davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
FISH, LIKE OTHER.
 FOOD PRODUCTS. IS DEPRESSED
Wallis 5. George Declares Dealers Are Merely
 Exchanging Dollars

Fish as well as all other food commodities are depressed to low price levels in the States, and the outlook this season for both halibut and salmon is not at all encourag- ing for either fishermen or deal ers," said Wallis s. George, Presi- dent and Manager of the Juneau Cold Storage Company, who re- turned last evening from a busi- ness visit to Seattle.
 'Halibut receipts are plentiful at both Prince Rupert and Seattle. The fish is being bought and sold, but virtually without profit to dealers. They are merely exchang- ing dollars. At times there is great difficulty in disposing of pur- chaseS.
 When I left Seattle there was a movement in progress for every halibut boat to lie in port ten days after completion of trip. Whether the movement succeeds is problematical. It's purpose of course would be to curtail receipts in the hope of stimulating prices.
 salmon buying prices at Juneau, Ketchikan and Wrangell dropped today. They have been 12 cents pound for large, 2 cents pound for medium and 3 cents pound for small fish. Effective today they are 10, 6 and cents.
 Tt is to be hoped marketing conditions for both halibut and salmon will improve. but there
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, of-

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Off, flee of the Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., May 19, 1931- Sealed bids in duplicate subject to the conditions contained herein will be publicly opened in this of flee at pm, July 1, 1881, for fur nishing all labor and materials and performing all work for new brass water pipe at the U. s. post of flee, Cordova, Alaska The prevail ing rate of wage shall be paid all laborers and mechanics employed on the project as provided in the Act of March 3, 1881, Public No. '798). Drawings and specifications may be obtained from the cus- todian at the building or at this office in the discretion of the Su- pervising Architect. Jas A. Wet more, Acting Supervising Archi- tect.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
MMANUS IN WHITEHORSE;
 EXCURSION WAS SUCCESS
10. No longer ac.
 tive in busi-

O. K. MoManus, General Motors salc1man, reports from Whitehorse that the International Holiday C2elesrat.on ( there last Saturday was huge success. The special train from Skagway carried 28O passengers and everybody had a royal time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
HIGH PRELATE MAKES
 BRIEF VISIT HERE

I. O. Stringer, Archbishop of Rupert, and Mrs. Springer, were guests of Dean and Mrs. c. E. Rice Sunday evening while their steamer, the Princess Alice, was in port. They are enroute to Dawson for a visit. Archbishop Stringer was Bishop of the Yukon for many years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
NOTICE ALL

Dogs not wearing license plate on collar will be impounded ac- cording to the law. No exceptions. GEORGE GETCHELL,
 Chief of Police
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01

The remains moderately off the from northern the the Western Interior unsettled Southeastern Alaska Honolulu Temperature slight the Territory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01

Curt Walker. outfielder with In- dianapolis in the American Asso- ciation, is an undertaken at Bee vile, Tex, during the winter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
N- - , NOTICE

During the summer months the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors will re- main open until 1 am. (adv)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01

DANCE FRIDAY, JUNE 9TH Parish Hall by the Nativity Club.
 (adv.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
NOTICE

During the summer months the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors will re- main open until l am. (adv.l
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
WHEN THINGS WAKE UP

WHEN THINGS WAKE UP Spring-hanging up another worn-out Winter unocks the sunshine, flowers and bunnies. Mankind seems to begin again with new hope, new ambition, and new determination to be prudent, learning what to seek and what to shun.
 A bank account of your own is thing worth striv. ing to have Make this your Bank.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01

seems no prospect of immediate betterment."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01

SCHOMBEL'S ELECTRIC SHOP adv. TELEPHONE 45o2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01

Old papers tor sale at the En- pire office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
D. 5. pEPARTAdENr or AoR1ouLruRE wEATHHR BUREAU
The W eather

tDy the U B. weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity at Fair tonight Tuesday possibly showers gentle variable winds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Laval, HOOYer-and Lanan

