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THE kusko times
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Entered as second-class matter
August 29th, 1923, at the postoffice
at Takotna, Alaska, under the Act
of March 3rd, 1879.
GOVERNMENT AND TAXES
This is a big country we live in.
But nothing in this country grows
as fast as government, except taxes.
They are joined together. They are
our Siamese twins.
Under stress of the times, the
Federal government is giving us a
colossal demonstration of the truth
of the statement that taxes grow as
fast as government.
mis growtn is also snown Dy ine
increase of state debts in most of
our states, although state taxes are
not as burdensome to us as local
or Federal taxes.
In 1884, half a century ago, the
state debts of all the states totaled
274 million dollars. Within the next
40 years, down to 1923, this total
had grown to 1,034 million dollars,
an increase of 280 per cent. Eight
years later, or by 1931, this billion
of state taxes had grown to more
than two billions' of dollars, an in
crease of 1#0 per cent in 8 years.
What an we going to do about
these twins? I don’t know. I only
know we shall have to do some
thing. —Capper’s Weekly.
ON LEARNING TO LIVE.
We can’t all he clam diggers or
pajnters or heroes, but we can learn
to live, every one of us. Some folks
have a way of making fun of people
who love beauty* Why? Nothing
contributas so mucfh to living as a
knowledge of beauty -and a love of
> it. Beauty of color, beauty of move
ment, beauty of line, beauty of
sound. Don’t be ashamed to delight
in colors; don’t think it unmanly to
love color; don’t think you are “soft”
because music “gets” you. On the
contrary, it is the appreciation of
such things that takes you almost
half way to the knowledge of how
to live. —Grover C. Orth.
GREAT MEN ^
Subtract from a great men all
that he owes to opporunity, and all
that he owes to chance, alj that he
has gained by the wisdom of his
friend, and by the folly of his
enemies, and our Brobdignag will
often -became a Lilliputian.
—Colton.
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TWENTY YEARS AFTER
Twenty years ago the ncspapers
of the nation were recording the
assassination of the heir to the Aus
trian throne, the Archduke Ferdin
and, at Sarajevo.
Newspaper editorials speculated
on the future of the Austrian king
dom as a result of the assassination,
hut it was many days before it was
realized that a fuse had been lighted j
fchpt would blast the entire world i
into a destructive war that was to!
estroy the lives of millions of men, I
maim countless more, and bring
about an economic collapse second j
to none .in world history.
The press of 20 years ago was also
recording the Mexican intrigues, the:
anti-child labor movement, the j
growth of prohibition, minimum j
wage agitation, tenement house im-1
provement and the Republican tariff.
A comparatively mild business de-j
pression had also been recognized,1
orchestras were playing “Darden- !
ella,” and ball room dancers were
occupied with the Turkey Trot atid
the One Step.
In congress Progressives like Sen.
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., were ob
taining increased recognition in their
fight for liberal legislation and the
Republican Old Guard machine was
| making its plans to cut down Dem-!
ocraic representation in the Wilsoni- j
an congress.
Today the nation looks back over
the 20 years since the World war
with mixed emotions. The peoples
of the civilized world have suffered
shocking creulities and disasters as1
a result of false leadership On the j
other hand, ideals of two decades
ago have in some measure been ful
filled. “Radicalism” of those days i
.has been written into law and is con
sidered commonplace.
The Roosevelt program has in the
space of a few short months put in-1
to force principles that 20 years ago
were considered as the flimsiet of
visions. The texture of government
has changed, and yet in spite of
definite advance and improvement
world peace is scacely better insured
today than it was when the assass
in’s pistol spoke at Sarajevo.
The world does move, and yet
fundamentally it is beset by the
same hatred, jealousies and misun
derstandings that brought on the
-ar. The international amity that
was suppose to follow war to make
safe for democracy is a fiction. Dol
lar diplomacy still prevails.
The nations of the world are far
from finding a specific to cure the
illls of what we are prone to call
civilized mankind. Perhaps the his
torians of 20 years from now will
know a bit more of what it’s all
about.—Progressive.
LITTLE THINGS
Oh, it’s just the little homely things,
The unobtrusive, friendly things,
The “Won’t-yourjet-me-help-you ?”
things
That -make our pathway light.
And it’s just the jolly, joking things,
The '“Never-mind-.the-trouble” things,
The “Laugh - with - me - it's - funny”
thing?,
That make the world seem bright.
For all the countless famous things,
The wondrous .record - breaking
things,
Those never-canrho-egualed things
That all the papers cite.
Aren,t like the little -human things,
The every-day encauntered things,
The “Just-because-rl-Uke-ynn** things,
That make us happy quite.
So here’s to all itlje 1 little things,
The done-and-theffirforgotten things,
Those “Oh, jits simpjy-nothing
thing?,
That make lifc warjfli the flight.
—Grace Haines.
SAN FRANCISCO TO HAVE A
WORLD’S FAIR IN 1938.
San Francisco is planning n
World’s fair for 1938 to celebrate
completion of the world’s largest
bridges now being built. The main
span, 814 miles long, will connect
San Francisco, which is on a pen
insula, with Oakland, Berkeley and
Alameda acres tshe bay on the
mainland. Another span will cross
the Golden Gate, entrance to San
Franciseo’s harbor, connecting Sa.:
Francisco with the Marin shore
mainland to the north. These brid
ges will tie a group of populous
cities around the bay into one great
community of more than 2,000,000
persons. The bridges which are to
cost SI 10,000,000 are to be open for
traffic some time in 1937. The fair
of 1938, for which a site has already
been selected, is to outshine in every
way the San Francisco fair of 1915
which commemorated completion of
the Panama canal.
ALASKA NOTES
NOME, Oct. 29.—The fall report
from mining sections is that it has
been a very successful season. The
good output far exceeding that of
last year.
The steamers Northland and Vic
toria left Nome on their last trip
south. The Victoria had a full load
of passengers and several hundred
thousand dollars worth of gold on
board.
Building and preparation for the
winter is going on rapidly with
every available man being employed.
Equipment' for Nome’s newspaper,
the Nome Nugget, arrived recently
and will be set up for use in a
short while.
WASHINGTON. — In a recent
speech, Delegate Dimond claimed
that the U. S. government should
provide adqeuate protection for Alas
ka. He said it is folly to let Alaska
lie defenceless as in the past.
TCETCHIKAN, Oct. 30.—Five men
in the halibut fishing boat Gloria
narrowly escaped death when the
craft caught on fire. The crew was
rescued by a coast guard boat. The
fire "was of an unknown origion and
it destroyed' the ship completely.
JUNEAU—'Gov. Troy in a recent
interview said that the pack of -Alas
ka canneries has reached the total
of 7,300,001) cases for this year with
a $40,000,000 value for the salmon.
He further stated that -gold ship
ments from Alaska ntfill exceed that
of last year by $11,000,QUO.
SEATTLE ,Oct. 30.—Beaver skins,
8,500 of them, confiscated in 1933 j
will be sold at public auction shortly.1
The skins which were taken in viola
tion of the Alaska Game Laws, were'
shipped from Dutch Htobor, Alaska.
Fairbanks, Oct. 30.—^Richard A.
Motsechman, 71, old tuttfr, - died to
day at St. Joseph hospital.
Mr. Motsechman was * born in
Illinois coming to Dawson in ’95.
Later he was a trader on the Yukon,
and settled in Fairbanks in 1923.
A wife and ten children;: survive.
SEATTLE, Oct. 31.—Gov. Troy,
of Alaska is confined tor a local
hospital where he is -resting.
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