GOMPERS SAYS LEAGUE MUST
BE GUARANTEE TO WORKERS
OF PEACE SAYS SAM GOMPERS
Emperor William Doomed As Responsible For Plung
ing of World and Mankind Into Most
Terrible Carnage of History
PARIS, Mar. 11.—Reports from the various committees who
have been investigating matters appointed during the first
stage of the Peace Conference, are coming in daily. It is un
derstood today that the report of the Commission charged with
fixing the responsibility for the war is about completed and
that the former emperor William Hohenzollern is doomed. He
is to be officially branded for all time, possibly with Germany
subscribing as arch criminal.
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of
Labor and the International Convention just organized, declared
here today that the Leagueof Nations must assume the respon
sibility of a world-wide guarantee for peace and Liberty to the
protelariat or working classes.
Economic Commission Now Busy
Theeconomic commission appointed to make recommenda
tions as to how effect can be given the third point of the 14
points upon which peace is to rest, has been conducting investi
gations and is nearly ready to make its report. Economic bar
riers are to be removed, as far as is possible between nations and
equality of trade conditions is to be established it is hoped.
Boundary Commission To Report End of Week
The commissions for consideration of frontier questions af
fecting enemy states and the old and new nations expect to re
port by the end of the week, it was further announced officially
today " mir~':vWfP
The conditions under which the Belgian claim and the prob
lems thereof have been laid down. The representatives of the
supreme war council at Versailles, the announcement adds re
ported the council’s conclusions as to the establishment of an
intermediate zone in Transylvania between Rumanian and Hun
garian troops and they were adopted by the conference.
Peace Treaty To Be Signed End of Month
LONDON, Mar. 12.—According to information received here
by Government officials from Premier Lloyd George, the draft of
the peace treaty will be signed by the end of the month.
DANIELS CALLS LEAGUE
A SUBLIME DOCUMENT
If the formation of the League of
Nations had failed the war would
have been fought in vain, declared
Secretary of the Navy Daniels last
night at services held in St. Paul’s
End Avenue and Eighty-sixth Street,
by the Methodist Social Union, to
honor the 250,000 members of that
creed who served in the war. Dr. Wil
liam J. Thompson presided and Bi
shop Luther H. Wilson also spoke.
“Yesterday was a golden day in the
history of the world,” says Dr. Dan
iels, “for fourteen nations, representing
120.000,000 people* unanimously agreed
upon a document which makes Mag
na Charta and the Declaration of In
dependence mere forerunners of an
immortal Instrument that blesses all
the world for all generations. They
were the John the Baptists preaching
‘make straightthe path* llor the Pro
phet of peace on earth, good-will to
ward men.
"The draft of the League of Peace
is almost as simple as one of the par
rbles of Jesus, and almost as illumin
atiny and as uplifting. Today a fresh
wind blows over the world, the nox
ious gases of balances elf power, se
cret diplomacy, protected frontiers,
conscription, and composite navy
building read their doom in the de
cree of this true Parliament of man,
which has seen theories and dreams
find pracfcioal insurance, and ideal
ism made the most real thing in all
the world. /'!{!*.
“An air of satisfaction ^prevails
everywhere” is the comtpent fof cor
respondents cabling from Paris. Out
of travail and debate has come this
child df our hopes, lusty and strong.
In the crucible of love, all differences
were welded into indestructible metat
which no provincialism or partisanship
can break or bend. Woodrow Wilson,
to whose inflexible purpose and lead
ership chief credit is due, truly said “it
is a union of wills which canot be
resisted, and which, I dare say no na
tion will run the risk of attempting
to resist. The document, the atmos
phere in which it was conceived the
devout feeling of thanksgiving with
which it has been received, have all
the evidences of the sublime.
“It is time jfor church bells to peal,
for preachers to fall upon their knees,
for statesmen to rejoice, and for the
angels to sing 'Glory to God in the
highest.’ We have lived to see the day,
long looked for and prayed for when,
fter madness, after massacre, a dl
/ine force has come to guide us, and to
-.tand upon the thresold of a warless
.vorld. I, this consummation of a
world peace league nad failed, the
war would have bean fought In vain
and the lives given would not have
won a glory that can never fade.”
Turning from the League of Nations
to the question of Bolshevism, Mr.
