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H. B. SKLBY, Editor and Proprietor.
VALDES. ALASKA
Published Daily Except ^Sunday
Entered aa Second-Class Mail Matter,
July 23. 1912. at the postotfice of \ aldex.
Alaska, under act of March 3. 1879.
~iriu»>nes* Otilce and Editorial Roorna
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MONDAY. .lAXI'ARY 2H. 1IMH
Food will win
the War;
don’t waste it!
THE DAWN OF PEACE.
PUT oft. put off*your mail, O
kings.
And beat your brands te
dust!
Tour hands must learn a
surer grasp.
Tour hearts a belter trust.
Oh, bend aback the lance t point
Ard break the helmet bar.
A noise is in the morning wind.
Bui not the note of war.
Upon tlie grassy mountain pallia
The glittering hosts increase
They come: They come: How lair
their feet:
They come who publish peace.
And victory, fair victory.
Our enemies are ours!
For all Hie clouds are clasped In
light
And all the earlli with flowers
Aye, still depressed with dim and
dew.
Rut wait n little while,
And with the radiant deathless lose
The wilderness shall smile.
And every tender, living thing
Shall feed by streams of rest.
Nor lamb shall from the flock be
lost.
Nor nursling from the nesi
.!•>!.n FIus'sin.
.MILD SARCASM
Col. House returned to this coun
try in time to celebrate Christmas and
advise the President on the railroad
question. His arrival was doubtless
hailed with joy at the White House.
In Downing Street, London, also,
there was rejoicing. “I am very glad,
said Lloyd George, “to learn of the
return of the first great American i
mission to Europe. '
A REEL EXAMPLE
Japanese silk reelers have combin
ed to hold up the price of raw silk to
$648 per bale, or $176 higher than
the average price for the past 15
years. The outcome of this action will
not be lost upon the Southern cotton
growers, who asked charity from the
Nation when cotton prices were low,
but who show no disposition to treat
s fairly with the world In its travail to
day.
FURTHER SAVING
Food Administrator Gunnison Calls
Attention to Desire* of Govern
ment in Food Conservation
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The Federal Food Administrator
for Alaska, Royal A. Gunnison, this
morning gave out the following state
ment with reference to continuance of
food conservation in the Territory:
"Now that the 8-weeks campaign on
wheatless, meatless and wasteless
meals has closed In Juneau, Persever
ance, Thane, Douglas and Treadwell,
and reporting of these has ceased, It
seems timely to say to the people of
tho channel cities and to the people
of the Territory geneially, where no
reporting campaign has followed the
campaign for food conservation
pledges, that the need for conserving
wheat, beef, pork, mutton, animal fats
and sugar is no less, but in fact great
-*>r, today than at any time.
“The United States has now ship
ped ‘over seaa’ all of its surplus of
the essential foods. Hence, all that is
shipped today or can be shipped un
til tbe new crops are In the market
again. Is what the American people
save through self denial, the -sabstF
I tution for the essentials, of other
foods of which there are plenty, and
the guarding against waste ip the
kitchen and on the table. There is no
danger of starvation here for we have
an abundance for substitution, lint
there is imminent danger of it in Eu
rope. They have practically only what
we send them.
“It has come to the attention of the
Food Administrator that 6ome are ex
pressing the desire that the United
States Food Administration should
tel! just wbat is wanted of them in
this regard. The Food Administration
lias already done that very thing on
the Home Card that was given out
to every household where a food
pledge was signed. One of these Home
Cards should be in the kitchen of ev
ery house in the Territory. This card
sets forth the suggestions and wish,*
of the Food Administration up to the
present time.
So far. in the Territory of Alaska
at least, there has been no attempt to
ration or curtail by force of law or
regulation the amount of food that
any person should eat, but the neces
sity of the hour has been plainly stat
ed over and over again from press and
platform and a reference to the Home
Card will give it. Anyone who has
lost the Home Card which was dis
bursed to her or who has not yet had
it, can obtain one by application to
the chairman of the Food Saving
Committee in his or her community or
by applying to the office of the Fed
eral Food Administrator In Juneau.
The real hope of the Food Admin
istration lies in the intelligent, cheer
ful and willing co-operation of the
people in the country along the lines
indicated on the Home Card, and the
housewives can be of greater assis
tance in thiB matter than any other
individual, for in their care is the
marketing and preparation of the
food.
