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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-19

again state that after the full study that was given to the property during our trip we are satisfied that the project is being executed rapidly and efficiently by men of experience and ability. It is believed that it is being handled as cheapy as private contractors could handle it under the circumstances
 Mr. Wendt had been connected for 25 years with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie road las an engineer in charge of construction and maintenance and was designated to make this investigation by me upon the recommendation of Mir. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce commission"
 Mir. Wells, chief construction engineer of the Southern Railway, to whom the report and records of construction were submitted made this statement to Mr. Lane: q am astonished that the work cost so little; on my own road during the past year have paid more per yard for earth and rock work than it cost in Alaska during the same period"
 Compare the exaggerated statements made by Wickersham, possessing no technical ability, without any qualifications to enable him to form accurate estimates of what has been accomplished, with the above comments made by trained railroad construction engin- eers who hold positions high in the engineer ing world. The first, even had he no person. al prejudice in the matter, could not be con- sidered as competent witness, but the last named could qualify as experts before any court in the world of railroad construction.
 It must be then that the DETAILED INFORMATION which the Alaska Associa- tion speaks of being in the hands of the sena- tors and representatives was furnished by Mir. Wickersham. And it is important to note the effect that this information is alleged to have produced. As matter of information, says the association, it may be stated that the new appropriations committee has information which will defeat any appropriation for the Alaska railroad project
 We hope that the Alaska Association has been misinformed regarding the attitude of the republican congress- But it seems to speak with authority. Its assertions are given wieght by Wickersham's tactics in fighting the secretary of the interior. And if the new congress does adopt the attitude which the Alaska Association so confidently asserts it will, the people of Alaska know that James Wickersham, whether or not he is behind the new fight on the Alaskan Engineering con- mission, is alone responsible for the cessa- tion of government activities in Alaska rail- way construction. Have Alaskans not had enough of the pernicious activities of this dis card of Tacoma? Do they want him to con- tinue for another two years? The Citizen be- lieves that if Wickersham would give an op- portunity to vote on the question their answer would be plain enough for even Wick to un- derstand without straining his imagination.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-19
Last wear 5.36O war garden.

Last year 5,360 war gardens were con- ducted in Manchester, New Hampshire, as a part of the campaign to raise food for the world. The system of operation is to be con- tinued this year, and the plots cultivated with in the municipal boundaries are to be known as Victory Gardens" Manchester's example should be followed by all other communities in the United States. Food for the world is expected to be needed quite as much this year as last, and, for that matter. there's no reason why so good thing as gardening, in the va cant places of communities. should not become an established custom.-Ex.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-19
AMERICANS WITHDRAW

The announcement that American forces will be withdrawn from Siberia next month will probably be received with almost general satisfaction. The time has come either for withdrawal or for real intervention. These forces were sent to the Archangel front to guard the allied property war sup plies, etc., which were left unguarded with the collapse of the Kerensky government of Rus sia and which was in some danger of falling into the hands of the German military author ities thru the cornivance of the Russian Bol- sheviki.
 In order to save these supplies it was nec- essary to have troops in Siberia. It was not believed that any serious difficulty would be inexperienced with the soviet government, but the judgment of the allied military men was at fault there. Strong armed opposition did de- velop and for time there is no doubt that the allied force on the Archangel front was in critical position.
 The situation has been at least partially remedied by the training of Russian soldiers, new endorsements from England and the |construction of supply roads in the threatened sector. The American soldiers are to be re- placed by Russians instructed by American and British officers.
 There has been some criticism of the ad- ministration for the presence of Americans in Siberia. The need for them was absolute. It ceased to exist after the signing of the arm istice but this was too late for transportation homie and also too late for endorsements to be sent them. They did what was required of them and have seen bitter winter. Forced to hold off a foe many times their own number their morale has held up with the exception fo an isolated company in fashion creditable to American tradition.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-19

Nenana saw . real.honest.to-xo good. ness Indian funeral today. An old native named Paul was buried here. the ceremony consisting entirely of native burial rites.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-19

The news comes from London that Brit ish people are fattening up and enlarging their wristbands to pre-war measurements on American food. It is to the "much-maligned American bacon" that the result is due, and not to Southdown mutton, Cumberland ham, Cambridge. sausage Wiltshire bacon and oth- CT superior English food products But let the plain American pig have the credit it de- serves, both for winning the war and re-es- tablishing humanity on peace basis.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
What Memorial to the Men
Who Died?
. By EARL GOODWIN.

