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EDITORIAL j
SPEAKING FOR THE ALASKAN"
li is all right to talk aDout the
other fellow until that "other fel*
low" happens to be ones self, and
then it > all wrong.
This paper stirred "P a hornets
ucst by recently printing a lot of ru
mors which had blown up Lynn canal
in a. supposed interview with a fic
titious personage, who was given
< redit with having repeated the
rumors in a conversation with a rep
reseatative of the l>aily Alaskan.
• .Some of the rumors may have
'•x?en founded on fact and some may
hay® t>een simply supposition. T,he
fact remains, however, that the ar
ticle has borj fruit, for it shows
tint it does not pay to print ru
mors, even if those rumors are print
• u iu the Juneau papers about SJtag
way and make good- reading, but
will not redound to the benefit of
the territory, either at the hea^ of
Lynn Canal or on the Gasitneau
Channel.
We may t>e as homely as a mud
ft nee, and we may know this to be
9 f^ct personally, but we don't like
ot have our be6t girl remind us of
ir rvery time we call on her.
We have gone carefully over the
iUejj of the Empire aud the I>is*
uatch, and this is how they each
feel about it.
Sl'EAKlNG FOK THE EMPIRE
Professing to be retaliating for »n
article in the Dispatch in which it
w:ig s^id that Skagway would be
Tery quiet next, winter, the Skag
Alaskan proceeds to quote a
fictitious uerson at great leugth
its 'he course of which a doleful
. ii ture of Juneau conditions are #et
forth. In the Skagway Alaskan ar
ticle appears the following para
graph:
" 'Even the newspaper,' continued
the master of the Gossip, 'are hay
ing quite a struggle. There is only
reallv need for one paper, now
'ha» [he town haS bad such a set
i acK aud I was informed on good
authority that the two publications
'.«ouid probably consolidate, or one
o. them go onto a weekly basis.* "
Speaking for itself, The Empire
has no intention of consolidating
with any other paper, or changing
to a weekly publication, reducing
its size or making any change at
all. It and those who. own it hope
'o 5-e able to stay with Juneau aud
Alaska and to dp the best they
can, a newspaper's work in the de
velopment of the country. They have
no ambitions beyond doing that
^ork well. They have every confi
dence in Juneau and her future.
Tbev have pinned their faith on
the conclusion that Juneau i$ des
tined to Become a great city. The
Empire hopes to grow with it. —
Empire.
J51U1T LOSES HEAD
WHILE IN* SKAGWAY
There is no occasion for t^e Em*
pire *o wail over this statement ap
pearing in thesSkagwav Alaskan. The
whole matter originates from an
interview given out at Skagway in
Ruin In Its Wake
t . .
ADD STRENGTH WITH FOURTH LIBERTY BOHDS
I
the Daily Alaskan iu which Mr. Wm
Britt among other things said that
5,000 people had; deserted Gastineau
Channel—the winter would find Ju*
Df*au d«ad, etc., etc.
[When one of these high priests of
the democratic party goes preaching
calamity against his home town as
characterized in the Britt Skagway
interview it ia presumed unfavor
aol© reports will be cast broadcast
about Juneau.
As far as the Dispatch is con
cerned, it has never heard of any
consolidation of Juneau papers or
any desire on the part of any pub
lisher to issu0 a weekly publica
tion. Outside of a shortage of
printers for a temporary period,
th» Dispatch is paying Its way nice
ly and' only aims to meet its obli
gations the same as characterizes
air.American institutions during war
times.
SIATKMKNT IS ABSOLUTELY
INTRIE
The paragraph quoted by The Em
oire Thursday from the Skagway; Al
askan iu which mention was made
or talk, at Juneau of a newspaper
consolidation was not taken from
an intreview with Wililam Britt,
and !n no wise originated from any
thing he had said. It was a para
graph from an editorial article iu
the dkagway Alaskan dressed
* fictitious interview, and! go classi
fied, which wag introduuced by
me mini w.-.k ,k
ouDlished because of a slam at
Skagway which was contained in ilu
interview oI a youth from that city,
l'tinted in a previous edition of the
Dispatch, and. to show that knocking
was a game at which more than one
could play. The Empire comment
ed upon th© article because of the
erroneous impression that might be
get from the iutimatiou that it
might be involved' in a proposal to
consolidate. The Dispatch's state
ment that it originated from an in
terview with .\lr. Britt was absolute
ly fals in every detali. It was
printed in the Skagway paper before
Mr. Britt left Juneau for Skagway.
—Empire.
