the Territory.,
It is v/ell to remember—the
lack ol population in Alaska is
uue to ignorance lack of inter
est, and unfair regulation. No
ether reason can be given. Alas
kans could not do worse, and
having an intimate understand
ing of the local problems—will
c'o a lot better.
AN APPRECIATION
o
For appreciation cf each oth
er’s viewpoints, for endeavor to
be just, and for complete ab
sence of either superiority com
plexes, my colored cases are
models. The colored folks are
loose in habit, it is true. But so
arc all the rest. If they have
anything more substantial, the
children get it, share and share
alike, just as the wives and hus
bands share it if they happen
not to be at odds. Beside them,
the devasting greed of a foreign
peasantry that demands all and
gives little shows in bitter con
trast. I have known a woman
decline to buy mill: for her tu
bercular girl, and refuse to call
a doctor for her boy’s gangrened
foot. Why? Because she want
ed the money to buy another lot.
I have known fathers to lock up
the foodstuffs at night so that
•growing children could not oat
an extra crust. I have known
a mother to refuse stubbornly to
consent to a marriage license for
a minor girl already in disgrace,
until the girl and her lover had
between them paid a heavy bill
for food, not a crumb of which
had either of them eaten. It is
not the exception but the rule,
for such parents to demand every
cent their children earn to pay
for projects that profit the chil
dren little. Often the father ex
torts the tax only to drink it up
and beat the girl who gave it to
him. How else can he prove his
masculine superiority when he
can’t find a job, and she can?
Such customs are as abhorrent
to colored parents as they are
to you and me. I have no mem
cay of any colored father ex
tracting blood money from his
children. If there is a killing
among the Negroes, the odds are
at least more or less even. Wives
and children are not left at
home while father carouses in
his lodge.-Eleanor Roland Wem
biidge, in The American Mer
cury.
Thinking and Stopping'
•Speaker (at dinner): “Gentle
men, did you ever step to think?
I ask you again, aid you ever stop
to think?
Weary Listener: “Did you ever
think to stop?”
Stunning Alibi
Liza was on the witness stand.
“Are you positive,” inquired
the prosecutor, “that you know
where your husband was on the
night this crime was commit
ted.”
“Ef Ah didn’,” replied the wit
ness firmly, “den Ah busted a
good rollin’ pin ovah an inner
cent man’s haid, dat’s all!”
“ “Why do you sit there and
scratch your head?”
“I’m the only one who realizes
that it itches.”
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