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INTROSPECTION
Another convention of the
American Legion, Department
of Alaska has passed into his
tory at Petersburg this after
noon.
The work of the convention is
noted elsewhere in our columns.
Tile future will determine the
worthwhileness of each effort
Legionaires and their ladies
from every Post in the Territory
have been guests of Petersburg
Post No. 14 and of the people cf
Petersburg this week.
Many a heartache has gone up
from the Buddies who found it
impossible to attend this con
vention, but in Petersburg all
has been smiles, re-union and
fraternal good fellowship. Many
a handclasp of sincere greeting
of Ruddy to Buddy as old friend
shins have been re-newed. But
underneath the surface, under
neath the hilarity and rollick
ing camaraderie, the convention
has had a deeper significance
which has brought home to us
all as we have listened again
to the stirring martial strains
which became popular in 1918
when we sang “Over There,”
‘ We’re Goinf Over,” recalling to
us those busy days oi
preparation when every man
did his bit and the nervous days
in training camps, when wc
were assured that man-power
would win the war. And then,
those later days, serious days
when the Dough-boys strove to
keep up their spirits with such
biting songs as “Tipperary,” and
the frivolous “Hinky Dinky Par
ley Voo.” What memories they
recall! But the one that really
gets us to us all:
“Mid the War’s great curse
Stands the Red Cross Nurse..
She's the Rose of No Man’s
Land.”
—reminding us once again of
our everlasting obligation to
those who offered their all in
1918 in order that democracy
■might not perish from the earth
and we pause a moment in re
spect to the memory of our
Buddies who “sleep the long
sleep ’neath the poppies in Flan
ders fields.
But the Legion lives on and
Keeps faith with those who still
pay and pay in hospitals or who
must struggle through existence
maimed and disabled. And the
Legion fights on, for the war of
right against might did not end
on Armistice Day when the
canon ceased to roar.
And so it has been good for us
as a people to pledge anew our
a jegiance and to gain a nev
conception of the meaning of
S ERVICE and LOYALTY.
Buddies of the American Le
gion, we salute you! Shoulder
to shoulder we address ourselves
to the tasks of 1931. May the
fair name of cur organization
never be sullied by those who
have not their country’s welfare
truly at heart; or by any who
bring our flag into disrepute by
disregard of the laws of the land
e’er which it waves; or by those
who may seek to use it to fur
ther some scheme for personal
preferment or self-aggrandize
ment. Our nation faces a crisis
; today even as it did in 1918. ana
our flag will be respected among
the nations of the earth accord
ing to the conception of loyalty
'held by the rank and file of oui
citizens. The watchword of th:
day is, as then, “Carry on.”
Tomorrow we bid you Au Re
voir! It has been indeed a
pleasure to the people of Pe
tersburg to have had you with
us for a fev, happy days, and w*'
hope to meet you all in Peters
burg again before long.
Humans Are Queer Animals
By Alfred J. Clode, Bellinghun Herald
The cruelty of man-to-man
has beer, amply manifested in
Dr. Miriam VanWater’s report
on “Chi’u Offenders in the Fe .
eral System of Justice.”
Mrs. VanWaters is a member
cf the Wickersham Law Enforce •
ment Commission and what she
says may be depended upon as
substantially correct.
In her report on the treatment
of juveniles in prisons or so-call
ed reform schools this lady
states that out of 2,243 children,
all under 18 years of age, that
came under her observation, 900
were imprisoned for violation of
the prohibition law, thus dis
proving the assertion of ultra
clrys that our young people are
not addicted to the use of alco
holic liquors.
Mrs. VanWaters points out
that in the Washington State
Reformatory punishmentin dark
cells is given for trivial offenses,
such as not standing at count
speaking in diningroom, laugh
ing in cell block, making noise,r
with the mouth and similar tri
fling breaches of discipline, such
as the possession of a 2-cen"
stamp, kicking a refuse can, 0;
stealing eggs from the kitchen
For these and like offenses boy
are punished by being locked un
in the guardhouse for several
days. Misuse of the flogging
system and shackling boys with
leg-irons is charged.
Many cells were pronounced
without light or bedding; in
mates required to sleep on a
plank without light or bedding
and Mrs. VanWaters states that
the hardest punishments were
found in reform institutions.
