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SISSIETY PAGE
A parcheeZy party took place in Mr..
Benny Pottses vesterbule during the
rain Wensday after skool, amung those
playing and argewing being Mr.. Pubs
Simkins, Mr.. Sid Hunt, Mr.. Glasses
Magee and Miss Mary Watkins. No
refreshments was served.
Sattiday morning apple party was
held in Mr.. Pubs Simkinses back yard,
all the guests being aloud to help them
sells out of the bottom of barrel that
Mr.. Simkinses unkle send from the
country about a munth ago, on account
of all the rest of the good ones having
been picked out and the soft ones left
in. Amung those present biting around
the bad spots was Mr.. Benny Potts, Mr.
Artie Alexander. Mr.. Sam Cross and
Mr. Reddy Merry
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pital Radio and at least two in digent cases. q
 Presented framed copies of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to local schools.
 Co-cperated with the Westward Chambers on Alaska Railroad rate controversy and the proposed Pa cific- Yukon Highway.
 Was active in the organization of the All-Alaska Chamber of Con- merce.
 Interested itself in First Aid courses and endorsed same. Con- tributed prizes for Boy Scouts par ticipating in contests.
 Sponsored Cleanup Week.
 Took census of unemployed in spring of 193l Wrote all cannery operators asking that Alaska labor be given preference in 1881. Re suited in 54 men getting work cut of Juneau.
 Conferred with Fish Commis- sioner OMalley on various matters concerning Alaskan fisheries, in cluding the regulations on wire spillers for traps, etc.
 Interested itself in the matter of importing Russian made goods in- to the United States by wiring op- position to the bill then pending in Congress.
 Gave coastWise publicity advising labor not to come to Juneau in search of work unless financially able to get back to starting point in case work is not found.
 Advocating air mail to South eastern Alaska and worked further on the matter of obtaining Block Eight opposite Federal and Ter ritorial Building.
 The organization was active in protesting American Pulp and Pa per Association effort to stop fur ther development of pulp and pa- per industry in Alaska.
 Endorsed certain Me moria s passed by 1891 Legislature includ- ing one to the Federal Government asking a share of the seal reve- nues for Alaska.
 Vigorously protested sale of Con- munications System to private in- terests
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Chamber of Commerce asked for similar data. A call had been re- ceived by the Los Angeles organi- zation from the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer corporation for information for a member of the firm who is to cruise Alaska waters next simmer
 Mulyill Is Welcomed
 The Chamber today welcomed " w. Mulvihill, new local agent for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, and extended its best wishes to w. L. Coates, who is be- ing transferred to Prince Rupert. MT. Coates expressed regret at sev- ering his connection with the or ganization and bespoke for MT. Mulvihill the same kind support that had been given him here.
 Harold Smith, former United States Forest Service District Ran ger here and now stationed at cordova, was greeted today. He ar- rived early this week in connec- ton with the Aux Bay land suit now being heard in the Federal District court.
 28 Requests Received
 Twenty-eight requests for in- formation were received and ans wered during the week, Secretary Walmsley reporteS. Letters were re- ceived from the Spokane Chamber of Commerce saying that the Chambers request for its support in it's opposition to the sale of the Alaska cable and for extension of the air mail service to Alaska should be referred to the meeting of the National Chamber in San Francisco next May.
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(Continued from Page One) hitter here, it was asserted. The Government has expended some $5 900 in an effort to clear it up but without success. Secretary Walmsley was instructed to write the Delegate fully on the sub ject.
 Need For Pamphlet
 Inquiries received for literature on fishing, hunting and other forms of outdoor sport, evidence a need for a special pamphlet on that subject, the Board of Directors re- ported today. This matter will be turned oyer to the incoming Board for investigation and. action.
 P. R. Colby, President of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn writing the Chamber, said he had been talking with Father B. R Hubbard about 2 trip to the Terri tory and planned to visit Juneau next summer. He asked for litera- ture on fishing and hunting.
 A letter from the Los Angeles
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Guaranteed Relief
 for Dizzy Spells
It's FREE if It Fails

