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NOME, ALASKA. JUNE 15, 1915.
As if it were not enough tiiat we are
already afflicted with human cultur
ists, eugenlsts and a variety of other
faddists who insist that ltie present
method of human culture is all wrong
and tlie race is going to the how-wows
all because there is a lack of scientific
care in the propagation of the species,
now comes Doctor Nicholas Murray
Butler and exclaims that to educate
the until is simply a waste of time and
money and no good can come to it at
all. at all.
it seems passing strange that a man
of Dr Butler’s attainments should de
liver himself of a heavy one like that
and So add a further burden to our
fears that perhaps the whole business
is wrong and that we really are only
a wrecked and shattered remnant of
wiiat hunianltv ought to lie. This is
a weighty opinion, lie It noted, for Dr.
Butler is one of the foremost educators
in Ameri'a and the head of one of the
most noted colleges in the United
States and we rather looked to such
as ranking mentality above mere phy
sical fitness. But it is thus again dem
onstrated ttint the most strange senti
ments are apt to emanate from the
sources least expected Dr. Butler rea
sons from tlie economic standpoint that
to put college facilities at the dis* |
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posal of the physically unfit Is all to no
good purpose and Is simply wasting
I effort While having no little deference
for tlie opinion of so learned a man.
we would |i|<e to know just where the
[doctor proposes to set his standard of
what he considers necessary to effi
ciency and so seperate the sheep from
tile goats, so to speak. And also we
wonder if lie would have acepted as
candidates for educational endeavor
such men as Byron, Poe and a host
of others whose names are known in
every land and who climbed to the
heights of intellectual fame on a ladder
of physical inperfections. The world
has been made better, wiser and richer
by many who were physical weaklings.
Men who, but for that divine spark of
intellect which placed them above the
common race of men, would Inevitably
have perished had they been compelled
to resort to physical labor in order to
support their feeble bodies. Some. nay.
a goodly portion of the most magni
ficent gems of literature and posey
have been written by those who could
hardly have earned a living washing
dishes and the same applies to the
authors of some of the world’s most
'dime music. Art and science have
[also been represented In the most su
perlative degree by men who were com
pelled by physical weakness to spend
half of 'heir normal waking hours In
lied It Is such as these that Dr. But
ler would call unfit to receive a college
education. We feel that Dr. Butler
Is wrong and that the adoption of his
views in tills respect would hold back
tlie development of tha human race
immeasurably It seems better to
educate a dozen seeming fools on the
bare speculation that one might de
velop a superlative wit rather than
through denying all for their supposed
luck of sense, stifle the spark that lies
within that one which requires hut the
touch of knowledge to burst into f
leaping flame for the Joy and wonder
of men. Physical fitness is not the
only standard of fftness and intellectual
Ideals may be found in bodies of the
most feeble character.
That those ideals should lie 9tiffed
because of a lock of opportunity seems
utterly unreasonable. While it Is not
denied that strong bodies are most de
sirable. It seems hut a deification of
brute strength to state that those
whom an unkind fate has affillcted with
a puny physical being should be de
prived of their only opportunity to live
and do something for their fellow men.
It is important that Americans should
know the facts concerning the ques
tions at issue between the governments
of ilie United States anil Japan. Those
questions bid fair soon to demand more
general public attention than they hav*
yet received. They contain potencies
of tlie gravest character.
Kecent publication of diplomatic cor
respondence between Japan and tlie
United States. * on California’s alien
land law. renewed interest in this
theme temporarily, but only temporari
ly overshadowed by the Mexican rev
olution and Europe's war.
California's law forbids "aliens not
eligible to citizenship" to acquire land,
or to lease it for longer than three
year periods, if they owned land be
fore I lie law was enacted, they cannot
transmit it to their natural heirs: at
the owner’s death it must lie sold by
the state, the proceeds being paid to
Ilie heirs.
Asiatics urc the only "aliens not eli
gible to citizenship" in the United
States under our present naturaliza
tion law. The humblest immigrant
from any portion of Furope, Africa or
Australasia, white or black. IS eligible
to American citizenship; lint Togo the
sailor, Oyamn, the soldier. Noguchi the
poet. Kawaknmi the publicist and jour
nalist, and Numann ttic diplomat—all
of them men of the highest character
and of distinguished ability—ritlzens of
the great world in the larger sense
these men and their remarkably Intel
ligent. efficient, ambitious countrymen
are forbidden hy our naturalization law
to aspire to citizenship under the Stars
and Stripes Dr. Sun. the father of the
Chinese republic, tile “Cleorge Wash
ington of China," as be lias been call
ed, and Dr. Wu Ting Fang, one of the
world’s famous wits and diplomats,
representatives of the world’s most
numerous people and of its oldest sur
viving civilization, would knock nt our
doors in vain with a plea for citizen
ship; Rabindranath Tagore. Fast In
dian poet and philosopher, winner of
the Nobel prize, also would And our
gates closed against him.
It Is an absurd situation, quite justi
fying Japan's truthful declaration that
our attitude. Californian and national.
Is "Jndlvlously discriminatory,” “in
consistent with the sentiment of good
neighborhood.” and of California's land
law specifically that it Is "inconsistent
with the treaty In force," an "ahrldgo
1 ment of vested rights" guaranteed by
that treaty, and Justly "mortifying to
the government nnd people of Japan.”
—America’s issue with Japan.” Frank
Putnam in National Magazine for Jan
uary.
The democratic administration is
nearing the end of the first half of its
term and it cannot truthfully say that
it has done one thing that has had the
effect of reviving business confidence
and activity. The president lias de
clared that the way is clear for busi
ness, lint conditions stand against his
assertion. The administration is Illum
ing the war for business depression,
I but the facts is that American business
men have the war to thank for sus
pension of the operation of the demo
cratic low turifT law. If foreign indus
tries were not paralyzed hy llie con
flict, the increase in imports and the
decrease in exports, which grew might
!y continued, and the inrushing flood
of products of foreign cheap labor
would lie killing the markets for Am
erican made goods and heaping a bal
ance of trade against the United
States. —Mount Vernon find.) Repub
lican.
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nice fryers. Eggs 75c per dozen. Geo.
Pi'otter, phone Black 5.
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