SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OP SEWARD, ALASKA
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ALASKANS DISCOURAGED
Alaskans are profoundly discourag
ed, or should he after reading Attor
ney General Stone’s statement in to
day’s dispatches. We were just be
ginning to pride ourselves on under
tierstanding the Daily Alaskan’s head
lines and how to use our napkins and
salad forks when our pride is felled
overnight. Alaska is a bad place, with
frontier conditions predominant and
bootleggers on every corner, accord
ing to our Washington correspondent.
Notwithstanding a drink is as hard
to get as money to pay for our fuel
bills, we have been classified, cata
logued and indexed. It is hard to
bear, when we were puffed up with
the idea that Alaska was one of the
most lawabiding places on earth, con
sidering the temptations encountered,
and the ease with which one’s foot may
Blip on the icy sidewalks. For many
years Alaskans have been pointing
the finger of scorn at Washington con
gressmen and national officials in
general, believing that President Cool
fdge's policy of economy was all that
kept the penitentiaries from being
filled with lawmakers who violated
their own laws with impunity. But
we are forced to retract. We have
been discovered and must now endure
another official investigation.
Just how we can be so naughty
with our 57 bureaus and the territory
swarming with dry agents is hard to
explain, but the proof is there. We
are, and we should be ashamed of
ourselves. Our citizens are warned
and if their# favorite bootlegger is
pinched lay it on to the Attorney
General.
GOVERNMENTAL SLOWNESS
Mayor Maynard of Nome has again
sent out an appeal for aid in suppress
ing the epidemic of diphtheria. The
eyes of the nation have been turned
on Nome the past week, and the Paul
Revere stunt by dogteam will become
I an epoch of the North. There is no
l doubt but that serums must be rushed
through as quickly as possible if pre
cious lives are to be saved. During
the influenza epidemic several years
ago, it took Marshal Brenneman six
weeks to get a relief ship started
North with nurses and antidotes, and
by the time they reached the affected
districts the epidemic had run its
course and there was nothing left for
the relief expedition to do but bury
the dead.
Had the situation been taken seri
ously by the government officials in
charge, hundreds of lives could have
been saved. Alaskans do not look
for a repetition of the influenza epi
demic, but they do condemn the slow
ness with which government officials
cut the red tape necessary for quick
relief. Alaska is a liberal subscriber
to the American Red Cross and led
the nation in its per capita subscrip
tions to the world war fund, and re
ally deserves better treatment than it
receives from its multiplicity of bu
reaus.
The Nome situation should be re
lieved as speedily as serums can be
rushed to the camp. The great dan
! ger now is that isolated camps may
Jcontract the epidemic, and in case they
do. the results will he horrible to
contemplate.
THE THINGS THAT COUNT
—
By FREDERICK PALMER
, There is a question which I should
'like every member of Congress 1o
I put to himself daily on rising and go
! ing lo bed, until the Legion’s Univer
| sal Draft Law is passed:
“What is mine and every human
being’s most valuable possession?”
The answer is, life. That is worth
more to you than wealth or honors;
i for neither wealth nor honors can be
!enjoyed without life. Next in value!
jis health. Money cannot buy that;'
; ribbons three rows deep across your
chest cannot restore it.
Lives are the great price which a
j nation pays in war. The sacrifice
I of life wins the victory and gives
j the penury and misery of defeat its
[haunting horror.
The lives of a nation’s able-bodied
youth are its chief capital in war—
the capital of blood, flesh, bone and
brain—while money is only paper and
metal. Sentimentalize it and dis
guise it how you will, war is killing
; and maiming the enemy until you
| have killed and maimed enough of
[him to bring him to his knees. The
side which is the most skillful has to
sacrifice less lives than the other.
Outnumbering colleges, overwhelm
ing intellect, high industrial organi
zations and overflowing bank vaults ]
are helpless and an easy victim in
war unless they are walled in by the
man in uniform who faces death.
Those who are killed never know
the welcoming plaudits of the people
for the homecoming army. In the
dawn of their manhood they have
lost their most valuable possession.
Among the survivors are those who
COLLEGE GRID STAR HURLS STRANGLER LEWIS OUT OF TITLE
AND INTO HOSPITAL
UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD. N..Y.
At practice with the biggest trial horse he could get—Wayne “Big”
Munn, new World’s catch-as-catch-can wrestling champion, who tossed the
former champ Strangler Lewis, about like a boy, breaking loose from the
Strangler’s famous headlock with ease and finally sending Lewis to the
hospital after hurling him with stunning force to the floor. Munn is six
feet, six inches; weighs 260 pounds, and starred in the line of the Univer
sity of Nebraska football team in 1923. Last year lie was touted as com
ing heavyweight boxing champion, but after having been knocked out cold
by a few second-raters, decided to quit the ring.
