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The Kusko times., 1924-09-06

A gasoline-driven milking machine milks eighteen COWS an hour, and is said to copy the gentle, easy motion of the hands.
 A museum devoted exclusively to the collection of American Indian relics has been opened in New York.
 A tractor motor recently established d record by running fifteen continuous days without single stop.
 It is estimated that evaporation and fire losses cost the oil industry more than S20O, GOO 900 year.
 The leaves of the rhododendrom form a natural thermometer, dropping as the temperature lowers.
 A new instrument for jazz music is keyless, and can be played by anyone who can hum tune.
 A wireless telephone set has been put on large ocean liner between New York and England.
 Workmen in German chemical fac tories are wearing aluminium shoes with wooden soles.
 Major General Doubleday was the io- ventor of the game of baseball. nearly century ago.
 The phonograph industry has an an- nual output valued at more than s158,- GOO, 1000.
 A gas mask to safeguard painters against lead poisoning has been de- vised.
 The income of the American people is over 60000 00O, 0O0 annually.
 The tax assessment roll of the city of Juneau for the present year totals S3, 537, 760, and the tax rate was recent ly fixed by the city council at l9 mills. Both the levy and tax rate are the same as last year.
The Kusko times., 1924-09-06

days ago. She had been an invalid for several years. and two years ago left for the Outside in the hope that a chance of climate might prove bene- ficial.
The Kusko times., 1924-09-06
Alaska Notes Gleauings From Territorial
 Exchanges.

What is believed to be big strike of silver-beariug ore has been located within mile of the town of Skagway. on the west side of the Skagway river and near SmuggIers' cove. Over fifty assays of samples have been taken from tbe prospect, on which tunnel has been driven for IS feet, show an av- craze value of sS per ton Assays of S34 per ton have been made, and 1t is noticed that the values increase as dis tauce is attained. As to the vastness of the deposit there is believed to be no doubt, it's value being the only mat ter now to be determined
 William COrliss, who was a resident .of Kat&lla for many years, and the original locator of the Cunningham coal claims, was killed recently st his home in Phoenix, Wash, by the acci dental discharge of 28-gauge shot gun, which had been discharged when Corliss fell while crossing fence. He had gone to neighbor's on business aud had taken the gun along to kill rabbits.
 The Hanmon Consolidated Goldfelds Company, big dredging operators at Nome, have taken over the Tidal Wave group at Nome from Tom J. Donohoe and the estate of the late j. D. Thag- ard. The Tidal Wave group, better known as the -Ingleside group, was mined during the years of 1905 6-7 by Douohoe and Thagard, and yielded several hundred thousand dollars of. the yellow metal.
 A report from Circle states that John A. Cameron was found dead in his cabin on Bottom Dollar creek, recent ly. Cameron was formerly 8 United States customs inspector, and was resident of Fairbanks for some time. He was also commissioner at Chatanika at one time. Death was due to double pneumonia, combined with 8 severe at tack of rheumatism.
 The city council of Juneau has passed an ordinance to regulate the sale of firearms in that city. All dealers in. these articles are required to register the sale of all weapons, giving de scrlptIon of the weapon sold. the date. of sale and the name of the party mak jag the purchase.
 Mrs. Frank Bishoprick. wife of a pioneer Fairbanks business man, now in the States, died in Seattle a few
The Kusko times., 1924-09-06

Mrs. Frank Bishoprck. wife of a pioneer Fairbanks business man, now in the States, died in Seattle few
The Kusko times., 1924-09-06

A museum devoted exclusively to the collection of American Indian relics has been opened in New York.
The Kusko times., 1924-09-06
A Little of Everything.

