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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
noraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1811, at the post office at.
Rome, Aiasna, under the Act of March S, 1872.
Nome, Alaska, June 7, 11)10.
KITCHENER.
In the d;ath of Kitchener like
many othei'3 “whose courage well
was tried” the world loses a re
markable mac. it is immaterial
that he discovered for hi?, ending a
watery grave instead of a soldier’s
ending on the battlefield, those are
incidents which tho Gods take care
of, and about which human beings
strive they ever so w~ll to avert,
can do nothing.
It is likely that had Kitchener
been in the United States he would
have been a capt.vn of industry with
largo donations, foundations ana
other little ways and means ot
evading the income tax lew placed
to his credit. He was quite an un
usual type for England. A wonder
ful organizer, with an ability to
grasp a number of intricate
threats of an intricate organiza
tion with some degree of m* story
at the same time. He was an or
ganizer before a soldier ard he
might under a happier system have
been extremely useful to human
society. What particular use he was
is now not very much i:i evidence.
A blanker prospect for any man
than “serving God and honoring the
king” that is held out :n the Brit
ish army and navy is not possible
to imagine out ids similar sorvices
in similar empires.
But suppsse that society was,
strictly organized for the greatest
good of the greatest number with |
no other end conserved than the et-1
footing of such greater good—were
this mad dream of gold-chasing an t
crown-upholding net the end ana
aim of the social forces that find
real expression, how otherwise
might it have been wi 1: Kitchener:
His ability could havi increased hu
man happiness a thousand fold; the
system of social distribution anu
production would have giver his
genius ample field and in the serv
ice to liis fellows well would lie have
repaid himself.
As it is now his ability has been
wasted. The energy that has been
devoted to his education rr.d train
ing and to the expansion of his mi-,
lifarv intellect in all its details is
utterly and for ever kst his coun
try and the world as f >r humane
betterment is concerned. Ho light-r
ened no load of sorrow, brought no
comforting relief to tho miseries oi
the people, advanced no such cause i
an human liberty ard human ight.
That he found no mission to do so
may be his justification before a so- j 1
ciety which shaped him for the thing i
lie was. His life was based upon the
right of Might, no small thing ana.:
cno that human be'ng?. today are <
confronting wi‘n interrogating stare :
Society made him for what he
wan p.nd with the -deal3 and the
duties that it burdened his soul,
these he worked out in the shapes
that society itself in its rotten code
of imperialism and militarism, de- j
signod. s
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The public school almost every
where has serious and very ob
vious chortcomings. But as things
stand today they are the only sy
stem cf national education that is
provided. They are th) best be
cause they rro the on'y system
which wo h' ve.
Education is an essontial in mo
dern society. Education Is tho pre
sent molding of tho future state.
What the ideas are that are devel
oped and the methods that arc made
a habit in the public schools, those
will find expression in the commun
ity itself when the scholar reaches
the prime of adult citizenship. This
is all more or less platitude. It is
true of course, but obvious truth
does not necessarily have to be In
sisted upon.
Education as it stands today how
ever is much more largely respons
ible for conditions that prevail in
society than most imagine. For this
reason therefore the duty society
owes to itself regarding education j
is above all other thngs paramount. .
Yet it is to be confessed that in
many places there is no money so
grudgingly bestowed as that extend-j
ed for educational purposes. The ’
taxes are believed to be for polic- j
ing, for fire protection, for street
improvement, for anything and
everything but the schools. To judge j
from the attitude of many in bust- j
noss, the grass could grow green j
before the school house steps and
all would be well, provided that the
taxe3 did not annoy the men oi j
commerce. The fact is and it is one i
that cannot be repeated too often, as!
a member of the school board said
at the council meeting Monday
night, the s^hcol should come first.
It ia to the schools that the com
munity of all its public departments
owes its first and its paramount
duty. It is all very well to say
that economy is necesary, but the
economy should be tried on every
department before the schools were
touched.
Expenses in this city could be cut
enormously if tfco council would
only face the situation bravely and
take the bull by the horns. The
expenses arc not lopped off in any
direction to any serious extent ex
cept in the ’.a3t p ace which should
feel the pruning knife, the public
schools.
The school today is run upon
terms of bed-rock economy. There
is evidently not a cent wasted, it
maybe that we might have better
teachers and that the system o!
education might he Improved upon, j
We are not considering that; that i
may or may not be correct. But j
we do know that an entire review .
of the costs of administering the at- :
fairs of this city could afford the
city councilmen ample evidence that
the city could prune with appro
priateness and with judiciousness
in many places before ever they
turned their economizing eyes in
the direction of the schools. But
that's just what is not done.