Premier Laval and President Hoover have somo
thing to do before they begin talking reduction of
war debts and ornaments. Unless the Mancburia,,
war danger is disposed of, world situation will be
created III which more debts for war and more arnoa
ments are probable.
AT Geneva, the League of Nations council apnears
to have reached stalemate in it's attennpts to ar
range peaceful settlement. Japan will not accent
the councils terms. And the council can not accent
Japans terms. The barrier is the league demand
that Japan begin immediate and progressive eyacu-
alton OF her troops to within treaty railway zone
That is an obvious and proper demand Direct
peace negotiations between Japan and China while
Japanese troops continue to hold territory grabbed
in violation of treaties could result only in settle
ment dictated by the strong nation at the exnense
of the weak.
That would be precisely the kind of "victors peace
which Woodrow Wilson saw would be the calamity
Of Europe, and which later in the form of the Yer
sailes settlement created the havoc from which all
the world suffers today.
The most distressing aspect of the Manchurian
emergency is the report from Toxic now repeated
in the reports from Geneva that the United States
has broken its pledge for an international united
front by refusing to support the league demand for
immediate Japanese evacuation
That is said to explain, in part Japans defiance
of the league-an act which may eventually result
in Japans withdrawal from The league, or a league
confession that the worlds peace machinery is pow
erless. Now that the league has invoked not only
its own peace machinery, but also the kellogg pact
and the nine-power Pacific treaty. the international
jeopardy is all the greater and the need for American
cooperation is all the greater
Whether the United States is acting with Japar
and against the league on the issue of army evacua
ton, as the Toxic and Geneva reports indicate VIC
do not know
But we do know that today united front is more
imperative than ever and that the two key men are
in conference in Washington. Hoover controls our
policy LavalS foreign minister, BRAND is head O.
the council committee determining league policy
In order that there may be no more debts and
ornaments for new war, Hoover and Laval can
not act too quickly in the Manchurian crisis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Three Score and Ten

Within the next twenty-five years, the average
span Of an Americans life will be increased by twelve
years. stretching it to TO- we are told by no less an
authority than DR.. Charles H. Mayo, famous Mime
sofa surgeon For those who take care of their bodies
up TO the age of So the Biblical three score years and
zen viii be within reach of the average man.
To what end?
While medical scientists have been burning mid
night oil and giving their very lives in a thrilling and
successful campaign against disease, the social
sciences have been almost asleep. They have done
all TOO little to make the afternoons and evenings of
mems lives secure and happy.
Rich United States is the one civilized nation that
losses its elders to the discard other nations care for
them.
only recently have states stirred themselves
70 provide old-age pensions While seventeen states
embracing 100000 people, have old-age pension
laws the rest with 100000 people, provide no better
security for INDECENT age than the wretched poor
farm system.
Americans will not tolerate for another genera
ton the slow starvation of their old people or its
alternative that system of penal institutions known
as almshouses" said Abraham Epstein recently We
hope so.
ADDING years to mems lives is not progress unless
those are happy, useful years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Leadership

OFT has it been repeated since the depression hit
TWO years ago this month that what the country needs
Is leadership Much has the absence of Leadership
Deen decried But just what is leadership and in
what forms does it manifest itself?
Generally speaking, leadership represents the best
thought and tPe best knowledge of any given subject
Accordingly what New York university is doing be-
ginning Oct 26 and extending for two days. is one
concrete form of developing leadership
The university is sponsoring national conference
on the relation law and business with especa1
erence to the antitrust laws. Allison Reppy. pro-
lessor Of law in New York university and executive
director OF the conference, has been instrumental il
organizing the discussion.
Every phase of a subject that is much in the pub
hlnN To-Day - the question of whether the com
pleXes OF our industrial system do or do not call fo
mooIncauon OF the antitrust laws-will be dis
cussed.
Inc law, as it relates to society as whole and
The various industries such as OIL lumber textile.
ana the like, will be dealt with on the program h,
Such speakers as Guy A. Thompson president of the
American Bar Association; Walker D. Hines president
OF the Cotton Textile Institute; William J. DONOVAN
former assistant attorney general of the United
States; James w Gerard, former ambassador tn Ger
many; G. B Ames vice president of the Texas com
pany and others of note.
In thus organizing public discussion on great pub
Tic questions, on occasions when those questions are
timely the university is performing distinct service
beyond the bounds of the too usual academic 1noita
tons OF a college.
Leadership and the results that emanate from,
leadership will come from such conferences and -,,o,
discussion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
The Farmer VIII Eat

