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SOVIET CiOVEKNMl' NT ADOPTS "t AI'ITALISM"
The Russian Soviet government, organized lo do away with capitalism
anil profits, has entered into partnership with private capitalists in the es
tablishment of a bank with a capitalization based on gold—a bank which
refuses to recognize Soviet government money a the real ariicle—and the
bank is organized to make a profit for its stockholders. The government
will have one out of six directors.
This is additional evidence that the Soviet government has abandoned
as a failure the effort to do away with "capitalism" and the profit system.
For some time it has been giving concessions to private persons to engage
in business, industry aud agriculture for profit. It has been endeavoring to
get foreign capital to invest in Kussia and to negotiate loans from "cap
italistic" countries, offering attractive (on paper) profits to those from
whom it would borrow.
The Russian Soviet has proved again that people cannot feed and clothe
themselves by passing laws, that there can be no prosperity without work
and there can be no work unless organized ability and accumulated cap
ital are rewarded: that i - iovernment can lot get real money that will
stand the strain of practical operations except that it borrow it from those
who have it in a manner that will allow a profit for fie man who lends.
Wild and woolly theorists -> often .< vummula.ed large following among
the unthinking for some tine spun the.irj for t.e mak ng of bricks without
straw, but theories collapse in the tace of idleness followed by famine and
starvation The Russian t.asco i .ly the largest catastrophe of many of
similar character.—Kx.
WHAT IS "INSPIRATION"?
T.et Us f. fcr the i:,se of a writer
who is si I tin* Id his tv >tu, netting
what may properly be called an ispi
ratioli. writes Winston Churchill :n the
Yale Review. AccoMiiu to our su;»
p<'>iti"n. he Is beins |>Iaye<l upon hy
his "rlcht h:tD<l" In the unseen. Th's
means that his conscious mind, with
the will-energy derived from the
player, is usin* un.'iue experience rec
ords to translate in the note of his
personality the emotions which also
come fn-ni the player. The emotions
are translated Into thoughts. idea*,
and these are constructed by the will
energy Into a work of art—a theme.
In such a situation the writer, coin
posing In happiness or e<-st isy, may !"•
said to bt- "In love." realizing and ex
pressing his desires, the fruit of his
love, although he may not suspect the
existence of the person in the un»i-en
of whom he is a member— since the.'
are both In the same emotion tones
With bleuded wills. He is In "life
everlasting." In some manner outside
of time, unconscious of the passing ot
the hours; living. Indeed. In the an
seen with that other, although his
body Is expressing the emotions phe
nomenally here.
In n world all made to order thpre
would be neither "peaks" n>>r "hol
lows" In business—things would move
along evenly, expanding slowly to
meet the needs of Increasing popula
tion and higher standards of living,
says the New York Tribune But the
world isn't made to order, so we have
periods of frenzied activity, followed
by depression, dullness and great
activity again. Unfortunately. no one
has succeeded in devising a formula
by which the various phases of the
cycle can be measured with exacti
tude. So we cannot give statistical
liiUM to show precisely when the turns
for the better or worse will come.
Nevertheless, there Is one Infallible
way to fore«nst the coming of depres
Sinn as well as the return of pros
perity. When the great majority of
us are wildly optimistic an early crash
In business Is inevitable. And when
the majority are |>essimistlc and reailv
to consign the country to the dogs it
Is as certain as anything can be that
prosperity 13 Just around the economh
corner.
The economic revival in Peljlum I.
accompanled by • an extraordinarily
active intellectual revival, according to
h survey by Walter A. Montgomery for
the Cnited Stares bureau of educa
tion. It is pointed out that all uni
versities and schools are crowded far
beyond their capacity, and that the
minister of science and art is even
contemplating restoring entrance ex
aminations to universities to eliuiin.it.'
those who are les< tttted for bifrher
.No tewcr than live or six
rev icws have been lately
l'.>ni.m I'clt'ium. and h generation
..f new writers. Including some re
marl aNe younger poets. Is turning to
:be fore. Ii is said.
The Ktil Cross figures that Amer
icans have i \' II >_'■ 17."),I * *' to relieve
.. r «li>rri*— in fifteen Kuropean coun
tr:.-.- L'viin - with acid temperaments,
comment that this is only $-..">0 for
each of us. A liberal estimate. How
ever. it is equivalent to 500,000 men
donating the entire fruits of their
labor f<»r a whole year. '111at Isn't bad.
considering the libels about Americans
bein. selfish. It'd be a very cold day
n Ail: list hef >re oilier nations would
<lo as much for us.
t"rofes«»T Breitwelser of the Tnlver
sity .if California says there are kinds
,.t ki>sos that raise the blood pressure,
and he ciin measure the extent In mil
limeters of blood pressure resulting
from them •>> an Instrument known as
lie sphyjrmnnomiMtieter. Whj is ii
important to know? There Is no way
stopping the kissing.
