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THE DAILY ALASKA CITIZEN
J. H. CA8KEY . . Proprietor
Editor and Manager
JOHN E. PEGUE8
Published every morning except Monday from The
Citizen Block. Garden Island, Alaska.
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Atsociated Press is ext.uslvely entitled to the
use for republlcaticn of all news dispatches credited to It
or not otherwise edited in this paper and also the local
news published herein.
Delivered b> carrier In Falrbai <f Garden island inr
Graehl for $2.00 p:r mol h
By mall, postage paid, at the following rates
One year, In advance, $20 Oi
Six months, In advance 10.00
Three months, in advance . 6 00
One month, in advance ...... 2.00
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EDIT
Erom current comment I>\ various publi
cations in the states, it seems that most ol the
progressive republican papers are heartily in
favor of the ratification of the peace treaty
including the league ol nations without reser
vation or amendment. < )ne ol the strongest
supporters of the old progressive republican
party, and of the progressive element in the
republican part\, when the lornier reunited
with the latter, is the Chicago Evening Cost.
The editor ot that paper several weeks
ago declared that the real issue ol today be
tween liberalism and toryism in the league ot
nations and its scores "so-called progressive
republicans” in the senate tor being on this
issue “as reaetionan as Lodge, Knox, Wads
worth. Curtis, or any ot the old stand-pat
group.” "Mr. lolmson.” it says, "like Me
Cormick or Mr. Borah, has jumped oil on the
wrong foot lie cannot hug to himsell the
label of progressive while he is taking the
reactionary side ot the biggest issue ol the
day.”
Dr. Frank R. Crane, another leading pro
gressive. denounces as a crime the et torts to
defeat the league of nations, lie says:
“Careful readers of the newspapers must
know that amid all that has been said against
the league, no one has ever suggested any
other wav except the league ot nations by
which future wars can be prevented.
"And vet there is a lively and determined
movement on the part ot certain men in the
United States senate to defeat the league!
In nothing is the utter hideousness ot parti
san politics more apparent so much as this
spectacle of men who, to gain partisan ad
vantage, are willing to bring the human
race to ruin.
“Bad as this war is, all scientific think
ers are agreed that it was mild compared to
what the next war will be unless by some
league of nations it can be obviated.
“Looking at all this, I would deliberately
say that I would take my stand with Judas
Iscariot, with Abdul the Damned, with mem
bers of that vile court that sentenced Joan of
Arc to flames, with John \\ ilkes Booth, or
Charles J. Oiteau, that line up with a purpose
so diabolical, so far reaching in its mischiev
ous effects as that ot defeating the league ot
nations. For it means to put out the onl\
light that glimmers in the darkness ot the
world, to wreck the onl\ lifeboat laboring to
the rescue of humanity.”
LOOKING BF.TTK.K
All the time the prospects tor some real
railroad construction work seem to be improv
ing. These were considerably brightened
Thursday by the favorable report made by the
senate territories committee on the $17,000,
000 appropriation for the Alaska railroad.
Such a report is tantamount to passage.
This is especially true in view of the approval
by the senate of the original requests ol the
department for railroad funds. It has hardK
changed its mind since that time, and we may
contidently expect the passage ol the present
appropriation when its supporters can have
it brot up on the floor of the upper chamber.
As drawn up by its authors, in conjunc
tion with the department of interior, accord
ing to reliable information, the measure was
so worded and designed as to make the money
when once appropriated continuously avail
able until the completion of the road. This
will insure continued work on a scale suffici
ently broad to cover all sections.
Ihe new appropriation will be greeted
with acclaim by Alaskans everywhere. But it
is especially vital to the interior. Not, how
ever, so much tor the money itself, which is
after all but a drop in the bucket to what we
have in our immediate resources, but for
the promise it holds out for the future. Many
of us had allowed a doubt to creep in as to
whether or not the road ever would be com
pleted, by the government, and under present
conditions it has seemed highly probable that
much of our industries would have to close
down. With renewed construction work ei\
init etnplo) ment to e\ery ;t\ail;ihle titan while
the road is in process ol completion, and tin
assurance that the completion oi the road will
unshackle our mines, and attain '-tarts the
wheels poinp round, the future look hrieht
than tor mam years.
THE \ AI.l'l- ()K ITHI I CITY
The value ol publicit\ as the 1k-s( means
ot attaining almost am end desired has been
demonstrated so often that it needs verv lit
tle comment. Ami the lack of it has brot
about the failure of mam carefully planned
campaigns.
This has never been more clearb dem
oiistrated than in the failure of the last ter
ritorial legislature to pass an appropriation
tot the \laska \yrieultural College and
School of Mines. In speaking of this matter.
Senator ] K. Heckman recently -aid to the
writer of this article. “It I had but known the
real situation that appropriation would have
been made. It would have been so ea-\ of
accomplishment, but I did not realize it then."
