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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
SUGAR COATED PILLS OF
 WISDOM
Venus ana the Cat
By Aesop, Jr.

Venus ana the Cat 'Tis wise cork that knows it's own pop"
 The woman who has no figure like unto Venus shows wisdom in not dis playing it.
 Often fish caught in the net can't get out through the mesh. What's bred in the bone will cut in the flesh" moralizes Aesop in Venus and the Cat" tlA ars
 **
 Sometimes ye show just what ye be when thou dost shake thy family tree. 7 little mischief in women and men is bound to crop out now and then.
 Whats bread today may be toast tomorrow.
 When Venus passes the window the village "cat" will gossip. All girls are not Venuses who wear one-piece dresses. Just because Venus statue had no arms 1t doesn't mean that she didn't embrace opportunity.
 Some diving Venuses swim like cats.
 You can't make an old cat forget an old trick.
 -"Aesop's Film Fables"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
NORTHERN LIGHT PREe- ENTERTAIN CHURCH

Rev. George c. Bruce, D. D., pastor
 Morning worship at 11:00 a. m. Subject, "A Vision of Warless World" e Bible School at 1z:15.
 Sunday School at Thane 10:00.
 Y. P. s. c. E. at 7.45. The young people will meet in the prayer room upstairs. 1
 Evening worship at 7:45. Sub ject, The Beginning of the Chris tian Life"
 Mid-week service on Wednesday evening for prayer and Bible study Psalm 107.
 Come out on Sunday with a pray. CT that the coming world conference will not fail of its aims.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
Emma Goldman Will
 Try to Return to U. s,

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Emma Gold man plans to return to the United States next spring, even if she car not get passports, according to Niko- lai Ayxentieff, president of the Rus sian constitutional assembly under Kerensky.
 Avxentieff, with Prof. Paul Mi'iu- kof, member of the Kerensky assem- bly, came to America for a two months lecture tour devoted to ant. Bolshevist propaganda. They are in charge of such a bureau Yin Paris Lenine's recent announcement that capitalism will be revived is a sub terfuge. Avxentieff declared. He said Lenine had never been sincere.
 Avxentieff was president of the Omsk government in Siberia until he was removed by General Wrangel
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND
 GLORIA SWANSON TONIGHT

There will be double bill at the Coliseum Theater tonight. For the comedy feature, Charlie Chaplin will be seen in "The Count" and that is sufficient to indicate some fun.
 For the big feature there will be Gloria Swanson in "The Secret Code" story of diplomatic life in Washington.s It is said to be a splen- did story and of course there is the usual love part connected with the diplomatic matter that must appear in all good stories and screen pro- ductions ssas .s--.,ts.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
 ASSEMBLY OF GOD MISSION
Peerless Free. Reading Room)

(Peerless Free, Reading Room)
 Chas. C. Personeus, Leader.
 Gospel services held every Sun day, Tuesday and Friday evenings at 7:30.
 Communion service the first Sun day of each month.
 Full gospel truths of the Bible aught-salvation, sanctification, di- vine healing, baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Lords second coming. Everyone is cordially invited to these services
 The Reading Room Is open all the time and Is nice quiet place to rest and read when waiting for boats or the ferry.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
PINK TIGHTS" TO BE
 SEEN AT PALACE TONIGHT

A balloon ascension and a para chute drop are features of Pink Tights" the circus story by J. U. Giesy. which is to be seen at the Palace Theater tonight and Sunday edy star, who appears as the fascin- ating little aerial performer in this tale of the sawdust ring. is one of the most daring young athletes on the screen.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
METHo0leT EPISCOPAL
 CHURCH
DIR. w. A. ALLEN, Pastor.

DIR. w. A. ALLEN. Pastor.
 Sunday morning service.
 Preaching at II a. m. Subject, ''The Dying Exclamation of Our Lord" ...a@ Sunday School at 12:15. s
 Junior League at 3 p. III.
 Epworth League at 6:30 p. m Mrs. Grover Davis leader.
 Preaching service 7:30. Subject Obedience Then Spirituality"
 Special music both morning and evening.
 The pastor will preach at Dougla. at 2:15 p. m.
 Mid-week service. Wednesday al 7:30. Followed by the Monthly Meeting of the official Board.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
Little Venus and the Cat

