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The Alaska Weekly Post
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Elmer A. Friend. Editor
Harry V. Ho ben. President Frank L. Ballaine, Sec.
EaUrvd u eecond-claaa nattai Saptarobar X, 1916, at tha P'*at Office *t Seward, Alaika,
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"THIS IS YOUR WAR. BEGIN IT NOW.”
URGES PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL
IN ADDRESS TO CLASS 1 DRAFT MEN.
Last July, Provost Marshal General Crowder issued
an address to class 1. selective draft men. Ihis address is
most applicable today in view of the fact of the new mail
• power act. The address is as follows:—
You have been selected by the Congress of the Nation
and by the I1 >ard of your own community to fili the ranks
of our National Army. Your appointed task is to defend
our country from the force and fraud of a ruthless enemy.
Begin now!
Your call to arms is coming in due season. But in th ?
meantime your very selection by the boards of your com
munity marks you as possessing already a privilege and a
dutv. You are not onlv to bear arms when the time comes.
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You are to prepare to l>e worthy and capable. Begin now
THINK IT OVER AND ACT.
The more you think now about the things which a trim
soldier must know the more competent and satisfied you
will be when the actual call arrives. What do you know of
a soldier's daily duties? What do you know of an army’s
organization? What do vou know of the work and the
science of its several branches-- Infantry , Cavalry, Artil
lery, Signal, Quartermaster, Ordnance, and the rest.’
What do you know of the weapons, the tools, and the ma:
erials that each of them uses? What do vou know of the
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geography of the great battle field of Europe? What do
you kni w of the nations arrayed for and against us? hew
intelligent are you .s to the causes ai.d ..hjects of this
wa*-? D* \ou »«:.lize as a good soldie* yyu Lave nueh to
learn , ami i rat die sooner you leav, ii the better a soldiei
you will be when you arrive in camp? Begin now!
GET ACQUAINTED WITh COAIEAdHC
Do \ou kumv ;.)e men o ' this town and country that
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are to join the ram's with you? Hove you reflected that
the greatest friendslvo that grows up between those who
have fought side by side? Ha\ e you realized that all of you
here in this country,.; >w i'o; • a picked band of brothers
in arms, destined to tee each other through, in many a
crisis, in the days to come? Have you made a start of these
friendships yet? Begin now!
Have you ever thought that our enemy is attacking
us, not only in Europe, hut at home ? Have you realized
that his especial trickery consists in seeking to make men
disloyal here in our own community? Have you tried to
discover and suppress the em my’s work here in the peace
ful region of our own homes? Since your appointed task
is to act as the defenders of our country, why wait till you
are called to camp? Your time for that has come already.
Begin now!
Uli 'M .V'W ON A SELECTED PATRIOT.
From now on regard yourselves as a selected frater
nity of active patriots. Strengthen those who are weak.
Encourage those who are timid. Inspire the indifferent.
Inform the ignorant. Search out slackers. Begin now to
make every one of you into a good soldier, a capable de
fender of our country, in spirit, in knowledge, and in phy
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“Hav> you got any chow?”
“Have you got any smoking?
The two men addressed turned and
looked at three human beings, over
alls in shreds up to their knees, hand:
swollen, faces scratched and two oi
the human beings with eyes closed
from fly bites, or something.
The two addressed vere Chados
ivnxwder and Dill Hewitt, composing
•i searching party and tin inquiring
three individuals were seamen Hauhl,
ad and Rubbin«, «>/ f.h 1'. S. S.
:S \.ho ha 1 b-*”’ l >. » \vl tie oat
' n a i anting e\p * lit.on.
shut. These two went down to Cooper
lake and went into tamp last Friday
night. Saturday morning it was rain
ing hard and they sat around a good
camp lire which was sending up
clouds of smoke. This smoke was seen
by the Saturn’s seamen and they
made for it reaching the charmed cir
cle about & o’clock in the morning.
Kinswilcr and Dewitt gave the mis*
-ing men a feed and smokes and at
noon Un* five started for Kenai Lake
arriving there shortly afterward.’.
Une boat was seen heading up the
i lake and although a large fire was
1 burning on the beach and shots were
fired to attrack the attention of the
boatman, he passed on and out oi
I sight.
