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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
BRITISH KING
 PAYS TRIBUTE
 TO AN UNKNOWN
Upon Recent Trip to the vimy Ridge King Stood Long at Grave of
 "a Canadian"

LONDON, July 25.-During the kings recent visit to Vimy Ridge, says the Times correspondent, what most engaged his attention were the scattered graves with which the ridge is dotted Wherever cross marked the resting place of a sol dier. the King went to inspect it.
 Before one grave 'to an unknown Canadian" he stood for long while.
 'It is hard that any one of these brave fellows should be unknown" he said "The world ought to know every one of them"
 More than once he expressed ap- preciation of the careful and rever- ent way the dead were buried.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
MAYOR MITCHELL
 WILL RUN ALONG
 ON FUNSTON TICKET

NEW YORK. July 25.--A muni- cipal ticket headed by Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, Democrat. was in- dorsed unanimously by the execu- tive committee of the fusion com mittee of 1917 at a meeting held here. William HamIin Childs, chair man of the executive committee. announced later that the mayor had consented to run on the ticket, as had Controller William A. Pen dergast. who also was recommended for reelection.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
JUST SWEET FIFTEEN.

DOUGLAS, July 2l.-From forty to fifty of the younger set surprised Martin Galwas at his home last night in honor of his 18th birth day. It was a most happy and hi larious gathering and there was no sleep in that neighborhood while the party was on. Games were D layed and refreshments ruthlessly destroy ed. Martin was presented with a pair of beautiful military hair brush es in a beautiful case.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
WILLIAM C. SHARP, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR REVIEWING TIE
 AMERICAN AVLkIORS, .

The training bases for the American troops in France have been established and are ready for occupancy. They in- clude aviation, artillery, infan- try and medical bases. The sec tiOn of the battle front eventu- ally to be occupied by the Americans has been decided upon by the military authori- ties and approved by Major General Pershing, who has thoroughly covered the ground. The location of this section is a military secret and no actual time has been specified for American participation on the fighting front.
 IN. Y. H. Special.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
JAPAN WILL RUN
 NO SHIP RIVALRY
 WITH UNCLE SAM

TOKYO, July 25.-Responding to an interpolation in the house of Peers as to whether Japan intended to keep pace with American naval expansion. Vice Admiral Kato, min. ister of marine. said there was no need of great expansion with a view to offsetting Americas increase. Moreover, he declared, an enlarged program was quite impossible for Japan in the present financial situa- tion.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
TELLS
 YELLOW STREAK
 WHEN ARRESTED
Se|f-Defense League Man Denies Organizing League of Men
 Drafted

CHICAGO, July 25.-John NatchL X l laborer, arrested and charged with organizing the "Self-Defense league, . to oppose conscription, denied all charges when arraigned before a fed eral commissioner and said he was the victim of a frame-up. His case was continued. ,Natchke was re- ported to have made threats against the President, and the league mem bers were said to be pledged to kill their officers if drafted.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
THE NATURE OF MAN.

DOUGLAS, July 25.-When a man dies what becomes of him? Is he dead or is he still alive? Does he go immediately to heaven or hell? Mems views on this question are many and varied; but the all important ques- tion is, what does the bible say about it? At the Labor Union Hall tonight Elder D. H. Hanson will present the subject of The Nature of Man" All are invited to come out and hear him. Song service 7:45. Lecture begins promptly at 8 o'clock.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
HE'S GETTING A BIG BOY.

TREADWELL, July 25.-Mrs. Will jam Daniels entertained yesterday
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25

wno has been examining mining prop erty in that ircality.
 Roy Pullen, for the past year a valued employee of the TreadWell company in the capacity of steam pipe engi' ger, will leave on the n eVt trip of the Seattle for his home iu Skagway, where he will visit his mother for few days before re- turning for he south.
 The Lyric Theater will be dark tonight op account of the County Fair at th- Natatorium.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
ISLAND NOTES.

