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Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10
RED CROSS SALE TOMORROW

The Ladies Exchange. am ouNil- iary ol Che Rcd Cross. win hold its first salc tomorrow afternoon. be- ginning at o'clock. ut Che Palace of Sweets. There win bo all kinds ot good things to eat and it win be a rare opportunity for stocking up with al chat goes Co make a good Sunday dinner. Everything win bc homemade and there win be no blanks. You inspect thc stock and take what you want.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10
MORE SCHOOL PAINT

A contract for painting the man ual training building. an adjunct Go the public school house. was let yesterday by the school board to Axcl Krouquist who lately repaint- ed and otherwise improved the in- tcrior of the main building
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10
ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT

If present arrangements do uo. m.sglrry. Robert Scott. of thc Na uouaI Rcd Cross. win address tlp members or che local chapter iu Labor Union hou Friday night oI next week. August I7. when it t hoped au win embrace thc opportun iry for hearing him.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10

A. McMillan. former manager of the Orphoum theatre here and who went to Cordova three months ago. is said to be on his way back. He will likely resume his former po- sition
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10

Dr. R. V. Ellis was here the lat ter part of last week for his family, which accompanied him to their new home at Chichagof on Monday. pr. Ellis seems much pleased with his new location.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10

Oliver olson completed the lay ing of the water pipe 10 the City Dock this week, the pipe being buried in trench made at extreme low tide
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10
FUNERAL FOLLOWED

Maud Harding. of DorIoyl light cd a nre iu Che kitchen stove hy tbc us. of bor0-eH. Her funeral took place two days later.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10

J. W. Martin arrived in town Sat urday and returned Tuesday to Frcshwatcr bay where he is opcr- ating a sawmill and box factory
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10
Lumber
Building

The First Bank of Cordoya con- templates thc carly construction Of a reinforced concrete building A number or residences and an apart mcut house are under construction.
 At Ncuana fifteen building per- mlts were issued during the month oI June. seven Of which were for permanent buildings, estimated to cost about S23.OOO. A circulating water system and sewer system arc Co bc installed as soon os Che uoccs- s8ry materials are received Fire lighting equipment and hose have been purchased.
 Seattle-Alaska Commerce
 lFrum Port Wardcn's Report January Co June. uclusiycD
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10

Order your favorite magazine or newspaper at Guys Drug Store. He will be glad to save them for you.
Douglas Island news., 1917-08-10
NEW INDUSTRIES
 IN ALL ALASKA
Alaska Bureau of Seattle Chamber of Commerce Keeps Posted
 on Progress
Mercantile


 George Shields. who has been con ductur commission business ot Fortuna Ledge proposes opening a general merchandise store Co haudl, groceries and miners clothing and supplies.
 Eucr Touscth has purchased th, retail grocery business of A. J Ucaly Of Fairbanks
 Fisheries
 Reports of Che Alaska run of sal. mon indicate light run m Bristol Bay and along Che Alaska Peninsula land an exceptionally heavy run in Chatham and ley straits. Southeast cm Alaska
 ! L. U Wakefield has purchased 'hc holdings of thc Dodd-Cam Co., lon IisiausH straits. A new conn pauy is being formed for the pur- pose ol constructing a largo herring curing plant where Scotch cured herring win be packed The plant win also include large freezer for fresh fish and bait oil and fcrtil- izcr plant and a two-lmc salmon cm- ucry
 Tho Kacbcmach Fish Company plans Co erect a salmon canncry at Ualibut Cove. Kachcmach bay. Cook inlet This company also plans Co nu. up 1sb by new methods success fully adopted by the Norwcgiaus.
 Tho Glacier Fish Company has opened % buying agency ot Juneau vItb Oliver Orange ot tbc Juneau Cold Storage Co. as local agent.
 The Glacier Fish Company is con- strucuue % large fish plant ot scow nay near Petersburg Tho plant win include dock. mess and bunk houses. warehouse and cold storage building with a freezing capacity ol sU tons or ice per day.
 J. IT, Long and other Juneau mon have formed company Co establish a clam and salmon cauucry near Sitko.
 40 Douglas che Alaska Coast Fish Company has been operating but two months aud is doing a most sat- Hactory business not only m buy ing fish, but u supplying fishermen wla bait and ice.
 Mining.
 The Trcadvcu Company has re- cmIy taken a bond ou mining claims m Che vicinity of Auk bay and ,s preparing for extensive dcycl- opmcut work. This is tho second property recently taken over in the vicinity ol Juneau for development by Che Troadwcll Company. Lumber
 Tho Worthcu Lumber Mills of Ju- ucau are preparing to ship Co New York m a few days 5o,Ooo feet of stka spruce Go be used u aero plano construction. The great de- mmd for this material assures Che building of new and profitable Industry for Alaska thc Sitka spruce being found tbc most suitable time bor available for such purpose on account of its toughucss and pli- ability
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
WHY HARDEN DAREs

