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MONDAY. DEC EM HER !». 1!US
MORE LAURELS FOR ALASKA
Nov th- i there has been lim** *dne<
the Fourth Liberty loan for compiling
the total returns, it has turned out
that Alaska leads the entire district
in the amount subscribed. Figures re
ceived from headquarters show that
this territory led the Twelfth Federal
Reserve district, oversubscribing its
quota by a greater amount than any
other stat* or te rritory in the district.
Alaska subscribed one hundred and
lifty six per rein of it^ quota, a grand
total of two million, one hundred and
thirty two thou-and. iiv• * hundred and
lift v dollars, a record that the terri
tory may well feel proud over, and
on- th..' .hows the spirit of this coun
try he tep than almost anything else
if could do to help the government
« arry mi the war.
Thi - i th * way it has always been,
ever since the very beginning of the
war. and the government called upon
th* people to give their support. Every
demand and request has been prompt
ly and cheerfully met; every good
cause that has come to hand has been
given liberal support. Thousands of
dollar have gone out of the country
to rations forms of war work and the
funds for tie- relief of those unfortun
ate people who have suffered most
from the war. have been given gener
ous support all over the territory.
Cordova can hold up its head with
th* re i r, tie country in the matter
of loaning mm ey to the government,
over a million having been put up i»y
this community, a total that is com
paratively out of proportion with the
number 01 people living here.
II this L characteristic of the ter
rit \ 11 laskans an* free and gen
on when their hearts are touched,
as Ver »n is by the events that
ha\ • fransp] *1 a- the outcome of this
great v. it. id in response to this ap
peal th« t tii >i\ has given with a
free hand, g *n wholeheartedly with
a gr* ; : ing n«ss of purpose, helping
to w in tlv w ir.
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T 1 f£ N AND NOW
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Mn > i’n il; in IF rdeii. t he (Ierman
I aid.* : t \ ai has so frequently been
h* ird from durinc tie- war, makes
bold now that tho kaiser has been
humbled to designate him as a tow
ard and charlatan. This latest con
tribution reflects no great credit on
Harden, who at the outbreak of the
war was one of tin- boldest and most
outspoken of the Herman militarists
and spoke with elation of "Her Tag.”
Here is an extract from an article
front his pen. as translated and re
printed in the New York Times ot
December tl. 1 !* 14 ;
"Not as weak willed blunderers
have we undertaken the fearful risk
of this war. Wo wanted it; because
we had to wish it and could wish It
May the Teuton devil throttle those
w hiners whose pleas for excuses make
us ludicrous in these hours of lofty
1 experience. We do not stand, and
shall not place ourselves before the
court of Kurope. Germany
strikes If it conquers new realms for
its genius, the priesthood of all the
gods will sing songs of praise to the
good war We tire waging
this war not in order to punish those
who have sinned, nor in order to free
enslaved peoples, and thereafter to
comfort ourselves with the unselfish
and useless consciousness of our own
righteousness. We wage it from the
lofty point of view and with the con
viction that Germany, as a result of
nor acmevemems. juki m
fn thorn, is justified in asking, and
must obtain, wider room on earth for
development and for working out the
possibilities that are in her. The
powers from whom she forced her as
cendancy. in spite of themselves, still
live, and some of them Jiave recovered
from the weakening she gave them.
Noxv strike's the hour of C»or
many’s rising power. To be
unassailable to exchange the soul of
a viking for that of a New Yorker,
that of tin* mi irk pike for that of the
lay carp whose fat hack crows moss
covered in a dancerless pond that
must never become tin' wish of a (’•■r
man.”
♦
: ROMAN POET DARING AVIATOR
Tin air exploits of Gabriele d‘ An
nun/.io. the Italian poet, novelist and
dramatist, have taken a strong hold on
the Rritish publics imagination, and
lie i acclaimed as on of tin- world’s
foremost tiguivs in aerial warfare
The London papers, which recently
have been devoting considerable sp;m
to the daring Italian, rxpr* s siirpi'M
that a man of his age and tempera
inent was able to make so remarkable
a success as an airman. Pew ex
ported, the Daily Kxpross says, that
the "dandy Roman poet” would be
come an air lighter after passing his
'fiftieth birthday. Above all. it is
pointed < at. he has been an inspira
tion to his people. His deeds during
the war are known to all the world
but few outside Italy realize that Ju
lias been the greatest public orator
of his country since the war begun
His speeches are full of prose music,
and the message which he dropped
over Vienna was written as only a
poet and a soldier could write. D* An
nun/.io as a squadron leader was said
1 to he not only fearless, but untiring
Routine bombing and chasing had no
attractions for him. His fertile brain
was constantly at work devising new
methods for harrying the enemy in
unexpected directions That is why
tin* Austrians hate him so intensely
It is believed that bis fate would have
been dire if he had fallen into the
I enemy’s hands, and London was quite
: ready to credit the story that he car
! ried in his tunic pocket a little phial
I of poison.
♦
The famous bells of the Kremlin at
1 Mo-row now chime the "Internation
ale" tli Sociali » hymn, afternoon and
night. In flu* morning a Russian
| Socialistic hymn is played.
LABOR CONGRESS
WILL ACT ON
STRIKE MATTER
I
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. X (by Asso
I dated Presto. Today was the day
originally set for a universal strike
as a protest against the sentence of
Thomas Mooney. No strikes are re
ported to have been held, however.
It is believed that action has been
deferred until the labor congress
meets in Chicago, on January 14. to
| consider united nation-wide action in
| the Mooney case.
♦
Painful DenUI Work.
In the time of Nero there were pro
fessional dentists who could replace
lost teeth with artltlrtal ones made
of sycamore wood, which were fas
tened to their natural neighbors with
gold wire. A gold plate with several
teeth attached has been found in an
Etruscan tomb. Hut those dentists
knew nothing of the art of excavating
and filling cavities. When a tooth be
came too painful they removed it, not
by pulling it hut by prying it out in
a manner that must have been most
distressing to the sufferer.
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