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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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AIN'T NATURE GRAND?
Human nature is a strang thing. Sunday’s Se
tatle Times carried a story with a New York date
line stating that a beggar at the Fourteenth street
subway entrance was getting rich from pedestrians
dropping coins in a slot in his wooden leg.
What it is in human nature that makes drop
ping a coin in a slot in a wooden leg fascinating is
beyond the ken of all except alienist and doubtless
even thye would have to ascribe the cause to some
pre-natal influence. Certainly it isn’t the desire to
rewaid ingeniousness for gulling a public that likes
to think it has a streak of humor with the same di- j
inensions as the famous Powder river (a mile wide
and a foot deep.) I- might, of course be a man
ifestation of a near dead instinct along the same
line as that which ci .ses a monkey to become inf ur
iated on his high perch in the cocoanut tree and hurl
Ovulle nuts at the grimacing human below who hap
pens to be wise and hungry enough to exploit the
monkey’s nature.
Development of the New York beggar’s idea is
a potential evil, of course, for in the near future we
may expect to see gum, matches, and shoe strings
vended from the wooden appendages of unfortunate
mendicants. If such becomes the case we must
comfort ourselves with the thought that in the guise
of a purchase of a commodity we are satisfying a
little inexplicable ‘‘something” in our natures which
manifests itself through just such acts as dropping
a coin in a slot.
It is but proper that reward come to those who
devise schemes whereby they may prey on the little
quirks of human nature. Otherwise we’d forget
we had them. It would be hard indeed to go thru
life without having the explanatory “one of our
weaknesses” handy to explain those little things cul
tured people call “eccentricities,” but the ordinary
Alaskan calls “pure blamed cussedness.”
AIRPLANE NOW TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD
Orville Wright, airplane inventor, yesterday
spent his twenty-first anniversary of h;s first suc
cessful flight by working in his shop—rerahiding one
of the way Thonms A. Edison “observes” birth
days and anniversaries. Less than a quarter of a
century ago the Wright brothers were tinkering in
their bicycle shop at Dayton with a contraption
known as a flying machine. Skeptical neighbors
thought them just a trifle queer—for nobody could
make a machine that would fly, and if anybody did
make such a machine it would not be made in Day
ton. Then came those tests at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, which startled the world and which demon
strated the practicability of the flying machine.
Orville Wright has lived to see American, the best
in the world circumnavigate the globe. He has liv
ed to see them span the American continent in a
single flight almost between daylight and darkness,
carry tons of mail on schedule time, fight battles
in the “ethereal blue” and carry passengers by
the thousands in safety. And while in that brief
span of twenty-one years man’s achievement in the
air have opened a new chapter in the history of
transportation, the airplane is only at the threshold
of its development. What another twenty years
will bring—well, leave that to the poets, the intre
pid flyers, the inventors and commercial organiza
tion.
AUTOMOBILE DEATHS
That the automobile, though recognized as an
essential to America’s social and industrial life, pre
sents the biggest problem in the campaign to re
duce the number of accidental deaths which occur an
nually, not only is conceded by all authorities but
is proved by government statistics.
The great problem is to find some means of re
ducing the staggering toll of fatalities.
On this vital subject the nation may wTell can
fess itself to be baffled. The solutions that are
offered, though perhaps of importance, give little
hope of really meeting the situation. The federal
census bureau’s statistics show that one-fifth of all
fatalities by accidents in the United States in 1923
were caused by automobiles. According to Herbert
Hoover, secretary of commerce, the rate of fatal ac
cidents has been doubled in th<5 past ten years by
automobile operation. Yet perhaps that does not
mean that there is more careless driving than there
was ten years ago, for the number of automobiles
has more than doubled. Probably the raito of fa
talities to the number of cars in use actually has
decreased. And yet there is little satisfaction in
that.
“There are three broad methods of approach
to remedy” says Mr. Hoover, whose views are worth
recording. “First, through prevention and safe
guard; second, through much stronger punishment
for violation of the rights of others; third, through
public education as to its responsibilities. The vast
majority of motorists are conscientious, careful and
competent. It is the inconsiderate, the careless,"
the incompetent who are bringing these dangers. Nor
is the pedestrian altogether free from contributory
negligence.”
All of which is true as a generalization. But it
is a well known fact that many fatal accidents are
caused by persons in Mr. Hoover’s first catagory—
those “conscientious, considerate and competent.”
British Columbia is trying out a somewhat new
system. It has voted to retain the speed limit and
apply the principle of “the common danger.” A
bill has been introduced in the British house of com
mons also which would abolish the speed limit and
enthrone the “common danger” rule. Possibly
this method will prove more satisfactory than the
limitation system, for the “common danger” prin-J
ciple is somewhat elastic and it will be for courts
and juries to decide what it means in a given in
stance. At any rate, it will be interesting and
perhaps instructive to observe the results of its ap
plication.
The problem is becoming one of increasing im
portance. The automobile is as important a fix
ture in our national life as any other transporta
tion asset. The nation is faced with the question of
how to control it.
JAPANESE WARSHIPS MAY GET US YET
A Japanese training squadron of three cruisers
has turned its several prows westward. It already
has touched at Honolulu and it will be at San Fran
cisco in January. That really looks bad. When
the United States recently announced that some of
warships would maneuver off Honolulu—its own
property—timorous Japanese rose with a protest
that such a gesture was a menace to Japan. If the
same line of reasoning is pursued, we may expect
the Japanese to level San Francisco because Calif
ornia was the instigator of the anti-Japanese move
ment. In reality, San Francisco probably will re
ceive the Nipponese tars with bouquets of flowers
and spend its time in warning the visitors against
the dangers of landing at Los Angeles. That’s the
difference.
THE Mount Rainier National Park boosters are
exploiting again this year their program for win
ter activities on the slope of “the mountain.” Last
winter almost 10,000 persons took part in winter
sports on Rainier—tobogganing, skiing and snow*
shoeing. That these sports are certain to become
a major part of the Pacific Northwest’s winter at
tractions is certain. The development of the Aus
tin Pass region of Mount Baker and Mount Shuk
san will make it possible to stage outdoor contests
during the winter as well as the summer months.
The scenes will be easier of access than are those
or Rainier and in many respects the district is bet
suited to development of winter sports.
ANOTHER test of the Einstein theory is to
be made during the eclipse of the sun January 24.
To the average person a test on just what the the
ory is is'enough of a poser to discourage any fur
ther .study of the question.
A SEATTLE man was overcome by carbon
monoxide gas while starting his automobile in a cold
garage. Carbon-monoxide in automobile exhaust
fumes is deadly. It is better to suffer some cold
by leaving your garage door open than to take your
last sleep in your garage.
Many stories have a moral and the best sellers
have their immoral.
With a woman in the chair, a barber doesn’t
furnish all the conversation, either.
The new pictures sent from England by wire
less puzzle us somewhat. We’re not sure whether
one of ’em is Stanley Baldwin with whiskers or
Charles Hughes without ’em.
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