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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-10-29
SCHOOL TO
PRESENT OPERETTA
The lower grade pupils of the
Outlook Schools will present an
operetta, Enchanted Garden" on
Friday, November 6. s p. m, at
the Outlook Theatre.

The following is a brief synopsis of
the play:
Peggy loses her way in the woods,
She falls to sleep and awakes among
the fairies in the enchanted garden.
She spends the night with the fairies
and their queen They entertain her by
dancing and singing their songs. Peter
Pan grants her wish to see a Chinese
boy, and then calls the Japanese girl
for a companion to him. As the winds
grow cold the fairies leave the en-
chanted garden. The admission will
be 25c and l5c. The patronage of the
community will be appreciated.
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ince Is a community affair. Low 'ates are made possible by reduc- 5ion in risk, and by low fire loss ecords. Where the risks are high. fires frequent and losses heavy, the property owner pays for it in in- creased rates, and not the insur- ance companies.
 Senator Allen Shattuck, insur- ance broker, pointed out that the decrease in local insurance rates. between Is and 20 per cent. came about because of the proved eff c!ency of the local Department.
 Creation of a limit in the down. own district within which non- fireproof buildings might not be erected was suggested for consider ation to the Department and the Chamber by Attorney General John Rustgard, who said he believed the time had arrived when such a system was advisable.
 Delegate Prepares Bill
 A bill asking for Congressional appropriation of $30,00O is being prepared for introduction by Dele gate Wickersham, said letter from him to the Chamber, for the pur- pose of purchasing the upper half of the block between Main and Seward streets south of the capito, He said he did not believe, under the present urge for national econ- omy, that a larger sum could be obtained
 The War Department has ten tative schedule for constructing a new, temporary sending station for the Signal Corps wireless plant here, the Executive Board was ad- vised by Capt. Adams, Signal Corps officer visiting here this week. The new station will be located at some point adjacent to Glacier Highway. As soon as adequate funds are available, it is planned to replace
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CAPITOL HAS VIM. HAYNES AS STAR . IN PLAY TONIGHT
Tailor Made Man Is Fea- ture and Lone Defend-
 CT Added Attraction

"A Tailor Made Man." starring William Haines, will be the feature at the Capitol t he a t re tonight. Chapter 3 of the serial, The Lone Defender" with Rin Tin Tin in the leading role, will be an added attraction.
 If you can picture Haines as a wolf in sheep's clothing you will have some idea of the fun factors in "A Tailor Made Man"
 Poverty to Wealth
 In this characterization Haines embodies the spirit of the man who rises from poverty and obscurity to fame and financial success. He starts out as an innocent little pants presser but ends up as a wolf in the commercial world.
 The picture is based on the play of the same name which enjoyed long run at the Conan and Har- ris Theatre, New York, in 1917
 Supporting Cast
 Dorothy Jordan has the leading feminine role. Joseph Cawthorn, Marjorie Rambeau, William Austin Ian Keith and Hedda Hopper have prominent parts.
 The Lone Defender" is all talk ing. Rinty offers some strange new barks and howls that he has pre- pared as being especially in keep ing with his character in the story.
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GARY COOPER
 PLAYS SCOUT AT COLISEUM D
Fighting Caravans Good Headline Attraction
 on New Program

Fighting Caravans" drama of the battling pioneers who beat new trails across the continent, is the attraction at the Coliseum theatre tonight. Gary Cooper and Lily Damita head a large cast.
 In Fighting Caravans the lives the equipment, the characters, even the dangers and privations of those forward-pushing days have been reconstructed, and brought to life on the screen.
 Tender Romance, Too
 Into the atmosphere of the from tier-busting caravan is introduced tender romance, between Gary Cooper, the swaggering, devil-may- care junior scout of the expedi- tion, and Lily Damita, French girl immigrant whose father dies during the gruelling march, leaving her alone, with giant wagon and a valuable cargo, to carry on to the Land of Gold.
 Cooper, tempted to take advan- tage of the girls helpless position, is quickly brought to his senses by her indomnitable will. Their TO- nance blossoms in danger and bursts into full bloom as the strug- gling caravan struggles into Eldo- radO. f
 Fighting Caravans" is from a Zane Grey novel. The cast includes Ernest Terrence and Fully Mar shall.
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CHAMBER HOST
 TO FIREMEN AT
 NOON LUNCHEON
Department Is Honored- Chamber Also Pays Tri-
 bute to B. M. Behrends
(Continued rom rage One)

