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81 Equals S3,O00,000
(St. Louis Star-Times)

(St. Louis Star-Ttmes)
Apparently there is limit to the ravages of
initiation in China Recently The Star-Tmes received
letter from an American missionary there soliciting
funds The postage between China and the U. S. is Sc,
but in order get the equivalent of SC stamp the
missionary put UP 100000 in Chinese This indicates
that 81 200 900 Chinese then equaed Sl00 American
The same missionary probably through clerical
error identical solicitation few days later
This time the stamps the letter were one 100000,
one $4,000 one $4,000 and one $40 000 totalling
s150O0O worth of stamps and indicating that it then
took 100000 Chinese to equal Sl00 American.
We of course hope and believe that the United
States is not headed for any such initiation But if
the price spiral keeps and it will break
our economy sooner or later. Life savings will be
wiped out insurance policies will be worthless mount
ing wages will buy less and less goods black markets
will flourish and all the other havoc accompanying
initiation will occur here.
How Congress and President Truman can sleep
at night after their dsgraceful failure to with
lifted wage controls too and then Congress pre-
maturey scutled the OPA. These actions
purely political. Sound economists and financiers
and sincere government officials and Congressman
warned them that their actions would lead to just
such conditions as we have
The handling of the matter by both Congress
and President Truman will go down in history as
one of the worst double plays by the legislative and
executive branches of government.
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20 YEARS AGO fHE EMPIRE
NOVEMBER 6, 1928

NOVEMBER g., 1923
The Territorial General Elections
had
millions flocked
This was the n
franchise
Mr. and Mrs l. Douglas reside,
taken the
Reidis
shipped Alaska the States the previous
month oaed single months
decade
received through the
election
be n
all hotels Ek Club Customs
House. Corner, Billiards
tailor shop Douglas located
in the cottage formerly occupied Marshal Grant.
High Al; rain.
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fast about his shabby attire and
demanded that he buy a new suit
Humphrey of MinnesOta-Hubert
Humphrey, who toppled Joe Ball
| in the Minnesota senatorial race,
is a proverbial giant killer,
Less than four years ago, Humph-
rey literally wore his voice out at
the 1914 Democratic convention in
Chicago screaming for Henry Wal
lace. In fact, Humphrey was such
rabid Wallace man that he re-
fused to vote for Truman after
Truman won and the convention
chairman moved to make the NOM
nation unanimous.
Few who watched the Democratic
Convention closely will ever forget
the sight of Humphrey and Bar
ney Allen. Red River Valley
farmer, their clothes half torn off
their backs and their voices gone,
racing through the Chicago Stad-
ium carrying an American flag and
Wallace banner, begging and
pleading with the delegates to
support their man.
But that was four years ago.
One year later, Humphrey, by
wrapping up practical politics with
a clever doorhell-ringing campaign,
managed to become Mayor of Min
neapolis,
The trigger-tongued Humphrey
will bring to the Senate clamor
Gus voice for civil rights and So
cial reforms. AS Mayor of Min
neapolis, che of his first acts was
to set up a Council on Human
Relations. HG founded it on
dreams, but made it work. Again
at the Philadelphia Convention. it
was Humphrey who split the Dem
ocratic Party wide open by demand
ing strong civil rights platform.
In retaliation, the Dixiecrats pour
ed money into the Republican cam
paign in Minnesota and even sent
Ex-Governor Sam Jones of Louis
lana up to help re-elect Senator
| joe Ball
Built on springs. Humphrey won't
hold still long in tn Senate. He
/ has the breathless personality of
a youth on a roller coaster. Jet
1 propelled ideas shoot through his
head and take off on the busiest
tongue in politics. He has the
vocal endurance of a photograph,
can blow up an oratorial wind
! storm at the drop of gavel. But
he is. man of action as well
I as words.
professor politician, Humph-
rey taught his classes at MacAles-
I ter College to take an active part
in politics; then he, himself, went
out TO practice what he preached.
He brought truce between labor
and management, brought quarrel
ing Sister Kenny and the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
together to fight the Gripping
polio epidemic which struck Min
neapolis.
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His ambition in the Senate will
be position on the Education and
Labor Committee.
Nicely Of West observation-disclosures
of Matt Nicely boast that he has
run for more offices and been
elected more times than any man
in West Virginia politics. He be-
gan as S45-a-month school
teacher, resigned to try his luck
at politics, served five terms in
the House of Representatives, three
times as U. S. Senator, once as
governor of West Virginia, and
once as mayor of his home town
Fairmont. This marks the fourth
time West Virginia voters have
chosen him for the Senate
Matthew Mansfield Nicely is best
known as crusader for an air.
tight federal mine inspection law
to prevent tragic mine accidents.
Too many have occurred under
slipshod and frequently graft-rid-
den state mine inspection. Nicely
grew up in "a mining community
and accompanied his father, a
country doctor, on many emergency
calls to mine pits where death
had struck.
Always colorful figure, Nicely
is addicted to snappy suits of pis-
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Daily Lessons in English S e. L. GORDON

