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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-19
ALLIED NATIONS
 MAY EQUIP THE
 SIBERIAN ARMY

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.- The allied nations are seriously con sidering the pressing needs of the Siberians for arms and ammunition. They have 100000 trained troops who are facing the enemy and are awaiting the furnishing of arms and ammunition. The allied leaders be- lieve that by furnishing the equip ment the Siberians could be turned into very active fighting unit.
 It is reported from reliable sources that the Siberians have plenty of food for the support of an army until their crops are harvested.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-19
THREE GERMAN PLANES DOWN
 IN , MINUTES

TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 15.--Lieuten- ant Donald Hudson of this city is reported to have downed three Hun airplanes in five minutes. His sue cess was due not alone to his SUI perior plane, but also his excellent maneuvering and to the accuracy of his machine gun. Very few shots were fired before the Boches were put out of commission.
 MANCHESTER, Mass, Aug. 16.- President and Mrs. Wilson came to Colonel Houses summer home in search of seclusion. and they have taken up temporary housekeeping by themselves.
 The President has more guards than ever before. The number of secret service men has been in creased and a detail of marines is picketing the grounds about the sum- mer home.
 The President is desirous of complete rest and has asked the newspaper men not to follow him when he goes out on automobile rides. He will not give them an interview at that time and wishes to avoid the discomfort of having them constantly seeking one.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-19
BLACK
 IS WOUNDED

VANCOUVER, Aug. 15.-During the past offensive on the part of the British and French, George Black, former governor of Yukon Territory, was wounded in the thigh. He will recover from the wound, but it has not yet been ascertained whether he will be able to return to the fighting line or not.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-19
NARROWER OF THE GERMANS IS RAPIDLY DWINDLlNC, WHILE THE
 ALLIED POWER STEADILY GROWS

WITH THE BRITISH, Aug. 16-From good sources it is learned that Germany has acknowledged that her power is rapidly dwindng The proportions large that the high command is much worried.
 During the past few months the allies have been taking terrible toll in their campaign to kill the Germans in large numbers possible The policy of the Germans has been to obtain objective matter what the cost and the allied leaders have made of that policy in leading the
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-19
THE AIRPLANE
 REPORT IS DUE
 IN A FEW DAYS

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 16- The senate subcommittee for the in. vestigation of airplane production has agreed upon it's final report and will announce it some time during the next week. It is understood that some startling discoveries were made.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-08-19

George Wilson of the Big Cinema Hot Springs is in town on short visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

this skirt throughout his years of suc- cess.
 Cheruit adopted it in a modified man ner half dozen years ago. Jenny took it up about two winters ago and ac- centuated it in her popular costumes in such manner that America grew more weary of it through this channel than any other Somehow, as Jenny made it, it did not savor of the east. It was merely awkward and extremely girlish
 Last autumn the immense bulk Of the American public looked with 8 shrug of the shoulders at the pink and blue taf- feta skirts that were tucked up at the hem and caught here and there with a formal little bouquet of roses. How stale Can't she ever get it into her head that America does not want that loose, over full skirt with it's ungraceful line about the ankles? nebutantes and young girls continued to dance in this kind of skirt WI erever the fiddles sounded, but women of more mature years dismissed it as a fashion from the start.
 Now, it is here again, not only here. but very much accentuated and accepted as the leading silhouette among certain houses that establish fashions.
 Ire first French gowns that come over arc preparing for brisk spring trade speak of it as a powerful factor in the shaping of the new fashions. And the in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

tel esting part of it is that it entirely changes the silhouette.
 This seems to be in contrast with the stated fact that France is persistent in certain things and maintains a certain line for a longer period of time than America The truth is that France per- sists with a trick, but changes the sil- houette and still uses the trick, and that
 is what she has done in the new Algerian skirt.
 It is difficult to say whether the trous- CTS of the French troops in Algiers have the clue to this new skirt or whether it was the entire array of men in baggy trousers which curve in below the knees to fit the legs.
 Here is the silhouette: The waist is normally large, the line down the hips is either straight or slightly bulgng through the fullness of the material. and the hem
 is exceedingly narrow and tucked un- der. A woman wearing the most fash ionable of these skirts. with high boots added thereunto, will look at slight distance as though she wore baggy trous- CTS anc army boots.
 To the majority of women this news
 may not be welcome. They will fancy a far more sensational garment than what actually exists. That mild rev
 olution against the sheath and the hobole skirt may also crop out against this Algerian skirt, but both the other fea- l lures of fashion were incorporated ir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
The New France

