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i EDITORIAL j
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STOP, LOOK, READ, LISTEN!
As ? number of the Business
nouses have declared their inten
tion o' closing their respective plac
*■» of btisines tomorrow in order to
allow their employes to attend the
Alpine clul> Red Cross benefit ex
cursion thtre will be no edition of
this oaper as the Alaskan force is
uoing to tak* a holiday. In order
to uiaKe up for tne loss of the
news ;onK>rrow, four pages are
' nted today, and to partially com
pf-u^ate for the loss tomorrow, we
i r, printing exceptionally hearten
ing; news today from the front.
If there are anv very startling
or imoortant cablegrams tomorrow
t ney wiil be posted on th© Daily
Alaskan bulletin window.
ROOSEVELT'S STATUS
Tneodore Roosevelt's refusal to
run for governor of New York is
lestlv the part of wisdom. His
usefulness is national, not local. The
Empire state. everlastingly in a
political row, has no real problems
anding his services. He. doubt"
i' ss. e>~isier thany «ny other Repub
lican, could efface Whitman and thus
ratify the party stalwarts led by
William Barnes, Roosevelt's implar
able foe of other diys ; but bigger
ti gs than political rivalry or any
man's effacement command the re
sident's attention and engage his
talents in this crisu.
If sedition ran rampant and the
commonwealth's support of the gov
ernment were in question, if a con
dition existed or » situation were
developing: that tended to endanger
the state's loyalty and give aid and
i»-iufort to the enemy, then undoubt
t*ii]y he would respond to the ca'l
of duty heroically and aggressively.
A cammandeering of his srevices
would not be required.
But New- York is not so threaten
ed. its steadfastness to flag and
country is beyond dispute. Any a
larmg on that 6core sounded at this
juncture are at best mere bugaboos
produced for politic*! effect. To al
low himself to bg diverted and dis
tracted by a campaign involving is
sues o' prohibition and woman suf
frage and the overthrow of Whit
man would be. the height of folly on
Roosevelt's part. H.'s vision is too
clear for such a mistake. He says:
"My work is for the men who are
fighting in this war. My mind
iiwells continually on the problems
of Phewar, on the international prob
lems of the peace which is to close
and justify the war and on the tre
mendous problems we shall face af*
ter the war."
Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes
and other eminent statesmen, whose
sincerity is above and beyond ques
tion. joined in the round robin fa
voring Roosevelt for governor.
They deplore the fact that he is
out of public life. They would like
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BOXINd MOVES IN BAYONET CHAR(3t
shown by Champion benny Leonard
U-WiHTI-.v«n.»n..
' 'l
The close relation between boxing proficiency ami ability with the bayo- I
net was shown to the marines In training at the Mare Island barracks by j
Benny Leonard, world's champion light weight, recently. He showed them j
how the tricks employed to land a punch on an opponent serve equally well i
in Jabbing a Boche with a bayonet He is shown here illustrating the moves i
in a bayonet charge, while some of the marines go through the same action, j
1 part of them with gloves and the rest with guns.
to Bee him again at the bead of
the greatest state in tbo Union. But
these men cannot fail to »ee the
logic of the situation as he presents
it. His mind is upon problems of
war and the greats problems that
win come after the war. Hi? field
of usefulness is national and inter
national. Denied direct participatio*
in the war, but baring a. direct and
poignant part there in, certainly he
will bave a">part, and an Important
part, in the solution of th« tremen
dous problems when the war is won.
—SeatUe. P.-I.
COLLEGE GIRLS TAKE ODD
POSITIONS
Oregon college girls will pass
their vacations in war work, many
lines of which are novel. Two will
go into the mounains in forest pa
trol service, one has a position in a
lumber camp where she will act as
cook and domestic supervisor at
$90 a month, and members of the
Tre-Xtr, an organization of self
supporting girls, will enlist as an
agricultural unit.
"Tne Y. W. C. A., working with
the faculty committee, is planning
to make it possible for every wo
man student of the University of
Oregon to get into useful employ
ment during the summer,-' writes
Miss Mabel L. Cummings, chair
man of the women's war efflergency
committee. "A State survey is De*
'ng made and aa employment burea
under the Y. W. C. A. is organized.
Many clerical positions are open
Work in canning factories and box
factories, work on fruit ranches in
pruning, thinning, plckig, and pack
ing brings our young women wages
j often $2.30 to $3.50 a day. Do
mestic secretaries and caretakers
I are going out to have the care of
i children whose parents are away on
vacations and to perform other serv
jices.
"From time to time girls are
leaving to take responsible positions
as suostitutes for men in newspa
per offices. Gradm^es in physi
cal education are miking applica
tion tor service* -in reconstruction
work. Systematic and thorough Red
Cross work has been organized a
mong the women students through
the Women's League with the co
operation of the Y. W. C. A. 6ecre*
tary and the university faculty. The
Y. W. f!. A. bungalow has been
made ' Red Cross headquarters,
j Kach woman student was asked t°
sign for three defia'te hours a week
j for the making of surgical dress
ings. The number of dressings
turned out is sometime 2,000 a
week."
