DEBENTURE PLAN URGED FOR
PLACE IN NE WTARIFF BILL
WASHINGTON.—A place in the
new tariff bill for the Senate’s export
debenture platrmay be urged by pro
mulgators if the principle is not
■written into the final draft of the
farm relief; Hill..
They* use tlr> eargument of ^Chair
man Snell . aC the.- House rules com
mittee, as *u entering wedge. When
th* Senate-agriculture committee put
debenture clause in the farm re
lief bill, Shell characterized! it reve
nuK.-rai.hng legislation, which under
the constitution must o^igrirate in
thfct House.
The Senate legally oould aritl'to-any
tatiff bill passed by the Hodefc a pro
vision authorizing the Secceisary of
thfe Treasury to issue dehebtutes in
the same manner described, in its
farm relief bill
Various members of-. Crfngress and
farm groups have favored. the export
debenture ever since farm- reliei has
been a. problem of national' legisla
tion. Although it has been emphatic
ally opposed by the administration
and leaders of the House majority, its
friends do not w.ish to desert it.
Added to the tariff bill, it would be
operative on commodities not includ
ed' in tariff, schedules or. on- wjiich
overproduction in this, country made
the tariff inactive.
must he said abroad.if it is to be. kept
Wheat is taken as an. example. The
United States .produces a surplus that
most Ke sold abroad-if .it is to be kept
fro mdepressing the domestic market.
It -is a law of economics that a com
modity is worth no", more on the on
tHfe domestic market than its surplus
is worth in the world market.
When export. prices, slump, the der
benture plan would make it possible
for the Treasury to issue, to the ex
poorter a debenture certificate for
not more, than half the tariff on. the
commodity involved.
If it were wheat, on which the pres
ent tariff is 42 cents, tl}e exporter
might get a, debenture of 21 cents a
bushel, plus the price in. the world
market. He could sell the debenture
tto an importer,-who. in turn could
use it in .payment of duties collectable
on imports. An arbitrary debenture
rate, would he fixed for farm commod
ities or.manufactured products there
of) on which there is no tariff.
2. GRADE SCHOOLS; CHICAGO,
ARE DECLARED UNSAFE
CHICAGO. —T.wo grade school
buildings, built lass it.an fivt year*
ago at a. cost of. approximately $500,
000 each, haare been ordered closed
following, statements of engineers
that they were-unsafe for occupancy
H.‘ Wallace Caidrirelt, president oi
thfes BBoardr! of Education^. urgec
State-’s Attorney John A. Swinson t<
make an investigations into circum
stances surroundtiig the schools’ con
struction.
Thirteen, other schools' of t(e sanu
type were .regarded by. the. -engineer:
as: safe: for: the present,, but .will. b<
kept under close crutiny to jireven
further- deterioratiort Ninetem? othei
buildings were considered safe, bu
were said to show faults in almos
every branch^ oft. construction.
Thu condemfied schools, tl . engr
neters said, showed faulty.- design
poor materials, poor wovkn anship
-and neglect of specifications..
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pieci
Both, were ofttreinforced
construction. Caldwell said
oft cement taken from tbe. wal of on:
building crumbled to dust in h
The sclibols were built, whe
lia mKv Dever was maypr an
CRarles Modwwell was presid|»t
the Board ol Education,
said' he would ’demand that it
nitely established who design
built the buildings and■' that
guilty- be prosecuted*?
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PRESS SQUIB Si
The tariff riles the farmer. It goes
against his grain.—Dayton Journal.
Mr. Hoover is an engineer, but we
hope he will also do a little firing.—
American Lumberman.
“The next war will he infinitely
more complicated.” Yes, the Fords
have a hand gear shift now.—Port-j
land Express.
Physician reports that women are
not so nervous as they used to be.
They’re more unruffled top one thing.
—Arkansas Gazette,
A rabbit’s foot .may . be-lucky, but
its original owner wasn’t.-Arkan
sas Gazette.
Bridge has,taught us concentration,
self-control, an dthe art of opening
sardine cans.—Publishers Synicate.
We owe a-.great-deal to-the. Pilgrim
Fathers, says a Boston editor; All
right,, let ’em sue.,—New York; Even
ing Post.
1 Good - manners are like a good di
gestion. If you. don’t, notice them,
they are all-right.-—Fountain Inn (S.
C.) Tribune. .
A • woman has • just been elected
president of the Puzzlers’ League of
America, which,-it seems to us, is as
it should he.—New York. Evening j
Post.
Reports of - another “lost city” j
found in Nevada won’t attract much
interest in this, vicinity.: We I demo
crats lose thei whole State with quad
rennial regularity.—Arkansas G&-1
zette.
It’s easy toiwnake money as ai
farmer. You just work hard for 20,
years and thenwsell out to a golf club, j
i—Fountain Inn,Tribune.
Professor Schaffer,. Kansas Univer
sity, says that.-hBndfolde<l people in
variably travels in circles. A good
many, people don’t, need the blindfold, i
—wicniia r.agie.
