AMERICAN DEFENSE SOCIETY
ADVISES INTERNMENT OF
ENEMY SYMPATHIZERS.
OPPOSES GERMAN PAPERS.
Statement Is Made That United
States Should Declare Hostilities
Against Austria, Bulgaria and Tur
key.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—A platform
of eight planks designed as a con
structive program for the prosecution
of the war to a definite victory has
been adopted by the American De
fense society, it was announced today j
and will be submitted for discussion ;
and approval to the chambers of com- j
merce throughout the country and to
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States at Washington. The
purpose of the committee of the Am- j
erican Defense society which drew up j
the program is announced to be solid- j
ify the nation in the prosecution of j
the war. The proposals advocated by
the society in its war platform are:
That the administration at Wash
ington be urged to send an over
whelming foi’ce to France.
To intern alien enemies and enemy
sympathizers whose conduct imperils
or impedes the war.
To warn Germany that departures
by her from the rules of war will not
be tndured.
To forbid the publication of news- :
papers and magazines in the German !
language during the war.
Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey. !
That congress be asked at its next
session to declare that a state of war
exists with Austria. Bulgaria and
Turkey; to expel any disloyal mem
bers and to enact a law prohibiting
the issuance of new securities except •
by federal license.
It is recommended to “various au
thorities” that they forbid the com
pulsory study of German in the pub
lic schools.
In its preamble to the platform,
the American Defense society asserts
that it is “gratified at various steps
taken by the administration, congress
and throughout the nation on matters
bearing on the war against Germany
and her allies, and desiring that the
wTar be prosecuted to definite victory,
and the nation solidified to that end,
urges the foregoing steps.
The societ’s statement adds:
“Great Britain, with a population
of about 50,000,000, and France, with
a population of some 40,000,000, have
already contributed approximately 5,
000,000 and 6,000,000 men, respective
ly, and have borne the burden of the
struggle for more than three ears.
If America should send over even 10,
000,000 men from its population of
over 100,000,000, it would not, in our
judgment, be doing more than an
equivalent share. For America to
Oil VS UiU
also hasten Germany’s realization of j
the hopelessness of her cause and ma
terially shorten the war. The more
men we send the fewer will be slain, j
Insist on Civilized Warfare.
“The examples that Germany has I
given of the course which the doc
trine of military necessity has impel
led her to follow surely justify a
warning that departures by her from
the rules of warfare will not be en
dured, and if given we may look for
an adhering on her part to civilized
warfare. As it will protect our forces
in the field and our people both at
home and on the high seas, is it not
better to warn now than to be com
pelled to act later?*'
In advocating that congress declare
- a state of war exists with Austria,
Bulgaria and Turkey, the statement
says:
“Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey
have been practically absorbed for all
* warlike purposes by Germany. Their
active co-operation in war with Ger
many demands, we believe, such ac
tion on our part against them. Many
Austrians have been active in plots
against the United States. There is
not alone impropriety but also peril
in the continuation of Bulgaria’s em
bassy. It is intolerable that America
should not assume the fullest cham
pionship of the unhappy Armenians
against the butchers of their defense
less people.
In requesting that congress expel
any disloyal members the society
asks:
“Why send the nation’s youth to the
battlefield and at the same time per
mit any man to set, from the vantage
point of high position, back fires
which will bring death to increasing
thousands of our men by weakening
support from behind the lines and by
strengthening the enemy to renewed
endeavor?”
IS KEPT 0
IN H Z
ST
NE
AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN FOR
EIGN WATERS NEEDS LOTS OF
TYPE-SET MATTER.
SHOP LOCATED ON FLAGSHIP.
Man in Charge, Who Is a Member of j
Chicago Typographical Union, Has !
Rank of Chief Petty Officer and
Gets $70 Monthly.
BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN
BRITISH WATERS, Nov. 12.—The
flotilla printer is one of the busiest
Americans here. He is a native of
Chicago and holds a card in typo
graphical union No. 16 of that city.
“Skee’: from “Chi.” he is called by
the bluejackets who seem to have a
nickname for exerything.
“Skee” does not go to sea. He
works on board a vessel in this port.
From morning till night he is kept
busy on the avalanche of orders that
come rolling in for printed stuff for
the whole flotilla. Of late he has been
doing some work for the British na
val forces. His workroom resembles
a small jobbing office and is tucked
out of the way in the stern of the
flotilla flagship. It is fenced off with
warnings against intrusion. All type
is set by hand and printed on a small
hand press electrically operated.
