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Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02

Almost every Alaskan has known for years that the Biological Survey set aside Nunivak and other s land game sanctuary with respert to conducting breeding experiments yet the Alaska delegate before the special reindeer committee had the afrontry to charge the Lomen Reindeer Company with a monopoly by of the fact they have trading post the island Chief Redington set the committee right with very few words Again say the delegates fights of the many past years, has cost the Territory dearly
 Temperance, not teetolisn is the motto of Capt. Boney Ridley, 89-year-od North Carolina mountaineer The Captain says: It is true than in my youth would drink b but for the last 15 years have been taper ing down until notice that if l drink pint at time it has tendency to go to my head" Three cheers for the oldtimer
 Yesterday, March l. came in like lamb, so, ac- cordng to ancient beef the end of March should de- part into the past roaring like infuriated lion.
 It is strange thing but upon good authority it IS said Arctic explorers sleep in houses with the doors open, the and the heat from their bodies keeping them warm
 Selling apples may help some, but it will hardly get to the core of the unemployment problem
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02
A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION

The stragetic location of Seward again demon strated in practical manner with the arrival Friday of the SS Alameda fro nlthe south.
 On board came Attorney Robertson from Juneau and Judge E. Coke Hill from his Valdez court head quarters From the fair city of Anchorage, IA miles northwest of Seward arrived Attorney Morton.
 That evening special court was heard and the next day all returned to their separate offices via train and steamer.
 Need more be said?
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02

Phone fer H0rlutA's Danish Ice Cream and we will deliver Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02
THE MOONS

Full moon March 4th, last quar- ter 11th; new moon 18th; first quarter 27th.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02

Horace S. Albert, owner of the Abbert Ranch, located a few miles out of the Village of Kodiak, is a passenger aboard the SS Far ragut bound for Seattle and thence to Boston, where he will arrange certain matters connected with the ranch, and which if success full will mean the enlargement of his ranch holdings and sub stantial increase in his stock herds MT. Albert expects to re- turn to Kodiak on the April sail- ing of the Watson.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02
KODIAK NEWS
(By Special Correspondent

(By Special Correspondent On February 16 the joys of maternity and paternity were vis- tied upon MT. and Mrs. Julian Morrison by the birth of a daugh- ter. Both mother and infant are now in splendid health and all concerned extremely happy.
 Captain John Brodtkcorp, of the gaSboat Takli, returned on February 17th from Seward with Jess Blinn acting as supercargo. The Takli was engaged by Ole Olson, employed at the o. Kraft & Sons to carry his sister in- law, Miss Martha Larson to the Seward General Hospital for treat ment. She was suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis and an affliction of one of her lungs. Her condition was very serious upon her departure from Kodiak. John Strom and Jess Blinn VOL unteered their services and as- sisted Captain Brodtkcorp in the trip from Kodiak to Seward. MT. Strom is returning on the SS. Far ragut.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02

Captain Peter Wold, former owner of two halibut vessels and now operating a cannery at Port Williams arrived in Kodiak aboard the SS. Farragut, and is return ing or the same vessel as far as Seward where he expects to con- summate a deal whereby a suit able cannery tender will be chart cred for the summer opera tions. Captain Wold reports very gloomy prospects for the canner- ies in Southeastern Alaska, and states that some 30 canneries will remain idle and imperative dur ing the approaching fishing sea- son.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-02

Mir. M Carl Amy, prominent and well known attorney of Se- ward arrived in Kodiak on the January trip of the SS. Farragut, enjoying much deserved rest af- ter years arduous work in Se- ward. Judge Almy is highly elated at the prospects of Kodiak to soon enjoy a substantial and material prosperity and feels assured that with the pubic spirit being shown by the business people of the Village there is no question that with the advent of Spring com mercial gloom will take wing and leave the Dove of prosperity hov- ering and cooing above the peace full and beautiful scenes of the town. Judge Amy is departing for his Seward headquarters on the February trip of the Farragut.
 The Rev. N. Kashevaroff, pas tor of the local Russian Greek Catholic Church, departed last week aboard the SS. Starr for the Westward, in order to answer the spiritual call of his many parishioners located along the AL ,eutian Peninsula, and will return to Kodiak on the return of the Starr next week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
Capone An Issue

Federal authorities gave Al Capone d month to wind up his business before be- ing sentenced for crimes to which he frankly pleaded guilty. The business he was allowed to set in order consisted chiefly of illegal activities News stories the last week in July told of Capone giving farewell parties and celebrating hilariously his temporary- he expected it to be very temporary. indeed --withdrawal from the society of bis com panions. He was even quoted as making few noble remarks about being opposed to gangster movies because of their bad influ- ence on boys He expressed some bcwilder- ment that the government should pick on him while there were other criminals at large.
 Then be discovered that the judge might not be 50 lenient with him as he had anticI- pated. Suddenly the cheerful Scarface be- came nervous and scared. He changed his mind and asked if he could plead not guilty, after all. thus securing jury trial. A jury trial seemed to offer the only chance 10 eyade the punishment that was closing in on him. He won that particular point, SO the whole case IS reopened.
 Capone complains that he has been made an issue" If prison gates don't close be- hind him soon, he may become d 8raver issue than he thinks. Public tolerance and indifference will not last indefinitely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881
Air Victories

