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THAT BOY
He iw the person who is going: to carry on what you have started.
He is to sit where you are sitting and to attend to those things you
think are so important when you are gone.
You may adopt all the policies you please, but bow they will be
carried out depends on him.
Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to manage
them. He is going to sit at your desk in the senate and occupy your
place on the supreme bench.
He is going to move in and take over your prisons, churches, un
iversities. counting houses and corporations. When you get done all
your work is going to be judged, praised, or condemned by him.
Your reputation and your fortune are in his hands. He will
read the books you write, os sell them to the second-hand man. He will
assume control of your cities.
Right. now the future president, is playing marbles, and tbe most
famous actor of his day is complaining because he does Dot want to go
to bed. He is tbe boy who will amend your rules, alter your creeds, laugh
at your mistakes. He may think kindly of you. and say, you did the
best you could, or he may not. Watch your step !
All your work is for him. and the fate of the nation aDd of
humanity is in his hands.
So it might* be well for you to pay him some attention.
THR TKRR1TORVH PURS.
The Hudson's Bay Company recently declared a dividend of 4ft
pfer cent. That in the 252nd year of its operation this famous trading
coropration. one of the oldest in the world, is'able to make dividend, pay
ments of nearly half its capital stock, is a striking commentary on the
value of the fur trading business as a permanent industry. Starting
with a few isolated posts on the Atlantic coast of Canada, this British
company has pushed on to the westward in advance of civilization over the
entire extent of a continent. 'Through its trading posts and agencies it
has built up a commerce that has given occupation and income to thou
sands of natives and those prospectors and adventurers to whom the
world owes the penetration of its unknown wildernesses. The history
of the Hudson’s Bay Company is fraught with drama: its policies have
not always been characterized by humane or scrupulous methods. Yet
that its operations as a fur trading agency after two centuries are still
suffiiicently gre&t to justify dividends of nearly half its capital stock is
good evidence that the trapping business is not necessarily demoralizing
to the supply of fur bearing animals.
The examiple afforded by the Dominion of Canada, where the
Hudson’s Bay Company has carried on, most of its operations, may fitly
be observed in Alaska. The supply of fur bearing animals in Akiska is
relatively just as great, and in many respects more varied, than that of
Canada, and with the operation of proper trapping methods and the
enforcement, oof proper laws against ruthless destruction, should be a
perpetual source of‘commerce and revenue. What the fur business
means to the Alaska!) Indian, to the white trapper, to the legitimate pros
pector and settler, is evidenced by the $90,000,000 worth of products it
has contributed to the commerce of the Territory since the American
occupation. What it may continue to be is graphically shown by the
statement of the Hudson's Bay Company. It is a promise that demands
the strict enforcement of game laws, the punishment of indiscriminate
killing methods, such as the poisoning of animals, and the proper and
conscientious conservation of the wild life of the Territory on the part of
every citizen.
WASHINGTON'S WARNING.
Washington warned America against European entanglement. Ti:
expressing his views relative to foreign policy and the dangers of involve
ment "over there" the first President's words were clear and left no
room for doubt. But evidently proponents of entanglement are un
willing to let these words live. They can not find solace in Washington's
utterance. If the Father of His Country were alive today, they contend,
he would think differently.
Why so. Have any of those who are attributing change of opin
ion to the dead statesman been in communication with him? Have any
messages from the spirit world brought them information as to his alter
ed views? What is their authority for asserting that tv»«M»igton would
today hold to a foreign policy different from that which he championed
in life.? Certainly international conditions do not warrant any such
conclusion.
- Instead of suggesting that the nation's first Executive would hold
differently if he were now alive, the political imbroglio that is imperiling
Kurope emphasises the wsdoin that he uttered more than a century ago.
The manifest dangers and costly involvement that America escaped by
reverting to the Washington policy before it was too late prove that
wisdom. Let the words of the dead leader retain their original meaning
and be heeded, lest America run nito the peril against which he warned.
THK AIIS MAI I.
A Government mail plane has recently marie a new speed record
.yf 435 miles In a little over two hours and a half, with a 400 pound load.
'Ihi? is important in two respects—-it demonstrates the possible speed of
delivery of important mail and it also demonstrates the practical use
of airplanes for other purposes. Carrying mail by airplane will always
be a minor feature of our postal service. For ordinary mail the railroad
train will serve as well as an airplane. Ordinary mail could not ori t
whole pay the postage that would be required to make air mail service
self-supporting. Hut as a result of experience we shall develop a mail
service that will be of great value to communications. The air mail
service has its chief value at present not in the actual carrying of mail
but, in the training of men in the operation of airplanes, in the discovery
of better methods and the development of better mechanisms. Th*»
li en who are engaged in this work are rend-ring a great service to he
nation and to the world.
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\VOIU»S OF WISH MEN !
Probably most of the world's unhappiness is caused by others not
doing what we want them to do. and doing what they wish to do.
It’s all right to bite the hand that's feeding you if it’s feeding you
If you are contented with with your lot. you are very old or very
What a youth starting into business should keep in mind is *h-tt
honors may be very cheap, but cash is always expensive.
More men fail by trying to attend to somebody else’s business
than by trying ti attend to the**- own.
If everybody "has it in" for you. that's no reason why you sioulJ
take it out on somebody else.
Doing your best is poor if it causes somebody else to do his worst.
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union, that a lot of folks have r. mill" n dollars who are not “woith'
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