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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
MRS. BONNER RETURNS

The Northland docked here at an early hour this morning. Be- sides one passenger for the Island Mrs. Robert Bonner, who has been visiting in Seattle during the summer, the vessel brought a small amount of freight including some fir lumber fo~ the city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
MRS. R. H. WILLIAMS
 WILL RESIDE HERE

Mrs. Richard F.. Williams ar rived in Juneau a few days ago and while apartments for her are being prepared in the Gastineau Hotel, she is a guest at the home of United States Marshal and Mrs. Albert White. AES
 Dr. Williams, who for several years has had dental offices in Skagway, was in Juneau over the weekend while the United States Army boat Torrance was in port. He will return here about October 1 to open dental offices in this city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
KEYSER GUEST
 OF MRS. MOODY HERE

Mrs. Beverly Moody, wife O. Lieut.. Moody of the United States Coast Guard cutter Tallapooss has as her house guest Mrs. Helen Keyser, who arrived on the steam ship Aleutian early this week Mrs. Keyser will visit in Juneau several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
DOUGLAS NEVIS
CHAMBER MEETING

Regular meeting of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce will be held this evening in the City Hall. Several matters to be re- ported on will engage the atten- tion of the body.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

The taxes assessed you by the City of Juneau are now due and payable and will become delinquent on .the first Mon>iy in october; providing, however, that if one- half of the tax Is paid on or before the above date the balance will not become delinquent until the first Monday of the following March.
 SA H. k. SHEPARD,
 --adv. City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08

Miss Bessie Yurman and Mrs. Ruth Blake were hostesses at a bridge party at the Zynda Hotel last evening. Three tables were in play. After the cards, dainty refreshments were served.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08

Master Jackie Gucker. son or Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Gucker, is at his home convelescing iesn
 appendicitis operation performed by Dr. w. w. Council at St. Ann's hospital last Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
GOODY SALE SATURDAY

Given by the Lutheran Ladies Aid Society at Capital Electric Go.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
GoETz ON. SICK LIST

A. E. .Goetz has been absent from his business tne past few days on account of illness t 4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08

DEER HUNTERS Gasboat Ace for charter any time. See George Brothers. adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
Too Far Back

A congressional candidate in Texas adopts Henry Fords agricultural gospel and goes him one better. He wants the government to buy farm land in many states, sell it on easy terms to needy families and lend them the money for farm equipment. As for particulars. Each family would get 20 acres of land. blow. two spades, two hoes and horse. together with enough cash to finance the first seasons operations. The loans which would average $500 per fam ily would be payable to the government over period of 30 years" The New York Times does not see why the advocate of this ingenious scheme fails to provide also at least one COW. with a suitable complement of chickens and pigs. photograph. radio and automobile.
 The significant thing about the proposal is the seriousness shown about the new back to-the land movement But Henry Ford. its chief apostle. always keeps an anchor to windward. Or to vary the figure, while planting one foot on the land. he keeps the other on industry. A little farm. he sees. is great thing for an industrial worker: the small farmer needs town job with pay attached The Texas man seems to be one of those who would reverse economic evolu' ton by moving us en masse back from the industrial age to the age of primitive agri- culture. Some other thinker will be talk ing another step backward to the pastoral age. And from that it is only step farther to the hunting and fishing age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
WILL IT woRK?.
(Hartford Times)

The. next democratic candidate I for the United States senate in Connecticut probably will be c wet,
 running on q wet state platform. and perhaps on a wet national platform. At least, the democrats, when they go to Chicago, are un- likely toTadopt q prohibition plank less moist than that which the re- publicnns perpetrated.
 | Senator Hiram Bingham, on the republican side, has engineered himself into the 1imelight of ,ra- tional publicity as an advocate both of beer and repeal. We do not doubt his sincerity, but we believe he has had in mind the Connecticut situation all the while. The republicans have been losing ground tremendously in the large cities. In trying to turn back that movement the republican organiza. ton has been appealing to wet sentiment. Without his raucous at-
 tempt to mobilize the vets, senator
 Bingham would be defeated. Per-
 haps he would be defeated anyway.
 Plenty in his party are dissatisfied
 with him. Raising up the stnpdard
 of the beer barrel may prove q
 saving expedient. But he could not
 afford to lose many country votes
 and many votes will be lost to him
 because of the attitudes which he
 has taken on the liquor question.
 and because of many other mat
 fcrs. 1T the democrats would forget
 wet and dry as chief items and
 nominate q man of real senatorial calibcr, even beer could not save
 MT Bingham. 14s ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
Biblical Explanation

