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Service Is Our Watchword
British Physicians
Would Bar Drunks
Entering Wedlock
LONDON, Jan. 29.—Dr. T. B. Hy
slop, the distinguished' alienist, who
was for some years medical super
intendent of Bethlehem Hospital, has
published a book discussing problems
of insanity that may become the cen
ter of discussion and prehaps con -
troversy among both medical men
and the laity.
Alcoholism is one of. the subjects
dealt with in the book, which is
entitled “The Borderland.” Dr. Hy
slop says:
“We see so many evidences of de
generation resulting from alcoholism
in parents that 1 am strongly of the
opinion that just as the habitual
drunkard is deprived of his liberty
so the existence of the alcoholic
habit should be considered as a bar
to matrimony.
“Any person who has made al
cohol a necessity, or is unable to
resist the temptation to indulge in
alcohol, may obtain to a certain de
gree of success in mind or in pocket
but, biologically considered, the world
would be the better had he never
been born into it; and needless to
say, the marriage of such a one, is
in my opinion, a biological sin, and
ought to be barred by law.
“For practical purposes these con
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jvictjons for- drunkenness should de
bar such a person from Ihe risk of
! polluting, the community by the pro
pagation of degenerates.”
Governor Bone Gets
New Office Quarters
JUNEAU: A lease for five rooms
On the fifth floor of the Gottstein
building has been signed by Governor
Scott C. Bone and his offices will be
established there at once, i,t was an
nounced this week. Authority for re
moval from the present quarters was
received by telegraph from the De
partment of Interior.
The Budget Bureau, said Governor
Bone, has approved the same neces
sasry for removal and rental fop the
rest of the fiscal year and for rental
for the coming fiscal year. Removal
of records, furniture and fixtures
started Monday. The Governor’s of
fices will be located in rooms 511. 515,
518, 520 and 522. They will be adja
cent to the offices used by Secretary
Karl Thiele.
The old building on Fifth street,
which is being vacated, has been un
safe for several years. Several
months ago an inspection from the
office of Supervising Architect in the
Treasury Department surveyed it and
pronounced it unsafe.
The building was erected about 40
years ago, either in 1883 or 1884. It
■ was erected by Eugene Willard for the
Presbyterian Board and used as a
home for Indian girls..
In 1911 it was purchased by the
Federal government and Gov. Walter
Clark was the first executive to occu
py it.
Murder and suicide cause approxi
mately 25,000 deaths each year in the
United states.
In names of dirigibles the designa
tion ZR-3, for instance, means Zeppe
lin Rigid No. 3.
GERHARD JOHNSEN
Mason and Plasterer
Phone Adams 60 Box 1423
Body Is Petrified
After 24 Years In
Missouri Grave
OTHER BODIES IN NEIGHBORING
GRAVES WERE NOT AFFECTED
IN SIMILAR WAY.
FULTON, Mo., Jan. .29 —While
oldtimers were recalling the days of
the Cardiff Giant, those of an in
quiring mind recently were seeking an
explanation lor the petrification of
the body of Mrs. M. F. Guthrie,
which has just been transferred to
Hillcrest Cemetery, here, from its
resting place of 24 years in the
cemetery at New Bloomfield, a near-,
by village.
Mrs. Guthrie’e body was found to
have turned into stone, although
four other bodies buried near it had
decomposed, as is normal.
The removal of Mrs. Guthrie's
body and the bodies of Mr. Guthrie,
their son and two daughters was re
quested by Miss Cornelia Guthrie,
daughter, on her death bed here last
week, so that the entire family might
rest in the same lot in Hillcrest.
When the sexton and four assist
ants opened Mrs. ' Guthrie’s grave
they found the casket rotted away
and the body turned to stone. With
one of two slight exceptions * .•i lea
tures looked as they did a quarter
of a century ago. The hairpins were
still in place.
Thebody was so heavy that the
five men had great difficulty in rais
ing it. The other five bodies were
found to be in the normal state, with
only the skeletons left.
Miss Nellie Guthrie and M. L.
Guthrie, children of Met. Guthrie
still live in Fulton.
NEW CANCER CURE
LENINGRAD, Russia*, Jan. 29.—Dr.
