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