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Possibly no truer word has even been written and »n no place on :
earth ;s the truth of the above more apparent. than in Alaska, for it is
th«Te that the changes are coming almost daily.
The north is passing just as the dark and bloody ground of Ken
tucky passed, and where once the wily redskins cheerfully scalped the
hardy pioneer and burned him at the stake, they now raise Derby win
ners and play eighteen holes on Saturday. The West has gone along with
the buffalo, and where the Pony Express rider used to pause in his western
tligbt to pluck arrows from his buckskin shirt, bandy-legged earterners in
riding breeches nojv practice a few easy stunts with a rope.
Along with these the north is passing—the north of Beach and Lon
don and Service will soon be a thing living only in the history of the times
and in. the memory of the. old timers. Where once the prospectors watch
ed the grub pile slowly shortening up as the days began to lengthen in the
spring, and hoped that it would hold out until the ice went out at least,
they now listen to the whistle of the locomotive—with the latest outside
papers.
And the mail—that’s the latest and greatest change. Where once
a string of malamutes toiled their weary way up nameless creeks, over un
known passes with a few bags of UncleSam's mail, fighting every step or
the way to keep on time, risking snow slides, battling w th blizzards, si
washing it in fifty weather, wallowing through overflows., ofttimes eating
when the dogs’ supper was cooked and higharading a piece of dried salmon
from the slender store that acted as an emergency station, alad to make
thirty miles per day but forced to make it every day—that was the mail
But today—all is different. A whirring sound above a speck in
the Arctic sky—a dropping circle around an open space—a swoop down—
a breathless rush as the ski runners of the flying mail "machine hits the
crush—and the mail is in. Letters and daily papers deliv- rod in Alaska
while the ink is yet fresh oif both! Three days’ fast going by .. fast string
of dogs, and done in an hour! Shades of Sport Smith and Bob Griffiths!
If they could only ride in one of the new Alaska mail plant s over some of
their old mail routes seeing the well known camping place- that marked
the end of a hard days’ run flit behind every ten or firteen minutes. Pete
Oashman, ftart Humber. Colonel Revelle, Dan Kennedy. The Seventy Mile
Kid—all of the old mail carriers—how they would enjoy hopp ng off in a
mail plane, just to make one more trip over the old trails.
The old days are passing—modern efficiency and the craze for speed
has done away with many a sourdough institution. The old order chang
eth and all is well!—The Alaska Weekly.
on; BRIBE INQUIRY Jfl'ST BE THOROUGH
The spectacle of the oil kings throwing overboard one after the other
of their followers, in a desperate attempt to clear themselves, recalls the
Russian story we read in our childhood:
A father, mother and six children were driving across the steppes of
Russia in the dead of winter. A pack of wolves caught up with their
sleigh. In terror, the mother threw one of her little ones to th*» wolves
They halted to devour it and caught upagain. She threw another,
a second, a third. When the last was gone, she and h?r husband were
safe, but with nothing left in life to live for.
So In Washington today, as oil men and public officials incriminate
each other, and an ever-widening circle of graft and corruption is exposed.
Those who are left—whoever they may be—will not hav< much of
reputation—that de&reet treasure of life—to cling to.
And yet. now that this investigation has gone so far. it must not halt.
The guilty ones seek toend'hhe probe by crying that it must go no further
lest the confidence of the American people in their government cease.
They *ake refuge under the pillars of the republic.
Beneath the pillars of the republic Is no place for these men. The
confidence of the American people In its government depend* not upon the
cessation but upon the complete, successful and all-embracing prosecution
of the investigation of all those engaged in bribe-giving bribetaking, il
licit profit-taking, In conoecton with the leases of the navy’s oil lands.
The American people are wise enough to know that the fault is not in
their form of government, hut the class of men subject to corrupt corpo
rate influence, who have crept Into places of power. The American form
of government is the beet on earth, only we intend to flog the money
changers out of the temple.—•Cordova Times.
MU.NUKU
I>icl you ever try In run down a bit <»f gossip which had crown to a
mountain of undefended fact, by trying to get some of the promulgates
of the yam to acknowledge that they had ever said a word, or tell where
they had heard it. if they did?
Try it some time and you'll forever after give the bit of subterran
eous gossip a good wide berth when you meet it.
They'll always say. when faced, that, of course, they only told What
was given to them in confidence.
If they’re quick enough to dodge the issue for fear of ••getting into
trouble,*' they’ll conveniently fail to remember who did tell them ;□ the
first place. There are no greater cowards than the. busy-bodies who
spend their lives spreading the slitnv trail of scandal ov -r everyone with
whom they come in contact.
Hut if they don’t think quick enough to surround themselves with
this barnure «»f earn I ton. they'll shift {.he respons*bilfty to someone, els.,
with, "It was told to me. by Jim Jones or Mrs. Bill Smith and I don't
know a thing about it except what I was fold."
Gossip, no matter how vicious or charged with the. dynamite of ap
parently uncontrovertible fact, cannot long live under determined effort
to unravel the snarl, backed by honest indignation at the slanderer.
Every last soul who had ever whispered the thing to oue another
under the **u] of confident**, will run to cover under the first sign or an
inv»*»ti cation.
And no amount of pressure, so<-al nr otherwise, will ever make them
confess their participation in th« -unless faced with conclusive
proof which they absolutely cannot deny.