Europe is worrying now about America Our British friends are concerned for us, but by no means hopeless. The Liberal News Chronicle of London. reviewing our unemployment. collapse of prices. freezing of assets. public deficits. etc. says: hat the United States should really be unable to re- cover is quite incredible. Her natural re- sources are so vast. it is very difficult for us to understand how nation with such untold wealth at it's command can be in this state at all."
 It is harder for us to understand than it is for outsiders. We might find the answer in economic textbooks. We might find it., too, in our family Bibles. if any of us still have them lying around. In fact. the old Hebrew prophets along with David the psalmist and Solomon the philosopher. could probably explain the mystery more eonvineinsly than our professional eeono- mists, It may really be true that national prosperity, to be lasting must be based on moral virtues as much as on natural re- sources. and that national diversity is the result of selfishness. arrogance and other forms of unrighteousness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS We Cannot Quote Prices


 Will you kindly recommend for mo good me good care at a moderate price (R. S.) Answer--I cannot give any Information con corning costs. prices fees in any case.
 How to Grow
 I am 10 years old and weigh only 123 stripped, G2 inches tall Is 1t possible to in- crease my height by eating any particular kind of food or taking any medicine? At the age of 14 years ! had to go to work to hcIp support the family and my first job kept me at 1t IF hours a day six days week and have been working steadily ever since. although on easier jobs. Would that account for my stuntcd growth? e. II. B.)
 Answer-I think the hard work may have interfered with growth. If you find any food or medicine which increases stature, let me know, I'd like to add cubt or two myself. Read yesterdays article about the boy who wants to be a soldier.
 Water in the Ear
 I do much swimming and diving. I wear car stOppers but nevertheless water gets into my ears and makes them sore at times, 1t seems to settle in the tube leading from the car to the throat. Is this likely to cause ser- ious trouble? CR. O.)
 Answer-It is. Try wearing loose packings of lambs wool in the ears to keep out water. The greatest danger is in swimming in pools patronized by many persons. It Is advisable to keep water out of the nose tod. Some ex- periepcee .wiuimers prefer to wear a spring clip to keep the nostrils closed, breathing only through the mouth.
 (Copyright John
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
MEDICAL LATIN IS BECOMING OLD
 FASHIONED

Out of the daily bag of mall estimate we get half peck of letters quoting what the doctor said and asking for interpretation of the | doctors occult language. On the ground that this Is a health service we usually regret our l inability to undertake the interpretation. though no narrow dictates of medical ethics | can deter me from exposing sheer hokum | when that is obvious. For instance, if a pa- | tient goes to the doctor complaining of heart I trouble and the doctor feels his pulse and tells him it is cardiac disturbance I'd just 1 as soon inform the patient that he has been | had. But such cases are not so common nowa- days as they were q few years ago. do not doubt carnaton by any other name would smell as bad; not that have anything against carnations but somehow their ghastly aroma always gives me the Syitiost icenhs-as though l should have tried some other treat ment.
 This is what our family doctor found" writes one correspondent--"Sy "Sysotcele, Recto- cele, Endoccrvicitis, Fibromyomata. What do these terms mean? He saiC that all her organs had fallen. and an operation would be neces- sary to give any permanent relief. Patient had major operation 10 years ago and does not want to undergo another
 The correspondent asks whether think an operation is advisable In the case described, and whether 1t would be dangerous opera tion. These questions which I cant an- swer. How I any physician form an opinion of the nature or extent of the trouble or the advisabilfty of operation without having examined the patient?
 l doubt that 1t would help the sufferer If l were to define the medical terms the doctor
 
