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under the. Act of of March 3. 1873.
For President—Charles Evans Hughes.
For Delegate to Congress—James Wickersham
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY ID. 1916.
FROM START TO FINISH.
There is a smattering of unwisdom in starting something
you cannot finish. j
Tliis is not exactly news, but it is well to have it dented
into the dome every now and then—lest we forget.
It hitches up with the principle of preparedness, of which
somewhat is being heard of late. Being prepared is one thing,
and thinking we are prepared and becoming correspondingly
rash is another.
There are degrees and differences of opinion concerning
preparedness. Almost the whole world is willing to concede
that the German military organization demonstrated prepar
edness down to the ultimate thought, yet there are plenty hard
headed Teutons who grudgingly take off their liats to the un
forseen. They admit that there are wads and bunches of pre
paration that they overlooked. Efficiency and self-confidence
do not always pull together as a matched team.
The average careless American thinks that if he has $4 in
the bank and a shotgun in bis home lie is prepared for any
thing, from a visit of the stork to a visit of the Mikado’s
army.
He is a marvel of confidence and assurance, and he illus
trates it in his belief with a notorious Nebraskan that the coun
try could raise an army of a million men over night and start
them to the coast in huzzwagons. It is only in America that
such a dreamer could rise to the control of the nation’s foreign
policies.
upon a very mmsy lunii ui prepaiauuu &ume niut-uran^
are likely to start something whose finish they may aoL even
guess. An almost careless disregard of consequences is be
coming a national trait. A young man will take him a wife on
twenty-four hours’ acquaintance, or lay down a lifetime job at
the wired request of some agitator he has never seen and who
never wants to see him. He will buy him a costly car if he has
the price of an installment in his possession. He will. stretch
his credit to the bursting point on the theory that today he will
live and tomorrow can take care of itself. His creed is eat,
drink and be merry, for we’ll be a long time dead.
With a very small degree of preparation, the Amreican
spirit is apt to start something really serious, only to fall down
at the finish. In carrying out a policy of preparedness there
should therefore be no half-way measures. The program
should go to the extent of the most advanced thought. Let the
admitted authorities dominate the situation. The belligerent
man who thinks he can lick the world with a pair of brass
knuckles is a dangerous citizen, for he not only makes strife
for himself, but draws in his neighbor—and both are apt to be
licked.
It is comparatively easy to start things—a flirtation, a
business, or a war, but in the starting some thought should lie
taken of the probable or possible finish.
A preparation which merely inspires confidence may prove
more harm than good, for confidence sometimes begets reck
lessness, and then danger comes.
A LOT OF NONSENSE.
M . A. Gilmore, one of the delegates to the recent republi
can convention at Chicago from Alaska, has returned to his
home in Seattle, and in defending his claim that he is a resi
dent of Alaska, he is quoted as saying that his only income
bearing property is in Alaska, which according to him, con
stitutes his right to be an Alaskan. What a lot of nonsense
coming from a man of Mr. Gilmore’s intelligence! Conclu
sively, he must think we are all fools and that anything be
may say or do will be accepted. Because a man has a few
shares in a bank, it does not necessarily follow that he is a di
recto.1:. In law, the intention is to reside in Seattle. His ac
tion proves that. However, if the law now in force in such a
matter can be construed to favor Mr. Gilmore, it is about time
it should be changed. For Alaskans to be governed by offi
cials at Washington, 1). C., should be sufficient without hav
ing meddlers in Seattle.-—Ketchikan Progressive-Miner.
EMPLOYMENT FOR THE IDLE MEN.
I lie Alas.zan Engineering Commission is today advertising
ior seventy-five additional laborers to he used in construction
work, which is to be rushed forth as rapidly as material and
men are available. rI he employment of these extra men is only
a forerunner of the number that will be added to the pay roll of
the government railroad from this time forward. The fact
that the help needed could not easily be secured is a refutation
ot the statement made in so many Alaska newspapers that An
chorage is overcrowded wph idle men. Recently a cannery
man from along the coa '\d here and he too was unable
to hire all the men desi nig is a healthy condition for any
community and especi lew camp where so many people
flock in the hope of fir 0 something to do.
“The Store That Has What Voii Want—When You Want It.”
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
Vo! 1. No. 6.
JULY 18th
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
4th and I>
It' is to your advantage to do youi
drug and sundry buying from us. We
carry the best of everything in our
drug store at the most reasonable
prices. A lady told us yesterday that
we charged her less for filling her pre
scription than a drugstore in Seattle
and she wondered how we could do
it. The reason is obvious. We want
her and your permanent patronage.
By buying in large quantities for
two drug stores we save considerable
and we all benefit thereby.
“Good enough” is not good enough
for the man who would make his
mark.
The Importance of Drug Plant Culti
vation in the United States.
The present European conflict has
done much toward awakening the
spirit of initiative on the part of
Americans, not only in investigating
an economic means for the manufac
ture of dyestuffs and various chemi
cals previously alone carried on by
the Germans, but also in stimulating
research along the important line of
drug cultivation. More than one-half
of our most important crude drugs
and their products come from foreign
sources. Before the war these were
in regular commerce, and efforts at
cultivation, mostly experimental,
were confined to the U. S. department
of agriculture, a few interested teach
ers and several pharmaceutical hou
ses like H. K. Mulford & Co., Parke
Davis & Co., and Squibb. Now that
importation of drug plants has practi
cally ceased, their cultivation in this
country is necessary.
(To be continued in a few days.)
My Partner in Crime.