and "Mickie," always first to a fire, pulling the hand reels"
 "The Fire Department has al- ways done good work" MT. Behrends declared in conclusion.
 Chief Grey expressed his appre- ciation for the cooperation given the Department by the Chamber, merchants individually and resi- dents generally. "The Department is on duty 24 hours each and every day for the protection of the lives and property of the community" he declared.
 Department Organization Told Harry Sperling, honorary mem Der and for long time active member of the Department, at the request of Chief Gray gave a brief resume of it's organization and something of it's activities. It is composed of 30 members, com prising two companies, each under an elected foreman, a chief, assist ant chief and two paid truck drivere. It has two American La France bumper trucks, high pres sure hydrant system, close work ing arrangements with the tele- phone company supplamenting its electric fire alarm system which covers the town completely, and adequate auxiliary equipment, in- cluding hose, chemicals, gas masks, an inhilator, etc. |
 Six months residence is required for membership which is attained by popular vote of two-thirds of the members. It has a long list of standing applications.
 Average of Calls
 During the past three or four years, it has answered five or six calls per month, and in 1880, the years total was AT. Six people were pulled from the waters of Gastineau Channel and through use of the inhilator, the lives of two children, smoke victims, were saved.
 It regularly conducts first aid classes among it's members each year, and makes practice runs to keep up efficiency.
 It has created it's own insurance fund in case of members death or accidental injury. In this fund, started some two or three years ago, there is now $1,2OO, and $250 in the general fund. The Depart ment, said MT. Sperling is always solvent.
 The compliments paid the organ ization, he added, are well deserved
 Discusses Fire Hazards
 If there is any weakness in the community, he declared, it is in the prevention of fires. He pointed to a number of "shacks," several in the business district, that are fire hazards These ought to be de- stroyed or repaired to remove the danger from that source.
 Believing in the efficiency of the Fire Department, and resting se- curely in the knowledge that they are covered by insurance, there seems to be a tendency, perhaps, of
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Railroad, said he addressed a spe- cial meeting of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce yesterday and launched a movement for an Alaska Tour under it's auspices for next June. The Frisco organiza- ton, he added, has formed an Alaska Department and enlisted a number of prominent former Alas kans in it's ranks
 MT. Sawyer asked the local Chamber to cooperate with him and the San Francisco body in pushing the movement for a 1881 tour to successful termination. Twenty-Five inquiries were rece!y-
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the temporary structure with a modern, upt o date and powerful sending plant A 24-hour service will be maintained and a service even faster than the present cable service will be available.
 Capt. Adams said he did not be-. lieve 1t would be possible to secure a 24-hour cable service at this time, owing to lack of operating personnel and a shortage of funds.
 New Alaska Excursion
 A telegram received by the Chamber today from Ernest Walk CT Sawyer, special assistant to the General Manager of the Alaska
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againss amateur home-wiring as a method of economy; defective wir- ing is the cause of many fires, and only competent. expert men should perform such work.
 Insurance Is Local
 After all, he pointed out, insur-
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ed and answered during the week, Acting Secretary M. s. Whittier re- | ported.
 Lee c. Pratt, former secretary of the Cordova Chamber, who is now attached to fiscal offices of tho 1 Regional Forest Service here, was welcomed to Juneau by the Cham Der today.
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passivity in the community about the danger of conflagration There isn't enough of a united effort to keep down fire risks. He urged the abandonment of the use of cer- tain forms of cleaners around the home as gerous; he warned
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 The central yesterday has rapidly eastward through Yukon Territory pressure central throughout Alaska the extreme north The high the northeastern Pacf Ocean expect in the Gulf of Alaska and the weather tied the Gulf the Territory reported morning
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Capt. Eric Forss, 86, of Ketchi- kan, climbed Deer Mountain near that city. making the distance from tidewater to the peak, which is nearly 5000 feet above sea level, in 312 hours.
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er No 5117 Reserve District No
 REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE First National Bank of Juneau

