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RELIGION AND MORALS
Last Sunday was Easter, but so far as any public observance of
the day was concerned, it passed with no mor ■ recognition than is ac
corded to any other Sabbath in the year in Iditarod. That there
should be such indifference to the great Christian festival in a com
munity the size of Iditarod and its adjoining towns and settlements,
is matter for the consideration of the psychologist.
Outside of the religious service recently conducted by Archdeacon
Stuck, there has been no religious gathering in this district in two
years conducted by an ordained clergyman or minister. It is true that
at funerals religious ceremonies have been gone through with by lay
men, but even in these cases the prevailing note has in many cases been
that of fraternalism rather than that of purely Christian ideals. It is
also true that on Easter day a year ago some recognition was given to
the day bv holding a public song service, and this to a certain extent
met the religious inclinations of the public. But this year not ever,
that much public recognition was accorded the day. And the question
naturally arises, Are the people of this district irreligious? Another
question which suggests itself is. How does the lack of religious teach
ing and opportunity for public worship manifest itself in the character
and conduct of the people? The answer to the latter question which
will naturally suggest itself to many a saintly old lady in the States who
is financially aiding the dissemination of the Gospel in benighted lands
is that necessarily we must have degenerated into a lawless, irreverent
and atheistic people. That the lack of religious instruction and the
absence of opportunity for Christian worship must necessarily have
brought about a weakening of the moral fiber and a general breaking
away from wholesome restraints exercised by Christian teaching upon
the old Adam which is conceded to be innate in our natures. Such an
answer would be tar rrom the trutn, However.
Despite the fact that there is absolutely no attempt at congrega
tional worship here, there are, as in all American communities, num
bers of devout Christians, and owing to the thoroughly cosmopolitan
character of the population, many creeds are represented, ft is to be
sincerely doubted whether a place of worship of any of the many
Christian denominations could be maintained in the district, and an
undenominational form of worship, comprising adherents of all creeds,
would be a failure. As for accepting the services of a missionary
priest or minister, maintained wholly or in part by contributions of
churches elsewhere, the idea would be repugnant to the independent
Alaskan spirit, which would pay for its own religious advantages or
deny itself in that particular.
It must by no means be inferred, however, that lack of religious
advantages has had a deleterious effect on the people. It is probable
that nowhere in the world is there a community more law-abiding or
more charitable than Iditarod. There need be no cause for anxiety
about a people who, although separated hundreds of miles from the
seat of authority, find the maintenance of police officials almost a for
mality. Where else in the world would the sudden determination to
suppress the old-time Alaska mining camp evils have met with such a
ready acquiescence on the part of the people? Where would the clos
ing of saloons on Sundays have met with such ready compliance? Few
communities of the same size could boast of the fact that months pass
without an arrest in the whole district, and w'here a trial for a criminal
offense, or even a msdemeanor, is an event in local history.
So it must be concluded that, regrettable as it may seem to many
that Iditarod is not favored with opportunity for public worship, the
lack of such opportunity has apparently no ill effects. Our people are
omnivorous readers, and it may be that communing with the great
minds of the literary world may in a measure compensate for the reli
gious yearnings which occupy to a certain extent a place in all hearts.
“FAIR AND IMPARTIAL” WAR NEWS
Because of the fact that German officials and the German people gen
< rally at the outbreak of the war complained bitterly of the alleged un
fair newspaper accounts of the war and the events leading up to it, the
American public has listened patiently to the German newspapers and
official emissaries sent to this country to give the German version of
the war story. Encouraged by this, the Germans are extending their
publicity campaign, and in the last mail The Pioneer received a copy
of the Hamburger Fremdenblatt “Illustrated War Chronic,” a “period
ical published in Germany in the English language for the sole purpose
of enlightening the neutral countries, particularly the citizens of the
United States, regarding the world war.” The accounts of various in
cidents of the war chronicled in this publication differ not so much in
the details as in the manner of their recital. Thus, in describing the
naval raid on the English towns of Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby,
the “War Chronic” says naively: “In Hartlepool ninety persons were
killed and 160 wounded. * * * In Scarborough two churches
were partially demolished and in Whitby the historical abbey ruin was
injured. The inhabitants, many in their night clothes, fled panic
stricken into the interior.” Rather a gruesome achievement to gloat
over, one would think.
