The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1915, Page 4

aeroplanes going up over this way,|/two full that way, Jimmy! a writing notes time for lengthy letters. eee after beating around on a float for| five ashore, sir. bad thing if ashore again. . Member of the Seripps Necthwest League of Newspapers Published Dally by The Star Publishing Oo. ° Main 9400 SUMMER WEATHER IN ALASKA O PEOPLE with rather hazy ideas about the climate of Alaska, the dispatch in the corner of this article will come as something of a shock. In spite of a much bet- HOT IN ter understanding of the country, there are many people who still have the idea that Alaska is a frozen wil- derness. As a matter of fact, tho Alaska has sometimes been refer- red to as an Arctic province, nearly three- fourths of its area lies 100 DEGREES ALASKA Northern Territory Sweltering Under a Torrid Wave JUNEAU, A heat dur within the north tem- sun shin 4 hours a tase NG Sach day, Fruits and vegetables} Perate zone. The cli give atic ot bumper} mate of the coastal sigan province is comparable with that of Scotland and the Scandinavian peninsula in Europe, except that it is somewhat warmer. In the great inland region, including the valleys of the Yukon and the Tanana, south of the Endicott range of moun- tains, the climate is similar to that of the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The northerly province bordering the Polar sea is the only one in which Arctic conditions prevail. In southeastern Alaska—the panhandle—the lowest temperature ever recorded was only 4 de- grees below zero, while the mean temperatures of the three summer months vary from about 50 de- grees to about 55 degrees. The three winter months show mean temperatures between 20 de- grees and 30 degrees above zero. Prior to this Outbursts of Everett True NOW, LOOK HERE, SON, WHAT'S 2 GETTING INTO YOU LATCLY WHEN PAPA WAS YOUR AGE He N&ver ACTED THIS WAY — Won't Turn Weary James—There’s some fine | gator shifts of 1. Tattered Paul—Wish I was facin'|a stretch. The reason President Wilson is| is that he has no | Wno: A Good Thing | P-L's account of « recent ball game. ° > Weather Beaten Sea . Dog—An line in Portland Oregonian. days, I was finally washed Passerby—And it wouldn't be «| %0U"S man eae you were washed Smart Dog Bride— of my doughnuts today, DIDJA EVER THINK OF THIS? | ‘Hubby. Can't guess. jounty jail | 7 county jail! Bride }in the yard, King lion't our asi Hair With Soap ' When you wash your hair, don’t) jcannot reason! —Judge. | Se te “In the third inning, with Tobin on first and one out, Hansen poked out «fly to short left right field.”"—from the “WOMAN IS MYSTERY”—Head This must have been written by a very Hubby, I gave Rover one | What do| There are many commendatory | YU think the cute thing did with features in Bob Hodge's system of | ducting the con i Took it out and burted it Hubby—And yet they say dogs use soap. Most soaps and pre- pared shampoos contain too much alkali, which is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is just Plain mulsified cocoanut this is pure and entirely greaseless anything else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the water and rub it in, about a tea spoonful is all that 1s required. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and takes out every par ticle of dust, dirt and dandruff.— Advertisement, hair with oll, for} It's very cheap, and beat soaps or| —-« | ALTITUDE RECORD | The conservatist Colonist, of Victoria, informs ite readers that Douglas Whittier of “This City” graduated with highest honors, at the Toronto Mill- tary Aviation camp, « - HO soe HE VOTED DRY, TOO A parson who lives in a Se attle suburb was invited to dine with a family of wealth, Among the drinks served waa a milk punch, which the humble divine had never before tasted. After quaffing his goblet and smacking his lips, he said “Madar, allow me to com pliment you upon owning such a remarkable cow.” oe |. Field Marshal Mackenzen ts driv ing the Russians toward the River Bug, and the czar bugey | — . a = — == = a ‘DYNAMITE DAN—(OR, THE FIEND IN HUMAN FORM!)—A MOVIE IN THREE PARTS. [ A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING) that escaped the federal investi. | Hodge could accommodate | prisoners, by | keeping each shift for 12 hours at| |} FROM PAGE 1 jof the first number summer, the highest recorded temperature was 92 degrees in this province; this summer breaks all records with the temperatures of 100 degrees P, In the coast region stretching from Katalla to Seward, the temperatures are much the same as for southeastern Alaska, the lowest ever recorded in this region being —14 degrees F. and the highest 82 degrees F. The Aleutian islands and the Alaska peninsula have a climate of moderate temperatures. In the interior, at Fairbanks on the Tanana— the northern