Sllte §>rutarii (Satfuiay
and THE ALASKA EVENING POST.
Published Daily Except Sunday by The Gateway Publishing Company.
Published Daily Except on Sundays and Holidays.
Entered as second-class matter September 2, 191** at the postof/ics a
Seward, Alaska, under the act of March d, 1879.
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TAPS
With the passing of General Frederick Furiston, the
United States loses one of its seven most experienced line
officers, at a time when line officers are greatly needed.
Funston was a typical American warrior, ready to
take the lead in all things. He was human in that lie
sought ami appreciated praise among his fellow men, but
he never claimed credit for the accomplishments ot others,
and made good at every opportunity.
FEEDING T11E ARMY
One of the things they overlook in the war dispatches
is how the army which blows the enemy trenches to
“smithereens’ and storms the line, enjoyed its breakfast.
Breakfast for the warriors who defend Verdun is
quite an event.
Bakers make 450,000 five-pound loaves a day for
those warriors and the quartermasters department dis
tributes 24.500.000 pounds of food to the men on duty
along the half-moon of trenches between the Saire river
and the quaint little town of Les Eparges.
THE SPUD
Potatoes are grown to eat, although most of the
growers in this country have never stopped to consider
this fact, but have been raising potatoes to sell, according
to Lou D. Sweet, who addressed the International Farm
congress when it was in session at El Paso on “The Com-!
mercial Possibilities of Potato Growing. I
In the opinion of the speaker the growers have con
sidered only the market price and the best yield they could
get without stopping to realize that high quality not only
stimulates consumption but also brings better financial
returns. “I firmly believe,” continued Mr. Sweet, "that if
the potato growers of this country would unite to grow
only high grade potatoes, with line flavor and good value,
that the per capita consumption of potatoes in this coun
try could be practically double what it is now.” Failure
to properly rotate their crops and negligence in the grow
ing and selection of good seed are other causes that have
contributed to the decreased potato production in the
United States and the decreased consumption.”
RANK HERESY
It takes the West to do audacious things. The presi
dent of the University of Washington up in the north
western corner of the country, has “fired Coach Dobie,
the most lauded, successful and highly paid trainer of col
lege footba’l players beyond the Mississippi. And Wash
ington is a state university. Under Dobie the gridiron
teams of Washington have not been compelled to lower
their colors once in the last eight years. He has been the
idol of the students and probably had been drawing a
salary that would make an ordinary college professor
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— Nelson Harding ir Brooklyn Daily Eagl+
drop dead wtih heart disease if it were offered to him. j
But just before the Thanksgiving game with the Uni
versity of California the entire football eleven struck be
cause one of its members had been discip'ined by the facul-.
ty for irregular work in an examination. Dobie put the!
second team in the game and won it.
One would think the faculty should icalize that this
redounded still further to the glory and fame of its in
stitution. But somehow, the faculty got the notion that
Dobie was rapidly becoming the whole thing in Washing
ton university and football its chief reason for existence.
So a polite request to seek another job was handed the
great coach and the astounded students were informed
that hereafter the aim of the college will be to develop and
train the character and intelligence rather than gridiron j
stars. • ’ ' a .eh.
This may be rank heresy, judged by present college
1 standards, but undoubtedly some of the high-biowcd,,
spectacled professors will raise a mild, timorous cheer. I
At least the effects of the daring innovation will be watch
ed carefully and solicitously by some of the othei colleges
i in the country.—(Cleveland Leader.)
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tax on intelligence
The Leader received this morning twenty reams of i
print paper, ten pounds heavier than what we have been
using, but it was all we could find and this was secured
only after telegraphing twice. It will last us just nine
weeks and the cost is a little over $10 a week for the white
paper alone on which to print the Leadei. We ha\e
bought paper enough for a week’s issue many a time for
$2, so you can see what the printer is up against. (Eail
ville Leaddr.)
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SAXON NO LONGER
Whatever else the European war shall accomplish, it
is to result in a complete divorcement from English
customs, and ideals, and even nomenclature of eveiy
thing German, or remotely German.
Just now there is a demand, in the English press, for
taking the hyphen out of “Anglo-Saxon” and dropping
the latter name. “Anglo” is thought comprehensive
enough without the “Saxon,” considering the fact that r
Saxon regiments are now in the trenches, facing British
soldiers.
It is contended that the Saxon race in the British
Isles has long ceased to exist, and that the term is distaste
ful to a Scot, a Welshman or an Irishman. These Celtic
races, think several gentlemen of the press, have furnish
ed the enterprise, the imagination and idealism that built
the British empire. If there is to be any hyphen, the need
of which is admittedly not pressing, it should be used in
the term “Anglo-Celt.”
However, it is not so important to England what its
blend shall be ca'led as is the quality of its manhood. The
blend, under the national stress, is acquitting itself credit
ably. Whatever it may be termed it is much the same
blend as we have here in the United States, and. the gen
eric term “Briton” or “American” should be quite broad
enough and flexible enough to cover either nationality.—
(Post-Intelligencer.) •____
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