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The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-12-21
OLDTIMER WRITES FRIEND

Thought 1t was about tune | I was writing you a few lines & letting you know my addresa.
 As you may have guessed, l have been too busy to write.
 l think I wrote you from Se attle that l had enlisted in the 33rd Engineers, but I never joined that regiment because I took the first chance that was offered for active service after I got across. whicl took me to the 9th Engineers. I don't think there is much difference be- tween the two.
 l certainly joiued the 9th when they were having a hot time but got through all OK.
 l saw what Fritz can do in the barrage lire and also had the pleasure of walking all over the country where Fritz had his Gr(s;l q saw what the French frC Antlic;1s cen Go-the1e are r,tnty C Fri1zies here but they ale all (ttG ones, the allies have got the ir "uumber".
 I mailed to the Arctic Broth erhOod today a uple of sOuve- nirs, a german gus mask and helmet, the Fritz who owned them has no earthly use for the outfit now but 1 guess he could have used the gas mask if he cluld have taken it with him.
 1 am enclosing iu this letter I piece of cloth that 1 cut from l the wing 'i garmln plane 1 saw brought down, just after the Hun had brought do VII one ol our balloons Ill fla nAs the Frltz made rough landing him self. One thing 1 would like to know what they did about the death of Rose Silberg and how Joe Pietrie died.? If you remem Der they were tryiug to connect the two cases Ut the time l 1 eft Mccarthy but l never heard since what they did.
 We'll Dick 1 must now close ] but will write again. Give my re gards to Mrs Woodman and all the old timers that 1 know Al Doze' l4ongley, Marshall, Pitcher Fly land, Amber and others too numerous tomention.
 Does Cole stlll publish the As toniSher? if so. send me a copy once in a while, also Cordova paper if you can.
 Sincerly Yours, Pte, Robert. T. Sminh,
The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-12-21
The MCCARTHY w eekly News.

Entered as second class matter. Septem ter lTth, 1918 at the Fost Office. at Mccarthy, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879
The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-12-21
U. s. Food Administration.

Are shocked
   Seventyhve of portation o Eliminate a %u
The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-12-21

No trouble to buy cheap convenient, a real investment - War Savings Stamps.
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18

23, 100000 and 100000 pounds, re-
spectivcly. Imports of cotton-seed oil
for the first nine months of 1913, 1914
and 1918, show eleven, thirteen, and
100000 pounds, respectively; of
peanut oil, one million three hundred
thousand, seven hundred and sixty
two thousand, and eight million five
hundred thousand gallons, respective
ly; and of soy bean oil, now being
produced in the South, nine, eleven,
and two hundred and twenty-six mill
lion pounds respectively; .eaf tobacco,
for the three periods mentioned, ran
fifty million, forty-two million, and
sixty-eight million pounds, respective
ly. We import almost four tircs as
many cigars, chcroots and cigarettes
during the 1918 as for the 1914 period.
The South had better wake up to the
advantage of protection, and become
vocal against free tradn. There is
nothing to prevent this import trade
continuing, under the p. sent tariff
law-evcn increasing, while our ex-
port trade so highly stimulated by war
demands is bound to shrink, except
in such commodities rs arc necessary
for the rehabilitation Of European
countries devastated by the war
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18
Pershing's Word for 1t.

The annual report of the Secretary
of War contains complete report by
General Pershing of his operations up
to November 10th. II contains the
startling information that not "a single
gun of the famous scventy-five milli
meter caliber cf American manufac-
ture wac ever used at the front. Gen.
Pershing's official statement Of the
artillery situation reads as follows:
'In order to meet our requirements
lin artillery as rapidly as possible,
we accepted the offer of the French
government to provide us with the
necessary artillery equipment of sew
enty-fives, $50 millimetcr howitzers,
and $50 milimeter G. p. F. guns from
their own factories for thirty divisions.
The wisdom of this course Is fully
demonstrated by the fact that, al
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18
Pershing Thanks American Farmers
For Backing up Armies with Food.