terminus of the new government rail- road—the mean temperature for the three summer months is about 56 degrees; the mean for the three winter months about —12 degrees F. Along the shores of Behring sea the mean sum- mer temperature varies from 40 degrees to 50 de- grees and the mean annual temperature from 25 degrees to 40 degrees. The extremes recorded at Nome are 60 degrees in July and —25 degrees in January. The Arctic province is colder, of course. The experience of old residents of Alaska has shown the climate to be very healthful. No ex- tremes of cold or heat occur along the Pacific sea- board. The excessive rains on many parts of the coast are disagreeable, but have no effect on health. The Cook Inlet and Susitna regions have a climate similar to that of the interior, and warmer summers than those on the coast, with less rain. On the Yukon the summers are cool and bright; clear weather prevails most of the time. The lack of humidity in the interior makes the extreme tem- peratures of winter easy to resist. The winter journey between Fairbanks and Valdez is made by men, women and children, and offers no serious hardships except when storms are encountered. The summer climatee at Nome is delightful. Wait -a-A-1™ KiND OF TIRED | HEC ~ MAY Be Youle BXcUSE MB To- HELLO, OLIVIA ? | THIS 15 HECTOR TAng- | WHAT DO You Say ‘To |GONG TrRoved THE [PARI This AFTERNOON? Stella and Gertie ; [7 = —== | YOU SAY | OUGATA LOOSEN UP. |WRY | AyWT MAKIN" NOTHIN' JOFFER TWIS LAND NOTTA CENT! im YO |GET ONE FOURTH || TRE crop! AN 9 THE q CAPTAIN ’ OF THE VESSEL PIPES THE BomB! PART 3 STAR—THURBDAY, JULY 29, 1915. PAGE OF THE 'A Married Man’s Troubles Iisorm\— Weu- TL HAvE to Take SOME One eLse FOR A RiDm MERES YKE BUILDIN FER MY SWARE- THERES THE BUILDIN' WIG - MINES EMPTY | SEEN ‘THAT GUY DUMP THREE LOADS O CROPS IN HIG PLACE AWREADY! - AT HOME! ‘a, ° PAGE 4 WHERE UNCLE SAM HELPS CO-OPERATION ALONG Ove folks in Alaska are not behind the times. Would you believe it—they even have co- operation! A remote island in the Aleutian chain, 1,800 miles west of Seattle, and nearer to Japanese ter- ritory than to the mainland of the United States, is Atka, more than half way across the Pacific ocean. Atka is inhabited by a colony of less than 100 Aleuts, and is visited only by one of the reve nue cutters on its annual cruise and by a trading schooner. For many years the economic conditions of the natives there had been hard. The island is en- tirely untimbered. The native industries are fish- ing, fox hunting and basket making. They had been selling their fur skins to the local trader and to the trading schooner at from $5 to $8 each and buying goods at three or four times their cost in Seattle. The local price on the island for rough lumber, for instance, was $50 a thousand. The same lum- ber cost about $12 per thousand in Seattle. For shingles, worth $2.25 a thousand in Seattle, they paid $8 a thousand. Articles of food supply and clothing were proportionately high. The United States bureau of education main- tains a school on the island for the natives. And the school teachers in Alaska, being not merely school teachers, but geniuses, were called upon to solve the economic problem of the natives. So in April, 1913, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Seller, teachers on the island, under instructions from the bureau, assisted the natives to start a co-operative For a Ripe? | JUST GOT & NEW BieHT- STAR SSS ! WHAT Do Yor CYLINDER ROADSTER — 1 CAN Go! MBAN ‘ )T CAME Wis MORNING-| | WAIT A MiNUTE, WeLL- IM SoRRY- VD MiKe BUT, LISTEN By mall, ut of atx, one your, $1.50) 6 months, $1.00; Bie per month up to @ mth. Why earrler, city, 260 « month, Fatered at . Wash, postottics ae sroond-rinae é tore, with the aid of the revenue cutter Service, ind merchants im Seattle who advanced the orig. inal stock to the value of about $1,500, which the revenue service delivered to islar Now the natives send their fox skins and bag. ketry to Seattle by mail and sell them for prices much above what they used t traders. Similarly they purchase their supplies at the local co-operative store, cuting out the profit of the middleman and getting better goods at less cost, Detailed reports of the operation of the store are sent in to the chief of the Alaska division in the bureau of education at Washington, and the finan. ) get from the local cial transactions are audited by the commanding officer of the revenue cutter which visits Atka every summer. A continuation of the policy jg expected to enable the natives of this barren island to live in comfortable houses, to become economic ally independent and possibly even contribute to the support of their school. Maybe you have noted in the foregoing that your Uncle Sam really believes in co-operation and helps some of his people to go to it. Wish he'd start