FURMITRE EXTORTS
DECREASE IX CHINA
"HiP'h freight rates Beem to have
told more seriously upon the ex
port o* mats and matting, sea grass
and rattan furniture," and similar
light Dulkv goods, than upon almost
any other iine of South China pro
ducts, Consul General George E.
Anderson reports. - "Commercial re
turns show a decrease In shipments
of rattan and rattan ware to the Ig
nited States and Canada from 16,419
packages in 1915 to 5,362 in 1916
and 3,105 in 1917."
To Cure a Cold la One Day
Tako LAXATlVS BROMO QUIN
1X3 Tablet*. Druggists j refund
money If It falls to cure. E. W.
GROVE'S signature la on eacb box.
30c. "Wed. „
MARRIUiE LICENSE
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FEES ARE REl>l'CED |
Marriago license fees in the U. S. |
Commissioners' courts in Alaska |
will I* reduced from $6.40 to $3 j
on October first, through the ef
forts c' the Presbytery of Alaska. j
This organization took dp this i
matter with the attorney general of !
the United States several weeks j
ago. After an Investigation the
order was issued reducing the fee in |
the office of the Alaska recorders.
Hence joy among those who expect
to marry tnis fall. However, in ther J
other judicial divisions outside of
the First the foe will bo $4.50.
Rev. David Waggoner, secretary
of the Presbytery, was largely in
strumental in securing a modera
tion of the fee cnarged. He was
Dacked by the Association in the ef
fort. Under the old system a di
vorced person was forced to pay an
additional fee over the $0.40. Also
persons under age were charged ad
ditional fees. Under tne new rul
ing these exhorbltant fees are elim
inated on October first. — Juneau
Empire. ,
ST. LOUIS CATHOLICS UNITE
IX LEAGUE FOR WAR WORK
The St. Louis Catholic Woman's
League, started 10 months ago, has
become one of the strongest organ
izations doing war work at home,
according to Walter G. llooke ,of
the National Catholic War Council.
Following the suggestion of Archi
blshoo Glennon, this league be
came affiliated with the Bed Cross
and Woman's Committee Council of
National Defense. The purpose of
the league was to unite all Catholic
women's organizations and all Cath
olic women into one body for most
.effective war and charitable work.
The service undertaken includes
Army camp work, camp hospitali
ties, making of hospital supplies
and surgical dreslngs, hospital vis
its, sale of Liberty Bonds and Thrift
Stamps and activities for the suc
cess of the Red Cross membership
drive tnd the patriotic food show.
The league has a food conserva
tion committee under the auspices
-at
tions are given and consrvatieon
classes conducted in Catholic
schools. This committee also investi
gates prices charged by grocers. The
league is now making plans for
work for the protection of young
girls. T hirteen outfits for chaplains
have been supplied by the league,
at a cost of $100 for each outfit,
and 16,890 religious articles have
been donated, including prayer
books, scapulars, rosaries, and
medals.
GIVE THE SOLDIERS
THE GLAD HAND
. "If you see an American soldier
in the train, make yourself his
friend," advises th© London Week
ly Dispatch. "He is already your
friend."
"If you see a lon«ly American sol
dier *n thp street prove that you
and he are of kin, allies again af
ter years of misunderstanding. You
know what hp is doing for civiliza
tion. But you do not always re
member that he has come from 3,*
000 to 7,000 miles to do it. He
might want a friend to talk to. ]
"Ours is th© home he went from.
Make him rememoer he has come
back tq it." '
The firm of W. A. Keller and
Ralph C. Dunning, who are operat
ing a sawmill near Seldovia 011
Kachimack Bay, Alaska, recently
reo.uested that they be advised by
the Commissioner of the General
Land Office If the Bhipplng of fish
in barrels made from timber legally
cut from the public lands of Alaska
would be considered a violation of
th« law prohibiting the export of
timber so cut. In other words, the
fishermen In that locality require
barrels for salmon and herring ship
ment, and while these barrels are
not eroorted as a manufactured pro
duct, they are sent out bo packed.
The Commissioner, in replying to
th© Inquiry of Keller and Dunning,
stated that during the past season
between six and sere a thousand bar
rels were used on Kachemack Bay
ilone for packing herring and many
more barrels are In demand now.
Heretofore these barrels have been
shipped to Alaska from Seattle at
i cost delivered of .12.25 each. Tne
millmen now contemplate going In
to the cooperage business to supply
the demand for barrels for fish ship*
ping nurposes, and the question a
rises as to the possible liability to
the Government for the timber.
