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One of the cross currents coming!
from the recent ukase of our far
seeing City Council is in the outers
going to Seattle for packing cases
for our cold storage hsh.
Figure it out city dads and see
how nicely you’re going ahead. In
order to keep a few electric heaters
going, and crawling, belly-wise, to
a favored few you have closed down
the mills, shut off home manufact
ure, put loggers out of , business,
driven men out of employment and
forced those who have always pat
ronized home industry to wire to
Seattle for box material.
Can you beat it? Is the Commer
cial Club asleep or awake on this?
Seattle has, already, drained our
Territory of blood, bone aud guts
To keep her maw satiated you su
pinely hand her something more
that she's uo more entitled to than
we are to the throne of Persia.
Some home enterprise! What?
SRX.
Sex: (Webster) noun, the phys
ical distinction between male and
female. One of the two divisions
of animals and plants based on such
distinction. Women in genera)
(with the).
All right now, let’s go ahead. To
begin with sex is, of late, presum
ed to be magazine copy only. It
ha3 been considered rather too
heavy, or too something, for the
little village weekly publication to
handle. To this we don’t agree a
little bit. If anything is of im
portance enough for far off maga
zines to run; if what they print
touches our welfare in morals, in
health, in our methods of getting
along, in our clothing, housing and
the way we make our living, why
should we wait for this one and that
to dope out the problems connected
therein and, later, spread it over
the page of a magazine?
The small town newspapers, usu
ally of weekly print, are most al
ways pretty thoroughly read by
every one of the community, even
down to those who may not be able
to digest what they see before them
only as they spell out each and
every word as they literally feel
their way along. If for no other
reason, then, what makes good copy
for magazines should make excel
lent stuff for the conscientious
home paper.
Right today the magazine, and
when we say “magazine” we mean
and refer to the publication which
claims it is—and really is—big
enough, clean enough and true
enough to enter any one’s home for
the family circle of readers, old and
young. We say, today, that the
magazine is more or less of a luxury
in many homes, and we contend
that the weekly newspaper, there
fore is the better disseminator of
all those things worth while as
well as a purveyor of recent in
telligence and tidings.
Along in September, a Judge Ob
erwager of New York came out in
a magazine article in which he
blamed many of the modern male’s
shorteomings to our briefly skirted
and flapper type of lady love. It
was something, that article, in the
nature of a roast. Of course many
a lady felt offended and shot back
at the worthy Judge some pretty
sharp pointed and venomous darts.
However, in their provocation, they
missed the mark, as a rule, and
proved by their bum marksmanship
that Oberwager wasn’t over a
league or two from being right.
And the whole pile of the stuff was
sex, SEX, SEX!!!
Our fiction is sex, our society
pages reek with sex, the movies
thrive on sex and the atmosphere is
permeated with sex. It seems that
the world, or a goodly part of it,
is rampaging along on a morbid
jag of a sex complex.
True enough, one doesn’t fully
realize what it is all about until
some particular side of it struts
before your eyes, tantalizes you and
then jazzes away and beyond your
reach and ken, and leaves you wond
ering “how come.”
With this introduction and leng
thy prelude, we’ll get down to the
somber lining right here at home.
Last week one of the committee
on advertising the Legion Ball step
ped into THE ALASKAN office. He,
and the printer, fixed up a few lines
for the coming issue of the paper
and afterward it was suggested
that a big window card announcing
the dance would be appropriate. We
3aid we’d get it out if we could
find the time so to do. The after
noon of Saturday rolled around be
fore we found a run of minutes of
leisure sufficiently long enough to
pick up a crayon. We hastily
sketched off, in a bit of color, what
we thought would be both attrac
tive and informative. It seemed
to pleased the advertising commit
tee. The poster was placed in one
of the business house windows.
The following day—Sunday fore
noon—we were accosted on the
street by an estimable lady, a res
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“THE ART OF ENTERTAINING’?
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ident of Petersburg. Figuratively
she dug both her sharp heels into
us, twisted ’em around some and
left us in a sort of daze.
“O. and you too,” she remarked
by way of an introduction of her
mental condition of the early morn
ing. i
‘‘Yeah, we guess 3o.” We had
no idea of what was coming, but
we didn’t want to be left anywhere
behind.
