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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-10-23
LUXURIES GOING
 TO BE TABOOED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, % Soft, silky lingerie, silk stockings, shirt waists and other luxurious wearing apparel must go; for thrift is going to be taught in every public school Of the West, SuperintendentS of publ,c instruction of the states of Washing ton. Idaho, Utah, California and Ne vada decided at a meeting here called by the federal government. The edu- cators will at once establish in every public school throughout the Twelfth Federal Reserve district a standard ized, permanent course in thrift, graded like any of the three R's and taught upon a plane with them. AS a laboratory of thrift there will be or ganized in every school room in every elementary and high school saving societies, and the SuperintendcntS o' instruction have memorialiZed the fed eral government at Washington not only to continue the thrift and war savings campaign as a permanent pol icy. but to elaborate it by the intro auction of penny, nickel and dim" thrift stamps.
 In a "Declaration of Principal Fi containing suggestions of a practical plan of procedure, upon which the thrift course in it's initial steps will he predicted, the Western educators, one of whom was Mrs. Josephine Cor lis Preston, president of the National Education Association and state Su- perintendeut of schools in Washing ton, had this to say:
 "Fxtravagencc in dress must bc checked among the schoolboys and girls, manifested in many ways, but especially in the purchase of silk hosiery, silk skirts, nccktieS and ex- pcnsivc footwear. To this end we rc- commend that school principals and teachers insist upon reasonable econ omy and modcSty in dress and with appeal to parents and pupils to co operate in an effort to check such ex- tragance"
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TO RETURN RAILROADS TO OWNERS

WASHINGTON. Oct, 2%-- Tho Senate interstate committee on com mtrce has reported out the bill provid- iuc the return of the railways to the owners with the operation to remain under Federal supervision. 1t is ex- nectcd the Senate will consider the hill when the treaty k disposed of.
 WASHINGTON, Oct, 23- Timothy Shea. President of the Fircmcn's Bro. thcrhood, testifyipg before the rail way commission. indicated today tho railway employees will demand in- creased wages, time and a half for ov- cr time, n eight hour day and changes in the working conditions before the government gives the railways back To the owners.
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TAME LION NEARLY
 KILLS LITTLE GIRL

LOS ANGELES, Oct, 23- Lillian Harmon a 17-year old school girl narrowly escaped being killed here by a lion belonging to a motion pie ture company, which it was believed was too tame to attack my one.
 Miss Harmon went into the lions cage and put her hand on it's head pre- partory to having picture taken. The lion knocked her down seized he: in it's jaws and began clawing her. Her brother and a companion rescued her after stunning the lion with an iron bar. She will recover.
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WEATHER EEIOEr

The following i' U'r w"mh"" 'r uo,t tor thr 24 hnl'y "rdjH; :i ' " ln"l. this wurnir":
 SEWARD SS, Raining, Calm.
 Anchorage 26, Cloudy, Calm.
 MatanuSka 30, Cloudy, Calm; onr inch new snow.
 ChickaIoon 23, Cloudy, Calm; on" inch new snow.
 Wasilla 2S, Cloudy, East; thre" inches new snow.
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PRINTERS ARBITRATE

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 2S--- Printers and linotype men today ac- cepted the proposition of the managers of the afternoon newspapers for ! wage scale of $36 week, seven hour day, IA galleys to be required from the machine men. The wage scale on the morning papers will be SAP week, with eight hour shifts. This new scale is for the winter months ending April 1st, 1920. Overtime will be $l an hour.
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ALL ALASKANS MAY
 SOON PICK WIVES
 FROM CHECHACOES

SEATTLE, Oct, 2@- Girls and young women in many states are flooding the Alaska Bureau Of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce with in ouiries about Alaska, saying they in tend to % north in the spring,
 The Bureau iS wondering if a re- cent magazine article dealing with the shortage of wives in Alaska may be responsible for the active demand for information and the desire of so many women to invade the north.
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CREDIT ID
 FOREIGN
 NATIONS

ATLANTIC CITY, Octr 2%- Scr- rctary Rcdfield addressing the lntcr- national Trade Conference urged the formation in America of credit or ganization to purchase securities or struggling foreign nations. Secretary Redfield said the nations need several billion within the next few years Co give them a firm footing.
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COMBATING H. C. OF L.

