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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Luke Mcluke Says

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 The hot weather brings the solemn thought that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should protect the poor men folks by prohibiting girls with legs like .ce picks from wearing See Every thing skirts.
 And if a woman ever did get an Ideal Husband she would be kicking because he didn't go out and act ornery once in while like other wOmen's husbands.
 No, Geraldine, when a man goes to a theatre to see the Diving girls, he doesn't go to see them dive.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned girl who used to wear white shoes on Sunday?
 We don't know what happened to their corset covers and their bras siers. But the idea this Summer seems to be to wear just enough on the chest to keep from being arrest ed.
 And you can bet your sox that a woman won't marry a man to re- form him if she can possibly snare l man who doesn't need reforming About the time the Honeymoon ends, both He and She begins to realize what it means to be disap-
 A-S pointed in Love.
 A man feels badly rattled when he faces his wife after he has been out for rattling good time
 Talking about your mysteries, what becomes of a fat woman's-er .er-embonpoint when she gets into straight front corset?
 Of course a lot of old danes will
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

E. J. White, editor and proprietor of the Douglas Island News a pioneer newspaper man and recently nominated to the Legislature from the First Division has been appointed publicity agent for the Territory by Governor Riggs The choice is a most worthy one as Mr. White is of the best known and most capable men in the First Division, and has been resident the Territory for many, many years.-Val Miner)
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

minister of the gospel declares that profanity is meaningless and cites example the expression Ia hell of time. (which is used often to describe joyous experience as to describe trying ohe By the great deal of lying could be avoided if it were made conventional to say to the hostess. upon leaving the party: l had a hell of a time-(Louis- vile Courer-Journal)
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Setting drafted men who sincere in their conscientious objections to to work the farms conserves their labor for form of service. Somebody. of course must do this work of second line defense. As to the difference in the army and raising food to support the army that is question for the conscience of the conscientious objectorNew York World.l
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Some idea of what is being done by this country in the shipbuding line is afforded by MT. Schwahs statement that we now have ,O00 engaged in that industry for the Government, and equal number building accessories.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
BITS OF BY PLAY By Luke kcLuke
 * Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer
The Conscrints

The conscripts Where do we go from here?" they sing, The while they wear a cheerful grin, You're going all the way, by jing! You're going straight through to Berlin
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Flaw, HaN! "A horse ran away with me-" said the little man, land I didn't get out for two months"
 That's nothing" said the big man II ran away with a horse, and didn't get out for two years"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

There are 14S,S6S officers and in the Avia- ton Corps of the United States Army, of whom A. O54 are flyers. Every flyer has the intention of be- coming by bringing down five Boche planes. A fne airy time ahead of you, Mr. Hun!
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Austrian Revolts Grow in Violence-Headline
 Queting discomfort at home would seem to be more usefui Germah propaganda than fomenting 1t among the enemy by means of silly slanders-1New York World.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

In New York they have opened a shop where old silver is taken ken in exchange for thrift stamps, which seems to sove the problem of what to do with duplicate wedding gifts and cigarette coses-(St Louis Republic)
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

At, Elm, Boys The first engagement made you squeal, To charge our trenches is no fun; You tasted some of Sammy's steel, And you'll taste more you filthy Hun
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Sufferin' MackereI!

We are in an awful fix. The Dayton, Ohio, branch of the Club has made Elogios Louis, of that city, member, and there's no way to get him out.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Poor Old Tom!

Poor Old Tom!
 D. J. R. has been delving into Tom Hood and has discovered the old duelling story. Tom claimed that when two men go to fight duel each takes along a friend so that
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

in case both the duelllsts Nre killed they will have two seconds to live
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Koop Holdum lives in Puyallup, Wash
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
But Why?
Names Is Names

Thank Jones lives in Berstedt, Ky
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Our Joe Miller Contest


