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Evening star., 1932-05-15
THREE STUDENTS SAVED
AFTER CANOE UPSETS
IN FLOODED POTOMAC

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BANK HOLD-UP TRIO
CLEAR FOUR OTHER
VIRGINIA R0BBERIES

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WALKER CUSTER
DEMAND FORESEEN
IN NEXT FEW WEEKS

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

Secretary Mills appealed to the people to take the added taxation burdens with a smile, and they immediately handed him the horse laugh-Dayton. Ohio News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
Changeless.
Boston News Bureau.l

Sometimes poets and musicians by some flash of insight catch pretty clear perception of social or political economic truths. It may be just through their intuitive imagination, of the sort which gave Goethe true vision of the Italy The had not visited
 Thus it is that Paderewski turns economist mo- Imentarily and on arriving in New York attributes la major part of the worlds present to greed and envy. These he as roots of several social disorders manifesting themselves mostly in economic ways among which he includes an overriding of instalment buying inspired by undue envy of the luxury of the rich, and fostered by mer chants greed and leading thereby to the over production malady He would have all revert to smplier living.
 There will of course be retort that deferred pay ments" are here singled out for unwarranted share of such blame; but possibly these emotions themselves, manifested in many other ways in our complex living, could still be held responsible for much of excesses of cupidity and also gullibity of the recent dramatic past Nor is that story really a new one.
 Let poet-of the long ago-also testify. He wrote around 1430 just about five centuries since. And the interesting thing is that he started off with those same traits of greed and envy in his list of five qualities the permanent extipation of which would ensure perpetual peace-in time when feuds were many. What Petrarch then said of Italian princes comes to mind as our peace dele gates to Geneva land on the other side. It has also its obvious economic flavor,-just the five billions spent yearly on armament have an econ onaic significance
 Add another commentator who claims to be neither poet fiddler-Calvn Coolidge Note the emphasis he puts on that initial quality of
 greed" in his current American Magazine article on the origins of our economic malaise. And how he also extolls simpler living.
 Human nature hasn't altered much in five cen turies; also, as Chairman Wiggn rather intimated la while ago, it isn't apt to change much in the next five-or in fifty
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
Mir. Baker Returns to the Picture.
(New York Herald Tribune.l

MT. Newton D. Baker must once more be regard ed as an important factor in the for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination. This is the inter pretation generally given in political circles to his statement released for publication yesterday after he sailed for Vera Cruz No other interpretation seems
 to us possibe for his uterance bears every earmark of careful deliberation and intention to restore
 it's maker to the race from which he had eliminated himself by his nsistent advocacy of the League of Nations. Thus comes unexpectedly an important change in the national political picture
 For time MT. Baker, the choice of powerful
 interests opposed to Governor Roosevelt made rapid progress as a possible nominee. Then he began publicly to reiterate his faith in the League an international instrument which this country should join. Since sentiment in this country was running more strongly against the League than ever, his attitude caused him to fade an outstanding pos sibility.
 Now MT. Baker takes great pains to remove from the minds of all who may be interested any impress sion that his nomination would hurry America into the League He doesn't even want League plank in the Democratic platform The League should not be partisan issue. q would not take the United States into the League, if had the power Ito do So until there is informed and convinced majority sentiment in favor of that action in the United States" These words-and the further de- caration that any opinion he may have to Am erica's relationship to the League must be looked mistakably uttered with the hope of relieving the speaker of the burden which advocacy of the League inevitably imposes upon any candidate for public office.
 In the face of this elaborate explanation, MT. Bakers NO" when asked by the ship news reporters if he were candidate has little significance It means doubtless that he will not go after delegates with a brass band But one expected that he would. His friends free to act, and they can be counted upon to go to work with will.
 MT Bakers return to the picture will be widely welcomed The pity is that he felt it necessary to handicap his candidacy with such hopelessly impractical and doomed issue as American entrance into the League.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
VESUVIUS SULKING.

Naples is alarmed. Mt. Vesuvus, the worlds most famous volcano, has gone a strike-her internal fires darkened. Neapoitans accustomed to their pillars of fire and columns of smoke and the sinister groanings, grumblngs and growings of the historic mountain of flame, perturbed by it's peculiar behavior
 The volcano went out of active business with earthquake and explosive accompaniment. Scientists have been unable to account for it's vagaries
 Some centuries ago Pompeii Stablae and Her cuaneum were destroyed by a titanic explosion of vesuvius in 79 A. D.. and in December of 1631 1S,- 900 lives were wiped out by another convlusion of the monster. No disaster since then has overtaken those who have dared to challenge its flames and fumaroles But people who live under its shadow are wondering if the ragged old colossus is not taking day off in order to get ready to inflict punishment those who have gone about their daily lives in seeming mockery of its power.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
By PrinscilIa Ring

