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might be called upon to testify be-
fore house or senate committee.
For there was revolution brewing
under the capitol dome, and most Of
it was concerned with spending and
taxing. First the White House had
requested moderate tax rises to
offset farm parity payments and
finance the first half of proposed
defense expansion program. The
added cost: $422, 000, 900. Next had
come the 1915, 100000 to operate
WPA until July l, which was $685.
600, 900 greater than WPA deficiency
estimates included in the previ-
GUS days budget message.
Mr.. Harrington knew that his
WPA would have harder time JUS
tifying its expenditures than would
the agricultural department or the
army. Placed into the house COM
mittee's record was table showing
that WPA expenses increased stead
lily through September, October and
December, when the federal reserve
board index showed business was
booming. His defense: That relief
rolls dropped from 3,112,000 on De-
cember "a to 3,075, 900 on December
81. His claim: That slash Of the
deficiency appropriation to $500 O00,-
600 would bring starvation to many
unfortunates. Nevertheless it looked
like Mr.. Harrington would be lucky
indeed to get $500, 900, 900.
Such incidents demonstrate that
the Seventy-sixth congress is indie
pendent. II it grants Mr.. Roose-
velt's full budgetary requests for
the next fiscal year-which is doubt
ful-the u. S. public debt will rise
precariously near $45, 000, 000, 900,
which is the legal peak on treasury
department borrowing. Anticipat-
ed daily is a White House request
that the limit be raised.
asia
Under the premiership of Prince
Fumimaro Konoye, Japan came
close to overthrowing China's Gen.
eralissinno Chang Kai-shek when
Wang Ching-wei, one-time leader Of
the Kuomintang (Nationalist) party,
agreed to make peace and head
puppet Chinese government. This
three-man poker game first began
collapsing January when Kai-shek
ousted Wang from the Kuomintang
and sent him scurrying to cover in
French Indo-C China. The second
player to withdraw was Prince Ko-
noye, whose forced resignation from
the premiership places Chang in an
even firmer position.
Prince Konoye has been succeed
ed by Kiichiro Hiranuma, pro-
Fascist and extreme nationalist,
who would hardly sympathize with
Wang's plans for an independent
China. Premier Hiranuma's only
offer to Wang could be leadership
of an outright puppet regime like
Manchukuo, and this he could not
accept. Another fly in the ointment
is Japan's military machine, now
strengthened by the Fascist govern
mental tendency.
People
At San Pedro's Terminal island
correctional prison, where he was
transferred from Alcatraz, Al Ca
ponc was said by a guard to be
"screwy as bedbug."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-20
NERVOUS?

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Use of Subject of Religion
Causes Some Comment

From the standpoint of political
considerations, there were numer-
Gus published comments, after the
message was delivered, in which
members of the house and senate
openly chided Mr.. Roosevelt for at
tempting to capitalize politically
upon sentiment among the church
people. ! relate that because it il
Illustrates how no political leader can
be quite sure when he makes a
statement whether it will be re-
ceived favorably or not. It is so
easy, and every politician knows it,
to make a perfectly sincere state
ment, only to learn two days later
that it was being held up to ridi-
cule as bunk or being torn to pieces
as being unsound, fundamentally.
Those who have been razzing Mr..
Roosevelt's use Of the subject Of
religion recognize, of course, that
destruction of free religion has
been one Of the keystones of dicta-
torship. They recognize further that
the actions of Hitler and Stain and
Mussolini in this regard have been
responsible, as much as any other
one thing, in creating bitter resent
ment in the United States. Obvious
ly, then, they look upon the Roose-
welt appeal in this regard as being
good politics, but they are unwilling
to let him get away with it.
In summary, then, it seems prop
er to catalogue Mr.. Roosevelt's 1889
message to congress as one of his
best state papers, but it must be
added that it stands to create
greater difficulties for him than any
other annual message he has deliv-
cred. Whether one agrees with all,
or only part, or none of its pro-
posals, it is great Improvement
over the Incorporate character of
some of his earlier efforts.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
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Just Rebellion

Just Rebellion
Men seldom, or rather never for
a length of time and deliberately,
rebel against anything that does
not deserve rebelling against
Carlyle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-20
Travelled Roads