Harden has been called the Ber-
nard Shaw Of Germany, but he has
out-Shawed Shaw in his daring. It
would be more of a compliment to the
Irish satirist to be called the Maxi
milan Harden of England. For in
Germany, prison yawns for the OUT
spoken critic of governmental wrong
more widely than I'm the British isles.
Harden has already served one term,
but that was years before the war,
and for his exposure of and comment
upon the Round Table" affair. The
emperor's particular friend, Prince
Gutenberg, was involved in that case
in a way similar to that in which a
famous poet. dramatist and essayist
of the past generation in England was
involved in an affair which resulted in
his sentence to Reading Gaol,
1t has been limited that the Kaiser
fears Harden as he fears no other
nan in Germany. A German literary
man has told the writer Of these lines
that the reason is because Harden
knows more abb ut the Round Table,
affair thaa he has yet published-
things which would be made known to
the world If Harden were put to death
or imprisoned for a long term.
W~hether~this particular explanation Is
the right one or not, it IL Undoubtedly
true that the Gereman emperor has a
most potent reason for allowing Har-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
TOO BAD, BUT NECESSARY

It is toHbe< regretted that the nation is to be de.
prived of the services of SO capable a man as General
Cocktails in the position to which he was appointed in
charge Of the construction Of the merchant fleet author
lied by congress. But in view Of the friction which has
existed for some time between him and the chairman of
the shipping board, it was necessary that new arrange
nents should be made, and it is probably as we'll that
a clean sweep Is made, and the work is reorganized
without retaining any of the remnants of the old diff
ficulty.
In a matter Of SO highly technical a nature as the
one which has been the subject Of this dispute, the gen.
eral public is in a poor position to judge as to the mer-
Its Of the case. Whether wooden ships are better than
those Of steel; whether steel is to be preferred; whether
both types should be used. and of what shape and ton
mage the new ships should be-all these are matters
concerning which experts differ, and concerning which
the man on the street knows little or nothing.
The plain citizen. however. is able to appreciate
the ract that we must have ships, and that quickly. The
tate OF this war hangs on the transp ortation Of freight
across the ocean. Without that the food supplies of
our allies will be out off and our own ability to main
tain an army across the seas will vanish. Time is pass
Ing, and too much has already been wasted in fruitless
pickering. The new officials should get down to bust
ness at once, and tf they cannot do it, more resiena-
tons should be demanded and more appointments made
until men who can and will handle the job and work to,
gether are found.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
A PERNICIOUS MEASURE