The three .‘vur.icn h t M It 2’* a
w»*k ago last .M;»-day moc.ng in a
i> til u \\n K. .a;, i ta.\0 and ha I r*,a«*h
e * t* •* far end •».' Cooper *d:« *»t.«l or
od their boat near Porcupine Island,
a ^ gdie as •• «. A > * 'm u ovt ani
v ; .at \\a « \ imped. Taxing their
tin vc* the threj lm-o s»* out ovci the
re \.» tains be i. • g that Ma y would
..■atch a glimpse of Seward then make
their way back to civilization.
The trio started up the mountain*
intending to go over the top and reath
the headquarters of Resurrection riv
er. The party had a hard time sealing
the mountains then when they wer*
on top sighted glaciers off in the dis
anee and various lakes and lowlands.
The men went down one side and
then through the under brush and
brought up on Russian river. Finding
no outlet for them in that direction
;he> believed they should take they
started back towards Cooper Lake.
This was a week ago last Monday.
From Russian river to Cooper lake
is a vast section of abler land, hard
to get through, practically trailless *n
the unitiated. The men were scratch
ed by tin* alders, beset by flies which
could sting, soaked by the rain which
was falling , and had a most dis
agreeable experience.
Last Frida> United States Deputy
Marshal Issue Kvans sent out three
searching parties. One party was com
posed of Kinswilcr and Dewitt who
know Kenjti Peninsual with their eye/
1 Mwiulay night Louis Bell reached
the party in a gasboat and took them
; up tno lake and the five reached Roos
-evelt between 10 and 11 o’clock. The
five came in on a handcar arriving
yesterday afternoon, the seamen go
ing to the Radio station and Kinswiler
and Dewitt coming to Seward to make
their report.
Dauhl, Mead and Rubbins, were
from a week ago last Monday until
last Saturday morning making thei.
way through the alders to where they
came upon the searching party sen.
i out for them. The three had caught
| red salmon in the Russian river and
prepared a meal, had smoked coffe°
for tobacco, as the real article hac
given out, but for three days subsist
ed on berries their matches having be
come wet and useless. Plenty rr
moose tracks were seen but no moose
and the bird life was also missing.
Lieut. Commander Luekel is grati
fied that his men have returned safe
ly but hereafter will send a guavdia >
1 along with them when they go ou*.
hunting.
Kinswiler and Dewitt intended te
search for the missing men unti’
found and had almost instinctively
struck unon the route that the thn* '
seamen had traveled.
sical fitness.
There never was a war to which men could give thenr
selves with greater confidence and devotion. There never
was a war in which a man had less excuse for holding
hack. There never was4 af time when a man could be more
desirous to be known as a soldier. There never will be a
centurv in the world’s history in which a man’s family,
his townsmen, and his countrymen will he prouder to point
him out as,one of their men- one of the men who had the
honor of being in the Army.
This is your war. You are going to win it by what you
are- good Americans and good soldiers. You are good
Americans already. It will take some time to make good
soldiers out of you. The sooner you start the sooner you
will arrive. Begin now!
E. H. CROWDER,
Provost Marshal General
WAR HORSES ARE EDUCATED.
LONDON, Sept., 11— A war horse, before he is ready
for service, receives an education almost as rigorous and
comprehensive as tha of the recruit who rides him into
battle. When properly trained he will face barbed wire
and even rush entanglements, regardless of lacerated legs
and flanks. After he has been accustomed to have a man
mount rapidly on his sensitive back he is taught to kneel
with his rider. He has to be taught to pull up in his own
length from a gallop, to stand steady while a rider fires
from his back and to lie still on the ground while he is
being used as a cover for his rider who snipes over his
side.
One of the most difficult things required of a war
horse is to become familiarized with the sword. In warfare
it is a common trick for a cavalryman to aim his first blow
at his opponent’s horse, for no horse will stand after being
pricked on the nostril or lip.
When a horse knows his rider well he will perform
surprising deeds. A brigade has been known to go
through three lines of bayonets and then through a barb
ed -wire entanglement. Not long ago a Canadian troop
charged two lines of German machine guns and rifles,
wheeled and then rode through them a second time. When
the enemy finally begins his big retreat it is the Allie’.s
horses that will keep the Germans on the run.
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Tip to the wordy wise: Think twice before you speak,
and count a billion before you cuss the Government.
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