CUtIe venus and thc Cdt
 The cat settled herself luxuriously in front of the kitchen range and to the ways of felines except as she had seen them in "Aesop's Film Fables" and story books, exclaimed with horror "Oh. gran'ma, gran'ma! Come here quick, pussy's begun to boil"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Fifth and Gold Streets.
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Fifth and Gold Streets Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pente- cost.
 500 a. m.-Mass and General parish. iA%
 10:30 a. m.-High Mass and ser mon on the Gospel of the Day.
 1:30-Sunday School and Bible Class.
 7:30 p. m.-Evening Devotions. Armistice Day, Nov. 11-Special services with prayers for Interna- tional Conference. Mass at o'clock.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
PRESBYTERIAN NATIVE
 CHURCH

(Rev Daviu waggoner, pastor) 10:30 a. m.-Morning service. 11:30 a. sm-Bible School
 FOO D. m,--Evening service. Wednesday 7.00 p. m-midweek prayer meeting.f
 A cordial welcome is given to all to attend these services.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

The public heating plant at Nome has suspended for the year owing to inability of the company to secure sufficient oil to last through the winter.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL

Charles E. Rice, Dean. Phone eos Sunday services:
 Holy Communion a. m. Morning prayer -and sermon at 11:00 a. m.
 Sunday School 1915.
 No evening service.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

will be lots of bright singing at all these meetings.
 Everybody is Heartily invited.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
GRAEco-RussIAN CHURCH

(Rev A. P. Kasnevarof Rector)
 Divine Liturgy of St. John at 10 a. m
 Sunday School immediately fol- lowing the services.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

Go where everybody goes Satur- day night-the dance at A. B. Hall. -adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
THE SALVATION ARMY

Meeting will be held Saturday night at 8 o'clock. Sunday afternoon at 3 and in evening at 8 o'clock and also on Monday at 8 p. m. There
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
1.-THE LOVE FLOWER"
 A WONDERFUL STORY

Everyone seems to agree that next to perfection in production, the chief
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

COLISEUM-Charlie Chaplin in "The Count" and Gloria Swanson in Secret Code"
 PALACE-Gladys Walton in "Pink Tights" asa,t
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

Go where everybody goes Satur- day night-the dance at A. B Hall. -adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

Paul Kjegstad. former Nomeite. is at present engaged in reindeer herding in the Kuskokwim.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
New York's 1922 Budget
 Calls for a Large Sum

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.--New York City has adopted the 1922 budget, calling for the expenditure of $351.- 967,007
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

CLOSING OUT SALE.
 At The Fashion" begins Monday morning at 10 o'clock. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
COMING ATTRACTIONS

COlISEUM-D. w. Griffith's "The Love, Flower" PALACE-Tom Moore in "Stop Thief"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05

"For Sale" ads in the classified columns are the best market-makers for used things.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-05
Attractions H4 Hs
 at Theatres.
ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT

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The fool-killer., 1921-09-01
PAGE THREE
About Correspondence.

I used to print a column or two Of
letters from my readers in each issue
of The Fool-Killer, and would be glad
to continue doing So, but the Post
Office Department has ruled that
these letters are ''advertising," and [
am required to pay an excessively
high rate of postage on the paper if [
print the letters. That is very unfair
ruling, but there isn't a thing in the
world I can do to help myself, except
to just not print the letters. But I
want you to know that I appreciate
your letters just the same-and the
clubs, too. The subs are coming now
il a regular stream-sorter like old
times. Keep it up, friends.
James Larkin Pearson.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01
and ~BUTTERCUPS''

This little book Of poems was writ
,en by the wife of James Larkin
Pearson, editor of The FoolKiller.
The book contains about 20 poems, a
lew written in the authors girlhood
lays, but most of them in later life.
It is neatly printed, and has a pic
;ure of the author. | will send you
,ne postpaid for % cents, and / win
also throw in for good measure an
other little book entitled can Auto
biographical Sketch of James Larkin
Pearson" giving a complete history
If The Fool-Killer and its editoe.
Mrs. Cora Wallace Pearson.
Boomer, n. c.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

It seems to be very difficult
for some people to comprehend
that the world is NOT going
back to it's old pre-war status.
And that, my dear sheep, is what
| am trying to hammer into your
noggins. The old world is passing
away with a great noise, and all
things are to be made new, just
as the Bible says. It may go
against the grain of some Of the
plutocrats and %profteers, but [
can't help that. 1t is a fact, and
you are all going to see it.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

