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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913.
A WARNING.
H has been reported that a
number of people intend Lo lo
cale lots on I he ground which it,
is thought will be needed by the
Road Commission for the con
struction of the glacier dike and
also that homesteads will he tak
en up on the ground upon which
is growing the only available
brush for the construction of the
dike.
The people of the town should
not, and we are inclined to think
they will not. tolerate such loca
tions, only made in order lo se
cure a piece of money from the
commission.
The commission has no money
with which to buy land but must
put all of the §55,000, or such
part thereof as is needed, into
the dike and if litigation is start
ed the work of building a glacier
barrier will he delayed many
months and possibly a year.
“THE FOf-LY OF FLOODS.”
In its April number, printed
before the Dayton disaster, the
World’s Work has a timely edi
torial under the head, “The Folly
of Floods.” Progress is being
made when opinion changes from
The traditional superstitious view
that calamities are "acts of (tod,"”
and comes about to the enlight
ened modern doctrine that for the
most part they are “follies,” the
consequences of neglect in utiliz
ing modern knowledge and scien
tific intelligence.
Congress has today before it a
bill to spend thirty million dol
lars to protect 100,0(10 acres of
reclaimed land in tile Sacramento
valley and to reclaim 300,000
acres of periodically Hooded or
submerged lands.
This seems a huge expenditure
to undertake in a comparatively
small locality, but had this thirty
million been expended ten years
ago if would have saved, so the
supporters of the bill claim, loss
es aggregating eleven million dol
lars by three Hoods, in 100 4, 1007
and 1000. Thei difference between
flies savings alone and the cost
of the project is far more than
compensated by thci productive
ness meanwhile of the land re
claimed. and in a day when new
agricultural land of high quality
is scarce, that is no small
achievement.
In the matter of floods this
year s experiences will convince
most sensible people laid not ev
en as rich a country as the Unit
ed States can afford to follow a
-drifting or happy-go-lucky pol
icy. And if this is true of floods,
it is equally true of othar causes
of loss and waste, such as neg
lected sanitation, poor housing
conditions, bad city planning or
lack of planning. These some
what modern ideas in our own
country, though not so hovel in
Europe, are taking hold of pop
ular thought. The great con
servation idea has innumerable
' offshoots or ramifications and it
includes not only arid lands, tor
rential streams, swamp land, for
ests and the unsettled spaces of
the continent, but cites small and
great with their peculiar sources
of loss and waste.
A Southern business man in
New York recently predicted that
the flood losses, by the time^the
returns are in from the lower
Mississippi, this spring will foot
up 250 million dollars. A quarter
of a billion. Considerable pre
ventive work could be done with
an outlay of a quarter billion dol
lars in permanent engineering.
DR. FRIEDMANN IN BUSINESS.
Even those who are most char
itably disposed toward Dr. Fried
mann cannot help but feel that,
wnatever nis claims as a scienusi
may be, be is lacking in tact. The
fact that he has established lib
reputed tuberculosis cure on a
business basis in Providence, R
I., shows what will be generally
considered as a too hasty desire
for profits.
II is noticeable that we no long
er hear so much concerning Hie
progress of his patients. II may
be that the news interest in them
has died out, but we' hardly think
so. If any of his patients have
been completely cured In the
short lime that has claimed since
his arrival in America'll would
appear lo have a distinct and high
news value. Instead we read I hat
the doctor is prepared lo lreal
patients al Providence at a flat
rale of g-’ti.
If l)r. Friedmann can cure tu
berculosis for Sl’O no one will ob
ject to the size of his profits.
That is a veVy low rate, value
considered. Ru| there still rc
! mains a reasonable doubt as lo
• the efficacy of his cure. The lirsl
optimistic interviews were fol
lowed by others not so encourag
ing. Our own government offi
cials have made no report on his
serum. The important question
still seems to be in as great doubt
as ever.
j Jn view ol inis rommion woum
jit not, have been the better part,
of discretion to have waited un
til there was some definite ap
proval of his methods before op
ening shop in Providence? It
may be doing Mr. Friedmann a
wrong even to suggest that lie is
taking advantage of the publicity
accorded him. Hut his haste to
put his praWice on a business
_
iJilfllft lit it mu unu."'
a little suspicion.
There is no objection to I)r.
Friedmann profiling by his dis
covery. Hj> is well within his
right in doing so, hut his anxiety
to make it pay is disturbing. If
he has a cure his profits are cer
tain. ("fold bullion is not more
valuable than his serum. A lil
flo patience in’this matter would
have helpn much heller for his
repulalion as a man and a scion-.
I isf—-F,x.
Tin* case of. I he Chicago
preacher whose wife ran away
with a burglar directs attention
i In I In* fad that once in a great
j while a preacher has a little luck.
Then* is a ilemainl by "hired
|girls” in London for some, leg
islation for their protection, and
what might have been expected
has occurred. One; of the do
mestics was arrested for going
around breaking shop windows to
call attention to the “cause.” The
leaders of the suffragette move
ment ought to he intelligent
enough to see that their example
of lawlessness, excused on the
ground that it is necessary to
challenge attention and compel
the world to “slop, look, listen’
to. thctir arguments, was hound to
be infectious and spread to many
other movements. Smashing shop
windows, beating up members of
the government, poisoning the
mails and so on might become
the methods of any party or fac
tion in behalf of any sort of agi
tation. The logical end of the
methods of the suffragettes is
simple chaos and anarchy.
Marcia Rica Cigars
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Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
THE SALESMAN
makes more sales and
makes them with greater
facility if his work is re
enforced by Electric Light.
It shows his goods to the
best advantage,and colors
may be readily matched
j under its rays.
A brilliant electrically
lighted store stamps a
merchant as a hustler.
And trade follows light.
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Draying Co
Freighting and passengers to all pans
of the interior. Genf-ral Trucking
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MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Steam Heat Electric Light*
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Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good "Piir niirrrr
Goods I fit DUrr t I Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
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Puget Sound Lj v/ lVllJlLlX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
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