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EDITORIAL
"OTjD GLORY"
"America For Americans"
GROS& IGNORANCE
Uuder the caption "Famine Dan
ger for Alaskan* Seen" the Chi
cago Daily News prints a story,
lacking in facts and grossly misre
ures'-nling Alaska, purported to hav
come from a correspondent iu Sew
ard who styles n.imself us Thomas
Drayton. The article has just been
l>tu into the hands of the Alaskan,
and because of the ridiculousness of
the thing, several extracts, with
comment are mentioned.
Tue article under d-»te of June
11, oegins thus:
"If present jveather conditions!
continue ten days longer AUisfca will
have the worst year in her his
tory, and not only privaiton, but
ectual hunger, will be experienced
by many of her citizens'. iThe
weather mentioned must have been
awful, but we axe glad to say it
urubably lias changed for we are
otill alive and have enough to eat.)
"•Should AiasKa's crops iau enure
Jy it will bv difficult in all cases,
*nd impossible ia many cases to se
cure food from tlie states, and, of
course, it is now out of the ques
tion to look to Canada for supplies.
Supplies from tlie states require
ready money, and comparatively few
Alaskans liave much ready money,
nearly all of it having been invest
ed in improvements and new equip
ment." (Yes, ilr. Drayton, now
»s always, we will not look to Can
ada for our supplies, we never have
aud hope never to do bo. And as
lor ready money, just look at our
last income tax report.)
The article goes on to say the* it
requires 60 days by letter or evea
by cable before a consignment of
merchandise can be received from
the states. (We wonder if it took
him 60 days to get to Seward, per
haps he went on a raft.)
"All Alaska ships are under one
management and it is said that a
l>rotbst invariably secures fOT th«
iirotestant consignee a still
worse service." (Yes, all the
steamship companies operating to
Alaska, and there are many, are
under one management in the
sense that all of Europe is under
one management.)
"Condensed milk is the standard
food of possibly a majoritty of Alas
ka babies, and it need occasion no
surprise if specific instances of actu
al starvation of Alaska babies are
decorded in these columns before
the expiration of another year." (If
Mr. Drayton or the Chicago Daily
News actually believed the fore
going statement they had done bet
ter to secure the aid of the govern
ment or the Red Cross for poor
starving Alaska, rather than to sit
back and formulate in their minds
stories about the northland.)
"From all of which the introduct
ory conclusion is drawn that the
coming year will be the worst in
Alaska's history in point of priva
tion and want unless weather condi
Daily Points For
Citizen Soldiers
(Issued by the War Deportment
And all rights to reprint
Reserved).
.1 i . —— j j_, jj
ARMY INSIGNIA
"Insignia" ig the term used to
include all the bulges, button^,
braids, hat cords, aud other devic
es which indicate these three
things:
1. The rank oX each officer or
soldier.
2. His branch of the service or
his special duties. j ,
3. His personal experience or re
cord.
An ordinary private's uniform caw
•ties no insignia of rank. When a
man becomes a first-class private,
however, In the .Engineer Corps, Hos
pital Corps, Ordnance Department,
'Quartermaster Corps, or Signal
'Corps, he is entitled to wear on the
sleeve^ of his coat and shirt the
design of the department to which
ha belongs.
A lance corporal Fears on Wa
sleeve an inverted V-shaped bar. A
corporal lias two bar*, and Bergeant
three bare. Below the sergeant's
three V-shaped (Inverted) bars may
appear a number of additional
marks, indicating Ills duties.
Above the noncommissioned offic
ers, rank is shown by various in
signia on the shoulder loops of
coats, on the sieves of coats and
overcoats, on the collars of shirts,
and by hat cords. The most im
portant are those made of metal
and sewn, on shoulder loops and
shirt collars. A major general haa
two silver stars; a brigadier gen
eral, one silver 6ta, & colonel, a
silver eagle; a lieutenant colonel, a
silver oak leaf; a major a gold
oak leaf; a captain, two silver bars;
and a first lieutenant, ong silver
iwr. A second lieutenant has no
shoulder insignia. You caa readily
tell the rank of any officer by
glancing at these metal insignia.
Every branch of the service has
its special color which appears on
the hat cords of enlisted men, on
the chevrons of noncommissiomfl
officers, and in many other places.
These colors are:
Infantry, light blue.
Cavalry, yellow.
Artillery, scarlet.
Ajutant general's, inspector gen-j
eral's, and judge advocate gen-j
erai'e departments, dark blue.
Engineer Corps, scarlet Inter- j
wined with white.
Signal Corps, orange interwtned
with white. J
Medical Department, maroon.
Quartermaster Corps, buff.
Ordnance Department, black in-1
terwined with scarlet.
