Wednesday. Aug. 26, 1925
Interesting Facts About Alaska
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—14 > )-—The thing
ibout Alaska that impressed me most
ras the prevalence of empty houses
.nd stores," said Mrs. Lillian B.
Jriggs, secretary and director of the
s °rth Carolina Library Commission,
n a statement issued today, follow
ng her return from the “Great North
vest ” She attended the 1025 meet
ng of the American Library Assorts
ion in Seattle, Wash., and made n
welve-day trip to Alaska. There
vero about sixty in the party that
united Alaska, she said, including
ilrs. Edd Stagg, of Durham.
“I saw no marked evidence of where
my body was really trying.to do any
hing for Alaska." Mrs. Griggs stat
d. “Os course, I did not go there
o make an analysis of the economic
r social life of the people. I went
n a sightseeing trip, but to me it
ippeared as if the Alaskans were
draggling along without leadership,
'be churches, however, appear to be
loing a good work there. Several of
he religious denominations h*ve es
ablished schools and seem to be real
y trying to improve conditions. 1
•w marked evidence of their work.
Vs to constructive work Such as we
ind in tbh States—O, .well, Alaska
s a long way from Washington.
“What Alaska really needs, above
■verything else, according to my lim
ted observations, is ; somebody ito
man’ and develop it. There seems
0 be enough natural resources there
o call , for greater development than
s In evidence at the present time.
[ saw activity a plenty, in spots.
>nt these spots were, for the most
tart, the fish canneries and hatcheries.
Phe could not help exist-
UJL They furnish a clearing house
OMAlaska's chief product, fish. Then,
here is a large number of fox farms,
rom which furs—some of them ex
uisitively beautiful—are secured. I
lid not see many farms on which
Caple crops were being raised. There
vers numerous ‘patches’, however, on
vhirfi the vegetation was luxurious,
t had to hurry, due to the bryvity
f the summer season. I have nevt'r
een, anywhere else, such rpnk growth,
"Alaska produces a very fine straw
berry. There is another berry there
hat is good. It is called tha salmon
Jerry, and it resembles our- black
jerry. ' It is salmon-colored, howev
r; and that is bow it gets its name.”
Mrs. Griggs' party remained aboard
hip every uight. During the days,
lowever, frequent inland trips were
uade.
Alaskan women proved very inter
■sting, Mrs. Griggs said. She saw
n them fidelity and thrift combined—
oyalty to the family unit and the
ibility to make good homes for their
tusbands and children. “Many of
hem,” stated Mrs. Griggs, “were mar
led to white men to whom they ap
teared to be devoted. 1 learned that
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: the Alaskan women—mostly of some
: Indian strain—attracted white men:
i and, on the other hand, that the white
.! men were greatly admired by these
‘ Indian women. There appeared to
, be many happy matches between the
two races.
“I asked one girl, a yoyng matron,
if. she smoked. She laughingly re
plied that she did. ‘How did you hap
‘ pen to take it up?' I asked, to which
she answered. ’My husband—he's a
white man. taught me how.' Then
: she added, with a twingle in her eyes,
‘we pick up a lot of bad habits from
white people,'
“On another occasion I entered in
to a conversation with some young
working women. They were all neat
ly. though not at all lavishly, dressed.
They wore wrist watches, however,
and rings—tokens of modern civiliza
tion. One of them was careful to
say that ‘these are just working
clothes. We have some better ones
at home.’ I learned that they took
a pride in their homes. Their hus
bands were fishermen and they worked
in canneries, ashore. They were In
terested from two standpoints. They
were doing work in line with their
husbands, and, at the same time, in
line with the chief occupation of their
homeland. As I have previously said,
fishing anil canning constitute the
bnekbone of Alaska's industrial order
of things.
“I found that many of the Alaskan
girls had been educated in American
schools, some of them in tile north
western states, while others had been
taught by church school teachers.
Henee, they were versed, to a large
extent, in the manners and customs
of the T'nited States.
“I saw some really attractive stores
in the towns of Alaska that .I visited.
Some of them displayed goods that
were modern in all respects—wearing
apparel, etc. But the people upr there j
are net so nipch ov soda fountain '
drinks." She named one which is
quite popular in certain sections Os
the T'njted States and declared that
she did not see it served anywhere in
Alaska. “But, root beer! You see
that almost everywhere," she added.
“They send it up to Alaska in kegs
and it proves quite popular. We
had some Ice cream once or twice and
went to a movie. It was n good
movie, too, very mueh like those in
smaller towns. A {girl played a
piano while the picture was being
shown, and a young man sang. One
of his songs was ‘Just a Lille Drink.’
It proved quite entertaining to the
natives, who displayed, also, an in
terest in the film that night. The
film dealt with Hawaiian life and cus
toms. The people enjoyed it. The
whole place was filled with Indians.
They were quite demonstrative at
times.”
Mrs. Griggs stated that it was light
lin Alaska at this season of the year
until past midnight and that the dark
lasted only for an hour or so. after
which the sun was up again for an
other long journey, around the hori
zon. “The people go to bed about
10 or 11 o'clock, with the sun atill
shining, and get up about like they
do here. They seem accustomed to
the long hours of summer daylight.
