Phones Useless, Yeah? News Note In 1865 An eastern newspaper in 1865, just seventy years ago, published the following news item: A man about forty six years of age, giving the name of Joshua Coppersmith, has been arrested in New York City for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious citizens by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls the instrument a telephone, which is obviously intended to imitate the word telegraph, and win the confidence of those who know of the success of the latter instrument without understanding the principles on which it is based. Well nformed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes and signals of the Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. The authorities who apprehended this criminal are to be congratulated, and it is to be hoped that his punishment will be prompt and fitting, that it may serve as an example to other conscienceless schemers who enrich themselves at the expense of their fellow creatures. Will Rogers Says: FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 15. Visited our new emigrants. Now this is no time to discuss whether it will succeed or whether it wont, wither its a farming country or whether it is not, and to enumerate the hundreds of mistakes and confusions and rows and arguments and management in the whole thing at home and here. As I see it there is now but one problem now that they are here, and thats to get em housed within six or eight weeks. Things have been in a terrible mess. They are getting em straightened out, but even now not fast enough. There is about seven or eight hundred of em. About 200 went back, also about that many workmen sent from the transient camps down home (not C C C), and just lately they are using about 150 Alaskan workmen paid regular wages. But its just a few weeks to snow now, and they have to be out of the tents, both workmen and settlers. There is plenty of food and always has been, and always will be. They can always get that, but its houses they need right now. And Colonel Hunt, in charge, realizes it. You know, after all, there is a lot of difference in pioneering for gold and pioneering for spin*h. Yours, Johannes Muller (1801 to 1858) identified the two ducts known in embryology as Mullers ducts University of Hongkong, China Incorporated in 1911. The Faculty of Medicine was originally the Hongkong College of Medicine (1887)carried on by private practitioners and the government medical service. A special School of Anatomy dates from the opening of the university. WILL ROGERS says: VERMEJO PARK, N. M., July 26. This sure is a beautiful country up in here, lakes, streams, mountains, fish, deer, elk, everything. Every time we would see a good looking ranch and a little meadow down in the canyon Wiley Post would set his Lockheed down in it. Visited our old friend Waite Phillips first. He has a marvelous place, and 325,000 acres of pretty country. Now we are, at the famous Vermejo ranch, the greatest fishing and game place in the whole southwest. Wiley is fishing, and I am out looking at cattle. Yours, WILL ROGERS SAYS: FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13. This Alaska is a great country if they can just keep from being taken over by the U. S. They got a great future. This is the greatest, aviation minded city of its size in the world. There is only 30 thousand white people in Alaska and there is 70 commercial planes operating every day in winter on skis. Edmonton, Canada, is similar, for their country they run clear to the arctic. Both countries have developed marvelous pilots. What they need now is a mail line from Seattle up here. There may be some doubt about the Louisiana purchase being a mistake, but when Seward in 68 bought Alaska for seven million dollars he even made up for what we had overpaid the Indians for Manhattan island. Yours, WILL ROGERS SAYS: ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 14. Well, we had a day off today and nothing to do, so we went flying with friends, Joe Crosson, Alaskas crack pilot, who is a great friend of Wileys and helped him on his difficulties up here on his record trips, and Joe Barrows, another fine pilot, in a Lockheed Electra. We scaled Mount McKinley, the highest one on the American continent. It was a bright, sunny day and the most beautiful sight I ever saw. Crosson landed on a glacier over half way up it in a plane, and took off, flew right by hundreds of mountain sheep, flew low over moose and bear down in the valley, and then out to visit Matanuska valley, where they sent those 1935 model pioneers. Yours, Believe It or Not EILEEN JACKS 15 years old CLIMBED THE MATTERHORN IN 4 HRS, 45 MIN 1925 (14,782 FEET HIGHT)