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Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1935-09-19
Sept. 10 , 1855

wade even the larger cities end
towns in search for food. 1T S not
safe to venture to the odyo Of any
towns ;41ter nj ;yhtfall ,'u1,in,: tho
winter, anarnlad. "
Now there's IL break for tho COL
onists. A real break. Ho throws
some bait, say the carcass Of
snowshoe rabbit, out into the back
yard, then he COOS into tho house
and sits by the radio 18th hi tav-
orlte pipe and Il good book. At the
first blood curdl1ng howl go for
aging wolf packs ARG always sup.
posed to Let out blood curdling
howls, aren't they? we'll, h.
throws up the window, only q few
inches mind you, just enough to
stick his riflo barrel out, but not
enough SO that the savage, hunger-
crazod brutos can squeeze in, and
then he lots On have it. Evon if
1t Is at nj ght he can't miss. The
moonlig ht here is bri ght as day.
When the first one falls the
rest of the pack will jump on him
and eat him up. Thoy invari ably do
that in stories, you know, and what
in tho world is this mas torpi ece of
mi sstatement by Mr.. Pledge Brown
but fic ton yarn Of tho first
Wator2
When the wolves pounco upon the.
IA1lA VI uAll 4bG OIlG OUL' COIonLSC mas
minuto or two in which to rolf t;ht
his pipe, then h. AN polish tho
rest off at Lei sure while they are
at their annibalisti foust.
Now he brings them in and skins
them. Let say he got ten, thcre
should be at least t3n in Il '}lugo'
pack. At twenty dollars apiece
bounty which the Terri tory pays and
sale Of thu pelts bringing another
twonty on an average, our Co1onist
has made hims 3lf :f36O.O one
out for tha fsast. Ev can then
turn off the radio and go to bod.
The only thing wrong wi TIL that
pin tura S that thero uron't enough
wolves to go around. good Matnn-
uska valley trapper like Emil La
Wal tors would consi dor winters
catch Of three big year. TITS
the mink, fox, lynx and ormine that
he depends upon to buy his outfit.
AS for it buing safe to travel
around, woll, this valley has had
settlers in it for over twenty
years and no one has 9vor be3n at
Tackled by wolves.
And now Mr.. Brown tolls us about
thu mosnui TOYS that IL. have b ;tn
known to strnnglo a man to death
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1935-09-19

for the passing OF "a dirty name,
and got thirty days suspended
sentonco in the government jail."
Wowl Are we tough up here!
Tho only place in tho world, too,
VIII 1ro suspended sontances are
served in jail. Wo're just diff
forcnt, that s all.
"Tho ownor Of Il fishing boat,
halibut or salmon, averages from
SIS, 900 to $40, 900 not, in the
five months Of tho fishing season
or he hts hac & bad year.
Some Of tho boys will be glad
to know ,>bo11t that. They've boon
going by those darnod Fisheries
Buroou bulletins which give seven
wo,oks us the longest salmon ish-
ms season. And won't they DO
soro whom they find that the can
check2
"Vlco, g;mbl1ng and liquor
arc logalizod and the saloons are
filled to capacity every night Of
the Year. In fact every night
is New Yoar's eve. Indivi dual
prospec tors blow into town from
some unknown" point far up in
the frozen north, tilt their poke
Of dust on the bar, and call on
drinks for the house, the same
us has boon going on in Alaska
since gold Was first disc overed.
Shades Of Dam Mugrewl
Ri &Sht ]lorv is |here We speak
our little pioco. It's too much
to wad5 through any more Of such
soditi Gus slavering. Away goes
the obi torinl 'wo' while T get
this Off my chest.
T came to Alaska as q very
small boy, 1--we travelled over
lot Of it, have polod my boat up
narnoless rivers and mushed my
dogs over trails Of my own making.
i've livod in estublishe cities
and in towns that have doomed and
died, but T don't know the Alaska
Of which this follow brown wri tos.
WAS ono Of the first from
Fni rbanks to reach the Chisana at
the time Of tho big stampede, and
it WAS the last c amp I know Of
whare dust coul dn' t DO changed
into choochako money. 1918.
I think I know about most of
tho murder casos during the past
thirty years, but I DON'T know Of
any where u man got 50 days. He
III ther Was nc qui t ted or paid tho
penalty.
T burned up my houd net once y
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
Real Study Needed

