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EDITORIAL
MfiGE"Li3. WEILS. SPAR60
i'be ..'- V • the most thoughtful
■> ialist thlnker In Am
i. sspnrgo.
;• • tli world r0ad with mtn
1 and ''motions the p°
■WJl vindication cf Sovktism writ
- :i ' if. G. Wells. Recently; thq
of this nation have h.xrd the
stat' nvnts of Washington D. Van
:':i:c!e: 1 r with; and apologist for
n s;•. angwers the*o g^ntl ■
nun bri-fly: but what ho says* is
- 1 • 1:1s brand of Socialism
- not contemplate Sovietbm ir
any d ;r o. If© says; In referonc«
o wors of thcy=e artistjs whi
r U-ht where only darkness
t!.at th'y are wrong, to wit:
"I have only to say that; In raj
at; anything moiv disastroui
l; d.-Ue-.tsm; and more certair
to 1 ad to fvconocilc anarchy anc
r . , iniPetiling tbe whole fabric c
..ligation; it would be fmpoaribl'
ti> conceive. Xot only do the Boi
»-'-evi>ts not represent the will oi
t •> 1-cpU-; but what i<
important theJ" do not propoo*
" hold honorable relations with us
1. major purpose is not the r^al
< thc.ir Communist prosT'n
I". :s.ia; but tie destruction o:
t iomic and political system
•' .-re it commercial and Indus
t:i.l nations. especially th? l*nite<
?- it^s." '
Here K; luuih iu little- It is th«
whole truth. Jt is not denied by thi
rlstti. V.'horefor.-^ir. TtllilJ
lirfc lure of pot&ibl^ billions in com
r. rc© with th^se supretne iconoclasi
ut Mr. Well's gentle Portraiture o
i.> i.iu ■ "tvill niu U Impress, the wnsi
bl- P^opl,., of ths United States.—
.'iaiinnati Xaquirer.
TNT fi-n anil toast is
I lea of an a'tonv.wn
btowntif.
.1 - I to be (lying out. It
sotni'!* jis it" it wire being horribly
murdered.
K P .-ha, whose name
c 'ii! I: • a cigarette. Is now
u U:soarileil butt.
At .t v r.tv t!:e campaign cigar has
ii ■ i j. '.-v. help to the antl
nicotine inovi l.ient.
; : ^ularly careless
ihey permit them
selv, S to I •
L !■* ti"t its the power of mortals t(
it. but like sue
ci"W, we ha'.i- ^I'-.-rw l it.
M>»sco«- r.vusiiiu the "lilies ol
7 ■ on tin gufimil ol
.i.....,..-. . rifr 1.1.
Poland Consults
For Her Defense
Against Reds
Paris Feb. 4—.President Filsnulslu
Oi! Pi land with a large number of
hlt.lx officials of Poland arr(ved in
Paris today. He ■with the officials
are hero to consult with French of
ficials concerning tie threatened
Bolshevifcl offenslve against Poland
in the sPring.
Will Make Test
Of Wireless
Amateurs
San Francisco Feb. 4—Pr°sident -
elect Harding i8 to try out the ama
ture wljvlsfes operators thlmoiit the
country on Feib. 21. At that tim®
a tfilrty word wirel°ss metsagei pre
pared by Harding will be broadcast
ed from Hartford Illinois for compe
tition Oi all long distance amateurs
1q the United States. (The nieasag"
will be flashed la three parts.
Coast Man May Sit
In Harding's
Cabinet
Seattle Feb. 4—That a Pacific
Coast man may ^it in the cabinet of
President Harding is the rumour so
la? ground party circles at the Pi*'s"
eat time. AV. H. Faulamus of Puy
aUu>> Is on© mentioned for a post
a? Secretary of the Interior.
NOW WAREHOUSES ON WATER
Japanese Said to Have Evolved a
Scheme That Is Ingenious and
Profitable as Well.
The rime way probably come when
tlie litud Is overcrow i!e<1 and people
begin to live on water. Then we shall
be building lloatinu .-kyscmpers and
a(|i:utle par' s At any rate, congenial
Japanese have already launched a
scheme which In the opinion of the
projectors hit* many birds by one
stone. The s' heme is the creation of
what Is i-i'llijii Homing warehouses.
During the war Japan built many
I good-sized wooden ships to rid in the
I transportation of the Allies' goods.