The flotilla printer has made a hit
by the way in which he illustrates
the program he prints of the enter
tainment provided by the bluejackets
at their shore clubhouse, turning out
rough wood cuts for the cover of the
program. Last week he had a picture
of the clubhouse with sailors arriving
in limousines. Girls who are barred
from the clubhouse are frequently de
picted waiting in automobiles for the!
sailors to reappear. His latest at
tempt was an illustration of that part
of West Forty-third street, New
\ ork, known as Melody Lane to go
with the burlesque of that musical j
thoroughfare produced by the sail
ors.
xiic iiuuna punter is a ciiitM petty j
officer with the rating of a first-class
printer. With the increase in pay
made recently he gets $62 a month as
printer and to this must be added his
$50 a year allowance as a naval re
serve man which brings his monthly
stipend up to $70. Uncle Sam pays
his board and lodging. A satisfac
tory feature is that there is no com
posing room foreman to boss him.
He alone in the whole flotilla knows
his job.
FARMERS MAKE BIG
PROFIT FROM WAR
THIS YEAR’S CROP CLEARS TEX
AS RANCHERS OF THEIR
INDEBTEDNESS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.—
One of the most striking indications
of the prosperity of farmers as a re
sult of war prices, was brought to the
attention of the federal farm loan
board toady by a report from Hous
ton, Tex., stating that many farmers
had abandoned their plans to take fed
eral loans, as the proceeds of this
year’s crops are enough to pay off
their indebtedness on their farms.
Job printing at the Times office.
1 THE RANCH I
ALASKA FARM PRODUCTS.
“Anchorage, a city that did not exist three years ago, ha:
recently had the first of Alaska’s agricultural fairs, and stagec
a surprising exhibit of fann products,” says the Seattle Post
Intelligencer. ‘‘Enough was shown to indicate that the Mat
anuska and Susitna valleys, traversed by the government rail
way, are to be productive farm districts comparable to the fer
tile plains of Montana, the Dakotas and Washington.
“The principal products of the new districts are oats, bar
ley, some wheat, potatoes, turnips, cabbages and hardy sinal
grains. Enough potatoes were produced this year to supply lo
(*al demands and some for export. Anchorage merchants pa>
producers three cents per pound, and sell to consumers at fou]
cents per pound in sack lots. It is a great relief from forinei
conditions and an example of what is to come in the futun
when more of the valley farms are opened.
“Andrew Christensen, manager of the government’s lam
and industrial department, places the value of the farm yielt
of the Matanuska valley this season at $200,000. In potatoe:
alone the valley yielded 3,000 tons, and the turnip crop brough
300 tons. To aid the pioneer farmers in establishing market:
the government is sending twenty tons of Alaska turnips t<
the Seattle market; they are fine vegetables, beyond the usua
varieties in size and flavor.
“In view of the fact that the farming industry is but tw<
years old in the Matanuska district the showing is remarkable
and decidedly promising of what may be accomplished in tin
future. Such farmers as are clearing and cultivating the wil
derness commenced their work since the spring of last year
Since then 400 farmers have filed on the valley lands and an
now deriving their livelihood thereon. It is a record to attrac
the attention and interest of the ‘back east’ farmer who yearn:
for broader acres.”
RAISING HOGS IN ALASKA.
By long experience, men in Alaska
who are hunting for gold, (not gold
someone else has, but gold in the
rock or the bed of the creek) learn
the ‘ indications” of something good,
and there they investigate.
So it is in reading a newspaper,
'ihe people in Alaska when looking
for “something good,” have learned
to read, or investigate, anything that
E. J. White, the “Stroller,” writes.
When they see that name they con
sider that the indications are good
for something worth reading, whether
it is a funeral notice or an appeal to
buy a Liberty bond
His articles are usually just the re
verse of a medicine advertisement,
the first part may be more or less
dry and uninteresting but the farther
in you get, the better the pay, and the
real gold is most always at the end
of the tunnel.
We were brought up on a farm
among razor-back hogs, and, since
Hoover came to town, have been
thinking of that industry in Alaska,
and naturally enough, when we saw
the “indication” (name of E. J.
White) for something good on that
subject, we pitched our tent and sat
down to read in the Douglas News,
and struck a ledge two columns long
with good pay from one end to the
other. If you are not familiar with
tne cnaracteristics ot the razor-back
hog, you lose a great deal of the
“meat” in the article, but if you are
from Missouri, this is one instance in
your life that you do not have to be
shown, for there is where the razor
back is, or was 40 years ago, most
prolific. You don’t need a magnifying
glass to find the gold in this journal
istic ore, you can “see it with the
naked eye.” Here it is, take a look
at it:
The Stroller is pleased to note that
the movement to conserve food is
moving in this community and he
hopes it will keep moving; not only
that, but he has plans for the future
production of food that he believes
will redound to the honor, glory and
benefit of the entire coast of Alaska,
for coast is necessary to the promul
gation of the scheme, which is this:
The Stroller believes the razor
back hogs of the far south would do
well in this country anywhere along
the coast where they could romp and
revel on the beach at low tide, for re
ceding tides invariably leave behind
them that which could be eaten by
and which would fatten hogs. And
when it is considered that Alaska has
nearly 15,000 miles of coast line, it
must be admitted that it would con
stitute a splendid hog range.
