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Vol. V Wo- 15
THE AGGRAVATING EIGHT
HOUR LAW
Oh Saturday last, but a couple
Of hours after this great religio
philosophicial journal and fireside
companion had been placed in the
hands of its legions of eager
readers,- we received a telegram
fronrour Fairbanks correspond
ent stating—
Two written decisions by
court here Alaska's eight
hour law constitutional.
This telegram was immediately
phoned by us to both Flat City
and Dis. Otter, where it was put
on bulletins for publicity’s sake.
On Monday last, The Pioneer
is reliably informed that a mes
sage was received at Flat City by
a representative of a dredging
outfitr from a tfrm of Fairbanks
attorneys, to the effect that two
decisions bad been rendered in
which the eight-hour law was de
clared unconstitutional, and to
disregard it entirely. And there
you are.
The syllable Hun?y in the word
‘'‘unconstitutional" got lost some
where in the ebuiSe, and just a
little thing like that upset the
entire meaning of the message.
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Washington',. Apvfr 8? — l7be
Senate committee ®« terri-l^pres
today made a favovuMv ircporS ®a
the nomination of TfentKKP USjrts
as governor of Alaeka,. amcP tf&e
Senate confirmed; She *pp©ra£
menS.
NOT THE GERM KIND
Bkilfmors; April 8.— President
Wilson, in a speech delivered in
this citty, said tb® Allies had' no
intention of concurring in- a Ger
man-made peace.
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THE UNREPENTANT KUN
! _
If we mean fo maintain the peace of
the world when the war is over, we
shah be obllpocl to disarnrGerioany and
keep her disarmed or to arm ourselves
aud keep ourselves armed". We may
condemn thr German system, we may
resist and overthrow it, we may estab
lish am armed world-police forew to con
trol it, but to ask the Germans to dis
card itrto ask them tamely and meekly
to forsake th8ir ideut of military glory
and' material wealth and world* domin
ion, is foolish? and ridiculous. Germuny
is an- armed and powerfnl bandit. The
world police, should such- a force be es
tablished, will probably find h-er troub
lesome and dangerous for centuries.—
London Chroniele.
SOMETHING TO REMEM
BER
The Department of Justice his sent
out the following which may be well
for every American to remember:
“Every German or Austrian in the
United States, nnless known by years
of association to be absolutely loyal,
should be treated as a potential spy.
Keep your eyes and ears open. When
ever any suspicious act or disloyal word
comes to your notice communicate at
onee with the Bureau of Investigation
of the Department of Justice, Washing
ton. D. C.
“We are at war with the most merci
less and inhuman natron in the world
Hundreds of thousands of its people in
this country want to see America hu
miliated anti beaten to her knees, and
and they are doing, and will do, every
thing in their power to hiring this
about.
“Take nothing for granted. Energy
aDd alertness may save the life of your
son, or husband, or your brother or ths
kin of some friend or relative."
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WHAT ‘ J. S. ASKS
One meatless meal eaeh day.
One wheatless meal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week,
A wheatless Wednesday.
A porkless Saturday each we-ek.
(Meatless means without beef, mutton
or pork.)
(Wheatless means without bread,
cracker or cakes mad* of wheat flour,
alone.)
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Frank Fox, who has conducted the
roadhouse at Salmon river, on the
Seward trail, for several years, made
his first visit to this camp during the
early part of the week.
Job Printing at Pioneer offiee.
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Mra. J. B. Gunning, Prop.Special Rates by the Week and Month
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Discovery Cafe
HENRY DURAND, PROP.Front Street, Flat
The Grand ZZ
Mieoty Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Conneetlon
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
GENERAL HARDWARE
Stores and Graniteware Gasoline, Goal Oil, Etc.
The Only First-Class Dos Hamsss in Alaska 3
Wo all’talk too mtroh;and especially
do we talk too much-at) random^
While our country is-at war,, and we
have ail- kinds among- ub—Germans,
pro-G®rraane, and citizen* who are in
finitely worse than either*-it stand* us
in hand-to guimi our speech.
ADd this applies to all—the German,
who must keep his mouth shut or get
into serious trouble, the pro-Ghrman,
whose unguarded utterances will surely
lead to prison, and tire disloyal citizen,
who ought to be hanged—and possibly
may be it the tension gets tight
enough.
The German or Austrian subject,
those who are technically our enemies,
should' be very careful to-give no just
cause for offense- by their language or
conduct; and1 reciproeaMy tlrere r* the
duty which every true American owes
not to impose ti|Win atv anem-y who is
lie I [dess. Remember tb»t the man
who today is-your technical enemy may
have beetr a goed neighbor and your
best friend ia the past—and may be
again. Use a little reason, eocnraon
sense, and forbearance. Ef the bulie
1 tin shows a German victory, don’t go
round' and try to- pick a fuss with an
: enemy alien. And don’t get unduly
; excited if “Frits?1 seems cheerful over
! the news.
Suppose that yon and f, and'a? few
more of the rabid Yankeo-Dood-le boys
were detained in Berlin, would cot we
light up spiritually at the news of a
big American victory; and if the oppor
tunity came, might we not e«en get
spiritnously lit up's?
Bear in raiud- tba-t for all tiroes and
conditions cherB hire never been found
a guide for one's conduct equal to-the
Golden Rule—
“Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them."
Of course if you and I in Berlin, or a
German here, should be foolish enough
to get too gay, and to (burnt our na
tionalism in public, then nature is
bound to take its course—and if nothing
worse happens than that our faces re
semble a war map of Europe, we are
greatly in luck.
