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S.1TIKDW, OCTOBER 28, l»l«.
roi.lTMTANN ,\XI> PKAI'K.
Tin* return from lOuropo of Ambas
sndur Gerard anil the announcement
of a conference on the Kuropean sit
uation bet wien the President and Mr.
Gerard have intensified interest in a
possible proffer of the services of this
country to the belligerents looking to
a cessation of hostilities. That noth
ing can come of such an offer of me
diation, even if it is made, is obvious
so long as Kuglnil is determined to
expend the last Frenchman in uphold
ing her rights and Germany is indus
triously strafing all comers. Strong
pressure is being brought to boar
upon President Wilson to persuade
him to act.
While we are oil Ihe subject, it may
lie well to remind our readers that the
originator of this peace scheme was
one William A. Itryan, lie of grape
juice and olive wreath fame, who tied
from tlie Wilson cabinet because his
sensalive souls could not stand the
harslr words the administration was
hurling al Germany.
Mr. Uryan's line of theorizing was
beautiful and comprehensive. Aside
from ttie fuel that lie believed in be
ing smitten on lintli cheeks and one
end before starting a rough house, it
embraced several new and startling
innovations. There are several hun
dred thousand pacifists in this great
land, sis witness the popularity of the
originator of the “Tin Lizzie,” the
guzzler of joy-juice. IOrgo if the
Failed Slates will use its influence
in tlie interests of mediation, the pro
jector of this peace horoscope will clip
many vote coupons and win much
popularity. Also, it might be said,
that lie would receive as many Ger
uian-American votes as a Milwaukee
alderman. These have hitherto look
ed tlie other way when Mr. Wilson
passed by.
It is realized, however, that a peace
scheme embracing the cessation of
hostilities would lie of no value what
ever for the reason that tlie combat
ants are not in any wise exhausted,
and are receiving their meal tickets
witli great regularity from one J. P.
Morgan, who believes strongly in war
»nd the loans It produces. Anyhow.
It is not this country's turn turn, we
have offered to do all we can, and our
rrlendly offices have been suspiciously
rejected.
Also we must look on the fact that
England regards Germany as whipped
and would consider any peace move
proposed by us as an unneulral act,
in favor of Germany. The Central
Powers also regard their cause is
won, and would consider interference
by the United States as an unfriendly
act, for the sole purpose of saving the
British bacon and Morgan’s money.
President Wilson has done all in
his power to keep peace. If this
country’s kind offices are refused, as
they undoubtedly will be; the fault
must be laid to the unscrupulous poli
ticians of all parties, who are reaping
a harvest from Europe's travail.
ONE WEEK from next Wednesday
will end the agony, so fur as the elec
tion is concerned. After that the chief
bone of contention will be over who
will divide the spoils. And that Is
about all there is to politics, anyway.
Several thousand men help place a
man into a lucrative position and then
idolize him for his kindness in allow
ing them to vote for him.
THE allies continue to lloal King
Constantine and his government and
are busily plotting a Greek republic.
It is not improbable that the Hellenic
monarch may become, like some of
the other kings of Europe, a ruler
without a country.
IF HALF the energy and hot air
that has been expended on the pres
ent election were used for some use
ful purpose we would have one of the
best towns in the Territory.
THE CHICAGO IIKILALD urges
the, election of Wilson for president.
There are several million voters in
the country who are advocating the
same thing.
IF ROOSEVELT keeps on until tin
day of election this will In* tin- second
Republican he lias kept out of the
Presidential chair.
NOW that Rumania has gone tin
way of Belgium, Serbia ami Greece,
the Allies are endeavoring to gel
Norway to place her head on tin
block.
VENIZKLOS is not the first Greek
who sold out his country to an enetni
nation.
THE demand for resumption of I In
unrestricted use of the submarine is
widespread in Germany, but there is
no indication that the national lead
ers will be led to blunder again. They
realize that they have enough 'tiomies
already and as the imperial chancel
lor recently stated, tin1 effectiveness
of the submarine is not *o great, as
some of the German people believe it
to be. Certainly”its effectiveness is
not such that Germany can afford to
drag still other nations, including the
United States, into tiie war against
her.
