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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1910
SIX SIMPLE WORDS.
“The place was packed with angry
women, some waving sticks, and
all yelling, ‘Give us bread! Give
us peace!’”—An item of cable
news.
Six words. Only six, and yet how
succintly they sum up a situation.
"Give1 us peace! Give us bread!”
With peace comes bread. No peace
no bread. Cabinets assemble and
talk 'of peace. Prime ministers dis
cuss peace. Chancellors make ora
tions, of which peace is the burden,
but all of this is academic; their
words are calm and carefully weigh
ed. Such peace utterances come
from the mind. There is nothing ac
ademic, however, in the utterance,
"Give us bread! Give us peace!” It
•came not from trained minds, but
straight from empty stomachs. And
as usual, the stomachs talked to the
point, as stomachs invariably do
when empty.
Really it doesn’t matter much what
Earl Gray or Premier Asquith say
about peace. Or what the German
Chancellor says. Or what a member
of the French cabinet says. They
speak of peace with a large P. It is
a purely impersonal thing; something
to- be talked about, and studied like
a problem in tactics or the right
move on a chessboard. Earl Gray
and the German Chancellor and the!
French Cabinet eat their usual quo
ta of meals daily. Peace or no Peace.
But with women who wave sticks,
and yell for bread, peace is^i differ
ent matter. For them peace is no
mere text-book term. It means some
thing definite, and peace talk matters
much when persons of this type and
station start to tlk it; yea, yell it.
Peace with them is not a considera
tion of boundary ' lines and trade
routes, but of food and warmth and
a roof.
When the stomach is well filled
and tomorrow’s food is safe in the
store-room, Glory is regarded with
favor. But when the store-room is
empty Glory loses a lot of its lustre,
and a plate of meat (not horse) looks
more attractive than an iron cross
or other medal. This has been learn
ed by the women who wave sticks
and yell. When will their cries be
heeded? What country, what gov
ernment, what man will earn eternal
glory by making the first real move
to "‘give us bread, give us peace.”?
—Puck.
THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.
With talk of the German born
Americans voting against him at the
next election, continued plots of de
struction by fanatical patriots from
over seas, England and France up to
their century old trick of seizing alien
enemies from American ships on the
high seas, surrounded by foreign
spies and political spies from the
ranks of our own people, the presi
dent will spend a rather strenuous
honeymoon-holiday time.
That there will be a concerted
movement by Germans in the United
States in the interest of either politi
cal party in connection with the war
-it-—---—
in Europe is out of the question. No
other man in America has done more
to keep alive the friendly feeling be
tween this government and Germany
than the president. In the heat of
passion following the Lusitania affair
a chief executive with leanings to
ward war could have piloted this na
tion into the world conflict in jig
time.
This nation has so nearly conduct
ed itself as a neutral that both sides
think and say through their diplo
mats that they are getting the worst
of it.
Had the seizure of men from our
ships occurred before the Lusitania
affair, a war-hunting president could
have aroused our ire by pointing that
France’s action was similar to that
of England before the conflict of
1812, and it would have gone hard
with the allies. In fact, the allies
have far more to fear from the Uni
ted States as a hostile nation than
Germany, for the latter country is
so hemmed in with a cordon of steel
that we could not get at her.
Of spies and agents and plots there
seems no end.
The Teutons charge that many of
these plots have been instigated by
the British to provoke animosity
against the Germans and the charge
may be sustained in some cases. It is
apparent, however, that the Teutonic
diplomats have been perniciously ac
tive in many lines.
The attacks of political enemies of
the present administration at home
border on idiocy.
Which is the more preferable, war
or peace?
War might be preferable to peace
with loss of honor, but that the na
tion is today without honor, no one
will admit, not even the president’s
enemies. It is true that the nation
has failed to retaliate for many grave
insults, but in every case we have
made the other fellow admit his er
lor and made him appear before the
other nations at peace very much like
a man who has just had his attention
called to the fact that he has been
swearing and offering to fight with a
gentleman in the presence of ladies.
This is sufficient until such time as
the rough-house across the water be
gins to threaten the very life of the
ration.
