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NOME, ALASKA. if U PIE 24, 1915.
If there is one thing more than any
other which the Nome public have a
Justifiable reason for grumbling Ht it
Is the manner in which the overlords
■ ir the postotflce department handle the
mail for this neck of the woods. Situa
tion and all considered if there is an
other section of Uncle Sam's domain
where there is a poorer mail service
than that with which we have been
affllicted during the past two or three
summers, we would like to know
where it is. With a season of o|>en
navigation barely four months in
length in which to conduct the busi
ness for practically a whole year, we
seemingly cannot secure a mall ser
vice even comparable with that obtain
ing during the winter months when
every pound of the mail matter must
he transported over an enormous ex
pense of snow and ice in the face of
rigorous winter conditions which tend
to make travel dangerous and difficult
and, at limes, impossible and in addi
tion requires months of time to secure
tt result which can be realized in a
few days during the open season. Yet,
withal, the autocratic powers cannot
he persuaded to devote their attention
to the fact that more can be accom
plished for the general welfare of this
community during the summer season,
short as It is, than is possible under
the most auspicious winter conditions.
Kvon the local mall authorities, whom
we are credibly informed have called
the attention of the department to the
situation, seem unable to exert any
particular influence toward securing a
betterment in the execrable service,
and we are thus compelled to wait,
with a patience which is fast becom
ing a bore, while boat after boat ar
rives and departs during the season,
none of which, aside from those di
rectlly designed as the mail carriers,
can carry mail, either going or com
ing owing to the bureaucratic method*
in vogue. A case in point is that of
the steamer l^aTouche which departed
recently and which it. is understood
was not allowed to carry the mall ac
cumulated since the departure of Vic
toria a week ago although the local
postal officials inquired specifically ac
cording to reliable Information. At the
present time, owing to the inhibition
against dispatching mail on the last
departing steamer, the sailing of the
Victoria will mark the next opportunity
to communicate with the outside by
means of the malls and as that vessel
will not depart in all probability before
the tenth or twelfth of July, from
twenty-four to twenty-six days will
have elapsed since the dispatch of the
preceding consignment. T’nleas the
Cordova, which is now en route, car
ries all or a portion of the mail accum
ulating In Seattle since the departure
of the Victoria on the Initial voyage of
the season, practically the same period
of time will elapse between the arrival
of mails Thus with several vessels
arriving and leaving this port during
the interim we must wait three weeks
or more before we can either send or
receive. There is no logical reason In
the world why each and every vessel
plying between Nome and the outside
cannot carry mall and, unless the citi
zens of Nome are content to take what
the lesser gods of the postoffiee de
partment provide and submit in hum
ble silence to conditions which are not
only detrimental but also unnecessary,
It is high time that some effort was
made to secure at least a partial loot -
terment in the present service. The
present condition has endured until it
is decidedly clear that the department
has neither inclination nor intention
toward making a change of their own
initiative and It is seemingly indicated
that if no action is taken it will
not only continue to endure but
will alsob eeorne permanent and
therefore harder to change in the
future. As before remarked, it is time
that some effort to secure a better
service should be undertaken either b>
the citizens or one of the civic bodies
or both. We would suggest that the
matter Is one which could probably be
taken up with good effect by either the
city council or the chamber of com
merce.
For a dozen years I have sat here
like a coward, and I have listened to
men say that in time of war we could
depend for our defense upon our na
tional guard and our naval militia, and
I have known all of the time that it
was not so. I am a former militiaman
myself, f am a veteran of the Spanish
war, and 1 tell you that any such doc
trine is the supremest folly. Vnder that
delusion in ten short years we have
allowed our navy to slough away from
a strong second to England, until now
it Is a very bad third and is fast sink
ing to fourth or fifth place. The theory
In this country that we can create an
army and a navy right off the reel is
totally and entirely wrong. After war
breaks out you cannot improvise a
droadnaught. you cannot improvise a
torpedo, you cannot improvise a for
ty-two centimeter howitzer, you can
not improvise a traveling concrete
plant, you cannot improvise plants for
Inflating Zeppelin balloons, you cannot
improvise sailors.