Farm workers. well as those in industry are
suffering from wage cuts. Farm wages now are at
the lowest point since 1916 we are told by the United
States department of agriculture. They are 113 per
cent OF the pre-war average, compared with $50 per
cent year ago. And there is surplus of labor
The farmer himself, as we'll as his hired HELM. has
mad his income curtaied, and the decline in prices
of things he sells has been much more pronounced
than the decline in price of things he must buy The
tariff is partly to blame.
While income declines, prices of commodities
which the farmer must buy for Emily maintenance
and for use in production lag their slide downward
leaving the farmer with difficulty in balancing
MS budget, says recent bulletin of the department
OF agriculture With the index of prices he received
down 35 per cent between June, 1885, and June 1881
and the index of prices he pays down only 10 per cent
in the same period the farmers purchasing power is
cllrtailed sharply"
The United States bureau of labor statistics re-
Gently showed that industrial wages as whole have
declined much more rapidly than prices
This impairment Of the great home market is one
OF the basic reasons for persistence of the depression
The 100000 persons dependent on the soil can not
buy factory products if they do not have the money
and the problem is not one of persuading them to
spend.
Fortunately, the farm population will suffer much
less than the urban unemployed during the coming
winter Farmers learned their lesson, and many of
them are a subsistence basis
Most of them at least will have enough to eat
even If they can not make the purchases needed to
start factory wheels turning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Many Garry Diphtheria; Don't Know It

AS a result, nine children we're
found to be suffering from diph-
liberia at the time of the inspection.
Out of all of the children exam
ined fifty three were found to be
carriers of diphtheria germs. Some
of them were found to be carrying
diphtheria germs in their Threats
and others IL, the nose, and a few
in both the nose and throat.
The children who were carriers
were excluded from school and ex-
amined regularly until they were
found to be free of the germs.
In this way the epidemic was
brought under control and the chill
dren who were carrying the germs
were freed from being looked on as
a menace to their companions.
The treatment of carriers, while
not very severe, is a rather laborious
and difficult task. 1t has been found
that infected tonsils particularly are
prone to be the place in which the
diphtheria organisms are carried.
Hence removal of the tonsils is
done in such cases and frequently
brings about a cure.
In other cases it becomes neces-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
b1TEEH
HH4B
NIP REVOLT PLOT
October %

an Oct. %, 1917, a plot to bring
~ about another rebellion in Ire
land for the sake of Germany was
disclosed by the United States de-
partment Of justice.
The plot provided for shipping Of
large sums Of money to Germany
for the purchase Of German bonds
by Turks residing in New York.
Baron Max Won Recklinghausen,
a German to whom Count Won
Bernstorf had given authority to
act as secret envoy in the United
States, was arrested as the leader.
He was taken to Ellis island.
The Russian admiralty stated on
this day that its force had put out
OF action in an engagement in the
Gulf Of Riga two German dread
naughts, one cruiser, twelve torpedo
boats, and one transport.
General Petain, French marshal.
attacking northeast Of scissors on
a six-mile front, drove a wedge two
miles deep into the German Inns
nearest Paris.
More than 1900 prisoners and
twenty-five heavy guns were can.
tured. Three villages and Malmai-
son Tort feu into French hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

