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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 27,1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REVISED IMMIGRATION
LABOR PROVISIONS TO
BE SOUGHT BY DAVIS
* WASHINGTON, June 24. (^—Re
vision of the new immigration law
to provide a selective system for
bringing immigrants to this country
will be sought at the next session of
Congress by Secretary Davis of the
Labor Department, 'who has juris
diction over immigration questions.
Chief among the changes proposed
will be one in connection with the
contract labor provisions of the law,
under which aliens are not permit
ted to come to this country at pres
f ent if they have promise or con
tract for employment after reaching
these shores.
This provision, in the view of Sec
retary Davis, attaches a maximum
risk to emigration from other coun
tries, and discourages from coming
here the class of immigrants most
desirable to this country. He believes
that the hard-working, substantial
type of immigrant who has a fam
ily to support is almost barred un
p der the present law because if he
comes here he must do so blindly,
with no assurance that he may have
employment after arriving.
If such aliens were given assur
ance of work before leaving their
homelands, the secretary believes
that under proper supervision, such
a plan would induce a higher type
of foreigner to take up citizenship
a here.
American labor, however, the sec
retary insists, must be given com
plete protection, work being offered
fr to prospective immigrants only after
it is found that there is no avail
able American labor for the places
to be filled.
It is to this end that Jhe secretary
proposes to maintain agents of the
immigration bureau abroad, much
after the method of maintaining
comercial attaches in foreign lands.
These agents would be kept ad
vised, under the secretary’s plan,
0. of the labor needs of industry in
this country, and from the list ot
prospective immigrants in the hands
of the immigration attache, the best
available men abroad would be pick
ed and brought to this country. The
plan contemplates removal of tne
alien’s entire family, which in itself
the secretary feels, would remove
one of the greatest evils of the pres
ent system, the effect of which re
quires the alien to come here and
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MEXICO TEACHES
CHILDREN THRIFT
MEXICO CITY, June 24.—
(/P)—Under a presidential de
cree just published the depart
ment of public instruction is
authorized to found a savings
and loan bank for school child
ren. School teachers must de
posit in this institution one
day’s salary in each month
■with 31 days, but pupils sav
ings are voluntary, altho they
must not be less than five cen
taves a vreek. The bank’s op
erations will be limited to mak
ing loans to cooperative bod
ies. It is estimated that sav
ings will total 120,000 pesos a
year.
find employment before sending
abroad for the remainder of his fam
ily.
One of the greatest advances the
secretary believes possible under the
present law was made recently when
agents of the State, Treasury and
Labor departments were sent abroad
to establish in the Irish Free State
and later, if possible, in other coun
tries, a system of inspection and ex
amination of aliens abroad. Tlii3
system, combined with a system of
selecting immigrants aboard, Secre
tary Davis feels, would remove the
two greatest problems of the immi
gration bureau.
Millionaire Leaves Fund
To Assure Better Roads
STOCKHOLM, June 24. (£>)—In
one of the most original wills ever
filed for probate in Sweden, a local
millionaire named Carl Smitt has
directed that the bulk of his estate
be devoted to the improvement of
j public highways and to the discov
I ery of better methods of catching
I fish.
The money to be spent for the im
provement of roads is to be adminis
tered by the Stockholm Automobile
club and used for such things as the
construction of model highways and
tests of paving materials, as well 'as
for prizes to communities with good
roads. The fishing fund is to be
spent for the bettering of fishing
methods so as to benefit the popula
tion of the Swedish skerries.
Law Passed 39 Years Ago
Used Against Bootleggers
TACOMA, June 24. (£>)—The caba
listic words “thirty-four fifty” have
struck terror into the hearts of
many bootleggers in this section, and
they have more significance to the
rum running fraternity than all the
clauses in the Volstead law.
“Thirty-four fifty” means section
3450 of the revised federal statutes,
and covers an act passed by Cong
ress in 1SS6. It refers to the trans
portation of articles that have not
paid an internal revenue tax, and
provides that the vehicle used for
such transportations shall be confis
cated.
The Volstead law has a somewhat
similar provision, but federal prose
cution here found that forfeitures
under it were not successful owing
to conditional sales of automobiles.
So the government attorneys de
cided to use the power provided by
section 3450, and they have been em
ploying it with great effect. Every
few weeks the United States mar
shal holds an auction sale of auto
mobiles confiscated because they were
hauling liquor on which no federal
■tax was paid. In several cases a
jury has found the operator of a
rum carrier innocent, but his car
has been libelled under section 3450
and ordered sold.
Wallace Mount, assistant U. S.
district attorney, says that the gov
ernment has obtained the forfeiture
of every automobile or truck libel
led under section 3450 in this dis
trict.
Mexico Works In Earnest
To Reorganize Its Army
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MEXICO CITY, June 24. (/P)—
Troop movements into the capital
which, late in May, increased the
garrison to the unprecedented fig
| ure of 15,000 and caused excited
speculation, elicited the reassuring
statement from the war department
that the men were being brought to
Mexico City from outside posts to
be reuniformed and rearmed.
Reorganization or the army in ac
| cordance with plans announced by
he Calles administration when it
took office has been proceeding
steadily for nearly six months and
the regular forces, according to lat
est information available, have been
reduced to approximately 50,000.
Aimong the enlisted men discharged
were 5,000 minors. The number of
generals and commissioned officers
down to the rank of major, who
have been unable to prove their right
to the rank they claim and have
•been dropped, totals more than 1,
000.
Modernization of military regula
tions, unchanged for more than a
century, and a plau for a modified
system of universal, obligatory mil
itary training are the tasks asigaed
to a special commission of officers.
Five Far Western Teams
To Enter For Polo Title
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June
24. (TP)—Preliminary play to the na
tional polo championship will begin
August 15 when five teams from
the western Rocky Mountain divi
sion meet here in an elimination
tournament.
From the teams entered will be se
lected a quartete to contest with the
tournament winner of the eastern
Rocky Mountain division, which will
be determined at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., June 27.
Divisional winners will compete in
the national inter-oircuit tournament
to be held at Philadelphia next fall.
The five teams entered in the wes
tern mountain section are: Broad
moor and Colorado Springs, both of
this city; the army officers’ fours
from Fort D. A. Russel, Cheyenne,
Wyo,, and Fort Meade, S. D.; and
the Wichita, Kans., quartet.
The Broadmoor team at present
reigns a favorite, having numbered
among its players several gathered
from the famous Midwick team of
Los Angeles.
Today
men of Judgment
are measuring cities and towns by
their Chambers of Commerce.
In any survey of an American town
or city, it is impossible to name a
live, growing community, which
does not have a virile Chamber of
Commerce that numbers in its
membership every successful busi
ness and professional man and wto
man in the community.
The
Seward Ghamber of Commerce
welcomes you to the big 4th of July Celebration.
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