The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1936, Page 4

B | i | ¢ ’é i i gridiron, Daily Alaska Empire Editor and Manager BOBERT W. BENDER - - That would have been a nice commission Flliott Roosevelt—if he had gotten it. foy) Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau. California there should be quite a spectacle on the H A P PY. BIRTHDAY| tions and best birthday anniversary, to the -follow- ! | The Empire ertends congratula- wishes today, the o | this ing: i i T A T TG O] FERCRH, Befogging The Issue Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Mrs. O. H. Hatch b AN AL (Cincinnati Enquirer) Do Irene Cahill SUBSCRIPTION RATES. It needs to be emphasized every few days that, Russell McGee Delivered in earrier in Juncau and Douglas for per month. | contrary to a widespread assumption, Karl Marx is Wwilliam B. Kirk One Fc".u'“f,{' nfi?;l::: ‘4’“%“1&“%&‘33?”,"f ;:?l\(:nce $6.0);'1ot running in this presidential -campaign. _In e - one month. in advance racent years, notably in the last municipa! election [ 4. 11l promptly notify ity in the delivery Subscribers will confer a favor if the: the Business Office of any failure or irregul of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 1 Cincinnati, and now in the presidential campaign, cne of the great objects of party strategy has been 112 prove that the Communists are on the side of one’s 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF Asm(-u-"-“'.,',u_-a cpponents, After this is proved, however, nothing| | The Assoclated Press.is exclu entitled to the use for |15 gained. Such tactics are merely an appeal to pre- republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | judice. wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. As Mr. Frank Kent very -sensibly observes, the Communist vote is negligible and has not been sought ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER |by any candidate—except Mr. Browder. 'The reason| Words Often Misused: Do not THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. many individual Communists and Socialists are going |58y, John told me that he felt s T MR Y i ———"" (o vote for Roosevelt. Mr. Kent continted, is simply |kind of sick.” Say, “felt slightly| {ihat they believe labor organizations would be |ill’ strengthened and their own propaganda advanced by | There are a plenty of reasons for supporting or forms and personalities, in the records and promises | of their respective parties, without dragging into the |o iv:xmp:xign the wholly irrelevant question of where the |ir Communists stand. That can only befog the issue | survivors among us may see a presidential contest be- tween Adam Smith and Karl Marx, with a couple of rleasant fellows, now about 15 years old, as their proxies in the actual contest. But there is no use [in anticipating that unpalatable event now, WHO’S GOING TO GET ELECTED? With the aid of newspaper, magazine and radio Goed News From Chicago | information we have been studying polls, sometimes| i) 4 g the continuation of Mr. Roosevelt’s policies and would | er be ‘weakened by a Republican administration. not as o in doll. and give a distorted picture of genuine American ' times and it is your: ~pinion when the votes are,counted. | crease Some day, perhaps a generation from now, the|gne word each day. Benison: “More DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordon Often Mispronounced: Cauliflow- Pronounce the au as in:hau Often Misspelled: cpposing either of the major candidates, in their plat- | Negroes, oes. Loud, nosy, turbulent, Synonyms: us, clamorous, ng, thundering Word Study: “Use Let us ir our vocabula Today’s worc blessing; —Talfourd. - - LOOK and LEARN nl Pianos; o e 'y by mastering benediction. n it known as straw votes relative to the impending (New York Times) Presidential “election. Our conclusion, which really| Those of us who have mistaken our trembling By A. C. Gorden should come last, is that, given pencil, paper andlegs for the tottering pillars of the Constitution can " b, o oad 2 five minutes time, almost any one who can add two|l0W brace up. Senator Vandenberg spoke in Chicago 4 2 e and two can, in the given time, prove the election o7 cémau!u:u'on Da;‘{v Hlv i 8 ,\p('fln(l:;t"ln‘l(‘l:z\a.sn-,\ of vn} U\V;.h‘ o »I\vlnjl‘(llttx"u;]l(‘g\gi1 of Roo‘se\'elt. Landon, Lemke, Thomas or Brawder.f 5% "IO:;n]}":l:y; e "l;e(l;:%_m:l;(,:“, Un‘;l ;.