The Commissioner in his decision!
states that:
"th» prohibition emoodied In the
Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat., 414)'
against the export of timber cut
from the public lands of Alaska
undoubtedly extends to the manu
factured product o< such timber (if
sold from that district as a manu
factured lumber product) but the
further orovision that 'such sales
shall at all times bo limited to
actual necessities for consumption
in the district' suggests that with
the manufacture of the timber into
barrels and their sale n the district
for a specific purpose, the require
ment or 'consumption in the dis
trict* is m«.i and their subsequent
use as a carrier for a commodity
lawfully exported is not a violation
<?f the law. The export is not of
barrels as such but hojlders or car
riers necessarily required in the ship
ment of fish. It would seem an
unreasonable restriction, to compel
the importation of barrels at a high
cost for the purpose stated."
The decision further states that
the Government will offer no objec
tion to the use of timber cut in ac
cordance with the rules and regula
tions as embodied In the circular ap
proved by the Secretary Of the In
terior uJly 19, 1916 (46 L. D., 260)
governing- sales of timber as provid- i
ed by tne Act of May 14, 189S (30
Stat., 43,4) for the manufacture of
barrels under the conditions stated.
The War Department authorizes
the following statement from the of
fice of the Surggeon General;
Many weU-intenttoned individuals
have offered to take crippled sol
diers into their servcie as watchmen,
messengers, and in positions of simi
lar character. While the spirit in
which these offers are made is ap
preciated, they conflict with the
policy o* the Medical Department of
the Army.
From the time a wounded sol
dier is taken to the field hospital
ho is encouraged to understand that
the seriousness of his wounds will
not render him worthless for use
ful work. The work of reconstruct
ing him both physically and rfien
tally is carried on simultaneously,
At the present time there are
many Boldiers in the Army hospitals.
In this country who tiave teen crip-,
pled ir the course o' duty. In many
cases these men are receiving the
preliminary training- whifch will be
finished by civil boards authorized
to oontinue the work begun by the
Surgeon General. It is hoped that
business men in general will accept
these trained men on an equal foot
Ing with men who have not been
crippled. These men will receive a
training which will make them; com
petent In the trade or profession
which they elect to follow.
TAPS
"Fades the light"—the silvery notes
Wake the sleeping hills;
"Goeth day, cometh night"—
How the echo thrills'
"Love, good night!"—The old, old
fctory ,
Told in. notes of purest gold,
Still a sadness underlying
All the words so bravely told.
'Fare thee well," <t whispers Soft
ly—
Ligntly as the falling dew;
'Fare thee well, but wait, beloved—
"I'll come back to you!"
Seattle, r —Dorothy j, Otia. ;,
U. a. Food Administration.
Jist ez de buckwheat cake sot
flop over on hia face, Br'er Bacon
rln' dance 'roun' en say, sjzee:—
"One good tu'n desarves en nuth
er," sezee.—Meanln' dat ef de
eojer boye go en do de fightin* fer
■us de leas' we alia kin do la ter
sen' 'era all de wKeat—en eat
■buckwheat lnstid. Co'n meal, rye
en barley flour fer us will he'p a
lot too.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
j
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
Cor the Territory of Alaska at Skag
way in probate in the matter of
the estate fo S. H. Yeomans, exe
lutrix of the estate above stated
has filed in the above entitled court
her final account of the estate of
the said deceased, and the hearing
3t same hag been ilxed for Satur
day the 28th day of September,
1918 at two o'clock in the after
noon of said day at the court room
n the federal court house at Skag
svay, and ail persons having inter
sst in said estate are notified then
ind there to appear and file any
Jbjectiona they may have to said ac
sount and to show cause, if any the
have, why said final account should
not be allowed.
Mrs. Ella Mary Yeomans,
Administratrix.
Qated at Skagwsy, Alaska, this
27th day of July, 1918.
Strain Too Great
Hundreds of Skagway Readers Ftnd
Dally Toll a Burden.
The hustle and. worry or business
men, -
The hard, work and stooping. of
workmen, '* ''
The woman's housenold cares.
Often weaken the kidneys.
Backache, headache, dizziness.
Kidney troubles, urinary trouble#
—frequently follow.
Read the following and learn toe
way to find relief:
Mrs. J. C. Brown, 108 E. Thirty
fpurth fit., Tacoma, Wash., says:
"My health had Mwaya been fin®
until my kidneys went back on m«
some ten years ago. * At first I
didn't pay much attention- to tbe
trouble and finally I was so bad off
X could hardly go. Half of the time
I was 'h bed unable to do my houae*
work. Everytning I did to relieve
myself failed and I was just miser
able and discouraged. I was ad
vised to try Doaa's Kidney PlUs
but had got where I thought their*
was no nelp for me. Doan'sheiped1
me from the s'irt and two boxes re
moved the trouble. My good health
came back and I felt fin© ever since
Doan's cured me."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—'
get Doan's Kidney Pills—tne same
that Mrs. Brown had. Foster-Mil-'
burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
1918 A. G. Spaulding & Bros.
Championship Tennis ballf now to
stock at Keller Bros. Adv. tf.
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for the Eastman Kodak company,
have received a large shipment of
ail sizes of N. C. and Autographlo
Kodak film, and printing out pa*
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