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ESTABLISHED 1898
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Pllmaa.—
the revolver menace
Two boys with revolvers attempted to hold up a mother of four child-1
ren at Long Beach, Cal. The mother probably thinking the boys were Jok-.
lng, attempted to take their revolvers from them, when they shot and in
stantly killed her. The tragedy is but one of thousands being enacted I
every year In this land because of the manufacture and Indiscriminate salei
of revolvers.
There la scarcely a single argument for the continuance of this men
ace In our land. Men are urged to protect their homes with a this or that
make of revolver. The thug who enters the home knows that it may be
thus protected and goes about armed and ready to kill and does kill in ad
dition to stealing what is valuable In the house.
The fallacy of being protected because one has a gun under his pillow
Is nothing less than puerile.
The armed man or boy who is set on robbing another has so great an
advantage in the use of his weapon that to resist Is practical suicide. The
remedy lies, not In filling our homes with revolvers, so that even boys of
ten and twelve years can start with weapons on careers of crime, but the
disarming of the whole nation in this particular, and the prohibition of the
manufacture of any such weaponse. Homicides and suicides by flrears In
1920—almost wholly by revolvers—numbered 7646. entailing by the death
of parents a total of hardships which the figorcr in no ways portray.
Take the revolver from the thug, and the householder and less, thiev
ery will be committed and fewnr men and women will be shot down in their
homes and on the streets.
The obviou3 need for concerted action to bring pressure upon Con
gress to enact a law forbidding the manufacture and sale of revolvers is
apparent. Another meaaure*to confiscate or purchase every revolver in the
country and destroy them would be opportune and following that a prison
term for any man found with such a weapon would stamp out the evil of
gun toting, and materially rduce homicides and allied crimes.
\ r.\ll> SKCRKTARY
The above Is the heading of an editorial in the Juneau Capital. In
the editorial the plea for such an officer is founded on the fact that work
for the tourist traffic coming to Alaska is imperative. That this one line
holds In it great allurements for the future. This secretary is to be under
the Commercial Club. He will keep in touch with Yukon residents and
other associations In Alaska and cooperate with the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce.
How about a live Commercial Club for Skagway? Is It not time that
the people who believe in Skagway and are ready to cooperate in doing
something for Skagway got together and moved as a unit for some few
things of definite character? With such an organization working intelli
gently and tactfully, things could be done in this town which would make
the future brighter than it has been for a number of years. It's almost
certain not to come of itself. Rut it will come if Skagway citizens get busy
and work together. Now is the time to start things going so as to get some
results next summer.
REAL (OMMI MTY WORK
Although the need may not arise, acting under the suggestion of the
mayor, prominent citizens have met and organized a committee to relieve
any cases of actual want in Juneau that may be .-ailed to their attention.
AH such cases are to be treated as strictly confidential. This committee Is
the expression of the real community spirit of an American town, such as
makes for practical Christianity. It is a warm-hearted, spontaneous move
ment. with an honest desire to allow no person to sitlfer, no matter what
his circumstances may be. and is as far removed as the poles from the cold
professional charity too often doled out by paid societies. Juneaa Is a town
of homes, living together like oue large family, and what concerns rne con
cerns all. Those who can afford it are willing to render aid to their less
fortunate brethern, thus typifying the highest American ideals.—Capital.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Washington, D. C., November 2.
1921.—The Department of Com
merce. thru the Bureau of the Cen
sus. today issued a preliminary
statement giving statistics of school
attendance, by geographic divisions
and states, compiled from the re
turns of the Fourteenth Decennial
Census, taken as of January 1, 1920.
The total population 5 to 20 years
of age, inclusive, enumerated in con
tinental I'nlted Stales numbered
>3.250.870. Of this number. 21.373,
976 attended school at some time
between September 1, 1919, and
Jauuary 1, 1920. The total popula
tion 7 to 13 years of age. 15.306,
793, included 13.So9.010 children
attending school. The percentage
attending school among the popu
lation 5 to 20 years of age increas
ed from 59.2 for 1910 to 64.3 for
1920: and the corresponding per
centage for children 7 to 13 years
of age increased from 86.1 for the
earlier to 90.6 for the later year.
Among the inditidual states, the
largest proportion attending school
in the 5-20 age gronp, 73 per cent.,
is shown for Utah, and the smallest.
53 per cent., for Lousiana. In six
states—Iowa. Nebraska, Montana.
Idaho, Utah and Oregon—the pro
portion of school attendance for
this age group was more than 70
per cent.
For the 7-13 agt group the larg
est proportion of school attendance.
96.1 per cent., is that for Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, Iowa,
Deleware, Idaho and Utah—the pro
portion was 95 per cent, or more.
