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I Senator Couzens Says
Prohibition Unsound,
Cannot Be Enforced
New York.—Senator James Couzens.
'i republican, of Mibigan, on arrivrl
» bore today, reaffirmed tiis recent stand
that prohibition in the United States
*• is unsound and cannot be enforced.
‘•The liquor question is not settled,”
said Mr. Couzens. "It is futile to say.
that Washington has settled the booze
« question. There is no use to play the
ostrich and stick one's head in the
sand, and because we do not see things
sa.v that they do not exist.”
♦ ‘Then what would you propose?” he
■*h[s asked.
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•'Congress should amend the Vol
stead clause making the present clause,
‘Any beveruye which contains one half
of one per cent.’ read 'Five per cent or
snore of alcoholic content is prohibited.'
“I think now as I thought when l
went to Europe in July,” said Couzens.
‘‘instead of hedging and reneging, I
stand firmer on this Pquor question
limn ever before. I do know personally
that prohibition cannot be enforced.
‘'The principal reason that we cannot
continue ini ■ ibition is that people do
not want it. I do not know anything
about Veimont or about tbe smaller
towns. .Ido know that, New York does
not want it, and Detroit doesn’t, and
many other of the larger cities. Of
couise there are arid regions in the
United Siaies where prohibition is
wanted, but I don’t think that those
areas make up the majority of the peo
pie.”
‘‘You have courage to speak this
way,” the senator was told b\ his intor
v iewers.
“Many other senators and congress
man say the same thing, but refuse to
be quoted. It is because they lack
courage,” was the quick reply. "It is
for this verv reason that our congress
men place their jobs above helping
conditions in Europe or helping the
Americun farmer or many other issues
that there is so much uncertainty to
day.
"We have too many congressmen, or
politicians, who think, more of their
jobs than thev do of the welfare of the
country. Just as long as this is their
attitude, so ]<.ne will we have ihe con
ditions we have to contend with now.
"Don’t get me wrong,” he added. "I
don’t want to put across any idea that
a man should not care for his job, tint
he should place principle and sincerity
first. They are doing the reverse, and
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smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
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Tokotna, Alaska
first deal with ihe job aud then with
their conscience. ”
‘•Perhaps, ’ it wu9 suggested, “the
congressmen would behave better if
thev received more pay.”
“I don’t think so at all,” said the
senator. “Thev ate being paid too
much as it is. Here we are almost
through with the .tear of 192a and the
congressmen have worked but twoi
months out of the whole year.”
Asked as to Henry Ford’s possible
'candidacy for the presidency. Couzens
said:
“If Mr. Ford is nominated on the
democratic ticket he will be elecird.
And for that matter, 4f he were nomi
| nated on any other ticket now known
, he would lie elected.”
Alaska News Notes
After a residence ol 27 years in the
Interior, Charles Smith, miner end
prospector, is taking his tirst vudatmn
Outside. Mr. Smith was one of ti e
tirst arrlvalson the soene.of the Fa r
banks strike, following right on tbs
heels of Wada, the Jap. He remaimd
io Fairbanks until the Iditarod stam
jtede, which he joined, and has been n
'nearly all of the stampedes of the
Northland. _
H. W. Seilaoder, representing Se
attle capital, is seeming options on
ground on Metal creek, and it is ex
1 pected that operations on a large scale
will he instituted there next summer.
Metal creek ii about forty miles fr> m
Malanuska arid atiout twenty-eight
miles from the railroad.
S. D. Carter, for more than fourteen
I years chief clerk of the Alaska Plead
Commission, fit st at Skat waj , then at
Vuldev. and then at Juneau, recently
resinned his position. He has bought,
a tract of land oo Bainbridge island,
near Seattle, and plans to remain iheie
in the future
Plans are under way at Anchorage
for the construction of acommunit\
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I house, with a gymnasium, social ni l ,
| library and reading room under r'O
I roof. The estimated cost of the builu*
ling is $20,000, which it is proposed to
| raise by popular subscription.
Vic Olson and associates have taken
a lease on the Haw son coal mine od
| Moose creek, and left Anchorage a
! short time ago for the purpose of siatt
! ing prelimioary work prior to opening
i ing the mine, in another month. ,
Sevemv-five luxes, constituting
j the lirst o( the animals for the Gultl
1 stein Glacier fox farm, were .received
at J uneau recently, -and were -taken at
once to the ranch, where they were
turned loose in ■ he pens.
Paul Buck lev, pioneer of the Cook
Inlet country one of the original dis
coverers of gold on Crow creek, and
until about a year ago deputy U. S.
marshal ai Uu.-laska. is now located on
a farm in King county, Washington.
One of the largest herds of caiibou
ever seen in that vicinity cussed Cant
well, on the government railroad, a lew
days ago. it is estimated that there
were fully 5.000caribou in the herd.
Roscoe Max ana Flossie-George, two
new pupils recently registered at the
Sheldon Jackson school at Sitka, hail
from Pouil Barrow, having tiaveled
3,500 miles in search of an education.
Shipments of pulpwoud in the log are
now being made from the Queen Char
lotte islands to I orl Angeles, Wash.,
for use in the manufacture of p.-per.
The first shipment consisted of 0110,000
feat of spruce.
George P. Bast man, president of the
Eastman Kodak Company, left for the
south recently, after spending several
weeks hunting in the Yukon country.
The grand jury at Ketchikan has re
turned over oue hundred indictments,!
the majority of which aie against indi
viduals, firms and corporations engaged
in fishing, charged with violat.on ot
the Territorial .fishing law with respect
to the closed season.
The body of the woman found float
ing in Lowe Inlet, near Prince Rupert,
has been identified as iltat of Miss Mol
lielveison, a school teacher <»* Man
kato, Minn. isbe disappeared from the
steamer Alaska <a August 15 while
•ea mute from Anchorage to Seattle,
•She was a sister of 1 ver Neai iiou.se, of
Anchorage, with whom she had been
visiting for several weeks.
The Sheldon Jackson school at Sitka
is overcrowded with Indian students,
and applicants have been turned away
' wing to the lack of .dormitory rooms,
t'i’he total school enrollment is 150.
Halibut landings at Prince Rupert
during the first nine months of. this
year totaled 22.59J.000 p> unds, as com
pared with a total of 25^600,000 pounds
for 1921.__
A citizenship night school ▼.’ill be
opened at Juneau in the near future,
under the supervision of Professor W.
K. Keller, superintendent of the Ju
neau public schools
At a recent meeting of the Doug, "
city council it was dicided to give
Alaska coal a trial, so an order for 100
tons of Kvan Jones coal was sent to An
chorage.
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1924 may result in a bigger,
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