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fi. B. SELBY. Editor *»d troprirtor.
VALDES. ALASKA
Published Dally Eacppt Sunday
Entered as Second-Claaa Mall Matter,
Julv 23. 1312. at the postofflce of Valdes.
Alaska, under act or March 3. Hi A
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1917
ENGLAND.
A PEOPLE’S vote*' W* arc a peo
ple yet.
Though nil man elae their nobler
dreams forget.
Confused by brainless mobs and
lawless powers;
Thank him who Isled us here and roughly
set
Hie Savon In blown eeas and storming
showers
'We have • voice with which to pay the
debt
Of boundless love and revenge and regret
To tfipse great man who fought and kept
If ours
And keep It ours. O God from the brute
control;
O statesmen, guard ue. guard the eye, the
soul
Of Europe; keep our noble England whole
And save the one true seed of freedom
sown
Betwixt a people and their ancient throne,
That sober freedom out Of which there
springs
Our loval passion for our temperate kings.
For, saving that, ye help to s;ivt mankind
Till public wrong be crumbled Into dust
And drill the raw world for the march of
mind
TUI crowds at length be sane and crown*
be Just
—Tennyson’s “Ode on the Death of Wel
lington."
GERMANY BANKRUPT
Germany, according to the British
chancellor of the exchequer, has pass
ed votes of credit since the beginning
of the war amounting to approximate
ly $23,500,000,000, and her national
revenues have been Increased by
$942,000,000. The British chancellor
nays there are indications that Ger
income lacks $275,000,000 annually
of being sufficient to pay the interest
on her war debt, notwithstanding that
many will be rendered ‘‘hopelessly
bankrupt” by the war.
Great Britain, although a much
richer nation thpn Germany, has a to
tal national debt of between $24,
500,000,000 an<t $25,000,000,000, mi
nus $5,000,000,000 advanced to the
allies and $«00,0'00,000 to dominions
The net increase in England’s debt,
due to the war, is $15,000,000,000.
The impression bas pone abroad
superficially that Germany, by some
magic or legerdemain, has been fin
ancing the war without suffering a
strain on her financial resources, but
tf»e truth is the very opposite. The
money of the German people has been
turned over and over and all they
have in return is “promise.” The gov
ernment has been abfe to barrow or
buy little abroad. Consequently it is
living within itself to a very great
extent. It may go bankrupt before
the war ends, but the mortgage will
be held by its oWh people, and no
doubt that is one reason why they
cUng to' the possibility of victory—to
ms#e the enemy pay Mils vast debt.
: The experience the war has
shown that posts increase In direct
ratio as the struggle proceeds. The
war cost to England today is nearly
twice that it the beginning: The Am
erican people,; dprihg \»e first year
i of the u;ar, w(Ut jcxpepd something
like' IIMOO.OOO.OOO—a considerable
part of yThich will be lognecl to tlie
allies—and it may be expected that
the outgo will be largely Increased
during the ensuing fiscal year.
In vlCiv Of tbe Increased strain on
the world’s fipapees and of the-desper
ate situation in which the German
government already finds Itself It
does not seem to be a wld prediction
that Andrew Bonar Law has made
regarding the probable condition of
bankruptcy which w}U prevail in Ger
many when the war ends.
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AT LAST aocounts Hi Gill still
holdB the fort, with the enemy bring
ing up Its heavy‘artillery on horse
and foot. He Is too strongly jentrench
ed with ballots for his opponents to
get him out short of a platoon of In
fantry.
THANKSGIVING passed off quiet
ly in Valdes. If anyone suffered for
anythin*.to eat the fact was not ,brot
to the attention of the authorities.
While the day was too blustery for
pur people to pon about p»tb> 4
large crowd attended the da*ee 4»d
bazaar at Moose H*U in the evening
and had a most pleasant time.
THE appointment of Royal A. Gun
nison. a prominent republican at Ju
neau, as food commissioner for Al
l asks. Is but another club to be used
by the opponents to the admlniatrur
tion when the time comes. While
Judge Gunnison is a good man for the
position a short search would have
found a democrat equally as good.
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HAVE you examined your stove
pipe and insured yourself and your'
neighbors against fire the first cold
day?
VALDEZ has some of the health
iest children in the 'country, as evi
denced by tbe way they stand the cli
mate.
CANNERY TEN PER
FROM ALASKA MISSING
SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—Fears are en
tertained here tor the safety of the
overdue cannery tender Minnie H.,
of the Kodiak Fisheries company,
which left Kodiak islapd in the Gulf
of Alaska October 27 for Seattle and
which has not been beard from since.
Eight mpp were aboard the boat. Spon
after she. left a etqrm swept the gulf.
