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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919.
ALASKA’S RECORD.
There would appear to be a direel
relation between patriotism and th(
spirit of the American pioneer. This
is called to mind by the record o1
Alaska in the war, as set forth in the
report of the Secretary of the Interior
To appreciate this fully, one musl
must understand the adverse condi
tions of transportation, mail and tele
graph service, climate, and the im
mense distances in that frontier
Many registrants were at 100 to 50(
miles from the nearest local board ant
voluntarily traveled these distances
for the purposes of examination anc
induction into service. i
Yet the cost of the first registra
tion of 11,071 individuals was $380, oi
3.2 cents per registrant. This is mos
Impressive when compared with thi
national average of 54 cents in l'J" 7
There was an unusually large propor
tion of registrants giving their per
manent addresses in other states, ti
which they were transferred. Ne
registration was 6,575, of whom thi
number finally placed in class 1 wa
3,496, or 53.2 per cent. On October 1
1918, 2,200 registrants had been in
ducted, and in addition many hun
dreds, impatient for action, had er
listed in the British or Canadiai
forces. The Territory thus is show:
to have furnished approximately 1
per cent of its total white populatioi
to the colors. The total cost of indue
tion was $5.45 per man inducted, b;
comparison with $4.83, the nations
average, which is an amazing show
ing when physical difficulties are con
sidered.
It is also seen that there has bee:
a rather definite previous process o
selection in determining the kind o
men who voluntarily seek life in th
new places. Only 10 per cent of th
registrants examined were rejectei
by local boards. The national ave]
age for 1917 was 29 per cent. O
those accepted by local boards, onl;
2.6 per cent were rejected at mobiliza
tion camps. The national averag
here was 5.8 per cent. From this i
would seem that the Territory is wel
supplied with conscientious physi
cians who know their business.
Alaska has reason for pride in it:
record. A less striking achievemen
would have been excused readil;
enough. But to the men who ari
pushing the frontier back obstacle;
were made only to be triumphed over
—Portland Oregonian.
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JUST WATCH ALAfeKA.
One interesting fact which the gov
ernor’s convention called to attentioi
is that the governor of Alaska wai
born in Maryland—is of Marylam
stock. This is by no means an iso
lated instance. Governors, Unitei
States Senators, Congressmen am
men who havered the processions al
the way across from Ohio to Alaskf
were, as to a considerable percentag<
of them, born in Maryland. It Is quiti
a far call to Alaska, but Alaska is li
the United States family all right, an<
Is going to cut some considerabli
figure from now om
Governor Riggs, of Alaska, knows i
thing or two about the big Northwes
territory, and he believes it has i
great future. He thinks that a gooi
many soldier boys will be huntini
homes In Alaska, And he says tha
Alaska can take care of them. Ther
are farm lands, and, and what Is mor<
a farming climate. There are fisher;
possibilities that beat the dreams c
averice to a standstill, and as to mil
lng, Alaska is simply the Golconda o
the dreamers.
About one phase of the Alaska
situation the rest of the United State
was- informed long ago. There 1
plenty of room In Alaska—It la near!
as big as the whole of the Unite
States east or me im»DiDo*FF*
As to area, It puts Texas entirely out
of the competition. The rest of the
United States waB slow, however, in
being convinced that the Northwest
territory was not in the same claBS
with the region around the North
Pole. Now the temperate climate ap
gregation is in a state of mind to be
lieve pretty much anything it is told
about the possibilities of Alaska.—
Baltimore American.
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COMMENTS OF ALASKA PAPERS
There is a Farmers’ bank in Fair
banks. Sounds agricultural-like.—
Anchorage Times.
“Lives there a man with soul so
dead” who doesn’t wish for the bands
of time to be turned backwards a few
years when he hears the jingle of
sleigh bells on a clear winter’s night?
This winter the conditions for seligh
ing are ideal in this section and many
jolly parties are featured.—Douglas
News.
The Fairbanks Citizen’s proposition
that Alaska pay off the war debt of
the United States is ambitious to say
the least. When one considers that
the war debt of the United States is
some seventeen billion dollars and will
soon be larger by something in excess
of three billion dollars—far greater
, than the entire wealth of the State of
Pennsylvania, with her iron and steel,
and coke and coal, and manufacturing
industries, her railroads and her
farms, her timber and her skyscrap
ers, her accumulated stocks and bonds
and bank deposits, greater than one
tenth of the entire national wealth of
the United States of America, Includ
ing the forty-eight states between the
Bay of Pundy and Puget Sound, and
the Lake of the Woods and the Rio
Grande, also including Alaska, Hawaii,
Porto Rico and the Philippines, and
all the resources there are in them all
and all they own upon the seas—when
all this is sensed, something of the
magnitude of this little job of the
[ Citizen is setting for us may be
glimpsed.—Juneau Empire.