Travelled Roads
No road is too long to the man
who advances deliberately and
without undue haste, and no hon
ors are too distant for the man
who prepares himself for them
with patience. -Bruyere.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-20

de4ense of democracies?
Continued Spending Makes
Some Democrats See Red
There are prospects of opposition
to his arms program confronting
the President, therefore, among the
Borah-J ohnson school of thought, as
well as among those representatives
and senators from inland areas
where there never has been much
fear from attacks by other nations.
There will be ridicule of his arms
program, too, on the basis of his
indication that it will provide work.
That ridicule will be justified. Work
can not start on ships for a year
and half or two years after they
are authorized, and supplies for the
army, even ain expanded army, will
not call so many men back to fac
tories.
Proposals for continued spending,
as outlined by the President, made
number of strong Democrats see
red again. Men of the type of Sem
ator Byrd Of Virginia and Bailey Of
North Carolina, and others in the
senate and house. They can not be
'reconciled to such a program and
they will have the Republican mi-
nority backing them up wherever
and whenever they attack continued
spending of government funds.
The proposal to continue spend
ing, Of course, is linked like tam
gle Of yarn with the whole question
of relief administration, and there
is no telling what may come Of that
row. Senator King, Utah Democrat
and anti-New Dealer, already has a
bill in the hopper to eliminate the
entire federal relief setup. He
would turn it back to the states,
providing only for grants Of federal
money when the states can't meet
their obligations.
On top and alongside of the DEM
ocrats who, for one reason or an
other, will differ with Mr.. Roose-
velt's program will be found almost
a solid Republican phalanx. There
are 1859 Of them in the house, now,
and rs in the senate. This is far
from enough to control, but when
that number is coupled with any de-
fections from the Democratic ranks,
the answer spells out into the words
"trouble for Mr.. Roosevelt"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-20
People

At San Pedro's Terminal island
correctional prison, where he was
transferred from Alcatraz, Al Ca.
pone was said by a guard to be
"screwy as bedbug."
. In Vienna, Jewish, prosecuted
DR.. Solomon Frankfurter, 80, re.
joiced that the U. S. had elevated
his nephew, Harvard's Felix Frank
furter, to the Supreme court.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-01-23
FAMILIES HERE
PLANNING FARM
COOP PROJECT
Juneauifes Hope 10 Farm
Kenai : Legislation
Being Sought


Establishment on the Kenai Pen
insula of farming cooperative
similar to that already started al
Homer is the aim Of 20 Juneau fam
lilies who are seeking aid for the
project from the Legislature, Jack
Loveless, organizer for the local
Workers Alliance. said today.
The 20 families, he said, have been
carefully picked from among hun
dreds of applicants and are all bona
fide farmers.
Loveless resents having his pro-
posed cooperative likened to the
settlement in the Matanuska Valley,
saying he believes such a compar-
ison caused the Senate last week to
postpone indefinitely action on a
bill to set up a Territorial Rehab-
ilitation Board, which would have
been authorized to aid such CO.
operatives as the proposed Kenai
one.
Asking Chance
"All we want is a chance to make
our own livings from farms in the
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Roden, it would amend the Terri
torial cooperative marketing act to
allow cooperatives to engage in pro-
duction as well as marketing. The
bill, Senate bill No. 6, is still in
committee.
Alaska Delegate Anthony j. Di-
mond wired Loveless last week that
the Farm Security Administration
though its benefits had been ex-
tended to cover the Territory through
Dimond amendment, declined to
extend resettlement loans to Alaska
because it feared high adminis-
trative costs here.
Federal Money
If Territ oria1 Rehabilitation
Board were created, Loveless said
it could administer such Federal
loans and bring this new money
here to help develop Alaska,
Loveless has letters from Henry
Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture
and II. E. Drew, Washington State
Director of the Farm Security Adj
ministration. regarding the proposed
settlement of the Kenai. Drew
visited the peninsula last summer
and was highly impressed, Loveless
says, by its agricultural possibilities
Homesteads established round
Homer, on the west side of the
peninsula, have proven that farms
in the Kenai can produce abund-
antly, Loveless says. The growing
season there is the longest of any
part of Alaska. permitting dry stock
to feed outside seven or eight
months of the year and horses to
run out all winter Soil there is
rich and has shown 1t can produce
nearly all vegetables except melons
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Kenai," Loveless said. The Legis-
lature has been voting appropria-
lions for relief each session, but
this does not solve the problem, as
there is no end to such appropi'ia-
lions, while our plan would take
these people off the relief rolls per-
manently."
Another bill similar to the one
shelved in the Senate last week will
be introduced later this session,
Loveless predicted.
The original measure, Senate bill
No. Z, introduced by Senator Henry
Roden of the First Division, pro-
vided for an appropriation of $780,
900 to be used to relieve unemploy-
ment and distress by aiding coop
erative association TO engage in the
agricultural development of the Ter
ritory. The money would be loaned
to settlers to allow them to establish
small farms.
Rehabilitation Board
The act and the fund would be
administered by a Territorial Re-
Mobilization Board, composed of the
Highway Engineer, Commissioner of
Education. and Director of Public
Welfare. Before voting to postpone
action ON the bill indefinitely the
Senate had amended it to replace
the Commissioner of Education with
the Territorial Treasurer, the change
being made to make the board more
responsive to the public by having
an elective official one of its mem
bers.
A companion measure introduced
at the same time has not yet come
up for action on the floor of the
Senate. Also introduced by Senator
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FIRE DRILL IS
RUN ON SUNDAY

