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A SERIOUS fRORLEM
Coasiderable discussion- is
heard these days aa to the
means that might be adopted
to keep folks on the farm.
The situation has become seri
ous, for many experienced
farmers are moving into the
cities, either for the purpose
of earning what they consider
easier money, or to use ‘their
savings in giving their children
and themselves the advantage
of city life. Whatever the
cause, the situation remains,
and it constitutes a problem
that may well engage the at
tention of national and state
authorities. The fear is ex
pressed that the production
of food may become reduced
to such an extent that the
scarcity will not only greatly
increase prices, but threaten
the welfare of the people. -
While the reasoning is pure
ly academic and subject to the
views of each individual, it is
probably true that the per
sons who make occasional
trips from the rural districts
to the larger towns enjoy these
Vhits and the things they see
much more than those who
aaa them every day. In the
matter of batter school facili
ties in the tovns there is in
most cases no place for argu
ment, although some progress
has been made in a number
of states to bring about a cen
tralization of teaching that
gives country pupils some of
the advantages of the city in
a course of study.
There is nothing to justify
undue pressure to keep men
and women and boy*and girls
on the farms. Rural life should
be sufficiently attractive in it
self that enough persons will
make choice of the country
life to insure the crops of
grain and quantities of other
foodstuffs needed to main
tain all the* people at a reas
onable cost.
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WHY DIDN’T HE
CALL THE DOCTOR?
The Journal of the American
Medical Association has made
a discovery. Auslyzing the vit
al statistic* furnished by the
census bureau, it has found
that in the United States “al
most invariably the number
of male births exceeds the
number of female. This is true
not only in the United States,
but also, it appears, in Eng
land and Wales.”
To be sure. It is also true in
Prance, Germany, Canada, Ja
pan, Guatemala and the is
land of Tahiti. Scientists have
known for a long time that it
is the general rule that 104
to 106 males are born for ev
ry 100 females.The fact has
even crept into the encyclo
pedias. If the correspondent
of the noted medical journal
had called up any doctor who
knows his business, he would
not have been so startled by
the census bureau’s figures.
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ALASKA LIKELY
SOURCE OF LEAD
The lead mining districts of
the world can scarcely keep
pace with the increasing in
dustrial demands f or this ust
fpl metal. It is not probable
that new areas comparable to
the Coeur d'Alene district of
Idaho remain undiscovered m
the United States. While the
kqown fields are being inten
tively mined and exploited, n
is vital that the search lot
hew fields be vigorously pros
ecuted.
According to Dean Patty, of
the Alaska College, there is no
more likely place for such
search than Alaska. He re
gards as particularly favor
able the area of roofk rocks
flanking the eastern margin
of the Coast Range batholite
in the section between Ketch
ikan and Juneau, and also the
Alaska range between the
railroad belt and the Kusko
kwim, an area where leaa
ores are known to occur. Lead
ores are not confined to an>
single formation, yet their ai
finity for limestone is too well
known to the prospector to
require further mention.
It has long beep recognized
that lead minerals escaping
from igneous intrusions are
highly mobile and usually trav
el much higher than copper
and certain gold ores, etc. This
causes them to choose their
abode on the top floors of the
geologic apartment house.
Perched this high up they are
in greater danger of being cut
away by erosion. It follows
as a corallery that areas which
have not been seriously cut
down are particularly good
places to prospect for lead
ores. Anyone with knowledge
of geology readily appreci
ates that there are many ex
ceptions to this generalization
but it is worthy of mention.
The Coast Range and the
Alaska Range fill these re
quirements, and with the lead
deposits of the Rocky Moun
tains as an example, it is logi
cal to turn with hopeful eyes
I to these scantily prospected j
sections of Alaska in the
search for future lead sup
plies.—Valdez Miner. \
VOLCANIC ACTION
IN ALASKA
The service for continuous j
observation of volcanic action ;
in the United States, whereby;!
as recently announced, Las
sen volcano in California is to
be equipped with an experi
ment station, will be extended
to Alaska, according to Min
ing Truth.
The work is under a newly
| established Section of Volcan
i ology, Dr. T. A. Jaggar in
! charge, of the United States
Interior Department, Geologi
cal Survey. Hitherto this work
has been limited to a station
in Hawaii National Park. Un
; der the new service the head
quarters of volcanic research
: remain under Dr. Jaggar in
j Hawaii at Kilauea volcano.
