Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-16

as IN women dresses, according TO /
the interesting sword collections in
the National Museum here. The hun
dreds of different pieces show the de-
velopment of the sword as a weapon
and as a badge of rank and office. I
Types changed all over the world ev-
cry 20 or 20 years, resulting from |
succeeding wars and new peace regu-
lations and standards. In the exhibits
are momentoes of gallant officers and
relics from battle-felds, recalling tales
of glory and honor. There are also
Turkish and Arabian yataghans, Rus
sian swords, Scottish dirks, a Crusad-
er's sword, a two-handed weapon dat (
ed 1910, apanese cutlasses, and native
weapons of the Philippines, Cuba and
Porto Rico.
No mosquitoes-no malaria and no
yellow fever. No fieas-no bubonic
plague. No lice-no typhus. No tsetse
fy-no sleeping sickness. No ticks
no spotted fever. These are the fun
damental principles of the fight
against preventahle diseases carried
by insect pests, writes William Sho-
walter in report on "Redeeming the
Tropics" sent to the National Geo
graphic Society. Tn the generations
to come, there can be no doubt" he
says, "that with a sanitary science
that is broad enough to reach both
man and beast, the great plains Of
the highlands in the tropics will be
converted into vast cattle ranches,
where cattle can be brought to the
stock cattle stage and then shipped
to the temperate climates for feeding
and finishing, thus aiding to the
worlds meat supply to the extent of
billions of pounds"
Continued school activity of some
in summer months for most children
is advocated by DR.. P. P. Claxton,
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation. "The schools should provide
some kind of instruction for the chill
dren through what is now, in most
cities, a long and wasteful vacation"
he declared. From z to o'clock to
II or IL o'clock-not more than four
hours in the forenoon-is all summer
work DIR. Claxton recommends. More
work in shops, outdoor gardens or in
the home, was recommended for all
the year round work as we'll as sum-
mer courses. "With this kind of or
ganization," DIR. Claxton declared, "it
would be very easy for children to
do ordinary school work three hours
day 6 days in the week, through
II calendar months in the year, and
at the same time contribute largely
to their own support by well-directed
productive educational work, either at
home or in the school and thus max
ing it possible for the great major
ity of children to remain in school
throughout the high school period"
The government is now going out
of the reindeer business. Of 47,226
reindeer in 62 Alaskan herds, the gov
ernment owns only 1858 and officials
of the Alaskan Division, Bureau OF
Education, is planning to give them
up as fast as it can train natives
for Individual ownership. The policy
is to encourage independence and ini-
tiative among the native Alaskans.
Distribution of reindeer is in charge
of the United States school teachers,
and it is expected that the government
will dispose of all its reindeer within
the next four years. The Bureau de-
MED that the deer are deteriorating
or diminishing and declared that on
the contrary Alaskan reindeer are con-
stantly increasing in number without
deterioration.
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