(, ‘,‘E', ready founded? depending on which way one's sympathies happen 0\ ¢, yielq our birthright. We shall not desert the Con-| 2. Of what is water composed? be. The only trouble seems to be that X is still|stipution.” the unknown quantity, and nobody knows who X ls} So'the Constitution is all right. Republican nurses going to be until the morning of November 4, the|are no longer needed. And in Chicago where there have been so many Republican schisms and factions morning after election day in the States. there is the sweetest spirit of union. But despite this obviously cynical ~conclusion, | o o qer in The Topeka Journal not only of unanimity there is much of interest in the .straw votes Which |y ¢ or an almost delirious Re) now are more plentiful than the ducks at Eagle River|calm and sagacious veteran obs . Mr. Henry Justin bar. And the nice thing about them is that there|Allen. He went to a meeting of the Republican party are no seven to four shooting regulations. One can!workers of Cook County, 6,000 strong. The whole shoot a straw ballot before daybreak and after dusk|State of Kansas is a transport and an exaltation; yet without fear of anything except fear of contradiction | o Mr. Allen these 6,000 workers “represented the high- by some chap who figured the other way. <5 l‘_"’");l‘“ ‘"’“““:' ‘”“‘l:“s‘”“:’:ill “‘]“"' ";’l"l(’:‘;:‘(‘(" l:;" ear. They expect to win, which has increased the e Kot “5”‘”:‘)" l“‘" "";““‘(‘““;' :Nu ""l‘f?‘(‘b“' ”’; bcs:;:)zrdor of n\i\n_v xm them as it brings the colossal prize own poll, that conducted by the Literary Digest| ? ‘cr Cook County patronage to a point where they can which comes through on pneumatic tires—a bow isee it. While this meeting was shot through with the to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The:snthusiasm of political mercenaries, nevertheless there latest report from this poll, which its sponsors say|Was in it a spirit of crusading ecstasy. They have [ now includes 1,250,000 votes and covers voters from |been torn and trampled by the Democratic Cook 40 states, gives Mr. Landon T13.451 votes and Mr, COUnty machine until life has held torment for them Roosevelt 485,392, the balance of the million and a |l thiS great city where once they held some sway. | qu rter being divided ‘b‘[ Mr. Tt ¥ e | Their party is united and they are undoubtedly on arter being divided etween T, homas, ' » 3 |their way to victory.” Lemke and Mr. Browder. In this often remarkably And Mayor Kelly and Pat Nash are on the way accurate poll, the state of California gives 60,898 votes |to Salt River. We wouldn't have believed it if anybody to Mr. Landon and only 54,012 to Mr. Roosevelt, des- | else than Henry Allen had reported it. When workers pite the fact that the registration in California is 8€t crusading ecstasy tite miraculous becomes the nearly two to one Democratic. It also gives Mr, Lan- | COmonplace. They must have got it from Henry. don Illinois, Indiana and Towa by wide margins, all| o TR states where there are some important electoral votes. | Its figures reveal that at the present time Mr. Lan- don has 344 electoral votes in the bag while the Presi- | dent has but 129. A total of 266 actual electoral votes | are necessary for ‘election. With these figures, one could easily prove that| Governor Landon would be elected without a struggle, | having, as the poll broadcast reported, 58.56 of the| total vote cast. An interesting sidelight at this point is that further broadcast of the report revealed that| the betting in the east’is 9 to 5 that President Roose- | satisfied without a try. | welt will be re-elected. | That little boy in New York, 8 years old, son of . But let's cast a few straw votes In some olherian out-of-work truck driver on relief, dying of hae- poll. Consider for a moment the poll of the American| mophilia—same disease as the Prince’s, son of the Institiute of Public Opinion which has been running|eX-King of Spain. Penniless or a Prince, they're all since last January and is one of the largest. Result‘“like to haemophilia. And the doctor, trying a new of this straw report gives the President a lead in 29‘:.1'?5‘!I’Il§n.t(. snatches ll;“m back to life. It's experimen- 3 al, but it may work. states with-a tota} electoral vote of 292 compared to| " nreet young John Sweeney, 12, of Philadelphia, Governor Landon’s lead in 19 states and an electoral pine times a runaway, back at a New York police vote of 239, The‘Institute poll gives Mr. Roosevelt. station again, wanting to become a bandit, but most 495 per cent of the national vote and Mr. Landon|of all wanting Jack Dempsey’s autograph. 446 per cent, the,balance being divided among the| And now appears Dr. Voronoff, of Vienna, that other ‘candidates, - Commenting on the Institute poll|fantastic scientist, announcing that he can produce for which 1t is one of tHfe outlets, the Cincinnati En-|® Suberman. If any mother will give him her 10- quirer’ remarks: ~ year-old son the good doctor will graft onto him the “If Mr. Roosevelt can swing cither New York'\glands of a chimpanzee, thereby starting a new type, he says, far superior to normal men. Pennsylvania or Illinols by November, and still hold| At Alton, T, Robert Wadlow, 18, without benefit Ohio and Michigan, as well as the other states in{of monkey glands, has grown to be 8 feet 5'% inches which he now leads, observers