the Territory Alaska September 
 RESOURCES
 g. OvedraftS B. United States Government securities owned 17345oO0 A. Other bonds stocks and securities owned G. Banking house, $59050Oo Furniture fixtures t 626oo 62676Oo I Real estate owned other banking 3550o0 9. Cash . 225554 IS 1o Outside checks and other cash items H. Redemption Treasurer and due from U
 S. Treasurer s25oo TOTAL ,394 32
  l5 Capital stock paid in 5o000oo l6 Surplus 5oo00oo IT, Undivided profsnet 20 Circulating notes outstanding 21 Due to banks including checks
 outstanding 22 Demand deposits 386 299 968 23 Time deposits 99259845 24 United States deposits TOTAL $l ,557 ,394 32 Territory of Alaska Precinct R. Stevens Cashier of the bank. solemny and belief.
 R. H. STEVENS Cashier Correct-Atest: H. T. TRIpP L. H. METzGAR Directors. fH hs &@& ss Subscribed (SeaD SIMON HEILENITIAI, Notary Public
 My commission expires January 1884
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
A Very Thin Skin

Really the President ought to do something about
that thin skin of his. If he is going to appoint
commission apology every time the Navy
League the pacihsts the vets the drys, the Boy
Scouts or the ladies' sewing circle finds fault with
him, he will have much time left to administer
the government.
The public did not need his latest heresy hunt
against the Navy League to learn that the President
considers criticism har-shirt. He has said more
about hair-shirts than all other Presidents combined
Apparently he has not yet discovered that i'm
portant part of any public officials job is to take
criticism. Perhaps if he would read bit of American
history he would be reconced by the discovery that
Washington, Lincoln Cleveland, Roosevelt and Wilson
not to mention lesser men in the White House
stood much more punishment of this kind than he is
exposed to.
# he will not be reconcied it is just too bad for
Mr.. Hoover. Because there is not much he do
about it-except to provoke public Impotence.
The point is that free speech still is part Of the
fundamental law of the land. Our old-fashioned
fathers of the republic had the idea that public
criticism of President was necessary safeguard
of democracy. So they did not provide that speech
shall be free except as it touches the White House
They thought that the libel and other laws which
protect ordinary citizens adequate protection
for the President-indeed they thought Of the Presi
dent as a citizen among citizens, rather than
dictator who could silence criticism or as monarch
above the judgments of men,
That feeling still is pretty strong among Amer
leans. 1t is reason Mr. Hoover is unpopular The
people resent his desire to punish all who disagree
with him.
The Navy League is typical
Every one knows that Mr. Hoover has overwhelm-
ing public support for his policy of joint naval reduc
tion There is public criticism but it is because
he is doing little-asking only $2OOOO0OO cut in
the $360000O00 naval budget when the government
spending twice much it takes in, and accepting
the League Of Nations oneyear naval building ho-
day with many reservations as to make it almost
worthless.
Therefore the Navy Leagues crude and unfair at
tacks him for alleged Gripping of the navy are so
obviously partisan and absurd that they have won
the President public sympathy
All he had to do to remain silent and let the
Navy League propaganda sink ITSELF or to return it's
fire shot by shot with the ammunition of facts which
would destroy it,
Instead, he has almost made a free speech martyr
of the head of the Navy League-of whom the coun-
try previously had heard little and cared less BY so
doing Mr. Hoover again has advertised the fact that
he not stand the give-andtak necessary to eff
cent conduct of his Office
We wish the President did not have such a genius
for doing the right thing in the wrong way
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Too Many Governments


