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ALASKA DELEGATE
 PERFORMS SPLENDID
 SERVICE, TERRITORY

Early in May last some people residing in the lower Yukon region asked the Delegate from Alaska to present their request to Commis- sioner of Fisheries O'Malley for the privilege of limited amount of fishing off the mouth of Yukon river. It seems that the Commis- sioner had been seriously consider 1 ing recommending to the Secre- tary of Commerce that future re- gulations be issued to permit the Yukon River to be opened to Kir salmon fishing, allowing 50,00O to 6O,OOO to be taken, and limiting the operations to King salmon gill nets, and limiting the season to the time when the bulk of the King salmon are running.
 Commissioner O'Malley wrote letter to the Delegate to this effect with permission to give it publicity. Delegate Wickersham then had about 75 copies of this letter print ed and sent to various persons who might be interested, particularly along the Yukon river, and person. ally wrote on each letter Do you want this? Write to me Wicker sham" As result some have writ ten favoring the opening of the mouth of the Yukon, while others have written in opposition, claim ing that the run of salmon up the river would be affected as would also the natural supply of food as furnished by the salmon to a couple of thousand men, women and chil- dren.
 The Delegate has sought infor- nation from the people interested so that he might be in position to again take up the question of the Yukon for fishing, as the facts should warrant. From responses so far received the Delegate is inclin- ed to believe that the best interests of the fishing industry and of the people along the Yukon require that he oppose the new contemplat- ed regulations.
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NUKA BAY MAKES GOOD

The years of publicity effort expended by The Gate way in behalf of the Nuka Bay mining is fully vim dicated by Field Engineer Earl Pilgrims conservative report which appears in this issue But foremost the years of hard york; faith and courage by those fnan cay interested in properties and prospects in the ion prompts thought of the od familiar phrase: Good wine needs no bush."
 Nuka Bay has everything required for great min ing camp inexpensive transportation ample water pow er timber of all kinds and easy country to prospect
 The Babcock & Downey mine is producing steadily; the lost vein in the Alaska Hills has been found; crude is being shipped to smelters and numerous other prospects are being developed.
 Seward can we'll afford to bend every effort toward assisting in every way possible the rapid development of the Nuka Bay quartz field. It's winner and to Seward, means considerable, in a business way.
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The schooner Olive, Capt. c. Johnson, arrived in port Wednes- day afternoon, loaded a large cargo of Alaska coal and left for the Westward where the coal will be distributed.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-30

The cutter Tahoe, Commander Towle, which vessel brought the last party of Washington, D. C., visitors to this port. left today bound for Cordova where the party will rejoin the ship.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-30

The Majestic" last vcrd in mo dern refrigeration, at Brown { Hawkins.
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kT TIE HOTELS

SEWARD-H. o. White, 4. M. Lecoump
 OVERLAND - Donald MacDon- aid, Elmer Rady, E. Bennetser.
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Vessels in port today included the B. of F. MS Penguin. Marian, tug Akutan and the Rolph III.
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THE SOURDOUGH CONVENTION

To the old Sourdoughs who, with the brains, man. hood and backbone to pioneer Alaska and the Yukon, an invitation is extended to participate in the conven tion and reunion which will be held in Portland Oregon beginning August IA and ending the night of the 17th.
 Which reminds us these reunions, community pcnlcs and the like, altogether too few The people of to- day are losing sight of what they are living tor surely not just to slave and die! We're strong for the old fashion days when folks got together and had Won- derful outing.
 The sponsors of the Alaska Yukon Sourdough Stam Dede and the several committees who spending their time to entertain of the North country, to be congratulated for their eanestness and sincere intent
 The headquarters this year at the Imperial Ho- te Portland and the committees and committeeman are as follows:
 Executive committee: Albert J. Eckelnan, chair man; Alvah Flames, vice chairman; J. A. Ament, w. H. Downing, F. F. Fellows, w. P Snnott Al E. Holcombe, R. H. Torrey o. R. Reger F. A. Jones.
 Finance comnittee Al E. Holcombe chairman; Enter tain1nent commttee w. P. Sinnott, chairman; Recep- tion committee: w. H. Downing, chairman; Registra tion committee: Alvah Eames chairman
 Things are somewhat upset in Cuba, but President Machado not much disturbed has put out for the fish ing grounds The late President Cleveland found solace in the rod and reel Mr. Webster took day off for line and sinker, before replying to MT. Hayne and Isaak Watons Complete Angler is read with interest while the events of contemporary British poticals have been forgotten President Machado might do worse than to fish and let smaller fume.
 The statement that Federal authorities are about to make a staggering announcement relative to the future of the beer traffic. may indicate good news either for the vets for the drys.
 Every dollar brought into the home city brings money into local circulation Cooperative effort will at tract business to any city
 From the amount of aviation dispatches being ceved recently the Associated Press realizes Aaskans are "ai1-minded." Or something like that.
 7TMennber lO3NE
 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08