As illustrating the difference in the point of view, the publication
says: “Does not the British fleet continue to bombard the Belgian
coast and the Belgian bathing resorts, to such an extent that the in
habitants of these places refer to them as the ‘English incendiaries?
Was not Scarborough a naval base upon which we fired?”
In the matter of the relations between the allies, to which much
space is given, are some interesting conclusions, which tend to show
that Kitchener, with his comparatively small force, is engaged in a
nefarious plan to capture French ports and territory under the very
nose of General Joffre and his millions of trailed soldiers. Says the
“War Chronic”:
,Let us suppose that France enters into peace negotiations with us—is it believed in
Paris that Kitchener and French will simply evacuate the French territory to which they
came only as the saviors of France? England would further fortify her “tete de pont,”
Calais. To come right down to the truth, England never really got over the loss of Calais.
“When my heart is opened,” said the dying Maria Tudor, “the name ‘Calais’ will be
found written on it.”
England needs Northern France for the purpose of carrying on warfare against Ger
many. in whose possession they do not wish, under any circumstance, to leave Ostend and
Antwerp. France has become an English protectorate. Even the French do not deceive
themselves as to this fact.
The “War Chronic” expresses great disapproval of President Wil
son's policy, and gives voice to the opinion that the efforts of our Ger
man countrymen and of the Irish in America” have not been accorded
the proper recognition, “at least not in proportion to their numbers and
worth.”
The publication also discusses the personality of the Russian minister
to Paris in an entertaining manner, and also gives a digression on “Eng
land and Her Dear Ireland” which must be quite a revelation to students
of Irish history, but it is not quite clear what bearing it has on the mat
ter in hand—the “enlightenment” of the American people.
A rather remarkable expression, and one which probably forms the
keynote of the publication, is contained in the following sentence:
“The motive power of this thirst for knowledge which renders service
to all of us (Germans) is a profound longing for truth, a something
which has never found expression in any other race. We want to pos
sess it because it is identical Hath us.” Which, of course, leaves noth
ing more to be said.
Taken all in all, the “War Chronic,” while an interesting publication,
does not show a high appreciation of American intelligence if it is ex
pected to influence public opinion here by such literature.
Secretary of the Inferior Franklin K. Lane has sent a. kindly letter to Father Duncan,
the aged missionary at Metlakahtla. in which he counsels the latter to co-operate with
the department in working for the welfare of the natives a! the mission. The secretary
recognizes the wonderful work accomplished by Mr. Duncan during his long residence
among the natives, but reminds the missionary that the Metlakahtlans must no longer
be treated as children. He says that for many years the United States government al
lowed Ihe natives to develop under Mr. Duncan’s leadership, the government only ex
tending financial aid. After investigation it had been deemed necessary to establish and
maintain a United States public school and otherwise assume responsibilities in connection
with the people of Metlakahtla, and he cautions him not to interfere in any way with
the government, or its agents nor to cause dissensions among the natives. Secretary Lane
assures Mr. Duncan of a desire to co-operate in arriving at an equitable adjustment cf
the rights of ail concerned, and intimates that he will visit the mission during the com
ing summer. ___
Next Wednesday is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Abrafrain
Lincoln, his death occurring the following day. In fifty years wondrous changes have
taken place in the world, and especially in the nation for whose preservation his life was
sacrificed. To us in Alaska it is interesting to remember that the purchase of Alaska
was negotiated by a member of Lincoln's cabinet, probably under Lincoln’s administra
tion, and the transaction was consummated two years after the great President's demise.
