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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT --- PRICES
 BY U. FOOD ADMINISTRATION FOR GAsrINEAU CHANNEL .

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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
MUCH MARRYING OF ,st ENGLISH GIRLS BY
 sF THE COLONISTS

II, SYDNEY, New South Wales March 22.-The Agent-General of Me New South Wales Government Hl London has telegraphed to the Premier that Australians are mar Tying English and Scottish girls at the rate of 800 monthly. He ex- poets that the rate of marriages will continue or increase, and requests that the government grant free pas sage to these wives when they are ready to go to Australia with their Husbands. The government will do this.
 It is said that the Australian sol diers are peculiarly susceptible to the Scotch girls.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
MOCH PROSPERITY
 IS ENJOYED BY A
 THE PHILIPPINES

M0NIALA. March 21.--The Philip pine Islands have enjoyed during the past twelve months the greatest prosperity in their history. War conditions, prices and demands are directly responsible. In the past two years, the balance of trade in favor of the Islands has been $5O,- 000,000. 65 per cent. of which is to be accounted for in the unprecedent- ed prosperity of 1917.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
LIBERTY BELL TO
 1s BE USED TO HELP a' THIRD LIBERTY LOAN

=, PHILADELPHIA, March 23. A resolution authorizing the use of the Liberty Bell in connection with the Third Liberty Loan, was introduced by the City Council today.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23

Income tax returns may be made to the local Customs office until March 27th. After that date they will have to be sent to Tacoma. The time for making income returns has been extended in Alaska until April 1st.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23

WASH.: Representative McFad- den of Pennsylvania has introduced bill allowing excess profits and income taxes to be paid in install ments on June 15, Aug. IS, and Dec 15, 1918.
 NEW YORK: Washington spe- cial says that as soon as standard ization committee decides with Di- rector of Transportation Gray on the best type of steel freight car the United States will place an or der for not less than 50,000 and possibly 75,OOO cars.
 NETWORK: Samuel Untermyer says interposition of Japan in Rus sia at this time, either alone or in conjunction with the United States or our allies, against protest of exa isting government, such as it is, or without its express assent, would be mistake and misfortune of first order to allied cause. It would tend to greatly prolong the war and might in the end precipitate the United States into war with Russia
 NEW YORK: Detroit special says the Ford Motor Co., is to pro- duce light tanks" for use of the United States and the. Allies on wholesale scale. The first model is said to be we'll under construc- tion and upon it's acceptance by government manufacture will be pushed with all possible speed. It is epected that when Ford blast furnaces on River Rouge and at submarine chaser plant adjoining are running full blast the Ford pay roll will number 50,OO0
 LONDON: Statement of former German vicechancellor that German debt is now about $30.000.OOO 900 recalls London Times correspondents s interview with president of the Reichsbank in January, 1917, who said that Germany could not stand a debt more than $25, 900. to which he added, but Germany will never reach that point" | LONDON: In new terms imposed upon Russia by Germany, former is required to give up region through which Trans-Caucassian railroad runs. Thus, with Batoum- Baku region passing from Russia to Fur key and Dobrudja passing from Rumania to Bulgaria, the central powers would control new route to India, Persia and the provinces in central Asia, regardless of whether they controlled the Ragdad Railway route.
 LONDON: The treaty which Ie- nine and Trotzky agreed to would give Germany by actual possession. or Russian evacuation, the whole edge of the old Russian empire from the Arctic Ocean through Finland to the Black Sea, and through the Ifans-Caucasus and the Russian sphere In northern Persia and any husslah interest in Afghanistan al- most to borders of India. At sea if gives Germany right to impose reg uiations that would absolutely con trol Russian shipping trade. The hussiah navy is to be left disarmei ana defenseless, but German sub marines are to continue their war rare on all commerce in the Arctic ocean. Economic terms by which the Kaiser would rule Russian in- ternal affairs after the war are al so to be arranged. Count Czernin announces he will crush Rumania II It refuses Austro-German terms ana Will "rectify frontiers" in any case.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23

THE EMPIRh PRINTING COM PANY has the best equipped com mercial printing office in Alaska; in cludes 13 linotype faces, the latest styles in types, the only exclusively book and commercial cylinder print. ing press in the Territory; modern in every particular; only one quality of printing-1HE eEsT-Prices reas- ouable. HH 8
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
INCOME TAX PRIMER FOR
 BUSY PEOPLE

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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23

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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23

Fresh ranch eggs at the Arcade.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
ANNOUNCES SUCCESS

ofVIENNA, March 23-The War Of. flee announces great success to the German troops in the West.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
TOBACCO FUND
 FOR OUR BOYS