()t course, the senator knew about the
college in a general way. what was lacking
Was ;t sjteci tic know ledge ol what had been
done and of what was left to be accomplished,
lie had been told to a certain extent by the
Fourth division members about the school, but
he lacked the necessatw information to brim;
home the situation to hint.
it is unlortunate tot Alaska that Sen
ator I Iecktnan did not know. There were and
are others besides him who do not know vet,
and who, lacking the knowledge he has ac
quired by personal contact, will still remain
ignorant about the institution unless a cam
paign of publicity is started. Let's don’t re
I main idle until the next session meets before
we get busy. The time to work is now. not
next vear, and it is tip to the people of hair
batiks to do most of the work.
CRl'SOK AND I-RIDAS TRS AN
KXPKRIMKNT
( Kxchange. )
Robinson Crusoe and his man bridav hail
reached a point in their life on their desert
island where thev were doing well. They had
accumulated enough breadfruit and cocoanuts
ami other provisions so thev could spare the
time to build themselves a comfortable house
and make themselves some clothing. They
had to work hard, it is true, to keep ahead ol
the game. But the\ were industrious and
thrifty, so thev began to accumulate some ut
the comforts of lile.
Then one da\ Crusoe said to lrrida\ :
“What’s the use of working so hard and sav
ing up yams and cocoanuts? Thrift is out ot
date. I.et’s work short hours and not ac
'cumulate anything. We might as well con
sume all we produce. I.et’s spend mir money
land get the good of it right now.”
The plan sounded good to hridav. It it
was possible to be better off by loafing a good
share of the time, and In not denying one’s
self anything, why naturally it would be fool
ish to work. So the new plan was put into
effect.
At first it worked beaut11ully. I hey had
accumulated enough lood so there was j>len 1 \
to fall back on, and the dwelling was in good
shape. But after a while the roof began to
leak and their clothing to wear out and the
reserve supply ol food had been exhausted.
They decided finally they must mend the root
and make some more clothing. But then they
found they hadn’t enough lood lor dinner. So
they had to stop work on the rool while thev
went after food.
In the time they had .allotted lor working,
however, they discovered they couldn’t get
the dwelling repaired, keep up on clothing,
and obtain all the food they needed. I.ife be
came more and more uncomfortable for them.
Their house became almost impossible to live
in, they were ragged, and they began to feel
the effects of hunger.
“Mr. Crusoe,” Friday one dav remarked
after several months’ trial of the new light
work plan, “your scheme sounds good. But it
somehow doesn’t produce the results . For
some reason we don’t have as many comforts
now we are working four hours a day as we
had when we were working eight or nine. Tt
seems to me il we are going to have as
comfortable a home as we used to have, and
as good clothing and as much to eat, we have
got to work as we used to under the old plan.”
Crusoe had had the same ideas borne in
on him by the experience of the previous
months. So they went back to the old plan
and gradually produced enough surplus to en
able them to live as comfortably as they did
before.
Thus, the chronicler reports, did the
desert island realize thru painful experience
the two great facts of political economy which
the race regards as to disagreeable, that in the
long run a good living is to be had only b\
work and thrift.
RUSSIAN
RAILROADS FAST
S« >R( »K A. Ku ian Lapland. Aug
2f» (.d*) I'u.-hing forwa d dad> into
territory of tie* Rol.-heviki and often
under fire, the Ameriean railwav
troop- on the Murrnan front in two
months transformed 7f» mile- of dyn
amited and tunned bridges and rail
way, wrecked and de.*-iroved b> re
treating bolshevik), into a workable
railway which thc> manned, operated
and maintained
To these troops the Rrilish nmii
mand give, much credit of the seven
tv five mile advance toward Heim
Mvod-k In the contingent were 2(5
olllceis and <»7'* men, comprising the
IfiMli and 1 »»71h companies of railvvav
troops a. a pecial tiattalion under
11 a mi I I Mi Mol eland. Kan i
City, and everv kind of lailmadet
from a : uperintendent lo a eel ion
hand.
The Yanks worked so la t in fa el
lliat I he bolsheviki according t<> pri
oners taken, Im • 1 i«* veil that Ihey had
miraculous machines for trneklnying
and adjustable bridge- which tlu-y
dropped in as they went along. It
wa. all done by a gang under rap
tain <!. .1 .Ion* -. of Pater.- on, N .1 .
who in Alaskan and La!in-American
jobs was nicknamed "I lurry lip
June.-.." The men worked seventeen
hour.- daily with lie enemy right
ahead and the British artillery right
behind awaiting construct ion Their
were also battles and skirmishes in
many small iding.- where on * serai
occasions the constructor- and also
the train', crews were under fire.
