Efficiently Protected by Gov- ernment Bureau. Washington, D. C~—Although jobs are scarce and wages low in many parts of the United States, hundreds of Indians and other local salmon fish- ermen lving along the coast of Alaska feel sure of having more work and hetter Incomes next summer than they have had for years. This bit of seeming economic magic will flow from a government ruling by the United States commissioner of fisheries, who has opened up bays and inlets along the Alaskan coast for seining. “The plan,” says a bulletin from the National Geographic society, “will not mean the taking of more salmon in Alaskan waters, and may even mean the catching of fewer. But it will shift to a considerable extent the method of capturing the first from the off-shore traps that require the atten. tion of only a few skilled operators, to the boat-operated indi- vidual—and — fishermen, “The obvious need of the local fish- ermen for some sort of assistance dor ing the present conditions was an important factor in the lifting of seining restrictions by the burean of fisheries; but the move was possible only because of the building up of the ‘runs’ of salmon during the past years by the bureau's stringent trol. “The activities of the hurean of fish- eries are many sided, for it looks after all sorts of them In volving scientific that have to do with the amazingly varied life of Uncle Sam's coastal waters and streams. In Alaska, which is =» federal territory, organization is 8 beneficient dictator. Industry Faced Collapse. “Dictatorships are not noveities In 1633. They were in 1024 when con- gress gave the bureau dictatorial pow- ers In Alaskan waters as a sort of last effort to save the $40.000000 salmon industry from collapse. The system was untried, and furthermore it was vastly unpopular with the fishermen and salmon packers. Packers had not taken the trouble, as the bureau's scientific workers had, to study the life cycle of the salmon. They looked on the explanations of the pecullar sclen- tific facts behind salmon runs as mere ‘moonshine.’ “Figuratively, the bureau had to hold the packers and fishermen back with one hand, and to coax the salmon up the fresh-water spawning streams with the other, meanwhile praying for time to prove their scientific dedue- tions, “The runs of the same cycles had heen growing progressively smaller: but there were enough big runs from other cycies occurring between to obscure the ominous fact that Alaska's rich salmon resources were being exhaust. ed. The packers had literally been killing thelr golden-egg-laying geese by not permitting enough fish to get to the spawning grounds, “By the bureau's regulations since 1024 the situation has been reversed. More fish are getting into the spawn- ing streams; and the salmon industry Is again on the up grade, “In the eastern United States the fishing Industry Is hoary with age. It was America’s first industry, in fact. The bureau of fisheries has found much work to do in keeping its fin- ger on the pulse of conditions that might make or break the industry un- der high-powered modern methods: and In solving fundamental problems that affect the food supplies of tens of millions of people. Saves Seal Industry. “Another plece of ploneer work In the government laboratories was the demonstration that very quick freez- ing of fish assured 8 much product than ordinary freezing, one that would ship better. “The lowly oyster of the Atlantie coast has had its domestic life thorongh- ly Investigated by the bureau of fish. seins of the needy economic nine con. chores—most of investigations 3 the and eries, and as a result its ‘housing prob- lems’ are in a fair way to be solved, “In bringing about a ‘come back’ for the exceedingly valuable Pribilof island seal, the bureau has done its most spectacular piece of work, and has written one of the most dramatic chap. ters In the whole story of conserva- tion whether on land or sea. The seal herds were fast being wiped out of existence by deep sea hunters, when In 1011, treaties with Japan and Great Britain made the United States trustee for the threé nations in caring for the animals which breed annually on the Pribilof islands. The job was turned over to the bureau and in 22 years It has built the herd up from 130,000 to 1,250,000. By sale of pelts taken under scientific management from surplus males, it has paid £2,117, 000 into the United States treasury and In addition has pald more than £750,000 each to Japan and Canada, Close to 90 per cent of the world's fur seals now live under government pro- tection on the Pribllof islands, “In streams scattered over the United States the bureau's work Is helping the states to build up a game fish supply for the 10,000) anglers who annually bait and cast flies." hooks “Frontier” Town Near City Carmel, N. Y.—-Only 60 miles from the steel and concrete canyons of Man- hattan New Yorkers have established a typical frontier settlement called the Trail club, where they live In log cabins after the early American blockhouses and lead as nearly as possible the kind of life ex. perienced by our hardy pioncer fore fathers, Gipsy designed INTERNATIONALIST interna real She If there tionalist, Ilya ever were a Zorn Is It. ; she never lived more speaks seven langu: than six mont one country: in the United | star in South America, a wild ar social ecutively in any licensed aviatrix ramatie stage hunter of iitured Portugal, She arrived on the Santa Rosa at Los Angeles, Calif. cessful fiction writer in is shown ns she Hiner Mother of 16 Runs Her Home on Schedule. New York.