IDITAROD PIONEER
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BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKLE
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Vol. 0 No. 12
THANKS, LADIES
To the ladies of the camp a
vast amount of credit is due for
the splendid results of the two
recent benefit dances and enter
tainments — the Ladies’ Red
Cross Rally at Flat on the 8th,
and the Alaska Pioneers’ func
tion in Iditarod on the night of
the 16th—for the American Red
Cross. From one point of view,
one would scarcely believe that
t wo such affairs could be success
ful within a period of eight days,
but to the Iditarod Pioneer, hav
ing for years noticed with pleas
ure the splendid manner in which
the noble women of the camp
conduct affairs to get results, it
is not surprising. There never
was a community blessed with a
better or nobler “passei of women
folks” than is this.
In the words of Tiny Tim, “God
bless them, everyone."
Japan’s quiet intimation that
she has no intentioh of submit
ting to a Bolsheviki repudiation
of debts due her citizens ought to
help dissipate the Trotzky dream
of beautiful irresponsibility. —
Juneau Empire.
Cheer up, good people, it’s leas
than three months until the days
begin to shorten, and our old
friend Winter will start making
his plans for another long stay
with us. _________
One week from tomorrow —
March 81 — is Easter Sunday.
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“Conquest and Culture.” the book being issued by the Com
mittee on Public Information, under the auspices of the gov
ernment, should not overlook the message from Heinrich
Schaff, Berlin publicist, in the Tagliche Rundschau, reprinted
in the Boston Transcript. We are reluctant to blame a nation
for the utterances of its individual citizens, but when the words
of many citizens so accord as to explain what is otherwise un
explainable in the conduet of a nation, we must believe them
to be representative. “Nothing is further from our wish,”
says Dr. Schaff. “than to enforce on others our own peculiar
ways. Our intention is limited to elaborating the soul of the
rest of Europe. What we strive for in the interests of human
ity and of life is that elevation may be reached, not decline and
fall,” and be adds, “if other nations learn to fear us in the
process, they will-Cflso learn to respect us ” He admits that
“among the enemies of Germany may he foun(| a few who are
inspired by noble motives,” but he says “no amount of nobility
on the other side, did it exist, should shake the German’s be
lief that we are appointed to win this war against all, for all ”
That is to say the Germans have been divinely charged with
the task of spiritually elevating mankind by force. And yet
after this declaration of high moral purpose, Dr. Schaff gives
expression to his feelings in the following amazing advice to
the government and the people:
“Our authorities ought straightway to forbid the utterance,
verbally or written, of the word Move.’ Certainly hatred, too,
can exert a weakening effect on the hater, so long as it remains
purely theoretical and confines itself to poems and post cards
on which it frequently makes itself ridiculous. Let us be wise.
Let us pray daily to the Demon of Wrath, let us turn theory
into practice, let us inspire the whole of our people with virile
hatred of the enemy, so that every man, every woman, every
lisping school child shall burn with ardor to do something di
rectly or indirectly to demonstrate what hatred really can be if
is made truly national.”’
We have just said that such expressions explain the conduct
of the nation, and they do; but none the less are they incom
prehensible in detail. Efforts have been made in the past to
elevate men spiritually by force, but it has always been done
in the name of love. Dr. Schaff would abolish love by law and
save the world through hate. We could laugh at the folly of
it if the stupendous power of Germany were not behind the
sentiment and putting it into ruthless action. As it is, indigna
tion vies with amazement.
WHEN WAR WILL END
Absolute knowledge I have none,
But my aunt’s washerwoman’s sister’s
son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street
That lie had a letter just last week,
Written in the finest Greek,
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo
Who said the negroes in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in a Texas town
Who got it straight from a circusclown
That a man in Klondike heard the news
From a gang of South American Jews
About somebody in Borneo
Who heard a man who claimed to know
| Of a swell society femalo fake
j Whose mothor-in-law will undertake
| To prove that her seventh husband’s
sister’s uieca
Had stated in a printed piece
That she has a son who has a friend
That knows when the war is going to
end. Tatis.
NOTICE
Miss Isaacson, Flat City, wishes to
notify the public that she is resuming
her former laundry, pressing and clean
ing business.
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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FLAT, ALASKA
SERGEANT BYERS
LIKES THE SERVICE
‘ Writing to friends at Flat City from
j **
Kelly Field aviation camp, near San
Antonio, Tex., Sergeant Earl L. Byers
tells of his first month’s service as an
army man:
Bear Friends: I have been in the
service one month today and am get
ting along nicely. I would have been
commissioned shortly after my arrival
at Seattle had it not been for my ears. !
My hearing is so defective that I was !
very nearly denied entrance into the
army in any capacity. I could not get.
into training school thru the Seattle j
j Aviation board, so 1 enlisted as a pri- j
| vate and was sent to Texas. In two j
I weeks I became first sergeant and am |
' now in command of my company, two i
hundred men, as we have not been as
signed any army officer as yet. I am
to take examination for commission in
sixty days and have been promised a
much less severe hearing test. I ex
pect to enter ground school here soon.
