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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1914.
THE NATIONAL DEFENSE MUST
BE MODERNIZED.
Is the United States making big
guns for its fleet, its army, and its
coast fortifications? If not, why not?
This question will be asked imper
atively by the people through their
representatives at the present ses
sion of congress.
An overwhelming majority of the
people demand that the defenses of
the country should be brought up to
date. The opposition to this demand
is so feeble as to be negligible.
Congress already has a mandate
from the people for the work to be
done. There is never any question
as to how the people stand in regard
to national defense.
The nation has all the wealth re
quired to build up its defenses. It has
the inventive genius necesasry for
the production of the biggest guns,
the greatest battleships, the most ef
fective airships, and armored auto
mobiles, and all other accessories of
self-defense.
The money that would be used in
preparing for the safety and security
of the United States would be spent
at home. Every dollar of it would
go to American citizens for Ameri
can material and workmanship. The
expenditure of the money would be
beneficial to the country by furnish
ing employment, utilizing raw mater
ial, stimulating inventive genius, and
helping to build up factories which
would be indispensable in time of
war.
These are sunny days of peace, with
no clouds on the horizon, no enemy
in sight. Every day should be utiliz
ed in preparing the country against
the days of tempest and war. Europe
has just given us an object lesson
which even a fool vould understand
and interpret. No nation is exempt
from the danger of war. The United
States is threading its way througli
tortuous channels in trying to main
tain friendly relations with battling
nations. At any moment it may run
into danger, and from danger into
war. Old systems and conditions are
being uprooted, and there is no as
surance that friendly ties will not
snap under new and unforseen stress.
The only security is that which the
country makes for itself and main
tains with its own strong arm.
The response given to Representa
tive Gardner’s demand for informa
tion as to the state of the public de
fense is universal. The whole repub
lic is interested in knowing just what
the government is doing and propos
ing to do in looking after the army,
navy and coast defenses. Nothing
will satisfy the people short of posi
tive knowledge that the government
is actively at work modernizing the
defences and making them impreg
nable against any possible enemy.—
Washington Post.
THE ORGANIC SENSE.
We justly decry the notion of ex
tremists that society is an organism
as a human body is. Few of us be
lieve that the individual is as a cell
merely and thht the race is every
thing. But our poetry, our science,
our thought and feeling are permeat
ed with the organic sense—the sense
of racial interdependence, with “ra
cial" implying the human race.
And surely our experiences and the
facts of our lives bear out this con
sciousness. War brings it home to us
most. How we accept a civilization,
an institution, a home, a life that
other lives save to us. But in the
ways of peace we are no less depend
ent. We touch a button for light,
when for all that most of us know
of electricity we would have to make
our own tallow dips. So overwhelm
ing is the debt that to pick one in
stance of it seems absurd.
Is not this organic feeling the feel
ing that a cathedral stirs, the feel-,
ing that the destruction of a cathe
dral saddens? Does it not condone
our greater shock at the injury to the
cathedral of Reims than at the in
juries of the defenders of Reims? Is
not this organic sense in us patriot
ism and is it not love of antiquity
and desire to project ourselves into
the future?
“I am a part of all that I have
met,” says Tennyson’s Ulysses. All
of us have at least moments of feel
ing that we are parts of all that has
been and Is and Is to be.—Kansas
City Star.
BATTLERAGi
NEAR_WARSAW
(Continued from page 1.)
number of British merchant vessels
have been captured and sunk. The
news reached here today and British
and Japanese boats have been warn
ed to watch for the collier.
Mine Sink* Princess Olga.
SCARBOROUGH, Eng., Dec. 17.—
The steamer Princess Olga struck
one of the mines which were sown
by the German cruisers yesterday off
this port. The ship sunk in twelve
minutes. The crew were saved by
the trawlers, which were trying to
locate the mines. All steamship traf
fic along the coast has been held up
until the mines can be picked up and
destroyed.
Autrians Not Seeking Peace.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 17—The for
eign office denies that the Austrian
government has made overtures for a
peace settlement between Austria and
Russia. The reports are said to be
without foundation.
Russians Report Austrians Checked.
The Austrians have been fol
lowing closely upon the Russians who
have been recalled from advanced
positions in the Carpathian moun
tain passes. The Austrians, who
were pressing hard upon the czar’s
troops, have been checked and have
been driven back with heavy loss so
that the retirement of the Russians
to the new line to be held by the
left wing is being conducted in an
orderly manner.