Heretofore, Alaskans, as well as
citizens of other states and territor
ies, have striven at economy in the
matter of food in order to protect the
pocket-book. The food conditions in
the world today, due to the withdraw
al of millions of men from pursuits j
productive of foodstuffs in order that :
they might become defenders of deni j
ocracy, the cutting off from ourselves
and our associates in the war of prac
tically every food market in the
world other than those of the United (
States and Canada, and Hie destruc-1
tion ot' enormous quanti*ies of food
and food-carrying vessels by the. sub
marine warfare, has brought us in the
United States face to face with a new
problem, namely, that of real self
sacrifice and denial which slioifd. and
in reality does, either directly or in- I
directly affect each individual man,:
woman and child in the entire world. |
"We are now called upon lo save,:
not the elusive rolling dollar that all j
humanity has chased for so ;nany i
years, but certain foods which if thej
individual is not now willing to save:
by the curbing of his or her own ap
petite, will soon be beyond the pow
er of money to purchase for these
foods will then have been consumed
and unobtainable.
"It is unnecessary to reiterate why !
these foodstuffs are necessary to he!
conserved for ‘over seas' use. r,’he i
Horae Card in your kitchen will tell j
you that.
The people of Alaska have uniform
ly responded to every call for patriot- j
ic service. An example of this is shown
in the partial results of the eight
weeks reporting campaign in Juneau,
Thane, Perseverance, Last Chance
Basin and Mendenhall, in which there
have been returned reports of 41.233
wheatless meals, 63,677 meatless
meals, and 92,636 wasteless meals.
The actual results of this campaign
and the tremendous saving that can
be accomplished in the Territory by
a conscientious compliance with the
request of the Food Administration
to continue the course already begun
will be comprehended when it is un
derstood that even these reports of
eight weeks in the Juneau section are
still incomplete. The reasons for the
incompleteness of the returns seems
to be that some of the housewives who
signed pledge cards grew lukewarm
for one cause or another as the weeks
went by and have given up any sem
blance of reporting, though it Is as- j
sumed that none of them gave up the |
attempt at least to reui&m faithful toj
the signed food pledge.
Today real American* regard with
aversion the man or woman who
lends aid or comfort to or sympathiz
es with the common enemy of liberty
and the man who would avoid his
duty to his country by endeavoring to
escape from the selective draft is
spurned as disloyal. Our own men
have responded willingly to the call
to defend the cause of democracy in
the world. Our men and women have
given generously of their money for
Liberty Bonds and have supported the
Red Cross as well as other avenues
of war relief with their money and
their labor, but we must remember
that food is the basis of all military
operations, and that men must be fed
it they are to light. So too, must be
fed the people not under arms, who
constitute the nations with whom we
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BETROTHAL OF THE JUNGLE
Maiden and Intended Each Suppoccd
to Meditate on Advisability of
Union Bofore Ceremony.
A second heating of tomtoms tliun
dered through ilic barrio. The liride
was coming! itown tin avenue uiailc
for her by women of the tin lie slowly
crept the liny figure. It was draped
in llie stifles! cnslcrii stuffs; Jeweled
uiikiets ami bangles tinkled merrily.
A gauzy veil of wondrous vvorkiimii
sliip swathed tile ligure, but litroiigh it
I’iang recognized Ins beloved I'upitu.
Slowly site approached; fear I uliy she
raised Iter eyes to the Ilian who await
ed her, I’ Ion nee l’artello Stuart writes
in St. Nicholas. Her iilllc feet tal
lercd, ami I’apila leaned heavily
against the woman who supistried Iter.
itut at that moment Viang gave a
strange wiuxile, three soft uotes oi a
mi mi bird llouled over the Itarriu ami
1‘apita heeaute suddenly alive. Aguiu
the notes stole through the jungle. The
bride l Itrew bark tier veil.
"The unwilling maid seems to have
forgotten l»er woe," suid oue scornful
woiiiuu lo allot iter.
Tile priestess folitiucliccd the (.’I'M*
uiouy iInn whs in Iasi ail night. It
was tilled with well'd chant* to whirll
i'apilu responded with renewed vigor,
lint her eyes furtively glanced toward a
spot near the curve of the creek where i
a slender reed swayed unccusiugly.
