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loss of American lives force the hand of the president and make a declaration of war inevitable. How clearly possible this is may be known from the fact that very few boats leave American ports for the war zone upon which are not Am erican citizens. On the other hand the situation will assume a very favorable turn if Germany will re. vert to the former status of under rine warfare
 An additional moveA was made
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GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER
 TALKS FREE OF PLANS

BERLIN, Feb. 5.-Zimmerman the German Foreign Minister ac- corded an interview to the Tage- blatt wherein there was no attempt made ~rt2 ,n1ssa& & -the aroarioar amour proprsR any way.
 He said that there is to be no step backward with Germany. This is a finish fight and there will be no notifications or changes made at any cost in the U boat warfare as originally planned by Germany.
 The action of President Wilson is astonishing, said Zimmerman, and wholly unexpected, although
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GERARD CALLS UPON
 GERMANY FOR PAPERS

BERLIN, Feb. 5.-Promptly at one o'clock this afternoon, the Am erican Ambassador called upon Mi mister Zimmerman for his passports. They were almost immediately hand ed to him. There was no formal leave taking. Gerard had inform ally notified the German government of the fact that he had been re- called and that no successor would be appointed as the intention of the United States government was to sever diplomatic relations on ac-
 count of the objectionable subma- rine policy of the German govern
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eign bomb conspiracy which might be aimed at the President.
 Secretary Daniels has aIzn>-' though what the duties of this off, cial are and the scope of his power is not made public.
 President Wilson conferred with Secretary Daniels for over an hour and then he and Daniels went to the War Department where they were closetted with Baker.
 Secretary Daniels also conferred at length with Chairman Padgetts on the Bureau Chiefs emergency le-
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all seriousness to Congress.
 There is no doubt that the fact that considerable work has to be done yet and the emergency bills will take up so much of the time re- maining of the present Congress some regular bills will have to go over until a special session is called after March 4. The administration road will then be extremely diffi- cult
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ment. Gerard also notified the German authoritiest that it was his duty to order all citizens of the Am erican republic to leave German territory without delay and asked that no difficulties be placed in the way of the departure of such citi- zens.
 Four thousand Americans are pre- pairing to leave and a special train is to be furnished by the German government Many Americans have been in Germany for a score and more years and have had very fine business relations with the empire.
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STATUS0F CRISIS UNCHANGED
CRISIS SHOWS NO
 VARIANCE TO DATE

today by Austria when that nation notified the United States govern ment that Germany's action would be duplicated at sea by Austria Hungary and an identical submarine policy carried out by both the Cen tral Powers.
 This leaves President Wilson no alternative but to hand von Tarnow, the newly arrived ambassador his passport and give him his conge as Bernstorff has received his. No such action had been taken up to a late hour this evening.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. D. The diplomatic crisis between Ger many and the United States shows no change. The situation may alter instantly for the better or for the worse, according as the acute ang- les of the position may be taken by the German government.
 It is realized that Wilson spoke correctly when he said that a de- claration of war now depends upon Germany. First Germany may by her action on the high seas by the sinking of American ships or the
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such an eventuality had been con- sidered and accepted as to be en- dured if it came. The Entente re- fusal to consider any peace terms les+ - C 1rman nation no alterna- tive. The United States denied any assistance in the German pacifcist efforts.
 Asked as to the action of the sub marines towards ships of American register or carrying Americans, the Foreign Minister significantly ex- pressed a hope that the Americans would be warned to keep out of the war zone.
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BERLIN, Feb. 5.-There is no prospect of any modification of the submarine plan of campaign it is officially announced. Excitement was intense when the ac- tion of the United States became known. The press is calm and is striving to minimize the effect Of the rupture in the diplomatic rela- tions of the two countries.
 There is a strong under current of feeling against the United States.
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Gerard it is stated will proba bly go to Switzerland while the American exodus is taking place from Ger many. The situation is without any sensational incident and thanks to police precautions no anti-Amer- ican demonstrations have been and in any event none would be tolerat- ed. The public is making no show of emotion over the situation which is however understood to be very grave at the best. There is no chance of Germany backing down.
 Now is the time tn Subscribe.
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The question of making the de mocrats pay for the light and coal consumed at their gabfests elicited prolonged discussion and a motion of Dr. Wesley making all holding meetings pay for light and coal con- sumed at such in the city hall went by the board for lack of sufficient supporters. The council then ad- journed.
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nation is the first among the South American republics to join with the United States in it's action breaking off relations with the German gov ernment. It is announced here off, cially that the first step. by Brazil will take the nature of a protest. This protest has been completed and will go to Germany when diplo- matic interchGnges with the United States Of America are completed also.
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gislation which will materialize at once in the form of bills in Con- 1ress.
 It is probable that the eight hour rule on government work will be suspended in order to rush work upon submarines and other war ships.
 It is also announced that Wilson is now considering the abandonment of a public inauguration and this will probably be done.
 The activity is very noticeable in all circles in connection with a war program.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. D. President Wilson has asked the other neutral nations to make Ger many an outlaw nation beyond the pale of civilized diplomacy until such time as the recognized princip- les of international law are given standing by the Teuton nations on the high seas.
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G0MPERS CABLES LECIEN
 TO HELP PREVENT WAR

