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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917
TIME FOR ACTION
On the steamer Evans, sailing
north as fast as steam can bring them
is a party of men who hold the fu
ture of Alaska in their hands. The
party is composed of Assistant Sec
retary Herbert A. Meyer, in charge of
the affairs of the Alaskan railway,
and Secretary Lane’s confidential ad
viser; R. F. Austin, his secretary;
A. D. Shepard, a prominent San Fran
cisco railway man, and several engi
neers of international reputation. It
is one of the most prominent parties
ever touring Alaska, inasmuch as its
opinions and advices are accepted by
the government in regard to improve
ments made and policies adopted.
The question arises: What will
Valdez do to entertain the party
while in port; provided the steam
ship arrives at Valdez in the day
time? Will we allow them to land
unattended and hunt out the re
sources and advantages of this sec
tion alone and uninformed, or shall
we organize a committee to meet
these gentlemen, 6how them our
town, run them, out on the trail so
they can see the easy grade over the
I summit to the Interior, and point
j out to them the superior harbor fa
cilities and near proximity to both
1 the Bering Kiver and Chickaloon
I coal fields.
The importance of entertaining
Mr. Meyer and party cannot be ov
erestimated. Valdez has been passed
by for years now because her citizens
have paid too little attention to pub
licity. She has not made noise enuf.
In this day of prodigious advertising
the man or locality who sits still and
expects to be noticed by the busy
world is bound to lose out. A brass
band gets more publicity than a tin
whistle.
We would request every citizen in
town to be on the wharf when the
Evans comes in. Have the Moose
Band meet the boat, and a repre
senative body of business men con
duct them up town with autos. For
this purpose several citizens should
donate cars. If Capt. Glasscock can
be prevailed upon to lay over for a
few hours a trip to the canyon could
be made, which would open our visi
tor's eyes to the fine road to the In
terior starting from this town. Re
member that but little is known of
Valdez outside and this has been
badly distorted by self-seeking inter
ests. Let us try and correct some of
these mistakes by meeting Mr. Meyer
and giving his party the freedom of
the city while here.
As time is short, the Evans being
expected in here some time Satur
day, our citizens should act at once.
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AN ENGLISHMAN’S VIEW
Lest we forget, it is not entirely
inappropriate to call attention to the
claims of the party in power in Wash
ington during the recent campaign
that America’s prosperity is not a war
prosperity. The whole country fully
realizes today that our prosperity has
been created by war. In fact, the sec
retary of the treasury, during the ear
ly stages of our war with Germany,
predicted that the $10,000,000,000
which were spent in the United States
would bring to the nation a period of
economic prosperity without preced
ent—and in a sense it has.
An article by Sydney Brooks, the
eminent British journalist and maga
zine writer, entitled "America’s Fly
ing start,” appear in the current is
sue of Everybody’s. It is introduced
with these words.
"I wonder if Americans quite rea
lize what the war has done for them,
and had done for them long before
they entered it. First, it saved them
from a commercial collapse at about
the last moment when it could still
be fended off; secondly it deluged the
United States with a stream of pros
perity the like of which had never
been known in the history of this or
any other land. Thirdly, it did more
in a few months than a half century
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of enterprise in times of peace could
have done to advance America's po
sition in international finance, in the
ocean-carrying trade and in foreign
commerce. * * *”
Incidentally, Mr. Brooks has high
praise for the enterprise and re»
bourcefullness of American industry
j in shifting from a peace to a war ba
I sis but he hurls a few brickbats as
! well as other boquets—one in par
| ticular for the navy and another for
the war department.
“A great part of the problem of
munitions in America,” he says,
“consists in a sensible use of the re
sources which have already been de
veloped to meet the needs of the al
lies. But there is no guarantee that
in every case these resources will be
sensibly used.”
For instance, he proceeds to point
| out, England has ordered hundreds
( of submarine chasers from one Amer
] ican firm—speedy eighty-foot boats,
of light draft, with a radius of 1,000
miles. The British admiralty has
found them to be the most adequate
submarine chaser that have yet been
invented, and the American concern
has standardized its plant so that it
can turn them out much as Henry
Ford builds his motor cars. But for
some reason the navy department has
ordered 110-foot boats with a draft
that prevents their working over a
mine field and with a radius no great
er, if as great a radius as the eighty
foot boat. No company is equipped
to build them quickly and thus much
time is lost in the war on the sub
marine.
It is further observed tha the Uni
ted States has adopted the British
Enfield rifle because American manu
facturers are prepared to turn this
type out in tremendous numbers hav
ing made thousands for England. But
fur some reason the war department
has ordered these rifles rechambered
to take American ammunition. Mili
tary opinion would say that arma
ments should be uniform in order to
prevent delays in delivery but for
some reason the war department has
decreed otherwise.
In connection with these points of
criticism the writer says: “I think
if I were an American I should look
into this matter”—and perhaps it
would be profitable for Americans to
j do so.
RESTORING THE Ql El/E
The new Chinese government,
which has been restored—whether
temporarily or permanently is for the
future to decide—has decreed that
the wearing of the queue shall be
optional. Thus, what the republican
government accomplished at one
stroke of the shears, has been un
done with a stroke of the pen-—and
obviously the supporters of the mon
archy think they have made a ten
strike with the populace.
