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Entered as second-class matter Feb,
26, 1907, at the portoffloe at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act or Congress of
March ’ 1878.
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MONDAY, APRIL io, 1916.
i lie question of whether or not
it is auvisaoie to institute com
puisory limitary service in this
country as a measure of national
pi epai euiiess is one tnat tne aver
age /ituencan uoes not care to
tarn audit. In a great sense he
seems to assume the view that
compulsory service is derogatory
to lioerty and an affront to that
freedom which forms the princi
pal heritage of his citizenship. As
a consequence he will seldom dis
cuss the matter with other than
manifest impatienec that such a
condition should be though of in
connection with his country.
And yet, the average English
man probably thought the same
way a year or two ago and was
quite as ready to condemn any
proposal of this nature as we are
today. Yet today he finds him
self in a situation where forcible
conscription is not only desirable
but absolutely imperative in order
to save the empire from possible
dissolution.
'i here is appointed lesson in this
for us. At the present time the
general run of Americans seem to
think that there is no possibility
of a situation arising where he
would be forced into conscription,
exactly as England has been forc
ed.
They fail altogether to realize
that in case of an attempt on the
part of a foreign power to invade
this country we would be com
pelled to face conscription as in
evitably as England was compell
ed to face it and at probably a
much earlier period after the com
mencement Of hostilities than was
the case in England. And sup
pose such a situation should arise.
Suppose that tins country were
suuuenly plunged into a war such
as involves Britain at the present
time. It is useless to deny tnat
there is not a possibility of this.
Hardly an Englishman but would
also have denied it a few months
ago and yet thfcv are at this mo
ment engaged in fighting for the
very existence of their native land.
Suppose that we found ourselves
suuuenly confronted by a power
ful and resolute foe who had
somehow succeeded in landing a
large army on our soil Vv nat
would happen? The answer of the
average citizen would be that in
the absence of an effective light
ing force, which now seems inevi
tible, we would immediately raise
a large volunteer army to meet
the invading host. Very likely.
But we lose sight of the fact that
such an army would be utterly
unable to effectively cope with
trained soldiers until a long peri
od after the commencement of
hostilities. Soldiers are no long
er merely a man with gun in his
hand. Months of training are re
quired before the raw recruit,
however willing, can be called
upon to hold his own with trained
and seasoned warriors. However
admirable might be the spirit of
our volunteers they would still be
lacking in the necessary profi
ciency. For the most part they
would be men without even
.knowledge of how to handle a
gun. They would doubtless be
h;ave men, raw material for the
making of great soldiers, but still
men untrained and inexpert who
must face at onec trainedf an ex
pert warriors. We wonder how
long such an army would last be
fore the machine like accuracy of
the modern army. Not long we
warrant you. They would proba
bly be sacrificed in hundreds of
thousands before they had acquir
ed sufficient training to be able to
hold their own, less make headway
against an efficient and powerful
enemy. In the face of the bloody
torrent ol death suddenly poured
upon us we would probably be
forced to even more extreme
measures than was Britain for
the reason that Britain had pow
erful allys to hold the foe in
check while she was building her
army. There would be no buffer
between us and the enmy. Almost
as fast as the volunteers came for
ward we would be forced to hurl
them into the path of the advanc
ing foe, there to form a blood
'stained sacrifice to our lack of
preparedness. Hundreds of thou
sands, perhaps millions would be
swallowed up in the swirl of con
flict and the day would inevitably
arrive that we would find few to
come forward and give up their
lives in the unequal-,conflict with
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHY8ICIAN AND SURGEON.
Offic* and Ra*ld*nc*.
OVER HILL'S PHARMACY.
Offic# hour*! 2*5 and 7*1 p. m.
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There’s one rubber boot
that has “made good”
in Alaska, and that’s the
Goodrich
HIPRESS
White Boot
'With the Red-Lir.e ’round the Top”
You know that when a boot comes in and
simply sweeps the whole country like
“HIPRESS” has done, it’s GOT to be
SOMETHING UNUSUAL
White Goodrich “HIPRESS" Boots actually wear jj
longer tlm a Iron or steel! You don’t have to half- 1
sole them with leather-—they for outwear hob- I
nailed leather soles. The reason for this unusual service is that
“HIPRESS" are constructed by an entirely new process—fifty years
ahead of the old.
