MRS. FRANK MORRISON READS
INTERESTING PAPER BEFORE
WOMAN’S CLUB.
TEUTONS ARE NOT INVENTIVE
Examination of Leading Useful Appli
ances Shows That None of Then
Can he Attributed to Ingenuity oi
Kaiser’s Subjects.
Germany’s self-asserted leadership
in science formed the subject of ai
interesting paper read before the An
chorage Woman’s club by Mrs. Franl
Morrison. The title of her compose
tion was “German Science Versus Ger
man Assumption.” The paper was ai
follows:
“We heard the Germans arraigne<
as blatant, boorish, barbarious; yet ii
nearly every case the speakers suf
fixed to their invectives such an ex
pression as, ‘But when it comes t<.
brains you will have to hand it t<
* them, they have made science.’ Whj
hand it to them ? What epoch-making
invention or discovery is of Germai
origin except a stamp on which is in
scribed, ‘Made in Germany.’ Theii
scientists, it is true, have kicked up) i
fair amount of spray as they gambol
ed in their piool, but the world ha;
yet to hear a mighty Teutonic splash
i 'me and again English, American
French, Italian and Spanish invent
ors and discoverers have sent tidal
waves around the globe. Let u;
now be specific.
Inventors of Steam Engine.
“The steam-engine has been callee
the greatest ol all inventions; it broke
l.ne -hackles from slaves: it minglec
the marts of the world; it made neigh
bors of the antipodes. Newcomen, s
native of Devonshire, obtained a pat
ent to the first partially suceessfu
steam engine, Wat, a Scotchman, per
fected it; Cuynot, Murdock and Threv
cth'ck brought forward the locomotive
NOT on German soil; Stevenson, ar
Englishman, was the first to apply tin
steam engine to railways for passen
ger traffic; France, England am
America applied it to navigation
When all was completed, German}
pulled the whistle-cord, shouted ‘Hoc!
dor Kaiser’ and tagged it ‘Made ir
Germany.’
“The telegraph which brings us th<
daily history of the world, was invent
e-TfcVp. an American, Prof. Morse, wh(
idfso suggested the Atlantic cabh
which was subsequently laid by thal
iiav chant-scientist, Cyrus W. Field
assisted. In mooring the New Work
along side the Old by Lord Kelvin, the
prince of physicists, a British subject
Graham Bell, the chief inventor of the
telephone, was born in Scotland ane
grew to fame in America. A younj
Italian, Marconi, gave wireless teieg
raphy to the world. The House o
Hohenzollern has made great use o
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these inventions to tell England, Ara
j erica, France and Italy fn arrogant
' verbiage what the Vaterland has done
! for the beiv'ghted peoples of the earth.
Farm Machinery.
' “Cyrus McCormick, a native of West
| Virginia, produced the reaping mach
ine which harvests the food of the
, world; Meikel, of England, brought
forth the threshing machine, thus was
» famine banished. Ely Whitney, of
Massachusetts parentage invented the
| cotton gin. Hargrave, an Englishman,
i made the spinning-jenny. Arkwright,
. | also English, supplied its deficiency
i with his famous spinning-frame. The
■’Englishman, Key, introduced the fly
i shuttle in weaving. Brunei, who de
vised the knitting machine and Cart
wright, inventor of the power-loom,
were British subjects. Thus was the
> world clothed.
i1 “Although Germany is militaristic,
and worships at the shrine of Mars,
what votive offering has she made to
the god-of War? It was not she who
contributed gun-powder, smokeless
powder, nitro-glyeerine, dynamite, tor
pedo, shrapnel, automatic cannon,
j magazine rifle, brcachloading gun,
gatling gun, revolver, armor-plate,
submarine or airplane.
“Since Germany borrowed her mil
itary appliances from other, nations,
we arc not surprised that she obtained
her devices of prosperity from the
same source.
“She did not produce the first ani
i
line dyes, vulcanized rubber, liquid
gases, gas engine, water-gas, ther
mometer, barometer, piino, barbed
wire, cut-nails, automobile, bicycle,
pneumatic tire, air-brake, sewing-ma
chine, typewriter, adding-machine,
cash register, steel writing-pens, et
*Light of World.
“The greatest thing that Germany
has done is to falsely advertise her
seif as ‘The light of the world,' yet
no son of hers invented electric light,
gas light, acetylene light kerosene
light, flash light, search light, the
safety lamp, the candle or the match.
America. France, England, and other
‘untutored’ nations performed these
tasks. The sun, moon and stars are
the only lights left for Germany’s con
tention, and according to the Mosaic
account the Lord and not the Kaiser
made and placed these in the firma
ment.
