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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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THE BUREAUCRATIC BRANCH
Representative Tilson, of Connecticut, told the alumni
of Yale university law school that “the mania for laws
.and more laws is a most dangerous tendency.” He said
it was due to the extension of Federal activities into new
fields, involving the regulations of business and citizens
in countless directions, and the creation of bureaus and
commissions clothed with power sufficient to suspect the
estblishment of a fourth branch of the Federal govern
ment—the bureaucratic branch.
There are approximately 100,000 legislators in the
United States, and each year it is said that about 100,(K)0
new laws are placed on the statute books of the Federal
and State governments. There are today more than
2,000,000 laws and ordinances on the books of state, local
and Federal governments.
Mr. Tilson’s indictment seems justified. Eveiy time
a class of people or a group of citizens find themselves in
trouble or distress, or v/ant some special favors, they go
to congress and ask for a law enacted to cure their trouble
or distress. The Federal government has been the refuge
of many groups seeking the enlargement of the func
tions of the national gvernment and its entrance into
fields the states should occupy. The danger of depriving
the states and territories of their rights and functions
is obvious and with this tendency comes the temptation
to lumber up the statute books with new and special legis
lations.
Representative Tilson emphasizes a matter that is
a real peril to the country.
HENRY FORD, D. E.
From the University of Michigan, Henry Ford has
received the degree of doctor of engineering, upon the
ground that “his genius brought into being an industry
that has changed the world.’’ This is a scholastic para
phrase of the tribute that was popular a few years ago,
ending:
So he took four spools and an old tin can,
And called it a Ford—and the damned thing ran.
NONE BETTER IN ALASKA
Seward Grill
Music and Dancing 5 to 8 p. m. Saturday
and Sunday
FlOATl TERM OF
COURT. WESTWARD.
STURTS HU9UST 1
NO WESTWARD SESSION (NT- RD
DIVISION SINCE 1915: RITCHIE
TO PRESIDE
The first session of the Westward
floating court is to be held at Xak
nek on August 2. followed by another
; at Dillingham. The court will be in
Tnalaska several days around August
10 and at Sanak and Belofrfsky on
August 20 and 21. It will be in Tngt
on August 23, at Kodiak on August
25 and at Seldovia on the following
day.
Prior to 1915 a floating court went
to the westward each summer begin
ning in 1910. No definite boat wiT
be used this time, officials leaving
Valder on the Admiral Watson and
going overland from Iliamna to Bris
tol bay. Prom Naknek on the steam
er Starr will serve to transport them
Judge Ritchie. District Attorney
Wiliiam D. CoppemoII and District
Clerk W. X. Cuddy will make up the
party. Lawrence Kerr who is going
to the westward to work on a govern
ment school, will accompany them
pan of the distance as court reporter
if any cases come up.
Naturalization matters mill be the
main business attended to. Appeals
to have these taken up have been
voiced repeatedly and las: year one
resident from the far westward paid
his own expenses and those of a wit
ness to Seward in order to ret his
citizenship. A few misdemeanors
may also be tried.
A representative of the marshal’s
office will make the trip and br.tr
back the annual clean-up of prisoners
from Bristol bay on the Aufrast trip
of the Starr.
PORE & PAN
By SOL RDOUGH BILL
More than $2,00$ lay for hours on
the lobby of the Waldorf, untouched
There was nothing pecnliar about j
this, but the odd part of was that ’
a house detective found the money J
The first time in the annals of modem
hosteleries that a house detecttvs has
ever been known to find anything ex-\
cept turpitude.
Nearly all of the world's big jobs ;
are held by men who don't know or ;
care what cerise is.
Still, it must have been interesting
to hear Ananias hold forth concern-1
ing trout fishing.
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What this country really needs is a ■ j
$200,000,000 revolving fund for the !
marketing of surplus manuscripts of j
the down-trodden authors, with re- ]
jection slips redeemable of Federal j
Reserve banks at par. Bring on your j
Golden Age of Literature., and the j
farm problem will solve itself when ]
every magazine writer can have a j
country home and thus reduce the to- j
tal crop production to the point where j
there won’t be any excess. What the
senate needs is brains and .marina- i j
tion.
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Why doesn’t the League of Xatiotns
accept the retirement of Brazil with 1
the highly satisfactory philosophy of]
Rip Van Winkle—“give him a cold po- i
tato and lei him go.”
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And now the League turns down j!
America on the matter of armaments. j I
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth!]
1 it is to have an ungrateful child.”
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(LIBERTY
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j TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
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TOPICS OF THE DAY
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PIES—BREAD—PASTRY
Cakes to Order
NO ORDER TOO LARGE TO FILL
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