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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26
HOW TO PLAY POSTUM

Postum is a dumb animal
game. It's dumb. because its
an animal game. I've known
people to play possum for hours
at a stretch. Sometimes they've
not only stretched. they've
yawned. The King OF Eurasia
dotes on telling the story of how
his sixth wife used to play pos
sum. She played possum once
TOO often. though. and they bur-
led her. The kings other five
wives now play only puss-in-
the-corner. leap frog and bunny
hop. These are dumb animal
games. too. Every one of them
is even dumber than possum.
Although the lion is the king of
beasts. the postum is the true
goddess Of the jungle. We
thank you for your time and
patience.
-P~rsrsylronis Psnch BcaL
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26

Guide: And this. gentlemen,
is the famous Wailing Wall.
Travelling Journalist: Wei,
where's the sob sisters?
-Cev.<s Hiiox.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26

THAT waiter Il either a fool
or n humorisf."
What now?"
u ordered extract of beef and
NJ brought me milk"
-Pnf Psnfier.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26

"A stream Of lead poured
forth" cried the gangster as he
took the cap of his eversharp
pencil.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26
Law OF Growth

The Gospel. however was some
thing that could not be confined 10
one race or TO one class. Very
quickly its power 10 ave and bless
Gentiles as well as Jews and black
men as well as white men, was
demonstrated. The breadth and
fuliness OF the Gospel In its power
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26
ChristIanity's Power

Probably one should not push the
recognition Or this to the point or
suggesting that opposition and per-
Secuti0n r necessary for the
growth Of ideals and the triumph
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-26

In the olden days clothes
could stand up by themselves
even when they were clean.
-CGrnfH Wi5crp.
III wish we'd Get a few ship
wrecked sailors washed ashore"
unused the cannibaI chief. "NNhat
I need is a good dose Of salts"
-C0ynfB Eidor.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Hliteracy in Ohio

Despite all the boasts of its educational system, Ohio is shown to have 123,3O4 illiterates in 193O, by the Bureau of Census While the Soviet Union has made tremendous strides in recent years in reducing the her ltage of i1literacy left by the ::7arist regime, the capti',stie government of Ohio has done next to nothing for the large port of it's population ten years and older who can neither read nor write. Tn the ten years be- tween 1920 and 1880 the per- centage of illiteracy to total po- pulation has been reduced only from 2.8 to 2.3 per cent.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Government May End
 Oppression

General Smedley D. Butler, the marine who recently caused a furore in diplomatic circles by charging Musollini's indiffer- ence about the life of a child he was said to have run over, again gets into the spotlight by de- claring in a speech at Gettys- burg that our government wa; instituted not only to secure to the people life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, "but the right to eat"
 Said General Butler: "They want the right and means to earn an honest livelihood, an.1 the federal government is the only agency which can open the avenue to prosperity"
 Announcement by our gov- ernment of a determination t see this thing through to the bit- ter end is the only word thai will restore confidence.
 Hunger can be relieved by food and food can be supplied bJ
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Fibre Containers and
 The Future

(Pacific Pulp and Paper Industry ...... .... Seattle). =. .. -.
 Introduced to provide straw for the drowning lumber mills of Southeastern Alaska which claim serious inroads have been made in their business by the wholesale adoption of the fibre container for shipping canned fish foods packed in Alaska, the Alaska territorial legislature on April 30 apparently thought bet ter of the situation as a whole and killed a bill which proposed to levy a discriminatory excise tax on the fibre container.
 While the plight of the Alas kan box shook manufacturers is perhaps acute, and the salmon tanners were disposed to listen to reason, it was pointed out ir hearings that adoption of the abre containers was being forced upon the packers by the brokers, wholesalers, and retailers Of canned goods. The distributing group has expressed a strong preference for the improved fibre container.
 Expressions from the paper III dustry indicate that defeat ot the proposed tax on fibre con- tainers will eventually rebound to the benefit of Southeastern Alaska, the lumber industries there included. In the past few years two big interests have car ried out extensive timber and water power surveys preliminary to the establishment of two huge news print mills.
 The vast pulp timber resourc- es of Alaska presage a definite ultimate pulp and paper devel- opment in the Territory. Any hostility towards the paper in- dustry, such as suggesting dis criminatory excise tax on fibre containers, could only serve to delay the greater ultimate devel- opment with its consequent in vestment of some tens of milli- ons of dollars and it's contribu- tion of sizeable year'-round pay rolls for Alaska. To kill the pro- pose dtax was just plain good business.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Gasoline Taxes


