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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
DEMANDS MADE
 ON INDUSTRIES
 ARE ENORMOUS

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Some idea of the enormous demands which the war is making on the country s peace" industries may be gained from the fact that the total output of the American enameled, galvaniz. ed and tin utensils, more than one. fourth is now being diverted to mili. tary hospital and camp uses, accord ing to officials of the Metalware club. A particularly heavy demand for enameled ware in the hospitals is noted.
 This observation is made from a canvass of some of the larger manu- lecturers of kitchen and other house. hold wares, who employ thousands of men and women workers and whose output totals more than $S0,. 100000 year. They point out that -carcity of materials is practicallJ ; the only barrier to maximum opera .ions in the future.
 Go 5ernm mt rlQuiaitions for enam-
 led, galvaniz d and tin war utensil
 almost every branch of army life bers. It is said to be a frequent 3ers. It is sai dto be a frequcn nt occurrence for manufacturers to es- innate on such acquisitions as 100000 pie plates, 10000 dish pans, or 30.000 measures. Manufacturers predict that the present rate of 25 to 30 per cent of their business for distinct wal uses will continue for many months to come.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

then made a ladder of saplings so green that the wood proved a con- ductor and decided on another plan successfully.
 'He was keenly interested in my jump through the window of the train and the guards first effort to hold me in. I think he laughed most heartily at my passage with the guard pre- viously when I complained of ou partments. The guard respono- ed that we rightfully should be riding in hog trucks. an swered that such would be preferable to riding with Germans, and then my English-speaking guard exploded in gutterals, probably not knowing pro
 anity in a foreign tongue.
 q couldn't realize the king was a king. He seemed just like other men, but more interested in my
 tory. He expressed great sympathy for my mother owing to her long be- lief that I had been killed, it indeed having been so announced in the British official report. have been given leave for three months to visit her at Momence, H., but my time may be extended. It is very likely that I shall be transferred to the American Flying Corps, in which received my first training and was serving at San Diego before becoming restless and enlisting with the Cana dians in Victoria. l have now about recovered from the effects of seventy. two days diet of cabbage and tur. lnips."
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
AVIATOR TELLS
 ABOUT ESCAPE
 FROM GERMANY

LONDON, Jan 15-Flight-Lieuten. ant Pat O'Brien, the former Santa Fe railway man who effected a re. markable escape from Germany after being shot down in an aerial battle as a member of the Royal Flying Corps and who walked across a part of Germany, all of Luxemburg and Belgium before digging under the wire of death" and reaching Am sterdam, has just told his story to the King at Buckingham Palace. And O'Brien and the king have formed complimentary impressions of each other.
 q have met some of the heads of departments on the Western division of the Santa Fe, some of the biz men in Chicago, and few of the men doing the fighting in important positions in this war, and I want tc say that the king is one of the best. said O'Brien, who is native of Mo mence, H., and a resident of Sar Francisco. q don't think he knows what side means. We shook hands heartily three times-on my arrival when I thought might be taking too much of his time and started tc go, and finally when we said good by.
 "I received a telegram to call al 10:30 o'clock and, arriving two min utes before, found the king on rail road time. I was not kept waiting 2 minute, but was taken directly te him by one of his secretaries who withdrew on presenting me. We then chatted for forty minutes. the king showing great interest in my experiences and questioning me min utely as to my route from the time I jumped out of the train window until I concealed myself nearby ant studied the electrically.charged bar rier between Belgium and Holland for about a week of nights before succeeding in a plan of escape.
 "The king offered me chair. bu when I declined politely stood witl me throughout our conversation. H. certainly had more than an amateur knowlcdge of electricity. as I gathered by the lively interest he displayed at the several ways had in min' as to how best to put the live wire having to ride in fourth-class com grounding the current in the severa wires with a horizontal metal bar
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
HEAVY DUTIES
 FALL TO BODY
 OF BOY SCOUTS

