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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
abrahatn Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
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Nome. Alaska, December 8, 1015.
The military nature of the Boy
Scouts is now apparent to Ernesr.
Snton Thompson. When labor pa
pers with unerring accuracy of pe
netration of the real purpose of the
Scout Movement, declared that U
was militarism, almost every official
connected with the movement de
nied hotly and emphatically that
this was so. But the laborites per
sisted and today when milltaiism
has become pooular the leaders not
only admit it. but confess that they
glory in the fact that the Scouts
tarnish a military uncleus invalu
able to the establishment of an
army system in the country. rihey
admit that they cultivate the mili
tary ideal; they declare that they
trail} the youthful minds to glory in
war and what war stands for. at: •
that the youths so trained are ready
for service.
Labor organizations and labor paper
don’t love militarism. There is no
reason why they should. Militaristic
organizations have been used by
employing classes to bull doze strik
ers demanding better conditions ot
livelihood, and have been and are
without any doubt the strong and
potentially violent arm of capital
ism.
And It was for that reason thai
the taking of the youths of the na
tion and under an insidious guise,
instilling within their minds such a
poisonous ideal as militarism that
directly places man against man
and nation against nation, was a
is opposed by Labor Organiza
tions.
The great objection to militarism
is not so much in its use as its
abuse. None object to the militar
ism that intends to promote the de
fense of the country against un
warranted aggression; but whv.i
militarism is used for the purpose
of furthering the aggressive aims
of capitalism either at home or
abroad, as it almost always is, for
few will deny the economic origin
of all wars and the use of the mili
tia at home has been almost exclu
sively for the purpose of crushing
spirited efforts of the working
classes to better their condition
then,indeed, it is rightfully and
persistently denounced and opposed
by laborites.
Moreover, the i. . h as
sumes to instill an abstract love ot
militarism, which is war, in the
youthful mind, which affects an imi
tation of the ideals of militarism
uniform, casto or rank distinctions,
drill, discipline, and militaristic edu
cation iu any linos has been and is
vehemently and instinctively frown
ed upon by the working clasess.
This was recognized early in the
Boy Scout movement, and the offici
als of leading rank were at consid
erable pains to remove this idea
from the minds of the people so
ihat they could the more insidiously
carry out thoir plans to make the
youthful minds warlike and war
loving.
Now when the nation has been
brought to a stage when militarism
has become quite a popular cult,
those same insincere official,: throw
aside the mask, and admit the true
purpose of the Boy Scout move
ment.
Much can be said in favor’of mi
litary defense. It is almost a self
evident proposition that capitalistic
aggression iu one country will soon
er or later run afoult of capitalist!"
aggression in other countries, anl
the final tost of supremacy will be
by armies and navies. America
cannot hope to escape this any more
than any other country; this is espe
•eially painfully evident within the
past year. And it is to be admit
ted that since wars are possible and
probable under capitalism, the na
tion that is likely to be well pre
pared to fight is, as well as being
more likely to get into a fight, also
more likely to get out of the fight a
little better of the game.
We cannot see how this is to be
denied. But more important pre
mises are to be demanded in this
\
preparedness than the militarists!
ask for I
Preparedness does not consist i
merely in builoing up a great army
and a great navy which may seethe
with a discontent reflected from the
economic condition of the masses ot
the people.
The economic discontent which
the present system engenders will
have to be removed as the first call
of preparedness. There results
then a united nation, without
classes, which will be simply invul
nerable.
Militarists have pointed to China
as a tine example of the danger
from unpreparedness. But they
forget that China has lavished
enormous sums on forts, ships, arms
and ammunition just the same. But
the masses of the Chinese are sunk
in such poverty, outrageously mal
treated, robbed by a corrupt man
darin class, exploited by a corrupt
employing class for miserable wages
buffeted by every miserable econo
mic fortune, that the fate af China
and the glory of their flag are, to |
the vast masses of the people, mat
ters of sublime indifference. They
have nothing to fight for. They
have no reason to get prepared to
fight for anything.
The greatest of all preparedness
is economic justice and industrial
equality. Men will fight like demons
to support a free soil where a na
tion of ruined and rack rented lc
(Tants will declare let the devil tal e
the hindmost. What does the
leaded slave of the uninspected J
smelter care for his country when
his final portion is the Potter s
field? Why should the factory
worker who sees after another year
of slavery, the painful death from
an occupational disease acquired
toiling for another's profit care a '
whocp in Hades for any country?
