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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-12
ALASKA NOTES

J. Gustafson has arrived at Peters burg to take charge of the logging operations of the Arness Lumber Company at Petersburg.
 Thomas Lovelock convicted of lar ceny, and Fred c. Smith, held in jail waiting for the action of the grand jury, escaped jail at ketchi kan recently, but were recaptured after a few hours. Both were from Petersburg.
 The Junior Red Cross at Peters. burg has started a campaign for health in that community.
 T. J. Zimmerman, of the United States lighthouse service, recently released from the army, has taken position in the lighthouse service at Ketchikan recently vacated by w. B. Spaulding.
 Arthur Anderson, popular hige school boy of Ketchikan, died there recently The funeral was attended by all the members of the High School.
 The entire crew of the Browning hoist arrived in Nenana recently. There yet remains about four miles of steel to be salayged off the ole road bed. just enaough to finish the present grade to Lignite Creek. Jack Courtney, a Cordova boy for merly employed on the Copper River
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MASS MEETING, ON EIGHT HOUR LAW
 BE HELD TONIGHT

There will be a mass meeting to- night in Labor Hall, the old Bruns wick Building on Front Street, call ed by the Alaska Labor Union No. 4, for all of those interested in labor legislation and in the eight-hour law
 It is understood that some of the members of the Territorial Legis- lature will be present. The meeting will be called to order at S:30.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Well furnished 3o- room apartment house and ground hoipg good business all year round. Every apartment has splendid view of the channel. A good paying bropositior which will stand 1nVes- {ieation. Can be bought on reas- unable terms. Apply P. o. Box 5o3.
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CLIFF APARTMENTS

CIIFF hf dN MEN D
 On the cliff next to the Court house-"The Cosy Corner of Juneau; 2, 3, room apart ments fully furnished for housekeeping. Clean and re- spectable. Suitable for small families, ladies or gentlemen. Each apartment home by It. self. Strictly private in every respect, including baths, etc., Telephone service. Warm and comfortable. Reasonable rates.
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FOR RENT-Apartments
SEAVIEW AND JUNEAU

APAR I M EN IS
 Has housekeeping rooms fully furnished which includes bath, light, water and clean linen, al so phone service. All rooms are outside rooms with splen- did view of the Channel. Coz fly" and neatly" furnished and sanitary in every detail. ?, 3, room apartments for private families. Five dollars per month and up. Phone 2S6.
 MRS. HOGAN, Prop.
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WANTED--Sitaation

Experienced accountant wants DO sition or accounting to do for small business firms Address Empire.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
The Crowded Store

There never store crowded but that the patient person managed to get waited upon within reasonable time.
 Some peope-unduly nervous fussy people are not included they should seek secuson until thelr naladies are overcome-dislike crowds. They noursn their dislike, a rule at safe distance For IF they once get elbows with their fellow beings bump and to jostle in that inevitable way in crowds-they discover that there is nothing very the eXperience-that there IS, on the contrary, something invigorating and stimulating about 1t.
 crowded has especial attraction mere fs a for store crowd It does not inst drift finger about obstruction It is drawn there by buying opporlunl- ties outlined in the stores advertising.
 Those buying opportunities could not De pro yided unless were certain that the crowd would pc ftere to take advantage of them-and that's the SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE TO YOU AND ME IN STORE CROWDS. They mean QUICK TURNOVER FOR THE MERCHANT and this means for the mer- chant satisfactory aggregate profits from the smallest possible PER SALE PROFITS.
 Thus to the crowd" in stores is not a Dau rule-for the crowd is attracted by the offering or rood values at RAPID TURNOVER PROFlTS-which mean minimum profits.
 Merchants should ADVERTISE the news of crowds in their stores For crowded store is a matter or news even though it is daily event
 Ii is matter to tell how quickly certain lines of advertised goods disposed of Not that should consist to any great extent in detailing what is pas-but some of today's events in A store have very close relation to tomorrows, and should be recorded
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Tides Tomorrow
w. o. YOUNG DEAD