 healthiest will worry little bit if he finds. say by having an x-ray examination because 1t is bargain day for such examinations. that his stomach kidney is sagging or falling loose. It is better for ones peace of mind and health to be vague about such everyday troubles. Doesn't improve the function of the saggng organ to keep your conscious mind focused on It. Far better to know that your stomach is not as firmly anchored as it is in most per sons, without measuring just how many centi- meters or fngerbreadths 1t has fallen. Any, way. q good many of us have such fallen or gans and never know 1t.
 There is nothing very serious in the several conditions enumerated In the doctors diag nosis. Plenty of women enjoy life in spite of just such conditions Whether surgical repair treatment is necessary depends on the de- gree of trouble in the individual case, the pa tients age and general status.
 Nowadays, with more and more laymen be- coming more and more enlightened about health matters and pathology, the doctor who still perpetrates imposing medical terms with out particular and without translatin3 his funny Latin Greek into the parlance of the patient, merely makes himself ridiculous and imprcsses nobody. The day of bombast is over. The doctor who knows his business speaks in the language of the present day. The greater the doctor the simpler his lan- guaEe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
A 10000 Majority

One of the republican delegates return ing from the national convention in Chicago last week was so enthused over the showing of Senator Hiram A. Bingham that he de- clared that the senior senator from this state would defeat his democratic opponent by 10000 majority. That's quite boast to make. but it only goes 10 show that Sena- tor Bingham's prestige is once more on the make. Two years ago he was not con sidcred such good risk by the republicans of Connecticut. In fact. we can recall the time when his retirement was being men, tioned and not secretly either.
 There is only one explanation for Sena- tor Bingham's remarkable comeback. And that can be explained in one word pro- hibition. He is its uncompromising enemy. He had single handed and also jointly waged war against all the liquor laws and amend ments that this nation has indulged in since the establishment of the noble experiment" more than a decade ago. If the nation should decide to repeal the 18th Amendment and permit states to make their own decs- ions on the subject of liquor manufacture. importation. and sale we don't know what the urbane Mir Bingham would do. He would lose prop on which he now relies for his reelection.
 When you hear such statements as these. you must give ear "Bingham's fight for re- peal and his fearless stand against the Hoover dry forces will give him 10000 majority in his state this fall. .. Bingham will run far ahead of Hoover and if Alfred E. Smith or some other strong democrat is nominated for president. have my doubts if Hoover will be able to carry Connecticut. ..." Coming from republican sources that IS startling information. The speaker. how ever. did not say how Senator Bingham would make out if Smith or some other strong candidate" is dominated.
 Naturally the chances of Bingham rum ming ahead of his ticket would be greater if Hoover were not opposed by candidate of the Smith or Baker type. But much also depends upon the candidate whom the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
SAMPLES NEW MAYOR SETS PAGE FOR OTHERS
(New Britain .Herald)

g There is a certain danger to any status quo in clecting former re- porter as mayor of Q city. The breed, going hhher and yon, ac- cumulates ideas. Some of the no- tions are likely to be contrary to well-established principles of lais- sez-fafre government.
 Thus, when John F. Dore for eight years functioned as a news- paper reporter in Seattle, covering the police department, he, noticed this and that. Finally he studied law and became an attorney. Then was elected mayor.
 1naugurated at midnight the other night one of his first orders was to take the i$18,000 Hollywood furniture out of the mayors office. Other orders were: A reduction in the salaries of city officials, includ- ing his own; an order that all re- sorts be closed; abolishment of the dry squad and unhorsing of the police cavalry doing traffic duty: establishment of a. shotgun and homicide squad to- catch robbers and thieves; abolishment of ratings in the detective bureau, making de- tective positions available to pO- licemen from the ranks on merit; holding of policemen responsible for conditions on their beats; re- ducing bail of strifling charges to 50 cents and to nothing in case of citizens 50 as to Kill of the profess sional bail bondsmen; reduction oi city employees by one-third: no city employe except members of the public works board to get more than t3.000 a year: starting . move for i've cent fare. and per: hitting children sto 2. use school tickets at all hours: abolishment of swivel chair jobs In city depart. .ments; insisting that the telephone company pay for the use of the streets for its poles. z ,R
 Seattle has been sorelyf beset by as many evils as any city can men ton. If the citizens. of Seattle don't like the ideas Of the new mayor he can be recalled. At the first quivers of the reform wave, however. the previously oppcsins
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21