After the war these ships were rtls
mlssed frotn the service, and since
then lay Idle It; harbors unable to ob
tain cargoes due to post-war slumps in
shipping.
Taking advantage of this circum
stance. a group of men organized' a
concern called the Marine Warehouse
compray, with a capital of lo.OOd.iHK)
yen: bought the wooden ships nod
started a floating warehouse business.
The company is n->w engaged In es
tablishing eight flna-ing wnrehon?"s of
UKK) tons each In the harbor of Kobe.
The ships are to bo rttended by three
launches of l.OtMt tons capacity each.
The aquatic warehouses, being exempt
ed from extortionate rent and taxes,
and largely free from the danger of
Are. In addition to many peculiar ad
vantages consequential to their mova
ble character shall he able, it Is
claimed, to carry on the business at a
much lower rate with greater facility,
j providing a formidable enemy, in the
I future, of their terrestrial cousins.—
East and West News.
1 WAS MASTER OF PROFANITY
r .
I Intimate of Great Editor Declares
Swearing Was Mere Than a Bad
Habit With Him.
■ j Joseph Pul'tzer, the famous blind
founder of the New York World, was
not always n purist in language. At
least so writes Charles Chapin, wfio
wns for 20 years city editor of the
Evening: World, in his autobiography,
called "Charles Cliapin's Story."
"Sometimes when I was rending to
him he would become explosively pro
fane," writes Cbnpin. "And how
shockingly tbat blind man could swear!
With hlni profanity was more of an
art than a vice. Once when I had read
something to him that made him angry
with the writer's stupidity he swore so
passionately and so loud and grew so
choleric and red In the fare that I
' feared something Inside of him might
snap.
"Suddenly he checked himself and
pricked up his ears. There were angry
voices In an adjoining room. One of
his young sons was having a run-In
with his tut(ft- and was forcibly telling
vrhat he thought of him. A peculiar
expression, a mixture of annoyance
and amusement came over my employ
er's countenance.
" "Dear me,' he said, 'I wonder where
i that boy learned to^wear.' lie didn't
j utter another onth during the remain
der wy visit."
Business Section of Cork Destroyed by Hames
A panoramic view of I'a trick street, the greatest highway of tlie city, following the fires which luld the heart
of Cork in ruins. The picture was made on the morning following the night of terror. Thousands of people
turned out to view the ruins.
January Sales In
dicate Botton
Fallen Out
Trappers arc to experience, som«- (
tli'.ig of what th© farmcrs have had j
to ftu.> during th0 last year. Th<' |
bottom hafc dropped out of the |
fur market and quotations now com
ing in give the unfavorable changu
all the way from 40 to 70 per c»nt j
Iower witj comparatively few sales, j
The January sales on Fox ranges '
about 50 per cent lower than the ap |
ril sales of 1920. Lynx was 40 j
per cent Wolverine 50 Per c<*nt Mu$l i
rat 65 po cent and M^rtei 40 ix-r |
icent. .Thii drop in the market will J
work a hard*li!j> on the trao>Pvrs 8fc
j the)- hav° had to purchase supplies j
i f'jr th0 winter on the baste of tho I
I former high rriceS.
Boston Is Afflicted
With Sleeping
Sickness
uoston F>-b. 4—Thirteen cages of
sleeping sickness with f[v6 deatli»
are rePorted in the city of Boston.
War Veteran Gets
Port Commission
Seattle Feb. 4—Captain W. J. A
Mvlrhead au European war veteran
S\as bcen appointed traffic manager
by tile Port Commission.
Suffacools Sojourn
I In Sunnv Southern
State
Word was received in the last mail
| f torn Mr. and Mrs. Frank Suffa
cool from Venice Cal. They ar6
(staylig at ttoe Alta Vista apar t
j a id are enjoying excellent health
| a tit' the beauty of the country. A
sn.i of Mf>. SufSacool Mr. A1 But
ler and hi8 family live at Venice,
: a .uburb of Los Angeles end tlie
| 'a'jf'facools ar0 their guests- the
j Uu'lers have a little girl Betty Jean
| which Mrs Suffiacool hats sepn for
; tiie first time.
i 'i hey took in thef tournament of
j roses at Pasadena hcvc sPeit sonio
I tlrae in Holly wood motor to San
j Diego and ar0 having a generally
j delightful time
I The seisim^rai»!i In Georgetown
I university recorded :i severe shaking
I Unit may have lieen an earthquake or
some ultimate consumer of hard coal
I at work with the sifter on last win
I ter's ashes.