w. o. Young, for many years steward on the Cottage City and the Humboldt on the Alaska run, re gently died at Los Angeles.
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The Nenana Commercial Club ha. sent to each Senator and Repre5en tatiye in Congress letters setting forth the need+ of an appropriation for the carryins on of construction work there. hI points have been covered thoroughly and it is believed that some good will come of the ef fort.
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been in active service Tn France with the Engiu'o $, was gasaed and slightly woundca according to let ter received by Len Cox from War ren Taylor another Cordoya boy wha was in active service with the En gineers.
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FOR SALE-Scholarship in first class correspondence school. Good for any course. If you are interest Cd it will pay you to investigate Address scholarship, Empire.
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FOR RENT-Houses
PIANO for rent. apply phone l4s.

Houses for rent, Mrs. M. Davis. FURNISHED HOUSE FOR RENT Six rooms and bath, well located. $25 month. See A. NJ. White. 2e3 Main St.
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WANTED - Thoroughly compe- tent woman for washing, ironing and cleaning; or an upstairs maid to assist in care of two children, and mending; no washing. Apply Mrs P R. Bradley. Treadwell.
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FOR RENT-Six room furnished house. Apply Alex Whyte, Room II Maloney Block.
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WANTED - Maid for general housework. Apply Mrs. Chas. Gold stein, 324 East 2nd St.
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WANTED--HeIp

WANTED-Laundry girl at Gold Belt Laundry.
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The Junior Red Cross at Peters burg has started a campaign fol health in that community.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09

comes, pauses, seems to mediate; resumes
course, rushes along the ship from end to end III
an arrow, circles about, springs aside, evao3
rears, breaks, kills, exterminates."
The bomb was a regular sized depth chars
weighing hundreds of pounds, and it would nal
been impossible for anyone to have lifted 1t al
carried it to safety even If one OF the crew N
cared to take the risk of catching it in its w
r,shes and rollings about the deck. So the Of
GERS and men stood for a time watching Il
charge as it thrashed madly about, wonderiI
what to do, and not knowing what minute the 4
fernal, machine might explode and send all ham
fying into eternity.
Suddenly someone cried "The pin has COD
out!'
Whether Mackenzie had been In some 9TH
mart of the ship until that moment, or wheth|
he had been standing with the others staring
homeless wonder and was only aroused by Il
cry. reports do not say. But it Is recorded TIL
less than a second after the shout was raised Il
nIucky Yankee boatswain's mate dashed down Il
deck and flung himself on the rolling bomb, mul
after the fashion that football players third
themselves on the ball.
Three times he had his arms about it, but cal
time it tore away, once almost crushing him
the roll of the ship hurled it upon him. III
fourth time, however, he got a firm hold on
and with almost superhuman effort heaved 1t Y
right on one fiat end. Then Mackenzie sat dow
on the deadly ~charge-though even in that \
sition the bomb might have exploded and blov
him to atoms-and succeeded in holding it I'M
lines could be run to him and the charge lash
safely to the deck.
The commanding officer of the Remlik in /
report recommending that the medal Of honor
conferred on Mackenzie. says:
Mackenzie, In acting as he did, exposed I
life and prevented a serious accident and pre-
able loss of the ship and the entire crew. I'll
the depth charge exploded on the Quarterde
with the sea and the wind that existed at the tin
there is no doubt that the ship would have be
lost"
Mackenzie is a native of Massachusetts,. (
home is South Hadley Falls.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09
FUTURE HIDDEN FROM CLAY.

