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at you to do what you don't want to-
 What do you want to do?" she asked.
 T rather tnlnk snail be a poet" he said casually, mot any of this minor stuff, you understand. But something" he made a sweep with his arm, something good"
 His face was charming when he smiled. It lost the look of inso- lence and seemed young and boy ish.
 They saw the rector coming to- ward them and the boy said in that same, casual tone, Your hair is like dark beech leaves"
 She knew that it was time to go as the rector joined them. "Good-by, my dear child, and God bless you" the old man said.
 She saw the boys greenish eyes and his fair hair as she turned the corner on her bicycle and waved last time with an abandon that al- most sent her into a ditch.
 She tried to remember his name now. Suddenly it came to her. Jon- athon Thayer. Perhaps she had re- membered it all so yividiy this morning because the tall shaggy painter was named Thayer also. She would ask him if he had ever known a Jonathon Thayer.
 The sun was hot on her bare head. The dream was fled She was back again in Italy sitting on a rock in the sun. staring at the villa that Mrs. Meyers had lent them while she wen. on to the italian Lakes.
 Copyright, 1880, Jessie Douglas
 Fox)
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 ing? Noras father doesn't dis
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HOME DEMONSTRATION

Miss F'ohn-Hansen will be visi- tor at the home demonstration work meeting which is to be held Friday evening. Everyone interest ed is invited to attend.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
 OF THE INTERIOR
 GENERAL LAND OFFICE

U. s. LAND OFFICE
 Anchorage, Alaska,
 April 3, 1881. Notice is hereby given that L. F. Morris has made application for a Soldiers Additional Homestead serial 06940 for a tract of land situate 21a miles northwest from
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D. F. D. MEETING

The regular meeting of the Doug las Volunteer Fire Department will be held tomorrow evening.
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NOTICE

The Auxiliary, Pioneers of Alas ka, will give a Public Card Party after their meeting Friday, May 8th at 8 pm. Refreshments and prizes. Admission 50 cents. adv.
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SCHOOL DANCE FRIDAY

The annual Apron Dance of the Douglas High School will be held Friday night in the Natatorium.
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LEAVES HOSPITAL

Guy McNaughton, who was in St. Ann's Hospital few days, has returned to his home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Enter, the Serpent

The serpent of sectionalism has raised its head in
the Democratic garden of victory In the midst OF
party rejoicing capture of the national house of
representatives in Tuesdays special elections, the
victors are dividing.
The password challenge is no longer, Are You
Democratic" but Are you Southern Democrat or
Northern Democrat?'
AS usual in a camp of victors, the strife is over
division of the spols The rewards of victory in this
case are the offices Of power-the speakershp and
committee headshipS.
Many years ago, politicians of both major parties
decided that the only way to preserve peace within
the family was to forget about merit, any other
consideration and place congressional committee rank
solely on the basis of seniority. That has worked
rather disastrousy at times for congressional eff
cheney but it has quoted party dissensons.
Today however the Democrats discover that the
seniority rule would put power completely in the hands
of southerners. To the south would not only the
speakership but two-thirds of the committee chair
men, including virtually all the important ones
"Only over my dead body" remarks the Tammany
tiger.
Now there are hasty party councils, trying to give
the Tammany- northern faction enough to satisfy
it without raising revolt in the hungry south OF
course the bitterest fight is the five key posi-
tions Here is the tentative compromise slate:
Speaker, Garner OF Texas; floor leader, OConnor
of New York Committee chairmen Rules Pou of North
Carolina; appropriations, Byrns of Tennessee; ways
and means, Collier of Mississippi.
Under this plan, within that sacred circle of the
big five, the ruling triumvirate would be Speaker
Garner and rules dictator Pou of the south and floor
leader O'Connor of Tammany
All of which is mildly interesting but not very
important
The chief organizational trouble with the Demo-
cratic party is that is not really national party
Tt has been rather unnatural and uneasy alliance
between none too solid south and few northern
city organizations like Tammany.
Unless the Democrats can forget their old sec
tonal strife and begin to function national party
with national program, they lose the 1882 ma
tional election on which they counting so
heavily-and so prematurely
Whether the southern Democratic politicians or
the northern Democratic politicians grab the plums
of Office concerns chiefly the grabbers. What the
country wants to know is what those Democratic poll
ticians north and SOUTH propose to do about prohib
tion power tariff autocratic house rules taxes and
the depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
A Civic Loss

