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MUNICIPAL WHARF A KKAUTV
There may be something to Couleism after all. Many of our loea
astute business men considered the Common Council as a set of vision
anes and Utopian dreamers when they advocated the construction, by th*.
Municipality, of a wharf on Soake River. A Municipal wharf was a cry
jng necessity. The citizenry generally had confidence in the proponent!
of this venture and its feasibility, and by their votes, maintained the Mayo
and Council who fought so valiantly and well to make this project a sue
ce«. A Municipal wharf will now be constructed—your Uncle Samue
will build it. You. the taxpayers, have already paid in full for the la bo
and materials, and are now in a position to reap the b- nefits.
In this connection let it be remembered that unstinted prais* is du<
the Government Engineering Department and their local staff Th
Major, notwithstanding all his assiduousness, could not build the Whar
alone—nor could the Common Council. But by the splendid team worl
between the Mayor, the Council and the Engineering Department, th
Wharf will be built this summer at bed-rock cost.
About one hundred and fifty feet of revetment will be built this yea
by the Government ifi addition to the Wharf. The revetment must b
farther extended eventually. The Wharf must be partly housed. Th
Cfty can spend no more money at present, on the proposition. but by
proper civic spirit on the part of our people, in another year w*- will hav
a wharf entirely adequate to accommodate the shipping interests.
Furthermore, the jetties must be extended. They will not extern
themselves. We must all put our shoulder to the wheel and work for thi
end. An obnoxious sand-bar exists at the end of the present jettie
about one hundred feet. It is the duty of every man and woman in th.
community to constitute himself a committee of one to further these ini
•voresnenta.
The future of Nome was never brighter. . Immense coastwise ship
ping will exist in the immediate future. The people engaged in runninj
. boats up and down the coast are entitled to wharfage service and it is om
t civic duty to give it to them. Not only will the wharf be a boon to th<
local navigators, but it will be a.source of revenue to the City.
McAiMxrs <mh>f not that of a president
The President of the United States should be. above all. a mat, of the
moHt scrupulous and unquestionable ethics.
He is the leader of the Nation in integrity, quite as truly as he is
its leader politfctlly.
It is not enough that the President of the United States should have
merely the common or average amount of moral sensitiveness—he must
embody the Nation’s highest ideals.
Nothing in his record must ever seem to justify any citizen in a line
of conduct that is eyen questionable. No shadow mast becloud the high
repute of the man whom the American people elect to stand forth and rep
resent them, embody them, before the world.
And particularly at this moment of history—when "American hon
esty” is being made the jeer and laughing stock of cynics all over the
earth—particularly is. it gravely necessary that w must nominate and
elect, this year, a man upon whom all m*n may look and say with full
sincerity: “He is above reproach.”
That is why the Democratic State Central Committee of California
has made a serious and suicidal mistake in indorsing William G. McAdon
as candidate for President.
McAdoo, as a private citizen, sold his influence, his prestige and his
intimate knowledge of the inside workings of Government, to an oil corpo
ration that wanted certain things of our State Departme.t and that was,
at the same time, corrupting our Interior Department. For activities
involving the Government he had served, he received the large fee of
1150. 000.
McAdoo, again, sold this same influence, this same '-restige and “in
side” knowledge, to a steel corporation that wanted a rebate of S2.000.000
its taxes. And for this he receied $200,000.
Services of this nature, perhaps, might be within the strict letter of
the law for ao attorney In ordinary practice. It 1, admitted that irreat
corporations must retain somebody to represent them.
But they retained William G. McAdoo because he was a former Cab
inet hIBcer. and not because he was'a brilliant corporation lawyer,
.^^neey retained btm for his Influence, not for his personal aklil as a
, U h ot record that the same interests that hired McAdoo. aleo
approached and .sought to hire Bain-bridg© Colby, law partner »t »-hc Kuo
President Wilson—and received a curt rejection.
William (J. McAdoo consented to take the employment which these
I similarly-situated men bad absolutely declined to take.
I And now he seeks the Presidency
Af,d now—by a gross and regrettable blunder—California stands -.n
[record before the world as urging taht the Per si den cy be given to a man
(for whom even "his wannest friends must make explanations and apologies!
Why nominate a man for whom explanations and apologies must be
I made? Are there not plenty of good Americans still living whose p«*r
| sooal records are. above all question?
! The people of California - the Democrats of California cannot b*
i forced into this position. In this Stair-, fortunately. lh<- direct primary
I Tbe direct primary will enable t.he pwnple of California to cleav them
: selves before the Nation and send a delegation to the New Fork Con
jventlon that will be free from all faint ««r oil. of steel, and i hat indorses no
j candidate whose standards are open to iriticism. Los Angeles Examiner.
! w. F. Thompson, editor of the News-Miner at Fairbanks, recently
|called at the White House. No doubt it was a privilege r.hI a pleasure for
j him to meet President Coolidge. But on the other hand the chief ex
jocutive was himself giv«n some privilege as well as pleasure. - Ketchikan
Chronicle.
