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SCIENCE
Everyone asserts tnat as a conse
quence of this war, epochal changes
will be probable in the economic, soc
ial and politcal life of the nations.
This seems to be accepted now as
a truism, but that there is any war
rant in fact for this conclusion never
yet has been shown. We do know
the soldiers discuss tmngs social, po
litical and economic with the lcono
clasm that marks the familiarity of
equal intercourse among men, but
such discussions have been as com
mon among the very classes which
discuss these in civil life and before
the war.
Science holds no commerce with
prophesy, but science can bring cer
tain . conclusions from established
facts which warrant us in saying
what may happen, in any but the
sociological realm, and therein science
has nothing to say.
Science is the great neuter. It
affects merely those things which are
unconnected directly with animate
conditions of human life, and human
ways, thots and methods in social
intercourse are regarded as the aber
rant inconsequentialities that may not
deter philosophers who lay claim to
the title from the study of rocks or
bugs.
It is peculiar perhaps that this con
dition exists, but that it will exist is
the blessing that human beings can
lay some comfort in claiming, when
surrounded on all sides by the a ho in •
inable superstitions of science and
the miserable dogmatism of evolu
tion. it is the man who places him
self on that peculiar plane where the
conclusions of science are accepted
only when established and when clear
as the emasculated formulae such as
two and two are four to the unso
phisticated mind, who reaches to the
stars.
The idea of human existence may
not be placed upon a finer founda-j
tion than that of the epicurean who I
belli that happiness is the great end.!
If happiness finds in the virtue tliatj
seociet.v accepts as "the” virtue of the j
period, so much the better.
While scientific men are using the
study and research which is their op
portunity to devise ways and means
of producing goods necessary to hu
man consumption more profitably if
more quickly and easily, they have no
remote conception that in doing so
they will make happier the lives of
mortals.
Instead they have placed before
them an imaginary idol called truth
which varies from age to age and
which leads its devotees into the same
cul de sacs wherein the alchemists
and astrologers of old found them
selves. Varying times, varying the
ories and the poor human mind wor
ries along as best it can while the
human body struggles under a con
dition of exploitation and servitude
that s itself the best commentary up
on the ridiculous claims of science.
Science may* indeed soothe the
■wounds and cure them that men suf
fer on the battlefield. But it was
science that liuilded the cannon and
science that invented the powder and
explosive that wrought all destruc
tion. To claim that science thus is
perverted is merely an apology with
out a justificaton. Science has not
been the handmaiden of progress, and
progress happened despite the aid of
science. Science never lightened the
load of one single human mortal. The
human mortals did that themselves'
when they chained ths superstition
where it belonged to the chariot
Wheels of humah mutual aid.
Science has fawned before thrones
just as it yoked itself to the bastiles
I the better to fetter human liberty
I and only when it was harnessed de
spite itself to human progress was it
| ever found striving to make happier
I the lives of those who had been left
I to submerge in the slough of despond.
It clams to take the place of re
j ligion in men's lives may only be en
tertained because religion tself :;uf
| fered from dry rot and was another
j form of superstituian; and rightly we
I might substitute one superstition for
^ another if the human mind is to be
j the servant of the centuries for ever.
The time is coming when human
beings will weary of following these
eternal will o' the wisps thru the
quagmires and will find themselves
drawing a new rule of life founded
upon tht facts of social ntercourse ]
and not the enslavement of one class,!
nation or race by another. It will I
not ne Duuaea upon any dogma
whether a dogma of germs or a dogma
of eschatology. It will not be assoc
iated with the fear of the unknown
which has alike guided the witch doc
tor and the scientist with his test
tubes and indeed one is the archetype
of the other, tt will be built upon the
creed of human relationship, broad
ening into a rule of conduct which
shall be as the truth, changing, im
proving. and always adjusting itself
to the social and the individual needs.
The fact that universities have for
some tine become the nests of the
privielged classes in democracy is
perhaps sgnificant of what we have
been saying. Only occasonally is some
j teacher to be discovered with the
strength of mind and the force of
j character and the genuine learning
I to make any pronouncment ex ea
[ thedra or otherwise which might be
! regarded as anathema by those social
j censors who have taken it upon them
I selves to guard the social upper crust
with all the cae hardening of parasitic
; incrustations in any form of life. Such
a one has either to conceal his inde
pendence, and then it ceases, in a
camouflage of irony, or face the in
quisitorial condemnation that natur
ally enough his acts courted.
