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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Estaolished August 19, 1904
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FEDERAL STBSIJ)1 ES TO STATES.
President Coolidge, in his annual message, went
on record against the extension of federal subsidies
to states on the ground that it is “detrimental both
to federal and state governments.” During the
present fiscal year the federal government s grants
to states is approximately $145,000,000. the largest
item being $63,370,000 for highway construction,
with $39,000,000 for forest roads and trails and $19,
466,889 for the national guard. Vocational educa
tion called for $5,188,592 and co-operative agricul
tural extension work $5,080,000.
Incident to the largest item, the president
stressed his active interest in good roads and said
he had made a “liberal proposal” in his budget for
continuing payment to the states “for this neces
sary public improvement.”
Yet the subsidy activity of the federal govern
ment has been expending rapidly during the past
few years, and that fact accounts for much of the
opposition to various new proposals, such as the
creation of a department of education, with its chief
a member of the president’s cabinet, and the child
labor law, which would call for a large federal out
lay for administration. The opposition to the ma
ternity act of 1921 was based partly on the argu
ment against federal bureaucracy and accompanying
federal expense.
AV. W. Jermane, in the Seattle Times, has made
an interesting summary showing that many of the
States receive in the form of federal subsidies a
considerable share of the money paid by their citi
zens in federal taxes. Naturally, the growing wes
tern states are larger beneficiaries of this federal
largess than the older and more settled eastern com
monwealths. The intermountain region is particu
larly fortunate in this respect, while the Pacific
Coast states are placed in the same general category
as the eastern states.
It is noted that Nevada receives 116.31 per cent
more in subsidies than its citizens pay in federal
taxes. California receives 1.91 per cent; Washing
ton, 5.84; Oregon, 10.83; while Idaho gets back 45.08
per cent; Montana, 48.97; Utah. 19.98; Wyoming,
42.14; Arizona, 42; New Mexico, 98.91; North Da
kota, 89.05; South Dakota, 60.24, and Colorado, 8.
50 per cent.
These figures are decidedly interesting and en
lightening and it is evident that President Coolidge’s
suggestion of a halt will be received with favor in
most of the states, although hardly in the region
which receives more than half as much from the fed
eral treasury as it pays into it.
OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA
This newspaper has on a number of occasions
pointed to the achievements of some of the success
ful men of the country as substantial proof that
there is opportunity for the poor boy in America
that is enjoyed nowhere else no this earth.
Practically all of the winners in the business,
industrial, professional and political world started
with handicaps as great as the least privileged boy
of the land.
And they started to work out their careers
while young, some of them becoming wage-earners
while in their tender years.
Just a few weeks ago a famous Massachusetts
senator died. He had been at the head of the pow
erful committee on foriegn affairs. When Sena
tor Lodge passed away he was automaticlaly suc
ceeded by Senator Curtis, a Kaw Indian whose
childhood was spent with his tribe in Kansas.
Senator Curtis looks very like a full-blood, but
he really is but one-quarter. His grandmother was
a full-blooded Kaw. His grandfather was a French
Canadian; his father an American fur trader. Dur
in" his boyhood he wore a blanket and received ra
tions from the government, living on the reservation
near Topeka.
When a boy of 10 years a rival tribe, the Chey
ennes, attempted to annihilate the Kaws and be
seiged them. Young Curtis was picked to slip thru
the lines at night and go to Topeka, sixty miles
away, for aid. lie succeeded in passing the lines
and covered the distance in time to get help and
save liis people.
While in Topeka his exploit attracted attention
and he was persuaded to remain in that town. lie
became a jockey and won many notable races. At
one of these racing meets, the famous outlaw band,
the James brothers, raided the grounds and carried
off the receipts.
Charlie Curtis continued as a rider for five
years, winning quite a name as a skilled horseman.
Kaw Indians, while on a visit to Topeka, persuaded
the boy to return to the reservation. On his way
back, however, his old Indian grandmother influ
enced him to change his plans and return to the
whites. She told him he had no future among the
Indians. She presented him with her best pony and
sent him back. lie entered school, paying his tui
tion by driving a hack at night. lie studied inces
santly, picking up much knowledge while reading
in his hack when there was no customer in sight.
