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i©th, 1923, at the postofflce at
>trta, Alaska, under the Act of
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. ; k«Hta. Alaska, March 9, 1929.
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• 2DEN TO URGE BAN ON
TRAPS TO BRING FUR BACKi
(Anchorage ,
ToUl suspension of trapping for a
Hted period is the only way n which
^ “-ska’s fur bearers can be given the
r~->'•> ction their rapidly diminishing
- n-bera demand, in the opinion of i
L. Carwallader, game and fur
warden for the Anchorage district,
~.io returned to his Anchorage head
;-arters last week from a trip into
' Cache creek and Chickaloon dis
• ts. Half-way measures of protec
> will not give the desired results,
'■Sr. Carwallader’s investigations have
- nvinced him. There must be total
-spensin of trapping for a season at
•- ;t, he says, in order to prevent fur-,
' or depletion of the supply.
Mr. Oarwallader says he talked with 1
out 60 trappers on his recent trip
-T d there seemed to be general agree
r r,t among thet*«ti|at» drastic action
- ieede<t He found very little oppo
■n to his suggestion that trapping
t, tota.iy suspended during the com
"•»" year, and it is his intention to
a mit such a proposal to the Alaska
•:-me Commission, conldent that it
*■11 meet with general approval
-Mong trappers who are familiar with
• v situation and who realize the im
; rtance of protection.
Mr. Carwallader went to CantweO
rail and there engaged the services
' L. S. Wickersham and his dog
am. They went from Talkeetna to
- • e Cache creek section, back to the
■ulroad, and down the right-of-way
Wasilla. Later the fur warden
w<nt out the branch line to Chicka
on, where he met and conferred with
- number of trappers of that district.
' • « entire trip consumed a little more
than a month, and everywhere the
warden stopped he was received cor
dially both by trappers and section
men along the railroad.
Small catches of fur have been the
rule among the trappers in the' sec
tions visited. One trapper, who pos
sessed a $50 license, had one pelt to
show for his winter’s work, his entire
catch consisting of one small weasel.
Several others were equally unsuc
cessful, Carwallader learned, and very
few of the trappers seen had made ex
penses, the catch as a whole ranging
from 30 to 50 per cent of last season,
in the districts visited.
The scarcity of furs is attributed by
Mr. Carwallader to excessive trap
ping. He does not put much stock in
the other theories advanced for small
catches. Disappearance of rabbits may
account in a measure for the situa
tion; wolves and coyotes undoubtedly
have contributed to the depletion, but
the warden is sure that overtrapping
has caused the greatest mischief, par
ticularly with regard to the mink sit
uation. If it were a case of migra
tion, Carwallader points out, some dis
tricts would produce normal catches,
but the situation this winter appears
to be much tre same in most sections
of the country. The fur catch is be
low normal everywhere, and in some
sections very much below.
CAUSE OF CANCER AND
A FEW PREVENTIVES
A distinguished British authority,
Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, is positive
that the cause of cancer is known. A
London press dispatch thus quotes his
confident views:
“Cancer is a disease of civilization,'
and never attacks a healthy organ.
Wrong food and -unhygienic living
lead to disaster. Poisons set up by,
constipation give conditions favorable
to cancer. The cancer cell will grow
in a suitable soil, and that soil can
only be provided by the prolonged ac
tion of poisonous elements upon every
component tissue.”
Hope is found by -this eminent au
thority in the public’s improved un
derstanding of health and diet. The
awakening of the British people,
which he describes, is similar to that
of the American public. He notes the
intense interest in Britain in this im
portant subject, shown in Attendance
at lectures and at articles in the news
papers, and still more notably in the
remarkable increase in the number of
fruit and vegetable stores and the at
tractive manner in which their goods
are placed before the public.
In Great Britain, as in thd United
States, the people are turning to
whole wheat and bread of the coqrser
grains, “obtainable not only in the
shops, but also in every large ocean
liner and in most hotels and clubs,
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where Urey were previously conspicu
ous by their .absence.”
Another encouraging trend is the
. r jauej -onsumption of fruit, salads,
cheese.and eggs; the change in
the amount and character of the diet
i business men. and women for lunch
1.0.1; the curtailment of the number of
courses at big dinners; the reduction
of the consumption of meats, sweets
and pastry; and the steady improve
ment in the diet and sanitation of pre
paratory and public schools.
In cancer this British autority sees
“a remorseless enemy which has es
tablished a firm foothold and is exact
ing a mortality far in excess of that
which an invading army could inflict
on us in war.”
Since cancer is.a disease of civiliza
tion, its causes must be sought in civ
ilization’s deviation from the simple
life of primitive man—.the refined diet
of modem times, the indoor life,
faulty posture ire school, factory and
office, and lack of .regular exercise in
the open air.
Generally speaking, civilization eats
too much, is given, too much to wrong
diet, breathes too mueh Stagnant air,
and is deficient in the correctness of
elimination and oxidation.—Ex.
The Shy Generation.
The late Mrs. Mary Emery of Cin
cinnati, who left her fortune of $20,
000,000 to charity, said one day in- a
Y. W. C. A. address; “The young see
more of one another than they did in
my time. They see more of one an
other in every possible sense. It’s-a
good thing, I suppose.
"My generation was too shy. An
Ohio farmer said to his son, a lad of
my generation:
‘“Well, Elmer, did ye take a gal
home from prayer meeting last
night?’ j
“ ‘Yes, sir,’ said Elmer, with a
blush.
“‘Who did ye take home, son?’
“ ‘It was kind o” dark,’ said Elmer,
‘and I thought • I was taking Lizzie
Lippincott home, but when we got
past the hog pound she turr.ned in at
the Sinnickson place, so' it must have
been Ella Shmicksonl'
“ ‘Couldn’t ye spot her. by her voice,
boy?* 1
‘“We didn’t neither -of tis say a
word."* |
Hot "and 'Sarcastic.
Senator Peter Noifbeck was discuss
ing the Teapot Dome case at a Red
field reception.
“Yes,” he said, “that was a very
•ood erample of the retort sarcastic
•n the part of the defense.
“It reminds me of a little man who
v/a'tcd patiently about an hour one
•’ay in a dark, hot'telephone booth,
r'r.a’ty a girl assistant said to him:
‘“Are you waiting for a number?’
“ ‘Oh, no,’ said he, T just stepped in
here to develop a photograph.’ ”
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