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THE APATHIST
By Tho». Addison, of the Vigilante*
Apathy! I’m beginning to thing;
that your apathist, (to eoin the
■word) is pretty nearly as bad as
your pacifist. You can at least
pillory the pacifist, plant the red
flag over him, and warn straight
out Americans to give him a wide
berth. But your apathist! What in:
heaven’s name, are you going to do
with this chap? He isn’t a traitor,
fie isn’t a false propogandist, he isn’t
even a willful obstructionist. He is
simply a human invertebrate—a
dead weight in a war-working com
munity that has got to be lugged
along because there’s nothing else
to do with him.
I know Mr. Apathist, and you
know him. As a rule he hasn’t any
one of his immediate blood in the
army—he and his are all safe,
sound and snug, ou seldom see him
at a patriotic rally, or on a com
mittee to boost the Red Cross, or
in a Y. M. C. A. “over ..there”
drive, or buying smokes for Sam
mies. But he buys Liberty bonds—
you bet. And War Saving Stamps
and Thrift Stamps. Good business
that; you can’t lose. But these
other things they are begging for
—there’s plenty of time t^^corae
gin to fight. And, you knov/, it’s
not so sure that we will have to
fight. Something is likely to happen
before we get to the firing line—
peace, or a revolution in Germany,
or something. And, anyway, the
Government is running this show,
and taxing the life out of us to do
it. The Government doesn’t need
my help. I’m just one in a hundred
million. Let the fellows who have
the money and time to spare do the
shouting. I’ve got all I can attend
PRESIDENT KEPT BUSY
BY LINE OF WAR WORK
Mr. Wilson likes to have things
in writing, and almost all of the
busines of the Wilson administra
tion is conducted in that way. The |
cabinet has learned to submit vir
tually everything in writing. Mr.
Wilson has no stenographer with
him at night. He keeps a little
typewriter beside him and types
a brief comment or reply to each
of these long communications.
Even the president’s private sec
retary, when anxious to lay before
him a matter of importance, draws
up a memorandum or brief, giving
the pros and cons of the subject.
He could just as well walk a few
steps to the white house from the
executive offices or even consult the
president when he is in his office,
but ever since he was governor of
New Jersey, Mr. Wilson has indi
cated that he prefers to have im
portant questions placed before him
on paper so that they may be ex
amined at his leisure, though the
very word is a misnomer.
No mind could retain all that is
said to the president in a single day,
so it happens that Mr. Wilson’s desk
is always piled high with papers.
It is a constant battle against a con
stantly ascending pile. Part of the
mountain ia made up of official
papers and commissions that merely
require the president’s signature,
small bills and resolutions that have
passed congress. Writing one’s
name a hundred times is a monoto
nous undertaking, but the president
must do it literally thousands oi
times a week.
to keeping up with my growing
business.
You’ve heart Mr. Apathist talk
just like that. I have, anyway. He
has ten tons c-f coal in his cellar
wrhen the state fuel administrator
says the limit is two; there are
a hundred pounds of sugar in his
pantry when the gTocer is allowing
but three pounds a week to a family
of four; he burns up gasoline joy
riding on Sundays when the Govern
ment begs the people to help con
serve the supply on hand.
What’s the matter with this chap?
I’ll tell you. He is afflicted with
mental myopia. He is devoid of
imagination. He is a materialist, a
hedonist, an upspiritual clod of clay
—self centered as a turtle buried in
the mud. He believes only in what
is jammed up to his nose—what
he can taste, touch, smell and hear.
He can’t visualize this war;hecould
not do it is he was furnished with
a telescope that would give him a
close-up of the bloody trenches in
Flanders, or an audiphone that would
let him hear the roar of the great
guns. moment he put the in
struments aside he would lapse into
his former sense of aloofness from
the scene. Three thousand miles
away! What interest could he have
in a thing so remote? If the Ger
mans were fighting on the next
block—why, yes! He’d grab his
KWLJJSf1 S&.
home with any man. But across
the seas!
That’s your apathist! Dear Lord,
how I would like to put a pin in
every chair he sits in—in every bed
he lies in—in every shoe he walks in
—in every hat he sticks his head in.
If I could only prod him, bod) and
soul, until he was all awake and
alive, and would pitch in and do a
he-man’s work for the holiest cause
humanity’s sun ever flamed on! If
I only could.
