WHEN A HOUSE
IS ON FIRE _
BY
Meredith
Nicholson
The Committee on Public Inforna
tion issues the following, written by
Meredith Nicholson:
Civilization may be likened to a
house where a family live in comfort
and ease and the enjoyment of the priv
ileges and security that represent thou
sands of years of labor.
When a house is on tire it becomes
the instant duty of the neighbors and
of the government immediately re
sponsible for the protection of the
householder to render aid not today
or tomorrow, but the moment the
flames become visible and it is known
that the homo and its inmates are
t hreaiened.
TIouse on fire! We hear cries in the
street, the rattle and jar of the engines
and hose carts as they hurry to the
sceno of conflagration. The fire is
spreading; not one but a hundred homes
are threatened!
When the Kaiser began his war for
world domination ho applied a torch to
that House of Civilization I have vis
ualized as a home, the repository of
every good and perfect gift that has
neen won for humanity, the very free
dom that is its corner stone.
The Kaiser is a mad incendiary. He
stole upon the House of Civilizatou in
the night and tossed a burning brand
through an open window. Like a thief
who applies a match to the rear of a
house to stampede the inmates and dis
tract their attention while he plunders,
the Kaiser expected to satisfy a long
pondered scheme of robbery and con
quest. Civilization slept the sleep of
peace to awaken in terror.
The Kaiser’s army, perfected
through years of stern training to aid
the pyromaniac lord of the Hohen
zollerns in his malign purposes, has
resorted to every conceivable atrocity
to terrorize civilization—not merely to
destroy its house but to murder the in
mates or reserve them for a more
hideous fate than death.
When we say that this is a war to
make the world a safe place for de
mocracy, we mean also that it is to pre
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 mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to pay your proportion of such
expend tune, your interest in said claim
will become t he* property of the under
signed co-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States
Dona LaChance, Co-owner.
First publication, January 5, 1918.
Last publication, April 6, 1918.
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serve that House of Civilization in
which democracy is the altar and sanc
tuary.
House on (ire! It is not for you and
me to stand outside and say that it is
only a neighbor's house that is men
aced. The lirst German soldier who
set foot on Belgian soil threatened
your home and mine. He flourished
his brand at the house of civilization in
which you and I live. He attacked
law, liberty, mercy, justice—every
thing that, strengthens and adorns that
proud house in which we of America
have lived in contentment and peace.
Tliero are things in the humblest,
that the owner would not lose without
a struggle When the house gets afire
the inmates spring to protect and save
those things.
We of America are in this war to
protect and save the house of civiliza
tion and the proud trophies that repre
sent not only our own struggles and
sacrifices but those we inherited from
sires who shed their blood for them.
Put out the (ire. The more quickly
we realize that it is our house that is
burning, the more quickly we shall be
free to cut away the blackened walls
and make the house habitable and sc.
cure. We want to see the firemen dis
perse, the police hustle the incendiary
to the lockup, and the adjusters come
in and settle the damages.
The way to hasten this consumma
tion is by aiding our firemen—our
Army and Navy—in every possible
way. If we can’t carry water or wield
the ax on burning timbers, we can
stand back of the men who are doing
the work—our work, yours and mine.
We can pour out our dollars to help
them. We can see that the fire fighters
are fed and clothed while they are on
the job; we can take care of them when
they fall injured in our cause.
House on fire! Civilization on tire!
The man who says this is not Amer
ica’s war is asleep in a burning house
and does not deserve to be saved by the
splendid valor of our firemen who are
fighting to rescue him.
BANKER CONTRIBUTES MONET
FOR BOLSHEV1KI PROPAGANDA
William Boyce Thompson, who has
contributed $1,000,000 plus to the treas
ury of the Bolsheviki forces, for propa
ganda work in Austria and Germany,
and who, in speeches and interviews is
urging the Uuited States to co-operate
with the Russian radicals, is a man
whose large fortune was made in Mon
tana, where he was born. His father
was a pioneer settler of that state, and
one of the first men to locate gold
mines, which made him a multi-mil
lionaire. The elder Thompson also fig
ured prominently in the territorial and
state legislatures, and was mayor of
Butte. The son was sent east and edu
cated at Phillips Exeter academy and
at the Columbia University School of
Mines, and then was called back to
Butte, Mont., to aid in managing the
family interests in mines, factories and
banks. With the fortune and the ex
perience gained in Butte, Mr. Thompson
settled in New York, in 1899, and has
resided there most of the time since.
He is a leader in the control and devel
opment of western mining properties.
His rank as a banker may be inferred
from the fact that he was named as a
federal reserve bank director in New
York city. He has been prominent in
enthusiastic support and advertisement
of the Rocky Mountain Club of New
York.
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"WHERE do we go FROM HERE?”
Atlantic Port, Jan. 31—The irrepres
sible humor of the American fighting
man in the face of death was empha
sized when the German submarine
sank the American destroyer Jacob
Jones.
Lieut. Norman Scott, who arrived
with Commander Bagley, today told
the story of a sailor who was hurled
into the sea by the explosion of a tor
pedo. Spouting water and battling
with the waves, when he came to the
surface he grinned at his companions
and shouted to his mates:
“Oh, boys, where do we go from
here?”
Commander Bagley had planned to
surrender as prisoners of war to the
submarine, in order to save the Jones’
crew of 66 who perished, but the sub
marine disappeared before lie could
make the offer,
LINCOLN RED * CLUB
In celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s
109th birthday, we, the undersigned, do
hereby each agree to pay to the Amer
ican Red Cross Society, through its1
local organization, live dollars ($n) on
Lho 12th day of each and every month J
of the duration of the present war.
Geo. W. Albrecht A. S. Bourne
C. P. Wood Chas. E. Taylor
R. C. Button Wm. B. Thomas
Mrs. C. Baker Iditarod Pioneer
W. R. Solibakke W. W. Nelson
Satu’l Applebaum R. M. llall
Alex Dicksen Harry Leland
Thos. N. Turner A Friend
John A. Nelson
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“WAR BRIDES" SEEKING
ALIMONY ARE WARNED
San Francisco, March 2.—Women
who become the wives of soldiers and
soon after the marriage ceremony file
suit for divorce and ask for alimony will
have to have a substantial reason for
their action, or there will be no ali
mony awards, ruled Judge Thomas F.
Graham.
Since Congress passed the law insur
ing soldiers, and since it became known
that the wife of a soldier is entitled to
a portion of the soldier’s pay, a large
number of women have been married
to soldiers in San Francisco. There
have been a number of divorce actions
tiled as a result of these hasty marri
ages, and in almost every case the wife
demanded alimony. This caused .Judge
Graham to become suspicious of the
motives of some of the “war brides,”
and he announced that before any ali
mony is awarded in the case of a soldier
the wife will have to present a good
cause.
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Denny Callahan and James Burke,
after spending the greater part of the
winter in the States, returned to Flat
creek last Saturday.
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I. W. W.’S GIVEN QUICK ACTION
London, March 4.—Two American
representatives of the Industrial Work
ers of the World in England were this
afternoon arrested, given a 15-minute
trial, and convicted of spreading pacifist
propaganda. They were immediately
i sentenced to six months hard labor, and
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will be deported when sentence is
served.
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ITALIANS SEIZE GERMAN’S ESTATE
Rome, March 30.—The prefect of
Sessari today sequestered estates in
Sardinia valued at half million lire,
owned by Admiral von Tirpitz, of Ger
many.
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