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AIR 0UNS AND 22’S
A question has been brought to
our attention about the promiscuous
uae of air guns, shooting BB shot
and twenty-two ammunition. Com
plaint has been made that Young
America of Petersburg is out with
theae weapons and shooting around
within the corporate limits of
the town without regard to direc
tion or danger of hurt to others.
Those more thoughtful citizens of
Peteraburg who know the danger
of careless handling of these gun1/
have reason to worry. It has been
reported that rowboats passing in
the Narrows hare been mighty close
to the whang of bullets. Toys they
may be but such toys can kill or
maim for life. Careless handling
of “unloaded guns" have brought
sorrow to many homes. To be sorry
tor any serious accident after it has
occurred will not remedy matters
The time to think is now, before
any accident occurs.
Hogue and Treten Company dur
ing the past week was seeking the
cooperation of other houses of busi
ness whereby BB shot or any ammu
uitlon would not be sold to any
minor except through the parents
The idea to well worth the consid
eration of every parent and business
man. Full responsibility is thereby
placed upon the parent where it
rightfully belongs. If the parent
refuses to accept that responsibility
the minor gets no ammunition. Fair
enough. The matter should be urg
ed by all the stores and parents.
AN EDUCATIONAL. EXPERIMENT
The Chemawa American, publish
ed at the Chemawa, Oregon, Indian
School, comes to our desk, all dress
ed up in an old idea—The Outing
System—which in the terms of its
Father, the late General R. H. Pratt,
meant nothing more than giving
Indian children a white child’s op
portunity in a white child’s environ
ment. In the words of that famous
Indian educator, “To civilize the In
dian, get him into civilization; to
keep him civilized, let him stay."
The friends of the Indian and of
Chemawa School, will watch with
interest this experiment. We pre
dict, that if carried to its logical
and successful conclusion, as at the
famous Carlisle School, it will be
only a matter of time when the
Indian Bureau and its friends, the
enemies of the Indian, will work for
the destruction of Chemawa as thoy
did for the destruction of Carlisle.
The Indian Bureau with its sys
tem of reservations is a millstone
around the neck of the Indian, hold
ing him back from a more rapid
progress in the life of our body po
litic. Reason? It fathers the for
eign language, segregates the race,
maintains ,old custom ideas and
ideals. With no other race is such
a system maintained. And only in
communities fathering racial en
tities is Americanism backward. The
whole system of Indian education
has been wrong in that it makes of
him an Indian American when he is
desirous of being only an American
FOR HOOVER
The Ketchikan Chronicle opines
that Hoover will be the next presi
dent of the United States—“not
withstanding the fact that the mon
ey powers of Wall Street do not
want him.” The Chronicle is mis
led. Hoover is Okey with Wall
Street and has always been so. How
ever, Hoover’s politics have been
of the uncertain, or garden variety,
and Wall Street wants a man that’ll
stay put. And another thing: Hoov
er has always had a tendency to
reach out for himself for his own
particular pocket. This is well 11
i
i
j lustrated while he was overseas in
i the World War seance. Ostensibly
handling the food problem in Bel
gium, he was reaching into the
then land of the Czar negotiating
for oil on a personal basis.
That he wasn’t successful was
because the Council of Workmen
and Soldiers of Russia muddled the
i Czarist government so that all
hand-outs to foreigners were de
j finitely laid on the shelf. Wall
; Street doesn’t like this system. It
; is willing to pay, and pay big. for
service's rendered, but it doesn’t
care to have its representative fing
ering around on business deals for
himself. It breaks the sequence.
SMALLER CALIBRE GUNS
Great Britain, in its proposals at
the Geneva conference toward a
further limitation of capital shipn,
suggests that the bore of the big
guns be reduced. The suggestion
is that there be no more 16 inch
and larger calibred cannon, and
names a bore of 13% inches as
about "right.” When one thinks
back to the big Bertha of the Ger
mans in World War days and real
izes that a ten inch gun flung shells
75 miles into Paris, one fails to
understand where the peace meth
ods of Geneva come in, Apparently
a ten inch cannon is as deadly as
ore of 13 inches.
