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Statiscian announces about 40,
000,000 loaves of baker’s bread were
sold last year. This explains why
women of today have time to sit
around a barber shop waiting to
hear “next,” time to go to bridge
parties and the movies, and time
to put on their complicated com
plexions.
The Ananias Club.
"My wife is letting her bobbed
hair grow in again, but 1 never
hear her complaining about it being
hard to fix,” he said.
“I can’t see why the life insurance
company turned you down. You are
in the best of health, aren’t you?”
“Oh, yes, but they heard my wife
was an expert with a gun.”
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Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
Let Morrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
8IGN8 WALL PAPER
Every day in every way
You enjoy your meals
AT
THE FISHER CAFE
Seward, Alaska Chas. Fisher, Prop.
Bread—two loaves for 25c
Butcher Shop Remedies.
If you’re troubled with the Gout
Just spend two-bits for Saur Kraut
Then if you think you’re feeling worse
Spend two-bits for Weiner Werse
Or if your heart is all a quiver
Take home a couple pounds of Liver
Then if you still feel kind of Bum
Then we might prescribe a nice Beef Tongue
But if you’re troubled with sharp pains
Try Meadowbrook Eggs & Scrambles Brains
If this don’t make the world look brighter
Just tell your troubles to the writer
And anything lie might suggest
Is guaranteed to be the best.
CARSTEN’S PACKING COMPANY
YOUTHFUL SPEAKERS
TO CONTEST MAY 8
FOR COVETED PRIZES
NEW YORK, Apr. 30.—Several
thousand high school contestants
throughout the United States are
now engaged in elimination trials for
the second annual National Oratori
cal Contest “to increase interest in
and respect for the Constitution,”
which is held under the auspices of
representative national newspapers.
The field of youthful speakers will
be further sifted down through suc
cessive district and state contests to
produce a finalist for each of seven
major zones. The honor seven will
measure declamation strides at Wash
ington May 8 for prize awards of
$300 to $2,000, and for enviable dis
tinction in the school world.
The contest supplements a nation
wide movement to foster better ap
preciation of the true meaning of
the charter document of American
democracy. This has been under
way for 15 years among women’s
clubs, American school teachers and
civic societies such as the National
Security League.
Primarily, the contest was launch
ed to fire the youthful mind with a
desire to learn the principles of Am
erican government. Actually, its sup
porters say, it has succeeded, and
has gone this success one better. It
has helped produce to a gratifying
degree a similar effect upon the
adult mind in varied.
Miss Etta V. Leighton, civic secre
tary of the National Security League,
a pioneer in the work, measures the
first success by the fuller cross sec
tion of the student body to be seen
represented in this year's contest.
Last year, she said, the entrants
were largely the “stars,” who pre
sumably would be helped the least.
This year the entry list carries both
“stars” and plodders, the latter being
the ones who will be helped more,
according to Miss Leighton, who re
ported a particularly heavy quota
from rural and backwoods districts.
The National Security League has
received a flood of inquiries on the
Constitution from the country at
large which definitely dated from
last year’s competition, Miss Leigh
ton said. Conductors and brakemen,
grocers and heads of concerns, trade
unionists and doctors, all had ap
pealed for light along the conspicu
ous path the oratorical contest had
opened.
SIGNAL CORPS RADIO NET
COVERS ENTIRE COUNTRY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Apr. 30.—
President Coolidge’s economy prog
■ ram has found an active ally in ra
dio which, army signal corps offi
cers say, saves the government about
$100,000 annually in communication
charges.
The army handles the message bus
iness of many of the departments in
land, just as the navy takes care of
government coastwise and off-shore
traffic, and the signal corps has
built up what its officers term “the
most complete and perfected radio
network in the world.
The message center of the war de
partment, located in the Munitions
Building, is the nerve focus of the
radio system. Twelve stations link
the various corps area headquarters
with Washington, and within each
of the corps units there are radio
stations for inter-area work, compris
ing 60 stations in all. There are 21
Alaskan stations, and 17 distributed
thru the insular possessions and Pan
ama. Army transports also are
equipped with radio.
The signal corps is using this gov
ernment business to train its per
sonnel, the equipment and traffic be
| ing controlled from Washington. At
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Salt
Lake, are installed ten-kilowatt tube
transmitters to relay transcontinen
tal messages. From Washington to
New York and also to Baltimore, the
corps maintains leased telegraph
wires, but the rest of the system is
an all-radio one. Installation and
operation are done entirely by sig
nal corps personnel.
In conjunction with its radio sys
tem, the signal corps maintains a
■weather-forecasting service for army
airplanes.
Captain E. F. French is in charge
of the radio net, under Colonel N.
F. McClure, signal corps office in
charge of communication facilities.
Attention, Car
Owners!
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Storage Battery Service
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
P. OGLE, Proprietor
Agent for Overland and Willvs-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
to handle all necessary Auto repairs
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
HUSSEY & BOLAM, Mechanics
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DOWNING STREET WAS
EXPENSIVE RESIDENCE
DECLARES J. R. CLYNES
LEEDS, Eng., Apr. 30.—J. R.
Clynes, who was the first labor min
ister to reside at No. 11 Downing
Street, would not care to undergo
the experience again. While rent is
free in these quarters, next door to
the residence of the premier, life
there is altogether too expensive, Mr.
Clynes wrote recently in the York
shire Evening News in an article on
his experiences at No. 11 wrhile a
member of the Ramsay Macdonald
government. Mr. Clynes, now a mem
ber of parliament, points out that
most of the political leaders before
him at No. 11 w^ere doubtless men
of ample private means.
“There is an impression that the
political tenant moves into Dowming
Street to the enjoyment of a free
house run at public expense,’’ says
Mr. Clynes. „ "It is true that rent is
not paid by the occupant, but he
pays for nearly everything else. At
No. 11 the state pays the wages of
a messenger and that is about all the
relief which the occupant receives.
The whole of the staff to run the
house (usually about nine in num
ber) are said, fed and supported by
the occupant. On occasions of hos
pitality and entertainment, I had to
pay all the costs and expenses of ex
tra staffs, even to the fees for at
tendants in the cloak rooms—the
cloak room usually being one of the
office rooms transformed for the pur
pose.
“I was sometimes asked, w’hen us
ing the telephone, whether the call
was official, and periodically I re
ceived demand noted for payments
i
amounting to several pounds sterl
ing for telephone calls deemed of a
personal or private character.
"Occasionally a command came for
a journey to Buckingham Palace or
to some place of distinction, where
officially I was required as a minis
ter to meet other representatives or
public men. At times I would be
told that in addition to the chauffeur,
a second man as porter or footman
was the custom, and a bill was sent
to me for the payment of a few
pounds for such occasions.”
Mr. Clynes believes that $25,000 a
| year is not enough for ministers
whose duties require them to live in
Downing Street unless they have
f substantial private means.
American Legion Auxiliary May Day
Dance, Friday, May 1, 1925. Admis
! sion 50c each, I. 0. O. F. Hal. 3t.
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six o’clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
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