! Mr. Roy H. Finch, who has
| been first assistant at the Ha
J waiian station, will operate
j the Lassen station, equipping
] it with seismographs and mak
ing studies also of slow move
ments, weather conditions, and
underground temperatures.
* Mr. Ronald M. Wilson, td
I pographic and geodetic en
gineer, takes charge of the
seismograpihc laboratory at
the Hawaiian Volcano Obser
vatory and bcomes geodetisi
to the Section of Volcanology,
as aid to Dr. Jaggar in phy
sical investigations - and all
matters pertaining to chang
ing ground levels in relation
to tidewater and horizontal
movement determined by pre
cise triangulation.
A reconnaissance of the
Alaska Peninsula and the
Aleutian Islands will be made
in the near future by Dr. Jag
gar, . with a view to establish
ing a permanent station there.
Just for Fun
“Are you in favor of women
taking part in public affairs?”
“It’s all right if you really
want the affairs public.”
Above all things, girls, nev
er fall out with your chap
when in a Hammock.
Many a house falls to pieces
when a creditor takes a lien
1 on it,
They say long hair makes a
man look intellectual, but
Pete Wilson says, not when
his wife picks it off his
shoulder.
Take it easy, take it calmly,
and one will get along better.
Besides the lunatic asylums
are over-crowded.
Clothes may come, and clothes
may go, but Ben Oien says
posing in them goes on forever.
SIMILE- Works as perfectly
as a fountain pen in the dem
onstration window.
Oren F. says you can often
judge a man’s character by
what he thinks laughable.
She: “What’s the greatest
war song ever written?” -
He: “Here comes the bride.”
Gas makes the world go
round nowadays.
No youth gets very far who
burns the midnight oil in an
automobile.
Well, another autoist saw the
train coming, when nearing a
crossing, but thought he could,
etc.
The scientist who predicts
that in ten years there will be
no servant girls must have
mailed it.
‘I thought your husband
doesn't attend the movies. The
other day I saw him in the
second row with an arm about
you."
“That wasn’t my husband."
A banquet is an affair where
a speaker first eats a lot of
food he doesn’t want and then
proceeds to talk about some
thing he doesn’t understand
to a crowd of people who
don’t want to hear hear him.
Now and then one picks up
a magazine on the stands
these days that makes one
curious to see the stuff the
editor rejected.
BALLADS OF A HUSBAND
A Happy Thought
“Two can live as cheaply
As one," somebody said;
Will some one tell me who
it was?
I wanna knock him dead!
FAIRY STORY
Once there was a young man
who loved his wife and his
mother. One day his sweet
bride asked which of the two
he loved more.
“My mother,” he said, hang
ing his head.
“That’s good," she replied
sweetly.
Fair Motorist: “Really, I did
not hit you intentionally."
Irate Victim—“What have
you got that bumper on your
car for if you aren’t aiming
to hit someone?"
“Would you like to take a
nice long walk?” she asked.
“Why, I’d love to," replied the
young man joyously. “Well,
don’t let me detain you.”
“You see," said young Mr.
Jenkins to his sweetheart, in
describing how he had had a
slight cycling accident, “I lost
my head, you know!"
“Did you miss it much?” she
asked sweetly.
“I am quite a near neighbor '
of yours,” said the local bore. |
"I’m living just across the j
river.”
“Indeed,” replied his neigh- j
bor, “I hope you drop in some I
day.” i
That a certain young man is j
wise beyond his years was
proved when he paused be
fore answering a widow who
had asked him to guess her
age. “You must have some
ideas about it,” she said.
“I have several ideas,” said
the young man with a smile.
“The only trouble is that |
hesitate whether to make you
ten years younger on account
of your looks or ten years old
er on account of your brains.”
WHY EDITORS HIDE OUT.
Monroe County (Mo.) Ap
peal:)
Last week, the proof of one
Appeal news story stated
that a certain young Paris
lady was a ‘Janitor” at one of
the nearby colleges, when it
should have been “junior.”
In another news article in re
gard to a wedding ,the proof
disclosed the fact that “the
young people will ‘love’ in a
nearby town,” instead of
“live.”
Both typographical errors
were corrected before going to
press, but once in a while such
errors do slip by the proof
reader.
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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