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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1915.
WILL TURKEY PAY THE PRICE?
The Allied sweep against Constan
tinople is assuming dimensions which
may soon dwarf the importance of
land operations in Flanders or the
east. The most powerful fleet of
warships that modern warfare has
seen is certain to he reinforced with
out loss of lime by large bodies of
Allied troops. The seriousness of the
situation is recognized at Constanti
nople, where preparations are under
way for the removal of the govern
ment to Asia Minor. That the Allied
objective will be attained is highly
probable; and it is also probable that
the Allies are prepared to pay the
necessary price. The move against
Constantinople is dictated by consid
erations strategic and political; and
the strategic purposes involved are
both immediate and far-reaching. It
is elementary strategy to strike at the
enemy’s weakest point, and Turkey is
decidedly the weak brother in the
Teutonic alliance. In Flanders there
is unyielding deadlock. In the east,
there are violent fluctuations, like
wise resulting in deadlock. But Tur
key is giving way everywhere. Her
armies are definitely yielding before
the Russians in the Caucasus, and
have been driven off from the Suez
Canal. She is more closely beset than
any other combatant—in the Cauca
sus, in the Persian Gulf region, on
the side of Egypt. She must now
face a deadly thrust at the very heart
of her empire.
Yet it is plain that the occupation
of Constantinople by the Allies would
not serve to break the military dead
lock in the areas of war where the
conflict must be fought out, if the war
is ever to be brought to a decisive
conclusion. The actual help rendered
the kaiser by Turkey is comparative
ly small. The Ottoman forces have
kept two or three Russian corps en
gaged in the Caucasus, and a sieablez
English army in Egypt. Naturally, in
I a war calling for every ounce of pres
; sure, the Turkish diversion has count
i ed *o some extent. If the Russians
t in the Caucasus and the British in
s Egypt shall be released for service
| elsewhere, it will be an advantage.
| But, after all, Germany has shown
I such resourcefulness in matching her
(enemy’s reinforcements that the addi
tion of two hundred thousand men
to the Allied battle-line would have
no decisive results. With Turkey out
sof it. the situation in Flanders and
(Poland would be very much what it
jis today. What the Allies are really
(striving for is the political and moral
(fruits of a complete victory over the
Porte. If the falling of Constanti
nople and the imminent reconstruc
tion of the Near East should set Ru
mania, Greece, and Italy into motion,
me of the aims of the Allied higher
trategy would have been attained.
But even beyond the political aims
f the Dardanelles campaign there is
purpose which goes to the very
;eart of the present struggle; the
pad to peace may He through Con
tantinople. The problem may be put
1 this way: Assuming that the war
rags on for months in a deadlock;
issuming that all the nations grow
Seary of the prolonged slaughter; as
imlng that on both sides there will
i a wUlingness to recognize that this
kr is perhaps not an Armageddon
ter all, that Germany need not be
jduced to impotence, that the Brit
)i empire need not totter and fall,
at ^>eace may come in the f6rm of
compromise—what shall be the
■ [ms of this compromise? In Ger
,ny that is plainly the situation con
lplated. “We have Belgium and
t of northern France, we have part
Poland, and soon we shall have
rsaw; then we can discuss peace.”
i kaiser might not insist on keep
Belgium, and would most probab
ive up, his holdings in France a*nd
ind. But what of Belgium’s suf
igs which Great Britain is pledg
to avenge? What about Alsace
aine, to the recovery of which
ice has dedicated herself? And
a than that, What about the state
he public mind within the com
jnt countries, if war should be end
iy crying quits after such extra
I
ordinary sacrifices? The restoration
of the status quo ante cannot form
the basis of peace negotiations. The
governments, if they make peace
without being decisively beaten, must
show some profit at the end of hos
tilities. Where is such profit to come
from?
Not impossibly from Turkey. That
was the solution proposed by one
cynical observer during the first
months of the war when the present
deadlock was established. It is not
difficult to imagine Germany giving
up Belgium, but it is hard to imag
ine Germany paying indemnity to the
Belgians. Yet how if Germany should
recompense the Belgians and be rec
ompensed in Asia Minor? At present
France will not hear of surrendering
her claims to Alsace-Lorraine; but
may not France be placated by con
cessions in Syria? And for Russia
there are wide horizions in Turkish
Armenia and on the Dardanelles, and
for England on the Persian Gulf, ab
solute sovereignty in Egypt, gains in
Africa and elsewhere If in Europe
there is to be no yielding of terri
tory, no payment of indemnity, the
outlying regions of the earth, and not
ably Turkey, may furnish the neces
sary medium of exchange at the peace
conference.
This may prove to be the ultimate
meaning of the Allied move against.
