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The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
ROCKEFELLER CONTRIBUTES TO UNEMPLOYMENT FUND

NEW YORK, Dec. 9-A contribu- tion of one million dollars was made by John D. Rockefeller and his son to the city fund for unemployment. This swells the total amount avail able for relief to $4,139,000. The city seeks six million dollars to see that it's huge throng of virtual paupers does not starve or freeze during the winter.
 Meanwhile dispatches from Wash ington told how Congress continued it's quest for federal relief as a statement came from William Green President of the American Fedora tion of Labor, that the army of idle is increasing and that crisis lis already on our hands,"
 While an attack was launched on President Hoover's request for 150 millions for relief work, measures carrying many millions of dollars for treasury and post office depart ment were introduced in Congress as the first major step in furthering federal aid.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
FISHERMEN FORM ALASKA SEWERS ASSOCIATION

At a meeting held last Thursday evening in the American Legion hall, small group of local fisher men organized a Wrangell chapter of the Alaska seiners Association. The following were elected officers of the association: President, Peter John vice-p e-president, Jorgen Ron ming; secrenry-treasurer, Chanles Moore. Future meetings of the or ganization will be held on the first Saturday of each month, and the meeting place will be in the Legion hall, providing arrangements can be made
 The Alaska Seiners Association is to be composed of seiners, gill net ters, trollers and hand trollers, and membership in the organization is restricted to boat owners and mem bers of crews of boats actually en- gagged in the fishing industry. Due for boat owners are $5 year and for members of crews, $2 a yean
 Other locals of the organization. which has it's headquarters in Ketchikan, are being formed in the First Division, and the purpose of the organization as a whole, as eX- plained in the constitution is 10 work for the betterment of condt- tions in the fishing industry from the standpoint of the fishermen.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
PRESBYTERIAN
Russell E. Pederson. Pastor

RuSoCA T. 1CuCISUu3 1dSIOI
 The Sunday services are being conducted in the grade school build ing The mid-week service, We'd neday at T: 30 D. m. is in the manse
 10:30 a. m.-Morning worship. Your Father Interpreted by Jesus. "
 12 Noon-Bible School
 D. m.-Christian Endeavor Mrs. Donald Austin is the leader using the subject: Finding Opportunities for Christian Service"
 7:S0 D. m.-Evening Service "The Prince of Peace"
 Isa 9:6: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
NEW FLOAT AT FOOT OF SHAKES STREET FINISHED

The new float for the accommodn- tion of persons living on boats an- chored in the bay or tied up at the city float, was completed last week according to a report made to the council by Chet Lloyd, superinten- dent of streets. The float is 90 feet long and extends at right angles to the approach to the old floating can nery at the foot of Shakes Street.
 It is the intention of the coun- cil that this float be used for small boats only; power boats may tie up there for not more than 30 minutes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
POLICE IMPLICATED IN EXT0RTI0N PLOT

NEW YORK, Dec. 9-Twenty- seven members of the police vice squad were identified today by Chile Mapocha Acuna, stool pigeon, as having participated in extortion and frame-ups perpetrated against girls and young women who were made to pay graft money to escape impris- onment, although very frequently they had committed no crime.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
NOBEL PRIZE OFFERED LEWIS DECLARED INSULT TO AMERICA

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9-The Nobel literature award to Sinclair Lewis was an insult to America, in the opinion of Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton. Dr. Van Dyke was formerly U. S. minister to the Meth erlands.
 The award of the Nobel prize to the author of Main Street" and other novels that scoff at America and it's traditions is an insult, said Van Dyke. They handed Lewis bouquet but gave America a dirty back-handed compliment, in the opinion of Van Dyke.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
NINE ARE ENROLLED IN NIGHT GLASS FOR CITIZENSHIP