(Paid Advertisement.)
Democratic Candidat;
For Delegate to Congress
CHAS. A. SULZER
Vote for an adequate School System.
Vote for Good Roads and Trails.
Vote for a Primary Law.
Vote for Home Rule and Self Government.
Vote for the Protection of our Fisheries.
Vote for Honest and Earnest Representation
Vote against Misrepresentation. -
VOTE FOR SULZER
CATTLK KING I.KAVK8
, THOl'SANDH TO 1*0011
SAN FHANCI8CO, Oct., 27.—"To
the poor of the City of Gilroy, Cal.,
to he distributed at Christmas time,
$15,000.
"To the poor of the City of Brock
enhelin. Kingdom of Wurtemburg,
Germany, $26,000.”
The will of Henry Miller, who rose
from butcher boy to land and cattle
baron, made public here today, in
cluded these reminiscences of early
poverty. In addition, the multi-mil
lionaire included a list of scores of
employes who are to receive sums
ranging front $250 to life pensions
and homes.
The estate, which consists wholly
of stock in corporations is left to
Nellie Miller Nickel, the testator's
daughter? and her husband, J. Leroy
Nickel, as trustees.
It is provided that on their deatli
$50,000 shall be given to San Fran
cisco charities, the . remainder going
to their children, and upon the deatli
of their children, $.100,000 is to be
given to charity, including the estab
lishment of a hospital in Gilroy, with
$500,000 more Tor the establishment
of a medical research hospital. Those
close to Miller in life estimated his
estate at $20,000,000 or more.
: w I, i . -\
PERCY ROCKEFELLER.
i
Nephew of John D. Warns Ue to
Prepare For Conditions After War.
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SIIAliPKIt SI BM.\RINK
CAMPAIGN IS IIINTKI)
BRIlLIff. Oct. 27.— Tlu* Kriegs,
Zeitung. the evening edition of the
Lokal Anzoiger, publishes a report
that in consequence of the British
having ordered the arming of all mer
it hanmeii. with orders to sink all sub
marines encountered, that Germany
will have to take up a sharper .subma
rine campaign with the possible en
dangerment of German-American re
lations. It continues:
“Now that Ragland has armed her
merchantmen with heavy and there
fore car-carrying guns and tints labels
them as warships, it cannot he avoid
ed that, whether we wish it or not,
: we must give a sharper tendency to
iour submarine campaign.”
Rlevcn ships were sunk yesterday
j by tile Germans in furtherance of tills
plan.
OltllKH OK MKKIT IS
AWAKDKI) CAPTAIN
—
BRIO,IN, Oct., 27.—The Order of
Pour le Merite lias been awarded to
Lieutenant Commander Arnauld de la
Perriere. commanded of the subinar
I
ine 11-53 for his achievements hi sillk
;ing 12t. vessels, totaling 270,000
I tons.
; Among the vessels destroyed by the
U-53 were one Rrencli and one Kng
lisli small cruiser. While assigned to
tlie Mediterranean. Commander Per
Here sank a number of loaded trans
put ts. munition supply ships and el
even armed merchantmen. He is
credited with lighting seventeen bat
tles and on one voyage stink 01,000
tons of shipping and brought home
four cannon as prizes. The 11-52. visit
led Cartegena on June 21. It was later
! officially announced at Berlin that the
1 submarine carried an autograph let
ter from Rmperor William to King
Alfonso of Spain and medical sup
plies for interned Germans. News
dispatches from Spain said that Com
mander de la Perriere had stated
while in that country that lie had
sunk fifty ships, including the Brit
ish hirer La Provence.
Mailed Milk, hot and cold, phos
phates of all kinds, and hot drinks
at Hunt's.
Location notices, both quartz and
placer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.