Behind other departments if you
please is influence of a deep poli
tical pull; pull, in other words, of
serious dimensions. The school has
nothing of that kind unless the pa
rents in Nome with the mightiest
influence of all stand beh’nd the
school board in the demand that tf |
they must cut, at least do not con
fine it to the school system, do not
begin with the school sysetm. The
city ought to dispense first with
what is dispenslble nor wreck the
Bchools so that it may maintain
other departments in an unusual
and wasteful and little wanteo
vigor.
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER.
We believe the Industrial Worker
is giving just as good a news
service as the town and our sub
scription list Is entited to—and a
little bit better. Every dispatch In
cur news columns is paid for in
cold cash, and costs money, and it
Is for that reason we have to turn
our attention to some paper bums
wearing tailored clothing, in busi
ness, and always in a boiled shirt
who sneaic the papers for a short
read in (he morning at a sub
scriber's expense.
Quite a rumber of people who
wouldn't think of going into a meat
market and swiping a beef steak, or
into a grocer and running off with a
chunk of cheese have no hesitation
in purloining the other fellows pa
per and touching the carrier for a
"spare copy”. The gall of some ot
these people may be easily ex
plained. The enlargement in due
to their habits and thoy would be
well advised to mend or end them.
The Industrial Worker is not liv
ing on any charity. It lives on giv
ing you value for your money. You
may not like the ideas expressed in
this paper but probably they hare i
done your moldy brans more good 1
than you think In making you sub-11
ject them to some unusual exercise, j
It gave the people at great cost the ‘i
passenger list of the boats and it is i
a delight to see a number of non- '
subscribers abstracting copies ot
this paper and with their heads to
gether scanning the news item for
their own material improvement.
The Industrial Worker is moved
to make these few sensible remarks,
a3 are mostly all the remarks which
are made in this paper, Tor the pur
pose of taking these paper thieves
and paper bums to task.
If this pap r is worth anything,'
is is worth a subscription. It is
going to live whether you subscribe
or not, but the more subscribers
that are received the better the
paper. This paper puts into real
goods all or neariy all its receipts,
with a working balance only against
emergencies. In proportion to the
receipts the news service increases
and gives value. The editorials, we
are aware, are disliked by a good
many. They dont like them and they
hate to be thought for one moment
to endorse what is therein stated bv
even reading them.
But they road them just the
same. They read learn and inward
ly digest even when their bile feels
like busting. We cant help that.
The function of an article is to edu
cate or to make people think. If
anything stated herein is wrong, it
is for the other fellow to correct
it. Nothing is stated here ex cathed
ra with a penalty of excommunica
tion if you dont believe it, standing
right at the back of it. On the con
trary it is the food for thought that!
it is intended to be provided, and i
if a completer, fuller, abler and j
more careful survey of the facts
results in entirely different and bet
ter founded conclusion so much the
better. That is what is worth
achieving.
There is no whine in this article.
The language used in this office |
when repeated cases of paper pur- |
loinings and paper bummings are j
brought to its attention are such as [
partake of a whine in no way. The
office has united in pronouncing |
condemnation upon those in terms j
that would make a middle age
blaaphemy or an orphan’s curse look j
like a penitential psalm alongside:
of it. As the poet says:
“An orphan's curse would drag to
hell
A spirit from on High
But more horrible than that
Is the curse in a newspaper eye.” j
Apologies are due to the departed j
spirit of Sam Taylor Coleridge, for ;
this abuse of his lines, but it is the
most expressive we can just now re- !
call. Get off your foot! Pay your
subscription, and for the love ot
Mike dont always be sneaking and j
bumming a paper. This paper
was started by a number of miners,!
hard working poorly paid men. i
Their good iron dollars went into
the enterprise. The maintained it J
through fair weather and through
foul. They followed and supported ;
its fortunes through all kinds of1
trials and tribulations. They j
taught it to struggle and to fight
and to win out. And now when 1t
has won out and is as good a paper
as any bar none in Alaska in all
ways,the least that you people who |
have been taking your news from
these hard working miners on
charity is to mend your ways. That’s
straight as we know how.
We repeat this is not a whine, '
aw an apology, nor a boost, nor a
self inflating eulogy. It costs money J
to deliver the newspaper goods and
ire want those who have been help
ing themselves to the service for ,
nothing and at the Industrial J
Worker’s and the other fellow’s ex- I
pense, to take some sort of tumble
to themselves.
NOW IS THE TIME.
As the bright sunny days are com
ing on. have your clothes cleaned,
pressed and repaired.
We make them look liko new.
t i an hats.
We make alterations.
We make suits to order.
We guarantee first class workman
ship.
Wo guarantee modern methods.
We guarantee prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Come in and see us.
NOME TAILORING CO.
Between Segerstrom & Hagen and
Zchners Jewelry Stores.
WANTED:—A Thirty horse power
Boiler in good condition. See
Otto Halla.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
IT. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Plume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws ol
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address Is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
i U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
[with a magnetic variation of 21
| deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thence N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monument No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. baso, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed or
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. \V.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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