Few men who mingle actively in partisan political
affairs retain universal respect and confidence
That is for those whose purposes are unSelfsh
and whose methods beyond suspicion.
Charles Greenhouse one of the exceptional
men in politics he exceptional in public Office
His passing a loss to the city and loss to that
elusive but very real thing called good citizenship
When as state official, he refused to permit tolls
to be exacted from the teachers of the state for
partisan purposes he forever made it impossible to
drag the public schools system into partisan politics
His ideal of public service was too high to permit
such a perverson of his power. He demonstrated
his own lofty perspective of the dignity Of Office
holding
That he held high place in the national Demo-
cratic party be traced to the fact that he had
won deservedy the confidence Of all factions OF that
party They knew that there would be no dubious
methods in the administration of his particular post
AS citizen of Indianapolis, he participated in
every forward movement for the common good. His
friendship was valued by those who were fortunate
enough to be called his friend. He was one whom
this city i'll afford to lose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
The Stupid Utilities

Once more the public utility attitude is proved to
be as stupid as it is greedy.
When the so-called conference between the city
of Indianapolis the civic clubs, one member OF the
public service commission and utility representatives
was held for the purpose Of arriving at an amcable
yeadjdstment Of rates the of the electric and
water companies was that they deserve more and
not less money.
The people, of course, know they being gouged
by both these concerns. They have not yet learned
all the methods by which their money is being taken
away but they know that comparison with rates OF
other cities shows the charges altogether too high
and that fixed upon the basis Of cost to the COM
panies the rates amount to larceny.
The people have not yet discovered just how
much money is taken out of the receipts for unearned
charges by the holding companies.
They do know of course that the charge against
the people for coal by the electric company for
the manufacture of juice would delight any indie
pendent operator of coal mines They do know that
the water company sends bill but no service from
its Philadelphia Granny
The companies seem to forget that they helped
to establish the grotesque theory that rates must be
based upon reproduction costs and not investment
and that today the prices OF labor and commodities
are at least Is to 30 per cent lower than three
years ago.
The truth is that the arrogance Of the Utilities Is
edustfed by their belief in ability to control the COM
mission and delay inquiries for months or years
Another administration of state affairs will be
elected next year One candidate for Governor mas
already declared that will Gust the present mem
bers. other candidates may give even better sou-
tons.
The issue has become direct Will the people be
able to regulate the utilities or will the utilities con-
tnue to regulate the government?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A CCORDING to reliable statistics women now
control 40 per cent of the nations wealth.
When We get that figured up to so, we can claim
equality with men.
Indisputably, economic freedom is the most
important item in the entire program of emancipa-
ton. So long as the American man sees only the
dollar sign, long his music is the clang of the
cash register and his ultimate ambition to be rich
the only way by which we can gain his Difference is
to get the money.
We have obtained many liberties in the last thirty
years. many, in fact that we sometimes appear to
be obvious to their value We may vote, we may
hold political Office, may work, we may preach, we
may pray We may even smoke and drink with i'm
punity.
But do you suppose we should ever have been able
to do any of these things if had not first gathered
in some gold to fight battles2
TODAY woman with money is as free as any
Il man. She may do as she pleaseS She may
travel where she likes Even her reputation will not
suffer from scanda-mongers if she has enough cash
on hand.
1t is a far cry indeed from those days when,
according to Jewish documents a mans wife was put
in the class with his and his ass, and he could
take his daughter to the market place and sell her
for few pieces of copper.
Yet from such ignominy have women risen! We
have travelled a long and winding road and walked
through many barren places We have torn feet
upon thistles and hands have pucked thorns
than roses, but after many weary centuries have
stumbled up the mountain peak of independence.
From that high spot We can look into far coun-
tries We even can get glimpse Of that fair land
in which women may have the opportunity to culti-
vate all their human possibilities ad live at least
true friends and companions Of men,
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Fowl FOrdiZatinn

