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ANOTHER KI LTER PLOT SPIKED
Rounding up the I. W. W. propa
gandists puts an end to another of
the Kaiser’s pet schemes in hi> pol
icy of world politics.
Those fairly close to official source*
are authority for the statement t!.;.4
many years ago when Germany's
scheme of world power was still in an
unattached state, the idea of sending
abroad her own radicals to undermine
other world governments was conceiv
and the preliminary moves put into
effect.
It will be remembered by those who
pay attention to sociological affairs
that the first leaders in this I. W. \V
movement were bush-bearded Ger
mans, moving here and there about
the country, implanting their theor
ies. So soon as they found local agi
tators sufficiently learned in the doc
trines they preached, to do their own
preaching, the originators moved on.
Th is grand scheme of niP»tnry
Prussia, is deserving of, and probab
ly will receive several pages in the
record of this age, for it is without
equal in the world’s history.
Realizing that there is in every
country a radical element full of un
rest, the plan provided for the enlist
ment of these radicals throughout th*'
world in the cause of ‘‘Kultur.” By
financing the radicals in Germany and
sending them forth as missionaries
of discontent the scheme was wo1! j
under way but before long the pre
fect of Paris police knew al*out it
and so did Scotland Yard and :n due
course of time the situation shifted
into the proper hands at Washington.
D. C.
By taking up the battle of labor
against capital, the originators of the(
I. W. W. movements in this country
gained a great following in many
quarters. In every instance the real
purpose of the movement was hidden
and it is probable that not one in a
hundred members of the organization
knew that instead of uplifting the
workingman, they were being used in
an effort to break down organized
government. When war was declared
on Germany the situation changed and
those who could be depended upon,
or rather, those whom the agents of
Prussia believed were dependable,
were entrusted with the duty of rais
ing all the hell possible.
Hut like “frightfulness,” “ruthless
under-sea warfare” and other tricks
in the Prussian box, it is doomed to
failure.
The world will not stand for Kultur,
and all the schemes by which its ex
ponents sought to rule this old globe
are doomed to fail.
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GERMAN BORN, HE’S FOR l\ S.
There lives in Rock Island, 111., an
American who was born in Germany,
but, having been naturalized, consid
ers himself a loyal citizen of the
United States.
His name is M. Stephany, and he
formerly liveil in Berlin. In a letter
to the Chicago Tribune he gives the
following as his Berlin address, “For
merly Berlin C., Breite Str. S, Redac
tion der Vossichen Zeitung.”
Chicago, being a part of Germany,
many so-called German-Americans
write more or less treasonable letters
to papers in that city. M. Stephany
saw one in the Tribune by a certain
G. F. Hummel, who sneered at Amer
ica, said the German citizens of Amer
ica are a part of the German people
and eulogized the crown prince.
Whereupon Mr. Stephany penned the
following letter to the Tribune:
“The letter of G. F. Hummel can
not pass unchallenged. We who were
born in Germany and are now citizens
SATISFY!
What does that mean ?
T&ull know when yaa smoke
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REAL BRAVERY
We have not seen the list of generals nominated by
the President, but we venture to prophecy that the casu
alties among the generals of the line in the first National
Army will be high for the first year of the war, unless the
chief executive has heeded the advice from Pershing over
seas, and it is difficult to see how he could under the cir
cumstances.
General Pershing informed the war department that
this contest of strength under modern conditions is a
young man’s game, calling for speed, endurance and stam
ina.
Unfortunately, we are without young generals or col
onels either. Our red tape regime in the war department
kept men from gaining place as general officers until the
grey was pretty well distributed over such hair as they
had left.
So we are going to do the best we can with what we
have.
Colonels, lieutenant-colonels and the like who are well
on toward the age of retirement will have to be advanced i
to the line as chiefs of brigade.
And they are going out into the trenches and dug-outs
of the French first line where water is more plentiful than
rye, and slickers and gum boots will give little protection;
when high powers stir up the fall slush.
But they are going and the going is real bravery, for
they must know that they are only “stop gaps” expected!
to ward off colds and liver trouble long enough for the
younger men to learn the ropes and thus ward off disaster
to American arms. j
of the United States are net, as he
says, still ‘part of them’ (the German
peoples). And thank God for that.
Neither are we German-Americans,
for ‘there ain’t no such animal.’ Either
he is an American or a German. Take
your choice. The term German-Amer
ican is today so closely related to trea
son that it is well Jo light any or all
those who designate themselves by
that hated appellation.
“He speaks of the Germans’ admir
ation for the crown prince. Again,
‘there ain’t no such thing.’ I can tell
him from recent and personal obser
vation that the people in Germany
hate this fellow with the same inten
sity with which they deify the Em
peror. He is, beyond question, the
best hated man minus his thin ve
neer of kultur.
“Concerning the German press, he
is also wrong. At the outbreak of the
war I subscribed to a German paper,
Die Westliche Post, assuming that
thus I would get get some‘real war
news. Alas, I had to stop the damn
able treason sheet within less than six
months. No such paper can come into
my house where 1 am raising my
American children, whom I want to
teach love for the United States and
execration for that land of barbarians
in which their father is ashamed to
confess that he first saw the light of
May.
There is no room here for a Ger
man paper. Hummel’s apology for ii
is not based on sound reason, nor is
it consonant with facts when he speaks
of their truthfulness. There is about
as much truth to be found in a Ger
man newspaper, no matter where pub
lished, as in a German diplomat or
German government official. German
schools, German churches. German
newspapers belong to Germany, not
over here.
