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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1917
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AS URGED BY HEARST PAPER8
A. J. Waterhouse in the San Fran
cisco Star.
"Pope Benedict issued his moving
appeal for peace and staled the terms
he thought just and honorable to all
in almost the words repeatedly used
by the Hearst papers."
“President Wilson has officially
published his formula of peace terms
in practical agreement with the terms
repeatedly urged by the Hearst pap
ers.”—Brief extracts from an editor
ial appearing in H«arst papers.
When God viewed the spaces and saw
they were void.
All formless and lifeless and still,
Black heaped upon blackdess by
blackness decoyed,
A silence no voices might thrill,
He said, "1 will build from the noth
ingness here
Creation, omnipotence-nursed.
And my suns they shall shine, and my
planets shall cheer,”—
As urged by the papers of Hearst.
I
Then out of the nothingness chaos j
was formed,
Mad matter unknowing its place, |
And dim, shapeless thingB in His uni
verse swarmed,
Vague monslerB, the tenants of
space.
They dwelt in a dimness exceeding all
night.
And the spaces by blackness were
cursed.
Till He whispered in kindness, "Now
let there be light,”
As urged by the papers of Hearst.
Time passed till the aeons were
counted as naught,
As naught in the infinite plan,
Till out of black chaos was finally
wrought
‘ That marvel of marvels, wee Man;
Then man—it was Balaam—went rid
ing one day
On a talkative ass; ’twas the first,
But it wasn't the last with a voice in
its bray—
As proved by the, papers 8f Hearst.
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UOl) HELP ALASKA
Now conies tbe Walsh bill which
proposes to wipe out the interdict
against coal land development in the
States but leaves the conservation
camouflage over Alaska. It is not
hard to guess why. Public opinion in
the States demands more coal in
these days of high prices and most
people know that development of coal
properties in the States can be car
ried on with restrictions against
monopoly, but whenever anybody pro
poses free-hand development of Al
aska a large majority of the same
folks yell their heads off over the
proposed highway robbery.
It all comes about through the lim
itless sowing of misinformation about
Alaska in the conservation pestilence
of 1910 and the year or two follow
ing. In that hapless epoch the real
Territory of Ajaska was smothered
under a barrage of humbug by the
yellow Journals and magazines, and
little of the truth has-yet bored out
through the pall. All exponents and
practitioners of the varied forms of
aslnlnity, every notoriety-seeking
windjammer, and every thin-wltted
Idealist with a message for tbe world
exhorted the peepul to stand on
guard lest the forty thousand white
inhabitants of Alaska, aided by the
siwashes, carry away to some outlying
planet deposits of gold and copper
sufficient to pave the highways of the
continent like the streets of the New
Jerusalem, and ooal measures that
would supply the earth for a million
years and keep hell fire going at the
same time.
The peepul of the States swallow
ed the bunk, and when they turned
their attention to the next fad they
still carried the undigested dose of
Action in their noodles. They seldom
think of Alaska, and when they do
they merely resurrect old ideas. They
still believe somebody wants-to steal
Alaska in fst eknk. Consequently
when* a sane western legislator Ilka
Senator Welsh proposes somethin*
for tkOwesto* state*** fee* to leed
It down with Alaska. ThU hapless
territory Is sttfl *hp«V*atk*| fleM tot
every Darius Green with A political,
economic or social flying machine.
Maybe it will be different m hun
dred years from now. But if it doesn’t
change pretty soon there won’t be
many white people in Alaska ten .years
hence. , •
For a decade the bureaucrats have
been running, Alaska Into the ground.
They have been allowed to do it be
cause of flubdub that has been ped
dled about Alaska as ‘‘a treasure
house that belong? to the whole na
tion.” Folks outside have been led
to believe that they have dividends
due them in Alaska—that Alaskan
people are picking up money like
wild fruit and carrying it away in
baskets. They think Alaskans should
be paid ordinary wages for staying
up here packing the mazuma into
government warehouses.
