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EDITORIAL
" OLDC LOKV:
"America For Americans'
FOOD WINS THE WAR
DON'T WASTE IT
ALASKA PATRIOTIC
Alaska's Foou Commissioner, Ro)
al A. Cur.nisou, recently returnee
from Portland and other coast cities
where he had been in conferenct
with other commissioners regarding
the food situation. Judge Gunni
son says Alaska is living up to ta<
spirit and letter of the food ad minis,
tration's requirements even bettei
than the j>eople of the States
"ftkh individual Alaskan seems tc
appreciate the situation, and al!
are doing their isirt toward foo«]
conservation."
Alaska has not been found want
ing in anv patriotic measure in con
nection with the present world"!
great war. Travelers and business
men fi\>:n the States all are unani
mous in saying Alaska has don<
more 111 percentage to populatior
than an.- State of possession of th<
I'nitcd states. Our percentage 01
Liberty Loans, our Red Cross work
our ourcnase of ^Var Saving's
Stamos, and our work in food con
servaticn has caused: favorable com
ment 'rem high government offi
cials, ai'i we ca-u safely say thai
Alaska leads in all these war mea.
eures.
Skagwav's municipal election wll
be held on Tuesday, April 2nd
Registration books will be openec
two weeks previous to the election
Poirics already ore beginning tc
be discussed about the city, and i'
is rumc-red that there will be sev
eral candidates for mayor. The
coining year, and those ta follow af
ter tha war, will be important for
Skagway. Business will again be
better, and tourists will flock to
I he nortbland. For that reason we
should have conservative and a.ble
men or our city council. Kvery
person old enough to vote in the
city shv uld register, and be re^kly
to cast his vote for good govern
ment.
Judging frv>m the actions of Ger
many^ army in Russia the signing
of a pe^ce treaty with the 'Bolshe
vik! w<?s » "Mere scrap of ^aper."
Perhaps Russia ■will regard it as
such also, and jcill institute a
guerilla warfare aginst the Ger
mans which will keep a large force
busy until a general peace is
formed. • ' ! 5 ? J
"Me und Gott" says the Kaiser.
We woi:der which of th? partners
was aslp?j on the job when Ameri
can troons yesterday jumped out of
a shell hole close to the German
lines uno das tied back to their
trenches without a shot being fired
at tfeem. _
"A Rich Man's
War"|
By HARVEY 0HIGG1NS
He had been drafted. He had been
refused exemption. He was a young
hack driver, v^th no one dependent on
him. But he was not eager to fight;
he had been reading The Masses.
"What 've I got to tight for?" he
argued. "It's a rich man's war."
It is. But not in the sense that he
meant.
As long as this country, at peace,
was supplying Europe with food and
munitions the rich man gained. The
munition makers drew enormous divl
deuts. The steel trust, the coal
trust, the meat trust, the railroad
and the shipping magnates charged all
that the war-time traffic would bear,
and had no war taxes to pay. It wa»
to their interest to keep this nation
out of the conflict In order to preserve
their gains. With our entrance upon
hostilities, the government obtained
the power to tax profits, to fix prices,
to control the food supply, to protect
the poor from exploitation and de
prive the rich of the fruits of ex
ploitation. That power has been
sought, for how many decades, in
times of peace, by how many social
reformers. The war won it. If It Is
a rich man's war. the rich have been
singularly deluded In procuring It
And. In the matter of the draft,
they have been equally blind. The first
conscriptiou act of our Civil war al
lowed the rich man to buy exemption
by payiug $300 for it. There Is no
such clause in the present law. In
the later day of the Civil war the
rich man could buy exemption by pay
ing a substitute to rake his place. He
cannot do so in this war. The only
exemptions allowed today are allowed
to the poor man who has dependents
or to the workers in the Industries and
professions that are necessary to the
life and efficiency of a modern nation
in war time.
It Is a rich man's war, therefore, in
the sense that the sons of the rich are
the most liable to die In It. It Is a
rich man's war In the sense that the
rich are chletly paying for It with
their lives, with their money, with
their time anil service, and with the
loss of their special privileges, while
the worklngman, the small farmer, the
producer, the productive laborer and
the poor are everywhere comparatively
exempt
For the first time In the history of
the world a war is being waged that
fails mosc heavily upon the classes
who, in times pas:, have most profited
by war.
In this country, as yet, the results
of that new aspect of the conflict are
not glaringly evident. But In Kngland
they arc so striking that they amount
to a revolution. There, It Is the poorer
classes that have gained in material
comfort, iu political power, in control
of their conditions . f life, in happiness
and In freedom, it is not merely that
wages have teen raised, that the cost
of living has beeu controlled, that the
people have taken over the direction
of the railroads, and of the coal mines,
and of the food supply, and of the
organized Industries of the nation. It
is not merely that the worklngman has
been given a larger place in the gov
ernment councils and the idle rich
man a smaller place—his income taxed
to the bone and his profit* reduced to
extinction. It Is. above all, thut In
dustry Itself has obtained a democratic
government of Its own, so that the
worklngman now sits with the em
ployer at the board of business man
agement and helps to make the rules
under which he works and to regulate
the conditions of his labor.