Another interesting fact in this connection is that in this Interor Alaska city of Iditarod,
which in Lincoln’s day was part of the unknown and unexplored North, a grandson of
Lincoln’s great secretary of war will preside over our civic destinies for the ensuing year.
The election board at Tuesday’s election probably did the proper thing in following the
advice of the attorneys of the city in the matter in controversy. Still it placed them in
tlie rather indefensible position of declaring a municipal ordinance invalid, an act which
even inferior judicial tribunals hesitate to perform. The ordinance plainly provides that
a voter “must” register, and certainly the intent was to carry out that idea. It is un
fortunate that any impairment of the registration provision should be made, as is s
intended as a safeguard against fraudulent and illegal voting and a convenience to the
public. _
Alaska papers are full of invitations to President Wilson to visit their cities and the
polite answers of the President in which he declines the invitations. Iditarod did not join
in the organized effort to induce the chief executive to have his duties in the present
grave crisis: and b"-ides, we had no desire to incumber his enormous mail with episites
the answer to which was a foregone conclusion. And the President knows tie is welcome
10 come to Iditarod at any time.
THE BREAK-UP
1 —
(By C. EDWARD CONE)
A smooth white crust in the glistening sun
Stretches forth a broad and curving line;
Beneath it a swelling flood must run.
That crowds and struggles with strength that's fine
Its grappling bonds to rend and break.
That its own free course its way may take.
There’s a heave, a surge, a mighty str;ia;
There’s a grind, a crash, a sullen ro;:
A groan as tho’ in laboring pain;
A surge, a grind, a crash once more.
And the great white crust is on the move.
Sliding along in its channeled grove.
Crashing and grinding, and piling high
On the broad, flat bars of turn and bend,
The crowding flood, with gladdening cry.
Leaps to the breach as its fetters rend.
And with an eddying current strong,
It hurries its sullen foe along.
For months it has lain, a giant bound
Tight in the grip of the winter king;
But oh! how it rises to the sound
Of the soft and gentle voice of Spring;
To roll its way to the Waiting sea.
And with a giant’s strength is free
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COSMOPOLITAN CAUCASIA
The National Geographical Society has
issued the following statement concerning
Caucasia, where the Turks and Russians are
renewing the age-long conflict that has ex
isted between the Turk and the Muscovite:
“Caucasia is a potpouri of races, tongues
and religions. Nowhere else in the world
can one find cn a similar area so many types
of peoples, so many languages and dialects,
so many religions and sects thereof, as in
this corner of the Russian empire, where the
trooos of the czar and those of the Crescent
are continuing their generations-long but
mortal feud. The Caucasus, for the most
part, stretch above fruitful land, and every
folk ridden stream which flowed their way
has left eddies within their closed, world
isolated valleys.
“The cosmopolitanism of New York is
provincial compared with the magnificent,
Regardless confusion of the Caucasian peo
ples. There are some seventy dialects
strange to the West spoken within its
boundaries, while business, touring, engi
neering and other techniques bring most of
the other languages in. In this modern
Babel dwell Georgians, Imeritians, Chevsurs,
Lazes, Mingrelians, Pshavs, Swanittans, Ab
khasians, Circassians, Kabardians, Ossetes,
Avars, Chechinzes, Jews, Russians of several
varieties, Diags, Lesghian, Kazy-Kunyshk,
Tush. Ingush, Greeks and others of the Oc
cident. Caucasia, indeed, may be said to be
a place pre-eminently devoted to language—
all kinds and complexions of speech being
native there in bewildering richness.
“Caucasia is the broad, stocky isthmus
which, extending from the southeast corner
of Europe to Asia, divides the Black and
Caspian seas. Its area is about 180.0U0
square miles, or more than four times larger
than the state of Ohio. It has good ports
both on the Black and Caspian seas. Bat urn
is one one side ana naKU on me otner.
