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PAfiE « THE SEATTLE STAR IMT Irmlk Ant Km* Vmkmm —. »n«rii or m nirr« loiirtiwiuT or >mi gee-etee •( tl« ValMi Pi* tuihtlw Color*.l n,..nil M« li- Mn> I I"' «< K>' V.nt.rfHie at itaiilr. Wul. under the Act of lon<t»M Merefc 3. IT*. Mr Mall. out of i-itf. I*.- *et ■>..i*«h . > mewih*. It • month* IITS year, »l(«. la lhe stale of XVuhmion OtiUid* Ue »♦' ■tenth. It A* for • nu**th*. or »» ut> per year. Mr carrier, ettj, lie Hr week. r«>lliti« Utllr hr The Mar t'«hß.hle| Oh rWr Mala «aa. rvteate euhaeae r«e»r»ita« all A»«rfe«l> . , >.l—*e W Alaska Keep your eye on Alaska! Peace is goinji to mean a lot to that northern adopted child of Uncle Sam. And Alaska is a laboratory of democ racy, ttxv there were government owned railroads in Alaska, for instance, long before the war brought government oper ation of the roads in the main United States. The U. S. department of the interior, which has more to do with Alaska than any other government agency, m an official report predicts a (hive of settlers to Alaska. It is expected thousands of men and women will leave the states to take up life in the peninsula which we bought from Russia, and included among them will be many soldiers, seekers of more adventure and the outdoor life. Speaking of these soldiers, the interior department says: "These men, drawn from the more settled and staid portions of the United States and thrown into the atmos phere of adventure and outdi>or life, will not be content to settle down to their former humdrum existence in the fac tory. the office, but they will seek a wider horizon und greater possibilities than offered by their return to former occupations; a great immigration to Alaska is looked for when once the armies of the world are disbanded. The annual Alaskan report just made to congress sho>\ s wonderful strides mad® by the territory. The x*hite popula tion is now estimated at 30,000. Trade with the United States during the last fiscal year was $131,000,000, more than the trade between the United States and the Philippine. Porto Rico. or Hawaii. Alaskan farmers are reaching out into northern Siberia for a market for vegetables which will le shipped in a dehydrated form. In the Tanana valley the farmers have developed a strain of Siberian wheat which makes fine flour, ripens quickly and can be grown in all valleys of Alaska. By next year, it is promised that Alaska will raise all the wheat needed in the territory for flour, and later on the territory may export wheat and flour to the United States and Asia.. There are 71 public schools, with 3,500 pupils. Six salmon hatcheries are operated by the government and four bv private companies, and there is $47,000,00<) invested in the salmon industry. Kishery products totaled $51,466,980. While over 8.000 seal skins were taken, an increase of 40.000 seals is reported. Furs worth $1,338,600 were shipped out. The mineral production was $40,700,195. The government railroad made good progress, the main line to Fairbanks has lieen extended from Seward to Montana Creek, 210 miles, and the branch line into the coal fields now runs from Matanuska Junction to Chickaloon. in the heart of the coal field. The Alaska Northern railroad has been overhauled and put into working order. The government suffered a loss in revenue of nearly $90,000 due to prohibition. ' •The United States paid $7,200,000 for Alaska. Last year the minerals shipped from Alaska to the United States were five times greater in value than the purchase price of the whole peninsula; the fishery products were seven times greater, and the total export and import trade between the mother country and her adopted child was twenty times greater. Is He Your Boy? This is the little lad you saw trudging alonj? the city street the other day, his tiny arms with a bundle of sticks. He'll be a citizen some day; entitled to vote, even as you and I. What kind of a citizen? Whose fault is it that he is compelled to trudjre until the little feet are blistered and the smile is lost from the baby face? Bill's Birthday We are sentenced to this world for life! Up to a certain ajre, we want the yeaivs to fly by, and birthdays are festive occasions. To the juvenile mind, maturity means much that lures, attracts and beckons. Long trousers and skirts NOT QI'ITK so short promise cherished opportunities and individual im portance. Hut comes a period when life's .substantial good things are ours, understood and appreciated. Then the end can i»e seen mocking, as we feel, each