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The kaiser's peace no
en iu tlie A i ask-'■a yetftreil ^ !
that he U willing to use I*»
"Wilson's speech of January it
.September -7th, AS A BASIS
which to conclude an artistic
eventually, peace. To refres
memories, following is a hriei
iuary of President Wilson's
aims, as set forth hy him on
L';».rv Sth;
I Open covenants or peiu-e—uu
more secret diplomacy.
- Absolute freedom of sens, alike
in peace and in war.
Removal of all economic bar*
riers. anil' establishment of an
equality of trade conditions.
4 lluarautees that natioual arma.
meats reduced to lowest point
consistent with domestic safe"
ty. * ■ . 1
•" A free and impartial adjust
ment of all colonial claims, giv
'us; populations concerned equal
weight with the Government.
0. Evacuation of all Russian terri
tory by Germany.
Complete evacuation and restor*
ation of Belgium.
S. Restoration i>t all French terri
tory, Including the return to
France of Alsace-Lorraine.
:• Readujstment of Italian frontiers
a?ong lines of nationality,
10. The peoples of Austria accorded
opportunity of autonomous de
deyelopment.
II Rumania, Serbia .and Monten
egro to be evacuated, Serbia ac
corded free access to the sea.
and relations of Balkan States
to be determined along lines of
allegiance and' nationality.
12. Nationalities now under Turk
ish rule to be assured of se
cure sovereignty, security of
life, and opportunity of autoho
mous development, and the Dar
danelles opened as a free pass
age to ail nations.
The erection of an Independent
Polish State, with free access to
ths oea>.' • K •
14. A general association of na
tions to be formed for purpose
o* according political independ
ent and territorial integrity
to great and small States a
-/' like.
President Wilson's address of Sep
tember 28th, to which the kaiser re
ferred, contains tne following sal
ient paragraphs:!
"We are all agreed that there can
be *o peace obtained by any kind of
bargain or compromise with the
governments of the Central Em
pires because we have dealt with
'.htrm already and hare seen them
deal with other governments that
were parties to this struggle, at
Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest.
"The hare convinced us that they
are without honor and do not in
tend Justice.
"They observe covenants, ac
cc>t no principle but foN« aftd their
own interest. W$ cannot ''conie to
terms" with them. They h*ve made
it impossible.
"The German people must by
this time be fully aware that
cannot cacepfthe word of those who
forcefi tbis war upon us. We do
not think the same thoughts or
SJeak the same language of agree
ment.
"It is o* capital importance that
ww should also be explicitly agreed
that no peace shall he obtained by
a»y kind of compromise or abate
ment of the orincfples we have a
rowed as the principles for which
we are .Uniting. There should
exis« do doubt about it."
Tin storm through which Juneau
assed last week caused the great
est property damage that this city
has »ver experienced, says the DiS"
patch. We have been singularly
free from disastrous fires and oth«r
calamities such as frequently affect
communities. The property loss is
certainly not less than $100,000.00.
From the disaster Juneau arises
triumphantly and is displaying splea
d' » spirit. To meet the needs of
those in distress, Mayor Valentine
called a public meeting the night of
th» disaster, which was announced'
by the ringing of the fire bell. A
number of citizens responded, and
stens were immediately taken to fin
homea for the homeless, and to ex
tead financial aid to those who had
lost ai' of their possessions. The
sum raised for this purpose had
reached, by Saturday noon, approxi
mately 52,500.00, and the Commit
ter? was still at work.
Th# heavy damage falls upon the
mlaiae electric light and water
comoanies, and while it cripples
'-he operation of those institutions,
financial loss. The individuals who
suffer are the home owners of Ju
St>au, nearly a dozen of whom hflve
seen aJl or the greater part of their
savings »weDt away.
\ The fact that so l'ttle physical
j'iajurjr resulted to idividualg is a'*
h uost miraculous in view of the in-.
suod'.ble swiftness with which some
w-t..s were swept away by the roai
jan warers of Gold Creek and the
• that occurred within the
THE STORM
/
attraction has brought aoout
luot uuity and sympathy for
SD' .iuuijj who suffered which
tba a for the citizens of
Hi. • : i
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- HI.Li' THKM'.*
The r«> ""
duced many.4 ia Juneau has
of help, accOtg to actual need
though they » the papers. Al*
wo think that itle no appeal:
on our part h* a mtie effort
relieve their sit Ketchikan to
acceptaole. Can would be
a 11H1.. ubstantial offlj,r them
tontid^r.t that thct^ are
come to our aid wet,\e would
to the same cakunit^jected
thei- town. At least visited
them assistance-—Progk 0(fer
as— Mln
SK\<aVAY DKCORATED
WITH I'KBTTY" FI.i
With an arm full Of bea
dahlia Mowers, Sam Guyot ret
from Skagway this morning, r
the metropolis of Lyna
enjoying "beautiful sunny we
lho 'lowers and vegetbales of
way ar<? at their best.—Dispai
AMONG WORST OF BAD HABITS
j Procrastination. When One Hat Work
That Must Be Done, Bound to
Result in Failure.
