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MERGING OF RAILROADS
Since it has been demonstrated that the Interstate
Commerce Commission is an organization possessed of
teeth instead of abstract powers, the looming great merg
er of railroads in the States does not awaken the antago
nisms such moves evoked a few years ago. It has been
demonstrated that certain consolidations are essential to
modern progress where large aggregations of capital are
required. Time was when such a movement presaged
monopoly which spelled unfair exactions from the public,
and was frowned down upon. With powers resting with
in the reach of the Interstate Commerce Commission
by which control may be exercised with respect to unfair
rates or discriminations, the public has a remedy against
abuse, and capital has an open road along which to ad
vance as the exigencies of business demands.
Nowrhere is the need for free expression of capital
more evident than Alaska. The Territory will never get
into step with the remainder of the nation until such time
as capital is accorded the same privileges as now obtain
in the States. It would seem that the Federal economists
responsible for the condition have overlooked the fact
that all national progress has come thru allowing the in
dividual bonuses out of undeveloped resources of suffi
cient magnitude to warrant heavy investment for futures
rather than the present.
It is a consolation to realize that others have troubles
just as perplexing and maddening as our own.
Most women would rather manage a man than be
President of the United States.
A sport writer is one who gets paid for making guess
es on the results, and afterwards explaining why he
guessed wrong.
The man who will “get it out on time” is the man
who will eventually run the boss a neck and neck race for
his job.
“When the boss puts an O- K. on your work it doesn't
always mean he's entirely satisfied—he may be in a hurry
to get out to the golf links.
Southern California is versatile if nothing else. No
sooner does Aimee bow off the stage when the Chaplin
wash-day is ushered in.
Reports from Hollywood say that future movies will
have less love and more war. In other words, having
shown how the love-making business is done, they propose
to show the final sequence.
The Communists of Continental Europe ought to be
satisfied by now; every man in the various nations ap
pears to have had a fling of forming a government but
the dog catcher and! the bull cook.
In Europe parliamentary differences of opinion re
suit in the resignation of the government. In America
the voters sentence their representatives to four years
in Congress and tell them “now, darn ye, fight it out ”
A consolidation of interests that is good for the
States should be good for Alaska. And what would have
been the results with respect to big enterprises and natu
ral resources if these railroads and the lands of the coun
try had been merely subject to lease instead of passing
under a title?
In the absence of a Stokes case, the Rhinelander-bru
nette marriage or a Thaw case, the Atlantic coast must
content itself with husbands shooting up a neighborhood
and then barricading themselves indoors until the coro
ner arrives and sweeps up the remains after the mopping
up squad remove the machine guns, hand grenades and
garlic-gas tanks.
ALL IN ONE FAMILY; AUSTRAL
IAN FOUNDED BUSINESS IN 1824
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GLASGOW, Jan. 15. - (/P)—Eleven |
millionaires is the record of the !
family of J. and P. Coats, cotton |
manufacturers. James Coats, who
founded the business in 1824, became
a millionaire, as did his three sons,
and all their grandsons.
The present head of the family is
the young Lord Glentanar, a direcror
of the firm, a former officer in the
Black Watch, and one of Britain's
most “eligible” bachelors. His father
left a fortune of nearly 5,000,000
pounds.
James Coats started his business
in th$ Scottish villege of Ferguslie.
When the father and son James died
the business passed into the hands
of Thomas and Peter. Peter was
knighted and had a son wrho became
Sir James Coats. His brother Thomas
was father of the first baron in the
Coats family, Lord Glentanar, father
of the present senior member.
‘KEEPER IF THE BEES’
IT TIE LIBERTY SUNDAY
Preceded by an avalanche of pub- (
licity, a great story which has been t
read, it is estimated, by ten million i
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persons, comes to the screen in “The i
Keeper of the Bees,” Gene Stratton- i
Porter’s latest novel which will be j
shown at the Liberty Theatre tomor- J
row only. And as if that were not J
enough to attract the innumerable J
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Gene ' Stra$foii-Porter fans, Gene „
Stratton Mdnroe the little grand- g
daughter of the famous author, is L
cast in the part if the “Little Scout”; |
the part which Mrs. Porter wrote her I
into when she began the novel. This k
delightful eleven-year-old overshad
ows a finely balanced cast of talent
ed players; perhaps because it is
generally known that she was the
original “Little Scout,” and perhaps
because she is so utterly herself.
In any cast she would shine; and in
this perticular instance it is doubtful
if a character was ever played more
naturally before the camera. J. Leo
Meehan, who directed Mrs. Porter’s
previous F. B. O. success, “The Girl
of the Limberlost” has handled the
production in masterly fashion, and
it is certain to make thousands of
new admirers for the great author
whose untimely death robbed Amer
ica of one of the most illustrious of
its writers.
NORTH CAROL!
AN EVOLUTION
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 15.(flP)—
North. Carolina fundamentalists plan
to furnish, legislators again with the
evolution problem.
They are preparing to submit to
the state legislature the quesuon of
whether the theory of evolution as
it relates to the origin of man and
as originally propounded by Charles
Darwin shall be out-lawed at the;
University of North Carolina State
college and in the public schools. A
hundred fundamentalists at a meet
ing here agreed to employ a lawyjer
to prepare an anti-evolution bill.
Ask for the film in the yell w box.
Eastman’s Films. Schallerer’s Alaska
Shop.
Mefford’s fresh ranch
eggs. Seward Trading Co.
LIBERTY
THEAT
Two Shows Tonight 7 and 9
There Will Be
LAUGHS ROARS
SCREAMS HOWLS
From
‘Exchange of Wives’
The funniest film of marriage mixups you ever saw
LEW CODY—ELEANOR BOARDMAN
RENEE ADOREE—CREIGHTON HALE
A 7-reel comedy-drama sparkling with ticklish
situations
AN EDUCATIONAL REEL & A PATHE NEWS
SUNDAY ONLY
‘THE KEEPER OF THE BEES’
Gene Stratton-Porter’s greatest novel
Beautifully put into pictures
An attractive drama, both acting and scenes. Some
thing everyone should see.
and a Pa the News and Fable Reel
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