There are interesting things going on in the air this summer. They may not be so exciting and breath taking as those of the summer of 1927 when Lindberg made him self famous. Partly that's because the pub lie takes air achievement little more for granted. Partly it is because there have been so many successes and so few failures in recent weeks The elements of suspense and anxiety are almost gone.
 Nevertheless. the public that cheered the speed and precision of Post and Gatty in their eigbt-day dash around the Northern Hem isphere. cheers again at the precision and endurance of Boardman and Poando who flew. as the bee flies apparently, from New York to Istanboul. Turkey without stop. They said they'd do it in about 50 hours time. They actually covered the 4984 miles in 49 hours and | 7 minutes, with no false landings or wandering off their course
 There have been other notable flights this summer. Their success speaks volumes for the skill of the pilots and nsvigators the quality of the machines used. the sensible use of the knowledge, gradually accumulat- ed. of weather and other conditions and how to meet them. New aviation achieve ments are built on firm foundation of past experience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
Bull and Bear

Lion and lamb have been known 10 he down together in amlty. at least in legend. Bull and bear have seldom shared the same pasture. But now they are peacefully sleeping in hammocks on sunny yacht decks or chasing golf balls over cool greenswards. ' There was gentlemen's agreement, so 1t IS said. to refrain from stampeding the market during the days when the worlds fortunes hung in the balance.
 Whether the letter asking about 25 big operators to refrain from upsettng the market during the European crisis was sent by the stock exchange itself or by com mittee of bankers has not so far appeared But the letters came from somewhere. and were respected. The exchange is believed 10 have acted for itself. without urging from the President. Wall street observee and ad- mires the "easter stroke" of putting these large traders on their honor
 It is to everybody's advantage that mar hets remain steady in these uncertain times. Any advantage gained at the expense of Aaampede just now would be ephemeral in-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
Liquor Laws, Sober Ways

A newspaper man, after several summers spent in travel, writes: T have visited a half dozen countries in which some specific legal endeavor is being made to control the abuse of alcohol. There is no liquor law in any of them that is not habtually violated and there is none that pleases everybody
 It sounds diseouraging. But isn't there something hopeful in this widespread grop- ing after temperance and sobrety? There is admission in it that a goodly number of human beings appreciate the harm that lies in the abuse of alcohol. They seek, grop- ingy. for a way to lessen that harm.
 Between the proposals of the extreme vets who would have no control of the use of alcohol and the extreme drys who would have no Lse of alcohol at all, there may lie program as yet unformulated which will please. not everybody. but more thought ful persons than have been pleased up to now.
 And in the meantime industry and eco monies and changing viewpoint are all working on the side of temperance, if not of prohibition. Time takes care of some things over which human beings make great bother in vain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
The Chance To Try

One of the benefits of the depression has been the chance it gave people to try new things. Old efforts at keeping up with the Joneses were given up because nobody could keep up with anything. There was a general throwing back upon the resources of the ln- dividual. with the gain in power and eonfl- dence which comes with individual effort
 A family which once went to summer hotels this year went camping. and liked so well not only the pleasures of the open, but the way the life brought out their latent powers. that they decided to buy a bit of land by the water and build cabin for themselves another year. The mother of d family who could never afford summer hotels until rates came down found so much more rest. comfort, fun and restoration in a week at her chosen inn than in month of motor touring. as they bad done it before, tbat she has decided to try the inn again next year and Great Lakes voyage the year after.
 One woman let her maid and laundress go and found to her intense surprise that lt WdS more run 10 uO tDe WdSiIIIlR lldH 'o play bridge and she was less tired after it. Another discovered fine special talent and took ona maid and laundress to give herself time to develop it. She can do her work manage her home and go to parties. too, and her whole family is happier, One wo man whose rug wore out IS painting her living room floor green. the walls lavender and the ceiling custard yellow. She's doing d bedroom in dull orange floor, pale green walls and dark blue ceiling with stars on it.
 Real stars, she explains T always wanted to know something about the con- selations, so I chose day and put them in right. l have grand time waking up in noon, 1 may not like these rooms indefi the morning or resting bit in the after nitely' she goes on. but look at 1t like this, Here's new world. and I'm not go- 10 sit down. mourning, in the midst of lot of old-fashloned ideas. and let it swamp me. m going to keep on trying new things till 1 find what like that fits in with il, If think things out for myself maybe once in a while, I'll even be d jump ahead
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
Relief Plus