Of the same character. The cost Of q
bridge at Fifty-seventh street, which il
the site proposed for the new crossing,
wiz be greater than that Of the Fort
Lee viaduct, owing to the higher rates
that must be paid for the land essential
to the approaches. An estimate Of
$3.50, oo0. 900 has been made to cover the
cost OF bridge such as that which the
War Department disapproved. No esti.
mate has been made Of the cost Of q
viaduct spanning the river ct 400 feet
in the center above high tide, but it
would necessarily be considerably greater
than the cost Of the rejected plan.
The proposal of q bridge for railway
service rather than another tunnel Is Of
interest as showing that the necessity
for additional vehicular accommodation
across the Hudson is keenly felt. There
are now three tunnels between the Man.
haitian and the New Jersey shores, the
so-called McAdoo rapid transit, the Hol-
land vehicular and the Pennsylvania
Railroad tubes. The Holland tube has
abundantly proved its economic eni-
cheney and is surprising the expecta-
tons Of its projectors in point of earn
ings. Whether a second vehicular tube
would be as successful is not assured.
The combination of vehicular and rail-
road service on the projected new bridge
would perhaps meet the immediate need
for additional facilities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
Old Ladies in Traffic.


The problem of the elderly woman in
traffic is one which has not received
the consideration which it deserves. 1t
Is no uncommon sight in Washington
to see some feeble, white-haired woman,
almost at what might be termed the
lettering age, attempting to make her
way across crowded downtown streets.
Every man in the crowd, whether on
foot or in automobile intends to be par
ticularly courteous to her and her like,
but the practical problems brought to
them by their own situation in the
hustle of the street divert their atten-
ton.
The elderly woman, then, is thrown
on her own resources, and presents one
Of the most pitiful, though mostly un-
regarded, sights Of the modern city. It
Is well enough to say that she ought
to be at home, but emergencies and
living itself often demand that she 60
into the street.
Often no one else in the family Is
able to go with her. Furthermore, many
an elderly woman resents, with a show
Of feeling, any implication from her
relatives that she is not able to get
around as well as she used to. The
plain truth is, Of course, that no one,
no matter what his or her age, Is able
to get around" as well as in the past
Traffic of today presents a practical
problem TO the agile and Sure-footed
as well as to the man or woman upon
whom time has taken toll. To the
latter, however, It offers peculiar dini-
cuIties.
Perhaps it might be suggested that
escorts be sent with elderly women
into downtown trafnc, If they must 60
on foot. No doubt various agencies
would be willing to send messenger es-
corts for a nominal sum. The taxicab
rates now have reached q level where
they might be more used for this pur-
pose.
Let old ladies themselves, unmindful
Of the term, feeling In 1t no reproach,
but only the solicitude Of every mothers
son for every mother, realize that when
they step into modern street they
are rushing in where angels might well
fear to tread. Let them 60 warily, If
they must.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08

