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An unofficial rwib-Ti aation. published without expense to tha Government
Vol. 3 __November 30. 1923 Ho. 48
THANK SGI nm MARKED BY LARGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC DINNERS, OTHER FESTIVITIES
Turkey dinners at all the organization nesses, a full holiday, dinners
at the private hones of the Post, all officers and their families enter
tained Jlianksgiving evening by Major and Mrs. Maddox, and a dance given
by the Elks Wednesday evening in Skagway, these were among the events mark
ing one of bbe happiest thanksgivings within the memory of the oldest in
habitant of Chi.3koot Barracks.
At the Thanksgiving dinner at Company F, guest3 were Major and Mrs#
Maddox, Captain and Mrs. Savage a.id sons,- Lieutenant and Mrs. Ungethuem,
Lieutenant and Mrs. McMaster and Miss Cru3ius, Sgt and Mrs. Behrens, and
Sgt* and Mrs# Powell and children* and Pvt. and Mrs. Snider#
Company E entertained. Captain and Mrs. Wright, Lt» and Mrs. Maertens
and Messrs. George and James Maertens; I*t. Edwards, Sgt and Mrs. Kline,
Sgt. and Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Tom Keane, Mrs. Lee.
Major and Mrs. Maddox* party Thanksgiving evening, attended by all of
the officers of the post and their families, was passed pleasantly at bridge.
Captain Loving and Lt. Maertens won first 'ini second prize, respectively,
f orw g entlemen, and Mrs- Mae tens ani Mrs. Loving the prizes for ladies.
Delicious refreshments, consisting of sandwiches, cut in the shape of the
card figures (clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds), fruit cake, salad, choc
olate and punch, were served.
The families of Lt. Ungethuem, Lt. Maertens and Lt. Mcllaster gathered at
a delightful Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday evening at the home of Lt. and f
Mrs. Maertens. This is the second of a series of dinners which the three
families are giving, the first having been an anniversary dinner. The sec
ond will be Christmas dinner at the Hciiaster hone*
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• PACIFieffi AND TUB ARMY-—AN EDITORIAL
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Last week The Post reported Dr* S* Hall Young’s statement as to the ef
fect of withdrawing the Array from Alaska in 1877. Anarchy and chaos reigned,
according to Dr. Young, who was here at the time and who saw innocent men
and women shot dorm because there was no power here to restrain crime* We
want to call attention to that because it is a tribute from a clergyman to
the Army, and not only a clergyman, but one who, as head of all the missions
in Alaska for one of the greatest American denominations, may be taken as
representative of the higher order of c-ergyraenr of clergymen who know the
affairs of the world and who formulate sane opinions on matters of public
welfare.
Now such a tribute is important at bis T,ine, when many clergymen, not so
well informed and not so sane, are attacking the Army, or worse yet, insid
iously teaching that the Acrid has pr ogressed to a point where War is un
necessary and hence, by inference, 30 is the Army.
Dr. Young made no stand in favor of War. No Christian and no good citi
zen could do so. War is one of the most dreadful scourges of Mankind. There
is no need to quote statistics to prove this, no need to iraw eloquent word
pictures of the horrors of battle. It is true; and no one knows this better
"than we in the military service who have seen it, 'riioso (continued on Page 2)