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Entered as second-class matter August
29ih, 1923, at the Post Office at
Toaotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. DEC. 15. 1923
In Case of Division
of Alaska Territory
Seward Gateway.
Alaskans residing in the Second.
Third and Fourth divisions should in
dorse a division of the Territory for
numerous reasons, chief of which is
the fact that a division would mean
that a considerable sum would be spent
bv the government in readjustments,
especially if the First division retained
the present Territorial officials and
elected a new set for the Territory
proper.
Division would mean that the north
•nd will get a governor, a secretary
to the governor, a surveyor general,
and ex-officio secretary, a delegate to
Congress, a federal judge for the re
maining divisions; federal attorneys,
clerks of court, deputy marshals, all of
which we now have in the Territory as
it is, but in addition the northern part
of the Territory would have:
An immigration bureau.
A steamboat inspection service.
A lighthouse hoard, with its many
officials and vessels.
A board of road commissioners.
A United States land office.
A bureau of education wiib its inter
locking departments, including the
medical snd reindeer service agents.
A collector of customs.
United States public health service.
A mine inspector.
Coast aod geodetic survey.
Life saving bureau.
Revenuo cutter headquarters.
A fisheries bureau.
A commissioner of education.
Bureau of public health.
Bureau of vital statistics.
A territorial banking board.
Board of commissioners for the pro
motion of uniform legislation.
A board of medical examiners.
A board of dental examiners.
A board of pharmacy.
A board of children's guardiat w.
A board for ibe Pioneers’ Home.
A board for the relief of destitution.
These boards comprise nearly half a
thousand persona, which with the
crews of the vessels used bv many de
partments, would add several thousand
in population to t.he Northern empire,
without taking one individual away
from the southern end.
All of the above persons are paid by
the fedetal government, with a few ex
ceptions.
Tbe Third division would be no
worse off by the division of the Terri
tory, as it would pay in its proportion
of receipts and pay its share of expend
itures, and any deficit would be made
up by the federal government, as is the
case now.
The Second, Third and Fourth divi
sions pay in about -55 per cent of the
taxes. This money would be retained
in the northern part of the Territory,
where it originates.
With the fish industry moving north
vear by year, lhe Third division will
increase its proportion of taxes re
ceived, as will t<be receipts from taxes
and licenses iD the Second and Fourth
divisions be received.)
In case of division either Seward or
Anchorage would be the capital. No
matier which town was named, the
others along the railroad would benefit.
In case of a division. Seward, Valdez
or Cordova would become headquarters
for the government .fleet, directly bene
fiting every part of the division.
There are many arguments in favor
of division, tbe least of wl o h is that
if tbe First division secures stateho, d
the Third division will soon be ready
for it.
At 24 It’s Too Late to
Learn, Students Hear
Berkeley, Cal —If University of Cali
fornia students nit re than 24 years old
are weat -ng a worried frown today, lay
it to Dr. John Adam-., professor of edu
cation at the Univn-ity of London.
Here are a few cental thunderbolts
Dr. Adams Lulled in a campus ad
dress.
"Old fogyism has begun for a man
and old maidism for the woman at 24.
At about the time a person is that age
the law of diminishing returns begins
to apply; the acouisition of new intel
lectual property becomes more and
more difficult in relation to the effort
required.
"The twenty fourth birthday is the
education dead line in the life of the
average man or woman of today.
"I doubt if Cato really learned much
Greek at 80, and I know that my
friend, Professor J. S. Blackie, did not,
in spite of the legend, acquire a great
deal of Gaelic at 60.”
The Rev. Charles II. H. Bloor, who
built St. Mary’s Church at Nome in
early days, died recently at Jackson
ville, Fla.
DR. W. A. RYSTROM
Dentist
Scheduled to Arrive in To
kotna About December 20th
Visitor j$ays America
Has Many Deficiencies
New York.—Israel Zangwill, speak
ing before the League of Polivo.il Edu
cation this week on what he thought of
America, said there are more cranks
to the square mile here than any other
country in the world. He said there
was more honor amt justice and dignity
in Englut.d than in America. He de
clared the ku kiux klan to be a sort of
exaggerated Boy Scout movement
which would soon be laughed out of
existence. Everything in America is
less efficient than in England.
"The mails, press, railroads and your
Central Park are a disgrace to Amer
icans, who think without acting and
act without thinking. They have no
sense of shaiue, young girls showing
their bare leg* and breasts in public
with more depravitv than exists on the
stage. Americao-Sunday papers weigh
four pounds and have nothing in them.
Americans would he far better off 10
read the Bible and Shakespeare.
America has the best educated people
in <.he world and yet it is a land of
make-believe. While America isn’t
the greatest country in God's earth it
has the greatest potentialities, and if
America goes wrong the last hope of
civilization has fTone,”-said the visitor.
Otherwise he found the couatry all
right.
Contemporary of Abe ■
Lincoln Hits IDlst Yr.
Los Angeles.—-iJoroelius Gole, for
merly United States senator from* Cali
fornia, one of the few living men who
heard Abraham Lincoln deliver bis
Gettysburg address, was 101 years old
Monday, and his descendants planned
a quiet reception in bis honor at his
borne here.
“Longevity does not thrive on in
ertia,” Mr. Cele declared. “One must
keep moving. I eat what 11 want to
eat. three times a day. There are no
'doo'ts’ in ray regimen.
“I gave up tobacco si* years ago. I
thought it was doing me no good, and
perhaps a little harm. I have used
alcoholic beverages temperately all my
life.’ _
When President Harding was taken
ill, just before his arrival at Se
attle from his Alaska trip, it was
widely rumored that his illness was
due to eating canoed food. These ru
mors were ■ not confirmed by later re-^
ports however, and the attending ph-y-ii
sicians have specifically denied that |
canned goods were 1 responsible. The!
matter was taken up by Prank E. Gor
rell. secretary of the National Canners
Association, and in reply to his letter
Dr. C. E. Sawyer. Mr. Harding’s per
sonal phvsiciao. naid: “My answer is
that President Harding’s primary ill
ness was not due to eating canned
foods.” This statement was concurred
in by Dr..C. M. Cooper, consulting di
sgnostician. who was called in by Dr.
Sawyer immediately upon arrival of
the presidential pm-tv at San Fran
cisco.—Pacific Fisherman.
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