—
Russians Forming New Line.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—The Russians
are withdrawing the left wing of the
Poland army from the Cracow reg
ion and are falling back towards the
Wisloka river. The campaign against
Cracow has been dropped for the
present while the Russians concen
trate their full strength against the
German army operating in central
Poland with the objective point the
capture of Warsaw. The Russians
-will take up a new battle line back
from the German frontier railroads
and in their own territory where they
can select the ground upon which to
give battle to the kaiser’s troops.
Military Experts Praise Plans.
The military experts here praise
the Russian plan as the czar’s left
dare not advance until the battle in
the center is decided, for fear of be
ing cut off by superior forces which
could be easily concentrated by rea
son of the better railroad facilities
of the Germans.
British Lost Cruiser In Falkland
Battle.
BERLIN, Dec. 17—The reports here
from German officials in South Amer
ica and from naval officers who were
in the battle off the Falkland Islands
between the German and British
fleets, state that one British cruis
er was sunk by the Germans. Twenty
British warships were engaged
against the five German boats.
Other Ships Hit Mines.
LONDON, Dec. 17—Three steamers
were sunk in the North Sea today
as a result of striking mines laid by
the German cruisers yesterday when
they bombarded the coast. The rules
of warfare require that no floating
mines shall be used by belligerents
except they become useless within
one hour after they are turned adrift.
The Germans have again failed to
respect the rules for war that they
themselves have agreed should be the
method of fighting between nations.
Neutral steamers are as much en
dangered as those of belligerents be
cause of the floating mine. The loss
of life is unknown but is said to be
heavy.
Anti-German Feeling In Turkey.
ATHENS, Dec. 17.—A strong anti
German feeling is growing in Turkey.
The people are opposed to the pres
ent war, which seems to have been
forced upon the Sultan by the Ger
mans, who control the Young Turks
party. Rioting in many parts of the
Ottoman empire is reported and the
German merchants have suffered very
heavy losses as a result.
Turkish Port Bombarded.
The British fleet today bombarded
a number of Turkish ports' on the
Gulf of Saros. The shore batteries
replied but were silenced by the su
perior British gunmanshlp.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Home cooked meals at Mrs. Matil
da Olson’s on Hobart street. Phone
219. Dinner served at 6 p. m. tf
See Tod Winter ror your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
Bernard Stone, the publisher of the
Seward Gateway and the Knik News,
was an outgoing passenger on the
Admiral Evans for Seattle.
Art leather goods make appropri
ate Xmas presents. See Valdez Drug
Company. tf
A fine assortment of Christmas
cards at the Valdez Drug Co. Make
your selection early.
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for 31.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Tel> phone 198.
The regular ladies’ evening at the
Tillikum Club scheduled for this ev
ening has been postponed till New
Year’s eve.
Cooking apples 32 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Yakima netted Gem spuds, 17 lbs.
for 50c at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Major French, the owner of con
siderable mining property in the Cook
Inlet mining section, passed through
on the Admiral Evans for Seattle.
Quinn Shea, who recently left here
to go to the Pioneers Home at Sit
HURRY! HURRY!
Xmas Is Coining
YOU HAVE ONLY 8 DAYS LEFT
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
TOYS
Make Your Selections While Our
Stock Is Complete.
We Will Hold Your Purchases Until You Are Ready for Them.
ka, has died. The information was
brought to Valdez on the last boat.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
A nice line of art pictures just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Over a dozen varieties of apples to
pick from at the Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Just arrived largest assortment of
Christmas ties at Ben Silverman’s, tf
As a result of a fall at the skating
rink Tuesday night Charles Ramsay,
the mining operator, suffered a brok
en arm.
Matinee at the Orpheum on Sat
urday for the children.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Dec. 17, 1914.
STATION Above Below Snow In- WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 33 Sixty-mile gale, no snow on trail.
McCallum . 0 6 Clear, calm, trail good.
Paxson’s . 14 8 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan’s . 11 5 Cloudy, calm, trail open.
Gulkana . 7 8 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center _ 23 3 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonsina .). 0 15 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Te^khell . 0 22 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam . 12 20 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Thompson’s Pass .. 22 35 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Wprtman's . 11 12 Cloudy, calm, trail open south, drift
ed north.
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Nov. 15th, Dec. 5th and 25th y
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the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
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