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n TO ONE would argue that thu
War Department should edu
NJ cate the children of New Yorl
4 Y City, supervise the sanitation
and health of the town, and
have the mayor report TO 1t. just be
cause New York is vitality impor
tant strategic spot from a military
point of view.
No one would contend that the
Navy Department should similarly
supervise the affairs of the people in
the Puget Sound country. just be-
cause there is a tremendously i'm
portant naval base there, and its sta
tegic Importance, under certain mill.
tary conditions, might he vital.
Nor have / ever heard the point
made that the people of the District
of Columbia who have no vote. should
be ruled by the military branches of
the Government because il contains
the Capitol and the headquarters of
all the armed forces of the Govern.
nent.
Yet this is the position OCCUPIED by
most of our territorial possessions,
The Philippine Islands and Porto
Rico are under the jurisdiction of the
War Department, while American
Samoa. Guam and the Virgin Islands
AS matter of fact, Hawaii, one of
our most vital strategic spots from
every conceivable point of view, is
not ruled by either the War or Navy
Department, but by the Department
of the Interior, as is Alas ska, which
makes our closest contact physically
with Soviet Russia. and have heard
no suggestion that the military status
of the country suffers in the slight.
est degree because of that fact.
On the contrary, these two terri.
torial possessions benefit considerably
] believe, by having a civil rather
than a military administration, and /
am convinced that similar benefits
would flow to the people of our other
possessions and dependencies. could
they also have civil instead of army
or navy government
Historically and administrativelv,
the Department of the Interior is the
appropriate branch of the Govern
nent to manage the affairs of the
territorial possessions of the United
States. Responding to the present
tendency toward centralized govern
mental control, it is natural that
President Coolidge should direct at
tention TO the need of unifying, un.
der the Department of the Interior.
the diverse systems that prevail in
handling our territorial affairs, which
are now divided among three depart
ments of government.
The Canal Zone should probably
not be considered in the proposed
change, since it is principally an engi.
neering project and has practically no
native population under United States
jurisdiction.
Under the authority vested in the
President by the different acts of Con-
gress, he can. by executive order. shift
the supervision of these insular posses
sions to the head of any executive de-
partment. Indeed, Porto Rico was
transferred from the Interior Depart |
ment to the War Department num-
Der of years ago by this method.
The spirit of America is to admin |
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1901, when Governor General. APP
pointed by the President of the United
States, was made the chief executive.
The aim Of the American Govern
ment was to accord self-rule as rap
idly as warranted. The organic act
of 1902 declared the inhabitants to be
citizens of the Philippine Isla nds and
extended to them most of the consti-
tutional guarantees for the protection
of life. liberty and property.
When the United States took over
the islands educational facilities. fol-
lowing the Spanish tradition, We're
provided for only a small favored
inteiligentsia. Almost no provision
was made for the masses. The Amer
leans opened schools at once, and in
short time put into operation pub
lie schools complete from primary
grades to university.
But what of the future development
of the islands and their people? Can
this be accomplished better by keep
ing them under the jurisdiction of the
War Department or by transferring
them to the supervision of the De-
partment of the Interior? This future
development is work of civil con.
struction and not of military regula-
ton. Careful geological surveys are
needed to determine the mineral re-
sources and point the way for their
exploitation. Scientific study of the
forests-how to increase their useful
ness and production and provide for
their Observation-Disclosures be made
The full utilization of the many splen.
did harbors and methods of increa sing
the shipping trade constitute part of
the forward-looking program. Better
methods of interisland and intraisland
communication must be provided.
The people have shown that they
are capable of a high degree of edu-
ton and respond promptly and gen.
erously to efforts made in that direc-
ton. A fully adequate school system
that will eventually make them much
of unit linguistically and make the
most of the mental wealth in these
people must be accomplished.
