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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
'AmeriCanism' Theme Used for Legion Aux.
 Program Last Evening

! A short business meeting was helc last night at the American Legior Dugout by members of the Legion Auxiliary at which time Mrs Wal ter Hellan spoke on "Americanism and National Defense"
 Later bridge and pinochle were played with honors gonig to Mrs Harriet Knowles and Mrs Oscar Olson. highs, and Mrs. George Gull lufsen and Mrs. Ethel Anderson lows.
 Awarded by Mrs. John McCor- mick, Mrs. Harriet Knowles was winner of a national defense plate, and Mrs. Ethel Anderson was pre- scented with a basket.
 Refreshments were served by Mrs. Walter Hellan, Mrs. Lucille Stone house, Mrs. Paul Hudon and Mrs. Homer Nordling
 The Auxiliary today sponsored H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney as speaker for the George Washing ton program held at the Juneau Public Schools.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
WHEN IN ROME AMERICANS GO
 10 THIS PLACE

ROME, Feb. 21.-Americans de- pend on one Roman theatre to see movies from Hollywood
 The Quirinetta, in the heart of Rome, is the only theatre showing American films in their original form. French and British produc- tions also are shown
 These first-run films then are "dubbed"-with Italian voices sub stituted-and distributed to the oth- CT theatres in Rome.
 Few American films have come to the Quirinetta in recent months. The new agreement recently nego- tiated by Universal Pictures with the Italian film monopoly for Is American pictures assures at least that many new productions for showing in Rome the coming months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
NUDITYIS
 NO MORE

PALO ALTO, Cal, Feb. 21.-For years, the men of Stanford Uni versity have enjoyed the privilege of swimming without suits, because their pool was enclosed by buildings and high walls
 Now that the Hoover Library building is rising in the form of a 10-story tower, they're reluctantly figuring on buying trunks.
 Enterprising students-all male so far as is known--discovered that the upper floors of the tower command a birds-eye view of the pool and swimmers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
Hearings Coming On Fisheries

A radiogram received today by The Empire from Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond says the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has set for hearing and consideration on March l2, the fol- lowing additional Alaska Fishereis bills:
 H. R. 5476-To create an Alaska Fisheries Commission:
 H. R. 6690-To limit net fishing in Nelson Lagoon to residents of Alaska.
 H. R. 7542-To forbid forfeiture of boats and gear for alleged vio- lation of the law unless and until offenders are convicted of criminal cffense.
 H. R. 8172 = To exempt trollers from the weekly closed season.
 Testimony on most of these bills was taken by the Congressional in- vestigating committee in Alaska last summer but any other witnesses who care to appear before the con- mittee on March l2 will be heard, the radiogram states.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
IRON BILL PAID
 BY 1900 C0ppERs

VANCOUVER, Wash, Feb. 21- A Vancouver man bought an iron with coppers-1,8 800 of them
 The purchaser told hardware store clerk he wanted to buy an electric ironing machine for his wife.
 "No time payments" said the cus- toler. "I'll pay cash
 He dumped gallon jug full of pennies on the counter.
 There are 1900 of them, the cus- toner said as they spilled over. I've been saving them long time. Go ahead and count 'em."
 The clerk decided to take the customers word; at least until he got the pennies to bank where they could be counted by machine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
I50N JOB
 LONG TIME

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb 21, = A fledgling attorney just out of law school had no rebuttal when Depu- ty County Clerk Harry Russell told him some papers he wanted to file weren't drawn property.
 They've been drawn that way by others" contended the young barrister.
 Not for the past fifty years" Russell retorted.
 And the deputy clerk should know. He's been handling those documents more than fifty years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
ITALIAN OFFICERS | AVOID FOREIGNERS

ROME, Feb. 21. = Italian Army and Navy officers have been eau toned to avoid foreigners as much as possible, presumably as a safe- guard against spies.
 Unlike in Soviet Russia, where contact between officials and for eigners has been discouraged for several years, Italian officials have had many friends in Rome's foreign colony. But they are seeing their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

foreign friends much less frequently since the war
 Italian officers have been in structed even to avoid the cafes of the Via Vittorio Veneto, the capitals Main Street, where they might encounter foreigners.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
SHIP QUITS;
 IS AGROUND

