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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 15.- Oysters weren't just cocktails for the Caloosa Indians, who lived in Florida in Columbus's time. Appar- ently they were often the whole meal from soup to steak, with maybe clam or two for dessert.
 A pile of oyster shells half mile square and 20 feet thick, the dirty dishes" left by generations of Ca- loosas, has been studied by M. W. Sterling, leader of a Smithsonian Institution expedition that has just returned.
 The oyster shell heap is more than evidence of the Caloosass's de- pendence on sea food. Together with a nearby burial mound, it holds the key that is expected to unlock the history of the Indians who lived in Southeastern United States for centuries before Colum- bus dropped an anchor in 1492, Sterling says.
 Oysters ana other shellfish sup piled dishes and tools as well as food to the Caloosas They made bowls, cups, axes, hoes and picks from the shells.
 Such relics. dug from the shell heap, and 200 skeletons found in the burial mound, will provide a jumping off place" for Sterling's study of older tribes who spent winters, and summers too, in Flor ida before the Caloosas.
 Knowing just when the CalooSas lived, and what kind of tools they made, he can classify older relics in their proper order leading up to the Caloosa stage of progress.
 Evidences are that the Caloosas became extinct about 100 years af- ter Columbus arrived. Probably they were wiped out by white mems diseases.
 The burial mound revealed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15
SHRILL NOISE
 IS FATAL FOE
 FOR BACTERIA
Scientist Makes Remark able Discovery-Re-
 search Efforts

AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. 15.-1f you could make the right kind of noise, you might be able to exterminate much of the dangerous bacterial life about you.
 Dr. O. B. Williams. Associate Professor of Bacteriology in the University of Texas, working with Professor Newton Gaines of Texas Christian University. reports that germs object" to loud noises, and are actually destroyed by high fre- quency audible sounds.
 Dr. Williams produced high pitch ed sounds with an oscillating nickel tube wrapped with an cleo tromagnet coil through which pass ed an oscillating electric current from two radiotron tubes. The fre- quency of sounds produced was $500 cycles per second.
 The upper end of the nickel tube was fitted into an inverted flask surrounded by water. The sound waves stirred the water into almost violent motion. A flask containing germs was suspended in the water
 After an hour half of the bac- teria were dead, Dr. Williams said.
 It was found, he stated, that blood corpuscles could also be de- stroyed by high frequency audible sounds.
 The American Association for the Advancement of Science has taken cognizance of Dr. Williams's re- search in this field.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15
Shell Pile Half Mile Square
 Key to Florida Indian Lore

strange funeral customs of the Ca- loosa tribe. Originally the mound had hard-picked clay floor on top, on which was built a wooden structure, probably a temple of the dead.
 When a Caloosa died, his body was placed in the temple until a certain season of the year when all burials took place at once. Some times bodies lay in the temple until only the skeleton remained The bones then were piled up in the grave. and the skull placed on top of the pile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15
HAILBUT CHANGES COLOR SCHEME TO
 SUIT BACKGROUND

WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 15.- The halipuv IS Jile chameleon of the sea, says Capt. Robert A. Bart 'ett in report to the National Geographic Society. It can change it's color to match the background against which it is moving.
 The fish's color changing ability is connected in some way with eye sight, Capt. Bartlett explains. AS soon as the halibut's optic nerve s severed it loses its ability to ,amouflage itself. Blinding has the same effect.
 Knowing this fishermen are care full to pile newly caught halibut with the eyes down. Thus blinded the fish cannot change color, but retain the desired white tint. When fishing vessel arrives in port, with many halibut alive. the first operation is to cut off the heads.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15
Would Give Vacations
 to Cell Worn Convicts

MADRID, Aug. 15.-Summer colo nies for tired convicts may become one of the miracles of the new Spanish republic if Senorits Vic- toria Kent has her way.
 She is Spain's foremoTt woman lawyer. named Director of Prisons with the establishment of the re- public. Her first visit to a prison resulted in better food and accom- modations for the Inmates.
 Lately she suggested vacations for good prisoners
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

BOURNEMOUTH, England Aug 15-Oxford's priceless accent in it's higher forms quite incomprehen- sible isn't popular with all Eng lishmen.
 Competitors in the music festival here were warned by the Director. Godfrey Shaw. not to use too much of it.
 "The word year" he exp aimed, should not be sung as yah"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

Gov. Murray of Oklahoma known in the Vest ern end of the State Alfalfa Bill and in the Eastern Part Cockebur Bill has decided to call out the militia to enforce crude oil price of $1 per barrel If he is successful, he will be known around Tulsa Dollar Bill-(New York Times9 itff4 i.s a.4
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

It is estimated that the Wickersham Commission cost the taxpayers $480OO0 which to be a right stiff price to pay for hearty laugh when you can listen in on Kunnel Fess keynoting for nothng.-(Macon, Ga, Telegraph)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