“Deguarre, a Frenchman, presented
us with photography.'' Our own Edi
^ son brought forth the motion picture
• to delight and instruct the eye and
the phonograph to please and teach
1 the ear. The Germans enjoy our reels
1 and records and lifting high their
| steins drink a prolonged toast to the
Vaterland, ‘Deutschland L'ber Alles.’
“Gallileo, who first saw the heavens
through a telescope, was an Italian,
the men who first saw the earth and
its teeming life through a microscope
were not of German origin; yet many
microscopes and telescopes in our col
leges being marked ‘Made in Germany’
have led our students to believe that
these wonderful instruments were de
vised by German brains. The Ger
mans are mechanics not inventors.
“Hy use of the compound micros
cope, Pasteur, the French biologist, as
early as 1857 demonstrated the con
nection between microscopic organ
isms and disease. This was nine years
before Dr. Koch the German bacter
iologist, had graduated. In this con
nection the important antiseptic sur
gery of Dr. Lister of England should
be recorded. Edward Jenner, the
discoverer of vaccination, was an En
glishman, as was also Harvey the
discoverer of circulation of the blood.
America taught the world the use of
anaesthetics. Our dentists excel all
i others, they are employed by many
crowned heads—even the kaiser had
“The Teutons have not shown the
engineering skill of the French who
cut the Suez canal, nor of the ''Amer
icans who joined the Atlantic and Pa
cific at Panama. The decimal or
; metric system, by which Germans
j make their measurements, is a gift
from France. The method by which
they make their steel is that of Sir
> I Henry Bessemer, of England. Many
O' ll’cir fruits and vegetables of
which they eat an enormous quanti
ty were brought forth by our own
' peerless Burbank. No wonder that
the Germans can ‘goose-step so high,
for what else have they practiced?
j “Levoiser, the father of modern
i chemistry, was a f renchman, Linna
| eus the founder of botany was of
Swedish origin; to Hutton of Eng- j
land, we are indebted for geology; to
Maury of Virginia, for the physiogra
phy of the seas; to Descartes, of
French parentage for analytical ge- |
ometry; to Comte of France for soci
ology; to Germany for—‘sauer kraut!
I and pretzels.’ Germany has not con
tributed her quota to the advance
ment of the world. How she struts!
in her foreign plumage, she is neither
inventive, resourceful or original.
“She has made no geographical dis
coveries of importance, her neighbors
have. What role did she play in dis
covering the various portions of the
new world? Did she establish any
colonies? We thank God she did not.
Her sons did not compose the crew
of Magellan’s fleet, the first to cir
cumnavigate the globe. A German
did not discover the north pole, nor
lead the way to the south pole. It is
high time to cease talking of Germa
ny’s achievements unless one wishesI
to indulge in satire.
'
“History and study will reveal that
the world’s greatest teacher, scien
tist, inventor, discoverer, statesman,
general, philosopher, preacher, paint
er, poet, architect, novelist, or singer
was NOT ‘Made in Germany’. ”
ANDREW CHRISTENSEN' RE
PORTS CONDITIONS SATISFAC
TORY IN FIELDS NEAR HERE.
Two hundred and thirty men are at
the present time employed in the coal
mines located at the Little Susitna
river, Moose creek, Eska creek and
at Chiekaloon, according to Andrew
Christensen, acting division engineer
for the Anchorage district, and head
of the land and industrial department
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion who arrived in Anchorage yes
terday from a four-day trip of inspec
tion to the various coal mines along
the government railroad.
Mr. Christensen left Anchorage
Monday morning, accompanied by E.
O. .Archibald, assistant engineer for
the Alaskan Engineering commission;
K. K. Kuney, engineer maintenance of
way, and Frederick T. Mumma, super
intendent of the telephone and tele
graph department.
Development work is going forward
in good shape in all of the properties
and the living conditions under which
the men are required to work are
maintained in modern sanitary fash
ion.
Mr. Mumma, while on the trip, took
occasion to look over the telephone
and telegraph equipment between
Anchorage and Chiekaloon.
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RED CROSS OBTAINS
GOOD SUM IS REALIZED ON ANI
MAL AT AUCTION SALE AT
HILLINGS, MONTANA.
HILLINGS, Mont., Feb. 11.—Seven
hundred dollars was realized here re
cently from the sale of one Montana
steer, and the proceeds all went to the
local chapter of the Red Cross.
The steer was donated by the Bill
ings livestock exchange and fatted for'
more than three months by the Bill
ings stockyards company. It was then
butchered and auctioned off by the
piece in the lobby of a local hotel.
Several meat cutters were kept
| busy during the auction cutting the
carcass into suitable pieces. Several
purchasers gave back the steaks to be ;
sold over again.