The famous Apsheron peninsula is one of
the richest of the world’s oil fields, and, in
general, the Caucasus is the mineral treas
ury of all the Russians. The grain, grazing
and fruit lands of this government are very
bountiful, and could be turned into the
richest of garden and farming spots with a
little modern care. Coal is produced, and
among the ores now mostly developed for
commerce are copper, manganese, mercury,
sulphur, cobalt, iron and salt.
“Europe’s barrier against Southeastern
Asia, the Caucasus range stretches across
the middle lands of Caucasia, dividing the
government into Ciscaucasia and Transcau
casia. In the mountainous central region is
to be found some of the most beautiful
scenery in the world. The mountains are
heavily forested, and upon their ledges and
within their locked valleys survive some of
the most primitive of ail white peoples. All
varieties of climate occur in this land of
variety, from the bitter, sharp seasons of
the heights to the everlasting tropical
weather of the fig and date tree land. The
fauna al;o shows a wide range, from the
common European species of wild animals
to the leopard and the tiger.
“The population of Caucasia is for the
most part agricultural in its pursuits. It is
backward, and for the* most part, beyond an
abundance of grains anti fruits, has no other
desire. Naturally, therefore, the desires of
modern life have only made negligible be
ginnings. The natives make harness, rugs,
woolen cloaks, leather articles trimmed with
art:<tic silver designs, and a fairly good
wine. There b further a large oil refinery
industry. The growth of industrial life is
held back by an almost entire lack of trans
portation facilities. While the railroads
connect Titlis. the capital and distributing
center, with the two chief ports. Batum and
Baku, the larger part of the land is neither
accessible by train nor even by plausible
wagon roads.”
WEIRD METHODS OF KILLING
SUGGESTED IN PRESENT WAR
“Lord Dundonald’s Secret"
From time to time during the last hun
dred years or so everyone has heard of Lord
Dundomild’s plan for the total annihilation
of an enemy, but the disclosure of the secret
has been left to Lord Ellenborough. who.
in his book, “The Guilt of Lord Cochrane
in 181.3,” gives details of the invention. In
brief, the plan is death by suffocation from
sulphurous fiames, and is set out as follows
as proposed for use in the Crimean war:
“Memorandum:
“Materials isquired for the expulsion of
the Russians from Sebastopol:
“Experimental trials have shown that
about five parts of coke effectually vaporize
one part of sulphur. Mixtures for land serv
ice where weight is of importance may,
however, probably be suggested by Prof.
Faraday; as to operations on shore, I paid
some little attention.
“Four or five hundred tons of sulphur
and two thousand tons of coke would be
sufficient.
“Besides these materials it would be nec
essary to have, say, as much bituminous
coal and a couple of thousand barrels of gas
or other tar, for the purpose of making for
tifications to be attacked or others that
Hank the assailing positions.
“A quantity of dry firewood, chips, shav
ings, straw, hay or other such combustible
materials would be required for the kindling
of fires, which ought to be kept in readiness
for the first favorable steady breeze.
“Aug. 7. 1855. DUNDONALD.”
Lord Ellenborough points out, however,
that “if these enormous amounts of com
bustibles had been stored in our trenches
before Sebastopol a hostile shell might have
ignited them while we were waiting for a
wind to blow the smoke in the right direc
tion, and that we should then have been
driven from our own trenches.”
The Dundonald plan was first submitted
to the British government in 1811. At
once a committee was appointed to examine
it. The Duke of York, second son of
George III, was the chairman, and among
his colleagues, Admirals Lord Keith and
Lord Exmouth and Sir W. Cosgrove, the
inventor of the military rocket. Lord Dun
donald claimed that his device afforded “in
fallible means of securing at one blow our
maritime superiority and of thereafter main
taining it in perpetuity,” and “that no power
on the earth could stand against the at
tack.” While the committee agreed that
his lordship had not claimed too much, they
would not recommend it for adoption be
cause its destructiveness was too great. So
nothing was done. No matter how ear
nestly Lord Dundonald pleaded, he could
not move the government.
