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Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-15
ALL FOR BIDS TO FURNISH TIES

CALL FOR BIDS TO FURNISH TIES
 Sealed bids will be received by The Alaska Railroad up to 8 100 P. RI. on the Third Mon- day in each month. for furnishing Standard Mountain Hemlock Cross Ties in lots of l0. .00o or less. Specifications and other particulars may be obtained from D. W. Metzdorf Gen. erai Sterekeeper, Anchorage. Alaska.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-15

J. O. Johnson, night watchman on the SS Starr, yesterday entered the Seward General Hospital for medical treatment.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-15

Stanley Osterman, young local man. was operated on today for
 the removal of his tonsils at the Seward General Hospital.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-15

George Anderson, expert piano tuner, arrived in Seward today on the SS Oduna.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-15

Fresh Eggs at Brown & Hawkins; delivered twice 2 week from Seward Dairy.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-02-15

Arrivals in Seward today say that Cordova has more snow than Sew ard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
The Whipping Post

Delaware Oh Saturday made its contribution to
civilization by staging public whipping in the yard
of its Newcastle county workhouse.
While seven convicted of theft stood with
hands tied aloft and back barred, Warden j. Elmer
Leach bitter opponent of whipping, was forced to
fog each with great cat O. nine tails Each
man got forty lashes. After this the men were
treated in the hospital and began serving their regu
lar sentences.
Delaware at least is open in this brutality. I'M
like many wardens who beat torture and break men
in the darkness of prison cells, Leach welded his
whip before spectators
Such punishment, of course brutalizes its victims
and makes them more revengeful toward society,
without acting deterrent to Others In England,
not so very long ago. men hanged in the public
square for pickrocketing While the crowds watched,
other pickpockets went among them. stealing in the
very shadow of the galows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Vienna Tackles Housing Problem

1t has been suggested sensibly that the housing
problem in the United States offers constructive
way out of the depression.
Millions live in repulsive tenements or novels Why
not put private and public capital into build
ing decent living quarters thus furnishing work for
unemployed capital and labor, and creating civilized
living quarters for American citizens?
An indication of what be done is provided
by the experience of Vienna Her achievements are
described by Professor Robert E. Chaddock in the
American Journal of Sociology.
Vienna had 20 work under terrible handicapS. The
peace treaty left the city unnatural metropolis
containing one-thrd the population Austria with
the supporting hinterland Shorn away.
The great city left high and dry, compelled
to import most of her food and materials. She
had to compete with the states which had been
favored specially by the treaties. She crushed
by taxation and by financial burdens imposed by
the treaty
Standards of living abominaly low If vi
emma could overcome such conditions, any American
city should have easy sailing any plan of municipal
housing.
Down to 1919 housing conditions in Vienna we're
a menace to health decency and efficiency. Three
quarters of all domicies consisted of small fats, of
two less. Oyeycrowding in limited quarters
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21

than the wart and as a result an
unSightly scar will be left.
One of the most painful types of
, warts is that which occurs on the
sole of the foot. There seems to be
plenty of reason for believing that
these are infections, since they oc-
cur particularly in young people in
schools and gymnasium classes who
go barefoot around the gymnasium
or the swimming pool.
Such warts may become so pain
full as to interfere with walking.
Their treatment demands the most
careful consideration of a compe-
tent physician.
The hard skin on the bottom of
the foot must be softened, the wart
removed, and the damaged tissue
protected by proper bandages and
aintiseptics during the process of
healing.
Sometimes electrical methods are
used for destroying these warts,
but this also demands the most
careful help of an expert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Sales lax Curhnd

