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EDITORIAL PAGE
STEAMSHIP CO. Ql'lTS
The Portland (Or.) steamship I
Co., which early last summer P1*11
a line of .small steamers on the
AlasKau run in competition with
the ocean liners running cut of j
Puget Sound ports, and with a j
fanfare of trumpets as to »liat if
was going to accomplish in trans
portation business, has found that
it requires more than wind to di
vert business to tile sleeky Oregon
metropolis from its wide-awake rival
on Puget Sound, and la consequence
has given notice of its intended
withdrawal at an early date.
The business Men of Seattle are
undoubtedly selfish in the inter
est they manifest in the welfare
and advancement of Alaska, but
they didnt quit when hard times
struck the territory and it was an
open, question in their minds as to
whether they would ever be able to
collect lor tie goods that they were
sending north to their customers on
every boat.
The business men of Portland,
however, who in the heydey of the
Klondike rush had a line cf vessels
running out of t&at cky to Alaska,
as soon as adversity struck the
territory and trade conditions be
came uncertain, threw up the spong
and were perfectly willing Xor their
Seattle competitors to take all the
risks.
Since the brighter business out
look for Alaska brought about by
the $35,000,000 appropriation by
congress at its last regular session,
for the building of a government
owned rail-road, the Portland people
concluded they would likq to be in
at the melon cutting, but have
found that even in sueu a simple
operation a crude and rusty imple
ment does not make for effective
ness.
America Has an Unparalleled Opportunity
to Become World's Banker
Bu SAMUEL GOMPERS. President American Federation'of Labor
WlliLE all the other great countries have halted the normal inter
ests of life, America alone maintains her wonted peace and friend
liness toward all mankind. AMERICA IS TO BECOME THF.
CLEARING HOUSE FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL INTER
COURSE. She has the opportunity to become the world's banker. Her
great power and influence are moral.
WHETHER THAT POWER AND INFLUENCE SHALL BE USED AS
BEFITS A GREAT AND A FREE PEOPLE WILL DETERMINE HER FU
TURE GREATNESS- MAY SHE PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT THERE
IS SUCH A THING AS INTERNATIONAL MORALITY AND MAY SHE
HELP THE WARRING NATIONS BACK TO A PLANE OF PEACE AND
JUSTICE IS THE EARNEST DESIRE OF AMERICAS WORKERS AND
ALL HER CITIZENS.
Children Must Have Real Life Experience
to Supplement Book Studu
Bu WILLIAM WIRT. Superintendent of Schools. Gary, Ind.
PUBLIC »CHOOL IDEALS HAVE CHANGED DURING THE PAST TEN
YEARS. THIS CHANGE HAS BEEN SUDDEN AND, IN A SENSE,
SURPRISING. MANY EDUCATIONAL LEADERS WHO, AS RADI
CAL PROGRESSIVES. WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN PROMOTING THE
NEW VIEWPOINT ARE NOW CONSIDERED STAND PAT CONSERVA
TIVES BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ABLE AT ONCE TO COMPLETELY
REALIZE THESE NEW IDEALS OF THE SCHOOL.
The public was wrong in assuming that the children could be edu
cated SITTING IN SCHOOL SEATS FIVE HOURS A DAY,
WORKING WITH BOOKS FOR ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
DAYS, regardless of what they might be doing the other nineteen hours
of the school days and the other one hundred and seventy-five days of
the year. The teacher was right in her contention that the CHIL
DREN MUST HATE REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE to supplement
the book study and that the child must have a chance to use the knowl
edge gained from books not only to master the knowledge, but to un
derstand why he should study the books.
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Broad Spirit of International Helpfulness
Necessary During European War
Bu FRANK A. VANDERLIP. President National Cltu Bank, New York
THE United States can adjust itself to the present economic complica
tions in a successful way only if individuals fully realize that there
must be unselfish, co-operative effort based upon a broad spirit of
international helpfulness. There has been some disposition to feel that
the United States can make capital out of the terrible misfortune of
European countries, but any conception which contemplates the United
States as a country apart from the world misfortune is fundamentally
wrong.