She's mighty good
Say, a good
MISPRONOUNCED rika bl,
(unproductive)
Superiority worth
greatness.
WORD STUDY three times and is yours" Let
Todays
egularity Through
rift discovery seeming anomaly drops of the dark
H.
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tach:o green, is noted for his
frankness, but is secretive about
one thing-his age. There's been
lot of guessing about this, and
Matt refuses to tell even his close
friends exactly how old he is How
ever, one week from tonight, No.
vember 9, the Senator-elect will be
IA year old. But many men 20
years younger would like to have
Neely's health and stamina.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE k y LEE

What hand should off
to speak with
would be less awkward he used his left hand
right is free shake hands the should
hand
@. Should hotel bel-boy paging
amount that is customariy
A. Yes should
sufficient.
@ May for dining
affair?
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NOTICE

NOTICE
After November 10, no telephone
rentals for the month of November
will be accepted at discount. All
remittances must bear postmark O..
not later than discount date. Please
be prompt.
JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS
TELEPHONE co. adv
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Music Lessons!
Can Be Fun
For Junior
BY DAVID TAYLOR MARKE
APP NeWSfeatureS

/ f1I ING hoAtollt CO
Music can be fun 1t all depends
on how you approach it with junior
The idea is, says Henry l.. Scott
concert pianist and humorist, tt
make music lessons fun instead Of
chore for children.
Mr.. Scott, who first introduced
fun into classical concerts at such
places as Carnegie and Town Halls
lays down five rules for pleasant
learning:
/. Teach children one popular
piece along with their classics each
week. Popular music is a valuable
asset developing understanding of
rhythm, and is not incompatible
with classics.
Q. Do not demand tedious practice
on scales and arpeggios. Progressive
teachers now know that technique
is lest developed from the actual
composition to be studied
3. Encourage several short pc
RODS of practice during each day,
instead of demanding one long
practice period.
4. Do not force junior to play
for others, but encourage him to do
SO.
s.. Expose junior to the best OF
all kinds of music. If you are mus
ical snob, don't let him know it. Be
sure he has an opportunity to know
that music can be fun, and let him
choose the kind he likes best. AS
he grows unsteady, SO will his
tastes.
A unique book in the field of
has just come to hand. 1t is
called "A Guide To Children's Rec
ords" and contains a complete de-
scriptive listing and appraisal of
recorded stories, songs, and music
for children of all ages. The au-
thors are DR.. Philip E.senberg, re-
S ar C h psychiatrist at Columbia
Broadcasting System, a specialist in
children's rograms, and Hec,-
who has written and made
a number of children's record al
buns. "a
The book is divided into two sec
tons. The first tells what children
like about records, and why The
second is a critical evaluation nv
age groups, of what is now on the
market.
Another fine listing of books on
and about music for children from
to grade 9 is to be /,
found in the new l948-49 edition of |
the Annotated List Of Books" :.
which has just been published by |
the Children's Reading Service of |
New York
Edited by Dorothy Kay Cad |
educational consultant and |
principal of the Robbins School, !
Trenton, NJ, it contains, in addi-
ton to music subjects, list of over
! coo children's books, arranged by
topics and school grade levels
School teachers, librarians and
principals can obtain copies with
out charge by writing to the Serv-
ice at 106 Beekman Street, New
York 7, NY.
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Il remember the time / worked
in a cement mill for IS cents an
hour"
When F. D. R. was asked who
should keynote the 1914 Democratic
convention, when he was nominal
ed for a fourth term. he replied:
Il don't care, as long as it's Bob
Kerr"
When Europe was clamoring for
aid in the fall of 1947, Kerr didn't
wait for Washington to act, but
helped organize his own wheat re-
lief committee. Kerr has broad
gagged views on protecting the
future economy of the United
States, and once warned President
Truman that America may not
be able to feed itself, much less
others, twenty years from now I'M
less we embark on a more extensive
flood control program to stop the
costly erosion
Kerr fought in the First World
War as an artillery lieutenant,
is church-going family man. the
father of four children. He doesn't
drink, smoke. or chew, and his
one vice is eating pears, which
he consumes by the peck.
Gillette of Iowa-White-h haired,
neyer-say-d Guy Gillette is re-
membered for his battle to expedite
the synthetic rubber program which
Jesse Jones let lag SO disastrously
during the war and for the Roose-
Welt purge.
Now SO years old, Gillette was
buck sergeant in the Spanish
American war and an infantry
captain in World War I. He has
been battler from the time he
first set foot in Washington in 1882
as rookie congressman. He bat
tied against food profiteers. for
soil conservation, for reclamation
and for rural electrification. His
most publicized battle was the 1888
primary contest with Otha Wearin
selected by the White House in
the unsuccessful purge attempt
In Washington, Gillette is also
remembered for having taken over
the newspaper route of his young
son who was ill; and for the Sun
day nights during the war when
the Senator and Mrs. Gillette wash
ed dishes at the Stage Door Can
teen.
However, the news story that
caused the greatest confusion in
the Gillette family was the time
Guy was chosen by magazine as
the Senate's best-dressed man a
few hours after his charming wife
Rose had lectured him at break
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

