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While her costumes should not be elaborate, they may have a little more Importance than those oif the girl at boarding school. It would save a great deal of trouble and much readjustment after the arrival at school if fond parents would realise that simplicity Is a matter of first consideration In outfitting a schoolgirl. The three-piece suit Is most useful to any young woman sojourning away from home or for traveling. This autumn there Will be much to choose from In suits, and the practical will be embodied in all of them, owing to / itwnzGHT jar , 4 > . • • • • > - By JOflH DICKINSON SHERMAN. •HAT'S the matter with Alaska? This question bids fair to displace the historic, What's the matter with Kansas? For the answer the latter question nowadays "She's all right" And the nns to the former seems to be, "She'P all wrong." But. like Kansas, Alaska can be made "all right." And President Harding and his administration are planning to do th'*• eir best to bring It about. Fw Alaska, It may be said, Is quite a place. Its • area tg nearly 000,000 square miles--qft area equal 'to the combined area of Norway, Sweden, Finland, ED gland, Scotland and Ireland, an area equal In else to the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, the Dakotas and Arkansas. It has p. coast line 26,000 miles long. The Yukon, 2,800 miles long In Alaska and Canada, is a great central national road, by water in summer, on the Ice in winter. The south coast harbors of the ' Alaskan peninsula are open the year round, though Point Barrow is 300 miles north of the Arctic circle and without sun for 40 days In winter. It ha* half a dozen kinds of climates. There are 100,00(1 ' square miles suitable for agriculture and grazing. There are 156,250 square miles of forests. There are gold, silver, tin, antimony, copper, lead, marble, oil, coal, peat. There are fish and seals and reindeer. Why, in the 84 years since we paid $7,200,000 •' for Alaska to the Russians It has returned the ; purchase money considerably more titan one hundred fold. The output of the flatteries alone amounts vo $375,000,000. The mines have produced a total of $438,000,000, of which $311,000,U0Q , Is the value of the gold output. The total value " of Alaska's mineral, fish and fur products from 1867 to 1919 was $949,000,000. Yet there is undoubtedly some thing wrong with* • Alaska. The white population ln l910 was 39,000, In 1915 It had increased to 50,000. The present white population is estimated at 36,000, in addition to 25,000 natives, some of whom are civilised. The industrial population exceeds 40,000. The total commerce for 1919 was $109,652,239, a decrease of $17,496,793. The total commerce with the United States for 1920 was $106,586,095 as against $124,436,491 in 1919, a decrease of $17,- 860,396. Canned salmon showed a decrease of $6,- 843,915; fresh fish other than salmon a decrease of $374,320. The decrease In imports amounted to . $2,668,306. due largely to reduced mining and fishery operations. The value of the territory's mineral output inf 1D19 was only $19,620,000, while that of 1918 wait. $28,254,000. The mineral output in 1919 was the * smallest in any year since 1910, and its value was less than half that of the output In 1916, which was $48,600,000. The value of the annual output of gold declined from $16,700,000 In 1916 to $9,- 420,000 in 1919. The copper output was $24,240,- tm in 1917; In 1918 it was $17,180,000; In 1919 it was $8,783,063. So, when Senator Albert B. Fall became secretary of the Interior, he fell heir to a big Job. for it is under the interior department that Alaska does a large part of its complicated functioning. He and President Harding have been looking Into the situation very seriously. They have held many ' conferences. They have apparently come to a conclusion, which answers the question. What's the matter with Alaska? "Too much government" is their conclusion. And their idea is that absolute authority should be vested In a single head and that single head should be the President. Of course the secretary of the interior would have to do most all of the work. But, being a miner and developer himself, he Is willing. He says: "There is just one way to develop Ai«afc«, and that Is to vest absolute authority in a single head, and that supreme authority must be the President himself. Such a bill, which will vest this authority in President Harding, is now being considered by proper officials and, I hope, will shortly be Introduced in congress. When this is accomplished, as I am sure it will be before very long, the rehabilitation of Alaska will begin in earnest." ^ Three bills embodying plans for the government / of Alaska are before the senate and house committees on territories. Secretary of the Interior Fall is the last to send a tentative measure to the committees. He proposes to vest in his own department all functions pertaining to the development aud use of natural resources and construction work for the territory. The bill by Secretary Fall will not prove more satisfying to the several departments which he proposes to Invade than the Curry bill, which prq- . poses