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Harry V. Hoban. P Frank L. Ballalne. Sac. Erick L<w>«. lr»«*
Entered aa aacond-claaa matter Septa mbar. 2.1915. at the poatoffica at Sew ax4, Ata^aa.
under act of March 3. 1879.
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THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mall 3.00 ADVERTISING RATES on application.
WAR COMING NEARER
Advices as to possible changes in the handling of the
government railroad work and the probable call of Cap
tain Mears for service in France is bringing the war closer
and closer home.
It is probable that the government raliroad, started
as a peace project for the development of Alaska, will be
finished under war conditions and that it will be operated
as a semi-military link in the fuel supply of the world.
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DEMORALIZING IN ACTION
“There is nothing so demoralizing as for people to
hear about misery which they might relieve, and do noth
ing. The only salvation for people who aren’t going to do
anything is not to know."
This cryptic statemnt by a prominent writer shows
what is the matter with Germany today.
Suffering in Belgium, suffering in Poland, suffering in
Serbia, suffering in Roumania, caused by the German
army, and not a move on the part of the civil population
of Germany toward relief. Maybe it is because the Prus
sian officials won't let them and maybe it is because the
Bernhardi system has been preached so long that it has
taken root.
In the May National Geographic magazine there ap
pears articles telling how Germany is using starvation
against civilian peoples in countries over-run by her ar
mies. It explains why the Red Cross of other nations has
to carry such a burden and what a fearful burden it will
have to carry years after this war.
There is a mad dog loose in the world.
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HOPEFUL NEWS FROM CONNECTICUT
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“Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?”
The eating habit and the sin of Eve made that an ages
old question before the nursery rhymster put it into the
iinen-paged picture book to amuse the children, and the old
rhymster had not heard of the Anchorage bugs and Mata
nuska mosquitoes when he wrote for the kiddies. When
people first began to talk English, and now among the bu
colic where they not only raise gardens but develop taste
for directness of speech, the question was, and is, “How’s
the crops?”
But whether it is asked as Mary was asked or whether
the question is “How's crops?" it is pregnant with a little
more anxiety this year than usually because of war con
ditions with their increased demands upon garden and
field. The questioner visions in the clouds or nearer
clouds greater swarms than customary of potato bugs,
Colorado beetles, cinch bugs, Hessian flies, tobacco worms,
Kansas grasshoppers, cut-worms, and—at Anchorage and
elsewhere in Alaska—Mosquitoes.
But there lurks hope in a story that comes from the
Hartford Courant. New Englanders report that the yel
low’ rose-beetle, which once satisfied itself with flowers and
an occasional grapevine bud, is rendered desperate by the
prevalence of utilitarian plants . The Hartford paper ac
cuses it of turning to the young peaches, eating into them,
and mining them.
And the hope? “An organization to improve the hab
its of insects,” suggests the New York Evening Post. We
can imagine some of the Teddy-Gigordites of a time that is
not yet forgot urging lessons in conservation. But why
not answer, “Hoover?" If the rose-beetle can become an
ally of the Kaiser and change its diet so as to interfere
with the food-supply of the men in khaki, why can’t the
versatile Hoover convert the various tribes of bugs, bee
tles, worms, grasshoppers and mosquitoes into patriotic
allies and have them change their diets also. Much of the
“WHAT EXCUSE HAVE YOU?”
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—Kirby in New York World. .
solicitude in these growing days — or these days which
should be growing ones—concerning Mary’s garden or the
“crops” would be averted if the cabbage and wheat and to
bacco and fruit destroying insects could be induced to do
their bit by subsisting upon thistles, devil’s clubs, skunk
cabbage, poison ivy, and other vegetable matter in which
American stomachs have very little vital interest.—Juneau
Empire. *• >' *•
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for such items in FURNI
TURE rnd DRY GOODS as cannot be readily sup
plied by the merchants in your community.
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& NELSON receive the prompt, personal
attention of an expert shopper and Parcel
Post shipments are sent POSTAGE PAID
to any point in Alaska.
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of Dry Goods, Apparel and Accessories Will Be Given Prompt
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Pacific Net & Twine Co.
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desires to acquaint the general hospital inter
ests of this country with the facilities of this
institution for giving the latest devised methods
of nursing care to persons requiring medical or
surgical treatment. Special attention given to
patients requiring gynecological treatments.
Hydrotherapeutic treatments carefully, follow
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night. For further particulars address,
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ALASKA £2^1. «
Sailings from Seattle:
— J Northwestern....July 12 Mariposa.Aug. 1
Alameda.July 18 Northwestern Aug. 4
• Alaska.July 23 Alameda.Aug. 10
All ships go through to Anchorage.
All passenger ships will touch at Skagway northbound. The Alameda
and Mariposa will be the only ships to call rft Skagway southbound.
For further particulars of service, rates, apply to Agent.
A. H. McDonald, Agent.
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$2.75 a hundred for rags.
$33 ton for cast iron.
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5c pound for rope.
18c pound for brass.
7 l-2c pound for rubber.
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