He was an excellent workman. Few
things were In his specialty which he
could not do better than his mates.
But he was not a success. Others who
had worked at their calling much less
time passed hlrn In the upward climb
of progress. His fault, his crime, lay
In one thing—he had the "tomorrow"
habit.
When he had three days In which to
do a piece of work, he squandered the
first two in Idle speculation as to the
amount of time absolutely necessary to
complete his task. If he decided that,
by hurrying, he could perform that
task In six hours, he temporized until
the beginning of the six-hour period.
He was eternally loafing and hurrying,
eternally wasting time and making
time do double service. His work be
came more and more slovenly. Other
workmen surpassed him. Before long
he was superannuated.
If you find yourself figuring on the
amount of time yon can loaf and still
get your work done, watch out If you
do not, the tomorrow habit will
jou.—Milwaukee Journal.^ _ „
Trvrni i ■ ■ H i nil ~ ~
Tellsofbhdtalit*
OF HUH OFFICtRS
German Deserter Describes
Brutal Treatment Inflicted
on Men in Army.
FATHER CRIPPLES FOR LIFE
Crimes Will Darken History of Kaiser
Ism Forever, When People of the
World Lecrn the Whole
Story.
Marlon, 0.—Curt Hadlich, a young
German mechanic employed In local
ahops, one-time aviator In the German
army, soldier of fortune and finally an
American citizen, not only believes the
stories of German brutality that have
come from across seas but be thinks
when the whole story has been told
crimes that will darken the pages of
the history of kalserism forever will
come to the people of the world. They
will be told not only by victims but
by the very soldiers of the kaiser him
self, Hadlich thinks.
He Is a deserter from the German
army because of treatment he could
not stand. His father Is a life crip
ple from the indignities even of peace
times.
"The German soldier Is treated like
a dumb animal." says nadlich. "He
must grin and bear It—there is no ap
peal."
Hadllch's story perhaps Is the more
Interesting because he has traveled
enough, seen enough and learned
enough outside the confines of Ger
many to appreciate conditions that ex
ist there.
Fatner urippiea ior i_itc.
"My father is a living example of
the effects of German militarism," he
said. "After the war, If he still Is
living, I expect to have him come to
this country to live as God Intended
people should live. He too can tell
stories of how brutal German officers
are to the soldiers under them.
"Like all young Germans, he entered
military service when he was twenty.
One day his company was practicing
scaling. ITe had been ill and was un
able to get over a fence at which prac
tice was being held. An officer struck
him with a sword. He fell and his
arm was broken. It wns not properly
cared for, and that arm has been use
less since.
"While I was stationed at the forts
at Metz and Strassburg I saw things
happen myself that would make an
American soldier think that the disci
pline he sometimes complains about is
heaven In comparison. The soldiers
.get Sunday off at certain periods and
look forward to them because they
can visit home.
"I have seen it happen time and
time again that officers kept some of
the men lu barracks, apparently mere
ly nursing a slight grudge of a per
sonal nature—perhaps merely to have
a bit of sport at the private's expense.
These same officers wonld think up all
kinds of punishments for their men,
often putting a fellow at some task on
his day off while several hundred
other soldiers were Idle and could have
done the same work.
Just Keep Them Busy.
I "I have seen officers order men to
I carry water from the big barrels kept
in barracks, sometimes three or four
Stories high, merely to give them a
task. After they had emptied the bar
rels they would bo forced to carry the
water hack up and fill them again.
"I have seen privates put to work
on Silnday morning with a bucket of
water and a tooth brush and ordered
to scrub the floors.
