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XtH) Ml <11 TALK, T(><> 1.1TTLK ACTION
Co-operation is the demand of all Alaskans. First of all, It is necessary
for the commercial organizations in the territory to federate and unite—
they "have nothing 10 lose but their chains, and they have a world to gain."
tF#r once Karl Marx can be quoted for a Rood American purpose.)
There's a flood of unnecessary argument concerning the need of each
co-operation. Every schoolboy in Alaska has recognized the need and is
wondering, probably, if the meu of tod iv are leaving everything to be done
by the men of tomorrow.
A convention of chamber of commerce representatives, for the purpose of
forming the Alaska Chamber can be held at Cordova early this summer at
en average cost of about $H'0 for each man. Local hospitality would be
provided for. of course. The total cost of the meeting should not exceed
J 1.000. The benefits from such a gather.ng would be incalculable. Surely
each town can raise without hardship t!i# small expense fund for a dele
gate.
All right, now let's quit talking about it and do something toward call
ing the convention.
The basic need is the Alaska Chamber of Commerce so that the business
men. including the mining men aid prospectors, can speak as with one
voice, and act as one powerful team, in all matters affecting the common
-• *itre. A great constructive program can then be formulated. Unity In
c inference and action i.-. e imperative need. At present, when easterners
want to elicit Alaskan opinion and co-operation, they usually refer their it
quiriei to the Sea-tie Caamb.r of Commerce, which maintains an Alaskan
lureau. We should have our < -m consolidated Chamber and "tell the
world" ourselves. Tl.e pioneer spirit of the Alaskans demands It. Tne
time has come for aggressive and independent action.
After we have a united businessmen's movement, co-operation in every
thing el>e will follow Everyone will s.-e t ie immediate benetlta. The
right slos.L is. Do it now.— Cordova Time*.
I !>U VM\<. TDK I'KOI'LK
Public men—tho:-e that aoreQf the people's pay and spend the p»ople"j
money— should set into their heads and keep In mind Dante's line—"Give
lisht and the people will find their own way." You can drive sheep; it is
good for them: they cannot learn to de themselves. You can drive hors
es. mules, and machinery. Hut all that you can do for human beings is to
give them knowledge and then <'tiable them to tind (heir own way.
One of the wisest saying of Talmudic writers is. "Jerusalem fell be
cause the schools were neglected." The schools are ueglecied in this day
of profiteering, prosperity and selfishness.
A country that can spend eisrht hundred million dollars In one year for
c.garettes. and that without hesitation spent forty or fifty thousand mil
lions of dollars in a few months of war, cannot find the money to pay
teachers generously or buiid ett< ugh schools to wipe out the illiteracy that
curses twenty-five per cent of tie people and disgraces us all.
The people of the world are like a man oii a dark night seeking the
road Such a man asks only one thing—LIGHT. And the people—slowly
and painfully finding their way t rough the problems of life and of civiliza
tion—ask only one tiling—LIGHT, which is education.
for every dollar the nation can afford to spend on soothing tobacco
smoke that floats away iu the air It can afford to spend another on educa
tion that remains and will influence coming generations forever
The people do n.it want bosses, they do not want dictation, tliev want
KNOWLEDGE. "Give light and the people will find tbeir own way."—The
\\ asliington Times.
NOTHK OF I'RLMAKY FLECTION
To the electors of the Town of
Skugway. D.vision No. One. i'efri
tory of Alaska:
Notice is hereby given that pur
suant to Chapter ii, Se->s:oa Laws
of Alaska, IS 19, approved .May 3.
1319. a Primary Flection will be
held on Tuesday, Ipril 2a. 191*2.
between the hours of 8 a. in. a::d
7 o'clock p m. of said day. ff.r tue
purpose of nominat'ng candidates of
the various po^iticU parties of Al
aska for the folic aring cfhces, te
wit: One (1) Delegate from Alaska
to Congress; one (1) Territorial
Senator; four (4) Represoinatives
to the Legislature; two i2> Divi
sional Road Comm esiouers.
The Common Council of Ska^wav
having hitherto, by t>rdintnce. duly
designed the voting precincts of said
town and the polliug place in each
thereof, the Electors are hereby no"
ified:
That all duly qualified voters re
siding within the boundaries of vot
ing precinct of said town of Skag
way will vote at Ci'.y Hall Building,
Located on Fifth Street, in and up
on lot 3 of block 8, which is own
ed by City of Skagway, the same be
ing the duly designed polliug place
in and for the Town of Skagway.
Dated this 10th day of April, 1922
(Signed) THE COMMON COUNCIL
OF THE TOWN OF SKAGWAY.
