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THE DAILY ALASKA CITIZEN Publ a: d ever* mcrning except Monday tom The Citizen Block. Garden Island. Alaska. J. H. CASKEY . Proprietor Editor and Manager JOHN E. PEGUES Suoscribers will confer j favor If they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or u regularity in the delivery of their papers * MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATES' PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republicaticn of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local new* published fere n Entered as second-class matte' October 27, 1916 a* the post office at Fairbanks Alaska, undrr the Act of March 3, 1879____ ^ __ 2 6 2 BI.ACkl ACkS I X \N ARM Y OF FRFF.1H ).M ( Christian Science Monitor. ) It i> not at all pleasant, tor Americans who take a jumper j'lide in the work ot the hundreds ot thousands ot young men who served with the colors in the Fttrojiean war, to be told that conditions o) discipline lor those young men were not all that they should have been. It is somewhat disheartening tor any body ot jieojde who felt that the American army was bieng 11-e< 1 in the cause of world justice and world liberty to hear that the conditions within that army itself were not altogether such as accord with liberty and justice. Yet if there was any thing wrong, it there is anything tangible vehind some ot the conijdaints that are being brot back from over seas by the American soldiers, it is only fitting that somebody should do just what Congress man Frederick \\ . Dallinger, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now doing in the United States house of representatives, and bring the tacts before the public. Apparently the Massachusetts congress man is satisfied with the good faith of those who have brot this army situation to his at tention. He appears to feel that his inform ants have spoken trom some motive vastly more considerable than am leeling of petty malice or revenge. And where there is so much smoke as mm appears to be rising from the neighborhood ol these charges, it yvould not be surprising to discover more or less tire. Prom all that can be gathered, so far, certain officers of the American expedition ary force in Prance allowed their efforts to enforce discipline to lead them into practices oi sucli cruelty ami brutality as merit, in Congressman Dallinger's opinion, characteri zation as “horrors that hark back to barbar ism." It is charged that men yvere yvhipped, beaten yyith “blackjacks" lot comparatively trilling ol lenses; that soldiers in the prison camps yvere pounded in the face for such a matter as being out ol line; that men were herded in stables, so closely that in some in stances as many as sixteen yvere forced to sleep within the coniines of a tyvo-horse stall. It is charged also that money and personal possessions were taken from the men yvith lit tle or no pretense of accounting therefor by any record, and that it yvas a common thing to "see a sergeant knock a man doyvn or beat him up on the slightest provocation.” Perhaps there yvould be someyvhat less readiness to give credence to statements of this nature it they yvere the first that had been made yyith respect to the methods and prac tices ol American officers in their dealings yvith enlisted men during the period of the war. But, unfortunately, these things are no nov'elty. Phe disclosures in connection with court-martial procedure yvere sufficient to un settle the national confidence yyith reference to the conduct ol ot fivers, if they yvere not enough actually to give the impression that, amongst a large number of relatively young and inexperienced inert, the sudden opportun ity to exercise authority in a large way led swiftly to the abuse of that authority. li the disclosures as to courts-martial [ were not the whole story, if there is more and worse yet to be told, let us, in spite of the shame of it, have it all now. Without any question, the people of the United States want to know the worst that their boys in service had to put up with. They want to know it without delay, and without regard to the per sons that may become involved. Things are at a sorry pass, indeed, if an army of free men in this day and generation must still be saddled with the disciplinary notions of a bar baric past. OUR AIR SERVICE (Kansas City Star.) After September 30 the army air service, as it was created tor the emergency of the war, will cease to exist. W hat remains will be such organization as has been developed in the regular army, and which amounts, ac cording to a statement of Senator W adsworth, chairman of the senate military affairs com • mittee, to practically nothing at all. Pin- en tire thing corps, almost without exception, was made up ot national arm) men who are to he released bv the war department within the next two months, notwithstanding that mam ot them, according to Senator Wadsworth, want to remain in the service. Phis action ot the war department is surprising in view of the situation in Mexico