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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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A GIRL WORTH WHILE
Miss Annie Mennxkin of Chattanooga recently
wrote 300 letters on her typewriter without making
a mistake. She has also taken as high as fifty words
a minute from dictation direct to the machine.
That's a pretty good record, isn't it?
But the most interesting part of the story is
that she is totally blind. She was educated in the
Nashville School for the Blind, where she finished
the high school course at the age of 18, and besides
her skill as typist she is an accomplished pianist.
After finishing a business course she found dif
ficulty in securing a position, because no one believ
ed that she could do the work under the handicap
of blindness. But she would not be thwarted in
her determination to succeed and she has now been
for several years a public stenographer in a leading
hotel, where she is kept busy.
Whenever we who are in full possession of our
faculties are disposed to whine about the unkindness
of fate, we ought to think of what this little blind
girl has accomplished and be ashamed of ourselves
to complain.
UNIVERSAL DRAFT
Government authorities and various patriotic
organizations are working on plans for a universal
draft law, whereby capital, material and labor, as
well as fighting men, may be pressed .into service
in the event of war. The American Legion has
drawn up a report to be handed into congress and
thereby to be put into the books of the constitution
of the United States. Such was published in The
Gateway yesterday.
The grave injustice of compelling the able-bod
ied men of the nation to serve on the battlefield for
a dollar a day, while other citizens grow rich thru
excessive war profits, has been demonstrated to ev
ery right thinking person.
If the money power and big business know that
war means sacrifice for these interests, as well as
for the men at the front, we will find their influ
ence directed towards peace.
In other words, it should be so that no person
can possibly make money out of war. And when
there is no money to be made out of war, there will
be less war.
We trust that we may never have to engage in
another conflict, but if this can be avoided, then
everyone should share the hardships and the losses
which war brings.
The proposed plan for drafting all the resources
of the nation for its defense should have the hearty
support of all citizens.
A DIFFERENT CHINAMAN
About the last place one would look to find a
potential American war hero would be in New
York’s Chinatown, but one came out of there, just
the same.
His name is Sing Kee and in recognition of his
fine record, as well as his attainments as an inter
preter, he is now a valued and trusted member of
the TJ. S. Immigration Service in New York City.
There were many young Chinese in the Amer
ican Army in France, and most of them made ex
cellent records, but Sing Kee has the honor of be
ing the only one to win the Distinguished Service
Cross for heroism in battle. His official citation
reads as follows:
“For extraordinary heroism in action at Mont
Notre Dame, west of Fismes, France, Aug. 14-15, of
1918. Although seriously gassed during shelling by
high explosive shells, he refused to be evacuated and
continued practically single-handed, by his own ini
tiative, to operate the regimental message center re
lay station at Mont Notre Dame. Throughout this
critical period he showed extraordinary heroism,
high courage and persistent devotion to duty, and
totally disregarded all persanal danger. By his
determination he materially aided his regimental
commander in communicating with the front line.
Sing Kee was a member of the 366th Infantry,
17th Division, and shortly after the exploit cited
above was promoted to be color sergeant of bis regi
ment and as such he proudly carried the American
flag up Fifth Avenue in the division’s demobiliza
tion parade.
He has demonstrated that a Chinaman may
adapt himself to other duties than those of laui.drv
man and chop suey dispenser.
KEEP IT ALIVE
The World War Debt Commission created to
handle the refunding of the war-time loans granted
to foreign countries expires next February. That
only five nations have refunded is not the fault of
the commission. It has been ready to talk business
with all that are in the least inclined to open con
versations. Its outstanding achievement, of course,
was the plan devised for refunding (treat Britain’s
huge obligations. In fact, that operation marked
the laying of the foundation on which other foreign
loans, with certain exceptions to meet particular
needs, will doubtless be refunded. Poland, for in
stance, refunded last week on practically identical
lines.
The commission cannot make final adjustments
of the foreign indebtedness without the consent of
Congress. That is a wise stipulation. Congress has
thus far approved three of the refunding plans in
cluding the contract negotiated with Great Britain.
The remaining two will doubtless be ratified during
the forthcoming session. But certainly the com
mission must be kept alive to refund the loans to
more than a dozen other countries that have thus
far taken no initiative in the matter.
A DISILLUSIONED ANARCHIST
It is too bad about Emma Goldman. Years ago,
when she was free and prosperous in this country,
she devoted herself to the apparently congenial task
of damning the United States, its flag, its Constitu
tion, its laws, its economic and social systems, and
pretty much everything about it; and to organizing
conspiracies, plots, riots and all other forms of dev
iltry, aimed at the overthrow of our Government.
The Red Revolution, such as they have been having
in Russia, was her ideal of an earthly paradise.
After a time she became so offensive in her in
citations to law-breaking that we had to send her
back to the country from which she had come, Rus
sia. It was supposed that she would be quite happy
under the regime of Lenine and Trotzky. But she
was not. On the contrary, she found Bolshevik
and Soviet Russia quite intolerable. So she went
to Berlin. But in Socialist Germany she was no
happier, and presently her complete incompatibility
with the country compelled her departure from it.
to find an asylum in bourgeois, capitalistic England.
And there she remains, far happier than ever before
since she was sent out of America.
But she is not entirely happy. She wants to
come back to this very United States which she once
so furiously condemned, but which she now con
cedes to be the best country in the world.
Expenses seldom fail to come up to our ex
pectations.
Sometimes too many looks spoil the troth.
Too frequently appearances of the stork may
bring a visit from the wolf.
We wouldn’t mind strang political bedfellows
if they would only go to sleep.
When asked to name the twin cities a bright
boy in school suggested Walla Walla.
Those who begin by telling “white lies” may i
soon become color-blind.
Love’s young dream is great while it lasts, even
if it does end in a nightmare. *
Railroad men could not complain about autos;
the locomotive usually wins the bout.
Some women are more careful with their money
than they are with their affections.
What constitutes a living wage depends on the
liver.
It sometimes takes a lot of fiction to explain
the truth.
Federal agents who recently discovered boot
legging among New York taxi drivers must have
been born detectives.
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