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Carl Vrooman has received the follow
ing message from General Pershing
which should cause the heart of every
patriotic farmer to swell with pride:
American Expeditionary Forces,
"Onicc of Commander-in-C Chief,
France.
Dear Mr.. Vrooman;
"Will you please convey to farmers
in America our profound appreciation
of their patriotic service TO the country
and to the allied armies in the field.
They hav, furnished their full quota
Of fighting men; they have bought
largely Of Liberty Bonds, and they
have increased their production of food
crops, both last year and this by over
1000 million bushels above normal pro-
duction. Food is of vital military
necessity for us ard for our allies, and
from the day of our entering into the
war Americas armies of food produc-
crs have rendered invaluable service
to the allied powers by supporting the
soldiers at tie front thru their devoted
and splendidly successful work in the
fields and burrows at home.
"Very sincerely.
JOHN J. PERSHING."
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18

ing at the Monthly Summary for the
nine months period ended September
Of this year we learn that nearly 522,-
100000 pounds Of rice were imported
by this country, compared with about
215,O00.OO0 pounds for the first nine
months Of 1914, and 1S6,000,000 lbs.
for the first nine months of 1913, the
last under the protective policy. Inn
ports of peanuts for the first nine
monthe of the current year totaled
66,OO0,0OO pounds. and for the same
periods of 1913 and 1914 they were
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18
HELP BRAVE BELGiANS
DRIVE OUT ENEMY
American Red Cross Aids With
Supplies and Comforts in the
Equipment Of Valiant
Army.

TT is particularly Interesting to Amer
leans TO know the tremendous
work which the American Red
Cross has done toward relieving dis
tress In Belgium. Among the many
things done for King Albert's gallant
little army by the Red Cross the fol-
lowing are II few:
II established a dining room and
reading and writing room at the ware
houses In lie Hayre.
1t gave plate and bowl to GOOO
munition workers In - to use at
their meals.
1t fitted up recreation rooms for
workers at munition plants.
II installed cooperative restaurant
for the military personnel OF the Mari
time Agency at lie Havre.
II Installed shower baths and a bar
ber shop for the army garrisons In
lie Havre.
In army training centers the Red
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18
WASHINGTON NOTES
Mailing Another.

Washington, Dec. 17.-(Special cor
respondentencc) The administration
free traders, to meet the criticism of
protectionists with regard to the in
crease in imports during 1918, answer
that this is an apparent increase, due
to price increases only, i. e, it is reg
istered in values, not in volume. Why
they onght not to be able to deceive
even the South on that question. Look
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18

Robert S. Lovett has resigned as
director of the railroad administra-
tion's division of capital expenditures,
and is to return to his former duties
as chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Union Pacific. While
tactful in giving his reasons for scpar-
ating himself from the Wilsocialistic
policy of government ownership, 1t
appears evident that Robert did not
love it
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18

cross gave nousenoid comforts, phono-
graphs. games. etc.
II established a dorInitory for 200
men at the Home for Permlssionaires
at Calais.
II established q canteen and library
at Calais.
II established another canteen for
the personnel of sanitary trains.
II gave material snd games for a
canteen for the perscnnel OF the naval
base at .
1t gave the same for a canteen for
the personnel Of Bel gian seaplane
units.
II equipped a mess for the personnel
of the unit ut Calais.
II gave tents, canteens, reading
rooms and shower baths for the per-
sonnel OF the Bourbough bakery.
II organized dining rooms for
searchlight companies and artillery
batteries having fixed cantonments,
and Installed shower baths in them
II distributed 80 600 enameled plates
and cups for soldiers I'm the trenches.
1t gave prizes for organized athletic
tournaments.
II sent presents to each man deco
rated for bravery. These presents are
usually razors, pipes, fountain pens
Hnd such. Up to now this work has
only applied to the Infantry.
The Red Cross provided the appa-
ratus and Aims for cinema shows.
Eight thousand soldiers see them
very day.
IL supplied books for all soldiers.
II Installed a recreation and writing
room at the large cantee" at La Panne.
u presented TO every infantry and
eaynIry reglmental surgeon a medical
travelling case. holding set of medi-
cal instruments for feld service.
This work required an appropria-
tlou of approximately I.25O.Oo0 francs.
Straight from the front IL this com
ment Of Belgian colonel. II was
made recently while he was sitting In
his dugoul talking OF the work of
a canteen for which the American
Red Cross had Just provided quarters
on very short notice.
zone live demonstration IKE this Is
better than Il year Of talk
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18