Slade of the same tough rub>*cr that gwns into Goodrich Auto Tiros—s elded
together under ei.omiou* pressure INTO ONE SOLID PIKCK1
Nothing to come upatt—they can’t leak, peel, crack or split! They’re omfort
able, too—shaped to the foot while it’s working. We premise that once you start
wearing White “HIPRESS” you’ll Dover bo satisfied with anything els.tv And
remember—it has a Red-Line 'round tho Tup.
DEALERS-rite sc onee for vuropk-s nod price*.
The B. F. Goodrich Company
Factories Akron, Ohio «#n?k n p“r
Brunei, e< and DeaUn F.very'whcru '* ’ll 3-1 iTkiucStrca* °“'p*Dy
mCn trained to the hour in the
ways of slaughter 'ihcn we I
would lind out selves in tne same
situation as imigiand. We stiould
then send, as oruain must now
senu, men wno were not only nolj
eager to go to tile trout, oui, aiso
men who were not htted to go
there. England has had to do this
and she was in a tar better state i
ot preparedness ac the commence
ment ot hostilities tnau we will
prouaole ever be, unless we
cuange our notions, and w hat Ert
gianu has been forced to will hap
pen no less inevitaoiy to us some
nine in tne tuture. it is useless
to argue that such things cannot
occur for, in the case ot Britain,
we have the incontrovertable
proof that they can. \vhen we
look the prospect square in the
face it seems eminently prefera
ble that we have at least a moui
ned form of conscription so that
we may be spared at least a por
tion ol the avviul sacrdice that
nngland has been compelled to
endure because of a lacii ot tiaiu
eu men at tne commencement ot
contact, if we are to maivc our
selves absolutely safe from ag
gression conscription is impera
tive. it is doumless true that we
can muddle along and win our
oattles somehow out it every able
homed man was a trained soldier
we might well escape a large por
tion ot wars horrors through not
being compelled to place men on
uring line who will not come
forward until the dread tocsin of
war is sounding through the land.
Because we cherish ifidivduai free
dom as the first principle of our
being wc have grown to believe
that military conscription 1s some
thing that would take away all
our libei ties. That this is a warp
ed and biased view is apparent
when one looks the matter square
in the face. To prepare the man
for war seems the best way in the
world to insure his liberties. Bri
tain is now giving us an object
lesson of the evil consequences of
ignoring that fact, but it is hope
less to believe that we will ever
profit by it until we have been
forced to fight for our lives.
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Why pay the Baking Powder
Co. 400 per cent profit? 35c sav
ed on every lb. of Baking Powder
means a saving of $7 to $14 in
one year; is this worth while"
We sell the recipe for making
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home, equal to the best on the
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TUESDAY NIGHT.
I THE DEPTHS OF HATE.
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J "HE DIAMOND CROWN.
Class Production.
Comedy
THE BABY ELEPHANT
AND PICKWINCK
Featuring the famous John
Bunny.
WEDNESDAY tk THURSDAY
Grand Climax.
THE PERILS OF PAULINE.
MRS. H. BURGH, Pianist.
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EAGLE HALL
TONIGHT.
BIG BANNER 6 REEL
SHOW .
Thilling Dramatic Sensation
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• A HERO OF THE
MOUNTAINS
By the Elko Film Co.
Nestor-Comedy.
AND THE VILLAIN ....
STILL PURSUED HER
Ramona Langley, F.dder Ly
ons and Lee Moran.
Sterling UnUiversal.
THE SHACK NEXT
DOOR.
A Side Splitter,
mis Glaum. Ray Gallagher.
TE GREAT TITANIC
DISASTER.
Violin Selections by Miss
Bertha Jo: nson.
)LLIE BOURRET pianist
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The breakup will be hard,
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