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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 19, 1915.
W nether the lute which is seeming-!
,j .iouui tu overtake Serbia is, us the
croiiuaus contend, a punishment lot
tile part iliat nation has placed in
ui ingijig about the great war, or nut,
one cannot but teel a certain amount
ut regret that tne doughty little king
dom is aooui to go under in the maa
carnival ui suite now shaking the
lounuauons ot r.urope. The death oi
a uauon is in many respects quite as
sad a spectacle as the death uf an
inuiviuuai. in a general sense it means
me molting out of an existent entity,
a live and palpitating something that
nas formed a portion oi the great body
of humanity and winch will be seen
no more when tne nnal act uf dissolu- .
uon is uune. As in the case uf the (
individual, when late has written
• unis ’ to the history of a nation,
something is missing, is gone, perhaps
never to appear again and there is a
\ acancy which cannot be exactly till
ed. Something may step iutu the gap
thus created, something perhaps bet
ter, perhaps worse, but the sense ot
loss will remain until ail obliterating
time has wiped away the impression.
Uegaruless of whether one is directly
interested in such an eventuality or
not, there is apt to be a certain amount
. sadness in its contemplation,
in the case of Serbia as well as Bel
gium, me obliteration of the nation
nas the aspect of what may be termed
an international murder as the valor
ous little kingdom is sent to its doom
gasping and bleeding from the blows
of a vastly superior foe which has ap
parently intended for years to beat its
life out at the iirst opportunity. True
enough the deed comes under the head
of war, that woeful game which has
concealed many another such murder,
but it is nevertheless murder in that
• s animated by the desire to kill, to
obliterate. The Teuton alliance claims
that this impending punishment is de
served, is justified because of certain
political misdeeds. That Serbia was
the chief instrument in bringing about
the war cannot be denied in the face
of historical record but that she was (
the responsible factor in the great con- (
llagration springing from her soil has
never been proven to the satisfaction
of those who are inclined to look upon j.
the attendant circumstances with un
prejudiced eyes. Her seemingly cer- (
lain dissolution as a national entity is,
therefore, all the more regrettable. The
tiny kingdom has fought a remarkable t
fight and offered a heroic defense
against overwhelming odds In so ,
doing she has won a reputation for ,
valor unequalled In modern times, and ,
now that she 1b sinking to her death ,
before the shattering blows of three |
renter and more powerful nations, It
is doubtless safe to say that her un
fortunate demise will be regretted by
all who admire pluck and heroism, If
for no other reason. Surrounded on
every side and bereft of all but the
flimsiest support she Is still unwilling
to surrender to a foe which has long
sought her destruction and Is still of
fering an example of heroism compar
able only to that of the Spartans. Ob
livion is probably her portion but,
should she finally sink beneath the
overwhelming flood of her enemies,
such of her people that survive may
■ejoice In the knowledge that their
■ountry has won a nobler fame than
vill ever be accorded by the world
o its despoilers.
WHAT IS AMERICA'S DUTY?
t Boston lieeord.)
Viscount Bryce paints a grimly
urid picture of conditions In Asiatic
l’urkoy, where the Turk is making
nanifest Ills traditional and unijues
loned capacity for horror and cruelty,
le holds the canvas up to American
.yes. What are we going to do about
itV What ought we to dc obout it?
Is It the duty of the Lnited States
a America to sit tight, to guard our
■omfort, to assume and protect by ln
[p t<on the case of well-being and to
buttress our possessions in ramparts
of exclusiveness amidst the crying af
fairs of the distraught world? Or is
if this country’s duty to go aboard
in the world, to take up the burden
of civilization now made heavy by the
nand of recrudeseent mediaevulism
and loaded sorely on backs bent under
years of oppression and now nearly
broken by blows of war-lust? What
is the duty of this free country of
America?
Selfishness is an inherent human
trait, so much the commonplace that
when an individual departs from it on
paths of sacrifice the world looks on
and labels him martyr or hero. Yet
unselfishness ought not to be so con
spicuous, if-the teachings of Christian
ity are significant and the power of its
lesson mighty. The ditinction that
comes with individual unselfishness at
tests the shortness of the way the
world has come in two thousand years.
