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The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
Herring Study Urged
By KetChikan Banker

An exhaustive study should be
made at this time of the value of
herring as a food fish for salmon,
William A. Gates, Ketchikan and
Sitka banker, urged at recent Ju-
neau Chamber of Commerce meet
ing.
Sitka fishermen are much exer-
cised about herring operations in
that district, he said, urging that a
careful study be made to settle the
much debated question "once and
for all"
Bates said he was told at sitka
that 16 "smoke-boats" are operat-
ing there, fishing in a confined area
with from so to so trollers fishing
for salmon right around them. This
indicates, at least to the satisfac-
ton of the salmon fishermen, he
said, that salmon feed on herring
and can be caught where herring
abound.
New Sitka Bank
Bates is Cashier Manager Of the
Miners and Merchants Bank at
Ketchikan and one of the founders
of the First Bank of Sitka, which
is to open it's doors soon.
Remarking on the ehange-of-time
controversy of juneau, Bates said
Ketchikan has been on Seattle time
for IA years and has found it so
convenient that it wouldn't go back
for anything"
81 believe it would be an impor-
tant step forward for Juneau to go
on Seattle time" he said.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
MRS. DE REMER RECOVERING
OPERATION AT FORT LEWIS

Mrs. Charles DeRemer, who I'M
derwent a serious major operation
on July IT at the Fort Lewis army
hospital, had sufficiently recovered
this week to write brief letter to
Mrs. Ernest Anderson, in which she
sent regards to all Wrangell friends.
Mr.. De Remer was transferred
last year from the Signal Corps ra-
dio station at Wrangell to Kotzebue
in the Arctic. Due to Mrs. DeRemer' s
need for medical attention he was
transferred last month to the states
and is now working at the Seattle
office.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
WRANGELL FISHERMEN BACK
FROM BRISTOL BAY REGION

Henry Bradley, James Berkeley
and Peter Casey returned Monday
night on the Columbia which they
boarded at Seward after flying there
from Koggiung where they were
employed during the Bristol Bay
salmon season.
Bradley and Berkeley began pre-
parations Immediately after arrival
for finishing out the SEEMING sea-
son at Wrangell.
Wrangell men employed at other
Bristol Bay canneries are expected
to return home on the Aleutian next
Monday night.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
SOME BRIGHT sUNsHINEY
DAYS IN MONTH OF JULY

That July was a month of some
days of beautiful sunshine through
out the daylight period, but more
days were unusually cold and moist
is shown by the monthly report to
the U. S. Weather Bureau, by Mar
garet Simmons, cooperative obser-
yer at Wrangell.
The mean maximum temperature
was 6167, the mean minimum
48.48 with a maximum of II on
July &c and minimum of 40 on
July 2. The total rainfall was SIC
inches, the greatest in "a hours be-
ing .95 inches on July 20.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
Vim. Berger Makes First Visit
In Three Years

and shortly afterwards returned to
the states. He came north again
about 30 years ago and has not
since been outside.
He saw his first relative since he
left Illinois 43 years ago, when his
nephew, Otto Haigle. accompanied
by Mrs. Haigle, recently stopped off
at Wrangell and hired a small gas
boat to take them to Sergeif island
They were able to stay but a short
time due to steamer schedules.
The Haigles live at Durham, q
town built on the old farm of Mr.
Bergers parents.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
SPECIAL RATES GRANTED
FAIRBANKS LEGION MEETING

A special tariff for the American
Legion convention at Fairbanks Sep
TENDER 7-8-9, is announced by the
Alaska Steamship Company.
The tariff will be in effect at
Wrangell from August q to Septem-
Der 4. The reduction is 20 per cent
which makes a first class roundtrip
ticket from Wrangell to Seward cost
1924 instead of the regular $500.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04
PACK REPORT
a. Z.

