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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
HUNS RATIFY TREATY.

Among all the governments appearing in the peace treaty the German is the first to rati- fly it. Wednesday the German assembly at Weimar voted by a large majority approving its acceptance and yesterday President Ebert signed the bill of ratification.
 All the world recognizes the fact that this ratification was done because Germany had no other course to pursue. To have re- fused would have been suicide. It would have meant that the allied nations would have pro- ceeded to enforce such terms as they consid- cred necessary to punish Gernanys crimes and insure non-repetition of them in the flu ture.
 There is no doubt that Germany will car ry out just such terms as she is forced to do. If the time comes when she believes that she can escape any or all of them she will not hesitate to do so. Appearing at the peace con- ference, not as an honorable opponent losing in honor, but as a reluctant criminal coming to hear the sentence pronounced Germany signed protesting against the severity of her punishment.
 There is apparently no reason to doubt that France, England, Italy, Japan and other minor nations will ratify the treaty. All of them gain to some extent by the terms and all are relieved of the nightmare threat of war thru the provisions of the League of Nations covenant.
 In America alone is there any indications of a refusal to ratify. Senatorial opposition to the League of Nations may cause the down. fall of the entire system. As MT. Wilson
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
LABOR COUNCIL
 STANDS ALONE
DECLARES AGAINST LABOR CON- GRESS AND AMERICAN FEDE-
 RATION OF LABOR.

VANCOUVER, July 12.-(P)-The labor trades council has now come out in plain opposition against the Canadian trades labor congress and the American federation of labor. It has adopted the constitution of one big union along the lines of the or ganization recently proposed at the meeting of the Washington state of labor.
 The smaller unions affiliated with the trades council are all aligned against the labor congress and the American federation. The trades council is composed mostly of radi- cal workers who are not in agree ment with the conservative policy of the other organizations.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
YUKON OUT WITH
 FEW PASSENGERS

The White Pass steamer Yukon left Fairbanks yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock for Dawson. Only a few passengers were aboard when it de- parted and but three of these were billed thru for the states.
 The following is the list of passen- gers:
 For Seattle-Mrs. A. R. Heilig, Jas. A. Gibbs, Mrs. Jas. A. Gibbs.
 For Tanana-MajOr General MOrri son, Lieut.. Smith.
 For Nenana-S. Recoir, H. ROst, Mrs. H. Rost, H. E. St. George, Mrs. St. George and Harry Emmett St. George, S. Foster, A. Tipperrary.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
CUSTOMS FIND
 CHOICE MARTEN
EAGLE INSPECTOR DISCOVERS FOURTEEN BLACK MARTEN
 IN O'FARREL TRUNK.

Between the United States Mar shals office and the customs officials at Eagle, contraband furs are having a hard time getting out of Alaska this year. Up to the present time the marshals office has been responsible for the seizure of 699 beaver skins and TIA marten skins alleged to be contraband, while Customs Inspector Hillard has grabbed fourteen marten skins.
 According to report received yes terday by Marshal Erwin from the Eagle deputy, John B. Powers, In spector Hillard recently located and seized fourteen very fine marten skins in a trunk shipped by express by Frank OFarrel and marked ship ped to Frank O'Farrel at Seattle. These skins were black and said to be of the very finest quality that can be obtained.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
FORMER DAWSON
 MERCHANT HERE

G. c. Sharpe, who has been man. ager of the Dawson drug store for the past two years, is Fairbanks visitor for few days. He is on the first leg of tour around the world which will wind up at Honolulu where he expects to locate in the future.
 MT Sharpe is favorably impressed with the North, but is taking the first opportunity to go to France and see just where and how the Cana dians and Americans, with the other allied soldiers, shot up the Huns. He will go from here to Cordova some time this week. From there he will go to Prince Rupert, thence to the Atlantic coast where he will take ship for Europe. He expects to be travel ing for several months.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
THE WAY OF TT.

Much has been said about the failure of the last territorial legislature to provide funds for the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines First one man and then another would be alleged to have been at fault ment, which spilled the beans and caused the shutting down of the projec for at least two more years.
 But from certain remarks made by Speaker White. of the last hnnse of represen- tatives it seems that the real reson that the money was not made available is the fact that the majority of the legislators believed that an Alaskan college could not compete with Out side institutions of learning. Tt is probably true that this reason was not given by the op- position which used all kinds of pretext to take fall out of the appropriation
 Mir. White, in an interview appearing in Seattle papers about June 2 last, said: "A college in Alaska cannot give its pupils all the advantages they can get in the states. Knowl- edge that cannot be found in books goes with a college education and it is this knowledge that we cannot get in Alaska"
 Just what advantages" Mir. White had reference to is not known The sizze of a college institution is not necessarily an indica- tion of educational efficiency Many of the smaller schools of the country are just as we and in fact some of them better, equipped than others of the larger class. And the advantages which are to be had are going to depend large ly upon the provisions made by the territorial government for obtaining them.
 The Citizen believes that the history of Alaska will refute Mr. Whites contention that Knowledge" to be had from conditions as they exist in the states will be of more value to Alaskans than thoro familiarity with Alaskan conditions.
 As he intimates, book fearing is after all a small portion of real education Education, it has been said, is applied knowledge, in be- ing able to put into use that which has been learned And technical training, reinforced by practical experience, is considered to be the best process of fearing.
 The proposed territorial college is to be a school for specializing on two most import ant branches of industry mining and agricul- ture. And not as they exist in the state of or any other state, but in Alaska. A study of the conditions which affect them be made in the states where they do not exist, but only in the North where they are encountered every day and in natural circum- stances. Thus the advantages" spoken of by MT. White, if they do exist, are in favor of an Alaskan institution and not of state colleges.
 Referring to those who would like to go to college, MT. White said: "When high school students in Alaska think of going to college they also think of seeing bit of the outside world at the same time, and living in big cities and being where there is more ac- tivity than in the North"
 It is possible that large percentage of those now leaving Alaska high schools and entering colleges are influenced to a certain extent by that reason. But it is apparent that he has not made himself familiar with the
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
PLAYING THE GRANDSTAND

Hindenburg's plea for his former master, William Il, of Germany, to General Foch is merely the defense of lesser criminal for greater one. His offer to stand trial in the place of Germany's former emperor smacks of "playing to the grandstand."
 What he asks is, of course morally, as well as physically impossible There is no condition under which any man might be per-
 mitted to stand before the international bar of justice and plead in answer to the crime with which the late war lord of Europe is charged. For his supreme offense against international morality" he must answer fully and in person not by substitute.
 But even if it were possible for another to take his place, yet would it be impossible for Hindenburg to be that one. He, too, must answer for his own crimes. And to the pun ishment which will probably be meted out to him cannot be added that to be assessed against the former German kaiser. Won Hin denburg ran no risks when he made his mag unanimous CD offer to take the place of his old master in an international court.
 The useful schoolboy whose knowledge lis casually referred to whenever it is desired to imply general historical information, doubt less knows about the eagles of Rome, and more or less connects them with the heraldic |eagle of the United States, but Prof. James H. Breasted, of Chicago, carried the lineage of the symbol much farther back when he re- gently pointed out that the American eagle reasonably enough originated, some 5000 years ago, in Babylonia. Then first appeared the eagle with outstretched wings symbolizing the state. Rome came later, and the success sion of European nations that have adopted the eagle: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France, and others But this first eagle was bird of autocracy, and nothing could have been more opposite to the governmental idea of ancient Babylon than the American Declaration of In- dependence Free and powerful, the eagle stands logically for liberty and strength, but when it first became national symbol, liberty, as the word is now understood, did not exist.
 The alarmist report that the German peace treaty contains clause forcing prohi' bition on Europe may furnish clew to the senator's why the full text has not been pub 1.-f-
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14

in the special delegate election to make it ap- pear that the people connected with the Alas kan railroad the men who work on it, are the the very ones who refuse to endorse Mir. Lanes administration.
 In recent editorial, the Juneau Despatch said:
 "But those who so loudly proclaimed that Alaska was for the Lane administration, re- ceived shock when the vote of the railway commission employees at Nenana was counted. With no one making his campaign, Mr. Jones ran Grigsby neck and neck race in the rail road camps. In fact the Nenana News says: * The showing made by Jones is con- sidered remarkable, in view of the fact that he is unknown to great ma jority of the vot- CTS of Alaska, and to the further fact that there was little time for campaigning in his behalf
 eff this is true, then there must be deep seated dissatisfaction among the eeople living and working at Nenana. who are most fam iliar with railroad construction. If they re- fused to support Lanes administration after being intimately acquainted with the facts re- |garding gross mismanagement then little can be expected of the other Alaska voters if the issue had been placed before them"
 The Despatch is not the only paper to comment on the Nenana vote. Jones, the la borite, openly supported by Wickites, came within a few votes of carrying the very town whose existence James Wickersham condemns as folly. The money expended by the govern ment there is listed as wasted funds by Wick ersham, still the Nenana people give as much support to a candidate supported by him as to the man who is running on platform of sup port to the administration.
 But in drawing conclusions from the vote, it would be we'll for the Despatch and others of its like to remember that Jones did not appear anywhere at Nenana or any other point in the interior save as labor candidate pure and simple. His platform did not con- demn that Alaskan railroad project or its builders, as the Wick organs would attempt to show. In fact the "gross mismanagement" question did not enter in the Nenana campaign at any time The result of the special cleo ton there represents a local situation. Re- sentiment growing out of certain events hap pening at Nenana just prior to the election was allowed to have more importance than the welfare of the town itself, and if the vote is Inow being politically capitalized by Wicker s1larl, IL IS t1le fault Of Nenana alone and not |of the democratic party in Alaska, which has been and still remains soidly behind Secretary .ane in his Alaska program
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
THE SENATE PREPARES.

Wednesday MT. W1lSOn uenVcItu te peace treaty to the senate for its final action. Friday the upper house recessed until Monday in order that its members might have time to study the document and to give the political leaders time to rally their supporters for the fight which it seems must come over the League of Nations.
 There is no word of criticism for thos members who are studying the terms honest v to discover how they affect the United States together with the rest of the world. So broad is the scope and so voumnous IS the document that the only matter for comment in regard to the recess is that it is not of greater length. Only the most cursory of eN- aminatons can be given it in the time allotted
 Tomorrow the Senate Foreign Relations committee will take up the treaty and the League covenant as one and the same thing The recent proposal to make the sessions of this committee open to the public has not been heard from lately.
 The entire country is waiting to see just what attitude Chairman Lodge, of the committee, will take in his handling of the treaty He is avowedly opposed to dealing with the treaty and the League of Nations at the same time, but is forced to do so by the very nature of the documents. There is con- siderable speculation as to whether or not he will allow his hostility to President Wilson to influence his action as the chairman of the committee.
 Nor is the interest and anxiety over the action of the committee confined to the United States alone Practically all of Europe is centering it's attention on the United States senate and the outcome of the inevitable is of as much importance to Europe as to America
 In his address to the senate last Thurs day. Mr. Wilson said '"The statesmen who gathered about the peace table and dealt with the innumerable vital questions which arose, saw the hope of the world in the League of Nations. The world looks to America to un- qralifedly endorse the League covenant. Dare we reject 1t and break the heart of the world?" In this declaration the President sums up the message which every American correspondent in Europe has sent back home. Even those who represent publications mimic al to the League admit that without America the League is impracticable and will fall to the ground because of jealousies and distrust which exist among various European states.
 The senate is preparing to make the de- cision. Upon it rests the final responsibility for American action. Will it ratify the treaty and accept the League covenant, or by reject ing the covenant annul the treaty and destroy the faith of the world in the honesty of Am erica's idealism?
 The questions involved in the decision of the senate are fraught with danger to the world. They have more than political in1- portance. And those senators who allow poli- tical reasons to sway their actions will be judged on the merits of the case by not only their constituents but also by the people of the entire world.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14
GOING AHEAD

Despatches received from Washington n- dicate that Secretary Lane, far from being discouraged over the ten million dollar cut in Alaska railroad appropriations, is laying plans for special legislation authorizing an increase of approximately sixteen million dollars over and above the original estimates of construc- tion costs. Mr. Lane and his assistants hope to get this legislation before the present con- gress and enacted early enough to retain a working personnel until the project is com pleted.
 If additional funds are obtained this summer, it will be possible for the commission to proceed with its work without serious delay or other injury from the recent cut in appro- priations But it must have the money in sight before the end of the present season if it is to be allowed to go ahead with the road as a whole rather than by piece work as has been the case in the past.
 If it can do this, if it can get the material necessary and has the money to employ all the men it can use to advantage, there isn't much doubt that the gap between the two ends can be linked up and Fairbanks connected by rail with tidewater by the end of 1921. This  is said to be the object which the secretary has in mind.
 That Mr.. I,ane should continue his efforts in behalf of the road is no more than the big majority of Alaskans expected. Efforts to de- stroy Alaskans' confidence in him are worse than futile, since they can only react upon those making them. Most of the people of this territory know that the present secretary of the interior department has taken more ac tive interest in the North, has done more for it, than any other man ever occupying the position he now holds, and they appreciate him accordingly
 Of course, there are some who, support CTS of Wickersham, condemn with him all that Mr. Lane has tried to do and what he stands for. They make weak case, but there is nothing too small for them to seize on for pretext to justify their attitude.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-14

The alarmist report that the German peace treaty contains clause forcing prohi' bition on Europe may furnish clew to the senators why the full text has not been pub lislled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
Final.