THE INTERRELATIONS NOW EXISTING BETWEEN EVERY COUN
TRY OF THE WORLD, THE DELICATE FINANCIAL AND TRADE BAL
ANCES WHICH HAVE DEVELOPED THROUGH THE INTERDEPEND
ENCE OF ALL NATIONS, MAKE IT INEVITABLE THAT THIS COUNTRY
SHALL SUFFER IN COMMON WITH THE REST. WE WILL NOT SUF
FER SO GREATLY NOR SO ACUTELY, THOUGH FROM THE THE HU
MANITARIAN STANDPOINT, PERHAPS, OUR PERSPECTIVE OF THE
AWFULNESS OF THE WAR MAKES US FEEL IT NEARLY AS INTENSE
LY AS THOSE WHO ARE PARTICIPANTS.
Commercially and economically we should be able to meet our own
problems calmly and with success, and with the restricting of produc
tion in the various parts of the world we should be able to increase our
own productions and enter markets which have formerly been supplied
by those nations now expending their energies in the conduct of the war
Che Admiral Cine
Soathboind
S. S. Admiral Evans
Nov. 28
LEAVING SEATTLE ON THE 5th, 15th ANI> 26th OF
EVERY MONTH AND ARRIVING IN SKAGV/Ai ON THE. 9<h,
19th AND 29th., WESTBOUND.
RETURNING FROM THE WESTWARD, SHOULD LEAVE
SKAGWAY, SOUTHBOUND, APPROXIMATELY ON THE 9tb,
10th.. AND 29tb,
Seattle to Sail Francisoo
S. S. ADMIRAL DEWEY S. 8. ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
S. S. ADMIRAL SOHLEY
Leaving Seattle every Wednesday and Sunday for San FrSJQoUco
and Southern California ports. Conn«*lon« at 8an Franctoco
rAOino navigation oo- steamers
S. S. YALE 8. a HARVARD
For Los Angeles, San Diogo and Southern California polnU.
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIG1TION OO.
HUGH P. GALLAGHER, Agent. Skagway, Alwka.
There is a town in Florida that some
years ago was tlie scene of a rivalry
between two newspapers. Ttie field
was barely large enough for one jour
nal. the C'hruulcle, which had occupied
It ever since Joe Baxter established it
during the lust century. When Bax
ter died bis son. Captain Joe, Jr., car
ried it on I Hit the captain had been
in the Confederate army during the
war between the states and received a
wound that had crippled him for life.
The girl lie had left behind him. how
ever, was true to liiui and married him
in a hospital after the surrender.
Joe was fitted t<> perform the indoor
work connected with a newspaper, but
was not able to do much getting about
gathering news. Mrs. Joe did a good
deal of that. and. having many friends,
| she was kept well posted on the social
news, which is important to any news
paper. She and Joe managed to keep
the wolf from the door till Philip
Stringer came from New Orleans, look
ed the place over and determined that
there might be room enough for two
papers.
The truth is that the place was be
ginning to fill up with northern visitors
during the winter, and the more peo
ple the more chance for a newspaper.
But the special inducement was that
Joe's physical handicap kept him from
getting about to gather in the news,
and Stringer calculated to get ahead of
him in this respect every time. Be
sides. Springer, having been connected
with a New Orleans paper, believed he
kuew better how to cater to city peo
ple than did Baxter.
So the Oazette was established and,
being the more enterprising of the two
papers, got most of the new subscrib
ers and advertisers, the old residents
standing by the Chronicle. But the
new was more valuable than the old,
and the former was constantly eating
into the latter till it looked as if the
Baxters would soon have to discontin
ue their paper.
Oue morning Molly Baxter, after hav
ing cleaned up the breakfast dishes and
sent the children to school, reported at
the office to find Joe very gloomy.