By a proclamation of President Wilson the Boy Scouts of America are now the official dispatch bearers of the nation. This means that all Boy Scouts in the United States are to be engaged in carrying whatever dispatches the President sees fit to send forth to the public.
 The President has devised a way to reach the public's attention to the urgent issues at hand through the medium of these youths. By a campaign of literature the attention of all citizens will be attracted to vital questions of the day, and the Boy Scouts are to be the medium by which the public will be reached.
 The present enrolment of the Boy Scouts amounts to 3U0,000. and ali are pledged to distribute whatever literature is issued to IS or more per sons and to obligate those to whom they have given such literature to pass it on to someone else. as an endless chain. In this way 1t is es. timated that over 8.000,000 Of the reading public of America will hay been reached and the needs of the country become known better than through any other medium.
 The first literature to be distribut. ed by the Boy Scouts will be the Presidents Flag Day Speech with an. notations. This Is considered by all who have read it to be a master piece of patriotic utterances.
 AS an example of the efficiency of this boys organization. it is note worthy that during the recent Lib erty Bond sale the Boy Scouts, through their own efforts, sold $1O2,. 100000 worth of the Liberty Bonds. These sales were made to 45O,000 persons and equaled two and one half per cent of the total sales throughout the United States.
 By the request of the leaders of the national organization, the lead CTS of the local body are asked to cooperate with the local four minute speakers in this movement, and a meeting has been arranged for to take place today at the office of John A. Clark.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
JUST THE SAME
 l. FAIRBANKS

Writing to friends in Cordova Fred Cameron, who formerly lived at that place and who is also known in the interior, writes that he is in Seattle and that conditions are not as good as they might be.
 He says that there are a number of men out of work at that place and other sound cities, and that the price of food and other commodities is high. Seattle is crowded to its capacity, and all the restaurants and hotels are doing a land office busi ness. Where the money comes from to pay for said business he does not state.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
NERVOUSNESS IN OLD PLACE

Today the public will have an op. portunity to visit the new establish. ment of Dave Petree. Known be. fore as the Pioneer" 1t will now be known as the Pioneer Cigar Store and Candy Parlors."
 Prettily renovated in white. gold and blue. the new quarters are pleas. ing to the eye. No trace of the old fixtures are visible. all being new Complete stocks of candies. cigars and tobaccos- are carried. Soft re treatments of all kinds will be dis. pensed and for an hour of recrea. ton pool, billiards and card games are at the disposal of all.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
THE FATE OF THE POLLING CHURCH BELLS IN BERL1N-GERMANS DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE VIOLATION OF BELGIUMrS NEU- TRALITY-EVERYONE HATES GERARD

and one seemed to hear tears in their tones.
 It was terrible. felt as though the whole country were drenched in woe And it was that way all over Ger many. The people made no protest It would have been of no use. But they cried and cried.
 The next day they started to take i the bells away. The brave women of Germany had seen their fathers, bus. bands, sons and sweethearts go to the war without a word, without a tear in some instances. But not one woman could control her grief as she saw the churchbells loaded on wagons and taken away to be cast into muni. tions.
 The next Sunday was almost as bad for the silent city was almost as pitt. full as the one weighted by the toll Of the bells.
 Reprisais are Feared.
 Even in Germany the people talked with as much indignation as one ever hears from Germans, about the way in which Warsaw was stripped. You could hear undercurrents of disap. proval when it was told that the church at Warsaw was stripped of it's gold cupoia; that not one doorknob was left in the whole city; that the German soldiers ruthlessly rifled houses. shops and churches for their needs. Of course there was not much talk against 1t, but that there was any at all showed how deeply the people must have felt.
 Some of the Germans, those who are not so confident that Germany will win the war, are beginning to be afraid that all the outrages Germany has heaped on other nations will be visited in turn upon them by the vic torious armies.
 You can hear the women talking of what will happen to them when the | Russian and French and English sol. diers come into Germany-if they do. 1t is self.interest which is leading some of the people to make weak protests against the Germans rifling other cities.
 But these things are not talked of as they would be here. The Germans are too much afraid to talk freely about the war.
 Of Belgium, for instance, no Ger man will speak, except to say. "too bad" or tits a pity"
 We heard also of the German sol diers forcing the Poles into the Ger man army. A great many things which are doubted in America. we heard of in Germany and they are believed. The thing is. though. over there, although few people may
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
WHAT GERMANY
 OFFERS SERBIA
 OR MONTENEGRO

