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Food will win
the War;
don’t waste it!
HALF PAST EIGHT.
HALF past eight's the meanest tlmsl
When I'm seated In my chair
And I see m.v breakfast there.
Then that little clock will chime.
Up looks father o’er his plate:
"Hurry, son. or you'll be late;;
It’s half past eight "
AFTER school, though I do thing*—
Fly my kite or play baseball—
Till 1 hear our Hannah call
When the supper bell she ring*.
After ten they light the grate,
And I read there while I wait
For half past eight
SEEMS to me I haven’t read
Half a page when 1 hear pa
Put his paper down, and—’’Ma,
It’s time for John to go to bed!”
So I have to yield to fate
If there's any time I hate
It’s half past eight!
—Johnson Morton
ROW ON IN ALASKA
Alaska apparently is not greatly
pleased with the appointment by
President Wilson of Thomas Riggs,
Jr., to succeed Governor J. P. Strong,
and it is intimated that an effort will
be made to prevent the confirmation
of the nomination in the senate. The
"innards” of the controversy have
not been generally aired, but it is
evident that the situation has arisen
as the result of a factional fued.
Just what fault the president found
with Governor Strong—if his atti
. tude was anything more than a rec
ognition of the opposing faction—has
not been disclosed. The common im
pression has been that Mr. Strong has
been an able governor. However, Mr.
Riggs, who was a member of the Al
aska railroad commission and who
has been a resident of Alaska since
1897, appears to huve a solid back
ing and in the test of strength with
the Strong forces he has unhorsed his
opponent.
Incidentally, the Seattle Post-In
telligencer, takes a monitory hand in
the fray by dashing oil on the troub
lous waters and counseling the inter
ment of the hatchet for Alaska’s good.
"The appointment of Mr. Riggs, if
press dispatches foretell the future
correctly,” says the Seattle paper, “is
likely to precipitate a controversy
that can do the territory no good. To
outsiders the service rendered to Al
aska by Mr. Strong seems to have been
especially valuable and worthy of ap
preciation, and it is hardly to be as
sumed that his conduct in the future
would be based on any other consid
eration than Alaska's best interests.
If there were any faults In Governor
Strong’s administration they were too
small to be seen at this distance, no
matter how large they may have ap
peared at home, and Alaskans should
bear in mind their peculiar condition
of isolation and the Inevitable physic
al and political disadvantages under
which they exist, have a tendency to
magnify small matters.”
The Puget Sound region lias a pe
culiar interest in the affairs of Alas
ka, because Alaska is its next door
neighbor, and consequently the pol
itical row which has broken out in
the North will be watched carefully.
It is to be hoped that the factional
controversy will not operate to retard
the splendid development of the ter
ritory.—Bellingham Herald.
GERMANY’S MILLIONS HL’MB
If It Is true that the German peo
ple now have no conception of the
part of the United States will play in
the war, we must at least half way ad
mire the thoroughness of the Hohen
zollern methods, which not only man
age to feed to the people only that
which is encouraging but which have
created a state of mind that accepts
such imposition without violent re
sentment.
It is as if the German masses were
kept in a prison, cut oft from all out
side communication and permitted to
know only what their masters want
them to know. No other enlightened
country on earth could fill Germany’s
boots in this respect. There has been
enough information in German pap
ers to create a feeling of anxiety in
the minds of most people, but the
military leaders apparently are so
completely trusted in their mission,
or the dumb millions are so thorough
ly cowed, that in spite of increasing
losses of men, of increasing hunger,
of reports of shallow victories, the
German mind remains in subjection.1
Returning Americans uniformly are.
of the opinion that the extent of Am-1
erica’s participation is by no means j
realized in enemy countries. Reports
from the battle front say that the Ger
man soldiers regard our part in the
war as hardly more than a moral sup
port to the allies—that not more than
a single division of American troops
will be sent to the trenches in France.
The entire country, civil population
as well as soldiers. Is kept in ignor
ance of the real meaning of a decis
ive influence on the outcome of the
war.
The situation typifies the autocrat
ic German method of carrying on the
war. Possibly it has certain advan
tages, but one cannot imagine its ap
plication in the United States, En
gland or France. It is part of the
spawn of the dragon which democ
racy is trying to slay.
DOC GARFIELD saved 3,456,000
tons of coal by his shut-down order
but at a loss to the employer and em
ploye of $289.35 a ton. Rather ex
pensive coal, that! And the ghastly
joke of it all is that the whole trou
ble was caused by Garfleld’B asinine
advice last summer to "wait until Oc
tober 1 for cheaper coal.” Coal may
be cheap at $289.35 a ton but there
are a few folks out this way who sim
THE
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YOUR FAVORITE
WILLIAM HART
IN
“The Apostle of
Vengeance”
SENSATIONAL THRILLING EXCITING
HEARST PATHE NEWS
FEATURING THE BIG HALIFAX DISASTER
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ply can’t see it.—Fort Wayne (Ind.)
News.
Ono ounce less of meat each day
for everyone means a saving of 4,
400,000 meat animals a year. Save
your ounce. The sacrifice is small, but
;he result for your country is large.
SOLDI KltK |<’OK SKWARD
Lieutenant Long and a detachment
of twenty men will leave on the
deamship Admiral Watson for Sev*
ard, where they will he stationed to
3itard the wharves and railroad prop
erty. Valdez is now the only city in
the territory where the people are so
loyal tin; wharves do not need guard
ing.
FOUGHT IN BIG BATTLES
v ^
Sergeant Daniel “Bomber” McGIn- j
nls, a Boston lad who Joined the Ca
nadian overseas forces at the begin
ning of the war and served with the
Second batalllon on the western front.
