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SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1914.
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an immigration suggestion.
Advocates of the literacy test for
immigrants admit that the chief aim
of it is to restrict the number of
aliens coming to the United States
every year. Ihe difficulty with the
provision is '• at it is aimed at a de
fect which is easily cured. The second
generation of our immigrants are
among the brightest of the pupils in
school. Restriction of immigration
may be desirable, but it should not
be based on a literacy test. Dr. S. L.
Gulick, who has spent 26 years in !
Japan and is now in this country on
a lecture tour, offers a restriction ■
plan which might work well and which
is highly preferable to the literacy
test method.
Dr. Gulick proposes that we meet
the situation b" restricting the immi
gration from any foreign country,
either in Europe or Asia, to five per
cent of the natives of that country
already located in the United States
and become naturalized citizens of
this country. While the proposal is
a novel one, it is also extremely prac
lical, since it would put substantial
ly no check on the most desirable
class of immigration, that from Nor
thern Europe, because five per cent
of the naturalized citizens of any
country in that region now living here
would be more than enough to include
the present immigration from such
sources. But it would put a prompt
and arbitrary check on the inffux from
other countries wh:ch are today sup
plying the bulk of the undesirables
who come to our shores.
Such a policy recognizes the im
perative need of assimilation of new
ly-come citizens if they are to be
come an asset to the nation instead
of a menace to American institutions
and a peril to the American stand
ards of living. We need have no fear
of being overwhelmed by new arriv
als from lands where real liberty is
unknown, and whose peoples are un
trained to distinguish between liberty
and license, if we confine the number
who may enter to five per cent annu
ally. This plan has the additional
and quite vital advantage that such
a method of handling the immigra
tion question displays no favoritism,
or preference, such as that which has
aroused Japan and strained our re
lations in that quarter. If Japan is
limited in the same way that En
gland, or France, for instance, is lim
ited, in the number of her cit'zens
who will be admitted to the United
States, every possible reason for ob
jection disappears.
We hope that Dr. Guliok’s plan will
get the consideration it seems to de
serve at the hands of congress and the
administration.
“MAKING GUILT PERSONAL."
President Wilson, who is strongly
in favor of making guilt personal in
the punishment of corporations that
violale the federal laws, is finding an
illustration of the need of this meth
od in dealing with the railroad rate
question. The president, according to
Washington reports, realizes the im
portance of the issues involved in the
application of the Eastern railroads
for permission to increase their
freight charges. The chief objection
to granting this permission is found
in the expose of the methods by which
high financiers wrecked and looted the
'Frisco, the Itock Island and the New
Haven roads. The president appre
ciates the unfairness of making all of
the railroads of the country suffer for
the sins of these financial jugglers.
The shareholders in the railroads,
and they are not capitalists but small
investors for the most part, are not
responsible for the manipulation of
the high officials of the roads. Only
a few shareholders of any big com
pany can know what is going on in
side. The few who know are morally
responsible for its management. When
such a company is deliberately looted
it seems unfair to punish the many
for the guilt of the few. Were guilt
made personal and not corporate,
whatever penalty the law could inflict
would fall upon those Individuals who
had done the wrong and who had pro
fited most by It, but not upon all the
Innocent shareholders.
The 10,000 stockholders of a rail
road do not know where there offi -
cers are leading them, but the offi
cers know. If officers had known
that they personally and not their
company as a whole would suffer
through questionable acts, nearly ev
ery one of the numerous cases of the
past ten years where corporations
have been assailed would have been
avoided.
Individual gain for a few’ and not
wholesale gain for the many has been
mainly responsible for- the glaring
faults of some big companies. Every
consideration of logic and justice
therefore demands that those wlio dc
the wrong shall suffer for it.
The stockholders, not the officers,
suffer when the corporation is fined
for violation of the law. A yawning
cell would do more to prevent the
officers of a railroad company or other
big corporation from going wrong
than would the fear of a 11,000,000
fine imposed upon all the corporation’s
stockholders. The most effective way
of enforcing the anti-trust laws will
be by making guilt personal.—Ex.
SPECIIL SERVICES
IT THE CHURCHES
Extra Music For Easter—Plenty of
Flowers—Easter Sermons Be
Preached.
The churches in Valdez will hold
Easter services tomorrow morning
ant} night and it is expected that all
three churches will be crowded.
Special music has been arranged for
both morning and evening services.
At the Congregational Church the
Reinke orchestra will render several
selections besides a number of vo
cal solos. Reverend Charles S. Price
will preach the sermon.
At the Catholic Church special
Easter music will be rendered, the
choir having been practicing for sev
eral ('weeks. Messrs. Rudolph and
Weaver will play a number of sacred
selections. A large consignment of
fresh Easter lilies were received on
the last boat and will be in full bloom
for Easter besides a large amount, of
cut flowers. Father Wm. Shepard
will preach.
At the Church of the Epiphany
special Easter sermons will be
preached and a quartette of four
young girls will sing the Easter songs.
