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Screen Windows
Screen Wire
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Wheelbarrows
Garden Rakes
Garden Hoes
Garden Spades
Grass Hooks
Flower and Garden Seeds
and Three Kinds of
Seed Potatoes
COGHILL’S
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NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
FOURTH AND B STREETS
On Second and Fourth Tuesdays
At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
GETMUCH
FROM RED CROSS
PARIS.—“Save the babies” is
the message that has been taken
into the remote towns and villages
I of thirteen departments of France
i by the Children’s Bureau of the
American Red Cross
France is considered second to
none in scientific knowledge of in
fant welfare; but hitherto that
knowledge has been largely con
fined to her medical schools, her
hospitals, and to the minds of her
; child specialists. It needed to be
taken right into the homes, if
France was to save her coming
j generation.
To combat ignorance of the prin
ciples of child hygiene on the part
of French mothers, to popularize
fresh air and clean teeth, to preach
the truth that tuberculosis is pre
ventable; to encourage breast feed
ing and sensible clothing for in
. fants, was the task which the Am
erican Red Cross, seventeen months
ago, set itself to perform.
The result is, as the bureau
: statistics show, that 250,000 French
children have directly benefitted by
the efforts of this section of the
' American Red Cross,
i It organzied four great exposi
' tions in four of the busiest cities
of France: Lyons, Marseilles, St
Etienne and Toulouse. Three hun
! dred thousand persons went through
the turnstiles of these show's, and
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they took home every piece of the
child welfare literature that they
couid obtain.
Traveling expositions next went
into thirteen French departments,
j They gave simple lectures and dem
| onstrations with a life-size baby
■ doll in the townhall or the market
: place, and with the aid of their
! own cinema and a supply of pic
ture cards and colored posters, told
the mothers how the health and wel- j
| fare of their offspring might be
■ promoted. Nearly two mlilion pieces '
1 of child welfare propaganda were
jlhus distributed, with the gratifying1
i result that in many instances moth- j
j ers returned to the show to tell that
they had benefitted by this or that
piece of advice given by “les Ameri-!
cains.”
Finally, the bureau has trained
young Frenchwomen as social vis
itors and sent forty-eight of them
j out among their own people. In
: Lyons, Marseilles, Corbeil, Blois,
j St. Etienne and Paris they are do
] ing intelligent and constructive
i social work beginning at the home
j itself, where they are endeavoring
i to instil modern methods of child
hygiene and the prevention of dis
ease.
Another feature of the activities
of the Children’s bureau has been
the establishment of children’s play
grounds. A start has been made
| at Rouen; where two playgrounds
have been inaugurated for the use
of children between the ages of 7
and 13. The workers are Miss Jane
G. Hennessy, who has had seven!
years’ experience as a playground j
I teacher in New York City, and Miss j
j Beulah Kenard. a member of the
I faculty of New York University,
I and for twenty years president and
j superintendent of the Pittsburg
j Playground Association.
LONDON BUILDING BOOM
FAILS TO MATERIALIZE !
LONDON, England. — With ths
signing of the armistice it was ex
pected that building operations ir
London, suspended by the war
would be quickly resumed; but sc
far there are no signs of a renewa
of work on a dozen or more huge
unfinished structures in various
parts of the city.
Labor unrest is the cause as
signed by one big contractor foi
this state of affairs. “If it were
not for the labor unrest,” he said,
“I believe we should be so busy
that we could employ the services
of every man available. The un
rest is not confined to the building
world. Manufacturers, banks, in
surance companies and other large
corporations which have been think
ing of rebuilding are for the present
holding their hands.”
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ELECT MEMBERS
DUBLIN.—The Sinn Feiners are
preparing very thoroughly for the
capture, at the next elections, of
complete control of the Irish local
bodies. The work of canvass and
propaganda already has begun. As
no other organization is similarly
prepared, it is considered likely that
the Sinn Fein plans will be success
ful and that in the majority of
cases the local government will pass
into Sinn Fein hands.
At least four thousand guardians
and a similar number of district
councillors and many hundreds of
county and urban councillors will
be chosen as candidates.
Nationality, the principal organ
of Sinn Fein, says concerning the
election: “It will give us an oppor
tunity of proving to the world what
Ireland can do in the domain of
self-government and will prepare
the country for the greater task of
national government later on”
The Sinn Fein leaders have not
explained how they propose to oper
ate local goverment bodies apart
from the control of the British gov
ernment. The local bodies have the
power to levy and spend very large
sums in local matters. But the
whole system is subject to the code
of British law, and every local body
is under the jurisdiction of the
Irish Local Government Board, which
is a body appointed by Dublin Cas
tle, whose assent and authority is
required to everything.
Their opponents say thaat if the
Sinn Feiners work under the Local
Government Board, as is likely, they
will be making themselves a bra .oh j
of the existing Irish administration,
If they do not, it is claimed, they
cannot legally work at all.
The Sinn Feiners have decide 1 .
to use the local bodies in which,'
they obtain control as a means for:
ihe spread of the Irish language, i
[n the recent parliamentary Mec-j
tions an attempt was made to select j
■ s candidates only men capable of
:onducting public business in the 1
Irish language. So far as possible J
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coming local elections although
there will be several thousand? of
nominees.
FAIRBANKS STEAM SHOVEL
CREW IS LAID OFF NOW
About twenty men, forming the
■
crew working on the government
railroad near Happy, in connection
with the operations of the steam
shovel, have been laid off, and ar
rived in town today to be paid off.
• It is expected that the crew of
the steam shovel will be organized
again as soon as money for rail
road work becomes available.
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