Final.
"What is the best test of realism in
a play?" "The real money it draws at
the box Office"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
SPEECH APPEALED TO HIM
More or Less Good Reason Why List
enc Considered 1t Great
Oratorical Effort.


They III telling a good joke on Will
Upshaw. He was up the other day,
and was the interesting center of sew
eral groups of members who had heard
Of the prohibition Cyclone" Of
Georgia.
While talking in the Lobby to one
of these groups of forthcoming as
sociates, Congressman Garrett of Hous.
ton, Tex, passed, after salutations.
did you ever hear Garrett speak?'
asked Upshaw of the members of lis
group.
EYES," they all chimed in.
1.-THE most mastery address, the
most beautiful, soul-stirring address
/ eve heard in all my life of asso-
citation with great orators, fell from
the lips of that great Texan and
statesman n night at Dallas. said
Upshaw.
ION what subject was Garrett speak
ing?' queried one of the party. rather
interested.
HE was introducing me-" replied
Upshaw solemnly-Atlanta Constitu-
don.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
THAT NLAsT STRAW" AGAIN
This Time 1t Meant Real Tragedy in
the Lives of TWO Young and
Loving Mortals.

'It's the last straww she exclaimed
bitterly.
She tapped on the floor with her
right toe, always, with her, a sign of
repressed passion.
"The last straw!" she repeated.
He shuf1ed his feet in embarrass-
ment.
I'm goingl" she cried. II would not
stay here another second, even for a
moment"
And she swept out, and there was
nothing left for him to do but follow.
81 didn't know it was the last straw,
or / wouldn't have taken it," he apol-
ogized miserably.
And she, who had never slipped a
lemonade without a straw in her life,
and intended to, shifted scorn-
fully, without replying, and refrained
from inviting him in when they reach
ed her house.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
War Increases Mental Diseases.

Figures compiled by the New York
state hospital commission show that
1895 more patients have been ad-
United to the state hospitals during
the forty-four months since war was
declared than for the similar period
Of time prior to the beginning of hos
%tilities, the admissions prior to the war
being 29,316, as against 1881 after
ward. The state hospitals are act
ually housing $500 more patients than
they were built to accommodate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03

A soft answer is no good for the CUR
who Is hard Of hearing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local apnlications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion OF the ear. There is
and KAT Hns way lie nv " q euf constitntinnai D ssmSsy
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. Catarrhal Deafness is
caused by an infiamed condition Of the
mucous lining Of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflarned you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result. Unless the Inflammation can be re-
duced and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing may be destroyed
caused by Catarrh, Which, q All infamed
condition Of the Mucous Surfaces.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case Of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
MEDICINE.
All Druggists 75c. Circulars free.
+. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03

Everything we need is within reach
here and now, because it is within US.
Look within for the treasure mine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
BoscHEE's SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
SO successfully for ffty-one years in
all parts Of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles? 1t
gives the patient a good nights rest,
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, gives nature
a chance to soothe the inflamed parts,
throw off the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than half
a century.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
And stu Another,

And while we are still on the sub
ject of color scheme, did you ever mo-
tlce what a peculiar ability a red
headed boy has for distributing blach
eyes among all his playmatesr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
Practical Estimate.

did you say Bligglns is a good los
err" "Yes." "Why ever when his luck
is worst he never loses more than two
or three dollars" "That's what I call
G. good loser"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
True Genius.

How grateful we are to the man Of
the world who obeys the morale, as
In humility, and in the obligation to
serve mankind. True genius always
has these observation-disclosures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
The Addition,

"Is 1t true that Mrs. Hasty's tenn
per broke up the family?
eyes, and most of the crockery."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03

When Baby is TeethinU
GROVES BABY own MEDICINE will correct
the Stomach and Bowel troubles. Perfectly harm.
less. Bee directions on the bottle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03
Not.Us.

An old man, rich in this worlds
goods, who had accumulated ninety
six years of age to his credit. went to
a fortune teller to see what the future
held for him.
"Sir," said the soothsayer, as she
grasped his palm and looked into its
wrinkled mysteries, 81 predict for you
a long life" Then she added as he in
his exuberance of joy handed her a
yellowback of large denomination.
with plenty of money" Now who
would gainsay that each had received
the worth Of the old mans money?
Everything we need is within reach
l~.1.-r1 -arx E1a.-,.z a. 4: -.AIs -
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03

To restore a normal action to Liver.
Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels, take Gar.
field Tea, the mild herb laxative. All
druggists.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-04-03

Free speech is no excuse for talking
too much.