Under a Fascist Germany the Young plan night would require a mausoleum; the moratorium would become moribund and cancellation would be mere coincidence.-( Washington Post.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

This is the stage of a Presidential campaign when the Democrats happy It is their only chance for happiness Boston Transcript)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

The fact that the sales in the New York Stock Exchange averaging only about 100000 shares day does not corroborate President Hoovers int- nation that the wicked bears who sell short are responsible for the failure of prices to advance
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

The Vets have gained a great victory, Presi- dential decree having declared beer is non-alcohoc But it happened way down in Chile.-Odilwaukee Journal0
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

MT Briarly is invalid and in ill health"- The Sun And not feeling very well, either (New York Tmes)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

double indemnity claims in 193o gain of 24 per cent.
 The permanent total disability claims totaed s53536934 in 193O, a gain of 564 per cent over 1929
 New York led all the States in life insurance payments in 1880 with total of $41Soo0ooo, gain of $4350O000 116 per cent. over 1929. Penn sylvania came second with $204 40OOOOO Illinois third with $166,50O000. The District of Columbia had the largest amount Iof payments per capita. $2662, followed by New York with $2650 and Connecticut with $26.20. Ari- zona had the lowest per capita payments with $5.74
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-15

Nome gave Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh a parade just like New York. However, it is not likely that the Seward Peninsula metropolis will need official greeter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
Plunged In Blind

NILBERT PATTEN, for in
" stance, began the first of his
Merriwel series by sending the
manly lad to military academy.
The author had never been at a
school of this sort and knew moth
ing about the local color. That he
picked up by the simple process of
writing out for few school cata-
logueS.
Later when it seemed expedient
to put Frank Merriwell in Yale, the
same difficulty confronted the au-
thor. He drew a Yale of his own
dreams and subsequently checked
up by attending a few football
games.
Indeed, SO successful was the fic-
titiouS atmosphere that a number
Of young men throughout the coun-
try went to New Haven for no other
reason than a desire to emulate
their boyhood'S hero, Frank Merri-
well, or his brother Dick.
Mr.. Patten informs me that Lefty
Flynn confessed to being turned
Yaleward through the MerriweII
books. And it may even be that
Yale in its later days has taken on
something of the aspect which was
given to it in the dime novel series.
Literature always keeps a jump or
so ahead of life. And the artist
need not invariably hold the mirror
up to nature, since nature is adapt
able and frequently willing to take
a hint.
lCopyright. 1871. BY The TinesA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15

diet of this character, he will do
well to consult a physician and
make certain that the diet is adapt
ed to his particular needs.
Another mineral element of
great Importance is iodine. Iodine
is particularly associated with the
functioning of the thyroid gland.
The amounts required in the
human body are very small and are
easily available in the form of sea-
foods and of plants raised in ter
ritorieS where the soil is rich in this
substance.
There are, however, many districts
in this country in which the
vegetables and plants are grown in
soil that is very poor in iodine; for
example, the Great Lakes district
and the Pacific northwest.
In such territories, seafood is not
a common article of diet.
Hence, physicians advise par
ticularly that growing children re-
ceive small amounts of iodine in the
form of tablets Or liquid prepara-
tons which can be prescribed by a
physician and which have the
virtue of filling the deficiency,
thereby preventing the enlargement
of the thyroid gland, known as
simple goiter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
HEALTH SERVICE

amount of water available. If the
amount of salt taken into the body
is reduced, there is a corresponding
decrease in the amount of salt and
water in the tissues.
If one takes much salt, he finds
himself developing a great thirst, so
the balance between salt and water
will be maintained.
It generally is believed that a
human being needs less salt after 40
years Of age, and there is some opin-
ion to indicate that salt may in
fluence the blood pressure, causing
it to increase. This is not, however,
established.
AS one grows older his appe-
tite may become jaded and he will
find himself attempting to slim
ulate the jaded appetite by eating
foods more highly seasoned and
more greatly spiced.
This tendency may cause a person
after middle age to consume more
salt than he otherwise would take.
One of the uses of the chloride
element of the salt is to provide the
hydrochloric acid which is secreted
by the cells of the stomach as an
aid to digestion.
Various diets have been developed
free from large amounts of salt, but
before one undertakes any unusual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
Relief Propaganda

