WOMEN AND SCHOOLS
URGED TO STOP EVIL
OF CHILD MARRIAGES
NEW YORK, Apr. 2—There is
need for important reforms in the
marriage laws and their administra
tion. either or both, in practically
every state in the United States, ac
cording to a 150-page report on
“Child Marraiges,” issued here to
day by the Russel Sage Foundation
as the result of a several years’ in
vestigation extending into 90 cities
in practically every section of the
country.
The report, which was prepared
by Marti E. Richmond, under whose
direction the study was conducted
with the collaboration of Fred S.
Hall, takes the position that at this
stage reforms must be effected state
by state. It calls upon associations
of parents, women’s organizations,
school authorities, ministerial associ
ations, social workers, legislators
and others interested in the problem
of child marriage, to undertake the
following ten steps toward a solution
of this problem:
1. Work toward a reasonable and
enforceable minimum marriageable
age law; the minimum for girls
should be at least 16; in many states
it is still 12.
2. Procure in states which now are
without it a law requiring five days’
advance notice of intention to mar
ry; such a law is now in operation
in eight states.
3. Put the marriage market town
out of business; there are at least
40 notorious Gretna Greens where
the exploitation and commercializa
tion of marriage are responsible for
numerous child marriages.
4. Through cooperation with ad
joining states discourage hasty mar
riages across the state border, where
out-of-town marriages are railroaded
through either at the license office
or the justice of the peace office, or
both.
5. Know the wovk of your license
issuers, so that the difficulties with
which they are now contending sin
gle-handed may be brought to light,
and that they may be encouraged to
use the discretion which the laws
of many states now empower them
to exercise.
6. Destroy the fee system; in so
far as the system of fees in lieu of
salaries to license issuers survives,
it interferes with the disinterested
character of their service.
7. Strengthen requirements as to
proof of age of applicants for mar
riage licenses; at present no proof
of age is required in most marriage
license offices and the practice of
accepting affidavits leads to falsifi
cation by applicants and sometimes
by their parents, making possible the
marriage of children 11, 12, 13 aid
14.
8. Substitute better evidence of
aid for affidavits; no other form of
evidence is so unsatisfactory. Aside
from birth and baptesmal cenifi
cates, 16 other forms of documentary
evidence of age are suggested in the
report.
9. Require both applicants for a
marriage license to appear in person
before the license issuer.
1.0. Harmonize the different state
laws in which a minimum age is re
quired; the minimum marriageable
age should not be lower than the
minimum working age, and the com
pulsory school attendance age should
fit into both these others.
Adoption of such reforms says the
report, would act as a check upon
those parents who are willing to
marry off their boys and girls while
they are still children. What is
more important, they would protect
other parents who at present never
know when some designing person
or impulse of the moment may spir
it away the immature girl or boy
from home and make the child the
victim of an administrative system
which is without proper safeguards.
New Idea About Bees
BERLIN, Apr. 3.—Prof, von Frisch
of Berlin university, who has made
a special study of apiculture, believes
that bees who collect honey pay at
tention to any other flower. He de
dares that bees specailize on somt
one flower for the reason that they
react to only one perfume.
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SOUTHERNER SUES JUDGE
ALLEGING FALSE ARREST
FRANKFORT, April 2—Alleging
mental and physical anguish result
ing from about fifty confinements of
thirty hours eacli in a jail at London,
Ky„ L. M. Keteham, of Indiana, today
filed suit in federal court here against
Judge A. T. W. Manning of Laurel cir
cuit court, seeking $50,000 damages.
Ketchum said he was a worker for
the Ivu Klux Klan. Keteham was
jailed for repeated refusal to divulge
names of members of the klan in the
county his petition alleges 'and the
judge declared him guilty of contempt
of court.
The Kentucky court of appeals how
ever. in the opinion of Commissioner
Sandridge, recently reversed Judge
Manning’s decision, holding that the
judgments were not properly imposed
and that the question of klan member
ship was not a relevant issue of the
case under consideration. The cir
cuit judge at that time was investigat
ing law violations.