year, drawn nearer to it. Birthdays take on a solemn significance when the winter of life is upon us. True, too, they bring with the sting a fair share of happiness. If the past has been lived to a purpose, the joy of gazing back offsets the dread of looking ahead. Life is the sentence we serve as penalty for progress and evolution. It is the on*- sentence which many would have in terminable, never to end—particularly the most shortsighted, the most successful and the most selfish. The shortsighted forget that there must be limit to have value. The less there is of a thing the more its demand. TTie harder we have to struggle for it the greater its worth—and life is maintained only by constant struggle. Life's briefness makes it precious. The successful forget that if the theories of evolution iind man's idea of heaven have foundation, this life is the threshold to a better one. Hence, we should wclcome ap proach to it. The selfish think in terms of here and now. They are loathe to yield that which they deem gain. They have throte tied spiritual self with the lust of greed. There is now in session the world's strangest birthday party. William Ilohenzollern is about to turn another page in the Book of Life. These birthday party-ers are now writing either the next chapter or "finis," the end, for Herr Ilohen zollern. Their "gift" will constitute a penalty, even if it be con tinued existence for His Inferior Majesty, Wilhelnwthe Pots damned ! At the same time, a more important birthday is being Kolerly "celebrated"—the Birthday of World Democracy, celebrated in a manner to insure it many Happy Returns of the Day! You remember the tired expression in the brown eyes, the solemn look on the pinch ed. pale little fAce, the firm shut little mouth? No more than 3 or 4 feet hijfh! Trudjfinjf the city streets in the cold, raw wind of a wintry day, j?atherinjj sticks for the family fire for the poor little shack on a shabby street, miles §way, ' Brave little lad! You've seen him many a time in many a street in many a city. Not your boy? Not your friend's boy? Just a poor foreifrner's rapped little lad? But he IS your boy. Our Greatest Menace; Money Spent Now to Fight the Dreaded Disease Will Prevent Great Loss of Life rp HE influenza epidemic subsides. Hut its menace X remains great. Thin disease, which swept thf whole country, is thought to have had its source in the war. But danger of its recurrence will not end when the war is ended. The danger i> H not removed when armies are demobilized in Europe and in the United States. Klu is pandemic. That is an epidemic which spreads thruout the world. It encircled the globe this winter. It is almost certain to appear again next winter. It may not become lighter. Some authorities are con vinced it will U' more dangerous in the coming win ter of 1910-1020 than it was in the present winter of 1918-1919. Klu bacilli gather virulence fli whatever country people are worn down by famine, or, for other reasons, are low 111 vitality. Having gained strength from weak victims, the bacilli sweep across continents, a deadly menace even to the most healthy individuals in a nation so well fed as the United States. • % • • FLU killed more Vmrricjuin thin* fail than were killed in all the American buttle* with Germany. Vnuriran children were made fatherlea* by war. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children were made both fatherless and motherles* by flu. • • • • FLU comes in the innocent guise ol a cold. It creates little terror. A Urge proportion 'of Its victims recover. The lei»#th of the death list is ex plained by the fact that it attacks flearly half the population. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT Coming Home With the Yanks! 'MfinlMT til* III' nllW boy who In lie |h' gnat all lh' llmr? Hfll —1»'« bark! today's Poem edmund vance cooke W. Hohenzollern Born January 27, Nay. Nature I* not knave nor fool. You n-ver enme from human womb They found you In norne rharnel toml). Drop) > 1 by nome »lutU»h ghoul. There »! the naked throat* of ilfMh. They found you with your fangs a nurse; You tituied and »(x<t a puling rurxo And filiated your polnoned brenth. „ And now, thin d*jr i« majktd with scorn Wherever honeiit folk »tr*» Ood tho hour whrn m^n That ever you were born* DR. STELZLE SAYS TODAY: You can't fight your Uit In another man* armor You've got to fight in your own way. • • • Don't forget that every man who made good on a big job did no becauae he waa different • • • You rant fool CJod. • • • Th* t*n rommanrlm«»nt* have