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THE AGE OF DIPLOMACY
At times we have the urge to write one of those “bust
’em wide open” kind of editorial, a sort of “rip-snort
er” from the old days.
We have learned from the experience of many that
it is sometimes as dangerous to “step on” the typewriter
as it is the gas; that is, the typewriter is more deadly than
the machine gun.
But matters weigh heavily upon one s civic conscious
ness and patriotic fervor, and such burdens may best be
lifted by expression.
Our humble conviction is that the world is driftin
into the habit of doing things because they are “diplomat
ic” things to do, often regardless of whether they are the
right things to do.
One may go up and down the scale of human activi
ty, and find a suffering world avoiding on every hand
such controversial subjects as politics and religion and
othe** great questiosn of the day.
The fashion is to be “diplomatic” and stay out of
great issues that are vital, letting a comparatively few
shoulder the burden of carrying on.
For fear of tramping on someone’s toes many people
sacrifice their own personality and well-being.
Some public officials try to curry favor among cer
tain groups according to vote-power, with little regard
for the principle of greatest good to the greatest number
upon which proposition good government must exist if
at all.
Consistency should never be sacrificed for diplomacy.
Tact and adroitness have their place in the scheme of
life; in fact, an importance to be considered; but truth
should never be sacrificed upon the alter of affability,
nor right subordinated to the path of least resistance.
The press is another institution that struggles be
tween its own conscience and ideals on one hand and a
changing reader-interest and support on the other.
Platforms- political, civil and social, always stand the
heavy strain of vote-control and patronage.
The world needs to get back to simple truths and the
ability to stand by them. Advancement of a race, a na
tion, a state and a community depends not on how much
we learn, but on finding out how much of what we learn
can be believed, and how much can be delied upon.
Easy-going freedom will get one thru life to be sure,
but seldom into history.
Neither Socrates, Alexander, Moses, Jesus of Naza
reth, Luthher, Burke- Emerson, Lincoln nor Warwin suc
ceeded in getting everybody to approve of their acts nor
accept their teachings, but today the world is still want
ing to know more of them and of what they taught and
did. None of them succumed to diplomacy for diploma
cy’s sake. This is an age of diplomacy from which it is
difficult to escape; but what all can hope for and work
for is a condition where, if diplomacy is to be a necessary
ingredient in human relationship, all may be diplomatic
in doing right instead of wrong.
We attract to ourselves what we think the most
about.
We wonder which passenger was the “jinks” on the
Northwestern and the Alameda?
More undertakings succeed because of. the foolish
ness of1 the other fellow than thru wisdom of our own.
A Philadelphia newspaper says prohibition is taxing
our best minds. Well, why not? Everything else is taxed.
Between snowslides and shipwrecks Seward is be
twe en Satan and the deep blue sea.
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ALL GAMES ARE CALLED
OFF TONIGHT. ACCOUNT\.
SNOWSLIDES ON LINE
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The Army and Anchorage basket- j
ball game, scheduled for this evening,1
has been cancelled by mutual agree
[ xnent inasmuch as the snowslides on
the railroad prevents the Fairbanks
City team from arriving for their!
first local game with the S. A. C.
It is thought at this time that the :
Fairbanks will come over tomorrow
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anyway for one game but regardless j ;
of this the Anchdrage and Seward Hi |
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boys will play off the last and decid
ing game of their series at 8 o'clock (
tomorrow' (Sunday) evening.
Providing the Interior team arrives 1 !
they will play the S. A. C. in the first
game tomorrow night. If they fail to
show the girls teams will appear in a
preliminary.
In the meantime, under the new' ar
rangments the high school teams are
given an opportunity to rest up.
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BIG GUSHER IGNITED
IN MONTH FIELD
$29,000 WHS LOST
GREAT FALLS, Dec. 17. (fP)—
A gusher estimated at 8,000 barrels
per day turned Into a giant flaming
torch in the Wilcox pool of Kevin,
Sunburst field and burned for 44
hours before the ‘bead” subsided,
burning $25,000 worth of crude oil.
Hannah-Porter Oil Co., brought in
the big well at noon Tuesday without
a control head. It flowed a solid
eight inch column of oil 65 feet high
before it broke, the spray going high
above the derrick.
So terrific was the fury of the
gusher that the crew was afraid to
work on the derrick floor and made
no efort to put on a control head*
They waited for nearly two hours
while the great pools of oil, believing
the first “head” would soon subside.
The blaze started from the boiler
house and was spectacular.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Yesterday, friends and playmates
of Johnny Paulcteiner gathered at
the Paulsteiner home to celebrate
the coming of his fourth birthday.
Refreshments were served and all
went home perfectly satisfied with
having a good time.
Weather Strips at J. L. Graef.
DANCE TONIGHT
Admission Charge: Men!
75c; Ladies 25c
MUSIC BY
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TONIGHT—TWO SHOWS 7 AND 9
Jack London’s
Stirring Melodrama
The Sea Wolf ”
Is A Thriller
This fast moving exciting picture gives
RALPH INCE — CLAIRE ADAMS
! MITCHELL LEWIS-THEODORE VON-ELTZ
a chance to prove they know their stuff
! The main part of the story is staged aboard the
I sealing schooner “The Ghost’’ commonly referred tl
as “The Hell Ship.”
RALPH INCE - AS “WOLF” LARSEN IS A MAN
WHOSE CREED IS‘MIGHT MAKE RIGHT’; “I
TAKE WHAT I WANT”
An intense, fast moving story that everyone will en
joy and with it there’s a wow of a comedy
“WILD AND WOOZY”
SUNDAY—TWO SHOWS—7 and 9 0‘CLOCK
It's a Jimmy Adams laugh-getter
That funny comedian
DOUGLAS MAC LEAN
in
“HOLD THAT LION”
He mixed love with lions and Oh! what a roar.
He follows the beautiful blonde half-way round the
world—meets her minus his trousers—makes love
to her in a pair of stolen kilts and then has to go out
with her father to capture lions—LOOK OUT!—
There’s no holding the laughs in this one
And with it we have a hilarious two reel comedy—
a splendid PATHE NEWS and an EDUCATIONAL
This program can’t be beat
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Bill Snodgrass sprained a big toe
in the first local game when he and
Ek collided. It has bothered him
.considerably since. “Toe bad".
Twelve new Peggy O’Niel styles
have arrived.
See Bine Shop for late styles