The Treasury Department did the best could but it hasn
been able crack the hard nut of fiscal relations between the
Nation and its Capital
The department. acting on the request of President
ve made study of the problem of local taxation and the
Federal the upkeep the National Capital The only
remarkable thing about the report that the Treasury admits
in several parts of the report that the figures it gathered
MEAN NOTHING MUCH and that therefore, the conclusions
which it based those figures ARE NOT CONCLUSIVE.
The department says in effect that the figures which it
gathered show that District residents paying lower taxes
than in other cities which roughly comparable to Wash
ington It follows this by saying that the figures not
liable and subject to dispute
There much the problem of fiscal relations between
the than the comparison of tax rates
and burdens here elsewhere and the Treasury Depart
ment generous enough to point this out although pleads
inability to determine the other factors.
In order supplement the data which it has gathered and
o proUde the data needed for the choice of continuing
critera for the determination of the proportions and
amounts of that may be justly raised through
District taxation and Federal contributions, respectively,
it is recommended that more extensive Investigations
conducted Wh the assistance of experts Oitin and out
side the Federal Government, be authorized"
That exactly the recommendation which District residents
have been making since Congress decided to aunt its own
law requiring proportional division of and shifted
to the arbitrary umpum practice of appropratng for the
Capitals needs
The report the Treasury Department tax rates
have little bearing the pending District appropriation
bill On that bill the House and Senate dispute as to the
which the Federal Government should for the
keep the Capital the Senate wanting to increase the amount
by about million dollars the amount provided in the
it passed the House.
There nothing in the report which could induce the Senate
its position and there nothing in it to induce
members the stand by the position into which they
were forced by two of their colleagues
Congress sincerely desires to eliminate annually
curing controversy will provide before adjournment for
thorough study of fiscal relations by IMPARTIAL AND
REPRESENTATIVE COMMISSION.
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
Relieving Relief

Detroit automobile company last week took $50 heads of
families off the relief rolls and put them work in the factory
at full time wages
This meant actually taking $500 persons off relief The $50
heads of families had 2,150 dependents.
pertinent example of what business do toward ending
unemployment IF IT IS ALLOWED TO DO IT.
It is true that the auto business has been especially fortunate
in months.
Though has been tied down by prohibve and fool
government regulations products have demand
1t has been able to make progress despite outside handcaps
Most other businesses have not
They cannot move ahead
They effectively shacked.
The moral to be, Relieve business and it will RE-
LIEVE RELIEF"
But the scent of the will hang round it still
peal the social planners and election buyers Washington
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41dIlle III 4dAA" AAAOAA' WAUAA OA
third spring, something went
wrong. They seemed healthy
enough. The leaves were thick
the bark was firm and clean.
No bugs or blights. But they
didn't grow an inch. And pop
lars, as anyone knows, go up
like rockets, but with August,
their leaves withered without
turning-fell a month earlier
than the others.
The next year it was worse.
In spite of all our fussing, they
wouldn't bulge. Just held their
own. Now they've given up the
fight entirely. There's no sign
of life. Yesterday we began
yanking them out. And, with
that, discovered the trouble
hard pan.
STOPS THE ROOTS
Hard pan-you don't need
any explanation of that term
if you're a farmer. A hard layer
of rock or packed clay, beneath
the loose top soil, that stops the
roots in their search for food
and moisture.
Sometimes it's only few
inches down-sometimes several
feet. Usually you hit it when
you're digging. Them if it isn't
too bad, you blast way through.
Otherwise it's death for any
deep rooted thing you plant
above it.
Hard pan-that's what killed
the poplars. We didn't suspect
it because the soil was deep and
free all around. But they, I'M
fortunately, were planted over
ledge. When the roots hit that
they got no further.
Pitiful-how often the same
thing happens in human life!
A fine start-aS vigorous as any,
one would wish. Eager, enthusi-
astic, brave-shooting up, spread
ing out like a fierce young flame.
4AACA4 pACoCAACAy yON ACnAAAC V4AoO
something's wrong.
Outwardly everything seems
okay. But the spirit stops grow
ing. Stays put-year after year.
Then gradually withers. And
you realize the games up.
But why?
That ones nature had as good
a start as the others of its day.
AS fair an opportunity. AS much
of the sunshine and water of
human happiness. Then why
did it quit while the rest went
on?
Hard pan-that's why. Some
secret ledge of cussedneSs lying
hidden beneath the loose topsoil
of character.
Cowardice, perhaps. Coward
ice that may have been camou-
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the sun in the space between
the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
We have named them THE
Asteroids" They are an enor-
nous aggregation of rocks, vary
ing in size from a tiny pebble
to fragment some 500 miles
in diameter.
Over 1900 of these frag-
ments are large enough to be
photographed in a large tele-
scope. The largest has been
named Ceres" 1t has a diam
eter of 480 miles. Four are
known which have a diameter
larger than 100 miles.
They vary in brightness, for
the reason that they are irreg-
ular in shape, and therefore
expose to our view varying
areas. F1otsam and jetsam.
wandering along the celestial
highways, they are mute re-
minders of a terrible SmaShup
in the long ago.
SATURN'S RING
Saturn's curious ring is an
other example of a celestial
wreck. 1t is composed of the
fragments of one of Saturn'S
moons which came to an untime-
ly end.
In the long ago Saturn had 10
moons; today it has nine. When
the unfortunate moon swung
too close to the planet, the
gravitational pull caused it to
burst.
The fragments S a t tere d,
many falling into Saturn, the
remainder in the form of a ring
around the planets equator.
Today, millions of years later,
we are still intrigued by this
curious ring, for it is unique in
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
In the World of Science
BY Hiram Percy Maxim,