The relorms for which British
socialists have been struggling for 50
years have been obtained overnight.
A revolution that could not have been
effected in a century of peace has been
forced by three years of war. The
conditions which forwarded that revo
lution are the conditions that are so
rapidly advancing a similar revolution
here. Our socialists, who cry, "This
is a rich man's war; let the working
man oppose it." are as blind as those
socialists in Great Britain who^ orig
in:'l!y raised the same cry and similar
ly opposed their own advantage.
I We have already ootainea, in tnis
I enuiitry, measures of state socialism
l that looked'as fur away as the mlllen
| ium to our socialists three years ago.
We shall have to carry the still more
incredible reforms that have carried
in England if we are to defend our
selves as well as the English are de
fending themselves. We, too, shall
have to '\leruocratlze industry," as the
phrase is, if we expect our working
man to reinforce our battle line as
the British workingman has reln
j forced the British front. And not only
j that. After the war is over, our In
dustry and our commerce will not be
' rble to live in the same world as Brlt
I i^h Industry and commerce—to say
j nothing of the French and German—
I if our worklngman is not as loyal and
I satisfied and happy and efficient as
| theirs. Our revolution will have to
continue, because the life of the na
tion In peace, as in war, will depend
I upon continuing It.
A rich man's war! A war that has
: exterminated half the evils of oppres
sion of which the predatory rich have
I iieen accused! A war that has re
duced their power, curtailed their priv
ileges, confiscated their profits! A
I war that has made England, in three
i years, a radical democracy, not only
{.litlcalljr, but industrially! ,
FOOD FACTS
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All the blood, air the heroism, all
♦he munitions and ill the money in
the world will not win this war un
Jess our Soldiers, our Sjailore and
our fighting Associates are fed. They
will not he fed, this terrible sacri
fice of blood.1 and money will be in
vain, ami the cause of democracy
will defeated, unless EVERY
PERSON. IN EVERY HOME, EV
ERY DAY. guards the Nation's sup
ply of
WHEAT BEEP, PORK. FATS and
SUGAR.
Are YOU doing your share?
Erery particle of diminished) oon
eumpthxn by the American people
is cue particle more for the sol
diers, the men, the women, andj the
children of our Associates In. the
war. There is ft personal obligation |
upon every one of us toward, some
indir*.duiai abroad who will suffer
privation to the extent of our in
ditidua! negligence.
Rursia collapsed not because of
t-5« Gel-mans on. her bonders but
largo]> because of the failure to
organize and feed, her own citizens;
and tf aire to emerge victorious
from this war, we eaa not risk the
collapse of another of our asso
ciates in the wax from this same
cause. There is no waste of food
acress the water; there is the most
,dra«Mc reduction in consumption;
♦her* is actual privation among
woman and children; there is
starvation in Belgium.
The wheat we export from now
c-a will be the direct amount that
the people save out of their bread,
for we have shipped our surplus.
This means literally that everyone1
who pares & slice of bread' is giving
a slue of bread to our allies.
LET US REMEMBER That every
flag that flies opposite the Ger
man one is by proxy the American
flag, and that the armies fighting in
our defeiise under these flags can
not be maintained through this
winter unless there is food enough
for them and for their women and
children at home. There can only
be enough food if America provides
patriotic co-operation of all of us.
LET US REMEMBER That our
associates in the great world war
depend upon America for food as
they have never depended before,
and they ask us for it with a right
which they have never had before.
Today they are our companions in
a great wsr for democracy, and
dying in our w«t, and will be
carrying this burden for months to!
oome. 1
Food administration must be has- j
ed upon self-sacrifice of somebody I
somewhere; the vast majority of our,
people will accept it willingly and
with pride as a contributon that
they have made in the national
cause. Food saving is in its es
sence the daily Individual service of
a'- the people. Everj group can
substitute, and even the great ma
jority of thrifty people can save a
little—and this more luxurious ele
init Lts of the population can, by re
duction to simple living, save much.
This means no more than that we
should eat plenty, but wisely; and
without waste.
We thought Wre had gotten by the
stage where starvation could ensue
within civilisation, yet literally hun
dreds of thousands of persons have
starved to death la the| last three
years due to the world food short
age and other conditions brought
about by the war. i
A large part of the world is com
ing into the position that Belgium is
iu and nas been la; coming to the
stage where the prfmary and im
portant thing in life is enough food
to keep alive. ■
The food supply of the world Is
short and getting shorter. You can
not take eighteen million; men. out j
of production and) put them into !
destruction of human products and j
expect things to go oh as before.
There is no waste of food among
the A!Hc3. If you will read the
English food reports you will find
a woman was fined: $100 and jailed
for thirty dayis for throwing) away I
half a rice pudding; that a baker |
who threw away two pies was sent (
to prison for six months. i
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