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The irreconcilable* are quibbling over :i reservation which declares
that no action can be taken by the I'nited States under the four-power
tseaty not authorized by the constitution.
It is much ado about nothing. No specific action Is provided for In tho
t-eaty. other than that the four nations Involved shall communicate with
lach other ard determine ' the most efficient measure to be taken jointly or
separately" to resist aggression.' That binds no government to action other
than such as that government itself shall determine upon.
If a President wanted to. he would not dare take action not warranted
by the constitution of the United Stales. If he did. he would be subject to
impeachment. That would be one inexorable alternative that would keep
him within constitutional bounds.
Nor would any President take action under the four-power treaty un
less backed by the overwhelming sentiment of the American people. And
the American people would be very slow to approve action of an unconsti
tutional or extraordinary character. They would not approve any act of
war itnless there was a; p'e and undonbted cause. .
Nor would a Pres.de..i enter upon any international enterprise that
Might lead to war without some understanding with the senate. He would
have to depend upon that body declare war through which he would be
authorized to carry on a war He would have to depend upon the senate
for the grants of money with which to fight In the face of already exist
ing constitutional provisions, it is in' •ntile for senators to seek to load tho
treaty down w.th their whims. at:d their distempers and their colics.
The moral strength of the treaty is its best effect. The fear by nations
of what the 1'nited States might do in case of aggressions against territory
Included in the treat;, is the greatest of all deterrent influences In prevent
ing such aggressions. To saddle ti e treaty with reservations, to bind
Presidents hand and foot would be to rob the pact of its most powerful in
fluence.
What is more, the haggling and quibbling and hairsplitting and jockey
ing and pett:fogging by the senate takes away the confidence of signatory
powers in what America could bp depended upon to do in carrying out the
terms of the agreements and. to that extent, undermine the work of the
W.ishineton conference. It has a similar effect upon other nations by giv
ing them the impression that the l*nited States is hesitating, distrustful
and not at all to be depended upon in measures looking to the peace of the
world
The British people found t necessary, after a long experience, to clip
the wings of their house of lords. The present ambitions of the senate to
exercise powers that, under ti.e constitution, rest on the president of tne
t'niteil States, may ultimately make it advi<alile to put that body where it
belongs.—Oregon Journal.
Horace A. Wade, the California boy marvel who. it Is sa d. at oleven
years of age. is writing his fourth noven and to whom, it is also £u:d. !rvin
Cobb. Ceorfce Ade. Elinor Glyn and others have referred as "tho wonder of
the literary age." for ?rly resid'd in Skagway. where his father was em
ployed by »!.e W p ,v Y R. I-a'er his father was etnploxed in the office of
Governor >trong tn Juneau. Horace is remembered by man/ cf l>is old
school raatts here.
OLD TIME SUNDAYS
There is a touch of patln>s tn the tu
rnout of u Kentucky man in tin* Wash
ington Post u\er the departed charm
of the old-fashioned Sunday. To his*
mlt;d. the phrase "all dressed up in
their Sunday l*-st" was >"tiiething
more than a tnere matter of clothes.
It «it» really symbolic of the different
attitude of the people of some years
ago to the Sun-lays of their era.
According to the Kentucky man. the
olil-fasliioi ed distinctiveness about Sun
day has largely faded, away becmi-e
people are "dressed up" all the time
nowadays. Just as places that are ojien
on weekdays are likewise open oc
Sundays. Without advocating blue
laws or anything of that kind, the
commentator thinks It would be better
If Sunday were "really aji event, a
sweet, wholesome occasion," the way
It used to he. The Kentucky man has
certainly known Sundays in which,
as he says, everybody for;* it the fares
of the unrktiriay world and entered
Into the spirit of worship and good
fellowship. But the chatue from such
days is due to something else l-e«h!es
the tendency of people to be lietter
dressed. or to keep their shops ojten
seven days a week, says the Cliristinn
Science Monitor. There are different
racial elements involved in the matter
from those common to the Sundays
in old Kentucky.
To mn^e life connt you mnst b»cln
^ avUt-«tiUie. Vul^'U rjapjscaul
nirvi'«r from !t squandered seed-time
i I uncultivated summers. sa.vs <Irlt.
Wild oats In the Held and wild ideas
m ill. : fid w * 11 choke whatever might
have hi-en expected from either. Why
Is It folks expect miracles In life when
they know what nature does? There
are many appeals to youths of talent.