! Practically every returning citizen from (he stat-*s reports every
! thing points to an unprecedented tour.st travel to Anchorage this sum
mer. A number of large parties have already made their bookings.
Featuring Anchorage as the starting point for Lbu “Valley of Tea Thous
and Smokes” would be good propaganda. Anchorage Times.
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE
(From Lew Angeles Times. March
•Republicans agree tliat Speaker Machold 01
will be their next candidate for Governor. A
Roosevelt the Second had this steppin-- stone
| of his hand, and no one dreamed it could be lak
But the teapot bubbled over
tioned a« acandidate.
f the N*nv V,.rk Assembly j
few weeks ago Theodore j
nomination in the hollow i
Young Mr. R<
Ford’s Mucm'Ic Shoals off*
The House will at last take up Henry
! seems hard to get anythin}? moving; when no gentleman "on the inside"
i is to get any money in a satchel or any "loan" from a friend.
1 Ford offers millions to the Government, cheap fertilizer to the farmer,
and most important, demonstration of the use that can be made of water
power. Hut that isn't enough to interest gentlemen accustomed to pri
jvate "talks", "private codes." and "private financial arrangements."
i Attorney General Daugherty deflates that "if some Senators do uot
! resign, he. Daugherty will cause some splash."
' Mr Daugherty knows the difference between a "splash” and a little
ripple. The public will watch for the splash with interest. The At
torney General could reveal more about Die real character of certain offi
cials than half a dozen oil investigations. He knows what Senators and
others are trying to do, whom they are trying to shield and whom they
seek to prosecute.
j Publication of Mr. Daugherty’s private information would cause a
J "splash" indeed.
* Is it better for a nation to 'stumble, fall, struggle and slowly rise.
through its own efforts, or to find for the time being, improvement, peace
I and prosperity under the the will of one man?
i Russia and Italy are both trying the same experiment, at opposite
i ends of the social theory. Men still do not know whether they are better
1 off under self government, or one-man government. Even here, our graft
ing. taxing, lying eorporatios and Teapot Domes cause some uncertainty.
Forty members of the House of Representatives sign a demand for
modification of the Volstead Act. They would allow "beer and wine
with 2,75 per cent alcohol." As regards the wine, that, of course, is
nonsense since 2.75 per cent alcohol' will not preserve wine. Natural
wine, white ..r red. wl-fh’S per cent of alcohol, would bo about the
As regards beer. 2.75 per cent alcohol might do away with 75 per
cent of the bootlegging and 90 per cent of dissatisfaction among work
ingmen who don't like the idea of taking their choice between soda pop
and the vilest of bootleg liquor, while the prosperous class have cellars
filled with everything they choose to buy.
Senator Heflin. Democrat, wants Col. William Boyce Thompson to j
toil the oil inquiry about the money that Thompson raised for the Re- !
publican Party in the Harding campaign.
Thompson won’t object, but might say. as the cowboy did when offer
led oxtail soup, "That’s going a long way back for soup."
Thompson did find money for the Harding campaign, sat in his office j
all through the summer, working for Harding, and that was all he got I
out of it. Others were the "fair-haired boys" when if came to showing !
gratitude.
A1 Smith. Governor of New York, will withdraw from the Presiden
tial primaries in Illinois. This does not mean that he has withdrawn
from the race. Mr. Smith's supporters, men that see far ahead and are
patient, evidently believe that it is best to bring Mr. Smith before the
convention without running the risk of any preliminary setback or un
pleasant discussion.
P.A.R.A.G.R.A.M.S
Being sensible takes a lot of practice.
In this search and seizure thing, it’s the seizure they object to.
There will be no objection if spring takes the air for broadcasting
and holds it.
No telling what you could hear with the energy you spend every
day in saying nothing.
Spread of the boyish bob indicate* to what length some people will
go not to be thought effeminate.
A New York vouaa u.«Jvtrtiyo:> hir.M.!£ a.; nr. " exterior decorator,
mere nr»- many that are walking advertisement*■
If the earth is 10,000,000.000 years old. as a scientist says. Low
»ld must it b*- before it is old enough to settle down ?
The six-day bicycle raw confine?- itself to X> w York. The smaller
iilck towns can’t be induced to fall for il any 'more.
California Democrats give a vote <*f con fid rue t.. \! Adoo and "fire'’
he boss he has been working for during the past fiv• • years from the
rico chairmanship of the Democratic state committee! Dobeny’a crime
s that he put the "can'' m candidate. To play safe, however, the Califor
nia Democrats put Gavin McNab. Mr. Doheny’s attorney, >n the California
iolegation to the Chicago convention.
Key. Charles Francis Totter, of New York city, propose n "modern
st Bible." iu which .lane Adams jS to lx* the "new Deborah." and Kx
President Wilson the "modern prince of peace.” This would not be
Holy Wrif(c). bat wholly rot.
Over 4:i per cent of the inmates of state hospitals ; . New York are
foreign born. Need anything more he said in order to show the need
for a more stringent mirnvgration law and more strict enforcement ?
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