PAPEETEE Tahiti Feb. 2l. = After successfully sailing the dan gerous waters of the Tuomotu Is- lands for 40 years. the schooner Waite at last lies high on a reef, damaged beyond repair.
 She has long been the only con- tact between civilization and hun dreds of persons living on isolat- ed islands
 The Tuomotus, designated on many maps as the Dangerous Archipelago, consist of a l,000- mile-long barrier of atolls and coral reefs swept by cratic cur rents. Polynesians consider the area ruled by evil spirits.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
WORKS IN SLIPPERS

SEDALIA, Mo, Feb. 21.-A Se- dalia businessman is wearing house slippers in his office. He purchas- ed pair of oyer-shoes but when he got them on he discovered he couldn't remove them without talk ing off his shoes at the same time He just doffs both and settles down to solid comfort at his desk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

Nassau Street, which traverSes the financial section of downtown New York, was once known as Pie Woman's Alley
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

God Save the King" the Eng fish national anthem, was first publicly sung ill 1745.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

The Peep-O'-Day-Boys" were Irish insurgents, about 1794. who visited the houses of their antago- nists, in search of arms, at dawn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

The walls of ancient Alexan- dria in Egypt were six miles in circuit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

Soviet Russia has Black Sea coastline of well over 1000 miles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

Today's News Today-Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

arcia Wright margod plant by use hecal and exhibited by David Burpe Philadelphia 5O ort uurists New Yorks The hcne remedy It doubled the plants content pro-
 ducng two-foot plant with large, flowers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

Tcday's News Tooay-Enpire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

Today's News 1ooay-Empire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
Gold and Credits
Hold Advantages
OUer Bartering
BY JOHN 7. FLYNN

N'@A 49, VASO CAAAAACAsss VIlbCI
Trade, after the war, and her
hand-maiden, gold, begin to disturb
the economic statesmen of Europe.
Also they agitate American
business men a little.
DR.. Walther Funk, German min
lister of economics, says that since
America has most of the gold,
Europe will be like boy in q
marble game: when one boy has
won all the marbles, either the
winner will have to lend back
some Of the marbles, or the loser
must find another game to play.
Signor Vincenzo Azzolini, direc-
tor of the Banca D'Iatlia, says
that Europe must quit borrowing
abroad, must find some other way
to get along without plunging into
foreign debts.
It Is that "other game" that Herr
Funk talks about playing that is
bothering some American export
ers. What is it?
GOVERNMENT is
CHIEF NAZI TRADER
Up to now foreign trade has
been carried on by individual
exporters and importers in most
countries. Now in Germany the
government has become the one
big totalitarian trader.
In a sense this is forced by cir
cumstances. Germany needs many
essential commodities from abroad
but she does not have the foreign
credits to buy them. What credits
she has or can create she must
use to buy these essentials.
She refuses, therefore, to leave
the choice of buying to individ-
uals who will purchase what they
need rather than what the nation
at war needs. Also, as she has no
gold and practically no credits
abroad she has to find means of
creating credits. This she does by
using government action to in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

q pay-aS-yOu-gO oasis.
Some grotesque applications OF
this fixed idea have been proposed.
For example, Senator Byrd told the
Senate that he wanted to make the
10 per cent MAKEUP of income tax
retroactive to 1899 incomes. In fact,
there Is no more residue of the i'm
comes received by most people IN
1898 than there is of the cigarettes
they smoked in 1899. Yet such a sug-
gestion seems entirely logical to any
one who believes that personal met
income Is something real and per-
manent. simply because it Is O
produce OF certain bookkeeping OPP
erations that are prescribed by the
tax law. II Congress is to levy on
past incomes. why not go back to
1929? Many persons had O large in
come aht year. True, some Of them
are on relief today, but 1t would be
about as sensible to take 1920 as It
would be 10 take 1899 for Q base for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
CITY DEFENDANT
in $4,000 SUIT

