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H. B. SELBY, Editor and Proprietor.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
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July 23. 1912. at the postofflce of V'aldem.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1917
NATURE’8 KINDLY LAW.
BEHOLD the child, by nature's kind
ly law
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with
a straw.
Some livelier plaything gives bis
youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite.
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper age.
And beads and prayer books are the toys
of age.
Pleased with this bauble still, as that be
fore.
Till tired he sleeps and life’s poor play
is o’er.
—Alexander Pope.
ARE WE BUNKED
The news that Seward is to be the
terminal of the government railroad
and that Expert Meyer had advised
against making a harbor at the Cook
Inlet town will be a hard blow to
those who have taken the govern
ment statement in good faith and
invested huge sums in town lots and
substantial buildings there. While
Anchorage is not a winter port, it
seeps possible that with the exercise
of the abundant ingenuity found in
the cabinet that it might be made a
first-class summer port. It certainly
should not present the perplexities
of the canal or the Mississippi delta,
and they were quickly overcome. Old
Alaskans have become gunshy over
the alleged Intentions of the govern
ment to build a large city on the In
let, or any other part of Alaska for
that matter, as there have been too
many evidences of land sharks and
town lot boomers to please the aver
age man. Every effort has been made
to Induce persons to purchase town
lots “from the government,” along
the railroad line, and while no verbal
promises have been given as to the
furure of the lots, it is natural that
people would rush to buy anything
with the stamp of government appro
val. If Anchorage proves to be a
“come-on" port, established for the
purpose of selling tundra to suckers,
it will hurt this territory immeasur
ably. Both Seward and Anchorage
have great natural advantages and
many claims for government patron
age. It is not our intent to present
argument for or against either town,
but if the reports coming in from the
westward are true, people who have
invested in certain railroad boom
towns stand to lose a great deal of
money, and they were induced to in
vest this money by government adver
tising.
A GREAT BLUNDER
The time when the world will be
ruled by roughnecks, as W. D. Hay
ward expresses it, appears to be ap
proaching rapidly, if one accepts the
newspaper reports of the activities of
the I. W. W., with even a liberal al
lowance for exaggeration. That the
Industrial Workers of the World I ave
been made a power is becoming pain
fully apparent. We say "made a pow
er" for the reason that the member
ship of the I. W. W. has been made by
newspaper reports of their activities
and by fool laws enacted by repre
eentatives of manufacturers and mine
owners.
For week after week with monoto
nous regularity the papers have
chronicled the deeds of this band of
workmen, giving them millions of
dollars worth of free advertising and
now congress is adding the capstone
by attempting to "regulate” against
the activities of this body, giving it
a great idea of its importance and
adding millions of recruits to the
ranks overnight. Around this little
known organization the reporter and
the editor have built their most lurid
stories. If a strike was called, a fac
tory burned, a murder committed, a
crop failure, a German plot, the I.
W. W.’s did it. The consequence is
that those three letters haunt every
man who has a grievance, real or im
aginary. They stare at them from ev
ery newspapre; they occur in every
conversation. Working men who have
a cause to complain think that a
cause so powerful as the I. W. W.’s
is touted to be a good thing to be
long to. Unconsciously they begin t»
addopt the ideas attributed to the I.
THE EMPRESS
TUESDAY EAGLE HALL 8 SHARP
Introductory Picture
of Fashion
THE EMPRESS CIRCUIT PRESENTS
THE STAGE BEAUTY
MARY BOLAND
with FRANK MILLS and WILLARD MACK in
“The Edge of The Abyss”
A FIVE PART TRIANGLE FEATURE
COMEDY
“Luke’s Fatal Flivver”
Thursday-Barbara Tennant in The PRICE of MALICE
Regular Admission - 25c
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
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W W.'« and the next day they are
bunting red cards. Tbelr minds are In
a receptive mood for competent agi
tators and the fat is on fire.
Such phrases as “syndicalism,"
"sabotage," "plutocrats," “scabs,"
“get all you produce,” and other
words can’t begin to flow smoothly
off the tongue. Imagination depicts
the capitalist class on the run and
the land flowing with milk and hon
ey. And the war is on.
Congress is making an egregious
blunder in noticing the I. W. W. by
making legislation against them. The
fact is that legislation has never
stopped anything. If it bad we would
be living in the age of the millen
nium. We should have no murders,
no divorces, no suicides, and prob
ably no existence, as every known
subject has at one time been legislat
ed against by notoriety-loving legis
lators. The human ego is so consti
tuted that by making known the fact
that a man cannot do a thing makes
him want to do it.
At one time the membership of the
I. W. W. bad petered out until it
could not muster a corporal’s gualrd.
Good times and high wages put the
agitators out of business. Then came
the recent calamitous catastrophe.
Prices jumped skyward, the working
men were pinched and the I. W. W.
ism sprang up like dragon’s teeth.
Every strike and every deportation
of strikers added thousands of mem
bers to the I. W. W. standard. And
now that a fool congress, with thous
ands of vital questions before it,
takes time to enact legislation against
this body, thereby bringing it into
greater prominence, we may look for
the membership to grow into millions
quickly. Had they been let alone and
not noticed they would have beeA" In
the garbage heap long ago.