Washington seems on edge to start something in the
way of proper memorial for those who died in the world
war.
And the treaty of peace is not even signed.
There is thing memorial should possess and that
perspective Perhaps it is knowledge of this fact
that has prompted France not worry about memorials
until five years have passed.
What we DON'T want is haste Neither do we want to
be guble to appoint somebody Executive
tary at large salary with the ~ duties of stir
ring up sentiment in favor of memorial.
One good thing would be to read pamphlet published
by the American Civic Association 'The Location and
Design of War Memorials
This pamphlet is bold enough to point out horrible
examples of what MOTTO do-some of the monsrosities
that sprang from quares factories what not and
termed civil memorials
The Peace Monument at the foot of the Capitol,
should say, is No. example of a civil memorial
which the angels weep and everyone else including the
figures on the memorial itself
What want first, should say, is a chance for the
war to end
After that believe should wait to get that neces-
sary vision and perspective which will enable to
things in better light than By that time the sales
for ready-made, hand painted and machne-turn
memorials would have subsidized and would be in mood
design memorial greater and wonderful than
the world has
For must remember that it will be the expression of
free nation the greatest that hourshed this old
world and that it will be memorial to the greatest men
of this great nation 1t will live forever hope
the deaths of these men, whose sacrifices
more than can tell.
What form of expression this will be no one now
predicts
But predict that with patience and thought we will
be able to have in this city memorial fitting and proper
to carry down the corridors of time the names of those
who died to the world from horror.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
Beatrice Fairfax Writes Problems and Pitfalls Workers
Especially for Washington Women

VIAR has way of inspir-
w ing young people to early
" and often i'll -considered
marriages; at least it did here in
Washington. Wedding bells seem
to be part of the prevailing stir
the flutterinR flags, bands, march
ing soldiers-and, strange to re-
late, the boy who is too young to
go to war feels he is getting into
the picture by taking unto him
self a child wife.
So many child-marriages have
been made as the result of this
enthusiasm that among the new
crop of vaudeville jokes one may
expect something about the kin
dergarten classes at Reno for the
benefit of infants seeking divorce.
misunderstanding almost invari-
ably follows when the wife Is fif-
teen, sixteen, or seventeen, and the
husband a year or two older. and
both ought to be in school study
ing instead of trying to cope with
grown-up problems. However, if
these boy and girl marriages
have occurred. young people ought
to try honestly to make the best of
them, instead Of assuming a take
my little dishes and go home" at
titude.
Don't talk afterward about hav-
ing been too young 10 under
stand, unless you want to put YOUR
self in the defective class. Every
boy or girl of sixteen or seven
teen knows that in repeating the
marriage ceremony he or she is
promising to be faithful to one
person: Until death US do part"
And after the fateful words are
said it is too late to plead: 81 did
not understand"
4 Divorced Boy Is Ridiculous.
Parents do not help matters
along by listening to the griev-
ances Of the child husband or wife.
The young people are legally mar
ried and in seeking a divorce be-
fore they have really given their
marriage a fair trial Is a clear case
Of jumping out of the frying pan
into the fire.
A divorced boy is a ridiculous
object. No one wants to give him
work, or admit him to the com
pany of young people under their
charge. He may be blameless, but
his role is absurd, he might as we'll
go to high school in false whiskers
and expect to be taken seriously,
as to face the world divorced be-
fore he is old enough to vote.
And the plight OF a divorced girl
Is even more unfortunate. She
presents herself a picture Of dis
nal sophisdcation, child in years
yet one who has well-nigh run the
The Washington times., 1919-05-06

