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< 'ORlx >VA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1917.
THE WOMEN AT WORK.
Women have been found
more courteous, more willing,
and as able as men in many
lines of endeavor.
That is something for the
young man who carouses and
assumes the “don’t cave” at
titude to ponder over.
\\ omen lead more regular
and temperate lives than men.
They owe their success in
industry and in office work to
that fact.
But there is another side to
the question.
fine of these days, a year
from now or two years from
now, two million or more Am
erican young men will come
trooping home from victorious
battle fields
They will have won for dem
ocracy. They will have borne
the brunt of a great conflict;
for their native land.
These young men will be'
coming back to earn their liv
ing, and to take up the inter
rupted thread of their civil
lives.
When they find women in
their places, women who satis
fy their einnloyers better than I
they did, what will happen?
Nothing dire, of course But
'these young men will not be
coming home to be jobless.1
Their function will not be to!
starve. A destiny higher than
that will be their portion.
Tf nothing else is to be done,
they will marry the girls in1
overalls. They will get their|
jobs back, and depend on them!
for that.
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THE MEN WHO RISE.
There are some men in the
world who will do more than
they are paid for doing.
\\ hen there is something ex-'
fra to be done, some are always!
willing.
If a mutter of public concern
arises there are those who will,
step in and do their part,!
whether it is helping the Red ,
Cross, selling Liberty bonds,
or inducing new industries to'
come in.
Thev work for no reward—j
even if they invariably get it. I
They are the ones who rise'
in the world. They have to
assume burdens. They learn'
how to do.
The part of the public that,
sits back and lets these few do
the work, comes to depend on
them
And whenever a man is de
pended upon he cannot be kept
down.
IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS.
One week before the Euro-,
pean war opened more than
three years ago, one of the
most able lecturers on the
Chautannua platform told us
whv a big war was impossible,
in the world.
For our 50 cents we learned
that nations could no longer
fight because it is too expen- j
sive to fight. The lecturer.
said that bankers wrould not
permit war, and that the rumb- '•
lings in Europe would amount
to nothing. I
But despite the increased
j
costs war exists. The theorists,
as usual, were wrong.
The United States is just
getting ready to fight. Con
gress has voted $7,000,000,000'
to prepare the nation for war
fare.
That sum is as much as all
European nations spent in the
Napoleonic wars that lasted
nearly a century. And yet the
nation is stable and the bank
ers are not worrying.
The United States and the
Confederacy spent $8,000,000,
000 in the Civil war, the most
destructive war, for the period
it covered, ever waged before1
the present one. And yet the j
North prospered as never be
fore as soon as the Avar Avas
over eA'en if the South Avas 50
years in getting on its feet
again.
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Money is the easiest thing,
for nations to command.
A billion dollars looks like a1
10-cent piece to a people at
A\rar.
And the people avi 11 never,
miss the money—if they see to !
it that they Avin. That latter
is the point.
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THE TAX LAW.
The more the new tax law is
examined and studied, especi
ially as to the war profits sec
tion, the more confused, indef
inite, and inequitable does it
appear to be. Even the com
missioner of internal revenue
and his assistants, upon whom
devolves the interpretation of
the law; admit their own in
ability to unravel the meaning
of some paragraphs and con
cede the unfairness of the pro
visions of other paragraphs
that are reasonably clear.
There is talk of appointing an
advisory board of experts—
chosen from among business
men—in the bureau of internal
revenue to analyze the law and
^ive advice to the government
in the drawing up of the regu
lations necessary to make if ef
fective, but it is recognized
that not even such a board can
help in matters where the lan
guage of the law is clear and
admittedly unfair.
The major difficulty appears
to be in the inadequate defini
tion of capital, a percentage of
which determines the tax that
any corporation must pay.
Corporations are not allowed
to reckon as capital their in
vestments in,the stocks of oth
er corporations, although in
fact the largest part of their
capital may be employed in
that way. But over and above
everything looms the principle
that concerns of small capitali
zation are taxed out of all pro
portion to concerns of large
capitalization that are doing
the same business and earning
the same net income. Many of
these corporations, like rail
ways and banks, have not en-‘
joyed any war profits at all.
On the contrary, the economic
position of the railways, es
pecially the eastern roads, lias
become rather desperate. Man
ifestly, a revision of the war
tax law will be necessary by
congress at the present session.
It is to be hoped that the
stupid congressmen, who have
so little knowledge of business
affairs, but who played so
great a part in enacting the
present law, like Mr. Kitehin,
of North Carolina, can be rele
gated to the background The
exhibition of their incompe
tence that we are now having
ought to be sufficient.
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Burglars in Indiana stole $5,
000 worth of liberty bonds
from a bank. These burglars,
with all their faults, at least
know a good thing. -
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The Portland Telegram in a
headline says: “Mosquitoes
Made C. E. Johnson a Soap|
Magnate.” This is the first
time we have heard of them1
making a man anything but!
gosh durn mad.
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Sign of Prosperity:—We
note in the social columns of j
the country press that hard!
times socials are no longer giv
en.
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The next thing on the con-|
servator’s program will be aj
pieless and puddingless day if
he follows the recommendation
of the International Steward’s
association.
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The supreme court of North
Carolina says “In limiting
each person to a half-gallon of
liquor per day for his own use
the legislature was not nig
gardly.” Well, hardly!
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