PARIS, Oct, 23- To combat the high cost of living, the inhabitants of the western suburbs of Paris have hit upon plan of cooperative buying of food. First results showed saving ot {: over 30 percent.
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MINERS REJECT
 OFFERS

WASHINGTON, CEt.. % The United Mine workers today formally rejected Secretary of Labor Wilson's proposal for the settlement oi the pro. posed strike. President Lcwia said the proposals were indefinite, inadequate and failed to meet the situation. He said the unions would stick to the claim for five day week.
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LOGGING CAMPS ARE
 CLOSED BY STRIK F.

SEATTLE, Oct, 2&- It is reported that the !. W. W. in strike have closed several logging camps in east, ern Washington, Idaho and Montana. The men protest when the companies raised the meals 20 cents and cStab- lished a charge of $l per week fo" blankets.
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KING ALFONSO SHOWN VERDUN
 BATTLEFIELD

VERDUN, Oct, % General Pc- tain, defender of Verdun, accompanied King Alfonso today over the battle field. General Petain told the King Of Spain that the German attack on Yer dun did not surprise the French.
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CABLE BRIEFS

SEATTLE, Steamer Victoria sails for Nome on the last trip of the year, loaded with freight but few passeng- CTS.
 WASHINGTON, Senator Fretling- huysen appeals to public to strangle the menace of BolsheviliSm while it rs in its infancy.
 ALBUQUERQUE King Albert given Navajo blanket by a Navajo chief.
 WASHINGTON, Senate agricultural committee resumes hearing on the sugar shortage case.
 LONDON Henry B. Irving, actor and theatrical manager, is dead.
 WASHINGTON Department of Justice announces decided submit to grand jury charges of fraud arising over nomination and election of Tru- man Newberry, U. s. Senator from Michigan.
 WASHINGTON Strength of U. s. Army now 29O,470 with 25OOO soldiers abroad including 5000 in Siberia.
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STRIKERS
 ARE REVENGEFU7

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct, 23-- The police have discovered that Ser bian and Italian strikers are attempt ing to burn the houses of the men re- maining at work. Several have been not in defending their homes, two will die.
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BULLETIN Washington, Oct, l3 Chairman Lane adjourned the con ference and has immediately called the public group into new conference in line with President Wilson's wishes. The Public group is to carry on the work as the public bears the burden of disputes between capital and labor.
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1 LAbOR QUITS D| |SCUSS|ON
 OF PEACE

BULLETIN Washington, Oct, 2S-- Organized labor, through Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor has withdraWn from the Industrial conference when the conference voted down labor's re- solution for recognition of the right or the right of collective bargaining.
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SINN FEN DECLARED
 ILLEGAL

LONDON, Oct, 2&- ViScount French, Irish Governor General, bit terly attacked the Sim Fein govern ment today when he said the organiza- ton was insane and illegal, and har- bors assaSSius instructed to murder the police and soldiers.
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BERLIN. Oct. 23- The Sy

BERLIN, Oct, 2S- The Schwerin property tax bureau has confiscated the property and fortune of Anthony Fokker, the well-known builder of air planes, because Fokker failed to de- posit IA million marks security de- manded of him by the authorities as q guarantee that he was not lodging his taxes.
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WASHINGTON, Oct, 2S-

WASHINGTON, Oct, 2S- The House has passed a bill which providcS against the police of the District or Columbia from joining any labor or ganization. The police has given up ils union charter.
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BULLETIN Washington, Oct. 2f - Chairman Lane fears the Industrial conference will dispersc. Lane hopes Pr iLont Wilson will find some way to clear up the present differences.
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WILSON IMPROVES

WASHINGTON, Oct, 23-- President Wilson, according to an official bulletin today, is progress sing as satisfactorily as possible under the circumstances. rsF -
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CUMBERLAND, Maryland, Oct, 9

- A trunk such as the emigrants of Southern Europe use was found on the city garbage dump here, containing six skeletons. The officers are invcsti- gating.
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The Port Graham and BlOdgett can neries at Kodiak are the only ones that reached their pack.
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LABOR BOLTS
 CONFERENCE
LETTERS MAY
 DECIDE GUILT
 OF A WOMAN

