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"America For Americans"
FOOD WINS THE WAR
DON'T WASTE IT
NEARLY 200,000,000 FOES
From the Wall Street Journal.
One of a group of business men,
which included a judge, recently
said: "It seems wonderful that Ge*
many, with a population of ' but
68,000,0">0, should be able to fight,
th® rest of the world as she has
doue." All asrreed that it was
■wonderful. Had they studied tto
matter with care. the situation
wouH not have looked wonderful,
but menacing.
^ hen Berlin directed Austria- J
Hungary to begin operations July
2S. 1914, it had uot 68.000.000 but j
a* least 146.500,000. population
beh'nd it. The lowest official esti- j
mate of the Teutonic alliance is as
follows:
Germany 6S. 000,000
-Austria-Hungary .. .. 52.000,000
Bulgaria .. . 5.500.000
T-kej-,' 21.000.000
Total 14 6,500,004
U'hen the PQtsd.im conference vr'S
veld Ju July, 1914. for deciding on
tb" date of opening hostilities. Tur
key and Bulearia were as much a
Par of the Pan-Germanic empire as I
fney are today. They entered the|
war presumably on the day assign
ed and ordered by Berlin.
Thanks to years of preparation,
tha first rush of the Jierman mili
tary machine carried i* far into en
emr territory. Enemy populations
were promptly enslaved. Little na
tions were overrun and their people
driven into the slave prangs and put
to work. Here is a sample of the
meats taken to secure labor. It is
taken from an Austro-German pro
clamation in Italy but a few weeks
ag5:
"Every citizen must obey our la
bfr regulation; ail workmen and
cniidr&n over 13 years of age must
i*ork in the fields every day, Sun
diy included, from 4 o'clock in the
morning until S o'clock in . the
evening.
"Lazy workmen will be accompan
ied la the wort and watched by
Germans. After the harvest they
will ba imprisoned for six months
and every third day will be given
nothing but bread and water. LazjJ
women will be obliged to work and
after the harvest will receive six
months' imprisonment. Lazy chil
drea will be punished by beating.
Tha commandant reserves the right
to ounish lazy workmen with twen
ty lashes daily,"
Without counting Armenians and
Syrians, over 43,000,000 people
have been enslaved and made to
work for the conquerers beyond the
limits of human endurance. Thus
untold thousands of men were re
leased from industry for military
service. Many enslaved men even
b«ln£ lorcetl into the ranks. From
he first, Germany'8 ma»i power
ias been not 68,000,000, btit close
o 200,000,000 with a possibility of
:3,000,000 men. for the field.
Pan-Germany, at which, we once
mled, has been unmasked by the
as a hideous reality. Uncom
ileted, yet its strength is sufficient
o shake the world to its founda
iODs. Close our eyes a little long
■r and it will dominate the world
cith a rod of Iron.
SOME CHEESE!
There is a. little publication wh'oh
:oes to press in th.a "hopeful" town,
>C Seward which is some cheese! Yes
sir, to read the Seward Gateway
rou'd think it was the New York
5un of Alaska. On February 10
t said:
"The Gateway yesterday after
noon and the Post this morning
ivere the only publications In Al
iska receiving press dispatcihes dur
ing the past 24 hours. The mo
ment it was anriounced the cable
svas broken between Sitka and Se
attle a wire was rushed to the As
sociated Press in Seattle to send
Dress day and night regardless of
cost. When the c^ble goes out
commission no news is sent to
Alaska papers unMl special instruc
tions are given, owing to the dif
f»ult routing and high cost. The
press yesterday and In this morn
'ns's Post camo from Seattle to
Ketchikan by wireless then over
by cable. Other press waa also re
ceived by wireless direct from As
toria and caught by the Radio sta
tion here. The Gateway re-sent its
press to other newspapers so they
could bulletin it."
Not wishing to be presumptious,
The Alaskan could tell our contem
porary town of "hope" of several
newspapers which received presi
during: three 24 hours, but of coiysi
these newspapers were in Southeast
em Alaska, and may not count lr
the Gateway's eyes. When a per
son puts a dime close enough to hie
eve, that dime is the world, so we
judce that to be the case with the
Gateway. And of course, Seward
has the only Radio station in Al
-iska, too, or at least none othei
«as on its job well enough to catcl
the tews.
The Gateway is some little cheese
—nit!
■msinmoi
TELLS ABOUT
The reason corn has maintained
tee "rice it does—as much as whea
— j- because 82 percent ofthecroi
is fed on the farm and only IS
-ercent is put on sale.. Just stoj
and think what would happen t<
the price of corn if most oof th(
farmers tried to sell their corr
erous as corn, instead of feeding it
Instead of IS percent, or less thai
one-fiftn of the entire crop goinj
on fo the market, we would havt
three or four times the amount tha
the trade normally takes floodinj
rue market and corn would go
*"e price that prevailed in the 90's
The price of corn depends on th<
fact that four-fifths of the crop ii
f-d Hnd never reaches the markel
to break it.
m«s vui twm -'.v
materially drop with marketing o:
the d»w crop. However, the Fooc
Administration feels that the situa
•icn is not a question of price,, bul
c* getting edibles to the pwples 01
'he world that they can prepar*
a!id eat It feels that wherevei
the 'ndividual American pocketbool*
makos it poossible, there should
!>«» nn question of tho small cast
sacrifice, ^specially in view of the
greiUT sacr'fices that the Euro
pean peoples associated with us tc
the war have been making for thref
years.