Yesterday a wireieps, message was
sent the the steamer Admiral Evans,
asking if anything had been seen of
tbe Minnie H.
PRINCE OF WALKS
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Nov.
30.—The presence of the Prince of
Wales at the Italian front already
has bad a most pleasant effect on
Italians.
The prince, with his simple, unaf
fected and genial ways, seems to them
the embodiment of England’s sympa
thy. The fact that the king of En
gland did not hesitate to send his eld
I 6Rt son to the ItalUin battle line is
convincing proof that England and
her rulers are confident that Italy
will be able to successfully withstand
j the forces of the central empires.
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| THRIFT WAR STAMPS
TO BF SOU) TO PFOPLF
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 30.—■
Treasury officials 1.oday are mapping
plans for the newly announced cam
paign to gather for war purposes two
billion dollars of small savings with
in a year, beginning December 3, thru
selling thrift stamps and war asvings
certificates.
In Virtually every bank, postofflce,
railroad station, school and retail
store in the country these stamps will
be placed on sale, for the double pur
pose of encouraging the saving habit
and obtaining money in small sums
not available through sale of Liberty
I bonds.
Three men with a dog team left
Gulkana yesterday for Tonsina.
FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE
WHIP the ^meripen Y, M. C. uH je
tton yvpp visiting the Italian front the
other 'day an AUetflhn Shell fell elhae
to the party,-or.e of which was Francis
Bowes 8ayre, son-in-law of President
Wlto*. One member of .the mission
wad slightly WoUded.' 1 ! 1
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CHICKENS FOR EMPTY CANS
Trading ef piguh^ Tina and MUn
far Paad la mhAim In Thibet,
Tai^fTRaparU.
Bringing wltfi h|m an extensile col*
lection of kb#II mammals, reptilea and
birds, Roy 0. Andrews, head of the
Asiatic zoological. expedition, baa ar
rived In New York, after a year and
a half In the remote provinces of
Cbina.
The ex|teditlon spent much of the
time in the inountulns of Yunnan and
progressed as far as Thlljet. Mr. An-,
draws': adventures Included (everything
from hunting ‘‘hliie" tigers to buying
chickens at the rate of two for one
empty condensed milk can.
Politically China Is in a chaotic .
state, Mr. Andrews reports, as most of
the. provinces are (jo (ar yeraoved from
the central government at Peking that
any change of authority does not
make itself felt. Socially, be declares.
It Is overrun with bandits, moat of
whom are yevnitts from the army., Ac-,
cording lo Mr. Andrews, there la no
great moral difference between a Chi
nese common soldier and a bandit.
: In many places he found traffic by
w#ter Impossible because the army has
a habit‘Of using small river boat* for
tayget practice.
JThe expedition found the border of
Thibet an Ideal place to live la. food
may be bought with old bottles and
cans. There are plenty of aervgnts
and no rumor of the war has PUB*
trated that far.
40VIE OF HQOEWN BOOKWORM
Student W*uld Net Be Inftugqcfd by
Any Plcasuree the World Could
Qfffr Him.
Now behold the student coming up
thy etreftl He If Kind In.rubber end
shining black. 'He Is U>U> of shank ns
becomes a scholar. He .sags with
knowledge. He hungers fpr wisdom.
He comes opposite the bofk Shop. It
Is hut coquetry thet his eyes seek tbs
window of the tobacconist. His
you may he sure, looks through the
buttons at his back.
At last he turns. Charles 8. Brooks
writes In Vale Review. Us pauses
on the curb. Now desire has Hutched
him. He Jingles his trousered shil
lings. He treads the gutter. Hs squints
upon the rack. He lights qpon s
treasure. He plucks It forth. He
Is unresolved whether to buy It or to
spend the extra shilling on his dinner.
Now all you cooks together, to save
your huslness rattle your pans y> rouse j
him! If within these ancient' build- ;
Ings there are onions ready peeled— ,
quick!—throw them In the skillet that i
the whiff may come beneath his nose! i
Chance trembles and casts 1U vote—
eenle nieenle—down goes the shilling |
—he has bought the hook. Tonight he \
will spread it beneath his candle. Feet ;
may beat u snare of pleasure ou the .
pavement, glad cries may pipe across
the darkness, a fiddle may scratch It*
Invitation—all the rumbling notes of I
midnight traffic will tap tn vain their j
summons upon his window.
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18-Cylinder Engine.
By leaps and bounds the stationary
type alrplaue engines are Increasing
in power rating In the stern competi
tion betweeeu the central powers and
the allied nations. In Kngland Louis
Coatulen has been doing commendable
work aloug those lines, aud among bis j
latest products Is the iB-cyllnder Sun- ]
beain-Catalen engine, which develops
475 brake horse power, and has no
fewer than half a dozen magnetos and
an equal number of carburetors, b#>*
the Scientific American. The Arrange
ment of the c.vlluder.s la Interesting:
Twelve of the "cyllptJeja are arranged
as In the usual twlu-u!x practice, while
the reniHlhlng six are arranged in the j
upper waiter, forming what la styled |
the "broad arrow" type.