A gasoline-driven milking machine milks eighteen COWS an hour, and is said to copy the gentle, easy motion of the hands.
The Kusko times., 1924-09-06

A tractor motor recently established ! record by running fifteen continuous days without single stop.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10
TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS

January l, 1924, marks the beginning of the pc
riod for filing income tax returns for the year 1928
The period ends at midnight of March Is, 1924
Heavy penalties provided by the revenue act for
failure or willfu refusal to make return and pay
the tax on time.
Form1 04OA, heretofore used for reporting net in
come Of $1,000 and less from whatever source de-
rived has been revised in the interests Of the largest
class of taxpayers-wage earners and salaried per-
sons Reduced from six pages to single sheet,
Form 1040A is to be used for reporting net income
of $4,000 and less derived chiefly from salaries and
wages. Persons any part Of whose income is derived
from business profession, farming, sale of prop
erty or rent, though the amount is $4,000 or less.
will be required to the larger form, 1910. The
use of Form 1910 is required also in all cases where
the net income was in Of $4,000 regardless of
whether from salary business, profession, or other
taxable sources
1t being impossible to determine at this time which
form is desired, copies of both forms will be sent
taxpayers who filed individual returns for the wear
1922 and may be obtained also at the offices of col
lectors of internal revenue and branch offices upon
written request
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10
FARMING IN 1923-1924
BY Henry G. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture

By Henry G. Wallace Secretary of Agriculture
The industry, courage and faith evidenced bv the
farmers of the Nation during the past three years
are slowly bringing their reward. Improvement in
agricultural conditions continue-not as RAPIDLY as
desired or needed, as rapidly as deserved but
nevertheless it continues. The promise of the year
has been fulfilled
So we come to the end of the third year of post
war depression with feeling of greater confidence
born of better times already realized and with usti
fed hope Of still further Improvement in 1924
In general, the crops of 1923 were good. Some
sections in the cotton belt and in the wheat belt suf
fered from the ravages of weather and insect pests
but the aggregate crop production was equal to the
average of the five preceding years
Considering money return we find that the values
of most crops are greater than in 1922 The total
value of all crops is u per cent greater. The values
of the wheat rye, rice clover seed cranberry peach
and pear crops below 1922 in the case of wheat
II per cent below The values of all other important
crops greater.
1t IS difficult to measure the productive value of
livestock during the year, dependent as it is upon
crops marketed in that form. In general it has been
prosperous year for sheep growers fairly good for
dairymen, less satisfactory for producers of hogs
and discouraging for growers of range cattle
Cattle feeders however, have done very well on the
whole
There are discouraging conditions still to be over
come There is the burden of debt There are heavy
taxes to be met The cost of production and of what
the farmers buy remains high Farmers in the
spring wheat territory especially are in sore straits
from conditions largely beyond their control
Experience gained during these years of depres-
sion however, together with progress already made
warrant a hopeful attitude for the coming year.
Gradually crop acreage being better adjusted The
domestic market continues strong The children
keep coming, and that means steadily increasing
number of mouths to be fed Those who stay by the
farm and do good farming can look forward to bet
ter times reward for their years of toll and hard
ship Those whose businesses depend directly upon
farm purchases find decided encouragement in
the growing gross income ofsthe farmer, for he will
buy as his income expands
The year 1924 comes with the promise of continued
Improvement in the material prosperity of the far
mer and the farmer continues TO be the material and
spiritual backbone Of the Nation.
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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10
WASHINGTON COMMENT

great deal of caustic comment is printed regard
ing the proposed restrictions of immigration regis
tration of aliens and the attempt to secure quality
rather than quantity of ncomers from the old world
Their arguments boiled down, usually read Gamer
lea SHOULD hold out welcome to all the country
is big enough for all we are all sons and daughters
of immigrants immigrants made this country we
need immigrants for labor to restrict or register is
Czarstic not American
1t is true we are all ''sons and daughters" of inn
migrants it is true that the immigrants we have had
have done much to develop this country But as
times change, so much methods. When we needed
pioneers farmers laborers, tllers of the soil we re
ceived the best Europe had to offer Not often does
such an opportunity come; a new country, new
freedom, land for the asking OF course the yeo
came, went west, grew up with the country, helped
make America, America.
But today good~and cannot be had for the ask
rLg. The pioneer days are over American civil
cation has grown complicated 1t takes more than
willing hands and stout heart to succeed here now
There must be measure of education as well
Meanwhile Europe is an impossible place for the
diseased the ignorant, the uneducated the vicious.
to live. The best equipped have none too easy a
time; the worst equipped want to get out-out any
where-but especially "out to America"
We still need, want, and welcome, good men and
women, who can and do.become good Americans.
But the time has passed when get them only
by opening wide the door. The door must be shut,
to keep out those who hurt not help the nation. and
only put little aar for that thinning stream of the
oest KIND OF men and women, who are able to take
advantage of the modern opportunities of modern
America, as their forebears were able to take adyan
tage OF the opportunities of American pioneer days
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10
INCOME TAX IN NUTSHELL

