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Entered as secona-class matter Au
gust 29th, 1933, at the postoffice at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
htfarch 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, June 9, 1928.
•PRESS SQUIBS.
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Farm relief and thirst relief are:
-'going to be two big issues in the
■next Presidential election.—Winston- ,
•Salem Journal.
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Increasing the number of car own-1
<ers lessens the number of pedestrians
•in two ways.—-Publishers Syndicate
t( Chicago)-.
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Travel is said to enlarge the voeab-j
'alary. We have noticed it sometimes
'broadens the “a."Council BlulTs Non
jpareil.
The British anxiety ijbout war with
'the Arabs can be soothed by calling
It an intervention, and going ahead.—
-Indianapolis News.
We are able to exclude foreigners
’we don’t want in this country, but j
-Nicaragua seems noot to enjoy a sim- \
■ilar privilege.—Virginian-Polit.
The unemployment istuation is re
‘ceivirtg some attention now. No doubt
■it will bob up again right after the
-November election.—Wichita Jour
■nal.
•Many a man who seems to be on
-Easy street is only on Easy Payment
'street.—Virginian-Pilot.
Now, then, to make the blind pig,
'the camel and the donkey lie down
'together.—Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
There may he no mud-slinging in
'next national campaign, but there’ll
'be lots of oil-splashing.—Arkansas
'Gazette.
The American people pay S20.000,
<000 .a year for their music, including
'about SI 5,000,000 worth that isn’t.—
iBoston Transcript.
The movement for restoration of
'the peerage here is gaining little
•headway. In fact, Canada will soon
■TIL" I
be a country without a peer.—Border
Cities Star (Windsor, Canada).
Nowadays when you see a woman
sewing on tiny clothes, she may be
making something for grandma.—
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Liberty bonds in oil transactions
are made to revive the admonition to i
“pay till it hin t s."—Washington Star, i
If the fuelless motor is a go, we
may yet live to see the radio church j
collection.- Milwaukee Journal.
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France is th eonlv big nation with
out a national sport. Gouging the
tourists .- imply a business proposi
tion.—Council Blutfs Nonpareil.
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Often the husband of the poor
bread-making bride can not make the
rolls her father used to pjake either.
J—Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
After reading Lhe day’s news one.
comes to the conclusion that all Eu
rope would go to war if all Europe
! were not afraid to.—Charleston Mail.!
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Now they say some one has been'
| trying to cornea- all the asbestos.!
I Well, there’s nothing like being pre~ i
(pared.—American Lumberman (Chi
cago.
Senator Reed says the issue this
year should be corruption, which
means that he would have even the i
I Presidential canvass done in oils.—
Virginian-Pilot.
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Russian children have been forbid
i den to believe in Santa Claus. Oh,
well, one whisker more or less won’t j
make very much difference over there, j
( —Border Cities Star.
A holy war is reported to be rag
| ing in Arabia. As we understand it, I
| a holy war is about as holy as a civil j
(war is civil.—-New York Evening!
| Post,
( The passing of the feminine stream j
i line silhouette ifrill bring cheer to the
| farmers w4so blame dieting women [
| for the farm crop surplus.—Marshall
; County (Minn.) Banner,
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The British scientist who says the
brain is the only part of the human
machine that doesn't wear out may;
j mean that it is the only part that is
in no dange of being overworked.—
Manchester Union.
Very probably the good mosquitoes
which a French politician says should
be introduced to drive out bad ones
will turn out to be like other reform
parties when they get into power.—
Louisville Times.
They are thieves, liars, murderers,
fiends, devils!” Either faction Of the
Republican party in Illinois regarding
the other faction. Chorus of Demo
crats: “They’re both right.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
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Tobaccos Cigars Cigarets
Apples Oranges
Mutchler Cold Storage Barge j
Pork Beef Veal Mutton j
Boiled Hams Pickled Tongues j
Sausage in variety Head Cheese \
DAVE MUTCHLER - PROP. !
