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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1919
AMERICANS FISTIC, NOT PACIFIST
However much the pacifistic may
denounce the fistic it seems that pu
gilism is destined to preserve a pre
carious existence among us. However
much the puritanical may mourn and
sound the gloomy tom-toms of rebuke
and admonition, the average American
will continue to be barbaric in his own
way. Back from Cantigny, Belleau
Wood, the Marne and the Argonne
he will rush to the fistic arena, seek
ing sinful excitement, disdaining the
proffered hand of grace which tries to
thrust into his mit the tennis racket
or the golf stick.
Just when we thought that our boys
would come back to us paragons of
the new order, smirking pleasantly at
the prospect of ping pong and cro
quet, emitting pious aphorism about
universal peace, they have given us a
regular William Harrison Dempsey
wallop. They participated in that
fistic fiasco at Toledo. It appears that
someone named Major Anthony
Drexel Biddle, or something of the
sort, was there with a delegation of
doughboys to honor the occasion and
cheer for the champ.
Of course it was all low-brow stuff
—base, vulgar and plebeian. It was
worthy only of those fit for treasons,
stratagems and spoils; but instead
of villains there were our heroes.
It is in the blood of all the English
speaking races, just as bull-fighting is j
in the Iberian blood. Of late the
Frenchmen have shown a real interest
in the sport—due, no doubt, to an in
fusion of Celtic corpuscles. But the
Hun, the savage, atrocious Hun, j
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doesnt’ know a prizefight from a “Lon- j
don bridge is falling down, my fair:
lady.”
Far be it from us to sing the de
fense of Jack Dempsey beating Jess
Willard on the “beezer,” whatever that
may be. Far be it from us to throw
up our hats—count ’em—because the
Utah product punched two hundred
and forty pounds of lowbrow humanity
until it threw up the sponge and the
world’s championship at a single toss.
Far be it from us to cheer raucously
or sterterously or otherwise into the
face of confirmed pacifists and an
nounce that Jack is “some fighter,
eh ?”
Being puritanical ourselves and in
clined to near beer, having betimes j
played ping pong, croquet and tennis, |
having, indeed, a cosmic urge toward
universal peace, we beg to condemn j
all such degrading spectacles as that |
at Toledo, when Jack swung lefts and j
rights to a jaw that never had known
defeat and tumbled on the mat a car
cass that never before had bowed the
knee to a wallop. We denounce all
such exhibitions at Toledo and beg
to assure our readers that we would
attend one like it in Salt Lake only
as a matter of patriotic duty, to lend
eclat lest reproach he cast upon our
fair city.
Indeed, we deplore all amusement
and excitement for the young and old
alike. We believe in sitting with
knees crossed and wooing Nirvana
while our fingernails grow as long as
those of a Tibetan priest.
Who is this Jack Dempsey, anyway,
that the mayor of an Atlantic resort
town should get up a big celebration
and welcome him back as a citizen?
One would think it was President
Woodrow Wilson coming back from
the peace conference with the cov
enant of the League of Nations tucked
in the inside pocket of his doublet
where no pickpocket of a senator
might find it. One would think he
was national head of the Anti-Light
Wine-and-Beer Association or the
Anti-Cigarette League, instead of a
low-browed miner from Provo with a
piledriver concealed in each mit.
We can only hold up our hands in
horror at the base tendencies of our
countrymen. After making the world
safe for demorcacy and lasting peace
they walked right past the Y. M. C.
A. in Toledo, forty thousand strong,
and crowded into the pugilistic arena
and sat there in a thermometer-break
ing sun for hours waiting for the
Provo puncher to paste Jess Willard
in the solar plexus and pound him
on the proboscis. Oh, Death, where
is thy punch!—Ex.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
A mosquito specialist who passed
through here recently on his way to
the lower Yukon country examined
and classified three hundred varieties
of mosquitos while at Whitehorse. Evi
dently the fellow is a fakir or he
would have found more than three
hundred varieties.—Juneau Empire.
No, that discolored look about the
mouths of local children is not mor
tification beginning to set in or any
thing like that—it is just the record
of a blueberry pie that has been de
voured.—Douglas News.
What’s the matter with arranging a
billiard tournament between the four
towns of the Third division? Valdez
has a number of crack players, as has
every other town in the division.
Matches could be played in first one
town and then another until a series
had been played.—Valdez Miner.
Three local boys at Petersburg have
been bound over to the grand jury at
Ketchikan for robbing stores and the
postoffice at Petersburg. This should
be a warning to parents to watch their
boys and guide them a little. No
doubt but parents all say that “our
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boy would not do such a thing.” May
be not, but after associating with boys
who would stoop to rob, they become
a member of the gang and sooner or
later get caught in the net.—Ketchi
kan Times.
There are some business men who
take pride in boasting that they are
“not politicians.” Whether this is a
cause for pride depends upon what is
meant by a “politician.” In a repub
lic, where every man takes a direct
part in the government, it is the duty
of every man to be a politician to the
extent of helping secure the best can
didates to represent the best govern
mental principles and policies. It is
every man’s duty to help see that
the men selected to serve in public
office render that service in the most
acceptable manner. If work of this
kind is being shirked, it is something
to be ashamed of, rather than to boast
of. With each succeeding year, gov
ernment is exercising more and more
influence upon business, for good or
ill. More and more, therefore, busi
ness men should exercise an influ
ence upon government. Leaving it to
the professional politician is neither
good citizenship nor good business.—
Anchorage Times.
There is no use talking, this town
of Juneau is simply pink tea mad.
Educated women are really talking
about who entertains and who does not.
That means, who ties tissue paper
over the electric globes and asks in
people to drink tea. Why don’t Ju
neau get in the band wagon and be
highbrow? It’s lots less trouble and
much more instructive. — Juneau
Gleam.
Listening to a human voice 250
miles distant without the aid of a wire
was the unique and novel experience
of W. R. Rathbun, radio operator sta
tioned at Anchorage, recently, when
he conversed with radio operators on
board the American gunboat Vicks
burg, cruising in the waters adjacent
to Kodiak island.
Eagle dance tonight in Eagle hall.
^ A good time dance.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Cordova Precinct.—
In Probate.—In the matter of the
Estate of Elizabeth McLaughlin,
deceased.
The undersigned, having on the 23d
day of May, 1919, been appointed ad
ministratrix of the estate of Elizabeth
McLaughlin, deceased, within the
territory of Alaska, notice is hereby
given to the creditors of and all per
sons having claims against the said
deceased or her estate to exhibit them,
with the necessary vouchers, within
six months after the first publication
of this notice, to the said administra
trix in the town of Cordova, Alaska,
the same being the place for the trans
action of business of said estate in the
territory of Alaska.
The first publication of this notice
is published on the 16th day of July,
1919. IDA DOWALDER,
Administratrix of the Estate of
Elizabeth McLaughlin, Deceased.
First publication July 16, 1919.
Last publication August 13, 1919.
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