—A family of eighteen, recently adjudged the largest in the city, must eat each meal in three shifts ~—because there's table room for only six at a time. The mother, Mrs. Robert Owens, has solved the problem of keeping the names and ages of her sixteen children straight by the use of a small notebook which she carries with her at sll times The book contains the vital statistics of the family and often saves embar- rassment when neighbors or others ask questions, It's a big Job, taking eare of a fam ily of eighteen, Mrs. Owens says, es pecially when not one of them has full time employment. Mr. Owens, who receives $45 for ten days’ work a month in the Queens Park department, Is the principal provider. There are twelve boys, but only three are old enough to work-—and at present they haven't any regular jobs, But the Owens manage to get along. Mrs. Owens, assisted by Anna, twenty- five and married, runs the household on a regular schedule. Most of the time Is taken up by meals and cook- ing. Breakfast lasts from 6 to 10 a. “Golfing Grandma” Becomes a Champion New Orleans Mra John M Taylor, New Orleans’ “golfing grandmother,” is not through by any means, but declares she still will be making accurate putts and drives when many younger women have traded their golf sticks for knitting needies, Now past sixty-five, she wields a golf club with the same ac curacy which bas brought her no- merous titles in golfing circles, and recently enabled her to take the women's championship of the city with a dramatic putt of more than 30 feet. actual bullding of the huge concrete graph shows of Boulder dam began without spent in completing work on what 000,000 had been expended so that the The photo. 11a. mm. to 2p. and dinner from 6 to 8 p. m. As for food, Mrs. Owens does all her own baking and Ig proud that her children are not “picky.” There Is mn particular dish they crave, and there are never any complaints, Mrs, Owens sums It up like this: “Them who don’t want leaves and them who do eats.” Mr. and Mrs. Owens, each forty-four. were married wien they were nine teen. Mr. Owens was getting $12 n week as a chauffeur when they were married. He was one of six children and Mrs. Owens was one of five, The Owens children and the dates of their births are: Anna, 1908: Robert. 1910; William, 1911: Charles, 1915: Catherine, 1017: Louis, 1018: Elmer 1920; George, 1022: Ruth, 1923: John, 1024: Dorothy, 1026: Wilbur, 1027; Thomas, 102 Walter, 1020: Arthur, 1030, and Christopher, 1032 Survey Reveals Fewer Teachers, More Pupils Washington. —The number of schoo) teachers in the cotintry has decreased 24 per cent, while enrollment in the nation’s schools has increased 1.8 per cent, according to a study made by the office of education of the Interior de partment. The Study Included reports of more than 3.000 school superintendents in cities having a population of 2.500 or more, More than 50 per cent of the cities reported a decrease In the number of teachers per pupil in all grades of schools. The majority of reports also showed a decrease in the budgets for teacher salaries, Ninety-one cities showed plans for a shorter term because of lack of money to run the usual length of time. Texthook purchases decreased an average of 16.8 per cent. Another item was that the capital outlay for schools had been lowered 576 per cent during the past two yoars, m., lunch from More Than Half Canada’s People Under 25 Years Ottawa, Ont.—Canada Is essentially a land of young people, the last census reveals. More than half of the domin. jon's 10376,786 population were found to be under 25 years of age. There were more persons of the age ten-year.olds numbered 282.180 and the babies of less than one year 202.688 The twenty.year-olds were 180380 and the twenty-fives 165.022 1.8 per cent, turity. $250,000 Salvaged From * Sunken Italian Steamer London. ~The Italian salvage steam. er Artiglio IT has landed about $250. 000 worth of gold from the wrecked liner Egypt at Plymouth. It ls he lieved that bullion worth another $2. 000,000 remains in the hold of the sunken vessel, The liner went down in a collision In 1022 off Ushant, France, with more than $5.000000 in gold and silver bullion In Its hold, Uses Natural Whistle Boston.—George L. Handlia 18 one Boston traffic officer who doesn't use his tin whistle. Instead, he depends on his natural sbility as a whistler, His whistle Is famous among Bostoni- ans. Washington. The patronage dam at last has broken, With congress out of the way, the adminis At the tration has begun to Pie Counter #crve thepleina big way. But Washington observers have noted something new in the ple-dispensing system now be- ing employed. The breaking of the dam that held up appointments while congress was made to do the bidding of the President, and that created such & terrible traflic jam around the ple crat in the government service means little more than being a Republican insofar as priority for reappointment is concerned. The flood that after the dam broke has washed out about as many Democrats as Repub- licans, It is expected that the winning political party put its own men in. I have heard no complaint about that because it has happened so many times in our history that it is taken for From what I have been able and to hear, President Roosevelt can- not be for the acter of the dismissals except indiroct- iy. He guy that some three postmasters, now serving missions by Prekident fo remain on COmMMmIissions came always to be will Course granted, 10 see char blamed ruthless even as to nd Com far four thousa under Hoover, will be until has that Pd +41 ow 4184 & . grinding