Valdez Daily Prospector
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FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1914.
RISING COST OF GOVERNMENT.
The expenses of the federal gov
ernment for the year ending June
30 were about $700,000,000, nearly
$2,000,000 a day. This was far from
being a record breaker in the matter
of federal expenditures but it serves
to emphasize the rapidity of the rise
in the cost of government. The cost
of government, federal, state and
municipal, is mounting higher and
higher every year and it is one of
the imperative duties of the states
men of the day to find some method
of lightening the load.
It is difficult to reduce expenditures
•when federal receipts mount higher
and higher every year. Congress
may always be relied upon to dis
pose of any treasury surplus. Some
smart statesman is always ready with
a plan to get rid of a surplus, when
the revenues are heavier than the
actual needed expenses of the gov
ernment. Taxation rarely goes down
ward. A tax once levied is apt to
last forever. The. internal revenue
tax was levied during the civil war.
Fifty years afterward we find it do
ing business for us and producing
the bulk of our revenues. It has late
ly been augmented by the tax on
incomes, and that will remain, no
doubt, so long as the republic lives.
During al lthese years, congress has
managed to find new ways to spend
the money at every sign of surplus.
There are now pending a half a
hundred propositions which, if adopt
ed, would vastly increase the gov
ernment’s functions and expenses.
Our congressmen are taking up such
measures as federal roads, govern
ment ownership of railroads, tele
graph and telephone education, mine
ownership, pipe lines and numerous
schemes which would absorb large
sums of the public money.
If only the federal government
were doing that sort of thing it would
not be so bad. States, counties and
municipalities are maing a terrific ef
fort to outdo the federal government
in the matter of spending money.
Very few people see the relation be
tween taxation and the high cost of
living, and yet it is the most fruit
ful of all causes.
If we estimate that all forms of
government In the United States cost
$2,500,000,000 annually, It means that
it requires the entire proceeds of the
annual corn and cotton crop's of the
country to settle the bill. It means
hardships for the citizen because the
government is giving him bo many
mouths to feed in addition to his own
family. It is taxation that does most
to maek rents high. It is taxation
that swells the cost of everything
from toddies to teddy bears. Labor
pays all these bills, and no matter
from which citizen the government
takes the coin, at the last the burden
is laid upon labor.
Our statesmen preach retrench
ment in Washington with great ferv
or, but they never practice it: they
never will practice it. They coddle
labor in one way and another and
they denounce the opposition party,
but when they find the treasury is
full, the remedy is to increase ap
propriations. It’s human nature to
do it that way, but it is hard on
the people and the day will come
when the people are going to demand
an accounting and the adoption of
businesslike methods in the admin
istration of public affairs. . There is
crying need for the establishment of
efficiency bureaus in all branches of
government.—Ex.
Women Watch Politics.
TOPEKA, Kas., July 23.—That the
newly enfranchised Kansas women
are taking keen interest in politics
and will cast as heavy a vote in pro
portion as the men in the August
primaries and -congressional state
election this fall, is the belief to
day of campaigners who report that
the attendance at political meetings
over the state is about half men and
half women.
Tabinack an<l Voll will leave to
morrow for Tiekhell to examine some
mining properties in that section.
George Itankin, Alexander Miller
and J. M. Bruce, stockholders in the
Oameron-Johnson mine, left for Se
attle on the Northwestern after
spending a week in Valdez and mak
ing an inspection of the property.
Mrs. Bruce, who accompanied her
husband to Valdez, also left on the
boat for her home in Seattle.
A Lady Scarecrow.
' Farmer Whiffletree is ingenious,
by» gum.”
"What now?”
"He togged up a lady scarecrow {
in the height of fashion. Keeps the !
crows away, too.”
CUT-RATE BREAD
Go to the ARCADk BAKERY for
HOME MADE BREAD
Admission-Gentlemen 50c; Ladies and CkUren 25c
Good, Healthful Exorcise - & !IM 1 re
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City Ticket Cilices, Chicago, Milwaukee & 8t. Paul Railway
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SEPARATE SCHOOL
Seattle School Board Votes to Segre
gate the Bpys and Girls In
the High School.
SEATTLE, July 24.—At a meeting
of the school board held last night
■it was decided to segregate the boys
from the girls in the high school and
this' plan will go into effect w'hen
the school reconvenes next month.
So much complaint has reached the
board of the conduct of some of the
male students that it was consider
ed best tb have separate rooms and
the plan will be tried out.
CIVIC LEAGUE MEETS
^ ^TOMORROW AFTERNOON
The Valdez Civic League will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock in
the city hall. All members are re
quested to be present.
HON. GEORGE FRED WINS
RENOWN IN DIPLOMACY
The New Freedom has gathered di
plomacy into its net and the Hon.
George Fred Williams recently trans
lated to Athens, adds a new crown
to his variegated glories. Not his
the cowardly reticences commended
in the famous dictum of Talleyrand.
His gift,of words was not shower
ed on him by an inscrutable Provi
dence for the purpose of concealing
anything, not even the abysses which
separate him from the craft into
which his psychology and grape juice
have now intruded his amazing dant
phoolishness.