any sign Of alteration or unbalance TO
justify the discrediting of his testimony.
This would appear to be the first time
that the mental condition of q witness
has been thus put to test. The news
reports Of the session indicate that the
witness stood the scrutiny and that
the defense win have no basis for chal-
longing the competence Of his testimony.
There viii doubtless be other novel;
ties in the course Of the successive pro-
ceedings in the uncovering Of the mu-
nicipal corruption in New York. But
most of these innovations viii be SIM
ply modern variants of an old theme.
Public ONCE Is a private investment
rather than a public trust according to
the Tammany doctrine. 1t is just as it
was in the Tweed days and in the
Croker days and the Murphy days.
Methods change, details are different,
but the essential procedure is the same.
Get a public job and work it, is the
standing rule. Why was magistracy
paying about $4,000 year worth the
payment of more than that-Ewald's
fees" for securing the appointment were
alleged to have been $12,OO0-as means
of getting the place? Why was he willing
to pay $4,000, as his former secretary
testif1es, to get higher judgeship, the
salary of which was about $4,000
year? Because, according to all the
revelations that have led to the suspen-
sions and designations from the ju-
dietary recently, magisterial position
of any grade is a potential gold mine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
New York's Valuable Magistrates.

Strange things are happening in
New York In the matter Of the munich
Pal scandals, strange disclosures Of mis-
conduct on the part of judicial officers.
Searching inquiries by a special State
commissioner are bringing to light odd
tiles Of behavior indicating that the
Tammany tiger has not changed its
Strtpes any more than the leopard
changes its spots. Meanwhile, the
Ewald case carries on, the former
Judge being now on trial on charge
q buying a magistracy. Recently the
Tammany district leader who got Ewald
hts Job, and his henchman, who is
alleged 70 have served as go-between
an the purchase Of the appointment,
were tried twice and on each occasion
TIE Jury disagreed. That may be the
SeSult Of the present trial, which
OtAsted the other day with recital Of
the now familiar circumstances of Mrs.
EwAld's loan without security or in
terest to the Tammany leader for the
purpose Of buying a house for himself.
The trial had not proceeded far when
Boczor, formerly a sort of secretary to
Ewald who ran errands for him when
he was an assistant district attorney,
an Austrian Of emotional temperament.
proved to be a straightforward and ex-
plicit witness for the prosecution. When
his direct examination was concluded
the defense counsel asked for q delay
10 prepare for the croSs-examination,
indicating that he proposed TO show
that the witness was incompetent
through mental disturbance. So when
yesterday the trial was resumed the
case presented another novelty. Two
alienists sat in the court room, one on
each side, one representing the prose-
cution and one the defense. Their job
was 10 watch the witness closely while
he was under the stress Of cross-ex-
nninstaon 10 see whether there vas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
No Liking for Likin.

from the Toledo BLADE.
The Nationalist government at Nam
king announces that likin will be aboI-
ished January /. Likin Is an internal
revenue tax collected on transit goods
in China. It Is collected at virtually
every port Of entry on provincial
boundaries. It Is the chief source Of
revenue for provincial governments. It
Is necessary, therefore, to provide some
substitute, and q new Chinese wall 4
being built-a tariff wall on imporA
from other countries.
just at the time the anti-hlIin order
becomes effective in China the Ohio
Legislature, meeting In Columbus, will
undertake revision OF Ohio tax laws
under the classification amendment.
Legislatures in the United State
have no power to build State tariff
walls, but they accomplish the purpose
Of them by the gasoline tax, which is
an assessment on both State and In
terstate transportation Of passengers
and merchandise.
The taxation expert, like the adept
at goose picking, gets the most feath-
Senators and Representatives viii do
try, IS they must, to relieve city home
owners AMI farmers Of the too great
OF taxes levied against real
estate.
Reduction of the real estate tax, by
Itself, should be easy. increasing the
tax on intangibles, or tax on sales,
or the levying Of q new tax on In
comes, VIII be something else again. =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRAcEWELL.