 Jim Marque claims that the oldest joke is the one about the man who lived in wet State and had to make trip to dry State. A Friend met him at the depot when he ar rived at his destination, and the traveller seemed mad about some thing. What is the trouble?" asked the friend. Why" said the traveller, "doggone the blinkety-blan luck, lost my baggage on the train!" "Oh, we'll" said the friend. maybe we can find it." Find it, h-l,". said the traveller. "The cork came out"
 Our Daily Special
 It Takes A Strong Man To Keep His Face Closed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Mean Brute

Mean Brute Did you know that a cat never lives more than 15 years?" asked MT. Naybor
 Where did you get that stuff?" demanded Mr Gabb. Tt says so in this book" replied MT. Naybro That's all tommyrot," growled MT. Gabb. My wife is going on forty-five."
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Right Collur lives at Jonesville, Va
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Cheer Upp!

Cheer Upp! "Of course you hate to sweat" said Mix, "It ruins your attire; But you'd be in a helva fix If you could not perspire."
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

 demanded MT. Gabb. Tt says so in this book" replied MT. Naybro. That's all tommyrot," growled MT. Gabb My wife is going on forty-five."
 Ouch! "An aviator you should be" The Manager told Shortstop Guys; You have experience, you see, You're always going out on flies" Perfectly Useless Information You cant break a sharks egg. It has no shell. There are no Prohibitionists in San Domingo. There are 1894 hairs in a horses tail.
 Greens will not grow in Green land
 A goat never gets tuberculosis. There are limits even to the nerve of a tuberculosis germ. Attawuzbuk wore an artificial leg Egypt in 700 B. c. 5.40O duck eggs were laid in ice land in 1917. A goose can eat 454 grains of corn in two hours.
 Firms Is Firms The Lemen-Rhein Company is do ing business at 500 Mesa Avenue, Fl Paso, Texas.
 The Laundryman "The laundryman's a freak" said
 Jim.
 "A puzzing case is his; For the more cuffs that you give him, The happier he is."
 -Nuke McLuke.) The reason he's a callous gink. Is just because when pinned Right down to facts you'll find,
 think,
 He's three sheets in the wind.
 -(Newark Advocate.) Those three sheets in the wind are
 not
 Enough to make him blow; He only laughs and grins the more You sock" it to him, bo -(Memphis Commercial Appeal.) The laundry mans selfish cuss, Of proof there is no lack He'll often take, without fuss, The shirt that's on your back
 -(Detroit Free Press.) Oh, Chick, Chick, Chick, Oh, Chick.
 Chick, Chick. The inexhaustible Billy Bates wires from White Salmon, Washington, to inform us that Adelaide N. Eggertew
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Supportinq Her

Supporting Her
 How do you know that you can support my daughter" asked the Father. How do I know!" exclaimed the suitor Hasn't she been sitting on my knees every evening for the last three months?'
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
A Bad Scrape

A Bad Scrape My wife got. me into a bad scrape this morning" said Jones. That so?" asked Brown. "How did that happen?'
 "I started to shave before I dis covered that she had been using my razor to peel potatoes" replied Jones'
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Ouch! "An aviator you should be-" The Manager told Shortstop Guys You have experience, you see, You're always going out on flies''
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

A Serious Question This might be witty, But it ain't Pray, why do pretty Women paint?
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

By drawing the line sharply between ceptabe as fighters and acceptable noncom: batans Secretary Baker has doubt cooled the arr dor of many of those who participated in the bom- bardment of which he speaks
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

Oh, Chick, Chick, Chick, Oh, Chick.
 Chick, Chick.
 The inexhaustible Billy Bates wires from White Salmon, Washington, to inform us that Adelaide N. Eggertew
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18
Firms Is Firms

The Lemen-Rhein Company is do. Fl Paso, Texas.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-18

The laundry mans a selfish cuss, Of proof there is no lack, He'll often take, without a fuss, The shirt that's on your back.
 -DetrOit Free Press.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14