There is nothing novel in it for them.
I suppose they are just as used to
the long winter nights and tbeir shut
in condition incident thereto. How
ever. the part of Alaska that we vis
ited is not so isolated as one might
think. The boat we went on is said
to sail practically all the year round.
“1 was particularly impressed with
the climate. It was wonderful. Late
in the evening we found the air be
came chilled and wraps were a ne
cessity. We had to sleep under
blankets, but in the middle of the day
it was really warm. The cold at
night was not at all disagreeable—it
was that invigorating cold that we
experience in the mountains of our
own country. The cold nights in
summer are caused by wind blowing
off the snow. Were it not for the
snow, which does not have time to
melt in summer. Cue nights probably
would not he cold at all this season
of the year.”
Mrs. Griggs stated that the Seattle
meeting of the American Library As
sociation was a success from every
standpoint. “We heard some very
interesting discussions,” she said, “and
enjoyed some helpful contacts with
experienced library workers from all
parts of American.” Her entire trip,
including the Alaskan cruise, lasted
about five weeks.
Wake Forest’s Football Schedule.
Wake Forest. N. t\, Aug. 2(l.— (A>)
—Startmg off with a clash against the
the I'niversity of North Carolina, on
September 2(!th. at Chapel Hill. Wake
Forest's Demon Deacons will play
. nine football games this fall. The
| caril is regarded as a stiff one. It
follows:
September 2(5—1". N. 0., at Chapel
Hill.
October 3—Davidson at Char
lotte.
October 10—Lenoir-Ithyne at Wake
Forest.
October 24—Florida at Gaines
ville.
October .31—Guilford at Wake For
est.
November 7 —Duke University at
Durham.
November 14 —N. C. State at Ral
eigh.
November 20—Furman at Ashe
ville.
November 2(s—Eton at Eton.
With the completion of the New
Madison Square Garden, New Y'ork
city will have the largest ice hookey
arena in the world, both in point of
playing surface and seating capacity.
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
LET WIVES OBEY HUSBANDS
DEMANDS EPISCOPAL BISHOP I
Rt. Rev. Irving Peake Johnson
Makes Scathing Denunciation of.
Modern Family LUe.
1 New York, Aug. 28.—Just wtien 1
it had been conceded that the word
i "obey," so objectionable to many
blushing brides, would be stricken
from the Episcopal marriage eere
' monies with little or no debate, a <
■ protest, coupled with a scathing
denunciation of modern family life is ,
voiced by the Bishop of Colorado. I
The Rt. Rev. Irving Pease John- i
I win, D.D.. is described as one of . the
most brilliant thinkers nnd orators i
of the Episcopal church. His dissent i
■ scintilntes with barbed aphorisms.
Representatives of the church said !
that the publication c,f his opposi- j
' tion would provoke n lively discus-.;
sion throughout the church.
Already Backed By Church. |
The Rt. Rev. Charles L- Slattery, i
1 bishop coadjutor of Massachusetts, is i
' chairman of the joint committee on i
i prayer book which sponsored the i
climation of the word ‘obey” at the ;
general convention of the church in
Portland, Ore., in September, 1.22. 1
The convention, virtually with i
unanimity npproved by two succeed- 1
ing conventions, and, accordingly, i
1 the matter will come up for Inal de
termination at the triennial Cetieral
Conference that is to open at New
Orleans, October, 7.
Bishop Johnson is said to be the
first notable leader of the church to
pome out openly against the pro
posed change. He is also the editor
of the Witness, a church publication,
in a forthcoming issue of which his
statement will appear in full. It is
summarized as follows.
“If women do not love men well
enough to accept their leadership
which is the significance of 'to obey,’
they will not love them nay more
because tbeir vanity is flattered by
tlie omission.
"Why is it proposed to take the
word ‘obey’ out of the marriage ser
vice? In my judgment because
modern society has lost the sense of
, proportion which lies at. the foun
dation of the home, and, fn oraer to
, justify itself, wishes to accommo
date the word of God to palliate the
situation.
“The idea that the word ‘obey’
connotes servility is the heresy of
modern, parents and the schism of
modern families. The word ‘obey’ ia
limited always by the circumstances i
of its use. When asked if you will
obey the civil authorities, you do
not infringe in any way upon your
liberties as an American citizen.
When a soldier is asked to obey his
captain he does not surrender his
manhood. When n woman is asked to.
obey her husband, she does not les- {
sen the glory of her womanhood.
“A family is a corporation, and
either the man is the head of the
family, or else it is presided over
by a committee of two, which has no
way of determining a majority vote
except by an endurance test. It is
now proposed to endorse a headless
family in the interesta of uccom
. piodnting truth to prejudice.
“God made man to be the head of
the family because it was his duty
to provide and protect. The church
exists to set forth ideals, not to
justify the perversion of ideals.
