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EDITORIAL
MAIN STBKKT'
The "Main Street" boom is dying
down— and I won't worry when it's
dead—and once ngain the country
town l>egins to r.«!-t- its humbled
home of hicks, w hose souls can't
rise above the dust, where all
aesthetic {tames and tricks are look
ed upon with deep disgust. In go
pher towns I've lived and loved. and
there 1 learned t-> swat my lyre,
and as long as Ma n street ractucm
and as along Main street 1 shoved.
I saw a whole lot :o ad:nire. And
there I've known I'.e finest gents,
great fellows, lar ,e of mind and
heart: I wonder why they pitched
their tents so fur from Culture and
from Art? The country town in
spires the jokes of specialists in
caustic mirth: but [here you'll often
find the folks who are the salt of
this old earth. The country town
has many rubes, who o:» their idle
errands trot, and if you only look
for boobs, as l.o'.v.s did. you'll find
a lot. liut if you loo!: for t'other
kind, strong men who ornament the
race, and women gracious and refin
ed. you'll find them. also, iu the
place. f!o. visit no-.v the Hall of
Fame, and mark t.ie High Nobs
looking down, and figure out how
many came from Gopher or some
smaller town. *iie ".Main Street"
book is not so b.id. as twaddle, for
the twaddling mob; lr.it us a pic
ture of our grad it is the poorest
sort of daub.—Wait Mason.
mki>i< ai. i si: <>: wmsiiKV
Things are not always what they
seem, says the poet. And in the
••vorkl oi practical atfairs. general
statements, even oft repeated anil
popularly accepted, do nut always
check up with the facts. .Much has
been made of the claim that the
adoption of federal prohibitum lias
seriously interfered with the use of
whiskey for medical purposes by
physicians. The Anti-Saloon League
of Deleware, in a reiently issued
circular, presents an interesting ta
ble on this question, bused on infor
mation furnished by federal and
state officials and statistics taken
from the American Medical Direc
tory. According to this tabulation j
there were at the time the federal
prohibition amendment was adopt
ed. twenty-four states—one-half the
entire number—whose laws forbade
either the writing or filling of pre
scriptions for whiskey or brandy. In
these states, naturally, no permit
under the federal law could be is
sued to physii :a::s. In the remain
ing twenty-fo.ir states, in which
there is no su. .1 law and in which
under the Volstead Act, permits to
prescribe whiskey may be issued to
physicians, there are according to
American Medical Directory, 112.
23S practicing, phrsi.-ians. Vet ;n
these twenty-four states, only 37..
ST'j physicians—29 per cent.—hate
taken out permits. Evidently, tho
remaining 71 per cent, do not regard
whiskey as of enough value in the
practice of medicine to go to the
trouble OH taking out a permit.—
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation. February 19, 1921.
r;ooi> MAX MSADS (i. O. P.
Beginning at a "salary" of $3.00
per week, John T. Adams entered
the employ of a sash and door fac
tory in Dubuque, Iowa, in 18S1. He
is now ihe head of the linn—an es
tablishment that has been eminently
successful and has branches In var
ious cities of the West. Although
entering upon his busiuess career
at the age of 19, and sticking pret
ty close to the job, Mr. Adams found
time to pursue literary, historical
and economic studies in which he
found pleasure as well as intellec
tual profit. He ha& one of the best
private libraries in Iowa, reads
French and German almost as eas
ily as English, and has an intimate
knowledge of every phase of Amer
ican history. The accomplishments,
together with his very satisfactory
management of the 1920 Republi
can campaign in all the states west
of Pennsylvania, abundantly quali
fied him for the chairmanship of
the Republican National Committee,
to which he was recently elected.—
Ex.
WHAT STATE?
"John Kellerman, who at one
time was connected with the Ken
necott Copper Corporation, is now
married and settled down in that
State—McCarthy news.
It Is {riven out il.nt the American
people paid .?:i.OOO,(MX) Inst year to the
telegraph companies for the privilege
of using the superflous word "please"
in tlif'r messages. But 110 one will say
that the money was really wasted.
The word Is seldom superfluous. It Is
a part of the courtesy that makes life
! worth living, says Los Angeles Times.
I If "please" and "thank you" were to
be mustered out of the graud army of
words In the business vocabulary of
the nation, this would be a glum world.
| indeed.
