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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19
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These Rising Costs

There are two ways of looking at the rising cost
of living. One is the optimistic approach. which points
out that the necessaries of life still cost less than
hey did at the peak of the boom, in 1929. The pessi-
mistic angle is that costs have been climbing stead
lily since the bottom of the depression, in 1888.
pay out of our 1897 incomes, and the drain on this
years rocktt Dook is greater than it was a year ago.
The latest report by the u. s. Department of Labor
shows that it costs IS percent more to pay the rent,
keep the pantry stocked and buy the usual clothes
than it did four years ago, and that a quarter of that
Increase has come about in the past year.
Rents have gone up faster than food, and food
faster than clothing.
The question whether incomes have gone up at
an equal or faster rate is something else again. There
is 70 question that more people are on payrolls or
otherwise earning a living than there were a short
time ago. But whether these incomes are as much
hig! lhan the incomes people received who earned
anything at all in the years of low prices is not so
certain.
ant whether pork chops cost % cents a pound or a
dollar a pound, as whether we are getting enough
dollars to pay whatever they cost. If some kind Of a
dollar could be invented which would always have the
sured of always having enough of those dollars, what
a nice place this world would be for everybody,
*x*
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19
Want Amidst Plenty

Prosperity has returned to much of the nation
crops are good in most of the agricultural regions
and factories are humming in industrial sections
but there are still many of our people who need re-
lief need it so badly and in such large amounts that
federal funds must be tapped to take care of them.
Some need help because of too much rain, some be-
cause of too little. others because the promised land
to which they turned has not the resources to care
for them.
A picture of misery in the promised land is
painted in a special article written recently for the
Los Angeles Times. The correspondent travelled
through the San Joaquin valley to see the human
squalor in whic lived approximately $4,000 who had
come from dust bowl areas to southern California.
There they huddle in roadside camps, lacking proper
food, medical attention. housing. sanitation, clohing
because they are too many to be cared for with
available state relief funds.
These people are not hoboes. They are not
tramps. They are not foreigners the article states
in describing them. They are men destroyed fin
ancially in the middle west and southwest" They
squat by the thousand in temporary camps, work
whenever there's work to be had, living in imminent
danger of pestilence because of their weakened
physical condition and because of unsanitary sur
r%oondings.
California cannot care for them and begs the
federal government to lend a hand. And the situation
IN San Joaquin valley graphically pictured in the
article just quoted, can be duplicated in greater or
less degree all along the west coas, and wherever
1 is found. federal help is needed.
Where a few thousand have hied themselves to
the promised land however. there are tens of thou
sands who have remained at home in the regions
still drouth stricken, of which the northeastern cor
ner of Montana is a part. These the need is fos i'm
mediate help to keep mn and animals alive. and the
csy is for a long time program that will guard that
against ravages of future drouths. And again, the
federal treasury is the only one large enoogh to
beor the birden.
Now, too, we hear OF a small group that needs
help but for an entirely different cause. In the cor
nr of Minnesota flat farm lands are covered with
water from one to six feet deep, water that's come
from the skies in too plentiful rains-and farmers
whose crops are flooded out appeal for help.
The need for relief on a nationwide basis is
diminishing fast, but that does not lesson the dis
tress of scattered groups who yet cannot gain the
bare necessities of life and who need the help of
relief agencies fully as much now as In the depths
of the depression.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19
ALCOHOL AND THE MIND

In the year 1923 a statistical
study was made of all patients who
were admitted during the previous
year to mental hospitals for their
first attack of mental disorder on
account of alcohol. There were g.
693 such patients and 1883, almost
three-quarters of them, were be-
tween 80 and So years of age. To
lose the use of ones mind at any
age is tragic enough but to lose 1t
in the full maturity of physical and
intellectual lie Is a social as well
as a personal tragedy.
These patients had been drinking
heavily for a number of ear In
many cases the health of the body
had also been affected, the most
common complaint being inflamma-
ton of the stomach. Several kinds Of
mental disorder are found among
these patients. Some lost control of
their emotions: they become dis
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19
BETTER HEALTH

