Here And There.
President Wilson has appoint
ed a day for the good people of
America to pray for peace in Eu
rope. The Pope has been praying
for the same thing since the war
began. The Germans and Aus
trians are supplicating the Most
High for success to crown their
arms, while the allies are besee
ching him to give them the vic
tory.
Will God hearken to the voice
of the neutrals and bring peace
without advantage to either side
engaged in the war? or will he
answer the'prayer of one side or
the other and giv it victory? or
will lie remain neutral Himself
and let the heaviest battalions
' decide?
All chriski dcm is imploring
the Christian God t5 interfere in
one way or a r. Other in the Euro
pean .conflict. The ancient Jews
called upon Jehovah for advice
and assistance in all their wars,
and the Greeks ar.d Remans con
cl their heather) deities in em
harking on their military cam
paigns. From the beginning sav
ages, the world over, in making
war upon their enemies have pros!
trated themselves before their
rnumbo-jumbos and cut all sorts
of capeisto drive the evil Spirits
away.
What is the difference between
all these prayers, consultations,
prostrations and capers? ar.d in
these matters where among tire
above shall v;c leek for the great
est din lay of intelligence?
An illuminating Side light is
is thrown cv> the character of
James Wickdr'sham, Delegate to
congress ar.d candidate for re-e
lecticn by a story that comes to
us frcm Aberdeen, Washington,
via the Iditarcd.
According to the story James
as a young man never hankered
after hard vxik, though he was
confronted with the necessity of
getting a living through his own
efforts.
So in casting about for a means
of making an honest dollar with
out the expenditure of tco much
muscular energy he hit upon the
idea of peddling among the In
dians of the Gray’s Harbor coun
ti ; such wares and trinkets as
vs,t Lest calculated to delight
their simple hearts. Among the
goods he carried was a large!
stock of tea bells, and in these!
he d'cl a big business; selling
them under the pretence of being
chainis, which with proper man
ipulation, the method of course
bc.rg supplied by him, would
scare the devil away.
Jim is in the samTe businesr
yet, though the character of the
c 1 aims he ; ccdics and the nat
ure cf the devil,to be scared a- .
waj have considerably changed.
A great deal has been said in a
favorable way in reference to
the educative value of moving
pictures, and it is no doubt cor
rect. Many features of these pic*
tores are of monarchical royalty
and its retainers as well as speci
mens of republican parasitism,
military parades etc,, all decked
out in betinseled and befeathered
regalia. This leads people to com
pare the pomp and show of civil
ization with that of the king of
Dahomey and wonder where the
difference comes in, and also to
realize it'is all staged for the
same purpose, that of dazzling
and overawing the common herd
and render .ifg both the medicine
men of civilization and barbarism
secure in their positions of para
itism.
And movies are educative in an
other way. If us old men had had
the advantage of lessons in love
making now being depicted on the
screen we would have been sav
ed a lot of worry and trouble in
our younger days.
Continued fiom 1st page.
of election, 1 ash g Ms csdcula
ti01.e ; i on the £(C0 new voters
who have settled along the coast
c’.urir; the past two years, ai d
who he says are mostly Demo
crats, and also on the 4C0 club
members in Fairbanks. He over
looks the /act however, that
those new voters along the coast
are mostly working men and of
a kind more likely to vote the So
cialist ticket than any other, and
forgets another well knov n fact
ihat the Democratic vote in these
parts, regardless of club member
ship, lu s a queer h bit of fading
away into the thinnest kind of
air on election day.
Anyway Mr. Bunnell is a nice
scrt of man and we bid him ve
ccnae to onrhappy little town.
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