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WILL SOON BE COMING THIS WAY
We are informed by one who knows that many set
tlers in Western Canada are naturally drifting over to
wards the coast, having heard about the great work now
being done by the Alaskan Engineering Commission and
of the great possibilities to be had in farming and taking
up of land which may be easily acquired in Alaska, and
ultimately many will find their way in, or adjacent to,
Seward. Well, neighbors, come on. W e have an abund
ance of land and we have the opportunities, limited only
by efforts of man. A man with farming experience and
enough finance* to get started will in a very short time
find that he has made no mistake in coming here, but in
stead has found the land of plenty, with a market for all
and more than he can produce at a price way beyond his
fondest anticipations. Come, the sooner, the better tor
vou and for us.
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WHAT WE FIGHT
“The war was begun by the military masters of Ger
many, who proved to be the masters of Austria-Hungary.
These men have never regarded nations as peoples, men,
women, and children of like blood and frame as them
selves, for whom governments existed and in whom gov
ernments had their life. They have regarded them mere
ly as serviceable organizations which they could by force
or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They
have regarded the smaller States, in particular, and the
peoples who could be ovenvhelmed by force, as their nat
ural tools and instruments of domination. Their purpose
has long been avowed.
“If they succeed they are safe, and Germany and the
world are undone; if they fail, Germany is saved and the
world will be at peace. If they succeed, America will fall
within the menace. We and all the rest of the world must
remain armed, as they will remain, and must make ready
for the next step in their aggression; if they fail, the
world may unite for peace, and Germany may be of the
union.”—Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.
MANY RAILROAD MEN CALLED TO WAR
Thus far 2540 employees of the Pennsylvania railroad
lines east of Pittsburgh have entered the Army and Navy
of the United States as volunteers, and have been grant
ed furloughs from the railroad service. Of this number,
75 have been appointed commissioned officers and 30 are
student officers in various officers’ training camps. The
They do the one thing
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‘•YOU’RE KIND OF SLOW, BUT I’M STILL BANKING ON YOU.”
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— Donnell in St. Louis Globe* Democrat.
remainder, numbering 2442, are enlisted men in the Army
and Navy. *
The commissioned officers include one colonel, one
lieutenant colonel, two majors, 21 captains, 24 1'nst lieu
tenants, 22 second lieutenants, v ensigns and pay clerk.
In addition to the employees oi the Pennsylvania i ail
road who have entered the military and naval service, as
volunteers, many more are certain to he taken for the
National Army under the draft. The exact extent by
which the working force of the railroad will he fuithei
reduced, in this manner, will not he definitely known un
til the work of the various examining boards has been
completed. However, it has been ascertained that there
are in the service of the Pennsylvania railroad, lines east
of Pittsburgh, 60,000 men who are liable to military ser
vice under the law, and based upon the average propor
tion of the eligible men who will be taken in the first draft,
3,000 of these will be called.
WE MUST FINISH THE WORK
“With the first installment of the Liberty Loan com
pleted, immensely gratifying as is the result, we must re
member that the financing of a great war is never com
pleted until the war is finished; and we are going to fin
ish this war to our satisfaction in order that America
may not be finished. We must stay on the job and do it
in true American fashion. We have proved ourselves on
the first test; we must be prepared for the second, the
third, and the fourth if need be.
“This war must be fought to a finish. It must be so
fought, because there is an irrepressible conflict between
two irreconcilable principles and systems of organized
society that never will be settled until it is fought to a fin
ish. The world can no longer survive half democratic and
! half autocratic. One or the other must triumph. We are
! confronted today with an analogous situation to that
which confronted this Nation in 1861, when the immortal
Lincoln said, ‘This Nation can no longer endure half
slave and half free.’ We had to fight that irreconcilable
issue to a conclusion, and we fought it to a right conclu
sion. We vindicated freedom in America; we obliterated
I slavery from the free soil of this great Nation. That is
; what we have got to do for the entire world—destroy des
potism, which is another form of slavery, and make lib
erty supreme. In no other way can the world be made
safe for democracy. It is a noble ideal; it is the only ideal;
it is the only kind of an ideal for which a great republic
like ours, a republic of freemen, could or would fight.”—
William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin’s reference to the regis
tration of land in Kahaako arouses longing, breeds
dreams and inspires conceits for drowsy, langorous horn's
of leisurely meditations soothed to somnolence by the dis
tant tinkling cadences of the ukulele. "What trouble could
come to a place so softly named as Kahaako?
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sautomobil.” Naturally such titles would have to be car
ried in trailers when the tanks go into action.
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The American League has forbidden players in the
world’s series to write for the newspapers. Hereafter the;
players will annoy only the fans actually attending the
games. i
G. W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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