The drowsy cackle of contented hens soon may be
heard no more throughout the land. The scientific
age has decreed an end to the afternoon siesta in
lsguid ustbath to beauty maps and gossip tests to
feathered flirting and strutting and loa1ng The
great American speed-up system has hit the egg
laying industry with bang.
According to the United States department of
agriculture, American hens and pullets, although
fewer in number by 6.2 per cent than year ago. yet
produce more eggs. On Oct l, it was reported that
262 eggs were being laid by every 100 of these Ford
factory lady chickens compared with 248 eggs on
the same date year ago and with 25.7 eggs on that
date for the average of five years.
Even the luxury of motherhood is being withdrawn
from hard-worked hens. There are So per cent
fewer chicks now than year ago.
What becomes of the technologically unemployed
OF the nations barnyards? You've guessed it. They
going the way of all the ganaceous- the pot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
THT OEENTO I'M MT ~, HAYWOOD
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conflict. BY then any incarceration
would be bit related.
And, naturally, it would be neces-
sary to clap into Jail the textbook
makers of other lands as well as
our own. Probably the various
threads which go into the making
of war and war psychology are al
most innumerable. 1t would be i'm
possible to catalog them all. But
certainly one of the strands would
be found in the universal practice
of exalting nationalistic feeling in
the young.
I do not know just what an Eng
lish lad learns, or one in France
But it is asSuredly the design here
in America to teach the little folk
that every armed enterprise OF the
United States was essentially a cru
SADIE for righteousness.
Logic blooms early And 1t Is
not unreasonable for the child to
assume that if all past American
wars were excellent, any which may
be offered in the future will have in
them something of merit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Clean Skin Is Safeguard to Health

numbers very rapidly, the greatest
dininution occurring during the
first ten minutes.
The most important factor in
volved, they discovered, was the
presence of moisture. The organ
isms disappear more rapidly when
the skin dries rapidly than when it
is kept moist.
There seems to be no doubt but
|. that virulent germs getting on the
skin and finding a spot in which the
surface is broken, such as occurs
in times of wounds, bruises or other
injuries, may set up serious infec-
/ ton.
In such instances, the use of an
tiseptics and germicideS brings
about rapid destruction of the
germs.
1t is also we'll established that the
use of plenty of soap and water is
an exceedingly and useful technic
for avoiding skin infections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I am very glad to
say that I have been a regular
reader of your paper for the last six
years. I also have been a reader
Of the other two popular Indian
apolis papers. I like The Times
best, because it is the paper that
is for the people as a whole, and
gives justice where justice belongs.
am very proud of your paper,
as you do not draw a line for any
one. hope that you will keep up
the good work. I hope that you
will continue to roast the new traf-
fic code, as it can not help any
others than the garage interests.
With the new code in force. it
makes our beautiful city look for
saken, with no parking on the
Circle, nor around the new Plaza.
1t is inded joke that one can not
park down town from Z to 9:15 a.
m. With this in view, where is
Miss Liberty?
How are strangers to know where
the heart Of the city is? I know if
I had just arrived, I might ask
some of the crabby policemen for
the direction Of the downtown dis
trict.
1t is very unfair to the shops in
the loop district, as it runs the trade
off to other stores that do not have
the styles nor prices in the down
town districts.
II r KTTrrp EFT
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terra, DR.. j. F. Norton and Miss
Marguerite Novy recently made
special studies on this point.
The hands of workers were put
into a dilute suspension of bacteria.
Then a sterile cotton Swab was
rubbed over a designated surface
Of the skin and inoculated into a
plate of culture medium.
When the bacteria grew, they were
counted, so that it was possible to
determine the extent to which the
skin itself could destroy germs.
It is we'll established that there
always are living germs on the skin,
and it seemed possible to the inves-
tigators that perhaps some other
mechanism was responsible for the
gradual disappearance of the germs
from the skin.
AS a result of their Investigations,
the authors conclude that bacteria
applied to the skin diminish in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
In Lake Region
THE new Canadian mines. how

