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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.
THE CAMPAIGN OPENS.
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There promises to be a lively elec
tioh in Alaska on Tuesday, November
5 Charles A. Sulzer and Wm, Maloney,
Democrats; James Wickersham, Re
publican, and Francis Connelly. So
cialist, have filed !for delegate to
congress, the primary election to be
held on Tuesday, April 30. From the
best information obtainable Sulzer
will stand on a constructive program,
while Wickersham’s platform will ip
clude an enforcement of the^etgft
hour law. Connelly will-advocate the
principles of Socialism. Maloney is
the candidate of anti-machine Demo
crats.
The® we will have party candidates
/er sen.'ator, representative and road
overseer, so that a merry time is in
store for those who enjoy playing the
political game.
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DECLARES LAW INVALID.
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Judge Bunnell, presiding over the
district court for the Fourth division,
Mas declared that the general eight
la jut law passed at the last session
the territorial legislature of Alaska,
is unconstitutional. The decision was
' rendered in a case appealed from the
vnHnKtiBBfoner's court. In which a de-^
fendant was found guilty of violating
the act and fined $250 for working em
ployes more than eight hours.
This is the first test case in Alaska
and the court’s findings are of con
siderable interest to both employer
and employe. Judge Bunnell ruled
that the new law is in violation of
the fourteenth amendment to the led-1
•eral constitution and the organic act. |
The findings will be reported to the
attorney general and no appeal from
the decision will be made unless spe
cial authorization is received by the
district attorney from the department
<of justice.
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IT MAY BE A WISE STEP.
The news that Judge Gunnison, food
administrator for Alaska has been
given charge of the fishing industry,
may prove to be the wisest step for all
concerned that was ever taken. Par
ticularly during these troublesome
days. A man on the ground with the
proper authority to act and familiar
with conditions will have the effect
of keeping the industry moving
smoothly. The agitators and trouble
makers will early in the season be
given to understand that the govern
ment is looking after the interest of
the country; and the agitation for
strikes, which has already been start
ed—according to some reports—will
tttous nipped in the bud.
The price on the season’s pack has
already been set by the administrator.
This means to a certain extent that the
government guarantees sufficient Ia
ibor to put up the pack. The govern
ment could not very well tie up capi
tal and allow labor to dictate. This
would result in the closing down of all
the canneries. If a limit is set on the
price the packers shall receive for
their packs, a limit must also be set
on the price labor will receive. From
that it seems wise that a director
supervise the industry.—Ketchikan
Miner.
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In taking one-eyed men into the
army the government has done an
other of those little acts that conserve
power. Think of the muscular energy
saved by the one-eyed men who will
not have to squint one optic while
taking aim.
SELECTION MAY PROVE WISE
“It’s all right for Papa-in-law Wil
son to groom McAdoo for the Presi
dency, but to make him director gen
eral of the railroads, in addition to
secretary of the treasury, is going too
far." "America must be very barren
of brains if one man must be given
two of the very biggest jobs in the
country to run at the same time.” "Mr
Adoo has done well in the treasury,
but no other country has attempted to
make one man run its railroads and
also its finances.”
These and similar comments are
heard on all sides. Yet the selection
of the secretary of the treasury as
commander-in-chief of the railroads
may prove eminently wise, at least as
a temporary measure, for the straight
ening out of railroad finances will be
as important a task as straigthening
out traffic troubles. Py having Secre
tary McAdoo as supreme head of the
nation’s purse strings and its transpor
tation system, more prompt and more
effective action will be possible than
if the railroad director general had no
power over the handling of the na
tion’s money.
Were not Mr. McAdoo a man of ex
traordinary ambition, not to say self
confidence, he would have hesitated to
accept such staggering responsibilities.
His eye, of course, is on the White
House If he demonstrates ability to
handle his dual job with success, then
he will have earned consideration at
the hands of the electorate in Novem
ber, 1920. If he is wise ‘he will not
flatter himself into the belief that he
knows more about running railroads
than the brainy giants who have spent
their lives in developing America's
railroad^ into the greatest transporta
tion sjtetem the world has ever known.
He wjir give these practical railroad
managers an unfettered hand in solv
ing traffic and other physical prob
lems and will confine himself largely
to issuing such orders as they recom
mend, although, of course, the strict
ly financial questions should devolve
ill?inly upon his shoulders.
He has two invaluable organizations
already at his hand, namely, the war
board and the federal reserve board,
one capable of handling transporta
tion and the other ideally fitted to ad
vise him on financial problems. The
probabilities are that Mr. McAdoo will
not run amuck, that he will not Im
agine he knows it all, that he will not
act cavalierly, that he will not pitch
fork into places of dominating author
ity theorists or lightweights enjoying
political favor.
Once a comprehensive plan taking
care of the financial necessities of the
railroads has been devised it will prob
ably be found advisable to relieve Mr,
McAdoo of his new office so as to give
him time and opportunity to adminis
ter, the vitally important treasury de
partment. His successor could well
be some practical railroad man en
joying the fullest confidence of the
administration, of the railroads and of
the public—such a man, for example,
as Daniel Willard, now chairman of
the war industries board.