MECHANICAL FORCE
REDUCED FOR TIME
Water Conditions Along Right of
Way Necessitate Temporary
Curtailment
As a tempoiary arrangement and
by reason of tie fact that flood con
ditions have so hampered the work
of construction as to render the run
ning of the nght shifts on the
Bucyrus draglim excavator and the
locomotives impossible at the pres
ent time, a reduition of the mechan
ical forces and train crews have
been forced on he Commission.
W. E. Muir, naster mechanic, in
charge of the mchanical engineer
ing end of the A_iskan Engineering
commission, is athority for the
statement that thelaying off of the
men is of a temprary nature and
that employment all be found for
them as soon as coditions will war
rant.
Locomotive No. t or the “Five
Spot” is now at th» northern shore
of Clear creek, neat the bridge by
the pump house an> is not under
steam. Two men are stationed
there, closely watchLr the engine
and bridge. Some o the members
of her crew have bee provided for
where their services <n best serve
the present needs of .he Commis
sion.
Foods that may be sVstituted for
sugar are raisins, maplfsyrup, corn
syrup, sorghum and mosses.
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SONS 10 ALLIES
IN WAR ON INS
There is at least one community
in the United States which is not
bothered by politics, and that is
Louds Island, down of the Maine
coast. The people do not vote, do
not pay taxes, have no form of gov
ernment whatever. Loud’s, wihch
is inhabited by twenty-five or thirty
fishing families, who are “agin
guvmint” and have been “agin” it
so long that they are now “sot in
their ways,” “seceded” from the
United States in I860- At Lincoln’s
first election in the fall of that
year the islanders voted with Bristol,
the nearest mainland town, but on
some constitutional grounds, their
ballots were thrown out. This
started something at Loud’s Island.
Having been deprived of the right
of suffrage the people, acting upon
the advice of a lawyer, refused to
pay taxes. And, as these sturdy
fishermen were of a determined na
ture, the ultimatum ended the con
troversy.
When the draft was made for the
Civil war a few years after the
trouble with Bristol, Loud’s Island
names were placed in the same box
with those of the mainland town,
and, not being property shaken up,
came out on top. As a result nine
| men from the possible forty-five
were drawn from the island to fill
Bristol’s quota. This was “rubbing
! it in” just a little too freely for the
I fishermen’s tastes. They congre
gated in a mass and unanimously
refused to honor the draft. When
the Government officers came to the
: island to perform their official dut
; ies, they were given a rather hot
; reception. The irate mothers of
the drafted boys greeted them with
a fusillade of rocks, hot potatoes,
and other missies, and forbade them
to land. The officers didn’t land!
Later the islanders met and made
a proportional draft among them
selves. They favored the North,
but did not want to fight, and so
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Thus the island has remained as
practicaly a nonpolitical unit. The
only local expense is for the sup
port of the school, and that is main
tained wholly by the state of Maine.
About a year ago the Maine au
thorities,thinking that it was about
time for a change in the state of
affairs at Loud’s Island, requested
the people to either incorporate
their island as a plantation or an
next it to some town. The islanders
refused to do either. As the Con
' stitution of the State did not em
power the officials with authority to
force the islanders to comply with
: their request, the only thing for
them to do was to accept the de
cision of the fishermen and content
themselves by finding a possible way
by which to assess the real estate
on the island for a state tax. The
people of the island intend to fight
■ to the bitter end against even this
• change in the present “highly satis
I factory” conditions.
When the United States declared
war against Germany the inhabitants
of Loud’s Island did not worry very
much. They kept out of the Civil
war and would do likewise in this
conflict. Congress passed the draft
law, and still Loud’s Island remained
! “neutral.” When the draft machin
ery began to operate, the young men
I of the island were “requested” to
1 register. As the people were begin
■ ning to condemn the kaiser for his
| inhuman practices, they decided to
j accept Uncle Sam’s “invitation” and
; help him crush German militarism.
' Loud’s nine men of the draft age
i registered, and thus the island be
came one of the Allies.
High prices are better than a Hun
peace.
j The bacon you save may save your
I bacon.