When your head whirls and ev- erything around you is swimming, when the ground itself seems to rock beneath your feet, take table spoonful of Dare's Msntha Pepsin.
 It settles your head like magic puts you back on your keel-stops any nausea-makes you feel better all over. And it is so warm and comforting while it is going down!
 Keep on taking it for a while about tablespoonful before your meals. If one bottle doesn't make you feel that you are getting rid of dizzy spells for good - money back. Butler, Mauro Drug Co., or any responsible druggist in America sells Dare's with that guarantee. -adv.
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industrial propositions which were presented to them. The results rs these investigations proved that these propositions were nothing more than stock-selling projects or unsuited to this community. The Committee is conversant with the fact that there is no large removal of industry going on in this coun- try and that no prosperous plant in any manufacturing line, includ- ing pulp and paper, is seeking a new. location.
 While the Territorial Legislature was in session the Legislative Com mittee, H. L. Faulkner, chairman, was active in it's attention to city and territorial legislation of various kinds. Close interest has been shown in all matters appearing be- fore the City Council. In addition to the above, this committee drew up many resolutions at the request of the Executive Board.
 F1nanceS Are Ample
 As usual campaign was put on last fall by the Membership and Finance Committee, H. I. Lucas, chairman, which netted a total of twenty-two new members. During the year four new names have been added. While losses have occurred by reason of removal, death, busi- ness defections and other causes, the total net revenue derived from membership this year has been ample to take care of all the fin ancial needs of the organization. The years expenditures were kept well within the revenues for the period.
 Publicity of various kinds has been handled by the Publicity Con-
 mittee, M. s. Whittier, chairman, and the City of Juneau has greatly
 benefited by reason of this com mittee's work. Numerous magazines have used articles which have been
 written under this committees au- thority and a constant flow of
 newspaper stories regarding the Chambers activities have appeared in the local newspapers and other. publications in the States. During the year the Chamber contributed special articles regarding the city's economic and industrial conditions for trade magazines and conner
 cial newspapers. Historical infor-
 nation and economic data relating to Juneau and the Territory of Alaska was also furnished to pub
 fishers of directories, tourist guide books, encyclopedias and school text
 books. Statistical information and
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photographic views of Juneau and its industries was likewise given to colleges, schools, libraries, clubs, commercial and trade bodies and various departments of the Fed eral Government An Information Booth was maintained in Juneau by the Chamber during the sum- mer months and handled by this committee. Miss Dalma Hanson was the Clerk in charge.
 Fire Prevention Week program. under J. L. Gray, was remarkably successful. He enlisted and se- cured the aid of all interests con- cerned in the event. City Schools, churches, the city administration, business houses, and all citizens apparently with one accord, joined in the movement this year. The members of the local Volunteer Fire Department were guests at a Chamber luncheon.
 During the year direct service was given to members of the Or ganization more than one htnd- dred times. The facilities of the Chamber, in forwarding this serv- ice, are available at all times to the members without charge. It is hoped that this service will be used to a greater extent in the future.
 Fosters Alaska Chamber
 Since 1928, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce has been a constitu- ent member of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The National organization now has membership of 1921 commercial organizations representing an un- deriving membership of 938,504 cor porations, firms, and individuals belonging to member organizations. It is a representative National body and through unity of action on the part of American business is able to exert tremendous influ- ence on national affairs. The Ju- nsau Chamber of Commerce derives great value from it's utilization with the national organization.
 For some years it was known that an all-Alaska Chamber Of Commerce would be valuable aid to the development of the Ter ritory. 1881 saw it organized with the able M. S. Whittier as its Sec retary and with most of the com mercial organizations in the Terri tory as members. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce is proud of it's part in getting it started and hopes it will succeed beyond the fondest dreams of it's sponsors.
 The Mining Committee, L. H. Metzgar, chairman, was active on local mining matters and presented resolution asking for an Inter- national conference on silver.
 The Civic Improvement Commit tee, J. J. Connors, chairman, was active on all matters of civic in- terest and co-operated with the City Council in many instances.
 General Activities
 In addition to the work of the various committees, the Chamber was active in many ways.
 The organization co-operated with the American Legion in the July Fourth celebration.
 Contributed from it's funds to the City Band, Boy Scouts, Hos
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Buy that fu1 ecat nov. Cnas. GoldStein 6 Go. -adv.
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 pressure Gulf of Alaska, with moderate British Columbia in Berng normal the Interior with high the south the Aeutan Islands
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RECORD OF 1931 IS REVIEWED BY
 SEC'YWALMSLEY l. ! ! E
Chamber of Commerc e He ars Annual Reports
 Submitted by Secretary

tContinu.d rom Page One)
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old papers at The Umpire.
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CHAMBER PICKS NEW BOARD FOR
 ENSUING YEAR
Seven Directors Are Elect ed for 1852 by Cham
 Der of Commerce

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Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Readers and Playgoers
Bored by Sensationalism

The twilight of the sensational
lists has come. The gods they chal-
lenged are either moribund, totally
defunct, or so changed as to be
unrecogniZable. Responsibility has
become a joke; right and wrong,
inextricably mingled, Louise Maun-
sell Field writes, in the North
American Review.
We are all so used to having
''the facts of life" paraded before
US in their ugliest possible aspect
that we no longer become excited
or indignant. We can no longer
be shocked at anything, because we
have become used to everything.
Familiarity breeds Indifference at
least as often as it does contempt.
We can still, some of US, be
repelled by vulgarity and bad
taste; and we can most of US be
bored. We were profoundly bored
last season by many plays that
struggled to be daring, and sue
ceeded only in being dull.
AS for psychopathic studies pro-
duced under the guise of fiction,
they may be well done and conse-
quently interesting, or they may be
merely tedious; but they can't rely
on "frankness" and daring" any
longer.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Population of Babylon
Has Been Overestinated