By Clara Carson. Clerk.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. LAND OFFICE
ut Juneuu, Alaska
April, 13, 1922
NOTICE is hereliy given that Mi
chael J. O'Connor, of Haines. Alas
ka. who. on April 13, 1922. made
HE, No. 0490S, for lots 1 and 2,
Section 14; and lot 1, Section 23,
Township 30 S.. Rvnge 5S E., Cop
per River Meridian, has filed notice
of inteution to make three-year
Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before R. M.
Odel, at Haines, Alaska, on the 27tb
day of May, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses: N.
G. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska; Chas.
An way. of Haines. Alaska; Leon
Ballard, of Haines. Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
V
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The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Cop/right, 1M0, Little. Brown * Oxup.sj)
Again the wilderness reminded them
of Its might, and their brave spirits
were almost broken by the utter re
morselessness of the blow. The girl
went on her face with a crack of wood.
Her snow shoe ha;l been cracked by
her fall of the day before, when run
ning to the Are. and whether she
I struck some other obstruction In the
snow, or whether the cracked wood
had simply given way under her
weight, mattered not even enough for
them to Investigate. As In all great
disasters, only the result remained.
The result In this case was that her
suowshne, without which she could not
walk at all In the snow, was Irrepara
bly broken.
"Kate has stacked the cards against
us." Leuuox told them, after the tirsi
moment's horror from tbe broken
snowshoe.
Bui no one answered him. The girl,
white-faced, kept her wide eyes on
Dan He seemed to be peering Into the
shadows beside the trail, as If he were
' watching for the gray forms thai now
and then glided from tree to tr^e In
reality, he was not looking for wolves.
He was gazing down Into his own soul,
measuring his own spirit for the trial
thai lay before him.
Tlie girl, unante to step wun ine
broken snowshoe. rvsted her weight no
one foot and hobbled like a bird with
broken wings across to hltn No sight
of all this terrible Journey had been
more dreadful In her fail *r's eyes
than this. It seemed to split open
the strong heart of the man. She
tuuched her baud to his arm.
"I'm sorry Dan." she told him "Tun
tried s» hard—"
Jum one little sound broke from his
throat—a strauge. deep gasp that
could not be suppressed. Then he
caught her hand In his and kissed it—
agaiu and again. "Do you think I care
aliout that?" lie asked her. "J only
wish I could have dime more—and
what I have done doesn't count. Just
as lu tny light with Cranston, nothing
counts because 1 didn't win. It's Jusi
fate. Snowbird. It's uo one's fault, but
maybe. In this world, nothing Is ever
anyone's fault." For In the twilight of
those winter woods. In the shadow of
death Itself, perhaps he was catching
glimmerings of eternal truths that are
j hidden from all but the most .far-see
I lug eyes.
I "Ami this Is the end?" she asked
Ihlm. She spoke very bravely
"No!" His hand tightened on hers.
I "No. so long as an ounce of streugth
remains. To tight—never to give u|>—
may God give me spirit for It till I
die."
And this was no Idle prayer. Ills
eyes raised to the starry sky as he
spoke.
"But. son." I.ennox asked him ra fli
er quietly, "what can you do? The
wolves aren't going to wait a great
deal longer, and we can't go on."
"There's one thing more—one more
trial to make," Dan answered. "I
thought about It at llrst. but It was t->o
loug a chance to trv if there was any
other way. And I suppose you thought
I of It too."
"Overtaking Cranston?"
"Of course. And It sounds like a
crnzy dream. But listen, both of you.
If we have got to die. up here iu ihe
Snow—and It looks like we hail—what
i» the thing you want done worst lie
fore we go?"
Lennox's hands clasped, and he
I leaned forward on the sled. "I'uy
I Cranston I" he said.
1 "Yes!" Dun's voice rang. "Crans
ton's never going to be paid unless we
do It. There will he no signs of In
cendiaristn at the house, and no
proofs. They'll find our bodies in the
snow, and we'll Jost be a mystery,
with no one made to pay. The evi
dence In my pocket will be taken by
Cranston, some time this winter. If I
don't make him pay, he never will pay.
And that's one reason why I'm going
to try to carry out this plan I've got.
"The second reason Is that It's the
one hope we have left. I take It that
none of us are deceived on that P' int.
And 110 man can die tamely—If hi- is
a man—while there's a chauce. I mean
a young man. like me—not one who Is
old and tired. It sounds perfectly silly
ro talk about finding Cranston's win
ter quarters, and then, with my bare
hands, conquering him, taking his food
and his blankets and his snowshoes
and his rifle, to fight away these !
wolves, and brlngiug era back here."
"You wouldn't be barehanded," the
girl reminded him. "Y'ou could have
the pistol."
He didn't even seem to hear her. ;
"I've been thinking about It. It's a
long, long chance—much worse than
the chance we had of getting omi by
straight walking I think we could
have made It. If the wolves had kepi
off and the snowshoe hadn't broken.