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RECOVERS FROM OPERATION.
William Hudson, a former employe
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion located at Camp 85, who under- j
went a minor operation at the govern
ment hospital last week, expects to
be able to leave that institution this j
week.
KEEP PLUGGING.
The men who quit when they’re in bad j
Are spineless dubs;
The brightest men are those who’ve j
had
The hardest rubs.
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PROBLEM IS DISCUSSED BY CITY
COUNCIL AND COMMITTEE
OF CITIZENS.
EXPECT AID OF GOVERNMENT.
Federal Authorities Through Alaskan
Engineering Commission May Give
$2."),000 Toward Improvement But
Town Must Raise Balance.
The controlling of Lowell creek,
which occasioned great damage in
Seward last fall when it overflowed
its banks, was the subject discussed at
the special meeting of the Seward city
council and the Seward citizens’ com
mittee the other night, according to
the Seward Gateway.
J. J. Finnegan, a Seward attorney,
who is in Washington city, sent a wire
to Mayor Cotter, of Seward, stating
that there would probably be an item
in the congressional appropriation of
the Alaskan Engineering commission
for $25,000 for part of the work on
Lowell creek.
Mr. Finnegan also stated that there
was no chance of a direct appropria
tion being made by congress for Low
ell creek improvement and asked as
to procedure regarding asking con
gress tor a bond issue for the city’s
share of the improvement providing
the Alaskan Engineering commission
secured an appropration.
Mr. Finnegan was asked to report
exactly what the engineering commis
sion’s appropriation was for and the
city council and citizens’ committee
would advise later about the. bond
question.
At the meeting the other night,
several favored bonding Seward for
its proportion of the improvement
work and others favored citizens tak
ing warrants covering the outlay.
MEN OF ARIZONA BO
TWO BITS FOR WAR
MOVEMENT STARTS IN PHOENIX
TO INVEST 25 CENTS DAILY
IN THRIFT STAMPS.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 11. — In
Thoenix a movement has been inaug
urated for the formation of “two bits
a day” clubs, the members of which
are to buy a quarter’s worth of thrift
stamps every day. Three men each
took a hundred thrift cards, pasted
one stamp in each card, and sold the
entire lot before two blocks had been
covered.
“Two bits” is the old term, dating
back to the early days of the country,
for a quarter of a dollar, and is stil!
used in the south and west. Every
patriotic American now wants “to do
his bit”; the members of these club?
are carrying out this idea finely in
doing their “two bits” every day. It
is hoped that “Two Bits a Day” clubs
will be formed all over the country in
the great war-savings campaign.
BRAZIL IS HAVING
HER SHIES NOW
RIO GRANDE DO~ SUL, Brazil,
Feb. 9.—Brazil, now that it has enter
ed the war, is having its spy scare and
it has become more general even than
in some of the other belligerent coun
tries. It is only necessary for a per
son to be a foreigner and a stranger
in any Brazilian town tcr^ecome the
object of suspicious regard.
Orders have gone out from Rio de
Janeiro for the arrest of large num
bers of Germans, many of whom ap
pear to be innocent business men, al
though there is no doubt but that Ger
man espionage is well organized in
southern Brazil. Spies are reported to
have been especially active in the
state of San Paulo.
As soon as the government began
these measures of precautions, how
ever, a large number of rich and well
known German business men who und
er suspicion of being German govern
ment agents succeeded in escaping
into the Argentine republic.
ROBERT WARREN, BROTHER OF
SEATTLE POLICE CHIEF, AR
RIVES FROM NENANA.
SNOW MAKES BAI) TRAVELING.
—
| Veteran Alaskan Is Making His First
Visit to States in Eleven Years and
Plans to Join Army for Service
Abroad.
The winter trail through the Broad
Pass is extremely dangerous as the
result of recent snow storms and it is
a matter of sheer luck that travelers
have not lost their way, says Robert
Warren, who has just arrived in An
chorage over the trail from Nenana.
Mr. Warren is an oldtimer in Alas
ka. He came north in 1808 and is well
known in mining circles throughout
the interior.
“The trail through the Broad Pass/'
continued Mr. Warren, “’nans over a
number of lakes a few miles from
Jack River on the northern side of the
Pass, and while the trail is marked
with tripods the marks are at the ends
of the lakes, during a storm or a fog,
are invisible to travelers. Recent
storms have obliterated the trail and
it is only by the aid of the tripods
that the traveler may proceed. In
several cases the tripods are a mile
apart. Fast travel is thus rendered
impossible, particularly during stormy
or fogy weather.”
Mr. Warren will leave for Seward
and the outside next week and after a
brief visit with friends and relatives
in Seattle, he will offer his services to
the government in the hope of getting
to the war zone in the immediate fu
ture.