+ The total pack of the Wran-
+ CELL District for the week end
= ing Saturday, July 29th, was
y 68,629 cases in terms of 4S one
y pound tails to the case, accord
4 ing to reports received at the
+ local bureau of fisheries office.
y This compares with $3.50
+ cases for the comparable date
4 of 1898.
y The trap and seine catches are
y increasing gradually but only.
= time will develop what the flu
= ture of the run may be.
Il = = . y . = .
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04

Captain James Ward returned
Monday night from a pleasant sum
mer spent with his son and old
friends at Anchorage.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-08-04

Mr.. and Mrs. A Vreatt are ex-
pected to arrive home on the Prin-
cess Charlotte due in port here
Tuesday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
Famous Sayings
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
No Martyrdom for MoseIey

year from the taxpayers, the gen.
eral is not only subject TO the MILL
tary authority directly, but he Is
subject to o canon of good taste
which dictates that he employ his
well earned leisure in pursuits out
side the active political field. There
is always trout fishing, and the
collecting of stamps is said to in
duce quietness Of mind.
The general, during his active
career. served his country well The
country, in retiring the general on
a generous and sufficient pension
recognized this, but it also point
edly indicated that it no longer
required his formal active service
as a soldier.
From this, any man able to take
a broad hint might deduce that
neither does the country require
his informal and all too freely vol
unteered services as a sleuth ana
amateur unGercover man.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
INCOME TAX ON u. S.,
STATE OFFICIALS
{ (Porterville Recorder)

A constitutional provision that the
salary of federal judges shall not be
diminished during their continuance III
office" does not mean that the United
States government cannot collect IN
come tax from them, according to the
supreme court opinion delivered by JUS
tice Frankfurter. He said, in the deci-
sion, that congress "has committed itself
to the position" that nondiscriminatory
tax laid generally on net income would
not constitute diminution of federal
judges salary.
Justice Frankfurter's decision revers-
ed Nebraska federal district court
ruling that an attempt to tax Judge
of the United States circuit court OF
appeals at Omaha, was unconstitutional
March 81 the United States supreme
court ruled that federal and state en-
ployes, other than federal judges, have
no constitutional immunity from income
taxation. Experts have estimated that
the federal income tax on hitherto ex-
empt salaries of state employes-and
vice versa-will lead to the collection
of about S15000,000 year from federal
employees and perhaps approximately a
like amount from state workers.
The comment has been heard frequent
ly that it is contrary to the essence of
democracy for government officials to
seek to avoid the taxes which they i'm
pose upon others, and that legislators
and executives who had to pay taxes
presumably would become more econ
omy-conscious" The precedent set by
the supreme court March 81 was such
as to make it appear probable that a
majorty of its members would not take
an opposite stand on the matter of in
come tax affecting their own pocket
books
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
TEXAS JUDGE
SETS EXAMPLE
{ alameda Times-Star)


District Judge Frazer of large Texas
district, having time on his hands, has
adopted new method of crime preven-
ton. He wants to reduce crime by re-
ducing the number of offenders. He is
visiting the public schools and remind
ing the boys and girls that crime does
not pay
Evidently, Judge Frazer realizes that
crime cannot be suppressed completely
and a healthy sentiment in favor of law
and order created by the mere filming and
imprisoning of comparatively few crimi-
nails who are apprehended To do some
thing about it he began visiting the
schools of his district He talks to the
pupils about the viciousness and folly
and Stiffness of violating the law. He tells
them of the fearful toll taken by mari
juana. He has succeeded, it is said, in
creating among the pupis of his district
a wholesome respect for the law and
a keen determination to refrain from
criminal practices.
In conducting what Judge Frazer calls
his crime clinic, young listeners are
warned of the dangers inhering in an
unhealthy sympathy for those who are
being prosecuted and punished by the
state. He tells his hearers of the extreme
difficulty of enforcing the law when the
public and prospective jurors grow sorry
for those who live by violence, a practice
that should be discouraged if they them
selves hope to have the laws complete
protection.
Reports from this Texas judicial dis
trict are that the judges lectures have
had marked effect for good on the
young people.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15

