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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-08
DOUGLA AS FIRE BOYS ANNUAL.
 DANCE, SUCCESS s
r As 4A Annual School 'Tak,l ! to Bs
 Circulated to Public { This Week 4

lApproxinsa selys 200 sspsrsops at tended the annual dance Of thu Douglas Volunteer HFire Depart. ment given here Saturday night The dancing started at 9a30ao'clock and lasted iaintil l 80 am. Tht event was a fine. success. sff
 Junior class members of sthe higl school presided over the puncl booth for the benefit of their owf exchequery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-08
fABDuCIt)RSssOF |sElTTLE ]; '''| ]! sg|'H0OL 3
 GIRL ]! IN TOLLS ,
Ransonl aMoneysof $50, ,OBo
 Is Also Recovered J ] by Authorities . .,.,

Continued from Page One, ,,
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CAIRO.-Remains of four cities adjacent to the four pyramids of ziza have been discovered by Prof. Semil Hassan. He found the city gates a few feet below the surface and Ia great encircling wall.
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j. g. DEPARTMENT OF AGR1CuLTuRE, WEATHER BUREAU

Forecast vicinity beginning at May s:
 Generally fair tonight gentle variable winds Barometer Temp Hum Wind Weath
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-08
CLOSING PRICES TO-DAY

NEW YORK, May g. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15,A 5,AAmerican Gan 78
 American Power and Tight 7as
 Bethlehem Steel f23aa, Fox Films 27s, General Motors 217s, Calumet and Hecla 4ss, Chrysler 17lsi In lternational Harvester 31ss, Kenne- tE0tt l5a', Packard Motors 355s, Gen. eral American Tank s23A, Premier Gold i5s, Trans Lux 17s, United Estates Steelf46 11s.e o.1s .it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

that generates power to all our strug-
giles. Without it every phase Of our fight would
be seriously weakened.
The American capitalist class is determined to
carry through its program of making the workers
pay with terrible suffering for the greatest eco
nomic crisis in history. flood OF wage-cuts in
every industry is sweeping the country. con-
centrated drive on the living standards of the
masses has been launched Starvation and war
this is the bosses solution for the crisis In this
drive special role is being played by the leaders
of the American Federation Of Labor and the So
cialist Party. These ackeys of the bosses operate
in the labor movement in order to break up and
divert every effort of the workers to fight for the
right to i've
But the workers and poor farmers Of this coun-
try are showing in growing numbers that they
will not meekly submit to being robbed and
starved on every hand. The strikes in the auto
industry, which have already resulted In num-
Der Of victories, have galvanized thousands OF
other workers into action.
The great mass movement among the farm
ers their militant fights against forced sale
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Total to date
eve Will Not Meekly Submit" Says Foster

is another tremendously important indication
Of the temper of the masses
In all these struggles the Communist Party
and its central organ, the Daily Worker, are
the driving force. The American workers have
reason to feel proud that for nine years, at the
cost of great sacrifice they have maintained
daily paper of their own in the English language.
But this pride will mean nothing if at this mo-
ment, when we need it most, the Daily" should
be forced 10 suspend. We can no more afford to
lose the Daily Worker today than we can afford
10 stop the struggle for immediate relief and un-
employment insurance.
Immediate action of all workers, Of every
Party members, OF every member Of the revolu-
tionary unions of every militant A. F. OF l.. men,
Der, OF every member Of the sympathetic mass
organizations will save the Daily Worker. Ours
will be the blame if We lose our most powerful
weapon against The bosses and their agents.
The Daily Worker can be saved. The Daily
Worker must be saved. The Daily Worker will
be saved.
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The Communist Party offers the WORKERS WAY oUT-the Of
which
crisis the system which making towards another international war Inc
with
feuda
the that
putting will establish Soviet
government Germany.
Daily the OF these struggles of working
all working Workerhe
newsapeces extreme danger cannot keep lack
This
working
they
the Daily Worker beohey
thousands employed
speak
will collect the pennies ncels dollars the
Daily Worker must have keep its columns glowing with the
policies Of the class struggle.
call
sinking
fighting
Of the Daily
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organize the revolutionary especially
labor Karl Marx then said Labor in the white
black ! branded"
revolutionary labor today has tie
policy the liberation The Daily
the official OF the Communist the party OF Marx and Ien
organizing the
liberation people
really liberation with
slavery?
want end to nhng and the enforcement Of those rights
18TH
Do want end to m-crow laws and practices and the abolition
of discrimination in all employment relief?
relief
unconditional Scoshoro
Lee Herndon,
thingsi
united
the liberation struggle build the Daily
Workeri This what the Daily Worker fights for!
the Daily" by yourself contributing and getting
contribute
Immediately and all funds sent to the Daily"
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brought higher plane with real strengthening
circumstances constantly
mancy of the workers and farmers with proper leadership absolutely
the dictatorship dgorge
dollars for the relief the starving unemployed workers and the
leadership
mainly Daily
paper Bohevik
the Daily Worker and to make better
the of the outside class struggle.
tremendous ahead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
Rally Toavn and Countryside!'
BY ELLA REEVE BLOOR.
(Organizer, United Farmers League.)