The common ranch hogs would not
do well in Alaska as they are too del
icately constituted to withstand the
rigors of our variable climate; but the
razor backs of the far south eouh
daily patrol the coast for, say fou
hundred miles, and still come horn
every night. Some, people may no
believe this, but they know nothin]
about razor back hogs. Listen:
It happened in the land of the or
ange blossom and the alligator, th
land of the sweet magnolia bloor
and malaria, the land of the yel^
jessamine and of republican conven
tions that smell like a tiger’s cagt
It was this:
The agent of the Chills & Feve
railroad at Mobile, Alabama, ha
been “pestered” by a razor-back hoj
until he was almost distracted. Th
mly reason he did not resign his po
sition was that a large and rapidl;
increasing family looked to him fo
hog and hominy three times a day an
seven days every week. That is wh;
he did not telegraph his job to th
division superintendent.
Every morning when that railroad
agent went to work he found tha
the warehouse had been raided dur
ing the night by a hog. After nailini
up all the knot holes, save one, in th
weatherboarding and puttying all th
cracks, he lay one night for the ma
rauder and after the hog had entere
through the one remaining aperture
he stealthily stopped that with a cor
from a bottle of Old Crow.
Next morning that razor-back wTa
driven into a corne^, chloroformed an
nailed up in a box that was all bu
air-tight. The box was market
“Glass, Handle With Care,” and ship
ped to the agent of the Chills & Feve
road at Tallahassee, Florida, a dis
tance of 325 miles.
Two days later the Stroller was
passenger from Jacksonville, Floride
to New’ Orleans, and just as the trai
reached Tallahassee the hog whic:
had been left in the box on the depo
platform, escaped, the warm sun hav
ing caused the lumber from which th
box \^as made to shrink slightly. Tha
^shote cocked one ear and wras, for
brief moment, apparently wrapped i
deep thought. But it was only for
moment when it humped its back an
started for the westward on a lon§
clean trot.
It was 10 o’clock in the morninj
when the limited express left Talla
hassee and all that day and until
o’clock in the evening that hog an
train were neck and neck. As dark
ness came on the hog finally disap
peared from view’ as the train gradu
ally fell behind.
All the passengers had become in
terested in the race and were out o
their berths with the first gra;
streaks of morning and craning thei
necks at the car windows, but naugh
was seen of the hog.
“We must have passed it durinj
the night,” said the conductor, “an
if we did, the road will have made ;
record, for it will be the first time on
2 af her trains ever outran a razor
back hog. I will bay for the entire
j. train when we reach Mobile.”
jj At 9:45 that train pulled into Mo
2 bile with more than a dozen hot box
‘ es. All the way from Pensacola it
had just made 45 miles an hour.
(Just here the Stroller pauses to
; apologize for lies he has told in the
past, but every word of this story is
gospel truth.)
When that limited express stopped
at Mobile that razor-back shote was
sitting on the platform of the depot
singing, “Beautiful Land of Rest.”
The station agent said it had ar
rived full three hours ahead of the
I train.
The Stroller submits that any breed
of hogs that can cover as much ter
ritory in a short time should do well
along the coast of Alaska for the
reason that when picking was poor in
any certain locality, to move a few
l hundred miles to where the feeding
I was better would require but a short
’ time.
^ Again, there are very few people
* in this part of the country who are
> aware of the fact that where the root
1 ing for hogs is hard, razor-backs re
quire to be weighted. This is done
> by hanging a weight to their tails,
* i which have a natural curve for that
1 purpose. Otherwise, when the root
- ing is hard and the hogs are not
* weighted, they tip up behind every
* time their snouts come in contact with
t anything solid such as a root or rock.
' This condition is due to the fact that
the head and snout of the razor-back
‘ j hog constitute fully half its weight,
* | hence the tipping up when the rooter
r! strikes an obstacle.
? The Stroller has written to Her
| bel t Hoover for his opinion as to the
’ * ->od value of clam, crab, fish and mus
| sel-fed pork, with a streak of blueber
ry stain smeared or stamped into the
2 j bacon to give it effect. He has also
1 written to an old friend in Florida to
* rig up some butterfly nets and be
‘. prepared to capture a few razor
* I fnr* cKinm
; encouraging reply is received from
l'jMr. Hoover.
* The Stroller feels that he would like
> to do something to mitigate the rigors
a !
- of the present food situation other
" than by conserving on what he eats,
as he is doing at present, when one
r pork chop does not appease his appe
* tite, but when two indicate greed and
,r lack of consideration for those who
3 are fighting his battles on the front.