WHO? Single persons who had net income of
$1,000 more or gross income of $4,000 or more,
and married couples who had net income of So, 600
or more gross income of $4,000 or more must file
returns
WHEN? The fling period is from January l to
March IS, 1924
WHERE? Collector of internal revenue for the
district in which the person lives has his principal
place of business.
HOW? Instructions on Form 1O4OA and Form
1910; also the law and regulations
WHAT? -Four per cent normal tax on the first
$4,000 of net income in excess of the personal ex-
emplon and credits for dependents. Eight per cent
normal tax on balance of net income Surtax from
per cent to so per cent on net incomes over Sc 900
for the year 1928
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10
POLITICS ARE WARMING UP

Politics are beginning to warm up bit in Cobb
county It is noticed during the past week Several
candidates have already began feeling out the
water to see if it is ready to take the plunge
Though there is lots of activity expected in the
spring primary no bitter campaign is expected from
any source Some of the county officers will not
have opposition, according to present indications.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10

The weather man evidently wrought up con
siderably about the criticism of the kind of winter
he had been dishing out and decided to hand out a
sample Of the real stuff Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day 1t must have been pretty hard on the boil
Weevil as well as the water pipes
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10

A beautiful gold watch was given Mr.. Vansant
by business of Walker county where he had
been county agent. 1t shows the type of agent he is
and we believe the people of this community will
hold as high regard for him when he has been with
us long enough to get acquainted
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10

The chairmen and different committees have been
appointed by Mayor Gam for the coming year. A
real live bunch Of fellows will have charge of affairs
for 1924
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-01-10

Allen, please tell us if you have seen any butter
flies during the past few days
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
INVESTIGATE AT ONCE

MO graver charges made against public official
than those made directly and by implication against Atto
ney Daughery by Wheeler the floor of the
Senate Tuesday.
authority responsibility Senator of the United
States charged intimate friends of the Attorney General
naming had accepted exchange for their influence
involving his official acts and added that If
the Attorney General has actually got the he big
people Of the United States give him credit for
being
Wheeler also charged he Attorney General of the
United States Of prosecuting has been protecting
crime criminals The Wheeler charges must either be
proved dsapproved public hearing before Senate
mttee every member of which whose honesty and
disinterestedness the country has confidence.
No business before the Senate not excepting the oil inquiry
is comparable in Importance with this
Every consideration of justice both TO Attorney General
Daughery Senator Wheeler and consideration of pub
policy demands investigation without the delay of
single day.
Either Attorney General Daughery is the kind of that
him of being and should be driven from
public office and prosecuted crmnay he innocent
gned official man. entitled vndicaon and
ton.
Any Senator who for political personal whether
Lodge any other who nerferes with attempts
delay such investigation by such committee doing dis
dsrvce both his party and to the Attorney General and
complain his motives questioned by the public
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
FIXING A SENATE COMMITTEE