 Senator Hess, at the last legis- lature introduced proposed tax on gasoline and a merchandise tax. While in the nature of 3 feeler, it is being recognized 9: good politics in view of the pre- sent condition of the Territorial treasury.
 It is generally conceded that this tax will be again presented two years hence and it will not be so easily downed.
 For the information of oul readers, and others We pass or the following facts:
 Retail gasoline sales are taxec in every state in the Union. 4 few states take 6 cents of tht retail price of every gallon sold while others take only 2 cents The first tax was levied by Ore gon in 1919 when l cent 8 gallon
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

ies and the filth of the housing conditions of native workers: the peon slave contracts; the slave-resident fisherman who is working under illegal discrimin- atory regulations are never tt be seen by those who come to Alaska.
 Even when travelling on their own expense, the congressmen are taken in hand by the clickerf and clackers and the fishermen are hard put to even get within talking distance of those whp would give sympathetic hearing if they only had opportunity The Alaskan cares not how congressman come to Alaska IF they are only given time to meet with the conditions which ere ate the problems of diversity ir Alaska. So far those who have come in to Alaska have not been given 8 hearing to both sides of the problems. Let all of official Washington come to Alaska, but for the love O Lil, let them get real honest to goodness impres sions rather than the hi-falutin varicolored pictures that are drawn for them by the machine which only works to perpetuate itself.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

charity, but a self-respectina man, even though his stomach is filled, is not happy If idle.
 "The one object of a govern ment is to equally distribute ths blessings and burdens of a na- tion.
 Declaring that war is an in stitution of he'll" General But Ter argued that if the nation resources were mobilized for ar attack on poverty as they arr when a nation goes to war, the object for which the govern ment was created would be real ized.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Dr. Polling Speaks On Economic Conditions

A youth crusade, for law Ob- servance, evangelism and dis armament" was proposed by pr Daniel A. Polling, president ol the International Society Ol Christian Endeavor, at that or ganization's 50th annual inter national convention held in San Francisco recently.
 Dr. Polling called upon youth to lead in "the education and enlistment of friends of prohibi- tion in maintaining the 18th amendment and supporting Pres ident Hoover and enforcement agencies.
 Prohibition is not the only iS- sue, however" Dr. Polling con- tinued. "We are not interested in prohibition to the exclusion of other important issues. Po- litical decisions should not be conditioned exclusively upo'l whether or not parties are dry and candidates arc for the 18th amendment.
 American democracy must find a way to destroy poverty The American social and eco- homie system must accept re- cponsibility for discovering how to give work to every willing worker, for making the average man more secure in his savings and for distributing more widely the higher privileges of life as we'll as the bare necessities.
 "The passion of the Soviet to win a class war must be match ed by the fervor of American democracy to perfect this free dom.'"
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

was levied. Two other states immediately followed the lead of Oregon that year. Two other states followed in 1920 and the list continued to grow until even the state of New York followed in 1929.
 Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have a 6 cent tax; Ken lucky, New Mexico, Montana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Louis jana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia take 5 cents; Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Alabama, Col orado, Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, South Dakota New Hampshire Oklahoma Ohio, West Virginia. Vermont, Wyoming and Maine take a toll of 4C cents.
 California, North Dakota, New Jersey, and Washington call for 3 cents; Delaware, Utah, Kansas Michigan, Iowa, Illinos and Min nesota require 31a cents.
 Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mass achusetts and the District of. Columbia require only two cents per gallon of their tax payers.
 While the total of 1880 state gasoline tax collections is not yet available, the Rio Grande Oil Review states that 1929 collec- tions were around $431, 100000. which was 25 per cent of the to- tai tax receipts of the states. Individual payments by some of the large oil companies in 1850 bulk large. Standard Oil of In diana paid s47,651 ,OO0, Texas Corporation, $37,12O,OOO, Stan dard Oil of New York $32,234, : 900; Gulf Oil $24,19O,0o0; Stan dard Oil of California, $14,272,- 900. The efficiency and ease of collection it is said "has made this tax very popular" In the states where this tax is collect ed it isused to build excellent roads throughout the country.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
s !. From the Heather

