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secure or retain a school. Our school system makes"it nece*--spry thaji
the educational factor be f irht in v:ei pi *■. j-£he parch t 3'- wi'.nr. a must be
regarded even tho the other interests niay consider their opinions mur.«»
or less unreasonable. In the, small-community,children are an asset to
be considered and even bargained- with.
In the different communities there are a varying number of
people who are conscious of the fact that the cost falls little or none
on themselves,and have the idea.which runs all the Way from a mild
opinion to a solid conviction,that since one person is as good as
another or possibly a little bether that the Government should provide
a school in each community regardless of cost,or how few children there
are,so long as tkere is even one child* People who think this way if
prest into.a defense of their ideas are prone to fly up in the air and
go thru some rather incomprehensible•verbal gymnastics. Probably not one
of them was ever dissuaded from his convictions*
The present situation at McCarthy is the result of .a misunder*
standing of relative values and rights, ^ome of the children have been
taken away from the school district because their parents,desired that
the school board should employ adifferent teacher.They gave notice of
such intentions last spring when the board was elected* Their objections
to the present teacher are too various and numerous to list herei The
present school board which represents a majority of the voters decided
to retain the present teacher because they consider her an excellent
teacher,because they believed that she best satisfied the voters who
. had elected them and because in their opinion she has a desireble bear
ing on some of the other factors that carry weight with them, so we are *
told.
Probably no.one feels that he is ask:ng more than is due him.
Educating us kids sure does cattse lots of trouble,but we guess our
folks must consider us worth v/hat it costs,
Mr .Keller ; the Commissioner of Education,went up to McCarthy. iras*
recently to see if he could straighten things out so as to keep the xxtas
school there. We'have not heard whether he got any co-operation from
the;people there, We did not get to -see Mr.Keller but from what we .
heard some one say that he said we think that'tie thinks that some of
the people do not act very grown up. We didn’t hear that he blamed any
one
; o ’ We are sorry* that things are as the.y are -in McCarthy but we are
g}.ad things are different here-. Our folks know we are mighty lucky to
have a good school, , g 1 0 ,
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■t It is always easy. show that it is the other ,,;V •'
fellow who is at- tault, 1' Eve. \.. ' ;<y. \
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Mines in Alaska in 1930 produced minerals worth $i3,812,000
The total valtte of the mineral output of the Territory since
1880 is $629,313,000. -
The gold output for 1929: ms $7,761,000
The gold output for 1930 was $8,476,000. A bulletin by the
Geological Survey says: Each year brings more and more development
throughout the Territory,and these improvements in general conditions
are stimulating prospectors and others to undertake the the development
of deposits that previously have been too difficult to exploit