THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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Alaska, as second-class matter.
H. G. STEEL
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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919.
'•OWN YOUR OWN HOME”
CAMPAIGN
The first state-wide “Own Your Own
Home” campaign in the United States
is reported to the division of public
works and construction development
of the department of labor. The cam
paign is on in the state of Indiana
and behind it as the directing force is
no less an organization than the In
diana State Chamber of Commerce.
There are eighteen cities in the
United States in which “Own Your
Own Home” campaigns are under way
or about to start, but the Indiana
State Chamber of Commerce is spon
sor for the first movement for a cam
paign to#take in every hamlet, village,
and city in a state. It is understood
that this campaign may be extended
over a period of five years and it is
not improbable that the Indiana State
Chamber of Commerce finally may de
cide to maintain as a permanent de
partment of its organization an “Own
Your Own Home” bureau which will
bo on the job every day of every year.
A. W. McKeand, extension director
of the Indiana organization, has writ
ten the division of public works and
construction development asking its
co-operation in the Indiana campaign.
All the machinery of tire department
of labor, insofar, as it touches the
ipM’TOMSfinKSHr Will be lined up to co
operate and assist whenever oppor
tunity offers. A representative of the
department of labor will go to Indiana
to study the “Own Your Own Home”
^organization there to thd end that its
attractive features may be passed on
to other cities and states. The follow
ing from Mr. McKeand’s letter indi
cates the scale on t^hich the Indiana
campaign will be prosecuted as well
as the method:
1 fits lliuidiiu oiaic vuauiuv-1
Commerce has, for the past few
months, been planning an “Own A
Home" campaign. W«e have held our
initial state meeting, organized our
state-wide committee and secured the
co-operation of most of the commer
cial organizations in the state, and we
are now starting out to secure the co
operation of the rest of the organiza
tions. We have a definite plan of
procedure, and it has been adopted
by our people in the mass convention
■with representatives from practically
every city in the state present.
• “Briefly, our campaign is to use
$150,000 paid space in the newspapers
and operate a general publicity de
partment for news stories, prepara
tions of posters, window dressing,
speaker’s bureau, traveling exhibits,
etc.
“We have organized a state-wide
committee consisting of one man from
each line of business whether directly
or indirectly interested in the “Own
A Home” movement. There are thirty
one organizations now actively work
ing with us, and there are a number
of others that are fairly well organ
ized that we will hSTte a3 soon as
their executive committee have
passed upon the plan. We have four
subcommittees studying the prob
lems of finance, survey, city planning
and advertising. These committees
are made up of ^well known people
from all lines of business in all parts
of the state, and they are actively at
work on their plans at this time. We
are then building a complement to the
state-wide organization in each town
in 'the state. The state-wide organiza
tion passing down to the local com
munities its plans and suggestions
, and working with the local communi
ties to make such changes as are
needed to suit local conditions. From
our long experience in the commercall
organization field we know that no
plan sot up in any one place will suit
all local conditions in another, so for
this reason we are going to place our
plans in charge of special committees
In each town in the state and help
them fit the plan to local conditions."
FORMS ORGANIZATION ALL BY
HIM8ELF
(From the Anchorage Times)
A fellow named Drayton—Thomas
B. Drayton, to be more polite about
It, and politeness costs nothing, other
wise we should not employ it when
dealing with the person under discus
sion—has organized all by himself, in
his secluded retreat in the environs
of the Resurrection bay town, some
thing which he dubs "The Alaska As
sociation.” He is the president, sec
retary and treasurer of this phantom
organization, conceived during the
long stretdhes of the night in the
wilderness home of the originator. In
flamboyant words employed in the
prospectus, the father of this ill-be
gotten, ill-conceived and ill-omened ef
fort calls on all true Alaskans to en
roll under his banner, and reminds
them, very casually, that a dollar, or
two, once in a while—the oftener the
better—would be very acceptable in
deed.
We have a copy of this typewritten
"prospectus” before us as we write.
We propose to publish it in its en
tirety, to show what this fellow is
doing. Publicity is all that is needed
to put an end to the malicious activi
ties • of these knockers. We repro
duced an editorial from that nonde
script publication called the Saturday
Evening Blade. It it it was stated
that the information on which it based
its attack on the government railway
project was obtained from a “corre
spondent in Seward, Alaska.” We
think we know now who that particu
lar correspondent is.
But here’s the "prospectus!” Take
a look at it:
The Alaska Association
Seward, Alaska, April 7, 1919.
Dear Sir: A number of Alaskans
are forming an association in which
your membership is desired, if, as we
believe, you approve the conclusions
and indorse the purposes outlined in
this letter, an dentical copy of which
is being sent to a large number of
men of character, intelligence and
proved loyalty to Alaska.
The chief purpose of the association
is to promote the building of the pro
posed government railroad from Sew
ard to Fairbanks.
