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tem. But all these details need not be discussed here.
 It has been shown, also, that a government operated steamship line to Alaska would emphasize the rail. road blunder rather than prove a con- structive move. But when Senator Cummins repeats the statement that high rates of water transportation lines are the direct cause of the terri tory's loss in population of the last ten years, he is making an untrue aud utterly nonsensical statement, and no matter who his informant may be, he is absolutely wrong as will be proved in the figures to fol- low.
 When the senator adds that accord ing to his information the existing lines to Alaska are controlled by copper mining interest, he again repeats an untrue statement. At the present time Canadian Pacific and the Admiral line are both operat- ing to Alaska and neither of them can be classed as directly or indirectly connected with the copper mines in Alaska. It is, of course, we'll known that the company meant is the Alas ka Steamship Co. and no one has ever attempted to deny that it is owned by the same parties who oper- ate the kenneCOtt Copper Corporation of Alaska and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway running from Cordova and other enterprises in Alaska and Yukon territory, all of which have met with success and have contributed much to the indus trial development of the territory.
 What Senator Cummins' informant did not state and what the senator probably did not know. was that the proposed government railroad en- jOyed the questionable benefit of hay ing it's own steamship on the run for several years and naturally gave to that boat cargo and passengers wherever possible. Furthermore, Sen atOr Cummins, if he wishes to be fair, should refer to Document 1346 of the SiXty-second congress, being message from President Taft, trans. mitting a report of the Alaskan rail road commission of 1912. Then a very impotant document has evidently been suppressed in the interior de partment, which the former secre- tary, J. B. Payne, received about one year ago. It was an interesting and Illuminating report on this whole rail road project, and it is pertinent to ascertain the reason why it has been successfully hidden from public view.
 Finally it should be remembered that the building of this railroad and it's operation cannot in any way have any effect on the Copper River &, Northwestern railway or the allied companies. They have nothing in common. The business man should always bear in mind that these com panies have been quietly moving for ward, operating efficiently, producing tonnage without any thought of the railroad construction to the westward. They make no announcements and railroad construction to the westward are not interested. All the loud talk comes from other sources.
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Senator Cummins of Iowa, is report ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of March 13 as having called upon Sec retary Fall of the interior depart ment for conference on the Alas ka railroad. The dispatch states that he urged on the secretary these policies:
 CD The elimination of the army from any connection with the railroad, Specifically meaning the removal of Colonel Mears as chairman of the Alaskan engineering commission.
 CD The establishment of civilian control by the appointment of a quail fled general manager for the property to complete the railroad and to oper- ate it.
 (3) The appropriation of $10,000, 900 for such objects as may be essen tial for the completion of the rail road.
 (4) The establishment of govern ment line of steamships to ply be- tween Seward and Seattle in connec- tion with the railroad providing freight and passenger rates suffi- ciently low to develop the traffic and to permit the territory to acquire it's needed growth in population.
 Senator Cummins told Secretary Fall that the high water transporta- tion rates are the direct cause of the territorys loss in population in the Alast ten years. The senator said further that according to his informa- tion the existing steamship lines to Alaska are controlled by copper min- ing interests. Senator Cummins is in favor of continued government opera tions of both the railroad and the steamship lines"
 It was to be expected that the rail road question would be taken up by the new administration and this has been foreshadowed by many articles in eastern papers. However, as this early misrepresentation of Alaskan conditions is again being featured, it is deemed important not to allow this statement to go unchallenged. Furthermore, it is necessary to point oNt to the senator from Iowa that he has been misinformed If his alleged informant should prove to be an Alaskan then transformation is with malice afOrethought.
 On that account this entire chapter of the series of articles on Alaska will be devoted exclusively to the statements contained in the telegram aS above quoted. We are not particu- larly concerned over the contemplated change in management, as that has been suggested from various quarters during the last four or five years. This paper has also at different times pointed out the seven years of error during the construction of the railroad and has shown that, while part of the mistakes were due td mis- management, other delays and ex- penses were due to the piece-meal ap- propriation plan of congress itself, the first error being in not appropri- ating enough money in the spring of 1914 to buy rail for the entire sys-
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of Douglas. It had not business else where and it cared little for the rest of Alaska. Its desertion brought out the charge that the steamships were not giving service. It remained as long as it had the cream of the Treadwell traffic and when the flood came, which caused the shutdown of the mine and the decline of Doug las, it quit. Yet in Juneau and Doug las it was hailed as the savior of Alaska.
 The value of all merchandise shipped from United States to Ju- neau, Douglas, Thane and Treadwell, is here shown:
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Computing 1920 shipments at the much lower commodity prices of 1916 he loss would be very much greater.
