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From Printers Deuil tor
 Publisher; That's Cohen's
 Record;He's Senator No,v

ATLANTA, Ga, May 1O.-Maj. John $. Cohen has taken to the United States Senate courtly dignity reflecting the culture of the old South to which he was born, February 26, 1870, at At -anta, Ga.
 Appointed to succeed the late Senater William J. Harris, Major Cohen was chosen by Gov Rich ard B. Russell, Jr., as a man thoroughly informed on the many momentous issues now under con- sideration in Washington, as well as with the needs of our people and the aims and ideals of nation al democracy"
 Senator Cohen long has been identified with the growth and progress of Georgia and his facil- ity for making and holding friend ships has made him one of the states best known men
 Stars Setting Type
 He chose his profession = jour nalism early in life. At Is he resigned from the Navay Academy to become a printer, setting type by hand, a proofreader and later a member of the editorial staff of the Augusta Chronicle.
 He has run the ga1nut of the newspaper profession from print CTS devil to the chair of editor and publisher of one of the souths largest daflies-the Atlanta Jour nal-with which paper he has been for 42 years Likewise, while sery- ing in the United States Army dur ing the Spanish-American war, he rose rapidly from a private to the rank of Major.
 Seldom Alone
 Major Cohen" Jack" Cohen to his friends-is rarely ever alone in his office in the Journal build ing. All employees of the newspa- per feel free to walk into his of- flee and sit down for chat = sometimes business, but more often just in talk.
 Major Cohen has launched or
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PICNIC BEING ARRANGED
 TIilda Creek is to be the des- tination of Douglas High School
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS


 In the Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Number One. Before CHAS. SEY, Commissioner and ex-Officio Probate Ju d e,
 Juneau Precinct. In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM E. BRITT, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the undersigned was, on the 2nd day of May, 1882, appointed administrator W. W. a. of the es- tate of the above named William E. Britt, deceased. All persons hav- ing claims against said estate are requested to present them, with proper vouchers attached, to the undersigned, at 424 Goldstein Build ing, Juneau, Alaska, within six (6) months from the date of this mo- tice
 DATED at Juneau, Alaska, May End, 1892.
 H. L. FAULKNER,
 Administrator W. W. a. First publication, May 3, 1882. Last publication, May 24, 1882.
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SHOP sN JUNEAU
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materially aided many civic enter prises, including several highway projects of national and interna- tional impcrtnace.
 He was instrumental in estab- fishing grand opera week in At Flanta, which for several years was an annual event and marked the introduction of operatic perform ances in the South.
 He started a fund for founding the Lee school of journalism at Washington and Lee University.
 Major and Mrs Cohen are prom inent in social circles, and he is President of the Piedmont Driv- ing club, exclusive Atlanta social club.
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By WILLIAM A. KINNEY.

l LINDEN, N J., May 10.-A for leign nation, says J. Walter Chris tie, has offered him $650,000 for the new flying tank he is com pleting, supplementing the cash loffer with the statement: If we lcant buy it, we'll steal it." segi Christie, the white haired inven- l tor whose name has been practi- cally synonymous with the devel- opment of war tanks, disclosed that the offer was made by a repre- sentative of a European power.
 The $650,000 price is the sum of two offers, Christie said. The first one of $15O,000, offered in the nature of a binder was made soon after work on the machine be- gan.
 Overtures Made
 The tentative overtures, the in- ventor asserted, were made by an accredited commercial representa- tive of a European nation, whose armament in recent years has be- come a mystery in the Eastern Hemisphere.
 No agreement was reached dur ing the first discussion. Recently, however, with the tank nearing completion, the representative re- turned to Christie's laboratory to increase the offer to haf-mil- lion.
 No Agreement
 Again no agreement was reached, according to Christie, but the rep resentative has returned to his country to seek the $500000 ap- propriation necessary to purchase the tank and the secret of it's design.
 Christie hasn't decided whether the third meeting will mean an agreement. He was approached once before by the same govern ment, he said, for the rights to one of his earlier tanks, a type which is now in use in the Unit ed States Army.
 On that occasion he told the negotiator that if the War De- partment at Washington was not interested in the tank he might have first call on it for his gov- ernment.
 This time Christie would like to do the same thing with his new flying tank" but he is not certain that he will. 1 Foreign Offer | Discussing the foreign offer Christie cited three other New Jersey inventors-Joseph Holland, Hudson Maxim, and Col. Isaac Lewis all of whom he knew. He pointed out that all three had to go abroad with their inventions before their native country gave them recognition.
 | AS yet there have been no of- fers for the tank or official in- ouiries from the United States War Department. The machine, Christie says, is to be capable of a road speed of no miles per hour, and rough terrain speed of 70 miles an hour.
 1 Weighs Four Tons
 Christie's new tank is made light it weighs only four tons-to fa- cilitate the transportation by air. The tanks wings will be a separ- ate unit-an airplane carrying pi- lot and observer, but constructed lin such a way as to enable it to Isettle down on the tank, and pick
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students on their annual picnic scheduled for Friday, May 20. An gus Gair and Frank Stragier were appointed to secure a boat and arrange for life-preservers. Helen Stragier, Elsa Lundel and Gen. eva Feero have charge of ar arrangements fer food
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MAYOR FEUST ANNOUNCES
 CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN

By order of the City Council of Douglas, "Cleanup and Paint Up can aign will be conducted for the next ten days. It is up to each resident to do his part to help beautify the town and to this end all residents are asked to place empty cans, ashes and other re- fuse on the side of the streets where the city trucks will call and pick up the refuse for disposi- tiorl.
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DOUGLAS NEVIS
MRS. BALOG CHOSEN TO
 HEAD F. O. E. AUXILIARY

The annual election of officers of the Ladies Auxiliary of Doug Jas Aerie 1t7, F. o. E. was held last evening. Catherine Balog was elected to the office of President, succeeding Mrs. Annie Gair, 9th CT officers elected were as fol- lows: L. Impi, Vice-President; Alice Sey, Chaplain; Elizabeth Fraser, Secretary; Jessie Fraser, Treasurer; Mamie Feusi, Conductress; Madlon R:edi, Inside Guard; Isabelle Ca- shen, Outside Guard; Agnes Mills, Trustee for a three-year term.
 Installation of the newly elected will be held early in June.
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D. I. w. c. TO MEET

The last meeting for the sum mer of the Douglas Island Wo- mems Club will be held tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. Ed ward Bach The meeting starts at 8 o'clock. M
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Dr. J. A. Baughman, pioneer physician of Seward, who removed to the States several years ago, is a passenger on the steamer Yu- ken enroute to his old home.
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it up in iron claws just as an eagle might pick up its prey.
 The tank is equipped with pneu- matic tires for highway travel and caterpillar belt for rough going. It will house a .75 nm. field gun, carry four cavalrymen, and it will not lose it's mobility in mud. It will also float, the inventor said
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AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

 A. s. Ogdan, L. R. Ellson, J. M Bovee, J. w. Walker, MT. and Mrs w. H. Bacon, A. F. Lee, T. E. Dohn, Elmer F. Peterson, Seattle; J. A. Baughman, Seward; M. Mo Kallick, Juneau.
 Alaskan
 Charles Simpson, Hidden Inlet; Axel Axelson, Chat ham m; Fred Brouellette, Haines; w. Klesher Snohomish; Ed Jensen, L. Larsen Petaluma, Cal, Sonia Vincent, " Dudneff, Seattle.
 Zynda
 MT. and Mrs. Ernest O. Swan son, Port Althorp; L. E. Mckinley L. J. Uerling, Omaha, Neb., Mrs R. H. Williams, Skagway.
 fCA-+,,o,,1I fr~,x1 DooA nrnN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03

