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THUKHDAY, MARCH 22, 1017
PEOPLE WANT PEACE.
NINETY per cent of the people of
rhe United States are opposed to this
Nation becoming involved in war with
any nation over any controversy, ac
cording to Representative Buchanan
ot Illinois. The hired press sheets,
‘he mouthpieces of the munition traf
fickers and monopolistic special privi
leged interests have bellowed long
and loud of the supposed “crimes”
that have been committeed against
the American people. New York,
Baltimore and Boston papers print
frenzied appeals to the American peo
ple to avenge their honor which is
supposed to have been stained by the
failure of munition manufacturers to
ship huge cargoes to Europe, false
statements have been spread far and
wide appealing to the patriotism of
the people; but patriotism was ever
the last resort of the scoundrel and
thank God, their contemptible and
perfidious methods have not betrayed
this country into the hands of the
speculators.
1 have here a letter 1 received from
the Chicago Federation of Labor, ;r
crganization of over 300,000 working
men, in which is embodied a unani
mous protest against war; also a res
olution from the Federated Labor Un
ion of New York City, another organ
ization of 400,000 workmen; also
one adopted by 4,000 people assem
bled in mass meeting at Carnegie hall
New York City, and thousands of
other telegrams denouncing in un
measured terms the attempt of the
New England States to force us into
an ignoble war.
As wre are not threatened and there
can he no danger of invasion of our
country, why not refer the question
THE EMPRESS
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VALDEZ ALASKA
of becoming involved In this Euro
pean bloody slaughter to the masses
of the people who will bear the bur
! den of the expense, and whose lives
will be sacrificed if we do become In
volved.
Undesirable or false patriotism is
I that which is based upon egomania,
mixed with pride, conceit, narrow
! minded, and a general delirium of
i grandeur and yet it is asked that the
! blood of thousands be shed for such
'patriotism. Anyone who allows his
! proAllyism or his proOermanism to
influence him more than his pro
I Americanism is unwittingly an enemy
of his country.
If we must choose between wrar and
peace the lesser evil is peace, but if
we make a mistake it is better to err
cn the side of peace for war is not
only a physical hell but a mental hell;
it is fear of battle, the dread bayonet
charge and death; blasted hopes of
the wounded, involving great mental
torture and a future burden to the
Army, the family and the country;
terrible disappointments, anxieties,
and sadness of mothers, wives and
sisters at home. All these physical
and mental horrors, not to mention
atrocities, demonstrate war to be lit
erally hell.—Speech by Frank Bu
chanan in Congress, Feb. 27.
N’KKIJ OF THE WIRE DRAG.
The coast line of Alaska is twice
greater than the Atlantic coast line,
the Gulf coast line and the Pacific
coast line added together. That might
not be important if it were not for
the fact that the naval coal fields of
Alaska and our $35,000,000 Govern
ment railroad lie along these unchart
ed Alaskan shores. These great nat- j
ural resources so important to our na
tional development and defense, are;
dangerous to approach even in times!
of peace. The waterway to them is
not surveyed and is not safe.
Alaska has more than 25,000 miles
of coast line, and the Coast and Geo
detic survey if it shall continue to sur
vey as rapidly as it has been author
ized in the past few years will be
working on the uncompleted job a
hundred years from now, upon the
uncharted and unknown waters of our
Alaskan shores. The waterways to
our great Government railway are un
charted, unsurveyed and may be filled
with dangers. The harbors are deep,
tut these sharp pinnacle rocks exist
there, and, as has been said, they are
only known when some vessel strikes
them, often with loss of life and there
after are known by the name of the
vessel which located them by wree’
The lighthouse tender Armeria wl.
lost on one of the Alaska pinnacles in
May, 1912, while the revenue cutter
Tahoma was also totally wrecked and
lost on another uncharted rock, 80
miles offshore, in September, 1914.
A large number of privately owned
vessels have been wrecked on similar
reefs and rocks along the uncharted
shores of Alaska in the last few years.
If Congress would appropriate as
much money as we have actually lost
by the sinking of Government vessels
the work would be carried on much
better and much more advantageous
ly, and the loss and danger in those
waters would be lessened as the sur
; veys proceed.