never l»«*rn annulled. al(ho everv on# of tin breaka nnr or more of thrm every clay of our liven • • • F>w foot" «>\rr reform t'minlly. they go clenr down the line and e< t what's coming to them at the rnd of thr road • • • The fart thai a man ha« km aucceaafiil doonnt nlwriya mun that ho I* wlaer and better and more efficient than other* who m lo have failed • • « The Almighty had to experiment i long time with men lieforo 11«» finally evolved „ fairly decent Korl of a mort.il and e\en now aome of TMf KtVTTtLILE. ua aren't much of u credit to our Maker. • • • I believe In tod.iv. It I* all that I pna*e-<*. Tile pant la value only aa It con make life fuller and freer There la no aaaurance of tomorrow I mutt make good today. • • • No man ran reach out aftr-r better an<l higher thlnga until he ha* conquered hlmaelf. • • • • When everybody agree* with you, It'a a pretty good algn that nobody take* you aerloiiKly. • • • No C.laaa of men have a broader experience than the "common peo pie", no - Irian known quite ao well what It merina to toll and to auffer and to aacrlfir e Non<» ha ve higher aaplratlon* antl none exhibit deeper ronio (ration. It la beraune of thla that (Jod apeaka thru them Chirayo'n Mayor Thompson nays thr rilizrns want more chcap yon. Alxo, he given it to them. THK SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, JANUARY 27. Miff. ANY INDIVIDUAL WILL HE IMMUNE IK THE EPIDEMIC RECURS NEXT WINTER IN THE UNITED STATES. Every dollar spent in the effort to isolate the bacillus of fluT to find a way to prevent the di I'ase or to combat it bent, is a dollar spent to protect the life of every peryon in America. Klu vaccines used in the present epidemic carried no giutrantee. They were experimental. There is no way of knowing whether they were effective or not. The value of such vaccines depends on experiment* which require time and on results which cannot b<- obtained hastily. Research of this sort requires both time and money. It is being carried on by individuals and by endowed institutions which frequently are handicapped by lack of funds. But on the result of this scientific research will depend the lives of thou sands of Americans. The United States will l>e in danger again, not only next winter, but in «the winter following. The last flu epidemic here, tho less deadly than the pres ent epidemic, lasted from 1889 to 1893. Saving lives which will be menaced by a return of flu should not l>e left to individual scientists, or to private and semi public institutions. It should be fi nanced by the government at Washington. RESEARCH can't be undertaken after the next epidemic of flu ha* arrived. To find a cure, or to determine the best way to romhat flu next winter, researches imM Ik- started quickly. THE STAR PRO- letters TO TIE editor IIKM SUM HRKMFHTON lilllW Mkar Tii» m»r i r«.d o L Kr- IrliMfi . of lh» Young M*n a Chrkllan *..«ruitlon in * r*«»nt l» »ua Krlckaon nl4 there waan't a word of truth In th* latter aigtied A Mr*m*rton G"b " I wlah to a»> that 1 e vry word "A 1 Irernerton fioh' 1 Mid about th* Y M C A In tru. n»4 I hen he dldn I t.ll half A friend of mine liwwtd tit a Wiw frim hi. brother In Krancr Thing. lw Nild about th. Y. M C. A. In Iran** «r. not fll to print. The «■* >uw th. "Y" a*, retari.. gl». f«r charging such .gort4t.nl prtM. i» "llwri.*. X would till* to hf»v«. then, what I* h*ing Aon. with th. mot».y that wa. mltrrlM for th. iKVtii war works i-»mi«ign' Krt<-kaon aald. If It wer.n t for th* T M C A , what could w. ktv. <lon.* All I ran aay la. we <ou!d han don. wry ».ll without It rrom what I have Iward from aol dl*r. aallor. and marin.* r»turne<! from Kranr.. II la not th. Y M C. A that la helpin* th. men. but th. Had j Croat and Salvation Army My a* •ertlona ar» bark ad by th. large ma >orlty of acrvtr. mm. ANOTHBH HHKMBSTOK 008, i m rut WHt Kdltor Tli. HUt Tit. Star of th. 14th roniuintil a atrtklng < artoon on j it* front pa*. It wa. («IM "Th. I'aranta of llolshevlam " Thla alnl»- ter picture cam. to my mind a few night, ago. wliil. waiting for a .tret car on a downtown atr«rt. 1 waiap proai hed by a young man wiring th. uniform of th. t'nll»d Suiaa army who begged the prlec of a bed for th. night Ills diacharg* p.p*ra aho'* ed that ht bad received U7 wh.n mu*t.r*<t out at Camp LrwU. After paving hla bill*, h. ram* to Seattl. with 17. and at one. looked for a Job. but w«a un.uccrasful Thla 14 not an i*olat.d raw, by any mean* It 1* a **r|oua propoaltmn. to throw thouaanda of youne tn.n out of th. aervlc. In th. d«ad of winter, with llttl* or no mon.