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ACCOMPLISHING TIIE IMPOSSIBLE
According to telegraphic dispatches received
yesterday, Delegate Dan A. Sutherland lias accom
plished the well-nigh impossible by securing the pas
sage of a bill establishing an Alaskan Game and Fur
Commission to control game regulations and promul
gate and recommend new laws. Delegate Suther
land says that every delegate to congress for the
past 18 years has endeavored to have laws enacted
giving Alaskans control of their game and fur, and
that the bill recently enacted was the best that he
could get with the many widely divergent views of
Congressmen.
For many years the territory has been compel
led to allow its fish, fur and game laws regulated
bv Outsiders, in many cases by men unfamiliar with
conditions as they exist in the Territory. Last fall,
after many trappers had outfitted and gone into the
hills for tin* winter, a regulation was passed for
bidding the catching of beaver. This caused a
great hardship to them and forced many of them to
practically waste the season.
Delegate Sutherland is to be congratulated upon
the passage of the bill authorizing the appointment
of a commission, after the aggravating delays of
years. Alaskans arc undoubtedly competent to man
age their fish, fur and game, without outside inter
ference and the new commission is a step toward lo
cal autonomy.
SCHOOL BOARDS TO BLAME
Every few months the country is shocked by
the burning or tramping to death of a school house
full of children, often in connection with celebrations
of a public nature.
Such a .disaster occurred at a country school
house near Hobart, Okla., on Christmas Eve, when
about 200 persons, mostly children, were trapped in
the little building, where all the windows were cover
ed by heavy wirenetting, making escape impossible,
excepting through one small door. About 40 per-,
ished, while as many and more were injured, when
the Christmas tree took fire.
It is foolish to say that no one is responsible for
such horrors. The members of the school board,
who permitted the building to be crowded with win
dows barred and candles lighted among inflammable
Christmas tree decorations, are morally responsible.
It was their business to see that reasonable safety
precautions were taken.
Men who do not have a greater sense of respon
sibility than is shown by members of many school
boards are unfit to be entrusted with the lives of
children and others.
No disaster is quite so pitiful as one in which,
helpless and trusting children are roasted to death,
because of the negligence of those whose duty it is
to protect them.
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.
Most of us pride ourselves no the fact that we
do our own thinking. But do we? In the more
important relations of life we certainly do not.
The two most vital matters affecting the aver
age citizen's beliefs are his religion and his politics.
Does he do his own thinking about these? Hardly.
If we take the Republicans of today wre will
find that at least nine out of ten had Republican
fathers. The same is true of Democrats. If we
look into the family histories of the Methodists of to
day, for instance, we will find that 99 out of 100
had Methodist fathers or mothers. The same holds
good with respect to other denominations. In the
case of Catholics, practically 100 per cent wTill be
found to have had parents of that faith. The same
is true of the Jews.
Then, do we really think for ourselves? In mi
nor matters, perhaps, but in the most vital things of
life we follow blindly the beliefs and connections of
our parents.
The lesson to be drawn from these facts is sim
ply that we should be more tolerant of the beliefs
and opinions of others. Had we been born under
the same circumstances as they, we should have had
their views, as a rule. Few people are independent
enough in thought to break away from the influences
of heredity and environment.
ARE ANY OF THESE YOURS?
More than 21 million pieces of mail failed to
reach their proper destinations last year, because
of being improperly addressed, according to the Post
master General’s annual report.
When one is familiar with the great skill de
eloped by postal clerks in making out illegible and
incorrect addresses, this showing is all the more sig
nificant. It illustrates that illiteracy and careless
ness combined interfere seriously with the operation
of the mail service, to the detriment of the govern
ment, as well as bringing disappointment and per
haps much financial loss to the public.
Letters bearing a return address are, of course,
returned to the writers, but unfortunately those who
write most of the illegible and incorrect addresses
do not use printed envelopes and seldom take the
trouble to place their own addresses on their letters.
Carelessness on the part of the public places
the mail service under a great, handicap and the
number of dead letters is steadily increasing from
year to year because of it. How careful are you
in addressing your letters?
LET’S BE SENSIBLE.
There exists in this country today two widely
differing classes of publicists, who speak and write
of war and peace. Fortunately, both classes agree
that war is a bad thing and peace a good thing, but
their views as to how peace may be best preserved
are far apart.
One class urges preparedness in the form of
surpassing armaments as the only safeguard, while
the other advocates refusal to engage in war under
any circumstances.
The common sense view is somewhere between
these two extremes. We must have protection
against possible aggression, yet we should diligently
impress on our statesmen the tact that our people, es
pecially the common people who bear the brunt,
are thoroughly tired of war.
Much injury is being done to our reputation as
a peace-loving nation by undue agitation for exten
sive military preparedness. Our army and navy
experts are keeping abreast of the times in their
technical studies and experiments, as they should
do, but the' country is in no mood to stand for ex
cessive expenditures for armaments which may be
obsolete in a few years. There is nothing to get
excited about just now.
If being conceited makes people any happier, let
them go to it.
It takes sophistication to enable a flapper to
look unsophisticated.
We seldom have reason to feel flattered by an
X-ray photograph.
Some husbands never seem able to bring the
truth home to their wives.
A whole ton of coal at the back door tends to
make the neighbors suspicious.
Will wonders never cease? William Jennings
Bryan has joined the scientific association.
Complaint is made that Washington landlords
are profiteering. Who would have thought it?
With all our laws for making people good, mod
ern parents probably feel that home training is un
necessary.
We have noticed that history repeats itself
about the first of every month.
Those who clamor for big men in politics should
be pleased with C. A. Perkins, Missouri legislative
clerk, who weighs 476 pounds.
Denying the recent story of his death, Irvin S.
Cobb said: “I hate to disappoint anyone, but the
report is unfounded.”
A Pennsylvania man got so excited over his
preparations to commit suicide that he drepped dead
of heart failure.
That fellow who claims to have discovered a
“truth serum” probably did not take it himself.
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WILL CHARTER LOS ANGELES
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
Secretary of Commerce Hoover an
nounced today that negotiations are
under way for the chartering of the
German built dirigible “Los Angeles,”
formerly the ZR-3, to a corporation
with the purpose of placing the giant
airship into commercial service. The
House aircraft committee is taking
under advisement the proposals for
building three airships larger than
the Los Angeles, which are also to
be placed into commercial service.
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