was wasted on joy rides and other
hectic amusements. Then you
will have experienced to the fullest
the jungle law Of the supplanter
and the supplanted.
Very lately there has sprung up
among women a greater sense of
fairness and decency; feminine
solidarity" l believe it is called.
And Heaven knows when we read
accounts of the drawing aside of
skirts" because some unfortunate
has brushed by US, we realize how
much we need the Christ spirit
in our dealings with each other.
Women are less savage to
women than they were, even a
generation ago. At present no
woman, unless he is a very I'M
worthy one, will deliberately re,
joice in another woman's misfor-
tune and try, by every device in
her power, to prevent her from
rising again. But many women did
this in the past. And apart from
the inhumanity of such conduct
women have BEGUN to realize that
men, while taking advantage of
this feline trait, do not admire it.
The tabby-girl with her claws
barely sheathed did not wear very
well. Men rrefer a girl who has
what they are pleased to call "a
mans sense of honor" never
dreaming that they in their blind
ness have developed these feline
traits in women.
If by any possible chance you
should happen to belong to the
ever-dwindling feline tribe, and
you feel that you must "vamp"
something now and then. let me
beg of you to forego "vamping"
the child-husband.
You are not only encouraging a
young fool to improve on natures
job, and take two or three more
degrees in the way Of folly, but
you are also helping to Overturn
some girls dolls house.
And the girl who marries at six
teen or seventeen has troubles
enough without borrowing any of
some other woman's making. She
is young enough to crave parties,
theaters, admiration and Joy rides
and yet she often has to sit up
with a sick teething baby. The
world looks black enough to her
without adding any more charcoal
to the picture. There are a few
things that men do magnifcently,
and chief among them is the way
they stick together and uphold
each other. Its try to be "copy
cats" Of our fellow men in this re-
spect, instead of being "tabby cats, "
as, alas, a good many Of US have
been for generations.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
20 the Editor Of The Times:

20 the Editor OF The Times:
For 200 years or more Poland has
been much oppressed nation. Dur
ing these 200 years, notwithstanding
The fact that they themselves have
been oppressed, they have brutdIly
treated the Jews. Many people have
said, and still say, that the Poles
were set against the Jews by the
Russians. Assuming that their state
nent Is correct 1 would like to know
Why the Jews are still prosecuted in
eoland. At a recent Jewish festival
called Passover, the Poles dragged
srom their homes and murdered FIVE
labbis and murdered them.
Any sensible person can readily see
the falseness OF the statement that
blood TO make bread for Passover.
When the Jews are forbidden by Mo-
sale law to eat the blood Of an ami
NAL, IL would be absurd 20 say that
they use the blood OF a human. The
Jews mind their own business and
demand that the Poles mind their own
and let the Jews alone as long as they
behave themselves.
Why should the Poles be given the
right to rule themselves while they
brutally murder innocent and harm
less people? It seem to me that after
having gone through so many hard
ships during the past 200 years the
Poles should be alive TO their treat
ment against the Jews.
The atrocities perpetUated against
the Jews by the Poles can only be
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
What's Doing; Where; YHhen

Today.
Standardization Endeavor Society. Keller
Memorial Lutheran Church. D. IN.
Meettng-"Circle for Spanish Converse
tion," home OF Mrs Theodore wasser-
bach. 1900 r street northwest. 8 p. M.
Meetins-AnnuaI meeting, District OF Co
lumbiA Federation OF Women's Clubs
Jewish Temple, begins at 10 a. m.
Concert-Felix GarziEIiA pianist and
Elizabeth Campbell, contraIto, National
Theater, t:t6 p. m.
Lecture--Charles A. Rogers, "Trip to the
Hawaiian isiands." United Service Club
OF America. Dupont Circle. $40 p. m.
Meeting = Massachusetts state Society.
Wilson Normal School Eleventh and
Harvard streets northwest. p. m.
Smoker-HRle Alumni Association ~
Washington, University Club, $50 p. m.
Meeting-Conduit Road CitiZsns' AsSocia-
ton, 81. David's Parish Hall. Conduit
road, near Nebraska avenue, r. m.
Loan rAIly-SoutheaBt Washington CIti-
sens Association, Eighth street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast. 8 p. IN.
Music and speeches.
Tomorrow.
neutrality-suspicious. OF Oldest Inhabit-
ants, Union Engine House. Nineteenth
The Washington times., 1919-05-06