If those who think that the United
States should do more than it has
done up to the present will have their
congressmen present resolutions de
claring war on Germany, England,
France and Mexico, the nations we
have had to call to time during the
past few years, they will probably find
out what the majority of the people
believe about the merits of the pres
ident’s policy.—Alaska Post.
THE WOOD ALCOHOL THIRST.
A person must surely have a beau
tiful old thirst when he finds it nec
essary to drink wood alcohol to get
rid of it. The next law will have to
be one against the sale of that bev
erage and it may even come to where
gasoline can be sold only by drug
gists.
What is there, anyhow, in the hu
man makeup, which causes a thirst
for something stronger than water?
The question which prohibition will
probably settle for all time is whether
the demand for liquor causes the sup
ply or the supply causes the demand.
Some people seem to be quite hap
py to go through life without ever
tasting anything stronger than tea or
coffee, while others feel that life is
made all the more beautiful by the
temporary glamor created by the
magic touch of the highball. Now, is
it a fact,or is it not that the man
who never takes a drink is weaker
as a rule than the man who does?
Has it been the result of your obser
vation that a man who boasts always
about being a teetotaller is less mas
culine, weaker, more of a mollycod
dle than the fellow who takes it just
because he wants to? To be brief, is
a man a stronger or more robust
man because he has a little of the
LAST TIME T0-NK1HT
THE EMPRESS
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DANIEL FROHMAN PRESENTS THE FAMOUS
ROMANTIC PLAY
“THE PRIDE OF JENNICO”
A PARAMOUNT FEATURE ENACTED BY THE
FAMOUS PLAYERS COMPANY
5 REELS
2 Shows, at 8:00 and 9:20, «harp
Admission 25c. All Children 10c.
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Heu’t Woaderfol Abakan Moving Pictnre Thnnday and Friday
devil in him? Have you ever seen a
man who as' absolutely perfect mor
ally and is not at the same time a
good deal of an old woman?
Answer all these things for your
self and then ask yourself why liquor
was ever created.
That question of prohibition in
volves far more than the general pub
lic seem to perceive. Many people
seem to think that without the chance
of spending money over a bar every
one will be happy, families will al
ways have enough to eat and wear
and the whole thing will be hunky
dory. Of course, the fellow with a
family who spends money over a bar
which should go to buy food or cloth
ing for his kids should be locked up,
but he is no more to be taken as an
example of the ordinary mortal than
any other criminal. The millions of
ordinary mortals will nave no more
money to draw from under prohibi
tion than without it. There will be
the same amount of money and the
same amount of people looking for it.
There will be the same amount of
work only, and if all become sober,
steady workers, what will be done
with the produce?
Prohibition has been brought about
because of the extremists in drink
ing and they are the small minority.
The vast majority knows how to be
moderate if it wants to be. If it does
not want to be it will find some way
of indulging its wish to cross over
the line in some way or another.
There are two good desires in the
human breast which usually are satis
fied. One is to do good and the other
is to do the opposite and both will be
none in spite of laws.—Gateway.
PITRE DRINKING WATER.
A government bulletin says:
The geologic resource of greatest
value to the health of communities
Is a supply of pure drinking water.
It is generally recognized that a num
ber of diseases, prominent among
which are typhoid fever and amoebic
dystentery—a disease more common
in tropical climates, but found also
in the United States—are contracted
through contaminated food. There
fore a supply of pure water will elim
inate one of the sources of such in
fection.
It is highly desirable to obtain sup
plies of domestic water from sources
other than the shallow wells, some
ot them open, that are found near
many houses. The water obtained
from deep wells has percolated thru
sands and other material for so great
a distance that its impurities have
been removed by filtration, and it
possesses a sanitary value that can
not be overestimated, for such water
is free from the bacteria producing
typhoid fever and the protozoa caus
ing amoebic dysentery, and its use ob
viates the necessity for shallow wells
that may serve as a breeding place
for anopheles, the mosquito to which
malarial infections is due.
BIG BHiL at the empress
THEATRE THURSDAY
On Thursday will be shown Wm. A.
Hesse's scenic and wild animal pic
tures of Alaska, including scenes in
and around Valdez, and giving the
only pictures of the famous Katmai
eruption.
