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FRIDAY. FKIIRI’ARY 15, 101H
Food will win
the War;
don’t waste it!
THE INEVITABLE.
1IJKE the man who face* what ha
must
With steps triumphant and a heart of
cheer;
Who fights the dally battle without
fear;
Bece Me hopes fall, yet keeps unfaltering
trust
That God la God—that somehow,,tru« and
Just
His plun wnrlte out for mortals: not a
tear
Is shed when fortune, which the world
holds dear.
Falls from h'« grarp—better, with love, a
crust
Than living In dishonor; envies not
Nor loses faith In man. but does his best.
Nor ever inu-murs at his humbled lot;
But, with a smile and words of hope gives
zest
To every toiler, lie alone is great
Who by life heroic conquers fate.
Sarah Knowles Bolton. i
AVE!
BK-I-I-H ujion the city are ringing In the
night;
High above the gardens are the houses
full of light.
On the healths f'entlands is the curlew
flying free.
And the broom is blowing bonnie in Ihe
north countrie.
ggfK canna break Ihe bonds that God
»» decreed to bind.
Still we'll be the children of the heather
and the wind
Far away from home. t>, It's still for you
and me
That the broom i« blowing lionnie in t! ■■
north eountrio:
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“PERMANENT DISABILITY"
The federal board for vocational
training estimates that during the
first year of America’s actual partici
pation in the fighting in Europe a tot
al of 1,000,000 men will be in the
field, of whom 100,000 will be dis
abled. The estimate is based on tbe
Canadian figures which show that 10
per cent of the men sent overseas
were rendered physically unfit for
military duty.
However, the government, taking
a leaf from the experience of the Eu
ropean belligerents, is preparing to
conserve its man power to the great
est extent possible. The disabled sol
diers will be made over, so far as may
be, into whole men, capable of doing
some useful work. Congress has been
asked to appropriate $10,000,000 to
be used in the vocational re-education
of disabled soldiers, who will be sent
back to this country in large num
bers as the war progresses.
Astonishing results have been
achieved in rehabilitating wounded
Europeans, particularly in France. A
man with only one arm gone, or even
with two, is by no means passe. The
amputation of one or both legs, like
wise does not mean that the victim
will be a charge upon society. Feats
of surgery, coupled with the advance
of science in tbe making of artificial
limbs, have done much to remove the
horror from the thought of perman
ent disability.
The United States cannot afford to
neglect the 100,000 men who may be
expected to be brought home serious
ly wounded during tbe next year or
eighteen months. By receiving proper
care thousands who, in former wars
would have been utterly helpless, will
be able to render useful service to
themselves and to society.
ONLY 660,000 men in the Ameri
can service have applied for soldiers’
and sailors’ insurance. This number
is probably not more than one-third
of the total of all men in the army
and navy. If there is a young man in
the service for whom you are mentor,
advise him to secure a policy without
delay for he has only 120 days from
the date of enlistment to do so.
UETTINQ MEN “OVER THERE"
Uncle Sam is mot telling Just how
many trooge he U transporting to
France monthly, nor by what particu
lar line they booked passage. But
some interesting facts regarding the
transport of our men to Europe hare
been given out officially. They con
vey nothing of vital importance to the
enemy except that the United States
is not in the war on a fifty-fifty basis.
For instance, the secretary of war
says we shall have 500,000 troops
in France "early this year." We may
assume, without trying to amplify
his information, that there are prac
tically half a million men behind the
battle front today. Hut that is only
half as many men as the nation has
ready to sail as soon as tonnage for
them is "not unpromising." By the
end of the year we shall have a total
of 2.000.000 soldiers in Europe or en
route if the present program is car
ried out.
The problem of transporting this
tremendous army a distance of 3,000
miles by water is stupendous, and the
people probably have no conception
of the vastness of our program. That
troop ships arc shuttling back and
forth across the Atlantic carrying
American troops is well known. The
government says sixteen great Ger
man liners, seized In American ports
and totalling 500,000 tons—an aver
age of over 30,000 tons each—are en
gaged in this task. And these are on
ly a part of the ships in transport
service.
THE German people and the Ger
man leaders are just awakening to
the danger of American intervention.
The socialist leader—Herr Scheide
mann—said only a few days ago that
if France and England were beaten
the kaiser still would be unable to
claim victory for America would re
main undefeated. The Germans are
Just emerging from one of their big- j
gest delusions. Possibly the kaiser
will keep up the policy of camouflage
which has been used to keep his sub
jects in the dark, but it can avail him
nothing. The truth about America’s
part in the war—unchecked by the
submarine—is gravitating to the very
heart of Germany.
VORWAKKTS, the German social-1
ist organ, printed this under the'
heading of "Germany, Take Heed ':
"The movement going through the
masses rests on deep moral grounds.
