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Vol. 0 No. 24
PLANT A WAR GARDEN
The more home grown garden
stuff you eat this year tlie more
food you will put on the dinner
table of a starving familv in
Europe.
It is up to every foot of Ameri
can soil to produce as much food
as it. can. Put your back yard
on the honor roll.
The man with the hoe must get
behind the man with the gun to
heat Germany.
The United States is just U. S.
Wo are pledged to carry on the
tight, shoulder to shoulder with
the Allies, with men and guns
and food. Will you plant a
garden and help the fighters
fight ?
Alaska has done her shere, is
doing it, and will continue, thus
proving that gardens can he suc
cessfully worked in the Terri
tory. Xenana News.
The announcement that the
birth rate in Germany has de
creased nearly one-haif in the
last three years ought to go a
long way toward making the war
popular everywhere else.—Phila
delphia North American.
Every time Von Hindenburg
calls for Victory, Central gives
him the wrong number.- Brook
lyn Eagle.
The “wets'’ are recalling that
Russia went dry in 1915 and
crazy in 1918 —Brooklyn Eagle.
GET ON
THE JOB
Put Your Shoulder to the
Wheel and Help the
Red Gross Drive
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MRS. MALONE AND THE CENSOR
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When Mrs. Malone pot, a letter from Pat,
She started to read it aloud in her flat.
“Dear Mary,” it started, “I can’t tell you tuuch,
I’m somewhere in France, and I'm fightin’ the Dutch.
I'm chokin with news that I’d like to relate,
But it’s little a soldier's permitted to state.
Do you mind Bed McPhee— well, he fell in a ditch
An’ busied an tu rtn, but I can’t tel! ye which.
“An’ Paddy O'Hara was caught in a flame
An' rescued by Faith, 1 can't tell ye bis name.
Lust night I woke up with a terrible pain,
1 thought for awhile it would drive me insane.
(>li, the suff’rin’ 1 had was most dreadful t' bear!
I'm sorry, nny dear, hut. I can’t tell ye where.
The doctor he gave me a pill, hut 1 find
It's conthrary to rules t’ disclose here the kind.
“!'ve been l’ the diritist an’ had a tooth out.
I’m sorrv t’ leave you so shrouded in doubt,
But the best I can say is that one tooth is gone,
The censor won’t let me inform ye which one.
1 met, a young fellow who knows ve right well,
An’ ve know him, loo, hut hi.s name 1 can t tel!.
He's Irish, red-headed, an’ there with lh’ blarney,
His folks once knew your folks back home in Killarney.”
*• jiv gorrv,’’ said Mrs. Malone in her flat,
“It’s hard t’ make sinse out av vrritin’ like that.
But I’ll give him as good as he sends, that 1 will,”
So she went right to work with her ink well and quill,
And she wrote, “I suppose ye're dead eager fer news,
You know when ye left, we were buyin’ the shoes;
Well, the baby has come, and we're both doin' well,
a_, Oh, but that's somethin’ they won’t let me tell.”
- Edgar A. Guest.
Ferdinand Koch is the cynosure today
of all eyes in the world of democracy.
As the generalissimo of the Allied
armies there rests upon his shoulders a
tremendous responsibility.
Civilization has staked her future
upon Foch and his devoted legions.
From the English channel to the Swiss
border, Foch is carrying out today the
plans of co-ordination evolved at the
Versailles council. He has a giant s
task, but the job is in a giant’s hands.
Foch is no raw recruit in the game
of war. He has been entrusted with
the greatest army that the world has
seen because he has proved his fitness
to command. After four years of cru
cial test, in which many another prom
ising man was passed into retirement
or ^assigned to lesser commands, Foch
has been advanced on merit to supreme
authority. He has passed all others
and has come up rung by tung, tested
and seasoned and found capable.
The confidence troops must have in a
man thus proved must be inspiring.
The devotion of the troous of I* rench,
British, Canadian, American, Belgian.
Portuguese and other Allied armies on
the western front is attested every
hour now in heroic actions.
At Foch’s call thousands of men are
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throwing their lives into the balance
each hour. On this one man's direction
heroic battalions of French in the Vpres
section were decimated rather than
vield On his command Britishers are
hurling themselves into the inferno of
battle with all the abandon of men re
signed to any fate for which duty calls. 1
These men have the conviction that
the cause for which they fight is just,
and their commander battles for an
ideal dearer to him then all else beside.