Just where the Interstate Commerce
Commissioners will fit into the new
order is not at this moment clear.
These men more than any others in
the country have precipitated the rail
road crisis. Appointed at a time when
hostility to the railroads was rife, they
got it into their heads that their task
was to chastise he railroads. Instead
of acting as a sort of railroad supreme
court, they too often assumed the role
of prosecutor. They were not broad
gauge enough to realize the change
that gradually overcame conditions.
rney naa not enougn vision 10 see
the cliff towards which they were
driving the railroads. Under the pe
culiar and entirely undemocratic
terms of their appointment, they could
exercise virtually unrestrained powers
for good or evil. Their course provec
disastrous. Will Nemesis now decree
that, having acted unwisely, they shal
pay the penalty by being rendered im
potent to work evil?
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Many of our readers find much en
'joyment in the illustrated “Doings o
the Van Loons" published every after
noon in the Daily Times.
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Anchorage is not very modest in it
filings for the April primary. It ha
three candidates for senator, one fo
road commissioner and five for repre
sentative.
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The Democrats have two candidate
for delegate to congress—Charles A
Sulzer and Mine Inspector Wm. Me
loney, the latter running on an ant:
machine platform.
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Senator Hitchcock in his speech fa\
oring a war cabinet said that no ma
is big enough to make all the end
meet. Right he is. It takes some ma
these days even to make both end
meet.
WE SHOULD EXCHANGE VlsTf®. 1
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Ambassador Page, in a London Ad
dress. has advocated cheap and <©m
fortable travel between the United
States and England when the war
ends. He wants English and Ameri
can teachers to have a chance to
cross the ocean. He sees therein a
strengthening of the bond that utdtes
the two nations, and that has jieen
between them for more than a cen
tury.
Our minister to the court of St.
j James Is correct, but he does not go
far enough.
| After the war. if possible, there
should be cheap travel from the United
States to all European countries, so
1 that not school teachers slone, but
also the poorer as well as the rich,
1 may get that cultivation that comes
from travel in strange lands.
If the people of the various nations
come to know and understand each
j other, friction between them is bound
' to be reduced. How much of the dif
j ficulty between the United States and
[ Japan in the past, fancied and real,
I has been due to the fact that neither
race really understands a great deal of
the other?
It would be a great thing If Eur
| opeans would travel quite generally in
| America and if residents of this land
i could afford to go to Europe in large
numbers, not to spend their wealth,
but to learn and to spread the gospel
of good fellowship.
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SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR.
The Idea of a Service Roll of Honor]
| Jor each school room was conceived
by Mr. G. C. Winn, president of the
Juneau board of education, and the
details of a plan for its operation were
worked out by the superindent of the
| public schools of Alaska. The idea
has so much merit that It Is felt that
| space should be given to It in these
| columns and that each school tn the
1 territory should Inaugurate a similar
1 movement adapted to conditions as
I found in the respective Alaska com
| munities.
i ne plan, as implied in tne name,
calls for posting in each school room
the names of the pupils fn1 that room
'Who are rendering definite service to
our nation in this time of crisis. This
list may be written upon a certain
eeetfon of the black board or' upon a !
J sheet of heavy paper or cardboard and
! fastened upon the wall. There- are
three lines of service which' are of
great consequence at the present time
and in which ft fs within the pover
of nearly every pupil fn the schools of
the territory to participate: Tlusy-ff’e
the food conservation movenient as
outlined by the TT. S. food administra
tion, the junior Red Cross work and
the war-savings movement as repres
ented by either the War-Savings
Stamps or Thrift Stamps to which
your attention was called in the last
issue of the Bulletin. There may be
minor activities in certain cojimuni
ties which are worthy of attention and
place upon the Service Roll of Honor
According to the plan as now' con
ceived, each child who fs rendering
service in any line of activity which is
I beneficial to the United States govern
ment at the present time w ill be placed
upon the Service Roll of Honor. Eachj
week a mark or insignia of some kind
will be placed after his name as an in
dication of the service he has rendered
during the preceding week. This mark
may consist of a colored piece of pa
per or other material or be simply a
sign in pencil or crayon.
It is felt that some such plan as that
outlined will not detract from the
j feeling of national service which
should inspire each individual, young
^pr old, at this time and that tie fact
of some recognition of service render
ed will make for a greater feeling of
individual responsibility and for better
j citizenship—Alaska School Bulletin.
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THE TIN CAN OR THE STOCKING WILL NOT PROTECT
YOUR SAVINGS IF YOU ALLOW OUR GOVERNMENT
TO LOSE.
THE NECESSITY FOR PUTTING YOUR SHOULDER TO
THE WHEEL IS REAL. IF YOU ARE A FRIEND DON’T
BE TIMID. IF YOU ARE AN ENEMY BE FRIENDLY
AND HELP SAVE WHAT YOU HAVE. BUY GOVERN
MENT WAR ISSUES AND PUT THE BALANCE IN CIR
CULATION BY DEPOSITING WITH
Bank of Alaska
HE. 5 ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $105,500.00
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