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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-05
Bless You. My Children !
S,lre 1

Mabel Dull and Harry Sharp have Just been married at Sidney, Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-05

Names Is Names. Mary Etta Friend is schoolteacher at Ironton Ohlo
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-05

Gifts of Alaskan Old Ivory made at the Arts & Craft Shop, Front and Main street.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-05
Iohs Is Iohs

I. Leek Swett is a plumber at Au burn. Washington
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-05
CIRCULATION OVER 2,5oo DAILY
SWORN CIRCULATION STATEMENT FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 1st, 1917

The daily average circulation for the ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE for the week ending September 1st, 1917 2,671 copies
 The circulation for each day of the week follows:
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22
PRESIDENT TAKES STEPS
TO MEET U-BOAT MENACE

Washington.-Prepa for ag-
gressive action by the Navy against
the German submarine menace began
at the direction of President Wilson,
The President authorized the expen-
diture of the SIZE, 100000 emergency
fund provided by Congress to speed up
naval construction and pay for special
additional war craft, and the suspen-
sion of the eight-hour law in plants
engaged on Navy work.
Immediately afterward, Secretary
Daniels ordered the New York Navy
Yard to begin building sixty submarine
chasers of the 11O-foot type, to be COM
pleted in from sixty to eighty days.
With the Presidents approval, the
Secretary also ordered the graduation
Of the first and second classes at the
Naval Academy. The first class will
go out on March 20, releasing 172
junior officers to fill existing vacan-
cies, and the second in September, fur
fishing POP more full year before
they otherwise would be available.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22
IN EPOCHAL DECISION SUPREME
COURTS OF UNITED STATES
UPHOLD LAW.
VOTE WAS five TO FOUR
Congress Has Power to Keep Com
merce Channels Open.-Fixes Eight
Hour Day as Basis For Wages
Chief Justice Delivers Opinion.

Washington.-In an epochal decision
holding congress to be clothed with
any and all power necessary to keep
open the channels of interstate COM
merce, the supreme court dividing five
to four, sustained the Adamson law
as constitutional and enforceable in
every feature. 4.. 7 .....s-
The immediate effect of the decision
will be t o fix a permanent e1ght-hOur
basic day in computing wage scales on
interstate railroads, for which ma
tionwide strike twice has been threat
ened and to give, effective from Janu-
ary 1 this year, increases in wages to
trainmen of about 25 per cent at
cost to the railroads estimated at from
$4O,OOO,OOO to $50,0OO,OOO year.
The court, through Chief Justice
White, declared both carriers and
their employees, engaged in bus1-
ness charged with a public interest,
subject to the right of congress to
compulsorily arbitrate a dispute af-
fecting the operating of that business.
"Whatever would be the right of an
employee engaged in private business
to demand such wages as he desires,
to leave the employment if he does
not get them and by concert of action
to agree with others to leave on the
same condition." said the opinion, "such
rights are necessarily subject to linn
itation when an employment is accept
ed in a business charged with a pub
lie interest and to which the power
to regulate commerce by congress ap-
piled and the resulting right to fix in
case of disagreement and dispute a
standard of wages as we have seen
necessarily obtained"
In delivering the opinion, the chief
justice departed at this point from
his written text to emphasize the posi-
ton of men operating trains in time
of national emergency by comparing
them to soldiers facing an enemy.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22
ALEXANDER RIBOT is
NEW FRENCH PREMIER.

Announces Formation Of New Cabinet.
-PainIeve is Minister of War.
Paris.-Alexandre RibOt has formed
the following Cabinet:
Premier and Minister of, Foreign
Affairs Alexandra Ribot.
Minister of Justice-Rene Vivian.
Minister of War-Paul Painleve.
Minister Of Marine-Rear Admiral
Lacaze.
Minister of Munitions - Albert
Thomas.
Minister Of Finance-Joseph Thi-
erry.
Minister of the Interior-Louis J.
Malvy.
Minister of Public Instruction.
Jules Steeg.
Minister of Public Works Georges
Desplas.
Clementel.
Minister of northumberland
David.
Minister of Observation-Disclosures
Viollette.
Minister of Labor-Leon Bourgeois.
Minister of the Colonies-Andre
Maginot.
Under-Secretary of Aviation-Dan-
iel Vincent.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22
WERE DROWNED
WHEN VIGILANCIA SUNK.

