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The best example of an Alaskan,
a real dyed-in-the-wool Alaskan, is the
old Sour Dough who believes in the
country, in which*he has lived for fif
teen or twenty years. He boosts Alas
ka's enterprises, he has sublime con
fidence in Alaska’s prosperity and an
abiding faith in the possible achieve
ments of his brother Alaskans. When
the glooms begin to gather, when the
bankers, the merchants, the laborers
and the transiet gougers begin to look
through the wrong end of the tele
scope and see prosperity vanishing in
to the dim distance, the Old Sour
ilough smiles, tightens up his belt and
tells the whole crowd that they don’t
know what they are talking about and
nine time out of ten the Old Sour
dongh is right.
If Alaska was filled with men and
women all of the same calibre as the
Old Sourdough Alaska’s business de
velopment would stagger imagination.
Now is the time when we need all the
real old Sourdoughs we can gather to
{-ether and we particularly need them
in Seward. The next six months will
tdl a startling and revealing story to
and for all real Alaskans. It will
show whether Alaskans are willing to
•get together and work together for
the general good of the territory or
whether they will remain apart ana
ht&y silent and permit the Govern
ment to continue to dole out a cut and
dried program, bound up in re*i tape.
The issue is clean cut, the opportunity
for every real Alaskan to join forces
rs now here. A Republican president
will be inaugurated next March, a Re
publican governor will occupy the gov
ernor’s mansion at Juneau. This man
will be a real Alaskan with the inter
ests of all Alaskans at heart He has
been officially endorsed by National
Committeeman McBride. We are for
tunate in having in Alaska a real dy
ed- in- the- wool Sour dough who is
thoroughly capable of governing the
people of Alaska in an intelligent and
wide awake manner. George C. Haze
let should and will receive the whole
hearted support of every real honest
to goodness Alaskan who has the in
terests of Alaska at heart Those who
oppose him for governor will be a
very* very small minority of narrow
minded, egotistical men who have on
ly their own selfish interests in mind
and woh do not care a rap for the gen
eral welfare of Alaska. We have cal
amity howlers in Alaska and we have
genuine old Sourdoughs. The latter
know what they want and they know
how to get it and knowing WHAT and
HOW, they are determined to see that
the proper man is seated in die gov
ernor's chair at Juneau. Never has
Alaska had the opportunity that now
presents itself for die people of Alas
ka to get together and stay together.
It is an opportunity that seldom comes
to the people of any new country. It is
‘an opportunity, the possibilities - oi
which are unlimited. For the ultimate
£ood of every>eal Alaskan from Cir
cle to Juneau, and from Nome to Daw
son, let's get together and stay togeth
er always and forever and by so doing
we will be able to lay a foundation for
the future, upon which we can build a
lasting structure which will some day
Tf the best and forty ninth
•tale of the Union.
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I TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT?
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; Consider the case of a man who
must get. his living ftam the soil.,
When he should be plowing he sits in !
the shade of the bam and tinkers with !
a device to polish finger nails. When,
he should be planting be toils patient- j
ly to perfect a rocking-chair that will I
; play a tune. When he should bq bar-.
vesting he sits on the fence and whin-'
es because his stomach ia empty. An;
add character, surely. He is America. |
America is going to town, where it
can see the show windows and revel in j
the sight of other people’s wealth. And ;
as the townward march continues the1
sound of the dinner bell grows faint;
and the land is filled with an agon-!
ix.ed wail from restaurant patrons. The
task requires both intelligence and
brawn. He earns prosperity. At pros-)
ent he takes the price he can get;
when he will, he can get the price he
is willing to take. j
if the country were on the verge 5
of starvation and all the fields were'
fallow while men huddled in cities to ’
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and machines, the growing of food
might become a matter of patriotism,:
md the Government might call for!
/ohmteers to guide the plows. But at
present each man feels free to look out;
for himself, and if he wishes to quit'
die farm to get more of profit and
pleasure in town, he feds that it is’
nobody’s business but his own. If!
>ther people object to his action, let ’
hem hold their peace and take the;
jlace he vacates.
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We assume that men quit the farm
oecause they long for the sight of
nightly lighted streets, for show plac
es, for crowds of well-dressed people (
md for shorter houra of labor. The
assumption is not wholly correct. If
he farmer could make one hundred
dollars on the farm in the time requir
ed to make one dollar in the city, nei
ther the crowds nor the bright lights
would tempt him to quit his fields.
Nor does the matter of houra serve
is a sufficient explanation of his de-#
sire to migrate. Shorter hours interest
those whose reward is fixedt If one is
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assured ten dollars the day and knows
that he can get no more, any dream of
bettering his conditions will have to
do with lessening the effort required to
get the ten dollars. He may ask that
his houra of labor be reduced to six or
four or two. But if the shop in which
he labors belongs to him and his re
ward depends entirely upon the quan
tity of his output, be will be ready to
fight if an effort is made to reduce the
number of bis working hours. - The
farmer works long hours during a por- j
tion of the year. His common sense
does not permit him to waste good
daylight when the ground Ubrifht for
plowing. The soil may hake and be
come too hard, or rain may heap him
fretting within doors. The neasoia do
not wait for him. But if he labors long
during one season, he finds many
hours of leisury in another. His life is
not without its compensations.
