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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH COULDNT KID THAT STUDENT 1IIIS YOUNG MOTHER Tells Childless Women What Lydia EPinkhams Vegetable ' Compound Did for Her s -" I want to give yoo word or praise for your wonderful We are medicine. very fond of children and for a considerable time after we married I feared I Millston, Wia.- would not have any owing to my weak X began condition. LydiaJS. taking Pink hurt Vege- table Compound tuid now 1 have a nice strong healthy baby girL I can honestly smy that I did not suffer much more when my baby was born than ( used to suffer with my periods before I took Lydia E. Pinkharas Vegetable Compound years ago. I give au the credit to your medicine and shall always recomMrs. H. H. mend it very highly. Janssen, Millston, Wisconsin. How can women who are weak and sickly expect or hope to become mothers of healthy children? Their first duty is to themselves. They should overcome the derangement or debility that is dragging them down, and strengthen the entire system, as did Mrs. Janssen, by taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and then they will be in a position to give tbeir children the blessing of a good constitution. iIAT'S the matter .with Alaska? This question bids fair to displace the historic, What's the matter with Kansas? For the answer to tiie latter question nowadays Is, Shes all right. And the answer to the former seems to all wrong. But. like Kansas, Alaska can be made all right. And President Harding and his administration af'e planning to- do their best to bring it about. For Alaska, it may be said, is quite a place. Its area Is nearly 600,000 square miles an area equal carried on under the directe the combined area of Norway, Sweden, Finland, tion of the secretary ol area equal In Englssmi, Scotland and Ireland, war, The funds are desize to the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, an Alaskan tat rived from 2X&Z& Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, the Dakotas and Arkansas. JZtTFZgZZ) JZA&gOir and from special appropriIt has a coast line 2G,000 miles long.. The Yukon, ations by congress through military committees. into the activities, 24500 miles long in Alaska and, Canada, Is a great Tlie bureau of public roads of the agricultural of the department central national road, by water In summer, on the of war, - agriculdepartment constructs public roads In national Ice in winter. The south coast harbors of the forests. There is also a territorial ,, road comture and comAlaskan peninsula are open the year round, though mission. There are merce; in fact, he Point Barrow is 300 miles north of the Arctic ciractually four federal bureaus which have funds for the construction oi will assume f uclions that .apparently touch : prac-- . cle and without sun for 40 days in winter.' If has vvagon roads In Alaska. V half a dozen kinds of climates. There are 100.000 tically every department.,; The 1920 report of John Barton Payne, secreget square miles suitable for agriculture nud grazing. ; - Too much government Well, Alaska doesmosttary of the interior, contains many pages devoted a pretty large dose. And, whats more, Its There are 156,250 square miles of forests. 'There to a consideration of Alaskan conditions by him. ly government at long range. Bear in mind that are gold, silver, tin, antimony, copper, lead,, mar-f'in- In addition, it contains In full the report of the or all of are resources Alaska's directly nearly oil, coal, peat. There are fish and seals and Alaskan advisory committee, appointed by him In directly controlled by the federal government;. reindeer. April of 1920 to advise what Immediate steps could About 99 per cent of the land is still in govern-jWhy, In the 54 years, since we paid $7,200,000 be taken to better conditions, , what industries ment ' ownership. The development of coal and for Alaska. to the Itussians.it has returned the could be developed and what resources could be Water oil deposits Is under government leases. firli'i'ii.'t- money considerably more than one exploited to give employment to a resident popupowers and fisheries are under federal control, io'ld. The output of the fisheries, alone lation which In turn would give a home market In government and is all timber Alaska . nearlyamounts to $375,000,000.-- The mines hftve profor Alaska products. .This committee was made up , ownership. jUiiced a total Of $438,000,000, of which $311,000, U00 of Alfred H.; Brooks, (chairman), Interior departThe federal control of Alaskas resources is U Ike value of the gold output. The total' value ment; H. Y. Saint, shipping board ;v Otto Praeger,. vested in a number of 'departments and bureaus. of Alaska's mineral, fish and fur products from second assistant postmaster general; E. A. Sherto Rules affairs. Alaska and regulations relating 1867 to 1919 was $949,000,000, . man, agricultural. department. under the existing statutes, must be made by Is undoubtedly some thing wrong with v It was the Judgment of the advisory committee In are who also Washington large authorities, Alaska. The white population in 3910 was 39,000. that the wise course was to coordinate the differexecution. measure with their directly charged In 1915 it had increased to 50,000. , The present ent departments of the government having to do This administration has been a seri- white population Is estimated at 36,000, In addiwith Alaska through a committee, consisting of a bus handicap to the development of Alaska. In tion to 25,000 natives, some of whom are civilizetl.