The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-29
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 NEARLY time for new reso'u' tons
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 THE most notiecable thing about Christian charity is its scarcity
 NOTHING pac!fies The martial spir- fl like sIa!nt at the bottom of the War chest.
 IF Is easier to help people than to teach them to help themselves. but nf far less benefit.
 SPUGS are people who have formed themselves into an unofficial organiza- ton for the prevention and abolition of duty-sifts and useless present giy- ing
 DID you know tAat there are about 2,o00oo0 children in our United States who have never known a real Christ mas, who Any" never known and never will know santa Claus Are economic conditions just right?
 THIS k a positive economic law, appiyine to all humanity. Rightly proportioneI To each other. there ars Ho greater blessings in all the world than work and leisure. Wrongly pro- porttoned. there are no greater curses.
 THE fellow who insists on eating bran brad and anroasted peanuts OF Christmas day because be is a health faidist. is nearly as hopeless as the chap wi" lives mp to tine principles of the Society of Spuss when he is in love. Beware of 'cm'
 IT is safe to say that of the 2.0o0.0a0 children who are forced to slave in mills and factories for m existence. Alaska furnishes, not only smaller number. but smaller pro rortionate percentaee than any other part of the union.
 THE man who spent hundred dollars giving beautiful Christmas presents to people hc didn't care for because he thought he owed il to his position" probably received a purple neck-tie and a yellow shaving mug. and il is good enough for him.
 THE Santa Fe railroad is sending up to heaven a loud protest against the agitation opposing the raising of its freight rates. It is also whimper- Ing that it is not making enough on its mail contracts Enough" is a very elastic word The Santa Fes earn inss for the past year were s22. .O0O.- 900
 PEACE on Earth. good will toward Men-war costs too much The fear of War tarmy and navyD and past wars pensions, etcD cost you twenty five dollars per year. much as all other government expenses combined Real WAT would cost many times this amount. and that is not counting the lives of your brothers and your sons War settles nothing. Whether victor or vanquished. you lose.
 OF course there are good, if one means sufficient, reasons for the ex-
 
 istence of misery and poverty. but they are neither the eating of hot pie nor the drinking of beer. By thinking and reading a little. one can see the reason for these-the root of all evils: but there is no reason in the man who says that what has been must be. that they cannot be cured
 
  to have discovered a cure for paraly- sis. The very thought of this will awaken hope in the hearts of thou sands of sufferers. and should the remedy prove genuine. the unrythmi- cal name of Levabiti will prove a new Will Shakespeare's assertion about the rose by any other name, etc"
 COLONEL GOETHALS has had ample opportunity to observe the economy and increased efficiency of govern ment supervision. and one does not wonder at all that the great engineer refuses to remain and be a party to turning all these improvements over to private individuals or companies Yet one hopes that the service will be able to induce Goethals to step into some other place. He is too val uable a man for the public to lose.
 
 IT is better and really easier for the government to own public utii- ties rather than to try to regulate them. Private monopolies can not be effectually regulated because as long as they are permitted to exist they will try to regulate the government as well as employing every available means of preventing the government from exercising any control over them.
 THE reinstatement of Ella Flags Young as superintendent of Chicago schools. Is proof of the difference be- tween the American and the English man. In England Mrs. Young's SUD- porters would have been regarded as criminals. and accused of perpetrating all the recent outrages known. Event ually most of them would have been given a glimpse of the jail. and of course the educator herself would be considered quite too awful"