The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12, 1910, at the postoffice at
Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1914,
OUE VISITORS WERE PLEASED
The excursionists from Puget Sound who favored Cordova
with a visit today were more than pleased with their short
visit and enjoyed the cordiality and informality with which
they were taken in hand. Many pleasing expressions were
* heard with reference to the future of the town and the
attractive environs that make Cordova one of the picturesque
towns of the Alaskan coast. They are all looking forward with
anticipation to the trip next week to the glaciers at Mile 49.
It is hoped that when they return from the westward that
they will be enabled to give sufficient time for the people of
Cordova to arrange some social pleasures for them.
THE LIBERTY OF BOYS
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The Boston boys who went to General Gage and demanded
that the British soldiers be prevented from destroying their
coasting grounds on the Common, were crass reactionaries
beside the youth composing the Culture Club of Vienna. The
twentieth century youngsters are banded to throw off the
fundamental tyrannies and the more modern but still far
reaching invasion of their liberties by school teachers.
The Culture Club is an organization of boys of 16 or over.
It desired a charter and in accordance with the regulations
submitted its constitution and rules to the Home Office and
Board of Education. This Magna Cliarta of Austrian youth
reveals that its members are pledged to “put pressure” ou
their parents to provide them with flats to live in where they
would not be subject to the espionage and tyranny of parents.;
In the parental flats, the parent can exercise an undemocratic !
control of the boys, and they propose to escape that interfer- i
ence. In addition they demand the right of election and recall
of school teachers. The interference of school teachers with
the liberties of boys has always been evident when menageries
were in perspective; but few have ever proposed so complete a
remedy as making the teachers dependent on the votes of pupils \
for their positions.
It is stated as an additional detail that the term of
“putting pressure” on their parents means the device already
practiced by Vienna youth of threatening to commit suicide.
LIKELY A MISTAKE
It is declared by a Philadelphia contemporary that the
announcement that hereafter only college graduates may
matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania law school
means “better lawyers” and “also higher reputation for the
institution.”
We feel inclined to dispute that assertion. In general
terms it is pertiueut to point out that it would have excluded
Abraham Lincoln from the school. We thiuk that a carefully
conducted institution will, while doing its utmost to raise the
educational standard of the profession, be equally zealous ia
keeping it open to men of Lincoln’s character whose circum
stances forbid them to enjoy college training, but who can by
private study present the same educational qualifications.
. If the announced rule were that men who are not college
graduates must show by examinations full mastery of the
essential branches of learning, it would have been less open to
criticism. Xo doubt the young lawyer should be educated, and
the education should not be confined to the intellect alone.
There is more importance in educating lawyers to the moral j
obligations for prompt and reliable justice than there is of I
increasing the acquaintance with belles-lettres.
FATE AWAITS THEM
I he cynical British geographers who intimate that the
Uol nel’s new river in Brazil is either an old one or a river of j
constructive imagination, are hardy and reckless people. They I
v.jll. of course, when the Colonel rests up and lias leisure to!
atatend to them, be hurled summarily into the membership of
the Ananias Club, not to emerge thence except on the C lonel’s'
order.
The suggestion is made by a paper, which w«:s a Pr grp--,
sive organ in the famous*campaign, that this skepticism is
conspiratory. William Jennings Bryan and the Colombian!
government are people who might have originated such a plan I
to divert the Colonel’s mind from that $25,1)00,000 treaty and ■
the exression of regret. But that is mere triviality. Would not j
any forsighted conspirator know that Colonel Roosevelt could!
dispose of Colombia and the river discovers- at one time with-1
cut turning a h: ii Indeed* he has done' so already. He
learned of the Colombia a treaty at Para and settled it there.'
It is “blackmail,” and with that word he 1ms disposed of |
President Wilson, the Colombian statesmen, and all persons
who hereafter vote or say anything in favor of the treaty.
Lo, we think the British geographer who cast doubt upon
the new river is simply Ajax defying the lightning, even as
oil)' ( ordova Ajax defies public opinion. He lias been having
lull rations, experienced no canoe upsets, ate no beans unless
he wished them, and had no boils. For such a man to impute
inaccuracy to one who ha.-* suffered all these privations
’warrants the explosion that will visit him when the Colonel
lakes him in hand.