No statesman should permit hituself
*t> fMM4.rn»- r««o expert in Herbert
<*»eiicor mice >aul to s» facile billiartl
■st. "A in*Hit"ate proHciency Id this
jame »s the :«• compllshtiiclit of a gen
i It'll..id tail ton great a skill can only
lurtirate a misspent youth.'*
KUrhty-ftve feel tfowu. a diver was
stricken with what is called "bends."
Having I»ee» sunk in «*oiue recent «et
rich-i|Ui«-k schemes. not a few have
heeu stricken with what is known as
broke.
"1 saved my money.'* says a bellboy
who has bmiirht a farm with tip* he
recoiteel. I* if an o*»jecl lesson, but
if th«»se whet gave him the tips hart
*uirtt iLvirs lit* wuuldn't he buying the
tarm.
There ts an opinion that If Uncle
Sam *»;♦ •?«• whiit the foreign countries
owe him he should employ the fellow
wht• m*ike> :he uioiithiy calls for the
iiistalimeiit encyclopedia.
Siniu't'.ii »■« «e wonder if the Arme
nian* <niild ever be happy unless the.v
were stan ins or being persecuted by
'be Turks.
A nnhte ideal is h rniin's eoneeptlon
.if the \vh\ lie .»niht to live when he
;s tin> rotten niesm and seltish to live
that way.
There si—it' to he a lot 111 nature
lovers anil outdoor enthusiasts In the
in it. They are always trying to get
out.
rs!ns his hedsprlng as an aerial, a
man was able to hear a Sunday ser
mon hr radio. This probably settles
insomnia.
IllttsTrtnions by
lx'^is Fyevs*
Cbp^nqhr by Edwir\ Bolrner ^
Papa and mama, at first surprised
and dismayed by the stooping of the
letters, still clung to the hope of the
familiar, typewriter-addressed en
velope appearing again; but when,
after two yeurs, no more money came,
resentment which had been steadily
growing against tlie person who had
sent the money began to turn against
Alan; and hla "parents" told him al)
they knew about him.
In 1S96 they had noticed an adver
tisement for persons to care for a
child; they had answered It to the
office of the newspaper which printed
It. In response to the letter a man
called upon them and, after seeing
them and going around to see their
friends, had made arranrements with
them to take a boy of three, who w«<
In good health and came of good
people. He paid In advance board for
a year and agreed to send a certain
amount every two months after that
time. The man hrougt.t the boy:
whom he called A J fin Conrad, and left
him. For seven years the nwne«
agreed upon caifle; now It had ceased,
and papa had no way of finding the
man—the name given by bltn appeared
to b- fictitious, and he had left no
adiless except "general delivery. Chi
cago"- -Papa knew nothing more than
tlint. He had advertised In the Chi
cago papers after the money stopped
coming. ;'nd he had communicated
with every one named Conrad In or
near Chicago, but be bail learned noth
ing. Thus, at the age of thirteen,
Alan definitely knew that what he
alread) had guessed- -the fact that he
belonged somewhere else than in the
little brown house- -was all that any
one there could tell him: and the
knowledge gave persistence to many
Internal i|Uesrliinings. Where did he
belong? Who was lie? Who was tin
man who hail brought him there? Had
the money ceased coming because tin.
person who sent It was dead? In
that case, connection of Alan < 1th the
place where he belonged was ner
luatientlv broken Or would some other
coiiiniiinlcarli.il from that source r.-acli
him some time—If not money, then
something else? Would he lie sent for
some day"1
Kxtertmliy, Mini's learning ihe llttIV*
thai whs knoi.ri iiImhii hiiii-elf made
■hi change in his way nf livlnj;; lie
went to tin- town school. wliicli com
bined grammar hihI high schools
under one roof; and. as lie grew older,
tie clerked in one of flie town stores
during * millions mill in the evenlnu's.
Alan always curried Ills money home
as ]'Mr! payment of those arrears which
h:i(l mounted up against lilm since the
letters censed coming. At seventeen,
having finished li'.ii school. he was
cle:king otli' liillj in Merrill's general
store, when the next letter cauie.
