THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920
WATSON, WHAT D’Y’ MAKE OF
THIS? .
The last days of the national pro
hibition campaign and the last days
oi the national suffrage campaign
have shown an oddly divergent devel
opment. When it became apparent
that dry legislation was being ap
proved by so many states that it
must soon become a law, there was
a rush among the remaining states
to get onto the band wagon. It seem
ed as if the legislatures of all the
states felt that they must be repre
sented among the approving host.
Even such rock-ribbed homes of was
sail as New York state and Massa
chusetts couldn’t show how much joy
and precipitateness in joining the
dry host and setting the stamp of
their official O. K. upon the consti
tutional amendment.
But with suffrage it has been quite
the reverse. The rush came with the
first states to ratify. The competi
tion all seemed to be among those
commonwealths that wished to be the
first to give the women voters a
chance. As weeks went on and it
became apparent, apparently, that suf
frage would go over with the same
bang that sent prohibition echoing
down the corridors of legislative
time, the remaining states that had
*ot ratified became more and more
reserved. When it got down to the
point "where only one or two states
were required to give the constitu
tional quota, the whole movement
stuck fast. There still remained a
group of states from among which it
was expected that one would immed
iately spring forth in gallant courtesy
and reach the troubled ladies a
chivalrous handi. But the lack of
response was shocking.
Why is it, now, that everyone, wet
or dry, was eager to give old King
Alcohol a push but that, for weeks on
end, not a soul seemed willing to give
Queen Suffragette a pull?
SHARKS AND SHOES
Sharks should be encouraged, not
treated with the cool unapproachabil
ity that has characterized our con
duct in the past. Anyone who may
he asked to contribute a coupe pounds
of rump to a needy shark next sum
mer should do so with alacrity, real
izing that, while the experience may
be personly trying it is for the bene
fit of mankind in general. The point
is—cheaper shoes. Sharks, it has
been discovered have skins the same
as cows. A good wellfed shark has
from ten to forty square feet of wrap
per. This hide can be made, it is now
explained, into shoes that are just
as soft as calfskins, that will wear
longer and that can be sold to the
public at half the money.
But a shark to produce a fine sole
leather cover for himself, must be
reasonable well fed. Cows, while
giowing brogans and Wellington boots
ean amble around the pasture, and
munch grass and other vegetable
matter. But the shark has to have
fresh red meat and it always runs
away.
An unwise niggardliness in the mat
ter of rations in the past has greatly
reduced the shoe-producing abilities
•f the shark. Persons called upon
to contribute have shown a short
sighted pettiness that was deplorable.
.Sharks used to be as long as ninety
feet They have left teeth in the
strata of the ocean bed around about
Florida that were five inches long
®n the cutting edge. Today, however,
the largest sharks that one may ex
pect to encounter are not more than
forty feet from tip to tip.
The most likely contributor to John
nies next winter shoes will be the
shark that is commonly called . the
basker. The basker, which sometimes
gets to be thirty feet in length, is the
largest fish native to the North Atlan
tic. He has a mouth as big as if he
were designed for Alice from Dallas
and all her relatives. He is a cor
pulent shark and should be worth a
good deal in hides. This shark was
formerly hunted for his liver which
could be used to furnish an oil for
adulterating cod liver oil.
Sharks up to this time have had no
commercial value in civilized coun
tries, but the scarcity of shoe leather
on shore promises to makes sharks
scarce in the ocean.
LET'S DO A LITTLE CLEANING UP
There should be sufficient civic
pride among our residents to see
that the town is given a thorough
spring house cleaning. The winter’s
accumulation of tin cans and debris
are not only unsanitary, but a men
ace to the sightliness of Cordova.
Health Officer Chase has notified all
property owners to remove the sur
plus rubbish and unless they imme
diately comply with the edict more
drastic measures will have to be
taken. The latter course, however,
should not be necessary if we will
only do our duty in the matter. That
the town must be cleaned up and at
once there is no argument and the
sooner action is started the less
trouble and expense will be borne
by those who thus far have been
negligent in the matter.
The city council should also show
good faith by having the main thor
oughfares put in a more presentable
condition. Ruts should be filled, and
the streets raked of all rubbish.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Just about the time Alaskans think
they have something nailed down
some congressman bobs up and takes
all the joy out of life. Cordova had
all arrangements made for a federal
building, and now comes Rep. Mann
and moves to strike the $100,000 from
the appropriation.—Valdez Miner.
It has become a hibit of Alaskans
to speak praise for Canada for treat
ing the Yukon Territory better than
the United States treats Alaska. And
it is a confirmed habit in the Yukon
Territory to praise the United States
for being more liberal toward Alaska
than Canada is toward her northern
territory. Distance lends enchant
ment, etc.—Juneau Empire.
When we first heard the sugges
tion that a hearing on Alaskan mat
ters was to be held in Seattle, we
wondered if there was anything un
usual the matter with the territory
that would keep the commission that
had been appointed from coming
north. There is no more flu here,
the drinking water is good, the hotels
have clean beds; this is the closed
season on investigators—so why in
thunder, when it is Alaska that is to
be investigated, can’t the investigat
ors take a look at the subject.—Doug
las News.
There will be a large number of
persons to feed in Anchorage and
along the railroad construction this
and next summer, and following the
shoving of the railroad farther north
will come additional mining and agri
cultural developments. The best meth
od to hold the high cost of living in
hand is to prepare to meet emergen
cies as they arise, and this may be
done by the farmers getting together
and agreeing upon gram acreage, and
following this should come a flour mill
such as is now running at Fairbanks.
—Anchorage Times.
With the proper assistance from
the government and proper manage
ment Mantanuska coal could be sold
in Ketchikan at little more than half
the price now being paid for British
Columbia coal, and it should be. Cer
tainly the coal pile in every home and
in all parts of Alaska is something
that everyone must think of consider
ably, and as they think of it, they
should join their thoughts, their words
and their acts, all to the same end—
to induce the government to speed
up its work that the Matanuska, Ber
ing and Nenana coal fields may be
opened on a large scale, within the
least possible number of months.—
Ketchikan Chronicle.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
a sales impost would merely result in
passing on added costs to the con
sumer.
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