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0 SATURDAY, MARCH, 27TH, 1920
MAYBE LONGER
It took ten men nine years to make a certain celebrated mosaic picture
in St Peter’s at Rome.
Bet It would take congress twice as long ns that to produce even :»
pencil sketch of the actual capture of one of the big wig profiteers!
AN ANOMALY
Truly it seems a trifle curious to hear that our estimable governor
In worrying his own and sundry other official heads with prophesies of u
Russian Bolshevikl revolution in Alaska while here in Nome, which probably
holds relatively as many Russians per hundred of population as any other
section of the Territory, many of our leading citizens are attending a Russian
school with a view to establishing closer business relations with the real
Boishevlkl gehts Just across the bay in Siberia.
We wonder what they would think <*f it hack in Washington.
PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATORS ELIMINATED
The deplorable American, tendency to leave practically all legislation
both state and national, to professional politicians and lawyers Is in sharp con
trast with the methods of the French people are revealed In recently published
.cporta of the personnel of the present French Chamber of Deputies. In
only one respect does their legislative personnel resemble our own and that is
in the degree that lawyers predominate, tho not in such relative numbers as in
the American congress and most state legislatures. out of the present G2tl
members of the French bod^only 154 are professional barristers or solioltorsi
The remainder of the chamber comprises 52 farmers, a majority of them men
of moderate circumstances, 15 deputies who are designated as "working men”,
five bankers, and 28 others who come from the army and navy, two of them
being generals, one a vice admiral and two aviators. The churehcs are
represented by four Catholic priests and three I’rotestant ministers. The
balance of tile chamber is made up of land owners and men who may be
properly classed us politicians, with a smattering of business men. doctors
and scholars. Twelve of the members are of the Jewish faith.
A more genuinely "representative” legislative body could hardly be
expeoted under a system of popular selection. In contrast. with our own
National legislature, composed for the most part of professional politicians,
lawyers, a few wealthy farmers and containing practically no real represent:! -
lives of the employed classes who coiivpose the bulk of the national popula
tion, the French assembly assumes aif aspect of democracy quite foreign to
our own. In the French chamber All classes are directly represented by
persons from their own ranks—the working people as well its the professional
and wealthy classes, the poor and the rich. And yet, despite our boast
of possessing the world’s foremost example of representative government,
fully three fourths of the American congress is made up of what may bo
truthfully termed “professional" legislators—politico ns and lawyers, men who
normally follow no other occupation than office seeking. There is not what
might be rightfully termed a bona fide representative of the real working
class—the great mass of the people-1—in either branch of congress.
Under such circumstances it is hardly to be wondered at that tlie
laws and the administration of justice are all in favor of the propertied and
affluent class and that the great bulk of the people are left a prey to those
who own the lands and tools of Industry—to the profiteer and exploiter.
France with an assembly composed of representatives from all ranks
of life, la conceeded to be a well governed nation, hence it seems the American
people might expect fully as good government, and a far more "representa
tive" one—in tho true sense of that term—if they took a leaf irom France's
book and rid themselves of the professional pollticans by selecting men from
all walks of life to represent them in the legislative assemblies.
At least they eonld hardly be worse off than at present.
From Chicago Herald and Examiner
Put one hundred men on an Island where fish is a staple article of
subslstance. Twenty-five of the men catch fish. Twenty-five others clean
tho fish. Twenty *flvc cook the fish. Twenty-five hunt fruit and vegetables.
The entire company eg.ta what thjis is gathered and prepared.
So long as everybody works there is plenty. All hands are happy.
Ten of the alloted fish catchens stop catching fish.
0 Ten more dry and hide part of the fish they catch.
Five.continue to catch fish, but work only part of the day at it.
Fewer fish go into the community kitchon.
But the saihe number of men Insist lipon haying the same amount of fish
to eat aa they had before. m ft
Tho fifty men who formerly cleaned and cooked the fish have less to
do owing to the undersupply of fish. But they continue to demand food
Gradually greater burdens are laid upon the fruit and vegetable (hun-.
l«*. These Insist upon & larger share of fish In return for their larger efforts
In gathering fruit and vegetables. it Is denied them and soon twenty of the
twenty-five quit gaifherlng fruit and vegetables .
But the ontlre one hundred men continue to insist upon their right to
'■* * The dally *fpod supply gradually shrinks. The man with two fish
dimands throe bananas In exchange for one of them. The man with two
bananas refuses to pqrt A-1th one for fewer than three fish.