to vest in an Alaska development board the administration of the territory, or the Cummins bill which vests in the President power to reorganise all federal activities in the territory. He will cut Into the activities of the department of war, agriculture and commerce; in fact, he will assume factions that apparently touch practically every department. Too much government! Well, Alaska does get 4ft pretty large dose. And, what's more, It's meetly government at long range. Bear in mind thai nearly all of Alaska's resources are directly or Indirectly controlled by the federal government, •bout 99 per cent of the land Is still in government ownership. The development of coal and Oil deposits is under government leases. Water powers and fisheries are under federal control, and nearly all Alaska timber is in government •Wnershlp. The federal control of Alaska's resource^. is "vested in a number of departments and bureaus. Rules and regulations relating to Alaska affairs, under the existing statutes, must be made by Washington authorities, who are also In large measure directly charged with their execution. This long-distance administration has been a serious handicap to the development of Alaska. Iu many instances regulations have been made which did not meet the local requirements, and unjust decisions rendered because those making them were not familiar with local conditions. This situation lias worked a particular hardship on the operator with small capital, who could not afford to make the long journey to present his argument ill person to the Washington authorities. Owing lis the divided authority and the limitations placed tear statutes and appropriations, there has also been lack of coordination between various Alaska fed- #fal activities. To be sure, it would take a Philadelphia lawyer --as the old saying goes---to figure otit all the Ways In which Alaska is governed, but here are Sfcme of them. The interior department has a large part of Alaska's government. The secretary has general supervision over the work of constructing the government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks the Alaskan enginee^ng commission. The commissioner of the general land office Is charged with the survey, Management and disposition of the public lands. In the national forests Q'ongass and Chugach, embracing 20,000,000 acres) he executes all laws relating to the surveying, prospecting, locating and patenting of public lands and granting of rights of way. Igjotwitli8tandlng this, the forest service, a bureau of tile agricultural department, has charge of the national forests. The secretary of the Interior Is a member, with the secretaries of war and agriculture of the new water power commission. The commission has DO funds and no personnel. Any investigation Is done by the geological survey and the forest ice. he department of agriculture has now control orer land fur-bearing animals; up to last year both the department of agriculture and the department of commerce functioned. Yet the bureau of flSfierles (department of commerce) is extensively raising blue foxes on the Pribiloff islands. The game laws are enforced by the governor of Alaska and the departments of agriculture and commerce. The department of commerce has charge of the fisheries; it has jurisdiction over merchant vessels; it takes the census; It has a bureau IB Charge of lighthouses; its coast and geodetic survey makes the charts. The department of the treasury^ has charge of UK construction and maintenance of public buildings ; its coast guard protects game and the seal and the fisheries; it has a public health service. \j_The war department has charge of river and harbor improvements. It has extensive military cable, telegraph and radio systems in Alaska-- which everybody uses, inasmuch as the postofllce department ran hardly be said to function there. The board of road commissioners for Alaska was created in 1905 by congress. The work is r. FEW DEER LEFT IN EPPING FOREST 4 carried on under the direction ol the secretary d . ^war. The funds are derived from an A laskan tax and from special appropriations by congress through military committees. The bureau of public roads of the agricultural department constructs public roads In national forests. There Is also a territorial road commission. There are actually four federal bureaus which have funds for the construction of wagon roads In Alaska. The 1920 report of John Barton Payne, secre tary of the Interior, contRlns many pages devoted tn a consideration of Alaskan conditions by him. In addition. It contains in full the report of the Alaskan advisory committee, appointed by him In April of 1920 to advise what immediate steps could be taken to better conditions, what Industries could be developed and what resources could be exploited to give employment to a resident population which in turn would give a home market for Alaska products. This committee was made up of Alfred H. Brooks (chairman), Interior department ; H. Y. Saint, shipping board; Otto i'raeger, second assistant postmaster general; E. A. Sherman, agricultural department. It was the Judgment of the advisory committee that the