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EDITORIAL
jv>u DOIEDUTE RELEASE
L-«piaiu Edward Tupuer, Nation-1
ai Organizer of the iiriusn Sea.- [
•uiiL's Laigu recently arrived on tha
■ilauretauia and hag couie to this
country tor the purpose of help
iu* campaign of the American
L>eiense S ecty to boycott German
ui->dfe goods. is now ou a lac*
tar <our throughout the country- un
der tbe auspices of the .Intense
occiety. H;s organization repre
sents eleven milliou pledged British
votes 'o a boycott on German made
goods. —
"The merchaut marine officers
au * members of the British Sea
mon's Union in September
c'aptaiu Tupper '"had agreed
mi to salute the German flag, not
to employ Germans on ships and
no- to touch or unload a cargo of
German goods£or a period of 2 j-ears
and that ti»3 boycott be extended
ol» month 'or every- atrocity the
C'eruians committed on the seas
from then on. The boycott now e\"
tccds tor seven years and over 17,*
ouo seamen have been murdered by
the U-boat commanders. These sea
men have not been killed iu fair
combat out the murders have taken
place when the men have been in
their small life boats. I have com®
*me I'niitd States to bring before
the American people the facts of
unresiricted U-boat warfare and the
dastardly outrages and murders per
petrated uyon our men when in op
en boats.
The British seaman demand thS
deoortatiou ironi Great Britain of
all German? which. the British Gov
ernment have recently stated they
•will do. The Se>amens Org^aizatio
ha a al^o challenged all caadidates
a' present parliament re-elec
tioa in Great Britaia that unless
they sign the boycott pledge, their
•seat would' be contested.
We demand that the Raiser be
handed over to an international tri
bunal, wether 'with his comrades
in crime. There is no hatred in our
hearts, as ha'red i.s akin to lear
and the Allied seamen have never
showed' fear out we do demand 1"*
tic* and reparation .
The Vnited States does not under
stand the true horror of the subma
rine warfare, but I feel confident
th»t when the truth becomes known
the American people will demand
the same reparation and justice that
is demanded Dy the people of Great
Britain.
The Seamen's boycott has extend
ed considerably, the French, Nor*
"we?ian and Danish have declared
theif loyal co-operation. I am
sur# that the American people will
stand back •••■* the American Defense
6oclety in its work a<nd the au
diences l have addressed nave
shewn that they -will not help Ger
many regain the world's trade by
Duyin* her goods.
When l came over on the Maup
ettuia. the first ship to com« back
with American soldiers, all the
nun oA j^lh&d in a resolu
tion thafc t^ey would not buy Ger
man jbWjq goods for seven years.
B^'.nd America jjy Refusing To
Buy German .Hade Goods
REASONS
To protect American labor from
j , the competition of Gorman cheap
f lacor, bo what our returning sol
| Uiers will not walk the streets
looking for jobs while our stores
ara ttood-ed with German goods,
[i. To protect our manufacturers by
following the principle laid
down by Lloyd George When he
I said: "We will permit no unfair
[ competition, of the selling of Ger*
aun goods, below the actual cost
! or production."
X. For self-defense. No sign ol
j repentance or change of heart ha9
come from Germany. Enduring
a a'ili'ary defeat, Germany turns
to economiq war for world domin
ation. The date of Germany'6
* next war" on the world depends
I only upon her economic strength.
As long as an Allied boycott keeps
Germany weak, she cannot go to
war.
4. To keep out German espionage
which is promoted' by Germans in
foreign trfide. >
5 lo keep out German propoganda
which i» in large part financed by
German firms in foreign trade.
■ 6 To show our loathing for the
criminal* of Germany and our re
| pulsion for their blood-gtained
gcods.
AMERICAN DEFENSE SOCIETY,
RICHARD M. KURD,
Chairman, No German Goods Com.
PLEDGE
I " ledge myself for — •—
(Period of time).
no« to buy Oerman goods.
Name „ ... „ „ M
Address ..
IS it TOO MUCH?
9orae people use the wrong end
o* their mental spy-glass in look
l inv at the misery and suffering In
Europe, so that the hungry people
"Ver there seem as remote and as
u*reaj as the Lilliputians looked to
Gulliver.
tat, if some of these starving
mothers, hungry little children, and
tir<>d -war-weary fathers of Europe
could come orer here they would
not even have to ask u$ for food.
There is hanfjy a. woman in Amerio
but who oa Meting them, would not
take as many as she could home
with her and give them such a
i meal .is they had not had for four
lone weary y«jars of war.
