NOW BEING
(By Associated Press.)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 10.
—It may not materially affect the pre
sent generation or the next, but if
the land level of Holland continues to
sink, there is danger of the subsidence
becoming so great that, despite all
the progress of engineering science,
it will be Impossible to much longer
continue the present ceaseless strug
gle with the waters. That is the view
expressed before the Gological Min
ing Society for Holland and its Colo
nies by Professor Molengraaf, of the
Polytechnic University of Delft, who
is the foremost Dutch geological au
thority.
A large part of the Netherlands,
particularly the western and north
western provinces, lies some feet be
low the level of the sea, which is
only kept from overflowing hundreds
of square miles of land by the na
tural barrier of the long line of sand
dunes that fringe the coast, reinforced
at two or three points by artificial
means. The level of rivers and many
of the canals in such regions are
likewise higher than the surrounding
country, being held in check by the
dikes and embankments that are main
tained at great pains and correspond
ing high cost to the nation. Natural
ly, therefore, the question of the con
tinued, if very gradual fall of the land
level bears an important aspect in
the eyes of the Dutch people, and it
has recently been the subject of dis
cussion among expert geologists and
hydrographical engineers.
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DESTITUTE IN
ARABIA
(By Associated Press.)
BATAVIA, Dutch East Indies, Jan.
10.—Mohammedans from the Malay
archipelago who went on pilgrimage
to Mecca to worship at the shrine of
the Prophet, and thereby earn the
title of “hadji," which confers life
long distinction and eternal bliss here
after, are destitute and stranded in
Arabia. They are the victims of the
severance of communications brought
about by the war, and a representative
of the Dutch government is being dis
patched to the port of Jeddah to su
perintend their embarkation in spec
ial ships which the authorities are so
licitously sending thither to convey
these coloniel subjects home. About
4,000 such pilgrims were similarly re
patriated last year.
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ALASKAN WOMAN ATTAINS
FAME IN THE MOVIES.
Miss Alice Neice, the well known
“movie" star, was for several years
a resident of Valdez, where she gained
a wide circle of acquaintances. The
following article from the Moving
Picture World of recent date will be
interesting to those who knew Miss
Neice while in Alaska:
"Alice Neice, who is the leading
woman of the Dudley Motion Picture
Company, and who is shortly to be
seen as the star of “Humanizing Mr.
Winsby,” has had a very interesting
career. As a child she went to Alas
ka with her father, who was a promi
nent mining man, and spent moat of
her young girlhood there. She was
possessed of unusual musical talent
and was sent to Berlin to cultivate
her voice. After several years she
returned to America and appeared in
various parts of the country in con
cert work.
“The call of the frozen north was
too strong,” says Miss Nelve, “and I
finally decided to return to Valdez,
Alaska, where my parents were living.
After a time there, 1 met a prominent
theatrical man who induced me to
try the motion picture. Like most
girls who have appeared before the
camera, I liked the work very much
and have kept at it every since.”
Miss Neice has played leading roles
with Lubin, Selig, Universal and in
Vogue comedies and has been Identi
fied with the Dudley Moore Motion
Picture Company for the past year.
In "Humanizing Mr. YVinsby," Miss
Neice plays the part of a very deter
mined Irish girl, who refuses to stand
in awe of Mr. YVinsby, of whom
everyone else Is terribly afraid. This
picture will be released in the near
future by Unity.
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The lodge of Loyal Order of Moose
at Juneau held a Christmas celebra
tion and tree for the members of the
order and their families. There were
more than one hundred children pre
Bent.
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YY'hlle working on a wood saw at Ta
nana, YV. J. Lloyd was instantly killed
by the breaking of the flywheel, a
piece of the metal striking him in the
forehead and passing entirely through
the head.
