ALASKA BISHOP
GIVES ACCOUNT
OF HIS DIOCESE
The laying of the cornerstone of
the parochial school Sunday was a
historic mark in the progress of Alas
ka and more particularly was another
monument to the determination and
energy of one man, Rt. Rev. Joseph
Raphael Crimont, S. J„ bishop of
Alaska, says the Juneau Empire.
The war delayed plans for the fine
parochial school now nearing com
pletion here, and some doubt was ex
pressed whether the building should
go ahead in the face of the readjust
ment problems and the uncertainty
of conditions. But Bishop Crimont
never hesitated for an instant. Large
in the faith that the money would
be provided, he said go ahead. In
the Extension Magazine of May is
an illustrated article about Alaska
containing an interesting sketch of
the bishop and his work in Alaska
but does not cover the results accom
plished, from which the following is
clipped:
“In 1904 Father Crimont was made
prefect apostolic of Alaska, which is
the highest ecclesiastical position in
a district where there is no bishop,
and on July 25, 3917, he was conse
crated bishop of that vast and unde
veloped territory. ‘Bishop,’ I said
to him after he had told me of the
bitter hardships and the cruel depri
vations that he and his brother priests
must put up with in that portion of
God’s vineyard, ‘why don’t you tell
the story of your difficulties to the
Catholic people of the States?’
“‘I will,’ he replied, ‘but how?’
“Little did the good bishop think
that just about that time we "were
wondering what would be our topic
for this month’s chat; and so, with
out informing him of our need, we
naively suggested that on the way
to Baltimore he spend the time in
writing the story for the readers of
the Extension Magazine. Read it for
yourself as it was sent to us in the
scholarly script of this apostolic man
who is continuing in Alaska the work
that Don Rosco started in Italy:
“ ‘The larger and better portion of
our Eskimo flock at Nome and Mary’s
Igloo, the pride and hope of Fathers
Bernard and Lafortune, has been
wiped out by the plague. There
remain the orphans to care for. We
laid, last year, the foundations of a
new mission at Hot Springs, ninety
miles north of Nome, where we
meant to establish a larger center of
Christian civilization and Catholic
life for the natives of the Seward
peninsula, with boarding schools for
boys and girls, and better homes for
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our people, the location being ideal
as far as the country permits, for
self-support from land cultivation,
fishing, trapping, hunting and fuel
facilities. I have no report as yet of
the situation on King island and on
Diomedi island, nor on the southeast
coast of Bering sea, Yukon delta,
etc.—except that those regions
have suffered greatly. At St. Michael
besides the heavy toll of death
among the native population, the Ur
suline convent has been reduced to
ashes: of the nuns’ possessions only
one treasure was saved, viz., the
blessed sacrament. The fate of St.
Mary’s mission at Akularak, whose
district spans the distance between
the mouth of the Kuskokwim, is in
the hands of our friends in the
United States. It depends on them
whether or not workers and funds
shall be forthcoming. The council
of the missionaries in northern Alas
ka have been driven to the conclu
sion that the field must be aban
doned. Many of our missionaries
such as Treca, Bornum, Muset, Rar
odi, Robaut, Keys, Lucchasi and De
Ion have spent there all the measure
of zeal, sacrifice and privation, wrhich
the most heroic worker of the gos
pel can give, and yet the results
have been scanty. It is to be blamed
99 per cent to the almost unconquer
able difficulties arising from the con
ditions of the country in that dis
trict.
“ ‘While a notable per centage of the
children from all over that tundra
desert and inhospitable sea coast
could and did receive a fair amount
of instruction and training in the
boarding school at St. Mary’s mis
sion, the adults and old people have
not been in touch with the priest
more than a few hours (some only
one hour) each year. For efficient
work, a building and a resident priest
(or at least a teacher and catechist)
should be established in the most im
portant localities. The difficulty of
providing these places with food and
other supplies offers such tremendous
problems that the government, after
putting up a school at Hooper bay,
some years ago, was willing to make
it over to us last autumn, if we ac
cepted it. An active non-missionary
society is coveting that old field of
ours, if we give it up. The priest,
the lonely priest, now in charge, and
{he heroic Ursulines, are awaiting the
answer which is to come from the
Catholics in the United States.
“ ‘In other parts, the problem of
reaching out with God’s truth and
God’s sacraments to the souls of
scattered natives seems to admit of
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no other solution than the chapel
boat, as a substitute for the chapel
car, of glorious fame and noble deeds
in the church’s work amid the isso
lated districts of the south and west
in the States.
“ ‘Among the whites, the needs of
the church are not less pressing nor
less extreme. Let it be known here
at the outset, let it be said to the
credit and honor of Alaska, that her
people have won a prominent place
among the states of the Union by the
generosity with which they have re
sponded to all and each of the coun
try’s appeals for patriotic service dur
ing the war, even to the point of
exhaustion, in contributing her quota
thrice over in every instance. The
result is depletion. For one reason
or another one-half or more of the
white population have left their
northern homes to seek better con
ditions of living and of labor rn the
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►j tatco,
“ ‘Under these conditions, in
many white missions, very little can
be contributed by the people for the
support of their priest. At Anchorage
a larger church is needed, and quar
ters for the missionary must be pro
vided. At Nenana, on the Tanana
river, a neat little church was com
pleted last autumn, but a debt of
$2,000 on it has to be paid. At Haines
a chapel must be erected. In Ju
neau. the capital of Alaska, a new
parish school is of absolute neces
sity. We have been using these
last years, for school purposes, the
old pioneer hospital building of the
Sisters of St. Ann. Our sick are
now housed in a splendid up-to-date
structure, of which both the church j
and the city of Juneau can be proud.