terrible calamity as war between the American republic and the United States.
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LONDON, Feb. 5.-Berne reports a special session of the Swiss Feder- al Council considering the invita-
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HINTS ON COMFORT.

To look we'll you must feel we'll. Clothes help you to look well, if they are made to order and fit we'll, repaired we'll, cleaned we'll and we'll pressed. Therefore you will feel we'll.
 M. PASCOFF. Ladies and Gents Tailor does it all
 we'll
 All work guaranteed Cor. Lane's Way and Front Street. CITY BATH HOUSE
 has the largest
 and only 6 feet
 Bath Tubs in Nome. ..ll
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Let r~ estimate on Jour Job Work
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-23

many and great obligations to almighty
God, and to implore him to continue
and confirm the blessings we expe-
rience.s .~-saa,
"Deeply penetrated with this senti-
ment. I, George Washington, president
of the United States, do recommend
to all religious societies and denom-
nations, and to all persons whomso-
ever within the United States, to set
apart and observe Thursday, the 10th
day of February next, as a day of pub
lie thanksgiving and prayer, and on
that day to meet together and render
their sincere thanks to the great ruler
of nations for the manifold and signal
.mercies which distinguish our lot as
ia nation, particularly for the posses
sion of constitutions of government
which unite and by their union estab-
lish liberty with order, for the preser-
walton of our peace, foreign and do
nestle; for the seasonable control
which has been given to the spirit of
disorder in the suppression Of the late
Instruction"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-23

