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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1914.
THE PRESIDENT’S ATTITUDE,
President Wilson’s personal mes
sage to Charles E. Bunnell express
ing a wish for tho Democratic candi
date’s election as delegate from Alas
ka disposes of all pretense that the
president is in sympathy with Dele
gate Wickersham’s campaign.
Nobody need accept the president’s
wishes as controlling. Every man is
supposed to do his own thinking, and
the pity is that so many men yell
their heads off without thinking at all.
However, all Alaska feels that Presi
dent Wilson has placed the territory
under obligations to him by doing
more for its development than was
done by the national government in
forty-six years before his inaugura
tion.
There is a strong sentiment all ov
er Alaska to show appreciation of
the president’s work for the territory
and the Wickersham faction has
strenuously sought to take advantage
of that sentiment by claiming the
president and cabinet favor their can
didate. It is now up to every man
who wants to vote to suit the presi
dent to vote for Bunnell.
The gabble that the message is
a forgery is too infantile for consid
eration. It is dated at the White
House and has all the marks to show
its route from Washington to the
Valdez cable office. Any man who
would utter such a forgery would be
quickly caught and would play check
ers with his nose several years.
There is plenty of time for Wicker
sham shouters to get a denial from
the White House if the message did
not start there.
THE GREATEST PEACE PARADE.
Let us not grieve for the slain
soldiers. They have escaped from
misery. Let us shut our eyes even
to those weeping for their dead or
wounded. There is wretchedness
enough, God knows, in hundreds of
thousands of homes where women
and children wait in lonely sorrow
and poverty. But there is anguish
greater than theirs.
With the war less than three
months old, 3,000,000 victims are
homeless. Probably 2,000,000 are to
day seeking bread from the hands of
strangers, absolutely destitute, with
out money, food or baggage, perhaps
without even a change of clothing.
They have been driven from their
homes by invading armies. If fear
permitted their return they would find
little shelter, no food and no work.
And these fugitives are not strong
men—those are in the armies. They
are the old und infirm, the women
and the children. They are largely
ignorant. They are dazed by their
fate and helpless in a strange en
vironment. In countless cases fami
lies are separated, never to be re
united.
Begium, of course, provides the
most. Since Germany Invaded the
country there has been an endless
procession of shrinking wretches
pouring from every city, village and
hamlet, driven forth again and again
as the enemy pressed westward. Hol
land, having received half a million
of them, is closing its doors in help
lessness. Nearly a million have drag
ged wearily into northern France, on
ly to join the hordes of French wan
derers expelled from their own ruin
ed homes. Prussia has its myriads
driven westward by the Russian ad
vance. Bohemia is overrun with Ga
licians who fled from the Cossacks.
In Hungary the population from the
Carpathian mountains is streaming
painfully toward Budapest.
There is no form of wretchedness
that these fugitives do not suffer.
Hunger, cold, thirst, weariness, bod
ily pain, unregarded sickness, grief
for their dead, anguish for the suf
fering of aged parents or little chil
dren that they cannot help, humilia
tion, hopelessness—this is the very
hell of war.
And the war is just begun!
And in the mere volume of ac
cumulating misery there is hope.
The vast, formless flight of refugees
ds the greatest "peace parade” ever
held. Let the world gaze its fill up
on that nightmare procession, and
then it will come to its senses and
make an end of the tragedy forever.
‘—Ex.
Trifling With the Telephone.
Telephoning isn’t what it was. It
won't even be what it was very long,
if the inventors keep on. One of
them has spent eleven years on the
misanthropic job of turning out an
attachment to detect the third party
who cuts in to listen to a little gos
sip. With 9,000,000 party linees in
use in the United States, the misery
likely to be caused by this single in
vention is appalling. Worse still, the
same mechanism may be set to cut
off a conversation at the end of a
certain number of minutes.
And do any of us want the “see
ing by wire’’ attachment that another
of these busybodies has invented?
Imagine the embarrassment of the
live-foot-man with the timid eyes who
prefers to blow up the coal company
ever the phone! Contemplate the con
fusion of milady who likes to chal
with her friends in boudoir negligee!
How will the busy husband at thf
club be able to "pull” the old, old
bluff .of “detained at the office?” The
Inventors had better curb their pas
sionate genius.—Philadelphia Ledger.
STUCK TO HIS FAITH.
Anyhow It Paid tha Young Pruaolan
Not to Change It.
A king of Prussia who reigned about
tbe beginning of last century was not
ed for his geniality, and often In the
course of his walks through the streets
would enter Into conversation with his
subjects.
One day be met a young man and
asked him what his faith was. The
youth, who was somewhat of a wag,
answered, smiling, “I believe what my
tailor believes.” The king entered
pleasantly Into the joke and then ask
ed again, “And what does your tailor
believe in?” "Your majesty," replied
the young man, “he believes that he
will never get the 30 marks which J
owe him, and I believe It also.”
The king laughed heartily at the out
spoken and unrestrained way in which
be had answered him, and then gave
him 30 marks. "Now, then, you can
pay your tailor and so change bis
faith.” Tbe young man fancied, how
ever, that he could use the money tor
a better purpose, and the tailor nat
urally went unpaid.
