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The Alaskan., 1930-05-09

matter not 2500 men are so en- gagged. The trap employees an average of two men per trap or l ,46O men-the greater portion of whom are imported from the States and paid off in Seattle. The 2,50O purse seiners are resi- dent fishermen who are paid off in Alaska, have their homes here and pay taxes and spend their money here.
 An increase in purse seine op- eration, no one can deny, would be of immeaSurable benefit to resident business.
 Resident business is willing, yea, anxious to participate in the sale of goods to fishermen. What are they doing to guarantee ev- cry fisherman good summers wage; what are they doing to help increase the fishing popu- lation. You who read this an- swer for yourself, fairly and squarely.
The Alaskan., 1930-05-09
: Gain for Alaska

A one per cent gain in conSum- ing power of Alaska home mark ct is equal to a g per cent boost in markets foreign to Alaska; and the Alaska market is within our own control while markets beyond the territory are under control of other governments, customs or financiers.
 A higher wage for the resident fishermen will give them a buy
The Alaskan., 1930-05-09

,nliscalled if the employer is free to lay off workers and thus have them carry the burden and the sacrifice every time the business barometer signals unfavorable weather.
 There is no more justifica- tion for the continued existence of business that cannot carry it's normal force in times of de- pression than for one that can not pay a living wage"
The Alaskan., 1930-05-09

culture. Secretary Hyde is lining up all his influence behind bill to appropriate $13,737,O for a campaign against, wolves, CO., votes, bobcats, cougar and other pests, by Representative Scott Leavitt.
The Alaskan., 1930-05-09
Acknowledged :?

That the Empire broadcasts that RustgaI d lis acknowledged to be candidate of the Hoover ad ministration in Alaska" it ac- knowledges the federal fore es backing the O'Malley admins tration of the fisheries was back of the election of Rustgard. MT. O'Malley is the Hoover admins tratiOn in Alaska.
 Dams Choice
 Dal. Suther!and's choice f2r delegate to Congress was John Rustgard. When he first inti- mated to his friends that he was
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

their troubles as soon as they get
10 bed and naturally find trouble in
falling asleep.
A quarrel before going to sleep,
anxiety as to the illness Of some
member of the family or as to ones
own physical condition or excite
ment attending some public effort
may be the reason for inability to
fall asleep easily.
Another type of poor sleeper has
no difficulty falling asleep when
first going to bed, but wakes up
after few hours and is then un-
able to fall asleep again or else
completes the night with periods of
sleep of about one-half to one hour
each.
This type of person, according to
DR.. Collins. invariably has some
form of indigestion or constipation
which gives him internal disturb
ances. He may be addicted to alco-
hol; he may have hardening of the
arteries.
When he awakens in the middle
Of the night he begins to go over in
his mind all the troubles in his
past; the old troubles arouse the old
emotions and sleep disappears.
The third variety of bad sleeper
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
Mental Disturbances Impair Sleep

apparently puts in the required
number Of hours but aWakenS tired
and exhausted as though he had
not slept at all.
Refreshing sleep must come with
freedom from care. When the per-
son aWakens to find that his mind
is troubled with exactly the same
difficulties that he had when he
went to bed, the sleep is not likely
to help him greatly.
As is obvious from these discus
sions, the most important step in
freedom from insomnia is control
of the mental point of view.
1t is important to see that the
body is in good physical condition
and that the brain is not overstimu-
lated by chemical stimulants.
The cultivation of the proper
point of view toward anxiety, worry
or grief is Of the utmost Importance.
These mental difficulties are reflect
ed in the appetite, the failure to eat
and the difficulties of digestion.
Those whose minds are in proper
condition do not have difficulties
with sleep even after drinking a
cup of coffee just before going to
bed. Sleep is a habit which can be
improved by training.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
TT SEEMS TO ME By HRYwooD EYo1%