celestial affairs. 1t can be seen
through, because a distant star
can easily be discerned through
the ring. It was this that led us
to work out what probably
happened.
Beautiful and unique as it is,
it represents a mass of wreck
age. 1t is composed of millions
of separate pieces, probably
rotating around Saturn.
1t can be shown mathematical
ly that when body approaches
a larger body closer than 2.45
times the radius of the latter, it
must burst.
Jupiter has a moon that is
slowy approaching this limit. At
the present times its distance is
2.54 times Jupiter's radius. 1t
has but to move in .09 of Jupl-
ter's radius when it will be in
side the limit and so burst. It's
wreckage will, in time, settle
down into a ring, and Jupiter
will look like Saturn.
DISINTEGRATED
Comets are the wreckless driv-
ers on the celestial highways.
They seem to be a cluster of cos
mic material that dashes in
from no one knows where, gath
ering speed as they approach
the sun, finally swapping around
the latter, and daShing off into
outer space again, to be gone
for from to IS years, or for
ever.
Several have been observed to
smash up. Biela's comet broke
in two in 1916, and when it next
returned the two fragments
were a million and a half miles
apart.
They never appeared again,
but the orbit they formerly oc-
cupied is now the orbit of count
less millions of meteorites, show
ing that something went wrong
and the comet was entirely dis
integrated.
We do not fully comprehend
the significance of these celes-
tial accidents" Our field ~
observation is so tiny that we
only see an infiniteSmal fraction
of what actually happens.
Millions of these accidents
must occur without our ever
hearing of them. The few which
we do witness, such as the re-
cent one in Hercules, remind us
that something very big and i'm
portant takes place and that we
are surrounded by forces of in
comprehensive might.
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
That Pesky Clause

The deep interest which Washington feels in the married
persons clause of the economy demonstrated in the
which have been received in connection with the contest
being conducted by The Washington Times
The closes tonight at midnight and in the short
time running The Times has received all
of letters representing both sides of the controversy which
ragged since the clause inserted in the economy act
Under the clause reductions in force necessary
person whose husband wife is also employd in the
Federal service shall be the first to be dismissed
The had serious consequences in many Washing
ton homes. It has DISRUPTED FAMILIES and in many
has undoubtedly PREVENTED MARRIAGE and the
establishment of homes.
On the other hand there serious question whether
anyone who out of work has been given job result
of the operation of the and doesn't that the
Government has saved any money
Since there is pending in Congress bill to eliminate the
clause the letters with their varying viewpoints will
doubedy be of material assistance members of
in determining how they shall vote.
The Washington times., 1935-04-17