wise course was to coordinate the different departments of the government having to do with Alaska through a committee consisting of a representative from each department. Such a committee was named by Secretary Payne. In Secretary Payne's personal comments and the report of the advisory committee many interesting and curious facts are found, Here are some of them: - . The wo$c ,of construction of the government raliro^dri getting along slowly. The postofllce department is not functioning. Mail vto, Alaska is shipped as express or freight. There has been a shortage of labor. The leases offered by the forest service to makers of pulp and paper offer unacceptable terms. There is no resident district forester. There are 347 withdrawals and reservations of public lands; many serve no useful purpose. Only about 9 per cent of Alaska's ocean water* ways have been charted. Lighthouses and fog horns are needed; some projects, authorised by congress, lack appropriations. There was one naval patrol in 1920; there about be 20 boats. A territorial police force Is needed. The salmon fishing Industry Is menaced from lack of protection aud propagation of the fish. The territorial government wants full territorial powers of legislation; jurisdiction over fish, game and land fur-bearing animals; transfer of the Alaska fund from the federal to the territorial treasury. Alaska's coal output in 1919 under the leasing law was only 00,000 tons; she is importing annually 100,000 tons. With oil of her own, Alaska draws on California for 500,000 barrels of petroleum and its products. There has been little or no investigation In the Water-power resources. | Extension to Alaska Of the farmers' loan act and the stock-raising homestead act are needed. Ocean transportation Is Inadequate and rate* are so high as to cripple all Alaskan industrial expansion. Indeed, the problem of getting Alaska's products to market seems to be the biggest problem of all. It has many ramifications. The little fishing companies, without vessels of their own, have to trust to the chance visit of independent, buyer*. Hie eatch of these little companies amounts to millions. The big companies, of course, have their own vessels. There are also certain shipping regulations that must be altered. Probably a government shipping line will have to be established under the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission to break the private monopoly In water transportation. Secretary Fall does not purpose, it is stated, to take over Investigation activities of a scientific nature now being done by various bureaus. But hp dn#* plan to tnk<» over the functions and personnel of the other departments and bureaus functioning in Alaska's long-distance government. -- , n ; 1 ; ' r : . W W . . j • ' i • - Young Girl's Dress of Blue Serge Bound With Braid. It Features One of the N«w Turn-Over Collars. the Influence of the plain gray which French women adopted so* enthusiastically earlier In the season. Adhering to gray and leaving all other colors out of consideration gives us an astonishing variety. There are the deep Oxford mixtures, so smart and so practical, and the very pale grays for more dress-up occasions-- if a suit ever*can be considered a dress-up costume. Simplicity of outline marks all of the new suits. A French model of very dark gray cloth shows the same material tucked and Inserted in bands. It Incorporates several Ideas in one model. Hie outline of the suit remains plain, and by" omitting the tucked portions and the scalloped bottom a smart suit having a box coat with raglan sleeves and high collar remains. New Blouses Have Shorter Lines. As for blouses to accompany the suit. It would be well to include one or two of the new costume blouses of crepe de chine or dull crepe satin. Beware of those showing too much elaboration. In their eagerness to meet'a sudden demand for blouses created by the rejuvenation of the tailored suit designers have gone far In an endeavor to offer new ideas. This is a natural thing to have done, for there are many tastes to be catered to. The tendency in all blouses is toward shorter lines. The over-blouse, in many instances, ends at the waistline at the sides and back and slopes slightly below It la the front. Ever so many of them, while finished to be worn outside the skirt, end at the normal waistline. It Is not unusual now to have a blouse made from the material of the suit itself. This is a revival of an old-time fashion and an extremely practical one. Of considerable Importance in the college girl's outfit Is a topcoat, and there is no reason why this should not be one of the smartest costumes, for copies of the plaid coats which were acknowledged by everyone who visited the French races to be among the smartest things worn there now may be procured In this country. Loose Topcoats of Plaid Woolens. Those with long cape backs or cut in scarf effect, while attractive, are not quite as useful as the real coat variety. While cut on very loose lines. It still 'gives the comfort of a coat It meets fashion's requirements by having the long flowing sleeves which are the most up-to-the-minute note. While a coat of this sort