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Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
MEETING OF MOOSE LODGE
 WAS MOST INTERESTING

A largely attended and enthusiastic meet ing of the Moose lodge was held at Flat City on Sunday, August 9, at which time J. J. Smith was elected treasurer to fill the vacancy occasioned by the departure of Karl Ihlele for the Outside, and A. E. Meacham was elected prelate to succeed Carter koon, who has also left the camp
 The officers of the lodge now are:
 Deputy Supreme Dictater-C " Pear son.
 Honorary Past Dictator ". F Harrison
 Past Dictator Ashby Bain.
 Dictator Ivan Wales.
 Vice Dictator c. B. Gcraghty
 PreIate-A E. Meacham
 Secretary-A Nj. kilgore
 Treasurer J. J. Smith.
 Trustees James F. Fnnegan, Frank Stanley, Robert E. Lowry.
 Sergeant at Arms William Osborn.
 Inner Guard-Iames Kay
 Outer Guard Samuel P Gage
 As Guy Geraghty left on the steamer White Seal last Wednesday, the filling of the vacancy caused by his departure will come up at the next meeting at Flat City on Sunday, September 13.
 The secretary was authorized to order a full set of uniforms for the oficres and badges for all the members from the sU- prcme secretary. This order has been sent by wire and it IS expected the same will reach her before the close of navigation.
 The attention of the lodge was called to the bereavement just sustained by President Wilson and the following resolutions were adopted by the lodge and a copy forwarded to the President, who is Loyal Moose, be ing member of the Newark, N. J., lodge:
 Wh@eas. It is source of profound grief to all members of the Loyal Order of Moose when brother Moose is deprived of ttr company of his loved ones; and
 Whereas, Woodrow Wilson, the Prrsi- dent of the tinted states If America, ls 3 member of Newark, N. J., lodge of Loyal
 whereas, God in His tns"rutablc wisdom has seen it to remove from the side of our hDnurcd President and brother and take Gnto himself his lifr's mate; now, there
 HG~~lvrG That Idtarod Ledge No. 1899, Loyal Order of Moose Gf the world, hereby extends to Brother Wilson its sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this the hpnr of undyng love and confidence. And be it further
 RcSoiycd That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes and that copy be cnerp-srd and rorW&rdyd to Brother ircsidcI, wilson.
 The next meeting of the ledge will be held at AnsIey's hall Lit&ryd, tomorrow Sunday evening, and it has been thought best to call the meeting to order at p. m. sharp in order that those who wish may attend the picture show at 9:30.
 Several new members will be initiated.
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
WILSON'S TRIUMPH N MEXICO

h hese dark days when the shadow of whole continent and when military and naval operations being instituted on plan upendous bafe the imagination cheering to remember that the United States least under administration, escaped the necessity of conflict with negborng people, and that sense of justice and hnantaransm dictated the policy which has resulted the apparent pachcaon ot Mexico he New 'o World gives appreciation of President Wilson's poc!e5 which is worthy of reproduction It is follows:
 The Presidents Mexican policy concerning which he:e have been many n8gyngs has trunphed Ike dcaorha resigned constitutional government to be established There VI" eventually be peace at home and peace with the United States
 When General Huera the 18th of February 19i3 tee- gaphed President Taf have ovcrthrown this government and the forces with me he had thought of he who in weeks was be President of the United States of the forces that that man would array against the Mexican usupation.
 "One week after Mr. Wilson's inauguration he gave due warning to General Huea and all other IaAnercan cheans who ga' office by intrigue and when he sad We have sympathy with those who the power of to advance their personal interests and ambitions uerta laughed this avova and few of the United States pronounced visionary and fantastic.
 Yet the new American doctrine that usupation to be ognzed this hemisphere has been established the country where seemed doubtful Against Fiueras airy sumption Wilson arrayed adamanne In opposition to the yan armed forces Wilson naraed the forces of liberty and justice.
 It has taken hard fighting Mexico overthrow the who overthrow the government but moral of higher order has been needed enable the Washington hold its principles. The triumph we'll as Mexcos The
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
ALAS! THE POOR BROWN BEAR!