TIME sales tax was seized upon as
Il an easy way out. Adding "a
Per cent to manufactured goods was
not difficult to authorize, or figure.
Besides, the big boys could pass it
on to the ultimate consumer in the
form of price boost and, perhaps,
make little for themselves while
doing SO.
The ultimate consumer has moth
ing but vote. Usually that doesn't
count for much because he is a
forgetful, if not forgiving soul.
But he seems to have made him
self heard this time. At any rate,
quite a few congressman have
sensed the Ubiquitous thing that
was about to be done, and have
created what approaches a stam-
pede in opposition to it.
Like all StampedeS, it threatens
chaos for the moment, with the pos
sibility of some pretty raw Substi-
tutes. Already, it has led to the re-
enactment of wartime income tax
rates by the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Grandparents Help
A SCIENTIFIC wit once said thu

A SCIENTIFIC wit once said that
L N the way to have good teeth is
to start with your grandparents.
This is like the advice for living
long.
1t is a fact that the tendency
to long life is hereditary. The same
thing also is true to some extent
with regard to good teeth.
In the case of teeth, however, the
subject is open to more control.
Good teeth do depend, to a con-
siderable extent, upon the childs
mother.
Deficiencies in the mothers diet
in the months before the birth of
the child now are believed to be
one of the chief reasons for a child
developing poor teeth.
This fact is recognized by physi-
clans, who now see that expectant
mothers are given advice concern
ing their diet.
Many intelligent people, however,
who take good care of their teeth.
will wonder why cavities appear in
them, nevertheless. This is one of
the mysteries which the medical
world would like to solve.
The medical world does not know
the reason for the decay of teeth.
The only advice which can be given
to people is to pay regular vis1s to
the dentists office so that decay
can be noted and remedied before
the damage is great.
Many scientific laboratories are
working to study the cause of decay
of teeth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE National Education Association, at its recent
Il Washington meeting, adopted the usual resolu-
tionS of approval for the Constitution and also urged
teachers to continue to impart respect for the
Constitution ana all its amendments
I wonder myself just how many teachers have
read the Constitution since they left grade schools.
Tt is not very long, and in simplest terms is merely
q code Of laws similar to those set up in every state
and city. The body of the document explains gov
ernmental functions and how they should be
carried out.
The amendments, all save one, confer a right
upon the people or upon part of the people. Only
the eighteenth takes away right. All the others
dispense justice to some portion of the population
in nee0 of it. God is not once mentioned in it.
1t by no stretch Of the imagination be called
sacred, if by sacred we mean unchanging and I'M
changeable.
VXTHAT our teachers ought to do, it seems to me,
wv is to sit down with the children and study this
Constitution of ours. Hitherto, We have taken out
enthusiasm for it in rather bad oratory until
to a good many of us it has become something of
an old womans fetish.
To attempt to make strait jacket of the Con-
stituton is almost bad teaching youngsters to
1out it. Its true worth lies in the fact that it is
always has been, and, heaven grant, always will be,
a flexible document.
The American child should be made to under
stand, first of all, that he is superior to the Con-
stitution because citizen Of the republic he can
help to change and improve the laws by which he is
governed
He never should be led to beaieve that any legal
code can not be altered when necessity arises
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
The Cancels Nose

Be not deceived by the general sales tax propa-
ganda that it is only temporary eXpedlent. Pow
eru interests are eager to substitute system OF con-
sImer taxes for our traditional tax system They will
work for its extension.
At recent ways and means committee hearings,
United States treasury experts let it be known that
they fear the sales tax as a permanent change.
ct have one definite conviction" testified DR..
Thomas Sewal Adams fiscal adviser to the treasury.
THAT is that it is not worth your while to adopt
a Canadian sales tax for short period of tme be-
cause to put it over you ought to have an admins
trative machine so well built up and so large that
you would not be justified in creating it for tempo
rary tax of two or three years"
II agree with Dr. Adams" said E. G. Alvord,
treasury specialist opposed to the general sales tax
"As an emergency measure think it would be sub
iect to very serious consideration to whether it
would be worth while to nterject the entire mach1n-
cry for a short period of time.
AIvord added that the only way to make the sales
tax work as an emergency measure is to give the
treasury complete arbitrary power and west necessary
inality in the administrative officers"
Canada imposed the sales tax war measure.
After bitter assaults from farmers and workers. who
pounded the rate down to per cent, the tax now is
up to per cent. France took it emergency in
1914 and still has it, in spite of vigorous popular OPP
position Since Emperor Augustus began it in the
year g. nations have tried this easy but insidous inn
post upon the peoples necessities Great Britain and
the United States so far have held out against it.
Congress should not be fooled into thinking that
this general sales tax plan is merely to balance the
budget in 1888"
The two-year emergency" sales tax will be, if it
passes the camers nose in the American fiscal tent.
Once the nose is inside the camel is apt to follow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Calling Their Bluff

