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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
STOPPING THE HUN

Reports received yesterday of the great battle for Ypres which ragged throughout the entire day Monday justifes the confidence which has been felt in the ability of the al lies to stop the enemy whenever it became necessary. The stand of the French and British around Ypres against overwhelming odds of the enemy will rank as one of the achievements of the campaign of 1918.
 The days operations confirm the belief that the defense of the allies is conducted in a manner to inAct the greatest possible losses on the enemy and at the same time hold the allied losses down to minimum. The re- tirement of the allied forces is not the retreat of defeated army, but the development of a method of defense calculated to wear down the enemy and husband the resources of the defenders until the time arrives for delivering a blow which will start the Huns back across the borders of France and Belgium.
 The splendid victory of the allied armies Monday does not necessarily imply that they will not yet evacuate the Ypres salient This may be possible, but not before the enemy has launched other and more terrific assaults at the defenders Should the successive as saults prove to be more costly to the allies than the strategic value of the salient justi- hes, it may be expected that another retire ment will be made to new positions capable of strong defense before which thousands of the enemy must die in order to make any impression.
 It is this continuous drain upon the enc mys man power which is bringing the end of the war closer each day. There is limit to the number of men Germany can sacrifice n this offensive, and this is being reached rapidly with only small part of the task ac- complished which has been undertaken. When the limit is reached, Germany must return to the defensive, never again to assume the of fensive on the western front.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
WOLVES RAVACE
 CARIBOU HERDS

According to statement made by Oscar Berglund. of Eagle. while at Juneau recently. the wolves in the upper country are doing great dam age among the caribou herds there. His statement Is as follows:
 "On the caribou range, wherever one sees caribou. he is likely to see wolves in bands of from 50 to 200" Mir. Berglund is of the opinion that a bounty of $50 on wolves would not be too much, if by that method the wolves could be killed off and the caribou permitted to live. Everyone who has lived in that section of the country knows that there would be caribou and to spare were it not for the wolves taking their daily toll by the dozen and by the hun dred. It was in this section that one man saw, through his field glass es, band of some 300 or 400 wolves surround band of about fifty carl bou and kill the whole band"
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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
YANKEES IN ACTION

The battle Tuesday before the American positions near Villers Bretonneux, east of Anlens was the first real engagement in which the Yankee troops have taken part on the northern front, where they were rushed to reinforce the retiring allied soldiers. For this reason the French report that "a heavy attack made upon the American positions was completely repulsed" is significant.
 It is of course, more or less generally known that these bodies of Americans have come almost direct from training camps, eith- CT in France or England. They had by no means completed their course in the art of waging modern warfare. It is even highly possible that none of them had ever been url- der fire before.
 In this, their first engagement they were first subjected to an intense bombardment lasting two hours, after which several battali- ons of German infantry rushed forward to the assault. The Americans, however, were ready for them and met them in hand to hand fighting from which the Huns were the first to run, and in so doing left the ground before the American trenches covered with dead bodies of German soldiers. The reports say that the green American troops acted with galantry and the steadiness of veterans, meet ing the enemy attack unhinchingly and energ- ing victorious. Veteran French or British troops, inured to the shock of German on- slaughts, could not have been more successful
 The American casualties, say reports re- ceived yesterday, were considerable. It may be expected that this list will be larger than any previous one given out by the war de- partment. But as the fighting in this sector is renewed, as it surely will be when the enc my renews his attempt to reach Amiens, it must be expected to receive longer lists of our dead and wounded. For these dead Am erica will mourn, but it will also rejoice in the fact that the conduct of its partially trained sons is such as to prove that they will be equal to any and all emergencies dur ing the future months of bloody fighting.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
FROM
 TOLOVANA MADE