sary day after day TO swab the
throat with mild tincture of iodine
and to clean the nose with hydrogen
peroxide to remove the crusts and
thereafter to use a mild mercurous
ointment.
1t was found that children who
carried the diphtheria organisms in
their noses frequently had discharge
from the nose and not infrequently
enlarged glands in the neck.
Persistent daily treatment usually
brought about a negative culture of
the diphtheria organism in about
three weeks, although there were
cases in which the children contin-
ued to have diphtheria organisms
in the throat for several months.
The use of antitoxin to overcome
this type of infestation, rather than
infection, is not established as a use
full method.
First, because the antitoxin is op-
posed to the poisons produced by
the diphtheria organism rather than
being opposed to the organism itself.
Second because the organisms
grow on the surface of the tissue
where they are not in immediate
contact with the blood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

taxes than ours and is refuted by our own experience
with the higher income surtax during the last de-
preston.
Judgment of economists and tax experts is against
the administration today in its opposition to increased
srtaxes gift tax and death duties just as the udg-
ment of the experts against the administration
when it cut taxes at the height of prosperity and thus
paved the way for the present dangerous deficits
There is a simple test. Try the higher surtax! II
Mellon is correct and it produces no more revenue
nothing will be lost. But much will be gained if it
does bring in more revenue
Certainly no one will deny the justice of the surtax
which would apportion the increased burden on the
basis of the citizens ability to pay Indeed that
ability-to-pay standard was the basis upon which
Mellon settled the war debts due us from European
nations.
Mellon is wise, however, in turning to the luxury
sales tax to supplement the present or possible in
creased surtaXes and death duties. Because Mellon
and his group by the last income tax cut DESTROYED
the funds which could have helped to carry us over
these lean years, it is not possible during depression
to depend on surtaxeS and death duties alone.
However unjust and unscienti1c the sales tax NAV
be under normal conditions. it now seems to be a
necessity.
Since apparently we must have a sales tax, Mellon
is doing the just, as well the politically expedient
thing, in proposing that the burden fall on lux,1res
and semi-luxlries, rather than on food and fuel
Whatever other tax disputes may arise in the
coming session of congress- at least there should be
complete agreement that tax on basic necessities in
these hard times would be dangerous TYRANNY to be
avoided at all costs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Brain Cells ColIoidaI

A SIMPLE emulsion consists OF
IA two liquids and third sub
stance which acts as the emulsi~
flying agent.
Olive oil and water will not mix.
But if a little soap is added, the olive
oil remains suspended throughout
the water in little colloidal drops.
The reason is that the soap forms
protective coatings around the drops
of oil which prevents them from
coalescing.
Mayonnaise dressing is a similar
emulsion, the olive oil and vinegar
being the two liquids, and the yolk
Of an egg the emulsifying agent.
Now the living cell is a colloid Of
vastly greater complexity. But its
behavior follows the rules of simpler
colloids in many respects.
Obviously, the brain cells and
nerve cells of the human body,
being merely specialized forms of
living cells, are also colloidal in
nature And it is upon this fact
that Professor Bancroft bases his
theory.
Claude Demands views lead di-
rectly to colloid theory of insan-
ity," declared Professor Bancroft.
IF the brain is permanently abnor-
NAL, the thinking will be abnormal
also, and the patient will be called
insane.
THE brain can be abnormal in
two ways, by being too puckered or
by being too mushy."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WISH to register violent disapproval of the cult
preached by Mrs. Kathleen Norris when she writes
Mothers who give complete service to husband and
children are the happiest Of Gods creatures"
That IS not sensible advice for the exceptional
woman. And how scarce she is!
Speaking in generalties it is true that out Of the
generous giving Of ones self come the finest rewards
OF living But the woman with a family who does
not temper her generosity Of heart with common
is likely to be the unhappiest of Gods creatures
do not mean, of course that we should not always
make husband and children the prime interest of life
or that anything should come before our duty to
them
The urge to do this is the natural instinct OF
1t requires special grace from heaven to
cause us to pour out before them our hearts gold
frankincense and myrrh
THE grace we need is the grace that can show us
4 when too much devotion and mnistration be-
comes harmful to them and to US
Even mother should not make of her love a
cringng sycophant. And that is what it frequently
becomes when We thrust aside all other interests and
think only Of that which is ours.
Moreover, do not believe that a woman can be
either frSt-rate wife parent when her vision is
confined to her yard If her nature is not great
enough to her children and her husband in their
relation to the outside world well to herself she
lacks the noblest conception of duty.
Some of the most miserable of women have been
those who have served only their families Why?
Because this in reality is high form of selfShness
To minister to our own first is a joy; to minister
to our own completely is to deaden that responsive
ness to the universal that is the finest flower of all
love- human or divine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
MELONS, Tax Plan