TO the Office OF Cne1r hcproScD-
tative in Congress and work for
hours without pay, helping him
get out his mail.
Long and loud debate has
been provoked by the proposals
for legislation which would
carry out the Townsend plan
for old age pensions.
When Representative John
Stevens McGroarty, Democrat,
of California, introduced his sub
Stitute plan the other day it
merely added to the hubbub.
There was considerable addi-
tional discussion of the substi-
tute introduced by the poet
laureate of California who has
been an earnest advocate of the
Townsend plan.
What they didn't mention,
however, was that the substitute
was introduced on April FOOLS
Day.
Most leaders of the New Deal
haze adopted the term OF "cGrp-
ing critics" for their opponents.
Public Works Administrator
Harold L. 1ckeS has a different
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mountain streams, now swollen
with recent rains.
What would the old miners
have thought had they known
that, one day, trout from their
streams would be served to eff
fete patrons on a tranSconti-
mental train? What would the
trout have thought?
Stopping at Albuquerque, N.
M, for travellers to sign auto
graph books, one sees Indians
selling bows and arrows, and
other Indians. These were once
the original Americans Except,
of course, the D. A. r., and
one wonders what they think
when they see sandstormS and
mountain trout. Probably eheu
fugaces (there she goeSD.
And so we go, on through
Ash Fork, Ariz.; Gleed, Pan.
Seligman (Where we change to
Pacific Standard Time, which
is either an hour earlier or an
hour later than Mountain
Time, which is either an hour
earlier or an hour later than
Central Time, which is either
an hour earlier or an hour
later than Eastern Standard
Time, which will shortly be
plugged up by Daylight Saving).
Copyright 1895, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc,l
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
ByT.E.POwers

across the continent, and OF the
hundred and one (Well, ninety
seven or ninety-eight, anyway
interesting things that I see as
we pass through. A lot of them
1 have missed, because I have
been doing with my mouth
open, but I'll give you an inkling
of what I could do with this
Great Wide World if it were
my oyster.
AS we pass through Newton,
Kansas, we find ourselves in the
middle of the biggest dust-storm
since 1888. (This is not to be
confused with the Great Biz
card of 1888, although it may
have turned to snow before it
reached New York;
This holds us up for an hour
and 20 minutes, during which
time 1 give quite lot of thought
to dust storms. A dust storm,
it seems to me, is quite a lot
like life. It has its entrances
and it's exits, and it is the strong
est team that wins. And by
"the strongest team" I do not
mean that team with the most
muscle, or sineW, or Drawn. I
mean the strongest team.
Looking out as we go through
Trinidad, Colorado, I wonder
what those people do who live
in those little shacks by the
railroad tracks. Just about
what the people do who live in
the little shacks along the
tracks in Lawrence, Massachu-
sets, I suppose. And yet, there
is something to think about.
I'll come back to this in a min
ute, if 1 find that I have to.
We had mountain trout in
the diner today. Mountain
trout right down from the
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

flaged by impudence or ret1-
cence, braggadocio or pompous-
mss. Stopping it finally with a
death grip
Conceit, maybe. Egotism,
hardening year after year, until
it was so satisfied with itself
that it felt no further struggle
was necessary.
Couldn't have gone on If it
had wished, unless some violent
sorrow or humiliation had blast
ed a way through to freedom
from its sick satisfaction with
self
SECRET LEDGE
Or self-pity most vicious
of all human hard pans. Self
pity hiding, hardening beneath
surface behavior-blocking the
way to all healthy growth.
Hard pan! Beneath every
stunted life-every twisted, per-
verted character-you'll find it.
Discover it in time, and you
can bore a way through. But
let it go too long, and only God
has the power to blast it.
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-17
Gripping u. S. Defense
BU James T. Williams, T.

before the rate Of production
would approximate our war.
time requirement. The other
great powers. are In q totally
different situation"
President Coolidge stoutly re-
sisted the attempt of France
and other foreign powers to
cripple the national defense
system Of the United States by
Turing this country into the
adoption Of a plan for a gov
eminent monopoly in the man.
ufacture of the weapons of ma.
tional defense.
The position which the Gov
eminent took under his leader.
ship is the traditional Ameri-
can position. Being tradition
ally American it was then and
is still target for the attack
of those propagandists who are
dependent upon Mr.. Canegie's
millions for their own liveli-
hood and for the money with
which to distribute their anti
American propaganda in Con-
gress and throughout the coun-
try.
President Coolidge took the
position that the United States
must strongly oppose any Sys-
tenn of international SuperVi-
sion, control or regulation of
the manufacture of arms and
other implements of national
defense other than publicity
equally applicable to state and
private manufacture. He re-
fused to sanction any differen.
tiation of treatment of private
and state manufacture or any
attempt to regulate private
manufacture to the exclusion
of state manufacture.
CARNEGIE'S LIFE DREAM
Foreign countries which
maintain large standing armies
keep large reserves of arms and
munitions and similar commodi-
ties on hand during peace-time.
The United States has only a
small army. ranking in combat
strength with that of Greece.
In time of national peril this
country depends upon private
enterprise in large part for ma
tional defense material which
must be manufactured to equip
our defense forces.
The Carnegie plan would
cripple the defense forces of the
United States by depriving them
of their chief sources of supply
in time of national danger. This
would make the United States
dependent upon the British EN-
pire and it's allies for aid.
That would be a step toward
that reunion of the United
States with the British Empire
which was the dream of An
drew Carnegie's life and is the
end and aim of most OF ti1e
posthumous propaganda which
his millions Finances.
(CoCvrieht 1885 The washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-04-17

