The Seattle Republican., 1909-11-05
The Passing Throng.

Whether or not Dr. Cook or Commodor Peary reach
ed the north pole does not seem to enter into the
controversy that being tried by the newspapers
of the country but the question is, did Dr. Cook reach
the top of Mt Mckinley Just what that has to DO with
the reaching of the north pole is what part OF the
peope cannot explain Already the lie has been passed
bv the arrng dsputans and dire threats OF per-
iurv have been limited at. Of course the Pearyltes
hope to make the people believe that Dr. Cook old not
reach the pole point they cannot actually establish
but they can destroy the credbty Of Cook by show
ino he lied about scaling Mt. Mckinley, that they
believe will strengthen their charge that Cook never
reached the pole. Granted Cook lied about sealing
Mt Mckinley but if he has evidence to prove ne saw
the north pole it is right and proper that that evidence
be carefully looked into and be taken for all It's WORTH
Pearv should forget that Mt Mckinley incident and
prove from Cooks papers that he is taking and If he
can not do that then he has lost his contention With
due respect to both of the alleged north pole finders
there are still those in this we'll other countries
well up in the sciences, who do not believe either OF
. them has been to the north pole.
So long as divorce proceedings are given the prom-
nence as has the proceedings that have been raging
in the courts of New York for the past ten days be-
tween John Jacob Astor and his wife just so lang Will
the getting of divorce be fad 1t has only been lew
months since the papers of the country devoted thou
sands of inches of space to exploiting the divorce pro-
ceedngs of the Goulds owing to their social prominence
in this country and equally as much baderash IS
being published over the Astor marital tronbles Be
cause these couples extremely wealthy and stand
high in saciety" which should be curse rather than
blessing hundreds of others, who always desrous
of aping bg foks think they too must get divorce
If laws were passed making it criminal for newspapers
to publish the proceedings OF divorce trials or to publish
the pictures of the tgants anything OF the crcum
stances that lead up to the filling OF the divorce pro-
l1o tbo+f fhn IConI1c
divorce business so common to this country would fall
off on tie other hand this is not intended to head OFT
persons seeking divorces who unhappy mated but
shut off the publicity of them, which often results IN
persons with no excuse for seeking divorce doing SO
for the notorlety IN It,
President Taft and his party have the Missss-
ippi river from it's most important shipping point ST.
Louis to it's mouth and it's useless to add that Taft is
even more enthused than ever over the scheme OF
deep water way from the lakes to the gulf. One gen
GRAFTON should plan for the coming generations and this
is especiay true of the generations of the people
and the same country The people OF the United States
lust now are very much interested IN the proposed
nter-ocean highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
over which vehicles may either speed or go by easy
stages and likewise the much talked of deep water
way, which would open navigation through the very
heart of the country from the northern to the southern
limit 1t is hardly possible that the children Of
today will ever see both of these great public neces-
sites completed but it their duty to begin the work
and leave it so that their children may easily complete
both of them President Taft has ntmated that twoud
take something like $780, 100000 to complete the deep
water way but if it took five times that much udciousy
expended it would be cheap at that It will doubtless
take equally as much to build great highway from
Washington City to Seattle Washington, the gateway
to the Orient but the scheme is just mertorous as
well as feasible the deep water way and selfish mo-
ves on the part of fellow citizens should not throw
obstructons in the way of them being completed.
Never in the history of modern pugiism has the pub
lie mind been worked up to such state of excitement
as it the expected battle between Jack Johnson
and Jim Jeferes for the heavy weight championship