LOYALTY PLEDGE
ASKED OF HEW
SGHOBL PUPIL
COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
DRAFTS FORM TO BE USED IN
ALASKA SCHOOLS.
SCHOLARS CAN HELP WIN WAR.
Teachers Are Requested to Set Aside
Specified Time Every Week When
Patriotic Ideas Should Be Instilled
in Children.
* LOYALTY PLEDGE.
* I, a pupil in the public school
* in Anchorage, Alaska, schools,
* being loyal to my country, the
* United States of America, and
* knowing that our soldiers and
* sailors, with their comrades,
* are at present fighting against
* those who would destroy liber
* ty in the world and overthrow
* our nation, do hereby pledge
* myself to the following in or
* der that 1 may assist in this
* great cause and help to make
* the world a better place for
* boys and girls of all nations:
* (1) 1 WILL BE LOYAL in
* word and deed to the govern
* ment of the United States of
* America and to the territory ot
* Alaska.
* (2) I WILL HELP MY
* PARENTS or those with whom
* 1 live to save wheat, meat, tats
* and sugar.
* (3) 1 WILL NOT WASTE
* FOOD or anything else which
* is useful to my country.
* (4) I WILL HELP TO
* SAVE SUGAR by eating not
* more than one-half as much
* candy as I have been eating.
* (5) I WILL BE CAREFUL
* OF MY SHOES AND CLOTH
* ING in order that they may be
* worn for as long as a time as
* possible.
* (6) 1 WILL PERFORM
* MY SCHOOL TASKS in such
* a way that I may be of real
* use to this, My Country, and to
* the world.
* Date, February 9, 1918.
* Pupil, JOHN DOE.
* Witness: RICHARD ROE,
* Teacher.
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All school children in Alaska will
be asked to sign a loyalty pledge, ac
cording to advices received from L. I).
Henderson, territorial commissioner of
education, with headquarters at Ju
neau.
The territorial commissioner will
also request all shools to observe ev
ery week a loyalty hour in all the
class rooms.
In connection with the loyalty
pledge, the commissioner writes:
“The purpose of the pledge is to
set forth in a definite way a state
ment of loyalty to the United States
and to call to the minds of the chil
dren of the territory a few of the acts
which they can perform as a means
of assisting our nations in this time
of crisis. The teacher should read
the pledge in the presence of the pu
pils and thoroughly explain every
2iart of it.
Divided Into Six Partz.
“The pledge proper is divided into
six parts. This number might easily
have been increased but it was felt
that too much should not be contained
in a general pledge for pupils of all
grades. Parts 1 and (> will need to
he explained in greater detail than
the other sections because of the fact
that their meaning is more abstract.
Parts 2 to 5 inclusive are especially
designed as a means of enrolling the
children in the cause of the food ad
ministration and for the purpose of
inculcating ideals of thrift and na
tional service.
“In connection with the loyalty
pledge,” continues the commissioner,
• 1 am requesting that a weekly loyal
ty hour be. inaugurated in every
school room of the territory. The
term, hour, is used as a convenient ex
presssion of time. Certain rooms may
need but thirty minutes to carry out
the program arranged for a certain
week, while others may consume one
and one-half hours. In each case,
however, the term, loyalty hour, would
apply. The purpose of this loyalty
lour is two-fold:
(1) To provide a period in which
to discuss the things every pupil is
doing or may do along the line of ful
nlling the obligations assumed in this
loyalty pledge. ,
“(2) To give every teacher an op
portunity to ‘carry the message’ to the
pupils of her room.
“The first named needs no explana- !
tion. It is felt that some such pro- j
cedure will serve to keep the subject;
of the pledge before the mind of the j
pupils and that they will take an in- j
cerest in discussing what they are do- >
mg or can do to help the cause in t
.heir homes and through them in this j
nation. The second purpose gives to '
.he teacher her supreme opportunity j
.o set before the pupils American j
ideals and to keep them informed, in |
so far as it is possible for them to be i
informed, on the issues of the hour, j
In times of great national crises, there I
is much misinformation abroad in the !
land. This is circulated at times ma- j
iiciously by those who are not in i
sympathy with American ideals or!
who are misinformed as to what Am
erican ideals really are.
