THEN AND NOW
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The average soldier had to put
up with muck and truck at $30
a month in this country. Those
who went across the big pond to
pay their respects to the Kaiser
went to enjoy a bit in the
trenches, in muck and rain with
shot and shell booming and
hurtling over head. He enjoyed
being targets for the ammuni
tion of the enemy; tbe return to
the delousing camps and then a
short rest. All for $33 a month
for which he also became a
crippled and maimed for life—
not a man who went through the
war at the front but returned
a different man. For $33 a
month. Many of whom were not
volunteers but drafted—forced
against his will and principle to
bear arms against his fellow
men—for $33 a month.
During the war interim labor
was paid up to $18 a day for
skilled labor and then any over
time scaled the wages higher.
Men went to work in automo
biles—the factory districts were
lined for blocks and blocks with
automobiles of all kinds and
makes—while the men at the
front pegged along in shoe
leather over miles of morass,
muck and mire with shot and
shell whistling by or being stop
ped by human flesh. Industry
took war contracts at “cost plu.1
ten per cent.” Even today the
government is adjudicating the
enormous over-payments made
to various corporations. Business
rolled in wealth—w h i 1 e the
Dough Boy earned his $33 a
month—and if you do not be
lieve that he earned it, just talk
to some of those boys who went
across—not because they wanted
to; not because of love of ex
citement or the desire to kill bat
because they would be deserters
if drawn and refused to go.
Four million men took out
war insurance policies from $4.
000 up to $10,000 and thousands
kept these policies up only to
lose their premiums to a crooked
head of the insurance depart
ment of the veterans bureau or
through inability to carry on.
They got not one dime of the
hundreds of millions which they
invested in insurance that
meant nothing to them.
And now, when in distress;
when they march to Washing
ton demanding aid, they are a
bunch of “radicals” and “reds”
and a “menace to the country.”
Hot dog. The next war will sse
just as many fools joining in —
if only perhaps to get three
meals a day while life lasted.
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INCONSISTENT OR CROOKED
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Do you remember when the
various papers and politicians of
Alaska were alleging William L.
Paul and Delegate James Wick
ersham were crooked and had
sold out their constituencies and
were getting rich thereby? Do
you remember the trap leasehold
till which was drafted under di
rection but never presented
congress? How the Empire, the
Ketchikan Chronicle, the Peters
burg Press and several other
pj-ints damned these two men as
being betrayers of the confi
dence and respect of the people?
Remember?
Alright. Remember this one.
On the 5th of February a bill
identical with the one above
mentioned was introduced in
Congress by Senator Jones. Did
you hear the Petersburg Press
call Senator Jones crooked for
introducing this bill? Did you
hear the Juneau Empire cham
pioning the cause of the fisher
men electors? Did you hear the
Chronicle assert that the bill
was vicious—an effort to hurt
the people of Alaska?
No. Outside of the Associated
Fress report indicating that
Senator Jones had introduced
euch a bill there has been no
mention of it whatsoever. Why ?
Honestly, believe us or not, we
cannot answer that one. Just
tftaop the editors of those prints
a line and ask why theft* awful
silence. It Is too funny to tell.
Mayhap they are even bought
off. For it is said “Silence is
golden.”
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SEARCH AND SEIZURE
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Documents of person arrested.—
The circuit court of appeals of
the second circuit in United
States v. Poller, 74 A.L.R. 1382.
43 F. (2d) 911, recently decided
that the papers of a bonded
truckman relating to earlier
shipments, and his books of ac
count, which contained no en
tiies relative to the transaction
in connection with which he was
arrested for complicity in an
attempted fraud on the United
States customs, are improperly
seized upon such arrest.
The question annotated in 74
A.L.R. at p. 1387 discusses the
right of search and seizure inci
dent to lawful arrest without
search warrant.
When permissible without
warrant.—
The supreme court of the
United States in Husty v. United
States, 282 U. S. 649, 74 A.L.R.
1407, 75 L. ed. 629, 51 Sup. Ct.