All of which goes to show that anyone with enough interest and ini
tiative. to get after a poisonous ston and run it dove, will nearly always
find that it is based ofl circumstantial evidence of the flimsiest sort.
Hut oh. the trouble and sorrow such gossip may leave in it« wake if
some one does not take the trouble to dig it out.
Circumstantial evidence may sometimes lx- so convincing that the
gossip might even be justified in accepting it is the truth and talking
about it—if talk they must.
Hut nearly always it. takes btr the slightest thread of suspicion to
start this most deadly smoke screen of all human effort the malicious
gossip which no one can trace to its source and kill, as they would a snake
In the grass.
There is one almost infallible rule tor those to pursue, to whom love
of gossip is not a disease, and that is to quickly ask a few particulars a*
to the source of information, and to pin the informant down to definite
| charges instead of vague generalities
Ten to one they'll refuse to commit themselves *o anything very
definite, for everyone is or ought to b-- these days -th vroughly familiar
with the slander laws, and they will know that definite charges must be
: based on actual proof if they would - scape a suit for damages — Ketchikan
THE BAH HABIT
Are you one of those cocksure p.-rsuns who tbiuk any old kind of ;
I habit can be broken at will—if the will is strops; enough?
, Try it some time and see what a joke it is!
Lots <if strong willed persons go sailing gaily along through life, ac
icumulating one bad habit after another, secure in the consciousness tha
they could cut them all out-—when they felt like it.
they'd be horrified if they thought they couldn't i..p anything i
Sometimes they try, just to convince themselves >r someone elst
that they are the captains of their own souls.
And then they come to with a dull and sickening feeling of bewilder
innet when they find it take- .ltl almost superhuman effort to cut loos
from some simple little bad habit which seems innocuous in itself, bu
which, taken as a finger-on-thi-w. il sort or tiling, ass.rn.es the propor
tions of a juggernaut.
And the worst ol' it is that one never realizes the strength of a ba<
habit until it is too strong to be lightly broken!
That’s the insiduousn*•<> of the thing. Also one ..-ason why it's t
good idea to take stock of one’s funny little kinks and foibles and bar
habits like talking about'one's neighbors, earing too much, or trying to jju
i;« crimp into Mr. Volstoad’s idea, or any of the thousand and one humar
failings we all acquire as we in. and.-r through life—and give them a goor
talking to now and then!
i There's nothing quite sir treacherous as the feeling that all one ha*
to do is to discard a bad habit is just to quit.
How many times have y..u heard some one say that they'd stop a
certain unpleasant habit which was under discussion—a little later.
Think you could stop eating pastry and sweets, if you wanted to?
Try it and see just how easy—it isn’t.
You hate to think you couldn’t give up smoking cigarettes if you
; wanted to, wouldn't you?
I What it' you wanted to overcome the habit o£ never being able to
keep within your allowance, either for the house or fog your personal
Just try making yourself do it- and see what a struggle you’ll have
to put it across!
Try any of ’em-—big and little—simple little annoying traits, or great
big character defects, and you’ll soon come to the conclusion that you’re
only a poor weak sister after all. and have no backbone worth mentioning
And when you have reached that conclusion, there’s hope for you.
Just the very moment that one gives proper respect to a bad habit
and sheers olT as though it were made up of component parts of nitro
glycerine, that minute the thing becomes as innocuous as a bumble bee
with the sting extracted.—Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle.
THE VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Just because Ed Newman has sold his horse and shipped it out of
town, leaving only that of A. J. McBain, we expect some jealous Alaska
editor will rise to remark that they always did know that “Ketchikan was
a one-horse town.’’ But we’ll risk a small wager at that, the city of
Ketchikan collects as many automobile licenses as any municipality in Al
aska, and then some.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
Seward is greatly In need of more habitable residences. At the
present time with new arrivals on every boat, it is hard to find suitable
quarters for occupancy. A block or two of three, four or five-room bun
galows would find tenants immediately, and several new store buildings
could also be rented advantageously. The Signal Corps headquarters
will be removed to Seward some time this summer, and unless quarters
[art* provided they will b<; forced to occupy quarter.-. r.r. :iis reservation. ?}
Seward Is to have a building boom at any lino in tin* iieur future, th<
time is at band. Low rents and comfortable quarters are a wonderful in
ducement to «>-ttiers.- Seward (iateway.
Cordova is progressive. Her citizens have an eye on the communal
welfare and development and are witling to push it alone, even to tli• ■ ex
| tent of digging down into their jeans. This is clearly uemonstratcd by
the result of a recent straw baJlot, held for the purpose of ascertaining
[the views of the populace i— garding a proposal to issue municipal bonds
I for the purpose of con.Mructing a new school house. T int kind of spirit.
I means progress.-- Ifyde.r Miner.
Amhoitage declared a holiday las* year and the cut <viis did yeomaji
|service in clearing off the aviation field, ideally located tor airplanes, but
otherwise we bad no advantages to offer aviators
It has been suggested that the town Inn Id a hangar suitable for pres
ent needs and otherwise attempt to attract aviators to Anchorage. it
is declared that the cost of such a hangar would be nominal. Wbat’s
the matter with another community holiday? Anchorage Times.
When you •‘set a thief to catch a thief.” th»- two of them join forces
Who remembers when the pride of nearly every housewife was her
home, made bread?
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