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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, 1917/
A LAND OF WONDERS.
Alaska is a land of big
tilings. It is, indeed, a big
Filing itself. Few people real
ize that Alaska has an area
which is considerably more
than twice as great as that of
Texas. The territory is 800
miles wide and 1,100 miles
long. Its area is as great as
that of all the states east of the
M ississippi river and north of
Mississippi and South Caro
lina. We are so accustomed to
, seeing Alaska shown upon a
little corner of the map of
North America that we fail to
get a proper idea of its immen
sity.
There are other things con
cerning Alaska aside from its
immense area that are not gen
erally appreciated. It is com
monly supposed that Alaska
is a land of continuous winter
-—that it is always covered
with snow and ice and that the
people who live there are com
pelled to wrap themselves in
furs the year round. Much of
Alaska is cold; it is true, but
there are parts of the country
where the climate is delightful,
where, in winter, freezing
weather is far from being the
rule. In certain districts near
the sea where the influence of
the Japan current is most pro
nounced the winters are very
mild and the summers are long
and delightful. In those parts
of Alaska strawberries, mel
ons and other fruits and vege
tables peculiar to the temper
ate zones are grown in con
siderable quantities.
Mt. McKinley, the highest
peak in North America, is in
Alaska, and now it is reported
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turned from there that they
have discovered in Alaska the
greatest volcanic crater in the
world. Katrnai is the name of
this immense rift in the sur
face of the earth. It is nine
miles in circumference and 3,
(iOO feet deep. The crater of
Katrnai is so much greater
than anything else of the kind
ever seen by men that it has
been called the eighth wonder
of the world.
During the past few years
traveling to our far northern
territory has been made com
paratively easy, and many peo
ple who formerly were in the
habit of going to foreign coun
tries to enjoy the wonders of
nature have been finding in
■" Alaska many things to marvel
at and to enjoy. The seacoast
of Alaska is as magnificent in
many places as that of Nor
way, with its famous fiords
and cliffs of ice. The richness,
the magnificence and the im
portance of Alaska are only be
ginning to be understood. Its
development has hardly been
started.—Springfield, O. News.
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If there i& any food conser
vation medal in this land, let it
be pinned on the satisfied
brow of one Aagie Acme of
Woodland, Cal. She has just
come to the aid of Hoover by
producing more butter fat in a
year than any other cow in the
world ever produced for rec
ord.
Roosevelt Doing His Bit
Deprived of the pleasure of
participating in the war as a
soldier Theodore Roosevelt is
doubtless grieving, but he is
nevertheless playing a useful,
if querulous, part. Indeed he
is playing what Mr. Wilson
might in other circumstances
describe as a noble part. Who
is so zealous as Mr. Wilson for
what the idealists of the inner
circles, the college presidents
and the intelligentia call “ser
vice?” It is noble to render
“service” to our fellow-men,
says Mr. Wilson and all the
good philosophers and kindly
Christians of the class room
and front pews. Indeed the
man who does not render “ser
vice” is the cant term of the
unco guid. ,
Now, “service?’ is precise
ly what Mr. Roosevelt is ren
dering to his country in this
great war, and this despite the
studied neglect of him in
Washington, notwithstanding
the wet blanket that was
thrown on his ambitions when
he announced his readiness to
become either a leader or an
obscure subordinate in France.
Yet, Mr. Roosevelt is indeed
rendering valuable “service,”
for these are time *n which
there is need of a Tliersites to
keep our political rules mind
ful of the urgencies and exi
gencies of a frightful situa
tion; and Mr. Roosevelt is at
tending to this business in fine
style. We know of nobody so
well qualified as he to keep
the High and Mighty from
stewing in the exudations of
their self-satisfaction. And he
is going so well in the perform
ance of this self-imposed duty
that we have ceased to deplore
the little politics that was play
ed to deprive him of the oppor
tunities of conspicuous display
; on the battlefield.—Ex.
No Quitters in America.
It is said that General Persh
ing fears the American people
may be discouraged by the re^
ports that the deadlock on the
western front cannot be brok
en. American resources, lie in
sists, with those of our allies
can force a military decision.
The general needn’t be dis
turbed; the American tribe is
used to long uphill fights. ' If
history is accurate, our fore
fathers fought for indepen
dence several years longer
than the present war has last
ed. In the civil war both north
and south held on in the face
of the greatest discourage
ment.
The general may rest assur
ed that there is no other
thought in this country today
than to fight it out. The Am
erican people come of a fight
ing stock. They are not quit
ters and when they start some
thing, they carry it to a suc
cessful conclusion. As some of
the I. W. W., pacifists and pro
Germans are finding out these
days. Uncle Sam is long on
patience, but rile him up once
and there is something doing.
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Cold turkey will be the fash
ion for the next few days.
THE DEAR OLD THING.
The dear old thing; she is
gone! Through the act of Pro
vidence, she departed. Brok
en at last after a well spent life
of usefulness. That she will
be missed, thousands will testi
fy, for, wasn’t she a glorious
bundle of sunshine; spreading
a radiance of brightest cheer
over every scene in which she
moved. She will be missed
.just as much as spring would
miss the beauty of blooming
flowers. She was always there
looking after the welfare of
some one. Tardy at times, but
dependable to the last. And to
think that her name was sim
ply AL-KI.—Ketchikan Miner.
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Law of Supply and Demand.
War does not destroy the
laws of supply and demand, or
suspend their operation. There
is no law that will compel the
farmer to cultivate his acres if
the prices he can obtain for
their product is not sufficient
ly remunerative. Those laws
are as eternal and inexorable
ns the everlasting reason of
which they are the expression.
Disaster follows upon their
obedience and in the great
post-mortem laboratory of his
tory we find that there is a
pathology of states as well as
of men, a science with laws
which may be interpreted and
understood and the non-ob
servance of which will be sure
to bring disaster.
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Russia is using some of the
millions loaned by the United
States in buying shoes for
walking delegates who advo
cate a separate peace with Ger*
many.
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Where the war tax is one
penny some retailers charge
charge 300 or 400 per cent for
the scent.
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One mail order house reports
a business of $20,375,589 for
October, an increase of nearly
26 per cent over last vear.
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The cow is the champion
conservator and spends most of
the time chewing her cud.
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Fifty years ago Garibaldi
was a prisoner of war. Cador
na had better luck.
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The war is doing one good
thing in keeping so many
cheap-John murders off the
front page.
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Nov. 30.—Profits derived
by Japan from her trade since the be
ginning of the war amount to 1,500,
000,000 yen. The premier, Count Ter
auchi, at a dinner which he gave in
honor of the special finance commis
sion to the United States recently
stated that of this amount, the nation
had expended one billion in co-operat
ing with the allies.
On the same day the Japan asso
ciation in aid of the sick and wounded
in allied countries announced as the
total sum collected, 2,002,983 yen, of
which 100,000 yen was given by the
Emperor and Empress. Of this fund.
France, Italy, Russia and Belgium will
each receive 363,000 yen; England,
368,0000 yen and Serbia and Rumania
each 60,000 yen.
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