u CELEBRATE LnaL great
NN/ holiday, Thanksgiving, at
" this season. In the gay
round of pleasures the day
always brings, perhaps not n of US
will stop a moment and seriously look
back over the past year, now rapidly
drawing to close. Many of us--in
fact, all of us-should pause a moment
and quietly review the past months.
Perhaps these months brought us
many trials, but they also brought us
many blessings. 1t is the blessings we
should itemize and magnify and for
get the crosses. We may sigh dis
~contentedly and say, "Well, last year I
had many more reasons to be thank
full than I have this year." but if we
are fair and honest with ourselves we
will have to admit that, even IL
troubles came our way, the blessings
that followed them were far greater
In number.
Who has not read the story Of that
first Thanksgiving Day? Fancy a
woman in these times enduring the
hardships and worries those strong
hearted New England pilgrims en-.
dured; and what a wonderful lesson
In unselishness they have handed
down to us!
Argue and elaborate as we will on
our burdens, we know fate has been
good to US. Life is not all sunshine.
If it were we would very soon grow
tired of life. Disappointments, set
backs, Establishments come to every
one, and we must expect they will
come to us. Indeed, we have no voice
in the matter. They will come to us
as surely as day follows night; but do
we accept them patiently? That is
another story.
Many women look only on the dark
side of life. "What's the use?" they
say dejectedly. Everything I try to
do turns out a failure" There Is a
tiny breath of self1shness here. "I' Is
very prominent in these women's
thoughts. Perhaps If they did some-
thing worth while for someone else
their work would be crowned with
success. Doing something for another
has never yet turned out a failure.
There isn't a case on record showing
where failure has followed a kind deed
done for another Perhaps this other
did not appreciate the efforts taken In
her behalf, yet the fact remains that
the woman who put herself out to
make another woman happy expe-
rienced a wonderful happiness herself.
New York Evening Telegram.
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who is growing to be an expensive lux
ury these days, but for those many
things upon which all the hard times
in the world will have no effect. Those
things which riches can never buy
the old, old gifts of health and laugh
ter, with the stars smiling upon Us by
night and the great warm sun beaming
down upon us by day-trying so hard
to reach our hearts to keep them warm
and sunny on all the days of the year
beginning with Thanksgiving day.
Copyright. 1917. western-Newspaper Union.)
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the two little girls with the blue eyes
and the soft brown hair. And 81 did
the mother and daddy. But even then
my father had not entirely vanished,
and with one accord they said that
they had never had such a Thanksgiv-
ing dinner"
The turkeys, as well as the other
creatures In the %barnyard, had gath
cred around to listen. "You are so
proud of being eaten" said the pigs
and ducks, land how car you enjoy be-
ing proud-your joy is so soon over?
Why do you want to be fed so much
when it only means that loon you can
have no more to eat, because a hun
CRY family has eaten you?"
"That's because you don't under
stand turkeys" said handsome Miss
Turkey. "We consider it such a splen-
did honor to be eaten OF such a nota-
BILE day. We are not eaten any time
at all, like some creatures I know of"
The other %barnyard animals hung
spoke, and they were suddenly much
quieter, ~clucking, q~uacking, granting
and %squealing in low voices.
Mr.. Gobble, cousin of Mr.. Gobbler,
had begun to speak: "Your father
was very fortunate In being the n
saved for the farmers family. And a
great treat he was. But listen to my
tale of a greater treat" They all
drew nearer "Gobble, gobble, COB
ble," repeating his own name and the
call of ~Turkey-land, my father served
a far better purpose.
"The farmer knew of a family in
the city, far from here, where there
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BE Thankful Every Day.

