■ HIGH COST OF
EDUCATION IS
FELT ALASKA
The high cost of living has hit the
bureau of native educational work in
Alaska, and congress has increased
the appropriation to carry on the
^ Avork, according to William T. Lopp,
chief of the Alaska bureau, with
headquarters in Seattle.
“Owing to the establishment of an
orphanage made necessary by the
ravages of the influenza,” said Mr.
Lopp, “the government appropriation
of $250,000 last year was found inad
equate and the sum of $306,000 was
actually spent. This year the appro
priation has been increased to $275,
000. Estimates of expense under pres
conditions with the great stretch
of territory for which the divisional
officers are responsible during the
long months when additional supplies
cannot be shipped.
“Teachers and Avorkers are pecul
iarly dependent on the adequacy and
promptness of service rendered in the
matter of supplies and appropriations
should be made available as early as
March or April instead of as late as
* July.”
Regarding teacher shortage Mr.
Lopp said it is felt to some extent in
the native schools.
“Salaries have been raised,” said
he, “and the fact that our teachers
* are furnished houses with fuel,
light and all other supplies except
raw food and bedding, makes their
living problem much simpler than
that of the teachers in the white
schools of Alaska, who report the cost
of room and board last year as from
$70 to $75 per month.
SERVICE COUNTS
“Moreover, our teachers are deep
ly impressed with importance of the
service they are giving. The teach
erage, usually in charge of a man and
his wife, furnishes not only a center
♦ for school work, hut for all social,
industrial and civic activity. One visi
tor to Alaska aptly characterized the
work of the government school teacher
when he said: ‘He is the social and
economic leader of the Eskimos theii
advisor and inspirer in the struggle
toward civilization, their counselor
and #seir physician in sanitation and
health and their friend who stands for
all the great American government
■moonc
Mr. Lopp called attention to the ~
fact that every school has its medi
cine chest and the larger settlements
government physicians and nurses,
while hospitals are maintained at
strategic points.
“Although 71 schools are now in
operation,” Mr. Lopp continued, “more
are needed, regular grade school work
is being carried on, together with
practical courses in cooking, carpentry
^house building, gardening adapted to j
tlie needs of the local school.
“The greatest work for the native
of Alaska, however, and the one least
understood and appreciated by the
public, has been the introduction and
development of the reindeer industry
in the northern and western part oi
Alaska, giving the natives there not
only a new means of livelihood, but
developing among them an economic
power and responsibility of incalcul
able value to the race. Just as the
government native schools in Alaska
pioneered in the matter of making the
school a community center, so our
work in vocation and industrial train
ing antedated that of the states when
we gave to the Eskimos new means
of livelihood and began their training
for it.
“Between 1892 and 1902, 1,280 rein
deer were imported from Siberia by
„ the bureau of education. These have
now increased to 150,000, distributed
all over Western Alaska. Two-thirds
of these belong to the natives and
represent a basic industry worth at
least $2,500,000 put into the hands of
helpless people from whom commer
cial greed had filched much of their
aboriginal rights in the hunting and
fishing in their country.
“Thousands of people have won
dlered at the government appropria
tion for reindeer as a part of the fed
eral support of the schools, but real
izing that it is, perhaps, the earliest
definite contribution of the govern
ment to practical vocational training
and adaptation to community needs,
guaranteeing to the Eskimos foods,
clothing and transportation, and at
the same time training them into in
dependence and responsible citizen
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
Btigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
OWNERSHIP OF
RUSSIAN SHIPS
IS LEFT TO U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 (by As
sociated Press).—The Rogday, trans
port of the Russian volunteer fleet,
which arrived in San Francisco harbor
from New York via Manzanilo, for
bunkers on January 24, has become
the central figures in a new interna
tional situation involving two extinct
Russian governments, the Kerensky
and Kolchak regimes, and the United
States.
The Rogday is of squat and prosaic
appearance and her history includes
service on the Great Lakes, as well as
a freight carrier and transport for the
Russian government in the Russian
volunteer fleet. She has served on the
Great Lakes as the Nevada, and was
constructed by the Manitowoc Ship
building Company at Manitowoc, Wis.,
and Chicago. She was sold to Russia
in the latter part of 1919. The Rog
day is a steel screw propeller steamer
with a net tonnage of 1078 tons, or
a gross tonnage of 2212 tons. She is
electrically lighted, equipped with
wireless telegraph and has three
decks. Duluth, Minn., was the home
port of the Rogday while under Amer
ican registry. Her registry was
changed to Russian at the time of her
sale to Russia.
Following a litigation in federal
courts here, the Rogday was ordered
handed over to Commander M. Gor
denev, representative of the Kolchak
government, who was the Rogday’s
! captain when she put into port here.
On the morning of Saturday, July
24, about seven o’clock a boarding
party under the leadership of Lieuten
and Commander A. Benklevsky, an as
sistant naval attache of the Russian
I embassey at Washington, D. C., went
| aboard the Rogday which was moored
I in China Basin and seized the trans
; port.