It is said that Europe now has
fifteen million more women than
men. Looks to me like they 1lll
have to introduce polygamy over
there in order to enable those
fifteen million women to raise
more men to kill in war. Great
game that isl
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

Dummycats write and ask ne
to lambast the Republicans, and
Republicans write and suggest
that [ cuss out the Dummycats.
All right, boys, [ am going TO
comply with both requests, and
then you will both be mad. Peo'
pie are kuris things, anyhow.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

It is perhaps a good thing that
they put off the disagreement
conference till winter. If they
had opened it up during the hot
weather it would certainly have
soured. And I'm afraid it will
anyhow.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01
Two Terrible Twins.

See here, Mr.. Thinking Man,
| want to talk to your head a few
minutes on the general subject Of
Politics and Theology"
Did you ever stop to think that
the old selfish, prosecuting, I'M
reaso nable, reactionary politics
and the old fogified, superstitious,
prejudiced and hell-scared reac-
tionary theology always go hand
in hand?
Well, they do.
Whenever | find an old political
mummy who was intellec tually
dead and dried up thirty years
ago, and who has never learned
anything since, I don't usually
need to ask about that man. the
ology. I know that his old emp
ty heart is as dry and crusty as
a last years raw-hide, and I know
that immortal soul' and letter.
nal torment rattle about in it
like two peas in a bladder.
But whenever [ find a man
who has got his eyes open politi-
cally-who. has begun to see that
the old political parties and those
who operate through them are all
frauds and humbugs--I generally
find that he has also cut his wis
dom teeth in the matter Of religion
He no longer allows himself to be
~intimidated by the threats Of
savage theology.
The fact is that in order to b.
entirely free you must get loose
from both these Dark Age insti
buttons. 1t don't help much tt
get loose from one while you are
still a slave to the other. TIL
old creeds are very useful to tn
old reactionaFy political wind
jammers-they help to keep tn
: peopie tangled up and bewilder
ed, thus making it easier to pic
! their pockets.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

Now that the government has
acknowledged that the Emergency
Fleet was a mistake, maybe it
will finally acknowledge that the
whole hang-taked war was a mis-
take.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

If any of these tobacco chewing,
ambear squirting church mem
bers ever get to heaven, the an
gels will have an awful time
cleaning up after them.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01
THE HOUR OF DOOM

The Fool Killer is not trying to
be an agitator of unrest.
1t is not trying to stir up strife
and make bad matters worse.
No sir!
1t is simply trying to hold up
the mirror to nature" as the
poet says, and let the world see
for itself just what kind of a
looking thing it is.
The Fool Killer hasn't made the
unrest, any more than the look
ing glass makes the freckles on a
gals nose, but it just wants to
tell you the unrest is here.
And it wants to tell you WHY
the unrest is here, and why it is
going to stay here for a while.
1t, is because the TIME HAS
COME for the general over
turning of all established insti-
3tutions of every kind.
There is no man and no set of
men on earth that could have
prevented things from getting in
the shape they are now, and
no man nor set of men can make
them any better until the
DIVINE PURPOSE of this up.
heaval is achieved.
The old clock of Time has come
around to the striking point, and
the hour of DOOM has struck
for many Of this old worlds pei
Institutions.
It is utterly useless for the con
servatives and reactionaries tt
fight against the tide Of change.
They might just as we'll bristle
up and try to subdue a cyclone.
They just might as we'll try tt
sweep back the tide Of the ocear
with a feather buster.
Gentlemen, it can't be done.
Gods hand is in this "radica
movement as you call It, ant
God will see that it goes through
to a finish. -
Senates will deliberate.
Committees will investigate.
Philosophers will mediate.
Orators will crate.
Agitators will agitate.
Strong men will illuminate.
Weak men will s%upplicate.
But it will all amount t
nothing.
Human institutions as W
have heretofore known them ar
on a creased track, and they ar
taking their swift ride down an
out.
The next stop will be the en-
of the road.
When the devil wants som'
thing done that he is ashamed
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01
Preachers Please Answer.