Again, in 1846, when trouble with France
was feared, he urged the ministers to take
advantage of it. Another committee con
firmed the opinion of the Duke of York,
that the plan was certain to bring victory
to our arms. Still, the government would
have nothing to do with it. During the
Crimean war the government was twice ap
proached. On the second occasion they
came near to acceptance, for Sebastopol still
appeared to be impregnable. But as the
government desired that engineers’ < fhcer9
should use it, and Lord Dundonald insisted
that no one should use it but himseh, once
Lord Dundonald died in 1860.”—The Peo
ple, London.
A Wonderful French Secret
France may add a sixth feature to its
land service—invisibility, according to a
London dispatch. The government ■ fak
ing great interest in Major Kopenhagm’s in
vention for making troops invisible to the
enemy before or above them, and it may be
adopted by the general staff.
The invention has been submitted after
trials beginning in April, 1913, at St. Cyr.
It is stated that during a recent trial a
number of soldiers on an open field were
made so invisible that an aviator circ luting
over the field at a height of a thousand feet
had to report at the end of twenty four
minutes’ search that he could not locate
them. The inventor, however, refuses to
give any description of his work, a! least
until the military authorities have decided
what they will do in the matter.
Germans Use Silent Gun
Another London dispatch says that a
polonel E. E. Swinton has given out tl rough
the London press bureau the following state
ment concerning a silent gun the Germans
are using:
“In our center the enemy is employing a
silent gun which may be pneuno.’ic or
worked by some mechanical contrivance.
“There is no report of the discharge. The
projectile travels through the air without
any of the warning made by an ordinary
shell, and the first notice to be recv:\ "d i
the detonation. So far the weapon has
done no damage.”
The Much-Advertised Turpinite
I am told that government and other
factories in France are working day and
night at the fabrication of special .shells for
the famous “75” gun. intended to contain a
charge of the new explosive, “Turp:nite”—~
so called after the name of its inventor.
The greatest secrecy is maintained by those
engaged in the production of the new shells.
These formidable engines are not intended
to be used until the enemy has been pushed
back into Grmany. It is a mistake to sup
pose that the “Turpin” shell kills ev< rvthing
within its radius of action owing to the
poisonous gases which emanate from it. The
fact is that the shock caused by the explo
j sion is so violent that the action of the
| heart is instantly paralyzed and dea h is in
j stantaneous.—The Rambler in the I^ondon
l Daily Mirror.
This Marvel Is Canadian
A Toronto dispatch tells of an invention
which will revolutionize modern warfare
which has been submitted to the Bri'i-h by
J. C. McLachlan, a resident of that city.
The invention is a noiseless powder, by
means of which whole regiments may be
mowed down in silence. Representatives of
Great Britain, France and Belgium saw it
tested, and Mere amazed at its effect and
its wonderful silence.
“UNCLE BILLY” ANSLEY
EMPLOYS THAWING PLANT
One of our newlv-eiected councilmen,
“Uncle Billy” Ansley, got extremely busy on
the day after his inauguration. Thursday
last, with a steam thawing outfit in front
of his popular bazaar on Richmond street,
and began to thaw the large pile of sacked
sawdust, which he is using to neck his sum
mer’s supply of ice. “Uncle Billy” says his
White-river experience taught him never to
nut up ice until just before the break-up.
as the ice at that season is entirely free of
the dreaded iceworms that considerably wor
ried Stroller White and Limpin’ Grouse in
early Klondike days.
ROCKEFELLER AND HIS ILK
DIDN’T REFUSE “CHANGE” j
A New York dispatch says that of all the |
men. rich and poor, who have testified be- I
fore the industrial commission, only three j
John Mitchell, former president of the j
United Mine Workers, Samuel Uni minever !
and Daniel G. Guggenheim - have refused
to accept witness fees of $2 a day for their
i appearance.
“I never accept pay for appearing at pub
lic hearings,” Untermeypr said.