R- inify Is alv ays courted. Poors con
tinually open hml hands beckon those
Willi promise uf leadership. The re
spouse made determines whether or
not the life will count. Vou'll never
count for more than one of the group
when von ti>ke pleasure only In per
sonal satisfactions. Selfish folks may
sticeed in forcing ahend. When they
do they soon hecome engulfed In their
own selfishness and become rnleil
atunrg the disliked members of so
ciety.
Things would he better and safer
for the country If there were more
i-orciihiloits ploddingly arrived at and
feu er hysterically Jutu|ied to.
The loser of a wallet containing
srfi.nr*) rewarded the finder with $lf>.
Now what was the psychology that
kept him from making it an even $20?
Not even the cabaret proprietor Is
In it with the fashionable dressmaker
when it comes to axing cover charges.
If German marks ever go up. they
wl'l bare a long way to climb befor*
the} rettcu ilic luy.
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Copyright, 1WU, Little, Brown A Oxnp»nj)
'
He Knew He Had Not Missed.
He iVuire'i tin ne saw tno rorni ot I
his enemy rock down, face half-buried
i In the pine needle*. It never even or- !
I curred to him to approach to see If tie I
I hud made a clean uill. Me had he'd '
I on rhe lireiist im<l he had n world of
confidence In hl< treat. shocking. Iilc
■ zanie rille. Besides, .he rille tire might
! attract some hunter In the hills: and i
there would he tl'i e in the mot-nine '
to return to the ht>dy and make «-er
rain little Investigations that he had
In mind And running hack down the
trail he missed the slclit of H'ldreth
drnccinc his wont: led body like an
Injured hare. Into (lie shelter of the
thickets.
Whlsperfnot. that cro;tt cownr'i ;
came out at tits brush-covert when tnc
moon rose. It was not his usual rising
time. Ordinarily he found Ills best -
limiting In tJie eerie light of the twl- |
light hour; but for certain re.isons.
| his knowledge of which would he e\
I tremely difficult to explain, he let tins
time t:o hy In slumber. Whlsperfnot i
I had slept almost since dawn. It Is a
J significant quality In the felines that
I they simply cannot keep In condition
i without hours and hours of sleep. In I
t this matter of sleeping, they are In a i
direct contrast to the wolves, who j
I seemingly never sleep at all. unless it
' Is with one eve open, and In still :
1 greater contrast to the king of all !
I beasts, the elephant, who Is said to '■
j slumber less per night than that great
electrical wizard whom all tuen know
' and praise.
J I lie great cat came our yinim-H. ».
I graceful a thing «s treads upon Un
earth. He was almost nine feet ion"
' from the tip of his no«e to the end of
: his (nil. and he weighed as much a<
i many a full-grown man. He stood and
1 yawned insolently, for all the fores'
| world to see. He rather hoped that
j the chipmunk, staring with beady eyes
. from his doorway, did see hltn. lie
I would just as soon that Woofs little
son. the bcnr cuh. should see him too.
j But he wasn't so particular about
' Woof himself, or the wolf pack whose
| song had just wakened him. Anil
above all things, he wanted to keep
out of the sight of men.
For when all things are sold and
done, there were few bigger cowards
In the whole wilderness world than
Whlsperfoot. A good many people
think that Oraycoat the coxote
could take lessons from him in this
respect. But others, knowing how a
hunter Is brought in occasionally with
almost all human resemblance Rom
from hlrn because a cougar charged In
his death agony, think this Is unfair
to the larger animal. And It Is true
that a full-grown cougar will some
times attack horned cattle, something
that no American animal cares to do
unless he wants a good light on his
paws and of which the very thought
would throw Graycoat Into a spasm;
and there have been even stranger
stories. If one could quite believe
them. A rertaln measure of respect
must he extended to any animal that
will hunt the great hull elk. for to
miss the stroke and get caught he.
oeath the churning, lashing, slashing,
razor-edged front hoofs Is simply
death, painful and without delay, lint
the difficulty lies in the fact that tlie-e
things are not done In the ordinary,
rational blood of hunting. What an
I animal does In Its death agony, or to
I protect Its young, what great game It
follows In the starving times of win
ter. can be put to neither Its debit
nor Its credit. A coyote will charge
when mad. A raccoon will put up a
wicked fight when cornered. A hen
will peck at the hand that rohs her
nest. When hunting was fairly goot).
whisiifrftioi willed Uit: elk uutl sbwsr
almost n« pnnptirioiisly as he avoided
men. which Is savlnc vpry much In
dppd: and nnv kln«l of tcrrlpr could
usually rtrlvp hlin stralrrht up a tree.
