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SATURDAY, dCTOBER 24, 1914.
LIGHT ON BATTLE PSYCHOLOGY.
A question frequently heard now
adays from people who have been
reading one of the more detailed ac
counts of the battles taking place in
France or Austria is: "How can hu
man being endure without going mnd
the dreadful sights and the almost
more dreadful sounds, the constant
expectation day and night for weeks
of violent death, the agonies of equal
ly prolonged hardships that mark
these colossal struggles?”
The inquiry is natural enough, as
is the implied disbelief of those who
make it that they could not them
selves long stand such frightful
strains. And not all the soldiers on
either side do stand them, for there
have been not a few references in
the dispatches to men thus driven
insane, while a considerable number
of letters from those newly at the
front have been printed that showed
r*>'• writers then shaking in the grasp
of just such horror as we at home
subsequent experience of the great
think we would feel if there. The
subsequent experience of the great
majority, however, is presumably that
recounted by a Russian soldier in one
of the Petrograd papers.
He says that the roar of battle no
longer troubles him any more than
did the incessant City sounds with
which he was familiar; that he is so
wonted to the spectacle of fields
strewn with dead and dying that
it now excites in him no strong emo
tion; that the dangers which fill all
his hours have no more effect on
him than the petty perils of ordinary
life. He can even see not a little
to admire in the ebb and flow of bat
tle, and all his standards of what
men should and should not do hay;
for the time being at least, been
changed.
This is not evidence of an acquired
callousness, or even of war’s brutal
izing influence; it is simply tin illus
tration of the fact, known to every
psyscliologist, that to any stimulus
continuously or frequently applied hu
man nerves soon cease to react, or
react only weakly. Every doctor de
velops, and to be of any use must
develop, a like modification of sym
pathy as regards the sufferings of
his patients, and the nurse who faints
at her first operation soon views
them with a composure superficially
much like indifference. The Russian
soldier shrewdly notes, too, that he
now views as commonplace deeds that
formerly would have stirred him
deeply as noble or heroic. He has
come to expect such tilings from
everybody, instead of seeing them as
exceptional and exciting.—Ex.
ONE ROYAL TITLE IS EARNED.
No more ‘han one swallow makes
a summer does one king of obviously
practical utility convert the seasoned
democrat into a lover of monarchi
cal government. Even the most in
durated and Implacable contemner of
royalty, however, though he may re
fuse the thrill visibly as he reads
about the doings of Belgium's ruler,
must in common decency confess that
Albert is conducting himself at this
late day in a way that gives him the
same adequate "reason for being”
that originally led to the establish
ment of his class.
remaps .u Den s preseui emmcnvo
as a soldier and a man owes some
thing to the snobbish willingness,
from which hardly anybody alive Is
free, to see large the acts of crown
wearers and to feol delighted surprise
when they play well roles in which
common mortals of equal competence
get no applause. Perhaps he profits,
too, from the fact that rather less
was expected of a Belgian king than
of any other, and even more from
having had a predecessor who—but
Leopold is dead, so let him sleep.
With all allowances made that preju
dice against kings can suggest, it re
mains true that Albert has proved
his right to leadership by efficiency,
his claim to privilege by service.
Unquestionably the policy of resist
ance to violation of Belgium’s neu
trality which he inspired or approved
has brought upon that country dread
ful losses of life and property, some
of which, at least—nobody can tell
how many—might have been avoided
by the opposite course of submission
to superior force. But there is a
Higher Expediency than that of the
immediately and materially expedient,
and this King Albert was wise
enough to choose. There is his great
est achievement, vastly more credit
able than going under fire with the
courage that common soliders are
shot for not having, or his demon
stration of a military ability that may
or may not exceed that possessed by
several of his generals. ,
As a result, Belgium is ruined, but
it is a magnificent and reparable ruin,
and that country is never again to be
regarded as a negligible factor in the
problems of Europe.—Ex.
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FEATS WITH THE CAMERA.
Difficult to 8nap Foot Moving Objeota
at a Given Point.