“I’ll sign the receipt, but I don’t want the
money.’’ said Guggenheim.
Mitchell just said: “Not a cent."
But net only did John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
accept a stipend of ?2. but he sico took
mileage of £3 for a trip from Tamytown.
though it was understood at the hearing
I that Rockefeller’s unexpected appearance
was due to the fact that he was already in
: the city and wished to avoid an additional
trip back.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., took $6 for three
days, and his aide, Ivy D. Lee. received a
j check for $4 and demanded $8 because he
had been kept waiting for four days.
Jacob Schiff, J. P. Morgan and all the
rest took what was coming to them.
Mitchell even refused mileage that
amounted to S25.
_
TURKS PLAY ’POSSUM
TO FOOL THEIR ENEMIES
LONDON, March 4.—“We are here very j
near Adam and Eve’s abode, the Garden of
Eden,” writes a lance corporal with the
British forces fighting the Turks in the ■
country back of the Persian gulf.
“It is very hot, and the country is no j
place for a white man. We live on bread,
tea and dates. The greatest hardship is |
the scarcity of water. I have not had a ;
shave or a wash for seventeen days
“We captured two forts and a telegraph
office yesterday without the loss cf a man.
The Turks lost forty. Some of the meth
ods of the Turks in action. are curious. A
favorite trick of theirs is to fall down in
close action as if dead, and then, after the
line of British has passed them, they get
up again and fire at them from behind.
“While retreating the Turks frequently
discard numerous articles of clothing, lest
they should impede their flight. Before
their retreat has lasted long they have on
nothing but their shirts and ammunition
belts. No matter how hot the fighting is.
one cannot refrain from laughing at the
^spectacle of several hundred men running
at top speed with their long shirts flapping
around their bare legs.”
MORE LIKELY
“I am married, but I think that mar
riage is a failure.”
“I’m married, but I don’t. Difference of
opinion, eh?”
“No. Difference of wives, I fancy. —
Boston Transcript,
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
Professional
Michigan, 1881 Alaska, 19 Hi
Kentucky, 1891
George Woodruff Albrecht
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney or Iditarod
E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office: Comer Willow and Second Sts.
Iditarod Pioneer Building
W. F. HARRISON,
Attorney at Law
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Room 12, Regina Hotel
CM AS. E. TAYLOR.
Attorney at Law
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DAN HARTNET
DOG RACING AS A “SPORT’
It is over. Reference is made to the
All-Alaska Sweepstakes, which made Nome
famous and the saloons, some of them, a
barrel of money.
We don’t think there were any flies on
the individual who devised a race which
keeps men day and night taking stock of &
bulletin board, and relieving their exertions
in this direction by a temporary relief at
the bar, and while we may object to the
personal intrusion of so many different
views on the merits of the various contest
ants, we will be philosophic enough to rec
ognize the fact that Nome’s winter is a long
winter, and any kind of diversion is better
than nothing, providing it is as harmless a
form of idiocy as dog racing. That there is
an clement of sport in the contest for the
contestants, and that they sacrifice personal
comfort with the enthusiastic ,zeal of a gladi
ator, this paper will not deny, but that there
is sport of a very high order in the game
for the rest of the community it is a farce
to pretend.
However, there are so many idle during
the winter and so many who live by some
means off the labor of others, that some
sort of indulgence is required to relieve the
monotony of so simple a solution of the
“simple life” for them, and while the man
with the muck stick fans the air for others’
profit, we suppose the days of dog racing
will be long in the land. But we would like
to know how long this big race would last
were the saloons and betting eliminated,
and were the sport indulged in for sport’s
sake. After all, the commercial element it
is which promotes the enthusiasm over
Nome’s great race, and like Christmas shop
ping, the profit is no small incident to the
big event.—Nome Industrial Worker.
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more durable for machinery repairing
than the ordinary soft lead. Pioneer
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For one week, wall paper at cost. Pio
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