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The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
Alaska Notes Gathered From Teyritsgial ;. Exchanges. :.

Announcement. was HfaAeN by the Alaska Railroad that effective imme- diately ,the train service .wil be cut to one round trip per week instead of two, according, to the Fairbanks News Miners.
 A train will leave. Seward for Fair bahkS evervsSaturday morning, arriv- ing at Fairbanks Sunday afternoon. Soa,thbound, the train will leave Fair banks Thousday morning. and arrive atsSeseard the following night.
 Although the announcement did not so: state. it is believed that the order is Ia sequel to the investigation of the Senate committee hearings and was made as a means to reduce operating
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
NOTICE TO, CREDITORS.

. Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, have this day been ap-. pointed administrator of the estate of F. C.. H-i Spencer, deceased. All per- sons having claims against the estate of. the aforesaid deceased F. c. H. Spencer must present them, with proper vouchers attached, to the aforesaid administrator within six Dated at Takotna, Alaska, this the. 12th day of September, 1880.
 CHRIS PETERSON,
 Administrator of the Estate of II. the aforesaid deceased.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
FLAT AND IDITAROD,

FLAT, Sept. 16<-The. boat. left at 12 noon. today for Holy Cross, having as passengers, Sam Kincaid, .bound for a three-months' vacation; John Parks and family, for Holy Cross; Matt Vaughn and Billy Worm, both bound for the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn.,
 Mission is due to leave Fairbanks for
 The plane owned by the Holy Cross Holy Cross today.
 The -Banco Mo- I is now hauling the Banco No. ? and barge onto the skids for winter.
 The Sea Wolf is getting ready to take of with the ast mail today.
 Pete Williams, native. trader of Akiak, is reported missings having been on hunting trip for some days. A searching party left. Akiak yester- day to hunt for him.
 Jack Brink, in Iditarod, with his mule. ran hay hook through his left palm, causing bad wound.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. o M, F, Fleishman, his heirs, sue

10 M. IT. T lelSnHdH, HIS NS1IS, .buOe
 ceSsorS or assigns:
 You, and each of yoou, are hereby. notified that l, the undersigned, your co-owner, have expended in labor and improvements the sum of not less than, one hundred dollars for. the years 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929, upon the Mon- day Morning placer mining claim, To- cated at. the head of. Flat creek, in Otter Precinct,, Fourth Division.i Territory of Alaska, in order to hold said claim under the provisions of Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the amend. metns thereto concernings annual
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
WINS MARATHON SWIM ANH s SETS NEW WORLD RECORD

:. T0RONTO.-MelvIn, Nelson of Fort Dodge, Iowa, won the 15-mile Canadian national exhibition mara thon swim and the prize of $1O,000. Isador .Spondor of Port Colborne, On tario, was second. and, William Coll of New York third. The winners time was 2 hours 43 minutes 361-5 seconds, new world record.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
TAKoTNA RADIO STATION.

Radio. schedules now in effect Ia kotna. Radio. Station:
 Week Days. Send Nulato, .7:45sa. m. Send Receive. Iditarod, 8:30 a. m. Receive Fairbanks, 10:30 a. m. Send Nulato, 2:80 p. m. Receive Fairbanks, 5 p. m.
 Sundays and Holidays. Send. Nulato, 7:45 a. m. Send Nlato, ,4:45 p. m. Receive Fairbanks, 5:S0 p. m..
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13

MYSTERdE6-ARa sincere seekers for the great truth and power known to the, ancienfs, write for the free book "ighti oft Egypt" mailed without obligation, to occult students. Librarian 11l!. Amorc Temple, San Joss,. Oalif.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13

Arriving here early in the week from tn A. R. c. camp were Mrs. D. E. Clough,. John Sinclair, Charles ulch, Lee Lamprecht. Owen Gray and Jesse Haugh. Messrs. Sinclair and Ulch dAnarted. the following day. for McGrath..,.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13

