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WHAT HOSPITALS DO
TO BE TOLD MAY 12
CHICAGO, May 51.—(JP)—1To bring
the community to a realization of
what the hospital does and how it
does it, is the purpose of Hospital
Day, whcih will be observed nation
ally May 12, said an announcement
bv E. S. Gilmore of Chicago, presi
dent of the American Hospital As
sociation. It is not a collection day
but one set apart to make people
better acquainted with hospitals,
their importance, services and needs.
President Coolidge has endorsed
the day with the hope “that it may
be productive of results calculated
t-) the further advance of tne Ameii
can hospital system.”
"Despite the effort to inform the
public concerning the function and
scope of hospitals, a great deal of
ignorance and misunderstanding ex
ists,” said Dr. Gilmore. "Until this
is cleared away, the hospital cannot
hope to get the interest and sup
port it deserves and needs. The
association will issue a certificate of
award to the hospital where the Hos
pital Day program was considered
the most meritorious.
Mrs. Tiny Walker and Mrs. Ruth
Bland were shot and seriously wound
ed in Ketchikan last week by S. B.
Hamilton, who charged the women
with having stolen two $20 gold
pieces from his cache on his house
boat on the waterfront. Hamilton
gave a farewell party to some friends
and did not discover the loss of his
money until after the departure of
his guests. He took his gun and
called on the two women at the
Walker residence, taxing them with
stealing the money, which they in
dignantly denied. He thereupon pull
ed a 32 automatic pistol and shot
the Walker woman thru the abdo
men, and inflicted a painful wound
upon Mrs. Bland. After the shoot
ing Hamilton returned to the house
boat, collected his money, and hunt
ed up a policeman to whom he sur
rendered. He was apparently sober
and acted unconcerned over the af
fray.
The Ketchikan Credit Association
now numbers about fifty firms. The
plan being put into practice in Ket
chikan is identical with that of cit
ies in the states, and means that ac
counts must be squared regularly to
insure further credit. The system
has already saved the merchants
great loss.
The American Legion Post at Sit
ka will hold services Memorial Day
dedicating the Sitka National ceme
tery. There are now sixty graves
in the cemetery, all of them soldiers
and sailors -who wTere stationed at the
former territorial capital.
Gus Peret of the Peters Cartridge
Company, accompanied by his wife is
making a tour of Alaska giving shoot
ing exhibitions. Mr. Peret is an ex
prt with rifle and revolver and does
many fancy trick shots.
A light earthquake shock was felt
in Ketchikan last week, no damage
being done.
Seward ranchers are keeping the
town well supplied with fresh eggs,
WOMEN IN BUSINESS
URGED TO PRESERVE i
THEIR WOMANLINESS
HOUSTON, Tex., May 15— (£>)—
If the woman in business “is going
to ape man,” let her stay at home
and let the men keep right on as
they have been doing, as “there is
no excuse for the woman in businss
unless she takes her womanly ways
with her,” declared Gov. Miriam A.
Ferguson tonight in welcoming la
dies of the Advertising Clubs of the
World to Texas for their annual con
vention.
It is an old thing to talk of wo
man’s intuition and her keen grasp
on the little things of life, said Texas’
first woman executive, “yet wherever
you find a successful woman, you
find a woman -who has taken her wo
manly ways along with her into her
business world, a woman who has
solved her problems with her heart
as well as her head, and a woman
who has not allowed maudlin senti
ment to overbalance her belief in
kindliness and justice and fair play.”
“This does not mean that I con
done with the mannish ■women,” Gov.
Ferguson continued. “If a woman is
going to be mannish, let her stay
away from me. God made us wo
men and gave us rare opportunities
as women; let the men profit by
their own peculiar little mannerisms.
There is no excuse for the woman
in business unless she is going to
stay a woman there. If she is going
to ape men, let her stay at home.
We made our plea to get into the
business world that we might better
it. If we are going to do just as
the men have done, we certainly can
not do better than they have done.”
Gov. Ferguson said she was speak
ing from experience, as it was no
easy thing to be a woman governor,
walking where men have walked
alone, and sitting where men alone
have sat.
“I know something of the strug
gles you have had and something of
the obstacles you have overcome,
made more difficult because you are
women,” the speaker declared. “But
this is no time to discuss worries in
our past; the hard work, once ac
I complished becomes but a back
ground. Today is the time when
we may look well at the problems
that lie before the business women
of all the world.
“I think that women have a great
er problem than have men. We are
new to our work and we face the
criticisms of those well-meaning mas
culine souls who gave us .this new
employment with just a little more
than fear and trembling. They like
us, do the men; they will all stand
right up in meeting and declare that
the world cannot get along without
us, but they are still a little worried
that in some of the new work we
seem to be able to get along with
out them!
“We really cannot blame the men;
they have had their own way so
long and we have cheered them so
resoundingly that we have only our
selves to blame. And after all, they
area side issue in our future. They
have given us our chance; now it is
time for us to prove that all our
talk about that chance was not just
talk. I heartily commend the wo
man who has the fighting heart in
her, who will leave the peaceful,
quiet wrays of her grandmothers to
battle against unknown odds, and who
has the courage to keep on fighting
until she succeeds.”
School children while playing in
the brush near Petersburg found a
cache containing over 100 bottles oi
beer. A stampede to the place re
sulted and several more caches were
found. The liquor proved to be beer,
but it was flat and stale having evi
dently been cached for some time and
forgotten or the owner removing from
the town.
Federal Game Warden Steavens
of Cordova believes that geese and
ducks are rapidly increasing in th€
Copper River flats, as he states thai
he counted as high as fifty flights
in one day, with innumerable birds
in each flight. He also reports th<
deer on Minchinbrook island in goot
condition.
Poor catches are reported by trap
pers to the westward for the pas
season. Lack of snow is reportec
to be the cause.
New Epoch for Rhodesia
Seen In Cotton Growing
LONDON, May 15.—(£>)—Rhodesia
“seems to be standing today at the
threshold of a new epoch—the era of
cotton,” according to Eric A. Nobles,
a former director of agriculture,
Southern Rhodesia.
“The widespread desire to experi
ment,” he says, “and the willing rec
ognition of the experimental charac
ter of plantings in 1923 led to a gen
eral trial being given to cotton such
as has never ocurred in Rhodesia
in respect of any other crop. The
year proved favorable for cotton. No
district as yet can be condemned for
cotton, although obviously some lo
calities are more promising than
others. During the next few years
no doubt cotton will come to be rec
ognized as worth growing in certain
districts and not in others, just as
is the case with any crops, and as
long as prices leave the farmer a
sufficient margin of profit for his
capital, land, labor and risks, cot
ton will be produced on a commer
cial scale. The official forecast for
the acreage planted to cotton for
1925 season is 60,000 acres.” 1
There is little prospect of a local
spinning industry, he adds, as the cli
mate is unfavorable and the native
population otherwise are as fully
ocupied as they care to be.
The Fairbanks News-Miner, the
last of the interior daily papers, has
cut to a tri-weekly and may drop in
to a weekly in case it is not better
patronized. The paper was started
in October, 1902, by Richard Rodi
ger and Wm. McIntyre, the original
owners of the Dawson News, which
haj* also gone into a tri-weekly.
Mrs. Jean Edward Gavin, a pio
neer of Alaska died recently at Ket
chikan. She was born at Gory, Pa.,
in 1872. Mrs. Gavin was in Nome
in the early days with her husband
remaining there until his death, and
has lived for the past seven years
at Ketchikan. Death came almost
instantaneously from acute indiges
tion.
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