The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-09-07

and we are told on the highest au
thOrity that greater love has no maj
than this. Therefore an "ange I'm oil
skins" the life saver must and shall be
The United States life saving serv
ice consists of 2Sl stations distributed
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
the gulf and the great lakes. AT each
station are a keeper and a number of
surfmen, The business of these men
is TO patrol the coasts, especially ut
danger points, and to rescue those i'm.
perled 10y the sea, whether they be
the passengers on wrecked liner OF
some venturesome swimmer that goes
too far.
Along Every Coast.
The os1 life saving stations are
grouped in thirteen districts, as fol
lows: First district, the coasts of
Maine and New Hampshire; Second
district, Massachusetts; Third district,
Rhode Island and Fishers island:
Fourth district, Long Island; Fifth
district, New Jersey; Sixth district,
from Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to
Cape Charles, Maryland; Seventh dis
trict. from Cape Henry. Virginia. to
Cape Fear. North Carolina; Eighth dis
trict, South Carolina, Georgia and
eastern Florida; Ninth district, gulf
coast; Tenth district. Lakes Erie and
Ontario; Eleventh district, Lakes HUI
ron and Superior; Twelfth district,
Lake Michigan; Thirteenth district,
Pacific coast. In addition TO these,
there is a station at the falls OF the
Ohio river at Louisville and another at
Nome, Alaska.
The report OF the life saving service
for 1910 Is just out. From this we
learn many interesting and thrilling
things. The details of this dry report
are as fascinating as n story by w. |
CLARK Russell or Laura Jean Libbey. |
In a perfectly matter OF fact manner
1t recounts tales OF daring. heroism |
and adventure that would make
wooden Indian CULVER with excite
ment.
For the whole year the number of
vessels reported as seriously disabled
or wrecked was 463. OF these only
seventy-four were lost. The number
OF persons aboard was 6.6Gi. Only
or less than one I'm hun
dred. lost their lives. This is re-
msrkable showing, and much OF the
credit Is due to the life saving serv-
ice.
Money to Destroy Life, Not Save 1t.
During the last congress an effort
was made TO increase the pay OF the
keepers and men; also TO pension those
who had grown old In the service.
Strange as II may seem. this attempt I
failed. Millions were voted for the !
OF new battleships with
which TO destroy life. but mere pit l
lance In comparison was refused for $
he saving of life. During the months II
n June and July of each year the Z
are laid Off Only the keep v
'rs remain at the stations. In effect v
he entire coast is unguarded during u
hese two months. Ostensibly the o
men are on vacation. Yet no money II
$ appropriated TO supply their places
20 far as Uncle Sam is concerned,
anybody can drown or any ship can
,e wrecked during June or July. Yet 81
bis is the very season when thou u
nnds Of surf bathers and hundreds OF CT
motor and other pleasure craft are I'm 81
LANCER In some happier era yet TO Ct
'e, when peace has really come to III
bide among men, people win look II
'ack Mt this civilization with surprise Y
nd amusement They will say that u,
n our age everybody talked about
observing life, but nobody believed in oil
t; otherwise the legislative body Of 81
he most progressive nation of the III
Torld would not have appropriated kl
billions for war while refusing paltry d.
for the saving of life l e'
an see the wise men of the twenty az
econd century puzzling their heads fe
yer this astounding fact. And yet we 81
link ourselves Just about the most W
dvanced things that ever happened. ca
The current report comments on the