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SPEAKING OF PENSIONS
It is difficult to understand the opposition which has
arisen in many states to the movement for pensioning
school teachers; unless, indeed, one be averse to jjensions
for any class of citizens.
Surely, a teacher who adequately serves the public
during the period of mental and bodily vigor contributes
as much to the public welfare as a soldier, even where the
latter gives his entire life to the military service of his
country. In neither case does the compensation paid bear
much relation to the value of the service given. As a rule
neither the soldier nor the teacher may expect to acquire
a competency at his trade, and yet the public accepts a
lifetime of self-sacrificing labor from the teacher and then
turns him adrift unprovided for when his vigor has been
exhausted in its service. On the other hand we have been,
and are, prodigal to the point of recklessness in pensioning
our soldiers, if our policy be guaged and measured by our
treatment of other servants of the public, or by the stand-j
a vds of other civilized countries. And while no fair-mind
od person could object to an adequate pension for any sol-j
dier who has been disabled in the service of his country, orj
a soldier who has spent his lifetime in his country’s mili
tary establishment, it is a mistake fraught with much evil
to single out one particular class of public servants as the
pet objects of the government’s bounty independently of
the merit of their claims upon it, and particularly where
ether public servants of at least equal merit are refused
any consideration at all.
Let us continue to pension our military men who de
serve it, but let us no longer deserve the stigma of ingrati
tude by neglecting those soldiers who lead the vanguard
of civilization, the teachers of our common schools.
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GROUCHING ON YOUR JOB
The weather, as a common cause for constant com
plaint, has only one rival—a man’s job.
Quarreling with our bread and butter is pursued as
eagerly as if it were a joyfest by most of us. We think it
a peculiarly modern frame of mind, an evidence of our in
dependent spirit, a certain form of selfrespect, to be ever
lastingly proclaiming ouselves superior to the thing we
are doing.
But most of us haven’t any better reasons than the
slothful man who, according to Solomon, saith, “There is
a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.”
What a lot of little toy lions some of us who are not j
at all slothful set up in the path of our daily success!
We complain of headache because we have to get up:
so early; or else it makes us sick to be on night shift.
We ought to give the boss a few pointers on running
his business. Our fellow workers are all boneheads.
We have to stand too long: or we sit all day and ac
quire dyspepsia. The factory is too cold; or the office is
too hot.
We ought to get a raise; or somebody is standing in
with the boss and cutting us out. Or somebody else is
shirking and we are carrying his share—two jobs for one
pay envelope.
We can’t see any prospect ahead: somebody else is
profiting by our genius.
Oh, what a joyous variety of reasons we can rake up
Tor jawing about our job! And then, of course, if we only
had gone into some other line—we would have made our
million bv this time.
Perhaps, yes, but usually, no. Probably if we could
swap jobs with the man we envy we would be just as dis
appointed in three months, and just as grouchy as we are
now.
All this fault finding and fussing are really nothing
more than little asses in lion’s skins which we set up in our
cwn way. But they will spoil any work any man under
takes. They will ruin a man’s “vision” of what he can do
with his job.
The man who sees nothing but faults in the daily grind
blinds himself to his opportunities—and loses or throws
away all his good chances.—(Minneapolis Daily News.)
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JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS
What right has the bunch of office holders at Valdez,
both local and migratory, “resolving” that we have no
harbor? Do they intend to put their wind-swept, rain
deluged, snow-hidden experience against that of the most
competent engineers in the United States. It’s time those
glacier worms should thaw clear out or freeze clear up.
Their present wriggling is unbecoming to Alaskans—(An
chorage Democrat)
What right, indeed! The very word “resolution” it
self implies a serious pre-consideration of actual or sup
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FIRST AID.
— Kirby in New York World.
posed facts; not the insubstantial fabric of childish
dreams. We should regard as equally sensible, and far
more appropriate, a resolution to the effect that a dead
duck has no life.
The reports from the Latin-American countries indi
cate that the allies of the Western hemisphere are becom
ing thicker than six in a Ford.
-.;.
The war promises now to accomplish what the cru
sades of middle ages failed to do, recover for Christendom
the “Holy Land.”
The Hindenburg line in France seems to be constant
ly on the move backward toward the German border.
Cheer Up Folks
THKRK*3 M'JRK IN THR KITCHEN
Too Scientific
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The city bred boy’s parents had just
moved in to the country and arrange
ments were being made for him to at
tend the public school. One day he;
saw electricians at work there.
“What are those feLows doing?” he
asked his father.
“Putting in an electric *. witch/’ ;vos
the reply.
“Well, I am going back to town at
once," was the boy’s astonishing com
ment. “I won’t stand a school where
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
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THIRD DIVISION, KENAI PREC
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! In the matter of the estate of
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ADAM BLOCH, Deceased.
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in the town of Seward, Territory of
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in all matters connected with said
estate of ADAM BLOCH, deceased.
Dated: Seward, Alaska, April 19,
11917.
ANNIE CHRISTIANSEN,
Administratrix with the will annexed
of the Estate of Adam Bloch, De
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L. L. JAMES, Jr.,
Attorney for said Administratrix.
April 21-28-May 5-12.
they do their licking by electricity.— j
(New York Times.)
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Feathers
“A man might succeed in feather-1
ing his own nest," remarked the Ob-;
server of Events and Things, “if so
much of Cis money did not go toward
putting them on his wife’s hats.”—i
(Brooklyn Eagle.)
The Suitor—What will your father!
settle on the man who marries you?
The Girl—AH the rest or the family
1 suppose.—(Puck.;
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