Yet even in the basis of human
selfishness, finely keyed, great things
may be done. Booking no further than
tiie goul of sell-inierest, seu-ucveiujj
[ ment, what is our duty? To protect
uur bodies or to exalt our national
spirit? Will this nation most fully
and most finely fulfill its God-given
destiny by fallow inaction in material
istically safeguarding comfort and
[money-bags? Or should it make vital
and vivid those immortal principles of
.he rights of man which are bred in
our national existence, by extending
those great progressive ideals through
out the world?
We have believed that the United
States of America is a nation founded
on something better than the material
ism which has maintained the mon
archies of the old world.
We have believed that the Divine
Right of humanity to aspiration and
opportunity, the right to life, liberty
md the pursuit of happiness, are more
durable and mightier forces than the
blasphemous Divine Right pretensions
of monarchical arrogance asserted to
suppress and direct a complacent peo
ple bred into non-resistance and com
pliant suppression.
If this is the correct belief, if this
nation by its professions of ideals owes
a duty to the world and to mankind
wherever found, then now, it seems to
us. is the opportunity and the cry
which we must face, or fall forever
rum the pinnacle of pride in human
ity’s right to betterment.
A SINISTER
MEANING
(Ruby Record-Citizen.)
"it is stated upon good authority
.hut about half of the mail brought
.n on the winter stages is for Fair
banks and adjacent creek towns. The
remainder is sent to Nome, Ruby,
Rampart, Fort Yukon, Circle, Hot
■ipi ings and other intermediate points.”
The above is a paragraph from the
b-ading editorial in the Fairbanks Al
ska Citizen of Sept. 27. The editorial
s headed ‘‘Now Is Our Chance,”
nd deals with the winter mail prob
em. Of course the inadequacy of the
vinter mail for the interior as a whole
s freely admitted, but why should
‘‘uirbanks be favored with half of the
neager allowance that is permitted
o come in? Neither the population,
vealth, productivity nor future pros
jects of Fairbanks justifies such a
hing.
'This means that Fairbanks dis
trict gets no more than thirty tons of
mail in the winter at the best,” says the
Citizen. If thut is so—and it is not
questioned—it also means that all the
balance of the northern half the terri
tory gets less than thirty tons.
Fairbanks has the advantage of win
ter stage service over a road which
furnishes a convenient excuse for Fair
banks absorbing the lion's share of the
road money produced by and appro
priated for all the interior. Fairbanks
can get in reading matter by express
at rates incomparably cheaper than are
possible in other parts of the interior
Other parts of the interior
pay for this advantageous condition
at Fairbanks. If discrimination must
be made in the matter of mail allow
ance it should be made in favor of the
remoter parts of the InteVlor Instead
of against them.
The A.aska Citzen’g slogan is, "Uoost,
Don’t Knock.’ It is a questionable
slogan at best, and coming from where
il does It conveys a sinister meaning
to people outside the town in which it
is intended to do service.
A RECORD TRULY
REMARKABLE
(.Valdez Prospector.)
A striking feature of the statistics
as to German war casualties up to
June 1—statistics, by the way, of Kng
iish compilation, and therefore not in
tluenced by favorable prejudice—is
that of deaths from disease anioug the
Kaiser's soldiers. The number since
ihe war started is computed at 15,808.
if accepted as approximately cor
rect—and reasons for doubting it are
not either abundant or strong—the
figures make a showing for German
etiiciency which, considering the size
of the German armies, and the hard
ships they have undergone, is more
il.an magnificent, ti is nothing less
than amazing.
Not many years ago it was taken for
gianleJ that in every war and in every
army the deaths by disease would far
outnumber those caused by bullet and
steel. 1 here is now, however, a new
scie: ve of sanitation and hygine, ap
piical.lt in war as in peace. The vari
ous enteric diseases, which are those
from which soldiers in the field form
erly suffered must, new are, or at any
iate can be, easily controlled or alto
gether banished.
The conditions of mi'itury service,
dangerous as they are to health for the
negligent or unenlightened, also give
the scientific santarian his very best
chance to show what he can do. As an
army surgeon he issuts orders that are
obeyed, not advice that is heeded or
ignored as its recipients choose. His
authority is supreme, and Ids will is
enforced with military discipline.
There are others still, and they are
nut all in the Balkans, either, but the
old officers who sniff and sneer and
call effeminate the precautions that
keep soldiers well are fast disappear
ing. Probably all the armies in the
great war are making disease records,
u tich whether as good as Germany’s
or i ot, are far better than those of
rilier and not very remote days.
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