The Alaska Juneau-Dovglas Island Hews
Issued by the Alaska Treadwell aud Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Companies on
the 1st end IStb of each month
L. S. FERRIS .Editor
This publication is intended to be a
community letter sent to all former em
ployees of the Alaska Juneau and Tread
well Companies now in service. Our honor
rolls ar not complete—anyone knowing
of any corrections or additions will con
fer a favor by notifying the editor at
once. We will have to look to the friends
of those on the honor roll (who we will
be glad to put on our mailing list) for
news and correct addresses.
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Season’s Greetings
To all our friends, whether In camp or
at home, we extend a Merry, Merry Christ
mas and a Happy and Prosperous New
Year. May this issue of your little paper
bring your thoughts, for a time, back to
Alaska, to the friends and relatives who
are partaking of their holiday cheer with
but one regret—that your place Is vacant
at the family table.
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Christinas Drive
Douglas-Treadwell Chapter wants to go
"over the top” with a hundred per cent
universal membership during the week of
December 16th to 23rd. If you are al
ready a member of the Red Cross and your
membership expires, “renew it,” and if
you are not a member, “become one.” Let
part of our Christmas spirit be manifest
by doing all we can for the Red Cross.
Every person on the Island should enroll
as a member.
It is estimated that 12 per cent of the
population of Alaska joined the army. If
this ratio had been kept up with Ameri
ca’s population of one hundred million,
the army would have consisted of twelve
million men.
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Mrs. Wm. Franks, who returned last
week on tbs Watson after a stay of several
months Outside, expects to spend the win
ter here with her husband. They will re
side in the house back of the Treawell
post office formerly occupied by Herbert
Spencer.
The many friends of Canon A. E.
Butcher, lately in charge of St. Luke’s
Pariah, Douglas, and of Mrs. Butcher, will
be Interested to know that they are now
comfortably settled in their new home In
Honolulu.
Interned
There are thousands of men In the A.E.F.,
Who did not volunteer.
And plenty more will be going o’er,
Who’d Just as leave stay here.
The most unfottunate man today
Is the fellow who came to the front,
And offered his all to his country’s call
And wee ready to bear the brunt—
But was cast aside and assigned else
where.
To Replacement or Depot Brigade,
And there to remain t'H he grew Insane,
As he waited In vain for aid.
For his longed-for chance to go to France
Does not materialize;
He storms and he frets but he never gets
His chance like the other guys.
He writes in despair to his friends over
there
That ne a give ten year# ot n.o me
If he could get In It for only a minute
To try out his lick In the strife.
Now last year they told him that they
had to hold him
On this side with other good men
To train new recruits In making salutes,
Yet er.ain and again and again.
Now the end of the fight is almost In
sight—
He’s is far from the front as at first;
Is it any great wonder he thinks it a
blunder
And his soreness can not be dispersed?
For now it would seem that his fondest
dream—
To fight for the U. S. A.
Will never arrive, altho he may strive,
And hope against hope for the Day.
The unlucky oues in the Great World
War
Are not the men who are killed,
Nor the wounded ones, be they Allies or
Huns,
No matter what blood they have spilled.
The most unfortunate man today.
Is the man who jumped at the chance
To fight like hell from the tap of the bell
Hut who’ll never see service in France.
G. W. POLHUMAS, Maj., Inf.
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The Delegate Contest
Wickersham has been awarded the 3eat
in congress by the elections committee.
This means that he now will draw down
$15,000 salarr aqd expenses tor the two
years he has beep kept from his office,
in the meantime Charles A. Suizer has
been drawing this salary which belongs
to another. But that will stop immedi
ately and Charles will be allowed to return
home.—Cordova Times.