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TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney Genera!—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
OF PRESIDENTIAL SIZE
If the Republicans at Chicago had
deliberated as long and as carefully
over the vice-presidential nomination
as they d’d over that for the pres
idency and had taken as many bal
lots, they could not have chosen more
wisely than they did. in .naming Calvin
Coolidge. Here in the position of sec
ond importance on the ticket is a man
of sterling, rugged American . type
who is well fitted for the presidency
and in case- of. the {Usability or death
of his superior the 'country would
have no cause to f^aSv^
Governor Coolidgb was highly es
teemed as a candidate for the presi
dential nomination and as a candidate
for vice president he will command
the respect and: support of all Re
publicans everywhere. —
It has been the custom at sodie con
ventions to nominate for the vice
president a man who happens to live
in some part of the country whose
votes are needed, paying little atten
tion to his qualifications other than
those that are geographical or, some
times, oratorical.
But five times in the history of .the
United States a vice president has
been called to the presidency by rea
son of the death of the president. If
Calvin Coolidge should through any
unfortunate circumstance become
president of the United States, the
people could rest secure in the knowl
edge that in his hands the nation
would be safe. His courage in the
strike of the Boston policemen made
him n national figure, but he was
known in his own state to be one of
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the big men of the United States long
before he became more widely known.
In the Boston matter he took the
course that public officers, especially
those whose duty it is to protect the
people from crime and violence, have
not the right to take any action that
will leave their charges unprotected.
The matter of hours or wages did not
enter into his stand. Governor Cool
idge always had been considered a
friend of labor and in the end was
commended for his stand in Boston
by those labor leaders and others who
were able to understand that the acts
of police officers in leaving a great
city and all its inhabitants to the
mercy of criminals was really a blow
at labor as much as at any other
element of society.
The nomination to the vice presi
dency of a man of the Coolidge type
may be an indication that no longer
are we to regard this office lightly.
There is a growing conviction in the
country that the vice president should
be more intimately a part of the
national administration; that he
should be a part of the inner council
of the executive department in anti
cipation of the possibility, alwavs
present, that he may be called upon
to assume the duties of the presi
dency. The vice president should be
the chief member of the cabinet of
the president, and should be called
upon by the president to represent
him in many matters wherein it is
not possible or convenient for the
executive to act in person. Senator
Harding is just the sort of a man to
establish the precedent of larger re
cognition of the vice president,—a
thing that has been impossible to
many of his predecessors because of
a certain jealousy it has seemed nat
ural for president to have of their
heir appapent. No legislation is
necessary in order to bring the vice
president more into the foreground
of national affairs.
WHY DO THEY IGNORE THIS?,
Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, wants
the senate to investigate the party
campaign funds this year. Why should
not the senate look into the election
laws and practices in the •states of
the solid South whereby a vast ma
jority of the citizens, including more
white men than black, are excluded
from participation in government?
Here’s the real rottenness of which
Senator Pomerene’s party has for
years been been the perpetrator and
the beneficiary. Beside this whole
sale conspiracy against free govern
ment, carried on by force, fraud and
legal trickery, legitimate expenditures
of candidates are of small moment.
Why Republican senators fail to at
tack this fundamental wrong while
listening to all this Democratic out
put of denunciation against primary
and election abuses in Michigan and
other parts of the country where free
government actually functions, re
mains a mystery to many people.
BETTER PAY FOR ROAD
WORKERS
The increased scale of pay inaugu
rated by the Alaska Road Commission
is one that appeals strongly to Alas
kans. Long overdue it conies at a
time when it is badly needed and
should prove a not inconsiderably fac
tor in the accomplishment of the com
mission’s enlarged program of road
construction.
Road work in the territory is at
best but seasonable employment. It
offers opportunity for work but a f£w
months out of every year, and men
engaged therein must be able to earn
sufficient to carry them through the
winter, because the chances of secur
ing steady employment during the
winter months all against them.
Only a few out of the hundreds doing
this class of work are lucky enough
-to get winter jobs.