Rep. 240, decided that the search
of an automobile without war
rant for liquor illegally trans
ported or possessed is not pro
hibited by the Fourth Amend
ment to the Federal Constitu
tion if the search is upon pro
table cause, and arrest for the
transportation or possession
need not precede the search.
An exhaustive annotation ap
pears at p. 1418 of 74 A.L.R. on
the question of constitutional
guarantees against unreasonable
searches and seizures as applied.
to search for or seizure of in -'
toxicaiting liquor.
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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
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A young clergyman responded ;
to a “call” from a church in a
small town, where an old college
chum of his was trying to build
up a medical practice. His doc
tor friend warned him that, be
ing a bachelor, he must be ex
tremely circumspect in his
social relations with the fair
sex of the town, because the
town was full of gossipy women
who could put two and two to
gether and get at least five out
of the combination any time.
He was particularly cautioned
regarding a Mrs. Blank, a pretty
and vivacious widow, whose un
conventional ideas were being
“talked about” by the sedate
village wives.
However, all went well, until
one night, returning home late
from ministerial calls, his car
balked and stopped dead in ofie
of the quiet .streets of the town.
| He pushed it to the curb and
walked home, intending to call
the garage man the next morn
ing.
But next morning, as he was
eating breakfast, the telephone
rang: “Well, Robert, old top,
you’re in dutch now, good and
proper! By this time every wo
man in town knows that your
car has been standing in front
of Mrs. Blank’s home all night!”
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SENATE PASSES
ALASKAN BILL
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The transfer of duties from
the board of road commissions
and the War Department in
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Alaska to the Department of the
Interior was provided for under
a bill which was passed by the
Senate and sent to the House.
This measure, Which its spon
sors say will not affect the sta
tus of the Alaska road system,
would give to the same depart
ment of the federal government j
which now operates the Alaska
Railroad, the main highway
systems of Alaska.
Many Alaskans have protested
against the passage of this mea
sure, deeming it dangerous to
Alaska and placing the roads in
jeopardy whereever they com
pete with the railway.
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A SENATOR SEES THE LIGHT
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Occasionally, into the sublime
existence of a United States se -
nator, there creeps a horrid
doubt of the eternal rightness 01
things. And when this takes
place the astounded senator
usually breaks down and Tells
All.
Listen to Senator Millard F.
Tydings of the Maryland Free
State exhorting his colleagues.
■ Have we gone made? Have we
lost all sense of reality? Have we
no idea that if we carry this
period of unrest and fear from
cne week to another, a panic
will break loose in this country
which all the tariffs under heav
en will never stem?
And yet we sit here to take
care of some little interest in
this state or that state, instead j
of rising above the petty sec-1
tionalism of the moment and
ecting for the nation.
“My state!” “My state!” My
| God, let us hear “My country; ’
, because what good is your state ;
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if your country sinks into the
quagmire or ruin?
Can we not engender enough
manhood and patriotism, even if j
it means our political defeat, to
say, “I will serve my country, no
matter what the consequences
may be?” t
We expect men to go out upon
the battlefield in times of war:,
and when the word goes forward
and shells are breaking all over
the ground, and machine guns
are sending their bullets thru
the air, and the enemy is en
trenched, we expect men to go
forward and iay down their lives
to save the business and the in
stitutions of government.
We come here in times of
peace and make the sacrifice of
the dead look like a travesty of
patriotism, and talk about the
interests of “my state.” My God!
The country’s interests should
receive some consideration here,
Ho! Hum!—Seattle Star.
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Urges Faith Kept
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“Let us keep to the old faith,
let us walk the straight road
which has led from infancy to
proud and glorious manhood.
“The Spirit of ’76 still lives.
“So long as it shall be the
guide and inspiration of oui
land, our liberties will be secure.
“And our proud flag, baptised
in valorous blood and tender
tears, will still proclaim to all
the world the puissance of
America—the freedom and dig
nity of men.”—Senator James ft.
Reed.
( It’s only by living for others
that one can really be alive one
self.—W. B. Maxwell.
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