Whether China is fit for self-gov
ernment is a world riddle. This civi
lization, which is one of the oldest
in the world, is probably the most
backward. When the republic, under
Yuan Shi Kai, the president-dictator,
abolished the queue as a sign of
modern enlightenment, it was thot
that this symbol was prophetic of the
regeneration of China. Yet the inci
dent reminds one of Russia when Pet
er the Great, more than two hundred
years ago, aroused deep resentment
among his long-bearded people by in
troducing a razor among them—and
occasionally plying it on the recalci
trants in punishment for their diso
bedience.
One may well wonder whether
China, in its controversy over the
queue today, is where Russia was at
the time of Peter the Great. We find
the Russian monarch’s emerging
from absolution and setting up one of
the world’s most promising repub
lics. At the same time the vast em
pire of the Celestials is apparently
at the point of discarding the experi
ment of democracy and* returning to
its age-long slumber, its incipient
vision gone, its worship of ancestry
as its greatest evil and the pole star
of its existence.
Democratic nations will hope that
the crisis of today will not mark its
recidivation into the mire of the
past, for hungry wolves are ready to
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MUSTARD SAUCE
TOMATO SAUCE
SWEET ONIONS
PICKLED ONIONS
MIXED GHERKINS
WHITE SALAD VINE
GAR
EVP. HORSE RADISH
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rend it when it falters. Possiffly the i
taste of self-government, incomplete
though it was, will give the demo
cratic leaders courage to stand firm
against military rule and the restor
ed monarchy.
BOMB CASE DEFENDANT
IS FREED BY JURY
Famous San I-Yancisco Defendant On
Trial for Complicity in Prepared
ness Day parade Murders Gets Ver
dict of Not Guilty.
SAX FRAXCISCO, July 2$.—Mrs.
Rena Mooney, who has been on trial
for alleged complicity in the San
Francisco Preparedness Day bomb
outrages was acquitted, today, after
the jury had informed the trial judge
they were unable to agree on a ver
dict. The jury was instructed to re
turn to the jury rooms and reach a
verdict before they would be dis
charged. After a few hours delibera
tion they brought in a verdict of
“Not Guilty.”
When the foreman read the find- ‘
ings, Mrs. Mooney bounded to her
feet and enthusiastically kissed each |
juror in turn.
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Demand Recall of Fickert
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—A pe
tition has been circulated among the
laborites of San Francisco demand
ing the recall of Prosecuting Attor
ney Fickert, who has conducted the
cases against the Mooneys^for the al
leged crimes. The signature has many
thousand names and an election will
be called in August.
Brant Resignation Accepted
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26 —
President Wilson today accepted
the resignation of Commissioner
Brent, of the government ship cor
poration.
Youngurt Cottage Cheese,
a new addition to our fancy eats—pack
ed in a sealed paper cup. plain and pimen
to. sells 2 for 25.
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Randall’s Grape Juice,
from selected New York grapes, full 20
07... bottle sells at 30c, as compared with
10 07... bottle of other kinds at 35c.
Heinz’s Varieties:
Most of the :7 varieties for sale at this store, here are a few selected in glass:
CHOW CHOW PICKLE
GREEN PEPPER SAUCE
INDIA RELISH
SOUR GHERKINS
MALT VINEGAR
SPICED SALAD VINE
GAR
PURE OLIVE OIL
CHILI SAUCE
RED PEPPER SAUCE
SWEET GHERKINS
GRAPE JELLY
TARAGON
PURE CIDER VINEGAR
WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables:
ket’s best on the last boats—Cherries, Plums. Apricots, Seedless Grape Fruit, Melons,
Cantaloups. Radishes. Head Lettuce. Cukes, String Beans, Green Peas, etc.
JIFFY JELL many tasty deserts can be made with Jiffy Jell—try the
new mint or lime flavor.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
Good Goods
Complete line of Bulk Cbocolatea.
Candy Kitchen. tf
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Krrt aid Accepted Nimbi
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month in McKtn)e>
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M
ED WOOD, Secretary.
WE PAY
Cast Iron $23 per ton.
Wrought Iron $18 per ton. .. ..
Copper $26 per ton.
Brass $18 per ton.
I,ead 8Hc per pound.
Rubber 7He per pound.
Qt. Beer Bottles 27He per doz.
Pint Beer Bottles 17H per doz.
Rags $2.60 per 100 pounds.
Paper $1.00 per 100 pounds.
Manila Rope 4%c per pound.
P. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1643 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Launch Patsy
for Charter Anwyhere on
VALDEZ BAY
At any Time Day or Night
J. D. Jefferson
VALDEZ, ALASKA
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly out of Valdez
will deliver passengers, mall, 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
VALDEZHOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PL. C.. M. D. Pr*».
Jot. A. Silverman Ph. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office heart—1 ta 4 p. at —7 to 8 p. ■.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdez
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—b Owl Onu Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
DAY OR NIGHT
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS^.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tillikum Club.
•’hone ’IS McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University,
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1808
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTOBNEVS-AT-LAw/
<*■« Opnoelte Court Hou*e
Phone M VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS « E RITCHIB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORN BY S-A1 -LAW
OfBces Is “ hello* Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Htted Lenses Ground
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
W. M. CONLEY President.
Valdes Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Secretary,
Veldes Alaska