DORTO RICO, the other territory
under the jurisdiction of the
War Department, was coded by Spain
to the United States in 1898, and re-
manned under American military au-
thority until it was given a full terri.
tOrial status and a civil government
in 1900. BY the Foraker act in that
year all its people were declared citi-
zens of Porto Rico. The governor
and the upper house of the legis-
lature are appointed by the President
Of the United States, and the lower
house is elected by the qualified vot-
ers
The 1,41S,000 inhabitants, unlike
most of those in the West Indies, are
largely white. They have a high
standard of living because of their
natural resources Education is un-
der Department of Education and is
the largest item in the budget. OF
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spirits, but only to face new troubles
when l found Fletcher raving in the
delirium of fever. He had lost every
vestige Of reason, and but for his
weakened condition / should have been
powerless to handle him. With the
discovery of water, the danger Of i'm
pending death from thirst had van
ished. but we had scarcely food enough
to last another day, and there was no
telling when I would be able to get
Fletcher up the wall of the cliff.
X X X
of course, with the newly discovered
source Of water supply and the
possibility of shooting more rabbits
and quail, we might have lived in the
chasm indefinitely. but with the ex-
tent of Fletcher's injuries not definite
ly determined. felt that the necessity
of getting him out was Of paramount
Importance.
1t was in attempting to move
Fletcher onto his bed, after he had
rolled clear of it in his delirium, that
l discovered what our short rations
Of food and water had done to my
strength. Ordinarily ] should have
little difficulty in lifting a weight of
two or three hundred pounds, but now
it was as much as l could do to
move him.
With this reminder of my waning
strength / felt my face, and was al
most startled to feel how hollow my
cheeks were, how the bones stuck out,
and how my eyes had sunk back in
their sockets. Then / looked at
Fletcher His appearance was terri
flying. to say the least, and l realized
that he was by no means the heavy
set, powerful man with whom ! had
started out from Bakersfield.
That evening l cooked from our di.
minishing larder a meal that was prod
igal in extravaganza. Fletcher could
eat nothing, and without the extra
mouth to feed. ate the heavy meal
/ had prepared. hoping that it would
give me strength.
For breakfast / ate the last bit of
solid food we possessed and drank sew
eral cups Of strong coffee.
When / shouldered our entire outfit,
including the blankets which composed
Fletcher's bed, and started up the cliff
with them. he muttered incoherent
protests. staring at me I'm open.
mouthed amazement. He was appar.
emily at a loss to understand what /
was about. After getting up the cliff,
/ spent two hours completing the work
of assembling the machine. and salts
fed myself that 1t was In seryiceabis
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ture, which meets hiennially, are sub
ject to approval of the Congress Of the
United States.
For the last 4S years the Interior
Department has administered the pub
lie lands in the Territory, supervised
the development OF its mineral re-
sources, operated the Alaska railroad
and attended to the education and
| health of it's native population.
What has transpired during those
years? What advance has been made?
How has the Department Of the Int
rior guided the development Of the
country, the education Of natives to
citizenship?
When the work OF the Bureau of
Education Of the Interior Department
| was started in Alaska, 40 years ago,
the aborigines were in absolutely prim
tive conditions. In southern Alaska
and in the interior the natives lived in
small, filthy novels with little light
and no ventilation. Along the shores
OF the Boring Sea and the Arctic
Ocean their Winter habitations were
semi.subterranean huts. When the
warmer days of Summer thawed the
frozen soil, rendering these under
ground novels uninhabitable, their
shelters were skin-covered tents along
the coast and the rivers. The Eski-
mos still used rude implements of
stone, ivory and bone, and consumed
much Of their seal and walrus meat
raw. Lamps filed with whale or seal
oil and with dried moss as wick were
still used for heating and cooking pur.
poses.
With the steady advance of the Blu
reau of Education system and other
civilizing agencies, these primitive
conditions have gradually disappeared,
except in some of the remotest settle
ments the bureau has not yet been
able to reach. In many of the villages
the old huts have been replaced by
neat. well furnished houses, the homes
of self.supporting, self-respecting ma
tives, thousands of whom are employed
by the great canneries of southern
Alaska. whose annual product is val.
ued at more than $40,000.000.
