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REPORTS FROM LOCAL
 FIRMS ID BE CHECKED
 WITH INCOME RETURNS

Listening in from the lines at the City Council session last night, which was of brief dura- tion owing to the small amount of bushes coming before the of ficials, one gained an idea that by far the most important sub iect of the evening was that of tax due the city from commercial establishments.
 Important from this stand point; that too long have many local business firms either ne- glected to comply with the law and paid in notAing or, it was thought, filed valuations of gross business at too low a figure.
 To make a long story short a survey of every local concern is to be made and both the esti- mate and owners valuation of gross business for the year check ed against the income tax re- ports filed at Tacoma, Wash. It was said that where irregular ities are revealed same will be sent to- court headquarters for final action. It was pointed out that insofar as the reports sub- mitted, upon which tax is fixed, they are atteSted by a sworn state ment by owners, and perjury charges face those who do not comply to the letter of the law.
 The final analysis is that all tax money turned into the city offices remains there and goes into the city's treasury; that an injustice is done the firms who return true accounting and pay tax accordingly, as against those firms which may be shaving total gross business and paying smaller tax. Tn this case the city loses much needed revenue.
 Claims totaling $1,511O5 were ordered paid and warrants drawn for same Work is going forward as to making a few necessary repairs to the Fourth Avenue bridge The expenditure of $40 for special street work was or dered returned to the treasury upon report property owners could not come to an agreement.
 Mayor P. c. McNullen presided over the council session with all councilmen present with the ex- ception of Councilmen's Mel Hor- ner and Otto Schallerer.
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TRACTION POWER OF
 WOOD GAS PROVEN

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 4, (P)- An army motor truck using for power gases generated from a sackful of broken tent poles, pull led load of more than 38 tons here.
 Nearly 200 army officers came to watch the test. Col. Jean P Imbert of the Sarre Union France, late of the Fench army and the inventor of the machine which produces from scraps of wood the gas which will run engines, stood quietly by while the test was being made. He calls his invention "Gasogen"
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AUIO MAKER FORESEES
 CARS 0F GREAT SPEED

NEW YORK, Nov, 4, (P)-By 1850 there will be motor cars capable of transporting passengers safely and comfortably at 100 miles an hour and more, predicts Paul c. Hoff- man.
 Tt is true we shall need roads engineered for such speeds" said MT. Hoffman, who is vice-president of the Studebaker corporation of America, "but they will come"
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Bartley Howard, we'll known coal mine operator, was among last nights arrivals from Moose Creek. MT. Howard is guest at the Van Glider.
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HALLOWEEN PRANK

GRANTS PASS, Nov, 5, lP)-F,re reported to have been started as pat of Halloween prank destroy ed a general mercantile store, a pool room and two private resi- dences at Rogue River, Ore, seven mills from here.
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N. 0. Field of Seattle, who has been connected with the outside of fices of the Kodiak Fisheries Co.,, is now at Kodiak to assume the posi- tion of bookkeeper with 0. Kraft & Son.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-11-05

Don't forget the Armistice Day dance given by the Seward Amer ican Legionnaires on November II at Odd Fellows hall.
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EPISCOPAL GUILD MEETING

The ladies of the Episcopal Guild will meet Thursday at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Joseph Stanton. IA full attendance is urged.
 Mrs A. Foster, secretary.
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Sid Raynor, Anchorage manager of the Empress theatre, arrived in Seward last evening on brief ness visit.
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PAGE FIVE
NOTICE

M B. Roaney, principal of the Seward schools, has been named chairman of the 18th roll call drive of the Red Cross.
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HONE-GROWN POTATOES 5c PER POUND at Brown & flaw kins Corporation.
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Special prices ln Coal and Wood Heaters at BROWN & HAWKINS
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See SCHALLERER'S ALASKA SHOP for your Christmas Cards. made from your personal negatives
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-04-15
OUR COUNTRY REQUIRES US

