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Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24
Robbers Make Big Haul

Minneapolis Nov. 21. Masked bandits travelling in an automo- bile today robbed Greens jewelry store, located in the heart of the business district, and secured S5O,OOO worth of diamonds.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

New York, Nov. 21.-It is an nounced that the Y. M. c A have collected war fund of $25, OOO,OOO-
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

Washington, Nov. 20. - General Pershing today reported the deaths of three American soldiers from natural causes.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

London, Nov 2O.-A boat containing five men from the sunken American steamship Rochester has landed safely at port in Ireland. It had been given
 up for lost
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24
German Gets Ten Years

Max German, the German who tried to show Joseph Gottstein how to avoid the selective draft by having an operation per formed on his throat, was sen fenced today to ten years i'm prisonment at McNeil island.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24
OUTSIDE MAIL COMING

Henry Martella reached town last Sunday with about five pounds of mail, and departed on Tuesday morning, in tending to continue on to Anderson's s roadhouse. "White Dog" Smith will bring the next mail to this camp, and will continue on this end of the mail route throughout the winter. The first Outside mail of the winter season is expected to arrive with Mir. Smith.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24
ITALIAN FRONT
ITALIAN

ITALIAN
 1.-The AustroCermans have been driven back between Andea d Barbarlans and Saleoul Italian office announced this afternoon Italian Headquarters Nov. 19.The Austro-Germans who
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24
General Maude Dead

London, Nov. 2O.-General Frederick s. Maude, commander o@ the British forces in Mesopatamia, died today.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24
Many Go From Washington

Washington, Nov. 21.-Thou- sands of enemy aliens, largely Germans, are leaving the Dis trict of Columbia today.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

Washington, Nov. 20.-The Ameri- can destroyer Chauncey was sunk in 8 collision in the war zone yesterday. Twenty-one lives were lost.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

week. The great strength of the Spo- kane prevented her destruction, large part of the ships bottom being torn off.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

A cabin on Gold street, Flat, owned by Al Currie and occupied by Joe Gal lent, was burned to the ground last Thursday night. Part of the contents of the Cabin were saved.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

Paris, Nov. 22.-The French govern ment has decided to demonetize cer- tain types of silver coins to put stop to hoarding, d practice that is paralyz- ing trade throughout the country.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-11-24

Job Printing at Pioneer office.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08


fiuenee" at Washington. We not eriticsing this
condition, are merely saying that L Is There
win be collectors who. when comes to fixing
the amount to be paid by some man or company with
Influence" win be unable to forget that just as IN
fluence got him his appointment just influence might
be used in trying to put him out OF office.
All assessments. are secret No business man can
compare his assessments or payments with those of
any other business man. and there is way for any
concern check up and fnd out whether or not It is
carrying more than its share of the public burden
Suppose shipper should receive freight bill from
railroad two or three times large as he had been
receiving and when he asks what other shippers
paying he should be told that il was Unlawful for
eploye of the road disclose for any one to print
or publish anything concerning the amounts paid by
any shipper subject to the increased rate No business
man would stand for such treatment yet that is what
Congress is asking the business concerns of this cou
try to stand for when it requires business ind
vidua to pay its profits tax based upon an un
certain law interpreted by the employees of The internal
revenue Office with absolute prohibition against
the disclosure to any individual to the amount as
sessed against paid by any other individual or bus
mess. :
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
GOOD JOBS co BEGGING.

The most surprising feature of our
preparations for war is the apparent
reluctance of young American physi-
clans to volunteer for the Medical Of
ficers' Reserve Corps. The War De-
partment estimates a need Of 1900
men for hospital service. Seventeen
thousand five hundred physicians have
been recommended for commissions,
but, UP to October Il, 1917, about 100
of this number had declined to accept
the commissions offered to them. Two
hundred Of those who were willing to
go to the front had to be discharged
because of physical disqualihcations
or for other reasons. Consequently
there is a shortage of several thou
sand men in the Medical Reserve
Corps. Here Is a curious situation.
The army offers physicians the right
to wear the uniform of an officer, an
opportunity to gain invaluable ex-
perience in she field hospitals and in
comes larger than the average physi-
clans earnings. Fear of danger cannot
enter into the problem. The total
casualties among medical officers of
the allied armies on the western front
from the beginning of the war to
. June 25, 1917, were 1876 killed, 77 wound
ed and G. deaths from disease. These
figures. compared with the number Of
physicians employed at the front,
prove that the medical officers work
behind the trenches Is scarcely more
hazardous than the ordinary risks of
civil life. Quite aside from the ques-
ton of patriotism, it IL impossible to
derstand why medical corps COM
missions are going begging.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
"The Great Divide. :"