How about that photo you promised
’ to send home? Go to Jenner, th ■
Photographer, and have it taken to
day. It only tukes a few minutes, tf
New Heaters from $12.50 up,
Wood Stoves, Pipe, Cooking Utensils
and Wash Hoards at Rudolph's. tf
Rest Sourdough hotcakes and beat
coffee at the Arcade. tf
For steam heated rooms come to
the Golden North. tf
Malted Milk Chocolate at the Val
dez Candy Kitchen.
ALCOHOL
and CRIME
(From the August Forum.)
It) KOItKIlT BIjACKW’OOD.
Convincing proof that liquor drink
ing docs not cause crime is found in
the statistics relating to the number
of persons who drink, and the num
ber of criminals. As stated above, at
least 80 per cent of the adult male
population of New York States uses
liquor. There are nearly 3,000,000
adults in the state of whom 2,400,000
drink. The report of the State Com
mission of Prisons (Page 661) for
1914, gives the number of males sen
tenced to imprisonment after convic
tion during that year as 19,293 or
less than one per cent. Two million
four hundred thousand men drink.
Of these less than one per cent com
mit crimes. If liquor makes crimi
nals of the one per cent why does It
not have the same effect on the nine
ty-nine p<*V cent? Or to put it an
other way: If the use of liquor
causes one per cent of the drinkers
to become rlminals, does it keep the
ninety-nine per cent virtuous? How
can drink be held to be the cause of
crime, if it affects less than one per
cent of the men who use it?
Weak W'llls and Wrong Drink.
The prohibitionist reply to the fig
ures above quoted is that liquor only
makes criminals of people with weak
wills, and that this is the reason why
such a small percentage of tlie liquor
users ure criminals. If this is true,
does it not show that it is the lack
of moral character, or self-control,
that leads both to excessive drinking
and to crime? That ninety-nine per
cent of liquor drinkers are not crimi
nals proves that it is the weak will
of the one per cent that is responsible
for their criminal acts. If drinking
liquor was of itself the cause of crime,
ull drinkers should be criminals.
When the prohibitionists say that li
quor-drinking makes criminals only of
tlie weak-willed, they admit that it is
weakness of will that is the source
of crime.
No sensible persons claims that li
quor drinking diminishes crime in u
wet state, yet it would be just is reas
onable as tlie assertion that prohibi
tion decreases crime in tlie dry states.
Two facts are clearly established by
these statements: that the use of li
quor is not a material factor in the
causation of crime, and that prohibi
tion does not in any degree lessen the
number of criminals. —Adv.
Summon*.
No. 856.
In Hie District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.
Wm. A. Schroeder, Plaintiff, vs. Net
tie Schroeder, Defendant.
The President of the United States oi
America, Greeting:
To Nettie Schroeder, the Above
Named Defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within 30
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to-wit,
within thirty (30) days after the
fourth day of November," 1916, and
answer the complaint of Wm. A.
Schroeder, the above-named plaintiff
in the above-entitled cause, which
said cause is an action for divorce In
one of the cases prescribed by law,
wherein ttie said plaintiff prays a de
cree of absolute divorce from you,
forever dissolving the bonds of mat
rimony existing between you and the
said plaintiff.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to appear and answer the
plaintiff’s said complaint us herein
required, the said plaintiff will take
judgment against you for want there
of, and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in liis suid complaint
as hereinabove set out.
The order for the publication of
this summons wus duly made and en
tered on the 21st day of September,
1916.
Witness, Tlie Honorable Fred M.
Drown, Judge of said Court ami tlit
seal thereof, this twenty-first day of
September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand bine hundred and six
teen, and of our independence the
one hundred forty-first.
(Official Seal) ARTHUR LANG.
Clerk District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.
By (’has. A. Hand, Deputy.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for
Plaintiff.
Pub. Sept. 23, 30. Oct. 7, 14. 21, 28,
Nov. 4. 7t
MRS. RAYMOND BELMONT.
Just Married to 8on of
Wealthy Now York Financier.
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Valdez, Alaska
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Office on Alaska Avenue, in
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Telephone No. 60
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Phone 48
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