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AT LAST DEMOCRACY HAS FOUND ITS VOICE
Looking back at the President Roosevelt’s speech in
Buenos Aires one can see that it was important not so
much for what it said as for the spirit that it evoked.
For here, at last, democracy answered the challenge
of the dictatorial governments. Here, at last, was
sounded a rallying call for all men who believe that the
way of freedom and liberty can muster the strength and
the unity which will carry it through the world’s great
crisis.
Something of the kind has been needed very badly
for a long time. Actual fighting between the democra
cies and the dictatorships has not yet begun, and—with
the blessing of heaven—it may never begin; but the
verbal war has been going on for several years, with
the dictators on the offensive all along the line.
It was high time that some spokesman for democra
cy took the world stage and stated the case for freedom
in sharp, unmistakable terms. That is what President
Roosevelt did at Buenos Aires, and the way in which
he did it was tremendously important.
For we have been hearing, year after year, that a
dictatorship was the one and only possible solution to
the kind of stress that besets human society in this dif
ficult post-war era.
Over and over again the dictators have announced
that democracy was played out, too confused to find a
voice, and too divided to use it if it did find it. They
have declared that the people can escape from their
troubles only by sacrificing their old ideals of freedom,
trusting their lives to strong and ruthless leaders,
and preparing to fight and die for their rights.
And the democracies, year after year, took it and
made no answer. Now the answer has been made, and
it is crushing in its logic.
There is, after all, something almost insane about
seeking the remedy for profound economic maladjust
ment in nationalistic measures which make the malad
justment worse. There is something even more stupid
about trying to get out from under the kreckage of the
last war by preparing to fight a new one. These are the
only remedies dictatorship offers; can democracy pos
sibly do worse than that?
It cannot. With all its weaknesses, its blindness,
and its stupidity, democracy offers the world a saner
program, a more workable program. And at last demo
cracy has spoken out about it.—Exchange.
If this nation were really tottering on the rim of
ruin, their wouldn’t be millions of Americans who
would’t bother to vote on election day.
Statistics no longer prove anything. After a sum
mer on the bathing beaches the average American has
lost his faith in figures.
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SNOW HANDICAPS SPANISH SOLDIERS
Besieged on all sides by Fascists, these Spanish government militia
men, entrenched in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid, had
snow and cold added to their woes as winter's first stages set In.
The soldiers here have thrown white blankets over them to help them
keep warm on the firing line. The severe weather also handicapped
the rebels' Moors> accustomed as they are to hot desert weather.
(Associated Press Photo)
Captured Robber
(By The Associated Press'
SPOKANE, Jan. 18— Detective
Arthur Aikman said that King,
a youth, confessed to a Tacoma
bank holdup, said his age of 17,
that his real name was Robert
Meyer, and that his mother was a
Tacoma school teacher. He de
clined to give the name of his
father, who is dead, and lived
writh an uncle near whose home
an abandoned blood stained car
was found after the getaway.
Explaining the three thousand
dollar holdup last Wednesday, he
said: ‘‘I needed money," I skip
ped school the morning of the
crime and hid most of the money
under the bed while my Uncle
was working, then returned to
school after fixing up my wound
the best I could. I told my uncle
I would be gone a couple of days,
and went to Seattle, rented a
| safety deposit box under the
| name of Robert King and deposit
ed twenty-seven hundred, then
took a train to Spokane where I
i entered a hospital for treatment
of a bullet wound in my arm.
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Weather Today
(U S. Weather Bureau)
Unsettled weather with snow
squalls were observed over the
western division of the Nome
Fairbanks Airway and northward
Generally cloudy conditions
were reported from eastern Alas
ka while fa r skies are the rule
along the Gulf and in Southeast
ern Alaska.
Temperatures were below zero
over eastern Alaska and the in
terior of Western Canada. They
were rising over western Alaska
and continue above the seasonal
average
Barometric pressure remains
high over the north Pacific Ocean
and Yukon Territory and relative
ly over the Bering Sea district.
This general pressure distribu
tion will likely result in a con
tinuation of unsettled weather
with snow and possibly rain for
Nome and vicinity with not much
change in temperature
Ruby reported 57 inches of
snow on the ground at 7 a.m
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 10 above and the
highest yesterday was 18
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The new mining regulations to
govern operators in Glacier Bay
National Monument are being
drafted and will be published
soon.
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Nearly 90 per cent of the 350
4-11 club members in Alaska are
expected to complete their pro
jects a*d receive achievement
pins th s yecr.
In the Commissioner's court at
Fairbanks. Harry Basoff plead
gu'lty to being an alien in pos
session of fire-arms and was fined
$50. and his rifle and moose meat
confiscated.
Thirty-six years of unbroken
residence 'n Alaska is ‘he record
of I/. E. Jones of Manley Hot
3pr:ngs He is mining in that
area and has been in nearly all
the gold camps of the interior.
After a long siege in the hospi
tal at Fairbanks, Percy Hubbard,
aviator, has been removed to his
home to complete his convales
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mfi plane crashed near
ttj- last summer.
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f • e farmers in the
L'itanaska Valley Colony are
nav.ng e 'crllent success with
the r poultry. One farmer re
ports his flock of 50 White Leg
horns are lay ng an average of 30
eggs 3 day.
The parsing of James (Curly)
Monroe, one of the best known
of early Alaskan and Klondike
miners is confirmed. ‘‘Curly”
passed away in Los Angeles last
year. He was born in Crevecour,
Mo., and was 75 years of age at
the time of his death. Coming to
Alaska before the Klond ke rush,
“Curley” was a partner with Har
ry Ash, another famous Alaskan,
and later was in the Fortymile,
Circle and other camps. In Daw
son he was a pa: tner to Thomas
Kirkpatrick. “Curley” was noted
in Dawson for never having worn
a coat, even during the coldest
weather, and was known as
‘‘Coatless CuTly.”
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John Barrymore and hie bride, the former Elaine Barrie, are pictured
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from Yuma, Aria., where they were married in the pretence of the
bride’s parents and Barrymore’s attorney. (Aeaoclated Preee Photo)
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