In printing a supposed inter
view with ? ficticious person, "Cap
fain Tellayarn" of the gas boat
'Gossip'' some time ago, this pa
per merely did so to demonstrate
what effect misstatements printed
in interviews with irresponsibly or
illy-informed persons may have
oa the Territory, and as the thought
o' publishing 'he interview was oc
casioned my an article which ap
peared iu the Juneau Dispatch, the
! retalliation has stirred up a hornets
I nest in that city.
It is regrettable that the men
I tion relative to the papers of that
c'ty consolidating, which was made
according to a "rumor" which had
reached this city should come at a
lime when the Dispatch was forced
tj reduce its size owing to a short
age of help, should lend a 'certain
i amount of credance to the report,
j In order to help overcome any
euggestion that this rumor might b
true by reason of the reduction in
!size of the Dispatch, we are re
. Printing an editorial explaining this
I "love on the part of the publishers.
After striving for ten -days to
t issue a paper with a shortage of
h»Jp in the mechanical department,
the Dispatch will haye to admit fail
ure. Telegraphic a devices state
there is not an idle linotyper from
3an Diego to Spokane who can come
to the relief of thig paper for some
days. Therefor© to save thg man
j pcwer now available it i» considered
best that the Dispatch be issued (»n
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday of each week as a four page
paper, and on Wednes<'ey and Sat
urday of each week as an eight
page paper, until additional help
arrives. In thise connection, the
readers of the paper will receive
the Sam© amount of telesraphio
and local news as heretofore but
lu a more condensed form. On
Wednesday and Saturday more il*
lustrated features will be used
thereby giving the readers In the
week's aggregate the same amount
of reading matter as heretofore.
But by limiting ourselves to two
large issues a week, the extra bur"
dec. on the man power will be re
duced. *
The Dispatch will not, during this
period, solicit new advertising, e*
cADt insofar as changes in standing
advertisements may be so con
sidered, and it Is believed that the
mov<- will be only temporary.
Alaska ig suffering for lack of
man power. The newspaper mechan
col staffs aro 100 por cent Ameri
can, and have responded In such
large numbers to the call# of the
nation that everywhere there is a
shortage of printers. We believe
tUnt our readers will share with us
the feeing that this is as it should
be, and that our hardship over la
shcrtage will only bring home mor
squarely to our readers that WAR
's the first business of the Nation.
TO END THE WAR
One big wailou to end the war!
Aad the U. S. A. is about to give
It.
"With an American army of 4,
000,000 men in France" 6avs Chief
of 3taf P. C. March, "we can go
through the German line wherever
nlease!"
! Th-< armv is now almost two mll
' Hon strong. To get the rest, the
| government has let down the bars—
jraen 18 to 45 (both inclusive), ex
tent those previously registered,
are to furnish the additional
J strength needed to push the Huns
pack to the Rhine and free the
' world of Kaiserism.
A glorious opportunity! Small
j wonder that Registration Day, SeD
11ember 12th caused such enthusi
I asm. For thes© men were "left out
in the cold1' before,—told to sit
nack while others fought their bat
tles. "Why can't we figmt," they
asked, "we are physically fit thru
| working in. shop or field," or they
| "hadn't been back of desks so long
they had forgotten their manhood."
j How keenly they felt being "not
I wanted"; how they fairly ached to
help when they read the casualty
lists. •rT ]
For native born or alien, they
I realized plainly what they owed to
jthis country. They realized it was
tim© to show their gratitude for
!the U. S. A. has meant and done
for them—a life of peace, prosperi
ty and happiness among men their
equals.
And now their chance ahg come.
Th'rteen millions of men were to
re?ister September 12th. If they
did not register they will not only
risk certain arrest and severe punish
ment, but declare themselves unfit
♦o bp called Americans. When the
Draft Board' d'scard the physically
unfit, the exempt because of family,
the men in war industries, there
i must remain more than 2,000.000
men ready for training.
These men will give the big
wallop that will end the war.
1 Koep your racket in a press. Kel
1 lerf' have 'em. Adv. tf.
Gre^t Tennis weather, eh? Get
1918 Spaulding or W. & D. balls
at Kellers', Adv. tf.
SOLDIER SAVES KINfi
Serbian Lieutenant Tells Stirring
Story of War.
Out of Whole Army He Was Selected
to Command Bodyguard of
Monarch.
Dnngor, He.—Among soldiers recent
ly from European battlefields whtf
passed through here was the officer
who was selected to command the
guard detailed to escort King Peter ot
Serbia to a place of safety when the
Austrian bombardment made it neces
sary for the monarch to quit the royal
palace in Belgrade. This officer is
Lieut Pavle Yovanovltch, a man of
stately figure and courtly manner, who
wears upon his tunic the Insignia of
the Order of the White Eagle, which
is equivalent to the British Distin
guished Service Order, and Order of
\he White Star, which corresponds to
the Victoria Cross, besides several
gold bars bestowed for service in the
Balkan wars.