Continued from Page Cue,
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LOOK and LEARN sy G GORDON

Who the first famous newspaper
3 What five States border the Gulf of Mexico?
g. What are the four component parts OF orchestra?
What name is applied to the giving testimony?
s. What is consangunity?
ANSWERS:
l. Benjamin Franklin
q Florida, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana, and Texas
Strings wood winds, brass and percussion instruments
Perjury.
s. Relationship by blood.
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO, ~
SECOND and FOURTH a
Monday of each month *
IN Scottish Rite Temple IN
beginning at T:3O D. "a. wrN
WILLIS r. BOOTH "
Worshipful Master. JAMES %
LEVERS. Secretary.
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His ambition in the Senate will
be a position on the Education and
Labor Committee.
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The Territorial General Elections were held today
SIS citizens had cast ballots
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fast about his shabby attire and
demanded that he buy a new suit.
Evening star., 1948-10-13

Gathers Souvenirs
For His Dream World
Bv Henry McLem0re

PEIPING, China.-When get
home am going to be able to open
either a museum or a Junk shop.
At the moment I don't know
Evening star., 1948-10-13

I r rom spain, Constantine Brown.
leaving only charges d'affaires in
their places.
In other words, all the nations
which maintained diplomatic rela-
tions with Generalissimo Frances
regime before November IL, 1916,
continued to be on speaking terms
with his government, but they ceased
to dignity it with the presence of
ambassadors, who represent chiefs
of state, and ministers.
Strengthened Franco.
The whole matter, as it turned
out eventually, was silly, because it
only strengthened Gen. Frances
popularity, which at that time had
reached a low ebb.
The military is not interested at
present, however, in the intricacies
and frequent childishness of the
diplomatic game. They must deal
with realities-the military strength
of a potential enemy and their own
ability to meet it.
Regardless of Gen. Franco and
the semitotalitarian form of gov
ernment which he runs in Spain,
top military men not only in the
United States but also in Britain
and France are in full agreement
that if Russia decides to change
the cold war into a shooting war,
the Lowlands and France can hardly
be expected to withstand q Red
onslaught for more than a few
weeks.
Britain herself might become un-
tenable, since Soviet buzz
a great improvement over those
launched by Hitler at the end of
World War IT-would greatly affect
her availability as military and
air base.
America is not prepared for a
large-scale action Immediately, and
would not be able to come to the
rescue Of her Allies in short time.
Under these circumstances, the
military minds say. since the Rhine
defense line would be difncult to
hold, Spain and Africa would be the
ideal spots to which to withdraw the
Evening star., 1948-10-13

