the kusko times
a. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Published Every Saturday
$1 Per Month
Advertising Rates.
Bteading matter, per line, per
issue . <s •>*>
•■-egal advertisements, per line,
issue ....20
Transient display, per inch, per
issue (minimum charge $1).50
Entered as secona-ciass matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoftiee at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, June 29, 1929.
iSTEFANSSON FORESEES
'“REINDEER AGE” RETURN
LONDON.—That the human race
would enter another “reindeer age”
within half a century was the predic
ation made today by Vilhjalmur Stef
umsson, celebrated Arctic explorer,
who said that the principal meat sup
ply of the world within live decades
would come from Alaska, Siberia and
•Canadian reindeer instead of from
tthe steers of the cattle ranges.
In an exclusive interview with the
^United Press, the Arctic explorer em
phasized the fact that the reindeer of
tthe Arctics were far more economical
ias afood than the cattle which have
To be foraged during the winter
lmonth son the American and Argen
ttine ranges.
Stefansson pointed out that rein
«deer live on grass during the summer
liime, in the popular belief
.that there no crass in the eolrt
teountry, and that during the winter
• they subsist on lichens bushes. When
'.they are slaughtered, he said, all the
jpackers have to do is to hang them
iout in the open air and the following
?morniitg they will be completely
ffrozen and ready for shipment.
Even during warm summer months,
iStefansson said, Uic- slaughtered ran
♦deer can be stored just a few feet un
der the surface of the ground, where
tthe permanent Arctic frost will keep
vthem preserved for a lonj^Teriod, in
natural refrigerator.
Stefansson, who has lived on rein
uJeer meat for many months at a time
♦during his exploration trips, said
Tnere was little difference between
tthe taste of beef and reindeer.
The explorer said it would soon be
necessary for the world to substitute
ireindeer meat for beef, due, first, to '
tthe United States’ embargo on Ar-'
Argentine supply was diminishing
jgenline beef, and to the fact that the '
because of the growing of their own
meat products.
Stefansson also tookoecasi on de
tride the popular belief that the na
itives of the Arctic zone were descend
ants of the ancient Greeks, a belief,
‘he said, which is taught even in the
text books of the modern univessities
throughout th eworld. He character
ized the belief as “mythology of the
Arctics.”
WATER ROUTES SAVE MIL
LIONS, SAYS WAR SEC. GOOD
CHICAGO. — Secretary of War
James W. Good told Chicagoans to
«iay that their city, afflicted with
bootleggers, gangsters and racket
eers, is mainly suffering with grow
ing pains.
“We kno wfull well Chicago is not
as bad as sometimes represented,” he
said, in addressing the Bankers’ club.
In discussing the city’s needs, he
aeclared the inland waterways pro
gram must be carried forward as
rapidly as appropriations from Con
gress will justify.
“It is calculated that improvement
of. rivers and harbors has lopped
;x, .i«ii—t-j _j._u.;
$600,000,000 annually from the coun
try's frt ight bills,” Secretary Good
said. “Great Lakes improvements,
by no means adequate as yet, are sav
ing $200,000,000 in each year’s trans
portation costs.
“Alreadv 50,000,000 tons of freight
move annually by the Mississippi
river system. And all these figures
will seem paltiy to the future, not a
distant future either, when the ports
of the wi rltl will send their argosies
of trade to the water fronts of the
Great Lakes cities, and a tamed and
harnessed Mississippi will bear the
vastly increased burdens of which it
is capable.
“It appears, following the report of
the jo i t board of engineers, that a
St. Lawrence waterway suitable for
ocean going travel car be provided
for from SIT 1,000.000 to $189,000,000,
on the assumption that power bears
the cost of the works built jointly for
power, a d half the cost of the works
built jointly for power and naviga
tion.’’
The dream of the Mid-West of a
nine-foot channel from Chicago to
the Guf soon wil* oc a reality, tht;
speaker said. The administration is
committed to the program and so far
as the completion of the Govern
ment's part in the project is con
cerned there will be no unnecessary
delay.
Secretary Good said the people of
the Mississippi valley are entitled to
improvement of that river also.
SEES DRASTIC PRICE REDUC
TIONS IN FLYING MACHINES
ST. LOUIS.—Two transportation
| leaders, W. B. Stout, Detroit airplane
"esigner, and W. W. Attexbury, pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
predicted today that within live years
there will be 100,000 airplanes in the
United States and that New York and
j San Franciscb will be only 46 hours
distance By jlil and plane.
