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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
Another Lost Tribe Found

It sounds like bit of H. G. Wells fic- tion, but is supposed to be cold fact Aus tralian explorers, in an airplane, recently crossed over the high and hitherto i'm penetrable mountain barrier into region in New Guinea supposedly composed of wilderness, mountains and swamps. To their immense surprise the British flyers found "a fertile plateau of grassy plains country dotted here and there with patch work gardens of sweet potatoes, bananas and beans" The inhabitants are de- scribed as a Host trils" which has for gotten the skills of it's ancestors and is living about 5000 years behind the times.
 The Inhabitants still possess stone mor-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

Washington, Aug. S-Cruising along the Mississippi river today the president has an opportunity to apply one of his pet policies economic planning = to that tangled and intricate controversy between the railroads and the inland waterways.
 When Samuel l.. Clemens fioated up and down the big river and took his name-Mark Twain-from the cry of the man on the fathom line, it was the heyday of the paquetboats.
 Since then the Mississippi steamboat is supposed to have become folklore.
 That, however, is pure fallacy. The picturesque old sidewheel- CTS, described in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, have become largely relics of the past, but now tunnel barges" with the propellers tucked close up in grooves under the stern, have replaced them. And, according to General T. Q. Ashburn, chief of the Inland Waterways Com mission, there is more traffic on the Mississippi today than in the most glamorous period of the paquetboats.
 In fact there is so much traf- fic on the river that 1t has be- come q serious competitor of the railroads.
 The problem the president faces briefly is this:
 Inland waterways are being maintained at government ex- pense-s5O,000,000 of PWA has just been swallowed by the up- per Mississippi near the part where Roosevelt will visit today. The government also is compet- ing directly with the railroads by operating it's own barge lines, incidentally making money on most of them.
 MAINTENANCE EXPENSE
 But-whcreas river traffic en- joys a free highway, the >rail- roads spend thirty-four cents out of every dollar for mainten- ance.' And, in order to keep a majority of the rail lines from bankruptcy, the government - through the REC = has loaned them $420,699,93O of which $353,3S4,56S is still outstanding.
 To certain extent, therefore Roosevelt faces the question of >bank-upting the waterways or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
A Book a Day
Finds Knighthood's
 Flower a Bit Dusty
By BRUCE CAPTION

r If you'd care for a look at the age of chivalry with its shirt off, so to speak, you could do a lot worse than read "A Law Unto Themselves" by Loveday Prior. Here Is a novel about the mid- | dle ages, when knighthood was in flower and men were mon, and it's remarkable chiefly for the fact that it tries to show things as they real | ly were and not as we like to im- | agine they were.
 The scene is the fringe of the Austrian Tyrol; the time is the | 18th century, when every petty barony was an isolated world and the little barons were as the title suggests, law unto themselves. And the story traces the gradual development of a desire for order, a wearying of, the perpetual strife and disharmony in human affairs, out of which, eventually, were to grow established empires, roads and communications systems and the beginnings of peaceable, or- derly life.
 | Miss Prior doesn't seem to have been kidded by the fine old tales of chivalry. Her barons and lord  lings are no Galahads or Rolands; instead they are hard, tough and hairy, with fondncss for torture, an aversion to bathing and a com plete lack of anything resembling either book-learning or table man. ners.
 You get the tournaments, to be sure, the armies with banners, the | knightly quests and all that sort of thing: but you also get Q look al the seamy underside of Nthings which puts the romance in its proper proportion.
 Tse pace of the book tends to be slow, and in places the nara : tive gets somewhat dry. In the main, however, It's readable tale and a competent exposition of the terms on which the old knights lived their lives.
 Published by Little, Brown and lcompany. 1t sells for s2.b0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

tars for grinding grain - inherited from their ancestors = but seem not to know how to use them. They have clay whistles unlike anything known elsewhere in New Guinea, but resembling some found in South America and suggesting some an- cient connection. Readers always thrill over imaginative tales of lost worlds and lost tribes. Now they can thrill bit over the reports of serious-minded explorers, archeologists and geographers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
PressConnent
CLEANING THE RIVER (New Britain Herald)