There would be little traffic in illegal liquor if only criminals patronized it. The duty of our citizens to support the law is co-equal with the duty of their government to enforce the laws which exist.
 Our whole system of self-goyernment will crunlble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will Ort."-President Herbert Hoover
 We believe that President Hoover would say directly that patriotism demands that you obey the Constitution of the United States including the Eighteenth Amendment or you not good c- tizen.
 WILLIAM l. PAUL
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TzUe/Ue N0fches.

q swath through the enemy's line At least has
friends expected It: they had reason to.
But TIE fate sof Army recruits -they1 an
agree observes no precedenk knows no e.
tabliEhed law. Tom Threepersons, perfect IN
physique. crack shot, adept ct ali the arts that
go to make good soldier, never left the city
IN which he enlisted. n PAso. They kept him
at Fort Bliss breaking wild horses for more
fortunate adventure lovers 70 ride overseas.
On July !, 1920, Tom joined the II Paso
police force. After year and 10 months IS
policeman and detective, he became q prOhibi-
ton agent. Thence 10 Yerbanis. Durango Mex-
leo. as foreman Of the 'Cudahy Cattle Co.'S
5000, 000-acre ranch. Some months later he
was back In Fl Paso, on the United States
mounted customs force.
A T midnight june 16, 1924, Tom had bat
tie alone with 80 or more liquor smng-
glers. He and Inspector Wadsworth had
stopped at the end Of II Pasos First street,
to wait for . cargo Of smuggied liquor scied-
uled TO come across. The inspector left Tom
for few minutes to bring their car closer;
no sooner had he left than the sxnugglers
appeared. Mexicans. each laden with sacks
OF bottled liquor with which they hsd waded
the shallow river
Tom forced them to lie nat on the ground.
and handcuffed one Then protective fixing
onened on him fron across the river fsnm
high-powered rifles and machine guns
Cross firing prevented the inspectors return
to Toms side. and Tom had only his pistols
The odds were heavy against him. indeed.
He resOfted to an old Indian trick and
escaped, unframed. He grabbed one Mexican
and retreated. keeping the Aexican directly i'm
front Of his body for shield. The enemy
could not IRE for fear of killing one OF their
party When Tom cot back TO headquarters
two bullets had pierced his boots, one went
through his hat anda fourth through his sleeve.
eCcpyrisht isas.l
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cOntiaaed trom Tpentseth r~gs

Continued trom Twentieth Psge
PendletOn, Greg, roundup IN 1919. The Fem
dletOn roundup IN the premier annual cowboy
festival Of the Pacific West
Further, Tom Is skilled bulIdogger-which
involves that gentle art Of racing horseback
after . wild steer, jumping from the horse to
the steers horns, and throwing the steer to
the ground in grand smash.
He has shone brightest. probably, at shoot
ing. They say Of him that he should have some
sort OF championship for pistol work, but that
he gets the hdgetS when he Is shooting Just
for competitive sport It's q serious matters
matter Of life and death--when Tom is at his
best with guns; too many ambitious but less
accurate gunner have found that out, too late
Sttn. Tom can do right well demonstratin',
. rangy old Ofncer and acquaintance Of his tells
Once" said he, "I was with O party goin'
down toward Maria. The car broke down an
somebuddy went fer help. Tom an two of us
waited.
I'VE got to shootin' at cactus buds and such
Tom, he goes out about 20 steps, sets six
cartridges on o rock comes back and plinks
em all on with his six-shooter. There's men
that's afeard Of Tom and his guns. And rightly
So"
RUT Tom Threepersons emphasizes, II you get
him talking. that fighting has been q busi-
ness, not pleasure. with him. The handle Of
his gun might be notched considerably II the
pretty custom Of fiction were observed In fact,
but the killing he has done has been In line Of
duty, as the written and unwritten code Of his
country conceives 1t. .s4.
enlisted IN the American Army expecting to cart
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Nation S Lime Production.