Frank Pierce has moved his fam. fly into the Tieadwell house Isieiy vacated by John D. Miller.
 w. A. KriIrahne will shortly move ais, family to Thane where he Ia employed.
 The iaLnch Mabel has gore to WrapgelI for Livingstone Wernacke.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
BIRTHDAY PARTY.

TREADWELL, July 25.-Jack Con nelly Jr., was three years old yes terday and the day was made the occasion of little party to celebrate the event, the guests being a number of children of Jacks age. Juvenile games were played and dainty re treatments served
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
COUNCIL EQUALlZlNG.

DOUGLAS, July 25.-The members of the city council sat as an equali cation board last night in it's first session. There were but few changes made the roll as returned by As sessor Coughlin being considered quite fair in the majority of cases. The board will sit again tonight and tomorrow night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25

q An honest statement of facts, placed in type in an attractive manner, will bring de- sired results when wise choice is made of the medium employed to place before the buying public the goods you wish to dis pose of. The Empire has always given satis- faction to buyer and merchant.
 q You read this advertisement, sthers will read ysws.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
LATE FERRY TONIGHT.

DOUGLAS, July 24.-On account of the County Fair tonight. the Is- land Ferry company will run a late boat, the Gent leaving here for Ju- neau at 1 o'clock a. m.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25

afternoon in honor of her son Roy who has attained his 10th birth day A half dozen of Roy's boy friends aided in making the event very happy one. Refreshments were served
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-25
4,ooo POUNDS OF FISH.

DOUGLAS, July 25.-The Elda and one other boat discharged cargoes at the dock of the Alaska Coast Fish company this morning, 4.000 pounds in all
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
VICE IN GERMANY

To the Editor Of the EVenin0 Ledger:
Sir-It certainly surprises me that "A
woman's" article of June 20 should 90
unanswered. Does this woman intimate
that the American morals are predomi-
mated by vice and that Germany's morals
until war began. were something we should
look up to?
Does any woman or man dare to say
that Germany in her three years OF war
has learned as much about vice as the
whole world has taken thousands Of
years TO learn?
Why do we seldom read OF such con-
dition in German cities as we read OF in
New York city. Chicago and other cities? {?
Because the press OF Germany is and al
ways has been under control OF milltarism
such as she wishes TO control the world
with.
They may say what they like, but /
stand pat" when say that commerciallzed
vice is Just as much In vogue in Germany
as II is In this country or any country
The papers OF the United States are not
controlled by militarism; rather they con-
troll militariam and politics. and that 10
why the people Of the United States know
that such degrading conditions exist IN
me-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
"BEATING THE WHEEL"

| THERE are a certain two men in this
l. city who are looking forward to Draft
| Day with entirely different emotions.
There are probably thousands of men
like them. Perhaps they represent two
well.known types.
One whom we call A, Is twenty.nine,
unmarried, in fairly good physical con-
dition. He is strongly opposed to going
TO war. but would not admit It to any
but his closest friends. lie will fight
IT, he has TO-
The other, B, is twenty-four, unmarried,
in tiptop physical condition, eager to
fight. He sincerely hopes he will be con-
scripted.
A, being a pacihst and opposed to all
the machinery Of war, tried to get eX.
empted before the draft, but of course
failed. Hating the idea of having
lottery wheel say what he should do or
not do" he is half inclined to enlist in
order to beat the wheel" B, on the other
hand, thinks the draft lottery is "a fine
sporting chance" II he isn't conscripted,
he says he will probably enlist some
time next winter, as he wants to see
France"
What we do not want is an army filled
up with half,hearted pacihst volunteers
too proud to admit a reluctance to fight
for the right. What we do want in the
army at once is the men who are eager to
fight. 1t is b who should try 70 beat
the wheel to it" by enlistlng. 1t is A
who should take his chances with the
wheel
We cannot understand an eagerness TO
fight that is willing to wait until next
winter for satisfaction. There are 50,-
600 vacant places in the regular army
which offer the opportunity to work
with trained men and experienced Of.
flcers. Those places should be filled this
month
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
PUT UP YOUR AXES!