It would have nearly killed us. hut 1 '
believe we could have got out. That's
why I didn't try this other way first.
A man with bis bare hands hasn't
much of a chance agnlnst another with
it rWv. ami 1 Uou'i wuut jvu ui be wo
(hopotu:. And nr course, rne naraest
problem 1» finding his camp.
"Hut 1 do feel sure of one thing:
. thnt In? Is hack to his old trapping line
011 the North Fork—somewhere south
: of here—nml his omnp Is somewhere
on the river. I think he would have
gone there so thai he eould cut ofT any
attempt I might make to get through
with those letters. My plan Is to start
hack at an angle that will carry me
between the North Fork and our old
"Keep the Fire Burning."
' house. Somewhere in there Pll fltwl
I his tracks, the tracks he in:ide when
I he tii-si cnme over 10 burn op the ■
I house. I suppose he was careful to I
I mix em up after once he arrived 1
here, hni the first pari of the way he j
likely walked *tralcht toward the I
house from his camp Somewhere. If I '
co ihai wa>. I'll cross his trail -with- j
i In 10 miles at least. Then I'll hack |
I truck tirn to his camp."
' "And never come hack!" the girl '
| crlc<l.
"Maybe not. But at least everj- |
I thine that can he done will he done. |
I Nothing will he left. No rvgrets. We '
will have made the last trial. I'm not
i going 'to waste any time. Snowbird. |
| The sooner we get your Are built the .
betier."
I "l ather ami I are to stay here— V 1
"What else can you do?" He went '
hack to his irmvs and drew the sled |
UHI yards farther He didn't seem to |
See the gaunt wolf that hacked olt j
Into the shadows as he approached.
. He refused to notice that the pack |
I seemed to be steadily growing holder. |
Unman hunters usually had pins that '
could blast and destroy from a dis- i
tance; but even au animal Intelli
gence could perceive thai these three 1
| seemed to be without this means of 1
inflicting death.
A wolf is ever so much more Intelll- |
pent i han a crow—yet a crow shows
little fenr of an unarmed man and Is
j wholly unapproachable by a Iwiy with
a gun The ugly truth wus simply that
In their Increasing madtess and ex
citement and hunger, they were becom
ing less and less fearful of these three
strange humans with the sled.
It was not a good place for a cump. I
They worked a long time before they j
cleared a little patch of ground of Its I
snow mantle. Can cut a number of '
saplings—laboriously with his ax—and
built a tire with the comparatively .
dry core of a dead tree. True. It was I
feeble and flickering, but as good as j
could be hoped for. considering the
dlnicultles under which he worked. .
The dead logs under the snow were
sonked with water from the rains and '
thaws. The green wood that he cut i
smoked without blaring.
"Wo more time to be lost," Dan told ;
Snowbird. "It lies In your hands to
keep the fire burning. And don't leave 1
the circle of the tire light without i
thnt pistol In your hand."
"You don't mean," she asked, unbe- j
Moving, "thnt y«.«i ure going to go out
there to fight Cranston—unarmed?"
"Of course. Snowbird. You must
beep the pistol."
"But It means death: that's all It
means. What cluwce would you have
against a man with a rifle? And as |
soon as you get away from this fire,
the wolves will tear you to pieces."
"And what would you and your fa- j
ther do. If 1 took It? Y'ou can't get ,
liltu Into a tree. Y'ou can't build a i
big enough Ore to f rich ten them.
Please don't even talk about this mat
ter. Snowbird. Sly mind's made up. I
think the pack will stay here. They
usually—Rod knows how—know who
Is helple.ss and who isn't. Maybe with
the pun, you will be able to save your
lives."
"What's the chnnce of that?"
"Y'ou might—with one cartridge—
kill one of the devils; and the others
—but you know how they devour thetr
own dead. That might break their
famine enough so that they'd hold off
until I can get hack. That's the prize
I'm plnyinc for."
"And what If you don't get back?"
tie took her ban<* 'n one of his. and
with the other he caressed, for a sin
gle moment, the lovely flesh of her
throat. The love he had for her spoke 11
from his eyes—such speech as no hu
man vision could possibly mistake.
Both of them were tingling and breath
less with a great, sweet wonder.
"Nev»r let those fan~s tear that
ixjXlLtsa. wlult j.ou live,' fie told here
gently. "Nfcver Irt thai ft rare oid msn
on the sled bo to hi* death-wttb the
pork tearing at him. <*heat >tn.
Snowbird! Beat -mii the last minute,
if no other waj remains 1 Show "era
■who's boss. after all—of all tbla for
est."
"You mean—V Her eyes widened.
"I mean that you must only spend
one of those three sheila In lighting
off the wolves. Save that till the m<y,
roetit yon need It most. The other
two must be saved—for something
else."