A fire driil call by Chief v Null
yihill brought the fire laddies out
for their monthly fireless stunt yes
terday afternoon. There hasn't been
regular call since December %,
consequently the drill was in order
so the boys could iron out a few
kinks both in the hoses and their
muscles
One truck and crew made the
run to the hydrant on Dixon Street
near the Juneau Telephone Elk
change building Water pressure on
this elevated plug was tested and
found satisfactory.
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Reciprocal trade agreements with
Latin and South American countries
boosted trade in all Texas ports in
1888. Principal exports we're oil and
cotton and chief imports were raw
sugar, canned beef and coffee.
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and squashes. Experiments prove
that grains can be grown there sue
cessfully. The Homer colony now
has population of about 900.
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FOR SALE--1937 va Ford Deluxe.
Radio, heater, driven less than
1000 miles. Otto Anderson, 1872
E. st.
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FORD TUDOR, driven only 5000
mfres. New tires, deluxe radio and
heater. See Elroy MINIS.
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We accept ads over telephone
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directory.
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FOR SALE Oil-burning, z-oven,
restaurant range and 2-barrel
beer cabinet and equipment. Call
1874.
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FOR SALE-U 81 I Lunch. Owner
quitting business. Write P.O. Box
c274 or phone 1874.
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FOR SALE - 7-room house and
double garage. miles out Glacier
Highway. Reasonable. Phone 241.
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RADIO OPERATORS
UNDER new RULES

New rules, now in effect, govern
ing all classes of radio stations in
Alaska, except broadcast. and new
radio operator rules. effective May
S, 1899, have been received and, upon
request, are available for distribu-
ton at the office of the Federal
Communications Commission. or by
requesting same at Box 2719, Juneau,
Alaska.
Interested parties are advised to
obtain copies as numerous changes
have been noted, particularly in re-
CARDS to amateur stations, where
extensive revisions have been made.
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FOR SALE-C MeIody Conn Saxo-
phone, $40. Write Empire M 1852
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INCOME property for sale. Phone
Blue 1876.
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GOOD used slide trombone with
case; one used mandolin with
case; one used trumpet with
case. Cash or terms. Alaska Music
Supply-122 Second st.
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aft. WESTINGHOUSE refrigerator.
504 Kennedy st. Basement Apt.
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In case of error or if an ad
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piration, advertiser please noti-
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once and same will be given
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NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE OF SALE
FOR SALE as is at Petersburg,
Alaska, Gas Boat NELLIE r." built
in 1921, registered length 1872 feet,
registered breadth 9.8 feet, regis
tered depth 40 feet, $40 gross tons,
net tons.
TERMS: $55000 cash.
ROBERTSON and MONAGLE,
Attorneys-at-Law
Juneau, Alaska
Publication dates, January %, "a, IS,
1899.
80
ALASKANA BY Marie Drake. SOC
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WANTED

PARTY looking for lady cook to
take care of children. Includes
room and board. Phone l after 5
pm.
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FOR SALE

FOR QUICK SALE = 1882 4-door
Chev sedan. Phone 1872 Douglas,
or P. o. Box 1897.
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FOR SALE-City Float Beer Parlor.
Phone Sal after A pm.
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FOR RENT

