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NEITHER GUTS, GUMPTION
NOR GRACE
Do you believe in signs? We do
—sometime. When a street kid
sticks hi3 thumb to his nose and
wiggles his lingers, it’s a sign. It
gneans something. When the pee
*pee (Petersburg press) explodes it
self on a nest fouling blast, we have
a hunch that it’s a sign. We are
taking up- the article in last week’s
whirl of the pee-pee on the strength
of a sign. By inuemdo and veiled,
round-about assertion we opine that
the screed is meant for THE AL
ASKAN. The shoe doesn’t lit us at
all. In fact we can’t imagine that
it would fit anybody, but 3ince we
feel that there is an allusion to us
we’ll go ahead. However, we’ll
play fairer, we won’t leave anything
to the imagination. If we mean
the pee-pee we’ll say so. It is ev
ident that the pee-pee didn’t have
the sand, gumption, guts or some
thing to come out openly and above
board in its harangue. Since it is
too cowardly to do that, it is too
cowrardly to have confidence in.
Still, we have a feeing that the
pee-pee shouldn’t be too 3trongly
censured, maybe, for the “foulng
nest” drivel savors more of OIL
than of wisdom.
In forming our reply and going
on with the controversy, we didn’t
really know whether the readers
are interested or not, but as an ef
fort has been made to make it
plain that the welfare of the town
hinges on what is good of it, and
not what i3 derogatory we deem it
the better policy to proceed.
We have no apologies to make.
Not a single one. The pee-pee puts
us down as ‘‘poor sports.” Maybe
the pee-pee has its own definition
of the word. To us the pee-pee is
not even a poor sport. We’ll make
a guess that the screed has scratch
ed the word out of its dictionary.
It has forgotten the meaning of the
word, anyway. However, in its
stead it has gone down in the wide
sewers of its narrow mind and dug
a mess of foul adjectives, and smear
ed them over the page3 of its clique
bound publication and is bloated in
the feeling that it has made interest
in reading.
Thank goodness, THE ALASKAN
isn’t responsible for the ills of the
city. The reputation of the place
was broadcast long beTore there was
an issue of this publication. The.
pee-pee, in its holier than thou at
titude only has added to the con
fusion. It has made no attempt to
better anything, but goes along smug
in the security of the clique who
subsidized it, playing into its hands,
covering up its 3hoddy spots, hand
and glove with the under street
pullers of the social and political
wires and a regular dare devil when
it comes to saying nothing.
Cancer is a dangerous disease, to
3ven attempt a cure a surgeon has
-O gouge and cut deep and wide.
Naturally, there i3 more or less of
i smell in the operation. A scratch
las been made and already there is
some odor. That there will be more
>r less of a nose irritant as the
>peration proceeds is quite likely.
The town of Petersburg deserves
t lot of credit. Despite a reputa
ion that is more or less unsavory
rom Florida to the Arctic, it has
teld to a pace. Larger and more
lonored it should be, and will be,
mce it is known, generally, that
here are a whole lot of fine people
tere. Too bad it ig that so few,
rhen the population of the town is
aken into consideration, should
ave so blackened its eyes. In this
ffair, as in many other missteps,
he innocent suffer with the guilty,
nd the pee-pee and its cohorts are
urely not improving matters in
heir vituperation, railing and foul
lingo. So long as the cancer i3
present no amount of covering up
will cure it, nor long delay the fact
that it exists. The trouble is that
the pee-pee is one of the cover-up
kind and is here for the purpose of
aiding and abetting those who de
sire things hushed and to call any
who disagrees with the blacklist oi
the powers that be all sorts ot
nasty names. This gets neither the
pee-pee nor its subsidizers anywhere.
They have made no attempt to clear
a murky atmosphere. In truth they
have made it worse. They derive a
certain benefit from this condition
—providing it is not too greatlj
talked about—and want it to con
tinue. It means a certain amount
of political power and some finan
cial returns.
The pee-pee goes back to Liberty
Loan times and the drives for the
same here in town. We don’t
know of a city, town village nor
hamlet, from Maine to the Gulf of
Colifornia, from Florida to the
smallest igloo settlement along the
Polar Sea that didn’t go several
times over the top in subscriptions.
We have a record of these bond pur
chases here in the office. We know
of one settlement, all Germans by
birth, education and war propa
ganda, who purchased so heavily
of all of the offers of Liberty Bonds
that the demand exceeded the sup
ply. There was an element of safe
ty in this move; also, there was a
bit of diplomancy. Liberty Bonds
prove some things. They do not
prove every thing. The quantity
bought is one thing; who bought
them, another.
