davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
Inheritance Tax Here


The House has special committee work seek ways for
imposing upon District people that becomes
necessary in the future to meet increasing expenditures
The House policy in the past has been to relieve the United
States Of its just fiscal burdens in the District and pile ad
ditienal tax burdens upon District people
Nothing high valuations of District real estate has kept
Congress from passing legislation for forms of taxation
Washington real estate does increase in value even in times
of depression but the in maximum assessments has about
been reached So has the top in the tax real estate
Anticipating extent there is for
inheritance if must be found hereafter to In
Dr. Havenner president of the Federation OF
Citizens Associations advocating such tax rather than
any form of taxation He states that there only
State in the nation and the District without inheritance
taxation. .
The efforts the District Commissioners Congress and all
civic and trade organizations should be hereafter directed
toward reduction of municipal that increased
Of any sort NAV be avoided but if this fails it most likely
that nhertor of large fortunes will have to portion OF
their inheritances to the District.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

The average American male is
wOman-handled until he's of
age, and he bears the marks of
it all the rest of his life.
When he marrieS he expects
the Dear Little Woman to take
up the job where Mama left
off. 1t rarely occurs to him
to question the excellence of
Mama'S job. Isn't he a good
banker? Doesn't he sell a lot
of real estate? And isn't he
Big Stuff down at the Lodge?
He doeS-he is. Naturally, he
assumes that he'll be equally
successful as a Man About the
House. But he assumes wong
as the Dear Little Woman
speedily discovers, to their mu-
tual irritation.
For Mama hasn't trained him
to be a Man About the House.
Rather. she has trained him to
be Anything but. 1t has served
her own ends to relieve him
of every responsibility about
the house-to spare him every
sacrifice. Usually, she has done
this out of excessive devotion.
She hasn't intended to make
things hard for the wife who
must some day take her place.
But she has. nevertheless. sue
ceeded. For the honeymoon
hasn't even begun to wane be-
fore Mothers Pet discovers
that
It's Heaven to live with
Mama
But hades to live with the
wife.
Some girls succeed in spite
of that. Plenty don't But
why should any girl havt to
fight such a handicap?
Why shouldn't little boys be
trained for home life as well
as little girls?
Why shouldn't husbands have
to qualify, as we'll as Wives?
Copyright 1881, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc,)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02

Mama didn't raise her boy to
be a husband
There's the cause of many
domestic tragedy.
She raised him to be doctor
or lawyer. a druggist or shoe
clerk, a neck clipper or toe
dancer, but not once IN a blue
moon does an American Mother
, train her boy to be a Married
Man.
So. when the Only Girl takes
over the job, expecting to drape
her life around a Sturdy Oak,
what does she find? She finds
grief.
When the average young man
marrieS, he doesn't even know
how to take care of his own
personal effects. much less as
sumo charge of a home and
family.
, Since she was born, his sis
ter has been instructed in the
duties of a wife and mother,
but has anyone ever talked Sc
riously to him about the duties
of a husband and father? Has
anyone trained him for the
sacrifice and self-control which
are required in the Head of
the House? No one mas. In
stead, it's dollars to doughnuts
that Mama and the Girls have
waited on him as if he were a
prize pup-picked up after
him-humored his every whim.
Nor was this service entirely
unSelfish on Mama's part. She
has two motives in spelling him
besides her maternal Solicitude.
j Often his love for her is COM
pensation for that romance
which she missed with his
father. And, always, it graft
fies her desire to manage and
NEEDLE.
The average American mother
is a superbIy energetic and Ca
pabIe creature with not enough
to do. So she takes it out on
Sonny.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
The Halfway House
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., Del, LID.
Famous Scientific Authority

