Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication of
all news credited to it or not other
wise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
All rights of republication of special
despatches herein are also reserved.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918
KAISER DALLIES WITH A GIANT
The United States is a giant among
nations—the wealthiest, the strongest,
4he healthiest of them all.
If you will recall the fairy tales you
read in your youth you will remem
ber that giants cannot get their
strength gathered for too sudden ac
tion. In those old stories they were
•generally asleep with large cudgels
close at their sides. Common people
could come in and steal their porridge
without awakening them. Jack of
the Bean Stalk did almost anything
he tried without arousing the giant
that he had to deal with.
But the final lines of those tales of
supernatural people nearly always
ended with the giant arousing himself,
.stretching out his arms, yawning, j
grasping his club, and then grinding
up a few bones with which to make
his bread.
It took a giant a long time to arouse
and get ready for business—but the
Tpoint is that he ground up the bones
of his assailers to make his staff of
life.
Not that we want to use any Ger
man bones in our bread—far from
that—but that the kaiser had better
prepare to skedaddle when the Amer
ican giant gets ready to swing his
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AMERICAN SPIRIT IS IN FIGHT
Chiefly because our brave soldiers
themselves are so anxious to get into
the fight and take their fling at the
Hun. the nation is happy that 100,000
Yankees under General Foch, the new
commander of the allied reserve ar
mies, are getting their chance.
Going to the scene of the battle now
raging, the Americans sang in joy.
It can be imagined that they are
enthused with the prospect of meas
uring strength with the Germans, of
taking what comes with a grin and
handing back better than they get
with a set determination.
In a letter from a Tuscania survivor
the perils of sixty men in the last
lifeboat to leave the ill-fated ship are
recited. This boat was dashed up
against a rocky bank, and the men
in it could not see their peril in the
darkness until it was too late for
them to pull away.
Just before the boat was dashed
into a thousand pieces a lieutenant
stood up and said: “Remember, men,
we are all Americans.”
Out of that boatload of sixty, nine
saved themselves from the breakers.
The writer of the letter was one of
the nine, and he wrote:
“l am going ahead as if no torpedo
had ever struck our ship.”
He has the American spirit.
All of our boys across the water
have it, and nothing but good news
on that account can come from them.
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Support the boys “over there.”
THE NEW KIND OF EMPLOYER
Forbes’ Magazine recently offered
$1,000 in prizes for essays on the best
employer in America. An employe of
the National Cash Register Company
won the first prize of $500 with an
essay on the life and business motives
of John H. Patterson, president of
the company.
Mr. Patterson has built up the
largest business of its kind in the
world because long ago he saw that
he should get his employes to work
with him and not for him.
In 1892, when his business was on
the road to ruin, he sat down to
fathom its difficulty. He decided that
the trouble lay in the fact that he
was trying to get as much from his
employes as he possibly could for the
smallest wages possible, and that his
employes were giving him the small
est amount of real work they could
for the wages they were paid.
He decided this was wrong, and he
set about to remedy it.
He became interested in the work
ers in his factory, and suddenly they
became interested in him.
He gave them reason to be proud
of the National Cash Register Com
pany, and they proceeded to make
.their employer proud of them.
He gave .every worker a chance to
better his condition, and the employes
dug in to avail themselves of the op
portunities opened to them.
The career of John H. Patterson of
fers much to interest others. He is
one of the heralds of a new system
in the world in wrhich capital and
labor wdll co-operate to the common
aims and ends of both.
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WHAT NEXT?
It is a personal characteristic of
George Creel, we suppose, to attempt
to arrogate unto himself power and
more power. Also, he wouldn’t be a
good Democrat if he did not show this
disposition. What with the censor
ing of war dispatches and the dissemi
nation of information in various forms
—information -which properly comes
under the category of stale news and
promptly finds its way into the edi
torial waste basket—one would think
that he could find plenty to do in his
present capacity. But Mr. Creel is an
industrious young man and a veri
table glutton for work. So, when he
now' seeks to have all historical and
magazine articles and books dealing
with any phase of the war submitted
to his bureau for examination before
publication, we suppose that we ought
not to be surprised.
It is no secret that the director of
the “bureau of public Information”
has long had a strangle hold on the
daily press. Due to his relentless
methods, the great American dailies
have been obliged to sacrifice their
independence and individuality, and
in so far as they have yielded in this
respect, just so far have they suf
fered in the estimation of the rank
and file of their readers. In contra
distinction to the daily papers, the
groat national periodicals and maga
zines have gained in popular favor.
