Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-07-31
The Far North Country Patriotic in
All War Work-NIines and Fisheries
Going at Top Speed and Products
Being Rushed for War,

Going at Top Speed and Products
Being Rushed for War
From Point Barrow and kotzebue
Sound the word comes, We're strong
for the war" There is no such thing
as a halfway measure with "the cheli.
ako" of the far North. Let him once
express his approval of policy and
YOU can be sure he's all for it. Alaska
is bearing her full burden of the war
and hers is no tottering support.
War funds are oversubscribed in
Alaska. Returns from the third lib
erty loan show the Territory is 24e
per cent American. This is the high
est in the twelfth district, Arizona fol-
lowing with POI per cent Of the as
sessed amount.
People in the land of the northern
lights get excited over buying bonds.
They 90 for them enthusiastically, as
if they were tickets for the Fourth
Of July midnight ball game. Al the
town of Ketchikan they crowded to the
banks the first morning of the loan
Five minutes after the windows open
ed the town had filled its quota. Fair
banks, the most remote incorporated
city in the United States, took out
five times its quota in liberty bonds.
Red Cross membership covers so
per cent of the $4,000 whites, and the
war-fund drive daised $147, ,000-over
seven times their estimated share. At
the government coal mines many of
the laborers have pledged generous
monthly contributions to the Neuilly
Hospital.
The North Dimes OH Game.
Mere distance fails to daunt the
aver-active food administration. Alas
ka affixed "less" to as many days as
New York city. Also there has beer
I strong voluntary movement to les
sen the imports of food from the
States. Clubs and organizations have
3ledged themselves to eat no meat but
hat of Alaskan animals. They dine
on moose, carbon and mountain sheep.
War gardens dot the arabic land.
At each Of the native schools smal!
Indians bend over thcir gardens. Their
products and the interest their sue
cess has aroused in the adults will
70 far toward relieveing the problem
If food for the native population. This
has been serious question. A short
age in the fish supply created hard
Sh;ps among the fishermen. Fur
bearing animals have been scarce. and
the prices. of pelts haze decreased, SO
that hunters have had 20 change their
means of livelihood; Through the
schools the Bureau of Education Is
irving to. teach the natives the value
of raising fooctstpffs not only for
themselves but for tie. miners anc
,thers in the vicinity.
In Alaska the war has transferred
energy from certain fields to others
more closely allied with the war. Stag
nation has resulted in some indus.
tries. q tremendous speeding up II
yyhers. Any diversion of labor IN
territory Of so small T. population
very noticeable. The number of men
Drawn into the army will be small
Alaska's quota in the first draft, called
this spring. was only G96. But volun-
teers. like contributions of money
have been numerous.
One young man was eager TO reach
The front. He travelled to New Iorl
1T his own expense-S60O it cost-be
cause he thought his chance of sailing
early was more certain than at
Alaskan post.
Producing at Top Speed.
Alaska principal contribution is in
material resources. The mines and
fisheries work at top speed today.
The salmon industry is expanding
and the clam caneries are increasing
their output. 4 law of 1917 auth
orizes a new territorial fish commits
sion. which will construct fish hatch
cries, protect the natural spawning
grounds, and otherwise increase the
importan Alaskan fish trade.
Copper mines supply the greatest
contribution from the territory in war
materials. The output OF these mines
has greatly increased to supply the
demands of the allies since the out
break of the war. The high price OF
COPPER and the activities in the mines
have attracted men there from the
rold mines. Gold is of supreme i'm
norlarcp now. The country needs 2