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VALDEZ, AI.ASKA
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July 23. 1912. at the nostofflce of Valdea.
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WEDNESDAY, APHID 17, 1D1H.
THE KAISER’S TALK TO SATAN
The kaiser called the devil up,
On the telephone one day,
The girl at central listened in
To all they had to say.
"Hello,” she heard the kaiser's voice,
"Is old man Satan home?
Just tell him it is Kaiser Bill,
That wants him on the phone.”
"What can I do,” the devil said,
"My dear old Kaiser Bill?
If there’s a thing that I can do
To help you, I sure will.”
The kaiser said: “Now listen,
And I will try to tell,
The way that I am running
On earth a modern hell.
"I've saved for this for many years.
And I've started out to kill,
That it will be a modern job,
You leave to Kaiser Bill.
“My army went through Belgium,
Shooting women and children down.
We tore up all her country,
And blew up every town.
“My Zepps dropped bombs on cities,
Killing the old and young,
And those the Zeppelins didn't get.
Were taken out and hung.
"I started out for Paris,
With the aid of poison gas,
The Belgians, darn 'em, stopped me,
And wouldn't let us pass.
"My submarines are devil6,
You ought to see them fight,
They go sneaking through the ocean,
And sink a ship on sight.
X was running tilings iu suit uir.
Till a year or so ago,
When a man named Woodrow Wilson,
Wrote me to go more slow.
"He said to me: ‘Dear William.
We don’t want to make you sore, j
So be sure and tell you U boats, \
To sink our ships no more.
" ’We have told you for the last time.
So. dear Bill, it’sjip to you.
And if you do not stop it,
You'll have to fight us, too.’
"I did not listen to him.
And he's coming after me,
With a million Yankee soldiers.
From their homes across the sea.
"Now, that’s why I called you, Satan,
For I want advice from you,
I knew that you would tell me,
Just what I ought to do.”
"My dear old Kaiser William,
There’s not much for me to tell,
For the Yanks will make it hotter.
Than I can for you in hell.
“I’ve been a mean old devil,
But not half as mean as you,
And the minute that you get here,
I will give my job to you.
“I’ll be ready for your coming.
And I’ll keep the fires all bright,
And I’ll have your room all ready,
When the Yanks begin to fight.
“For the U. S. boys will get you,
I have nothing more to tell.
Hang up the phone and get your hat,
And meet me here in hell.”
—By W. B.’ Curry
SECRET OP CONTENTED LABOR
Through his experience with an ar
my of 40,000 employes, Henry Ford
has arrived at this:
"Men don’t work for money alone.
Ten dollars a day will not hold men
in some places. The things of life
that are worth while make the strong
est appeal to the man. Above all, he
must have something to hope for in
the future.”
Mr. Ford has the secret of satisfied
labor and, if all the employers in the
country had it, we would have a very
much different and better America.
The human animal has progressed
very largely through earnest, persis
tent striving for a little more than he
already had.
The man without hope of advance
ment is a machine. He watches the
clock. He does his stint, and no more,
and is indifferent to the fate of the
enterprise of which his stint is a part.
His loyalty is measured by his obedi
ence to rules and his contribution is
no more than that of the dies, cogs,
rivets, wires, gears and fuel of hli
ship. He has represented the statui
quo only, and always will. He bai
been the plowing by ox-power, th<
reaping with the fickle, the garmen
made by hand-needle, the transporta
tlon by canal. Keep him as he is, am
he will ayways have only what ii
granted him and few of the thlngi
that make life worth while. And
should he become the majority
should inalienable rights and oppor
•tunities depend upon him, human pro
I gress will cease.
Of capital and labor, the latter is
1 the greater and its responsibility is
! the greater. Human-machine labor
! labor without aspiration for th(
things of life worth while, without
I something better to hope for in the
i future, means stagnation, stagnation
! of capital as well as of all other ele
ments, and hence it is labor’s insis
tent obligation to fight against the
increase of human machines.
The great war work that Mr. Ford's
industrial army is performing is ad
mirable. but, in the final analysis, it
is only a fundamental duty of labor.
It is but labor’s fulfillment of its ob
ligation to beat back an autocracy
which would make all laborers but
human machines, without hope of the
things of life that are worth while.
Mr. Ford is one of the greatest lib
erators of our times. He is demon
strating to capitalism, by his growing
bank balances, that it is most profit
able that the wage-earner be eager
for and have the things of life that
are worth while. All of our industrial
problems are locked up in that pro
position.—Ex.