Plymouth, via London. - Fifteen
members of the crew of the American
steamer Vigilancia lost their lives
when the steamer was torpedoed by. a
German submarine The survivors
were in life-boats from Friday morn
ing until Sunday afternoon. Among
those drowned were several American
citizens, including Third Officer Neils
Peldorth and Third Engineer Carl
Adeholde. This information was Civ.
en- out by Capt. Frank A. Middleton.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22
Why a Weather Rureau2

Fair and colder" is not the only
prediction that the United States
weather bureau makes. The "why'
OF its existence is founded upon the
collection of many statistics for farm
ers and the issuance of warnings
when the weather promises to be dan
gerous on land and sea. Every year
the much abused weather man fore,
tells cyclones, floods and severely cold
or hot weather. His predictions are
particularly helpful to mariners.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22
A Conservative Estimate.

The following story is told by Bish-
op Weldon in his recently published
RecOlleetions and Reflections: A gov
erness once tried to. give her pupils
some idea off the relative size of GER
tain distant countries by saying, Cam
Dod1a is about as large as SIAM" But
when one of the little girls attempted
to repeat the information in a written
exercise, she put it thus: my gov
erness says that Cambodia is about an
large as she u.s."
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22

Recognition of un American woman
sculptor has come from the govern
ment of Venezuela. Mrs Sally James
Farnham of New York has received a
commission from the South American
government to make statue of Simon
Bolivar, the Hberator, in equestrian
form, that is to be presented to the
city of New York by the Venezuelan
government as a token of friendship
and admiration. twenty-five thousand
dollars is to be spent for the work.
Mrs. Farnham is responsible for the
beautiful frieze on the Pan-American
building in Washington, D. c., COM
memorating the discovery of America.
1t was her first big success.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-22

T recent of the British
met with ready and willing response Already large number
training special
their general course of military cooking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26
THE SLUMP IN STOCKS.

Security values have fallen to re-
markedly low. levels recently, owing
says Henry Clews, to liquidation and
absence of buying power.
The causes for this liquidation, he
continues, are becoming more and
more evident. Briefly. they are war
pressure, advanced interest rates,
heavy taxes. diminished profits, the
plight of American railroads and SELL
ing to counterbalance excess profit
taxes. OF these causes. the railroad
problem easily comes first.
The next depressing influence was
the dividend outlook. Railroads are
evidently expected to reduce their
dividend rates. The excessive fall in
such stocks as Pennsylvania, Santa
Fe, New York Central, Union Pacific,
Northwestern and other high grade
issues, lSas been out of all proportion
to the rise of interest rates. The de-
cision of the Baltimore & .Ohio di-
rectors in postponing action on the
common and preferred dividends was
extremely suggestive and caused the
low record in these securities. The
gross earnings of the company, it is
announced, will exceed those of last
year by 100000. but expenses
were $16,0OO,O0O greater than in 1916,
a statement which illustrates a condi-
ton not confined to this particular
property. 1t would seem. however.
that dividend reductions have been
almost fully discounted. and that some
form of relief would soon be granted
by the government.
New sources of liquidation which
perhaps received less attention than
deserved were the selling of enemy
holdings thru fear of confiscation by
institutions which must now, report to
the government; also to the selling
for purpose of making definite reduc-
lions in tax statements. The weakness
in values was not confined to rail-
roads, but extended to industrials,
which were much less affected
There is more or less slowing down
in certain industries, particularly
those devoted to unnecessaries. while
the steel and kindreds industries are
running at top speed whenever condi-
tions permit. Needless to say, the ad-
vanced cost of materials and labor will
affect dividend prospects, and business
men are much perplexed by transpor-
tation difficulties, the scarcity of ma
terials and labor. as we'll as the gem
eral uncertainty and depression in
duced by war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men in
Americas Fighting Service