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 15.-What Ser. bia and Montenegro have to expect from a victorious Germany is indi- cated in an article published in the German papers from the pen of the Austrian historian, Professor Heinrich Friedjung. He says:
 Tt will be the duty of the victor to consider carefully the good of the Serbian people, and not make them pay for the sins of their king and his advisors. The uniting of Serbia with Austria-Hungary will fulfil the de sires of the Serbians for national unity. Serbia would be closely bound to Austria-Hungary by economic ties. In this way the Serbian people would emerge from the struggle vic tors. in spite of their terrible suf. ferings. The House of Hapsburg will give better guarantees for the prosperous development of the Ser bian people than their own dynasty, which is responsible for all their troubles. If Serbia kept her army and her independence, she would be used as tool by fanatics supported by English, French and Russian money. But incorporated in the Aus. trian empire, only small garrisons will be necessary.
 Austria will allow Serbia to ex. port her products northward free of duty. Ths foolish policy of tariff wars against small neighbors must be abandoned. If the Serbian peas. ant does not have his son taken away for military service, and if he can export the products of his soil to Austria. he will be in a very ia. vorable position.
 'It would be a criminal error to unite Montenegro and Serbia. Mon. tenegro could be allowed her inde. pendence with precautions. Obvious. ly Mount Lovcen cannot be given back to her. Enemy statesmen make fine speeches about small nations being allowed to decide their own fate. But at the end of the war the great states will make use of the little ones in payment of their indem' mites. Austria and Bulgaria will de eide upon the future of the Balkans In general there will be little change from the present position"
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
NO. 3.-WHAT THE GERMAN PEo
 PILE THINK.

Even the German resignation and the spirit which has been beaten into the Germans during the years of sub mission to the ruling powers cannot endure, without protest, some of the things which the great war has brought.
 One of the most sorrowful expe. riences in my lite was the day Berlin bade farewell to its church bells.
 W~uL lu Gnu. Cu ti!..L .ounusy as usual. From early morning the church bells all over the city had been tolling, ,olllng. l wonueied II some German defeat had been heard of or what was the matter. could get no person who could tell me until Iwent to church.
 The priest, after his sermon, then told us that orders had come to take all the church bells to make muni. tions of war of them
 never will forget the sorrow of that priest. The tears were running down his face as he told his congre. gation that never agaln would they hear the sweet sound of their bell which had a singularly beautiful tone --I often had noticed 1t,
 He spoke of the times It had rung in aladness for them; of the times it had rung in sadness when their loved ones were dead. He spoke of the many years it had called them to worship, speaking as with the tongue of an angel to bid them come to Gods house. He spoke of the years he himself had served within its silvery sound.
 "How sad it is," he said, "that, when peace shall come, this bell shall not be able to tell you of it. How sad that it shall be silent. How terri ble that it shall be made into bullets or cannon to kill men,"
 Then he prayed for peace, and for Germany that his country might not be desolated.
 l was stranger in strange land; the bell meant nothing to me; but too, with the rest of the congrega. tion, sobbed and cried as though a dear friend had died.
 The Polling Bells.
 When we came out into the street it was full of people crying and sob ping for their beautiful bell.
 The old men cried; the women cried; the young girls cried; even the little children threw kisses to tn, bells and cried.
 The whole city seemed sobbing and over it all rang the ceaseless toll of the bells. All day long they tolled
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
DAN M0RENCY
 OUT ON BONDS