COULDN’T BELIEVE THE PAPERS
He wanted it understood right in
the beginning that he didn’t believe
what he read in the papers. Some one
had made a statement and said he got
his information from the papers.
Whereupon the wise one delivered
himself of the above sentiments—that
“you couldn’t believe the papers.”
Then the wise one began telling
about the war, and went into details
concerning a certain campaign. He
mentioned the general involved, and
told of the activities of certain mili
tary organizations. He even told of
the personal eccentricities of some of
the people involved, and seemed to be
as familiar with the facts as if he had
been a part of the thing he was des
cribing.
But the truth was, he got all of his
facts from the newspapers. He had
never met any of the men he dis
cussed, he had never been in the re
gion he described, he had no way of
knowing anything about it in any way
save by reading the papers. He even
told about Carranza s whiskers and
about Kerensky having tuberculosis,
and about the way Haig parted his
hair—all newspaper stuff pure and
simple.
The fellow who says he doesn't be
lieve the newspapers is foolish. If
he were correct, if he didn’t believe
the papers, he wouldn’t know there
is a war being waged by more than
half the world. He hasn’t seen it. He
wouldn’t even know there is a Pana
ma canal, for he had no other means
of gaining that information. He
wouldn’t know that Woodrow Wilson
is President of the United States, or
that there is a German empire. Elim
inate from any man the information
which he had obtained from the news
papers, and he is a gibbering idiot
without ideas or without knowledge.
Denounce the papers all you please—
they don’t care—but don’t brand
yourself as a fool by saying that you
do not believe what you read.—Geo.
F. Burba.
“OVER THE TOP”
VALDEZ has nearly reached the
quota allotted the city in the Third
Liberty Loan. Less than $1,000 re
mains to he collected. There is no
doubt whatever that the balance of
the amount will be subscribed within
the next few hours. The generosity of
our citizens in donating their money
to the government is little short of
wonderful, considering the setback
the war has given the town and the
condition of business. Hardly a per
son over 12 years old but what owns
a Liberty Bond of some denomina
tion. And the sale of War Savings and
Thrift Stamps has also reached a
large sum. Alaska has shown more
patriotism in comparison to the popu
lation than any place ip the world.
More men have enlisted and more
money been subscribed per Capita
than in the states. The present quota
for Valdez exceeds $100 per inhabi
tant. This is a huge sum to raise in
these times when the price, of neces
sities are bounded by the blue sky
and work is scarce on account of the
mines being closed down for the per
iod of the war. The man who has
thousands of dollars and who sub
scribes to the Liberty Loan deserves
little credit. It is a gilt edge invest
ment for him. But the man who is
forced to deprive himself and his fam
ily in order that he may bay a bond
out of bis scanty earnings is indeed
patriotic. There is no better indica
tion that we will win this war than
i the confidence of the people in their
i government.
•
i Fairbanks reports two degrees be
low zero today,a drop of 32 degrees
since yesterday.
i Bob Sheldon's tank passed Salcha
i yesterday in a cloud of snow, with
, two passengers and much enthusiasm.
, From all reports Bob at last has solv
i ed the problem of navigating over Al
askan snows, and parties seeing a
i white cloud hanging over the Summit
, | will know that it is Bob and his new
1 snow machine.
i PASTOR’S PICTURE
OK KAISER SEIZED
I
] CHICAGO: Several citizens of
Gary. Ind., tonight went to the rec
tory of St. John’s Evangelical church
;and, after warning the rector. Rev.
Martin Lienck, that he must support
all moves of the government toward
winning the war, confiscated pictures
of the German kaiser and a pillow
bearing a German flag. The pictures
were taken from the same room
where Rev. Edmund A. H. Kayser,
said to have been an agent of Von
BernstorlT, was shot to death nearly
three years ago.
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Summons for I Publication
No. 934
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.
Lucile V. Flett, Plaintiff,
vs
Scott Lewis Flett, Defendant.
To Scott Lewis Flett: You are here
by notified that you are named as de
fendant in a suit brought by the
above-named plaintiff to secure a de
cree of absolute divorce from you, in
the above-named court and that un
less you appear and answer or other
wise plead to plaintiff's complaint fil
ed in said cause within thirty days
after completion of publication of
this summons, to-wlt; within thirty
days after May 15. 1918, your de
fault will be entered and plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief ask
ed in her complaint.
This publication of summons is
made pursuant to an order duly made
on March 12, 1918 by Hon. Fred M.
Brown, judge of the above-named
court.
Dated, April 2, 1918.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court.
By C. H. WILCOX,
Deputy Clerk.
