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WICK AND SHACK.
The republican convention, or the
convention c.f republican loaders, or
to amend it mcro correct!}' the con
i -niton of Shack I 'ford':; republi
can henchmen, has met and ad
journed.
And they didn't put one over on
Wick, but it appears that Wick put
one over on Shack. After we have
boon told that Wickorsham and
Shrxkclford had buried the hatchet
and made tip for all time, hero i&
Wickersham just when he had got
Shackelford confident and happy
and unusually bossy, kicking the
traces and declaring against any
such an Alliance.
And what then is to happen? Ob
viously the republicans wore com
pletely nonplussed at the turn of af
fairs and adjourned without nomi
nating anyone because they had
nono to nominate. Obviously, II
they do nominate any candidato ne
will have some trouble explaining
how it is ho opposes Wickersham
who could havo had the nomination
a gift, while W'ck can pose as thrice
tho savior of Alaska who refuses
to accept a nomination at tho hands
of -such a bunch as dominates the
situation so completely.
And what becomes of those Tread
well and Gastihoau love feasts
whereat tho name of Wickersham iu
accompanied by toasting cheers?
What becomes of the alliance that
swept through tho Various divisions,
whipping all into line so that they
might have a cinch upon the elec
tion.
And away back in Washington,
Wickorsham gives Shack and hie
merrymen the ha-ha any man enjoys
when he puts it over the other fe>
low who wanted to put It over him?
This man Wick Is politically fool
ish like a fox.
\\l> WHAT IM>EH IIKEKO.N SAY.'
In the convention"1 deliberations
at Cordova ono notes no mention ol
the redoubtable cheittaln Herron.
Why this occultation? How this com
plete eclipse? Why this base ingr
titude? Who was it re-organized tie
Second Division republicans, de
coying Gilmore from the Wicker
sham fold to secure h! nr.miuittioo
at the Cordova convention? Herron"
Who was it defied Shac.kcfHfWd su
Ajax defied • the lightening at that
convention? Herron? Who was it
gratified the higher-placed ambi
tions of Gilmore in securing him tin
nomination, but Herron? And now
lie is anonentity. Is that republican
gratitude that the man who was
hustled to the fore front of terri
torial honors from Second Division
obscurity should be a delegate to the
National Convention, and the very
name of Herron suffered to lapse
into obscurity while Gilmore sits in
alliance with his foes? What indeed
does Charlie Herron say?
HONORED IN THU BREACH?
Section 2 of Chapter 23 of the
Session Haws of Alaska 1915 says:
“That the school board shall give
an itemized accounting to the city
council each month for moneys ex
panded during the previous month",
As far as the council meeting?
are concerned, this section of the
law has during the past Council
been more honored in the breach
than in the observance. Why?
AN INTERESTING FACT.
When the ptarmigan and the
Arctic Jiare change their color with
the seasons scientific men ex
pfaiu it as biological fact because ol
the protective value of such a
change, in that those members ol
the species which by some freak oi
another first discovered that ten
dency also survived where Ihose
who had no such a tendency did
not: a survival of the fittest. Natur
al a election did the rest.
The tendency of living things to
adopt the natural apearanee of
their surroundings in order to .af
ford protection against those that
would otherwise, prey upon them is
a well known scientific fact explain
ed in the same manner as of the
ptarmigan and the hare.
It is a very interesting fact In
connection with this war that sol
diers are doing exactly the came
thing and both sides are dressing
their men so that they will be prac
tically invisible. The Italians and
! Austrians fighting in the snow clad
Alps are clad in snow white uni
forms and similarly French ana
German marksmen in the Vosges
have adopted a similar method cf
concealment.
The concealment tends to protec
tion while those who are not thus
concealed are the more easily vic
tims of an attack.
So far the physical tendency to
adopt thi’ simple method of protec
tion is a trait common to all. but
the tendency towards self protection
surely will also effect tjie mental
make-up of men in this war also,
j And it is there that they have us
1 all at sea. It is the protective
psychological effect of the war upon
the human beings involved therein,
upon which the future of the world
depends.
I
SETH LOW’S WISDOM.
Seth Low told employers when in
Denver that they were foolish to op
pose the American Federation of La
’ bor. He said that the American
Federation of Labor was the con
servative force in the labor move
ment and that if they continued to
antagonize it they would drive the
workers into the more radical 1
W. W. The American Federation cl
Labcr was really the ally of capital
and the opposition to the organiza
tion that capitalists somet.me;
!::h. wed was unwise and foolish.
In words to that effect opinen
Low of the Civic Federation. Ann
lie spoke the truth.
Candidly the opposition of em
ployers to most American Federation
of Labor organizations is very poor
! judgment. The biggest lemon they
could hand labor would be to recog
nize the organization and, in re
! cognizing it, control it.