Lest we forget, the state of Con necticut continues to be vitally in- terested in preparing to clean up the Connecticut river.
 Luckily the state of Massachu- setts also is interested in ending the pollution of the river. Indeed, considerable of the pollution orig mates in Massachusetts.
 n It is with satisfaction that one reads, therefore, that General San ford H. Wadhams, director of the state water commission, is to at- tend a conference in Springfield under the supervision of Maynard Q. Saunders, chief engineer of the city planning board of that city. The object will be to further the plans toward the elimination of | pollution, in which the two states and their river cities large and small must cooperate.
 Much government labor has been done and planned during the de- pression in order to aid the other
 wise unemployed. It is strange that the important matter of talk.
 ing steps to eliminate river pollu-
 tion has not been tackled along
 with other projects, some of which
 would not be of as lasting bene-
 fit.
 When the depression began
 there was an inclination not to add
 additional expenses upon hard pressed municipalities; so in both Connecticut and Massachusetts ef-
 forts to get along with the elimin-
 alton of pollution were shelved. If the federal government is to
 continue loaning money to munici- palities at low interest rates-and
 giving part of the costa of projects
 to such benefactors of the unem- ploycd--then 1t may be possible for
 the august bodies having the pol Ilution-war In charge to look into Ithis feature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
So They Say

Hungary is more isolated than ever and the outlook for the future is hopeless.-Count Sigray, leader of Hungarian royalists.
 
 The lives of children of greater concern in Canada than profits of an exploitation under takng-Attorney General Arthur w. Roebuck of Ontario.
 We are becoming very complacent about the fact that one-sixth of entire population is lv- ing in state of chronic destitution.-Aubrey Will Hams assistant federal emergency lelief admins trator
 } Wealth can often purchase not only the sem bance of love, but it's reality.-Bertrand Russell, famous British psychologist.
 
 The day of the big beefy behemoths in ath- letcs is past-"Pop" Warner, famous football coach.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
ChuckleC Corner
YOU MUST ADMIT By Chenault Junkin

Hit-and-run drivers are always missing.
 Many deaf-mute girls are too cute for words. People go to lot of trouble looking for trouble. People who make dives in Chi cago usually get soused.
 When someone makes our blooo boil we take it to heart. Many a chiseler who thinks he's hot gets knocked cold.
 The modern girls motto is, By their toots shall know them." A Scotchman will risk his life to get a close shave for nothing Many people who paddle their own canoes have no sense of dircc. ton.
 After we get the fourth highball from the pitcher it's time to take a walk. Most of these big shot second story men started from the bottom of the ladder The reason George Washington crossed the Delaware was to shoot the other side. The guy who would burn himself alive for a girl doesn't usually own a box of matches. The reason a catcher is always wanting to whisper something to the pitcher is because he has a lot of things on his chest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
Selected Poem
THE PATH

THE PATH (Elizabeth Fleming in The Christian Science
 Monitor) What can make path like is, Winding, weaving through the grass? Seeing it's intricacies, Folks must wonder as they pass. All among the hollows green, Toadstool towns and mushroom rings, Marks of tiny fete seen, Lightly printed. pointed things, Where along it. day by day, Struggling as if half-asleep. To the sheepfold goes gray Fairy footed flock of sheep. Like a little. loose green thread Runs the path they journey by. Fashioned so beneath their tread No one knows the reason why!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

3s East ohio street. Indianapolis. Ind.
 o. What metal is used for the casing of modern shells?
 A. Cast or forged steel.
 Q. What does the name Karl mean?
 A. Noble-spirited.
 If you want . copy of our bu1- letfn PaImistry, write to the Wa 'terbury Democrats Washington Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stampe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and

-BY Presidents Mississippi Lead Great Waerway Eapans Voter
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

Further curtailment of the Federal Reserve bank is seen in the proposal that a central bank be created by an act of Congress to take over the functions of the former, particularly with regard to credit and currency There's no question but what it means the ultimate end of the federal Reserve system, which we've had only two decades or since the Wilson administration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

They say General Hugh Johnson takes advice from one person - his mother. Next thing lot of fellows will want to know whether he asks her about MIRA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

Whenever we're not crazy with the heat, says an enthusiastic pessimist, we're jittering with the cold
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

The best medicine for depression is music. But not hillbilly music: {: ;:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
Alaskan Air Base

There is said to be excitement in Japan over the flight of two American air fleets to Alaska, one along the coast from San Diego and the other across the continent from Washington. The former, flying from San Diego to Dutch Harbor, is a naval force of 10 patrol planes. The lat ter is an army unit of 10 big bombing planes, flying from Washington to Fair banks
 There should be nothing to alarm the Japanese, even if the move looks to es- tablishment of an air base in Alaska. That would be natural place for an air base, to help police vast territory and provide better transport connections. Flying is said to be safer, too, in Alaska than in most parts of this country, because the climate is subject to fewer weather dis turbances. Exploration and survey work are needed. If Japan owned Alaska, with her usual enterprise she would doubtless be establishing an air base there, or find ing location for one.
 The idea of hostile threat to Japan, is, of course, absurd. The United States threatens no country. It develops its own country, establishes reasonable defenses and minds it's own business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