The waters in southeastern Alaska
have been surveyed in but a small
portion of the water lanes, and it will
take many years of surveying at the
present rate before the channels used
by our vessels are safe. The Coast
and Geodetic survey has done excel
lent and highly valuable work along
Alaskan coasts. These waters will be
especially important in case of any
foreign war with any Asiatic power,
and without this bureau is given ap
propriation sufficient, the hidden dan
gers in Alaskan waters would offer
far greater danger than an enemy’s
submarines. The people of Alaska
are exceedingly friendly to this bu
reau and are anxious to have it given
sufficient appropriations to do its
very useful work as rapidly as the oc
casion demands.—Speech of Delegate
James Wickersham in Congress over !
discussion of Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey appropriation, February 27.
BACK TO THE FARM.
IN’ THE spring we may reasonably
expect a “back to the farm” move
ment if the prevailing high cost of
living is kept up. Especially in Alas
ka there is no reason that we can Fee
why a family of five or six cannot live
generously on a small money expen
diture. Any one can take a smell
tract of land, enough to keep a ptg
i or two, a few chickens and a cow,
grow all the vegetables the family
! needs, gather all the wild fruits neces
jsary with fish food and wild game
' aplenty, we need not strave. Let a
family forget society, provide a few
clothes, a little sugar and flour, and
■the high cost of living is at an end.
j Incidentally, get away from the evsr
I lasting war talk.
Of late we have been thinking of
j the plan seriously. So much so that
we have reached a point where we
; candidly admit that if our friends
| want to get rid of us, all they have to
.do is to give us the pigs, the chickens
iand the cow, we shall manage to gel
the clothes, the flour and the sugar
and back to the farm we shall go—
where we should be, and where so
i ciety shall know us no more. Now,
i come ahead slow with your pigs,
chickens and cow.—Ketchikan Pro
| gressive-Miner.
1 AX editor of an Alaska publica
tion writes an able and convincing
thesis upon life on the farm and
the bucolic joys awaiting the publish
er who can acquire the mazuma to
iannex a bit of land. We thoroughly
'agree with the gentleman. There are
Lhousands editors who desire to
live on a farm; there are hundreds ot
editors who are fit for nothing else
but farmers, and the world would be
better off if the majority of editors
would go to farming.
THE demand of the New York
Times that the President form a coa
lition cabinet "of the brightest minds”
of the country is an amazingly arro
gant request from that war-provoking
sheet. A coalition cabinet as formed
by the “bright minds” as picked out
by the Times would be composed of
Taft, Roosevelt, Root, Choate, Eliot,
Sir Gilbert Parker, Lloyd George and
the Times editor. The Democrats
could have the remaining cabinet of
I fices.
IT PAYS a man to be an expert in
his line, even if bis line is nothing but
fabrication. The National Geograph
ic Society of America has awarded
jCol. Roosevelt the Livingstone medal
for his “discovery” of the River of
Doubt in South America. Doctor Cook
should take notice and pattern after
the Colonel.
THE PROSPECTOR has received
the initial number of the Anchorage
Weekly Democrat, published by Mar
tin and Murphy. The Democrat is
i a very newsy, well written publication
land should have a splendid field in
: the Kenai peninsula. Anchorage has
, needed a good paper for some time.
A MAN imagines that if he ever
quit his job the boss would have to
hire four men to do his work. Then
he gets fired or quits and finds out
| that his place can remain vacant in
I definitely because his work was not
important enough to hurt the rest of
the plant.
I
WE have been around quite a lot
and we have never seen an orator
: who could make as graceful gestures
with his hands as a dog can make
with his tail.
| THE reason a girl learns algebra,
French and Latin is because when
she graduates from High School she
will need all her knowledge to help
her wash dishes and sweep the floors.
MANY people who have not nerve
enough to go to work can work up
.enough nerve to steal.
THE STORK is the most indus
trious bird we know of if he does
all that is laid on to him.
IT IS human nature to impose on
those who love us most.
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Good Moderate
Goods Phone 12 Prices
The Pure Food Show
Was a big success in every way and we wish to congratulate the
Ladies Aid Society for the manner in which the Show was conducted.
Congratulations are also in order to the winners in the “Hollyhurst” Contest
as well as those who held the lucky numbers in the drawing contest; they
are as follows:
Hollyhurst Contest
Nnmber of eggs in Baskets, 692.
