The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-14

| present system is certain TO result
| in continuous trouble for the aver
| age homesteader
| THERE were many things and
people sold at the recent rummage
sale.
/ WHEN ii comes to receiving mail
| in Fairbanks, it is always either a
feast or a famine.
MEXICO is promising to reclaim
much of the publicity that it lost
when the war in Europe started.
! COLONEL ROOSEVELT has gone
to the islands in the Gulf of Mexico
to study bird life. Perhaps it's just
as Well
THE Fairbanks Bar association is
now reality, but it is doubtful that
this will make the goddess o. JUS
| tice accomplish more in the future
here than in the past.
! ONE of the biggest wheat crops
in the history of the United States
| is expected to be harvested this
| year. But it is almost certain that
! it will not bring down the cost of
| living, if the present war keeps up.
! ONE Of the things that the people
! of Fairbanks always do well is to
make success of "a celebration. Thus
it may be assumed that the two
celebrations that will be held here
within the next few weeks will full
| fiji all expectations.
| something for nothing he usually
| strated at the sale of old boxes and
! pany few days ago. The man
who gets 'stung" in a case of that
kind has only himself to blame.
! SECRETARY BRYAN'S resigna-
ton has given him mucn free ad
vertising throughout the civilized
world. But Mr.. Bryan is not man
who sOlicits that kind of thing, and
he has shown that he has never in
the past resorted to Colonel Roose
velt's methods of playing to the
| galleries"
e. B. COLLINS, speaker OF the
Alaska house Of representatives., is
! looking forward to getting to be the
next governor of the Territory But
inasmuch as he is basing his plans
upon the possible election of a Re-
publican President next year, per
haps he had better pinch himself
and wake up
MUCH publicity was given to the
fact that a shell exploded within so
yards of the king of Italy. There is
no ethical reason why the escape
of a king in war. Or even his being
killed, should be taken more seri-
ously than similar incidents involv-
ing the welfare or life of common
man.
SECRETARY BRYAN has been a
champion of peace, first, last and
always, and there are people here
who think that his resignation will
mean war for the United States. But
it must be remembered that the
average American patriot is for
peace, and that public sentiment
must be recognized.
WHETHER the ParentTeacher
association will be success will
depend largely upon the way the
members Loo at its purposes. If
it is to be used for cheap politics,
or for any other kind of selfish in
terests. it will fail, but il it keeps
looking only for the welfare of the
children, it will accomplish a worthy
mission.
MRS. MADELINE FORCE-ASTOR
testified CT the witness stand that
it will take 100000 a year to rear
her child. And after all that amount
of money is spent on him, it will
probably be found that hundreds OF
sons Of farmers, who work their
way through school, will prove to
be moro successful men in all lines
Of endeavor than this costly child.
MEMBERS of the National Whole
sale Liquor Dealers association, at
their convention a few days ago at
Cincinnati, decided to start an active
campaign to overcome the growing
prohibition sentiment in the United
States. Such campaign will prob
ably mean a great loss Of time and
money for one may as well try TO
stop an incoming tide as to try to
head off the wave of public senti-
ment in moral issue.
LEO FRANK, the man convicted
Of numbering young girl in At
lanta Georgia, has been denied
Communication of sentence, and must
almost certainly die. The case,
which has lasted for long time,
has been one of the most sensa-
tional in the South. for Franks
numerous friends have insisted that
he is innocent and have spent much
money in his defense. II Frank is
hung, there will always be a senti-
ment among many people that the
law has taken an innocent life, and
certainly in such a case, and for that
matter in all murder cases, it would
be better to imprison man for