Yesterday morning Daniel Morency. the youthful offender who is being held for the grand jury on the charge of burglary, succeeded in securing bondsmen. and he was released from custody pending the sitting of the grand jury. His bondsmen were D. H. Cascaden and Dave Petree. who qualified in the sum of $1,000.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY

decry what is done, the majority think that what the kaiser does is right, no matter what 1t is. Germany and Belgium. It is difficult to get a German to speak of Germany's violation of Bel gium's neutrality, but those who do. say the kaiser did right in going through Belgium. They say that Bel. gium should have stood back and let the German army through and that what has happened to the Belgians is the result of their own stubborn. ness.
 Germany Is like spoiled child Al though she may realize that the things she does are not what other nations do, yet because she is Ger many she is right. She Is a nation of self and can see no other nations right. She is like boy who never had been taught that other boys property must not be touched, set down in school where the laws of property were respected. She simply reaches out and takes what she wants, regardless of the sufferings of others. And the only way Ger many ever. can be made to respect other nations is to give her thor ough beating. just as the bully of a school must receive a good beating before he lets other boys alone.
 When the news that the Lusitania had been sunk came to Germany there was grea. rejoicing, as every. body in America knows. Many Ger. mans still profess to think the Lusi. tania was armed. In the eommem. morative medal struck off the Lusi tania is shown with guns and an aeropIane on her deck.
 So far as getting what the great mass of people in Germany really think, that is impossible.
 The people are not permitted to talk
 The University at Warsaw.
 When Warsaw was taken by the Germans they opened a splendid big university there for the Polish boys. The people of Germany plumed them selves for this.
 "The Poles are getting better treat mont than the Russians ever gavr them. and they will be grateful" the people said.
 But the fiery young Poles, soon dis. covering that instead of exchanring slavery for freedom, they only had exchanged one master for another, soon began talking war and revolu. tion. Result-the university was closed in double quick time. A great number of the students disappeared, no person knows where-probsbly to the German firing lines. And the Poles now know that German rule means anything but freedom for them.
 often wonder why the Germans do not treat the Americans who are in Germany better. They know that when these Americans go home they will tell of their treatment-just as am doing and just as Ambassador Gerard is doing, and as hundreds of
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

other Americans will do. The only thing can see is that Germans think they can combat any such rev citations, simply by calling them liars.
 For instance. they have talked for weeks about what Ambassador Ger ard will say. "He will tell lies," they say contemptuously.
 They seem to think that a Ger mans word will be taken against an Americans in any country, even in our own.
 Hatred Against Gerard. As I was leaving Germany, I was buying some necessaries at a shop and happened to mention that I was returning home. Well, I guess you will tell a lot of lies about us," said the shop keeper with very notice able sheer.
 They hate MT. Gerard. With the exception of President Wilson. there is not a person in the world whom they hate as they do MT. Gerard.
 often marvel that they permitted him to get home alive.
 think they fear Gerard, for Ge. rard showed himself strong man They do not fear Wilson, for the newspapers continually try to make the people think that Wilson is weak and vacillating and simply likes to talk.
 The cartoons there all picture Will. son with an enormously big mouth.
 They are doing lot of cartoon ing in Germany. They always pic ture the king of Italy as a littl, man with a tiny umbrella on the top of his gun. never found out what that was for.
 The reports in this country that Germany is calling on her very young men are all true She is calling on her 1918 army now. have seen wounded mon go back to the front in such bad shape that one would think common humanity would le, them stay at home.
 I have seen m n talk for tn army whom we would put in tuber. culosis hospitals. One shopkeeper in Berlin in particular, frail, hollov checked man, who continually cough q and who seemed hardly able to walk was absent one day and they told me he had been taken into the army.
 Boys and Women Work
 The boys of g, 10, Il, and 12 and on to 16 are in the fields working trying to grow as much grain and produce as possible.
 Of course the women are doing everything, carrying heavy loads az porters, on the street cars and trains carrying coal into cellars, driving wagons-everything that men did be. fore the war. The children are work ing. spoke of the little girl who brought my telegrams.
 All Germany seems driven by the one big impulse, to throw all energy possible into the war machine.
 It was a terrible country when left it-what 1t will be the next year unless the war stops I hardly like to think.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
BREWER BRAVES
 TRAILS TRAVEL

Among the outgoing passengers on the stage leaving this morning will be George Weber, who for the past few years has been connected with the local brewing company
 How long he will remain on the great Outside he does not state, but will take in all the towns on the coast and If he feels like it may take a trip to the east.
 A recent letter from the front says: And in the pocket of the sweater was the very s10 bill she had sewed in, as gift for the sol dier for whom she had made the garment"
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
MANY OPENINGS
 UNVEILED WITH
 ORDNANCE DEPT.

