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CRISIS IN PROHIBITION
Admittedly, prohibition enforcement
is at a crisis. Will prohibition ever
prohibit is a question answered ac
cording to the personal opinion of the
individual to whom it is propounded.
For a time after the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead Act
were passed the dry sentiment was
vigorous because it was untried and
an experiment. Of late there has
been a recession ot ideas and an in
creasing doubt as to the possibility
of real enforcement of prohibition.
At the Northern Baptist convention
held at Atlantic City, N. J. this week,
it was admitted indirectly in a com
mittee report that the situation trom
a dry standpciul is not all that might
be desired. The report said three
factors contributed to the serious
hour of the drvs:
The situation in some of the
states where public officials are
derelict, the anti-prohibition propa
ganda spread by some newspapers,
and third, and most serious, the
apathy of church people. • * * The
hardest fight, the most difficult
work, the most critical days are
ahead. The next ten years may
determine the fate of prohibition,
for all the future. The world is
watching the results of prohibition
in our land. The churches created
the conviction that made the eight
eenth amendment possible. The
churches must stir the conviction
that will make prohibition a reality
all over the land.”
While we believe that prohibition
was brought about by the actions o!
the liquor interests themselves, if the
church people desire to claim the
victory for prohibition we are willing
to concede them a hollow victory. But
they are giving up early.
A few days ago a dispatch frcrr
Chicago carried the information tha:
the churches had given up hope o
making the city dry.
The action of New York in passing
legislation repealing thfe state prohi
bition law and in effect tin owing the
burden upon the federal government
—an act termed by the drys as se
cession from the Union, in that ihe
states are charged with the duty ot
enforcing the federal law, was a dis
tinct blow to the churches. The gov
ernor of New \ ork is admittedly a
“wet” man, and was undoubtedly in
good standing with the liquor dealers,
but the situation is one which con
tributed greatly to the wet cause.
So far prohibition has not prohib
ited, and probably It never will pro
hibit in the strict sense of the term.
The drys point to the fact that laws
against murder have not prevented
murder. While prohibition has un
doubtedly lessened drunkenness, es
pecially in Alaska, it has brought oth
er and greater evils in its train, ruch
as rum running, bootlegging and par
lor drinking.
But the question is whether dry
sentiment will continue to grow- or
w-hether a reaction will come. Presi
dent Harding, termed a “100 per cent
dry/’ has said that it will take ten
years to make a test of prohibition.
As the church committee said, crit
ical days are ahead, but whether for
the bootlegger or the drys deponent
sayeth not.
THE WORLD COURT.
The World Court is really a World
Supreme Court and could be used to
defeat the will of the peoples of the
world, just as the Supreme Court of
the United States, by declaring leg
islation unconstitutional, has repeat
edly thwarted the will of the people
as expressed through elected repre
sentatives.
No court has power to enforce
compliance with its decisions. It re
lies upon police, military and naval
forces. A World Court is subject to
the same limitations as proved by the
fact that all the major nations in the
World Court maintain their military
and naval establishments.
The World Court does not function
at the present time with forty-five na
tions in it, as it failed to adjudicate
the differences in the Ruhr valley and
i strife in Turkey, Bulgaria and other
i nations belonging. Our entrance cer
I tainly would not charge their view
point.
The world court consists of fifteer
members, eleven regular judges ant
four deputies. The regular judge;
' constitute the full courr, but if thc3
cannot all be present, the deputies ar(
called in. Forty-five nations have en
i dorsed it, but are making no attemp
: to abide by its decisions,
r The long term of judges will re
move the incentive to speedlv deei
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sions and the practical tmposisbility
of removing them is dangerous.
The World Court is but a ruse to
get the United States into the League
of Nations^ which the American peo
ple have repudiated. The World Couit
is to recognize existing laws, and
these laws recognize war. The Court
is not a preventive of war but a per
petuator of war.
Flag Day, June 14, slipped by with
out causing a ripple of excitement in
our city, judging by the paucity of the
National Ensign, and the Fourth of
July is likely to go the same way, as
so far nothing has been said of a cel
ebration. Anchorage and Cordova are
planning a celebration; but not with
their usual pep.
This time next week work will have
been started on the big oil tanks to
be installed by the Standard Oil Co.
The next industry of note to come to
Seward will be a large cold storage
company, now in southeastern Alaska,
which has been waiting for the Stan
dard Oil people to enter the field to
insure oil for their boats.
The Standard Oil Company has al
ready caused the price of gasoline to
drop from fifty-five cents to thirty
cents, with the promise of a further
reduction.
