Divisional Notes
HYDABURG
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The U. S. Cadastral Engineers
of the U. S. Land Office have
completed the survey of the Hy
daburg Townsite. Mr. Betts, in
charge of the survey, made a
very fine job of ot and won the
friendship of everyone in town.
He declared Hydaburg one of the
cleanest towns that he ever sur
veyed.
. .The women folks took charge
of the decorations of graves on
Memorial Day and services were
held at the cemetery.
Trolling has picked up and
all indications point to a very
good season.
A large number of bears have
been seen near town indicating
that they are getting plentiful
on the island. They are said to
be making inroads on the deer
and scaring women folk out of
the woods.
Local cannery crew arrived re
cently and work of getting the
cannery ready for the season’s
operations gotten under way.
Clean-up day started an effort
of the townsmen to clean up the
school grounds to get it in shape
so that the children might have
good play grounds. It is a move
that was badly needed and adds
to the attractiveness of the
town.
HAINES
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The population increased dur
ing May. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie
Warren had a baby boy stop at
their home on the 15th of May.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hotch also
had a boy come to their home,
getting along very nicely.
The following officers of the
officers of the Sisterhood: Mrs.
J. W. Brown, president; Mrs. Jim
Klanot, vice-president; Mill Lil
lian Brown, corresponding secre
tary; Miss Elsie Perrin, record
ing secretary; Mrs. Frank Jim
mie, financial secretary; Mrs.
Steve Perrin, Sargeant-at-arms.
Camp Council: Mrs. Andrew
Jackson, Mrs. Patsy Davis, Mrs.
George Kasko.
WRANGELL
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“Stardust” is the name of a
new yacht launched from the
Anderson Boat Yards recently
lor Mrs. Birdella M. Ball. On the
trial run this craft, on a stretch
cf 30 miles, made a speed of 21.8
miles in one hour. She is 50.3
feet in length with a beam of 11 i
feet and 8 inches inside the
guard and has a draft of 35 inch
es. Her power is two Sterling
engines of 180 horsepower each.
Louis C. Scribner, who was in
jured while logging on Mitkofr
Island this winter, was taken to
the Bremerton Navy Hospital, on
the last south trip of the Admir
al Rogers. Miss Lindeberg, a
government nurse came to Wran
gell to take him south.
Dr. and Mrs. S. S. Shurick are
returning to Wrangell from Ket-,
chikan where “Doc” has been
practicing medicine for several
years. On account of sickness
Dr. Shurick sold out his practice
and equipment to Dr. Thomas
Rhone, formerly of Petersburg.
For a while Dr. Shurick was in
the Veteran’s hospital in Wash
ington. His many friends will
be glad to have him back and
wish him the best of health.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Camer
on of San Francisco, announce
the birth of a baby son. Mrs.
Cameron was formerly Miss
Katherine Harvey.
Dr. Harry DeVighne of Juneau
took passage on the plane Taku
to Ketchikan where he visited
with Dr. Shurick He returned to
Juneau on the same plane.
Charles G. Carpenter, archi
tect of Spokane, was engaged by
the Town Council to make the
drawings and plans for the new
schoolbuilding to be construct
ed this year. The issue of bonds
voted this spring will give to the
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Hoonah convention this has been
a prominent feature oi tne con
vention and a considerable sum
has been raised and turned ov
er to “Mother” Jackson oi the
Haines Home. The omy string
tied to the gift is that it shall
not be reported to the National
Board of Missions and it shall be
spent by Miss Jackson as she
thinks best for the comfort and
pleasure of the children.
U. S. Deputy Marshal Sullivan
of Tenakee was somewhat chew
ed up by a big brown bear that
was wounded by Sullivan, Folta
and Judge Harding. Some one
said they thought the bear had
made a mistake and thought Mr
Sullivan was a dry squad man;
another thought the oear had
mistaken Sullivan for anothei
arm of the department of jus
tice. _
. .Thirteen children in the grade
schools attained a perfect re
cord of attendance.
The offices of the Bureau of
Education will be transferred to
Juneau from Seattle, July 1. Mr.
Haw’kesworth, superintendent of
the bureau’s operations in the
First Division announces that
the next school year the Bureau
will operate its schools for the
full nine-months school term.
Heretofore, Yakutat, Haines and
Ketchikan schools operated on
a nine-month term. This ex
tension of school term has been
advocated by the Alaska Native
Brotherhood in its effort to se
cure for the Indian children a
co-equal educational opportun
ity. The effort of the Brother
hood to raise the standards of
all bureau schools has gone on
quietly but persistently, while
political ammunition was made
of it by the so-called “100-per
cent Amercans” of Juneau.
A new tubercular annex will
be built in connection with the
government hospital at Juneau. |
..Lester D. Henderson, formerj
Territorial Commissioner of Ed-;
ucation has been appointed su
perihtendent of elementary
schools of Burlingame, Calif. An
chorage had offered him super
intendency of its schools but the
offer did not meet with Mr. Hen
derson’s idea of a job—or posi
tion. _
SITKA
The Sage Memorial was dedi
cated at Sitka on the 22nd of
May with special exercises. The
Memorial cost $42,000 and has
special equipment that cost $25,
000. There is a large carpenter
shop, machine shop, print shop,
drafting and class rooms besides
a hydro-electric plant with an
A. C. installation. The Memor
ial stands on the location for
merly occupied by the Sheldon
Jackson Museum, one of the old
er landmarks ol the Sheldon
| Jackson School. In the late
|’90’s Dr. Jackson raised funds
for a concrete building which
now houses all the curios thal
were gathered by Dr. Jackson
The Sage Memorial is a fine ad
dition to the school plant.
