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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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“BIG CHIEF” DAN
Mr. Dan Sutherland has recently circulated a
list of measures pending and( passed by Congress, some of
which appear to have been sponsored by him, others as
the “White Literacy Bill” meeting his violent opposition,
both in Committee and on the floor of the house. It is no
ticeable than Dan's latest bill introduced just before ad
journment, is not on the list. We do not wonder at that for
he has every reason to be ashamed of it. This measure
proposed to make all Indians of North America, eligible
to citizenship in the United States. Dan knew that there
was no possible chance of thejpassage of this Act. In the
first place, it was introduced so late in, the session that its
consideration by Congress was impossible. Secondly, Dan
knew that a bill to permit the Yaquis of Mexico, the head
hunters of the Panama region and the savages of Green
land would receive but scanty consideration. There was
but one reason for the bill namely, to deceive the Indians
of Southeastern Alaska with the erroneous impression
that he is attempting to bring their kinsmen of British
Columbia into Alaska to assist them in the political con
trol of Alaska. This may be good politics from Dan’s
standpoint, but to thinking people, it appears the cheapest
kind of political chicanery.
SHOULD BE ORIGINAL
A big town puts on a bathing* beauty contest. Then all
the little towns put on the same kind of contests. Little
towns make themselves miserable and ridiculous trying
to imitate the big towns. Little towns should be original.
THE PHILIPPINES
While the question of ultimate disposition of the Phil
ippine islands was being discussed at the Williamstown
school of politics, practical Americans were discussing
with President Coolidge the possibilities of growing rub
ber trees in the Philippines for the benefit of American
consumers.
Theorists insist that the United States must give up
the Philippines in order to establish permanent peace in
the islands and live up to the letter and spirit of the so
called Jones law, but practical Americans are demonstrat
ing that a surrender of the Philippines will not bring
peace but turmoil; and that such a course will deprive the
United States of an opportunity of making itself inde
pendent of all other countries in the matter of a supply
of rubber.
Business and economic welfare, not sentiment, must
solve the Philippine question. The welfare of the Filipinos
themselves, not the ambitions of a few politicians in the
islands, must determine the course to pursue. It is evident
that if the United States should free itself of the Philip
pines the Filipinos will not have independence, but will be
controlled by some great power.
Following a proposed amendment of the land laws
by the Philippine legislature, and investigations of Ameri
can capital, the Philippines may turn out to be a veritable
gold mine in the form of rubber, to supply the American
demand This one plan of development should dispose of
the Philippine question once and for all. In the meantime
the Filipinos will have home rule, safe under the Ameri
can flag.
TRUE ECONOMY f
Saxophone players, bassoon players and trombone
players are needed badly by the United States army.
Here’s a chance to encourage enlistments and eliminate
noisy neighbors. Killing two birds with one stone is true
economy.
WHERE THE WEST BEGINS
Out where congressmen are still protesting, “Now
just let me explain”—that’s where the West begins.
BANDITS ROB 0. P.
FAST ill TRAIN
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GET LARGE AMOUNT OF REGIST
ERED MAIL AND LOOT
OF MUCH VALUE
GREEN RIVER, Wo., Aug. 24. (JP)—
One of the most daring train hold-ups
in recent history of Wyoming, the
former rendezvous of desperadoes of
the Wild West, was staged between
Rawlings and Wamsutter yesterday,
when two bandits robbed the Union
Pacific westbound train number 5, the
fast mail between Omaha and the
Northwest, of a large amount of regis
tered mail, escaping with loot of an
undetermined value.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
American Smelter _149%
American Sugar _ 74
American Tele, and Tele. _144%
Atchinson Topeka & Santa Fe_49%
Baldwin Locomotive -121
Baltimore & Ohio _104%
California Packing _ 72
Canadian Pacific_164%
California Petroleum - 32%
General Electric _ 93%
General Motors _209%
Mack Truck _130%
Pacific Gas and Electric _129%
Pacific Oil _ 1%
Pennsylvania Railroad —_ 54%
Phillips Petroleum _ 48
Pullman Co_ 181
Radio Corporation _ 43
Southern Pacific . 107%
Studebaker _ 54%
Union Oil of California . 53%
Union Pacific _ _157%
United States Steel Co.158%
Western Union .. 145
SAN FRANCISCO EXCHANGE
Caterpillar Tractor .. 137%
Honolulu Oil __ 40
Hawaiian Sugar . 40
MORE ON DR. ELIOT
(Continued from Page One)
Harvard in 1853. In college he stood
among the first in his class and was
an oarsman in the varsity crew In
the days when college crews rowed
in heavy cedar barges beautifully
fitted up with cushions. His predilec
tion was for chemistry and mathemat
ics and he was so successful in the
came a professor of chemistry at Har
vard in preference to accepting $5,000
former that at the age of 24 he be
a year as chemist for a manufacturing
concern in Lowell. He was rapidly
advanced until the overseers offered
him the highest chair in the institu
tion.
As president, young Eliot set afoot
so many reforms that Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes exclaimed: “He is
turning the university over like a
flapjack.”
Forty years later when ,he resigned
his post at his own insistence, he saw
many of the reforms which he had in
troduced adopted throughout the
country and found himself so well
established in the esteem of his
countrymen that when President Taft
offered him the post of ambassador to
the court of St. James, in March 1909,
the press of the country was unani
mous in applauding the choice as that
of a most representative American
citizen. But Dr. Eliot declined, saying
that he preferred to spend the even
ing of life in a serenity that only
freedom from responsibility can give.
The educational reforms which he
fathered include the lecture courses
as substitutes for recitations and the
written test as substitute for oral ex
aminations; the elective system,
whereby students now in practically
all of the Universities in the country
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and many of the high schools have a
certain latitude in their choice of
studies; the abolition of compulsory
religious worship; and the institution
of a three year course for bachelor
degrees of arts and sciences.
It was due largely to Dr. Eliot’s
lectures on football as a demoraliz
ing spectacle and unfit for college
sport that the open play reforms wrere
carried out a few years ago.
His influence was felt outside uni
versity life by his numerous public
addresses and writings.
In 1909, Dr^Eliot’s pronouncement
on “the religion of the future” caused
widespread discussion. “The fear of
hell,” said Dr. Eliot,” has not proved
effective to deter man from wrong
I
doing and heaven has never yet been
described in terms very attractive to 1
the average man or woman. Both are
indeed, unimaginable.
“The modern man would hardly
feel any appreciable loss of motive
power toward good or away from evil
if heaven were burnt or hell quenched.
The prevailing Christian conceptions
of heaven and hell have hardly any
more influence with educated people
(Continued on Page Seven)
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MEXICAN STUDENTS RIOT;
ONE KILLED OTHERS HURT
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24., (JP)—One
soldier was killed, three students and
one traffice policeman injured in an in
tercholastic riot among several thou
sand students during athletic contests
in the Mexico City stadium yesterday.
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