Daniels said he understood that lany
neople believed Bolshevism to be an
imminent peril to the nation. He de
clared that Bolshevism and anarchy
are one and the same thing, alike en
i emies of law and order. He warned
that there are enough jails in America
to accommodate all those who would
b'ing about chaos.
“The boys who are coming home are
not going to stand for any foolishness”
i he said, “and they are going to bar
| foolishness not only |from anarchists.
| but from plutocracy and privilege as
well. They have fought to make the
world safe for democracy safe for the
world. Sow privilege and you reap
"olshevism. America should stand for
equal opportunity for all men to fight
the battle of life. These boys are go
ing toj rule America because they
saved America and saved the world,
and have the title deeds to the land
and to the Government.”
W. A. ROSS COMING
BACK TO HECKMANS
Mr. W. A. Bryant has received
word j.Vom Mr. W. A. Ross, of the
furniture department of J. R. Heck
man & Company, that he is returning
to Ketchikan on the next boat.
Mr. Ross was given three months
leave of absence to visit his family
who are making their home in Seat
tle.
SON ARRIVES
Born to Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hagi
wara of Stedman Street, a son. weight
eight pounds on Friday, March 7.
Sgt. Frank Cox, late of Ft. Sew
ard was an arrival from the north last
night and is at the Revilla.
A RECORD CATCH
The Rolph, Constance and AuguBta
for Sea fisheries and the Heligoland
for the south, reported at Jno. R. Bee
- qle & Co., . today. The Heligoland
brought® in a rcord catch of 110.000
pounds, carrying even a deckload.
I Why not keep a hen and be
i wealthy
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
v- utlibound
Alaska 21st.
\ ''.rtbbcund
City of Seattle Saturday.
Farragut Monday.
Jefferson Tuesday.
Alameda Wednsday.
WURTEMBURG GETS
GOOD DUCKING
GENEVA, Switz., Mar. 12.—A Ger
man sailor seized the yacht of the
former King William of Wurtemburg,
who was cruising around on Lake
Constance, and after throwing the
king overboard, he appropriated the
yacht himself /for fishing purposes.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar. 12. —
President Lowell of the University of
Harvard and Senator Lodge will de
bate on the League of Nations at Sym
phony Hall this evening, jt was an
nounced here this afternoon.
BRYANFAVORS
LEAGUE OF
NATIONS
Declares it is Greatest
Step Toward Peace
In 1000 Years
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 1 . —
Villiam Jennings Bryan in a-statement
o the press here today endorsed the
'.eague of Nations which he character
zed as the greatest step toward per
manent peace made in a thousand
years.
He declared, however, that he is in
avor of amending its constitution so
■>s to specifically preserve the Monroe
loctrine and give the United States
a larger voting power in the league.
BASEL, Switzerland, Mar. 12. —
Three American steamers with food
t'j^'s for Poland arrived at Neufahr
vasser. on the Gulf of Danzig on Mon
day according to advices front Danzig.
DRASTIC LAWS TO
BE RECOMMENDED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12.
Members of the Senate Propaganda
committee which has been probing the
'olsheviki activities in the United
aws to curb anarchists, I. W. W.. So
'ial Revolutionists and Bolsheviki are
*o be recommended to Congress by the
-ommittee.
WORKERS COOPERATE
IN BUILDING CAMPAIGN
Labor organizations are cooperating
■ith the building campaign now being
a:ried on by the United States De
artment of Labor through the divi
•ion of public works and construc
'■’n development of its Information
H Education Service.
Vitb'n a week committees to assist in
rousin'] interest in this practical step
>ward the readjustment of conditions
ffer the war were appointed by the
’ntral labor unions in Lafayette, Ind.,
'ansas City, Kans., Superior, Wis.,
'Mlsboro, 111., Cincinnati, Ohio, Sioux
"tty, Iowa, and St. Louis. Mo.
The Cincinnati union reports that
'’e country commissioners have ap
-ooriated $1,250,000 for immediate
■ ork and the mayor o,l Cincinnati has
-et in motion plans that will employ a
voe number of men.
All the labor papers have given
earty support to the campaign and
^here is evidence that when the
■soring building operations begin the
workers will do tneir share in making
ossible the most extensixe enterpris
es in all parts of the country.
One is concerned now not so much
bout a rise in wages as a restoration
j1 the value of the old-fashioned dol
-*r that would buy 100 cents’ worth
? anything.
