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SERBS BUILD CHURCH OF EMPTY BOXES
Building materials are rather scarce where the Serb forces are campaigning
In the Balkans, so the soldiers had to use considerable Ingenuity when they set
about constructing a church. Nothing else being available, they gathered all
the empty boxes about and erected the church, shown here partly completed.
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i EDITORIAL
threw civilized wayg aside and be
gaa sinking men, women and chil
dren in the bulk long ago. Ger
many is a pirate, and1 is using sub
marine* contrary to all agreements
an<* pacts. Germany invented poi
so.* g:ls and used Jt. when its use
<■> battle was as forbidden and un
civilized as its use to kill civilian
populations. We have a great coun
try over here, and a population that
woulj be endlessly troublesome to
Germany if she tried' to rule us. If
Germany comes to the United States
s~e will wish to kill us off as if
we w»re rats. Germany wants to
m*k? the world safe for Germany.
I don't know how you feel about
it, but I dou't want t>o be gassed.
I don't want any poison-gassing na
t'on left on the face of the earth.
r am not even strong in my friend
)ip for murderers and pirates. I
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YOU WON'T CARE
Bj Ellis l*Hrker Butler
V the Germans -win this war andj
romp to America to punish us, you
t o»'; care. You may care a little tO
lir*'. It may make your blood boil
to st e some shaved-heM hog-herder
;.i • he kaiser's uniform strike your
v.-if. across the face with *he flat of
".lis hand, or to hear the shrieks of
your daughter as one of the kaiser s
^riunins; under-officers drags her
i' way. but you won't care long. 1 11
toll you why.
You'll be dead.
Th re was a cabled paragraph in
•lie npwspapers a day or two ago
that reported the Russians as feel
ing better inclined toward the Allies'.
Th - reason w-a3 that the German
troops were poison-gassing th$ civ
it pu'ations of the captured'towns.
I' i» «u easy way to get rid of civil
r ooalation, and. now that the Ger
mans have hit upon it. theJ* viU
probably use it in all cases where
the/ wish to make room for German
Kultur.
I'oison-gassing the ciivlian populo
-ion is easier and- quicker than
slioo'ii.g it, as was done in Belgium,
ir 's easier and quicker than "de
oor'iug"' it, as was done with the
Armeu-'ans, although the German
hossod Turks found that a satisfac
tory* way to lead whole cities to
■!*»:»th The Germans' .are especial
ly af t to stick to poison-gassing
civilian? because it is thier own
hap^7 thought and the highest ex
emplification of teir own effcilent
kult'ip.
In America, where there are greai
spctiot.s given up to agriculture, i>
a'!', probably be necessary for the
G -mans to bayonet and shcot man)
who now are living on the l'arms
although they may be able to form
country concentration camps and
sas all who are gathered in thost
njmo». In the cities the work woui
be easier. On a given day and u'
a g!v»n hour, the German troops
would out on the'r gas maskg and
thus protected release great qtianti
ties of poison-gas. The civil popu
lation would immediately die. Ger
would have a free hand' foi
colonization, and America would b<
thoroughly German from then on
There would be no one here to in
terfera with the German plans
"New Germany" would be all Ger
man. You would not care—yo*
would be dfead.
If you think Germany is no
cauacle of doing this very thing it
because you have not thought abou
Germany lately. That cable messagi
says Germany is doing it in Easteri
Ruisia-. To Germany we are mor
troublesome and less civilized thai
Eastern Russia. We are too numei
ous to deport The easiest wa
woul£ be to gas us In th© bulk.
Xo decent nation doea >ucl
trk'gs, but Germany is not in th
decent nation class. Think a min
ute.
Germany ig a murderer Sh
* see, today, anytning gooa iu
Ti&ny, or anything^ decent, or
tbik* deserving respect. I can't)
P-Ui1* aaj'thing is hideous or dis
ab€ that sh« would not do it if
ia it would profit her. Shel
fiffhts^tlnS 89 a civilized- nation
grpcc*. 1# outlawed and di»
en in»o' must be whipped, beat-)
her rulerSlim® Bhe ha* created, '
crime• an?ished for {h«ir filthy
decent men'0' " 'he ^'or'd of I
ma - be pu' flt- her population
fi'ty years. g0°d behavior for |
time if civili';h® end °f that
Place of the ba. has taJte»> the I
in Germany, it 9D1 now existing i
admit Germany ^ possible to j
councils of the n.place ln the
Until then, looi? onc® more. 1
Kas! Beat the I. for P°ison
muit, or he will comlto his OWn
depopulate America tr her« ftnd
conceived method'. 0Wn hell
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MAKE THE RUMOR-MONGER
GIVE VOU THE PKOOI-S
'Everything but the Truth" is the
caption to an illuminating article
ay David Lawrence appearng In the
Sertember 14th issue of the Sat
urday Evening Post and is here call
ed jo the attention of Red Cross
workers for the reason that it con
tains not only much that will Inter
est but facts that every member
should* know in order that he may
Uol" protect the organization against
ehe ever recurring lies conceived oy
tlirewd ind cunning propagandists
arti unwittingly mad>e current thru
de- exchange of idle gossip. /
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r an icuivuivci fc.»c ,—„
pn the circulation of the now
to'i sweater story and have not
sro'i th© fable concerning
whe'.'ass and It is doubtful
now hese in any form would
insldk^en credence, but other
concertmors are afloat, tales
troops i^e immorality of our
alleged and whispered lies of
women ofr3 that befall youn<*
they enlist character Should
Thes» and t^d Cross nurses.
