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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917
1 1 ’ ' ' ™" I
THE BRAVEST BATTLE.
rpHE bravest battle that ever was
-A fought—
Shall 1 tall you where and whenT
On the map of the world you will
find It not.
It was fought by the mothers of
men—
T^OT with cannon or battle shot,
-*•> With sword or mightier pen.
Not with powerful word or thought
From the lips of eloquent men.
BUT daep In some patient moth
er’s heart,
A woman who could not yield.
But silently, cheerfully bore her
part—
Aye, there la the battlefield!
"V^O marshaling troop, no bivouac
song,
No banners to flaunt and wave.
But. oh, their battles, they last so
long—
From the cradle e'en to the grave.
• -Joaquin Miller.
WAR RISKS AM) U-BOATS
Probably one thing the German
military Herren will keep from the
people is the announcement that the
war risk bureau of the American gov
ernment has reduced the. premium on
American steamships traversing the
"barred zone” by 25 per cent. The de
cision means that the U-boat menace
Is considered by the United States to
be only three-fourths as serious as it
was during the critical days when no
body could tell whether it would
prove disastrous to the allies.
The decision comes as a result of
the effective methods employed by
the allies in fighting the submarines.
On the same day the reduction in risk
premiums was made the navy de
partment announced that American
destroyers had disposed of many U
boats in European waters. Since this
is the first downward revision of pre
mium. It Is peculiarly welcome, not
so much from the financial advantage
to steamship companies, but from the
fact that the combined energies of
the entente allies have demonstrated
that the kaiser’s last resort is doom
ed. It augurs the defeat of the sub
marine menace and consequently the
defeat of Germany.
That many new devices are being
used to combat the U-boats Is admit
ted authoritatively, but for the most
part they are jealously guarded as
naval secrets. The use of the depth
bomb appears to be one of the most
effective methods of destroying un
dersea enemies. The allies are con
voying their merchantment, too, and
are saving many ships that otherwise |
would be lost. By next year this coun-!
try will have the largest destroyer
fleet in the world and will be in a
position to fight the submarine ter
ror even more effectively.
At present the most serious prob
lem ' is in providing tonnage to re
place that already destroyed or which
is still being sunk. The scarcity of
bottoms will be acutely noticeable
next spring and it is only with the
utmost efforts of the United States
that the allies can hope to obtain ade
quate shipping and to keep ahead of
the U-boats. In other words, while
the navy is waging aggressive war
fare against the submarines a,t sea,
the nation must wage defensive war
fare by turning out ships faster than
they are sunk.
The prospect tor Germany during
the hard winter that It now faces
must be discouraging Indeed for those
| responsible for the continuance of the
war. When the people fully realize
that their last hope—the submarine
—is gone, autocracy will tremble in
the balance.
ANSWERS WAGON ROAD CRITICS
It requires only a bare assertion of
the facts in connection with the coast
to Fairbanks wagon road to put to
flight those who are disposed to criti
cise the work that has been done on
it. The fact ,that automobiles are
making the trip the full length of
the road in two and a half days this
year when contrasted with conditions
in the recent past tells its own story
sa plainly that it makes the carpers
seem ridiculous.
Answering some of the critics of
this great work recently, the Fair
banks News-Miner said:
, "You can remember, for it was on
ly a few years ago, when certain ad
venturous souls, to us known as Jim
my Hamil, Capt. Barnette, Falcon Jos
lln and Ed. and Lee Jesson one ear
ly fall decided that they would at
tempt the seeming impossble feat of
going out to Valdez of the Military
Postroad on horseback! You can re
member how everyone thought it was
a fool trip and that they would never
get through. You can'remember the
surprise and pleasure with which we
received the news by wire that they
had made the trip and had made it
in shorter time than it had ever been
made before. After that we were
ready to believe that in time some
body might make the trip in o two
wheeled cart before snow fell. Finally
we worked up to the belief that in
time it might be made by powerful
light autos, and Bobby Sheldon prov
ed that. Now anybody can make the
trip over that Postroad in an auto
and most people prefer to go that
way. All this in but ter years’ time
_we have only been here eleven
years, which is not long. Empire.
GERMANY CONDUCTING
BIG LOAN CAMPAIGN
_
AMSTERDAM,- Oct. 17. — Ger
many's first great effort to make a
new war loan a success takes the form
of a full page of advertisements In the
leading German newspapers. In pari
the notice says:
“Money needed for subscription.
Easy terms, allowing time. You reck
on what you can earn in the forth
coming weeks and months, deduct the
cost of living, and then see what you
can lend the fatherland.”
GERMAN peace terms which in
clude the retention of Antwerp will
never be acceptable to Great Britain.
