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Mr. Dick Morris*, one of the Four-Minute Men will address
the audience tonight in regards to the war.
Gen. Admission, 25c. Reserved Seats, 50c.
SHOW STARTS AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
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FOREST FIRES ARE
VERY EXPENSIVE
Forest fires burned over 962,000
acres of national forest lands in
1917 and caused a loss of $1,358,600
i to the Government in timber, forage
and young growth, according to fig
ures compiled by the Forest Service.
While the loss was larger than for
several years past, officials say that,
considering the unusually dangerous
conditions, it was remarkably light
Protracted drought and periods of
high winds made the conditions, they
declare, virtually the same as in
1910, when many persons were burn
ed to death and $25,000,000 worth
of timber on the National Forests
was destroyed.
In addition to the actual loss in
I timber and forage, the fires of last
j year entailed extra expenditures by
I the Government of $1,121,451. This,
| it is pointed out, means that to hold
; the fires down large numbers of men
| have to be withdrawn from pro
i ductive work and much money spent
j for supplies.
Of the 7,814 fires which were
i fought on the ational Forests, all but
12,132 set by lightning were caused
; by human agencies and could have
| been prevented. There were 952 in
j cendiary fires, which occurred for
j the most part in Oregon, California,
I and Arkansas. Careless campers
were responsible for 1,288. Rail
roads, partly through failure to com
ply with the law and use spark
arresters, set 1,003. The remainder
were caused by various form of
carelessness on the part of settlers
and other users of the National
Forests.
Effort is being made by the For
est Service to impress upon the pub
lic the necessity of keeping fire out
of the woods, especially now that
the country needs its man-power so
badly for other purposes than fight
ing unnecessary fires. The cam
paign of education against careless
ness and indifference which has been
waged for years, through fire-warn
ings, pqsters, talks and lectures,
“movies,” and in other ways, it is
asserted, will therefore be pressed
with renewed energy the coming
season.
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DOES HIS BII BY
GETTING SICK
After being turned down three
times by the army and the navy,
Leopold Strauss, of New York, went
to France with the Presbyterian Hos
pital unit, and there he at last got
a chance to do his bit. He did it by
offering himself, with two others, as
a subject for inoculation with trench
fever germs, so that the American
medical men might seek a cure.
The inoculation consisted in tak
ing from the soldier patients “coot
ies” or “chats.” as young Strauss
calls them, and placing them on the
arms of Strauss. Twice a day for
twenty minutes each, during a per
iod of four weeks, these trench ver
min were thus permitted to “feed.”
Then came the observation period
to see whether the subject had con
tracted the fever.
It developed in Strauss, but he
modestly says that his companions,
nurses and officers praised him too
much for his sacrifice, and that he
should have been three times as
sick to deserve all the good treat
ment accorded him. He describes
his illness as chiefly feeling “miser
able in every muscle and a few bones
sore.”
The fever, he says, eats one’s tis
sues away, but evidently he was
cured of it, fos he writes of being
up and getting stout, though not
yet out of the hospital. “And,” he
adds, “I sure feel great.”
ANCHORAGE MAN HAS
INTERESTING EXPERIENCE
Charles L. Mason, of Anchorage,
secretary to William Edes, recently
underwent an amusing and rather a
j serious experience in Seward Be
! fore coming to Alaska he had charge
iof a Sunday school in Denver, Colo
' rado, and in celebration of one of
their anniversaries desired to send
them a telegram of congratulations
and good cheer. Mason therefore
made out his" telegram tersely and
to the point- “Congratulation. Col
lossians 2-5.” The operator at once
inquired as to the code used. Mason
informed him that it was a bible
quotation but the skeptical official
in charge had him held in jail for
several days until an investigation
should be made. A Bible was finally
located whereup the greeting was
found to read thus: “Congratula
tions. For though absent in the
flesh, yet I am with you in spirit,
joying and beholding your order and
the steadfastness of your faith in
Christ.” Mason as immediately re
leased with profuse apologies by the
government officials there. The Den
ver paper had a lengthy account of
the affair.
AMERICAN WOMEN DOCTORS
IN WAR WOFK.
The announcement that more than
fifty women physicians and sur
geons will soon leave for France
under the auspices of the American
Women’s Hospitals is no doubt the
most striking testimony so far fur
nished of women’s active' participa
tion in war work. Thousands of
nurses, of course, and other thous
ands of women workers have crossed
the ocean for war service, and mil
lions of women at home have been
energetically knitting and making
hospital supplies. Even so, the dis
patch of this number of women prac
tising physicians to the front is a
notably thing both in the history
of war and the history of medicine.
Only a brief generation ago the
very question of woman’s capacity
for medical practice was in dispute.
Now some 6,000 women in the
United States have proved their com
petence and 2,000 have joined the
Medical Women’s National Associa
tion, from whose membership this
contingent of half a hundred women
doctors is recruited for war service
abroad.
Their special mission 'is to estab
lish a_ chain of hospitals and clinics
in France to be conducted by women
surgeons, dentists, bacteriologists
and nurses, to the entire exclusion
of men. It is a mission through
which American womanhood may
nobly, serve the stricken womanhood
of France, and its appeal to Ameri
can support should be correspond
ingly strong.
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PRODUCTS STORE
That Anchorage people’s demand
along food lines are such as will
support an -all Alaska products store
is the belief of Frank Lange, fami
liarly known in Nenana as the “Fly
ing Dutchman,” who has opened a
new market in the old Chamber of
Commerce rooms on Fourth St., An
chorage. Lange will deal in diary
and poultry products and vegetables
and all kinds of fish. To facilitate
handling the various kinds of the
finny tribe to be found in that part
of Alaska, Lange has his own gas
boat, the Edith, which will make
trips to all points on Cook Inlet
for that purpose.
The market is equipped with sani
tary iceboxes of the latest design,
and all departments of the business
will be maintained along the latest
clean market lines.
Come and play a hand Satu-day
for those “over there.”
r.s. McDonald
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