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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
SHOULD EAT LESS MEAT TO
 HELP ALLIES

The United States food administra tion issues the following:
 One year d country of rich lands. plenty of food. and a contented peo- pie. The next a desolate waste with starvation rising from 1t. That is Belgium. part of France, and thou sands of miles of other country our allies country.
 Since the war began 33,000.000 meat animals of our allies have been slaughtered because there was no feed for them in the war-toin fields. Neither are there men to grow feed on the lands that have not been ruined The men are waging war.
 The allies look to America for help They must have meat in ever increasing quantities. The men who are fighting for you and me must have meat and lots of it Fighting is the hardest work in the world. We are going to send them that Iucdt, yOu anu by NAN 4iifhOAA S' us.
 All we have got to do is to eat ounce less-1 cubic inch less of meat day This. multiplied by 10O. 100000. will make good the need.
 We will eat beef. mutton. and pork. but not so often. If we eat any one of these kinds of meat only once day, and then not so much as we have been eating-that will be the solution.
 Instead of our usual share of these, we will eat more fish and poultry and perishable fruits and vegetables. Beans are a splendid meat substi- tute. Eat more soup. It is nourish- ing and heat giving.
 By using all leftover meat each of us at home is going to give two soldiers their meat rations without ever noticing the sacrifice.-Of1cial Bulletin.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
GERMANS RESCUE
 DESTROYER COOK

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. g. The state department has been in formed that an American seaman was rescued by the German subma- rine which sunk the United States destroyer Jacob Jones. This seaman was Albert Mello, who was cook on the destroyer, and who is now being held in a German prison camp. The department was assured that ho would be treated with the same con- sideration that has been shown pris- oners of other nations by Germany.
 The Jacob Jones. which was sunk during the early part of December. was the first serious naval loss, and the only one since the entry of the United States into the struggle. Sixty. i've men were reported to be missing after the rolls of the survivors were received In Washington.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14

 SEATTLE ORDER

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 9.-Chief of Police Warren has at least ac- complished a big part of the task which was assigned to him when he was put in office and told to clean up the vice conditions of the city. The military authorities today re- moved the restrictive order which has kept the soldiers in that canton ment from visiting this city except on business under written or other special authority.
 The restrictive order has been in effect since November 22. when 1t was issued by General Greene, then commander of the camp. The pres ent commander, in raising the ban. praised the work of Chief Warren, and stated that he had and deserved the confidence of the military au- thorities.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
METH0DISTS
 ELECT FOR THE
 ENSUING YEAR

The regular monthly meeting of the official board of the Methodist church was held Monday, January z, at the parsonage. The following of ficers for the ensuing year were approved: Andrew Anderson, Superintendent of Sunday School. Mrs. 8. Sea, Assistant Superinten- dent. Miss Alta Porter, Secretary. George Starrs. Treasurer. Margaret Krieger, Organist. Dorothy Roth, Assistant Organist. Mrs. O., F. Krieger. Chorister. The Board of Stewards were elect ed as follows:
 Mrs. s. Sea.
 Mrs. J. A. Webb.
 A. Anderson.
 J. A. Webb. Church Treasurer. Board of Trustees:
 A. Anderson.
 J. O. Anderson.
 T. H. Deal.
 M. D. Snodgrass.
 J. A. Webb.
 The reports from the treasurer of the church and of the Sunday School showed fairly healthy condition. Bills are all paid with balance in each treasury. All members were enthusiastic for the work of the new year. The new head of the Sunday School, MT. A. Anderson, is a highly respected man and will make a splen- did leader for that department of the church.
 o. F. KRIEGER,
 President.
 EDGAR R. WOOLDRIDGE. Secretary.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
SOLDIERS HAVE
 LARGE PAYROLL

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. g. The United States is now paying her fighting men more money than any other nation in the world is or ever has in the history of the world. The monthly payroll for Americas force now reaches nearly $100.000, ,000. This sum will be greatly increased when the full strength of the na. tional army is mobilized. It is far above the amounts paid by the most liberal of the other nations.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
SAMMIES WANT
 TOCAN KAISER
 WITHOUT DELAY
(Herbert Adams Gibbons, in the Cen
 turY Magazinel