Even as I write this, and always as
I write, I hold in my hand my most
willing servant and loyal friend. You
may say he is not much in appearance
to justify such a eulogy. You might
! also add disparagingly that “he is on
| ly a fountain pen, after all,” and in
! the exact meaning of the words you
are right. My most willing servant
j and loyal friend is only a fountain
i pen. As he is such a downright hon
! est chap to the last drop of ink in
his vulcanite body, I have never
known him to claim to be more than a
fountain pen throughout his long
working life. Also, and this is quite
as important, I have never known-him
to act as if he were anything ^ess
than a fountain pen. Like all good
unassuming craftsmen, he is content
with his place in the scheme of
things. He does not claim to be a j
printing press or a typewriter. He |
just calls himself a Waterman’s Ideal
Fountain Pen, and in this capacity he
has served me in such a way that
makes me believe he is the best foun
tain pen on earth. (You will find his
equal in Loussac’s Drug Store.)
The “Ansco" camera is used by all
discriminating and expert photogra
phers as well as by thousands of am
ateurs throughout the country. The
pictures taken by an “Ansco” tell
their own story.. If you drop in to
see us we will gladly show you sam
ples of pictures taken by the different
Ansco cameras. Also we will present
you with a copy of their catalogue
for 1916.
It Will Surely Please Them.
To be remembered—you have to re
member.
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A
United States Interests Are Solely In Peace
and Its Future Guarantees
By President WOODROW WILSON
IF it should ever be our privilege to suggest or initiate a movement for
peace among the nations now at war I am sure that the people of the
United States would wish their government to move along these
lines:
First.—Such a settlement with regard to their own immediate inter
ests as the belligerents may agree upon.
WE HAVE NOTHING MATERIAL OF ANY KIND TO ASK FOR OUR
SELVES AND ARE QUITE AWARE THAT WE ARE IN NO SENSE OR
DEGREE PARTIES TO THE PRESENT QUARREL. ,
Our interests are only in peace and its future guarantees.
Second.—A universal association of the nations to maintain the in
violate security of the highway of the seas for the common and unhin
dered use of all the nations of the world and to prevent any war begun
either contrary to treaty covenants or without warhing and full submis
sion of the causes to the opinion of the world—A VIRTUAL GUAR
ANTEE OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND POLITICAL IN
DEPENDENCE^_
Average College Student Indifferent to
World Activities
2?y Professor DAVID LEE CLARK, University of Maine
DURING the last three or four years I have given generai informa
tion tests to my Students, including freshmen, sophomores, jun
iors and seniors to ascertain to what extent the average under
graduate is an intelligent reader of daily papers, weeklies and monthly
magazines and if possible to create an interest in current events
In 1915 I submitted a general information test of one hundred ques
tions to mv students, WITH THE RESULT THAT OUT OF SEV
ENTY STUDENTS TEN ANSWERED THIRTY PER CENT.
THE GENERAL AVERAGE WAS BELOW TWELVE PER CENT.
What is the inevitable conclusion? It is that the average under
graduate is grossly ignorant of and indifferent to the activities of the
world. What, then, are we to expect of the college man as a citizen ?
And, after all, is not an enlightened citizenship the end of education for
the average man ?
Here, indeed, is a problem for the college to reckon with.
IT IS NO LOCAL PROBLEM; IT IS NOT LIMITED TO ANY SECTION
OF THE COUNTRY OR TO ANY KIND OF COLLEGE.
Southern Republics Rely on United States
THE United States in the beginning of 1914 wa^ moving toward the
position of an industrial and financial world power. The advent
of the war precipitated this development with unparalleled rapidity
and to an unprecedented degree. AS A RESULT OUR EVOLUTION
FROM A MERE AGRICULTURAL AND BORROWING COMMU
NITY INTO A GREAT AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND
LENDING POWER HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
While our own economic status has thus been established, the
wealthiest countries of Europe have been destroying their saving power
at the rate of approximately eighty-five million dollars a day.
The present world crisis has brought home to South America most
forcibly the necessity of never again being found dependent exclusively
upon the ships, credit or good will of Europe to reach their markets.
They feci themselves at one with us in this respect, for it is for our
own protection as well as theirs that the stars and stripes must fly over a
mercantile fleet large enough to insure the independence of the trade of
this hemisphere.
THEY, FURTHERMORE, TRUST OUR OWN FINANCIAL EMANCIPA
; TION WILL 6e AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN 8ECURINQ GREATER
FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE TO THEM.
“By PAUL M. WARBURG, of Federal Reserve System
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ALASKA’S FINEST THEATRE
THE THEATRE
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The largest and most substantial reinforced concrete building
in Alaska; beautifully finished and decorated; furnished with the
latest and best equipment, in which screen features are selected to
satisfy all.
EMPRESS
Tonight, Wednesday, July 19
Five Shows in One
COUNT THEM
A Selig Wild Animal Drama, ‘THE JAGUAR TRAP,”
A Comedy of the West, “Cactus Jim’s Shop Girl.”
Romaine Fielding, Featured in, “From Champion to Tramp” (2 reels!
A Laugh-Provoking Comedy, “Cutey’s Sister,” Featuring Cissy Fitz
gerald, Nitra Frazer and Garry McGarry; Closing With ‘The
Fable of the Home Treatment and the Sure Cure.”
TWO SHOWS: 7:30 AND 9:30. ADMISSION 25c.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
July 20 and 21st.
MARIE DRESSLER
In a Six-Reel Side-Splitting Keystone Comedy
“Tillie’s Punctured Romance’'
Supported By
Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand
Regular Admission 25c, Children 10c
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