Shocked surprise have greeted Secretary Lanes proposal that the nation should dfeenate between the treatment of brown and black bears n Alaska.
 Such herey against the great god of Washington who bears the august Of Red Tape almost nconcevabe It stamps the be watched be doubted and above all things ese 10 be checked in hs mad career.
 What though the secretary points brown and black bears often found the Her Snail the priests before the shrine of the great god Red Tape themselves with such nconsequen ;al matter? Nay; thrice nay!
 Enough for them that the brown bear distinguished from his brothe the black bear, stands for prncpethe principle that Alaska be conserved by beIdengy multiplying the wheels of administration that through sheer friction they revove
 One readily that the bureaucrat will lose sight entirely of the secreay suggestion that of three should take charge of all things Alaskan and them. This mddng large suggestion. bristles with argmenatve angles
 However, such be delegated congress, which, when reused has of doing things Enough for the Red Tape dvoee that he shall fight any suggestion for ong directly what be pre- vented by indirect manipulation.
 Whether Lanes commission ;dea goes into effect tain that he position tell congress how eliminate of the limitations imposed upon Alaska by sheer official inertia
 Fortunately for the secretary and doub fortunate for Alaska the public mind the present time inclined that who tries to do something for the Nortand will necessarily be Times
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
J. E. CH7LBERG IS SUED FOR
 RECOVERY OF LARGE SUM

Seattle, July 31- Somewhat of sensa- ton was sprung here today when the Nome Syndicate, Lid, of London started pro ceedings against J. E. Chiloerg of this city fer the recovery of $202, ,500 which amount it is claimed was lost through the purchase of the Pioneer Mining Company holdings on Seward peninsula.
 It is charged in the complaint that Chil berg to whom the British capitalists went for information. represented that the claims of the Pioneer Mining Company contained great wealth, and upon lis recommends ton the properties were purchased. The complaint further sets forth that investi- gation proved the properties practically worthless.
 Chiberg is president of the New Seattle Chamber Of Commerce and also president of the Scandinavian American Bank of this city
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
TOURISTS ARE HELD UP
 IN YELLOWSTONE PARK

Gardiner, Mont, July 29.-One of the most spectacular hold-ups in the history of Wyoming occurred early today in the Yel- loWstone national park, when several stage coaches belonging to four of the largest park were held up by two masked bandits and the passengers relieved of over S3,000 in cash and jewelry. The loot was collected from 165 passengers, none of whom made any effort to resist the frisking.
 Following the hold-up the bandits made good their escape, and it is believed they are now in hiding in the park. Several posses are in pursuit.
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
z!;1FP ER2P OF GERMANY
 STAnTS N PiCUS MOOD

Berlin, Aug. 1,-Emperor William. ad dressing vast crowd assembled !n front of the palace said:
 War woulj do Us aH enormous harm in the sacrifice of life and property, but We should show cur enemies what it means to provoke Germany Now, l commend you to God Go to church, kneol before your God and pray His help for our gallant army"
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
GRAND LODGE OF MOOSE
 EARS ATHEISTS FROM ORDER

Milwaukee, Wis, July 29-By a rising vote the grand lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose of the World this afternoon de clarad unanmicusly their faith in su- nreme being. It was decided to exclude atheists from membership in the organiza- ton hereafter, and to eject any who now belong, if any are found in the subordinate lnlgeS
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
WOODEN LEG IS HELD
 FOR DEBT BY LANDLADY

San Francisco, July 18.-John Garfield wants to know if his landlady has a right to hold his wooden leg for room rent Chief of Police White received letter from him today raising the question. When he was sent to the state hospital at Mendocino some time ago the woman would not let him take the leg with him because he owed her money. He is about to be discharged from the hospital and needed it to help him earn 8 living.
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
PETER H. FIELD INQUIRED FOR

