THE ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
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CHAS. E. HERRON.
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WEED OUT THE DISLOYAL.
Newspapers on the outside now are laying great stress on
the presence in America of many foreign-born persons who,
while living in peace and security under the protection of our
government are not in sympathy with the prosecution of the
war, and in fact are a handicap to the nation in its efforts to
get concerted action from the people on all war measures.
The Times lias no accurate way of determining just how
numerous are these obstructionists on the outside, but is led
to believe that their number is comparatively small. However,
it is known that among the residents of Anchorage there are
persons who, while not allowing their beliefs to become public,
are thoroughly opposed to the prosecution of the war.
In most cases these persons are discreet in their utterances
and their disloyalty is proved more by what they don’t do than
by what they do. The Red (Toss drive uncovered many of
them and later the food conservation measure brought a few
more to light.
Some of the most flagrant cases are those of men drawing
money directly from the nation which they refuse to support in
its hour of trial, 'l'his has been a matter of public knowledge
for weeks and it is time some action was taken to sever these
men from the government payroll and replace them with men
who, at least, are loyal Americans.
There4 now art4 1,1 AO employes of tlit4 Alaskan Lngineering
commission in the Anchorage division. 'Phis small number en
gaged in active work indicates that there is no scarcity of labor
here, and the Times recommends that tilt4 contracts now held
by those not in sympathy with the4 government In4 cancelled and
let to men who have the4 welfare of the United States at heart.
This is no time to talk of efticiency and savings where it
affects the4 welfare of tin4 nation. Kven if tin4 men who replace
the disloyal element are not such good workers, there is the sat
isfaction to be had that the money they earn will be used right
fully. and if necessary placed at the disposal of tin4 best gov
ernment on earth.
It is time that the people of this community awakened to
the seriousness and meaning of the great war in which we are
engaged. There are only two kinds of people whom wo can
recognize now. those who are for and those who art4 against us.
Let every man declare by his actions and utterances hi- real
position, and then no time should be lost in putting our enemies,
both passive and active, wh to they belong.
LIKE RIP VAN WINKLE.
< hi Vilhjalmm Stefansson’s return to civilization after an ah
>onoe of four years, liis mental attitude toward world eondi
tions as lie finds tliem on liis return will lie similar to that of
3?ip Van Winkle when lie awoke from his slumber of twenty
years. When Kip went to sleep the world was at peace; so it
was when Stefansson sailed away for Polar regions. When Kip
awoke one of the "rent epochal wars in the history of tin* world
had been foil "'lit: and Stefau-son will return to find the world
plunged in the greatest war of all time.
The great explorer is a Scandinav ian. I’pon debatable
ground it is reasonable to assume that his sympathies are quite
as likely to be with < lermany as with (lermany "s mimuies. We
might eonelude that in nidi circumstances they would lit1 pro
Kerman. It would be interesting to know which wav they turn
as they develop from a disassociated view of a new world, a
world turned topsy-turvy by war.
As Stefansson returns to civilization his path leads him
where he may get the truth about < lermany, where he may know
ot the devilish vindietiveness of Prussian hate and may learn of
the havoc it has wrought in the world while he was away. As
sinning him Jo be a fair-minded man in his concept of interna
iional relations and believing him to Ik* oik* alive to tin* pres- j
creation of the humanities, what must be his amazement over
the transformation wrought by (lermany!
Stefansson left one world behind him. and will find another
on his return, lie left a world of peace, prosperitv and friend
bness, and he will return to a world torn with the bitterness
ot hate, bleeding and sick with war, suffering all manner of
misery and wretchedness where there was comfort and content.
We might fancy Stefansson as the man from Mars, in a posi
tion to render judgment upon the responsibility for this change,
liis will be among the most unique of human experiences, and
his judgment must be in accordance with tin* facts, for men of
his stamp do not disregard the facts.
Furthermore, it is our deliberate opinion that a girl who
knows how to hang a pearly tear on tin* end of a long, droop
ing eyelash can get anything she wants.
Trench warfare has done one good thing—it has made the
average man at home realize that he doesn’t know what hard
ship is.
Do not judge by appearances. The man with gravy on his
vpfit niiiv not ho anti Hoover.
WHERE THE FRUIT GROWS.
A politician who had been in office i
and on the payroll of a certain city for
many years was adressing a meeting
of his fellow citizens. It was a labor
meeting.
“You men must know,” spouted the
orator, “that you are the great body]
politic in this city. You are roots
and trunk of our great municipal tree,
while we who represent you in office
are merely branches on that magnifi
cent tree.”
“True for you!” piped a man in
the back of the hall. “But did ye
ever notice all the fruit grows on the
branches?”
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BEEN CARELESS
D. C. SARGENT, TERRITORIAL
EXPLOSIVE INSPECTOR, IS
SUES WARNING.
LICENSES NEEDED IN FUTURE.
Permits May be Obtained from Unit
ed States Commissioners and With
out Them No Purchases Can be
Made Anywhere.
