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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1915.
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TWO KINDS OF CODDLING.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, pure food
advocate, lias a notion or two out
side the field of drug poisoning well
worth mentioning. “To cure a cold,”
he says, “take a bottle of cough med
icine, set it on a table in the pati
ent’s room, open all the windows and
throw the bottle through one of
them.”
“Three-quarters of the children who
die,” he says further, “are killed by
love. Love is the greatest assassin
of childhood.” Coddling he depre
cates as a practice hurtful to the de
velopment of boys and girls into
healthy, useful manhood and woman
hood.
The doctor, doubtless, is speaking
primarily of foods and the use of
drugs and medicines. But the sub
ject goes much further. Coddling
does not necessarily involve the use
of either.
There is needed on every hand a
better appreciation of the value of
hard knocks. A child whose pathway
is smoothed through early life has
missed a valuable source of training;
he has been deprived of the privilege
of a discipline which, in all proba
bility, his parents had in full meas
ure, though they may have forgotten
it.
It is mistaken kindness to play
Montessori to every childish com
plaint. Call it love, if you will; it is
not real love, but an erroneous ap
plication of gentleness. In all direc
tions are evidences of the need of a
sterner discipline—not an unkind,
Spartan-like insistence on the forms
of obedience, but a paternal and ma
ternal demand that regulations es
tablished for the control of us all
shall not be broken down by default
of effort to see them maintained.
Coddling is at the bottom of school
"strikes.” A pupil who knows that
the discipline of his teachers will be
upheld at home is not likely to lead
a "strike” nor follow one far. The
boy who makes it unpleasant for his
teacher seldom is called to account
for making it unpleasant for his
mother. In the training of childhood
to meet the obligations of a life
which knows no Montessori system,
the home and the school must stand
together, or both will fail.
There are two kinds of coddling.
To one impure drugs have no rela
tion. Dr. Wiley is right whether he
meant one or both of them.—Ex.
CELEBRATING GHASTLY
SLAUGHTERS.
When one reflects upon what it
means to sink a modern battleship
—the carrying down of close to a
thousand men with hardly more
chance for their lives than has a
trapped rat when dropped into a pad
of water—it gives more than excuse
for professing surprise that any civil
ized people should rejoice over such
a victory and celebrate it with songs
and cheers, the waving of flags and
the setting off of fireworks.
Yet just such rejoicings occur in
one country or another after every
naval victory—which is also, of
course, a naval defeat—and even the
fellow-citizens of the drowned sailors
seem to feel sorrow rather than hor
ror, and are moved to no such angry
determination to punish somebody as
followed the sinking of the Titanic.
But the difference is not inexplic
able The men who perish in these
dreadful, and always unfair, combats,
are the objects of little or no ani
mosity as individuals; their courage
and their devotion to what is called
"duty” prevent that; yet it is realiz
ed that what was done to them they
would have gladly done to “the en
emy,” and when we happen ourselves
to be that “enemy” we cannot be ex
pected to mourn their fate or to re
frain from rejoicing over it.
Pertinent to these reflections, per
haps, is the fact that in modern na
val war victory is not a matter of
skill in manouvrlng, as it so largely
was in the past, or of heroic persist
ence in fighting against odds. In
stead, It depends on mere thlckBess
of armor and weight of cannon. The
stronger fleet or ship always wins.
the weaker always loses. A fine busi
ness, truly, war on the sea has come
to be.—Ex.
AMATEUR WAR OPERATIONS
Militarism has swept over the
peaceful hamlet of Otis, Me., and as a
result of war ravages Elmer and Clar
ence Soper have been ordered to pay
an indemnity of $8.98 to the district
school board.
The war operations were caused Dy
the boys reading about aviation ex
ploits in France and Germany. Why
shouldn’t they, too, drop bombs from
aeroplanes. They made a whopping
big box kite 'and manufactured a
bomb consisting of an old tomato can
loaded with powder, slugs, latch keys,
bolts and screws and carrying a time
fuse. There was an ingenious ar
rangement to release the bomb from
the aeroplane by a sudden slacken
ing of the strain on the kite string.
Their strategic plans involved the
destruction of an abandoned shack in
the Soper meadow. The calculations
were all right,, but somehow the
bomb dropped prematurely and land
ed squarely in the school house chim
ney, which the boys couldn’t have
hit in a million years if they had
tried. So they aver, anyhow.
School was not in session, so there
were no non-combatants hurt. All
the bomb did was to blow the top
off the chimney, knock down the
stovepipe, fill the school room full of
ashes and soot and smash a picture
of Abraham Lincoln. But it all goes
to show where the military spirit will
land us if we don't watch out.—Ex.
It is estimated that the Colorado
strike cost $ 18,000,000. What can t
ever be estimated is the rest of the
bill.
BASEBALL TRUST
TO BE BROKEN
Federal League Attacks National Com
mission and Charges Violation
of the Sherman Law.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—The Federal
League today filed suit in the feder
al court here asking for the dissolu
tion of the National BaseballCommis
sion, claiming that the commission is
violating the anti-trust law and is a
trust in restraint of trade.
For many years the baseball mag
nates have feared that a suit similar
to the one filed today would be start
ed. The contracts with the men have
been considered worthless and only
by means of the blacklist and the
ability to prevent a player from play
ing with any club have magnates been
able to deal with the players.
If the suit started today is suc
cessful the club owners claim that it
means the end of organized baseba'l i
as the players can quit one team at
any time and play with another, thus
breaking the teams and the leagues
will be powerless to enforce its con
tracts.
