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August 29?h, J 928, at the postoifie.
at Takotna, Alaska, unitor ihe Act
•f March 3rd, 1679.
Takotr.a, Alaska, February 9, 1935
Old Mother Shipton’s Prophecies.
(Fairbank’s News-Miner)
A reader sends us a clipping o!
the laraous ‘‘Mother Shipton’s Froph
ecy,” with the suggestion that it mgv
be interesting to many who have
never seen it. The lints quoted b.lov.
are only a part of the ltngthj
prophecy, but we have been unable
to find' the complete version 11
is claimed that these utterances oj
the soeres were original.’y publisnee
in England in 1485—centuries, ol
course, before any of the invention
and discoveries referred to. Eut ^
this alleged fact we have no conclus
ive proof.
“Carriages without horses shall gi
and accidents fill the world with woe
Around the world thoughts sh°. I iij
in the twinkling of an eye. Water?
shall yet more wonders do, n.*v
strange, yet all shall be true. Th;
world upside down shall be, and gok
be found at the root of a tree
Through hills man shall ride and n<
horse nor ass be at his side. Undei
water man shall walk, shall ride
shail sleep, shall talk. In the ah
men shall be seen in white, in black
in green. Iron in water shall floai
as easy as a wooden boat. Gok
shall be found ’mid stone, in a lam
that’s now unknown. Fire and wate:
shall wonders do, England shall a'
last admit the Jew. And this work
to an end shall come in eighteei
hundred and eighty-one.”
THINGS THAT ARE TAXED.
The federal government gets th<
greater part of its revenue fron
private and corporation income taxes
But among other miscellaneous sour
ces are taxes on a wide variety o:
commodities which yield more thai
a third of a billion dollars. Just as
a reminder of what these are, wi
submit some cf the tax receipts
anticipated under the new budget i;
congress reenacts present laws.
Lubricating oil would pay $22
500,000; matches, $0,400,000; gaso
line, $154,700,000; electrical energy
$32,300,000; automobiles and trucks
$29,900,000; tires, 20,100,000; jeweln
§1,600,000; communications systems
$18,500,000; amusements, $13,300,001
and other items such as firearms am
cartridges,, furs, refrigerators sport
ing goods, chewing gum, radios am
car accessories all pay more millions
These taxes are in reality sales
taxes, but none of the basic neces
sities, such as ordinary clothing am
food are included.—Longview Daily.
An automobile trailer in use a'
Boulder Dam is equipped with hy
draulic power brakes for which th(
oil pump is driven by a 15 horse
power gasoline engine.
The Delegate has been much con
cerned to secure surveys of rivers
.tad harbors improvements required
.l Main , Bethe, .Juneau, Metlakaltu,
i -i.er and other places. Ordinarily
i:. li .niprovements can be made only
pmsuant to provisions of a general
Liivere and Harbors bill passed by
Congress. In the past the House
Committee on Rivers and Harbors
has refused to consider or report out
a Resolution calling for the survey
of individual harbor projects. Under
,ha ISational Industrial Recovery Act
.t is now possible to have surveys
made upon the request of the Fed
oral Administrator of Public Works.
1 he Delegare sought to have the A -
.... porjects examined under th 5
authority and made application to
ajor General E.hi.Markham, Chief
i Engineers of the U. S. Army.
. eneral Markham has replied tv.
.nic application stating that the Ad
istration of Public Works has
■>.ch a large number of projects ai
.uy before it for consideration
hat it does not desire the investigu
ion of additional Rivers and Ilar
yors projects at the present time,!
..rid that, in the opinion of Geneiu; j
larkham, there is very little chan: .
.or the preliminary examinations
,.i in Alaska unless authorized
y Congress in the usual manner.
i January 4th the Delegate ap
peared before the President’s Av^a
tfon Commission to make a showing !
s to the requirements of Alaska
for the construction and improve
ment cf a r fields and for air navi
acicnal facilities such as weathe.
stations, radio, lights, etc. The
embers of the Commission appear
ed to be much interested in tra
subject and asked many questions
about Alaska and about air trans
1 t in the Territory. Col. J. Carrol
. Cone, of the Bureau of Aeronatics,
Depatment of Commerce, is one of
he technical advisors of the Commi
ssion and he has a broad knowledge
: of conditions in Alaska and has ex
pressed his desire to help in the
development of air navigation in tlm
territory in every proper manner.
Secretary Roper also is disposed >
hep.