Muscle Shoals is on the congressional legislative
scene again. In both houses bills have been drafted
in the senate one has been reported. 1t is around
the Norris senate bill that the new controversy will
swing.
For years farm organizations and others have
camored for utilization of Muscle Shoals in the
manufacture of cheap fertilizer. The Norris bill
makes this mandatory.
The country has been told by President Hoover
that Muscle Shoals should not be operated by the
government, but should be leased. Hoovers Shoals
commission urged that preference among lessees be
given to an organization of farmers The Norris bill
provides for this permitting the government to re-
tain only tho power facilities.
Norris and others have insisted for years that the
Shoals power facilities must be made available to
states counties and municipalities national yard
stick with which to measure private utility costs.
The new Norris bill provides for this, and makes
arrangements for construction of transmission lines
10 transport this power.
Norris has gone so far in the leasing provisions
Of his bill that he practically has given carte blanche
to those who want the nitrate plants leased suggest
ing that if his leasing provisions too harsh that
they rewrite them.
His only conditions are that the lessee must pro-
duce fertilizer and that the lease shall not give
the lessee direct bonus from the federal treasury
The Presidents commission has demanded that
the government build Cove Greek dam in east
Tennessee as an integral part of Muscle Shoals the
Norris bill also provides for that.
The Norris BILL in short calls the bluff of those
who have been seeking to turn Muscle Shoals over to
the power interests, while hiding behind American
agriculture by claiming that the Shoals should be used
for the farmers.
The Norris bill protects Muscle Shoals for the
taxnavers whose millions paid for its construction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
GERMAN DRIVE BEGINS
March 81

ON March 81, 1918, the great
" German drive began, with an
attack in great force against Brit
ish positions on a f1fty-mile front
from ArraS to La Fere.
Nearly one million men were
hurled against the British lines by
the Germans, who claimed they had
broken through the British lines
and had advanced to depth of
more than five miles in places.
British divisions opposing the
drive were clinging stubbornly to
their ground north Of Arras, but
were forced to fall back in other
portions of the front.
German losses in killed and
wounded for the first day of the
great battle were estimated at more
than $4,000.
All available British reserves were
ordered into action, as the gravity
of the situation became apparent.
The objective of the German
drive, it was believed, was the sepa-
ration Of the British and French
armies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Several Cures Are Known for Warts

or an organism so small that II
can not be seen under the micro
scope.
However, it can not be easily in
fictitious since there are many people
who are in contact with warts but
never have them.
The ordinary wart can be re-
moved by many methods; some
times merely through softening by
the application of corrosive chem
icals; sometimes by cutting oil
sandpapering, and sometimes by
the application of an electric cur
rent, which kills the blood supply
and causes the wart to fall off.
This last process is painful, but
the pain may be eliminated through
use of local aneSthetics. The X-ray
sometimes is used to cause the
disappearance of wart.
Nitric acid, glacial acetic acid, and
chronic acid are also used There
always is the danger, however, that
the burning will extend deeper
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H RF0TS

their vigor is marred by a certain
self-righteousness upon the part of
the author. You can almost catch
him in the act of saying: Il will be
bold. I will not compromise. To
hell with burgeous criticism!"
The tang is absent because the
principle is present. In other words,
Dos Passos will set down in novel
phrases which he never would think
of writing on fence. He can deal
with adultery in such way that it
sounds like the semi-flnal round in
a chess match between Hobart and
Southern Baptist. He is not even
passionate in his despair.
And so I do not think that Dos
Passos is the father of humanized
fiction. No, not even the second
cousin.
Copyright. 1882. BY United Press
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Cause of Decay

