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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1017
y WAR TAXES
War taxes seem to be designated by
Congress for the express purpose of
financing the raising and maintenance
of a large army and navy. To make
these taxes fair and just every per
son should pay his or her proportion'.
But unfortunately, the crisis has dev
eloped some lively tax dodging among
our greatest men. Millionaires and
men of moderate means«have already
taken alarm at the multiplicity of
taxes proposed and covered up their
assets in so clever a manner that it
will be nearly impossible to deter
mine what proportion should be as
sessed to them of the war's cost. One
of the latest tax'dodging stunts has
been practiced by the body which is
responsible for much of the freak
tax legislation—Congress itself.
After everything imaginable had
been placed upon the proposed tax
schedule, a measure was introduced
taxing the salaries of the members of
Congress. After a long and acrimoni
ous debate the measure was voted
down by a vote of 147 to 142. Which
shows that Congress is decidedly
averse to taking its own medicine.
Another tax measure which died
aborning was the proposal to tax
newspapers. So bitter was the oppo
sition to this measure by prominent
newspapers, that the measure was
dropper instanter. Now any person
who has kept pace with the times
knows that it is directly due to the
flagellations of these papers that the
President was forced into the war.
Attempt to inflame the minds of the
people the pressure on page after
page of subsidized news carefully
written to produce the results desir
ed have been given to the public. The
newspapers have secured what they
were after and now desire to have
the public shoulder the heavy burden
of taxes brought about by their mani-l
pulations. The Prospector has no de
sire to shirk its obligations to the gov
ernment. While the large papers will
make millions of dollars .out of street
sales the small papers like the Pros
pector will hit the rocks; the high
cost of print paper has already put
many papers out of business and more
are tottering. But to allow papers
like the New York Times and the Sun
to escape paying a share of the bur
den they have placed upon the peo
ple would be a mockery on justice.
And the automobile manufacturers
are also protesting against the tax.
While they are selling millions of dol
lars worth of trucks to Uncle Sam
they object to returning a tithe to
their benefactor.
So when the final summary of the
tax question arises it will be found,
that the small property owner, the
consumer and the small merchant will
again bear the burden of the present
wdr, as they have been forced to bear
all tax burdens in the past.
CONSCRIPTION
For the first time since the Civil
War, the United States finds itself
face to face with conscription. In the
struggle between the States, conscrip
tion led to draft riots, fomented by
copperhead orators. In the past few
weeks antt-conseription speeches have
| been heard in public places in our
! large cities, and the government has
i been cxunpelled to take summary
measure to suppress treasonable out
bursts. We agree with the New York
Herald, our far-sighted contemporary,
that we are now locking the barn
door after the horse has been stolen.
Months ago we sounded a warning
\ note against the incendiary talk of an
I archistic orators on the public squares
I of New York and other large cities.
! \Ve hope that the department of jus
tice will take a little time from the
prosecution of our captians of indus
ary to jail these advocates of anarchy.
It is fortunate that a patriotic press
stands as the strongest safeguard
against the evil that the soap box
orators have been stirring up. Thru
out these critical days the American
press, as a unit, has supported the
President and the Administration.
Yet at this most inopportune moment
the House of Representatives has
been seeking to put burdens on the
press that would cripple every publi
cation and destroy many. Much to
the point is the inquiry of the New
York Financial Chronicle:
Suppose the press should refuse to
publish the addresses and messages of
the President and recall all their spe
cial correspondents from Washington,
what would become of the "Adminis
tration policies”?How would the war
loan fare with the public? Who could
know the real object for which an
array is being conscripted, and bil
lions of the people’s money expended?
It is reasonable to believe, in view
of the rising costs that cannot be
avoided, that a wise public policy
would exempt the press from any war
taxes on the ground that they are a
tax upon the intelligence of the citi
zenry and a premium upon ignorance.
—Leslie’s.
HUGE SUM
FGRAMES
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND FOR
THIRTY THOUSAND PLANES
Council of Defense Introduces Bill for
Appropriation of Vast Fleet of Air
planes—Will be Delivered Witliln
Year from Start of Work.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22.—
The Council of Defense, backed by
President Wilson, has introduced a
bill providing for the appropriation
of $600,000 which will be used to
build and equip 20,000 airplanes for
the U. S. airmen. These machines will
be constructed and delivered within
a year from the beginning of the work
and will give America the largest
number of airplanes of any nation in
the war.
