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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
EASTERN FARMERS FOR COOLIDGE.

The Farm Journal of Philadelphia is polling it's farmer readers, both Republican and Demo- cratic, their choice for President Republican farmers responding by three to the Democrats, though the significance of that is lessened by the fact that the Farm Journal, being high tarf paper has much larger circulation among Republicans than Democrats. Coolidge is leading among Republicans preferred for the Presidency and Gov. Smith has several times many votes all the other Democrats com bined late account of the poll gives Coolidge 13,0OO votes, 5000 for Lowden, 1000 for Hoover, 2,300 for Borah and 1,S00 for Dawes Gov. Smith has 1000 and Senator Reed, who comes next, 29o0 among the Democratic candidates
 Among Western farmers Lowden is far in the lead while Gov Smith leads the Democrats in all sections of the country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
INCREASING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.

Twenty-two additions to medical knowledge which may be expected to have important bear ings upon future practice described by George E. Coleman of the William Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, in a pamphlet just pub lished by the American Association for Medical Progress
 One Of the most picturesque discoveries noted in Some Medical Discoveries of 1927" is the snc- cessful treatment of paresis by inoculating the patient with malaria The treatment is based the fact that the paresis parasite is highly sensitive to heat Malaria induces high fever; hence the fever be used to destroy the paresis germ, and then the malaria can be cured by qunne. For this discovery Prof Julius Wagner Jauregg of Vienna was awarded the 1927 Nobel prize.
 Dr. j. J. Abel of John Hopkins University, produced what appears to be a crystalline form of insuin deficiency of which substance is the cause of diabetes The discovery of 'myrtillin," a drug derived from Samese plant for the treatment of diabetes was announced by Dr. F. M. Allen, of Morristown, N. J. Dr. K. E. Birk- haug, of Rochester developed curative antitoxin for erysipeas
 Several dietary discoveries were announced, the chief of which is the use of liver to cure pernicous anemia as demonstrated by Drs Minot and Murphy of Harvard. Prof. L. J. Meyer, of the University of Berlin, demonstrated the pres ence of vtamin in milk; the absence of this vitamin from the diet brings scurvy. Research workers in Massachusetts General Hospital found a special reduced diet of value in treating epi- leptic children. Dr. A. F. Hess of New York found dried milk treated with ultraviolet light useful in preventing rickets in babies
 In the University of Chicago Dr. w. H. Talia- ferro reported progress in developing serum for fighting the African sleeping sickness, and Dr. Florence B. Seibert made important discoveries about the chemical nature of tuberculin. Scien- lists in Berlin discovered changes in animal ts- sue due to the action of arsenic, which may have important bearing the problem of cancer. The Germans also are experimenting with i'm proved antiseptic "avertin."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
The Mayor and Stone Mountain.
New York Wnrld.l

Walter c. Mabie, National Commander of the Sons of Union Veterans, signalized an address upon the 1O6th birthday of Gen. Grant by at- tacking Mayor Walker for taking part recently III tne dedication of the Stone Mountain memorial 10 Robert E. Lee. MT. Mabe seems particularly irrltated because the Mayor had dressed up the iour-year-old grandson of archtraitor'' in a tiny Confederate uniform with "the insignia of the dishonored Confectionery on the sword and sash.' ~
 peh Grant himself seems to have had the ldea that after Appomattox the war was over put or course he only great soldier and naa not the wide vision of son of veteran sl1ty-three years after that great event
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
More or Less True

More or Less rue A once over of the groom often conyinces you that if the bride hasn't ! little book entitled Keep ing Boarders for Profit in her hope chest, she'd better hustle right out and buy one. Many a woman who is afraid of a mouse doesn't lose a wink Of sleep because her extrayagant ways are keeping the wolf howl ing at the door.
 The only thing man hates to pass as much as woman does another milestone is a truck on a narrow road.
 Another thing the present styles have shown is that there are a great many members of the gentler sex who never would in spire a poet to write about the
 human form divine"
 At first glance you might take the thing that is wearing knick- CTS, has short hair and is puff ing flag for boy, but the sec ond glance shows the powder puff going toward the nose and you realize your mistake.
 It isn't surprising married men have so many faults. Everything is their fault, you know.
 