+ me production went UP last year. but Ito
value went back farther than its produc-
ton increased. There were Ass, ala short tOns
of lime turned out. which was up per cent
over 1927, while the income SIS, 44s,63S, repre-
sentsd decrease Of per cent.
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i05 Having Occurre4
lately.
1oT Assam silk woSE
100 Soft food.
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Mexican food.
% Irregular.
0S Experts.
o6 Calm.
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Free State Is Urged
To Democratic Bar

In ireland, as in Great Britain, the
legal profession is a close corporation.
It is not regulated by legislation. Bar
risters are examined and admitted by
the benchers of the Kings Inns, who
reciprocate uncontrolled.
The Kings Inns date from the days
of Henry VIII, and as their Latin motto
is "Nolumus mutari," freely translated:
I'VE won't bulge an inch" the govern
ment of the Free State is being urged
by some Of its influential supporters to
bring It's new broom into operation and
take q hand in controlling admissions
to the bar.
It is argued that the aim Of the
benchers has always been to keep out
the poor mans son and their aim as
early as the sixteenth century was de-
fined as being ito bring up gentlemen's
sons within this realm In the English
tongue, habits and manners" The fess
are high.
University study is not suficient for
the courses given by the bencherS,
whose standard Is nevertheless not so
high as that In the universities. And
no matter how brilliant the student or
how diligent his attendance at lectures
in the Inns or in the university, ne
cannot gain admission to the bar unless
he dimes in the hall Of the Inns four
times in every term.
All this is now attacked as undemo'
cratic and anti-national nummery. The
state has the power to step In and L
being urged to make sweeping changes
in the direction Of modifying the stric-
lures of the profession
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THE HUMAN BEING is SLOWLY CRAWLING TOWARD

heart, drown their inner conviction in
lives of strenuous action, or seek the
Lethe of drink or drugs, or even be-
come professional optimists, whistling
in the dark.
Science Always the Villain.
In the literature of pessimism. of
which there has been a great deal since
the war, the villain In the drama is al
most always science or her sinister off,
spring, the machine. To their baleful
influence is credited the undermining
Of faith, the crushing of individuality
and the sitting of idealism by a gross
materialism.
This is somewhat the view taken by
NJ. Caillaux in his recent article In this
paper. Science, he says, has pro-
crossed by leaps and bounds, placing
man in control of nature to an extent
never before dreamed of; but this SCI
entific development has not been paral-
leled by corresponding development
in what M. Caillaux calls morality. One
Of the handiworkS Of science which he
particularly bemeans is the coming into
being Of a machine age and the ten
dency Of the machine to Standardize U.s.
thus tending to eliminate individual diff
ferenceS which are of such prime i'm
portance in evolution and progress.
Since science has been accused of be-
ing lhe FrankenStein that will ulti-
mately destroy its creator, it seems only
fair To let science answer the charge
What can it say, generally speaking, to
assure us that mankind is not headed
for destruction, but is really upward
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The Story the Week Has Told