Editors all over the country
are indignant at the cruel and'
barbaric treatment accorded our
youthful offenders. The Baiti
more Evening Sun winds up an
editorial in this way:
“Dungeons and leg-irons; a
plank for a bed in a cell withoui
a light; bread and water for di
et; the rule of silence; the lash;
the lockstep and the drive crew
in the prison yard—things that
break bull-necked plug-uglies
and convert them from gorillas
into twitching, shivering terror
stricken rats; these things we
have applied to children—to
more than 2-000 children.”
What kind of citizens are
these boys likely to make when
liberated from the brutal treat
ment they have received while
aicarcerated in a modern bas
tile? Trained for years in a hot
bed of cruelty, they will never
forget or forgive; discouraged,
angry, self-respect lost, what
else but a career of crime looms
up for many of these unfortun
ates? And we can hardly ex
pect these boys, who have sufTer
cd moral and physical torture
'o lift their eyes to heaven and
gleefully shout: “Praise God
from Whom All Blessings Flow.”
We pride ourseves on being
the most civilized and Christian
>zed nation on the face of thc
earth, but the Seventh Report
of the W7ickcrsham Commission
shows clearly that those who
have stumbled and fallen over
the intricate network of laws
with which their feet are fetter
ed, we can be as cruel and bar
barous as any savages ever were.
Our prisons are proved by the
Wickersham Seventh Report to
be hothouses for the breeding
and culture of criminals; and
we, self-righteous worshippers
. f numerous absurd laws, pay fir
it by an abnormal increase of
crime.
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LET’S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
From Seattle Star
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“If,” asks Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
“our government cannot adjust itself to new con
ditions, meet new needs, how can it hope to sur
vive?”
The governor comments on the extraordinary
new times in which we are living.
Like the rest of us, he is astonished that mili
lions should suffer in a country with too muchi
food, too much money, too many luxuries.
He is astonished, too, that the government
jdoes nothing to change this damnable state oi
affairs.
Jefferson, years ago, saw the same necessity
.or the ability of government to adjust itself to
(changing times.
He thought a revolution every few years would
be a good thing. (If he thought that today, he
|would land inprison).
But there is no reason why we cannot have
, a peaceful revolution of thought.
We must stop imagining that the presence of
isix million jobless men and women, and their chil
dren, in a great, rich nation, is “normal.”
We must stop wagging our heads about it
tiying out palliatives for it.
We have got to DO something about it!
Our American government is going to survive.
; but the machinery must be brought up to date—
| and back of the machinery must be a new concep
j t ion of the duties of government.
Theodore Roosevelt said that this will never
| be a good place for any of us to live until it’s good
place for all of us to live.
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It’s up to us to MAKE it a good place for all of
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The time is ripe for a revolution in Alaska-- <
not the revolution that spills blood, kills and j
maims human life, but a revolution of thought. \
A declaration of independence, if you please, and \
the giving birth to a spirit which will bring forth <
a change of conditions in Alaska whereby ALL <
residents will enjoy a change of economic condi- ■
t'ons and be better for it.
So long as Alaskans wear the slave color ana
bow their heads in bondage to the slave driving
system, there will be no change—except for the '
worse. And so long as this spiritless subserviency
exists the free spirit of our Colonial forefathers is
but a vague dream.
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JUST WHAT DO THEY MEAN
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Until recently, the Republican party main
tained in Washington a bureau t o“chart the drill
«■ r newspaper opinion all over the country.” This
bureau has now been closed.
The drift it seems, turned out to be a hnrri
cnne.—Seattle Star.
Now, just why such a dig and which way is
tire hurricane goin’?
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Customs of old Egypt would have cramped .
the style of present-day Alaska politicians. There'
the bull was held sacred and never shot.—Seward
Gateway. We add further while the bull is held
sacred and never shot in Egypt, the Alaska poli
ticians are mostly half-shot.
They Also Served
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Immediately upon declaration
of war by the United States, 17
Alaska Indian students at Che
raawa Indina School, Salem,
Oregon, enlisted in the Unite!
States Army and Navy. In this
group were Frank Peratrovitch
Klawock, William Walters, Kako
Thomas Phillips, Angoon. Billy
Cook of Angoon later enlisted
and saw service in the front
trenches. Thomas Phillips was
the last Alaskan to receive his
discharge, having served the
duration of the war and also
as a member of the American
Army of Occupation on the
Rhine. Phillips brought back
with him a German war-bride
and lived for a time in Alaska
but has since moved to Seattle.
After the first draft, all Alas
ka Indians were declared exempt,
from the draft and their regis
tration revoked. This did not
please them, so they took the
matter up with General Crow
ther, who later ordered them to
register with their registration
boards. Shorty afterwards, they
were ordered to report to Ft.