The fleets of powerboats owned and
operated by the natives are of great
service in transporting fish from the
fishing grounds to the canneries.
Many natives are employed in the
mines, whose output has totaled more
than 100000. 900 since 1880. Others
are pilots, storekeepers, loggers or
ivory carvers.
About $4,000 natives are included in
the $4,000 persons living in the Terri.
tory. Split up into groups of 80 to
400 persons, the natives live in scores
Of villages scattered along the thou
sands of miles of coast and the great
rivers. Some of the villages on re.
mote islands or beside the frozen
ocean are brought into touch with the
outside world only once or twice a
year. But the Bureau of Education
tended it's work to 95 of these villages.
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lister the affairs of dependent
people with view to their advance
Misunderstanding them, where neces
sary. the arts and customs of Civiliza
| ton, directing them toward economic
| independence and granting them au
| tonomy to the extent of their capacity
The European military system OF
| control in areas at peace among them
selves and the outside world does not
make for ultimate home rule or
provincial pride, so necessary to in
dependent initiative and intelligent
self. government. Authority may well
be lodged with powers best able ia
exercise it. but responsibility should
be decentralized. The native Ha-
waiians are patent exhibit OF
an American plan of development.
Though maintaining an independent
government, they have come into full
citizenship, on equality with citizens
of other nations.
Now, 1t would appear that territorial
administration might we'll be under
the jurisdiction of the department best
organized to emphasize the activities
which should be of greater concern to
these dependencies for generations to
consolidation, commerce. irrigated
agriculture-all so necessary to social
relations and domestic development on
American lines.
The functions of the Interior De-
partment, embracing the public lands.
irrigation. education, geology, national
parks, the American Indians and terri.
tories, qualify it to handle the develop
ment of alien peoples.
Alaska and Hawaii. once our only
extraterritorial possessions, were early
,fsfr To- 81 hn
Interior Department. as coming natu.
rally within the. functions OF the
branch of the government which since
1873 has nurtured each Of the infant
territories within the continental
United States to the full sisterhood of
States.
Indian reservations, which are de-
tendencies Of the United States. are
also under the jurisdiction of the De-
partment of the Interior, as are the
IS large tracts of land within the
continental United States which have
been set aside as national parks.
When Alaska was purchased from
Russia in 1867 it was under military
rule, but 10 years later the War De-
partment relinquished its supervision
to the Treasury Department, which in
turn was succeeded by the Navy De-
partment. There was no organized
civil administration by. the Federal
Government until 1884, when the So
called organic act was passed by Con-
gress. Since then, Alaska has been
under the Interior Department.
* X
THE Governor of Alaska is appointed
by the President and confirmed by
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In an article published last week
the author described how with a
companion he drove motor cycle
over the edge of cliff in the dark
ness. Recovering from the shock
of the fall, they found no exit TO
the deep pit into which they had
plunged, and the only water they
could find was brine. In a plucky
effort TO escape they decided to dis
mantle the motor of their machine
and drag the parts up to be reas-
sembled in the desert for a forlorn
dash to water hole.
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trip down the cliff and filled all our
empty canteens.
Then I packed the outfit and went
into the sulch to begin my task Of get
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condition by giving it trial run. The
motor could not have worked better.
and, returning to the spot where I
had assembled it, made one more
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| ting Fletcher out. 1t took me nearly
| half an hour to arouse him to the
point of attempting to get on his feet.
| This was accompanied largely by
| pleading and persuasion, but partly by
pushing and prodding. When he did
get on his feet, his mind was so un-
certain. and his limbs so wobbly, that
knew any attempt to get him up
the cliff by his own efforts would prob.
! ably result IN his taking another fall.
Therefore, got in front of him. took
hold of his arms. tumbled him onto
my back, and began carrying him
wounded soldier" fashion.