All those things must be provided in
time of pence, and yet we are neglect
ing them And. my friends, you cannot
make a fighting regiment but of a
militia organization until you have
either eliminated twenty per cent of
the personnel of that militia organiza
tion or stiffened their resistance
against the instinct of self-preserva
tion. 1 have been a militiaman. I have
seen militiamen go into the Spanish
war. Many a lad enters the national
guard in times of peace and then is
ashamed not to volunteer when war
breaks out. He goes to war half- j
heartedlv, hoping agninst hope that
when the time comes he will be brave ^
Perhaps he may be brave, but often
and often the spirit is willing nnd yet
the flesh Is weak. That twenty per
cent is quite enough to disorganize the
best material which ever went to war.
The militia has not been dependable
In a tight place In the past. You have
got to go through the long, weary pro
cess of cutting out the timid and hard
ening tho rest before your national
guard regiment will become an effec
tive volunteer regiment.—"A Passage
at Arms In the Senate." in National
Magazine.
Do you know what we have gol m
the way of an army? Do you know
w hat we have got with which to oppose
four million trained men, which hap
pens to be the war strength of tlie
German army? Do you realize that we
have only about eighty-five thousand
regulars and about one hundred and
twenty thousand militia? Are those
militia trained? Why, Mr. Speaker,
sixty per cent of the men in the militia
who are armed w ith a rifie do not know
how to use it properly. Sixty per cent
last year were unable to qualify even
as third-class marksmen.
Half of that sixty per cent—thir
ty per cent—did not even try to quali
fy with a rille. That is all which we
have got to defend us. What is the use
of talking this arrant humburg any
more to the country? 1 am telling
you the truth. That Is what we have
got to face. Hut I do not blame you
gentlemen. 1 blame the inflated op
timism which has led us to believe
that we can whip all creation.
Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from
California (Mr. Kalin) said, it is a fact
that at last we have nearly one million
modern rides on which we can depend.
How about our artillery? I.et us see
what General Wood, the chief of staff,
said in his report last year. He tells
us of the “alarming condition of short
age" in our field artillery guns and am
munition.
Present day events are showing that
it is mighty dangerous to he weak In
artillery.--"A Passage at Arms in the
House," in National Magazine.
The state of marriage may be said
to have received some encouragement
in the recent action of several large
employers of labor in declaring that
married men are as a rule the most
efficient workers, and that they will In*
given the first consideration in em
ployment.
A public service corporation at Port-j
land announced, after some tnvestiga- :
tion, that:
“Single men may be just as loyal and j
as efficient as married men. We have I
taken a census of our trainmen, how- |
ever, and find that our best ones are 1
men of families."
There is no generic cause, of course,
that makes a married man. I>y nature
more ctti.dent in his daily labor than i
bachelor. The difference is not in the
natural endowment of the mod. but in
the conditions under which they must
meet life. Most men need a spur to
drive themtotheirbest endeavors. The
responsibilties of matrimony furnish
this spur very adequately. To the man
of spirit und energy the responsibility
of caring for his wife and children is
a great stimulant in his work, and if
he is alive to his situation he has few
idle hours of thought or labor, and he
Is constantly alert to opportunities t >
increase his earning power.
A bachelor is easily capable of earn
ing more than Ins necessities, and
there is little pressing call to economy
or increased Industry. He has on his
hands a surplus of time and money,
and the tendency is to irresponsibility.
There is no difference in natural nr
dovvment that should make n married
man more competent, more etlieicnt or
more profitable as an employe than a
single man. Circumstances, however,
determine that one may take the road
of life at ids own gait, while the other
is driven under a spur, and this, in
the final accounting, makes a differ
ence in productive exertion.
Bachelor and benedicts, men are the
better for a spur to endeavor. Many
of the world's great men would have
died unknown to fame had not their
qualities been forced by the spur of
necessity.—I’.-l.
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"Dollar with Wings’’ and the "Devel
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tant City, the Dig Metropolis, with Us
vice and crime and low wages and
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helps build up a nation of real tneti and
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