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IM’RI.I'AHKO IU1LY. K.VK1T S|*M»%YH ANI> HOI.I DAY
BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.)
Harrv V. Hoben. President Frank L. Ballaine, Sec.
Elmer A. Friend, Editor
Enured « urond-rl... n,.U.r S.p<rmbr, !. 1916. «t th. P«t Ofltr. .t Srwnrd. Alwkn.
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nod also the local news published herein.
FANATICAL DEFAMATION.
There is no occasion to defame the American army
and navy with the charge of drunkenness, says the Port
land Telegram. That has been done by the board of tem
perance. prohibition and public morals of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Patriotic Methodism in this country
should resent the chat.I 'vpudiate those who made it.
There may be men :n the army who get drunk; doubt
less there are. We may venture to assert that there are
men in the Methodist church, and in other churches, who
must stand accountant to as great a sin. Sweeping gener
alization casting the disgrace of drunkenness on the army
does not apply and can be no more justly made than a
sweeping condemnation of the Methodist and other church
os because of the hypocrital sinners within their folds.
This charge of the Methodist temperance and prohi
bition board is a manifestation of fanatical zeal outrun
ning judgment and pushing justice and patriotism into the
background. It is a narrow-visioned, small caliber view
of the army situation and the war problem. It is a view
in which the “demon rum" looms larger and blacker than
the demon Prussianism.
The proof of all this lies first, in the general knowl
edge which the American people have of the general char
acter of the men who have been sent overseas to fight kais
erism. We know those men. They have lived among usj
as our neighbors and fellow citizens. We know the stan
dard of their morality and their conduct. \\ e know their
high character and against that knowledge no narrow
minded. fanatical philippic will prevail. We can not be
lieve that the Methodist church or any church, will coun
tenance the slander of drunkenness against these young
men.
Supporting this general knowledge of the character]
of the American soldier, now in Europe, is the direct testi
mony of antiv and navv officers and other who are so sit
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tinted that thev can observe the conduct and morals of the
men. Thai testimony is an utter and absolute refutation
of slander similar to that published by the Methodist
board, but uttered as a specifically and independently of
that body by an American minister of the gospel now in
London. ,
Anent all such charges the indignation of the Ameri-j
can people will be written large and forcibly.’ We are not
sending an army of drunkards to beat the kaiser.
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One by one some of the best fellows are leaving forj
the states to enlist. Soon we will begin reading of a brave |
deed. Then will we begin to realize that we are at war.
Soon perhaps other news will begin to be received of a
different nature—and then we will-know that we are at
war.
We may expect learned treatises and all sorts of the
ories from criminologists and psychologists on the mons
ter crime of Captain Whisler at Camp Funston.lt is some
thing new, for criminal history furnishes no parallel to
this awful deed. A charitable view is that the murderer
was insane.
There are mighty few people who have nerve enough;
to say just what they think, but at that they are more
numerous than popular.
Perhaps the action of the British house of lords in
voting woman suffrage for England may have some in
fluence in our own house of lords.
THE WRECK OF THE VIKING
They say that spilling salt on the tablecloth is a sure
sign of a fight. But a sure sign of a fight is for friend
husband to spill something on the tablecloth when giving
a stag dinner, with wifev away, and not using salt.
Another hospital ship torpedoed by a German U-boat,
the shot piercing the Ited Cross conspicuously painted on
the ship’s side. As the kaiser would say, “Onward with
God!” j I
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Were it not that Emma Goldman has rather a press
ing and somewhat permanent prison engagement, she
doubtless would find her way overseas to help Trotsky
steer the Bolsheviki ship of state.
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Of course it is none of our business, but—our idea is
that there is enough simp spelling in this country right
now without teaching it.
GOVERNMENT
NOW IN NEED
OF DRAFTSMEN
WASHINGTON, Jan. ill. — There
ue not enough ship draughtsmen in
the United States to do the draftin',
vork needed to carry out the naval
and merchant ship building program.
Our country is engaged in the execu
tion of the greatest warship plan in
nistory, comprising 787 vessels, in
cluding all types from .superdread
noughts to submarine chasers. Naval
appropriations aggregeimg nearly J
billions of dollars have ijecn made
sin* e August 191G.
<\»T.eident with the demand for X
civased naval work there is an equal
ly urgent cal! for an increase of mer
chant ship construction. It is betray
ing no r.ecret to say that in b;th
branches there is a shortage of tech
nic li men available foi this work.
The United States Civil Service
Commission is. endeavoring* to relieve
the e.earth of ship drat ghlmen of re
commending to the heads of colleger
and technical schools that senior stu
Ments in engineering co isos be given
intensive training in naval atchitec
ture during the coming spring with a1
view to making them available for
employment as ship draghlmen in
June. The Commission is also re-i
reiving applications from qualified j
architectural mechanical, and struc
tural steel draughtsmen and is certi
fying them for employment; in the t
Xavy Department and in navy yards
on ship work.
Local boards of civil service exam-!
iners at the postoflices in all of the
larger cities ard furnishing detailed
information and application blanks.
Applicants are not required to appear]
in an examination room for a writ
ten examination, but are rated upon,
their education, training and ex pm*-'
ienee.
DRYS CARRY KL PASO
EL PASO, Jan. 31. — Prohibition
was defeated at the special election
yesterday hut local option carried in
the county*.
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO
OWNERS
To GEORGE K. KiNG and DAVE
BAUMAN, and to their, and each
of their heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that during the years ending
December 31, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912,
1913, 1914, 1915, 191<r, and 1917, the
undersigned has expended more than
, One Bundled Dollars in each of said
years, or a total of $900.00, in labor
and improvements upon the Social
Group sulphur placer mining claim,
•situate on Makuskan Mountain, Una
laska mining district, district of Alas
ka, in which mining location you, the
said George R. King claim an undiv
ided one-eighth 0-8) interest, and
you, the said Dave Bauman claim an
undivided one sixteenth (1-10) inter
i est, as shown by notice of location
; thereof and deeds of conveyance of
' said interest of record in the record
ing office of the aforesaid mining dis
, trict. The said labor was performed
j*as and for the representation of said
l claim for the years as aforesaid, as
! required by the laws of the United
I States and district of Alaska concern
' ing annual labor upon mining claims
land the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years, i
( The amount required for each of said
years being the sum of One Hun
dred Dollars (S100.00).
You are further notified that un
less within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
contribute your proportionate share
of said expenditures, as such co-own
ers, to wit: You, the said George R.
King, the sum of $112.50, being your
proportionate share of said represen
tation for the years ending as afore
said; and you, the said Dave Bau
man, the sum of $50.25, being youi
proportionate share of said ^presen
tation for the years ending as afore
said, your interest in said claim will
bo forfeited to the undersigned co
owner, who has made such expendi
tures and will become his property in (
the manner provided by law.
Dated at Seattle, Washington, this
fifteenth dav of December, 1917.
FRANK MEERWALDT
Co-Owner.'
Date of publication Dec. 24th, 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
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