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The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20

Christianity In Westward Ho.' by the same author We in fancy look on while Protestant England. in the seventeenth century, is locked in deadly combat with Catholic Spain. from which sanguinary struggle the northern nation cmcrEes triumphant
 Chas. Reade's "Cloister and the Hearthstone" leads us into the do mcstic and public life of the later middle ages. and Geo Elot's "Ro- mola" is an impressive rendering of experiences in Florenune life of tho fifteenth century
 In Walter Scott's Wentworth We are introduced to England's homely, red-haired. hot-tempered Queen Eliza beth. and our eyes grow dim with tears when We dwell upon the sad fate of Amy Robsart." An, what a scene must have been presented to view when this hapless girl. broken-hearted prisoner in "Old Cumnor Hall" rushed from the secIusion of her apartments to in stant death, betrayed by the false bugIe-note of the noble lord she loy- ed. mot wisely but too we'll
 Richard Caryel," The Virginian, :" Hugh Wynne," The Red City" The Spy" and Lewis Rand" all enable Us to live over again the tur- buIent experiences of our ancestral Americans in the early morning, the formative period of our Countrys history.
 We cannot close this article with out mention of MT Schonler's Am ericans Of 1776," Eden Egglestons Beginners of a Nation" and the Transit of Civilization" These books one and all are perfect storehouses of knowledge and intellectual wealth. In selecting books, be admonished by the words of testy but wise Thomas Carlyle; Don't choose q goat" above all, make it a rule in whatever field you may read to spend your time only with books of value and authority,
 GEO. W. PENNINGTON.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
REAL EDUCATION.

Now that the long winter days are at hand, it is well to remember that there are two kinds of education The first is that secured through the schools. That is the easiest to get possession of, but great many. for numerous reasons, are not able to secure that. However. there is another which even the school grad uate must fall back upon if he is to go forward in his development. That is the reading of good books.
 Perhaps there are some people in this town who feel that their educa- ton has been neglected and that the evil can never be eradicated. Yet many of the best thoughts in the world wait for them between the covers of books. Nor they need not fear that those thoughts will be written in such way that an edu- cation is necessary to unlock the sacred pages. There is no open sesame to them but work Ruskin points out that the writers of the best thoughts do not put them into such shape that the incurious can un- derstand off hand
 There are. perhaps, two reasons for that: first, the one that Ruskin suggests, namely, that the ideas and dreams are yelled so that the rude and vulgar may not intrude into the sacred mysteries The other is that the deepest thoughts do not find ready expression. Sometimes the very difficulty of expressing an elusive thought makes it matter of study to discover what the writer has in mind Therefore the only open se- same to culture and education is work, and formal education can only smooth the path, not carry the read CT to the summit.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
SETTLING DOWN.

Now that the fever of the political contest is becoming somewhat normal the people can settle down to their ordinary vacations and rediscover their friends that week or two ago were foolish men They were foolish because they were not able to see that the candidate of a per sons political faith was the salt of the earth and all of the others were mere dirt and poor dirt at that. But now that fellow who was so absurd in his polltical faith of last week is a friend and is all right again.
 However, that old feeling that our party is the only one on earth and it's leaders able to do no wrong is slowly passing to the limbo of po- litical curiosities But, of course, for d number of years to come some of tue ptOplt III tlllS country VIII Sllll hold to old and Cutworn beliefs. How eyer the rancor and the bitterness of the partisan struggle is slowly being done away with.
 At the present time it is the poli- tcians that try to rally the faithful around the battle flag with the shibbo- leths of former days. In the last campaign, as in the one of 1912. the raucous politician thundered his voice to a mere whisper and it passed as summer storm. They were not able to make an estimate of the way the vote was going, for the people waited. When the day came they went to the polls and voted In the course of time even the politi- clans may learn that it is deeds. not words, that will move the voters of the country to action.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
A BUDGET SYSTEM.

