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MONDAY, SKPTKMBEll 23, 1012.
DONATINQ NEWSPAPER SPACE.
Tin? Milwaukee Press publish
es the following editorial con
cerning the giving away of news
paper .space, and it just about co
incides with the situation in a
(rood many towns and cities be
sides Milwaukee. The Free Press
says:
Advertising publicity is what a
newspaper has to sell. II is as
much a commodity marked willil
a price as I he wares in a dry
goods store. Yd. thousands of
citizens who would not Ihink 11f'
asking a citizen |o give tlieni so j
much as a necktie have no com-}
punclion in asking that an ad-j
vi-rlisemenl be given them by a
newspaper. The though! does no|
even enter Iheir heads thai every
inch <if space so given, in addi
tion in proviiling lliem with Ihe
niosl valuable kind <"► f service, ac
tually cosls Ilif newspaper in edi
torial labor, in composition, in
metal, in ink, in stercolyping, in ,
printing, etc., a very definite sum i
"oT money.
The Free Press, like every oth
er Milwaukee paper, is liberal in ]
friving of its space to further the
rauso of philanthropic, public and
idher institutions, enterprises and i
causes where the object is non- i
commercial and conducive lo the
public welfare. i
Tn return it expects only appre- I
ciation—appreciation of Ihe fact
that the press is giving its most I
rosily commodity, a service so
valuable that the beneficiaries
rould not afford to buy it and
without which Iheir institution, 1
••nlerprise or cause could not ex
ist, a service which is always ><
made at a sacrifice In ihe news
columns and at an actual ex-'
pense.
If expects recognit ion «• i me p
fad llial while halls. Ihi-ali'i-s and ;
other public places, lull postersj
and all Ilw» oilier service enlisted j
in these causes demand conipen-]
sation willi hnl few exceptions, il j1
is the newspaper llial give* ils|'
\vares free for the sake of public!
good. |'
Yet in the vast majority of!1
cases I his generous service is 11
Idissfnllv taken for granted and
1 he paper's liberality abused.!
That which is purely a favor is!'
accepted as a mailer of course,
and what would be requests are.1
couched as demands.
When I he court esy has been
performed there is really appre- 1
ciafion, and more often dissalis
faction--generally silence.
The result in many other cil-!
ies has been that a price has been j1
put upon every kind of publicity,!
no mailer what its object—even j:
upon the church notice. In those:
cities, we warrant, such favors'*
as I lie press bestows are prop-|'
erlv valued. j
"THE CONSCIENCE OF THE
PEOPLE."
Somo days sinro William .lon
uing* Bryan, in ono of his
«*pfM»clWH, axkod I In* following 1
ipiosf inns:
"Would a now parfy havo horn
organized af fhiH f.itno if Mr. 1
nnosovolf, worn nof a eandidalo for
prosidonl ?
"Would Mr. Roosovoll have fa
vored fho organization of a now
parfy find any 0110 hosidos him
solf suflVrod fho niorliflo.alion of
dofoal af Chioago by Prosidonf
Taff ? Woil Id U10 dofoat ofSon
nfor T.a Folloffo and Sonalor Cum
mins nl Iho hands of Iho 'hoss
os' havo furnishod him with a
sufTioionl roason for loavinp fho
Tlopuhliran parly and onlisfing
iinrlor flio hannor of anftlhor man?
"Would Mr. noosovoll havo re
garded fho 'bouses' as an insup
erable objorlion if ho had suo
rooded in sealing enough of his
eonfosfing delegates fo give liim
a majority in fho eonvonlion?
"If Mr. Roosevelt had eon
trolled the national committee by
one vote and it had sealed enough
of the southern delegates to dom
inate the convention, would he not
now regard the Republican party
as a 'people's party' and the on
ly organization to be trusted?"
Mr. Bryan did not undertake
to answer these questions. It was
not necessary. Every man with
intelligence enough to read the
newspapers knows what I he an
swer to each one of theese ques
tions is. If Col. Roosevelt could
have bullied the Republican con
vention into nominating him, the
third parly movement would nev
er have been heard of.
If the "great movement springs
from the conscience of the pen
(pie," as Col. Roosevelt says it
does, in addition to his other de
lusions of megalomania, In* must
have convinced himself that, lie
is the conscience of the Ameri
can people.
ETHICS OF SUICIDE.
Tlio Japanese are now busily
debating the ethics of suicide.
Tin? case <»u| df which I lie con-J
troversy has arisen is thai of tin*
station mast or at Mo,ji. who, be
cause of a mishap to I ho Imper
ial train, whicli made it neces
sary for I he emperor to adjourn
for half an hour to a waiting
room, showed his repentance by
throwing himself under the
wheels of the express.
The station master's devotion
having evoked a wave of popular
admiration, which took shape in
;i proposal to erect a monument
In his memory, ihc nation has
lieen relinked by I to- president of
the Kyushu University fur thus
trlorifying an act of self-destruc-j
lion: and the latter, finding him-!
-elf mil of tune with public opin-l
ion. has resigned bis position.
