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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919
ALL TOGETHER FROM NOW ON
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Well, whose war was it?
Our war.
Whose soldiers were they?
Our soldiers.
Whose Red Cross?
Our Red Cross.
Whose Liberty loan?
Our Liberty loan.
Whose victory?
Ours.
The war woke us up. We rubbed
our eyes and found ourselves part
owners in lots of things and lots of
movements that once belonged to
“George.”
Every cent that we put into these
war movements has given us a new
pride of ownership, a new joy of re
sponsibility.
Now the war has ended.
Our sense of responsibility will con
tinue with us. Who would give it up
if we could?
But it must take a different form
than it did during the war.
The war sucked Alaska nearly dry.
It took nearly all the available work
ing capital. It took the young men.
It took the attention of the govern
ment, so that there was none left to
apply to the problems of the develop
ment of Alaska.
We Alaskans must supply the life
blood in the form of boosting together,
to start new life in the territory
sapped of its strength by the war.
We must shoulder our obligations
in the new way learned during the
war and march shoulder to shoulder
down the future, all together for
Alaska.
Alaska can pay the nation’s war
debt. There is no doubt about it.
The government is beginning to
focus its attention on other things be
side the war, now that it is over, and
Alaska, the undeveloped treasure-land
of the country, is coming in for its
share.
The government does not know all
that it should of the needs of Alaska.
How will it learn more?
Only through the concerted voice of
the people. It is up to Alaskans to
point the way. It is up to Alaskans
to show how the aid that the govern
ment is willing to give may he best
applied for the benefit of the terri
tory.
Alaskans know. They must pass
en the lessons learned from their ex
perience to the government that all
the people of the United States may
reap the benefits therefrom.
Alaskans must stick together. They
must all pull for Alaska. The govern
ment is willing to give the helping
hand, but does not know how.
| Alaska must convince the govern
ment that she can pay the nation’s
war debt. She must show facts and
figures to prove that this slogan is no
idle boast. She must show how only
comparatively little government aid
is needed to more than pay the war
’ debt.
Whose war debt Is it?
Ours, and we cap pay it with the
minimum of strain. W6 can pay it if
the government will only give us our
due, the timely aid that is only a con
tinuation of its present policy regard
ing the country.
Alaskans must all pull together. We
must boost together. We must show
the government a united people, ready
to pay our debt.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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VOICE OF THE ALA8KA PRE88.
During the past week or so a de
cided spirit of optimism has been pre
vailing on Douglas Island. There
seems to be arfeeling in the air that
next spring wih‘ see good times here.
When an attempt is made to locate
the source of the feeling it seems im
possible to run it down, but the feel
ing persists. Half the battle is the
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will to win and with few exceptions
Douglas Island folks have that spirit
and we have no doubt but that they
will win out in the end.—Douglas
News.
Someone has discovered that prunes
contain a large percentage of alcohol.
We wonder if those who consume
them in Ketchikan are amenable
under the bone-dry » law. The local
authority should look into that. From
1 now on, when we see a man in a “de
plorable state,” we can rightly say
that he is full of prunes.—Ketchikan
Miner.
Geese are flying northward. Best
sign in the world of an early spring.
These geese may be "geese,” but they
know a thing or two about the
weather. With the possible exception
of our old-time friend—Chief Nicolai
—we know of none more capable of
forecasting weather conditions than
these same geese. Get the northward
flight proceed!—Anchorage Times.
There was a good meeting of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce last
night and many live discussions took
place with good results. During yes
terday, a rumor spread around the
city that the Chamber of Commerce
intended to adopt a resolution look
ing for the immediate “recall” of W.
C. Edes, chairman of the Alaskan en
gineering commission. How this ru
mor started nobody seems to know,
but that might have been reason why
many of the commission boys were
present. However, no action on Edes
was taken, as none had been planned.
—Seward Gateway.
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When one listens to or reads the
argument of Superintendent John A.
Davis, of Interior Alaska’s Bureau of
Mines, in favor of the establishment
of a government-owned and operated
central power plant at the Lignite
coal fields, one wonders why such a
plant is not already distributing its
electric energy throughout the vast
Interior mineral areas, where mining
operations, under existing power con
ditions have ceased to be profitable
except in isolated instances where
fuel is plentiful and close at hand and
the ground exceptionally rich in gold
values. Mr, Davis has made a thor
ough study of the power needs of the
Interior country and of the piT'wer
producing possibilities of Nenana
lignite, and he is in possession of data
showing that a market sufficient to
warrant the erection of a central
plant already exists without taking
into account the more remote dis
tricts or the demand for power which
will follow the development of new
properties, the establishment of new
industries, and the electrification of
our government railroad.—Nenana
News.
Those congressmen who- ifrould put
a tax on theater tickets of 20
per cent is wrong. The theater
is not only entertaining but It is edu
cational. There is no institution
which affords better or cleaner amuse
ment and recreation, and few that
have greater educational values. It
helps to make life enjoyable and in
teresting. Other countries have found
it wise to subsidize the theaters. The
United States cannot afford to tax
them out of existence, nor to make
them too expensive for those of all
classes. No one objected to the tax
on the theaters during war time, hut
all should object to raising the tax,
and at the earliest possible moment,
the present tax should be removed.—
Juneau Empire.