Emory Valentine, pioneer of Alas ka since1sSe, passed away at Juneau few days ago as the result of stomach troubles, from which he had suffered for several years. He was mayor of Juneau sir times.
 MT. Valentine was born in Dowa- giac, Mich, in 1858. His mother, was a descendant of the Bradfords,, who came to America on the Malfower.
 He built one of the first wharves at Skagway and brought in the. first million feet of lumber to .huild homes.
 In recognition of services rendered during the World Warshe emperor of Japan conferred upon, him. the Order of the Rising Sun..
 Valentine owned, asjewelry store and much property :here...
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13
CARNERA KNOCKSaOUT PAT
 McC ARTHY IN SECOND ROUND

NEWARK, NJ. J.. Sept. .9.-Primo Carnera knocked out Pat. McCarthy of Boston in the second round of a scheduled 1O-round hout.
 A right to, the jaw ended the bout, after Mccarthy had gone down for counts of one and nine in the same round. Camera weighed .265 pounds, and Mccarthy. 214 pounds.
 Misses Helen and Elsie Rieck. were amongs.. the. weeks visitors from Ophif.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13

expenses. and thus cut down the de- ficit. The Mckinley Park station is also
 closed. This station is only kept open tin the summer months during the tourist season.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13

At Ketchikan, less than three hours after warrant had been sworn out for his arrest; Deputy Marshal. Ernest Jones made 160-nlile airplane trip, pieRed,,up A. Owens, charged with violaton of the game avs, and haled him into the commissioners court at ,Ketchkan, where he. pleaded guilty and was fined $500.
The Kusko times., 1930-09-13

Del Thompson ,.was B. Monday. ar- rival from Ophir.,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
No Holiday PardOns

No pardons or paroles were given in In
diana at Christmas time That appeals TO
the hard-boiled and unthinking, who have
an idea that hard punishment is cure for
crime.
Perhaps such inaction of Governor Les
lie at this time may call attention to the
present pardon and parole system IN the
state and result in changes by the leglsla-
ture.
With prisons overcrowded and asking Tor
more money with which to build additions,
it may be conceded that this state has failed
to solve its problem of crime.
When the carefully guarded fact that
very many of these prisoners at Michigan
City and Pendleton are now idle because OF
lack of work is added, the situation demands
action.
The two most essential factors to reform
within prison are hope and work When work
is denied and hope taken away by an arbl-
trary edict that no clemency will be shown,
there is little reason to believe that those
who are sent to our prisons will come out any
better than when they went in and probably
a great deal worse physically and morally.
Largely in order to keep D. c. Stephenson
from talking the legislature under Governor
Jackson abolished the old pardon board and
placed the fate of all prisoners in the hands
of the trustees of the different institutions.
The trustees name the wardens and
keepers. That means that prisoners learn
early that the stoolpigeOn route is the only
path to any comfort within prison walls, or
any hope of release.
The trustees of the prisons are presumed
to be business men and women who try to
keep down expenses. Their attitude of mind,
if they are efficient, totally units them to act
as a parole or pardoning board. Certainly at
present this is the situation.
The next legislature should restore the
pardon board and make it's decisions binding
upon the governor. The board should be
composed of men who know something about
the social problems involved and modern
methods of treating crime.
There is little virtue in being just hard
boiled. Destroying all hope in the minds Of
five thousand men and boys is a rather seri-
GUS matter, for even a governor to contem-
plate with JUNCTION.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
American Dictatorship