It wn« addressed this time not to
papa, hut to Alan C'«•iirnCI. He soUed
It, tore It open, and a hank draft for
fifteen hundred dollars fell out. There
was no letter with the encJosu.e no
word of eomniunli-atlon; Just the draft
to the order of Alan Conrad. Ainu
wrote the Chicago hank by which the
draft had heen Issued: their reply
showed that the draft had iieen pur
chased with currency, so there was uo
record of the Identity of the person
who had sent It. More than that
amount was due for arrears for the
seven years during which no money
was sent, eveu wheu the total which
Alan hud earned was deducted. So
Alan merely endorsed the draft over
to "father"; and that fall Jim. Alan's
foster brother, went to college. But,
when Jim discovered that it not only
was possible but planned at the unl
Terslty for a boy to work his way
through, Alan went also.
Four wonderful yea rs followed, in
companionship with educated people:
Ideas and maniit.s came to liltn which
he could not have acquired ar home:
athletics straightened and added hear
ing to his muscular, well-formed
body; his pleasant, strong young face
acquired self-reliance and self-control,
l.lfe became tilled with possibilities for
himself which it had never held before
But on his day of graduation he
had put away the enterprises he had
planned and the dreams he dreamed
and. conscious that his debt to father
and mother still remained unpaid, he
had returned to care for them: for
father's health had failed and Jim who
had opened a law office in Kansas
City, could do nothing to help.
No more money had followed the
draft from CMcagv and there had
been no communication of any kind:
but the receipt of so considerable a
sum had revived and Intensified all
Alan's speculations about himself. The
vague expectation of his childhood
that sometime. In some way, he would
be "sent for"; had grown dtirinc the
last six years to a definite belief.
And now—on the afternoon beftwe—
the summons had come.
This time, as he tore opeu the en
velope. he saw that beside a check,
there was writing within—an uneven
and nervous looking but plainly legible
conuiuuicattuu Ur lon^ha^d. Tot
let'er made no explanation. It tola
him, rather than asked him. to come
to Chicago, gave minute Instructions
for the Journey, and advised him to
telegraph when he started. The
Check wns for a hundred dollars to
pay his expenses. Check and letter
were signed by a name completely
strange to him.
He was a distinctly attractive Jook
Ing lad. as he stood now on the station
platform of the little town, while the
easthound train rimihled in. and he
Angered In his pocket the letter from
Chicago.
un the train he took the letter from
his pocket and for the dozenth time
reread It. Was Covert a relative? Was
he tlie man who had sent the remit
tal. ces when Alan wns a little boy,
and the one who later had sent the
On the Train He 1 ook mr Letter
From Kis Pocket and for the Doz
enth Time Reread It.
fifteen hundred dollars? Or was lie
merely a go-between, prrlnips u law
yer? There v.as no letterhead to give
aid In these speculations. The ad
dress tn which Alan was tn eotue was
in Aster street. 11" had llfivr heard
the name i>f the s:reet before. Was It
a business street. Corvet's address in
some great otlice i-itllding, perhaps?
At Chicago Alan, following the
porter with his sniti-a«e from the ear,
stepprd down aiming the crowds
hurrying to and from .ne trains, lie
was nut confused he was only In
tensely exeiti-.l. Actin" in linpli'-lt ac
cord with tin instructions of the letter,
which lie I;new by heart, he went to
the uniformed attendant and enraged
a tr\ienh—li«elf no small experience:
there would he no one at the station
to meet him. the letter had said. He
cave the Astor street address and go{
Into the onh.
It bad begun to snow heavily. For a
few blocks the taxleab drove north
pust more or less ordinary build
ings. then turned east- on a broad
boulevard where tail tile and brick
and stone structures towered till their
roofs were hidden In the snowfall. A
strange stir and tingle, quite distinct
from the excitement of the arrival at
the station, pricked In Alan's veins,
and hastily he dropi>ed the window to
his right and gazed out. The lake,
as be had known since his geography
days. lay to the east of Chicago;
therefore that void out there beyond
the park was the lake or. at least, the
harbor. A different air seemed to
come from it; sounds . . . Suddenly
it all was shut olT; tUk taxicab,
swerving a little. was dashl.ig between
business blocks; a row of buildings
had risen again upon the right; they
broke abruptly to show him a wooden
walled chasm in which llowed the
river full of ice with a tug dropping
its smokestack as it cut below the
bridge which the cab crossed; build
ings on both sides again; then, to the
right, a roaring, heaving crashing ex
panse.
The sound. Ainu knew: had been
coming to him as an undertone for
many minutes; now It overwhelmed,
swallowed nil other sound. It was
great, not loud; all sound which Alan
had heard before, except the soughing
of the wind over his prairies, came
from one point; even the monstrous
city murmur was reulered In compari
son with this. Over the lake, as over
the land, the soft snowflakes lazily
floated down, scarcely stirred by the
slightest breeze; that roar was the
voice of the water, that uwful power
Its own.