points along the thermometer where
the scorching becomes too great for
comfort, but reasonably discreet
fever, say between 101 and 102, is
distinctly eXhilarating.
felt lighter than I ever did in
the past. In fever times there even
comes to me a confidence that
could dance if I were minded to.
And it would be a dance which
swayed midway between the floor
and the ceiling.
Soon the inclination passes, for,
as the fever grows gusty, it sets up
little whirlpools in the body. It is
possible to lie quite still and at the
same time move. The motion is Of
one floating easily on top of big
breakers in a heavy sea.
On and on I soar, on the upswing.
out of bed and boredom. AS long
as the tide holds, nothing particular
matters. Things undone are of the
slightest possible consequence. The
things which ought not to have
done are OF equal unimportance.
Fever sharpens the mind and
dullS the conscience. At the very
crest of the hot and curling sea.
one is washed as free from sense of
sin as any newly minted angel.
There is nothing to do until tomor-
row. and there Is no tomorrow!
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
Hooyer's Haitian Policy

Too much rejoicing low would be premature The
lob Is rot done; many pitfalls and much hard work
are ahead But President Hoover and his oomn1is-
sion are of to brilliant start in Haiti. Unless they
weaken under pressure, they can clean up the foul
est corner in the last fifteen years of American
imperialistic diplomacy.
Already there are efforts to thwart the commits
sion As was expected. that pressure comes from the
ruppet dictator President" Borno. He is Frank
enstein. We made him. We forced him on the
Haitian people We used him as a screen for our
marine despotism Now he turns on Us when we
want 10 repair some of the damage done. and get out
Within few days after its arrival, the Hoover
commission IN its investigation subsantiated most OF
The charges made by the Haitian patriots and Amer-
can liberals Haiti has been robbed OF her liberties
and sovereignty There is neither free speech, free
press nor free assembIage. There is no remnant OF
representative political institutions
Virtually all parties and classes arc united against
continuance OF the present regime. Even the once
loyal Catholic hierarchy has deserted Borno, His rule
could not last day If Yankee bayonets we're with
drawn.
The most sober and reliable representatives OF
Haitian opinion have testified to the commission that
there will be immediate and bloody revolution II
Rorno is allowed to carry out his plan of handpck-
ing his successor next month and unless popular
elections are permitted this year
These representative Haitian leaders also de-
nounced as the real dictator behind Borno' the
American high commissioner. General Russell.
The Haitians demand:
Creation OF a provisional government To take over
next month which viii conduct fair popular election
of a congress which viii in turn choose president
Recall of the American high commissioner and ap-
pontrnent OF a regular American minister Abolition
of all the special Offices held by Americans except
that of receiver general Immediate withdrawal OF
ali American marines except skeleton othcer stan
to command the native geDdarmerie.
Those conditions arc just and practicable. Some OF
them already have been accepted by the commits
sion and President Hoover.
Hoover agreed to the appointment of a provisional
neutral government pending the holding OF popular
elections within few months. Tie commission in
duced Borno to accept this fair arrangement
But as soon as the commission left Port Au
Prince TO visit the interior Borno broke his agree
ment and posted official notices throughout the
country that his fake council Of state would pick his
successor and that there would be elections until
January 1882
Obviously, Hoover must not let Borno bluff him
not only Justice but political expedency, forbids.
Having announced a plan for popular elections and
thereby won the confidence of the Haitian people and
the respect of all Latin America Hoover can not now
bow 20 BornU.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15

chorus and say. "Of course, I don't
want the old saloon back" Come
to think of it, I should like some
thing very much like it.
The need for substitute is acute.
Now that the saloon is gone, there
is practically nothing to take the
edge of the home. The dry ma
rauders have always based their
gospel on the theory that if it were
possible to legislate everybody into
his home and keep him there, hap
piness would be achieved.
I don't believe it. A home ought
to be a place to which one may, on
occasion, return. In the old days
there was a certain warmth and
graciousness about going home. 1t
represented a choice. A man came
home because he wanted to.
Even though he said nothing, his
mere presence at any hour before
midnight was eloquent testimony Of
love and devotion. Now it can be
no secret, either to the head Of the
house or to his loved ones, that the
old gentleman is home for no more
cordial reason than the fact that
there is no other place to go.
Copyright. 1890. BY The Times)
On what day of the week did
March rs, 1902, fall?
Tuesday
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
Bey0nd Our GRASP

