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Trains Leave Fairbanks 5:00 a. m. LUESDAYS-4RIDAYS ONLY To connect with trains from North Nenana Alaskan Engineering Com mission. Mm. RENIO wishes to announce that her serv ices can be called upon at %2 per reading The young can be bene fited as well as the older, in shap ing their future. 14« FOURTH FOR Wood, Vegetables or Poultry PHONE RICKERT CALL 55 Also 3 Horses Tor 8ale LET US help you save time temper and money Have your laundry done WET WASH 8 cents the pound New Cascade Laundry Hhone 171 MODERN fland Laundry Including all kind* of FANCY SILKS and FINE FLANNELS. Repairing ourtaine a specialty. Mrs. T. W. Wells Fifth Avenue and Lacy Street. GEISHA GIRLS GO ON STRIKE HONOLULU. T 1L, (By Mail) Japanese Geisha girls of Honolulu have won a short-lived strike for an increase in pay and hereafter will re ceive $1.50 an hour, an increase of fifty cents over the former rate. Tea garden proprietors will pass the ad ditional entertainment cost on to their patrons. The Geisha girls demanded the increase because of the high cost of living. Rice has gone up several dollars a sack. FRENCH MILITARY SUPPRESS GERMAN PAPERS ON RHINE BERLIN. (By Mail)—French au thorities in the zone of occupation are now systematically censoring and sup pressing the German newspapers which are coming into unoccupied Germany, according to the Frankfort Gazette. “ROOSEVELT AND TREVELYAN” IS SECOND PAPER COVERING LIFE OF FORMER AMERICAN PRESIDENT NEW YORK. (By Mail) Delving into the mine of l.lo.OOn I• 111 r- vliii t Thedorc Roosevelt wroB during his public career. Joseph Hucklin Bishop tile colonel's biographer, in the Ik tober issue of Scribner's inagazim brings to light a numbei oi "gems' in tin intimate correspondence In tween the former President of tic United States and Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart . o M English statesman and author, with whom the great American enjoyed a ran friendship covering 20 years. Mr. Bishop's paper, the second of ot tile series, entitled. "Roosevelt and Trevelyan" reveals the many sided Roosevelt as "an insatiable reader of books.” Ills warm sympathy lor an tliors and his broad and profound knowledge of ancient and modern lit ■ erature. Even amid the cares of I the Presidency. Mr Roosevelt it i | shown, maintained a regular cones ponjenee with leaders of liBoaturc and intellectual life both in this conn i try and Europe. In Sir George Trov clean, a nephew of the historian Mac Mttlay. he found a man singularly re sponsive to his own intelh etual tastes and knowledge The cones • pond ence began when lie was Gov enoi oi New York and continued until a lew months before Mr Roosevelt’ death. "1 certainly would not In willing hold the Presidency at the cost of tailing lo do the things which make tiie real reason why I care to nnld it t all.” he wrote to Sir Georg' oil May 3S, 1904. “I had much it 1 • r be a real President for three ears and a half than a figurehead for - in years and a half. I think ( can truthfully say that I now have to my credit a sum of substantial arl'h-ve nient and the rest must take care of itself.” •Previously, in 1S99. Trevelyan had sent Govenor Roosevelt a copy oi (lie first part of his history. "The \ trier i can Revolution." which made i de..p impression on its recipient and vv 1 ich he praised for “its interest, delightful humor, absolute fairmindedness and exactness nf narrative," an opinion which was shared by Senator I.odg. and Elihu Root, botli of whom lari r joined with Roosevelt in buying a ilver loving-cup and sending it to •Sir George as a token of their ippre eialion Roosevelt, his biographer says, was always on the alert for writers of only “even moderate fame” and of encouraging them with friendly letters and invitations to visit hint at the White House or Oyster Bay The books that made the P:v-idenl happy covered a remarkable range history, fiction; philosophy, travel, zoology, ornithology, anthropology , re ligion and art and he said they gave him ease and relaxat on In could get in no other way, "not even on .orse hack." Statements and apothegms clia" acteristically Rooseveltian abound it1 this collection of letters. Some Of them are here reproduced for .lie first time in any newspaper: A great tree people owes ii id u self and to mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.” “Unfortunately for us. -mat! men do most of the historic teaching in the colleges. The great histor an must have the scientific spirit, able to marshal and weigh the facts." “The Presidential office tends 10 i ut a premium upon a man’s keeping out of trouble rather than upon his ac complishing results. The electorate is very apt to vote with its back to the future.” "I do not think the average Ameri can mult-millionaire a very high type and I do not much admire him. On tlie whole our people are, spiritually as well as materially, on the average better and not worse off than they were 100 years ago.” “Each man knows where his own shoe pinches. 