(Herbert Adams Gibbons, in the Gen.
 tury Magazine)
 Our boys in France take very kindly to the system of physical ex- ercises that has been developed in the French army along the lines of the famous college at Rheims. By companies, stripped to the waist. the Americans go through these exer- cises with a vim and a spirit that make the spectator wish he were in the game. After the stunts are finished the boys march and sing while cooling off. In field after field we came across them singing Justify: o Bill! o Bill! we're on the job
 today!
 o Bill! o Bill! we'll seal you so
 you'll stay!
 We'll put you up with ginger in The good old Yankee way
 While we are. canning the kaiser We're off to can the kaiser,
 Hooray! Hooray!
 In kaiserland we'll take our stand Until we can the kaiser.
 Let's go. let's go. let's go and can
 the kaiser!
 Let's go. let's go. let's go and can
 the kaiser!
 If the men of Gen. Sibert's divi. sion had the say, they would start the "canning" process this autumn. When the French commander leads his chasseurs back to the trenches, our boys want to go with their com. rades.
 One cannot argue with them about the submarines and the difficulties of transport and the problems of or ganization. One cannot ask them to realize that it will take a long time before we are ready. They are shocked and grieved and puzzled. Regular army, national guard mus tered in. 1O,O00,O00 men to conscript from for national service of every character, 1O0,OO0,000 behind the army and the government-is all that a myth? A husky chap, who boasted of knowing every army post in the U. s. A. and every tribe in the Philippines, with the Chinks thrown in," looked rebelliously at the ambassador, my companion, hu- morously counseling patience.
 "Boss," he declared. i've fellers were sent here followin' orders. We're in the fight, representa- the U. s. A. When Americans get into a fight to help their friends, do they wait around doin' nothin' but talkin' big have meat and lots of 1t. Fighting do they go right in off the bat? take 1t we're Americans"
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
DEFENSE BODY
 STARTS FOOD
 CONSERVATION

The local council of defense has all its material for getting food pledges ready. and is going to start a campaign throughout this district at once to- have everyone sign up these pledges and conserve as much food as possible.
 Some time ago few national food pledges reached various local people and were signed and sent Outside. Anyone who has signed these national pledges. however, should not stop with that, nor let that interfere with their signing the local pledges that will be sent them, for the local work is of even more importance than the national work in food conservation, and it is by these pledges that a gauge can be kept on local food consumption.
 Food pledge cards will be sent to every family in this district. They will be distributed by various means, but in short time the committee in charge is going to see that every one has a card. Then 1t is the patriotic duty of every person who receives a card to fill it out and get 1t back to the committee as soon as possible, in order that returns may be tabulated and sent in to headquarters. The object of all these food pledges. and of cards which will be issued to show how many meatless days and wheatless days and days of that sort Fairbanks people observe. is to get a definite idea of just what the people of Fair banks are doing in the matter of conserving food, and also to show the rest of the country what the people of the interior are doing. Judge Royal A. Gunnison, of Juneau, is food controller for Alaska. and all these weekly reports that are issued will be sent to him, and he in turn sends them on to Washington, with tabulations from the whole territory.
 Alaska has just made a record to be proud of in the Red Cross drive which has lately come to a conclu- sion. Now Alaskans have a chance to make another record in conserv- ing food, and will help the govern ment out as much as if they were out fighting in the trenches. The only way local officials and the coun- try at large can know what the peo- pie of Interior Alaska are doing to- ward helping conserve food Is from the food pledges and weekly food cards which will be handed in. It is therefore up to the people of the interior if they want to make an. other record and go down in history as having leading part in helping the government carry on one of the most essential features of the whole war, to fill out their food pledges, keep up rp their weekly reports. and at the Same time do as much to conserve all foods as possible. Do your bit and get hold of a pledge card now and send 1t in at once.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
FAIRBANKS IS TO LOSE SOME
 RECISTRANTS

