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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1915.
THE CRAFT OF TOMORROW.
—
The United States government has
plans in its possession for the con
struction of submarines which will be
capable by reason of their size, speed
and armament to do many of the
things now considered impossible.
These new submarines, bids for
which were to be ojiened this Decem
ber, will be the largest and most
powerful ever constructed. They will
be able to accompany a fleet wher
ever it may go—even across the
ocean. Such a feat would not be at
tempted with any of the submarines
now in commission. Also, the new
vessels will be capable of maintaining
the same speed as torpedo boats or
cruisers. They will be able to at
tain a speed of thirty knots on the
surface of the water. When so op
erating they will be as efficient as
the present torpedo boats or destroy
ers. They will be able to dive at
a minute’s notice, and consequently
will be able to fight as well beneath
the surface as on it.
Since the beginning of the war in
Europe, United States navy officers
have come to realize that not enough
attention has been paid to the de
velopment of the submarine. When
the new vessels are completed,
though, the United States will have
at its command a weapon of offense
and defense that will surpass any
thing ever devised.
The new submarines will be many
■times as effective as the submarines
of Germany carried about from place
to place in “mother ships.”
But the Germans, realizing the
hitherto undreamed-of efficiency of
the submarines, are malting plans to
build vessels which will be practi
cally on a par with the boats of the
United States is about to construct..
The plant of the Krupps at Essen,
Germany, is known to have the plans
for building rifles for these new sub
marines.—Norman Draper, in Colli
er’s.
20,000 BILLS.
Over 20,000 bills have already been
introduced in the House and two full
months remain to the Sixty-third con
gress to be employed by tardy legis
lators in increasing the output. What
would happen if all these bills, pres
ent and prospective, were to be en
acted into law?
There is no conceivable subject
that is not covered in one way or an
other by vigilant congressmen or their
industrious bill-drafting constituents.
There is not a dollar that will enter
the United States Treasury during the
next fiscal year but is to be appropri
ated ten times over the projects that
are known to be impracticable when
they are launched. If everything were
done that congress is asked to do the
Constitution of the United States
would be torn into ta’ters and patch
ed together again in a crazy quilt, the
country would be bankrupted for a
generation to come, its morals and
business reformed in a hundred con
flicting ways, and we should all be
speedily governed to death. The
courts, if they were permitted to ex
ist, would be kept working overtime,
trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Collective electrocution would be a
merciful fate by comparison, quicker
and less painful.
Fortunately most of the bills that |
are ‘ossed into the hopper are never
expected by their authors to emerge
in the shape of statutes. Many are
introduced for private electioneering
purposes, many die at birth or are
pigeonholed for life, a relative small
proportion are reported intact from
the comm'ttees and far fewer are
still enacted after being rewritten
and amended at both ends of the
capitol. Somehow congress collective
ly manages to display more common
sense and wisdom than its members
apparently possess as individuals.—
New York World.
THE WHY OF THE GOOSE8TEP
How that strange way of marching
known to the Germans as the Gaense
marsch and to their amused neigh
bors as the goosestep, still outlives
ridicule, deserves a moment’s
thought. The step has not survived
as merely an ancient custom. Ger
mans cherish old ways, but not to
the hurt of their armies.
The reason lies in a practical psy
chology. The world has not waited
for theorists like Prof. James to tell
it how emotion follows *he bodily
state and how the mind’s tone and
action take measure from the body’s
attitude and tension; for centuries,
observers have known that courage
rises with muscular effort and that
mental poise grows steady as breath
ing deepens. The same reason then
that led our own drillmasters, four
and five generations ago, to direct
particularly that the soldier stand
“strait and firm upon his feet” is
today the reason why the German of
ficers train their soldiers in these leg
movements with knees straight or
preferably bent back. The use of the
unflexed leg in the goosestep of pa
rade and salute is but incidental; the
main purpose of the step is to bring
into consciousness and under imme
diate control the soldier’s physical
support.
