FIGHT MUST BE
MADE AGAINST
BOLSHEVISM
PARIS, April 7 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—A world-wide
campaign of civilization against Bol
shevism is earne3tly advocated by the
former Grand Duke Alexander Mich
aelovitch, brother-in-law of the former
Emperor Nicholas of Russia, who is in
Paris, he says, to tell the truth about
Russia. The former grand duke, who
was for a time kept prisoner in
Crimea by the Bolsheviki, urges that
representatives of neutral nations
should be invited to attend the peace
conference to decide upon means of
figting “the danger threatening the
stability of the universe.”
To a correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press, the former grand duke
said:
“Bolshevism is an evil force which
attacks the world, ruins civilization,
culture and all the moral laws. The
present chaos and suffering in Russia
is today a striking and living illustra
tion of what may be in store for any
country which permits Bolshevism
and the lawless principles for which
it stands to obtain a foothold within
its borders. To everybody it is clear
that the world must use all means to
stop the spread of this poisonous
disease. It is the sacred right of the
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be warned and defended by their gov
ernments. They must not be led
astray by false promises which law
lessness and disorder can never fulfill.
“The organized forces of estab
lished order must be set up as a bul
wark, utilized as an instrument
against the tyranny of the formidable
forces of disruption and anarchy. The
answer to Bolshevism is a firm and
decided stand against it. In order,
however, to achieve success combined
and coordinated action on the part of
civilized nations is essential.
“The presnt offers an exceptionally
favorable opportunity for initiating
and organizing this campaign. Now
assembled in Paris are the represen
tative statesmen of the world. Their
mission is to establish a lasting peace.
But such a peace, no matter how
ardently and universally desired, is
impossible of attainment so long as
the moral and social, the industrial
and political fabrics of all civilized
countries are threatened with up
heaval, overthrow and destruction by
the volcanic forces of Bolshevism. To
blind urselves to this filet would be
criminal folly.
“Advantage should be taken of the
presence of the peace conference for
the express purpose of reviewing the
danger threatening the stability of
the universe, of probing the difficul
ties it presents, and of deciding upon
the best means to adopt to avert the
threatened catastrophe. Certain ten
tative decisions have, I believe, al
ready been arrived at by the great
powers in regard to their policy for
counter-acting the work and influence
of Bolshevik propagandists in their
respective states. But the Bolshevik
oeril is not local or national or even
continental; it is world-wide in its
scope and menace. Frontiers offer
no bulwark to its advance, oceans do
not hinder its expansion.
“Neutrals, as well as belligerents
should, therefore, be invited to attend
the peace conference for the discus
sion of this vital question, which has
far more hearing on the question of
world-peace than any subjects of in
demnity and colonization now being
discussed. In particular, I would em
phasize the importance of labor and
socialist organizations being repre
sented. It is of vital moment that the
voices of labor and socialism should
be heard at this critical time. It Is
of vital moment also that socialists
especially should realize that Bolshe
vism means the undermining and
overthrowal of democratic principles
and ideals just as it assuredly means
the destruction of the fundamentals
of moral, social and industrial or
ganization.
"I strenuously urge all civilized
nations to combine in resistance and
repudiation of Bolshevism. No half
way measures will suffice. Any idea
that this new peril and the ideas
which it represents may he tolerated,
is absolutely fallacious and is today
leading civilization to disaster. The
present halfway attitude is already
lending moral support to these forces.
Bolshevists, wherever found, should
be declared outlaws and treated as
such. All the anti-Bolshevik organi
zations, which are formed in different
countries, must have full moral and
material support of the respective
governments.
“But, if, concurrently with the
* adoption of sternly repressive meas
ures in all civilized countries, an anti
Bolshevik campaign were inaugurated
in Russia, the moral and material ef
fect would, I believe, be tremendous.
It would inspire thp terrorized popu
lation of Russia, already incensed
against Bolshevism, with fresh hope
and courage and incentive to renewed
effort to destroy Bolshevism.
“Of course, Russia is the acknowl
edged center of the Bolshevist propa
ganda. But rest assured that the Bol
shevists have taken good care to keep
a careful eye on the press and all
means of attempting any counter
propaganda in the territory which
they now hold. But, if branded as
outlaws and their government re
pudiated, they will be cut off from any
outside aid or consolation and their
aspirations to the overthrow of civ
ilization would be laid in ruins. At
the same time the districts of order
and their people who are fighting for
liberty would receive tremendous
moral courage and their faith in the
eventual overthrow of their tyrants
would be renewed.
“Immediate action is necessary.
All classes in every civilized com
munity are in grave peril from the
spread of this infection of virulent dis
order. It has extended beyond Russia
into Germany and is even manifesting
itself in Great Britain, the United
States and other more distant
countries.
