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New Shipment of Goods
Received on the Alameda from the
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World’s Fashion Center |
It includes coats that cannot be duplicated in
Style and Price. Dresses in new fabrics and
color effects, direct from the Eastern Mar
kets, in Georgettes, Charmous, Satins, Chif
fon, Taffetas, some with Braid and Beaded
effects, also serges in large variety. Evening Dresses
Tulle, Silver Cloth, Silver Nets, Taffetas and Satins
Beautiful Georgette Waists, some beaded with touch
es of Lace. Stacks of Beautiful Linen Handkerchiefs,
Hand Embroidered Hose and Silk Underwear, Pure
Silk Umbrellas.
| Table cloths and napkins, huck and turkish towels,
trimmings, braids, full assortment of notions.
We Have also received our new line of Cretons and
Tapestries, Pillows, Braids. Trimmings, Notions, Silks
by the yard. Georgette Crepes in all Shades, Cre * de
Chines, Velvet, Broadcloth and Corduroys.
Mens Shirts, Ties, Silk Hose, Linen Handkerchiefs and
Silk Umbrellas.
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WIN THE WAR
GERMANY TRYING
The Hamburger Nachrichten of
September 28, writing with reference
to the Japanese mission to Washing
ton, says that' with th^ fall of the Rus
sian autocracy the agreements be
tween imperial Russia and Japan have
become waste paper. Instead of the
colonization of East Siberia, with ail
Us attendant advantages, It soon be
came clear that one of the first acts
of revolutionary Russia was to give
trouble to Japan in the East by mak
ing great concessions to America in
Sakhalin and Siberia, thereby making
them the, rivals of Japan. The great
American capitalists find in Asia a
more favorable sphere in which to ex
ert their influence than in Europe.
Only the gigantic war expenses of
France and Great Britain have turned
"the attention of these powers to the
American money market, and the fu
ture will show on which side the po
litical advantage lies. In China it is
different. The unorganized state of
finance and the uncertainty of the cen
tral government offer no guaranties
to the creditor and can only bring ad
vantages to him by bribery of the rul
ing factors. Terauchi’s ministry owes
its succses in China, as in imperial
Russia, in the first place, to its sys
tem of bribery In spite of its de
livery of munitions and its improved
trade during the war, Japan is still a
poor country compared to the United
States. American capitalism is well
aware of this, and has weakened Ja
pan’s influence in China by Japan’s
own methods, because it overbids!
Jaapn on all occasions, and at presen
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is not called upon to sacrifice any
military power. The Japanese press
has silenced its bellicose utterances
against the United States. It is sud
denly discovered that Japan and the
United States can be very good
friends. Yet both sides know that
there are political differences which
must be settled sooner or later. The
waning fortunes of the entente and the
breakdown of Japan’s imperialistic
and Wilson’s democratic plans de
mand this strange co-operation as a
last resource. It is a strange spec
tacle that Japan now has to rely on
help from the United States to enable
her to carry out her new shipbuilding
program, which was originally directed
against the United States. Japan has
the necessary money, indeed, but has
become dependent on the United
States for iron and steel, since Great
Britain has been totally winged. The
Terauchi ministry has completely
changed its policy and made a pact
with its former opponents whereby
America is to supply steel for the new'
ships, in return for which Japai* un-'
dertakes to expedite shipbuilding to*
ijeplace tonnage lost in the course of
the war.
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American Churches and the War Spirit
A recent number of the Berlin
weekly, Deutsche Politik, contains an
article by Professor Deissmann on
The W ar Manifesto of the American
Churches,” in which he comments
upon the length of time it has taken'
the “Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America” to issue a state- \
ment concerning the war. In the pe
riod immediately before the breaking
off of diplomatic relations between the
United States and Germany the vast
majority of the churches, according to
Dr. Deissmann, were far more eager
for world peace than for having Amer
ica entangled in the war.
