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Entered as second-class matter August
29th, 1923, at the Post Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. AUG. 23, 1924
• IN’ ationwide Demon
stration on Mobiliza
tion Day, Sept. 12th
Washington.—National defense plans
.worked out by the war department
.during the last four years are to be
subjected September 12 next to a “de
ifense test” through a nationwide dem
ionstration. The day was selected as
’the sixth anniversary of the battle of
;St. Mihiel. It also will be General
Pershing’s sixty-fourth birthday, the
mormal age of retirement from active
.•service for army and navy officers.
Secretary Weeks announced today
ithat President C’oolidge had author
ized the war department to proceed
•with the defense test project on which
•the general stall has been working for
•several months. The war secretary
.emphasized that the purpose of the
.demonstration was to ‘“inform the pub
lie of the plans and methods by which
.American armies will be raised” in any
tfuture war emergency.
The test will be confined to the act
ual mobilization of the regular army,
isational guard, and reserve officer
•skeleton which composes the peace
time organized reserves, to be supple
mented by such voluntary enrollment
.of man power to fill up the reserve
.units as each community over the
.country may decide upon for itself. In
.•some cases reserve officers probably
.will enroll volunteers and assemble
them to explain just what an actual
mobilization will require. In other
.cases the test will consist of patriotic
meetings held with the co operation of
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state and municipal authorities and
civic-oocieties.
The striking differenoe between the
methods under which the United States
mobilized for the world war and the
plan worked out since lies in the com
plete decentralization of all the early
stages of mobilization now contem
plated.
“Our program.” Secretary Weeks
said, “provides for individual and com
munity co operation and the exercise
of decentralization authority by so
many elements, national, state, mu
nicipal and private, that it is desirable
to porttay the functions and missions
of each of these agencies, civil as well
as military. The 'defense test’ should
illustrate to citizens and communities
the initial services required for na
tional defense.
“The demonstration will be local in
nature, and will not involve any in
creased expenditure of public funds.
So far as practicable, arrangements
and ceremonies will be in accordance
with the wishes of local civic commit
tees, as the war department only de
sires an opportunity to illustrate in
each community the effect of its plans
for national defense.”
War department officials are hopeful
that a movement to make the day one
of patriotic celebration will be wide
spread, and are certain they will ob
tain much information of value in con
nection with further elaboration of de
fense plans.
Patch Windpipe By
Grafting Thigh Skin
Philadelphia.—One of the most deli
cate and most unusual operations
known to surgery was performed in the
Hahnemann hospital here Saturday
when a man’s windpipe was “patched”
with skin grafted from his thigh. The
operation is the tirst of its kind ever to
be performed in this country and the
third of its type on record, physicians
said.
The patient, Harlan Sharp, of Coates
ville. Pa., a medical student at the
Hahnemann medical college, had a
large section of hfs trachea removed 17
years ago as a result of diphtheria.
Recently an opening formed, causing
him to breathe through it instead of
his nose. The surgeons injected ether,
suspended in olive oil, in his intestines,
and then grafted the skin from his
thigh over the opening in the wind
pipe.
He is resting easily and is expected
to recover, the surgeons said.
An official of the civil service com
mission says that even the grave mem
bers of one examining board were
amused by a certain answer in a set of
examination papers.
The question was: “Give for any one
year the number of bales of cotton ex
ported from the United States.”
The answer this applicant wrote was:
“1492, none.’’—Harper’s.
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What World Is Doing
in Educational Matters
The average expenses of the students
at Cambridge is $H60 per year.
There are now 22,803 students of law
in Germany^ compared with 10,265 in
1913._
The University of California now has
a course which aims to help women
dress better._
Plans for a new woman’s college at
Bennington, Vt., .have recently been
announced. _
It is now compulsory to read a por
tioh of the Bible every day in the pub
lic schools of Arkansas.
In 1922, out of 1,956 teachers in
schools and classes for feeble-minded
children, 91 per cent were women.
Pupils of New York high schools are
now making a study of the city’s de
partment stores in order to study re
tailing. _
The women’s law class of New York
University graduated thirty-three girl
lawyers at its recent commencement
exercises.
Approximately 20,000 boys and girls
in Virginia this year are riding to
school in motor and horse-drawn con
veyances.
A new course is being offered by
Teachers1 College, Columbia Univers
ity. called ‘•Training for Leadership in
the Education of Parents.”
The origin of Cambridge University
is unknown. It is possible it grew out
of a local educational movement during
the twelfth century.
Through the endeavors of the Bristol
Community Players, of Bristol, Conn.,
a complete theater was constructed in
the new Memorial high school.
i Girl students at Sweet Briar college,
I Virginia, are planning to assist in the
i erection of two buildings by making all
the bricks to be used. A brick kiln is
being erected on the college grounds.
SuperintendentIttinger, of New York
citv’s public schools, is considering the
daily broadcasting of short educational
talks and features, through an arrange
ment with one of the radio corrora
tiODS.
Professor Kier, of Dartmouth col
lege, while traveling recently met John
Baptist Ford, a negro Pullman porter,
and was so impressed that he invited
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FIRE!
You folks work mighty
hard for your living.
Why Take Chances
When Insurance
Is So Cheap?
Wire me collect if you want
protection.
San Francisco is headquar
ters for all companies
on Pacific Coast.
Maurice A. Gale
General Insurance
38 Sansome Street
San Francisco
Ford to address the Tuck School of Ad
ministration and Finance. Ford claims
that many porters spend their time
while passengers are sleeping in study
ing for batter jobs. He also claims
that 30 per cent of negro doctors are
former Pullman porters.
President James R. Angell, of Yale
University, recently made the remark
that his college is not a rich man’s col
lege. as approximately one-third of the
undergraduates are earning a part or
! al! of their expenses.
Six hundred Americans are writing
to an equal number of Germans as a
result of the efforts of the German
Central Office for German-American
Correspondence opened in Leipsic by
Professor Hartmann, as a means of
learning German and English.
Transformation of Pomona College,
at Claremont, Calif., into a university
modeled after Oxford University, Eng
land, is contemplated in plans for fu
ture development of the institution re
cently mad8 known by the president,
James A. Blaisdell.
The total expenses of the War De
partment in 1023 were $355,722,000.
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McGrath, Alaska
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