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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21st. 1919
(From the U. S. Employment Service Bulletin)
Declaring that the United States spends twice as much in a year for
chewing gum as it does for school books, more for automobiles than for all
primary and secondary education, and pays tlie arverage school-teacher less
-.hail it pays the average day laborer, Secretary Bane, of the Interior Depart
ment. in his annual report terms the illiteracy of the United States as a shame.
"What should lie said of a world-leading demorcracy where 10 per cent
of the adult population can not read the laws which they are presumed to
know," asks the Cabinet official. The accuracy of the percentage of illiterates
is based on the fact that of the first 2,000,00a conscripted there were 200,000 who
could neither read nor write.
Public interest ip the question of prolonging the school life of the Amer
ican child has been stirred up in all parts of the country, through the intensive
drive towards that end now being conducted by the Children's Bureau, Depart
ment of Labor.
More thhn half the States have declared their intention to fight vigor
ously the too-early withdrawal of tyjyn aq.l girls from the public schools of
the land. In many communities unusually large school building schedules
have been arranged, and other measures have been taken to help the "baek
♦o-tho-school” movement and to provide for the comfort and health of the
children while their education is being completed.
In New York City the largest school building program ever undertaken
by the board of education is now under consideration. School buildings are
urgently needed in the metropolis, in order to speed up construction a plan
to let a. general contract for such needed buildings to some big construction
firm on a basis of cost plus a fixed percentage of profit is being discussed by
lMo New York superintendent of buildings and representatives of a number
of big construction firms.
The New York board of education has available for school buildings
more than $10,000,000. It has plans under way for construction work that will
cost approximately $4,000,000.
Further evidence of a nation-wide stimulation of interest in school
questions is seen in recent steps taken by various communities to emphasize
tlie importance of prolonged school training for our future citizens.
‘•THE BALANCE OF P O W E R ’ ’
(The Eagle Magazine)
The Napoleonic wars, which came to an end at Waterloo in 1815, started
a revolution in Europe that affected the whole .political, economic, and social
structure of nations. The old dynasties were destroyed or rendered helpless.
The Holy Roman Empire, which had for centuries held Germany in a sort ot
union, was ended forever. New states were formed within her territory, some
as provinces of France, others under Iter protection and control. The repub
lican spirit of popular government had, moreover, permeated the peoples, so
that when, after the fall of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna was convened in
1813 to adjust conditions, it was confroted with problems far different from
those met by any previous treaty-making body. Out of the deliberations of
this congress was evolved the “balance of power," which has been the basis
of Jill European international politics since that date. This balance of power
attempted to provide that no one nation should ever be so strong as to become
a menace to the others. It was an attempt to end war, but it utterly ignored
the rights of the smaller nations and weaker peoples. It either distributed them
in compromise concessions among the Great Powers or as in the case of
Belgium, erected them as independent nations to serve as barriers between
powers that might be hostile to each other.
Thus in the interest of this balance of power the concert of Europe
interfered to check Russia in her advance on Turkey, and also to settle—or
rather unsettle—the Balkan question. It left Alsace-Lorraine with France
but took the Rhine Provinces from hor. It gave Belgium a guaranteed indo
' pendence. At first it left Italy in bondage to the Bourbons and Hapsburgs,
but later, by reason of its own divisions, proved an aid in her struggle for
independence and national unity. Through the influence of Matternich, the Aus
trian negotiator, tfie Congress of Vienna abridged the new-found liberty of the
people of Europe and exerted its power in favor of a restoration everywhere
of the absolute rule of emperors ad kings. Very shortly the Holy Alliance,
which had been entered into at this Congress to protect the Christians in Tur
key. was perverted into a league between the rulers of Russia, Austria, and
Spain to suppress any attempts on the part of the people to overthrow autoc
racy and establish popular government. It was in pursuance of this league
that Russia aided Austria in crushing the Hungarian patriots. And it was an
attempt by Spain to apply the league to the movement of the South American
states for Independence that brought out the Monroe Doctrine of the United
States.
On the whole, the bnlanee-of-power agreement worked about as well
as could bo expected, considering the dangerous international selfishness on
which it was founded.
The unstable foundation gave way in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871.
which was waged on the old line of aggression and conquest, and was at
tended by brutalities and suffering that caused humanity to shudder. True
to their ignoble motive the conquerors in the Treaty of Frankfort stripped
France of Alsace and Lorraine and compelled her to pay an indemnity of one
billion dollars supporting a German army’ of occupation until the last dollar
was paid. The Franco-l’russian War and the Treaty of Frankfort that end'*d
it, are an"excellent example of a war that was all had. that proved a curse to
the conqueror and the conquered.
BRITISH BATTLE FLEET GIVES BOLSHEVIKI
NAVY DRUBBING IN GULF OF FINLAND
Spcc'ial to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, May 20—Word lias been received here that
the Bolshevik 1 naval forces on the Finland Gulf have been given a severe
beating by warships of the British naval fleet.
The British warships engaged the Bolshevik! fleet in a battle of thirty
five minutes duration Sunday off the Finnish coast and succeeding in sinking
one of the Bolshevik! cruisers and seriously damaged another. One of the
Bolshevik! ships was forced to run aground to escape destruction by the pur
suing British cruisers.
QUARANTINE SPARES YUKON FROM FLU RAVAGES
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
DAWSON, Y. T. Jan. 14—(By Mail—Little by" little, scraps of infor
mation coming from various sections of Alaska and Yukon territory, show that
the Northland in its fight against Spanish influenza, handicapped by lack of
medical supplies, physicians, hospitals and the distances of snow-covered tun
dra, frozen waters and hills, has put up a heroic strugle against the ravage-,
cf the disease.
Transportation of “anti-influenza” serum from the lower coast into all
sections of the Far North, even to the Arctic waters, has been especially in
teresting. Two months of hard travel with dog teams will he necessary to
convey the late serums sent here on an ardous journey of <100 miles across the
Arctic widerncs,s_ to IT. rschol Island, Rampart House and Fort McPherson,
Six of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police left Dawson today on this trip,
The serum was sent from Ottawa to Vancouver. Upon its arrival at White
Horse it was carried 400 miles over the ice to Dawson by horse-drawn sleighs,
the serum being carefully wrapped in fur robes and a proper temperature
maintained by means of charcoal-burning foot-warmers. From Dawson, the
police will carry the scrum in specially prepared belts strapped next to their
skin. *"
Three week ago a preliminary police expedition was sent from Dawson
to Fort MacPherson with medicine and masks for fighting influenza.
In their quarantine work the Mounted Police as in their proud history
of tracking down criminals, believe they have given the greatest demonstration
ever seen on the North American continent of efficiency in quarantine. As a
result, not one case of influenza has yet been reported in Yukon Territory.
'Quarantine guards have been stationed across,all Indians trails leading to
Dawson. Police traveled several hundred miles from White Horse to prevent
entrance of influenza cases into the Territory from western Alaska. The Skag
way gateway is guarded for the winter by rigid quarantine, every arrival
there being detained in the quarantine station. Another quarantine station
jat White Pass, Summit, Bennett or Cnrcross is planned.
By the quarantine thus maintained, officials of Yukon Territory hope
to have their country free of disease so that the big spring influx of travel
from “the outside” may enter for the season’s work.
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