There wonld be chicken, or per
haps a juicy roast with rich brown
zr?vy, creamy mashed potatoes, peas
an? corn canned from your own gar
den. • fruV salad made as only you
knew how to make it, and last of
all. Just to hear the "Ohs" and
"Ahs" of the children and see their
*yes ghine, you would bring in a
chocolate layer-oake with frosting
"thick ag candw."
Ton would feed these people not
once, but many times. As often,
In fact, as you had any food to give
them. You would count the cost
neither in labor nor money. You
would do it because you are a
human being and a woman.
Buj. all this is, of course, Im
possible. You cannot see the starv
ing people fo Europe, flocking your
streets. Ypu cannot take some of
them home and feed them at your
own table. Nor do they ask or
exnee* so much.
How much less is what they ask
of ycju in reality. Xo extra work in
actually preparing the food for them
o- serving them. Xo extra expense
to you. Xo giving of your food
until you yourself have none.
All that these 300,000,000 hun
gry people of Europe ask of you is
tilat for their sakes you will live
as simply as possible; that you will
not pat more than you really need,
and that no focd in your house
hold will be wasted.
I« this asking too much?
ALASKA CONSTABULARY
Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., in
ihi« recen* annual report to Secre
tary of the Interior Franklin JK.
L*ii0 recommended the estaWish
mcn* of a feder3! police organiza
tion.
Secretary Lane, in his yearly r®"
poit, included the following para
graph regarding police protection
[in Alaska.
"Outside of the incorporated
• owns there is fcut little police
nrotection except as afforded' *>y
various wardens and special em
ployes for the supprsesion of the
liquor traffic among the natives.
■ The marshal^ offices »re hemmed
around with restrictions concerning
expenditure for the detection of
i*'1; ,1, i •
crimes, tvhi.h m»ke$ it almost im
possible to prevent crime or to run
down lawbreakers after a crime
h^s been committed. A recommen
dation is made for the establish
ment or a federal constabulary to
enforce law and prevent crime."
responsible for deaths
(S. F. Daily Bulletin)
The worst of t'ie iufiuen2a epi
demic is probably over, and' oae
reason that it is nearing an end is
beeaus' the'majority of the people
-ro taking reasonable precautions
against its spread. * * * But the
mogf important factor of all is the
preservation of a brave front, thus
rendering one's self immune from
meatai suggestions of evil. If you
contract a had cold don't let it
.scare you into pneumonia. while
uot attempting to minimis^ the
gravity of the situation. The Bul
letin doeg not propose to frighten,
oeople in the manner its contempor
aries have adopted. Hereafter
you will see no alarming headlines
on our influenza news. It is ob
vious that every scare head an
nouncing "the terrible mortality"
from the prevailing malady will be
indirectly responsible for many
deaths. «
-\n exchange very pertineatly
suggests:—\Ve are proud of A"
merica's part in the Great victory,
out 1ft u<> never boast of it with
out remembering this fact; At u
terriole cost of life and treasure the
Allies clung to the throat of the
Be»st for four long, bloody, agoniz
ing years, sapping his strength as
wel" as their own—otherwise there
wou'd bave oeen no victory for us
|1 c gharg Ju.
THE FINGER OF SCORN
By J. 1>. Ellsworth
Trustee American Uefense Society
Who be you?
Yfcu radicals,
Yoa destructionists,
You Bolsheviki?
Who be you?
Y< u men of long hair
Ami long finger nails, ^
But ot little work.
Who oe you?
Wcmen of short hair,
O* shoit memories *
And suppressed desires.
Who be you?
Yoa street corner talkers,
You loosed tongued shouters,
Y.:u driblers of half thoughts.
Who be you?
Yju I. W. W.'s.
You avcider of work,
You haters of eternal logic.
Who be you?
You perverted parasites,
You buobles of the slums,
Yo»' flots in and jetsam of the
world.
Who be you? i
Cowardly treason mongers,
Fracticides of Russia,
Gunners at your crumBling nation.
Hurtling down the vast pyramid of
the centuries
You grope in the obscure sands of
a far distant past
And 'ind your prototypes.
Who are your prootytpas?
The Simian founders of the rcae,
The builders of the tower of Babel
Huus and Vandals, sloughed off in
th(. growth of social ord«r.
Becuase of you, is war;
Because of you, is famine and
disease;
Be<.aus» of you, the world must be
cleansed' oy fire
For tne renewal of mankind.
SUOOTKKS MAY TRAVEL
IN AN AIR JITNEY
Jt. Paul, Minn., Jan. 9.—Minne
sota's gaone lawg may have to be
amended to protect its ducks and
geese from a new menace, state
gflme wardens are considering a
suggestion that the legislature he
asked to pass a bill thi6 •w inter mak
ing it illegal to hunt feathered fowl
from airplanes,
Minnesota has turned out a great
many aviators. St. Paul and Min
neapolis have been gatering plac
es for student and expert flyers. It
is understood that 6ome of these
airmen who observed the flight of
ducks iate this autumn decided that
*li9 modern hunter will travel in an
air "bus."
