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NOME, ALASKA, APRIL 3, 1917.
•'NOTHING left TO DO."
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American citizen* of German birth,
loyal to the country of their adoption,
but solicitous for the fatherland, who
feel that the government at Wash
ington acted precipitately and harsh
ly in terminating diplomatic inter
course with Berlin, may well ponder
the frank Expression of Count con
Bernstorff upon receiving his pass
ports.
"I expected it," said the retiring
ambassador, who has served his sov
ereign with extreme zeal and devo
tion. "I never expected anything else.
There was nothing left for the Uni
ted States to do."
When Germany notified the Uni
ted States and the world of the pur
pose to resume unrestricted subma
rine warfare in wanton disregard of
the rights of neutrals and defiance
of international law, and in breach
of a pledge specifically given after
the attack upon the Sussex, it meant
an end of peace. A sfcverenee of re
lations at once became imperative
and unavoidable. That defiance in
itself automatically produced the in
evitable rupture. The dismissal of the
ambassador, so potent in meaning to
a waiting world, became a mere
formal proceedings. As Count von
Bernstorff, his emotion unconcealed,
philosophically observed, "There was
nothing left for the United States
to do." And since the kaiser’s per
sonal representative thus Instantly
discerned and admitted the propriety
of hbs dismissal, certainly our Cer
man-born citizens, without sacrifice
of inherent natural love of fatherland,
may all the easier reconcile them
selves to the situation and see not
only the propriety, but the absolute
justice and right of a {procedure
forced upon the patient president of
an outraged neutral country.
Liberal Germany is made subser
vient to military Germany. Militar
ism exercises a mad, indomitable
■sway. Might is substituted for right.
Diplomatic pledges are torn into
scraps of paper. Negotiations looking
lo a world’s peace, solemnly entered
upon with a friendly power, are con
temptuously abrogated and trampled
under the iron heel.
"Now, In the very act of extending
our good offices," as Lincoln Coleord
pointed out in his illuminating article
"we find ourselves betrayed.” The
full significance of that betrayal, the
baseness of it, was understood In no
quarter more clearly than In the Ger
man embassy at Washington. Hence
immediately from Bernstorff: "I ex
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pected It. I never expected anything
else. There was nothing left for the
United Stats to do." He will, there
fore, go homo respecting this gov
ernment and feeling honored to have
served his imperial majesty here,
whereas, otherwise, lie could have re
mained only to hold our government
in secret and abject contempt.
But the betrayal of our good odices
in the altruistic efforts for a world's
peace did not produce the rupture.
That is only a sad sidelight upon the
stupendous tragedy. The triumph of
military Germany over liberal Ger
many and the issuing of the savage
mandate as a measure of supposed
war necccssity subordinating all
things else an insensate course at
action which we may well believe
the kaiser and chancellery alike wore
powerless to resist abruptly and au
tomatically rendered further amity
imi«ossible and precipit: ted the crisis.
A stale- of war as effecting this
country ..heady exist.:. Actual war
does not. What an hour or a day
may bring forth none can say. The
situation is full of dangerous possi
hi ities. Happily a casus belli does not
appear to be furnished in the case of
tiie Housatonie. No overt act has
as vet followed the breach so far as
condrmed advices tell. It is no time
far jingoism, but for steady nerves
a'h1 cool beads. Whatever comes, the j
Uailed States is i’ ih> stronger for
tiie patience it his j-rccliced under
the sorest trials that ever beset a
neutral and unoffending nation and
will meet its duty to itself and to
the world with untroubled conscience,
clean hands and strong heart, and an
undivided loyally and a renewed Am
ericanism the country over.
-COMMANDEERING."
