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cation to the specific issues of a
new tax law, the trade agree
ments, WPA appropriations and
boosting the public debt:
Despite White House demands
for complete revamping Of the
tax structure, all hands will drop
the subject in 1910. No congress
ever rewrote a tax law in an cleo
ton year, and that precedent will
be followed. There will be no at
tempt to extend the power to
negotiate reciprocal trade agree
ments, although it expires next
June. Secretary Hull has made
arrangements of this sort with
almost every great nation except
Japan, Germany, Russia, Mexico
and Spain, and there is no likeli-
hood of coming to terms with
them. Treaties already signed
will live on even If the underly-
ing law dies. II necessary, new
authority can be given in 1941-
after the national election.
A continued business upturn
will enable the administration to
ask for a comparatively small
amount for WPA, satisfying the
congressional demand for econ
omy on this front. Although the
public debt will hit S44, 900, oos.-
900 by next June. leaving a mar
gin of only one billion, there are
devious methods by which
boost in the governments bor-
rowing capacity can be lodged.
Secretary Morgenthau can use
his unusually large cash balance
for current expenditures, savings
in various departments can be
accomplished and social security
funds can be tapped more gener-
ously. That would permit leeway
for a 1941 deficit Of four billion,
and the debt limit would not
have to be upped until the 1941
congress gets to work - again
after the election.
Associate Justice William o.
Douglas refusal TO let his name
be mentioned as a Democratic
Presidential prospect - foretold
exclusively in these columns
reduces the New Dealers list to
only one man. Provided the
president does not seek a third
term, their best bet appears to
be the brash. swsshbuckling Paul
McNutt of Indiana.
National Chairman Farley has
no love for the social security
administrator, and the old line
politicos look upon him as an
upstart. FDR was supposed TO
have enticed him into the official
fold so as to leash and suppress
him. But unless Roosevelt is
willing to take Vice President
Garner, Secretary Hull or Farley
and there is grave doubt as TO
each-he may have to turn TO
the dashing. handsome Paul.
Such presidential favorites as
Solicitor General jackson and
Henry Wallace make no appeal
to the controlling forces in the
convention. Neither has any
political Il"
McNutt has temporarily can
celled his campaign for the nomi-
nation. but he has not stifled his
ambitions. He is delivering
speeches every chance he gets
and trying 10 make himself solid
with the very groups once sus'
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that didn't work there were
still the old reliable horses.

that didn't work there were
still the old reliable horses.
Suggestions for new industries
came from every direction. An
eastern shoe dealer said Tacoma
would mako an ideal place for a
tannery, which naturally would
be followed by shoe and leather
belt factories. What was the
sense. said he, of manufacturers
buying all their leather betting
through San Francisco houses,
or why should the people OF the
northwest buy their shoes from
eastern factories?
The best idea, however, was
for a branch of the Krupp gun
works here. A report by Gen.
Nelson A. Miles just released
by the war department said
that the Pacific coast defenses
were dangerously inadequate.
He recommended that forts
and at least $50 heavy guns
be provided Immediately.
Well, if the guns were to be
used on the Pacific coast, why
not build them here? The $50
guns represented an estimated
cost of sso,ooo,oOo, and Tacoma
was willing to offer inducements
to the Krupp people if they
would start plant here. The
idea created quite a stir, but
never got beyond that point.
Smile dlUhile:
Mother-Willie, I'm sorry, but
you have disobeyed me and will
have to go to bed without your
supper.
Willie - But mother, what
about the medicine must take
after meals?
Son-Father, what Is rare
volume?
Father-A rare volume, son,
Is one that comes back after
a neighbor has borrowed 1t.
When the home town folks
were slow about recognizing the
fact that the Renton Chronicle
had moved to a new location,
the editor called attention to il
this way:
"Please do not stick any
more notices or news items
under the door in our old loca-
ton. We are not there any
more. We have moved. We
won't be back there. See what
we mean? We've moved awayv'
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Cows Eat Flowers While
Cop Guards Annie Wright
Charlie Reeves Puts
Over a Big Deal
We Bid For a krupp
Gun Factory
BECAUSE T m as o nly.
- mounted policeman spent
most of his time patroling the
triangle on which Annie Wright
was situated instead of keeping
stray cows from running flower
gardens, an irate X st. citizen
named Williams added a touch
Of color to local news as We
waited for the statehood muddle
to settle.
In a letter to the editor he
complained that stray cows were
running flower gardens of resi-
dents on K st. He warned own
ers of the offending animals the
next time they devoured his
wife's garden they would be
poisoned, patience having ceased
to be virtue.
He complained bitterly be-
cause the mounted policeman
couldn't get away from Anne
Wright seminary long enough
to perform the duty for which
he was being paid. He offered
to bet $40 against two cents
that any day the officer would
find at least ten cows running
over the lawns between Divi-
sion ave. and 18th st.
An investigation revealed that
it was not neglect of duty that
caused the officer to spend so
much time around the Annie
Wright block. Rough looking
men had been lettering in the
brush on the Wright park prop
erty across the road from the
seminary. Protecting the school
was considered of more i'm
portance than rounding up stray
cows.
AS noted the other day, bust
ness was booming in Tacoma
while the members of the legis-
lature killed time waiting for
the statehood proclamation to
come through. Real estate OPP
orators were working double
shifts.
The biggest deal on this day
so years ago was the purchase
by Charles S. Reeves of 20
lots from the Commencement
Bay Land and Improvement
company for $4,000. Such
deals were made i'm those days.
When the city council was not
busy hearing delegations pro-
testing against the threatened
veto of an ordinance closing sa-
looms at IL o'clock, there were
other delegations to hear for or
against some of the multitude
of applications for street fran
chises. One of the applicants,
w. E. Anderson, was having
trouble because the impression
had gone out that he proposed
to use steam to operate his cars.
In a letter to the editor he
denied that he was irreyocably
committed to steam but was
willing to try electricity. IL
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SCIENCE NEWS
KEEPING UP-IO-DAIE