Could the SHADE of Henry Clay, reused from the
slumbers of mere than threescore years by the
%andemonium as 100 engineers tied down their
whistle cords and shrilled forth exultant shrieks,
have trod the atmospheric space from his haunts
in the Blue Grass country to Sault Ste. Marie a
few weeks since, and looked with dull eyes on
the newly finished engineering feat spread out be-
fore his astonished gaze, he would have been
forced to admit that his declaration back In 1910
was at least shOrtsighted.
1T is a work quite beyond the remotest settle
ment of the United States, If not in the moon"
said Henry Clay on that memorable occasion,
when by the power of his silver-tongued oratory
he influenced the congress Of the United States to
defeat a measure by which a canal could be dug
around st. Mary's falls.
He was believed, and the project that now In
finished form ranks in world Importance far great
or than the Suez canal, and In some minds greater
tban the Panama canal, was condemned as i'm
practical. 1t was not until 10 years later that
congress saw It's mistake and yielded to the per-
suasion Of influential citizens Of Michigan and
New York to grant an appropriation OF land
whereby the state of Michigan could finance the
excavation Of a canal. Paul Chandler in Detroit
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09

'but I put on full steam, and the old motorcycle
leaped ahead like a kangaroo.
bling! A big shell busted only ten feet from
my machine. Bang! Another exploded to the
left Of me. and / put on some more steam. Then
a whopper Kissed over me just missing the top of
my tin derby, but 1 kept on going.
Say, once 1 rode a white mule in the circus
that no one else could ride-he broke my arm and
tattooed me with cuts and bruises. The mules
name was Snowfall, and that animal seemed to
have a hundred heels every time / tried to get on
her back. But, believe me. one Boche shell is
worse than a hundred Snowballs.
ut was the hardest work l ever did to dodge
the holes in the road. Bing! A shell plunked
behind me and ripped off my back tire. Bing! A
piece of shrapnel knocked off my helmet, but never
touched me. Then l began to smell mustard gas.
My eyes watered so that 1t was hard for me to
see. l don't know how l did it, but 1 delivered
my message, and when 1 woke up I was in the
hospital.
Talk about mules in q circus! Mustard gas Is
mighty rough stuff, I'm telling you, and it doesn't
help to make speed on a motorcycle, either"
And then, because of his smile and his ability
as an entertainer in the hospital, Klein was nick
named Sunny Charles"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09

abled plane. The pilot was crouched on the top
of the under plane just over the bomb rack with
a heavy wrench in his appraised hand, ready to
strike q blow.
A mile away the first Of the German destroyers
was tearing the sea in its haste to take the broken
plane and get away before the British patrol
should appear. The boy turned and swan away
from the tragedy which he knew was about to
take place.
A few moments later there was the mighty roar
of an explosion, and he heard the swish Of the
air blast along the surface waters and the rush
Of the approaching wave from the sea disturb
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09
Y. M. c. A. IN DARKEST RUSSIA.

The rural group tof the American z. NJ. c.. Il
in Russia) dealt with another need of nation,
magnitude. The mighty Volga basin. covert
more than half a million square miles, is unad
even in normal times wholly to feed the hui
population it holds. E.. T. Cotton in Associate
Men says a floating exhibit was made up to vI3
and Impress the teeming riverside csmmuniti
with the Importance of more sowing. better ID
duction and fuller conservation. A staff Of So wi
organized to demonstrate with models, moving pl
lures, lantern slides, charts and lectures such nd
lected subjects as seed selection, cultivation, dali
Ing. horticulture, animal husbandry, bee keepiu
domestic economy, play life for children ana 9th
aspects of community welfare.
This association conception and undertake.
won instant recognition, the government furnis
ing a steamboat, a barge and some funds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09
How Man Tackled" a Deadly
Depth Bomb and Saved a Ship

TT ISN'T recorded that John Mackenzie, chi
boatswain's mate in the United States navs
- reserve force, was once a great football plat
err, but he was recommended for an honor medS
and a gratuity Of 500 for doing one of the grea'
est football stunts ever reported.
The navy department report shows that on tEi
morning of December IL a depth bomb on boa.
the destroyer Remlik broke loose from its pos
tion on the stern of the craft, and, bursting II
boxing, went bouncing about the deck. A head
sea was on at the time; in fact, the waves wei
breaking far over the stern of the destroyer, ar.
the rolling and pitching Of the little craft ser
the big bomb flying backward and forward to pol
and starboard, crashing into the rails of the We!
sci and hitting everything outstanding on the ded
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09

