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New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

more so because 1t has come to US and
we need not divert our energies from
the war in seeking it.
But there is another and more i'm
mediate reason why this work of fos-
tering American trade must be inau-
gurated now. Business, and nothing
but business, will pay our fast accu-
mulating war debt. Out Of what Amer
lea earns must America retire her
bonds. When her expenditure is in
creased her business must be increased
John A. Stewart, chairman of the per-
sonnel committee Of the exposition.
stated this purpose before the Congress
sional Committee on Industrial Arts
and Expositions in these words:
1--WE are at war, and we are rolling
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
By p. A. Hutchison

There used to be a catch phrase
about "the man behind the gun"
America has an army behind the army
the Red Cross. Under the Red Cross
fag-the banner of Militant Mercy, as
1t has been called-a vast force mob
ilizes and marches to the field. But
it deploys without bands; it fights
with iodine and an@sthetics instead
of guns; it soothes and comforts and
allays and it builds up that which war
has torn down. 1t is not so spec
tacular as the armed forces. But, just
as with the armed force, its powers be-
come impaired through months of SER
vice; requirements have to be made
if it is to be kept up in strength. And
replacement units-voluntecr dollars
must join the colors of the Red Cross
this week: the call has gone forth.
1t is not improper to ask how and
where this money goes. Indeed, the
Red Cross welcomes just such ques-
tions. A year ago it received a hun
dred millions, and it has its records.
These records are open to inspection:
they have been audited-by the War
Department-and are certified correct.
Every dollar collected by the Red
Cross in its war-fund drives goes for
war relief.
The war fund drives are undertaken
under the auspices of the special War
Council of the Red Cross, which was
called to its work by President Wilson
on May 10, 1917. This council will
continue this special work for so long
as the war lasts, be it one month or
twenty years.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

the Allied countries there would have
been no shcools but for the Red Cross,
and no doctors for the children, and
no nurses, and no hospital cots; for
the nurses and the doctors are at the
front, and the hospitals are filled with
wounded men. For the care of children
and babies, in the prevention of infant
mortality, the Red Cross spent last
year for the work in France 81, ,149, ,129,
for Belgium $436,0O0, and for Italy
$4,000.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

military relief. Obviously there is no
need here for the civil relief necessary
in the countries invaded by the war,
although the Red Cross stands ever
ready to help the family of any and
every soldier when the value of such
help is brought to the organizations
attention.
The money in the United States has
gone for base hospitals, army and navy.
$4,000; medical and hospital work,
nurses schools, machinery for control
of communicable diseases and the de-
velopment and maintenance Of twenty
eight sanitary units in zones surround
ing camps and cantonments-six mill
ions. And the Red Cross is not con-
tent with bringing the American boy
to the hospital, it also brings the hos
pital equipment to the boy. For in
stance, they have just fitted out four
Pullman cars are travelling pathological
and psychological laboratories. and
when the outbreak of an epidemic
threatens at camp or cantonment, these
cars are rushed thither, with their
corps Of experts.
Just how intimate in the life of the
American soldier boy is the Red Cross
can perhaps be shown by visit to one
of the great general hospitals in this
country. Officially, it is known as
General Hospital No. 1, and is situated
on the broad plateau of the upper
Bronx, where the. air comes clean,
sweeping across ploughed fields, bring
ing the odor of spring.
But the Red Cross does not have
medical care of the soldiers. That is
left to the able doctors and nurses of
the. army; what the Red Cross concen-
trates. on is morale. And, since the
spreading of cheerfulness is the foun-
dation of morale, the organization
maintains its own substantial house,
which it calls the Pavilion.
Ihe entrance to the Pavilion is
through the library, where the crowded
shelves tell how generously the wig.
wag Send Books" has been answered.
Next the library is the living-hall,
with floor laid true for dancing, with
a stage that has footlights, with fire.
place; with tables for writing home,
and tables for games with the home
folks who come to visit.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

