SOME OF THE REASONS
WHY A BETTER MAIL
SERVICE IS ESSENTIAL
Throughout the length and breadth
of the United States the magazine and
periodical has become such an accept
ed part of every day life that few peo
ple have stopped to consider what a
dominant factor they are In maintain
ing the educational superiority of the
American people and that the quality
and number of them supported Is
indl8putlble evidence of that superior
ity.
The education of the Individual com
mences at graduation, prior to thai
time the mind of youth is prepared for
the reception of knowledge by tuition
as the soil Is prepared for the seed
by the plow and the harrow, and only
by continuous cultivation can benefits
be realized.
Knowledge Is never stagnant, the
knowledge of today Is the Ignorance
of tomorrow; necessity compels to
keep to the forefront of knowledge or
fall to the rear with ignorance and
superstition; knowledge means ad
vancement and Improvement, Ignor
ance means retrogression and decay.
Are we who are developing Uncle
Cam's last and sternest frontier, the
greatest per capita contributors to the
nation's wealth to be deprived of the
possibility of keeping in touch with
he ever advancing knowledge of the
ay; to allow ourselves and our chil
dren when, at some future date among
.ompany discussing the happenings
and discoveries of the present time,
cO have to confess "Of all that I am
.gnorant, X was In Nome at the time?"
De we realize the Importance of this
campaign of current literature?
Our schools, the preparation of the
mind of youth, Is provided for but the
adult to whom the continued acquisi
tion of knowledge has become a ne
cessity, is neglected, we cannot remain
stationary, it Is either retrogression
or advancjment.
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Is the cost of transporting the mall |
emanating from almost every stats
in the union, contributing to the Intor-'
ests of their citizens who have been
and Mill continue to be the main
beneficiaries of this territory’s wealth
to be charged up against the few who
are Indomitably striving to assure the
permanance of this contribution.
Everything we produce adds to the
permanent wealth of the states, every- j
thing we consume, even our coal, we
buy from the states, therefore is not
the cost of transporting mall to us
more legitimately a charge against
the beneficiaries from the output of our
great resources than against us; Is It
not of vital Importance to them that
the high standard of American citi
zenship required for the development
of this great territory be maintained.
Good citizenship requires that a man
shall keep thoroughly conversant with
the Inventions, discoveries and hap
penings of the day; that he shall be
capable of Judging for himself on ah
vitul issues Involving the welfare of
himself and the nation at large, that
he may vote with the Intelligence that
knowledge Imbues.
We ask for our second class mall in
order that we may maintain our stand
ard of citizenship with the rest of the
American people; we ask that the fact
of residing In Nome may not denote
Ignorance, that we may be able to go
from here to any part of the world
a credit to the lntelectual development
of the people of the United States —
Contributed.
N eras Nuns* «SjOO gar mmmrn.
MEETING THE
EXPENSE OF WAR
Appealing figures, representing the
cost of the war; sweeping prophecies
of financial disaster and national bank
ruptcy; wide swinging analyses of the
psychology of taxation, and lurid
painting of the danger of revolution
against war burdens on the people;
threats of socialistic repudiation of
"king made debts—all these are glibly
on the tongue of very many readers
of the war news.
And the vast dally expenditures for
the war’s maintenance, among the
central and among the Entente, pow
ers, must Impress people who find
their capacity for comprehension ex
ceeded by the total figures. When we
talk of billions and trillions the aver
age person finds himself wallowing In
a sea of unrealities. So we succumb
to the deadening weight of Incom
prehensible figures of cost and look
grimly ahead to a world bankruptcy."
But these great totals of expediture
do not represent the case. We forget
the means by which such sums are
obtainable besides the metnods of bonds
and taxation. Ws forget that dally
a great amount of mcney In the ordl
nary condition of peaceful society goes
for luxuries which in time of war are
raid aside for other things. Ws are
not impressed by the daily cost of living
easily and agreeably because we do
not see thrust In our faces the grand
totals.
Twenty live cents Is a little bit of
money. But suppose that 60,000,00u
pei sons In England devote 26 cents a
day, which they had been apendlng on
extras which they may dispense with,
to the necessities of the war. There
is an immediate diversion of $16,000,000
a day—no insignificant sum. No such
exact diversion may yet appear, but
it is an illustration of the ways to an
end.
In Germany, we believe, a consider
able portion. If net the bulk, of the
cost of the war has come from such
diversion from extras to necessaries.1
In 1'rance and England the tendency i
has been more and more In this direc
tion, as the understanding of the peo
ple has been stirred.
The reality of the war, the Intimate
personal relation and personal duty
In the situation, has been slowly lm
NIGHT AND MORNING.