GOOD used Piano for rent-Alaska
Music Supply, 1872 Second st.
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BOAT STALL, by Douglas Bridge,
50 per month. Green ATS.
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GUARANTEED Realistic Perma-
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COY, warm, furn. apis. Light
water, dishes. cooking utensils
and bath. Reasonable al Seaview
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Asking Chance

"All we want is chance to make
our own livings from farms in thu
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CURN your old gold into value,
cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
Evening star., 1939-10-04

here is 'just dragging along
gerously so. Insufficient funds are a
tremendous handicap, he asserts.
Another disadvantage, he says, is
that members of the board are busy
executives who must tackle parole
problems on the side. The result Is
that the local system cannot provide
for the number of paroles needed
to supervise ex-convictS and to SAFE
guard society in the District. All Of
this constitutes a grave indictment
Of the parole system by an ardent
champion of the theory upon which
the system Is founded. Since the
problem in Washington appears to
be one largely of appropriations,
Congress we'll might give considera-
ton to the La Roe findings when
the time comes to allot funds for
the Capitals parole system. The
money earmarked for this purpose
will be an investment in a form of
social security that affords imme-
diate benefits to the whole COM
munity.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Advocates Return to
International Law
Fovors Cush-und-Corry
As Being Closer to the
Goal Than Embargo
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Every American is concerned about the
two neutrality laws Congress is now dis
cussing. They fail to realize that neither
one is neutrality law in the true sense
of the word The arms embargo indi-
rectly aids Germany; while the cash.
and-carry law helps the allies. Both these
laws certainly give us no assurance we
will not get in this war Each side in
this argument tells us their plan will
keep us out of war; Whom are we to
believe?
This writer advocates the return to in
ternational law as the only step any
neutral nation should take in time OF
war abroad. We are led to believe in
ternational law is trap to get us In a
war, when we all know 1t is simply the
rules by which nations govern themselves
in regard to one another. The fact that
Hitler has disregarded international law
does not mean 1t does not exist. We are
told If we send our ships to European
ports they may be sunk and we will be-
come involved as we were last time. Did
it ever occur to the American people that
we have one of the largest navies in the
world and that it could safeguard our
shipping? Surely we have a right to
protect ourselves on the sea as we'll as of
land. Are we to remove our ships from
the seas every time Mr.. Hitler goes on
the war path? We saw what happened
to England and France when they en-
barked on Casper Milquetoast" cam
paign with Hitler. What assurance have
we that crawling back into our hole as
some seem set on doing will be any more
successful in keeping us out of war?
Theodore Roosevelt sent the fleet on a
cruise out of American waters when we
were having some trouble with Japan.
The trouble stopped. Secretary Hull sent
notes and protests when We had some
difficulties with Japan The result was
the sinking of the Panay and assorted
slappings and kicks in the face by Japan.
1t is very evident which method in deal
ing with dictator nations is successful
and which really keeps the peace.
If nations have defaulted in their pay
ments on credits in the past. they should
not be given any additional credits under
any circumstances. This has nothing to
do with neutrality or keeping out of war,
1t is just common business practice.
The cash-and- law is the best Of
the two proposed laws because it is the
nearest thing to international law and
should be adopted. The embargo and
isolationist theory is utterly foolish and
is about the same as closing your eyes
and then because you can see nothing,
to assume there is nothing there.
october 2. FUTURE VETERAN.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Parole in Wushinqton

The public usually thinks of parole
as a form of leniency for convicts.
Wilbur La Roe, jr., member Of the
Board of Parole of the District of
Columbia, has emphasized another
mission of parole-a highly impor-
tant one-in his book on the subject,
just published. This mission-too
little appreciated by casual observers
of the parole system in operation
is the protection of society from
prisoners indiscriminately freed with
out supervision, without means Of
rehabilitation.
Mr.. La Roe has made a f1rst-hand
study of the parole theory in action
and has found it to be sound
although seriously hampered in some
jurisdictions by maladministration,
lack of funds and other factors.
Where there is no parole program,
or where the program is defective,
he points out, prisoners are turned
loose Internationally, minus friends,
minus jobs and minus incentives to
go straight. Within a short time
many of them naturally gravitate to
their old haunts and habits, outside
the law. This failure to keep a
check on the released convict is
unfair to him and grossly unfair to
the public upon which he preys.
Appraising frankly the admins
tration of parole in Washington, Mr..
La Roe concurs in the declaration
of Chairman Frank r. Jelleff Of the
District Parole Board that parole