On March 4th the total for Our Boys in France" Tobacco Fund re- ceived by The Empire was $753 80. Since then has been reported the fol- lowing:
 Miss l.. M. Brady ......-........... LOO Total March 23 .......-....S S756 80 Private boxes and banquet rooms or parties. Alaska Grill. ***
 --$-e--
 For the best fresh killed chicken, 20 to the Arcade.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23

., TELEPHONE NUMBER. u,The telephone number of the Gift Shop is 258
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-23
LATE CABLE NEWS

WASH: Representative McFad- den of Pennsylvania has introduced bill allowing excess profits and income taxes to be paid in install ments on June 15, Aug. IS, and Dec 15, 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
WAITING FOR WHISKY SPECIAL

groes are usually the most numerous patrons of the automobile. Perhaps it is case of 'easy come, easy go.''
 Sometime ago the whisky was car ried almost altogether in suit cases. and and there was some effort at con cealment, but that day has gone. Few of the patrons of the booze specials carry less than a dozen bottles trip. and the packages are mostly wrapped just as they came from the dealer.
 It is queer crowd-negroes. men and women, boys and girls, mostly shabbily dressed. And at the present prices of whisky their loads ~epre- the majority of them ever owned at one time. And they pay cash for the stuff, too. But some are clad in costly raiment especially the women.
 The white men and the white women among the whisky 'toters' are rather numerous in the business, but there are not many white women or white boys and girls. But the negro boys and girls are numerous.
 Of course. Washington being dry. all the stuff carried on these trains is supposed to be for personal use. But it is hard to imagine any negro or white man, for that matter. being able to consume a dozen bottles of whis- ky in day or two and still have such a thirst that he has to come back to Baltimore for another couple dozen ! bottles. Some of these whisky "to- ters" make a trip day every day in , the week. or nearly every day, yet no one ever hears of any of them being arrested or held up in Washington There seems to be no more conceal- ment at that end of the line than there , is at this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
Higher Live Stock
 Standards Urged

THE breeding of live stock in Ala H bama is receiving more atten- tion now than in past years and this fact is steadily adding wealth to the state.
 More cattle and swine and higher standards are imperative, says a prominent packing concern, and inn proved breeds and better animal hus- bandry are urged today as never be- fore.
 As well known authority points out, "Each year sees a greater ad- vance in American farm valuesx and as land becomes worth more it's pro- ducing power must increase if farmers and live stock breeders are to make adequate profits" It is plain that better breeding offers the soundest solution of the problem. Corn costs the same whether it is fed to high | grade animal or scrub" is something
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
.COBLENZ ON THE RHINE

logne has, or university, as Bonn, or Roman churches and antiquities, as Mainz. It has, though, famous prom enade along the Rhine bank flanked by an imposing array of hotels restaurants and cafes These have remained open and flourishing during the war, and the Cob lenzer, looking across the river to the strong defences of Ehrenbreitstein and Asterstein. could dream himself into a feeling of perfect security for the father land. Coblenz is out of the Munich and Wurzburger zone. The people are no judges of the products of these Bavarian cities. But they know the products of the Rhina and the Moselle valley vine- yards. The good wine of these valleys flows in ceaseless streams into Coblenz to be bottled doctored ad sparkled. A good share of it is sent out to the world; there is too much of it even for Cob- lenz, it's tourists, it's visitors and it's great companies of officers. to consume In fact, Coblenz is gay under either nor- nal or abnormal circumstances. A French traveller, if memory serves corr rectly it was the eIt1er Dumas, said that Coblenz had more pretty girls and women than any Rhine town he visited.
 Of course, all this will not in tfie least concern our American soldiers. They are there strictly and purely on business. They will find much besides to interest them; there are as many Hohen3ollern statutes in Coblenz as in BerlinECob- lenz has even statue of Emprebs Au- gusta-a number of interesting churches and museums and if the soldiersd climb up the slope of Ehrenbreitstein thiey will find hotel at which the tablet on the, front says the great Goethe stoppeds There are good schools there too--the. English used to send their girls there to be educated; in fact, there are many opportunities in Coblenz for improving the mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31

From the New York Sun.
 TIN COBLENz the American troops
 have for their occupancy the most
 ~ picturesquely situated town of all
 those which. came under the control of
 the allies through the terms of the armi-
 stice.
 In reaching the Rhine, but few months ago considered military goal to be obtained only after hard fight ing, the Americans came from Treves
 by the route of pleasurable tourist travel down the Moselle valley, more interested in the ruins of robber barons' castles and in marking the resemblance to the Hudson than in the possibility of an attack from foe at any of the points of defense on the way. Their reception at Coblenz was friendly. A German officer wearing a bright, pol ished spike helmet" met them at the station, and the Germans, said a cor respondent, "even scrubbed the hunks in the five fortresses so that everything might be in readiness for the doughboys to sleep" Coblenz at the height of it's tourist season could not have done better than this.
 Coblenz has been welcoming tourists so long that it was second nature to welcome the Americans. That was one of the principal occupations of the Coblenzer. As result he is more or Hess polyglot. The soldiers will have no difficulty in finding some one to speak English. Again, the Coblenzer is considerable of a racial mixture; about as much French, Flemish, Franconihn or Low Dutch as he is Ger man. The Coblenzer has. too. repu- tation for improvidenoe. which may sac- count for that squandering of all his food supply and the big eating spree in which, according to the correspond ents, he is at present riotously indulg- l ing.
 | Coblenz has no great cathedral as Co.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31