The mikado's son. the crown prince,
Is In the midst of a violent love tangle
with a pretty girl of the proletariat,
and he's going to take a trip around
the world to forget her. Nature never
counts a girl's money when distribut
es beauty and other charms. That
measly Job is left to those who clothe
her.
The Huns talk as If they had a
monopoly on the willingness to leave
the verdict on the war to history, but
they haven't. That's where It will
hove to be left, anyhow, remarks In
dianapolis Star, and nobody Is more
willing so to leave it there than the
people who fought the Huns.
According to recent dispatches there
is not enough room in Oeneva both
for totirUts and ttie League of Na
! Hons, and the league is planning to
move on. Tourists will regret losing
the opportunity "to do the league" in
an afternoon.
Speaking of the dog thnt hltes the
hand thnt feeds him. a Berlin dispatch
says that Herman Ileds favor atl alli
ance with Itussinn Itcds to make war
on tine I'nited States. As a meal tick
et Cncle Sam must look for his reward
in heaven.
The Rhode Island board of agricul
ture claims to have discovered a fer
tilizer that will grow grass and kill
weeds at one and the same time.
Couldn't tl'-y get up an improvement
that will al.-o mow the lawn?
The fact that Popocatepetl is show
ing signs of an eruption will move
many an old-timer to renew the efforts
.made when as a youth he tried to pro
nounce the name of that mountain in
the geography class.
A thief who stole a $25,000 Liberty
bond sent it back to tbe owner with
the word that it wn« too big to be dis
posed of snftly. Tip: Get your $10'
bond converted into a 525,000 one.
Another reason why we shall not fall
for the new spelling is. we had to work
too hard to get the old style right to
surrender it f"r a simple system that
any plionologist can master.
An Inventor has patented a device
which, he says, will prevent people
from iieeoniing seasick. It Is said to
be infallible if used on crosscountry
voyages.
Since the million Chinese eggs were
imported Into this country, our native
bens are probably doing a lot of cack
iiug about the yellow peril.
D'Annunzio is now writing a book
about it, which probably was his main
ylijixuve ad llic while.
Strike at Premier
Mine Near Hyder
Is Terminated
i
Premier mine strikers have re- ]
turned to work on the manager's
terms with the promise of D. L. Fitt
that there would he no discrimina
tion and that living conditions ;.t
the minp would be bettered as soon
as possible. With this action th>>
tram workers who were out Ml s>m
pathy with the mine crew automat
ically ceased to be on strike. On
the tram men are being put to work
as fast as places can be made (or
them and living accommodations
provided and iit the mine and mill
the ueoessar.v work Is proceeding as
before. Mr. Pitt stated Wednesday
night that when the number to bo'
employed roaches - the maxitiiun.
there will be between 300 and 400
men working. The strike lasted
three weeks, and while the time
lost had no particular effect on the
mine or mill it could hardly be spar
ed on the tram construction, as it
will be nip and tuck to complete
the contract before the big snow
next winter. However, T. H. Ora
ham, superintendent of construc
tion, will bend every effort toward
making up for the delay, and with
an even break in the luck slto lid
pull through on the s;«fe side —llv
der Miner.
I
Our Mysterious
Visitors—Comets
Washington. D. C., June.—A mod
est little local brief in the journal
of this universe, which a physicist
believes to have some limit, even
though one astronomer now con
ceives it to be a thousand times
larger than we thought it might
read like this:
"On June 27 the tiny planet Earth
is expected to see sparks (meteoric
showers) from the swish of the 2.
000.000 mile tail of the comet. Pons
Winnecke. which will just miss hit
ting Earth by only 12 million miles."
"Though we are not certain of
the exact nature of these 'hairy
stars,' astronomers believe comets
are made up of small particles very
far from each other, surrounded by
masses of gas." explains a bulletin
from the Washington. I). head
quarters of tiu' National Geographic
I Society.
! "The main body of a comet varies
from a few hundred to a few thou
lsaml miles in diameter, and its tail,
which makes it as spectacular am
ong heavenly bodies as the tail of
the peacock makes his in the bird
world, measures from a few million
to more than a hundred million miles
in length.
Tails Turn from Sun.
"The tails of comets have some
peculiar characteristics. They al
ways turn away from the : an and
they increase and decrease with as
tonishing rapidity. The sun evident
ly causing them to lengthen enor
mously. Though its volume is very
great, the actual mass of a comet
is very small. Scientists tell us that
the average density of a comet is
but a fraction of that of the air near
the earth's surface, and that the
density of the e.ctremety of the tail
is. of course, very much less.