Under the fuling made the other day with regard to the registration of those who had registered here as being from various places in the States, Fairbanks will have twenty. five less registrants out of her for. mer total of four hundred and sixty. eight. This recent ruling provided that anyone who had registered with an Alaskan board as being from any place in the States should have his card sent to the State where he had registered as being from, and that he would then be subject to call from that state. Thus a man who registered here as being from Seattle. according to the latest rul- ing, would have his card sent to the Seattle local board and would then be subject to call with Seattle quotas. The Fairbanks local board had to go all over the cards of those registered here, sort them out and oShu eo IAC ooJuSohlS 6cACi al of the various states the cards of those who had registered from those states, and then renumber all those that were leit as registered from here. This was some laborious task, but 1t was completed in short order by Mayor Ray of the Fairbanks To- cal board, and the cards of all those who registered as being from the Outside have now been sent to the respective States.
 Nenana loses many more regis trants than Fairbanks. some one fourth of those who registered there having given their addresses as some place in the States.
 This whole difficulty arose from the misunderstanding of registration regulations in the beginning by a few registering officers. Instead of registering men from the place where they were then making their homes. these men were registered as from the States where they had come from. or even from foreign coun- tries. Thus men who lived at Ne mana were registered as from all over the States, Finland, Russia, Ja- pan and many other countries. This happened in most of the outlying registration precincts also, and as a result has caused much confusion.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14

Answering many inquiries as to what substitutes there are for meat, Miss Mary Rausch, extension lec- turer in home economics for the Uni versity of Washington, devotes her weekly letter to meatless meals:
 We have been asked to eat meat only once a day and to observe one entirely meatless day. A meatless day means no kind nor part of meat, not even liver or kidney. If you use meat for dinner one day, roast beef or stew, for instance, on an' other day use liver, kidney, rabbit. chicken. or anything that will save meat to be sent abroad: beef, mutton and pork.
 Pork is especially asked for, so don't eat pork or pork products. ham or bacon, except on very special oc- casions. Pork Is fighting mems food, so every time you eat something else you send a slice of pork to a hungry soldier; you help him to stand the cold and wet, and still stay in good condition. If you substitute fish or eggs or something else for meat, you are helping the govern ment even more.
 MeatIess Meal Suggestions
 Here are some suggestions for meatless meals:
 "Kippered fish may be steamed and served with boiled potatoes and a scalloped vegetable. Clans. well washed, may be steamed, fried, seal loped or made into chowder. Canned clans may be used. Mix eggs with milk or milk and cheese in cooking. Bake rice with plenty of grated cheese covered with milk. Grind pea nuts or any nuts, mixed with bread crumbs and seasoning. and brown in oven. Dried lima beans may be soaked, boiled and then baked like Boston baked beans. Use dried peas made into soup with milk; or seal lop, or mash and mix with bread crumbs and seasoning to bake in loaf or small cakes.
 Soy beans may be washed, boiled until tender, mashed and used like any other kind of beans. Oysters
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
WAYS to SAVE MEAT

and crabs may be used in number. less ways. Try using fish. an excel lent meat substitute, for several meals during the Yeek. Do not use the same fish always: try new kinds. If you live on the coast where fresh fish Is to be had at the markets. do personal selecting. Buy only fresh fish. If cooked fish is not used at once. cool it quickly. Left over fish may be made into fine dishes
 chowders
 Fish and clam chowders are very easy to make and very appetizing for supper on a cold night. Make as follows:
 "Slice peeled raw potatoes. Slice Ione onion, cut some salt pork in dice, and fry until brown. Put layer of potatoes in saucepan. then layer of pork and onion, then a layer of raw or cooked fish or clans. Cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Add seasoning. The chow der should be rather thick.
 If you live where you can raise rabbits you will find they can be fried like chickens. If you live in the country use geese, ducks or other game.
 "The hotels and restaurants are doing wonders in conserving meat and wheat. The Biltmore hotel in New York reports that it's meatless days save tons of meat. Its wheat less Wednesday saves five barrels of wheat flour every week. It uses for substitute rye. potato. barley and rice flour.
 Remember that wherever a mans hand has been taken from task in France, a woman's hand has gone on with his work willingly and ef1' ciently. But the American woman's hand in the kitchen will save many life in this war. Our money can not buy bread and meat in Europe for our allies. for there is little to buy. We must send it from this country, and even though thousands of tons may be sunk by the subma' rines, still we must ship. ship. ship We must save democracy with food
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
GEN. PERSHlNC
 WALKS TO CAMP