VAUlVhvVE UEI \, In a civil service commission cir cular recently received in Fairbanks an urgent call is made for those having technical training to enlist their services in their country's cause.
 To acquire these positions no ex animation will be necessary; the rat ings will be given on experience education and training. The salaries offered are substantial. and oppor tunity offers to secure higher rat ing than is shown in the circular.
 Those wishing to apply may dc 50 to any representative of the civil service commission in their locality and full information will be forth coming. Below will be found a lis, of the positions and salaries that SC with them: Clerical Positions
 1000 stenographers and typewrit CTS, men and women, SLIGO to s1..0C year.
 1000 typewriter operators, mer and women. SLIGO to s1.20O year
 2,O00 general clerks. men and wo men, SLIGO a year.
 800 index and catalogue clerks men and women, SLIGO to S1,20O 2 year.
 200 clerks qualifi d in bu1iness ad minist. ation, si,200 to s1,500 a year
 300 sch~dulc clerks, mon and wo men, s1.400 to s1.60O a year.
 300 production clerks, not mor> than $1,500 a year.
 200 clerks qualified in statistic or accounting, $1.-00 to s1,S00 { year.
 100 statisticians, s1.S00 a year.
 100 mu.tig.aph operators, men ant wom- n, s1.OO to s1.o0O year. teStin9 foSitiohS
 200 cngin aers of tests of ordnanc mat lrial. s1,5O0 to S2,!O0 a year.
 zoo assistant engineers of tests ol ordnance material si,C0o to s1,5O( q year. Mechanical Trades Positions 2,-00 machiniSts, S4 day. 300 machine operators, s275 a day
 200 drop forgers, 575 a day (piece work).
 300 tool makers, $4.50 a day.
 arge numbers in practically al other trades. Drafting Positions
 800 mechanical draftsmen, $500 te s1.S0O a year.
 50 gauge designers, s2.0C0 to s3,OO( year.
 100 apprentice draftsmen. s4S0 z year.
 Inspection Positions
 300 inspectors of small-arms am munition, $1,500 to s2,400 a year.
 100 inspectors of artillery ammuni tion (high-explosive shell loading) s1,500 s2.4OO a year.
 100 inspectors of artillery ammu milton (forgings), s1.5OO to $2.4O0 : year.
 100 inspectors of artillery ammu milton (ballistics), $1.500 to $2.400 { year.
 300 inspectors of field artillery am munition steel, $500 to $2.40O : year. @ 300 assistant inspectors of field ar tillery ammunition steel, s3.50 to 5; day.
 500 inspectors of small arms s1,50( to $2.400 a year. 100 inspectors of material fol small arms, $1.000 to $500 year.
 100 assistant inspectors of cannon forgings. s1.5OO to s2,4oO a year.
 100 assistant inspectors of fihishet machine parts. $500 to $2,4O0 z year.
 100 assistant inspectors of gunfirt control instruments. $1,200 to $1,50t year. 50 assistant inspectors of stee helmets, s1.000 to $500 a year.
 50 assistant inspectors of cleaning of preserving materials, $1.000 tt $1.800 a year. 400 inspectors and assistant in spectors of powder and explosives $1. 400 to $2.400 a year.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
CASS WILLIAMS
 GOING OUTSIDE

On the stage leaving this morning J. Casson Williams, better known to his friends as "Cass." will be a pas senger. His destination is Washing ton, D. C., at which place he will enter the government service by en listing in some branch of the war department.
 Cass has for some time past been employed by the Alaskan Engineer ing commission in the disbursing department. and resigned his posi- tion to enter the service. He made the trip up from Nenana with the commissions dog team, accompanied by L. Summerlin, who will return to the lower river town in a day ol so. Cass' many friends regret his departure.
 James Gibbs, of the Gibbs & Nc Pherson Mercantile Co.,, in the Tolo vana, Is among the out of town visitors.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

Clarence Critics, the Fairbanks creek quartz man, is making busi- ness trip In town,