The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915
STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA IS
ADVOCATED BY JUNEAU PAPER
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TATKHOOD for Alaska is the next logical and natural
step. In no other way can the people secure a “full
form of home rule.” A territorial form is a makeshift
at the best. A territory is always in leading strings to the fed
eral government. Under a territory there are limited oppor
tunities only for encouraging industrial development. Knowl
edge of local conditions is handicapped by the stranglehold
maintained by the federal government through its appointive
and political agents.
The Dispatch was one of the first papers in Alaska to ad
vocate territorial rights. It has consistently, in season and out
of season, and during the time when mention of home rule was
not popular, fought for it. In the same manner, knowing the
capabilities of Alaska and Alaskans for maintaining statehood,
it is now the first to nail the statehood sign to its masthead.
Alaska has reached' the point where it can throw off its
swaddling clothes. Its industries are now established on a
permanent basis. California in 1850 was granted statehood
with less population than Alaska has today. Moreover, the
only developed resource in California at the time was placer
mining. The “wealth in sight” was not to be compared with
the wealth already developed in Alaska. California had no
fisheries; it had no vast coal beds. Its quartz mines were still
an unknown quantity, and its farming land's were mostly an
unbroken wilderness.
In fact, Alaska is over-ripe for statehood. The time has
come when its affairs should be handled by its own people and
when the people and their interests should no longer be made
the political chopping block, for hordes of administrative offi
cials, either Democratic, Republican or any other federal party
in powfer. We want to paddle our own canoe. And the only
way we can do so, the only method' by which we can have full
home rule powers, is through the elective statehood franchise.
With all the nergies we possess we shall work for that for which
the people of Alaska are entitled—statehood for Alaska.—.June
au Dispatch.
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The housecleaning worm is beginning ominously.
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A Kansas woman has two sets of false teeth—believes in
safety first.
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Italy shows width between the eyes in indicating a disposi
tion to keep Austria as her neighbor across the Adriatic rather
than to have Russia there.
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In some cases, concluding from divorce court stories, to
permit a woman to pass sentence on her husband would be like
allowing T. R. to pass judgment on the New York World.
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Henry Watterson predicts that the close of the war will
see this country wallowing in milk and honey—but what pos
sible interest can that figure of speech have for a Kentuckian?
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“Money for the making of war will never be scarce as long
as there are printing presses,” said Jacob H. Schiff, financier,
the other night in discussing how long the war would last. But
some one has to pay and the years of reckoning will be long.
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A New Jersey court holds that dirt is “disorderly,” and
that parents who fail to scrub their offsprings are public offen
ders. Perhaps in the fullness of time the reach of the law will
be extended to back yards and other tin can dumping grounds.
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“The handsomest, keenest and most brilliant man in this
community owes us $1.50 on subscription,” says the Marietta,
Minn., News. We are looking for the next issue' of that paper
to see how many dozen men broke the windows trying to reach
the subscription desk.
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Spring would not be possible nor life endurable if Texas
for once failed to sound her venial cry that the peaches have
been killed by frost. But the announcement has been made,
never fear, and the old globe can roll unvexed into the hectic
glare of the summer sun. r
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Vice President Marshall has been enabled in San Diego and
San Francisco to get out of his system as fine a lot of pent-up
panegyrics as ever graced a sophomore’s poetry. It’s good
to hear him. Rythmic fantasies ooze out of him like grease
from a grampus.
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There are lots of people who would rather lie about Wil
liam Jennings Bryan than do anything else in the world. It
has now developed that he did not demand a fee, and did not
receive one, for delivering a temperance lecture at the Sundev
revival services in Philadelphia.
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Three Villa dollars are selling for 25 cents in United States
coin. Depreciated Mexican currency has been an international
by-word for many years, and continuous revolution whirls
no new value into it. Apparently anybody who kills enough
men and steals enough women to wear Mexican epaulets can
start a mint of his own.
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Former Attorney General Wickersham, descanting nega
tively on equal suffrage the other day, said that *‘every wo
man has the ear of at least one man, and if she is opposed to
woman suffrage it is her duty to convince him and make him
go forth to the polls. As a general thing men will do just
what women ask them to.” Coining from such a source,
how can we doubt it f And yet—yes, and yet—!
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Chancellor IJoyd-George has started a prohibition move
ment in England. It is said that there is more drunkenness in
the British Isles than anywhere else on earth. It has also been
noted by investigators that the Anglo-Saxon cannot drink with
out making a soak of himself. He wants it strong and lots
of it. He cannot sip, nibble, laugh and sip again, as do the
Germans and French and Italians. As between the Kaiser’s
forces and John Barleycorn, says the Chancellor, John Bull’s
danger is in John Barleycorn, insidnous as a submarine.
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Frederick Palmer, great war correspondent, says there is
less complaint from the English soldiers enduring the dread
ful hardships of trench life than among the Englishmen at
home. Isn’t that always the case. The men and women who
work and suffer usually are tin* most contented. The greatest
complainers know to the human race are women who never
work and men who have nothing to do. Tt is always the wo
man with servants and luzury who sings the sodden song, nnd
the man who is idling. The atrophying process seems to call
for it.
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Tlie city of Los Angeles has won the suit brought to stop
the use of its new aqueduct on the ground that it was impure
and unsafe. The court, after a long and expensive trial, says
the* water is pure and that the city made no blunder in going
•JSfi miles to the Owen river at tremendous cost. The suit was
a somewhat mysterious one, two men starting it as tax-pavers.
Somebody put up a lot of money to promote it, some of the ex
pert witnesses receiving $100 per day. Probably another
case of selfish but cowardly predatory interests trying to bring
about the building of another costly plant.
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Rev. Mr. Ross complains that most of our American nov- '
els deal with a rotten home lift* or a rotten man or woman.
His deplorations art* timely, but what can be (Tone about it?
Isn’t the rotten novel and the rotten play what the public
wants’ And should the public be refused anything it wants?
Isn’t this a free country, and aren’t we going the limit? Do
we regard incontinency as anything more serious than a mere
i"discretion, to be smoothed over, and perhaps laughed at?
Have we forgotten that it is a form of insanity, dangerous to i
the third and' the fourth generation? The modern novel to a
certain extent reflects conditions as they are. If overdone, it
can be excused on the ground that it reflects a neurotic condi
tion, even if it does not speak a universal truth with respect
to the family.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Orug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
dentist
Office In Adame Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adam* Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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ikan, Wrangell, Juneau. Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward via
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Sails frcm SMrttto— Sails from Cordova—
April 6. ALAMEDA.April 15
April 12. NORTHWESTERN . April 22
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives. S. S. Seward. 8. 8. Seward, 5th; S. 8. l atouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
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without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not bn received at the dock later than one hour beforn
sailing time.
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General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL EVANS, March 25
ADMIRAL WATSON, April 5
Vis the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau. Yakutat.
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
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Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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Copper River &
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EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1915. 'I
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Wednesdays and Saturdays
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