 Most all kinds of masculine jobs are being filled by women these days, but any boy who has no car can tell you that of walk ing delegate" is one that still ap- pears to be perfectly safe from feminine intrusion
 Middle-age is that time when a man can feel just as devilish eating a piece of mince pie at 12 bells as his wife can smoking a cigarette.
 Now that they are making girls shoes out of snake skins we sup pose, in order to have things match, they will make their hose supporters out of garter snakes. LET Almquist Press Your Suit. We call ane oenver. Phone 528.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

the residents of the parish are to receive a divi- dend from the community. At town meeting it decided to appropriate 9OOOO crowns for the purchase of new. seed grain for spring sow ing for free pro rata distribution among the landowners
 Community forests growing in number in the United States says the Forest Serice. Sev eral town forests in New England date back to colonial days and within the past few years town and county forests have been established in many parts of the country
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
COMMUNITY FOREST PAYS PROFIT.

community forest which not only pays all taxes but this year will pay dividends as well is described in a press dispatch from Sweden says the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
 Since time immemorial the parish of Orsa in Dalecarla, Sweden, has owned certain forest lands in common, and for many years the forests have yielded sufficient revenue to make all local taxes unnecessary. This year, instead of paying taxes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

The middle of May is here but Congress is still in session It would be wasting words to request Senators and Representatives to hurry through with their work They are as anxious to get back to the fence repairing job the people are to have Congress out of the way.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Speakin'a Celebrities

Glen Rohn, of Columbus, who is travelling through the South. sends us these: In Chadbourn, N. o., there is a Dr. Flippin; in Con way, s. G., a Dr. Barefoot, and in Reidsville, N. C., MT. Early Ap- pie. Outside of Charlotte, N. O.. Glen saw sign on a barbecue
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Safety in Goino Bareheaded

Blinks: Tt says here hat tip ping costs some men as much as $500 a year"
 links: Huh! Just one hat tipping cost me more than that"
 Blinks: "How's that?"
 Jinks By tipping my hat started a filtration that ended in my marrying the girl"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

Former Senator James D. Phelan would make excellent Vice-President. He is scholar, wise, clever, upright and brilliant business man as well as able lawyer. He was MeAdoo leader four years ago but has been a stanch warrior for Gov. Smith this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
ALONG LIFE's DETOUR
 By SAM HILL
By SAM HILL.

Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
 A large family used to mean a lot'a mouths to feed and a lot'a clothes to buy; now it means lot'a diets to endure and a lot'a reduction dopes to buy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

I calculate, upon good data, that
 with these identical legs Wordsworth
 must have travelled distance of 175,
 900 180,000 English miles, a mode
 of exercise which to him stood in the
 stead of alcohol and all stimulants
 whatsoever to the animal spirits; to
 which, indeed, he was indebted for life
 of unclouded happiness, and for
 much of what is most excellent in his
 writings.
 Ex-Senator Cole of California, when asked on his hundredth birthday how to attain great age, replied: Keep out of the easy-chair" The cheap est and most sautary way to take that advice is to walk There many schools of walk ing" says George M. Travelyan, "and of them orthodox" He adds: "One school is that of the road-walkers, the Purians of the religion strain of fine aseetc vigor is in these men, Treveyan thinks that twenty-five or thirty miles of moor and mountain, of wood and field path, is better than fve-and-thirty forty ham mered cut on the road" There are times, nevertheless, to walk highway Some one has said that he would not think himself old off night train in New England at dawn to listen to the overture of waking birds, bathe in the freshness of the dew-laden air, and view the sun breaking over the eastern hills in glory.
 The walk need not go on all day. Trevelyan was proud in the knowledge of having walked twice at least round the coast of Devon and Cornwall" Leslie Stephen also that kind or saunterer. T have fancied myself on such occdsloHS q leDcllOuS Dlenu or poet and saint, which is agreeable sensation" Meredith speaks of "a pride of legs in motion kept" Long distance hikers love to talk about the ground they have covered. But the main thing is to be able to say "Ah, how short the day Yet all the Winters cannot blow it's sweetness quite away D The sweetness may be in converse Such was the case when Leslie stephen led his Sunday Tramps with frequent disregard of trespass signs. Some of the rarest spirits in England, men of the bar bench and pen, tramped with Stephen and they talked as they walked. As Maitland, his bio grapher, says: "It would have made the presence of shorthand writer benefaction to the coun- ltry."
 A great pedestrian who will be missed if De Quincey is not read was Walking Stewart" At 40 he did not look day older than 2S ''in such health had his pedestrian exercise preserved him. He was a man of fervid mind and of sublime aspirations" On many things he re- fected as he walked, a philosopher of the foot path and therefore he was rich in conyersa- tion at other times. "A man whose memory love- said De Quncey. Stewart would have been a man after the heart of Hazlitt whose soul ex- banded when he walked alone
 There is good deal to be said for the soli- tary walker, in spite of Stevenson. The world would have lost the best of Thoreau had he swung along in party of ready takers What palm can there be in nature when a companion IS assailling your ears with opinions not to be reconciled with common sense? Happy the man with stout pair of legs and love of rambling In company or solidarity, the open road or the free trail, let him give himself up to a recreation that will match any other
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Mint What Am