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NIGHT FLYING IS MAKING
AMERICAN AIR MAIL SERV
ICE A PAYING PROPOSITION
WASHINGTON. — “Fly-by-nights”
have put American commercial avia
tion on its feet, and night flying is |
making air mail service a paying'
proposition without any of the Gov-,
ernment subsidies found necessary in
Europe, believes William P. Mc
-ftaeken, Jr., assistant secretary of
commerce for aviation.
Although a few years ago Amer
ican commercial flying was consider
ably behind that of Europe, he says,
the American service is making up its
handicaps by leaps and bounds, large
ly because of the greater proportion
of night flying done in this country.
In Europe, stop-overs are made at
night by commercial airplanes, often
making it necessary to fly through
parts of two days when a single
night would have sufficed.
In the United States, however,
night flying has made it possible to
transfer business mail and checks be
tween many cities without the loss of
a business day in transit, thus saving
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in interest payments for banks
alone.
The result has been a doiSIbling of j
the amount of mail carried, which to- I
taled 1,654,165 pounds last year, as 1
compared with 810,855 pounds in '•
1926.
I he total of American air mail con
tractors’ earnings, in federal pay
ments for mail transport alone,
amounted last, year to $2,364,946.
| This does not constitute a federal ex
j ponse, as it would at first appear,
I since the payments are counterbal
anced by the Government’s receipts
from air mail stamp sales, but it does
I mean that air mail carrying in this
i country is becoming a money-making
! profession without the prop of Gov
! ernment subsidies. In Europe, on the
contrary, government subsidies paid
to the mail contractors amount to
1 one-third of their operating expenses.
In every 24 hours, McCracken says,
a total of some 8,000 miles is flown
by night in this country, whereas in
Europe the only night-flying done is
over the 400-mile Berlin to Moscow
rout. American preponderance in
night flying is even more marked in
view of our inferiority in total mile
age flown both day and night. This
24-hour total fir the United States av
erages only 23,000 miles, against a
European total of 50,000 miles.
This country has air routes totaling
only one-third the length of those in
Europe, 10,710 miles, compared to
33,000 miles on the continent, accord
ing to the department, of commerce
figures. But 6,000 miles of our air
routes are now lighted and regular
night flying is done from New York
to Chicago, Chicago to Dallas, Chi
cago to St. Louis, Chicago to San
Francisco, Los Angeles to Seattle,
Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, and
Cheyenne to Pueblo.
GOVERNOR PARKS STARTS
ON LONG TOUR OF ALASKA
JUNEAU.—Governor George A.
Parks will leave Juneau tonight on
the liner Aleutian on a long trip of
the Territory, which will take him to
almost all of the settled districts on
the mainland of Alaska, with tohe ex
ception of the Bristol Bay region.
The Governor will be accompanied
from Juneau by Robert J. Sommers,
Territorial highway engineer, and
they will be joilned by Major Mal
colm Elliott, president of the Alaska
Road Commission.
The officials plan .to travel at least
5,000 miles, covering half the distance
by airplane, 1,400 miles by steamer,
400 by automobile, and the remainder
by raiL They will study conditions
and inspect airplane sites, and the
Governor will gather data upon which
to base his recommendations to the
next Territorial Legislature.
Governor Parks will have the dis
tinction of ‘being the first Governor
of the Territory to make use of air
planes for an official trip, and .resort
to that means of transportation will |
enable him to crowd an entire season |
of travel by boat and auto into a few j
weeks;.
Advieen from Nicaragua convey the
disquieting: idea that hottled Sandino
has more than one-half of one per
cent kick.—Philadelphia Public Led
ger.
The estimated bird population of
this country is four billion. It is
thought, the estimate was made by a
suburbanite who had just planted a
garden.—Detroit News. j
There, has been some pretty severe |
criticism of Elder Will Hays in the'
Ohio crowd for his financiau dealings j
with Mr. Sinclair, on the ground that j
he gave $100,000 of the $260,000 back, j
—Ohio State Journal.
) Du Rand’s j
! Cafe and j
I Hotel i
■ Flat City
jj' '.—l-l
Booze and Boodle will probably be
the lines of attack in the coming elec
tion.—Brunswick (Ga.) Pilot
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