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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1917
Kodiak, The Ancient Village.
(With Apologies)
By the shining northern water,
On the shores of the Pacific,
Far to northward, far to westward,
Lay the little town of Kodiak.
Lay that ancient Russian village,
Fairest town of all that region.
Fairest of Alaskan hamlets,
Beauteous, so that all admired.
Looked and loved and longed to live
there.
Dark behind it rose the hill-slope
Covered with its robe of emerald,
Covered with its robe of ermine,
One for summer, one for winter
With the changing of the seasons.
And the bosom of the hillside
Wore an ugly scar upon it.
Like a gorge or like a canyon,
Was the sear wrought by the earth
quake.
And the old men and the women
Told of when the wound was made
there,
When the hand of nature made it
By the power of the earthquake.
To the eastward lay the forest,
Where the ever verdant spruce tree
Rose full stately on the hill-slopes.
On the margins of the small lakes,
In the valleys and the lowlands.
Bright before it beat the waters
In a bay of the Pacific.
Beat upon the shore of pebbles.
Beauteous lay the town-between them
’Tween the hill and shore and forest.
Beauteous as a Queen of Orient,
Prim as maiden from New England,
Perfect, so that all would love her,
Love the beauteous town of Kodiak.
Nay, even love the name of Kodiak.
Painted white were all the houses.
White and gleaming in the sunlight.
Cheerful white on days of rainfall.
White like snow in days of winter,
Very fair and very wondrous.
And the roofs with red and green
painted,
Stained with crimson, dyed with scar
let,
Gorgeous so the world would notice,
So the world would much admire,
Much would' praise the white and
crimson
Of the houses of fair Kodiak,
Village of the painted houses.
In this ancient Russian village
Dwelt a strong and mighty people,
Lived the tribes of men of power,
Dusky Aleut fairer Creole.
And the dominant Uncle Sam
Lord of land and ocean.
Dwelt they there or still are dwelling
In fair Kodiak, beloved.
Most beautiful of all the hamlets
In the great Alaskan country,
In that country far to northward.
In that realm of pretty hamlets,
Fairest of them all is Kodiak,
Dearest Kodiak! best beloved!
—By P. Galang.
THE A I,LIED PROBLEM
The report that the kaiser at last
is greatly alarmed over the tremen
dous success of the Italian drive thru
the Alps emphasizes to the world the
possible importance of the Italian bat
tle front. In the United States and
probably elsewhere Cadorna’s part In
the war has been regarded largely as
incidental and not decisive, within
any range of probability. In fact, we
have thought of Italy being mainly
useful In keepng a considerable num
ber of Austria's forces engaged.
It appears too, that the German
high command has discounted the Im
portance oftlie Italian offensive, for
recently it was reported that von
Hindenburg refused to send German
| aid to his Austrian ally In spite of
the fact that the dual monarchy was
being forced out of vital positions.
In connection with this phase of
the campaign, Napoleon's statement
that the proper way to defeat Ger
many was through Austria- over this
identical route- is recalled, the ma
jority of experts today adhere to thp
theory that the war will be won on
the western front—in France and
Belgium—but it is undeniable that
more attention is being paid to Italy’s
part in the struggle, particularly
since Russia has been eliminated as
a real factor for an Indefinite period
than ever before. Should the Italian
pressure force Austria to submit, Na
poleon’s strategy will have proved
correct in the twentieth as well as the
nineteenth century.
Mr. Frank H. Simonds, America’s
foremost war critic, discusses the
Italian phase of the war in the cur
rent issue of the Review of Reviews.
In describing the situation on the Aus
tro-Italian front today, he says:
"This front is a sort or magnified
Thermopylae, a little gate between
the sea and the impassable Alps which
the Austrians have held against great
numbers with relatively small effec
tives for more than three years. As
the Austrians retreat they will leave
the gate and the Italians will have a
wider and wider front on which to
use their vastly superior numbers.
This means that it will require larger
and larger Austrian numbers to de
fend the front as the Italians press on
* * * If the Italians once get
through the gate then the Austrian
predicament is unmistakable, for Aus
tria lacks men for a wide front."
Mr. Simonds points out that Aus
tria is the weak link in the German
chain and Italy is taking the place
of Russia, which early in the war was
more than a match for the dual mon
archy. The allies, he says, have just
begun to appreciate Italy's difficult
ties and not until recently have they
been willing to lend her the aid she
asked for and needed. Meanwhile
Gen. Cadorna has pounded away in
cessantly and at last is receiving the
credit his brilliant strategy has earn
ed.
GERMAN ISSUE CLEAN CUT
A dispatch from Berlin says that
the Pan-German activities which have
been started on a national scale, are
expected to find an echo in the plen
ary sessions of the reichstag. The cen
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POET AVIATOR WOUNDED.
Gabriel* d’Annunzio Hit While
Flying Over Austrian Lines.
According to hia own story, Captain
Gabriele d’Annunslo. the Italian poet
and playwright, during the battle of
Aug. 19 flew over the Austrian troops
and bomtied them from a height of only
260 feet. His airplane was bit repeat
edly and on returning to the shed was
found to be pierced with 127 holes. The
poet himself was slightly wounded in
the left arm.