Floating on frail raft in a heavy
sea and realizing that one of the men
huGdIed together had to act quickly
to save the lives of the others Daniel
j. Coleman, a seaman of the U. S. S.
AIcedo, jumped overheard and sought
other means of safety. Coleman was
one of the crew of the Alcedo. which
was torpedoed in the war zone on No
vember With several other men he
had gotten safely away from the
wrecked vessel and was on raft.
One of the men is reported to have
remarked that the slight craft was
overcrowded and that someone must
look for another place. without an
swering the remark Coleman jumped
overheard and after a long hard swim
came to another boat. In commend
ing the sailor for his action Secretary
Daniels wrote:
When you were made aware of
the fact that your own safety might
threaten the lives of others you
promptly gave to these their safety,
and glady sought other means of
saving yourself"
Coleman is a second-class seaman.
His mother. Mrs. Ellen Coleman, lives
at 2O1 West 18th street, New York
City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26

aire, and is regarded with awe by the
villagers. His dignity is further up
held by a great hat, while the rest OF
the crew are guiltless of headgear as
they are of any other clothing The
second member of the crew has four
birds; the third, in the stern, navl-
gates the boat. The fourth's peculiar
duty is to encourage the cormorants
by striking together slender bamboo
rods and uttering unearthly cries.
Each cormorant has a metal ring
around it's neck just large enough to
permit the bird to swallow the smaller
fish. The boats drift down the stream,
lighted by flaming torches to attract
the fish. The birds. are freed and the
| unwary fish that first catches their
beady black eyes is lost. The chase
is kept up until thes bird $ pouch
will hold no more fish Then II ie
! brought back to the BEAT. relieved OF
1 its prizes and started forth once more.
| Cormorant fishing was once popu-
lar in England. The master of the
| cormorants was an officer in the royal
| household. but the custom has long
since become obsolete in western coun-
| tries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26

The quantity of coal consumed on
the oceans of the world by vessels en-
gagged in international trade and the
navies of the various countries is es-
timated at about 10000 900 tons per
annum, valued at approximately
$3.50. 100000, these figures relating to
conditions preceding the war. The
total quantity at the present time is
doubtless materially less, Both by rea-
son of the reduction in the number of
vessels engaged in ocean transporta-
tion and the further fact that many of
the vessels are now using oil for fuel
instead of coal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
BY ZOE B.ECKLEY,

a Postscript Letter From May to Eatcs
kerryville, Kansas.
Later same day.
L can't wait for your answer to nv
last. I've got to spring my news.
We're going to Californiatit fRusi-
ness of pausing for the full dramatic
effect to sink inl)
Yes, my child, we are going to
Cal. TO i've! Curtis's uncle has bought
a real estate and banking proposition
in Cavalonia, only an hour by electric
car from Los Angeles, and closer still
TO a heavenly beach resort where
mine eyes shall behold for the first
time the Pacific ocean.
Cavalonia, L am told, is a strictly
modern town of some 5000 where
WE shall really be somebody dear
the local real estate operators and
bankers. Uncle Bond wants Curtis
TO be clerk and general cook and bot
tie washer of the bank end of it, has
rented a furnished cottage for us, and
we are to come At once. How does
that sound?
From the wiIds to civilization
again. Kitsie, and I'm crazy with iov.
cast my hook Tor Kansas and caught
California. AS ] look out the vvfndou,
at the bare cornstaIks. the denudei
trees and general winter devasta ton.
1t does not seem possible that we are
so soon to be in Paradise
January /, you know, Los Angeles
mas her rose carnival And incident
ally, Curtis mother hints at a neu,
car If we go. If we 60! why. Curtis
is so excited about ii that he wants
to have everything packed and ready
to leave within week. Isn't that ttIst
like man? But l am so delighted at
the prospect of promotion for him and
the sunlight of southern California Tor
the babykin and me-and the bairn
that is coming before IonK-that I.d
be willing TO pack up a. wlTo1e village
and chaperon its inhabitants across
the world s4a
The Bonds are all happy over the
move. They have lived in this mo-
notonous burg for five whole wears
while / have only had to stand IL one
and half. Still--it shas been a won
dEous experience for me, Kits.
I. the nose-fn-the-aira ristocrat can
now clean a chicken without having
a fit, can hitch horse without getting
stepped on, know a donkey's brav
from rusty pump handle and can
pass a COW in a field without .akino
to my heels in terror
have known some of the hanniss.
days of my life here in this viiIs gs
of the middle west And alas soyoe
very unhappy ones. have known the
Joys of motherhood.
On the whole. Kate. think the hal
.aiiSC oAASSN SHoWS ihucn. profit In nv
favor. And as ! close the ledger
a feeling of thankfulness and 70
joictng uplifts me. For while thing
have not been so very happy between,
Curt and me OF late. this new nros-
pect takes us all out of o1rzeI,,s-
makes US orget old scores and unfts
in a comrron interest
Well. Rood-hy. pal of my pastt NJ
next epistle will doubtless he frore
Ca alonia, Cal Do not feel that II
is too far to keep in touch with me-
New friends are never like old. ana
New York friends are never nte anv
others. So here's to a better-than-
ever friendship by mailbag.
Thine ever. MAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26

