Next Wednesday has been designated as Liberty Day
and next Wednesday afternoon has been proclaimed a half
holiday. The President of the United States, acting upon
the suggestion of his worthy cabinet member, William
McAdoo, Secretary of the United States Treasury, issued
the proclamation to the people of the United States and
supplemented it with the request that the governoi of each
State, the governor of each Territory under the Stars and
Stripes, issue a further proclamation calling more strict
ly the closest attention of the people of the States and
Territories to the object ot the day.
Gov. J. F. A. Strong has done so.
Cjui’t Seward stop in her busy commercial life and
take a distinct patriotic step?
Can’t Seward celebrate the half holiday in an appro
priate manner, not only working extremely hard to solicit
more subscriptions for the second issue of the Liberty
Loan Bonds, but also in some tense display of patriotism?
Can’t the city council take some action?
Can’t the school board, or whatever organization has
charge of the educational affairs of Seward, do some
thing?
Can’t the Odd Fellows, the Masons, the Pioneers, the
Moose, all of whom are founded upo nliberty, do some
thing?
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Isn’t it time to begin to realize that we are at war,
that liberty is what we are fighting for?
Here in Seward we have our Home Guards.
Can’t we have a parade, headed with our guards?,
! Can’t the school children, the Red Cross, in fact, every
organization in the city, join in a monster parade, hold
a public meeting somewhere and show our patriotism and
our unstinted belief in liberty?
; Has liberty, that we have enjoyed for years, become |
so dead in us that we only realize that we have it, but have
forgotten how hard it had to be fought for? i
Come on—let us get busy—do something to sha&e off
the apparent lethargy and show that we, every man,
woman and child, knows what liberty is and that we will;
do or die for it. )
Don’t let the matter be delayed, let the public speak,
' and speak for this thing. The time is short and there is
i not a day to be lost in making some arrangement even if
! the whole thing lasts only half an hour—let us celebrate1
and celebrate with a terrific pace during that half hour, i
No long-winded speeches—just snappy two- or three
minute affairs, if public speaking is to be part ot the cele
bration. Jam everything we can do for the cause of lib-!
erty into a short space as possible but have it snappy, j
pointedly but a liberty celebration. j
Who will be the first or what organization will be the
first to take the initiative?
APPEAL MADE FOR FOOD
PLEDGE SIGNATURES IN
WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 21
The Food Administration has issued the following:
Most of the big things in our connection with the wai
have been accomplished by the typically American devic<
of devoting a special week to a particular thing and mak
ing a National drive for it. \Y e have had Liberty Loar
week. Red Cross week, and volunteer week.
And now, food pledge week, beginning October 21.
For seven days the press and every possible organiza
tion in the country will be directed to the single end of get
ting the signatures of every man, woman and child in tht
United States at the bottom of the food pledge. Every
body in the country has heard something about food sav
ing and understands that it is one of the four biggest ser
vices necessary to win the war. Everybody is more or less
kindly disposed toward food saving—and hopes that the
other fellow is carrying out the provisions of the Food
Administration, and intends to adopt the wheatless and
meatless meal himself before long.
But now the time has come to sign up and do all these
things.
At the end of food pledge week the membership of
the United States Food Administration should be 100 per
cent, of the people of the Nation.
Be ready to “do your bit” that week. It will be the
biggest sort of business because it is to help win the war.
THOUSANDS OF
NURSES ARE IN
ACTIVE SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — More
than 2,000 Red Cross nurses are now
engaged in active nursing service and
another 2,000 in teaching and commit
tee work, the national committee on
nursing of the American Red Cross
announces. Nine thousand more stand
ready to serve at once, and the num
ber of trained nurses volunteering for
service with the Red Cross now aver
ages a thousand a month.
Miss Jane A. Delano, chairman of
the nursing committee, said that the
general scheme of unit organization
was to keep together groups of nurses
and doctors with experience in the
same training schools and hospitals.
Base hospital units for the Army and
the Navy have been recruited from
alumnae of the schools connected with j
the largest hospitals in the country j
, in groups of 20, 40, 65, and 100. Re
sides the base hospital units the Red
Cross has established units of nurses
for emergency use. Such a hospital
unit consists of 1 doctor and 25 nurses.
