Saturday, October 18th
Alaska Day—
Being a legal holiday, this Bank
WILL BE CLOSED
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Bank of Alaska
CAPITAL $170,000,00
Branches at Skagway, Wrangell and Anchorage
1 ALASKA TRANSFER COMPANY
TRANSFER AND STORAGE
GOAL AND WOOD
AUTO SERVICE
DAY OR NIGHT
Office, Northern Hotel Bldg. Phone 85
ARE YOU GOING OUT THIS FALL?
Visit San Francisco and Stop with
Mark C. Thompson
at his now hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets.
The Dale-Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET
^ Special Rates and Headquarters for Alaskans.
THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP.
POOL, CARDS, TOBACCO
Soft Drinks of All Kinds
The Popular Corner
PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA
OSBORNE BROS.
JEWELERS AND
OPTICIANS
WATCH REPAIRING
JEWELRY TO ORDER
CORDOVA, ALASKA
Cordova
Adjustment
Company
K. G. ROBINSON, Mgr.
Collections, Reports,
Insurance
Ostrander Bldg., Cordova, Alaska
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Congregate
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TOM CLONINGER, ,, I
MANAGER.
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TERRITORIAL
SCHOOLS ARE
PROSPERING
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Commissioner of Education L. D.
Henderson is here on a visit to the
local schools, after having just re
turned from a trip to Fairbanks, Ne
nana and towns along the Yukon river.
He says Cordova is to be congratulat
ed on her excellent schools, and on the
record which the pupils have made
in the support of every war activity
in which the government has asked
aid of the school's during the past two
years.
Alaska generally prides herself on
four things: First of all, she yields
second place to no state in the Union
in the war record of her schools. In
war gardens, war savings, Red Cross
work and food conservation, in relief
activities of every description, and in
active support of every “win-the-war
measure” there were few laggards in
the whole territory. Alaska further
prides herself on the training and ex
perience of the teachers in her public
schools. More than two-thirds of the
teachers in Alaska are graduates of
normal schools or colleges, and a large
percentage of this number have had
advanced training in addition to grad
uation. The average experience of
Alaska teachers during the school year
1917-18 was seven and onejhalf years.
When these figures are compared with
those of any state in thp Union, or
with those of the nation as a whole,
Alaska is found to be far in the lead,
a circumstance which contributes,
without doubt, to a third cause for
pride, namely, the superiority of the
pupils in her schools as indicated by
a series of standard tests which have
been given during the past two school
years. A fourth cause for pride is to
be found in the generous financial sup
port which the residents of Alaska
give to their schools and in their read
iness to provide still greater funds as
the necessity presents itself.
The high cost of living is now an
issue in every walk of life. Per cap
ita school costs will now be larger
than in the past. The matter of teach
ers’ salaries in the schools of nearly
every community needs adjustment
upward. Alaska has been able to se
cure highly trained and experienced
teachers largely because she has been
paying more adequate salaries than
the average state. Teachers’ salaries
throughout the United States have ad
vanced materially during the past
year. There is, in addition, a scarcity
of teachers throughout the nation, the
shortage last year being estimated at
50,000. If we are to secure thoroughly
competent teachers in the future we
must spend more money on the item
of teachers’ salaries.
A period of material, moral and spir
itual reconstruction now faces the na
tion. It is frankly admitted by all
that the schools are essential to the
proper carrying out of a reconstruc
tion program. Without the active co
operation of teachers and pupils the
nation would fail in its endeavor. The
great war has done one thing for the
public schools. It has brought them
directly to the attention of the gov
ernment and of each individual in this
country in a way that has never before
been possible. Heretofore the schools
were an accepted institution, as were
babies, day, night, and the movies.
Then came the war, and the nation
for the first time realized the power
which the army of 22,000,000 school
children and 600,000 school teachers
represented.
Not only has the public obtained a
new view of the American school and
its power and value as an-investment,
but the school has in turn obtained a
new view of its own functions and
needs. It has realized its weaknesses
and shortcomings, but never so con
cretely as now. It has in the past
made attempts to remedy these weak
nesses, but never with such determi
nation or a conviction so clear cut as
now—never with such confidence that
the public will co-operate and provide
both moral and financial support as
now.
The reconstruction program of the
public schools provides for definite
work in Americanization, not only as
the term applies to the proper assimi
lation of our foreign population, but
also as It applies to the inculcation of
real American ideals in those of native
birth who have failed to become really
American in thought and feeling; for
the teaching of thrift in the broad
sense of the term which expands it
to include saving of money, the wise
investment of money, the conserva
tion of health and material resources,
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ind the Inculcation of all those virtues
which make for a full and wholesome
existence; for the support of the peace
program of the Junior Red Cross; and
for increased attention to the physical
well-being of all the people of the na
tion.