His weight was a load for me in my
weakened condition, under which /
could barely stagger. and l knew that
before / got to the top of the cliff the
flask was going to be well nigh i'm
possible, even il did not topple off
the wall with my lightweight burden
long before l could get there.
For the next half hour / struggled
up the wall. moving only few inches
at time before being compelled to
drop onto convenient projecting hedges
to rest and recover my breath. 1t was
only the ruggedness of the cliff at this
point that enabled me to make any
progress at all.
The toe holds In the rock We're
fairly numerous, otherwise 1 could not
have moved upward single foot with.
out the use of my arms. which were
fully engaged in holding the injured
man on my back. Eventually
reached the large projecting ledge
which Fletcher and 1 had previously
named the halfway point" and with
the Precipitation pouring off me in
streams, my throat and mouth almost
parched and my legs quivering, l
dropped my burden to snatch bit Of
rest. Above this point the wall was
next to perpendicular, with scarcely
projecting rock or crevice to offer a
finger or toe hold.
'CROPING about for some plan of
action. left Fletcher on the ledge
after placing large, fat rock against
him to keep him from rolling off into
the gulch again, and climbed up to
where / had left the machine. Here
Investigated the feasibility OF hoist
ing the PROSTATE man up the face of
the cliff with a rope. using the force
of gravity to pull up Fletcher's help
less bulk.
With our camp ak / cut down
mesquite tree with trunk about a
foot in diameter. This ! dragged to
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Hawaii. 1.-The cross roads of the Pa.
cific," is the other Territory under
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of
the Interior. Ever since the archi-
pelago of nine inhabited islands and
a number Of uninhabited ones. stretch.
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ing for thousand miles across the
mid.Pacific, was annexed by the
United States and created into q
Territory in 1900, it has been under
its present supervision.
The inhabitants comprise mixture
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THE Governor of Alaska is appointed
by the President and confirmed by
the United States Senate. He is vested
with executive power over the Terri
tory, and laws passed by the Legisla-
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BY HUBERT WORK.
Secretary Of The Interior

StCFefdT5 OF tue IHteIIUT'
n TO ONE would argue that the
War Department should edu-
cate the children of New York
1 City. supervise the sanitation
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In 1t, she takes up the correct
social attitude for those seeking =
divorce the attitude of divorced.
parents toward their children ;.Yhai
mutual friends do when on coreah
terms with both parties, whether
divorced couples shall be invited 20
the same affairs and other infolHe-
ton on the subject
TITS certainly a sign OF the times
p regretful one / suppose cnrr
nented a local librarian. Anyway
it's the first time divorce has been
taken up As a subject for discussion
by any writer of correct social de-
pertinent"
However, the chapter may do good
in that it may prevent some hostess;
from seating her guests as one did
at a dinner. The honor guest after
wards complained. I had a perfect.
ly boresome time One OF my eI-
husbands was on either side and
had no one interesting to talk to-"
Seriously though, while a more
tolerant world-or rather a world
more Injured, no longer black balls
divorce, it should not be resorted to
without great and momentous cause.
Two persons who had planned TO
be one until parted by death, should
give the new partnership at least
as fair a trial as they would a new
limousine or a console style radio.
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ed her voice to a thin, high wall
Don't, honey Faith whispered,
one eye on the attentive detectives
at the door. "She doesn't know any
| thing about Mr.. Clunys-death. She
only knows that you eloped with
Chris at the last minute. And she's
| really not any worse. DIR. Atkins
took that means Of safeguarding her
from hearing of the-the tragedy
| and of making 1t certain that she
wouldn't be called on to testify. She
doesn't know you've returned; she
thinks you're on your honeymoon"
You thought of that, Faith"
Cherry raised awed, adoring golden
eyes to her sisters. You think of
everything. darling. I wonder what
the Lane family would have done
without you these last few years.