-TlSuch a which been made representative from each department. have instances regulations many industrial population exceeds 40,000. committee was named by Secretary Payne. did not meet the local requirements, and unjust was" 1919 commerce The total for $109,652,239, In Secretary Paynes personal comments and decisions rendered because those making them decrease of $17,496,793. The total commerce the report of .the .advisory committee many interlocal conditions. This sitwith were familiar not' will) the United States for 1920 was $106,586,095 esting and curious facts are found. Here are uation lias worked a particular hardship on the against $124,4516,491 in 1919, a decrease of : some of them : with small capital, who could not afford operator Canned salmon showed a decrease of Tlie work of construction of the government to present his argument , the make to long journey fresh fish other than salmou a decrease railroad is getting along slowly. in person to the Washington authorities. Owing pC $5J74.32i. The decrease in imports amounted to The postofflee department is not functioning. divided authority and the limitations placed to tlje f2,ftS,305, due largely to reduced mining and fishMail to Alaska Is shipped as express or freight. statutes and appropriations, there has also been by ery operations, There has been a shortage of labor. . a lack of coordination between various Alaska fed'The value of the territorys mineral output lu Tlie leases offered by the forest service to makeral activities. J9I5) was only $19,620,000. while that of 1918 was of pulp and paper offer unaccepiabie terms. ers a would take It be To Philadelphia lawyer sure, f2S.254.000. The mineral output in 1919 was the Is no resident district forester. , There to all the figure out as the old saying goes smallest in any year since 1910, and its value was There are 347- withdrawals and reservations of is are but here Alaska which governed, in ways lej Ilian half that of the output in 1916, which public lands; many serve no useful purpose. slime of them. was $48,600,000. The value of the annual output Only about 9 per cent of Alaska's ocean waterThe interior department has a large part of : of gold declined from $16,700,000 in 1916 to have been, charted. ways The secretary has general Alaskas government. in 1919. The copper output was $24,24o-Efflp- i and fog herns are. needed ; some Lighthouses work of constructing the m 1917; in 1918 It was $17,180,000; in 1919 it supervision over the projects, authorized by congress, lack appropria' was 8.73.:,003. government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks tions. Alaskan engineering commission. the by when Was Senator one in Albert B. Fall became secrenaval patrol 1920; there should There S, the general land office is Tlie commissioner-o- f tary of the interior, lie fell heir to a big Job. for be 20 boats. : , . the with and survey, , lunnngemeut (lispocharged It is under (he interior department that Alaska A territorial police force Is needed. In lands. the the national of forests public sition ' a large part of Its complicated functioning, The salmon fishing industry is menaced front (Tongnss and Chugach, embracing 20,000,001) lie ami President Harding have been looking Into of protection and propagation of the fish. luck acres) he executes all laws relating to t he ailMatlon very seriously. They have held many territorial government wants full territorial The and locating of prospecting, patenriiig of legislation ; jurisdiction over fish, game They have apparently come to a powers of Notof and lands way. rights granting public which answers the question, Whats the land animals; transfer of the and : withstanding this, the forest service, a bureau of wiaiter with Alaska? fund from, the federal to the territorial Alaska lias of the charge department, the agricultural Tow much government is their conclusion.' And .' . - 4 ' treasury. tlieir idea Is that absolute authority should be , national forests. of the interior is a 1919 under the leasing in coal output Alaskas The secretary member, with . vested in a single head and that single head should law .was only 60,000 tons; she is importing annualthe secretaries of war and agriculture of the new Be the President. Of course the secretary, of the ' The ,. commission. 100,000 ton. commission ly water has power Interior would have to do most all of the work. no Alaska her draws on California own, of and oil no funds Any personnel. is With investigation Hut, being a miner and developer himself, be Is the forest done by the geological survey-anfor 500,000 barrels of petroleum and its products. willing.'' He says: . service. There has been little or no investigation in the There is Just one way to develop Alaska, and resources. Tbe department of agriculture has now control water-powe- r tlwl Is to vest absolute authority ln.a single head, . over land to Alaska of the farmers) loan act to animals; Extension up last year u4 that supreme authority must be the President ' both the department of agriculture and the g homestead act are needed. -' the and departftUuself. Such a bill, which will vest this authorment of commerce functioned. Yet the bureau of Ocean transportation is Inadequate and rates ity la President Harding, Is now being considered fisheries (department of commerce) Is extensively are so high as to cripple all Alaskan industrial By proper officials and, I hope, will shortly be In- - raising blue foxes on the Pribtloff Islands. The expansion. Indeed, the problem of getting Alaskas When troduced in congress. this Is accomplished. seems to be the biggest problaws are enforced by the governor of Alaska game products to market I nm sure It will be before very long, the re all. It has many ramifications. The litand the departments of agriculture and commerce. of lem habilftation of Alaska will begin In earnest. The department of commerce has charge of ' tle fishing companies, without vessels of their own, Three bills embodying plans for the government the fisheries; It has Jurisdiction over merchant have to trust to the chance visit of Independent of Alaska are before the senate and house The catch