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The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-04-29

In the April number of the Alas ka School Bulletin the front page carries the large headline, "Juneac To Erect New School Building The opening paragraph is as fol- lows: At the request of the Juneau School Board, the City Council has passed a resolution petitioning Con gress for permission to vote on the question of the issuance of bonds in the amount of $75,000 for the purpose of erecting a new school building. The School Board has requested the City Council to pur- chase a tract of land adjoining the present school site, as a location for the new structure.
 Wrangell is the only town in Southeastern Alaska that has not already provided a modern schoo' plant. That Wrangell is financially better able to carry the burden of a building program, as we'll as more economical in her school ex penditures than almost any other Alaska town is we'll shown by a study of comparative school costs per pupil appearing in the latest issue of the Bulletin. Considering both, school costs per pupil and city economy, Wrangell heads the list with a school cost of only $84.59 per pupil and a municipal expenditure of only 35 per cent of her tax receipts for all other pur- poses. It is also interesting to know that the citizens of Wrangell pay taxes on smaller percent only two-thirds-of the actual value of the property, than most of the other Alaska towns.
 Ketchikan comes second on the list with a per pupil cost slightly lower, S75.98, but an expenditure for other purposes of 66 per cent of her entire tax receipts. Petersburg follows next on the list with $88.15 per pupil for school costs. Juneau spends $93.32 per pupil on her schools and 73 per cent of her taxes for other purposes. Anchorage fol- lows with $102.18 and 62 percent Cordova with s122.S1 and 63 per cent; and Fairbanks with $115.12 and 82 percent of her taxes for mu- nicipal costs. Even these latter are not excessive when compared with school costs elsewhere.
 The article in the Alaska School Bulletin for April was accompanied by the following table of per pupil school costs in the various Alaska towns enrolling one hundred or mora nl1Di1q
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-04-29

Gafl and Elsie Jensen, from Ju- aeau. enrolled in the 9th and Sth grades respectively of the Jr.-sr. nigh school bringing the enroll meat for the year up to 5S.
 The medical examination work which was authorized by the Board .cme time ago was started Monday afternoon by Doctor Clark. Four
 en were examined from Miss flag 5rty's room as the first installmant. Dr. Clark expects to examine twenty aer day during the next ten days. ! standard record card has been provided so that follow=up work can ae handled to better advantage. The ehild's average scholastic grade will be recorded as a basis to judge benefits derived from remedies af- fected. The same cards are design cd for annual records during the ehild's school career They will be filed in the superintendent's office and will be available for reference to parents, teacher, and doctor.
 Livingstone Desmond and Chad Wyatt have dropped out of school to go to work.
 The Dramatic Art class is work ing on a play to be presented at the next meeting of the Parent Teacher Association.
 The Wrangell Wits have been recognized by the Associated Stu dents of the Wrangell High School as an accredited organization and the Honor Society has likewise con- ceded it a place on the eligibility list. The Wrangell Wits is par liamentary organization.
 
 Should town deliberately per init and sanction law violation in order to encourage the lawless ele- ment to come in and spend money to increase the towns trade was a question discussed by the stu dents of the high school class in Sociology during the week. Opin- ions were not unanimous.
 School was dismissed from 9:45 until noon Wednesday to permit the school children to witness the docking of the sailing ship, Star of England, at the A. p. A. cannery dock. The event will be made the subject of work in the language, history, civics and science classes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-04-29

Empire should cause those who are inclined to consider Wrangell school costs as excessive. to reconsider.
 The following is a list of the out-
Nogales international., 1926-12-05
CANDY MAKERS INSURANCE
TOTAL is NOW $2,500,O00

What is perhaps the largest
holding Of insurance in Chicago
has been acquired by Otto Y
Schnering. The policies he now
holds amount to $2,50O,000.
Mr.. Schnering is president Of
the Curtiss Candy company, max
ers of the candy "Baby Ruth" and
other Candy bars.
Following are the names and
the amounts of some other men
holding the largest insurance in
the city:
julius Rosenwald, president
Sears, Rebuck & Co., 100000.
Louis F. Swift, Swift & Co.,,
$1,80OO,00O.
William J. Wrigley Jr., presi-
dent William Wrigley company,
$1,30O,O00.
Marshall Field ILL.,, $1,O00.00O.
Samuel insult 81, 100000.
Thomas E. Wilson, president
Wilson & Co., $1,OO0.O0O.
Nogales international., 1926-12-05

