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TRANSPORTATION IN ALASKA
(From McCarthy News.)
Lack of space in last week’s issue prevented us
from making adequate comment on Mr. Sulzer’s ar
ticle on the problem of Alaskan transportation diffi
culties. This is a question which vitally concerns
every person living in interior Alaska, and by “in
terior'’ Alaska we mean every part of the Territory
not in direct touch with outside transportation.
It is a perfectly safe statement to say that there
is no one in interior Alaska who has not in some
way come hard up against the problem of transpor
tation costs for it is such a glaring ill that none can
fail to observe it.
But what are we doing about it? We haven’t
heard much yet except a lot of individual growling
at excessive costs and this will be a long time pro
ducing results—a very long time!
Alaska is well served by boat from the out
side and at moderate rates. There is no complaint
on that score. What little mileage of railroad the
country has was built for a specific purpose getting
to some one point and serving that point. Any oth
er service is merely incidental to proximity to the
railroad. Moreover owing to the gigantic difficul
ties in the way of railroad construction in this coun
try, so cut up with mountains, glaciers and rivers,
the cost is enormous and will react on freight costs
for generations. The only solution, then, is roads
—good roads—roads passable at any time of the
year by team and wagon or sleigh, and, if possible,
by truck and automobile. . This is quite within the
realm of possibility by the judicious expnediture of
money which will be small compared with the
amount of benefit derived. It is safe investment
against the future prosperity of one of the richest
pieces of ground on the globe.
But a government seems always loath to spend
money in developing a new country and it rests with
’!>•' p-cplc who are y./'y «g f'> *n h;> r-j 'cet to
make some effort at concerted action in bringing
pressure to bear in the proper channels to have this
altered.
Let us back to the limit those who are strug
gling to put this thing across. Lone growling and
continuing to dig down to pay the cost will never
relieve this state of affairs.
THE MODERN INDIAN.
No longer is it the universal sentiment of the
white man that “the only good Indian is a dead In
dian.” From one of extermination the Indian pol
icy of the white man’s government and the white
man himself has changed to one of friendly aid. In
stead of warfare there is education, for destruction
has been substituted protection. From a condi
tion of naked savagery and of cruel exploitation by
unscrupulous white men the American Indian has
been raised in less than a century to an appreciation
of modern civilization and to relative safety from
encroachment on his rights and property.
The Indian has now been brought into constant
contact with the white man’s civilization. His chil
dren are being taught the English language and he
himself is learning the white man’s trades. The
life on the reservations has been preserved but not
isolated. The result has been that the red man
has been brought into competition with his white
skinned brother economically and forced to adjust
himself socially.
While the Indians were left to themselves they
slowly cast off their native traditions, customs and
culture for the white man’s. He preserved his art,
religious rites and language only on the reservation
and in the tribal tepee. But when certain well
meaning individuals and groups sought to hasten
his assimilation into the white man’s civilization
by forbidding to him his ancient traditions and cul
ture he rebelled and with justification. Efforts to
abolish their ceremonial dances were made in the
spirit of benevolent ignorance of the fact that the
Indian’s culture is intimately J?ound up with his
religion and that the Indian expresses his religion
in his dance. Those who have described the Indian
dances as miraoral may be astonished to hear that
the Indian makes the same charge against the dances
of the white man.
The only really serious Indian problem which
confronts the nation today is that which the volun
tarliy-interested have constructed for themselves in
their msisionary zeal. All that the red man wants
is to be left to live his own life. All that the white
man must do to grant the Indian his wish is to be
tolerant. It is the will of the general public that
the Indian be left to his pottery, basket-weaving and
snake dance for the sake of his own racial salvation,
the preservation of his art and culture and of one
of the most interesting heritages of the American
people.
STILL SUPERSTITIOUS
A news dispatch notes that the Kern County
(Calif.) Cattlemen’s and Sheepmen’s Association
has contracted with a rainmaker for an inch and a
half of rain, to be delivered between November 20
and December 20, for which $4,000 is to be paid.
While the terms of the contract are not. given in
detail, it would seem that the rainmaker has the
long end of the bargain unless he is penalized in
case of failure. Perhaps he is required to execute
some hocus-pocus under the semblance of doing some
thing to earn his money, but we imagine that the
chief labor in which he’ll engage will consist in hop
ing that nature will be kind and send along the
showers in a land where moisture is too often with
held. Should the rain fall in sufficient quantity
the rainmaker’s purse will be replenished to the ex
tent of a neat sum whether he exerts any influence
on the situation.