start conversation with a stranger
Here they are:
l. Talk about something you can
both see. II you are on a train,
speak about child who may be
walking up and down the aisle. Or
about the conductor who has just
passed. Or something which can
be seen from the window If you
are in someone's home, and are
left alone with stranger, mention
a picture or family portrait on the
wall or vase.
2. Make statement, then add a
question. For instance: II saw
lovely flower display today. Did
you see it?" This serves two pur-
poses. 1t offers topic Of CONVEX
sation, and brings the other per-
son into the picture and allows him
TO express himself.
3. Ask your companion his opin-
ion on some current event, what he
thinks about the danger of war,
who will be nominated for presi-
dent. This allows him to give his
opinion, and nine times out of ten
person is eager to do just that.
Here are three rules for a host
ess to use at dinner party. Mrs.
Ross says the secret of success at
a dinner party is to have what she
calls cross fire" conversation. That
is, get the guests to talk back and
forth across the table. She says the
wise hostess will not let two persons
who are sitting together fall into
dialogue and pay no attention to
what the others are saying. If she
allows this, soon the table will be
composed of disinterested groups,
and there will not be the lift of a
general conversation.
/. Start off your dinner party by
talking about your hobby. or the
hobby of one OF your guests Near
ly everybody has hobby and
there's nothing in the world he will
talk about so readily as his hobby.
If your hobby is wild flowers, men
ton some new flowers you have
just learned about. Someone will
likely pick 1t up, and the conversa-
ton will DC on.
2. Tell about some striking thing
you've just seen or read. AS an
example, Mrs. Ross started off one
dinner party by telling of a door
less" door she had read about. She
told how it was possible to have a
doorless door. In a few minutes
the whole group was chatting.
3. Tell some personal experience
which has a dramatic element. At
one dinner party Mrs. Ross told
how she had had her purse stolen;
at another how she had seen a
train barely miss crashing into q
buSload of school children.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15

The proposals that Gen. George
Van Horn Mosely be court martial
ed. and the suggestion of Thomas
E. stone, chairman of the Council
of u. S. Veterans, Inc. that he Is
guilty of treason, seem pretty mid
ding ill-advised.
Whether any such charges could
be technically sustained against the
general uneer army regulations, is
a matter of military law, in which
we are not skilled. But it would
seem unwise to pursue them. For
the very worst thing that could
happen would be at this point to
make a martyr of General Nose
ley.
Hitler never amounted to much
until he was jailed for his sickly
"putsch" attempt against the re-
public. and the Communist move
ment is much indebted to the build
ing UP of martyrs In the public,
and especially the party, eye.
The general has been very defi-
nitely out of order Despite a SER
vice record in many ways diStin-
guished, he seems never to have
grasped the fundamental fact of the
American military service-that it
must not, and generally does not,
meddle with politics. The Ameri-
can way implies a complete sep
aration between the military and
civil powers which is something gal
ling to military men with political
minds.
Yet it is basic An American SOL
dier is an American trained and
pledged to carry out missions as
signed to him by the appropriate
civil authorities. He is not an in
triguer or has he any duty to
save the country" except under
definite orders from his properly
constituted superiors, chief of whom
is a civilian president.
General Moseley should know
these things, as practically all of
his associates in the service know
them, and as SO 44/100 of them
observe them.
AS a pensioner drawing $4,000 a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
MERCHANDISING THE
DAlRYING INDUSTRY?