As to the pro-Gormans, there are
many kinds, and we are all too apt to
assume that because a man was once a
1 pronounced fero-German that he still rs
so, which may do un injustice.
Before the United Btates went into
this war anyone who so chose bad the
same right, legally and morally, to be a
pro-German that you and t bad to be
J pro-Ally- True, we may have thought
poorly of their judgment or their taste,
but thoir right cannot be denied.
That one of German blood should be
favorably inclined toward the father
land was only natural, and in some
degree also, those who, for one reason
| or another, looked askance at the
| advance of any of the Allied countries',
i but upon the coming of war to this
'country all h* instantly changed. A
German it still a German, anil rightly
so; the so-called neutral aliens are just
| as before—all kinds—but now bound to
[ keep their mouth shut, and are with
out th# excuse which a Gorman has,
and an American owes them small con
sideration. For the one who is a citi
zen but is a German at heart, no mat
ter what his original nationality,
whether a native-born German or a na
tive-born American, equally be must be
for this country or there is but on#
proper place for him—with back to the
wall, and facing the firing squad
And just in proportion to the gravity
of the situation should w# all be care
ful of our language, and not unjustly
accuse nor b# too ready to listen to un
founded yarns against any man.
Geo. W. Albrecht,
President Alaska Loyal League.
April li. 1918.
WALT'S MEATLESS DAYS
There are a million luckless jays who
are observing meatless days six times a
week or more; deserving men who lack
( the price to buy a pork just off the ice,
at any butcher’s store. And countless
people go their ways who find some
thirty meatless days in every month
that flies; hard luck and sickness and
despair havo stript their humble larders
bare of doughnuts, loaves and pies. And
they must have a sickly smile when
they observe the bouyant stylo in which
we make our boast that once a week
with martyr zeal we cut our mutton,
pork or veal, and shoo away the roast*
And they must shed a weary sigh when
we inform the passerby how we, with
courage high, eschew the loaf of snowy
bread, and fill ourselves with bran in
stead, and make the corncakes fly.
Cheer upl The worst is yet to comol
Before the voice of war is dumb we
may be eating bay; we’ll doubtless
know what grref is then, and wish- ws
might observe again the old-thae meat
less day,. Fop meatless days don’t rep
resent a- sacrifice to any pent in this,,
my neighborhood, man passes up the
“rad-meatn'dish to- eat a turkey or a
fish, or aomethiBg just m good.—Walt
Maaoa-.
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RESTRICTING MAN’S
RIGHTS
The supreme court of Nebraska has
just drawn a little eloser the legal
fence that incloses man m the exorcise
of hiedoneiDion ever all things animate
and in-animate.
This time the court holds that the
husband is not justified in slappiDg his
wife,, oven- when h« is sure that it is
‘for her e»n-good.
Nor can- he make the interference of
a third-party a pretext for the applica
tion of eorreotive discipline. Neither
can he use fores or otherwise coerce
her from-going, abroad when bo t-hioks
she shouid remain home.
Thus doeotho rising tide of fominism
-lift its-lapping waves above the ancient
dandnwvrks- of dktroesiicity. Time was
. wlten mao not only had the right, but
1 was-adjured to-exorcise i-trto-the benefit
of hie spouse,, by administering corporal
punishment when he deemed it advis
able or found it necessary to preserve
furaiJ-y discipline.
The earliest invasion of this right
wa» when the courts limited the size
of the rod- to-be used. Since then, step
by stept this bulwark of liberty and
dominion has been beaten dowD, until
now in Nebraska the best poor mao
can do is to let bis wife have her own
way when she wants something.
Slowly but surely we are emerging
from the pest and reaching a stage
'that deserves to be called enlightened,
— Omaha Bee,
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HARRY LAUDER AHD HIS SOI
Do not think that I am bitter that
my eon was called by God to make the
supremo sacrifice. Killed so &dj other
manner, in tisses of peace, I think cay
ilife wo*ld have sswted, and I would
have become embittered against th#
■world, but dying as Joh» Lauder did, i
can od1>- say, that, even with the
knowledge of what pain bis death has
cost me, I would send him to France
again to risk his life anew were it pos
sible to ressurrect him from the ground.
Because since bis death I have been to
Franee, and have seen the- bleeding
lily, aDd have come to realize more
than over that John Lauder's life was
not given in vain, or uselessly.—Amer
ican Magazine.
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HEW COUNCILMAN OH A VACATION
William W. Nelson, Iditarod’s new
heavyweight councilman, chartered
Bob Griffin’ dogteam outfit laBt Monday
to take him to Flat City for a couple of
days recreation after a hard winter of
toil, and the atreauosity of the munici
: pal campaign
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Jerry Baker, after his winter’s labors
at the Peaceful Valley roadhouse, on
the Tolstoi trail, returned to camp last
Mcmday afternoon.
M.JuUusrth« veteran bean poddler
of Dfs. ©tter, wia a vi»kop in lbs great
city last Tuesday.
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Tub-and" steam bathe at alP hotrra.
Snydsr Reuse, Flat.
FVafe ssiona I
Michigan; 1881 Kentucky, ISO
Alaska. I 0t'9
George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
ISHTAROD, ALABJTA
The Pioneer Attorney ot Idttarod
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BANK BLOCK
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
DRUG STORE
J. WILSON REED, M»D.
Physician and Surgeon
Fhrt Hospital, Flat, Alaska
DR.H.BEHLA
Physician AND
Surgeon
Dentistry in Connection
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Behia Hospital
Fiat, Alaska
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