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MOQUAWKIE VILLAGE IS NOW ON T11K MAT
An old landmark name has l>een changed. I he vil
lage long known as Tvonek is now properly designated
as Moquawkie. This new name is as near to an Indian
word meaning a sheltered place as the white man s or
thography can express it. Moquawkie is very appropri
ate, when applied to the village on the west side ot the
Inlet, for it is quite sheltered by high hint's lrom the pre
vailing northerly winds of winter.
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The postomce department abandoned tne name i\-j
onek nearly ten years ago, when it appeared that the
use of that name might confuse some who knew ot^old
Tyonek, further down the Inlet. In fact, the name Tyo
nek was never properly applied to the village where the
Government’s Indian school is located. But the name se
lected by the postal authorities. Beluga, was eventual 1\
found to be fully as misleading as the former name. An
old station near the mouth of the Beluga river is far
more entitled to be called Beluga, and in fact, is always
meant when seamen and other wayfaring people use that
name.
In February, 1915, President M ilson established an
Indian reservation of (15,000 acres, which includes this
much-misnamed village. On the map used by the Presi
dent, and adopted by him as part of his proclamation,
the reserve is called the Moquawkie Reservation. A short
time afterward the Postmaster General accepted the new*
name for the postoflice, substituting it for both Tyonek
and Beluga. At the close of that fiscal year the new ap
propriations were made for Moquaw kie school instead ol
Tvonek school, and the Commissioner of Education very
promptly changed the name of the school accordingly.
Now the Bureau of Navigation lias signified its will
ingness to concur in the change, and the forthcoming
charts will give Tyonek its proper location, beyond the
village long incorrectly so called, marking the latter vil
lage Moquawkie.
Some slight confusion may be anticipated among boat
men, a few of whom are really tenacious for old forms;
but this will all pass away in a little time, no doubt, and
the name Moquawkie will be generally used in a very few
vears.—Ex.
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TAXATION AND THE BONDS
With the purpose of America to win the war ever in
the mind of government and people, and with the means
of winning on land and sea and in the air already provided
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The Satisfy!—and
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THEY CAN’T KEEP US BACK. „ |
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—Carter in Philadelphia Press.
for, there remains foremost the question: How shall tie
money lie raised? To answer that question is the complex
and difficult problem now before Congress, lhere are
two methods by which the government can provide tor its
pecuniary needs: by taxing the people diiectly 01 met
rectlv and by borrowing from them, and it has long >een
recognized that both must be employed. Then comes the
further question as to amount to be raised by each met kh .
Whether it is the desire of those who would shoulder
:,n undue part of the burden on taxation to make the war
unpopular or not, imposing too heavy a financial load on
the present generation would tend to have that effect
Moreover, too drastic a policy of taxation would defeat its
own object in many cases, since it would discourage effort.
At the same time, we do not believe that any eonsidera >le
number of men of great wealth would oppose heavy tax
ation of their excess incomes. Because a man is rich does
not mean necessarily that he is a miser or a slacker. Nor
is to be credited that men who have seen their sons enlist
and have swelled with pride at the sight would hesitate
to give their mere money to equip their sons and the sons
of other men.
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War profits are legitimate sunjecis iui nutvv uu.
ation. That any man should be allowed to fatten and to
thrive on profits made from the sale of shells, munitions
and supplies, without giving back to the country which
protects him a large share of those profits is unthinkable.
And that these men will be compelled to pay heavily for
their opportunities is as certain as that we are at war.
All of us. however, must contribute. The stamp tax, elim
inated bv the Senate, was an illustration of a fair impo
sition designed to make all America bear its share of the
burden. Other subjects have been found ami still others
will be found, so that in the end the cost of war will be
distributed fairly.
But after all, the great mass of war costs will be met
by borrowing from the people, by the issuance of bonds.
By this means, those yet to come will bear their part
jointly with this generation. That is as it should be. Such
vast sums are required for the prosecution of the war that
the early hope of a pay-as-you-go policy has been discard
ed. If it were enforced, business and industry would be
retarded and crippled, if not paralyzed. As it is, busi
nesses and industries will share ratably in present pay
j ments and will not be sacrificed to posterity. For it is as
much posterity’s war as it is ours. Indeed, so far as Amer
ica is concerned, it is almost more important to America’s
material future that Germany shall be defeated than it is
to her material present. If the war were to end today,
with Germany victorious, it would be many years before
Germany couid afford to invade America, but after those
years posterity would know the horrors of an even great
er war.
The people of today and taxation; the people of to
rnorrow and bonds. We must pay and lend, else even
America will not be safe for democracy.—Ex.
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ALASKA TRAVEL
The stories of German submarines on . the Pacific
coast appear to have had a discouraging influence upon
the movement of Eastern tourists to Alaska during the
summer season now closing. Reports from the various
transportation lines serving the Northern territory indi
cate that hundreds of tourist reservations were canceled
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KNIK, ALASKA
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ALASKA TRANSFER
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Coal, Wood and Ice
General Trnnsferrinjr. Phones. Main IT and «1
soon after the rumors of the presence of submarines be
came current, and that the summer’s business was affect
fed. Fortunately the regular passenger traffic to and from
Alaska increased very materially, the movement of com
mercial travelers being especially noticeable, and the sea
son’s gross passenger traffic was thus very good. The to
! tal number of passengers conveyed to the Northern ter
ritory from Seattle, Vancouver and Prince Rupert during
the eight months ending August 31 was 24,409.
The stories- of German submarines along the Coast
were unfounded in fact, though, at the time, the govern
! ment officials considered the danger sufficiently great to
i justify a warning. There were circumstantial accounts
of the sighting of submarines or periscopes, and the dan
ger for a time, appeared real. Subsequent events indi
cated that there were no enemy submarines on this t oast,
' and none likely to be as long as the United States gov
rnment controls the Panama Canal.—Seattle P.-I.
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Membership in the American Red Cross has grown
from 275,000 at the beginning of this year to the enor
mous number of 3,500,000, and it is increasing at the rate
I of 25,000 to 100,000 a day. -These are fresh figures fur
nished by headquarters at Washington recntly. They tell
only a part of the magnificent story. There are in fact
many more than 3,500,000 members of the American Red
Cross in the names of workers not appearing on the rolls.
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