Rev. Henry C. McDowell, Ne gro missionary from Galangue, Angola, West Central Africa, ili a speech before the Congrega- tional churches, Seattle recently said:
 "You hear a great deal about the disintegration of native Afrl- can society. I am more concern cd about the breakdown of the white mans ideals and society as he comes in contact with Africa. In Africa the evils ot cur economic and social order have full play. There the in-
 herent greed of our industrial system has full swing at an un- protected peoples. Our simple African Christians are teaching us missionaries a great lesson They are teaching us the way ot suffering and sacrifice under the oppression and exploitation ot
 which you know about" Editorial Note: It would ap- pear that the unfortunate peo- ples, the people without the educational opportunities are the common prey of the ex- plioters and the rule of the de
 mogogues.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Excessiue Gouernment
Seattle Times)

The great northern empire continues to suffer from excess i've governmental paternalism. Alaska has been misunderstood and abused and hampered in its development ever since it's re- sources began to attract the at tention of the world. Instead of framing legislation in accord ance with the views of eastern CTS who go through the country on flying summer trips-at Uncle Sam's expenseWashington might for a change, let the sourdoughs thoroughly familiar with the subject, work out their own deS- tlnies. Alaskans may count up- on Seattle doing everything pos sible to help in that direction.
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
A Sure "Red" Cure

Recently, Senator c c. Dill speaking before large audience in Spokane, Wn. declared that i've need have no fear of bol- shevism if We put our house ill order and give the people a fair share in the profits of their ef- forts"
 Communism breeds in spots where poverty is most acute and it is a known fact that crime is greater where poverty exists. The most complacent person oN
 the earth today is the laborer
 who gets his pay check regularly and Is able to give to his loved
 ones those comforts of life that any person has a right to enjoy. The Source of Discomfort Speaking before the Womens Democratic Club in Occur DIAL enc, Ida, Senator Dill said:
 "The idea is spreading over the world that the poor ignof.. ant and unfortunate are not get ting their share of the good things of this life. Unless some way is found to give the poor people more of these things Balshevism will soon spread outside of Russia, now the sole throne of that accomplishment. Speaking for publication II Los Angeles last week, Senator James Couzens said: What we need most in this country in these days of depression, is 5 better distribution of earnings between capital and those Whi work - more action and less talk.
 "The depression has left the
 United States a very sick pa tient," said the Michigan Senat-
 or. We are suffering from ar over injection of words instead of action. It looks like 1t is to. late to revive the patient and wt will just have to muddle thru.
 "One of the worst things to dt now is to reduce wages, fol thereby we would only set up 3 temporary relief. No one wants a high peak of prosperity but the money grabbers, but we al want to return to the days o1 sound business
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24

~ Europe has been heading to- ward the present situation for a long time. Nations cannot go on paying enormous war debts. The creditors are painfully aware that once the moratorium be- comes effective, the suspension of payments will continue thru eternity.
 What will happen is that Am erica will have to produce the money to save Europe"
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
Uncle Will Pay

George Bernard Shaw, Irish author and dramatiSt, recently declared that he believes Ameri- ca will eventually have to pro- duce the funds to save Europe. He Saad: .,,;' ~;; 'i~~; .i
The Alaskan., 1931-07-24
ALASKAN SUICIDES IN CAL.

Thomas s. Scott, forty-five, a
 recent arrival in Ontario, Calf, committed suicide in his hotel room by slashing his throat with a razor after a futile attempt to end his life with revolver. Mr. Scott was a resident of Cordova.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Children in Food Riot.

