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The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-16
GERMAN MINISTER QUITS.

AMSTERDAM, July l4.-It is semi officially announced in dispatches re ceived here that Lieutenant General
The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-16
SEATTLEITE IN CHINA.

Associated PTeSSl SHANGHAI, July 14.-Paul Page Whitman, of Seattle, is in China
The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-16
66 Miles of Alaska Railroad in Operation
MRS. LOVE, OF
 DAWSON, WEDS
 4 SHIPBUILDER

WIDOW OF DICK LOWE, ONE OF EARLY DAY KLONOlkERS ON WHOM FORTUNE SMILED. IS WEDDED TO IRVING D. POPE, OF SEATTLE
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
MUSIC HATH IT'S PRICE.

There is much to be said on both
sfdss Of this question of local bands
refusing to offer their services gratis
for the patriotic parade Of next Sat-
urdey when our soldier boys visit US
from Camp Devens.
The musicians have invited the
wrath of the populace by their &C.
tons. Yet. this should be known by
the public: The bandmasters of the
American and the Philharmonic orr
CARNATIONS. respectively William H.
Bishop and Edward ]. Lynch, gladly
offered their services and those of the
musicians affiliated with them. After
that action it was discovered that the
rules OF the Musicians Union pre-
vented such thing as playing with
out recompense. The laws of the
Union were made. evidently, before
patriotism was rife. When the en-
tire nation is experiencing a spirit of
[sacrifce, men and women look to
musicians even for an evidence of the
same regeneration. Hitherto the
blowers of horns and the heaters Of
drums were a badly used coter1e. Now
they are getting along better, so far
as money for their services is CON-
cerned.
There is one way the musicians can
get around the rule of their UNION
and 1t is poor rule that cannot be
broken cnce, especially since that Is
what rules are for; they can offer
their services at the regular pro rata
and then donate the money received
back to the cause they serve. They
can do this-if 1t is not asking too
much.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

Another of the boys who has made
successful trip overseas and is now
somewhere in France ready to go
lover the top for democracy is Har-
old J. Malone, who is shown above.
Malone enlisted in Troop March 25
at Hartford and during the spring
months and the early part of the sum
mer was stationed at Mantle where
Troop B was reQrganized into a ma
chine gun battalion
Malone, who is a native of New
Britain, is the son of Officer and Mrs
A. c. Malone of SIS Glen street. He
received his education at St. Joseph's
Perochial school and also spent three
years at the New Britain High school.
At the time Of enlistment he was en-
ployed in the estimate department Of
the North & Judd Co. Fraternally
he is q member of the Kenilworth
club and of DAILY Council, X. Of c.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
There is a little moral
Connected with this yarn:
The Troopship That Came Back.

Waterbury Republican,
The arrest of 80 Germans who were
taken from Hoboken piers and barges
Friday and informed on Ellis Island,
making a total Of 113 rounded up by
the naval intelligence bureau in three
days. has special interest for this sec
ton of the country. Wooden rivets
that had been placed on one of the
troop ships by German mechanics are
reported to have at last put the gov
eminent into lively action in cleaning
up all Germans employed along the
waterfront and on vessels OF New York
harbor The damage was discovered,
according to report, after the troop
ship had put out to sea and return
to port was made to repair the mis-
chief.
Connecticut will be interested in
this action because of it's mystif1ed
speculation when the troopship that
carried the Waterbury companies Of
the 102d regiment from Hoboken re-
turned, because. as was then unofh-
cially reported, a. storm had put some
Of the machinery out Of order. Troop
ships are carefully inspected before
being put into service so that 1t would
be surprising to find lone getting out of
order as easily as was limited when
this ship came back:.' This is the more
so as messages home from some of the
boys on board were to the effect that
the storm blamed for the trouble was
of no special severity.
In putting enemy aliens where they
could do no harm the government has
been slow to act. The troopship in
question is said to have been over
hauled at a dock where many Ger
mans had been employed in various
| capacities. Sixteen of the Germans
seized Friday we're taken from docks
actually controlled by the government,
/. which further emphasizes the tardi-
| ness with which this action has been
! taken
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
GET M LINE.