A NUMBER of theories have
n been advanced to account for
tooth decay, or dental carries" to
use the scientific term.
There are two schools of thought.
One blameS dental carries upon BAG
terra. The other holds that it is
caused by conditions within the
body.
In other words, it may be that
changes within the body render the
teeth susceptible to the attacks of
bacteria which otherwise they
might be able to resist.
A theory advanced a few years
ago by DR.. Charles F. Bodecker,
professor of dentistry at Columbia
university, is that tooth decay re-
suits from an impaired resistance of
the enamel of the teeth to acids
formed in the mouth.
DR.. Bodecker believes that in the
normal healthy person, certain salts
are deposited in the teeth from the
blood stream. These salts neu-
tralize the acids present in the
mouth and so prevent the decay of
the teeth.
The salts, DR.. Bodecker believes,
are carried in the dental lymph
which is derived from the blood.
In support of his theory, he points
out that mineral salts are present
in the blood and that they serve
the function of neutraIizing acids
which are formed in the muscles Of
the body.
DR.. Bodecker points out also that
dental carries is more prevalent than
the common cold and apparently on
the increase.
He regards the finding of means
Of preventing dental carries as sec
ond in Importance only to the
problem of finding a means of pre-
venting cancer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21


as follows:
at provided kitchen and one other room, con-
structed in large units by speculative builders Many
had no direct light and air. or opened on a
shaft Of such limited to be entirely inadequate
THE lavatories and running water usually we're
situated in the common hall and used by sew
eral families the floor. Very few dwellings
had gas electricity. The houses as rule covered
practically the entire site, providing inadequate courts
and no play space except the streets"
The postwar government of Vienna jumped into
this situation with energy and resolution. It reor-
ganized the taxation system in such manner as to
make prohteering in rentals no longer possible and
to reduce land values.
The city bought up about one-third of its entire
land area The new tax system thus gave them
funds and land on which to build
Since 1919 Vienna has spent more than 500 900 900
on these municipal apartments, and the program is
being continued actively. Compare with the pre-
flats typical fiat in a new Vienna apartment
1T consists of a very small entrance hail. Kitchen
one larger and one smaller room, and lavatory-
covering in all 430 square feet All have lavatories
and running water within the fiat. Each fiat has
electric light gas stove for cooking, and small
metal stove burning coke for heating both furnished
by the municipal gas company
1.-THE flats are arranged in units built around large
courts, with gardens, Fairgrounds, and sometimes
wading pools fer children in the center. The
building must not cover more than one-half the area
of the site and often occupies less All rooms have
direct light and air.
"In buildings housing 300 families or more cen
trail steam laundry has been constructed equipped
with the most modern devices Here housewives may
do their laundry work Central baths for tenants
provided in the large housing units. Kinder
gartens to the number of 100 already have been
established in these municipal buildings"
These flats rent for shillings month (about
$1.O5). There is a slight additional charge for use
of the central laundry and baths. The rental is
designed to take care of upkeep of apartments
The good results already apparent. Vienna's
working population can live in decent quarters at
low cost. Number of householders has increased
greatly in spite Of shrinkage in the population of the
city as whole. Infant mortality and tuberculosis
rate already have been lowered notably
Such is the challenge of poor old Vienna to the
new prosperous powerful cities of the west with
their foul tenements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21