say his election is as-|tall and is joining a show at $300 a week. sured by a wide margin. On the other hand, if Mr. Why, after cll, take such pains with the lives Landon can hold the three largest electoral vote|Of babies? Is it that they may become bandits and | | states and regain Ohio and Michigan and one or two| 0licct autograpbs, or grow into giants, or serve as other borderline states, the ve v , Buinea pigs for science? | different.” £ Yprdigt Ay 1w enurely; The Chicago mother who put down her foot S 3 lagainst “mercy killing” of her baby was wiser than | ut let’s go on to the poll we can call No. 3. It.to bother with such questions. She didn't have to. is conducted by the magazine Fortune, and is afh‘.snncl showed her the way, as it does for the heroes breakdown affair, a system whereby one can almost and heroines of the novels. tell the number of grease spots an auto mechanic in Pumpkin Center will leave on his ballot. The magazine straw vote reveals that 60 per cent Spr— of the voters of the land are convinced Mr. Roosevelt| (Lynchburg News) will be elected in November. A certain percentage| Briefly they [the considerations against Demo- believes the country will go to pot if he is re-eléoted. | Fatic bolting] are that if their party’s candidate for Another percentage is equally convinced things. will|Eesident is elected, as they expect him to be, by a | g0 to the dogs if Mr. Landon is clected. A cOm_‘red\.med majority, and, as they expect, Congress shows B M tiisstte tho ol 5 " imore independence b':)th because of this f.nct and be- } F ’s BOING cause it will be the ircumbent President’s last term, to vote for Mr. Browder. |it will be possible to hold the administration more Are you still with us? There are still morg polls. | strictly to traditional party courses and to restrain But you really don't need the Richfield poll, the Bal-|more successfully some of the party advisers whose timore Sun Newspapers poll and some dozen' or more | theories are not in accord with those courses and have others which reveal a great many things. ' We have| DOt been clearly (c;med or practically carried out. plenty of figures now to supply the answer which can 1t the _Depulpiean candidgle for Preslident ir All In The News (New York World Telegram) The words “news” the same thing, and anyone who wants to be shown | may take the scissors and clip out a few items from the papers of the last day or two. They fit into al- most any plot you choose. That baby in Chicago, born possibly to hopeless invalidism. . . . “Let it die,” said the father. “No,” said the mother . . . Surgeon listens to mother and oper- ates. . . . Baby died anyway, but no mother would be Reasons Fer Not Bolting \ | reveals, is| elected, on the other hand, and a Republican Con- i v 3 T R R :rc::;\::';edinh:hinz\;:::?r of ways. We obtained | ecs is chosen * * * we will have favoritism for special r‘ GENERAL MOTORS 5 R 2 |interests, lip service to agriculture and labor, high | and Take two Socialists in Florida, subtract two Com-|tariffs, an end to progress toward opening up of Xor-§| MAYTAG PRODUCTS munists in Massachusetts, discount according to your|eign markets, and an accelerated trend toward poli- | best judgment all the speeches of John Hamilton and|tical and economic isolation. i These things traditional Democrats do not wish. * * * Those who are hesitating, giving thought to the question of a bolt, are urged to consider these things. Jim Farley, give Kansas to Mr. Landon, Mississippi to Mr. Roosevelt, production for use in California to Mr. Thomas, an adding machine to Emil Hurja, and then throw everything in the waste basket, recalling that we in Alaska don’t vote for President anyway. Mussolini is reported grooming his successor which would indicate that Il Duce feels he has ar- rived. Colonel Schwartzkopf’s system of filing sound | films of criminals will be tested by J. Edgar Hoover for Federal use—one screen test no one will court.—| Philadelphia Bulletin, Europe is said to be headed for secret diplomacy X again. It will at least save the traveling expenses of If that .toqlbdl team in Ohio which was striick|delegates to all these fruitless conferences, — Fort by lightning played the Thundering Herd of Southern|Worth Star-Telegram. BRI Agriculture stock of the Witness and the world? ments of a good conversationalis | possess the frie and “novel,” translated, mean | . 3. Who is the U. S. Secretary c 4 What is the value of the ol principal countries c 5. What can rapture is that stand for? ANSWERS 1. Harvard U ity, founde n 1638, 2. Oxygen and hydrogen Henry A. Wallace. Approximately $22.000,000,000. Grand Army of - - o MODERN ETIQUETT] By Roberta Lee ™ Q. Is it ever permi > to leay e spoon standing in the cup? A. Never. Q. What are really the require: A. He should be attentive, spon Q. When the guests are leavin, of d of 5 G. A R. d the Republic. 