 The Treadwell disaster took place April 22, 1917, and the troubles at the Alaska Gastineau mines at Juneau
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-16

So wait until you know what you want in a
man, before you make your life selection. You
don't know what you going to be yourself,
yet. There is risk enough in matrimony
Heaven knows. without taking any chances on
yourself.
Furthermore, my child, it takes money to
finance marriage and very young man
makes enough in these days to keep the wolf
away from the door, All of this poetic bun
combe about love being enough and living on
KISSES is piffle. You will crave three square
meals day after marriage as much as you
do before marriage, and take the same heart
interest in clothes, and love the creature COM
forts just as much.
So will the lad you marry, and when you
can't have them, and the bill collector begins
hammering Oh the door, and you are shabby,
and haraSSed with debts, you will quarrel and
wish to heaven you had had enough sense to
stay single until you really had the price of a
marriage license.
And unless man is a Superman, gifted with
actual financial genius, an early marriage
is handicap that keeps him at the foot of
the ladder all his days. Every cent he can
make, and more, is needed to run the home.
He has no chance to get ahead land soon his
spirit and his ambition are broken, and he
sinks into the drudge class So, if you really
love your boy sweetheart give him chance
to win out. Let him get start before you
put the DurQen OF FAMILY on MS back.
Don't marry until you have had your play
time of life. The only care-free time in a
womanS whole existence is the little span be-
tween her school days and her wedding day.
After that no matter how good and kind man
she marreS, she is bound There is always
some one whose wishes she must consult be-
fore her own, someone whose happiness she
must prefer before her own.
Don't marry until you have had all the idle
filtration you want all the admiration from
casual men you desire, all the dancing and
gadding you crave. Have your fling before
marriage instead of afterwards. That's only
fair to the man, to yourself, and the general
public.
When you see married woman who is giddy
and flighty, who carries on clandeStine affairs
with men, who is flattered out of her wits by
any attention from men, and who neglects her
husband and her children, and her home to
tear around madly to every party she is in
vited to, set it down that she married early.
She didn't have her girl time at the proper
time of life and she is taking it when it is as
dangerous as having the measles in middle
life.
Don't mess up your life by a child mar
riage, my dear. Wait until you are grown
and mature woman and know what you are
about. At its best marriage lasts long time,
and at its worst it seems to last longer.
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndicate,
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MRS. SOLOMON SAYS:
BY HELEN ROWLAND

NV daughter, heed not the words of an un-
comely woman, who inStructeth thee concern
ing Love.
For, to speak CONTINGENCY of the Tender
and often; and one filtration doth not make
charmer.
Verify, verify, fearful and diversified are the
ways of men in their love-making. And thou
canst NOT Judge any man, until he hath sought
to kiss thee, at least once.
Lo, |, my Daughter, have known many wise
wise men, but they were all foolish in their
wooing; yet the foohardy are oft-times wise
in love.
Behold in Babylon, met man whose
voice was smoother than silk and whose eyes
were soften than velvet and more careSSing
than an HaWaiin guitar.
And | said in my heart ooh, be joyful!
For, surely, surely, this is HE, the Perfect
Wooer, whom l have sought all the days Of
my life!"
Yet, it came to pass that in his wooing, l
found him less subtle than traffic policeman,
more obvious than an electric sign and more
casual than a brother. For he ClaSped mine
hand as one that lifteth dumbbell to test its
weight; and his kisses were more proSac than
a family breakfast.
And when he said, 81 love thee!" it was
as one might say, 81 love hot waff1eS and
| honey!"
For, the flavor of fervor and sincerity was
| not IN him.
Now, it came to pass that l met another
| youth, who was more cumbersome in a draw
| ing-room than bumble-bee in the milk and
SILVER amidst multitude of women than a
! Greek professor at a dancing party.
| And, when ! found myself alone in the
moonlight with him, said, "Ho-hum!'
Yet, 10, he spake with the tongue of angels
and of nightingaes; and his handclasp was
more thrilling than a real surprise at Christ
mas. And it was as though | were the ONLY
woman in the world and there never had been
one before!
| For, Subtility and boldness, and tenderness,
and ardor were mixed in his wooing, as a
perfect cocktail which goeth to the head, caus-
ing much giddinesS.
And knew him, at once, for what he was
| even the Great Lover!
