LITTLE STORIES
OF THE RED CROSS
‘‘I am a little French girl from
Rheims. My father gave his life for
France. My mother and I lived in a
cellar two years under bombardment.
Then she was killed by a shell. I am
six years old. The Red Cross is tak
ing care of me.”
“I am an American prisoner in Ba
varia, where I have been for two
months. Thanks to the Red Cross
work through Switzerland, real food,
soap and other necessaries are sent
to me.”
“I am an old French Woman with
two grandchildren. For three years
we have been behind the German
lines. But the Hindenburg retreat has
left, us again under the blessed tri
color. Our village is gone and our
fields spoiled. But the Red Cross has
fixed up a home and a school and is
finding me a new field to cultivate.”
“1 am a soldier of France blinded
in the battle of Verdun. The Red
Cross women are teaching me to see
with my fingers, and to do useful
work. I expect some day to be able
to help take care of my family again.”
“I am a boy in an American public
school. My father died when I was
little, but my brothers have taken
care of my mother and me. One of i
them is drafted now and the other!
is sick and can not work. The Red1
Cross home service will look out for
us until my brother in service comei
back, and will keep me in school.”
“I am a French soldier, detached
from my company, on short leave from
the trenches. My family is lorft and
my home a ruin. But the thing that
gives men like me courage to go is
the Red Cross. Its canteens, scat
tered through France, give us warm
beds and a chance to rest, wash off
the dirt, and to take a new grip on
life.”
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NOTICE jr*
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The city has employed a regularly
licensed scavenger and residents must
not employ any other person to do
his work. All refuse matter and gar
bage must also be kept in the reg
ulation cans, as prescribed by ordin
ance. In the future the throwing of
any paper or refuse over the rail on
Front street i* strictly prohibited.
W. H. CHASE
..j, , Health Officer
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Only the workers, “comrades in
this great enterprise,” bear the hon
ored name Americans.
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If this struggle is not won by our
country and her associates in the war,
the world will not b,e a fit place to
live in.
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UN'S APPEAL
TO BE DELEGATE
TO CONGRESS
The latest aspirant for delegate to
congress from Alaska is C. J. Holmes
of Nenana, who has confidence in her
own ability and has sent out the fol
lowing unique announcement of her
candidacy;
“I have desided to enter the politi
cal field friends who have knowen
me for some time are partly respon
sible for this act. but not entirely for
my asporations were tending that way,
for I thought and think now I can be
of benefit to the people, of Alaska;
at least I shall exert my all in there
behalf, whether I am selected as there
representative or not.
“Some may think I am incompe
tent to fill the position to which 1
aspire Delegate to congress—be
cause I am A woman, if women are
capable of controling by franchise—
to choose the representative, at least,
when men have so jjobly placed with
in her reach the guiding staff—the
ballot box.
“My officiency may be at fault when
I am tried, but I can assure the peo
ple of Alaska, that my energy will
not be.
“I am not a candidate on the re
publican, ticket, because I do not
think the republican party, as A
standard, represents the full and
whole interests of the people, I aspire
to represent.
"1 am not Affiliated with the Demo
cratic party, simply, because that
party has shown that cators to the'
individual politician, first. I am A
candidate for the people, believing
that the people should govern them
selves in every sense even to the
smallest apointment.
“I can not, and will not promise to
use my influence in any measure that
is not commensurate with the inter
ests of the people, who are strivnig
to bufld this new empire, af which
we are all so proud.
“My platform is the foundation on
which I stand, and if I am chosen to
represent Alaska r shall stand oat
for the things there in embodied, if
I am chosen to represent Alasto, re
gardless of any intimidation orj pres
sure that may be brought to pArr as
influence against ft, as I believe ft ]
coiitains the paramount question that
should be taken into consideration".
“Lergisl'atioH!,. for x ciass, has proven
that such legfsratiom only benefits She
class for which such legislation is
enacted!, and not the men, who
pierced: the goiiawinds arrd broke tde
trails A crost Alaska's breast.
“Is It time to take executive power,
from the1 hands of the ring politicians?
I think 30. for that reason I ain de
sirous of trying to crumble that wall
—that seeming phalanx—that has so
long retarded political liberty, that
legislation with out corruption can be
had. .
“I am the friend of the politician a*
1 am the friend of the layman, but
carpet-bagging has well served it’r
purpose but I shall if chosen be the
representative of the politician as
well as the representative of the lay
man.
“I am sure that political rings will
ignore my appeale and efforts and:
doubtless work against me, but as the
people; are fighting the present war,
for Democratic freedom, and liberty,
for the soul of man, and not the po
litical. ring, should not the people, be
given an equal chance for political,
liberty, with out the cost of blood?
“A perusal of the platform on which
I stand will enable the honest prus
pector, the rancher, the business man,
and the daily laborer, to answer the
above questions, and are not the in
terests of all Identical?
“If elected, I will not be the repre
sentative of any incorporation, bat
for all of them who do business in
the territory of Alaska—not of any
Individual, but for all Individuals, who
toil and moil for the equal interests
of the unit and the masses. ,
“If you can consistently assist me
in any way to attain my goal, \ will
pledge my honor to try and benefit
your interest, what ever that interest
may be.”
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