A few years ago professional rainmakers had
quite a vogue in some arid sections, but the country
has yet to hear that any of them ever was success
ful in producing the desired moisture. The rain
may have fallen, but that of itself would not be
proof of their instrumentality—rather of their good
luck in having nature coincide with their schemes
of buncoing some credulous people out of good coin.
Not all Americans have emerged from superstitution
it it is believed that man is able by incantations to
coax from the sky that which nature withholds by
law.
AFTER THE WORK’S DONE
WH£n Aristotle long ago said that the right use
of leizure was the chief end in education, he little
dreamed that in our day this idea would be used
in support of a plea for a change in education.
In an article in the current number of one of
our magazines the writer contends that the students
who go into business and industry through the doors
of a college training get only the technical education
required for their work. They get no training in
the right use of their leizure after the routine work
of the day. For the vast majority of our boys and
girls college doors never open at all, and only a rel
atively small number finishes even the high school.
In an age when most work is done by machinery,
when even a good share of the remainder is mechani
cal and routine, it is pointed out, these children
should be given training which in later years would
help them to make better use of their leizure time.
Most parents and teachers will agree that this
suggestion is worthy of consideration. We can
ill afford to neglect the fact that what use people
make of their leizure time is very important both
as a matter of social welfare and business effi
ciency . While it is not proposed to restrict the in
dividual in his pleasures, the community should aim
to make these pleasures as wholesome as possible
for the individual and society.
A newly discovered minor planet is said to be
moving away from the earth. Wishes to avoid being
mixed up in any of its troubles, may be.
One of the defeated cnadidates for president in
Nicaragua charges fraud in the election. Probably
he lays it to the “slush fund” of the opposition.
W. J. Bryan says he’ll quit lecturing and write
his memoirs. Then he’ll still have something to un
load on the public to bring in the money, he hopes.
Emma Goldman longs to get back to the United
States. Her conversion appears to be fairly com
plete, but there is no demand for her return.
In forbidding political meetings in Italy Pre
mier Mussolini appears to proceed on the theory that
this will prevent opposition from consolidating.
An extra session of congress next summer
is regarded as highly improbable. Naturally, there
is a desire to avoid evil.
Four Big Stars
MAE MARSH, IVOR NOVELLO,
CAROL DEMPSTER, NEIL HAMPTON
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Dance Saturday Night A. B. Hall
SPOKANE MAN WILL GET
$30,000 IF HE MARRIES ,
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL
WITH UNBOBBED HAIR
SPOKANE, Dec. 3.—R. H. Lelach
eur, a transfer man of this city, will
receive $30,000 from the estate of an
uncle who died in France recently if
he weds a woman with unbobbed
hair, “who does not seek his money
and who has good judgment and
pride in her name.” He said today
he expects to be able to qualify for
the bequest. Mr. Lelacheur was in
formed of his legacy by a Minneapo
lis attorney who had sought him in
Montana, Idaho and other states
where he formerly resided. He said
his uncle “had an aversion for wo
men.” Mr. Lelacheur obtained a di
vorce about a year ago.
ACTORS’ BATTLE ENDS IN
SMALL SIZED RIOT
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Lowell W.
Sherman, one of New York’s best
known matinee idols and George M.
Baxter, also an actor used their fists
at the Actor’s Equity association ball
which ended at the Hotel Astor early
yesterday with several fights and one
affray with a razor, it was learned
today.
The quarrel between Sherman and
Baxter was caused by Sherman’s re
fusal to introduce Baxter to Miss Lil.
lian Foster, appearing in a current
Broadway show,, according to Baxter.
The fight started in the Sherman box f
which he occupied with his mother
and Nora Bayes. Ethel Barrymore oc
cupied an adjoining box. Both Bax
ter and Sherman bore marks of the
conflict.
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
TO GET AIRPLANE SERVICE
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Nine hour
overnight mail service from New
York to Chicago and an eight-hour
service over the same course east
ward due to prevailing winds will be
inaugurated early in April.
Carl F. Egge, superintendent of the
air mail division, postoffice depart
ment, has announced the new serv
ice after completing a report to Col.
Paul Henderson, second assistant
postmaster general.
The report includes detailed plans
for the illumination of the 780-mile
course and provides for emergency
landing fields. The new service will
be supplemental to the transconti- <
nental service which has been in op
eration since July 1 between New
York and San Francisco.
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