First publication, April 3, 1918.
Last publication. May 8, 1918.
Spring Opening
THE NEW CONDITIONS AND
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Fuel, Food, and Clothing are the
chief necessities of life.
We are the local distributors of
“clothes known the nation over”—sev
eral lines of them.
These clothes have reputations to
maintain. They give the greatest pos
sible value at the price.
Their manufacturers have protected
themselves, their distributors and the
public against unnecessary price in
creases.
Trademarks, which have won the
confidence of the public cannot profi
teer. They MUST give values.
Our new spring stocks are here. We
are proud of them. They prove that we
are value-givers under trying condi
tions. You can come here, pay a popu
lar price, and be sure of getting stylish
reliable clothes..
Get acquainted with our famous
lines. They have reputations to main
tain—and they do it.
By concentrating great volume on each gradethe
makers can give such exceptional values. Each
season each grade is identified at a nationally
known price. America's Only Know Price Clothes.
Style; Reliable Fabrics; Good Tailoring.
STYLE-PLUS CLOTHES, $21 AND $25.
This Store has the Exclusive Sale of Style plus in this Town
S. BLUM AND COMPANY
SEATTLE: Eighty per cent of the
white people residing in Alaska be
long to the Rd Cross, it has been es
timated.
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
HOTEL SEXTON
Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
CHAS. A. SULZER
Candidate For Re-election
As
DELEGATE • TO CONGRESS
From Alaska
“In deciding to enter the primaries as a candidate for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, I feel Impelled to make a brief statement to
the people of the territory. It Is now nearly a year since I was seated
in the House as Alaska’s representative to congress. During the most
of this time the United States has been engaged In a world war. and
every resource of the nation, including money and man power is be
ing devoted to the single purpose of winning this great war. Every
member of congress in considering legislation for the nation, has
placed the country’s war needs above all needs and requirements and
has subordinated his desires to the military establishment of the
United States.
“Alaska has responded nobly to the nation’s call. She has given
her share willingly and unstlntlngly. When the democratic party
went before the people of Alaska in November, nineteen sixteen, it
stood for a certain constructive program which embodied as its prin
cipal elements a wider measure of home rule for the territory, and a
sane and rational policy in the development of natural resources and
every possible aid to the pioneers of the country.
“I have introduced among others the following bills in congress
which I am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
“Granting Alaska full territorial form of government with home
rule the dominating principle.
“Regulating the fisheries of Alaska along lines that will be fair
to all, and the protection of the salmon supply from depletion.
“Making changes in the homestead laws by abolishing the eighty
rod reservation.
“Authorising free surveys of homesteads in Isolated sections.
“Changing the game laws so as to give the people a better oppor
tunity to use the game of the country without its being slaughtered.
“Extending the federal farm loan act to Alaska.
"Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within the territory.
“At all times I have endeavored to keep constantly in mind the
needs of the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the
war some measure of progress has been achieved. I have assisted in
passing a law which helped the prospector by suspending assessment
work on claims during the years nineteen seventeen and nineteen
eighteen. The extension of the wireless and cable system in Alaska has
been accomplished with bright prospects for a further extension.
“Recognition has been forced for Alaska in the matter of appoint
ment to the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts
which prevented the farmers of the interior from supplying army
posts with their vegetables are cancelled.
"Suggestions and requests that I again go before the people of
AlEtka hA?o come to mo from AlAskAM Ell over thd territory. Rwt"
eratlng my desire to serve the best interests of Alaska I am submit
ting my name as a candidate for the democratic nomination for
Delegate to Congress."
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I FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
F. and A. M.
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REGULAR communications. first
Wednesday in each month in Ma
sonic Hall. Visitors always wel
come. i
WALTER ELLIOT, W. M.
C. C. REYNOLDS, Sec.
. L 0. 0. F.
’ Valdez, No, 6
Meets every Monday night at 8:00
o’clock p. m., In Odd Fellows'
Hall. Visiting members cordially
invited to attend these meetings.
OTTO ELFSTROM, N. G.
R. D. NICHOLLS, Secretary.
Fraternal Order Eagles
Valdez Aerie No. 1971
V
Meets every Friday night In Eagle
Hall. Visiting Members cordially in
vited to attend these meetings.
ED. WOOD. W. P.
C. J. TODD. Sec.
Order of Eastern Star
Valdez Chapter No. 5
STATED communications, first and
third Tuesdays of each month at
Masonic Hall. Visiting members
always welcome.
RENA E. CRAWFORp, W. M.
J. A. SILVERMAN. M. D. Sec’y.
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