Nor is cheap labor, and work net
ting $3.00 and $3.50 per day in these,
times cannot be claimed to be highly
remunerative, desirable. Employers
paying low wages must expect to get
what they pay for, cheap workmen.
Underpaid workers mean and general
ly result in underdone work. Conse
quently the payment of a low wage
scale from a standpoint of economy,
effects no saving but on the contrary
makes for greater cost in that it in
variably lessens the amount of work
accomplished per man. Experience
has taught this lesson to employers
of day labor all over the territory.
Workmen must have better than a liv
ing wage in order to obtain satisfac
tory results.
General Richardson, who has done
more toward construction of Alaskan
roads as former head of the Alaska
Road Commission than any other one
roadbuilder, realized the situation
and before the era of high priced
labor struck any part of the country
on his own initiative, without any
solicitation whatever, several years
ago inaugurated a scale of wages for
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the commission on a par, with, wages
paid by private concerns employing
day labor. In granting the recent in
crease in pay, the commission is mere
ly following the policy initiated by
him, but is nonoihe-less ’deserving
i
of commendation. There is no chance
for it{ to lose by the policy. Better
pay makes for better workmen which
in turn insures more and better roads,
the end for winch all road builders,
both territorial and federal, have for
their objective.—Juneau Empire.
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
In “The Good Old Wet Days” the
preachers used to tell us that corks
were popping in hell. The past few
wrecks have changed conditions until
new hell is popping in Cork. It is
only a matter of environment.—Val
dez Miner.
Alaska is to be congratulated upon
having received favorable mention in
the Democratic platform adopted by
j the Democratic national convention
I recently at San Francisco. It may
not follow that the Democrats will do
for Alaska all that is promised in
the Alaska plank, but it is encourag
ing to know that the Territory re
ceived favorable consideration at the
big gathering. The publicity alone
should help considerably.—Nenana
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The Great Idea: Service as the Basis of
Human Relations Everywhere.
By DR. LEO LEVY-BRUHL, of the Sorbonne.
The world is passing through a period of great
social transformations. What we call unrest is but a
symptom of profound changes which are taking place
in the minds and hearts of people everywhere. But,
as we master the full meaning of what is going on, we
shall then realize that the present unrest is the birth
pains of a new ideal of human life based upon service
and social justice.
There is only one way out of the economic crisis
in which Itl Europe is floundering. Thftt is to get
down to work, to resume production with renewed
energy. But the working people refuse to give their labor except on new
terms.
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There are periods in history when great acts of sacrifice are a social
necessity. The individual sacrifices during the war revealed the beauty
of the human soul in its capacity for self-immolation on the altar of na
tional and human progress. Now that the war is over, the time seems
ripe for collective sacrifices of groups and classes, for the great purposes
of human civilization. No one who is at all attentive to the intellectual
and social movement of the day can fail to sense the strong popular cur
rent that has set in against the special privilege of wealth and economic
power. The abolition of all special privilege seems to me the inevitable
outcome of the present social upheaval.
I take a hopeful view of the situation. The painful gropings of the
day seem to me to be stimulated by a great idea which is becoming clearer
every day. It is the idea of service as the basis of human relations. This
is our modern expression of the eternal quest for social justice. d believe
that we are nearer this ideal than ever before in human history.
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Ouija Board and Spirit Messages Are
Additional Terrors to Death.
By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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My mother was always having communion with the dead. She took
it quite seriously. She was a >vise and balanced woman, too.
The first planchette that ever came to Ireland came to our house. I
used it incessantly till it became a deadly bore—as it does in about a week.
I have looked into the subject, but it has not convinced me. I feel
much like a-man I know whose dearest friend, a woman, was close to death.
“You are about to pass over, my dear,” be told her with tears in his'
eyes, “and I want you to promise me solemnly that if it is possible for you
to communicate with me from the other world, you won’t do it.”
Fortunately she recovered- but she has since died, and now my friend
is scared stiff for fear she will .pome to him just for spite! ^
Fancy the poor dead having to spend their time tilting tables for peo
ple in this world! And ringing bells and sending messages. Why, it adds
terrors to death. * v l ■ si • tf
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