But even when this care is given free II
should not be called philanthropy," DR.. Baker
emphasizes.
The New Citizen is inclined to consider II
national necessity and no more an insult to
the dignity of the individual than cleaning
the street in front of his house, furnishing
pure water for him and maintaining public
schools Why is it any more an acceptance
OF charity to go to free clinic for health than
to free school for knowledge?
The young babies of the poor are looked
after; and the children of school age have
been receiving for years medical supervision in
the schools. But there is period in between
during which the majority Of children are left
under the sole direction of more or less ipno
rant relatives without the advice of experts.
Perhaps that is one reason why 21 per cent
OF the children of the city are undernourished.
The American Red Cross" says DR.. Baker.
has established five canteens in London for
undernourished Children and the number of
the undernourshed now has been brought un
der Z per cent over there / would not for
the world suggest that this work be stoned
IN London in order that we may do it here
but don't see aOhy it cannot be done here tool
Do Your Bit-Have Baby Weighed
"All we need is to have the necessity for
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14

1t is neither the oft imputed feminine hys-
terra" nor is it mania for reform which has
brought about the agitation among clubwomen
for better laws along the lines of child welfare
in New York State 1t is because among other
things, the penal code is the only legal Bae-
deker to locate crimes and misdemeanors. To
cases which our penal code does not cover the
old common law Of England must be applied
This rule holds in the matter of the commits
sion of a capital offence by child, as, for ex-
ample, Paul Chapman, the sixteen-year-old boy
in the death house at Sing Sing. The penal
code does not contemplate any minimizing of
offence by reason of immature minds Murder,
for instance, is murder, whether committed by
an adult with malice prepense and afore-
thought, or by a child seven years of age.
There is exemption for the child of less than
seven.
No person shall be excused from disobedence
to the laws unless he is exempt by the laws
themselves. The written laws Of New York
State provide for the trial of children charged
with offences less than capital in special
court, and for their incarceration in county
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14

world. In our own profession we are accus-
toned to enter an Office, hand card to the
office boy, see the boss, finish our business
and go out.
But this was different world We realized
1t fully when we looked around and entered
INTO conversation with the woman at our left
VINO had been, as she said, "fancy cook in
Garden City. She wore bright pink blouse.
red beads and picture hat
You don't look over strong," she remarked
critically; "about half as big as me, should
say"
This was undeniably true, so we said moth
ing, and she turned to talk with friend Of
hers, who was clad in dotted Swiss muslin
Opposite us was a middle aged woman in
mourning, with chapped and SCARED hands.
near her plump row of little factory girls,
painted, high heeled and pretty, and two
women with shawls on their heads.
We felt conspicuous for the exceeding nlain-
ness of our clothes. High white kid shoes. as
Evelyn had prophesied, were everywhere,
chains glittered and tinkled, hats lowered in
variety of brilliant colors. Hands, ungloved
{and, for the most part, unwashed) were gen
orally broad and strong and freckled, with
wide flat fingers and heavy wrists Our own
looked sadly inadequate
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
WHAT THE LAW ALL OgVS
Protecting the Citizens OF 7o-Mo,roap

jails instead of the state penitentiarv. but we
must look to the old common law for direction
when the act which constitutes murder is COM
mltted by child. 1t says:
"Within the age of seven wears an infant
cannot be punished for capital offence. what
ever circumstances of mischievous discretion
may appear for ex presumptione juris such an
infant cannot have discretion; and against this
presumption no averment shall be admitted
Russell on Crime, page three, saws:
AN infant of eight years old NAV be gutv
of MURDER and shall be hanged for it: and
where an infant between eight and nine wears
old was indicted, and found guilty of burning
two barns and it appeared upon examination
that he had malice, revenge craft and cunning
he had judgment to be hanged, and was exc
cuted accordingly"
The same authority relates the case of a eirl
of thirteen who was burned for the killing of
her mistress.
Wherefore, the preceding principles in old
English cases considered, it would appear that
there has long been need of women in law.
making to temper justice with sympathy and
understanding; and it would appear that with
the great mountain of legislative acts and
amendments which have been passed bv New
York, minus legal protection for children. it is
time to establish state child welfare board
with a woman like DR.. S. Josephine Baker
at its head. 1t is the point on the turnpike for
turning from a long road of indifference to
the prime need of protecting in the broadest
way the citizens of tomorrow
And it might prove we'll worth while to sur
vey the Chdren's Code of Minnesota, with its
provision for punishment of any person who
cruelty Furnishes a child under sixteen wears
DID, and Michigan's law to give to the ''other
mothers the same monthly stipend for the
support of INDECENT children which it grants to
children born in wedlock. 1t is the woman's
hour for action, in order that the charge may
not be made that she has left undone those
things which she ought to have done
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cables ested!