Is useful for traveling and many other occasions it does not quite fill the requirements of a rainy day. Every student should take a good tramp each day, rain or shine, so a raincoat is essential. If a day be unattractive women should not fall In line with It by appearing in old clothes which they would not wear In the bright sunshine. In this country we walk so little In the rain that there has not been the demand for good-looking rain coats that there Is in England, where women consider a smart rain costume of real importance. But a growing interest In rainy-day coats Is constantly developing here. Some of our most exclusive American firms brought over smart models last year in rubberized plaid cloth with small hats to match. They were so expensive, however, that they were practically prohibitive for the woman of average Income. Now copies of some of the best models from London and Paris may be had at reasonable prices. Among them are capes suit able for wearing over a suit or heavy coat In the autumn ar.1 winter. Some of the new models In long coats which French designers have been working on so animatedly of late are of rain-proof tweeds and gabardines, although these are not quite as unusual and smart as the silk rain-proof plaids in large, showy patterns od>. the order of the coats worn at the French races. There are a number of smart coats of the deep-yoke sort with choker collars that start at a neckline cut out far onto the shoulders. • - ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuint Beware! Unless you see the naat3 "Bayer" on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for twenty-one years and proved safe by milliona. Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer package for Colds. Headache, Neural- " * gla, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache,, Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few cents. Druggists also sen larger packages. Aspirin- is thei, trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of SalMklCttt --Advertisement. Skill Recognized. "How la Josh getting along with thsi > violin "Better'n I expected," replied Farmer OorntosseL "Time and again it ' sounds like It was goin' to pieces, bafc Josh always has the luck to hold It t»-, gether somehow." •! The Cuticura Toilet Trio. Having cleared your skin keep It by making Cuticura your every-day* -M toilet preparations. The soap to cleanserand purify, the Ointment to soothe and? ||| heal, the Talcum to powder and per^ fume. No toilet table Is complete* ^ without them. 25c everywhere.--*!^ vertlaemcnt / 1 ? J - The Only Way. • Zv mI see where the flooring of a Mf *:;|| warehouse where a lot of wholesale > foodstuffs was stored gave way." *^1 "That's about the only way they'll ever get high-priced food to cssssf'^J down." ' W CATARRHAL DEAFNESS <s greatly relieved by constitutional treat* - ment. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICIN® ts a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal, r DeafneM is caused by an inflamed eoa-^ •SitIon of the mucous lining- of the Buttchlan Tube. WTien this tube ia inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely rlnaaij. £ Deafness ts the result. Unless the Inflamiration can be reduced, your teutM may be destroyed forever. HAiijf CATARRH MKDICINE *f-ts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the sye* tern, thus reducing the Inflammation and - assisting: Nature in restoring normal con-, dltions Circulars fre*. All Druggists. T.J. Cheney 4k Ok, Toledo, fThtll 111 verttosment - Discussing the Concert. 8hs--Don't yeu think Mme. Warbkl ! puts much feeling into her singing? He--Yes. But It must be terrlbla to feel that way. li Peter Pan Collars Add Touch of Youth A simple evening dress of the fluffy, fuller skirted sort finds Its logical place In the young girl's wardrobe, and an evening frock of more tailored outline which Is composed entirely of ribbons, as well as a simple dinner dress with somewhat high neck and short sleeves, and the ever-useful navy blue serge frock, the latter having a collar which Is a revival of an old-time favorite-- the Peter Pan collar. Several collars of this type have been noted on recent models. They may be of the material from which the frock Is made or composed of rows of real lace. Often on a dark blue or black dress they are of white silk. They give a youthful touch and serve to vary the monotony of s neckline which we have had for some time. There is a new shade of stockings that will Interest many a schoolgirl. It Is a very dark gray, almost black, and In certain light shows tints of blue. What sort of handbag shall be chosen for' the schoolgirl is another question that arises, and here there Is much from which to s^ect. Thin ones will be very much liked, but better than the thin silk ones are those of leather, having the flatness so much desired, but that are sufficiently commodious to hold as much as the old-time shopping bag. They are elaborated with handsome monograms, which make them smart enough to please the most exacting. Making Buttonholea. tm making buttonholes if the thread should break or prove too short put the needle through the silt to the wrong