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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-14
FLIES TO WASHINGTON

A. H. ziegler, prominent Ket- chikan attorney, reached Wash ington last Sunday after flying across the continent from Seattle. He is now in Baltimore and plans to return here next week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-14

Old papers Tor sale At Empire
Evening star., 1933-04-07

"A :
Ia. A deIectable Easter
costume for A, 2, 3
year olds; pink wool
crepe coat, $5.95;
pink pique bonnet,
81; handmade frock,
S1.50.
B. The young man of the
family, whether he is
8 or IA, would choose
this type of tweed
suit-with two knick-
ers - and well tai
lored. Sl0.75.
c. If older sister wears
the Enelish-type of
thing, then choose
this tweed coat
SLIGHTLY fitted, with
white pique revers,
Sl6.50; felt hat. S2y5.
D. "Fourteens" like the
Sophisticated air of
this knitted frock
with accompanying
jacket in contrasting
color, $3.50; hat, $l.95.
E. This copy of a Bond
St. model is entirely
correct and becoming
for the little girl who
likes her things
tailored" coat,
$16.50; hat, $3.50.
F. The very dashins
young gentleman
wears the popular
collarless seefsucker
suit, So; and a half
belted tweed topcoat,
S7.75. 4
6. Sister IL utterly
swanky in her brown
and white checked
coat and matching
hat; the coat, S10.7S;
hat, SOS.
II. Little sister feels
quite dressed up in
her military blue cape
and matching beret
-SS.95.
III. Little brothers and
sisters choose to dress
alike, in tailored
pique with dashins,
silvery. buttons for
trimming = suit or
frock,. S4.9s.
K, A printed silk frock
for special occasions
and girls simply
a d o re the puffed
sleeves and little lin
serie collar, sizes 7
to "a s5.sS.
L. Sports fashions In
miniature, one miaht
call this attractiv.
costume-white plest-
ed silk skirt. knitted
slip-on and cape, 81:
bsret, $i.s0.
Evening star., 1933-04-07

$150
Dminutve Coats, colors $595
.$2o5 $4o
matching Sizes .S5e5 to $3.50
Tweds Coats $1O75 $3.50
Knitted Clothes for ourofourteen 2o to $o7
Boys Welailored Tweed and Navy Blue Topcoats $77S
Oxords Sizes $3.50
Kneeh 81
$1
$3.50
Novelties Aoor) Csc to $so
Evening star., 1933-04-07

The Chdns Floor the fourth brmmng with bright brand
fahon-boe and and exquisite little for the ve
very taomades the est of ocs for
charming things for Sister, whether she four fourteen pmp and curly
headed ongeggd and Dand exactly the right
everything that with for Brother OF absolutely
dependable quality for Washington Mothers for
that.
We have pictured the things young Wagonans like bebu from
all the other lovely things there question Of finding just what you like
and not costly ethermany of them surprisingly inexpensive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

for what if is worth until those concerned in it have mutually agreed to call it quits.
 In the meantime the state cannot help but hope that Governor Cross's brusk de- mand for an apology from NRA officials at Washington is our best defense. Just as- suming that other cities and towns are CO., operating as is Waterbury. we cannot help but feel that no city in this fair land of ours is doing any more. Whatever incidents called for the criticism four methods were certainly explainable. In fact SO serious is the charge levelled at us that it may have a damaging effect on the success of the NRA in the nation.
 We cannot help but feel that the case is one that requires the personal attention of not only General Hugh s. Johnson. NRA administrator. but also President Roosevelt himself. It is a serious thing to claim that any one state is hindering the operation of the recovery program in the nation. And Connecticut certainly is entitled to credit for the part it is playing in ending unemploy- ment and restoring normaley in our com munities. To give out statements to the contrary would require evidence of start ling nature. We know that none is ob- tainable in Connecticut. Washington stands indicted of breach of faith in condemning us in this fashion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