from a maharajah's palace.
The brass chicken-crocodile I got
in Kashmir from a gentleman who
said he spent his summers on the
summit Of Mount Everest to get
away from the insufferable heat of
the mountains that were only 25,-
600 feet high. Il can stand those
little mountains in the winter, but
not during July and August" he told
me.
Stolen From Temple.
The chicken-crocodile number, the
seller told me, was about 500 years
old and was stolen from a Lama
temple, where 1t was used to sprinkle
rose water on certain holy occasions.
I hope he was telling the truth, else
I have thrown away q buck and a
half on q vessel that Is so filled with
holes that ! won't even be able to
use 1t as watering can.
The man who sold me the night
shirt clinched the sale when he said
he would give me a written guar
antee that he was telling the truth,
and that If when got home I found
out he was a liar, I could come
back and he would return my
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Rv Dorofhv ThouAeos

By Dorothy Thompson
The line that President Truman is
taking in his campaign-not, I
think, without Effects that Re-
publican victory means depression,
Evening star., 1948-10-13
This Changing w orld
Western Nations Strategists Puzzled
By Diplomatic Stand Over Spain
esists Puzzled

governments of the invaded coun.
tries and to begin to organize {
smashing counteroffensive agains'
the invaders.
Spain is in an ideal strategic
position, since it is difficult for any
invading army to cross the Pyre.
nees. There are. few Communist
sympathizers in Gen. Frances coun.
try, in contrast to every nation ir
Western Europe, where powerful
fifth columns are maintained. Hence
the Spanish Army, with manpowel
potential of about 100000, woulc
fight any invader, and especially the
Reds.
Lack Equipment.
The, chief trouble is that the
Spanish forces are utterly lacking
in military equipment. Spanish
aviation. is practically nonexistent
but that deficiency could be cor.
rected by sending American anc
British air forces to Spanish bases
What is more serious is the lack OF
adequate artillery, antiaircraft de.
fenses and armor.
Since last April the general staff.
of the Western European countrie.
have been appealing to the United
States for modern equipment fol
their own forces. The French were
particularly insistent, pointing Out
that in their whole reorganizeo
force, which amounts to something
like 100000 men not counting those
in Indo-C China, there are actually
only two modern divisions.
The appeals of these Western
army chiefs have been taken under
consideration in Washington and
preparations are afoot now to see
that essential armor, aviation and
artillery are made available to them
as soon as Congress appropriates the
necessary billions.
In recent weeks, however, in
creasing confusion has been caused
by strikes and Communist propa-
ganda in France and some practical
planners ir Washington have been
wondering whether, in view of our
still limited output Of war material
it would be wise to send France vita
equipment which in the end might
fall into the hands of the Soviet
aggressors.
No aspersions are being cast on
the bravery and willingness of the
French to fight. But it is pointed
out that If the Rhine defenses are
broken as quickly as is Now ex-
pected, and If France lies open tc
foreign invasion, it Is hardly con-
ceivable that war material which il
still at a premium in Western
countries, could be saved.
Hence, it is asked by oul
planners, would it not be better
to send that material to a country
where it could be put to better use
for the common defense against an
Asiatic aggression? But no such
thought can be entertained today
because Spain is still on the diplo.
matte blacklist.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
On the Record
Trliman's Claims Called Exaggerated;
Re.evaluation .of New Deal Seen Needed

