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A NEW ERA
Introduction of Matanuska vege
tables into the local market and the
display of a splendid exhibit of Ma
tanuska coal here, is merely a tore
runner of the great business of the
future which will be routed through
this port.
Efforts already put forth by the
farmers locating on agricultural land
tributary to Seward show it will short
ly be producing far more produce than
can be consumed in Alaska and or a
grade alongside of which Outside veg
etables are not to be compared.
The day is not far off when Alaskan
raised produce will be the standard in
('oast markets, for the beets, turnips,
rutabagas and rhubarb of the North
are without equal. There is something
in the long days and rapid growth
which adds a flavor and preserves a
crispness in the fully-matured vege-1
table which puts the product in a class
bv itself.
Smaller samples of the coal have,
been delivered here from time to time
for years back, and have been viewed
with great interest, for the coal is like
no other coal on the western coast ot
either North or South America.
In a short time, however, it will
v ease to be a novelty and with the ar
rival of a train-load every few hours,
which will be necessary to handle the
proposed output of 10.000 tons per
da/, coal will attract no more atten
tion hereabout.
With unequaled produce and an in
exhaustible supply of fuel, it does not
require much foresight to realize the
extent of shipping, which will make
this a port of call. Trans-Pacific lin
ers making this a coaling point will
also stock up their larder with fresh
veegtables, and when considering the
number of ships making Seattle and
San Francisco from the Orient every
week, the extent of this “transient
business’* will be no small item in it
self.
Hut all of coal and all of the pro
duce will not be shipped out, for a
large percentage of the production
will be used in the mineral develop
ment of the country north of here, for
mining and smelters, thus extending
the variety of shipments to include
metals.
Only those who have witnessed the
rapid growth of Seattle, Oak! md. San
fr'rancisco and Los Angeles can realize
the future development here and along
the line of the government railroad,
which will result when cheap fuel be
comes a fact.
POTATOES WILL BE CHEAPER
The Office of Information, of the
Department of Agruculture, authoriz
es the following:
The huge potato crop, which the |
forecast made by the Department of
Agriculture indicates will be produced,
in the United States this year, means j
that this important food staple will
be cheaper and makes it possible for
American families that had to cut
down on potato consumption because ;
of high prices to restore the tuber to j
a prominent place on their bill of fare. |
The department forecast, based on
reliable estimates from all parts of the
country, places the total potato yMd,
at more than 407.000,000 bushels, as
compared with 2Sa.000.000 in 1010 and j
300,000,000 in 1015. Potatoes of the,
current season are already in the |
market in large quantities, and, since
the early harvested tubers can not be
kept easily, should be eaten more
abundantly now if spoilage is to be
avoided.
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WHAT $50 LIBERTY BOM)
WILL DO TO HELP THE
COUNTRY WIN THE WAR
The proceeds of one $*>0 Liberty
Loan Rond will purchase:
Thirteen 13-pounder shells for de
stroying submarines.
Four 5-inch shells for the same pur
pose.
One hundred pounds of smokeless
powder.
Eighteen gas masks for a like num
ber of soldiers at the front.
Enough coal to drive a destroyer
120 miles.
Enough gasoline to drive a subma
rine destroyer 150 miles.
“They do the one thing
I’ve always wished
a cigarette would do;
They Satisfy
—vet thev’re Mild!”
“GEORGE. WHAT ON EARTH IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR ARM?”
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JDEN. |
_Donahey in Cleveland Plain Dealar.
A sailor’s uniform outfit.
Four months’ subsistence for a sol
dier.
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WH AT CHILDREN THINK
Among the many investigations ol
the influence of ti e war on the chil
dren of Germany is one of special in
terest reported by Max Doring, Kei|>
zig, in Archiv fur Dedagogie, of
which he is one of the editors, says
a writer in the New ^ork Kvening
Post. The report refers to the an
swers of 110 boys and girls between
the ages of 8 and 12, in a certain
school.
The teachers asked the children to
write a theme expressing their
“Thoughts, Wishes and Hopes.” In
order that the children should not be
influenced, care was taken that no ref
erence should be made to the war.
They were given perfect liberty in
choosing their answers to the three
questions. This was done in order to
avoid questions from the children as
to what they should write and how.
A strict and careful supervision made
it impossible for the children to copy
and converse with one another while
they wrote.