No one will be surprised that the administration
after long denials to the contrary finally has come
around to the necessity of tax increase 1t had no
choice. There is a limit to which the government can
borrow with safety and to pay part Of the prospective
three billion dollar deficit for the current two years
tax increase is necessary.
But Secretary Andrew Melons plan as announced
Thursday is peculiarly blind side He viii have
no increase in the income and inheritance taxes if
he can help it. He argues repeating recent
presidential statement-that no more revenue can be
raised from those sources.
His argument is refuted by the experience Of
foreign countries with higher income and inheritance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23

loved country could be convinced of
the necessity of real tax reduc-
ton would be to take a ride. First,
I would take them past the many
vacant residences that are not
bringing income to pay tax; then
would want them to gaze upon
the many vacant business rooms
without income.
And then let them visit the own
ers of rented houses and rented
business rooms and ask them if they
have reduced the rent and a large
per cent they say they have cut,
and cut deep.
Let us keep on riding to the
business proprietor and ask him if
he felt like his tax should be re-
duced Chat is, if he has not al
ready failed. Do not pass the
commission salesman, if he should
own property, and ask him if his
sales means less tax or the same old
rate.
We have not gone to the home
owners. some paying interest on
mortgages, or mayhap without work,
to ask them if they would reduce
that tax which will take their
homes.
Take them into the country, where
God has smiled this year, and ask
the farmer, who lost $3.50 on every
acre of wheat he reaped, and who
will lose more on every acre of corn
he has cultivated. Look upon them
and their children. Ask yourself if
they toll not, nor spin. Look in
vain for their purple and fire linen
or compare your raiment with
theirs.
For something to keep up this
lonesome country ride it might be
well to compare this fine farm of
quarter section, that you so much
would love to own, with its $3.50
taxes and the totals all on your red
side, with your salary and your tax
receipt and your items of expense.
Ask the farmer if he can pay the
tax when the banks refuse to lend
any money on the farm and his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
And they're Wrong

MEN tell us that individualism is
4V1 dead, that machinery has
killed it, that mass movement and
mass thinking have become the all
important factors in life.
Maybe, they're right, but the
books we read, the shows we at
tend, the incidents with which we
are fascinated, the songs we sing,
and the games we like do not prove
it.
I always have believed that pleas
ure was a better index of charac-
ter than serious business, because
it leaves less room for pretense and
deceit, and that the motivating
traits of people were far more easily
discoverable in their amusements
than in their work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
1t Tells the Story

WTE have trained ourselves to
w work in multitudes, punching
time clocks by the thousand, doing
the goose-step like an army or a
prison gang. but do we like it? Does
it represent our honest attitude?
When we play, do we organize on
anything like such a grand scale, or
do we prefer games, sports and pas
times in which a comparatively few
occupy the spotlight?
Would you enjoy baseball with a
thousand men on each team, or a
prize fight with hundreds taking
part? Do you like a movie that is
full Of crowds and street parades, or
a. novel that contains so many char
acters you can't keep track of them?