D. C. Sargent, territorial inspector
of explosives for Alaska, who recent
ly arrived in Juneau from Washing
ton, D. C., in an interview in the Ju
neau Dispatch, is quoted as saying j
that the people on the Alaska coast j
have been too lax and careless in the ;
disposition of explosives since war j
was declared.
“This is particularly true of min
ing districts like the Juneau gold
belt,” said Mr. Sargent. “I have been
reliably informed that there are many
boxes of powder lying in old shafts
and abandoned tunnels in this district
and enough within a short distance of
Juneau to blow up the town and do
untold damage. An enemy of our na
tion finding old caches of this dyna
mite could cause thousands of dollars’
worth of damage and many deaths,
and there are those who will not hes
itate to take advantage of opportuni
ties so easily thrown in their way.
Officials to Co-Operate.
“My instructions are to secure the
co-operation of all government and
municipal officials, and from now on
it will be impossible for anyone with
out licenses to secure explosives of
any kind. Moreover, I am making a
special effort to check up all orders of
powder sold to prospectors and those
developing different properties, and
old tunnels, shafts and prospect holes
will be investigated for abandoned
explosives.”
Licenses to buy explosives will not
be issued to enemy aliens or to sub
jects of a country allied with an ene
my of the United States; or to a cor
poration, firm, or association where
its controlling stockholders or mem
bers are enemy aliens or subjects of a
country allied with an enemy of the
United States.
A license to buy explosives cannot
be transferred and may be used only
by the person to whom it is issued.
Age of Applicants.
Applicants for a vendor’s license,,
must be twenty-one years of age?
Applicants for a foreman’s license'
must also be twenty-one. The pur
chaser’s license may be issued to mi
nors, if the United States commis-,
sioner is convinced that such minor is
regularly employed in mining, agri
culture or other work requiring the
use of explosives, and that he is per
sonally qualified to use explosives.
Applicants have to appear in per
son before the licensor. A foreman j
who wishes to use explosives in his;
work for a company, or corporation,
must appear and have the license
made out in his name as foreman for
the company.
United States commissioners are
empowered to issue licenses.
$250,009 LOST IN
POWDER PLANT FIRE
ACCIDENTAL BLAZE OCCURS IN
DUPONT COMPANY’S MILL
IN DELAWARE.
WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 30.—
Fire late yesterday in the works at
Carney’s Foint of the Dupont Powder
company destroyed 500,000 pounds oi
powder, valued at $250,000.
The first started from accidental
cause. There was no loss of life.
TAKES PROSPECTING TRIP.
James Mulvihill, one of the pioneers
of Alaska and a well known mining
man, who has been making his home
at the Hotel Parsons for the past]
month, left this morning for a pros
pecting trip in the country contiguous
to the Kahlitna river and expects to
remain in this district until next fall.
TWO MILLION FRANCS
GIVEN TO BELGIUM
MONEY IS DONATED BY AMERI
CAN RED CROSS FOR RELIEF
OF WAR REFUGEES.
HAVRE, France, Jan. 29.—The Bel
gian government, which since the oc- ;
cupation of Belgium by German
troops, has made its headquarters in
Havre, was advised today that 2,000,-!
000 francs had been placed at its dis- j
posal by the American Red Cross so-!
ciety for the relief of Belgian re- i
fugees.
AMERICAN BOAT HITS
ROCK IN WAR ZONE
PATROL CRAFT WILL BE ABAND
ONED, BUT ALL MEMBERS
OF CREW ARE SAFE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—
An American patrol vessel during a
fog January 25 went fast on a rock in i
the waters of the European war zone,
according to a report received today
by the United States navy depart
ment.
None of the crew was lost or injur
ed. The vessel probably will be
abandoned.
GUARDSMEN WILL
STOP I.W.W. STRIKE
SUSPENSION OF WORK IN MIN
NESOTA LUMBER C A M P S
SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 1.
EVELETH, Minn., Jan. 28.—Fifty
Minnesota national guardsmen have
arrived at Eveleth to avert a possible
strike of lumbermen near here. Indus-1
trial Workers of the World are at
tempting to foment the strike.
Literature circulated here fixed
February 1 as the date for the begin
ning of the strike.
CENSUS TO BE TAKEN
OF LUMBER OUTPUT
QUESTION AI RES ARE SENT 30,000
SAWMILLS THROUGHOUT
UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—
By means of questionaires sent to 30,
000 sawmills throughout the country,
the United States forestry service
proposes to take census of the coun
try’s lumber production in the year
1917.
The questionaires ask regarding the
amount and kind of lumber cut, and
request prompt replies.
SUBMARINE SINKS
AMERICAN VESSEL
TWO LIVES LOST WHEN CON
VERTED GERMAN SHIP IS
SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN.
AN ATLANTIC TORT, Jan. 25.—
The American steamship Owasco, for
merly the German liner Allemannia,
which was seized when America en
tered the war, was submarined in the
Mediterranean sea. Two of her crew
were lost.
TROOPS AFFILIATE
WIIE WORKINGMEN
LABORERS AM) SOLDIERS FORM
ORGANIZATIONS IN VIENNA
AND BUDAPEST.
