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NOME. ALASKA, AUGUST 25, 1915.
The persistent belief that Japan will
ultimately cast her lot with the allies in
the great world struggle when the pro
per moment should arrive, seems in a
fair way to become an actuality. In
spite of the* governmental declaration,
shortly after the outbreak of the war,
that the field of Japanese activities
would not extend beyond the Orient,
the belief has lingered that the Japs
would finally enter the war with the
full strength of their military power.
During the period following the taking
of Tsing-Tau, Japan has remained
quiescent, at least in outward aspects,
although undoubtedly supplying Russia
with much valuable aid in the shape of
war munitions. Now, judging from the
dispatches, the time has apparently
arrived when she must lend a more
substantial aid in accordance with her
treaty obligations with the British and
that this will lead, in the event of fur
ther reverses to the allied arms, to the
sending of troops to France and Russia
can hardly be questioned.
Should the allies be forced to extremes,
there is but one course open to Japan
and that lies in assisting by every
means in her power in the overthrow
of the Teutons. In the taking of Kiao
Chau from Germany, Japan has made
a hitter enemy which, in the event of a
German triumph, would not hesitate to
seek reprisals. In wresting away' the
powerful stronghold or Germany in the
east, Japan has struck a hard blow
as it was on this great fortified sta
tion that Germany relied for the protec
tion of her vast interests and trade in
east—a trade, by the way, which was
growing with the most marvelous ra
pidity' and threatening to force aside
even the supremacy' of England who had
long exerted an almost complete con
trol of the Aslastic trade channels. Ger
many has spent millions and years of
effort to secure this foothold in tills
mighty market and its loss is one that
will be severely felt as it would be only
with great difficulty, regardless of the
outcome of the present struggle, for
that nation to again gain the control
j of an eastern base of the same char
acter. As Germany Is essentially a com
mercial nation and finds in the east a
i natural field for her activities in this
j
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resort to arms a second foothold from
which to control hbr trade activities
would result in a considerable hin
drance to growth and expansion. What
ever of ill feeling may survive the pre
sent conflict. It is certain that Germany
will forever bear a grudge against the
Nipponese for their share In taking
away that powerful factor in German
afTnirs and It Is equally certain that In
the eont of Germany emerging victor
ious from the war she will seize upon
the first opportunity to fling her might
against the comparatively weaker na
tion Japan realizes to the full what
such an event would mean and it cannot
therefore be doubted that she will even
tually lend her last resource to the
crushing of what Is sure to a future
enemy, in the event of the allies being
defeated.
The abandonment of the martial
music of fife and drum in modern wnr
has deprived it of much of its old ro
mance. The equation of personal
prowess and skill at arms was all but
lost many years ago with the passing
of the lance and the sword as instru
ments of warfare. Still, with martial
music, the fife and drum, the waving
banners and the personal leadership of
officers, some portion of romance re
mained until comparatively recent
years. Now. it appears., war is a mat
ter of mechanics, and huge Instru
ments of death destroy armies at long
range: soldiers kill enemies that they
do not even see, and'the stirring music
of life and drum is becoming a matter
of tradition. War is now reduced to
human slaughter, and whatever of ro
mance remains must be imparted by
aeroplane. Gen Kitchner's recent rul
ing that the flfe and drum have no
place In modern armies is, however,
fiercely assailed by some of the friends
of the old martial school. Rudyard
Kipling, who absorbed his early im
pressions in the atmosphere of the
army of British India, has made an
appealing protest against the Kitchner
innovation, and with some probability
of success. The inspiration of rhythm
no doubt quickens and encourages the
lagging feet of soldiery, and the fife and
drum have given purpose and enthu
siasm to many a successful charge.
Also, music serves to lessen the ner
vous strain so common to soldiers at
times of impending battle. It detaches
their minds from the sense of physical
danger and inspires and quickens both
body and spirit. In such phases of war
as still permit personal combat the
fife and drum have some function, hut
long-range battle, the big guns and the
increased radius of gun-fire have de
prived them of their old importance.—
Ex.
