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MONOPOLY VS. COMPETITION'.
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The Government, in its attack on
the Harvester Company lays down
the contention that there is no such
thing as a “good or benevolent trust”
within the meaning of the Sherman
anti-trust law. The key to low prices
according to the arguments of the at
' >r.iey general, is to be found in com
petition, and the fact that the three
component parts of the Harvester Co.
are in a sense independent of one an
other, is declared to be of no assur
ance of competition.
The Government's brief has an inci
dental interest because it revives Mr.
Roosevelt's distinction between “good
and bad” trust in the campaign of
1 912. The Colonel defended the Har
vester trust of which George W. Per
kins was the guiding star, as a good
trust, while he assailed certain other
monopolies unmercifully.
The supreme court of the United
States is called upon to say whether
the former president's distinction has
any support under the Sherman act
and its ruling will be anticipated with
tome interest.
It is the democratic doctrine tin
competition and not monopoly is tnc
life of commerce, but this doctrine,
like a number of others long honored
by the dominant party, has been se
verely shaken during the pa6t few
years, particularly since the war em
phasized the efficiency of combination
and co-operation. The President him
self favors the Webb bill, a measure
which would supplement or in a
sense nullify the Sherman law by per
mitting American manufacturers to
combine to drum up foreign trade.
He recognizes the effectiveness of cap
ital working in the aggregate toward
a single purpose and not against it
self in numerous units.
The Webb bill is intended techni
cally to “clarify” the anti-trust law
so as to make “co-operation in for
eign trade” not only legal but advis
able.
The commission concluded: “That
other nations enjoy marked advan
tages in foreign trade from superioi
facilities and more effective co-opera
tion. That doubt and fear as to the
legal restrictions prevent Americans
from developing equally effective or
ganizations for overseas business, and
that the foreign trade of our manu
facturers and producers, particularly
of the smaller ones, suffer in conse
quence.”
Thus the Government assails mon
opoly at one point and encourages i(
r.t another—when it is in competitio.i
with foreign business.
One of the lessons the nation is
learning is that cut-throat competi
tion is not "the life of trade." The
tendency is toward combination; and
that is the proper direction—com
bination properly regulated. Nobody
yearns for the return of the arrogant
trust of twenty years ago, but it will
be better to recognize the importance
and necessity of the trusts in cheapen
ing the products of labor by efficient
organization. Co-operation is a natu
ral growth and should he encouraged
by every means within our power
WHAT CONSTITUTES SUCCESS.
TO picture yourself in the position
that you most desire to occupy, to see
yourself in the kind of house in
which you most wish to live, wearing
the apparel that you would like to
wear and associating with the persons
with wnont you would most like to
associate, is one of the best ways of
planting the seed from which the de
sired harvest may be realized. The
clearer—the more distinct—you can
make these pictures appear to you,
the more inspiration you will derive
from them, the greater the chance of
realizing the ambitions which they
portray.
When the plan has been once de
veloped, however, the next thing is
to put it into execution and it is here
that the idle-dreamer fails. To con
struct a house, the preliminary step
is to secure an architect's plans, yet
(he plans aione are of little value un
less you have a builder to see that
they are carried out. It is the latter
who must attend to the details and
make the structure a habitable one.
In constructing a career—in build
ing the structure men term “Success''
ihe same law applies. In fact, the
"planning is tne easiest part, an i
will mean but little ir we do not suc
ceed in visualizing so clearly, or
painting our mental pictures so en
ticeingly, that we become embucd
with a strong desire to make them a
reality.
It is no weak, half-hearted deter
mination that will produce this result.
The desire that rouses the will to ac
tion that we denote as "initiative '
must be so afdent, so keen, so deter
mined as to >e practically irresistible.
It is when desire has bred this detei
niination in the heart, that the ordi
nary obstacles of life become but triv
ialities. and we plough our way to suc
cess, regardless of such factors as op
posing circumstances and adverse en
vironment.
Ask any mar. who lias made a suc
cess as to what principle he owes his
advancement and, in nine cases out of
ten, he will tell you that his rise from
the ranks of the wage-earuer wan due
to the fact that he not only mastered
all the details of his business, but that
he al. o showed his employer that h i
could be depended upon to take the
initiative.—Ford Times.
