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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1917
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THE BOY BECOMES A MAN.
THE Kid has gone to the Colors,
And we don't know what to say.
The Kid we have loved and cud
dled
Btepped out for the Flag today. I
We thought him a child, a baby, i
With never a tare at all.
But his country culled him man else.
And the Kid has heard the call.
He paused to watch the recruiting.
Where, flred by the fife and drum.
He bowed his head to Old Glory
And thought that it whispered “Come!”
The Kid, not being a stacker.
Stood forth with patriot Joy
To add Ids name to the roster.
And, God. we're proud of the boy I
The Kid has gone to the Colors.
It seems but a little while
Blnce he drilled a schoolboy army
In a truly martial style.
But now he’s a man. a soldier,
And we lend him a listening ear.
For his heart Is a heart all loyal.
Unscourged by the curse of fear.
His dad, when he told him, shuddered;
His mother. God blessther, cried.
Yet, blessed with a mother nature.
She wept with a mother pride.
But he whose o^J shoulders straightened
Was granddad, for memory ran
To years when he. too. a youngster.
Was changed by the Flag to a man.
^Motor World.
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CANADIANS will occupy a place
among the heroes who will be honor
ed in story and song after this great
conflict has long been forgotten. For
gallantry and self-sacrifice Canada
leads all other nations. Wherever the
Maple Leaf has been on the bat
tle front, that place has become the
center of conspicuous gallantry. The
world has never seen a finer body of
men go cheerfully forth to uphold
their beliefs than these fighting Can
adians. Yesterday’s battle on the
Meetcheele Crest was but one of many
instances where these troops have
brought victory out of disaster, and
added further laurels to their long
list of victories. It remains to be seen
of the present conscripted army equals
in brawn and bravery that which vol
unteered to help the Mother Country.
But the Canadian volunteer will nev
er have an equal, as he has tested
one hundred per cent efficiency.
CONSIDERING the size of her pop
ulation we believe Valdez holds the
record in the recently closed Liberty
Bond subscription contest for the
largest sum per capita. There are no
rich persons in Valdez; nor are there
any persons who might be classed as
near rich, yet her subscriptions
reached over $52,000. A large part
of this was contributed by the of
ficers and men of the Signal Corps
and local Post, not one of whom fail
ed to take a bond of some denomina
tion.
THOSE profiteers who stored 150
carloads of sugar for a higher price,
labeling the sacks "flour” are con
ciete examples of the cupidity the ad
ministration has to contend with. So
long as such men go free while the
thoughtless fool is arrested for mak
ing an unwise remark, conditions can
never adjust themselves.
THE law, in its majestic equality
forbids the rich to sleep in the parks,
I to beg in the streets and to steal
| bread.—Anatole.
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i FOR downright Impudence the pro
I fiteer who preys off the people and
j then calls them traitors if they re
; volt, takes the whole bakery.
ONE-MAN power is likely to prove
disastrous in a weak man and des
potic in a strong one.
MZINA BRIDGE
t'O.NTRAOT TO BE RET
James E. Wilson, chairman of the
territorial road commission, returned
from the interior yesterday afternoon
and reports that the work of building
a new bridge across the Nizina river,
for which improvement the last legis
lature appropriated $25,000, will pro
ceed as rapidly as possible. He is ac
companied by J. N. Schenben, design
ing engineer for the commission, who
has Just completed a survey of the big
bridge, which will extend for almost
a mile and a quarter across one of the
most treacherous streams in the in
terior. The specifications are now be
ing prepared, and will be published in
a few days. It will be a pile bridge,
and the contract let within the next
two weeks. The piles will be gotten
out this winter and driven as early
in the spring as the weather permits.
Mr. Wilson reports that he has se
cured a contract from the Alaska
Chitina Copper Company to transport
3,000 tons of copper ore from their
property on Dan creek to McCarthy, a
distance of twenty-three miles. This
is believed to be a subsidiary company
of the Ladysmith smelter, which re
cently took a lease on the Westover
group of claims, owned by the United
Exploitation Company, of which H. D.
Foster is the superintendent. A large
body of ore has already been blocked
out and will be hauled over the trail
to the railroad at McCarthy. Mr. Wil
son has his teams on the way from
Fairbanks and Chitina to Valdez, and
from that point will start out for
Dan Creek in November. Mr. Wilson
has taken over the Clarkins roadhouse
and barns at Chittitu for winter head
quarters for the teamsters and attack.
He has also arranged for' barns and
headquarters at McCarthy.—Times,
Oct. 27.