Lieutenunt Yovanovltch's narrative
of the country's sufferings and despoil
ment at the hands of the Teutonic
hordes is dramatic and pitiful, a vivid
word picture, in very good English, ot
the gallant flght of the Serbs against
overwhelming force. When it became
evident that Belgrade must fall prep
arations were made for safe conduct
of King Peter out of the city, and out
of the whole Serbian army Lieutenant
Yovanovltch was selected to command
the body guard, which was of his own
choosing—veterans with whom he had
been associated In the Balkan cam
paigns.
Austrian shells were crashing and
thundering in the outskirts of beauti
ful Belgrade as the guard of honor
drew up at the pulace gates, and al
ready the enemy was posting machine
guns on roofs within range of the pal
ace. As the king was escorted from
the palace to his carriage a hall ol
bullets swept the plaza, and several
of the guards were wounded, including
Lieutenant Yovanovltch, but the king
escaped Injury. When the party had
reached a place of safety the king
sent for the lieutenant, who came, but
fell, faint from the loss of blood, at
the monarch's feet Then and there
did King Peter bestow the orders that
the veteran wears so proudly upon his
breast Lieutenant Yovanovltch will
return to the battlefields.
CAMOUFLAGED BIG GUN
Mounted on a specially constructed
railroad carriage this big French 400
millimeter gun Is ready to bang away
at the German forces. K Is exceeding
ly well camouflaged to prevent detec
tion by Hocbe aerial observers. Guns
this size did good work by mowing
down at long range the close-packed
masses of Germans as they advanced
in the latest offensive.
NO PAY FOR WOODEN LEG
Not Entitled to Compensation for
Loss, Rules Oklahoma State
Official.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—A man who
breaks his wooden leg is not entitled
to compensation for the loss of a leg
or the loss of a foot, It was held by
the state industrial commission in the
[ case of A. II. Stewart against an oil
I company.
Thirty years ago Stewart lost a leg
in a railroad wreck. He whittled out
: a wooden leg which he used for a leg
! up until last August when, while in the
! oil company's employ, he fell from a
t motor car and broke the pegleg and
| injured his knee.
| Stewart took the splinters of his leg
I to A. A. McDonald, chairman of the
industrial commission, and tiled a
J claim for 175 weeks' compensation, as
| is provided by state law for the loss
of a leg. The commission decided that
| the Injured man could not collect 175
' weeks* compensation for the loss of a
I leg or for the loss of the foot 30 years
ago.
I He was entitled to some pay for the
j injury to the knee, however, it was de
I elded, so he was given the difference
between the loss of a leg and the loss
| of a foot, or compensation for 25
blliiDGii; IMIHBANKB
Tli© first large Bhipment of fa
bricated steel and machine parts for
tne new: dredge of the Fairbanks
Golf" Mining Qompany arrived on
thp barge brought up recently. The
present shipment is of a total
weight of 150 tons. A second. ship
ment made up in, the most part of
buckets is at Tanana awaiting ship
ment up river.
Mr. Mason, who was sent in by
ths Union Construction, company of
Saa Francisco, the manufacturers
of tho dred-ge, stated that th0 big
machine would be in operation with
in six weeks. The working capa
city of the machine Is 200 y%*dfl of
dirt a day and it Is said to be one
cl the most efficient types of dredg
es now being manufactured.
Still it may be better to have all
our trouble with the airplanes before
Instead of after they get Into the air.
When our boys in Europe come home
In a bunch they will not need to wear
life preservers through the submarine
zone.
.It Is claimed for hippopotamus meat
that It is as good as pork. How about
keeping a hippopotamus in the back
yard?
Americans are described as laugh
ing at the new gas employed by Ger
mans. And it Is not laughing gas,
either.
The federal food board declares that
many varieties of sea weed are "more
or less edible." What does it mean,
more or less?
Seven million women are employed
in gainful occupations in the United
States, not Including those playing
bridge for prizes.
A fresh shipment of Eastman N.
0. Autographic and plain, filmp for
all sized cameras received on. the
last boat. Better take advantgae
of this fine weather and get some
sitaoDy fall pictures. Keller Bros.
Some Skagwa.v People Have Lcpuned
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How few know the cause?
If it hurts to stoop or lift—
If you suffer sudden, darting
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If you are weak, lame and tired
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Watch nature's signal.
The first sign may be headache or
dizziness,
Scanty, painful, or too frequent
urination,
Nervousness or a constant, dead
tired feeling.
Avert the serious kidney; disease*,
Treat the weakened kidneys wltfl
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