President William Green of the American Federation of Labor estimates that 5,200.- 900 workers were unemployed in July and that 100000 will be out of work next winter If industrial unemployment should increase as much from July to January next as it does in normal prosperous years The situation is serious. But there are hopeful elements in it.
 Facts are more honestly faced now than they were year ago. Public officials local and national. and welfare organizations generally are ready 10 estimate work that lies before them and to prepare for it. Author itiss. from President Hoover down. are talk ing steps to provide the relief that will be needed. Officers of the Red Cross announce that although that organization cannot un- dertake national relief work, local branches are free to help in any way they can in in- dividual communities.
 All this is necessary. but it should not be forgotten for moment that it is merely ad- ministering palatives. not eradicatlng the disease, Less than per cent of the work ing population is jobless. but so interdepend- ent are the different organs of the whole national body that trouble in some of them means trouble, or at least discomfort, for all We need economic doctors who can find out the fundamental causes of our illness and prescribe the right remedies and treatment. And We need the national pluck to apply those remedies, however new and strange and drastic they may be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
Unused Equipment

A school trustee in Chicago proceeds with his investigation of where the money goes. He finds no record of any kind has been kept of physical property. Every year the school board buys and buys. but there is no way of finding out whether the stuff bought IS really used.
 His committee found barrel of unused Indian clubs at one school, two unused clocks at one school and four at another. Extra phonographs. too. in numbers. There were unused jumping standards. gym lockers and printing press. The board was just asked to buy new press for another school. Everything in the world. from a sewing ma chine and vacuum clean to a snare drum and coal wagon were found. Typewrters. bookkeeping desks - books and books and books.
 It is true that styles change in methods of exercise and teaching Populations in neghborhoe l2e in character needs. But surely these things could be used some where. With centralized and ac :ssblc record, typewrters no longer neede- at one school go to another now needing them. without expense.
 It's the old story of waste and carelessness people in small communities wonder what the superintendent of schools does with all bis time. One of the things the efficient one does is to see that such records are made and kept up to date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
NEW YORK
UA Gilbert Swan

New York-Whenever q aues- ton arises concerning the handi- caps and opportunities of a great city, New York points proudly to the Grand Street Boys" Here. says Father Manhattan, is outstanding proof that lads of the sidewalks and tenements can rise to any po""ion In life. And whcn some cynic comments that the world Is changing and that gang stcrism Is abroad in the land and that things are harder now. the answer comes that the Grand Streeters continue to turn out a quota of successful men.
 They point out, furthermore, that the organization began as a fortress against hoodlumsim. Gangs and rackets may flourish in new forms, but the history of New York's East side is filled with tales of mobs and gangsters. Years and years ago, when Judges and finan- ciers, statesmen and actors, musi- clans and merchants, were young sters the Grand Street Boys came into existence for the purpose of saving lads from the streets, and turning them into healthy minded citizens.
 Al Smith was a Grand Street boy So was Ben Bernie. the orchestra leader. who was born in Broome street and showed signs of cOnsid- | crable musical talent as lad. but shifted to the study of engineer ing at Columbia. Finding himself weak in mathematics. he called # | off and turned to peddling fiddles, graduating to vaudeville. There are hundreds of prominent men scattered over greater Man. | hattan who graduated from the Grand Street club. Annually they | have get-together. Some come | in llmousines and some by subway and the old-timers use themselves as examples for the younger gem eration.
 Not all Grand Streeters have made good in a big way. to be sure; but few of them have ever made bad!"
 [ Speaking of Ben Bernie reminds me that the accordian vogue promises to reach q peak in Man hattan sometime about autumn. Little shops have been cropping up all over town, displaying piano dc- cOrdions. And there are q couple of dozen schools for tyros. Most cafe bands and radio bands now have an accordion soloist and the uncertain, asthmatic outings can be heard In any neighborhood. AL most all the young gents who fall to learn the saxophone ar trying again.
 Nor Is the rage entirely local. From Diero, the accordion wiz" who has turned teacher, learn that gents come froi.i as far away as Washington. D. C., to take les sons.
 | There Is some indication that the appeals of musicians for the return of flesh" music. as against the canned variety, Is getting re- suits.
 Pawnshops report that dozens Of musical instruments have recently been taken from hook. Oh yes, things were that bad! And still are with hundreds of them. The pawnbrokers also report | that musicians hook practically every other from of valuable be- fore falling back on their beloved fiddles.
 Manhat<an's most interesting theatrical experiment is under | way.
 ] The dsnrsssion has hit the actors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04