WHY WE CAXN'OT SE.VD CORN
TO EUROPE
W- cannot send our corn crop to
Eurooe and keep the wheat for a
number of reasons. The shippinj
space required by corn is much
greater than that taken by* fwheat
3nd we haven't that spac« tc
sr>arr. Th-e heavy percentage ol
f3l in cornmeal makes it spoil mucl
more rapidly than wheat, both in
the raw meal and in the bakedl pro
duct. Europeans know little about
cr.rntneal produces. They have
few or no facilities for grinding it,
Habit is strong upon the peoples of
the eld world. They do uot take
readi'y to innovations, ia corn
meal or anything else. Morover,
they ARE using corn to some ex
tent. and doing their best to use
uiore as it becomes availably. *
BELGIANS BED
, IN CATTLE PENS
Participant's Testimony of Deg
radation Accompaeying De
portation From Mons.
SCENES OF FIENDISH*CRUELTY
Women Forbidden , to/Give Food and
Clothing to Men Facing Privation
and Cold—Onited States'
Appeal Unheeded.
Conspicuous among cold-blooded
acts of cruelty committed by the
Germans, to their everlasting dis
grace, the deportation from Mons is
prominent. Official documents pub
lished by the committee on public
information tell part< of the harrow
ing story.
A vivid sketch of the deportations
from Mous, ordered by German author
ities, drawn by a participant, may well
be cited here:
"I will take the ISth of November
of last year [191*5]. A week or so be
fore»that a placard was placed on the
walls telling my capital city of Mous
that in seveu days all the men of that
city who were not clergymen, who
were not priests, who did not belong to
the city council, would be deported.
"At half past Ave, in the gray of the
morning on the IStli of November,
they walked out, 6.200 men at Mons,
myself and another leading them down
the cobhlestoues of the street uud out
where the rioting would be less than
in the great city, with the soldiers on
each side, with bayonets tlxed, with
the women held back.
"The degradation of it! The degra
dation of it as they walked into this
' great market square, where the pens
■ were erected, exactly as if they were
cattle—all the great men of that prov
ince—the lawyers, the statesmen, the
heads of the trades, the men that had
made the capital of Halnaut glorious
during the last IX) years.
"There they were collected; no ques
tion of who they were, whether they
, were busy or what they were doing,
or what their positiou in life. 'Go to
the right! Go to the left: Go to the
rightSo they were turned to the
one side or the other.
'Trains were standing there ready,
steamiug. to take them to Germany.
Vou saw on the one side the one
brother taken, the other brother left.
A hasty embrace and they were sepa
rated and gone.
"You saw the women in hundreds,
with bundles in their hands, beseech
ing to be permitted to approach the
trains, to give their men the last that
they had In life betweeu themselves
and starvation—a small buiulle of
clothing to keep them warm on their
way to Germany. You saw women ap
proach with a bundle that had been
purchased by the sale of the last
of their household effects. Not
one was allowed to approach to give
her man the warm pair of stockings or
the warm jacket, so there might be
some chance of his reaching there. Off
they went!"—John H. Gade, in the Na
; tional Geographic Magazine, May,
1817.
i The Belgian women s«nt a touehiug
appeal to Minister Whltlock:
Appeal of Belgian Women.
"Brussels, Nov. 18, 1916. 46 Rue de la
Madeleine.
"His Excellency. Mr. {![•*'!><} Whit lock,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States
of America,
1 "Mr. Minister:
"From the depths of our well of
i misery our supplication rises to you.
"In addressing ourselves to you, we
denounce to your government. us well
as to our sisters, the women of the
nation which you represent lu our
midst, the criminal ubu.se of force of
which our unhappy and defenseless
people is a victim.
"8ince the beginning of this atro
cious war we have looked on Impotent
' ly and with our hearts torn with every
sorrow at terrible events which put
civilization buck into the ages of th<
bAi-barlnn hordes.
"Mr, Minister, the crime which is
now being committed under your eyes,
namely, the deportation of thousands
1 of men compelled to work on enemy
1 soil against the Interests of their coun
try, caunot lind any shadow of excuse
on the ground of military necessity, for
It constitutes a violation by force of a
sacred right of human conscience.
Called "Monstrou* Extremity.
"Whatever may be the motive. It
cannot be admitted that citizens may
1 be compelled to work directly or Indi
rectly for the enemy against their
; brothers who are fighting.
"The convention of The Hague has
consecrated this principle.
"Nevertheless, the occupying power
is forcing thousands of men to this
monstrous extremity, which is con
trary to morals and international law,
both these men who have already been
taken to Germany and those who to
morrow wiy undergo the same fate,
if from the outside, from neutral Eu
rope and the United States, no help is
offered.
"Oh! The Belgian women have also
known how to carry out their duty In
the hour of danger; they have not
weakened the courage of the soldiers
of honor by their tears.
"They have bravely given to their
country those whom they loved. . . .
The blood of mothers Is flowing on the
(Continue* op Pago 3.)
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meets every second and
fouirtli Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
ing brotLers cordially welcome.
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William R. Gray, Arctic Recorder.
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