BY Dr. j. ROSSLYN carp

gruntled and easily angered. or ia
cetious, careless and improvident.
Others imagine enemies among their
neighbors. become jealous without
cause, a prey to fears that are un-
founded. Others again are delirious.
see creatures and hear voices that
10 not really exist.
But before there is such loss of
contact with the real world as a
be certified as insanity there are
signs from which the wise may take
warnings: dependence on drink to
avoid discomfort; perpetual need for
a "stimulant"; a desire to escape
from the difficulties of life; broken
sleep disturbed by dreams; tremor
and %diffidence. All these may come
from drinking alcohol, may be tenn
porarily dispelled by drinking more
alcohol in a vicious circle. The circle
can be broken but only under on
ditions of helpful discipline. Such
conditions can rarely be provided
outside of a special institution.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19
God Gives Laws to a Nation.
Exodus 2O:1-17.
C~uLn, Toht. Matt O1.1C 90

God Gives Laws to a Nation.
Exodus 2O:1-17.
Golden Text: Matt. 22:37, 80.
1t is a pity that the legal litera-
ture of the Old Testament is gem
orally ignored by Christians. The
tendency has been to exalt the
prophets and, by contrast, to rele-
gate the law-givers to such an in
ferior position that they almost
drop out of sight. Such an exagger-
ated emphasis on the Importance Of
prophecy is misleading for 1t leads
to the false assumption that the
laws of Israel are in opposition to
its prophetic oracles.
AS a matter of fact law and pro-
phecy belong together as different
versions of the same divine revela-
ton. 1t is we'll for us then to study
the Hebrew laws with sympathetic
appreciation, for they have much to
teach us today. Unfortunately u
Bible, In its standard versions, pre-
sents them in a confused, unsys-
tematic form, and the reader is be-
wildered to find that many Of the
laws contradict one another. But
II the student will consult Prof.
Kent's translation and arrangement
Of the Old Testament in THE Short
err Bible" he will find an admirable
compilation Of the statutes dealing
with such topics as property rights,
kindness to men and animals, the
duty of parents to instruct their
children. and the need of upright
dealing in business transactions.
Our lesson is the famous Deca-
Ilogue, the most significant and mem
orable formulation of Jewish legis-
%Iation. According to Hebrew tradi-
ton Moses was Its author along
with all the rest of the laws In the
P%entateuch. We now know that this
elaborate body of legislation repre-
sents a long historical development
and so could not, in its present
form, be the creation Of Moses. But
1t can at least be said that the fun
damental principles and his insist
ence upon the exclusive worship Of
God as ~Israel's only deity, and on
loyal obedience to His Will fur
nished two cornerstones upon which
the Bibles impressive Temple Of
Law was built.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19
WITH H EDITORS
The Best Medium

A man who owns a seasonal business but who
spends about one hundred dollars a year in advertis-
ing says that he has learned one thing from expert
ence that has cost him money as so much experience
does. He says he has learned that advertising money
spent for anything else but space in the local news
paper Is almost a dead loss. He says he tried other
methods which were sold to him by smooth talking
salesmen but none of them produced results. The diff
ference between newspaper advertising and other ad-
vsrtising. says this man who has learned from exper-
ience, is that the newspaper is read carefully by near
u everyone who takes it while other forms of adver-
thing are thrown away without eading.-Wheat
(Ainn.) Gazette.
lis that man rich?"
IL Aei He's so rich he doesn't know his sons In
pDllegA"-6ewane Mountain Goat.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19