THE new Canadian mines. how
Il ever. are sufficiently rich in
radium- bearing ore to make it
possible for them to compete with
the Belgian company, in the opinion
OF Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry.
Now, in Canada, there have been
found at La Bine Point, in the
Great Bear Lake region, very i'm
portant deposits of pitchblende.
occurring in several extensive veins,
some of which run deep at points
where pits have been sunk" DR..
Howe writes.
Ore, which may be expected to
yield several thousand tons of high
grade pitchblende as we'll as a lesser
amount of milling ore, already has
been found in two veins.
Some of the deposits run under
small lakes, and underground ex-
plorations of these and other veins
probably will increase materially the
amounts now estimated as occurring
in this region.
More than that, during the last
summer twenty tons of pitchblende
running between 40 and so per cent
uranium oxide were taken by air
plane to the railroad, and an addi-
tional twenty tons have been mined
ana are ready to be transported.
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AirpIane Transportation

60 far as we are aware this is
~ the first time ore in such con-
siderable quantities has been moved
by airplane," Dr. Howe continues.
While the cost of such transpor-
tation is high, the values easily JUS
tify the expenditure, pending the
time when concentrating mills will
be located on the property. The
twenty tons that have been brought
out will yield from 2 to rs grams of
radium.
"The richness of this ore. to-
gether with the low cost of mining
1t, indicates that here, at last. is a
deposit well able to match itself
against those in South Africa.
THE men who own it and who
have formed a company for its ex-
ploitation fortunately are primar-
lily interested in the humanitarian
uses of radium.
There is to be nothing spectacu-
lar about the further development
OF these radium deposits, but every
procedure will be followed with the
keenest interest, not only by scien-
fists and technologists, but by the
general public.
ut is to be hoped devoutly that
as result of this discovery, sup
plies of radium soon may be made
available, within their ability to
purchase, to the number of highly
trained men who are skilled in its
use and capable of applying it for
the alienation of human suffering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06

A NUMBER of people gathered to
N discuss the cause of peace,
heard a distinguished British histo-
rian remark that he did not APP
prove of prevalent paciflst tactics.
This was his objection:
"It isn't enough to say, I am
against war That gets you no.
where in particular. 1t limits your
field of activity in a fatal way; to
oppose war effectively, one must
seek to discover its causes and at
tempt to alter them
This, of course, precipitated a
general fracas, for few agreed upon
the fundamental roots which under
lie conflict. Some sought to SIM
plify the business beyond the point
of my own personal belief. 1t has
become popular to say that inter
national bankers" bring about every
war.
This overlooks the fact that a
number of bloody wars were carried
on in the days when the financial
structure of the twentieth century
did not exist even in approximation.
MY own opinion is that the in
ternational bankers" are far less
villainous and much more stupid
than the average man believes.
These great giants of industry are
made by history rather than the
other way around.
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river. 1t has provided that this power shall be dis
trbuted to the people by Of contracts with pri-
yate companies guaranteeing reasonably low rate.
If such contracts not be made Roosevelt favors
public transmission and distribution. He has signi-
fed repeatedly his anxiety to preserve for all the peo-
pie Of his state their rights in this great natural
resource.
But, because the river is international stream,
his hands tied until the federal government acts
The federal government which Secretary Slim
son represents, is headed by Herbert Hoover avowed
opponent of public power developments, who has de-
voted much Of the energy of his administration to
seeing that Muscle Shoals power shall not be used by
the people of the country, who own it,
II The federal government thwarts or crippes this
great St. Lawrence project, until a and perhaps
hostile Governor has taken office in New York it's &C
ton will be understood and resented by the country
as well New York state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
And More Storm Clouds
only in the far east do storm
~ clouds continue to gather.