LONDON, Jan. 28.—The maximil
ist newspapers in Petrograd report
that peace demonstrations are tak
ing place in Austria and Hungary.
Workmen and soldiers’ organizations
are being formed in Vienna and Buda
pest.
THE TURK AND THE CRESCENT.
The crescent was not originally the
emblem of the Turk. It was first used
by the primitive Christians of Con
stantinople and the eastern provinces
of the old Roman empire as an em
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HOCKEY SKATES, ASH AND PINE SKIIS.
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blem of the growing influence of
Christianity. It was not until about
the year 1453, after the Turks had ov
errun Asia Minor and part of southern
Europe and had captured Constanti- j
nople, that the Turks adopted the'
crescent as their native emblem. The
Koran prohibits the use of images and
symbols in the religious ceremonies of
the strict Turks or the internal decor
ation of the temples and the mosques,
the rule being so strict as not to allow
the martial or civic decoration of the
greatest generals or pashas, success
ful commanders or other distinguished
persons. The adoption of the crescent
by the Turk as a national emblem is;
an oddity which has so far remained
unexplained.—Philadelphia Press.
VERDI INSTEAD OF JOSEPH.
Some years ago one of the members
of the Trieste council was informed by j
a secret agent that, within a few
hours the city would be faced by a de-.
mand on the part of Austria for the :
erection of a statue of Emperor Fran
cis Joseph in its principal square. A
meeting of the city council was imme
diately called. It sat during the night
hours, and passed a resolution affirm
ing the intention of the city to put up
a statue to Verdi on the very spot
chosen by the hereditary enemy. On
the following morning the demand of
Austria was received, but the council
replied that their decision was already j
taken, and that it could not be re-1
voked. The people of Trieste see in!
the statue of the gerat Italian com- j
poser , observes a correspondent, a
symbol of Irredentism, not only be
cause of Verdi’s nationality, but be
cause the five letters of the name j
Verdi stand for “Viva el Re d’ Italia.”
POLITELY SEARCHED.
A well dressed man leaving a Wash
ington theatre recently, absorbed in
reflection on the performance he had,
just witnessed, noticed a crowd of
theatregoers lingering at the en
trance. The W. D. M. did not flatter
himself that he was the center of at-!
traction, although he had been some
what prominent in his home town,!
and, glancing backward, saw a party
leaving the theatre, of which the
president was the center. This was
the cause of all the commotion. At
this juncture the W. D. M. lost his!
equilibrium, stumbled and fell in a
heap in the president’s path. An alert
corps of ever present secret service
men, instantly on the job, lifted the
prostrate W. D. M. to his feet and
courteously brushed him off, handing
him his hat, cane and glasses. The
W. D. M. later confessed to friends
that he had a faint suspicion that in
the brushing process he had been sys
tematically and incidently “frisked”
for concealed weapons. — Indianapolis
News.
AMERICAN TROOPS
KILL MEXICANS
PATROLS OF TWO COUNTRIES
GUARDING BOUNDARY EX
CHANGE SHOTS AT NIGHT.
JUAREZ, Mexico, Jan. 26.—Two
Mexican soldiers were killed last
night in an exchange of shots be
tween American and Mexican patrols
guarding the international boundary.
The American soldiers are said to
have fired the first shots.
VILLAGES ERECTED ON PILES.
Tree Trunks for Foundation.
The most interesting of the earlier
habitations of man are the curious
lake dwellings of the age of bronze,
notes a co. respondent. These were
usually built on piles sunk into the
bottom of a lake, some distance from
the shore. Large trees were felled,
the trunks of which were sharpened
on one end and driven into the mud
by mallets used in the hands of the
builders, who worked from a raft.
On these piles was built a platform,
sometimes of great extent. One of
the lake villages discovered in Lake
Constance contained 50,000 piles. It
formed a parallelogram 15,000 feet
long and 400 broad, and probably ac
commodated a settlement of several
hundred inhabitants.
After the platform had been put
down, the boards being fastened on
with pegs, and the whole strongly
knit together with clay, the builders
proceeded to put up their huts, which
were circular or rectangular in shape.
They were made of wattle work,
coated on both sides with clay, and *
were generally furnished with a
hearthstone and a hand-mill for
crushing grain.
The village was connected with the
shore by a long, narrow causeway, in
tersected by drawbridges.
CARE OF HARNESS LEATHER.
Harness leather cannot be neglected
without injury that lessens its dura
bility. It should be washed and oiled
frequently. The washing should be
done in tepid water with a neutral
soap and a sponge or stiff brush. Aft
er rinsing' in clean tepid water the
harness is hung up to drain a little
while before oiling.
For driving harness neatsfot or cas
tor oil is best, but for heavy harness J
there may be some tallow in the oil.
The applications should be light tor
driving and liberal for heavy harness.
The oil, warm to the hand, is rubbed
thoroughly into the leather while it is
still wet from the washing. Excess
oil which the leather is unable to take T
up should be removed with a clean,
dry cloth.—New York Sun.