Alan choked and gasped for breath,
his pulses pounding In his throat; he
had snatched off his hat and, leaning
out of the window sucked the lake air
in his lungs. There had been noth'ng
to make him expect this overwhelming
cruilj of feeling. The lu!>i—lie had
thought of It, of course, an a grrat
leody of water, an Interesting sight
fi»r a prairie hnv to see; thnt was all.
No physical experience In nil his
memory had affected him like this;
and it was without warning; the
.-trange tiling that had stirred within
him as tile car brought him to the
Iirive down-town was strengthened
now a thousand-fold; it amazed, half
frightened, half dizzied him. Now, as
tltt- motor suddenly swung around a
corner und shut the sight of the lake
from him, Alan sat back breathless.
The car swerved to the east curb
about the middle of the block and
came to a stop. Tbe house before
which it had halted was a large stone
house of quiet, good design; It was
some generation older, apparently,
then the houses on each side of It,
which were brick aud terru ootta of
recent fashionable architecture; Alan
only glanced at them long enough to
got that Impression before he opened
the cab door and got out; but as the
culi drove away, lie stood beside his
suitcase looking up at the old houae
which bore the number given In Ben
jamin Corvet's letter, then around at
tlx- other houses and back to that
a«:ln.
The neighborhood obviously pre
cluded the probability of Oorvet's be
ing merely a lawyer—a go-between.
He must be some relative; the ques
tion ever present in Alan's thought
since the receipt of the letter, but held
In abeyance, as to the possibility and
nearness of Oorvet's relatlou to him.
took sharper and more exact fonn
now than be had dared to let It take
before. Was his relationship to
Corvet, perhaps, the closest of all re
lationships? v\'as Corvet his . . .
lather? He checked the question
within himseJf, for the time had
passed for mere speculation upon It
now. Alnn was trembling excitedly;
for—whoever Corvet might be—the
enigma of Alan's existence was going
to he answered when he had entered
that house. He was going to know
who he was. All the possibilities, the
responsibilities, the attachments, the
opportunities, perhaps, of that person
whom lie was—but whom, as yet, he
did not know—were before hitu. He
went up the steps and. with fingers
excitedly unsteady, he pushed the bell
beside the door.
The door opened almost Instantly—
so quickly after the ring, Indeed, that
Alan, with leaping throb of his heart,
knew that some one must have been
awaiting him. I'm the door opened
nBly half way, and the man who stood
wltliln, gu7ing out at Alan question
ingly, was obviously a servant.
"What is It?" he asked, as Alan
stood looking at hlui and past him to
the narrow section of darkened hall
which was In sight.
Alan put his hand over the letter'
In his pocket. "I've come to see Mr.
Corvet," he said—"Mr. Benjamin
Corvet."
"What Is your name?"
Alan gave his name; the man re- |
peated it after him. in the manner of I
a trained servant, quite without In
llectlon. Alan, not familiar with such ]
tones, waited uncertainly. So fnr as |
he could tell, the name was entirely '
strange to the servant, awakening
neither welcome nor opposition, but
indifference. The man stepped back,
but not in such a manner as to Invite
AJan In; on the contrary, he half
closed the door as he stepped back,
leaving It opeu only an inch or two;
but It was enough so that Alau heard
him say to some one within; I
"He says he's hlui."
"Ask him In; I will speak to him."
It was a girl's voice—this second one,
a voice such as Alan never had heard
before. It was low and soft but quite
clear and distinct, with youthful, Im
pulsive modulations and the manner
of accent which Alan knew must go
with the sort of people who lived In
houses like those on this street.
The servant, obeying the voice, re
turned and opened wide the door.
"Will you come In. sir?"
(Continued on Tuesday)
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DEPARTMENT OP THE INTERIOR
U. 8. LAND OFFICE
at Juneau, Alaska
April, 13, 1922
NOTICE Is hereby given that Mi
chael J. O'Connor, of Haines, Alas
ka, who, on April 13, 1922, made
HE, No. 04908, tor lota 1 and 2.
Section 14; and lot 1, Section 23.
Township 30 S„ Ilknge 68 E., Cop
per River Meridian, has filed notice
of Intention to make three-year
Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before R. M.
Odel, at Haines, Alaska, on the 27th
day of May, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses: N.
O. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska; Chas.
Anway, of Haines, Alaska; Leon
Ballard, of Haines, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register,