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It probably is a harder job to build
a railroad in Alaska than over there
t even under fire, but some will be in
clined to think that if engineers can
1 build 130 miles of railroad in 100 days
with occasional holidays off in which
’ to fight Huns it would take them less
than five years to build that length of
road in Alaska provided they did not
have to work under the orders of a
1 commission in Washington who would
1 go off the payroll when the road was
' finished.—New York Sun.
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ALASKA SCHOOL NOTES.
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1 The pupils of the Valdez public
schools, Miss Carrie A. Reece, prim
' cipal, have adopted a French child. In
order to do this they donated, as a
1 Christmas gift, $36.50 to the society,
“The Fatherless Children of France.”
1 This amount will keep a fatherless
1 child of a French soldier with its
1 mother for one vear.
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The teachers of the Juneau public
r schools will shortly begin a series of
7 round table meetings, at which mat
ters of pedagogic, scholastic, and gen
s eral interest will be discussed by vari
^ ous members of the teaching force.
Thrift Stamp sales in the Graig
school for four weeks in November
1 amounted to $62.50. The largest sale
- in any one day was $19.00. The
o^nxjKfi, ui which Mrs. is. it. L*amDSon
’ iB teacher, enrolls thirty-three pupils.
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Military drill in the Juneau schools
this year required of seventh and
eighth grade boys is receiving en
thusiastic support. The boys are now
drilling with dummy guns, and are
. becoming familiar with increasingly
, intricate maneouvers. They are con
i sidering plans for securing uniforms
I before the military and gymnastic ex
hibition to be held In the high chool
! gymnasium in the spring. ,
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Early in December a survey of the
, Ketchikan schools was conducted by
, Superintendent Knox in the the sub
, ject ^>f spelling, the grades tested be
i ing from the third to the eighth in
I elusive. This survey was made
, through the application of standard
tests prepared by some of our most
i, noted educational experts. Accord
t to this survey seventy per cent
i of the pupils are ’above standard In
I this subject. The thirty per cent that
j are below standard nearly all belong
t to that class of pupils whose attend
5 ance at school is moBt irregular. The
, eighth grade made the best showing,
r with a percentage of ninety above
[ standard, while the seventh grade was
. the lowest, only fifty per cent of the
[ class being equal to or above stand
ard.
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i On the afternoon of October IS the
I girls of the domestic science ola§a in
r the Deerlng school. Miss Oes
1 trelch, teacher, served refreshments
vv/ i>iiu |/uu>>v| i,uwi uuj ugiMug •
with which two Liberty Bonds were
purchased. * In the evening a patri
otic meeting was held in the school
house at which several addresses
were delivered and $2,300 worth of
Liberty Bonds sold. The school en
rolls ten pupils.
The report of the Fairbanks schools
for the month of September, October
and November shows the following
record for punctuality and attend
anceance: Punctuality—high school
100 per cent; elementary school, 99.69
per cent. Attendance—high school
98.85 per cent; elementary school
99.17 per cent. The high school num
bers 36 and the elementary schoo:
138 pupils. Miss Henrietta A. Miricl
is superintendent.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC IS
REDUCED IN GERMAN!
MUNICH, Jan. 11 (by mail).—Rail
road fares, already soaring to unpre
cedented heights all over Germany
despite an equally unprecedented pov
erty of service, are going up again
and this time with a jump to tak<
away the traveler’s breath. Prussia
attempting to make up a deficit of i
billion and a quarter marks, is going
to put up fares for passengers 60 pel
cent above the present high rate. Ba
varia and the rest of Germany art
expected to do likewise, and to be af
fected by a general increase.
Coincident with this unwelcome an
nouncement comes word that all pas
senger traffic is to be reduced by a
least 50 per cent, all military ant
freight trains by the same propor
tion. The delivery of hundreds am
thousands of locomotives and cars tt
the entente powers under the armis
tice terms is given as the main rea
son.
Passenger traffic is to be even mori
restricted than today, and no indi
vidual is to be allowed to .travel b]
train unless he can prove to the satis
faction of the authorities that th<
trip is urgently necessary.
Germany began on about Pecembe;
20 to deliver to the entente nrmistici
commissioners 110 locomotives ant
2,400 cars a day for ten days, thei
150 locomotives and 320 cars a dai
for twenty days, so as not to be llabh
to the penalty included in the armis
tice conditions of parting with anothe;
500 locomotives for failure to delivei
on time. t
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
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Opportunity and shrewd politician
wear rubber shoes.
A boy’s appearance of meeknes
may cover a lot of mischief.
It’s queer that a “good fellow'" oftei
has so many bad habits. *
No, Elizabeth, Joan of Arc wasn’
the wife of Noah.