though we soon began the manufac-
ture of these classes of guns at home,
there were no guns of the calibers
mentioned manufactured in America
on cur front at the date the armistice
was signed. The only guns CT these
types produced at home thus far re-
ceived in France are 100 seventy-five
millimenter guns"
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18
CANTEENS SERVING
U. S. TROOPS IN ITALY

The American Red Cross canteens,
which serve at railroad stations. i'm
portant points on higlroads, and In
towns and villages throughout the
Italian zone Of war. are now serving
American troops. These canteens
have been operating during the past
SIX months for the benefit Of the 1tAl-
ian army and Its allies. greeting the
soldiers In their passage from one
point TO another with coffee and
American crackers and jam But II
Is only recently that the khaki-clad
fighters from across the sea have been
added TO the number Of those served
at the Red Cross rest stations.
Numerous bowling greens have been
established by the American Red Cross
In the tuberculosis barracks of Paris.
If you expect to send Christmas
present please make it War Savings
Stamp.
All I want for Christmas is War
Savings Stamp.
The Lamar register., 1918-12-18

American Red Cross has erected
barracks at Dillon. frHnce. TO serve as
day nursery for lhe children Of the
French women who WORK IN the United
States Army cumoufiag factory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
READERS VIEWPOINT
Teachers Oupb, 10 Be Paid Better

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir--Your editorial suggesting methods by
which funds can be secured for the increase
of pay for policemen inspires hope that
some equally good method may be employed
for the increase of teachers salaries. The
public must already be acquainted with the
fact that the salaries paid to teachers fall
below the level of pay granted to ordinary
laborers whose school careers ended at the
age of fourteen. The truth of this statement
can be proved by glance at the salary
schedule, which grants remuneration OF
$50 week for primary teachers and about
$22 week for grammar-grade teachers,
provided. of course, that the teacher Is re-
ceivng the maximum pay given after ten
years of service. If she is a newcomer In
the ranks her pay falls far below this figure.
Many of our good citizens remain in bliss
full ignorance of the fact that n large num-
ber of teachers are driven by necessity to
work at night, Saturdays and during the
summer. a season held in horror by the
teacher because she receives no pay from
June 26 to October 10, stretch of three
and half months. during which the usual
bills for rent, food, etc, fall due. Yet the
teacher Is expected to live in good surround
ings to dress well. to acquire culture through
the various expensive avenues-the drama,
the OPERA the university and travel at home
and abroad.
Will the prosperous citizens who are truly
devoted to the civic welfare bestow some
time and thought upon the pressing problem
of new salary schedule for the teachers
of the public schools? T.. @.
Philadelphia, June "a.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
COUNTING UP TO FIFTY

A RNoLD BENNETT, in his cabled
n article on the League of Nations.
which was printed in the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER yesterday, pointed out two i'm
portant reasons why we may believe that
a properly co-ordinated association Of free
nations will be effective in preventing
future wars.
The first is publicity. In the past,
diplomacy has been failure in preventing
wars because it was largely a secret tissue
of clandestine understandings and pur-
poses, upon which public opinion could
not possibly be brought TO bear. Did the
peaceloving peoples of Austria Hungary
realize before this war that their rulers had
.commtted them irretrievably to follow in
the path of the Potsdam juggernaut.
whithersoever that ftuaoen
might lead them? OF course they did not.
That was secret diplomacy.
The second virtue of the League of
Nations is delay. This war was exploded
upon humanity by means of short-fuse
uitimatums In an international confer
ence, as Mr.. Bennett says. per:lous fevers
exe eursd ~ msrp tediums By the time
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
THE OLD STOCK