When "the States" learn that Al
aska is very similar to the west from
the Rockies to the Pacific and that
men have to work and take long
chances here Just as they do In Colo
rado, Montana or Nevada; that the
cost of doing anything is greater and
the attractions of life are less than
in any of the western states, they
will understand that Alaska will nev
er be developed until men here cab
be offered possible returns corres
ponding to the work and risk.
God help Alaska if the government
will not.
LLOYD GEORGE 18 OUTSPOKEN
David Lloyd George threw a mon
key wrench into British placidness
the other day at Paris, when in dis
cussing the now inter-allied war coun
cil, he said the all'es bad committed
an "unbelievable fault” in permitting
Serbia to be overrun by the Germans.
The result has been to stir up a hor
net's nest at home the like of which
has not been seen Bince the little
Welshman entered the prime minist
ry.
In this country the opinion has been
growing that the allies have been bad
ly in need of a system of co-ordina
tion. The allies have made more than
one strategic blunder, and they can
nearly all be charged to a lack of
unity on all fronts. The German gen
eral staff, in mapping out the war
plans for all the central powers, has
not faced the handicap imposed up
on the allies, and consequently its
strategic mistakes have been fewer,
oi; at least less glaring.
The inter-allied council was form
ed last week in Italy. It consists of
the premiers of England, France and
Italy, as well as one of the leading
army men from these three nations.
Probably the other major allies, in
cluding the United States, will be re
presented later.
Lloyd George said that he was at
the point of resigning the prime min
istry unless his efforts to consolidate
the energies of the entente were suc
cessful. He said the war had been
marked by too much “particularism”
and not enough "solidity," and he
pointed out that the enemy was per
mitted to overrun Serbia because none
of the large allied powers felt the res
ponsibility of succoring it in time, or
because they were absorbed with their
individual war plans. The object of
the council, he said, was to see that
the unity it represents be in fact and
not In appearance.
Naturally, the premier’s reference
to the Serbian Incident aroused for
mer Premier Asquith and the conser
vatives, who were In power when
Serbia was overwhelmed. Moreover,
a section of the press is Inclined to
question the wisdom of the war coun
cil, apparently fearing it will assume
too much authority. Lloyd George tex
plained yesterday that the council
has no executive power but its pur
pose is to co-ordinate allied efforts.
After all Is said, Lloyd George
seems to have the better of the- argu
ment and there is reason to believe
that a general staff, representing ail
the allies, can function more smooth
ly and to better purpose than four
or five staffs acting with more or less
independence and without the “sol
idarity” <Wbich the premier says is es
sential to success.'
NBW8 dispatches state that Atlan
ta, George, has the highest death rate
of any large city in the United States,
and Seattle, Washington, the lowest,
to which we promptly take exception.
Several Alaskan, towns have a lower
death rate than Seattle. In fact we
know of a.town over on Cook Inlet
which has no death gate at all; no
one is left to die.
SEATTLE HOTEL
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_ DOIT AND DISEASE.
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HM AlMW Hm Tjr|b*M Fever, end
He Oetf-lt Freni Filth.
roneort of a queen end yet
to die of a disease that la caused by
filth! , s
That was the fate of Prince Albert,
consort of Queen Victoria, who died at
the prime age of forty-two from ty
phoid fever, a disease that is wholly
preventable.
Typhoid fever Is found only In man
It ia caused by a short rod slmi>ed mi
crbgcoplc vegetable which euters the
body through the mouth ami leaves It
In human discharges to enter unother
human mouth, to which it is carried by
Ungers, Uies. fluids and food.
It Is essentially a disease of young
adult life. Older people are less apt to
bare It. probably because they have
suffered from uu attack of the disease
In their youth.
Typhoid fever Is known by various
names—“slow fever.” ”low fever”—but.
whatever name it ia called by. It kills
about 8 per cent of those whom it at
tacks.
A certain percentage of those who
recover become carriers—that is. per
sons who, though wed secrete the or
ganisms in their dlsri.».gea.