Perhaps the most astonishing news that has come our way this week was the in- formation that the C. H. Graves Company of Boston had been given permission to manufacture 100000 gallons of gin. the bona fide article. banned by the Volstead law of 1921. This permission came from the federal prohibition authorities at Wash ington and if anything was calculated to inform the nation that prohibition is actu- ally dead this is it. Outside of the bath tub variety and that produced in illicit dis tilleries we don't think there has been much genuine gin in this country in ten years Of course, there were few occasional bottles brought in from Canada or other places but bootleggers never found the market strong enough to warrant their bringing in the real article while it was possible to manu- facture home variety just as marketable. The Graves Company is one of the oldest in the nation and it is expected that other old time gin distlleries will shortly be recon ditioned. Gin thus distilled can be placed on the market in weeks time. as it does not require the aging process demanded of whiskey. It can also be obtained on phy- sicians' prescriptions The gin now being made in the Boston distillery will be sold exclusively through New England druggists.
 it has been stated in official circles. It's the beginning of the end of dry enforcement when this occurs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
Kite-Flying

It is pleasant to see the sport of e-fly ing encouraged in some of our cities. There is probably no more clean. thrifty and uplift- ling fun. And not only for small boys. either. The Chinese, most philosophic of nations. have practieed this as national pastime for thousands of years. They have an annual kite festival. in which men. women and children join. But almost any time when the weather is fine. grownups may be seen out in the sun and wind. tend ing kites of many sizes. shapes and eolors.
 From kite-flying came aviation. The first airplanes were merely box kites supplied with power. making their own wind The most modern planes are still modified kites. and the air gliders remain kites. In time when the use of mechanical power has turned to abuse. it is fine to get back to form of play which is at the same time so scientific. simple. healthful and within the reach of all. Any child can make kite and learn to fly it, and in fancy can fly with it. with quiet mind and soaring thoughts.
 But alas Like other sports it is in danger of being spoiled. We read of towns having kite flying championship contests. bringing in the same fierce competition that has half-ruined so many forms of play. Soon, we suppose. it will all be reduced to standardized rules, and no boy or girl will find any fun in it without winning silver cup Or the kites will be mechanized, and their airy grace go into gadgets. noise, com plication and expense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
Eviction Riots

A thousand or more distressed people engaged in a riot in Cleveland the other day in protest against evietions for non pay of the thousand went along for the excite ment rather than from any deep-seated con- viction of being wronged, the fact is signi- fcant. There has been in the past year an occasional small fraeas here and there, usually starting in charities office when the girl in charge explained that the relief or ganzation could do no more than it was al- ready doing. But disorders on so large a scale have been rare. People have been marvellously patient.
 The Ohio legislature is in special session, called by the governor to consider the mat ter of additional taxes for relief. The evic- ton riot should be a timely hint that the problem of relief is not yet solved. The blue eagle has stopped the march of peo- pie out of jobs. It|has begun to put them on again. But it cannot put everybody on at once. There will remain for year or more thousands of people whose needs grow ever greater as the time since they had pay envelopes grows longer. They must be fed. They must be sheltered They mus, be clothed. They must. somehow. be given back their self-respect Their hope increases as their neighbors go back to work. But so does their impatienee with their own poverty. This is natural and must be reckoned with. Relief is not over with. by any means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

The outlook isn't brilliant for Tsmmsny Hall this fall. It does not believe that the presence of Mayor John P. O'Bnsn at the head of the democrstic ticket is inspiring as much confidence among the democratic voters of New York as Tammany might wish for. With this in mind certain overtures are be- ing made towards the Honorable Alfred E. Smith. Of course. Mir Smith cannot be ex- peeted to lend anything but his support and his wisdom to the success of the ticket But if we read the signs alright, it isn't so much with the ticket that Tammany finds fault. but what will happen if the ticket goes into office. Advice will be needed for various officials. it is feared. and that's where Mir Smith enters the picture. As official adviser to the mayor, Mir Smith would be in commanding position, perhaps to Tammany's ehagrin. At any rate Tammany must elect its men before it names any advisers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
This Simple Life"
 Isn't Easy To Find

