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Vol. 8 No. 50
SOCIALISTS WHO ARE
RIGHT
It. is certainly of significance:
that three such prominent Social-:
ists as Clarence Darrovy. Charles i
E. Russell and Bouek Whitel
should come out in favor of the j
war and on the side of the allies,;
and each of them from his pecu
liar standpoint,
Mr. Barrow, speaking at Min I
neapolis recently said; “No coun
try has ever been so right as the
United States is today. It is a
war to preserve civilization,
human liberty, and democracy of I
the whole world, including Ger-1
many. . , Every reasonable i
human being knows it is not
‘Wall street’ war.”
Mr. Russell was expelled from
the Socialist party because lie
accepted an appointment on the
Root commission to Russia, and
is now on his return giving pow- i
erful testimony against our ene- ;
mies and heartening talk for Rus-;
sia. He bitterly condemns the
traitorous talk of men who have:
enjoyed American protection in
their banishment and now in
Russia are retailing vile slanders j
against our government. As to j
members of congress and others |
who are doing, he says, “Pots
dam’s dirtiest work” by advo-!
eating “peace conventions” and
“peace leagues.” “I come home
to tind that at the worst possible
moment the devil himself could
devise tiiis nation is listening to
a horde of traitors, German
agents, selfish politicianp and
chicken-hearted peace - at - any -
price babbling a lot of stuff,
loaded with the deadliest peril i
for America and Russia ”
Bouck White, recently out of.
his third term in prison since the!
war for his extreme radical ac
tions, says: “In asking my fel
low-malcontents to support the
war I shall not be accused ofj
jingoism or faint heartedness.”
He denounced those who foment
strikes and food riots, etc.; and
says: “Could destiny play us a
more terrific April fool than to
bring us out of this cataclysmic
era with nothing but ‘our stand
ard of living protected?’ In war
time strikes have a treasonabl i
squint. It may be the most jus
tillable strike ever pulled off, but
’twill be cartooned as a paid-for
move to give aid and comfort to
the enemy.”
All of these men have been
peace advocates. Their action
is remindful of the three great
abolitionists of the civil war pe
riod — Garrison, Phillips and
Sumner—who were noted advo
cates of peace. All became
champions of war for the Union.
NEARO THE ENDO
It is surprising to note the!
number of socalled soft drinks
now being put on the market by
brewers. The American Brew
ers’ Review, under the caption,
“Patents, Trade Marks, Prints
and Labels,” introduces a few of
these brewery products to the
public. From the long list of
trade marks in this article the
following selection is made:
Bone-dry, Vivo, Quencho, Nulo,
No-al-ko, Zero, Alcho, Teeto,
Taka, etc. Many others are on
the market, among them, Bevo^
Jesno, Freemo, Milo, Mulo)
2searo, Beereila, Sumsuds, and
A RED CROSS APPEAL
IIY K. C. I.!.
IN a lit lie while vour boy may
be “somewhere in France.’’
You won’t know where.
You'll only know that somewhere
on the tiring line, side by side with
your neighbor's boy, lie will be
fighting on toward the goal that
must he reached before the war is
done. And here at home you’ll
wait and pray that lie'll come back,
and God grant that lie may. And
God grant, too, that lie'll come back
just as he went away, with should
ers back and head erect, and in his
eyes the light that conies into tlie
eyes of those in whom there is no
fear that the future days or months
or years may point to them and say:
“He heard and answered not."’
And while lie's gone, unless you’re
brave beyond the strength of human
kind, you dream of him, and wake
in those hours of the day—the dark
est-just as the morning breaks,
you will take the hand that soothed
his brow in babyeood and hold it
tight and wonder how it goes with
him where he is when the inorning
breaks on-that some day “Some
where m France.”
And then, if you have “done your
bit” back home. While lie is over
there, if you have sent a lied Cross
nurse and what she needs, a surgeon
to hold back the life that looks
down where the valley lies and
shadows lurk, there'll come that
light into your eyes and you will
know no one can point to you and
say: "lie heard and answered not.”
so on,almost without end. Which
1 i
leads to the conclusion that the
beer makers have come to be- j
lieve that the endo is nearoat!
hando for the beer business.