Prom casual discusion the pos"
siaility of such bunting has caused
statewide attention. Game wardens
believe that d'ucks and geese could
ba slaughtered by aviators. There
fore, there is a possibility that the
state legislature will forestall pucli
hunting.
OUR 1 FIGHTERS
PLAY A FAIR GAME
AViATOR F. P. MAGOUN RELATES
AN INSTANCE OF THEIR REAL.
SPORTSMANSHIP.
ONE FLYER'S LUCKY ESCAPE
AmeHcan Infantryman Has Advantage
Over the German in His Ammunition
Equipment—Finger Prints of Ger
man Allen Females to Be Taken.
(From Committee on Public Information 1
Washington.—A committee on public
Information representative In London
says:
There are no better sportsmen In the
world than the allied airmen, and
American aviators now fighting In Eu
rope always play a fair gatiitv, ns they
learn it from the allies. P P. Ma
goun, a former Harvard student, now
a member of the Royal air force, re
cently wounded, tells how the lives of
Oerman observers escaping from bnl
loons have been spared.
"We caught three Hun balloons
abgve the allied grounds In a mist,
which prevented their gunners seeing
us," said he. "It was a clncli. You
should have seen them hustle out their
parachutes and abandon the balloons.
As they came falling down through
the air we circled about closely but, of
course, didn't open fire, as that's
against the rules of the game. As
»oon as they touched ground they took
cov»r like rnhhlts "
Magoun is the only American in his
squadron, having Joined In February of
hut year. He has bagged five German
planea. While carrying bombs for low
attack In the recent offensive he re
ceived a bullet through his left arm,
but managed to return to his own
lines. Magoun tells of a companion
in his squadron who had one of the
luckiest escapes during the war. He
was put out of action 1,000 feet in the
air when a bullet perforated his gaso
line tank. He was rendered uncon
scious by the fumes and his mnchine
took a nose dive to earth, but he es
caped without a scratch.
A section of the Koyal air force op
erating in the Ypres salient has lost
Its only American member, who had
been with the squadron only ten days
when he went on a bombing raid at
low elevation, lie was hit by a uia
chlne-gun bullet and his plane fell In
flames. lie was taken prisoner.
The efforts of newspapers to pro
mote good feeling between the people
of England and the thousands of Amer
icans received official backing when
Sir Randolf Baker, member of parlia
ment offered to take charge of the
American troops welfare department
of the British government. His plans
contemplate a continuous program of
healthful recreation In every Ameri
can rest camp and li-alning camp in
England. Special London theatrical
companies will be sent out. An or
ganization known as "Sammy's Blighty
league" is being formed.
The American infantryman in the
expeditionary forces carries 200 rounds
of ammunition In the pockets of his
light canvas webb belt and his bando
leers. The German soldier has only
120 rounds, and 30 of these are In his
knapsack. To secure them at a critical
moment he must lose valuable time.
The American webb belts, according
to the war department, are far su
perior to the German leather bando
leers. They are not affected by pro
longed rains nor torrid weather. The
■manufacture of these belts is one of
the most Intricate of the operations In
the textile Held. Cnlted States army
belts are made almost entirely of cot
ton.
The exact weight of the 220 rounds
earrled by the American soldier in
France is 12 pounds. With the Spring
field rifle 23 aimed shots can be tired
efccb minute. Firing from the hip 40
shots can be tired a minute. The new
United States model 1017 (moditied
Enfield) does even better.
The registration of German plien
females, to begin Monday, .Tune 17,
and end Wednesday, June 20, will be
sonducted in cities or municipalities
having 5,000 population or over by the
police officials. In communities hav
ing a population of less than 5,000 the
registration will be handled by post
masters.
In general the plan of registration
Is the same as that followed in the
registration in February of German
alien males. Each person who must
register will be required to register
her finger prints. This method of
identification is also used In the mili
tary and naval services of the United
States. . >
Boy scout organizations are actlTe
In locating black walnut trees. Black
walnut lumber Is needed by the war
department for use In making air
plane proDellers and eunstocks.
Enough heavy Browning machine
guns for Instruction purposes have
been shipped to every National Guard
training camp and National army
cantonment in the country where
iroops are In training. Heavy Brown
ings for overseas training have been
shipped.
Light Browning rifles sufficient In
number to equip the machine-gun
units of more than four army divisions
have been manufactured, and over
seas shipment of one half has begun.
The other half of the output goes to
,irmr division® 'n tb!« oonntrv
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