The postmaster has received the follow
 Olympia, Wash, July 15, 1914. Postmaster, Iditarod Alaska.
 Dear Sir: am trying to locate a cousin, Peter H. Field. or FJelel born in Nordre Odalin, Norway His father and brother died this spring, and it is very i'm portant that he let his relations know where he is. The last heard of him was about five years ago when he wrote to sister in Minnesota. He was then in Alaska, but his address has been lost. Any assistance rendered will be greatly appreciated.
 "N o. FIELD.
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22
POPE PLUS X. DEAD

The death of Pope Plus K will be sincerely mouaed throughout Chrendo irrespective creed The passing of the gentle old whose influence has always been exerted the of the worlds peace and welfare particularly saddenng this tme and the fact
 that his end was hastened by the scenes of booed being enacted by soae Christian nations throughout Europe will appear as ebue from on high to the devou Catholics of Southern Europe
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22

Guy Geraghty was a passenger on the White Seal. He is bound for Seward, and will go over the trail from Fairbanks to Valdez. finishing his trip by steamer.
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22

The newspapers of the Puget sound country recently published many columns devoted the ongs of Frank James, the noted Mis- ouri eouaw who said have been engaged berry picking and nugng "reminiscences of his the vicinity of Tacoma sensational story published the effect that he had been
 tempted rob Tacoma bank but had purne the offer The papers imposed pon James his home in Kearney Mo- The ze with which the received tends show that there still
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22

The ufagees England have suspended activities owing to the war; and it believed that the Irish question will be settled thus allowing Great Britain devote all her forces fighting her
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22

The present m Europe plan celebrate the OOh anniversary peace which has been the talk of Enghpeakng people during the past twelve months 100 years the powers combined crush Napoleon and the of his final defeat again the battle-ground of the European nations
Iditarod pioneer., 1914-08-22

Location Notices at Pioneer oftre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

Science" In much that the writer says
every devout Churchman will humbly and
sorrowfully confess that he lays his fin
ger on actual, notorious and lamentable
faults and failures. But in his proposal
TO abolish these faults and to change
these failures to brilliant victories by the
adoption of the christian Science phi
losophy. he win hardly carry with him
the conviction or consent Of a single
Thoughtful mind Where he points out
facts he is on sure and often we'll trod-
den ground; but whore he ESSAYS to
follow established diagnosis with an orig
innI prescription, he proclaims himself
no better than other empirieists and
quaeks.
As. for instance. when he SAYS. THE
practical effects of the adoption of
Christian Science would be that not one
member OF the Church would be found
in any way connected with business
which puts human well being below
material interests. The evils of dis
eases (sic) i'm wrecking homes and
bringing into being children cursed
with sterility (sie). blindness, deformity
paralysis ard insanity would be ban
ished. Three million people in this
country who are abnormal and who
cost us annually two hundred millions
would ultimately be saved. Illness and
poverty and sin would be prevented,
and the spiritual kingdom would be
realized"
lie proceeds to assert that the truth
of the statement Is "demonstrable,' 80
Yet, be il observed, while he is a
"Christian Scientist he does actually
talk about illness. evils, disease, and so
on, as real things which cost the coun-
try real money TO combat. Still more
significant is the fact that he IS dis
cusslng 1.-The Church in its Protestant
sense But the Protestant churches do
not represent more than about one-iifth
of the people Suppose they all with one
consent should adopt Christian
Science, would that make the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
"A CHURCHMAN' AND "CHRISTIAN S