ARE XOT ALL OFFICE HOLDERS
Just Because the population of
Alaska has dwindled somewhat dur
ing the past ten years, some pessi
mist made the remark that if the
office-holders, or federal employes,
were taken from the territory there
would be none left but the Natives.
This statement has been widely cir
culated and some there are In Al
aska who half believe It, aud more
in the states are of the same opln
iou. A preliminary report issued by
the Bureau of the Census shows but
4.9 per cent, of tlie population to
that the miner and agriculturist still
that the miner and agriculturist sill
lead in numbers of those gainfully
employed in the territory.
Just how the people of Alaska are
divided as to employment, etc., is
set forth in the following. «♦ being
a portion of the preliminary report
above mentioned:
According to the returns of the
fourteenth census, taken as of Jan
uary 1, 1920, there were 26,797 per
sons ten years of age and over in
Alaska engaged in gainful occupa
tions constituting 48.7% of the total
population of the territory (55,036)
and 61.2% of the population 10
years of age and over (43.76S1. At
the census of 1910, the 40,073 gain
ful workers constituted 62.3% of
the total population of the terri
tory and 72.9% of the population 10
years of age and over.
Of the gainful warkers of Alaskn
in 1920, 24,712 or 92,2% were
males and 2,085 or 7.8% were fe
males. The male gainful workers
constituted S5.4% of all males 10
years of age and over in 1S20, as
against 93.3', in 1910, w'lile the
female gainful workers constituted
14.1CJ of all female* 10 years of n■-?<•
and over i.: 19211 as l^itlist 12.4
in 1920
Of the gainful wooers .>f Alasl--*
in 1920. 5.2S•». or 1 s».7C>? wer'j en
gaged in agriniltur?. forestry and
animal huiba-rlry; P.2S7. or IT'%
in extraction of aiin..r« M; » ";;S or
16.2rf in manufacturing -r :-i.»-lian
ical industries; 2.393. or S 3'.; ]
in transportation; 1.390, or 5.2";
in trade; 1.324. or 4.9% in public
service; 1.07S. or 4% In profession
al service; 5,053, or 18.9% in do-!
niestic and personal service; and'
64S. or 2.4"r in clerical occupations.'
Of the 40.073 gainful workers of
Alaska in 1910. 4.558, or 11.4%j
were engaged in agriculture, fores
try and animal husbandry: 1 1.372,
or 2S.4', in extraction of minerals;
9,164, or 22% in manufacturing and
mechanical industries; 3.4S7. or
8.7% in transportation; 1.425, or
3.6'r in trade; 1,470, or 3.7r'r in
trade; 1.470. or 3.7% In public serv
ice; 1.128, or 2.S% in professional
service; 6,732, or 6.S% in domestic]
and personal service; and 710. or J
1.8% in clerical occupations.
Of married persons 15 years of
age and over in Alaska in 1920, 55r>
were gainfully occupied.
The percentages gainfully occu-1
pied for married males and females j
15 years of age and over, were 94 6
and 5.4 respectively.
SI THKRLANI) IS
COMING NORTH SOON
Seattle. Nov. 5.—Word has been
received here that Former Governor
Thomas Riggs and wife in Washing
ton. D. C., have taken a house there
for the winter.
Herman T. Tripp has just return
ed here from Washington and says
that Jack McBride expects to get the
collectorship in Alaska soon.
Dan Sutherland, the delegate, is
expected to make a short trip to Ju
neau In a short time.
Charley Herron wires from New
York that he will be in Seattle In a
short time, where he will meet W.
A. Steel, editor of the Juneau Cap
ital.
ALASKA COVSIX OUT-TOOTS
I)R. JOHN* DILL KOHK1USOX
"Hello, Cousin John," called Mrs.
W. L. Spear, of Skagway, Alaska, to
Health Commissioner John Dill
Robertson yesterday. She hadn't
Been him for twenty-three years.
"You've got a fine ctty, hut Skag
way's better. Our winters are r.iore
comfortable. Our summers are per
fect. We've everything any one
would want." Cousin Johu rep.ied:
"You'd make a fine Chicago bioatt.-r.
better stay." Mrs. Spear asserted
she was going oac't.
(Dr. John Dill Robertson is health
commissioner of the .-ity < f Chicago.
—Editor.)
Piles Cared In t to 14 Days
Druggists refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and
rou can get restful sleep after first
ippllcation. 60c.
DAMS WILL PREVENT FLOODS
Catastrophe That Overwhelmed the
City of Pueblo Can Be Avoided
by Proper Action.
