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than ever before in its history. 
The Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor has decided to banish both 
army and navy from the board and 
put it on a civilian basis. One re- 
sult will be the saving of thousands 
of dollars annually to the national 
treasury. The board will be trans- 
formed into a bureau, with an ex- 
ecutive officer, a commisioner of 
lighthouses at its head. This com- 
missioner will be appointed by the 
President and confirmed by the 
Senate. He will be responsible to 
the Secretary of Commerce_and La- 
bor, just as is the commissioner of 
labor or the commissioner of fisher- 
ies. He will have the necessary as- 
sistants, and his jurisdiction will be 
divided, probabaly, into nineteen 
districts, which will include Porto 
Rico and the naval base in Cuba. 
We are finding out more all the 
time about our non-contiguous pos- 
sessions. It is but a little while since 
we found out that Alaska was any- 
thing but a land of perpetual snow 
and ice with no redeeming quali- 
ties, and no possibilities of indus- 
tries except the catching of fur seals 
and salmon. Now we know that it 
is a goleonda of mineral wealth— 
coal, copper, gold, tin—a region in 
which there are forests so luxuriant 
that the Government is figuratively 
weeping because it is not able to use 
the splendid timber which is going 
to waste there, a land which boasts 
as great a diversity of climate al- 
most, as California, with a warm 
current laving its southern coast 
where agriculture will soon yield 
big harvests and where homesteaders 
are already taking up farms. That 
is not all,—but it is suggestive that 
we are getting acquainted with one 
of our possessions. We have been 
told that Porto Rico is to be a great 
health resort; that the Panama Ca- 
nal Zone will some day be as famed 
for the salubrity of its climate as it 
was at one time for its pestilences; 
and now comes the news that the 
Philippines are not onlyhealthful but 
that persons who go there may look 
for the prolongation of their days in 
pleasurable pursuits. 
Bureau reports that the death rate 
among the more than 8000 govern- 
ment employees in the islands for the 
quarter ended March 31 was only 
6.9 per 1000 per annum. These em- 
ployees of whom some 3700 are 
Americans, include all the officials 
and employees of.the insular, pro- 
vincial and municipal governments 
and police and fire departments of 
Manila. 
The Insular. 
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