ANGORA, Feb. 15.-A mud vil- lage nine years ago, Mustapha Kemals rebuilt capital is now finding a place in the sun of in- ternational prestige.
 Soviet Russia, Italy and the Bal kan countries are sending envoys and invitations to Angora, counting the favor of the young republic of Turkey.
 Close on the heels of the second Balkan conference, which held it's final meeting here, the soviets com missar for foreign affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, sped to Angora. Russia knows that if Balkan federation is formed, Mustapha Kennel will probably be it's president.
 He is already the biggest figure, with Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece a close second, in the affairs of the Near East and the Balkans.
 The second Balkan conference had scarcely ended, in fact, when simultaneous invitations came from Rome and Moscow to the Turkish premier, Ismet Pasha, requesting the honor of visit
 Turkey is no bashful debutante in diplomacy. She accepted both in vitations. May has been definite ly set for the arrival of Ismet Pasha in Moscow, and he will be accompa- = nied by Tewfik Rushdi Bey, the minister for foreign affairs.
 Turkeys premier IS shrewd and active. He recently made friend ship-cementing visits to Athens and Budapest and is expected to fortify Turkeys already strong position when he calls upon Mussolini and Stalin next spring.
 The Balkan powers also have not been slow in recognizing the signi- ficance of these developments. Close on the heels of Litvinoff the Bulga- rian prime minister came to An gora.
 His conversations here may have
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
BLOCKING UNSOLICITED BUSINESS.

measure recently introduced in the Senate by Senator Hayden Arizona, that is designed to put end to the sending by mail of unsolicited merchandise. Such merchandise, the bill provides, would be declared nonmailabe and when deposited in the mails would not be delivered to the addressee but would be returned to the sender charged with double the regular postal rates In the sender fails to pay the return postage the merchandise for disposal
 There is big volume of merchandise not ordered shipped through the mails every year It is handled as regular mail matter in being delivered to the addressee It is the worst one of the mail order evils Senator Haydens bill will have the support of all legitimate business organizations and of most of the patrons of the Postal Department, many of whom have been inconyenienced by the nuisance
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

lected S359816,254 in cigarette taxes In the same year, the manufacturers total income $1O5,- 168112
 cigarette. Arkansas with five-cent per package tax and Tennessee with four cents almost equal the Federal levy. Alabama has IS per cent tax and Georgia levies 20 per cent Nine other States have two and three-cent levies.
 Naturally when taxes added, the in- dusHy is bound to suffer. Smokers will buy tailor mades' only as long as the cost is reasonable The manufacturers cannot absorb any material increase in cost through taxation which must be passed on Ito the consumer. When he ceases to buy, the reve- nues which now constitute of the Federal Gov the Treasury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
IGLoO's PROTEST PRAISED.

recent edition of the New York World-Tele- gram, a Scripps Howard daily newspaper, under the caption "The Igloo Speaks" commented editordally as follows:
 Without knowing just what the Pioneers of Alaska are we struck by the sturdy tone of a letter they addressed to Bishop James Cannon, Jr. It comes from the ket- chikan Igloo and breaths a warmth of con- yiction that bellies the Arctic surroundings from which it issued.
 The Bishop, it appears, spoke before House Committee against the repeal of the Alaska bone-dry act.
 "The Igoo vigorously protests against your presumptuous interference in matter which is wholly the business of the residents Of the Territory the letter reads. In what way are you qualified to speak on this question, and who requested you to do so? It appears to us voluntary and unwarranted imperti- hence your part, and as such we unhesi- tatngly condemn it."
 This has the tang of the real pioneer, the voice of men unaccustomed to be goose stepped or intimdated
 There are distances too great for the club of the militant minority to reach, and for men used to way of living in which individual initiative is essential to the maintenance of life itself, such efforts as Bishop Cannons to dragoon them into meek acceptance of the yoke of the Anti-Saloen League must rouse such resentment as their letter bespeaks
 The Ketchikan Igloos vigorous words represent a sentiment that is overwhelming in the Territory Alaskans. who well acquainted with Bishop Cannons odoriferous political record as anyone else do not see in him any fitness, moral or other wise. that would induce them to accept him as a guide in matters either temporal or spiritual And the resentment of his intrusion in this matter which concerns Alaskans solely is widespread throughout Alaska.
 The protest of the Ketchikan Pioneers time ly. It, apparently, attracted more than passing notice and most of the attention it created was favorable.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

You'll have to give Japan credit for one thing. When she starts out to restore order she doesn't pick on a little Central American republic tBos- ton SHerald)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
TAXING THE SMOKER.