In response to the call for stu dents who wish to prepare them selves for citizenship, the following nine men enrolled in the night class held in the grade school last Monday night: Vasili Batikis, Olaf Hansen, H. Hustoft, John Kaer, Bjorne Meldahl, Peter More, John Stevenson, J. Sundberg and Gustav Sunell.
 Glasses will be held on Monday and Thursday evenings, SupeMnten- dent Rasmussen says, and it is not too late for others to enroll. The course includes American history and English.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
GOV. PARKS EN ROUTE TO DENVER ON ALAMEDA

Gov. George A. Parks passed through Wrangel on the steamer Alameda early yesterday morning, enroute to Denver to spend the hol- idays with his parents, MT. and Mrs James Parks. He will return soon after the first of the year.
 Architect Ellsworth Storey has completed the plans and specifca- tions for the buildings of the Shoe maker Bay industrial school, the governor said, and the plans have already been forwarded to Washing ton.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
MRS. M. 0. JOHNSON SUFFERS BROKEN ARM IN FALL

A slip on the icy walk near her home resulted in serious injury to Mrs. M. o. Johnson last Monday morning. X-ray photographs taken at the hospital showed that her left arm was broken a little above the wrist. The patient is recovering nicely
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
THE CHURCHES
EPISCOPAL
H p Corser. Rentnr

n. r. COrSer, hect0r
 10:45 a. m.-Theme of Lecture Wanted: Real Leaders"
 12 Noon-Church school
 ' D. m.-In the gymnasium with the young people.
 Look for the notice of the enter tainment in the gymnasium We'd nesday evening, Dec. IF. For the benefit of the church and gymnas- ium.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-11
BOY SCOUTS ARE TO HAVE LOCAL TROOP; MEETING FRIDAY

Youths over 12 years of age who are interested in scout work are re- quested to be present at a meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'coek in the grade school. Supt. Rasmussen, Rev. Russell Pederson and Dr. R. N. Scruby will have charge of the meeting. Steps will be taken to or ganize a boy scout troop here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

ington, the Conservatives let loose upon
the Liberal cabinet at Ottawa a terrific
bombardment Of critical pressure. The
traditional paladins of free trade in
Canada. the Liberals, found it expedient
forthwith to institute semi-protective
measures against the projected new
American tariffs on Canadian products.
The Dunning countervailing duties were
the result, coupled with extended pref
erence" for British goods This was
good as far as it went, retorted the
Conservatives, but it does not go far
enough. So throughout the parlia-
mentary campaign now ending Mac
kenzie King and his cohorts have
come under a whitening fire for failing
to meet the Yankee tariff menace with
adequate reprisal tactics.
The Liberals now hold the fort at
Ottawa by a slender, but safe, majority
in the House of Commons. They appear
confident of retaining office, But If
they do, new orientation of Canadian
policy toward the United States is in
evitable. The day when Canada was
willing to turn the other cheek to her
powerful neighbor to the south is gone.
Henceforward the United States has to
reckon with Dominion thoroughly
conscious of its economic potentialities,
entirely determined to assert itself in
keeping Herewith, aggressively Jealous
of its status as sovereign people, and
no longer inclined to enact the igno-
minious role of an American doormat.
Our billion-dollar trade with Can
ada is nothing to be sneezed at. 1t
tops our exports. If it is to be preserved
and if the friendship of great and
growing country is not to be sacrificed,
the flexible machinery of the new tariff
law will need to be. speedily and eff
fectively set in motion. No one who has
read the campaign speeches which have
reverberated across the continent for
the past month, all the way from Que
bee to Vancouver, can doubt that
Canada henceforward means business
with the United States on the basis Of
the square deal, or as little as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