The primary returns from the Tolo- vana have been received and are are follows: Sulzer. 14; Maloney. 2; Dunn. 2; Kilgore. 2: Pennington. 13; Nordale. 13: Sheldon. IA; Steil. 1; Hess. 19; Wickersham, 33; Gaustad, 24: Pratt. 6; Collins. 1s; Colbert. 3S: Grow. 1; Connally. 2; Good, 5; Hillary, 6; McCabe. l.
 The returns from the Log Jam for the different candidates were as fol. lows: Sulzer. IA; Maloney. 4; Wick. ersham. 2; Pratt. 4; Hess. 3; Dunn, s: Kilgore. 5; Pennington. 5; Steil. 4; Collins. !.
 At West Fork there were 13 bal. lots cast, but no returns are avail able as yet. Wickersham has a ma jority of seven from the two places reported.
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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
THE WOODEN SHIP WINS

The wooden carriers came into their own Wednesday when Chairman Hurley announc- ed that 200 wooden vessels of 4,5OO tons each would be constructed as rapidly as possible for Americas big merchant marine now un- der way. This step has been vigorously urged for several months by many Americans who saw the value these ships will be in war time and also in times of peace. It is to be ad- mitted that they will not be of equal value with steel carriers of the same size, but where steel ships cannot be secured they will fill the bill
 When the United States shipping board first announced its program of ship construc- tion it included large number of wooden vessels, but under unforeseen conditions it was for a time necessary to abandon this type of ship, and only now has the board been able to renew its efforts in this line
 There has been some criticism over the proposal to build wooden ships, many critics claiming that money thus expended would be mere waste Most of these criticisms are not we'll founded.
 The statement that these craft do not possess sufficient speed to enable them to es- cape submarines does not hold good as an ar gulnent against such construction, in view of the governments admitted necessity for ob- taining all the carriers the country's yards can turn out.
 There is distinct place in America s war time trade for these craft. They can bring to all Pacific ports and to practically all Atlantic and Gulf coast ports, without danger of submarine attack, raw materials of which the republic and its allies will con- tinue urgently in need.
 In constructing these vessels the govern ment will have the means of tapping the re- sources of the Orient, the Philippines, Aus tralia, and bringing them to Pacific coast ports without such ships ever seeing the bar red zones. A few trips across the Pacific and the cost price of the ships will have been returned to the government
 Wooden ships can satisfactorily serve American trade, coastwise and overseas, in the absence of steel ships so long as the war lasts and may be employed on certain runs for many years after peace is declared. As emergency carriers, they are practical, and as an investment they can hardly fail to be profitable. It is to be regretted that idle wooden shipbulding plants were not put into practical service months ago.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
PEACE NOT YET

The announcement that the pope is to is sue new peace offer in few weeks carries only casual interest for the allied public. The terms upon which Germany and her allies may obtain peace have been laid down with so much clarity and reafirmed by all the al lied nations without even mark of dissen- sion that there is no room for different set clement than the one offered.
 The war is one for human liberty, and this has not yet been attained, and will not be until militaristic Germany is humbled through defeat of crushing nature Ma tions must in the future be able to live with out the menace of war contained in the Prus-
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
ANOTHER YEAR
Scientific American)


 In spite of its late starting, last years campaign for the home production of food was distinct success This year, with no excuse of late starting to be advanced, there is accordingly no reason why we should not throw last years showing completely into the shade.
 Nobody is this year taken by surprise by the demand that he do something, person ally, to increase the nations food supply. There can be no legitimate unpreparedness, either mental or material. The idea of food production by the consumer is now familiar one, and we have had all winter to make up our minds what we are going to do and to gather our resources for the doing. Like wise, many costly mistakes will be avoided. The man who buried many bushels of new potatoes in his back yard, selecting these in preference to the old ones because they were young and strong, will not repeat this per formance. And in general, the reasons why millions of dollars worth of seed that were planted last year failed to come up will be now pretty we'll understood; and this is we'll for we are not this year in position to bury much seed permanently in the earth. w, have, in brief, learned not only what to do, but likewise how to do it.
 Moreover, the possibilities are better formulated this March than they were last April and May. We know now what to try and what not to try; we know far better how to go about the getting of land to plant; and the list of alternative activities for the man SO fixed that he cannot, with profit, dig in the ground, is larger. We are much better able now than ten months ago to make our indi ~1,o sx,l, vidual abilities, circumstances and resources.
 Some of us will grow vegetables. A few of us will be in a position to see to it that would-be gardeners have land on which tt work. Very many of us will keep some chick ems or pig or two-the two important fac tors for small-scale conversion of food that humans cannot eat into food that they can Some of us will help convert to good use the annual crop of wild fruits and berries, S, much of which normally goes to waste. Most of us can do something to cut down waste ir consumption here is meant not at all the curtailment of consumption which has been and will be called for from time to time but rather the prevention of actual waste in connection with consumption.
 The main point, however, is that every single one of us has time, this year, to find out what he can do and how he can do it. Excuses of any sort whatever are wholly out of order. Every American citizen who fails to do his share of this summers food pro- duction and food stretching and food saving is, in effect, giving aid and comfort to the enemy. So let every one of us find out what he is to do, and prepare to do it with our boasted American effectiveness Begin now
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 AT the very least those fortunate persons who bought bottle of instead of amateur whskey to be congratulated.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
sULZER's VICTORY

The overwhelming defeat handed to Will liam Maloney in yesterdays primaries by the present delegate should be sufficient answer to the would-be detractors of MT. Sulzer mainly boot-licking politicians of the opposi- tion party. The Democrats of Alaska are satisfied with the leadership of Mr. Sulzer and have SO indicated by their ballots,
 In this division the fight for the Demo cratic nomination did not create much inter est, since there was never any chance of Mr. Maloney even showing for place. Even had the members of the party fighting Sulzer voted en masse in the Democratic primaries for Maloney, the result would still have been unchanged.
 The Fourth division vote may we'll stand as a rebuke to those politicians who would seek to frame up deal and pervert political parties to their own petty ends, of revenge spite and other personal grievances. The at tempted combination was so raw as to attract attention even from the most casual, and the solid support received by MT. Sulzer should serve as a reminder against future attempted combines.
 An analysis of the returns, as yet incom- plete, apparently shows that Alaskans of all classes are not unmindful of the excellent showing made by the delegate in his present term, In the reports received almost with out exception Sulzer's percentage of the vote cast was greater than in the regular election in 1916. The vote convinces the Democrats that they have chosen wisely in awarding him the nomination and that it is not at all unreasonable to look forward to the fall cleo tions with confidence in the final returns.
 It would be unwise, however, for the Democrats to use the Tuesday vote as a standard for comparing the relative strength of the votes which will be cast in the election next November. There will be much harder contest waged and the earnest support of ev cry Democrat is necessary for final victory.
 The primaries held Tuesday settle def- nitely the man who is to lead the party next fall With the announcement of the vote all factional differences must be dropped and the party show united front to the opposi- ton. It will, of course be attempted to>nlake capital out of the primary. The opposition is ment ill the Democratic party and throw the didate.
 These efforts must and undoubtedly will fall to the ground. The vote boiled by Mir. SulZer III the regular electlOn SnOulQ at least equal the total combined vote cast for both candidates in the primary and probably ex ceed even this total
 Party controversies can and should be settled within the party. It were foolish to allow such differences to exist, and can only work to the advantage of the opposition United support of the regularly nominated candidate will assure victory. This is shown from the returns of the late primary. It is up to the Democrats to pull together both for the good of the territory and of their own party.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-06
oLDTIMs MONEY COMING OUT

It's impossible to make Columbus, Ohio. post office officials believe the War-Savings plan will not bring the post office received $5 bill of beneath the mattress" In one day the pot ofice received $5 bill of 1858 date: the bill was so old 1t fell into bits through handling. The same day . school boy presented 8 gold piece In payment for Thrift Stamps. It was the first gold piece of this denomination seen at the post oflce in 16 years.
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
"cLlMBERs OF PALMS."