I'm just beginning to appreciate
you, Faith. And you haven't scolded
me. made me feel like criminal for
marrying Chris. Oh. I'd give any
thing in the world to be back where
I was just three short months ago!
Just Cherry Lane, a stenographer
who had never dreamed of marrying
a rich man. oh. I've been a fool,
Faith, a conceited, headstronG little
fool! 1 wonder that you don't hate
mer'
I've always loved you more than
any ono else. Cherry" Faith said
very quietly, but her voice trembled.
that. honey" she laughed shakily.
You see, Cherry. Bob insists on tell
ing the world that we're engaged.
He wants the right to stand with
the Lanes. If there's any trouble.
Not that we think there will be-"
she added quickly.
II knew you were in love with
each other. of course" Cherry flung
up her head and smiled CALAMITY
through her tears. I'm awfully
glad. I'll try to be a better sister
than I was a sweetheart. Bob.
treated you rotten. but I guess I've
paid for a lot of my sins today"
I'm afraid it's going to take me a
little while longer to forgive you for
'C1NAAes oAiNAt ANoABiA iON IpOu lOlu
her without a smile. his blue eyes
very serious.
Cherry's small. childish face had
become drawn and pinched and very
white while he talked. but she took
his indictment bravely, unflinch-
ingrS.
1t was a little less than an hour
after the coroner had withdrawn
with his jury of six men when a stir
in the hall indicated that the men
were coming back into the drawing
room. where the sheeted body of
Ralph Cluny on an improvised bier
waited in the impassivity of death.
for vengence.
When the room was filled with
witnesses, reporters. detectives and
relatives Of the dead man, and the
coroner had taken his place at the
long table, a hush fell upon the
crowd:
DIR. Murchison rose, his face in
scrutable. to make his report.
NEXT: CheI1y's arrest.
Copyright. 1926. NEA Service. Incl
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Opens Her Letters

ga, nsesa Martha Lres ! am young woman
~ Years. Old and surely old enough TO
seriously 0biect to my mother opening all
tee SsitGrs receive What shall ] do
eeslnroc blame You for being an
noyed. Letters addressed to one per-
son arc certainly private property
and should so be respected by others
even mothers of grown daughters
Re'r Il you have spoken TO your
mother about this land presume you
havea ask her this: Does she want
TO force YOU to have your letters
SEMI 10 some other address?
OF course she won't and viii prob
ably desisr from the practice. Then,
do this. Read most OF your letters
TO ber--some Of the interesting parts
It's no doubt only curiosity, rather
than 2 more unworthy thought that
prompts her desire to open them,
anyway.
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NERVOUSNESS AND INTESTINAL TROUBLES
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ton
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find out the real ways of life, to
stumble into the cleanest paths, TO
search for the best road.
And, if we will only love enough,
things always come out right in the
end. When we realize that we can
never arrange their lives for our
children. that they are individuals
wholly detached from us after all,
and that at best we can only guide
them and pray for them and love
them, we shall have learned the
great lesson that all parents who
would be successful. must master.
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Wants a Divorce

Dear Martha Lee: Can you help me with
this problem? ! have been married only
a, short tinle-,Nov. 16-and l am tired
Of my husband want to leave him
but my folks are much opposed to this and
say people will talk. Ny reason for hat
think? YOUNG WIFE.
You must be very young indeed
or without much sense OF RESPONSE
bility to feel that you have justifica,
ton for leaving your husband this
soon. Did you marry him without
love? If you did, you still owe him
consideration as he was probably I'M
aware of it. Anyway, how can you
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He Quit Calling

dates with a young man, and / became
very much Interested in him All OF a
sudden ne quit calling. When ] go into
ly and always Is ready to start a CONVEX
Sc ton How shall l act Should l treat
him friendly as he does mo or Just barely
the store entirely? BRIGHT EYES.
Unless there is a good reason to
go into that particular store, why
annoy and puzzle yourself by seeing
the young man? II you do go, be
natural and friendly.