NEW BRITISH
SHIPS COMING
TO AMERICA
LONDON, Feb. 6 (by Associated
Press).—Three new steamships, com
pleted during the war, soon will be
familiar in the North Atlantic serv
ice. They are the Vedic, the Rimou
ski, both of 10.000 tons register, and
the Regina, a triple-screw steamship
of 16,000 tons. They were built in
Belfast yards, and before their pas
senger accommodation was complete,
■were fitted up for troops, many thou
sands of whom they have already
transported to France and elsewhere.
WANT WOMEN TO KNIT
FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (by Associated
Press).—An appeal to women re
leased from knitting for the Red Cross
to make protectors for wounded sol
diers or sailors who have suffered
amputation of arms or legs has been
issued by the national Booth knitting
committee of the Navy League, with
headquarters here. A model &ir
rnent" has been knitted by Mrs. •
Caauncey M. Depew, wife of the for- i
mer senator, and approved by me ica
officers of the debarkation hospital
service, whose institutions receive
every week hundreds of disabled men
returning from foreign service.
Men who have undergone amputa
tions suffer from exposure of the in
jured extremity, which is especially
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MEXICO WANTS
INFORMATION
ONEPORTS
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The department of
commerce and labor has ordered all
Mexican consuls and commercial rep
resentatives in the United States to
report immediately on what articles
badly needed in Mexico can be ex
ported without delay from the States.
Data regarding prices also is rc
quested.
tender and susceptible to cold, the
committee's statement says. Doctor ,
it adds, declare that every man thus
disabled should wear a protector un
der his outer garment, and the com
mittee hopes, with the aid of knitters
throughout the country, to provide at
least six for every wounded soldier
requiring them. _
FILIPINO BROTHERHOOD
HAS BEEN ORGANIZED
HONOLULU, Jan. 5 (by mail).—
V new racial organization has been
ormed in the territory of Hawaii—
he Filipino Inter-Island Brotherhood,
rhe foundation was laid at a meet
ng held at the Pan-Pacific Club, at
tended by 100 Filipinos, representing
svery island of the group. Several
thousand Filipinos have entered Ha
waii in recent years, most of them
aeing employed on sugar plantations.
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INDIAN FABLE 1
WHICH POINTS
OUTMORAL
Don’t trust new-found friends who
protest friendship because of a com
mon misery.
You can’t be a porcupine and a bea
ver at the same time.
On the desk of W. T. Lopp, chief
of the Alaska division, bureau of edu
cation, in the L. C. Smith building,
is a little carved wooden porcupine
and a little carved wooden beaver,
presented to Mr. Lopp shortly before
Christmas by Sidney Campbell, an
aged Indian of Metlakahtla, Alaska.
With the presentation went a story,
n t unlike the fables of Aesop.
“Many years ago,” said the aged
Indian through an interpreter, "there
lived a porcupine and a beaver. They
both had stiff necks and could not
turn their heads without turning their
whole bodies. When they discovered
their common plight they decided to
become friends.
une aay wnen tney were out lor a
walk they came to a tree. The porcu
pine climbed out onto the branches
and invited the beaver to follow.
When the beaver had got part of the
way up he lost his hold and fell to
the ground with a flop.
“The beaver lay there gasping for
breath, while the porcupine ran away
laughing.
“After a while the beaver overtook
the porcupine and invited him to his
home. When they got to the beaver
dam the beaver offered to give his
stiff-necked friend a ride, and the por
cupine unwittingly accepted the in
vitation.
“When they got to the middle of
the pond the beaver dived under and
left the porcupine clinging to a piece
of wood.
“The porcupine could not swim and
so he sang to the Great Spirit, asking
that the water be made hard so that
he could walk out. Pretty soon a
thick layer of ice covered the pond.
This was the first ice in the world.
The porcupine scrambled ashore."
“There must be a moral to this,”
said Mr. Lopp.
“There are two morals,” replied the
Indian—“Don’t trust new friends wjto
protest friendship because qf a
J*>#mlsery; 'you a porch pro!
and a beaver at the same time.”—Se
attle Post-Intelligencer.
MUSHES FROM ARCTIC
TO HELP RED CROSS
Many strange things happen in the
course of Red Cross activities, and
not a few occur in that most versa
tile territory, Alaska. The office of
the Northwest division of the Red
Cross was mildly surprised, therefore,
recently, when Mrs. Sophia Redmond
of Nolan, Alaska, walked in and
turned over $206 as the proceeds from
the auctioning of a sweater she had
knit for the Red Cross. This state
ment itself is only of passing interest,
perhaps, but take your map of Alaska
and you will locate Nolan well within
the Arctic circle, between the 67th
and 68th parallels. Mrs. Redmond,
who is the only white woman at No
lan, left there August 10, mushing to
Betties, seventy-five miles away. From
there she went to Nulato by river
boat, a journey of almost 500 miles.
There she boarded a Yukon river
steamer to connect with the ocean
steamship for Seattle. This hardy lit
tle woman, whose energy was such
that the Red Cross has profited to
the extent of $206, is typical of that
energy displayed by all Alaska women
in their enthusiasm to further the
work of the Red Cross.—Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
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