THE KUSKO TIMES
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dOth. 1923, at the Post Office at
Takotaa, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3. 1879.
T«KOTNA, ALASKA. AUG. 1, 1925
18th Amendment Is
Leading to Local Op
tion, Says Lawmaker
M inneapolis—The eighteenth amend
ment is leading to local option in the
enforcement of prohibition, F. Dumont
Smith, of Hutchinson, Kan., author of
the Kansas industrial court, law, de
clared tonight at a banquet of the Hen
nepin County Bar Association.
"It seems fair to predict,” he said,
that the eighteenth amendment will go
the itme way the fifteenth has gone.
It will be enforced where public senti
ment favors it and become a nullity
'where sentiment opposes it. I suppose
that if, fifty years ago. a constitutional
amendment had been offered prohibit
ing any state from ever forbidding the
manufacture or sale of intoxicating
liquors it would have carried over
'Whelmingly.
-‘1 Bhould have resisted such au
'amendment because, fairly considered,
I think the citizen of a wet state like
New York has no more right to force
whisky on a citizen of Kansas than a
citizen of Kansas has to force water on
a citizen of New York.
"The most significant utterance with
regard to the eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act was pronounced
hr the president in Washington, the
other day, when he said publicly that
the suppression of local violations of
the law was the business of the states
and not the federal government, and
that the federal government could not
enforce the law locallv; that all it
could do would be to prevent or restrict
PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith.and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
the smuggling of foreign supplies into
the country and the unlawful with
drawal of liquor from government
warehouses.
“I doubt if the President realizes
just what this utterance meant—local
option, and that is what the eighteenth
amendment is coming to.
"The federal courts are so clogged
with cases under the Volstead act that
in order to clear the docket a practice
j has grown up of imposing fines, which
are promptly paid, and the bootlegger
returns to his occupation—in effect a
new sort of license system.”
New Act Provides for
a Monthly Pay Day
A measure known as Senate Bill No.
15. which was passed during the ses
sion of the late Territorial legislature,
designed to "protect labor and repeal
Chapter 49, Session Laws of Alaska,
1923.’' provides for the establishment
of monthly pay days in the Territory,
except where employes agree to longer
periods of labor without pay, as has
been the custom with cannery workers
imported from the States. The law
also seeks to impose a penalty upon
those employers found guilty of at
tempting to defraud their employes.
The law reads as follows:
Section 1. It shall be the duty of
every employer of manual labor per
forming services in Alaska to pay the
wages or other compensation for such
labor with lawful money of the United
States or with negotiable checks,
drafts or orders payable upon presenta
tion without discount by some bank or :
depository w.thin the Territory of
Alaska unless a written valid contract
to the contrary shall have been entered
into by the employer and employe be
fore such labor was performed, whien j
contract shall state the term of era- i
ployment, the rate of wages or com
pensation, and the time, place aDd
manner of payment, and a duplicate of
such contract shall have been deliv
eaed to the employe.
Sectiou 2. Kverv person or corpora
tion employing labor in the Territory
shall establish monthly pay days, at
which time such employer shall pay
for all labor performed more than ten
days prior to such pay day ; provided,
however, that where laborer’s services
are terminated all wages or other com
pensation for labor shall then become
due and payable immediately, except
in event of strikes in which more than
ten employes participate, when the
payment of moneys earned by such
strikers mav lawfully be postponed
until the first regular pay day there
after; provided, further, that nothing
in this .section shall be construed to
affect any valid contract entered into
by the employer and employe.
Section 2. Any employer who, hav
ing sufficient means so to do, or having
sufficient property not exempt from ex
ecution so to do, shall wilfully or fraud
ulently, with intent to annoy, harass,
oppress or defraud an employe, refuse
to pay such employe upon demand the
money due him for labor as provided in
this act, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined in any sum not
exceeding one thousand dollars.
Section 4. Chapter 49 of the Session
Laws of Alaska, 1923, is hereby re
pealed. __
It is reported that one of the fastidi
ous newly-married ladies of this town
kneads bread with her gloves on. This
incident may be somewhat peculiar,
but there are others. The editor of
this paper needs bread with his shirt
on; he needs bread with his pants on;
and unless some of the delinquent sub
scribers to this ‘ Old Rag of Freedom”
ponv up before long, he will need bread
without a darn thiog od, and Wisconsin
is no Garden of Eden in the winter
time.—The Melrose (Wis.) Chronicle.
PRESS SQUIBS.
«
One thing that can’t be preserved in
alcohol is a secret.—Arkansas Gazette.
A picture of health requires a happy
frame of mind.—Columbia Record.
Thrift is a wonderful virtue—espe
cially in an ancestor.—New York Her
ald-Tribune.
Brevity is the soul of wit. Mapbe
that’s why women’s skirts look so
funny.—American Lumberman.
Peace propaganda has at last made
the big nations determine not to let the
little ones fight.—-Brooklyn Eagle.
A model home isn’t worth a darn
without a model family inside.—Co
lumbia ISacord. _
Wonder whether any one ever knew
of an idle rumor remaining idle?—Ar
kansas Gazette.
About the only interest in life some
men have is the kind their moneyH
brings in.—Arkansas Gazette.
What the democratic party needs is
an honest-to-goodness disarmament
conference.—Providence Journal.
Women’s apparel to the value of |
more than $1,500,**00,000 was .produced
in the United States last year. .You
wouldn’t have thought so, if you
judged by what the dear things wore.—
Omaha Bee.
An economist announces that the,
number of women bread winners is
growing constantly. No doubt there
are more winning it than there are
baking it.—»Detroit'Pree Press.
To keep the population balanced, one
of our eminent expert announces, the
average family must have fxl persons
in it, consisting, we suppose, of mother,
four children, that’s five, and father.—
Ohio State Journal. ! *
If police can find out where the pres- i
entcropof Broadway playwrights get
their local color, the joint ought to be
raided.—Detroit News.
An American doctor declares that
cross-word puazles have resulted in
uniting many families, iIt must be
nice when they all meet together in the
same padded room.—Punch.
Money doesd’t mean everything, but
everything seems to mean .money.—Co
lumbia tllecond.
iFrance has begun to save daylight.
But France doesn’t owe us any day
light.—Arkansas Gazette. I
J. h. McLean
Tokotna
Ladies’ Furnishings
Arctics ^ Felt Slippers
King]Island Mukluksj
Mild-Cured Ham
and Bacon j
Star Ham 45c [Bacon 50a
Oregon Cityl
Mackinaw^Coats
Hood Rubber Pacs
Leather Vests
Coal Oil Plenty of Gas
Tokotna
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, *Etc.|
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
HIBIWW 1,111II
B.&E Store
McGrath, Alaska
Arriving on , first boats
will be a complete as
sortment of tne very
best goods, con
sisting of
Groceries
Hardware
Miners’ Supplies
of All Kinds
Ladies’ Furnishings
Salmon Netting
Furs Bought
A. R. Eldridge
McGrath Pool Hall
George Mutchler, Proprietor
Cigars Jobaccos, Candies, fruits
.Old-Timers' Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokw im Vailey
Napamute„ Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt. Attention »
New Dog Houses.
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Frank Larson - - Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steameri
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.