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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1917
FORGET IT.
IF you see a tall fellow ahead of the
crowd,
A leader of men, marching fearless
and proud.
And you know of a tale whose mere telP
ing aloud
Would cause his proud head to In anguish
be bowed.
It's a pretty good plan to forget It
If you know a skeleton nldden away
In a chest and guarded and kept from the
day
In the dark, and whose ehowlng. whose
sudden display. ...
Would cause grief and aorrow and lifelong
dismay,
It's a pretty good plan to forget it
If you know of a thing that will darken
the Joy
Of a man or a woman, a girl or a boy,
That will wipe out a smile or the least
way annoy
A fellow or cause any gladness to cloy.
It’s a pretty good plan to forget it
—Judd Mortimer Lewta
AMERICApTbLOOD SPILLED
American blood has sanctified Am-1
erica’s cause in Europe. American
lives have been given up on the al
tar of their country which bas been
set up in far away France. Willingly
they died and bravely, fighting and
dying as fought and died the Puri
tans at Bunker Hill, the. frontiersmen
under Marion, the Cavaliers at York
town. Their blood adds lustre to the
red, white and blue of the Stars and
Stripes which have stood for freedom
and democracy since the birth of our
Nation. Their names will henceforth
augment the glory of American his
tory. The memory of them and their
supreme sacrifice will make fuller
the experiences of future generations
of Americans.
The killing of these men brings
with it a realization of the fact that
America is at war. It was expected.
None'but knew that war means
death and that sooner or later the
first American blood would be spill
ed. All had steeled themselves for the
news, yet when it came it brought
the inevitable shock. But there will
be many more such messages. The dis
patches of yesterday are but the fore
runners of more tales of death. As war
progresses every community will be
called upon for sacrifices. Much of
the best blood that has builded the
world's greatest democracy and great
est nation will enrich Old World soil
before peace shall come. .Europe is to
be baptised with crimson corpuscles
such as have made America prolific
in the growth of humanism and lib
erty.
Why these sacrifices? ;because
the struggle that was begun at Lex
ington ih! lMfr again A the militarism
and absiftutlsm of monarchy hail not
been enfthd. The¥re<&6n^tha^ Ameri
cans sought when they established
0resides at ..Jam—town. Plymouth,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and else
where on America’s Mores is again
attacked. The difference between the
time when King George sent hired
Huns to America and the present is
that science and enterprise hare made
the world smaller. The liberty-seek
ing people of three centeuries ago
could flee from the iron heel of mili
tarism. They did so, and when mili
tarism followed them to their havens
of refuge, a century and a half later,
they united and hurled it hack
across the Atlantic
The lesson from America’s exper
ience carried the geographical bor
der of democracy back to Europe.
There a mad monarch, dreaming of
the conquests of former world-con
quering monarcbs and seeking to sat
iate ambition for place in history
among them, attacked democracy's
new borders. It Is but a span, as dis
tance is now measured, from the
trenches -in France across the Atlan
tic to our own land. When the per
petuity of European democracy was
'jeopardized, American democracy was
imperiled. All that the fathers Who
dfbssed the Atlantic to American
shores sought, all that those who fol
lowed Washington fought for. all that
those who learned at the knee of Jef
ferson to apply democracy accomplish
ed, all that those who fought to pre
serve the Union died for, was again
In the balance.
Therefore the wav ns sacrifices
'on European batUctronts and its pri
vation at home.
The lesson our dekd would teach
us Is that we make this the last wat
fdf democracy; that monarchy and
militarism be removed • toot and
branch from the face of the earth.—
Juneau Empire,
A PICKLED PILGRIM AND A PRE
POSTEROUS GOVERNOR
In a border California railroad
town, in a lot otherwise vacant, was
found the recumbent form of one
James O’Day. Asleep, James afforded
a good example of things that are not
as they seem. The constable who hal
ed him away, to the calaboose declar
ed him ‘‘beastly drunk” and to be
“as dirty and disreputable a bum as
we have had to handle in quite a
while." But the constable was hasty
in his judgment. Surrounding the
muck of the gutter, possibly mixed
with the reek of the booze, was an
aura of greatness that the rude of
ficer failed to appreciate, if he saw
it at all.
When the somnolent individual, so
erroneously listed as a drunken bum,
was “frisked” by the officer, as was
the latter’s duty, upon the prisoner
was found evidence that he had mix
ed with the mighty, and that of right,
he should be ranked as one of the
true defenders of the common people.