Rut ho rtirt like to pretend to hp
very cri'iir imrt terrible atnonc the
smaller forest creatoren. Anrt lip wns
Fi'nr Itself to thp deer. A human
hunter who would kill two door n
week for fifty-two weeks would hp
called ii much mrl'or na'-e than poarh
pr; hut yPI this had been \Vlil«per
foot's record on and off over sint-p
his speond yonr Vuv a irrpit huck
worp the spar of thp full stroke—aft
pr which Wlilsppri'ooi had lost his
hold Many n fawn had crouched
pantlns with terror In the thickets at
.Inst a tawny lleht on thp cnarlPd Hmh
of a plno. Manv a dop would crow
irrpat-pvpd and terrified at just his
strtincp. pnnirent smoll on flip wind.
FIp vawnpd ntrnln and his fanes
lookPd whltp and abnormally larce In
thp moonllsrht. Ills creat creen eves
were still clouded and languorous
from slopp Tltrn ho hocnn to steal
np thp rid ip toward his huntlne
cronnds. It was a curious thlnr that
hp walked stra'shl In the fmv of thp
soft wind that ramp down from thp
snow fields, and yet there wasn't a
weathercock to >ie -een anywhere. And
neither had the p| "pninnk soon him
wel a paw and hold ll up. aftpr thp
approved fash'on of holdinc up a fin
der. Hp had -i hotter way of knowing
—a chill at the end of Ills whiskers.
The Mule, lirea'h'e-^s nlL'h' sound4
In thp hrnsh around him soem«d to
madden him. TIipt madp a sons to
him a stranie. wllrl melody tlint even
frontiersmen a« I' n and I .en
nor eould nol experience. A thousand
smelN hrnsh«vi down to him on the
wind, more potent thm any win# or
lust. Hp he ran to tre-nMe all over
with rapture anil exclt "uenl. .Rut mi
like frenston's iretnh' mi. no wilder
ness ear was keen ononcn to hear th>
leaves ni«.tlitifi henenth him.
CHAPTER II.
Shortly after nine o'ctock. Wh\sper
foot et>e» urn tern,! h:« f.r<t herd of deer
Put th**v mucht li?s scent and sea?
tered before V con'd eot up ro them
He met Woof. enmrins through the
undephrufh u»d h« mneiHionsly but
with wretched spirit left t!j«* trail. A
flsrht with \Yim? ihe hear was uno of
tlio most unpleasant evnerVnces that
co«l»! he Imasrfoed. lie had n pair of
<Trt»itt: arms • ' wht- • one «•••?.race of
a cougar's. b»tdy meant death In one
Ions shriek of piln. nf cnur<e thoy
didn't ftsjht often. They had entirely
opposite Interests. The hear tea* n
lierry-eater and a honey eruhner and
the contrar cared too nin • ror his own
life and brainy to tackle Woof in h
hun'ins way.
A fawn leaped from the thicket In
front of him <':r*Vl |>y his -;oand in
the thicket. The t.*uth Wtosner
foot had made a *vhol|y uiiJUMitied
misstep oa a drv twig. just at the
crucial nion.eni. IVH»ap* it wr« the
fault of Woof. wl> »-e presence had
driven Wh»sperf«*ot from the trail,
fitid perhaps ! •> :u>'» old ace siitT
ne<* was coming upon liixn. l'ut
neither of ih -e facts appeased his
anger. Fit e* d • arcely suppress a
snarl of furv disapp »!ni*» cut.
lie comlutied nhmg the ritiue. still
st(nilins. > 'I alei 1 at his ai er in
creasing with v\ rv iar»; -out. Tie fact
that he had to leave rl e trail again to
permit silll atiotl er r.i/mal to pass,
ami a pari • tsf.trfy ;n*h.t *U*?*ui one
too. didn't t ::i' e liini * • ! .»i»y better.
This animal I ad n number of curious
stripes alone Irs hack, and usually did
nothing more desperate than steal
es;:s and eat Idrd fledgi'm:*. Whisper
fool could have crushtMl him with one
Mte. hut this was one thing that the
great cat. as lone as he lived, would
never try To do. lie got out of the
way pnMtelv when Stripe-back was
still a quarter of a mile away; wldch
was quite a c«»mp';- lit to toe little
animal's nhilitv to Introduce himself.
Stripe-hack was familiarly known as
a skunk.
