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SIAM MUST.
l)r. K. W. Mendelson is away in
Siam. Uncle Sam sent him there,
jle is the representative of the War
Department and he is devising hy
gienic measures for enforcement in
Siam to make that country healthier.
Who was it said See America First"
But what's the matter with Siam?
SKTTLKS THK yl KSTION.
Hughes will not stand for any po
litical monkey work. His letter ot
congratulation yesterday to Wilson
puts the quietus upon the carefully
laid scheme to contest Wilson’s elec
tion. If only Hughes' backers could
have pulled oft some such high
minded, up-lifting altruistic scheme
before election, it is dollars to
doughnuts that Hughes would be
the President next March instead of
Wilson.
HOW A HOL T ALASKA?
‘No man', said Lincoln at Peoria
years ago, ‘‘is good enough to gov
ern another man without that
other's consent”. This does not
apply these days to the limited ter
ritorial governments of Porto Rico,
the Phillipines or—Alaska,
I.OXDOVS SUCCESS.
Jack London like the rest of the
people was the creature of environ
ment. And because he reflects the
experiences that were his own, he
made a success for himself. He
wrote naturally: and he wrote na
turally of the men and women, and
the ways of men and women whom
he had come across. There is con
siderable of the wild and woolly in
his work, but his people were of the
wild and woolly and he painted
them as they were.
That is therefore the keynote of
his success. He knew what he was
writing about and he wrote it as he
knew it. There was not a particle
of affectation about his work al
though signs were not wanting that
he had touched the bottom of the
well of inspiration several times.
His views were the views that
might be expected from one who
had experiences identical with his
own. Some of them were not pleas
ant experiences but every day expe
riences among the workers are not
altogether colored with the hue of
roses. And his was ’the Horatian
philosophy which faced those hard
and sordid conditions of existence
with the comforting thought of the
Roman poet, “hereafter it will de
light to remember these things.-'
He remembered them, and his
artistic instinct made capital out of
them.
It is wonderful what a degree ot
suffering we can tolerate when it is
an experience of the other fellow;
but that degree is as nothing to the
enjoyment we can take out of the
most poignant misery when it is
well and circumstantially told as
the story which other human beings
have experienced. It is admitted
that such things are not pleasant.
But none the less they afford pleas
ure. While one quarter does rfot
know how the other three quarters
live, when the story of the latter Is
told with the glamor of literary gen
ius thrown around it, it is heard and
read with avidity.
It is a peculiar thing that our
feelings must be harrowed to the
point of exciting disintegration be
fore any story will rouse us from
the usual temperamental indiffer
ence to the common or garden tale
of everyday life. But when through
that harrowing we are led by the
by the experience ot a master
hand who throws in a romance old
as the hills for good measure, every
Interest that the imaginative are
capable of is aroused.
Usually the tramp is not a good
subject for anything but derision.
The comic papers have dissolved the
grim tragedy that rags ill conceal, in
a wreathe of atavistic smiling. The
refined and educated cruelty that ,
laughs, as a dog barks, at a beggai
is the social effort of the well pos
sessed to make little of their de
spoiling. And the masses who take
their vices and their virtues as they
mimic the emotions and the senti
ments of the exploiting classes usu
ally are delighted to hide what sym
pathy might be theirs in a laugh at
Weary Willie and Happy Hooligan.
London knew better than that. He
had been through the terrific experi
ence of hobodom. He knew what
everyone of those lives meant, with
so many of them the victims of a
thousand and one social injustices
that made them the pariahs that
later functioned in so ephemeral a
manner for the jokist of the comic
paper, whose spavined humor hobb
led slowly along to meet the popular
demand.
/wrote as he knew them:
he knew the heartache that had
passed beyond the stage of tears and
the bitter indignation that like a
cannibal lived upon its own best and
humanest feelings. He saw that it
is only a matter of time that those
who are denied sympathy will lose
all sympathetic feelings, and that
the fate of one who has every hand
turned against him is that he shall
turn his hand against everyone in
turn, the common fate of Ishmaei
in every age.
