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NOME. ALASKA APRIL 10, 1017.
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THE SPIRIT OF CITIZENSHIP.
This country is great but it wi'i be
greater, grandeur and prouder when
the full significance of citizenship
is realized by its people. National
pride is always commendable but na
tional pride means the highest type of
patriotism and it should overshadow
everything else when citizenship is
considered.
A thoughtless but well-meaning
farmer in Alissouri is quoted as say
ing that he was not interested in a
larger navy because he felt that the
insularity of Alissouri was its pro
tection and guarantee of safety and
no matter what might happen to the
coast cities by reason of a foreign
invasion, the invader could never trou
ble the people along the Mississippi
liver. It seems incredible that any
American could have such a short
sighted view of American citizenship.
Fortunately, this view is disappear
ing under the enlightening iniluence
of public sentiment and of the de
mand so urgently made for national
preparedness for ponce as well as for
war.
The best citizens of the I'nited
States, in the days of its earliest
struggles when the foundations of the
government were laid, were found
among the farming community. These
were the sturdy sons of the soil that
fought at Lexington and at Lunkei
Hill and that suffered the privations
of Valley Forge. This is a good time
to revive the best spirit of American
citizenship; to Impress upon the peo
ple of every community that thrti
welfare depends upon the welfan
of every other community and
tliat citizenship of the highest typi
is inspired by a national spirit and no'
by local feeling.
it was not a subsidy when the gov
ernment made a largo appropriate
to fight the ball weevil and to hell
the cotton growers of the south. Noi
is it a subsidy for the government t(
improve the Alisslssippl river to af
ford cheaper transportation for tin
farmers all along the Mississippi val
ley, nor should it be considered f
subsidy if the government were to ait
in the establishment of our merchan
Professional Cards
Br. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL'S DRUG STORE.
Hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Phona Main 7
I marine to facilitate exports not only
j of tlie farmer's products, but of the
j products uf our factories,
i All these tilings must lie considered
m the braodost sense and from the
I standpoint of citizenship, and patriot -
| ism of the noblest type. Leslie's
| Weekly.
LET'S HAVE A REAL ONE!
Ttie federal trade commission is
about to start an investigation of the
rise in food prices. It will ask the
president to approve an approprla
Loti of HOo.COO for that purpose. It
proposes to cover every side of t’
f >od situation.
Good! Lot us hope at last we are
'going to have a real investigation.
'1 il country has confidence in t'i'
. trs Now It s
G'e facts. Let's go to the bo—
j tom to the fundamentals—and really
I 'earn all that c. i be learned about
, the subject.
The problem > legal and econo
mic. The question of whether there
I arc . ' .nations in restraint of trade
;>t be lecide Tin? has heretofore
th( 111 '. ..t lontion. Now
I it's time to go more into the econo
c part—and go ;n:o it thoroughly.
Are the people being compelled to
I pay too much for what they buy?
\ --body can answer that until he can
■ s. y with reason i :e approximation
what it costs to produce those things
In some fields the trade commis
sioa will find plenty of data. The!
packers, for instance, can toil it ex- 1
actly what it costs them to turn out
their products G vernment attention
has enconr .ged accurate cost ac
counting in then case. If lit these
fields arc Unified, In the biggest
fields of ail the work will have to be
done from the ground up. There isn’t
a farmer in Illinois who knows what
it costs him to put his product on the
market today. There isn’t one manu
facturer in ten who has an accurate
idea of what it costs him to run his |
business.
Let the trade commission start lit- j
erally "from the ground up." Let It |
start with the farmer and find what '
production of everything, from eggs I
to wheat and cattle, means in terms |
of money and labor expenditure. He \
doesn't know, and nobobdy e'se j
knows. Then let it follow the pro- j
duet to consumption. Many people I
assume high prices don't start until '
they r each some large organization. •
From the economic standpoint they
are just as liable to start at the be
ginning as anywhere else. Frices
cannot be permanently below the cost j
of production under any circum- |
stances.
The country is in tie mood for an)
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investigation that will be long and
deep ami thorough. It is tired of |
these continued flurries about high ]
prices that get nothing except possi
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lily a politician into congress or some
other job or Into the newspapers. It
has had its full of half-baked reme
dies that spring from attention to
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only one half of the groat problem.
J l.ot's have an investigation that will
enable the country to see it steadily
and see it whole. It would be cheap
at $100,000 or $4,000,000.
"BUNKING" NEW YORK.
i The " Vlaska Queen," a beauteous
i maiden who was supposed to be gct
' lug her first view of our ama2lng
civilisation by way of 11 roadway, has
confessed that she never saw Alaska,
ind has spent most of her young life
I at Kansas City, Mo., latterly as a
telephone glrh it was but a few days
ago that, clad in the skins of wild
animals and perched upon a fence,
the alleged Alaska belle was made to
appear in the dally press as the "Maid
f the Midnight Snows," and she ap
i pi ..red to be a very capable-looking
\ ung vv omen, even if she did come
^ Horn Kansas Citv.
New York was very much interested
! in the Alaska apparition and her
, ,se aroused universal interest. Taken
to the Alaska wilds when three years
old, she grew to womanhood, she said,
in the great silent land whore Eski
mos and ice were the chief details of
the landscape. Now, at last, she was
facing civilisation, and it almost blind
ed her. New Y'ork threw out its chest |
and turned on all the spotlights for!
her benefit.
I bunk.it New York for a week, j
and Hroadway liked me," she confes- I
sed. And new, because the town has j
found out it's been bunked, I sup- i
pose it is sore."
The great, silent, mysterious north
lends itself readily to the fabric of
dreams. The imaginative, the poetic,
are attracted by it. The Kansas City
gir! liked the idea, but she never had i
the time or money to make the trip,
so she gave her imagination full
sway, bought a suit of skins and was
m Alaskan for a time In all except
fact. Thus Alaska pays through the
nose for its fatal attractiveness.
IVrhaps one-half of the stories ,
written around an Alaska plot were
composed by authors who had not
ventured north of St. Paul, Minn.
Years ago Klondikers who never saw
the great north spread takes of har
rowing adventures on the trail. A
great deal of the tradition about the
innth will not track.
H has taken about twenty years
and the united efforts of Seattle and
Alash'.t to lay the myths and get the
truth about the great northern terri
tnry l efore the world, but some of the
dine are still in circulation.
There is just now a great call for
husky housewives in Alaska. The
Kansas City telephone girl, anil others
of similar mind, might arrange to ac
;i p! some of these offers and got some
real, practical Alaska experience.—
Seattle 1*. I.
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tala at Rot*’ mill and thop. Alto
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
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temperatures for this year and last .
on the days leaignated. The minus
sign before n number means below
tero.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
1916 1917
April 1 . 10 18
April 2 . 0 18 j
April 3 . 0 24
April 4 . 8 21 I
April 5.30 12 i
April S. 28 8
April 7. 30 10 j1
April 9 . 16 4
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