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The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-05

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 The chairman was authorized to appoint @ general committee of sew en. of which Chairman J. A. Helen thai was to be the chairman, to make arrangements for the Territorial con- vention that will be held at Juneau May 24th. the committee to have full powers to name subcommit- ! tees.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-05
pAaIsA cARD pARrY roNleAr.

The second card party and social Of the second series takes place this evening in Parish Hall These par. ties have become very popular.
 Cards are played until 10 o'clock when liglt refreshments are served, followed by dancing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-05
CITY OF SEATTLE PASSENGERS

The following left on the City of Seattle this morning for northern points Katherine Wadell, c. Math- eson. IT. Epsteyn, Joseph Brunner, Emma Brunner, H. R. Young and Chas F. Wilbur.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
What Does Wilson Mean By
"Hun1dnity and /usfiCe?'

FeN wars are the result OF terrific
rial invasion. The United States
never has fought war of defense
against invasion OF her territory.
Wars. in fact. are generally fought
in defense of policies--not territory.
The war Of 1872 was fought TO back
NJ a protest against certain high
banded practices On the sea, which.
Ly the way. still continue The war
with Mexico was TO acquire territory
rather than resist invasion. The
war with Spain was certainly not
fought 10 protect the territory OF
the United States against the Span
iards. The capture OF Vera Cruz. II
IL 9as an act OF war. was not TO re-
sist invasion. All these wars were
fought for policy-not for terrific
rfal defense.
President Wilson has declared q
policy on the subject OF war making.
That Is good thing. The more
clearly such policies may be stated,
the less the danger that a foreign
nation might misunderstand as to
what the United States would re-
gard as cause for war. But the
president should be more specific.
He says tais nations sense OF hu.
manity and Justice are TO be the
causes OF war. Does he mean that
the United States is 10 become the
champion OF humanity or Justice
everywhere and anywhere through
out the civilized and unciviiized
worid7 n Nohammedan Is op-
pressed by Christian or a Chris
tian by Mohammedan on the other
side of the Atlantic or Pacific. il
the United States TO become the
champion - the one Who is not get
ting juaiiCe? BY humanity does
the president mean sympathy for
suffering? II this nation to 20 to
war 10 compel all other nations to
be humane. The Lusitania affair
was n rather inhumane act. Does
Mr.. Wilson regard II az a cause for
war with Germany What does he
mean by the sense Of humanity and
Justice which will drive this coun.
try irto war; Or does he mean any.
thing"
Norman Angel Is in favor OF pre-
parednsss. He does not think the
time has come for nations 10 dis
arm. but he Is anxious 10 see the
time come when nations will define
their foreign policies so that no ma
tion can misunderstand anothers
purposes.
He urges pan-American defen-
sive alliance and even goes 20 far ~
TO suggest an alliance between the
United States and Great Britain for
enforcing . world Law % the sub
tsct oe 90 fE(eleD = - 60 ;.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
EDIT ORAL PAoE E

physical detectives and mental incompetents
absolutely prohibited or procreation made
impossible by the sterile method advocated
BY DIR. Haiselden. OF Chicago, whose com
mon sense stand in the Bollinger baby Ease
has been both bitterly assaied aud strongly
upheld
A few days ago | was one OF q group OF
FIVE women who were discussing DR.. Haisei
den's views and the intention of the Decor
TO prevent the birth OF a child because of
the mental incompetence of the father. the
insanity OF the maternal grandmother. and
the idiocy OF paternai uncle. I'm thls case,
Or. Haiseden intended also 10 steri'iZe the
first child OF the couple, also the mother and
the father All OF this was 20 be done with
the full knowledge and consent oi the per
sons concerned. Three of the women in the
group were mothers, ore Was married and
childless the ifth unmarried. aud . Young
woman whose business life had brought her
in contact with every phase OF life. All but
the chidless woman believed Dr Haiselden
right In his stand in the Bolnger case and
in the prevention OF the birth of the other
child mentioned and the sterilization OF its
parents. Every mother with whom ! have
talked this matter over agrees with Or.
Haiseldeh. Ny husband shares my views.
This is one womsns opinion-the opin
ion of an intelligent woman who is &
mother
She has wen us. in addition TO hel
own opinio.., the opinion of other womer
who are intelligent and some of whom are
mothers.
What is YOUR opinion as woman?
What is YOUR opinion as man?
Put it in writing and let us have it.
Address The Detroit Times, care OF
Better Baby Department.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
A Poem q Day