Two thousand children invited to a
feast In Berlin, Germany, fought over
the food and police had to be called
to end the riot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
.SNOWDEN SEATED
/. IN HOUSE OF LORDS
Labor Leader Becomes First
VisCount of ICkornShaW
in Ceremony.
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 26-Philip
Snowden, a poor mans son, who be-
came q member OF the House of Com
mons a quarter of century ago, put
on robes of scarlet and ermine and took
his seat in the House OF Lords yesterday
as the first Viscount of Ickornshaw.
For hundreds Of years the ceremony
Of seating a new peer OF the realm has
seldom deviated from the prescribed
form, but for this little man, hobb1ng
on two canes which he has used since
he was injured in q bicycle accident
many years ago, the ritual was waived.
Snowden Bows Head.
Other peers, when they entered the
Upper House. knelt before the lord
chancellor and presented their letters
patent Viscount 1ckornshaw. leaning
heavily on his canes and weighted down
by the robes OF his new Office, merely
bowed his head Lord Chancellor San
key. his old friend rose and shook
hands
Prime Minister Macdonald, for whom
the new viscount fought unnumbered
battles in the House of Commons a.
chancellor of the exchequer, stood In
ley Baldwin, Walter Ronciman and
other members of the cabinet.
But where the labor peers usually sit
were only vacant seats, Not one OF
them had come to see their old leader
introduced to the Upper House.
Limping over to the clerks table, the
new viscount leaned heavily upon 1t as
the reading clerk, in wig and black
gown, read out the letters patent de-
scribing the newcomer rs "our right
trusty and well beloved counsellor
Philip Snowden, keeper OF our privy
seal"
He was lord privy seal in the coalition
cabinet after the general election. His
infirmities and a serious illness Just be-
fore the last Labor cabinet fell infiu-
enced Mr.. SnoWden not to run for q
seat in the House of Commons in that
election, for the heavy burden Of the
chancellor Of the fxchequer, post he
held for two years, had begun to tell
on him.
Takes Place on BenchS
He signed the roll Of peers, took the
oath and walked with two sponsors
Viscount p'Abernon and Viscount Lee
OF Fareham, to the place on the Wis
counts bench, which he will occupy
hereafter.
Then there was another departure
from custom.
Usually Oh taking his seat a new
peer bows three times to the lord chan
cellor, resuming his seat after each bow,
but Viscoult 1ckornshaw DOTTED his
cooked hat, bowed three times and sat
down. Lord Sankey walked over and
shook hands again.
The ceremonies GROWING the career
Of one of his majestys most valued
servants were watched by a crowded
house.
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Jury DEADL0CKED
IN PANTAGES CASE.
State Testimony in Trial for
PringIe Attack Is
Heard Again. Z
BY the Associated Press.

by bIlC hsSOC4dleu EIeSbs
LOS ANGELES, November 26.-Ap-
parently deadlocked, the jurors deliber-
ating the fate of Alexander Pantages,
wealthy theatrical man charged with
attacking Eunice Pringle, young dancer,
are still hopeful of reaching a verdict.
This was indicated shortly before they
were locked up for their second night
last night. At that time they requested
the reading of certain testimony of
State witnesses who described events at
PantageS' office, where the alleged Of
Tense took place August 9. 1929.
No word had been sent from the
jury room this morning The jurors
were not locked up for the night until
10 pm. A persistent rumor had the
jury standing 10 to for acquittal
Pantages was charged with having
attacked Miss Pringle when she went
to his ONCE seeking employment. He
was tried and convicted in October.
1929. and sentenced to from / TO so
years in San Quentin Prison
The State Supreme Court, however,
gave the theater man a new trial when
it ruled the trial judge erred in re-
fusing to allow the defense to question
Miss Pr1ngle about her past life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Courage Bred Gratitude
Pilgrims Celebration of First Thanksgiving 80
Years Ago Was in Face of Bitter Hdrdships
and Many Encouragement.

