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Show i,VHaT IS LIFE WITHOUT i Hispira? ij Were you ever hungrj- for news? Not special news of your own par liCular loved ones, your own soldier boy. your own home folk, but Just IEWS, tho world's newo? It's an ,:v. ful hunger. Captains of Industrv somelimes take a vacation from their strenu ous business life by going off on their private yachts or to their hunting hunt-ing lodges in the Canadian wilds ami di liberate! forgetting about the world, while leaving the world in Ignorance Ig-norance of their whereabouts. That, naturally, is t very good kind of i a 1 1 ion for a captain of industry But the rest of us, simple, com mou mortals are more depeudent upon up-on new than we often realize. Not necessarily the news of the newspaper news-paper bul at least the gossip of the neighborhood, and the rumors, interesting. in-teresting. iraKic or scandalous, that n LCD us from other neighborhoods. The village gossip nnd the penny newspaper are Important factors in human life In civilized countries. They keep alive our Interest in other people, and to that extent keep us from concentrating our attention Bolel upon ourselves. Een a morbid mor-bid interest in a divorce scandal half way across the continent is more wholesome mental stimulus than a morbid ipteresl in outsehes alone Sclf-consclousness soon becomes brooding, brooding leads to nerves, iirnpei-;, and often insanity One of the most acute miseries of the soldier's life is not fear for his personal safety, but the lack of news from home. In far-off mission fields, in newly opened countries, explorers, pioneers, travelers all feel keenly the lack of news They may bo living under the most exciting and unusual condition", condi-tion", they may be seeing beautiful scenery and having high adventures, but still, if th j are normal human beings, they will constantly be ask ing themselves the question, "'I wonder won-der what they're doinp- at home now '" it is said that the first copies of the first newspaper published in Dawson City m the Klondike wero auctioned off for fabulous prices, sometimes even a bag of gold dust so news hungry wero the miners and adventurers who had bo long been without news of tho outside world Like our own soldiers in the tranche of Northern France, they thrilled at accounts of months old news, and bartered their deareat pocket pos-B pos-B l Mons for copies of old newspapers from home, old magazines, old pic ture supplements. The opening of the first newspaper newspa-per in Gold City in the Yukon Valley 18 one of the many dramatic episodes In "The Law of the Yukon," a Mayflower May-flower Photoplay, shown at the Al-b&mbra Al-b&mbra theatre beginning tonight at m. Director Charles Miller sas this ia the neatest picture of his career, and Realart Pictures Corporation Cor-poration promises it to be one of the 'most grlpplnc drama ever released by them Don'i fail to see it. |