THE Louisville and Nashville Railroad
l. Company and the Western Union Tel
egraph Company have been having fight
which parallels in its main features the
historic controversy between the Pennsvl-
vania Railroad Company and the same
telegraph company. The Pennsylvania, 1t
will be remembered, sent out gangs Of
workmen armed with axes and proceeded
to fell any and all Western Union poles
in sight. That established precedent
which seemed good to the Louisville and
Nashville officials. They made up their
minds to go and do likewise.
Into this situation stepped the Secre.
tary of War. Why should the Govern
ment have its telegraph facilities crippled
lust because two corporations wanted to
fight? He sent message to the presi-
dents of the warning companies inform
ing them that they would be expected to
meet at once and come TO peaceable and
prompt agreement. Otherwise, he inti-
mated, the telegraph line in question
would be taken over by the Government,
in which case, he ventured TO believe,
neither the railroad officials nor any other
men would undertake to use axes for pur-
poses of demolition.
We do not like tyranny and arbitrary
action in this country, but there are times
when the assertion Of authority comes
with the cooling freshness Of the north
wind and citizenship generally rejoices
to discover that not every holder of a
public office needs furs below the knees.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
TENNYsoN's ODE TO AMERICA

We have had many inquiries about the
source of the suppressed" verses bv Ter
nyson which were quoted by a correspond.
ent recently. They were addressed 70
America. and ran as follows: ~
Gigantic daughter Of the West
We drink to thee across the food
We know thee most, we love thee hest
For art thou not OF British blood9
should wars mad blast again be blown
Permit not thou the tyrant nou,arS -
To fight thy mother here alone
But let thy broadsides roar with o,,rs
o rise. our strong Atlantic sons
When war against our freedom snr,n..,,
o speak to Europe through your me
They can be understood by kings
Our correspondent now informs us th.,
they appeared In an article on "frann,,
sons Suppressed Poems" In Harna,y,-
Monthly Magazine, December 1904. oria,
nally they were part Of the poem afteru,s -,
published under the title Of 'sHands a.,
Round The earlier versions. slereS
'lferlins appeared IA the Exanlner ie's' ''se
rrf~ stt~-Lundon Obsarpar
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
i9-COUNT 'EM-49

A MONG the makers of American his
"A tory during the last twenty years
we do not recall that the names Of Jennie
Schwartz, Abe Zanan, Isadore Waskonsky
and Alexander Levy were prominent.
That is natural in the case Of Abe and
Jennie, because they are only sixteen
years old. Not one of the forty-nine So
cialists arrested at a disloyal meeting In
this city Saturday was voting when Will
son was elected the first time. Only four
of them have been naturalized. Half Of
them are under age.
They're all against Wilson, Root,
Charles Edward Russell John Spargo,
tho Constitution, the war, Kerensky,
Joffre and Pershlng. 1t was only a few
years ago that most of them came down
the gangplank clutching their mothers
skirts got their first glimpse Of the New
World and started to learn English. But
now they're in politics, with the news
papers telling of them in formidable head
lines-"49 Socialist Rebels"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
WHAT A COLLEGE EDUCATION IS
WORTH

Dean Holmes, of the Pennsylvania State
College, after spending months gathering
statistics and reducing them to orderly
form, has discovered that the money value
of four years at college is $4,000, or a
financial return of $4,000 for every year so
spent. Dean Holiness Investigations reveal
the fact, which at first seems a little dscon-
certing to the advocates of university train
ing, that the average earnings of a bach
elor OF arts amount to S11S7 a year, not
quite S25 week. But the situation bright
ems for the colleges when we learn that the
average earnings of the non-college man
are only $51S--not SO week. The differ
ence between these two sums is 1868. and
since the average man lives thirty years
after leaving college his financial reward for
four years of more or less arduous under
graduate toll is evidently something more
than 500 O000.-World's Work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
THE NEW YORK DRAFT RIOTS