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MANY SIGNAL CORPS
MEN ON VICTORIA
The following Signal Corps men
were aboard the steamer Victoria
which called at this port today:
First-class Sergeant Charles W. Stolze
front Fort Gibbon: First-class Ser
geant Luther Kyttle from St. Michael;
First-class Sergeant John O. Sher
lock, Fort Gibbon, First-class Ser
geant Chester B. Mulkins, from Nome.
Sergeant Lee Gilmore from Fort Gib
bon; Sergeant Samuel H. Munson
from Nulato. Corporal Myron O. Bell,
from Nenana; Privates Elmer H.
Humble, from St. Michael; William
Roy from Fort Davis; Edward J. Tol
and, from Ft. Gibbon.
Sergeant Sherlock was stationed at
the local cable office from 1908 to
1911.
Rush War Grist
NEW YORK, June 22.—Because
of the urgent need ror additional
medical men, on account of the war,
116 students, members of the third
year class at the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons, Columbia uni
versity, took up their fourth year
work today and will be graduated
about January 15.
ARE YOU GOING TO WIN
SOME OF THOSE
BIG PRIZES AT VALDEZ
JULY FOURTH? ,
| STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
* .
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
SEE THE BIDARKE RACES AT
VALDEZ, JULY FOURTH.
Red Cross Ambulance
Ambulance (from the French am
bulance, formerly hospital ambulant,
derived from the LatiD ambulare, to
move about), a term generally ap
plied in England and America to the
wagon or other vehicle in which the
wounded in battle, or those who have
sustained injuries in civil life, are
conveyed to the hospital. More strict
ly, in military parlance, the terms
imports a hospital establishment mov
ing with an army in the field, to pro
vide for the collection, treatment and
c-ie of the wounded on the battle
field. and of the sick, until they Can
lie removed to hospitals of a more
stationary character.
The ambulance organization which
variously modified in details, now pre
vails in all civilized armies, only dates
front the last decade of the 18th cen
tury. Before Jhat time wounded sol
diers were either carried to the rear
by comrades or left unattended to,
and exposed until the fighting is over.
Surgical assistance did not reach the
battlefield till the day after the en
gagement, or even later; and for
many of the wounded it was then
too late.
In 1792 Baron Dominique Jean
Barrey of the French Army intro-,
duced his system of ambulance vol—
antes, or flying hospitals, capable of
moving with 6peed from place to
place, like the “flying artillery” of
that time. Napoleon warmly support- j
ed Barrey in his efforts fn this direc
tion, and the system was soon brot,
to a high state of efficiency in the,
Grande Armee.
An important step toward the ame-!
lioration of the condition of the!
wounded of armies in the field was j
the European Convention signed at j
Geneva in 1864, by the terms of which]
subject to certain regulations, not
only the wounded themselves but al
so the official staff of ambulances and
their equipment were rendered neu- j
tral, the former, therefore, not being
liable to be retained as prisoners of !
war. nor the latter be taken as prizes]
of war.
Different regulations are made by
various powers as to the work of the]
Red Cross Societies under the Geneva !
(Red Cross) flag. Whereas in Ger-1
many and France such aid is officially;
recognized and placed under direct]
military control, the English Red
Cross Societies have acted side by
side with, but independently of, the
military ambulance organization.
The obligations with regard to sick j
and wounded in war on land are now
governed by the Geneva Convention
of July 6th, 1906. By this convention)
ambulances and hospitals, their med
ical and administrative staff and chap-j
tins are ‘respected and protected un
der all circumstances” and the usaj
of a uniform flag and arm badge bear
ing a Red Cross are required as a
distinguishing mark of their char-j
acter.
The United States had declined to
become a'party to the treaty of Gen
eva on the basis of which the Red J
Cross Society was formed, and it was
not until Clara Barton who had gone.
WANTED
TO ENLIST IN THE
U. S. NAVY
FOR PARTICULARS SEE
Str. SATURN
CORDOVA ALASKA.
C h i Id re n*S Shoes An entire new stock of Shoes for girl* and boy*, children
and girls’ Slippers and Pumps—the famous TESS-TED line, which combines service with
common *ense styles for growing feet.
|
They are Here—the latest
Fancies in Women’s Footwear
Owing to lack of store space and facilities for service until recently we
made no attempt to replace our former stock of women’s shoes. Now that this
store is iu a better position to serve and cater to vour foot wants we are pleased
to announce the arrival of a brand new stock of shoes for women, including
several irumbers deserving of especial mention.
