" HOW RED-BLOODED AMERICANS BETWEEN AGES OF 00 AND 50
CAN DO A LOT IN WINNING THE WAR SUGGESTED BY GEORGE APE
Advice to Americans between the
ages of 30 to oO on How to Help A in
the War is given thus by Georgo Ade:
While the war is on, the active work
in support of the boys at the front will
be shouldered cheerfully by men and
women a little too old for acrobatic
service but not yet frosted at the
temples.
They will supply part of the money
and mostof the “pep'1 needed to supply
and encourage a huge army in the field.
It is for them to realize that we have
passed the period of doubling and ques
tion answering. ¥
We have come to the days when has
tling must supplant conversation.
It was all right six months ago to
spare an hour a day in trying to con
vince some one with a vacant eye and
a dark mind that we were really justi
fied in accepting the insolent challenge
thrown at us by Germany.
You are to be forgiven if, even four
months ago, you spent valuable time
trying to convince a sluggish minority
that—
First. Government bonds are a safe
investment.
Second. I’ro-German propaganda are
to be hit in the head.
Third. The Allies are to be trusted.
Fourth. The Hod (Toss is above sus
picion and does not obtain either money
or knitted goods under false pretenses.
Fifth. All taxes which have been
levied are justified by extraordinary
and unprecedented conditions.
Sixth. This is not a rich man's war;
it was not precipitated by any \\ all
street influence; it is not concerned
over private investments: it is not a
grand benefit for munition makers.
Seventh. Fair promises have no value
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, April 2, 1918, there will be held in
the city hall, in the town of Iditarod.
Alaska! an election for the purpose of
electing seven councilmen and one
member of the school board.
The polls for said election will be
open at 9 o'clock a. m. on that day and
will close at 8 o'clock p. m. of the same
day, and all qualified electors of the
town of Iditarod who have registered
as provided by ordinance will be en
titled to vote at said election
Chas. E. Taylor.
Municipal Clerk.
Dated March 2, 1918.
Partnership Dissolution
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing be
tween John Duro anti Mike Iloss, under
the name of J. Duro and M. Ross, wood
dealers, at Otter precinct, Fourth divi
sion. Territory of Alaska, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, Mike Ross
selling his interest to John Duro, who
will continue the business under his
name, and the same style.
John Duro.
Dated September 22. 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Charles Courtright, and to his heirs
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned has expended in money, labor
and improvements during the year 1916
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100)
upon placer mining claim known as the
Ophir Fraction, on Willow creek, a
tributary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording district, territory
of Alaska, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law respect
ing annual labor on raining claims.
And if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to pay your proportion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States
Dona LaC'hancf, Co-owner.
First publication, January 5, 1918.
Last publication, April 6, 1918.
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when they are made by a criminal who
finds himself backed into a corner.
Eighth. Tile men in our training
camps and abort'd transports and sta
tioned somewhere in France tire being
safeguarded as American soldiers
never before were looked after, as re
gards wholesome food, proper sanita
tion, prevention of disease, and moral
guidance.
Why enumerate further?
A be Marlin met a feller down in
| Frown county that never hoard of
I Tony Pastor, and we have a taxpayer in
jour township who thinks the world is
I flat, and you can find cabaret perform
j ers in New York City whodon't believe
! there is such a place as Iowa, and clair
j voyants still find customers, and you
can name people who will consult a
a patent-medicine “add’ in preference
to a doctor, and old Jethro Til ford, over
in Shelby township, carries a dried-up
potato to keep off the rheumatism.
Tn every community you will find a
contrary-minded sediment of the human
race—people who keep themselves
somewhat m evidence by noisny uouy
mg facts which are self-evident to ail
of their neighbors who happen to be in
the full enjoyment of sanity.
They are somewhat like frogs, i. e.,
thev make an awful noise in proportion
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to their number.
Now, if you will take the trouble to
! check up in your immediate neighbor
hood the people who, from the begin
ning of the war, have been full of
doubts and questions and false alarms,
you will find that they are few in num
ber and of precious little importance,
except as atmospheric disturbances.
Also, did it ever occur to you:
That the man who had brought most
liberally of Government bonds never
questioned the safety of his security?
That the woman who was knitting
the most socks and sweaters never be
lieved the silly stories about the Red
Cross being a crooked institution?
That the soldier boy about to board
a transport and join his comrades of
France and Great Britan never was
known to doubt the sincerity of the
men with whom he was soon to join
shoulders'?
No, indeed;
All the wails and misgivings and fish
stories are put into circulation by a few
picayune outsiders who were just built
to be obstructionists and somehow can't
help it.
They are in a class with the Tories
who feasted the aristocratic British
officers while Washington’s Army
starved at Valley Forge.
They are a hold over of tho h allandig
ham clan that reviled Lincoln and gave
an underhanded copperhead support to
the cause of slavery, even after it was
doomed.
They are the kind of people who op
pose public improvements, will not buy
tickets for the Chautauqua, criticize
tiie minister if he smiles in public, and
attach the presumption of guilt to any
woman attacked by scandal.
They are the small bores, the two-by
fours, the gnats, the sand Hies, the
ticks put on earth to teach good people
the quality of patience.
The time has come to ignore them.
If we can not lock them up for safe
keeping, at least we can shut them out
from our daily program and go ahead
with the important work laid out for
us.
This is no time to waste precious
hours and vocal energy in trying to
prove that two and two make four, and
water is wet, and the sun sets in the
west, and the mad dog of Prussianism
must be muzzled.
Do not try to convince the miniature
La Folletces, because they do not wish
to be. convinced. They derive a bilious
comfort from deing different. They
have learned that no cloud has a silver
lining; it is festooned on the interior
with crepe.
If all the optimists along your street
should arise some morning into a world
bedecked with dew7 sparkles and ex
claim in unison, “What a beautiful,
sunshiny day!” then some two-legged
crab would emerge from behind a lilac
bush and say, “Yes; but I think it’ll
rain before night.”
If you find a banana skin on the
threshold of patriotic opportunity, kick
it aside and do not permit yourself to
become fussed.
The stalwart men and women of mid
dle age are to keep the home fires
burning during the supreme ordeal now
at hand.
They are to raise the crops, speed
the factories, collect the taxes, or
ganize the home guards, conserve the
wheat and meat and sugar, back up
the Red Cross, peddle the Liberty
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Ronds write the letters, park the com
fort kits, and stand, by for orders at all
t; mes.
if a busy worker feels some one tug
ging at bis coat tail, the thing to do
is to kick straight hack and kick liaril
hut do not waste time in looking around.
I'v the way, here is an important tip
for every man past JO: Do not tell
around that you would lie keen to enlist
if you were just a little younger.
Some of the men just, under ,'JO will
have their doubts, aryl even those who
believe you will not find entertainment
in your conversation..
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NOME DEEDGES MAY NOT OPERATE
Nome Industrial Worker: There is a
probability that the dredges in this
camp will not operate the ensuing sea
son on account of a lack of distillate, or
the cost of it. and other essentials.
There is admittedly some occasion for
anxiety on the score of passenger serv
ice direct from the Outside, unless the
wa1’ should end.
Josephus E. Riley left last Sunday on
a business trip to Ophir and Tolsti i
mining camps.
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Lumber Co., left last Sunday for his
concern's sawmill plant at Simelapolis,
month of Tolstoi ris er, to put things in
readiness for the spring lumber-making
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