1 have had a most vivid realization of what it must have meant to Abraham Lincoln, in the midst of the heartbreaking anxieties of the Civil War, to have to take ui his time to satisfy candidates for j postmaster " There are numerous and grave • vi!.- incident to free* government, hut 1 .tile r all is said and done I cannot ; magim am real man being willing i to li\ under any oilie r system." “Benedict Arnold What a base web was sheet thru tin- wool of his wild daring He was at heart * I.liciter. that child of thunder and lovei Of the* battle's hottest he1it." The more 1 re ad Carlyle the more heart> grows my contempt for his roiouml untruthfulness and for his shrieking deification of shams.” "I have newer understood public | me n who ge t nervous about assassi nation (Written shortH after the | attack upon h life in Milwauk. ** in 11*12.) For the last 11 years I have ot course, understood that I might at an> time- he -hot and probably would he* -hot some time. I think 1 have eonn off uncommonly w< II I cannot understand any serious-minded nub lie' man not being so absorbed in the ".real and vital questions with which i In- has to deal as to exclude I hots |-*t a. .-assination It is not a ques tion <>i courage ." Colonel Roosevelt, in what was iwohah one of his last letters to Sir J 11 eorge in 191s. referred to the- fact i that hi- lour on and a .mi in law were fighting for the allies. After | t l.i ring to them in terms of uffec* j t’oii and that he would nol for am I thing “have them anywhere eHe.” he | . onluth el ! fear we would welcome j their reurn home, each with an arm .i : o that the\ could feed I that tin y had played their parts man i mil;., and ' et wo could have them back." HORSE RACING GRAZE STRIKES MERRY ENGLAND LONDON (,/P) There is more bel ting Ilian ever on horsi racing thru cut England, according to one of the leading London bookmaking i firms, as tho every one was trying to make up for the wartime period when racing a- well as betting was i suspended. "It is not only that more people | are .betting,'' said the head of the concern,” but they are wagering larger sums. The small man who ustd to have his ‘tanner’ on a race now risks his shilling or half crown, while the clubman who formerly was content to wager a son reign not bets a fiver. * "I have been in business for 3.r> years, and I have never made such hooks as this year over the derby and other classics. “Another point about present day betting," continued the bookmaker, "is the number of women who back horses. Fifteen years ago 1 don’t think we had a dozen women cus tomers. Now we have hundreds. I don’t know where they get their information, but some of the biggest checks we have drawn this year have been for women. "They nearly always pay too, when they lose. Of course, we get an oc casional defaulter, as we do among our men customers. But take them all around they are just as sporting over the business as any of the men we have on our books.” S SUGGEST USE PILLBOXES IN ENGLAND AS INCUBATORS LONDON. (By Mail) Pillboxes, 'milt during the dark days of the war wlu ii England was fortified against possible invasion, are still standing, and some correspondents writing to newspapers sugest they be utilized as chicken coops or incubators. A light draft boat that a French man has invented consists of two ! cigar shaped floats supporting a 1 frame on which a man sits and drives it with pedals geared to an aerial propeller. The Weekly Citizen CONTAINS All the news of the week taken from The Daily Citizen. It has a large circulation in eveiy camp in the interior. Just the thing to send your fnends outside. The best advertising medium to reach all the peo ple in the outlying districts. GERMANS WOULD TEACH YANKEES “HOW TO FIGHT” RERUN' (Ry Mail! The Spanish embassv In Rerlin which is in charge of American affairs pending the rati fication of the peace treaty has re f' ived so many applications from reg ular German army officers who want to serve in the American limit that it i.as posted a big sign on the milt door announcing that -noli applies tions will not be accepted and that it is useless to apply. The number of applicants since has gradually d" cn ased but still then1 arc some Some of those seeking commission ■n ti * American army urged that !net 1 could he of value in "teaching the Americans how to fight " There has been a