IT HE old guard dies but surrenders The old
IL dying hard. Battling for the old, pussyfootng
method of manipulation the Senate Mr. Lodge the
other veterans together with their younger recruits and
nares are trying to clamp back the tilted lid.
The struggle to substitute methods
going the Senate much the people of
tryand to the poiticiansand to campaign contribution
The two methods illustrated by the handling
Wheeler's resolution to investigate Daugherty
Wheeler in his resolution, committee of
duct the investigation This that the Senate could who
the Investigators would be and for against them Also
the public should know
At once he jumped violating the traditions the
Senate and oerng insult to the Senates presiding officer
Senator Cummin by taking from him power name the
committee.
Wheelers the method of open procedure openly
and the batteries of the old guard upon him. but
IN retaliation he quickly showed how the other side
ing He forced Senator Willis Daughys champion spokes
man IN the Senate to admit that the introduction
Wheeler resolution investigate he Willis had had
with Daughry and had then gone Cummns and
suggested privately what Senator's should sit the Daugherty
Investigation
Outside the Senate that would be called something like pack
ing jury In the Senate it is custom but that
ing incidentally the public has right know the
Senator's suggested by Willis Cummns conference with
Daughery being the he wanted the Daughery
tgating committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
FILLING UP GRAVES

RI OUR persons have been killed automobile accidents
Marion County this year This is decided falling off
the records of last year when xhree persons met death
pedestrians the others drivers passengers
Now all citizens let make this suggestion:
Imagine sixty graves row. many being the graves
of children.
Others of these graves six feet long.
They persons will be killed this year. if last years
ratio of killings is maintained
If these graves filed carelessness neglect drunkenness
thoughessness and indifference will be responsible.
In this report by
of the National Safety Council worth studying 1t
l. All of the highway have equal rights thereon
No has right to the of our streets and high
ways.
8 of his right due
every every other of a highway
The reasonable due from any person
highway increases proportion to his ability damage others
Public sympathy has quite naturally out to the pedes
ran and result generally impression without
any foundation at law aong him rights superior all others
has developed, according to the committee which adds
The fact that pedestrian needs protection badly has
brought this sympathetic feeling the point that the doc
rne the pedestrian the road preached almost every
hand program of law but law actually being
enforced
It only natural with recurring condition raised
pedestrian is injured by vehicle highway that the
question relative rights should up again again
court decision So there numbess determinations
erng applications of law different of facts. But
the underlying principles which govern
the applications?
The general theory the highway or
road its simplest FORM that when there only person
vehicle using it, that vehicle owns the road
the whole of It, but other person vehicle
it with him then his becomes divided with the of
other and all the complications of traffic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
Wages

To the Editor Of The Times
The letter headed Car Men 3
Wages" appealed to me very strongly,
therefore / would like TO ask o. C.,
the author, a few questions.
Why criticise the street car com
pany for wanting an increase in fares
and at the same time pity himself for
working for this company for mere
nothing? 1t doesn't seem strange that
the company should want an increase
when it says Indianapolis is the only
city that has a scent fare. But that
isn't legal excuse, when the country
has been struggling since 1918 to get
back to normally.
It doesn't appear to me that we are
getting very far along the lines of
normally. But as 1t will be decided
for us as to whether or not we are to
pay an increased fare, don't guess
there is any kick coming, only to say
that we hope we will set service in
return.
Now the most important part Of o.
Cs letter is where he asks this ques-
ton. why doesn't the company tell
the whole story. explaining to the pub
lie that it has the poorest paid car
service men in the country?'
I wonder If Q. c. has ever heard
Of any corporation in this country ex-
planning to the public that it don't pay
its employees decent wage? 1 never
have.
AS long as the men will submit to
such condition. the company will go
along trying to mislead the public.
It is certainly the employees fault
II they are not getting a decent wage.
They are the ones that are doing the
work and 1t is up to them to sell their
labor he the highest price.
MRS. BIRDIE TYSON,
315 Bright ST..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
EARTH REVEALS OWN
HISTORY OF ITS LIFE
Many Fossils Found in Rock-Layers Tell Interesting
Story of Ancient Days,