Never before in the history of the
nation or of the territory of Alaska
has the educational outlook been bo
bright. There is now before congress
what is known as the Smlth-Towner
education bill, which provides for a
secretary of education in the Presi
dent’s cabinet, and carries an annual
federal appropriation of $100,000,000
for co-operation with the states in the
carrying out of an educational pro
gram which includes the removal of il
literacy, an Americanization campaign,
better preparation of teachers, more
adequate physical and health educa
tion, and the equalization of educa
tional opportunity regardless of
whether a child lives in a poor or a
wealthy community. Alaska is not
yet included in the benefits of the bill,
although a most determined effort is
being made to bring this about.
In* so far as the territory is con
cerned, there is an interest in educa
tion manifested by people in all walks
of life which is extremely encourag
ing. The territorial legislature at its
last session was most liberal in its
appropriations for the cause of educa
tion. Various communities are also
launching movements looking toward
the betterment of the material equip
ment of the schools. Petersburg re
cently received permission to bond the
city for $75,000 for the purpose of
erecting a modern school building and
making other city improvements. Fed
eral legislation authorizing Ketchikan
to bond herself for $100,000 for the
purpose of erecting a school building j
was also recently enacted. Fairbanks
is erecting a large and well-equipped
gymnasium for use in carrying out a }
more definite physical education pro
gram in the schools. Schools through- j
out the territory are devoting more at
tention to physical education and to
the addition of vocational training
courses to the curriculum. The time
should soon arrive when no parent in
any community will feel that his or j
her child can secure better educa- j
tional opportunities on the Outside |
than in Alaska.
Electric irons, 3 pounds to 6%
pounds. Prices $3.50 to $6.50 at the
Northwestern Hardware Company.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR RENT—Single room, Hegg’s I
building. Apply at store. 18-tf
WANTED—Bladksmith at once for
blacksmithing and automobile re
pairing; wire application. Brower
Mail Stage Co., Chitina. 18-2t
FOR RENT—Two three-room well
furnished apartments. See J. A.
Peterson, at Northern hotel. 17-tf
FOR RENT—Two-room furnished
cabin. Phone 129. 14-tf
WANTED—Two tie-makers, 35 and
40c; parties to batch themselves;
good timber. Apply Harry Christie,
Mile 19. 13-tf
FOUND—Child’s plain band ring.
Owner can secure same at Times
office. 13-tf
FOR RENT—Four unfurnished house
keeping rooms, over The Club. 13-tf
HUB BOLLINGER has taken charge
of the pressing and cleaning de
partment of T. N. Hubbert’s tailor
ing shop. 27-tf
APARTMENT FOR RENT—Inquire
of Charles J. Goodall. 19-tf
FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT—
Apply Dr. Council. 18tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
OLD PAPERS—Big bundle 25 cents
at Times office.
WINDSOR HOTQ
L. WALN, Prop.
WHERE YOU GET
COMFORT AND SERVIC1
And the Rates Are Right.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
YOUR FURS MADE TO ORDER
Best work guaranteed. Low
est prices. Over 2,000 Alaska
customers.
R. W. Drew
Tacoma’s Expert Furrelr
11th jjnd B’dw’y, Tacoma, Wash.
BRUNSWICK
PHONO-,
GRAPH
AGENCY
Let us furnish
your home
with a
BRUNSWICK PHONOGRAPH
which we will be pleased to sell you on terms of
EASY PAYMENTS
Wouldn’t it be nice for you to have a phono
graph in your home these stormy days, and
one on which could be played any make of
record?
You will be surprised at the easy payment
terms which we are now making on all ma- j
chines.
Cordova Drug Co.
The 'R&xaJUL Store
SERVICE WITH A SMILE
Alaska
Steamship Company
Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE— SAILS SOUTH—
Oct. 4.NORTHWESTERN.Oct. 14
Oct. 9.ALASKA.Oct. 19
Oct. 16.ALAMEDA .Oct. 26
Oct. 23.NORTHWESTERN.Nov. 2 >
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
L--. ^PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY^... J)
Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
8afety Courtesy Service 8peed
OFFICE EMPRESS BUILDING
WEST BOUND SOUTH BOUND
LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
About Oct. 15.WATSON.Oct. 25
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego. For further Information call
Office phone 223. L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Residence Windsor hotel
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Copper River and
NorthwesternRy.
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday,
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays. *
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
on Imiir before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent