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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21

Smart Set turn up their noses at it and the SanSculottes curse it.
 The Home implies three things, which are the greatest things in the world. One for Man, one for Woman, one for Child
 For it implies Man who Works
 And Woman who is Good.
 And Child who is Taught
 Only the Man who Works is good cit- zen, for he assumes his due responsibilities, keeps the peace, observes the law, and his veins are "the veins of wealth" to any land
 Only the Woman who is Good is fit for mothering, and the world needs mothers more than statesmen, poets, and professors.
 Only the Child who is Taught is fitted for citizenship
 If you want to save the world, don't take to the pulpit-go home.
 If you want to reform society, don't mount the soapbox or write for magazines go home.
 If you want to reform society. don't xAh
 When in doubt-go home.
 Make Home decent, happy place. and you have done something which you know will count. Anything else is debatable.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
OI,LEGE BUILDING SUFFERS.

The deepest impression made on recent visitors of the Agricultural College and School of Mines building is that the territory is al- lowing costly investment to depreciate in value to the extent of thousands of dollars when the expenditure of few hundred dollars would prevent it. That such condition could exist is almost unbelievable, but it does and will continue to do so unless the governor can be induced to give some financial assistance to the trustees within the near future.
 When the college appropriation was lost in the last legislature on account of lack of funds, the trustees were forced to halt all work in the buildings and ground The ex- terior painting was not completed and that portion of the building which is not completed is daily being injured by exposure to the ele- ments. If it remains bare until the next ses- sion of the legislature, as now seems likely irreparable damage is sure to result
 It would cost only few hundred dollars to complete this work and put the building in condition to withstand rains and melting snows next spring. but the trustees have no funds and can't get them unless Governor Riggs can furnish them The matter should be called to his attention and he should be urged, if possi- ble, to make provision to protect the money which the territory has already invested in the institution
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
PRESIDENT WINS AGAIN

When the house yesterday repassed the sundry civil bill with an increased appropria- tion for the rehabilitation and education of wounded soldiers, sailors and marines, and later eliminated the repeal of the daylight savings law from the agricultural bill, both of which were recently vetoed by President Will son, the latter won the first contest staged with the republican congress. Time alone can tell whether or not the result in these two in stances are indicative of the outcome in any future contests which may arise.
 The refusal of MT. Wilson to sign either of the two bills, altho unexpected and un- prophesied, gives ample proof that he is watching closely the measures which are being acted on by congress. There has been con- siderable criticism of the governments alleged failure to look after the welfare of American wounded, and the attitude of the President in this instance shows that the administration is fully alive to the situation. No good reason has yet been advanced for the repeal of. the daylight saving law Advocates of the re- peal say the nations farmers demand it, while those supporting daylight saving have demon- strated that such repeal can benefit to any great degree only fuel and light corporations in big centers. Lobbying is said to have had a good deal to do with the rider attached to the agricultural appropriation bill by which it was intended to kill the daylight saving legis- lation now in effect
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
THE HOME
(Dr. Frank Crane.)

(Dr. Frank Crane)
 The best cure for what is the matter with the United States or any other country, for that matter, is the Home
 No Movement will move unless it starts there.
 No Reform will reform unless it origin ates there
 No Law will stand unless it is favored there.
 No Religion will prosper that is not us- able there
 No Education is of much account that does not include the Home.
 A real Democracy is cluster of Homes, not number of Individuals
 The real Unit of either Politics or Econ omics is not the Man, but the Home.
 Every nation is more or less artificial. The State is man-made thing, a device, an expedent. The Home is natural thing. It is founded on the Instincts.
 Hence it is Eternal. It was present in the world before any other institution-the State, the Church, or the School it will be present when all these have changed, fallen, and been reshaped hundred times
 We do not have Revolutions in this co,n- try for just one reason-we have too many contented Homes.
 The only antidote for Boshevism is the Home.
 The Home is where industrial unrest can be prevented-there only.
 The defective Home is the prime cause of prostitution, drunkenness, and dleness.
 It is the Home that has bested and busted the Saloon
 The one institution that irritates and dis gusts the apostle of unrest, the cantankerous radical, and the cracked grouch-propagandist most is the Home.
 The Home is bourgeois. That is why the
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
BETTER MAIL, SERVICE.

The inquiries being received from the postal department regarding existing mail ser vice conditions and it's request for construc- tive criticism for its betterment opens a field for campaign for securing more adequate mail service for Interior Alaska which should not be overlooked The ear of the department IS attuned to catch our comments, and now is the time to make them.
 The department wants to hear from busi- ness men about how local interests are af- fected by the present mail service It desires to know if we are satisfied with what we now have, if the service is proving satisfactory, and if not what the defects are and will en- tertaln suggestions as to its betterment
 There isn't person in this section of the country who is not interested in this matter. The business men are especially concerned and their suggestions will carry weight Mir. Mer- chant, take few minutes off today and write a letter to J. C. Rooms, First Assistant Post master General, Washington, D. C., about our mails. Tell him that you get some of your mail some of the time, and that some of 1t IS somehow good but most of it is direct loss to you, and tell him how the existing situation can be remedied. The plain facts make strong case for you. He invites your suggestions and comment; meet him at least half way.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
ALASKA LEADS.

Official figures recently issued by the Liberty Loan publicity bureau for the Twelfth Federal Reserve district show that Alaska led that district in the percentage of oversub- scriptions to the Victory issue of Liberty Loan bonds. Alaska subscribed 140.63 percent of Tits allotted quota, while Washington, which stands in second place for the district, took lO8.14 percent of its quota, giving the terri tory .4o percent lead
 In former loans the territory also led the Twelfth district, and in at least one of the loans the entire nation in the percentage of its oversubscriptions. While a complete report for the country as whole has not been given out, it is probable that Alaska will stand at the top of the subscription list The territory can always point to its record with pri ie.
 It is gratifying to note that the Fourth division led the territory in oversubscriptions This, too despite the fact that i, came at time most unfavorable for large purchases The mining season was hardly under way, and few if any cleanups had been made by opera tors in central Alaska. These men had been paying out money for months preparing for their seasons production, yet it was from the Interior that Alaska's largest percentage of oversubscription came >
 The Fairbanks district purchased 221 percent of its quota. This is not alone an in- dcation of the patriotism of its population, but recognized gauge of its prosperity. It Is an effective answer to those who see in it nothing but busted mining camp. Examine the records of other towns, many of them claiming to be centers of various industries. with growing populations. Even at a time when Fairbanks admits that it is quiet from bushes standpoint, when it knows that its
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21

within few days the writer has been inform ed by one of the election officials of the Eagle precinct, himself a Wickersham supporter, that no soldier voted there in the 1918 cleo tion. Richardson is also included and the operator at that place is not even an.American citizen and could not and did not vote
 Among others included in the list are places where men, who voted, are married, have families and taxable property, have been discharged and re-enlisted in Alaska, others who have long ago passed their term of en- listment and are being held under the emer- gency clause in the military service, and all of whom possess the necessary voting quail fcations. MT. Wickersham has either been poorly informed or else bases his beliefs upon his political prejudces.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21

development period is practically marking time until the new era of cheaper transporta- tion and less expensive power arrives, the town and district it represents sets pace in bond buying which is not even closely ap- preached by any other town or district in the territory. Those who see in the Interior nothing but memory of great placer min ing industry would do we'll to study its record in wartime subscriptions, which reveals pros- perity which no other section of Alaska can show, and which heads not only Alaska but any section of the country in its percentage of oversubscriptions
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
FAIRBANKS LOSS

The departure of Rev. H. H. I.umpkin from St. Matthew's church in the near future comes to all Fairbanksans as shock, not in the nature of surprise as all of us have real ized that this was his last season here, but none the less shock regardles of the absence of the unexpected. This comes. without doubt, from the tearing of the ties of friendship which have been closely cemented during his five years in Fairbanks.
 To comment on his work here, on the splendid gifts of personality and mind by which he made himself force in our com munity life, and the lavishness with which he gave of his time and energy in advancing every worthy cause, would be superfluous. There is among us no one who does not know these things, and knowing them give to him a full recognition for his splendid services not only as minister of the Gospel whose Chris tianity, untainted by 'holier than thou" at titude, made its appeal to the man on the street, but also as citizen whose loss is not merely one to the church from which he min istered but to Fairbanks as a community.
 It is gratifying to Fairbanks to know from the Bishop of Alaska that Rev. Lump kin's five years of unstinting service has not gone unnoticed by the church. And, altho when the time comes for Bishop Rowe's re- tirement from active service it will be greeted with genuine regret, no more worthy success sor could be chosen than H. H. Lumpkin
 His departure will leave vacant place which will be hard to fill. Wherever he and his go, the best wishes of the people of Fair banks accompany them.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
heart must have grinned.
 Walked to Coast

l Walked to Coast Winchell, at Flat creek, heard oi the loss of the Princess Sophia. He walked. with party of men. the 400 miles to Anchorage in what is said to have been record time.
 On reaching the coast he took steamship passage to Juneau. Then he began the ceaseless, day-after-day fight that is not ended yet.
 Because her owners believed that the Sophia had broken her back on the reef. they declined him help, and Winchell, mine laborer, hired his own diver-a man named Jacobson chartered boat in Juneau and in the dead of winter went to the reef.
 Floating ice and the extremely cold fwater made diving hazardous, and it was only by paying exorbitant wages that Winchell kept the diver at work. The company records in Juneau showed that Mrs. Winchell, because of her ill health, had been given a stateroOm by herself. and it was at this room, Number 35. that Jacobson began his search.
 The room is in the waist of the ship and the wreckage of the super structure lies about it in such a man. ner that man does not dare to break it's door and to enter lest the wreckage topple down and close the opening.
 The diver. peering thru the window, saw two bodies, one on the floor and the other lying in berth. He drew one body to the window and tried to drag it thru. A partition, too strong for him to break, prevented.
 He could spend but few minutes at a time in the icy water and when he had chopped thru the partition a storm came up and Winchell and the diver had to put back into Juneau.
 Returned to Wreck
 When the storm subsided they went back to the reef and Jacobson reached the body and drew rings from its fingers to show Winchell. It was not his wife. Later identifi- cation showed it to be the remains of Mrs. John O'Brien, who had per. lshed with her husband and five children. Then they felt sure that the other body in room 35 was that of Mrs. Winchell.
 One day when it seemed as if but 3 few hours would. see Mrs. Win. ,helrs body discovered the diver working below felt smothered. His trembling. half-frozen fingers in their
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21

cOld-brittled gloves slipped over the handle of the valve in his helmet and closed it and with the air confined in the helmet he shot to the surface sixty feet above the wreck.
 A slug of ice, formed by the mois- ture of his breath in the air pipe just above his head partially clogged it.
 That settles it," he told Winchell. II wouldn't go down again until the water is free of ice, for all the money there is in the world" | Winchell remonstrated with him, but in vain.
 With borrowed money Winchell be- gan work again in March and always the sea threw new obstacles in his way and laughed at his work. Not Mrs. WincheIl's Body Then one day few weeks ago a Seattle diver, J. J. Donovain, whom Winchell says "is the most conscien- tiOus man ever knew." succeeded in bringing the body in the berth of room 35 to the surface and Winchell was disappointed again. It was not that of his wife.
 In May the steamship company sent divers to the Sophia wreck and since then Winchell and his men-Dono- vain and Smith-have worked with the company divers and there have been forty-six bodies recovered but not the body of Ilene Winchell.
 Winchell is an old man now. His friends say that he has grown old since the Sophia went down. He lives with but one thot and one end and that is expressed in the line of let ter he wrote few days ago which says, "I hope there is God in Heaven who will favor me by giving me my poor Ilene. am nearly all in."
 The staterooms and the decks of the Sophia. say the divers, are lit. tered by the bodies of her passen- gers. Slowly and painfully the divers are cutting them free from the wreck debris and as every one reaches the boats above Winchell is happy for a moment and then filled with sor- row but impelled by determinatioa greater than before.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
IvUlvG rEUrLE
 CU 10 NEllAlyA

Nenana bound, with party of pleasure seekers, the Jimmy Moore launch, Jimmy Sr., at the wheel, left Fairbanks yesterday afternoon with a number of young people who Were to attend a dance at the lower river town last night and return home to- morrow.
 MT and Mrs. A. G. Atworth, of Gilmore, came. in specially for the trip and chaperoned the bunch riio., going were:
 MT. and Mrs. A. C.. Atworth
 Mrs. Ruth Wilson
 Misses Anita Nordale, Edna Lewis and Eva Delaney,
 Messrs Jas. Barrack, w. l.. Stack. Alton Nordale, Fred Van Racs, Dewey Burnett and Jimmy Moore, Jr.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
IF BRITAIN HAD DONE TT.
Springfield Republican,

Germany accepts the obligation to pay
 for all damages sustained by the civil popu-
 lations in the occupied parts of Belgium and
 France, inasmuch as she brot upon them the
 terrors of war by breach of international law thru the violation of Belgian neutrality.
 This is quoted from the text of the Ger man counter-proposals to the peace confer ence. It is Germany's official confession of the incaluable wrong she did to Belgium, not only, but to France in attacking them.
 If Britain had done such a thing and confessed it, is there anyone not a British sub- ject who would not agree that nothing short of the dismemberlnent and the destruction of the British empire would be the punishment to fit such crime? It would be generally ad- mitted that, having borne as sacred trust the interests of civilization, the British empire af' ter so monstrous an offense against interna- tional morality and humanity was no longer entitled to the confidence of mankind and had forfeited its high place in the family of na- tions."
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
RAlLRvAD ytvhA
 BEGINS ON FOX
 CULCH SHORTLY
BUTLER AND MADDOCKS PRE- PAIRING TO BEGIN WORK O., GOOD CONTRACT; OTHER WORK IS D-RECONSTRUCT- ING THE T V. R. R.

The rehabilitation of the Panama Vaalley railway beyond Happy is to be under way in a short time, accord ing to the latest dope on railroad work This section of the line Will Dr reconstructed to certain eXtcn, many bridges being eliminated, some curves strengthened and cusiderable grading done.
 One of the largest single C
 on that section has been let to Billy Butler and R. E. Maddocks, who are now preparing to start work in earn est. Billy was in town yesterday get ting together some supplies, and said that actual work would probably start this week. They already have d Bagley scraper, engine and boiler, hoist and other supplies on the ground.
 The camp is near bridge ,, at the head of Fox gulch. on the T. V. railway, where the work will start. About 12,O00 yards of dirt Will na .. to be moved. Tine work consists of cut a good fill below the present track, by which the bridge wifi Dr eliminated and culvert installou, and the curve strengthened out Other contractors are also said [, be preparing the ground so that they can begin operations at once. Butler and Maddocks will work two shifts and employ about twenty men.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
ALASKAN SEEKS REMAINS
 OF WIFE TO KEEP PLEDGE
 TO BURY HER WITH MOTHER

There are men who have torn the writing of solemn pledges to shreds and drenched the shreds in blood and called it nothing. There are men whc have been willing to spend life itself to keep good promise. made. Of the latter is Al Winchell.
 For nine months the love of Win. chell for his wife and his respect for promise given her have made him endure much suffering. Long ago, by the mundane rules that men and wo. men judge these things-some might say he was entitled to fofget-he told his wife that in the event of her death she should be buried beside her mother in California, and he fights in the face of Encouragement to wrest from Alaskan waters the body of Ilene Winchell, his wife, a victim of the steamship Sophia wreck last October, so as to keep his prom ise to her.
 Grant Murdock, who is an old.time friend of Winchell, and who now re. sides at 56I6 Kirkland place, Seattle, prot Winchell's story to Seattle last week.
 When the Canadian Pacific steamer Sophia struck on Vanderbilt reef, Lynn canal. forty miles from Juneau, Alaske, in the midst of a blizzard, and, after having resisted the buffets of the storm for a day. slipped from the rocks to become a sarcophagous for the bodies of nearly 300 men, women and children, among this number was Mrs. Winchell. The Princess Sophia changed from ship to tomb on the night of October 25, 1918. ..
 .... Miner on Flat Creek
 Winchell was miner. employed by the Yukon Gold company, until he gave up his work to search for the body of his wife. For years the two had lived at Flat Creek, which is a mining camp adjacent to Iditarod, on tributary of the lower Yukon river Mrs. Wiuchell's health failed and it was decided she should spend the winter in California.
 On the night that she was to leave For the coast the two of them talked of the trip, and Mrs. Winchell said to her husband:
 "Al, l can't tell you how I know 1t, | but you will outlive me. If you do. Al. ell me that you will see that I am buried with my mother"
 "I will," he replied.
 The fate that delights to torture he minds of men who are honest of
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
WHY THEY ARE DISQUALIFIED.

The thirteenth specification in Wicker sham's charges in filing his contest over the 1918 election reads in part as follows:
 "This contestant is informed and believes and therefore alleges that at the said election for delegate to congress on November 5, 1918, in the precincts of Granby, Copper Center, Sourdough, in the Third division, and in Rich- ardson, Fairbanks, Cinema, Nenana, Hot Springs, Tanana, Ft. Gibbon, Louden, Ruby, Nulato, Eagle and Circle in the Fourth divi- sion, and in Haines in the First division, and in other voting precincts in Alaska, large number of persons * * cast their votes for Charles A. Sulzer for delegate to congress, which votes were received and counted and are included in the total number of votes can- vassed and compiled by the canvassing board j; that each of said persons was an enlisted sol- dier in the army of the United States and not a resident of Alaska prior to his arrival in Alaska. * *''
 And Mr.. Wickersham asks that this large number of votes be thrown out as having voted for MT. Sulzer He takes no considera- tion of those soldiers who may have voted for him, proceeding, perhaps, on the theory that if any soldier voted for him they were en- titled to vote. At Louden Which he includes in the list of precincts wherein soldiers voted, the returns showed that Wickersham received nine votes and his late opponent not one Yet it is specifically mentioned as being one of the places giving soldier vote to Mr. Sul- ger. At Eagle he says soldiers voted, while
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-21
D0USE ARRIVES
 AND GOES BACK

The launch Victory, Capt Fred Douse, arrived from Nenana Friday evening with full load of pass engers and returned to Nenana yes terday morning with another load The Victory is maintaining a regular schedule at all times and making safe time without any difficulty. She will probably return here to. morrow or Monday