Americans who keep watch on the pulse OF foreign
opinion alternately commend and deplore President
Wilson's unvsrying nsistence on the distinction be-
tween the German government and the German people
This distinction longer academic as it was when
the United States remained in the detached position
of neutral /: is now virtually the handspring of our
foreign policy As such it is bound to in for
and more European analysis and European criticism
There is both advantage and disadvantage in the
TACT that the White House is 5000 miles and more
away from the firing line. Downing Street and West
minister are only nights ride from the front-ine
trenches and the Quai dOrsay is even nearer. Is
any wonder that the soldiers spirit infects the that
they cannot appraise the with the same measure oil
judicial and intellectual detachment that prevails in GER
tain circles in Washington? Is it any wonder that
hatred of the German character hatred of the German
name the German blood-as revealed in those con-
emptuous words "Boche" and Hun" under which the
Teuton himself writhes in indignation dominated
allied craftsmanship for three years. to the exclusion OF
calm and unmpassoned consideration of isSues?. -
) The fact is that atonement for his many crimes In
this war be made by the Teuton that reputation
of Hohenzollernism is not sufficient atonement for
what he has done.
To this President Wilson will reply that such atone
ment is inevitable regardless of what terms are gwen
Germany in the peace settlement. He will insist on
settlc Mt free of vndctivenes free of revenge but
a
unspeakable outrage she has committed civilization
He will point to the price the German people have
paid for permitting criminal military autocracy to
dominate them; the price of PROSTATE industries of
ruined foreign commerce, of casualty list even more
monstrous than any they have inflicted their enemies
of the collapse of all their aspirations, legitimate as
well as ilegtmate, and the painful and slow process
of building their entire national structure anew in order
to make good their place in the comradeshp OF nations
President Wilson is right, fundamentally, in insist
ing that the world accept the German character
as it viii be after has gone through the awful crucble
OF the "after-the-war period that awaits the proud
and arrogant people that the Hohenzoerns first ruled
and then enslaved.
But there will be plenty "wavers of the bloody
Srr" throughout the world and Americans, after they
have seen some of their best blood shed the fields
of France will find it easy to consort with the
enemy, even after peace is restored.
Yes the German is going to pay the penalty of his
grimes and that without any punitive peace settlement
any vndctveness any spirit of revenge or of gaining
material compensations from the broken enemy at the
council table.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
Capt. Schneider's Case.

In dropping Capt Schneider from the police force
one Of the tragedies of police service is emphasized
Here was who served the city and District
without a single black mark against him for twenty
six years, and now in his old age he is barred from
the force.
There be just criticism of his superors
for their action for he found guilty of Conduct
prejudical to the reputation good order and disc-
pline Of the department" The crime, if it can be
called such, was not serious one, and Capt.
Schneider did not benefit by it. He simply do
ing a thing that many many people do-and do not
pay the penalty for.
The tragedy lies in the fact that though good
officer Capt Schneider transgressed and has to pay.
Some idea OF the quality of the is reflected in
the fact that his is serving in France, having vol
rnteered, for service as soon as war declared
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
A Bargain in Babies.

Among the deacons of church in New England
Uncle Thomas" who, although too deaf to hear
anything at all, always in his accustomed seat at
church, and who was untring and Jealous in his re-
ligious work.
Owing to a shortage in song-books in the Sabbath
school, some additional ordered by Uncle
Thomas, who advised the pastor of their arrival and
secured the attes promise to announce the fact from
the pulpit on Sunday morning
The pastor made the announcement, among others
concluding with this one:
Parents wishing their children baptized will please
present them at the conclusion of the service"
Whereupon the good deacon jumped to his feet
and in the loud voice peculiar to the deaf bawled out
Those who haven't one get them at my house for
50 cents apiece"
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

we can get more out OF them in serv-
ice and less burdensome rates than
under our pre-war operations.
There is one duty which the Ameri-
can people can perform, during the
experiment, with benefit to themsel-
YES. They can help to take some Of
the unnecessary load off the railroads
by doing only necessary travelling.
by making discreet shipments Of
goods of various kinds and by deal
ing patiently with the carriers and
their employees.
This is not only an opportunity the
American people have at this time.
under the new conditions, but it is
a duty, as well. Let the American
people help the operation of the
roalroads to this extent, and while it
may not serve to determine the is
sues between the railroad stock
holders and the proponents OF govern
ment wnership, it may do a great
deal toward deciding the issue be-
tween Uncle Sam and the hooked
Kaiser.
1t is more important that we at
tend to the latter person, Just now,
than that We substantiate the long
and ardent claims Of either public
ownership advocates or railroad
magnates.
THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
A Story in the Advertisements.