1t has been we'll said that
the universe is made up OF
atoms and stars. The one we
may think of as a microcosm-
or little universe; the other IS
a macrocosm-or big universe.
The atom is not unlike the
universe itself. Perhaps the
universe is only an atom enorm-
ously expanded. Perhaps the
solar system itself is an ex-
banded atom. with the planets,
asteroids and other bodies re-
volving about the sun as the
analogS of electrons inside the
atom. For the atom. like the
universe. is very largely empty
full of huge holes. The
amount of matter, in both the
atom and the universe, is rela-
lively Small-aS compared with
the amount of empty or un-
occupied space.
Chemistry of Man
Man himself is a sort Of half
way house between the atom
and the star. Shapley has re-
Gently described man, from the
standpoint of chemistry, as a
rather unintereSting colloidal
substance. But the standpoint
of intelligence and sensibility,
man is enormously important.
For man takes in the universe
through the instrumentality OF
his senses. The universe thus
lives in man; and conversely
man lives in the universe.
We are constantly hesitating
upon the verge of great dis
coveries in science. But the
more we advance along the
pathway of knowledge, the
wider becomes the horizon OF
the unknown. We are con-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
Smashing the Atom
Science Will Attempt It.

Apprehensve persons may be worried for the next week
pair of young scientists in Germany trying to an
initiate the They will $4,000 0O0volt lightning
bolt in sealed aluminium chamber they smash their atom
interesting results knows just what
Prof Rabi of Columbia says there is no cause for alarm
Prof Henry N RUSSELL of Princeton however less certain
split into lighter atoms very
startling follow" Professor Russell is quoted
But atom could be annihilated rather
entirely radiant the would
other atoms would set off and whether
they would set off others"
Many have specialized the possibility of grand ex-
poon Of unknown forces that would out the world like
flash Of gunpowder the scientists permitted to play with
ursupervsed These fears probably groundes
But they consolng remember that nobody will
the difference BY the time it it will be all
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
ONCE-OVERS
Send Them Through College

Send Them Through College
It is betting to be a severe
financial strain to meet ex-
penses of your child in college.
You wonder if your son or
your daughter get enough to
make it worth all that you
sacrifice to keep up their fees,
dues and suitable attire.
You .have almost decided to
have them stop their work
in college.
Buff they have not a full,
roundabout course, what would
the chances be for either one
of them in competition with
the many college graduates?
The work of a college course
is progressive and it may seem
to the underclassman to be so
many isolated facts, to be &C.
luired.
However, the last year bring
things tOgeLner a'lQ Ii@FnOnlZeS
more or less contradictory in
formation and adds to the
value of the course.
Employers want the graduate.
You may have been fairly
successful without earning a
diploma.
You think that what you
have done with less educational
equipment your college son or
daughter can do il they leave
before graduation.
When you started in life,
YOU did no thave so many eel
lege graduates to compete with,
so your case is not q parallel.
copyright. 1881, IntTna tional
Features Service lnc-1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02

Stantly solving problems. But
for each problem, we encounter
many more which have not yet
been solved. Science is but a
means of disclosing our increas-
ing ignorance. AS the poet,
Alexander Pope. has put it:
So man, who here seems principal
Perhaps acts second to some sphere
unknown,
Touches some wheel, on verEes to
some goal:
IT'S but a part we see and not the
whole.
1t is customary to conclude
that modern science, in the
larger sense, has its true initia-
ton with Sir Isaac Newton.
Were the minds of early men
inferior to those of modern
times?
Defect of Method
The anthropclogists tells us
no. The trouble with the
earlier generations of men was
that they had not only not
learned how to organize their
knowledge; they had not
learned to correlate and in
tegrate. It was not a defect of
mind, but of method, not
weakness of intellect, but OF
technic.
The modern scientist is char,
aCterized by two qualities.
First, experimentation-in the
laboratory or in the field. Sec
ond, comes the exercise Of
the imaginative mind, to CORE
late all the discovered facts and
to devise comprehensive
theory that ill fit and en-
brace them all. In a very real
sense, the great contemporary
scientist is a uniVerse-maker.
Copyright. 1881. International
Features Service, InS.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
Letters to the Editor From Readers of The Times

