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EDITORIAL
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"OLD GLORY"
".'America For Americans"
HOW VOl'TH MAY HELP
TUe high cost of living Is on the lips
of people In a'l cities. towns, suburban
communities and manufacturing and
mining villages In the United States,
writes I>r. P. P. ciaxton. commissioner
of education. department of tue Inte
rior, In the American City. It has
many causes. Two of these are the un
usual lack of food and the fact that
most of the food Is consumed far from
the place of production, which makes
the consumer pay the cost of storage
and tra::<; station and the profits of
the middlemen, muny of w hom In times
like these take advantage of the wants
of the people to snake profits larger
than they should.
Is there a remedy? There Is a par
tial remedy at least, but not wholly In
Investigations or legislation. This rem
edy is so simple and close at hand that,
as Is so frequently the case. It is over
looked. lu the schools of the cities,
towns, suburban communities and man
ufacturing a-d mining villages of the
United State* tVre are approximately
6.000.000 bays and trlrls U-tweon the
a:re-< of nine and sixteen. Most of
tiieui art) idie more thau half of the
year. They are la school less than a
thousand hours In the year and, allow,
lug ten hours a day for sleep, arc out
of school more than 1.000 waking hours,
wore than an average of nine hours a
not counting Sundays. National
and state laws make It Impossible for
must of them to do any profitable work
In mill, mine or shop, und many of
them are forming iiablu of idleness
and ialilng h.to vi e. JSrcu during the
vacation months only about 10 per cent
have any profitable employment. Only
al>out 5 per cer.t of theni fro away from
their homes except for a few days.
Still they must live and be fed and
clothed.
For 4.C00.CC0 of these there is access
to back yards, side yards, front yards
and vacant K>ts. •which might be culti
vated as small gardens for the growth
of vegetables and small fruits. Many
live where space could be easily had
for cttickens, ducks or pigeons. And
there are not less than li.OOO.OUO older
boys and girls and adult men and wo
men for whom an hour or two of work
each day in a garden would be the best
form of recreation and rest from the
routine of their daily labor In office or
shop or mill or mine and who might
easily find the time for It.
school children and older boys and girls
and men and women might easily pro
duce on the available land an average
of $73 each In vegetables and fruits for
their own tables or for sale in their
immediate neighborhood, fresh and
crisp through all the growing months
and wholesomely canned and [unserved
for use in winter. This would add
$730,000,000 to tho best form of food
supply of the country without cost of
transportation or storage and without
profits of middlemen. The estimate is
very conservative, as has been shown
by many experiments.
Ill addition to the economic profits,
there would be for the children health
and strength, removal from temptation
to rice and education of the best type,
and for older persons rest and recrea
tion la the open air and the Joy of
watching things grow.
This might all be attained at com
paratively little cost by putting into
the public schools for every hundred
jfeildren between the ages_of ^^aud
OLD GLORY OVER PARLIAMENT
!
For the first rime in history another flag than the British was flown
over parliament soon after we had declared war.
Daily History Class—June 2.
1773—John Randolph "of Roanoke"
bora In Virginia; died 1S33.
1SS2—Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian pa
triot and soldier, died; born 1S07.
1915—President Wilson warned Mexi
can factions to make peace. Ger
many reported capture of 300,000
Russian prisoners in May.
1916—German assault lasting twelve
hours repulsed In front of Fort
Vaux, Verdun, except at one point
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Planet Venus sets an hour after sun
down; Mars and Jupiter rise an hour
ahead of the sun, and Saturn sets late
in the evening.
Daily History Class—June 3.
1657—William Harvey, discoverer of
circulation of the blood, died; born
1578.
1S64—End of the battle of Cold Har
bor and Grant's direct attack on
Richmond. Federal loss, 12,000;
Confederate, 1,500.
1015—I'rzemysl, Galida, which the
Russians bad occupied since March
22, was retaken by Germans.
1916— French repulsed in counterattack
at Fort Vaux.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Brilliant white star Capelia near the
northwestern horizon in the early even
ing. Planets Venus, Saturn, Mars and
Jupiter are above the horizon through
out nearly all of daylight.
Daily History Class—June 4.
173S—George 111., ruler of England
durlug the American revolution
born; died 1S20.
1S59—The French and Italians defeat
ed the Austrians at Magenta.
1915—The Russian and German fleets
In the Baltic sea engaged In an In
decisive action.
1916—Canadians lost 5,000 men in un
successful attacks on Tprea ridge,
Belgium. Austrians captured Ce
iasna, with 600 prisoners In Tren
tina
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Bright star near the horizon west of
north in the early evening is AlgoL
Sun on the meridian of Washington at
68 minutes 3 seconds after 11 o'clock.
Russia's land area Is 8,417,118 square
miles.