Why shculd the man that stands
shivering in a breadline three or
four rao'.tin of the year and the
I’.r.r.’.e 1. cold .".t, blsaku t mentis ai
that, flgl.t for di.ytluiig except to
better !!'.• damnable condition that
throws him like a broken machine
on the junk pile? How can any na
tion hope to face a foe without
(when there is economic injustice
and industrial rottenness within?
I Would the driven and harried and
bull-dczed minors of Colorado con
sider that the properties cf their
despotic industrial masters we "3
worth defending? You cannot de
velop industrial slavery in any
j country and exp net the industrial
: slaves to fight lik; friemcn. it
I never has besn done and never will
be done though you try till Dccmt
duy. The independent and free and
untamed warriors of Scythia tri
umphed over the drilled and season
ed but slavishly minded veterans of
Rome, and the Fail of the great em
pire was due not to any degeneracy
upon the part of the individual, but
the economic dry rot that set in
within the heart of the nation.
When the Roman legionaries felt
that their motto "Senate and the
People of Rome" meant that each
individual warrior was fighting for
their country’s well being, they
were unconquerable. When they
became merely the mercenaries of
the oppressors of an exploited po
pulace they were subdued by every
wild eyed but frce-souled barbar
ian.
Great wealth will not save the
nation although battleships invul
nerable were built by the score; the
riches of the land may be lavished
upon marching myriads but in time
they will melt away like the win
ter's snows before the summer sun
if right ideals of truth, freedom
and justice are not the keynote of
the national organization.
Great, immortal and true were
words of the great American poet
and philosopher who said:
"Not Gold, but only man. can make
A people great and strong-—
Men who for Truth and Honor’s
sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men, who build while others
sleep—
Who dare while othe fly—
They build a nations pni-.r.- deep
And lift- them to the sky.
The heroic period of every nation
is that period when something like
economic justice and economic as
well as political equality obtains.
No country, well said Lincoln,
can exist half slave and half free,
and it doesn’t matter what the par
ticular form of slavery may be
which establishes itself in our midst
whether men have to mentally, in
duotrially or politically succumb,
to the bonds of a controlling class,
just as long as they do succumb
they cannot struggle—they will net
struggle against the enemy.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Henry Norton. your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal
representatives.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has caused to be ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollais
each year for the years 1912, 1913,
1914 and 1915 on the Greenstone
Association a placer mining claim
situated on the right limit of Os
born Creek and recorded and more
fully described at page 373 in Vol.
184 of the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording Dis
trict, in the Second Division of the
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upon
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified
that if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JULIAN DREDGING COMPANY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 10, 1915.
Date of last publ., Feb. 9, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0140.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska,
as successor in interest of E. L.
West, who on the 30th day • o'f
July, 1907, filed in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed in this office his application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobulc Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
453, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face ot
bluff on shore of the Arctic Ocean;
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face; thence South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; tlienco West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, ‘dentieal with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surface for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of :ame; thence North, Var
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 eli3.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 2 8x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.
W. on N. face, with stone mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 4 0 chs to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning; containing an
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office c. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Offico.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Pcb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT NO. 0364.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915.
Notice Is hereby given that Frank
Dolan, a citizen of the United
States, over the age of 21 years,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application be
fore the United States Land Office
at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for the Kathleen
Placer CjAim in the Cape Nome
Mining District, Alaska, being Min
eral Survey No. 1157; said claim
being more particularly described
in the field notes and plat of the
official survey thereof now on file
in said Land Office at Nome, Alas
ka, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. X, identi
cal with N. E. Cor. of location,
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No.
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in
mound of earth, scribed 2 478 B
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No.
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc.
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min
30 sec. E. 5467.50 ft. U. S. Geolog
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
663.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
mound of earth 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same; thence S.
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, chi.seled 3
1157 K, with cross (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with mound
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. hign
north side of same; thence N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
4, a schist rtono 24x12x0
ins. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with crors (x) cut '-n tcp for true
point with mound of earth 24 ins. 1
base 16 ins. high, north side of j
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min. i
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E) !
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, piece of
beginning, containing an area of )
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur- i
veyed ground on the divide between j
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulch. |
about 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from j
the town of Nome, in the Cape J
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska, i
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 45
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Long. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
survey fed, cn the Eas*, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cl liras, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date of last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
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CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local Union 1789, Carpenters and
olners of America, meets every Fri
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FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
if Labor, meets every Monday at
7:30 p. m. in the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
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I ng, Denver, Colorado.
’HAS.' MOYER. ERNEST MILLS, ;
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LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting of the Nome |
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No. j
240. of the W. F. of M., is held [
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at I
Minor’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
r.o 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
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