From the Baltimore Sun.
 NNT HEN the whisky special,
 wv leaves Baltimore several '.a.
 times every week day laden with spirituous refreshments for tht bibulous of Washington, there is al- ways the same scene of excitement commonplace to the people or the neighborhood, but full of interest to casual visitors in that locality. Ihe long line of ears on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric rail way backs down Pratt street to Eutaw. and there is an immediate scramble for them-men and women, mostly ne- groes, but with a goodly percentage or whites among them, who make a wiid dash for the cars. wrestling with their packages and suit cases full of booze, all anxious to get seats and safe places for their precious packages of liquid joy.
 Clothing is disarranged, hats knock ed off and occasionally a bottle IS smashed in the struggle. but not often; for bottles are protected even at the cost of bodily injury. They are too precious and bring too good price in Washington.
 Ordinarily these whisky specials" run on a regular schedule every two hours from 10 in the morning until in the evening. and sometimes even later, but of late they have been run ming any old time the company can find cars for them. The booze carriers sit on the piles of lumber and old bricks like "patience on a monument" wait ing for the train that may come at any moment, moving, about occasionally and munching peanuts which they buy at prices which must be on a par with what whisky is bringing in Wash ington.
 Occasionally an automobile which has failed to get other passengers pulls up to the curb and the driver calls out: Direct to Washington, anywhere you want/to go." The machine fills up with passengers at $5 each, and off they go
 to come back the following day for another load. singularly enough ne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
LUKE NpLUKE SAYS.

There isn't as much oratory in Congress today as there was 50 years ago. But there is more talk.
 Our idea of an optinist is soldier who can realize how lonesome he would be if it wasn't for the cooties. A princess is a person who knows | more than her mother about everything in the world but the housework. If Juliet lived today she wouldn't waste any time on a Romeo who spen. his evenings singing under her window | She would dig up a live one who owned 1 a machine and would take her out joy | riding.
 l Many fellow that bragged that he
 would rather fight than eat got married | and got his wish.
 l We do not know much. But we do know that man doesn't wear wrist watch so he will know when he has held girls hand long enough.
 There is no harm in telling another 1 man just what you think of him as long
 as you pick out man who is smaller than you are
 the face of the man who has been mar l red 15 years when he hears the man who has been married 15 days braggins
 abouA the joys of married life. ] A girl sees no harm in marrying 8 man | who is pretty well on in years as long as he is pretty well off financially. A man wouldn't suffer all day just to
 be in style. But it is different with 2 woman.
 You may not realize it. But most people dislike to receive charity just as much as you dislike to give it.
 i This is queer world in which the man l with wooden head thinks it is up to him to laugh at the man who has g wooden leg.
 We see that the knockers have started in on the Young Mems Christian asso I citation. Well, it was to be expected Can you remember the knocking Clara Barton got when she organized the Rec Cross? Every big organization that triei
 to handle thousands of men and mil
 lions of dollars is bound to make som,
 mistakes. But in the case of the Ret
 Cross and the Young Mems Christian
 association if you deduct the mistake Ifrom the amount of good done. humanit. ,has been benefited at least % per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
k * < Won Ludendorff Escaped But Lost His Mustache.

1EURTHER details of the inglorious 4 flight of Won Ludendorff come from Stockholm. Thee authentic story" is told in Berlin. The great war lord was hiding in little board ing house in the city two days before the revolution started. He wore civil ian clothes. A certain nobleman, who had opposed Von Ludendorff's policy, learned where the former dic- tator was and decided that ne must he saved. He got passport by giv- ing a false name and drove to the boarding house, but Von Ludendorff refused to leave. The nobleman made another attempt the following day, but his motor car was stopped by a picket of the workmen's and soldiers council and the passport had to be thrown away.
 Reaching the boarding house it is said the nobleman sent his orderly in to Won Ludendorff with sombrero and razor. He was instructed to shave off the generals mustache, put the hat on his head and bring him down at all costs. The instructions were carried out and Won Ludendorff es- capped, but how he contrived to get across the German border without passport and where he went is still kept secret.
 In such ignoble fashion did the Kaiser's great military chieftain, the man who was expected to dominate the world for his royal master, flee from the fatherland. He has lost not only his mustache, but his prestige and everything a war lord esteems worth living for. Von Tirpitz is also hiding somewhere in neutral coun- try, having sacrificed his patriarchal beard to avoid discovery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
This Weeks Drive
 For the Red Cross