Finally tho ton men remaining at Work quit In disgust.A* Everybody
continued to Tho hidden fish' are brought to light and consumed. Comes
o day whoa thoro is no food of any kind. Everybody on tho island blames
everybody else.
What would stem’to bo tho solution? Exactly! We thought you
would gllCHH it.
For we repeat that you can’t eat, buy. .sell, steal, give away, hoard,
wear, use, play with or gamble with WHAT ISN'T.
AMERICA’S PART IN THE GREAT WAR
Two ouf'fcf every three Americans who reitched France took part in
battle. The number reaching Franco was 2.084.000. and of these 1,390,000
saw active service at the front.
Of the 42 divisions reaching France 29 took part In active ••ombat xor
vice. Seven of these were Regular Army divisions, 11 were organized from
the National Guard, and 11 jyere made up of National Army troops.
American divisions were actually engaged In battle 200 days ami jmr
tieipated in 13 major operations. From the middle of August until the end
of the war November 11, 1918, the American divisions held during the greater
part of the time a front longer than that held by the British. In October
the Americans held 101 miles of line, or 23 per cent ot' the entire Western front.
On the first of April. 1918, the Germans hud a superiority of 324,ooo in
rifle strength. Duo to the American arrivals the .tilled strength exceeded
that of the Germans in Juno and was 600,000 above it in November.
In the battle of St Michiel 550,000 Americans were engaged as com
pared with about 100,000 on the Northern side in the battle • »f Gettysburg.
The American artillery fired more than one million shells in four hours dur
ing '.his battle, which was the most intense concentration of artillery fire re
corded In history.
The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted 47 days, during which l,200,ooo American
troops were engaged. Twelve times as many troops were engaged as
were on the t'njon side during the Battle of the Wilderness, genera Up regarded
os one of the longest battles of the Civil war. Tin \ used in action ten
times as many guns and fired about 100 times as mm> rounds of artillerv
ammunition. The weight of the ammunition fired was greater than that
used by the Union* forces during the entire Civil war. The battle of the
Meuse-Argonne was beyond compare the greatest ever fought in by Ameri
can troops, and there have been few. if any. greater battles in the historv
of the world.
Tlie American* battle losses of the war were 50.000 killed and 236,000
wounded. They were heavy when counted in terms of lives and suffering, but
light compared with the enormous price paid hv the nations at whose side
we fought.
The total number of Americans taken prisoner by the Germans was
4,434. The total number of German prisoners taken by the Americans was
63,079, tlie Second Division lending the list of division captun^ with 12.020
prisoners. This was nearly double the captures of any other division.
•Battle deaths include both killed in action and died of wounds. I’ll
dor wounded are included many slight injuries, and there is possibly soitie
duplication between wounded and died of wounds in the figures given.
To be continued
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MONDAY
BERLIN IN HANDS
OF COMMUNISTS—
WORKERS ARMING
eaiinot fni'ni-*li ny more f<*o<t to (icr
Jn.• n>' if Soviet government Is estab
Iis h ed, '•nlin^ to a Merlin dispute i
WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE
CONVENES
‘ dympi. March 22 Th> W.ishlng
i'°n state !< l isl ituro was convened in
- r * • • • i. 11 s v si in today.
ADMIRAL FVANS FLOATED
LAST NIGHT
which . . agrolind
i and is now proceed
uific Steam-hip Cflm
NOME DELEGATION NOT SEATED
AT PIONEER C(T,AND IGLOO
MEEilNG
A.vlior;ir. .VIA ,-March 21 The
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tli. .onv.-iii IbI.i..
I Ik- Pioneers of Afflujjj* hold here last
of having IK. ' d'-ntials ;111(1 |u-r ftp
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Meyer protested* flip yction • >f the
Grand Igloo and supported the N'mii >
SUPER DREADNAUGHT
MARYLAND LAUNCHED
XewjNii i Wwx, March 2" The
si.per (In adna light Maryland. desig
nated as the most powerful and for
iiinl.il.le battleship in the world, was
launched here today with Mrs K.
Itrooke Lee. wife of the comptroller
of the state of Maryland, as sponsor
DELECATE CONTEST HEARING
COMMENCES TUESDAY
.a-hingfon. Mareh 1'I
['ominlttoo No :t of the Mous** of liep
reseiita.tivs. of which Uepresentativ
liowell, kepuhlican, of lown, is chair-,
spoken character unusual to the Alas
d e ley.-11 esh ip Con test S.
:HINESE TROOPS ORDERED
FROM SIBERIA
•rnment. has ordered tin* withdrawal
>f all Chinese troops from Siberia.
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