expense of his reputation for accuracy.
Analogy would indicate that this is the
more probable situation. But his punctua-
ton is so erratie that it is hard to say
what he means.
Now passing by the astonishing anr
achronism that the Scribes and PhariL
sees of our Lords day were "emlnently
respectable church members and fur
ther that their eminence was due to
their having economically enslaved
the people" > | observe that this self
advertised scholar and churehman finds
himself caught in the common snare
Of those who essay TO propound and
defend the Christian Science faith
For it is a most eloquent fact that
these, with one accord, use the Eng
lish language in combinations to which
ordinary people have no key. With all
respect, I confess myself mystified and
confounded by sentences like this,
which 1 quote from page S31 "Their
healing is an expression of working
out their redemption by atonement, not
as a theory, but as divine organic
oneness which must be personally DEM
onstrated to reveal its reality" or let
us observe the force OF pronouns in the
following (p. S34): Against material
ism it is the most powerful protest
ever known, destructive of 1t by its
constructive life as spiritual only and
expressive of absolute being" This
sounds sadly like a quacl Doctors ad-
Nertisement of a cure-all, even to the
shocking grammar. Another example
of this mysterious obscurity is on page
So: Until this has been done among
its own members at least, it cannot
expect to demonstrate its practicality."
The first tit refers to the church
What do the others refer to? Now, if
this gentleman were really scholar
and leader of souls, ought he not to
be able to speak and write his own
mother tongue at least? And would he
not be acquainted with the first prin-
ciples of punctuation? But this whole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
SCIENCE"-By George Eaves, D. d.

four-nfths or more of our hundred mill
Hon citizens, young and old, ignorant
and wise, lazy and busy, rich and poor,
all rich, all good, all spiritual minded,
and all Christian?
1t is indeed most pathetically true
that the churches of America have not
succeeded in abolishing preventnble
diseases. preventable poverty, prevent
able sin. Aside from the quaint asser-
tion that there are no diseases, no pow
erty, no sim and aside from the quaint
damnation of the churches for failing
to abolish these noneNlstent entities,
1t must be further confessed that only
OF late have the churches come In sight
of their social obligations to the sur
fering world. But does anyone doubt
that the churches are at least showing
as great an interest in these mslodor-
Gus elements OF life as The christian
Scientists have yet shown? And is
there as much real graphing with sin
and sickness and sorrow and death by
adherents of Christian Science" in any
American city where this faith is rep
resented as is carried on In that same
city by the physicians without osten-
free hospitals? I take leave utterly to
fhee hospitals? | take leave utterly to
doubt 1t.
No. brother ChuIehmanl Something
more drastic.than a theoretical conversion
of the churches IS needed I'm this land,
as harbinger of the true Kingdom of God
which Is yet to come. For one thing. you
must cease mlsrepresenting and traducing
your brethren. For another thing, they
must cease traducins you and other ego
tistic heretics. For yet "A third thing,
when love abounds yet more and more,
you and your friends will find that scien-
tfic men belong to the Kingdom of God
in proportion as they are scientific not
in proportion merely to their profession
of being scientific. So far as / can follow
you, find not so much as the faintest
glmmer of "a conception of what scientific
method really is. But pray do not, on the
strength of that profound ignorance In
sist that the Church ought to make war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

himself "A Churchman." I wonder why
he hides his name! Who is he? Bishop
or curate? Dean or plain Priest? What
ever his dignity, he actually confesses
his conversion to Christian Science" and
herein sets forth a series of assertions
designed to show tLat Protestantism-by
which he probably means all Protestant
churehes-"must adopt Christian
Science
Is he ashamed or is he afraid to dis
close his identity? That is mot our af-
fair, but his, except so far as, being
Christian Scientist" he still avows him
self "a Churchman," while he disputes the
doctrine of the faith lie processes, holding
it in contrast with the new, of which he
is prophet.
In the neN place, this "Churehman"
finds it necessary to assure us that he
has been for many years a critical and
philosophical student as well as a priest
of his church That is to say he repre-
sents himself as a thoroughly educated
man. alike in the philosophical and eccesi-
astical sense. Yet we find him writing OF
'the 'Aryan philosophy" either meaning
the philosophy of the "Aryana peoples,
or else meaning the philosophy of the
"Arian" hereties, which was not so much
a philosophy as a theology. and which it
Is most strange to find quoted or mis-
quoted i'll this connection. If the latter is
his intention, he both misspells a familiar
word and confuses theology with phil
ology. while he seeks most questionable
and astonishing support for Christian
Science" views in the undiscovered doc
trine of a long ago discredited heresyl
If he contrasts, Aryan with Semitic phios-
ophy, the contrast is meaningless in the
sense for which he quotes. If by Aryan
philosophy "he means the philosophy of
the lndo- European peoples, there is no
such thing. Instead of one, there are a
thousand conflicting PHILOSOPHERS, which
have sprung up amid infinite debate
among those peoples SO if the author
saves his orthography, he does so at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

