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LOT FORFEITURES.
Secretary of the Interior Lane, who has the last say in the
matter, lias decreed that certain lot owners in Anchorage have
forfeited their holdings because they violated a townsite regu
lation relating to the selling of' intoxicating liquors. There are
two sides to this question. Lawyers tell us that when a lot is
sold by the government to a private party, and a consideration
has passed, there is no process of law by which he can be dis
possessed, if he continues to meet, as they become due, the sub
sequent payments. The attorneys, or at least some of them,
further tell us that the government cannot, under the law, levy
assessments on lots that have passed to private ownership; that
an appeal to the courts would result in such an opinion. But it
is like the old story about the man in jail—he can’t be put there,
but he is there, just the same. The point we wish to make here,
is that there should be a reasonable and just ruling in these
cases. In the two cases in which a final ruling has been made,
ihe respective parties were each tried and convicted twice for
violation of the liquor regulation. True, they paid fines in each
instance, but we believe, nevertheless, that the ruling of the sec
retary is not a harsh one, because one warning is enough for
anybody, and if he continues to violate the regulation, let him
suffer the consequences. But wp do consider it harsh in the ex- j
freme to forfeit a lot for the first offense, where the lot owner
lias paid a substantial fine—and the fines levied have been sub
stantial. It appears to us, for the first offense, that a fine is ade- j
quate. Justice, in such cases, should be tempered with mercy.!
And if a victim were compelled to pay a fine and likewise for
feit his lot, the punishment woidd be out of all proportion to
file crime. And the law comprehends that the punishment shall
fit the crime.
Another case is where a lot owner leases his premises to a l
tenant. It would be absurd to expect the lot owner to constant
ly watch the premises to see that his tenant did not violate a
regulation of the townsite. Let us assume that the tenant vio
lates a regulation. Does the lot owner, an innocent party, lose J
his property! Equity cries out that he would not, regardless of
the provision that the owner is responsible for the act of his1
tenant.
But why entail all this trouble? Why not obey the rugla
tions? Then you don’t have to worry about what some bellow
at Washington is going to do about it.
PIONEER WOMEN OF ALASKA.
One Foster, a New York lawyer, breaks into the public;
prints in the East and in an effort to write something in the way j
of a “human interest” story about Alaska, garnishes his nar-1
native with a fling at the pioneer women of this territory, lie
states that the women of Alaska have two and three husbands,,
all at the same time, and implies that the moral code is very lax
among the gentler sex in the northland. All of which is a delib
crate falsehood. There are women of low morals in Alaska and
there are more men of the same type in the territory. People of j
this kind will be found the world over. You don’t have to come
to Alaska to find them. In the home city of the writer of the
article dealing with this subject, they will be found in large !
numbers. The trouble with the Foster article is that the writer j
takes a few notorious cases, and makes them typify the female j
population of the territory. The Foster article is not worth seri
ous comment, because it is a self-evident perversion of the facts.;
• While on the subject of the women ot Alaska, The limes;
desires to devote a few lines to the brave pioneer helpmates of
the sterner sex, avIio have uncomplainingly borne the hardships
and privations incident to a frontier country. And little credit j
do they get, so far as a harsh" world is concerned. Ay nan in j
Alaska may find a rich mine and achieve fame and fortune by
reason of his discovery. His name is blazoned forth in all the
newspapers. He becomes somebody among those who value
money above all other things in life. But what about his wife,
t he silent figure in the background who has been his inspiration,
his wise counselor, his encouraging helpmate, who has stood
faithfully by him in times of adversity until the goal of his am
bition—a rich strike—has been achieved. You hear nothing
about her. None of the creditor the discovery is given her,
when in fact, but for her, it w«5iM possibly never have been
made.
The pioneer women of Alaska are the same as were the pio
neer women of the West. The parlor ornaments and hot house
plants of the East are not to be compared, in nobility, in woman
hood, in self-sacrifice, in self-reliance and in other high attri
butes, with our women of Alaska. Some one has said that
‘‘Woman is the noblest work of Hod.” We should like to qual
ify this statement and say that the pioneer woman is the noblest
work of the Creator
We have reason to believe that the present congress will
authorize an issue of government bonds to raise funds for the
Alaska railway project, as well as for other purposes. In this
event, a sum exceeding twenty million dollars will be availa
ble for railway construction, as soon as the bonds are converted
into money, and there will be no delay about .that matter, as
government bonds are recognized as about the safest invest
ment a person can make. Given twenty million dollars, we
shall not need to ask congress for *an appropriation during the
winter of 1 HI7-18. And war, or no war, things here will move
right along.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1917.
Vol. 1. No. 173. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th and D
BUSINESS ETHICS AND ADVERTISING.
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been clearly demonstrated that it is useless to make things for
sale unless there is some systematic and intelligent way of let
ting the consumer know how things may be obtained. And it
is further proven that it is of no use to advertise a product un
less that product is a good product of its kind. Advertising
will not sell that which of itself has no merit. It is important
to lay emphasis upon the necessity of truthfulness in advertis
ing. Not only that the goods themselves that are advertised
have to be meritorious, but what is said about them in adver
tisements must be said in good faith. It is more than evident
that advertising has now become one of the forces for ethical
progress in business.
We guarantee every product that is advertised by us, and
it is a double guarantee because that product is also guaranteed
by the manufacturers. In speaking the other day about cut
lery, Mr. Skyman, representative of a house selling Columbia
and Universal knives, told me to give a customer a new knife if
one bought does not prove satisfactory. And it is so with most
of the reputable manufacturers.
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come. Ladies too. 410
The home economics department of
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WEATHER REPORT.
7 a. m. Feb. 8, 1917.
Station Temp. Day Wind Trail Snow
Anchorage 31 Cldy. South Soft 10 in.
Potter .... 37 Clear S. E. Soft 8 in.
Matanuska 44 Cldy. Calm Soft 10 in..
King River 30 Clear Calm Soft 10 in.
Camp 174 26 Clear Calm Soft 12 in.
First anniversary of the Alaska La
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big smoker at Labor Temple Thurs
day evening. Everybody welcome.
Ladies too. 406
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