This should convince everyone, but it won't When Dick Canfeld died twenty years ago an engineer in New York city, one Robert s. Sutliffe, decided he'd prove the probabilities of the game of solitaire to which the famous gambler gave his name He has played 63,000 games in that time. He has won millions for him. self in mythical sense, but he has lost house that wins in the long run. Dick Garfield didn't invent the game just as pastime. It was shrewdly calculated to return his investment. The average loss is $5 per game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

The Hartford Democratic League is seizing time by the forelock. It has an- nounced it will present slate of delegates seeking control of the city convention on August 16. The movement is anti Spellacy. Just what the result will be can't be left to the imagination. Nor can movement to prevent the astute Thomas J. controlling the Hartford convention that will name the delegates to go to Gro- ton flo rthe nominations to the state ticket. Although Attorney Spellacy has been counted out of all political happenings of recent weeks the news behind the news is to the effect that he is just as apt to con- trol Hartford's delegates this year as he has in the past. And this may be just enough to put monkey wrench into the harmony plans of various democratic leaders. Unless, of course, they count MT Spellacy in on those selfsame plans. That's undoubtedly the objective.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

0. What is the address of the National Electric Medical Associa- ton?
 A. Care of Dr William P. Best,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08

Q. How are mangoes prepared for serving?
 A. The fruit is halved and the soft part is eaten with a spoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
Pulse Rate Is Raised by
 Modern LiUing

LONDON, May 17.-The average pulse rate is being increased by the fast modern way of living.
 This disclosure was made by Dr. Dudley Burney, a London police surgeon, after studies.
 Sir Arbuthnot Lane, one of Brit aims leading authorities on health, commenting on the finding, said:
 Life today for people in towns and cities is modified form of athletic training the heart is be- ing subjected all the time to the strains outside normal physical &C., tivity.
 Traffic noises are continually giving shocks to the nervous sys- tenn"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
POPPY DAY TO
 BE OBSERVED
 HERE MAY 26
American Legion Auxiliary Will Have Charge of
 Annual Function

Juneau will be called upon to honor the World War dead and give aid to the wars living victims by wearing memorial poppies on May 26. This day, the Saturday be- fore Memorial Day, will be Pop py Day" throughout the United States and will be generally ob- served by the wearing of the little red flower of Flanders Fields.
 Observance of Poppy Day. here will be directed by the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Edith Ba- yard, President of the local Auxil- iary Unit has announced. Women of the Auxiliary will distribute pop pies on the streets and receive con- tributions for the Auxiliary's well fare and relief work among the disabled veterans and their famil- ies.
 Organization of a corps of VOL unteer workers to distribute the memorial flowers throughout the city is going forward rapidly un- der the leadership of Mrs. Robert Kaufman, chairman of the Auxil- iary's poppy committee. A large supply of the poppies has been or dered from the Walla Walla Vet erans' Hospital where disabled vet erans have been given employment during the winter and spring mak ing the little paper flowers Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
BISHOP ROWE TO|
 MAKE JOURNEY DOWNMACKENzIE|
Head of Episcopal Church in Alaska Will Visit
 Points on Arctic

After visiting the Episcopal par ishes of Southeast Alaska on his annual trip to this part of the Territory, Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, head of the Alaska dio- cese, left on the Princess Norah this morning for his home in Se- attle.
 Two weeks after his arrival in the south, Bishop Rowe will start out on a two month trip which will take him thousands of miles by tr2;n, river boat, airplane and steamer. Bishop Rowe will first go to Edmonton, Canada, where he will remain over a Sunday and con- duct services. From there he will proceed to Great Slave Lake and begin his long journey down the Mackenzie River. At the mouth of the Mackenzie, Bishop Rowe will be met by an airplane on which he will travel to Point Hope, Point Barrow and other points Oil the coast of the Arctic Ocean.
 Going to Nome
 After visiting the Arctic posts, Bishop Rowe will continue to Nome where he will remain for a time before starting his trip home by way of Fairbanks, Anchorage, Sew ard and Southeast Alaska.
 Though Bishop Rowe has visit ed practically every district in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
J. (. STAPLETON AND WIFE LEAVE TO MAKE
 HOME IN THE SOUTH

