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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Harry V. Hoben. P Frank L. Ballalne. See. Crick Lweaa. Tim*.
Entered ae eecond-claaa matter September. 2.1915. at the poatofflce at Seward. AUeae,
under act of March 3. 1879.
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FOR WORLD FREEDOM
•The war dipped into our neighborhood again today
and two of our young men, one from The Gateway office,
will leave on the next boat to answer the call for the first
National Army.
Under the registration system adopted for military
purposes on advice from our European Allies as bettei
than volunteering, these boys enrolled for army service at
Seattle before coming north, and under the selective choice
they were accepted for the first force to train for over
seas service.
It is probable that some of the seven who volunteered
here to officer a part of the first force will be named any
dayr for a'tendance on the school at San Francisco, and
then will come the commission and away they will go over
seas. ■ -* "'•r.’A'-#^&
Two have already left for the aviation corps and half
a dozen have resigned from the ranks of the commission
staff to go for various arms of the service.
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GETTING OUT THE SHELL HOLE ADVANCE
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Most editors nowadays imagine they have enough
troubles publishing a newspaper, with libel laws and the
high price of news print, but it has remained for R. J.
Burde, ranking lieutenaiv with the Canadian forces and
formerly with the Vancouver Province, to start a news
paper within gun range of the German forces somewhere
in Flanders.
Editor Burde terms the new publication the Shell Hole
Advance. Like the other publications in the serpentine
line of trenches extending from the North Sea to the Vos
ges mountains, it takes on the frolicsome spirit of the sol
dier. At times it reeks of the buoyancy of the college mag
azine, then it sobers its ephemerides and the reader
glimpses the “seamy” side of strafing the Germans and be
ing sTafed in turn.
Despite the inroads of the trench rats on the paste
and copy paper, not to mention the punctuations caused by
bursting srapnel, the trench editors are continuing to get
out a form of literature that* has in spots a permanent
literature of the age.
In the thick of bombardment and when, as sometimes
happens, comrades are falling and ammunition is short,
the boys in the trenches find some relief by reading the
bits of cheer that the editors fling out. The humor is at
times blunt. Nights in wet and muddy trenches do not
make for drawing room repartee. ,
But they are spick and span sheets. A grim little joke
is that the editor is prepared at a moment’s notice to move
his shop to Berlin, or part of the way. The censor passes
on all that is written and an editor can’t criticize the pow
ers that be. To do so means a banal death with a soft
nosed bullet—and that is heroism that even an editor hesi
They do the one thing
you have always
wished a
cigarette
would do;
^and that
"is
They Sat
isfy — and
yet they’re
MILD.
O forlO^
“GEE WHIZ; I WONDER IF BILL HEARD THAT?”
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_Donahey in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
tates to strive for.
So the editor makes the troops laugh above the can
non's roar.
When we speared them with the bayonet,
And we beaned them with the bomb,
It was muddy,
It was bloody,
Making history on the Somme.
This is a sample of the verse. Then we have a little
story of troops on the battleground. They find a German
in a heap of slain. He shouts out, “I am alive. And the
story goes that the men nudge one another and sa\, "V ou
can’t believe a German,” and^ass on.
The Shell Hole Advance accepts no German ads. Its
editor looks Hell in the face and laughs at feai. Then he
publishes his paper and does more than his little “bit” to
aid his fellowman.—Ex.
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POST PUBLISHING CO.
Notice is hereby given of a special
‘ meeting of stockholders of the Post
Publishing company to be held in the
office of L. V. Ray in the Harriman
Bank Building, at eight o’clock in tho
evening of August 2,1917, for the pur
pose of devising means of payment of
remaining liabilities of said corpor
ation.
E. O. SAWYER, JR., President.
First Pub. July 18.
Last Pub. Aug 2.
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SUCCESSOR TO
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