THE conscription act of March 3, lw'|
L contained one clause which cost tll|
lives in New York city four months ats
It was provided that any man, after BENG
drafted, might procure exemption from ss'
ice by the payment of $500.
The act was vigorously assailed as N
constitutional by the opponents Of the As|
ministration, who asserted that the H'
emptlon clause was a fimsy device l|
enabling the rich to evade service Amoil|
those who adopted and proclaimed 81.
views was Governor Seymour, of New fe,|
State, who seems also to have represenis
the attitude Of many prominent men
New York city Among the people tns,l
was much agitation. 1t was obvious uI|
the average drafted man could not %.
$500 to procure a substitute. II WI
indeed, only the rich who could afford 4
buy their freedom from military seruce
On Saturday, July II, the draft nes.,
without much opposition I'm New 1Ork N
one Of the enrolment offices in the strong,
Democratic Ninth District. on Suno.'|
some drafted workingmen, aided by ns.
Der of political agtators, fomented the y.
content of the populace and organizea
opposition to enrolment The draH ~
renewed at 10 o'clock Monday morning "
soon attacked, demolished and burned "
furious mob, which, after overcoming
squad OF police sent against IT, roam.
about the city. Frenzied by excitement ~
drink, the rioters committed numpetl, =,
outrages. Declaring that the negroes W..
the cause of the abolition war" they T.
saulted, tortured and killed a number !.
fell into their hands The Colored Orpne.
Asylum was burned and the offices OF "
New York Tribune, one of the Admlnisu'
ton papers, narrowly escaped destrucuor
On Tuesday the mobs, increased In puai
ber, continued to pillage, sack, burn -.
kill, though in many districts they ~.
sharply repulsed and partly dispersed v
the police and militia. 1t was annouhs.
that the draft would be Temporarily "
continued on Wednesday. Meanwhlle ~.
ments from Pennsylvania helped to disps'-
the mobs. BY Friday the uprising had ~.
thoroughly suppressed. About lOOV ~
had been killed and the property loss
$1,500;0O0. on August 10 the draIt w.
renewed and II was completed Wi'nfr
further resistance within ten days
The act authorized the President 70 4.
cruit the army whenever necessary y
drafting "all able-bodied male citizens II
tween twenty and forty-five. Thousrn'.
paid their exemption money, and there ~
such a demand for substitutes that oP'+
nents OF the draft even went so FAR p .
attempt to import men from lrelan'
take their places.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
A GAsTRoNoMIC VICTORY

THREE French officers, inspecting a
4 United States naval station in Illinois,
have met ice cream cones. They looked
delectable. They tasted better. The crisp
batter-lil1e receptacles in which the cool
tng dessert nestled enhanced its charm.
American menu patriots promised the
introduction OF this soul-satisfying refresh.
ment to France. That was no idle pledge
Baseball has gone TO Gaul with our
marines. The ice cream cone is its inevi-
table concomitant.
Favored ices are no novelty in Paris
A cunning Neapolitan took their secret
there IA the waning years OF the eight
eenth century. He bequeafhod the mys
tps|e, el his Art % the INDUSTRIOUS Tertoni
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09

Opening his memorable cafe on the Grand
Boulevard the latter eventually made
his establishment the ice cream center OF
Europe. From the American viewpoint,
however, his efforts were niggardly. Had
his ices been iewelry they could scarcely
have been more parsimonlously doled
out A silver franc produced but puny
mouthful.
The custom abides today. Ice cream
and generosity make no marriage in
France our capacious cones, which until
now no Frenchmen have ever known,
foreshadow startling revolution in the
"psychology of taste"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09