"If a private does not shoot or march
as well as the officer thinks he should,
he Is certain to he punished. One
favorite treatment then was to require
\ a private to stand erect, then kneel to
u the ground, repeating the performance
ur!°r an hour or more. I've seen offi
jp0its beat and kick soldiers who be
on11® exhausted from this task. It
c aitiently happens that a three days'
lther..„ll(H' drlll on brea(J an(1 water
SJcag- iiiows."
ch. jAoh has taken out his first nat
ion papers, and although regis
DITO to lan enemy alien. Is listed In
avla!'n reserve corPs nn(1 hopes
'to enter the American army
Work .. 'tton in the near future,
to 1 4
I wn.x
lj m too safe
i{ ^byinarmy
! »
I So declared ,loln the ar"l>;;
? son, when 1 is 100 s , *
• court agaW^n Beudth
• Charged with n?''Pare(' °
i much argument husband,
• son was convli!n- After
• navy was as dant,®eIll^h
• army and she slgiut
' band's release. as *',e
^ T hus
l» ♦—
Performs Patriotic S»—
Hazleton, Pa.—The fan,
mountain, near here, will do
beating the kaiser. The a?ck
coal which fired John Erlcson'n
Itor when It defeated the Conft
ram Merrlmac came from the g
of Buck mountain and now that
ground has been turned over to
tear war gardeners for the gr
of potatoes.
——. Off Mm t>,\ um m. a ,ffin
TO TEACH DISABLED
Australia Recognizes Duty ft
Crippled Soldiers.
I Subsistence Wages to Be Paid MM
While They Are Learning
T radcs.
Washington.—1The manner In which
Australia is meeting the problem oi
repatriating the men lighting In Eu
rope Is described in dispatches to the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce. Much interest was aroused by
the dispatches, as foreshadowing what
the United States must do when the
tide of disabled ipen begins to Sow
westward.
Two principles form the basis of tha
Australian system: First, that the
purpose is to secure the re-establish
ment of returned soldiers In the Indus
trial life of the community; second,
that as a soldier abandoned his civil
calling to serve the state, it is the
duty of the state to sustain him untU
an opportunity for such re-establish
ment Is assured.
Subsistence wages will be paid to
men seeking employment or being
traiued in technical schools. The
amounts will vary according to the]
number of dependents, the maximum
•being £3, 6 shillings, or approximately
$16.50.
A feature of the vocational training
planned will be national workshops,
wherein men whose Injuries preclude
the possibility of their ever becoming
competent to earn their living as nor
mal workmen will be educated to new
tasks and perhaps employed perma
nently. The totally and permanently
disabled will be provided for In hos
tels, or, alternately, by special grants
supplementary to their pensions, If
they prefer to remain with their j
friends.
Widows desirous of learning some
useful trade will be afforded the neces
sary training and sustenance. Ad
vances of money will be mude In cer
tain cases for the establishment of
small businesses, for tools and for
transit to employment.
Australia also Is following the prac
tice of the United States after the civil'
war of grautlng land to returned sol
diers. Major Blezard, who took part
In the historic landing at Galllpoli
and was severely wounded, has been
granted 700 acres near Echuca.
GREEK KING VISITS ALLIES
King Alexander of Greece Is shown
here corning out of an Italian bombard
ing dug-out that he Inspected during
lils recent visit to the allied forces at
Saloniki. The youthful Greek king
also reviewed one of the British regi
ments In Greece. ,
LETTER WRITING THE RAGE
Pretty French Stenographer Is Cause of
Literary Epidemic Among the
Marines.
Somewhere In France.—Letter writ
ing has become all the rage among {be
wounded United States marines con
fined to the base hospitals here.
The reason Is a French stenographer,
a pretty one, too, who has volunteered
to write letters home for her Incapaci
tated American brothers.
The petite Parlsienne makes a dally
visit to the Marine hospitals for dic
tation—and the wounded devil dogs
have suddenly become literary giants.
They anxiou^v await her visits and
fairly swamp her with mail.
j "Gee, if I only had about three more
aunts and six more cousins to write
to," sighed one husky sea-Soldier, as
the pretty little "steno" moved on to
' the next cot
(: USE BURIED COIN FOR BONDS I
Mountaineers of Tennessee Dig Up
Thousands of Dollars to Invest j
In Liberty Bonds.
Johnson City, Tenn.—Thousands of
| dollars In money that had been burled
| by the mountaineers of east Tennessee
was dug up recently and Invested In
Liberty bonds. Gold and silver cnr
1 rency was lifted from fireplace cor
i uers, dug up from under the garden
i trees and taken from the trunks of hol
a.'ow oaks. Some of the money paid
iwi'T the bonds dated back more than
ita«?lf a century. The third loan Is the
Hpy one In which the mountaineer*
participated. , Lj
Fortune! tn Bibles',
Eccentric people often conceal sums
of money In the family Bible, where It
la discovered, sometimes by chnnce,
after their death.