its own has gone so thelr fobs Lear JO fry expire, 4358 allowed their caused a howl appears to be bent on axes because they want those and President : they are going to get them. The Treasury seems to be affected less than other Recre. tary Woodin has picked most of his people, according to well Informed individuals, but he has had to accept one or two men to whom senators were indebted, The treasury secretary has run into some difficulties, 1 am told, because he insists on having investigations made of men whose appointments are recom- mended to him, He was reported to bave made a Democratic senator very angry because he would not name the senator's candidate as an internal rev. enue coliector in one state without the prerequisite of an investigation, the investigation was made just same, The President and his advisers have played a brilliant hand In the new deal In thelr maneuvers at creating new jobs out of old ones. Take the farm legislation, put into the hands of Secretary Wallace of the Depart. ment of Agriculture. It Iz made to appear that the handling of the calied price parity which is the old domestic allotment plan in 8 new suit, and the other new farm ald laws will require something like 60,000 staff workers throughout the country. The farm loan and the home loan ms- inery, two separate organizations, provide jobs running into the thou sands. The legislation that is posed to prevent blue-sky securities from being sold to an unsuspecting public likewise will enable the appoint. ment of many more, and last but not least the public construction adminis tration and the industrial recovery ad ministration are two more offering berths by the score to rerving supporters of the Roosevelt ticket, It Is fair to say that many of the underlings, the clerks and supporting cast In the several new agencies are being named from lists of those who have lost their jobs In the face of economy which Lewis Douglas, direc. tor of the budget, is taking so serious. Iy. But as far as I have been able to learn, there is no dearth of jobs that can be and are being filled purely on & political basis. The hardest job the politicians have, It appears, is In sorting out the right applicants to recommend among those thousands they have been receiving while Mr. Roosevelt kept the ple closet locked. * . -. among the clique sobs, uniess the stands firm departments, jut the £0 law sup agencies de. Without wasting any time, the ad. ministration has opened the spigot on the tank of mil lions to speed indus trial recovery through use of pub- lic money in construction. The last Speeding Recovery for public construction, it will be re called, and now the machinery to use has been set in motion, It takes time to get government ma- chinery ready even to spend money, but the haste with which the opera tions have been started Is looked upon here as commendable although only public highway building and the fixing up of army posts and national ceme- teries are involved in the first moves, Out of the gigantic fund, $400.000,000 has been set aside and allocated to the use of the various states in the build. ing of roads and $135,000,000 has been marked for use in reconditioning army posts and national cemeteries. Ex. penditure of those funds, of course, will make jobs, which Is the prime purpose of the progral, but there are men in high places who are unable to reconcile the course. Obligation of these funds was permitted after July 1, so that there ought to be a consid. erable boom In road construction throughout the country in the next few months, In making the funds available to the utates, the federal government laid “own several conditions to Insure that one section while another part of the state remained without new highways, Further, the states are required to spend at least 50 per cent of thelr total amount of unemployment existe, Ane other requirement is that roads, farm-to-market gyvstems highways of that character, may constructed with 25 per state's total, while the other 25 cent may be i y exXpent 4] Lhe tion of The 1 ow federal point to serves the purpose of WOrk as near ag may ployed and section, eg gilit aiso put its finger It is say- ing to each of the states that no con- vict labor may be ys hat COT. tractors mus permit living ay not be kept on the job longer than 20 hours per week In order number of This Ciany on the method of % > & dgoce; standard, and WOHrKers the six-hour for the { lane § dong it matter remain grants tire # during will leral ¥ building { these funds, The £400 000.000 fund by states Is as follows: Alabama, §8370,133 $5,211,000; $6,748.00 the Allocation by States Arkan- : Call $15,007,304; rag fornia, ro. 2,740; Delaware $5. 231.834 - ria, ho, $4486240, INinois, Indiana, $10037543: lows. 000; Kansas, $10,0800604: Kentucky, §7517806; Louisiana S5828501: Maine, $3.300,017 ;: Maryland, $3.564.527: £6.507.100 « $£10.658,560 ; $12- $1,810,088; Florida, $10,001,185: Ida. £17.570.770; Georg! Massachusetts, $12,736,227: Minnesota, Mississippl, $8.078675: Missourl. 180.306: Montana, $7.430.748: £1,000 820 - Hampshire, New Jersey, York, $22.280,101; North Carolina, $0. 