and II streets northwest. 80 J. m.
MeetinE-Board OF Education. I'gankIin
school. 4:3O p. m.
Lecture-Miss Theodore E Miller. The
Secret Of Good Dressing" Wilson Norma !
Community Center, Eleventh and HRr-
ward streets northwest, p. IN. and 7:jO
y. m.
Ekercises-Anniversary exercises OF Gallau-
Oct College, Kendall Green. ) p. m.
Meeting-Campaign council. Joint Citizens
committee for National Representation.
BOARD OF Trade rooms. Star building, s
y. m.
Mass meetinE-In behalf OF Victory Loan.
auspices Anacoatia Citizens Association
and Troop IS. Boy Scouts, Logan Park,
y. m.
Conoert-U. s Marine Band. Potomac
Park bandstand. p. m. William San
telmann. director.
Concert--U. s. Soldiers Home Band, band
stand. p. m.
Conference-Child Welfare Conference
Washington Hotel, beginning at 10 a. m.
DR.. IL. l.. X Shaw. chairman.
Observation-Disclosures Society OF Washing
toni auditorium Of Cosmos Club. 3 p. m.
Alfred II. Brooks will make address.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
Soldiers and Civil Service.

Editor The Washington TIMES:
wish you to take a little interest
and write an article in your paper in
regards TO a discharged soldier. I
have been in the military service and
on returning I took an examination
with the Civil Service, making a rat
ing of 6S.3O. The passing mark is
20. however; ] could not be certified
until ! made the necessary rating Of
Civil Service.
AS far as I can ascertain 7 think
that this question is up before Civil
Service at the present time. as to
whether any discharged soldier can
be appointed on a rating OF 65, or
must he be disabled. Trusting that
you give this matter your prompt
attention. as ! don't see why any dis
charged soldier can not be appointed
at a rating Of IS. have held a good
position previous to entering the
military service. but owing 20 the
fact that the concern had changed
hands since, therefore lost out in
my former position.
A DISCHARGED SOLDIER.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06

Another tells me almost the
same story, though her husbands
designations are not as innocent as
ice-cream soda. And the one who
suffers in that family is the poor
little baby, who has to do without
clean wholesome milk because the
dairy won't leave any more till the
back bills are paid.
In such cases the only remedy
must come from an almost hope
less source. the women who bene-
fit from the weakness and vanity
of such young brutes. If girls
have plain, ordinary decency, 1t
goes without saying that they will
refuse to take treats from such
source, and they will not hesitate
to put a man of this type where he
belongs.
The Law of the Supplanter and
the Supplanted.
There is a jungle law that I'M
mistakably dogs the footsteps of
all of US through life. a distin-
guished novelist has called it: 1.-The
law of the supplanter and the sup
planted" Look about you, and
from casual observation you will
see that more things than curses
come home to roost. In other
words, las We sow, so shall We
reap" Some day this particular
tragedy may knock at your own
door, some girl will steal your
man away just as you stole some
other woman's man from her.
Perhaps some day you will have
to see a frail baby's life fade
away because the money that
should have been spent to save it
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
TODAY'S TOPIC
WAR AND CHILD MARRIAGE

gamut Of human experience. So il
the fedglings have set up a nest
Of their own, don't make a bad
business worse by sympathizing
with their little quarrels until d.
vorce is the only remedy.
Divorce is sometimes necessary,
l know, when a boy falls into the
hands Of a harry or a girl into
those Of an adventurer, but it is a
remedy akin to dynamite and
ought not to be applied until every
thing else has failed.
Lately have had scores Of let
tiers from child wives here in
Washington, confiding lin me their
tragi-comedies, which are Just as
real even If they do happen to re-
produce the absurd quarrels of
children. They want to get d.
vorces, and in a number Of cases
they must sue through a guardian,
they are so pitifully young.
Has To Go Hungry on Account of
Soda Water.
One seventeen-year-old wife tells
me that half the time she has
nothing to eat because her nine
teen-year-old husband wants to
look big" and treat "a bunch of
girls" to ice-cream soda nearly
every evening. He cannot forego
the Importance of playing great
Mogul at the corner drug store,
even If his poor little wife has to
go hungry. No boy ought to be
placed in such a position of re-
sponsibility-he has all the greedi-
ness and vanity of childhood, and
yet girl must 20 hungry on &C
count of his lack of DEVELOPMENT,
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
r The Gold Star Mothers X
What Would You Say to One of Them, With Her Son
Lying Dead Across the Oceanf