So when he writes of the miseries
of the sea. or the equally monstrous
miseries of the workers lives, he
knew himself and could write as
one possessed of true things to tell.
It was his magnificent gift not to
observe men in the mass, but man
in the individual. He knew that the
collectively is generally the abstract,
and the abstract is a poor theme for
one who would write truly of human
beings.
There are all kinds of writers to
day. Some of them write entertain
! ingly enough. But they write about
j conditions and about life that they
never have experienced. Usually, it
may be taken for granted that those
who will create an environment
which they have wrought solely out
of their acquired and not through
■ their personal knowledge, will also
| take the same liberty with the men
and women of the story. They will
j be creatures of imagination solely.
! They will not be creatures of flesh
and blood, with the loves and hopes
and fears and daring of real living
beings. The difference between a
London and the majority of story
writers is just that his folk are folk
who have lived, and their folk are
folk who are dummies and manni
kins.
j Even the rawest plot by the most
impossible writer attains a realism
in the movies just because they have
been brought from the imaginative
l world to live actually the events con
ceived, even though those events
are purely artificial. It is a great
gift to be able to ransack one's ex
periences and to be able therefrom
to pick out some that will interest
and fascinate the reader when the
tale is again told. That is the gift
of the writer of genius and makes
him or her so different from the
rest of the story-tellers.
Every one of the stories by Lon
don had such a foundation in fact;
he had personally met the Sea Wolf,
and Martin Eden was well known to
him. The most fugitive character
in John Barleycorn was one who
had impressed his image, fleeting or
otherwise, upon the retina of Lon
don’s experience, and he recollected
that impression.
His socialist and economic views
find a counterpart In his literary ac
tivities. There too his experience,
hard, bitter, sordid, often unpleasant
as an association with the People
of the Abyss must necessarily be,
have found him realizing that
all was due to the system. • His logl
:al mind worked out a Marxian so
lution of the everyday problems that
surrounded him. and the answer
that these victims of society were
the effect of an economic cause was
forced upon him as an actual truth.
He knew it.
As a writer of fiction which was
based upon experience, his mentality
also built itself up an economic be
lief which the facts of life could not
but endorse. It may have been the
case that he would have willed
otherwise; that he didn't like the
men and women who shared his
views; that as his wealth and means
increased and his associations at-1
tained a higher plane socially if not
intellectually, he would be willing
enough that his intellectual feelings
might be dominated by the same
feelings of an hereditary, caste in
stinct obtains some development in
everyone. That is no matter.
There is something exceedingly
fine in the sincerity of a London.
The man battered through life phy
sically as well as mentally. He ran
up against mighty hard experiences
and he struggled with them and
fought them. He has made them
the theme for many a night’s enter
tainment, and the men he knew and
the women he knew are compelled
by him to live again for his read
ers’ benefit. With one taking the
simple facts of his own life as the
basis for his fiction and the same
facts for the basis of his economic
and social views, the bed rock ot
his mentality must have been fear
less sincerity and that is the hall
mark above all else of his stories.
They are free from the cant of pro
blem and the affectation of intellec
tual questions all of them. His
characters are no better than they
appeared to him, nor arc they any
worse. They are human; and that
is ,what was wanted, and that is why
the world paid such tribute to his
genius. But the same sincerity that
worked out an economic faith as
true and logical as the foundation
of his fiction, they did not want.
They merely tolerated it because it
was the price they had to pay to en
joy him. London could very easily
have made more had he trimmed
more, and had he paid a little intell
ectual tribute in turn to the power
that usually has had little difficulty
in inducing genius to prostitute it
self. But the prostitute, mental or
sexual, is one whose morality is fun
damentally an exotic and artificial.
London at least was as he wrote,
and as he expressed himself always:
a natural man. Prostitution of his
mind was an impossibility. The
Redlight seldom shelters any person
that dares to be oneself. It is when
the chains of convention bind the
sincerity of nature, prostitution be
comes an institution.