“I would, therefore, repeat with
emphasis the warning uttered by one
of the world’s statesmen, who de
clared that “no time is to be lost if
we are to save the world from the
despotism of anarchy as we saved
it from the despotism of autocracy.”
NORWAY SHIPOWNERS
SAY AMERICA IS NOT
TREATING THEM JUSTLY
CHISTIANIA, April iu tuorrespona
ence of the Associated Press).—Fail
ure of America to come to an agree
ment with Norwegian shipowners, re
garding the requisition of shipbuild
ing contracts placed in America,
which has for two years caused a
steadily increasing bitterness among
business men, is now coupled with dis
trust as to the American govern
ment’s methods of dealing with small
nations, and is unanimously and se
verely criticised by the whole Nor
wegian press.
In answer to the criticism, the
American legation publishes a state
ment defending the United States
Shipping Board’s unwillingness to
meet the Norwegian demands for pay
ment of contracts at market value.
It is stated here that the American
shipping board offers to pay only for
material and steel on hand when the
United States government requisi
tioned the ships under construction.
The Morgenbladet, whose editor is
a member of parliament, denounces
American methods and declares that
America should pay full market value
of the whole contract, especially as
Norway’s rights are,he says, protected
by the treaty of 1827.
I It is asserted that the $12,000,000
offered for settlement only covers half
the cost of direct initial outlay by
Norwegians, and only a quarter the
cost entailed at the time of requisi
tioning the shipbuilding contracts.
This, it is charged, is contrary to the
way America settled for British con
tracts requisitioned in the United
States.
“Although America can force her
decision she cannot prevent Norweg
ians from calling this procedure un
fair and unbusinesslike,” the Morgen
bladet adds.
CALIFORNIA BOASTS
ITS FIRST WOMAN
SQUIRREL INSPECTOR
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 (by As
sociated Press).—An active little
woman attired in brown blouse and
breeches and wearing leggings and
a cap made after the pattern of those
worn by overseas soldiers, is the first
“squirrel inspector” of the state to
report a district of considerable area,
over which she has supervision, as
well as a point of law, when he sees
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Mrs. Pearl Doggett of Kings county
is the only woman squirrel inspector
in California. She is a familiar figure
to the ranchers of Kings county. She
drives about in her own automobile
which dlspjlhys a large banner bear
ing the legend “Get the Squirrel.”
The raqfcher realizes that he has to
meet a practical business question, as
well as a poin tof law, when he sees
this tfim little woman making a sur
vey fit his premises, looking for pos
sltpe ground squirrels.
The "lady inspector” says that her
success lias been in a large measure
due to the general system of handling
the problem in the county. “KingB
county ranchers do not like the idea
VARSITY MEN
TAUGHT MINING
UNDERGROUND
MOSCOW, Ida., April 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A school room 1400
feet underground in the Morning
Mine at Mullan, Idaho, in which re
turned soldiers are being taught the
art and practice of mining lead-zinc
ore, is one of the latest educational
innovations of the University of
Idaho. This work, which has been
inaugurated by the School of Mines
at the university, is, so far as is
known, the first attempt to apply to
actual, underground mining work the
new system of vocational education
provided for by the Smith-Hughes act
and the experiment is being watched
with interest by miners and mine op
erators alike throughout the western
states.
The school room, is far under
ground and is devoid of blackboards,
books and benches. Pupils and teach
er alike are dressed in overalls and
mining boots, and the school eqoip
ment consists of rock drills, driven by
compressed air, or "machines’’ as
they are generally termed in mining
parlance, steel or drill bits for these
machines, picks, shovels, timber,dyna
mite caps and fuse and all the other
paraphernalia of those who go down
to the mine in skips.
The teacher is Lieutenant Prank H.
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S. army, recently released from serv
ice for this work. Before going into
the army, Lieutenant Skeels had been
a mine manager and mine superin
tendent to which position he had risen
after spending all his life since boy
hood in and about the mines of the
Coeur d’Alene district.
Admission to the school is obtained
by application to the federal employ
ment agent at Wallace, and prefer
ence is given to returned soldiers who
are young enough and bright enough
to be teachers.
The work in hand is what is known
as drifting, that is driving a horizon
tal gallery or working lengthwise of
the vein. The pupils operate the rock
drills in turn, learning the intricacies
of the “drift round,” studying the
number of holes necessary to break
out the predetermined section of rock,
the angles at which they must be
driven to make the greatest progress
with the least amount of drilling and
the smallest possible supply of dyna
mite. In addition the placement of
timber to support a weak wall or a
"slabby” roof, and all the various
kinks of the underground trade are
taught, and taught by making the
student do them in actual workman
like fashion to pass the scrutiny of a
dogmatic mine foreman and a lynx
eyed safety engineer.
