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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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all news credited to it or not other
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918.
COMMENTS OF ALASKAN PAPERS
So long as booze was sold in Alaska
we never insisted very strongly on the
payment of delinquent subscriptions to
this paper, not considering it humane
to ask a person to give money for the
support of a newspaper when he need
ed it for the purchase of whisky. But
now that the latter is no longer to be
had, we do not think hardships will
be worked if a few hundred delin
quents to this paper, some of three
years standing, will come forward and
square their accounts.—Douglas News.
The arrival of the first shipment of
native coal in Nenana marks an epoch
in Interior Alaska. The fact that the
coal burns well, does not clinker or
slack, and can be obtained in unlimited
quantities at reasonable cost, as soon
as rail transportation will permit,
should convey to the average citizen
the importance of this fuel to the fu
ture development of the Interior coun
try. All that is now needed to put the
country in a position to go ahead
again, is the completion of the railroad
to Lignite creek, and there is every
reason to believe that work will be
accomplished reasonably early in the
summer The outlook is most encour
aging and should inspire renewed con
fidence in the future of the territory.
—Nenana News.
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After a period of quiesence the!
political pot is commencing to simmer
again, and within a short time will
probably be boiling with considerable
violence. Already prospective candi
dates are girding up their loins for
the primary election to be held in
April, and are arranging their plans of
campaign.
Under the new primary law the
r party lines will be drawn closer than
' ever before in the history of the terri
T tory. The law provides that every
‘-candidate voted for at the primary
Action niuSt run on fl party ticket, no
provision being nlade for the placing
of a name of a non-partisan candidate
on the official ballots. Thus, the can
didates must secure the signature of
at least five members of their party
to sign their declaration of candidacy,
and vouch for the fact that they are
members of the party in good stand
ing.
Inasmuch as the various candidates
are required to pay into the territor
ial treasury, to defray the expenses
of the election a sum equal to one
per cent of the annual salary of the
office they seek, but in no case more
than $40, it is believed the number of
candidates will be materially de
creased over those of previous years.
The law is manifestly unfair, how
ever, to party candidates, inasmuch
as the election law provides that non
partisan candidates can have their
names place on the official ballot at
the general election without cost, pro
vided they file nomination papers
with from 100 to 250- signatures, ac
cording to the office sought.
Notwithstanding the fee required,
several candidates are already getting
out their declaration of candidacy, and
within a short time it is expected can
didates for all the territorial offices
will be in evidence.—Fairbanks News.
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THE TERRIBLE T. R.
What an awful risk those Oklaho
mans are running who ventured to
sign that petition to have their old
friend Roosevelt interned for the dur
ation of the war! We wonder what
precaution they have taken to protect
their own hides when peace is de
clared and the strenuous person is
again free to roam the range at will.
Those fellows down in the southwest
always were a nervy bunch but they
are inclined to be just a little bit reck
less at times. If it is not too late we
would suggest that they amend that pe
tition so that it will provide for the
Colonel’s interment during his natur
al lifetime. That would be a safer
course to pursue. Also it might not
be a bad idea to have a special bull
pit constructed, with sound-proof
walls and affording no possible means
of outside communication or escape.
To insure the general good health and
longevity of those intrepid Oklahoma
patriots, we think that all such precau
tiotis should be taken.
These are indeed tempestuous times
for the mail who w-as once the populai
idol of America and who still num
hers his faithful followers by the mill
ions. Were this great exemplar o
the strenuous life to rewrite his cele
brated book dealing with that subject
he would in all probability be able t<
liven it up a bit and still keep wel
within the range of his own stirring
and stormy career. No man since Na
poleon’s time has been so profusely ad
mired and so thoroughly cursed by hii
fellow citizens; none have experiencec
such rises and recessions in the tides
of popular affection; none have in
spired such constant and devotee
friendships and incurred such bitte
enmities; and none have thrilled anc
chilled the hearts of men in sucl
rapid-fire succession. If he has missec
any experience worth having in hi:
extraordinary life, it has been purel;
an oversight.
Whether Roosevelt is right or wronj
in his present attitude towards the ad
ministration still remains to be seen
His place in history was once secure
it is now in danger. He has stakec
everything in the outcome of the burn
ing controversy, No man ever gam
bled with greater abandon. He wll
win all or lose all on a single turn anf
no wheel of fortune was ever half sc
fickle as the American people. But his
I fellow citizens should be slow to pass
j sentence. The intense seriousness ol
j the man, and his willingness to hazard
| everything on the issue, invite the
j most sober judgment of the country
; Roosevelt has been right so many
times in the past that it is just barely
possible he rnay be right now. The
averages, at any rate, are all in his
favor. He is at least entitled to his
day in court, and if will take time to
test his case. For the sake of fail
play, we trust that those fellows down
in Oklahoma will not insist upon his
confinement until he has been duly
convicted.
DEVISE WD MEANS
FDR PAYING WAR DEBT
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 26 (by maiD.—The
Empire Resources Development com
mittee has ben trying to devise ways
and means of paying off the vast leg
acy of debt that will be bequeathed by
the war. It has not been long at it but
according to H. Wilson-Fox, M. P., a
prominent member of the committee, it
is making highly satisfactory progress
in the solution of the problem.