A SIERRA MEMORY
Sometimes. . California. far away.
stop and fondly say your name.
As when one speaks n secret word OF
Upon a heart-remembered holiday.
And then, once more, like sudden
Burns ur the long. bright gold adown
Behind your mountain crests that
break IN. sky.
Ny earliest memory OF time--your
or purple peaks that edge the night
Crowned with inenabie. far. fadeiess
light.
oh. Just the magic OF that word.
And 9uiek n hundred memories are
see the wendrous months OF rain
when pines and herbs sift down their
quick keen balms
As at His feet the vase spilled odor-
The months when coppery skies are
srched
roadsides parched.
Yet rich with dim. evasive hues and
AS this were palette of old Piuto's
And then the delicate nrst November
That kindies blanc OF green on hill
and plain
And calls the perished flowers to life
again
And 10. the rifted rocks of the raw inc
With penciied. old-goid vioiets In be-
tween.
The manIanita with its bells aswinE
To tell OF small. tart apples she WIZ
The ceanothus with it's white bloom
Upon the ground like crumbs of
The poppy lifting UP its warm. red
our mlser hearts in heaven will hold.
Nemophila. cream-cup, cyelamen,
Axalea. lupine-oh, 1 know Just when
My lost ones come. and where the
eye may catch
Each throbbinE clan in its own happy
patch.
The old home name. And suddenly n
dream.
! see again the lizards darting sieam
Its sanctuary IN the granite seam;
hear the loud jcremiad OF the JAY
And woodpecker's rat-tat that wakes
the day.
Al night I bark coyotes hollow dare
Brsggart when but the moon is there
scan the hazel thieket where the
FIND harvest in the brown o the
The bounteous immsmorial parks o'
oak.
whose acorns feed the bear and In
dian folk.
o California, just the old dear
sound
Again that one word can the whole
world bound
Thank God for that sierran world. q
king
Might go hts way. long envying.
Among lIlimitable peaks high-hurg
with forests. dateless, deathiess. ever
young
The chIid-worid bright with faith and
Larger not safer. s~ee;er. now the
scope
That when in my sierran mining
camp
i knew the folk at every evening
lamp.
Was welcome at each hearth and sill
Was friend with every grave upvH
the hili
That time when men OF every land
OF earth
Walked down our roads as brothers
OF ono birth
When men OF this days bloody bat
tie LANDS
Broke bread together there with
friendly hands
--Anns Catherine Markham Mrs
Edwin Markham
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
Pointed Paragraphs

The most effective blow is deliv-
cred in the guide OF kind words.
The coquette was created so that
the fool might have q companion.
When a man Is down his enemies
stop kicking him and his friends
begin.
Hypocrites frequently lay them
selves open TO discovery by over.
acting their part.
Red is a danger signal on rail
road, on n mans nose, and on a
voman's cheek.
It's q great pity the average man
cannot draw a bank check as easily
as he can an inference
Don't wait until II begins TO
sprinkle before starting to lay up
money for a rainy day.
Some women are so constituted
that they are unhappy unless they
have something to worry about.
4 man should have plenty OF
backbone for himself-and plenty
~ ham bone for the rest OF his
family.
When a rich man suddenly be-
Genes poor or . poor man suddenly
becomes rich. his true character 's
sure to crop out.
An obese woman tries to console
herself with the belief that she
knows some other woman who In
fatter than she Ia.
One hears q great deal about 10.
Dor reform, but q far greater need
is the reformation Of some OF those
chaps who don't labor.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

Few people sufficiently appreciate
the importance of having plants
grow ing in their homes A rule.
house plants are regarded merely
from an aesthetic standpoint Peo-
pie grew them chiefly for decorative
purposes.
In reality they are OF such value
from a psychological and medical
r0irt Of view. that every home ought
to have a few plants growing in ii.
Especially they. should be grown
In the rooms where the occupants OF
The house spend most OF their time
This. for one reason. because
house plants serve as an index 10
the healthfu'ness OF the room ID
which they arc growing
Often one hears il said
IL don't seem To have any luck
with house riants Try "a I may
oannot keep Them in good condition.
They bloolh poorly; they wither
and slowly die"
nls means. OF coures. fhat there
Il something wrong with the light;
ing. heating or ventilation OF the
room in which the plants fail to
flourish And II means that this
something wrong" Is hurtful 10 the
people who occupy that room a.
we'll az IN the plants.
For, generally speaking. human
beings and plants thrive under the
saTe conditions. The person who
cant grow house plants" will do
veil TO look closely into the living
conditions OF his or her home
Besides this. house plants exer.
Cise a favorable influence on both
the mental and the physical health
of those who grow them.
Ask any advanced psychologist
and he will tell you that every item
In your household surroundings az.
fects you for good or for III by the
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