THE man who can’t run a $12 a
THE EMPRESS
TONIGHT 8 p. m. TONIGHT
Fine Pathe Program
PATHE NEWS
Pearl White
in the five act Gold Rooster Play
“The King’s Message”
SUNDAY - 1NTRESTING TRIANGLE BILL
Regular Admission - - - - 25c
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
week job can always tell you how the
government should be run.
STRIKE while the Iron is hot—but
waif for your temper to cool.
IF you were the boss, what would
ypu expect of the man on the job?
THE man who kills time serves a
stiff sentence for the crime.
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TAKE a mental inventory and you
■ will scrap a lot of useless stock.
IF the elevator to Success is not
running climb the stairs. The exer
cise will do you good.
EVERYTHING has its compensa
tion. Our wives do not use so much
starch on their faces since the price
of groceries went up.
THE reason why a girl gets so mail
when her brother musses up her ha>r
is because she would rather have
some other girl’s brother do it.
THE man who would commit al
most anything but murder to get
money is the fellow who is always
abusing the rich because they have it.
I 1 • '
| A MAN generally asks references
before he will hire a girl and put her
in charge of his office, but he never
thinks of them when he puts her in
! charge of his home.
OF course it is none of our busi
ness but we have often noticed that
! the sort of woman who will pay $500
for a poodle wouldn't pay five cents
i for a baby.
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fF YOU believe in war go and
■fight; your country needs yon; but
don't stand around making your fel
lowmen's life a hell telling them
about it.
PROSPERITY is evidenced by the
fact that the American people are
forced to eat dogfish, horsemeat and
whale food while our T-bones and
roundsteaks are sent to the Belgians
and Serbians.
THE recent spell of fine weather
lias been of great benefit to our
freighters and millmen who have been
enabled to freight many hundred tons
of supplies to their mines and pros
pects within this vicinity.
TOMORROW President Wilson
takes the oath of office, the inaugural
ceremonies being held Monday, the
fifth. Mr. Wilson is the l!4th presi
dent of the United States to he in
t ugurated.
! IF history is as wonderfully inac
curate one hundred years from now
as it has been in the past one hun
dred years, an account of the present
war is going to be mighty interesting
reading.
IF some food expert would only
advance some scientific method of
preparing dogmeat so that it would
resemble spring lamb the citizens of
i Valdez would have enough food to
tide them over a siege of many years.
A MAN can stand on a street cor
ner alone for a minute on a cold day
and be frozen to an icicle: but the
same man can stand on a corner with
the mercury below zero and talk mush
to a chicken and his temperature will
1)0 around 120.
WHALE meat is being sold in many
cities 6t California, the high prices of
meats preventing tlie poorer people
from buying their usuai Sunday
roasts. Many tons a day are sold >n
San Diego markets and it is said to.
be equal to the finest beef.
This Day In History.
Feast Day of St. Marinus and Mar
, tyrs in'Palestine; St. Emeritus and
Spanish martyrs. St. Winwaloe, St.
Lam brie of Scotland. St. Kunigund",
Empress.
Maud, Queen of England, crowned
in 1141.
j Battle of Granson, Swiss defeated
Charles the Bold in 147 6.
Ponce de Leon sailed to find the
1 Fountain of Fouth in 1513.
First Roman Catholic colony reach
ed America in 1644.
District of Columbia organized in
i 1791.
i Boston Daily Advertiser first pub
i lished in 1813.
I Territory of Alabama organized in
j1871.
Postage rate reduced to five cents
for less than 800 miles; ten cents for
over that distance in 1945.
Florida admitted to the Union in
I 1845.
j United States Department of the Ifl
: terior organized and the Territory of
Minnesota organized in 1849.
George Dewey made an Admiral of
the United States navy in 1899.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Ammon left or.
the Northwestern for Cordova en
route to the copper country, where
they will spend the summer doing de
velopmcnt work on their copper prop
erties. They took their horses with
them and will freight in from Chiti
na to the Interior.
FIRST SHOWING
.of.
STETSON—MALLOR Y
1917 Spring Hats
in all the latest popular styles
and shades are now on display at
our store in the former Ingram &
Bush Building—come in and look
them over.
Stetson $5.00 Mallory $4.00
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
First Congregational Church.
Rev. R. Demain Nicholls, pastor.
Sunday, March 4, 1917.
