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Takotna. Alaska. April 12. 1930. .
PRESS SQUIBS.
Alack for the rarity of naval par
•ty.—Cincinati Times-Star, .
It seems clear that parity does not
derive from the verb “to pare.”—Vir
ggiian-Pilot.
A centenarian in Germany is said
iOi live on onions alone. Naturally he
would be alone.—London Opinion.
That fearless, old-fashioned and
prwetcal New Jersey judge who pre
acrbed spanking for one of the young
reds who came before. him certaioly
atruck a blow at the. seat of com
munism.—Ohio State Journal.
Evila tend .to cure, themselves; and
a* cars get- lqver and trucks get big
ger, only a question of time until
wg can scoot under.—Akron Beacon
jQuraaL .
“A Vienna ..doctor has found a vis
«ms fluid which can be substituted
for brains.” Certain people have been
thinking with something of this sort
for some time.—-Detroit News.
The best cure for insomnia, says a;
doctor, is to sleep with all the bed
room windows open. This is one of
thf few. sleeping drafts that can be.
obtained without a doctor’s prescrip
tion.—Humorist.
Minnesota .reports the formal, or
ganization of. a. “Sone of. the Wild
Jackasses Glub.”.They will watch and
bray.—Dallas News,
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Middle-age is the period when you
know a dozen dandy ways to regain
aim and vigor if you only had time.—
Publishers Syndicate.
The Kellogg treaty is such a per
fect guaranty against war that the
Powers are about to decide they can
got along wth just a few more war
sflps than they had when they sgned
t-T-San Kranciac* Union.
Mp CoohdgT lists the acquisition
•C, California as onne of the eight im
portant, events in U. S. history. The
party doesn’t really need Florida,
anyway.—Syracuse Post-Standard.
Prohibition enforcement will be
transferred to the Department of
Justice. Now, perhaps, there will
less of the other stuff transferred
the Department of the Interior
Amercan Lumberman.
The ideal naval conference would
be one in which each nation was al
lowed to designate the class of ships
it wanted everybody to scrap; this
would result in total disarmament.—
New York Times.
'I S %
THE LITERARY DIGEST POLL.
(Juneau Umpire.)
U hile the number of votes can
vassed in the nationwide poll of The
Literary Digest on prohibition is in
consequential in relation to the total,
to be taken, vet the early trend to
ward a change in the present status
cannot be without significance. Fig
ures for the second week’s count,
representing less than 5 per cent of
the estimated 20,000,000 votes to be
cast, show both re real and modifica
tion are ahead of enforcement, anil
that the first two combined, termed
by The Digest as “wets” and
"moists,' have a majority of almost
three to one over the third group.
The fairness .of The Digest’s poLs
has been too well established for it
to be seriously questioned in this in
stance. Undoubtedly, the vote o far
is representative of a cross section of
the population In 20 States a d
- .strict of Columbia from which it
was taken. And regardless of the
final outcome of the balloting, the re
sult will fairly depict, we believe, the
sentiment of the country as a whole.
Some eight years ago The Digest
took its first poll on national prohi
bition, something that has gen-erally
been overlooked since the. present
canvass was an wan need- In 1922,
when prohibition was comparatively
new. it conducted a poll on a basis of
totes apportioned, among the States
in accordance with their population.
The result of this was as follows:
MAIN POLL..
Dryr Those ;n fayor of the
Volstead law and the 18th
amendment .._. 306,25?
Moist: Those in favor of
wine and beer or total re
peal ._ 490,001
SEPARATE OMAN'S POLL.
Dry: Those i nfavor of the.
Volstead Law and the 18th
amendment___48,4$5
Moist: Those in fayor of wine
beer or total.repeal-62J362
MAIN POLL AND WOMAN’S
POLL COMBINED.
Dry: Those in. favor of the
V olstead law and the ISth
amendment . 354,740
Moist: Those in favor of wine
and beer or total repeal —S5&363
Thus even eight years ago the wets
and moderate wets were more numer
ous than the fanatical drya. In fact,
46 out of the 48 States disapproved
prohibition as is at that time—only
WILLIAM K. KELLER
FOB
Commissioner of Education
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X. He foaais for tie beet schools for your district, whether
located. in rural or city districts.
2. He witt restitute a business «HwNiiOf»iw>w for Alaska
Public Schoot System.