demoersn will ssisrt to run sssina Bins- ham. If man of Representative Lonsr- san's type is picked there won't be mueb sdvsntsze for the New Haven repubIicsn in the prohibition issue Nor will he be able to boast any greater legislative accom-
 plishments than Representative Lonergsn who has been chiefly responsible for the distribution of government owned wheat to the needy families of the nation. Demo- erats will do well to study the situation thoroughly before picking their senatorial candidate. They can win this office just as well as they can extend their power into other state offices this fall. Why not realize that at the very beginning and plan accordingly'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
BILLIONS OF NEW STAMPS.
:(Meriden JournaD

These are busy days for the Burcnu of Engraving and Printing as 1t prepares for the increase in letter postage from two to three cents. effective July 6. The bureau will have ready on that date about {, ,000 100000 three-cent stamps and several millions stamped en- velopes in the three-cent class, to- Eether with huge supply of one cent stamps to be used with the present two-cent stamps.
 The increase in postal rate will provide large additional revenue for Uncle Sam. The additional penny may look small to the aver age payer but actually 1t Is an in- crease of 50 per cent and that Is bigger thar most of the new fed- eral imposts that will cause exten- sive grumbling.
 This is one of Uncle Sam's new ievies that win be most easily col- .lected. The Internal Revenue bureau will gather In others and its staff will have to be considerably enlarged to handle the extra busi- ness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
The Ninth Cross-Section Dictionary of American Biography Is Rapidly
 Progressing
Progressing
NEW YORK TIMES

With the appearance of the ninth
 volume of the Dictionary of Amer
 ican Biography" another cross-gec-
 tional view of our national person. ality Is presented. It Is not the life
 of the moment (for the living are
 not includedD.. but of the United I States as q people. from the first settlements down to the death-roil of last year. The alleged witch, Ann Hibbins, who, sentenced by Governor Endicott. was executed I In Boston in 1856 (because. as a minister of that time said, "she had l more wit than her neighbors'') and Anne Hutchinson, banished from l Massachusetts Bay in 1638, because of her religious beliefs and mur- dered by Indians in Long Island in
 1643, give a preface of medieval atmosphere to chronicle that ends with the death of Edgar Jad- win, an engineer who died in 1881 at the Gorgas hospital in Panama. So are the extremes of religious intolerance and of modern ocicn-
 tlflc enterprise illustrated in this new volume.
 Andrew Jackson is the only president of the United States who appears in this volume--and with singular appropriateness in this the centennial year of his gccond election and of the nominating convention. With little under standing of the democratic move ment which bears his name" he rides gailantly through the eight pages of his biography back to '"The Hermitage" where he died and was buried by the side of his beloved Rachel" By q happy alphabetical coincidence General sam" Houston accompanies him in this volume, which they together may ,'.bc said to dominate, even ] though 1t is shared with men of great distinction: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Wifi liam Dean Howells, Henry James. Thomas Janvier in letters; Inness and Winslow Homer in art; VII. Ham James in phllosophy; Elias Howe. Hussey and Janncy in in- vcntion; Mark Hopkins and Will liam De Witt Hyde in education; c. r. Huntington and James J. Hill in railroad building. and Senator Hoar. John I. Ingail and David
 B. Hill in political life.
 For variety of achievement those who bear the surname James" take the lead. Besides William James (who Is Commonly grouped with Edwards and Emerson as one of the American philosophers whose place in history is securely and Henry James (thc first novel, ist of world defined by his biog- rapher and "still the best") there are: Charles James. chemist of in- ternational -recognition; Charles Tiilinghast James. engineer, "the great prophet of steam driven cot ton 1factories";;. |. Willis James. merchant and philanthropist (who loved everything in the universe from God down to the Iiewsboy'D; Edmund J. James. economist and university ssspfesident; Edward Christopher James. lawyer; Edwin James, the explorer, who first of white men climbed Pike's Peak; George Wharton James, authority on the southwest; Henry James, lecturer Gather of William and Henry, .above); Louis James. actor; ollie James. senator from Kcn- lucky; Thomas James. trapper, trader and author; Thomas c. James. physician and teacher, who ''laid the firm foundation for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21

