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WE MUST AND WE WILL j
WIN THE WAR, IS PAT
RIOTIC SPIRIT OF
ALL AMERICANS
The manager of The Great Divide
has just, returned from tin extended
Eastern business trip. The war situa
tion along the Atlantic coast seems j
more impressive than hero in the
West. Patriotism is rampant every
where and everyone is most optimistic.
'1 h >y look to us of the West, as never j
before, for the foodstuffs which are j
even more necessary than ammunition >
and artillery. They have every con- 1
lidence in us, and we will not betray !
this confidence. The war must and
will be won, and The Great, Divide will
do its share in a wholehearted manner.
Here are some of the war slogans
picked up in different places. Cut 1
them out and learn them and then pass j
them on, but. above all things, adopt 1
them as your own:
Our enemies over here are trying!
to hurt our boys over there. Our en
emies are listening Don't talk.
If you know anything Germany
would like to know, let this be your j
speechless day.
Germans—their agents and sympa- !
thizers are trying to overhear yon. j
Keep quiet. Don’t talk.
Don’t talk. If you want to help this j
nation, don’t talk! Cut the public con
versation. Don’t talk! Do not make
the Germans wiser! Be a conversation
miser! If you want to can the Kaiser
don’t talk!
The spy is always hungry for infor
;
GET ON
THE JOB
Put Your Shoulder to the
Wheel and Help the
Red Cross Drive
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Space Contributed by A, D, Currie
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revatioD. His motto is: ‘"Every JinT»lbil j
added to what you’ve got makes » i
whole lot luors.” Don’t add your Ml. j
Keep your eyes peeled, jour lips; j
sealed, your heart steeled.
Your idle prattle reav loss & battle. 11
Don’t, tell all you know.
The Herman spy chief Stieberg j
claimed that he won the Franco-Prus- !
sian war with his artsy of spies ahead j
of the troops. The German spy-army
invaded America long ago.
A postcard left in a captured Ger- ■
man trench told the British just what
they needed to know of a certain army, i
A careless remark dropped in a street j
car may furnish a spy v-ftli the missing f
link in a long chain. When in doubt j
don’t say it.
One German army has already oc-!
copied America. The invisible host j
of spies is everywhere.
Benedict Arnold was an American!
officer trusted and loved bv George
Washington. Three cowboys caught j
the spy whose papers exposed Arnold.
Keep vour eyes open, lie port suspic- j
ions persons who ask curious questions.
It is rumored the Kaiser is making |
a special lot of iron crosses for Amer- ;
icans who help him by careless talk, j
Have you qualified yet for your iron
cross?
Don’t tell all you know to people;
you don’t.
A word to spies is sufficient. Don’t
tell all you know.
Kvervman’s pledge: America will
win this war! Therefore, 1 will work,
1 will save, 1 will sacrifice, 1 will
endure. I will fight—cheerfully and to j
my utmost—as if the whole outcome of
the struggle depended upon me alone. |
SELF PRASSE
I may be loaded down with merit. 1
but I am foolish to declare it. If I go j
forth, my worth expounding, and boost-1
ing in tones resounding, my friends!
will mutter, sooner or later, “He is a ,
fourth-rate selling plater. His dome of |
thought is stuffed with sawdust; the :
worth while man is always modest." |
I often catch myself beginning to boost i
myself in language winning: I tell of |
big things I'm achieving, of how com- !
petitors I’m leaving away back yonder [
in the distance: 1 tell how I, without j
assistance, climbed upward from the
slum and gutter to heights too wonder- 1
ful to utter. 1 throw myself all kinds j
of lilies, then find my hearers have the j
willies. They look as though they'd j
like to take me to some secluded spot j
and shake me Then mortified, humil
iated, by self-disgust and anguish
weighted, I fade away, and while I'm
going 1 wonder why I do such blowing.
The most of us have sins besetting; the
most of.us are oft forgetting that it is
foolish to unfold them, and flaunt them
where all men behold them. —Walt j
Mason.
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•John H. Scott, who was the A. V. N. i
Co.'s agent at Diketnan last summer, is
holding a similar position with the
same corporation at Nenana.
Miners & Merchants Bank
ID1TAROD, ALASKA
Capital, S50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
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TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
J. W. Farrell,
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GENERAL HARDWARE
Stoves and Graniteware Gasoline, Goal Oil, Etc.
The Only First-Class Dog Harness in Alaska
FOR WORKING LEAGUE AGAINST GERMANY
Theodore Marburg, of Baltimore, United States minister to Bel
gium. BM1-I3, president 0f jhe American Society for the Judicial
Settlement of International Disputes, 15)17, prominent among the
organizer* of the League to Enforce Peace, in The Humanitarian
for December, 15>17, writes;
AN we afford to shake hands with the unholy thing -drip
ping with blood of innocents- -known as Germany?
L Gan we afford to make a pact with a deliberate viola- !
tor of law, human and divine?
What, semblance of reality would attach to sitting at the coun
cil tattle with it creature false to its express and solemn prom
ise— its promise not to violate Belgium? What value would lie
in an agreement, with such a State?
In the intercourse of men, certain things are taken for
granted: that they will keep their word, that they will respect
the law. that they will observe the common dictates of human
ity, that they will act as gentlemen. When they fail us in any
of these fundamentals, the situation becomes impossible.