GOVERNMENT RAILROAD ROUTES
Whenever Tlios. Riggs, Jr., talks on the government rail-!
road situation he says something to give hope to this section
of Alaska, not even excepting Valdez, lie impresses his hearers
with the idea that the permanent location of one or more trunk
lines of railroad will not be definitely decided upon until atfer
various surveys have been made and a thorough investigation
pursued by the Commission on all matters having a bearing on
the building of railroads and the development of Alaska. And
then finally the great question will be settled by President
Wilson. They are starting in at the westward because the
administration has but little data concerning the route from
Susitna to Fairbanks. Surveys may demonstrate that this is
not the most feasible and sensible way of reaching the great
Tanana valley. In that event the route from Chitina will
undoubtedly be adopted. And in the meantime we are grateful
for Mr. Riggs’ clear and intelligible statement concerning plans
and intentions.
• BETTER STICK TO GEOGRAPHY
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An exchange states that Byron R. Newton, assistant
secretary of the Treasury, writes good verses and plays the
fiddle when he finds himself in the quiet of his own home with
nobody to interfere.
We don’t wish to seem discourteous but the suggestion has
been made that the assistant secretary might be employed to
better advantage in studying geography about Alaska. lie
might then find that we have an open harbor throughout the
year and that there is no reason why an agent of the depart
ment might not come to Cordova instanter and select the site
for the new federal building.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Now some one in New York is talking of Roosevelt for
senator. No chance. He had enough of that deliberative body
as vice president.
German baloonists landing in Russia have been sentenced
to six months in solitary confinement. Future long distance
flights in Europe will stop short within the confines of
civilization.
Col. T. R.’s discovery of a new river in Brazil and a new
race of natives, coming simultaneously, sets the cynical to
thinking that the most important discovery is that of a new
race for President about two veal’s hence.
Those Americans who renounced citizenship and became
British subjects to escape our income tax now ponder on the
folly of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Lloyd
George intends to make our income schedule look pifling
beside his.
The Americans who are escaping from Mexico with
vexatious experiences are just as mad about it as though they
had not been warned to get out for the past year and a half by
both Taft and Wilson.
If international agreement can make the Tampico oil fields
a peace zone, why should not future wars agree to make wheat
fields and sugar plantations havens of quiet ?
Great Britain is now also a billion dollar country, if the
rank is to be measured by the national budget. But John Bull
does not seem a bit proud of it.
The Prince of Teck is to he the next governor general of
Canada. King George seems determined to keep it in the
family hereafter.
The lack of warlike enthusiasm may be due to a feeling
that the gentlemen who have interests to protect in Mexico
ought to do their own protecting.
The possibility that the slashing of that portrait of Henry
James may not have been a freak of militancy at all, but the
desperate deed of one of his readers driven to frenzy by the
effort to discover what he was getting at, should not be over
looked.
Investigators of New Haven affairs always collide with the
contribution of $50,000 to T. R.’s 1004 campaign. Which is
interesting; but the freshness is somewhat taken off. The get
ting at the inside of the Billard deal will be more fruitful.
Colonel Roosevelt has lost 35 pounds weight; but some
judicious friend should whisper in his ear that there is no use
competing with Prof. Taft in that line. The professor has so
much more to lose.
A French scientist has figured out that the earth will be
frozen by the cooling of the sun 2,000,000 years hence. If true,
this may be interesting, but can hardly be considered important
even to patient Alaskans.
The trans-Paeific record has been cut two hours, to nine
days, three hours between Yokahoma and Victoria. Which
recalls that very little has been heard about trails-Atlantic
records since the Titanic went down.
The people of Chitina are anxious to entertain the visiting
excursionists who are the guests of Mr. Alexander and who are
expected to return from the* westward in the course of two
three days. The Chitina Chamber of Commerce wired to the
Cordova Chamber of Commerce asking that when the trip i
made from Cordova to the glaciers that the partv be taken to
Chitina.
It is learned from a New York paper that Miss Ed< Ison,
who threatened to “hunger strike,” has abandoned her
intention and is now taking her meals. Perhaps reflection
suggested to her that to starve herself for a lot of wrongs she
thought the law had done to her was punishing the wrong
person.
l ifty-eight languages and dialects are spoken among the
insurgent miners in Colorado. But bullet wounds are just asj
deleterious in English as in Slavish or Greek.
} hat rumor that General Huerta proposes to retire from)
Mexico with $7,000,000 in silver bullion conveys the interesting'
additional detail that when Huerta goes he intends to go by
slow freight.
The A. B. C. mediators will escape the Washington atmos
phere by locating their conference at Niagara Falls, Canada,
but they will remain remote from the Mexican atmosphere.
1 hey really should have come to Alaska.
Why Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
A few months later lots in Chtiina will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest NOW?
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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