AZ all events plant on the dining
room table. as F +. Talbot. writing
in Good Health. points out;
The sight OF greenery on the ia
bic. be it luxuriant. giossy-leaved
grapefruit plants. or healthy. fringy
fern-fronds. stimulates the appetite
and aids digestion.
Freshly gathered flowers, too, ar
rs ically placed. make for daily
health. by soothing the mind, and
putting the stomach. in consequence.
in a perfect receptive condition
II YOU have children. there Is yet
another reason for having plants in
yOur home.
Favorabiy influencing the child's
mental and physical health. through
heir cheerfulness-creating power.
plants also serve 10 awaken in your
child love OF the beautiful and inter
est in the ways OF nature.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

The Detroit Free Press made an
editorial assault upon Chase Os-
5orn's political ambitions, and then
violated the first principles OF jour
nalistic fairness by refuting him
hearing In his own defense. The
chief crime Of which the ex.goyern-
or ~ accused is that Of being de
feated IN his last campaign which
everyone In Michigan knows was
Que 10 the Rooseyelt-Taft split. Mr..
Ostorn, in his campaign, gsve Mich
izan voters some good advice. which
had Il been heeded--would have
made the taxpayers burden much
lighter at this time; but no one has
heard that gentleman say II told
you So" Mr.. Osborn needs no
defense against the Free Prcss. as
he is fully competent to fend lor
himself. what 10 has righ; -
expect. and what he viii receive
from his old friends ~ the stat
press, Is fair play Lowell Ledger
In the .svne u Fes. ,L. Detro..
Free Press printed sca'hing 81
i,orial oE the political ,ni personal
ftne,s of Chase 8 osborn ~ isad
or n The Republican anh TFo
days later Mr. Osborn rrpiiei - he
attack and sent two cop'e. q. ihe
reply. one oy ordinary po'. ana ,hc
other by reslstere.. ieiet. 10 the
Free Press. The Free Press ahso-
iufeiy refused 10 rrlnt iae reply
Any person or any paper has the
Yish. % cypress an individual opin-
Tor rpeardIng political party or a
c14f lesyspfs Past, present or pros:
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
Are You a Rainbow Chaser?"

When Ponce de- Leon went in hunt OF the
fountain of youth he thought he sought to dis-
cover the worlds greatest secret.
Even had the adventuresome fellow made his
discovery, not one part 30 wonderfui woulo IL
have been as that made only the other day by an
old woman who had withstood the vicissitudes
Of s5 years in the Ozark mountains.
Said the venerable old lady: Il have not lived
all these years In vain. for nave only now
found the key to happiness"
"And what" queried the amazed interviewer,
lis that?"
"Contentment," she smiled.
But what, you may ask. is so wonderful about
just this: The old woman had travelled along
ali the highways OF life. seeking. seeking seek
ing!
Like US all, the farther she tourneyed the more
hopeless became her quest: for she. unwilling.
ly. was getting farther and farther from that
which she sought.
SO, tired and weary Of the journey. she re.
tracked her steps.
And 10 and behold, the very thing she had so
long sought she found at the very point at which
she had started.
She had at last found the realization Of the Joy
OF living!
what a blessing IL would be for all Of VIZ n we
could profit by the moral: Happiness depends
only upon contentment and contentment Is with
In our easy grasp.
We start out with the sun shining down upon
us with its inspiration Of freedom and beauty.
but. seeking that something. we know not what.
we take not a glance At or thought OF II.
All nature unfolds her wonders before us but
we hurry on-blinded to her beauties In that
We see not the splendor Of the rainbow in our
greed for the fabulous pot Of gold.
The old woman Of the Ozarks In right She
has found the most wonderful secret In the
world
And. a secret within the reach OF ALL
Let's stop rainbow chasing" long enough to
think IL over
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
Bk gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON. March What
is nuffcieut cause for war? Presi-
dem Wilson said in his speech be
forc the Gridiron club that the Unit
ed States should keep out OF war
lat the sacrifice of everything ex-
ctpt this single thing upon which
her history and character are found
ed--her sense of humanity and jus
uce"
"Nrill President Wilson please de
h0e humanity and justice? = asks
Norman ANGEL. author and lecturer
on internationalism. What does
President Wilson mean? The Unit
ed States ought to understand dis
tinctIy what is TO be the cause for
war ~ this country is 10 take hand.
Most wars are fought because ma.
tions misunderstand one another.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

subtle power Of the suggestions
II radiates upon you
For this reason IL Us important TO
adjust the home environment In
such a way that i:s suggestive pow
I'd win be distinctly stimulating in
stead Cf dominantly depressing.
The sugge srive power OF plants is
always stimulating. They tend To
create cheerful moods in the people
who live with them and by creating
cheerful moods they act for good on
The whole organism.
Hence. it may incidentally be not
Cd. It is OF special helpfulness to
have plants IN the dining room. or
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
ONWARD
~ Or. FRANK ckANG
(Copyrigh Z 1915. By Frank Crane,