The electric eye" which has
come into wide practical use, is
gaining favor as safety device
in industrial plants. In motor
plants, for instance, the sensi-
tive eye, which "sees" a ray OF
light, automatically stops ma
chinery when a workman's body
is in a dangerous position. A
light beam is placed at a safe
distance, and when a workers
arm or leg comes too close to
the machinery, it cuts off the
light beam, which the electric
eye Immediately registers.
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CRITICIZES COFFEE'S
LIBERAL BLOC STAND

Editor, The Times: I recently
read an article contributed to the
Pulse Of the Public by our con-
gresham from the Sixth dis
trict. / didn't like 1t. and wrote
him a letter to that effect, ask
ing for his attitude on un-Ameri-
can activities.
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title and was high-point man of
a championship basketball team.
He captained three winning
baseball teams; in track he ex-
celled in the javelin throw, shot
put and the 440-yard dash; in
lacrosse he played center on
championship team.
Tomorrow: Futility of Peace!
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clad for the great gift Of Irving glad for The days of the
sun and the rain grateful for JOY OF an endless thanks
nirinn-nnd TINT GOOD friends is living"
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picious Of his liberalism and So
cisl conscience - the welfare
workers. educators and the wo-
men. He is practieing humility
and pouring on his admittedly
charming personality. He ranks
well up in the winter books.
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SO THEY SAY

There is everywhere the work.
ing of the everlasting law Of
requital man always gets as he
gives.-J. Foster.
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INDIAN ATHLETE

INDIAN ATHLETE
Chief Thunderbird, head of
the Saanich Indian tribe of Van
couver Island. B. c., was star
in eight sports in the Cushman
Indian school.
He won championships in box
ing, wrestling and canoe racing;
helped his team win the football
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Although huge German-built
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to France, in World war, and
brought 93.746 back, she carried
only one passenger on final voy-
age, to Scottish junk-yard, in
1888. He was Godfrey RUSSELL
Hay. representative of the
buyer of the ships furnishings.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-02