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ATHLETICS ARE
BACK HONE TO
ENTERSPORTS
S4N FRANCISCO, Feb. 27-Recent
reports received from the University
of California and Stanford University
indicate that athletic officials antici
pate a return to normal pre-war con
ditions with respect to track and Held
athletics. With the demobilizing rf
the American army, students who
joined the colors rapidly are return
ing to again take up their studies.
Among these are many of the athletes
whose absence forced a suspension of
activities owing to lack of suitable
material with which to form teams.
Both institutions have made public
their spring track and field programs
and they practically show a return to
the full schedule made up before the
entry of the United States into the
war. Three record-holders, sixteen
veterans of former track teams and
fifteen members of last year's fresh
man team, for instance, is the neu
cleus on which the University of Cali
fornia will build its ’varsity represen
tation for the 1919 season.
At Stanford prospects for a strong
team are conceded to be exceedingly
good. Captain-elect Reginald Caubhey
has returned from service and already
is practicing with the weights. Quar
ter-milers who are limbering up on
the cinder paths are Maynard, Miller,
Wilkie, Hertel and Wright. Other
veterans back in harness include
Lilly, Wells, Dlnkelspiel, Teitsworth
and Westwick, the last named being
the winner of the last Califomia-Stan
ford cross-country run.
The University of California student
daily writes optimistically of the out
look. Eugene Lloyd, star two-miler,
Karl Goeppert, 440-yard runner, and
William Jackson, broad jumper, are
the three particular stars with which
the Blue and Gold will start out.
Other veterans likely to score in
clude Captain Johnson, winner of last
year’s 220-yard dash, and Pumedd,
Thomas, Hutchinson and Cantelow',
all of them capable of doing 10 sec
onds flat in the 100-yard dash. The
hurdles will be taken care of by Ar
thur Dunne, Tupper, Nulands, Mohr,
Mini and Packard. Long distance
runners include Sprott, Roach and
Spindt.
The annual duel meet of the two In
stitutions will be held on the field of
the University of California at Berke
ley on May 3.
Due to much continuously fine
weather, a great deal of preliminary
outdoor work has been done by the
team candidates at both institutions. .
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.—Southern
California athletes are already re
turning from the army In such num
bers as to make certain a great re
vival of interest ,ln college sports this
spring.
All Southern California colleges are
making preparations for putting
teams in the field In one or more
branches of athletics, and coaches and
other experts predict the public will
support the intercollegiate sports gen
erously.
The University of Southern Cali
fornia will have track and basketball
tdhms; Occidental college, near here,
win be represented In these two
sports and probably in basball; Po
mona college at Claremont, hare hase
ball, track and basketball teams;
Loyal college, In Los Angeles, a base
ball team; Redlands university will
have track and basketball teams;
Whittier college Is to be represented
in basketball and possibly in other
sports, and Throop college of Tech
nology, at Pasadena, will have base
ball and basketball teams.
A number of men' who have reputa
tions In track events will be on had
when the coaches Issue their calls. A
great contest Is expected In the 440
yard dash when Kilby, of Redlands,
and Schiller, of U. S. C„ fight It out.
The former made the quarter In 49
seconds last year, the fastest time of
the season on the Pacific coast, and
did It on a circular track. Schiller,
running in the colors_ of the Los An
gelos Polytechnic high school, made
the distance in 49 2-6 seconds and
took things easy.
The only handicap under which the
college men will labor this spring is
BULGARIA IS
IN A SERIOUS
PREDICAMENT
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SOFIA, Feb. 9 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—Bulgaria is in
the throes of a political crisis which
will require the greatest wisdom for
its solution. She must liquidate the
military and political disaster, and
the bad effects of the personal regime
of King Ferdinand, which extended
through a period of some twenty-five
years. She must restore her stand
ing with her alienated foreign friends,
and by wise concessions and reforms
forestall the spread of extreme doc
trines among a large and somewhat
susceptible population. Hearty co
operation of all political parties is evi
dence of their earnestness to meet the
situation wisely.
The country now- has has a coali
tion government, the cabinet being
composed of men from six different
parties. This is the third cabinet
change since last June, and each
change has seen an increasing num
ber of factions represented in the of
ficial family. To an American the pop
ular character of the Bulgarian gov
ernment is something of a revelation,
no less than a dozen different parties
being formally represented in parlia
ment.
Bulgaria has taken precautions
against internal troubles through rep
resentative and parliamentary discus
sion rather than in dictatorships,
street outbreaks or other forms of so
cial upheaval. The country breathes
freer in, the absence of Ferdinand
though it is occupied by entente
va v/upo.
The old chamber has bedh retained1
in office to avoid unnecessary risks
and the agitation always attendant
upon national elections. Premier Rad
oslavoff, who was looked upon as Ger
many’s dupe, had at no time more than
a bare majority, and that majority
consisted of Turks who, in Bulgaria,
have equal rights with the Bulgar
ians.
Since Ferdinand’s exit the good be
havior of the people has been in re
markable contrast to the situation pre
vailing in Russia. This is- explained
by the assertion that Bulgaria is a
virtual democracy, and has laid the
basis for popular contentment. There
is equitable distribution of the land,
government ownership of public utili
ties, legislative control of the execu
tive, uncorrupted courts, and social
legislation. Universal suffrage has
been enjoyed since the creation of the
state, and the people have proportion
ate representation. There is also the
Australian ballot system- and other
guarantees of popular rights.
a financial one. The public was too
absorbed in the war last: fall to at
tend the football games in Southern
California in sufficient numbers to
make the sport pay. Then, too, many
games had to be called off because of
influenza.
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