of these little companies vessels; it takes the census; It has a bureau in buyers. bn territories. amounts to millions. The big companies, of course, charge of lighthouses; Its coast and geodetic surSecretary of the Interior Fall Is the last to send vey makes the chants. have their own vessels. There are also certain a tentative measure to the committees. He pro- -' ; The department of the treasury has charge of regulations that must be altered. Probshipping shipping line will have to be' the construction and maintenance of public build(Htses to vest In bis own department all functions government a ably the coast Jurisdiction of thef interstate under its game protects and guard (pertaining to the development aud use of natural established the ings; seal resources and construction work for the territory. and the fisheries; it has a public health service. commerce commission to break the private monop-olThe bill by Secretary Fall will not prove more The war department has charge of river and in water transportation. harbor improvements, it has extensive military satisfying to the several departments which he Secretary Fail does not purpose, it is stated; to proposes to Invade than the Curry bill, which pro. cable, telegraph and radio systems in Alaska take ever Investigation activities of a scientific board the which everybody uses, inasmuch as the postofflee nature now being done; by various bureaus. But (oees to vest In an Alaska development . administration of the territory, or the Cummins bill department can hardly be said to function there. he does plan to take over the functions and perwhich vests In the President power to reorganize Tbe board of road commissioners for Alaska sonnel of the other departments and bureans funcwas created In 1905 by congress. The work Is government all federal activities in the territory. He will cot tioning In Alaskas Ladies Let Cuticura Keep Your Skin Fresh and Young , Tdcn 25c. Soap 25c, Omtmcat 25 aa4 50c, ALARM THAT DOES THE WORK 'be,-She- - -- . .... tl e, . - hun-alre- il . Tet-ther- - . long-distan- u $17,-8r.5- - . - Young Mans Scheme Guaranteed to End Sleep, and : He (Has No Patent on It. ; . - Youth's Comment on Professor's Ad mission of Authorship ' Was D5s--, tinctfy Uncomplimentary. George Philip Krupp has not always been professor of English at Columbia. 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Advertisement , M ? - GETTING AROUND THE TRUTH Little Helens - Shrewd Scheme for Sugar Coating Fabrication Her Mother Frowned Upon. : ' i Little Helen, one of the youngest set of Scipio society, was missing her sister, who was old enough even to , go yisiting and stay away from home three whole days' ,:and nights-- . .She ' was getting more' lonesome every hour and after having been told sev-eral times by her mother that Louise wouldnt' be home until Friday, finally hit on- - a plausable pretext for getting lister home. Mother, lets write and tell Louise tiat we have a new baby at our, house. I know she would come home Ih'n. 'But we could not 'write that that; wouldnt be the .' truth, and it isnt nice things that are' not true. That apparently settled the mat--e- r, but Helen added: Well, we could tell her it was a new baby doll when' she got home that would be all right, wouldnt It? Indianapolis News. They were discussing that ever vexing question the question of getting up In the morning. I dont think, said Frederick, that an alarm clock is- any good at all. I hear the bell of my alarm clock go every morning. I simply lay my hand on the nearest thing I can pick up and hurl something or other at the clock. I am constantly paying for new alarm clocks, but they only rouse me for a minute, and I go to sleep again. Ive got a new kind of alurm clock, I dont know how reported Charlie. iong it will last, but ft is simply doing fine work at present. Hpw does it differ from others? It toots just' like a motor born. 'As soon as I hear it, I jump out of bed See Colony as Great Asset. to avoid being run over by three-toOf late years France has begun to ' C t evince an interest in the' Kerguelen truck." islands, discovered by the French naviHygienic gator,. Kerguelen Tremarec, in 1772. '' The hygienic importance of electric According to Henry Boissiere, who, g has been shown in a re- with his brother, has devoted himself port by Surgeon J. G. Cummings of to the' development oif these islands, the United States army. Investigating they will soon become a prosperous v the .effects', of the influenza epidemic colony. They contain no trees, but an in institutions having a quarter of a immense 'quantity of a fodder plant,' million people, it was found that a species of cabbage, Which is eagerly ' where dishes were washed by hand eaten by horses, sheep, pigs and rab- bits. are mice the and 324 were cases of there Raijbfts.irats the . disease per 1,000 persons; but in hotels and only indigenous animals.: There is .alother places having electric dish- so a single bird, the etieatbbfllV Which" lives in company with the sea birds.' washers the rate was only: as great, or 108 per 1,000. The wash- Tlie sea elephants, which had been . ing by the machines is not only more practically exterminated- by 1840,-.- are wafer's-roun- d numerous. now The than hand very but again washing, (borough. the islands also abound In hotter water is used, and this insures whales, and it is upon the whale aad more effective sterilization. sea elephant fishery that the hopes,,;' of developing a useful colony rest. The Only Way, I see where the flooring of a big His Troubles Over, warehouse where a lot of wholesale foodstuffs was stored gave way. . The most graceful . man in ..'town, Thats about the only way theyll these days is the awkward fellow who d food to come always used to be stepping on some ever get "' down. womans skirt. 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