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ANOTHER GOOD LAW NEEDED
The Alaskan legislator should pass a law at the
coming session requiring all canned goods entering
theTerritory to have the date the contents were
packed, and if the can has been relabled it should
be so stated on the can. This would save suffering and
at times the death of the consumer, who, at present
time has no protection against the greedy packer
and wholesaler in the States.
Canned goods have been shipped to Alaska
which are absolutely rotten, the contents being as
dangerous as so much strychnine, and causing ten
fold the suffering before death ensues. For the
number of population Alaska has more deaths from
ptomaine poisoning than any state in the union.
Cans are relabeled which will hardly hold to
gether, and shipped to Alaska where they are dis
tributed to camps far from medical aid. The re
tailer selling the goods sees the new label and with
no knowledge of the age of the contents, passes them
over the counter to trapper or prospector, who jour
nies hundreds of miles to remote points, far from
medical aid. When the packages are opened in the
dim light of cabin or trail, a lethal dose is adminis
tered from which recovery is doubtful, or at least un
certain, and the victim is generally ruined physically
for many years afterward. «
Goods three or four years old should be taken
off the market. Cans rusted to pieces and cov
ered with new labels should be thrown out on the
dump, and not sent to Alaska. To our mind a man
is as guilty who wholesales these good as he would be
if he poisoned his customer in the approved Borgian
style. Lucretia had nothing on some wholesalers
when it came to administering powerful toxics, and
the man who jimmies one’s safe and abstracts the
contents is a gentleman compared to a man who ex
ports unsafe foods because they are cheaper than a
good brand. At Dawson, a few years ago, a whole
camp was made ill and some score of men died from
eating canned beef, that often ifialigned but essen
t a! standby yf the camp cook. Xo medical aid was
1; ndy and the sufferers suffered excrutiating agoc/
before death ended their sufferings. If the spoiled
meat was ever traced back to the wholesaler nothing
was ever made public to this effect.
Dozens of cases have been printed in Alaskan
papers on the same subject, and while the obituar
ies of the victims make interesting reading it causes
a chill of apprehension to pass over the bodies of
those friends who might have shared the meal. The
fault lies entirely with the wholesaler who relabeled
his goods.
A BLOW AT THE LEAGUE
The refusal of Great Britain to allow the League
■of Nations to arbitrate its dispute with Egypt is a
great blow to proponents of the League, who had
come to believe it the panacea for all things, regard
less of the questions involved. Prominent oppon
ents of the League have all along questioned the
good faith of the countries involved, believing that
the larger and more powerful nations would refuse
to accept its mandates in case their ideas of right
differed from that of the League and that its work
ings could only dominate the actions of the smaller
nations.
- While Britain has had considerable provocation
in its administration of affairs in Africa, there is
no doubt but that less friction would have resulted
if it had resorted to the world court in exacting rep
arations for the murder of its representatives in
Cairo. The principals in a suit cannot see beyond
their own claims, and are generally too prejudiced
to act fairly and impartially in their decisions.
Without doubt the action of Great Britain will
be the cause of the disintegration of the League, as
it has been proved impossible to compel a powerful
nation to accept its decrees without force of arms,
which places* the matter where it was before the for
mulation of its pacific constitution.
WOMEN TO TAKE PLACE ON BATTLE LINE
During the early period of the “votes for wo
men ’’ campaign, the answer was given that the “bul
let” should follow the “ballot”—that if the women
were given the right to vote, they should be required
to go to war. During the world war, Russian wo
men were organized as “Battalions of Death,” for
front line duty and if history is to be credited they
fought gallantly. About 90,000 American women
served with the United States army overseas during
our eighteen months on the battle line, and while
they did not wear “tin hats”, wear gas masks or
carry rifles, they performed a useful, necessary and
perilous service in a manner that has brought credit
upon themselves. The war department now is
studying a plan to give American women a recog
nized place in all branches of the American army in
case of future national emergency, and no secret is
made of the hope that it may ultimately result in
the creation of a separate and distinct branch of
the military service, of a reserve women’s army corps
to be formed from voluntary enlistment. The idea
though novel, is not startling. It is in line with
the growing appreciation of the need of mobolizing
the entire man power and women power of the na
tion in time of stress.
