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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at tbe Rost Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MgGRATH, ALASKA. FEB. 7, 1922
Breakdown Charged
to Federal Dry Law
Washington.—Charging the break
down of the federal prohibition law,
not the prohib'tion laws of the various
states, with the responsibility for crime
increase and growing disrespect for
law, Capt. W. H. Slayton, founder and
executive head of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
touight commended President Hard
ing's call for a conference of governors
here as a wise move and one calculated
to throw much needed light on the j
situation.
'• We eutirely agree with the Presi
dent’s declaration in his last message
to Congress that crime is running
amuck in this country.” Capt. Stay ton
said.
‘‘Statistics present the most indubit
able proof of the charge. They also
completely refute the prohibition
claims of the dry forces that the
eighteenth amendment and Volstead
act would emptv the jails and usher in
an unexampled era of law and order.
“Additional evidence of the steadily
increasing crime wave has been fur
nished by entirely impartial organiza
tions. These figures cover the years of
1917 to 1021 for arrests, convictions, the
number of inmates of prisons and in
sane asylums, and the anuual costs
of police control by municipal govern
ments.
“The fruit of the Volstead tree is
unmistakably shown in these figures.
Without exception the totals for the
several heads showed a steady annual
‘decrease in crime and insanity records
up to the firstear of attempted prohi
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bition enforcement under the Volstead
act. Since then the curve has steadily
risen, with the number of convicts and
insane higher In H>21 than in any pre
vious year of the series.
•‘YVe quite agree that it is high time
ocall in the governors, because it is
the federal law which has broken
down.”
4 Women to 1 Man,
Rapa Island Ratio
Honolulu.—The glamor, romance and
adventure of the South Seas are dis
appearing before the spread of modern
methods of industry, education ahd iiv
ing. according to J. F. G. Stokes, eth
nologist, attached to the Bishop Mu
seum here, who has returned from a
tour of the Austral Inlands in connec
tion with the museum’s endeavor to
establish the origin of the Polynesian
race.
Kveri Rapa—the pin dot island which
became famous as a place where the
men were fed by women and lolled
around listlessly on a stretch of coral
strand under shade giving palm trees—
is beginning to show marks of civiliza
tion, despite the fact that the ratio of
inhabitants continues to approximate
four women to one man, Stokes said.
There are only 23 taxpayers—men
between the ages of 21 and 60 vears—
on the island. The rest of the 236 in
habitants are women, young boys and
old men.
“All of the work except the fishing
is done by the women, who are comely,
sturdy, exception-Hy tall, muscular
and hospitable,” Stokes said. ‘‘The
women who first drew attention to
Rapa through stories that the women
fed the men, apparently visited the
island during a festival, when the
women fed the men ‘in fun.’ The
women, however, do perform all agri
cultural work.
“Despite the heavy ratio of women
to men, ‘no man has more than one offi
cial wjfe.’ The women are none too
willing to marry the men of Rapa, as
they become little more than slaves,
once they are married. They have no
hold or control over their husbands,,
and if they attempt to enjoy the same
privileges as their husbands they are
liable to receive a severe beating.
‘The inhabitants of Rapa are ex
tremely hospitable to white men,1'
PRESS SQUIBS.
Hats off to Japan if she would rather I
keep a promise than a province.—Bos- i
ton Herald.
Well, it’s nice of Turkey not to de
mand an indemnity from the allies.—
Shreveport Journal.
About all the League of Nations has
done so far is to wish the United States
belonged.—Toledo Blade.
A cultured man is one who has a lot!
of information that isn’t worth any
thing to him.—‘Indianapolis Star.
If the sculptors keep on making stat
utes of Abraham Lincoln, soon nobody
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will know how Lincoln looked.—Atchi
son Globe.
You can cure ft red by giving him a
fortune, but there’s nothing vou can do
fora yellow.—Wall Street Journal.
The so-called prohibition navy proves
that there's many a ship ’twixt the cup
and the lip.—New York Tribune.
General Pershing advises the people
not to drift into a pacifist state of tuirid.
But we believe there is little danger of
that, with the prices where they are.—
New York American.
According to rumors at Laueanne,
the Kemal walk will shortly give way
to the Turkey-Trotzky.—Norfolk Vir
ginian-Pilot.
The sultan of Turkey insists that he
has not quit his job just becausO he ran
away from it. He talks like a striker.
—Canton News.
There are said to be five hundred
bootleggers in Washington, but one
must remember that there are more
than live hundred congressmen there.
—Co 1 um b i a Record.
Lenine says Russia isn’t afraid to
give concessions. Of course not. The
trouble is that the foreigners are afraid
to take them.—Greenville Piedmont.
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