3 e 2 taneous, natural, sympathetic, and 3 ndly , spirit of gpod | Today's News Toaay—Empire. § | SO i g | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 193 ] Mingled good and ill has been discerned in the horoscope for to-| Weather: Maximum, |day, according to astrology. Under|mum, 38; Clear. planetary government the wise ill pursue well-beaten paths and laws events of supreme concern. | This is a most fortunate sway, | for women of all ages. It is believed {to stimulate minds and to enable use of energies. This is an boister- | deafen-| | word three an afternoon affair, is it necessary | for the hostess to go to the door with each departing guest? No; she may receive their; last guest t e, —— A straw hat said to have NEW 1936 CATALOG FREE farewells in a group, going to the door only with the depart.. o been worn by LaFaylette on a visit to the United Stafes after the Revolution- | ary war is on view at the New York Historical Society. 2.6 x 6-8—1% One Panel Doors___ $3.09 134 2-Light Windows__ 2.3 30 % 24T Altnt Window Fiames— 228 4 Molded Casing per 100 ft._ 3.00 Quick Shipmants amal o lres on S | 2o rork, Hardware, Vencer Pancis mmon Lumber, 'MILLWORK SUPPLY CORP. | 2221-1st SOUTH . . . SEATTLE /TR TN PIGGLY W. P. JOHNSON Compounaed exactly as written by your doctor,, = - % Horoscope ; “The stars incline but do not compel” 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire OCTOBER 8, 1916. [l 1l | was no issue of The Empire. 59; Mini- Gigantiz Memorial, Russian Revolt, Is Now Being Plarned {to wise MOSCOW, Oct. 8.—Five Moscow icious date for constructive engineers are enroute to the United work of every sort. States for final discussion of plans eatres should profit under this anq specifications| for’ a gigantic which seems to promise plays memorial to the Russian revolu- and films of unusual merit. Many tjon. |young actors and actresses are to| The memorial will be a palace ain recognition this season. {to be erected by the Moscow Soviet This is not a lucky day for the on a bank of the Moscow River launching of ambitiou projects near the Kremlin. end it is likely to inspire changes nd ernm pir mprovements in many gov-|construction work, the builders now ventures. After this month|pave a foundalion strong enough eccnomies in federal ex- 15 support the great edifice which es are foretold. will be topped with a huge statue anus is in place that is read as|of Lenin for many leaders in' 7t js estimated that it will take rs. Plots may be un-|at least another five years to finish covered in many parts of the coun- ihe work. and danger of revolutionary i T ; ements is presaged. Four pieces of a statue cf King is a day of promise for pro-| Geo I, erected in New York » efforts to business and pol- City’s Bowling Creen in 1779, are 1 exhibition at the New York His- SWe nd i The seers prophesy amazing = changes in American life, espec- ‘orical Society. y in economic and financial mat- o RS G ters MANAC T, CIRCULATION, LTC NGRESS Because ‘extrémes 'will rule injBSEQUIRED BY wHE ACEOF modes and manners the winter is o to be marked by attire of unusual costliness and the r 1 of ma; formaliti in social relations. Motor car owners in the United Daily daily for Oc- Public in and for aforesaid, person- ert W. Bender, who, worn according to law, rules and limitations that may cause resentment but they will help to curb accidents. Persons whose birthdate it have the augury of a j following is, to t 15| and belief r of happi- sh t of his knowledge ment of the owner- (and if a daily paper, o1t the aforesaid B but unexpected expenses may| puplication for t shown in the be encouraged by many. For the ab caption, r the Act of 411 young love affairs of great inten- sity are indicated. Children born on this day prob- ably will be of imaginative and am- tious nature. Subjects of this : editor Publisher, Ej Juneau Alaska ing Company Ma Editor, Robert W. Bender. Juneau, Alas- :n may reach high places and ka; Business M Robert W. Bender, enjoy rare success Juneau, Alaska. 2 That the owner is; Empire Printing Edward W. Bok, editor, was born company, Robert W. Bender. President s day 1863. Others who have and Treasurer Troy. Bender, ted it as a birthday include Vie:President "oy, Jumesy; Harriet Hosmer, sculptor, 1930; Alask i W. Bender, Ju- Charles Camille Saint-Saens, mu O IR sician, 1832; Guiseppe Verdi, com- | urity holders o poser, 1813 1t of ¢ 5 es, or othe (Copyright, 1936) . e E bhs next above. GOODIE SALE and se s, if any e list of stockhoider appear upon The Ladies of the Holy Trini Guild will hold a sale Sat., Oct. 10, “2ere U foriuey at the Juneau-Young Hardware pany, o n any other flduciar Co’s store. A complete line of relation ne of the person or cor- % poration for whom such trustee is acting, baked foods, also baked beans and . t aragraphs salads. 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