Such an Incident occurred In Paris.
A French Pollu returned home from
the front to find that his father had
just died. He had left him nothing In
his will, only the family Bible. Closer
Inspection revealed between Its pagee
securities to the value of $65,000!
A few years ago a young nobleman
who was tn financial difficulties had oc
casion to refer to the family Bible for
a date there recorded. In so doing he
came across a number of Bank of Eng
land notes, amounting collectively to
a considerable jlum, which more thnn
met his liabilities. Then he recalled
his mother's dying words that "Help
might be found in the Bible when all
other s«urcea failed." But he had paid
small heed to the Injunction, and cer
tainly never dreamed of so practical a
fulfillment of her words.
Qualities of Leadership.
The real fulcrum of life pfoblems Is
within the man himself. It's what
folks call ability. It's not gllbness, su
perficial slickness or any power of
pull. It's just a definite consciousness
of ability and that ability put to work..
With some folks habit plays an Im
portant part They learn to do things
by rote. As long as requirements fol
low the routine they make a good
showing. But when the unexpected
turns up they are at sea. They rep
resent a certain type of ability, but
not the best Men seeking help of the
highest grade want men of brains, In
itiative and resources. They want men
that are unabashed before calamities.
They want men that do not have to
Walt for orders, but who know what to
do In emergency and are not afraid to
assume the responsibility for the}r ac
tion. Such men are conscious of Wing
leaders and ask only for opportunity
to show what they can do.
Very Little Escaped Taxation.
The names of more than 130 differ
ent tares Imposed on the Egyptians of
the Roman period have been learned
from papyri. Besides the poll tax,
they Include taxes'on exports and Im
ports, on animals, on business trans
actions, such as sales and mortgages,
Imposts for the benefit of the govern
ment and Its officials, from the em
peror downward, who took his bak
shish In the form of a national offer
ing, at his accession. When one fur
ther considers, the other burdens to
which property was liable, the impo
sition of public duties and the dis
charge of costly municipal functions,
the wonder la that there was anything
left to tax.
The French Tricolor.
The Tricolor, the French national
standard of blue, white and red, di
vided vertically, originated during the
•first French revolution. In 1789 the
leaf .plucked by Caroille Desmoullns
In the garden of the Palais Royal be
came a rallying sign, and green was
to be adopted as the national-color;
but, remembering that green was the
color of the hated Prince d'Artois, they
rejected it on the following day.
They at first chose. Instead, blue and
red, the colors of the city of Paris,
and later added the white of royalty,
that had been faithfully preserved by
the national guard. This new standard
was adopted with enthusiasm. A few
months after taking of the Bnstile,
Ballly and Lafayette offered to Louis
XVI the three-colored coeard as a
badge of reconciliation with the king.
Thus the Tricolor originated as the
symbol of the liberty of the Frene.v
nation, and It continued as such even
when afterward the "reconciliation"
with the king ended with his decapita
tion.
Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
(H>cns September 28 th.
Subacrlb* f«r The Dally Alaskan.
[BARN'S PART IN SOCIAL Lift!
| Small Boy Whose Father Pmkm
One Used to Be a Good Deal
of an Autocrat
In simpler times, and in parts of the
United States where simple customs
prevailed, the popular small boy ot
the neighborhood was not necessarily
tiie son of the richest or most promi
nent family, but, more likely, the boy
in whose yard there was a good rata
barrel, a smooth cellar door, or a barn.
The boy who would now and then,
from pure favor, or In return for mar
bles, or some other valuable consid
eration, permit other boys to "holler
down his rain barrel, or slide down
his cellar door, or, greatest privilege
of all, play in his father's barn, wae
the hoy whose friendship wae beet
worth cultivating.
. Some boy, in the small community
of a gefieration ago, was sure to here
a father who possessed a barn, a&&
generally speaking, he Intuitively flett
his power, and exercised It over the
other boys on his street or In hie pert
of the town. Wherever he went, the
barn stood hack of him and gave him
support and influence. He could say
and do things to the other boys that
they would not dare say or do to dm
another, simply because the boy be
said or did tilings to could see the
barn door behind him, open or closed,
as the case might be.
To be one of those entitled, to ad
mission to the barn was to be ln.t^a'
right set; to be denied the pririlef* fit
playing in. the barn was to suffer so
cial ostracism. j
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