Tee Susy to Help.
Even in war time* a heroine la often
without Influence 4n her ow* hppe
tows, writes* correspondent. A JAW
women iMiffi ***« V»‘ * PW^,
tire *i>d offered her service# to her
country. She Is mow nursing “Jackies" j
In a naval hospital, fciid, finding liew
mnfh pleasure the convaleecuate take
in mneic. she wrote home to her fa
tfeer to put a notice Id the local paper
asking for records If anyone had dupil
oates or discards. • . .
i It la .a plpre of about d.QQp Inhabit- (
aqta. but j pot one record did age re
ceive .Id answer to her.appeal.
"Probably they are all top busy with
war work.” she commented, humor
ously.
China la on Guard.
While China has not provided for
the Internment of Germans and Aus
trians, even those of military sge, all
fttUia* of the central .powers are re
quired to register add are forblddea to
travel. They may engage lo peaceful
occupations with Ohloa’e permlaalon.
The mildness of the regulating created
some comment among foreigners, but
Chinese officials replied to such criti
cism by sajthg they Cklaed the German
bonks add a re (Halting the activities
of Germans and Austrians even more
than the United States and Jnpan are.
I.saves It to Audience.
One of the small Paris theaters bn*
set about proving that dramatic critics
are gpt Infallible. Every evening be
fore the rlto 6t the cartoln on an ad- j
| Tersely cridcHed' hoc oo leas success
til plirp, the Irate manager anxarp.
bearing a buodlA of. uemgpapwa, from
which he reads the choicest condemn*
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Copyright Bart Sehafftter it Mai*
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You men are not satisfied
with cheapness. If you were
yuu’d be wearing denim trous
ers and canvas coats, and you
wouldn’t worry at all about the
quality.
You want quality, the
highest kind of quality; you’ll
get it here—guaranteed.
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We’ll guarantee you com
plete satisfaction with every
. thing you buy at this store.
You’ll get Hart Schaffner
ft Marx all-wool clothes. You
will like the style; you will like
the fit; you will like the price.
You will be completely satis
fied.
You’ll get the most value
for your money in our furnish
ing goods; hats, neckwear and
. all.
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The home of Hart Schaffner and Marx Clothes
PRO-GRHMAN KILIMS
AMKIUCAN WOMAN
POUT ARTHUR, Texas, Nov. 30.—
Following an argument over the war.
Mrs. Manuel Brown, was shot and
killed Sunday at her home in the
presence of her husband. George Pat
rick was ai rested and taken to Beau
mont by automobile today for safe
keeping. Three loads of enraged citi
zens are said to have followed the au
tomobile toward Beaumont, but did
i.ot overtake it. Paitrick, whoyis alleg
ed to have done the shooting is said
to have taken the side of Germany,
and became enraged at Mrs. Brown’s
position.
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TURKEYS
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Fresh killed turkeys, never keen
frozen. Get one for Thanksgiving at
Love-Whltley’s. tf
Valdez Uliats Qalan Ro. 188
Whim P«dmVM of Mtor*
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■ V. M. CONLEY j
! GEORGE M. ' '
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Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdes to
Ellamar, Land^ock, FMalgo sad
way poets. Passengers loaded
at all potato. /
Carrying freight a ad passes*
gers.
For rates apply on board.
OAPT. H. L. RIDER
XE. WU-SON
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in tli* third dmainn.
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Buy your groceries direct. Save
fifteen to twenty-five per cent. The
house that sells direct to consumers.
Randall Grocery & Brokerage Co.,
Inc., 82 Marlon gt., Seattle Wn. tf
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Pririu Room*
Term* RewoMbl*
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Jos. A. wiherau PL G.M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SUBGBON
Otn Ww «1 ti 41. ■ —7 U S p. a.
• SusiUy by Appointment
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Special Rates by the Week or Month
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NIONE'iU MM. STRING, ft*
THE SOUTHERN
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Nice. Clean Booms
j 4 po*heatlon
PRICES REASONABLE
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i.' I - Seward Alaska \
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public's '
PKOKKSSlORAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRJTT
Ofljcea in Plato Bulbllo*. adjoining
TllUknm Club.
Pbone BO. McKlaler Street.
Contract Surgeon. O. S. Army
A. > Burgeon, U S Public Health Ser»
(Marine Hospital)
DR. R COCKER1LLE
University
DENTIST
in Valdes Since 1*98
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