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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEED FOR ALTRUISM
Never in the history of the Territory was there more
need for altruism with respect to public service, be is local
or territorial in its scope. Without evidence of this spirit
both the acts of those sincerely and earnestly endeavor
ing to serve faithfully and others readily become the tar
get of suspicion, with thq, ultimate result that the man in
the street shrugs his shoulders and remarks: “Oh,
what’s the use!”
Possibly no agency has gone further to defeat all
movements for greater territorial powers than this lack
of confidence in those who have stood sponsor for the
movement. Unfortunately there is always found lurk
ing in the background not so much a desire to emancipate
the Territory from real or fancied obstacles as there
is to turn the question to individual or group account.
These movements have intermingled in the politics of
the nation since the fifteenth century, and had to be com
bated by those who sought to promulgate rules and regu
lations for the government of themselves and fellows.
What there is of good in the structure of the legal machin
ery of America is the outgrowth of application of Biblical
laws to purely temporal affairs. It might be said to have
begun with the work of Nathaniel Ware, a leading Eng
lish Puritan minister, who had been trained as a lawyer,
and who gave the product of his training to the New Eng
land colonies in 1642, which was incorporated into the
“Body of Liberties” of the Massachusets Colony. Pro
gressing under stress of rigorous religious faith and piety,
those associated in the work advanced toward what
finally became the first code of laws and later the Consti
tution of the United States, considered the most wonder
ful document of all time since the Bible.
Go in whatever direction we may, we find ourselves
bumping up against these fundamentals of society and or
ganized law. They are but the experiences of a world
which went before. Therefore they are valuable, and
cannot be scrapped under any expediency without a pen
alty following.
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uiicuii&uiuusiy mest; luiiuamenicus nave iraveieu
hand in hand throughout Alaska’s history, finding inter
pretation and expression in divers and many often crude
ways. It was the inherent principle of pioneer peoples
finding natural expression under influences which often
compel the individual to forego personal gain that his
fellows may have a square deal.
It would be unfortunate, indeed, if Alaska has dis
carded these fundamentals for the more modem and less
substantial program of political expediency wherein men,
thirsting for power which gives them an unfair advant
age over their fellows, gain the ascendancy.
This is in evidence in the movement to separate
the road activities of the Territory from those of the
Alaska Road Commission. It will be hard for the spon
sors of the movement to convince the average person that
it is for the best of the Territory.
Such a move would bring conflict in the entire pro
gram of road building.
Each community would be demadinng its share of ex
penditure, regardless of needs, and this would lead to
log-rolling in the Legislature, or swapping votes for, di
visional appropriations. It would come into conflict with
every other road-building function in the Territory, such
as the Forestry Bureau and the Alaska Road Commission.
The.ultimate result would be the building up of an organ
ization with an overhead expense the Territory can ill af
ford to bear.
Instead of the altruistic spirit of legislation so badly
needed, we would be plunged further and further into the
meshes of private interests, to the detriment of the whole.
Dispatches report that practically an entire family
wes burned to death as the result of starting a fire with
kerosene, which proves that no remedy has been found to
rid the n tion of this class of fool. Each believes that he
is the e o ption to the rule, and thus the recurrent trage
coie: follow.
AVERAGE INCOME NOW IS
TWICE TOE SGALE OF1919
NEW YORK, March 11. (/P)—The
income of the average gainfully oc
cupied American is 50 per ceat high
er in purchasing power and 250 per
cent .higher in dollars in 1909, ac
cording ,to a preliminary estimate by
the National Bureau of Ecomomic
Research.
The bureau’s current bulletin shows
that in 1926 the income of gainfully
occupied persons had climbed from
approximately $800 a year in 1909 to
$2,000 a year in current dollars and
$1,200 in 1913 dollars. There was al
most no change in the dollar value
between 1909 and 1913. .
Per capita income is shown to
have increased from $300 to $800 in
current and $450 in 1913 dollars.
J National income rose proportionately
from less .than 30 billions in'current
and nearly 55 billions in 1913.
MARSHAL FOCH RECEIVES
TEH DOLLAR PER DAT
PARIS, March 11. (JP)—A Marshal
of France, the highest military honor
and command—that given Foch,
Joffre and four others—gets a salary
of 90,000 francs a year, or $10 a day,
und>er the new scale.
Officers grade down from this pay
to that of a second lieutenant,, who
draws $32 a month, during the early
part of his career.
There are small allowances, but
so small that aai officer must have
some independent fortune or he so
poor as to risk having to make
humiliating economies.
Muskrats keep repairmen busy on
dams and laterals in the Belle
Fourche irrigation district of South
Dakota, and the legislature will be
asked to legalize a year-round open
season on the animals.
Come and try our ice
cream sandwiches. The
newest of ice cream delica
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DANCE
TOMORROW
ODD mows
HALL
MUSIC BY
THE JOLLY THREE
8 O’CLOCK —
ONE SHOW
8 O’CLOCK
JACK HOLT
NORMA SHEARER
in the thrilling story
“Empty Hands
A beautifully pictured tale of a flapper and a he
man lost in the wilds for a long time
Only wild foods to eat—very little to wear—no sep
arate houses to stay in—surrounded by wild nature
and only natural instincts to use
What Would You Do? H fl ll/I T 111111 P I" T
Would you have acted as \j [| |y| £ fl || |J u L t
they did?
And there will be ,also, Harry Langdon in the great
two-reel comedy
“FLICKERING YOUTH”
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best you can buy. Wholesome f ood-stuffs pro
ductive of tasty, enjoyable meals—that’s
what you get here. Low prices are our usual
ones.
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