CHURCHES AND
BREWERIES
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If the late Adolphus Busch had lived
[half a century later, Pasadena, Cal.,
would have had to look elsewhere for
her famous “sunken gardens" or Adol
phus would have heen compelled to
evolve some other way to make his
millions, for. according to the best in-1
formation obtainable, the brewery I
business is today about the worst ever,
next to cotton growing.
The American Contractor, a journal
devoted to the building trade, in a re
cent issue, announces that whereas, in
1906, the breweries of the country
spent in buildings and extensions $14,
578.000, in 1913 they spent less than
$3,000,000.
But the amazing part of the story
is that whereas, in 1906, the churches
of the country spent $5,632,000 in
building operations, in 1913 they had
changed places with the breweries and
had spent $14,870,506. Think of the
churches of this country spending five
times as much for buildings ns the
great breweries.
And for the first four months of 1914
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the record whs even more amazing, for
In *H« period the breweries spent on!v
AOU'OO, while the churches spent $4,
or over ten times as much.
Tile tiling seems incredible until one
ti think of the time when he saw
the lust brewery built and the last
church Then it doesnt seem so queer
PLANS OF THE ALLIES
CHICAGO.—A Washington dispatch
in the Chicago Herald says:
"The secret understanding on which
Italy joined the allies Involves remaking
not only the map of Europe, hut a re
grouping of all the nations on that
continent, according to information
given to the Herald by an American
who has been In Rome since the war
s'., r ted.
The Informant enjoyed peculiarly
Intimate relations with the diplomats
Lf all nations who were station 1 at
the Eternal City, and his opportunity
for obtaining Information was such tha’
renders whatever he says worthy ot
consideration.
“Here are the plans of the allies as
outlined by him. plans that arrange the
future of the woild:
“ *1. The war shall be continued un
til Germany and Austria are forced to
accept whatever terms are given them,
and each of the four great powers Is
pledged to continue the war until It is
abandoned by the unanimous consent
of the four.
“ '2. There shall be no arbitration
b Holland, America or other neutral
powers, hut the four allies shall dictate
the terms of peace.
“ '3, There shall be three classes of
nations established in Europe.
“ ‘Class A shall consist of Great
Britain, Russia, France and Italy.
“ ‘Class B shall consist of Belgium.
Holland. Serbia, Spain, Portugal, Den
mark, Sweden. Norway, Switzerland.
Roumnnia. Greece and Bulgaria.
" ‘Class C shall consist of Bohemia.
Poland. Bavaria, Crotla. Hungary and
the other minor states into which, by
racial affinities, the German and Aus
trian Empires shall he spilt.
“ ‘Class A States shall guarantee the
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'Class B States shall be entlerly In
dependent, but have no soldiers of their
own except for police duties and shall
make no International treaties either
commercial or postal.'
“Those plans, said the Herald Infor
mant, have been talked of dally for
eight months among the master minds
of Europe, who are agreed this Is the
only reorganisation that will keep the
world at peace, and the politicians In
tend that the soldiers shall fight until
they are enforced.”
ONE MILLION BRITISH WOMEN
FILL POSITIONS OF MEN
1,000.000 women's willingness, In Great
Britain, to fill the positions of men If
the men will go Into the army, may not
he Interpreted as approval by women
if war. H >w these women would have
voted, 'had they had a chance to ex
their o.'-' y» of th'v war "r of
war In gene'll, before the event, Is no
so easily uiyi o asrfd. But then* worn n
now face a fact—the fact of war's ex
istence, which brings the necessity that
it he dealt with. Women have ahvavs
been Arm In patriotism: and with the
nation plunged Into war the demand of
patriotism is unmistakable. But would
these 1,000,000 British women have
voted for this war? Do they believe
war is necessary or righteous? The
willingness of the women to hear war’s
burden, thrust upon them, will not he
misread by the wise.
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