“At other times, misinformation is
circulated by well-meaning individu
als who form their conclusions in a
matter as a result of very little
thought, or after having obtained but
a small part of the real information
relating to the particular incident
which they are discussing. Still an
other class of people do very little
reading for themselves and rely al
aost entirely on the information
■’.rich they can gather from the two
illst-named as a guide in forming
.heir opinions on an issue.
“The schools of Alaska no doubt en
roll pupils who come from homes rep
resenting all three classes of individ
uals referred to in the preceding par
agraph. The tactful teacher can cor
rect much of the misinformation which
.he pupil possesses without destroy
ing his confidence in his home. This
nvoIves Tfo great amount of labor. A
careful reading of a few magazines
vi 11 provide most of the information
needed.
“Hut it is not upon the teacher
alone that the task of ‘carrying the
message’ should fail. The average
Alaska community contains many in
dividuals who would be willing to de
vote a few minutes from time to time
o this work and appear before the
school and discuss some topic for the
n formation and inspiration of the pu
■ -iIs. The loyalty hour will thus be
nade not only a school but also a com
munity affair.
“It is suggested that some regular
weekly period be set aside for this
work and that the period be placed
that the pupils may be in physical
and mental state necessary to derive
the most benefit from it. The last
hour of the day on Friday would, to
my min'd be a very undesirable hour,
as also would the last hour before
noon or evening dismissal on any day
of the week.”
WAR STAMPS ARE
GIVEN AS TIPS
EL PASO, Feb. 1).—War stamps
instead of change are being used here
for tipping waiters, boll boys and ser
vants. The idea originated with A. P.
Coles, general chairman of the war
stamp campaign committee. Instead
of leaving a tip at his plate after he
finished his meal in a public restau
rant or hotel, Mr. Coles started the
custom of affixing a 25 cent thrift
stamp to a thrift card and leaving it
beside his plate. The plan has been
taken up here and many of the ser
vants, waiters and waitresse in the lo
cal hotels and restaurants have Idled
the thrift cards and have started war
savings certificates with their stamp
tips.
REVISED.
“Did he tell you all the bright
things his youngsters have been say
ing?”
“Yes.”
“What did you say?”
“I told him children should be seen
and not heard from.” — Detroit Free
Press.
HARRY A. WURZBACHER VISIT
ED LONDON’S HISTORIC PLA
CES ON WAY TO WAR ZONE.
ROUGH TRIP ACROSS CHANNEL
Young Soldier Tells How Anxious He
and His Comrades Are to Receive
Letters from Relatives and Friends
at Home.
From “Somewhere in France” Har
ry A. Wurzbacher, a well-known Alas
ka boy has written a letter to a friend
in Seward. Mr. Wurzbacher is with
the eighteenth regiment engineers
railway corps. He went to Seattle
last summer and enlisted in the regi
ment of engineers expecting that
corps would be the first to go to
France, and it was.
At the time of writing, the trooper
said he had, for the most part of the
time, been working around the hospi
tal bases. “But we are going out to
the real front soon,” he added.
“The boys are all glad to get into
the front trenches and anxious to get
into the fighting,” the letter says, as
printed in the Seward Gateway. ‘1
am wondering what the Alaska boys
are doing. 1 suppose that a large
number have already enlisting.
Many omen Workers.
‘‘There is not mu oh to write about
this country except that France has
borne the brunt of the fight. The
women here have fe/t the effect cf the
war badly. You will find women
cleaning the streets; women working
in the powder factories; women driv
ing delivery wagons and operating
the street cars.
“However, they don’t seem to mind
it in the least and they seem very
giad to see Uncle Sam’s boys here in
France.
“While in London, 1 should say near
London, I went to look the big city
over. 1 took in Westminister Abbey,
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London bridge,
London tower and several other his
toric places.
