That Alaska schools are as wide
awake in the “win-the-war” movement
as they are in taking all other progres
sive steps is indicated In the follow
ing briefs from Commissioner Hender
son's “Alaska School Bulletin.” They
also record some other interesting
news about the Territorial schools:
Thrift clubs have been organized in
each room of the Wrangell schools
and the “Marshall Method of Thrift
Training” is being introduced for use
in the upper elementary grades. Both
the Juneau and Fairbanks schools are
at present using the method.
Ninety-three pupils in the Fairbanks
schools own $50 Liberty bonds. As
further evidence of pathriotic Ameri
canism, the pupils of the Fairbanks
schools recently collected, washed,
hemmed and bleached 534 dish towels
for the use of the American army at
Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash-i
ington.
The net proceeds of a recent en-1
tertainment given b ythe pupils of the
Skagway schools were $111. Of this
sum, 10 per cent was set aside for the
Junior Red Cross organization. A
second-hand sewing machine, for the
use of the domestic science depart
ment, and a Victrola, together with
several records for the same, were pur
chased with the remainder.
The Ketchikan schools enrolled 230
pupils, the largest enrollment in the
history of the city. A Spanish club,
meeting once a month and ■with pro
grams rendered entirely in Spanish,
has been organized among members
of the Spanish class.
Recently the Cordova schools gave
an entertainment, at which $68 was
realized. Of this amount, $20 was used
to secure membership for the entire
school in the Junior Red Cross, $20
was constributed to the fund for Hali
fax sufferers, and $28 to the American
Red Cross. The pupils of the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades have con
tributed $12, saved from thei- earn
ings, to the Armenian relief fund.
The Juneau High School orchestra
enrolls 30 members, of which number
14 are in the the junior and 16 in the
senior orchestra. Each orchestra is
made up of seven different instru
ments and meets for practice twice
every week.
COWPUNCHERS AND MINERS
SHOW ANXIETY TO ENLIST
(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 30.—High
heeled cowboy boots, chaps and “ten
gallon hats” have replaced shoes of
English lasts, pinchback suits and golf
caps as the wearing apparel of the
majority of recruits who are accepted
at the local army recruiting station for
service in the American Liberty army.
The rush of the city boys and young
men to join the colors is utmost over,
according to the officer in charge of
the station. But the news that the
United States needed her young men
has just begun to percolate to the iso
lated cow camps, ranches and mining
districts of the Southwest. The re
sult was a rush of applicants for en
listment from these sparsely settled
districts of the Southwest.
When given their choice of branches
in which they wished to serve, the men
invariably ask for assignment to the
cavalry division, as they shoot from
the saddle and never walk when they
can ride. But when they are told the
cavalry will not be sent abroad as soon
as the other branches they almost in
variably change their requests and ask
for assignment in the engineers, ar
tillery, or even in the infantry, al
though the typical cowman dislikes
walking.
Because of their life outdoors, their
regular habits and their acquaintance
| with the simple fare of the chuck wag
ons, these men are quickly trans
\ formed int ogood soldiers, the recruit
ing officers say.
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ALASKA PILOTS’ BOOK
NOW READY FOR USE
E. Lester Jones, superintendent of
the United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey, announces that in the new
books just Issued covering Pacific
coast and Alaska waters from Dixon
entrance to Yakutat bay, are for sale
at 50 cents per volume, which can be
ordered direct from his department at
Washington. He says:
“In the volume covering Southeast
ern Alaska your attention is espe
cially called to the tables of courses
and distances from Seattle to Skag
way, and to Yakutat through the in
land passages of British Columbia, and
also information concerning areas cov
ered by wire-drag operations In recent1
years.
“While the newly-issued volumes of
coast pilots reviewed above contain i
new Information that is useful to the'
navigators of the waters of the Pacific
coast of continental United States, and
of Alaska, the charts and coast pilots
of this bureau do not contain all the
information they should, owing to the
fact that we have not the facilities for
making the requisite surveys and ob
servations.”
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BLOOD TRANFUSION
IMPORTANT IN ARMY
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 30.—The practice of
blood transfusion in the cases of badly
wounded men in the army, is growing
in importance. Out of thirty-five
wounded men who could not have
survived otherwise, twenty-two were
saved by this process.
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January 24 Alaska January 31
1 ebruary 1 Victoria February 8
February 8 No rtliwestem February 15
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and Ketchikan also make regular trips.
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gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour
before sailing time.
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—Next Steamer—
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Sails from Seattle Feb. 5th—D ue Cordova Westbound Feb. 11_Sails
from Cordova for Seattle via inside passage Feb. 19.
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ceived before 1 p. m. to insure delivery same day. No
coal delivered after 5 pm.
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