The local weather observer reports
18 degrees above zero for this sec
tion of the banana belt Ihst night.
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APPLYING SANITY TEST.
Dr. Hammond, Alienist, Examin
ing Members of Fighting 69th.
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Photo by American Press Association.
New York's famous Sixty-ninth rogi
meut. composed largely of Irish Ameri
cans, was chosen to go to France with
the newly created Forty-second dlvl
sion. It la now known as the One Hun
dred and Sixty-Ufth United States in
fantry. Major Graeme M. Hammond
the famous alienist, and twelve assist
ants applied the sanity test u>the mem
bers of the Sixty-ninth and rejected
no one. The picture shows Dr. Ham
mond applying the test to a sturdy
young American of Irish descent
STEAM HEAT .NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. B. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ., ALASKA
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DA NIK 1/8 SPEAKS
ON SOCIAL EVIL
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—Dealing frank
| ly and boldly with the social evil as
| a menace to the nation's military ef
| flclency, Secretary Daniels of the
navy, in an address here last night
i before the Clinical Congress of Sur
i geons of North America appealed ii
! the medical profession "to end the
false double standard that decreases
' military effectiveness.” The profes
sion, he declared, must share its part
|of the blame for the unpardonable
tirudery that endured a festering evil
‘ rather than have it exposed and eradi
cated.” ,
"There is not an army in the field
whose effectiveness is not reduced by
reason of immoral disease,” said Sec
i retary Daniels. "The navy suffers
| likewise and business halts because
venereal diseases destroy the man
j hood of workmen and fighters. Dur
ing the last statistical year, men of
| the American navy lost 141,378 days'
. sickness from a small group of ah
i solutely preventable diseases or ra
| ther disease contracted by sin. This
j means that every day throughout the
year there were 466 men disabled by
this disgraceful malady. Add to that
number those required to care for the
disabled and we have enough men on
the non-effective list each day to man
a modern battleship. And this does
not count those who through disease
were not disabled or the danger of
contagion to the clean members of
the crew.
American Aviator Killed
PARIS, Oct. 23.—Robert Hanford
of Brooklyn, N. Y., an American avia
tor with the French army, was killed
while landing at an aviation School
on October 16, according to news re
ceived here today. Hanford was a
Georgetown university student.
To Get Canadian Wheat
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Material re
lief in the shortage of hard wheat is
promised by the milling division of
the federal food administration in a
statement issued today, saying a con
siderable quantity of Canadian wheat
owned by the Wheat Export company,
a British government agency and now
moving down the lakes for export, is
to be made available for grinding by
mills in the United States.
NEW YORK’S SUPPLY OK
SUGAR TO BE DOLED OUT
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Sugar refin
ers, wholesalers and retailers met at
the local offices of the federal food ad
ministration today to work out plans
for an equitable distribution of the
sugar supply in New York city. It is
said the shortage will remain acute
until February.
Commissioner of Markets Marko
witz has fixed 10 and 11 cents a
pound as the maximum retail price,
warning retailers that if advantage
is taken of the situation to boost the
prices they will be cut off from fur
ther supplies.
WheatlesK Day in Chicago
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—All Chicago
ans who rely upon the city’s bakeries,
hotels and restaurants for their day’s
$ $ $
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 heeds 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 you 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 £ense 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
NEW OVERCOATS
Ulsters in handsome patterns, warm, but
not too heavy.
C onvertible collar
coats in new Scotch
tweed fabrics.
Black and colors
in Cravenettes.
Now is the time to
make your choice
while the sizes are
complete.
S. BLUM & COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
rations of pastry roust be contented
today to munch corn bread, rye bread,
barley, rice, buckwheat and hominy
for today is Chicago's ''wheatless
day.” All food surveyors have agreed
to abide by the request of Food Ad
ministrator Hoover. Ixtcal hotels also
are limiting the supply of sugar to
each patron.
Newsprint Paper Output
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 2.—
Production of American newsprint
paper for the nine months ending Sep
tember 30 amounted to 950,847 tons,
as against 923,197 tons for the same
period last year, the federal trade
commission announced today. The fig
ures are based on reports from thirty
six companies operating more than
fifty-six mills. Imports, chiefly from
Canada, for the first eight months of
the present year totaled 358,169
tons, compared with 318, 091 for the
same period in 1916, while exports
this year fell front 53,302 to 42,456
tons.
Zero weather is reported at Thomp
son Pass today by the operator.
HOTEL SEXTON
Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. M. CONLEY President.
Valdes
GEORGE M. BARRY Sscrstser,
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Tlllikum Club.
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(Marine Hospital)
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