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The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07

but we believe that she should help u. get better steamer transportation.
 Passengers aboard the Victoria de clare that more old timers are com ing to the Outside this season than ..Ur before
 Yes. but we're all going back .n the first steamers next spring, commented Mr. Wheeler. "Leave Ala ska Goryera2 I guess not, There's marhiDg in that country that grips md holds a man. l know This is rE first trip out in ten years. and wouldn't be here now. only I'm on
 ay to New York to see a soldier son of mine who has just got back rom France"
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07

This man demands a reduction in
 luncheon check He puts up .nG talk"
 What if We rcfuse2" said the man .rae of the fashionable New York oDel
 Then he threatens to take adyan- .a.. of the bankruptcy act"
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07
GET IN DEBT TO YOURSELF
(Thrift Magazine.)


 Get in debt to yourself and then imagine you are the other fellow.
 Decide, for example, that you owe yourself $1OO.
 Then get after that hundred as tho you were trying to beat yourself out of it. Give yourself no rest till you clean up your debt
 When you have paid yourself the $1OO and have it safely deposited in the savings bank where it is earning interest for you, go in debt to yourself again. Try to make it $125, $15O or $20O this time.
 Keep up the process.
 Get so you follow yourself around from place to place demanding payment on your debt
 Stick to this plan for a few years and you'll have a snug little sum back of you for the days of old age or enforced idleness
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07
AN OFFICIAL DISCREPANCY

In the Alaska railroad Record of No- yember II, the official publication of the Alaskan Engineering commission, on page s under the caption, "Anchorage Division Notes" there appears the following state ment which is quoted verbatim: "Track on the government railroad in the Fairbanks division between Ncnana and Fairbanks was connected during the afternoon of November 3. according to teegraphic re port received by Col. F. Mears, chairman and chief engineer of the Alaskan Engin- eering commission, from Frederick D. Browne. engineer in charge of the Fair banks division. Rail communition is now complete between the Nenana coal fields and the towns of Nenana and Fairbanks. '
 The Citizen would like to call the at tention of the editor of the Record to a dis crepancy in his statement, which, while it may seem to be trifling to him, is a serious matter to the people of the creeks in this vicinity and to the town itself The railroad between Ncnana and Fairbanks, and between Fairbanks and the coal mines has not been completed. While the small gap that interVenes between Fairbanks and Nenana would not be a serious drawback in itself the fact that 1t is also the same gap that exists between Fairbanks and the coal fields makes it so. We could continue our existence undisturbed if 1t only affected traffic between Nenana and Fairbanks altho the break in rail communication be- tween the two towns is an inconvenience for the travelling public, the lack of direct hauling facilities from the source of cheap fuel to the places where there is the great est probable demand for it contains dis turbing clements that are serious.
 Under such circumstances we may per haps be pardoned if we suggest to the Rec ord that at least for the present it revise it maps and show the railroad completed from Fairbanks to the north side of the Panama river opposite Nenana. At that point it should pencil in roughly a break in the steel, estimating it to be one and one-half miles across the Panama river. If 1t so desires it then can designate Ne mana by a small blot, marking pin or any other device 1t may select, and from there work in it's map a completed line from that point to the Nenana coal fields. With the assistance of such a map, marked as suggested, those controlling the destinies of the commissions s official publication can easily discover the above mentioned dis crepancy without further aid from The Citizen.
 The Citizen does not mean to infer, nor does it believe that Engineer Browne was in any way connected with the error mentioned It is highly probable that it was caused by faulty reasoning on the part of the editor of the paper or author of the article in which it is contained. The Rec ord, however, is perused in official circles in Washington. If 1t should be the case that an appeal Is made to the department of interior to aid in getting the gap closed between Fairbanks and the coal fields, officials there might not easily understand how it is we are asking for something that has been recorded as being accomplished.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07
THE PIONEER
(Valdez Miner.)

valdez Muef
 The old pioneer is passing away and the younger generation is stepping into his shoes Every paper one picks up nowa- days records the death of an old pioneer. Many of them have been in Alaska for dec
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07
Nome to Be Bigger.