CAPT. TEH-YUEN-LU
Capt. Teh-Yuen-Lu, the firet naval
attache ever sent to the Chinese lega
tion in Washington.
ARTHUR i. BALFOUR
Arthur J. Balf&r, British minister
:f foreign affaire, is one of the leading
members of the peace delegation of
his country.
GERMAN HELMETS TO
BE DISTRIBUTED
DURING LOAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12. —
Eighty-five thousand captured German
helmets are being distributed through
out the country and will be used as
prizes in connection with the next Li
berty Loan.
Purchases of $10,000 worth of bonds
will be awarded a helmet.
FLU HITS INDIA
VERY SEVERELY
LONDON, Mar. 12.—According to
reports reaching here from Government
officials in British India and the In
dia-.i states, 6ome six million per
sons have perished as a result of the
influenza epidemic.
PRODUCTION OF FUEL
BRIQUETS IN 1918
The production of fuel briquets in
the United States in 1918 was 477,231
net tons, valued at $3,212,793, an in
crease, compared with 1917, of 70,379
tons, or 17 per cent, in quantity, and
of 7978,901, or 44 per cent, in value.
The production in 1918, which repre
sented the results of the third suc
cessive year of material progress In
the indutry, was the highest yet re
corded. It was more than double that
in 1915.
In the Eastern States production in
- eased 59 per cent, in the entral
States 37 per cent, but in the Pacific
Coast States it decreased 36 per cent.
The number of plants in operation
n 1918 was cne less than in 1917.
Three of the plants that were operated
Jn 1917 were idle in 1918, those ctf the
Denver Coal By-Products Co. formerly
the American Coal Reduction & By
'roducts Co.), in Colorado; the John
son Fuel Co., in North Dakota, and the
American Eriquet Co., in Penusyl
vania. Two new companies, at Tren
ton, N. J., began operations in 1918,
the Fuel Briquet Co., and the Trent
Brick Co. The Belgian Coal Briquette
Co., of New York City, and the An
thracite Briquet Co., of Sunbury, Pa.,
expect to begin operations in 1919.
Of the 12 plants in operation in
1918, 6 used anthracite as a raw ma
terial, 1 Arkansas semlanthracite, 1
semibituminous slack, 1 anthracite
cull and bituminous slack, 1 bitumin
ous slack and subbituminous coal, and
2 oil-gas residue. Coal-tar pitch and
asphaltic pitch were used as binders
by 6 plants, 1 used sulphite pitch, 2
used no binder, and 3 used a vegetable
binder or employed special processes.
MR. AND MRS. REINERT
HERE FROM SKAGWAY
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reinert ar
: r'ved on the Jefferson last evening
j from Skagway where they have closed
i up their store, moving a large stock
| here.
Mrs. Reinert has been managing the
| Skagway store while Mr. Reinert es
' f cblished his business here, and they
have both been busy for the past six
weeks disposing ofas much stock as
oossible and packing the rest.
They have taken the Sully house
formerly occupied by F. J. Furnivall
and family where they will be at
home to their friends shortly.
MRS, NOYES IN TOWN
Mrs. Thos. C. Noyes and daughter,
~?nnie, ai rived in town on their small
launch yesterday from Nakat Inlet
where they have spent the winter. Mrs.
Noyes expectB to leave for Seattle in
a few days and will leave her daugt
ter here while she goes south on
business.
“DRY" TOWNS GO
“WET” YESTERDAY
BOSTON, Mass 12.—Eight Massa
chusetts towns which have been “dry”
for many years voted "wet" under the
license system In yesterday’s elections,
it was learned here today.
SEATTLE, Mar. 12.—Word has
been received here today that the
63d Coast Artillery is due to arrive here
today and great preparations are be
ing made for their welcome.
POPESAYS
PEACE MUST
COME SOON
Germany to Become a Bol
sbevikistic State Soon _
He Warns
PARIS, Mar. 12_Pope Benedict
thru a representative here has warned
the Great powers that unless peace Is
hastened, the continued spread of Bol
shevism; may result in the changing of
Germany into a Bolshevistic state.
At the consistory yesterday in
Rome, the pope touching on the set
tlement of Turkey, said that it would
be a great gri([' to the Holy See if the
infidels were placed in a prepondering
pcsition in the Palestine or that the
holy places be given to non-Christians.