piece out the account Of life on tbs
earth from the fossils found in these
rocks.
a record in the rocks.
Biologists now believe that the
earth has gone through great cycles.
First the forces which wear away
the land planned the continents down
to low, fiat formations, depositing the
debris in the oceans. At such peri
DDS, tile water displaced by the debris
flooded the continents, covering large
portions of them with shallow warm
waters.
North America, and more particu.
I larry the United States, were flooded
sixteen times in this way.
Then came the times when the land
was uplifted, and the continents rose
high above sea-level. and were marked
with great mountain chains.
Climate Cools
This, however, would quicken the
flow of the rivers and make the eli
mate colder, thus speeding up the ac-
ton of the forces which wear away
the land and beginning a new cycle.
At such times. too. sedimentary
rocks which had formed in the shall
low waters would be lifted high above
sea-level and bent and buckled out of
their original level layers.
The ancient life is known to US
from the fossils found in these lay
ers of rock.
For they are the remains Of the
animals and plants which inhabited
the earth ar the time when these
layers of rock were formed.
Rocks Are Record
The fossils include rer aims Of
shellfeh and similar animals which
live on the ocean bottom, fish which
swarm about in the water and whose
skeletons sank to the bottom when
they died, and the skeletons Of land
animals who remains were carried
down by streams into the ocean.
There these fossils were covered
hp by the accommodating layers Of
sediment and incorporated into the
sedimentary rocks when the sedi-
ments became eemented together.
Reading the rock record is no easy
task. 1t is not found complete in
any place. A few layers are found
IN one place. Other layers are found
in other places. Practically all of
them have been bent and twisted cut
IF shape by the great earth move
nents.
But with infinite patience anc skill
-eoIc gists and Psychologists have
rieeed them together into a COM
plete story.
Next article: The Geological Tirne-
Table.
Copyright. 1924, by David DietD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
Animal Facts

Although corn is selling so high
this winter, they say huge piles Of the
husked grain are lying in the fields
Of South Dakota. Minnesota and
northern Iowa, But pheasants, sage
hens and grouse are harvesting it
and are reported large and fat as
butter, despite the hard winter
Clip your Impeyan pheasants
wings, but he'll hop a six-foot fence
anyway, so strong are his legs and
the energy in his little body. Ameri-
can breeders are establishing this
most brilliantly colored of all pheasants
in northern United States, where
the weather is nearest his native
Himalayas.
G. II. Corson. naturalist of Echo
Valley, n. Y, is a nature lover who
has made his farm bloom with the
most gorgeous flowers shrubs and
trees and further decorated it with
wild birds which live with him and re-
fuse to leave even at migration time.
Among the birds he raises is the. Mon.
golian pheasant. Just about the wild
est, shyest thing there Is. Watch
Corson start out with a spade and
you'll see Mongolians perched all over
him. When the digging begins, it's
all he can do to turn the spade over
for pheasants clinging to the handle
and watching for the first worm
What is there about some men which
makes Wild things such friends of
thnya1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21

He suffered very much from the
cold. One night it was very bitter
indeed. The old wind was blowing
a seventy-mile gale up and down
Broadway. Making sure that he had
his newspaper pass to all theaters
In his pocket and buttoning his coat
closely around him, he made for the
nearest theater. 1t was showing so
that he could not see the electric sign.
He entered, too cold to think of a
program.
The curtain was going up. He
glanced at his neighbours program.
The play was "Icebound"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-02-21
BY DAVID DIETZ,
ciAnce Editor Of The Tines.

EVI f have just been considering
IWI the forces which bring about
G1 the changes upon the face Of
the earth-the forces which wear
away the land and the forces which
uplift the land again.
These forces, so biologists tells US,
have been at work since the close of
the formative period when the earth
cooled into a body with oceans and
protruding continents.
Let Us go back to that point now
and pick up again our account Of the
history of the earth.
The geologist reads the history Of
the earth in the layers Of rock which
compose its present surface.
Fossils Are Used
Other scientists, who call them
selves Psychologists and specialize
in the study of the ancient forms of
life which once inhabited the earth,