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PRACTICAL JOKERS WANTED IN ARMY
Village cut-ups and practical jokers are to be mo
bilized in the United States Army service and will be used
at the front, their job to he the fooling of the German air
men and playing tricks on them.
Yesterday the army chief engineer issued a call for
ingenious young Americans looking tor special entertain
ment in fooling the Gentians. Men of this turn of mind
are invited to join the first American camouflage unit.
The members of this unique branch of the service will de
vote their time to the devising of artificial means o( de
ceiving the aerial observers of the enemy.
“Camouflage" is the invention of the h rencli army.
With the assistance of some of the best painters in France,
scenery has been painted to hide important military works
and roads from the eyes of the enemy s airplanes. 1 hru
the ingenuity of these painters and others, optical illu
sions have been created that causes the enemy to make
laughable miscalculations. Many of America’s leading
artists have offered their services for this camouflage unit
across the sea and any other men of an ingenious turn oi
mind will be willingly accepted by the army, whether
painters or not.
Here is, indeed, a chance for the so-called pacifist
and other opposers to the war to do their bit without
shouldering a gun or going against their principles.
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SAVE CHRISTMAS MONEY AND HELP ORPHANS
An appeal to the American people to dispense with
C hristmas gifts this year and devote the millions of dol
lars spent in this manner to the helping of French war or
phans is being sent broadcast by a committee of the Pa
triotic and Defense Society. The immense sum spent by
Americans in Christmas gifts would go a long way to
ward the rehabitating of ruined villages, aiding depend
ent relatives of sick and wounded French soldiers, sup
porting French orphans and war cripples.
This appeal has the sanction of the American gov
ernment and judging from the enthusiasm with which it
is being received all over the nation, Americans will onlyj
be too glad to help this cause in every way. At the same
time this proves an excellent means of repaying the debt
of gratitude Americans owe to F»ance for her assistance!
in the American war for independence.
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"Lick your plate and lick the Kaiser" seems to be the |
gist of Hoover’s appeal to the nation to eliminate food
waste.
The Chesterfield blend
has in it the highest
grade Turkish tobacco
that grows.
They satisfy—
and yet they’re MILD.
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REMEMBER. YOU HAVE A DEPENDENT UNCLE. j
— Evans in Baltimore American.
three heresies rebuked
In indorsing membership ol labor union men in state
militia President Walker of the Illinois State Federation i
of Labor made this statement:
“Labor has given its unqualified indorsement to the
safeguarding of American rights at home and abroad.
The organized workers are anxious to oifer the best that
is in them for the maintenance of justice and order within
and without the nation.”
That single paragraph sums up the answer to several
unpatriotic heresies. It rebukes first of all the heiesy that
labor “has no interest in the war," boldly announced by
1. W. W. leaders on several recent occasions.
It rebukes the heresy that American rights are not
to be supported abroad by force, if necessary, as well as
at home. That is, the heresy that vitiates all the argu
ments and protestations of those who say they would ie
sist invasion but object to sending Americans abroad to
fight.
It rebukes lastly the heresy that a man has a right to
live in this country, to enjoy the privileges of its free
citizenship, to appeal to its constitution and its courts of
protection, and yet assume no corresponding obligation
to help protect the country in its hour of danger—Ex.
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The German aviators are making a pastime ol bomb
ing military hospitals in France. There is one hospital
on the Verdun front that has had bombs dropped upon it
several times'in the past few weeks. The Hun can always
find his way back. It is no accident either, for all hospi
tals are plainly marked with the Red Cross in huge signs,
that even he who flies may see. Such acts as these only
make one more notch on the stick, which Fritz will have '
to answer for.
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The Indians forcasted a severe winter the past two
years by the condition of the deer and moose. When they
were well nourished and fat, more so than usual, at thei
beginning of the winter, they took this to be a sign of se
verity of the weather. It has come to be true the past twoj
winters. This year we will give special attention to the'
condition of deer and moose.
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Lost—Photograph, between Mile 23 and The North-!
ern. Finder please rturn to Dick Windele, Mile 23, A. E.j
C., and receive reward.
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The modern poet who spoke of freedom as being
“gorged with goods an dgold,” has made her gauzy pin
nacle hazardous after so solid a meal.
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It is said the Pacific ocean blushed crimson when it
heard a traitorous group of citizens of the country bor
dering on ft were working in its name.
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Enid, Okla., has a public park called Gore park, which
circumstance draws attention to the danger of honoring
any but dead statesmen.
Naturally one now expects Dudley Field Malone to
get his banner and stand his watch with the White House
pickets. _ _ .._
0. W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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