and ot our tormer experience in sending an expeditionary force across the border without adequate air support . But this is not the only surprising thing about the condition in which the air service will be left In the break up ot the emergency organization. At the mo ment when this is taking place congress is appropriating 25 million dollars in the armv bill for an air service. The house fixed the amount at 15 millions, w hich was increased hv the senate to 45 millions. The 25 millions stand as the result of a conference com promise. While the amount is not great, compared to the expenditures we became accustomed to in the war, it would seem it should provide a considerable personnel for actual flying operations- it being remembered that the war department already has the equipment. There are now, according to figures given in the sen ate, three thousand planes in storage. About an equal number have been sold at prices ranging as low as 10 per cent of their actual cost. But we learn from Senator Wadsworth that this 25 million dollars will not provide am fliers. Not one will be added to the small number—a dozen is the highest estimate the military committee chairman would make now contained in the regular army organiza tion. What, then, is the 25 million dollars to go for? The answer is, for administrative work. It seems incredible, but here are Sen ator Wadsworth’s words: “There will not be a single emergency otticer m the army alter September 30 because of the limited appro priation made. This will have the effect ot cutting down the number of the officers in the air service to 232. All of these will be needed for administrative duties, so in effect we will have no fliers at all. There may be ten or a dozen in the regular army who can be spared from administrative work for fly ing, but that is all.” For 25 million dollars, then, we are to get twelve fliers and 232 administrative offi cers, or deskmen. These are not (lying desks either, but the ordinary kind that stand on the tloor. That is, in round fgiures, twenty desks and twenty adminisli alive ollicers to each plane and each flier. And even these twelve fliers are not regular tliers. They, too, are administrative officers, but might occasional be "spared” for flying duty in a pinch. The ordinary layman will find it hard to understand what there is to administer in a living service that doesn’t fly. The army’s three thousand planes are in storage. The\ might require a night watchman, hut oufsidt of such administration—which ought to be had for something less than 25 million dol lars—what other administrative duties doe* their, care demand? These planes cost more money than can readily be reckoned. At least a billion dollars. They are now laid up in a shed -those that have not been sold at tre mendous loss—and the men trained to fly them, at further huge cost, have been dis charged. The army is, or is about to be, with out any air service at all at a time when inter vention in Mexico, perhaps on an extended scale, is openly discussed as a ttear possibility. Twelve fliers—who would leave the adminis trative forces crippled—and 232 other admin istrative officers who would have to do theit own work and that of the twelve, are all the army would have for air support. The other 2,988 planes which have no fliers would re main in the shed. Is this the kind of an air service Ameri ca is to get out of its war expenditure and its war lessons? An administrative service mere ly—without fliers—at a cost of 25 million dollars and its planes kept in a warehouse? The other day a man walked into an ein ployment agency in Chicago and got a job at $4 a day. It’s a thing that happens every day, hundreds of times a day. Yet every paper in the city carried the story. 'Fhe man, you see, was 87 years old and had once been a millionaire. He could have gone to the poorhouse. He could have applied to the United Charities. But something with in forbade. He had lost money and place and the fair weather friends who go with such gifts of fortune. The companions of his youth and lusty manhood had passed over the Great Riv er. Likewise, doubtless his wife and perhaps his children. He was living in a strange world. Yet his spirit was undefeated; and to be undefeated under such circumstances connotes nobility of soul. It is heroism. That is why the papers printed the story. They recognized that defeat, like happiness, comes from within, not from without—that no man is beaten until he cries “Enough!” They paid a tribute to his indomitable courage. So, tierewith, do we.—Juneau Empire. I 111' If R A AM' CKT Y'HR TRKKT FOR TIIK BIK KXl'l RSK l\ -l " NKNANA Ri 'AT WII.I. I IIAVi: IIKRK AT 7 Oil c'l'I.orK SATI’R l>AY MORNIN'Il Ri'TKRNS n\ Sl'NII.W \ltho it • i-tiied tor n while that it ollld b ■ ill) possible to Mt ,’ept tile | tTer 111.ole b\ tin* Nell,ilia hall Isiin anti fans, arrangement; have finalh '■•an made for transportation t<* tie low* ! town and he big ba hall • \ . Ill's ion is srbeiiuled to have here at j seven o’clock sharp Saturda> morn ng Tin local ball plaxer lia\e clia '- i | *•<1 the steamer Tanana and the e.xcui sion is being given b\ them Pin**-i gam* - of the rlas ie • t baseball *■ v«• i , played h for*• in assemblage of In i1 i ior tans aiv promised t*» those who make the trip Satnrdav F’a: t : nines. Iiave proven that the local boss and iln* Wnana team are on a par when it «•»»m**: t<» plating tie* national mie and even one i a* cured of a run !m hi- money. Reservation?