THE KUSKO TIMES
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Jffust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
'Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
TiMarch 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, February 23. 1929.
WHAT RADIO WILL ACCOMPLISH.
The average individual turns a knob
or two on his radio and-enjoys a pro
gram of music, lecture or some form
•of entertainment, giving little thought
to the great uses other than enter
lment to which radio and wireless are
• being put.
In this modern.age of ours nothing
: seems impossible, and man has surely
• done much to conquer the air. Com
lberce and industry save millions of
• dollars annually by the widespread
• use of radio, other than that of com
munication, and while we enjoy the
free use of the radio within our
ihomes, we should ponder over these
■•other great achievements.
Millions have been saved for the
•shipping industry alone by radio as a
•navigation aid. The United States
ilighthouse service maintains radio
• beacons at all strategic points along
• the -coast, and huge ocean liners are
tthus kept on thCr. course.
Radio beacons have played a large
ipart in aviation as direction finders.
The large power companies in neai
-!y every big city find radio an invalu
able aid in detecting an approaching
-'storm.
Geologists in oil-producing States
‘are now using radio to discover oil -de
] posits.
•Use of-radio .as an aid to minerolo
igists seeking to discover precious
• metal or ore deposits in the earth is
‘another recent development. Radio
impulses are discharged through the
‘area to be tested and the mineral is
•detected by -a process similar to that
iin ‘discovering oil.
Naval expertts have now perfected
•means of controlling a ship % radio,
-and the battleship Iowa was sunk in
tthis way some years ago by the
•United States navy. Experiments sire
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now being conducted in radio control
of vessels by the German navy. A
manless ship has been sent out to sea
and steered entirely by radio control.
Other noncommunication uses of
radio include the growing art of tele
vision, transmission of facsimile mes
sages and photographs and the util
ization of radio in i connection with
“wired wireless.” Railroads are also'
saving time and labor by installing
radio on long freight trains for com
munication between caboose and en
gine.—Exchange.
INFLUENZA STILL BAFFLES
STUDENTS OF THAT DISEASE
n ASHINGTO'-! — Science has marie
little progress . •• solving the bull'llng
r 'blems of the cause and control of
influenza since Hie world-wide •epi
demic of nil's, ‘> i‘. nevertheless has a
J r omewhat bei' . understanding of the j
: disease than a* that tune,
i .although well known health author
ities disagree on methods for preven
! tion of the spread of the disease, vir- ;
tually all, including Surgeon General'
Hugh S. Gumming of the Public1
Health Service, are rn accord fhat per
sons who develop It sfhouffl go to ibefl
and stay there until they have recov- :
ered definitely. General aflegsttion of
such procedure., they helieve, •would1
save a great many lives.
Epidemics uf influenza have swept
the world at intervals for ■several teen- !
turies. The major epidemics have1
come about one* every 80 years, with |
lesser outbreaks intervening, indicat- j
ing insofar as such statistics can he |
relied upon first the present situation
in America probably falls into the lat
ter classification.
The "big 1918 epidemic served to em
phasize the meagerness of exact |
knowledge about The disease and stim-'
ulated research workers everywhere
to groater efforts than had eve been
made befoe to meet fhe deficiency.
This work has contiaued •wifhottt ,flin
, couragenrent, of of progress act
ing on the scientific mind as an added
I stimulus rather than & hindrance.
The investigators "have Tearnefl
more definitely than "known before
that the disease is coirrmunirable, and
■ that it apparently can he .■spread by
■ persons who are seemingly in good
health .-as well as by those who sire in
j fected.
A number oT different germs "have
been identified with fhe condition in
the last ten years, but none has been
found present, consistently leaving
the bacteriological aspect of the prob
lem in considerable confusion.
ALASKA MUST HAVE ROADS.
; Good Toads are essential to Alas
kans -welfare. Highway improvements
have always resulted in quick devel-1
| opment of resources. Continued thor
: oughfare construction will make ac
cessible large areas of natural wealth
i that can not now be exploited because
i of lack of transportation facilities.
| Dog sled trails and rowboat streams
l ean not serve -present needs. Until
the building of roads and the comple
tion of thft Government railway, pro
gress, except in a few ridh placer dis
tricts, followed the tines of sea coast
or the courses of "navigable rivers.
I Introduction of modern overland traf
I fic advantages 1u»t- leneBted the in
| teior, but they must "be incrqpsed to
; encourage and to render -possible the
j undentaking oif extensive enterprises
j of ahy sor*.
Major Malcolm Elliott, Corps of
Engineers, U. S. A., president of the
-Alaska Road Commission, reports that
the Richardson highway ^between Val
j dez and Fairbanks, and tffae Steese
! road between Fairbanks -and Circle,
, together with their network of feed
I ers, constitute a total of 1,623 miles.
■ He figures that on these thorough
| fares, which are traveled more than
j any others, motor conveyance is only
; one-fourth the cost of dog-sled or
pack-mule transportation.
What has been accomplished in the
past is gratifying and has effected all
i that could be expected in the circum
stances, but it is .merely indicative of
larger and better results in future.
Since the organization of the Com
mission in 1906 the sum of $13,300,
000 has been expended on northern
roads. Little enough, considering the
extent and requirements of the Terri
tory.—Seattle Times.
SEN. VANDENBERG SEES
SEA CUT IN EIGHT YEARS
GRAND RAPIDS.—In the next
eight years the St. Lawrence water
way will be built, United States Sen
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg predicted
today in an address before the Asso
iation of Commerce.
His message was that it is novi
time far Grand Rapids to concern it
self aggressively^with.adequate direct
highways ..to Lake Michigan and i
make itself an aggressive part o.
every movement foriharbor develop
ment and improvement.
Senator Vandenberg said the St.
Lawrence . highway ..as now planned
will permit 88*.per .cent of the cargo
ships upon all .oceans to enter the
Groat .Lakes at tidewater without
breaking .cargo. -He stated that this
will nave the Middle Western farmer
an average of at. laast<$20,000,000 ..a
| year on export* wheat alone, and ..he
I pointed out that although Michigan .4s
a thousand: miles from-apy ocean it is
j already the third largest .. exporting
State in the-Union iiarid therefore
| stands to gain immaasnxhljiyjfroTiiAhe
| new water access to the sea.
“Of Tall the 22-States and .the 40,
OOOjOOOjaaople to be helpfully touched '
by this greatest .adventure since,
Roosevelt .bisected Banana, Michigan
has Che greatest stake of all,”the de
clared.
Heviawing.tbe. rivalry ithat has ex
! isted .between the St. Lawrence route
and the .New York- routp,..a. rivalfy
which he said had impeded^: progress
in the enterprise,.Sena tor Yandenberg
asserted Jbe recent juitioaal election
I had settled this “for keeps,” because
j “Hoover,.the eqgine&r, long since took
j nls unequivocal stand in_favor of the
I St. Lawrence, -and. .Hoover, the presi
: dent, will carry on.”
"As Jar . Eastern . Michigan, this
waterway can make Detroit the great
est seaport in the world,” he . declared.
me'" cau.
■n»e late Marcus Loew, the movie
millionaire, said one day to a New
j York reporter:
“When :* man don’t Iiker.his work
his work don’t:!ike him.
“A friend of minelihnrriid into his
office and found. Jus. clerk asleep one
morning 10 o’clohk. (It? wasn’t the
first .time, either.
"®y friend'waked .the clerk up and
said:
“ Wau can-go, Meyerpat Ithe end. of
the month I1
“ gosh,’ said Meyer, 'what
need to call me- so- soon for that V ”
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