side and fasten. After threading the needle again Insert It In the side of the last stitch, dr&wlng the thread up through the last knot or purl and proceed as before. On heavy cloth and where shank buttons are used the end of the slit nearest the edge Is rounded so the buttons will rest flatly in the buttonhole. Saahea In One Pleee. Sashes are ofttlmes cut in one pleee with the front panel of the hlous*. WHERE THE WAISTLINE SHOULD BE Herds That Once Rosined Famows " |i|idon Playground Are Sal* Be Paat Disappearing. * The deer of Epping forest, to the northwest of London, are disappearing, according to the London letter of the Westminster Gazette. Forty years ago Epping forest contained three species of deer--the red deer, the roe time they numbered all told well over three hundred. Now there are barely a hundred, practically ail fallow deer. All but three of the red deer were captured some years ago and transferred to Windsor Great park, and the remaining three had to be destroyed, owing to their mischievous habits. The roe deer were Introduced _ to Epping forest about thirty-five and the fallow deer--and at eoe years ago, and at eos time there were j5* quite thirty In the neighborhood of Monk wood; but six years ago the verderers were able to discover barely half a dozen. For some years after the city corporation was made responsible for the forest, in 1878, the fallow deer, then numbering less than a dozen. Increased rapidly, and ten years ago more than three hundred roamed the forest nprth of Chingford, but now that the motor-charabanc enables trippers to reach this part of the forest in large numbers, the fallow deer are rapidly disappearing. • " "% *1- - ' l c * w k " * * 1 ~'h.' < • " \ • " 0LJ, *,:! ,;f.c * > 1*" *<.#44 , 41 ' <• y t I*/-- ; y..'t,v : Egg Dances. The egg dance, now confined chiefly to Spain, among the people of Valencia, was a once popular diversion In England, Scotland, Holland and other parts of Europe. A number of eggs were arranged In a prescribed form upon the dancing floor, and among them a blind-folded dancer moved as best he might, to music, the object being to execute an Intricate dance without breaking the eggs. The music, like the arrangement of. tki eggs, also was prescribed. High or Low Points Covered by Styles Thst Are Most Suitable to the Wearer. ( One of the most delightful tendencies tn present-day fashions Is that tljere is no hard and fast libes as to where the waistline shall^be. It all depends on the type of dress you affect as well as your Individual taste. If you look your loveliest in a high wastline that bespeaks the inspiration of the Empire period, why there ybu should have your waistline. If, on the other hand, the low walsted frock accentuates the supple grace of your figure that will be your choice. Perhaps you are one of those fortunate Individuals who always look well no matter what they wear, so that one day you may don a frock with a natural waistline and the next day may wear one without the least suggestion of this distinguishing feature of most gowns. Many of the smartest of women Mver ask. "Is that the styler Tbay if 'i&i-'if simply say when shopping, "That's the dress for me," or "I can't wear that, it wouldn't be becoming." Never choose a dress because it's smart and pretty if It Is not your style. You will readily discover Just what your style Is if you will slip on different modes and study theiQ before a mirror. Your eye will tell why It is that the loose blouslng efTect adds to your charm, while the tight-tailored suit makes you look like a caricature or vice versa. Notice this delicious flavor when your ^ smoke Lucky Strike , ^ --it's sealed in by ; . the toasting process/- •- Jj i \ -j * 7 -- ^ ^ Boiler than Pills F o r L i v e r I l l s . W Tonight -- Tomorrow Alright A ITCH! JmhUNTO SuoaSTW The Coat Drees Reigns. The redlngote frock is to be a favor ite in the coining fall. Another type of one-piece frock Is the bloused coat dress, frequently so fashioned -that It is difficult to determine at a glance whether it is a coat or a dress. A frock of this type made of a pressed velvet really looked at a little distance like a flat fur. It was bloused a trifle Just below the normal waistline, fastened at one side with an ornamental buckle and was finished wtth a deep shawl collar o& SDN (HuftStlrtull tk< Imtaifll •flulk.l *l--worm.T*fr wrtlwUlt -alTSald br r*S*bl« <1 I ••III I A. a. aiefctrta ItedtdM C«, SbwMa. Tras* Intensive Irrigated Farm Laaf Cheap, never-failing water, U. S. preset; , idea! climate; cheap labor; profitable sp* ciaiized crops; nearby cash markets; fanners strongly organized; modern schools^ agricultural collar*, experiment station;) cement roads; truck lines, land prices low; facts free, a rite FARM WWII,3.laOnw.M.M. PXSSSm HAIR BALSAM lH«nI--N. rDte.E, aRtooCa ORN8 'net, Mko walkk ita. br awil or J^lnr TMONEV! OH is on grottiMl floor mono making proposition. K®iim w« will send samples with direction*. BS Profits FERTN A CO.. ALlMNK. TKXA& ot UC >1 ui \Ol: CAN GKT AM iatsrwt Orsat A.rk*»* sas OH Field tor a little ot your tiruo Writ* LOO AN VBTETO. RISON. ARKANSAS. 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