For his own good, every resident in
Imperial Valley should support the
dairying industry. The industry means
a lot to the valley in the way of pros
perity and payrolls.
There are a lot of other businesses
and industries that deserve the support
of the people. Most of them have OBJ
tanned it. The dairying industry has not.
Why?
Because these other firms and bust
nesses have adopted modern, merchandis-
ing methods to win support. The dairy
industry has not. 1t has been content
TO produce, process and deliver milk,
without any particular effort to sell it.
A system like that will not work.
The dairy industry may say to the peO-
pie, soto voce: you should support us
because we mean a lot to your commu-
nifty" 1t may be true But it isn't human
nature to go around filled with good
resolutions to support industries that de-
serve support. 1t is human nature to
walk into drug store, sit down at the
counter, and ask for the soft drink or
the glass of beer that has been widely
advertised. The man who does so is a
potential consumer of a large glass of
milk, but he himself has not been made
to realize it. So he orders the thing he
as been sold" on.
It's pretty tough to sell the average
citizen on his own responsibility where
somebody else is concerned. You tell him,
"You ought to help us because We do
the community lot of good and he's
liable to say, $50 what?"
It's pretty easy, on the other hand, to
sell him on the idea of buying something
l.,
do him some good. Tell him, You ought
to try glass of this milk . it's darned
good in hot weather and it'll make you
feel like million dollars" And chances
are he'll say, "Okay, let's have it.
The trouble with the dairy industry
is, it has told the people very little of
anything. 1t has let other people tell
how important it is, and has expected
results from such telling. Results don't
come like that.
There was a full page ad in this paper
the other day, commemorating June as
National Dairy Products Month. Seven
of the advertisers represented on the
page had no interest in dairy sales out
side of civic pride Three of the adver-
wanted to help the dairying industry,
subscribed to the ad because they know
advertising pays-they have proved it
in their own highly successful lines of
business. The dairies Joined in the ad
because it was special occasion-not
because of any regular advertising
schedule.
What would an advertising schedule do
for the dairy industry on national
scale?
Just what it has done for the billion
dollar soft drink industry.
The two are competitors. The soft
drink business, through modern mer-
chandising, is far outstripping the dairy
men in successful management. The soft
drink men advertise. The dairymen, with
far more to sell, do not.
1t is time the dairying industry awak-
ened to the fact that it must depend
upon itself to win success
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15

"CidCio '-..'-.'....-... WOfK 10 DC QOnc
at rate prescribed
for craft perform
ing operation to
which welding is
incidental.
Inc foregoing schedule of per
diem wages is based on a working
day of eight 90 hours. The hourly
wage rate prescribed hereinabove is.
the per diem rate divided by the
aforementioned number of hours
constituting a working day. Rates
Tor legal holiday and overtime shall
be one and one-half Q5) times
the above rates.
III snail be mandatory upon the
contractor to whom the Contract
Is awarded, and upon any s,Ib-
contractor under him, to nav not
less than the said specified rates
10 all laborers, workmen and mech
anlcS employed by them in the
execution of the contract.
Notlce is also hereby given that
all bidders may submit with their
olos' a sworn statement of their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such swor,-
statement may be required to
furnished before award is made
any particular bidder
Each bid shall be made out ON
form to be obtained at the office
OF the Board of Directors of the
DlStrlct at Ell Centro, California
snail be accompanied by certified
OF cashiers check or bid bond
lor not less than five (5) per cent
Oh the amount of the bid made
payable TO the order of the Trace
urer of Imperial Irrigation Dis-
trict, Ell Centro, California. sbaI1
De sealed and filed with the BOARD
OF Dlrctors of Imperial Irrigation
Dlstrlct, Ell Centre, California on
OF before July 18, 1899, at 10 o'cloclr
am. ana Will be opened and pub-
llcly read aloud at or about IN
oiocK am of that day in Nc
office of the Board. " WIG
Inc above mentioned cbecL or
Dohd shall be given as a p,,aran,oa
That the bidder will enter int 80
uon'ract ,,,,l, If awarded to him and
ssida win De declared forfeited If the
iiutoesSiui iuto bidder refuses to enter
n,,e.toS nl,o saia Il contract after being re
quesCeo SO to do by the Board NJ
District. Ailieatlon
n,i Inc Board of Directors of tho
DSIrlct reserves the right tn roiaat
any or all bids or waive anv inSo. o'
mality in a bid. "iiS lhIor-
No bidder may Withdraw h,. -,
Tor period of sixty (6O1 dow mS s pid
of. 'o opening thet
Dated: June 10. 1890
Board of Directors
trict. DlS- .
BY W. w. Gook,oN
LJ15-9o %, Secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15