Wnshington.-Regar of who
 may have conceived the latest plan for saving Germany and ir-
 respective of whether the plan is
 anything to brag about, 1t is ob-
 vious that the astute Undersecre- ! tary of State William R. Castle at-
 tempted to put over some splendid
 publicity for the administration
 and that the attempt was gummed up by none other than Secretary of State Henry l.. Stimson.
 Castles assiduity in obtaining the utmost credit for President Hoover has been noted before and
 so has Stimson's penchant for get ting things gummed up. But this
 Is the first time that the respective tendencies of these two distin- guished statesmen have clashed on
 such a delicate matter as that of picturing MT Hoover as q world savior and that Is why you now hear predictions here that Castle will be the next secretary and per
 haps before very long.
 Dividing the HOnOrs
 Castle was here working with Hoover throughout the save-Ger-
 many negotiations and handling the publicity. Stimson arrived to l represent us at Paris and London after France, through haggling.
 had accepted the debt moratorium plan. After the statesmen had mashed things over and 1t seemed apparent that Germany couldn't get anything more than q prolong- ation of existing credits. Castle suddenly announced new "Hoov- CT plan" providing for prolonga- tion of existing credits and com mittee of experts to study the Ger
 many situation and the question or how best to turn short-term credits into long-term credits. Stimson promptly denied at London that there was any new plan insisting
 later that the Castle Hoover plan
 was old stuff already thoroughly discussed, referring to 1t as Brit
 ish American plan and giving , much credit to Premier Macdon- aid. One also observes that credit for the extension of the $lOO,O0O,- 900 Reichsbank credit Is given by the French to their own M. Moret, governor of the Bank of France. But the point is that this gov
 crnment wanted that plan to be Known aH a l1OONcI pihu pu7hN" forward at a critical moment to
 save the situation. Stimson spoiled the effect and all good friends of Mir Hoover are pretty sore. It Is | impossible to say whether Stims0n merely didn't get the point of the Castle announcement and didnt realize the importance of giving the president full credit or whether he was sincere in thinking that the credit should be divided.
 His Other "Suils"
 | Without choosing sides between Stimson and Castle, 1t must be ad- | mitted that the incident has re- called some of Stimson's previous
 bulls" to the obscuration or ms
 better achievements. There was the
 time at the London naval confer- ence when Hoover was issuing d
 statement condcmning the consult
 tativc pact idea while Stimson m
 London was explaining the kind or
 a consultative pact this country
 would accept. And his declaration of an embargo on arms to BTaI'',
 designed to bolster q government
 which was promptly overthrown. And his sharp note to Russia a1ter
 the Manchurian war scare was all over. | One of Stimson's strongest points |
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
WASHINGTONIANA.
(Hartford Courant.)

After the feast that Rupert Hughes and W. E. Woodward made on the bones of the Wash ington tradition. 1t is pleasant to hear that George M. Conan. the perennial song-and dance man, has taken up the memory of the first president in big way. He has written song about the hero of the cherry tree. and a song that mol only can be read and sung with perfect safety by little children, bu one that enters into none of tb, literary controversies that nave threatened the rest of the Father Of his Country. For those who like their songs largely in words of one syllable, 1t will come as godsend. Those who prefer poly syllables, must be content with such as Washington" and "coun. trymen." But perhaps the choru. will bear repeating:
 First in war.
 First in peace,
 First in the hearts of hts cour-
 trymen.
 That Is the story of Washington.
 That is the glory of Washington.
 His spirit Ia here,
 His spirit Is dead.
 He ls standing. commanding,
 above.
 In word and deed we follow the
 Of the father of the land we
 love.
 "Of cOurse." MT Conan explains, 1t will sound better with tho music." But who wants it to sound better? It is 6 rhythmic jewel already. Get that tricky in- ternal rhyme in the next to the last time? That's art; sheer art. Or if 1t isn't. it's what MT Conan himself, should he drop the char acter of historian and reveal him. self again as a show man, might call "sure fire stuff." And doubt less the country, with the possi- ble exception of the children who will have to remember whether or not the glory of Washington comes before or after his story. will thank heaven for George M. Conan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

| has been considered in his implicit obedience to Hoover, but Castle has been much more active in pro- noting the presidents interests and advancing his own cause at the same time. Stimson Is said to dislike Castle, but had to take him as undersecretary after the death of his good friend Undersecretary Joe Cotton.
 It was Castle who. when the story was widely current that Young, Morrow, Dawes and vari- Ous New York bankers had sold the debt moratorium to Hoover after long and desperate pleading, issued q timetable to demonstrate e how, day by day for many weeks. Hoover had worked out the mora . torium Idea all by himself.
 All the nasty little cynics here subscribe to the theory that Castle in ballyhooing the First Hoover Plan" and the Second Hoover Plan" as such, has been working gradually toward his reward. If so, Stimson may have made Castlc's path to the secrctaryship just so much easier.