CINCLAIR LEWIS is quoted as
- expressing the opinion that
John Dos Passos, more than almost
any other American author, is the
father of humanized fiction" This
seems to me a strange judgment
for to me the most striking quality
in 1919" is it's unreality.
Such literary labels as romantic
list" and "realist'' are neither
def1nitive nor searching. Sherwood
Anderson, for instance, can become
romantic over mud flats along a
river, and Lewis himself made re-
search workers laboratory the scene
of one of the most stirring SEN
timental novels which know.
For my own guidance, I divide
writer's into just two groupS-"the
quick" and "the dead AS far as
my emotions go, Dos Passos belongs
among the dead. The gift which
he undoubtedly possesses went the
way of flesh in the great war.
That conflict cut in two vital ways
across the souls of those who lived
through it. Some came out in
credibly mellow. while others we're
also SCARED beyond redemption be-
cause of bitterness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
BiIIion-DoIIar Squeeze

FINDER tax system like that of
~ the federal government, lower
revenue means lower earning pow
er on the part of taxpayers.
Income taxes are down for just
one reason, and that is the shrink
age of incomes. The tariff fails to
produce because foreign trade is not
what it was.
Most every one admits that free
capital and liberal credit are essen
tial to recovery, yet the government
proposes to squeeze another billion
dollars in cash out of the people.
The government proposes to do
this, moreover, while bootleggerS
gather in an equal amount with
which to finance organized vicious
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
The War With a Smile

T DO not like the hoopla boys who
L thought the whole thing was
jolly and heroic and that it might
be a good idea to have another go
at it after a little pause for rest
and bleeding. And yet I am not
at all sure that they have done more
to make peace perilous than those
who never could quite awaken
themselves from the nightmare in
which they tossed and we're tossed.
1t is customary to class the grim
brothers as realiSts, while the rest
are hopessly romantic. I scarcely
would deny that Three Soldiers, -"
by Dos Passos, contained more truth
than anything by Coningsby Daw-
son. But each of them is in a
trench from which he can not crawl
to see life whole. The war was a
fact-an overwhelming fact-but it
was not existence in its entirety.
The realist who prides himself on
perfect vision makes the pretense
that it did not touch his capacity
for observation-disclosures. But say to
him, Just try to. write line about
anything" and it will become ap-
parent in three pages that the spell
is still upon him. All the characters
in his book will behave like soldiers
under fire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
Warning Ignored

TINE blow could have been
Il softened by rigid economies,
though no more rigid than the
people have had to accept.
The pressure could have been
eased by judicious borrowing.
The fact that neither course
found favor shows woeful lack Of
foresight.
This government did not go into
the red over night.
There has been ample time for
those in authority to acquaint
themselves with the true con-
dition of national finances.
1t required no super-man to
realize that the revenue must sink
with eight millions out of work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
taxpayers Revolt
LEADER RAINEY

DEMOCRATIC LEADER RAINEY
~ processes to see Communism
in the furore, which is absurd, but
which indicates how strained the
situation has become.
What some politicians mistake
for red revolt is nothing but nat
ural resentment against the I'M
bearable pressure of taxation. All
over this country people are being
driven out of business and out of
their homes by the constantly riS-
ing cost of government.
Because of the country's reduced
income, taxes have risen auto
matically by 80 or 40 per cent dur
ing the last two years; that is, it
requires 30 or 40 per cent more eff
fort on the average mans part to
pay them.
And now government leaders want
to increase federal taxes by about
% per cent. In addition to the rise
caused by diminished income, that
would mean jump of one-half, if
not more, since 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-21
NJ, E. Tracy
Says


What Some Politicians MIS-
take for q Red Revolt Is
Nothing but Natural
Resentment Against the
Unbearable Pressure OF
Taxation.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Be-
IN wilderment at Washington is
the result Of inaction. Instead of
doing things, the Hoover admin
istration has been trying to con-
vince itself and every one else that
there was no need. Instead of call
ing congress last spring, as it should
have it attempted to blunder
through alone.
The nation comes to the brink
of a precipice without warning,
much less without program.
One dominating obSeSsion stands
forth amid the confusion. The
budget must be balanced with cash,
no matter how it is wrung from
the people. Naturally enough,
there is a wild scramble to make
the other fellow pay.