The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-12
REAL. NEWS SERVICE

The knowledge that real news is being given to the people who read these columns is very gratifying to Us who are bending every effort to be ot genuine service to our patrons.
 The Associated Press has proved itself to be most satisfactory news service, and we are glad to be able to give our readers the benefit of 1t. The Press sends us facts, news that is authentic, without exaggeration or prevarication. It does not tamper with the truth; it does not enlarge upon facts, but gives Us straight news of events of i'm portance and interest as they happen. It does not anticipate, but waits for confirmation of all its statements, or else gives them as ru- morS or reports.
 The Associated Press representatives are all over the world, gathering news items that many be of interest to their readers. They devote their entire time to this ferreting out of good reading, and the public gets the bene- fit. The daily news comes in by wire, of course, when the cable is not out of order, and longer articles of an interesting nature, often of educational value, come by mail This is of necessity somewhat late, but it serves to keep us informed as to what is going on in the world Outside, and without it we would lack all knowledge of a great many events that are important as we'll as interesting.
 This service is more expensive than some others might be- but it is worth the price to give our readers the best available. It is our purpose to have number Al paper, even If 1t entails considerable expense on our part We believe in this country and in Interior Alaska especially, and are willing to go to no end of trouble and expense to give its peo- pie the best sheet that it is in our power to produce. For that reason we are extremely gratihed to see how thoroughly satisfied our readers are with the news service that we are giving them. It is the best that can be found and the best is none too good for our patrons
 THE. irony of it! It is said that in Wash ngton this spring are to be sceli masses of blue heurde-lis, the national flower of France, Haunting themselves in front of the former German embassy! The chronicler of this in- teresting fact describes his find" as "a gor- geous hedge of blue flags" No one seems to know how the flowers got there They were planted several years ago, and it is to be presumed that if ever the embassy had a gardener he would have been too 'echt Deutsch" to have tolerated SO un-German a flower directly under his august masters "high-wellborn' nose However, the plant ing may have been piece of political camou- fage intended, like the planting" of Prince Lichnowsky in the London embassy, to allay all suspicious until The Day had arrived!
 AS in both Canada and the United States idleness is no longer to be permitted, why should not the law apply to women equally with men? Of course, if industry is good for one it is good for the other, and the efforts of both are needed to help in win ming the war for freedom. What the lady with the lap dog thinks about the proposal is another matter, but undoubtedly we are rapid ly approaching the time when the idle wo- man will be no more tolerated than the idle man.