Carriers are largely responsible for
the lHTpetnatlon of typhoid fever, but
the Installation of proper sewer ays
terns, the abolition of flies, cockroaches
and other filth insects, the maintenance
of a pure food aupply and tha intelli
gent care of the victim of the disease
are the measures which if rigidly en
forced will rid the couutry of the dla
ease.—New York MaiL
LIKE INVERTED RAIN.
Luckily For tho Aviator, Ho Woo Out
of Rang# of tho Drape.
It will be easily understood, writes
C. G. Grey In "Tales of tbe Flying
Service.” that before a bullet that has
been shot straight upward begins to
fall there must be a point where It
stands dead still and that for tbe last
part of its upward flight It travels very
slowly. One oilicer of my acquaintance
told mb. after some months of war.
that Ills most curious experience was
wlieu ouce. and once only, be discov
ered tbe exact extreme range point
He was flying along quite peacefully
on a bright, sunny morning at an alti
tude of a little over 8.000 feet without
worrying shout anything, when sud
denly lie saw something bright durt
past the side of tbe machine. He be
gan to look about him and saw, a
shade below bim and a trifle to one
side, a whole stream of little bright
things glittering In the sun.
Then he realized that be had Just
struck a level that happened to be tin
extreme vertical range of a machine
gun that was making uncommonly
good shooting. Other bullets from
rifles sud other machine guns also
flashed into view as be flew along, am:
when bis eyes caught tbe right focus he
could follow the slow, topmost part of
their movement for a considerable dis
tance. “It looked.” he said. “Just as it
It wers raining upward.” and the pbc
nomenon was so novel that be quite
forgot for a time that the "raindrops'
indicated that tie was uu|>ppular with
soma one below.
Bomb Dropping Balloons.
The first bomb dropping balloons
were humble euougli aud equally fu
' tile. Balloons bud been used In war as
early ns tbe siege of Maubeuge by the
Austrians for observation purposes.
Tbe first talk of bomb dropping was In
1812. when the Russians were said t
have a huge balloon for that purpose
but notblug was done with IL In 1847
however, the Austrians, when attack
ing Venice, sent up paper Are balloons
which were to drop bombs Into the
town. But they forgot to alloyv for con
trary air ctin-euts. The balloons got
Into such a, current aud, drifting back
over the Austrian lines, bombed them
Instead of Venice.
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Webster's Portrait.
Daniel Webster once sat for hla por
trait to G. P. Healy. and the senator's
remark when be surveyed the complet
ed picture liecame one of tk# artist's
favorite anecdorea In after years. "1
think.” said Webster as ha looked at
hla counterfeit presentment “that la a
face I have often ahaved.”
Healy found Andrew Jackson a dls
agreeable and unwilling “subject" end
he compensated himself by painting
Old Hickory with absolute fidelity to
nature, not glossing a single defect
The portrait gives Jackson sn ugly,
savage and pallid face.
The Ship af Mata.
Sir Wilfrid Laurler once took a fall
oat of Sir Charles Topper, for years
leader of the opposition, nod Sir John
Macdonald. Bantering them on their
self praise for their own political serv
ices to Canada, be admitted thht they
had Bailed the ship of stats fairly suc
cessfully, adding: ”81r John was at the
helm and supplied the brains, while Sir
Charles supplied the wind. Hla blow
tug filled tbs sails."—Toronto Globs.
Embarrassing. .
“Do you ever sou the president?”
naked Willie of hla uncla. who lived In
Washington,
“Tea. nearly- every day." waa the re
idT.