Soon afterward he qualified for admission to th<
bar. He made good as a lawyer and increased in
popularity. Then he was elected to Congress, serv
ing through several sessions. lie was elected to
the Senate and steadily grew in power until he is
a leader in fact as well as in name.
Any ambitious American boy his just as good a
chance as Charlie Curtis had. Most boys have an
infinitely better chance.
DIPHTHERIA IN N0M1
The diphtheria epidemic at Nome is causing a
number of good men and dogs to face fifty below
weather and unusual hardships on account of some
one blundering. It would appear to a layman that
physicians and health boards in out-of-the-way places
would lay in a supply of serums for emergencies,
especially in the Far North. Under the present
scientific progress it is the only certain manner of
handling epidemics liable to occur in any communi
ty. Had Nome laid in antitoxins and serums on
the last boat saling for that port many lives would
have been saved and much worry relieved.
AMERICAN court judges certainly take unusu
al liberties with their positions. In Kentucky re
cently a judge fined two girls for appearing before
him in knickers, thereby violating that constitu
tional privilege which gives a citizen a right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness according to
the dictates of conscience. Just how any fossilized
jurist could make contempt of court out of a wo
wan’s apparel is hard to say, but it is safe to pre
sume that decisions from this barrister would smack
of prejudice and personal opinion.
BROTHERHOODS DESERT LA FOLLETTE
Predictions are made at the national capital
that the La Follette party which hoped to deadlock
the electoral college at the November election and
upset the political applecart generally, will go com
pletely to pieces when the national leaders of the
organization meet at Chicago in February to decide
whether to attempt to maintain the party entity.
The railway brotherhoods, on whom La Follette re
lied for most of his support, are reported to be
ready to abandon the movement at the Chicago con
ference, having already framed a report unfavorable
to continued adherence to the self-styled progres
sive cause. If that is true the movement is hope
less. Regardless of whether the brotherhoods quit
La Follette, there is little real basis for the belief
that it will make any headway. Although its
leaders make the claims that it is the second party
in the West, it cast less than 5,000,000 of the ap
proximately 42,000,000 votbs polled at the election.
There is not much consolation in those statistics for
the third party sponsors.
IF PRESIDENT Coolidge visits Alaska this
summer he will be extended the same cordial wel
come given President Harding. No high official
visiting the Territory ever received the hospitality
of Alaskans so graciously as Mr. Harding and his
wife. They were allowed to go where and when
they pleased without bother or fuss, and the Pres
ident declared that this was the greatest privilege
he received on the trip North. Presidents like ordi
nary mortals undoubtedly get tired of too much adu
lation and want a rest once in a while.
Trotzky may be dead policically as well as sick
physically, but it is as well to notice that such re
ports come from Berlin, Paris and other cities re
mote from Moscow.
Liberty Theatre
TONIGHT, ONE SHOW, 8:00 SHARP
THOMAS H. INCE’S SIX REEL COMEDY
man of
action
A CROOK MYSTERY
FAST AND FUNNY.
—An All-Star Cast headed by—
DOUGLAS MAC LEAN
MARGUERITE DE LA MOTTE
RAYMOND HATTON
A Play to Thrill You and Then Make You
LAUGH!
There will also be an educational rell, “AT THE
BOTTOM OF THE SEA,” a Pathe News and
a Comical Fable, making a big night’s program
COME AND LAUGH!
MAN WHO SOLD REVOLVER
WHICH ENDED LIFE FINED
BEN I). Ore., Jan. 29.—Charged
| with the sale of a revolver—the one
from which th ebuttel which ended
the life of William H. Downing Satur
day, was fired, R. N. Buchwalter was
arrested Saturday. Pleading guilty,
he was fined $50. The revolver was
sold to Downing a few days ago.
Mrs. Bessie Norton, the last person
who saw Downing alive, and in
whose apartment the pioneer res
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taurant owner came to his death
was arrested and a formal complaint
charging perjury was being prepar
ed. Mrs. Norton, testifying at the
coroner’s inquest, was contradicted
by other witnesses.
In a championship game with boy
rivals, an orphanage girls’ basebali
team won at Salonika, Greece, one
girl making two home runs.
Picture Framing at the Alaska.
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.
EAT YEAST FOR HEALTH
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