It is born of the fear that they have
been mislead. * * * They
want food and peace, anti 'Germany
free outwardly and inwardly. And any
attempt to hold them by force is dan
gerous. All thoughts of an attempt to
force on the people aims which pro
long the war, aims for which they
never fought, or to keep from the peo
ple their promised rights, can only
work as disintegrating factors. That
today is our greatest danger." Of
course, the editor was imprisoned, j
---
"1 FEEL it my duty to my country j
and my conscience to tell the truth.
I have no fear of God, man or the
devil when my conscience prompts.
And no man in the country can keep
me from telling the truth. The only
fear is that this discussion may have
a bad effect on the country. But if the
conditions exist they ought to be cor
rected and quickly. Great Britain
found the same conditions and cor
rected them quickly. So did France."
- Senator Chamberlain.
THE weather reporter says that
Kabbibanokqa, the north wind, put
Shawandasee, the south wind, flat or
his back. Those aren’t precisely the
words most people use in describing
the cold spell but they appropriate
in covering up one’s real feelings.
IN trying to dictate to the rest of
the world the Russian anarchist!
show a very striking resemblance tc
an individual whose mustachios turn
upward at the ends.
A resident of Cordova, while at
tending a show at the Empress The
atre at that place, had the misfortune
to drop from his pocket during the
entertainment a quart bottle contain
ing about a half pint of genuine whis
key. The accident was attended by
still further misfortune for the own
er, for an officer of the law was pres
ent, witnessed the accident, and took
the unfortunate citisen into custody
for violating the “dry” law, and hit
misfortune was accentuated still fur
her when the commissioner soaked
him fifty dollars.
The Cordova Dally Times, at the
'equest of a number of citisens of
Cordova, Chitlna and McCarthy, has
itarted a fund to erect a monument
to the memory of James Bartlett, bet
:er known throughout the Copper
*iver Valley as “Jimmie the Bear,"!
Ie lost his life in a snowslide Decem
ber 30, 1316, near McCarthy, in an
attempt to rescue a companion who
iad been caught in the slide. A num
>er of substriptions have already been
nade to the fund.
j
The Cordova chapter of the Red
Cross has shipped a number of sweat
ers to the soldiers stationed along
’.he line of the Copper River ft North
western Railway. j
THOUGHT WILL RULE WORLD
Scientist Asserts Ships at Sea Will Be
Controlled From Shore and Gasoline
Will Be Grown Like Com.
In the lobby of a big Fifth avenue
club one evening recently, a group of
scientific men were discussing the wnr
as being the necessity that will bring
about some startling inventions, notes
a New York corrcs|Kindent. If the
sprinkling of intcllectural lurninnti
were not stamped by genius. It Is prob
able that an ordinary bystander would
have tapped Ids forehead knowingly.
One of them was telling about a sci
entist who i« already telephoning to
airplanes without wires. And another:
(ftioled a famous Inventor who said j
that It would only he a short while i
until all telephone wires would lie ahol- i
Islicd as unessential.
“The fact Is." he said, “thnt tele
phone wires do not In reality carry
our messages. Every scientist knows
thnt. thick of It all Is the great proe
ess of thought which we are only be
ginning feebly to understand.
“The more we delve Into this proc
ess of thought—whatever It is—the
more we come to the conclusion that
the material phenomena Is the pro
jection of thought. We konw that ev
ery material thing comes from a
thought or an Idea.
“We are arriving at the conclusion
thnt even space Is thought, for we arp
annihilating space every day through
a thinking process. It will not he
many generations before every ship at
sea Is controlled by thought from
shore. Our trains are going to be run
without fuel, and we are going to grow
ge“illne Just like we raise corn."
BUTCHER CITES BIG PROFITS'
Meat Dealer Poitou Out Pitta, Mineral i
Water and False Teeth as Pro
ducer* of Immenoe Margins.
"Talk hIhmii food profiteers!” growl- j
ed the hutclier. as he charged up a !
two-potmd ntnip steak at 60 cents o ;
pottnd. “Why I know people whose j
profit has been from time Immemorial
6.000 per rent and more. Yet vot:
don't .lump on them. Why. then. Jump
on me?
“Take Junck's liver pill, for instance.
I know Otto .lunek's bookkeeper, and
the man tells me that this Junck pill
sells wholesale at exactly 6.000 per
cent nroflt.
"Take mineral water—plain soda.
You can make and sell plain soda at
a profit of 40.000 per cent. And, mind
you, no kicks.
"Take false teeth. They one'* to |
make fnlse teeth out of Ivory, and In
those days It was right to charge $10°
a set for them. Rut now false teeth
are made of iMtrcelaln. They cost If’
cents nplece. Dentist's profit, 7<>.00f
per cent.
"So I could go on. And you ask rot ;
If my conscience Isn’t sore about this |
60-cent rump steak. Oh!"
Center of Fashion.
I’arls, the center of the world’s fast
Ions, has no fewer than 00.000 womet
dressmakers, not counting designer
and fitters, which would bring *h> |
number up to close on 100,000. Tie
teslgners. who sketch out the!? Idea
In pen and ink or with water-colors
end often originate the fashions that
prevail throughout the wdtld, earr
easily over four figures a year, oh
serves a correspondent.