Illustrative of the spirit which ev-

Illustrative of the spirit which ev-
erywhere prevails among those who
are engaged in making the world a
safe place in which TO live, is a story
written he me by an American heuten-
ant II have been standing out in the
street" ne writes. watering sixty
pine huge motor tories pass thru. filled
with poilus on their way back to the
front. I noticed one of our men run
ming up to the back of each truck and
giving the Frenchmen cigarets. After
a while ne stopped and went up to
him and asked him his name, and
told him it was fine thing Tor MIN
to do and that we wanted our men
TO do things like that so that the
French soldiers will like us as much as
possible, and they are very apprecia-
tive Of little things. Yes, sir he an
swered, those poor rfen only get five
cents day, and they have to keep
their equipment up and help support
their families with that, so they get
little money for cigarets.' He had
saved up several days issue Of cigar
cts, and had given them all away, and
he refused to accept any money from
me"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26
THE FIksr CHRIsrnaAs.

The night is clear; the air is still,
And as the stars come DER the hill
The shepherds gather from the cold,
Around the watch fire of the fold.
Each bush and boulder in the gloom
Like monsters on the hillside loom.
A zone wolf snarling down the vale
Recalls again a twice-told tale.
Far off the village night lights CLEAN;
An open doorway casts beam,
As turns the traveller from the road
Mear1ed to seek nights abode.
The hours pass on, and quiet sleep
Broods over village and the sheep.
Ihe watcher by the shepherds brands
Be1ore the narrow gateway stands,
For sudden brightness from on high
Has opened wide his drowsy eye,
As DER the hill and silent town
A stars bright beam is pouring down.
A glory fills the pasture cold;
Its sudden splendor lights the world;
1t sweeps across the silent lands,
And over David's city stands.
Then bursts apart the star -flecked dome,
And leaving the celestial home
As on the ladder of the dream
a myriad angels earthward stream
No shepherd longer rests in sleep;
Then DER the sound of angels wings
A voice a heavenly carol sings:
ITO God IN Heaven my glory be,
And Peace o'erspread the land ana sea-
The angel host takes up the strain,
Until it swells DER vale and plain:
For unto you, this very morn,
The Christ is born" the shepherds say,
And forth they fare without delay.
To seek the Saviour long foretold
In sayings of the. Prophets old.
And they have found Him, for startled
They came into the stable she'd;
Where pillowed on the mothers breast
The Son of God and Mans at rest
Twas long ago. that night so chill:
When angels sang DER bethlehem hill
But every age the same song sings.
And still the carol sweetly rings,
For from those hearts in calm peace stilled
God giory's sung by men good -wiiled.
B0TTOWS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26

