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REGISTERED VOLUNTEERS
The great majority of the country’s people stand firm
ly behind the military registration and realize that it is
but another form of volunteering, devised upon advice of
our Allies who have already been through the mill. News
from Washington today seems to indicate that it may
finally be necessary to call all of the 10,000,000 in the war
for world liberty, and in that event it is just a case of of
ficial selection as to which shall be first at the front.
The following from a Chicago exchange shows the
spirit of the “registered volunteers."
“Today I was calling on a friend who is a big diamond
merchant of Chicago, and who has his only son, about 30
years old, in business with him. I asked the son if he had
enlisted. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘but I have registered and hope
I will be selected.'
“ ‘Yes, Tom,’ said his father, slapping him on the back,
‘and you’ll go.’
“This I find to be the general sentiment of the young
men who have registered and their parents. The men who
have registered can only be considered volunteers, waiting
to be called. It has been well known that our Government
has not been in position to arm, equip and train any more
men than are now in the United States Armv and the Na
tional Guard. The spirit of “Join the Colors” is growing
every day now. It has taken some time for the minds and
hearts of the people to grasp the real necessity for our en
tering this war, but now, eince it dawns upon us clearly
taht a deep-seated purpose had been formulated and going
on for years, to wreck our free republican institutions and
make the United States also a vassal of the Kaiser, we are
willing and anxious to fight.
“One of the surprising things about this war is the
dee)) interest women are taking in it. and the preparations
they are making and daily work they are doing to aid in
every way they can. Social and society matters in most
places have been abandoned for classes in Red Cross train
ing. Weddings have been postponed, and others that have
taken place have been with the distinct understanding
that the young husband should leave his bride to fight for
his country as soon as called, and not claim exemption on
account of being married.
“One fact that strengthens us in our patriotism to our
Government and our duty to humanity is the knowledge
that we cannot be whipped. We have won every war we
entered and we always will—because we will always fight
on the side of right and not for selfish motives or to secure
additional territory.”
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AN ALASKA-SIBERIAN TUNNEL
One of the many plans conceived during his life time
by E. H. Harriman for developing American railroad sys
tems was international in its scope as it included tunnel
ing under the narrow strrait separating the Alaskan coast
and Siberia, thus with the completion of a railway line
up the Yukon and down through Canada, connecting the
United States and Canada with the centers of population
in Europe and Asia.
George Kennan, noted writer and traveler, is quoted
as saying that had Harriman lived his pet plan would
eventually have been put through by acquirement of at
least a part control in the Siberian railway and its conver
sion into a line of double its present capacity. It has even
been said that had Harriman lived the breaking out of this
war would have found such a line in active operation. Any
way, he clung to the scheme to the last and with remark
able tenacity.
It is idle to speculate as to the results that might have
SOMETHING MORE THAN WORDS.
— F tzpatrick in St. Louis Post Dispatch.
flowed from the building of such a road and the realization
of this Harriman dream of commercial conquest as well
as the unification which must have followed. There is no
unifying influence so potent as commercial intercourse.
Along the line of railroad time-honored prejudices and ra
cial peculiarities rapidly munble away. The Harriman
dream will yet be realized. The exceedingly narrow' strip
of water between the coast of America and that of Asia
will be tunneled and along the course of such a road there
will grow up a civilization blending those traits of the east
and the west best calculated to survive through service to
mankind. The Harriman dream fulfilled would have
strengthened Russia by bringing her in closer contact with
the ideals of America. And America must have better un
derstood Russia and better served Russia’s underlying love
of freedom.
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Notice to Creditors of Charles James
Alexander, Deceased
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that the undersigned, J. Lindley Green,
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their claims, with the proper vouchers
attached, to me at my office, over
Bank of Seward, in Seward, Alaska,
within six months from the date of the
first publication of this notice. Date
of first publication June 19, 1917.
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