Minriiv »"> r i«'n, -nc in•>mn:i <■ u"u
lin«l a remarkably line rhaiuv at n
buck. The direction of the wind, the
trees. the thicket* anil the tipht were
nil in his f nor. It was old Blncktall,
wallowing in tin* < ilt lick; and VVh s
perfoot's heart Imtiti led when he de
tected him. No human hunter could
have Inhl his ti> wis}i greater euro,
lie had to cut up the side of the ridge,
mindful of the wind. Then there was
a lone dense thicket in which he
nil^lit approach within fifty feet of
the lick, still with the wind In his
face. Ju*t Ites'dc the lie was another
deep thicket, from which he could
make Ills le:ip.
Ills body towered. The toll lathed
hack and forth, and now It had begun
to hare n slight vertical motion that
frontiersmen have learned to watch
for. He placed every paw with con
summate prace. and few sets of hu
man nerves have sufficient ooutrol
over leg muscles *o move with such
astonishing patience. He scarcely
seemed to move at all.
But when scarcely ten feet re
mained to stalk, a sudden sound
pricked through tlie dnrkness. It came
from nfar hut it was no less terrible.
It was really two sounds, so close to- I
gether thai they sounded as one.
Neither Blaektail nor Whlsperfoot
bad anv delusions about them. They
recognized them at once, in strange ,
ways under the skin that no man tuny
describe as the far-off reports of a
rltte. .Inst today Hlacktall had seen
his doe fall bleeding when this same
sound, only louder, spoke from a |
covert from which Bert Crnnsre'n had
poached her—and he left the lick In
one bound.
Terrified though be was by the rifle :
shot, still Whlsperfoot sprang. But I
the distance was too far. His out- |
stretched paw hummed down four I
feci kvL'Uj Black tail's iluuk. Then
I
forjcettlhe overythlnc HTn hf* ahcet
and dlsapi»oIntment. the crent concur
0[>cned his month and hor led.
The lone nlcht ««s almost done
when he pot slpht of further p»me_
Once * flock of cronse eyp'oded with
a roar of wlnr« from * thicket; hut
they had been wakened by the first
whisper of dawn In the wind, nnd he
really had no chance nt them. Soon
nfter thla. the moon sei.
The farcer creatures of the forest
are almost a* helpless In ahsolnte
darkness as humar heinirs. It Is very .
well to talk of aeelt.c In thp dark, hot
from the nature of ihtncs, even verti
cal pupils may only respond to licht.
No owl or hat cen soe In ahsolnte
darkness. !t became Increasinelv like
ly that Whisper-foot wou'd have to re
tire to his lair without any meal |
whatever.
Rut still he remained, hop'nc J
ncalnsi hope. Af*er a futile fifteen '
minute!? of watchlnp a trail, he heard
n doe feedlnp on a hillside. Its foot
fall was not so heavy as the sturdy j
tramp of a buck, and besides, the j
bucks would be hlpher on the rldct-v
this time of mornlns. He bepin a o»u
tlous advance toward It.
For the first fifty yards the hunt
was In his favor. He came up wind.
A Full Twenty Yards Farther.
anil the hru<h made a perfect cover
Put the doe unfortunately was stand
Injs a full twenty yards farther. In ar.
open elude. I'ncier ordinary circum
stances. Whlsperf "t would not harp
mti'V an attack. A eonpir can mn
*;rv ifft \ httt a deer Is tU'ht I'w'f T1 e
hl^ nit would have preftrrwl to IIii-it. \
11 motionless thinp In the thicket*,
hoplnc some other member of the deer
herd to which Hie doe must have he- j
longed would come into his amhush.
I'.ut the hunt was late, and Wh sper»
fn t «:i« very very nncry. Too many
titties ihi« n'zht he had missed his j
kill, lu desperation, he leaped from i
the tb'et ant' iiwl the doer.
(Continued on Thursday)
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PROI»SIO\ 41. CAROS
W. R. STOIT
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In Territory of Alaska
n \IXES ALASKA
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VOTE FOR
James L. Galert
for
Delegate to Congress
in
Republican Primary
April 25, 1922
He is a sterling Republican. standing for no clique or faction, but
truly representative of the sound Principles which put the present
national administration in power.
He has lived practically all of the last 22 years In Alaska :ind is
familiar with all portions of the Territory.
He is broad minded, vigorous, aggressive, aiid his name is synony
mous with Square Deal among those who know-hit^
He stands for Alaska as a whole. Alaska for Alaskans, and legisla
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The problem of the merchant, the miner and the fisherman will
each and all receive fair and intell.gent consideration if he repre
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"WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS OP
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