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EDITORIAL PAGE
CHILD LABOR LAW '
By Kht'ta Child© Dorr
Apropos of suffrage battles lost
this J oar iii four states, the chil
dren working in the cotton, mills
and other factories of Georgia will
go on working for the present, th.3
legislature having refused to providf
for ciuorcement of the very mild
child labor law passed last year.
Through desperately hard work
done by the women's clubs, the
suffragists, the child labor com
mittee, the labor unions, and oth
er friends of children, the law was
squeezed through the Georgia legis
lature raising the working age of
childreu from twelve to fourteen.
The disgraceful exemption of those
children whose parents "needed"
tho earnings of 'he little hands was
made in the bill, and there were
one or two others. Still the ma
jority of Georgia children were pro
•ectei under the law, or /hey would
have been had any adequate means
been provided for the law's en
forcement.
llie legislature viuwgeu iuo
forcemon- of the law ou the state
commissioner of commerce and la
bor, giving blui two office assistants
1« addition the commissioner vU
charged with the "collection, col
lation aud dissemination of informa
tion and statistics concerning la
bor iu its relation to capital; lo
cation and capacity, aud output ot
mills and factories; quantity of raw
material used by them annually; lo
cation and horsepower of valuable
water power, etc." When the com
missioner had done all these things
he was at liberty to go through the
hundreds of mills and lactones of
the state aud enforce the child la
bor la<v
i'or years there has slumbered iu
the pigeonholes of some obscure
committee of congress a federal
child labor law. It is a good law,
and a deadly efficient one. It for
bids interstate commerce in all
goods made or packed or in any wa
manufactured, handled or sold by
any child under fourteen years of
age. The southern congressmen
are very generally opposed to that
bilL They say that it strikes a
blow at the sacred doctrine of
states' rights.
So it does, and so does another
bill that will be before congress
uext year, the bill for a federal wo
man suffrage amendment. Both of
these blows at the sacred doctrine
of states' rights will fall. Both
bills will pass.—Cleveland Leader.
SINCERE EFFORTS MEET
WITH NOTICEABLE EFFECT
Rev. Father P. H. Turnell came
over from Skag-way to attend the
St. Andrews entertainment and will
return to his home on today's train.
During his stay here he has been
the lues*, of Rev. Father Wolfe.
Nearly eighteen years ago the Rev
Catarrfa Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the .it of the disease. Ca
tarrh is a blood or constitutional disease,
and Sn order to euro it you mast take in
ternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surface. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It
was prescribed by one of the best phy
sicians in this country for years and is
a regular prescription. It is composed of
the best tonics known, combined with the
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ercud Father and the writer ."were
j both preaching ia Skagway, the for
mcsr from his pulpit, tha latter
| through the columns of a newspa
per, laboring shoulder to shoulder
and calling upou the people to
tu»u, from their evil ways. The
. latter became discouraged at the
results of his labors and sought
' different fields, tut Father Turnell
was not a quitter. He n,ever w«ar
I ied of well doing, but year af
ter yfJir has sown tha seed of
ijoodness and morality and his "work
has not been In vain, for Skagway
is today the embodiment of all that
is good and gentle and har present
iiigh standing on the pinnacle which
is only attained through the moral
j uplift is due more to the untiring
and unceasing efforts of Father
Turuell than *o any other man or
j agency.—Whitehorse Star.
ALASKA DOG WILL
BASK IX FLORIDA
Seattle,—Dash, a forlorn veteran
of Alaska, a trifle crippled la the
joints and with a slight grayness
about tne snout, arrived on the
Victoria from Nome yesterday and
is on His way to Florida. Dasfr
is a do,; and doesn't know his desti
nation, but that Is where he is go
ing with hia master, B. Kenna.
After sixteen yeara of gold min
ing in ttie north, principally around
the Nome and Council diggings, Mr.
Kenua sold his interests this fall,
and, he is now on his way to
Florida, as he expresses it, "to
raise spuds the balance of my
days." He Is through with the
north, and, although he declares he
has oaly a fojrth of what he
earned ♦heTe, he has enough to
make life in Florida very pleasant.
IJ.ish is a magnificent, big, shag
gy blaec dog, ani was the pet of
all Mr. Kenna's team dogs, so when
the miner sold his dogs along with
his other property in the north he
could net bear to lart with Dash.
"Dash and I have seen too much
sen-ice together on some of the
hardest trails in Alaska for me to
leave him there," Mr. Kenua said,
"i raised him from a puppy and he
has been my friend and companion.
There would bo uo pleasure in tak
ing it easy Florida if the old
fellow were still in the north. Now
that he is too old to work much
ho might fiud existence a Berious
problem. I may have to trim his
hair when the weather gets hot
in Florida, but I thinjc h$ will be
satisfied.
Mr. Kenna, with his wife " and
six-year-old son, is at the Rainier
Grand, and the chief anxiety of the
boy is to see whether Dash is get
ting the proper care.
