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SECRETARY WEEKS' ALASKA VISIT.
While visits of Federal ^officials do cot occasion much interest in
Alaska, the trfcp next summer of Secretary of War John W. Week* and
members of the AppoopiAition, Subcommittees on Military Affairs of A>oth
House acid Senate will command wide attention in the Northland believes
the Seattle Times. The visitors will inspect ju.**t one military reserva
tkm. Fort William H. Seward near Haines, as that is the only place
where there now is an Army pout, |>iit they will be importuned to go to j
all ,parts of 'the Territory to learn the needs for. transportation facilities
— roads, trails, railwarys and steamboats.
The Secreary and the lawmakers who will compose his party have
jurisdiction over matters that require the largest share *of the Congres
sional funds allotted 'to Alaska. On the opinion of the visWors will i
depend 'the extent of Alaska’s development. .By withholding .money re
quired for extension and maintenance of means of transportation, the
officials would regard th«e Territory's proer.e*? .Aside from fisheries.
Alaskans greatest/wealth is in ‘the Interior. And most of it is secure
from disturbance because of the excessive cost of transportation.
To make the treasures of the North ’accessible the government has
constructed many roads and .trails built ta railroad that when suppllied
with food era will serve an area of more 'than 4U.000 square miles and
Was arranged for.the operation of strain boats on the-Tatiana and Lower.
Yukon Rivera. The Investment rs heavy. Yet it Is not commensurate
wtftb the Va**t riches -that Alaska .has yielded the nation.
Plans of the Federal Road Commission, which is under the War
Department and which hds eon'trol of all 't ran spoliation facilities, ^all
for $1,000,000 annually for ten years. The sum is little enough. It
would care for final nit finance of .present roads and trafilb, and. with new
construction, would injure a comprehensive system a< the end of the
decade period. In addition to *the road and trail funds, indefinite but
comparatively tsmall amounts will .be necessary in the neat two or three
ydars to cover deficits of the government! railway, but these ldsfteis it is
expected will be overcome on completion of feeder ra*ad% and trails and
a few short branches.
Virtually a'H the rlii'rty-*seYen Flederal bohrds and bureaus that
administer usually in wretched fashion, the* affairs of AUbskia ae-ad repre
sentatives or committees nt ^ovemiment .expense -to [the Northland every
summer. The Vtettors file reports of their observations, .but exedpt in
itare instances the only benefit of isuch journeys is Ithe ^pledsure afforded
tho travelers, and, indeed, (in nearly every case tth'at is a'Fl ‘thiat ever is
extended.
The Weeks paflty promised to be an, exception, to the rule. In any
event for the imanedialtei future ft w*Sll determine Alaska's welfare.
A wiee precept for all who |bu31d is that the owner sho-uQd be aa
ornament *t*o •the house, and not thie bouse*'to 'the oiw'ner.
(K1MKS OF THK I'KKSS.
.Breath* * there the man with sou* so (had who never to himself
hjith said. I could run a .newspaper, or all the newspapers. btsLier than the
subsidized and incoenpete-nt scoundrels who are doing it now? If so.
we have never in-el Mm. However complete and evident a failure he
may bo «a-s a business nran. a cilllzen., a husband and a father, there is
one point on which the average man win admit of no doubt whatever—
his abilltty to manage a nowspa/per. It must be admitted that editors
invito some of this- criticism by the very naiure of their eta Ming, which
requires them to make qomments on the shortcomings of public men.
Very Ifkely the editor of tho Marion Star, for example, when h** retires to
private life. will he rather more lenient in his comments on harassed
executives. Nevertheless, we venture to believe that even the production
of a new'spapc-r is a form of skfllei labor, and not so asy as it looks.
A more tem.pertfte and friendly critic rhan most, and one who
knows the kindred businesses of magazine and book publishing «t first
hand. Mr. Herbert S. Houston, re.-. • -tiy complained that the ery volume
of news from all the world offered to readers’today is bringing some dis
advantages With it. We need, he said, not only .the newts bift the inter
pretation of the news: “ihe interpretive journalfsit shonid follow th •
reporting journalist and bring the flood within th<- channel of order' d
knowledge.” Very true. Too much of the world i* with us. But
when'the interpretive- journalist tries to bring the flood within the chan
nel somebody wifll rise up to say thalt It is. the wrong channel. In a
recent article iti The Dearborn Independent, containing a good deal of
troth and a good deal of nonsense, the point, in so far as there Whs one,
•seems to have been that there was too much interpretation. Let the
reporter stick to reporting. Certainly everybody who disagrees with
ft.he intenpiVtlve reporter, will denounce him as a distorter of the news
and will call for what are Author loosely known as "the facts." The
truth is that most readers, and certainly most readers of the cla*ss which
Is so free wPtb criticism, have only one criterion for th*? accuracy of
nows, comment or interpret ion. If it agrees with the. reader’s previous
cipttaiion, iit is true; if it conflicts with than opinion, it is a piece of lyng
propaganda and Up*' paper *ias been bought by British gold or l*>!sh >vist |
gold.—Now Vork Time®.
(iOOl) .UTS TO MAKK I I* FOK HAD.
You art! an un,usual person if you .have never -<f*ona .thing of |
which you are ashamed. Y’oti ni'ay not wiish it known, and probfebly ,you |
'irjy to forget. hut Ihere 'are deeds riigistered a.g*alnlst you whirh you would
a'ive a'll you possess to blot out.
Now you cairn <»t hie-Ilp thebe Hitt's but there was a time when you
might have stopped before you committed them.
You are trying to bate nee flhe scalds on the other side now. hut
you cannot get away from the memory of them.
if you have no regrets for Ah>' unsavory things you have' done in
the p'atst you deserve pity.
If your conscience is iso calloused -tha't the eVil of which you are
j guilty has nott -left a soar you art*, in a serious sit a go of degeneracy.
Most of us ne-ed 'to d‘o a lot of good and whob^omo. helpful and
charitable 'things 'to make up for the inlisdeedF apajioot us.
One good act for every bad one will not cancel it.
There should be several good ones to make up for each bad act
! an,d then you cannot dtQp the Influence of just one bad adt, nor can you
j imagine how far -the effect of your ome raUsdee dmay reach. Are yo*u
working along this lino?
Hatred is a mrfdness of the ro'md
Cowards fight when they ran fly no farther.
It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Judge not a double-crosser, ’less you judge youxsefr.
He is mostt safe from danger who, qven when safe. Is upon hte guard.
Man. was made to be active and he is-never s*o Happy as whea he is so
True happiness ne’er entered ait an eye. True huppilnese resided
in thing's unseen.
You think ft Hack -of judgment that a man changes his oplfnion.
Do you think .lit a proof that yourlscales are bad because‘they Vibrate w*fth
every ‘additional weight Ithat is added to either side ?
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