“If anyone has any doubt, as to the
real character of the German people,
let him go to Berlin and study the
Berliner polizei. A Berliner schutz
mann is the expose of a real German
minus his thin veneer of kultur.
“Let us hope that before long our
government will stop dilly-dallying
with these so-called German-Ameri
cans and put them into concentration
camps until the end of the war, which
end would be materially hastened by
such action, especially if coupled with
the entire suppression of the German
American press.
“M. STEPHANY,
“Formerly Berlin C. Breite Str. 8, Re
daction der Vossichen Zeitung.”—
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RED CROSS HAS |
ARMY LIBRARY
Detective Stories Most in Demand by •
Men in British Army—Big
Supply Demanded
LONDON, Aug. 1, (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—-Opposite
Marble Arch stands the home of Lady
Battersea, which in pre-war days was
the center of social activity. Now it
is the headquarters of the lied Cross •
Library and is run by Sirs. Oaskelli
and an army of voluntary assistants.
The house is packed with books from
flcor to ceiling, they cover tlu* walls,
are piled up on tables and shelve.',
overflow into the servants’ quarters,
and even into the stables at the back
of the house.
Nearly 50,000 books a week are sent
out to all parts of the world, and, in
addition to gifts, 100,000 books and
magazines are purchased monthly.
The tastes of the soldiers are remark
able, and an amazing light has been,
thrown on the matter of best sellers.
Far away into the million soars the
demand for Nick Carter detective stor
ies.
Every hospital in France, of which
there are some 200, receives a parcel
of 130 books every three weeks. Poetry*
is very largely in demand and ranges
frjm Shakespeare to modern living
poets. The Colonial soldier has an in
satiable curiosity and his chief demand
is for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in
forty volumes. Xo demand is refused
whether it be for the latest handbook ’
on oil engines, theosophy, poultry
farming or boxing.
These parcels of books, go forth toj
all parts of the world wherever the
British soldier is fighting. Malta re
ceived 7000 per month; Basrah 0000;
Alexandra 300; Salonika 2000, and
even units in East Africa, Italy and
Russia are supplied. The Admiralty
requested the library to supply every
sailor in the fleets with a book.
Urgent summons often are receiv
ed and when Gallipoli was filling the
hospitals a cable message came, “send
25,000 books at once, light and good
print." The other day a request came
from Boulogne and within an hour and
a half, 3000 books had been sent in
response.
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FOSSILS SHOW COOK INLET WAS
ONCE WITHIN THE TROPICAL ZONE
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 2(5, (By Mail)
—Evidence that Alaska was once
favored with a tropical or semi-trop
ical climate in times long past is now
borne out in the recent finding of a
bank of fossilized reptiles, mollusks
and bones on the west shore of Cook
inlet. The relics of these tropical
creatures, together with samples of
ore found near by have been brought
here by a party of prospectors.
The head and bodies of snakes or
sea worms about one inch in diame-j
ter, were found solidly imbedded in
rock of a very hard sandstone forna-1
tion. When broken, the rock some
times gave up fossils whole, but many
fossils were so firmly imbedded that
they were broken in places with the
rock.
Large Oyster Shells
Fossil oyster shells as long as four
teen and sixteen inches are not un
common in the ledge discovered, ac
cording to Jack Stahl, who brought
the collection to Anchorage.
In his attempts to get a specimen
of this large size he broke several and
.
had to be content with a sample six
inches long and about three inches
across. The large oyster shell shows
clearly the rings of growth of the bi
valve and the rings indicate the num
ber of years the animal had lived
when enveloped by the rock forma
tion.
Exterior Appearances Identical
While the exterior appearance of
the oyster is identical with that of the!
rock, when the rock was opened the,
original white lime shell of the oyster
was disclosecf. This shell can be chip
ped off just as easily as an oyster
shell of today, yet it has doubtless re
mained thousands of years in its cap
tive covering.
Clams as well as oysters are found
in abundance in the bank of fossils,
H. C. Hall, another member of the
prospecting party demonstrated. One
small piece of sandstone rock contains
two small clams with their hinges
facing and less than a quarter of an
inch apart. Other specimens show
the abundance in which the bivalves
were found, as many as five and six
being contained in four or five cubic
inches.
Snails, also belonging to the mol
lusk family, existed in this region in
antedeluvian times as shown by the
several varieties which were brought
3ut. One of the specimens is between
three and four inches in diameter anti
is folded perfectly. In one place
where the sample was chipped, the
white crystallized shell appears. For
the most part, however, the snail is
well fossilized.
Wide Variety of Specimens
There are still other shells, prob
ably of sea dwellers not now extant.
The varieties of clams, oysters and
snails is wide, according to the dis
coverers, who were handicapped in
their efforts to stake mineral claims
for time in which to experiment fur
ther on the fossils.
Stahl and Hall, upon their return
to their claim down the Inlet, expect
to examine further the remains of
the past age they uncovered and hope
to make new and more interesting
finds. Associated with them in their
venture are Sam Ingram anti S. (I.
P rad ley.—Times.
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Prices at noon August 29, at J
j Seattle, as reported by the Hu- J
j reau of Fisheries, are:
I Halibut, 18 2-5c. t
Sable Fish, 4c.
iRed Snapper, 2,/£c. .
Pickled Sable Fish, $14 per |
{ bbl.
Pickled Herring, first grade, J
j $16 per bbl.
Pickled Salmon, pink, $14.50 {
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