There is still one reform in the political system of the country that
 is very necessary. That is the crea- tion of a budget system. It is to be hoped that the administration will be able to put that measure through during the next four years. It would be the crowning achievement of the Democrats if that business-like ar rangement was secured during it's term in office.
 It is not very clear Just how the reform can be brought about That is. on the face of things it appears that a constitutional amendment Is necessary, for the constitution re- quires that all of the bills appropriat- ing money must originate in the house of representatives. In order to make the system effective the house must be bound not to exceed the amount asked for by the executive branch of the government Under the budget system, while the matter of appropria- tion was finally left in the hands of congress, it would still be hampered by the restriction
 However, the change is sadly need ed, for that congress wastes money is now hard to deny That the money of the national government is used to build political fences is one of the commonplaces of modern poli- tics. It is high time for the leaders of the people to do away with that abnormal condition. Especially will that be true of the next administra- tion. as 1t must shoulder the burden of an immense additional expense for the new army and navy. two
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
CITIZEN SHIP.

One of the remarks very often made in regard to the admission of aliens questions are asked them during the examination that many born and edu cated American citizens could not answer. There is no doubt that the remark is the truth. To some this may seem a very grievous trouble. For they will say that nation is com ing to pretty state of affairs when it's citizens are not able to answer such simple questions.
 However. there is one thing that must not be forgotten, and that is that Americans have lived under the present form of government and most of them have never known any other Therefore the fury of an election passes by them without any serious injury to them, even if they do not know the name of the chief justice of the United States For citizenship is a matter of practice rather than an object to be grasped in a moment.
 This is strongly shown in the ac- tion of the foreign element in the strike agitation in the States. Some times a sudden fury seems to seize the laboring population, and there springs up an incipient revolution. It is in that element in the popula the demagogue find their followers But the majority of the Americans are but slightly moved by the ex- cesses of those political thinkers. This is the truth, whether they know anything of the political organization of the government or not. They have had some practice in the art of self-government, and therefore view any sudden and great change with distrust
 Of course, it would be good thing if every citizen had some knowledge of the workings of the federal and territorial method of rul ing. In time this will be the case In dealing with the aliens after na- turaliZation Americans must keep in mind the fact that they, like the Mexicans, are learning to put into practice what they know only in theory. Of course, the aliens re- ferred to above do not take into account the natives of those countries which have had long ex- perience in self-government.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20

Intact except for the fact that it was torn from its pedestal. but did not fall. It was held to the pedestal Tn a horizontal position instead ot being upright. with its arms out stretched over the village in pro tectiye attitude. There it has hun2 for many months, making a deep in pression on the romantic French peo pie" says Leslie's Weekly
 In view of the fact that the most terrible death dealing and destruc- tive devices ever known to mankind are being used in the great war in Europe. it is wonder that any part of an edfice. particularly if 1t be small one. survives the shock of be ing hit by shell fire. But to say that a sacred image in a church is preserved just because 1t is an i'm. age is ridiculous in the extreme, al though the fact that it is preserved is undoubtedly phenomenal. It is quite natural, however. for the fea- ture writers of the age to write stories about phenomenal happenings. and in this manner the tales of the i'm ages preserved have been spread broadcast. The writers never tell | of the Images which are destroyed
 with their parent churches. conse
 quently the reader of the article is
 led to believe that the phenomenal always happens.
 Nine out of ten of the images which are preserved after a church has been bombarded occupy inches in the wall of the church This, then is a natural reason why the i'm age is not destroyed For the niche | protects the image from destruction by the flying debris occasioned by
 the church being hit by shell Ignorance and superstition undoubt edly cause many people to believe | that the images are preserved by an act of God. Which is undoubtedly
 true, as all acts on this earth are
 committed unl His watchful eye
 But to belt that church images 1 are preserved, to the exclusion of any other part of a church, is rank superstition of the worst kind. | Why has this great war been per
 petrated on the now suffering people
 of Europe, and why Is it allowed
 to continue? Nobody knows. God
 works in a mysterious way His won ders to perform" and He, and no one else, is cognizant of the reason
 why men are permitted to fly at | one anothers threats.
 1 But to say that The Deity preserv
 es church images above everything i else is ridiculous, to say the least,
 unless the preservation of such
 serves as a method of bringing un- 1 believers to Him.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
THE GREATEST BOOKS.


 Very frequently some critic ad- yanCes an idea of what he or she considers to be the best books pub lished These ideas are often very wide apart Especially is this true when the field of the novel Is taken into account. Yet in all of them d few books are bound to appear again and again.
 A college professor of English once stated that he considered the four greatest novels to be The New comes." by William NJ. Thackeray, David Copperfield," by Charles Dick ems; Les Miserables," by Victor Hugo. and War and Peace" by Tol- stoi. Perhaps he would now add to these the masterpiece of Balzac, "Pere Goriot"
 In the above novels. as in any great work, the mastery of the ar tist does not depend on the style and plot so much as on the profound knowledge of men and women that appear in the pages. That is the reason for the choice of the above.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
IS IT SUPERNATURAL?