have been caused by the gasoline tanks
catching on fire or the motor cracking
under the strain. Appearing out of a
cloud at an altitude Of about two
thousand feet the ship was seen sud-
denly to lose its tail, followed by the
shearing of of wing. The other wing
fioated away from the plane and the
fuselage with bullet-like force crashed
TO the earth.
1t is such accidents as these that keep
many people from flying, although in
the modern airplane occurrences of this
sort are exceedingly rare. A possible ex-
PLANTATION might be that, like the ILL
fated Shenandoah, the plane was caught
in some mysterious disturbance of the
upper strata and wrenched apart. 1t
may have been struck by lightning, of
course, or it may have had structural
weaknesses that were not discovered be-
fore the take-off If this we're the case
however, 1t would seem that the whole
ship would have appeared SO obviously
unsafe that it never would have been
taken aloft, because the TAIL wings and
fuselage came of almost simultaneously.
At any event, it was the type of ac-
cident that as the science of aviation
progresses will occur with less and less
frequency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
Unemployment Aid
Proposals Hopeful

From the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat.
AS its contribution to efforts to i'm
prove unemployment conditions a joint
committee of the National Association
of Manufacturers and the National In
dustrial Council has suggested eight
possible remedies, according to report
made public by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Federal Department
of Labor. The committees suggestions
followed expressions of objection to GER
tain legislative enactments and taxation
for unemployment insurance which had
been proposed.
While the committee declares that
il does not recommend any single one
of its suggested measures, it says that
each should be studied carefully. Here
are the eight suggestions:
Unemployment insurance in industry
a dismissal wage" for employees who
have served for q long period but are
not old enough or have not been en-
ployed long enough for the regular COM
pany pension, sterilization OF industry
and employment, planned public works
for the sterilization of employment,
sterilization Of the dollar. unemploy-
ment insurance through insurance COM
panies, reduction of taxation In In
dustry and seasonal wage adjustments.
Just how we could go about what
the committee calls 1.-The regularization
of the purchasing power of the dollar"
is fathoms too deep for the layman.
That looks a bit nebulous to the UNI
learned. But we can understand how
unemployment insurance might be ap-
piled, how planned public works would
help and how "dismissal-wage" sys-
TEN might be applied through holding
up portions Of wages to be paid to
the employer during idleness, or by ex-
tending insurance benefits, or by sew
eral other methods.
But whether the employers sugges-
tons are practicable or not they show
an earnest spirit of willingness to CO.
operate in solving the unemployment
problem. That is hopeful sign in
itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
The Canadian Elections.

Canada, like The United States, is
electing a new National Legislature
this year, and the campaign across the
border is now drawing to close. Poll
ing takes place July 20. The Dominion
parliamentary system is vastly the
superior of ours, in respect OF speed.
The House of Commons and Senate
elected next week will take ONCE a
fortnight later. They do not wait a
year and a month, as they would under
our practice, whereby a Congress
chosen IN 1880 does not actually COM
nence to function until 1881.
= AS In the case of the celebrated reci-
procity campaign of twenty-odd years
ago, the Canadians once again are
waging a national political contest
which has the American tariff for its
paramount issue. Indeed, the question
Of Canadas whole relationship to the
United States is the bone of contention.
Premier Mackenzie Kings Liberal gov
eminent is fighting for its life against
q Conservative onslaught based upon
the genera CilhI SS WEI ttiS ~Oi'AAAAAOAi'
under the Liberal regime of the past
four years. has been "subservient" to
America and American interests.
Canada, the Conservatives insist, has
400 habitually taken it lying down in
che teeth of American tariff provo
cation" radio "autocracy," prohibition
"pretensions" emigration control de-
mands," st. Lawrence waterway die
tation" and other matters which offend
the Dominions virile sense OF nation
hood. The Mackenzie King govern
ment is indicted, in other words, for
being pro-American when 1t ought to
have been militantly pro-Canadian.
When the Hawley-Smoot tariff was
~ the verge Of enactment at Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
A Strange Accident.