That’s what Low’s idea is. His
1 association with the safe, sane and
conservative leaders on the Civic
i Federation showed him that long
j ago. And he with the instinct ot
his class knows that the opposition
to the A. F. of L is not only poor
judgment but a terrible capitalist
blunder.
It is the Seth Low’s that see far
ahead and speak with wisdom for
the capitalists.
A FAVORABLE BALANCE.
Certainly It is a pleasure to ob
serve the triumphant chortling of
the democratic press over the “fav
orable” balance ot trade that is now
so handsomely showing up in the
various ports of the nation.
Piles of food stuffs and neces
saries are going out of the country,
millions in the yellow metal callen
gold are coming in.
Food prices are soaring and the
costs prohibitive for millions of the
workers. That's the democratic
and the republican idea of a favor
able balance.
It doesn’t appeal to the man who
works for wages and flnds an empty
larder at home in quite the same
way.
And that’s not so very unreason
able either.
ELIMINATING THE
UNNECESSARY.
The man whose labor brings
him in contact with the use or im
provement of machinery as most
men's labor do«s, In this era of
machine Industry* develops a ten
■Vi
dency to eliminate the unnecessary.
No man wants his machine encum
bered with unnecessary cogs, un
necessary pulleys, unnecessary belt
ing. No plant wants to maintain
machines that demand the service ot
two tenders when one suffices.
That’s one of tffe psychological
effects of the machine in industry,
the elimination of the unnecessary,
it is the greatest by far of many
effects, and it is one that spreads
even beyond the environment. It’s
part of the new industry philosophy
In this connection just listen to
what a professor speaking to a Chi
cago audience on the economic si
tuation had to say in one illuminat
ing paragraph: “To understand the
present economic factors of distri
bution, you have got to clear the
ground of dogma and look to scien
tific facts. If I wanted to go to
Milwaukee by train, but a sudden
epidemic killed all the train crews,
I simply could not go. Cut U jt
killed off all the owners it'would
not make a single train late. in
other words the workers are needed
while the bondholders drawing their
five per cent may not ho in such
great demand”.
This shows that private owners
are quite unnecessary in industry,
and the rewards that they obtain
in the shape of profits simply a
waste of social products-- they are
paid in products expressed in term',
of money, the medium of exchange
—which labor would otherwise on
tain.
We observe that kings and
princes and rulers are simply a soci
al waste, political inutilities. The
people can rule themselves. Why
should society pay private ownership
for doing nothing that is necessary
while those that do the necessary
work get but a pittance and then
only after a hard struggle. Why
under the driving compulsion of the
psychology of machine production,
not eliminate the unnecessary factor
of private ownership?
THE RAILROAD SITUATION.
The brotherhoods of the railroads
are standing pat for the eight hour
demands. They have crossed the
Rubicon and although there was re
luctance manifested upon the part oi
some to make so aggressive a policy
theirs, the die has been cast and
they can withdraw now only with
ruin to their organizations. The
railroads are making vast profits
these days. Under ordinary condi
tions they should have an era of
prosperity unequalled. They are en
joying the high rates granted by an
accomodating Interstate Commerce
Commission during a period of de
pression so that watered stock couln
sluice up some profits. They will
begin to think twice ore refusing
the railroaders, but on the other
hand it’s the people will pay. The
dividends will not be affected. The
Pennsylvania road paid a five pei
cent dividend during the period ot
worst depression. Hundreds 01
[employees were laid off. Hundreds
of trains were cancelled to the great
public inconvenience. But rates were
raised and the dividends paid de
spite hard times. In other words
the depression did not affect the
Penna road at all. The increased
rates on less traffic paid the same old
price.
The other workers will pay the
increase in the wages of the brother
hoods. And why not?
DOUBLE CLAUD.
PANAMA. April 20.—The detec
tive guard on the Panama Canal has
been doubled.
THE SUSSEX CRISIS.
That matters should have reached
a crisis between the United States
and Germany would have been a
very serious affair were it the first
of tlje kind that had been reached.
But it is not. And in all probabil
ity it will not be the last. Germany
will likely enough accept in full
the United States demands. Later
another Lusitania case or another
Sussex will lead to' the development
of another crisis. It is a blessing
that after all ..diplomacy affords- a
safety valve to the pent up forces
of the national feelings. Selah.
LEADS PRIMARIES.
OMAHA, April 20.--—Henry Ford
is leading in the Republican presi
dential primaries in Nebraska.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of f
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post-!
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeton, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is I
Nome, Alaska, made application for i
a United States patent for No. 14 I
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Rocording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated a3 Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notos now on file in the
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 I I
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whence U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S. 69 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 644.4 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 ffa 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 Mclslng
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.oiii No. 1172 is
a schist sHme 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed of
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
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 Creok; claimants
unknown; on the northwest anu
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first puhl., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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