Many are the stories told about the great war in Europe, in which special mention is made of the fact that the sacred images of the church es in France have been preserved, re- gardless of German shell fire, while other parts of the church have been destroyed. Perhaps the most unusu- al occurrence of the kind Is the re- ported destruction of the church at Albert. the report being to the effect that the church was practically de- stroyed by the fire from the big Ger man guns, while the image of the Golden Virgin. which surmounted the spire of the village church. was left
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
EACH AMERICAN EATS NEARLY TWO FIFTY POUND SACKS
 DURING THE YEAR.

According to the most recent ad- vices from the Outside, sugar has advanced on the markets to a great a hundred than it did late in the fall The price advanced during the month of August and then when the great demand had fallen off the price fell to point lower than it had been during the course of the year. Now the price has advanced again.
 The fluctuation in the price of that commodity is very hard to ex- plain. It is thought that the advance is due in a measure at least to the fact that the sugar exported usually from Germany has been cut off on account of the war. Germany Cro- duced 2.600,000 long tons of sugar in 1914, and Austria million and a half tons, more than twenty-one per cent of the worlds production. This should have had some effect and yet last fall the price was low in comparison with the price of the other commodities.
 The United States produces less than million tons of sugar and consumes nearly four million tons That is each person on an average in this country consumes within twelve pounds of two fifty pound sacks of sugar each year. However. great deal of the supply comes from neighbors, as Cuba is the great est cane sugar producing country and is second to Germany in the amount of tons produced. Cuba produced more than two and half million tons in 1914, and Hawaii over half million tons in the same year. Therefore the United States is able to pick up the greater part of it's shortage close by.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20

Republicans were in power not one step was taken 10 develop those. resources. IL took d Wilson admins traitor to start the ball rolling
 Therefore. with Wilson's re-elec- ton, Alaska's development along broader lines is assured. For there are four more years in which the policies of the president will be fol lowed out And We believe that at the end of that time Alaska will un- doubtedly be able to stand on her feet alone and unsupported.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT.

Although it antedated the right time of year by nearly two months, the national Christmas gift to Alaska and AIaskans undoubtedly is the re election of President Wilson. For altfough q change in the administra- ton of affairs meant considerable diff erence to the people of the Outside on account of the reforms inaugurated by President Wilson, policies which would have been changed by the cleo ton of Hughes. it meant much more to Alaskans. For aside from suffer
 ing with the nation the general hurts that d change in the administrative policy of the United States would have entailed, Hughes election would very likely have caused Alaska to lose the Alaska govern ment railroad a strictly Wilson measure.
 Of course We have no assurance that construction work on the Alaska railroad would have been stopped under a Republican administration, and had Hughes been elected it might have been continued. All we have 10 go by is the fact that under previous Republican administrations government development in Alaska was greatly retarded. Therefore we have no reason to believe otherwise than that Hughes would have follow ed out the policies of his Republican predecessors in office and would have caused a general tie-up of Alaska and all her resources.
 President Wilson will undoubtedly do more for Alaska than he has done Already he has promised, through his able secretary of the interior and great friend of Alaska, Franklin K. Lane, the opening up of the coal fields of Alaska. Which means that within year, accord ing to the estimates of those who are building the Alaska government railroad, Fairbanksans will be burn ing coal from the Nenana coal fields at a much less percentage of cost than they are paying at the present time with wood at twelve dollars per cord and hard to get at that.
 Alaskans have shown their ap- preciation of President Wilson and his policies toward Alaska, by the magnificent vote given to the Demo cratic candidate for delegate to con gress, Charles A. SulZer. In some quarters it is claimed that Mir Sul- ger is elected In fact, his election last week or shortly after the first returns of the election were in. But owing to the closeness of the vote and the fact that the returns from the small outlying precincts which have not yet reported will undoubt- edly eventually decide, his election is not yet assured. But We believe that it is and wish that it was. For Alaska would then have in congress a representative entirely in accord with the policies of the Democratic administration; one, at least,
 would work in harmony with ad- ministrative projects as regards Alaska.
 Alaska will undoubtedly be, if it is not already, one of the greatest countries in the world Its resources are innumerable and unbounded All that it has lacked in the past is de- velopment. But in all the years the
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20

branches of the service that can not be neglected if the nation is to take
 its place in the affairs Of the world Nor can the nation dodge the fact that it has become such
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20
Sermon to hePeop|e
8Y THE REV G G BRUCE