IF the cosmos is SO big that we
L. can not find it's boundaries, it is
composed of such infinitesinaI en-
titles that We have not been able to
discover the indivisible unit.
Whether one approaches the sub
ject with a telescope which sees
trillions of miles into space, or a
microscope which discloses the wart
on the nose of the germ that lives
on the flea, inf1nity still is beyond.
NO matter what direction we take,
or what method we adopt, we come
to a point where we can go no
farther, though we know the end is
a long way off, and where moth %g
appeals to us so strongly as our own
littleneSs.
Using the Pyramids as an argu-
ment, or the f1ivver, one can con-
vince himself that man is very
wonderful creature.
Using the electron, or the Milky
May, the case is not proved SO
easily.
Compared to our cave man ances-
tors, we have made great progress.
Compared to what remains for
us to learn, what we know seems Of
little consequence.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
Raiders Take Notice

Federal Judge Woodrough Of Omaha actually
maintains that the constitutional rights of Americans
even the right of to life-are of more impor-
lance than speedy enforcement of the Vostead and
Jones acts.
Another Daniel appears to have cropped up in New
Haven in the person of Judge Baldwin. One Dante
Calni shot and killed policeman Raymond ZoIler
while the latter was trying to raid Calinis house
late night The coroners jury found that
Zoller not only failed to produce search warrant
but even neglected to make known that he was an
officer of the law.
Cani appears to have been afflicted with some
Of those "nonsensca ideas about personal liberty"
recently denounced by Commissioner Doran, including
desire to protect the sanctty of his home and the
safety of his wife and children.
The extremists howled fro Cani's life but Judge
Baldwin in the superior criminal court also had
ideas about personal liberty" He ordered CALM
freed in the following words:
The circumstances under which this unfortunate
incident took place were, in my opinion such that
the state ought not to proceed The evidence laid
before by the counsel leads me to the conclusion
that according to the law in this state the accused
reasonably might have thought that serious injury
contemplated against him. his family and his
house. after which time he shot and feel that the
duty resting upon is to dispose of this case in
this way"
We regret that patrolman zoler was killed Yet
If dry agents and police to be approved by Mellon
Lohman & Co. for light-hearted killing when
enforcing the dry law against"possble volators then
scarcely deny the right of citizens to protect
life, home and property against foolhardy dry raiders
acting without regard for due legal processes.
little publicity for this Calini case may help
in checking the impetuOsity of enforcement officers
in the future.
OF course, the sensible thing is to check all kill
ings in prohibition enforcement AS Jane Addams
suggests, the greatest immediate need in the proh-
bition field is disarmament. AS long as enforcement
officers the warpath citizens will invoke the
age-old practice of sefdefense and increasingly they
will find judges willing to recognize the existence
of this right
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
Year of Great Length
T~HOUGH accurate calculations

TExHCUGH accurate calculations
l. have not been made, it is esti-
mated that the newly discovered
planet makes it's circuit around the
sun in about $50 years, which means
that it's year is about $50 times as
long as ours.
If there is human life on it, and
if people live as long in proportion
to the seasonable change as we do, a
child born when the Great Pyra-
mid was built would be about ready
to graduate from grammar school.
Not counting moons, meteors and
asteroids, there are only eight
bodies occupying the four billion
miles which separate this new
planet from the sun.
This would seem to suggest that
there is a good deal more space in
the universe than anything else, and
that, as whole, it is a very thin
proposition.
But scientists tell us, that, rela-
lively speaking, there is a greater
amount Of space in a piece of China
and that the substances we regard
as solid really are composed of lit
tie suns and solar systems, with
plenty of room to whirl and travel.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
Tale of Two Cities