Every one of Conneetieut's l6o towns will receive its share of the three million dollar dirt road fund which will be dis tributed immediately after the lst of July which begins new fiscal year for the state. Highway Commissioner Macdonald has announced that every one of the towns has. signfied its intention to use it's pro- portionate share for the purpose intended by the bill In the case of the larger towns and cities good share of the money may be used to purchase oil for roads in out lying districts that would normally remain dusty year after year. When the sum is dis tributed it will make 56.000.000 spent to date. And we know no better way to spend ,t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
U. 8. PILOTS ON PIAvE

or June 21. 1913. announce
 ment was made that American air. men had joined allied aviators on
 the Italian, front and were highly successful in battles along the Piave.
 A concentrated Italian counter offensive in the region of Fagare
 and Benson gained ground, and Austrians fell back at Losson. American troops, enya ging in a
 major battle northwest of Cha
 teau-Thicrry, made further gains on the north side of Belleau Wood.
 French troops reported gains north Of the Ourcq.
 It vas announced that on the
 Saloniki front, between January and June 21, enemy aircraft were destroyed by British pilots and that 13 were driven down out of con- trol "f 8M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
AND so ON
Just a little ditty.
 Just a tiny song, Humming 1t of day times, Helps the world along.

Just a little ditty,
 Just tiny song,
 Humn,ing 1t of day times,
 Helps the world along.
 o-O-o . If booze comes back. the new flock of saloon men will have to take the bar exams" o-O-o
 The prohibitionists believe in the old Revolutionary war slogan, Keep Your Powder DRY" N4 G
 o-O--o The trouble with mankind is due to the fact that 1t isn't kind enough.
 0-O-o
 Lines in the face are just what they seam.
 o-O-o The well powdered lady has the right to feel all puffed up.
 o-O--o
 Fallen Roman arches attract . tourists in Europe but fallen American arches can be seen any day on our busy streets.
 o-O-o This concludes our regular Tues day evening program. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Demo- crat. pioneer in this type. of news- paper work. We are signing off at this lime. to be back on the ar again to-morrcw evening at the usual hour.
 0-O--O Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-21
"A Book a Day { <.
 by BRUCE CAPTION
Turned to Law For Cool Job
 on Hot Days

Agood biography of owen D. Young Is certainly needed. and there are few Americans better qualified to write one than Ida M. TarbeIis It Is. therefore, unfortu- nate that Miss Tarbell's new book. Owen D. Young: A New Type of Industrial Leader" is rather dis appointing.
 It. is disappointing, that Is. be- cause 1t comes from Miss Tarbell. It could have been so much better than 1t is.
 As a sstraight away story of the mans life. to be. sure, fit leaves nothing to be desired.
 Miss Tarbell gives an excellent picture of his background and his boyhood, and sketches in his early environment with sure strokes. The hired man who awakened in him. a desire for learning, the grandfather who feared the boy would grow Up to be q preacher. the boy himself deciding to be- came a lawyer because lawyers could sit In cool courthouses on hot summer days instead of swell tering In the fields-these little touches are nicely handled, his later career: his start as a $1O-a-week clerk in Boston. hts entrance into the. public utilities field. the legal battle that landed him in General Electric's law de- partment. and the subsequent aac- tiyities that made him world fa- nous.
 But something Us lacking. A thoughtful and critical, biography of MrIs Young could be. an exceed : ingly important book, . study Of Americsn life that is badly needed. raien biography- an unusually paiRn biography lust ths same. The book is. published by the ] Macmillan GO. and costs ss.