Constantinople. With Turkey beat
en to her knees, the Allies in turn
will have large means to negotiate
with. It is a conclusion that easily
lends itself to satire. But popular
opinion in Europe may find this
amount of justification, that Turkey
is the ultimate cause of the present
struggle, and should be the one to
pay the price. Rival aspirations for
the Sultan’s heritage underlay Rus
sian and Austrian hostility in the Bal
kans, and fostered those conditions
in the Balkans which brought about
the tragedy of Sarajevo. By definite
ly removing the cause of contention,
the governments of Europe might
make plausible claim to have been
justified in the sacrifices they have
imposed on their peoples.—New York
Post.
VALDEZ EAGLES AND
ERIENDSJ DANCE
The St. Patrick’s dance in Eagle
hall tonight, given by the Valdez j
Aerie No. 1971, promises to bring out
a record-breaking crowd. The com
mittee on arrangements and members
of the order have been industriously
decorating the big hall in appropriate
colors. The dance music will be fur
nished by Iteinke’s orchestra. During
the evening lunch will be served in
the balcony. Those who attend may
be sure of a good time as nothing
has been overlooked which would add
to their pleasure.
WOli'sIuiLB TO
GIVE A COIN TEA
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The ladies of the Women’s Guild,
of the Church of the Epiphany, will
give a Coin Tea tomorrow (Thurs
day) afternoon at the rectory. The
proceeds will be employed in further
ing the good work of the Guild and
a large attendance should reward the
efforts of the ladies. All are invited.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Jeff Devinney is in town from the
Three-In-One property at Shoup bay.
Irish drama at the Orpheum change
tonight; also Irish piano comedy.
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co tf
G. Glendenning left for Wells bay
yesterday.
H. Bush is in town from down the
bay.
The most exquisite nand-palnted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Wintor’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
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H. Martin left this morning with
three others for Fairbanks over the
government wagon road.
Don’t forget the St. Patrick dance
tonight in Eagle hall, given by the
Valdez Aerie. Mus'cvby Reinke’s or
chestra. Lunch served in balcony.
Happy Moore arrived in town re
cently from Knik. He says things are
overdone there and no accommoda
tions, no business;
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Vice-president Says Jingoites and
Howlers Consider Only Their
Own Financial Interests.
CHICAGO, March 17.—Vice-presi
dent Marshall and Secretary Lane
reached Chicago yesterday afternoon
en route to the San Francisco expo
sition, and were given a great recep
tion upon their arrival.
The vice-president, in a speech de
livered before a gathering of hun
dreds of business and professional
men scored the jingoites and calam
ity howlers. He declared that they
should be made to enlist in the regu
lar army if they were so anxious that
bigger army and navy forces should
be created to protect the country. He
had no patience with the people wiio
were howling about the chances of
'America being plunged into war with
out proper preparation when they
were considering only the question of
profits they might make on supply
ing the munitions of war to the gov
ernment.
Tlie Women’s Guild will give a Coin
Tea at the rectory Thursday after
noon. All are invited.
MAYOR RITCHIE'S
FATHERJASSES ON
Judge Lyons has received informa
tion from Mayor E. E. Ititchie, of Val
dez, who was then at his old home
at Mt. Washington, Mo,, stating that
Mr. Rit liie’s father had died thereon
March 2, two days after his son had
reached home, from Alaska.
Mr. Ritchie’s communication con
veyed tlie information that he planned
to leave for Seattle to catch the Ad
miral Watson, sailing for Alaska on
March 15.
LONG HAIR AND LONGEVITY.
A Theory That There May Be Some
Relation Between Them.
Did it ever occur to you that there
was any relation between a line, bushy
head of white hair and the long life of
the owner?
I believe than 1 can claim without
fear of successful refutation that a
very large majority of men who have
passed the age of eighty years have or
had a goodly show of hair on the crown
or top of their heads. 1 by no means
claim that this is universal, for it is
easy to recall men who lived to even
greater age than eighty who were
quite bald.
Without any attempt at a chronolog
ical list, 1 jot down a few names that
come to mind as I write: John 1. Blair,
known at his time as New Jersey's
richest man, ninety-four; Daniel Drew.
New York capitalist and college foun
der. ninety-one; lion. William E. Glad
stone. English statesman, eighty nine;
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, New
York, founder of the New York Central
railroad, eighty three. Rev. Edward
Beecher (brother of Henry Wards nine
ty-two; Hon. Peter Cooper. New York
philanthropist, ninety-three.
It would be easy also to name quite
a number of men who possessed fine
heads of hair who reached only middle
age, but my purpose is not to be sta
tistical. but rather to possibly start in
terest in an unusual subject and see
what can be deduced tberefrom.—Pitts
burgh Press.
RIGHT AND LEFT HANDED.
A Series of School Tests and an Am
bidextrous Failure.