Mint for a julep some will crave
 But that to me seems funny ! For I'll confess the only mint I crave, is one of money
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

uncle Sam has captured nearly 500 rum boats on Miami since the first of the year They will oe soid to the highest bidder and cur uncle Will capture them again. No wonder this is n rlch nation.-tAtlanta Constitution
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Cheating the Neiehbors Out of 2
 lauoh

'It tells here," remarked Mrs. Crouch, 'of a London man who died and left his wife $50,000 and instructions she was not to wear mourning for him."
 "He knew dern well with $50,- 900 in her hands there wasn't gonna be any mourning for him done, anyway" growled her hus. band.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
The Ananias Club

My wife is redJheaded," said he, but I've never known her to lose her temper"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

Those fiers that went up 2.0O0 feet in the air to settle private grievances rather care less about whether they continued to live not.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

me remarkable thing about Martin Luther s 'hai ne put 1t over without the help of Senator Heflin.-( Akron, Ohio. BeaconJournal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

Presidential safemakers carefully estimate the ages of candidates but really what is there Tn the world so young statesman in his slxtles.-t Boston Transcrpt)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Bound to Be Perfectly shockino

REMARKS ON TRAFFIC SIT LAYTON. ."-Headline
 Anybody who is squeamish about listening to language like that better stuff his-or-her-- ears with cotton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

Enormous grape crops may not wholly ,o,, the tale, but enormous sale of glass bottles of private buyers does. est Louis Globe-D Demo- crat)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Fashion Note

HUGE BOWS WILL BE ON THE NEW DRESSES. ."-Headline from the womans page.
 But the eyes will remain on tEe silk stockings, of course.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Nuff sed

Nuff Sed Bob: Who was that pretty girl l saw in the car with you?" Jim: q was using both hands to drive, wasn't I?"
 Bob: "Oh, I forgot, your sister was home for the Easter holidays. wasn't she?"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Zero in Fans

I have a keen desire to kill The pessimistic feller, Who thinks our noble Reds
 again
 Will finish in the cellar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
A Rare Specimen

A Rare Specimen The strangest girl I know Is Mary Ellen Thorn, Who still wears things she can Take off when it turns warm Of Sol Stephens wants her for the Zoo, we'll try and capture her).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Where Ianorance Isn't Bliss

"How's your daughter?" asked the caller.
 q might be able to tell you if I knew where she was" sighed the old-fashioned mother.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

stand and service station that will give you a good laugh-if you ever pass it. No-we don't dare print it-but it's good.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
The Walkers.
(New York Times.) )

Miss Eleonora Sears of Boston has ushered in the walking season by doing the seventy four miles from Newport to Boston in seventeen hours. Her feat leaves in the shade Carlyles famous hike-"the longest I made'-from Muirkrk to Dumfries, a fifty-four miles, One of the best gifts of Heaven is a sturdy pair of legs. Wordsworth blest. Let De Quincey be heard:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

