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ELMER \. FRIEND. EDITOR WIMil NER\L MANAGER
Harr* V. Hi.hen. Preaidmt brink L. Ballaine, Sec.
Eaiarcd .. ^fliH matt*.- Sat'tcmbcr t. 1916. at th* Poat < ><*«>• at Seward. Ala-ka. ■
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of all new r dispatcher credited ot it or m l otherwise credited in this paper
and uIho ihe !oc*l new* published herein. _
UKh cuoss i;ou. c \u.
I'he annua! Ketl l'ros> roll call
now on in f\or\ state and te r t.« y
the I'nion. I'he colLcall, which is foi
member.*, end. on Arm slice day, No
vember 11 ill. There are live good re.<
son*'why Seward people should eon
tiiiue ihei» universal membership 11
th** Amt * sc / a Ivt'ii ( ross
fo men >!» l in *e;viee. and it* lb»v
I’aimlo * at home, it* discharged sol
uiers not yet fully adjusted t«* th*
routine o* civilian inf*. to boys 01 con
vaU sung in Milita 'y or Naval ho*
pitais, the Ame’ican people stiil giv*
cheer, comfort
their Red Cross.
portions of the Oh
\\ I Red Cro
feeds and cloths th** undernourishe*
and f tig god babies, can s l**1 Ihe ag* *
and I! * Mifirm. a»«l assist th«* peopb
»♦* ;b . f.i>t i d h n. fam*nti
en. .tiir* ravaged countries t«> oigan* •
their own resources Si.nee the *ign
vadiN ti ■dined, but : is n**t by :»n\
means fully comp* ted.
Th. sjmmmI anti efficiency with whirl
QlHCXI> Em Fen^trattng
Hamlin s %v jrc 0<«
tf' i\ !»v v t . 1 >.
«,u;*U\. dn»t
lit' hi-’ * U’ >ti” m':'n\s *•' - *h<i
musdf1'*
burns, hit* s r 1
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cr*»np a * i • i o.*t *
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\\ hip'*, pi** *- ** ' •i'*. • *’
cents CuaratiU-U
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U *ci m11> HhhK*uo\at**d.
“VV K H \ Mill. DMA l IIJST l l A
coons"
~W E I l \\|) liv)\V TO
OKKCAKK HU M"
( Iranlim** and Court*«.>
IS OIK MOTTO.
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IOK LAMES
( harlr* < ameroii — John ( . (*affm‘i
UK SERVE EVERYTHING
TJI \T is GOOD TO EAT
OPEN D V) AND NIGHT
GRILL
JOHN’S PLACE
_ M i —— - - —
ihc Red Cross met the emeuency
,u ,»d< m (oi pus Chnsti and vicincy
i\* ,i striking illustiution of the val
‘oi nationwide Red Cross oi jjaniza*
, Con. and furnished convincing proof
thai we cannot afford to jr<» hack to
tin pre-war basis when al) Red Cioss
.j master • lid was administoied from
Washington, 1>. ('. In ease oi dis
aster, whether it l»«• a small one due
fa. -st fire in the Northwest or a
jrjviit MississippiYalley flood, the
i'iisl affective relief will hceafter
| come from nearby communities, work
ing th outfh their Red Cross Chaplets
h are pai t of i’*• d so i• "<
i machinery established by Congress ia
liU'tng the epuleni'C of inliuuM/.
r mj : saiuts <*i lives
iv ti by Red tVi id ion anil
! I ,o-oj ration, whieh was possible on*.y
t 15 oss as fully oi
i g;iniy,m! lor local s»*rvie* and nat >u
■ o (»;h atom m every *■.immunity ».*
! the 1 niti*d Stato. Against a pos. ibl *
recanence of mf uenv.a jh»s winter
• u i.; rro • pdomic i i
ch. future. .1 continued uni' • «. al mem
lie "hip in the Red Cross is issentitr.
Owing to the «hanc *d social an!
economic condition." "• • * 'owing ta
, iry adjustim u
lh;.i must ho made by the nation as * ,
whole to meet these conditions, *th *
Ke«i Cross is confronted with new re I
. possibilities which must be discbaig
rd with the same energy and effet
tiv* ness as were those occasioned h\
the war.
