not harmonize with what has
just been said. The time is com-,
ing when as much attention
must be paid wild life in Alaska
as in the United States. These'
regulations, for the time being,'
however, mark a step backward.”!
WORKMEN S INSURANCE AND
SOCIAL INSURANCE
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During the legislative year of
1929 all except 4 (Alabama, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, and Virginia),
of the 44 States having com
pensation lows met in regular
session. Thirty-five of the States
meeting in regular session act
ed on the subject of workmen’s
compensation. Regular sessions
were held, but no action was tak
i" Ar' ona, Nevada, New
Hampshire, Tennessee, and Utah,
nor in three States (Arkansas,!
Florida, and South Carolina) j
which have no compensation j
law. However, in Arkansas, aj
workmen’s compensation law
was enacted to cover only em-,
ployees of the State Highway,
Commission injured in the
course of their employment, In
addition to their regular sessions
several States met in extra ses-1
sion (Connecticut, Florida, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennesee,
Texas, West Virginia, and Wyo
ming), but no action was taken
in any of these States except
Texas. Louisiana also held a
special session, but enacted no <
amendments to the compensa
tion law. Mississippi, one of th(
four States without a workman’:
compensation law, held a specia
session, but took no action or
the enactment of a compensatior
law. The Congress of the Unit
ed States also convened in spe
cial and regular session, bul
made no changes in the Federa
compensation acts.
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AT THE COST OF HUMAN LIFE
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For a number of years the re
sidents of the Territory of Alas
ka expressed themselves as being
displeased with the protection
accorded the brown and grizzly
bear. Several citizens were kill
ed or badly maimed by these
brutes. Not until a Forest Rang
er was killed by one of them did
the Game Commission remove
the protective restrictions from
these bear.
Not one life can be replaced or
repaid by all the sportsmen of
the United States. Nor are all
the brown and grizzly bear of the
entire Territory worth any hu
man life.
With the further colonization
3f the Territory must come great
inroads upon the game life of the
country. If the sportsmen would
save the game life and if they
will insist on promiscuous regu
lations for Alaska, we suggest
:hat they come to Alaska to
:arve their niche in the hills
John R. Kolstrand
General Blacksmith
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and timber, leaving guns anc
! other protective weapons home
i Protect the bear until the coun
; try is so overrun with them thai
i one cannot safely go into th<
woods. There are enough reser
vations in Alaska now retardinj
its development without the beai
protective millstone fostered bj
! so-called sportsmen.
CALIFORNIA REPORT ON THI
OLDER WORKER IN INDUSTRY
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In an effort to enlist the co
operation of the employers o
the State in a campaign to pre
vent discrimination against th(
employment of older workers
the California Department oi
Industrial Relations plans the
publication of a series of bullet
ins on the general subject of the
older worker in industry. The
first bulletin in this series, en
titled “Middle-aged and Older
Workers,” has just appeared. It
constitutes a general review oi
existing reports and opinions
with some original tables and
charts showing the distribution
of persons industrially employed
in California by age groups, ac
cording to the United States
Census of 1920. The conclusions
of the California department,
based on the material contained
in the bulletin, are as follows:
1. The arbitrary discharge of
workers because of age, and re
gardless of their fitness, is be
coming a general ponuy.
2. Because of the development
of automatic and labor-saving
machinery, the physical stresses
and burdens of life are growing
less, but our productive period is
growing longer.
3. The employment of middle
aged and older workers reduces
labor turnover in industrial and
commercial establishments.
4. Not age, but experience and
capacity and wililngness to
learn, is important in selecting
and retaining employees.
5. Success comes to people af
ter they are forty, for seldom
does mature judgment arrive be
fore then.
6. There are jobs in industry
which can be graded according
to the grades of age ability, and
t xperience within a community.
7 There is needed a careful,
nation-wide study of jobs, con
ducted primarily to determine
what positions the older man is
capable of filling as well as the
younger man, or better.
8. Discrimination against old
er workers is regarded by many
employers as a confession of in
efficient, unwholesome, and poor
management.