Mr. Williams has seen Albania.
He has seen it from the lofty view
point of the Dedham, Mass., stand
ards', which he always carries about
• with him. His soul, which is always
a trifle too large for his frame, has
been swollen with indignation by the
spectacle and has burst its cerements,
as indeed it has not infrequently
done in the past on smaller provoca
tion. It has overflowed in pictures
que speech and Europe quivered un
der the scathing exposure of her
misdemeanors.
Prior to Mr. Williams’ revelation
nobody had any idea of conditions
in Albania. The world was blind to
the wickedness and inefficiency of
the powers. Now that the whole sit
uation-is neatly analyzed and classi
fied under five heads it only remains j
to reform it altogether. Plainly
there is only one master of light and ;
leading to undertake the task. The
inept Mpret, the vexatiousu Malin-!
ores, the Dutch gendarmerie, the in
efficient powers and the faineant min
istry will join in a petition to Sec
retary Bryan to release the clear
eyed and silver-tongued Williams
from the trammels of diplomacy so
that they may make him their guide
and oracle.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
G. O. Reinke, the watchmaker and
Jeweler, Is at the Valdes Drug Co. All
work guaranteed.
W. M. Goodwin, cashier of the First
Bank of Valdez, left on the North
western for Portland on a month’s
vacation.
JLieut. Dougherty will leave tomor
row for Tiekhell on a trip of inspec
tion. Mrs. Dougherty and Virginia
will accompany the lieutenant.
Emporium received on last boat
Hot Point Electric Heaters, Bakers,
Cookers and Flat Irons. Boys Mt.
Hood Overalls ages 4 to 15, 50c up. tf
These are the days when men bluff
their creditors by staying away from
the office and leaving an income taxi
blank on t|^a|i> desk.' ;• j |
LOST—An Elk charm finder please
f*tun» to-TJeorge Reinke at the Val
IM Drtijg/fitore and receive reward.
Administrator’s Notice.
In- Commissioner's ■ Court foj* Valdez
Precinct, Territory, of , Alaska,
J. Love, Commissioner—In
I* the matte* of the estate of Peter
Johnson, deceased.—Notice to Cred
itors- v .
Notice is h«rdby given that the un
dersigned htfs be^n appointed admin
istrator of Ahe - 'above-named estate,
>«*>.<that, allpergehs haring claims
Against **M., e-$pte required to,
w a* Sh
Store, Valdez,' Alaska, within six
months from the date of this notice.
? . %te4 July ,9,19M. • >
W.JL CAS-WELL,
Administrator of the Es'ate pf Peter
“ Johhsbn, deceased. ~ •"
.* Plrst publication July 9,1914.
Last publication July 30, 1914.
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We wish to announce to the
Ladies of Valdez
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that we have been appointed sole
distributors for the famous
Pingree Shoes
We have them in Patent Colt,
Bronze, Vici Kid and
Gun Metal.
The Cravenetted tops are guaranteed
to be damp proof.
Priced from $4.00 to $6.00
PROFESSIONAL
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Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Uni*er*itj
Washington, D. C.
ph-.uo DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Room* over VALDEZ
Valdez Drug Co.
DR. GERMAN
phone id THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store, office hours
3 a. m.. to 6 p. m . 7 t>. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office on Well St. next Prospector office
Valdez, Alaska.
New Company'siPhone No. S9
HOURS—9 te 12 *.>. ;* 1>'6 sad 7 is 9p. m.
DR. C. H. VANCE
™ OSTEOPATH
Gradual* AmcHcui School of
Oataopathy. KlkmUlv. Mo. ..
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Office »d Raddencc'CouH St. PHONE 2*1
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
PH0NJO36" Valdez, Alaska
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'Civil Engineer end
U. S. Deputy-Land and
Mineral 5uryey*r
Blue Printing - Valdes, Alaska.
A. C. BALDWIN
. Civil Engineer and
Dep-j tyMineral >
Surveyor. »*v -
Formerly Surrtyer AUalu lUueaUry Sarny
Valdes, Alaska.? . J F. 0 SOX 274
Steam Heat Electric Lights
BLOCK
Finely Furniihed Rooms All Modern Convenience!
Good DIICrCT G ° ° d
Goods DUrrtl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., inc.
ALL KINDS OP
.Native and | T T1i>VD17D an^ Building
Puget Sound LiUlVlDtiiV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
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Largest and Best Equipped Hospihl in
South Western Alaska. *
Graduate Nurses—Prjyate:|tottns for Patients. •
For Terms auif Further Particulars Apply to
^ E. G DALTON, M. D., Physician|in'Charge.
Is Still the Attraction.
Ws wish to announce to the public that we now have in stock
VALDEZ GLACIER GOLD BEER
A product of Valdes and a new brew of superior excellence.
7 pts Valdez Glacier Gold Beer $1.00
5 qts Valdez Glacier Gold Beer $1.00
Patronise home industry and keep the money in Valdes.—The public will
find this bear on an equal with any outside beers—being an entirely new brew
Phone 69—Free delivery to all part* of the city.
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