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SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1918.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER
For unknown centuries before the
coming of Christ, the nations of the
ancient world celebrated the season
when winter seemed to have lost his
bold upon the earth, and the promise
of another spring and another harvest
was apparent on the earth and in the
softened air.
When the Master arose from the
sepulchre it was natural for Chris
tians to put a new significance upon
the day, for to the hope of the spring
and the harvest was added the hope of
life beyond this life—the breaking of
the chains of the grave, the touching
and warming to life the pallor on the
cheek of the dead, the starting to life
of the pulses that had ceased to beat, i
Before, there had been vague dreams
of a possible immortal life to men,
but they were founded on little evi-(
dence except the natural recoil from
the thought that a merciful Creator
had given life to men and drawn
around it wonderful joys and often
had crowned it with ineffable glories,
only after a brief season, it should
crumble back to dust.
But when in immortal radiance the
angel had said to the heart-wrung
woman: “Him whom you seek is not
here; He is risen,” then earth and
heaven alike were thrilled; then mor
tals thought they saw it was possible
for “this mortal to put on immortal
ity,” and realized that the death of
winter and resurrection of spring had,
through the centuries, been but typ
ical of man’s life and death and his
awakening from the dead with all
life’s infirmities left in the deserted
grave.
So with a new solemn joy they
turned to celebrate the day the com
ing of which was now more than ever
the symbol of a life to be after the
chill and the darkness had been
passed.
So they went about the streets ex
claiming, “The Lord is risen.” So
there w'ere loving greeting among
friends: so enmities were forgotten
for that day; so they dressed their
altars with spring blooms, and with
joyous hearts spread their feasts and
pledged their happiness dhd hopes in
brimming cups.
For centuries the day has been in
creasing in significance; with every
year the mystery of an after life seems
less and less profound, for science and
invention and increasing wdsdom but
accentuate the hope that todk on real
substance nearly twro thousand years
ago.
The miracles of the steam and elec
tric engines; the marvel of printing
and the perfecting press; the seizing
of a great river, wresting from it Its
power and transmitting that power
for hundreds of miles; the puting of
a girdle around about the earth in
forty minutes; the transmitting of a
humand voice for hundreds of miles
along a wire, so that above the roar
of raging winds and beating storms
it can be heard with absolute distinct
ness, like the “still small voice" which
followed the earthquake and the hur
ricane that swept and rocked the
mountain: the latest miracle through
which a disabled ship far out to sea
can on the viewless air alone send
the story of its disaster; the wonder
of the anestetic that can suspend brian
and nerves, and make a prostrate
form insensible to pain—all these
things make the possibility of an
awakening from that phenomenon
which We call death seem less and
less improbable. ,
More, too, they have given such new
ideas of the capacities of the human
mind that men feel as they never did
before that they are in the very ante
room of that palace of light were light
is brewed; that light which our elec
tric light is but a particle stolen from
its high source, and which reflects the
greater glory even as the sun is re
flected where one of his beams turns
to gold a drop of dew.
That “man is but a little lower than
angels" is becoming a ftxed belief, and
that our life here is but a link in a
chain of endless progression which
gathers in splendor as it advances;
that its furthest terminal is amid the
stars, is crystallizing more and more.
Then for the memories it awakens,
for the hope it engenders and em
phasizes, Easter should be the most
welcome of sacred days; a day to be
hailed with joy, on which all that
is beautiful in song should be spoken,
all that delicious in music should be
rendered; organ and choir should res
pond to it and tf»e hearts of men
should be glad.
And if on such a day, in such a spot
as this, one material thought crosses
our minds, it should be that the more
beautiful men can make this earth,
the fairer they can make their cities
and their habitations, the more accept
able will be their work to that, great
Arohitect who framed the universe,
and from whose hand satellites and
planets and suns fall perfect in the
rhythem of the universe, and all
lighted with His Glory.
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THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY
An Alaska candidate for political of
fice in a public announcement says
“I stand for the eight-hour law. for I
know that it does not decrease the to
tal product of the worker."
How nice! The worker gets shorter
hours and the employer gets just as
much product for the wages paid. And
how simple a solution of a vexed ques
tion—so simple that it is a wonder
that no one has thought of it before.