In evidence he bore a little red card
that showed him a member of the
Miami (Ariz.) section of the I. W. W.
But still more firmly establishing his
position as one of the western leaders
of modern liberal thought there was
a letter from e*-Governor George W.
P. Hunt inclosing the negative of a
photograph in which Hunt and the
misunderstood and- alcoholic tourist
stood in affectionate comradeship.
The letter itself 1» a. gem . worthy
of rank with a Ring Lardner master
piece, - of diction rare an# of high
philosophy; In tone familiar, yet dig
nified, evidencing knowledge of po
esy and . showing some of the arts of
the orator. It la felt that it should
be seen In,the light of day. just as
It came to O’Day. Verbatim and < ad
lit, it follows, however strange it
be to an editorial column:
Globe, (Arts.) Aug. 5. 1917.
My Dear Friend:—< •
Not knowing how long I shall re
main or whether I will get the op
portunity of seeing you> soon. '
I want to express my appreciation
in meeting you.
I am enclosing you two kodaks pic
tures and- the negative, so that if yon
care you can have more printed at any
time. I sometimes tremble for the fu
ll re of my country, when such out
rages as were perpetuaed as was
pulled of In BlBbee on the 12th of
July. Reason and Justice seems to
have temporally left her throne, but
this morning the linen of Tennyson
came tome and when he says*
“When the common sense of most
will bold a fretful realm In awe
And the. kindly earth will slumber
wrapted In universal law.” > '
The onward sweep of •democracy,*
for It la raging the world over, will
sweep away the tangled wehai (that
now beset its and ithe. newi day;dld*
Brotherhood of man will arrive and
we will llve*i Dip etmshis* ad Hope
aqd jjhb dark cipuds jthatt nofSr; fSMet
us will, only be a dlsagreable dream,
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VALDEZ
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' • GEO. VTv'P. HUNT.
Mr. James O’Day,
Globe, Arlz.
There teems no doubt of the au
thenticity of the letter. Its writer 4 the
signature 1b an exact replica of that
of Geq- W. P. Hunt on official docu
ments) for five years was Governor
of Arizona, in that office assumed to
represent the character of the popu
lation of the great State. Twice he
was elected. A third term was denied
by the voters, who, at the same time,
by a plurality of many, thousands for
Wilson, reaffirmed their allegiance to
the Democratic party to which Hunt
asserts he belongs. Gov. Hunt appeal
ed from the verdict of the people. He
lost in the lower court. The case now
is before the State Supreme Court on
allegations of error largely techni
cal in character.—San Diego Union.
IX), THE POOR FAT MAN
—
Good-bye, old tummy, you must go,
for Hoover bat decreed It. He says
you are a sack of wheat and that the
allies need it He also says if you
and I do not our friendship sever,
I'll be disgraced for all my life in
spite of all endeavor.
Tims was, old paunch, when you
and I were lords of all creation; folks
gated upon our ample front in open
admiration. But now they say that
fat is food, and food is ammunition.
If this be true, .please don’t explode
and blow us to perdition.
In days gone by the guy who own
ed.a rotund chunk'of suet, he proud
ly held it way out front, that all the
world might view it. It was bis badge
of high esteem and marked him as
a winner. It showed that he had won
success1 and never missed his dinner.
And though the jealous sprung their
jokes and tried to be real funny, It
still remained the dreadnought shape
bespoke of ready money. The gink
who owned a padded porch on which
to drape his buntir g, it seemed that
fortune with her smile was ever for
him hunting.
But now you’ve brought deep woe
and shame upon us fleshy critters, and.
people give us angry looks where once
they gave us titters, and when we
puff along the street folks stop and
jab our turret, and call it some un*
pleasant names and otherwise they
slur it.
But if they put us portly guys upon
a war-time diet, from Hoover’s chro
mo, I would judge, he’ll also have to
try It.—Carlton Fltchett.
Canadian Captain Killed
MONTREAL, Nov. 16.—Private ad
vices from England announce the
death in action of Captain Talbot M.
Papineau, of the Princess Patricia’s
Canadian Light Infantry. He was kill
ed in the attack on Passchendaele.
Captain Papineau, who was a Rhodes
scholar and whose heroism had won
him a military cross, was a grandson
of Louis Joseph Papineau, who took
a leading part in the rebellion in Que
bec in 1837.