A recent number of the English
Catholic Missions. speaks feelingly of
some of midas ,Wretched' people 1t
says: = sz'ss
1.-THE 'low-caste folk Of the Jaffna
Peninsular, Ceylon-who cares about
them? For these humble toilers are
only climbers of palms-that iseto say,
they are expert in scaling the 1.-THE
trunks of the trees from whence they
may draw the 'toddy' or palm-wine,
and since they have no land of their
own to cultivate, they work for high
caste landlords, and cannot tend to
the least little plot for themselves.
Yet one friend they haye-it is the
Oblate Missionary. Perhaps it is be-
cause of the very AFFECTION of these
poor sons Of the sCeylon soil that the
Oblate missionaries feel special in
terest in their welfare, and why a
Ceylon priest of the Congregation, Fa,
Their Gnanaprakasar, has started a
modest mission for the Pallas who are
l!embracing the Faith in Tinnevely, in
spite of the prosecutions they have to
suffer from their employers, who be-
long to the high-caste Vellalas.'
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
How Father Algernon Lost
His Housekeeper

When pastor, his office unsaid,
returns to his hotel, from a long coun-
try call and finds that drummer has
dropped into his room to pass the
time, he yearns for the quiet of a
parochial residence Father Algernon
had the residence, but not its pre-
siding genius. The work of taking a
census of his. extensive parish had
made him. acquainted with several
women, whose outward appearance
fulfilled all the requirements of the
Council of Trent; Mary was his first
Echoice4Afor there were, and perhaps
will be, others. Age superadulta
but the rest, even nj the minds of the
venerable Fathers of Trent, was guess
work, as it. has always been about
every important woman since Eve
answered the first doorsbell To tell
the TRUTH after age qualification, Fa-
ther Algernon selected her for her
cooking. He had sampled the good
Mary's viands when he arrived unex-
pectedly at her place of employment,
and she became his housekeeper for a
brief time. Her downfall came about
in this way:
One day, her third, she drew a chair
to the table, when Father Algernon
was, breakfasting,9 and placing her
arms thereon for an extended talk,
began:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
A FAMILY OF SEVEN HUNDRED

1t is not often that cur missionary
nuns make personal appeals, but now
and then long-suffering Sister takes
her pen in hand and tells us what her
special trials are.
Sister Guerlain is Superior of the
Sisters of Charity at Tcheng- ting fou
in Southwest Che-li. 1t seems there
as well as in Africa, grasshoppers
often become pest and destroy har
vests upon which the people had de
pended for daily bread. Last year this
happened, and the consequent scarcity
of food is making life hard for the
Sisters and the seven hundred little
ones in their care. Seven hundred
children is a pretty big family fol
anyone to feed in war times or hard
times. The pagans invoke their idols
but the priests and nuns pray to ST
Joseph, that good friend of the poor
and not infrequently he works some
thing very like a miracle for them
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
ABOUT THE PERPETUAL MEMBER
SHIP.

Begin the, New Year well. Solicit
Heavens richest blessings by securing
a perpetual membership in our So
Eciety. ;.
The offering for perpetual mem
bership is forty dollars. 1t entities
the. individual enrolled to all the
spiritual privileges of the Society for
the. Propagation of, the Faith in life
and death. The plenary and partial
|indulgences. granted to the beenfactors
are. many, More than fifteen thousand
Masses. are annually celebrated for the
living and deceased members of the
Society. So
The offering for perpetual mem
bership may be made at one time OF
should. otherwise, be made within one
year, at the convenience of the donor
This is the best Investment that car
be made, because it insures for life
and eternity.
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
LEPER SUFFERERS IN AFRICA.