The quartette consists of Annabelle
Guenther, Lois Keesler, Mafy Swan
son and Ethel McIntosh. Rev. W. H.
Ziegler will deliver the sermon.
BRIGHTONLEAVES
FOR PORT WELLS
The Brighton left this morning for
Port Wells and way ports with a full
cargo of freight and a number of pas
sengers. The Brighton has started on
the new schedule of leaving Valdez
every Saturday morning.
WEATHER RECORD.
Taken at 8:00 a. m. Snow is given
as depth on level, in Inches.
• Locations— Temp. Snow
Saturday, April 11, 1914.
Wortman’s, cloudy, calm .. 71
Summit, cloudy, calm .... 115
Beaver Dam, cloudy, calm 28 50
Teikhell, cldy, south wind 49 50
Tonsina, cloudy, south wind 45 15
Copper Center, cloudy, east wind ..
.. 42 12
Uulkana, cloudy, calm .... 36i 20
Hogan’s, cloudy, calm .... 25 19
Paxson’s, snow, north wind 20 20
Summit—Trail open.
Beaver Dam—Trail soft.
Uulkana—Trail soft.
Hogan’s—Trail soft.
Paxson’s—Trail open.
Valdez, April 10, 1914.
Barometric Pressure . 29.649
Temperature at 7 p. m.34
Maximum Temperature ...;.. 49
Minimum Temperature . 21
Mean Temperature . 35
Partly cloudy, calm, wind N. E.
one mile.
Hat* Retrlmmed.
Hats made to order and re-trtm
med at Mrs. E. Winter’s store. tf
Music! Music! Music!
All the lastest popular music at the
Valdes Drug Store. tf
Have your watch repaired at the
Valdes Drug Co. by an experienced
workman. All work guaranteed and
promptly done. tf
Subscribe for the Prospector.
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HOLDS COURT BY PHONE
With Receiver at Ear Judge Aeke
Queetione and Gives Order.
Denver.—A rap of the bailiff's gavel,
followed by a loud "Hear ye, hear ye,
hear ye!" brought, a number of specta
tors to a' halt in the first division of
the district court. Court attaches as
sumed their accustomed pla'ces, and
the first Judgeless court ever held in
Denver was in session.
Judge J. K. Little, eighty miles away,
was presiding. He was giving orders
to the division clerk, Lynton Hubbard,
over the long distance telephone from
Colorado Springs.
•‘Hello?" greeted his honor. “Is the
court in session?"
“The court is in session, your honor,"
replied Clerk Hubbard.
“Take this message and enter It on
the docket,” sat id Judge Little.
“The judgment in the case of Charles
Miercourt against Charles and Blanche
M. Snyder is set aside. The finding of
the court is that the Judgment was not
regularly obtained. You may adjourn
now.”
The Judgment against the Snyders,
amounting to $1,730, was awarded by
a jury over which Judge Little-pre
sided last May. The judgment was set
aside on the showing made by Snyder
that he had not been officially notified
concerning the date of the trial and
I the case was allowed to go by default.
NAME WOMEN IMMORTALS.
Five Illustrious Females on 'List Pre
pared by Profesaor Matthews.
Chicago. — Professor Brainier Mat
thews at the American Academy of
Arts and Letters named live Ameri
cans who, he says, are eligible as "im
mortals.” They are Ida M. Tarheil.
research; Mary Wilkins Freeman, fic
tion: Edith Wharton, fiction; Mary
Cassatt, painting, and Margaret l)e
land, fiction.
“There are other women who might
obviously tie eligible,” added Mr.
Matthews, “hut these five came first to
my mind.
“I want to put you right on the
question of the admission of women
to the ‘Immortals.’ It has not been
discussed at this session of the Ameri
can Academy of Arts and Letters, lie
cause no woman has been proposed for
membership. The subject has not come
up officially for ten years, since the ad
mission of Julia Ward Howe.
“The five coine to mind as women
about whom there could lie no question
of worthiness, but 1 believe it would
be advisable for them to start an ‘im
mortals’ of their own.”
1.769.889.284 RODE
ON NEW YORK CARS
Greatness of City Illustrated
by Statistics.
New York.—Professor Supan of Go
tha, whose annual “Bevolkerung der
Krde" Is accounted the authority on
such statistics. last year estimated the
population of the world at 1,623,300,000.
During the year which ended June
30 last the ground, underground and
overground transportation lines of
New York carried more passengers by
146.589.284 than this total, tables made
pnblic by the public service commis
sion giving tli« number of passengers
as 1.769,889.284.
By boroughs the traffic was distribut
ed as follows: Manhattan. 1.112,908.
828; Brooklyn, 521,233,913; Bronx, 74,
711,453; Queens. 47.467,014; Klchmond.
13,578,066. The year’s Increase for
the city was 90,074,580. which Is al
most equal to the population of the
United States.