> Something ahould tie dotw at one. In th. name of aim pi. Juallc. for these men Th. pro poa.d bill giving .ach dl»charg»d man 1100 la aplendld. It ahould b* paMMtl without delay FAIR PI.AT. BI.IMKM TOBACCO Ivdltor Th. Star Juat a word about dirty at/eei car.—thejr are aw fully dirty- and why"" MAGIC! HAVE IT ON THE DRESSER \ . Corns stop hurting. then lift off with fingers Juat drop a llttl* Frewton. on that touchy corn, Inatantly It atop* ach ing. then you lift that corn right off No pain at all! Coat* only a few cent*. ■? A I ns| K «i*t a tiny bottle of Fr.r/nn. for ;i few rent* ft-om iiny drug .tore Ki'i'ii It nlwuya handy to remove hard corns, *nft corn a, or cornavbe twnen the toea, und th. i-allu*eM. without norenuaa or Irritation. You Juat try It' Krcrzone I* th. aennutlonnl discov i ry of u Clnclnnutl genius. RABY TAILORING CO. Headquarter« for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street k» - a The AuHlrnrr in lhi> 1 Norl htvmt liraili HUr Wwit AH" (,# gg Klret. the i-ompany will not try to keep then rl4tin, and It I* a dlegrare the *■) we are crowded inUi them, and It ie very unhealthy aleo About SO per rent of th* men une tobarro. and the) *plt and throw clg ■ ret and cigar atube, and anything el mi they don't happen to want. on the floor of the rare, and that I* eomethlng that (houtd be Mopped It wae a pad mletake to allow ■moklng on the street care, because the original order haa been abuard In every w»y p««»;ble And If any one open* a window for fre.li air. It rauaei a loud protest from thoe* who *re emoklrtg So I think It I* up to the heulth of fleer* to do eomething. and do It quickly. I don't wleh any one Jiarm. but t d" wleh the health officer* had to j ride the early tar* for a while - I am »ure there would be tome sudden change* AUV> A CITIZEN. / AH \ m g three brands \ ■ g sealed in air-tight \ 1 g packages. Easy to find 1 g —it is on sale \ I everywhere. ■■■■■Jk I Look for. ask for. I I be sure to set I I WRIGLEYS I - I The Greatest Name I n | in Goody-Land. g J I b// J ■ SCALED TIGHT KEPT RICHT The Flavor Lasts > POSES, AND URGES EARNESTLY THAT CON GRESS FINANCE SUCH RESEARCHES BY AN APPROPRIATION OF $5,000,000. APART of the appropriation should be at the dis posal each of Surgeon General Merritte W. Ire land of the army. Surgeon General W. C. Braisted of the navy and Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the United States public health service. The remainder of tli«' appropriation should be placed in the hands of the president, for subsidizing what experimental stations may seem to him best adapted to this work. The entire amount should lie spent in isolating the flu germ, experimenting with the best methods of treatment, to find, if possible, a scrum that will diminish the danger of attack, if it does not ward it off. In lives, loss to workers, and in other ways, this winter's epidemic has cost the nation not less than $200,000,000. A congre tonal appropriation would be well risked, even if no sure preventive is found after government scientists have spent the entire $5,000,000. American lives are not alone at stake. The flu has been as bad in South America as in the United States. It is ns bad in Krance as in England. It has been yet worse in Asia and in some countries of central Europe. Discovery of a real flu preventive might be this nation's best gift to the world, besides saving lives of thousands in the United States. STARSHELLS 'A WORD FROM JOSII WISH A r<r»| dealer nryrr feel* th' billiard. ANSWhKKI) m MR. C. «RKV I'an you tell me why there are rage* In Jail*? Ms** Addle No Id" To hold the jailbird*. Are there any artl*t* who ran draw two thing* at one Ume' —ili.nk Honk. We on<-e n* an arti«t draw a horn* and a pipe at th* name time I "win* Indian club* every morn- Inr before l>r«-akf.i*t I owing a ham mer right after breakfaot. 1 swing an ax th<- re«t of the morning I swing a sledg* In th. afternoon. But atill my muscles do not grow at ■trong aa I wlah, What do you ad via*** I.uk. Strong You ahould .wing something hear ler. Why not swing a bridge? I had two friends on th. polio, fore. On. had th® flu and r.-~ow(£ »d and th* oth.r quit hi* Job. Can you tell m« th. difference b.tw«w th.m?—A Kopp. On* b*at the flu and the other flgf the beat. a a a CAVGUT' • nut I am not going to lone vrij|| entirely." aald th. young man. ly. "I can at leai-t always be 41 brother to you " •'lf I had any ua* for a brother "] replied th. girl. "I could reAch down' under thla eofa and get one right now."