is IN tne carrying out or the other two
that the moneys collected in the War
Fund drives is spent, the Red Cross has
published list of its specific activ-
ties and what it has cost to maintain
them. However, since the American
forces have not as yet played the part
in the war that they will ultimately
take, moro complete picture of the
Red Cross can be given by taking up
the second of the aims-that of
strengthening the morale of the Allied
peoples first
Returning Soldiers
Spread Disease
Before the days Of Red Cross help
French soldier would, for instance,
come back from the trenches on his
seven days leave covered with ver-
min--even officers were no exception
so to the railway junction point. and
thence to his home, without any bet
terment of his condition. He spread
the vermin about his house and among
his family--and the vermin spread dis
ease.
Now at these railway distributing
centres the Red Cross has established
canteen service, barracks for tempo
rary occupation, baths and disinfecting
machinery; with the result that the
soldier reaches his home rested, fed,
clean and with his clothing in a sani-
tary state. He also takes with him
to his family word of the kind woman
of the Red Cross service who well
coined, cheered and fed him; and so
tightens the bond of sympathy which
is daily binding more closely these two
great democracies. On this work alone
the Red Cross spent last year $1,671,-
1873, and it may we'll make an American
proud to feel that some little of his
abundance went for such a noble end
But if the Red Cross sends the
French soldier back to his home health
Ter and with better sustained morale.
1T has not forgotten to see to that
the soldier find on his arrival an inn
\ PAoSSo SoHu'tlUn III MS nome, an I'M
proved morale within his family.
How the war has beaten down the
families of France no American, sur
rounded by his customary comforts,
not to say his luxuries, can even begin
to Imagine. Americans thought last
winter-some few of them-that they
suffered from the cold. The French
knew of little except cold. Americans
felt that they had suffered depriva-
tions when they had fewer new clothes.
In many French towns the people would
have had no clothes but for Red Cross.
On refugees and relief, including bet
ter housing and living conditions for
1900 families, nearly three millions
was spent in France. Duplicating SER
vices, it must be remembered, are car
ried on in each of the war-devastated
countries--ltaly, Serbia and Belgium.
The Red Cross has been called "The
Greatest Mother of Them ALL" Ameri-
can children go to school, and have in
their homes or at hospitals medical
attendance when ill. In many parts Of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

This is grand total for foreign re-
lief of s47,325,so9, or nearly one-half
Of the hundred million raised a wear
ago.
Coming now to the United States. a
total has been expended here of over
eight and one-half millions, all of 1t in
military relief, and preparation for
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

give such other relief may be deemed fit and proper.
 No specific fixed sum was suggested for the proposed bonus. The consensus of opinion that all other gold mining camps are asking for relief, and it was ad- visabe for Yukon to go record in the matter. Details of the gold mining situation the world over discussed extensively by various ones present, including E. E. Me Carthy resident manager of the Yukon Gold company; H. G. Blankman, manager, and J. w. Boyle, Jr superintendent of the Ca nadian Klondyke Mining Co.,; F.. P. Bur rall, manager of the North West Corporation; F. J. Nolan, manager of the N. A. T. & T. Company, extensive holders of mining prop critics in the territory; J. P. Quite, Henry Dook Max Landrevile and others
 "The fact that Yukon prices always two to three times big as those in the outside world pointed out, together with the fact further extensive advances in prices have been made here since the war began thus greatly handicapping the individual and the larger operators. Figures were quoted regarding some of the more remote camps tributary to Dawson. It was shown that hay freight to Glacier camp is seven cents a pound, thus making that commodity alone $270 a ton sixty miles from Dawson, with other commodities there proportionately high. One speaker pointed out that food commodi- ties had advanced here this year 10 to 20 per cent whereas all spoke of the ad- vance in dredge and similar materials to several times the prices prior to the war"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Reclaiming the Northland.
Dawson News

Dawson NeWS)
 Make the Northland from Boring Labrador the greatest grazing land and the permanent pasture of the world This is the plan of Vilhjamur Stefansson, the noted Arctic explorer will recon mend Ottawa
 The idea is sound It deserves attention, and it is to be hoped that who has gained the repu- taton of northern authority which MT. Stefansson enjoys will be able to get the of the federal government in the matter. The plan is not alto gether in far it concerns the making of grazing land of this vast northern belt. The Daw- News has advocated the idea years. Mr. Stefansson elaborates the plan, and perhaps parade it where it will receive great deal of n fuential support The scheme cannot be expected to blossom into large and productive full grown plant all at once, but 1t can be so handled that perhaps the idea will obtain and grow rapidly Caribou. grazing throughout the Northland. have proved great value meat to natives and whites Reindeer, which akin the caribou are being introduced in Alaska in vast herds and making their owners wealthy The reindeer subsst on lich- ems, known reindeer Now comes MT. Stef ansson with the endorsement of the reindeer do mesticated caribou for the areas, and with the isles to subsist on the grass The musk is cold climate animal, and fourishes far north among the reeless sections and through the bitter wind swept wastes the year round If he will do as we'll in the of northern Canada and Alaska millions of square miles will be suitable for him which of little value and thereby would be found for lands which seem doomed otherwise to waste MT Stefansson predicts that if the musk be properly protected by law he may become of tallow, hides, milk, wool and meat, thereby making Argen- tina and Australia of secondary importance graz ing countries Add the reindeer as another poss- bty, and the whole of northern Canada and Alaska looms large with promise The two countries may become of incacuabe value those lines alone. Then once these products afford cheap food, exports of such products will follow, and the local development of minerals and other resources will be made possible on low scale of costs-thus retaining the whole Northand to occupation as homes-mean- ing the reclamation of the North civilization. project is one with which to conjure. It seems sub stantia enough for earnest experiments. If ful it will double or treble the present productive of Canada and of Alaska and add a empire to the world Let the matter be investigated seri- ousy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
STAMPS AND SHIPS.