Patent Pump, white kid.
trimmed, medium vamp
New York heel.$6.00 *
Patent Strap Sandal, me
dium vamp. New York
heel; price . $5.50
Seamless White • Cloth
Pump; covered heel;
opera last .$3.50
Mahogany Kid Sandal,
New York heel; the
newest in pumps; $6.00
Cross Strap Kid Slipper,
medium heel; >tyle and
comfort .. $5.00
Sand top, patent botton,
medium vamp and heel;
price $5.50
S BLUM & CO. Inc.
GOOD GOODS
Phones 12 and 13
SEE THE BI DARKE RACES AT
VALDEZ, JULY "FOURTH.
to Switzerland for her health, had re
turned to the United States in 1873,
that she at once began her efforts to
effect the organization of the United
States branch of the Red Cross and
to bring her county into the treaty of
Geneva, which efforts were success
ful in 1881-1882. Clara Barton was
the first president of the American
Red Cross, holding the position un
til 1904; and represented the United
States at the International Confer
ence held at Geneva, 1884; Karlshrue
1887; Rome, 1892; Vienna, 1897;
and St. Petersburg, 1903. She was
the author of the American amend
ment to the Constitution of the Red
Cross which provides that the soci
ety shall distribute relief not only in
war but in times of such other cal
amities as famines, floods, -earth
quakes, cyclones and pestilence, and
in accordance with this amended con
stitution, she conducted the society’s
relief for the sufferers from the yellow
fever in Florida (1887), the flood
at Jamestown, Penn., ( 1889 ) the fam
ine in Russia (1891), the hurricane
along the coast of South Carolina,
1893, the massacre in Armenia in
(189B), the Spanish-Ameriean war
ill Cuba (1 S9S ) the hurricane at Gal
veston, Texas. (1900) and several
other calamities
Such is the organization and the:
work of the American Red Cross to
day, which is striving during this
week beginning June 18, to raise the
sum of $100,000,000 for the relief of
suffering humanty in all countries.
For the actual ambulance and field
work only trained and skilled physic
ians and nurses are accepted, but we
can all assist in this great and glor
ious work for the good of mankind
by contributing as liberally as our re
sources will permit toward the rais
ing of this fund.
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, Ph. G. M. D
LIST RE1» CROSS SUBSCRIPTIONS
First Bank of Valdez .$25.00
S. Blum & Co. 25.00
M. Blum . 10.00
H. B. Selby . 5.00
J. H. Kirk . 5.00
F. J. Hayes . 5.00
Louis E. Johnson . 5.00
Dr. J. A. Silverman . 10.00
W. T. Stuart . 20.00
Anna Mae Dolan .50
William Dolan ...25
Heber Smith . 5.00
C. B. Smith .-. 5.00
J. W. Gilson . 10.00
Valdez Study Club . 15.00
Valdez Civic League . 77.00
C. J. Todd . «-00
Wm. Wiley . 5.00
Cash . 2.00
Total *- $234.76
Don’t forget the big dance to be
given by the Moose in their hall to
morrow night at 9:30. Good music
has been obtained and a good time
is assured all who attend.
SEE THE BIDARKE RACES AT
VALDEZ, JULY FOURTH.
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly ont of Valdez
will deliver passengers, mail, ex
press and fast freight at any
point on Prince William Sound.
RATES REASONABLE
Periodical service by agree
ment to outlying camps a spe
cialty.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. M. CONLEY President.
Valdez Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Secretary.
Valdez Alaska.
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
VALDEZ LODGE
SO 168
Free and Accepted Maaoai
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Budding
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—la Owl Dra« Star*.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT--COLD
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. W1CK.ES MERRITT
Office* over % aide* Drag Co.
Phone ’IS McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon. V. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Sery.
'Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National l al versify,
Vlatkliftoa, D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1808
PHONE lit)
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OBee Opiimlle < oort Hour
Phone S« 1ALDEL ALASKA
JOHN LYONS C E RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-A I-LAW
Office* I* “ baling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted lenses Ground
J. L. REED
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Phone 2M VALDEZ. ALASKA
EDMUND SM.ITH
LAWYER
Suite 1212 American Bank Building,
SEATTLE, WASH.
Special Attention Given to all Alaska
Business.
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER.
PATENT SURVEYS.
McKinley St. oppotitd the V. M. (tore
VALDEZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, IVC..M. D. Pie*
Jos. A. Silverman Pk. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office ken—I te 4 p. a —7 te 8 p. a
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
American Flags, Pins and Buttons
for sale at the Emporium. tf
Lowney’s Box Candles at Hunt’s
Candy Kitchen. tf
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