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(TOMB, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1918.
DRAFT TO CATCH MEN 18 TO 62
SENATE BILL
QUADRUPLES
DRAFT LIMITS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 21.—
If a bill introduced in the United
States Senate today is enacted the
drag net of the Select Service Act
will be enlarged by thirty five
years.
Senator McCumber is the author
of the measure which will include
all men between the ages of eight
een and sixty two within the list
of military eligibles.
*n offering the measure l'or pass
age the Senator predicted that
such a measure would be necessary
before the war ended and might
just as well be enacted now as at a
later date. It is not indicated that
the intent :s tc. hold all the men
within the proposed eligible age for
military service at the front, or
that at any time will so large a
number bo necessary under arms
bu’. back or the soldier there must
be a sufficient number of industrial
workers.
In short it is plainly int;ndod to
thus solve the industrial troubles
and problems incident to the suc
cessful conduct of the war at one
full swoop. It is the plan of the
author of the measure to draft im
mediately a sufficient number of
men to All the gap's in the trans
portation industry, ship-building
under the government’s program,
the manufacture of munitions and
other purposes necessary to the con
duct of the war.
REVOLUTIONS
TO END WARS
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21.—What
is regarded hero as the mo3t sub
stantial tendency toward peace so
far In evidence is indicated In tele
graphic dspatchcs arriving from the
Austrian capital at Vienna.
An uprising of the Russian peo
plc definitely put an end to the
belligerency of the Russian govern
ment except upon an unqualified
defensive basis without deception
or political camouflage, or a dc
fenso to take place upon her
bordovs and for the purposo of re
sisting an actual territorial >n
vasion, or one not manipulated by
the seccrt diplomatic hugger
muggers upon motives inspired
by shadowy chauvinistic assump
tions.
That the Bolshoviki ferment is
slowly working its peace-dealing
leaven throughout even the Teu
tonic powers and undermining the
unreasoning war parties in the Cen
tral nations is regarded as indi
cated by the several mootings of
workingmen being held in Vienna
in which the government is plainly
told to its teeth that the w&r must
cad and pointing to their govern
ment that it may end upon the
adoption and acceptance of war
aims along tho lines indicated by
President Wilson’s peace speech,
and which had been accorded a
most welcome approval by the Rus
sian Bolshevlki. The resolutions
adopted by the Viennese working
men declare that should be accept
able to each and all of the nations
at war, and emphatically demand
ed a general peace.
let ns estimate on roar Job Work
DANIELS WANTS
NAVY DOUBLED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 21.—
Secretary of the Navy Josephus
M. Daniels is asking Congress to
double the authorised naval
strength of the American Navy
r.nd to increase the number of na
val aviators from three hundred
and fifty to ten thousand.
Secretary Daniels is claiming
that important demantis leing
made upon his department render
imperative an increase ir. the naval
strength from the present authoii
zation of eighty thousand men to
one hundred apd eighty thousand
men.
A sounding of Congressmen and
Senators by newspaper men reveals
a prevailing opinion adverse to
the naval secretary’s recoin menda*
tions although it i3 not doubted
but that some increases will be
made in the naval p.uuioriraticns.
Beyond its uoe as a convoy ser
vice for merchant shipping
throughout the sea lanes made
dangerous by enemy submarines
the needs of naval increases are
not considered as having been sub
stantiated by the exigencies of the
present war. The enemy navy with
the excepton of its extraordinary
under surface campaigns, has been
kept bottled up at home or kepi
so closely confined to German
waters as to render it negligible
as a war factor on any consider
able scale.
M’ADOO OPPOSES
GOV’T OWNERSHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 21.—
■ Secretary of tho Treasury McAdoo
appearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission today
stated that he was opposed to the
government ownership of railroads
as a permanent condition.
He stated however that he be
lieved that the old practices of
ruinous waste due to useless * (
competition wore gone never to re
turn. The Secretary who it will be1
recalled has in charge the opera
tion of the roads by the Federal
Government stated however that
ho confidently expected a continu
ance of railroad control by the gov»
eminent might continue for years.
BERNE. Jan. 21.—News reaches
here from Budapest that the Hun
garian Prime Minister has deliver
ed an address in the Parliament
definitely announcing the adoption
of “no annexations, no indemni
ties” peace program originally
formulated and demanded by the
Russian Bolshevik! revolutionists
PRES. WILSON
MAKES CHARGE OF
TRUTH DISTORTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.—
In classical and exquisite English
befitting a former -Prexy of dear
old Princeton University, rather
than the short and ugly expletive
hissed through the dental port cul
lis of the Sachem of Sagamore Hill
near Oyrter Bay, the Presddent to
day gave a manifestation of the
purely human trait of getting
peevqd.