Pondered peat Is used as fuel la
Sweden.
sixteen one teacner sKulea in "gariteu
ing and paid for all the year. One
such teacher could easily direct the
work of a hundred children and of the
150 older persons belouglng to the
families of these children living In
their community. Thus 40.000 teachers
of this bind would be sufficient for the
entire country. These teachers might
easily be had for on average additional
salary of $000 or a total of $20,000,000.
There would be some cost for seeds
and same for fertilizers and tools, but
after the first year the cost of these
last two Items would be comparatively
little. The proceeds would represent
profits to a greater extent than in any
other kind of production. The miracle
of it is in bringing together idle land
on the one band and Idle children and
tired people on the other. Alone nei
ther Is productive, but all would be
benefited by the combination even If
the vegetables and fruits produced had
no value—the laud by the cultivation,
the children by the health giving, edu
cational labor and the older people by
the hours outdoors and the contact
with the soiL
Raising Garden Produce In Kansas.
Garden produce will this summer
take the place of willows on a three
acre tract of river front land near
Kansas City, Kan. This tract has long
been known as the levee and has been
wholly neglected. It is public property.
An enterprising Kansan has secured
the permission of tho city commission
ers to clear and cultivate the tract and
will operate it this summer as a truck
farm.
OILING CITY STREETS.
Can Bs Kept In Good Condition In All
Kindt of Weather.
Road oiling in Milwaukee, Wis., Is
financed by special assessment, says
Charles O. Davis, superintendent of
street cleaning. In the American City.
Consequently It Is essential that we
"look sharp" about the cost of such
oiling, for with the Increase of muni
cipal functions and the corresponding
rise in the tax rate the citizens have
grown very keen in the scrutiny of
special assessments. If the amount
spent is too great or the treatment of
the streets inefficient the head of the
department will soon become aware of
a strong antagonism toward his work.
But with road oiling, as with all
other municipal improvements, the
U'raSUT BOrLLVAiU) IN MILWAUKEE
ONE WEEK AFTEB OILING.
best Is none too good, if it is not too
costly. Our department has endeav
ored to give the best treatment pos
sible at the lowest cost possible. We
have been able to put a carpet covering
ou our water, bound mat adam streets
by providing an asphalt finish for from
5 to 7 cents per square yard, and by
following this treatment up each year
we have used it ou some streets at as
low a cost as 3 ceuts per square yard.
At present, therefore, we have few
complaints about the cost of oiling
streets. The only difficulty we encoun
ter is that in the spring every taxpayer
wants his street oiled flrst
Our equipment is very inexpensive.
We simply convert old sprinkler wag
ons into oil spreaders with hand valves
and gravity spray. We have three sta
tionary oil stations located in different
parts of the city, each with a tank ca
pacity of 12,000 gallons and fitted with
steam coils and a small upright boiler.
All our oil is applied hot, and although
we have been told that the cold treat
ment is better we think differently on
this point The oil is pumped from the
tank cars to our storage tanks with
small electric pumps and from tank to
oil wagon when the oil is at the right
temperature.
we nave a special process ior me
protection of the oil after it has been
applied to the street. We do not use
screened sand, as it costs too much,
and a cubic yard of it does not cover
much surface. Under our system of
shutting oil a street for a day when
oiling too much sand would be required
to protect the oil when we open the
street for traffic. Therefore some four
years ago we started the use of iron
ore slag, water granulated, which was
procured at a much lower cost than
screened sand. Besides, one cub*? yard
of this material covers as much street
surface as two cubic yards of screened
sand. The iron ore slag has the same
effect in absorbing and finishing up a
newly oiled road as cement has when
applied on a new asphalt pavement for
hardening, coloring and finishing it.
A good road cannot be built with oil,
but when the oil is properly applied a
road can be kept tn condition in all
kinds of weather.
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FRATERNAL ORDERS
Arctic lirotlurhood. — j
Camp Skagwav No. 1, i
A. B. meets every #e»c- '
o'nd and fourth' Tues
day evening at 8:30 p. !
m. BH*rp. Visiting brothers cardial '
ly w.*>crae. W. L. Stevenson, Arc
tio CMef. W. E. Burford, Arctic !
Heccrder.
Fraternal Ord<r
Kaglejs—
Skagwny Aeriq
No. 23, Prater- j
nul Order utf
liagiqi imQcCb the\ first and third i
\V cilJefctittj- Ii%kt Ot oath mouth ut
taMi h«U an Klfth Avenue. Visit
ing brttteni conllalli' lnvitcid to
attwid. J. M. ttrsi«ba«b, W. P.
/. V. MlLlor, Setixjtaj-j-.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge1
F. & A. M. No. 1131
2d and 4thI
Saturday Evenings j
oi ea«b months. Visiting Brethren
are wuleom#.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
AIMES WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Slcagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
B. meets every
Thursday night
'a* 8:00 o'clock.