I Liberty Theater 1
1 Richardj Barthelmess
jj and
1 Dorothy Gish
m In
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
TWO GREAT STARS—
EIGHT BIG REELS
I “The Bright Shawl” i
B From the famous story of Cuban Romance.
FLASHING!
VIVID!
The mad love of a young Am
erican and a Spanish Dancer wov
en into the thrilling story of Cu
ban rebellion.
PAT HE
NEWS
IT OUTSHINES ANYTHING
THESE STARS HAVE DONE
BEFORE.
Made in Cuba
m And the “Barnyard Orchestra ' will give a peppy selection ■
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have lost their next most valuable
possession, health. They may be
minus legs, or arms, or jaws, or noses.
Often maimed of mind as well as of
body they hitch their way through
life in a half existence. White
crosses over their graves for some
and disablement for others at the
front! Those not in service and who
have life and health never separated
from their comforts and families!
Youth of a common country with a
common stake in it! Youth, who,
whatever their birth or station, have
the same interests in life! Some
youths going into the maw of hell
while others are safe even from the
flames that lick the edge of the maw!
Some youths dying and being maim
ed in order that other youths and all
the people at home and future gen
erations may remain secure!
Does fate or do circumstances pro
vide any more terrible inequality than
this?
When war comes and the nation
has to say: “I must have human sac
rifice. I must send sons to death
and to be maimed”—is it fair to leave
the choice to volunteering or to any
haphazard method?
Volunteering punishes the impulse
of patriotism and rewrards its absence.
It is disorganized injustice, wicked,
shortsighted, wasteful and inefficient.
All drafts have hitherto been applied
to men of fighting age for service
at the front. To those drafted the
nation has said:
I “You do as I tell you, oner your me
in the way I demand, take the pay I
choose to give you, or you are no pa
triot and I’ll punish you as a traitor.”
And to all other men the nation
has said:
“You I do not draft. You I do
not pretend to command. For you
there is no penalty of public disgrace
or jail or death for disobediance.
Your wife may have ten times the
money that a soldier’s wife has to
spend. You may get as high as you
can when labor is scarce owing to the
absence of the other men at the
front. You may make as much mon
ey in other ways as you can. I en
treat you to keep busy making bullets
for the men at the front. Won’t you
please? If you will, you will be the
real hero”—and not the man at the
front.
A hundred years hence this injus
tice may be considered as brutal but
out of date as hanging men for thiev
ery or burning witches is today.
As one of the readers of this page,
L. B. Harnish, puts it in a letter to
me:
“If the government can compel one
man to stop bullets with his body, and
the government has that right, then
it should also compel the other man1
to make bullets with his hands.”
The justice of equality and of true
democracy will say in the next wTar:
‘“Every man and woman will be
drafted to obey orders for government
tixed pay. Each shall do the part
for which he is fitted.”
The man whose capital is money or
brain shall be forced to give the ser
vice ot that capital for the same pay
as the man whose capital is the body
he exposes to fire. The man at home
will still have the advantage in that
he is sure of retaining his greatest
asset, which is life; while the man
at the front may lose his.
With all manhood, all energy draft
ed, then those who are drafted into
civilian labor would not be •demobil
ized from war pay until the return
ing soldiers could take up civil life
again under something like even con
ditions. Thus the people behind the
lines might feel in small meaure what
the soldier himself knows in crues
measure, that war is hell, and they
will accordingly take more interest
in keeping the country out of war.
This would ensure the end of the
bitterness which returning soldiers
have justifiably felt. The just and
natural demand for pensions would
not be heard. For the first time in
the history of wars all our thought,
after the war, would be centered on
adequate compensation for mothers
and wives who had lost their bread
winners, and on the care of the dis
abled. There would be an end of
profiteering and the glory stuff dur
ing the war and of neglect of war vic
tims after the war.
Governments provide buildings, pub
lic works and school for future gen
erations. Individuals buy homes and
save money for the future. They
plant seed for next year’s harvest.
They insure against fire and disaster.
At every turn we have the teaching
of that prevision which makes the
difference between the short sight of
the savage and the long sight of the
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civilian.
Yet we do not insure against th»
greatest of all disasters, against tin
day when war comes. We make no
provision that the injustice of the
past shall not be repeated when th
next generation is called to the sacri
fice.
The Legion’s proposed Universa
Draft Law makes this provision. Thi
law is written out of bloody and cost
ly experience as the Legion’s great
contribution to the future. Is there
any Legionnaire, or wife or mother
of a Legionnaire, who does not hold
that it is our duty to see that lav
passed in order to save us from the
errors c-f the half-draft of the World
War?
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