In addition to carrying on tin* al
ready established >ystent o* naiioiru
and internal onal relief in initigat u.'
suffering caused by famine, tire,
floods and great national calamities
Wore is a strong popular demand tov
Re<l Cro .>p« ate with al
r«*cogn»7.ed atrencies, both public and
p**ivat' . i* * the com..oi vat'on oi human
health and happiness.
[n gviK ral the scope ot Lite mmvkto
of the Red »Voss, in addition to the
egular* dVa t* •• fun* ">n and co-op*
esation with the military and nnvd
_ cted to assisting,
-timuiatiug and supplementing legi
timati* movements toi the pie.^ei vatic i
promotion and improvement «*i the
public health and for bettering liv
!.• condition' through uppl'ieg
extending tv principles of tine
neigh bo vlin* -s.
This means a great national |»’<»
0 ■ ' expr< on in
many communities in such activities ^
as public health, nut sing. ed>n a ion:d »
classes in bmm nursing, d eties and j
first aid. extended home sendee, co-j
operation o school children throug1
Junior Membership .and other aetiv
• ties later to be authorized.
The American Red < ross is mui >
an emergen y organization. It must
he realized 'hat there is such a thing
* as a continuing disaster: thousand* ,
of babies under ore year of age die |
every year: thousands of mothers d ••
unnecessarily in chiM-bivth: it is still
possible for an epdemie like the influ
-nza to take a toll within a com pas i i
■>f a few weeks five times greater than j
the losses of our nation in a year anil j
a half of war ; hundreds of thousands i
of people in the prime of life die in
the United States every year from
wholly preventable diseases. This
nothing short of a disaster which *s *
a continuing 050 and will be perma
nent unless the people co-operate wi*h
one another to use the knowledge an l
wealth already in existence to bring j
t’;o nation into a better dry. Many 1
a:r rimes are already at work on those j
problems. The Red O ss will not j
supplant 01 compete with th'* effo* * j
of ary •* taMished and effective a gel- !
cv. public or private. But the Red ’
Cross through its millions of r/mix ^
comprising every element in every ;
community, many of them themselves
victims of ihe foes that cut short ,
human life and rob it of its sweet
rv ss, can serve nation and community
as can no other agency in supplement- ;
ing, reinenforcing, and supporting wed ;
directed efforts for the conservation 1
of the most precious things in the
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I'hat exquisite Toilet Preparation in j
llie following mi inkers;—
FACE POWDER
T.\LtTJM POWDER
liUUiT WATER
PERFUME
SAl II I.T POWDER
SOAP
Just Arrived from
Palmer, New York.
SEE OUR II \L LOW E'EN
.NON ELT1ES ALSO JUST IN.
SKWAIil) DRUG CO.
t he Lexall Store.
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world. !'.’»man Pfe and happiness.
The I t . gue of Red Cross Societies
of al1 i:'tr«*ns has been fennel through
the inspiration of the Red Cross
ac lievom *ni of th( United States. Tlvs
L ague has no executive power wha!
* ovt r over the Red Cross of any .na
tion. hat will extend into every nr
lieu . •' ben its of a national, vol
’intarv It d Cnoss society on tin
Amnican model, to deal with prob
lems of ii ilt'i an 1 child welfare and
?o *np< 1th ill** relief problem.; that
ai pi x»sin over so greut a pa
,»•* i.c* earth’s surface, 'fitrough the-*-1
•h e jn /’.at'oii-. iranv nations will meet
t'leii own problems %.n.ch wor
otherwise lr* appealing to Am ri :
for relief \'\\ assistance. The Unit* fi
States, whose people have sho' » t<
world be*' thus t*» rise out oi do.- on
ir.lo hope, must keen the Ret ‘
banner :*h»ali ,,v hi^h. The muw.-.
nr fai. ef thi> great w orld rn >v- !
n»*-nt of •) a’ra! idealism will depen j
;. rgely unon the manner in which th *1
American people ruswe^the TIHRP*
RKI».CROSS ROM. CALL.