8. Ha wi# keep school affairs out of politics.
4. Ha will not "‘side-step” the responsibilities already placed
upon that office.
6. tta wiH wets for the adoption of a *» ***-**»,- ennati
continuing educational policy by the Territory. .
®* H* baa proves himself to be a progressist,, capable school
T. Has bad twice as Jong school
A|»4USAN FOB COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.
Kansas and Oklahoma giving dry ma
jorities.
Congress at that time took no offi
cial notice of the Digest's poll and its
results. Perhaps it took the view that
prohibition was too recent to have
had a fair chance. And the Anti-Sa
loon League and its allies were even
more powerful then than they are
now, while there was no organized
opposition. Today the opponents of
prohibition have organizations which
are leading in the effort to effect a
change.
\V ith this unity ol effort, and eiyht
years more of experience from wuieh!
to uraw conclusions than >vere avail-1
able in 1^22, it seems not unreason
able to conclude that a wet majority
out of 20,000,000 votes actually cast
would not be allowed to pass un-;
noticed by the nation’s lawmakers.
AIRPLANE HAZARD REMOVED
BY BOOT ON. EDGE OF WING
ITHACA, N. Yr—Overshoes for
airplanes as a new method for keep
ing their wings free from deadly ice
was announced by Cornell University
to have been developed by. Dr. Wiiiia™
Geir, research chemist.
The overshoes lace over the for
ward edge of th^ wing and are a thin
layer of specially vulcanized rubber,
exuding continually a colorless oil.
which is the secret of their success. '
it was announced. that ice does not
stick nor the oil scrub off. Slipperi
ness alone is insufficient, so the .over
shoes have a small hose under the
under the striking edge. The slight
pulsation of a pump driving all
through this hose expands the hose
and breaks ice as it fqrms on the
wing ends and so prevents air from ,
preswing and forming ice. Fastened
to the wing, it is designed far 3 bad <
weather only. It.* js not heavy or
cumbersome, but ads 100 pounds to a
biplane with a 40-foot wing spread- j
NEW AWELANE. SHOWS '
SAFETY TEST FUG UTS
BERLIN.—A “fool proof’ pla e,
which refuses to tip over or go into
a tail spin, w«a demonstrated h
day bet ore a large group c;
nautical experts and nearer.. _
although Herr -Von Kaeppen, _.rc.tor
of the testing institute, tried every
conceivabie stunt, the plane per
formed in a remarkably dependable
manner, refusing to tip over ox tail
spin, either at fall speed .or with mo
tor retarded.
The plane is * .regular fivp-passen- ]
ger ship, with special wing construe
lion, so similar in appearance to the
ordinary plane that the differences
are apparent only to experts.
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Sauce for the Drake.
A certain club had had replaced its
ramttiar black-coated servitors with
young ana, sometimes, pretty wait
resses. One erf the old die-hard mem1
bers who had strongly opposed the
idea dropped into lunch one day.
“Hows the duck today?” he
growled, glowering at the girl who
came to serve him.
“Oh, l m all right," said the wait
's, perkily. “How are you, sir?”-1—
_ .ookiyn Eagle. j
Talking Turkey.
Irate Master (to Negro servant—
“Kastus, 1 thought. I told you to get
a domestic turkey, this one has shot
in it.”
Kastus—“I done got an domestic
turkey, sir.”
Master—“Well, how did the shot
get in it?”
Kastus—“1 'specks they was meant
foor me, suh.”—Railroad Magazine, ^
“llad,” said the,beautiful young
girl, “George and 1 are two souls with
but a .single thought.”
“Dun >. let that discourage you,” re
plied the father kindly; “that’s one
more than ypur.-mother and I had
when we were-married.?
Try a Fishhook.
The town of Funkville has a regu
latio nagainst bare legs on the street.
Flesh-colored hose was a problem.
They solved that nicely by watching
for the seam. Then came seamless
hose.
“How can I tell whether these girls
have bare legs or not?” was the
plaint ox a policeman on guards.
• a inc.i ’em,” was the only sugggs
tion he got.—Louisville Courier-Jour- -
nal.
Flora—'Are you sure he laves .
you? Tim ir isn't your money,”
Dora—“He swore he had worshiped .!
me since he first saw me.”
“Where was that at?”
“At the beach last summer.”
“Were you in a bathing suit?? ’
“Why, yes."
“He’s after your money.”
Erank JL. Guskey,
Notary Publicc
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