"16 day the wind came faire," and they
arrived safe in the Harbor Of Plymouth.
Then came troublous times. with
disease and bitter cold and death but
In September, 1921, they we're in what
ever corresponds to clover in the New
England Winter.
For besides water foule, Their was
great store Of wild turkies, of which
they tooke many. besides venison. etc.
Besides they had about a pecke OF
meaIe weeke to a person, and now
since the harvest they also felt
thankful because Of King Massasoit,
with some ninetie men for whom for
three days we entertained and feasted,
and they went out and killed five deere
which they brought to the plantation
and bestowed on our governor" That
was the first Thanksgiving.
Found New Blessings.
Winslow goes on to say: And thus
they found the Lord to deliver them in
all their ways, and to bless their out
goings and in-comings; for which that
His holy name have the praise for
ever"
There is no record Of the sermon
which must have been a part of that
first Thanksgiving either on the day of
ACuctiAIS VI VII LGdIBSI CdDDlLn, ICr
sermons were the only thing in that
period that correspondent to the modern
movies. There are authenticated cases
OF minister turning the hour glass so
that the congregation might have an
extra go minutes Of religious exhilara-
ton.
Hard times were still before the Pill
grimS, disease and death and uneodlv
neighoors and Indians that brought
them no fat bucks and much danger
A year later there was a difficulty. not
about Thanksgiving celebrations. but a
labor union question Of the days called
Chr1stmasday."
Played on Christmas.
THE most of this new-company ex-
cused themselves ard said il wente
against their consciences to work on
that day. So the Govr tould them that
IL they made 1t mater of conscience, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
BY PROF. A. BUSHNELL HART

81
BY PROF. A. BUSHNELL HART.
tCopyright, 1891, by the Associated Press)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. November 90
Some people think that these are hard
times this year. Some people have
given up hopes Of turkey for Thanks
giving. or even q chicken or a piece
of beefsteak or a ham sandwich. New
ertheless. there Is hardly town within
the limits of the United States that Is
as poor and seems to have as little to
be thankful for as the community of
Plymouth a little matter of $40 years
ago this Thanksgiving. There would
have been no Plymouth colony and no
colony OF Virginia or OF Pennsylvania
had 1t not been for the grit and the
energy and the perseverance of the
earliest colonists in all the little groups
that developed into the 13 united
colonies and then the Is United States
and then the AZ United States.
If the American people do not feel
q burning sense of thankfulness this
week, We can always be thankful that
we had people of grit and practice in
looking at the bright side such as dis
tinguished the people of Plymouth
colony the Fall of 1881; and We have
a great advantage over them in that
We can be deeply thankful to them and
they had no opportunity to express
their thanks to us for keeping up the
good old custom which they initiated.
Courage Preserved Colony.
In October, 1921, Plymouth had been
through very hard times-cold and
hunger and disease. Nothing but back
bone and unwillingness to give up their
enterprise held them together. Brad
ford in his immortal History Of Ply
mouth plantation" tells about the first
landing on Cape Cod, November Is,
1920, going well armed, under the
conduct Of Capt. Standish," and how
they had the luck to find divorce faire
1ndean baskets filled with corne." Then
they for the first time heard the cry
Of "Indeans, Indeans," and we're deeply
thankful to get away alive. On the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
AID CIRCULATION
COMMITTEE NAM ED
National Association Members to
Be Supplied With Data on
Various Publications.

As @ result of the recent annual meet
ing of the Association of National Ad-
yertisers held in Washington. when
opinion was cryStalized on the ques-
ton of advertising rates in various
classes of publications, a committee has
been appointed known as the Com
mittee on Calculations, it was announced
today.
This particular committee will exam
inc into and acquaint the membership
with all possible data on circulation OF
magazines. newspapers, and business
papers Its purpose will be to help
members OF the association TO D. more
intelligent buyers of advertising space.
Under q resolution adopted at the
convention, Lee H. Bristol, president of
the association appointed the following
committee: Paul B. West, National Car
bon Co, Inc, chairman; Felix Lowry,
Colgate Palmolive-Peet Co.: j. Seward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-26
Film Used as Evidence.

A sound film was recently used in
Australia as evidence in a suit to curb
a noisy factory.
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TREE TO BE DEDICATED

Permission to dedicate an elm tree
near the Lincoln Memorial was granted
yesterday to the Children Of the Amer
lean Revolution by First Lieut.. F. B.
Butler, assistant director of public
buildings and public parks.
The ceremony is to take place In
about six weeks, the assistant director
was informed.