Sometimes you get real news by turning to the
advertising columns. The little liner advertisements
often contain whole stories OF domestic business
bliss despair Joy or devitry and occasionally the big
display advertisements clearly disclose whether
well known merchant is dead, still alive and kick
ing, by their very tone.
The foregoing because we've dug out of the ad-
vertising columns of Berlin newspaper the tragedy
of whole people.
For exchange, fifty Polish laborers, twenty men
and thirty girls, for number of other hands,
says an advertisement in the Deutsche Zeitung
Polish laborers in Germany not permitted to
change masters to from place to place with
out government authorization. With such authorize
tion, however, the masters can make exchanges, as
we swop horses and mules, our housewives
exchange soap grease for soap, old for door
mats, kitchen tins and such.
Meanwhile German autocracy talks independence
and constitutional government to Poland. The inde-
pendence of the dead and the government of serf-
doml
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
Individual Secret Federal Taxes.

1t is time Congress realizes that the time for the
before-he-war methods of collecting is past.
The excess profits tax passed in October is the
botch of financial law making that we have ever
seen. No tell within so per cent from read
ing the law how much taxes any particular business
viii have to pay At least half of the enforcement of
the law is left to the regulations and interpretations
of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Pres
dent, and these regulations and interpretations are
again interpreted by local collectors The results to
each business are absolutely secret
The result of this uncertainty and secrecy will
Inevitably be overcoection from some and undercol-
ISction from others.
Each collector and each deputy collector gets his
position through the exercise of some sort of -n-
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
The Notion-Killer!

Remember the old notion that rheumatism could
be cured by hanging horse chestnut upon the back
of ones bedroom door?
Recolect how many believed the senseless theory
that one could rid himself of cold by coughing
into a handkerchief and then throwing it away2
Recall the business man (O who engaged his
sales force upon the strength of their ability drag
ging or pulling the most passers-by into his shopP
Only yesterday, when the price of the commodity
depended upon your ability to bargain" it down!
Only yesterday
Yet today YOU may be slave of PRECEDENT
Get out of the nt-and quicklyI Else you will
have none but yourself to blame when the world
gives you the merry 'haw-haw.
What is up-to-date now will be relegated to the
junk heap tomorrow.
Look to the ight-hold your mind open!
Be progressivel
ADVERTISE!
The fact remains patent that if we would have
a mansion in the sky we must do own build
ing Our relations to each other as individuals have
grown to be such that naught is accomplished without
the aid somewhere, sometme-of someone.
Advertising is the greatest stimulating force
known to the world of busnessI
The day has long since dawned bringing with it
the message that the world is just one big home and
the people therein one big family.
And for those OF us who knoW-and houSanos
upon thousands do-The HERALD is the one big
HOME PAPER of this local world of ours-Wash-
mgton.
The HOME paper, because it is in every detail
and feature distinctly PAPER FOR THE HOME
Washington's HOME paper, because it has the
largest percentage of HOME CIRCULATION of any
other paper published IN this city,
If you are to be progressive and successful. you
must appeal to the purchasing public. Where better
place to talk to them than in their home and in their
home papera
The HERAIDl
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
Somewhere Over There

Last night while 1 was snoozin'
There came dream so fair,
Don't think that I'd been boozin'-
But to this l would not swear.
Just imagine me, up in Glory,
With all the Kings and Saints so fair,
Then to look down into Hades,
And see all the SLACKERS there
This sho' put my heart to hummin'
As l strolled around that day,
Then at night, St. Peter with me,
Took walk down the milky Way"
We had guide who showed
All the sights there were to see,
And as we stood in silence,
St Peter turned, and said to me-
Now, have some things to show you,
Once more your old Home Town."
My, how glad was to see there,
As l stood lookin' down.
1 could see the dear old homestead,
l could even see the pool;
Where l used to go a swimmin,
Every evening after school.
Then the glare of the lights from Broadway,
What sight it was to see,
But the one that shone the brightest,
Was on the Goddess of Liberty"
l could see the mighty ocean,
l could hear the swelling tide
l could see the boys in khaki,
Leaving for the other side.
Then we looked across the country,
And l thought that l could hear,
Some one crying, Gosh! ~
"My liberty bond for beer"
St. Peter told me twas the Capital CITY,
The town that had just gone dry
But for me not to worry
For there was still some in the sky.
Then I looked across the ocean,
Where the foamy breakers roll,
Thought might spy the KAISER"
But guess he'd gone in his hole.
If he hasn't, he'd better hustle d.
For Uncle Sammy's frown looks bad
And when the boys start shootin'
He's sure to feel darn bad. .- o..
So we walked a little farther,
Though Fords were running there;
But we Just kept a wallSin'
As we didn't have the fare
Then we angels and St. Peter, .....
Back almost to Glorys gate,
But when, passing close to Hades,
One angel whispered, "Waitl
I've place / want to show you,
It's the hottest in all hell,
Where the guy" they call SLACKEk,
In torment, must always dwell"
Oh, Gosh, just content to sit and watch them,
As they sizzle, singe and hum;
And my eyes would rest, on others coming,
Whichever way they'd turn.
q<IFCslE .
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR.
YOUTH AND AGE.
? John Kendrick Bangs.