In considering the revenue problem, Congress should be slow to add to the already high rate that is now assessed against cigarettes Under the cur rent schedules, each package of 20 cigarettes pays six-cent tax to the Federal Government During the four years, 1927 to 19so the largest for which definite figures are available. the income to the Government from cigarette taxes larger than that which the manufacturers, who have substantial incomes from additional sources, received from all sources. To illustrate. in 1880, the Treasury col
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15
Sahara Desert Gas Dump
 Is Scene of Air Congress

PETROL TIN 5, Sahara Desert Feb. 15.-An international air con ference has just been held nere.
 Eight airmen landed simultane- ously at this remote spot, which is one of the gasoline dumps main tainet along the airways to Tim buctoo.
 E Two were Britishers flying to Aran from Gao, on the Niger. Three others also were from Gao, two were from Gran and the eighth was a pilot of the Trans-Saharan air line, who had made a forced land ing and waited alone five days for someone to turn up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

Secretary Hurley didn't do anything to further the interests of the War Department when he walked out of the Senate Committee hearing dis cussng the future of the Philippines For political spellbinder Prince Pat came off a poor second best in his encounter with Senator King
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

paved the way for establishing dip- lomatic relations between his coun- try and Russia with Turkey acting as itermediary.
 Rumania, too, is reported to be seeking the good offices of Turkey in settling her differences with the soviets.
 Besides these circumstances, Mus tapha Kemal's recognition of the King Fog government in Albania helped Turkeys position, especially with Italy, which is Albanias ally
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

The Republican political fire staged concident with the Lincoln Birthday celebration wasn't made any more impressive because of the Dry tinge which has pervaded the party's ammunition depot under the Hoover regime.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

Wide doors for automobiles in- vented by an Italian open from either end, being mounted on locks that also serve the purpose oi hinges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

We suppose that the Films had become so used to bootleg liquor that when they got the real stuff they had to spike it with wood lye, insect exterminator and rat poison to keep it from tast- ing flat.-(Oho. State Journal)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-15

More Japanese warships have been sent to China to see that the Chinese buy Japanese goods "a trade device showing how little help from higher up blasts the way for the boys on the road-Q Indianapolis News)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H FR0zGS

Ut is indicated that President Hoo
l. yer will suggest another mora
forum on the war debts of year
at least.
1t seems to me that this year-by-
year period of grace is nothing more
than the application of pain killer.
1t would be much more sensible for
us to sit courageously in the dentists
chair and have the tooth pulled out.
Sooner or later, something drastic
must be done about the blamed
thing. A year is too short a time
to do anybody any appreciate good.
1t seems extremely unlikely that
any vast change in the present eco
nomic Setup of the world will occur
within twelve months.
The very fact that heavy, heavy
hangs the debt over the heads of
us all makes radical change all the
less likely. We have not been will
ing to realize that the debt situation
is a burden to us as well as to
European nations.
The newspapers of Mr.. Hearst are
fond of using cartoons in which a
somewhat SNUG Europe is asking a
long line of unemployed Americans
to pay the money that Europe owes.
But the most casual examination
CT the situation will reveal that
those men in the ranks of the I'M
employed have paid already and are
continuing to pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
A Uniform Auto Code

In 1890, $4,000 Americans we're killed and 10000
were injured in motor accidents. Since then the rate
of increase in motor casualties has continued it's
steady course.
In the last decade, auto deaths have trebled. In
less than every twenty-five minutes, an American
gives UP his life to an automobile.
OF course, the causes lie chiefly the part of
drivers and pedestrianss- But laws can help abate
this useless slaughter. To be effective laws should
be uniform in the forty-eght states Unfortunately,
they not
The national conference Of state and highway
safety, headed by Secretary of Commerce Roy D.
Chaplin, has drafted model auto code for adoption
by all states. The code calls for uniform regulations
of highway intersections grade crossings and drivers
permits.
In the last feature lies the best hope for improve
ment, for it would make all states require rigid
aminations for would-be auto drivers. Twenty-Five
states now have little or such requirement
Need for uniformity in auto traffic regulation is
too obvious to require argument. Such code should
be adopted without delay by all states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
For Reference

COLLINS book is an excellent
" introduction to the subject of
the metals. You not only will want
to read it, but you will want to
keep it handy for reference pur-
poses.
Chapter I is a brief Introductory
chapter. Chapter II deals with the
common metals"-iron, copper, tin,
lead, zinc, nickel, tungsten, chro-
MUM, mercury, aluminium, cobalt,
anthony and bismuth.
The chapter is divided up with
Subheads, increasing the ease and
convenience with which the book
may be used for reference purposes.
These subheads in the case of
iron will serve to indicate the plan
and scope Of the book. They are:
Iron, the Most Useful Metal" "Ori-
gin of Iron" Occurrence of Iron"
Kinds of Iron Ore Kinds of
Iron" THE Physical Properties Of
Iron" and THE Chemical Proper
ties of Iron"
Chapter III deals with the noble
metals Chapter w with the alkali
metals, Chapter v with the alkaline
earth metals, Chapter VI with 'the
uncommon metals" Chapter VII
with the rare earth metals, Chapter
VIII with the radioactive metals
and Chapter TX with "the hypo-
thetical metals"
The remaining chapters in order
are THE Older Alloys" THE Newer
Alloys" How Metals Are Mined"
Extracting Metals From Ores" and
THE Uses of Metals"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
Even If They Could