There is more meat in that Norris-Lucas row than
appears to the naked eye. Lucas is nobodys fool
He knows what he is trying to do. The big boys
back of him know what they want They want
senate that will obey orders of the man picked by
the President to run the Republican nation COM
mittee.
When they reduce the senate to the same blind
obedience that they now get from the house, the
powers behind the throne will have rubber-stamp
congress- Then the President and the supreme court
will rule the country.
The Lucas outburst against Norris isn't of
spontaneous combustion. 1t appears to be part OF
a carefully planned campaign to organize the Repub
lican party as big business, run business
principles.
The hand-pcked executive committee of the ma
tional committee headed by an executive picked by
the President, will be the board of directors.
If insurgency is killed and the senate Republicans
ruled by Watson and Smoot, just as house Republic
ans are run by Longworth, Smell and Tilson, under
cleverly devised rules of the committee rules then
an executive of the national committee like Lucas
viii be able to make congress obey presidential orders.
one-half of the job is done. The house has been
reduced to slavery under the committee on rules.
Only the senate which has no rules to give small
group control stands between the Republicanism
of Lincoln and absolute dictatorship by those who
put up the campaign funds and expect to get what
thtey want for their money.
It will make temporary trouble. of course. It may
lose presidential election. But that will be worth
while if the desired end is accomplished in the
meantime. For let nobody think for minute that
the forces back of this scheme to ensave congress
going to neglect the Democratic party.
The thin edge OF the wedge to split Democrats
from insurgent Republicans was started when Leader
Robinson began leading senate Democrats toward CO.
operation with Republican regulars.
The natural game would be to have the forces in
the background control both party presidential
nations in 1892 subdue insurgency in both parties.
and, as a holding company, make sure of winning.
matter which party loses.
There already are indications that some Demo-
cratic senators playing the game with their eyes
open. Watch them help prevent coalition of any
kind with progressive Republicans and help Repub-
lcan regulars beat all insurgents into subsection
defeat
The uncertain element is the people themselves.
They may get mad enough to go of a rampage,
insurge all the place and insist that this republic
still is government of the people by the people and
for the people. Otherwise. We ar our way to
a dictatorship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
Youth on the Bench

one of the most striking things about Judge VIII
liam Clark of New Jersey who ratified judicial bones
by mis- dry law decision last week. is his youth He is
but &c. He was elevated to the federal bench the
almost incredible age of a. 1t is not unreasonable
to ascribe of his originality independence and
courage to his youthful vigor
The question of the age of judges and its relation
to legal conservatism is which has not received
enough emphasis Some years ago Professor Walton
H. Hamilton published an article on The Age of
Judges" in the New Republic. He showed that the
majority of judges in important courts are old
men. If Oslers injunction of suicide at so were to
be practiced the higher bench would be almost
desolate.
Most men at the age Of many judges suffer from
ganduar, cardiac sclerotic and other changes which
limit and impede mental fexibilty cultural readust-
ment and intellectual adventure
Another important point is the archaic nature of
the mental content Of the minds of most men of this
sort. Our civilization changes rapidly Many Judge
now adjoining the bench was educated and read law
before Grover Cleveland started his first term as
President.
Yet civilization and our problems have changed
more in the last fifty years than in the previous
thousand. Many judge would be mentally more
at home with Francis Bacon than with Judge Clark
There is nothing like an old man who remains
mentally youthful and receptive The combination
of wide experience and a melloS wisdom with intel
lectual aertness and curiosity is unmatchable But
such men are rare-and most rare upon the bench.
lifetime Of devotion to that collection of tradi-
tion and technicalties which is law is the most
fatal of all experiences far fostering mental
aggressiveness and urbane tolerance is concerned.
Some do weather the battle, but they are rare birds
in more than one sense.
Osler was probably extreme in putting so as the
age at which reach the end of our maximum use
funesS but it would not be unreasonable to suggest
go as the desirable age for the automatic retirement
of judges.
This would cost us the services OF some mellow
savants, but it also would us from the obstruc
tive tactics of and hundreds of Judges whose
prejudces and adanant conservatism are far harder
than their arteries
1t would deprive us of Holmes, Brandeis, ct al,
but the student of American legal history knows all
100 well that even this price is not too high to paw
Tor the delverance which would have resulted in
thousands OF other cases. Moreover any great pro-
gressve Jurst who was forced to retire at so might
be even more valuable as writer and teacher than
as judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
REASON BY FREDERICK I1Hn1S