Verify. verify, in all the days of thy life
no TWO men shall WOO thee. alike. For one
man shall snatch thy kisses as though he had
Snatched thy rings; and another shall take
them as casually as he lighteth a cigarette;
and another shall receive them as one that
receiveth benediction.
| But Perfect Lover is harder to find than a
perfect climate, and more comforting to the
|. Selah
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The Tamb;co B1undef

-VaN SO steadfast and childlike Kepub-
lican faith as the Boston transcripts
~1 is jolted by the sudden dispatch and
sudden withdrawal Of two American war
ships to Tampico. The original order, COM
ments the Transcript, 'can hardly be re-
garded as otherwise than as a tactical mis-
take, slice the ships were afterwards to be
withdrawn in a manner which has led the
Mexicans to suppose that it was in obedience
to a protest of their Government Nor can
this veteran Boswell to an infallible party
conceal it's chagrin over the Mexican infer
ence that the withdrawal implies a rebuke
to Secretary DENLY by his own Government
for excessive jngoism."
The melodramatic flourish Is yet to be ex-
planned. The United States consul at Tampl-
CO is quoted as Jenying that he requested
the sending of warsLips to protect American
interests in tho oil district and the Obregon
Government insists that its own measures
for that purpose were altogether adequate.
Evidently they we're, inasmuch as the naval
demonstration has been recalled. Trivial as
the incident is, it can but provoke sur rise.
Mere Democrats would be expected to blum
der, but who would have dreamed that the
fathers of efficiency and the fountainhead of
craftsmanship could ever have erred in any
matter, particularly in that Of Mexico?
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Utilizing the Arctic

TN Canadas plan to introduce reindeer in
4 certain regions of her vast snowbound
territory which are now unpeopled and
unproductive economists see the possibility
of a new era "dawning for the Arctic wilder
ness" More than ninety per cent of the
}ominion's population is in the fringe of
southern provinces, about and beyond which
stretches vast but now profitess empire.
Trappers, scattered here and there across
enormous wastes, it's sole human habi-
tants, and there is no present likelihood Of
their increasing.
How to get some ve.lue out OF an area
almost as large as the entire United States,
naturally became a practical question for so
enterprising and thrifty people as the Cana
dans. Their attention was drawn to expert
ments in reindeer breeding in Alaska, where
herd of some thirteen hundred, introduced
in the year 1892, has multiplied until it now
numbers nearly two hundred thousand. Given
the proper climatic conditions, the only essen
tails for repeating this success, it would
SEEM are an abundance Of the cladonia
lichen, on which the deer browse, and free
dom from marrying insects-both of which
requisites, numerous parts of the Canadian
North afford. with reindeer well estab-
lished," it is observed, Canada will have
new and important source of meat supply.
This probably is the chief consideration
But of scarcely less Importance will be the
service of the reindeer means of opening
I'D new regions Winter or summer, the ami
mails may be used in harness"
Great expanses Of the earth now consid-
cred useless may some day be highly pro-
ductive and support prosperous populations
If the Arctic develops extensive oil and other
mineral resources, as some predict, that, of
course, will be peculiarly potent attraction.
But aside from this it is altogether likely
that as our planet becomes crowded and the
adaptive and creative power of science
grows, what are now waste places will be
turned to wondrous account.
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his committee are at work is completed and
ready to go into effect there is to be tre-
mendouS opposition from many quarters.
Every man and woman who would be affect
ed is going to fight against it. AS congress
must, Of course, approve of the Brown plan
before it goes into effect the pressure will
be brought to bear on congress. lot of
propaganda has already been afoot to ditch
the scheme of saving, but President Harding S
ultimatum that any government clerk at
tempting to hamper the work of reorganiza-
ton would be dismissed, has had it's effect.
The flood of form letters to members of
congress ceased, which was taken as evil
dence that those conducting the propaganda
were men interested solely in holding their
own jobs.
There is propaganda of other sorts at
work, of course Prominent among the
active groups is the educational group, which
is striving hard for the inclusion of depatt-
ment of education instead of department
of public welfare, in the reorganized govern
ment machine. For great many years the
educational forces have made this demand,
and strong pressure is brought to bear on
congress right along for this purpose. This
is offset to some extent though, because the
educational forces having brought certain
religious forces into the fight, and the old
Catholic and Protestant question has arisen
in the matter of the proposed creation of a
department of education. The Catholic
group wants the government to take little
hand in the direction of educational matters
The proposal to amalgamate the war and
navy departments is certain to meet bitter
and determined opposition. The combina-
ton of the departments naturally would
eliminate many of the posts held by high
ranking army and navy officers, and these
officers and their probable successors, with
their friends and followers, are expected to
fight hard against the move suggested as an
economy measure.
If congress adopts the plan being worked
out by Mr.. Brown and the other members of
the committee, it is going to mean a tremen-
dous cut in the federal payroll. 1t is esti-
mated that not less than 10000 names will
be cut off, and the number may go as high
as $4,000. The bulk of these clerks would
be those employed in Washington, but fed
eral offices maintained elsewhere would be
affected, too.