something here in the states, DOESN’T HURT OUR FEELINGS NITED STATES army officers predict Vijla will crush Obregon’s and Gonzales’ armies, now apparently caught in a trap, and will soon con. trol all Mexico and shut Carranza up in his only stronghold, Vera Cruz. We are awfully gun-shy on this neutrality , proposition and don’t care to express ourselves too strongly, but we don’t suppose there is any harm in saying that we don’t care a bit if Villa does do it, To Go- YESS\R, YOU WAS. BUT AS \T TURNED oOvyT, THERE WAS ONLY THREE LOADS the end of the war, according CONTINUED poly BY GILSON GARDNER The Star's Staff Writer in W It is my {dea that the WHEN WILL THE WAR END? SOME GUESSES! two. That war ended on the 9th of the }1ith month! Repeat the process with the num. and possibly ten years. ing war. You get 9-11 covered that there are to be not necessarily mean disorgant: tion, ber 3741 and you get 10-5. The, It is a matter of attrition be- Franco-Prussian war ended on the tween peoples and equipment. 10th of May! This requires time in prepara- Supposing this war which began in 1914 ends in 1915, and handling the dates the same way gives the llth of November ns the date for and the last is much time to be consumed by the Germans. ston. r will more Waterloos—that defeat does tion and time in expenditure. There fore attrition will sufficiently waste what was so wonderfully prepared to this odd method of playing with motiy no be- On the other hand, there is no| for ending the warfare short of final determination be tween autocracy and democracy When the first effort at a settle ment comes it may be found that the winter campaign of 191 | ber, 1917 BY NORMAN HAPGOOD this fs only the beginning of a 10-| Rditor of Harper's Weekly, Who Has Just | last continue at least two years longer |Ye8r war, in which all the elements This war is a test of two things—political | Something systems and new methods of mak In the latter test it in dis- Will be put into the melting pot and| Aprae4. entirely different will come out. BY J. W. T. MASON Historian of the W The war may end over night Peace is waiting only for public opinion tn West. trn Europe to realize the Inev- Itability of a compromise, Dt- plomacy could negotiate an An equable peace chance of the war ending by De cember. This slight chance would be increased some what if the Unit ed States went in or if Holland went in The probability, however, seems to be that it will continue over an. other winter and 1916-17, but that she cannot fi e|Ireiand will be isolated from the »| world, and second, the opening of The end may come about Novem: | the Dardanelles and the consequent Returned from Study of War Conditions | If Bulgaria and Roumania go in | on the side of the allies, I think | there 18 A BUEN gern rename UNION Piatinae Pilling Gi to . Gold Alloy Filling @10R0 to 83:8? Patniess Extracting Kxaminations aad Ketimates Free. ATTEND TO YOUR TEETH NOW While We Are CUTTING THE CUT RATE PRICES Silver Fillings .....25c Golf Crowns.......$3) NTISTS—#05%, Fike St., Corner of Third Ava We use nothing but the best materiais and guarantes @ pleasing and Iaet- ing result for ® period of 18 yeara All work guaran’ UNION DENTISTS—Cov. Third ond Pike. Bridge Work 4 4:98 of Testh 85.00 and BAO Lady Attendante. Bntrence 1054 Pike St. jand | fall ing peace now, but ft | would jnation a victor, cused of treason, Very little more of the present exhausting cause a general comprehension that victory is too costly for either side to win. ter. I The most probable peace would be would disappear to peace uninfiu- | ton. enced by England wants peace, the war will | at least two years yet lend | All of them are now practically | — jon a fiat basis of money and will BY FRANK SIMONDS be openly so within a year; but so America's Foremost Military Critie. |long as the people have food and I don’t think the fore the fall of 1917 | that I think the exhaustion of Ger- | many is the only solution. | Weve Germany can go thru the com- end in the au tumn of 1916, leave no N. Hapgood | J. W. T. Mason the diplomats would be ac- BY HERBERT QUICK Author, Editor, Special Contributer to he star, | All the countries involved seem | to have settled down to the endur ance of the unprecedented slaugh do not think that any of presage of|them will give up until some eco- Constantinople’s| nomic breakdown takes place objection then| Shortage of ammunition or starva. strain, however, may England's her armies; and, when| I see no real prospect of this for | r will end be-| clothing this will make little differ. | My reason is| ence in the conduct of the war | Only two possibilities are Mkely to shorten the war; first, the de velopment of so many submarines winter and thru the winter of by Germany that Great Britain and BY BLOSSER. 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