Western Auto Supply Company,
distributors for Western Giant and
Wear Well tires. The mileage
delivered by the tire will be based
entirely upon the materials built
into it at the factory and the
speedometer will reveal the quail
ity of these materials.
"The motorist may think that
he is getting a bargain when he
buys a tire from a dealer because
he happens to buy it at a price
considerably lower than that of
Nogales international., 1926-12-05
MILEAGE is
COST MEASURE

The speedometer on your car
will quickly reveal whether tire
is honestly made or merely built
to sell at a low price and the
speedometer inventor can be cred
tied for teaching motorists just
what their tires are doing.
The cost per speedometer mile
is what actually counts and the
initial cost Of the tire is by no
means the best test, according to
J. H. Lee, local manager for the
Nogales international., 1926-12-05
STATE BRIEFS

Douglas Phelps-Dodge Corp
oration will erect lead smelter
here.
Holbrook- 335 cars live stock
shipped from HoIbrook, in re-
cent Today period.
Lupton- New oil well being
drilled here.
Proposal to drill wells and ss-
tablish watering places for live
stock on public lands in West,
under consideration by Interior
Department in Washington.
Holbrook-Final details being
completed, for building bridge
across Little Colorado River.
Bowie Several streets being
graded.
Bisbee- S-compartment shaft
will be put down to depth OF
$500 feet, on claims purchased
from Warren Realty & Develop
ment Company by Copper Queen
Branch Of Phelps-D Dodge Corpora
tion.
Benson Actual work started
on construction Of temporar!
bridge over San Pedro River.
Nogales international., 1926-12-05


the average standard make such
as the Western Giant or Wear
Well tire, but after he follows
such a plan for a time he will
find that his tire economy does
not come from purchasing ''no
name" tires.
"The Western Giant or Wear
Well user is fully protected for
every Western Auto tire is guar
anteed and that guarantee is
backed up by list of over $50
stores"
Nogales international., 1926-12-05

Doctor A. J. Clarke, resident
at Llano, Sonora, was at Nogales
early in the week.
William Rosenberg has gone to
New York, having departed Mon
day. He will absent himself alb
out month.
Miss Ida Levin who had been
visiting Mrs. H. K. Chenoweth,
returned to her home in Tucson,
Tuesday last.
r. r. Richardson has return
ed to his Pennsylvania Rancho,
near Crittenden, after a visit of
about week in Tucson.
Last week H. L. Caraway was
in from the Pesqueira Rancho on
the Sonora River. He sojourn-
ed at the line city several days.
Tuesday Major H. A. Read was
in town from his Refugio mine,
on the Tucson road, some six miles
or more north from Nogales.
Mace Burgoon, engineer at the
electric light works has taken a
layoff to spend the money he won
ON election of President William
Mckinley. He will visit Orc
Blanco. Tucson ond Phoenix.
The Nogales Building & Loan
Association is receiving subscrip-
tions for new series OF shares
the fourth-which will be issued
early in January. This well man.
aged financial institution IS
growing rapidly in public favor.
Miss Clara Holler has gone to
Guaymas where she will pass the
winter, a guest of Miss Mariana
Velasco, a reigning belle Of the
Sonora metropolis. Miss Velas-
co has returned home but recent
ly after a visit Of a couple OF
months in Nogales.
Eugene Wolff proprietor OF
the Belleview Hotel, in Nogales,
Arizona, is in Cripple Creek, CO.
dorado, 1oaning money at goodly
rates of interest on gilt eded sec
urity. Mrs. Wolff remains in
the line city conducting the hotel.
Nogales international., 1926-12-05
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Our speciality IL custom
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Nogales international., 1926-12-05

At request of the State Depart.
ment at Washington United Stat
es Consul r. Hughes Long has
had taken and forwarded a series
of photographs of the new con-
sulate in Nogales, Sonora. The
first is an exterior view in front,
with the American flag floating
from the staff on top of the build
ing. At one side is Eddie Hog
ans cute little carriage and bur-
TO, the vehicle bearing Master
Ned and several of the consul's
juvenile friends. Of the interior
the first view is of the consular
office with Consul Lon and Vice
Consul R. D. George at their
desks. The third view is of
the reception room, in. which are
seated the consul and several
friends from both sides Of the
line.
Nogales international., 1926-12-05