11 a. m. worship with sermon.
“Why Jesus Came.”
1 2 noon Sunday School.
7:30 p. m. Song Service and Ser
mon, "Repentance.”
Mrs. Cook will sing the offertory
solo, “Ora Pro Nobis.”
Thursday afternoon, the Ladies
Aid will meet in the church lecture
room. Mrs. J. Merrifleld will be the
hostess.
Thursday, 7:30 p. m., Prayer and
Study meeting. Topic, “The Message
of Jesus to Our Modern Life.” The
I rinciples of Jesus."
Episcopal Church Services.
Rev. George John Zinn, minister in
charge.
Services Sunday, March 4. 1917.
The second Sunday in Lent.
Holy Communion and sermon at 11
a. m.
Sunday School at 12 m.
Vesper service at 4 p. in.
Special Lenten service on Wednes
day evening at 8 p. m.
Catholic Church.
Mass 8:30 and 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School immediately fol
lowing Mass.
Evening Services 7 p. m.
-—Father A. Fletcher, S. J.
Christian Science Society.
Pioneer Hall.
Sunday service 11 a. m., suhjec;,
“Christ Jesus.”
Sunday School 12:15.
Testimony meeting Wednesday, S
p. m.
Reading Room open to the public
Wednesday from 2 until 5 and 7 till
8 p. m.
Attorney L. V. Hay of Seward, was
an arrival on the Northwestern on
business in the District Court.
George Strixnor left, this morning
with the launch Mary l.en for the
Port Wells district.
Hugh Dougherty, a member of the
jury in the district court, came over
trom Seward on the Northwestern.
Unfailing
Satisfaction
Is one of the many reasons
why
Is increasing in popular favor.
BOLD BY GROCERS
POUND TIN 25c
CRESCENT MhXS. OO.,
Beattie, Wash.
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Open Day and Night ' McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
AU[Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH, Prop*-.
| Candy Kitchen j
f E. W. HUNT—b Owl Drag Store. f
j FOUNTAIN DRINKS l
jj HOT- COLD |
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottle9.
1043 Railroad Arenoe, So.
SKATTLK, WASH.
The Beat Place m Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, Light Roomt--Tbe House of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Specid Rates By the MontL
PHONE 133 MRS- STRING, Prop
4* 4* •> 4« *> *1* •!• 4* {• «> 4* •!••!< •> •} 4 4* •> 4* 4* ♦ 4«*&4
! VALDEZ CAFE |
! and BAKERY
* , 4*
lf Fretb Bread and Paatry always on hand
I * OPEN DAY AND NIGHT *
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4* I’HONE 17 - Tkes doors fcelsw Owl Drat *
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TI G CAPTAIN SHOT; WIFE
HELD; HINTS SI ICIDK
OAKLAND, Calif., March. 3 -Jos.
Bliss, a tugboat captain, lies dead in
the morgue today with a gunshot
wound thru the head, while his wife
Jewel, is in the city prison unable to
give a coherent account of the affair.
The police *ound there had been a
straggle in the room. Mrs James, a
sister of Bliss, said he had been de
spondent for seme time and hau often
spoken of suicide.
Officers of the Northwestern re
ported very thick weather on the
Sound yesterday morniDg.
For Rent.
Five-room house completely furn
ished. Modern conveniences.
2t ALASKA INV. CO.
A new stock of A1 Fruit Tablets
Clandy Kitchen. tf
Have you tried our Boston Mints
in bulk at the Candy Kitchen. tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
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OIHrea over Valdez Drag Co.
j Phone ’15 WeKlaley Street
i Contract Surgeon, U S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
I JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PN. 6. M. 4
PHYSICIAN AND SLBGRON
Over Owl Drug Co.
- OFFICE HOURS:
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M
Sunday by Appointment.
lies. Phone 178 Office Phone IV
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JCNHAl', ALASKA
Glasses Kittetl l.enses Ground
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National I ulferiltj
Waahlnctton, D, C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
i Office Rooms in AVlialing Pulldiiu
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OWer Omiollt Court Hnuar
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Phone !«■ YAidDBZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
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Regular Communications first Wed
nesday Id each month In McKinley
Hall. Vieitors always welcome
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BD WOOD, Secretary.
| Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Mners
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Granite Mine I
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Valdes Alaska. I
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