IKSPONSE OF YOUNG TO CALL
TO COLORS IS DECISIVE AN
SWER TO MALIGNERS.
lOKAL FLABBINESS IS LACKING
American Manhood ot 1917 Is Made
of Saint' Stuff and Nathan Hale and
l\ni! Revere and Will Give Good
Account of Itself.
NEW YORK, March 16.—War’s su
treme test has given the answer to:
he maligners of American youth, de-j
•lared Secretary of the Navy Josephus j
Daniels in an address in New \ ork |
■ity. The secretary spoke before the ■
Southern society. He said in part: |
“A few months ago there was a
prevalent notion that American man
hood had become soft and was dom
inated by materialism. We saw the
young man immersed in business and
pleasure, and we asked ourselves, “Is
I
the youth of our day made of the same
stuff as the men of '76 and of the six
ties?” There were many voices telling
us ef moral flabbiness, physical unfit
ness, and spiritual death. They said
the onit motto of today with Amer-i
,an young men is “Get rich and have
a good time."And there was a measure
of truth in this diagnosis, hut the
grim business of war lias already
taught us that we had accepted the life
(*: the ft ,v as typical when it was the
o oeption. i’erhaps we would have al
ways accepted this unfavorable view
o:' It <■ youth of our day. and thus
wronged them, if there had not come
a time of testing. But the time came
to measure manhood. Is it soft or is
i card ? Is it of the stern stuff that
gave u~ Nathan Hale and Paul Ite
v re? Or is it deleted Americanism
that lacks virility and readiness to die
tor principle? i
“War has given the answer. The ac
cepted misconception of the youth of
today has been removed amid the
perils of the deep and in the liquid fire
if the trenches, where American
y •. f i s have freely given their lives.
“American valor in 1017 is seen as
well in tite cantonments and training
stations and on the ships where a mill
ion men are undergoing the rigorous
t;a:nmg to fit them to do the big task
they will accomplish. Our sorrow over
• c.:: earliest sacrifices in this war is as
.-uagtd by our pride that America
pc-senses 10,000,000 valorous and
chivalrous young men and more, ready
;o f.gi.t until the world is freed of the
a ons.ter of military autocracy which
knows no law except
‘Let him take who has the power
And let him keep who can.’
Not a War of Hate.
“We have entered in to this war
with no passion, no envy, no pre
juob * no desire for anything that
■ e! ngs to any other man or nation.
No shibholeth of hate, or semblance of
if. had been raised. When our ships
hnv- been ruthlessly sunk and women
and children have been murdered, we
...vc highly resolved to make the seas
s ;.e and never to rest until the men
on.-ible for these crimes are made
iw; o*>. nt to repeat them, but in ail
Ac er ica there is no flame of rage,
r.o passion for vengeance, no hatred of
the people of Germany who have been
made the instruments of the bestial
warfare. We have looked beyond the
men under the sea, whose piratical
acts shocked civilization, and we have
seen that they were the pawns and
agents of a Juggernaut which com
pelled them to commit murder or to
themselves face the death squadron.
“A long imposed autocratic imper
ialism has made German soldiers ef
ficient vassals of vengeance. Now and
then, as when certain sailors threw
their captain overboard in the vain at
tempt to save their souls from under
sea slaughter of children, there has
been an attempt to revolt against the
most highly organized internal tryan
ny the ingenuity of subsidized service
could impose. But ingrained submis
sion, trained skill in the use of the
weapons of war, and the certainty of
cruel destruction by even the vhlspe:
jf protest to the enforced barbarism
lave made the kaiser’s war machine a
potent thing of evil. We have seer,
ibis monster destroy small states, ra
nge peaceful territories, and seek to
incite the whole world to sedition and
murder. But, deep as is our determina
tion that the world shall never be
lominated by force, it is the glory o
America that its voice is the voice of
resolution and justice, and not of hate
and vengeance.
“May we not hope, should we not
pray, that no matter how great the
provocation, the American people will
ever keep out of their minds and out
of their hearts any passion of hate to
ward those who war against the
vorld’s justice and the world’s peace
and the world’s civilization?
“Mind you, I counsel-no smooth
words in describing the murderous
leeds conceived by the German auto
•rats. 1 favor no quarter for the men
responsible for the world’s war,
hough as to them our attitude should
lot be one of hatred.
“We shall stay in this war until
Germany shall see its war lords de
posed, and we shall live to see that
capable people freed from the master
of militarism that has made every
home a house of mourning. To this ac
complishment, because until it is ac
complished, no people can be safe
under their own vine and figtree, Am- j
erica has pledged its sacred honor, and |
to the pledge every man and every re-!
source and every dollar are dedi
cated.”