There is more prosaic work of
“mucking” or shovelling, and of the
tramming the broken ore or waste to
the shaft or dumping place. The
young fellows who attend the school
receive fair compensation for their
time, as the school is carrying on
drift work by contract, and payment
is made per foot advance. Whatever
is left over after paying for explosives
and other supplies, is divided pro rata
among the men, the salary of the in
structor being paid jointly by the
state of Idaho and the federal gov
ernment.
While at the present time there is
a school in one mine only, it is ex
pected that within the next month or
two, schools will be organized at each
of the other four or five big prop
erties in the Couer d’Alene district.
“Like every other novel enterprise
the school has, of course, had to over
come a good deal of skepticism and
passive opposition on the part of some
of those who should be most concerned
in its establishment, but this is gradu
ally fading out as the practicability
of the scheme is being demonstrated,”
Baid Dean F. A. Thomson of the Uni
versity School of Mines. Applications
for enrollment far exceed the present
capacity of the school.
of being driven," said Mrs. Doggett,
“but most of them are willing to con
cede that they will do their part if
someone will show them that the
ground squirrel can be eradicated.”
Mrs. Doggett covers half the county
or between five and six hundred
square miles, In which theta are re
latively few large holdings, and the
smaller holdings with varying crops,
affording ideal feeding and breeding
ground for rodents. She carries with
her a plat boo,k of the county showing
the area and ownership of every par
cel of land, and in addition keeps a
supply of poisoned barley in her auto
mobile with which to scatter poison
on the roadwayB while going from
place to place.
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A REAL TRENCH POET.
Sergant Melville A. Shauer sends
the following verse from France to
his father, Emil Shauer, assistant
treasurer of the Famous Players-Las
ky Corporation. Mr. Shauer has
passed it on and we are printing it
because we think it worth while.
Whizzie-Bang
(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
(Note—the whizzie-bang is a par
ticular brand of huksy German trench
mortar which makes you duck for the
trench so you stick together without
the “mortar.")
You may talk o’ shot and shell
When you’re quartered safe from hell,
And the skinny beer and vin excite
your laughter,
But it’s different sort of bizz
When you hear the whine and whizz
And you try to dodge the bang that
follows after.
Now, over there, across the brine,
On the western battle-line.
Where the Yankees staked their
claim out with the gang.
Of all that beastly bumpin’
There was none could get you jumpin’
Like that boomin’, curs’d fandango,
whizz-bang.
It is whizz! Bang! Whizz!
Not much time to hide your phizz—
So you bite the dust and wonder
where it is.
“Now, it’s—Bang! Your thoughts are
broken
By the - Boche's token—
That howling hunk of hatred,
Whizz! Bang! Whizz!
When the lads in khaki lay
In their dirt-dug homes by day,
While the rifle and machine gun
bullets sang.
In the thickest of the fray
You could spot her right away—
That sassy, snappy, spit-cat,
whizzie-bang.
It was whizz! Bang! Whizz!
Hear the screaming splinters sizz!
Oh, the breeze they mak’d give you
rheumatiz;
And you’d wish you had your mitts
On the pesky, frisky Fritz,
Feeding up the iron rations, whizz!
Bang! Whizz!
I shall ne’er forget the night
When the moon was shining bright,
And we cussed because it gave the
Fritz the hang;
We were crossing fields of wire
When she opened up her fire,
And we thought of home and
“blighty,” whizzie-bang!
Well, you've made us hop and run
With your devil’s poppin’ gun.
But this war ain’t finished yet—not
by a dang!
3o on spittin' till you choke
You ugly little bloke,
You’ll be smoking in hell, old
whizzie-bang!
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
Notice is hereby given that a cau
;us of Democratic voters of Cordova
jrecinct will be held in the council
ihamber of the city hall on Saturday,
April 26, at 8 p. m., for the selection of
fourteen delegates to the Democratic
;erritorial convention to be held at
runeau on May 2. Said convention is
for the purpose of nominating a can
lldate for delegate to congress to be
roted for at the special election to be
teld June 3. All Democrats are urged
;o attend. E. F. MEDLEY,
Precinct Committeeman.
LEAGUE OF CULTURE
HOLDS CEEBRATION
—*-•
PETROGRAD, March 20 (via Rus
sian wireless to London). — The
League of Proletarian Culture, found- '
ed in February, 1918, has celebrated
its first anniversary. The league,
which has several branches, embraces
plastic art, dramatic art and music,
and has publishing offices, clubs, etc.
Each branch has rtvonis for practical
training and studios in which work
men can practice the new proletarian
culture. The literary branch has is
sued a dozen publications including a
monthly review. The theatrical sec
tion, which numbers about 500 'mem
bers, produces plays.
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