WASHINGTON J. Alt
meyer suggests that if you took
the trouble to stop 100 citizens on
the street, and asked them to
name one person connected with
the administration of the Social
Security Law not one of them
could come through.
This might be a matter of some
interest to Mr. Altmeyer, since he
himself is chairman of the Social
Security Board, built it up to the
point where it is now providing
insurance for some 40-odd mil
lions of people, and is prominently
touted as the coming head of the
new Federal Security Agency set
up by the Presidents first reorgan-
ization plan.
But he likes obscurity; thinks
it's a good sign for a man holding
a public administrative office.
AS a matter of fact Mr.. Alt
meyer today would probably be an
even more obscure person if he
hadn't chanced to read a pamphlet
on the first Wisconsin Workmans
compensation law back in 1911,
when he was just beginning his
studies at the University of Wis
conSin.
THE first big wave of social in
surance and labor legislation was
on then" he recalls. Wisconsin
had just passed a Workmans COM
penSation law, womens hours
law and an improved child labor
act. Prof. John r. Commons of the
university was an industrial COM
missioner. 1 remember getting that
pamphlet explaining the work
mans compensation law. 1 read it
and got interested in it, and de-
cided that 1 was going to go under
Professor Commons and study Ia
Dor legislation"
Mr. Altmeyer was born III the
little town of Depere, Wis, near
Green Bay, in 1891 His fathers
people, Germans, came over to
America in the emigration of 48"
when liberal-minded Germans left
their homeland in droves. On his
mothers side, Mr.. Altmeyer is of
Dutch descent.
He didn't leave high school until
he was 10, and he stayed out a
year TO make money, so he was
going on q when he entered the
university. He finished his univer-
sity course in three years, winning
a Phi Beta Kappa key TO boot .
THE professors we're kindly" he
says.
There was a depression on in
1914, when he was graduated, SO
he went to the Minnesota iron
range district as a school teacher
for four years. He returned to the
university in 1918 to take a place
as Professor Commons assistant
and to do graduate work; on the
side, he held a statistical job with
the State Tax Commission.
In 1920 he began the pattern
that has eliminated in his present
job; he became chief statistician to
the Wisconsin Industrial Commits
sion. In 1922 he became secretary
of the commission. Thus for years
he was directly concerned with
such things as industrial employ
ment compensation legislation; and
in the 1929 depression, when un-
employment relief was handed to
the Industrial Commission. he got
a first-hand look at that field. too.
In 1888 he headed the labor COM
pliance division of NRA. In 1884
he became assistant secretary of
labor; he also headed a technical
committee set up TO advise a cabi-
net committee on a draft of COM
prehensiVe unemployment legisla-
ton asked by President Roosevelt.
Thus he had direct, personal
connection with the original franz
ing of the Social Security Act.
When the act passed he was made
a member of the Social Security
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

Board; two years ago he became
its chairman.
With Mrs. Altmeyer, he lives in
comfortable, newly-bought home
over on the Virginia side of the
Potomac, where he likes to work
in his flower garden and listen to
symphony music on his phono-
graph-both at the same time, as
like as not.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15

ton, Pa. She IS
a t cache + o f
charm and has
lectured for ten
years at the Y. w.
C. A. in Scranton
on how to be
charmi n 6 a n d
how to acquire
social ease.
I asked her for
t h re C specific
rules on how to
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
You re Telling Me-

Business is on the upgrade, acS/
cording to a travelling salesman OF
ours. Ha, what more natural than
that a drummer would think things
are booming.
That middle western pooch which
enjoys its daily ration of beer is,
of course, just lap-up dog.
The philosopher who said: Con
sistency is a jewel probably never
heard of the New York Yankees.
A new method of cooking is sup
posed TO eliminate the necessity of
using water or grease. A better
help would be a new method, climi-
mating the grocery bill.
It's every mans right to lar
at women'S hats-that Is, eve.s
man but an admiral of the navy.
Beer Stocks Rise'-stock market
page headline. Well, that ought to
stimulate business.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-15
The UNKINDEST CUT

When the lower house of congress, in
its new relief bill, Topped off the Works
Progress Administration white collar
projects, (writer's projects, etc. it was
the "unkindest cut of all" What will
WPA do now for its big-scale publicity?