The senate amendment to the food control bill pro-
viding for the creation of a joint congressional COM
mittee to investigate war expenditures is unwise legis-
lation and should be ditched on its dement's. It is not
related even remotely to the subject Of food control,
hence it has no place in a measure whose ANNOUNCE
ed purpose is to conserve the food supply, Of the ma
ton.
The amendment as adopted by the senate PRO
vides for the creation Of a committee of five senators
and five representatives which shall ascertain how con-
tracts are being let and money expended in the prose-
cuton Of the war. and to report to congress from time
to time as may be deemed necessary. The heads Of all
departments are required to keep the COMMITTEES fully
advised at all times as to the matters under their con-
troll. and the committee Is to have power to compel the
production Of books and papers and to summon Witness
It requires no great insight to see how such an ar
rangement would work. Assuming the very best condi-
tons possible. and that all the members Of the COM
mittee would be earnest and patriotic men. differences
of opinion would arise from time to time between the
members and the department heads and others acting
under the direction of the president, and the committee
would feel impelled to report adversely on many of the
acts OF the executive department. The subject would be
brought up In congress. There would be debates and
discussions. Pettifoggers would see an opportunity to
make political capital, and they would take advantage
of 1t. The administration would be hampered and en-
barrassed instead of having its work facilitated. Know
ing that this would be the result Of disagreement, de-
partment heads would hesitate to make contracts or
transact other necessary business unless their course met
with the approval of the committee. The committee
would therefore become, not advisory, but supervisory,
and some of the most important work that is to be per-
formed, and for which the president is held responsible,
would be taken out Of his hands. This vast power
would be placed in the hands Of men who could be held
to no sort Of responsibility, for they could always main
tain that they were merely agents of congress, convey
ing to that body information to which it was entitled.
The responsibility for delay could always be laid at the
door of the president.
The plan looks like a bungling imitation Of the
British system. under which the ministry, which is real
ly a committee of parliament, has power to act, and is
required to act, and must stand or fall as its course is
approved or disapproved.
The attitude Of the president toward the measure
Is shown in the letter to q member Of congress urging
the elimination of this provision, with the statement that
its passage would be virtually a vote of want Of conf
dence in the president. Committed to that view, the
president would undoubtedly veto the bill should it be
presented to him with this incubus attached, and he
would be right in doing so.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25

England. Mr.. Henning once said II
numbered 3,000,000; a week or so
later he called it 100000 Gronna
splits the difference Of $4,000 00 It
matters little which ts right, Mr..
Henntngs lower figure Is nearer the
truth. probably.
But II Mr.. Henning and Senator
Gronfla were not too prejudced to use
their brains they might reflect:
]. That no country ever sends its
full force to the firing line at once.
TO maintenance Of q reserve Ia as
necessary in war as It Is in banking.
2. That Great Britain is fighting
on At least five fronts-France, Ma
cedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine and
South Africa; that on all these fronts
there are continual losses due 10
wounds and sickness; that they must
De continually re-enforced; that there
must be aome central reservoir for re-
f~orcefnent-
g.. That on any one OF these fronts
an emergency situation may develop
at any time, demanding the quick dis
patch OF large numbers of troops
n senator might further reflect
that IL Great Britain were to ship har
reserve army to France, and to main
tain II there. It would require twice
g nna IN channel transport now
necessary, and that tonnage would
have to be taken from the work OF
feeding Belgium or some other abb
soIutely vital work. It is cheaper "a
maintain the reserve In England ana
send detachments across channel 81
front. sie
And an intelligent American who's
veins are not full OF the virus 81
RUSSIAN poison will thank God That
WHILE 10 S,o
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
OFFICERS AND ENDORSEMENTS

The man who goes into a training camp for officers
is required to have certain endorsements. Several men
who know him are asked by the authorities to state what
they know concerning his character and habits, and to
indicate their belief as to whether or not he will be like
ly, II selected, to command the respect of the men who
will be placed under his charge. That is proper and
necessary. Before the government spends time and
money on the training of a man for a position as an army
officer 1t should know something of what manner of
man he is. That information can be obtained from
those who have been familiar with the man in civil life.
But, having supplied this information, and having rec
commended the candidate for admission to the camp if
they can consientiously do so, the duty of friends in the
matter OF endorsements and recommendations ceases.
When once the candidate enters the camp he is
under observation by competent men as to his fitness
for service, and those men are expected to base their
Judgment on their own observation. The interference
of friends then is out of place, and should not be thought
of. Friends of applicants for positions as officers who
are now in training camps or are to take their places
there will be doing the candidates themselves a favor
~ they refrain from making any recommendations what
ever concerning them. officers are expected to be
selected. and ought to be selected, only on the basis of
demonstrated fitness.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25