atin» graft astatements insinu
Rel Cross afEtnanagement in
manner that wre exposed in a
er of *he artic»rmit any read<
immediately and discredit them
This Division Kprently.
frc-m attacks Of tht, been free
Ufl oresent writin.ure, and at
mor' than one ea-rneve fears of
had to be allayed in lirer have
Our advice is—get quence.
wbe* you next meet t.j. and
mjngor make him give-umor
proo( or make him shut \ the
CrosT Bulletin. ^ed
THK INFLEXIBLE POL
- Chicago Tribune: President
Bon c«u bo utterly uncompron
1 ,b(-cause he i9 dealing with ftbi
1 tlons. Thp principles of the A
ca* program must win uncomp
in»lv or the war has not won i
• Jfct. Tcig program is not fl<
as { program of territorial inc
1 may lit the size of the victory
3 Allies would not proclaim th&t
1 fight «o the last man to clea
• Rhino of Germans, to dismemb
'1
'Serman empire, UuUh tit* Hoh*ii»
Botletm, and' r*duc& Pruteia to thft
condition or «. minor JSufopean state.
I That would be an. unwise atlmulus to
German desperation. The German
imperial chancellor fin^s it good
domett'c policy to present; the A
merican object as one of conquest
and »uhjugation. That is to coun
teract the effect in Germany of th«
president's rhetorical d<riye at the
Germans. They could have a peace
without humiliation with profit, and
with the greatest benevolence to
i future generations of Germans
If thev would put themselves In
touch with the democratic prin
ciples and the democratic thought
which must prevail in the world and
must prevail if even Germany is |
to be fortunate and a land ofj
happy people.
EXAMINE YOUR INNER SELF
Possibly There May Be Machinery
There That Can Be Utilized to
Good Purpose.
8trange forces Rive men purpose and
Jar them Into action. Love, pride, sor
row, fear—nil sorts of hidden feejlngs
are responsible for the shaking of men
out of ruts and into fields of undream
ed of achievement. More than one
big success finds Its real origin In the
personal disappointment of some man
—perhaps over a college education he
couldn't get, or a toy he couldn't af
ford, or a trip he was not able to make.
Of course some men are downed by
such emotions, but others are made
by them. f
Most men have perfectly good bollera
In them, and fine equipment. But so
many never get up steam and go any
where! They don't want to go any
where. They just stand stilt—waiting,
for a call from within to "get a.move,
on." The call is likely to come any,
tlpie. If your call Is late In coming,
<vhy, not ring up your Inner, self and ask
him If he can't think of. some place he
would like to go? It's a sharae to have
all that expensive • machinery and not
use It.—American Magazine
EMERSON FELT WAR'S PINCH
Letter Written by Him Telia of Bad
Conditions In New York In
the Year 1862.
It Is Interesting to go bftck to the
early days of the Civil war In this
city, when Emerson wrote to a friend
of the financial crisis:
"The 1st of January (1862) has
found me in quite as poor a plight as
the rest of the Americans. Not a
penny from my books .since last June,
which usually yield five or six hundred
a year; no dividends from -the banks
or from Indian's Plymouth .property. I
Then almost .all Income from lectures
has quite ceased, so that your letter
found me In a study how to pay three
or four hundred dollars with fifty, j
Meanwhile we are trying-to be,lis un- I
consuming as candles under an extin
guisher, and 'tis frightful to,think,how
many, rivals we have In distress and in
economy. But far better that this
grinding should go on bad and worse
than we be driven by any Impatience
Into a hasty peace, or, any peace, re-,
storing the old rottenness."-rNewTork
World. ■
Where He Fell Down. .
Recently ,an American was showing
an English friend about the capital.'
"Our government Is very economi
cal," said the American. "When we've
an extra thick fog they suck It Into a
big cistern and convert It Into paint
for warships and buljdings."
"Really?" said the Britisher. "Talk
ing about fogs reminds me that my
brother Invented a machine for com
pressing fogs, into bricks, ami one tfilck
November day he turned out enough
material to build a country house.
"Yes. he did. He moved into thla
new house the next April und was .a
happy man for two we^ks. * until one
morning he found hlm-sell', also his
family, lying out on ,the cold, damp
ground, in company with some bits of
furniture and some miscellaneous Join
ery. The house had gone, but It was
the thickest morning ever seen In those
parts. -Of course, you can iruess what;
had happened. In the night those fog
bricks had .somehow got back latQ
their original element"
"Well," <frawled the Yankee, "I
reckon yer rel'tive ought to hove glazed
those bricks."—Ladies' Home Journal.
Confidence Has No Envlec.
