguard ourselves while we aided
them
BY remaining aoof, we have placed ourselves in
the ridiculous position of siding with japan against
the entire world Whispers here, there yonder, say
we have done this deliberately because we do not want
to lose trade If this be true then curses should
rest upon the heads of those who have seered us to
such course.
The world court meets to stop, if possible. the
slaughter of men. Do stand apart because we still
love our dollars more than we love our boys7
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-If the U. S. A. is
going to maintain it's leadership in
commerce, its respect for civiliza-
ton and education, the standard
American home, the welfare of the
younger generation, who will make
the future citizens of this country,
we, the present powers that be,
must give them some structure to
be proud of and to hope to main
tain and improve.
The last few years have been dis
graceful to the American intelli-
gence, and entirely uncalled for in
this land of plenty, but we all
make mistakes and let us profit by
ours by being fair to one another
in the various branches of our So
ciety and economic standings.
Everything has its time limit for
usefulness to society and country.
The OK age, mule age, horse age,
cave age, slave age, and now civil
lized age. Let us be true to our
present age of civilization and prog
ress by changing our present
wornout economic structure Of sell
fish, greed. profit and power sys-
tenn to an improved Christian
brotherhood of live and let live
systems.
This can be accomplished with
out working any hardship on any
one, nor is it necessary to confiscate
the wealth of the rich and prosper
GUS of the country.
But we do ask their moral sup
port in this change of affairs and
in time to come they would be sat-
isfied with the improved system
and conditions and lose nothing,
but gain the respect of the citizens
at large.
1t is a true and tried fact that
the circulation Of money is the life
of prosperity, and a prosperous
country has contented people, so
therefore it becomes necessary al
ways to maintain a steady flow of
pay for all able workers, with
standard living wage in accordance
with the American living standard,
which is good wages and high prices
with regulation against profiteering,
and destructive competition. with
fair profit, and square deal to all.
G. S.
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NulIifying the Moose

In Oroville, Cal. recently, two men robbed ALL
ing station and shot to death the propretress It was
a clear case of cold-blooded killing. Unanimously,
the jury found the two guilty of first degree murder
Yet when it came to punishment, the jurymen
split minority holding out for life imprisonment.
The district attorney then announced that he would
go out into his foothin community to test public
sentiment on hanging.
IF there is not reasonable prospect of a hang
ing verdict in a new trial." he said, II will go into
court and ask that the defendants be given life
sentences"
Thus this peace officer is forced to nullify the
law and repeal capital punishment in capital pun
ishment state.
WhyP Because, with hanging, as with prohibit
ton and other laws out of touch with public Senti-
ment juries refuse to be savage even if the law is
In test covering decade, made by DR.. Fred
erck Hoffman of the Prudential Life Insurance Com
pany it was found that the murder death rate in
non-captal punishment states was forty-two per
100000 people; in capital punishment states it was
hfty-seven per million.
THE death penalty is enforced in too small a
proportion to have deterrent effect the COM
munity," he found
Why do we not make laws based upon human
psychology
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-27
Energy Disappears
TN seeking to explain the diminu

IN seeking to explain the diminu.
Il ton in frequency of light waves
coming from the outer galaxies, on
some other basis than motion, DR..
Macmillan proposes several posi-
bilitieS.
He regards the light as a stream
OF particles-or photons-and sue-
gestS as one solution of the problem
of the disappearing energy that
these photons collide with other
photons in their path and lose some
of their energy.
DR.. Macmillan believes that the
most plausible explanation, however.
is that some of the energy of the
light, somewhere in its journey of
from 100000 to 100000 wears
between the outer galaxies and the
earth, disappears into the fine struc-
ture OF space, and eventually
energies into our ken in the form of
atoms.
The farther away the galaxy is.
the greater is this evaporation.
The extraordinary velocities Of
recession which are derived from the
SHIFT toward the red of the spectral
lines of remote galaxies have led to
much skepticism of the interpreta-
ton OF this shift as due to motion :"
DR.. Macmillan says. This skepti-
clsm is enhanced when it is learned
tnat the velocities are proportional
TO the distance of the galaxies.
He believes that his new theory
is less open to objection.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

part in the causation of all types of
disease because of it's interference
with the proper functioning of the
body.
Worry produces fatigue much
more quickly than is likely from
physical effort alone. The lines in
the face associated with constant
worry can be recognized even by
amateur observers.
1t is silly, of course, to tell man
who is worrying that he should not
worry. All that one can tell him
is that the worry certainly will pro-
duce no suitable result and that it
is more likely to do him harm than
good.
The man who begins to worry as
soon as he goes to bed, and who
therefore is unable to sleep, ought
to have competent advice and as
sistance.
He is taking part in what scien-
lists call a vicious circle. The more
he worries, the less he sleeps; the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-27
TINE way of neutral is hard.

