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A CHANGE NEEDED.
Seward Gateway.)
A Fairbanks newspaper, memory
suggests that it was the Alaska Citizen,
sa.is that trained law officers should be
on hand in Alaska to ferret out crim
inals. It must he udmited that in the
past few years quite a few murders
huve been committed in the territory
and in some cases the murderers have
got cieun away. This may he due to
l ue fact that changes of administration
mean too many changes in ttie person
nel of the officers of the law. The po
litical spoils system is a bad one and
tends to lead to corruption in public
a hairs. It also leads to incompetency,
and the sooner all parties come to an
agreement to put an end to it the better
rmwever, as long as one party is de
tei mined he bad policy for the other to
would he had policy off the other to
o.mtion it, as such a course would re
sult in giving one party possession of
ihe whole machinery of the govern
ment. A prominent poet recently said
that one of the drawbacks of democ
racy is that too many people have to
ho pleased and satisfied, hut, after all
there is no reason why a democracy
cannot enact laws abolishing the
spoils system to the extent that the
appointees of any party can hold of
fice for life. By this means one party
would have as many appointments at
its disposal as the other. Unquestion
ably Alaska has been saddled with
some officials who were made officials
because they failed at everything else.
THE ROPE AND THE CHAIR.
New York Times.)
The decision of the United States
supreme court that death In the elec
tric chair Is less painful and more
humane than hanging will be accepted
us final. It upholds a*decision of the
highest court in South Carolna and
the question is not likely to be
brought up again. The electric chair
was substituted for the gallows for
humane reasons, and there has been
1,0 disposition In any state which has
■ put the chair In use to return to the
old method. But much of the tradi
tional horror of execution by rope was
due to the publicity attending it. The
introduction of the eelctrle current as
the instrument of capital punishment
was almost simultaneous with the
adoption of laws against public execu
tions.
NO OLD-FASHIONED BOYS.
(Dayton News.)
No. there are no old-fashlonedf boys.
What makes it seem ^o is because of
changes wrought in the standard of
living, in the suroundings of the boys.
When you were a boy you stole the
old gray mare out of the barn and
went beating down the road as fast
eg she would go, just to show the girl
what a wonderful horseman you were.
Now the old gray maer Is dead, and
vour boy steals the automobile out of
the garage and beats it down the road
just as fast as he can, to show the girl
what a daring motorist he is. It’s the
same thing. The boy is as good as
' ov were at his age—-but no better.
T“r. old-fashioned hoy wore patches
rxi his trousers, because it was the
custom, and because he had to do so.
1, s not the custom now, and he does
rot have to wear so many patches, but
it’; the same boy under the suit—and
there is the same wear and tear upon
the clothing.
The boy of today is moved by the
same motives as you were. He Is
governed by the same Impulses. He
has his little romances Just as you did,
and “gets by” with Just as little ef
fort as he can—even as was the case
with yourself, although you may now
imagine that there wasn’t a lazy bone
in your body. No, there are no old
fashioned boys; not yet.
NATURE’S BA8EBALL GAME.
(Collier's Weekly.)
The American Geographical Society
nas discoverea mat Uie tukou river is
: min among Norm Ainercan streams,
j uoogi upnlcul Ians iiati predicted mat
.lie i UKon wuulu not lung remain in
| the second division of its league, and
now mey are Hoping mat Uie June rise
, w 111 place me Aiaskun river in first
I place, if it sliouiU win tile pennant,
| a liost of good wishers will root for
i ii m uie worm's cnampionsnip series, j
of course tins game is not quite
iso fast as iiaseuuil, out it thrills witn
i divine entnusiasm all nature fans of
me joint Aiuir type, wuo mink in terms
d geological epuens. lo them a river
mat goes on a bat once in three cen
ui.na is keeping its batting average
up to .300; a mountain range that sags
iwo inches off its base is a daredevil
oase stealer, and a glacier that trav
els two feel in a cuupie of tnousand
> ears is tycobbing a home run on
smoking shoe leather! iso, you see,
we cannot laugh at Uie goograpincal
i.inl geological fans. Tney are watch
ing mg Lnggest gumo of all. Old Chris
ty briavily tueir p. liner, totes a cuive
.nai he cun hurl around Uie sun und
oack, and when he swings the bat he
Knocks sizzling comets clean across j
the sky.
THE SHIBBOLETH OF HOURS.
(London Telegraph.
The shibboleth of hours is to many [
business men the final password to |
tueir self-csteeme. Their first com- ■
mandment is to keep busy at all costs,
and their way of keeping busy is to
become slaves to the clock, to keep
their legs glued beneath their desks
from 9 o’clock till (i. It matters nothing
that the rest of the staff is idle, that
the clerks are cleaning their nibs or
drawing thumbnail sketches on the
blotting paper. No, their fathers work
ed from 9 to 6, all self-respecting men
work from 9 to 6, and they shall do
likewise. Thus only is success achieved
and dignity preserved.
And what is the sum of it all? The
discontent that only idleness breeds,
jtho resentment that any man of energy
feels at being kept "hanging around"
...•hen all his nature 1s calling upon
him to be up and doing, and many
other disagreeable and undesirable
things, such as office gossip and office
intrigue
The iron attitude towards hours of
work does much to destroy individual
responsibility and self-respect. The
employe who feels himself humanly
treated In this matter, who is allowed
to go when work Is over, and not
| forced to keep up a pretence of busi
InesB. wll be the more willing to stand
I by the firm when a rush of work
means long hours and overtime.
For the principle which underlies
the law of 9 to 6 is utterly wrong. It '
implies that there is some virtue in
sitting In an office, apart from the
work that is done there. Hours mat
ter very little compared with results
land the business man should be more
i concerned to see the Job done than to
■Insist that the worker should spend a
certain specified time over It. It Is
I certain that he would get his results
more quickly if his staff knew that
once the allotted work was over they
would be fre. Nothing could he more
pernicious than the habit, Induced by
the fear of being or seeming idle. Noth
ing could tend less to produce effici
ency than the spinning out of a short
Job over a long period.
For. after all, the only thing that
!matters is that the work of the day
should be done, and done well.
THE UNSENTIMENTAL INVENTOR.
(Toledo Blade.)
“A machine for beating carpets has
been Invented.” This Is not an ad
vertisement. It Is a news item, a
typographical sigh, a soft-pedal re
quiem to old-fashioned spring. It
marks the passing of the season when
the housewife ruled with a magic wand
made of a combination of wooden stick,
broomcorn and wire—when John beat
the carpet for love of Mary. It was
his way of publishing to the world the
| fuct that the old fire still burned.
This is the scene that is to pass.
No more wil facetious men stop to
ask perspiring, dust-clouded John if
: lie is beating the carpet. And never
i again can be come back with the good
iuatured reply that lie is not beating
the carpet, but is sitting on a moon
beam, reading "Lalla Rookh"—and
wasn't Tommy Moore the sweet stng
! er?
One trouble with the inventor is that
j he is too aggressive at times. He goes
blunderingly ahead, trampling down
tradition, destroying institutions, and
leaving nothing by which the present
may be liked with the past He has
no sentiments.
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