NOW that investigations by the
Attorney General of Washington'hp^e
proven that the I. W. W. Situation
is not financed by Germany, and that
it has no bearing on the war other
than an economic one, what will be
the next step? Will the government
heed the mutterings of unrest among
the workingmen and ameliorate con
ditions by forcing the speculators to
release their grip upon the throats
of the nation, or will congress amuse
Itself over the question of pink gar
ters for rosy ladles, to the exclusion
of other vital legislation. Had the
food question been taken up and dis
posed of months ago, and a maximum1
price fixed on staples, much of this
unrest might have been suppressed;
but the only measure looking to the
relief in the matter of food supplies
up to last week, has been a bill fix
ing a “minimum price of two dollars
per bushel on wheat," with the maxi
mum apparently the blue sky. It
seems queer that men with brains
enough to acquire vast fortunes in
these times of keen competition can
not feel the trembling earth beneath
them. It is amazing that men able to
guage a man at a glance in a busi
ness capacity cannot accurately guage
the temper of the people. Now that
most of this talk about the activities
of the I. W. W. has turned out to
be a smoke screen to cover up the op
erations of malefactors what will be
done about it?
THE President is receiving much
expert advice from the arm-chair dip
lomats as to the successful way to
combat the submarine peril. The lat
est advice received from a prominent
officer is to destroy the submarine
bases. Which might be very good ad
vice but the question now arises as
to which nation is going to bell the
German cat.
PROPHECY is a great gift, but ev
en when it comes true the results are
not always desirable. Witness: A cer
tain man had a son born to him.
He said: I will give him a name that
will mean something. We will give
him the initials M. A. K. E„ for when
he grows up he will make money.
And the boy grew up and did make
money, he became a counterfeiter.
District Attorney W. N. Spence and
the other court officials will leave on
the Alameda for Seward to attend the
court session to be held there.
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To the Ladles of Valdez
For next 30 days, 75c per curl for
entire head of hair by latest Nestle
permanent method at the Vanitie
Shop. tf
Why Curl Your Hair Every Day?
Permanent, natural hair waving is
a great comfort to ladies with straight
stringy or oily hair. Not afTected by
water or fog. Vanitie Shop. tf
Lowney’s box Candles at Hunt’s
Candy Kitchen. tf
Nestle permanent wave gives sat
isfaction to ladles with thin hair, at
the Vanitie Shop. tf
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Outside Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths in Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Pisp
[LAUNCH della
£ Capt. H. L. Rider
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► Weekly trips from Valdex to
► Ellamar, Landlock, Fidalgo and
► way ports. Passengers landed
} at all points.
[ Carrying freight and passen
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J gers.
* For rates apply on board,
f CAPT. H. L. RIDER
When la Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
OEOROE SEXTON. PROF.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ats, Seward, Alaska
Ice cream every day, specials on
Sunday at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen, tf
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free aad Accepted Maaear
H«(uur Communications nrst Wso
uesday In each month In McKlnlej
HalL Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN, W. K
ED WOOD. Secretary.
WE PAY
Cast Iron 925 per ton.
Wrought Iron 918 per ton.
Copper 926 per ton.
Brass 918 per ton.
Lead 8Vic per pound.
Rubber 7He per pound.
Qt. Beer Bottles 27#c per doz.
Pint Beer Bottles 17Vi per doz.
Rags 92.50 per 100 pounds.
Paper 91-00 per 100 pounds.
Manila Rope 4 Vic per ponnd.
F. O. B. SEATTLE.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
1048 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly out of Valdes
will deliver passengers, mail, ex
press and fast freight at any
point on Prince William Sound.
RATES REASONABLE
Periodical service by agree
ment to outlying camps a spe
cialty.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Launch Patsy
(or Charter Anwyhere on
VALDEZ BAT
At any Time Day or Night
J. D. Jefferson
VALDEZ, ALASKA
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdaz Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, .in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Genet al Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
AUTOS FOR HIRK
DAT OR NIGHT
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. W1CK.ES MERRITT
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tilllkum Club.
Phone ’IB SSeKholer Street
Contract Burgeon, D. 8. Army
A. > Burgeon, U 8. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
GraAaale National University,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1898 *
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
(>■«* Opposite Conrt Hoose *
Phone S4 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS s K RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Oaecn la Whaling Balldlag
Phone 111 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU. ALASKA
Glnsses Fitted Lenses Ground
VALDEZHOSPITAL
Private Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVEUtAN. rv. C.. ■. 0. Fra*.
Jos. A. Silverman Pk. G. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Oifict bm~l ts 4 p. » —7 lilf. s.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 176 Office Tel. 19
Boyle Block Valdes
Candy Kitchen
L W. HUNT—la Owl Draf Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLO
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
Valdez Miners Unfon No. 188
WmUib FWtnbM aI Miatn *
W. M. CONLEY
V«Un *i‘—
CEOECE M. •Ayj^8qg»gr.