INTERNED ALIENS ARE NOT
WAR PRISONERS, HI T ARE
GIVEN NO LUXURIES.
OMPENSATEI) F O R W O R K
Moderate Pay Is Given for Labor and
If it Exceeds Certain Amount it Is
Withheld and Deposited for Them
in Postal Hanks.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 16.—
Some purchasers of Liberty Loan
Son Is, who have l ead exaggerated re
'i-'i-'.s of the treatment accorded by the
United States authorities to the Ger
man civilians interned in this country,
have written to the treasury depart
ment protesting against the use of
any of the money raised by the liber
ty loan in “pampering” these alien
e1 emies.
These interned German civilians are
■ ot prisoners of war and are not under
he jurisdiction of the war department
*>r the treasury department, but by the
,-sovi. ions of the immigration laws are
■ laced under the jurisdiction of the
;-ailment of labor and comprise of
c ”s and crews of the German mer
'.ant vessels seined by the United
: atos. and other German civilians,
i'hf ir deportation, which ordinarily
-uld take place, is impracticable in
\ ■ w of the international situation.
These aliens receive no compensa
tion from the United States govern
ment except such as is allowed them
for work actually performed, and the
v.mgcs paid them are not exorbitant at
all. In fact, if from their labor and
other sources they receive more than
a moderate amount of money a month,
all in excess of a reasonable amount
for their cave and comfort is with
held from them and placed to their
credit in the postal savings banks or
some other safe disposal made of it.
CONDUCT OF ALIENS
FOUR MEN ANI) FOUR WOMEN
WILL BE DEPORTED FOR
WRITING LETTERS IN CODE
NEW YORK, March 18.—Four men
land four women of foreign birth liv
j ing in fashionable quarters in New
i York city, were arrested today and
| will be deported.
The prisoners are charged with car
rying on correspondence in code with
officials of foreign governments.
SALVARSAN WILL BE MANU
FACTURED SOON BY THREE
FIRMS IN THIS COUNTRY.
PRICES COMPARATIVELY LOW.
Patented Medicine Is Only Known
Specific for Virulent Blood Poison
and Before War Came Almost En
tirely From Germany.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—
The federal trade commission has en
tered orders for licenses to three firms
to manufacture and sell the product
heretofore known under the trade
names of “Salvarsan,” “Arsenoben
zol“Arsaminol,” patent rights which
have been held by German subjects.
The orders for licenses are subject to
acceptance and agreement by the li
censees to the stipulations made by
he commission. Upon such accept
:nce and agreement licenses Nos. 1, 2
and 2 will be formally granted by Sec
etary L. L. Bracken, acting for the
commission.
Hereafter this important drug will
be manufactured and sold under the
name of “Arsphenamine.”
Authority for Action.
The trade commission’s action was
taken under section 10 of the trading
with the enemy act, under direction of
Commissioner Fort, upon recommen
dation of C. H. .McDonald, Edward S.
Rogers, and Francis I’hleps, in charge
of granting such licenses. The public
health service has prepared rules and
standards for the manufacture and
testing of “Arsphenamine,” and will
supervise its manufacture, authority
having been conferred on the public
health service by the secretary of the
treasury, and the observance of the
rules and standards become a condi
tion of the license.
The three firms which will be hereby
permitted to manufacture and sell
“Arsphenamine” are Dermatological
Research Laboratories, of Philadel
phia; Takamine Laboratory (Inc.) of
New York; and Farbwerke Hoechst
Co. (Herman A. Metz Laboratory), of
New York.
The original patent for manufact
ure of what has heretofore been
known as “Salvarsan,” etc., was issued
to Paul Ehrlich and Alfred Berthelm,
German subjects, and assigned to
Earbwerke Vormals Meister, Lucius
and Pruning, of Hoechst on the Main,
Germany.
The supply of the drug now licensed
to be made in America, up to 1915,
was almost exclusively obtained by
importation from Germany. It is at
present the only know specific for
virulent blood poison. From the out
break of the war importation became
more difficult.
Price of Drug.
Before the war began the patented
drug was sold at $4 per dose, which
is approximately $3,500 per pound,
and speculatively it has brought as
high as $35 per dose. While the price
of the product is hot fixed at this time
by the commission, the right to fix
prices is retained, and a price of $1
per dose to the army and navy, $1.25
per dose for hospitals, and $1.50 per
dose for physicians are the prices at
which some, at least, of the licensees
i have stated that they intend to offer
the licensed drug.
The enormous shortage of supply of
this important product will immed
iately be relieved, and the article plac
ed in the hands of the government, the
hospitals, and the medical profession
j at a price lower than ever before.
_
FUEL FROM PEAT.