The figures for the subway and ele
vated lines in Manhattan are regarded
by the engineers of the commission as
being the most significant In the new
tables. For the first time the subway
carried more passengers than the ele
vated lines, its total being 327.471.510
morc than 1,000.000 each working day.
Tin* elevated lines carried 306.845.
006. a gain of indy 2.574.U55. while the
subway gained 24.497.054. During the
year ending June 30. 1912. the "I,” ex
ceeded the subway by 1.296.985.
BRIDE’S WEIGHT IS 560.
WHilo Bridegroom Only Tips the
Seales at 133 Pounds.
Davenport. la.—Hundreds attended
the marriage of A. L. Woollett, weight
133 pounds, of Ornsby. Wls„ and Mliss
Amu Gene Bare, weight 560 pounds, of
Olympia, Wash., the bride being the
heaviest woman In the west. Ijllss
Bergina Delhoyo wits bridesmaid, while
acting as best .man was James Boyd.
Both contracting parties are with a
carnival company, but have been ac
quainted for sixteen years. They at
tended school together.
The ceremony was performed by
Deputy Treasurer C. C. Gibson, for
merly a minister of the Church of
Christ. A handsome silver service
was given to the bride by members of
the carnival company . following the
marriage.
Rat Short Circuits Current.
Argos. Ind.—The charred body of a
rat explained the reason for the sud
den going out of electric lights here.
Argos gets Its current from Rochester,
south. In. Pulton county, and lights
there were affected. The rat’e body
formed a short circuit that played
havoc with the lighting system.
i NEW MONEY ORDER PLAN.
i
Postoffica Department Would Cash
Checks at Any Station.
j Washington.- Officials of the postof
, tire department have determined to
; urge congress at tile regular session to
i amend the postal laws so that money
j orders may lie paid at any postoffice in
j the eountry, although drawn on a giv
en office. A committee appointed by
Alexander M. Dockery, third assistant
postmaster general, lias worked out
details of the plan.
i Information lias reached the depart
' meat that the express companies al
J ready are opposing the plan because it
! would mean a sharp curtailment of the
! money order business handled by
I them. Tin* expectation is that bank
ing interests also will oppose the plan,
as it would be likely In cut into tile
bank draft business.
Tinier such a system a money order
would be treated identically as a draft
or express money order. The party to
whom such an order was made out
would indorse It just the same as a
draft or check, making it payable to
the bank or individual whom he de
sired to cash it If lie did not take It to
the postoffiee.
Postmaster tlenernl Burleson will In
clude the proposed change In the mon
ey order system in his annual report.
Officials of the department are confi
dent that congress will act favorably
upon It.
Clean Your Sidewalks!
All sidewalks in the town of Val
dez must be cleared of snow by April
15 or the city wil have same clean
ed and the cost thereof will be taxed
astainst the property.
WILLARD SCOTT, City Marshal.
MILK—MILK—MILK
Fre«h“Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone orders to Phone 187
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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MILK CURE FOR BABIES.
London Phyoieion Ditoovoro Cauoo of
Infants’ lllnasa.
Baltimore. — I>r. Italpb Vincent, di
rector of the research laboratory of
the Infants' hospital. London, an
nounced here that he had discovered
the bacillus that causes stomach trou
ble among Infants. He read a paper
before the local Academy of Med
icine and told of some recent discov
eries that lie believes will be of great
value in combating Infantile diseases.
The principal topic was milk. “That
is the whole story of disease among
Infants,’’ said I>r. Vincent. "Get pure
milk and keep it pure and there will
he practically no disease among the
babies. Milk should be given infants
lust as 11 comes from the raw, without
boiling or any other preparation'.”
STEAM LAUNCH N & S
Leave* from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way point* at 10 a. m. Daily
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every" Tuesday evening »i H o ciota In
Eagle Hull. All members are reqjested tc
attend. T. G. QUINN. Arctic Chiel
S. MCNIECE. Secretary
Valdez Lodge
No 168,
Free and Accented Masons
Regular Communications Ural Wednesday 10
each month In McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
C. C. Reynolds. Sec
L. W. STORM. E. M.
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Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
bgramfk Bush’s Cigar Store
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ALASKA WATER LIGHT G TEL. CO.
Your
Easter Suit
is here.
Hart Schaffner & Marx
made it for you. _
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington,ID. C.l
DENTIST
Phone 110 Kourteefi yew in ».>
Office Koonis over VALDEZ
Valdez Drug Co.
DR. GERMAN
Phom la THE DENTIST
Office rooms o\ei < >wi Drmr store. Office hours
9 a. m . to 61>. m . T p. m..to9 p. «i. Sundav*
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. C. H. VANCE
the osteopath
Graduate American School of
OateopatHy. Kikravfile. Mo.
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Trot kiiMuc. W.U Tina. PHONE 2*1
C. E. BUNNELL
• ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
phone’i ts Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
ICivil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Pripting Latouche, Alaska.
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