such measures made plain-and the measures
themselves made popular! And in this we have
learned our greatest lesson from TRULY King
"Truby King is at the head of the child well
fare work in New Zeaand-the country with
the lowest child mortality in all the world. He
began with the same methods that we were
using in this country, with this one difference:
he realized that he could not work with the
poor alone.
He went first to the wife of the Governor
General, Lady Plunkett-a woman with small
children OF her own--and gained her interest.
The result was that Lady Punkett and her
friends formed group for the study of child
welfare and prenatal work, under the instruc
tion OF district nurse. After they had start
ed the work among themselves it became the
tashlon. Women of moderate incomes formed
similar classes and contributed their share
financially. And with this support more and
more nurses were engaged and paid until prac-
tlcally every mother and child in New Zealand.
rlch or poor, was properly cared for"
Perhaps patriotism in the present world
crisis does not begin at home-but at least it
should exist ct home
1t is the patriotic duty of every woman IN
the United States who has children under five
years OF age to apply to the Board of Health
Tor the registration cards that are given ont
mere she should then go to hospital clinic
or TO her own physician and have her children
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
NO MOTHERS BABY IS SAFE UNTIL
EVERY MOTHERS BABY is SAFE"
By MARIE DE MONTAlVO

TNllS Is the slogan that Dr. s. Josephine
4 Baker head of the Bureau of Child Uv
gieoe of our city Board of Health. has
CHOSEN for her work in the Federal Childrcn's
Bureau campaign to save 100000 baby lives
Tor the milton during 1918
And by her slogan Dr. Baker wants to en-
phasze the fact that this campaign is not n
drive IN the teuements or among the poor-it
drafting Of children Of all classes under
hYe years old, just as the military draft is for
an cIasscs; only the purpose of the childrons
draft Is not to make them fit to die for their
country hut to make them fit to live for it.
And II viii he useless unless it includes 100
per cont of the children in the country. The
health of children must be pooled lust as their
eaueation if pooled, for the causes of infant
mortality are the same among the prosperous
eesses and those of medium wealth as thev
are among the poor
Remember the scourgc of po}iomvelitis that
Skipped from Third Avenue to Fifth. from the
grocer's child to the child of the millionaire
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
~ BEATRICE WASHBURN

a FEW days ago we came to the con
n cusion that we must do something
definite toward winning the war.
ppr own profession seems very trivial and un-
important at time like this, and our friends,
VINO were only too anxious TO advise. were
divided INTO two classcs-those who believed
IN regular war work, such as rolling bandages
driving cars and working in factories, and
those who believed in continuing your regular
work and giving the proceeds to Liberty bonds
and Thrift Stamps.
but THIS latter course. while it appeared
sound theoretically, presented a disadvantage
lh the fact that our regular salary. after it
mad been stretched to cover rent. food. car
tare and the few clothes that modcsty and the
New York fashions demand left no SURPLUS
Tor so much as single thrift stamp. Indeed.
We have known what it is to lie awake nights
over the problem of unpaid Liberty bonds
and what would happen if the debt descended
to the third and fourth generation
SO we decided to work in the gas mask
factory. thus doing our bit in both senses of
the word That could find work there we
never once doubted. Evelyn was sure that
'hey would receive us with open arms figura-
''iS speaking AFTER ALL she said proudly,
we are ladies and after a fashion, educated"
i suppose ability to use your hands is
more important than either of those qualities
IN making gas masks" reminded her, with
secret sinking of the heart
Ability to use hands has never been
our strong point. But Evelyn interrupted our
thoughts. You can use the typewriter. and
look what you can do to the piano. We gazed
at her coldly. Somehow We had never thought
or the piano as an instrument of manual dex-
terty, but perhaps it is
AT any rate, we were very enthusiastic and
started early the next morning after 7
o'clock breakfast. We debated as to whether
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
In the Herd, but Not of 1t

