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REAPING THE HARVEST
Disregard oi' the rights of the
small nations seems to be innate
with the Prussian ruling class.
Contempt for those who could
not make effectual resistance
with force has not been confined
to Belgium. It is the spirit of
junkerism.
It is doubtful whether Siam
would now be in the war, arrayed
against Germany, if it had not
been for the manifestation of
this characteristic. A writer in
the New York Tribune recalls
that years ago the wife of the
German Minister was asked by
the police of Bangkok not to
pluck flowers in the public gar
dens* Notwithstanding that
there was a law against picking
flowers in the gardensiu question,
the German minister protested
indignantly and demanded an ab
ject apology. Siam was help
less under the threat of ven
gence, and did apologize. The
incident, however, was not for
gotten.
German refusal to relinquish
claim of extraterritoriality,
made so arrogantly a*- to offend
the sense of justice of the Siam
ese, added fuel to the flame.
Opportunity for self assertion
did not come at once, but when
it did come Siam seized it.
Memories of humiliating insults
peculiarly long.
DRAFT WAS KNOWN
TO MOSES
Registration for a selective
draft was known thousands of
years ago. The first chapter of
Numbers tells how Moses in the
second year after the exodus
from the land of Egypt was com
manded to choose from the vari
ous tribes numerators to tabu
late the names of the men more
than twenty years old who were
able to go to war.
“Take ye the sum of all the!
congregation of the children of
Israel by their families, by their
fathers' houses, according to the
number of the names, every
male by their polls from twenty
years of age and upward, all
that are able to go forth to war
thou and Aaron shall number
them by their hosts. And with!
you there shall be a man oH
every tribe. (Here are men- j
tioned the men who are to assist!
in the registration.)
“And Moses and Aaron took
these men that are mentioned
and they assembled all the con
gregation together on the first
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they declared their pledges after
their families by their fathers'
houses, according to the number
of the names from twenty years
old and upward.”—Ex.
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KERENSKY
Alexander Kerensky, the real
leader of the Russian revolution,
first became minister of justice
in the provisional government
and then succeeded (tut cliff ok as
minister of war, achieving won
ders in reviving the army as a
tighting force during May and
June. Ho was born about thirty
nve years ago in rasnanm, a
Russian town in Middle Asia.
Although of small means, he
succeeded in obtaining a univer
sity education and becoming a
lawyer. From the beginning of
his practice he was an energetic
defender of workman and peas
ants, appearing in their interest
when they were arrested and
oppressed by agents of the
Czar’s government. He included
the Jews among his clients, and
fought for the rights which the
anti-Semitic powers denied them.
The climax of his legal career
came in 1912, when he repre
senbed the workmen in an in
vestigation following the shoot
ing by the police of some sixty
strikers in the gold fields along
the River Lena. His work in
this case made him famous
throughout all Russia as a friend
of the revolutionary forces and
an enemy of the autocratic gov
eminent.
a.
KRUPP WAR AGAINST
DEMOCRACY
The Socialist Vorwarts quotes the
following from fvrupp's organ, the Ber
liner Neueste Nachrichten:
“The most dangerous enemy of the
German people is democracy. It is do
mocracy that we shall have to fight
when our arms have long been at rest
and the far-advanced frontiers of the
new and greater Germany have been
secured—in spite of July 19 and its
reichstag majority—in a German-se
curity peace.”
The Vorwarts remarks:
“So, when England, France, Amer
ica, Russia, &c., have been defeated,
the war will begin, witli cheers, in the
name of the German people against the
German people itself.”
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A late dispatch intimates that
the German kaiser is going to be
rather particular with whom he
treats in Russia. When the pro
per time arrives it is not liable
to be the kaiser's treat, anyhow.
Frequently in Alaska newspapers ap
pears hefty communications signed
“Strong, Governor.” The “strong”
part is in name only.
KEEPING COOL
Lei’s keep our heads and do things
sanely. Excitement is indulged in
vainly. Since war clouds gathered
o’er the nation, there’s been such
frenzied agitation, so much of useless
noise and clamor, it gives a sane man
katzenjatr mer. A lot of busy men are
screeching; hysteric loyalty they’re
preaching; you’ll shriek with them, or
you're a traitor—old Benny Arnold
was no greater. A thousand schemes no
man could follow, eacli morning we
are asked to swallow; you must do this
or that or t’other, or you are Arnold’s
younger brother. These noisy skates
are misfits, plainly. Let’s keep our
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heads and do things sanely. All
history this fact is telling: Great wars
are never won by yelling. We’ll
never w hip the kaiser’s boosters by
crowing like so many roosters. We’ll
never win a single battle by milling
round like locoed cattle. I love the
Hag and would defend it until the
crash of worlds shall end it; but I
don’t drape my stately manors in forty
thousand spangled banners. That
kind of loyalty is easy; but when the
tax collector, breezy, comes up to ask
us for our plunder, to help to put the
foe man under, a lot of patriots will
shiver, and have congestion of the
liver. Then you will see my smiles
are mat y, while digging up the groat
and penny; I saved them for my
country, mainly; lets keep our heads
and do things sanelv.—Walt Mason.
♦
London, Nov. 19.—The British public
and press are greatly stirred by the re
cent statements of Lord Northcliffe.
rhe London Globe observes: “Lord
NorthclifTe’s gravest statement is the
one in which he says the American
people believe that England's ruling
houses have muddled up the conduct of
the war.'’