The reason for this is quite clear;
because of their very nature they are
not dependent upon the censorship
for the news matter that fills their
columns. Thus have they been able
to edit and publish their matter in
keeping with the true spirit of Ameri
can journalism. True, the discrimi
natory postage rates nave done much
to discourage them by imposing on
their operations a severe and unfair
financial burden, but in one way or
another they have all managed to pull
through and perform their plain duty
to the American people.
Now, Mr. Creel proposes to cripple
them beyond repair by robbing them
of their very birthright—that of in
dependent utterance. For once it be
comes known that he is the editor-in
chief of all publications, their doom is
sealed. We wonder just how far the
American people will really let him go.
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Cordova has more than doubled its
Liberty loan quota, and should
now strive to reach the $150,000 goal.
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Your boy is offering his life for you.
Show him your appreciation. Lend
money to Uncle Sam.
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Through the courtesy of Sergeant
A. C. Elliott of the Eighteenth United
States engineers, the Daily Times is
in receipt of a copy of the February
issue of “The Spiker,” the regimen
tal paper issued by the organization
of which the sergeant is a member.
“The Spiker” consists of 26 pages,
all of which is reading matter. While
there is some serious matter fn It,
it is bubbling over with humor and
jokes on the men of the regiment.
Sergeant Elliott, who sent the copy
to the Times, is well known in Cor
dova, having been employed here for
some time.
JAPANESE RESIDENT
MATS TO JOIN ARMY
HONOLULU, T. H„ April 38.—Ap
preciation of what it means to live
under the protection of the United
States is shown in a letter from a
Japanese pineapple laborer of the
island of Kauai, received at the selec
tive draft headquarters in this city.
The writer states that he is 39 years
of age, and hence will not be drafted,
but he wants to enlist voluntarily for
service. He has lived in the islands
for eighteen years.
“The reason that I wanted very
much to join the United States army
voluntarily and fight the Huns,” his
letter concludes, “is that I have been
in the United States so long and feel
that it is my duty to do something
in return for the country where I
have lived so long and received the
protection and many other privi
leges.”
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Glen Nevill, who was shot seven
times by Mexican bandits on the Nev
ill ranch on the Mexican border, has
been reported safe. His brother lives
in Juneau.
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You have gone “over the top” admirably, fel
low townsmen. Now hold the ground you have
taken. Plan to meet your Liberty Loan pay
ments on the dot and put by something for the
next advance. Remember, to insure victory you
must not only have your battle line strength but
powerful reserves. Begin now to mobilize your
reserves for the emergency moment.
Will to win and work
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT
CHAS. A. SULZER
Candidate for Re-election
As
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
From Alaska
“In deciding to enter the primaries as a candidate for Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, I feel Impelled to make a brief statement to the people of the
territory. It is now nearly a year since I was seated in the House as Alaska’s
representative to congress. During the most of this time the United States
has been engaged in a world war, and every resource of the nation including
money and man power, is being devoted to the single purpose of winning this
great war. Every member of congress in considering legislation for the na
tion has placed the country’s war needs above all needs and requirements and
has subordinated his desires to the military establishment of the United States
“Alaska has responded nobly to the nation’s call. She has givgh her share
willingly and unstintingly. When the Democratic party went before the peo
ple of Alaska in November, 1916, it stood for a certain constructive
program which eqibodied as its principal elements a wider measure of
home rule for the territory, and a sane and rational policy in the develop
ment of natural resources and every possible aid to the pioneers of the coun
try.
“I have introduced among others the following bills in congress which I
am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
“Granting Alaska full territorial form of government with home rule the
dominating principle.
“Regulating the fisheries of Alaska along lines that will be fair to all, and
the protection of the salmon supply from depletion.
“Making changes in the homestead laws by abolishing the eighty rod
reservation.
“Authorizing free surveys of homesteads in isolated sections.
“Changing the game laws so as to give the people a better opportunity to
use the game of the country without its being slaughtered.
“Extending the federal farm loan act to Alaska.
“Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within the territory.
“At all times I have endeavored to keep constantly in mind the needs of
the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the war some meas
ure of progress has been achieved. I have assisted in passing a law which
helped the prospector by suspending assessment work on claims during the
years 1917 and 1918. The extension of the wireless and cable system in Alas
ka has been accomplished with bright prospects for a further extension.
“Recognition has been forced for Alaska in the matter of appointments to
the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts which prevented
the farmers of the interior from supplying army posts with their vegetables
are canceled.
“Suggestions and requests that I again go before the people of Alaska have
come to me from Alaskans all over the territory. Reiterating my desire to
serve the best interests of Alaska I am submitting my name as a candidate
for the democratic nomination for Delegate to Congress.”
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