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Local Road Situation .
Causes Misunderstanding
At the Chamber of Commerce meet
ing yesterday the committee reported
that no arrangements could be made
in regard to the proposed shifting of
'he road at mile Three and one-half,
as the owners of the tract where the
new road was to be located refused
to sign the deed giving right-of-way
through their property.
As considerable misunderstanding
exists regarding this road a short ex
planation might help our people to
look at conditions with a different
viewpoint. Last year a short section j
of the road was damaged this side of ;
Mile Five, between the cemetery and |
a point where the highway crosses the :
railroad track. The Bureau of Pub-1
lie Roads announced that if a right-of-;
way could be secured, a new road !
would be constructed from Mile three ,
and a quarter, tapping the old road :
near the gravel pit. The present ,
road was built by the Alaska Road
Commission after an exhaustive sur
vey, later being taken over by the
Bureau of Public Roads. A long
bridge crosses Resurrection river, a
glacier stream, near Mile three. A
number of fine ranches have been
cleared alongside the present light- i
of-way, and the city cemetery lies !
along the road at Mile Four. In case !
the road is shifted to the site desired j
by the Bureau of Public Roads, the i
present road as far as the cemetery
would have to be maintained either
by the city or by some other agency,
or the initial investment would be lost
and the present settlers ruined in case
no outlet was provided them. To
keep up the present road would cost
hut little compared to building the j
new road through the swamps along !
the new survey. The cemetery would |
j also have to be moved, as the water
! would pour down through it as soon
i as the present road is abandoned. By
raising the present road a foot or so,
riprapping its sides with rock, and
driving a few piling to cause the
stream to keep its present course
would cost probably but little com
pared with the expense of making a
six or seven foot grade through the
MacPherson homestead. The water
mark on the trees through the new
survey reaches a height of from
three to six feet, and much of the
ground is swampy and would cost very
heavily for a road foundation. The
owners of the land through which the
road proposes to build would willingly
give a right ofl way, but desire to pro
tect the ranchers and the city. They
believe that the road is now in the
proper place and that it could be plac
ed beyond the danger point with the
expenditure of a small sum. To aban
don the old road would be to ruin the
ranchers.
The intrinsic value of the land thru
which the road now runs, and thru
the new survey is small. None of the
owners care for the small amount
taken, but they have expressed a de
termination to keep the road where it
is. believing it the best policy for
those interested. In case the Bu
reau of Public Roads refuses to keep
the road in repair, it is stated that the
Road Commission would willingly take
it back and place it in a permanent
state of repair. The question involv
ed is whether the ranchers and cem
etery shall be accessible or whether
they will be shut off from town. In
case the river comes down through
the cemetery the remains of dozens
of Seward citizens will have to be re
moved or they will wash out.
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SAGE FOUNDATION
ISSUES REPORT ON
CHILD MARRIAGES
NEW YORK, March IS.—More than
607,000 persons living in the United
States today were “child brides,” less
than 16 years of age when they mar
ried, or were married to brides' un
der that age, and the great majority
of these contrary to belief, are native
white and of native parentage.
These are a few of the many facts
revealed in an extended study of child
marriages pursued in 90 cities in 28
states, a preliminary report of which
was made public here today by the
Russell Sage Foundation.
This situation is due in large meas
ure to two causes, says the report:
the fact that many states require no
better evidence of age than the affi
davit of one of the candidates for a
marriage license and that the legal
minimum marriage age is still only
12 years for girls and 14 years for the
boys'in New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Kentucky, Louisiana, Virgin
ia, Florida, Maryland, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Colorado, Idaho, Maine and
Mississippi.
Continuing the report given out by
the Foundation says: “The serious
ness of the situation becomes even
more impressive when it is known the
Foundation classes as child brides only
those under sixteen years of age and
that it does not take into account the
many marriages of children over six
teen, but under IS; and that the total
of 667,000 child brides and husbands
of child brides, is increased each year i
by thousands of marriages.
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PRISCILLA CLUB GIVES
ITS ANNUAL DINNER
The Priscilla Club gave its annual
dinner last evening at the apartments
of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kurtz, in the
Arcade building. The members of
the club and their husbands attended,
an eight course dinner being served
to the guests.
The dinner was a regular St. Pat
rick’s affair. The rooms being beau
tifully decorated in green, green fav
ors on the table and even the guests
had regular Irish names. Adding to
the novelty of the dinner all the guests
had to hunt their partners by their
Irish names.
Those who helped make the evening
merry were Mary Ann O’Donaghey,
Bridget O’Riellv, Pat Murphy, Mike
O’Donnell, Dennis Moraritv, Mary O’
Lalle, Larry O’Brien, Terry O’Niel,
Denny McCune, Colleen McGoorty,
Maggie Malloy. Lizzie Ryan, and Joan
Mahoney.
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FRANCE CLAIMS
GERMANY HAS
LARGE ARMY
PARIS. March 18.—The opinion of
Marshal Foch and his colleagues of
the Allied war committee, is that the
report of the Military control mission
shows that the Germans persist in
their determination to maintain a
complete staff of officers for an army
such as existed prior to 1914.
Also the committe believes Germany
is educating not only officers to this
end. but under all sorts of camaou
flage is training enough young men to
mobolize a strong fighting army when
ever it wishes to do so.
This, the committee says in an opin
ion which the ambassador's council
will consider, is of far greater import
ance than the discovery of unauthor
ized war material although it is point
ed out that the existence of illicitly
manufactured rifles and machine guns
and parts of cannon emphasize the
seriousness of the situation.
Among the details of the control
mission’s report to which the military
experts refer is the discovery of sec
ret shops, walled up to the eyes of the
indiscreet, where are stored patterns
and molds for the most improved type
of cannon and even unfinished tubes
that in a short time could be complet
ed into guns ready to fire. Tips giv
en by German pacifists led to many
finds of this sort including more new
rifles than would be required to arm
the entire German army on the basis
of the Versailles treaty.
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Information given by workmen em
ployed in chemical factories, led to
the finding of evidence that facilities
for the production of asphyxiating
gas have been left intact as they ex
isted at the end of the world war. The
report on this point confirms evidence
which the allies have had for some
time to the effect that the Germans
had erected new factories that could *
almost instantly be devoted to the pro
duction of vast quantities of the most
deadly weapon which the war develop
ed and which had just begun to dem
onstrate how deadly it could be made
when the conflict ended.
These discoveries in the opinion of ^
military experts are rendered all the
more important by proofs of the ex
istence of the military staff school and
the training of young men of Germany
for an army such as that with which
the country entered the great war.
Oddly enough, in forming his Cab
inet, Mr. Coolidge makes no effort
to hire cheaper men.
How horrible the killing of chil
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