Helen Kathleen Selmcr. .MaE,~Patrseia.s sMurxsy,----------'----<- =
 November 26, At Juneau Isak Arvid Rantapa. n am Q changed to Arvid Isak Icasson.
 November 2S, At Juneau Guy Carlton Sipprell William Dewar.
 December 1, At Juneau Mrs Maud Asp. Johnson Earl Shennett.
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Arthur Guiterman wrote that "all Europe now is undertaking diverse, conflicting axis-making. And it looked in May as though war might pop out any day. but the Czechs mobilized and wishful thinkers fig ured Hitlcrs bluff had been called.
 Mexico's President Lazaro Car denas won a petty war from Gen. Saturnino Cedillo and severed dip .lomatic relations with Britain while squabbling over oil. And Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. wit h pistol in hand, saved himself and his palace from allegedly fascistic Green Shirts"
 For the first time, U. s. town, Farmingdale, L. l., was blacked out in war try-out. Our Town" became the Pulitzer prize play. Norman Thomas had been hustled out of Mayor Hague's Jersey City and two congressman failed / to deliver well-ballyhooed speeches there.
 Ycuth in the News
 Love Walked In" was Mays hit
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song. Secretary Ickes and Jane Dahlman, 25, were wed in Ireland. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and an Australian heiress became engaged. Brides-to-be, too, were his sisters, Hephzibah, IT, and Yaltah, Is.
 William McChesney Martin, Jr, 3l. was chosen as chairman of the N. Y. Stock Exchanges governors. Britain's Henry Ford Viscount Nuffield. was nearly but not quite Kidnapped. Two-Ton Tony Galento was hailed as the worlds best second rate heavyweight. Sally Rand lectured Harvard's frosh. And everybody mpathized with six weeks-old Helaine Colan of Chicago, suffering from glioma, a cancerous tumor that creeps along the optic nerves to the brain.
 Thirty five died in an Atlanta hotel fire. Airliners crashed in Cali fornia and Cleveland. Floyd Roberts, averaging 1l72 miles an hour, won the Memorial day auto race. and Earl Ortman won the Oakland, Cal, air shows main event at a 265.539- mile-an- hour clip.
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BIG IN(0kEI I5 PROMISED BY
 TE(HN0(RAT5
Top Utopidn Offer Is Now Made -S20,0 900 An-
 nudIIy for Life v,
By SAM JACKSON AP Feature Service Writer

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. D. Technocracy the proposed gov ernment of engineers that was talked of so much during the de- preSsion-is out now with the top Utopian offer of all the recent schemes: $20,O00 a year for life.
 This income-provided. of course, there's technocracy-starts as soon as you're able to use it and it con- tinueS until you reach the grave.
 All you have to do to earn it is to work four hours a day for 165 days a year-or 12.7 hours week. And that only between the ages of 25 and 45. The rest of your life is leisure and free income.
 The head of the movement is still Howard Scott, the tall, tolughtalking technician who cut such a wide swathe some five years ago when he offered his theory of technological control of society
 Not Copying Dictators
 OCOCC lldS liCI ildU iluCu piDltClty lately, but he's been busy He has branches of Technocracy, Inc, all over the United States and Canada, has II magazines, and is getting his followers into uniforms.
 Uniformed Technocrats will not be confused with any of the multi colored shirt" organizations like those of Hitler and Mussoliri. As befits engineers and philosophers, the uniform is natty, doublebreast- ed, gray serge suit.
 Its not uniform for parading, Scott explains. Its uniform for living and working"
 Approaching the close of 30,- 000-mile lecture tour, Scott explain ed Technocracy to packed audi torium here. His argument is two- fold
 Machinery is replacing human labor so fast that unemployment, bad as it already is, will get worse and worse.
 2-The answer is to put machin- cry to work for all the people, creat- ing great wealth of commodities with minimum of human efforqt Its stupid to work Scott says, when you can just press button" Want Functional Control
 Accordingly. the Technocrats want to end political government, and create a functional control system" They say this is the type of organi- zation succeeding today in the tele- phone company and other big tech- nical enterprises.
 Leaders would be chosen in the same way that the biggest potatoes come up to the top in fast-moving car on freight train, he said.
 Pretty soon you find all the lit-
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tie potatoes at the bottom because that's where they apparently want to be- Scott says. "The big ones are at the top where they belong. That's the way it will be in Tech nocracy."
 Once Technocracy is set up, it would pay off in energy certifi- cates;" Money as such would be abolished, but each citizens stand ard of living would be approximateh, what $20,000 a year would sustain
 Debts. lawsuits, insurance. clasc distinctions and 95 per cent of crime would go out along with money and politics.
 Scott calls his plan running things as blueprint" He wants to apply it to the whole North American continent as a unit, under con tinental director" He is not interest ed in Europe or Asia
 He does not forsee direct action by the Technocrats, nor does he be- lieve any other uprising could suc- ceed in the United States.
 We're against Nazism, Fascism and Communism, he says We're also against democracy"
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StratoIiner
 Taking Test
Last Word in Air Progress Flies 4 Miles High, 4
 Miles a Minute