In recent unemployment demonstrations, two
California cities displayed opposite tactics in meet
ing the issue.
In Los Angeles, Mayor John C. Porter sat in his
walnut-paneled office fanked by three bodyguards
while outside 500 police herded a crowd OF 5000
citizens with clubs mounted "Cossacks," sirens and
other nlanhandling devices Beatngs and arrests
followed A frst-class riot created. Police vio-
lence also resulted in riots in New York. Milwaukee
Detroit Seattle and Cleveland
But in San Francisco, Mayor James Rolph roped
of Market street for the parade erected speakers
stand in the civic center invited the paraders to air
their grievances unmoesed protected in fact, by the
police The demonstrators marched 1900 strong their
leaders mounted the rostrum, Rolph promised them
to present their to the supervisors and to urge
speeding up of city work for their benefit.
There was no riot. Similar police intelligence pre-
vented trouble in Baltimore. Philadelphia, Cincinnati
and Chicago
We leave it to any American jury to decide which
way was the best the safest, the Anglo-Saxon way
Los Angeles or San Franciscos
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
The Wet Tide Rises

Even the vets are surprised by the f1rst weeks re-
turns from the Literary Digest national poll on
prohibition Everyone expected that prohibition
would fail 10 poll The overwhelming ma iority claimed
by its adherentscertain OF the dry leaders even at
tempted an advance alhi by saying that drys would
not participate, which was absurd.
But no one, apparently supposed there would be
more votes for repeal than for either modification or
enforcement. The, total was:
For Enforcement ......... 8o,739
For Modification .......... 9I,915
For Repeal ..............l 1884
The anti-prohibition vote thus was more than
2ls to ! larger than the dry vote. And of the ten
states tabuated. eight were middle western states
hitherto considered dry. OF those supposedly dry
states all but one-KansaS-yoted vet
Clearly, these reager early returns are not suf1-
cient basis for any final conclusions.
But it is difficult to resist the suspicion that they
indicate the turn OF the tide which within short
week has seen the conversion to the wet of two
of the largest dry daIies in the niddlewest and
sweeping vet victories in the poll OF the Union League
Club Of New York and the National Republican Club
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
REASON By FfzREa50k EzRbfs

A MEMBER Of the house of representatives pro-
n posses that the word applause be omitted from
suggestion will not get very far, for it would strip
our statesmen Of their appeal and make their speeches
as unromantc false bangs.
There is little or no real applause in the average
speech delivered in the house, but when it comes to
revise his remarks for the Record, the member may
repair the neglect Of his audience and strew en-
thusastc Interruptions throughout the printed re-
port OF his discourse without any limitations what
ever.
Not only can ne insert applause" and Laughter"
where they should have occurred but did not, but he
can go SO far, if he be gifted with imagination to
invent little asides which put the opposition to utter
rout and reveal him as parliament gladiator who
would have made Burke and Webster resemble plate
of picked pigs feet.
A ND so when he sits down with pen in hand to
IA revise" the member not only INDUCES in "ap-
plause but loud applause, applause loud and long
continued" "thunderous applause" and while he may
start out tidly, he will. before he gets half through
with his revision have the speaker rising and calling
on the galleries to restrain their wild outbursts.
This handmade whirlwind of enthusiasm usually
accompanies the speech of Hon. Obediah Umpedump
of Oskaloosa on some Scuh sou-strring challenge as
proposition to give permanent to the bear
ing animals in national parks and when that
speech. after Obediah has lifted its face gets back
home and the folks read how Obediah knocked them
cold, it's good for denomination.
THE actual delivery of the average speech in the
Il house Is amazing Several hundred gentlemen
assembled in a score Of groups visit audibly, some
with feet upon desks, the group exploding now and
then with loud outlaws; other gentlemen sit desks
writing letters about garden seeds; others walk about
ainlessly and here and there weary brother has
succumbed to sleep while all drifts the endless
BUZZ Of conversation.
BY mere chance you locate the gentleman who is
addressing the house; you know it is the speaker be-
cause he is the only to whom nobody pays any
simultaneously but the stenographer and he must
But wait until that speaker revises his speech with
laughter and applause. for it will be Of the
oratorical triumphs of the centuryl
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
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Is e1Tt4e
ANNIVERSARY
l1llleE1
NAMES STATEHOOD