On May 29, while building a bridge
under shrapnel fire, the Yank.- wen
iirrounded by hoi heviki skipping
thru the woods and dynamiting Un
bridge three versts in tin* rear, on
the way back to repair the bridge the
Yanks were again attacked at rinse
range hut managed to escape
The shop detachment, under Pap
tain <’ L McMillan, ol South Ameri
ca and Panama, formerly from Oma
ha, had to transform junk pile equip
[ ment into workable rolling stock.
Then the Yanks, under (’aptain II
0 Odell, former assistant and super
intendent at Santa Fe, built and
i operated an eight mile street laii
way in Murman I'mbr Lieutenant
flat L Tuttle, they operated and
manned an armored train
Railroad men who formerly drew
high pay in Boston, Pitt.-burg, oi In
diana : hared in making tlie: <• rail
way enterprise a Yankee success.
LONDON PAPERS
PRAISE HIGHLY
LONDON, Aug 2"». (/P) The pro
visional regimen I of American ol
difi's who followed (Ieneral Pershing
in the Peace Da\ procession was the
first sample of American lighting
[troops to march in London. other
I organizations . ecu here had been on
their wa> to the battlefields, whih
these men were returning
“Here were the Americans in steel
helmets, marching in companies eight
abreast with bayonet fixed.” said the
Daily Kxpress. “They were a. jovial
as any when the procession halted,
for a time, hilt while the> marched
their laces were as serious a ml as
immobile as I lie graves! of graven
images They made a profound im
presion on the onlookers. Their
marching was Roman in its iron
termless and precision.”
“A magnificent regiment it was,”
said the Daily Telegraph, “young
men all of them and Hie quintes
sence of the alert and lithe, khaki
clad in brown steel helmets they
they loked looked most workman
like.”
“How magnificently they marched,
swinging past in perfect alignment,
with a long and, easy stride, heads
held high and shoulders squared,"
said the Dailv News. "They are
greeted vociferously with as good
cheering as I ever remember having
heard in London.”
"There was grim, indomitable look
about Pershing’s men," said the Daily
Sketch, " an effect greatly heightened
by their shell helmets, and ii made
all the more wonderful the burst of
clear color which followed as their
massed banners came by. Old Glo
ries, along with the rest, held Ameri
can fashion so that the fabric flew
freely and no sherd of color was
lost. The cheering of the crowd
turned at the sight to a great ‘Ah’
of delight. Except for the passing
of the massed colors of the guards
with their laurelled staffs, it was
the most picturesque moment of
the procession."
"Good old Yanks,’ thus are the
Americans affectionately if somewhat
familiarly greeted,” said the Morning
Post.
PRINTERS WORKING.
TACOMA, Wash , Sept. 12. t/P)
The first issue of the papers of this
city for week were on the streets
this morning the printers having
agreed to go back to work again last
nigtit They are working, it is stated,
under the old scale of wages.
For the Hot Weather Try
Some of the Cooling Drinks.
I’altoni/e a home itu 1 listr\. Iloim products lot hum.
people. We use onK tlie best ol materials in makim.
our \ ru|>s. I tistiIkxl water, siphons, etc. I et us keep
\ oil supplied.
Fairbanks Beverage Co.
^Fairbanks Lodge No. I.'!!>2
\L OKDFIv of MOOSF
' 1 ■ ;. ul ml In*
.lax ..I .-arli nmnifi. :H Mon . II..11.
Filh \vp between Cu liman A! Ilai n
cllo.
I II HIU.KTTi:. ;nn, i.uv. I ir i
National Dank I’liiMin
TIIO.M \S (' Y< HH.i :. Dioainr
SOFT DRINKS
Fresh Fruits, the finest quality of Bulk and
Box Candies, Cigars, tobacco, Fjc.
I To I, Bill. ard and Cards
\ oil'll find the I til neh at the I’ioneer
The most popular place in tow n
! U CAM'S
Leaves from the Nordale Motel
(»:.{<> A, M. DAILY
Fairbanks Creek
Fo\, Coldstream, Cilmore, Pedro ('reek
and Cleary Summit
I'ASSl'.NCiLk AND FkKIOHT SKk\ 1C'1\
Competent and reliable drivers. Best Autos. \ uii
lake nu chance ot walking.
LAUNCH “VICTORY”
Fast and Reliable Service
I .caves for Nenana every other day until permanent
schedule is announced
FAIRBANKS OFFK'F NFN ANA OFFK’F
Fioneer Hotel Tiie “Terminal”
Palace Baths
hour til Ave. Next to Cordon's Cdass Block
Tub, Shower, Steam, Scrub, Turkish
Soft, clear water I nun well on premises
Children with parents 25c a bath. Open day and niyhl
1*. l.’HKUKEUX, I h op
FRESH SHIPMENT
PETALUMA
EGGS
$1.00 per dozen
$27.00 per case
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO. :
“Alaska’s Largest Outfitters” J
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