Be ashamed to die until you hay gained some victory for humanity Horace Mann
The Alaska citizen., 1916-11-20

The Thin Man-For example-you remember the fight between David and Goliath?
 The Fat Man-I saw some of the headlines about 1t, but I never read the sporting news in the papers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-03-30

Miss Belle Hoy, of Bushnell, was a
guest Friday evening of Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer Rexford.
Mrs. Jessie Kelly returned Friday
morning from Boise, Idaho, where she
has been visiting for several months.
Walter Wornson. of Milwaukee,
and formerly of this city, is reported
to be dangerously i'll with typhoid
fever ar Milwaukee. Mr., Wornson
has been in Milwaukee sometime TAX
Ing a dental course. He was formerly
a National Guard captain in Brookings.
In his speech at the joint teachers
and officers meeting Friday evening
Prof. G. w. Randlett, of the extension
department of the State College,
made a very remarkable statement
when he said that five hundred tons of
water were required to produce one
ton of plant life. Such a statement
coming from an ordinary layman would
be questioned but Prof. Randlett's
Ions experience and study in his line
amply qualities his statement.
During the winter months much vas
said and written about feeding the
birds. Spring is here and the birds
are coming north; why not let the
same motives cause bird houses to be
built that caused them to be fed? They
are welcome little creatures every
where. If suitable nesting places are
provided where they will be free from
harm and disturbance they Will re-
main with you all ummer and fall. It
is a known fact that young birds do
not forget a good home. Our govern
ment officials know the value of
proper housing for birds, and have
accordingly issued a bulletin which
tells you how to make all sorts of bird
houses, from a tin can for wrens to
an apartment house for martens. The
boys in the manual training depart
ment of the high school would find
bird house making an interesting
thing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-03-30
REGENTS APPOINT NEW MAN

Four additional specialists in the tx
tension division of State College were
appointed by the board Of regents last
week. These men will spend consider
able time with county agents where
problems exist calling for their ser
vices. During the winter months they
will be detailed to short course work
in unorganized counties. Their activi-
ties will begin on April first.
Guy e. Morrison formerly district
agent assumes the duties of live stock
specialist working on pure bred sires,
breeding circuits, exchanges, feeding
problems, etc.
Ward A. Ostrander formerly district
agent will begin work as farm manage
ment demonstration, cooperating with
county agents in putting on some four
or five areas during the season.
Frank B. Mccall, a graduate of Iowa
State College, 1911, will become extern
sion specialist in horticulture. His
project will cover the properly arrang-
ed and balanced farm vegetable gar
den, lawns, ornamentals and trees for
windbreaks and shade.
Ralph L. Patty, a graduate of Iowa
State Teachers College and also of
Iowa State College, will become a spec
ialist in agricultural engineering. His
efforts will not only be focused on
water supply, sewage disposal and the
use Of power in the household, but will
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-03-30
Buy advertised goods. Always
the best. They have reputation
behind them. You get good
value for your money.
DR.. j. r. Jackson, Osteopath.

DR.. j. r. Jackson, Osteopath.
f. NJ. Kremer transacted business in
Watertown Friday.
r. C. Akin was in Watertown last
Thursday on business.
Y. NJ, c. A. Employment Bureau.
Phone 331.
E. A. Hansen was in Watertown last
Thursday visiting his brother, Gay
lord.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Rexford spent
a few hours between trains Saturday
with friends in Aurora.
Editor Horton, editor of the VOlga
Tribune, and president of the board of
education, came over Friday to attend
the officers and teachers meeting. Mr..
Horton says business is picking up III
his section.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-03-30

also give attention to such problems
as drainage, farm buildings plans,
silos, concrete construction, etc.
On April i, Vey Valentine will begin
work as county agent in Stanley coun-
ty with headquarters at FIT. Pierre.
Mr.. Valentine is a native farm boy of
Bookings county, a graduate of White
high school and State College. He has
also done some graduate work in Chi
cage University. For nearly two years
he has been on hog cholera eradication
work in Dawson county.