The workers and farmers of the midwest
urge the immediate mobilization of all our
forces to keep our paper alive and active.
More than ever before do we need our own
daily newspaper. AS the crisis deepens,
hunger, cold and homelessness prevail.
Rally everywhere, town and countryside. for
the workers and farmers paper-the Daily
Worker!
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Worker and assures its further appearance.
This present drive is lacking organized efforts.
Consequently the financial returns till now were
meager They lust covered the current deficit, but
they were insufficient to hquidate the accumulated
debt.
We now face an extreme danger. If cannot
liouidate the accumulated debt We cannot reestaosn
fine credit of the Daily Worker That means the GER
tainty Of suspension.
We must prevent such calamity. We cannot be
without the Daily Worker in these present struggles
Therefore in the next few days, shall put every
ounce of our energy into this drive. We shall save
the Daily Worker by raising the required $4,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

lean workers, L cannot
be sile n t while the
fighting leader m
organizer of t h e S e
struggles, the D ally
Worker, is in danger of
going under.
For the DAILY" to
go out of existence
would be a calamity
and a disgrace for our
entire movement. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

forced the workers and toiling farmers to-think
deeply - and act. They know that the vast
masses of the population Of this country plunged
into misery and trying to find way out OF the
crisis.
The workers and farmers do not accept the bosses
way out-wheh IS one Of worse starvation and war
because they canot go starving. The fourth year
Of the crisis does not find the situation improving
on the contrary daily it becomes Less relief,
)re starvation, wage cuts bank and business fail
ures, the financial crisis deepensSo that the whole
horizon is Of misery than has ever con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

ever before seen in this country on the order
Of the day; and there is no present prospect of
let-up in unemployment or in the farm situation.
AL consequences of the economic crisis are sharp
ening especially in the form of the danger of i'm
perialist war and intervention against the Soviet
Union.
On the other hand, the fight of the masses
against starvation is rising to greater heights
What class-conscious worker is not thrilled with
such events as the recent occupation of a public
building at Seattle by 5000 workers? Do any Of
Us fail to see the import of the mass movement
Of farmers which has already severely checked
The operation Of the capitalist Shylock's law of
mortgages? Do we realize the shattering signifi-
canoe of the movement of the Negro masses of
Alabama?
uro nrn f,oeco,Is tInic rise could R,nadn
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not resulted in the funds necessary to enable the
lose the paper at this time would be disastrous
1t would be disastrous not only to the Communist
Party but to the great Of workers who wag
ing the struggle against the bosses attacks and for
unemployment relief and insurance.
The Daily Worker is the only mouthpiece that the
masses have in this struggle. The Daily Worker must
live if the masses are to win their demands.
The next week must see an intensification of the
efforts of the Party members well of non-Party
workers to raise the balance Of the needed $4,000
The Party organization in the New York District
calls upon every section and unit of the Communist
Party, on every Party fraction in the organiza-
tons and the workers of the trade unions, the
unemployed organizations, the workers clubs and
frateral organizations TO enter into the most energetic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

