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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. JUNE 6, 1925
If Tom Marshall Had
Succeeded Woodrow
Wilson as President
<By Clinton W. Gilbert, in Philadel
phia Ledger.)
If ex-Vice President Thomas R. Mar
shall eould have succeeded Mr. Wilson
soon after the signing of the Versailles
treaty the history of the last few years
•would have been -different. The per
sonal bittterness that came to |be more
Important to us than the fate of nations
would not have entered into our poli
tics. It would have been impossible to
have a bitter feud with Mr. Marshall.
He had too little pride, was too wise
about human nature, and he could save
almost anv situation with a touch of
humor. The plot to put him in Mr.
Wilson’s place when Wilson became
paralyzed was a republican plot,
though some democrats were in it, for
the republicans 6v that time had come
to recognize his geod sense.
But when he first arrived as vice
president there was as much of a scan
dal among the elite as when Lincoln
became president. The lips of Lodge
culled with scorn. Before Mr. Mar
shall’s time they had a tine throne for
yice presidents to sit on when presiding
over the Senate. Mr. Marshall took
one look at it aDd decided that he would
look better on a cracker barrel than on
it. He had a kind of dried-apple ap
pearance, as if he were meant for a
much larger man and had shrunk up.
A solemn old democratic senator
warned him when it became known
that the throne was to go and a chair
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smithfand
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and.Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna. Alaska
Lake its place. Lodge was scandalized.
Rut that was not what disturbed the
Massachusetts senator most. Mr. Mar
shall is one of those thin-legged tnen,
who fold up easily, and he likes to
hunoh his knees up near his chin So
when he got a chair to sit on he wouid
wedge his knees up against the edge of
the vice president’s desk so higih that
they could be seen over tbe edge of the
desk from the door of tbe senate.
Lodge would walk agitatedly up and
down the aisles of the senate mutter
ing, ‘‘My God! He’ll have his feet
cocked up on the desk next”—but he
never did, of course. He was merely
one of those unself-conscious men to
whom circumstances make little differ
ence. He would be just as much at
ease in the vice presidency and quite
the same man as he was among his
friends and neighbors in Indiana.
Here is a story he told President
Coolidge on his recent visit to Wash
ington: “Bryan was campaigning for
the ^presidency, and he was drawing
his usual great crowds. I was on the
train with him as he went through In
diana. Everywhere^ he spoke from
the rear platform of tbe train vast and
enthusiastic gatherings greeted him.
When he was about to leave the state
I said to him: ‘Mr. Bryan, vou are
making a great mistake. What you
ought to do is to bring a ballot box at
tached to tbe rear platform of the train
and let tbe people vote for you while
vou are speakiDg. You’d get a great
many more votes that way than if you
wait until election day. ” And Mr.
Marshall added, “E don’t think he
liked it.”
Science and Invention
Electricity is now being tried for
cooking, in place of gas, on the newest
restaurant trains.
William O. McAdo*, former Secre
tary of the Treaawy. has obtained a
patent on an improved vacuum cleaner.
The genuine ruby is obtained from
the mineral known as corundum, being
the pure crystaline variety of coruo
;!um. Emery, the abrasive, is an im
pure form of corundum.
Dr. Fournier d’Albe, of Paris, has in
vented a “radiotonogram.” which pho
tographs radio sounds. Thus speeches,
music, etc., may ibe recorded and at
idv time later transcribed in the usual
form. _
An automatic stabilizer has been
perfected in France for airplanes. The
ippliance consists of an automatic ad
justment for a plane’s rudders by use of
i feeble electric current from a small
aattery and of compressed air from a
small aero-dynamic compressor.
Professor M. P. Willey, a blind
teacher at Caen, France, has invented
x stenographic machine which, if suc
cessful, will make it not only possible
aut practical for business firms to em
ploy blind clerks and stenographers,
tie estimates that an average of 18
months’ training will be required for
proficiency with the new machine.