THE way of a neutral is hard
l. and the attitude which he must
assume lacks the romantic appeal
animating the extreme right and
also the fringe on the left.
often have insisted that political
thought is circular and that there
are more SirnilaritieS between Stall
inism and Fascism than either camp
cares to admit.
Nor is this mere partisan fantasy,
for I can cite a present instance in
proof of the contention. Two
schools of thought in America today
are urging a course of action calcu-
lated to embroil lis in a war against
Japan.
They constitute perhaps the
strangest bedfellowship ever known
upon these shores, and yet it is not
to be denied that for the moment A.
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and
William z. Foster, leader of the
Communist party in America, are
sharing room rent.
Lowell is a leader of the move
ment to enlist America in an effort
to solve the far east crisis by means
Of an economic boycott. Senator
Borah and others have pointed out
that under international law this
would constitute a hostile act.
International law never has re-
covered from the beating which ii
took in the last conflict. Being
somewhat punch drunk, it can not
now walk a chalk line, but staggers
as it ambles across the face of the
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less he sleeps, the more inefficient
he becomes, and therefore the more
reason he has for worry.
Sometimes insomnia is due to
physical conditions, but in many in
stances it is due to mental disturb
ances. On the other hand, falling
asleep is habit and if one estab-
fishes a routine of going to sleep
easily at regular hour, he is likely
to have less trouble falling asleep
than if he suddenly varies the time,
the place, and the environment of
his sleeping performance.
1t generally is well known that
proper ventilation, proper warmth,
and the same bed are important
factors in falling asleep.
A warm bath or warm drink
previous to going to bed is a great
help, and it makes no difference
whether the drink is plain milk,
matted milk, or some fancy named
substance that costs five or six
times as much.
Next: Exhaustion.
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Organization of EIectrOn
lDR. MACMILLAN'S hypothesis
- pictures a complicated organi-

DR. MACMILLAN'S hypothesis
- pictures a complicated organi-
cation within the electron itself.
The electron is the smallest
known particle, the electrical unit
out of which the atoms of matter
are constructed.
Electrons are believed to be so
small that several million could be
placed upon the period at the end
Of this sentence without crowding
them at all.
Existence within the electron of
series of undiscovered physical
systems, in which are occurring
atom-building, the production of
radiant energy and other processes
which insure the universe of con-
tinual rebirth and prevent its run
ming down." is suggested by DR..
Macmillan.
His hypothesis, which pictures the
cosmos as being tremendously big
ger and more complicated than
most modern scientists concede. and
involves reinterpretation of several
recent discoveries, was outlined by
DR.. Macmillan in explaining the
significance of a communication
printed over his signature in the
latest issue of the British science
journal, Nature.
DR.. Macmillan arrives at his con-
illusions from consideration of the
shift toward the red end of the spec
trum, which has been found in the
light of distant nebulae.
This shift, which astronomers
have interpreted as the result of
motion away from the earth, led to
the theory of an expanding universe.
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y "
Clever ManeuVer

THIS sort of f1apdoodle has en-
l. abled a well-organized minor
ity to play both sides against the
middle and keep the dryS in con-
troll of congress.
Even as late as four years ago
that minority forced the Repub-
lican party to run a dry candidate
on a wishy-washy platform and the
Democratic party to stultify wet
candidate with platform that was
equally evasive and noncommittal.
The prohibition movement has
been one of the most cleverly man
aged political adventures In Ameri-
can history.
Though disrupted and discredit-
ed, the remnants of its rapidly di-
minishing strength are still suffl-
cient to make the nation inarticu-
late.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

4 A<AA - ~~-~-@ - -
Other Planets Haze CiUiziza-
tions Millions of Years
Ahead of Ours, Scientist
Believes.
COMEWHERE of in space, revolv-
~ ing around other stars as our
earth revolves around its star, the
sun, are planets with civilizations
millions of years old, civilizations
whose developments of the arts and
sciences is unbelievably ahead Of
ours.
This is the opinion of DR.. William
D. Macmillan, professor of mathe-
NAUTICAL astronomy at the University
of Chicago.
DR.. Macmillan bases his view upon
the belief that the universe is a
perpetually regeneratinS mecnan-
ism.
According to his view, advanced
forms of life always have grown up
in the universe during a literally in
finite past.
Therefore, he holds that there
must be thousands of planets upon
which life and civilization is far
older and far more advanced than
it is upon the earth.
DR.. Macmillan is led to these con-
clusions from a study of the nature
of the electron and it's relation to
the universe.
He disagreeS with the views of
Jeans and Eddington that our uni
verse is like a clock that was started
at some distant date and which now
is running down.
He also disagreeS with their the
DRY of an expanding or exploding
universe, the theory which holds
that an explosion at some dim dis
tant date set the whole universe to
flying to pieces.