It is the desire for money and the
things money can buy that takas men
from the faun— tide, end nothing
more. When men rushed teCafitania
and to Alaska in'Searehof gold, they
took no thought of diacomforta They
did not ask fo&.pihort hews or light
tasks. If the Geerrmneri jheutd offer
a flat salary of tea thousand dollar* a
year to nmn willing to grit Jhe~a*r
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pad take charge of farm#, would there
be an idle acre in America next y*r?
There would not! Money*— that’s ML
One of two things will hapen: Dith
er the consumer who does not produce
food will pay a greater proportid* of
his earnings for vituals and thus suf
fer for the benefit of the farmer; or
the fanner will quit his thankless task
and Join the ranks of the consumers,
and there remain until an increased
price of food tempts him back to the
a
fajm. If we expect to continue indul
gence in the habit of eating we must
arrange for a supply of victuals. For
the most art, the propaganda must
consist in greenbacks. (Saturday Dv
aning Post)
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* NEW YORK, Jan., 6— In a resume
of the football season by Walter Camp
published in the current issue of Col
liar's Weekly in connection with his
AUAmerican selections for 1920, the
dean of intercollegiate football states:
“Out side of the development of
the open play and forward pass, the
most striking feature of the season
was the great interest shown by
coaches and enthusiasts in the East as
to what the West and South were do
ing, and in the South and West as to
what the East was teaching. This had
been brought about by the great grow
th in favor of the intersectional game
led by Harvard's trip to the Coast last
New Year's Day, and by the signing
up of agreements between Princeton
and Chicago for games in 1921 and
1922. Perhaps the greatest factor'of
all, however, was the very definite in
crease, already referred to, in the
knowledge of the game by the footh
public. The spectator in the stands now
is an educated spectator. *
<4On the present schedules the
ranking of teams is impossible. But
lliere is one quality that goes for a
r reat deal, and that is the ability to
rise tp the occasion when necessary, |
and when this test is applied we find |
that the outstanding teams were j
Pricitou, Harvard, rfotre Dame, Pitts
burgh, Penn State, California, Virgin
ia Millitary Institute, Boston and Ohio
State. They all come through and
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would be the ones selected to carry j
w game anywhere. Their methods dif-;
fered largely. Princeton had the great- j
est variety and made the largest use!
of generalship. Ohio State took the
greatest advantage of the modern rul
es. California ran up the largest scor
es. Harvard and Pittsburgh were most
cautions and calculating. Boston, No
tre Dame, and Virginia Military In-'
stitute were most aggressive."
Mr. Camp’s selection for his first *
and second All-American teams fol
low:
First .Team:— End Garney, Illinois;
Tackle*.Keck, Princeton; Guard Calla
han, Yale, Center Stein, Pittsburgh;
Guard Woods, Harvard; Tackle Scott,
Wisconsin; End Fincher, Georgia;
Quarter, Lourie, Princeton; Half Back,
Stinchomb, Ohio State; Half Back,
Way, Penn, State; Full Back, Gipp,
Notre Dame;
Second Team:— Urban, Boston. End
Goetz, Michigan, Tackle; Wilkie, An
napolis, Guard; Cunningham, Dart
mouth, Center; Alexander, Syracuse,
Guard; McMillan, California, Tackle;
LeGendre, Princeton, $nd; McMiilin,
Centre, Quarter; Garrity, Princeton#
Half Back; Davies, Pittsburgh, Half
Back; French, West Point, Full Back.
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The Old North Wind which blew so
hard oh Monday night and all day
Tuesday took a rest yesterday for a
few hours and then started in and blew
a regular gale alljiight. With-the wind
came some snow. This, snow drifted
around the comers., of the buiktyifs
and piled up in front of some of the
stores on Main St to the depths of
several feet It is still blowing and
looks as if it might continue to do so
all day.
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Teacher: You are always boMhd in
your studies.
Pupil: Well you see it gives me a
chance to pursue them.
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. A physician claim# to haro, restor
ed two patients to sanity by polling
their teeth, when they see.th# hill they
may go crasy again.
The S. S. Northwestern wjU proba
bly arrive about 5 o’clock this evening.
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Should a girl'have her hair bobbed
because she likes a fellow named Bob?
Or because she wants to ride on n Bob
sled? Or because she wants to bob for
apples? Should she make a Bobber but
of a Barber? Four questions. Eh.
What's the answer to ’em?
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The Gateway Flier arrived last
night on schedule time with more than,
one hundred passengers; Every hotel‘
in Seward this morning is crowded to
capacity. The folio wingr guests are re
gistered at the Overland'Hotel; Mni
J. J. Chisholm is awaiting the arrival
of her husband who is due on the S. 8:
Northwestern.
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