UNION OWNED MINE “UNFAIR!”
Down in Texas where the national meeting of
the American Federation of Labor took place, there
was a lot of complaint being made because a union
owned coal mine in West Virginia was being operat
ed on the “open-shop” basis.
The head of that property is Warren Stone,
long one of the great labor leaders of the country
and recently treasurer of the LaFollette campaign.
This union-owned and operated mine not only
employed non-union miners but it did not pay union
wages nor# grant union conditions.
The operators said they could not carry on the
works under union rules and compete in the open
markets. They insisted on running their own busi
ness as the owners, not as officials of the United
Mine Workers wanted them to run the mine!
And the mine workers’ officials want the own
ers of the mine in West Virginia disciplined!
Can you beat it?
COMMERCIAL RAINMAKING POSSIBILITY
For three years the United States army has been
conducting experiments at Bolling Field in the de
struction of fog and clouds by the use of electrified
sand. Simply stated, the air experts base their
work on '‘the assumption that visible forms of mois
ture in the air are in the form of colloidal suspen
sion in gases and that they should be governed by
the same general laws that prevail in colloidal action
in liquids and solids.'" By turning a lever the
airmen may unloose either positive or negative sand
and the kind of sand that is discharged depends on
whether the offending cloud has charged positively
jor negatively—the opposite being used.
Recently a small cloud was attacked with less
|than ten pounds of “negative’7 sand and forthwith
the lightning and thunder, which had been filling
the air with noises, ceased, and “there followed a
slow gentle rain of about four hours duration.77 The
conservative experts say that “no claim of course,
is made that rain was caused by us,77 but it is as
serted that the sands eliminated the lightning and
thunder. Thomas A. Edison says the airmen should
be able to upset the electric charge of a tornado or
cyclone and the government experts go so far as
to say that “commercial rainmaking lies within the
grasp of man, and he can employ to this end om,
of nature’s cheapest commodities, namely, common
or garden silica, at a cost of about $3 per ton.77
A MASSACHUSETTS man is famous because
he is the only man who ever defeated Calvin Coolidge
in a contest for office. The president had been
elected to public place fifteen times in about twenty
five years and lias the gamut of offices, through
town council, legislature, governorship and presi
dency. Ninteen years ago he lost in a contest for
the school board at Northampton, Mass., by ninety
four votes and that is the only defeat in his long
record in public life. It may be mentioned that at
the time lie was engaged in a more important race—
that which led him to the well-known sea of matri
mony—and tried, after it was too late, to withdraw
from the contest. After all, it was not a complete
defeat he suffered, for he “got the girl.77
POTATOES are up and turkeys are down. That
means, of course, that potatoes will be the chief
Christmas piece de resistance, with the national bird
on the side.
NORMA TALMAGE,
IN HER GREATEST PICTURE
‘Ashes of Vengeance’
A drama of hearts and swords in the
glamorous days of chivalry, when daz
zling beauties of the French court play
ed the game of love and intrigue and
bold chevaliers plotted and battled for
thrones or fought and bled for a kiss
and milady’s smile.
A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE
PATHE NEWS
DANCE
A. B. HALL
SATURDAY NIGHT
DR. JEAN MARIE MUSY
ELECTED PRESIDENT SWISS
BERNE, Dec. 11.—The Federal as
sembly today elected Dr. Jean Marie
Musy president of Switzerland.
Hints on how to cook should first
learn the tyro to get the cook.
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POLISH CABINET APPROVES
PAYMENT OF J. S. DEBT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—The Po
lish cabinet has approved the agree
ment concluded here for the payment
of $178,000,000 Polish war debt to the
United States treasury.
Poland will be the first nation to
pay her debt in full to the United
: States.
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