The daily Alaskan., 1918-03-07

A friends, G gorge ~'''1A''''''' Washington and D. s. Grant, were depraved characters, because they fought and then kept on fighting.
 If Buffalo Bill once upon a time rode out across the plains and came upon & band of Indians attacking settlers cabin and went dashing up with his scouts and killed few red skins, Is there any boy in the world who would so back on Buffalo Bill and pick out some quiet. elderly real estate dealer as a substitute hero?
 It's too foolish 10 talk about.
 Suppose we say 1t Is not wrong to light. Then we remove all blame from the Indians that Buffalo Bill killed and We find ourselves so mixed up that probably we had better back up and take new start.
 h answer to the question, "Is 1t wrong to fight" there can be but one sensible reply, as follows: Tt all de pends."
 Suppose & boy of fourteen walking along the street with his sister and the neIghborhood bully swaggers around the corner and pushes the boy up against fence and cuffs him along side the head and then tries some In- Bulting familiarltes on the sister. and suppose the boy who Is thus humilI- ated and whose sister is in tears, sud denly remembers that be has been told to keep out of fights"
 What shall he dof
 Retreat to an alley. or stand up in defense of his own self-respect and try to protect his sister?
 Suppose he says to the bully, T believe in peace and no matter what you do to me won't strike back"
 Then he would get few more cuffs for good measure, and his sister would be ashamed of him and the little rowdy who attacked him would call himself cock of the walk and be greater nuisance than ever before.
 The United States of America Is in- volved in hideOuS war because PreS- dent Wilson and congress and all per sons who are warmed by red blood in- stead of being chilled by sarsaparilla pop had to make the same decision that every boy Is called upon to make when he Is Jumped upon by a tough customer.
 Another question Oboys only): Did you ever let boy up before he yelled Enough" and then have the whole fight over againf
 If 80, you might go around in your neighborhood and give some valuable information to people older than your self.
 II you (thIs Is for both boys and girls) went out into the woods for a picnic with another bunch" of young people you knew and liked, and If your crowd had & basket of things to eat and the other crowd had a basket and some toughies came along and stole the basket belonging to the other crowd, would you give them some thing to eat out of your basket, or let them sit over by themselves, hungry and miserable, and watch you stun yourselves?
 You'd play fair. of course. even If you had to go little hungry.
 Mir. Hoover is now asking every boy and girl in America to play fair and divide up with the hungry youngsters of France and Belgium and Great Britain. ... ......s..........
 There isn't enough food in the world to go around If we Rre selfish and claim more than our share
 How can boy or girl under high school age really help to win the war;
 First join the Junior Red Cross.
 Then keep on saying, "I know Uncle Sam is right and I will pull for him until he wins"
 Believe what you say.
 Root for the '. s. 4. as you would root for your baseball nine or your basketball five.
 Stand out on the edge of the side walk and cheer the soldiers as they swing by. -...
 Probably the children to whom we are now talking are better posted re- garding United States history than are some of the people who talk about 1t.
 They know that our boys now in the training camps or on their way to France are getting ready to fight against the expressions Of cruel des- pot, just as some other American boys once fought at Bunker Hill.
 By the way, if you can find a man or woman who does not understand how the rights of democracy are to be preserved when kings go on the rampage, you might loan this ignorant person your school history. Mark the pages relating to the Boston tea party, the Liberty bell, Lexington, Valley Forge and Yorktown.
 See if you can find any favorable