To those who answered the call
to .arms—all honor to them. We did
not refer to them and the pee-pee
knows it—if it knows anything
which we doubt. But there were
some who didn’t, weren’t there?
And they flung back their papers to
avoid the draft, didn’t they? The
number who did this is known, and
was known long before THE AL
ASKAN came on the field.
“Such statements hurt,” you re
mark. Aye, this should have been
thought of before. Don’t go after
us for something already known
from hades to the golden steps. By
making it uncomfortable for this
class of people, we’II make it easier
for a better class.
In not one single line of the pee
pee’s harangue and vomit is there the
tiniest attempt at a reply to the
article it is suposed to be mulling
over. It is a dirty broadside with
no particular aim and with very
foul ammunition.
Just how good an American is the
pee-pee, anyway? We should judge
it ie but luke warm at best. Why
has it adopted the name of Scandi
navian sea rovers for its printery
and its delicatessen? True enough
the vikings were interesting and
adventurous folk. The history of
their doings is pleasant reading, but
insofar as names go it no more fits
here than does the story of Palo
Alto in the high schools of Norway.
Should pee-pee want to learn
something anent the city’s reputa
tion let it do a mite of investiga
tion (if it isn’t too late now) as
to why the Navy airplanes 30 gross
ly gave Petersburg the cold shake
when they came in here a summer
or so ago. Officially, for a time,
Petersburg was going to be the
central headquarters for the flying
machines. Was it? Hardly. Part
of one afternoon and a brief spell
of the forenoon of the day follow
ing they were here, then they up
and away to Juneau. The machines j
camped below Petersburg, they 1
camped beyond U3, but here where j
they were supposed to be a near all j
summer stopping place they stayed !
not. The reasons were not exactly j
complimentary. THE ALASKAN
isn’t, nor wasn’t, to blame for this
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kicking over the traces. It’s the
same old 3tory.
, The pee-pee dwells, also on the
Americanism of the harbor dredg
ing. Well, who’s doing the dredg
ing? Is it the government of Siam,
Java, Mongolia of the United States? ]
Tell us. Who put the bills through? ;
Who worked the hardest on them? j
Pee-pee goes on: “Won’t they have j
a fine effect if they (presumably
the article in THE ALASKAN) are
brought to the attention of Con
gress when matters of importance
to Petersburg are being consider
ed?” Tt is really too bad, but it
happens that Congress is better
posted on Petersburg than is the
pee-pee. Pee-pee is either grossly
ignorant or a damn fool.
Pee-pee winds up its questionable
verbiage with: “There is no place
in Petersburg for the purveyors of
the oral and written untruths that
tear down the community; that
stab at the vitals of community
life.” Quite so. It is a late day
for the pee-pee to grasp this as a
motto. It and its subsidizers
should have pasted it in their hats
long, long ago. And Petersburg,
today, would be a much larger
town, better liked and more suc
cessful.
Since the issue, Jany. 6th, of THE
ALASKAN, word has been brought
to us that the pee-pee has gone
around town requesting the ad
vertisers of THE ALASKAN to
withdraw their ads. We don’t
that this is true. There is pro
bably an error , some where. Of
course we’ll be able to tell better
later on. In all of our newspaper
experience, from the reporter’s
desk to the art room we have never
yet known of anything like this.
Papers may quarrel and shoot back
and forth and get along miserably,
editorially, but we never heard of
one publication seek’’ng the destruc
tion of another’s advertising. All
things come out in the wash, and
we’ll learn later how much fact there
is in the claim.
Another things— We are not
crediting Schoettler with “Fouling
the Nest.” It doesn’t sound like
him . If he really penned the article
lie’s fallen woefully in style and
composition, for we never saw a
worse conglomeration nor journal
istic misfit. It is a pot. pourri of
words that take up a deal of space
that gets no one anywhere.
As to the general reception of
“Our Mission” of Jany. 6th. We
run, usually, from 75 to 150 copies
extra. Sometimes a little under
these figures, sometimes a bit over.
Almost immediately after the issue
of the 6th came off the press city
sales began and kept on through
the week until we actually had to
stack away a scant half dozen copies
for files, and cut down lists to out
side towns one half. It must
have taken very well. The num
ber who have come into the office i
and complimented us has, seeming- !
ly been half the town. There was
one, only one, visitor who took ex- \
ception, and he said: “What you
have written is true enough, but
it should have been brought out
long ago. I fancy it out of place !
now and possibly will work more (
harm than good.” Well, THE AL
ASKAN wasn’t here long ago. We
replied that there were some things
in the city that called for a clean
ing. To do this wfe had start from
the bottom up. We had to have
something to stand on. To begin
any old place was to get no place.