“1 wonder what the world is com
ing to. It is just scandalous. i
certainly thought you were cleaner
minded, anyhow.” She looked Us
over rather severly, we thought.
“Yeah, that’s very nice, all right,
but what are you driving at? You
should be plainer. We’re not over
ly intelligent, you know, and in
order to understand anything you
will have to give us what’s on your
mind in words of one syllable only.
She pondered a moment and the
while thoughts of nonfiilable .Johnny
Walkers, synthetic booze, night
parties, gray haired necking seances
and the lure of the Blue Danube or
the Yellow stickeen with a thinly
clad charmer as a partner flitted
across our troubled vision, but in
reality wre knew there was simply
nothing doing. We just couldn’t
rib up a guilty conscience on this
particular occasion. Maybe we re
turned a somewhat irrelevant grin
“Well, I should be most assuredly
ashamed of myself. instead ol
helping matters you make them
worse. I have-”
“Say, hold on a bit, my dear wo
man.” The lady’s voice had climb
ed up an octave or two, and on a
cold and quiet Sunday morning we
hedged again3t the street as a lect
ure platform. “Will you kindl>
tell us what ails you?”
“Ails ME?” Goodness gracious!
Now tell me: Didn’t you draw tha'
placard for the dance yesterday?”
(Last Saturday night’s Legion Ball).
'Surest thing you know. Never
a truer, dream, dear friend. What’s
the matter of it? We know it’s not
a passable piece of art work, hard
ly. We didn’t have the time to
scarcely do anything more than
streak a iine here and there and
let it go at that. But tell us
pl«. a’se wherein there’s cause for all
tins Sabbath harangue?”
‘CAUSE1! Dear me!!! Do you
mean to say you haven’t pictured
sex in the raw and in coiors? There
it is for the young folk to gaze at,
—necking, as they call it, hugging,
petting—a much meaning term,—
and in a dance advertisement at
that. Kissing, too. O, dear.”
There you are. What do you
know about it? We’ll bet a stack
[ of chips, and yeliow ones at that,
a mile high of ’em, that there
isn't any thing in the drawing ob
scene, suggestive, salacious, vulgar
nor anything else out of the way,
auu we’ll allow the very worthy lady
to p*ck the judges, Loo.
We have an idea that not a
dozen people in town paid more
than a fleeting second’s attention tc
the drawing in question. Probably
but few saw it at all as it was latt
when the card was placed in the
show window. But the little fust
that WAS made turns the mole hil
of a sketch into a mountain of pict
urt. And not only that, but i
.shows how narrow a groove a puri
lanital mind may run in.
i he drawing represents a muddy
war worn trooper home from th<
front meeting his wife—or his sweet
heart, or sister or mistress, or wha
have you, according to your way o
(thinking, although we had wife h
| mind when we made the picture
I The wording ran: “Arms it is a
I the Armistice Ball, at the Sons o
Norway Hall, November 12th, 1927.
A big jitney dance.”
“Arms It is” referred to the
clasping of arms in the ’sketch.
“Armistice,” of course, means the
laying aside of arms, and the ces
sation of hostilities. Singular, too,
that it was and Indian who first
caught on to the similarity in
“Arms it is” and “Armistice” and
the adaptation of both to the draw
ing.
Since the little Sunday morning
scene, we have done a bit of think
ing, book worning and so on in an
endeavor to find out, if possible,
just where we are drifting—and
why. We have gone so far as
there appears to be any soundings
in the sex stuff appearing so luridly
—as many think—since war days,
a decade past. We are optimistic
enough to opine, bad as some folk
picture things, that we’ll pull out
all right in the long run even
though stockingless calves and
bloomerless thighs are the dress
styles floating hither.
About a year ago, in one of the
high grade ladies’ magazines, there
appeared a letter. It was a sort of
collaboration of women who thought
they were in a losing game with
their husbands through, what the
writer alleged, the toxic effect of
1 the young flapper. There was all
kinds of fear and poignant tragedy1
' between every line and a whole lot
; of the same in black type. We read
■ and reread the printed letter, go*
out a reply and sent it in to the
» lady editor. We wrote just what
5 we thought and how we thought it.
- and that was straight out, above
- board and. the truth. Inside of
£ three weeks a type written reply
i came, saying in part:
“One of the best articles written
t on this alarming subject I have
f tver received. I am advising the
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