The general who told his wabbling
legs that they would shake still hard
er if they knew where he was tak
ing them, illustrated the lack of just
that bodily team play that the Gor
man drill seeks first of all. The ex
aggerated goosestep will hold its own
so long as German officers believe
that consciously firm knees have a
wholesome effect on the attacking
soldier’s state of mind.—Boston Her
ald. _
FRENCH DEFEATED
NEAR METZ
(Continued from page 1.)
the flat top of Monte Titano, a spur
of the Apennines, 2,650 feet high.
The territory is scarcely thirty-three
square miles in area. It is 140 miles
due north from Rome and eighteen
miles from the Adriatic Sea.
Once before, in the eighth century,
the people of San Marino defied the
Germans, or, at any rate, the Holy
Roman Empire, in the person of the
mighty Charlemagne, who, if we are
to believe his secretary, Einkhard,
was destined to die without ever hav
ing heard of San Marino or its dec
'aration. All the same, the declara
tion exists to this day, and is said
to be the oldest document preserved
which defines the status of the re
public.
Germans Rejoice At Successful Air
Raid.
BERLIN, Jan. 22.—All of Germany
was rejoicing yesterday over the suc
cessful raid made by the aviators up
on British cities and it is expected
by the people that the long expected
aerial attack in great force will be
made shortly. The success of the ex
pedition with but a few machines has
shown to the authorities that the air
ships cannot be seen from the ground
at the height they travel 10,000 feet
above the earth and that the cities
can be located with ease and bombs
dropped upon them.
LOCAL brevities.
The new scream at the Orpheum
tonight.
Al. Duberk is in town from across
the bay.
M. McDonald arrived today from
Fidalgo bay.
The Eagle smoker will be given this
evening at Eagle hall by the local
lodge.
G. Clark left this morning for Shoup
bay to do the annual assesment work
on his property.
Mrs. Magnusson and daughter ar
rived last evening from the Camp
Comfort roadhouse.
R. R. Keer will give an address at
the Socialist hall on Saturday evening.
His subject will be “War.”
Prank Lipp, who attempted to stab
Henry Suessdorf when being eject
ed from the Copper Block saloon, was
sentenced by Judge Love to serve
four months in the local jail. Suess
dorf was the complaining witness.
Lipp refused to have an attorney ap
pear for him. Suessdorf was not hurt
but Lipp showed the effects of a poke
in the eye, which had swollen up,
was badly discolored and was almost
closed.
Spain’s Loss $31,400,000.
MADRID, Jan. 22.—The financial
statement of the government for 191.1
shows a deficit of 157,000,000 pesetas
($31,400,000). The deficit is due to
the shrinkage of revenue during the
five months of the war. This amount
was partly made up by an issue of
70,000,000 pesetas ($14,000,000) treas
ury bonds.
PLAYING GOLF.
The Game Demands Concentration, Yet
Invites Sociability.
“One thing nt a time, and that done
well,” Is a very good rule In golf, as
In many other lines of either work
or play. I speak of this because golf
Is a game In which the relationship
between players is a bit different from
tvhat It is In any other gume that
comes to my mind. It Is a gnme which
to reap the best results demands great
concentration and yet a game which
at times Is played wonderfully well by
those who seem to be paying scant at
tention to the task in hand.
The gnme one moment brings men
together and next sends them apart,
according to the direction in which
they happen to hit the ball. Two men
can start from the same tee, be two
hundred or more yards apart after
their drives and both be on the same
green after playing their second shots
It is a game which invites sociabili
ty and yet does not either demand or
require it One man can go out and
play nil by himself and thoroughly en
joy his game, or two men can go out,
play a round together, neither speak a
word between the first tee and the last
green, yet both go into the clubhouse
and declare they had seldom or never
spent a more enjoyable time.—Francis
Oulmet in St. Nicholas.
ATLANTIC OCEAN RECORDS.
Vessels That Won Fame by Reducing
the Time of the Trips.
In the early days of Atlantic steam
navigation anywhere from ten days to
a fortnight was used up between New
York and Englnnd, and on the east
ward voyage it was by no means un
usual for some of the sailing packets
of Grinned and Minturn, red. whjte
and blue swallowtail burgee, uud of
Tommy Tapscott, black ball on burgee
and foretopsad, to beat the lumbering
side wheelers.