NNLY in the far east do storm
~ clouds continue to gather.
According to the United Press
Japan is disturbed greatly by re-
ports Of Russian assistance for
China.
According to War Commissar
Voroshilov, Russia has not made the
slightest move which could be in
terpreted that way.
According to Phil Simms, some OF
those on the inside find reason to
believe that Japan and Russia have
arrived at a fairly good understand
ing with regard to Manchur!a; that
all their rowing is just smoke
screen and that talk of war between
them should not be taken too Seri-
ously.
According to General Chi Hung
Chang, war between Japan and
China is inevitable, no matter how
sincerely their respective leaders
may be opposed to it, because of
the rising tide of popular indigna-
ton, especially in China.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Has Its Raw Side

ID EFUSING to be sidetracked by
N this one spot of pessimism and
confusion, the French air minister
comes out with a prediction of five
hour flights between Europe and
America within the next ten years
If we're headed for peace, that's
all right, but if for air raids, not
so good.
When airplanes can cross the At
lartic in five hours, it will only take
them six or seven to cross the Pa
cific, which suggests that this Man
churian rumpus, with its possible
ramifcations, could mean something
of Importance even to us Ameri-
cans.
You can't bring people closer
without bringing their troubles
closer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Questions and
Answers

Is it practical to resize rug a.
home?
Stretch the rug tight and true
and tack at frequent intervals face
down on a floor or some other f1a'
surface where it can remain undls'
turbed. It should then be Sprinklec
generously with a solution made oI
soaking and dissolving in a double
boiler one-fourth pound of flake
glue in one-half gallon of water
The rug should be allowed to dry al
least twenty~four hours. II 1t Il
light weight, care should be taker
not to put on so much glue that il
penetrates to the right side.
What countries are included IN
the term Latin America, and why Is
that name used?
Latin-America includes all coun-
tries of South America, Cuba, Haiti
Santo Domingo and Porto Rico
Latin-Americans are people mostly
descended from a union Of the So
called Latin races Of the Old World
with the native races of the New
World.
Who won the National League
baseball pennant in 1929? Did the
same team also win the world
series?
The Chicago Cubs won the Ma
tional League pennant in 1929. They
we're defeated in the world series
that year by the Philadelphia Ath-
letics of the American League.
How is the value of a diamond de-
termined? Are cut diamonds more
valuable than other kinds?
Size, purity, flawlessneSs and the
cutting determine the value Of q
diamond. A rose colored stone is
rare and that adds to Its value
other conditions being equal.
Does horse power of an electric
motor rate the same as that of q
steam engine?
Horse power is a standard theo-
retical unit Of the rate of work equal
to $4,000 pounds lifted one foot high
in one minute. This applies to al
horse power.
How many editors and reporter:
are there in the United States?
According to the latest census bu-
reau figures there are 34,197.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Read EN- and Weep

THE skies certainly are clearing,
4 though one finds some difficulty
in telling which way the wind will
blow next.
Even gloomy Dean Inge has de-
cided that people may be better off
after the British Empire blows up,
which is some concession for pa
triotic Britisher, and a churchman,
at that.
The New York Herald Tribune
feels so good that it CONSTITUTES the
recent election in New York City as
a ''repulse" for Tammany.
BY next week, Chairman FeSs
should have convinced himself that
the vote in Kentucky and the Eighth
Michigan district really presages
Republican triumph in 1882.