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WHY NOT ALASKA?
Dr. L. D. Fricks, medical director of the U. S. Public
Health Service, has recommended that a tuberculosis san
itarium for Alaska be built near Port Townsend, Wash.
It is likely that the project will be put before Con
gress at this session.
It is a strange thing how every effort is continually
nade to shift things Alaskan to the State of Washington
• >r elsewhere. Are Nebraska's insane sent to California
for care? Are sick Omaha Indians sent to Mexico? If of
ficials are so concerned over Alaskans why not consider
extending them aid in the Territory, their homeland, not
exiled to a foreign land.
In Interior Alaska, the sun's rays are even more pen
etrating and health-giving than in Washington and the
general climate of Interior Alaska is more like that of
Texas. Such a sanitarium in Washington would be too
lonely for Alaska Indians; like their white brothers, they
would want to be near friends and relatives and amid
surroundings where they were born.
THE RUSSIAN FRANKENSTEIN
Writing in Red Book Magazine, Grand Duke Alex
ander of Russia has brought to light the cardinal causes
of the Russian disintegration, The Bolshevik revolt.
The revolution, it appears, was a Frankenstein, creat
ed by three men—Yaroshinsky, Batolin and Pootiloff. As
early as 1913, says Alexander, the triumvirate had secur
ed control of Russia’s financial structure, its industries
and a large portion of its agricultural area by the Ameri
can plan of mergers, trusts and political jugglery.
In their thirst for power and to hold the people, they
even went so far as to maintain schools of bolshevism
both in Russia and abroad.
The era just preceding the world war is described by
the writer as an orgy of licentiousness, social chaos and
unmoral hysteria occasioned by the great fortunes ob
tained by the friends of the “Unholy Three" in the fren
zied stock speculations. In turn this involved the middle
class. History shows the same state of affairs existed in
France under the frivolous Queen Marie Antoinette.
What we have today in Parisian hectic life is but a hang
over of those periods when all restraint was cast to the
four winds.
While we have no fear of such a debacle in America,
yet it is little wonder that the real statesmen of the na
tion are wearing seamed brows in exerting every effort to
bring order out of frhe present depression.
FOOLISH CRITICISM
Every so often some reader of The Gateway writes
to the editor pointing out grammatical errors; seldom in
deed have these letters been accompanied by comment on
any particular article or editorial, only the fact that some
smart-Alec found a grammatical error.
A phrase conveys or approaches nearest perfection
which conveys, with most perspicuity and least jaw-labor,
an idea from mind to mind. Life is too real, too earnest,
to valuable to be wasted on the idle subtleties of word
mongers.
Even the best of editors will inadvertently get on the
wrong side of a median line in their syntax. Also, even
the good Homer nodded sometime.
The empires of the world were built up with blood
and sacrifice.
Congress got a poor pre-holiday start. Bills intro
duced call for appropriations of not more than six billion.
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FOUR ALASKA BILLS I
Him DEC. 21
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I December 21 was another active
j day for Alaska’s Delegate to Con
! gress, James Wickersham. On that
1 day he introduced four bills in the
House of Representatives.
The first of these was Bill H.R.
6486, to extend the provisions of
! the Act of Congress approved Sept.
I 7. 1916, entitled “An Act to pro
vide compensation for employees of
the United States receiving injuries
in the performance of their duties,
and for other purposes,” to Frank
A. Boyle.
The second is Bill H.R. 648, to
revise the boundary of the Mount
McKinley National Park, in the
Territory of Alaska, and for other
purposes.
The third is Bill H.R. 6484, to j
grant lands in Alaska to the Yaku- j
tat and Southern Railway, a Wash- j
ington corporation, authorized to i
carry on its business in the Terri- j
tory of Alaska.
The fourth is Bill H.R. 6487, to'
authorize the incorporated town of :
Petersburg, Alaska, to issue bonds!
in any sum not exceeding $100,000 j
for the purpose of improving and
enlarging the capacity of the mu- |
nicipal light and power plant, and
the improvement of the water and |
sewer systems, and for the purpose :
of retiring or purchasing bonds
heretofore issued by the town of j
Petersburg.
Rev. Bert J. Single, pastor of the j
Presbyterian church at Cordova,
wais a departure on the SS Victoria
for Cordova, having arrived in Sew
ard from the North on Tuesday
evening’s train. Rev. Bingle at
tended a meeting of the Presby
tery of Yukon at Fairbanks.
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SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
JAN. 30 and FEB. 3
THE CAST:
BOB BENNETT .
E. M. RALLSTON.
BISHOP DORAN.
CLARENCE VAN DUSEN.
DICK DONNELLY.
GWEN RALLSTON.
MRS. RALLSTON.
ETHEL.
. NORMAN NIL&ON
.E. L. SWEEK
.LEONARD HOPKINS
.QUENTIN SMITH
. JOHN NELSON, JR.
.VIVIAN NILSON
.MRS. F. E. LESLIE
...EDITH KAEMMER
MABEL . CLARA SKINNER
SABEL. ANNIE HORTON
MARTHA . .DORIS SULLIVAN
ACT I—Brokerage office of Rallston. Donnelly and
Bennett in New’ York City.
ACT II—Parlor in Summer home of E. M. Rall
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ACT III—The same as Act II.
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