The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-19

have 10 choose between the two. bet
I ter omit the stove" Each of these
MAGAZINES is educating the public"
| WELFARE and charity associations
/ of a number of cities have been the
subjects of an investigation which
| has resulted in finding that about IS
/ per cent of the money contributed
goes to pay salaries and only about
/ s per cent reaches the poor. Which
are the recipients of charity. the
poor or the association employees?
/ THINK of getting raise from
Uncle Sam instead of Uncle Sol. on
your dress suit or your watch You
won't be able to do that in America
for some time. but Switzerland de-
/ clares that if places adorned with the
three golden balls must exist. the gov
eminent ought to conduct them. and
proceeds to do so. Travellers in the
little republic have found the govern
ment pawn shops a great convenience,
as they are reliable and the rates
are low
THE Calumet and Hecla Mining
companies demanded that the state
militia be called out to protect their
| scabs from the pickets, and Governor
Ferris complied 1t cost the state of
Michigan several hundred thousand
dollars. and at a time when the states
finances We're in rather bad shape
Now that the administration has up
held the strikers. Ferris is wishing
10 hadn't been obpdipDt
THE corporation is a step in ad-
vance. 1t relieves those who cooper
ate of the embarrassment of partner
ship and it substitutes larger oppor-
tunities and thus facilitates the work
Of exchange No one who has esti-
mated with intelligence the useful
ness. of the corporation will for one
moment think of destroying the pow
er for cooperative effort that the
corporation gives" The aove is an
''anarchstic' sentiment advocated by
the old fogey," w J. Bryan Grape
Juice doesn't retard ideas.
MILWAUKEE has given the world
some other things quite as good
her beer. Among her recent ventures
is the establishment of a hospital 10
be used as place of detention. in
stead of the Jail, for inebriates and
dope-fiends. The fellows who do not
want to lose their thirst had better
fight shy of Milwaukee,, for they say
they are in the hospital business 10
cure,
BRITISH COLUMBIA has her Hindu
Problem, California has her yellow
Peril, Michigan her miners strike, In
diana her railway troubles, and Ire
land her home rule difficulties but
South Africa has them all Britain
should inundate the country with a
large batch of Kiplins's occasional to
restore order. Puns are the lowest
thinking that 'heSe hoerS are a"lul
pores
ANY, BODY VINO ever urea teaciihS
VIII svmpathize with frol' hiio"l'oh
IN ms elIortS 70 MAINTAIN Il stahoard
t"eife-Ntaf puhnc Sehool WIN a CORDS
OF seven teachers Aale university
! instructor expressed the dilllcul'S apt
~ when ne remarked that AFTER '"eh-
ty years OF teachlnS ne mad come
to the conclusion that the human
NINA mas minute resources lor resist
in% the Introduction OF kho"i"dse.
HOBRLE skirts are horribly out-oe-
date, as everybody knows but it is
something of a shock to find that slit
Edith Hall, archaeologist at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, says that the
mummies taken from the excavations
on the Isle of Crete are CARRIED in
the same style, only a little more so.
Anyhow, the Cretan mummies can't
get out their old slit skirts and par
ade them around pretending that
the modiste has just sent them home.
"DAN1N damn damn the insurrectos.
Croee-eved kakiack ladrones
1-oaorroo+b tho etarrv f,ag
Ciri,ize.eu with n krae
And return nc 10 our own beloved
homes"
of Carabao the Armv and NAVY club
which axnrasses and has for fifteen
veare haen exnreesinp it's sentiments
w, tbiS sonoo The biah links Of
flag and fight for a salary. is TO