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iftIVT UNCLE THE EASY MARK?
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i, Seattle Star.j
. , secretary Daniels postponed until
September J9th the opening of bids on
our 10 new submarines because two
of the big private ehip building con
cents ore loaded up with foreign con
tracts for submarines.
ft Some day Uncle Sam will starve to
death through being ut the mercy of
private backers.
Just think of a great nation like
ours being unable to go ahead with
preparation for self-defense because
private concerns are loo busy working
for foreigners against wbom we may
nave to del end ourselves!
i'retty rotten condition, isn’t it?
THINK THEY ARE SICK?
(Boston Record.)
now luaiiy vvno linun luey ure sick,
a*c- leany quite wei*.' mere is luoa
lor utougiii in tms observation oy or,
r.uUger i. i_.ee, vvno lias just eoaipicteu
a ony»icAi examination ul iue entire
rt esnatan class at Harvard:
nut me greatust value ul Una ex
atixinaiiun, tu uij mind, and wlin mu
ft » nave been strungiy impressed, is Uut
su much me Uelectioii ul ekistiiig dls
c-asee, but the assurance ul a larger
, gruup ul boys wbu tnlnk that tney
nave uisease, that they are really
sound. Curiously enough, there were
more boys a ho thought they had u
serious organic defect, usually of the
heart, and were found entirely sound,
man boys who thought they were well
and hud disease, in many instances
^ boys were worrying over ailments that
were purely fanciful, but this worry
wus having u considerable effect upun
(heir general condition.’’
That is probably true of adults. Stop
thinking how sick you are.
WOMEN AND THE VOTE.
(Boston Record.)
Nevada women, according to the re
ports from Reno, voted in favor of the
profitable liberalism of the state and
city, which by means of easy divorces
and plentiful saloons, etc., fattens the
* state's prosperity and adds to the
gaiety and liveliness of life there. We
shall presumably hear from critics of
woman suffrage that here is an ans
wer to the claim that social reforms
will be clinched, and evil wiped out, by
extension of the suffrage to women in
all the states. But that is a dangerous
argument to pursue. For then what
becomes of our belief in the right of
s the people to vote and ruel? We have
never had it demonstrated that the
votes of men are always and immedi
ately on the side of reform and virtue.
If we continue to deny the vote to
women because some of them may vote
on the easy and loose-moralled aide,
we must be logical, and disfranchise
min who do the same thing. The
real strength of the suffragists’ argu
* inent lies not in what such suffrage '
will do for social and moral better- j
ment, but on the simple and direct as
sumption that women are people, and
that the people must rule. We do not
judge popular government by its mis
takes. but by Its successes. The fun
damental principle is correct.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
(Boston Record.)
England is undertaking a number of
things due directly to the Influence of
war necessities which she will have to
consider In a broader light some day;
and we rausl believe that her states
ft men have this fact in mind. The pro
hibition Issue Is patently so regarded,
^ and we must conclude that the sudden
reaction, and reluctanco to push the
strictest law through now, as a war
measure, is due to the fear of what
may happen after the war is over—•
either through excessive drinking on
a big scale if the emergency prohibi
tion measure is allowed to lapse then,
or through popular dissatisfaction with
ft drastic prohibition in peace days.
i That Is the cold-blooded view, with no
! eye on the moral issue. Another in
I stance of difficulty is the encourage
ment given to women to do mens work
in the absence of the men at the front
—and often directly in otder to release
men so that they may go to the front
i Prime Minister Asquith says that up to
April 24 more than 30,0(10 women had
enrolled on the w i-gister, in one of
the largest N< ensile engineering
works, making s lift-. he saw between
3000 and 4000 wv n at work. What
will hapen to these women when the
war is over? Will they want to lay
down the work? Will they be allowed
to? Peace "reconstruction" Is not go
ing to be as easy, following (his war ns
it basin preceding wars, because never
before has the economic and industrial
factor been so magnified in the war
bled countries.
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OUR DEADENED SENSES.
(Seattle Star.)