Plenty of harassed city folk have concluded, during the trou- blesome times of depression, that all would be well with them if they could only escape from the city. get back to the country and pur- sue the simple life.
 MT Arthur Train; the novelist. has been examining this yen, and he seems to have concluded-in his latest novel, "No Matter Where, ,"-that the city chap who gives way to it is in for pretty bumpy time. :,
 Tn this novel we are introduced 10 n young New York stock broker who, after being a millionaire Tor the duration of the boom, has sud denly become almost completely broke. The young man reviews his life as a money-getter, admits that it has been purposeless and without sayor, and decides to take refuge in a rundown farm along the Maine coast, sbequeathed to him by his grandfather.
 So, full of good resolutions, he sets out for Maine to lead the sim- pie life. He isn't long in getting disillusioned.
 He finds that farming IS nlgn- ly specialized occupation for which he has had no training and at which he cannot possibly succeed He entertains a notion of support. fisherman, only to discover that ing himself by becoming q lobster that is worse than farming. He tries other stunts, of the kind about which sentimental city chaps dream, and learns that he can't make a go of any of them. And in the end, sadder and wiser, he goes back to town, gets a job m brokers office, and starts Tn where he left off.
 Oh ycs-there's romance m this, and he brings his new Maine bred swcetie back with him. The romance part is pretty silly.
 Published by Scribner's. this book sells. for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
A Super Super-Highway

The Association of Highway Officials of the North Atlantic States is eagerly making plans for super highway to link Boston and Washington by four-lane route which will avoid all congested areas. cities. grade crossings. etc. In short it will be the ideal road that men conjecture. but seldom build The road would be 474 miles long. as now plannel, but SO efficiently laid out that the travelling time between the two cities could be lowered to twelve hours. This IS based on 40-mile per hour clip that the asso- eiation sanctions without so much as request for permission from local and state officials.
 It is beginning to occur to a great many people that perhaps the day of the super highway has come and gone. This desire for lessening the distance between large cities is eommendable. but trifle expensive. And expenses in these days are something at which everyone of us should look twice. We are not at this moment entering our op- position to the route. Far be it from us to criticize any such plans when our own state eontemplates higway. not nearly so long. but certainly with as many adorh- ments.
 The highway would pass through eight states and in most of them would utilize ex- istins sections of federal route U. s. No. l. In our own state this is known as the shore route or the Boston Post Road from the New York state line to New Haven. From x,ere U. S. No. continues along to New London and then across the line to Westerly. R. l.. and northward to Providence and Boston. To avoid traffic congestion in this state it would be certainly necessary for great many by-passes to be built before any mileage would be gained.
 And without detracting from the federal route it is not the shortest one across this state. If quick route to Boston across Connecticut was sought it would follow diagonal line from the southwest corner to the northeast. We have roads covering just lsis route. too. so perhaps these super-high- way planners may elaborate on the idea of those men of few years ago who wanted franchise for an express toll road across Connecticut. This new plan is simply to create from what now exists. as we under sand it. shorter route between the focal points. Boston and Washington. It de- serves praise. but not too much money. be- cause we now face other perplexing highway Drob1ems
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

St Croix is famous in more ways than one it seems. Back in the good old days before prohibition it was the island that supplied Americans with their favorite rum. But when Uncle Sam got possession of the Virgin Islands. of which St Croix is one, the prohibition laws clamped down the lid on Santa Cruz rum. As result the one profitable enterprise of the islanders wall lowed :. in the sloughs of despond. It was but one more burden for the Virgin Islanders Now St Croix is back in the news. It has had a murder, the first in
 many years. A Puerto Riean shot fellow man. so it is claimed. But there is no judge to hear the evidence. so it developed and won't be until Uncle Sans Justice de- partment names one. That's bad = a prospective murder trial and no judge. That calls for action at Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