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Jan. 9.-Winter has closed down on this section of France with a vim. The roads are coated with ice and have become so slippery that traffic is upset between the American headquarters and the camps.
 This fact occasioned Gen. Pershing e slight inconvenience today. He set out in his automobile for visit to the camps. but on account of the slippery roads his machine stalled. The general refused to turn back. and walked several miles in order to make his accustomed rounds.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
SENDS SEATTLE
 SKILLED LABOR
(ASSOciated Press)

Associated Press)
 KANSAS, CITY, Mo-, Jan. 9.-Ow- ing to the enormous amount of work being done by the Seattle shipbuild- CTS for the government. trained work men are to be secured by the gov ernment and rushed there to keep the plants running at top speed all the time.
 The federal department of labor is arranging to send $50 skilled me chanics to Seattle on a special train as soon as they can be mobilized here. These men will be used on government contracts in various Se' attle shipbuilding plants.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
VICTORIA GETS
 A NEW OFFICER

SEATTLE. Wash. Jan. 9.-The Pa cific Steamship company today an nounced that Capt. Chrales Davis has been appointed as master of the steamer Victoria to succeed Cept. John O'Brien. Captain Davis Is well known among steamboatmen and also travellers of the Alaskan routes. and is very popular with the trade.
 The Victoria sails for Southwest ern Alaska points tomorrow.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF DIFFERENT METALS-ThER
 USES IN THE PRESENT WAR
when it so occurs to overestimate its

when 1t so occurs to overestimate its value
 INITIATES.
 There is little prospect of natural deposits of nitrates being found. The only possibility of an independent supply seems to be in the flxation of nitrogen from the air; or the oxida- tion of ammonia obtained as by product from gas works and by-pro- duct from coke ovens to nitric acids.
 POTASH.
 The need of potash In certain in. dustries is acute. It is essential to the manufacture of the best liquid soap, and some higher grade cake soaps and some fine grades of glass. It is absolutely necessary for some explosives and enters largely into the manufacture of matches. Potash salts find many uses in the tanning. dyeing, metallurgical, electro-plating and photographic industries. The production of potash in the United States is small percentage of our annual consumption, so war condi- tions have caused a dearth. Potash is being produced from Searles Lake in California and the Hercules Pow der company estimates that 1t can produce 22,000 tons a year from kelp. at San Diego. High grade potash salts have also been developed from distillery waste. obtained after dis tillation of black.strap molasses in the manufacture of alcohol.
 SILVER.
 The price of silver has risen to the highest figure on record since the early sos. The nations are all hoard ing gold and so silver is taking It's place in currency. The governments of France, Great Britain and Austra- lia have had to produce much more silver coin for circulation recently than was their custom. The high price Is due in part to diminished pro- duction and to large demands from the far East, China and India being the largest buyers of silver. A great proportion of the silver output Is a by.product from base metals. notably cooper and lead. The United States is by far the largest producer. sULPHuRic ACID.
 There is a steadily increasing de. mand for sulphuric acid and small hope of increasing imports of Span ish pyrites. Practically every indus try requires sulphuric acid and as a war measure deposits now lying idle should be developed thoroughly. The demand is twenty-five per cent great. CT this year than last so that the pyrites situation is taking on increas. ing importance. In the effort to make the United States independent of foreign countries as a source of iron pyrites we now rely chiefly upon Georgia. TIN.
 There was an increase of 25 per cent in the production of tin plate in the United States in 1916. Exports this year will be at least 10 per cent of our total production. and since the demand is greater than the largest possible output economy Is sought in every line. Tin is recovered from tin.plate scrap by electrolytic-alkili,
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14