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EVERT OWNER OF
A DWELLING
Should Have
FIRE INSURANCE
Now is the Time to Act
Reliable Companies are
Represented by
PHIL ABRAHAMS
Agent
4th"Aveni»
FOREIGN TRADE
REACHES FIVE BILLION
IX TWELVE MONTHS
Washington, Dec. 2 — American
foreign trade ruse to the new high
level of five billion dollars la the
12 moulhs ending with October,
li' 15, according to figures made
public today by the bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce, de
partment" of commerce. Imports of
merchandise amounted to $1,691,
748,013, compared with $1,880,414,
501 in the preceding period, whllo
exports aggregated $3,318,634,
636, against $2,140,847,829 iu the
12 months ending with October,
1914.
The , export balance for October
wag $1S6,108,958, against $56,
630,650 in October, 1914; and for
the 12 months ending with October,
$1,626,8S6,623, compared with
$260,433,328 in the procedlng
period.
Gold imports during Ooiober,
1915, amounted to $79,669,359,
against $5,945,003 in Octoiber last
ypar; and gold exports were valued
at $2,938,300 In October, 1915,
compared with $50,301,972 in, Octo
ber, 1914. |
NEW REGULATION GOVERN
ING EXPORT PROCEDURE |
Washington, Dec. 3—Tlie an
no uncemant that new United tates
regulations relative to export pro
cedure will become effective Janu
ary 1, 1916, has created such in
tense interest among manufactur
ers and shippers that the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce,
department of commerce, has
found It necessary to reprint the
new order with explanatory text.
That pamphlet is Just off the press
and is being supplied free of charge
to those Interested, upon applica
tion trt the Department of Commerce,
bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, Washington. All ship
ments for export to fOTeigu coun
tries or to Alaska, Hawaii, and
Porto Rico will lm affected by the
new regulations.
8(1,000,COO CROl' OF KELP IS
GOING TO WASTE IN SOUND
Seattle, Dec. 4.—A year's out
put of potash from the kelp of
Puget Sound would bring $6,000,000
at present war 'Ime prices, accord
lug to Professor George B. Rigs,
of tha botany department, University;
of Washington. Dr. Rigg surveyed
the or.'sent status of the kelp in
dustry in a popular science lecture
on < ho campus Wednesday.
Kelo is abundant and easily ac
cessible in tho sound, he said, and
three factories might be Jcopt busy
every working day of the year, each
producing 5,000 tons of muria'e of
potash yearly. Each would consume
500 tons of the seaweed daily. Or
dinarily the year's production of
15,000 tons of potash on the sound
would be worth $600,000, the av
wago Mice bein,; about $40 a ton.
At present it brings about $400 a
ton.
Fifty thousand tons of kelp could
bo harvested yearly along the Pa
cific coast. Dr. Rigg asserted. The
beds L'e from Mexico to Western
Alaska, but are of course not all
commercially accessible. All the
beds belong to the states adjacent
and no lawa have been passed re
stricting the harvest. The kelp is
free to anyone who wants it.
GHURGMES
ST. MARK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mass and Instruction at 9:30
a. m.
Sunday School 2:30 p. m.
Evening Gerrlc# at 7:80.
On Wednesday, Feast of the Im
maculate Conception.
Mags and Instruction at 9 a. in
Evening service 7:30 p. m.
All are cordially Invited.
Ft. P. H. Turnell, S. J.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Christian Science Service will b«
held Sunday at seven thirty p.
m. Id the Alaskan building.
Subject: GOD THE ONLY CAUSE
AND CREATOR.
Sunday school 12 o'clock m.
The public Is welcome.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Regular services conducted by
tho pastor Sunday moTnlng at 11
o'clock, and evening at 7:30. Sun
day school 12:15. Congregational
singing. The public is cordially in
vited.
L. H. Pedereeu, Pwtor.
FISHERIES EXHIBIT AT FAIR
PROMISED TO UNIVERSITY
Seattle, Dec. 3.—The ; United
States fisheries exhibit at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition xhas been
promised to the University a£ Wash
ington. It will be added to the
equipment of the fisheries . section
of the department of zoology.
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V. Sk A. M.
Wblto Pan Lodge
8*. ft A. M. No. 11S
meet* 2d aaC 4th
Prl. UJy'gfl. of oach
oaoint vuk.iiiib Droirers are woi
come L'tall Abruliiuua. Secretary.
Elnur L. Wtaeler, W. M.
b. r. o. eijKS
Skagwoy Lodge
No. 431, B. P. 0.
EL meets every
Thursday evening
at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting broth
ers cordially •welcome.
HOWARD ASHLEY, EL R.
F. J. VANDEWALL, Secretary.
Fraternal Order
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Sk&twaj Aeril
,5Jo. 25, Frater
■al Order of
Easl« mseu the first and third
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall on Fifth &T«nue. Visiting
brothers cordially i*Tited to attend.
John C. Wood, W. P., J. K. Mo
Alist.r. Secretary.
Arctic BroUiertmxL—
Camj) Skac*8y No. 1
A. B. meets «t«t Boc
at<3 and fourth Tues
lay erasing at 8:00 p
m. »nirp visiting brother* eordial
•y welcome. A J. Ach«BO», Arctic
"list, \v H. HLHerj, Arctic R»
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