SACRAMENTO, Cal, 23- A twist of the letter "c" or the stroke of a "k" may be the fact or to decide the liberty or imprisonment of Mrs Ethel Me Gowan formerly waitress in Sacla- mento hotel, whise trial on a charge of sending letter to Governor Steph ems threatening to destroy the capitol has begun in the Superior court here.
 Handwriting experts have been sum moned by the prosecution to show sim ilarities which are alleged to exist be- tween the shaping of letters in the note to Governor Stephens and in q letter acknowledged by Mrs. McGow- an as her own.
 The letter to Governor Stephens received December IT, 1918 said: "Will blow up Kepitil if $500 not paid. Put under ink we'll on writing desk Land Hotel at , sharp.
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" C C of (.

In letter written by Mrs. Me Gowan before witnesses said, the wo"d capital is mispelled in the sam" manner as appeared in the "C C of C'' letter and these documents were part of the evidence placed before the sac ramento county grand jury when an indictment was returned.
 Mrs. McGowan was in Cheyenne, as an employe of the United States de- partment of the interior when she heard of the indictment. She came at once to Sacramento and was released on bail to await hearing.
 Mrs. McGowan's husband, Thomas McGowan had been an employc of one of the state departments as special investigator in connection with dam age to the governors mansion in 1917 by an explosion.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22
Acquittal Appeal Fails
In Bomb Explosion Trial

Lieutenant David Hepburn, on trial
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on charge
of manslaughter growing out of the
killing Of three men in bomb explo-
sion at the Rockaway Point Naval Sta
tion, last February %, took the stand
in his own defense yesterday. His
attorney, Lieutenant Joseph F. Wright,
asked that his client be acquitted.
Those killed in the explosion were En-
sign Henry p Hynson. Chief Boat
swain's Mate Eugene B. Dederich and
Gunner's Mate Frederick J. Reardon.
Lieutenant Hepburn said that in the
case Of the bomb which killed the
three men he was given no instruc-
tions by it's inventor, Frank j. Sprague,
as to how to take off the head of the
bomb. He testified that he had warned
the three victims to be careful.
Lieutenant Wright said it was impos-
sible to state what caused the explo-
sion. He pointed out that Hepburn
had record of thirty years service
just to convict him unless absolute
evidence of his guilt was obtainablc.
Judge Advocate Robert L. Adams
contended that ait was brought out
during the trial that the accused did
not take the advice of his commanding
officer to the effect that it was dam
gerous to dispose Of the bomb by tax
ing off the head" According to the
testimony, the bomb exploded while
the three victims were unscrewing the
head.
The court will send its verdict to
Washington as soon as it is reached.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22
Episcopalians
Are Warned of
mo oPopery'Cry
Thomas Nelson Page Tells
Convention to Beware, as
Members Seek Sanction
for Blessing of Graves
Social Program Offered
Pledges Church to Support
Collective Bargaining and
Many Labor Principles

Staff Correspondence
DETROIT, Oct. 21.-1n a heated de-
bate in the Protestant Episcopal
Church convention to-day on prayer
book changes. this time involving a
prayer for the blessing of q grave,
Thomas Nelson Page exclaimed:
when we approach Rome in a de-
sire for unity she tells us that when
we come in penitence she will receive
us as erring children. Before you get
you will hear the cry of No Popery'
raised in this country"
Some deputies laughed. Mr. Page
raised his hand and said:
Before you l.now it you will find
our Church divided. Perhaps, though,
it would be better to be divided than
that we be led in this way into paths
we know not. Do not let US in a three
minute debate decide such an impor-
committee were given no power for the
consideration of matters touching the
faith and doctrine of this Church"
The debate was taken up by other
supporters of Mr.. Pages stand. But
the chairman of the committee on the
dispatch of business, who had taken no
part in any debate up to that time,
mounted the pulpit-like rostrum and
said
"If any of you, like myself. have
been unfortunate enough to stand by
will know instinctively you have
prayed that the ground in which he is
laid may be blessed of God. In Gods
name, then, why not let our priests
offer this prayer?"
Finally the matter was put to a vote
and defeated by the narrow margin of
nine votes, the result being 1T in
favor of the prayer and 1856 against.
Earlier in the day Mr.. Page had in
troduced a resolution asking these
"Do the proposed changes or revi-
sions in the prayer book affect any
doctrine hitherto held by the urch
as expressed in the Book of Common
Prayer?
WAS not the commission inhibited
in the resolution creating it from
touching on doctrinal points in its
work Of revision, and have not they,
in suggesting changes, exceeded the
powers intrusted to them?''
This resolution was referred to the
commission on the revision and en-
richment of the Book of Common
Prayer for reply.
Three important actions marked the
General Convention to-day. They were
as follows:
l. A social program for the Church
was announced by Bishop Brewster,
Of Connecticut. chairman Of the social
service commission
.. Formal approval was given to
the nationwide program and com
mittee of fifteen was recommended to
have general charge.
3. At night session of the House
of Deputies a report, signed by every
member of the committee on the con-
stitution, was presented and recon-
mended change in the laws Of the
Church to pave the way for the muc;l-
discussed concordat.
The social program was announced
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22