Molotkoff, professor in the neurolo
gical academy here, announced the
employment of a new method of
treating cancer, which he claims will
effect cures. The treatment cansists
in cutting the nerve leading directly
to the cancerous growth.
According to Professor Molotkoff,
the nerves play a vital part in all
cases of cancer. At the Academy
of Medical Sciences he exhibited sev
eral patients, who, he said, had been
cured by the new method. The same
treatment, he asserts, will also heal
gangreene and inflammation of the
marrow of bones.
VALUABLE DOG
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 29.—A
dog’s life is worth $20,000, according
to a damage suit on file in superior
court here in which Mr. and Mrs.
C. Everett Smith seek a judgment
against Joseph H. Shuman, whose
automobile is alleged to have struck
and killed their pet police dog. An
additional $5,000 is asked for grief
caused the plaintiff’s by the animal’s
untimely end.
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Reindeer Brought
To Matanuska Farm
Anchorage Daily Times
MATANUSKA, —The experimental
station last week received three rein
deer, two females and one male, it is
understood for the purpose of deter
mining whether or not they will live
on other feed than white moss. So
far they refuse to eat vegetables, and
also have turned down grain. A few
sacks of moss were brought along as
an emergency and keeps them from
starving.
Mr. Snodgrass and his aid, Wing
field, surely have their hands full,
for the reindeer are far from being
as tame as cows.
J. H. Buchanan is the new station
agent at Matanuska, taking the place
of W. W. Wade, who resigned recent
ly. Mr. Buchanan was formerly at
Healey and at one time was night op
erator at Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs.
Buchanan are pleased with their liv
ing quarters and Matanuska in gen
eral.
Our local radio wizzards, Harmon
and Buchanan, were unable to get
Seattle station KJR Alaska night.
However Harmon got some music on
his set, from Denver, Colorado.
M. D. Snodgrass made a trip to
Fairbanks in the interest of his work
for the experimental station and re
turned on the next train.
RAILROADS ASK MORE
MONEY FOR CARRYING
UNITED STATES* MAIL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29
Representatives of the leading rail
roads comprising the railroad mail
pay committee, conferred with
Postmaster General New in an ef
fort to obtain increased compensa
tion for carrying the mails.
The railroads’ representatives ask
ed Mr. New to agree to a statement
of fact to be made to the interestate
commerce commission on which new
rates could be based. No agree
ment was reached but sub-commit
tees were appointed to continue dis
cussions.
Snow Shoes, S9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
RATES FOR EXPRESS
WERE FIXED BY LANE
OLYMPIA, Jan. 31.—The new ex
press class rates which the railroads
are trying to avoid putting into ef
fect and which the state department
of Public'Works is aiding the Inter
state Commerce Commission in up
holding in the federal courts, are plan
ned to supersede an express rate
scale that was worked up when F. K
Lane, best remembered as secretary
of the interior under President Wil
son, was on the federal commission
He helped work out the scheme
whereby the country was divided into
five zones for rate-making purposes.
As a means of finding a working
basis for rates it was decided that
the express charges should be ap
proximately 2 1-2 times the fast
freight rates.
That is where the joker came in
jthat the Washington department oi
; Public works discovered and worked
j out in winning its fight for express
rate revision before t lie interstate
| commerce commission. The enor
j mous express business in the Atlantic
j Coast states is a short-haul business
with heavy costs for pick-up freight.
SENATE PASSES
WASHINGTON Jan. 31.—The Sen
ate passed the postal pay rate increase
bill yesterday by a vote of 70 to S.
carrying the same salary increases,
elective as in July 1 of last year, when
the measure was vetoed by President
Coolidge. The bill is expected to meet
the challenge of the House where the
Ways and Means sub-committee de
clared that the Senate by considering
the bill had usurped the privilege of
the PTouse in initiating revenue legis
lation. The bill is much changed
*from the proposals of the post office
department, the rate of pay increases
becoming effective April 15 and ex
piring February 15, next year when
a joint Congressional committee will
study the bill and recommend legis
lation next session.
The only change today was in par
cel post service charges, making them
one cent instead of two.
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