Take up the average scientific mag
azine. It is as remote from the facts
of life as legal jargon is foreign to
colloquial language. It is caviare to
the general, even to the well read
general, which spurns the miserable
incidentals as to sanitation when a
world in arms is committing suicide
because men knew no one another
and their most intimate international
relations.
Such miserable pettfogging is a
commonplace of science which loves
to ape the philosophy of a Nero who
fiddled when a city burned, because
in effect it has the heart and the
amasculated mind of a Nero.
The trouhle with science is that
we have made it a God and itself has
claimed immunity from criticism as
have the Fathers of «e Church pro
nounced themselves infallible from a
kindred reason. It is immensely
shocked when one corneB forward and
rattles its temporary theories and
points out that of all the buncombe
that once upon a time a hundred years
ago forced itself upon scientists as
scientific fact today Is relegated by
^another crowd of scientists to the
[limbo of forgotten things. Yet in
'those days it would have been the’
[highest kind of sacrilege to question
ithe philogistic theory which funny
(concept of things even the modern
(scientist reviews with blushing face
las if his own pet germ or evolution
ary theory will not' in the fullness of
further facts, be subjected as uncere
moniously to the same treatment.
Our lives, our happiness and our
hopes have been really unaffected by
scientific progress. Today there are
'more millons ill nourished more mil
lions ill-clad and more millions dis
eased than in those days when our
fathers burned tallow candles and
spun their own wool.
To be sure some have been im
mensely bettered by this condition.
Some have been handed over control
of human resources and have monop
olized with the consent f the scientists
all those benefits that have accrued
from the neuters who devoted their
lives to what they so unblushingly
yet presumptously call scientific
truth, and they subject us to all the
infamies of halt baked theories and
ricketty conclusions that their men
tal madness thrusts upon an unfor
giving world.
It will be a blessing of this war if
It should put these quacks of all kinds
in their place: the economic, the
scientific, the political quack where
he belongs in the museum of comical
antiquties. Now he s a tragedy and
as such stains the world wluf the red
of* tragic consequences. Too long
hive these servants of a privileged
clfiss bolstered up monstrous condi
tions of social inequality, justified
conditions of political corruption and
converted themselves into the willing
se&itors of great wealth that it might
daub its marks upon uS all.
{ts interesting from the historical
pojlit of view that our materalist
priesthood of science should adapt
themselves wth the same ease to our
ruling classes as did the spiritual
priesthood of another day to their
Constantines. And it will be found
for precisely the same reason; the
power rested therein and the ideal of
the lean and hungry scientist is iden
tical with the obese and well fed
priesthood; a life of otium cum digni
tate and forget about the dear people
who must be taught to reverence their
so very learned superiors.
It is a hard experience that is left
to the masses; the experience that
teaches however. It is the lesson of
our environment and the harder the
environment the sterner the lessosn.
It is not possibly borne in upon these
our teachers today in the schools that
human intercourse itself has been
educating and educating with stern
arrays of facts that there is no gain
saying. Especially does it say; our
lives are greater than your scalpels.
MANUF. WANT
WAGES REDUCED
The outlook for the returing sol
diers who will now the war has prac
tically ended resume their struggle
for an existence in the open and com
petitive lnbor market, is, if Secretary
Wilson has been correctly quoted not
very bright or reassuring..
According to the statement attribut
ed to the Secretary of Labor the cap
tains of industry, or in other words
the speculators of Wall Street ar^
1 showing some reluctance in resuming
business on a peace basis unless there i
is a reduction in Labor costs and the
price of raw materials. Boiled down,
this means a reduction of wages all!
around and nothing else. But these 1
gentlemen have failed to state whetli-j
er a corresponding reduction in the ne
cessities of life will be made. That!
there is not much likelihood of this!
taking place may be taken for granted
An immense market will be opener
up in Europe where even the neutral
countries had to put their people up-;
on rations. They are and all have1
been complaining that they were mak-!
ing money but unable to buy only!
enough to subsist. Will not the Amer
ican speculators with a nice harvest
to be made from these people force
the American consumer to pay ex
orbitant prices unless the government
keeps^some control over them?
Some think it a good idea to give
the oUBers a chance to take up lend
if some care to do so. But was not
the American farmer complaining be
fore the war that he could barely
make a living from the soil? Being
gouged by the implement manufactur
er. Banker and others of their ilk, is
it desirable to increase these malcon
tents, the National Farmers Alliance.