War baa deadened our senses. W e
no longer can feel keenly as before
sorrow, horror, sympathy, pain. Kven
death seems less fearful. out year
ago the world would have gasped with
horror at the drowning of over 1,0(10
I human beings like ruts In a- trap
After one your of war's honors our
gasp of horror is subdued. Fatalism,
blunted .sensibilities, a cheapening of
1.ornan life the world over, is the re
sult of the senseless struggle. The
world has "gone back" far toward
sa v agery.
IS MOTHERHOOD A “LOST ART?”
(Huston Kecurd l
We meet the assertion frequently.
One ot the latest to make it is Mis.
Cutherlue Uooih-Ciibboru, daughter of
the salvation Army founder, lien.
William Booth, who told the Inter
national Purity Congress at Ban
Francisco that motherhood is un
popular and that women are incapa
ble in this function of life. That there
has been some preachment in belittle
ment of motherhood is true; but we do
not take so gloomy a view of the sit
uation. On the contrary, we believe
that there is more “expert motherhood”
in this part of tile world today than
ever before. Scientific care of infants,
proper preparation for motherhood,
precautionary measures against infant
mortality—these are commonplaces of
knowledge. The United States govern
ment, through the admirable work of
Julia Cathrop, offers, and circulates
widely, the most effectively modern
and clearly explained Instruction on
these mutters. Bringing up of chil
dren is not today left to instinct and
chance. Infants do not face the ter
rors of ignorance impossible of al
leviation, as they did a generation
ago. Milk stations, nursing—count
less aids to inexperienced mothers are
avallablo as never before. We believe
that motherhood, and fatherhood, are
on a more dignified and more efficient
level than ever before; and we believe
that the results are going to show in
the coming generation of men and
women. Occasional outbursts of
revolt ar(. passing hysteria of no per
manent significance. Human instinct,
mother love and father love, are Im
perishable human characteristics.
What the modern movement of ad
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NINETEEN TONS OF
ALASKA GOLD IN 1916
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| Nineteen a/urdupuljt tuna uf golu
ware deposited in the Seattle branch
Jf the L nlted States assay office dur
ng the tUoe.1 year of 1915, ending June
30, according to the official report of
John W Phillips, aisayer .n charge
Led by Nome, Idltarod second and
Tanaria third, Alaska has given to th<
Seattle assay office the greater portion
by far of the deposits The total val
tation of Alaska’s contribution for
Uhls fiscal year Is placed at $6,313,382.98
i subdivided from the following dig- ]
rrlcts: Nome, $2,741,131.23: Idltarod j
1*1,438.033.88: Tanana, $908,061.02, and
the balance of Alaska, $122,148 3:,
British Columbia contributed $1,482,- i
461.12 and the Yukon territory, $842,
698.95. The figures given do not rep
resent by any means, the annual out
put of the districts named. Assayet
Phillips declared, as a portion of their
gold and precious metal Is shipped ti ,
other TTntted States assay offices ann 1
mints.
COAL FROM THE ARCTIC.
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A few years ago the idea of getting |
coal from Spitsbergen, one of the most
desolate Islands in the Arctic ocean
was a topic for remancers. Now It Is '
a fact of considerable moment in i
many of the world's markets A sin
gle company, financed chiefly by !
American capital, mined nearly 40.
000 tons of coal from Spitsbergen last
year.
The deposit of fuel In the Fur North
Is said to 4>e singularly easy to work
It conies In a single scam about four
feet thick, stretching along-the coast
for thirty miles. The surrounding rock :
Is so solid that timbering Is not need -
I cd. The temperature Is always belov
j the freezing point In the pro! jnt work
• ligH, which does away with the neet
j of pumps. In fact, the only real dif
! iiculty Is that of getting men -ant
i motion pictures have gone far t<
solve that problem.
Vet for every ton of coal In Spitz
i-ergen there are ten In Alaska of a
least an equal quality, eioser to e
hungry market The Arctic sent
won't make a real dent In the fuel
markets till our big Northwest ter
ritory gets into action—Chicago
Journal.
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