There have been various at
tempts. by comparing its area
with the area of modern cities, to
estimate the population of ancient
Babylon. On the lowest calcula-
tion it would be found, supposing
it to have borne any considerable
resemblance TO a European city, to
have had population of 100000.
The map of Asiatic Turkey shows
that the extent of country around
Babylon available for agricultural
purposes must have been quite in
adequate to supply the necessary
demands for anything like such an
immense population. Perhaps, on
the whole, says a recent writer, one
may estimate the population at
from 100000 to 100000. This
supposition derives support from
the fact that Selucia, with popu-
lation of 100000. is stated by
Strabo and Pliny to have been
about half the size of Babylon in
the days of her greatest glory.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Queer Designations Given
Animal and Bird Groups

Perhaps the ingenuity of the
sportsman is nowhere better illus
trated than by the use to which
he puts the English language in
designating particular groups of
animals. Here is a list of terms
which have been applied to the
various classes:
A covey of partridges; a nide OF
pheasants; wisp of snipe; a
flight of doves or swallows; a mus
ter of peacocks; a seige of herons;
building of rocks; a brood of
grouse; a plump of wild fowl.
A stand of plovers; a watch
of nightingales a Gathering of
choughs; a flock of geese; a herd
or bunch of cattle; a bevy OF
quails; cast Of hawks; a trip of
dOtterell; a swarm of bees;
school of whales.
A shoal of herrings; a herd of
swine; skulk of foxes; pack of
wolves; a drove of oxen; a sound
er of hogs; troop Of monkeys; a
pride of lions; a sleuth OF bears;
gang of elk.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
"The Glory That Was Rome"

On the heights above Monte
Carlo stands, as it has already
stood for centuries, La Turbie, the
crumbling ruin of one of Rome's
greatest and finest towers. It has
stood by the wayside for more
than twenty centuries, and seen the
Greeks, the Romans, the Alpine
tribes, the Goths and the Moors
fight beneath it. SO massive is it
that Marshal Berwick, son of
James II of England, failed to de-
stroy it with his gunpowder. Tales
tell US it was a most glittering
sight in the days of Augustine
built of polished granite and Luna
marble, dominating the sea like a
Roman guard far from Rome. It
had its doric colonnade, its fluted
tower, also doric and on the sides
of La Turbie were engraved the
names of the tribes 1t had seen
fall before Rome's power.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Mankind's Average HEIGHT

1t is estimated by the United
States public health service that
the average height of man in this
country is about 5 feet 8 inches
and the average height of woman
about feet inches. Whitaker's
almanac gives the average heights
of natives Of the British isles as
follows: Scotsmen, feet So
inches; Irishmen, 5 feet 8 inches;
Englishmen, 5 feet TX inches;
Welshmen, 5 feet 61s inches. Books
dealing with anthropology, such as
that by q. B. Taylor In the Popu-
lar Science library, give average
heights Of other races. Thus 5
feet inches is given for the Chi
nese laborer, 5 feet 7 inches for
the Swede, feet for the Lapp, 5
feet IL inches for the Patagonian
of South America, 4 feet 8 inches
for the Bushman and other South
African tribes.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Films Helped Police In
Roundup of Criminals

Since the films are still from
time to time blamed for demoraliz-
ing the youth and thereby encour-
aging crime, it seems only fair that
wide publicity should be given to
a case where they have proved of
important assistance to the police
Reuter- reports that a Berlin pro-
ducer wished to lend an air of
verisimilitude to a scene of low
life, hired a number Of citizens of
the Berlin underworld to walk on"
in the course Of the production
The police got to hear of this, and
also decided to call round at the
studio and walk on, with the result
that they presently walked off with
several wanted men whom they
found among the crowd of unde-
niably sinister supers.
This seems a great tribute to the
realism" of the production; if the
crooks were good enough for the
police to arrest on sight they may
truly have been said to carry con
viction in their faces.-Manchester
(England) Guardian.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
SALT PALACE NOT SOLID
Only An Outside Coating of Salt
on Utah's "Salt Palace"

