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HOOVER AND THE PEOPLE.
Said that eminent Englishman who spoke the other
dav in London about the miracle Herbert C. Hoover is per
forming: "It is lucky for us that a man like Mr. Hoover
is at the helm of the allied food supply and that behind him
is a people willing to deny themselves so that we may live
to fight.”
They are well coil]tied—tiiis wonderful man, Hoover,
and the American people, thus manifesting themselves in
a fine American way of which cynics have said before now
they were not capable. Herbert C. Hoover is the emphas
is, the underline, the typical, high individual expression of
this finest side of Americanism—far-seeing, capable, dis
cerning in judgment decisive in action.
The Aemrican people are behind him. Yes, indeed!
They were content almost to unanimity that he should
have and exercise the power requisite to the accomplish
ment of the task that has been cut out for him. They
have backed him in a willing compliance with the demands
he has made upon them. In that there has been some sac
rifice, but the genuine American is not disposed to boast
about that. He realizes that as yet it is not a sacrifice
worth boasting about.
Americans by and large are ready and willing to play
the game to win, no matter what it costs. Mr. Hoover
knows that, and if occasion shall demand the world will
iearn of it as the war shall progress.
With the individual American who is made to realize
how he can help Herbert Hoover to feed our allies and
maintain our own fighting men it is a question of how- fat
and how strongly he can play the game so as to hasten the
dav of the final winning.
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BUTTONS.
Button. Button—Who’s got the button? Japan ha:
it. She took it away from Germany.
Before the war Germany had the American button
trade. Germany had to let go of it and Japan grabbed it.
It was a perfectly natural and legitimate thing for Japan
to do; and Japan proceeded immediately to qualify in an
industrial and trade way that the thing might be done
thoroughly and efficiently.
Harking back only to 1911 Germany made 70 per cent
of the buttons imported into the United States, while Ja
pan sold to this country only <> per cent of its imported
buttons. Importations from Germany have ceased, as a
matter of course. Importations from Japan have increas
ed to 80 per cent of the total. During 1914 button impor
tations from the land of the Nipponese were valued at
8129,000 while last year they mounted to $907,000 out of a
total importation from all sources of $1,200,000.
This game of “Button, Button—Who’s got the but
ton?” as Japan has played it on Germany is characteristic
of the widespread and almost irremedial war loss that Ger
many will have to sustain after her war lords have been
chastened of their inordinate ambition. It’s buttons in
one direction, dye-stuffs in another, cutlery in another,
toys in another, and so the list can be made up to intermin
able length.
It is a losing war for Germany, even if it were possi
ble for Prussian ambition to win; and the loss will be felt
for many generations after the present.
FOUR-MINUTE MAN.
When the war is ended, and we shall have had time to
view our preparation and performance in retrospect, the
busy citizen known as the Four-Minute Man will come in
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for a large share of credit, and, if full justice be done, his
patriotic chest will bear a badge of honor betokening the
appreciation of the nation.
This energetic and articulate citizen has been a per
petual spur to the patriotism of a people long accustomed
to peace and difficult to awaken to the emergent needs of
war. When citizens had read Mr. Hoover’s urgent calls
for food conservation and forgotten all about it, here was
the Four-Minute Man stepping briskly to the front of the
stage and reminding us of it again, and yet again. When
the Red Cross was hustling for funds, and Mr. McAdoo
appealing for liberty bond subscriptions, the Four-Minute
Man’s was the voice that stirred us to action. In his com
bined and manifold activities he furnished the punch that
put over the nation’s calls and got results.
There has been no question about the patriotism of
the people nor of their desire to contribute their aid to the
war purposes, but they were very busy with their own af
fairs, had a tendency to procrastinate, and in some quar
ters there was a strong confidence that George would do
it. The Four-Minute Man has been the persistent remind
er of duty, the government’s buzzer, the articulate call
that the patriot dimly recognized, but had no time to put
into action. When the war is over, and we are measuring
performance and recompense, we shall discover the Four
; Minute Man to be vastly underpaid; and we shall have
more evidence of this before peace comes.—(Seattle P.-I.)
UKI) CROC'S DISBURSES
$77,843,435 FOB RELIEF
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — An ac
counting of American Red Cross War
Council appropriates nu-.do public
at headquarter shows that up to
January 9, $77,843,435 had been ap
propriated from the war fund, every
dollar of which Was for some form of
relief work at home or abroad. All
administration evpenses in the Unit
ed States are paid out of general
| funds, laigely from membership dues,
; and for this purpose $1,289,292 had
oeen appropriated. This, with $318,
J00 drawn from miscellaneous funds
for various purposes, made a grand
i otal of $79,150,727 appropriated for
| ill purposes.
Nearly three-fourths of $44,(>.>7 795
withdrawn for foreign relief work
went to France, and of $24,323,181
for the purchase of supplies, nearly 1
one-third was for France.
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO
OWNERS
To GEORGE R. 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, 1910, and 1917, the
undersigned has expended more than
One Hundred 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 (1-8) interest, and
you, the said Dave Bauman claim an
undivided one sixteenth (1-16) inter
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
as and for the representation of said
claim for the years as aforesaid, as
required by the laws of the United
States and district of Alaska concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims
and the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years.
The amount required for each of said
years being the sum of One Hun
dred Dollars ($100.00).
iou 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 yourj
proportionate share of said represen-;
tation for the years ending as afore
said; and you, the said Dave Bau
man, the sum of $56.25, being youi
proportionate share of said lepresen
tation for the years ending as afore
said, your interest in said claim will
be 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 day of December, 1917.
FRANK MEERWAI.PT
Co-Owner.
Date of publication Dec. 24th, 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
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HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
RUBBER BELTING
Doors and Windows
IXL Parlor Heaters
Air Tight Heaters
Aluminum Ware
P. & B. Paper
Malthoid Roofing
Marine Engine Oil
Gas Engine OH
Lacqueret Paint
Denatured Alcohol
Lang’s Ranges
Gasoline Stove*
Deadening Felt
Weather Strip*
Blacksmith’* Coal
Wheel Barrow*
Fishing Tackle
Alcohol Stove*
Seine Twine
Granite Ware
Cook Stove*
Camp Stove*
Oil Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Colls
Batteries
Asbestos
Tar Papet
Valve Oil
Floor OH
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Ammunition
Bench Forget
Brushet
Varnlthe*
Turpentine
Japan
Coal Tar
Lamp*
Lantern*
Tent#
Shot Gun*
Ga*oUne
Bellow*
Cutlery
('ll* CUy
Rifle*
Fir* Brick
Lime
Cement
Gift**
Rope
Mercury
Phone Madison 87 J. L. GRAEF_Seward, tilth j
Rubber ice creepers at J. L. Graef's.
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Taylor’s Express meets all boats
and trains. Phone Main 122.
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“Ooligan nets on hand at J. L.
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Pearl Oil $l.Tb a can at Graef's. tf
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For sleds and ice skates see Graef.
Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 157
KAWABE & BADGER
Best of Work—Quickest Deliv
ery. Family Work. Rough
Dry 12Vi cents per pound
Advertise In The Gateway.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 14&
They do more
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