ZEPPELINS ARB SENT
TO TRENTINO FRONT
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GENEVA, Nov. 16.—The newspap
er La Buisse’rf' Lake Cohstarice cdr
respondSnt says a fleet of Zeppelin
airships >left there Wednesday for the
Trentind frOnt of the Austro-ItaliSn
theatre.--' : - - *• "
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, MENS UNDERWEAR IN BOTH TWO-PIECE AND
UNION SUITS.
“MEDLICOTT” Scotch wool that won’t shrink
Priced Gi>.5.00, 5.50 & 7.00.
“COOPER’S” Worsted, Priced <5*.4.50,5.00 & 6.00
“WINSTED” Flat Wool, Priced «..3.50,4.00,5.00
“STANFIELD’S” Unshrinkable Canadian
Priced ra .6.00
“WRIGHT’S” Spring Needle Worsted and Lamb’s Wool
Priced ..3.50, 5.00 & 6.00.
Pajamas and Night Gowns Priced from.ISO to 3.00
Heavy Flannel Shirts, Priced Qv.2.00 to 6.00
Stag Shirts Priced ®.. 6S0
Unshrinkable Suiting Shirts . ..6.50. —
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CAPS r * GLOVES ° v * *' ! > - MITTS
OVERCOATS 1 MACKINAWS
• GOOD GOODS
MANY YEARS BEFORE
GERMANS CAN VISIT
LONDON, Nov. 16.—A Swiss dls-1
patch quotes "noted German states
men" as having said to Swiss min
ister to Germany: "The trouble with
this war is it will be 10 years after
it is over before I can go to London,
20 before I can go to Paris and 40 be
fore I can go to Vienna.” ’
SOME heating stoves at Mead’s. *
Can Yon Beat R7 ,
Six room house? paA# furnished*
with bath. If taken at ono*- only
$500. Mrs. Fred dameron. tt
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Rainer Cereal Beverage, non-in
toxicating at E. Hunt's. tf
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all point*
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phqpe 16j6. ...
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Toms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVUnAS.Pk.C-, M. D. P~»
Jos. A. i Overman Pk. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SCROBON
0ttctiiisirl.toip.e~7 t* 8 f. a.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 1»
Boyle Block Valdes
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Outside Rooms
. Transient Trade Solicited
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths In Connection
PHONE 133 MIS. SYIINC. Pfsp
Fresh cooked ,cra.bB just received
this morning on the steamship Mari
posa. Delicious and fre^h. LjoverWhit
ley Company. * *
' Report of the-Financial Condition of
The First Bank of Valdez
LOCATED AT VALDEZ, TERRITORY OF
sr Alaska,
at the dost of business on the 5th day of
l r • November, 1917.
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m RESOURCES: ’;
Loans and Discounts-$ 108,947.85
Overdrafts_-___._•■T-n—r— 5,472.62
Bbnds and Warrants----- 95,238.07
Furniture and Fixture*-...:- 2,773.50 j,.
1 ChtfW on other banks and other cash items 2,347.61
_115 075 48:
TdTAL 1 , $ 3»,85S.li
m LIABILITIES:
‘ Capital Stock paid in.-$ 2f
Stttplua Fund---- 2,000.00
Contingent Fund------ 1,000.00
' Undivided Profits —- 2,742.71
DEPOSITS WJfiSfi:
£ Certified Checks —.. 1,093.75
n *Vte ' ■
to TOTAL_J_:_$ 329,855.13
k‘ United States of America, Territory of Alaska, Third Judicial
F)f.j; Division, ss. . ;*f.v
h J. W. OILSON, Cashier of the above named bank, do
j;i. «Hsmnly swear,that the foreyoUs statement Is trua to U»e best *,
2. 06 knowlads* i§nd. belief.
Z L ..: o .J. W. OILSON..Cashier. V > t
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r )j«f Correct A{feetf ’ f* "jbftN LYON8 Directors.
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Snbeerlbed aad sworn to before am this »th day of Novem
ber, 1917. • ( ■ ■
(Notarial Seal) D. F. MILLARD.
Notary PahUo la aad for tl* Territory of Atajtka,
My Commlsalda eaptraM*ril.lT, 19*9.^, *
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tillikum Club.
Phone 90. McKinley Street.
Contract Surgood. 0.8. Army
A. A Surgeon, U a Public Health Bsrv
(Marino Hospital)
DR. a COCKERILLE
Gnenotc^attoMl University
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In Valdez Since 1898
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Bo lid lag
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