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gust 29th, 1923, at the postofhce at
Tok^tna, Alaska, under the Act of
Maryh 3, 1879.
lakyrtoa. Alaska. September \lr 1931
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MAT. REFORM CALENDAR.
(Manchester Guardian.l
A preparatory committee at Ge
neva has been, examining the question
of calendar reform, which will be
dealt, with further by a general con
ference summoned by , the League in
Octyberv, The objections to reform
of tjhe Gregorian calendar. (which has
heen used since 1582V are mainly re
ligious. Business men- in America
have fo-r many years beep in favor of
a year of thirteen equal months of
twenty-eight days. This would mean,
unfortunately, an extra or “blank”
dayt every year. The earth happens
to revolve round the sun in 365 days
5 hp-urs and 49 minutes. Religious
authorities; and especially the Jewish
rabhis, object to. the fact that the
extra day would upsett-he* cycle of
♦.he^veek. There, is also the. objection
that a year ofthirteenmonths would
not pe easily divisible ,The half year
woujd occur, for example, after 6 1-2
mouths- It would also be confusing
to rpako comparisons between future
and past ilates—between July, 2001,
snd^.Iulv, 1901—or Ik-1 ween future
seasons and. references in great liter
ature to .seasons under, the Gregorian
altpdafr. On the whole, however; the
convenience of having , months which
woujd consist, of an equal number of
day^, beginning- <as happpened in
February this*‘year-V’-on Sunday and
ending on Saturday, would be. great.
The- idea of reform has made head
way, during, the last tan years, and
ardent reformers now hope for the
introduction of a new calendar at the
beginning of 1934. There is also a
growing opinion in favor of fixing
Easter on the Sunday following the
second Saturday in April’. At the
conference in Geneva at October in
Octqber it will be possible to distin
guish -between common sense and
prejpdice in the arguments -which
mayjbe brought forth on either side.
Henry B. Collins, Jr., assistant cur
ator. of ethnology, Smithsonian Insti»
kion< recently returned to the Outside
from- Alaska, where he has conducted
researcheS'for the past four summers.
He states .-that. James A. Ford and
Moreau B.. Chain hers are carrying on
excavations; this summer looking to
the origin and' spread of the Eskimo.
Mr. Chambers is am St. Lawrence
island, just below Bering Strait, while
I)r. Ford is on the schooner Patter
son, following the retreating ice pack
up the Arctic coast to Point Barrow,
where he. will conduct excavations.
Mr. Collins says there is no doubt
that both the Indians and the Es
kimos came immeliately from that
part of Asia just across Bering strait.
He states that the Institution now
has a fine collection of harpoon heads,
adz and knife handles, scrapers and.
ceremonial objects, mostly of walrus
ivory and often carved with curvi
linear and flowing designs. These
have been dug up after centuries ■ of
burial during excavations on the .sites,
of ancient Eskimo villages in Alaska
Some of the leading nutrition ex
perts in the country, says a circular
issued by the United1 .States Depart:
nient of Public ; Health Service, have
summarized a. man’s normal dietary
needs, in order to enjoy health, as
follows:. One tfuabt pf prilk, . two
salads, two liberal helpings of the
leafy portions • of green vegetables,
one helping of ap. ymeat, and. two
eggs. He may.-addfeitA-this anything
within reason .that. His appetite de
mands. including liberal supply of
bread, batter, fruit and various vege
tables. It should; br- remembered,
however, that: if w.e eat more food
than we need, the body stores up part
of the excess as fat, and continued
overeating leads to unsightly deposits
of fat in the body. On .the other
hand, an insufficient amount of food
loads to emaciation, even if all of the
necessary dietary factors are present.
We must therefore watch the quan
tity as well as the quality of the food
we eat.
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INTERESTING NOTES.
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More than'll,000,000 of the world’s
04,000/100 Germans are .living in the
United States.
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More than 50 per cent of the world
i output of gold comes from mines ir
j South Africa.
The world’s largest known \cppper
t deposit in Chile is estimated to con
tain 700,000,000 tons of ore.
The world’s richest emerald mines
loeated in the Ural mountarins. of Rus
sia, are being worked by an American
company.
A telephone line more thanj .2,000
miles long, believed to be the longest
in the world, is being erected between
Moscow. and Vladivostok, in Russia.
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For aviation student* a-, tyos ..An
geles man. has developed -an airplane
that can be used as a glider by re
moving its motor and fuselage.
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“Well, my wife has divorced^ rae.” ’,
“And I remember the time (she ifsed
to wave her hand to you every,mom-,
ing when you left the house.?s.
“Well, you see, it wasn’t a perma
nent wave.”
Prison Chaplain: “Why #re,you
here again, Perkins?” »
Convict: “Because of, -belief. ’
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by, sir.”
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NEW GERM DISCOVERY
SHOWWS CAUSE OF ‘FLU’
CHICAGO.—Embarrassed by the
limelight into which announcement
of his theory of germ transformation
had suddenly thrust him, Dr. Arthur
Isaac Kendall of Northwestern Uni-,
versitv has steadfastly refused to an-1
swer questions, but a fe wadditional1
facts were volunteered by Dr. Irving
S; Cutter, dean o.f the Northwestern j
School of Medicine, who, has cooperat- j
ed closely with Dr. Kendall through- l
out years of experiment^.
»» 11U .*U 1UI . ^
composed essentially of small intes
tine of man, swine, dog or rabbit,,Dr.
Kendall has caused the germs to grow j
manifold from the visible to the vis-:
ible stages and he can^lso,send them !
back into the unseej& .Ojr.Mfiutter said.
This pimple process . has, been de
scribed by scientists, who. beard the
announcement last^ . week, the
greatest , medical (v.discoyory... since
Louis Pasteur Wca^se. they,said, it
will place within th^e reach of labor
atory ^ workers*. cluaiyq ,ftacUli and
make possihle the ^is^jvery of the
causes of many .maladies, <_ among.
them influenza* co rumen, cplds, rhcu..
rnatic, fever, sleeping sickness, and
even 'possibly cancer.
'The germs, fed on Me<f*pm; K, grow ■
I to comparatively tremendous propor
i tions within two or three, weeks and
I disintegrate into invisibility within
: ten days.
The discovery,.. Dr. Cutter said, has
! lifted a veil of mystery surrounding
i the double life of germs for years.
Heretofore, the standard test of pres
i ei^ce of germs was the Berkfield filter,
1 a stone po fine that no visible bacilli
: could pass through it. Dr. Kendall
! filtered substances and demonstrated
i that invisible germs existed where
science could see none simply by
nursing them along on Medium K.
The experiments, too, have led to
the discovery for the first time in the
l,.w»rld’s histpry , of what science be
lieves is the germ that causes influ
enza. . Dipjococpus, it is called, and
looks like dpuble biscuit. Seven i
cases of. the-' flu jji as many sections
of the city yielded the same germs, j
While .< metficajt-.Wh of the world
look toward Northwestern to learn
the exapt jcox stitufntsf 'of the magic
Medium K—preparation- of which, Dr.
Cutter said, is so simple a _10-year-old.
boy could fix it.
Easier to Lvofc <
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