VILLA
Villa seems to have the proverbi
ally nine-lived cat licked to a frazz
le when it comes to resurrection. He
has been dead now more times than
you could shake a stick at. Sun
Yat Sen has been killed oft many
times, but Villa makes the Chinese
Doc’ like thirty cents when it comes
to fading away and reappearing just
as vividly.
But this resurrection business is
simple enough, the question which
might be of some valuable concern
is where does Villa get the money
or the ammunition to maintain his
scrap. Mexico and Mexicans are poor
as a church mouse. The de facto
government with its hands upon the
treasury has got a hard time making
ends meet. Its soldiers are often in
arrears and its ammunition orders
are not filled with the same alacrity
that the munitionists manifest in
filling orders for the European En
tente. Yet Villa when he materal
izes in the flesh seems to have men,
money and guns. Where does he
get it from?
Who is backing him? Who is sup
plying him with these American
made guns and these American
made shells? It is said to be prob
able that after all to make them
quit fighting in Mexico Uncle Sam
will have to interfere. Isn’t it mani
fest that Uncle Sam would be well
advised in inquiring into this Villa
and his munition supply?
Is there any way whereby United
States intervention could be more
speedliy brought about than by these
Villa activities? Isn’t it true too
that there are a large number ot
Americans, rich, wealthy and daring !
who are interested in bringing about
such intervention?
Isn’t it a fact that the easiest way
for those rich find powerful Amer
icans who usually are beyond the
reach of the law, to bring about
intervention would be to supply
Villa with arms and ammunition ad
lib.? If not why not? Is there an
easier way? If so, what is that
, way?
Everyone knows that there are
great and powerful and wealthy Am
erican interests that do not want
any sort of Mexican government in
Mexico. The very highest and un
impeachable authority in the United
States has hinted as much, more
than once. And it is quite probable
that these are aiding and abetting
the very condition of turbulence
which they are using as an excuse
for United States intervention ana
for which they work so hard and
so long.
PROCLAMATION
I, H. H. Moller, Mayor of the City
of Nome, Alaska, in pursuance of a
proclamation issued by the President
of the United States and the Gover
nor of Alaska, and in accordance
with a time honored custom, do
hereby designate Thursday, Novem
ber 30th, 1916 as a day of thanks
giving.
H. H. MOLLER.
Mayor.
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Men’s Women’s Children’s
Since the opening of Navigation we have received 3270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason". Our prices are right and our business has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
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TO THE PUBLIC
On the last boats we received a gen
erous supply of fresh Candies, chosen
with particular care. We will give
you the benefit of our experi-ence and offer a special Sale of diff
erent makes each week until Xmas.. This week will be
IMPERIAL WEEK.
Chocolates made and packed by the Imperial Candy Co., at
reduced prices. WATCH THE WINDOW.
On and after Wednesday, Nov. 22nd we will give with every
twenty-five cent purchase (or iwid on account) a ticket which
which entitles the holder to one chance on one of our beatiful
Baskets, filled with delicious chocolates. Drawing, Jan. 1.
ROSE CANDY STORE AND ARCTIC BAKERY.
Every Sunday and Wednesday fresh whipped "Cream Puffs.”
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HEINZ
57 Varieties have arrived at
Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN 80.
PRICES AGAIN REDUCED ON
FORD AUTOMODILES
Chassis price is now $ 325.00
Runabout $ 345.00
Touring $ 360.00
F. 0.1. DETROIT
PLAGE YOUR ORDER ROW
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE 8 COAI'L CO.
Do You Like Nice Fresh Eggs?
Then Use Hollyhurst.
Remember we receive fr esh shipment of these eggs on each
s boat, thus insuring their freshness.
D.E. CROWLEY
Kent Transfer Oo.
General Transfer & Freighting
goal & CiL
Phone Main 139.
TRY
PHIL MURPHY
FOR LEATHER VESTS & COATS, THE LONG KIND OREGON
CITY MACKINAWS. HATS SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES, UNDER
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