their bags and getting ready to start
home. are giving more thought to
he job ahead of them when they re-
turn for another session than to
what they did at this sitting. Only
a small fraction of the Presidents
recommendations have been acted
upon at all. the one upon which he
was most insistent negatively.
Before acting on the one left
over, the preponderant feeling in
Congress is that they ought to be
studied and debated with great care,
and when the members are not
physically worn out, as so many of
them actually are now.
Besides the last-minute laws en-
acted after the Supreme Court issue
was settled. the record of the 18th
Congress so far is not impressive. 1t
adopted So resolutions and passed
about $50 new laws. few Of which
are of any great public concern.
The most noteworthy laws and
resolutions include the following:
Prohibiting the export of arms to
Spain. Creating a commission on
the reorganization of the govern
ment. Extending for two years the
United States guarantee of Federal
Housing Administration debentures.
Amending the excise tax levy on
carriers and the income tax levy on
their employees. Extending the Pres
ident's tariff powers. Deferring the
time-limit for filing certain kinds of
income tax returns. Providing for a
national gallery of art. Appropriate
pests.
The new Neutrality, or War Pol
icy. Act. Providing loans for flood
sufferers. Setting up funds for old
age assistance. Creating the joint
committee on a. evasion. The Re-
lief Act, appropriating $500 mil
lions. Extending the nuisance taxes.
Providing funds for the New York
Worlds Fair. And appropriating
some more for insect pests.
Prolonging the Presidents none
tary powers. Continuing the func-
tons of the RIG. Arranging for
crop and harvesting loans. Contin-
uing direct obligations of the United
States as collateral security for Fed
eral Reserve notes. Providing for re-
tirement of Supreme Court justices,
Amending the Federal Housing Act.
The Guffey-vinson Coal Act. The
District of Columbia "red rider" re-
peal. Reenacting the AAA's market
ing agreements. The Railroad Pen
sions Act. Extending the CCC. Pass
ing the Farm Loan Interest Act
cover veto), the Farm Tenancy Act,
and most of the appropriation bills.
Tax Revision Next Session
Hanging over, for consideration
on and after January 3, 1898, are
many highly important subjects
upon which legislation has been re-
quested by the White House, or
upon the necessity Of which there is
general agreement.
First in the minds OF Senators
and Representatives is a broad pro-
gram of tax revision. Into this SUBJ
ject enter so many questions OF pub
lie policy, as well as Of politics. that
its consideration may well take
many weeks Of Congressional time.
The Administration Is pressing
for the program OF reorganization OF
Federal departments and bureaus.
Congress does not like the Presi-
dents plan, and will wait for the
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-08-19

The Chicago Quack who could tell
a 1bad liver" just by a footstep,
have had trouble diagnos-
ing the situation when police walked
into his office.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08

It was reported that Ernie Lot tsfeldt assistant superintendent for the Alaska Road Commission here who left by plane for Ka.- tag today, would be busy there making plans to counteract the annual spring washouts and floods in that section.
 It was rumored that already soft weather and continuous sum- shine had done much to melt the snow and several bridges in that section would be in danger of being wiped out when the Yukon river breaks soon, unless some thing was done to safeguard the structures. He is to try and pre- vent any such occurrences, it was said.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
NEWS ITEMS

Dr. Hughes Nome dentist who left here by pane today will be come associated with Dr. s. H. Hall Fairbanks dentist, he an- nounced before leaving.
 When questioned whether he knew of another dentist who might be coming to. Nome soon he replied in the negative.
 Dr. Hughes stated that in case dentists did not come to Nome for some time he would make a visit here every three or four months.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
Pioneer Igloo No. lRejuvenateda as
 Witness Actions

The members of Pioneer lgloo No. 1 met in regular session last evening in St. Joseph Hall with a large attendance.
 The report from the committee on Seward Day celebration was received and the committee com pimented on the fine party giv- en. Record was made in the min uteS of the vote of thanks ex- tended to all who assisted to make Seward Day a splendid sue cess.
 The Contest Committees report ed and the Huskies were declar- ed the winners by the score of 668O points as against 4760 for the Malamutes. By unanimous consent the Malamutes were pen alized to give party in the near future, date will be announced soon.
 The Malamutes are requested to meet at the home of President BahIlke next Sunday at 3 P.M., to take steps toward perfecting the plans for a big Pioneer affair.
 The net gain in membership is: new members 32, for reinstate- ment l6.
 A new Ways and Means com mittee on membership and New Home, consisting of A. Polet, AL mer Rydeen, Ole Hay, Charles Code and Gust Johnson was ap- pointed to make plans to contin- ue the membership drive and to study ways and means for a new home for the Mother Igloo.
 A letter was ordered sent to the Pioneer Women thanking them for their cooperation and contri- button toward the success of the Seward Day party.
 Alvin Polet was duly initiated into the mysteries of the Pioneer organization last evening.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08

The PAA mail plane arrived & departed today. Incoming pass engers were Dr. Aubrey Carter of Fairbanks, who is Chairman of the Democratic Central Commit tee elected recently at Fairbanks and Traffic Representative for the PAA at Seattle Bullwinkle who is round-tripper. There was one passenger from Nome to Golovin. Radio Supt. Bob Gleason was talk en to Koyuk and picked up on the return flight.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
AirpIane News
 Nome Airport
Pilots Hans Mirow