Antwerp, from the Napoleonic days,
has been regarded, when in hostile
hands, as a "pistol pointed at the
heart of England.
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TO FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE.
Dudlay Fiald Malona, Port Col
lector of Now York, / Raaiflna.
Photo by American Presa Association
Dudley Field Malone, collector of the
port of New York, has resigned from
bis $12,000 a year Job. This will leave
Mr. Malone free to carry out bis plans
to work for the national suffrage
amendment. He hap become the idol
of the militants for his championship
of the White House pickets. ^
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TO RED CROSS
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l)r. Silverman Receives Notice From
Vice Chairman Defining Juris
diction of Organization
Dr. J. A. Silverman, president of i
the local auxiliary of the National
Her Cross, received a notice on the
last boat that a charter had been
granted for a chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross, to be known as the
Valdez, Alaska Chapter, and to have
for its jurisdiction Valdez, Fort Lis
cum, Ellamar and Granby, except
such portons of said territory as have
already been organized under a sep
arate chapter.
PAPER TRUST TRAPPED BY
COMMITTEE OK SENATE
WASHINTON, D. C., Oct. 17.—
A report recommending government
operation of the print and pulp in
dustries during the war and arraign
ing what it calls the defiant attitude
of print paper producers, was filed
yesterday by the senate printing com
mittee. It will await action at the De
cember session.
The resort says the federal trade
commission’s findings “show beyond
any question ttat the print paper in
dustry, in its greed for excessive pro
fits, had imposed an unjust burden
on the American press, which faces
a serious disaster if relief cannot
speedily be had from the oppressive
prices now exacted for print paper."
It adds that the commission, in its re
cent investigation, exhausted every
resource at its command to obtain re
lief, owing "to the defiant attitude
assumed by the principal producers
of print paper and lack of authority
of the commission to enforce its find
ings as to a fair and reasonable
price."
INTERNED DIVER
STEAKS FROM PORT
MADRID, Spain, Oct. 17.—Indig
naton is rife among the people and
government officials over the escape
today from the port of Cadiz of an in
terned German submarine. The Span
ish government intends to take drastic
action in disciplining the Spanish of
ficials who either through design or
jarelessness allowed the German diver
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to get out of port.
The submarine had been interned
for some time. She put into Cadiz in
an injured condition, and could not
make her repairs, within the twenty
four hours prescribed by internation
al law. Evidently her crew repaired
her damage during the period of her
internment.
The action of the submarine has
increased the feeling enmity that
obtains in some quarters against Ger
many, and has aligned against the
Teptons a considerable part of the
neutral element.
The diver’s escape, It Is recogniz
ed, casts some reflection on Spain's
neutral policy.
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WHY send out for your printing when we' can
furnish you with anything needed in stationery for
the office and store.
A dollar kept at home is a dollar saved to the com
munity. If you send for your needs your neighbor
will follow your example and we all suffer. The town
that is up and coming is the town with an abiding
faith in its future, and how can you maintain your
faith in the city when you buy all you eat and wear
outside?
Beers, Sawbuck & Bunk have busted more towns
than they have built up, and you never saw a dollar
of your money eVer come back to you.
When you send your money outside to the old1 re
liable printing houses of Seattle and Tacoma you
may get a cheaper job in every sense of the word,
and you may also hate to pay a higher price for it.
Location notices, both quartz and placer; warran-'
ty deeds, milLsite location notices, proofs Of labor,
quit clai mdeeds, amended location notices, and all
kinds of legal blanks at The Prospector Office.
We sell a good quality of typewriter paper at $1.50
per box, a better quality for $2 and the best Crane’s
Japanese Linen for $2.50, legal size.
Why not let us print you 100 calling cards in the
latest style type, for $li>0.
$ $ $
MADE
FORMER VALDEZ PROFESSOR
WRITES TO FRIENDS
A letter received from Frank G.
Davis, farmer principal of Valdez
schools, who left here last spring to
accept a position in the schools at
Auburn, Washington, states that he
and his wife are located in their new
home and are doing well. Mr. Davis
Is principal of the Auburn schools and
has 28 teachers and 946 scholars un
der him. He states that the schools
teach gym work, manual training, and
physical training, and that a Junior
Red Cross was organized among the
pupils of the school with a member
ship of 200. Mr. Davis states that Au
burn is a lovely place of about 1300
inhabitants, with fine streets and
beautiful homes. It is situated close
Jo Seattle and Tacoma on the Seattle
Electric and the Northern Pacific
roads, and is the trading center of
large farming and dairy interests; Mr.
Davis states that many families have
given two and even three sons to the
war, and that the city is solidly be
hind the president.
HOTEL SEXTOS
Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
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in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
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