Reuben Watson. Abner Jones. Eliphaet Thomas
town-Country Newspaper.
WATCH out for the chap with Bible
w name that comes from Dedham, Mass
Thompson. Uriah.
johnson, Josiah
Watch out for the boy with the Bible name
from Peavine, Arkansaw.
Ezekiel. Josh,
And Jared. b'gosh!
He will bite his name in the crust Of he'll
and thinks it's garden sass
Reuben. Abijah, e. .t... 6l
Peeg, Elijah 3
He can yank the hind legs off of mule
and eat the damned thing raw.
The red-necked deacon named tie lad right
out of the Holy Writ
CWatson. Nehemiah)-
The country parson lessoned his son to turn
the other cheek
(Jones, Hezekiah)-
But the Hun that he smtes with his freclled
fists will know he has been smit-
Hey, OBADIAH
And something solid is going to bust when
he gets through being meek.
If the Kaiser listens, of these days he
is going to get some news.
From Smiths son, Tubal.
And Boggs boy, Jubal;
Watch out for the hick with the Scripture
name when he goes forth to war
Enoch and Seth,
Nathan and Heth.-
He will kick the innards out of bull ana
wear the hide for shoes,
Blodgett. Abhu,
Saunders, Elhu-
He will bite his name in the crust of heli
and pass his plate for more.
Gettysburg and Marston Moor, Naseby.
Bunker HUl
He squared his God ,cith a nasal psalm, and
then sailed in to kill!
Deal L.II
comes the Jones's Zeke,
And the skull that he hits tohen the praving's
good totll split from oroOn to cheeki
Don Marquis In the New York Evening Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
NOT ADJOURNED IN INDIANA EITHER

yTTE NOTED the other day that politics
w was not adjourned by the Democrats
in Michigan. The platform adopted by the
Indiana Democrats-and written in Wash
ington-indicates that the Hoosiers are
also preparing to play the game as usual.
Their platform urges the people to con-
slider the election of Senators and Repre-
sentatives "in complete harmony with the
President primarily upon the policies of the
war, but equally in accord with him in
questions of vital domestic con"srn.' They
object ito divided counsels at this i'm
portant juncture"
The logic of this is that the Democrats
have done everything worth while in the
prosecution of the war, and that only
Democrats can continue the work, because
Democrat happens to be in the White
House. The nation however, reselts the
assumption that this is a Democratic war.
xxhe Republicans in Congress have sup
-ported the President with a loyalty that
deserves the highest commendation. They
have also supported the war with a greater
Intelligence and foresight than has been
shown by many of their colleagues. Their
criticism has been constructive, and many
of the abuses which they have ointed out
have been removed. 1t is evidence of the
narrowest kind of partisanship to demand
now that only Democrats should be elected
to Congress. What the nation needs is its
best brains in Washington, regardless of
whether they are in the skulls of Demo-
Gratis or Republicans
We are all going to stand by the Presi-
dent, but we are going to win the war.
The demand will be made, as the con-
gressional campaign progresses, that We
elect to Congress men who will not only co.
operate with the Administration in the nom
partisan work OF the war, but who will
study the problems of peace in the light of
sound American precedent and practice
based on an intelligent understanding of
the fundamentals of economics and the
proper functions of government. There IL
the widest divergence of opinion on these
peace problems between the Republicans
and the Democrats. But the Democrats
have apparently set out to win a victory
on the war issue that they may have their
way on the others.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
WHAT Is THAT DEMOCRACY FOR
WHICH THE WORLD MUST
BE MADE SAFE?