The Salt Lake Real Estate board
says: "The Salt palace was built
as dance hall in a local pleasure
resort where were formerly a BIZ
cycle race track and various other
entertainment attractions. The
Salt palace was not constructed
of solid salt, as many suppose, but
rather was a coat over frame con-
struction, which, however, had all
the appearance of a real salt struc-
ture. Salt is extracted from the
brine in Great Salt lake by pump
ing water into eyaporating ponds,
where the salt is finally deposited
on whatever happens to be on the
ground. 1t was discovered that
when the brine, which is approx
mately 20 per cent of the lake, had
eyaporated sufficiently so that the
solution was. about 40 per cent in
strength, articles dipped into the
brine would attract the crystals and
they would form ON any surface,
particularly wood. This was how
the lumber was coated for the Salt
palace. 1t was taken to these
ponds, one side was allowed to
become covered with these crystals,
and then later salt water was
poured over to weld the joints. At
first the building was very bright,
the crystals dazzling in the sun
light. However they were not i'm
mune to rain, and after several
seasons they were no longer the
same bright color that they were
originally. The origin of the fire
which destroyed it was never def
nitely determined However, like
many resorts in smaller cities, it
had too much competition, and
was therefore not sufficiently profit
able to warrant rebuilding"
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
milk Snakes" Myth

The United States biological sur
vey has stated with regard to the
silly belief that snakes can suck
milk from COW: Anyone who
has ever MIXED a cow knows that
the suction required to obtain
flow of milk is much greater than
could be exerted by any snake.
Furthermore, snake has two rows
of sharp recurved teeth in the up
per jaw. II the mouth of the milk
snake were closed to permit sue
tion, the teeth would sink into the
teat and the snake would find it.
self fully occupied in efforts to avoid
injury by the cow.-Detroit News.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Cows Have Passports

The boundary line along the
Observation-Disclosures frontier, in
effect since the World war, has
been so arbitrarily drawn that fire.
quently it separates a farming com
munity from the fields where the
farmers pasture their cattle, so
each COW has to have passport.
The numbers of these bovine
passports must correspond with the
numbers burned on the animals
hoofs," writes E. Alexander Powell.
ut Is the duty Of the frontier
guards to see that a cow is turned
back if its papers are not in or
der Should a calf be born on the
Rumanian side Of the line its Hun
garian owner could obtain posses
sion of it, / assume, only by an ap-
peal to the League of Nations!
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
Satisfied With Their Lots

The minister of the flock had
been invited to dine with the
Jones family, and the four young
boys had been told to wait for their
repast until the grownups had fin
ished the meal. They were to come
In for the second serving"
One of the lads, however, Sc
creted himself under the table to
listen in. Commenting on the four
boys, the minister said to the
hostess: Mrs. Jones, it is too bad
that at least one of your children
couldn't have been girl"
This was too much for the little
stowaway. Out shot bristling lit
tie red head from under the over
hanging tablecloth. and volley of
protesting words:
"Well, Tom wouldn't been 'er;
Ed wouldn't been 'er; Hal wouldn't
been 'er; and I wouldn't been 'er !
I'd like to know who'd "a been
'erp'
No other answer was needed; the
point was settled.
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08
ITALY NAMES "INFLUENZA"
Influenza Llague Was Once Held
| as Fashionable Cold

The word influenza came into
vogue in English-speaking coun-
tries in 1890. The disease had
been epidemic in st. Petersburg in
1889, and it spread over Europe and
to England and the United States.
In the following spring it was Sc
we're in India and Australia. In
most Of these countries it was
known as ''Pinfuenza," or ''infiu-
enZa," though in Paris ala grippe"
a term used in the middle of the
last century, was revived. The word
Influenza" was given in Italy to-
ward the middle Of the Eighteenth
century to an epidemic of febrile
catarrh. 1t was in use in Eng
land as early as 1862. In that
year Mrs. Montague, the blue
stocking" write: "Mr. Montague
returned to London quite
well, though he has been much
pulled down by the fashionable
cold called Influenza" A general
epidemic of influenza took place
toward the close of the World war,
passing over western countries in
three waves, the first appearing
very suddenly in May and June,
1918, the second in September and
October, declining in December and
the third in March, 1919. It's origin
was attributed by France to Spain,
whence came it's most frequently
used designation of Spanish infiu-
enza." Spain, In turn, attributed
the outbreak to France and this
continent though it started in east
en Europe. Virtually all the
western nations were heavy suffer
ers. 1t was most virulent In the
second wave.-Montreal Family
Herald
Smyrna times., 1931-07-08

aeronautical branch show that Mr..
L. L. Thompson, local agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad to be the
only licensed aeroplane pilot in
Kent and Sussex County in Della
ware. Pilot Thompson has had
over two years flying experience
with various types of aeroplanes.
On Friday Pilot Thompson gave
for the benefit of his Rehoboth
friends an exhibition of skillful fly
ing when he took his plane to the
altitude of 5000 feet over the At
lantic Ocean and executed loops,
tailspins and other thrilling stunts.