Frank A. Vanderp, in speech delivered at an entertainment given in honor of the Uruguayan MS sion in New York, put important fact in an ln- teresting way in the following words:
 "Our guests yesterday visited the great Govern ment shpbuding plants at Hog Island. They saw there a single yard with a capacity four times as great whole shpbuilding capacity the year before the war broke out. They more than a mile of shipways where 50 great ships are in con strucion time. They yards so huge that 70 miles of track are needed distribute the ma teral. There are be turned out 180 ships in the next year There should be huge merchant ship launched average of every 37 hours for a year. Now the whole cost of building these yards and this great fleet of ships has been provided in the last 60 days by the sale of thrift stamps"
 Ships will win the Thrift stamps build ing ships.
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of 20, but, somehow or other, the poor thing cant get away with it.
 No matter how badly henpecked a man may be, he is never as polite to his wife as he is to other women.
 Our idea of gentleman is a fel- low who will tell other men that you resigned your position when he knows that you lost your job.
 Pity the poor married man. If his wife can't think of something he has done, she can always bawl him out about something he hasn't done
 We may be wrong. But we be- lieve that when a woman makes her husband take her poodle out for "a walk every night, she thinks more of the poodle than she does of her hus- band.
 Go into a police court any morn ing and you will learn that a pedes- trian never gets hit because the chauffeur is running too fast. He
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
DAWSON WANTS AID FOR GOLD
 MINING.

The people of Dawson recently took very posi- tive stand on the question of government aid to gold miners. At a mass meeting resolutions were unan- mousy adopted urging that the government give a bonus gold produced and that it abolish the royalty charge that always has been feature of gold production in Yukon Territory
 The stand that Dawson has taken cannot fail to have a great deal of weight. partly because of the world excitement surrounding the discovery of gold in the Klondike, and the romance of Klondike gold mining history, and partly because it is yet one of the great gold mining regions of the continent The meeting at Dawson attended by Com missioner Mckenzie and he will present the petition of the people to the Canadian government
 The Dawson News contains the following con- corning the action of the people of the Klondike tropolis:
 After extensive discussion of the sub
 Ject, resolutions adopted pointed out how the
 gold mining industry the world is suf
 fering from fact that all other commodities
 have advanced in value. and gold has not,
 thus robbing gold of its former purchasing
 power, and also stating the necessity of gold
 for stabilizng the national credit and
 strengthening the Allied cause, and conclud-
 ing with the following recommendation to
 the Dominion government:
 That the government grant mmedi-
 ately bonus all gold mined and produced
 hereafter in the Dominion, and that it also abolish the royalty now levied gold mined in Yukon, and that it exempt all mining mate it the basis before the war. and
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
A Promising Placer Camp.
Anchorage Democrat.)

One of the prevailing faaces of mining is that
 placer camp is of short duration. Placer last is proven in the of California; Alder Guch, Montana and many other localities Nor does the prevailing idea that if placer camp cannot show big values from the start, it is therefore of count.
 The Nelchina camp is good in point. The first stampede into these dggings occurred late in the year 1913, and about all the facts that ever conclusively proved was that the camp of large extent that the shallow ground not overly rich and that it was an exceptionally hard place to mine account of the exorbitant of food fuel and transportation.
 All three of these costs have been greatly mini mixed by the construction of the railway into Chickaloon and 1t seems safe to predict that this section of Alaska will be a substantial placer pro udcer in a few years.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Chicago News) -
 Theories cause more worry than facts.
 A flirt is a girl who is afraid she will be left at the post
 There is no end of trouble in a family that has two heads
 The more women see of men the more they see to admire in mirrors.
 All women follow the fashions, but some are a long distance behind.
 soft answer may turn away wrath, but it isn't always best to call a man soft
 The trouble with many a young man is that he spends his fortune before he gets it.
 Many a timid man gives another credit for his own ideas because he isn't quite sure of their merit.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
JUNEAU TO THE FRONT.