9. Workers who have reached
the age of 40 or 50 are surround
ed by certain conditions in life
that make them all the more
careful in the performance of
their duties.
10. Men over 40 are doing the
most important work of the
world.
11..Older employees exercise
a steadying and helpful in
fluence upon younger employees
of an organization.
12. If employees know tha1
they will not be discharged be
cause of their age, they will give
more of their efforts in theii
younger years.
13..Monotonous clerical worl
is suited to the placidity of mid
dle-aged women.
14. Older woman workers ar<
not more troubled by illnes
than . their younger sisters.
15. Interested employers cai
figure out the results obtaine<
from hiring older and more ex
perienced workers.
16. Special attention to »th<
problem of older workers by em
ployers is urgently needed. It i
the duty of American industr
to keep older workers employe
rather than to turn them adrii
upon a labor market which re
fuses to absorb them.
117. Group insurance and pen
sion plans need not exclude old
er workers from employmen
The sum of the pension may b
fixed as a percentage for eac
year of service, multiplied b
jthe number of years of servici
This would answer the questio
of taking care of employees en
jtering employment at an Okie
I age. Middle-aged and older em
. ployees would rather pay th<
extra group insurance, than b<
; refused employment.
; 18. Roughly estimated, refus
al to hire or retain employees 45
; years of age and over, would af
* feet the economic interests ol
r over one-fourth of gainfully em
ployed persons in California
Lower age limits in hiring and
discharging would cause even
r greater and more wide-spread
economic and social distress.—
Monthly Labor Review.
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BOUQUETS AFTER DEATH
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Many dollars are spent in de
’ corating coffins and graves of
men who are called to the Great
! Beyond. Men who have been
forgotten by friends during life
are remembered at the End of
the Trail when such remem
brance can mean naught to the
dead.
Last winter, the late George
Joseph, Republican nominee for
governor for the State of Oregon,
was disbarred from practicing
before the courts of that state.
The Bar Association of which he
was a member made no protest
nor gave any assistance as would
estop such proceedings. L-nter
to vindicate his good name, Jo
seph filed for the office of gov
ernor of Oregon and was nom
inated by a large majority. He
was unexpectedly called by his
Creator in his hour of triumph.
Now the Multanomah Bar As
sociation has adopted a resolu
tion noting the death of Joseph
and passing a eulogy in ms non
or. What use the eulogy, ex
cept to his family, now that Jo
seph is dead? How much more
pleasure would have been given
were all bouquets given before
and not after death.
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AN AGE OF DECADENCE
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Why are the people of the
United States becoming so indif
ferent to the rule of graft and
camouflaged crime? Why has
the atmosphere of a “govern
ment of the people” and the
sunshine of “life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness,” been turn
ed, so suddenly info a funnel
shaped cyclone, spreading in its
wake, unhappiness, death, and
slavery. And yet the majority of
Americans continue to read the
funny papers, play rummy, or
just drifting carelessly along
making no attempt to get into
the cellar of safety from the
coming storm.
Why is it, that the atmosphere
of resistance to tyranny, and
war against graft, is rapidfy be
coming a breeze of patriotism ev
en in old China, while citizens of
the United States persist in
sleeping serenely under the far
reaching branches of the politic
al Upas tree?
What will the harvest be, ii
the poisonous fumes of the foli
age of this beautiful tree lulls
them to the sleep of nationa
aeatnv
“Nero fiddled while Rome
■ burned” savs tradition, anr
when we observe the politica
fiddlers sleeping lazily under th<
‘ wide-spreading bows of the bu
reaucratic Upas tree, we ask our
: self, “What will the harvest be?’
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SENATOR NORRIS PLEADS
3 The Senate was considering i
bill to subject certain immi
1 grants born in countries of th
1 Western Hemisphere to the quot
* under the immigration laws,
matter that was strongly sup
; ported by President Hoover.
The so-called “regulars” de
s serted the President, and Senat
V or Norris in an effort to sham
1 them into giving a support whic
t they were denying, made th
- following speech:
. .Mr. Norris. Mr. Prsident, no1
is the time for all good men t
come to the aid of the party.