He participated In the battles of Mes
slnes, Ypres, Armentiers and the
Somme. Sergeant McGinnis was
wounded In the battle of the Somme,
a piece of shell taking off his left leg.
He Is now employed as an orderly by
the new United Service club In New
York.
Possibilities of Renaissance.
The Arab Is an Asiatic, a Semite,
and Arabia Is probably his original
home. Thence, migration Into Baby
lonia was easy, states a writer, owing
to the absence of naturnl obstacles,
such as seas or high mountain
ranges.
As It was a custom of Arabic histo
rians to begin with the creation, few
of them ever reached the era In which
they lived and about which they might
have written with some accuracy.
Largely for that reason no distinct rec
ord has come down to us of the high
ly Interesting conquest of northern
Africa as far as the Straits of Her
cules; it Is only after the Arabs ef
fected lodgment In Spain and pushed
as far Into France as Charles Martel
would permit them that anything ap
proaching “history’* of them is to bo
bad.
NEW SPRING HATS
We have just opened
a shipment of
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NEW SHAPES AND SHADES
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These hats being cravenetted will not spot
from rain and will hold their shape much
better than a hat not waterproofed.
Priced at $4.50 and $5.00.
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License number G-48525
GOOD GOODS --- RIGHT PRICES
WOMEN IN UNIFORMS
CANNOT BUY DRINKS
NEW YORK: Women in uniform
or members of parties containing wo
men in uniform cannot be served al
coholic beverages in leading uptown
hotels.
“The government's regulation is
perfectly plain,” one proprietor stat
ed today. “A uniform is a uniform,
whether worn by a man or a woman.”
Hereafter women doctors, nurses,
motor drivers, yoemen and telephone
operators and all other women in kha
ki or blue will do exactly as the men
in uniforms. They will drink "soft
drinks” or nothing.
If each home saves—
One ounce of meat daily It means
465,000,000 pounds annually.
One slice of bread, 365,000,000
loaves annually.
One piece of butter, 114,000,000
pounds annually.
One cup of milk, 912,000,000,
quarts or the product of 400,000 cows
annually. Let us do our part.
He that wasteth today will be hung
ry tomorrow.
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
______—_•.
CHAS. A. SULZER
Candidate For Re-election
As
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
From Alaska
"In deciding to enter the primaries as a candidate for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, I feel Impelled to make a brief statement to
the people of the territory. It is now nearly a year since I was seated
In the House as Alaska’s representative to congress. During the most
i of this time the United States has been engaged In a world war, and
every resource of the nation, including money and man power Is be
I lng devoted to the single purpose of winning this great war. Every
i member of congress In considering legislation for the nation, has
placed the country’s war needs above all needs and requirements and
has subordinated his desires to the military establishment of the
United States.
"Alaska has responded nobly to the nation’s call. She has given
her share willingly and unstintingly. When the democratic party
went before the people of Alaska In November, nineteen sixteen. It
stood for a certain constructive program which embodied as Its prin
cipal elements a wider measure of home rule for the territory, and a
sane and rational policy in the development of natural resources and
every possible aid to the pioneers of the country.
“I have introduced among others the following bills In congress
which I am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
"Granting Alaska full territorial form of government with home
rule the dominating principle.
Regulating tne nsnenes oi Aiassa aiuug "*** »»*•
to all, and the protection of the salmon supply from depletion.
"Making changes In the homestead laws by abolishing the eighty
rod reservation.
"AuthoHzing free surveys of homesteads In Isolated sections.
"Changing the game laws so as to give the people a better oppor- j
tunlty to use the game of the country without Its being slaughtered. |
"Extending the federal farm loan act to Alaska. ,
"Providing for the care of Alaska’s Insane within the territory.
"At all times I have endeavored to keep conatantly In mind the
needs of the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the
war some measure of progress has been achieved. I have assisted In
passing a law which helped the prospector by suspending assessment
work on claims during the years nineteen seventeen and nineteen
eighteen. The extension of the wireless and cable system in Alaska has
been accomplished with bright prospects for a further extension.
"Recognition has been forced for Alaska in the matter of appoint
ments to the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts
which prevented the farmers of the Interior from supplying army
posts with their vegetables are cancelled.
"Suggestions anil requests that! again go before the people of
Alaska have come to me from Alaskans all ora Jfca *•}**
•rating my desire to servo the best Interests of Alaska I am submit
yy Mm# M I candidate for th# - damocratl© nomination for
.1 ,T«7 •>' if* iy? <*•'.» Si * t * v t'tfl * *1 ~ —
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REGULAR communications, first
Wednesday in each month in Ma
sonic Hall. Visitors always wel
come.
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C. C. REYNOLDS, Sec.
L 0. 0. F.
Valdez, No, 6
Meets every Monday night at s: oo
o’clock p. m., In Odd Fellows’
Hall. Visiting members cordially
invited to attend these meetings.
OTTO ELFSTROM, N. G.
R. D. NICHOLLS, Secretary.
Fraternal Order Eagles
Valdez Aerie No. 1971
Meets every Friday night in Eagle
Hall. Visiting Members cordially in
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ED. WOOD. W. P.
C. J. TODD. Sec.
Order of Eastern Star
Valdez Chapter No. 5
STATED communications, first and
third Tuesdays of each month at
Masonic Hall. Visiting members
always welcome.
RENA E. CRAWFORD, W. M.
J. A. SILVERMAN. M. D. Seo’y. '
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
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Frank Gnstafaon, President,
Valdaa Alaska.
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_Valdes Alaska.
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