NICKEL.
 Sudbury, Canada, provides the bulk of the worlds output.
 COBALT.
 Practically the worlds supply for merly was German product.
 PORTLAND CEMENT.
 Shipments in the United States have been the heaviest in the history of the industry. Prices are higher than ever before.
 ANTiMONY.
 The war has created large de- mand for it. China has profitable mines which can be worked cheaply.
 COPPER
 German money is thought to be do ing its best to tie up our great cop per centers. The entire world 100 years ago produced about 5000 tons of copper per annum. The United States produces alone today 600.000. There has been an unprecedented demand for copper and unprecedented prices have prevailed. The revolutionary ef- fects of Notation processes are being felt in the industry since the United States Supreme Court and the British House of Lords have agreed in up. holding the basic patent.
 cHRoMITE.
 Important in the manufacture of armor-plate, armor-piercing projec. tiles, stellite for high.speed tools, and automobile and other steels. It in creases the tensile strength of steel when added in small amounts. In. dustries using it grew enormously last year and production has greatly in creased. Chronic iron is used chiefly in metallurgy and chemistry. It is the basis of chronic acid and bichro mates of soda and potash and is used extensively in the manufacture of col ors and dyes and of compounds for tannery. It is also a most efficient refractory metal for lining furnaces and for making chrome brick.
 MoLYsDENUM
 One of the metals which through broader use in the future will proba bly benefit by the war. Before the war Krupp in Germany and Creusot in France were the principal users The Germans have proved that three quarter per cent molybdenum greatly increases the life of heavy artillery and rife barrels. The allies are now using the metal in a similar way This country has been called upon tc supply the demand thus created Prices have mounted rapidly. Wulfe nite occurs in shiny yellow. orange and red tablets and is brittle. sof' and heavy. It Is a rather common mineral in the oxidized portions ol lead-bearing ore bodies.
 MoLYBpENiTE Occurs as soft, black, metallic lustred scales, frequently of hexago nal outline. Unlike graphite (whicf it somewhat resembles). it has z bluish caste. and is much heavier. Its lead.gray streak has a greenish tinge and heated in an open tube 1t givei ofl sulphurous fumes. At present the price is considerably higher thar tungsten. Molybdenite in white quart' is showy. and there is a tendency
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14

An individual life raft invented Is provided with a compass in front and an intermittent light. operated by a motor which, like the light. is sup piled by q storage battery in the rear.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-14
MORE NAMES
 FROM NENANA
 FOR RED CROSS

Below is given a further list of those who subscribed toward the Red Cross at Nenana during the re- cent drive there. The people of Ne mana had no small share in making Alaska lead the rest in Red Cross subscriptions during the campaign, and a large sum was collected there. A partial list of those who sub- scribed at Nenana follows:
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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-09
A SAD DEATH.

The community was saddened last Sat-
urday when the news came from Hot
Springs that Bertha Doll had passed
away at the Hospital. About ten days
ago after severe attack of grip she be-
gan to fail and in the hope of cure she
was taken to the Hospital and an opera
ton was performed and her tonsils re.
moved. For time after this she SEEM
ed to revive and the parents were
encouraged to hope for her but on
Thursday of last week she suddenly be-
came worse and in few hours the end
came and the gentle spirit slipped away
to God.
Bertha Louise, the second daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. August Doll, was a beauti-
ful child, loved by all who knew her
and the Joy and hope of her home. Her
age was Is years, 10 months and days,
but in those few months she had already
bound herself to her home and God
She had been baptised into the Lutheran
faith and was so well advanced in study
that she would have been confirmed
this year
The funeral services were held in the
Congregational church in Custer, Rev.
L. +. Foelber, of Hot Springs minister
of the German Lutheran Church and
pastor of the stricken home brought the
message of comfort to the bereaved and
to friends from the fact of Gods care
and the Christian life of Bertha. The
interment was made in the Custer ceme-
terry. The sympathy of all go out to the
bereaved home in this hour of their
great loss.