GOAL \i THE
ANCHORAGE, May 30.- Work in
the coal fields in the Anchorage din-,
trict continues to make fairly good
progress.
The Eska mine, operated by the
Alaskan engineering commission in
th<- Chickaloon field, about 57 miles!
from Anchorage, is the heaviest pro
ducer in Alaska. It yields an aver
age of about 1,100 tons weekly. In
production and development work it
employs 109 men.
The Chickaloon mine, which is also
operated by the commission and
which is about seventy-four miles
from Anchorage, confines its activi
ties principally to development, very
little coal being mined .at the pres
ent time it employs thirty-five men.
Snrnncr S. Smith is superintendent
of both the commission mines.
The Netland mine, in the Chicka
loon field, and the Baxter mine, in
the Matanuska field, about fifty-six
miles from Anchorage, are pushing
development work. Their outputs
may he regarded as incidental to de
velopment The Netland has seven
teen men on its payroll, and the Bax
ter eight. The Matanuska Company
which operates the Baxter mine, re
cently sold to the commission t’,,000
tons of coal mined in the winter
months.
The Houston mine, about sixty
miles north of Anchorage, on the
main line of the railroad, is produc
ing in a small way and is retailing '
its output to the residents of Anchor- 1
age. '
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SAX JUAN, PORTO RICO. May 30.
Approximately $100,000 worth of
Panama and Porto Rico bonds depos
ited with the treasurer of Porto Rico
by six German insurance companies
formerly doing business in Porto Rico
have been seized by the government
and plac'd to the credit of the Alien
Property Custodian. The bonds are
rerpiired to guarantee the payment of
risks to the Porto Rico polit y holders.
Until recently the bulk of the insur
ance business of the island was writ
ten by German insurance companies.
Mitchell Palmer, Knemy Property
Custodian, who has been in Porto Ri
co and Lh e Virgin Islands for the
past three weeks, has found enemy
property here valued at many hun
dreds of thousands of dollars which
has either been seized or reported
to Washington for seizure.
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\ new Halibut bank has been lo
cated off Porpoise Island, near Hoo
nah.
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Madame cydia, the pa/ir.itst, win be
found in the Currier & Miekelson
building on C street 16-tf
Cordova
Sheet Metal Works
J. A. COHRS, Prop.
Phones
Shop, 143 Res., 160—2-R.
General Sheet Metal Work,
Smokestacks, Boats and other
Tanks, aii sizes; Boat Flywheel
Pans, Garbage and Ash Cans.
REPAIR WORK DONE
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NEW YORK. May 31. Hiring a
ioy, which in American business of
en is a prologue to the little trag
>dy of “firing’’ a hoy. can be made
m operation based on record rather
han chance if the business will eo
iperate with the schools, according
0 Sherwin Cody, an exponent ofstan
lardized measurement of pupil effi
ciency.
Mr. Cody is managing director of
he National Associated Schools of
Scientific Business, with headquar
ers in Chicago.
He is now in New York, conducting
1 test of 15.000 high school students
whose records in the fundamentals
if education will tie submitted to
some of the world's greatest and
nany other minor corporations, as
irospective employers, lie is work
ng, he said, with other educational
sis, government officials and b-id
■rs of commerce and industry, “to
-reel a bridge between the schools
md business which will do away with
he present haphazard method of cm
iloying girls and boys for office posi
tions.
"Business men have accused the
ichools of inefficient teachings of the
'undamentais,” said Mr Cody. "I am
convinced from the most careful in
vestigation that the fault lies in the
ndifl'erent attitude of 111 pupils, which
■(‘fleets the contemptuous attitude ol
business men. If business tnen
would mobilize the full psyeoloci al
force of employment behind the dit
ferent schools through recognition ol
standardized school records in * t!i
ciency employment lists, not only
would they get a fair chalice for an
intelligent selection of the best ma
terial coming from the schools, but
the jobs would in effect become '• al
liable prizes that would stimuli!'
pupils to work as they ought to work,
for their own and for th<‘ir emitry'
sake.”
Mr. Codv urged employers of office
ip Ip to hire girls and boys for begin |
tiers’ positions, not by mere appear
ance, but by appearance plus school
records of mental alertness and abil-! 1
ity and accuracy in the fundamentals: 1
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, pen-i'
manship, and arithmetic. He predict
od that office efficiency can bo revo
lutionized if business men will rec
ognize records of school work as they
do records of previous employment.
Mr. Cody expressed a hope that the
missing link between schools and bus
iness may be welded at a conference
of commercial educators, employers
and school superintendents to lie held
in New York next November.
Under present conditions, said Mr.
Cody, there is no way of measuring
the ability of applicants for general
clerical positions, as there is for sten
ographers, typists and bookkeepers.
Kinploy-rs hire them and “take a
chance." with resultant lowering of
office efficiency and discouragement of
some young people who are forced toj
go through three or four failures be
fore1 tlie\ find employment in which
111 n v i 1
The plan advocated by the Asso
dated Schools calls for a listing, by j
number rather than by name, of pu
pils about to leave schools for em-i
ployment. Opposite the key number
is stated thejiationality of the pupil's
parents, followed by his school rat-1
ings in the fundamental studies. The
business man may select from the list
the required number of hoys or girls j
whose recorded qualifications appeal
to him and interview them. Thus he
has brought before him for employ
ment only applicants who are fairly
likely to meet his needs.
The lest of the New York high
school students for employment rec
ords is being conducted by the school
officials TTpon completion the record
is furnished employers desiring it by
the New York State Clearing House
for Employment Bureaus which co
ordinates the efforts of all non-eluirg
ing employment agencies in Greater
New York.
Examinations were taken early this
year by 1.100 boys and girls graduat
ing from (lie eighth grade in one of
the city's school districts. Their rec
ords were submitted to "00 employers
of office workers, nearly all of whom
testified to the practical value of the
plan. This approval prompted un
dertaking a city-wide test of high
school student’s efficiency the result
of which, soon to be compiled, will be
available for use by business men.
This will provide the most elaborate
trial of the system yet attempted.
At a time when war is calling for
trained youths, Mr. Cody pointed out.
t is imperative that stress be laid
tpon lie preparation of younger boys
ind girls to fill their places.
In les effort lo bring about eoun
ryxide adoption of the employment
tpon record plan. Mr. Cody has the
nforuial backing of the United States
ihtreau of education. the Cedentl de
partment of Labor and the National
Civil Service ('omission, whose heads,
it a recent conference in Washington.
In* stated, approved of the school em
ployment tests.
The United States Civil Service
Commission, Mr. Cody said, had writ
ten him a letter, through J. A Mcll
henny, its president, declaring that
"business efficiency tests similar to
civil service examinations should be
of help to both teachers and pupils
in determining whether pupils mea
sup up to the required standards of i
efficiency for government and private;
cm| toy."
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By order of the town council, ali
nvnerloss and vicious dogs will be
removed from the street.
FRED BROTHERSON,
Chief of Police.
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