BROOKER’S
CAFE and
BAKERY
YOU’LL LIKE THE PLACE
HIGH WATER IS
GIVING USHERS
101 OF TROUBLE
Burn* and Forbe* Hare Exc.ting
Experience on Way to Town
From Out the Line*
Team Foreman E. W. Forbes and ,
Robert E. Burns came into town j
yesterday and report a trying and
difficult trip. The men left Camp
9 (20-mile) in a poling boat, mak
ing the crossing of the turbulent
waters above the big dam driven
at the head of Lost Slough. To ]
make the crossing a large poling j
boat was used and it was necessary ;
to pull up steam quite a ways and i
trust to the current? to drift the :
boat to the farther shore.
In the neighborhood of the old
dam the falling waters had caused
a bar to form, leaving a rather nar
row channel between the bar and
the piling of the old dam. The
swift waters encountered here car
ried the boat down with greater
momentum than the voyagers had
calculated on with the result that
the nose of the boat came heavily
into contact with the piling, com
pletely swinging the boat around
and forcing here into the slack
water behind the piling.
The boat careened over at a dan
gerous angle, but the prompt shift
ing of ballast, in this case repre
sented by the occupants, quickly
righted her and the party escaped
a ducking by a very narrow margin
and were unable to land and pro
ceed safely on the journey.
In this neighborhood there are
j nine head of stock marooned at the
| outset by the flood and four of j
| thesd were requisitioned for the j
rest of the journey.
The party reached the south bank
of Clear creek expecting to make
1 the crossing on the boat sent down
j from Camp 9 the previous day for
the purpose of establishing a ferry j
service here, but of course did not
find it, as it was forced to make
! town through stress of weather and
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j built and a determined attempt was
! made at “siwashing it”, but the
j legion of mosquitoes rendered such
ja proceeding absolutely impossible, j
After a particularly uncomfort
jable and sleepless night, the party
j managed to flag the train passing
by next morning, on which was also
the boat that should have been in
Clear creek the previous night, and
they were ferried across safely;
walking in to the dragline camp and
catching the work train into town.
The time consumed in making the
journey of scarcely 20 miles wars
j rather long for these days of rapid
| transit—the party left camp at 20
mile at 7 p. m. on Sunday and
reached town at about 11 a. m. yes
terday.
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
READ AND BE CONVINCED
In yesterday’s issue of the Nenana
News two advertisements were in
serted; one chroieled the loss of
a pocket-book containing some
money, a postoffice key and some
j important documents; and the other
was in the nature of a notice in
forming the patriotic 'citizens of this
district that several bonds of the
Third Liberty Loan could be ac
quired on payment of the second i
instalments due on them at the
office of the special disbursing agent.
Just one hour after the paper left
the press, Leonti Vercun, a well
known contractor, who had lost the
pocket-book, received his property;
and Mr. C. H. Hall, special disburs
ing agent, states this morning that
all the bonds have been disposed of.
It pays to advertise
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MARINE BULLETIN
Nasultin—Billed leave Dawson 3 j
p. m. for Lewis river.
Sibilla—Left Nenana this a. m. I
for Dawson. |
Red Wing—Down Fa I'janks for j
Log Jam this a. m.
Seattle No. 3—Down Hot Springs j
6:15 a. m. date.
Clipper—Up Koyukuk 4 p. m. j
yesterday.
Martha Clow—At Holy Cross.
Washburn—Down Nulato for Idit-1
arod, June 1.
Tanana—Up Rampart May 31, i
last report.
Julia B.—Down Nulato 7 a. m. j
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Over five hundred of the leading
hotels and restaurants operating
throughout the country, at a recent
conference in Washington, agreed
to eliminate heat and wheat products
from their menus for the balance
of tne present season, in order that
their savings and their example
might be an incentive to help toward
saving the wheat products of this I
country so that shipments to Europe I
might not be impeded in any way. i
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AND
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VAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
Salvage from
the battlefields
The Allied armies find it very profitable
to salvage scrap from the battlefields. Great
Britain is saving millions every year from
this thrifty parctice.
If we could extend this practice to the
United States—if we saved only the waste
and needless spending of every day and put
Fhe saving into War Savings Stamps, it
would help to win the war.
Your every saving helps the Government.
Put the small savings into U. S. Thrift
Stamps at 25 cents each; when you have
16 of them, exchange them with a few extra
pennies for a $5 War Savings Stamp.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUI THEM AT THE
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