II is not the prominence OF the
victims that makes the tragic airplane
accident over Croydon, England, yester-
day Of international interest. 1t is
the strangeness Of disaster that took
a toll Of six lives. In the early days OF
flying, airplanes frequently lost wings
or fell to pieces while in fight The
World War, however, taught the neces-
sity for strong structures, and following
the war commercial companies built
into their products the greatest possible
stability. Yet, more than ten years
afterward, on a good flying day, plane
literally tears itself to pieces in the air,
hurting its six occupants to their death
and scattering its parts over an area Of
more than four miles.
According to eyewitness accounts
there was no explosion such as might
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
War Influence
Appraised as Career Ends

uaper saws as to his ultimate position:
''He declared his remarks had been as
torted in translations of his earlier
books. He did not think, with Neitzsche,
that man was made for war, although
he maintained to the last that war
might, in some cases, be good thing
for civilization"
THAT he should have passed almost out
of mind and be now only recalled by the
fact of his demise, shows how small
place even large figure can hold LOT
any length of time after the shadow OF
obscurity begins to fall over him."
HE did not serve his country very
well by his doctrines" in the opinion OF
the New York Evening Post, for they
aroused Germany's enemies, and OF the
type of men lin all nations" that he IN
spired, that paper declares: 1t Is 10 De
hoped that their generation is passing
away and that their successors VIII be
men who know war for a ruthless bust
ness. but refuse to surrender the spirit
of common humanity to its necessities.
He was the perfect product OF MILL
tarism" observes the Jackson Citizen
Patriot "a devotee Of the science of
killing large numbers in the most eft1-
cient manner. Germany learned in the
World War that domination by mill
tary machine brought only rum III ING
end. The Germans became convinced
that their idols had feet of clay, after
all. And as the old goose-steppers pass
from the picture, one by one, the mod
ern German Republic seems to draw
farther away from the arrogant empire
of pre-war days"
During the war" recalls the Provi-
dence Bulletin, "he resumed COM
mand of cavalry along the Eastern
front, and, while his services We're not
brilliant or distinguished, he showed
himself to be a capable officer. He
went out of the news upon the down.
fall of the war caste and for the past
few years has been entirely out of the
public eye He was an unrepentant
warrior, however, maintaining his pre-
misses to the end and blaming defeat on
the weaklings who had pushed into
power He served an extremely useful
purpose by his writings-for the cause
Of the allies"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC j. HASKIN.

This is a special department devoted
to the handling of inquiries. You
have at your disposal an extensive or
gani2ation in Washington to serve you
In any capacity that relates to informa-
ton. Write your question, your name,
and your address clearly, and inclose
2 cents in coin or stamps for reply.
Send to The Washington Star In
formation Bureau. Frederic j. Haskin,
director, Washington, d. c.
@. What women are considered Gold
Star Mothers?-E. M @.
A. American Gold Star Mothers are
those who sons are either buried in
American cemeteries in France. were
lost at sea, or whose resting places are
unknown.
q. Has Alaska a police force similar
to the Royal Northwest Mounted
Police?-M. H.
A. There is no special police force
in Alaska except in the cities. There
are United States marshals and deputy
marshals. who come under the De
partment of Justice. In addition to
these the Bureau of Interior has a
few special agents used in the sup
preston of LIQUOR traffic among the
natives. The Prohibition Bureau also
has agents in Alaska who are used for
the suppression Of the liquor traffic.
@. When did the Hartford Courant
become a daily newspaper?-H. MEG.
A. 1t became a daily September IL,
1887. 1t was established in 1854 and
was published weekly.
@. What is the origin of the term
"ballyhoo?"-E. P. A.
A. The term signifies the harangue
of a ballyhoo-man or spieler before
cheap show, or, by metaphor, any
noisy speech 1t is from Ballyhooly.
the name of a village in Cork, once
notorious for its brawls.
@. Is it proper to carry meat to the
mouth with the fork in the left hand?
j. A. r.
A. 1t is purely an American custom
to shift the fork from the left hand
to the right hand when eating. 1t is
correct to retain the fork in the left
hand. Many children are now being
encouraged TO do this.
@. Were other Europeans settled in
India when Great Britain took posses
sion?-G. w. H.
A. The conquest of India by Great
Britain has been of exceedingly gradual
growth, the Portuguese and Dutch hav-
ing settled on the mainland of India
many years before the first attempt
was made by British settlement.
@. What is the Ninety-nine Club
W. M.
A. 1t is a national organization of
woman air pilots which was formed
last Fall at the Curtiss- Wright Air
port at Valley Stream, Long Island.
@. Was Stephen Girard rich mann
j. F. S.
A. Mr.. Girard was the richest man
in America at the time of his death
C1831) and left his residuary estate,
estimated at about six million dollars,
to establish an institution for the care
of poor white male orphans. Boys
are admitted between and 10 years of
age, and may continue in the school
until IA to 18 years OF age. At the
present time boys of Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania with only one parent liv-
ing are eligible to enter Girard College.
@. Why, in blasting rocks, does black
powder work upward and dynamite
work doWnward?-M. D.
A. The Bureau of Mines says that
this is only an apparent effect. Re-
peated experiments have shown that
in case of all explosives the tendency
Is for the explosive effect to be exerted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22