"The weather bureau reports a hur
ricane coming up from the West In
dies and says that it will probably
reach our coast today. If it should be
here I ought to go to the coast and
write a description of it. But I can
feel the storm in tn.v wound now, and
it takes all the starch out of me.
Stringer will lie there and will write it
up with all the grandiloquence of which
he is capable."
how bail weather affects you. I'll do
what work is to be done here between
now and 11 o'clock, go home and get
the dinner ready for yon and the chil
dren, and I will take the 2 o'clock train
for the coast."
As the afternoon train neared its ter
minal ou the coast on passing between
two hills it was struck by a gust of
wind that lifted it clear off the.-track.
Molly lUtxier was ou it and consider
ably bru:s< .1. She thought of hpw Joe,
when he was wounded in Pickett's
charge at < Jettysburg, got up and went
on till lie was driven back with the
rest by a murderous tire, and, pulling
herself together, she forced her way
agaiu.-i what wind there was on the
lee slile of a hill facing the ocean to
the top and found herself in t jie corner
of a stone wall, where she was perfect
ly protected and with her eyes just
above ii saw one of the biggest storms
that have ever visited the Atlantic coast.
She did not have writing materials
With lief, for she would.not have been
able to use tliei.'i. but she had a fine
memory and stacked .it with numerous
details. - She saw the wave3 envelop
the town below, its shrieking citizens
climb the hills, uiie ship riding at an
chor buri. d by- a: huge billow and then
lifted over a dock and landed up among
the h -ti.-eThese and many more
things as lerrible she saw and cram,
med tlietu all down in the storehouse Of
her menuvy.
When she had got enough the problem
was to get back home with it. About
dusk the wind went down inland
enough to admit of a vehicle not be
ing blown over, and, hiring a farmer to
take her in his wagon, she reached the
Chronicle office about 11 o'clock, where
She ffiUJid her husband jULXiousjy wait
inn for a hsu r eU'o f her sit fifty, he
guve her copy paper and a pencil and
prepared to net up what she wrote.
At 2 o'clock the next morning she had
finished Iter description and helped
him net up the last column.
When the Chronicle and the Gazette
came out those who read the Chroni
cle account remarked, "What a big
storm that was!" Those who read the
Gazette said. "That storm has given
Stringer a chance to spread himself."
A. correspondent of a northern paper
who had not seen the storm, but saw
Molly Raxter's account of It, telegraph
ed It verbatim to hi* paper. A mes
sage came back:
"Who wrote that description of the
hurricane';"
The reply stated that It was written
by Mrs. Raxter, wife of the owner of
the — Chronicle.
The next mail brought Molly Baxter
an offer of $3;000 a year as special
correspondent for a northern newspa1
per to cover such places .as would in
terest the northern publie. She accept
ed It, but she and Joe kept the Chroni
cle, for Molly's storm work tyrned the
tide against Springer, and he sold out
to them for a song.
$100 REWARD, *100
The readers of this pap#r will b«
pleased to learn that tk«r« is «t
least one dreaded diw»a» tial
science has teen able ta cor* Is
all Its stages, and that la •aUorh.
Hall's Catarrh Cur# is the «alj/
positive euro now know a U
medical fraternity. CaXarcfc hetos a
constitutional liter's*. a
constitutional treatoent HaW"
Catarrh Core Is tak«n tatanwtftr,
acting directly upon the ttesft and
mucous surfaces ©f th« system,
thereby; destroying the fovmiattoa
of the disease, and glylng the p^
tlent strength Ly bidding up tki
constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work, Tho prcprtaMtrC
have so much faith in Ka cnratty«
power that they offer On® Hw»4rH
Dollars for any case that U falls t»
cure. Send for-Hat of UeCmeaiato.
Address": p. J. CHBNBY & C»-i
Toledo, O. t.