II has long been suspected
that the late Andrew Carnegie'S
millions vers one Of the secret
sources OF subsidy for the propa-
ganda in favor OF the establish
mcnt OF a Government monopoly
for the manufacture Of all arms
and munitions and other COM
modities upon which the ma.
tional defense Of the United
States depends.
New ground Is given for thiS
suspicion by the revelations In
the report OF one Of the EN-.
ploycs OF Mr.. Carnegie'S endowed
agencies. In hig annual report
as director Of the division OF
international law OF the Car
negie Endowment for Interna.
tional Peace, DIR. James Brown
Scott "lets the cat out OF the
bag"
Here Is what this Carnegie en-
ploye has to say i'm favor OF
overthroWing the traditional sys
tenn OF American defense and
setting up in its place a Euro
pean system.
CARNEGIE SCHEME
DIR. Scott declares for legisIa-
ton "vesting in the Government
of the United States the manu-
facture of arms and munitions
and other commodities, il such
there be, which the Government
from time to time should con-
slider as necessary solely for its
defense"
This new Carnegie scheme to
undermine the national defense
of the United States, by pro-
hibiting any citizens from con-
tributing to its defense by manu-
featuring the arms and NUM-
tions necessary for defense, did
not originate either in the mind
of the late Andrew Carnegie or
that of any of his employees.
In attempting to foist this
scheme upon the American
people the Carnegie propa-
gandists and the millions at
their disposal are merely pro-
noting a French plan for fur
Their disarming the United
States.
When France proposed this
scheme during the presidency
of Calvin Coolidge his Secretary
of War set forth the position
of President Coolidge in these
words:
cat present the United States
maintains an extremely small
and weak military force, our
war reserves are entirely made.
quate to meet war requirements
under the general mobilization
plan, and we possess no large
GOvernment-Owned manufac-
turing arSenaIS.
eff we should be solely de-
pendent upon newly-cOnStructed
commercial plants in the event
of national emergency, it would
require from IL to "a months
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fornia.
Receiving this information,
the driver launched into dis
cussion of Mrs. Kahn and ad-
Vised the young man:
Everyone seems to. like her
very much"
The young man announced:
'T'm glad to hear you say
that about Mrs. Kahn.
"YOu see, I'm her son."
The hard working Govern
ment clerk is being taxed again.
When the Congress refused
to adopt legislation giUing men,
bers OF Congress the right to
hire additional clerks, the Con-
greSSmen hit upon a neU plan
to get their mail 10ritten.
They began to call up those
people in the New Deal agencies
whom they had helped to get
jobs.
These employees were told:
1--WE would appreciate it if
you would drop in the office in
your spare time and give us a
little assistance"
There is not much the en-
ployes can do about it, either.
They may be called upon to
work overtime in their depart.
ments several hours a week.
But regardless Of that. when
Saturday afternoon or Sunday
rolls around they must now go
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GCII11.
He c allS
those persons
who condemn
the delays in
PWA projects
that are &C.
casioned by
his demands
for lengthy
nv e S tt G a.
tions, fleet
on-deSk" crit
les.
Not so long
ago IckeS was
asked h oW
speedily the
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they're only
a t bird the
S re of t h e
ones in front
of t h e house,
yet they were
planted at the
same time.
For the first
t W o We a r 5
t h e y d j d
Sple n d dly.
Shot up fast
lovely, slender
S h a f is of
Shinme ri n g
green in sum-
mer, spurts Of
flame in fall
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to take him
to the House
Office Build
ing.
The driver
demanded:
(Which en-
trance?"
His "fare"
replied t h a t
h e di ID n t
know It h at
he wanted to
go to the Of
flee of Mrs.
F. | o r e n c e
Kahn, r e p
1:aAA oF Coli