THE anthropologists of the Smithsonian institute
i come to bat with the statement that the high
brow is not sign of brains
We've been so busy making a living We haven't
had much time to think about it, but we're inclined
to the belief that the high brow is more frequently
sign OF approaching badness.
The longer you live the more vol, lose faith in the
significance of cranial architecture
success and failure seem to have way of ignoring
the domes OF those they visit and you can recall MANY
VINO are very impressive, but who never cut any ice
TO speak OF, and many who are entirely innocent of
magnihcence, but who have brought home the bacon
in large quantities
THE uniformed gentlemen who stand in front OF
the city store are usually stately while the rro
prietor may have head like peanut and if you've
ever noticed it, the chauffes of many city cars re-
sennle world conquerors, while the captain of indus
try riding behind, frequently resembles a shrimp
The anthropologist is right about it.
So don't let your looking glass discourage YOU.
Even if your phz would not look good on a post
age stamp you may go on tinto the world and turn
things upside down, for it's what YOU do with what
you've got that counts, not to mental acreage YOU
carry under your derby.
RUT it is liability to resemble some great char
II acter. We recall a number of gentlemen who
were told they resembled Daniel Webster Abraham
Lincoln and others, who never amounted to a con-
tinental.
They waited to cash in the resemblance and
they waiting still.
Speaking of Lincoln, h. would have been hope
lessy out OF it. had the SLY line of the countenance
been the final word for he slanted back while two of
our greatest White House failures. James Buchanan
a1d Warren G. Harding we're very altitudinous-in
the Uranium.
We recall certain city lawyer who once came to
our town TO try and he looked like any number
of intellectual dreadnaughts and on the other side Of
the local lawyer whose top piece suggested
a hickory nut. but that local lawyer trimmed his
grand opponent until the carnage was awful 10 behold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
Keep Up Wages

President Hoover is to be congratulated on his de-
cson that contractors the huge federal construc
ton program must pay labor at prevailing wages in
the communities affected.
This provision should have been put in the relief
legislation as it passed congress- The Couzens amend
ment for that purpose was defeated But now. apuar
emily the President has saved the day by making it
an executive policy.
Obviously, relief construction which cut wages
would be worse than useless because it would drive
GOWN the compensation OF competing labor and thus
reduce rather than stimulate the national purchasing
power of consumers.
Such cut-throat policy would tend to lower all
wages, and probably would become the excuse for a
general an-labor movement to destroy standards and
safeguards slowly built during the last decade.
General wage slashes would be the final blow to
already depressed industry. This is as true odav as
when the President laid down the principle to his first
business conference Immediately after the Wall
Street crash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
A Worthy Judge

In selecting Joseph c. Hutchinson Jr. of Houston
to become an associate justice of the fifth circuit
court of-eppeas. President Hoover has made out
standing appointment.
Selection of the Texas federal iurist for promotion
to the higher bench was not matter of politics. for
Hutchinson is a Democrat. 1t was not master po-
litical stroke"
AS we see it, the appointment made on the
only basis compatible with free judiciary-the basis
Of merit.
Hutcheson the man who upheld labor's rights in
the now famous suit of the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks against The T. & N o. win add to the appellate
kcnch a broad and liberal judicial mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BFoSS

issue. What has happened, however,
is that a red herring has been
drawn across the trail of a serious
investigation by the public mind Of
the integrity of the judiciary. And
by integrity I do not mean honesty.
ut is being held up as an I'M
paralleled sin that a judge should
have bought his robes. So that now,
instead of asking of a judge whether
he has human understanding or
psychological insight, we ask him,
Are you honest?' Honesty certain
ly is poor substitute for human
ity.
Honesty, after all, is false issue,
It is not only those who pay cash
for the job that barter their office
What difference does it make
whether a judge renders a decision
favorable to a certain person be-
cause the latter has paid him or
because he is merely a friend?
"And such decisions, influenced
by something other than the i'm
mediate facts, will be made as long
as the men on the bench are flesh
and blood and not automatons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
HEALTH
Oil Creates Rashes on Workers Skins

Exposure to creosote, asphalt, and
other products of tar sometimes is
followed by development of tumors.
One of che most interesting forms
is called mule spinners' cancer.
This occurs principally among work
ers in the cotton industry in Eng
land.
Lowgrade oils used for the
fabrication of the machine get on
the skin. Neglect of personal clean
illness permits constant irritation
and cancer follows. Tar and pitch
are particularly irritating in this
manner.
SCOT, lampblack, and peat produce
irritations Of the skin which some
times are followed by warty growths
and cancer.
Fortunately, knowledge has be-
come widely disseminated as to the
nature of these growths and steps
are being taken in all industries
concerned to protect workers against
the possibilities mentioned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
Maybe It's MumbIety Peg

