The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-29

the servants OF the people who
elected them.
AMONG the many features Of
Fairbanks to be appreciated is the
absence here of active suffragettes
Gil are not supposed to be astrono-
mers, there is at least one milky
way concerning which they are get
ting much Information.
IF there Is any other city in the
world Of the same size that can pres
ent as good celebration as Fair
banks, it would be interesting to
know where it is located.
WHEN a man on the Outside re-
Gently committed suicide. he left
note stating that the world is a
stage and that the show is bum
one" His conclusion was probably
due to the fact that Huerta. Villa
and Roosevelt are trying to do the
most acting.
WHEN Roosevelt first became
President OF the United States he
was strong in his denunciation of
"Muckrakers In his effort now to
discredit Wilson. Roosevelt is becom-
ing one of the busiest muckrakers in
the country. But this is not his only
inconsistency.
MUCH literary talent and artistic
ability Is made evident on the part
of the high school students in the
new edition of Ursa Major. the local
school annual that will be off the
press this week. 1t is we'll edited
and well illustrated and will be a
source of much interest to everyone.
ON account of his ability to pre-
vent war, great diplomat is Of
far more service to the world than
a great general, but. unjustly, the
former never receives the apprecia-
ton from the public that the latter
usually enjoys. We can never ex-
pect universal peace until public
sentiment is reformed.
BOTH prizes awarded dancers at
the masquerade ball were to fe-
male Characters" and this has
caused some complaint Inasmuch
as the judges are never supposed
to know the identity of the maskers,
the word character is always ap-
piled to the nature of the costume
worn, and thus it seems that the
committee made mistake IN the
award, even though one OF the fe-
male characters was man.
JAPAN is still worrying over the
refusal of the State of California
to let the people from the land OF
cherry blossoms hold real estate In
that state. 1t would be interesting
to know what the Japanese govern
ment would say If the United States
made the counter demand that Amer
leans be permitted to live at the
same hotels in Japan as those &C.
cupied by the people of that coun-
try, and in other ways have equal
privileges there.
SEVERE storms in various parts
of the East are reported to have
caused much damage last week.
People of Fairbanks. in writing to
their friends in those places. should
call attention to the fact that this
city has never been injured by
severe storm, and that such thing
will probably never be known here
Undoubtedly Alaska would soon be
thickly settled if the people on the
Outside understood this climate bet
ter
THE morning paper, published by
two Republicans, is complaining that
the men who will vote in the Demo
cratic primaries have to pledge their
support to the nominees OF the Dem
ocratic convention. Just why Re
publicans should worry about Demo
cratic affairs is not quite clear. I'M
less 1t be for the reason that the
restrictions placed on the Demo
cratic primary voters would bar them
from interfering in the affairs OF the
party.
PRESIDENT WILSON has refused
to give clemency to all but four OF
the labor leaders who were convict
ed of having aided in the dynamit-
ing of the building occupied by the
Los Angeles Times a few years ago.
in which nearly two dozen men lost
their lives. These men must have
known that they were violating the
laws of the land when they did such
a crime, even II it was in the cause
of organized labor. They have been
convicted, it may be presumed. In
Just manner, and the President was
right in refusing to interfere. except
where justification was evident.
THE money to be spent by the
United States in the construction
1T the Alaska railroads would not
nay the cost of constructing five OF
the quite ordinary type of battle
ships. The life of the battleship Is
but a very few years, and the life
of the railroad will be an indefinitely
long period. 1t is generally conced-
ed that the development of nation
Is just as important as Its naval
protection, and thus there can be
few reasonable people who will not
agree that the railroad is a better
investment than the use of the same
ut