“We had a good voyage across the
Atlantic and my sea trips to Alaska
served me in good stead for I was not
sick a bit coining over the Atlantic.
We did not even sight any submarines
for 1 suppose the stormy weather pre
vented their operating. The night wc
came across the English channel it
was fraightfully rough and very few
of us got any sleep. There was a big
mob on our steamer which was about
the size of the Alaska steamer Dol
phin. It believe that there were fully
1000 of us on the boat so you can im
agine what we were up against when it
came to sleeping. One could not walk
around for many were lying on the
decks any old place to try to sleep.
Waves Break Over Bow.
“The wind was blowing about forty
miles an hour and we had not been
out in the channel every long when
the waves began breaking over the
bow of the steamer. You would ap
preciate the joke if you could have
seen scores of fellows after the first
wave broke over the boat. They were
simply soaked as were their blankets
which they had strapped to their
backs. Those on deck tried to go be
low and believe me there was a large
number seasick and so sick that they
did not even take time to go to the
port holes. Finally, I became so tired
and sleepy that I put on a slicker and
went out on the bow of the boat under
a half deck. Thefe was plenty of
room there but as the boat was not
riding the waves but plowing right
through, I turned right about face and
ducked as I could not find an anchor. 1
started down stairs, slipped and went
sliding over a bunch of poor sick fel
lows and finally brought out opposite
the engine room door. There was a
space about two feet square and 1
sank down in a heap ''and went tc
sleep. The boat was a big side wheel
er and making about eighteen knots
an hour.
Water in Passage Way.
“Suddenly I awoke and found ray
! self being washed along the passage
way. The water had come in from the
paddle house and I was in it. I was
so tired that I went right to sleep and
when I finally awoke in the morning
we were at a French port. All men
were soaked to their skins, but we
were so glad to get safely across the
channel and on land .again that we
hurried off tfre boat and boarded a
train and were whirled away. The
train was nothing but box cars about
half the size of ours in the states, but
they were better than the boat. We
were aboard that train two nights and
a day. We finally landed at our camp
and have been here since. I would not
have missed all of the adventures I
| have had so far for anything.
As to Length of War.
“The French seem to have the Huns
on the run now and we don’t look Tor
! the war to last longer than a year, but
j one can never tell,
j “The kaiser has placed a price on
! the heads of Americans, so we have
| been informed so you may rest as
I sured that the American boys will do
i some scrapping before they are
i caught.
“I want to ask you and everybody
| else to write, write everything that
| has happened for I am crazy about
news from home, the same as the
other boys. If any mail comes and 1
: don’t draw mine—well I can’t express
how badly I will feel. This is the same
; way with all of the boys. We want to
' hear from home—home. One here
practically lives from mail to mail
Tell everybody not to wait to hear
j from us on this side but to write us.
i We may be in the thick of the fight
! or hard at work at military duties.
: But don’t forget to write.”
FEDERAL OFFICE AT JUNEAU
SENDS NAMES OF THOSE THAT
HAVE NEGLECTED ENTRY.
MANY LIVE IN ANCHORAGE*!
Notice Is Given That Applications
Should Be Forwarded Without Fur
ther Delay, Unless Rights Are to
Be Forfeited.
Notice lias been received here by
I the land and industrial department
i of the Alaskan Engineering com mis
! sion from the United States land of
fice at Juneau giving the names of a
I number of persons who have failed to
i make formal application for land in
the C’hugach national forest that have
been listed in their names.
These persons are J. A. Spenard,
Agnes Simonson, Axel Hirvela. Shir
ley I). Rice, Joe Goodin, O. L. Keise
tcr, S. Weback, Swante Kyllonen,
Mads Solsness, George Reiman Con
away, Anton Carlson, James Patched,
Carl Larson, Theophiel Eeraerts, A1
Samuel, George De Lion, William C.
Cunningham, I). A. Francisco, Ed.
Stone. Oskar C. Gohr-Anson, James
Johnson, Frank Bakkalin, all of An
chorage; Janies McDonald and Eg
nor T. Casey, of Ship creek, A. Chis
holm, of Sheep creek, and Ray G.
