Show LIGHTHOUSE TENDER TELLS TRIBULATIONS TRIBULATION S PORTLAND Ore March 31 By my B Y United Press Press John J. J Commuter ca can sympathize with Charles P. P Mercer th theman the theman e man from pass In regard t to eo o the difficulties attendant upon pon raisIng rail rals- Ing garden truck Your commuter finds his crops devoured devoured devoured de de- by bugs and the nel neighbors neighbor s' s chickens Trade winds blow Mercers Mercer's s sIt truck stuff out to sea or spread It over oyer the coast of ot Alaska Mercer Is here for tor his annual v vacation vacation va va- a- a cation while his lighthouse and fo tog fog g station at Cape Alaska Is closed during tho the season of ot na nav nav- v- v No o. o we dont don't wort worry much abo about ut woman suffrage the modern styles or Jazz or any of the other things th that at Chicago feature writers get gray hairs hair s about every week or so up there at Cape Mercer declared You see the government wont won't a al aI- aI l- l low tow wom In the lighthouses a an anthen and ld d then too Im I'm not married We Ve a are re seldom bothered with things of or th that at sort The mail mall comes only once a month when the weather Is nice sowe so sowe we are not In direct touch all the time tim e. e One h has s to keep In constant touch h you ou know with such absorbing changas changes chang es as Jazz and flapper parties to appreciate e- e elate clate them The only flappers we we ha haare have ve vend are In the schools of or whales Mercer reported that the isle Island nd I where his lighthouse stands Is is hea heavIly heavily v ily stocked with caribou many of or which died this year starvation n. n The government permits the killing of ot the animals for food tood but prohibits their molestation for gain Red foxes fox es esme abound on the Uie island and are to tame me enough to pose for tor photographs I |