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Springflild, 111.—Three hundred
thousand school children In one
class! That will be achieved in Illi
nois, if plans of the Illinois State
Teachers’ Association, made, at the
recent annual meeting here, mater
ialize. The. organization plans to
bring all of the public school pupils
of the State into one class two or
three times a week. Radio is to lo
Through arrangements to be made |
with a powerful broadcasting station
probably in Chicago, a period dur
ing school hours on certain days of j
the week will be set aside
“school time.” A prominent etjuca- j
tor or some other ou’standing per- j
nonage will lecture through the ra- ;
diO at this hour, and receiving sets j
in schools throughout the State will 1
bo tuned in to receive the lesson. j
The association appropriated $10.
000 at its meeting to establish a
central office, part of the duties of
which will be to arrange for the les
sons. Numbers of schools in the
State already have radio equipment*
and othesr are expected to obtain
sets when the lectures begin to go}
out regularly.
Through the broadcasting plan j
the world’s great men will speak dl- j
Tectly to the entire body of Illinois j
pupils, according to its advocates, j
Statesmen, authors, artists, scholars
*nd engineers visiting Illinois will be
*sk<*rt Id talk to> the State's children.
Sitting at their decks in widely scat
tcred schools, the pupils will receive
tdvice and instructions from the
world's best brains. They will feel
he force of the personalities 1hat are
loing the world’s big jobs.
The voices of premiers and presi
lents will sound in the country’s
consolidated schools when the plan
trecomes operative, its promoters ex
plained. Presidents of great univer
sities will instruct in rami high
schools. This inspim.ion of men of
ichievement will pulse through ?v
?ry school buildinc.
Educators attending the Illinois
meeting expressed the opinion that
radio receiving sets would soon be
come part of t.he equipment of first
;'.ass schools of the State. Even the
mialler schools will have them, they
predicted. Where school boards do
aot feel able to purchase the outfits
school fairs and entertainments will
provide the money, as already has
seen done for the purchase of motion
picture machines in many instances, i
The teachers were enthusiastic
>ver the proposed new method of in- ;
itrudion.
"Education must claim its hour in {
he air,” was the consensus of opin
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' Biography of Aliwku liitnulHn'"
Inrludrn List of 10,000 Publica
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A “Biography of Alaskan Litera
tim*.” covering a period of 200 years
from the earliest exploitations of the
Pacific Northwest until December,
1924, will be published by the Hon.
James Wicket-sham soon after the
expiration of that period.
This book will include a list of all
the books and magazine articles that
have been written during this time
about Alaska or in Alaska by Ameri
can. English, Russian, Italian, Jap
anese, French. Spanish, and Chinese
This valuable publication will also
include a complete list of every news
paper that has been published in the
Territory. The first Alaskan news
paper was a weekly edited by Thom
as G. Murphy, an enterprising Irish
man. in Sitka in 1868. The first ed
ition appeared in May of that year
and flourished for some time. Two
years later Murphy took it to Seat
tle where it was sold and now 19
known as the Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer. with an immense circulation.
Japanese in Alaska
Judge Wiekersham says that am
ong the most interesting early rec- 1
ords he has discovered is one he ran
across a few years ago in a magazine !
called “Asia.” which tells the story
of the wreck of a Japanese vessel in
1787. whose crew was rescued and
lived in Alaska for nearly sixteen J
years. They were finally taken to St. I
Petersburg the old Russian capital. ;
by the Russians, traders in Alaska. |
About this time, in 1803. Russia was
eager to find a way of getting into ;
Japan and coneieved the plan of
sending a ship with these shipwreck- |
ed Japanese to that country. The
vessel’s way to the Orient was by
wmy of Cape Horn, making the first j
wonderful circumnavigation of the j
globe. The article gives a good des- •
cription of the climate, people and
industries of Alaska as far as they
were known.