Under the pseudo-management of
Mr. William C. Edes, and the men ac
tually in charge under his alleged di
rection, the railroad project will not
be completed within any future period
now reasonably or probably certain;
for the' reasons, as we believe, that
these men are incompetent to build
the road, and are also unwilling to
complete it so long as public moneys
are available for salaries, expense ac
counts and other charges in which
they are interested.
We believe the removal of these
men from' the positions they now oc
cupy is absolutely indispensable if
disaster to the entire Alaska railroad
project is to be averted.
For political and other obvious rea
sons their removal through a direct
appeal to the President is perhaps not
to be expected before the assembling
of another congress; but as a matterr
of information for yourself, it may be
said that the new committee on ap
propriations, and all senators and rep
resentatives, will have detailed infor
mation of railroad management in
Alaska during the past four years,
which will defeat any appropriation
to be disbursed by these same men.
The preliminary work of the new
association will be two-fold—to house
clean and simultaneously effect an im
mediate prosecution of the railroad
project.
Thil'fv-nne milSnn
money is gone. Grief is now useless.
Accusations and recriminations will
be made in congress if made at all.
Accusations and recriminations are in
expedient for us, as our assocation is
not to assail a band of daring loot
ers, a combination of bold grafters,
but merely to effect the quiet dismis
sal of a collection of unfortunate men
whose incapacity has brought misfor
tune upon us and jeopardized our in
terests, but whose chief fault in a
personal sense is a mania to hold and
prolong their jobs despite a knowledge
of their unfitness—a situation in which
blame may well be tempered with
pity.
While our fil,000,0<5<) is gone—a
large part we know not where—still
much may yet be salvaged by prac
tical and competent railroad builders
and, as the government has been so
deeply involved, congress will go
through with the project without much
delay if it be first assured of an entire
change of management and a thor
ough housecleaning in all the vari
ous departments of the engineering
commission.
We want your membership—active
or passive—and all that you are able
to contribute of brains. Influence and
experience; and we will also want a
dollar of your money now and then.
May we have them?
One of your friends will personally
solicit your membership.
THE ALASKA ASSOCIATION.
CORDOVA IS NOT DOING
ITS BIT IN LOAN DRIVE
Previous subscriptions .$27,700
Today’s subscriptions . 650
Total .$28,350
Practically two-thirds of the alloted
time for the Victory Liberty loan
drive has passed and Cordova is ln^
giug behind, thus far having raissl
ies than one-tliird of her quota.
Patriotism must be at a low ebb here,
one of the most prosperous towns in
Alaska, when our residents either
neglect or refuse to come to the as
sistance of the government, especially
when offered a gilt-edged investment.
Today’s subscribers wereWilltam Ger
rie, Allina Heath, W. E. Downing,
Henry W. Hutchings, Donald Foster,
Frank H. Foster, John Vukmirovich,
Tom Jeorge, Andrija Wukichevlch.
A bunch of twenty-one persons
wer playing a game in Anchorage
where they say “hit me,” and “take
it.” Deputy Marshal Mossman and
Deputy Kavanaugh dropped in and
became so interested in the proceed
ings that they haled the players into
court where the proprietor of the
game was assesed a fine of $250 and
costs and the others given a sus
pended sentence.
Pete Butrich, a well known old
timer who has worked in the mines
at Nome, died in that recently of
influenza. Pete contracted influenza
some time ago, and while sleeping in
his cabin his feet, which had always
troubled him, become uncovered and
were badly frozen. He was removed
to the hospital where both feet were
amputated. The operation is said to
have been successful but Peto dfed
from the shock.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE—McCarthy Greenhouse.
Everything modern and up-to-date;
doing fine business; will sell cheap
if sold right away. Owner must
leave for states. Wire or write Mr.
Norman A. Erickson, Box 383, Mc
Carthy, Alaska.
WANTED — Woman for general
housework. Apply to Mrs. Geo.
Dooley. 16-tf
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WANTED — Woman baker. Apply
Northland Bakery. 29-tf
LOST—Lady'a wrist watch, Hampden
made. Engraved Malsle. Return
Times office. _ 30-tf
WANTED—Young girl as waitress.
Apply New York Cafe. 29-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley. 31-tf
LOST—Two finger rings. Return to
Times office and receive reward. 30
WANTED—A marble slab. Inquire
Times office.
FOR RENT—Furnished three-room
apartment. See K. C. Robinson. 20-tf
The Daily Times Job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
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Aunty
Keating’s ,,
Wee Shop
Take a peep in the Wee Shop,
And i’ll bet you my all
You’ll want to atop in
If only to call.
There are lots of Toys,
Picture Books and Games,
Marbles and Candles and
Dolls without names—
Silks and Laces,
Ribbons by the mile—
And Frances Fraisure there
To give you a smile.
CORDOVA MACHINE
WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Phone 101-3
Shop Phone 182
Machine Work of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
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