* may he made at '' 1‘ioneer hotel and it is advi . cl that * > • ’i ' *»n*- do this as early a. p*.s.- ible i the berths are being lak* n fast Tile bo\ have placed tin- sound1 trip fa re a t ten dollars Tin , ai »* not chartering; the boat as a nunc > making proposition and onl\ desire* to clear their chartering price. t »n the return trip the Tanana will h ave Nenana beofre * n ok Im k Sim day ev• nine and will no doubt arrive im i’ t immi i II ill'* Hi li H l*. \ | i ill*l Ml* Mil in-* II.'. arranging ihi tine * lndub those going down will he ore. <1 to In •* only one (lav’s woi k Nenana ha been informed that the exmisiun i • otiiing and it i a in. bet that they will be on hand to give the visitor* a ■ rand welcome. Ii i also minuted j fha- Fairbanksans with identv t.f ] inone.v will have no trouble in |ihn in: d on their home team. l’he exact lineup "t the t* am going | down has not yet been named hut it will probably he the ame that play.*.! her. last Sunday. Tin* Nenana bn i ne* s men and tv i«|.*nt ha v «• made a lMit.se of fiv. Hundred dollars, a um well wor.h playing hard for. And last hilt by no mean- least, a hand of at lea t eleven members will | accompany the excursionist." This' has already teen arranged and will ho one of the main features of the lup Allho nothing definite is known, F:ere will, in all probahlilv. be a big bailee at the Inion hall in Nenana 'alurdav in honor of the Fairhank. visitors. Those planning to make the D'p are urged not to delay in making reservations as they may be disap , pointed iu obtaining the rooms tiny I sire, ill* tieke.s are going so fast. SEVERAL LEAVE ON THE ALASKA STEAMER GETS AWAY FOR DAW | SON AT SEVEN OVLOi'K YES TF/RDAY AFTERNOt >N. Tin Alaska, with a good sized pas sengfcr list, left yesterday evening for Dawson at 7 p. m. Among those going (nit was Volney Richmond, general I superintendent of the N (’. company who is hooked for Dawson having completed his season’s work in tin* Interior. From Dawson in* will pro ved to the states. A number of those who came up from Nenana to attend the baseball series returned home on the steamer last evening. The complete pa. ■ eng. r list follows: For Seattle— Mrs 1 Richardson. Mis :*gi,d Richardson, deceased, Mrs. L. En stunn. Ralph Enstmm. J. If. Page. For Dawson— Miss E M. McGown, Volney Rich mond. tor Tnlovana— George Preston, George Hunter. For Tanana— M. (J. Masterson. 11 For Nenana— Lillian Shaffer. M. McLean. Mi;: , Dolly Martin, Elphida Mellish. Mrs 1 Leon Kell uni ..ge Kennedy. Sarah < Laendo, Mrs. A. Byron. For Minto— J I. Campbell. J ROADHOUSE MAN SPENDS A FEW HOURS IN TOWN Arriving early yesterday morning on the Tanana, in fact ie ing the onh passenger to come in on Ibal boat and leaving yesterday evening on Ihe Alaska, J. H. Campbell, proprietor of ^ Minto roadliou.se, spent a few hours in town. Business necessitated his making Ihe trip and his interests down the river compelled him to re turn as soon as possible. M DICTIONARIES Pocket and other Styles } McIntosh & Kubon, Druggists. ; f i UNITED STATES DEPOSITOR1* THF FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Fairbanks. Alaska I lihSODKCKIi OYI k Under Government Supervision | Fairbanks Lod^e No. l:i!>2 LOYALOKDFKofMOOSF M* *1 ins’ in. Li liii<I m l li \\ -,ln» lays of oio li month, at Moo * Mali. Pith \\«- holvvtiii i'a Inti.m a !:.in •tto. I II. MILI.r/FTM. S<rr»iai\, First \ 11 ionaI I'atiK I'.niMiiu Flh >\| AS »' Vi H * I. I . Did a lor SOFT DRINKS ] Fresh Fruits, the finest quality of Bulk and ] Box Candies, Cigars, Iohacco, Etc. Pool, Billiard and Cards You'll find the Hunch at the I'ioneei The most popular place in town HIC A M S Leaves from the Nordale Hotel 9:30 A. M. I)A3LY' Fairbanks Creek Fox, Coldstream, Gilmore, Fedro Creel, and Cleary Summit I’ASSHNGKk AND LK LIGHT SLk‘\ 1CL Competent and reliable drivers. Best Autos \ on take nu chance of walking. LAUNCH “VICTORY" Fast and Reliable Service v 1,eaves lor Nenana every other day until permanent schedule is announced FAIRBANKS OFFICE NENANA OFFICE Pioneer Hotel The “Terminal” Palace Baths I’ourth Ave. Next to ('.onion's C.l.n- MOck Tub, Shower, Steam, Scrub, Turkish Soft, clear water from well on premises ( liililren with parents 25c a hath. Open ila\ and <,t• *h 1 I*. I.’HKURKOX. 1 Toj. SSrow**** ►Sisafl** II. S. MAIL Fairbanks to Minina FARE . $40.00 [*or reservations see 1\. M. Broun, Agent, or Toni O’Hara, Manager, Nordale Hotel FRESH SHIPMENT PETALU 1 EGGS $1.00 per dozen $27.00 per case j } NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO. \ “Alaska’s Largest Outfitters” f