As a result of his research work ,
during the past fifteen years. Judge
'Vickersham has found that the first
irformative article about Alaska ;
ever published was in 1736 by Fath- !
er Du Haled, a French Priest. This
book, called "History of China,”
gives an account of the first Kam
chatka expedition under Vitrus Ber- i
Dan is* Cf.ptnin *n Rwian
service. It includes a map of the
North Pacific and tells in detail
much about the Territory.
FiroC Printing Preen
The first printing press ever used
in Alaska la one of the valued pos
sessions of Judge WIckeraham. It
was first used in the publication of a
paper by the St. James Episcopal
Mission at Fort Adams, eight miles
below what is now called Tanana.
This was the first Yukon paper ever
published. George Charles Betties
was editor and the first issue was
printed on New Year's Day, 18f»4. It
did not suspend publication until
Judge Wickersham found the
printing press in Tanana and has
sent it to Fairbanks, where he is go
ing to have it put in running order
and present it to the Alaska College
of Agriculture and Mines. He con
sider- 'hat it should be kept In the
Inter.or. where it was first used.
Copies of practically all the books,
periodical publications and complete
files of newspapers published in the
Territory, which are included in his
“Biography of Alaskan Literature,”
a total of over 10.000 volumes, com
prise the personal library of Judge,
Wirkersham. Before the end of the
200 year period, this valuable collec
tion of reference books will be con- 1
slderabiy increased. Judge Wicker
sham says that when he went to!
Washington. I). C., he had only fifty j
volumes, but as his research work ;
continu' d, it soon grew to 500 vol- ■
umes and now includes many thous- J
amis of volumes where everything ,
ever written about the Northland can '
Wickersham has been assisted in i
this work since 1908 by a friend in'
Wnshinst&n, I). C.. who Is a Tory ablo j
and experienced man along this line j
of research work. A card index is
being compiled for every item of in- j
formation about the Territory, i
which will give the hook or publica- '
tion and also the author's name.
Judge ciWkersatahsmhts !
Judge Wickersham says that even- j
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Columbus. O..— Asserting that the
"newspaper of today Is one of the
important extra-curricula education
al agencies,” Professor Vernon Rie
gel. State Director of Education. has
| requested school superintendents
throughout Ohio to use newspapers
in teaching and baa recommended
that students read newspapers for
general information and education.
•‘There is found in most current
publications material that will con
tribute to the physical, moral, intel
lectual and spiritual welfare of rts
readers.” said Director Riegel.
“The fact that newspapers of nec
essity report some of the unlovely
aspects of human affairs does not bar
them from public schools’ usefulness
for here is afforded the opportunity
to emphasize the triviality of the
temporarily sensational as compared
with the really significant events re
“As against the occasional lurid
items there are remarkably full ac
counts of the public utterances of
men and women of achievement,
whether in Government affairs or in
private station; there are detailed re
ports of world happenings; there
are fine editorial summaries and in
terpretations of current trends.
“In fact when the limited time al
lowed a daily paper for the prepara
tion of its material is considered,
there is surprising merit in the com
position of most of the ‘stories.’ Citi- j
zenship training will not be thor-!
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»< chairman of the National Associ
ation for the Second Division has op
pointed a committee, to arrange for
and receive subscriptions of which
All contributions purely voluntary.
Xo solicitations will be made of
anyone. It was felt by the Associa
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The Harding Memorial Association
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time constitute the. Association.
The Association was incorporated
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orial to Warren Gamaliel Harding.
Twenty-ninth President of the Unit
of incorpora i
v othority to:
(A) Erect and maintain in per
petuity, .at Marion, Ohio, a mauso
leum wherein to plane the remains of
the late President Harding and of
Florence Kling Harding, his widow,
when she shall have passed away;
and hold it in perpetuity, by deed,
gift or purchase, the necessary real
i state on which to lay out roads,
ways, places and parks for ■ t_s proper
improvement and beautification;
(Hi Acquire, the home of the late
Warren Gamaliel Harding, on Mt.
