The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-29
BY THE WAY
BY ZOZ.

| The Titanic disaster of eighteen
 months ago. because of Its publicity ani the notable persons aboard. e,us. et worldwide sympathy and grief i but the Volturuo disaster of t.ss.,, publicity. as q matter of course. creat- 1 "d little comment The vofturno was l bound from Rotterdam to New York anu m mid-oc"an fire in her holds caused holocaust of human lives and her abandonment. Marconi wircIess.s We're sent in all directions. The we'll 1 known tunarder. Carmania, took mn the message at distance of seyentv l eight miles and in as short time as possible ten ships arrived and did all they possibly could to rescue tbos. in danger The latest messages stated live hundred and twenty one lives were saved out of total of seven hundred and fifty-seven.
 London newspaper. to haul, says that EnEltshmen should do something tangible to show appreciation of what their "countryman' by his invention has don" to save life at sea All this in the face of the fact that in two recent investigations 'the Titanic in Huiry" and the "Marconi Scandal" in Vestigations. they had Marconi on the witness stand striving to fncrimnato him What hypocrisy, hT cir coun- trYman. indeed?
 1t is true that Marconi.s mother Was British subject. an Irish girl be fore she went to Rome to complet. her music lessons and fou in love with an Italian banker-I must be getting on in years for I knew her then when she romped about in her hoop and swinG-married. and brought forth the great inventor who now lives. when al home. with his wife. who was Miss O'Brien, daughter of Lord lnchiqunn, and his mother in County Clare. Ireland
 All this is in keeping with the policy of the EnSlishmen, who believe they own the earth, whenever they find an lriShman. let him be novelist newspaper correspondent twar or oth- crwisel golfer. lawn tennis player. cricketer. statesman. orator. diplomat
 
 distinGuishes himself he Is English hut if ne votes in the House of Com mons he is a foreigner?
 Since writing last week about how Lillian Scott Troy was exposing An drew Carnegie I have seen an article from London correspondent, entitled the unsuitable Carnegie" dealing with Andy and his semi-roval doinss at Skibe castle and other places. Ac- cording to this well. informed cores nenoent. Aniy. in order to help him self to royal recognition. tried to buy off one of the old Carnegie family the earls of GlenuSk-hut they. who are as poor as church mice. would have none of it. Andy. it appears and as We can see. has himself in front of every photograph. no matter how distineuished or meritorfous the other members of the group may he. As to his other vanties let the cor respondent srsak for himself
 And so with Mr. John Burns, the well-knewn Liberal Cabinet Minister, when Carnegie met him in the Lobby at Westminster, he advanced to Mir ''AIi ilS " Itil pulSlftlCilel llafu, saving. Andrew Carnegie offers his hand to John Burns To which the ex-labor leader replied. strong In his memory of hloedshed in the quelline of the Homestead strikes. And John Burns declines to take it. Again Carne- rie told a newspaperman not long ago that when he was in Rome he called on the King of Italy. but I did not call on the Pope Mir Carnegie omitted, however, to tell his reporter friend that the reason why he did not call on the Pope was that the Vati- can saw no reason for making any exception in admitting Mir, Carnegie to special audience, an honor which even very distinguished Catholics re- ceive with difficulty and certainly al ways with what Andrew would find it difficult to adopt. namely, humil- ity"
 And by the way all this about Car negie and his money reminds me that he is not the only ndivdual-abyss- mally ignorant-to whom wealth has given the disease of "swelled-headed- ness. Every day we meet men who imagine or pretend they have property wild cat or otherwise-who show vanity and arrogance not dissimiar to Andrew Carnegie. Of course a man used to a little prosperity would nev~ er show these weaknesses ridiculous as well as laughable.
 In this connection l must take eX- ception to remarks I heard lately about my old friend the Colonel His i hodysuard-Maior Chasey, Corporal