It has been demonstrated rather conclusively that
the administration is not gifted with second sight
Sundry prophecies about the extent and duration Of
the depression which have been erroneous, have in
clined the public toward skeptcism. This is lament
able but true.
Statements like that of Allen w. Burns of the AS
ISOLATION of Community Chests and Councils, given
dignity by White House dissemination and sponsor
ship are responsible Mr. Burns sees President HOO
yer, reporting that survey shows that 227 cities,
through community chests and local government
funds will be wholly able to for distress in their
communities this winter.
How can Mr. Burns know what the exact situation
will beP
In the first place, no one knows how many I'm
employed and hungry people there will be. Second,
the community chest drives have not taken place
and no one knows what the response will be, and
whether donations will be adequate.
Third taxes in most cities have not been collected
and it is not known what funds cities and counties
will have available, and to what extent they will be
able to use such funds for relief.
We wish we could put complete confidence in Mr.
Burns guess, but Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania
whose powers of divnation are at least as good as
those of Mr.. Burns and the White House, says his
state will be unable to meet the needs of winter
without federal help
We have been informed by Governors that states
covering more than half of the population of the
country will be powerless for one reason or another
to come to the help of community governments. And
we know that many communities already have ex-
hausted their resources.
Recent White House statements OF which the
blast is typical apparently part of the cam
pagn against "the dole-which is what the admins
ation is pleased to call direct federal relief despite
the fact that federal relief no more dole than the
city and state relief which Hoover approves. Thus
propaganda barrage is being laid down in prepara-
ton for the impending battle in congress-
OF course the administration is entitled to its
opinion and is to be commended for making its po-
sitions clear
But the administration hurts its cause by such
clumsy and obvious maneuverS as those used in this
instance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
Just the Usual Stretch

"DANG it all, Haywood! I fitted
- for college myself, though I
didn't make it, because I got to
writing pieces and selling 'em, which
led me to decide that I couldn't
afford to waste time around a col
lege. I allowed Frank to do q lot
of things a college man couldn't do,
even away back in those prehistoric
times, but I didn't keep him in Yale
eight or ten years-honest 1 didn't.
Everybody knows it's no job at
all to turn off column day. That
seems a loafer's job to anybody who
ever wrote dime novels"
And Mr.. Patterns working require
ments while in the MerriWen bust
ness were enough to make any col
umnist seem a Stacker. At that Mr..
Patten admits that he did not rank
with the more rapid practitioners
! in the dime novel field His best
record was $4,000 words in week.
That constituted two novels and a
half. AS rule, he did only 5000
words a day.
Some of his competitors surpassed
this by far. For instance, man
named Ned Buntline wrote a Go
page book in sixty-two hours, while
Prentiss Ingraham boosted Of COM
pleting $4,000 words in twenty-four
| hours
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NTHEN are you women going to get rid of your
w childish corlplex which makes you believe you
must do everything a man does, matter how rot
ten it iS?"
This question is put by gentleman who SAYS he
is fed up on emancipated womanhood
paragraph down he writes that he is an I'M
faithful husband, although he loves his wife better
than any other woman. He can't see any particular
harm, however, in stepping out now and then and
in spite of the fact that she knows about couple of
these childish prankS of his he feels sure that his
wife would do likewise because she is too SEN
sible and loves him too much.
Illogical creatures, these nen With that sort of
a mind, it would be impossible no doubt to explain
that the chief reason women ape men is that thew
have been trained to believe themselves inferior and
have watched the men having such gorgeous times
being naughty. 1t quite natural that we should
have desired to do what they appear to enjoy
NTEN always have spurned the virtues they advo-
Iva Gated for women. The thing, however that inks
us to breaking point that often they also Spurn
the women who practice these virtues.
One day when the world was young woman was
born with spark Of BRAIN She noticed that her huS-
band commended her for her restrain and chastity
and then went galloping off after the woman who
did not possess these traits. She became the first
unfaithful wife
Today her daughters replenish the earth. They are
dissatisfied probably, with outside love affairs The
men are also thus frequently disillusioned have
heard The only happy person is the who does
not desecrate love.
Nevertheless, men who argue about fidelity like our
correspondent are responsible for many good woman
dying off at tangent. The reasoning is so palpably
unfair so senselesS This
no-remember-I-love-you attitude makes US rave.
they all claim to be?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15