By remembering these colors you
will often be able easily to recog-!
nize men and troops. In addition^
to these colors, every branch, of
the service has its own device with
ail of which you will soon become
familiar.
The number of the regiment to
which each belong is on the col
lar Of his coat. Ail regimental
numbers will run in three different
series, showing whether each regi
ment was originally a part of the
Regular Army, of the Ntloanal
Guard, or of fhe new National Army.
The numbers of regiments formerly'
of the Regular Army will begin witM
the figure 1 and run up to the fig
ure 100; those of regiments form
erly in the National Guard will be
(ions improve immediately; so that
at least some food crops may ma
ture. That statement refere to con
ditions on Kenai peninsula and the
regions east and Bcsith. Northward
a total failure is now conceded:
Identical conditions obtain; through
out Alaska except In a small belt
in the extreme south." (It Is
said that ignorance is bli9s, but
ignorance in the a bove paragraph led
j to one statement 1'.hat has a word of
truth in it, nhmelly that Mr. Bray
ton's words apply principally to the
region east and south of Kenia
peninsula. True, Sir. Drayton, pri
vation and want stalks east and
south of Kenai p jninsula; the roll
ing waves of the Gulf of Alaska and
the North Pacifiic might keep a
fish alive In a g ood season, but the
people occupying that district sure
ly have starved. You are right for
once.) '
Such gross ig: iorance on the P*rt
of the correspo adent who wTites
from Seward ar id the inaccuracy of
the Chicago Da jly Neivs, cannot be
imagined by th e people of Alaska.
We could conc« jive of them locating
the Baltic Sc x where the Adriatic
belongs, or lo< suing the papal Sea
somewhere in the waters surround- J
ing Australia, but to say that Alas
ka is starving to death, and then
do nothing is staggering to ^ the
"sourdough" :mind. ., } .^ ,
KOTICE Otf ADMXMSTBAtbiElS
HAT.R
In tlie Probate court of the terri
tory of Alwtka, Division No. 1,
at Haines before J. J. Kennedy,
U. S. Commissioner ami ex-officio
i'robuty Judge.
In the matter of the estate of J.
E. Reynolds, deceased.
I Notice hereby given^ that pur
suant to an order issued out of
the above entitled court, bearing
date the link day of Sept. 1917, in
the matter of the estate of J. E.
Reynolds deceased, the underisgned
administrator of the said estate, will
6oil at public auction at the home
stead of the deceased, about five
aniles in a westerly direction, from
the town of Haines, the following
descrioed property, to-wit; The pos
sessory right to, and the improve
ments on. the following described
homestead; Beginning at Post
No. 1, which is identical with post
No. 6, of the homestead land claim
heretofore taken by E. A. Adams,
and running thence west, 320 rods;
thence north, 160 rods; thence east,
320 rods and thence south 160 rods
to the place of beginning, contain
ing 320 acres of land. Also one
lumber shack situated at Jones
Point, about one and one half
miles westerly from Haines, and
the following personal property M
the above mentioned homestead.
1 ploy, 1 shovel plow, 1 pitch
fork, 1 garden rake, 5 small traps,
1 Yukon sled, 1 mattock, 2 cross
saws, 1 hand saw, 2 hand axes, 1
latch hatchet, l prospcetorg pick,1
1 hammer, 1 monkey wrench, 1
clock, 1 lamp, 1 plyer, 1 Bchew
driver, 1 cold chisel, 2 dozen quart
jars, 1 smoothing plane, 1 razor
■strop, 200 lbs. tumip seeds, 1
razor, 1 looking glass, 2 water
pails, 1 lantern, 1 heating stove,
one running gear of wagon, 1
wheel barrow, 1 harness and 2
horse collars. Said sale will be'
held on the 25th day of October,
1917, at the hour oj one one o'clock
in the afternoon of e^id day; All
sales under ten dollars to be cash
in hand, and all sales over ten dol
lars on thirty days time with ap
proved security. Sale subject to
confirmation by the court.
Dated this 10 th day of Sept.
1917.
G. W. HPfCHMAN,
Administrator.
W. B. Stout, Attorney for Admin
istration.
First, publication, Sept. 12.
Final publication, Oct. 10.
"ANGELS OF COMMERCE"
A few "angels of commerce," ®s
they style themselves, registered in
town are H. March, Seattle, known
a3 the "hairless kid"; Gus Gelles,
Juneau, who says he Is the "front-;
ier salesman and a good one too"; |
J. Mehern, of Alaska, "the daddy of;
them all"; and Eleno W. Smith.,
"Doc Loussac's only compositor."
gin with figure 101 and run up
to 300; those of regiments in th
new National Army will begin with
figure 301. The former National,
Guard regiments will show also
their former State designations, as,
for example, (1st Me), (2nd Pa.),
etc.
A Confirmed
Statement
<0
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