William H. Seward, Haines.
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“Forget-Me-Not”
Many citizens were wearing
light blue for-get-me-nots, sold
| by unemployed women of Seattle
(for the relief of disabled veter
ans. The vendors got 10 per cent
of the money taken in. Dimes
, were put to work in two direc
tions—succor to the disabled
and the needy. Many a case of
urgent need among the men
I who answered their country’s
j call, has never received the care
j attention for his services. So
So sale of poppies and for-get
! me-nots help smooth off the
i rough edges of life.
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Can More Food
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A program to can more fruit
and vegetables for the relief ol
the unemployed was launched
by the President’s emergencv
employment committee last
w eek.
With fish, meat and ducks
plentiful, clams and berries ga
ll-re, the Alaskan who does not
put up' a large part of his win
ter’s supply of staples is just
going to be a drag on his good
neighbors.
634 Banks Fail
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The Federal Reserve Board re
ports that 684 banks, with total
liabilities of $454,000,000, closed
I their doors in the first half of
11931. Of these, 148 were mem
bers of the Federal Reserve Sys
| tern. One hundred and seventy
j seven of the closed banks havej
since reopened.
The proportion of failure is|
highest in the Middle West. Illi
nois leads, with 100 bank clos
vres, Iowa had 49, Indiana 45,
and Minnesota 42.
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Immigration
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The Department of Labor re
ported last week that immigra
tion in the last year had fallen
below 105,000 for the first time
since the Civil War, due to re
strictions on the part of the fed -
eral government. In the last six
months, departures exceed ar
rivals by 43.2 per cent. This was
due partly to voluntary depar
tures.
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Passing of an Indian
Chief
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Goes-in-Lodge, an Arapahoe
“medicine man” who took part
in the battle of Little Big Horn,
where Custer’s force was wiped4
out in 1876, died last week at th
age of 80 years. He had partici
pated the week before in the an
nual sun dance ceremonies of his
tribe.
How utterly—and how reecntly
—the Indian has disappeared
from the forces which effect our
lives! He was one of the dom
inating factors of American ex
istence for centuries; but today
I—though there is probably mor.i
Indian blood in the Unite!
States than there was when Co
lumbus landed, he goes unreck
oned.
In his original state, he was
not in all respects an amiable
creature; but he was farther still
from being a weak one. He was
the most formidable primitive
fighter the world has ever
known. He has whipped white
frontiersmen and white regulars
with inferior numbers again and
again—arid he is the only dark
skinned man of his grade of cul
ture who ever did it.
When the circumstances and
objectives of the red warriors arc
taken into account, more than
one Indian campaign is a mili
tary masterpiece.
Goes-in-Lodge was one of the
last of the old order. Peace be
to his ashes.—LABOR, Washing
i
ton, D. C.
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Public School
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. . The. American. democracy is
founded and must be perpetuat
ed on the basis of an enlighten
ed citizenry.. Therefore, as a na
tion, as a Territory, we will stand
or fall upon the use we make of
our public schools.
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Babies All Alike
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Mothers may not believe it bur
it seems that babies are pretty
much alike.
Two years of scientific study
by research workers at the Uni
versity of Minnesota Child Wel
fare Institute has presented
proof that all babies progress
through the same cycles of co-j
! ordination, locomotion and mot
or play.
One baby may reach one stage
faster than others, but despite
claims of mothers—and fathers
—the study has indicated that
no baby can skip any of them.
Dr. Mary M. Shirley, a direct
or of the research, has concluded
that the order of development
is as immutable as the course
of Jupitor or Pluto. A chronic
al table showing the times for
the first smile, the initial ex
i pression of a desire to toddle and
j the original impulse to swallow
I a pin is one result of the study.
At six days of age the table
shows that the average baby
first follows light, two weeks
later it will watch a person in
the room with it.
At fourteen weeks it reaches ;
for and touches objects and sev- <
>en weeks later it first enjoys the J
tnrill of putting - objects in its *
mouth. The grand moment
when it can play with its toes
comes when it is twenty-five
weeks old.
When the median baby is be
tween thirty and thirty-one
weeks of age it can sit alone for
a full minute. At forty-five
weeks it walks when led and al
so creeeps. Two weeks later it
can pull itself up and stand with
support.
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SOME SHOW
Mother, What kind Qf a show
did pappa take you to, Bobby.
Bobby, It was a dandy, Mam
ma. They had ladies dressed in
stockings up to their necks.
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That Legion Dance, is tonight!
Make it a full house! ...
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