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The kaiser told Ambassador!
Gerard that he would remember j
the United States after the close j
of the war, and there is every!
reason to believe he will keep his
word.—X. V Telegraph.
Russia is sound at the core, re- j
assures Mr. Root. Rut if ti e
Russians told check Hie Tents
there “won’t be no core.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
When it comes to keeping the
balance of the world guessing.
Russia is something of a charade ;
factoi• y.—Douglas News.
A Receipt in Fui!
Down in a Southeast Kansas town
lives a rather simple-minded] youth by |
the name of Bill Beasley, whose facil
ity in contracting small debts at the
local stores is only equaled by his suc
cess in evading payment. One day re
cently, however. Bill made the mistake
of showing some money before one of
his creditors and, after the hard-fought
argument which followed, the money
was banned over to the storekeeper.
‘•Now,” said Bill, sadly, '“we’re
square, and I want a receipt. Make it
legal, so you won’t be after me again.”
And here is the receipt which Bill
proudly exhibited to his friends:
‘‘To whom it may concern, greet
ing: All men know by these pres
ents, habeas corpus and nux vom
ico, that Bill Beasley don’t owe this
firm nothing and ain’t going to.
“JOHN HOBBV.”
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The Life
“Now, Si,” said Mrs. Corndoger, anx
iously, when you and the elder git to
the city you must be keerful. They
say city folks have reckless ways, and
L’ve heard they sit up mighty late—
sometimes rill 'leven o’clock. You
must take kear of your health, Si.”
“Now, don’t you worry about me and
the elder, mother,” said the gay Mr.
Corndoger, reassuringly, “we’ll go to
bed with the chickens.—Ex.
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Capt. Boerner at Hot Springs
Captain C. A. Boerner, who was in
charge of the grocery department of
the local N. C. Co. store last winter,
has been made manager of that com
pany’s station at Hot Springs, and is
now on the job.
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Jack Handley, after spending the
summer on Donlin creek, where he was
employed on the Smeaton property, re
I turned to Flat- several days ago.
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Initarod Igloo No. 10, Pioneers of!
Alaska, is the first local organization
to announce an entertainment, for the:
social season of 1017-18. At the largely
attended meeting of the igloo at Flat !
City on October 17 a motion to inaugu
rate the winter’s festivities with a,
smoker on the night of Wednesday,
November 21, was adopted without a:
dissenting vote, and President Taylor
wisely selected a committee to arrange
thedetails for the “grand opening” that
insures its unqualified success. The
committee consists of Jay Johnston. ‘
Grant Murdock and .1. P. Farrell. That
there'll be a big gathering of sour
doughs and rufnex from far and wide
in Flat City on that festive occasion
goes without, warbling. The Pioneers,
all may well rest assured, will do more
than their “hit” during the coming
frosty months to put Old Dull Care (a
hideous monster of frightful mien) in
the discard, and see to it that lie's kept
t here.
At the last meeting applications for
membership were received from Thos.
Wisbart, Danny Khea, Peter Paul
Noonan and Dan McDonald. Mr. Noo
nan was initiated, and the others will
get theirs shortly.
The next Pioneers' meeting will be j
held in A. B. Hall, Iditarod, next |
Wednesday evening, November 7.
SOME MINERS STRIKE.
THERE GO TO WORK
Chicago, Oct- 17.—While 15,
OOO Illinois coal miners walked
out this morning on a strike for
higher wages, 05,000 miners in
Missouri, Kansas. Oklahoma and
California declared off the strike
scheduled for following Friday,
because it would be in violation
of the national agreement with
the operators.
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Washington, Oct. 27. —The de-j
mand for silver coins has become j
so great as to necessitate the op-j
eration of all the government!
mints on 2-1 hour shift, which '
has never been done before.
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Dick (J. Button, cashier of the M. »C
M. Bank, is greatly |»lea S3ti with a |
tnagni beently-toned ‘'music machine'’
that reached here just- before tiie close
of navigation. The instrument is cer
tainly “the last word” in the way of j
sound reproduction, and with the doz
ens of cat efuliy selected records, Mr
Button’s residence lots become a very
popular rendezvous during these cool
evenings for lovers of popular and j
classic music.