rush also of Gei ; man officers to join othei forme enemy or neutral armies Tin ippli '■ants were ready to serve in either j the American. British. Japanese, Ar gentine or even the French forces. Every correspondent in Germany, regardless of hi- nationality has been; bombarded with queries and personal applications In vain did they assure the officers that their armies would under no circumstances accept G»t-j man officers. In vain th«* explanaiion - was made that all the entente- armies were overburdened with officers and were making every effort to demobo . lize them. Argentine has heroine more or less the mecca of the would he emigrants from Germany became it has advertised thru it- consulaf* o’ ag? ieultural laborers and has offer ■d inducements in the way of lie. j land. However those who want ! mo t to leave Germany want least t<» go to farming. For those who really want to take up agriculture the \i | online invitation is still attractive Others determined to reach the I i I*Tilled States by a round about route; sees in Argentine an opportune*, to ; r< ilize tlieir ambition by first going 1 to Argentine and then taking a eleme nt going on to the United Stato Those who contemplate this ruse | overlook the possiblity of trouble both, j in Argentine and the first American; port they reach A voting G •rnuin ! woman sat in a Berlin hotel lobby , last night telling lie. companion- • m a voice loud enough for by .-'and * - t« hear that she intended to get ; 'o America thru the Argentine route l neces.-ary by -wearing that -In ’ a ! j been in the United States befor- >h* I admitted that this was untrue but | added that “ a little white lie could do no harm.” Many German writers on ininii 1 ■nation urge that Germany can ill | I spare a single man, the taxes he j i pays or the labor he does. They also ( ! -inf out that hotel keepers of Bel him and Italy have resolved not to I I employ Germans for 10 years and ilia' 1 “> years must elapse before the Ger I’i an may live in China or Singapore, j They declare that the American work- j , men will oppose German immigration to the utmost because of the possible! ! effect of wages and say a similar j mimical spirit exists in Australia and dlier 'British dominions. w* ' -— LEIPSIC, (By Mail) Robert S. j Schmidt, Germany’s food and ro I nomie minister in a speech at the j Leipsic Fair said Germany was “sick with two diseases, lack if raw ma terials and fuel.” “During my visit to the Fair build ings,” he said, “I heard constant com plaints about the lack of coal. We have the workers and we have the orders in plenty, we can easily get millions, even billions of orders. But when I asked each individual exhi bitor why he did not accept orders he replied invariably that he lacked raw material and fuel. It is true that every effort is being made to force Germany back into an inferior place, not in the usual way of competition tiut thru political methods. German trade however, will build its way in world trade for no power can prevent the hunger for goods where it can be advantageously satisfied. “People are accusing us of again having recourse to the 'dumping sys tem.' We do not merit this accusa tion. anil I must deny it most energet icall.v. I have the hope that in spite of all binderances we will soon climb up to prosperity if work and construc tive itower, raw materials and coal are placet! at our disposal in sufficient quantities. “We need the world market. The 1 pressure will be removed from G: r niany, and we will get credit abroad. Wo must be convinced that we are again to climb. This people is not to be destroyed economically. If ali energies revive 1 hope that we are not at the end of our rope, but that the German people will overcome these sad days and that the joyful times will come again. 1 am build ing on the never failing creative pow er of our industry, our technique, art and science.” SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN., | UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK I at Fairbanks. Alaska. RESOURCES OVER $1,000,000 Under Government Supervision. i__ Spuds, Turnips, Carrots, Parsnips, Cabbage Fairbanks made Whole Wheat Flour and Wheat for the Chickens delivered in any quantity Tanana Valiev Agricultural Ass'n Inc. PHONE G6Y Nordale Hotel Fairbanks’ First Class Hotel Fully Equipped Soda Fountain And Full Line of Candies and I obaccos CATERS TO SMALL DANCING AND CARD PARTIES . BUY TODAY That Heating Stove, Range, Tank or Yukon. “57” varieties, both new and second hand. Made in Fairbanks for Fairbanksans. Lang stoves a specialty. STOVES to fit any need, prices to fit any pocketbook. ’ A. L. 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