MT and Mrs. J. c. Stapleton left on the Princess Norah on their way to Seattle where MT. Staple ton has accepted a position with a drug firm.
 Since the establishment of the Races Drug Store here two years ago, MT. Stapleton has been it's manager, and both he and Mrs. Stapleton have made many friends in the city during their residence here.
 Many luncheons, dinners and other social events have been giv- en in their honor since their com ing departure was announced about ten days ago, and a number of friends were at the steamer this morning to bid them farewell and wish them success in their new home
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
ALASKA SOUTHERN AIRWAYS PLANE ON
 WAY TO CORDOVA

On it's way to Cordova from Se- attle, the Alaska Southern Airways Looming commuter, Kruzof, arrived in Juneau yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from Ketchikan, pilot ed by Alex Holden In addition to Pilot Holden, those who. are mak- ing the trip aboard the Kruzoff are Mrs. Holden and their two-year-old son, Alex Junior, R. Curley, me- chanic, and Mrs. Curley.
 The ship is staying in Juneau today and will continue on to Cor dova tomorrow, according to A. B. Hayes, company manager.
 Shortly after it's arrival here Wednesday afternoon the Kruzof, pilot Holden, made a scenic flight with MT. and Mrs. R. F. Sweet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
TO PLAY
 SAILORS TODAY
Local Ball Tossers to Meet Strong Team from Mine
 Layer Oglala

Juneau baseball fans today will have the chance to witness local talent ir competition with the first out-of-town team to show this sea- son when the Elks City League club will take on the team from the U. s. s. Oglala, flagship of the Aleution Islands Naval Expedition. It arrived in port at noon today.
 The game will start at 6:30 pm. at City Park. Batteries have not been announced
 The Oglala carries a crew of be- tween 400 and 500 men. It is said to have a strong ball club that will make the local aggregation extend itself if it wins.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
WALKER SCORES. UNFAIR ATTACK, LIQUOR BOARD
First Division Senator De- plores 1t as "Senseless
 and Unwarranted''

Senator N. R. Walker, holdover First Division member of the Sen ate, businessman and longtime resi- dent of Ketchikan, in letter to Gov. John w. Troy made public today, scored the attacks originat- ing in that city on the Board of Liquor Control. He termed them "senseless and unwarranted' and attributed them to selfish political interests
 Senator Walker is proprietor Of the Walker Drug Company of Ket- chikon. He was one of the first to take out retail liquor license there but just recently he has transferred his license, with the Boards approval, to F, H. Durbin, and has retired from the liquor traffic.
 Just fer Politics
 His letter to the Governor was made public today by the latter with Senator Walkers consent. It follows, in part:
 T want to tell you how much I deplore the senseless, unwar- ranted and unfair tirade of abuse directed at the Liquor Board by supposedly responsible citizens of Ketchikan.
 T believe no other conclusion can be drawn except that there is a deliberate attempt on the part of certain people with selfish polit- ical interests to discredit the ad- ministration by raising false is sue in an effort to stampede we'll meaning people against the poli- cies of the Democratic regime.
 Is Not Approved
 T want to say, however, that I do not believe that the city I have lived in for g years does not ap- prove of the methods used by the enemies of the Administration The City of Ketchikan is an average Alaskan community with whole hearted desire in the main to CO., operate with the rest of Alaska. I believe the vast majority of it's residents when properly informed will deprecate as much as I the reckless efforts to put their town in an unfavorable light.
 For while I had hoped the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17

Veterans are cared for at this hospital.
 "The purpose of Poppy Day is to give everyone an opportunity to pay individual tribute to the men who gave their lives in defense of little act of wearing poppy touch- es the individual more closely than the nation" said Mrs. Bavard. The large public ceremonies in which he is only a spectator and awakens realization of the individual re- sponsibility to the nation, so great ly needed at this time Poppy Day also gives everyone an opportunity to share in the vast work which the American Legion and Auxiliary are doing for the disabled men, their families, and the families of the dead"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-17
GOOD LITTLE MAN

MINNEAPOLIS, May IT. - All this talk about a good big man be- ing better than a good little man is going to be proved the bunk" {" if Var Keljik has his way about it. He is the smallest man out for football at the University of Min nesota and what he lacks in size the's only 134 and stands five feet four) he makes up in agility.