At intervals an official entered, joEed sepa-
rated women into groups and led them through
a plank door into inner Office He looked
at us with candid, appraising eye We felt
ourself grow hot under this look. It was not
a look we were accustomed to. But no one
else seemed to resent it, and he was apparently
a kind man. smoking enormous cigars and
wearing broad brimmed felt hat
Machine operators, he gave US to under
stand were the most needed. We enved the
large broad hlpped girls who stood up in re-
sponse to this appeal Next came other kinds
OF factory labor, mentioned in terms we had
never heard before and did not understand.
lhen' after two hours waiting we penetrated.
with three other girls, the plank door We
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14

passed three men barricaded behind boards
IKE those used for sheep along the railroad
tracks. BY this time we felt so like sheen
ourselves that they seemed vaguely in keep
ing. A young man with an ingrowing chin
asked us questions. He asked them rapidly
and rudely
you are not factory gir?" Again the
sweeping, appraising look, which we resented
The question was so obvious that he did NOT
even pause for an answer "Have you ever
worked before?"
We nodded
What kind?"
We said Journalism, and he looked so per-
fectly blank that we fastened to elucidate. or
tried to. 1t was hopeless. We might as well
have been speaking foreign language. An
parently were. Something about orr ac-
cent seemed to irritate him
why did you leave your work?"
We tried to explain that ours was the kind
or work that could be left, that it was mat
ter OF assignments and not of time clocks
He interposed
Ever done any liftng?"
We never have, except the typewriter when
there isn't any one around to lift it for us
anu oc0"aioiidlly, DaDy brother. He saw it
in our eye
Weight"
If there had been any use lying about it
we might have been tempted to do so, but
there isn't; it is too obvious. So we pleaded
to scant ninety-eight The look of disap-
proval on his face deepened. if anything can
be said to deepen which is already ingrown.
Give me your hand." This was not. as
might be suspected, an overture of friendship.
We laid it timidly on the table Certainly.
beside the brawny hand of the woman ahead
of us and the square one of the machine
operator behind Us, it looked strangely fragile.
mo USE he said. TOO delicate. ONLY
strong women wanted here. Husky Much
straining and lifting Long hours Nothing
doing"
We stumbled out
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
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we should go disguised as factory girls, and
if so, what to wear
They are really much better dressed than
we are said Evelyn gloomily, $50 we can't.
anyway; and, besides that, factory girl al
ways wears high white kid shoes It is the
unfaillng mark of the profession, and neither
OF us has any"
Judge Not! It's War Time
1t took only fifteen minutes to get to the
factory by subway, and we arrived at the
time when we are usually just beginning to
think of getting up. At side entrance hunr
sign, Employment Bureau" and toward
this we directed our steps, punging through
vast whlrlpools of young men who were there
apparently on the same errand
We found ourselves in long massage
blocked by tall inspector. There was no
mistake about his being an inspector, for he
was marked such by a wide brass badge
clamped upon his lapel, and beneath the lapel
just above his heart, lay a picture of himself
encircled in tin frame.
1t was such quaint fancy that we paused
fascinated. When we have picture taken
of oursef it is all we can do to endure it
IN the same room. And, as Evelyn pointed
out it wasn't as if he were handsome man,
either. He was really very plain; in fact,
one of the plainest we have ever seen
But after we had encountered divers men
wearing the same device we realized that it
was a government regulation and did not nee
essariy indicate personal vanity on the part
of the wearer. We questioned him, and he
did not seem to see us, but with his eyes fixed
on the distant wall and without removing
either the hat from his head or the cigar from
his mouth. he waved his hand in the direction
OF large room which bore every resemblance
to an amplifed schoolroom, the kind one sees
on the stage. 1t very large and crossed
by long wooden benches.
On the benches as far as the eye could
see were women of every age, size, color and
description. Their eyes with one accord swept
New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
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