A company has been formed in
; Norway for making fuel from peat by
! the Rosendahl method. The raw ma
■ terial for the new industry will be
chiefly peat from the extensive Nor
wegian moors, but any other material
may be used which is sufficiently
abundant in the neighborhood of the
factory, particularly wood waste. The
j product is said greatly to resemble
English coal.
ENTHUSIM
ONLY SEVENTEEN OUT OF EV
ERY 100 CALLED FAIL TO
CLAIM EXEMPTION.
PROVOST MARSHAL’S REPORT.
Natives of Allied Foreign Countries
Show Greater Willingness to Par
ticipate in War Than Those of Neu
tral Nations.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16.—
Provost Marshal General Enoch H.
Crowder, in reporting on the opera
tion of the selective draft law, says
that the total estimated alien male
population of the United States is 2,
800,000; that the total registered
alien males between 21 and .‘51 years j
of age is 1,243,801; that the total
aliens called were 457,713; that those
discharged, exempted or rejected num
ber 381,168 and that the aliens certified I
for military service number 76,545. |
“It thus appears,” says the provost |
marshal, “that the proportion of called
aliens discharged was 83 in 100.
“The proportion of aliens discharg
ed however, varied in different states
tli? largest proportion being found in
Delaware and the smallest in Mon
la na.
“In the populous metropolitan cen- j
tors, where the largest numbers of;
aliens were concentrated, there was
also much variance. There the largest!
proportion of discharges was found in!
Seattle and the smallest in Philadel-I
phui.
Certified Through Ignorance.
“Was t'.e fact that the aliens ac- \
ct pted were as many ns iT in 100 duo j
to their voluntary waiving of claim,,
or to their ignoianee? The figures do
not reveal the answer, hut the reports
from the boards throw some light on
this;
“Most of the boards say that no ap
preciable number of aliens were cer
i
tided through ignorance on their part
of their privilege of exemption. A
comparatively small number report
that some—generally only a few—
were certified through such ignorance.
Congested City Wards.
“The areas where this occurred
were the congested metropolitan
wards, having high numbers of reg
istrants; the overworked clerks were
sometimes heedless of aliens who
could not make their desires known;
moreover the aliens’ ignorance of the
language and of the legal system of
ten discouraged them from persisting
in the due presentation of their
claims. Add to this the marked sen
timent prevailing in some localities
that the quota system fixed by the act
11f pnnoTPsk hurflprKnmp rlw
crimination in favor of aliens. These
considerations suffice to explain the
occasional rumors in the public press
as to the treatment of aliens. There
is no reason to suppose that aliens
were not given full consideration in
any but a very few instances. There
is ample testimony also that wherever
such errors were brought to the boards’ j
attention every effort was made to j
correct them; many aliens were in
this way discharged from camp.
lr. Sympathy With Aiiies.
“It must also be remembered that
many aliens were strongly sympa
thetic with the allies’ cause, ar.d were
ready and desirous to serve. An over
whelming majority of the hoards, to
be sure, report that no appreciable j
number of aliens were willing to
serve; some boards say ‘a few were
willing.’ On the other hand, in one
Chicago board, 40 per cent of the reg
istered aliens were willing; in Carlyle
Clinton county, 111., 50 per cent; in
Delkalb county, 111., 75 per cent.
“As between neutral aliens, allied
: aliens, and aliens allied with the en
i emy, were there differences of atti
tude ?
The Willing and Unwilling.
“The boards’ answers to this ques
tion are rather indefinite, but it seems
probable that while allied and neutral
aliens are more sympathetic in their
attitude toward the selective-service
law than are aliens allied with the
enemy, their sympathy does not very
often find expression in an eagerness
to serve in the army.
“As between allied and neutral ali
ens, a number of boards say the allied
aliens showed a better attitude, but
there are one or two boards who found
the neutral aliens the more willing to
serve.”
PUPILS BUY $2,094
IN THRIFT STAMPS
LITTLE FOLKS EXPERIENCE
MANY CANDYLESS DAYS IN
ORDER TO SAVE MONEY.
Two thousand and ninety-four dol-'
lars and ninety-five cents have been
saved by the children in the Anchor- j
age public school during the present
thrift drive the second month of which
onded last Friday, according to a
statement made yesterday by T. R.
McAnaly, superintendent of schools, j
In order to save this amount of
money the little folks have experi
enced many candyless days. From this
sacrifice of their sweet toothes the
children are purchasing thrift stamps.