Of the 110 children only three did
not refer to the war. All the others
expressed their thougnts about the
war. Of these, 02 children expressed
their desire for peace, 8;> children
were worried about members of their
families on the battlefields, 38 thought
about the high cost of living, especial
ly about the scarcity of potatoes, but
ter and fat. Hopes of victory were ex
pressed by only 28, happiness over the
victories of the German army by only
nine.
In spite of all the literature of hat
red imported into the public schools
only seven children expressed any kind
of hatred towards the enemy. The
name of that man who is spoken of
most in the schools, the Kaiser, was
mentioned only once. In spite of the
humbug about “his majesty,” this
shows how much the children think
about it!
This little inquiry reveals plainly
how tired they all are in Germany of
this war, and that these thoughts are
so often expressed that they preoc
cupy every mind. And when we re
member that these little children ex
pressed these thoughts over a year
ago—for the report is published in Ar
chiv fur Pedagogie of March, 1016—
we can imagine how everyone feels to
day.—Ex. j
A RED CROSS APPEAL |
By K. C. B.
In a little while your boy may be!
“somewhere in France." You won’t
know where. You’ll only know that
somewhere on the firing line, side by
side with your neighbor’s boy, he will
be fighting on toward the goal that
must he reached before the war is
done. And here at home you’ll wait
and pray that he’ll come back, and
God grant that he may. And God
grant, too, that he’ll come back just
as he went away, with shoulders back
and head erect, and in his ejes^the
light that comes into the eyes of those
in whom there is no fear that the
future days or months or years may
point to them and say: “He heard
and answered not.’*
And while he’s gone, unless you re
brave beyond the strength of human
kind, you dream of him, and wake in
those hours of the day—the darkest
just as the morning breaks, you will
take the hand that soothed his brow
in babyhood and hold it tight and
wonder how it goes with him where
he is when the morning breaks on
that same day “Somewhere in
France.”
And then, if you have “done your
bit” back home. While he is over
here, if you have sent a Ked Cross
nurse and what she needs, a surgeon
to hold back the life that looks down
where the valley lies and shadows
lurk, there’ll come that light into your
eves and you will know no one can
point to you and say: “He heard and
answered not.’’
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KNEW PREMIER
KERENSKY IN
JAIL CELL
Former Jail Mate of Russian Leader
Tells of Meeting Him on
Way to Siberia
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, (By Mail).—
“I know Kerenskey. I was his jail
mate at Samara.”
These words were uttered by a quiet
looking young man seated at a desk
in the New York public library. The
man was Morris Kolchin, who is fin
ally at peace in the land of the free
after a stormy career as r. revolut.on
ist in Russia.
•‘It was in 1906 that I met Keren
skey in the Samara prison," said Kol
ehin, who speaks his English very
carefully. “Samara is on the Volga.!
I was one of the six or seven prison- •
ers. It was on my way to Siberia, j
There was no charge against me, but
I was a member of the social-demo
cratic party, anti-government, and
that was crime enough. No charge
was placed against any of us in 4hose
days. n „
Social Revolutionist
“Kerenskey was a member of the
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social-revolutionist party. The aims
are the same; Kerenskey’s party re
lied largely upon the peasants, the
other party upon the industrial work
ers.
“I was on my way to the prison
vill: ge of Xaryma in the province of
Tomsk, Siberia, when I met Kerenskey
at Samara. His prison cell looked
out on the courtyard, where we were
permitted to exercise during the day.
He was imprisoned with two other
young revolutionists. They would
put their heads through the window,
ami those of us in the courtyard would
converse by the hour with them.
“Of two different socialist parties,
Kerenskey and I naturally had many
spirited arguments over policy and
tactics.
“He was then a young man of the
student type; his youth impressed me
at the time. He is blonde, of medium
height—I should say about five feet
seven or eight inches. He has a keen
mind, and is a most able debater.
Vigorous and Able
“He defends the cause in which he
is interested with vigor and ability.
I knew of his work for the ‘cause,’
and of his arrest, but of course no
charges were brought against him; he
was simply imprisoned.
“Kerenskey’s name first became
well known in Russian when, in 1!)12,
he dared as a young lawyer, defend
the Lena river gold mine strikers.
Thus openly on the side of the work
men, it was inevitable that Keren
skey should devote his life thereafter
frankly to revolutionary socialism.
“When the revolution broke Keren
skey was made vice-president the
council of workmen and soldiers’ dep
uties.
“In the MilukofT cabinet he was the
only socialist hut immediately became
the most important member of that
cabinet.
“The talk of Kerenskey becoming :t
dictator is absurd. He believes too
deeply in democracy for that."
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