Specially trained nurses are being
held in readiness for work in units de
voted to pediatrics, orthopedics, men
tal diseases, and public health.
Infant-welfare nurses have already
been sent to Franee and to Roumama.
Plans are also under way for a special
unit of nurses trained in the care of
mental diseases to serve in the mental
wards of the hospitals established at
the d2 Army cantonments. Units in
orthopedics are being prepared to meet
the needs of the maimed in the recon
struction hospitals.
In the civil zones surrounding the
training camps and cantonments and
the naval bases 50 public health nurses
have been assigned to work under the
Red Cross sanitary directors. Ninety
five Red Cross nurses in the town and
country nursing service are engaged
in teaching and nursing in rural and
mining districts that the public health
at home shall not suffer needlessly.
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MINE OFFICE
AT JUNEAU IS
DISCONTINUED
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Federal Mine Inspector Smith Is En
gaged In Work for Government
and Office Records Sent
to Him
JUNEAU, Oct. 4, (By Mail).—The
Federal Mine Inspection office at Ju
neau is to be dosed at once for an in-1
definite period, according to orders;
which arrived from Washington today
John A. Huff', who has been in charge
of the office for the past three months,
has been ordered to report to Wash
ington at the earliest possible mo
ment.
Sumner S. Smith, the Federal
mine inspector, is at present detailed
Lo the work of superintending the op
ening of the government coal mine at
Eska creek for the Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission, and the records of
:he office will be shipped to him at that
place.
Mr. Huff, accompanied by Mrs,.
Huff, will leave for Washington on
jne of the first southbound boats.
When seen Mr. Huff stated that he
knows nothing of the future plans of
the department with regard to the Ju
neau office. “I have been ordered to
report to Washington at once, and I
suppose on account of the great
Amount of work the Bureau of Mines
s doing in connection with the war
:hey need all the men they can get. I
shall be connected directly with Mr.
Manning’s office. The records of the
ocal office are being shipped to Mr.
Smith at Anchorage, and this office
vill be closed for the time being, at
east.”
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TOWN ABANDONED
TO SAVE PEOPLE
FROM POISONING
LONDON, Oct. 19. — Armentieres
is the first town in the annals of his
tory to have been literally poisoned
to such a degree that its civil popu
lation has had to be removed lest it
should be entirely destroyed. While
heavy shells were rained on the
houses, forcing the people to take to
their cellars, a multitude of small
shells, not powerful enough to smas1
a pavement stone, fell everywh
These shells contain no gas or po'
but a colorless liquid which sp
over the ground. Only slightly vola
tile the liquid leaves traces for hours
after the shell has exploded. It evap
orates very slowly producing a heavy
gas which filters downward and
reaches the cellars where refuge has
been sought.
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SOLDIERS DRIVEN
FROM BEDS INTO
COLD OUTSIDE AIR
DES MOINES, Oct. 19. — Fire de
stroyed the barracks of Company A,
First Provisional Regiment, and No.
16.‘) depot of the brigade cantonment
here.
With the temperature at 26 above
zero over 125 drafted men were driv
en from their beds with but scanty
attire. None was hurt. The loss is
estimated at $5,000.
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NEW SULTAN OF EGYPT
GIVEN GREAT HONOR
ON TAKING THRONE
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 19.—'The in
stallation of the new Sultan of Egypt
to his throne was marked by great
pomp and ceremony. As he rode
through the flagged streets, English
and Australian infantry lined either
side as a guard of honor.
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FLOOD SHOWS NO SIGN
OF ABATING IN CHINA
AND MANY SUFFERING
PEKING, Oct. 19.—Floods along
the Hoang Ho river show no sign of
abating.
The flooded area in China province
is increasing and smaller, floods are
reported from six other provinces.
Great damage has been done and •
many people are suffering.
TO EXPEL AGITATORS
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19.—Foreign
labor agitators who have been pro
moting strikes in the Tampico oil
fields are to be expelled.