STAR PLAYER OF MICHIGAN
Here is Benny Friedman, cap
tain of the Yostmen, kicking
Friedman is an All-American Sc
lection.
Warren Shaft to be sunk, on
Bisbee Queen Development prop
erty.
Condition of ranges and cattle
through Arizona, reported favor
able.
Hereford Frank Moson ship
ped 2 carloads calves to Los An
celes market recently.
Nogales international., 1926-12-05

George Montague the capable
division engineer and roadmaster
for the Sonora Railway and the
New Mexico & Arizona Railroad,
has been advanced in dignity and
emolument. Since December
1st. his title is Superintendent of
Maintenance of Way, Bridges and
Buildings.
Mr.. Montague has been in the
service of these companies from
the beginning of construction a
dozen years or more ago; and
has earned this latest promotion,
which, is not the first.
Nogales international., 1926-12-05
NOgaIeS so Years Ago
From "The Oasis December 5th, 1896

Last Saturday Nogales was Wis.
tied lby William C. Greene, a
prominent and we'll known cattle
man and miner, of Cochise coun-
ty. whose rancho is near Here
ford on the San Pedro. Mr..
Green came from the Cananea
mountains in Sonora, where he
is acquiring the far famed Cana
nea mines, that were operated by
the Spaniards long years ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-11

err places, in st. Louis. In 1912 Liza
coin visited his friend Joshua Speed
in Kentucky, but tie nearest approach
to Il speech in that state that l have
been able to discover is a reference
in the Cincinnati speech to the Ken
tuckians across the river. On at least
one occasion Lincoln spoke in Michi-
gan, and this completes the list of
states in which Lincoln is known to
have spoken. 1t is quite within the
limits of probability that Lincoln WIS.,
tied and spoke in Iowa and Mime
sofa, but the known facts are sufficient
for our purpose.
His Ability Recognized.
The facts assembled show that, be-
fore his nomination in 1860, Lincoln
had spoken in at Least nine states and
one territory, and that he had ap-
peared in at least as many cities of
considerable size and Importance. A
local paper characterized the WOrceS-
ter speech as "a truly mastery and
convincing speech" and the Tribune
said of the Cooper institute address:
mo man ever before made such an
impression on his first appearance be-
fore a New York audience" The Gin
cfhnati speech was included in the vol
ume containing the Lincoln-Douglas
debates, published in 1850, and the
Cooper institute address, besides be-
ing reported in full in tile newspapers
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Che DAY after It's delivery, formed one
of the Tribune tracts and was issued
a few months later in an annotated
edition. 1t is doubtful whether even
Seward, whose knowledge of the coun-
try has never been questioned, had
covered so great and varied terri
tory as speaker as Lincoln. 1t may
be added that Lincoln supplemented
his first-hand observation of different
sections by a careful reading of a num-
be of newspapers, including the Week
ly Tribune and the Charleston Mer-
curry, and that he knew personally
many political leaders of both parties
in different parts of the country.
Intimate With Great Men.
During his "neglible" single term
in congress he formed an intimacy
with Alexander H. Stephens, later
vice president of the Confederacy, and
on his way back from New England in
1S4S he stopped at Albany in order to
meet Thurlow Weed, later Stewards
campaign manager. 1t is an interest
ing fact indicative of Lincoln's breadth
of view and freedom from prejudice,
that his most intimate early friend was
a Kentucky Democrat and slave-owner,
Joshua Speed, whose brother became
a member of LincOln's cabinet. In his
knowledge of the real sentiment and
character of the South, very impOr-
tant matter at that time, Lincoln was
e., thny,
any other of the Republican candi-
dates in 1860. Before as well as dur
ing the Presidency Lincoln was able,
through his knowledge of the country
as a whole and not merely of section
of it, to take truly national view of
the difficult situation, in marked con.
trast to the narrow sectional view of
many OF the political leaders, both
North and South.
Might Have Prevented War.
If the questions at issue in 1861 had
been referred to him and to that no
less broadminded southerner, AleXan-
der II. Stephens, for final settlement,
there is every reason to believe that
the Civil war would have been avoid
ed, slavery would have been grad
ually abolished with justice to all, and
the Union would have been preserved
in spirit Of charity rather than of
bitterness. We are, therefore, in my
opinion, justified in assigning to Lin
coin place in the upper class of I'M
usually well prepared and seasoned
Presidents. The difficult and proba-
bly, unanswerable question of his
relative rank in this upper class need
not be discussed here.
"a. 1926. Western Newspaper Union.)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-11
BOTH GREAT LEADERS
Names of Lincoln and Lee
Closely Associated.