It was the lack Of such an agreement that made
the present war possible. Germany had planned for the
war. and Germany prompted and started 1t. But Ger
many would have brought on no war had her, rulers real
lied to what It would lead. They did not expect to be
confronted by a world In arms. They did not expect
to have to fight Great Britain, or italy, or the United
States. Had they known that this was what war meant
they would have brought about no war. Had the Aus
trian rulers known that their ultimatum to Serbia, with
the attack that followed. would have involved them in
a war which may easily result in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the Austrian empire, all the %prodding from Berlin
would not have induced them to face such consequences.
And IL the plan proposed by the League to Enforce
Peace were in operation, every nation would have notice
that a breach of the peace by her would bring down upon
her the entire world.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
Gronna, Too Prejudiced to Use
Brains Takes Word of German
Propagandists, Says a Chicago
Editor, Thus Aiding the Enemy

IAN Editorial In The Chicago Post)
Let us consider u studies of Re-
publican copperheadism in the cur
rent wal. Let US take, this time,
q progressive Republican senator, to
match up with the r~eactionaries
Sherman and Harding.
4 am toId,n said Senator Gronna
BE North Dakota, addressing a Mime
sofa audience the other day, II am
told that Great Britain has today
more than 100000 trained men who
have not entered the fight. Engiand
has been very liberal in permitting
the troops of her colonies to do the
main lighting. She has placed them
IN the front ranks, rbut has held her
soldiers back until the time shall
come when the strength OF the Gem
trail powers shall have been reduced
to q minimum. and then she will ulti-
mately step in. as she has ALWAYS
done, and reap the glory of q brilliant
victory,
Thus a United States senate de-
tliberately and mendaciously ISLANDERS
an ally Of his country.
There is no foundation for this
kind OF talk; no provocation for II.
1t ID untrue and It is dtsloyal. II n
Senator Gronna was told these lies,
he was told them by some agent 81
the pro-German propaganda ia 1
United States. The trouhle In that
Senator Gronna will now be quoted
rs authority for them, and many pec-
pie Will suppose the senator Is well In
formed instead OF being a mere mali
cfoug peddler or gossip.
Great Britain has not compelled oil
permitted her colonial troops TO dc
the harder part or the fighting. Great
Britairss armies have suffered &c 1easi
1sBQ0s000 casuaIttes, and probably
nearer 2s060,000. Colonial lossea,
5nclud5Eg India ana South Africa,
nun1b0f perhaps 100000. what al
the balance Of 1,zo0.000 to I,7O0,-
90Q3 They are B~ngiisbmen and
Welsaznaa and Irish; they are the
Brave men whom this l~oosestongned
&enokoe calls sI~aclfers.
Great Britain haH q reserve army III
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
A GREAT WAR FORAG GREAT PEACE

Within a few months the United States will have
half a million men on the battle6elds of Europe there to
take their part in the gigantic struggle which convulses
the world. How long the war may last, and how many
more hundreds OF thousands of men we will contribute
to it no one can say. But however long the war may
substance of our people, the one purpose for which the
United States has engaged in it, and the one purpose
Which will be kept in view until its close, is that the rule
OF the sword shall be forever banished from the earth,
and that all nations, great and small, shall be free to
Work out their own destiny without menace from with
out. % r@##.&& +.
The great democracies of the world are allied TN this
cause, and the logic Of the situation, from which there
which has struck for world dominion be crushed, but
the forces of peace throughout the world must after the
war be united in such a manner that the recurrence of
such q tragedy will thereafter be an. impossbilty.
The immediate objective of the war is the military de-
1eat OF Germany. But little will have been accomplish
ed II after that defeat Germany and such other nations
as choose to do so are left free to build and organize for
a still greater effort in the future. There must be a
concert OF nations to prevent war, and we have the
nucleous Of a workable plan for such a concert in the
League to Enforce Peace. That organization does not
aim at the impossible. It accepts things as they are,
ana bases Its plans on the conditions which may be e-
peeted to exist. It does not propose the system Of close
world federation which many people believe is certain to
come. 1t does propose that the nations shall unite in
an agreement that all disputes among nations shall be
submitted to proper Tribunals before war is begun, those
which come under the rules of International law to an
arbitration board, and those which do not to a tribunal
Of cancellation. And it proposes that any nation which
begins war without submitting its case as provided, and
awaiting the judgment of the tribunal shall be subjected
to diplomatic and economic pressure from all the rest,
and If necessary to the joint force of all the other mem
bers.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
Southern Vegetables Are Wasted; Northern
Prices Are High; Still Congress Riddles
And Will Not Unite Hoover's Hands
(By Harry B. Hunt.)
STAFF Special.