Success cam OF stop. It must go on.
No one can say: This Is my goal.
Here am where struggled to be.
have gained the prize. have DONE"
For the moment he says that, he be-
gins to slide back. Decay has set in.
AS the ambitious one goes forward the
horizon recedes. k.e never comes to it.
No man can get to the pot Of gold at
the end of the rainbow.
Before the live and the strong flies an
angel crying, "On! Onw
We are pilgrims and strangers, and
have here no abiding city.
And the more Intelligent, vigorous and
high-minded we are. the more sure it is
we cannot stop.
Only the stupid can say, 1T is enough.
Here abide"
Success is not chievement. 1t is de-
velopment
Humanity's reward and JOY is not in
arriving. 1t is in travelling.
We rest by the way. We take our ease
at inns. We have no ultimate home.
Each high soul is a. Wandering Jew.
Hartman and Morgan must go on
planning, expanding. building: Death
finds them in the thick of affairs. AS
they went on they stumbled and disap-
,peared.
1t is as hard to quit business as it is
to get started.
-.
The student cannot stop. In the pur-
suit of knowledge the paths lead out into
the infinite. The astronomer is lost in
the star maze The biologist finds no end
or final fact among the crowded atoms.
History is infinite. Botany. literature,
languages, mathematics, sociology, all
the sciences, overwhelm the mind. 1t is
on, on into the boundless wilderness of
knowledge.
Art has no goal. Michael Angelo at
the close of his career sighed for that he
had but begun.
There is no boundary to love. To the
true heart-whose love means loyalty
and grows with years. gaining in spirit
ual power for every freshly charm out
grown-love becomes vaster, more beau
tiful. celestial in quality, more divinely
human. The tombstone becomes mile
stone, with the sign Onward
Here we but pitch our tents, rest and
play a little for tonight. Tomorrow We
must fare forward.
The road ever beckons. Our home is
somewhere the other side of those dim
mountains we call Death.
So the poet-soul fancies God and rests
in Him. As one says:
And smiled to think Gods goodness,
Flows around our incompletsness.
Round our restlessness. His rest.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
A CASE OF IDENTIFICATION

lis that the officer VINO arrested your" his
honor inquired Of Nose Hanibel. an old Negro
whitewash artist, arrested for assault.
II can't rekkerlect." answered the prisoner.
Sure. arrested him, Judge" put In OFlynn,
with indignation, "he knows Il, too"
Take q good look at him. Moses" insisted
Judge Broyles, Isn't that face famliar?"
The darky squinted long and vcowlir-ly at
his accuser.
"Now dat I uses mo- keer. jedge." he said
" peers like dey Ia somethin' familyus erbout
dat face. but dis yere worr 10 20 full Oh nacher-
ally ugly folks, jes' an ordinary man kaint a.
ways tell De diffunce tetwix' 'em. OATS him.
jedse. dats him but BE- % easy o. yo
r-c.ep -. cq9Qonls 2. " az 4 NJ
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

brunette Two OF my sisters are
blondes. Why are we OF different
colors7 MAUDE LONELY.
Did Mother Nature loves variety
and II is often safe this Ia why some
OF us are. dark skinned and some OF
us are light In coloItng. But this Is
not the rcientifc explanation OF why
you are a brunette and your sisters
are blondes.
II you could examine the skin Of
a human being with . mlscroscope
you'd see tina. II In made up Of In
Vulnerable tiny cells. Some Of these
cells contain coloring matter. or AZ
the artists call IL. pigment. The
quantity of the pigment In any In.
dividuai's cells decides his color. n
a person IL very fair you may know
there Is little pigment in the cells,
the dark skinned, dark eyod people
have a great deal OF pigment This
pigment In constantly renewed In
the celIs for many yesrs. but finally
comes q time when the hair turns
gray and the cbeeks fads---ths body
has grown old. and there 10 no
Icnssv siger in Il - make rev pig
~. "a u y, ..s.a "A ~ 4. y. "
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

