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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913.
“PUT NO HOOPS ON WILSON.”
Samuel G. Lb'the, that past master
in the art of taking the measure, wit 1.
tailor-like accuracy, of politicians anti
public officials and explaining in easy
words of one syllable why they fail
or succeed, has a remarkable, article
in the current issue of the Saturday
Evening Post, says the Tacoma Trib
une, telling the secret of President
Wilson’s domination of affairs at
Washington. He explains, in effect,
that president Wilson dominates
those about him because he knows
more than they do; that is, he has
taken up the pressing problems, con
sidered them with a trained mind and
decided the course to pursue. When
he has done that, he listens to every
body with a suggestion to make, but
changes his decision only when he
finds someone who has given the sub
ject at hand more thought than he
has. That is why he so rarely changes
his decision.
From Texas comes another illustra
tion, which, being more homely, is
more interesting. Cone Johnson, who
is several thousand miles farther from
the scene of actual activities than is
Blythe, has summed up the doings
at Washington. He made a speech at
the Texas state fair at Dallas the oth
er day in which he said;
“One of the reasons why Wilson
has been able to achieve success is the
fact that the democracy of our coun
try has broken away from the tra
ditions 'hat :nobody but old war
horses of democracy understood any
thing about American politics.
“They said to me at Baltimore,
these old war-horses of politics, ‘We
will put circles around your school
teacher like hoops around a barrel.’
They were like the fellow who tried
to go around the squirrel in a tree—
he couldn’t figure out whether he had
gone around the squirrel or whether
the squirrel nad gone around him.
"But our president has sailed our
ship at once into this sea where lay
the wrecks of so many Democratic
hopes. To rhange the metaphor and
use football phrases, this new captain
of ours bucked the line, ran the <jnds,
made the forward pass of Democracy,
went over for a touch-down and kick
ed goal in the first five minutes of
play.”
The man at Washington and the
man in Texas have reached the same
conclusion by different routes. Both
agree that the president, feeling the
obligation of his h'gli office, believing
that it is his duty to accept the re
sponsibilities and the punishments or
rewards from his discharge of the
orders of the people, has decided up
on a policy and plan of action. That
being the case, those who attempt to
hamper the president or "put hoops
around him” do so at their own polit
ical risk. *
The nations that recognized Huerta
are beginning to act as if they had
never had an introduction.
If the land is flooded with counter
feit $50.00 notes a large portion of
the population will remain in blissful
ignorance of the fact.
It costs $3,000,000 a week to run
the city of New York. Some of us
could live comfortably for a dozen
lifetimes on the cash thus squander
ed.
One of the German cities has put
a tax on Baby carriages. This may
be regarded as a very fortunate ex
ample of the paternal system of gov
ernment.
It costs 40 per cent more to rear
a child now than it did in 1903. The
trouble is that those who started to
rear a child «n 19Q3 haven’t ftn’shed
the job yet.
Mexico’s crying need just .at pres
ent seems to be graded Jails—for the
legislative, judiciary and military of
fenders against the humanitarian
principles of Huerta.
Turkey is taking it out on the poor
Armenians again. If anything goes
wrong in any part of the Sultan’s do
main a few score Armenians have to
be massacred as a consolation.
There is a call that the Maryland
oyster war shall be referred to The
Hague. The proponent evidently
thinks that the peace palace should
be used to stop some sort of war.
If it is true that a careless immi
grant started the Volturno fire with
a cigarette, the immigration commis
sioners may have to frame new reg
ulations for the deporiation of men
tal defectives.
A Connecticut husband declares
that the laws of that state give him
the legal right to beat his wife. It
takes a sturdy wooden-nutmegger to
stand up for all the blue law rights
that are coming to him.
"The president might at least give
congressmen permission to go home
so that they can get mileage for com
ing back to the regular session,” says
the Philadelphia • Press. Don't you
worry about the mileage, they will
get it.
Secretary Daniels is going to en
ter the naval war college to get post
ed on naval matters. Good idea. Why
not have schools of instruction in all
the departments so that cabinet offi
cers may have the chance to learn
their jobs?
As to that estimate that $75,000,
000 worth of eggs are lost each year
by being broken, we presume to be
meant that they were broken |hen
not desired. How an egg can be used
for anything, without breaking it has
not yet been discovered.
Vice President Marshall says that
every man should marry before he is
thirty and every woman before she is
thirty-five. The vice president is
evidently a suffragist—wanting to
give the women five years more of
freedom than a man gets.