Texans are ignorant. unedu-
Gated cow-punChers and mule
SINNERS. Well. mebbe so, you're
right. But permit me to call to
the attention of your readers
one of your local faults, that is
inexcusable and fragrant diSre-
spect for our nations flag.
Down there we feel as though
Washington, the Nations Capt.
tai. is the most patriotic city in
the United States and should
command the respect of the
rest of the nation.
But alas! What a shock we
received upon paying you-al a
visit. We come to Washington
expecting to see the utmost in
patriotic devotion. And what
do we see? Our flag, the Stars
and Stripes, waving gloriously
It's true, from various vantage
points of the Capitol Building;
but when the sun sinks down
the flags are still left up, neg
lected.
I won't say all night, because
when saw them still up there
after midnight. I was so
ashamed of the disrespect shown
to our flag that 1 could not
wait to see if they were taken
down before sunrise, but
sneaked off to bed.
Why down in Corpus Christi,
Texas, the youngsters as Boy
Scouts are taught not only 10y
atty but respect for our flag.
Don't the Scouts and the Le-
gion members up here notice
these things or do they lust
don't care?"
F.. H. BABCOCK
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
WISE MEN

It is by imitation, far more
than by precept, that we learn
everything. and what We learn
thus we acquire not only more
effectually, but more pleas
antly. Burke.
A solid and substantial great
ness of soul looks down with
neglect on the censures and
applauSes Of the multitude.
Addison.
Nothing is so great an en-
envy to tranquility and a con-
tented spirit as the amazement
and confusionS of unreadineSs
and Observation-Disclosures.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
OF moral evil and of good
Than all the sages can.
Wordsworth
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
Drawn by Hal Coffman.

Its not work that kills men, it's worry is old and true
saying
In picture FORM it is repeated here.
Just insect thinks that every drop of water cloud
ourst fear drowning beneath cataract of troubles
most o. which exist only in their own minds.
To worry human But think back your fe to
call the calame you imagined might happen you and then
see how many did NOT happen.
Unless you have been peculiarly unluc only few of those
anticipated disasters took place
You make drop of water look like Niagara if you look
insect looks it. But why be insect? Your
brain given you to things they not to magnify
your troubles until they overwhelm you
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02

have been accustomed to con-
stitutes a far less handicap to
the nation than to have 10000
heads of families that might
take their places remain out
of employment.
AS can be seen this plan
would create 1.275,000 jobs at
a cost to the nation of l per
cent income tax, and would
place more than $1,000,000, 900
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
Hearst Papers Advocate

l. "Honest friendship all nations entGnono alliances
NTH none. "-Georoe Washington.
2 Propoona representation the United Senate
State to hupe Senator's Legislation to enforce
prompt reGpportionment in the House OF
Representatives.
SEPARATE departments the Army OF the NGvy and OF the
Forces under Secretary OF National Defense
4 Federal action to the limit OF popers
lliterdcu under Secretary OF Education
Installation OF President the first January tolou
ING the November election
Selecve immigration admit only those suited for Aert
can citizenship and American needs.
Deportation undesirable aliens ana extension OF CITIZEN
ship period to 10 years.
Complete publicity for to prevent big tar
dodgers from escaping turdtton
Modification the VolStedd act to permit light UtneS and
beers under Federal regulation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02
TIMES KNOWLEDGE TEST

Do you know:
/. What. place is called THE
City of Brotherly Love-?
2. Who was the first SeCre-
tary of the Treasury?
3. What was the first landing
place of Columbus called?
4. Of what people was Monte
yuma the king?
S. Why is the name of Vir.
GINA Dare important?
Fill each blank:
6. GAY tear her tattered
down."
Z. How ITO this heart
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02

are the SCIENCES of my child
hood"
8. "Once upon a
dreary."
9. Backward, turn backward,
o Time in your --."
10. 20 say can you see, by
the --'s early light"
Match correctly:
II. boomerang finally.
IL. gaunt proSelyte
10. convert a missile
weapon
IA. lastly habituate
Is. inure lean
tAnSWerS on Magazine Page.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02

"Disrespect" to Flag
Arouses Texan
Editor, Times:
Some of you folks up here
seem to think that most of us
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-03-02

annually back into business. Is
this not worthy of considera-
ton?
A CITIZEN.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17
Section 4. It is herby declared