Damages Of $35,O00 against the
City Of Waterbury are sought by
Mrs. Helen Sheehan Of 377 South
Main street. for alleged permanent
injuries claimed to have been sus-
tanned In fall on defective side
walk June IA, 1899, In civil action
filed in superior court.
The woman charges that while
walking at los South Main street
she tripped and fell, the accident
being caused by one of her heels
catching in a defect in the side
walk. She further alleges that she
suffered a fractured left hip which
necessitated several operations
which confined her for months to
st. Mary's hospital.
Furthermore, the woman claims
that as a result Of the fall she will
be permanently crippled and that
her left leg will be shorter than the
right.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
NewEmergency Truck
Now Being Equipped
City to Have Modernized Corps For First Aid Pur-
poses Committee Named to Select Cops Shirts

The Police Board yesterday gave
the committee on men and disci-
pline power to act on the question
Of lighter shirts for policemen, while
the fire board, receiving report
on installations Of new fire alarm
boxes. also discussed the new emer-
gency truck which has arrived here
and Is now being equipped.
The police board, which also
granted Supt William ]. Roach
permission to attend the conven-
ton of the international association
Of Police Chiefs in Milwaukee, Sept.
9-12, received a letter from the Wo-
mems Democratic Booster club urg-
ing that policemen be QUILTED with
white or lighter shirts for the sum-
mer months. This letter was turned
over to the discipline committee for
further investigation.
Blue VS. white
The committee explained that the
present blue shirt of the policemen
was adopted by them by a vote Of
10 to 80. White shirts, however,
were not voted upon.
The fire board received a report
from Deputy Chief Martin j. Cam
pion that new fire boxes have been
installed at Cooke and Sterling
streets and at Manor avenue and
Ware streets, bringing the total
alarm boxes in the city to BAL.
It was announced that the new
emergency uaroyo has arrived here
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

1916, and 395 in 1920. Corporation
net income before taxes rose from
$3,940 millions in 1914 to $10,730 mil
lions in 1916, and declined to $7,903
millions in 1920.
The principal obstacle to large
profits is high costs. Rising costs
checked the growth Of profits dur
ing the first World War. Today in
dustry is subjected to regulations
which means high costs and which
will tend to keep profits down. If
profits are eceSsive under present
conditions the chief reason will be
looseness in the government con-
tracts. With competent control OF
contract policies there should be no
serious general problem Of ecess
profits. With political control of the
defense program, there will likely be
a liberal contract policy, made
possible by liberal debt policy and
sanctioned by foolish theories about
the virtues of spending. The natural
results will be excess profits and q
case for an excess profits tax.
The people should understand
this. No firm vii learn too much in
producing defense equipment unless
the government pays too much for
its product. Careful attention to
business matters of this sort always
gives a politician a headache He
would much prefer to neglect the
business end In order to engage in
rabble-rousing talk about war mil
lionaires excess profits and drastic
taxation OF those who gain exces-
sively out of munitions manufac-
ture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
Hospital
Bulletins

Jacob B. Walters, SO, for many
days on the danger list at the
Waterbury hospital as the result Of
an automobile accident, returned
to his home in Cheshire yester-
day.
MIR. Walters, prominent Repub-
ican, and former United States
marshal was seriously hurt on the
Middlebury road q month ago.
A laceration of the left arm was
suffered yesterday by Albert Da-
versa, III, Of AIS South Main street
when he ran into the side of an
automobile operated by George
Cassidy, rs, Of PIG Wolcott street.
on South Main street. The child
was treated at st. Mary's hospi-
tai and dismissed. No arrest was
made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

cd of trading up indefinitely. Our
difficulty in the world market will
come from other factors than this.
They are:
A Gernany's totalitarian regime
lie forces labor to work long
hours at low wages. This makes
for lower prices.
On many products she will I'M
dersell us and we will have the
choice of lowering our costs by
lowering our living standards, or
of sacraficing some part OF our
foreign trade
81 Germany will probably at
40 tempt to organize an immense
area of Europe and perhaps Afri-
ca. Japan will do the same for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01


be realistic about that. We must
be content with our share, which
up to now has been the lions,
and will probably continue to be,
because we have the credits to
offer.
n Then there is the problem of
lie gold. We have 80 cents out
of every dollar of world gold.
We have the marbles. Can Ger
many demonetize gold and leave
us holding bag OF worthless
metal?
These great self-existing trad
ing areas - Germany's, Russia's,
Japan's - can reduce the need for
gold, but no satisfactory substi-
tute for the metal has yet been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