Experts estimate that the average govern
ment clerk costs about $4,000 year. The
average pay is in the neighborhood of $1,000
annually, the balance of the $4,000 being
made up in the cost to the government of
providing a place for the clerk to work,
office supplies, and the like. Taking this
figure as fact, the discharge of 5000
clerks would mean saving Of $50, 900,
and an even $100,000,00O of governmental
expense would be cut off if the government
got rid of $4,000 clerks, which some mem
bers of the joint committee regard as highly
probable.
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a Far-Reach;ng STEP Tovard
World Peace and Habb;ness

THE most important act of the Harding
Administration and by far the most
praiseworthy is the call for an interna-
tional conference on armament restriction.
After season of dffidence and delay, In
which Congress, hearing from an insistent
country, urged the step, the President has
invited the principal "Allied and Associated"
Powers-Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan-to take common counsel with a view
to limiting the competition and the burden
of incessant preparation for war All have
responded cordially save Japan, and her
hearty acceptance in due time is taken for
granted. The way thus opens toward helief
from one of the painfullest loads and gray
est perils the peoples of the earth are bearing.
The course and outcome of the conference,
which is to be held at Washington in the
coming autumn, are as yet conjectural. Moth
ing can be done but by common consent and
q common sincerity of purpose. America, as
beftted the mightiest and securest of nations
has taken the lead to the extent of proposing
the interchange of views and suggestions.
But when the times comes for action the Pow
ers will go forward together, or they will all
hang back. In the nature of the case dis
effectual. For this very reason, however, all
can enter the conference the more readily,
knowing that they hazard no right or interest
Conjectural the outcome is, but altogether
hopefully so. Great Britain, most vitality
concerned in the matter of naval limitation,
stands committed to earnest co-working. "No
effort" declares the Prime Minister, will
be lacking on the part of the British Empire
to make the proposed conference a success.
The House of Commons has manifested
;o1 rfio
larly significant-so have the Dominions.
France and Italy naturally will support a
program which, without compromising any
interest of theirs, will make world conditions
easier and more peaceable. Japan's leading
statesmen have Endorsed the general purpose
of the conference, and there is reason to be-
lieve that the Japanese people, in SO far as
they can influence the situation, will count
helpfully. The likelihood is thus for an
agreement that will reduce the present back
breaking cost of ornaments and at the same
time draw the nations into happier and more
fruitful relationships.
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LIBRARIANS
By H. Addington Bruce


is the community whose pub
+ lie library is in the charge of real
librarian. And fortunate is the real
librarian whose community is properly ap
preciative of his services.
Real Librarians are never mere cataloguerS
and cuStodanS of books. They do sot rest
content with exceli1g in administrative or
clerical work.
Nor do they regard their libraries as pri-
books. They never SO happy as when
great gaps in the shelves testify to al active
and wide circulation among home readers.
Themselves lovers Of books, they neglect no
opportunity to foster love of good reading
among the library's patrons. And they tire
leSSly e1deavor to increase the number of
patrons.
to come to them. BY one device or another
they seek to attract even people who ordina-
rily would never cross the threshold of Ii
brary. And having once drawn them to the
library, they strive to draw them again and
again until library-uSe becomes habtual to
them.
Library lectures, library exhibitions library
conferences on current events are some of the
devices they employ. Also they cause it to
be generally known that their libraries func-
ton ceaSeleSSly and willingly as bureaus of
sound information all manner of subjects.
This means, of course, that real librarians
are enthusiasts not only as regards books, but
also as regards their fellow-beings. They are
not dry-aS-dust pedantS, but intensely human.
They can Sympathize equally with the scholar
and with those who do not even know the
meaning of the word scholarship.
They are patient, kind, and tactful. Unlike
pseudo librarians, puffed up with an undue
sense of their importance and their intellectual
superiority, they have no desire to overawe
seekers after knowledge. Always their great
desire is to help.
II am glad to see you," their attitude an
nounces to every libary user. ut is pleasure,
not a trouble, to aid in solving your problems
for you. That is what we Librarians are for"
Librarians of this sort appreciably raise the
intellectual and cultural standards of the COM
munity they serve-always provided the peo-
pie of that community have the good sense
to accord them the support they deserve.
If such support is lacking-if ample funds
are denied the librarians, if they are tram
afflicted with unsympathetic and petty-minded
boards of truSteeS-one of two things will
happen.
Either the real librarians will migrate at the
first opportunity to some other community
where they will have more freedom to be of
benefit. Or if such an opportunity does not
status of devitalized job-holderS, content to
do as others bid them and no longer aflame
with zeal to initiate and create.
truly pathetic failure, this; a tragic loss
both to the librarians and to the communities
that have submerged them.
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