Section 4. It is herby declared unlawful for any vicious dog, or any dog dangerous to life or health or otherwise a nuisance, to run or be at large in any of the streets, alleys, squares, or public grounds or places in the town of Seward, Alaska, and any such dog found so running or being at large may be impounded, sold, killed, or otherwise disposed of under the direction of the Law and Ordinance Committee of the Common Council, in such manner and by such means as said Committee shall deem best for the public good.
 Section 5. Any dog over the age of two months shall be con- sidered dog for the purposes of this ordinance.
 Section G. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordi- nance are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
 Section ?. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force on the Tenth day after it's passage and approval, and shall be published once in the Seward Daily Gateway. Passed under suspension of the rules, and approved, this 18th day of June, 1931.
 A. D. BALDERSTON,
 City Clerk.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17
LEGAL N0|ICE
ORDINANCE NO. no

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A TAX UPON DOGS AGAINST PERSONS WHO KEEP THE SAME, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ASTOUNDING, SELL ING, KILLING, OR OTHER DIS POSAL OF THE DOG IN CASE THE TAX BE NOT PAID OR IN CASE THE DOG BE VICIOUS OR DANGEROUS TO LIFE OR HEALTH OR WISE A NUISANCE.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17

A. Ditlmeir, age 56, of Helena, Mont, was drowned in Ketchikan while attempting to swim ashore from a small boat which filled with water on the tide rips near Nelson Cove, says the Ketchikan Tribune.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17

The Seward Fisheries plant re- sumed packing operations today. Ample red salmon have been avail able but cans were lacking; these arrived Tuesday from Seattle on the SS Admiral Watson.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17
Approved this 18th day of June 1881.
 D. c. BROWNELL, Mayor.
WILL UNDERGO OPERATION

Truman Parrish, business man of Kenai, formerly of Anchorage, who, with Mrs. Parrish and daugh- ter arrived in the city on the last steamer from Seldovia, has en- tered the Seward General Hospital for an operation by Dr. A. D. Hav- erStock.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17

Have you heard he new "OKEH" records at Sylvia's. They are wOn- derful.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17

A golf club has a head, sole, a heel, toe, a nose, a neck and a face"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17

Subscribe to The Gateway, the Alaska paper which is different.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17

'The Majestic," last word in mo- dern refrigeration, at Brown & Hawkins.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-06-17
FOR SALE

Old papers; 25c per bundle. At The Gateway office. Write, phone or call.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14
Two Reasons

Those who are addicted to criticizing the small . town newspaper for not publishing many details of local happen ings, particularly when they tend to injure or reflect upon local persons, may find some food for thought in the fol- lowing paragraph from The Printer-Journalist:
 "One reason the city news paper man can print "all the news that is fit to print" is be- cause he does not have to live in close daily association with with his victims as does the country paper man.
 Another reason is because he has no opportunity for close up views of results of prying into intimate personal affairs and laying them bare to public gaze. It is no excuse to say the public demands such things. All of us want to know lots of things that are none of our business"
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14
Silver to Decide From the Wallace Press-Times

Destruction of buying power, not over-production, is the cause of worldwide depres- sion. Millions of willing work CTS over the earth are suffer- ing for the commodities we have for sale. Yesterday the value of silver was only 26% cents an ounce. That's the reason for the suffering.
 It is the question Of bring ing up the standard of living of other nations to our own, or going to their standard. The decision will be made on the value of silver.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14
Hcw to Fight the Flu

Plain common sense is the main ingredient of advice of fered by Surgeon General Hugh s. Cummings of the U. s. Health Service for the treat ment and prevention of influ- enZa, which has assumed the proportions of a mild epidem- ic in many parts of the coun- try.
 He recommends plenty of sleep and rest; simple diet, with large amounts or water, fruit juices, milk and hot soups; warm clothing; avoid ance of contact with others who have colds; keeping in the open air as much as pos sible, and avoiding the use of alcohol and stimulants of all sorts.
 Most of the surgeon gener- aPs recommendations are merely sound rules of health which might be observed at any time. particularly in the winter.
 He also advises against the use of any so-called prevent atives, such as sera, vaccines and other advertised nostrums' which seem to have no value and may be harmful in this disease. A doctors care and common sense health rules are the only proper treatment.
 Avoidance of alcohol and stimulants of all kinds should include elimination of all tea and coffee. This advice is con- sistent with the national health officers suggestions for build ing up the vital reserve power of the individual.
 Public health services per form one of their most valu- able functions by pointing out that there is no royal road to health, only the road we build by schooling ourselves to fol- low the laws of nature, which are available to all of us.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14
TEN YEARS OR so AGO
From the Hyder Alaska Mine March 16, 1921.