Phots Hans Mirow and Don Emmons in the Lockheed and Bach planes of the Mirow Air Service hopped off this morning tor Fairbanks. The Bach carried a load of freight and the Lock- heed MT. and Mrs. H. G. Hughes and daughter Warren Ferguson To Fairbanks. Ernie Lottsfeldt is q passenger to Kaltag.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
Pioneer Is Dead
fpv The Associated press)

.fBv The ASSOC lated PresS)
 SELDOVIA, April 8, - Cyrus Williams Harrington, aged 7z, d pioneer died here today of heart trouble.
 He was a guard at the Seldovia federal jaal for the last four years. He once operated the Val dez assay office opsrated fox farm near Homer and later lived at Anchorage for a time.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08

lines made a flight to Solomon this morning with Mir. Silver as passenger. He then flew to Kot zebue to fly freight to Candle. Cross is expected to return this evening with passenger.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
NOTICE TO PUBLIC

The undersigned takes this op- pOrtunity to state that he will not be responsible for bills or debts contracted by Mrs. Anna Peterson. from this date on.
 Dated Nome, Alaska. April Sth, 1931. Signed
 ANDREW PETERSON.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.

How Mining Claims can be Staked in Alaska, length, Bread tn, how many, and the Assocla- ton Claim, described in detail, in pamphlet form. for sale at The Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08

Pilot Whaley made flight to Shelton Taylor and Macklin CT. soday for the Mirow Air Service.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08
ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS

Meeting for tomorrow night has been postponed to Friday, April 18th.
 It. JOHN SOLON, N. C..
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08

FOR SALE-Tw0 story house furnished or unfurnished) Price reasonable. Inquire at Calkins Shoppe.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-08

Pilot Cross of the Wien Air
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-27
ELIGIBLE BACHELOR MARKET ALMOST DEPL
Bees, Bees, But
No Sinners

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March q
0.N.S0.-A whole Warner Broth
ers film troupe, including Kay
Francis, Basil Rathbone and a
large number of extras, had to
take to their heels when a swarm
of bees suddenly invaded the set
upon which they were working at
the Vitagraph studio.
The stage at the Hollywood lot
had been dark for several weeks
and the bees apparently had come
in through drain pipe. They were
dormant when the troupe arrived,
but the heat Of the arc lights
reused them to a frantic buzzing.
Miss Francis and her fellow
players, in the middle of a scene
for "One Hour of Romance" didn't
stay to dispute the possession Of
the stage.
Three hours later they were
still outside when Company Mana
ger AL Alborn brought in a bee
expert. Holding a single queen
on his hand, he entered the stage
and presently emerged, like a pied
piper, followed by the whole
swarm.
Work was then resumed on the
film which, in spite of what hap
pened, is not "B" picture,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-27

at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Randolph Scott. AS Mrs. Scott
passes considerable time in the
East, Randolph is a part-time
bachelor. Michael Whalen lives
in a hillside home in Hollywood
and cooks his own ham and eggs.
That's one side of the picture
starring Hollywood'S eligible
bachelors. The other side, pre-
senting a group of notable figures
who once belonged in bachelor
ranks, has been developed in the
past two years.
Enrol Flynn is married to Lii
Danita. Allan Jones is the hus-
band Of Irene Hervey. Only re-
Gently, Manuel M. Del Campo
married the lovely Mary Aston,
and Frank Orsatti became the
bridegroom of Jean Chatburn.
Others new in benedict ranks are
Dick Powell, Bill Henry, Charles
Boyer, Arthur Hornblow who mar
ried Myrna 10y; Harpo Marx,
Jack Oakie, Bert Wheeler, Hal
Rosson, former husband of Jean
Harlow; Henry Wilcoxon.
The little band of bachelors
holds out, but these days they
glance curiously at one another
with every dreaded appearance of
a newspaper gossip column. Be
tween the dots there may appear
the news almost any day,
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the master of ceremonies.
BACHELOR QUARTERS
Taylor resides comfortably in
his bachelor home in Beverly Hills
with his butler and general aides.
He has five radios, and comedies
that a wife probably would eliml-
nate at least three of them.
William Powell. the perfect
screen husband, occupies a resi-
dence in Bel-Air. with a single
servant. Film domesticity from 9
a. m. until 6 p. m. at the studio,
currently with Luise Rainier, is
quite enough for Powell. He has
been the screen husband of Myrna
10y in half a dozen pictures.
Powell gives no indication that
he wishes to carry on the husband
business after working hours.
Tyrone Power probably is film
lands No. 2 eligible bache-
lor, but his constant attention
upon Sonia Henie has his few re-
naming brother bachelors worried.
Other bachelors who belong in
the eligible category include jim
my Stewart, Nelson Eddy, Cary
Grant, Michael Whalen, Michael
Bartlett and until now, Lyle Tai
bot.
Talbot has just admitted deSer-
ton from the group with an
nouncement of his forthcoming
marriage to Marguerite Cramer,
a non-professional, whom he met
shortly before Christmas.
DESIRABLE MALES
Jimmy Stewart lives With two
bachelor friends, John Swope and
Joshua Logan, in an apartment.
Their cook, Ellen, a capable Ne
gress of the old schol, is a bache-
lor's delight. She can tap dance
while she cooks. Ellen'S only COM
plant is that she never knows in
advance how many guests will
present for dinner. Henry Fonda
used to reside With the trio, ut
he married.
Eddy resides with his mother
and Joseph PaSternak, musical
director of Eddy's radio concerts.
Their home has piano, an
organ, and a portable recording
machine so that Eddy may re-
hearse at any time.
Power occupies a home with
his mother. Cary Grant resides
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-27
Vaudeville Acts Find Chance
In the Screen Musicals

