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THE SAME OVER HERE
In the Sitka Post, published at Sitka
on Thursday, April 5, 1877, the owners of
the paper, Wm. W. Ward and Jas. J. Daly,
announced it would be their intention to en
large the paper if the paper was sufficient
ly patronized. The Oldtimers have nothing
on the later-day young oldtimers—so will
we!
It would be a fine thing if the people
who throw cigarettes from automobiles
could spend a day fighting forest fires.
The cardinal virtue in advertising is
persistence.
COST OF PROHIBITION
The difficulty of prohibition enforce
ment is most strongly stated by the two
most distinguished enforcers, Gen- Andrews
and United States District Attorney Buck
ner, who have public confidence. Mr. Buck
ner told the Senate committee that unless
juries were abolished prohibition trials
would cost the State of New York $75,000,
000 annually. He put the dilemma with
grim conciseness when he said, “More ma
chinery or less law.” That is the question
which voters must confront for years to
come.
LOCAL INVESTIGATIONS
The controversies in the House of Rep
resentatives over Commissioner Fenning’s
connection with the estates of war veterans
have broadened into a demand for a general
investigation of the District government.!
The House committee in charge of veterans’
legislation has decided to make an inquiry
into Commissioner Fenning’s record as
guardian of veterans, while the House com
mittee on the District of Columbia proposes
to investigate the District government.
It is just as well that the inquiries should
be made. The District authorities doubtless j
will welcome an investigation. And if the
inquiry should be made by a joint commit
tee of the House and Senate, the community
would have some hope that the long-stand
ing dispute regarding the contributions by!
the Federal government and local taxpay
ers would be adjusted.
the inquiry into Commissioned Fen
ning’s guardianship of war veterans can
not fail to bring out the truth, thereby set
ting at rest the rumors which have been so
freely circulated in the House. The charg
es made against Mr Fenning, if untrue, are
doubly unjust, because there is no tribunal
into which he can hale his accusers. By
means of the House investigation he can
properly defend himself. He is now entitl
ed to a full hearing. The House, which has
listened to the accusations against him,
ought to have from its committee a full re
port, including his defense.
A FOOD SURVEY
The bureau of home economics of the
Department of Agriculture is undertaking
a survey of the food eaten by the American
people, and the nutritive and health stand
ards thereof.
What is the average family eating, and
how far does the diet fall short of what it
should eat ? The question is raised, how can
we determine the economic phases of the
agricultural problem—production and dis
tribution—until we know what the people
eat? How can we determine the proper
standard of nutrition imtil we know what
the people eat?
National progress and development, it
is said, hinge largely on the nutritive quali
ties of the food consumed. There is an in
creasing desire on the part of the people, it
is said, to be physically fit.
Let us hope that this move will not be
extended to the point of demanding another
constitutional amendment to set forth what
we shall eat and what we shall be prohibit
ed from eating.
A Toronto man who wore his winter
underwear to Florida wired his wife: “S. 0.
S. B.V.D. C.O.D. P.D.Q.”
AIRPLANE PARACHUTES
A parachute which shall retard the des
cent of crippled airplanes is patented by a
North Carolian under the alluring name of
a “resisting safety lander for aerial mach
ines/’ The pilot by means of a lever flings
to the breeze an oil-silk parachute carried
on the top wing as easily as an individual
passengers pulls a string after stepping off
into space. In fact, a good many who balk
at the prospect of the latter action will hail
the scheme that holds up the entire machine
instead of one falling person and makes it
unnecessary to launch one’s owm body con
fidingly upon the atmospherical sea.
Prevailing female fashions leave little
incentive for Peeping Toms.
POOR JUDGMENT
Frankness compels the admission that
there is excuse for the uncertainty in Eu
rope regarding the precise scope of the Sen
ate world court membership reservation
which declares that the tribunal is not to be
allowed to render advisory opinions in any
case in which America may claim interest
without the consent of the American gov
ernment. There is no necessity for any ac
tion by the league officials and their ten
dency to butt in is, to says the least, a piece
of poor judgment.
Judging by some of Senator Reed’s in
terpolations the little children in the modern
American home can hardly wait for Satur
day night to come to make the gin in the
bathtub.
After you’ve struggled 30 minutes with
the range it is hard to believe that a cigar
ette ever starts a forest fire.
OCCASIONALLY ONE MAKES GOOD
Jay Gould, retiring from a twenty year
championship in court tennis, closes a mar
velously successful career in sport. Both
professions and amateurs fell before his
racket- Mr. Gould has shown that a multi
millionaire’s son can not only be a fine ex
ample of physical prowess and good bodily
condition but can also be democratically
modist in his bearing.
France and Spain haven’t decided yet
whether they are going to dictate terms of
peace to Abl-el-Krim with a pen or a sword.
An old-fashioned pork bar! wouldn’t
recognize that new public buildings bill as
belonging to the same historic Congression
al family.
With Peru and Chile favorable to Sec
retary Kellogg’s suggestion of the neutrali
zation of Tacna and Arica Henry Clay may
yet lose his distinction as the “Great Com
promiser.”
The Chicago scientists, who have in
vented a serum to combat all diseases are
going to make things pretty easy hereafter
for the expert diagnostician.
If everybody in America is making illi
cit moonshine how come this surplus corn
crop that the farmers are worrying about?
Weekly Gateway, $8.00 per year.
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