Last years anniversary-the one
hundred and siXteenth-of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln was unique for the
coupling with it of a commemoration
of Robert Edward Lee. Formal eXer-
cises in honor of the two men were
held in the Hall of Fame for Great
Americans at New York university, in
tablets for them both; and elsewhere
the two names were-always have
been-closely associated.
1t will not be overlooked either, that
steps have been taken for the re-
Mobilization and safeguardianship of
Lees old home; and the government
is planning the construction Of mon
umental bridge across the Potomac,
leading directly from the Lincoln me-
mortal to Arlington.
1t is well. We have passed the six
tieth anniversary of the ending of the
Civil war in the surrender of Lee to
Grant at Appomattox. Without in
even an infinitesimal degree repudi-
ating the sentiments of that time, or
lessening the significance of the Civil
war and its irrevocable arbitrament
Of the supreme issue of national union,
we must regard it as fitting to recog-
nize an accomplished fact of sixty
years as a closed chapter in our his
tory.
1t would be as foolish to expect the
South to forget Lee, or to cease to
honor him, as it would to expect the
North similarly to ignore Lincoln. 1t
is not unreasonable to expect both
and all parts of the country to recog-
nize and to honor the intrinsic virtues
of them both-each the indisputably
best representative of the cause for
which he strove. And we have no
question that if, in the Elysian fields,
the mighty shade of Lincoln is regard
full of what now happens in this world,
he will give benign approval to this
commemorative coupling with his own
name the name of his one-time most
formidable antagonist. - Washington
Post
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insist that the qualities that made
Abraham Lincoln what.he was are suf-
ficient to preserve him, as Edwin NJ.
Stanton said, for the ages.
The reason why Lincoln's greatness
lends itself to legend are plain enough.
AS a national figure he flashed upon
the rapidly turning pages of history
for but moment, and was gone be-
fore his countrymen came to know
him. His entire career, it may be
said, covered only four years, some
thing perhaps unprecedented in the
annals of the great. Before he be-
came President he was country law
yer, almost unknown outside of Hi
nois. In an instant he burst upon the
national horizon like a meteor, light
ing up the whole sky, and while the
eyes of millions We're yet upon him
trying to make out this sudden por-
tent, he vanished leaving his country
men and the world with question
unanswered The attempts to an
swer it have had natural result: the
Illinois circuit-ridng lawyer has be-
come the legal peer CT Coke and Mans
field and Marshall the President who
had never seem an army until he was
fifty-two years old has become a mil
itary genius; the prairie debater has
taken his place with the worlds first
orators; the lonely, sad, overburdened
leader of a nation crying out in its
travail is a mystic and a poet.
Don't Account for Lincoln.
There is some truth in all of these
things, but not enough in any one Of
them to account for Lincoln there
have been greater American lawyers,
military leaders, orators and poets.
yet none of them was Lincoln. He
knew and could eXpound the law, but
this was perhaps more successfully
demonstrated in his debate with Doug
'as than in his practice at the Illinois
har. He acquired certain shrewd
military knowledge and insight, but
this was chiefly remarkable as show
ing the extraordinary powers of his
logical mind; it's practical value in the
direction of the northern armies is
debatable. We think the second in
augural, which is carved in marble on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-11