HOLLYWOOD, March 27.-Re-\
alization that entertainment in
its strictest form is the best guar
antee of success is shaping cur
rent motion picture trends.
Evidence of this gradual awak-
ening to an amusement funda-
mental is seen in the increased use
by movie producers of speciality
acts, former vaudeville combina-
tions and night club entertainers
as auxiliary aids to musical and
dramatic pictures.
This tendency has gained i'm
petus the past few months under
the sponsorship of Daryl Zanuck,
chief o. studio productions for the
Twentieth Century-Fox studios.
Old-timers who had been la
menting the passing of vaudeville
from the American stage now
visualize return of this inStitu-
ton, not in the theater, where it
was born, but in the films which
were the cause of the disappear.
ance of vaudeville as mass en-
tertainment.
All major studios now are using
former vaudeville specialties as a
"super-booSter" of entertainment
values in pictures.
Zanuck started the vaudeville
ball rolling into pictures when he
imported the high-priced Ritz
brothers, a trio of super-charged
dancing comics noted for their
eccentricities and tempo.
Zanuck's faith in the value of
specialized talent resulted in the
placing of Sonia Henie, former
worlds champion amateur woman
iceskater, into the million-dollar
production-One of the few known
instances where a producer dared
to risk SO much money on new
personality.
It was Zanuck who put Walter
Winchell, famous columnist, into
pictures in a film with Ben Ber-
MES band. The film has its
quota of specialists with Leah
Ray, the singer; and Comedian
Jack Haley and Alice Faye, sing
ing dancer.
Paramount coaxed Martha
Raye into a contract, which also
happened in the cases of Jack
Benny, Ben Blue and Bob Burns,
the latter a "bazooka" player.
Zanuck said the tendency is to-
ward a more rapidly-paced enter
tainment than formerly was in
vogue. To accomplish this, he be-
lieves that I'VE must put more
speed into production, and this is
best done by injecting paced enter
tainers in places where the story
tends to slow up.
IT don't believe, however, In just
throwing specialists into slow
places. because this would tend to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-03-27
Ann Comforts
HerHusbond.
BY HARRISON CARROLL
(COpyFiKht, 1877

HOLLYWOOD, March ~
Q.N.S0.-AS Leslie Fenton went
under the knife for a major OBJ
Grafton here, his film star mate,
Ann Dvorak, bravely stood by,
holding his hand until he lost
consciousness and remaining in
the room until the ordeal was
over.
The actor was on the table for
30 minutes and, after it was over.
doctors pronounced the serious
abdominal operation a success.
News of Fenton's illness took
Hollywood by surprise. 'Only q
few of the close friends of the
couple knew of it; and, fewer
still, that the actor was going into
the hospital last Friday.
Fortunately, neither Fenton nor
Miss Dvorak has film commit
ments at the moment, so there
are no studio schedules to rear.
range.
After he has recovered suffi-
GENTLY to leave the hospital, Fen
ton will recuperate at his and Miss
Dvorak's ranch in nearby San Fer
nando Valley.