must furnish acceptable assurance on
the head of Communist missionary
work in the British Empire"
Mr. Baldwin asked what reservations.
If any, Mr.. Macdonald proposed to
British acceptance of the Optional
clause" of the World Court statutes,
but Mr.. Macdonald postponed his an
swer. It is understood that the opposi-
ton will insist on reservation inSuring
on-intervention by the court between
members of the British commonwealth
Of nations.
The attorney general has made the
important announcement In the Com
mons that he will soon present a bill
to amend the trades disputes and trades
union act.
On July 8, J. H. Thomas, lord privy
seal and unofficial secretary for unem-
ployment outlined to the Commons
plans involving productive expenditure
of about the equivalent of $l87, 000, 900
toward unemployment relief, by way of
road building, transfer of workers from
prosperous to non-prosperous districts,
special aid to certain categories of
trade ana manufacture, etc. Winston
Churchill ironically congratulated Mr..
Thomas on his proposal to carry on
Conservative home policy.
In view of the fact that the London
Times has been the grand champion OF
friendliest relations between Britain and
America, a recent editorial, in which
that journal rakes the latest develop
ments of our tariff policy fore and aft,
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bound? I believe it can say great deal,
and that what 1t will say will be not
only encouraging but convincing.
CrawIs Toward High Goal.
Life on our planet crawls very slowly
toward its high goal. Through millions
of years the initial protoplasm has been
working upward into creature of self
will and conscious power, but it has
reached this rank-that of the human
being-only within the last 20, 900 years,
or less.
We can get some idea of the steps Of
this progress by study Of the animal
from the lower to the higher forms.
In this study we cannot help being
struck by one fact, which even the op-
ponents Of the theory of evolution will
not deny-i.e., the gradual develop
ment In living things Of what may be
called a moral sense. A fish can feel
no shame, and certainly has no con-
seriousness Of right or wrong; it knows
neither gratitude nor loyalty. But dog,
which represents higher effort, a more
recent experiment on the part of ma
tuxe, has a complicated equipment of
emotions, and gives every sign of pos
sessing, at least under the influence Of
man, the evidences of the simpler dis
tinctions of right and wrong in the
sense of what is permitted and for
hidden, and with respect to which he
may Re taught obedience, even to the
extent Of exercising self-restraint.
Man is, in a moral sense, many de-
efies beyond any of the animals, and
is ths only anirkal capable of develop
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ment to an even higher plane. POSSIBLE
tiles for a free development are quite
clearly evidenced when we come to
study the structure and functions of the
BRAIN 1t seems evident as q result Of
these studies that man has reached no
where near the limit of his possibilities.
AS indicative of both how much and
how little has been accomplished we
may consider very briefly the three
great crimes which, according to Prof.
Freud, man has had to deal with
throughout his development period,
namely, cannibalisrn, incest and murder.
Cannibalism Not Conquered.
It may surprise the layman to learn
that the first Of these has not already
been conquered. Though it is true that
more progress has been made against 1t
than against the other two, 1t still as
serts itself now and then in abnormal
personalities or situations, or under
pressure of circumstance. Man on q
desert island or in far Arctic waste,
confronted with certain death from
starvation, naturally and inStinctively
reverts to thoughts of cannibaliSm.
This is not nearly so shameful a re-
action as the protected man with food
at hand and his life insured would
think. 1t is a throwback to the be-
ginningS of the human being, when
only the fit and ruthless could survive.
The instinct toward cannibalism has
not yet been completely eradicated. but
the repulsion which such incidents
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has Justly engaged the wiSest attention
in the United States. The article con-
tains the following interesting observa-
ton: This scheme of tariff revision
appears to make certain measures
necessary as acts Of sef-defense." All
Europe seems to be saying yea" to that.
The government cannot decide how
to reply to Trotsky's appeal for asylum
in England. 1t Is one Of Britain's most
glorious traditions not to refuse
asylum to a political refugee, however
rampageous.
The annual Shakespeare Summer
festival was held at Stratford-on-Avon
during the past week. Eight plays of
Sweetest Shakespeare" and Sheridan's
School for Scandal" were presented
by the festival company in the moving
picture theater, which serves as a
temporary home for the Legitimate"
pending completion of the structure
which is to replace the old Memorial
Theater, happily destroyed by fire:
happily, because 1t was probably the
ugliest building ever erected.
Francois directed by the French
Chamber, Premier Poincare instructed
M Claudel, the French Ambassador at
Washington, to "open new negotiations
with the United States looking to post
ponement until December, 81 of the
payment for Army stocks" and M
Claudel promptly carried out his in
structions. The response to M. Claudel's
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Crime Body Resists Efforts to Limit
Its Scope to Prohibition Laws Alone