the walls of the Lincoln memorial in
Washington, ranks with the highest
poetry of the Bible, on which, indeed,
it was modelled. The Gettysburg adj
dress reaches the topmost note of hui
man eloquence
LoweIPs Eulogy Lives.
But these qualities of mind and
these achievements of painstaking and
often cropping effort do not account for
Abraham Lincoln, declares the Kan
sas City Star. James Russell Lowell
accounted for him in few simple
words. This patient, kindly, wise.
foreseeing man." In 1861 the nation
could not have been led by the great
est lawyer, military genius, orator or
poet. If Lincoln had been all of these
and nothing more he must have failed.
Hating slavery he dared not strike it;
the North was not ready. Hating war
he dared to make it, yet had to make
it gently-often a fatal thing and al
most fatal then; his task was to hold
the North and the border states with
OllC manu- anu SlilhC VI ptNhOu llC
South with the otner-he hardly knew
which to do and first and last did
both. He had to find leaders for the
armies, to keep Europe off the Norths
back, to placate and disarm powerful
foes in his own party, to fight battles
when victory was almost as terrible
as defeat in this war of brothers, to
shed civil blood and yet preserve the
nation and to lead at last the public
opinion of the North to the inevitable
necessity of emancipation. This pa
tient, kindly, wise, foreseeing rGan"
accomplished the task, and history's
tribute to him must be the recognition
that a Seward, a Chase, Stanton, o
Grant could not have done it. Lin.
coin led the North slowly because me
North would be led no other way. A
swifter military success might have
been obtained by a Napoleon, but
military success achieved before the
North had learned that the war could
end only in the destruction of its
cause would not have preserved the
Union.
Lincoln will grow-is growing-with
the knowledge of his countrymen that
his true greatness was in these quail
tiles of leadership that went down to
the character and fiber of the man;
to his simplicity, honesty, wisdom,
forebearance truthfulness and mercy.
In these was his power over men, in
his time and ours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-11
Transient Causes

Men are sometimes impelled by
temporary and transient causes to
look with favor upon suggestions Of
basic change. Lincoln was not 50
easily swept from his main purpose.
He hated slavery, but every atom of
his being was consecrated to the
preservation of the Constitution and
the Union. He wrote to the work
lngmen of Manchester, zone duty,
paramount to all others, was before
me, namely, to maintain and preserve
at once the Constitution. and the in
tegrity of the Federal Republic" Re
call his famous letter to Horace
Greeley. Il would save the Union
If l could save the Union,
without freeing any slave ! would
do it, and if | could save it by free
ing all of the slaves, l would do it;
and if / could save it b. freeing
some and leaving others alone, J
would also do that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-11
WELL QUALIFIED
FOR HIGH OFFICE
Lincoln's Travel and Study
Made Him Conversant
With Problems.

BY D. X. DODGE, University of Illinois,
The claim has been made recently
by distinguished northern historian
that at the time of his election Lin
coins knowledge of public affairs was
limited and that he knew very little
of the country through personal con-
tact. According to this authority,
Lincoln's single term in congress was
''neglible" and, with the exception of
a trip to New Orleans in his youth,
he had spent most of his time In his
own state.
Unfortunately concentrations of this
sort, especially when they are made
by men who are supposed to know
what they are talking about, are con-
yincing to the average reader, who is
unable to check up on the writer. Let
US consider how far this particular
generalization is justified by the facts
or rather, whether there are any facts
to justify it. 1t is true that most
of the important political speeches of
Lincoln were made in his own state,
but that is probably true of most men
in public life.
Spoke in Many Cities.
An examination of the biographies,
supplemented by newspaper reports,
leads the student to quite a different
conclusion from that reached by Pro-
fessor Macdonald, in his curious re-
view of Stephensons book. To be
sure, Lincoln had not appeared in
New York before he made his famous
Cooper institute address in February,
1850, but in 1S4S, twelve years earlier
he spoke in fremont temple, Boston,
his later opponent, William H. Sew.
ard, sharing the platform with him,
and during the same Taylor campaign
Of 1S4S he spoke in Worcester, New
Bedford and other Massachusetts
towns In 1859 he delivered a long
speech in Cincinnati, and in the same
year he gave his remarkable agricul-
tural address In Milwaukee, which was
followed by political speech, and la
ter in the year he made number of
speeches in Kansas only fragments
of which have been preserved. Aft
er the Cooper institute address he
spoke in New Haven, Hartford and
other Connecticut towns.
Four States Knew Him.
I'm 1S49 he delivered the recently dis
covered eulogy on General Taylor in
Chicago, and nine years later he made
very important speech in the same
city. In 1S4S he spoke several times
In Maryland and Indiana. He is also
known to have spoken a number of
times in Missouri, possibly, among 9th