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If In need of Job printing phone the
Daily Times office.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Jan. 10. — In an inter
esting address on "The Making and
Remaking of a Fighting Man," deliv
ered at the annual meeting of the
National f'ollege Athletic Association
here today, R. Tait McKenzie, profes
sor of physical education at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and late ma
jor R. A. M. C„ England, said, in part:
"You do not need a watch to tell
when it is 9 o'clock at the headquar
ters gymnasium at Aldershot, For
15 minutes or more groups of men in
black trousers and jerseys, or officers
in tennis kit, have been accumulating,
and at 9 o'clock precisely a shrill
whistle petrifies them in the position
of attention. There is dead silence
ind the sharp command 'fall in" is
succeeded by a scramble out of which
emerge 20 classes of officers and men,
each in proportion of about 4 to 1,
neatly arranged on the floor, each
with a staff instructor in charge. At
the command 'staff fall in' each in
structor doubles to where the ser
stand at attention to receive the day's
orders. These given, jMey make a
right turn, rise on the toes and scur
ry off to their respective classes. An
other silence and the sharp command
'carry on' is followed by a babel of
orders as the various groups march
out of the four doors to selected places
in the twenty acre grounds that sur
rounded the gymnasium. For the
next hour and a half each class is put
through the table of exercises for the
day; each exercise detailed, repeated
and corrected until officer and men
have the proper speed and accuracy
for which they strive.
“At 10; 30 the whistle breaks the
classes up into groups for a brief time.
After fifteen minutes the same pro
ceeding is gone through again, but
this time the men are paired off; No.
1 teaching the last hour's work to
No. 2 and back again from 2 to 1,
under the fire of the instructor's criti
cism. Again a short rest and the
bayonets are fixed, and the position
of ‘on guard,’ 'point,' and 'parry' are
explained, shown and demonstrated.
There is an interval for lunch and at
2:1T> the classes reassemble, and now
they are marched out, combined into
one mass drill of exercises selected
from the eight tables of the British
gymnastic law. After this display the
mass breaks up into its component
classes, and the detailing exercises,
bayonet fighting and gymnastic games
fills the time until 4 o’clock, when
the day’s work is over. Every month
a new class replaces those who have
gone out into the great training
camps.
“When the war broke out in August,
1914, the staff of gymnastic instruct
ors, up to the inspector himself, dis
solved ovet night and rejoined their
regiments, and for ten days this de
partment had no head. The new in
spector was confronted by an urgent
demand for instructors, with none to
send, but he at once re-enlisted men
wno nad gone Into civil life (teachers
in board and private schools), in fact
anyone who had had training, and he
reconstructed his staff from these vet
erans. Soon, however, their numbers
were augmented by another way. Fa
miliar faces reappeared (men from
the trenches), one with a bullet
through his shoulder blade, another
with part of his foot gone from shrap
nel They were not fit for active ser
vice, but their experience as teachers
was invaluable.
“The new armies had tapped every
stratum of English society; the ill
disciplined lordling, whose whim was
his only law; the stripling just from
school and college; lawyers, doctors,
merchants, clerks (soft from seden
tary life; Ironworkers, navvies, labor
ers (slow of action and speech) — all
had to be welded into a homogenous
body, quick and alert of action, sure
of eye and hand, and above all cap
able of endurance; able to march and
take care of themselves; ready to ob
literate themselves before a hostile
aeroplane by day or a star shell at
night; able to dig like badgers even
after a hard day's march; steady with
rifle; quick, powerful and relentless
with the bayonet.
7 he shooting and digging are
taught elsewhere, but the headquar
ters gymnasium Is the source of all
knowledge on those fundamental ex
ercises that train in accuracy, bal
ance and speed, without which the
musketry instructor Instructs In vain,
and the drill sergeant's shouts are fu
tile. It is also the source from which
has come the new practical method of
teaching the use of the bayonet. There
is no hesitation or sparring for an
opening or elaborate parrying, just
a short pab, and on to the next, the
two simple parries taught being not
for defense so much as to clear the
way for attack, a subtle but Important
mental difference. This is the gist
of the new bayonet fighting.
Physical training has, however, an
other function In the great armies
that have already tasted the hardships
and casualties of life at the front The
wounded man, treated flrat at tba
dressing station, then at the field sta
tion, sent back to the base hospital,
and finally to a hospital at home, is
frequently capable of being returned
for active service if time and care
can only be given to his treatment.
From the general hospital all such
cases are transferred to the conval
escent camp of depot, and many are
put under physical training at once,
and return to their regiment within
six weeks, but In the slower and more
grave conditions a cure must be ef
fected In months rather than weeks.
It Is these men who are sent to the
command depots, after a ten days'
furlough, and they once again come
under the military discipline after
their month or two of hospital life.