Shale, of Spokane.
The notice from the federal land of
fice savs:
“The persons interested in the
lands should arrange to tile their ap
uHcations promptly in the United
States land office at Juneau.”
NOTED RUSSIAN WAS
IN SPANISH JAIL
LONDON, Fob. 7.—The Spanish \
newspapers have just discovered that i
Leon Trotsky, the Russian Bolshevik
leader, was under arrest, in Spain for
a short time in 1916. He reached
Spain from France in October of that
year but the police, having learned
that he was a “dangerous anarchist,”
arrested him at Vigo, took him to
Madrid and lodged him at the central
prison from November 4 to 13 pending
investigation. Subsequently, he was
released, but was requested to leave
the country. He then embarked at
Barcelona for the United States.
JOHNNY WELLS, AGED 9 YEARS,
MAKES PATRIOTIC SUGGES
TION TO TEACHER.
CLASS RESPONDS IMMEDIATELY
Miss F. Diereling Had Just Told
Children of Torpedoing of Trans
port and Had Explained Why
Troops Were Crossing Ocean.
“Miss Teacher, I think we ought to j
salute our flag/' said little Johnny
Wells, a lad 9 years old and a pupil in
the Anchorage public school, when his j
class was informed last Thursday |
morning that a transport carrying j
American troops had been sunk by a I
German submarine.
A few minutes after the receipt in j
Anchorage of the news of the sinking ;
of the transport an extra edition of
the Daily Times was on the streets
telling of the disaster. A copy of the
paper found its way into the public
school.
Miss F. Diereling, who is little
Johnny’s teacher, told her class of the
misfortune and explained to the little
boys and girls the reason why Amer
ican soldiers were crossing the At
lantic.
She was surprised and elated at lit
tle Johnny’s expression of patriotism,
immediately at the conclusion of her
brief talk.
No sooner had Johnny suggested
the saluting of the flag than all his
clasmates responded by rising to their
feet and standing at attention before
the flag.
DANIEL B. PATTERSON IS IN
MILITARY SERVICE AT CAMP
LEWIS NEAR TACOMA.
MANY ANIMALS FOR FRONT.
Veteran Alaskan, in Letter to A. C.
Craig, Says War Is Sole Subject of
Thought and Only Theme of Con
versation in States.
Inspecting- and buying horses for
the government at the military can
tonment at Camp Lewis, American
lake, near Tacoma, Wash., is the oc-1
cupation of Daniel B. Tatterson, pio
neer Alaskan, who last summer was
associated with A. C. Craig in the
contract for the laying of the cement
sidewalks on Fourth avenue in this
city.
Mr. Patterson left here in Novem
ber and immediately on his arrival in
Seattle offered his services to the
government. A letter which has just
been received from him by Mr. Craig
reads as follows:
“You probably wonder why I have
not written you before. The reason '
is I scarcely have had time.
“You know, before I went to An- 1
chorage last spring I had acted for j
the government in buying horses, and
when I left for the north I promised 1
to report for the same work again
when I should return to the states in j
the fall, if my services were needed.
“Accordingly, when I arrived from
Anchorage in Seattle, Saturday, No- !
vember 17, I called at the United ,
States army quartermaster’s office,
and was detailed forthwith to Camp
Lewis to inspect and buy horses. I
left Seattle for Camp Lewis the next
day, Sunday, November 18, and have
been there until today (January 17)..
I am now on a week’s leave of ab
sence and will spend it resting up at
my home in Arlington, Wash., near
Seattle.
“Thousands of hcrses and mules
have been bought at Camp Lewis and
shipped to the war front. There are
8,200 head of horses and mules at
the camp now, which will give you
some idea of the stock business han
dled.
“At first, I made use of a saddle
horse to cover the ground it was ne
cessary for me to cover in my work,
but lately I have had an automobile.
“At the camp there are about 35,
000 men. At one time the number
totaled 45,000. They are corning and
going every day.
“War is the sole subject of thought
and the only theme of conversation
in the states now."
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