along this long, straight road between
Ypres and Menin, they would say, as
I say, it is the German who must pay;
it is the German who must risk de-
struction in the effort to put this land
again into condition for cultivation.
I believe that one condition of the
peace treaty should be that Germany,
either as one nation,sor proportionately
from the several small nations that
may be formed out Of the German en-
pire, should call its military classes to
the colors each year as 1t has done In
the past; but in place Of putting guns
into the hands Of these men, and train
ing them for the purposes Of war-a
war of compassionate 1t should put
these men into the territories she has
devastated, to reclaim the soil and to
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed. Let
these Germans, under guard of Bel
gian troops, take the risk of destruc-
ton ; let them guide the pillow that may
strike the unexploded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wagon
of the German soldier while they are
doing this.
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
That would be the nearest thing to
an accounting that Germany q rem
der to the world, but she should pay
NIL that 1t is humanity possible for a
people to pay who have so ruthlessly
despoiled the world. Her people should
pay, and pay, and pay. until they have
learned beyond the shadow Of q doubt
that war for the purpose Of conquest.
for the purpose Of loot. for the graft
~fication Of selfish ambitions, is the
most Improbable business they could
possibly engage In.
And remember that the devastation
to be seer along the road from Ypres
to Menin is but an example Of all the
terrible destruction to bo found
throughout Belgium and northern
France and Serbia and other countries
that have been overrun by the CON
quest-seeking armies Of the Boche,
And remember. too, that 1t is not alone
the devastation that is to be paid for
but 1t is the work and the tears and
the economic loss Of every nation that
was called into the struggle to defeat
the selfish purposes Of q selfish peo
pie, that the world might be a deceni
J place In which free men might 1--we.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09

men was ordered to go into Sergy and to hold a GER
tain street. The Germans were still in the town and
were raking all roads approaching with a storm of
machine gun fire. The platoon emerged from a
wooded shelter on the north bank Of the Ourcq
and made its way across q sloping field toward
the outskirts of the village. There it was met
with a whitening hail of bullets that Immediately
began to thin the ranks, but the men kept on go
ing.
AS the little company drew nearer the town
the fire from the German machine guns increased.
1t became SO deadly accurate that by the time
the platoon had entered the village only 20 odd
of the original so men remained, and James Hy-
land of Brooklyn, N. Y, was one of these 20.
Immediately on entering the town the platoon
made its way to the street it had been ordered to
hold. The men sought shelter behind a pile of
debris at the head of the thoroughfare, a poor
shelter indeed and one swept by machine guns and
snipers from three sides. But the lieutenant in
command, who is now dead, decided that mas
much as his orders were to stay there until re-
lieved, there he would stay.
Every Hun in that end Of the town seemed tn
be directing his undivided attention to the little
company Of Americans behind its fimsy shelter.
The snipers were everywhere. A particularly
deadly fire came from machine guns placed In a
Red Cross building so fierce was it that the men
spent nearly all Of their ammunition trying to get
those guns, and finally rushed the building, but
they had to come back.
Foodless and w~aterless, they stayed there all
that day. AS the hours dragged on, the gallant
band grew smaller and smaller. By afternoon all
Of the officers had been killed and the privates
elected commanders, who one by one were shot
down.
When relief reached them at seven o'clock that
evening Hyland and one comrade-whose name
isn't given-wers all that were left Of the so who
started out in the morning. Hyland was in COM
mand, and the two men were shooting their last
cartridges at the machine gunners up the street
they had been ordered to hold.
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zroadways, and the families that culti-
waited the fields lived not on the little
farms but in closely built villages Of
from 100 to 500 people each.
Devastation Is Complete.
1t is hard to realize today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
along this long, straight road was eve
cultivated, yer produced foodstuffs
for a people. In fact, 1t is hard to
realize today that this was ever an in
.habited country.
OF these peaceful villages, the living
places Of these farm people, there is
no trace left. There are not even piles
of debris, of broken brick and stone
and lumber, to mark the spots where
they stood. There is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear
lily dragging themselves back to that
spot which had been home to them and
to their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can mark the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood
I have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years Of exile,
stand beside this road and gaze long
ingiy over the devastated landscape,
in an effort to locate some familiar OBJ
ject that would remind them Of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
even one small object that would tell
them Of the homes, the only homes,
they had known.
1t was German ambition, German
cruelty, German lust, German wanton-
ness, German brutality, that were the
cause Of the destruction Of these
homes. Of the agonies Of a peaceful,
thrifty people.
What can possibly compensate these
people for their loss, for the misery
they have suffered and must still suf-
fer, for the homes and the associations
that are gone foreverf No, Germany
can never. pay In full, but she can con-
'tinue to pay and pay and pay until
there has been bred out OF the German
people that desire for war, that love
of conquest, that brutality. that 1t has
taken centuries, almost. to breed into
them. and which has resulted in laying
a whole world waste.
In nu that 20 miles between Ypres
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09
GERMANY MUST PAY'
Nation win Never Be Able TO
Make Amends for Damage.
FERTILE SOIL is DESTROYED
annumerahIs unsxpIoded Shells VIII
Make Cultivation Preearieus-
Doubtful 10 Land Can 30
Reclaimed.
BY WRIGHT a. PATTERSON.
What must Germany pay for?