As to the advertisers: We great
ly appreciate every line of advertis
ing we get. It’s a hard struggle to
make a paper pay without ads.
Circulation has a lot to do with
the effectiveness of advertising.
The circulation of THE ALASKAN
is far and ahead of the pee-pee.
It goes in considerable number to
many tributary towns of Peters
burg. It is increasing in circula
tion every week and we aim by
spring to have a thousand copies
(outside of bundle orders) in the
mail each “paper day.” But ads
or no ads we’re going to scrap and
the pee-pee can put that in its pipe
and touch a match to it.
All Alaska Edition of the Cordova
Times is on sale at Worth’s. A fine
souvenir to send home.
WAR POWER DRAFT
i
First of the American Legion’s <
national legislative program is a de 1
mand that the Administration pa3s ;
a war power draft bill that will j
equalize wages in and put of the ;
armed forces during a war, and em
power the government to seize
money and other property as weM
as men.
There is an old saying that war
impoverishes the poor and enriches
the rich.
Exempting labor in essential war
industries from military service and
i then paying exorbitant wages as if
j normal economic forces were at
1 work i sthe height of injustice.
To take a fighting man’s arm and
only borrow a fireside man’s money
i is less than just.—Collier’s.
We have often wondered why the
| injustices, in the above lines, hadn’t
been brought up,before. There were
men “drafted” into the Spruce Divi
sion at $8 to $10 a day. They
were young fellows and would have
made capable soldiers. Boys of the
same towns went into the Army at
$80 per month. And the Spruce
Division was one only, of many
such one sided “war essentials.”
When dollars are drafted with the
men then wars will be considered
j twice before a shot is fired.
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j WHERE’S YOITR UNION CARD?
We have recently gone over somi
j of the material in the Survey of
Bureau Statistics and we give a
! paragraph on the benefits of 60
| -different unions, or organizations of
labor.
i
} The survey shows that 60 inter
| natinal unions paid benefits last
| year to death, sickness, disability.
; old age and other objects amount
ing to almost $10,000,000. Pay
ments of insurance of various kinds
amounted to more than $12,000,000.
Of record is the fact that these
t unions, since insurance and benefits i
| become a part of union affairs, have
i paid out more than $30,000,000.
EDITORIAL FINDINGS
“No thing has mighty power un
;4il it stands clearly revealed.” Old
: Caesar of Rome made this wise
| crack a number of moons ago, and
it goes today as strongly as yes
terday. It is a good passage for
the pee-pee and the subsidizers and
the pawnshop to chew over and
digest.
FOR PRESIDENT
A1 Smith,
On The Democratic Ticket
The dopesters have it now that
the Democratic Candidate for Pres
dent of the United States will be i
U. Smith. It isn't plain nor an
istablished fact, of course, for a
iumber °f months lie between now
tnd convention time, but the trend
s ever Smithward. He is a Catholic
md no Catholic ha3 ever been nomi
lated for the presidency, but a
jiajority just now aren’t taking his
’eligion seriously. However, dor
nant things sometimes come to
lames quickly. There may come
m immense flare-up when least ex
pected nor wanted, in A1 Smith’s
running. There is something wild,
uncanny and of spicy adventure in
die political situation and to Young
America that appeals. The Dem
ocrats might go a lot farther and do
worse. The man is thoroughly
capable for the job and has a pleas
ing personality, but right down to
brass tacks we don’t think he’ll win
out even if nominated. However,
to run against him the Republicans
should select some one other than
the would be oil baron of Russia—
Hoover.
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is the iiuman
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tiealth and
Vigor
HEART
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SPLEEN—
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“PARALYZE MEANS “UNNERVE”
One dictionary definition of the
word ‘paralyze” is—“to unnerve.”
This, though meant in another way,
gives recognition to the basic truti
in physical paralysis. Consider that
the limb is sound; bone and flesh,
muscles, nerves and blood-vessels
are intact, yet it will not fcunctioa.
Why? Because there is a gap in
nerve communication. The com
mands of the brain do not reach
the muscles of the limb. There is
pressure upon a nerve that may fre
quently be removed by Chiroprac
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NERVE COMMUNICATION
RESTORED
“Three years ago I suffered a
paralytic stroke. The best medical
aid was summoned, but for nearly
three months I had to be lifted in
and out of bed; I was unable to
move my limbs. Then I began tak
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improvement. After fifty-nine ad
justments I was able to be about
and could do light work. Today 1
am well and very thankful to Chiro
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CPnton W. Hine, Chiropractic
Research Bureau, Statement
No. 2270—W.
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