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transfer the schooling and care of
the natives to the territory and be re
lieved of the Bureau of Education
become understandable.
Under such an administrator as
Herbert Hoover, who systemizes and
coordinates everything he touches,
and sees the necessity of general
reorganization, undoubtedly otficial
order would be brought out of offi
cial chaos and the affairs of this re
mote but promising land wmuld be
handled efficiently. Logically the
suggested transfer is commendable.
Certainly the Alaska Railroad -would
fit better under the Department of
Commerce and profit by the change,
since no step has been taken to col
onize or develop the land traversed
by the railroad, and commerce must
essentially be the basis of success.
The Agricultural Department, which
in Alaska means the Forest Service
and the Bureau of Public Roads, is
admittedly efficient and functions
helpfully. It has brought its admin
istration closer home to Alaska and
is signally successful in securing
needed appropriations from Congress.
It bureau officials are trained and j
well qualified, and alert to the wis
dom of close cooperation with the
territory. It is the department’s pol
icy to give them the fullest author
ity and have them exercise it. The
one remaining weakness in its organ
ization, making for circumlocution
and delay, is the maintenance by the
Bureau of Public Road of its Alas
ka headquarters at Portlad.
Long-Range Administration.
Of all the Federal agencies operat
ing in the territory, the Bureau of
Education is the feeblest. Long
range direction of the schools and
hospitals for the natives explains it.
Officially the best I could say of
the Government’s treatment of its
wards—still so dealt with, altho Con
gress has made them citizens—was
that it “generously, if not always ef- j
ficiently or adequately, provides for
them.” Unofficially it may conser
vatively be said that this provision
falls far short of actual, urgent needs
and is deplorably inefficient. The
present chief of the Alaska Division
of the Bureau of Education offici
ates at Seattle. Annual recommenda
tions by governors and biennial me
morials from the legislature urging
a change of this impossible status
have gone unheeded at Washington.
By contrast with the progressive
school sys'em for white children
conducted by the territory the na
tive schools, with few exceptions, are
of negligible value and make a piti
able showing.
Equally ill-equipped is the medical
administration. The bureau spends
in Alaska more than two-thirds of
I its total appropriation of $437,075,
and an additional sum of $122,320 is
made available this fiscal year for
the medical and sanitary relief ot
the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians and oth
er natives. To date such large ex
penditures have failed to produce
commensurate results or revealed,
generally speaking, wisdom in the
outlay.
The natives are scattered over a
wide domain and the difficulties at
tending their care and education are
great, but the territory in its edu
cational and relief work has been
remarkably succesful in overcoming
such dificulties. Often the territory
in emergency extends aid to natives
although literally the use of its re-i
lief fund3 is confined to whites on
the erroneous theory that the Indi
ans and Eskimos are otherwise pro
vided. For some months the Ameri
can Red Cross has kept in Alaska a
corps of nurses who have rendered
a fine service in alleviating distress
among the Indians and teaching them
how to live.
If a fraction of the sum disbused
at long range through bureau chan
nels was made available for use
at the hands of trained Red Cross
agents, the condition of the nation’3
wards would be greatly improved.
Missions conducted by church deno
minations do* a praiseworthy humani
tarian work "with limited r<Jf>urces,
and the Sheldon-Jackson School at
Sitka is a progressive and useful in
stitution. Accessible Indian commu
nities. such as, Kake, Bayview, Hyda
‘burg, and Metlakatla, in. Southeast
FORTY DOLLARS IN CASH
FIRST AND SECOND PRIZES IN JUNE
DRAWING UNCLAIMED
Coupon No 9581 and No. 7066, entitled to
$25.00 and $15.00 respectively under the
June Drawing Contest held by Brown &
Hawkins Corporation, are not returned. In
accordance with the contest rules the prizes
were forfeited after 30 days from date of
drawing, and the money has been paid to
charity as follows:
Methodist Episcopal Church, Seward - $10.00
Saint Peter’s Church, Seward - - $10.00
Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace* Seward - $10.00
The Am. Nat’l Red Cross, Seward Chapter $10.00
$40.00
RESULT OF JULY CASH PRIZE DRAWING
HELD JULY 31,1925
No. 10704 .$10.00
No. 15294 ------- $10.00
No. 16935 .$10.00
No. 18486 .$10.00
No. 17507 (Mrs. L. V. Ray) - - $10.00
BROWN & HAWKINS
CORPORATION
“QUALITY FIRST”
ern Alaska, have made notable prog
ress and are model towns, but con
ditions in remote localities are dis
tressing in the extreme.