Once in awhile the pluto publ
cations allow a good thing to slip
in. | just happened to be looking
back over an old copy of the
American Magazine, and found
the following which | had marked
in an article by Bruce Barton:
f"Whenever [ see a faction of
folks who seem to me most in
need of criticism, most wrong IN
their ideas and influence, | cannot
forget what a sorry appearance
that crowd must have presented
that followed Jesus of Nazareth
along the shores Of Galilee. When
| find all the good men On one
side of any question, | am re-
minded that all the leading citi-
zens were on the side that sent
Socrates to death and that stoned
Stephen in the market place" .
(And he might have added THAT
sent Debs to prison.")
But read the above again, ano
think about it. There is a great
lesson in it. We are too much in
clined to think that the popular
thing is the right thing, and tina
the unpopular thing is always bac
and dangerous. Why, sakes alive
man, when you come right dowl
to the facts it is more often jus
the other way. You may study
the history of every reform move
ment that has ever been in TIL
world and you will find that al
the big leaders Of society, churcl
and state we're against them.
I have been advertising for a
orthodox preacher who is wlllin!
to say that he would have joine'
with Jesus and his little bunch O
ragged fishermen if he had beer
living at that tirne, but [ haven
found him yet. The preacher
can primp up their long faces an
talk mighty sugary about Jesu
now, since He and His cause hay
gained recognition in the worle
but how many of them would hav
been willing to face the -disgrae
of being one of His early disciples
That's what I want to know.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

When the devil wants some
thing done that he is ashamed to
do himself, he turns the job over
to a hypocrite.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

Y am sending out few sample
copies of this issue. If you
happen to get one it is an invi-
tation for you to subscribe and
get up a club.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

Forty per cent Of the worlds
gold in the United States, and
forty per cent of our people rag
ged and hungry! Az that rate,
if we had the other sixty percent
of the worlds gold we would all
have to go to the poor house.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

Why, yes. honey, there are
other papers published, but you
will have to hunt a long time be-
fore you find anything else as
rich and juicy as The Fool-Killer.
It has them all skinned a mile.
No sir, I am not opposed to
wealth. Wealth is a good thing.
There is enough wealth in the
world for everybody, and every
body ought to have it. 1t is
poverty | object to.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

During McKinley's admins
tration the Republican spell
binders went around Boosting
that a farmer could spade up a
calf-track and sell it for more
than a whole calf would bring
under Grover. But now, under
this Hardtimes prosperity, a calf
wouldn't pay for enough ground
to make a track on.
The fool-killer., 1921-09-01

The smaller a mans heart is
the more meanness it can hold.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-30

prominent place on the inside of
the entrance of the new Printing
Office Building.
During the early eighties. he was
employed in the supervising archi-
tects office OF the Treasury. and
while there he was engaged in the
preparation of sculptural decora-
tions, and, in this capacity. de-
signed many of the embellishments
for the public buildings throughout
the country. many of which still
stand as monuments to the art and
skill of the supervising architects
office.
II the work that Flannery has
done, does not demonstrate that he
is an artist. then. indeed. We have
very few who are entitled to that
distinction.
Indeed, what constitutes an artist
wonder, anyway? Hezekiah Augur.
who made the portrait bust of
Oliver Ellsworth. in the United
States Capitol. was the son of s
carpenter. As a sculptor he was
self-taught. and some OF his works
were carved in marble direct His
group, Jephtha and His Daughter.
is now in the Art School of Yale
Clark Mills. an ornamental plas-
terer. cast for Crawford the Statue
of Freedom. now on the dome of
the Capitol. His other works are
well known. John Frazee, who
made the portrait bust of John Hay.
also in the Capitol. was first a
bricklayer and later a marble cut
ter.
Charles Wilson Pesle began life
as a saddler, and St. Gaudens as a
stone cameo cutter. These men were
admittedly artists. and any number
OF similar cases could be men
toned: SO why pick on poor Flan-
merry? Surely, he did as we'll as
his contemporaries and his statue
OF the Great Emancipator will, no
doubt, live longer than the unjust
criticisms against his work.
Few of the present. day sculptors
do their own marble cutting, as
Flannery did. Few of them can!
The average sculptor does not at
tempt to do so. On the contrary,
he arranges with some "gravestone
artist" to do the work for him, and
thus many-very many-of the
greatest works of modern art have
been cut in marble by some work
man whose name was never known
in connection with the finished
product. the credit going alone to
man who manifestly was not even
good tombstone or gravestone
artist.
For goodness sake. when Con-
gress meets q month hence, let us
have the statue without further de-
lay, and. as Judge Lands would
probably say, stop meowing about
it."
JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR.
Washington, d. c.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-30
Lays Famine TO Soviets.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
Lenin's foreign minister has sug-
gested a plan 10 run every industry
in Russia by electricity and grant
liberal concessions to Americans to
assist the movement According to
what Count Leo Tolstoy's son has Of
late been preaching in the Far
West. the present Russian famine is
largely due to the fact that the
peasants stopped producing because
Lenin robbed them Of their crops or
offered worthless scrip in payment.
1t took two basketfuls of this scrip
to buy a meal before the famine.
There is an old saying among
sports: "Bet your small change
first" Without electricity, without
any very great innovations of any
kind. the FIRST thing for the Soviets
to do is to assure the peasantry that
all they can possibly raise will be
duly appreciated and lawfully paid
for. Seeds. the Soviets say, are the
present need. Let the peasants be
helped by anybody but them. But II
is doubtful IL Russia will be relieved
or improved while the Soviets are in
power. They are not imbued. so
Gar as evidences to date go, with
any principles on which a nation can
safely build. Count Tolstoy's son
gives an inner view of Russia far
more impressive than anything that
has come through Senator France,
Mrs. Harrison or others
FRANCIS U. LIvESEY.
West Friendship. Md.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-30
Vain FiEbuster.