IF the Red Cross membership cam 0 paign were to close today the re- suit in Jefferson county would doubt less match the enrolment cf last year. But the drive will continue until Jan uary 4, and by that time the -county's quota should be far over the top.
 Birmingham has made a splendid in its various patriotic en- deavcrs. It has passed the goal every time. In many money-raising cam paigns it has gone far beyond expecta- tions.
 In this membership canvass for the Red Cross, money is not the primary ot ,cct; rather sympathetic support of a great cause.
 With spirited team work throughout the week a notable achievement will be recorded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
HEROES IN POLITICS.
he Chicago News

From the Chicago News.
 Well meaning patriots who want Gener- al Pershing to run for President forget that American sentiment toward military heroes has changed since the days when might was worshiped. The nation is always grateful to it's capable warriors for their accomplishments. but prefers to keep them out of positions in which they are not likely to function well. We wish not only to conserve the military repu- tations of our chieftains. but to keep our civil business in the hands of trained civil administrators.
 General Fershing might make a capable president and President Wilson might make d capable general, but there is no more reason for electing the one to office than there would be in placing the other without preliminary training, in command of an army in the field. Besides, we must remember the Dewey faux pas, which the admirable and lovable admiral re Quired years to live down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
THE WAY OF THE WHITE SOULS,
Gro the Memory of Joyce Kimer Killed

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
Encouraging Outlook
 For Peace Conference

ID ECENT dispatches from abroad IN indicate that President Wilson succeeded in clearing away much of the misunderstanding in allied cap itals regarding his policies, particu- larly the famous fourteen points,
 No one knew better than the Pres. ident what varying shades of opinion would have to be met and how many diverse claims would have to be ad- justed before there could be any as- surance of a harmonious session of the peace conference and any guar |antee that the objects for which America entered the war would be achieved.
 By personal contact. with leaders of Great Britain and France and repre- |sentatives of other nations who have conferred with him since he has been abroad, President Wilson, we are told by practically all the correspondents, has smoothed out most of the "wrin- kles" in advance of the peace con- ference. There are no longer any fears depressed of disagreements between Great Britain and the United States. On the contrary the bonds uniting the two nations have been strengthened by the Presidents visit to London and the frank exposition of his ideas. he has laid before British statesmen. There may still be some differences of opinion in France and Italy, but nothingi that could be construed as impairing the four major powers unity of purpose.
 When Russia and the smaller na- tions who fought with the allies are considered the situation becomes more complicated, but one salient fact stands out clearly and in this lies the hope of the world for permanent peace and league of nations. The terms will be dictated by America, Great Britain, France and Italy. These foui powers hold the future in theil hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
Review of England's
 Part in the War

1T LOYD GEORGES speech at @ Leeds, in which he reviewed Great Britain's part in the war and gave an account of his stewardship as prime minister, was marked by terse- ness of expression and extreme mod |esty.
 When the Asquith government fell two years ago Lloyd George was the logical man to form new admins itration, but leader of less courage and less vision would have shrunk from the responsibility. The situation was gloomy indeed. Germany seemed all but to have won the war. The submarine pest was growing more baffling every day. Lloyd Georges government first turned it's attention to this effective agency of destruction which was so skillfully employed by the enemy. The subna-
 rines ceased their activities and in time the U-boat was driven from the seas. i Lloyd George tells of England's
 desperation when the Huns were re-
 doubling their efforts on the west. Tern front. On March 21 came great
 crisis. The prime minister sent a Icable message to President Wilson telling him what the facts. were and
 how essential it was that the allies
 should get American help as speedily las possible.
 1 The President was invited to seno Iinfantrymen and machine gunners al |the rate of 12o,ooo month. The fol
 lowing day came the cheering message
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31

with which every farmer is familiar, but it makes great difference when marketing time comes. And yet many a stock grower fails to act accord ingly.
 The progressive farmer who is all the while improving his breed is the farmer who makes his industry and his knowledge pay. The world is fac ing meat famine, we are told, and in view of the situation better breed ing is all the more urgent.
 A campaign of education is in or- der. to the end that live stock hus- , andry may be brought to the highest level of economy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-31
pr. Dickinson In City.

T ran up for the holidays" said pr. A. J. Dickinson, who is doing army Young Mems Christian association york; being stationed at Camp Sheridan.
 T have greatly enjoyed the experi- ences I have had with the boys in khaki. It gives one a splendid opportunity to dc some real teaching and personal work I had been in the pastorate so long that the change came in the nature Of rest and I have been able to serve with joy and enthusiasm. The entrance or America into the war got me and my two boys. Alfred and Charles. Aired is still overseas with his regiment as he is chaplain in the regular army. Charles las been mustered out and is back on his old job.