Nome to Be Bigger
 Say, gent" broke in Wheeler .ou saw some town when you saw Nome in those days. but in the very near future you're going to see a big ger and greater Nome than she eyer gas.'
 This outburst of civic pride ana optimism fell into the reminiscent discussion like a bombsher. Nome was going to eclipse even its most palmy days. Wheeler had said. Bur how? Had not all the beach been worked out years and years ago? Nome, bigger and greater than ever impossible, thot the sourdough as -cmbIage
 "Huh-you fellows seem sort of amazed" challenged Wheeler when he observed a questioning smile light ing the features of the old timers.
 "Perhaps you know it-maybc you don't' Wheeler began to explain Well, you boys can recall when the Nome beach was sizzling with human ity, when people were nocking to the town on every boat. It's going to be like this again. Of course the big pay dirt had been taken from the beaches with hand rockers and sIuice boxes. but within the next few years these same beaches will be lined for twenty miles with dredges, all washing the sands in enormous quantities. All we need is electric al power to operate these dredges. and eastern capital is now being in
 rested in developing the power re- sources of the Saw Tooth mountains.
 And when these dredges start working on the beach, Nome will be a bigger EIdorado than ever, Just keep your eyes on Nome, boys"
 Power From Mountains.
 What MT Wheeler mentioned anent the proposed dredge method of till ing the gold-Iaden lands of the Nome beach, is vouchsafed for by other NOmeites. In fact, all of Nome is pinning it's civic faith on the possI- bility of running power lines to the city from the mountains of the in teriOr. This improvement, when com pIeted, will be the stimulus of a great mining rejuvenatiOn not only on the Nome beaches, but on gold dredges operating on the tundra and in quartz mines working along noun tain streams. When this improvement surrected from the ashes of a once famous Eldorado, when every con famous EldoradO, when every con Ceivable sort of hulk was fOated to Nome city with thousands of adven- turers, when Nome grew overnight from a windswept beach into a tented city of thousands. Such is the faith of the remnant population of barren Nome.
 MT. Wheeler, like others of the North now in Seattle, has unbounded faith in the future prosperity of Alaska. Every one of them is amaz- ed at the growth of Seattle and that had it not been for Alaska, the city would not have developed as rapidly as it did,
 But Seattle seems to have for gotten Alaska" observed one Alas kan. What we want is cheap trans oortation. Do you know that ships carry foodstuffs to China cheaper than they do to Nome? Far be it from us to criticize or knock Seattle,
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-07
POWER DREDCES
 ON NOME BEACH
 BEING PLANNED

Nome-once an Eldorado to thous- ands of gold-mad men and women, now sleepy settlement of hardly 300 souls -languishe- today in the Iobbios of Seattle hotels.
 Not all of Nome. of course. is in Seattle, but still there is a generous proportion of the populace now en- toying running hot water, elevator service vaudeville shows and other attractions which many Nomeitcs mmas. 10 do without in the north
 The reason for Nome's showing on Seattle hotel registers is attributed 10 the fact that the s. s. Victoria. Of the Alaska Steamship company lies at her berth in Pier 2. The Victoria arrived Friday on her final voyage from the far north, bringing with her good percentage of the popula- ion ot Nome, while the others com nelIed to remain there during the winter assembled on the famous Nome beach and with disappointed eyes watched the big steamer dis appear in the fog banks rolling oyer rom the Siberia coast and point her r~ow for the Boring seas and Sc attle
 Wait for Spring Sunshine.
 Today the remaining population of Nome about 25o were there when the Victoria sailed away -wac1as while gigantic ice barriers isolate the
 Iage from the outside world. and
 aitS for spring sunshine and tn. advent of the first Seattle steamer of the season.
 tld all the while the more for tunate Nome citizenry, who had the E..co 10 purchase a ticket on thn Victoria. are IolIing in upholstered hotel chains
 Q. F. Wheeler Nome sourdough since the late sos, was one of these fortunate Nomeites, and he relaxed comfortably under the stimulus of ...a" in the lobby of the Frye hotel Saturday. This is Wheeler's first trip to the "Outsidc" in ten years His lace is bronzcd from the sun and wind of thirty Alaskan summers. He sat in the Frye hotel lobby, sur rounded by old sourdough pals. his conversation alternating between rig9f, UUffE
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24
Waited Long for sueees..

