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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917.
HOOVER’S GOIN’ TO GET YOU.
The darned old Hoover pledge has come to our house to stay;
To frown our breakfast bacon down, and take our steak away;
ft cans our morning waffles, and our sausage, too, it seems,
And dilates on the succulence of com, and spuds and beans.
So skimp the sugar in your cake and leave the butter out,
Or Hoover’s goin’ to get you if you" t
Don’t ' * -T" ’ * T
' Watch
f#*- £ *£▼’' Out!
Oh, gone now are the good old days of hot cakes thickly spread;
And meatless, wheatless, hopeless days are reigning in their
stead;
And gone the days of fat rib roasts and two-inch T-Bone
steaks,
And doughnuts plump and golden brown, the kind that mother
makes.
And when it comes to pie and cake, just learn to cuit it out,
Or Hoover’s goin’ to get you if you
Don’t
Watch
Out!
So spread your buckwheats sparingly, and peel your taters thin;
And tighten up your belt a notch and don’t forget to grin.
And if, sometimes, your whole soul yearns for shortcake high
and wide,
And biscuits drenched with honey, and chicken butter friend,
Remember then that Kaiser Bill is short on sauerkraut,
And Hoover’s goin’ to get him if we’ll
All
Help
-Out!
NEW FEDERAL BUILDING
With the passage by con
gress of the bill appropriating
$64,500 for Cordova’s new fed
eral building it is confidently
expected that work will begin
on this structure in the spring.
There has already been appro
bated $34,500 for this pur
pose and as the government
has perfected its title to the
thirteen h>ts donated by the
Cordova Townsite company
for federal purposes and the
site surveved nothing should
stand in the way of the new
court house and postoffice
building being rushed to com
pletion.
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TRANSPORTING TROOPS.
When the story of the war
is told in the future it will be
interesting to read the details
of the manner in which the
American expeditionary forces
have to date been transported
to France with no disaster.
When one considers that no
transports were available and
all the vessels had to be furn
ished hv foreign powers or
comm and'H'red from American
morehantmcnt, or from those
of int°rned enemy ships, the
record thus far made is truly a
notable one and reflects credit
upon the unknown men direct
ing the great movement. When
it is considered that these
troop c’’ips have passed
through 1110 war zone, carrying
thousands of men and as many
more annuals and tons of car
go, the fact that we have yet
to hear a report of one notable
disaster is in itself a striking
illustration of the success of
the movement. The port of de
parture, the .number of men
the name of the ship, have in
variablv been censored and
one only conjecture as to the
extent of the movement, but it
is safe to sav that many thous
ands have already been safely
transported, and during the
next year our new army of a
million or more will set sail for
France, and it is a foregone
conclusion that they too will
be handled with the same ef-,
ficiency and discretion. It
should, of course, be distinctly
emphasized that the movement
accomplished to date is merely
a starter for Great Britain in
the last few years has moved
thirteen millions of men, with]
a loss of only 2,700 by enemy]
action, and these millions of;
men have been moved from the
Antipodes to France, Mesopo-]
tamia, Egypt, and various oth
er localities, to say nothing of
the stream of men passing
across the English channel.
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POLITICAL POTTAGE.
The political history of most,
if not all, of the Territories of
the United States has been
marked by trouble and discon
tent says Governor Strong Tn
the Territories political trou
bles are from time to time aug
mented by factional strife, and
Alaska has had its full share
, of both. Discontent with pol
: itical conditions is natural, for
it is through this that reforms
are inaugurated and abuses
corrected; but factional strife,
at least in Alaska, as has been
demonstrated, is due to the de
sire of a few, self-chosen lead
ers to dominate political con
ditions for purposes far remov
ed from the altruistic. Tn other
words, factional bitterness
develops through an over
whelming desire to secure the
loaves and fishes which go
with or are supposed to be a
part of political patronage. Tn
the minds of political patriots
of this type, efficiency of gov
ernment is the last considera
tion; the division of office and
political pottage and the pres
! tige, power, and emoluments
which are supposed to be a
part and parcel of office hold
ing the first. All this makes
for lack of unity and coordina
tion on the part of the people
who, as a whole, are anxious to
see as complete political aiiton- (
omy as is possible under a gov- !
ernment of, by, and for the j
people, and who are also desir- j
ous that that government shall ;
be efficiently and honestly ad
ministered and that the Terri
tory be developed ahmg legi
timate lines.
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BRYAN AND THE BULL.
Speaking in the vernacular, ■
that is the first t'mo in our re
collection that Brotlier Bry.in
ever got away from the bull.
Of course, this bull that chas-lj
ed him over rim speeding !i
sands of the Arizona deseit, j
had legs, head, and horns, and|;
Brother Bryan could see it
coming. The kind of “bull” j
that usually chases Brother j]
Bryan back and forth across ,
the country is not so easy foi l]
him to identify, or doubtless!]
he would get away from it, too. j
In most cases it would be just ]
as good news that Brother |j
Bryan lost his “bull” as thatl]
the bull lost Brother Bryan in if
the present instance.
We note with grief that
Brother Bryan “also lost most
of his hunting suit in the
flight,” though we rejoice that*
the news dispatch is kind
enough to spare us the details
on that point, no matter what
the movies might make of
them. It is a harrowing spec
ol A + A Cl AA AM A A £ 11
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tundity pursuing the peaceful 4
pastime of duck hunting and
with no shelter but a mosquito
tree, suddenly attacked by a
wild animal that had never j
heard of the evils of prepared-1
ness.
It looks like his own parable
of a million men spriiging to
arms between surprise * ' "14^
set to defend Rrotvier
r
from the ferocious) assa
another kind of wild inimalj
which in this case also as ini
Arizona, was that somebody
else had to come to the rescue,
to ward off the attack and al
low the victims to get home
with part of their clothes.— ?
Detroit Saturday Night.
Just what “operators” at ,
Anchorage are satisfied with
the present coal leasing law is
puzzling the other towns in Al
aska. It has retarded the
development of that resource
as everybody knows and is one
of the few things that Anchor
age has favored—unless it be
the removal of all public busi
ness and industries of the ter
ritory to that ice-bound port,
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The drive for 10,000,000
members of the American Red
Cross ends on Monday and be
fore that time it is hoped that
Cordova will enroll more
names per capita than any oth
er town in Alaska.
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