From the standpoint of discipline,
this month or two has produced great
changes In most of them. Many of
those cases of scarred and injured
limbs, stiffened joints and other pain
ful wounds can begin only by the
gentlest form of massage, given af
ter the injured limb has been pre
pared by soothing baths of running
water, or by the application of elec
tricity or radiant heat. From this
they go on to more active massage,
regaining the strength and agility
that have apparently left them.
"The injuries from which men suf
fer vary so enormously in extent and
gravity that it is not possible to bring
all men up to this state, and some,
the full sense of the word, are still
able enough for service on lines of
communication, or for garrison duty
either at home or abroad, while others
are unable to do more than sedentary
work at home or abroad, while others
are unable to do more than sedentary
work at home, or when not even this
Improvement can be obtained they
may be discharged from the army as
unfit for military service.
"By these means, however, nt least
half of the men who begin such a
course of graduated treatment and ex
ercises can be counted on as becom
ing effective members of the army
once again, and the training which
they have undergone, either at the
beginning of their career, or after
they have borne the burden and heat
of the day, produces a lasting effect,
and brings them to a higher level of
physical efficiency and mental alert
ness than they could ever have hoped
to reach without it."
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ALASKA LAGS BEHIND IN
COAST SURVEY WORK.
A chart recently issued by the TJ.
S. coast and geodetic survey, illus
trating the surveyed and unsurveyed
waters of the Pacific coast, Alaska and
the Philippines, shows a great dis
crepancy between the attention given
the Pacific coast and Alaska in this
respect as compared with the Phil
ippines. During the past thirty years,
In which the surveys of Alaska waters
have been made, but about nine per
cent of the total area has been chart
ed. at which rate it will take-nearly
350 years to complete the survey of
the navigable waters of the territory.
During the past 66 years the wat
ers of California, Oregon and Wash
ington have been surveyed to the ex
tent of 27 per cent, H per cent and
4* per cent, respectively, at which
rate it will take 170 years to com
plete the first survey.
On the other hand during the six
teen years in which surveys have been
made in the waters of the Philippine
islands, 61 per cent has been com
pleted. This great progress In the
Philippines is due to the iarge sums
of money appropriated directly for the
work, and four survey vessels engaged
solely In this work.
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COLLECTION GERMAN MOTTOES
SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED.
(By Associated Press.)
LEIPZIG, Jan. 10. — The Leipzig
Museum is completing a collection of
mottoes of the great German com
manders, which is to be published
shortly. j
General von Stein, the new Prus
sian minister of war, gives as his
motto: "It is more important than
all else to bear quietly, to act in si
lence and to help unselfishly."
Admiral Scheer, commander of the
High seas fleet, says: "The war aim
of the German fleet Is the freedom
of the seas."
Prince Henry of Prussia wrote:
"For the right people ut the right time
the right tuan in the right quarrel.”
General von Woyrsch says: "Ger
many invincible — that is my faith,
firm as a rock."
Von Biasing, Mackensen, von Bes
eler and many others quote Scripture
to the effect that they trust In God.
"The Riggs Kids,” children of Lieu
tenant Riggs, of the Alaska engineer
ing commission, invited all the other
"kids” of Nenana to attend a Christ
mas tree in the office of the commis
sion at that place.
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John llawson has removed his bar
gain store to the Northern block, op
posite the Cordova House.
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Ladies’ and gent's shoes oiled and
shined. Alaskan Hotel barber shop.
Prompt delivery.
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TOWN OF CORDOVA.
Municipal Taxes.
Town taxes are now due and pay
able to the town treasurer, H. 1
O’Neill, at his office.
Said taxes will be delinquent on
tha second Monday in February, 1917,
at the hour of 6 o'clock p. m. Upon
all unpaid taxes after that time a pen
alty of five per cent will ve collected.
H. I. O’NEILL,
Town Treasurer.
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NOTICE.
All creditors of the Cordova Pack
ing Company, who have not hereto
fore presented their claims to M.
Brock, at the Blum, O'Neill store, are
requested to do so at once.
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Big assortment of ladies embroi
dered handkerchiefs Just received at
Clayson’s. Drop in and see them,
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it. She constantly is
looking for it.
It is up to the mer
chant. Keep the house
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today ransack the news
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! the electric light so superior for night
reading. And its brilliancy brings out
1 the type with the utmost distinctive
ness so that reading is accompanied
by no strain on the eyes whatever.
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EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
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Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. 8
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thurs- g
days and Saturdays.
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