A Missouri paper tells how a wo
man drove 2,000 hogs to market, and
asks if that is not better than fight
ing and clamoring for votes. The suf
fragists may make the obvious reply
that the woman who can make 2,000
hogs lake the road she wishes, has
demonstrated her ability to deal with
the average voter.
Under the Mann while slavery act,
603 persons have been convicted, with
aggregate sentences of over 1,000
years. This gives an average sen
tence of about one year and eighteen j
months, which, considering the na
ture of the offense, is rather lenient.
But, on the whole, the record seems
calculated to discourage the profes
sion of forcing gills to adopt a life
of commercialized vice.
New Congress Met Today.
The regular session of congress con
vened this afternoon at Washington,
but owing to the cable being dotvn
no news has been received 'regard
ing ihe speech of Preesident Wilson
which he was to have delivered at
noon to the members of congress.
The arrangements regarding the so
ing of both houses in the House of
Representatives auditorium had been
completed and tickets of admission
had been distributed among the me>
bers of congress for the use of theii
friends.
Odd Fellows Elect Officers.
The Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows, at their meeting last night,
elected the annual officers of the lo
cal lodge. C. P. Topliff was elected
Noble Grand to succeed William
Thomas, who held the office the past
! year. Joe Olson wras elected Vice
! Noble Grand and William Thomas
| secretary, with James Patterson as
; treasurer. The trustees for the com
! ing year are Willard Scott, Ed. Wood
i and C. C. Rudolph.
—
The Nemo.
| Fundamental principles upon which
| Nemo Corsets are based are Hygien
! ics, Fashion, Durability and Stability.
Once a Nemo wearer, always a Ne
mo wearer. At E. WINTER’S, the
Ladies’ Furnisher.
War is Declared.
War is now declared and the troops
will be shown in a Kay Bee two-reel
i feature at the Orpheum change to
night in great drama. Her Favorite
Son.
New Goods.
New goods on every boat at Mrs.
Winter’s.
Many musbers are taking advan
tage of £he good trail over the sum
mit and have started for the Nelchina
diggings.
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A very complete line of Xmas Art
Leather Goods is shown at the Val
dez Drug Store.
FLUNG AWAY BIG CHANCES.
Napoleon’* Mistake* In Not Liatsning
to Robert Fulton.
The fate of the world might have
been altogether different had Na
poleon Bonaparte listened to Bob
ert Fulton in the early part of the
last century. Napoleon understood
that Great Britain was his most,
formidable foe and that so long as
she ruled the seas his power was in
danger.
But, wise though he was and revo
lutionary his ideas, he could not
see the practical value of Fulton’s
inventions. Fulton had been earn
ing what he could by painting and
exhibiting panoramas so that he
might carry out some of his great
ideas. Finally he succeeded in get
ting enough money together to
build the first submarine vessel the
world had ever seen, and he re
mained under water in it for six
hours. A commission watched the
experiment, but feared for the lives
of the operators who might go
down in a vessel of this kind and
rejected the Nautilus, not knowing
that they were throwing away Na
poleon’s greatest opportunity to
overcome the British fleet. The
drawing of this vessel has been dis
covered in the French archives, and
as we look at it we wonder how
Fulton managed it, especially before
the days of electricity and the stor
age of compressed air.
But Napoleon was to be given
one more opportunity to save him
self. Fulton was not discouraged,
but was ready two years later with
plans for the steam propelling of
vessels, by which the French em
peror might have crossed the chan
nel in a few hours and fallen upon
the British as he pleased. Here
again the commission rejected the
device, and the discouraged Amer
ican had to return to the United
States, where ho finally succeeded
in proving what every one deemed
impossible—that a vessel could be
propelled by steam. The design of
the steam vessel offered to the
French has been preserved in Paris,
and by examining it one mav see
how perfect the design was and
what Napoleon missed.—New York
World.
Spencer and the Decimal System.
Herbert Spencer regarded the
decimal system as a most dangerous
innovation. A clause in the phi
losopher’s will provides that, “if
within ten years after my death a
bill shall be introduced into parlia
ment for the compulsory adoption
of the metric system for weights
and measures, I desire that my pam
phlet entitled ‘Against the Metric
System’ shall be reprinted from
the stereotyped plates which were
cast in February, 1901. with such
corrections as are indicated in a
copy of the pamphlet deposited in
mv safe, and that such reprinted J
pamphlet shall be distributed gratis
and at the expense of my estate
among members of both houses ol
parliament and shall be put on sale
by my publishers at a nominal
price.”
Gladstone and Wet Sponges.