Like every one else, we suspect, we
continually are running head-hrst into
statements with which we do not agree.
Recently we came across one of these
in Harry Hansen's column In the New
York World. Ordinarily, Mr.. Hansen
writes the most entertaining common
sense about books.
When he says, however, that DIT.
Axel Munthe's best-seller, 1.-THE Story
of San Michele" is not literature, we
do not understand him.
If San Michele" isn't literature, we
win have to begin all over again. We
suppose Mr.. Hansen has much the same
definition for the word as the die
tionary.
The largest dictionary we could find
gives the usual string of them-flrst
second, third and so on-from which
we extract the following:
body"
1.-THE class or total writings, as a
given country or period which is nota-
bic for literary form of expression, as
distinguished, on the one hand, from
works merely technical or erudite and,
on the other, from journalistic or
ephemeral writing"
"Belles-lettres."
ANY kind of printed matter"
Writing distinguished by artistic
form or emotional appeal"
Literature" is thus seen to be q
rather difficult thing to define, just as
gentleman" Is, but almost every one
has his own idea.
Few who read books, perhaps, would
fail to understand the meaning of
literature" when applied to the wrap
per which comes around the patent
NmSlA ~.
meaning, probably coming down from
the grandiloquent language of the old
time patent medicine man who stood on
the street corner beneath q Pickering
gas torch and sold large bottles of black
fluid guaranteed to be good for man
or beast"
All those educated in the standard
schools of the United States will have
some conception of the term bellies
lettres." 1t is at once inclusive, and
does mean something, although one
might be hard pressed to limit 1t
exactly.
Personally, we prefer the last defini-
ton given above, writing distinguished
by artistic form or emotional appeal"
Surely II one accepts this, we do not see
how one can fail to class THE Story Of
San Michele as literature In the best
sense.
IL u not LIT. MunCneS 1dulC, surely,
that the American people have taken
so kindly to his volume Of belle-lettres.
The fact that 1t Is "best-seller," in the
usual sense Of the term, undoubtedly
was more of . surprise to him than to
anybody else in the world.
The publishers Dutton) have ad-
mitted that they themselves were very
much astonished by the rousing recep-
ton in sales given to this work, which
they at first Jumped OF as a travel
book" DR.. Munthe's 500 pages of per-
sonal "reminiscences in reality is a vol
ume of fairy tales for adults 1.-The
Story of San Michele" does for grown
ups" what Hans AnderSen's Fairy
Tales" does for the children Of the
world.
Just as the latter puts boys and girls
in touch with mystery, wonder and ten
der kindness, so San Michele" as Mr..
Hansen so well pointed out himself,
permits the average reader to do deeds
OF kindness vicariously. More than
that, however, 1t lifts him out of the
humdrum by the very gates of hum
drum. In other words, the life and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08

news is al that viii dry the tears Of
the Celimene Theater. Till then per-
functory. smiles before the footIights
will disguise heavy hearts.
Bronze Beetle
Drew Naturalist's Attention
Evening Post, Wellington. When, in
1859, Capt. Cook visited these shores, he
had with him Sir Joseph Banks, the
famous naturalist. Six months were
spent here cruising and camping and
during that time an insect, popularity
known as the bronze beetle, forced itself
upon the notice Of the naturalist. Banks
was much more interested In plants
than In beetles, but apparently the
bronze beetles were so numerous that
he felt constrained to record their
presence. At that time the bronze
beetle lived upon various native shrubs
and trees, for the simple reason that
they were its natural diet and nothing
else as q diet was available. But with
the advent of the white man as a. per-
manent settler there came into the
country all kinds of introduced fruit
trees and shrubs. The bronze beetle ap-
preciated change from the diet Of its
ancestors, and now, whenever and
Wherever II gets the chance, 1t does in
calculable damage to apple and pear
crops and also to small fruits. Other
trees, too, it will strip bare Of foliage,
with the result that it Is now one of
the major insect pests Of the Domin-
ion. It has been estimated that q seri-
Gus infeStation of an orchard results
in the destruction of 40 per cent Of the
annual crop. The loss to the country is
accordingly heavy.
Control Of this pest, whech, when
Summer comes, will again be in ample
evidence, Is matter Of great economic
Importance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
Home Rule for India.