PARIS, Mar. 12.—Reports reaching
here state that at the time of the
a message to Queen Wilheminao of Hoi
prices prevailed in Berlin: Coffee or
tea. $7.50 to $12.50 per pound; butter
$6.25 a pound, a small chicken. $6.25'
gocse $25; ham $25; eggs, 30 cents
each.
ALL FOOD TO TAKE BIG
SLUMP WITHIN THE
NEXT 90 DAYS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12. —
George N. Peck, cahirman of the In
dustrial Board of the Department of
Commerce predicted here today that
prices on most basic commodities, in
cluding foodstuffs will be brought
down within the next ninety days.
S, 0, SK0GERS0N
DIES OF APOPLEXY
DURING THE NIGHT
Mr. S. O. Skogerson, of the men’s
finishing department of Reinert’s
store died at three o'clock this morn
lug, the result of a stroke of apoplexy.
Mr, Skogerson was well all day
vesterday but about seven o’clock last
evening he was stricken, the first
stroke affecting his right arm, and
’ater his whole body. He passed into
s state of coma and died at three o’
clock. He is survived by a widow
r.’d a small son seven years of age.
Mr. Skogerson came here about six
months ago from Minneapolis, his fam
ily following later. He took the posi
tion with Reinerts on his arrival and
held it until his death.' He was 49
years old.
Funeral services will be held at the
Methodist Church crt> Sunday after
noon, Rev. C. M. Van Marter, offi
ciating.
MRS. SLOTTEN LEAVES
Mrs. Ed. Slotten and brother Ber*
Heath left last evening on a short trip
They expect to return in a jfew weeks
Alvin Goldstein, of Juneau, is regls
*ered at the Stedman Hotel.
BASIL M. MANLY
A new picture of Basil M. Manly
who has succeeded Frank P. Walsh a
joint chairman df the war labor board.
All Spartacans When Captured Are Executed And
Terror Reigns Supreme According To Berlin
Dispatches Received in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 12.—Reports reaching here today dis
pose a most terrifying situation in Berlin according to dispatch
’s which state that the German capital is still the scene of
hloody encounters between the Government troops and the
Spartacans, who are all fighting like wild beasts. The dispatch
adds that when captured all Spartacans are immeditaley exe
cuted.
GOVERNOR RIGGS TO
ATTEND NATIVE FAIR
CRAIG, Alaska, Mar. 12.—Natives
f’-om all parts of southeastern Alaska
re arriving hourly to attend the An
"al Native Fair to be held at Klawock
his year.
The fair is given each year by the
latives of Metlakatla. Hydaburg and
'lawock, and large native owned
•oats, gayly decorated are lying in
‘he harbor and at the docks. Brass
Sands are playing up-to-date airs in
'"icome to the arriving visitors and a
'■eat air of festivity prevails. This
a reDorted to be the largest gathering
f Alaska natives to have ever taken
'ace, and the Bureau of Education
■'fleets great results.
Governor Riggs and other high gov
-rnment officials are expected to ar
•lve momentally from Juneau.
The last day of the fair, March 14
will be known as Metlakatla day.
PARIS, Map. 12.—A bill was passed
by the chamber of deputies today
ranting a gljft of 250 francs to all de
mobilized soldiers. In addition, sol
'ieys who took part in the fighting
will receive 20 francs a month for the
‘ime trey were mobilized, while the
athers will receive 15 francs a month,
TUNNEL UNDER THE
CHANNEL TO COST
! A HUNDRED MILLION
LONDON, Mar. 12.—It is announced
! here that th" cost rf'* the proposed
| *"nne! under the English channel,
i which would take five years to com
j nlete, would be in the neighborhood
of cne hundred million dollars, accord
big to estimates furnished to govern
ment oficia'.r, BonarLaw tolfl the
Mouse of Commons yesterday.
FATHER OF JUDGE
MAHONEY DIES
Mrs Wm. T. Mahoney received
wo-d Ifrom V:r huband yesterday,
seating that I is father had died four
days after his arrival in California.
Judge Mahoney went south several
weeks ago to visit his father and will
leturn shortly.
! WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 12.—In
l signing of the armistice the following
1 ’and, King G-'orge of England has ex
! tressed the '"•atituc)e of the British
soldiers interred by the Dutch, for the
! fine treatment accorded them duping
| their internment.
