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LONG-RANG E CRITICISM
The Alaska Weekly, published in Seattle, is
evidently determined to let its readers know how
little it knows about Alaska affairs. Its recent edi
torial attacks upon the head of The Alaska Rail
road does not set well with the residents of the rad
road district, and are calculated to do considerable
mischievous damage. If the only true Alaskan is
the man who has moved from the Territory to the
States, then the Territory is indeed hard up. Since
its espousal of John Frame’s cause The Alaska
Weekly has adopted John’s tactics and can see no
pood in anything not reflected in its own looking
glass. Alaska would he much better off if it was
permitted to handle its own affairs, or at least to
have long-range editorial policies relegated to limlx)
with long-range government.
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SPRING AND POETRY.
If We had a kid and said kid contracted the
adolescent habit of writing poetry, we would place
him in a sack with the rest of the kittens and con
sider the human race benefitted. Just why a per
son who can write fair understandable English con
siders it makes better reading by being garbled into
poetical nonsense is hard to understand. Poetry, like
sassafras bark and blue mass appears in th<‘ spring,
when the young man’s fancies are supposed to turn
to thoughts of love. It is not a language but a dis
ease, less virulent but more annoying than measles,
and annoys its neighbors like a family ot wasps un
der the front porch. It starts with an uneasy feel
ing in the region of the tummy, and breaks out at
the head. While not deadly it may have serious re
sults if not suppressed.
NORA SAYS NO!
Not from Moscow but from Omaha, in the free
American State of Nebraska, comes the revolution
ary proposal, by the city health commissioner, a Dr.
Pinto, that unless young married couples, or any
married couples, shall succeed in winning the stork’s
favor within two years of receiving the marriage
certificate, they shall be divorced. It was in the
Russian city of Samara that, in order to discredit the
revolutionists, the royalist element forged a false
proclamation that the revolutionary government pro
posed to “nationalize all women.” But the no less
ridiculous suggestion by Dr. Pinto seems to be gen
uine—one of the symptoms of the efforts of some
American sapheads to meddle in all the affairs of
life, no matter how sacred.
Fortunately for common sense and the reputa
tion of Omaha, Dr. Pinto’s wife joins other women
in denouncing his theory. In the language of a
popular song, it is “No, No, Nora!” Or rather,
we might put it “Nora says ‘No Pinto’!”. And all
the Noras will join in such a chorus that Dr. Pinto
will be silenced. How is it that medical men, of all
others, get to think that human relationships and
human hearts are merely matters for legislative con
trol?
The six John Frame republicans at Anchorage
who have started out to discard the present offi
cials of the division have shown our lessons in high
school were in vain. Instead of Gaul being divid
ed in three parts it is now in six.
With a John Frame governor, attorney-general
and divisional officers, Alaska will somewhat re
semble the Seattle police force when it comes to
treason, strategem and spoils.
We do not know which tale is the more poison
ous. That of the wasp or the gossip.
8-reel FEATURE!
EUGENE O’NEILL’S PULITZER PRIZE PLAY
The Greatest American Drama in Years
A play of tremendous power and
dramatic fire and stark ralism.
A play that took New York and
London by storm.
A picture with all the strength, the
pathos and sheer beauty of the
original.
With—
BLANCHE SWEET, WILLIAM
RUSSELL, GEORGE MARION
and EUGENIE BESSERER.
ADMISSION
Adults 40c
Children ‘: 5c
The famous prize play for which
Thomas H. Ince paid $100,000 for the
screen rights.
Have you the courage to bare your
past to the man you love? Anna
Christie did in a drama that will hold
you enthralled.
ANITA SPAULDING
at the piano
Liberty Theatre
CONSIDER THE LILIES
The agitaiton over the proposed child labor bill
is reaching considerable proportions. The bill pro
poses to abolish hiring children under 18 years of
age to work in factory or mill. The bill is right.
There is nothing equals bringing a child up in idle
ness. We will indorse a law compelling parents to
serve them their breakfast in bed, and seeing they
they are provided with spending money and cigar
ettes. The old-time child who rolled out of bed at
5 o'clock and started to work at daybreak has pass
ed into the discard. There is no reason why a child
should work if his or her parents know how. By
all means keep them from injuring their health at
manual labor. It is hard enough on them to wear
their hair slicked back and haunt the pool rooms.
Cnless we take care of our neighbor’s children the
supply is liable to run out prematurely.
President Coolidge, unlike many Americans, was
“sound asleep” when the new year arrived, with its
accompaniment of gin and din. But he had a hard
er job to face New Year’s day than most Ameri
cans. To shake hands with 4,000 persons in four
hours is a real day’s work. .Most presidents learn
after the first round to grip the visitor’s paw first—
and hard. That was Roosevelt ’s system, and since
the other fellow got the worst of it, T. IL did not
worry much about sore joints.
If the Seward basketball team does not win at
least one game out of the three at Anchorage this
week, we will be disappointed. The boys have
practiced faithfully every night and have improved
greatly since their contest with the Anchorage team.
Sweet patootie! If this weather keeps up an
other week Marshal Reed will have a real job. With
all records broken for cold weather and wind, it
might be more profitable to be crazy and end the
agony.
With a number of pulp mill men working this
way from Prince William Sound and the officials
expected on every boat, there may be more to the
proposition than many Sewardites have expected.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer broadcasts its Al
aska program tonight from KJR, the big 1000-watt
station recently erected by that paper. Many Alas
kans will take part in the program and many will
listen in. In this case it will probably be less try
ing to give than to receive.
For his private railroad II. Ford has ordered
an electric locomotive that will be 117 feet long,
weigh 340 tons and be capable of drawing a train
of 150 or more loaded box ears without stpeping on
the gas.
Bandits arrested in the United States for crimes
committed in Canada shudder mo.e at the prospect
of facing the Canadian brand of justice than in
facing the music before United States juries.
German Communists
Scatter Propaganda
In Dramatic Fashion
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 21.—One of the most
effective instruments of propaganda
yet devised by the Communists is the
so-called Proletarian Wandering The
ater which was first put to use during
the recent election campaign. It is
popular in the real sense of the word,
reflecting the wishes, the hopes and
the hatreds of the broad masses.
Wherever in the workingmen’s quar
ters there is a beerhall or other large
room with a stage available, the Com
munists rent it on some convenient
evening and offer their “Review in
Fourteen Scenes.” As the scenes un
fold before the eyes of the workers,
two men, one representing the Class
Struggle, the other the Bourgeois, fur
nish the proper comment. They thus
take the place of the chorus in the
ancient Greek tragedy or of the inter
locutor in the American minstrel
show.
One scene depicts a Communist as
he is about to be sentenced to long
imprisonment for thinking differently
from the accepted standards. He
makes a last impassioned plea to the
jurry, which is nothing but a veiled
campaign speech, but which the lis
teners swallow whole because it is
fed to them in the form of a drama.
Another scene depicts a visitor
from Mars coming to the earth and
finding to his surprise that there are <
people who actually starve and slave
so that someone may wallow in ill
gotten wealth. He can only explain
this situation by remembering that
the earth is in part peopled by a race
of crazy men called proletarians.
The familiar figures of German poli
tical life, such as General Ludendorff,
President Ebert, General von Seeckt,
Chief of Police Richter, Prussian Min*
ister of the Interior Severing, and
others hateful to the Communists are
imitated on the stage and their state
ments parodied.
Snow Shoes, $9.50 per pair, at
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Ladles’ ana Gents' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Yes! no autos
today!
But you auto see our shipment of fresh
Goods that auto satisfy the most auto
cratic appetite in Seward.
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Telephone Main 65
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