From the New RepuDllc.
 Here indeed is a new France, new even to those of us who did not know the old. Some idea of France we had, an idea genera1ized from a little knowledge and much ignorance, and it is against this generalized back ground, familiar and ill-seen, that we see these newer Frenchmen, perhaps no more justly. They are not more serious than the older generations, but their seriousness is nearer the surface, they. spend themselves less in mockery, they are less afraid of being bored. they see less merit in living so as to escape boredom, they are not afraid of being duped, except by life through failure to understand 1t. Their malice is less, or less often a weapon a gift that they are too busy to cultivate. Let our touch be heavier on the keys of life, they seem to say, if life will not sound it's most authentic tones in answer to any lighter touch. For the sake of truth, of sincerity, they are willing to make more and more sac- rifices-of pleasure to themselves from life, of pleasure from their art to oth- CTS. Tired of mere cleverness. of mere dexterity, they seek new and sig nificant forms in art and in life, and appear at first too tolerant of lack of form. They are less ruses, superfi- cially, than the older generation, out even more resolved to see things as tkey are. Esteeming science no less, they know its place in life more &C., curately, do not expect from it mora than it can give. A deep religious cur rent runs through them all, believers
 and unbelievers alike. Their desire to be strong has not killed in them their fot al, oCfr fn at live
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

it does not measure out the waistline; U is merely an ornament, narrow, colortui and with buckle of metal or kid. placed in front.
 The individualist will probably make these straight little jackets in velvet cen, braid them heavily with soutache and add to the neck a waistcoat of white jersey fastened with tiny gilt buttons. They will cut the sleeves slim at the top, slightly flaring over the hand and slashed at the back. The jacket itself will be slashed below the belt line on each side.
 Such a coat may serve for several skirts. There is a tendency toward this for the spring, as it points the way to economy and variety. Our skirts wear out; our jackets rarely do. and the lat ter garment is more expensive and more difficult to make than the former. So one perfectly turned out satin or velvet coat may serve to dismiss the subject from a woman's mind and she can pick up or make in her own sewing room skirts or jersey, of dull Burgundy crepe de chine, of plaid and of pongee that will give her a chance to escape the appearances of being in uniform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Can Dictate Better Movies

The moving picture situation in your town is strictly up to you. If you want better films you can have them. In the Woman's Home Companion a writer says:
 "The movement for better films is row nationwide. The two years dur ing which the Womans Home Com panion has fought the battle for higher type of motion pictures, while it has not seen the realization of the ideal. has clearly demonstrated the actual unpopuiarity of the vampire type of picture and the disgust of the public with the photoplays which, with all the magic of practical and stage mechanics at their command, continue to fail of true heart interest and hu man appeal.
 q am sure that no one wants the pictures put down to the artistic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

dramatically from anything that one may learn from another than calm belief in ones own excellence.
 Tt is this early belief in woman's intrinsic moral superiority that Is truly poisonous to any real growth. It makes it possible for women to be mischievous tale-bearers but yet never repeat a malicious remark without the noble gesture of one performing a painful duty.
 "Feeling superior never yet made anyone superior. but quite the con trary. Is it not about time to admit that we are made very much of the same material as our menfolks. and to teach this to our young girls? that, while life develops us differently. on the whole it asks rather more of men. It is also good to teach girls that the same thing that develops a mans character also develops a woman's. and that while want and overwork thwart humankind. lack of responsibility and idleness breed limited, imperfect hu- man beings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

our ordinary apparel after a while, with- out creating disturbance.
 There is so little fullness in this new
 skirt that it does not seem to be even
 at first cousin to the skirt of Jenny with
 it's tuclled-up hem. That skirt, which
 pervaded the continent for two years,
 had tendency to flare out, to fling
 itself away from the angles; this skirt
 goes in so rapidly from the knees to
 hem that it does not need to undergo
 the same treatment that was accorded
 the other skirt.
 For instance, to be technical-the fuiI-
 ness at it's hem is not caught up and
 gathered to a short, narrow lining. This
 is not considered necessary. It IS
 merely turned under and run into the
 conventional hem, allowing it's fullness,
 slight as it is, to fall against the shoe
 tops and accentuate the trousered et-
 feet.
 This extreme skirt has brought about
 the narrowest silhouette we have had
 in years When the hem is not tucked
 under, it is only wide enough to pro-
 vide free movement in walking The
 skirts are necessarily short, for thelr
 narowness would greatly impede prog
 ress if they were long.
 If the summer brings back the fashion for pumps on the street without spats, there may be room for criticism in these extra short skirts, but at the moment it looks as though women Wi, not re- linquish the high boot, the cloth spat or any ankle covering that gives them q military appearance.
 Spats are part of the national cos- tune. They are worn as constantly as the Englshman has worn them for generations. They stand higher In fashion than the boot with the cloth or leather top, although there has come about, through the activity of over 1,0Oe.- coo women in war work, the fashion for an extra high, Russian leather laced
 boot with a broad curved sole and a stitched band.
 The low-heeled shoe has gained rap- idly in fashion since women went to war in their own way. It is made in tan and black leather and has either a high top of itself or an extra high spat of colored cloth. Black spats are worn only by those in deep mourning, ard beige, sand and several shades of gray satisfy all women.
 With such footwear, the short, mar row skirt has an undeniable smartness about it. The long skirt. the fiaring one and the very high spat or boot were not graceful adjuncts of each other.
 THE EXTRA LONG JACKETS Coming along with these short, AL | gerian trousered skirts are jackets that are zouave in shape sometimes, again l showing the straight. short, boyish line of the other kind of Algerian coat. l Instead of the sash, there Is belt. but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