and to raise the $4,000 needed Immediately. This
would save lot of time of the staff and allow the
Daily to give its full forces and energies TO the
problems and campaigns Of the working class.
especially appeal to the Negro people to help
the Daily Worker. 1t is the the only paper in
America today that is continuing the traditions OF
struggle for the liberation of the Negro people The
Negro people fought before, during and after the
Civil War for liberation. This struggle goes ON
today because the things we fought for have not
been achieved. The revolutionary labor movement
enbodies and continues these traditions
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels saw the cause
of freedom of the Negro people in the Civil Wa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25


hunger not be
sd attempts the the capitalists the Daily
falling
allow the Daily suspend?
The capitalists realize the danger of the revolutionary One OF
has revolutionary
Daily
nckel
member motion
save the DAILY"
Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

fulfill
quota
We $4,000 We the
responsibility deficit result from the failure Of
districts fulfil theirs
Of
Of the drive Every conrade must his shoulder to the wheel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
Received yesterday
Ru WILLIAM q. FOSTER.

Chairman, Central Committee, Communist Party.
Although severe illness for the mo-
ment keeps me out of the first-line
trenches in the struggles of the Amer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
Il Especially Appeal to the
Negro People," Says Ford
By J. w. FORD.

Communist Candidate for VcePresident Last EectOnl
THIS statement accompanied with dollar bill contribution to
Daily
Despite the all possible tc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
1--WE Cannot Afford Slightest
Weakening of 'Daily'"> >Minor
By ROBERT MINOR.

Central Committee
in
of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

regular appearance of our Daily Worker Shall
after nine years of the existence of the Daily allow it
to suspend? Shall we now, when struggles are de-
veloping on all fronts when in these historical days
our revolutionary leadership is required more than
ever before allow torch bearer to go out? Is it
not clear that must save the Daily at all costsl
Reaction is raising its head. The attempted assas-
snation Of Presidentelect Roosevelt. ny member OF
the Republican Party, is ben' made the occasion for
the launching Of vile campaign of SANDER and pro-
vocation against the workers and its revolutionary
vanguard-the Communist Party. The capitalist press,
from the respectable New York Times to the lowest
Of he calling fn. sln1lressing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
'Every Ounce OF Our Energy
Into This Driue!". >Bedacht
By MAX BEDACHT.

embe of Central Committee, Communist
nUR always with a deficit This deficit
iquidaed financial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25

Daily Worker is the VIM. 2. FOSTER
eyes and ears and voice
of the working class. 1t is the dynamo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
Zone Paper in This Country
That All the Bosses Fear"
BY 1. AMTER.
National Secretary, Unemployed Councils,


Although know that the
this Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
Mast SAGE the Daily at
All Costs, Says Broevder
BY EARL BROWDER.
(Secretary, Communist Party, U. S. Al

few weeks celebrated the anniversary of the Daily
sacrifice loyalty required pos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-25
"'Ddily' Must LiVe If
Masses Are to Win! :"
BY G. A. HATHAWAY.
New York District Organizer. Communist Pa


necessary paper TO
lose the paper this time be disastrous
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03

M OULDN'T yon Just
~ love to own one or
several OF those smart,
cool, attractive and very
practical mercerized-cOt-
ton handkerchief bl0uses
which high-class speciality
shops are showing this
season, to wear with the
now-so-voguish linen (par-
ficulArly black linen) or
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03

Greek and Alexandrian influence, be-
came official money In Rome after
269 B. G. Thereupon the double
standard was adopted, silver and cop
per both being coined and a mint
ratio of 120 to was established. Al
though silver was used exclusively
In the foreign trade, copper con-
tinued to constitute the principal
money at home.
Now silver greatly increased In
quantity. For one thing, Alexander
discovered enormous treasures OF
both gold and silver In the Orient
and set them In circulation. And
there was the great silver mine In
Spain. which at one time employed
10000 miners. This had the effect
Of cheapening silver. boosting prices
In terms of silver. At the time when
wars had cut off the supplies Of
Rome's copper, the value Of that
metal In relation to silver rose more
than did the general commodity In
dex number. And furthermore, cop
per was a commodity useful to have
around while warning.
Roman statesmen well understood
Cxrsham's law Is centuries before
Gresham: with double standard, an
Increase In the supply OF silver, being
coincident with reduction In the
supply of and an increase In the de-
mand for copper, would have led to
the boarding of copper as money. II
the double standard was to work. 1t
was necessary to reduce the mint
ratio from 100 to 1. And so the size
OF the coin "as" was changed from
II ounces Of bronze to 10, s. Q. and
eventually to ounces. Thus, the re-
lation of silver to copper fell as low
as 20 to / while the normal sources
OF metal were unavailable When the
peace-time flow of new copper was
re-established. and the wartime de-
mand was cut off, the old ratio of
100 to l Was restored. Copper and
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03
Summer Corsets of Soft
Rubber Bid for Favor