Gastineau Channel has again gone the top. This section allotted $2,500 of the $12,- 900 Armenian and Syrian Relief Fund drive appor- toned Alaska, and, that already paid in and in sight is over $2 800. While this money being raised several hundred dollars contributed to the Salvation Army War Fund, and other public mat ters supported.
 Juneau has always done better than she was asked do No matter whether it a Liberty Bond drive, Red Cross drive Nome disaster, what not, all that needed to know that a patriotic deserving in need of help, and Juneau has to the front.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

The Associated Press reported" any such thing Last July, after the Dispatch carried an al legged telegraphic dispatch from Washington which said Delegate Suzer had been kicked out" of Con gress, and packing up Dag and baggage to leave Washington, the Associated Press was asked news, and its Washington office said there had been mo developments in the It promised to report the when there any to report. Twice after the Associated Press quoted from Washing ton City specials that had appeared in the Seattle Post -Intelligencer concerning the matter.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

Mrs Wm. c. Edes, who is devoting most of her time the worthy Red Cross cause, advises that the work accomplished by the Anchorage women is in keeping with other patriotic movements and in this glorious work the women of Anchorage have kept pace with the men in going the top" in all department-( Anchorage Democrat)
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gets hit because the pedestrian is running too slow.
 A fat woman never wears a sec more skirt. She doesn't want you to know that she has two old neck ties tied around her props just above the knees to hold her stockings up.
 This is turf old world About the time a boy gets old enough to feel proud of his hair he begins to lose 1t.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

The Crown Prince says the enemy plans to nihilate Germany. Oh, France was not ami Inflated by revolutions. She made stronger and enduring Germany will be her best until she, like France, is democracy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Then 1t aHppened

Then 1t aHppened
 q wonder if you could? 7" mused the Rummy, as he mooched hand full of matches.
 You wonder if you could what?" demanded the Barkeep, as he started for the end of the bar
 Why, when a man has fuzzy taste when he gets up in the morn ing, l wonder if you could say that he feels down in the mouth" re- piled the Rummy," as he headed for the door.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

If there Senators of Henry Cabot Lodges ability it would be easier to forgive of the other things.-(New York World)
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

Don't despise the German soldiers because the Princes at last actually leading them. The Princes got a running start
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Our Bank SavingsSafe
 Unless Germany Wins

There seems to have been very nsidious propaganda carried on obviously by agents of Germany to the effect that savings banks deposits to be confcated It difficult to believe that any person in America would credit such report for instant Secretary McAdoo says that the absurdity of these statements is manifest but in order to alay the of few who might be alarmed by such reports he repeats officially that these rumors are wholly baseess
 There is but one thing that will in the least put i'll danger of confscaon the savings of the American people whether deposited in savings banks other banks, invested in Liberty Bonds any other investments and that thing is German victory. It is not the Amer Government that people should fear, but the Ger Government and with the American soldiers fighting they in France and the American people support ing their Government they America the American people, their ibery, their rights and their savings are safe.
 The United States instead of confscating endanger ing the savings and other property of its people is de- lending them and theirs with all the irresistible might of this invincible Republic.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

The Kaiser has been quite busy for two weeks dis trbutlng decorations of the of the goat to his retiring Generals.-( (Bunao Express)
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
BITS OF BY- PLAY By Luke McLuke
 -.- Copyright by Cincinnati Enquirer
A Prophtic Pome The Hun Is done. Q

Ho, Hum!
 "Woman's work is never done, sighed Mrs. Gabb.
 That's right" agreed MT. Gabb. Before she marries she puts in four hours a day trying to develop her shape, and after she marries she puts in four hours a day trying to re- duce it."
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Luke McLuke Says

Luke McLuke Says
 Away down in his heart the man who is paying almony knows that he is getting his moneys worth.
 A fat girl of 20 has as much right to try and act kittenish as a slim girl
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Flaw, flaw!

Flaw, Flaw!
 If Germany keeps robbing the old mems homes for reserves her school children soon will be singing that pathetic little ballad entitled Land wehr Our Fathers died"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
MISREPRESENTING ASSOCIATED
 PRESS.

Both the Associated Press and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer re- ported positively that the Com mittee had decided to seat Judge Wickersham.-(Di
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

assigned to duty on the Committee on Paradoxical Nomenclature. Learn One New Thing Each Day The order of skunk will cure cold, according to scientists.
 Things To Worry About A fish worm has no mouth.
 Names Is Names Iva Harding lives in New Orleans.
 Our Daily Special Some Men Get Religion Every Time They Get Sick.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Strange

aa Strange went to school with Mary Mate, Our ages then were just the same But now she's 32, this dame, While I know I am AS.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
He's In, George!

He's In, George!
 Houston Post) Then there is Chief of Police Side bottom of Nashville, who wants to join Luke's McLukess Club and be
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
 JUNEAU, ALASKA

B. M. BEHRENDS, President
 J. R. WILLIS, Vice-Presdent UT E , GUY McNAUGHTON, Cashier
 H. I. LUCAS Assistant Cashier
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
No Joke

No Joke While mans forgetful, it depends On circumstances, if you please, For, while he may forget his friends, He won't forget his enemies
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

Entered second class matter November 7, 1912, the postofice Juneau, Alaska under the Act of March 3, 1879.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Correct

A happy man,
 I'd like to bet, Is he who can
 Sweat and forget.
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Things To Worry About A fish worm has no mouth.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18

Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY, at Second and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-18
Our Daily Special

Iva Harding lives in New Orleans