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WHY ALCATRAZ?
The utilization of Alcatraz Island for the confinement oi
the most desperate, troublesome federal prisoners is a grim
reminder of the change which has taken place in the na
tion’s campaign against crime. In other days the traditional
federal offenders were national bank robbers, counterfeiters
and violators of the immigration laws. They were not
pleasant customers, but the ordinary penitentiary could han
dle them without difficulty. Prohibition, racketeering, and
the motor car have now given us the killer types and the
government finds it necessary to keep them away from their
fellow criminals.
The attorney general has said that about 700 of the
18,000 federal prisoners now in confinement constitute our
most serious problem in penolgy. They do the plotting,
stir up the rest, and are the most willing to murder and
follow in the footsteps of Dillinger. These are the charact
ers for whom the building of Alcatraz Island have been re
, constructed. It is twelve acres of solid, precipitous rock
in the Golden Gate, four miles away from San Francisco,
and was used once as a military prison. It has few of the
forbidding aspects of a Devil’s Island, a Lipari, or an Anda
mans, but is almost escape-proof. The decision of the gov
ernment to take this step may be accepted as another sign
that the national warfare against the gunmen will not be sc
mild as formerly.—Exchange.
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite
John Garland Pollard, former Governor Virginia, says
“Other nations of the world have their ruling classes—
their aristocracy, with inherited titles passed down front
father to son. But not so with us. Yet sometimes in m>
fancy I have set up a new Amercian aristocracy—merited
not inherited; one of which every loyal American may be
come a member. It is not the aristocracy of money. It ij
not the aristocracy of blood. It is not the aristocracy ol
learning. But it is the aristocracy of public service.
“If I could bestow titles of nobility, I would not bestow
them upon the rich, for I have known rich men to use their
wealth to oppress rather than to help. I would not bestow
them upon the blue-blooded, because I have known men to
disgrace their family name which they bear. I would not
bestow them upon the learned, because I have known many
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educated men to use their knowledge to little account. But
I would bestow the titles on those noble men and women
who recognize that they have a duty to perform to the com
munity in which they live and who bravely proceed to per
form that duty. '
“Aristocracy is not determined by the blueness of the
blood which flows in one’s veins, but by the nobility of the
impulses which direct the heart, the head and the hand; the
heart throbbing with love for our fellow men; the head think
ing just and generous thoughts; the hands doing deeds of
kindness. This is the only kind of aristocracy in which I
believe.
Out of every dollar which the American motorist spent
for fuel in 1933, seventy cents went for gasoline and thirty
cents for taxes. Yet some people says we don’t have any
national sales tax.
The French, it is said, have decided not to rely too much
on the promise of Russian aid if they get into trouble. Those
French always were pretty hard-headed._
Totem Pole From
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Cornell Campos
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(By The Associated Press)
ITHACA, N. Y.—Cornell univers
ity’s famed totem pole, the handi
work of Alaskan Indians, now rests
on land formerly roamed by the red
man, according to a bulletin from
the New York State College of Ag
riculture.
Designed and carved by settlers of
the far north, this stands about 35
feet above the ground. It is made
of Alaskan cedar wood and is about
three feet in diameter at the base.
It weighs about three tons and is
remarkably preserved except for its
long nose or beak, which has been
broken off. Six Indian symbols are
carved into the trunk.
The totem pole now stands up
i right in Amot forest, in the town
of Cayuta, Schuyler county, a little
mor* than 20 miles from the Cdf
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nell campus. Members of a CCC
camp located there helped to raise
the relic in place,'Where it may gaze
over vast expanses of land which
the red man once called his own.
The Amot forest itself is owned by
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the university as a gift from the
heirs of the estate of the last Mat
thias H. Amot of Elmira, N. Y.
The history of this Indian work of
art s inseparably woven with the
department of forestry at Cornell.
In 1898 there was established at
Ithaca, the New York State College
of Forestry at Cornell, the first
school of forestry of academic rank
on the continent of North America.
This school was suspended in 1903
but in 1910 it was succeeded by a
department of forestry which in
1936 will become a school for grad
uate students only.
The dean and director of the first
forestry school was Dr. Bernhard E.
Fernow, who had been chief of the
division of forestry of the United
States department of agriculture at
Washington, D. C., for 12 years. Dr.
Fernow was a leader in American
forestry, and the forestry building
at Cornell now bears his name, Fer
now Hall.
In 1899 E. H. Harriman of Califor
nia invited a group of scientific men
to visit Alaska on a specially char
tered steamer. Dr. Fernow was one
of the group, acting as forestry ex
pert. During their visit to Alaska
the party obtained from a deserted
village of the Thlinget Indians a
number of these totem poles. One
of these Dr. Fernow brought back
to Cornell as a gift to the university.
For many years the totem pole
stood on the Cornell campus,, as one
of its features. About 12 years ago
it was taken down to make way for
changes on the campus. But the to
tem pole was carefully pr’ekerved
because of the great interest attach
ed to it. ..
In 1934 the pole was taken to the
Amot forest, where it now stands,
redecorated as nearly as possible in
its original colors. In its present
place, as monarch of all it surveys,
it again serves Cornell, not only be
cause of its historical value but be
cause it serves as a reminder of Dr.
Fernow’s connection with Cornell
university.
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