This is a proposition of the Re
pubiclan leader, the President c
the United States. This amend
ment now pending is what h
has recommended officially an
otherwise. As the leader of th
Republican Party he has a rig!
• to take an attitude on this gres
- and important question, and he!
3 has a right to ask of all faithful!
3 party men that they should fol
1 low him.
| We have had votes on this be
i fore. We had a vote on it on
| June 13, 1929. I think that was
the last one. We had a roll call.
At that time there were 26 Re
publicans who stood behind
their leader and voted for what
he wanted, as I am in hopes ev
ery Republican will do now.
Listen to some of the names
of the stalwart, loyal band whoj
stood bravely out in the open,!
striving to uphold the hands of
the President of the United
States on that occasion. We find
favoring the President, and what
the President had advocated,
and what, therefore, ought to be
good Republican doctrine, among
ethers these stalwart Republic
ans standing faithfully at their
guns:
Borah, of Idaho; Cousens, of
Michigan; Howell, of Nebraska;
Johnson, of California; La Fol
lette, of Wisconsin; Norbeck, of
South Dakota; Norris; Nye.
Mr. Johnson. Mr. President,
what was the name the Senator
just read?
Mr. Norris. Nye.
Mr. Johnson. No; the one pre
ceding that.
Mr. Norris. That was my name.
Mr. Johnson. “And lo! Ben
Adhem’s name led all the rest.”
(Laughter).
Mr. Norris. This is an in
stance wheer it did not lead all
the rest, but it was amongst
them.
Then there is the name of
Shipstead.
Mr. President, we went down
to defeat that day, this gallant
army of Hoover Republicans,
and the reason we went down to
defeat was because some of our
brethern broke over the breast
works and went away to the en
emy. Just think of it!
Mr. Caraway. Name them.
Mr. Norris. Dale; Gillette; my
friend from West Virginia, Goff;
Goldsborough; Greene; Kean;
Keyes. And what is this? Let
me wipe my glasses. That must
be a mistake; there must be a
misprint. M-O-S-E-S—Moses
(laughter); Phipps; Reed.
Let us see; some were absent.
There was that well-known Re
publican from Wisconsin, Blaine
who did not vote, but we find
on looking at the RECORD, that
he was paired, in favor of the
program.
Brookhart, another stalwart
Republican did not vote; but
was paired in favor of Hoover’s1
olan.
There was Senator McMaster,;
of South Dakota, who did not
vote; but he was paired in favor*
of Hoover’s plan.
Then let us see; some of these
great leaders were absent and
not paired. Think of that.
Smoot was absent. I can not
find anywhere a record that he
was paired. When the President
of the United States was in need
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of assistance—in fact, when he
went down to defeat with this
brave coterie of men whose
names I have just read—Smoot
was not here.
And the greatest one of all,
Watson, was absent, not voting,
when Hoover needed him. When
the Republican Party was asking
for him he was absent.
Oh, you wayward brethern,
how can you expect to keep the
party together when you wander
away after false gods under such
circumstances? Do you not re
gularly go up to the other end of
the Avenue and on bended
knees, before the throne, ask our
great leader, President Hoover
to shake the plum tree so that
the luscious fruit may fall into
your extended, open, itching
palms? And now are you going
to turn your backs on him again
when he needs your support?
Are you now going back on this
valiant band whose names 1
have read to you, who went
down bravely to defeat, and whc
are now here on this occasion
battling to the very limit ol
their lives to save the plan ol
President Hoover?
Oh it will never do, my bretti
em, it will never do! lam going
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COLISEUM
SATURDAY
LEO CARRILLO & VIRGINIA VALLI
NI
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MISTER ANTONIO
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A Tiffany-Stahl Production
MAX SCHMELING
Worlds Champion Heavyweight In Action
Vitaphone
DERICKSON & BROWN
In “A Song Drama Vitaphone
HARRY DELF In “SOUP”
A Vitaphone Comedy Sketch
TWO ALL TALKING NEWS REELS
SUNDAY
GEORGEJESSEL IN
LUCKY BOY”
ANN BUTLER & JAY BRENNAN IN
“YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF IT"
CLARENCE TISDALE Negro Entertainer
Spiritual Tenor Of The South Vitaphone
TWO PARAMOUNT NEWS REELS
into my great State, and I am
coming back here with the
stance where it did not lead all
the stalwart, stand-pat Hoover
ites in the State, commissioned
to fight you to fight on and on
to get this legislation which our
Republican leader, President
Hoover, has been pleading for
so long.