ATONE of my teachers eve told
IN me that L could be President
when I grew up. They didn't even
suggest the possibility of my selec-
ton if I failed to mature. The mat
ter never came up.
It was overlooked on account of a
lot of wholly unnecessary commo-
ton about my handwriting and my
spelling. If n only could look
ahead in his youth. The teachers
and I would have been spared an
endless amount of drudgery and
v e some pickering if I had
possessed so much as a prophetic
inkling. In that event I could have
said: Lets not bother about PEN
manship, grammar and spelling any
more. I'm going to be a newspaper
columniSt."
But in getting back to the tiny
tots and their chance of becoming
President, I wish to revise the rules.
1t is a traditional boast Of our re-
public that the job is open to any
native-b born citizen. I think the
teacher ought to add that it doesn't
hurt any to be a Republican and a
Protestant. But at least the schools
do insist that the ambition is hon.
orable and that anybody at all can
yearn for the high Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
The Kidnaping

There probably is not a mother or father in the
country who has not suffered with Charles and Anne
Lindbergh for the last two days. AS though one
baby had become the symbol of all babies, terror
and pain have struck into the hearts of parents.
What child is safe? is the universal question.
May we, too, not receive the wound against which
there is no anesthetic?
Senator Norris and Representative Summers prom
Use quick consideration in house and senate judiciary
committee Of measures to make interstate kidnapping
a federal offense; to punish with heavy penalties
senders of threatening letters; to make interstate
kidnapping a hanging ofTense.
Federal anti-kidnaping laws obviously are needed.
AS pointed out recently by Colonel Isham Randolph
of Chicagos Secret Six" this species of crime has
become largely an interstate matter. Whatever laws
can be passed and enforced to abate the savage and
cowardly traffic should be put upon the books with
no delay.
But law dealing so intimately with the very core
of human affections must yield even righteous wrath
in favor of wisdom. The kidnapping code contains
no chivalrous clauses. Facing capture, would not a
kidnaper kill and dispose of his victim if hanging
were the penalty for his crime?
Would not capital punishment in many instances
make conviction difficult in cases that did come to
trial? Alabama, Kentucky, Nebraska, Virginia, I'LL
nois and Missouri have laws making kidnapping a
capital crime. u is SlgnllcanG LnaC pOtn 4I1lnolS anu
Missouri have been the scenes of recent kidnapping
outbreaks.
kidnapping for ransom is a crime as old as piracy.
The recent cases in Chicago, st. Louis and elsewhere
appear to belong to a new category, however. They
resemble gang rather than individual crimes, as
though spawned into the vast breed that had its
beginning in the prohibition racket.
The depression, putting a keener edge to despera-
ton, also may play a part in this present horror.
Action must be taken and penalty prescribed. But
let wisdom be the guide of the lawmakers. Let them
remember that in every kidnapping case there is a
baby in the hands of a brute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
Court Reforms

President Hoover's special message to congress
suggesting legislation for improvement in the adj
ministration of justice is uneven. Apart from his
evasion of the prohibition problem, discussed in this
column Wednesday, the notable thing about the
Presidents program is its limited scope.
But it contains several good contributions. One is
that federal authorities shall have power to turn over
to state authorities Juvenile ~violators of federal laws.
The federal government lacks facilities for handling
such cases.
Another good suggestion is that federal courts be
relieved of part of their jurisdiction in civil cases,
based on differences in the state citizenship of liti-
giants. This suggestion very well might be carried
further in the direction of the 1890 Norris bill.
In the matter of court congestion, the President is
to be congratulated on reversing his earlier idea that
congestion is general and on scrapping his earlier
panaceas of juryless trials, trials before United States
commissioners and other radical changes.
Having discovered that congestion is a problem
only in a minority of districts, the President wisely
turns back to the method followed by the judicial
conference and the Encouragement, which is the
appointment OF additional judges.
-Four Hoover proposals for eliminating obstacles in
criminal cases merely repeat procedure
tons contained in the attorney generals report sew
eral months ago. Three of these proposals, concerning
jurors. are relatively unimportant. The fourth, which
would permit the supreme court to make rules for
criminal proceedings subsequent to verdict deserves
more careful study than seems to have been given to it.
Probably the most important part Of the message
is that dealing with changes in the bankruptcy act.
Mr.. Hoover makes the valuable suggestion that Off
GERS responsible to the court should examine bank
rupts, and not leave this work to private initiative;
also that agencies should be set up to coordinate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
ORIGINAL Idea