floyd GEORGE has taken President
IL Wilson's phrase about making the
world safe for democracy and elaborated it.
He says that the world has got TO be
everybody's world after the war, not the
world Of any one class. "Out Of this
agony Of the uorld 'et as sec that no
dcformity is born--no militarisn,, no mann
monism: no, nor no anarchy either" He
asserts that the future must be a demo-
cratic one, and that the British empire is
committed to democracy, that the rich
and the poor and those of the middle
classes have fought together, and that
when peace comes they must all have a
fair share in it. Therefore, we should
begin now to prepare for peace that we
may not find ourselves unprepared as we
were when war came.
Englishmen will read between the lines
of these significant statements and dis
cover the purpose of the British Premier
to hold out the olive branch to the great
labor party which has already adopted a
peace program.
We in America must take heed of the
signs of the times and not be found want
ing. The world will not be the same world
after the peace treaties are signed. War
has upset the relations of labor and
capital. 1t has expanded the activities of
the Government. 1t has destroyed private
initiative in many industries and substi-
tuted for it orders from Washington There
will be men who will demand that we shall
emerge from the hell of war into an era
of state socialism, which is as far from
representative democracy as Russia is
from a conception of what popular gov.
ernment means.
Lloyd George has sounded the waSning
in England in order that the nation may
be ready for its problems. We cannot be.
gin too soon in America to give serious
thought to the question.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
Keep Up the Fight for Repeal of the Postal
Rate Lawi

Conceding that the newspapers are an alb
solutely essential arm of the national service
In this war criss-that the Government must
rely upon them to afford that contact with
the people which assures national unity of
purpose and effort-that in hamperinR them
the Congress would be directly hampering
the Government in the prosecution OF the
war. can anybody defend the new postal
rate law?
The law, which becomes operative July !,
was hurried through the Congress as a part
of the first great war revenue bill--in which
even many of it's defenders conceded that It
had no proper place. 1t was passed under
the prSssure which demanded immediate ac-
ton on the revenue bill as whole. Pub
fishers were assured by no less an authority
than Senator Simmons, chairman of the Sem
ate Finance Committee, that there would be
ample opportunity to reconsider 1t and to
either repeal or amend IL before the date set
for its operation.
Recently the argument has been advanced
that the new law should at least be tried
out. in order that its merits may be tested.
before further postal legislation is attempted.
So 1t is to become operative.
The Government Is placed by the Congress
in the position of limiting its cooperation
with the newspapers Of imposing burdens
upon them which they are In no position TO
assume in wartimes. while at the same time
asking of the newspapers the. largest possible
measure of service and cooperation.
The postoffice, created a service institu-
tion, is now expected to yield a profit 1t
would be quite as reasonable to expect the
Agricultural Department to earn cash divi-
dends. Canada, as war policy, has reduced
the second-class postage rates to one-half a
cent a pound, fiat. We. a war measure,
are increasing these rates from so to 800 per
cent, and adding intellectually to the admin
istrative expenses of the publishers and the
postoffice
Publishers subject to all the taxation
burdens that other business men carry II
they were profiteers--if they were conducting
business of questionable usefulness in the
present crisis--special taxation might be
justified. But they are serving the nation
with the same loyalty that the men in the
armed services exhibit-and their service
links UP with that of the boys at the fighting
fronts. II they are to serve fully they must
not be hampered and hamstrung as though
they were public enemies.
The fight for the repeal of this unwse
law must be pushed to a successful Issue
in he national interests New York Editor
and publisher
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25

problem has been discussed by group
of sincere statesmen willing to reach an
agreement temper and excitement have
evaporated. 1t is the old injunction Of our
mothers, telling us to count up to fifty
before replying in anger.
The complex problems of the constitu.
tion of such international committee will
have to be solved. The League of Nations
is the only possible issue of this war. The
plan had all been thought out years ago,
but unfortunately 1t had not been provided
that recourse to The Hague must be COM
pulsory. In order to make that possible,
the league must, of course, have force at
tits disposal That force 1t now has: the
armies of the allied democracies. To all
practical intents the league already exists.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
TWO YEARS FOR AuERBACH

JUDGE BONNlWELL was clement when
Il he sentenced Emanuel Auerbach, the
policeman convicted of assaultng Fifth
Ward restaurant keeper because he would
not refuse to testify in the Fifth Ward
election cases. Two years is short enough
term for an officer of the peace guilty of
such an offense. The judge overruled the
motion for a new trial Which was also
proper. The man ought to begin serving
out his sentence at once.
The guilty officer is no longer on the
police payroll. But other men charged
with offenses in the Fifth Ward case are
still wearing their uniforms and drawing
their salary And there seemI to be no
disposition to subject them to any incon-
venience.