II isn't fair to keep talking about
the top layer Of fashion and extolling
Its virtues while taking the more oh.
scure items for granted. And right
now there is considerable news next
to the skin.
A summer corset has made bid for
fashions favor. 1t Is made OF soft
rubher-no stays or things to cramp
your style--and instead OF being cut
SO long all the way down to give that
sleek line over the hips and upper
part OF the thighs, sections are clipped
out neatly back and front and the
legs slip through rings like garters,
making \ perfect 1T
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03
Seldom Need to
"Talk Too Much"
Mr.. Cato Ninetails Gives a
Little Dissertation on
the Subject.

'1There is too much talk about the
people who talk too much," declared
Mr.. Cato Nlnetails. ut does no good
whatever, because the people who
talk too much keep right on talking
too much; In fact. 1t does harm, for
1t merely adds to the amount Of
talk, and SO increases that kind of
unnecessary noise.
II have never been able to deter
mine whether loquacity is a gift or
disease. / am rather inclined to
think that 1t Is disease of the nerv-
GUS system. but. on the other hand,
1t may be merely one of those invol-
untary physiological actions like res
piratfon or the circulation OF the
blood. Mentality doesn't seem to
have much to do with 1t, as 1t Is no.
tIced that the people who talk too
much generally say less than the peo-
pie who talk comparatively little.
They have two distinctive character
istics. They talk principally about
themselves, their families, their own
affairs and their opinions of other
peoples affairs. about which they
know little or nothing, and so have
all the pleasure and stimulation of
letting their imaglnatlons range
widely.
'For other people than those en-
dowed with this Gift, or afflicted
with this disease, as the case may
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03

skirt, a matching linen swagger coat
completing this most Intriguing three.
some. Oh, there Is no end to the
staging OF effects which can be done
with these handkerchief blouses. 1t Is
the handsome shell stitch which makes
the aforementioned blouse outstanding,
also the tricky picot (crochet) finish
Ing at the neckline.
The eye-satlsfying little sweater
with Its pert cap sleeves on the seated
figure Is crocheted In blue and white
cotton, intermingled 30 az to give II
a sort OF tweedy effect.
The fashionable high neck ct the
striped-yeke blouse shown to the right
below. also Its wee pun sleeves. make
this model smart Item In anyone's
wardrobe The buttons at the belt
are happy thought. avoids stretch.
Ing when you slip the blouse over the
head.
The young woman who's head and
shoulders above the group are pictured,
is very much In crochet attire Her
blouse is q perfectly stunning affair
,crocheted In the popular filet stitch,
bright orange with white. The white
sports hat crocheted OF mercerized cot.
ton has the soft. easily draped brim
which Is becoming to all types OF
faces. A band of mesh stitch suggests
new height for the crown.
@, 1898. Western Newspaper Union.
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be, my observation and experience
convinces me that talking Is hard
work; that 1t Is not merely q mental
effort, but that 1t Is physical effort
that is wearing on the muscles as
well as the nerves. The toll of max
ing nversation'-which Is undoubt-
edly the most unnecessary activity
that humanity engages in--is more
exhausting than the most arducus
physical labor. mean that X u for
the people who don't talk too much.
The people who do talk too much
have to make conversation because
what they think Is conversation bur
hles from their lips like the water
from a never-faillng spring.
people, Of course. cannot give pre-
vious thoughtful consideration to all
the remarks that they make-as to
their justifiability and effect, even
though they experience repeated In
stances where after consideration II
extremely dlsconcerting; talk; even
discreet talk, must have some spon-
taneity: but 1t is certain that the less
they say the less danger there viii
be of subsequent feeling OF regret.
i don't think that the people who
talk too much are really any more
untactful than the people who 4tn't,
and when they say things that. arc
better left unsaid the effect Is diluted
by their general gush Of words till 1t
Is hardly noticed. It Is the people
who don't talk much that must watch
their step-or their tongues. The In
frequency OF their remarks tends to
make their hearers note, and perhaps
remember, what they say. So 1t real
ly wouldn't appear to be safe to say
anything-which would make life
somewhat dHller. and good deal
less laborIous. "-Indianapolis News.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03
MONEY PROBLEMS OF LONG AGO
Romans Had Their Troubles as Did Other Nations in the
Adjustment of Currcncies to the Demands of
--------- Trade and Public Welfare -z--zz-