retroactive income taxation. Only
about one per cent of the federal
taxpayers have any more left, today,
out of 1899 income than they have
out Of 1929 income.
An even more absurd proposal
was the amendment which Senator
Connally hitched to the 1910 tax
bill. It was a re-fash of the income
tax law, with personal exemptions
of $500 and $1,000, a normal tax of
10 per cent, Surtax rates starting at
l per cent on the first $1,000 OF sur
tax income and rising to 70 per cent
of all income above $4,000. The
basic corporation tax rate was to be
"a per cent. An excess profits tax
was also included. The measure was
to become effective upon declaration
Of war by Congress.
Senator Connally said that the
Treasury estimated a yield of 8 bill
lion dollars on the basis of 1898 in
come returns. The Treasury statis-
ticians evidently overlooked the
final portions Of the bill, which gave
the President power to fix wages,
rents, interest, prices of goods and
property including real estate, and
authority generally to exercise COM
plete dictatorial power over eco
nomic life. The dictatorship provi-
sions were removed before the bill
passed the Senate, but no one sug-
gested the utter suhsurdity of an
estimated yield of Q billion dollars OF
taxes annually from the subsistence
incomes that the bill would have
authorized the President to decree
Both the Connally bill.and the even
harsher Bone bill aim ct confisca-
ton OF all income and property. II
1t Is necessary to 60 this far, Ger
many will hardly attack, for We
shall have adopted the totalitariail
way without argument.
The present jittery attitude about
excess profits Is q hangover from
the first World War. The great n
crHese OF corporate and personal
incomes at that time occurred from
1914 10 1919. when the country was
engaged In the lucrative pcace-time
business Of supplying the Allies
There were $50 personal incomes Of
100000 and over n 1914, f,seo In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
.FOOTE DISCUSSES
EXPORT PROGRAMS
Agricultural Dept. Says
European War Compli=
Gates Situation

Efforts of the United States de-
partment of agriculture to encourage
greater consumption of American
agricultural SURPRISES during the
past IL months were discussed last
evening by Robert N. Foote, local
representative of the Surplus Mar
keting Administration in a broad
cast of the United States Govern
ment Reports" weekly series over
station WNBC presenting the fed
eral government agencies.
Mr.. Foote said that the depart
| ment'S drive was concentrated on
three fronts: % increased domestic
consumption, 90 development of new
uses for SURPRISES, and 90 export
programs.
| Since July, 1889, he declared that
more than three billion pounds of
foodstuffs were bought and dis
tributed among over II million per-
sons in three million needy families
each month. A principal means of
distribution was through the food
stamp plan which is now operating
in more than 100 areas.
Export programs, he said, had dis
posed of around As million bushels
of surplus wheat during the same
| period, and nearly 61a million bales
of cotton.
Development of new uses for sur
pluses, he explained, is still largely
on an experimental basis, but prog
ress in this field indicates great pos
sibilities for the future.
Mr.. Foote predicted increased ac-
tivity on the part of the federal gov
eminent toward solution of the prob
lem of agricultural SURPRISES. The
European war, he said, has COM
plicated the situation considerably
since many of this country's i'm
portant export outlets for farm
products have been closed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

found for settling international
balances. Even Herr Funk adj
mitS that.
GERMANY EYES
BRITISH GOLD MINES
Germany may hope, as a prize
of the war, to get possession
of England'S gold mines in the
Transvaal. If she does, her in
terest in demonetizing gold will
quickly abate.
The most serious blow to our
foreign trade, however, may be a
temporary one = namely, the cur
rency crisis that will follow the
war.
A substitute for gold = most Of
which we cannot be worked
up in day. The interval. while
new currency valuations and trad
ing areas are being formed, will be
a painful one.
For all these contingencies our
economists and bankers should be
planning now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

crease her sales abroad.
She does this by three devices:
Cd Concentrating all trading in a
single agency; co substituting ex-
ports; 90 buying only from ma
lions that buy from her.
This is what Germany has done
in South America. A great deal
of fear has been generated in the
United States because of these
methods but as matter of fact It
is a clumsy system. 1t is used
merely because Germany has
neither the gold nor the money
credits to operate as we operate.
In the general world market
the system still leaves us at great
advantage with a better system,
with our vast reserves and i'm
mense credits. Barter Is diff
cult, unpleasant, creates ill-will
over a period, is hard to handle
and substituting exports is a cost
ly game to play.
No contry can keep this meth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

