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HAL B. SELBY
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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March Third, 1879.
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FLYING TO THE NORTH POLE
The imagination is gripped by the
plans of the navy dep irtmenb approv
ed by President Coolidge. for a dash
to the north pole next summer in the
dirigible airship Shenandoah. I he
practicability of the enterprise—or
rather the advisability of undertaking
it, however, h ascreated something of
a controversy. It is noteworthy that
the navy department is eager tor the
adventure.
An attempt to reach the pole with
u lighter-than-air craft and to achieve
in a few days what it took Rear Ad-,
miral Robert E. Peary many many
weary months to do shows how ex-1
ploration methods have changed in j
the past fifteen years.
The plan is to bring the Shenando-j
ah to the Pacific coast through tin
southern states in order to avoid the
high altitudes that would have to be
attained by a flight over the north
ern Rockies and to use Nome and Pt.
Barrow, in Alaska, as a tlight base.
In addition the navy would have ships
stationed at other points in the far
North and would hold in reserve on {
the Atlantic the giant dirigible ZR-3,
which is being built in Germany for
ally, the Shenandoah is a much more
stronger and much better ship than
any other ever built for the United
craft will be even stronger and better
adapted to heavy sailing.
That new conditions wou'd be face'
in the Arctics is conceded. A mem
ber of the Stefansson expedition, who.
unlike Stefansson, opposes the naval
project, points out that from the tinv'
it took flight in Alaska until it re
turned the Shenandoah would be in
constant peril. He recalls that at om
lime ihe wind velocity in the fat
North attained ninety-four miles a"
hour and that within an hour the gale
raged from four directions. He saw
that Zeppt lir.s during the war had dif
ficulty in negotiating the North sea
r<-cions becau e hear-- coatings of ie<
accumulated on their exteriors—and
♦fiat if a Zeppelin could not carry an
extra coat of paint, it could not navi
gate when bogged down by a sheath
of ice. He says the lives of the crew
and a $2,000,000 ship, with $250,000
worth of helium gas in it, would be
in unceasing danger and suggests
that the proposed voyage be postpon
ed until the new ZR-3 is completed
and turned over to our government, i
That these perils exist may be con- j
ceded. But the navy apparently be
lieves they can be surmounted and is
willing, for it part, to make the under
taking. Spurred by the spirit of ad-1
venture, which has carried explorers
into the unknown for centuries it j
wants to make the attempt, confident
that precautions can be taken that
will greatly reduce what the Stefans
son explorer says is a seven to one
chance that the Shenandoah will be
lost. The unexplored region is esti
mated at 1,000,000 square miles, and
to be the first to chart this vast ex
panse would be a feather in the na
vy’s cap.
Whether the probable achievements
are worth the risk, however, may be
debatable, if it is true that the navy
has only one chance in seven of win
ning, the project should be abandon
ed, for the time being at least. In
any event, no precaution should be o
mitted that might spell the difference
between success and disaster.
REFERENDUM ON WAR
Millions of lives could have been
saved if the people of the world had
the vote on the declaration of war.
No sane nation would vote to destroy
lives and waste millions of dollars.
It is the people and not their kings
or representatives who go to war so
the vote should be in the hands of the
people. If we want the nations of the
world io grow and prosper we must
stop war. The first and last way is
to refer the declaration of war to the
people.
—Clara Perry.
FIVE TO FOUR DECISIONS OF THE
FEDERAL SUPREME COURT
The supreme law of the United
States is the Constitution. The mean
ing of the laws in the Constitution
and the legality of many acts is left
in the hands of nine men, who form
the Supreme Court of the United
States. These men hear the questions
that are brought to them to decide.
They then vote upon the question, a
majority vote carrying. Thus we have
nine men from different parts of the
country, wtih different viewpoints.
Usually these men have different
view points on the questions brought
to them. Many times the vote on a
question is five to four. Perhaps if
some other man were in the place
of one of the members of the Supreme
Court the question would be decided
just the opposite. A five to four vote
may be a majority; but it cannot be
said to be true interpretation of the
law. It should be required that a
six to three vote be necessary to de
cide a question put before the Sup
reme Court. This would be a real ma
jority and in most cases would be the
true exposition of the law.
—Willis Perry.
INHERITANCE TAX
The inheritance tax is a tax many
people arc trying to make Federal.
Some states have their own limit of
money which a person can inherit
without paying a tax to the state. It
should be a Federal law as it is an
injury to a young man or woman to
get a large sum of money placed in
to his or her hands without having to
work for it. A person will not try to
make anything of himself when he al-j
ready has a large sum of money which i
lie got wtihout effort and will have a
good time with it. Many of the rich :
men of today believe in this tax and j
will not give too large a sum to their ■
own children. They believe in enough
to give them a good start but not en-1
ough to make them lazy. Let us work
’"or a Federal inheritance tax.
—Thelma Tallasen.
INHERITANCE TAX
An inheritance tax would be a good
proposition from almost any point of
view. Such a tax would help the gov
ernment as do all sensible taxes and
the government is the People; so it
would be only helping and benefiting
ourselves.
An inheritance is all very well for
the one who gets it but when this
person hoards his money from the rest
of the world he should be stopped.
The best and most practical way to
do this, or to keep rich people from
hoarding money which they can’t ev
er use, it to keep them from getting
it in the first place.
Also very large sums of money are
a detriment to the man or woman
who inherits the money; for when one
person without any ambition to
achieve can help out country very lit
tle. So money in large sums harms
the holder and his country.
Let us put a tax upon sums over a
certain limit and thus help our young
men and women and our country.
—Jack Corson.
INHERITANCE TAX
A heavy inheritance tax should be
paid by those who inherit great sums.
A person living on the wealth of oth
ers is not as progressive as the av
erage American. He has money to
squander so there is no use of his
working.
Hie American race wants to be
progressive. People who honestly
lorge ahead to success make a prog
ressive race. The Americans will be
progressive if they work and do not
try to live on the wealth of someone
else.
An inherited sum to start one in
business or to procure one an educa
tion is all right It aids progressive
ness. Too much’should not be inherit
ed for as Collier’s Weekly says, “Born
wealth stops the progress by which
earned wealth is made;” also, "Wei
like to see men win but we hate to
see them block traffic.” This is a
great truth and only an inheritance
tax can make rich peoples’ offspring
as progressive as their less fortunate
brothers.
P. D. Q.
CANCELLATION OF WAR DEBTS
Patricia Ray
In the World War, America did her
part by sending men and ships to
the fighting nations. Besides this she
lent millions and even billions of dol
lars to the countries involved in the
war. Now some of these countries
don’t want to pay their debts. Be
cause America is prosperous, Europe
thinks she can allow these debts to
go unpaid. Some way must be found
to bring these countries to terms. Per
Department of the Interior
The Alaska Railroad
(The McKinley Park Route)
A Standard Gauge Railroad operating the
year round via the Green Fields of South
western Alaska, from the Ports of Seward
and Anchorage into Interior Alaska. Low
rates, Homestead and other opportunities.
Write for information, folders, etc., to
LEE H. LANDIS,
General Manager, Anchorage, Alaska
Liberty Theater
tonight
ALACE BRADY
-IN
44Anna Ascends’’
A First-Class Crook Play
BOBBY VERNON
-IN
A Two-Reel Comedy
A Hickory Hick”
A PATHE REVIEW
haps a way to have these debts paid
is to not demand interest. Surely, with
this way out, there could be no cause
for grumbling in the just payment of
a war debt.
Henry Koford was an outgoing pas
senger Saturday night.
New shipment of Men’s Overcoats,
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Eastman Kodaks, Seward Drug
Co. tf
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