THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1920
PIGS HAVE MARKET VALUE
Somebody said the other day that
the government is, appropriating $8,-'
#00,000 for hogs and only $25,000 for
children. But, then, the hog is a deli
cate animal.
PLEASE YOURSELF
Prexy Eliot of Harvard once knock
ed the freshness out of a freshman
who wanted to know whether it would
not be possible to take a shorter
course than that laid down in the cur
riculum. Said the educator:
"My boy, that all depends upon what
you wish to make of yourself. When
nature wants to make an oak she
works away on the job for a hundred
years. But if she only wants to make
a squash she needs only about six
months.”
ANY OLD NAILS?
Now it is on the program for us
to have a federal nail commission, to i
measure and dole out shingle and ten
penny nails. We are informed that
the scarcest thing n^xt is going to
be nails. At present, auto makers
and other producers are having a fran-'
tic scramble to get enough nails with
which to knock crates together. Soon
there won’t be enough nails to put
houses together. But thank goodness,
a man can still whittle wooden pegs—
or could if he could get hold of a
board.
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NEED LOOKING AFTER
There are a number of undesirables
making Cordova their headquarters at1
the present time, judging from the I
many petty thefts that are being com
mitted. Alaskans have always prided !
themselves on the fact that it was
superfluous to bolt their doors or even
lock up their valuables, so secure were
they in the belief that all residents of i
this Northland are honest. And we !
still insist that this rule applies, at
least so far as our old-time residents
are concerned. But this does not alter '
tno fact that homes are being invaded
bj some low-down cusses wno do not 1
bciong here and would be safer be-;
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TEXT FROM LINCOLN 1
The remarks of A. Lincoln, like1 (
the writings of Scripture, seem to con
. tain something that applies in every <
erisis. The war-time president, it 1
would seem, had the Bolsheviks in 1
mind when he penned this: i
‘‘Property is the fruit of labor; prop- 1
erty is desirable; it is positive good <
in the world, That some should be i
rich shows that others may become 1
rich and hence is just encouragement
to industry and enterprise.
"Let not him who is houseless pull
down the house of another, but let j
him work diligently and build one for
himself, that by example his own shall
be safe from violence when built.”
A HORSE DOCTOR PRACTICES
After all, it turns out that it was a
veterinarian, and not an M. D., who
first started all this preventive medi
eine about bugs causing sickness.
This man, whose name is unknown to
•bout ninety-nine one-hundredths of
idle human race was the first prac
titioner of any sort to demonstrate
that an insect could, by its sting, set
ap diseases in other animals, and
transmit them from one sick individ
ual to another. This veterinarian,
working in the employ of the United
States department of agriculture, dis
covered that splenetic fever in cattle,
* great impediment to the cattle in
dustry, was due to the presence of a
tick. This horse doc originated the
whole train of discoveries that made
the construction of the Panama canal
possible, and has eradicated yellow
fever and other such plagues from the
face of the earth.
FEWER EVERY DAY
It is said that the records of the
courts show that eighty-two persons
out of every one hundred died leaving
no income producing estates at all. If
the cost of things keeps on mounting
it will soon be at least 115.
LOUD SOCKS
For a while it looked as if silk
socks and neckties were going to be
cheaper. The Germans, forced by
necessity, discovered during the war
that gun cotton could be made with
wood pulp in place of cotton. Then
us Allies took over the idea. Step
one, in the right direction. Then it
was found that, the war demand for
wood pulp gun cotton having ended,
the wood pulp could be turned into
imitation silk. Step two. But just
when we all expected to walk out in
beautiful, but presumably inflammable,
ankle adornments, along comes the
print paper famine and makes wood
pulp as hard to get as manna. The
price of the pulp is so high, and the
chance of profits presumably so great
thereby, that even the princely war
blown DuPonts have become inter
ested. They have just entered into
a compact with the Comptoir des Tex
tiles Artificiels of Paris to put up a
large plant for the production of gun
cotton hose in this country.
VICE PRESIDENCY SHOULD NOT
BE AN AFTER-THONGHT
It should be the settled policy of
political parties to nominate for the
Vice-Presidency a man of full presi
dential size. There have been occas
sions in the past when men of medi
ocre ability have been given the
vice-presidential nominations. Some
such men have been elected, and two
of them succeeded to the presidency
to the detriment of their party and
country.
The vice-presidency was intended
by the framers of the constitution to
be a post of great dignity and honor.
True, the active duties are not of
themselves especially important, al
though the function of presiding over
the deliberations of the senate of the
United States is one of no small mo
ment. But the constitutional provi
sion for the succession of the vice
president to the presidency makes this
great office easily the second in im
portance in our national economy.
The post is one which affords a ros
trum to any man of ability, from
which he may adress his countrymen
with assurance that all he says will
be accorded a respectful hearing. The
present occupant in our national his
tory, has seen fit on more than one
occassion. to make light of the vice
presidency, but it may be said that
the office is at all times at least as
big as the man who fills it.
The candidate of the Republican
party for the vice-presidency of the
United States, to be chosen at the
approaching national convention, will
in all human probability be the vice
president after March 4th, 1921; and
from that date for four years he will
be the one American upon whom the
mantle of the presidency is at all
likely to fall.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that
a man of presidential stature will be
chosen as the running mate of the
Republican presidential candidate. It
s to be hoped, moreover, that the
nan nominated for the presidency will
ae of sufficient caliber to understand
he respect and consideration due th» c
nan chosen to share the responsibil- ;
ties of national ieadershio. The !
'ice-president should be an intimate
aersonal and official associate and
mllaborator of the president of the
Jnited States. There may be no
institutional provision for this, but
aatriotism and common sense require
hat the second in command of the
lational government should be at all
imes in intimate touch with all the
luestions that may at any time place
ipon him the responsibility for hand
ing.
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