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A REFORMATORY THAT REFORMS IS NEWS !
Sometimes you can get a pretty fair line on the sort
of people we are by examining the things which we
consider to be news.
Leaving aside momentous things such as wars,
strikes, acts of congress, and presidential soliloquies,
news is the unusual. The things that makes news is the
unusual. The things that makes news is the thing whi
. I ch is in contrast to our regular routine.
k So when you find a metropolitan newspaper such as
the San Francisco News printing an interesting three
part series on California’s state reformatory at Preston,
Pi you are safe in assuming that the reformatory is news
Serv because it does things differently than ordinary reform
t.ant atories do them.
Ada The Preston institution—and, by the way- they don’t
like to have it called a reformatory; it’s the Preston
Ti School of Industry—looks like a pleasant little univer
se sity. It is out in the country, with neat dormitories,
adn farmlands- athletic field, and campus spread out over a
Sec< thousand rolling acres.
The boys are called ‘‘cadets,” not “inmates,” and the
j routine is much like that of any military academy. Bars
tfa] and armed guards are reserved only for a few—the in
.■ corrigibles, the won’t works, the sullen and vicious.
— The other lads attend classes, perform military drill,
A learn trades, get their educational shortcomings set
night- and are made to feel that society is ready to give
them all -the breaks in the world if they will just give
society half a chance.
— In other words, the institution is honestly deigned
to take young offenders, build them up physically, mor
ally, and mentally- and send them back to become use
ful members of the social order.
It’s all very encouraging—until you stop to figure
out why this institution is news.
— It is news, obviously, because it is in such sharp con
trast to the ordinary reformatory.
The average reformatory is nothing but a peniten
tiary in disguise. It generally is swamped with twice
| as many offenders as it was designed to handle. It is i
all too often crippled by politics. The idea of stern, un
deviating punishment tends to take precedence of the
idea of reform. The result is that in far, far too many
cases, if a young man isn’t ruined for life before his in
carceration, he is ruined when he comes out. The very
word, “reformatory-” has become a bitter mockery.
So when we find a reformatory which is actually op-j
erated so as to reform ,the boys who are sent to it—it’s
news. It’s unusual, striking, interesting. We want to!
know all about it.
Could you ask for a more vivid illustration of the’
stupid way in which we fumble around with the very
roots of our great crime problem ?—Exchange.
VALUE OF LEARNING
After a day at college, a certain Oklahoman goes
home- studies until midnight, then arises at 5:30 o’clock
to get his lessons ready for that day’s classes. He is Dr.
J. N. Harbor, former mayor of Seminole, Oklahoma,
prominent physician, and rich oil man.
What lured him back to classrooms 30 years after he
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left school? Pleasure of learning, Dr. Harber main
tained. But an interviewer uncovered the man’s basic
philosophy: that a person’s real success in life depends
upon his service to his community and the people about
him, and that learning enables him to be of greater ser
vice.
People who have contracted the idea that the sole
function of an education is to increase one’s earning
power should find some sort of moral in Dr. Harber’s
philosophy.
CUPID’S HANDICAP
Frequently there are pleas for universal enactment
of legislation requiring pre-marital physical examina-;
tions. Somehow- the movement hasn’t made much
headway, although the idea seems feasible.
It is wondered, however, why some group doesn’t
plug for another type of test; one that would determine
beforehand just what the prospective bride or groom
does in the way of snoring.
The thought arises in connection with a Chicago
alienation of affections case. Because he snored rather
ostentatiously, a man claims, his wife made him sleep
in an attic room for three years. His wife is suing the
“other woman-” to whom, she maintains, her husband
turned his affections.
Now all this might have been avoided had the plain
tiff known, before her marriage, that her fiance was a
nocturnal basso. When she took him “for better or for
“worse”, she had not known that the “worse’' might
include lying awake, trying to ignore a sound that sug
gested a sawmill at the height of a lumber boom.
So that a bride or groom can learn be-fore-hand that
her mate-to-be has sonorous feet of clay- to mix a meta
phor, there oughta be a law !
One of the grimmer sides of unemployment is a
shortage of seating facilities. Literally, millions are
still without chairs to strike in.—Frisco Chronicle.
We don’t know about the law, but a judge of whisky
has to be 70, according to the portraits in the ads.—The
Detroit News.
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—Tvve men told Otto Hanson of
Scran,ion,North Dakota, that they
were interested in threshing and
harvesting machinery. Hanlon
joined them in a poker game &
concluded that they didn’t need
machinery. “They harvested me
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Nonchalant Bomber
So accustomed are the Asturian
miners,famous contingent of Spain's
loyalist forces, to handling high ex
plosives that they frequently light
a short fuse on a bomb (as above)
from a cigaret. Insurgent forces re
cently launched a strong assault
on the miners. (Associated Press
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
UNITED STATES PATENT
Min. Sur. No. 1888
Min. Appl. No. 0926
i IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
i OFFICE, Nome, Territory of Al
! ask's.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that R. W. SILVER, whose post
office address is Nome, Alaska.