“Only about seventy churchmen
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signed a manifesto inciting to war
which was circulated in religious cir
cles toward the end of 1916 and the
beginning of 1917, whereas 700 of the
most eminent leaders of Christianity
(bishops, professors, newspaper edi
tors, heads of the big religious and so
cial organizations, and prominent lay
men) took part in a sort of counter
manifesto inclining toward peace. Not
until more than four weeks after Wil
son’s declaration of war did the Fed
eral Council raise its voice.”
Dr. Deissman alleges that a wide-1
spread opposition not only to this par
ticular war, but to war in general, ex
ists In America. He emphasizes the
curious contradiction to be found in
the fact that the manifesto, which
ardently champions freedom of con-!
science, approves of a war “whose!
purpose it is forcibly and with blood
shed to rob a nation of 70,000,000 peo
ple of political freedom of conscience
and the independent and peaceable
development of its own form of gov
ernment. Will not the enlightened
leaders of the Federal Council soon
themselves see the absurdity of dis
guising tyrannical and autocratic
catchwords in a democratic form?”
Still he finds that the manifesto,
taken as a whole, does not make an
unfavorable impression. It shows that
American churchmen have learned
during the course of the war much
which was hidden from European
Christians at its beginning, and which
is still hidden from them in part. In
conclusion he emphasizes the fact that
although the declaration of the Fed
eral Council contains “typically Anglo
Saxon opinions which Germans must
repudiate, it emanates after all from
persons who show a conciliatory ten
dency, and that if Germans will read
it without passion it will only serve
to strengthen their own inner convic
tions.”
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Advertise in the Times
DENVER, Jan. 23.—The twelfth an
nual National Western Stock Show
and Horse Show is in session in the
amphitheater at the Denver* stock
yards, and will continue until mid
night, January 26 The exposition will
be the only western conclave held un
der special governmental sanction, and
therefore exempt from war tax on the
tickets of admission under a special
ruling by Commissioner Roper of the
department of the interior.
Many federal and state leaders in
food conservation and production, war
time home economioe, dairying, for
estry, agriculture and cattle breeding
have installed booths at the exposi
tion, and will teach the thousands of
visitors from the western and middle
states the best methors to aid the
government in its war policies.
Well-known horse and cattle farm
owners who are in attendance at the
exposition with purebred cattle and
horses include: Mrs. Loula Long
Combs of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs.
Lynde Selden of New York and Rich
field, Conn., with her stable of aristo
cratic hackney ponies; A. B. Cook
Montana magnate and cattle breeder;
Jack D. Brunton of Aspen, Colo.; Wal
ter L. Yost of Kansas City, John R
Thompson of New York and Chicago,
and Blades & Buford of Holladay, Mo
Elias M. Ammons, former governor
of Colorado, is president of the ex
position association, and Fred P
Johnson secretary and manager. The
first shows of the pioneer organiza
tion were given in tents in Denver
sixteen years ago. The stadium now
used was built in 1905.
STAPLE COTTON
OROVILLE, Cal., Jan. 23.—Every
means in their power and every gov
ernmental force which they can se
cure uniformity in planting to the
planting in the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys of anything but the
Egyptian long staple cotton. To se
cuer uniformity in planting to the
type held to be the only desirable
cotton for the interior valleys of the
state, the California Egyptian CottoD
Grower’ association has been formed
its membership consisting of planters
in the two valleys. At th 5 present
time 1,000 acres are being prepared
for the planting of cotton in Butte
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county.
It is the opinion of experts that the
establishment of a cotton-growing in
dustry in the interior valleys of Cali
fornia depends on planting the long
staple. When cotton of different
lengths is in the same bale, it is stated,
the bale is sold at the price of the
shortest cotton.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
WANTED—Bright young man as book
keeper. Must be a hustler. Apply
this office. 17-tf
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FOR RENT—A sewing machine.
Phone 135. 12-tl
WANTED—Work of any kind. Wm
Crompton.
WANTED—A maid for general hoi.se
work. Apply to Mrs. E. L. Har
wood.
FOR SALE—-Miscellaneous household
furniture. Apply Alaska Transfer
Company. i$-3t
FOR RENT—Cabins. See Dooley.
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