From all parts of the country there
have come offers from manufacturers
of all kinds particularly those en
gages! in making war munitions and
in shipbuilding, offering to place their
plants at the disposal of the govern
ment and to devote them to the ex
treme limit of their capacity to the ,
tiling of government needs. If
there were any means possible to re-j
lieve the American manufacturers |
from the obligations of tilling existing i
contracts to fore ign countries or for- !
eign purchasers there is little doubt j
that they would drop this work to j
turn their entire attention to meeting'
the needs of our own government. I
Notwithstanding this attitude of '
manufacturers, there is an eager urg
ing upon congress that stops be tak
en to “commandeer" these same plants
for government uses that they be
taken over and operated by govern
ment officials. The fallacy of this is
the assumption that the physical
plants ate the main elements of these
great institutions, while the truth is
that it is tlie management—the per
sonnel of their greta operative forces
- which is emergency, commandeer
the plants, but it cannot commandeer
the s’ rvices of ‘lie $23,000, $50,000 nml
! up to $l,000,000-a-year men who have
built up these plants and who are
operating them to the limit of their
capacity.
It Is not sufficient to have the pyh
i sicnl plants; what is needed for war
emergencies are the services of the
| men who are now operating them with
] such a high degree of efficiency. The
plants, if taken over, would have to
be paid for or leased. The eheapest
and most efficient method of obtain
ing the best results is to give these
plants the government work to be
done, at a fair profit over and above
the actual cost of the work, under
the efficient conduct of the present
management, a cost certain to be far
less than that at which they could
bo operated by any government offi
cial selected to replace the present
operators of the properties.
For first class work and prompt de
livery phone Main 161 and the Peo
ple's laundry will send and get v 'ur
laundry. W. J. WILIJAMSON. 1’Vop.
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'('.nut: Immense! Ttie best ever!”
That (is the opfnion of over four
mail'll people who sat and laughed
for over two hours at the minstrel
•md vaudeville performance presented
h> the Eagles at their ball on Saturday
night.
From start to finish there was not
a dull number on the program and
when the curtain dropped on the last
number it was with complete satis- j
fuel ion that the people filed out of ;
the hig hall. Their only regret being;
that the program was not longer.
When the curtain went tip, the old
time minstrel setting swept back the
years and reminded one of boyhood
days when minstrel performances
W' i vogue, the thought being side
trai ked by the appearance of Blister
Brown and Tony (Shine) Silva, who
in liule Sam costumes marched
proudly to the strains of "Tipperary"
to which the whole troupe sang
"And you tan thank your stars and
Stripes forever, that Ison’s in the
chair." which brought down the
house. Sweetly did Billy Rose sing
that old plantation tneloyd "Far from
the old Folks at Homo" and Frank
Kiesele whose voice is, as-of-old- 1
wine, tendered a solo "Afterward
which brought down the house.
Jim Bogun, the McCormack of the
northland, contributed "Just a Weary -
In' for You,” in good voice; Clifford
Deakin's rendering of "The Sands of
the I ii sci t" brought down tlio house;
la- responded with a whistling solo
which was so real that the game
warden will list him with oilier song
birds of Alaska.
“t >11 the beach at Waukiki" was the
In', of tile evening; what with the
soothingly-delightful strains of mel
low stringed music, the soft setting
pretty girls and good voices one was
transported to those com 1 reefed, palm
covered islands the Paradise of the
Pacific ocean, .Miss Bertha Johnson
Helm Crowley, Jean Crowley, Fred
t'owdeu, John Nicholas and Galen
Fry are responsible for this number
and are to he congratulated.
Alta Brown and Chester Kohler
executed cleverly a number of Scotch
dances and were encored. Helga
llegness was very good In a butter
fly dance which she executed with
ease and grace.
The buck and wing dancing of
William Cyr was clever, T. .1. Owen
was a mlrthmaker with a stump
speech. Pettit and Ash in a knock
about acrobatic number were ex
tremely good.
I,nst but not least comes Doc Kemp,
who under extenuating circumstances,
was muchly applauded. Whilst Doc
had the floor he was unconsciously
helped out by a friend—well, lie'll I
give a suit of clothes to know—who
put up a sign behind him which read
"Don’t Shoot I’m Doing My Best”
hence the applause. It was a good
show and fram interlocutor to cur
tain raiser all are to be congratulated.
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