Stout said he expected airplane
piw uuuuie every year lur
the next four years.
“Planes which now sell for $2,500
to $25,000 will be as cheap as $1,500
in five years, and eventually even
S500,” he said.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Atter
bury said, is now testing ten planes
with which it expects soon to inaug
urate 46-hour air-rail service from
coast to coast, a saving of two days’
traveling time.
“The schedule is to leave New York
at night,” he said, “go over the moun
tains in a sleeper, transfer to a plane
at Columbus, 0., fly to* Wyanoke,
Okla., transfer to a sleeping car there
and take to the air again at Clovis,
N. M., for San Francisco or Los An
geles. ’
PRESS SQUIBS.
The Democratic party’s first job is
to re-jell the Solid South.—Arkansas
Gazette.
How simple flood control will seem
to Mr. Hoover after trying his hand
on Congress.—Bethlehem Globe.
Poison gas has been barred for the
next war, which means that someone
has thought up som^hing worse.—
New York Evening Post.
Living within the income means
living without the worry.—Boston
Herald.
Bricklayers of New York are to re
ceive $15 per day. This may enable
them to get out of debt at last, unless
their chauffeurs demand an increase.
—Key Features, Inc.
You can’t destroy a class system in
a land where everybody hopes to be
long to the upper class next year.—
Erie Times.
Well, if he that exalteth not him
self shal be exalted, the future is rosy
for Mr. Gann.—Publishers Syndicate.
Jugoslavia has a minister for so
cial affairs in its cabinet. That’s what
we ned if any more dinner-table pro
cedure is to besettled.— .St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Already sound and color have been
added to the movies, and smell is said
to be next. How about a little more
taste?—Christian Science Monitor.*
i A scientist has discovered that fear
reactions originate in the brain. That'
explains why it is next to impossible
to scare some people.—The Arizona
i Producer.
| -
1 It’s a funny thing:, but you never1
i hear of a Mediterranean fly or weevil
of any sort going around putting the
spinach crop on the blink.—Macon
Telegraph.
The warden isn’t going to permit
Mr .Sinclair to have .his meals sent
in from a fashionable Washington
hotel, as had been planned. We must,
regard this as a blow at the Bigger
and Brighter Jails movement.—^Chi
cago Tribune.
It’s a dull day in the news when a.
I search plane isn’t being sent out to
hunt for the search plane that was
sent out to hunt for the search plane
that got lost i nthe first place.—The
that was sent out to hunt for the
plane that fot lost in the first.place.
—The Arizona Producer.
Now that he’s off the payroll, the
milleriium looks different to Trotzky. i
Dallas News.
Stop the flow of liquor lat its
mouth, and the source would doubt
less soon dry up.—Christian Seienr
i Monitor.
It does beat all how the price of
| wool keeps up, considering the num- !
j ber of lambs that get 'shorn in Wall
I Street.—The Arizona Producer.
I - i
! Experiments in Cleveland show
j that electricity is the cause of life. So
! it seems we are nothing but:a lot of,
current events.—The New .Yorker.
William A. dark, 3rd, thinks he
left $65,000 worth of jewels in to tax- j
icab. There now remains no sphere •'
of women’s activities that men have;
not invaded.The New Yorker. I
And now as we were about to say
before we had to send out that police
call, some friends of Mr. Einstein of
relativity fame insist that Tie is not1
an atheist or an agnostic, but that he
“believes in the God, of "Spinoza.” It
sounhs like a Southern statesman 'ex
plaining that he is a Hoover Demo
crat.—Chicago Tribune.
Physiologist says inability to keep!
a secret is a physical rather than a :
psychological failing. Something
wrong with the secretive glands,?—
Gazette.
I --.■
McGrath
Pool Hall
Fresh Fruits
Candies
Tobaccos
Pipes
Cigarettes
Soft Drinks
Cigarette Holders
FRANK LANGE
Proprietor
Anchorage Air
Transport, Inc.
f;
f,
A. A. SHONBBCK,
Manager
I
Most Modem
* >
wire Ds, coiled Planes In Alaska
Takotna Pool Hail
Fiesh. Fruits Candies Soft Dimks
Tobaccos Cigars Cigarefcs
Apples Oranges
Charlie O’Halloran - - Prop.
Max Simel : Sr
STATION: FaIKVIEW. IXNOKO RITER.
Miners’, Prospectors’ and
Trappers’ Supplies
FREIGHTING
General Transportation
How About Wood Hauling?
Joe Ferris - - Tdkotna