When Cyrus Mccormick the elder,
Invented the now famous harvester"
that bears his name. nobody believed
in IL; nobody would have it. He ad-
vertised 1t at $50. Nobody bought
Then finally, one venturesome farmer
bought one. That was In 1910. and
Mr.. Mccormick began trying to sell
his reapers In 1881 So he sold one
reaper in nine years. The next year
he sold one more; two in ten years
The next year he sold none. Then
came large business. for the following
year he sold seven This encouraged
the young inventor. He put all the
steam he could into selling and the
next year he sold %. and the follow
ing year one a week-62. Last year
the Mccormick works sold $4,000 on
these haryesters.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24
DAY OF GENERAL MOURNING
December % Was Once Celebrated"
Throughout Country as UnIver-
sally Unpopular Embargo Day.

Embargo day. I'm American history
occurred in 1908, growing out Of the
embargo placed on foreign trade in
1907. A war was then going on in
Europe and owing to persistent In
references with American commerce
it was decided to place an embargo
on foreign commerce Of all kinds In
December, 1907, President Jefferson
sent a special message to congress
recommending the absolute prohibit
don of foreign trade Of amy kind.
American ships were not TO be per
mitted to sail from any port Of the
United States. The enforcement OF
the embargo created widespread con-
fusion, losses and distress. and when
ii had been in force about a year the
opponents of the administration ap-
pointed December Y, 1908, as a day
of general mourning, to be called
Embargo day" This was the ami
versary OF the passage Of the embargo
act, December q, 1907. The day was
duly celebrated at the shipping ports
of New England and I'm other parts
Of the country, with ceremonies typi-
cal Of mourning and distress Ships
lying idle in the harbor displayed
flags at half-rnast and professions Of
sailors with crepe on their arms
marched in the streets to dismal
music.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24

Our friend, Mack Cathcart, sent
us the other day, a little blank on
which to indicate our income, which
the same we are to send him by
March ID or go to Jail. As we haven't
anything TO pay tax on except our
salary, we will probably manage to
figure it out without spelling more
than three or four blanks, but as we
looked over it, and noted the ms and
the outs, and guessed at what devil
o. time man with one big business,
or two or three little businesses, and
family and a dozen or more en-
ployes, and several other things to
calculate, would have in figuring the
thing out, and then thought of Point
dexter and Borah and Reed and Sher-
man and others paving the air and
shouting in the Senate chamber about
the league of nations and the Monroe
doctrine, neither of which they know
much about, we wondered why they
didn't instead put in their time trying
to simplify the revenue system. We
are supposed to be among the bust
ness leaders of the world, yet no other
nation has such complex and cum
brous tax methods as ours.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24
FOR REMEMBRANCE.
IIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIJIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
BY DOROTHY M. MARsHEA.