LEST WE FORGET
“Tlie United Sons of Alaska
are holding enthusiastic meet
ings and have taken up a num
ber of public questions relative
to home rule. Members, when
in town, are urged to attend, as
there is some good work being
done in their behalf.”
RUNS AND REGULATIONS
The new regulations in the
Westward area place a close sea
son of 120 hours each week. This
is an indication that escapement
into spawning grounds—rather
returns to spawning grounds is
not what the Bureau of Fisheries
had expected, yes and hoped for
as a result of their phony con
servation methods. To make cer
tain a re-seeding of that district,
Mr. O’Malley had the season cut
so that there is but very little
time actually given to fishing.
In the Yakutat area, again is
the close season lengthened and
this also indicates that O Malley
recognizes that his conservation
methods heretofore practiced
have been inadequate.
The season in this Division in
dicate the verity of the argu
ment of this publication that to
“breed late fish is to make a lat
er run of salmon. Kake cannery
last year by the 4th of July had
9,000 cases put up; this year the
pack was less than a thousand
Fishermen are just getting ready
to fro out fishing where they used
to be o nthe grounds by the mid
dle of June. And most of them
do not expect to get any fish be
fore August—that is in any
quantity.
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“LUCKY BOY” SUNDAY AT
THE COLISEUM
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George Jessel will appear al
the Coliseum in “Lucky Bay” a
singing, talking, dancing drama
of cabaret and stage life. Then
is a splendid cast supporting hirr
including Margaret Quimby
Rose Rosnova, Richard Tucker
and Gwen Lee.
“Lucky Bay” is the story of i
boy who believes he can mak<
good on the stage. During ar
off-season in New York, he rent;
; a theatre and is prepared t<
stage a show. The necessary
money is not forthcoming and
there is no show. The boy comes
West, and breaks into the big
cabaret life in San Francisco,
and makes a hit with his songs.
He returns to New York and be
comes a popular entertainer
there. Of course there is the
mother and the girl to make the
story homelike.
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“MISTER ANTONIO” AT THE
COLISEUM SATURDAY
Leo Carrilo, star of the spek
ing stage, will birng a new per
sonality to the screen with his
first picture, an all-dialogue pro
duction of Booth Tarkington’s
stage play, “Mister Antonio.”
The Coliseum is presenting
this Tiffany-Stall film, syncron
ized by RCA Photophone, Satur
day with Virginia Valli co-star
red and a splendid cast, includ
ing Gareth Hughes, Frank
Reicher, Eugenie Besserer. Betty
Francisco and others.
It is the drama of a man
who creates drama wherever he
goes—and is always on the go. A
whimsical story of a musician on
the road to romance.
Satire and romance are blend
ed with comedy in this play
which was adapted for the
screen by Frderic and Fanny
Hatton.
SOME DAY
Some day I’ll write a book, and
put
The nasty people in—
The people who have worried me.
The fat folk and the thin.
Who made my life a burden, and
Have not remorseful been.
Then, lest it seem a gallery
Where none but rogues appear.
I’ll paint the people that I love—
The kindly and dear—
Whose all-unconscious ministry
Has filled my life with cheer.
The nasty folk won’t know them
selves,
Such people never do;
The nice folk will too modest be
To think their portraits true;
But, writing, I’ll have stacks of
fun,
And, reading, so will you!
—Exchange.
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Labor is a duty from which no
man living is exempt, without
forfeiting his right to his daily
bread.—Thomas Wilson.
j War graves of British soldiers
l and sailors exist in no fewer than
. 110 countries in the five contin
> ents.