For self-respect, for economic rea
sons, for efficiency, for considera-1
tion of health, it is imperative to
house our school children in an amp
ler building, better equipped and more
appropriately designed.’ ”
On account of important business
I shall be compelled to be absent from
Cordova for about twenty days. I
shall sail on the Watson on the 28th
of September and return to Cordova
about October 15.
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GERMANS ARE
DISSATISFIED
WITH TROOPS
WITH HHE AMERICAN FORCES
IN GERMANY, Aug. 26 (Correspon
dence of Associated Press).—The
Wuerttemburg government recently
reorganized all the so-called reserve
sicharheits companies as home guards
and the war ministry has turned them
over to the minister of the interior.
According to information in the hands
of American army officers, this is in
accordance with Noske’s plan to de
militarize all home guards units so
that the allies will not dissolve these
units under the terms of the peace
treaty.
Early this year many sicharheits
companies were organized in Wuert
temburg from remnants of old army
units and have since been transferred
into the reichwehr or new army.
Later many reserve companies were
organized on lines different from else
where in Germany but on the same
principle as ihe home guards or ein
wohnerwhr.
German soldiers who recently pro
tested from Mitau on the eastern front
against failure of the Lettish govern
ment to provide them land for settle
ment, in accordance with vague prom
ises of such land to all German sol
diers who would help to repel the
Bolsheviki, have issued another state
ment declaring that they have been
“shamefully deceived and reserve
the right to take such further steps
as may be decided upon.”
Bitter feeling by the population
against the new German army con
tinues in various parts of Germany,
trouble having been reported from
time t'o time in towns and villages
where troops were to be garrisoned.
In most instances the civilians object
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ground that they eat too much food.
An armed locomotive which is part
of the equipment of some reichswehr
or new army units was sent from shop
to shop in central Germany recently
because the workmen refused to re
pair it as they claimed it was a tool
of “Noske's bloodhounds.” Men in the
railroad shops at Goettingen and Cas
sel refused to work on the locomotive
as well as employes in private ma
chine shops in several parts of the
country. The last Americans heard
of the armored engine it was on a
sidetrack in Cassel while officers con
tinned their search for workmen to
make the necessary lepairs.
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—“Girls will be psy
chologically affected by moving pic
tures,” says Lorado Taft, the sculp
tor. “They see beautiful women on
the screen; then they go home and
practice for hours before the mirror.
The outcome? Graceful walking,
pleasant faces, fine complexions and
vivacity. Still, the hoydenish and
caper-cutting movie actresses are a
bad influence.”
In the opinion of Miss Indiana Gy
berson, an Irish painter who has
studied in Paris and Madrid, the
movies have made American women
more beautiful.
“Ah, the rising generation of Chi
cago girls,” she exclaimed. “One
sees a far, far larger number of
charming women here now. Let
them talk of cabaret dancing and rich
pastry ruining the attractiveness. It
is the movies that are molding ever-1
fresh types of native beauty—new
American types.”
Yet she conceded that the screen
plays wield an influence that will
work either good or evil.
“Remember the recent avalanche of
‘vamps’ in Chicago?” she went on;
“girls who slinker-slouched when they
walked, rolled their eyes alluringly
and tried to look naughty? They
were copying the movie queen of the
moment. Now we’re getting the
athletic, vigorous, smiling girl in the
films. It is good. As De Maupassant
said: ‘All women are imitative as mon
keys.’ The speedy action of the films
has made girls vivacious.”
A prominent designer and importer
of women’s gowns declared the films
have had an important effect on the
demand for certain styles, particu
larly gowns of simple, classic lines
and “intriguing fabrics,” and a drug
gist reports the sale of cosmetics has
increased 25 per cent since the movies
became popular.
BLIND AND MAIMED
HE DOES USEFUL WOKK
LONDON, Aug. *25 (by mail).—
Blind and deprived of both hands
Sergeant Allan M. Nichols of the Sec
ond Durham light infantry refused tc
be classed as an “unemployable” anc
today can write letters as proficiently
as any normal stenographer. Nichols
restoration to a self-supporting basis
was accomplished through patiem
training, a specially constructed type
writer, a pair of artificial aluminun
hands and his own indomitable spirit
Recently he passed a writing test o
two hours and fifteen minutes, his
“copy” necessitating only two cor
rections.
We have just received a line ol
boys’ wearing apparel such as pants
wraists, shirts, jerseys, hose, unior
suits, pajamas, shoes, etc., at the Cor
dova Dry Goods Company. 17-3
No one should be without an elec
trie plate, especially the kind with i
different heats. Northwestern Hard
wrare Company.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division. Torge
Asbjorson plaintiff vs. Carolim
Asbjornson, defendant. No. C-176
The President of the United States o:
America, Greeting to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby required to appeal
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, withir
thirty days after the completion o
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 25tl
day of October, 1919, and answer th<
complaint of the above-named plain
tiff in the above-entitled action
wherein said plaintiff prays that hi
be given an absolute decree of di
vorce from you forever dissolving
the bonds of matrimony heretofor<
existing between you and said plain
tiff.
And unless you so appear anc
answer the plaintiff will take judg
ment against you for want thereol
and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in his said complaint
as hereinabove set out.
The date of the order for service b>
publication herein is September 3
1919, and such order was duly made
and entered and filed herein o i said
date.
The date of the first publication ol
this summons is September 13, 1919:
and the date of its last publication is
October 25, 1919.
WITNESS, The Honorable Charles
E. Bunnell. Judge of said court, and
the seal of said court, on this 3rd
day of September, 1919.
(Court Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Count for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By JOHN B. MILLER,
Deputy.
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