After several hours the priestess
ied the way to the water und Yuoelt
placed f’apltn in her gala vinta and
pushed her out into the stream, lit
got Into another ami the two bouts
uosed earh other while the crowd show
ereti them with oils ami perfumes.
When Ihe eoiuliuiutl finite to part, tile
boats shot off in opiiusite directions.
A maltleu aud a bridegroom are eaeb
supposed to mediliile, in Oriental fash
ion. on the advisability of tbe union be
fore the final ceremony; so read the
Ilyttk marriage laws.
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AMERICANS’ ONE GREAT IDEA;
Happiness Hat Principal Charm—The
People Are the Most Idealistic
and Imaginative.
“'rile Americans are llie must Ideal j
islic and Imaginative people 111 I lie |
\torlil. and llie must prosaic, because
like Wordsworth, llie iiiosi prosaic ill !
pods. I hey helleve III happiness, and '
happiness to iliein as to Wordsworth J
means ‘mens saint in eorpore satin;’;
every one ellh-ienl in llie tasks of mod |
ern life, ihe least heroic of doctrines.
“I met a young Ann-rican poet, hand I
Some, and besides elated hy winning j
some prize nr other for a |hioiii. II*- j
said to me In his arrogant May that ;
poetry is a hy -produei of life. Why. I i
said, ‘it is life iiseir.1' ‘J don’t agree j
with you.’ was all he condescended t*> !
reply. This young man expressed tin ;
American idea.
“I think (he Kuglish dislike of the
ories. e(e.. ihrmigh their long history
Is because of (heir (metical minds and j
their preoccupation with personality
and its freedom.
“The taste for scenery has this ad |
vantage over the taste for human mi- ;
lure; the heart Is not bruised. Yel j
since scenery Is never absurd as are ,
poor mortals, neither is lliere laughter
nor genial pity. We love scenery
prlneipally L -niise the feelings it cre
ates are trampiil and easily .controlled
so that we can enjoy our full measnn
of self-eonteiit : dealing with human
nature, the poet cannot he the supe- |
rtor person nor can he he proud.”— j
From the Letters of John Butler I
Yeats,
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About Cork.
A g<»nl. sound cork Is something
worth inking cure of and using prop
erly. Never "waggle" a cork out of
u hot lie. That is the best way to
break or at least spring a crack In
the cork. Remove the cork with a
turning or twisting movement, always
in one direction only. I. e.. not a twist
one way and then in the opposite way
Replace the cork with the name twist
as when removing It. Never lay a cork
down on a dirty, sploshed table. If It
must he laid down, stand It on its
crown or top. For hot tics containing
liquids In use. c. g.. developers, etc.
attach the cork to the hottle thus:
Pass a crochet needle through the top
of the cork, and with its aid draw the
end of a piece of line twine rigid
through the cork, and lie ihls end of
the string sound (he neck of the bottle,
so adjusting matters that the cork Just
fulls to reach the table (I. e., bottom
of the hottle) when the cork and
string are free. This saves the cork
getting lost In the darkroom.
Make* Eggs Tell Their Age.
A novel iititl rapid way whereby to
determine the age of an egg has been
developed h.v M. Grossfeld, a French
Investigator. Ho has supplemented
the usual method by one dependent on
speclflc gravity, notes the Boston
Transcript. The existing way where
by to determine the nge of eggs Is by
candling them and taking note of the
“mirage which forms about the yolk.”
Mr. Grossfeld hus determined that spe
clflc gravity of normal eggs In the
way attributed to Archimedes, and
there hns been figured out the loss in
gravity, for each week of keeping. For
quick Inspection of qualities of eggs,
he lias devised a form of hydrometer.
The egg takes the place of the weight
ed bulb and the scale Indicates the
speclflc gravity and at the same time
the age of the egg^ A little cage has
been arranged to hold the egg and la
capable of quick bundling. Rig egga
and little egga are subject to errors In
the readings, but with eggs In the vi
cinity of (ft grammes the Indication Is
loatantsAsous..
PRICE REDUCTIONS
Large can, solid pack, Del Monte
Tomatoes - - - - 20c.
Large can, solid pack, Del Monte
Spinach .... 20c.
«s
On every boat we receive all the
Fruits and Vegetables
the market affords
Having a buyer in Seattle insures us the
best'selection obtainable and at right prices.
S. BLUM AND COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
NEW SHIP LAUNCHED
A PACIFIC PORT, Jan. 28.- -A
new motor auxiliary schooner, the
General Pershing, slod off the ways at
a port on this coast today, sped
across a small inlet and rammed Into
the mud. Tugs pulled the boat off at
high tide.
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The Moose Dance held Saturday
night was a very enjoyable affair, re
gardless of the shortage of electric
lights.
THE SOUTHERN
MRS. BLACKWELL, Prop.
Nice, Clean Rooms
Baths In Connection
PRICES REASONABLE
Phone 104
LAUNCH DELLA
Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdes to
Kllamar, landlock, Fidalgo and
way |iorts. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen
gers.
For rates apply on hoard.
CAPT. U. L RIDER
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 166
riH ui A«w»M Humi
Regular Communications nrsl wed
ussday In each month In MoKlnle'
HalL Visitors always welcome.
WALTER ELLIOT. W. M.
C. C. REYNOLDS, Sec.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. M. CONLEY PtmU—t.
VlUw Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Wtyr.
Valdes Akasa_
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
SAFETY FIRST
Travel On The
“SHAMROCK”
Prompt Service • •
D. D. STEWART Maeter
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Hot-Point Electric Hooters and
Cooking-Appliances at the Emporium.
Christmas goods coming on the next
boat. tf
VALDEZ
The town of valdez
is situated at the head of
Prince William Sound,
and is a city of probably one thou
sand population. It is the center
of the mining industry on the
Sound, both copper and gold, and
is adjacent to and rtithin easy
hauling distance of the salmon'
grounds, many fresh water rivers
and streams in Valdez Bay bring
ing the fish in great numbers to
within sight of the town. The
city has one good cannery, which
will operate two lines the coming
season, employing probably one
hundred and fifty persons.
The city offers good opportuni
ties for a fish saltery, a fertilizer
factory, a glue factory, a tin can
factory and a box shook factory,
all subsidiary to the fish packing
business. The city owns ifs own
wharf and the Valdez Dock Com
pany, which also owns a splendid
wharf is willing to give prospec
tive investors a chance for sites.
VALDEZ has a progressive
citizenry, with good high schools,
churches, free reading room and
library, good dubrooms and many
lodges and organizations. Rents
are very cheap, and living is but
little higher than in the States.
Many gold and copper mines
are contiguous to Valdez, making
this city their outfitting port, and
drawing from its reserve of labor.
The climate is very healthful, the
extremes of heat and cold being
rarely experienced. The mercury
rarely falls below —15 in the win
ter and 70 above is the highest
summer temperature. The sum
mers are delightful and the win
ters far better than those of the
Northern Central or Eastern
States.
VALDEZ is the coast terminal
of the government military high
way to the Interior. During the
summer months autoa may reach
Fairbanks from Valdez in 36
hours running time, over a fine
road, through the most magnifi
cent scenery on the North Amer
ican continent. In winter teams
or dog sleds may be had at all
times.
■ VALDEZ has a number of first
class hotels and restaurants, and
the traveler and miner can be as
sured of comfortable lodgings
a minimum expense. Parties de
siring to outfit for mining or pros
pecting can do so at our stores
far cheaper than in the States,
with men of experience to help se
lect their outfits.
If you are coming to Alaska
the Land of Opportunity, and de
sire a good home town among ^
fine class of citizens, buy your
ticket to
vaCdez
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PROFUMIOITAL CARDS.
DR. R COCKERILLE
HuAmU Hidwil llilfrrittr
DENTIST
la Valdez Since 18Wt
PHONE llO
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ATTORN K YS-AT-I.A tt
llpHair Court Houmr
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la • aallac BalMlac
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
Killed Iaracn Ground
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Boon
Terms Reasonable
jo*, a. savnuua.n.&.n.s.rrM.
Jos. A. S Overman PI. G. M. 0.
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Offict ten 1 b 4 p ■ -7 to S p. a.
Sunday by Appolntmeat
Res. TeL 17« Office TeL II
Boyle Block VaUm
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Insurance
Fire-Surety Bonds-Life
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Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Oatalde Room
Traaaleat Trade BaUcited
Special Rates hr the Weak or Moath
Bathe la OoaaeaHea
rasas ua ms. stisk. tor