The United States--A Go ig Concern
There is a passing uneasiness in the
lublic mind in the United States which
’s manifesting itself in various ways.
The war has shaken individuals out of
'heir former easy habits of thinking_
'r not thinking—and the acquisition of
'-nowledge is proving acutely painful
o many kinds of brains. Some of
hem are unequal to the strain of ab
-orbing truth. They are turning sour,
essimistic or bolshevist, according to
'•he temperament of the individual,
"'ne type of mind that seems to be in
creasing in numbers is that which
ould throw away all the good that
' as been acquired through a century
effort, to ebmrace notions that can
'ot stand ten minutes of quiet analy
se. This kind of hair-trigger Amerl
■•nism is reveling now In the chaotic
‘ate of affairs, hoping to see a com
’"te overturn in which he will stand
’ chance of grabbing some advantage
which he cannot hope to acquire in
honest competition with his fellows.
The fault, however, does not lie with
’■he shallow-pated or the merely un
-ipe intellects. Some of the strong
-st business men In the country are
behaving as though their brains had
teserted them. Instead of concentrat
'ng upon the new problems that are
'resented and quietly conferring upon
vays and means to co-operate on a
sensible course of action, they are
‘hrowing fuel upon the bolshevik bon
'Oming. But it is not presumable
->cts. Others have drawn into their
shells, refusing to loosen their minds
or their pocketbooks for the sake of
eeph-g the wheels turning. They ex
•>so ti.is turtle-like maneuver by as
sertin that “no one knows what Is
'omin . ’ and “we must wait to see
vhat the peace conference will do,"
or similar nonsense. ■
Of course, no one knows what is
'oming . But it is not prescmable
hat the richest, strongest, most sol
~nt, most active and most independ
ntly-placed nation in the world will
ontinue on the map. Surely that is
’lot a violent assumptionn although,
strictly speaking, it It no more cap
oble of demonstration than any other
future proposition. It is sufficient,
however, for the ordinary American
'* he will but stop to think that he
nd his “ate are bound up in the fate
.' the country. If the United States
■s to go down, the average American
old just as soon go down with it;
nd if the United States is to go for
■ard, the average citizen is satisfied
to go along rathef than seek his for-j
tune in other countries.
The banks are bulging with money.
The people of this country are rich.
Their government borrowed billions,
but it borrowed from the people who
have recoverfci most of the money in
business and at the same time hold
the bonds, which are drawing interest.
The bankers dp the country are cau
tious—a good trait in bankers, if it
does not degenerate into mere sheep
ish timidity. Would it not be well
'or the bankc a to examine themselves
-,d the counhrv and ask whether they
're not a b t too cautious for the
best interest of all concerned. Does the
United States depend upon the peace
conference after all. Is it not rather
a fact that tie United States has been
Held back toe long in its normal do
mestic development until it is too
c amped. The 100.000,000 Individu
al of this codntry want more rail
roads, more buildings, more homes,
more schools, more churches, more su
burbs, more farms, more gardens,
moe ci* every I ing :hat brings comfort.
Why shouldn't the people have what
they want when they have the money
to buy it.
With all due respect to the strength
of the late Orman Empire, it seems
to us that many Americans are con
ceding too much to the prowess of the
enemy when they are afraid to go
'o-ward in business because of “unset
tled conditions ” Are they afraid that
Germany will come back and start an
other war. Not a chance! Nor will
-nvbody else start a war that need
bother the Un ted States. This migh
ty, ea^er nation Is suffering now from
mthnng more than a false state olf
mind on the -art of its own people.
They have been shaken and are un
easy. Let them think twice and they
will perceive that the old United
states is intact, bigger and richer than
-ve-. with grooter prestige abroad and
i-eater mark"fs both at home and
abroad than ver before. The victory
of liberty did not hurt the United
States, however terribly it wounded
Germany, The free nations will give
vs a better market than Germany ever
dreamod of giving. A11 that Amerioans
need to do now, If they wish prosper
ity, 13 to cut out foreign notions of
lovernmeot. ti-rovv away their worry
-ve- the peac ■ coo'erence and the set
♦lflment of -elgr. Questions, ROLL
"o THEIR SLEEVES AND GET
BUSY.
.'Editorial from the Washington Post)