The educational value of stamp collecting is well illustrated by the commemorative issue put out by Newfoundland on the 350th anni- versary Of the annexation of the empires senior colony. In the fourteen stamps of the series the collector will find compact biog- -raphy of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who on August 5. 1583, took for mai possession in the name of Queen Elizabeth by receiving fresh ly cut turf from the colonists.
 The pearly gray one-cent stamp bears a portrait of Sir Humphrey, taken from an old Dutch book. "Huroologia." On the two-cent variety, in green. is picture of Compton Castle, the family seat of the Gilberts, and on the orange brown three-centcr the family coat of arms, with thch squirrel crest in Sir Humphreys "frigate". The dark rose four-cent stamp shows Eton College, intro duced because Sir Humphrey was q student there in 1851.
 With the purple five-cent stamp begins the story of the voyages which made Sir Humphrey famous, this stamp carries representation of the gift which the Queen made to the gentleman adventurer on the eve of his departure, "a Token from Her Majesty. an Anchor guided by Lady" The seven- cent stamp. in light blue, shows Sir Humphrey receiving the pat cnts for colonization at the hands of the Queen, whereby he was empowered to discover. coloniZe and possess "heathcn lands not not actually possessed of any Christian prince or people, az should seem good to him."
 On the brick red eight-cent stamp is shown the squadron as 1t left Plymouth harbor; the 120- ton Delight, the 200-ton Raleigh, named after Sir Humphreys step brotehr, Sir Walter Raleigh; the 40-ton Golden Hinde, the 40-ton Swallow, described as ,"frigate", which took it's name from the Gill; bert crest. The nine-cent stamp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883
A Forgotten Hero

Tn field flanking the Emmitsburg road. on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Conserva- tion Corps worker the other day saw bone protruding from the soil. He notified the authorities and the ground was dug up. There. just beneath the surface. lay the skeleton of man. With it were buckles. buttons and insignia of the Conferedate army-and lot of bullets. The field in which the discovery was made is part of farm. It has been plowed almost every year since the battle took place. And all of that time this forgotten Confederate soldier lay there where his mates had buried him. sleeping in peace few inches beneath the white frosts of winter and the ripping yell low wheat of summer.
 There is natural poetry in the working of chance, sometimes. and it would be hard to find better example of it than this. There is something so peculiarly fitting, so especially right. about this soldiers resting place. To pass from the uncomfortable tur- moil and torture of battle to the infinite peace of sun-swept wheat field. with the rustic of growing things and the ripple of wind to replace the crash of guns and the yellS or QeSpeIdte IHeH - iS uOt eidt ioee any soldier might envy!
 And in this transmutation there IS summing-up of the outcome of all wars in all times and places. The armies come. they trample and stain the soil and fill the worlds cup of misery to overflowing; and then, at last, the tide ebbs again. and the wide earth goes back to its business of growing things. and the bodies of the for gotten dead are reclaimed by the living soil.
 Most of their graves are laid out formally in rows with headstones and crosses to mark their place; but few. on every bat tlefsld, are quietly hidden away. to drowse out their peaceful eternity in close union with the plants which re-enaet. each spring, the miracle of resurrection. So it was with this lad - youngster from Alabama. per- hans, or from Texas or Louisiana or Vir- ginia - whose fate 1t was to enrich Penn sylvana wheat field for all time with handful of southern dust And of all the thousands of young men to whom Gettys- burg was the end of the road, it is not hard to feel that this one was the. most to be envied. He got the ideal resting place. He gave Pennsylvania. forever. hallowed bit of Dixie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
Paris Letter
By THOMAS COPE