Are Won man ~ And, If you are,
did you hear your Uncle Sam calling
you? Today was the day to buy that
Liberty Bond. Today was Liberty
Day. Did you buy the bond? And,
Il not, why not? Was it because
you bought a bond last June when
the first Liberty Bonds were fioated
and therefore reason you do not have
70 buy another? With the same
brand of logic you should have gone
without eating today because you had
three square meals yesterday. Or,
did you feel that someone else would
do the purchasing of bonds if you
followed the doctrine of Let George
Do It? In that event, what would be-
come of the nation If all men and
women thought as you think? If we
'er Go, Gallagher, where would the
nation end? Uncle Sam asked each
one of his nephews and nieces to buy
q Liberty Bond today. Those who did
| not 90 SO are moral ana financial
! slackers.
This much must be understood now
or never. The United States is in
this war to the finish Wheth err
some people like it or not makes no
. difference. For many long weary
months before the declaration of war
we heard the meanings and the 2rum =
blings of the malcontents. They were
of every form and class. They were,
for the most part, pro-Germans.
They were disloyalists. Today they
are no better. They have not changed
their spots They hate the thought
of war on their favoritc, Wilhelm,
the master of the helmstrasse;
but whether they will it or not the
war must go on, and il will go on
until the Hohenzollerns are driven on
the high road to hell or the American
nation is groveling in the dust asking
. for mercy. If the American people
are as great as they have been in the
past there will be no need for their
nation to beg mercy from anyone,
net even from tho Haiser. sThesone
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
KATY DID,-NOT.

wonder if you have met Miss Katie
Slacker-She said:
Il love my country--Such q sight
I'd like to be man and fight.
There is nothing that l wouldn't do
TO help our gallant soldiers through
And KATY did? She didn't!
Il shudder at the atrocities
l read occur across the seas
My grief is really quite acute
When movies show the destitute.'
Yes, Katy did. She did!
Il do not care to knit or sew
Or help the Red Cross Fund to grow.
The Kaiser, 1 daily long to can
But on beans and such place 'he
ban
SO Katy didn't She didn't!
She ate and slept and wore her
clothes
And roamed whereer her lanoS
chose
She kept her money in her STOCKING
In spite OF her incessant talking.
Katy did.
She didn't
rz1yen feel she could respond
When asked to buy a Liberty Bona
"rwas Uncle Sam VINO asked to borro"
She put him off until tomorrow
Alas, Katy did! She did!
Tomorrow is the last chance to puy
a Liberty Bond. Do not DO as hA'S
did.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

"Sir. thirty-nine men have been
scalded to death. Many more are dy-
ing!" Such was the shocking report
that startled the Captain of the Ger
man battleship Brandenburg.
In the museum of the Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis you may see sec
ton of eight-inch brass pipe with a
great hole torn in its side. A notice
attached describes the number OF
men killed by explosion in the steam
line of which the relic was a part.
These and similar accidents were
great setback to marine engineering.
Most careful inspection and test re-
vealed no cause for the trouble. Metal
was sufficiently strong and even
double the necessary thickness car
ried away just as easily. The disasters
remained mysteries for years.
Then someone with common sense
walked up. Cold steam pipes are
shorter than hot steam pipes. Expan-
sion of steel for one foot length and
one degree Fair. rise in temperature
is .OOOOS inches. Copper when heated
stretches double that for each foot
and degree. Not much of course. But
in winter pipes may pass through
compartments near freezing tempera-
lures. If steam at 400 degrees sud
denly rushes through 100 feet of pipe
the increase of length is considerable.
(Seems as If it would be profitable
to buy cold pipe, corner the market,
and sell it hot)
Steam lines aboard ship pass through
numerous bulkheads. 1t is necessary
they be securely fastened. When heat
expansion comes something must give.
Steel bulk heads braced and riveted,
are not going to submit to the whims
Of every vagrant steamline. Pipes
buckle and writhe, but unless there IS
relief, no matter what their strength
in the end they burst. A main engine
lead feeding from IL boilers once
went in this way. Men shriveled be-
fore the awful blast like the edges of
a fried egg, and died where they
stood
The remedy was simple. Expansion
joints are fitted at convenient inter-
walls. The pipe is broken and one
part stretched to fit over the other Tor
a short distance. Packing of rubber
canvas or soft metal keeps the joint
steam tight Heavy rods brace 1t and
keep the ends from pulling apart. Mo-
ton of the ship when rolling In a sea
also puts a strain on all piping, which
is absorbed by these joints.
I grant you this topic Is dry and
technical. But 1t has moral befit-
ting the times. Rush and heat of
steam distends the artery of it's pro-
gress Rush of busisess and heat Of
war bloat the natural channels of our
lives. Germany's preparedness was
her military expansion joint. In Eng
land both industrial and military
shortsightedness opposed sudden
stretching until, as was reported on
the Brandenburg's bridge, messen-
ger said to the King: "Sir, a million
men have been shot, burned, gassed,
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY

and blown to pieces. A multitude NOR 3
are dying!"
For want of expansion joints stok-
ers died in foreign navies. Our Navy
prof1ted by their misfortunes. For
want of kind of expansion joints
foreign armies were wiped out Our
army prof1ted thereby. For want of
means Of expansion every warning ma
ton in Europe is suffering untold
hardship. Are we as a whole profit
ing by their terrible example?
Which reminds me Of bone-dryness
now at hand. Some of our human
beer-kegs better get contraction joints
for their belts.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
Poor Coal.
(Meriden Journal).


In times Of stress one weakness aft
er another reveals itself. Now poor
coal Is being blamed. Railroad men
say 1t won't make steam enough to
p'ell their trains on time. Hence
fright cen gesti0n, delays to indus
ss1e& and SOW passenger trains.
i is ono result from the universal
sh rtage OF 4 4 or. We used to oper-
TX or uik><~ largely with alien help,
- shis r. HN os1aH & to us much
,sw. n cfows hsw much we should
r tue DE t@Ixng thousands who once
were contemptuously called "wops"
auA "da6ees."
Tho native American is little dis
posed to remove his cum and get
Gown in the bowels Of the earth with
g pick. We shall have to speak with
a little more respect of the laborious
foreigners upon whom we depend to
keep our wheels moving. Our coun-
try needs great many Of these men
to do these hard tasks, and it will
have to be good to them after the
war.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
"And Not to Yield"

(kanSaS City Starr
It is intended here to call atten-
ton. not to a late best seller, or to
a piece of free verse, but to a poem
written three-quarters of century
ago by a poet who is dismissed by
some of the moderns as hopelessly
out of date. Tennyson's ulysses"
carries a message that will be vital as
long as human nature lasts, for it Is
OF man. Written soon after the death
of Arthur Hallam, the poets friend,
he said of it that it gave my feeling
about the need Of going forward and
Drawing the struggle of life perhaps
! more simply than anything in In Me-
moriam'
The aged Ulysses, returned home,
is not satisfied to live the rest Of his
days in ease. He calls together those
who are left Of the comrades Of his
adventures and makes this appeal in
the closing lines:
The long day wanes; the slow moon
climbs: the deep
Means round with many voices,
Come. my friends,
IT'S not too late to seek newer
world,
Push off and sitting we'll in order
smite
The sounding burrows; for my pur-
pose holds
baths
1t may be that the CULTS will wash us
down;
1t may be we shall touch the Happy
Isles,
And see the great Achilles. whom
we knew.
Tho much is taken, much abides:
and tho
We are not now that strength which
in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which
we are, we are;
One equal temper Of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but
strong in will
To strive. to seek. to find. and not
to yield.
These lines" said Carlyle, refer
ring to the one about the Happy
isles, and those following, do not
make me weep, but there Is In mo
what would fill whole lachrymatories
as I read" In 1845 Sir Robert Peel,
hesitating as to the poet on whom to
| bestow government pension. was
moved to decide for Tennyson on
reading Ulysses
1t is poem that might be ex-
pected to appeal particularly to men
past their prime, for age did not
daunt Ulysses. But its message is far
! wider To every man or woman who
is tempted to sit down contented with
present achievement or discouraged
over the future comes the noble urg
! ing to press onward into further ex-
perience, into the quest of fuller life.
One equal temper of heroic hearts.
Made weak by time and fate. but
strong in-will
To strive to seek. to find. and not
to yield.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
Origin of the silhouette.
(Lndies' Home Journal).


A man there was. in Frailce, in the
last of the eighteenth century, who
became minister of finance, and was
so economical and babe the French
people to be equally SO that all man
ner of fun was made of him, and the
cheapest articles were named for him.
One day painter said: ITO be eco
nomical we must stop using paints
and colors. Here" he said to a lady
sitting in the sun, "let me draw you
in black and save colors,' and he
drew her profile as 1t cast a shadow
against his panel. There" he said
There is a likeness Of you without
expense Of paints. Let us name it for
our worthy minister Of finance" And
they did. The minister's name was
Etienne de Silhouette. And that's how
the Slho uette came to be-as a joke
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

There Are Times In Nations AT
fairs When Every Man Must
Do His Bit.
providence JournaD.