G ONE way other the sick will have to
y struggle along only the quota of beer,
wine or strong drink now allowed them under the
law as administered. Secretary Mellon has refused
to issue the permit for unlimited supply and the
hlibuster in the Senate against the beer" bill has
been of avail. The only excuse it ever had was
to so delay the biifs passage to bring the order
act as not forbidding the of beer and other
liquors in any quantity any physician might fit
to prescribe.
1t probably the hope that this was in
effect, it might stick and beer sickness become so
epidemic that the public health would demand the
perpetuity of the remedy. The Senators opposed
to the bill, have known that whenever the vote
came it would pass. The effort has been to post
pone the vote with the Micawber hope that some-
thing might up, the really expected something
being the order withheld by Mr. Mellon.
The next best bet of the opponents has
been the Stanley amendment to rcaffirm the Fourth
amendment of the Constitution and extend it as a
blanket to protect bootleggers That, too,' has
failed in the House and has no chance final
vote in the Senate So it is that this hlibuster
will, as usual, be but expensive luxury. 1t is a
something indulgcd in by the Senate under its
rules Of free debate, which costs the taxpayers a
goodly sum and makes rather absurd the protcsta-
ton of those who indulge in it, of their devotion to
economy. Economy in vocabulary would save
many millions of dollars.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-30
Overstrain.
THE HERALD takes or

THE HERALD takes credit for at least one
i good guess. Based upon the earliest reports
and putting two and two together, we suggested
that winding up the long test, the dirgible ZR-z
while at forced speed, undertook sharp turn and
the strain too great. We stack this up against
slip of memory to helium, to which "for the
good of SOUP "openly confess" There is
much satisfaction in owning up when wrong; more
people ought to try it.
But the statement of the navigator in charge
OF the dirgible is reported as being that the
girders broke in two places when at a speed of
seventy miles hour and making sharp turn
That this most fortunate of the unforunatcs for he
was one OF the very few to escape, went later to
the police to repeat the to the girdcr
may have very substantial reason. That he will
be held criminally liable, no one can believe
and one could be heartless enough to charge it.
But that there a mistake in judgment is not
impossible
After thirty-six hours in the air; after re-
spending to every test with all initial nervousness
if there any, gone; flushed with the confidence
of success a more than necessary strain may have
been put on the great ship. Had it been filled with
helum instead of hydrogen, few lives might have
been lost. That with this awful lesson, dirigible
of the size may be built and stand this
final test, is more than probable. The only
manning question is: What is the use?
The value of dirigibles may be conceded. They
fly at great height. They may be used as
fagships to direct squadrons of arplanes for
defense, locating enemy vessels and directing at
tack by radio. In peace, they have great carrying
capacity and long radius because Of this. But
do they need to be beastly big? Is size of itself
essential? There is pride and sentiment about
having the biggest of any thing. But the Cunard
Company has finally discovered that to passen-
ger ships, mere size is expense and hereafter
will limit their vessels to far below tonnage
already achieved. Time, if nothing else, will de-
termine this final factor for drgibles.