Father de How're, who is chaplain of
the leper asylum near Pretoria, cites
some cases of edifying resignation
which come to his notice in the course
of his ministration to the unfortunate
lepers, among whom may be found
persons of all ages and nationalities
In one of the little cottages lives a
Young African girl, once most attrac-
tive but now a living corpse. Her
sight is gone, her limbs are wasted
away to the bone; one would scarcely
recognize her as q, human being. And
yet this poor child is bearing her suf.
ferings like saint She became a
Catholic and since her baptism has
TeFers been heard to complain of her
siiiTerings.
she said once to me, Father, ]
think if we could look even for a mo
Jnent into Eternity and behold the hap
pi1lGss and glory of Heaven, l really
lelitve all our sufferings and misery
would appear as nothing, we would be
SO willing to endure them as means
OF whining our eternal reward.
IN the very next house is to be
found a little girl not yet fifteen years
OF age whose face is never seen ex.
cent by the nurse who visits her every
day and washes and dresses her
wourds. Then we have a Jewess born
III Konovo, Russia, who is said tc
have contracted the disease through a
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
QUITE A CONTRAST TO WHAT WE
HAVE BEEN HEARING.

please do not send me any more
anti-Catholic papers; for | abominate
all such unChristian publications, and
| do not wish or intend to become
'particeps criminis' in the reception
of them or in having anything what
soever to do with them. The
Catholic Church, as / have often writ
ten before, is the ancient spiritual
mother of us all; and she Isl never
theless, the Church of God and the
Bride of Christ Mark my words and
take timely warning that all who
fight against the Catholic Church are
now and will be found fighting against
God. And who dare do this and ex-
pect Gods blessing and prosperity?
Therefore, my dear brother in Je-
~sus, l beg of you, for Christ's dear,
sake, to drop at once and forever all
those anti-Catholic publications and
editors, people and sympathizers
Herewith, as you would red-hot Goals
of fire. Have nothing more to do with
the unclean things; escheW them as
you would snakes, Shiny toads and
Satan and the powers of darkn ess.
Forsake both the literature and COM
| pany of those who worse than fool
| ishly abuse the Catholic Church by
and with Satanic misstatements, eX-
aggerations, errors and lies, calling
white black and bitter sweet; who are
but the poor, sin-blinded tools of the
| Father of Lies .deceiving and being
deceived; and whose awful end will
surely be, as it is written in Revela-
ton, to be cast off with the devil that
deceived them into the lake of fire
and birthstone, and to be tormented
day and night for ever and ever (Rev.
XXX, 100, But rather. on the other
hand make and cultivate the acquain-
lance and friendship of the Catholic
clergy and people; love them as our
suffering brethren in Christ; find out
and exalt everything that is beautiful
1 lovely and Christlike in the Catholic
| Church, and tell its glories far and
wide, and heartily pray and work for
God-appointed and Christ-commanded
Christian unity. Then you may con
| ffdently and with all good reason eX
| pect and await JehoVah's smile. and
blessing
Rep. Dr. Bi00den. (Frot1. Boston.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
THE GREAT BIG PUBLIC SCHOOL
IN CHINA.


Most amusing is the method of con-
Quoting school among the. native teach
.ers of China Father Leaute, P. F. NJ,
who is in the Canton mission, de-
scribes it as follows:
THE first time a child goes to
school he arrives very early in the
morning, carried on the back of his
mother, his head covered with veil
and clutching in his hand a stick of
celery The celery represents the ar
dor with which the pupil is to attack
his lessons. In fact, the Chinese word
for celery,a kan, and industriousness
are the same so the celery is thought
to typify hard work and application
The head is covered with veil to con
ceal the little one from evil spirits.
When class opens, the first pupil
leaves his seat and places himself be
fore the teacher, who reads certain
passage. The child repeats this ant
returns to his seat, where he goes or
singing the passage out loud, Oblivion:
/ Of those around him. The second pu
pill does the same, and so on until the
whole school is finally shouting ava.
at a different lesson in a perfect pan
/ demonium of noise. With us poo
devils Yof strangers little quiet i
necessary for study-not SO with TIN
Chinese.
with the 'study-hour' is ended tn
children file again before the teache
and hurl the memorized passage, Q
which they comprehend nothing, at hi
head. Woe to him who hesitates o
has forgotten his text. The rod
4 NEARBY, and soon there come othe
cries besides. those ordinarily heard i
this peaceful retreat"