An electrical method of measuring
the muzzle velocity of high-caliber
shells has been devised bv the ord
nance department of the United States
irrny and is in successful use. The de
vice presents a record on a disc of the
.hell's passrge between the muzzle and
t nearby point, allowing its speed to
then be easily calculated.
Professor G. E. Smith, Egyptologist,
.ays that examination of Egyptian
mummies has revealed that cancer,
smallpox, rheumatism, mastoditis, etc.,
'avaged the ancient kings of Egypt.
He declares that these diseases were
common 4,000 years ago, while leprosy,
,uberculo3is and gout were extremely
'are, and rickets entirely absent.
The largest suspension bridge in the
world will be built across the Firth o<
Forth, in Scotland. The proposed road
bridge, to stand close to the famous
cantilever railroad bridge, is to be
built in two great spans of H 000 feet
each, a figure which far e>the
largest single span of any existing
bridge of suspension or other types.
A machine has been invented in Ger
many which sends pictures by radio in
a way that makes them intelligible
only to the person for whom they are
intended. There are six discs, which
may be adjusted to form 999,960 differ
ent combinations, and unless the per
son receiving the picture knows the
right combination be cannot receive
the picture.
Notice to Pay School Tax
To All Whom This May Concern:
In accord with Chapter 29, Session
Laws of Alaska, 1910, and amendments
thereto, ail m ile persons between the
ages of twenu iae and fifty years, who
are not "sailo> s in the United States
navy or revenue cutter service, volun
teer firemen, M.-tupers or insane per
sons, ” are req'U red to pay an annual
school tax of me dollars ($5).
This tax is cue and payable after the
first Monday in the month of April aud
shall be paid (adore the first day of
May, providing you are in the Terri
tory of Alaska na said first date; if not,
the tax is due within thirty days after
vour arrival in Alaska or within ten
days after wi tien or oral demand is
made upon you by the school tax col
lector. Taxes not paid in accordance
with the foree iug requirements shall
become delinquent, and each person de
linquent shall be subject to a fine of
two dollars.
All persons firms and corporations
employing lab >r in Alaska shall fur
nish to collect* rs a list of all employes
subject to tax. and employers of labor
as above set our. are authorized by pro
visions of sai't act to deduct amount of
the tax from * he wages of each em
ployee who is subject thereto. If any
of such employ--rs shall fail to report
and deduct as herein specified within
the period designated for payment of
said tax, the said' employers of labor
shall be guilty of a misdemeaoor and
subject to a fine of from $60 to $500.
All persons subject to, and refusing
or neglecting (-• pay, said tax, are sub
ject to a fine of ^25, or imprisonment in
jail for period of one month; and all
such employers of labor as herein set
out, who neglect or refuse to collect
said tax from employees may be pro
ceeded against and shall pay the
amount of each individual tax, and a
farther penalty of $25 for each such
tax.
Tax receipts will be furnished by the
tax collectors.
Dated at Tokntna. Alaska, this 18th
day of May, 1925.
Prkd Moklkd«k,
Duly authorized and qualified
Alaska Territorial Sehoel Tax
Collector for Tokotna District.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Georpe W. Albrecht,
Iditarott, Alaska,
Charles E. Taylor,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Practice in all Courts.
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
Flat City
Tokotna
Pool Hall
lee Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
.Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
B.
1
McGrath; Alaska
Arriviig onfboats,
will be a complete as
sortment of the very ■
best goods, con- \
sisting of
Groceries
Hardware
Miners’ Supplies
of All Kinds
Ladies’ Furnishings
Salmon Netting
Furs Bought
A. R. Eld ridge
McGrath Pool Hall
•George Mutchler, Proprietor
GgarsJobaccos, Candies, Fruits
< .Old-Timers’ Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Knskokwim Valley
Napamute. Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
Larson Roadhouse
&
n
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses. I
Frank Larson - - Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manages.
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