IN March Is, 1920, Maine be-
~ came a state Up to that time
it was a possession of MaSsachu-
setts and under its jurisdiction.
The desire Of Maine to separate
from the mother state was indicated
as early as 1888, when the Demo-
cratic inhabitants of that territory
found it difficult to tolerate the
rule of federalist MasSa chusetts.
During the War of 1912 a ruction
seemed inevitable, for Maine, an
gered by the seizure of its land by
the British, blamed the Bay State
for failing to provide for adequate
defenses.
But it remained for the federal
government to make the separation.
Shortly after the admission of Mis-
souri,, congress was confronted with
the problem Of preserving the bal
ance of power in the Union. It was
found necessary, for that reason, to
admit Maine.
The only important subject OF
legislation in the state thus far has
been that Of prohibition. AS earlv
as 1858 a strict prohibitory law was
paSsed and later Incorporated into
the Constitution. 1t has remained
in force ever since.
Maine also is considered a "ba-
~ometer" during national elections.
The saying "AS Maine goes, 50 goes
the nation indicates its importance
politically.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15

It Has Taken the Human
Race 10000 Years to U7l-
derstdnd What -Four Bill
lions of Miles Mean.
SAYS:

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, the
L late Percival Lowell pointed TO
spot in the sky and said, there is
where a star should be" and not
only a star. but a planet belonging
to our own solar system.
People will tell you that this was
splendid example of imagination,
but it was not,
It was an example of pure
mathematics.
Lowell could not account for
planetary movements in any other
way.
His calculations proved that
there was a force at work which
could not be explained, except by
the presence of a ninth planet.
Neither he nor anyone else had
seen such a planet.
1t was what lawyers would call a
case of circumstantial evidence. But
now we know that Lowell was right.
Just another illustration of how
the mind not only can out-travel
the eye, but the telescope as well,
and arrive at accurate conclusions
through the process of deduction.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15

r THINK I have Influenza, and,
Il if not that, it's something. Ac-
cordingly, I feel that no one should
expect today much which is new and
sprightly. Come to think of it, pos
sibly nobody expects that very fire.
Quently, even on days when the col
umnist is in perfect health and
vigor.
Should the worst occur, let it be
said that I am a martyr to the
craze for the boyish form. One feels
the justice OF such ailments as are
distinctly traceable to an indulgence
in high jinks, but 1t is hard to be
struck down in youth by an excess OF
clean living. Well, maybe not youth,
but the years after 40 are often
among the most productive.
If my efforts to reduce turn out
tragically, let it be said that was
in there trying. However, a formal
obituary may be delayed until a
little later. 1t seems now as if I
may pull through because the fever
is abating.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-15
were the products Of a lohg-suffering public.
aroused at last.

were the products of a lor4g-suffering public,
aroused at last.
1t would be well for some of the young bloods in
the utility business to review that past and to bear
in mind that history has quaint habit of repeating
The public is long suffering But when it does
finally get its ear, its capacity for wrath is n
direct ratio to its slowness to act.
Accordingly, in final analysis, whether the
utilities survive perish is up to the utilities them
selves, and TO how they treat the public II they
abuse the strength they accunulating through
their mergers and their holding companies and this
and that other scheme Of organization they will get
away with it for while.
The public will be damned" and apparently like
it. And then-somethng will happen And it will
happen all at once. The big stick" will come out
Of the closet and the come -uppance," as Booth
Harrington puts it, will be at hand.
Real regulation, production of fair and "un-
watered' relationship between the public and the
public utilities will be more soothing and more profit
able to the utilities in the long run than will regu-
lation that only goes through the motions"