level of the so-called Sunday school books of 25 years ago; but as one who has served his time in the mo- ton picture business I can honestly say that the destructive criticism. which is usually all that reaches the man who makes motion pictures, is susceptible of no other interpretation. Almost the only comments received by the producer Gas the manufactur- CT of motion pictures is called) are warnings from censorship bodies and indignant mothers that this or that is not proper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17

1t IS snort enough lo siloW
 the high spats that have
 Sw eepin g popularity.
 Our silhouette is to be
 slim as a planked shad, ex-
 cept that it will go in
 sharply toward the ankles.
 No flare at the hem is
 permitted - Jackets are
 short, straight, braided
 and belted.
 The persistence shown by France in the dressmaking houses in continuing cer- tain trick for several years, deserves more attention than is usually accredited it. A study of the obstinate way in which Paris designers have held on to thing they liked might go for toward conv1nc- ing a vast number of the critics Of wom- en's apparel that fashions are not as fliShty IS they seem. The weather vane turns. it is true, but it swirls back into the same quarter so frequently that at times there is feeling that it changes little
 The American shops. 1t Is claimed con stantly convince their patrons that an old gown must be replaced by a new one by showing revolution in silhouette.
 The first claim to fortune in this coun- try is novelty. It may be that we indulge in far more of it when it comes to wom- en's clothes than the French designers do. One thing is true of trade in this country. It is conducted on a much yaster scale and it goes through deeper and more uproarious channels than the French trade in women's apparel
 We inundate country with a certain style through the aid of parcel post, pat tern books, chain of stores and travel ing salesmen; the waters then quickly recede and another inundation is due. Therefore, another style is sent out over the continent in a series of waves
 We have millions of, women to dress where France has thousands, and we have a population that is quite capable of indulging in its desire for new clothes from the rim of the arctic circle to line above the tropics.
 It is a well known fact that the Amer ican buyers who go to Paris to get new clothes often refuse lovely gowns if they bear a close kinship to those that were sold the year before. They wave such frocks away with the remark that Amer lean women must have novelty.
 This act has always depressed the de- eigners in Paris, who care for beauty and detail rather than for startling change, and it is the French designers who say that they rack their brains for Aeccentricities to give to America far more than they would if their clientele were only Rome. Paris and London.
 It Is this underlying trait in the French dressmakers that gives them the desire to persist in certain line-which is com ing back to the original discussion.
 NOW THE ZOUAVE SKIRT
 This line happens to be, at the present moment, that tucked-in effect at the hen, of the skirt, which is suggestive of the trousers of the Algerian troops.
 Nobody would remember, probably, the exact date of the beginning of this idea, but 1t was evolved long before the war. It has been brought out in various kinds of skirts.
 The house of Callot was probably the first to bring out the idea in a narrow skirt. but it did not take. Poiret, who has a devotional attitude toward any thing that comes out of the east. used
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-17
Women Feel Superior to Men

Mary Heaton Worse has an article in the woman's Home Companion in which she says some thing which ev- cry young girl ought to read. She says in part:
 ''The spectacle of the superior young female Is Imaginable one, but it is far more tragic than 1t is laugh able, for nothing so seals the spirit
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
C11l6rOA Dry
Vn elDyoDHo
(Alvsrtissneat.)


Governor Hall. leading candidate and
BEST qualified aspirant for the U. s.
Senate; is daily being strengthened BY
tn apparent weakness evidenced in those
forced to support the candidacy Of the
after thought candidate, the least eap.
able, the planter from lbs1vills. whs
voted for prohibition, voted to prevent
the people from expressing themselves
on the question and who voted against
every measure presented BY labor. A
man who despite the fact hs stayed Is
years in the Legislature, 10 practically
IN snknewn quantity, has nothing but
HE name hyphsnatsd to the Gay-Shat-
tuck law, showing HE early antagonistie
inc1inations to an established and
licensed business Whit did this elk
stocking candidate get out Of the Amer.
lean Sugar Refinery in ito recent dam
age suits, and did he enter suit3 How
did he vote on the antitrust and anti
sugar monopoly legislation during the
Hall administration1 While . rich man,
certainly no crime, be 10 the poorest
candidate in point Of attainments, ex-
perisncs and sccomplishments.-Thibo-
daux Journal.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
PUNISH ALL THE RASCALS.