The Earl of Reading, well and favor
ably remembered in Washington,
appears to have cast the die at the
India Conference in London. AS one
of the spokesman of the Liberal party
at that epochal round table, the former
viceroy of India announced that the
group which holds the balance Of
power in the House of Commons Is
ready to come to grips with the ques-
ton of dominion status" The Liberals
are prepared to give India home rule.
Unless some argument Is adduced
which calls for change Of views" said
Lord Reading, 81 do not hesitate to say
now that our recommendations to the
Liberal party In Parliament will be for
Great Britain to go the fun length Of
granting to India government re-
sponsible to its own elected legislature,
except In matters of self-defense and
foreign relations, which must for the
time being be left as crown subjects,
and with certain reservations in f1nan-
cial affairs"
The news cables report that this
announcement from the most authori-
tative voice at the conference has
stirred it to the depths and all Britain,
as well. It is bound to do so, for Lord
Reading speaks not only from five years
background as viceroy, but as the
mouthpiece Of the half hundred Lloyd
George Liberals who can, at their sweet
will, make or break the Labor govern
ment.
Prime Minister Macdonald has re-
vealed an inclination also Ito go the
full length" of bestowing self-govern-
ment, for purely local purposes, upon
India. Assured of the support of the
Liberal bloc in the Commons, Labor
would have no difficulty in enacting the
necessary legislation. Sir Samuel Hoare,
a Conservative representative at the
conference, addressing one Of its sub
committees q day after Lord Reading
spoke, indicated that the Baldwin group
Is not disposed TO make the wide-fiung
concessions which the Liberal leader
favors. But in the face of a Labor
Liberal majority capable of imposing its
win, Mr.. Baldwin's die-hards, sooner or
later, will have to bow to the inevitable.
Mahatma Gandhi's son was being
jailed for six months at Bombay while
the London round table was recording
these developments. 1t was symbol
Of the undiminished resentment ram
pant among the native extremists over
any settlement Of the Indian question
that falls short of sovereign independ-
ence. Dominion status is not acceptable
to Gandhi, but at present 1t Is obvious
that such is all he can expect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
Modifying Consent DEGREES,

Commenting on the decision of Jus
Hce Jennings Bailey in the packers
case, Mr.. David Lawrence thus points
20 one Of its significant aspects:
1t establishes precedent so that all
consent DEGREES hereafter will be re-
garded as subject to modification nv the
court upon the hearing of testimony
and not necessarily as contracts re-
curing the consent of the original
parties to the decree before there can
be modification.
MI. Lawrence states the case broadly,
but there is little doubt that he not
only reflects the opinion of Justice
Bailey but of the Government attorneys.
who in the packers case conceded the
point If there are appeals from the
modification Of the consent decree, the
rule may not stand, but there is no rea-
son to suppose it will not stand. II 80
IT has important bearing on the consent
decree under which the rates for cleo
tr4ctty in the District of Columbia are
annually adjusted. The Public Utili-
ties Commission will doubtless give due
consideration to the precedent.
In the recent hearings before the
commission it was developed that no
reasoning under the sun could sub
stAntiate a concept Of the consent de-
cree as an instrument that worked to
tie the commissions hands indefinitely
or that took from it lawful preroga-
ttves regarding the regulation Of electric
light rates. But the point was made
that unless the Potomac Electric
Power Co. was willing to agree to modi-
fcations in the decree, and on this
basis the court asked to ratify, the
Public Utilities Commission would have
10 take action that, in effect, would
abrosate the decree and reopen liti-
CATION.
II the precedent described above has
been established, however, other ave-
nues are opened to the Public Utin-
ties Commission. If the electric light
company refuses modification, It would
seem to be possible for the Public Utili-
ties Commission 10 go into court and
argue for mobilization, submit its EVIL
0GklCCs Ud1o leave. Tie uloOOCI W I1Ac
court, with or without the consent Of
the electric light company to such
modification.
There may enter here the difference
between en- injunctive decree, such as
that under which the packers were re-
strained from certain activities, and .
consent decree which is based on Ger
tain mutual concessions by parties to
the agreement after litigation. But the
court in the packers case did not put
great weight upon any difference In
the nature Of DEGREES. 1.-THE question
whether there should be q modification
Is a judicial question" said the court,
TO be decided on the law and on the
evidence. Arguments advanced for or
against tbs application by any Of the
parties, including the Government, are
20 be given the same consideration, no
more ana no less, than they would II
they had followed litigation"