It was not without just cause that
Mr. Gladstone’s name was given to
the handy “Gladstone bag.” The
grand old man was master of every
detail of the art of packing. At a
country house they were discussing
at breakfast the right way to pack
a sponge bag when the sponge had
been used and was consequently wa
terlogged. Mr. Gladstone, who ap
parently had been wholly absorbed
in his morning’s correspondence,
suddenly closed the discussion by
informing the party that they were
all wrong. “The only proper meth
od,” said he, “is to wrap it in your
bath towel and stamp upon it. Then
put it in your sponge bag. You will
lind it perfectly dry.”
The Vatican Library.
The Vatican library probably is
the most sumptuously housed in the
world. The collection , contains
some of the most precious manu
scripts in existence, including the
Biblical “Codex Vatieanus” of the
fourth century, the fifth century
Vergil and the pnlimjtsetst “I)e Re
publiea” of Cicero.
The printed books include more
than 2,500 fifteenth century edi
tions, many of them vellum copies.
The total library has been estimated
to comprise more than 220,000 vol
umes and 30,000 manuscripts, but
it has never been adequately cata
logued.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Great Draamara.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a
great dreamer and conld dream in
sequence, continuing a dream from
the point where it had broken off
the night before. It was in this
wav that the greater part of “Jekyll
and Hyde’- was put together. Dante,
too. is said to have dreamed many
cantos of “The Divine Comedy,
and Voltaire records how the “Hen
riado” came to. him in sleep. “Tdeaa
occurred to me.” he wrote, “in spite
of myself and in which I had no
part whatever."
Copyright Hart Schaffher 8c Marx
....OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
Is the largest ever
shown in town.
There is'no'better Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
! ' m
Fine SuitTor Overcoat
We are showing all the latast
Styles and Colors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
CORRECTION.
The Prospector of last evening men
tioned the attendance of the Odd Fel
low's at the Thanksgiving service held
at the Congregational church Sun
day, Nov. 30th.
In the at tide referred to the state
ment was made that "they (the Odd
Fellows) met at (heir lodge rooms
and paraded to the church in a body
in accordance with the rules of their
society, which requires every mem
ber to attend the services.”
Such statement is an error: an er
ror apt to create false impressions re
garding the order in the minds of
persons not members thereof.
As a matter of fact there is no
tenet of the order which even im
plies that members should or must
attend divine services, much less a
rule of Valdez Lodge No. 8, or any
other lodge, compelling members to
attend such services.
The I. O. O. F. is purely a frater
nal non-sectarian organization. It is
true that a candidate for initiation
into the order must avow a belief
in God. It is equally true that he
need not avow allegiance to any ex
isting sect or creed.
He may be Jew. Gentile, Catholic
or Protesant in his religious affilia
tions, or neither of them, and yet be- |
come and be a good Odd Fellow pro
vided he live up to the teachings and
requirements of the order.
Many members of Valdez Lodge
No. 6, having religious predilect'ons,
if not actual church affiliations, elect
ed, in conformity with established
customs of our country, to attend di
vine service on the special day set
apart for such thanksgiving purpose.
They elected to do so as a body, but
by no means as a lodge unit. None
were required or expected to attend
who d‘d not voluntarily choose to
do so. And, that a goodly number of
our members did not avail themselves
of the privilege, is, perhaps, their loss.
Nevertheless, it is a matter which
alone concerns themselves, and .for
which the lodge has neither the right
or disposition to call them to account.
W. THOMAS, N. G.
Light and'Power
- ~ .*
Since the organization of the
# Valdez
Electric
Company 4
Valdes consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction ot
forty per cent in rates.
Support the new company and
keep rates down to bedrock.
Office intCopper Block
Phone [57
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect your health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of. drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 IFeurteen years' in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Neat to cable office
F. BUTTERWORTH
'Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing lies Phone. i«v
DR. GERMAN
Phone ,9 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Druir store. Office hours j
9 a. in., to 6p. m.. 7 p. ni.. to 9 p. in. Sundays i
by appointment All work guaranteed !
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LA VV
Offices WhII Street
l*hone 31 VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
PHONE in* Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS
ATTORNEY ATtLAW
All Mining Business Given Prompt
Attention.
WHALING BLOG. VALDEZ
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alaska
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VALDEZ, ALASKA_
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o‘clo<K In
Eagle Hall All members are requested te
attend. S. McNIECE. Arctic Chiet
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Aooei>ted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H Patterson.,W. M
C. C- Remolds. Sec
VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6,1.0. O.F
Meets every Monday at 8 |». tu. in
ODD KKLLOWJ/HAI.L
Visiting Brothers especially invited
Wm. Thomas, n. a. P. 8 Hoy*, r. r. 8k
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