Staff Special.
Washington, July 25.-The waste OF
thousands, Of tons of perishahle food
stuffs-fruits and observation-disclosures
failure to provide a free channel from
farm to city housewife, will be Of
the immediate results of congress-
food bill delay.
One Of the country's greatest gar
den truck and fruit crops Is now ready
for harvest. The necessity for foedstuff
saving Is greater than ever before. But
producer and onsum are still held
apart by obstructive middlernen and
commission brokers.
These interests, to multiply their
own profits, keep prices down to the
farmer, disceuraging his efforts to
move his crop to market and shoot
prices up to the housewife. The result
is she will not buy in quantity and
preserve for next winter, but will pur-
chase only for day-to-day pse.
In an eleventh hour attempt to
meet this situation the depaFt-
ment Of agriculture is planning a
campaign among fax1nerS and
producers. 1t win help. but not
save the situation.
Following a conference with big
Gamers and food packers, Secretary
Houston is labering to get farmers to
preserve. an and dry perishables for
their own use.
This campaign plans no effort to
get the city housewife these perish
ables at prices where she. too. may
lay up her winter supply. She is to be
left, as usual, dependant upon the big
commercial Gamers.
Also, the average farm house
@ w1dH0 ovrUorn A0oo rHrrf Yxn ory E3Ofont -
fruits and vegetables for her own
use, unless sugar and cans are
tmpossibly high.
This situation well illustrates the
difference between the department Of
Herbert Hoover.
Hoover would sweep away the OBJ
stacles that keep prices high to the
city housewife and On the other hand,
would maintain such prices to the
producer that he could not afford to
let his crop rot on the ground. which
he often does nov,
This he could accomplish. II con-
president has asked, BY Regulating
distribution, forcing proper transpor-
tation and controlling marketing con-
dittons.
crop is largely harvested. There
has been much waste and loss,
but northern prtnes have remain
ed sky-high.
The harvest OF perishables in the
"a north central states y Just Begin
nihg. The maxirnum conservation can
be met only by q control that will zee
that eve city housewife, az well as
every farmers wife, has chance to
stock her pantry shelves against next
winter.
This Herbert Hoover would like to
do. Congress has prevented him.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
GIRLS PLAN TO RIDE
BICYCLES TO FRISCO

Dickinson, y. p, July 25.--Two
Harrison, both employed at the CEN
tral cafe, expect 3 leave here about
August 2 for al overland trip to san
Francisco. The trip will be made an
bicycles and they will carry sufficient
equipment to cook their own meals en
route. depending upon hotels and
farm houses for sleeping aceommoda-
The girls will follow the Red Trail
70 Seattle and thence down the coast
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
LOT OF POTATOES BUT
STILL NOT ENOUGH

STAFF Special.
Washington. July sb.-Uncle
Sans 1917 potato crop is placed
at 462.000,0oo pushels-167, 060,-
900 bushels more than last year
and 100000 bushels more than
the eix-year average.
This big yield. however, is no
reason fer. n~aglecting to save ev-
cry bushel possible. The demand
in Europe will far eutrun u
supply.
In Great Britain potatoes MAJ
be served only enc day each
week, except that families observ-
Ing meatlees days are allowed po-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25

the last to make 1t. Cannot the SEN
ator see how the charge comes back ?
England, with nearly two million cas-
ualties; with two million men on the
firing line and three years of warfare
behind her, might say-f she were
not more generous than the senator
What Of the country hat after three
years Of standing on the side lines
into the var when the enemy
is retreating?"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-25
tatoes also when no meat is serv.

In England and France all POI
tatoes must be boiled or baked.
Frying is prohibited because 1t
requires grease.
One of the first regulations Of
Food Administrator Hoover, il
the senate ever passes the food
conservation bill, will be to place
the sale of potatoes on a weight
basis, instead of by measure. Re-
cent tests have shown potatoes
sold by measure run from 80 to
70 pounds short per barrel. The
consumer, therefore, besides pay
Ing high prices, has been getting
short-Weight,