! To win credit in heaven the "holy man.
of Indian holds limb in one position
until it becomes fixed there and can never
be moved back to its normal place.
Or he stretches himself at fun length
on bed of thorns or sharp spikes and
remains there. gaining the intense ad-
miration of his fellow reiigionists for
his self-sacrfice.
We have no such exhibitions in Amer
lea. The police authorities forbid them
on the ground that they are offensive and
terrible and contrary to public morals.
But
The police do not interfere with Ameri-
cans who hold their minds in one posi-
ton until they are atrophied. They do
not prohibit the stretching of ones self
on bed of mental thorns. They do not
interfere when a man or woman suffers
voluntary burial up to the neck in an
intellectual grave.
And yet
The dolngs of mental fakirs are far
worse and work much greater harm than
the actions performed in the name of re-
ligion by the falSirs and holy men of In
dla, for they do not only waste their own
mental force but they pervert that of
others. The Hindu falSir sets an example
for those only who believe as he does that
subjecting the body to torture is a sure
way of laying up treasures in heaven.
The man or woman who let's the mind
become set in one place until it remains
set there for life, as in unbreakable plas-
ter of paris, is a source of mental infec-
ton and q peril to a community.
If you cling to old ideas whose error
has been exposed beyond question
If you obstruct the ways of progress
If you shut your mind to the evidences
of world betterment and national i'm
provement and state regeneration and city
reorganization, such evidences as is all
around us
If you will not lend hand to the
moving forward of the world. but seek
to act as a brake on the wheel of prog
ress-
You are a mental fakir. You are akin
to the ascetic brotherhoods of India. You'
are centuries behind in the worlds
thought.
When the Hindu fakir holds his arm
high above his head in one position until
it becomes Stiff and fixed and mmovable
he loses the use of 1t forever
And if you hold your mind in one posi-
tion until It loses the power Of thought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

pamphlet pace Editor George Harvey,
fairly eoruscates with shining exam
pies of how sentences ought not to be
punotuated.
So that if 1 We're not already very fa-
vorably disposed towards aChristan
Science and fun of sympathy with its
ideals, this "Churehman" would infallibly
repel me. l should argue that it cannot
he a strong thing or else so weak a
man would not be accepted as its notable
advocate or even be reckoned as of any
significance, one way or the other If
he had not assured us that he Is a PHI
losopher, we should not have guessed it;
and the fact that he does so assure us
eompes us to doubt II. Hence also the
chief interest of the present article con-
sists in the light it throws on the edi-
torial management of the once famous
Review under whose aegis it appears. |
had almost been guilty Of an Irish bull,
by saying that it is the shadow cast by
such contribution that throws this Gu
rious light upon the editorial ehair
IL.
But let it not be imagined that In this
criticism of the "Ghurchman'' ] am at
taeking the faith to which he has yielded
himself. Every man must be firmly per-
suaded in his own mind, and none may
gainsay another's sacred convictions But
this man openly challenges, in the name
of a vague "Aryan philosophy" and
Christian Science" the work and theol-
ogy of Professionalism, and will be an
swered no doubt, by abier pers than
mine. His challenge, howeveh. has been
thrust upon my table by some local en-
thusiast Hence, unWorthily and unequal
to the task, ! am attempting to answer
him locally, where also others have no
doubt been similarly distinguished with
gratuitous copies.
The argument" lin the poetic, not in
the logical sense of that word) may be
described as a viliiication of the Church.
interspersed with praises of "Christian