He dislikes butting into the fish bus
1 iness, besides, he never could fish
t without spitting on the bait, and
where several dozen lines are out, that
» would almost be a physical impossi
~ bility, especially after the territory
? | goes dry.
' I Any person with capital who is
1; desirous of taking stock in the Strol
’ ler’s Alaska Coast Razor-Back Hog
c Growing and Packing corporation,
Ltd., can secure a block of stock on
3 application. On “Fish Day” is a good
^ time to think it over,
t: _
TEN ACRES ENOUGH.
r Ten acres is enough to support a
- family, according to Miss Mattie
Johnson, of Billings, Mont., who has
i tried it. She has divided her ten
, acres as follows: Two acres for
i strawberries and raspberries; two
1 acres for wheat for chickens; three
t acres for alfalfa for cattle, hogs and
- horses; one acre for corn for chick
e ens and hogs; one-half acre for veg
t etable garden; one-half acre for
i home, barn and yards. Apple, plum
n and cherry trees are planted in the
i chicken yards and about the fields,
i Bees may also be kept at a profit,
■, she says.
? NEED A FEW BLACK MAMMIES.
If the United States would con
3 script a few black mammies from the
i | south and send them to England and
- j France to operate corn bread baker
- j ies, we would hear less about con
- serving wheat for Europe. The trou
ble with those Europeans is that they
- | don’t know how to bake corn bread
f and the result is that they have never'
/ cultivated a liking for it. They prob
f ably never heard of, much less, tasted
t ash cake in all their roast-beef and
frog-eating lives. Educate them to
r the black mammy quality of corn
i bread and they will be clamoring for
11 more com and less wheat.—Douglas
31 News.
4LL KINDS OF VEGETABLES
ARE RAISED AND TWO TONS
OF POTATOES GO TO JUNEAU
TO CUT WOOD THIS WINTE3L
Deputy Marshal Says That Eight
Men Serving Time Will Put Up
About Six Cords Daily and He Ha»
Contracted for Its Sale.
Potatoes, turnips, and garden sass
from the federal garden at Skagway
ire being shipped to the federal jail
at Juneau, and already nearly two
tons of fine looking potatoes are in
the bins at the Juneau jail for the
winter, according to the Skagway
Alaskan.
Deputy United States Marshal Tan
ler, who is stationed at Skagway, has
nade a contract with George Stur
gill, a Lynn canal wood dealer, to
supply him with wood cut by federal
prisoners during the winter months.
The contract is for delivery of cut
wood to the Sturgill wood chute, lo
cated about one and a half miles from
Skagway and Haines where it will be
marketed for $7.50 a cord, and one
half turned over to the federal treas
ury. It is expected the eight federal
prisoners now at Skagway will cut
about six cords of wood in an eight
hour shift during the winter months.
Deputy Marshal Tanner is already
planning to work a large colony of
federal prisoners at Skagway and
Haines next season, where big federal
farms will be operated. The attorney
genral after repeated requests has
consented to working the federal pris
oners on farms and in wood camps.
POPULAR YOUNG
COUPLE MARRIED
MISS N. E. McINERNEY AND C. T.
BOYLES ARE WEDDED AT MR.
AND MRS. WHITNEY’S HOME.
Wedding bells rang out again last
evening. It was a quiet affair and oc
curred out of town. At about 5 o’clock
in the evening, Robert Mathewson’s
fast dog team was seen speeding over
the white trail to the Whitney ranch.
In the sleigh was a portly young man
and a winsome little woman cozily
ensconced in big warm robes—“two
souls with but a single thought, two
hearts that beat as one.” No one -was
aware that it was two of Anchorage's
most popular young folks making
their “get-away” to have the nuptial
knot tied, but such it was.
Following some distance in the rear
was an auto in the back seat of
which was a minister in formal dress
directing the chaffeur to the Whitney
ranch. “Now what can this all mean,”
was on the lips of more than one per
son. It was explained later in the even
ing when the parties returned to town,
but not in time for the small boys to
secure their bells and horns. The
young lady was Miss Nell E. Mclner
ney, who during the summer came
here from Chicago, and the young man
was Claude T. Boyles, the accountant
in the telephone and telegraph depart
ment. The wedding took plaee at 6
o’clock last evening at the Whitney
ranch, the Reverend J. L. McBride
performing the ceremony.
A bounteous lunch was served after
the ceremony by Mrs. Whiteny, with
Mr. Whitney assisting.
CORN CROP EXCELS
PREVIOUS RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.—
The com crop of the United States i3
larger this year by more than 66,
000,000 bushels than ever grown be
fore in the history of the country.
This year’s crop is estimated at three
billion, one hundred and ninety-one
million and eighty three thousand.
Read The Weekly Times.