Good mannequins are the most dilfi
cult to obtain. Some of the larges’
Parisian houses employ twenty or thir j
ty. whose whole time Is passed In try
Ing on dresses before the eyes of fash
ionable French women. Naturally tin
numbers are fewer nowadays, and
many of the most famous mannequins
of Paris are now nursing in the hos
pltals or employed In the French muni
tlon works.
Forty Miles of Jam.
So enormous has the business of
Jam making become In Dundee, Scot
land, since (be great firms there or
ganized to supply preserves to the
British army and navy that, according
to a report sent by E. It. Pottle, U. 8.
▼Ice consul there, to the department of
commerce, the tins in which they put
op one week’s supply slone "would, St
stood end on end, form a column fully
40 miles high. It Is no unusual thing
for thla firm to deal with 100.000,000
oranges, and nil kinds ot fruit are
dealt with on a similar scale.”
The Dundee manufacturers are
about to give up the use of earthen
ware, glass Jars and tins, for a stout
cardboard container Is now being
made and experiments with It have
proved highly successful.
Referred to Boy 8couts.
When war broke out a young mao
who wns every kind of rogue sud
denly acquired a brand-new con
science, and worked It overtime, says
London Tit-Bits. When he came be
fore the tribunal he had got his con
scientious objections all cut and dried.
The chairman listened gravely for a
little while, until the bogus a 0„
warming to his subject, begun to get
flowery.
"Yes,” he cried, lifting his eyes to
heaven, “in 1005 I was born again I”
“Iu that case,” broke in the chair
man, quietly, “have you any objec
tion to Joining the boy scouts?"
Lumping Them Off.
A tiny girl had made It her custom
to enumerate by name all the members
of the family and the close friends,
In her evening prayers, but at the
doee of a strenuous day of play she
was tired and after the opening peti
tion abe yawned, then added sleep
ily: “And please Just bless the whole
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“F. and'A. M.
Valdez Lodge! No. 168
REGULAR communications, first
Wednesday in each month in Ma
sonic Hall. Visitors always wel
come.
WALTER ELLIOT, W. M.
C. C. REYNOLDS, Sec.
L 0. 0. F.
Valdez, No, 6
Meets every Monday night at s:vo
o'clock p. m., in Odd Fellows’
Hall. Visiting members cordially
invited to attend these meetings.
OTTO ELF8TROM, N. G.
R. D. NICHOLL8, Secretary
Fraternal Order Eagles
Valdez Aerie Na. 1971
Meets every Friday night in Eagle
Hall. Visiting Members cordially In
vited to attend these meetings.
ED. WOOD, W. P.
C. J. TODD, Sec.
Order of Eastern* Star
Valdez Chapter No. 5
STATED communications, first and
third Tuesdays ot each month at
Masonic Hall. Visiting members
always welcome.
RENA E. CRAWFORD, W. M.
J. A. SILVERMAN, M. D. Sec’y.
Western Federation of Miner*
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VALDEZ
HE TOWN OF VALDEZ
is situated at the head of
Prince William Sound,
and is a city of probably one thou
sand population. It is the center
of the mining industry on the
Sound, both copper and gold, and
is adjacent to and within easy
hauling distance of the salmon
grounds, many fresh water rivers
and streams in Valdez Bay bring
ing the fish in great numbers to
within sight of the town. The
city has one good cannery, which
will operate two lines the coming
season, employing probably one
hundred and fifty persons.
The city offers good opportuni
ties for a fish saltery, a fertilizer
factory, a glue factory, a tin can
factory and a box shook factory,
all subsidiary to the fish packing
business. The city owns its own
wharf and the Valdez Dock Com
pany, which also owns a splendid
wharf is willing to give prospec
tive investors a chance for sites.
VALDEZ has a progressive
citizenry, with good high schools,
churches, free reading room and
library, good clubrooms and many
lodges and organizations. Rents
are very cheap, and living is but
little higher than in the States.
Many gold and copper mines
are contiguous to Valdez, making
this city their outfitting port, and
drawing from its reserve of labor.
The climate is very healthful, the
extremes of heat and cold being
rarely experienced. The mercury
rarely falls below —15 in the win
ter and 70 above is the highest
summer temperature. The sum
mers are delightful and the win
ters far better than those of the
Northern Central or Eastern
States.
VALDEZ is the coast terminal
of the government military high
way to the Interior. During the
summer months autos may reach
Fairbanks from Valdez in 36
hours running time, over a fine
road, through the most magnifi
cent scenery on the North Amer
ican continent. In winter teams
or dog sleds may be had at all
times.
VALDEZ has a number of first
class hotels and restaurants, and
the traveler and miner can be as
sured of comfortable lodgings *
a minimum expense. Parties de
siring to outfit for mining or pros
pecting can do so at our stores
far cheaper than in the States,
with men of experience to help se
lect their outfits.
If you are coming to Alaska
the Land of Opportunity, and de
sire, a good home town among a
fine class of citizens, buy your
ticket to
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