his search for the perfect pipe tobacco:
To the dyed-in-smoke fan" any old
brand is perfect.
+
But let us examine what the sage
of Concord said so long ago about the
habit which has swollen TO such dimen-
sions since he wrote:
THE believing we do something when
we do nothing Is the first alluslon OF
tobacco"
We'll, what of it. what o; it?
Mankind often believed it Is doing
something when it is doing pothing,
or very little, at the most.
1t is no new thing-perhaps 1t might
as we'll be found in smoking as in any,
thing else l..
being physically engaged, when no
amount of intelligence can onset.
The girl who chewS gum vigorously
in the seat behind you at the theater
does not need nourishment. she mas
recently had her dinner and now is
merely keeping her jaws wsgging
1t is the same with smoking, but
smoking has the added inducement OF
making the smoker feel that he is help
ing himself in his task.
Most smokers, particularly of pipes
aids their thought processes.
Others will say, with smile, that
smoking makes them look very thought
full to others, and that they md II an
excellent aid in this respect
No pipe smoker who is honest with
himself will gainsay that the appearance
of the smoker over his work is very de-
ceptive.
He appears to be giving the profound
est consideration to the task before MIN
when all the time he may be oay-oream-
ing about that big fishing expedition
which he and a few friends are going
to put on next week.
You never can tell about pipe
smoker, or any one else, for that matter.
* x 4 X
The smoker who might wish to combat
Emerson's thought, that one really does
nothing, but thinks he does something
when he smokes, might declare that
much depends upon the definitions Of
doing something" and doing nothing.
The world is indebted to such men
as Robert Louis Stevenson and Walt
Whitman for much valuable material
in regard to these definitions. The
latter said that he, too was doing some
thing although he but leaned and
loafed at his ease, observing blade OF
Summer grass"
Stevenson wrote an apology for idlerS,
in which he attempted to show that 1t
is impossible, by looking at man, to
tell whether he is merely idling, or in
truth turning over in his head a males
teal idea on something or other.
Perhaps the great French observer oil
insect life. Fabre, appeared to be doing
nothing. too, when he sat for hours
peering at things on a log, invisible
things they must have seemed to others.
Perhaps the first allusion" of tobacco
that one believes he does something, Is
not a bad allusion for the average man
to carry around with him, even If he
is doing very little.
The thought keeps him cheered up,
in a tremendously robust world, where
so many millions Of living creatures are
trying their best, with brain and Drawn
to do something in a big-and noisy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Plea.

A Plea.
In mentioning what we have done
We're modest-most Of us;
Unfinished tasks that we've begun
Are far more numerous
Than tasks accomplished. With sigh
Abandoned hopes we view,
And hope that men will judge us by
The things we meant to do.
The lofty, generous aims of youth,
The sage maturer plan,
Have not survived. Each is, in Sooth,
The sordid average man.
All, good ST. Peter, when you bid
My record forth to view,
Consider not the things l did,
But what meant to do.