(;,5.\ VK OF SO \\"i SMITH
\\ \S!ir.!> \W.\> IN LLOOH
The Whitehorse Star has the fol
lowing to «ay about “Soapy Smith" .
tl e famo s and notorious bad man
of Skairvny in the early days:
lu addition .to the immense annum
of damn* • it did to the railway
tiark and bridges in the Skugwuv ;
va'l v. the recent f.mnl there wasoed (
awa\ ii tinp--honored attraction th«it .
has probal ly caused more fits of '
shivering fear from timid t«*male ,
tourists who viewed it than an\ *
other object in Alaska, \i'/..; tin .
grave of the famous *Soap\ Smite,
whose remains v. re laid to r. si
the old • > • J'1 h. ow. R
Vis, n *t far from the river bank, j
Most of the n**rvc-lacking tales of*
the late lamented "Soapy’s fer
ociousness and diablerie that a. ,
noA lu circulation are mere fiet.on.
Hie. writer of tins aiticlc knew him
well, ami except when under the in
flueiice of liquor he was as mud
mannered man as ever "scuttled
ship" or “floored a sucker." To the
•gang of sure-thing men. grafters am
chugs over whi^li lv* ruled with ms
ion hand, he was known as a mm
of reckless courage,'quick on flu
draw, and one whom it was not well
for a male den '/.en of the under
world to cross. I) it to the law abiding |
mo peacefully in died citizens with ;
whom lie (•«■•'«• m contact lie was
affable, comb *ns ami deferentia1
and his hai am purse were alwa\
open to a • .y of distress.
In Canad: . * >' tin* United States
then* are to--ay men respected and
accredited w.th an honesty they do
not possess \.Ih> an* robbing the
widow, the o plum and the disabled
soldier iv the manipulation of
life, as a nfeans of acquiring tie
a.vin-- •>•’ *>*h »s. from which that
law known in life as “Soapy"
Smi ’i would have turned in abhor
rence and disgust.
So wags the world. The wolf can I
assume *he garb of the lamb and no
THE KEY
CARLTON CLUE
NEWEST and Rest
Smoking Tobacco.
l'or pipe or cigarette
I
oik Ik* tin* wiser, hut lor the blue.]; ,
sheep to cluingi? tin? color of its
fleece is among the impossibilities.
ITALIC) AMERIC ANS ARE
SEN!)IN(; THEIR WAR CHECKS
TO RELATIVES IN ITALY
\ A EELS, Nov., :» - Tens of thous
ands of diet ks am6unting to million,
of doilais each month are being Seat
to rela, ves her-' by the Itaiio Ameri
cans who served in the American a**
rny. Th« ref ore the mon< y receive d
from \eieric n soldier-.’ allotment-?,,
War Risk Insurance benefits, end |
('nited States < lovei nnieut cornpensji ,
tion constitutes one of the chief sop -
• *s of income for Southern Maly a* M j
present time. Of the thousandsof I’m*
e-American.- in the American arm* .
the great majority were from South
on Itaiv. which has furnished the
bulk of Italian emigrants to the I’m*
ed States.
\t the present rate o»* exchange <>T j
almost trtn lee to the dollar, th«
checks yield a profitable revenue * r j
T|- ly. M is a widely known fact t!.:** I
fhousands of families in Southern
Italy today are being largely supper
by such contributions from the 'I re
nry of the t’nited States.
MISSION HE vlc vlo
IS TO RE RESTORED
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov., 5 Plan
♦or tTu» restoration of Mission S:t>’. j
Mi ego <1*‘ A lento, near thi* ritv* 11 >• * |
pj,*st established in California* have j
'») cformulated by tho committee *n j
barge of the preservation of the oh* j
i*iiin: and work will be started irnttir j
diately. The old ruins " ill be restore! '
to show tin* original outlines of thi »
building.
'!’■ •» road leading to tin* building
will be repaired the grounds laid out
in the nature of a pari;* and flower
and trees planted; while inside the
mission the rooms will he restored a
much as possible to their original ap* !
*
pcaranro .
Original pictures* statues, candh
sticks and other objects of interest |
will be arranged about the rooms t j
conform as nearly as possible to the,
appearance in tin* days of the Francis*
can fathers.
Arthur l». Ihmton* architect of Lo
Angeles, who is secretary of the Land*
marks club* made the plans for tin
reconstruction of the mission from nr
old Spanish drawing.
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Owing to the scarcity or fish 1:;
the Interior this season. men win
make a business of feeding dog*
through tin* summer have advanced !
their price from $4 to $7 per month.
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