Must Be Some Road House Up
 Therel (Mt. Vernon Item in Clarksville,
 Ohio, News) Wild geese are seen here in large numbers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
Modernized Proverbs

A thin calf maketh sick the heart of girl, and fat one bringeth no joy to the wearer of the abbreviated skirt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17
And speakin'a Ignorance

Lumbago seems to be plumb ignorant of the fact there is a GO in it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-05-17

LET Almquist Press Your Suit. We call ane oenver. Phone 528.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
PEACE PLAN
Being Joined In By the British
Employers

London, England The Trades I'm
ion-Employers' Conference adopted a
report providing for National Indus
trial Council to prevent strikes.
The report provides that represent
atives of the unions and organized en-
ployers shall constitute the council.
Industrial problems shall be examined
at quarterly meetings. Facts shall be
collected by permanent staff of con-
ciliation machinery set up.
The report also treats with ques-
tions of union recognition, svictimiza-
ton of workers for belonging to un-
ions, prevention of disputes and ANAL
gamation of industries.
The report will be passed upon BY
the next convention of the British
Trades Union Congress and by the
Federation of British Industries anc
the National Confederation of EN-
ployers. These employers organiza-
tions represent 95 per cent of the
manufacturers of the country, includ.
ing the largest firms.
The conference is an effort to hea
the wounds left by the general strike
two years ago. The plan is opposed
by Communists.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
PORTO RICANS ARE
PUSHED OFF LAND

San Juan, Port Rico,-Foreign cor
porations have seized Porto Rican
land, in defiance of law, and the Bu-
reau of Labor states in its annual re-
port that has failed to persuade land
owners to grant parcels of land to
their laborers.
The Bureau paints a dark picture
of hunger and unemployment in the
island.
| Bananas, Goldfish, ice, beans, corn.
meal, and coffee without milk is the
diet of laborers in the coffee section
Beef and pork are seldom in the homes
of the rural worker. Bread is lux
Jury.
| Bananas, which were free to labor.
ers 80 years ago, now cost 20 cents q
hundred. One child generally con.
sumes five bananas in one meal, anC
an adult eats twice that number.
Goldfish of inferior quality, often SC
bad it is confiscated by health officers
costs at least II cents a pound, the
report states. Corn meal of the worst
quality, also imported, costs cents
a pound.
| Wearing apparel and shoes of the
worst class are bought on credit ant
always at the expense of food. Fab
RIGS cost twice as much as ten years
lago.
The cost of living of urban worker!
is very high, almost unbearable il
Ispite of relative high wages" the re
lport states. There is marked tendenc.
in the island to violate all labor law
and the number of unemployed i
placed at 100000 by the Bureau, al
though other estimates are as higl
as 100000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
UNEMPLOYMENT
Evil Has Extensive Scope in
New York

New York.-After battling last win
ter against unemployment, social
agencies in this city are confronted
with the result of unemployment
illness, debt and poverty, Women
and children are the greatest sufferers.
The unemployment situation has
improved with warm weather and
"only about half as many men are
seeking shelter in institutions" it is
stated. Most of the summer jobs are
not women's work and institutions
caring especially for women and chill
dren have experienced practically no
relief. Social workers find that most
self-dependent women who need help,
particularly those with children, have
been so weakened by winter of de-
privation that they cannot work even
if employment is found for them.
The greatest problem is under-nour-
ishment. At the beginning of the un-
employment wave families of out-of-
works had small savings in many cas-
es. When these savings dwindled the
families resorted to credit, but mount
| ing debts cut their food to what social
workers call "an irreducible mini
num-" While the peak of unemploy-
ment has passed, the aftermath
remains.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
SOFT COAL LOADING
By Machine Spreads Fast
In u. S. Mines