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INVESTltiATlNGr COMMUNISM
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Jermane’s dispatch to the
Seattle Times says: “Inquiry into
the activities of Communists in
the United States, which the
House has authorized at the re
quest of Representative Under
hill of New York, will open up a
very interesting question, and,
for the first time, give it official
status.
. .“What the inquiry will disclose
nobody knows. There are opin
ions both ways on this point,
many well-informed people be
lieving that the Communists are
not nearly as active in propa
ganda work as represented by
many 100 per cent Americans.
Others hold with equal convic
tion, to the behef that things
are much worse than has been
represented, and -that the in
quiry is necessary in order that
there may be organized effort on
the government’s part to bring
the offenders to book.”
Fertile Ground
Communists gain strength,
as does any like organization, by
fanning the flames of hate, of
resentment. The Pennsylvania
coalfields is a striking example
of this. The Coal Barons refus
ed grant the miners a raise in
pay which meant only a few
cents a day. When the men
walked out, they were ordered
out of company houses; they
were enjoined from picketing
by federal courts which became
a part of the system of the coal
barons feudalism; men were
murdered, women and children
were starved. The barons even
refused to allow distribution of
fresh milk to the children of the
miners.
A SNAPPY COMEBACK
An American walked up to a
street fruit-seller’s barrow in
London and picked up a large
mellon. “Is that the largest ap
ple you fellows grow here”?
“Put that grape down,” snap
ped the coster.
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THE GOOD MEN DO
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The Sybil Carter Memorial,
named for a missionary who
taught Indian women to make
lace so well that their work
brought in $1,000 a month for
many years and won gold medals
at half a dozen expositions, was
formed in New York recently. It
is a $1G,000 trust fund to provide
scholarships for Indian children.
Forty-four years ago Miss Car
ter, now dead, went to the White
Earth Indian Reservation, Minn.,
and began to teach the Ojibway
women to make lace. Conse
quently it was carried to other
States.
CONSCIENCELESS
In referrming to the publica
tion of a false telegram from
Washington, D. C., the Juneau
Empire excuses itself in several
ways: 1st, it says that it distin
guished the item by printing
these words, “special despatch to
The Empire.”
If the Empire had printed Tom
Marquam’s name as the author
of the falsehood, nobody would
have believed the telegram, as
indeed, the Empire itself did not
believe the wire, and it thereby
designated it as “special to The
Empire.”
The second excuse is this.
“The Empire violated no news
paper ethics. * * * Neither did it
consciously ‘prevaricate.’ ”
However, The Empire did “pre
varicate” and since it denies
that it was done “consciously”
it must have been done uncon
sciously—that is, without con
science, an excuse that is readi
ly believed.
It is but the natural action oi
any man to resent becoming ev
en worse than slaves in this lane
of liberty. It is but natural thal
they listen to agitators and joir
with them in a spirit of revenge
Who wouldn’t go out to do mur
der when loved ones are dying
by degrees for lack of heat and
clothes and food when the sup
plying is prevented merely for
the purpose of allowing greater
dividends to holders of corpora
tion stock.
. .In this era of “prosperity”
when men are being thrown out
of work by the closing down of
industry, when philanthropic in
stitutions are handing out bowls
of soup and a slice of bread,
when crime is running rampant
due to the “prosperity” of
this day, one can just natural
ly expect that the money lords
must find a reason for the dis
satisfaction that has spread thru
all the land. And what is easier
than to say “Communism” and
“radicalism” to anyone who fac
es the facts honestly and arrives
at the conclusion that the sys
tem which damns “communism”
is the very system that makes
'disciples of “communism.”
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Judge Galen of Montana, bro
ther of James Galen, concession
ist in McKinley National Park,
will oppose Senator Walsh, Dem
ocrat for election in November,
but he will have to travel in
quality company to equal the re
cord of Senator Walsh for pro
gressive effort and work.
The Fisheries Bureau is plan-1
rung to kill from 40 to 50,000 fur
seal this year as the seal herd is
said to be destroying too many
salmon. The gross value of the
fur sales from the Pribilof Is
lands last year was $319,290. and
no report is ever made of the net
returns. There is said to be aj
reason—“there haint no sich ■
animule.”
THE PRICE OF VANITY !
Fashion’s decree for a slim
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silhouette—was blamed for the
increase of tuberculosis among
San Francisco girls and women
between the ages of fifteen and
thirty-five.
..Dr. Ethel D. Owen said: “The
women of forty can reduce with
impunity. The woman of twen
ty undertakes a diet with the
probability that she will be the
prey of tuberculosis.”
The death rate among young
women of San Francisco has in
creased from 82 in 1920 to 91, in
1929. All other age groups show
ed a decline.
1 WOMEN GIVEN RECOGNITION
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The Presbyterian Church has
given women representation on
! its government boards and here
after will ordain its women
workers. This work was sanc
tioned by the General Assembly
in Cincinnatti by a vote of 157
i to 115.
J..Under this ruling of the As
sembly justice will be done to the
! many women workers of the
church who have been barred by
the mere fact that they were not
men.
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