This eruption on the Alaska penin
sula, was one of the greatest volcanic
disturbances ever recorded by man,
and it is estimated that the temper
ature of the entire world was lowered
about 12 degrees below normal. A«
cording to the chief of the Katmai
village, the volcana had been active
as long as he could remember, until
1909, three years prior to the vio
lent outburst. It became dormant.
Katmai is of the explosive type of
volcanoes, and rises to a height of
7,000 feet. The impounding gases
discharged the material to a great
height, and it is certain that the ash
from Katmai encircled the globe.
The drUbtion of Katmai occurred
on the afternoon of June 6, 1912.
Notwithstanding the fact that the na
tive village was entirely destroyed,
there was no loss of life, owing to
the prompt rescue of the natives by
the revenue cutters.
The eruption made such a change
in the landscape that those familiar
with it could not tell where their
homes Btood. The valleys once oc
cupied by streams navigable to ordi
nary row boats, were now- a mixture
of pumice stone and water from hill
side to hillside. Ascent of the ash
covered slopes was tried, but was
found impossible. The next expedi
tion began June 34, and continued
all that day, that night, all day June
34, all night and all day of June 36,
carrying heavy packs without rest or
sleep, and, like the first was a fail
ure. The third trip was successfully
made in forty-fight hours, having no
heavy packs to carry.
ah insect and animal life was kill
ed, with the exception of bears and
foxes. Clam beds were destroyed
on' Afognak 100 miles away. No fish
can now live in the Katmai river,
which at that time supported the in
habitants of the villdge with its sal
mon. +
These pictures also show the fa
mous child’s glacier, with its im
mense ice river, 300 feet high; num
Hum $t <Eu., 3ur.
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Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
BD. WOOD. Proprietor
eroug sea lions at home on the rocks;
moose and caribou, and is the only
film company taking pictures of Ko
diak bears, the largest in the world.
To get this picture the artist laid all
night on an island a few hundred
yards from shore waiting for the bear
to come for his breakfast.
A scene at the great whale fishery
is also shown, and the turn of the
tide, on Cooks Inlet. The tide rushes
in like a huge tidal wave, and 1b only
exceeded by the Bay of Pundy. Nau
tical tables show a height of 62 feet.
Besides these there are pictures of
prominent personages, all the princi
pal cities, and other scenes of inter
est.
These pictures will be shown at
The Empress Thursday night.
LOCAL BREVnUB.
Just received .the finest line of
neckties ever shown in Veldes, at
Ben Silvorman's.
G. Hansen arrived yesterday from
Copper Center with a dog team.
Panoramic views • of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdes and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdes Drug
store. **
Dan Sheehan left last evening for
the foot of the Valdes glacier.
WANTED: Experienced woman de
sires work as cook or maid. Refer
ences given. Address Prospector.
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdes Drug Co., by G. O.
Reinke. **
A. J. Brown of Port Llscum
caught a large wolverine in a trap
yesterday.
Pure Freeh Drugs st the vaiaes
Drug Store. *
Brooms 26c, 26c and 60c; for the
best at the Emporium. tf
Robert Me Chesney, of the Pros
pector staff, who has been seriously
111 with the grippe for several days,
has so far recovered that he expects
to be out tomorrow.
Bargains at the Emporium; open
from 9 a, m. to 9 p. m. *
W. H. Vance left yesterday morn
ing for Fidalgo bay to look over
some mining Interests.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL 9 P.M.
We Serve Corona Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack Call in - - Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate Natleual I'nivernliy.
Waahlaftoa, U. C.
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Office rooms over Owl Drag Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment
All Work Guaranteed.
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always has been found to
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idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect; otherwise a good many
of today's successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
die idea, the man with a
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man with the dollar.
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Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER, President.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
_Valder, Alaska.
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Valdez Transfer
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Office on Alaska Avenue, in
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General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
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m Shamrock
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Bails tor Port Wells, Portae*
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from tke Val
des Doek Company’s Doek.
For Kllamar, Landloek Bay,
and Fldalco, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
des Doek Company’s Doek.
For Bates, Andy o* Boat.