That those soldiers willing o take a
chance ca*n not be turned loose in the
desert, th% bulk of the desirable land
being held mostly by speculators, is
patent to all. Besides how many will
be willing to spend a lifetime in hard
unremunerative toil. The soldiers
themselves who many of them thru
their associates in the camps and
overseas have received new impres
sions and an entirely new viewpoint
may have some ideas themselves what
their reward should be for fighting
and shedding ther blood for democ
racy.
SPREADING
DEMOCRACY
By SCOTT NEARING
Before the United States entered
the world war. the Mimimum Wage
Commission of Massachusetts made an
investigation into the wages of women
employed in hotels and restaurants
and in the manufacture of rain coats.
, men’s shirts, overalls, neckwear, sus
, penders and other elastic goods, and
! women's muslin underwear, petti
I coats, aprons, kimonas, and neck
I wear. The result of this study prov
! ed beyond any shadow of doubt that
lull of the despotism and oppression
! in the world is not to be found in Ger
! many and Austria.
The wages of these women workers
were studied during the year 1916—
a year of very high prices. Four years
before, when prices were fully fifty
per cent less than they were in 1916
this same commission decided that the
least that a girl could exist on in thej
cities of Massachusetts was eight dol
lars plus a week. The same figures!
would put the limit at not less than
ten dollars n 1916. Let that pass for
the moment, and note some of the
facts discovered by the Commission.
There were women in Massachu
setts, wot king in the factories during
1916 '- bcse average weekly wrges
were iess than five dollars a wees:!
Take one illustration—the tnana
factur-' of men’s clothing. Ther» were
1,132 women engaged in the wonr on
men’s c.othing. Of these worn43
received average weekly wages of less
than THREE HOLLARS a week; 67
were in receipt of three but not over
four dollars, and 152 were gettiug!
four but under five dollars. In other’
w’ords, 262 women—one quarter of
all the women covered by the study—
were receving less than five dollars
a week.
Amang these. 1,132 women, only
258 (one quarter) were receiving
average weekly wages of more than
eight dollars a week. Eight dollars
a week is no longer a living wage for
women in the cities of Massachusetts
Some of he other industries were
even worse than men's clothing. Four
fifths of the women who were work
ing on muslin underwear were re
cevihg less than eight dollars a week.
On aprons and kimonas there were
84.7 per cent, and on women's neck
wear 87.8 per cent of the women re
ceiving less than eight dollars.
Democracy? Democracy for the
Germans!
For the working women of Mas
sachusetts—thousands of them—- un
| derpay, misery, want and shame.
I America! America!
_
PRES. WILSON &
LLOYD GEORGE
President Wilson’s statement that
the Allies would have to make good
on his fourteen articles of peace must
have acted as a cold douche on Lloyd
Georgt in view of his recent speech
at Bristol, where he stated that Great
Britain would demand of Germany
an indemnity large enough to cover
her war expenditures. It shows that
there are more blundering diplomats
in the world, than those of Gemany.
if Lloyd George showed so little Judg
ment in his estimation of President
Wilson. Did he think that his con
gressional message containing the
fourteen peace articles was nothing
but buncombe and just issued for con
sumption to bo repudiated when the
President saw fit to do so? If he
did, he greatly ' underestimated the
character and manhood of the Presi
dent. Did Lloyd George make his
Bristol speech with the intention of
drawing some reply from the Presi
dent showing where he stood at pres
ent on the question of indemnities?
If so he received an emphatic and un
equivocal answer.
The Presideht showed his usual
keen foresight by attending the forth
coming peace conference, where he
will be the only man who can bring
enough pressure to bear upon the
delegates to prevent them from pull
ing each others hair when they get to
quarrelling over the spoils.
Well, as the old saying is—“History
repeats tself.”
MR DULEY ON
CAPITAL & LABOR
“It war different when I was a
young man, Hinnissy. Capital was
like a father to Labor, glvin’ it its
boord an’ lagins. In them gpldon
days a wuruking man was an honest
artysan. That’s what he was proud
to be called. The week before auc
tion he had his pitcher in the funny
papers. He had his arr'm ar’round
Capital—a rosy, binivolent al’ guy
with a plug hat and eye-glasses. They
was going to the pcllc togcthe to vote
for simple ol’ Capital.
