THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as secona-elass matter Au-1
gust 20th, 1923, at the pestofflce at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
MOSQUITO RESPONDS TO
KINDNESS, SCIENCE FINDS
WSHINGTON.— Caring for the i
pestferous insects as if they were ail- ]
ing, babies, the Public Health Service.!
is succeeding at Columbia, S. C., in
raising mosquitoes needed for treat
ment of paresis.
Reversing traditional rough meth
ods. of mosquito - handling, Govern
ment scientists, cooperating with au
thorities of the State Hospital for the
Insane at Columbia, have made ana
pholes quadrimaciilatus and ana-|
pholes punctipennis, two of the spe
cies which transmit malaria, respond
to kind treatment.
Coolers, fans, humidifiers and ice
boxes have been set up in the Colum
bit Mosquito Laboratory, and the
mortality among the young is so
small that the majority of the in
sects used in experiments there are!
hand-reared
Health Service officials regard, the
“farm” as a goodly stride forward in
the treatment of paresis, otherwise
knoton as softening of the brain.
There are too many mosquitoes,
and much effort is spent n eradicat
ing them, but in many instances rone
isn’t buzzing around when needed, to
bitei a paresis patjetit.
The growing §w.arm at Columbia
is depended upon to .overcome that
difficulty by having one of the pests
ready when the call comes,, usually
from an insane hospital, for a well
known scymptom of paresis is the
destruction of its victim’s mind
A. F. O FI.. URGES MORE PAY
TO KEEP BUSINESS RISING
WASHINGTON. — The American
Federation of Labor has launched a
campaign for increased wages as a
means of “building up buying power
to keep business rising.” Such a plan
is advocated in the Federation’s
monthly survey of business.
“Confidence is spreading,” the sur
vey points out, “but we cannot ex
pect convalescence to develop into a
cure until consumed buying picks up..
Increasig mvage cuts recently have
speeded the decline in the incomes of
workers and the time has come to re
verse this trend. The object should
be to raise wages, not to reduce them.
Wage increases would have the effect
immediately of carrying industry for
ward.”
The survey also directed attention
to the need of shortening the hours of
labor as a means of providing em
ploy for more workers, but it was
agreed that “if the shortened hours
mean just another income cut, this
move will not be fully constructive.
Signs of real business, improvement
are coming slowly, but.there still are
11,00,000 persons unemployed., jn the
in the country.”
BANKE RSEES DISTINCT; .
EVIDENCE OF BETTER.TIMES
RYE, N. Yt.—Harvey Gilbert, pres
ident of the Manufacturers Trust
Company of New York, speaking be
fore th eannual convention of New
York State Savings .Bankets, de
clared that he had; observed distinct
evidence of better times, and directed
the attention of the ..bankers present
to numerous signs of returning pros
perity.
Security prices, he asserted, have
recovered from “nanie prices ..to de
pression prices.” and. are. now on he
way to normal and ultimately o pros
perity prices.- ...
Improvement . in ..conditions was
credited to the program evolved at
Washington since, last .September .“to
create, vehicles through which to ap
ply the credit necessary: to wage war.,
against the. industrial depression
which engulfed us.” He declared. that
it has: taken the people months to \
learn that a definite plan, based on
the recovery of business, is operating.
SOURDOUGH TRADING POST
McGRATH, ALASKA
Groceries Clothing
ANYTHING FROM A NEEDLE TO AN ANCHOR
Except a Few Missing Links
'_ Conte and Look Things Over,
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W. I. VANDERPOOL ■ . PROP.
RAVENS KILLS MANY. ■;
FOXES* SAYS RANCHER
Announcing that.thet men is a
more deadly, menace, to the. fox farm
er than the eaglg, that’ it is even
more crafty when, a large foxs i
spotted. J. M. .Bennett, of Chugach
Island, condemned, the Northland bird
of sable hue to the .editor of the Sel
dovia. Times.
Checking up on 50 foxes, trapping
20, eternally on the^alert for the twin,
marauders, the raven and the eagle,
Mr. Bennett, more than- often was not
the practical fur conserver. One sin?
gle evidence of his prowess as a
hunter is a pair of eagle wings show
ing a spread of eight feet.
But Mr. Bennett's pet aversion is
the crafty raven. .Attacks, it appear-,
ed to him, is made, hy a family of
birds, the assault, being .led by the
patriarch ,of the. flock. This bird,
seizes a young fox by the neck and
hangs on, while the younger birds
flop to the back of the victim and in
dustriously. peck, at the spine. The
animal, says Bennett, soon.falls help
less where he is made easy prey for
the greedy, birds. ...
Mr. Bennett also-, discovered that
the raven broadcasts an SOS when,
he feels unequal to the task of drown
ing a hig. fox. and to. these calls a,
swooping eagle responds. The ravens
follow the eagle and park near the
giant of the air, thankful for. ..the
remains.
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Pig in m > Poke..
There is an oldtime warning.to the
effect., that one should never huy a
“pig in. a poke.” But a lot of -Prench
people,, have been. doing something
like that or worse, according to a
press dispatch. ..
A concern called “French Porkery,
Limited,!’.. put, on a. strong, campaign
for investors, wth such. .slogans as
“Buy less stocks; they are paper. Buy
more pigs; they are meat.” “When
your pig grows up we sell him. at the
very highest price. In the meantime
we pay you from 10 to 12 per cent
interest.”
Thousands bought pigs they had
never seen, and. for. a time received
their interest. Later .the ^sad news
came to all investors alike: “Your
pigs have, died £.„w,e could not sell sick
pigs.”
Then hee. investors—not. the pigs—
began to squeal.. Promoters: of the
scheme will be tried for swindling.
“Broken off your engagement to
Mary?’!
“She won’t have me.",,.
“But did you tell her about your
rich uncle?”
“Yes, that’s the trouble. She’s my
aunt now.”—Die Muskete..
Frank J. Guskey
Notary Public
Takotna, Alaska
SB
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