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THE DISCOVERY OF NEW JERSEY.
(New York Times.)
Mr. Alfred Gaskill, director of the
lately established New Jersey depart
ment of conservation and development,
says in the Newark News that "there
is an area of 1,000,000 acres of land
available for profitable farming" with
in a six-mile radius of Trenton. Not
more than a third of it is cleared. The
rest is covered with "nominal forests.”
Within the same radius live 10,000,000
people. Markets to burn. Climate and
soil permit the raising of early fruits
and vegetables. Long seasons enable
three or four crops to be raised on
the same Held. Mr. Qaskill holds that
"jerseymen haven’t been studying Jer
sey.” At«any rate, they are not culti
vating it thoroughly.
Mr. Gaskill seeks to make the west
ern tanners acquainted with the neg
lected agricultural charms of his state.
Lnseihshiy, and with no faintest ex
pectation that further tickling of the
ground will make the cost of living
sink, we repeat his hopes and wishes,
and not to western farmers alone. To
have a proHtable farm on the edge of
New York city, so to speak, seems a
special good fortune. Mr. Gaskili
wants to bring 500,000 settlers into Jer
sey in the next ten years. Now is the
time for New Yorkers who want to get
"back to the land" to acquire land so
near Manhattan that they will never
be homesick.
CONSCRIPTION.
(Seattle Star.)
No people ever loved the draft.
Conscription is a hated word. During
our own civil war rioting in our great
cities marked the enforcement of the
draft law.
The average Englishman Is roaring
against copscription because It is in
his blood to oppose anything compul
sory. He was not built to be a slave
or a serf. But would he protest if Ger
many landed an army in England, as it
is reported she intends to do? Proba
bly not. Probably it would not be nn
cessary; perhaps every Englishman
would spring to arms.
This idea is one that may be worthy
of thought In discussing the compul
sory drill question at the University of
Washington. It is the idea of compul
sion that is abhorrent in the eyes of
Americans the country over, and An
glo-Saxons the world over.
The country is beginning to realize
the need for preparedness. Voluntary
camps have been organized to train
‘'business” men. Wouldn't these same
business men be the strongest In protest
of any idea that would compel them
to join these camps? Why not give
university students the same American
privilege? They are lmbused with the
same patriotism, and those who can
afford to take the drill course—those
who can afford it in time and in money
—would be glad to take it and prepare
themselves in case the country should
need them. The students are to be
treated exactly as are the "business"
men in this respect.
Conscription—force—is, and has been,
un-American. Let us rather make
military drill so popular—avoiding un
necessary details and sticking to es
sentials—that the boys will be eager
to get this training just as they are in
Switzerland.
DRUMMING UP 8EWARD MINING.
(Seward Gateway.)
All the strikes made in Alaska were
made by men who were out of a Job.
If all the men in Alaska had been
profitably employed all the time, the
country would never have been devel
opened even to the present extent. It
was, indeed, once said wittily that a
prospector in Alaska is a man out of
a Job. You will notice all the time
that when a man has no employment
he calls himself a miner. In doing so
he is telling a lot of truth, because
when a man has no employment In
this northern territory he turns to the
hills and creeks, and he may turn to
them for more than one purpose. He
may go out and prospect or he may
go out and pretend to prospect, to make
nis credit good. In the Atiin country,
in the old days, when the pay was very
slim, the phrase "standing off the gro
wer" was a regular synonym for pros
pecting, or even mining.
These are some of the little things
which one has learned by long years
in the territory. They are things which
new arrivals cannot see, and no more
could expect outsiders to see them, so
the result is tnat people who do not
.inow Alaska are the people who warn
men to keep out.
It might be respectfully suggested
.o Secretary Lane that the best way in
which to develop the country arouna
the railroad would be to send as many
moke men up here as possible. That
.s, men who, though broke, have a
mickhone tiiat isn t broke. That is an
.Auggeruted way, perhaps, of pointing
ml a lesson, but mere is a lot of rea
son in it, as most thinking sourdougns
..ill tell you. A wealthy man never
made a discovery in Alaska. It is
^ieity sale to say that, and it is even
.ale to say tnat no man wtiu ever nau
x job in Alaska ever discovered any
.nlng.
uawson was discovered by a squaw
■nan, Nome by herders, Fairbanks by
* jap, and so on almost down tne line.
To go back to a subject which is
mien dwelt upon. L>o tne mining men
of the Kenai peninsula and tne otnei
districts around it ever feel that some
-jort of an organization of themselves
would aid in the development of the
country'.' At a first glance, at least,
.1 looks as if a well-organized body of
men who are engaged in mining could
^eiform an immense lot of good for the
district, and tnereiore tor themselves
mdividually. The first great diaioulty
m all mining catnpB is to get the first
-epresentatives of great capital inter
ested.
PHRASES THAT GO.
(Pearson s.)
Out of this war have sprung many
famous phrases. Most of them draw
a round of applause or laughter from
any music hail audience. But the ma
jority of people do not know from whom
.ney originated.
Bloyd ueorge is responsible for two
of the most notable. One is "Every
shell is a life guard," und the other
silver bullets," "Somewhere In
r'rance" came from the Press bureau;
'A scrap of paper" from Herr von
Bethmann-Hollweg; “1 nibble them,”
from (Jen. Joftre; "Business as usual,"
from H. E. Morgan; “Too proud too
light,” from President Wilson, and
"Trench's contemptible little army,"
from the kaiser.
Jack Judge has the credit of invent
ing the phrase "it's a long, long way
to Tipperary." “Gott strafe England,"
comes from the German people gener
ally, and English people return the
compliment with that splendid phrase
which will go down to history "To the
iast drop and the last shilling."
PROTECT ALASKA’S COAST.
(Leslie's.)
The infrequency of shipwrecks with
loss of life on the Alaska coast is due
to the skill of the navigator rather
than to government precaution. I was
told at Ketchikan of the recent dis
covery by the government survey of a
most dangerous rock in the very
pathway of the steamers. They had
fortunately missed it because, they
passed over It during high tides. It
had never been charted, but Is now on
the map. Surely when we spend $16,
000,000 on a single battleship we
should be able to use one-sixteenth
of the amount for the protection of
life and property on the Alaskan
coast. This has long been a sore point
with the residents of Alaska, whose
lives are Imperiled by unnecessary
dangers of the seas as they go and
come from the states. The increasing
shipping to Alaskan ports has made
better lighthouse service imperative
for a number of years past, but con
gress has failed to provide the neces
sary funds for this great territory.—
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