Ever since it wan proved tbat in all
righthanded people the speech center
of the brain—tlfe place from which
talking is controlled—Is on the left side
of the brain and that in leftlmnded
people it Is on the right side there has
existed a suspicion that If a person be
came ambidextrous, or able to use both1
bands equally well, the speech center
might be doubled, and consequently
talking ability might be Improved.
Very elaborate tests have shattered
tills hope.
A German specialist obtained the as
slstnnee of tile school authorities and
tried it out on nearly H.000 school-chil
dren. After n careful record was tak
en of eacli child's hand preference,
speech ability and general capability
all the children were told to try to use
both bands. For many months an ef
fort was made to have all the children
become ambidextrous.
At the end of the test all the teach
ers and other observers agreed that
though some of the children had suc
ceeded in becoming ambidextrous, the
effort had worried them all and had
shown no advantages manually or in
speech that In any way recompensed
for the trouble taken. Consequently
the scientist has decided that nature
la doing pretty well with her own sys
tem of left aide speech and right hand
preference.—Saturday Evening Poet
Special Sale of Shoe Pacs
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We are overstocked on
Gold Seal Pacs
and in order to move them have decided to sell them
at greatly reduced prices.
Now-$3.50-Now
These are 12 in. Pacs, formerly $4.50
and 16 in. Pacs, formerly $5.00
This Sale will be for a limited time only
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
< 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS < Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
( 6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Notice To Creditors.
In the matter of the estate of George
Hansen, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of thn es
tate of George Hansen, deceased, to
the creditors thereof, and to all per
sons having claims against said es
tate, to exhibit the same with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to-wit, within six months after
the 24th day of February, 1915, to
said administrator, at the office of
Donolioe & Dimond, his attorneys in
said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said es
tate.
The date of the first publication
of this notice is the 24th day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
A. S. JENSEN, Administrator.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
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Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water iB for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Wednesday, March 17.
High tide 12:58 a. m., 12.3; 1:22 p.
m., 11.6.
Low tide 7:13 a. m., -0.1; 7:15 p.
m., 0.8.
Thursday, March 18.
High tide 1:24 a. m., 12.3; 1:57 p.
m., 11.1.
Low tide 7:45 a. m., -0.2; 7:40 p.
m„ 1.3.
Friday, March 19.
High tide 1:50 a m., 12.2; 2:30 p.
m„ 10.5.
Low tide 8:18 a. m„ -0.1; 8:06 p.
m., 1.9.
Saturday, March 20.
High tide 2:17 a. m., 12.0; 3:08 p.
m., 9.8.
Low tide 8:53 a. m., 0.3; 8:34 p.
m., 2.5.
Sunday, March 21.
High tide 2:47 a. m., 11.6; 3:50 p.
m., 9.1.
Low tide 9:34 a. m., 0.7; 9:04 p.
m., 3.0.
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and ¥ ¥ T]\/f D C D and Building
Puget Sound JL.UlVir>H.I\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Oitice Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERM Ah
Phone iy THE DENTIST |
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OtiU'C rooms, over l)»vl Drug store. OflU’e hours
i a. in., to « i». m , 7 i>. m.. to 9 i>. m. Sundays*
oy iu>;>oiniment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
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ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House.
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Llscum. Leaves Valdez
8:16 a. m. 9:46 a. m.
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:16 a. m. 9:46 a. m.
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips at the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
FOR SALE—Six good work dogs,
well broke and good workers. Cheap.
Apply T. E. Dougherty. tf
Gopper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, Her heirs
and administrators and to all it may
concern: You are hereby notified tiiat
I have expended during the past year,
1914, the sum of $66.66 (sixty-six dol
lars and sixty-six cents) lawful money
of the United States in labor and im
provements upon your one-third inter
est in those mining claims lying and
being on Avery river, in the recording
precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are
known as the Beauty Bird and Beauty
Bird No. 1, the location notices of
said claims being of record in the
office of the commissioner, and rec
orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
ords, in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section 2324
of the Revis d Statutes of the Unit
ed States, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, boing the amount
required to ho’d said lode claims for
the period ending December, 1914.
And unless within ninety days after
the completion of the publication of
this notice to-wit: within ninety days
after the 7th day of June, 1915, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure Incurred in performing said
annual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of $66.66, your in
terest in said claims will become the
property of your co-partners, who have
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
JULIUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7, 1915.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Miarch 17, 1915.
STATION Vbove Below, Snow In. VVKATHElt CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 35 4 South winds, cloudy, no snow.
McCallum . 20 26 Clear, calm, trail fair.
Paxson's . 15 34 Clear, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 25 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Gulkana . 10 16 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center. 25 8 Clear, calm, trail good.
Tonsina . 28 25 Clear calm, trail good.
Teikhell . 20 26 Clear, calm, trail fair.
Beaver Dam 1..... . 35 48 Snowing, calm, trail heavy.
gummit . 32 84 Snowing, windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 38 30 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.