-vnGn.
2. POnta Delgada, which was bombarded M
week by u German submarine, Is the eAt
city and seaport Of the Azores ISLAND 4
Portuguese possession in the North Al
Iantic Ocean.
3. Lacrosse is regarded as the national nn
of Canada.
4. st. Patrick's dates arc A. d. S77-4eo.
b. An American court for United States III
Zens Is maintained In the city OF shn
9. i. G. Appleton, is reputed TO be the aul
Of the remark, "All good Americans, VI.
they die, go to Paris" Holmes quotes I
In THE AutOcrat of the Breahtl'
Table"
Z. mirage Is an optical illusion usually 4
curing in deserts. Far-away obisq
produce an inverted image as n reaede
In n sheet of water. The phenOmen0h
due to the Overheathlg of strata Of alr 4,
consequently TO unequal refractiOn Of q
suns RAYS,
8. Edgar Wilson Nye was the real name
"Bill Nye," the American humOrlst.
o. Premier VenizelOs, of Greece, is o NATIVE
the Island Of Crete.
10. number Of species OF the cereus psa
bloom at night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
CAMOUFLAGE

We have heard a good deal about ca
mounage since the war began. Camoufiage
we used TO know as the term annlIsd b,,
biologists to the protective coloring bv
which birds and minor animals find safety
through blending into the Landscape. Now
It has become the art so highly deyeloned
by the French, by which the movement of
troops or the position Of guns is concealed
from the enemy.
we must believe that this ingenious art
Of war has been studied by some ISarsas
Citians, who have used it for their own nur-
poses with results highly satisfactory 10
themselves Some men of means, who bave
desired to keep out of sight of the Red
Cross canyassers, have mad9 themselves
aosoluteiy lndistlnguishable from the land
scape.-Kansas City Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09


has at last struck at the reacti'
of William the Last, after J
pleted the business Of revolu
Nicholas the Final, 1t is curio
tain newspapers are trying to m
for their maligning of the gr,
revolution.
There is a general attempt to
by attempting to msrepresent
the Petrograd Council of Work.
Soldiers Deputies, which had previously
been styled as a body of cracl-brained
anarchists. Our attention is called to the
fact that the Russian offensive was author
lied, not by the Petrograd Council, but by
the All-Russian Council of Workmen and
Soldiers, representing delegates from local
councils throughout Russia. 1t was this
body and bodies like the All-Russian Con-
gress Of Peasants that ordered the drive
in GaliCia, we are informed.
Permit me to say most emphatcally that
there is not the slightest difference between
the policy of the Petrograd council and
the All-Russian council. On the contrary
the foreign and domestic policies of the
PetrOgTad organization find increased en-
phasis in the All-Russian body because the
latter represents the whole of the Russian
people. The same men who led the Petro-
grad council are at the head of the ALL
Russian council. ~ V. Tschedze, president
of the Petrograd council, was chosen unani-
mously to head the All-Russian council
Skobeleff. Tseretelli, Stankevitch and the
other social democratic and Socialist reyo-
lutiOnary chiefs of the Petrograd council
occupy positions of the highest trust and
Importance in the Al-Russan council.
Skobeleff and Tseretelli are members of the
provisional Cabinet
The All-Russian council stands for the
foreign policy first enuncated by the reyolu-
ton, the policy of mo forcible annexations.
no punitive indemnitles and the rights of
all nations to determine their own destiny "
1t Is for this policy that the Russian army
is now battling. 1t is for this and the other
policies of the revolution, and for no i'm
perialist aims, that revolutionary Russia is
willing to die. 1t is for this policy and the
policy of land distribution, socialization of
industry and complete political freedom
that war Minister Kerensky stands
Let those gentlemen who assailed the
Russian revolution because II stands NOT
only for an abstract political ideal, but also
for very concrete program of social
democracy, think twice. They NAV again
find need in the very near future to attack
the revolution, and l would advise them 10
bestow their praise very sparngIy lest thew
fail to find in the future the necessar nv
subterfuge behind which to hide their
ignorance.
Instead, / would advise them 10 studv
that inevitable development which Marx
termed the dictatorship of the proletariat. ="
The Russian workers have already given a
splendid exhibition of It, They are now
Battling TO extend 1t throughout Europe.
JOSEPH SHAPLEN.
Philadelphia, July z.