Draped Over Roosevelt Bust
Inc flag reached New York Univer-
sity at ll:27 a. m. Following g. trib-
als TO the university's honor roll of
'nifty-six men killed in the war, the
emblem, carried by six students, went
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22
Carnegie Foundation Report
Says 1mpartiality Is I'M
possible Under Present
System of Administration
Long Procedure Blamed
Poor Classes Feel Barred
From Rights Because Of
Excessive Cost, Is View

reorganization Of the courts of
justice III the United States to climi-
nate gross denial of justice in all
parts of the country to millions of per-
sons" is advocated in a report issued
yesterday by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement Of Teaching.
Justice and the Poor" is the title OF
the report, and it is indorsed by Elihu
Root, who in the foreword says:
"Tho report is a systematic treatise
and practical handbook upon the ad-
ministration Of justice in the United
States in the direction which is at this
time of critical Importance"
Among other things the report, the
product of Reginald Heber Smith, of
the Boston bar, recommends the cstab-
lishment of certain new types Of courts
and the rapid extension of legal aid
organizations and of defenders in Grim
inal cases, so that the denial of JUS
tice which now exists may be speedily
ended. 1t is devoted to fearless re-
cital Of facts"
Says Justice Is Not Impartial
"The administration of American
justice is not impartial" the report
concludes. "The rich and the poor dc
not stand on an equality before the
law, the traditional method of provid-
ing justice has operated to close the
doors of the courts to the poor, has
caused a gross denial of justice in all
parts Of the country to millions of per-
sons"
Bribery, political influence, incom-
petent judges, extortionate fees OF
class domination are not the causes of
the injustice, the report comedies, but
attributes it rather to the "great un-
derlying social and economic changes
which have taken place during the last
half century, altering our entire ma
tional life, and to which our judicial
system failed to adapt itself. Pri-
marily these changes are due to immi-
grafton, the rapid rise of the wage
earning class and the startling growth
of urban population"
There are three defects in the court
system named which are said by the
report to prevent the poor from obtain
ing justice which is their right in a
democracy.
Delay Hardship to Poor
1t gives them as follows:
"First-The delay which always ad-
vantages the longer pockctbook and
arises from our antiquated court or
ganizatlon and our OvercompleX and
supertechnical procedure.
"Second-The expenses that the state
itself levies in the form of court costs
and fees and which too often serve to
prohibit access to the courts
"Third-The expense of lawyers SER
vices. This does not mean unfair fees
it strikes deeper. The trouble is
that for an understanding of our legal
rights and for the orderly presentation
of cases in court lawyers are essential
lawyers must live, and so must be paid
Yet millions of persons need just such
assistance from time to time, but can
not get it because they are too poor to
pay for it."
The report points out that the first
two defects are superficial and can be
easily remedied whenever the people
put their minds to it and determine to
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22
Thousands I'm Schools Here
Honor Memory of Roosevelt
Flag Journey
To Couer 1000 Miles