Robert G- Inger'oll
Lock! In the gloomy caves 1 see the
Mcred serpents colled, waiting for
their sacrificial prey. I see their open
jaws, their restless tongues, their gilt ;
taring eyes, their cruel fangs.
I sse them seise and crush. In many
horrid folds, ths helpless children
given by mothers to appease the Ser
pent God.
I look again. I see other temples
of stone and gilded with barbaric gold
I sse the solemn priests thrust knlvea
In ths white breasts of girls. I see
altars red with human blood.
I look agalu. I see other temples
and other altars where greedy flames
devour the flesh and the blood of
babes. I see other temples and other
priests and other altars dripping with
blood of oxen, lambs and doves.
I sse other temples and other priests
and other altars, on which are sacrl
flced the liberties of man. I look; I
see the cathedrals of God, the huts
of peasants; the robts of kings; the
rags of honsst men.
I sse a world at war—the lovers of
God are the haters of men. I see
dungaons filled with the noblest and
best, I see exiles, wanderers, outcasts
~4nilllons of martyrs and orphans
I sea the cunning Instruments of tor
ture and hear again the shrieks and
aobe and moans of millions dead. I
see the prison's gloom, ths fagot's
flame. I see a world beneath the feet
of priests; liberty In chains; every
virtue a crime; every crime a virtue;
Uta white forehead of honor wearing
tha bread of shame; lateUlgsaea da
•pised, stupidity saintsd, hypocrisy |
crowned, and bending above tbe poor:
eartn, religion s night without a star.
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This was.
I look again and in the East of Hope,
the first pals light abed by tbe herald
itar glvea promise of another dawn.
1 look and from tbe ashes, blood and
tears, the countless hsroes leap to bless
the future and avenge the past. 1
see a world at war, and In the storm
and chaos of the deadly strife thrones
crumble, altars fall, chains break,
creeds change. The highest peaks are
.ouched with holy light. The dawn
nas blossomed. It Is Day,
I look I see discoverers sailing mys
terious seas, I see inventors cunningly
enslave the blind forces of the world.
Schools are built. Teachers slowly
take the place of priests. Philoso
phers arise. Thlnkere give the world
their wealth of brain and Upa grow rich
with words of truth.
This Is.
I look again. The popes and priests
and kings are gona The altars and
the thrones havs mingled with the;
dust. Ths srlstrocracy of the land and
the cloud have perished from the
earth and air. The goda are dead. A
new religion sheds Its glory on man
kind. It Is the gospel of this world, the
rellyion of the body, the evanvel of
health and Joy, I see a world at peace,
a world where labor reaps Its true
reward. A world without prisons,
without workhousss, without asylums
—a world on which the gibbet's shadow
does not fall; a wo?Id where the poor
girl, trying to win bread with the
needle—the needle that has been
called "the asp fer the k res at eC the
pressed on those people who have not
seen the fighting at their doors In
England the people have been alow
to recognize the fact that every man,
woman and child In the country has
a close concern not only In the out
come but In the conduct of the strug
gle. That fact Is sinking In.
As the war continues—and there la
no reason to expect a cessation for
some time to come—the pressure of
necessity will hit first those who yet
can divert money from extras to ne
cessaries. Before the war Is concluded
we expect to see most of these extras
abandoned, and the whole energy of
the people of the belligerent countrlee
devoted to the big matter in band.
And when that state of things has
arrived we shall be leas Impressed by
the overwhelming cost of war than by
the power which lies in strict economy
and in rigid application of energy to
the point where It la most needed.—
Boston Record.
poor”—Is not drlvsn to the desperate
choice j( crime or death, of suicide or
shame, I see u world without a beg
ger'a outstretched palm, the misers
heartless, stony stare, the piteous wall
of want, the pallid face of crime, the
lived Ups of lies, the cruel eyes of
scorn.
Z see a race without disease of
flesh or brain—ehape.y and fair, the
married harmony of form and func
tion.
And as Z look. Life lengthens, J»y
deepens Lev* intensifies, tear dies
Llbety at last Is Ocd and Heaven Is
here.
This shall be
A CURIOUS MINERAL.
U. S. Geological Bulletin.
Perhaps the most curious mineral
found in the United State* la staurolite
otherwise known as the "fairy stone.'
This Is an Iron aluminum silicate
found only In Virginia and North
Carolina, the reddish brown and
brownish black crystals occurring In
well defined single and double crosses.
There Is some commercial demand for
the crosses as curios, which are worn
as watch charms or on chains In the
manner of a locket or la . allere—a de
mand perhaps stimulated by the quaint
legend which Is told of their origin,
the falriee living In the caves of the
mountains, on hearing the sad tidings
of the death of Christ, fashioned these
crosses as mementos of Him
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