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Tribute To Poe’s Mother
to Grace Old Church Yard
RICHMOND, Va., Apr. 3.~j he un
marked grave of Elizabeth Allen Poe,
mother of Edgar Allan For, will soon
’Tt an imposing m* •• f> ’i:. “:ia: t
ro'.ug the moulderin ’, heads* mes !n
?* I d a’s churchy,1:J. hr •* The de
‘y-mj tribute is the plan of the I’.a
- a society of the Jaivo, c.ty op Vir
g.r.ia, working together wi.h tie.
N-v Yoik Actors’ As'sjciv.lon which
Iho aided iu the rui.rug of funds.
T e uesign, it is aanou.t l. has al
re dy been turnisneu at; 1 linn! plans
for the rearing of the monument
w:!• be discussed at an tar’y da’c- it |
harvard University.
J H. Whitty, an authaCt on Foe,
discovered the grave of Foe’s mothei
feu; years ago. L iirs m-ar the wall
of me ancient church w.V « t atrick
Hemy delivered his “Liberty or
Peatn” oration. A memo 'r of a ihe
•itiical company, Elizabv.h A1’ *.n F<-e
died iu 1811. Her little son Edgar,
, dopied by the Allan faml*/, was
real fed to maturity In Virginia.
The poet’s own tribute to his moth
er will be the inscription used on
the shaft. It reads: “No earl was
ever prouder of his earldom than he
of his descent from a woman who,
though well born, hesitated not to
consecrate to the drama her brief
career of genius and beauty.’’
Seven years and a fine of $6,000 or
a total equivalent of 35 years in pris
on, was the sentence imposed on Ed
na Bond, a West Virginia mountain
girl for bootlegging. A judge who
could give an ignorant girl such a
! sentence can not be characterized in
j printable language.
RADIO WILL CARRY
STATE QUESTIONS
TO CRUISING KING
LONDON, Apr. 3.—King* George
who, upon advice of his physicians,
will spend the greater part of March
cruising in the Mediteranean, will be
in constant touch with officials of
state in London by radio. Should
important constitutional questions
arise while the king is abroad, he
would be notified immediately and
enabled by radio to make any decis
ions deemed necessary.
Modern inventions in this respect
have greatly simpltled matters of
state, compared with other years
when British rulers left British soil
for foreign parts. Whenever Queen
Victoria went abroad she was accom
panied by a minister, and important
state business which required her
personal signature was dealt with
by this offcial and then passed on to
the queen for her decision.
In connection with King George’s
voyage abroad, it has been recalled
in London that King Edward dis
pensed to a large extent writh this
practice, as the system of using a
lithographed signature for certain
commissions in the service, and sim
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Jk Stated communications first
^%raVrand third Wednesdays of each
/\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
—Meets every Thursday at
^^^^wSiOO p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall. Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
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S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
March 24 March SI April 7
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
April 14 April 20
April 7
S. S. ADMIRAL PEARY
April 27—With freight and explosives.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Paci/ic Coastwise Jervice
^ADMIRAL LINE
iH.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENT3£3553h33ek3S3
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING OF STR. STARR WEST, APRIL 5
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13t. 8EWARD, ALASKA
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ilar affairs, has absolved the king
from the immense drudgery which
was a constant annoyance to royal
ty in Victorian times.
Most of the British rulers have
been keen yachtsmen, King George
being perhaps the most enthusiastic
of them all, so the physicians in ad
vising a cruise in warmer climate
after the ruler’s recovery from inilu
enza and bronchitis in February, lelt
Fiat he would enjov himself under
civcumstances entirely to his liking.
«u.-f :i Me1*/ does run care lot the
sta, but. King George, o:•!::»&rlly, is
noi bothered by toug.i weather in
the least.
William H. Small, of St. Louis be
lieves that the sun revolves around
the earth <uid offers $100 for proof
to the contrary. The difficulty in
gettng that hundred would not be in
furnishing the proof, but in getting
the same through William’s under
standing.
Brunswick Radiolas, tne Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. * tf
Ladles’ ana Gents' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
S P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Let Morrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
CITY EXPRESS
Billi) Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM
Also fresh Lettuce, from
our hothouse, delivered
daily by order.
Our Motto:
“The Best”
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KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
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Gore Bldg. Adams 145
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Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Yukon
Northwestern
Alaska
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
March 28
April 4th
April 11
April 18
April 25
May 2
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 4
April 11th.
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 4
April 11th.
April 18.
April 25
May 2
May 9
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125_ SEWARD, ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
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Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices
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