Viftitfnir hmtb«rfi
cordially welcome.
W. B. BAT80N, E. R.
F. J. VA#?DEWAUL. Secretary.
Plpar^r «f Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
ni«4« fa A. U. Hall first Monday In
ewy month a* 8:80 p. in.
Tlifting Brothers tCTdially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
F. H. Doree, Rec. Sec.
PROFESSIONAL 0AKD8 i
DR. L. 8. KELLER
Dentist
Most Modern Methods
Office Bourn: 0-18 a. bj. 1-6 p. m.
Alaatno Building .... Brt>ad\vay
■RAG WA1' ALASKA
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Low
Pm<<ice In *11 court*
In Territory of Alaska
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• I "HAD, EIN'C, BACKS, RAGS ij
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J. IKUTA
MANUFACTURING
JEWELER
I WATCHES&CLOCKS
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[ Curios, Ivory Carvings
Indian Baskets
! China and Cut Glau
I Official Watcl Inspector for the
[ W. P. & Y. Route
[ Mail Order* riven prompt care <
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Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of (he disease. Ca
tarrh is a blood or constitutional disease,
and in order lo cur*1 il you must take In
ternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, and eels direct!} upon
the blood and muco'is surface. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It
was prescribed by one o. 'ho best phy
sicians in this country foi years and is
a regular prescription. It is composed of
the best tonics known, eomblned with the
best blood purffiers, acting directly on tha
mucous sur'acc3. The perfect combina
tion of the two inrredients <"s v.'hat pro
djces such wondei.'ul results in curing
.aiarrh. S^nd f<.r esl'-mn'^ls, free.
P. J. CHE MET & c< . frops., Toledo, O.
Cold by J>rti£KlstP. pri»" 75t.
Take HMI's Family I'iila for constljiatlon
—Advertisement.
there IS a SAN-TOX remedy
for every ordinary household ail
ment. There is room for San
Tox Remedies in your medicine
chest. Get a S&n-Tox Blue Book
at Keller Bros., The San-Tox
Drug Store.
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OUR L<\RGE FLEET OF MAGNIFICENT STEAMSHIPS
Offers Frequent and Perfect Service Between All Ports in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
LEAVE SKAGWAY FOR CONNECTS at JUNEAU FOR
Haines, Juneau, Douglas, Pet- Yakutat.Katalla,Cordova, Valdez
ersburg, Wrangel, Ketchikan, Seward, Seldovia, Anchorage
Vancouver, Steam»hip» Admiral Eram, Admiral Wat
SLATTLE and TACOMA. >oni Admiral Farrapit
S. S. City of Seattle June 11—23 July 5
S. S. Spokane June 5—17—29
CALIFORNIA ROUTE—Leave Seattle Monday's, Friday's,
Saturday's for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego.
If Your Ticket Reada PACIFIC STEAMSHIP Co. You are Aaaured the very Beat
San Francisco to Lot Angeles Daily except Sunday
For Pull Particulars, Address
H. G. WEIR, Agent SKAGWAY, Alaska |
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
MAY SAILINGS FROM SKAGWAY
FOR SEATTLE and PUGET SOUND PORTS
S. a MARIPOSA, June 2nd.
For Knik, Anchorage and Weetward
S. S. NORTHWESTERN, May 31.
Phone 66 - E. J. SHAW, Agent Skagway
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
-AND
STEAMSHIP LINES
! S.S. Princess Sophia
FROM SKAGWAY
June 2
I
1 TO ALL SOUND POINTS Via PRINCE RUPERT
Reduced Rates to The East
L. H. JOHNSTON Agt. Phone 87 or 118 SKAGWAY
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S A ILINGS
FROM SKAG-WAY
S. S. PRINCE JOHN
-10 «• m. SATUKDAY
June 2
—FOR—
Prince Rupert Vancouver Victoria Seattle
Passengers leave Skagway Saturday and arrive Vancouvtr Wednesday
p.m. The Prince John operates thru to Vancouver—NO CHANGE
Passengers for Eastern Canada or the Eastern States connect at Prince
Rupert with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
"THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAST"
Reservations, Tickets and Full informal on cheerfully furnished by
W. G. POWELL SKAGWAY, ALASKA
Frt. and Pass. Agent Telephone 43
Pack Train Restaurant
The Delmotiico ol Alaska
CHARLEY" — CHN
Karaman & CLEui K
PROPRIETORS
V here Yon Can Get Wbst i*on Desire Cooked as it Should Dfl
We Make a Specialty of Banquets jjikI Private Dinner Partie*.
A Refined and Comfortable place for Jt Supper After the Show
dance—Service In Oozy Private Booths If Desired.
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