Helen Brant wandered along through
the quiet aisles OF the woods, lost in
thought The birds sent up carols of
JOY to their Maker. and the wind sang
softly through the trees, but the girl
neither heard nor saw any OF the
beauty which surrounded her. An OBJ
server would have stopped TO look
twice at the girl, who, in her dainty
pink dress, her golden hair catching
through the leaves Of the great trees,
seemed to be Spring herself come TO
life. .
She finally came TO a rustic seat,
screened from the path by the foliage,
where she sat down and, pulling let
ter from her pocket, read il once more
Finally she spoke.
"Oh, Bob, DEAR" she murmured,
''how can / let you go without seeing
you. haven't seen you for ten years,
and now you're going to fight for Uncle
Sam and / may never see you again 7"
Helen, do you care for me as much
as all that?' asked a clear, boyish
voice, which caused Helen to jump to
her feet, so startled was she. She
turned swiftly and confronted young
man in khaki.
Hello, little playmate, don't you
know me?' he queried.
Bob AIdrich, is it really your she
cried, joyfully.
"Yes. 1 guess I'm all here" he
laughed as she gave an admirfng glance
at the straight young soldier before
her. You didn't think was going
across without, saying gOod-by to my
little playmate, did you? And, besides,
as only have an hour to stay, want
to tell you something else, dear"
So, as they walked SLOWLY back
through the woods, he told her the old,
yet ever new, story, Of love born in
the days when they had played side by
side, until he had to go away to the
far West with his parents.
1t had been in these same woods
that he had told her of his going. and
pressed into her hand a spray of rose
mary-'for remembrance" "As IL
ever could forget you, BobF Helen
had Indignantly replied
And so it was there, in the place fra
grant with the sweet memories Of child
hoods happy play days, that she prom
ised Bob to wait for his return, and
then become something more than
playmate to him.
A short time later as the train that
was to carry Bob away came believing
up to the little station where they
waited, Helen gave him an envelope.
open this when you are on the train,
dear" she told him. "Good-ty, sweet
heart-good-by
1t was when a bend in, the road car
ried him out of sight of his native viii
lage that Bob Aldrich, his face still
glowing with the memory of his sweet
hearts brave, sweet smile, turned
again to the envelope she had given
him. Within, carefully attached to a
piece of white paper, was something
dried, faded, and discoIored so with
age that 1t was %lmost past recogni-
ton, but underneath which were writ
ten these four words, which sent a
smile to the lips of the boy VINO read
them: Rosemary, that's for remem-
brancew
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24

1t has been seven weeks since the
law made this state bone dry, and it
must be said that in some places it
IS yet decidedly damp. Considerable
booze is being absorbed in Ocala; not
50 much as when it could be shipped
IN without difficulty. but right smart
al the same. A good deal of it is
nnoonshine and some is struggled in
from the few wet states. There are
several "anti-f1u" remedies that are
very popular; particularly among the
colored men. They won't prevent nor
cure the flu nor anything else, as they
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
MAY BE ENLARGED

DIR. and Mrs. Harry Walters and the
editor of the Star were guests of the
Industrial school at dinner Sunday.
They received hearty welcome from
Miss Davis, Miss Sans and their pu-
pills, and helped dispose of very sub
stantial and excellently prepared
dinner, after which they looked over
the school and heard some fine music
from the girls before they regretful-
iy decided they had to return to town.
The school is in applepie order, and
all the pupils look and act like they
are happy and well cared for. They
are kept busy, for they have lots to do
between their studies and keeping
house; however. they have their time
for recreation, too, and the combina-
ton seem sto agree with them. The
school is making fine record and is
a credit to the state.
We understand that there are a
large number of applications filed to
send girls to the school. which appli-
cations have to be held, because the
school is filled to its capacity, and UNI
due crowding would be detriment.
We hear that the legislature will be
asked to make considerable additions
to the school, to add to the present
building, and put up another at least
as large. This should be done and we
are sure our representatives will sup
port such a measure.
The city and county should help out
the school by improving the street
and road to it. The school is situat-
ed at the end of Fort King avenue,
about mile outside the city limits.
There is well paved street for just
about one-fourth of the way from the
public square, but from there on it is
sand and mud the remainder of the
way. The city should make good
street to its boundary, and the county
should carry the work on to the school
grounds, from where we think the
state will build good road to the
door of the school This improve
ment is due to our own people, who
take much interest in the school and
often visit it. and also to visitors,
members of the state government, the
board of health and other distinguish
ed people being here often; beside,
the only thing like an aviation field
we have is right by this road, which
should be improved for that reason,
if no other.
Miss Davis, the superintendent,
says the school runs just as smoothly
as any female college or boarding
school she is acquainted with, and the
girls have developed a firstclass school
spirit. It certainly seems to be de-
yeloping them into charming and use
full young women. Miss Aida Sans
is an excellent teacher, and it is al
ways pleasant occasion for visitor
when she sits down at the piano,
which she touches with most practic-
ed fingers, and the girls gather around
her to sing for their own enjoyment
and all who hear them.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24