When the launch Transit (Captain
Earl L. Byers in command) sailed from
this port on the morning of October C
for St. Michael there were about a
dozen passengers aboard bound for the
Outside. Among the well-known old
timers were George Young and Mike
Lucey of Flat creek, and Billy Stone
man and Jack Hunnewell of Iditarod.
Harry Yeager was a passenger for
Fqrtuna Ledge, where he will spend
the winter.
Eric Hat'd, formerly in the black
smithing business in this city, and who
has been in the mining game in the
Ophir district since 1912, arrived here
recently via the overland trail. He
was accompanied by William Weid
man, the sawmill operator.
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Clarence White, after a season of
mining activity on Otter creek, was a
recent visitor in Iditarod. Mr. White
will probably spend a goodly portion of
the winter on Bear creek.
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CaptainCy Atwell and family are
now in winter quarters in the Third
street residence lately vacated by Guy
G. Geraghty and family.
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No Slackers in Deitrich Town
Deitrich, the little village of 600
people in the state of Illinois, where
everybody is German, or at least of
German descent, can claim a record for
patriotism. Seventy-six of its men
have volunteered for enlistment in a
machine-gun company.
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
The Anchorage Weekly Times contains a well edited and in
teresting page of “historical sketches and experiences of trail blaz
ers who made Alaska the empire of the North.” The page is
produced under the pains taking supervision of .John W. Frame,
the veteran Alaska editor and president of Anchorage Igloo No.
Pioneers of Alaska. A recent issue of the Times contained the
following timely article:
get’s get busy
The purpose of the Pioneers of Alaska is to “'collect the
history of Alaska, and to secure the enrollment of Alaska pit -
neers. The oldtimers of the Territory have not. been slow to
organize and secure the enrollment of their numbers but. - her
organizing, they have in many instances neglected to take up
the work of ‘collecting Alaskan history and preserving it.”
Enrollment of the pioneers is merely preliminary work to the
collecting of the history after enrollment. An effort is now
being made to organize the work and endeavor to get each
member to do his bit.
The pioneer is a natural-born rover; he goes from c oni
to camp prospecting on his way and often is, for month- , E-G
in the primeval forests. He is a lover of Nature; he
life in the solitary forests, for there is the lure of gold to
him on. There is only one thing that can call him hack live,
his search for the glittering sand, and that, is “a letter
home.” When this “life line is thrown out” by an ok; mo1 ..m*
or a sister or brother, “back home,” he shakes his shaggy
mane, and turns his face towards civilization again.
The same force of power operates in the Igloo just s it
does in the home- The only way to keep a brother in the -old
is to keep in touch with nim by letter. Don’t let him g.-.t ■ ;<>
far away. Throw out the life line of brotherhood to him.
terest yourself in his welfare and you will, in time, g:
answer, and there will be a check in the letter for his dues.
That is the chief purpose of this page. It is a kind of fra
ternal life line. It is a letter from the home Igloo each week
to the brother who has gone to some other camp; to some
brother who is wandering too far away from his old-time
friends. They are the best friends he ever had. Why should
he lose them 'i
Co-operation between the secretaries, or historians of the
different Igloos, and the editor of this page will do much to
overcome this tendency to wander away and forsake the home
Igloo, if the officers will only furnish to the editor the pioneer
news of each locality such as the return of brothers to the
camp, the departure of others for the States, or the address of
those absent-—in fact, any news that will naturally interest the
pioneers.
There are now enrolled nearly 4,000 pathfinders of Alaska
who come to the Territory prior to 1900, but many of them
have gone “back home’’ to the States, os- to some distant, camp
in the Territory, or possibly —and in a few years we will say,
probably—gone across the Great Divide, and are camping on
the other side.
It should be the aim of each Igloo to have the secretary
keep the address, as best he can, of each. Igloo member. By
calling over the roll at the meetings there is most always some
brother who can tell where the missing bi-other is, ar.d what
he is doing. This information reported to the editor of this
page will furnish an excellent directory each week as to the
whereabouts of those who have wandered away. In this way
the history of Alaska can be written, for all will take an inter
est in the work. Let us get busy. Don’t wait for some one
else. Do your bit. Do it NO A !
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