; has made application for a pat
ent for 1454.5 linear feet on the
'Shamrock No. One lode and for
1500 linear feet on the Goode
| lode, each bearing gold and sil
I ver, the same being as to the
Shamrock No. One lode N. 44 deg
43 TTii’n. W. 63.5 ft. and S. 44 deg
48 min. E. 1391 ft. from the ds
covery cut thereon, and a furth
er d'sco'v&ry of sad Shamrock
No. One lode being a cut the
east end of which bears S. 18
deg. 40 min. E., 255 ft. from the
west end cf the lode line from
which Cor. No. 1 of the Shamrock
No. One lode claim bears S. 36 deg
48 min. E., 300 ft.; and the Goode
led? bo ng N. 36 deg. 47 min. W..
25 ft., and S. 36 deg. 47 min. E„
1475 ft. from 'he d scovery cut
there n. A partieul r description,
cf the Sh’arrifock No. One lode
drum bdng a,- folic ,vs;
Begl'nm'ng di*.Cor. No. 1, a
. r>a-t 43 n. long, 4'tm.-aq: "jlv
in ground, in mound of earth and
stone 1 ft. high, 30 in. base, and
marked SH-1-1-1888, from which
U. S. L. M. No. 324 bears S. 41
deg. 25 min. W„ 774.7 ft., and
from which Cor. No. 1 Sur. No
°24 Southern Cross Lode bears
N. 2 dag. 35 min. E., 204.5 ft.,
magnetic declination 19 deg. 15
min. E.: Thence N. 36 deg. 48 min
E„ 600 ft. to Ccr. No. 2, magnet
ic declination T9 deg. 15 min
E.; Thence S. 44 deg. 48 min
E., 1454.5 ft. to Cc.r. No. 3, mag
matic decl'nation 19 deg. 15 min
E.: Thence S. 36 deg. 48 min. W..
600 ft. to Cor. No. 4, magnetic
declination 19 deg. 15 min. E..
Thence N. 44 deg. 48 min. W.
1454.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place
• °f beginning, containing 19.819
ae es. Area in conflict wf> h Goode
lode of this survey 3.493 acres,
ard in conflict with Sur. No. 324
Southern Cro=s lode 3.36 acres
Net area of Shamrock No. One
lode 12.966 acres.
And a par icular descr'ption cf
the Goode lode being as follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, which
:s identical with Cor. No. 1 Sur.
No. 324 Hot Air lode, a fir post
4 ;n. sq., 48 in. above ground, in
an earth mound 1 ft. high, 4 ft
base, and previou-y marked
324-No. 1, and now marked afsc
GO-1-1888, from which U. S. L.
M. No. 324 bears S. 46 deg. 01
min. W., 389.4 ft., magnetic de
cimation 19 deg. 45 min. E.; Then
ce N. 36 deg. 48 min. E., 599.2
ft. to Cor. No. 2, magnetic declin
ation 19 deg. 00 min. E.; Thence
b. 36 deg. 47 min. E., 1500 ft.
to Cor. No. 3, magnetic decima
ls" 19 deg. 30 min. E.; Thence
b. 36 deg. 48 min. W., 599 2 ft.
| to Cor. No. 4, magnetic declina
deg. 45 min. E.; Thence
-N. 36 deg. 47 min. W„ 1500 ft.
to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing 19.792 acres
net area, the conflict of 3.493 ac
res with the Shamrock No. One
lode claim, same survey, being
shown above and deduction made
therefor from the Shamrock No.
Ghe lode claim. Total net area of
the Shamrock No. One and Goode
lode claims being 32.758 acres.
2 claims are 'located on
I ruby hill between Solomon Riv
er and Trilby Creek, in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording dist
rict and precinct. Second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska; the no
tices of locations being recorded
with the Recorder for the said
district and precinct for the
Shamrock No. One lode claim in
Vol. 214, page 106, and for the
Goode lode oladtn in Vofl. 214,
page 107.
Adjoining claims are aii the
North, Sur. No. 324 Southern
Crass lode; on the East, Sham
rock 2 lode and Goode 1 lode,
i,TT1Sl!!jyey€d; on the West, Sur.
No. 324 Southern Cross lode and
No. 324 Hot Air lode; other
adjoining claims unknown.
U- S. L. M. No. 324 to Which
these claims are "tied is a slate
block on said Trilby hill, in lati
tude and longitude as taken frojn
the U. S. G. S. map of the Solo
mon Quadrangle, of 64 deg. 39
min. % N., 164 deg. 16 min. % ty.
ALMER RYDEEN Register
lst Publication Fri., April 16, 1937
Last Pub. Monday June 28, 1937.