“I believe fully in woman's rights
but I do not believe headship of the
family is one of tlroso rigvrs. It may
be true that in a majority of cases
she has the best head and uses it
more intelligently, but when she is
moved to assert her leadership, the
man loses,glory that the woman does
not gain no matter how much she
may proclaim the fact she deserves
the recognition to which her talents
entitle her.
Vacuum Comm Into Own.
“This is the day in which the
vacuum is coming into its own. The
popular prophet tells us 'that God
made man an empty head devoid of
conpietions; an empty heart devoid
of obligations; an empty life devoid
of sacrifices
“ The question before us in this
proposed amendment is this: Is the
American family today in which
there is little either of reference or
obedience going to be ennobled by
substituting the jejune theories of
academic philosophy for the declara
tion of God through His prophets
and the experience of generations in
which family life was sanctioned and
the pro-ration of responsibility was
definitely set forth?
“I know that women are more po
tent forces for good than men. His
mother’s name was so-and-so means
more to a child than that his father
made a million and lost his human
touch in doing it.
“Os course, society will not col
lapse by leaving out the word ‘obey’
from the marriage service, but I be
lieve that the church will have let
down her standards to satisfy a ra
tionalistic world which is more con
cerned with syllogisms that it is
with facta.
‘The Roman empire in the days of
Marcus Aurelius was not more in
capable of setting the standard of
family life than we are in America
today where the home has become a
memory and family life a tragedy. I
. “We are not fit to amend the mar
riage service of our fathers until
we have restored the family life to
the sanctity which it enjoyed in
their time.”
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Sleeping sickness appears to have
overtaken the Profesional mat game in
the East.
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I Start as Parts .Arrive—No State
| ment on Changes.
Charlotte Observer.
The Ford assembly plant here,
which has been closed for nearly a
month, will be opened for operation
as parts are received, opening to-'
day for the assembling of trucks,- it
was announced last night by F. A.
Atchison, manager.
| Other departments wilt be opened
as the parts to be assembled arrive,
probably others this week and early
next week. The truck department
opening today, employs about 200 of
(he 000 to 1,000 regular employes,
Mr. Atchison said.
Nothing definite ha* been said
yet ns to the rumora of changes in
the style of the Ford, which is said
tto be an improvement m many re
spects over the present Ford, nor of
the reports current that the close
down was made for the purpose of j
shifting from the old to the new*
models.
Ford plants at Newark and Nor
folk have also been closed down en
tirely or practica'ly idle for the past
few weeks, according to news stories
carried from those cities about two
weeks ago.
Ran Both Albemarle Hotels.
Monroe Enquirer.
On a recent day, H. K. Helms,
Wingate's popular mayor, and chair
man of the Union county road com
mission. and 1 were over to Albe
marle. Nooulitpayuame. 9 ml ~%'c de
cided to (■efresfi tiii? inner man’ “Let's
go to a good', restaurant," I suggest
ed.
£N O.". said Mr. Helms., “I always
gojwn a gdojt lifftel?’ "* ' * ' •
We lipiled a gentlenian on the street
and asked him to direct us to the
best hotel ip town.
“RVU." Kalil he. .pointing*- ‘Mfjete’s
a kOod -ono down there and a good
one up here."
“But we want to stop at the best
one." tjj J; . •
"I inn,’em both,” said tlie man,
"and either one’s the best.”
So we stopped at the best one af
ter all.
But Wingate’s big mayor almost
always gets what he wants. One
day last week be hail business over
about Greensboro. He made arrange
ment with the bus driver to occupy
the front seat, “So I can have plenty
room and can see," said Helms.
When Concord was reached Mr.
Helms left the common carrier and
looked up some friends. Presently
a little sawed-off drummer came along
along and popped himself into the
J popular front seat. “This seat is
engaged,” the little fellow was told.
“Whoever heard of a bus seat be
ing engaged?” said the drummer.
“I’m here aud here I’ll stay.”
Presently Kemper hove in sight.
He slapped the little drummer man
on the back, remarking, “Friend,
you've got my seat.”
The little fellow lohked up to Mr.
Helms’ six feet six. across his almost
yard-wide shoulders, and into his
kindly face, and said: “Yes, sir—yes,
sir—l-I-I didn’t know this was your
seat,” as he hastily scrambled to the
rear.
Although only 28 years of age, Wal
ter Mails, the great pitcher of the St.
Louis Cardinals, has had wide exper
ience in professional baseball. On the
Pacific Coast he has played with the
Seattle, Portland, Sacramento and
Oakland teams, while in the major
leagues be has worn the uniforms of
Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
St. Louis.
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Have You Seen Our Fall Styles?
And now comes Autumn with its
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THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH
As the South grows
the Southern must
keep pace
Freight traffic on the Southern Rail
way System has nearly doubled in
ten years.
With the South growing at its pres
ent rate, traffic a few years hence
will be double what it now is.
Many millions of dollars of new
capital will have to be found for
increasing the capacity of tracks,
yards, terminals and shops, and the
purchase of cars and engines.
This needed new capital will be at
tracted to the Southern if the profits
from its operation are maintained at
a level to establish a broad market
for its securities.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
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