The Roosevelt flag will have been
carried 1000 miles by schoolboy
runners when it arrives at Oyster
Bay on Sunday.
Except when it was taken by boat
across a lake, the flag has been car
ricd 500 miles from Buffalo entirely
by runners. These have made un-
usually speedy time, invariably ar
irving ahead of schedule.
The flag reached Van Cortlandt
Park Monday an hour ahead of time.
Yesterday the flag made its round at
an average speed Of mile in seven
to eight minutes.
The time between Van Cortlandt
Park and Theodore Roosevelt High
School was forty-two minutes; to
New York University, twenty-six
minutes; to Fordham University, ten
minutes; to Borough Hall, The
Bronx, eleven minutes; to brakes
grave, twenty-one minutes; to Gou-
verneur Morris grave, twenty-three
minutes.
The use of airplanes to transport
the flag from one borough to another
was dispensed with, owing to the
absence of good landing places.
The extra runners in the relays
about the city arc being carried in an
ambulance contributed by the Ma
tional League for Woman's Service.
1t is driven by the only woman am
bu1ancc driver of the organization
now on duty, Private Adelaide Nc
Keever.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22

Bishop Guerry, Of South Carolina
Bishop Guerry, oS South Caro- ina
presided. The principal addresses
were made by Bishop Brewster and
the Rev. Dr.. ". Russell Bowie. of
Richmond, We.
Bishop Brewster's announcement of
the program contained these plat
forms:
Right and justice everywhere.
A living wage.
The right of association.
The principle Of collective bargain
ing.
\. Freedom Of the individual from CO.
ercion.
Association Of employer and en-
ployed, with part reserved to labor
in management.
Weekly rest days.
Prevention of the exploitation of
the labor of women and children.
Reorganization of industry to end
autocratic mastership and "An end
to paternal patronage in welfare
work"
DR.. Bowie, following Bishop Brew
ster, brought the house into an uproar
by this statement:
II do not think We need to fear the
New-York tribune., 1919-10-22

run justice just as efficiently as busi-
ness' sweeping away the accumulated
conwebs" The third, however, is re-
der!ed to as an inherent difficulty not
easily overcome" The report then
considers the agencies which NAV be
uscd to Improve the position of the
poor. 1t suggests certain types OF
pensed with.
Small Courts Successful
The small claims courts, such as
no" exist in Cleveland and Chicago"
1t says, have had marked success in
ceallng with small debts, wage claims
ana tenants troubles, by using most
informal procedure, in which the Judge
himself talks with the parties and their
witnesses without the intervention of
lawyer, conciliates them if he can
and If he cannot renders his legal
Judgment For domestic difficulties
the modern domestic relations court Of
the Cincinnati, Detroit and PHILADELPHIA ia
type, through the INTELLIGENT work OF
probation stats, can adequately protect
the deserted family and afford it un-
priced legal redress. Similarly, the in
dustrlal accident boards administerin
the compensation acts operate through
their own investigation of cases and
tne provisions for automatic settlement
OF most matters to secure free and
therefore, equal justice to injured
workmen.
"Over and beyond these groups of
cases are the multitude of diverse mat.
ters in which the LAWYER cannot be
dispensed with, wherein, if justice is tc
be done. each side must be renre-
sentcd. II one party is too poor to buy
a lawyers, services, they must somehow
be furnished him, unless miscarriage
Of justice is to be the portion of the
poor. the weak and the ignorant.
"The definite solutions advocated ar.
the legal aid organizations for civ
cases and organizations similar to tn,
public defenders for criminal cases
There are now forty-one such organi
cations, operating in some cities al
private charities and in others as pub
lie bureaus. Already they have beer
called upon to give legal aid to on,
and half million clients, and through
their work have secured for client:
sums owed amounting to $4,000,O0O.
Constructive Side Emphasized
The emphasis Of the report is on thi
constructive side. 1t presents def
mite program for progress. The plan
suggested are intended to remove tn,
great present cause of dissatisfaction
with government as it exists. Th,
man who is unable through the court
to enforce his rights or secure redress
when he is wronged, feels keen sens,
of injustice, it is pointed out. He i
apt to believe-and this is particular,
true. of the immigrant-that Americai
justice consists only of laws that pun
ish and not of laws that help. Th
next step is for him to be against tn
law, because he thinks the law il
against him. He is then ready to lister
to the forces of sedition and anarchy