A disastrous flood occurs, causing
a loss ol many human lives and mil
lions of dollars' worth of property.
What happeus uext? What precautions
are taken to prevent disaster?
Usually what happens is that the suf
fering community courageously under
takes the task of reconstruction. The
flood Is called an "act of God," and
confidence is fell that iliere will he
no repetition of the calamity. Hut
the conditions that gave rise to the
disaster continue to exist, and such
being the case, there Is no assurance
linn it will not repeat Itself.
If the catastrophe that overwhelmed
the city of I'ueiiio is not to lie repeated,
ugalu and yet again perhaps, pre
ventive measures must lie adopted.
Dams must be built and reservoirs
constructed at the headwaters of the
Arkansas river to impound Its floods.
The government reclamation service
points out that floods not le.ss destruc
tive might occur in any year on the
liio Grande If the waters of that
stream were not held in leash by the
great Kiephant Butte dam. liefer-*
that datu. with its vast reservoir, was
constructed, flood time and again
wreaked havoc in the vicinity of EI
l'aso.
The Kiephant Jtutte dam Is one of
the greatest engineering works on the
globe. It is Hi Hi feet high, nearly otu
third of a mile long, and creates the
largest irrigation reservoir in lite world
—an artificial lake covering C.I square
miles anil averaging TO feet In depth.
The water contained In the reservoir
would cover the whole state of Con
necticut to a depth of ten inches.
Development of similar works on tlie
headwaters of the Arkansas river
would not only prevent future floods,
but would store water for irrigating
hundreds of thousands of acres, and
furnish water power for all the manu
facturing Industries iu that part of
the country.
NOTHING •'SOFT' ABOUT THIS
Heavy Outfit and Intense Heat Make
Life Miserable for Sentnes at
Buckingham Palace.
A reporter 01' i In* London Pally
Km writing riwichM of the heat
wave Is especially sorry for the sen
tries outside of liuckingham |uilnce.
Their plight, he writes, would have
melteil the heart of Mr. Winston
Chun-hill could lie have seen them.
In the full glare of the sun. clad
In thick serge trousers, heavy scarlet
tunics, with tight holts and bearskin
busbies. ihe guardsmen stood perspir
ing and half stifled.
Their outlook was upon a roadway
stained wlih oil and reeking of jietrol,
flaring beds of scarlet geraniums,
scorched brown grass Hill! the sliiin
merlug heat reflecting copper work
surmounting the Victoria memorial.
The fountain was not playing and the
surroundings were as devoid of cool
ness as an nlfalfa plain. One almost
existed to see scurrying tarantulas
and lizards. It was tropical military
service iu Knglish kit.
Small Clouds on Jup;ter.
J'rof. W. H. l'lckerlnc, in a recent
niMri— l>efore the itruish Astronom
ical association, recalled the fact that
during his observations at Arequipa he
noticed that the surface of Jupiter, In
stead of being composed of uniform
bands of yellowish white or brown,
really consisted of an enormous num
ber of extremely minute reddish brown
Clouds seen upon a perfectly white
background. The effect of belts was
produced « here the cloudlets were nu
merous, and the light spaces where
they were scarce. He Compared the
appearance of these spots to the well
know n "rice grains" on the sun. Their
length lay In the direction of rotation
of the planet. He said he had since
•bserved (he cloudlets In Jamaica, and
they have been seen In England by
FhilUps jnd Steavenson.—Scientific
American.
The Omnipresent Reporter.
American newspapers are spending
considerably more on their service
abroad than for parallel service In
America. Who knows better the
things Americans are Interested In
than :he managing editors who au
thorize this? Any event of more than
local Interest in Europe calls the
American Journalists to the spot. For
example, one morning at 10 o'clock
in l.-omlon. I strolled into a British
labor congress. I met there six
American newspnpernien, and hut
three or four Rritlsh. Let any trou
ble start In Ireland and every New
York paper will have its man on the
scene Inside of twelve hours, 1/ he Is
not there already. All owr Europe,
stationed at strategic centers. Is the
American correspondent wlttiln reach
ing distance of anything that may
happen.—From the New Republic.
Can't Lost Their Addresses.
Now Jersey seaside mothers, wlio
have been bothered in keeping tab on
their children, have adopted the meth- j
od of embroidering their addresses on |
the hack of the bathing suits worn by
the youngsters. "1 live at 3" South
Texas avenue," read a neatly em- j
broldered Inscription across the shoul
ders of suits worn by two young bath-,
ers who strolled about the Chelsea
bench the other day. When they were
tired of the heaoh and breakers they
turned their backs to the life guards
and inquired: "How do we get where
It says on our backs?" The necessary j
directions were given and Uiey I
reached home sul'ely.