Limited Press Stan Correspondent
 Paris (UP)-Framers of sym phonies. rather than drafters of pacts, will bring about the Broth edhood of Man, or at least lift in- ternational morale from the slough of pessimism and suspicion Tn which 1t wallows.
 This thesis was exposed re- gently by Henry Malherbe, dis tinguished author and polemist, the columns of the Intransigeant Unlike some of his more reaction ary countrymen, he does not point to the radio with alarm, scoff at the phonograph record, view the sound film with esthetic oppro- brium.
 Lot Has Improved.
 Says Malherbe, after nothing that the lot of music and musi- clans has improved during the last decade:
 This formidable onrush of music on the public consciousness, to the prejudice of other thought diversions, is easily explatnable; thanks to sound cinema, the rec ord and above all, radio, the solace and inspiration of music are With up in every moment of four exis- tence."
 We are living, Iyricises Malher- be, within, literally, the music of the spheres: The harmonious shades of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Berloiz, Debussy rule the heavens, descending impartially on the poorest, as well as on fur therest, dwelling. Music no longer is an abstraction, no longer the diversion of esoteric spirits. Strains of great harmony cover the earth with a web which we breathe, liv- ing in us as much as we in It. and 1t is in this circumstance, more than in any other, that the new broadmindedness of the earth's peoples find source."
 Resolution Customs
 "The coming of music" de. c,ares Malherbe, ''has created a revolution in customs and made an international language. where' by each nation, with it's prefer ences and prejudices, shows every other nation the fibre of it's char acter more deeply and directl, than could be expressed with bill lions of words"
 Hitler has realized the signih canoe of music in internationa relations, writes the Frenchman.
 "He presides this years Bay reuth festival in person, knowing like his predecessors that Germany even if trampled in the dust fl I1918, k and always will be grea ! nation because of such men a Beetheoyen, and Wagner"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25

It would not be natural for the current MIRA stamps to go uncritieized. We haven't seen a new stamp printed by Uncle Sam of recent years that hasn't borne more than its fair share of criticism. In some cases it was perfectly justified. Too often we have fallen into conventional rut on our regular issues. But many eommemor- atives show signs of progress. We don't think that the MIRA stamp is outstanding, but at least it's different from what we've had in the past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
Our Daily Washington Letter Pacifists Defeated on Navy Work For Peace
Program
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

was Charles G. Miller, Joe's brother-in-law.
 TWAS Curiosity
 The Tennessee Valley Authority denies that 1t asks applicants for jobs to sign the pledge, but the ap- plicants say 1t asks that in ef- feet. So they are invariably con- servative in answering the ques- ton on the blank:
 z "To what extent do you use intoxicants?
 Another IVA question which is arousing comment is this one, sent to persons whom applicants cite as references:
 "In your opinion, is the appli- ,cant's wife an asset or a liabil- ity?"
 Poverty Plea Fails
 West Virginia, rich in national resources, is regarded here as a wealthy state. That's why Cover nor Kump got nowhere with his hard luck story to the emergency relief administration.
 Director Harry Hopkins told Kump the federal government had been carrying 95 per cent of the states relief load and wasn't willing to carry more than 60 per cent. Kump is expected to call a special session of the legislature to provide the other 40 per cent
 
 Two old friends. Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Mrs Ruth Hanna Mccormick Simns- former congresswoman and unsuc- cessful candidate for the senate in Illinois against J. Ham Lewis are summering at a Massachusetts, seashore resort, far removed from the worries and complexities of the New Deal. Copyright 1893 NEA Service, Incl : | :
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-25
History In Stamps
PhiIatec Collections Have Distinct Educational
 Value
NEW YORK SUN

in bright blue, pictures the squad- ron as it passed through the mar rows at St Johns on August 3. 1888; and the ten-cent stamp the formal ceremony of annexa- tion two days later.
 On the fourteen-cent stamp, in vignette, appear the Royal Arms of the Queen, with Gilbert's words, "I have engraven thereon the Arms of England" superimposed. The fifteen-cent magenta stamp shows Sir Humphrey on the poop of the Squirrel, just before she foundnered, at the very moment when an imaginative stamp collec- tor might conceive that the; explor- CT was saying those noble words, We are as near to heaven by sea as by land." On the twenty-cent stamp of olive green is reproduced in miniature q map showing New foundland as. 1t had been surveyed up to the close of the 18th cen- tury.) The twenty-four cent stamp, described automatically as the prune color, carries likeness of the Virgin Queen. The thirty-two cent stamp, of medium gray, the last in the series, represents the statute of Sir Humphrey that stands in Truro cathedral.
 By the investment of $1.54 many a Newfoundland girl and boy may have compact and interesting biography of Sir Humphrey Gill bert and stimulant to a further knowledge of the history of the dominion. / F.