EvEN if it were possible for the
IL debtor nations to meet their in
terest charges in full in gold pay
ment, such gift hardly would help
us. On the surface it would mean a
smaller amount of money to be
raised by us in taxation. But there
would be so much less to tax in the
way of incomes that we would de-
rive no benefit.
During the campaign we heard
frequently enough that the depres-
sion was not solely of our own max
ing, but represented worldwide
condition. II think most Of US ac-
cepted that fact in a large measure.
so why can't we see that any sort
of economic recovery must include
all the nations of the world? We
can't climb up while others are down
and clinging to our heels.
A jobleSS man doesn't know what
hit him. The factors are complex.
But surely ne wasn't helped by the
terrific losses which we have SUI
fered in foreign trade.
The purchasing power of Europe
has been cut down vastly, and it
hardly can be established by the
insistence that the debtor nations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
Parasites

For long while we have been hearing stories of
home owners and business who could not Dor
money on good security. Banks refused to make
loans. We could not understand this, as the banks
were supposed to have too much idle money.
But we supposed there was some good and SUI
hcient technical reason beyond our comprehension
which made it impossible for the banks to fulfill their
plain duty of lending the peoples money to the people,
Now, however comes the head of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation charging that such banks
parasites Atlee Pomerene-speaking from the
detailed information and confidential facts open to
the R. F. C.-limits the number of banks which thus
strangling the country to one-tenth. But he,
adds if it not for the R. F. c., the entire
try would be at their mercy.
His indignation reflects the anger of many citizens
who are the victims of these parasitic banks.
"This is no time for financial institutions to re-
says Pomerene. 1.-THE money in their vaults was
earned by the people and belongs to them. 1t the
very life blood of commerce.
What right have they to refuse to loan it back
to the people who may need it to employ men need
ing work to keep their wives and children from
starvation and freezing?"
The banks have no such right. But the parasites
will not be moved by mere general indictments from
Pomerene
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
other responsible federal authority will have to
name
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A COLORADO reader takes exception to my re-
L marks on capital punishment. 1t is inevitable
perhaps, that most of us do not agree about this
But must register protest when he insists that
boiled methods should prevail because the softer
sort would increase crime. That it seems to me-
hardly is possible
Those who advocate the extreme punishment for
Indicators working for a cause that already
is lost. If there is one fact that sticks up like a
sore thumb when this subject is approached, it is
that the hard-boied methods have failed.
Send all these demons in human form to the cleo
trio chair" says this proponent of the death SEN
tence, and may the Lord have mercy on their souls
which the judge tells them every when he pro-
nounces sentence
Sure May the Lord have mercy on their souls.
since we have had their bodies It's comforting
to know that the Lord will be magnannous than
We are. Personally, I not understand how any
judge can ever muster up the courage to repeat this
cruel remark to any condemned man.
JUSTICE in this country is mainly in the hands of
y those who are ignorant of its meaning Men who
have made life study of crime and its causes, and
who have investigated the result of prison systems
present plans to U.s. They tell us that the old ways
will not work. But do not listen.
We go right on following the same old procedure
lawyers who always are more concerned with law
than with men, devise the punishment for crimes and
in the majority of cases designate what crime is.
They are far more interested in the letter than in
the spirit of the law.
How can we say that humanitarianism has failed
when we have never given it q trial?
We do know this, for experience has proved its
truth Good citizens are not created by threats of
death. crime abated by punishments, and decent
morals are not bred in prison cells
So long as social injustices flourish, we may ex-
pect crime to keep pace with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-19
Money Is Lacking

VXTHAT they lack is money. They
w can't get as much Of it in ex-
change for anything as they could.
They are suffering from excessive
deflation. How are they going to
pay taxes and debts if this con-
tinues?
Some of the economies being adj
vocated mean only more deflation,
with reduced power to earn and pay
all along the line.
If the government expenses could
be brought down to the general level
without increasing unemployment,
the result would neutralize itself.
But can they?
Even if they could, we still would
have to meet those debts, repre-
sented by notes, bonds and mort
cages, and totaling no less than
$150,O00O00,OO0, according to one
authority.
How are we going to handle that
load if money keeps on rising, while
prices and wages go down?