James E. Van Zandt, Commander
n-Ch:ef of the Veterans of Foreign
[ Wars, called at the Delegate’s office
[ recently. He had visited Admiral
. Coontz, who is ill and confined to a
hospital in Washington. Admiral
[ -Coontz, before his retirement, spent
t a long period of service in Alaska
, d has always had a special af
fection for • the Territory. Mr. Van
Zandt says that the Admiral always
.nsisted that they would make a
> trip to the Territory together and
! -.they still hope that upon the Ad
miral’s recovery it may be done.
• Col. Gen. E. Edgerton of the V
i S. Army, formerly attached to thj
. Alaska Road Commission, now has
; an office in the War Department at
j Washington and is in charge of im
■ portant engineering work.
The Kennecott Copper Corporation
. is advertising a “copper house.” In
( this type of residence the roof will
be copper, the siding copper and all
r the piping also made of copper. In
sulation is obtained by glass fibre.
I In the event that plaster is used,
[ as in most residence construction,
. it i said that nothing would be burn
[ able in the house except the floors
and even the foors might be made
of some non-burnabe material. It
. is claimed by the promotors of this
[ type of construction that an ordinary;
residence can be completed at not
more than 70 per cent of the cost
of the usual frame construction.
Additional good qualities about the
“copper house” are that it will last
a couple of hundred years at least,
needs no paint and that if the own r
wishes to tear it down he can g°c
at east $500. at the present prie s
for the copper in the building. IT
is planned that the frame of such
building will be made of steel. One
of this type of houses is now under
(instruction near Arlington and an
other and laiger one is to be built
in Washington.
i
The Delegate appeared recency; j
before the Committee on Policies of j i
Land Grant Colleges held in the off-j :
ice of Dr. C. W. War burton f th
Extension Service, Department oi
Agric:;:tore, asking the suppa; t of the
Committee for H. R. 153, a bid to
extend the benef.ts of toe .darns ►
.V t, the Purnell Act. and th. Cappm
Ketch am Act to the feimloiy o
Alaska, and foi other purposes, fhc
Com;, iltee listened carefui.y to the)
luhcvabe's presentation of the matter
„nd lar. -Cecil Creel of * .evac.a, a
member of the Commissi n v. as out
spoken in appro vat of the bill say
ing that the provisions of the Act
should extend to Alaska vvaere
great good is to -be accomplished by
;.he expenditure of the additional
.unds. Mi. Munson of Massachus
jtts, the Chairman of the Committee,
was also much interested. Dr. \\ arb
urtan has a complete giaap of the
intire subject and explained :n pe
ail to the Committee just what the
atioo was with respect to the
work of the Alaska College. This
oil! was introduced at the instance <• j
Lr. Charles Bunnell, President of
ne C iiege who has labored i r some
:.th i., have the .Acts in question
• •ixied to Alaska.
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VICTORY, MY LAD *
here is always a way to vice, my
lad,
. always a way to advance,
But the road that leads to Mount
' Success
>„s not pass by the way af chance;
l goes through the stations of Work
and Strive
} "i hrough the valley of Persevere,
And the men that succeed while
ifchers fail
j . ,;st be willing to pay most dear.
■ or then’s always a way to fail,
i y lad, ^
Always a way to slide,
And the men that you find at the
foot of the hill
ivil sought an easy ride.
So on and up, though the road be |
rough,
And the stroms come thick and fast,
There’s room at the top for the
fellow that tries,
And victory comes at last.
—Alaska School Bulletin.
LIFE
Man comes into this world with
out. his consent and leaves it against
his will. During his stay on earth
his time is spent in one continuous
2ound of contraries and misunder
standings. In his infancy he is an
angel, in his boyhood a devil, in
manhood he is everything from a
lizard up; in his duties he is a damn
fooL If he raises a family he is a
chump; if he raises a check he is a
thief and then the law raises hell
with him. If he is a poor man he
is a poor manager and has no sense;
if rich he is dishonest but smart.
If be is in politics he is a grafter
and a crook; if out of politics you
can’t place him as he is an unde
sir cable citizen. If he goes to church
he is a hypocrite, if he stays away he
is a sinner. If he donates to for
eign missions he does it fo» show,
ih he doesn’t he is stingy and a
tightwad. When. he first comes in
i to the world everybody wants to kiss !
him; before he goes out everybody
wants to kick him. If he dies young
there was a great future for him;
if he lives to a ripe old age he is
in the way living to save funeral
expenses. Life is a funny proposi
tion after .all.
“R. E. L.”
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