crowded and pushed city dweller, suf-
fering many adverse educational fac
tors, does not lag far behind. Our
primitive gregariouSness has evolved
into social cohesion, which now has
many centuries of experience behind it.
Men may be selfish, but when con-
fronted with the question they con-
cede that the other fellow has right
to his life, his property, his opinions
and his ambition to better his station.
When there appears q conspicuous
increase in the evidences OF anti-social
and criminal tendencies. either some
thing must be wrong with our laws or
there is fault with the vast and COM
plex aggregate of educational forces
which influence our opinions. our con-
victionS, our impulses and our conduct.
This is the assignment given the
Commission on Law Enforcement and
Observance by President Hoover. The
personnel of the commission includes
distinguished educators of both sexes.
In the Presidents cabinet is the head
of a great university. In the Federal
service under his supervision Is the
Bureau of Education, with at least
skeletonized staff of specialists and
trained investigators. There Is, there
fore, both talent and some facilities
with which to give direction and effect
education and law observance.
This aspect of the problem involves
limitation rather than scope. The
Commission on Law Enforcement and
Observance cannot put all our civiliza-
ton under the magnifying glass In a
brief period. However, the Presidents
paramount interest In law observance
assures some considerable attention to
education as q factor.
Given adequate measure of public
support, the observance segment of the
Presidents prospecting adventure into
the state of the Union Is pregnant with
possibilities Of q renaissance of the
homelier virtues by which people think
straight and feel right about the
thought. In the past the coincidence
of straight thinking and healthy emo
tional habits has made law observance
largely a matter of course. Moreover,
usually such q fortunate partnership
had previously given us laws that lent
themselves to observance.
There is no opportunity in all this for
legislative sleight of hand, executive
miracle, nor judicial revelation. 1t
takes years to mold individual char
acter. It takes centuries to fashion q
nation. The President viii be satisfied
II we only honestly and competentfy
check over our foundations,
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NSO1AbAAuC0 GAOAAA AASb es0N.L
and with some show of innocence
packed the commission. He could have
obtained q strong case for modification
or even notification of the Volstead act.
Then he would have had to deal with
a Congress which Is now overwheln-
ingly dry-and without present indica-
lions of reversal to wetness. 1t would
not be impossible to distill instruction
out of such procedure.
Take the other side OF the question.
Let us suppose the President were un-
Qualifledly dry. He could in similar
manner, and with equal ease, justify
enforcement of the Volstead act.
1t appears wiser to the President to
ignore particular prejudiceS and pre-
judgments, to have facts aScertained, to
make experimental boringS into bal
anced public opinion, to lay the findings
before our people in a manner which
will minimize emotional factors, and in
due time through honestly conducted
referenda determine the deliberate and
matured judgment Of the country. Then
a campaign of education based on fact
to sustain this Judgment and to trans
late it into appropriate official and per-
sonal conduct. This program unfortu-
nately will not satisfy fanatics, profess
sional advocates and some politicians.
IL is program WHICH uOlQS law Op-
Servance at q premium.
Let us examine the matter of law OBJ
servance. 1t is unnecessary to dwell
upon its vital import to democratic gov
eminent. Law observance first pre-
sumes q knowledge of the law. That
aspect in generally hterate country
like our own Is not especially difhcult.
Our facilities for the dissemination Of
information quickly and completely are
unmatched. With radio, even nliteracy
Is much less of barrier to knowledge,
Having gained q knowledge of the
law, then there must be an impulse
to- obey the law, an impulse which
springs either from fear of punishment
or from an agreeable thrill Of con-
science feeling Of personal satisfac-
ton In the act of obedience. When
the majority, or even an influential
minority, obey the statute through fear
Of punishment we have sullen, highly
explosive condition of law observance
we have Russia under the Cars. Gun
problems of enforcement multiply.
Save where heredity has imposed
insuperable handicaps, the normal
American citizen brought up In the
countryside continues to manifest
health impulses Affecting his conduct
As an individual AID IS 9 citizen, The
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BY WILLIAM A. Whitley.

ISOLATION Director st. Eiizabeth's Hospital.
w VILLA GATHERS war novel,
n lone of Ours" closes on a
wv high and happy note-the
death of the hero in battle.
What would normally be
regarded as tragedy becomes in
this story happy ending, because
in his last hour the young American
feels that his sacrifice is part of some
divine plant to lift humanity to a
higher level than it has ever trod be-
fore. He catches a vision Of the slow
but steady upward struggle of civiliZa-
ton and is proud to have played his
part in it. At the moment OF losing
his own life he has the supreme hap
piness of knowing that life itself is
worth while.
There are thousands of people in the
world, mostly those of the highest intel
lectual types, who would give their
every material possession If they could
share this boys confidence in the I'LL
innate destiny of mankind. Such peo-
pie, observing the chaos or the utility
Of isolated periods in their own history
or that of the race, have come to be-
lieve, with Macbeth, that life is
A tale told by an idiot, full Of
sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
So believing. they sometimes throw
their lives away.
other people, just as pessimistic at