Foch is no amateur. He was in the
the Franco-Prussian war as a young
man, and since then has been one of
foremost students and instructors in
military matters in France. His mas
tery of strategy and the general knowl
edge of tactics brought him to the
fore early in this war, and he was one
of the strong factors of the great vic
tory ol the Marne.
As the leading spirit in the battle
now raging on the western front, Foch
! is maintaining the line in order and
strength which spoils safety and suc
| cess. No debacle, no rout, no general
! giving way of the line is visible.
I The gradual working back of an
| army fighting on the defensive requires
the maximum of skill. Foch’s real
strategy and the brilliancy of his game
will be better understood after the
I western conflict ends. In the mean
time the Allied peoples can rest con
fident iti the thought that their cause
is in a master’s hands, and that witli
him there is no such word as defeat.
GERMANS TO BE SENT
BACK TO GERMANY
i Seattle. —The government is making
j preparations to cancel the citizenship
of foreigners who, although natural
' i/.ed, have shown themselves disloyal in
; the present crisis, declared Special
! Assistant United States Attorney Gec
| eral Clarence L. Keames in an address
j at the weekly luncheon of the Munic1'
; pal League Tuesday at noon at the
i Masonic Club in the Arcade building.
| Mr. Keames aroused a high degree of
i enthusiasm when he declared that he
j wanted the assistance of every loyal
! resident of Seattle in ferreting out
j those who were failing in their duties
j of citizenship.
“In our work,” declared ilr. Keames,
“we are confronted with a condition
and not a theory. The people of foreign
birth are one of our biggest problems.
Many of these I have no hesitancy in
saying, are unfortunate in that they
have not attained final citizenship
There are many men who, under the
law. must be classed as enemy aliens,
who are just as loyal in their support
; of this government as any people in
j this country.
“There are, however, hundreds of
others, who are enemy aliens not only
in the technical sense, but also in fact.
There are also those whose lips profess
loyalty, but who are not loyal. And
there are those who except when talk
ing to an officer of the government, do
not pretend to b8 loyal. There are
those who slyly preach sedition. That
is the information I want about your
neighbors. 1 want you to write me
about them. Do not write anony
mously, but be a man and sign your
name.
“We are making a list of these men,
and that list is going into the big card
index system of the Department of
Justice, and the big card index system
ef the Department of Labor, and when
; this war is over there will be suits in
! stiuited against every one of those who
; huvo not been loyal to cancel their
i citizenship papers. We are going to
| send them home to their own country,
and when we send them we will tell
1 heir own couhtry just what kind of
men they are.”
Mr. Realties told of the enormous
| task which was placed upon the Depart
i merit of Justice at the outbreak of the
; war. He said that many of the best,
men in the investigation branch had
: wanted to leuve the service to enter
! the military branch of tho government,
aud that tlie secret service had to be
i rebuilt. This, lie declared, had been
accomplished and now America has the
l best, the biggest and the most efficient
detective organization in tiie world.
The well known prosecutor delivered
a speech which was intense in its pat
J riotisrn.
J arn fighting to keep the Hun out
of Puget Sound,” he declared, knowing
tiiat in a day or so the issue will be de
cided on the great battlefield of France.
‘Tn this solemn hour there is only
one test ol patriotism and that test i3
one of sacrifice.
“It is a positive fact, which I refer
to not as a figure of speech, but it is
absolutely true in every sense, tiiat the
fighting which is being made in Oregon
and Washington for the production of
spruce and the production of ships is
every bit as important as the fight
which is being waged in France.
^This work, which is being done in
these two Northwestern states, must
go on. Every man who is in the way,
I do not care wnether lie is a profiteer
or what lie may be, must get out of the
way, Time is too precious to argue
the question. We must, simply get him
out of the way.”
HALTING THE FROHIS
- Washington, June 5.—The President
today declared his opposition to further
liquor legislation until the National
Food administration decides that it is
necessarv to conserve foodstuffs.
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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 Fiat. 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
| ritorv of Alaska, Fourth division, will
i lie held at the United States court
| house at Flat, Alaska, beginning on
June 24, 1918, at the hour of 11 o'clock
i a. m., for the transaction of all business
j which may then and there be pending
i and which may regularly come before
| this court.
| In witness whereof, I have hereunto
j set my hand as clerk of the District
! Court, and affixed the seal thereof this
i 23rd day of May, 1918.
[Seal] J. F. Clark,
! Clerk of the District Court, Territory
of Alaska, Fourth Division.
By A. M Kilgore. Deputy.
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