The tirst steamer to cut under the
ten day voyage was the Persia in 1850.
with 9 days, 1 hour and 45 minutes
This remained a record for ten years,
until the Scotia in 1800, 8 days, 2 hours
and 48 minutes, lopped off a whole
day. Three years later the City of
Brussels In 1809 established the seven
day class, with 7 days. 22 hours and 3
minutes.
It was not until 1882 that the six day
boat claimed the record, the Alaska,
with 6 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes
The five day class was opened In 1889
by the City of Paris, with 5 days 18
hours 18 minutes. The first of the
four day class was the Lusitania in
1908, with 4 days 15 hours. The rec
ord Is now held by the Mauretania,
with a pnssage in 1910 of 4 days, 10
hours and 21 minutes.—New York Sun.
• Car# of Pearl#.
One of the representatives of a fa
mous Jewelry firm gives a word of ad
vice upon the preservation and treat
ment of pearls. Upon no account, he
said, should they be locked up In a
safe or other dark place for lengthy
periods, since such treatment soon
causes them to lose their “life” and
become dull. If their fair owners find
that for some reason or other they can
uot wear them outside their garments
they should make n poiut of wearing
them underneath the dress next to the
skin. Constant contact with the hu
man skin gives to the stones light, lus
ter, gloss and sheen. The best possible
way to keep the pearls in a perfect
state of preservation, as well as to
prolong their life, is to wear them at
ways, both by night and by day.—Lou
don Tit-Hits. i
The Cruel Lie.
When Disraeli was nearing his end a
young disciple said to him: "Master,
what is the unpardonable sin? Is It
not a lie?” The astute and subtle
statesman. In the shadow of the grove,
where he saw with the clearer vision,
looked at the young man with deep,
unfathomable eyes and answered:
“No, a lie Is not the unpardonable
sin. The unpardonable sin is the cruel
lie.”
On the borders of that shadowy land
where great things - grow small and
little things loom large on the horizon
he had come to know that the crime
that is not forgiven is the brutal in
stinct that impels us to wound, to em
bitter, to mortify.
Emerson’s Style.
Emerson’s style was tersely summed
up In the words of his denr friend
Thomas Carlyle. Wrote the “Sage of
Chelsea” of his friend’s way of writ
ing: “It is pure, genuine Saxon; strong
and simple: of a clearness, of a beauty,
but does not sometimes rightly stick
together. The paragraphs are not beat
en ingots, but beautiful square bags of
buckshot held together by canvas.”
His 8afety Dsposit Vault.
“Yes, my son is going to spend a few
flays in the city ”
“He'll get bunkoed sure."
“Well, he’s sure of car fare home.
He’s wearing a ten dollar bill under
neath a porous plaster on his chest’’—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
An Innocent Victim.
"This food problem is something aw
'•til" exclaimed the querulous mau.
■SMI harping on the high cost of
Jving?"
“No; my wife hns decided to reduce
her weight. 1 wouldn’t care what food
cost If she would only consent to buy
it”-Washington Star.
Somewhat Aliks.
D'Auber—I have come to the conclu
slob that art doesn’t pay. Wlgwag
I don’t know about art. but 1 know
lots of artists who don’t—Pittsburgh
Press.
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Mrs. Nextdoor — Is your sou doing
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They’ve chosen him valetudinarian of
his class.—Chicago News.
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Superior Wisdom.
"Smith declares he is going to pay
his creditors a hundred cents on the
dollar.”
"But, James, dear, why does he want
to give them so many pennies?”—Phila
delphia Press.
Timely.
“How wonderful are the wuys of na
ture!”
“In what respect?”
“It brings along the green apple sea
son just when young doctors are being
graduated.”-Chicago News.
Great detective story at the Or
pheum tonight. Two comedies.
William Harrington has returned
to Valdez from down Sound points.
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Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 22, 1915.
STATION Above Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 42 12 Cloudy, high wind, no trail.
Paxson’s 20 12 Clear, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 20 i 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Gulkana . 8 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center. 10 11 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonslna . 15 24 Cloudj, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 18 27 Cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Beaver Dam . 25 38 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Summit . 36 50 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 28 40 Clear, calm, trail partly drifted.