OLD TIMER DEAD AT WASILLA
“Uncle Frank” Cannon, an old time
resident of Alaska^ respected and be
loved by all who knew him, was found
dead in bed at Wasilla Thursday, liav
ing passed away following a stroke
of paralysis. M,r. Cannon was former
ly a member of the Territorial legis
lature, and at the time of his death
was U. S. commissioner and postmas
ter at Wasilla. lie nad suffered two
other strokes of paralysis previously,
and was in feeble hea.-ih
WHERE DWELL PEOPLE
WHOSE NUDITY IS A
I WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14—
KenyaColony, in Africa, which is none
i other that erstwhile British East Af
I rica, appears in London dispatches be
; cause immigrants from India wlio set
' tied there wish to retain their full
1 British citizenship rights in their new
-! homeland.
t “Though seldom heard from, Kenya
is one of the most fascinating regions
- of the globe, geographically speaking,”
- says the bulletin from the Washington
D. C., headquarters of the National
Geographic Society.
“At its southeast corner is Lake Vic
toriai second largest fresh-water lake
in the world. Along its shores dwell
a people whose nudity is a symbol oi
their modesty and whose men are as
beautifully formed specimens of theii
sex as are the Marquesas women oi
theirs.
Africa’s High Mountains
“Just across Kenya’s southern bor
der is Killimanjaro, highest mountain
in Africa, and near its center is Ken
ya peak, also volcanic, which o’ertops
Mount Whitney by some 3000 feet.
“Cutting across the colony is the fa
mous Rift valley, here from 20 to 4(
miles wide, and generally severa
thousand feet below the plateau’s gen
era! level.
However it is as a zoo and a lux
uriant botanical garden that Kenya
makes its chief appeal to the nature
loving visitors. Perhaps its most amaz
ing single spectacle is the flamingo
colony on the northern shores of Lake
Hannington. The banks are dazzling
white with the bird’s guano, their
nests are mounds of mud spread like
molehills on a plat plain.
“The adult bird has a rose-pink neck
j and body and the beak is purple and
1 scarlet, with the wing feathers of a
bright crimson. For a mile or so before
i one reaches their haunt he can hear
these birds—the splash and swish of
a million or so becomes tumultuous
as he approaches.
“Hippopotami swim in the shallow
waters of this bay, antelope and gnu
infest its shores. Its port, Kisumu is
the terminus of the Uganda steamship
line, which lands rubber, ivory and
hides here for railway shipment to
the coast.
“From the time one sees a belle ol
Mombassa, fully clad, with circles oi
paint on her cheeks and her hands
dyed purple, until he reaches the shore
of Victoria where dwells the Apollo
like Kavirondo men, he is amazed by
the variety of human tribes. Travel,
there, says one enthusiast, is “like
walking through miles of living statu
ary.”
Jewelry popular
“Though unclothed the Kavirondos
are much bedecked, every circumfer
ence the human form affords, from
chest and stomach to ankle and wrist,
is wire-wrapped. The women ada one
other decoration, a tail-like tuft sus
pended from the waistline in the rear.
“The fierce Masi tribesmen go in for
wire jewelry, too, but theii specialty
is the earring. Soon after a child is
born its ear is pierced with a sliver
and the aperture is enlarged from
year to year until a huge disk may be
inserted therein.
“The Masi tribesmen nave less pieas
ant customes. They place their dead
outside their settlements for the hy
enas to devour, hence that animal is
sacred. They bleed rattle to drink hot
blood, they kill game with poisoned
arrows; they drug their dogs before
the chase to make them more lero
cious.
Cease Raids
“Sparse population of a region
where the altitude offsets the equator
ial heat and the fertility invites farm
ing is due largely to these warriors
Masai whose former livlihood was
gained mainly by raids on their neigh
bors. Many of them have settled down
to tilling the soil.
“Another native tribe the Andorob
os, formerly lived largely upon flesh
of the colobus monkey. The skin has
a market value because of its silky
black and white hair and the tail with
| an immense bushy plume at the end.
I They, too, turned to the soil as the
British imposed restrictions on monk
ey killing to save the animals from
extinction.
“Kenyo has a native population of
about 4,000 400, entirely negligible so
far as the present political problem is
concerned. The issue between about
5000 Europeans and six times that
many Asiatics, Arabs and Indians. The
claim of the latter to British Citizen
ship necessarily raises a quesiion of
the interests of the European colonists
who have been pioneers in developing
the country’s resources.”
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Seward Chapter No. 10.
ORDER EASTERN
STAR
Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
CLARA PERRY, W. M.
ESTHER DOUGHERTY, Sec.
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Lodge No. 6-A,
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Monday’s of Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit
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VIDA RICH, Sec.
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F. A A. M.
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Tuesday night at
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Brothers welcome
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M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
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