Some men get under a cloud for thi
purpose of sweeping the silver lining
Half a loaf is sometimes better thai
exhausted vitality due to over-work
About three minutes after startini
an argument with a woman a mai
realizes he is lost.
It’s easy for an editor to drop inti
poetry. All he has to do is to sit dowi
in his waste paper basket.
A small boy likes to hear liimsel
whistle almost as well as a big mai
likes to hear himself talk.
n. man s longue usually outlasts hi
train.
Two are needed to start a quarre
but one can stop it.
Character is the substance; reputa
tion the shadow.
True love seldom finds it necessar;
to express itself in words.
His santanic majesty must have :
lot of branch offices.
Our faults are soon forgotten—i
known only to ourselves.
It is better to live in the fogg;
present than in the misty past.
It takes an experienced undertake]
to look solemn and conceal his satis
{action.
When a young man climbs into i
barber chair to be shaved the firs
time, he feels like a bare faced fraud
When nature begins to assist a mai
by parting his hair in the middle hi
gets contrary and tries to part it oi
the side.
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(Milwaukee Sentinel.)
Slowly died the last red sunbeam,
slowly came the hush of night.
Where the moon-illumined stronghold
of the bearded Muscovite
Broke the landscape’s rolling contour
in a fair Corean vale;
Many a warrior’s heart was heavy,
many a warrior’s cheek was pale.
l'or the bloody fight was o’er,
Silenced was the cannon’s roar.
All was quiet as a form without a
soul;
And, before the call of taps,
Several uncommissioned chaps
Volunteered half-heartedly to call
the roll.
Major Hitthedopesky, present;
Major Fourflusroffsky, here;
Brave old Splkethegunsky, absent;
Bugler Blowsky standing near,
Punkeroff is here, and sniffsky.
Up spake Quartermaster Blffsky;
“Can’t lose me, boys, never fear!”
Present, too, were Bobtailstraightsky,
Acesupsky, Blufferoff,
Cushioncaromgky, Pingpongsky, |
Vladimir Onelungeroff;
Butterinsky, Maltesecatsky,
LageroU and Antifatsky,
Ivan Caseyatthebatsky,
And the selfish Feetintroff.
Not to mention many more with ap
pellations much the same,
Who retorted, “Here” and “Present” I
when the time to answer came.
Slowly spread the crimson sunrise, j
and the birdies in the trees.
Sang a song that sounded bully to the
Muscovite main squeeze.
"By my beardsky!” muttered he, j
1 ’Twas a glorious victoree! j
Valiant Spikethegunsky had to go,
poor soul; ;
But the only other chap ;
1 Was the uncommissioned yap
Who succumber to lockjaw when he
called the roll!”
TOWN CLERK’S REPORT
JANUARY 31, 1919
Receipts
From Council, 1917-18 .$ 8,480.18
U. S. Government licenses.... 4,689.36
Rents . 130.00 !
Police court fines. 217.00
Miscellaneous receipts . 65.00
Municipal taxes. 13,138.30
Disbursements
Board of education.$ 3,500.00
Light .. ..'.... 1,625.60
Printing and publishing. 296.10
’ Public buildings and im
provements . 1,371.48
s Assessment and collection
taxes . 230.00
i Election expense . 118.95
Expense .. 1,071.25
t Fire department . 2,094.86
Police department,. 2,580.70
s Public health and indigents.. 966.55
. City float .:....... 825.86
l Cleaning and repairing
streets .;. 3,246.89
; Collection account . 2.25
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$17,930.49
, Cash in treasurer’s hands 8,779.35
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$26,709.84
f NATHANAEL GREENE,
, Town Clerk.
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are trying to make reverence for law the polit
ical religion of the nations.” r
• Ponder on this utterance and let it be a guide to your j
action in the reforms that should resolve from the pres
ent social unrest.
The variety of our industries Insures a wonderful
future for us, but without a bank account you will be
handicapped.
Don’t be afraid to come in and talk your affairs
over, so that you can open an account now with the
BANK OF ALASKA
Capital $170,000.00
ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
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at liis new hotel in the heart of the city between
Powell and Mason Streets.
The Dale- Tallac Hotel
140 ELLIS STREET *
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QUILTS, ETC. FROM F. A. PATRICK AND CO.
We also handle the Hirsch-Weis and Go. "Rose City"
brand of Mackinaws, Loggers* Shirts, Rainset and An
apelle Clothing.
Black Bear brand of union made Overalls snd Jackets.
A complete line of Wooi and Cotton Blankets, Quilts of all kind*
Bed 8preada, 8heets and Pillow Slip* Wool Sox pnd Insole*
Parkee* Glove* and Mitten* 8hoe Pace and Rubber Overshoe*
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