Mothers of American soldiers dead in the war are
working near you on this Victory loan
FORGETTING themselves and their loss they are at work.
and YOU may see them black, with white faces asking
fathers and mothers living to buy bonds to pay Tor
safety and victory.
You know what bill these mothers are helping to pay.
They are working get money for the nation 10 BUkX
SONS THAT THEY GAVE TO THEIR COUNTRY.
These women in black are not working with light
hearts as yea and millions of other Americans should be
working rejoicing that brothers. sons and friends are COM
ing home safe.
The end of the war means safety and happiness for
many millions For these mothers loss reparable
and an end of hope.
again
The body lies across the ocean, but the spirit is with
the mother here in America.
She finds what comfort she in remembering that her
son. through death and the victory brought by death helped
to save the sons of other women.
Other women and men about them are selling bonds
with smiles jests laughing at refusas It means little.
How do you suppose the mothers in black feel when
they hear 'No' to their question: 'Wi you buy bond?
They would go their knees from end of the city
to the other if it would bring back that lost They
would endure anything if it could bring back the life that
they created with much suffering and patience.
you cannot buy Victory bonds because you good
American citizen you cannot or Will not buy because it
yours then buy tribute to these whose your
country has taken from them.
Nineteen hundred years ago Christ walked carrying the
cross that symbozed the sins of other men, to the hill
called the Skull, where he to be crucifed If you
could have Him and could have understood what you
saw you would not have refused Him anything He might
have asked You His suerngs repeated in the white
face of the whose has been killed She carries
heavy cross her heart cruced and dead Her hope has
been killed that the hope of other mothers might live
These women forget themselves. Having given to the
country the very heart within their body with dead hearts
they still go and work for the country that owes them
so much
What an example to others in the nation!
Have you known bitter sorrow disappointment
that be wiped out Then think of the mother who
thousand times each day that again. sees him as
he first put in her arms him he left grown and
strong promising to return and him in the last hour
dying in the hospital ridded the field no one to
comfort him.
It should be difficult for any man in this country to
refuse those when they say BUY Victory bonds
pay for the that saved your country and killed my
SON.
The over it is won the dead are counted and the
living are safe.
The American who must be mportuned over and over
URGED to do his duty is not worthy of the country in
Ehich he lives.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06

A small tank rambling noisily up
and down F street, surmounted by
two clowns. Attracting attention Of
course. But the clowns in their en-
thusiasm made such pointed remarks
at women on the sidewalk that the
women fled, and nunberless com
plants reach newspaper Offices. Vic
tory bond sales don't depend on that
kind of advertising.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06

Commander EVangeline Booth,
of the Salvation ATmy-One of
the greatest speakers on earth.
will address q public meeting at
Liberty Y. Al. c. A. HUT, Mon
day evening, May IL, at 8
O'Clock. Secretary Lane, of the
Department of the Interior, will
preside, and the Marine Band
win play. II you want free
tickets, send a stamped and ad-
dressed envelope to the Salvation
Army Committee, Chamber of
Commerce, Gil 18th street n. ".
TODAY.
The Washington times., 1919-05-06
Where Do You Keen Your Money!

Where Do You Keep Your Money?
In the early part Of the week a
local merchant in an editorial pub
lished in his ad column. commented
on the "Sure We'll finish the Job"
poster, showing a man in overalls
digging down into his left hand
trouser pocket, saying, that a man
would naturally use his right hand.
This seemed plausible at first, but
after investigation / find that ten
men out Of twelve keep their bills
in their left hand pocket and their
change in the right hand pocket, so
it would seem that the criticism is
unfounded.
Z FTTT VEDWETT
The Washington times., 1919-05-06

Next Sunday will be MOTHERS
DAY. 1t was started in Wash
lngton eight years ago this week,
when our good friend and fellow
citizen CUNO II. RUDOLPH was
Commissioner. He put it over
for the town. Let US not forget
Mother or Mothers Day. Wear
a white carnation next Sunday,
go see your mother or write to
her.