022.203: North Dakota, £5.804.448: Ohlo, $15454.502: Oklahoma, 708; Oregon, $6,100,806: Pennsvivania $18,501,004: Rhode Island, $1.008.708: South Carolina, $5,450,165: kota, $0.011.470 Tennessee, 88 40 Texas, $24284.024: Utah. £4.10 Vermont, $1.867.573: Virgl 07: Washington, $6.115807: Virginia, $4474.234: Wisconsin T24.881 ; Wyoming, $4.701.32 + District of Columbia, $19154G0, and Hawail, £1.871,062, South Da. e * has been a depression on throughout the country, none would While most of us believe there Tourists if the sole yardstick for measuring busi. in Washington. Although accurate figures are not available, the corps of guides who lead visitors through great building on Capitol hill tell that they have had what they year thus far To the uninitiated, it is plain to see that thousands of per. gong are making a visit to Washington stream of visitors passing through those long corridors day after day In an almost unending procession. The game is true of the Washington mong. ment, that tall obelisk ranging 555 feet In the air as 8 mark of the reverence held for the father of his country. Passing by the monument almost any time during the day, one can see a familiar sight, a quene of tourists awaiting their turn to ride to the top in the slow moving elevator within the square walls of the structure. - - - A few nights ago some of the folks in the treasury had occasion to work late and in the course of the evening, one of the colored messengers was asked to visit an office for a file of pa- pers, the regular occupant of that of- fice having gone home. The messenger went but came back soun, saying he could not get In. An investigation re. vealed the office was unlocked. Some farther Inquiry elicited the informa. tion from the messenger that two years ago an official had died at his deck and the messenger maintsined he had sinee observed ghosts in the offife, ©. 1133, Western Newspaper Union Dogs Guard Museum Two big German siepherd dogs sup- plement the guards and elaborate elec trieal devices which protect the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at night. Should anyone linger in the building with malicious intent there would be no way for him to get out after the big doors were closed for the day and he could not elude the acute hearing and sentinels, smell of these faithful dog sentinel, even though it was possible for him to escape detection by other means, Howe About: New Literary Find History and Fiction Domestic Mystery By ED HOWE Y HEN one encounters what he be lieves to be a good tendency in i tion it frequently, there is so little of Bich encouragement to be found 1 therefore mention ugain the Flaternent of a literary observer and eritie that the the rie ople I seem to be tiring of society stories so long used hicles of sex filth The critic and foolish Cites a story Victor naturaii ularity, writteh, and pears in gevoled to sol \ During a I talked ith librarian are fictitious,” she sald. “The fiction books historical intended as CINIAINE ax novel much truth as the men Silerius, sald to been written by the own hand of olrs of a powerful Silerius told truth him, and exaggerated that, truthful in whom Roman only such 8x sulted Was he five wives epeaking of the bad contro il and fs Roman with he truth ir in gen when ie he criticized were dead. Take , 8 sacred book ; it gives dif events, and the versies? Was he his references to other He wrote when very old ; aocounts of the same idden in fiction find RR" - - * A reader must nev Wise in his memoirs he ’ was fool or Sileriug sars er knew whether he nan Grotius, contemporary and friend, in ’ n long and interesting introduction to u the memoirs, while Rilerius says that sens respect exceptionally had unusual was ble man, for the average intelligence of the peo- probably an he also us believes this was the he or wise, rot rea ple son Silerius declared never knew whether be was foolis! There many flicting with his own and he had such marked for others he was uncertain were so opinions con- respect the opinions of as to his own judgments and rights, During the most troublesome the history of Rome, Grotius says, Silerius oppesed public later proving disastrous, but much in doubt as to rights questions under discussion did the army as he might have done to en force his own conclusions as to what was best for the nation in an gency. The wrong policies later proving dis astrous had more popular support than the Silerinsg believed to be the hest way. opposition from men he respected so confused him, he hesitated, and Rome was destroyed Much of the last part of the Memoirs days in further policies Wag SO of the not use emer policies his ill. In the last chapter he “A funeral director is being kind I think 1 will leave directions the same trade.” I like those who solicit me, If the soliciting is done with reasonable politeness” . » » I once lived in a community where a rather decent man left his wife and stubbornly refused to longer live with her. The neighbors were astounded, for the wife was known among them as gentle, womanly, capable and In. telligent. No one can understand why a man should refuse to live with such a woman. They have children, and the wife has said to me after the sep- aration that her husband had always been good to her and the children, It wae the reigning mystery for years and is today. I am like others In that 1 do net understand it. 1 suppose the expla. nation Is that In the gent ast wife's digposition there is a touch of the Old Harry not observed by the neighbors, but which appears occasionally in min. gling with a husband. * = @ When two men meet now they soon drift into renunciation of congress: I have not heard a politician favorably mentioned in months, and Democrats are as active in the cursing as Repub. licans. , , . There Is fine opportunity now to form the new party long need. ed, but it seems to have occurred to no one that Americans can posseiny along without the Republicans i Democrats, © 1923, Del) Byndisate —~WNU Gerviea
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