YOUTH AND AGE.
I know a chap OF twenty odd
Who looks on life as just a bore.
He has no faith in man or God,
And all his days he doth abhor-
And he's as old as should be
II had come to ninety-three.
wight at eighty-nine
Is full of faith and good report
Zach day he deems a gift divine.
And for its good by far too short
And he's as young and fun OF
play
As any child on Christmas Day.
From which I do deduce that Age
Hath naught to do with numbered
years,
But finds its surest. truest. gauge
In how the world to US appears
And we are young. or we are old.
As life itself seems dross or gold.
Copyright. 1917
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York, Dec. From out in
Chicago, a packing-house center some
few hundred miles northeast Of st.
Louis, comes the word that ''all the
Joy is to be taken out Of the life Of
New York City" by a recent decree
OF that towns fashion experts.
Women, it seems. are to discard in
Chicago the accepted modern man
! ner of dress and "modesty' is to sup
plant the "half-clothed fiapper Of
Broadway and Fifth avenue" Har!
Har! 'Tis to lawff!
For isn't that exactly what one
would expect? Isn't there a rather
stout gentleman holding office out
there who has declared he was proud
of his fine German town? And won't
he chuckle when he hears his women
citizens are to spend more and more
money for clothing. thus depriving
the American army and navy men of
little conveniences?
Madison avenue" the report goes
on (whatever Madison avenue Isl.
will blossom forth next spring with
women wearing dresses OF the old
fashion kind-full-length designs"
Amt Chicago grand?
Why not adopt the old-time blue
and white sunbonnet. too. Chicago?
And red woolen wristlets? A few Of
the Martha Washington hoop skirts
the real big kind-might also help to
fill up Madison avenue"
One closes his eyes and sees Fifth
avenues gowneries and women's
shopperies locked and barred. Broad
way, too, with women's shops all
dark. No more patronage from Chi
calgo, northeast of st. Louis. Does It
not spell disaster?
Mrs. Fiske Is the first woman of
dramatic consequence in these lati-
tudes to smoke a cigar on the stage
in full sight Of the audience. She is
putting at a big cigar in her current
play. In New York there is an Eng
lish comedienne who smokes cigars,
but only off stage and not for art,
but because she liked 'em.
But Mrs. Fiske smokes for the sake
of dramatic, not nicotine, atmosphere.
Many ladies smoke. One may see
them every day smoking cigarettes at
the Ritz, Waldorf and Claridge. But
luus Idf very rev nave Nenlureo 10
smoke a cigar in public.
The Chinese restaurants are prac-
tically alone among the gilded eat
ing places in their objection to
cigarette smoking by women. They
do not permit It for some reason or
other.
Frank Tinney. the comedian, is
building a theater at Freeport, L I.
To give the town a classy atmosphere,
Tinney calls it Freeport-Freeport. He
thought a long while about the name
for his theater and even offered n
prize for the best one suggested.
shen at last he decided to call II
'srhe Garage" Then If the theater is
a failure he will not have to change
its name.
From description Of Mrs. De Saul
les by Park Row sob sister: "A
sweet grave face. wistful eyes. slen-
der littleness, helping sadness" But
she did not look appealingly" and
have a catch in her voice." I won
der why.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

If Russia breaks her treaties with the allies she
becomes outlaw. 1t would then be perfectly hon.
orable in the honorable Japs grab whatever of the
outlaws they could lay hands But maybe the
BolSheviki cannot see this.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

Nine American factories are waiting for orders to
get to work 100000 pairs of shoes contracted for
by the Russian government of November 12-whatever
wear EN-
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

To be at peace with Neghbor A and furnish
key to his hen house to Neighbor B is dshouotable
and mean Wen be the honest enemy of Austria.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

Seizure of 1880 tons ordered by Gar Nicholas
lieves the sugar shortage Down East But from what
our grocer says we judge that there was a big bunch
of Cars after our sugar.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

Toxic papers urge that an army of 100000 Japs
pounce upon Russia should she make peace with Ger
many. 1t is about time that the Japs exploded.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

War on Austria but not yet on Turkey and Bull
garia, says Woodrow. Heavy odds that he's got
thing hot on Austria to spring when he gets readyi
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

Bryan says he wasn't chased by bull but another
man was chased by steer. If this isn't correction
in detail we never one.
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

One electric company in Germany, now making
arplane and submarine parts has 10000 employees Keep
going, Uncle Saml
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

The army truck has made record of four
miles per gallon of gasoline, loaded. May do for
truck but there's fellow in town who beat
it per gallon, loaded
The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

After hearing the message, La Toilette left the
Capitol alone say Washington dispatches. Seems to
us he might have had the company of Gronna and
Gore