Only an expert, and he only after
much practice, can take a photograph
of a rapidly moving object at a pre
determined point—for example, an ex
press train with the cowcatcher Just
at a white chalk mark on a tie or
a baseball at the instant the bat
strikes it
The reason for this is twofold: First,
there is a certain appreciable time be
tween the mental decision to do a
thing and the actual doing of it; sec
ond, it takes a certain appreciable time
for the Impulse given by pressing the
button or squeezing the bulb of a
camera to travel to the shutter and
open it The latter may in a very fine
camera be only one-fiftieth of a sec
ond, but even the fiftieth of a second
in a train going 100 feet a second
would mean a difference of two feet
C. H. Claudy in on article in the
Camera says that not more than once
in four attempts will even an expert
catch the precise Instant he is seeking.
The average man snaps his camera at
the moment the ball is striking the
club or racquet and by the time his
shutter has worked the ball bas gone.
A tennis ball travels nearly a mile a
minute when struck hard. That is
ninety-six feet a second, so in a lag of
one-tenth of a second between the
pressing of the button and the opening
of the shutter the ball will move near
ly ten feet and ordinary cameras work
no faster than this. So one need not
wonder if even experts fall.
Did Hi* Best.
"A woman came into the hospital
the the other day, and she was so
crosseyed that the tears ran down her
back.”
"You couldn’t do anything for her,
could you?”
“Yes: we treated her for bacteria.”—
Pittsburgh Press.
G. O. Reinke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
Notice of Election.
Whereas, pursuant to acts of Con
fess providing for the election of
i delegate to congress from the Ter
-itory of Alaska, and members of a
egislative assembly for the Territory
)f Alaska; such election is required
:o be held on Tuesday, November 3,
L914, at which election the qualified
roters of the Third judicial division
)f Alaska are entitled to vote for a
delegate in Congress, one member o(
the senate and four members of the
house of representatives In the legis
lative assembly of the Territory; and,
Whereas, pursuant to the require
ments of said acts of congress the
Common Council of the lncoporated
Town of Valdez, In said Third divis
ion, by resolution duly adopted In
regular session on the 21st day of
September, 1914, divided the territory
embraced in said town into two vot
ing precincts as follows, to-wit:
Precinct number 1; Including that
part of said town lying easterly oi
the middle line of Alaska avenue.
Precinct number 2; Including that
part of said town lying westerly oi
the middle of Alaska avenue.
And at said meeting the Common
Council by resolution fixed the poll
Ing place of precinct No. 1 at the
Council Chamber at the Town Hall
on Broadway; and the polling place
of precinct No. 2 In the ground flooi
room of the Fish building on Wesl
McKinley street.
The following named persons were
designated by the council at said
meeting to serve as judges and clerk*
of such election:
Precinct No. 1—Judges: H. M. De
lano, Tom Hunt, Louis Rosenthal
Clerks: H. M. Conrad and II. P. Sul
livan.
Precinct No. 2—Judges: Con Low
ney, T. E. Wikldel, Frank Hayes
Clerks: Ross Heckey and Frank Mil
lard.
Dated September 28, 1914.
E. E. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY, Town Clerk
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C. E. Bunnell
ALASKA as a storehouse, should be
■■ unlocked. One key to it is a sys
tem of railways. These the govern
ment should itself build and adminis
ter, and the ports and terminals it
should itself control in the interest of
all who wish to use them for the ser
vice and development of the country
and its people.
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
THE policy of President Wilson’s
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THOS. C. PRICE
of Cordova.
Democratic candidate for Senator.
Believes in government con
trol and immediate development
of the resources of Alaska.
If elected will work in harmoty
with the National Democratic Ad
ministration in its attempt to open
up Alaska. A vote for him is a
vote in support of President Wil
son.
For Representative
Thomas H. Holland
of Chitlna.
Democratic Candidate.
!
Has lived in Alaska since 1902.
Knows Alaska, knows the needs
of Alaska and if elected will work
for Alaska.
A vote for him is a vote In sup
port of Woodrow Wilson in his
attempt to develop Alaska.
JOHN LYONS
Independent candidate
for Representative in
Alaska Legislature........
Resided in Alaska since
1897. Resided in Valdez
since 1901. Believes in
opening up Alaska for
this generation, and that
such a course is best for
all future generations.
Vote For
J. J. FINNIGAN
of Chisana
Independent candidate for
the House.
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