Every part of the country has stake IN tba
latest controversy between New York state and the
federal government involving development of ST
Lawrence river power.
IL Is lar more than a local affair more than inst
the biggest power development ever undertaken in
this country 1t is the first attempt on the part of
state to work out effective control of public utilities
by other means than the inadequate system of regu-
lation.
After struggling for years with the utilities for
possession OF the St Lawrence New York has created
power authority to generate electricity on the big
river to retain permanent control over it's valuable
resources and to contract with private utility for
sale of power at the switchboard
Governor Roosevelt and his power authority will
attempt to make contract that guarantees reason
able rates to the domestic and rural consumer Their
success would demonstrate that the contract instead
of regulation is the practicable method of protect
ing consumers from utility exploitation.
But they may not succeed in making that sort of
contract. Only one company, the Niagara Hudson,
is in a position to bid for the power. If this COM
pany will not agree to the states terms Governor
Roosevelt says he will ask his legislature for author
ity to build transmission lines and control utility
rates by direct state competition.
This has been tried before. There have
been municipal, county, district and federal power
projects; but state, obviously the most powerful
agency, has tested direct competition with pri-
vate companies as a means of rate control
Last winter nearly every Governor in the country
discussed the utility regulation with his legislature
Only four Governors found present regulation salts
factory. Most of the states are cropping for sou-
ton which New Yorks experiment may provide.
But there is an obstacle.
New York not build her power plant until
treaty is negotiated between the United States and
Canada. This promises to be long delayed, because
the Hoover administration insists including in the
negotiations virtually all other questions in dispute
between the two countries.
Delay plays directly into the hands of the power
companies anxious to defeat the Roosevelt plan for
the st. Lawrence. If Roosevelt is a candidate for
President he will be out of the governorship before
the work can get under way. A New Albany regime
might make very different contract with the Mag
ara-Hudson Power Corporation, or none at ALL
If President Hoover persists in endless negotiations
for treaty to settle the Chicago diversion canal
troversy the dispute the Pacific fisheries, and
other old quarrels-as well the simpler ST. Law
renee problem-he will be providing his Democratic
opponents in the 1882 campaign with another effec-
tive issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
A Modern Speed King

THIS mark, to be sure, has been
i approached even in our own
day by Ben Hecht. At least, he
makes the claim of having done a
60,0O0-word detective story in the
span of twenty-four hours.
But in the case of the men who
did the dime novels (as a matter
of fact, they were nickel novels
this pace, or something like it, was
kept up day after day and week
after week. One had to work hard,
for the prevalent stipend was about
a quarter of a cent word.
Most marvellous to me is not the
mere quantity, but the technique of
storytelling. Mr.. Patten writes
that in most cases the author start
ed with a sufficiently enthralling
first sentence and then plunged
ahead through his twenty or thirty
thousand word stint without the
slightest notion where it was going
to end or the precise direction it
would take.
Possibly this is not as poor q
system as it sounds. In many a
modern novel of the more serious
sort I have been afflicted with the
thought that the author was too
preoccupieoA with his final para
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE FEG2S

graph while still engaged in the
composition Of his first chapter.
know that critics and publish
ers take pride in revealing the fact
that some young man or young
woman went over his book twenty
times before he submitted it for
publication, This practice of con-
slant reshaping and revision may
produce a work of art, but it can
also rob a book of spontaneity.
I like to have the feeling that the
characters in story have more
o. less taken the plot into their own
hands and that on occasion they
may run away no matter how hard
their creator tugs upon the reins.
1 suppose that by now 1 would
not find great fascination in the
Merriwell stories, though I did read
a little Horatio Alger a year or so
ago with enormous interest. One
quality of the dime novelists ap-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15
Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-IS or is not a
newspaper a pubic servant? is the
question. I've known some papers
to make a fairly good stab at
news printing" and others do it up
brown; and still others ere just so
much paper with black marks on,
no more than a substitute for dis
carded mail order catalog.
wish to congratulate The Times
in its efforts to keep before the pub
lie the Surber- Punk Graham case
and its disgusting reflections on a
city institution that isn't an insti-
tuition as the city demands, but a
playground for a gang of mace
WielderS, which is another name no
better than gangster or hijacker, or
what have you. It's fine howdydo
for any city when its citizens can't
go out on the street without run
ming a chance of being hijacked. Is
it any worse than that?
Blah! And they talk of anti
knock!
But to get back to the newspa-
per question: If I pay my money
for news" 1 want real news and
nothing but the truth. Why tale a
piece Of news and turn it over and
over until it comes from the press
resembling fairy story instead of
red-blooded piece of jour llism?
If John Doe is president of the
So and So club and gets in a jam
with the law, other than through
his business or financial affairs, and
he shoots himself for fear Of dis
grace, why put the story through
the wringer and bring it out that
he shot himself because of failing
health?
The Times, thank heavens, did
not particularly take sides with
Surber or Graham, but deliberately
put the story before the public on
its front page and as it was told
by witnesses and the officers. It
was for the public's benefit that it
might see what is going on. If you
say, well, what about what's going
on?" then I say, "Dumbbell, change
your vote or pull a little harder for
our side next time"
MAN ON THE STREET.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-15

gilbert PATTEN writes to re-
NJ proach me for stating that I
never knew the name of the man
who wrote the Frank Merriwell
stories. Mr.. Patten reminds me
that he sent this information to
the column only a year or so ago.
Burt L. Standish was the pen name
which he used.
And, again, the author wishes to
correct the statement that he al
lowed Frank to linger at Yale for
eight or ten years.
"'Tain't so, Haywood; faint sol"
writes Mr.. Patten. EITHER there
was malice in the assertion or your
memory played you bum trick.
He got only the usual four years,
much as I would like to have
stretched it. Of course, in a later
yarn he did go back to Yale as
coach.