What must Germany pay for?
That question can be adequately an
severed only when 1t is remembered
that Germany started the terrible con-
4iict in Europe for no reason other
than that of conquest and loot; start
ed it only to satisfy the selfish ambi-
lions OF a selfish people for world
domination. That Is being admitted
today by what is left OF the German
nation; 1t Is admitted by those who
were directly responsible for the war.
And it is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that Of conquest and loot that Ger
many yves to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought. not only in so far as she
can pay now, but in so far as she can
pay for generations yet to come.
Among the many, many sections Of
Belgium and northern France that I
personally covered, following closely
ON the heels Of the ~retreating Hun
army, was that which lies between
what were the cities Of Ypres and
Menin, approximately 20 miles apart.
Here, before the coming Of the inyad-
ing Boche, was what was considered
the most productive soil of the world,
and the most intensely cultivated.
Here in a number Of farm villages
1ived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul-
tiyating the small fields which 1t
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them of from the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-09

and Menln, on both sides Of that long,
straight road, ! am sure I did not see
n square foot of soil that was not
a part Of a shell crater. What Ind
once been the richest soil Of the
world is today but a waste, made so
by the shells that fell upon 1t be-
cause Germany sought world domlna-
ton. This soil has been destroyed by
countless thousands Of shells falling
actually one upon another, each dig
ging deeper into the earth until the
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultiva-
ton for years to come, II indeed 1t can
ever be reclaimed.
UnexpIoded sheils Buried In Soil.
There lie today on the surface Of
this land many thousands Of unex-
ploded shells, and there r buried in
the soil many, many thousands more,
each one Of them a menace to any
farmer who attempts to put a plow
into the soil In an effort to reclaim 1t.
And this land is destroyed, as the
homes were destroyed. because OF Ger
man ambition, Of German cruelty, Of
German lust, of German w%antonness
and German brutality.
Who is to pay for it? Who is to
risk destruction that it may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
it may serve the purposes of the hui
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants, who had no part in the start
ing of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation? Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years Of homeless agonies,
who have suffered not alone the loss
!of homes and land but the loss OF
| relatives and friends as well, be the
ones to risk destruction In the effort
to again bring these lands back to q
condition where cultivation is posi-
BILE? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting of these shells, hidden as
they are beneath the surface Of the
ground, when the pillow strikes and ex.
plodes them? If u~ndisturbed, those
shells continue to be a menace for
years to come, but who r to risk
their lives in removing them?
Could the American people gener
ally, and especially the American farm
ers, have seen the sights / have seer