HAS POSITION TO MAINTAIN
Drum-Horse of British and American
Cavairy Bands Must Be of Dis
tinguished Appearance.
There are grades of honor. even
among horses. We are apt to think of
the war horse as a |>mu<l animal, and
i so he is and has a tl-ht to he, for he
i Is called upon to l»e as hrave as he I?
! proud. Rut proudest and most dlgnl
! fled of all hurwti of the army Is the
allium) that is cnlled lijion to Oil the
| position of drum-horse In the regimental
' band. In the American and Rritlsh
armies cavalry hands an? mounted, and
tlie most honornhle position In all the
hand Is that of the bearer of the kettle
drums. The liorse Is selected for Ills
distinguished appearance. He Is often
piebald, altho sometime* pure white.
Something more than mere beauty of
I form Is required of the drum-horse. He
must be trained until he becomes a dig
nified and graceful bearer of the hand
some trappings that pertain to his high
calling. His education Is severe and
prolonged bringing him up to that point
where his pride and intelligence make
| him equal to the duties required ot
: him.
He Is severely tried by the booming
of the large drums lie carries, but In
time he becomes Indifferent to their
noise. In the parade, his rider has his
hands full In the use of the sticks; he
i controls the horse h? means of reins
fastened to the stlrrnp-sirap near the
foot.—Christian Science Monitor.
| Apology Needs an Apology.
' "Gentlemen"—It <-ame from the Hps
of an attorney pleading a case recent
I ly before the Supreme court of the
! state of Idaho. In front of him sat
( the Judges clothed with their judicial
' dignity, listening Intently to the case.
I The attorney had erred. Judges
should he addressed as "Your honors."
"Getiilenii n"—rcpeared the lawyer,
and the tiniest hint of a smile flitted
across the features of the men In front
j uf him.
SuiKi'lilv he stopped, realizing his
blunder.
"I apologize for calling you 'gentle
men,'" he blurted out.
Laughter in a courtroom Is not
i deemed exactly pro|>er, hut a joke Is <i
Joke and Chief Justice Rice replied
I simply. "I hope you made no mistake." j
I —Idaho Statesman.
British Museum Overcrowded.
Tlie Rritlsh museum, says » Londoi
| writer In the New York Post, has i
| reached the end of Its rope, so far as 1
i space is con.-erned, Ry the law of:
183fl every Kngilsh author, whether'
I domiciled at hon<e or In the dominions
, Is obliged to place two copies of his ,
I hooks with the museum, which In turn
guarantees to keep them In good con
dltlon and make them accessible to tin
reading pnhlic. The same applies to I
newspapers. Space for the latter was
exhausted some time ago and a spe
cial barracks was built to store them
It Is now feared that the same plan
ivlll have to be adopted for the Iwviks
Something Similar,
"1 oniv heard a famous hunter tell
i thrilling story of being chased In a
bil.f«>pi>ti.uiu.v"
"I kno« Ju.-t how he felt." said the
literary lion."
"Have you ever sought adventures '
In the jungles?"'
"No. hnt I've l*>en chased around a
<lrawins room for an entire evening by
r sm-ia ly ambition* fnt woman."
A Rollicking Tale
of the Sea
The.
QreenPea
Pirates
By PETER B. K1]NE
ALMOST everyone has
£X either read or heard
of "Cappy Ricks," "The
Valley of the Giants" or
"Webster—Man's Man."
Now comes another from
the pen of the great Kyne;
it is one of his inimitable
salt water stories, the kind
in which he is at his best.
More amiable or charming
rascals than Scrapgs, Gibncv,
McGuffey and Halvorsen have
never been portrayed. Even the
decrepit old freighter, Maggie,
which thev operated in the
green vegetable trade contigu
ous to the waters about San
Francisco, is funny.
The worthies who sailed the
Maggie had nerve, too; other
wise they wouldn't have gone
to sea in such a tub. They had
a set of adventures just about
as lively and entertaining as
you have ever encountered in
a story.
H'e mrt glad to be able to
announce that this delight
ful tale will run at m uruil
in these column*.
Take Grove s LAXIT1VE BROMci
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THE SKAGWAY
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The larp^l and best con
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Daily shipment* of piirf
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Yukon Ronlr.
Big Game Guide
Sportsmen who arr interest
ed in titrating bis emir in tl>e
Ixiwr Yukon country are lti
vllol to call on me. .1 have |
lived for many years in the Al
lin country, ami ran guarantee
hunting parties fine sueiimcn*.
1 h«ve a good power l>ont
for lake hunting ami fl-hina. .
For Information rail or »d- j
dress
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