Ambition doesn't fear to admire
what it would like to have. Show big
ness-In any guise to a-braye, .bold man
and he'll prepare to parallel It. Ifa
the cowardly, double-swept weakling
with secretly accepted bounds who
always hates the strength and merit
beyond reach.
The for, didn't Relieve the jjrapes
sour until he had quit trying for them.
Scurrilous tongues are bitter with self
surrender. Stern, determined men re
fuse to discount the future; no attain
ment Is beyond {heir hopes. They
I never "knock." It might be construed
as evidence of Inability to prove equal
ity. Confidence has no envies.
^ei Meltlnfl Aluminum Chlpa.
vine, aluminum chips, such as aiw
8 °5 Juced In the machining of the alu
xible !.m niioys used In motorcar con
reasa Mon are hard to. remelt without
^Ive lcss, a loss of, <10 per cent
^•omtr.on. According to the bu
IfSijnlnes, the total loss from this
•ougtiout the couutry-amocata,
i-tnum at Its present prlw, to
Tip jiureau hag n»ceptly ]>ub
Thifc
they
• the
;r the
UttOea' lOlSf TOTOaUtf WggfllUbM IOT
minimising this loss. The main cause
of trotiblo seems to be the lack of ready
coalescence of the metallic globules,
and ibis means tint the problem is
one Of colloid chemistry applied to
metals.—Scientific Anerlcan.
.Searchlight Vrom Batteries.
From the pocket flashlarap operated
by two or three dry cells of minute
size the battery searchlight hus been
steadily Improved until today remark
able results are obtained. A battery
searchlight has been Introduced with
a range of 2,000 feet up to half n mile,
operated on six volts. Equipped with
a 7%-lneh adjustable focus, single-shell
reflector, on a recent photometer test
one of these searchlights gave 453,000
candlepower. The combination of a
nltrogen-fllled tungsten lamp and n
correctly designed reflector has worked
wonders for the battery operated
searchlight.
LITTLE TERR15H.IN TRENCH
Thl» Canine Warrior Was Not a
"Slacker," but Didn't Care to
Go Over Top.
Ia those long lines of trenches In
Prance and Flanders, where Britisher
faces German, It is not all discomfort
aad misery. During quiet hours we
play and joke. And we like nothing
better than some little pet—a dog or a
cat, perhaps—to care for and look
pfter.
Cats are not uncommon In trench
land, many of them having been born
and, bred there, says Boys' Life, the
boy scouts' magazine. Unless a kitten
or cat Is actually taken from the
trenches, It makes that sector its
home, and Is fed and cared for by the
troops which come In to hold the line
at that part. But a dog will follow
bis unit about and soon becomes the
friend of all, and quite an Important
being In the regiment.
.Our little smooth-haired fox terrier
Jutd taken up his quarters In a strong
redoubt near the front. The little dog
would quake with fear on hearing a
German shell In the air, but after the
explosion would run about as before,
realizing that the danger was past.
Poor little Warrior stayed In the
trenches always. He would not follow
the men out, but would settle down
with the Incoming unit. Mnny were
tfae Jokes made at his expense. "War
rior, old boy," a man would say, "if I
was you I would get a transfer to some
nonflghting mob wot never comes up,
and keep out of .lt well behind." But
Warrior wouldn't desert. Every time
the .battalion came up to hold the line
there was the little terrier.
POINT TO BIBLICAL PROPHECY
Hun* Claim That Russia's Collapse
Was Foretold In Verse In the
Book of Daniel.
Quotations from the Bible and the
use of the name of the Deity are fa
vorite methods of the kaiser and his
subjects for trying to Justify them
selves for bringing on the world dis
aster. Now they have come forward
with a verse from the Book of Daniel
to prove that a Biblical prophecy has
come true In the collapse of the Rus
sian fighting forces. The verse Is:
."And for the time that the daily
sacrifice shall be taken away, and the
abomination that maketh desolate set
up, there shall be a thousand two hun
dred and ninety days."
' The Germans point out that the
period of 1,290 days corresponds with
the period from August 1, 1914, when
•war began between Germany and Rus
sia, and February 11, 1918, when it
was announced that Trotzky hud de
clared the war at an end.
Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
otpctu September 28tb.
Aub*cribs for the Daily Alaskan.
SILVfitt TO fefil WORKED Wfli
WINTER
Dawson New, Sept. 21. — An ac
tive winter for the Mayo mining dUr
tric* is forecasted in the »hip
ment 'rom Dawson last night on
the steamer Nasutlin of fifty, ton*
of supplies. Several tons of that
total goes direct to the Lookout
mountain silver properties, tributary
to Mnvo, and other supplies /will b«
used by the silver miners on aoma ?
of the new nropertiea, and oth^jji
for the general support of those
(engaged in gold mining: and* other
industries in the district.
Jack Pickering, of the Lookout
mouctan group, left on thg boat
for a short visit, and will be back
within a few days to follow UP hi*
general plans at this end for the^<La*
veloment of the properties^ num
ber of Dawson people are participat
ing in the development and working
of the Lookout properties tbi# .win
ter. i
Makes Rapid Head
way
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