This is a great camp and a wonderful
i life. There are tbirtv thousand troops
i
here and not one horse. All work is
done with motor trucks, and officers
and orderlies ride on motor cycles. The
j^y is full of planes and balloons all day
long. I would not exchange my ex
perience here for Flat creek, and if
only I can see some active foreign ser
vice I will be well content.
One of the men just called me out
of my tent to watch one of our fliers.
He was up five thousand feet. He was
falling tail first when I got out, appar
ently hopelessly out of control. He
straightened up, went up a way and
come down head first, back up and
down spinning round like a leaf. Next
he fell a thousand feet on the side. All
as easily as a swallow flies. We have
some great men here. Merry hell will
break loose in Germany next spring
. when this bunch is turned loose. We
j will be raiding Berlin next summer
! just as surely as the war lasts that long.
1 And it will not be single machines but
j hundreds and thousands of them,
i Every man here is on his toes, eager
! for a chance at the Hun. Kaiser Bill is
| to get a large dose of real frightfulness,
j The trumpets are sounding mess. I
I have to assemble the company and
i march them to supper. Will write
j again shortly. I hope to hear from you
j soon. _^
WHAT ' "OTASKS
i
One meatless meal each day.
One wheatless meal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week.
A wheatless Wednesday.
A porkless Saturday each week.
| (Meatless means without beef, mutton
j or pork.)
| (Wheatless means without bread,
I cracker or cakes made of wheat flour
! alone.)
! GRIM HUMOR IN TRICKS
TRIED BY COAL “HOGS’’
Some of the federal fuel administra
tion’s field agents while they are busy
with the serious work iu their various
fields have noted somo grimly humor
ous happenings. One Held agent tells
of a Newark (N. J.) retailor who has
been supplying his regular customers
with small lots of coal and he has de
clined all new business customers
unless thero was sickness in the family.
FTe was appealed to by a piospective
customer who demonstrated that his
was a case of dire need by wheeling up
a delicute-looking baby, accompanied
by a pale wife, to the coal yard. The
coal he so earnestly sought was
delivered and then it was discovered
that the new customer had borrowed
the baby.
In the same town there was a jeweler
who took a few days off from his regu
lar employment and got a job driving
a coal cart for a local dealer. His first
tripout was with two tons of coal.
This he promptly dumped into his own
cellar and then resigned, saying the
work was too hard for him.
Another shrewd case came before
one of the Pennsylvania county fuel
administrators, whose directions are
that the dealers shall deliver only
one-ton and half-ton lots, and no coal is
to he delivered where the prospective
customer has a two weeks’ supply.
It was discovered that one man had
two cellars connected by a long tunnel,
j He was ordering half-tons and carrying
; the coal from one cellar to the other
| By the time his scheme was unearthed
j he had accumulated four tons, but he
| was still cut after more coal. The
; dealer he applied to sent him to the
fuel administrator, where he made
i
, affidavit that he had no coal at all.
| The next step was an indictment for
j perjury, the case being booked for the
i next court In addition, the offender
was made to take his little bucket and
j carry three and a half tons of his ill
: gotton coal to the sidewalk and thence
i loaded it onto a coal cart.—Official
Bulletin.
J. J. CROSSIEY OFF FOE FBOHT
—
i In Portland papers recently there ap
pears a photograph of James J. Cross
ley and his wife and two babies taken
■just before his departure with the
Third Oregon regiment for New York
■ state. The picture is headed “Little
folk who said goodbye today to father
! in the army.” Mr. Crcssley was form
erly district attorgey for many years in
1 Fairbanks, and is widely known all
: over Alaska. On going Outside he be
; came prominently connected with na
; tional guard activities, and was sent to
! the border at the time of the Mexican
i trouble. When the present war broke
{ out he was commissioned captain with
; the regular-army troops from Oregon.
He is now stationed in New York,
wailing to be ordered across to some
! where in France.—Steward Gateway.
1 NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
i -
1 Notice is hereby given that at the
i hour of 10 o'clock on the 22d day of
r March, 1918, the registration books
will be open at the office of the munici
pal clerk, at his office on First avenue
f in the town of Iditarod, Alaska, for the
- purpose of registering all male and
female persons, of twenty-one years of
age, who are citizens of the United
' States or who have declared their
intention to become such, and who
i have resided continuously one year
next preceding the date of election in
the territory of Alaska, and six months
1 next preceding the date of election
within the town of Iditarod. All per
sons desiring to vote at said electiou
must, before voting, register their
names and qualifications with the Iowa
register of tire town of Iditarod.
Registration books will be kept open
every day, except. Sundays, beginning
March 22, 1918, during the hours of 10
o’clock a. ru. and 4 p. m. The said reg
istration w ill close on March 30, 1918.
The said election will he held on the
first Tuesday in April, 1918, for the pur
pose of electing seven (7) counciImen
and one(l) member of the school hoard.
Chas. E. Taylor. Municipal Clerk.
Professional
Michigan, 188 1 Kentucky. 1881
Alaska. 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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Physician AND
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Dentistry In Connection
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Behla Hospital
Flat, Alaska
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