The Romans were slow to get a
coinage system. Three hundred
years after the founding of the city,
far advanced In many respects, Ro-
mans were trading like a tribe OF
aborigines, Reuben Calm writes. In
the Chicago Tribune. They were
quoting prices In sheep and oxen
The two we're related In a decimal
systemic sheep equaled / OK.
In Etruria. which lay northwest Of
the Tiber river. were copper mines
and at an early date copper was
brought to Rome. II came to be used
in Shields harness, wagons ships, and
for many other purposes Thus is
had market value and 1t became
the custom to use Jumps Of 1t In max
Ing payments. The government paid
no attention to this innovation. how
ever. for some years. At time when
pieces OF copper were being used I'm
trade souse driving his chariot
recklessly along the Appian boule-
yard might have to settle with the
Judge by driving up flock Of sheep.
Since copper was sold by weight
It became convenient to have pound
Jumps called an las" There were
also two and three pound pieces
Thus copper served as money before
the state started issuing pieces of
metal stamped with picture of the
gods, mythical heroes. and contem-
porary politicians.
When after 366 B. G. the Romans
became commercially ambitious and
founded a maritime colony they took
up coming. The money was bronze
lead. and tin. being combined with
raw copper. The unit OF value
weighed an as and was called by that
name.
Silver. which the Roman generals
found desirable 10 have on hand to
buy army equipment as they went on
conQuests and which was already
widely used elsewhere. thanks to
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03

II Is surprising how persistently
dotted effects keep In the mode To
day, polka dots, from medium to ire
mendous coin dots, are, Ii possible.
more fashionable than ever. Paris de
signers especially exploit the dotted
theme. To be sure, the costume pic
tured is rather extreme from an Amer
lean standpoint, yet 1t goes to show
how French couturiers are placing
emphasis on dots. Another fashion
which loses not In favor la that of
black and white. AS the season pro.
crosses It Is apparent that black with
white Is as much in the limelight as
ever. The tight-fltting sleeveless black
velvet jacket and the selffabrIc gloves
are the high spots OF this costume
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-03
ONE BLACK DRESS
is FOUND ENOUGH

Blessed are We who have one good
black silk dress and half dozen
sets OF collars and cuffs, six hatbands.
two hats, three pairs of shoes and
two pairs OF gloves with detached
GUNS. With a rounded or V-neck for
the dress, any number OF diversified
collars-size, shape and color-may
be applied, being careful to choose
the correct hatband, gloves, cuffs,
shoes and purse.
With the hats. shoes and gloves
black and white, or perhaps one set
In a brown, beige or a medium green,
you can do wonders with constructing
a wardrobe suitable for all occasions.
One evening gown, with two or three
different jackets, accomplishes mira
cles and makes one realize that orig
lnality and ingenuity are having big
Inning.
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silver performed similarly In the
World war. The market ratio was
80 to l In 1917-now is. 10 to 1.
Devaluation of copper was not I'M
dertaken by the Roman republic at
any time for profit nor to relieve
the burden of debtors, the ends
sought by gold devaluators today. II
was done to maintain the double
standard. 1t was the earliest exam
pie of successfully managed cur
rency. On the ides of March, A
B. G., the great Caesar was slain.