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VALDEZ ALASKA
tral governing board of the social
democratic party, which represents
the liberal movement, has issued a
plain-spoken call summoning the op
ponents of the reactionaries to join
them.
The declaration asserts that the
Pan-German combination Is made up
of industrialists and landed inter
ests, whose war aims reach the pin
nacle of a demand for annexations,
indemnities and the granting of such
separate peace to each enemy as the
conditions warrant. The call con
cludes with the declaration that the
realization of the Pan-German pro
gram would mean the suicide of Eu
ropean culture and civilization, for
after such a collapse the reconstruc
tion of Europe could not be accom
plished for a century.
The ostensible object of the found
ing of the Pan-German party is to re
juvenate patriotism. Its true inspira
tion is supplied by Admiral Von Tir
pitz, father of "frightfulness,” and by
public and private individuals who
hold pronounced Pan-German, an
nexationist views. Its Berlin debut,
says the dispatch leaves, no doubts of
its jingoistic ambitions. In the last
analysis, it supplies but further evi
dence of the desperation with which
the reactionary forces are exerting
themselves to halt the spread of sen
timent in favor of a peace by under
standing and compromise and also
to block the program of the movement
toward democratization.
The issue now is considered to be
clean cut. The aPn-German group has
unlimited funds and an amenable
press. The liberal elements are count-!
ing on their parliamentary majority,
the government’s half indorsement of
their peace resolution, and the desire
of the German people, as reflected in
that action and subsequently in the
German reply to the pope.
CONGRESSMAN Heflin stirred up
a hornet’s nest when he cast the stig
ma of disloyalty upon “thirteen or
fourteen” members of congress who
had "acted suspiciously." the debate
on the demand for an investigation
culminated in a linen-soiling contest
in which Heflin was one of the par
ticipants. Secretary Lansing has said
that so far as he was aware no mem
ber of congress had been “influenced”
by the BernstorfT gold. If Heflin’s
“suspicions” have no more founda
tion than guesswork the affair prob
ably will fall flat—with no partcular
glory for the Alabaman.
“Pride” and “Shame”
Some time since a Puget Sound
writer came to town to work for the
The Swellest line Ever Shown
We have just opened and have on display
a splendid assortment of men’s shoes.
/- *s
There are no better on the market
and they have the three quali
ties demanded in a shoe,
WEAR, COMFORT, STYLE.
We offer you a choice of black kid or
calf, tan, willow, or patent leather in
either lace or button. ^
S. BLUM & COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
Citizen as edtorial writer. He came
over the trail and. upon arriving here,
proceeded to “bawl-out” the trail as
the “the Bhame of Alaska.” It was his
first trail trip, and was made under
the auspices of an amateur driver.
To the day he left here he maintained
that the trail was “the shame of A1
aska,” and during his stay here he
spread that allegation and accusation
broadcast over the world through the
printed word.
Last Monday morning that writer
|pft Fairbanks in an auto to make the
same trip, going out—through with
the country. He traveled at govern
ment expense and in a stage with a
professional driver. Wednesday night
$ $ $
SAVED
WHY send out for your printing when we can
furnish you with anything needed in stationery for
the office and store.
A dollar kept at home is a dollar saved to the com*
munity. If you send for your needs your neighbor
will follow your example and we all suffer. The town
that is up and coming is the town with an abiding
faith in its future, and-how can you maintain your
faith in the city when you buy all you eat and wear
outside?
Beers, Sawbuck & Bunk have busted more towns
than they have built up, and ycu never saw a dollar
of your money ever come back to you.
When you send your money outside to the old re*
liable printing houses of Seattle and Tacoma you
may get a cheaper job in every sense of the word,
and you may also have to pay a higher price for it.
Location notices, both quartz and placer; warran
ty deeds, mill site location notices, proofs of labor,
quit clai mdeeds, amended location notices, and all
kinds of legal blanks at The Prospector Office.
We sell a good quality of typewriter paper at $1.50
per box, a better quality for $2 and the best Crane’s
Japanese Linen for $2.50, legal size.
Why not let us print you 100 calling cards in the
latest style type, for $1.50.
$ $ $
MADE
he was in Chitina, having made the
trip in 23 hours and 51 minutes, trav
eling time, all daylight travel (they
never turned on the lights once on
the trip. He pauses in Chitina long
enough to send the News-Miner a 178
word telegram retracting every word
of dispraise he has said about the
trail. He says he enjoyed the trip—
that it was “the trip of his life”—
and that the trail is the “pride” of
Alaska, instead of the “shame” of
Alaska, and lays his first had Impres
sions to the driver who brought him
into the country.
We hope that his conversion re
garding the trail is lasting, and that
in his Outside writings he will tell
of our trail as he found it on this
week's trip, instead of as he first saw
it. If future bad impressions can he
avoided from the writer when he
speaks of the trail, that will help
some—his past and condemnatory
writings can never be effaced from
the minds of the people who read his
"roasts” and who will never see his
retractions.—News Miner.
LAUNCH DELLA
Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdez to
EUamar. Landlock, Fldalgo and
way ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen
gers.
For rates apply on board.
CAPT. H. L. RIDER
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Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
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