The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-04

and has carried them through with | splendid executive skill. Minister | Van Dyck is giving a fine account
 of himself at The Hague. These are a few of the men who hold the
 Stars and Stripes up to the world
 in foreign lands"
 AFTER Judge Bunnell has made all his appointments, there will be | little left to interest local politicians THIS is the time of year when absent-minded people will insist on dating their letters a year behind the time
 JAPAN seems still to be anxious to get into the active part of the war in Europe. The only trouble
 with that country seems to be that it is suffering with bad case of "swelled head"
 NOW that the holidays have pass ed and the days are lengthening. it will seem but short time until spring will be here and the railroad work with it's interesting features VIII bc "Sii uAuCi VdJ
 IF the money being spent in kill ing off good men in Europe could
 be utilized for the poor and needy in those countries at war, everything
 across the Atlantic would certainly have different appearance. | IN it's issue of last Thursday eve ming the Spasm said that it wished
 people "a happy and prosperous New
 York" which sounded very much like a man would say 1t the day after he had been celebrating. THE man who waits until the first of the year to adopt resolution for better conduct is not the kind of man who will keep such a resolu- tion. The really sincere man Is he who begins to act when his mind is made up.
 i IF would be really interesting to know what answers would be given i if one could ask soldiers of the diff ferent warning countries in Europe just why they are fighting. The only | proper reply would be that they are ] told to fight
 1 TT will be only few weeks from now until the Alaska legislature i convenes in Juneau. Thus no time | should be lost on the part of the members of the legislature in getting the ideas of the people they will represent concerning the legislative needs of the Territory
 1 IN St. Louis several Industrial Workers of the World were sent to
 iail for refusing to pay for the food they ate at restaurant. Their industry seems to be more in the way of helping themselves to what
 other people have earned than in creating livings for themselves
 THERE is bill before congress
 providing for the purchase by the government of a line of steamships San Francisco. If the government ating steamship lines, there is no here.
 TT is reported that an extra ses- sion of congress will be unnecessary, but, just the same. as long as the European war is presenting so many
 problems for the United States to dispose of, it cannot be expected that congress will be disbanded for
 very long period. So look out for an extra session.
 PRESIDENT WILSON'S strong note to Great Britain, protesting against interference with American shipping, has created a stir both here and abroad. But there will be noth- ing come from it because this coun- try Is not looking for a war and Eng land has all the wars at the pres ent time that she can attend to.
 CHAMP CLARK, of Missouri, speaker of the house of representa-. tives in Washington. has announced that he will not be candidate for President two years from now. 1 Probably he, like many others, real
 size that Woodrow Wilson Is the only man who stands any show of getting the Democratic nomination. REPORTS continue to come from
 Mexico to the effect that the people there are suffering for want Of food. However, the people of other nations will not be in a hurry to send food there as long as 1t will
 indirectly aid the warning factions in continuing their fighting. Prob ably q little starving will serve to reduce their desire for adventure. ONE of the greatest problems be fore the country today is how to prevent strikes on the one hand, and prevent injustice to labor on the other. It is quite certain that as rule strikes are justified, but they are as great a punishment to the strikers as l they are to the employers. and are
 therefore hardly the proper things for
 bringing a betterment of conditions. It is to be hoped that some way can
 be found legally to provide for en- forced arbitration between the em- 1 ployers and the employed. | COULDN'T GET IN. In letters to friends in this city,
 Henry T. Rowbottom, formerly at pched to the local radio station. tells of his intellectual attempt to