I Germany Is offering for sale In this
j country men's paper suits at 00 cents
a suit, with fifty styles in stripes
available. Not referring to their style
or color, wouldn't such clotnes be
rather noisy?
The Master Horseslioers" association
decided that the motor vehicles will
never displace the horse. Nobody
hears of an automobile being called
on to pull a horse out of the mire on
a detour.
"I Believe That Every Girl Should Be
Trained to Do Something."
By MISS MABEL BOARDMAN, District of Columbia Commissioner.
Do I think a young woman should enter public
service provided she has the inclination? That de
pends upon circumstances; family conditions most
always playing a large part in a woman's decision.
Her first duty lies at home, and nothing can ever
change that
On the other hand, 1 believe that evtry girl—
rich or poor—should be trained to do something,
either by which she could make a living or bv which
she could benefit humanity. There is no excuse for
an-absolutely selfi«h existence. Every woman, with th«
|x>ssible exception of the young mother with a growing
family, should find some opportunity for public service
wi>rk. I I eiiove in beginning Airly to educate for citizenship. The cliiuirt.!,
should ho made to realize that citizenship means service. I also believe
that in the schools «rirls should be given some special business instruction
and, in fact, all possible equipmc^ that will help to fit them for thrir
particular niche in life. What the "particular niche" may be is a hard
question to answer. You can't lay down any law because it all depends on
the woman herself—the circumstances of her environment, her training,
talent and, most important of all, her inclination.
As to the rewards and disappointments of a career of public service
women are young yet in their new field of opportunity. But I believe
they are going to be less material than men; that when they go into pub
lic service they have bigger objectives and will therefore have bigger re
wards. Of course, they will have the same disappointments that men
have, added to the sacrifices women have to make when they enter public
life that men do not.
As a matter of fact, I believe women are better fitted for municipal
positions than they are for national, that their breadth of human sym
pathy and understanding of civic problems enable them to do a much
bigger municipal work. In the Red Cross, for instance, the national
work is such a huge undertaking that unless we had given women some
*hing to interest them in a local way we never could have moved them
Parcel Post System and the Salary of
the Fourth Class Postmaster.
By W. H. BROPHY, National League of Postmasters.
One of the crying needs of the service is a classified civil service
status for third and fourth class postmasters. The parcel post system
has placed ft burden on the postmasters of this class that is all out of
proportion to their compensation. Since the parcel post system was es
tablished it has grown to gigantic proportions, and in the smaller towns,
where a large percentage of buying is done from mail order houses, it
forms the bulk of the mail handled.
The present compensation of the fourth-class postmaster is fixed on
conditions that existed a half century ago. His pay is based on a per
centage of the cancellation of stamps in the outgoing mail. Incoming
mail is from three to eight times greater than the outgoing mail, and
the postmaster gets nothing for handling it. That means that he has
from tlirc;' to eight times more work to do free than his paid work.
An adequate wage scale, based on the hours of service required and
the amount of work performed, is what the National League of Post
masters -tands for, and congress will be asked to grant such scale at the
coming session.
Hammond and Wireless Death
Complete annihilation of en^iuy
fleets long before they come within
gun range of the New York skyscraper
skyline, or the fortifications guard
ing the Golden Gate, becomes a seem
ing possibility as a result of recent
tests by warships of the navy off the
Virginia capes. For the*: tests a
number of out-of-date battleships were
used. There was not a human being
on board, yet they were maneiivorol
hither and thither at will. Thus I lie
battleship Ohio, of 13,000 tons, was
steered and managed by wireless op
erators on the hattleshlp Indiana. *
The wireless-controlled ship has
been developed out of the invention
of John Hays Hammond, Jr., son of
a noted American engineer.
Th» possibilities of the idea In
volved seem limitless. To supplement
It, there Is wireless control of air
planes, which since the war has been
successfully developed. An American
plane capable of cariylng a heavy load of explosives and operated without a
htimar. guide has made a trip »f 100 miles and landed close to the point It
set out to reach. This Is considered to be perhaps the most frightfully de
structive war contrivance, in point of potentialities, yet produced by human
ingenuity.
Mcum
Is so soothing and cooling for
baby's tender skin after a bath
with Cuticura Soap.