What do YOU think about it?
q What would you have done to it if
tlsis were YOUR baby?
* you would have it live, WHY?
n X you would have it put to death or
okfnitted to die, WHY?
& khe Times wants expressions from its
l1Uoders on this subject, to print during
Better Baby Week
We want these expressions to print.
|ettAer with your name or without it, as
%oa may wish, for our part toward better
obies, because better babies is most
|eortainly the vital issue involved
There is solution of the momentous
question, that is of so much interest TO
everyone and which finds the scientists
with divided opinions.
We have the solution in mind.
S We want to see if you have the same
solution in mind
Si Babies won't suffer any from free dis
Gussion and the THINKING that will be
&prOmpted by this discussion.
Let The Times have your opinion at
I once, in not more than three hundred
HWords; so that we will be able to print
ll3Snl Of, the opinions while the question of
better babies holds public interest.
u Your opinion will help to increase. this
xtntArest and will do lot of good
Il We have already talked with one
&1nOthcr about the request of this Des
l&ojnes father, and We asked her what
~ desire would be were she in this
sl1,0ther's place.
Here is this mothers view:
E Al a mother. want TO say that believe
. ne father IN Des Moines who asked the
h | oG9Aovities to allow him TO break the law in
& M Nrder 10 hIarnaileiy end The surerngs Of his
<>f Ut(1e child. IN right. Only, why was II not
MI Doe&jbIe for the attending physician 10 do
|te ef(61A without there being any nerd for the
|X 6ooys true condition 10 become anoNn to
n >he world ~ large?
<<2 t ~ the physician who was presen, Al the
n * &ty1h Of the child knew that IL would be
NV lmpeeSthle for human skill TO supply that
X Wn1eh nature had denied. then. to my way
&& - khlnkine. that physician would have been
0oG1 humane to have Performed an opera
j. Nm that be knew would be fatal In It's con.
<oousnees lf the mother OF the child knows
d&4 hctx. feel sure thai she would second
- e}ss of the father.
Uo1her can realize tho swfulness
nSht Into the world a human
~ n hq(g or mind. or. win
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
from Another Point of TeD
b c. T. S.

The civil service commission has re-
fused to reinstate in his position city
amploye who devoted much oi the city's
time, it is charged. to writing poetry.
Another sign of the unpopularity o. me-
tered service.
A drop of sweat which came in con-
.act with nitric acid caused an explosion
in a powder plant down east. Jean
Harold ST. Cyr, ct al. should worry.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
steps 1t Seems. That Are Considered
Quite Unnecessary:

4 0uftc
EUGENE Ore Feb 29-To correct de-
fectiye feet OF girls caused. in most cases,
by wearing high-heeled. ponted-toed shoes
classes TO be organized al the Cniver-
sty Of Oregon for special physical culture
work and instruction.
report made public today states that
prints taken of the feet of twenty three
freshmen goods revealed that only three
had good" feet and not had perfect
tcs line.
| We are aided and abetted by highly
valued contrib, who suggests, in the
words of Henry L.:
Footprints that perhaps another,
Sailing DER iife's solemn main.
4 forlorn and shipwreckeG brother.
Seeing. may take heart again.
The complaint of Detroit wife in di-
vorce court against her husband, is that
she played second fiddle" From which
we infer he had another on the string.
We know of a case in Detroit of two
families on the same party line who are,
notwithstanding, friendly.
! 1t has been suggested that when they
| discovered themselves on the same line
it wouldn't have done, at all. to break.
Now swiftly come the days in which
He whom we always thought saint,
With sck'ning splash
! Emts ID dash,
As no arises from the park bench.
I In his light suit.
And wonders what II is about him
/ That makes people
So curious,
A Detroit minister Will preach a ser
mon Sunday on Short Beds and Narrow
Covers" That is to say, not one of the
long-drawn-out kind.
And out at the Museum of Art there
will be discussion of THE Relations of
Insects to Man" On the theory. no doubt.
that everyone has his little bug.
Alexander Sandow, who claims to be
the strongest man on earth, says his ar
rest in Detroit on charge Of grand lar
ceny, which was later dismissed was
due TO professional jealousy. II was
charged he lifted something in Fort
Wayne that was not in the act.
As Jack and Jill went up the hill
TO Jill Young Jack did chortle
"Becausc her son he never sets
T. Why n hens immortal"
! ~ made an awful nit with Jack
| Who fei4. o'ercome with laughter:
| B1 jill. dense she could be,
She tunblcd some time after.
A professor in the University Of Mime
sofa says one man in every twenty-five is
lcolor-blind. And doesn't care, conse-
quently, whether the back of it is green
or yellow.
Which goes to explain, sighs an eligible
brunette, why the blondes have kept me
waiting.
You will observe. of course. observes q
MIR. Smith, that one year from today
Washington, ID. c., is due To have rain.
1t looks from here as if Senator Gore
was freely split.
4 By the VA, what becape u lOUB