NORTHERN LIGHT
Published monthly by the Unalakleet
ESKIMO SCHOOL *{*
Unalakleet Alaska
Two degrees below the circle
On Bering s rugged shore
Where the murmur of the liver
Meets the billow's ceaseless ro.tr.
E. E. Van Ness Editor
Twenty Five Cents
per year
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT *4*
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The recent election in the states and
i i Alaska pnt 114 brewers and 6528
saloons ont of business. 450 of the
saloons are Alaskan institutions.
60 veats ago Mai e went dry. It
was quite a joke for some folks for
411 any years But they that laugh
last laugh loudest.
To day 26 states are dry, and W.J.
Bryan is inaugurating a Campaign to
persuade the Democrats to make the
issue a plank in the platform of 1920
St. Michael and Tatiana are the only
two places in all Alaska that made a
mistake in the last election.
As a result of the recent election,
"No wholesale or ret.dl license shall
t>e issued for the sale, manufacture
barter or exchange of intoxi ati. g
liquors in the territory of Alaska
after the first day of January 1918.’’
SUGGESTIONS
If you have a particular dislike for
teaching any school subject, put that
among the first on the program, and
thus teach it while fresh.
Don’t let your pupils waste time
studying words in spelling that they
know, but pronounce an tin-studied
page to the n and use the mis-spelled
words for a lesson the following day.
We are using, or trying to use,the
modern geography in onr work, but
often we find ourselves-in spite of
the l»ook makers-longing for the old
fashioned geography, with its big
maps and list of questions.Of course
we are likely wrong, but we believe
that they would be the best book for
this work. What is your oppinion?
The following verse is absolutely
correct, All that is necessary to make
it clear is punctuation.
There is a lady at Unalakleet
With twenty nails on each hand
Five and twenty on iutmls and feet
This is true at Unalakleet
■ORE LINCOLN LESS TER6II
One of the great problems that Uncle Sam
will sooner or later be called upon to settle
is,” How to Americanize the thousands of
foreigners constantly coining to our shores.”
We believe that the schools will piove the
greatest factor in unifying. The following
from the Saturday Keening I'ost is a step in
the right direction.
“Teaching the use of the English
language is one of the prime object*
of public-school instruction. Lincoln
was one of the masters of English.
His simple, luminous sentences,
which go as straight as bullets, are
models for the pupil that can not be
improved upon. School instruction
seeks to form and strengthen a pu
pils reasoning powers.
To follow Lincoln’s mind throuhg
his great controversies is an education
in re iso i ig that no classical example
surpasses. By classical example
schools seek toteach ‘the humanities'
a 1 i itelligent. tolerant compre
hension of one's fellow men. In all
extant literature no man exhibits
this quality more consistently and
or— will enrich any mind, young or
old. that studies them.—Page 4