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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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SOMETHING WRONG
Men of destiny—the Alaska pioneer who, as those of
the brave English stock in 1619 which valiantly pioneered
Virginia, hewed homes from the wilderness. In 1620 came
the Pilgrims in the Mayflower. Twenty years later there
were 65,000 settlers.
Many pages in history have been turned since those
soul-stirring days but what strange force has withheld
emigration to Alaska; only a fraction has impinged the
Territory's shores since its purchase.
Something must be wrong in the picture regardless
that here are the resources to create an empire. Is the
frontiersman spirit dead?
SPECIALISTS NEEDED
We have just finished reading, “The Presidency vs.
Hoover,” written by Samuel Crowther, and, without ref
erence to President Hoover in any way, we got quite a
laugh out of one line in which Author Crowther says:,
“Today our leaders must be experts; they must be
specialists. At one time the whole of our national activ
ities were simple enough to be conducted by the man of
general experience.”
In other words, reading between the lines, Crowther
i^ of the opinion that the class of men who have builded
America up to the time Crowther published his stuff
would be unfit to have earned on today. Experts and
specialists only are wanted. '
That word “specialist” has a familiar ring. This we
do know, however, that any bunch of our bohunk friends
could hardly have made more of an economic mess than
the alleged leaders of today, at Washington or elsewhere.
The real difficulty confronting us today is the fact
that we have too many experts and specialists.
ALASKA’S NEIGHBOR
The Dominion of Canada has expended about $50,
000,000 on public works, to tide over her present dearth
of employment. This is but another indication of the ini
tiative and progressiveness of Alaska’s neighbor. Few
things are more pleasing to citizens of the United States
than the vigor of Canada, and the expansion of mutual
understanding and friendly relations between the two
lands, the latest indication of which is the joint effort to
promote the St. Lawrence waterway.
The annexation ghost, never a clearly observed phe
nomenon in the United States, no longer walks in the Do
minion ; each nation realizes that its own interests are best
promoted by the example and friendly cooperation of the
ether, acting as an independent sovereignty; and all signs
point to a peaceful and kindly relationship of long dura
ton.
Now that a delegation of Southern women have asked
Governor Roosevelt what he meant by “a change in the
prohi law will promote greater temperance,” we hope he
does not answer: “Permit more nitro-glycerin to blow
their heads off.”
The gold miner has taken his place in America’s pic
turesque history with the Pilgrim Fathers, the pioneer,
and the cowboy.
Since Pinchot is so solicitous about governmental aid
for the unemployed he might use his influence in having
Congress undo the havoc he played in Alaska when he
locked it up in conservation.
Rev. Sanifer of Louisiana preached continuously for
58 hours. He ought to make a formidable candidate for
the Senate.
National Editorial Association
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j WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16. [
j (#*)—'The Republican National Con- J
j vention will be held in Chicago i
i next June. The decision was made I
j by the party’s national committee J
I after Detroit had withdrawn its ■
j bid for the honor. i
This left Atlantic City as the \
only other contestant and it took J
only one ballot to decide the con- ■
| test. The spokesman for Chicago |
had guaranteed a fund of $150,000 J
to defray the expenses of the con- •
! vention.
The meeting of the committee J
was featured by an appeal by •
Chairman Fess for a militant cam- ■
paign to marshal the full strength !
of the party behind President Hoo- J
ver, whose nomination for a second •
term was taken for granted.
Senator Fess characterized the I
Presidents’ efforts to aid business ’
in the present emergency as “stu- ■
pendous.” He declared that if the i
President had succeeded only in *
preventing suffering and forestall- j J
ing adoption of the dole system,! i
he would have done enough to ais- \
tinguish him in history.
The President’s one-year war s
debt moratorium plan averted an i
international calamity, the com- 5
mittee chairman insisted.
COFFIN OPENED
GOA, Portuguese India, Dec. 16.
(IP)—For the 13th time since 1552
the coffin of Saint Francis Xavier,
one of the foremost Catholic mis
sionaries, was opened for venera
tion. A special representative of
Pope Pius led the ceremonial pro
cession and the occasion was mark
ed by a military display. Accord
ing to the Catholic Encyclopedia,
the body of Saint Francis Xavier
has lain for centuries “incorrupt”
in the Ban Jesu Church of Goa.
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SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 16. (IP}— J
V. Lindsay, one of America’s fore- a
most modern poets, died of heart J
trouble at his home here. He had J
not been ill. Three days ago *
friends gathered here for an an- i
nual reading of his poems and he i
then appeared in the best of J
health, although he was 62 years of
age.
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and the wonderful boy actor
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CHESTER CONKLIN
Two-Reel Comedy and a Newrs Reel
WHEN WINTER COMES
IS YOUR house packed to the eaves with tremend
ous stores of flour .. . meat. . . clothing . . . and
other supplies to carry you through the long winter?
Not very likely!
But if not, won’t you—like the butterfly that
played all summer without a thought of the cold
days to come—wron’t you be in danger of facing
famine, months before spring comes around again?
Certainly not!
When wintry winds are blowing their coldest,
and the storm is wTailing like forgotten banshees on
the roof-top, the chances are you may be eating juicy
strawberries from Costa Rica and fresh asparagus
from Florida. For the day of storing up supplies
against the barrenness of winter has gone forever.
It has passed when America ceased to be a lot oij
scattered communities, and became a nation united
by swift line of transportation.
As you read the advertisements telling you Just
what the stores contain for you, fresh to your order,
remember that here are the inexhautible store
rooms of today . . . storerooms that have banished
forever the anxieties that went with the snows of
yesteryear.
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