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GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Immediate development of the vast
mineral resources of Alaska through
government ownership of all railroads,
ships and public utilities, wharves,
docks, etc., and the actual mining of
Alaskan coal by the government, all to
be administered through a board of
public works for the benefit of the people,
was the broad plan outlined in a
?pwi;ii m me uiosing nours or uongress
by Senator Ea Follette. "Every day
makes it more evident that the American
people are waging a losing fight in
Alaska," the Wisconsin progressive asserted.
"On the one hand are the 35,000
pioneers who are risking their lives and
fortunes in the exploration and prospecting
of its undiscovered resources.
On the other hand are the millions of
American people to whom this great
storehouse of natural resources belong.
Between them is the enormous power of
the greatest concentration of capital
that the world has ever known. The
first step should be the creation of
proper transportation facilities. The
government should own and build those
transportation facilities. The wharves,
docks, railroads and terminals in Alaska
should at once be acquired by the
government."
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
Plans are now maturing for an extension
of the work of the National Association
for the Promotion of Industrial
Education. An experienced secretary
has been engaged to give his entire
time to its work and the convention to
be held in Cincinnati on November 2-4
probably will see the launching of plans
for a greater usefulness. Co-operation
with the many beginnings of industrial
education in this country will be at'
tempted. Manual training schools have
spread over the land, trade schools
have been established, and the co-operative
and continuation school have
found their places in many communities.
The association has already gathered
nmch of the good that has been accomplished
and put it in pamphlets. Its
purpose is to give these results wide
publicity. Industrial education has two
aims, which may appear separately or
conjoined?aid to the boy or girl in
selecting a trade, and teaching along
the lines of the trade. Among its leading
exponents are the trade school, the
continuation school and the co-operative
school, which was instituted at
the University of Cincinnati five vears
ago.
SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES FLOURISH.
Census Director Durand issued the
first official statement from the census
bureau relative to the agricultural
statistics for the South Atlantic division
of states, collected at the thirteenth decennial
United States census, April 15,
1910. The South Atlantic division includes
Delaware, Ateryland, Virginia,
West Virginia. North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida and the
District of Columbia. The statement
shows in detail that the number of
farms reported In 1910 was 1,109,359, as
compared with 962,225 in 1900, an increase
of 147,134 farms, or 5 per cent.
Each of the states shows an increase
in the number of farms. The Increases
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are: Georgia 21 per cent.:
Florida 22 per cent.; North Carolina and
South Carolina each 13 per cent.; Delaware
11 per cent.; Virginia 9 per cent.;
Maryland 6 per cent, and West Virginia
? per cent. The total value of farm
land and buildings was given in 1910
as $2,476,052,000, as against $1,206,802,000
in 1900, an Increase of $1,269,802,
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000, or 105 per cent. The total value
of all farm lands alone was reported
in 1900 as $1,875,630,000, compared with
$899,821,000 in 1900, a gain of $975,809,000,
or 108 per cent. The greatest percentage
gain in the value of farm land
alone is in Florida, 203 per cent. The
other increases, in the order of their
importance, are: South Carolina, 169
per cent; Georgia, 166 per cent; North
Carolina, 141 per cent; Virginia, 96
per cent; West Virginia, 53 per cent;
Delaware, 46 per cent, and Maryland,
35 per cent. The total value of farm
buildings alone was given in 1910 as
$600,522,000, as against $306,529,000 in
1900, an increase of $293,993,000, or 96
per cent. The improved acreage was
returned in 1910 as amounting to 48,365,000
acres, as against 46,100,000 acres
In 1900, an Increase of 2,265,000 acres,
or 5 per cent.
DESERVES UNANIMOUS VOTE.
In the closing days of Congress Senator
Works of California introduces a
bill in the Senate making it unlawful to
publish details of crimes and accidents
in the District of Columbia. It was referred
to a oommittee and is likely to
receive serious consideration at the regular
session, it is said by those in favor
of some such legislation. The hill is as
follows: "Section 1. That it shall be
unlawful for any person, corporation,
or association to print or publish in any
newspaper or other publication in the
District of Columbia, an account of any
murder, or alleged murder, or any other
actual or alleged crime, suicide, or
other accident, injury or tragedy of any
kind wherever the same may have been
committed or happened, or alleged to
have been committed or happened,
other than a mere statement of the
fact that such a crime, tragedy, or
accident has haDnened. or is allseed tn
have happened, without details, or comments
of any kind, with respect to such
crime, accident or tragedy, or in respect
of, or about any person connected with
or related to or alleged to he or to have
been connected with or related to the
saime. Section 2. Any person, corporation
or association who shall violate any
of the provisions of this act Bhall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
fined not less than $5CKl, nor more than
$5000, to which may be added imprisonment
in the district Jail or workhouse
for not exceeding one year."
COTTON FIGURES.
With continued official assurances
that the 1910-11 cotton crop of the
United States "will be the greatest yield
in the history of the country, there is
speculation as to its total value. Should
the staple this year sell at the same
pr(lce it did in 1910, the value of the
crop would be approximately $1,000,603,000,
exceeding the record breaking
cotton crop value made last year by
more than $180,000,000. Further estimates
from the government's official
figure of 89.1 per cent, of a normal for
the condition of the growing crop on
July 25th, Indicate that the crop will be
7,046,500,000 pounds, or 14,741,361 bales
of 478 pounds net weight. This would
surpass the record cotton production
year of 1904 by more than 1,000,000
Daies. ir tne crop this year sells at
11.5 cents a. pound the average price for
the last five years, Its value would be
about $20,000,000 beloy? -Wist year's great
value record. /
SHORT CROP OP SINECURES AND
GRATUITIES.