As outlined by Wilson-Fox in an
address before the Royal Colonial in
stitute, the collossal sums needed are
to be obtained by the state developing
certain resources of the empire on a
huge scale and turning over the prof
its to the national treasury. One of
these is fish of which, Mr. Wilson-Fox
said, unlimited supplies could be ob
tained from Canada and Newfound
land. This fis, it was asserted, could
be sold in the United Kingdom at
prices far below those ruling berore
the war, provide a good living for all
engaged in the work and yield the
state a profit of from £25,000,000 to
£50,000,000 a year.
Another proposal was that the state
should participate in the supply and
distribution of the palm products ob
tained in the empire, which are daily
becoming of greater importance as ar
ticles of food. From this, it was calcu
lated, the profit would soon amount to
fifty million pounds annually. Another
$100,000,0*00" a year, it was estimated,
could be derived by the state from
electricity for light and power to be
provided at much cheaper rates than
private companies charged.
The home government, It was sug
gested, should co-operate with Canada
in the early development and sale of
large tracts of corn land.
If a grant of 200,000,000 acres could
be negotiated, the committee believed,
the nation’s/food supply would be as
sured and within a quarter of a cen
tury the Bale of farms in this area
would pay off a large portion of the
empire’s debt.
"Looking into the future,” said the
lecturer, “we can visualize the state
as an owner of vast herds of cattle
overseas, raised on lands which are
today unutilized; as a proprietor o
forests and valuable plantations o:
tropical shrubs and trees grown oi
areas which are still virgin, and the
harnesser of mighty waterfalls fed b;
the eternal snows of India and Africa
as an organizer of greet commercia
air services, and as the reaper on ai
immense scale of the manifold harves
of the seas.”
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AMERICAN TRUCK DRIVERS
FIND MEANS OF COMFORT
(By Associated Press)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Jan. 26 (by ma.ll.—Ameri
can army truck drivers have found a
use for the strips of heavy khaki
cloth cut from the bottoms of soldiers'
overcoats. One of the drivers dis
covered that mittens of extraordinary
warmth could be made from the cloth
and now nearly every driver of a mo
1 tor truck or automobile is wearing a
' pair or has determined to make him
' self some the first time he has a spare
ten minutes.
Many units of the army in France
1 discovered that the regulation over
' coals were too long when first they
donned them. The bottoms, becoming
soaked with rain or caked with mud,
flopped about the legs of the men and
: made the garment a burden. Some
soldiers discarded their overcoats
whenever it was possible fo<r them to
and many colds or other ailments re
sulted.
Then one entire division—a newly
landed organization of former national
guardsmen suddenly appeared with
coats that reached to the knee or an!
j inch above it. The old long coats
were exchanged by their owners for^
the new ones in response to an order!
signed by the general commanding. I
I About the same time soldiers in other j
. divisions cut their coats off themselves '
ior them trimmed down. Some.
I nidi who were among the first division
j to enter the trenches clipped the ob
jectionable bottoms with knives.
In a trench an overcoat that strikes
the ankles, drags in the mud and wa
ter and is nearly as bad as no coat at
all. The practice of cutting off over
coats now has become general through ^
the zone of the American army and a
garment of the length usually seen in
the United States rapidly is coming to
be regarded as a sort of a curiosity
over here.
All this shearing, of course, left as
many strips of cloth as short coats.
There was nothing to do with the
j pieces. Many a boot was polished with
khaki
An army motor truck driver leads a
cold life. For many hours a day he
sits exposed on the front of his ma
chine, often spinning along at a rale
that would cause an epidemic of heart
disease in the traffic squad $r any “
American police department4 The ”
drivers manage to keep fatj^ «tom
fortable sometimes wearing three suits
of heavy woolen underwear.
Their chief complaint has been that
they could not keep their hands warm
and many have been known to stop
their machines in the road and toast
their fingers at the exhaust pipe. Then
a driver with a pair of scissors, needle,
thread and a good imagination cut
four shapes from an overcoat bottom,
sewed them together in pairs and
found that by wearing the mittens
over the regulation knitted gloves his
hands remained warm even in the cold
est weather.
Overcoat bottoms are in demand
now. s
russiangreeiTchurch
WILL DEFY BOLSHEVIKI
The status of the Russian church
in Alaska, according to Father A. P.
Kashevaroff, the priest in charge of
St. Sabba’s, in Douglas, and the
Greco-Russlan church in Juneau, is
firm, as far as its property rights are
concerned. The threat of the Russian
Bolsheviki to seize all church prop
erty March 1 cannot affect Alaskan
churches, says Father Kashevaroff, for
the reason that the United States has
issued patents to such property, and
it is entirely outside the jurisdiction
of Russian authority.
As to further ^support for the
churches here, that is a matter not
yet clear. The priest regards the
Bolsheviki as lawless I. W. W. and
believes that eventually the more in
telligent class will prevail.
The Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon, patri
arch of all Russia, has issued an an- :
athema, but the Bolsheviki element
do not regard it with concern. The
, London Times’ Petrograd correspon
: dent says that if Dr. Tikhon would
' lay the country under an interdict clos
! ing the churches and not permitting
i the priests to baptize, marry, and bury
r the dead, the effect on the population
might be immediate and far-reaching.
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