The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-02

 will certainly be felt even to the most remote parts of the nation.
 EVERYTHING ought to be quiet along the Pacific coast now, for Theodore Roosevelt, the enemy of the lovers of peace. has returned to the East.
 IF all the compliments paid Interior Alaska by visiting tourists this sea son were published throughout the country, people generally woud be- gin to realize that this is indeed promising country.
 HERE it is only August 2, and the government experiment station is ready to begin harvesting it's crops. This should sound well to those people who look upon Alaska as a great iceberg.
 IF the N. c. Company makes a success of it's plan to operate auto mobile stages next winter from the coast to Fairbanks. it will probably mean that mail will get here in much less time than formerly.
 
 TT has been suggested quite ire quently that Alaska is a promising country for the raising of cattle But it will probably be found that there is more profit in domesticating moose, or in raising reindeer than in producing cattle.
 THERE have been two big parties of tourists visit Fairbanks this sea son, and when each of them arrived in Fairbanks, the weather was un- usually delightful. This may have tendency to advertise Fairbanks as a summer resort.
 THE TOlovana camp will soon be brought nearer to Fairbanks by means Of wireless communication. But this will only be a starter, for telephone line is to be built there and good trail will probably be constructed by the time snow falls.
 THE peculiar thing of these times is that people who really want to be peaceable are frequently forced into trouble. Nations that want to be neutral are forced into war, and even the peace advocates of our own nation are being attacked by such men as Fighting Teddy
 
 EVERY person who really wants to help in the effort to get all the mail delivered to the people of Fair banks at all seasons. can do so by ,r o,, that the Commercial club is distribu.- ing free, and send it to a publisher in the States. There is nothing so effective as cooperative effort.
 THURSDAYS News Miner pub lished on it's first page a news item from Paris stating that Germany had imposed a new tax of $5,00OO0O on the city of Brussels. The item then says: The fine was imposed on the city because the allies de- stroyed a German submarine that was stationed in the suburbs of Brus- sels." Rather novel place for a submarine to be stationed now isn't it?
 JUST why Marshal L. T. Erwin did not go Outside with the last bunch of prisoners, so that he could enjoy another much-needed vaca tion, is not clearly understood by the people of Fairbanks. The only reason assigned to this departure from his former custom, is that MT. Erwin has evidently been notified by his boss, Tom McGowan, that he should at least make a pretense to earning a part of his salary from the government.
 THOSE who have watched the news items telling of the way that the pope has been active in his eff forts to promote peace in Europe must feel that there is some mis- take in the announcement that he has given permission for having the big bell in St. Stephens cathedral melted and made into bullets. By virtue of his position, at least, the pope is neutral, and there is no evident reason why he should give aid to either side of the big con flict.
 ACCORDING to a new law passed Dy lue leSlSldl Ire dl ltS ldot oco- sion, the people of any Alaska town may elect a mayor separate from the councilmen, or they may retain the present method, and elect only the councilmen, who will select the mayor from one of their own mem- bers. In Fairbanks it has been the custom to select for mayor the who received the great est number of votes, and this is probably as good as any. Anyhow. it seems to be giving satisfaction here.
 BILLY SUNDAY, the noted evan gelist, is reported to have gone to San Francisco for the purpose of preaching to the people of that city and the visitors to the exposition. In a telegraphic dispatch published in Outside newspapers it was re- ported that MT. Sundays revival in Philadelphia last March netted him more than s51,000. Thus, aside from what MT. Sunday may ac- complish in the matter of saving souls, he certainly should do some of