Chairman Fitzgerald of the House appropriations
committee, in reviewing
the work of the extra session, said that
the appropriations of Congress In the
AM OF THE SOOTH
it Events
extra session aggregated $301,052. He
declared that no session of Congress
has ever run for so long a period and
appropriated so little. He said that
more than $200,000 had been saved during
this session by abolishing sinecures
and cutting off gratuities heretofore
granted Congress employees, and
that further retrenchment was planned
for the next session. Mr. Cannon accused
the Democrats of being niggardly,
saying that in order to effect a saving
the Democrats had made it impossible
to keep clean the quarters occupied by
representatives. He said that if the
Democratic majority had spent proper
sums in employing experts in framing
their tariff bills, they might not have
subjected themselves to the "just criticism
of the President." Representative
Palmer of Pennsylvania, Democrat,
retorted that one fourth of the
House expenses had been eliminated by
cutting off petty dishonesty, and that
it waB the intention of the Democrats
to carry out a similar reform in every
branch of the government.
BAD BANKING SYSTEM.
John V. Farwell, of Chicago, recently
declared that the United States has the
worst banking system of any country
in the world, and that the problem of
working out a better banking plan is
the greatest question confronting the
American people. Mr. Farwell addressed
visiting merchants at a dinner given at
the South Shore Country Club by the
Association of Commerce. He is the
president of the National Citizens
League, an organization now trying to
perfect a hanking system. He outlined
the tentative plans of the league in his
talk on "A Better Banking System
Needed."
TWO NEW STATES.
After brief debate, tho Senate by a
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joint resolution for the admission to
statehood of New Mexico and Arizona,
but with the provision for the recall
of judges stricko 1 out, sc as u> meet
the objection urged by President Taft
in his message vietoing the resolution
as originally adopted. Despite many
objections to the new resolution, all
Democrats voted for it except Senator
Bailiey of Texas and Pomerene of Ohio.
The Republicans who voted against it
were Bourne of Oregon, Brandegee of
Connecticut, Bristow of Kansas, Clapp
of Minnesota, Cummins of Iowa and
Heyburn of Idaho. The new resolution,
favored by the President, requires
that Arizona shall eliminate from its
new constitution the recall-of-judges
provision before it shall he admitted
to the Union. New Mexico is instructed
to vote again on a change in its constitution
designed to make that act
more easily amendable in the future;
but it is not made a condition of New
Mexico's statehood.
EUROPEANS EXCEL.
European cities are superior to American
cities in the business-like methods
of their municipal affairs, they have
bigger business men in politics, they
do not hesitate to spend vast sums and
incur heavy debts for civic improvement,
in which they evince a great
pride; hut American cities excel especially
in railroad, postal and telephone
service, and also in the matter of playgrounds,
according to opinions expressed
by memoers of the Chaimber
of Commerce party who arrived in Boston
after a tour of study in Europe.
The tour of the European cities, which
embraced 70 days, was the first of its
kind ever undertaken. The objects were
to extend invitations to governments
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and commercial organizations to send
representatives to the fifth International
Congress of Chambers of Commerce,
which will be held in Boston in September
next year, and to give the members
of the party engaged in commercial,
industrial and civic affairs an opportunity
to observe how the people of
Europe, through their public and semipublic
organizations, solve important
problems such aB are now confronting
the United States.
PEACE TREATIES OPPOSED.
Reasons for opposition to the proposed
peace treaties with England and
France, which failed of ratification by
the Senate, are suggested by the fol
lowing: Declaring that ratification of
arbitration treaties with England and
France, as submitted by President Taft
to the Senate, would pave the way for
a similar convention with Japan and
thereby menace the Pacific Coast with
cheap labor, Representative Hamill of
New Jersey, spoke during the closing
hours of the House, urging that the
treaties be not concluded with unreasonable
haste. He said that British
Ambassador Bryce and not President
Taft was father of the treaties.
LEAGUE FOR GERMAN YOUTHS.
The recent boys' organization called
the Deutsche Jugenverband (German
youths' association), which was founded
by the indefatigable General Keim, is
going rapidly forward. It is similar
to the boys' scouts league, but is even
more patriotic in its tendencies. The
general has just published the first
number of the association's organ, Mitteilungen
Deutsche Jugend, which gives
a good deal of interesting information
about the league, now comprising thousands
of members of every rank and
province. The founder sayB that whoever
undertakes to care in any way
for the youth of the country becomes
esponsible for one of the greatest
- asures of the nation. He has drawn
up ten conunanameiUB as a mono ror
the youth of Germany, which run as
follows:
1. Remember you are a German.
2. You are to love your country.
3. You are to be faithful to your
country and your sovereign until death.
4 You are to respect the religion and
customs of your fathers.
5. You are to love the language of
your country and keep it pure.
6. You are to defend the weaknesses
of yotir people and respect the aged.
7. You are to preserve your honor
sacred and never err from the truth.
? You are to keep your body clean
and mind chaste.
9. You are to sharpen your senses
and steel your body.
10. Re moderate in all things.
ALASKAN GOLD PANS OUT.
Alexander Henderson, the retiring
commissioner of the Yukon territory,
states that the output of gold there this
season will be the largest for the past
four years. He urges the commercial
bodies of the coast to take up the question
of securing cheaper transportation
rates into the Yukon as one of the best
means to aid in the development of the
North. Mr. Henderson has filled the
office of commissioner for the pnst four
year*,, and on the eve of his return
the citizens of Dawson presented him
with a service of plate as a token of
thdlr esteem.
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