"This js evident from the fact
that these bodies, which are so
much larger in volume than the
planets, are deflected from their or
bits by the planets, which are dis
turbed enough by their appearance
for any observations to he taken of
it. Even when a comet passed thru j
Jupiter's satellite system in 1SS6
uot a moon veered from its course.j
but the comet totally changed its I
j orbit as a result of the magnetic;
force exerted. That the substance
of comets and their tails is much
rarefied is further apparent because
even the faintest ofjhe visible stars
can be seen through them.
"Work associated with the be-1
havior and the nature of comets and
their orbits is yet in its infancy, and
the knowledge that the spectroscope
reveals regarding their composition
is confusing. It seems to say that
they are made of hydrocarbon vapor
which shines by its own light, but
part of their light must be reflected
sunlight as it approaches the sun
and diminishes as it passes away.
"The idea that eo.iiets are wander
ers in space has long ago been given I
up. Now we know that they belong j
to our solar system, but their orbit |
are such large parabolas or ellipses
that they sometimes require bund-1
reds of thousands of years to corn-,
plete a revolution. Occasionally the
fascinating Jupiter will lure one of
the 'shooting st»*s' from its straight
and narrow path. Like the foolish j
moth it will revolve around the I
Shooting Scrape
Leads Up to '
Still Discovery
Anchorage.—Through the arrest
of Joe Karlin and Mike Kasotf last
night the marshal's office believe they
have the perpetrators or a series of
burglaries, throe of wlfich have been
indentified and one yet to be ascer
tained. Incidentally, the marshals
claim to have captured a still oper
ated by the men In an ingeniously
constructed cellar in the southeast
ern portion of the city.
And mingling in the capture is a
tale of shooting in which Joe claims
Mike took four shots at him, two of.
which grazed his leg and one his
wrist.
Among the burglaries indentified
are two where women in the south
eastern portion of the city lost val
uable toilet articles, bracelet and
ivory sets, these goods, says the mar
shal having been found in the house
occupied by the men arrested. In
the alleged loot recovered Is also
many articles stolen from the rep
resentative of the Walter N. Moore
Dry Goods company, whose samples
were raided several weeks ago in
the Carroll building. There are oth
er articles supposed to represent a
fourth burglary, which have not been
indentified.
According lo tho circumstances in
tlse case it is alleged that Mike Kas
off financed the operations of the
white mule plant and Karlin did the
heavies about the place. It is claim
ed that there was a disagreement
over a split of the emoluments when
Kasoff pulled an automatic pistol
and peppered his partner's raiment.
Kusolt has been In trouble before,
according to the marshal's office, and
has been a resident of Anchorage 2
or three years. Karlin also has been
a resident two or three years.
greater light and apparently for a
brief while become a part of our
system, only to pursue its own way
after discovering the vanity of its
affection. When the comet chances
to cross the orbit of the earth we
experience a meteoric shower. This
I is what we are told is to happen to
us as the result of the visit of Pons
Winnecke.
"Sometimes Jupiter reduces them
entirely to subjection and they stay
on with that planet as part of its
numerous and expansive family. They
then circulate in elliptical orbits
around their substance along their
tails until they become entirely In
visible.
"The tail of a comet in all its
sorgeousness is not a mere append
age. if it were, it would not long
stand the wear and tear that hurt
ling through space would give such
a thin mass of matter, nor could it
be Hipped from one side to the oth
er as is the case when the body pass
es in the neighborhood of the sun.
it must be made largely of dissipat
ing vapor, neyer tha same Jor a sec
ond. volatilizing or vaporizing from
tho heat of the sun. to shift like the
smoke in a chimney with the out
side influences which control it.
"All of us remember Halley's
comet because it appeared in all its
noted briliancv in 1910 on Its 75
year tour of the skies in harmony
with the astronomers' predictions
concerning it. One of the most fam
ous comets in history is that of
IStiO, by which Newton proved that
comets move under the influence of
the gravitation of the sun; it is be
lieved to be the one vhich appear
ed shortly after Julius Ciesar was
murdered, as well as the comet
which caused excitement in f>31 and
in 110t>. If Halley's suspicions he
confirmed that this is the same com
et witil a 575 year period, our pos
terity will hail it in 2255."
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"I tried all kinds of rem
v ' ernes out noming neipea.
I heard about Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and bought them, and
when I had used them about two
months I was completely healed."
(Signed) Bernard Breitenbash, Sher
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