The United States Chamber of Commerce looks
archaic and useless local governments which increase
the tax burden.
1t just has received and published recommended
tons from eleven associations which have been
studying the problem. This group urged public con-
sideration of the overappngs and Implications now
existing in local government and the consolidation of
local governments consonant with modern methods of
communication and transportation"
"It appears absurd to preserve in the present day
such archaic geographical limits for school districts
townships and counties suitable for rural COM
munities in age devoid of improved highways
automobiles and telephones" says the report,
Similarly it appears equally absurd and costly to
permit artificial city and county boundaries to cut in
to numerous jurisdictions single homogeneous area"
This is gospel which Governor Franklin D. Roose-
welt has been preaching in New York state for
time. He recently compiled figures to show that
than half of the thirteen billion dollar tax bill
of the country is collected by and spent by units
government below the federal government and the
states.
New York, for instance. has beneath the state gov
eminent sixtytwo counties, sixty cities 932 towns
SIS villages 9400 school districts and 1855 water
lighting, sewer and sidewalk districts No citizen of
the state lives under fewer than four governments
and live under ten layers.
We will sacrifice nothing in the way of valuable
local autonomy if we abolish some of these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

Food, Exercise Chief Weight Factors

I 1t is we'll recognized that among
women as they gain maturity, as
they have children, and as they ap-
proach the period at the end of
middle age, there is a special ten
dency to change in weight.
Men are, in general, more active
physically than women. They spend
more time in the open air, eat more
proteins and less sugars, and are
less likely to search for reduction in
weight just to look better.
The commonest age for the be-
ginning of overweight is between 20
and 40 years of age in women, the
average being usually around 30.
Among men the onset of overweight
is likely to come on somewhat later.
One-third of the women who we're
examined by the Scotch physicians
associate their tendency to over
weight with childbirth. There are,
however, other factors to be taken
into account.
For instance, the period of child
birth is approximately 80 years of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Stolen Cars

Police departments in many cities have decided
that the system of recovering stolen automobiles in
st. Paul should be put into general use.
Under the ST. Paul plan, special detail of two
more policemen to each $4,000 population will work
constantly automobile theft problems Special files
for the work will be maintained Arrangements will
be made for quick information from other cities in
the form of interchangeable filing cards. to be mailed
within forty-eight hours of a reported theft.
Cancellation bulletins will be mailed weekly.
Short-wave radio stations used by the police will
broadcast missing car information
Municipal garages will be maintained where re-
covered cars will be brought in and checked as to
condition.
Two other recommendations made by ST. Paul's
police chief. however would be drastic many cities
One of these is the prohition of al-night parking.
The other would make any person liable to penalty
for leaving his car unlocked, parked on the street
1t is well to advocate such care, but it is matter
of education rather than of law or ordinance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
To the DebS!

Junior League, Junior League, Junior League, On
ward
All in the valley of breath rode the four hundred.
Such with apologies to the late A. Tennyson,
describes what Junior League members dared last week
when they took their first plunge into national politics
and voted overwhelmingly against the eighteenth
amendment.
The debutantes in pool taken by the Junior
League magazine made halting gesture. The
vote was 1921 for modification, only $40 against it.
Brave and unsel1sh this vote. 1t was not in
spired by thirst for these social buds of ours
have heard the nocturnal pop of champagne and
Canada Dry 10, these many years Theirs was to rea-
son why theirs was to do or die And they did.
And now who will say that there is no youth move
ment in these United States?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

age, which is The beginning of the
period when most women tend to
become fat.
Furthermore, it is the tendency of
human beings to associate som%
striking occurrence in their lives
with the onset of some physical
change. Thus, if a child becomes
paralyzed or shows signs of mental
weakness, the parents are likely to
associate this with an accidental
fall from the high chair.
Children who have developed in
fections of the bones or Of the heart
are usually blamed for having been
overactive or for having INDUCED
in some particular strain when the
actual cause is perhaps a hidden
infection on the tonsils or in the
teeth.
Of course, following childbirth, q
woman is likely to rest much more
than previously, and also to eat
much more. This would explain the
tendency to overweight at such
time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
People Voice