“In return f’r fidelity he got -i t
key ivry year. At Christmas time
Capital gathered his happy fain'ly
round him. an’ inthe presence iv the
ladies iv the neighborhood, gave them
an oration ’Me brave lads,’ says he,
‘we’ve had a good year. (Cheers.) I
have made a millyun profit. (Sensa
tion.) Ye have done so well that we
don’t need so many. (Long and con
tinyous cheerin’) Those who can do
two mins wurruk will remain, an’, if
possible do four. The other faithful
sarvints,’ he says, ‘can come back in
the Spring.’ An’ the bold artysans
tossed their paper caps in the air an’
give three cheers f'r Capital. They
wurruked till ol' age crept on them
an’ then retired to live on the wish
bones an’ kind wurruds they had ac
cumulated’”
REVOLUTIONARY CENTERS
LONDON, Dec 9-—Berlin, Hamburg
and Munich Germany are the centers
of the revolutionary movement in
Germany, according to reports receiv
ed by the Bitish press. The radicals
are reported to be in complete con
tol in the latter citise and all the agi
tation against the conservative Soc
ialist government headed by Ebert is
being fostered there.
Scant attention is accorded to the
Regents pleas for harmony and his
request to drop all differences in po
litical views at the present time as it
will make the task of establishing a
stable government one of almost un- j
surmountable difficulties, giving the ]
Allies an opportunity to occupy forci-|
bly all of Germany on account of its j
unsettled conditions.
KAISKK ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
COPENHAGEN ,Dec 9—It is rumored
here that the ex Kaiser of Germany
han made an attempt to commit sui
cde. His intentions were frustrated
by a member of his personal staff
who was wounded when he prevent
ed the Kaiser from killing himself.
Knowing that the Allied may ask for
his extradition and fearing that he
may be put on trial as one of the in
stigators of this war, he became de
spondent over the uncertainy of the
fate awaiting him, hence his attempt
at self destruction.
NOTICE TO CliEl>ITOHS
in the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska. In probate.
In-the ma tier of the estate of Christen
Anderson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has. been appointed admin
istrator of the estate df Christen An
deron, deceased, fcy the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them, with tile proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned adminis
trator, at Nome, Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estate of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—-Nov 30. Dec 7, 14. 21, 28.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION POP.
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
M. S. No. 121 r.
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and whose post office address
is Nome, Alaska, has made applica
tion before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent tor the PLUTya AS
SOCIATION FLACKfc mining *Y«
situate on the left limit of Dry Cr«k,
between the heads of Peluk Creek and
Franklin Gulch, about 2 % miles 1L ».
of the Town ot Nome, in the n»f
Nome Mining and Recording' District,
Alaska, Second Division, being Kin
ral Survey No. 1215; said claim being
more particularly described in ths
field notes and plat of the official sur
vey thereof now on file in said t^mi
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, Identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1209, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir post 4 Ins.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1215
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. tb Oor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. k
in earth mound scribed 2-1215 P;
thence N. 63 deg. 05 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft. to
Cor..No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thence
N. 17 deg. 51 min. E. (Var. 18 deg.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. Ns.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 deg.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. E.)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place sf
beginning; containing an area of 39.
253 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1209,
Meadow Association Placer to the ex
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey No.
1209. Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas so in
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent (or same is not
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 2% miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. L. M. No. 19, to which
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 19. in enrth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about 50 ft. from the
railroad and 2V6 miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min.
i North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 miu. Tf.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volniao
190, page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are; On the
North. Survey No. 1209, Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed; on tho
South claims unsurveyed and claim
j ant unknown; on the West, Sur. No.
| 1209. Osiris Placer, Eskimo Gold
l Dredging Co., claimant.
THQS McGANN
Register.
NOTICE OF I'OKEKITIKK
j To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok C-ee
j solidated Mines Company and Jaeeb
i Zeman, your heirs, executors, admin
| istrators and assigns:
j You and each of you. are hereby
j notified that the undersigned has ex
I pended in labor and improvements
j the sum of one hundred dollars dur
| ing each of the years o? 1014, 1916,
j 1916, and 1917, upon the following
: described placer mining claim, situate,
j lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half ( V4 ) ef
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
i Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail er
neglect to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, your interest in
j said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 2324 of tku
j Revised Statutes of the United States.
AD CAREY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov. 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14,
21, 28. Jan. 4, 11, 18, 25. Feb.l, 8, 16.
KIN AD NOTICK
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHROEDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
J. Stokes, Administrator of the Es
tate of William Schroeder, deceased,
has filed his final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
that Friday, the 22nd day of Novem
ber. 1918, at 2 o’clock P. M. of said
day at the courtroom of the Probatu
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the time and place for the hear
ing of the said account and the ob
jections thereto. If any, and for the
dictribufion of the residue of the
said estate.
.IAMBS J STOKlfiS,
rJ>ir. Administrator.