■ ■ We’re not: going to get snooty
about the Enatoin theory, hecanse if
there’s nothing, else to be said in'iits
favor, at leant: no one has- written" a
theme, song for. it.—New YorkEven-i
ing Post.
* The Chicago Undertakers’ Assocm-j
tion says that a. funeral costs less
than half as much in Chicago as it;
does in New York. Maes production
certainly cuts down th* high, cost off
dying.-—Chicago Tribune.
The archaeologists have seeured the
assistance of.a railroad time-table ex
pert, and it is thought that the mys
terious inscriptions on the Maya tem
ples, tombs and monuments of Cen
tral America will.soon be deciphered..
—Minneapolis Journal.
Among the cities that arev shooting
up is Chicago.—American Lumber
man.
It’s a_ comfort to; believe, in evolu
tion and assume ■ that man isn’t fin
ished yet—Fountain Inn Tribune.
Travel writer says the Einstein
theory is; attracting'much more pop- '
ular interest in America than in Eng
land. England is used to fog.;—Ar
kansas Zazette.
What we dread to think off is Ein
stein in another world trying to com
municate with Sir Oliver Lodge;—
Dallas. News.
You see, we heed cruisers enough:
to outacrap other nations either way.
—Rochester Times-Union.
k‘ Keeping up the-payments till the
furniture is all ours guarantees some;
of us the possession of antiques.—
Arkansas Gazette.
The Americanisation of Persia
seems to be about 90 per- cent accom
plished. a. survey over there having
shown that only one bride in ten
knows anything about housekeping.—'
New York Evening Post.
Dr. Durant sees the day when men
will do only mental work. That
means we are bound to have a lot of
unemployment.—Indianapolis Stah.
In Mexico parents are to be allowed
to attend school with their children.
Which is going to add to the compli
cations of playing hookey.—Munches-'
ter Union.
A college president says the young
man’s most difficult problem is choos-i
log the right girl to marry. Which
proves, that the prexy has funny ideas
as to who does tfee choosing.—San j
Diego Union.
Scientists, according to a news.*
item, are working with the ameba in i
an attempt to discover some of the.
secrets of man, but, so far as .we are
able to remember at the moment, we
have never confided-, in., one.—Newt
York. Evening Post.
-—~ !
Governor Gore of West Virginia -
was talking at a Charleston luncheon.
about oil troubles.
“Strong measures are. needed/? he
said, “to> save our oil reserves; Yes,
we must cut to the-root of the evil—
not just resort to expediens, like this.
paterfamilias.
“A paterfamilias, with a targe Jfam- j
ily of daughters said to a .friend one
dayy
“‘With all these (daughters of niinei
coming in at all hours, my. night’s
rest osnaturally .much .broken up, and
for some time the consequence was
that I’ doversleep,myself every morn
ing and be late-for work at the- office.
Bad business.’ .
“The. paterfamilias looked gloomy,
then he .brightened up,.
“ ‘But I’ve hit on a splendid expe
dient: now/ he-said. ‘I'va made it af
hand and fast rule that the last girl
in calls me on her way to. bed.’ .”
A. city .-.chap out on a hunting trip;
was crossing a large pasture.
“Say, there, Oorntassel.”. he shout- j
ed .to the farmer-in an adjoining field,!
“is that bull siming there safe?"'
“Wa-al,” drawled the farmer,
rerkon he’s a dan% sigrt safer, than
you are jijit now.”
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
Notice is hereby-.given that the un
dersigned has filed his final report and
account as administrator de bonis non
of the estate of Joe Kermond, de
ceased, and that such report will be
heard and considered by the Probate
Judge of Otter Precinct, Fourth Divi
sion of Alaska, at. his office at Flat,
Alaska, on the 10th day of June A. D.
1929, at the hour of two o’clock in the
afternoon of said day.
All persons having, objections to
such report may be heard at said time
and place.
CHARLES E. TAYLOR,
Administrator de bonis non Es
tate of Joe Kermond, deceased.
First pub., March 30, 1929.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . 00
Tavern Roadhouse ._. 17%.
Knight’s Roadhouse •. 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 58
Diamond Roadhouse. 76
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina. 115
Trappers’ Cabin ... 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 150
Tefida Roadhouse . 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse ___ 187
East Fork Roadhouse __) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse . 227%
Big River Roadhouse. 241
McGrath . 263
Takotna . 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse .. 261
Ophir.. . 300
McCafTerty . 306
Brown Greek shelter cabin .318
Fritz shelter cabin . 333
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Schermeyer R. H. 360
Iditarod.376
Flat . 384
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from, Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza—
Babeesch Moosehide Mitts and Boots
Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fniits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. R. Bdridge
McGrath
TAKOTNA ROADHOUSE
Best , of Meals and Rooms
WhtK' Etrerjthinf Is HamKka
Whare You Are GsrAiUr*
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