"The Doughboy's Religion" is very
Interesting article written for one of
the March magazines by Judge Ben
B. Lindsey, founder of the juvenile
court. Judge Lindsey sheds some
light on the unpopularity of the Y NJ.
C. A. among many of our soldiers in
France. The judge says that the 'tY"
has, been faithful and honest and has
been a great help in many ways to
the soldiers, yet very large proper
ton of them have a strong dislike for
it. On the other hand, the Red Cross
and the Salvation Army have the un-
dying devotion of the men. The Judge
has come to the conclusion that the
trouble is in the Y. NJ. C. AS. man.
ner of presenting religion to the sol
diers. 1t has been ascertained, from
questionnaires submitted by the "Y"
that the doughboys consider coward
ice, selfshness and hypocrisy as the
three cardinal sins. And they consider
courage, self-sacrifice and humility
the greatest of virtues. The old doc
trine of being good in order to escape
punishment has no power with them.
1Oul 6lInC 1u1AI1G1uOIldls Iu6n dIlQ
women have been supposed to attain
salvation by forgetting their bodies,
but in the fierce furnace of this war
our men-and presumably their COM
rades of the other Allied nations
have achieved what has never even.
been thought of before-they have
forgotten their souls in their sense of
duty to their country and their COM
rades. This is a doctrine that is GO
ing to hit the orthodox a heavy jolt,
but they had better sit up and take
notice of it. An army officer of the
Stars acquaintance-one of a years
service in France, which included
rauch hard fighting that Judge
Lindsey has, to the best of his knowl-
edge, faithfully expressed the feelings
of the soldiers. However, there is no
doubt that the Y NJ. C. A. has done
lot of good work, that it has softened
the hardships of war for many of our
men; so no one who has helped out its
campaign fund need regret his contri-
button.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24

Many people in Marion county will
regret to hear of the death of C. A.
Emerson of Jacksonville. who died in
France of pneumonia a few weeks
ago. Mr.. Emerson was in the service,
tho in what branch we are not in
formed. He spent several years in
Ocala and Inverness, part of the time
with the Florida Abstract Company
OF this city, and for some months
with the Harrington hotel, his. star
being on the Harrington service flag.
He was a competent business man
and by his kind and courteous man
rlers made great many friends, who
will deeply regret to know he is dead.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24

William Gates. an American who
has recently travelled thru Mexico,
says that the government of Carranza
IN that country is as tyrannical and
more corrupt than that of the Ger
mans was in Belgium; that it was
pro-German and is, now anti-Amer-
lean. He says that there is some
peace and security for the people in
the parts of Mexico not dominated by
the Carranzistas, except in Yucatan,
where an /. w. w. group is in con-
troll. If it wasn't for the moral sup
port of the United States, Carranza's
government would collapse
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-02-24

In the ST. Catherine election very
few women exercised their franchise.
Some of these days the candidate who
puts most of his time in cultivating
the drawing and kitchen vote is
going to lose his deposit Toronto
Mail and Empire
A citizen of Ocala who was in a
large northern city, in state where
women have the vote, on last election
day, says that he attended that eve
ming party at which were present
some ten or twelve women of the
Well-to-do class. The question arose
as to how many of them had voted,
and it was found that not single one
had availed herself of her privilege.