UAL! PREPARING
TO JOIN ALLIES
(Continued from page 1.)
tents. The explosion which resulted
killed 100 people, mostly troops guard
ing the warehouse. The loss to the
British will be heavy as it takes sev
eral months to manufacture the
smokeless powder now used by the
belligerents.
Frerfch Nearing Rhine.
LONDON, Jan 5.—The French
army is now 30 miles from the Rhine
in Alsace. Further advances are re
ported all «along the line, especially
since the fall of Steinback, a border
town in the Vosges mountains which
for months prevented the French ad
vance but finally fell after a terrific
artillery duel followed by the charge
of the French Alpine troops.
Germans Fighting To Take Warsaw.
PETROORAD, Jan. 5—The German
troops in central Poland are mak
ing another desperate attempt to
reach Warsaw by a direct attack.
The fighting is reported along the
Bzura and Rawka rivers and has been
in progress for some time. The loss
es of life on both sides when known
will appall the world. The Russians
have frequently resorted to bayonet
charges upon the Germans after they
have been cut up by the machine
and field guns fire. The Russians now
allow the Germans to reach nearly to
the Russian trenches subjecting thein
all the time to a terrific fire from
the concealed machine guns and the
field batteries; when the Germans
are near the trenches the Russians
jump out and pounce upon the ex
hausted attacking force with the bay
onet and the loss of life has been
very heavy. All assaults have been
repulsed.
Denmark Guards Food Imports.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—According to a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Central
News the government has ordered all
Danish ‘mporters of foodstuffs from
America to deposit bills of lading and
orders showing the disposal of these
cargoes, with a view of preventing
any export of food to Germany.
Cruiser Australia At Callao.
CALLAO, Peru, Jan. 5.—The Aus
tralian batKJe cruiser Australia ar
rived here last evening.
Wants the Submarines.
LONDON, Jan. b.—The decision of
the Washington government against
the shipment of submarines in parts
is the subject of conferences at Wash
ington between Ambassador Spring
Rice and Secretary Bryan. The Brit
ish government does not agree with
the American interrelation that the
exportation of submarines in parts is
a violation of neutrality. It is not
understood, however, that any form
al protest has been made. On the
contrary, the representations are said
to have been of the most informal
character. There is no indication here
whether Washington will alter its de
cision.
400 Lost On Friedrich Karl.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 5.—The admir
alty now confirms the report of the
sinking by the Baltic squadron re
cently of the German cruiser Fried
rich Karl. Two-thirds of the crew
were lost, fewer than 200 being sav< d.
A Petrograd report (unofficial) on
Dec. 17 stated that tDe Friedrich Karl
had been sunk “during a recent sor
tie in the Baltic.” Previous reports
said that the cruiser had struck a
mine.
The “sortie” referred to took place
late in November, when the Russian
Admiral von Essen caused several
of his cruisers and destroyers to be
painted like the German ships. Fly- ,
ing German colors, they joined a |
squadron of the enemy returning to
Kiel from a raid in the Gulf of Fin
land. Too late the Germans identi '
fled them. As a result a Petrograd 1
dispatch of Nov. 27 said that the “in
juries, in some cases, were so ser
ious that the vessels actually sank
in the canal.” 1
The Friedrich Karl was an armor- ’
ed cruiser built at Hamburg in 1903, ’
and having a displacement of 9,060 *
tons, a speed of twenty-one knots, and 1
an originally placed battery in two 1
turrets and “en barbette,” which en- s
abled her to fire a broadside of four <
8.2-inch, five 6-inch guns, five 15.5 1
pounders, and five 1-pounders, while !
astern or ahead she could train two <
of the big guns and four of the next !
in size. The complement of the !
Friedrich Karl was about 600 men. i
Harvey’s Toggery Retiring From i
Business.
We are closing out our entire stock
below cost. Fixtures for sale. tf
Who’s Who In Europe’s War
Photo by American Press Association.
WILLIAM II., German emperor, baa been called tbe war lord ot Europe
At tbe outbreak of tbe war between Austria and Servla be at once
served notice that Germany would back Austria. This ultimatum sent
peace ambassadors scurrying all over Europe to prevent what It was agreed
would be tbe most terrible conflict In tbe history of tbe world.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
F. McDonald is up from Port
Wells.
T. Taylor brought in two goats from
Wortman’s yesterday.
Supt. W. R. Millard arrived yester
day from the Granite mine with a
brick of gold worth $12,000.
Remington and 5mitn Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
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Surveys In Alaska
Since systematic work was begun
by the United States Geological Sur
vey in exploring and mapping the
mineral resources of Alaska, in 189$,
the Survey has covered by explora
tory geologic surveys 72,000 square
miles, by reconnaissance geologic
surveys 96,000 square miles, and by
detailed geologic surveys 4,071 square
miles. During the same period to
pographic exploratory surveys have
covered 51,000 square miles, topo
graphic reconnaissance surveys 113,
P00 square miles, and detailed topo
graphic surveys 3,642 square miles.—
Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Di
rector, United States Geological Sur
vey.
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Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 5, 1915.
STATION Above Below Snow, In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
McCallum . 0 18 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Hogan . 13 12 Cloudy, calm, trail open.
Gulkana . 6 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center _ .4 10 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonsina . 10 20 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Teikhell . 7 17 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Beaver Dam . 3 , 25 Cloudy, calm, trail open.
Summit . 20 40 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Wort man’s . 30 26 Clear, calm, trail fair.