It is a singular thing thai
imong a people so cheerful as lliOj
Japanese suicide should be so
common. Ten thousand destroy
themselves every year in Japan,
ind the figures cannot be said to
)e diminishing. But hara-kiri, as
such, is out of date.
The modern victims of the sui
cidal mania, when they flo not
brow themselves in front of a
rain, jump into a crater of an '
iclive volcano. Asama, in cen
ral Japan, and Asosan, in Kyu- -
*hu, have both acquired a sinis
,or reputation in this respect.
It is, however, a disquieting i
sign of the times to find the stu
lent class resorting so largely
o suicide—especially of the
spectacular sort, and this, no
loubt, is Dr. Yama-Kawa's motive
in protesting against the. exal
ation of an act which the Chris
ian world regards as a grievous
<in.--Pall Mail fiazetlo.
THE MOATE.
II is expected llinl Ili<> Alaskan
*ailroad commission will ho cnin
iir over from the westward with
n two .or throe days. Should the
vashoui on the Valdez boulevard
nake travel impossible thai way
o (lie interior the commission
ivill come to Cordova and go by
rail to Chitina.—Cordova Alas
van.
They certainly will not go l»v
rain, inasmuch as the road has
M'cii practically closed to IralTie,
ror weeks, as note by last. Satur
lay's Alaskan, which says:
"If has boon impossible to got
ho freight over I ho railroad for
"oiiio days past, owing to Iho
•raseless heavy rains and con
sequent wash-outs, thoro is a
diorlage of xoiiio supplies at Iho
nlorior towns. A wire from
Ih i I ina today stales llial I hey are
rolling along fairly well, although
hey have run out of fresh bul
er, meal and potatoes. There is
[llenly of canned goods and fzen
f»ral supplies, including canned
■in tier."
Wp pri'Mimc I ho Morganheims
vi11 xpi'iwl thousands of dollars In
<ppp tbeir railroad oppn flu* day
Iip railway commission rpachos
'liilina from the interior.
All (hi* talk of Cordova being
in oasy roach r»f the enemy in
?ase of war is the merest tommy
rot. The mud flats will pmlpcl
I heir front from assault hy spa,
while the railroad doesn't run oft
•n enough lo transport a corpor
a's guard in any one season.
The Cordova Alaskan edilor
ially comments on the disappear
unce ' f Sam. Ilium's cow from Ilm
paslureM in llial village and ays
IlinI Hip disappearancp "remain*
nn unexplained puzzle lo our most
rtlprt 8hprlock Holmes." No douht
but Hint Iho poor brule has for
sakpn Ihp rock pile for Ihe more
luxuriant pastures along the rail
road track.
It is too bad that the slide that
put the Valdez boulevard out ol
commission didn't hold off for a
couple of days so that the last oi
the Gulkana mail contract could
have gotten through In that
event we might not have known
that our neighbors were subject
to the ordinary misfortunes of
this north.and.—Cordova Alaskan.
If there has been any slide any
where on the government trail be
tween this place and Fairbanks
the road commission has not been
made aware of it. At any rate
the Alaska railway commission
will proceed over the road in bug
gies, on schedule time, which is
more than can be done on the
submarine road lending out of the
little village on the Orea mud
flats.
ORDER TO 8HOW CAUSE ON PE
TITION TO 8ELL LAND.
n the United States Commission
er's Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Valdez Precinct. In
Probate.
In the matter of the Kuardian
hin of (ho estate of Nels Oscar
all, a mentally incompetent per
on.—Order to Show Cause on Pe
tition to sell Land.
The United States of America
o Nels Oscar Sail, Charles G. Sail,
,ewis Sail, Albert Sail and Marie
Watson, and to all persons in
crested in the above-named es
ate or in the sale of lands be
onging to said estate:
The petition of Charles (i.
all, as guardian of the estate of
be above-named Nels Oscar Sail,
mentally incompetent person,
eing duly tiled in this court, r?p
osenling that it would be for the
H'lietit of the estale of said in
ompetenl'person and of all por
ous interested therein that cor
am lands and mining property of
aid mentally incompetent person
'escribed therein be sold, and
raying that license be granted
to the said Charles G. Sail, as
uardian, to sell the same;
Now, therefore, you and each
of you arc hereby cited, ordered
and required to show cause, if
ny you have, before this court,
t the United States Commis3ion
r's court room in the court house
n the town of Valdez, in the above
named precinct in the Territory
Df Alafka. on the 7th day of Oc
tober, 1912, at 2 o'clock p. m.,
Ahy the prayer < f said petition
hould not be granted.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Maska, this 2Gth day of August,
1912.
THOMAS R. SHEPARD,
Tudge of the United States Com
missioner's Court in and for the
Valdez Precinct, Territory of
Alaska.-In Probate.
Charles Loring and E. E. Ritchie,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
First pub. September 7. 1912.
Last pub. October 5, 1912.
MINING ENGINEER
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VALOBZ. ALASKA
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F. BUTTERWORTH
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U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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