THE
CLANCY
KIDS
I> Knows Everything
From Catechism
to Dogma
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'• S. 8£S3IE BRUGGEMAN
.V-s. Sf;<;ie t-arker Sruggeman of
t. Louis haa i-een nominated by Prr»
jt! Hi'rdinj to be a member of '.he
• n.ted Sta*»s £mp">yees' eompensa
• c commission, a government age icy
•.liir.w th compensation of civil em.
ployess of t^e government, injured
> e in tr.j i scharjs of their dutte*.
!>Ci H N r OX tANAAUIAN
CI r.RKM'Y XOIV AT 8%
Tit-' i'.auk ot Alaska announces
' . . ave reduced the discount
. ad.au currency to eight per
ixat. until further notice.
Hunk of Alaska.
a doiiar a month will bring t'.ie
li.iaiiau to your door.
C. S. COLE TAKES ISSIK
WITH riOXEEirS MiMM»
Well Known Citi7.cn Expresses Ho
lier in Communication Thai Ket
chikan Igloo Should Krslntl Res
olutions.
Taking issue with the Ketchik in
Igloo of Pioneers, with reference to
the resolutions recently adopted by
that body relative :o the Hone Dry
Law. G. S. Cole today presents tUe
following communication:
Ketchikan. Aaa., Dec. 22. 19L'l
Kditor Ketchikan Chronicle.
Hear Sir: —
I The resolutions passed by the Ket
chikan Igloo of t'.e Pioneers and
> published on the front page of your
issue of the 19th .nst.. remind me
'of the. story of the Mischievous Kid.
[ the l!ood Natured Mail and the Vpril
1 Fool Joke. The Misc ievous Kid was
I trying to pull the front door bell
of a house as the <!jod Natured Man
| happened by. The tlood Natured
Man helped the Mischievous Kid pull
the door bell, whereupon the Mis
chievous Kid surpr.sed him by run
ning away. The story does not re
late how the (locj Natured Man
, squared himself with the party who
i opened the door.
! The Pioneers, no doubt, did their
share toward securi.ig the enactment
of the Alaska Bon* Dry Law, when
. it was originally re'erendummed un
der the Territorial Act on April 13,
! 1915. That Dry Law i.s generally
understoi d to have Seen chiefly sup
ported and "put over" by the votes
of tile drinking me:, in the territory
who desired to pui themselves be
' yond the temptation of alcoholic li
I quors.
f'Tfl f »>7 7
the me Hours
ivuh pleasure!
Tie never hangs heavy on your hands when you have a
V1CTRQLA
in the house
By our liberal
Installment Plan
you can now have any instrument we have in stock put
iu your home at once and enjoy all the great mu
sical artists while you are paying Tor it.
Remember, all we ask is a small
payment down and the bal
ance to suit your
convenience
ii£LL* R BROTHERS4
They were assisted in that effort
by a lot of good citizens who were
not themselves slaves of the liquor
habit.
Rut now the Pioneers, like the
Mischievous Kid, niH alone disclaim
| all personal responsibility for the
| law but even pretend that some
| trick has been played upon then
I and that some wicked Borey Man
| foisted the Dry Law on Alask:i en
tirely against its will.
The Pioneers alss pretend to be
Heve that every flint; would hi
lovely if they could only enjoy the
full measure of personal liberty that
the ISth Amendment affords thirsty
people.
Judging by those resolution, t'e
I Pioneers are either entering upon
their second childhood or they never
have emerged from their lirst in
fancy. Their reso1 utions are abso
lutely silly. The Alaska voter, him
self. put over the Pry Law and
there was no 13ogi»y Man involved
I in the operation.
And if the Pioneers are still long
ing for a revival of the dear oid
days of '9S somebody should explain
to them that the \Sth Amendment
will not afford them the slightest
comfort or assistance in that direc
tion.
Bnt now let us t-irn to the plight
of the Good Natured Man. There
are a large number of people in
Alaska who never required the pro
tection of either the ISth Amend
ment or the Alask'i Bone Dry Law
to keep them sober, but they are a
class of people, liefertheless. who
understand that tho whole structure
of civilization depei.ds upon the just
enforcement of law and that it is
the sacred duty of every citizen of
the United States U honor and up
hold the law of the land with the
same fidelity and devotion that the
soldier in the field pays to his llig
Those people are now in the posi
tion of the Good Natured Man inj
the story after the Mischievous Kid
took to his heels. They have be-J
come obligated to support the law
that a lot of weak spiued brethren
helped to wish up.>n them.
Take my own case for example. I
am not now and uever have been
crazy about either the 1 Sth Amend
ment or the Alaska Bone Dry law.
I never advocated nor voted for eith
er on of them. I rever belonged to
a total abstinence society and have!
no personal aversion to wine and
beer. 1 believe in the largest pos-,
sible degree of personal lib- rty in all
personal matters. But that is my,
limit. When a law has been deliber-!
ately and legally spread upon the '
statutes of the United States, then I
I am for it, first, last and all the |
time.