An employe of Connecticut NUM-
| lions factory, who with half hunn
dred fellow workmen went on strike
the other day, is now about to .be
measured for a khaki suit. The Sc
| lection board in his district found that
/ he had been enrolled with the first
draft but was exempted on the claim
that his services were indispensable
to a war industry. That he was hon.
est, if mistaken, in this claim is sug-
gested, of course, by the fact that hs
struck to enforce some demand on
his employers.
But the attitude of the draft board
was that man who is indispensable
ought to be patriotic enough to stick to
the indispensable job if he has griev-
ance he should try to settle it without
resorting to violent methods. A rea-
sonable doubt of this mans indispen-
stability is raised because the factory
has continued to run without him. So,
off he goes to a National Army can-
Torment, where striking Is not prac-
ticed.
This is an exemplary case. In many
parts of the country, very likely, there
have been others of the sort dis.
posed Of in a manner gratifying to
public intelligence. Broadly, the ques-
ton of a mans right not to work is
raised for practical solution. That
right has been expressly proclaimed,
and insisted on as inalienable, by la
Dor agitators since it began to come
in conflict with the lofty sentiment
of patriotic duty. It is a plausible
assertion, which may pass unchal-
lenged in ordinary times, but it rests
on an untenable theory. There is no
such right, now or at any time,
though it may exist by common con-
sent in favoring conditions. When
the public welfare is clearly at stalks
there need be no compromise with,
much less surrender to, the indi-
viduars claim of superior right.
The government has the right, if il
does not always assume the power, to
compel its citizens to work. In the
Army and Navy, today, hundreds Of
thousands of liberty loving Americana
have abandoned any notion that they
may quit work when they please. And
they do not feel that they have made
a sacrifice of any principle of personal
liberty in conceding the paramount
right of the government to keep them
at work
Can the workers in civil employ
ment be brought under this national
discipline? Undoubtedly they can be.
The entire industry of the country
can be put on a military basis, should
it become necessary.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

The Connecticut recruiting stations
for the regular army in New Haven,
New London, Waterbury, Bridgeport
and Hartford have received orders
qualified applicants with experience as
chemists, gas workers, steamf1tters
mechanics. gas engineers, blacksmiths,
plumbers, fire fighters or acid workers
for a division of engineers, National
Army. This is an excellent oppor-
tunity for men of these classes Of
trade and any physically fit should en-
list at once, say army officers.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

way to prevent this, Of course, is to
back up the Government. Better to
buy a Liberty Bond now than to give
all your money to pay indemnities
later
The time for argument has passed.
There is no need for it now. We
have spent the better part of two
years thinking over all the reasons
for Americas entrance into war
she has been in but six months. And
now that we are in it to defend out
| ragged American rights we are in it to
the last ditch, to the last dollar, to
the last man, to the last drop Of
blood. There can be no turning back.
The spending of lives will be de-
termined to great extent by the
spending of dollars. Lives and treas
ure must be spent; but the more
treasure we muster, the less lives we
must sacrifice. Whenever we can
spend dollars instead of lives it is our
supreme duty to spend dollars. The
government can get our dollars if II
wants to, and not through the sale Of
bonds. 1t can commander every dollar
in the country-and that by taxation.
Those are the facts in the case. This
government needs money to carry on
the war, 1t must have money, and it
Is up to the American people to fur
nish the money. Our boys who are
now on European soil getting ready
for the supreme test, and those who
are to go with them, must be pro-
tected. 1t is a case of life and death
with them. When it comes to lives
of American boys there is only one
thing to do,-furnish the money for
their protection.
Bankers have shown and can show
that Liberty Bonds are the best in
vestment in the world today; but we
are not talking Of investments. We
are considering something of higher
order,-patriotism If a mans beloved
wife, or his daughter, or his son were
be saved by the expenditure Of a
hundred or thousand dollars, all the
man possessed, he would not first
consider where he might place 1t to
make four per cent. interest. He
would see to 1t that a life was spared.
It is the same with percentage and
patriotism. They do not run to-
gether. 1t is now a case of bonds or
blood. The less bonds purchased the
more blood there must be she'd And
these bonds can be purchased by bor-
rowing money from the bank. A
good American would borrow money
yields only four per cent. And any
bank will lend money with which to
buy these bonds. What is the loss of
one or two per cent. when the safety
Of the nation is at stake? If you
have not followed the footsteps of
the patriots and purchased your Sec
ond Liberty Bond today, get in tune
with the music of the procession and
do 1t tomorrow. At least do not be
unpatriotic enough to put it Off until
Saturday when it will be too late.
Be a man, and answer the call Of |
Uncle Sam
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
No Common Chain That Binds.
PHILADELPHIA Recordl