Prof. McAnally is highly gratified
at the results already accomplished j
by the little ones and feels confident1
that as the campaign continues the
savings and purchases of the thrift
stamps will increase among all the
grades of the school. The following
sums were saved by the different
grades:
First grade, $86.50; Second, $”18.75;
Third, $55.70; Fourth B, $146.80;
Fourth A, $150.00; Fifth, $602; Sixth,
$14!>; Seventh, $0.50; Eighth, $321.48;
high school, $263.33.
PATCHES ARE LUXURIES.
Thread Costs from 60 Cents to $1
Per Spool in Belgium.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March ID.—
A letter received by the Belgian In
formation Bureau says:
“One does not dream of buying
linen. The prices are entirely un
approachable. More extraordinarily
still, to mend or repair one’s clothes
lias itself become a luxury permitted
Lo a few, since a spool of thread now
:osts fit) cents to $1.”
The following is from a letter writ
ten from Flanders:
“How do we live? You can not form
any idea of it. In whatever direction
we turn we run against German pride
which, provocative and scornful, eyes
us from head to foot. It is painful.
We can not endure it. There are fines
upon fines at a time when money is
'O needed to buy indispensable things.
“For all that, what is indispensable
is still very difficult to obtain. We
have too much to die too little to live.
We are becoming skeletons, but hope
sustains us. For the rest, we let the
days go by as God gives them to us.
“Now we have an opportunity to
prove how admirable one people are.
Our hearts break in contemplating
all the misery that we see about us;
but we are proud, nevertheless, to
prove that we can endure it all with
out hesitating or wavering.
“Germany is becoming more and
more covetous. She plucks us and
strangles us in every way.”
ARMY HAS BEEN REORGANIZED
AND IS REGARDED AS IN
BEST OF CONDITION.
BRITISH FRONT, March 18.—Bel
gian troops have taken over one of
the important coast sectors on the
western battle fi'ont, which the
French have held for some time.
Great improvement in the Belgian
army organization lias been effected
during the winter. The officers de
clare their men are restrained with
difficulty from getting into action
against the enemy before the proper
time.
OH!
There are some stations in Ohio
that contain nothing but a depot and
a water tank. But you can always C.
A. House at St. Clairsville.
THISJfEEK
SUBJECTS OF KAISER RESIDING
HERE MUST REPORT TO
POSTMASTER HERE.
BOOKS OPEN TUESDAY MORNING
Every Registrant Must Give Authori
ties Four Photographs of Himself
and These Must Be Provided at His
Expense.
Every male subject of Germany liv
ing in or near Anchorage over the age
of fourteen years is required to regis
ter with the Anchorage postmaster
between March 18 and March 23. Such
persons residing at other towns are
required to likewise register with their
respective postmasters.
The blanks supplied by the United
States government to the registrants
will not arrive in Anchorage until to
morrow’s mail and for this reason the
registration will not begin until Tues
day, March 19.
By reason of the fact that there is
insufficient room in the post office, the
postmaster for this work will have his
headquarters at the United States
marshal’s office during the period of
registration and all German male sub
jects over the age of fourteen years
must call at the marshal’s office for
the purpose of registering.
The registrant is required by the
regulations to furnish the postmaster
with four photographs of himself.
These photographs must not be larger
in size than three inches square, must
be unmounted and must be printed on
a thin paper with a light back ground.
The expenses of securing these photo
graphs must be borne by the regis
trant.
Native born Germans who have
taken out their first papers are re
garded as German subjects and are
required under the law to register.
DEMAND FOR BUTTONS.
Manufacturers Try to Buy From Job
bers to Supply Government.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 19.—
The government demand for large
quantities of buttons has led Ameri
can manufacturers to attempt to pur
chase back the stocks of wholesalers
and jobbers of buttons at the price
asked the cutting up trade in order to
fill government requisitions promptly.
The figures furnished by the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce
show also that here has been a greater
demand abroad for buttons made in
this country. The exports of buttons
and parts from the United States for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917,
amounted to $1,982,104, as compared
with $1,902,556 in 1916, and $654,372
in 1914.
Buttons, especially the larger sizes,
40 to 55 line, such as used on over
coats, of metal, horn or vegetable
ivory, are now much wanted. The de
mand has not only absorbed the Amer
ican product but has apparently stim
ulated the import trade in buttons.
I) I S H O N E S T JOBBERS AND
WHOLESALERS WILL BE SE
VERELY DEALT WITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—
President Wilson today issued an ord
er putting coal jobbers and brokeis
and coal selling and purchasing agen
ceis and wholesale coal dealers under
the license plan of the federal fuel ad
ministration.
He says in his order that he recog
nizes the majority are honest but that
the swapping and fictitious trade op
erations of the others must be dealt
I with severely.
The licenses must be obtained be
i
fore April 1.
NAMES IS NAMES.
Wesley Holderback lives in Cin
cinnati.