Two departments of the Govern
ment—the Treasury, charged with
customs collections, and the Post-Of
fice Department, delivering mail by
water, rail and trail, with aerial
routes in prospect—function in Alas
ka with the utmost efficiency and
smoothness. Service is their watch
word and criticism is rarely heard.
The postal administration is liber
ally responsive to the territory’s
needs and by keeping practical men I
in the field readily overcomes obsta-1
cles which daunt other branches of
Government.
The Department of Justice, with a
Federal Court system in each of the
four judicial divisions, is vested with
wide jurisdiction in Alaska. United
States commissioners, appointed by
the courts, serve in all settled com
munities in the capacity of justices
of the peace, and marshals and their
deputies preserve the peace. The
department also bears the expense
of transporting insane persons to an
outside institution. Although politics
enters into appointments to the
bench, the courts are in good hands
and justice is faithfully and intelli
gently administered.
There is no more orderly section
of the globe than Alaska. It is a
law-respecting land. Even in Ketchi
kan, the first Alaskan port, in close
proximity to the Canadian shore,
where the smuggling of liquor by gas
boat is easy, the prohibition law is
better regarded and more rigidly en
forced than in cities on the Pacific
| Coast and Atlantic Seaboard. Hence
the classification of Alaska as law
less, still adhering to customs of
stampede days, justly caused pro
found indignation.
A constabulary similar to the state
police of Pennsylvania and New York,
or modeled after the mounted police 1
system of Canada, is needed in Ai-1
aska. Then instead of several agen- j
cies—game wardens, fur wardens, fish j
wardens, prohibition officers and j
■marshals—engaged in enforcing dif
ferent laws, a trained body of men |
would be charged with the duty of
enforcing all laws. Once instituted,
such a constabulary should be mater
ially reduce Federal expenses, and is
especially desirable in view of the
abandonment of army posts in the
Territory.
(To Be Concluded Tomorrow)
REPRESENTATIVE NORTHERN
LIFE INSURANCE CO. HERE
Major A. E. Ransom, Alaska repre
sentative for the Northern Life In
surance Company, arrived in Seward
Ransom has been in the employ of
last night from Anchorage. Major
the company for many years and has
written a large volume of business
for his company in Alaska. He is a
guest of the Hotel Van Gilder.
EXHIBIT READY
FOR SHIPMENT
TO EXPOSITION
ENTIRE RAILROAD BELT TO RE
CEIVE PUBLICITY FROM
ALASKAN EXHIBITS
Will Continue Through Week
Buyers Week In Seattle Will Be Held
During the Exposition—Number
Alaskans to Attend
The Alaska Railroad exhibit for the
Pacific Northwest exposition at Seat
tle, August 17 to 22, which will com
prise many items of an interesting
character, revealing Alaska products,
natural and manufactured, will be
shipped to Seattle on the next ves
sel for the south.
Included in the exhibit from Alaska
will be grain from the U. S. experi
mental station at Fairbanks, gold dust,
nuggets and ores from the different
mines of the territory, which are be
ing loaned by the Agricultural College
and School of Mines, coal samples
from the Evan Jones, Healy, Premier,
Alaska Bituminous mines, also sam
ples of anthracite coal from Chicka
loon.
Five beautiful paintings from the
brush of Sidney Laurence, owned by
Z. J. Loussac, have been loaned for
the exhibit. Additional mineral sam
ples from the Willow Creek mining
from the furnaces of the Alaska rail
district, coke and charcoal prepared
road. Analysis shows that this coke
prepared from the coal of the mines
of the territory, is equal, if not supe
rior, to other cckcs on the market.
A furniture exhibit, consisting of
a table, two chairs and a cabinet,
manufactured from native birch in the
railroad shops, under Foreman Wm. G.
Marsh. Two totem poles made by
Charles Bisel. Two large albums of
photographs show different points of
interest from all sections of the Ter
ritory, and many other exhibits such
as old ivory, furs, etc.
The samples of coal from, the Mata
nuska and Healy river districts were
prepared by J. J. Corey and Maurice
Sharp. j
Right at the back of the exhibit in
the' space allotted Alaska, will be a
large map of the territory on which
all special points of interest, mineral
Locations, McKinley National Park
and Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
will be plainly marked.
Horace Leach, timekeeper for the
Copper River & Northwestern R. R.
at Cordova, with his nephew, John
DeLeo, passed thru Seward the first
of the week on their return home
after completing the Golden Belt trip.
Originally, Mr. Leach intended go
ing to Kennecott, but after arriving
at Chitina decided to make the round