Captain Mily Gordenev, deposed
I commander of the Rogday, in a state
1 ment following the seizure of the
transport said he “was commissioned
by the Kolchak government, known as
! the old Russian government, in Oct
| ober, 1919, and was to proceed from
New York via the Panama canal to
! San Francisco thence to Vladivostok.
t
: Arriving at San Francisco in January,
I 1920. I was told to discharge my car
! go and send it to Seattle. My cargo
| was worth $2,000,000 and my ship
$200,000 but I had no control over the
cargo, hence I did as I was ordered
to do on advice from the embassy.
“But in February the embassy
wired me that Admiral Kolchak was
dead and that the old Russian gov
ernment had fallen adding that I was
to give up my ship. This I refused
to do, as I considered the ship be
longed to the Russian people and not
to any party which chanced to be in
power.
“Later this year Benklevsky came
aboard several times trying to urge
me to leave my ship, but I refused.
He is an assistant naval attache of
the Russian embassy at Washington.
“He came aboard Friday, July 23,
the day before the seizure and told
me at that time he was going to Del
Monte, a summer resort near San
Francisco on a pleasure trip. He said
that Romanesky, the Russian consul in
San Francisco, was also going out of
the city. He did this to throw me off
the track, as the next morning he
came aboard at seven o’clock armed.”
United States naval officers at
Mare Island, Cal., following the seiz
ure of the Rogday by Benklevsky and
his followers, declared that the status
of the transport should be determined
by the American state department be
cause of the international question
concerned, insofar as Captain Benklev
sky claimed to be a representative of
the Kerensky regime, which is the
only Russian government recognized
by the United States.
Although each faction involved in
the controversy has charged the other
with being in some manner connected
with the Bolshevik government in Rus
sia, each in turn vigorously denied
that it sought possession of the Rog
day in behalf of the Soviet regime.
Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
Best coffee in town served at the
City Bakery.
Don’t argue. The Club Billiard Hall
arries fresh tobacco. 27-tf
Shower and tub baths at the Club
Barber Shop. Open day and night 3-tf
MY UP-TO-DATE
NEW CLEANING MACHINE
which is guaranteed to remove every
particle of dirt from your clothes, no
matter in what condition, has been
installed at considerable expense and
is now ready for your clothes. Bet
ter bring them in now to a REAL
LIVE TAILOR and have them made
like new. My work speaks for itself
as evidenced by hundreds of satisfied
customers. “Let Max do it” and have
no regrets later.
PEYSER THE TAILOR
Expert Hat Blocking
j PHONE 188 Opp. Laurie Bros.
9
—The Flavor Lasts
y* "" "
•:•: I£*>:*:::::::::+:::v::::::::::>:::*:*:::*v^ •:>
•x •:•; *x v.
:>: :>: $ $
:•;: % : : :>:
:•:• :•:• :•:• •:•:
.••• ,v .v •;<
:::: & :::: •:>
•:•: •:•: • .:•: :•>
:•:• :•:• - :*:• •:•:
•V .V *V ;5
Success or
1 Failure- 1
Which? 1
•x x* ♦>: x*
x* :* » :•>
V.
Without keeping proper accounts success
in business is impossible.
The most important of these accounts is
the bank account.
1
Depositing all receipts and disbursing by
check only will give you a record which is
s as essential for your business as a compass
for a ship.
i
• • %%
i i 1
II _ 11
The First Bank of
Cordova 11
:S is S: iS
Si $i PIONEER INSTITUTION OF CORDOVA AND COPPER RIVER VALLEY :S Si
S: S: S:
£ £-| £
:S :S S: :S
is £S/.S:S:S::vS:SS:S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S^ is
Have you said you wouldn’t paint
because the the presen prices were
too high? But there ; $ x>o need of
your buildings going to ruin for lack
of paint, for we'have go i paint for
less money. Write fer our catalog.
Ask for special color ■ vd and paint
prices. They are rig , Rcvig, 2229
First Avenue S., h- -fi.« “Better
Millwork.*’
NOTICE TO SUBSCRBERS
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office
Cordova
Adjustment
Company
K. G. ROBINSON, Mgr.
Collections, Reports,
Insurance
Ostrander Bldg., Corvoda, Alaska
BLUE STAR
DAIRY CO.
CERTIFIED COWS
Milk delivered twice a day to the
Cordova Beverage & Dairy Co. for
distribution.
H. E. McDANIEL, Manager.
H. B. WOLKING & CO.
.. «
Licensed
UNDERTAKERS
And
EMBALMERS
Phone 133—8
♦, V.
I Shoes
I I
of higher quality
1 I
g: Fashionable women who desire ::::
a perfect fit and graceful lines
|*j; that are found only in high
grade foot-wear will be greatly
impressed with the styles we
are showing.
•:$
Distinctive individual styles, pretty and charming—with long
$: slender lines,—high and low heels—in a wide variety of lasts xj
*:•: and patterns just received from Utz & Dunn Co., makers of
:>: “Style Shoes of Quality.”
& i
.v
Fineness of materials, excelence of workmanship and up-to
date style make this brand of fo-otwear the choice of particular
•M
women. ::::
1 WILL CLAYSON I
:::: ::::
I Light, Water }
( T lephone |
1 I
| Three essentials in every well-regulated §
I home or place of business |
I 1
u - I
| Alaska Public Utilities |
X* !*!«
. x*
% -— --- “ «