The purely passive contemplation of
all good ought to be granted to COM
mon days on which no more has Oc-
Cured than the daily round of little
pleasures and the absence of more
than ordinary annoyances. With the
evening offering of a silent thanksgiv-
ing to God we take conscious posses
sion of simple happiness and enjoy
it once again, instead of slipping of
past Gods best gifts as men so often
do. Thus thanksgiving involves the
recognition: All this good is from
God, and this recognition reacts on our
own mood. creating conscious joy and
humble trust in the God who will o n
tinue to bless In things both great
and small.
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The daddy of the family had once been
q school friend of the farmer, but he
had gone to the city to live, and he
had had a very hard time. He, too,
had four children, but their faces were
pale, and often, often they had not
quite as much to eat as they needed.
My father turkey was sent to this fam
lily" The turkey paused, gobbled three
times, then began to talk again.
"Ah, when my father arrived, there
vas such joy The four children
looked at the feet peeking out of the
box, and there were some feathers left
OF his handsome legs and around his
neck. He has fur boots,' they shout
ed, and a fur collar. oh, what a rich
bird he must have beenl Isn't he too
rich to eat?'
'They called him a rich bird-they
didn't know he was still greater than
a rich bird-one of the turkeys of the
great Thanksgiving day. But their
daddy told them how Mr.. Turkey had
come from the country, and that he
would be cooked and would be eaten
that day for their dinner-as o as
he was nice and brown and while he
foated in a little pond of gravy
snow, wasn't my father the lucky
one? He was used for children who
had never known a Thanksgiving din
ner before. And weren't they thank
full? oh. weren't they happyl Such
a surprise as my father gave them,
such a meal as he made for them, and
how happy the little pale children were
that there was a day in the three hun
bred and sixty-fiye set aside for
Thanksgiving-and for turkeysl
"While you creatures in the BARN
yard got so many of the goodies left
from the Thanksgiving table, so did
old Dan, the dog, get the bones from
my father-such bones as he had new
er before tasted. Even Dan knew the
meaning of the dayi"
"We were both right" said Mr.. Cob
bier. "My farmers children were
thankful because they knew they new
er had to long for food. They always
had enough. They never needed to
long for fresh air and a place for play
ing. And they did not wish for m
thing they did not have. So were the
family to whom your father went
thankful. They were happy they had
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Day.
each other and they were delighted
to share your father and to have such
a meal and treat. For them, too,
there was Thanksgiving turkey. And
they talked of better days ahead.
eyes," said Mr.. Gobbler proudly,
Thanksgiving day is well named-a
holiday of giving thanks because we
are eaten. Our fathers were eaten In.
both those homes-the poor and the
rich, and in both made happiness
equally great. And so will we make
happiness in a very few days."
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But back of Thanksgiving day, back
of the idea that eating a turkey is the
great and important event of the day,
there is something else.
In 1921 the Plymouth colony in New
England set aside one day of thankful
ness-thankfulness for what they had;
not for what they thought they should
have. They had known hard days of
self-denial and struggle. Yet they
were thankful, for in a new land they
saw great things ahead, and 1t is our
duty to see that their hopes were not
in vain.
Thanksgiving day-the day to give
thanks. But are we to be thankful on
one day only, and then return to three
hundred and sixty-four days of grumb-
ling and of regret for what we don't
possess? Mol Let us have one day as
simply the first day Of many, many
others In which we r thankful for
all we have. Not only for Mr.. Turkey.
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BELONGS to All Humanity.

Essentially our American Thanks
giving is least American of u holi-
days, for the simple reason that it is
too human to be merely American.
There were no most human things left
for the New England fathers to orig
mate. They are immemorially older
than this country. There are no orig
inal ways of expressing gratitude. All
the pathways of thanksgiving are very
old paths.-James Lane Allen in Mum
sey's Magazine.
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Two turkeys in the barnyardI
Ia were gobbling, and if we had
sIP been able to understand their
~ language this is what we
4J would have heard them saying,
81 several days before the last
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-23
PRETTY GOOD KIND OF MAN
Deacon opdyke's Action Showed He
Was Only Properly Appreciated
by His Nelghbors.

"Well, he is this kind of q man."
said the livery stable keeper, when I
asked him about his townsman, Dea-
son Opdyke: Last year the deacon
had some extra work to do on his
farm on the upper road, and I hired
out my old Bill to him. At the end of
a month the horse came back In good
condition, the deacon paid the price,
and everyone concerned was satisfied,
including Old Bill, / guess. Along
about Thanksgiving time the deacon
dropped in here and inquired about
the horse. Seemed real pleased when
I told him Bill was spryer than usual
after his summers work. Asked to
see him, but the horse was out IN
a job. Quite a member of society, that
horse u.s. he said, and went away after
inquiring how many horses / had in
the stable, boarders and all.
Thanksgiving morning there wasn't
much doing here after the regular
chores were done, and we all sat
around the Office stove, when the dea-
cons hired man drove up and unload
ed a gunny sack full Of something. I
remember thinking he had borrowed
that kind of satisfied smile of the
deacon's, as he said I would find a
note inside the bag. I did; and this
was about what it said:
"'You will find enough carrots here
to give every horse in the stable a
good dessert after the regular feed
today. Be sure and have them cut
fine enough SO they won't choke, and
tell the horses that Old Bill is stand
ing treat
"That's the kind of a man I've found
Deacon Opdyke to be-" said the livery
man, with what I thought was con-
siderable conviction.-Youth's Com
panion.
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Thanksgiving
P~rocIamations of
Revolutionary Days