Not long afterward the king met the
same youth, who, as he saw his maj
esty approaching, tried to escape down
a side street The king bad, however,
espied him and called after him. The
youth, somewhat crestfallen and
abashed, approached his majesty, who
at once asked him If he bad paid his
tailor. A smile passed over the young
man’s face as he replied, “Your majes
ty, X could not change my faith for
30 marks.”
Disraeli and Primroses.
Disraeli’s alleged fondness for the
primrose rests upon rather flimsy evi
dence. Lady Dorothy Nevill, who
knew him Intimately, has recorded that
she “never heard him express any par
ticular admiration for the primrose,
which It is always said was hU favor
ite flower, though a great admirer of
bis used to send him big bunches of
them from Torquay every spring,”
Grant Duff, when discussing the prim
rose cult with Lord Pembroke, was
told. “There are two stories about it,
but certainly he once told Cory, ‘I like
to be In the country when the prim
roses are out’" A consensus of opin
ion seems to favor the Idea that In
Queen Victoria’s Inscription, “His fa
vorite flower,” the pronoun referred,
not to Disraeli, but the prince consort
—London Mail.
"George,” said the Titian-haired
school marm, “is there any connect
ing link between the animal kingdom
and the vegetable kingdom?”
‘Yeth, ma’am,” answered George
promptly. "Hash.”
Nubone Corsets.
Try Mrs. St. Marie’s for one of
those Nubone eorsets. tf
Notlcs of Election.
Whereas, pursuant to acts of Con- ,
gress providing for the election of |
a delegate to congress from the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and members of a
legislative assembly for the Territory
of Alaska; such election is required
to be held on Tuesday, November 3,
1914, at which election the qualified
voters of the Third Judicial division
of Alaska are entitled to vote for a
delegate In Congress, one member of
the senate and four members of the
house of representatives In the legis
lative assembly of the Territory; and,
Whereas, pursuant to the require
ments of said acts of congress the
Common Council of the lncoporated
Town of Valdez, in said Third divis
ion, by resolution duly adopted in
regular session on the 21st day of
September, 1914, divided the territory
embraced In said town into two vot
ing precincts as follows, to-wit:
Precinct number 1; including that
part of said town lying easterly of
the middle line of Alaska avenue.
Precinct number 2; Including that
part of said town lying westerly of
the middle of Alaska avenue.
And at said meeting the Common
Council by resolution fixed the poll
ing place of precinct No. 1 at the
Council Chamber at the Town Hall
on Broadway; and the polling place
of precinct No. 2 in the ground floor
room of the Fish building on West
McKinley street.
The following named persons were
designated by the council at said
meeting to serve as judges and clerks
of such election;
Precinct No. 1—Judges: H. M. De
lano, Tom Hunt, Louis Rosenthal.
Clerks: H. M. Conrad and H. P. Sul
livan.
Precinct No. 2—Judges: Con I.ow
ney, T. E. Wikidel, Frank Hayes.
Clerks: Ross Heckey and Frank Mil
lard.
Dated September 28, 1914.
E. E. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY, Town Clerk.
History In the Remaking.
Teacher—Wliat! Have you no idea
at all why Washington crooaed the
Delaware?
Boy—No, ma’am. Unless it was ter
hev me kep’ in after school fer not
kuowin’I—Washington Star.
President Woodrow Wilson
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ALASKA as a storehouse, should be
unlocked. One key to it is a sys
tem of railways. These the govern
ment should itself build and adminis
ter, and the ports and terminals it
should itself control in the interest of
all who wish to use them for the ser
vice and development of the country
and its people.
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
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C. E. Bunnell f
THE policy of President Wilson’s
■ administration toward Alaska has
been one of magnificent constructive
development. i
Support the Administration by voting
for
C. E. BUNNELL
FOR
Delegate to Congress
From Alaska
Latest War News!
♦
Santa Claus Breaks Through the German Ranks
With Toys for S. Blum & Co.
It is generally understood that the United States has
been importing most of its Toys and a great many Holi
day Novelties from Germany, and that owing to the war
all importations have ceased. Limited supplies, how
ever reached this country prior to the declaration of
war, ond owing to the presence of our MR. KRAMER IN
EASTERN MARKETS at the RIGHT TIME we have
been able to secure a large and well assorted stock of
Toys and Christmas Novelties
We are now busily engaged in opening and displaying
these goods, and in a few days we will be ready to have
our many patrons call and inspect them. You will not
be compelled to send out for anything, either on account
of assortment or price. OUR PRICES WILL BE AS
LOW AS THOSE IN THE STATES.
Respectfully,
__
IMS. C. PRICE I
of Cordova.
Democratic candidate for Senator.
Believes in government con
trol and immediate development
of the resources of Alaska.
If elected will work in harmony
with the National Democratic Ad
ministration in its attempt to open
up Alaska. A vote for him is a
vote in support of President Wil
son.
For Representative
Thomas H. Holland
of Chitina.
Democratic Candidate.
Has lived in Alaska since 1902.
Knows Alaska, knows the needs
of Alaska and if elected will work
for Alaska.
A vote for him is a vote in sup
port of Woodrow Wilson In his
attempt to develop Alaska.
JOHN LYONS
Independent candidate
for Representative in
Alaska Legislature........
Resided in Alaska since
1897. Resided in Valdez
since 1901. Believes in
opening up Alaska for
this generation, and that
such a course is best for
all future generations.
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and from 8 to 11 o’clock P. M._
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Spectators, at night, 10c
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