Mr. Warren was in the military
service previous to coming to Alaska.
He has taken part in two Indian rebel
lions, acting as an Indian scout in
both.
He is a brother of Joel Warren the
present chief of police in Seattle.
This .is the first trip to the states
Mr. Warren has made in eleven years.
ENTENTE AVIATORS l) R O P
BOMBS ON GERM AN SUBM AR
INE BASE AT ZEEBRUGGE.
i
—
LONDON, Feb. 7.—There were no
material activities in any of the war
sectors today. The usual artillery
duels were in progress on the French
and Italian fronts.
Entente aviators dropped bombs or,
the German submarine base at Zee
brugge.
No news has been received from the
Eussian-Rumanian front.
SIGNS ON MIRRORS REMIND
CUSTOMERS OF MEATLESS
AND WHEATLESS DAYS.
—
EL PASO, Feb. 11.—Customers of
El Paso barber shops are notified of
r^eatless, wheatless, porkless and
i smokeless days by signs painted on
the mirrors of the local barber shops.
These notices are painted fresh on
each of these special days as a part
of the patriotic work of the Texas
Journeymen Barbers’ association and
is statewide in its scope. The barbers
say that every customer takes at least
one glimpse of himself after he has
been shaved or had his hair cut and
he must read these patriotic notices.
MADE TO FRANCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—One hun
dred and fifty-five million dollars was
the amount of a loan made to France
today by the United States govern
; ment.
SIXTEEN MILES COVERED IN
ONE HOUR, FIFTY-TWO MIN
UTES, FIFTEEN SECONDS.
DOG DROPS EXHAUSTED AT END
One Animal Is Killed and Another
Iladly Hurt That Took Checkers t<*
Turning Post at Lake Lynch Gets
Into Fight.
J. B. Wademan, carrying as his
sled passenger, Mrs. E. Thompson,
won the “squaw burden” dog race yes
terday from here to Lake Lynch and
return, a total distance of about six
teen miles, in one hour, fifty-two min
utes and fifteen seconds' time. L. T.
Vig, with Mrs. F. Johnson, was sec
ond, his time being one hour and fifty
three minutes. J. V. Collins, with lit
tle Miss Smith, was third, his time
being two hours, ten minutes and tVr
ty-four seconds.
The other five entries finished in the
folowing order:
Edward McMahill, with Miss Mc
Mahill, fourth, two hours, eleven min
utes and forty seconds; Frank Barr,
with Miss Mona Robarts, fifth, two
hours, twelve^minutes and thirty sec
onds; Verner Ohls, with Miss Alice
Nyberg, sixth, two hours sixteen min
utes and forty-three seconds; George
Fletcher, with Miss Linda Kline, sev
enth, two hours, forty-five minutes
and twenty seconds, and J. H. Berg
man, with Mrs. E. Richter, eighth,
two hours, fifty-three minutes and
ten seconds.
Dog Falls Exhausted.
A dog in the team driven by Ver
ner Ohls, as it crossed the finish line,
fell exhausted and had to be taken
from its harness and hauled home in
the sled. The race was apparently
too great a strain for the dog, whose
racing days began and ended yester
day.
At the turning post at Lake Lynch,
one of the dogs in the team that took
D. H. Lynch and Miss Hattie Maltby
there to check the racers was killed
in a fight with its teammates. The
animals had been tied a short dis
tance from the course and engaged in
a fight among themselves. Another
dog of this team was so badly hurt
that it had to be brought home on a
sled.
The weather yesterday was ideal
for the race. The trail, except for a
stretch of a few miles near Lake
Lynch, was in fair condition. The bad
stretch of trail near the lake was
quite heavy cn account of deep drifts
of snow.
A large crowd gathered on Fourth
avenue to witness the staid and finish
in front of Robarts' Billiard and
Bowling hall.
McMahill Gets Away First.
The McMahill team was the first
to get away. It left at five minutes
past noon, and then the other teams
followed at five minute intervals.
Jack Robarts acted as official
starter and timekeeper at the An
chorage end of the course.
The prizes for the race will be
awarded tonight in the chamber of
commerce building at 7:30 o’clock. A
dance at 9:30 will be given to the
contestants and their friends at the
Mint Grill by the management of the
grill.
Plans are now under consideration
for a race on Washington’s birthday.
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STATESMEN PLAN
TO SAVE DAYLIGHT
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS
SENATE BILL TO PUT CLOCK
AHEAD ONE HOUR.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The
house interstate commerce committee
today favorably reported the daylight
saving bill which has already passed
the senate.
The measure provides for daylight
saving between the first Sunday in
March and the last Sunday in October
by advancing the deck one hour.