SEATTLE. Jan. 2.-The newest thing in aviation. a giant 33-pas- senger stratoliner, built by Boeing, successfully made it's first prelim- inarY tests today.
 < The sleek monster of the higher sky lanes has four l1oo- o-horsepower motors that enable the craft to cruise four miles above the earth at speed of more than four miles a minute. .S,-y> The cabin of the ship bears a distinct resemblance to a metal dirigtble and is circular through out because of the necessity oi sealing the cabin so that passen- gers will enjoy low level atmoS- pheric conditions while soaring al high attitudes.
 Wing span of the great plane i. TOT feet and three inches.
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CROP CONTROL ELECTIONS TO
 BE BIG EVENT
New Slant Given on Sub- jeet : Called Govern
 ment Coercion Maybe
By MORGAN N. BEATTY
 AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan 9. = Many city people may be tempted to dis miss the crop control elections they have been reading about in the pap CTS recently as nothing more than another way to throw money to the yelling farmers.
 And, no doubt, some farmers may wink slyly and agree in private that they are merely newfangled devices to get about half whats coming to them.
 But serious students of the Uni ted States political system are sug- sestine these quota elections might turn out to be new and powerful instruments of government applic- able to everybody -and almost ev- erything.
 once . quota election is held. the decision of two-thirds of the farmers raising the affected crop is compul- sory on all other raisers. and for feits the individuals freedom te plant and reap and sell his crop a' he pleases.
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A NEW SLANT

But the farmer is an individual. not a state. Heretofore he has had the individuals right to plant what he pleases On his land And right there, the New Deal tried a new kink in the deinocratic process in the, United States, for better or for ,tnNcn.
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(ITlzENShIp E :. GRAINED ]! TO ss
 = DURING 193s
lafqe Nu mber Become ljnited Sfdies Citizens
 Here During Year

A total of 89 persons became citi- xens of the United States during the year 1888 in the First Division Fed ersi District Court of Alaska. &C., eording7 to. records at the Clerk of Courts office. The complete list of those admitted to citizenship at Juneau and Ketchiksn court terms follows:
 March IS, At Ketchikan Olga. Johanna Johnson Williams, narnc changed 10 Olga Williams. TrEgve karolius Mielrac%on. Marcus 'Kputzen. ssg.a ', i~'' Agnes Karoline. Ongstad. Oscar Julius 0lsen~,BFeyik, name changed to Oscar Breyik.. Marie, Froddrikka Stenford. AAgot Hqstness, u Carl Leonard Carlson.
 Agnes Jane Elliott.
 Anna Sofia Hammer David Buchan $ ai, !F % Laura otelia Johnson 'rW Anton Hasko. Robert Tomlinson.
 Harry Alexander Bolt v Joaquin Ysidro Morales, name changed to Robert Ruiz.
 March %, At Kechikan .Sira-. Anna Knutsons~ "f April 27, At Ketehikan Josef Geist.-,s. s,- .,. Magnqs Halvorsen Melkhild., Wilhelm Mueller.
 May g, At Juneau Albert H4gebostad name changed to Albert Thompson,
 May II, At Juneau Frank Joel Tors. 4 V ss e,.4 Benjamin Abraham Pissareff. Edel Kornelia Olsen. John Olavson Hon1me.
 'n May, IA, At. Juneau Bernt- Torsteinson Mork Martin Edip Skaret.
 May 2l, At Juneau John Alexander. Cafswell Eisurd Jacobsen, name changed tU-6tgurd Jackson. May 3s. At ;,ynneau a Emma Theresia Satire. Johon Ivart Msrtt, name changed to John Ivar Martti. <: s ssAihEeos Adams. name chanses to Sam Adams. is
 June s, At PetSrburx Reider Ervik, s';'s Fgter AIffede Hansen.
 Astrid StromdAtis Ford. , -J6hn' Mikal -Pcdersen. name wa changed to' Mitchell John Peder Paul Aarpes, name changed t Paul Orness.s& sy.s9 .sSl4 tzsa ; Ole B. Braa. -N s5f,
 Nils Olof Helge Martirlsor. .IIartvig August Horn. ... .. ole Bergen Rnstold.l 7 Peder- JetAh Pederser Botten. Christian LAnge. '''s
 Juno !, At WfAnesil Johann Vaidemat Johanson. --'aastaf David Edward Sunell. June le,. At CrAit n 2 5Alfs Abel. fgfs 5YiFs ff'f Y norothy Margaret Senior.
 June l3, At ,6itka Martin Edward Caristh, nam rhaNsed to Nels Mtfthin Drusg. Villain Mattila.
 6ustsv, Herman Saycla.
 q Iine lS. At HooAah ;. Ole Rasmussen Ovrebo. nam changed to Ole Overbo.
 June sS, Al Sksgway walter Edward Wilson.
 June 25, Al Juneau Frark EaWfahce Gourisy
 Edward Glyim Wolseley Morris. ' George. Frank Ireland Campbel Game changed to Prank George
 June 28, At Juneau
 Eiy:nd oStaniey Bereatsen June 29, At Juneau -Peder -Bergseth name change tc Pete-Berg
 ,, July 23, At Juneau
 Christine Agnes Wigmsster
 Joseph Augustin Williams
 July 30, At Juneau
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CALLED
 GOVERNMENT COERCION