It happens that I have been sub- :
poenaed to serve upon the next
grand jury and I am naturally in-:
terested to learn how organizations
like the Pioneers, for instance, are ]
going to line up with reference to
law enforcement here In Ketchikan.
The point of the whole matter is I
this—many of us ?re free to admit I
that neither the Alaska Done Dry j
Law nor the ISth Amendment meas-i
uro up to our notions of perfection, j
but we are not at a.'l ready to admit j
after two-thirds of the voters of Al
aska and of the T niled States re
spectively, have deliberately enact
ed those laws, that thev have done!
a foolish thing, for such an admis- j
sion would be equivalent to admit
ting that we are unfit for self-gov
ernment as a nation.
Neither are we ready to admit that
after two-thirds of the qualified
voters of Alaska or of the United
States have passed a law, they can
not enforce It—particularly when
the opposition to that law mostly
originates with leant worthy andkin
telligent elements of the population.
Let us be honert with ourselves
and frankly admit that these prohi
bition laws have r it been "slipped
over" on us at all and have only
been enacted after years of open ef
fort which finally enlisted the sym
pathy and co-opera .ion of many vic
tims of the liquor \jabit, themselves.
And then let us be patriotic and re
member that if it becomes a habit
to break the law in America, untold
calamities await u&
And let us not make the mistake
rtiCHARD h'ENDRICK
c\
Richard Hendrick of Los Angeles,
juvenile champion swimmer of the Pa
cific. is here shown about to dive from
a spring board. Although the baby
-hnmpion i^ but three ye-irs of age,
he has quite a collection of cups and
medals.
to call a law breaker a law abiding
citixen, as is dune in the resolutions
referred to. The mail who breaks
t lie Hone Dry Law lias not merely
forfeited Ills character as a law
abiding citizen, Lut ho has, nine
times in ten, made * furtive, sneak
ing, ratlike creatura out of one who
should thank his ljcky siars every
day of his life that he is privileged
to live upon American soil and hon
or and obey American laws.
Mere in Ketchikan the law must
he enforced, and enforced fairly and
impartially against ail offenders,
whatever their rank and station in
the community may be. As honest
men, as reasonable men, and as
good citizens of the foremost Na
tion of the earth, ne are all vitally
concerned in that matter. It might
reasonably have been expected that
an organization like the Pioneers
would boost and not knock the es
tablished law of tks land. It is to
be hoped that they will reconsider
those resolutions.
Yours truly,
G. S. COLE.
"Umslcpogaas."
Sir Itiiler Huggard hns revenled to
the world that tlmt valiant warrior
nnd strategist "Umslopogans" is not
a mere creature of Imagination. He
was a Swazi chieftain of high and
noble Unease, who had been a warrior
before he took service under the Brit
ish flap. Tears after Sir Rider had
enshrined the chief In fiction, the fact
was mentioned to him, and Uraslopo
paas expressed his delight that Lun
duiida (Sir Rider Huggard) had writ
ten a book to show that once there
was a Zulu people with mighty kings.
Rut who was "She" aud where did
"She" come from? Tears ago it was
suggested that Sir Rider got his In
spiration from Moore's "Epicurean";
lie denied the allegation, hut he never
told her real origin. It Is better so—
"She" was spun of the web of mys
terr.
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SCOUTING SYSTEM USELESS
i Except In Important Games Coaches
| » Do Not Uncover Real Stuff—
Expert* Gain Nothing.
j Pnrt of the hip structure of tlio op
| eration of college football games Is a
| scouting system. No college plays a
football game unless two or three ex
| perts, representing an opponent of ths
future, are on the grounil watching
every detail of play and tactics.
"And what do they see?" asks a
player of the day when they did not
have such faith In what the scout
could bring back. "Except In tlie very
Important games the coaches do not
uncover their real stuff-.
"And seeing how the scouts' teams
play when the test comes, it seems
that It would not mnke much differ
ence whether the scout was In the ob
servation tower or not."
MANAGER COFFEY TO RETIRE
Leader of Des Moines Team Will Not
Return to Game—Had Poor
Season All Around.
Jack Coffey, manager of the Peg
Moines team and veteran of the West
ern league, has let It he known that
he will not return to the game next
season. Des Moines had a bad year
nil arounil. The row with the street
railway system that stopped transpor
tation for several weeks hurt attend
fance and the team on the field did not
play winning ball. Coffey has been In
the Western league since 1911, barring
one yenr he played with San Francla
co. He graduated from Fordham uni
versity In 1909 and had a trial with
lhe Iloston Nationals, then went to In
dianapolis for a season, after which
' e joined the Denver team In the
Wes'ern b airue.
! • PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. B. STOUT
Attorney at I. a •*
Practice in all court*
In Territory of Alaska
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