Sunny KnikNews
Published by the HERNING FAMILY fob tiii: people in and neak KNIK and WASSILLA, ALASKA
Vol. I. AUGUST, 1917 No. 3
KEEP ON GOING!
No Reason for Calamity Howling
about Hard T'met— Be Normal
Some people are so unfortunately
constituted that they go out of their
way to put the worst light on every
thing or anything. They always seem
bent on finding the darkest point, and
we believe everybody would be bene
fited if these same folks, after they
find the darkest corner, would just
quietly get in there and stay.
Right here at home we find people
crying about the terrible condition of
things and advising everybody to
hoard their pennies, not to spend a
cent, in fact, doing their utmost to
bring on a season of hard times, of
which at present there is not the
slightest danger. You or I have no
reason to worry atsout mis country oi
ours going bankrupt. Just keep in
mind that a Nation enjoying an in
come of $50,000,000,000 is pretty
well off, and the fact that we are
using about $7,000,000,000 for emer
gency needs right now will have no
more effect on the welfare of this
country than a hard rain.
Whatever necessary taxation is
imposed you may be sure will be dis
tributed and the fellow who can best
afford to chip in will be made to do
just that.
The sensible thing for us to do is
to keep on going. (Jive your family
what they need. You don’t have to
lx- extravagant, but there is no reason
for being a miser. When the circu
lation of a man's blood goes wrong
he is in a bad way, and it is the same
limit' with :my community when il
very foolishly starts to dam up the
« -imitation of money. Money in cir
culation means a live, thriving city,
tow'll or village, and there is not a
single sound reason for any of ns to
act as though there was a cyclone
coming, get scared and live in the
cellar VV< will only suffer ill the
long run l/y any such foolishness,
ALL ABOARD!
An Irishman got off a train at a
laihoad station to get something to
eat 'I In train -stalled before lie had
finished his meal I lie Irishman ran
• mi </o the plat form and yelled at the
<ondu'iof "Mould on, there! Ye've
got a passenger i>n Imard that » left
behindr
IF
If you can dream—and not
make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not
make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph
and Disaster
And treat those two impos
ters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the
truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a
trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave
your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up
with worn-out tools;
If neither foes nor friends can
hurt you,
If all men count with you,
but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving
minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of
distance run,
Yours is the Earth and every
thing that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll
he a Man, my son!
—Rudyard Kipling.
SEEMS THAT WAY
“I didn't raise my boy to be a
soldier."
“Well." replied the lniy's father,
“I’ve noticed that most of the boys
who weren't raised to be soldiers are
exceedingly willing to embrace the
chance to get away from home."
NEW PARCEL POST FEES
Keports in the elTeel that all f, < V IV
parcels now carry an additional fee
are misleading, according to a state
titeilt issued this week liy the I’osl
< (Mice Ifeonifluent,
Heretofore the fee was lit cents
for collecting charge* on a pnrerl
amounting to $1011, with an insurance
valuation limit of only Undet
the new ammgemenls the fees will he
la cents for $.M) and V’fi cents for ‘
fttinu While there is an increase of
fees on packages valued from titan lo
$100, it (jives the advantage of in*ui
amc to the ealenl of $lutl not hereto
fore allowed
Pick Ups
Some of the worst grafters that we
know are loudest in their professions
of piety. When you hear one of
these fellows singing with uplifted
eyes, “I love to steal a while away,”
you feel pretty certain that a “while"
is the only thing left to lay hands on.
A certain well-known firm of furriers
does not need to advertise “Perfect
Skins.” Those who have traded
there know it.
The Kaiser says he won’t declare
war on America. How considerate!
Drowning women and babies; put
ting poison and ground-glass into sol
diers' wounds; blowing a shopful of
girls to pieces—but no war. Just a
little kindly assassination between
friends.
Among other roads which America
needs to improve is that of Econ
omy, the unpopular thoroughfare to
Wealth.
Reported shortage of corn in Ken
tucky is not alarming to the colonels
who prefer coming through the rye.
“The mailed list of Germany, with
further aid from Almighty God. will
restore you to your throne." is “Your
William’s” message to Constantine,
his jobless brother-in-law. By this
time even Constantine must sus|HVt
'chat that “mailed list" is being held by
the Allies for insutbeient postage.
King George must have welcomed
General Pershing’s arrival in Kng
laiul. It’s not often the King can get
his name and photograph <>n the
newspapers’ front )>ages these days.
A young captain named Clysses G.
l.ee has just been assigned to duty in
the regular Army, W hich stakes one
as being about the last word in the
obliteration of "sectionalism!"
Whatever satisfaction Gcrnutny may
derive from the belief that a jvnalty
may have influenced registration mnst
be dissipated by knowledge that the
loan was a natural outpouring
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