AL last CHe OlC-GXpfeSSeU wish of w. s. Orr has been realized and the postoffice will soon be moved from the Salmon River Trading Com pany's store to the Hyder Drug Company, Oren F. Hill having received and accepted the ap- pointment as postmaster. This is the second appointment for MT. Hill, the first made last spring, having been refused by him.
 ed that an aerial tram will be ed that an arial tram will be built from the Premier mine to tidewater as quickly as the work can be done. A contract has been let to the Riblet Tramway Company of Spo- kane. The tram when complet- ed, will be the longest in Bris- ish Columbia or Alaska and one of the longest on the American continent. The dis tance from the mine to the wharf is IA miles.
 E. H. Bartholf, who will de- velop the Outland Silver Bar mining property, has been over the route to the property and anticipates no difficulty in transporting in the supplies, due to arrive on the Albert this week.
 Easter Sunday comes this year on Morch 27. There will be no peacock parades to and from Church in Hyder because there is no Church.
 The caterpillar tractor which last Friday night went over the wharf into the harbor is now on a scow awaiting the ar rival of the Prince Albert, when the ships hoisting ap- paratus will be used to lift the machine onto the wharf.
 "Beans and Rice 10 cents a lb. at Rozenstain's."
 Sometimes there are oc- curences in a community which might make interesting read ing in a newspaper, but which the paper omits because their publication might work per sonal injury on the ones close ly affected. Such is an unfor- tunate case of this week, of which the public is fully in- formed through street gossip and about which no good would be accompolised by newspaper notoriety.
 Temperatures for the week, as recorded by Oren F. Hill ranged from a minimum of 4 above zero to a maximum of 52 above. The coldest day was March 15, with a high temper ature of 28 and a minimum of 4. The maximum average for the week was 38 degrees, the average minimum 12 degrees.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14

A refrigerating plant for fruit and vegetables destined for export, which, it is assert ed will be the largest in Eur ope, is to be built at Verona, Italy.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14

A Yale professor says the weather causes a loss of half a billion dollars year. But think of the raw material for conversation. it yields.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

This newspaper not connect ed in with any stock brokerage firm other establishment interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes formation relative to local min development that is neved to be in full accord with fact.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

Changes m Display Advert sing current weekly issue must be presented not later than the Wednesday evening preceding the day of issue Saturday. or insertion will delayed until the follow ing week.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14

Frances submarine fleet now includes 52 vessels built and AZ building, including one of 3,250 tons displacement, which will be the worlds largest.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-03-14

Few newspaper readers are ignorant enough to qualify for jury duty.
 A woman is seldom called an old maid until she begins to act like one.
 Noah was one famous per sonage who got rid of the q knew him when" boys.
 Those ads describing the hor- TOTS of halitosis almost make one hold his breath.
 An optimist is onewho de- bends on the town clock when he has train to catch. One thing We learn from ex- perience is that we seldom learn anything from eXperi- fence.
 Mussolini's diet is said to con- sist principally of milk, still he could hardly be called a milk sop.
 If he keeps on licking them often enough those wild jack4 asses" in the Senate may eat [ out of MT. Hoover's hand yet.
 There are two sides to every question, we are told. And each member of the Wicker sham commission appears to have taken both. A big male deer got in front of a Pennsylvanian's car and wrecked it, in spite of the drivers effort to pass the buck. frate Pater: What do you mean by coming home at five A. M. /?
 Indignant. Daughter:.. ''For clyin' out loud, Pop! I have to patronize the old roost some time, don't F"