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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, ll)1«
■1
WHY?
' TX7E rise to all occasions
' ' Where valor has full sway,
We’re true men of the hour—
Full twenty-four hours a day;
But yot we’re basely conquered
And shrinking, hide our face.
When Visiting at luncheon
They ask us to say grace.
—Selected.
EXTREMES.
A MAN who brags about himself
Will often prove a boresome elf.
Yet he who has no self esteem
la useless In this earthly scheme.
—Washington Star.
IHVTDKI) PATRIOTISM
In a country where the people are
endowed with the rights of self-gov
ernment. and in which every citizen
is a co-ruter, it would seem that the j
first concern of citizenship should h“
the needs, the welfare and the pro
gress of that country. Yet, here in
America where men from Eur >i e j
come to be mi of the o. world tyr
anny and to enjoy the liberty cf
thought and action that is not poss' -
hie there, some of our foreign-horn
citizens are organizing societies for
the support of their fatherlands.
The recent organization of publish
ers of German newspapers in Amer
ica for the furtherance of German 1
aims in American politics, is an in
stance in point, and there are others.
Many of the members of this or
ganization have been prominent i.i
our -national affairs, and for all pur
poses good Americans, out their pres
ent attitude is not consistent with
their past records.
This nation is des^i*.ng of the un
divided services and solicitude, of the
citizens whom it protects, and we
have am'ple notional concerns of our
own to claim uieir good offices. The
peace of America has been menaced
since the day Europe gave way to its
war madness, and that menace has
grown with time rather than de
creased,
Our lives and the lives or our rain
ilies, our property and every concern
for our welfare are bound with the
future of America, yet many of our
poeple are giving their whole thought
to their old homes across the sea.
and organizing to sustain them, in
stead of giving whole-hearted sup
port to the country that shelters,
maintains and protects them.
In the event that the United States
be drawn into ilie war, these careless
citizens would be jolted into a sud •
den patriotism for their adopted
country. War, for America, would
leave no room for divided national
allegiance. There would he room
only for Americans here, and those
who did not hear the call would be
strongly movc-i <,0 silence.
Divided pa^^usm is an invitation
to war. Unu^ Americanism is an
insurance against it.
PLAYING THE EIRE.
The public probably hasn’t any very
serious objections to the grant by the
administration of authority to Car
ranza to enter the United States in
pursuit of bandits if that is precisely
what He wants and nothing more. If
the Mexicans were learned enough to
grasp the facts, they would not ob
ject to the request of the United
States to enter Mexico in pursuit of
Villa. Certainly the people of the
United States do not covet a square
foot of Mexican soil and their desire
is only to put an end to Villa and his
crew.
Hut in whatever agreement is
reached there is a parcel of possible
trouble. The hotbeds on one side
of the line or the other are likely to
commit acts of a dangerous charac
ter.
We must recognize (he plain fact
that wo are playing with fire. There
are a thousand contingencies any one
of which may precipitate us in a war,
not with Villa, but with Mexico
which would mean an invading army
of probably 500,000, and a bush
whacking contest of years’ duration.
—Tacoma News.
BUYING ANOTHER CANAL ROUTE.
The proposition for the United.
States to pay Nicaragua $3,000,000,
thus acquiring the only other feasible
canal route on this hemisphere, and
using Fonseca Gulf as a great naval
base, is still agitating the public
mind. Many Congressmen denounce
the proposition as a disreputable and
dishonorable proposition, but the
press of lhe country generally, take
kindly to it. and believe it to be to
the advantage of the United States to
acquire this canal route before some
European power buys it.
The Salt Lake Tribune, perhaps,
puts up the best argument advanced
as to why we should acquire this nat
ural waterway:
■‘It is time." it says, “that the coun
try should face frankly the peril of
a ruined Panama canal. The Panama
Canal, on which we have expended
$400,000,000 may prove worthless.
The C.ulebra cut still deties our best
efforts to keep the canal open, and a
canal that may be closed at any time
by a slide of millions of tons of earth,
possesses too little reliability to be of
any permanent value as a commer
cial or strategic asset. * * *
“The Panama t;anai cost us auuui
$400,000,000. It may cost twice that
sum and yet prove a failure. A sea
level canal by the Nicaragua route
would have cost approximately a lit
tle over one billion dollars and would
have been finished before this.
“Roosevelt takes great credit for
everything he did in relation to the
canal, but the time is not far distant
when he will wish to forget it.
“The Culebra cut is not the only
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Introductory Picture—
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WILLIAM FARNUM
In the Great Broadway Success,
“THE GILDED FOOL”
COMEDY DRAMA
As played by NAT GOODWIN—Assisted by Maude
Gilbert, Robert Hilliard, William Gillett, Chas.
Guthrie, Harry Spingler and MARGA
RET VALE, a niece of President |
Wilson.
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This feature is the same class as “A Fool There Was.’
being the second production of the list of attractions
offered by the Empress Circuit, and are recognized
as the finest that money can buy.
weak spot on the canal. The locks
are built in soft and spongy ground,
which any earthquake might shift
radically, and earthquakes are nu
nerous and frequent in the canal zone.