Vernon Avenue, in the city of Mar
ion. Ohio, and such other property
ac is deemed necessary for conver
sion into a shrine Wherein all per
sonal effects, books, speeches, me
mentos and belongings of the late
President of the United States may
lx* preserved in affectionate memory
and understanding, and to which all
people may go for inspiration;
(C) Endow a Warren Gamaliel
Harding Chair of Diplomacy and
Functions of Government in connec
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FACTS ABOUT ALASKA
( fh** coast lino of Alaska measur
t MiK around all of its islands is u.p
I proximately 26,000 ini!os long, more
• than tht: distance around th** world.
| The gross area of Alaska is 590,
j square miles or more than the
!combined area of Maine, New Hanip
; shire, Vermont. Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Connecticut, New
, York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
I Delaware, Maryland. West Virginia,
North Carolina. South Carolina, Geo
rgia. Florida. Mississippi and Tenn
Alaska has the highest mountain in
North America Its altitude is about.
20,464 feet.
The Yukon river has a total length
of 3,000 miles and is about the fifth
largest river in the world. It is nav
igable for river vessels for a dist
ance of about 2.400 miles.
According to the estimates of com
petent engineers and geologists, the
coal in Alaska is sufficient to sustain
the people of the United States for
5,300 years at the present rate of
eonsu niption.
The cod banks of Alaska are said
by the United State Fish Commission
to be among the finest in the world.
The same is true about the halibut
bant,.
Statistics show that in Alaska there
is less crime per capita than in any
Fr<>m "Alaska, an Empire in the
Making.” by J. J. Underwood.
Alaska has already produced more
than $1,0U0,000,000 in wealth.
Wheat grown in the Territory has
taken first prize at Minneapolis.
Alaska is the greatest per capita
contributor to the Nation's revenues.
As an investment, the Territory,
which cost tie* United States a paltry
*7.200.000 (less than two cents an
acre) pays several hundred per cent
a year on the original cost. «
The Governor of Alaska told me
two years ago' that if the taxes col
lected in the United from the people.
th*» Industries and resources equal
ed per capita similar collections
from Alaska the yearly revenues
would exceed $20,000,000,000. *
From an article bv Hurt M. Mc
Honnell in th* Dearborn Indepen
Alaska has in active operation the
largest bigh-trratle copper mine in
The Territory’s extent of latitude
and coast line, and the wannin.tr in
I fiutrti.ee of the Japan current have
| combined to give it almost .-is much
'climatic variety as California claims
to possess.
Alaska has pasturage f.,r 33,000.
000 reindeer from which 900.000.
000 pounds of the choicest and most
delicious meat %ould annually be
marketed. In addition the Terri
tory has 65,000.000 acres of . hoice
grazing lands.
The soil has the sam quality that
makes the wheat of Manitoba fam
The total value of skins obtained
from the Pribilof Islands in the 134
years since their discovery, may bo
safely estimated at $500,000,000.
— From an article by Andrew J.
Stone in the Century.
McKinley Park, containing the
highest mountain in North America,
has been increased to an area of
>ver 2,645 square miles, making it
he second largest park in the Unit
'd States.
Under the conservative measures
idopted by the Government the Prib
!of Islands seal herds increased
tom 215,738 animals in 1912. to
104.791 in 1922. The seal skins sc
ored in 1921 numbered 76.247, and
nd St. Louis during 1922. 22.976 of
hese skins were sold for $722,060.
'he skins of 1.139 blue and white
oxes caught on the Pribilof Islands
uring the season 1920-1921 were
old for $109,398.
Although the fiscal year 1922 was
ne of marked depression hi Alaska.
8,000.000 feet of hoard lumber
rere cut for commercial use.
The value of the furs shipped from
ie Territory in 1921 was $762,297.
Over the United States Signal
orris system of 2.703 miles of cable
nd 795 miles of land lines there
transmitted in 1921 messages,
overnmenf and commercial whose
iriffs amounted to $521,781.
—The New International Year
ook (Dood. Mead & Co.l