Washington, D. C. q. L. N. So
Mechanical loading of bituminous
coal is spreading rapidly in American
mines, the bureau of mines, depart
ment of commerce, reports.
Increase in mechanical loading in
soft coal mines is estimated at about
so per cent. Incomplete reports for
1927 indicate rapid progress in the
installation of machinery.
While only 1.8 per cent of the total
output of soft coal in this country in
1926 was mechanically loaded, it is
stated, in some states considerable
part of the production was loaded by
machinery. Of the II states for
which figures are given separately
Wyoming led with 17.6 per cent of
the total output loaded by machines,
followed by Indiana with 9.3 per cent
and Virginia with TT per cent.
In summarizing it's report, the bu-
reau of mines says:
"In 1926 a total of 1922, 1876 tons
of bituminous coal was loaded me.
chanically by 455 machines in 131
mines. In addition there were 33
other mines reporting 43 loading ma
chimes in which the use of the ma
chine was still in the experimental
stage only.
"These figures do not include ma
chimes that have been abandoned OF
a few machines that were used in
1925 and will be used again but which
loaded no coal in 1926.
"There is in use in the coal indus
try a wide variety of mechanical de-
vices designed to reduce the labor OF
hand shoveling into mine cars and tc
facilitate the work of transporting the
coal from the point where it is shot
down to the place of delivery to the
rail transportation system of the
mine."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
ANTI-UNION LEADER
CLASSED AS GUNMAN

Windsor, Canada.-"Advance agent
of Detroit gunmen" is the term ap-
piled to Louis Flint, of the Detroit
citizens committee, who made an anti
union speech before the Rotary Club
of this city.
Flints wild assertions are resented
by Windsor trade unionists, who
charge the Detroiter with attempting
to stir up strife.
"This man is like certain detective
agencies that peddle cock-and-bull
stories to employers. He is trying to
find space to spread the crime wave
from Detroit" said John P. Mckay
president of the local Trades and La
Dor Council.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20

BARRIERS RENEW CONTRACT
Portland, re.,-Organized BARRIERS
their contract with employ
ers. Wages are $28 week and 60
per cent of weekly receipts over SAL.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
PUBLIC UTILITIES
SECRET AGENTS

Washington.-The utilities probe
by the Federal Trade Commission re-
veals that retired officials of State
utility regulation commissions found
soft berths with privately-ownel
utilities.
The Ohio utilities paid G. C. Max
we'll, former secretary of the Ohio
Utilities Commission, $4,000 year
and expenses for making speeches
without letting his hearers know he
was employed by the utilities.
"We do not announce to the people
that Mr.. Maxwell is paid speaker" /"
Ben E. Ling, publicity agent of the
Ohio utilities, wrote.
Ling declared that when a man like
Maxwell makes an address, anything
he says becomes news, adding that
Maxwell is lawyer and is prominent
in Ohio.
"Bear in mind that much, if not the
major portion of these speeches print
ed by the newspapers, reflected wholly
the viewpoint of the utilities, so that
it might also be labeled straightfor-
ward propaganda on behalf Of the util-
! ity industry"
"But this matter" continued Ling
might properly be classified as strict
ly propaganda and therefore barred
from the news columns of the big
dailies, actually did find it's way into
these papers because, being delivered
by speaker before an organization
outstanding in the community, it be.
came news and was printed as SUCH
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-07-20
CHINKS AND WHITES
WON'T MIX
From the Seaman's Journal

From the Seaman's Journal
The Washington staff correspondent
of local shipping paper lets the cat
out of the bag when he thus refers to
the citizen-manning clause in the mer-
chant shipping act, passed by the last
Congress:
''The provision that One-half of
the crew of any vessel employed
i'm ocean mail service during the
first four years after passage OF
the act shall be citizens of the
United States and that two-thirds
of the crew shall be citizens after
the period and during the remain
der of the contract has been
subject of serious discussion
among owners, as in many serv-
ices it is declared to be virtually
impossible to get such a PROPOSE
ton of American citizens to
sign on
OF course it will be difficult to coax
American citizens to sign shipping
articles-at Chinamen's wages.
At any rate, it is highly encourag-
ing to know that American ship oper-
ators are at last having serious dis
cussion about the manning of Amer
lean ships with American seamen. Ii
this discussion continues long enough
much good will result. For instance
certain American shipping magnatss
who never employ white man if ar
Oriental is available will discover that
low-wage Chinese crew may be fan
more costly than a fair-waged Amer,
lean crew.
So we trust the discussion of this
subject will continue until the light
has penetrated through the skulls OF
the most unreasonable objectors.