When the decision overwhelming ly favored quotas, critics said it was government coercion. They said the farmers were being bribed to con- trol their output.
 Secretary Wallace and the men who devised the system say it is a fair and democratic way to start solving a long standing problem. They point out that flue-cured to- bacco raisers and rice growers also voted on the question, and turned down government control. Some students of government in- sist that the question goes much deeper than the immediate rem edy for the farm situation. They want to know whether a new device has been discovered-a new instru- ment forged-for government.
 They believe the evidence indi- cates that the answer is in the af- firmative. But they don't know yet whether democracy is finding a new and efficient way to make it. self work, or whether it is creating new and undemocratic controls. l They say our children will know | that answer
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MAY,193S:
By VOLTA TORREY AP Feature Service Writer

To 13 high-school graduates last May in Arthurdale, w. Va, New Deal model town, President Roose- velt talked taxes. fs4
 Previously he had raised the question of taxing government oondholders and jobholders. Busi- ness men, ori the other hand, had spotlighted another issue, the un- distributed profits and capital-gams levies. and Congress finally had passed a bill to modify then.
 Tn his commencement address, MT. Roosevelt announced his de- cision to let that bill become law, but he wouldn't sign it. And he. told the class of 38: Our whole tax system, state, local and Federal, can and must be greatly improved in the coming year ~.
 Primaries had begun. The Presi- dent wouldn't talk about them. But his son spoke, for Floric'a's s Sen. Claude Pepper Che won) secretary Ickes criticized. Oregon's Gov. Charles M. Martin Che lost), and Jim Farley urged Pennsylvania Democrats to nominate Gov. George IT. Earle for senator Che won in May
 mt lest in November and CLOS Thomas Kennedy for governor Che lost, Peppers victory popped up the Presidents, psrtisons. But in Penn sylvanias primary. COP. General issimo Hamilton saw "the handwrit- ing on the wall for the New Deal and it's radical and crackbrain allies"
 Wedding of the Dictators
 The League of Nations conceded Ethiopia to Italy, Der Fuehrer pitched woo at. Il Duce in Rome, and 2.60O trunpeters played the "Lohengrin" wedding march. Poet
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MAN CONTESTS
 MURDER CHARGE


 SEATTLE, Jan. 2.--Deputy Prose- cutting Attorney Charles c. Rails said Leslie Thomas, confessed slayer of Mrs. Mae Tillotson Moore, said he killed the woman last month because he was afraid she would leave him.
 T am satisfied none of the rest will ever get her." said Wheeler, &C., sording to Rails.
 Wheeler appeared at the police station in Eugene, Oregon, last Sat urday and surrendered. confessing to the murder of the woman whose body was found near Auburn, Wash, pn Thursday of last week.
 The woman had come north from California to marry Wheeler, it has been ascertained. ~Gsgf -S-s-<s--- -S
 Carl Weber TT, pianist who was born and brought up in London, died here. He had plyaed at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria.
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To. Q. Probe p !. ,,W!!ret'!ko!|!'!f .....
 ~
 Patterson
Investigation 10 Begin in !. Seattle Before U. 5. h..
 speetofs. Wednesday y

SEATTLE. Jan investigation into the wreck of the Motorship Patterson, cn the shore of the Cult of Alaska at 1l;56 pm on the night : f December II, which resulted il
 the death Of two members of the crew and the rescue finally of the re inaining .l6 members will begin
 Wednesday forenoon before the Uni
 ted States Steamship Inspectors in the Federal Building here.