1st. Prize - 10 Doz. - Jack Carroll, 690.
2nd Prize - 5 Doz. - S. O. Casler, F. G. Davis, Mrs. Wm.
Shcmidt, 696, each one to receive 2 doz. eggs.
3rd Prize - 3 Doz, - A. Botway, Wm. Dolan Jr., Mrs. Boyd,
684, each one to receive 1 doz. eggs.
Drawing Contest
1st Prize - 5 lbs. Hills Coffee - Pearl Miller. No. 141
2nd Prize 6 cans S. & W. Fruit - Mrs. James Patterson. No. 142
3rd Prize - 6 cans S. & W. Vegetables - Mr. Verdouw No. 131
We hope that the success of this Pure Food Show will induce the Ladies to
hold another in the near future.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
L< >UIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Night .McKinley Street, Below Table Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROV1T1I, Propr.
VALDEZHOSPITAL
A finely equipped institution i
for the care and treatment of
cases of every character. Shill
ed nurses in attendance.
Private Rooms. j
Terms Reasonable.
Jos. A. Lilverman Ph. G. "3. D. '
Proprietor. C
Hoyle Block Yalilea )
PROFESSIONAL, CARDS.
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DR. S. WICKES MERRITT ,
OIMecx over Valdez Drug Vo.
I'hoae ’15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon. U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon. U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M. D.
' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
—OFFICE HOURS: ..4
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 170 Office Phone 11*
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—la Owl Drug Store. ,
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT- COLD I
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third divison.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
WE PAY
28 cents per pound foi- Copper
18 tents per pound for Brass
8c lb. for Rubber Slides.
7c lb. for lead.
$20.00 per ton for cast iron.
$15 per ton Wrought Iron.
5c per lb. for Rope.
:t lj c per pound for Rags.
$20.00 per ton for Paper.
27c |ier doz. Beer Bottles, t|ts.
17c doz. Beer Bottles, pints.
P. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNE CO.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
YOU MAY imagine that marriage
is a joke and something to laugh
about, but just try it and give us your
sxperience ten years from now.
WHERE one man gets in the pub
lic eye about twenty others get in the
public nose.
A MAN’S head has never outgrown
liis hat on account of the brains he
carries.
YOU can always get a man to join
the anvil chorus but you have to pay
him to get him into the boosters’ bri
gade.
THE reason some men like to talk
about their “inferiors” is because
they haven’t any.
A MAN may make a failure of his
business but he can always run yours.
DR. H. COCKERILLE
GrUute National Untveraltr
Washington. D. C. •
DENTIST
Fourteen Tears In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms la Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORN GY 8-AT-LAW
A
Ottlrt- Opposite Court Hour
Phaar M VA1.DKZ. 4l.ASK t
VALDEZ CAFE & BAKERY
Cakes, Cookies A Bos, 15c per dozen.
French, Rye and White Bread 12 1-2
cents per loaf. Orders taken for special
occasions.
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAO. Prop*.
PHONE 17 - Three doer* hdew Owl Draz
JOHN LFONS> e K R ITCH: a
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW j
OMcra la » halt** Hulldlnic
Phuae 101 YA LDKSL. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
UlaNsot Kitted lenses <«rouml
CRESCENT
IS SURE
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. P*o*
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward. Alaska i
BECAUSE
IT
RAISES
THE
BOUGH
ALWAYS
Arctic Hotel
In for the {W-eHenf closed.
Watch for the Opening An- j
nouncement.
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING, Pr*p .
THERE is only one crop in Alaska !
that is as sure as taxes and is alwaysj
a success and that is the crop of'
1 right healthy babies.
• i •.» ., ■ . i
Harry Ober has sold his launch to ;
William Thomas. Consideration un
i
known. j
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VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
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Regular Communications first We<1
uesday in each month in McKtiaev
Hall. Visitors always welcome a
F. M. BROWN. W. M
ED WOOD, Secretary.
SOLD BY UROOKRS
25c lb. Can.
CRK8UKNT MKG. OO.,
Seattle, Wash.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. H. GARNER. Preset.
Granite Mins
GUST KRING. Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.