REORE often than not, some
Iva worthwhile effort is inter-
rupted, if not brought to halt, by
such a petty squabble as would dis
gust two old women in blind alley
whose chief business in life is
abusing each other.
Nothing has become easier in this
land of so-called system, expertness,
and efficiency than to divert public
attention from important matters
by a personal row.
Let a dog fight occur on Main
street, and those same merchants
who have installed all kinds Of de-
vices to cut costs, insure economy,
and protect themselves against dis
honesty will run out, leaving their
cash tills unguarded, to watch it.
Let a city councilman call the
mayor a crook, or vice versa, and
who cares how the argument started,
or what it was about?
Are we building a nation, or play
ing a sublimated form of mumblety
peg?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
Land Went Fast

TINE rapid disposal of the public
Il lands dates from 1862. with
passage of the homestead act, the
land grant college act, and the act
providing for grant of land for
the first transcontinental railroad,
Professor Schmidt points out.
under provisions of the home
stead law, the government during
the period ended with June 80. 1929,
disposed of 232, 259, $50 acres of land
an area equal to six times the
area of Iowa." he says.
1.-THE preemption act of 1841, the
timber culture act of 1873, the des-
ert act of 1877, and the timber and
stone act of 1878, together with the
right granted under the homestead
law, enabled any person to acquire
the title to 1,l20 acres of land.
Large areas of timber and min
eral lands were acquired under other
laws. The utilization of inferior
lands was made possible by the
Carey act of 1894, the reclamation
act of 1902, and subsequent legisla-
ton.
1.-THE huge grants of land to states
and corporations for construction
of railroad, wagon roads and canals,
and for advancement of education
also facilitated the disposal of the
public domain.
1.-THE establishment of forest and
indian reserves further reduced the
amount of public land available for
private entry.
"This legislation made possible
the rapid alienation of public lands.
The report of the commissioner of
the general land Office shows that
in spite of the liberal policy of the
federal government the remaining
area of public land, umappropriated-
and unreServed, amounted on June
80, 1929, to 190O31, 722 acres, located
for the most part in the mountain
and Pacific coast states.
The greater portion of this area.
however, never will be available for
agricultural purposes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
System Is silly

XXTE keep telling ourselves that
w the best way to help people
is to give them a chance to help
themselves, but when the periodic
slump comes along, as it always
has and probably always will, we
are not ready to 90 anything, eX-
cept fall back on the breadline, or
soup kitchen, even though money
is so plentiful that the banks are
glad to place it on call at 215 per
cent.
In times of prosperity, we spend
extravagantly for luXuries and
sport. When depression strikes, we
suddenly become obsessed with the
idea that nothing is worth buying,
or doing, unless it represents neces-
sity.
As a matter of common sense,
useless work would do more good
right now than it did in 1929, be-
cause it is needed to give people
employment and put money in cir
culation.
But we could find a great deal
Of work that isn't useless and the
cash with which to pay for it, if
we only thought so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-27
47d0AkF b1TE9el
EAMNlVGRSARYI
8H.
KEPLER'S BIRTH
December %

0N Dec. 81, 1871, Johann Kepler,
" one of the worlds greatest as
tronomers, was born at Wurttem-
berg, Germany.
AS a child he was sickly. but
exceedingly precocious. At the age
of II he received his bachelors
degree from the University Of Tu-
bingen.
Though he knew little Of the sub
ject, Kepler unwillingly was made
to accept the class in astronomy at
Graz in 1894.
Forced into this branch Of learn
ing, he made the best Of it. He be-
came imperial mathematician and
astrologer and made the acquaint-
ance Of such scientists as Calico
and Brahe.
Kepler's chief title to fame is his
discovery of the three laws Of
planetary motion. Other important
features of his work were in regard
to gravitation and the explanation
Of the tides by lunar attraction.
In 1929 he called the attention
Of astronomers to the approaching
transits Of Mercury and Venus.
That Of Mercury, which occurred
on Nov. Z, 1881, was the first transit
Of planet across the sun ever OBJ
served.
Kepler did pioneer work on sew
eral important scientific subjects.