Moreover, there are only a few feet
of leeway now on either side of the
biggest ships as they pass through the
locks, and the width of ships seems
to be increasing. In a few years the
biggest battleships may not be able to
get through the locks.
“The Nicaragua Canal was to be
several times as wide as the present
canal, and was to have no locks or
other artificial works that could be
destroyed by earthquakes. * * *
“It may be necessary before many
years have flown to start the sea
level canal. The expenditure of
Great Britain or Germany for a month
and a half of war would build the
canal.”
A FALLEN IDOL.
What has become of the Roosevelt
of ten years ago? Instead of the big.
brainy, statesman-warrior-president
who won the adulation of the Ameri
can people, we now have a querulous.
Irascible, irritable demagog, whose
blatant mouthings weary and annoy
the public. Is it senility or the spoil
ed child crying for the unattainable
that ails him? Roosevelt made a
good president. His prompt action
in Panama gave the country the ca
nal, in spite of the determined oppo
sition of the railroads. He. was the
idol of the common people and the
bogey of the unscrupulous politicians.
But times have changed; the mighty
has fallen, and a once popular man
has turned the people against him
by his nauseous ravings.
He will, no doubt, receive the nom
ination for the presidency, this year,
but it is not because his backers have
any hopes of his election. He will be
used to elect Wilson, who suits the
big interests better than Roosevelt
fever did. The nomination of any oth
er republican might mean t lie elimi
nation ol both Roosevelt and Wilson,
and either one is perfectly acceptable
to the steel trust.
PRESIDENT IS CAPABLE
Iii view of the fact that President
Wilson has thus far succeeded in
averting a crisis between the United
States and the belligerent nations of
Europe, the attempt of Senator Jones
to embarrass the executive by the
adoption of legislation restricting his
authority seems* uncalled for. The
President, in our opinion, has dem
onstrated on more than one occa
sion since the commencement of the
great struggle in Europe that he is
fully competent to cope with any sit
uation that may arise. His manner
of conducting the diplomatic affairs
of the nation in the past has been
careful and with deliberations of the
future dealings with the warring na
tions. A vote of coii.-jence in the ad
ministration, we believe would have
met with more general approval
throughout the country.—Fairbanks
Times.
Within twenty-four hours after the
Republican politicians of Kentucky
had formally condemned Woodrow
Wilson’s foreign policy. Mr. Lodge,
Republican Senator from Massa
chusetts, thundered in the U. S. Sen
ate: “The only danger of war today,
the only cloud on the horizon comes
from the fact that the politicians
have not let him alone and that some
of you must seen to create the im
pression that the American people
are not behind the American govern
ment, ar.d to your action alone is due
the last position taken by the Ger
mans.”—Courier-Journal.
Col. Roosevelt might have added
with an equal amount’ of extrava
gance to his statement that “the
President fears only me and the
Kaiser” that “the Kaiser fears only
me.”— (kashville Uanner.)
After reading the actual accounts
of the fighting in several regions <"f
the war, we believe every fairy talj
we ever read—and “Jack the Giant
Killer."
The most disappointed man In the
world is the fellow who expects his
friends to come to his assistance
when he gets Into trouble.
Civic League Meets.
The regular meeting of the Valdez
Civic League will be held in the city
hall tomorrow, Saturday afternoon,
at 3 o’clock. Important business will
be brought before the meeting and a
full attendance is requested.
MRS. E. C. DALTON, Sec.
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New Fruit and Fresh Garden Vege
tables on every boat. Keystone Pro
duce co. It
Anything tn the Jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Kimonos, House-dresses, Aprons,
Caps and Wool Petticoats arrived on
the last boat for the Emporium tl
t
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Orug Store. * , *
Pictures ieveioped at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
The ladies of the Ladies’ Aid of the
Congregational church met in the lec
ture room Thursday afternoon when
business of importance came before
the meeting.
Weather Report.
Valdez, March 23, 1916.
Barometric pressure .i. 29.765
Temperature 7 p. m.28
Maximum temperature .27
Minimum temperature . 8
Mean temperature..22.5
Cloudy, wind northeast, 6 miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, March 24, 1916.
Fairbanks, —12; clear, calm.
Salcha, 3; clear, calm.
Richardson, 0; cloudy, calm.
Donnelly, 10; part cloudy, calm,
trail heavy.
McCallum, 0; clear, calm, trail
good.
Paxson, 8; clear, calm, trail good.
Hogan, 18; clear, calm, trail soft.
Gulkana. 4; clear, calm, trail good.
Copper Center. 12; clear, calm,
trail good.
Tonsina. 12; clear, calm, trail
good.
Teikhell, 10; clear, calm, trail
good.
Beaver, 7; clear, calm, trail fair.
Summit, 114 inches snow; clear,
calm, trail drifted.
Wortman, 44; clear, calm, trail
fair.
Interior weather slightly warmer.
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nesday In each month In McKinley
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ED WOOD, Secretary.
A. M. DIERINQER
Valdez Transfer
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Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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to all Interior Points.
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
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oillcta ii« IlhMilujc Building
PfcOne 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
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to all parts of the Interior.
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