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TUESDAY MAY 23 1916.
The final decision of congress
regarding the amount of prepar
edness of a distinctly military
nature needed by this country
will probably be something of a
disappointment to those who
have hoped for a colossal mili
tary establishment but we opine
that it is well in Record with tnc
ideas of the great majority of the
American people.
Compared to the tremendous
military forces of the European
powers an army of one hundred
and seventy five thousand looks
pitifully small and weak but this
is solely the result of compari
son.
Figuring in the state troops,
which will also be a party of the
regular forces, we will have un
der the terms of the army bill
about two hundred thousand
military units available some
time within the next five years.
This will be quite a respectable
army when we get it.
With a force of two hundred
thousand men we could proba
bly clean up all the lesser fry if
it come to a case of trouble. Also
it will probably be capable of
holding in check such forces as
might be landed upon our coasts
by one of the larger military
powers. In a general sense it
may be held that an army of
such proportions is all that we
need except under extreme cir
cumstances. The main thing is to
have an army of sufficient size
to meet probable emergencies.
Several nations possess armies
numbering millions but in no
sense does this signify that we
must possess military forces of
equal size in order to be safe
from their aggression. Unless
we allow our naval defenses to
become so weak that an enemy
would have fret access to our
coasts there is very little pros
pect that we would be compelled
to meet the attack of more than
a small portion of the army of
any nation, no matter how great
its maximum military strength
might be.
Always we must look to the
sea for our greatest defense for
as long as the nation shall en
dure our fate \viII depend upon
what use we make of the far
spreading waters engirding our
shores. If our coasts are defend
ed by an adequate naval force
there is little reason to anticipate
that an extensive, military force
can effect an invasion.
Failing in this principal means
of defense, however, we will be
practically helpless unless we
adopt militarism of the most pro
nounced tvpe and maintain an
armv numbering millions. ’We
need no better example than is
furnished by England to per
ceive that a great army is not
needed for defensive purposes
provided the naval strength is
adequate to meet all demands.
ALASKA NOTES
A receiver has been appointed
for the Valdez brewery.
The Seward water system has
been sold to Eastern capitalists
for S;zoo,ooo.
Petersburg, has again taken up
the question of a regular boat
service to Sitka.
A Seattle paper notes the ship
ment from that place to the- East
of eight cars of halfcut.
•Calling up old times, the Sew
ard Gateway says: Seventy*
two below zero is the coldest
that any thermometer has been
known to register in Alaska
since the discovery of the Klon
dike, and even that chilly stage
is believed to be due rather to
the thermometer itself than the
climate. Thermometers of close
to To below have frequently been
reached, and while speaking of
it and remembering our sad
plight now when the stove isn’t
drawing well and the water for
washing is not quite hot enough
it may be worth remembering
that in the good old days hun
dreds of fellows slept in tents
when the mercury clung to fifty
and sixty with a sort of warm
tC'ection and persistency
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Mrs. Emily Miller, of Seward,
has started suit against Dr.Chas.
Daggett for $6,000, claiming that
amount for alleged damages re
sulting from dental work. Dr.
Daggett says that the suit was
not unexpected and that he is
prepared to defend the case.
The big American freight
steamer Seward, which sailed
from Seattle January 14 with a
cargo of railroad supplies and
war munitions for the Russian
government, put in at Latouche
with her ,steering gear broken
and part of her deckload of lum
ber gone.
The contemplated building of
at least two new salmon can
neries at Ketchikan coupled with
a return of outside money to the
mining industry will mean a
lively season for the Alaska town
says O. S. Thomas, a Ketchikan
hotelmen. T“he two canneries
are certain,” he said, “and rum
ors are very prevailent that a
great^deal of the outside capital
drawn out of the mining indus
at the start of the war is now
timing back.”
Washington officials have ad
vised Seward and Anchorage to
pull together and abandon the
spirit of rivalry which new exists
Valdez feels the need of ad
ditional fire aparatus, and the
council is being urged to supply
the department with the neces
sary equipment to properly and
efficiently combat the flames.
George W. Pennington, of
l airbanks, is w-rhing a history
of the Pioneers of Alaska, in
w'hich he will give a general
description of everything in con
nection with life in the early
'■^^^^hc^Northland^andthe_
hardships endured by the pio
neers. The work will require
considerable research and it will
therefore be some time before
history is completed. He is his
torian of the Fairbanks Igloo.
C jld weathe- on Kenai penin
sula ic responsible for the death
of many wM animals. One
ina,i states that in traveling one
mile he enc c.itered no less than
seven catcarses of young moose
Two u.tives were fine*! recent
ly in the Keren district tor mak
ing hootch. They were tried
and found guilty in the commis
sione's court ' n ■ unite man
was fined $225 for letting a na
tive have some home brew. He
paid the fine.
The All Alaska Review de
clares that there are mighty few
people in Alaska who have given
study enough to the subject or
have confidence enough in the
proposal to convince them that
statehood at the present time is
anything more than a dream.
I he Rev. A. Kedroski, who
committed suicide in New York
the day before he and his family
were to have sailed for Russia,
spent the past summer on Sanak
Island, near the outer end of
the Alaska peninsula, and it was
thought there that he was de
mented.
The heating plant building of
the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka
caught fire The building is a
total loss, but the machinery
seems to be undamaged with the
exception of the smokstack. It
is estimated it will cost $450 to
put the plant in shape for opera
tion again.
Do you road tho Daily Nuggst an
Vrop abreast of tha doing* of th* ou*
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