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SINGING
COUNTRY
PLANNED
The Council of National Defense au
-thorize the following:
The organization of “Liberty cho
ruses’* all over the country fo» the
purpose of building up and maintain
ing civilian morale through commit n
tiy singing is forecaster by a bulletin
which has just been sent to every
State council of defense by the State
councils section of the Council of
National Defense.
The program calls for the appoint
ment of a state musical director in
every State, to he chosen bv the state
council of defense and State division
of the Woman’s Committee. Through
the country and community councils
of defense the State musical directoi
will bring about the creation of local
Liberty choruses throughout the Sta
ll* Existing chorus, choruses, glee ]
clubs, and musical associations wil
be utilized wherever possible.
The Liberty choruses will sing at
all patriotic mass meetings and publi*
gatherings of every sort, and no clf
oit will be spared to use them as ;
means of making the people of every
community learn the songs of our Na
tion and its ii lo,i,sandlubse. ..ricepe
tion and its allies, and learn to get
together and sing them.
A singing army can not bo defeat
« d. A singing nation cannot l>c deafet
cd. The object of the Council of Nat
ional Defense is to make the United
i tates throughout this war and after
* aids, what it has never been hcfoi-e
-a singing nation. The feeling ot the
«ouncil is that the widest extension of
organized singing will not he only of
great service in assisting the organ
zed speaking campaigns of the State
KAISER CN A VISIT TO BRUGGE, FLANDERS
Photograph showing the Oernutn kaiser wnlkln« tbrooch the streets of
BniBKe. Flanders, on his way to the museum, followed by his stnff.
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councils of defense—aresult which it»
lias already laid in dates which have
experimented with it—but will unite
<*he people of eveiy community tor
‘.he expression of their will to win,
and for a more complete unity in the
prosecution of war work. *
MINE ENGINEERS
TO STIMULATE !
PRESENT STRIFE
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—The press
mining engineers, members ot the
American Institute of Mining Engin
eers, 111*0 shoulder to shoulder in the
endeavor both to stimulate war min
eral production and to convert min
erals to' the highest possible service
i in the war. In an effort to increase
the scope of this was service the,
American Institute of Mining Engin
eers will meet in Coloradr during the
week of September 2nd to take up vi
| tal problems of immediate import
ance.
Mining engineers from every section
of the country will attend durin gthe
meeting trips are to be made from
Colorado Springs to the Cripple
Creek district, Pueblo, the Ix*ad
ville district and Boulder. The week’s
where you will always receive a FAIR AND LIBERAL ASSORTMENT
Highest Market Prices
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session will open in Denver on Sept
ember 2nd and will that evening move
to Colodado Springs, which will be
i!ie principal headquarter- for die mu
ation of the meeting.
Mils is the lirst nsser.i dy o.‘ the en
ure i! titute in Co »rado since
and :u appropriate ent“i*:u» iment pro
giam, planed by the seven hundred
Colorado members, will include an
automobile drive to the top of Pike’s
Peak.
The sections of Colodado to be vis
ited are rich in many war minerals of
importance including forro alloys, rad
ium molyhedenite ore and pyites.
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PULP MILL TO
BE INSTALLED
NEAR JUNEAU
Juneau, Aug. 12— (By Mail)—
The first machinery for the manu
facture of wood pulp ever ordered
for Alaska, now on the way, to
gether with machinery for a four
unit sawmill with a capacity of 100,
000 feet per day.
The operation of the palp machin
ery and saw mill will be in connec
tion with the Admiralty-Alaska Gold
Mining Co., which has been in opera
tion at Funter Bay with a ten-stamp
mill for a number of years.
News of this enterprise was
brought to Juneau yesterday morning
by VV. S. IVkovich, superintendent
of the Funter Bay Mining Company,
who has just returned from a thre«
months trip to Washington, I). C.
“We are going to do things on
a big scale out our way,” said Mr.
IVkovich, “and intend not only to
boost Alaska, but the Government as
well, by installing a pulp mill and a
sawmill for the express purpose of
cutting spruce lumber for aeroplane
production.
“A big demand is now made by
the Government for gold and we
shall continue to operate the mines
and mill at our property, but hav
ing plenty of power for other pur
poses. we have entered into a busi
ness agreement with one of the large
lumbering concerns of the. States.
The Forrest Manufacturing Co. and
will install i/i conjunction with the.
mine work, a pulp ntill and sawmill,
both of which we expect to be in.
operation this .season.”
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GERMAN PRESS
IS SHOWN HOW
IT FABRICATES
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NEW YORK, Aug, 2:’»—Some 7,000
in Germany was accused during a de
bate i nthe Reichstag of spreading
false reports regarding allied air
raids on German cities according to
German newspapers received here.
The case .in question was- the raid on
Cologne on May 18.
Deputy Fuckoff of the Centre Party
said there had been no timcl ywarn
ing of the population by the military
authorities.
Deputy Meerfeld, Socialist, said
that, although every child in Cologne
knew that 25 persons had been killed,
the newspapers on that day were for
ced to said “that unfortunately there
have been some casualties”.
“What will be the reputation of the
press if they are forced to sperad
such false reports,” he asked. Meer
feld said that the methist of the gen
eral command reminded him of the
saying that “under martial law every
jackass can rule.”
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