It is not perfect and will be amended
as a result Of experience.
The New Deal established long
overdue system Of social security
which no Republican administration
would think Of abolishing, any more
than it would abolish the insurance
of bank deposits, the control of
fraud in the security markets, fair
labor-standards legislation, etc.
But the New Deal did not succeed
in abolishing unemployment, and its
administrators repeatedly revealed
fundamental lack of knowledge of
how our economy works. Many of
its measures raised costs at time
when only an expansion Of invest
ment could cure unemployment, and
brought on the disastrous slump OF
1878.
The WPA was q reactionary
agency, creating a substandard
class of workers. The public works
programs with a few exceptions)
were handled haltingly, without
adequate returns to the American
taxpayer.
Imitation Hits Every One.
President Truman speaks as
though Republicans are not part of
the American people, and as If de-
pressiops were q bogey Of the poor,
but the Joy of the well-to-do. In
dustrialists do not enjoy bankruptcy
and bankers do not love to see their
banks close. Indeed, a number
committed suicide in the great
crash.
AS for imitation, it profits only a
few spectators and does not bear
hardest on the organized workers.
1t bears hardest of all on the self
employed and salaried middle
classes and, therefore, should at all
times be fought by conservatives.
For the political stability of de-
mocracies rests upon a flourishing
middle class, as the buffer between
revolution and reaction. o.
The Eightieth Congress passed a
poor tax bill which it Is safe to pre-
dict the Eighty-frst will amend,
whatever its political' complexion. :.
This is because Government reve-
nue. will he inadequate. and the
pouring back of spending power
into consumption and investment Is
not an anti-infiation measure. But
that the Eightieth Congress rejected
President Truman's program for the
control Of imitation Is to its credit,
for hts proposed measures attacked
the symptoms, not the source, and
would have contributed to . de-
preston. -: o5 - III
And, despite President Truman's
dark forebodings, no administra-
tion will return to laissez- -faire.
released BY the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1948-10-13

ton and communications, and its
huge expenditures for national de-
fense, reclamation, flood control and
related projects.
Yet the Dixiecrats. the only gen.
uine modern revolt against the
'South's one-party system, are given
no chance for survival here beyond
the expression November 2 next Of
the South's accumulated resentments
against Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry Tru-
man and all the changing patterns
of Americas social development
Some immediate success is foreseen-
three States, maybe more-but no
body sees in the Dixiecrat splinter
the proper materials for the two
party system, which in the South
ranks with Mark Twain's weather.
That is, everybody. talks about it but
nobody does anything about it. Ger
tainly without Texas, the richest
Southern State, the Dixiecrats can
hardly last.
Rayburn's Prescription.
Take two leading Democrats now
bitterly opposed 10 one another.
House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn
of Texas, a bachelor, to whom his
party is wife, mother, child, growls
that there are about 100000 in this
area who got rich under the New
Deal and still amt satisfied. They
ought to get out of our party and
stay out. But they won't"
Representative Rayburn snorts at
the idea that the Dixecrats can
make a dent in Texas. With light
vote, which he rather expects, he
puts the Presidents plurality at
$50, 900: with heavy vote, SOC, 1000.
Gov. Dewey, he feels, perhaps hopes,
will run ahead of Dixiecrat Thur
mond.
Ex-Gov. Coke Stevenson, the
avowed conservative whom the New
Dealing Rayburn-Truman faction
ton has sided in his hairline
battle with Representative Lyn-
don johnson FOR the senatorial NOM
ination, recently expanded eloquent
ly on the value of rebels within the
Democratic ranks. The Texas ir-
regulars, who were against Roosevelt
in ~, and present complainants
were, he said judicially, performing
useful function in putting the is
sues before the people, etc. When a
visiting Northerner suggested that
probably a real two-party system
would benefit the entire South, Mr..
Stevenson scowled. Yep, might be, +"
he said. $50. long as we don't get
/ any Of those. damn Republicans
messing around our affairs"
Great Natural Resource.
There is a wide representation of
newspapermen, financiers and busi-
nessmen on this special train which
is traversing the Katy corridor from
Kansas City and st. Louis, to the
gulf to tell the Southwest's industrial
story. They don't give the DEM
ocrats another so years of joy serene
as does Mr.. Rayburn, as they re-
spectfully call him here, but they
admit that they don't expect to
see two parties for long time. =.
The Southwest has some great ad-
vantages over the strictly South in
their drive for equal economic rights