"And does he ever see yeul" queried
the tittle fellow.-Chicago News. .
fi ’ dW-iTit
"Send me A ton of coal"
"'wWhdt'aHsP’ 'v'fi
‘ “Wen. si MOO pound ten weald sutt
me. If that’s not asking too much.”—
rti.i 'U' ,’T
1 Suggestion
Soups in Cant
Heinz & Campbell
Celery
Chicken
Ox Tail
Mock Turtle
Consomme
• Clam Chowder,
Tomatoes
Fish and Salad
Can Crab
Can Shrimp
- Can Lobster
Can Tuna
Can Salmon
Fresh Lettuce
Fresh Cucumbers
Fresh Tomatoes
Salad Dressing
Mayonnaise
Trimmings
*
Can Corn on Cob
Can Tiny Peas
Can Mushrooms
Can Asparagus
Cranberries
Squash ,
Sweet Potatoes
Pumpkin
' Green Peppers
Fresh Celery
Beverages
Grape Juice
Loganberry Juice
Apple Juice
. Sweet Cider
Lipton’s Tea
Chocolate
Hill’s Coffee
Desserts
Fig Pudding
Mince Meat
Pumpkins
Squash
Fiesta Wafers
Fancy Cookies
Relishes
Ripe Olives
Green Olives
Stuffed Olives
Salted Nuts
Sour Pickles
Sweet Pickles
Dill Pickles
FreSh Grapes Dates—Figs Camembert Cheese
Fred. Apples Cluster Raisins Neuchatel Cheese
Fresh Pears American Cheese
Fresh Melons Cream Cheese Pimento Cheese
Fresh Casaba German Breakfast Cheese Green^ Chili Cheese
COFFEE CIGARS CIGARETTES
S. BLUM & COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
To Hhoot President
BUFFALO, Nov. 26.—Plans for. the
assassination of President Wilson dur
ing his visit to this city to address the
American Federation of Labor have
been frustrated, it is believed by the
arrest of John Santerly nineteen years
of age, a machinist. He is being clos
ely questioned by the United States
district attorney. Asked if it were
true that he had said that he thot
the president should be shot for send
ing men to the European v'ar he said:
“I’ll shoot the president myself,
the first chance I get. He will be
shot anyhow.” __
TWO-LINE CANNERY BE
INSTALLED IN VALDEZ
Last year's operations were so suc
cessful that the Valdez Packing Com
pany have determined to enlarge their
scope of operationa and will convert
their cannery here into a two-line
plant. The machinery will be shipped
north in a short time and a gang of
men will come with it to install it
and have it in working order when
the big run of fish comes. This means
that from seventy-five to 100 men and
theit; families will be e mployed in
this growing concern the coming sum
mer. It also means that from ten to
twenty seine boats and trolling skiffs
will be used, which will provide fur
ther Jobs for Alaskans. The Valdez
Packing Company last year made the
largest pack in the territory with the
exception of one cannery in southeast
Alaska, which also has a one-line
plant and exceeded the Valdez con
cern by a few thousand cases.
ASKS FRENCH WOMEN TO
SIMPLIFY WINTER FASHIONS
\
PARIS, Nov. 26—Ambassador Jus
serand has communicated to the
French style-makers, that the United
States desires women’s and ‘men's
styles simplified as much as possible
the coming winter in order to save
materials, especially in women’s wear.
'The Copper River Pecking Com
pany at Port Nellie Juan are build
ing two trolling boats to be operated
with six horsepower Atlas-Imperial
engines.'
TURKEYS
Fresh killed turkeys, never been
frosen. Get one for Thanksgiving at
Love-Whitley's. ' tf
Guild 8ale Thursday Nov. **. tf
Costly gifts of gold or *em may
suggest that you are prosperous, but
a good portrait speaks right to the
heart of the loved ones. Jenner the
Photographer makes them now for
Xmas.
Received by steamer Alaska. Let
tuce, celery, tomatoes, cucumbers,
parsley, green peppdVs. "Keystone Pro
**•<». , *
line' of box aandlas at Hunt's. tf
rry^h bulb choeomtes and a *e*
' , Fresh taffy, ehews and brittles, at
kuat’e Caddy Xltchse; tf
Buy your groceries direct. Save
fifteen to twenty-fire per cent. The
house that sells direct to consumers.
Randall Grocery ft Brokerage Co.,
Inc., 82 Marion St., Seattle Wn. tf
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at an priots.
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