She nodded, shuddering an Instant
at a menacing shadow that moved
within 00 feet of the Ore.
"Then goodhy. DanP she told him.
And she stretched nj> her arms The}
thine I «*ld—that dRy on the hillside'
—doesn't bold any more."
His own arms encircled her. hm he
made no effort to claim her llpa. Len
nox watched them quietly: In this
moment of crisis not even pretending
to look away. Dan shook his head to
her entreating eyes, "tt Isn't Jos' •
kiss darling." he told her soberly. "It
goes deeper than that, rt's a symbol.
It was yonr word. too. and mine: and
words can't be hmken. things being as
they are. Can't I make you under
standr
She nodded. His eyes burned. Per
haps she didnt understand, as far as
actual functioning of tbe brain was
concerned But she reached up to
him. as women—knowing life In the
concrete rather than the abstract—
have always reached up to men: and
she dimly eanght the gleam of some
eternal principle and right behind his
words. This strong man of the moun
tains had given his word, had been
witness to her own promise to him
and to herself and a law that goes
down to the roots of life prevented
him from claiming the kiss.
Many rlines, sine*- the world wan
new comfort—happiness—life Itself
have been contlngeni oo the breaking
of a la» Yel In spite of w hat seemed
ootnmou sense, even though no punish
ment would forthcoine If It were
broken, the law has been kept. It was
this way now. It wouldn't nave been
Just a kiss such as boys and girls have
always had In the moonlight, it mean,- I
the symbolic renunciation of the debt
that f>un owed Cranston—a debt that
in his mind might posslblv go unpaid.
no wetzhi of circumstance could
umkt- hiin renuuuee.
TTls lotw-'lnj: for her lips pulled at |
the roots of him. But by the laws of
his being he couldn't claim them until
the debt incurred on the hillside,
months aco. had been paid: to take
them now meant to dull the fine edge
of his resolve 10 carry the Issued
through to the end. to dim the star
thai led him. to weaken him. by bend
ing now. for the test to come. He
(il'ln't know why. It had Its fount In
the deep wells of the splriL Common
sense can't reveal how the holy man
keeps strong the spirit by denying the
flesh. It goes too deep for '.hat. Dan
kept to his consecration.
He did. however, kiss her hands,
ami he kissed the tears out of her
eyes. Then he turned Into the dark
ness and broke through the ring of
the wolves.
(Continued on Saturday)
THE BLOOM OF YOUTH
Harold Huggina: Whit a freah,
young complexion your friend
Kathryn hae.
Klttye Katte: Yea, It la freah and
young. She makea it up freah every
day ao It'a never more than a few
houra old
8KAGWAY
FRATERNAL ORDERS
©
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nxcu wj wnml »»<1
fourth Tw*>laj' WBln*
ml 8-RO o'clock. Vlalu
| lac bvathm* conllbl; welcome,
J. M. Keller, U S. Keller,
■ Arctic Hrcordrr. Arctic Oilef
a V. O. ELKS, RVa*.
mmf Lodge. No. Ul, H.
P. O- Elks mm* rrrrj
Thumlaj at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothrr* ror
(liaiij wficome.
DAN* McDONAIJ). E. It.
F. J. VAXDEWALL, 8pcm«rjr.
&
F.1A.M.
White Pan Ixxljf* F.4A.
M. No. US, rnma 2nd and
4th SalimUy erenlnjt* ol
rarh month at 8 o'clock.
Vliltlng Birthmi are wel
come.
V. i. Van <le Wall, W. M.
T. i. Standlah, Rrrrrtarj.
Fraternal Order of
Ragle*
SkajrwRj Aerie, So. 23,
Fraternal Order of
Ka^-lr*, meet the first
and (turd wr*Irto»oivj ni^ht of r*rh
month nl their h*U on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brother* cordially ln
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C. H. M0GB88, W. P.
J. M. Grlesbach, Sec')'.
Naomi Chapter No. 0
O. K. meet* in Ma
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third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Visiting members welcome.
POLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Speor, Secretary.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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Attorney «t Law
Practice In all courta
In Territory of Alaska
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NOTICE
Whan ro« want anything moved
Trnnka, Bi[(u* or anything else.
Call ap the Jobs Williams, 0. S.
Tranifer Co. A lac wood. II Incn,
delivered. J4.60. and coal, per ton,
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AND ALL
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sure *socassra.
' E»ck Cap- /■—\
tit the falDYl
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of etnta*rrf<+ia
Dan Sutherland
For
Delegate to Congress
Ask* the voters of Alaska to endorse his record of the
past year in Congress, by voting for his re-nomina
tion at the Republics primary on April 25, 1922.
Delegate Sutherland has diligently and persist
ently sought to •©core enactment of legislation that
would be for the benefit of all the people of Alaska
and aid la the development of the Territory.
—Pali Advertisement.