•ample Cichrr*- A«Mre*:"Cutic*»*LaV
'!'■ 1 ~-t- --!**• " Sold erery*
unrrr go .pl. • < tn:cnt-> andW>c. Talcum 26c.
Cuticura Soap ahavca without mug.
BP I MB
ok.ru»\yay Rcsde-fl Are Learning
Tiie Way
It's the Httlo fiidney il!3—
Th«-lame weak or aching back—
The uniiutici'd urinary disorders—
TLa. ma> lead to dropsy and
Blights (]l£!.a.:e
When the kidneys are weak,
Help tL'iii with Doan's ICidney
Pills,
A cm dy e I'"cinlly for weak kid
aeys.
Hoar's ham ufed In kidney
troubles for CO y-ars.
Endor.-.jd oy ;U0) people—°ndor
s d by citUens of this locality,
i Mrnt 3 E Marsh 1720 Lincoln St
Bi-lUnphara, Wash, sajs: "I used to
j bj subject to kidney disorders and
back-cli". At times I could hardly
1st aI?hTrn ui> when T got down my
hiack wa.i to stiff and lame, a few;
of Doau's Kidi.ey Pills soon stopped
! t.'iat »«•!'. 1 In my back and
j !>ut m. I i lr.eys in good working or
I dcr. 0;" !<iit years I have been free
from tiits annoyance but Doan's
Kidney I ilia would be my first con
s'It r,;;lon ;i I ever had occasion to
t}alr© -i kidney medicine again for I
know they have no equal."
Prlco 00c; at all dealcrs. Don't
simply -s'c for a ildney remedy—ge
Doan's Kidney rills—the sam^ that
Mrs Harsh i: id. Foster-Milburn Co.
JIfrs., E :f!u!o, N. Y.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Kv Tin: rUOIJATH COURT FOR
Tilt. TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
D'VISIO., Xo. 1, AT SKAGWAY,
BEFORE: HON .JOSEPH J. F.
WARD; UNITED STATES COM
MISSIONER AND EX-OFFICIO
PROEATL JUDGE.
iN THE MATTER OF THE ESTAT
OF
LIDA PIIELPS, Deceased,
Notlcn is hereby given by the un
dersigned administrate! of the os
*ate of Lid» Phelps Debased, to th
creditors of; and all persons having
ulMma agatiibt the etate of said de
cd-sed, Pr ,>are th^rn with the nec
ossary voucher.', within the time r«
i-quiied by 'sw, and to present thom
; to the undersigned at his residence
fc the Town of Sl»agway Alaska,
And you t,re further notified that
' !f any cli;m is not filed within
the t/nc Aforesaid it shall be bar
rel. Mark phelps
Administrator of the estate
of Ida Phelps, D' ceased,
i First Publication Jan. 18th 1921
i Final Publication Feb. 15th 1921
Or.ni.\,v'\CE XO. 138
F*l]>'ATi:U main extextioxs.
ic Cnacct-cl by the Town Council
of Skagway;
Tint from the date of the P3^
sage of this ordinance no petition ci
rtquost for an extuntion of the wat
er mains in Uie u>wn of 33£&gway
ba favorably considered unless the
j's'imared f -jt of such eXtention ba
losa than one hundred dollars
.i\5100 00) fur eaoh and every bona
lida water user living on such ex
tHntlcn.
Is* it enacted further;
That should one or mora Petition
ers express .1 willingness to pay th9
j cost in exCtsS of one hundred dollar
I ( J 100 00) i-cr water user for an ex
' neni.'on of the wa'tcr mains and
1 fil0 the town clerk a n°goti
! Eiile bond 01 other negotiable secur
lty for such excess cor.t; The town
[ of Sliagway agr^s to ropay such Pe
tldoEer on the basis of one hund
' dollars t $100.00) for each bona.
! lida wat^r us' r who shall later Pay
•w>ter tcx on said extentlon until
j tile original petitioner is reimburse
?:>r the principal without interest of
si;oU ua\m*nt as h0 has advanced o
vat - main c-xt^ntion.
I'asrcd 07 th0 Common Council'
! thir 17th «lajr of January 1921.
Approved: E. J. Shaw
Mayor of the town o£
Skagway, Alaska
Attest: "Walter JIcBri°n, Cl^rk.
First Pub. J»n. 18 1921.
Final Pub. Jan. 20 1921„