The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-20
By VOLTA TORREY
 News Review Editor of The AP Feature Service

vealed the theme oI news to come
 in '37.
 Democracy Is sand drlven by the
 wind" Il Duce acclaimed, while se-
 cretly showing soldiers into the
 bloody Spanish conflict.
 Japan" Foreign Minister Arita
 interjected, is seriously threaten
 ed by the bolshevization of China,
 which may excite the Chinese to
 hostilities against Japan America's vital need, President
 Roosevelt found, was an "increas-
 ingly enlightened view" of the con-
 stitution.
 To Roger Babson, 1887 looked like the first year of real prosperity
 since 1929" Andrew Mellon was giving his art ($1O,OO0,o00 worth) to his country. New Years revelers sang Pennies From Heaven" And l ''rhe New Yorker" said nobody had thing to worry about except war scare, a strike wave, bale of Christmas bills, new Congress and bad cold"
 Lewis Demands Aid But AFL Statistictians figured 10,- Co0,000 Americans still needed jobs. And CLOS rockies were sitting down; 30O00 auto workers were idle January l, more than 100000 by January 31.
 Secretary Perkins scolded. There were sporadic conferences, sporadic fights. Economic royalists now have I their fangs in labor!" said John L. Lewis, demanding presidential help in every legal way for his sit ters.
 Out West, dry winter scared 2 drought-accustomed farmers. But in the Ohio, valley, rains were from two to six times normal. The river 3 rose like flash.
 # Congressmen, convicts, Chinese everybody answered the inlanders q SOS. The Red Cross raised $10,000- q 900 while the water ran wild through 10 states. The flood toll was more : than 400 lives and $400,0O0,000. q Table Talk 2 Netherlands Princess Juliana's q wedding, Glenn Franks dismissal I from Wisconsin University, Martin Johnson's death in an air crash ano Il Townsend plan experiment were o{ fak s So was Henry Fords patent or : new car with the engine placed
 sideWise in the rear, and American
 plans for a dirigible like the Hin
 denburg (the summer fare to Flu
 rope on the latter was to be only
 $450.)
 In Texas, a school board cut ex-
 penses, $500 a year by tapping ' a gasoline company's waste line. The headlined crime of the month was the Kidnapping of Charles Matt
 son, 10, of Tacoma; his body was . found in snow-covered brushland. Clemency for communist kid
 naper was being arranged, mean
 while, by Chinas Caesar, Chiane
 Kai-Shek, but he was starting tC
 have heads chopped off opium ad. - diets.
 b, Russia, already having killed 1t II men for Trotskyism heard eminent. , journalist Karl Radek confess al charges -'even the ones I don :. know about And Red G-mer .. scurried after evidence that was tt , doom fully 1000 more Goering Dances a Herr Hitler, winding up his frs = four years in power, promised nC ', more Saturday surprises"
 But to the astonishment of man, foreign affairs commentators ant '' despite new Anglo-Italian pact - a Rome-Berlin axis was starting tt V twirl Hitler's understudy, Genera
 Hermann Goering, was in Rome las ~ January figuratively and literall. y dancing through a fencing exhibi ~ tion with Mussolini v A Jersey City arms broker shipped = flock of planes to Spain and neu - trality was uppermost in Congres -s sional minds while Franklin D = Roosevelt outlined his second Ney Deal
 4. Madrid's newspapers last Januar, " confidently predicted a loyalis - victory within 12 months, but shell already were falling on the city.
 Some say the world is going t
 the dogs" Mrs. Carrie Chapman
 Catt, 78, observed, but the dog
 aren't even in sight"
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