MISS WILCOX found only one
1F1 original panacea in the whole
collection. An anonymous wag of
1767 proposed that all marriages in
the British empire be dissolved, and
that any couples desiring to re-
marry be obliged to pay a consider
able license fee to the government.
He proposed to repeat the process
every year, annulling all marriages
annually, requiring an annual IL
cenSe fee, and thus swelling the
governments Golfers indefinitely.
He believed that the number of
couples who would not choose to
remarry would be astounding; but
that the innovation would increase
marriages tremendously, since all
the young bachelors who we're wary
Of matrimony while it. entailed an
eternal tie would be glad to risk it
when it meant bondage for only
n year.
The proposal is made in a PAM
phlet called "a Scheme to Pay Off,
in a Few Years, the National Debt,
by a Repeal of the Marriage Act"
Also on view in Schermerhorn
hall is a collection of books illus
trating English Money Troubles
Through Two Centuries" a 20O-year
discussion of how to stem the flow
of gold from the British isles; and
a collection covering $50 years of
dispute over poor laws, arguing the
question of individual versus state
charity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
POllyanna History

Following the publication of Harry Daugherty's
book on the late MIR. Harding, Congressman Grant E.
Mouser Jr. Of Ohio introduced a bill into congress pro-
hloltlng the transportation in interstate commerce of
any matter defamatory of the memory of anv de-
ceased individual tending to scandalize surviving
spouse or surviving relatives of such deceased indi-
vidual."
Inasmuch as Mr.. Daugherty's book was intended
as a defense of our late President, it is hard to see
how 1t stimulated such a proposal. But the principles
involved certainly warrant examination.
No doubt there are plenty of literary ghouls who
will stoop to any level of the gutter to increase their
notoriety OF private fortunes. Libel and SANDER are
bad enough for the living, who at least have some
chance to defend themselves. They are far worse for
the dead, who have only their friends or relatives left
to defend them.
Yet even here the situation is not so bad as it
seems at first sight. There is little interest in vilifv-
ing anybody except important public characters. This
TACT provides an automatic check on the ravages of
irresponsible debunkers.
PUBLIC figures are bound to attract many students
of their careers. Careful scholars inevitably will check
up on all scandal-mongering. If they find that the
charges made against any dead public figure are IN
warranted, such demonstration will at one and the
same time rehabilitate the reputation of the person
attacked and properly discredit those who have Will
fed him.
If injustice has been done, it is bound to be rigbted
and the odium will fall upon those who, through care
lessness or malice, have made unfounded assertions.
ANY such bill as that of Mouser's would be bad for
history and for public interest. We often badlv need
information of a very recent character. It frequently
is contrary to public w~ell-being to postpone historical
scrutiny OF a career. We would many times find il
undesirable to delay investigation or historical re-
search until the wife of a public figure has passed
away. What II we had to wait until his great-grand-
children have been safely and complacently buried?
If the feelings of relatives are injured by the reveIa-
ton OF demonStrable truths, then it is Just too bad. If
they are Inundated by untruths, then they can have
resort to existing laws.
1t is probable that in Hardings case the country
could have survived without immediate knowledge of
The Presidents Daughter" But it would have been
unfortunate if we had been compelled to postpone the
investigation of Teapot Dome, the Ohio Gang, and
Secretary Falls 500, 600 until the last of the Harding
relatives had passed to their final resting-ground.
Like other censorship notions, this proposal by
Congressman Mouser runs counter to common sense.
human freedom and the best interests of society. No
writer Of enough repute to carry any weight can sur
vive gross misrepresentation on his part.
In the end he will suffer more than the dead figure
he has m~aligned. We can afford to let this remain
as the all-suf1cient check upon biographical f~alsidca-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
HEALTH
Heart Disease Due to Various Causes

About one-fifth of all patients
treated for heart disease by physi-
clans probably are cases in which
the blood vessels of the heart are
damaged.
1t obviously is of greatest impor-
lance for every one to realize the
basic causes of heart disease, il the
condition is to be controlled prop
erly. The diagnosis of heart dis
ease properly should depend always
on aus of the trouble.
If the incorrect action of the
valves is due to rheumatic iniec-
ton, that is the important point. If
the pain is due to changes in the
blood vessels of the heart, the
change in the blood vessels is far
more important than the pain, SO
far as concerns the treatment of the
disease.
Pain may be controlled by various
types of treatment, but the disease
will progress unless the aus is at
tackled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
Homo Sapiens.'