Sold by all Druggists, 73c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipation. . x
HAND LAUNDRY— T*e.Jan<»os
Hand Laundry on Third srtMl next
to Golden North HoUl, doss yo»r
cashing without shriaktag Uw
clothes. Family work glrea cawtul
attentlos. tt. <
GOOD NEWS
Many Alaska Headers Have
It and Profited Thereby.
'Good news travels fast," aad
the bad back sufferers In UjU
vicinity are glad to learn wh»re: pa
llet may be found. Manj * I«m,
weak and aching back la M M
more, thanks to Dtuuil . Kiinor
Pills. Thousands upon tkeusaots
of people are telling the cpod nq/n
of their e^erleac* wit* tfeta tesflM
remedy. Here te an example w<n*i»
reading.
F. tf. Wleiand, 1002 E.~41«t WL4
Los Angeles, CaL, says: "For a
long time 1 Buffered from »aia la
the small of my backed I eeuM
scarcely get around. My tf&aqp
were disordered anil tke.tfiaof
cretions were hlgWy colored end
irregular in paneago. Stew's HM
ney Pills relieved t&e jsnisnCH
and weakness and removd all tre«>
le with the kidney* I k*ve
had no return of the ooajieiat."
Price BOc, at til dealer* Beat
simply ask for a kMney rwaedy ■ ■
get Doan's Kidney Ptlls—ike
that Mr. Wielsud had. Fester
burn Co.. Props., BufSUe, N. T.
Prevent Grip—Cure* Grip
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININB re
moves the cause. There is <">ly
one "BROMO QUININE." Look for
sigoaturf of D, W. 6R0VS. 2S«.
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Vancouver, Prince Rupert
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan
Leave Skagauay
S.S. Gty of Seattle, Dec. 2, 12, 22
And every ten days following. Modern comfortable ships,
SKoeUent service. Connects at: Seattle with through passen
ger »t«uner*. f
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
Sailing Tuesday, 10 a. m. and Friday, 5 p. m.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELBB, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in
Vnlbed States and Canada. For folders and full particulars,
addrcwa 5 V. A. PETERSON, Agent
A BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Vhone 50. SKAGWAY
608 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash. ,
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
Jefferson November 14-24 December 5
XEIiBFHONK NO. 66.
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E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAV.
•1M4 Winter Sailings from Skagway 1915
Alternate Wednesdays
Nov. 4-18
iDec. 2«16-30
Jan. 13-27
Feb. 10-24
IpuDject to i-nange;
Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, ect.
All Information " Rail or Sail," from
F. F.W. LOWLE, GenTAgt. Phone 87 and 141 SKAGWAY
Steamship Humboldt
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP OPERATING TO S. EJLASKJI
Sailings from Skagway to Seattle.
November 27 _ Dec. 5
$50 Round Trip to Seattle and Return
Sailing dates subject to change without notice.
THROUGH TICKETS HONORED
Seattle Olfioe: Robert Browning, 5<Ji & Broadway.
716 Second Avenue. Tickets and all lu/ormation.
THE
'OLYMPIAN'
The Train of Liaxury
TO
BUTTE, MILES CITY, SIOUX CITY, MINNEAPOLIS,
AND ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO
ALL POINTS EAST, via Hie
"MILWAUKEE "
LEAVES SEATTLE DAILY AT 10:15 A. M.
'"A TOUR DE LUXE" Is an expression supremely fitting in con
nection -with a trip to the East on this palatial all-steel
transcontinental train. It combines the enjoyment of rare scenic
MaittiM with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and
comfort. '
XO EYTRA FAKE OX THIS TRAIN
Ft further information regarding farea, • train service, res
torations, etc, cn.ll on or address
E. J. SHAW
Agent, Alaska Steamship Co.
SKAGWAY, ALASKA.
City Ticket Offlc®, Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
443 Hastings St West, VANCOUVER, B. C.
SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST. SEATTLE.