Incidentally he founded his
1P t ■*" Club and constituted Sen
ator Chamberlain as Number One
cn the charter membership role.
The Senator had made a spooch in
Now York last Saturday In which
he had talked multitudinously and
at meandering lengths. 'He had
busted the padlocklt that is sup
posed by administration heads to
be making every good patriot dumb
as a post, and had cut loose “some
thing dreadful”, about all of the
mismanagement of the war by the
administration and charging ineffi
ciency and inaction on the part of
the Federal Government.
President Wilson in his dainty
and quite elegant fashion says it’s
no such thing and that Senator
Chamberlain is “another”. His
precise words are that ‘he Sen
ator’s statements are “astonishing
and absolutely unjustifiable distor
tions of truth”.
The President says that the War
Department has performed a task
of unparallclled magnitude and
that the recent Senatorial investiga
tions have bean unduly meddlesome
and that nothing truly helpful or
likely to speed the real work of the
war could be expected to coma
from them. He further averred
that statements like Senator Cham
berlain’s show an ignorance of real
conditions and make it impossible
to attach importance to any obser
vations he may make. So there
now.
EMMA GOLDMAN
GETS RE-TRIAL
i
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21—
Emma Goldman, the celebrated
woman orator and writer who for
almost a quarter of a century has
occupied the spot light of American
publclty as the chief exponent in
this country of the philosophical,
ethical and economic doctrines of
Anarchism, is to be given a new
trial on the charge of having been
connected with a conspiracy to ob
struct the operation of the Select
Military Service act.
Her appeal to the United States
Supreme Court upon hearing some
tiir.e ago had resulted in an order
remandjrg tho case for a new trial
but the New York courts had re
fused to stay the execution of the
sentenco which had been imposed
against hor, presumably upon the
the ground that the Supreme Court
had directed a re-hearing only
upon the constitutional and legal
questions involved. Tho order is
sued by the court in her favor to
day however directs a stay of the
sentence against hor pending a re
trial of tho criminal features of her
case.
Involved In the same proceedings
with her from their beginning is
Alexander Berkman, her assistant,
and coadjutor, and Editor or.
"Mother Earth” a magazine owned
and published by her. The way is
opened now for the admission of
both them to bail which had
been fixed at $25,000.00 by the
New York court, and had been pro
vided.
Subscribe now for the Worker
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AUSTRIAN CABINET
UNDER RE-ORGANIZATION
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21—Further
news from the Austrian-capital
capital tends to emphasize the
| gravity, of the internal strife which
It is reported in dispatches today
that Count Czernin tho Austrian
Foreign Minister has resigned
and the Berlin Morning Post is
carrying a story of the dissolution
of the Austrian Cabinet, advices in
dacting its complete collapse.
and variously adopted by the
British Premier Lloyd George and
enunciated in Persident Wilson’s
peace speech.
| WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 21.—
A clash is impending between the
President and the sponsors for
tho War Cabinet bill, a measure
that is known to be extremely dis
tasteful to the Chief Executive.
T1IAXN HOI'S Lit PRODUCTION
AT THE DREAM TONIGHT.
“The Oval Diamond” a great
1 Tluinnhouser Mutual Masterpicture
Count Poggerburg, the former
Minister of the Interior has been
commissioned to form a new cabi
net and ministry.
Count Czernin had become a
convert to the idea of a more mo
derate than the Government so far
at least is willing td consider. It is
believed the Foreign Minister had
been able to realize the inevitable
trend toward the peace without
annexations or indemnities ideas
Do Luxe Edition featuring Barbara
Gilroy and Harris Gordon in the
leading roles is the star attraction
at the Dream tonight. The basic
theme of the exciting drama Is a
stolen gem. and there are more in
genious situations and exciting
thrills in this great detective photo
play than in any film play ever
produced. The story is faeinating
and the action sorapid that it has
you breathless from the very
start. Any person subject to afflic
tions of the heart Should keep
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but if you want thrills and tense
and was strongly displeased with
the actions of the German envoys
in the Brest-Litovsk conference
with Russian representatives,
whom he charges with having
wholly disregarded his wishes in
the negotiations with CUraima
which he says necessarily involves
the acquistion of a portion of Ga
licia.
Vou'll see it first in the Worker.
scenes dont fail to see it. Tomor
row night Helen Holmes in "The
Girl and tne Game”.
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$1.00 per hour.
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