~ = En- Ildo lily lIOI1 bLldb BullI16uG ClblZeu
"A Homo Sapiens."
DO" he begs, try to get your view Of your sex
around to a mans angle"
But, my dear Mr.. Sapiens, I don't dare do that,
because it always makes me so mad. I find mans
angle so unreasonable unless we can all agree that
women are not human beings. That it is impossible
for me to do.
The general masculine idea of the feminine halt
of the population strikes me as very dense. It pre-
sumes in the first place that women should have no
individuality, no ambition, and almost no sense. Sec
ond, it always sets up the theory that the mans angle
always is the correct one.
There is no doubt that a good many things women
are doing these days are preposterous. They are
futile and even slightly idiotic. But haven't men be-
hayed in the same way since the Tower of Babel?
They have been wise and progressive only in spots
and at intervals. Most of their activities have been
inane and thir journeyings aimlesS.
7 GRANT that if we could get a mans angle on our
Il selves, we might mend our ways. But l dare also
assert that it would help men tremendously to get
our angle on them. Yet there is the one big idea
that, amid all the discussion, never seems to strike
them.
They lay down the law about what we shall do,
issue nltimatums about our behavior and moralize
about our sins. And all of this without the faintest
effort to look at a womans problems with a woman's
eyes.
They state sweepingly that we're all wrong about
everything and that ends it. They assert that we
have ruined the country and in the next breath calf
upon us to save it.
Most human misery arises from a lack of indi-
vidual imagination.
We can't put ourselves in the other fellows shoes.
This is how men have failed with their own prob
lens and why they are failing with ours.
Ever since I can remember, women have been urged
through every known publicity device to view mems
trailtes leniently. But the American man, generous
as he is with his money, makes very little effort to
understand women.
He "opens his pccketbook, but closes his mind.
which does not mark him as particularly intelligent
or kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
LES and Different Faxes

While various groups of citizens are organizing to
save their property from confiscation through the tax
route, the tax dodger can be depended upon to en-
deavor through political power to keep the burden
entirely upon real estate.
The farmers of the state have a very Just complaint
against the present system. So has the citizen who
still chershes the ancient hope Of being able to save
enough to own a home in his old age. Both know
that unfair taxation is robbing him Of his hope.
Attention may be diverted by various demands for
lower taxes. II that means an elimination of waste,
such as occurs when $4,000 is spent for washing the
face of the statehouse or the erection of a forest Of
electric light poles on a public square, all citizens will
agree.
1t it means the elimination of fee systems that
permit public officials to take huge sums from the
public, there will be a greater agreement.
If it means the placing Of public service inVal
minor positions on a civil service basis with regular
hours such as are demanded by private business, the
public will not object.
If it means the trimming Of high salaries for
officials to meet the Debated levels of today, there
will be public support.
But if it means that all the drive for lower taxes
is to be used against teachers and policemen, there
will be widespread objection.
If it means that the people are to keep on rails
ing revenues by a property tax almost exclusively,
the farmer and home owner will kick and kick hard.
Just why property should carry the burden and
incomes escape is not explainable to the man who
gets his living from a farm or from rentals and now
finds himself without income because Of the great
defation of farm prices and rental opportunities.
But incomes of those who live upon interest and
dividends from investments that are not to be found
on the tax duplicates, or, if found at all, in much
less amounts than the real value, have not been
debated. The rate Of interest has not been reduced.
Perhaps some candidate for Governor will soon
announce a platform of raising all necessary reve-
nues by a levy on incomes. That might make it pos
sible for people to use real estate to create an income
on which to pay.
At the present time property is being rapidly con-
hscated by government in favor Of the owner of
intangibles.