other countries, including France,
Austria Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Den
mark, Norway, Holland. Portugal
Australia, Iceland and Bermuda rap
idly followed suit.
They Like 1t in England.
In London alone it is estimated that
the saving in coal is 500. 600 tons, ow-
ing to the people going to bed an hour
earlier. Moreover, the parliamentary
commission appointed to investigate
the results of the practice reported a
large reduction in the number of in
the end of the working day; an inn
provement in the health of the work
er. and an increase in his efficiency.
In fact. in England they like their
daylight saving bill so much that they
expect to keep up the practice of
changing the clock after the war is
over.
The Railroads Object to 1t.
In this country the situation is
somewhat different. Since 1888 our
time has been regulated by the rail-
roads. Before that we had nearly a
hundred different times, which Gre
ated a great deal of confusion and
misunderstanding. 1t remained for
the railroads to divide the country up
into logical time zones. Having per
formed this service for US, the rail-
roads now object to changing their
clocks back and forth. But the war is
no respecter of private antipathies.
and it still looks as if the emergency
or fuel and food shortage would
force the daylight saving bill thru.
Questions on the above or any sub
Ject upon which the reader desires in
formation, should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin, Director.
Washington. ). c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26

man to a building half a block away
The man paid the promised fee re-
marking, however. that was half a
dollar easily earned"
''Surei" responded the lad. But
you mustn't fergit thst bank directors
is paid high in Moo Yawk."
The late John G. johnson. the Phil
adelphia lawyer, was once engaged IN
a case where a certain cantankerous
old woman bore witness for the oppo-
Sition.
Her testimony concluded, the old
woman proposed to leave the witness
box. but Mr.. Johnson said:
Hold on, madam, I've one or two
questions to ask you"
The old woman did not halt in her
departure.
mo, we don't" she said. None o.
yer questions for me. You amt on
our side"
PA, what is meant by the psyche
logical moment"
Have you never seen your mother
ask me for a check, son %
'Oh, yes, pa"
And did you ever notice that she
always waits until 1 have had a good
dinner and she has brought nv slim
pers and has pulled my easy chair
around to the light and struck a
match fer my cigar ?''
Yes. pa" t
Well, that is what is known as the
psychological moment for making a
domestic touch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-26
ANNUAL PEACE PROPOSAL.

The world is waiting, interestedly
perhaps but not anxiously, to hear in
detail what the kaiser's next peace
proposal is to be like.
The terms reported as coming to
Washington thru neutral channels are
seven in number. For the most part
they are familiar as suggestions COM
ing invariably from Teutonic sources,
but they are not worth seriously con-
sidering. They never will be consid-
cred seriously by the allies as a basis
for negotiation.
This one-sided talk about peace
terms comes at an appropriate time
from the German point of view. 1t
has been worked up. to in a clumsy
but characteristic manner which ex-
poses itself The armistice with the
Bolsheviki gang of Petrograd and the
peace conference at Brest-Litovsk IS a
result of subtle German propaganda
in Russia, which has thrown that
power into confusion and paralyzed it
as factor in the war. Its proposals
are not for separate peace with Ger
many, to which real Russian leaders
would never consent. 1t wishes to
submit terms for all the belligerents
to which Germany could consent.
That power knew that it could submit
none which its own deluded subjects
would approve and its enemies would
at the same time seriously consider. So
a tool was made of these Russian ex-
/ tremists.
/ he oh aff ~
draw military forces from Russia to
the main front in western Europe.
| Another stroke for peace by Christ
mas was that delivered by driving
Austria into Italy, prodded and helped
from Berlin to raise a barrage on that
side for intimidation of the allies
| fighting for a victory that would mean
real peace and future good will.
By all manner of plotting and prop
without scruple or regard either for
right and Justice or any established
rule of national conduct, Germany has
been seeking during this year 1917 to
gain some advantage for herself and
to hamper other nations in their eff
forts to advance or grow in strength
She has unquestionably been working
for peace just as soon as it could be
attained on terms that she was will
ing to accept. She has been striving
to prevent peace on any terms which
the allies could afford to accept This
has been her object in all the bloody
slaughter on the main front, in the
crafty submarine destruction of mer.
chant shipping, in the confusion
caused in Russia and in the Balkan
region, in pushing Austria into ItaI,
and in ~,,nderhand work against the
American republics. Even the hier-
archy of Rome has been subtly worked
upon as help to Christmas peact
terms"
No doubt the autocratic rulers o.
the German empire are anxious fol
peace and working for it with all theil
might. They are ready to do anything
for peace if there is a chance to saw,
their power from being chained in {
bottomless pit.