That new party formed in Chicago.
which combines Prohibitionists, Pro-
gressives. Independents. Social Demo-
Gratis (whatever they may be) and
Single Takers, has too many strings to
it's bow. Political parties cannot be
manufactured like suits Of clothes.
There must be some inspiring princi-
pie that holds men together, and this
does not appear in the Chicago organ
ization. It will probably cut no great
figure in 1920.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
Hard Search for a Substitute.
Mountain Patriarch

We tried out three men who knew
how a newspaper should be rum" so
that we might select one to take
charge while we are in the war; but
as they failed to measure up to their
estimation Of themselves, we're still
feelin' around for some one who
doesn't know it al and is willing to
learn.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
Gift of Liberty Bonds.
(NewpOrt News)

Colonel Richard Enderlin, a wealthy
shoe manufacturer and coal operator
of Chillicothe. Ohio, has promised to
give a $50 Liberty bond next spring
to every boy and girl who successfully
finishes eighth grade work in the pub
lie or parochial schools of that city.
The school officials say it will cost Mr..
Enderlin $4,000 to fulfill his PROMISE
but he probably does not care.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

line duty, according to a cablegram
from Byrne. Will the Austrians next
sacrifice their women to keep the
Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs in pow
or Il little longer? ALBANY Argus.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
To His Nephews.

MDN-I am forced to put it up
20 you straight. Every American
who considers himself a man
ana - able-and not otherwise
serving me-wiN buy a LIBERTY
BOND. Further explanations
are unnecessary,
UNCLE SAM.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

The trouble with the man who say!
he does his own thinking is that hi
wants to do all other mems think
ing too.-Paterson Call.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Secretary Baker says the Amer
lean army is well on it's way" And
it knows where it is going.-New
York World
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

1t Is time for the monarchs Of Eu-
rope to begin making plans as to
where they will eat their Christmas
dinners.-Exch change.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
A Gentle Pennsylvania Hint.
portage Press }

We have young man walking
around this town who ought to be
placed on a rail and taken out in
the woods. He is a menace to the
public.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
Marking the Difference in New Mexico
(Albuuueruue JournaD.

Wanted-A gentleman widowcr
wishes two meals daily with a lady
widow for homo comfort No oDjec.
ton to children. Address II. B., card
Journal.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24

1t has become apparent within the
last few days that even in time of
war the alibi is a defense not to be
held in contem pt.-New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1917-10-24
ODE TO THE SPUD.
Moral: He Who Hoards to Get the
Colt Deserves a Kick Below the Belt.

Moral. He Who Hoards to Get the
Colt Deserves Kick Below the Belt.
There was a guy in our town
And he was wondrous wise.
He stocked up with potatoes
That slyly winked their eyes.
when the spuds are peddled,
Early in the Spring
He said, I'll buy an auto and a
country home, and solitaire for
Lulu. real beefsteak, q book OF
trolley tickets and
A yacht and everything"
But just then Uncle Sammy
Came knocking at his door
And said: I'll give you twelve bits
A bushel for your store"
And when the guy recovered
Consciousness again,
He wondered whether he could stall
the landlady along for week or
two. camouflage the Chinese laun-
dryman into giving him his collars
so he could visit Lulu to break the
sad news, get trusted for months
supply Of beef stew, beg enough of
the rollings to keep himself in
smokes and steal a pair of rubbers
in the next room because his soles
were thin and
It had begun to rain.
There is a little moral
Connected with this yarn:
Don't count your potatoes
Because they're in the barn
For Uncle Sammy'l1 get them
If you boost the price,
Making you a socialist and you will
mount a soap box and denounce the
predatory government that robs a
man of his property his hard
earned money, his starch Of life,
just because 1t is engaged in war
started by wicked Wall street
And that will not be nice.
A. E. McEVOY.