Shorter hours, the same pay and the
same product has the further recom
mendation that it disturbs business
conditions not in the least.
To carry the idea to a logical con
clusion, however, why not go right
down the line? If a laborer can and
will do as much -work in eight hours,
-why can he not do equally as well in
six hours? And if in six, why not in
four, and so on ad infinitum?
If the plea under whiih the candi
date mentioned seeks the franchise o:
; his fellow-citizens have any merit, wh>
has not the astute employer long age
j “tumbled” to Its logic? He has beer
I under a misapprehension, surely, anc
as a consequence has been a consider
able loser thereby. Where a man is i
large employer of labor his losses ii
this direction are well worth his earn
est consideration.
For instance, he has been employ
ing men for ten hours, say. Shouli
he reduce the number to eight in man;
instances he would save fuel, lighl
material and other overhead charges
In these days of Increased cost o
these commodities it can rea<5i y be;
seen how serious a matter this s, e*-!
pecially in the winter season.
But coming down to realitiei the
man who makes this plea knols as
well as anyone else that it is in
sincere play to catch votes, it is a
means by which he attempts to »trad
die the fence. He tries to make thej
laborer believe he Is his friend be
cause he favors the eight-hour day. j
and at the same time endeavors to
avoid losing caste with the employer
by telling him (hat he will not lose by
the new order.
»
But the employer, like the wide
; awake laboring man. cannot be fooled
with such false statements. It is rq
; suits he is after. And the chance^
are that he knows more about the
practical running of his plant than thq
average politician.
As to the workingman, if he stop iq
think but a moment he will realizij
that he himself is being misrep
resented. He has no intention of grving
the employer as much labor in eight
hours as he formerly did in ten. Usu
ally eight-hour movements are in
augurated for the benefit of the work
er, and not particularly to facilitate
the employer’s business, although in
no case should it be understood that
they are intended to retard it. But
the workingman expects to benefit by
the shorter workday, and if he is to
be driven like a piece of machinery to
the point where he produces as mucB
work as formerly, wherein is he bene
fited? He makes no such pretense for
himself, and why should any politician
attempt to speak for him?
The eight-hour day needs no such
equivocal and illogical statements as
that of the politician in question to
bolster it up. It will stand on its own
merits.
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OPEN UP THE COAL
Secretary Lane has suggested to
congress a plan by which the neces
sary metals for the winning of the war
can be gotten out and put to service
He proposes that the government
“take, purchase or otherwise acquire
and operate” the known mineral de
posits. With the government’s ex
perts and with unlimited capital it
would be a plain business proposition
to soon put in operation the rnaehit)
ery of production and open up number
less mines which now lie idle for want
of necessary capital.
It is a plan that might well be ap
plied to the Alaska coal fields. Right |
at our doors lie immense deposits ofj
the best of fuel, and yet Alaskans are
importing from the states and from
Canada an inferior grade of coal and
j paying exorbitant prices. A Katalla1
man said recently: “It seems ridicu i
lous that I am compelled to pay $23.50 j
per ton for coal, while almost in myj
back yard lie immense deposits of bet
ter fuel which I cannot utilize.”
The opening up by the government,
or allowing them to be opened up, o(
these valuable deposits of coal would
be no less a wise war measure than
for the government to engage in metal
liferous mining. It would relieve the
strain on production in other sections
and allow the people of this section
to be independent of transportation
lines in the matter of fuel. It would
also allovv the shipping to be utilized
for the carrying of war supplies.
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The launching of a new vcs el of
8,800 tons at “a Pacific port” in the
remarkable time of .sixty-two days!
after the laying of the keel shows that
American labor is getting down to the
real business of winning the war. And
this work is going on at a hundred
i other yards throughout the country.
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An anonymous party signing him
- self “Americanus” found time to write
i to the Pall Mall Gazette suggesting
' the name “Cock-tails” for the Ameri
, can soldiers. “We don’t like the name
. ‘Sammies’, ”, he wrote. And the Pall
f Mall Gazette printed it. i
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Very truly yours,
Bank of Alaska
W. B. HILLEKY,
Vice-President
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