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, SPED
Portland, Ore., Nov. 17.—In making
an announcement for Secretary of War
Baker today, Col. B. 1’. Basque says
ten million feet of spruce lumber must
be manufactured every month from the
forests of Oregon and Washington, to
bring the war to a successful conclu
sion. Ten thousand woodsmen must be
put into the forests at once to produce
aircraft material.
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111 Paso, Tex., Nov. 17.— Four com
panies of American militia have been
despatched to reinforce the cavalry
on the border near Ojinaga. A party
of Americans who were hunting on an
island in the Rio Grande river, were
repeatedly tired upon by Villa's men,
and one of them wounded.
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Buffalo, Nov. IT.—At today's session
of the American Federation of Labor,
President Samuel Gompers, while dis
cussing the efforts of certa'n delega es
to “drive” a series of pro-German
resolutions through the convention,
said “German spies and Teutonic
agents honeycomb tliis assembly.”
-: _-o—
Seattle, Nov. 17.—Frank Krause, who
the authorities believe to be an unusu
ally dangerous German spy, has been
arrested in this city, and will be in
terned for furthering the German prop
aganda in connection with strikes in
Pacific-coast steel plants.
PUT PIGEONS TO WORK
Camp Lewis, Wash., Nov. 17.—Com
manders of the various contonments of
the National army will form a carrier
pigeon unit, and the call has gone out
for men who have had experience in
handling those birds.
NOME PIONEER BEAD
Seattle, Nov. 17.—W. F. Parker, for
17 years a resident of Nome, arriving
here yesterday, was found dead in bed
this morning, of apoplexy.
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BOYCOTTING GERMANS
Christiana, Nov. 17.—Powerful Nor
wegian commercial associations are be
ginning to boycott German citizens in
the shipping trade.
MINING ON BOOB CREEK
Pete Monier, the Tolstoi mining
man, after spending several days in
this vicinity attending to business mat
ters, returned to his diggings early
this week. Mr. Monier and associates
will shortly begin taking out a winter
dump on Boob creek.
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Flat City Postoffice
Until further notice Mail Carrier
Smith says the mail will leave the Flat
City po3toffice on Mondays at 5 p.ra.
Money-order and registration depart
ruents close at 3 pun
D. S. AND JAPAN
COMES TO TERMS
Washington,[Oct. 20.— It, is announced
officially that an arrangement is in
sight whereby Japan will divert more
of her tonnage to trans*Atlantic ser
vice in exchango for the release by the
United States of steel ship-plate to
that country. Baron Ishii and a com
mittee of Japanese are on the eve of
accepting the proposal, which was
made by the State Department. By
this arrangement the United States
and the Allies will gain several
hundred thousand tons of shipping,
which will greatly benefit until the
United States can complete many of
the ships on which it is now rushing
construction.
The benefit to Japan will be great,
also, as that country is now in great
need of the steel for the construction
of the war vessels which its program
calls for.
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Startling Hunk of Nows
Peking, Nov. 17.—The Chinese cabi
net lias resigned.
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SOLUTION OF WAR PROBLEMS
UNDERTAKEN BY WOMEN
The following authorized statement out
lines the progress made by the women’s
committee of the council of national de
base in organizing women volunteers for
war service:
The forty-eight states have been fully
organized and the state bodies are working
under the guidance of ten active commit
tees—registration, food production, food con
servation and home economics, women in
industry, child welfare, maintenance of ex
isting social agencies, education, liberty
loan, home and foreign redief, and safe
guarding of spiritual forces.
Among the national organizations repre
sented in the volunteer work of this enor
mous army, the membership of which now
reaches into the millions, are: American
Fund for the French Wounded, Association
of Collegiate Alumnae, Council of Jewish
Women, National Society Daughters of the
American Revolution, Garden Club of Amer
ica, General Federation of Women’s Clubs,
Girls’ National Honor Guard, Girl Scouts,
International Child’s Welfare, International
Federation Catholic Alumnae, International
Kindergarten Union, International People’s
Aid Association, Ladies of the Maccabees,
League of American Penwomeh. National
womens ounrage Association, ^auuiiai
sociation Opposed to Suffrage, Congress of
Mothers. National Council of Women of
the United States, National Federation of
College Women, Federation of Music Clubs,
National League for Women’s Service. Na
tional League for Women Workers, National
Library for the Bind, W. C. T. LL, Na
tional Women’s Medical Association, Com
mission on War Relief. New Century Club,
Order of the Eastern Star. Stage Women’s
War Relief, United Daughters of the Con
federacy, Woman’s Auxiliary Railway Mail
Association, Woman’s Benefit Maccabees.
Presbyterian Home Mission Board, Woman’s
Bureau of the National Democratic Com
mittee, Civic Federation, Methodist Episco
pal Home Missionary Society, Woman’s Na
tional Farm and Garden Association. Wom
an’s National Press Association, Woman’s
Section Navy League. Young Women’s He
brew Association, and Woman’s Board of
Foreign Missions.
Even in Alaska, Porto Rico, Guam and
Hawaii women are working with the great
organization. Rosalie M. Donohue has writ
ten the women’s committee from Alaska
that, notwithstanding that towns are small,
distances great, the mining communities iso
lated, and speedy mail service is lacking,
they are working there as hard as the
women in any part of the country, and
are well organized. ___
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