Editor Times - Hamilton Fish
lately has been among us in pursuit
of his present trade of saving the
country from the Reds
AS usual, Mr.. Fish damned Rus
STA for it's unholy defiance of all es-
tablished institutions. A great OPP
portunity has been missed. Why did
no one rise to ask about Mr.. Fish'S
trip to Russia in 1928? The facts
are interesting.
Mr.. Fish applied for his passport
on stationery of Hamilton Fish &
Co., Inc, Exporters and Importers.
Mr.. Fish was accompanied on his
three-weeks' trip by Sydney Friede,
his business associate, and their
purpose was to secure a business
concession from the Soviet govern
ment
Mr.. Fish returned in November,
1923, and in a speech to New York
Kiwanis Club, declared that Bolshe-
vism was intrenched firmly in
Russia and offered great business
opportunities. He favored Soviet
American trade, and on March "a,
1926, he introduced in the house a
resolution "evidencing an earnest
desire for the development of mu-
tually profitable trade relations"
Not until March 5, 1880, was Mr.
Fish heard again on this subject
and then he arose to ask for a
special committee to investigate
American Communists. What has
happened in the meantime to Ham
ilton Fish & Co., importers and ex-
porters and potential Russian con-
cessionaires?
Will Mr.. Fish rise and take the
floor to answer? Apparently not
For this question was put in a
meeting of Mr.. Fish's own investi-
eating committee, and Mr.. Fish
hurriedly skipped to another topic
PERRY WYATT.
303 Sanders street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HF EY99%

T AM as ardent wet as you would
a not care to meet. And yet I hope
that prohibition will play a minor
role in the political contest of 1882
I say this because the wet and dry
controversy has tended to obscure
issues much more deeply rooted and
important.
1t is true that the same refusal
to face facts which animates many
of the Volsteaders has been carried
on into attitudes on other public
problems. 1t would be an excellent
thing to clean up the enforcement
mess in our stride. But the modif1-
cationists ere now guilty of joining
in the national sport of hurting the
red herring.
Specifically, it seems to me that
radical remedies toward the, cure of
unemployment have been impeded
by the cry of those who contend
that with little more beer there
will be a great deal more work.
Probably it is true that the release
of the breweries might give some
slight impetus to industry. But it
could hardly be more than a pat on
the forehead.
Only the most optimistic and
amateur economists can truly be-
lieve that the curtailment of this
single activity is at the basis of our
economic difficulties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Better Homes

Well here's presidential commission that has real
news to tell
committee of architectural experts working for
the Presidents conference on home building and
home ownership has studied conditions in twentyone
representative cities and to the conclusion that
the American working man can have better home,
more comfortable better built and better appearing.
at the same. or at even a lower, price than he
now pays.
The preliminary announcement of these experts
was rather sketchy, but it gave promise of important
bepefts from the work of the Hoover commission
It does not take architect. commission,
to determine that the design Of the average small
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Change Difficult
DROFESSOR WARREN think.

PROFESSOR WARREN thinks it
i will be easier to introduce a ref
ormation Of the twelve-month call
endar than it will be to hcange over
to thirteen-month one.
Two plans have been suggested.
One known as the Swiss scheme has
thirty days in January thirty in
February and thirty-one in March.
This same scheme then is repeated
in each of the other three quarters
of the year.
Another plan, known as the
world calendar, reverses the order,
making the arrangement 81, 80 and
80. Professor Warren says that for
historical reasons, he prefers the
Swiss plan
But both the Swiss scheme and
the world calendar require, Just as
does the month calendar,
that New Year day stand alone and
belong to no week
Taken on its merits alone, the
twelve month year works much bet
ter than the thirteen-month year."
ne says.
But even aside from this, it Is
preferable for psychological reasons.
The community at large looks ask
ance at new month, as it does at
a milligram and a kilometer.
"On the other hand, a mere ar
rangement of length in the existing
months should meet with COMPARE
lively little opposition, when the
many advantages of this evening"
up are pointed out"
The main difficulty, Professor
Warren points out, comes over the
idea Of having a New Year day
which beings to no week because
this throws the seven day cycle OF
the week out Of gear.