Asia, which will be walled off as
far as possible under a self-con-
tanned economy with tariffs and
other preferences to hold it to-
geher.
This, Of course, is what we have
done in the United States between
the 48 states, and what England
has done under what is called the
Empire Preference System" We
shall have to adjust our trading
methods to this condition. We
will have some disadvantage in
South America.
o Germany needs South Amer
Os lean products-we do not. We
compete with South American
meat, wheat, oil, copper, fruits.
We do not let them into this coun-
try.
Germany wants them. That
makes for a natural trading con-
dition. We will not succeed in
preventing that trade. We must
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

1t S e II. TIL e y
proved to be the
worst kind of tax
for depression
conditions, an d
as they failed an
increase of debt
was fixed upon
as the only way
out. There is
some indication
that this same
fixed idea will
bog down the eff
fort to keep the
defense program
on substantially
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
AT THE FOUNTAIN

Just a simple twist of the wrist,
single motion for lemon twist
A scoop of ice cream, syrup just dash
A geyser of soda as quick as flash,
dash of raspberry or lemon in the coke
nickel throw-you won't go broke.
The counter man has an accurate eye
For a ham and cheese on rye;
In jiffy, in fact in trice,
Slashes with the knife slice after Slice
Sliced chicken lettuce and tomato.
Liverwlrst and salad a la potato.
Ice cream of the month, a double scoop,
How does he take care of every group.
Special of the day! double banana split,
Lemon and lime freeze is today'S hit.
The soda fountain answers all your needs,
Orangeade superb-just skip the seeds.
The countermans wonder, hands you ice
cream in the brick,
man of speed and poise and full of tricks
EN-. EN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
RAILS LURE VETERAN

Wexford, R. l., William
Lewis of Wexford has retired after
spending so years riding in trains as
water boy, guard and brakeman.
Twice week he takes a busman's
holiday by travelling the 10 miles to
Providence and back-in the train.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
PRIEST KNOWS CHINATOWN

San Francisco CUP - Father
George w. P. johnson is credited
with being able to call every hoy in
San Francisco Chinatown,s 10000
members by his first name. He has
been in charge Of the Paulist Faith
ers' recreation center in Chinatown
for the past eight years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
WEDDING SOUND RECORDED

Kenton. O.--tUrJ Every sound
OF the wedding ceremony Of Juanita
Burdge and Harold b. Rosenberger
has been preserved Tor posterlty. A
recording machine took down the
music Of professional and recession
al and the vows Of the bride and
groom.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
NEW DORMITORIEs FOR M. U

Columbia. Mo-, (UP)-New girls
dorrnitories will be opened here
Sept. is by the University of Mis-
souri,. The buildings will provide
accommodations for 100 girls at a
cost ranging from $92 each per SEM
ester for those in cooperative units
to Sat for those in study sleeping
rooms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
-----IF GERMANY And ITALY VIM
~. S. Has the Marbles But
DictatOrS' Other Trade Came
Threat Worries Economists

Walther Funk,
Adolf HitIer's
minister Of
economies and
president Of the
Reichsbank, is
mo friend Of the
United States.
Funk says u. s.
has hampered
trade for pOlit-
ical reasons.
Born in East
Prussia Aug.
Is, 1890, he
turned to
journalism as
q career. By
1922 he was
editor of Ger
nany's leading
financial and
economic daily,
the Berliner
BOerSen Zeitung
He was called
to Hitler's
encourage in
1881 after
joining the
National
Socialists .
He is a
devoted believer
in regimented
economy and
barter in foreign
trade
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01

Longs Peak, Colo, is named
for Major Long, yet he never got
any nearer to it than the South
Platte river, between SO and loo
miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-01
You And Your Nations Affairs
A TAX ROUTE TO HITLERISl
BY HARLEY L. LUTZ
Professor of Public Finance, Princeton University

The fixed idea that taxes on profits
and net income are the best kind of
taxes led the country into the morass
of public debt in which it now finds