SURPLUS OIL
A recent report is to the effect
that the United States will have a
stock of surplus oil amounting to
600,000,000 barrels and the ex
cess will run much larger if resourc
es of West Texas Field are drawn
upon.
Over production usually brings
about the lowering of prices. How
ever, fishermen still pay plenty for
oil.
HERE is a good good position
FOR A REAL WORKER
We are offering Permanent Posi
tions to a few reliable men and wo
men, in which an excellent income
from side-earnings ,even to PART
TIME workers acn be made. Durtng
our 36 years in business we have ap
pointed over 618,000 agents who
supply our household necessity to
lur customers in every country in
the world. Many of our agents
have been with us over thirty years
and have achieved Financial Inde- j
pendence. Increasing local do
When FRYE’S “DELICIOUS” BRAND HAMS come from the smoke
house in all their ripened mellowness mid matured quality, we get
them to your table with the least possible loss of time.
Boil it, grill it, bake it, fry it—it’s sure of a rousing welcome ar
whatever meal it appears.
DOUBLE inspection by U. S. Gov
fernment and Frye experts is your
double assurance of quality.
Write to Frye & Co., Seattle, for
Frye’s “Meat Guide.” Send to
cover postage.
mands and repeat orders, make it
necessary to appoint more local re
presentatives in many localities in
the United States. No special ex
perience or capital required. A
straight forward, dignified business
Why not represent the largest ana
best known house of its kind in the
world. Send us your address and
the Manager of our Appointment
Bureau will send you FULL PAP
TICULARS. When we appoint an
agent we furnish free *sample3 for
Trial Teats in the homes of your
locality, etc.
Address ALPHEUS BANCROFT
WASHINGTON, D. C., (Attention
Clerk No. 1), 1438 U (You'»
Final examinations were held in
the Bureau school this week.
Now is the time to
g'et your supply
of first class
JOB PRINTING
Prompt attention given
Large or Small Orders
Job Printing Department
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ACCIDENT KIIiLS
Fhillip McKay, a Metlakatla In
dian, accidently shot himself with
a double barreled, hammerless shot
gun the other day while out after
hair seals. He, with a partner
named Robin3on were in a small
boat together. Robinson was in
the stern, McKay forward with his
back toward the after end of the
craft. His gun lay on the thwarts
behind him. He reached for it and
pulled it toward him. Something
touched the trigger and one barrel
sen' its charge of heavy shot into
the small of McKay’s back. Death
followed a fe wminutes later and
the body wa3 brought to Prince
Rupert on the motor boat Dickie
Boy.
ALASKA HELP
The Nakat Packing Company is
reported to be making a number of
floating traps near Ketchikan, and
employing all Alaska labor in the
construction work.
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HEALTH TALK
KEEP CLEAN—INSIDE
Outgo is more important than in
come so far as the body is concern
ed. One can keep well while fast
ing, but not when the bowels fail
in their functions. The waste of
the body must be kept moving or
illness will ensue.
A failure of the bowels is a fail
ure of nerve supply to the muscles
of the bowels. Chiropractic spinai
adjustments, by removing spinal ir
ritation and pressure on these
nerves, secure the return of norm
al bowel action.
A Prominent Cleveland Journalist
Writes—
“For many years my bowels were
irregular, resulting in auto-intoxi
cation and general debility. Pills
lost their power. Physical culture
was without satisfactory results. I
was obliged to use a syringe regu
larly. Then I went to a chiropract
or. After he had given me ad
justments for a short time my bow
els began to move normally and
have been normal ever since.
YOUR APPOINTMENT for health
can be m&de by telephone.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
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Palmer Graduate 1914
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