What of a nation that fails in all of them? A league of na
tions which would include a state motived as Germany is mo
tived today would be a rope of sand. Intellectual honesty
honesty to one’s self—is a highly important quality. Nations
making a compact with a perjured Germany would not be hon
est to themselves. For they would know that she could not be
counted upon to keep her word. When confidence in the good ]
intentions of the neighbor is destroyed, we have feud, not soci
ety. A league composed of nations which lacked confidence in
one another would be a shadow, not substance From the very
beginning it would move in a false atmosphere. Who can doubt
the result?
And what of a league from which Germany and her allies
were left out?
For the period or the war, yes! Organization or the Allies
into a working league now would be of incalculable advantage.
It should be formed at once; in, in fact, already in being, so far
as relates to community of aims and loose co-operation, though
to accomplish its tremendous task it needs close cooperation.
It is urged that if a league is formed now by the Allies it will
be looked upon by Germany after the war as directed against
her interests and therefore less likely to win her approval and
adhesion. On the other hand it has been pointed out that per
manent unions, such as the American Union, are born of the
needs of the day, that the Allies need now the machinery which
will make their co-operation effective, and that we are therefore
likely to encounter less opposition among them in the forma
tion of a working league now than if we wait until this pressure
of necessity has passed. Two considerations may be advanced
in this connection:
I. it will be far more difficult to set up an effective
and enduring league if Germany wins the war; and the
able organization of the Allies in a working league now
will help prevent this catastrophe.
If Germany is regenerated it will be by reason of
the fact that she has recognized in her present leaders
the real enemies of the German state and people.
Just as the new France, which followed the fall of Napoleon,
was soon accepted by the European world as an entirely
friendly power, and in its turn harbored no animosity against
the coalition which had overthrown Napoleon, so, it is to be
presumed, the new Germany will sit as a friend at the council
table of Europe and of the world, enjoying the friendship of.
and entertaining friendly feelings for, her sister nations.
But in order to succeed after the war, a league which plans
the use of force in any contingencies whatsoever must embrace
all or nearly all the Great Powers. Less than this would con
stitute but little advance on the present system of opposing
alliances. It might postpone war, as did the existence of the
Entente and the Triple Alliance. But, like them, it would run
the risk of making war universal if it did come.
ONLY A LITTLE
The launch Sea Wolf arrived early
last Saturday morning with a couple of
pints of mail—the second of the sum
mer. It is learned that there were
kbout four letters in the consignment,
but it reached here “accordin’ to con
tract,’’ and within the age limit of deliv
ery requirements. It’s one redeeming
beauty of Alaska’s mail service: should
consignments be days, weeks or months
reaching their destinations, they’re al
ways toted “accordin’ to contract.”
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TWAS ABE WHO DID GOOD DEED
In the list of generous people who
subscribed for the keep of fatherless
French children, published in last
week’s Pioneer, the name of “A. J.
Weir” appealed. That was not cor
rect. The name of the subscriber i
A. J. Weiss, the energitic proprietor of
the Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Good Clothes, Flat City. ’Twas our
error, Abe, an your treat.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERM
OF COURT
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska. Fourth Division. In the
matter of calling a Special Term of
Court at Flat. Alaska.
In pursuance of an order of the above
entitled court, made and entered herein
on the 22nd day of May, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that a special
term of the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Fourth division, will
be held at the United States court
house at Flat, Alaska, beginning on
June 24, 1918, at the hour of 11 o’clock
a. m., for the transaction of all business
which may then and there be pending
and which may regularly come before
this court.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand as clerk of the District
Court, and affixed the seal thereof this
23rd day of Mav, 1918.
[Seal] ~ J. E. Clark,
Clerk ef the District Court, Territory
of Alaska, Fourth Division,
By A. M. Kilgore, Deputy.
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Lima, June lo.—The Peruvian gov
ernment has taken possession of Ger
man vessels interned at Callac.
MANY AUTO ACCIDENTS
Seattle, June 15.—Automobile casu
alties have averaged about six per day
recently. Two were killed and two
fatally injured this morning.
WANT YANKEE MONEY
Washington, May 24.—Advices re
ceived in this city state that, agents of
the German government in this coun
try are making large purchases of
United States notes fur shipment to
Austria. The securities, it i.s stated,,
will Ik; used by Austria to purchase
grain from the f/krainians, the peasants
of that country having refused to ac
cept German arrd Austrian securities in
exchange for their products.
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,7. G. Rivers i.s extending his ditch
for water on the Malamcte pup. His
workable ground will not be exhausted
for at. least three more seasons.
P r o fe ssional
Michigan, 138 1 Kentucky, 1895
Alaska, ID If
George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of Irtitarod
CHAS. E. TAYLOR
! Attorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
! First Avenue Iditarod
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DR. MOORE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
DRUG STORE
J. WILSON REED, M,D.
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Physician and Surgeon
Flat Hospital, F iat, Alaska
DR.H.BEHLA
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Physician »•*■>
| Surgeon
Dentistry in Connection
RESIDENT EH YSICIAN
Behia Hospital
Fiat, Alaska
8ig Stocks of Fresh Goods
Everything for the Miner and
Prospector
MAX SIM EL trader
Store at Mouth of Tolstoi
WHERE DO WE DO
FROM HERE? Over to the
Arcade Oafs
1 To Get a Bin Square Meal.
!; Watch Repairing and ^
I Jewelry Work to order. |
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VAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
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WHAT NEXT?
Help the Boys at the Front by Boosting
the Bed Cross at Home
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