Inquiries into certain army contracts
have revealed conditions which would be
amazing if we did not know that there
have ever been scoundrels ready to bride
officials, rob the government, palm off
defective equipment on soldiers-even at
the risk of their lives and the nations
fate in battle-merely to pile up filthy
money. Such prevents are not merely
profiteers. A profiteer 81 not patrior,
for he takes advantage of the necessities
of the people individually or collectively
to wiring the last cent he can from them.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
whatever inequity has arisen from these

whatever inequity has arisen from these
abnormal conditions.
But the case of the grating contrac-
tor is entirely different. He is the
worst kind of thief Not only does he
rob the government, but he usually in
cludes perjury and corruption in his
operations. These treble crimes justify
lis being sent to the penitentiary after
he has been compelled to make finan-
cial restitution. But it is difficult to fix
the measure of the punishment due him
for imperiling the welfare of the army
with his substitutions. This may not be
technical treason, but its effects are
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24

So we may expect new peace move
from Germany--one that the government,
will not counsel. It will be move
made by the people and aimed not a,
enemy governments but at their own
government. AS the halter begins to
draw the cry for peace will become
louder.
Military Germany has had her day.
! The future belongs to the Allies. Ger
man arms may make slight advances this
summer and fall or they may not, but
/ Germany after this year must go back
Y, ward ~ autumn the Allies will have
Kaiser a front that will move only for.
ward. When the German PEOPLE tire OF
seeing their armies retreat the end VIII
come. A revolution in Germany before
the end of the war is probably not to be
expected, but the Reichstag will doubht-
less take charge and agree upon behalf
of the people to terms that the Allies can
accept.
AS to the attitude of the peoples of
the Central Powers toward Allied peacv
terms, Mr.. Brantling made an interest
ing observation when he was in London
Austria certainly would accept the
Allied peace terms" said he. ain Ger
many it is difficult. The Germans FIND
great difficulty in even considering with
patience the Allied demands regarding
Alsace-L Lorraine. Poland, with its from
tiers so near to Berlin, is another diff
cult problem for them, but much hinges
upon the result of the present offensive
In the event of the Allies holding the j.
German offensive, readiness to accept
the Allies war aims might spring up |
within very few weeks"
Well, the Allies did a little better |
than TO "hold" the German offensive
hey sent the Germans bag and baggage
back over their tracks. Perhaps the
Kaiser, in his anniversary address,
tnew only too we'll how necessary it
was that he should tell the German
people how victorious they were and
low confident they should be.--The
Jew Appeal.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24

But even profiteer may have some
scruples. He may stop short of cor
ruption, or, what is still worse in it's pos
sible effect, of substitution. He would
not try to deliver defective material,
dangerous to the health of soldiers or
perilous to their lives in time of battle.
Furthermore, not every contractor VINO
makes high profits can be properly
called a profiteer. IF his abnormal
profits come from his low costs of pro-
duction, compared with those of his com
petitor, he is not entitled to personal
punishment or reproach. The taxing
power should be exercised to rectify
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
NEW IBERIA LADY'S OPERATION
NOT SUCCESSFUL.

"16 years ago I was operated for ap-
pendicitis and later operated again for
gall stones. Neither did me any good
and I suffered all kinds of torture
since. Five years ago I took Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy and have felt no
symptoms or pain since. All stomach
sufferers should take it." It is . simple,
harmless preparation that removes the
catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract
and allays the inflammation which
causes practically all stomach, liver and
intestinal ailments, including Appendix
citis. One dose will convince or money
refunded. Sold by Estorge Drug Co.
(Advsrtisement.)
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24
KAISER SYMPATHIZES WITH
FRANKFORT OVER AIR ATTACK.

Amstsrdam, Aug. 10-The Colene Ca
setts prints telegram sent by direction
Of the Emperor to The Burgmsster Of the
town Of Frankfort. stating that the
Emperor deeply sympathises in the mis-
fortune which has befallen the town Of
Frankfort - the result Of an enemy At.
tack which was contrary to the inter-
national law and claimed many VIC
Tins"
, The statement requests that the Burg
master convey the sympathies of the "au
highest to the victims relatives"
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24

perilosuly far-reaching. Evely soldier
trusts his life to the care and honesty OF
contractors, workmen and inspectors, and
betrayal of this trust is grevious Of
tense.
The prompt and severe punishment of
every rascal, whether contractor or OFF,
cial, is an imperative duty whose per-
Torrance the country will demand.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.