The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05


ronyicts Brockson is supposed to be
a human being although he has never
been accused of being humanitarian.
Recent incidents which occurred in the
state of Washington. show the result
# a different spirit. Dr. Hazard. the
fasting doctor. convicted of second
}cgree murder. Travelled alone to Wal
la Walla to serve her sentence.
Thirty convcts. their way to an
honor" camp Were given their free
ION while in Seattle, and yet every
man turned up on time when the
hour for departure arrived Ere
Iuently the difference between the
convict and the civilian is that the
convict got found out.
LUTHER BURBANK has announc-
ed new cereal which will produce
IN agricultural revolution should its
culture prove practicable. 1t is strange
that people are so much more in
,redulous over the discovery of a
delicious edible than over some eX-
traordinary invention, but this is true
This accounts for the fact that the
common vegetable menu is composed
IF rather less than twenty varieties
Yet there are more than forty whole
some comestibles which can be grown
with comparative ease, and the extra
twenty make a substantial addition to
ones diet Among the ones most like
~ to become popular in the near flu
ture are the udo, the daSheen, the
OYSTER plant, the aquatic potato. the
Japanese radish, scarlet runner, car
looms, collards, Swiss chard and q
berry named the roselle. Burbank
and his fellow wizards are making
vesetarianism positively attractive.
MOTHER IN-LAW jokes are con
sidered exceedingly bad form but it
is safe to bet that Queen Mary can
see the point in them. for exQueen
Alexandra is positively more annoying
than an American She persistently
~efuses to take advantage of any of
the peculiar" opportunities that roy
Atty always has of collecting revenue
outside of the regular scources, and
Mary has talked and kept on talking
about her mother-in-law's perversity
and eXtravagance-all in vain. she
and extrayasance-all in vain. She
is on the verge of despair. If Mary
only liked Americans, she could
,ondole with Hi Perkins, who
insists that "cussns don't do no
,ood."
DAVID STARR JORDAN has com
,leted a new work, The Deferred
Payment System" The title is apt
enough but because of the originality
Of it's use, rather misleading. The de
ferred payments to which he refers
are those of war, and he aims not
only at the enormous financial pay
ments but also to the deferred pay
ments" of physical disability which
always attend war "even unto the
third and fourth generation"
IF every young man should read the
book containing the following para
graph. there would be fewer deferred
payments: ITO insure efficiency an
army must be, to a certain extent.
despotsm Each officer is invested
with an arbitrary power over those be-
meath him. and the soldier who enlists
in the army valves, in some particulars.
his rights as a civilian surrenders his
PERSONAL liberty during the term of
his enlistment, and consents to come
and go at the will of his superior
officers. He agrees to become amen
able to the military courts, to be
disciplined for offenses unknown to
the civil law, to relinquish his right
of trial by jury, and to receive pun
ishments which, to the civilian seem
Of all nrOnOrtion the mapDj-
tude of the offense.' Foot note. page
States"
THE telegraph companies have so
mismanaged their lines that the wires
are used very little in America eX-
cept for news of the most important
character. The arrival of a telegram
in the average American home is
provocative of nothing short of ter
ror. as exorbitant rates prevent the
uses of the telegraph except in eX-
IRENE cases. Government ownership
will extend this use beyond the an
nouncing of deaths or sudden calami-
ties
BEER is cheaper in Bavaria than
it is in Fairbanks. and it takes the
revenue from many block to build
The working people of
Bavaria decided that they were con-
Stunning entirely too much of the ma
tional beverage and started a tenn
perance crusade among themselves |
So we'll did they succeed that a long
and mournful wall has arisen from
Berlin. where the powers-that-be re-
side. that Bavaria's abstinence is cur
failing the navy revenue. Quite nat
urally. the workers are puzzled.
THE devout but not too learned
California person who said that hos
pitfalls were unknown until after Christ |
could with profit interest himself in
the research reports. Hospitals, proba-
bly, less convenient than those |
in Fairbanks. We're known at least
four thousand years ago. And now
from the excavations of ancient Baby
lonia have been unearthed school
books and a little clay slate. with |
a childs lesson neatly inscribed there |
on. The learned scholars of the land |
are engaged in deciphering the child's |
lesson. The lads and lasses who puz-
zle over their own lessons today will !
have little doubt but that scholars !
1000 years from now will puzzle over |
them too.