ton of the revolution was re-
ported to congress October IS,
1888, by Duane, Samuel Hunt
ington and Holten. 1t was written by
Mr.. Duane and given to the people on
the second Thursday In December. 1t
expresses thanks for the discharge of
troops In the following words:
whereas, it has pleased the SUI
preme Ruler of all human events tol
dispose the hearts of the late bellig-I
erent powers to put a period to thel
effusion of human blood, by proclaim
ing q cessation of all hostilities by
sea and land, and these United States
are not only happily rescued from the
dangers and calamities to which they
have been SO long exposed, but their
freedom, sovereignty and indepen-
dence are ultimately acknowledged;
and, whereas, in the process Of a con-
test on which the most essential rights
of human nature depended the inter-
position of divine providence in our
favor hath been most abundantly and
most graciously manifested, and the
citizens of these United States have
every reason for praise and gratitude
to the God of their salvation -. the
United States In congress assembled
do recommend 1t to the several states
to set apart the second Thursday in
December next as a day of public
thanksgiving"
The first national Thanksgiving to
be promulgated after the adoption of
the Constitution Of the United States
was written by Washington and issued
on October 3, 1889. This was a gen
eral recommendation of thanksgiving
for the establishment of the COnstitu-
ton. The whereabouts Of the original
of this instrument is unknown. The
earliest Thanksgiving proclamation of
Washington as president in the pos
session of the department of state is
one dated January 1, 1895. and was
issued in view of the suppression of
the rebellion In western Pennsylvania,
which for a time threatened the safety
of the union.
This document was written by Alex
Rnder Hamilton, secretary of the treas
ury, and bears amendments by Ed
mund Randolph, secretary of state.
The original copy Is yellow and the
Ink is faded, but it is yet legible. 1t
Is the engrossed copy which bears the
great seal of the United States and the
signatures Of Washington and RAN
dolph. The proclamation is as fol-
lows:
''When we review the calamities
which aff1ict so many other nations,
the present condition of the United
States affords much of consolation and
satisfaction. Our exemption hitherto
from foreign war, an increasing pros
pect of the continuance of that exenip-
ton, the great degree of internal tran
guilty we have enjoyed, the recent
confirmation of that tranquility by the
suppression of an insurrection which
SO wantonly threatened it, the happy
course Of our public affairs In general,
the unexampled prosperity of all class
es of our citizens, are circumstances
which peculiarly mark our situation
with indications of the divine benef-
cence toward us. In such a state 1t Is
an especial name our duty as a peo-
pie, with deyout reverence and affec-
tionate gratitude, to acknowledge our
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Season for All to
Magnify Blessings
and Forget Crosses

w YE CELEBRATE that great
M holiday, Thanksgiving, at
this season. In the gay
5000 "a H. 5a-
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Autumn.
Now when the time of fruit and grain is
come,
When apples hang above the orchard
wall,
And from a tangle by the roadside stream
A scent of wild grape fills the racy air.
Comes Autumn with her s%un-burnt cara
a
Like a long gypsy train with trappings
gay
And tattered colors Of the Orient.
Moving slow-footed through the dreamy
hills.
The woods of Wilton, at her coming, wear
Tits of Bokhara and of Samarcand;
The naples slow with their Pompeian
red.
The ~hiokor1es with burnt Etruscan gold;-
And WHILE the crickets fife along her
march.
Behind9 her banners burns the crimson
Bliss Casman in the Atlantic.
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Good Thought for the Day.

There can be no better thought fol
Thanksgiving day than that which ex'
presses honest gratitude for what ouI
fathers won for us, and determination
to confer it's blessings unimpaired on
our offspring.
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ZHANKSGIVING
By REV. JAMES M. FAIR

Thanksgiving is not a day; it is
a habit. We cannot be thankful
on Thanksgiving day unless we
have been learning how every
other day in the year. There
are some simple rules: Walk
on the sunny side of the street;
live as much as possible in the
best room in the house; think
about your friends. not your
enemies; talk about your good
luck, not your bad. These are
some of the ways of acquiring
the spirit of cheerfulness which
is the only soil on which the
flower Thanksgiving will grow.