The Cordova Daily Times
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ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publisher*
H. 6. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1015!
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REASONS ADVANCED WHY ALASKA
NEEDS A BOARD OF CONTROL
THE EFFORT to provide a better government for Alaska,
so that its inhabitants will not be forever subjected
to the caprice of bureau chiefs 4,0(H) miles distant, natu
rally meets immediate opposition from the bureaucrats. What
will become of them and their mi tape if Alaska is to be taken
out of their clutches! Hawaii is soil' governing, Porto Rico u
practically so, the canal zone is virtually a ^military reservation
and the Philippines are goveVnod in the Philippines. Alaska
is the last resort of the Washington bureau chief. Take that1
Territory from him and the last stronghold of the circumlocu
tion office will fall.
Secretary Lane proposes to establish a governing board in
Alaska to look after the minor affairs of the Territory and to
handle its business generally subject to Congress and tin* secre
tary of the interior. Under this plan, an applicant for a fifty
foot lot for the purpose of raising chickens would have his ap
plication passed upon and decided in Alaska Instead of being
compelled to hand it down to his grandchildren while the gov
ernment at Washihgfon- was deliberating upon it.
But this method of governing Alaska in Alaska meets the
determined opposition of the American Forestry Association,
which prefers to keep Alaska as a breeding ground for fads in
forestry. At a meeting of the association in Philadelphia re
cently it was assorted by distinguished forest experts that the
proposal to place affairs in Alaslpi in the hands of a governing
board was inimical to the forest service; that the public lands
would be “whittled down” and gradually pass into private
hands, and such magnificent forests as the Chugach and Ton
gass reserves would finally disappear. It was added that there
was no complaint against the present management of the forest
reserves in Alaska.
The facts are that neither Chugach nor Tongass contains as
much forest as waste land. The land, if it is worth anything,
ought to be in private hands—in the hands of American citizens
engaged in building homes and developing the country. At
least 15,000,000 acres in the reservations are not forested.
Yet they are administered from Washington as “forests,” and
there is a great show of scientific management, forest cultiva
tion, etc., all of it calling for appropriations from the treasury
without benefiting the nation or the people of Alaska. The
sole benefit of the present arrangement goes to employees of the
forest service.
While Congress is considering conservation matters it
could well afford to dig into the Alaskan situation and obtain
first-hand information from Alaskans. Ninety-nine per cent,
of them favor Secrtey Lane’s plan. They are American citi
zens, building up the nation’s interests in a far-away and not
too inviting corner of the national domain. If they want part
of the public lands they ought to be able to get it, with due re
gard to the public interest. A governing board on tin* ground
clothed with power to dispose of minor business and directly
under the eye of the Secretary of the Interior would be infinite
ly more effective in governing Alaska than the bureaucratic
system that pursues the theory that every person in Alaska is
a thief trying to swindle the United States.—Washington Post.
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WAR’S RED WHEELS CRUSHING
OUT THOUSANDS OF HUMAN LIVES
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Al’ERSON, nearing an abattoir is warned of itli proximity
from Europe during the past four months has filled the
by the ordors arising from it. It the same way news
souls ol men with the ordors that have been rising from the
shambles there. These have, during the past ten days, been
accentuated by the cataclysm that came when the earthquake
mobilized its forces and took up its march across Italy.
“On horror’s head horrors accumulate”
until
We are “supp’d full of horrors.”
1 hey are having their effect upon the world; unconsciously
men are yielding to the sinster influence. Had there been no
war the news from Italy would ’ere this have started relief
ships on the way to Italy and the Red Cross would have been
urgent in its sphere of help, even as followed’ the Messina catas
trophe.
When men are dying their secretions cease and while
friends around them are weeping, they shed no tears. Are the
finer instincts of men breaking down under accumulating evi
dences that mercy has deserted the earth and the old brutal
methods of primitive man have assumed full sway? It looks
that way
When a people rise up to break unbearable fetters that
tyranny has riveted upon them their war is a holy one and
the world’s sympathies wrap them ’round'and the world grows
better and tenderer watching them.
But when a migthy war is launched upon the world for no
purpose except to minister to the lust of conquest, to extend
power and commerce and gratify unholy ambitions, then it be
comes only a mighty juggernaut, and while its red wheels are
crushing out human lives, making a barren fallow of fertile
fields, grinding into ruins noble cities with their glories of art
and architecture, the ruin does not stop with the destruction.
The shadow of it, falling on the souls of men, benumbs them—
their higher attributes cease to act, like dying men they have
lost the power to weep
The disaster of the present war in Europe extends far be
yond its local boundaries. It makes men distrustful of their
fellow men, its tendency is to make men question the movies of
their fellow men; to doubt the divinity of charity and love—
almost to doubt the mercy of God.
As yet there are no signs that any one of the nations en
gaged lias any desire to end the struggle except on its own terms
and so the juggernaut continues to roll on; the burden of the
news each day is but the story of new battles and the odor from
the mighty abottoirs continue to taint the world's atmosphere,
h or us there is nothing to do except to plant a larger area than
was ever before harvested, and try' to keep our charities warm
and to prepare our people so far as possible against any such
catastrphe as is now threatening to wreck civilization itself in
the old world.
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In discusing tin* question of “tin* police and parasites” the
Juneau Kmpire points out how a little determination and effi
ciency on the part of the local authorities clears up such a con
dition. It says: “The members of the Juneau City Council
are determined that the parasites, who live from “picking”
unsuspecting men in gambling games, and those of that wors^g
brand of parasites, the men who live from tin* earnings of dis
solute women, cannot pty their nefarious trades in this city.
There is nothyngTomaining for the Council and the new Chief
to do but to put a stoji to practices that are intolerable—and
that they will do it is certain.”
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left ai Cordova
Drug 8tore. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
8uite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at l aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA. ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
V. A. SCHMITZ
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward via
INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails frcm isetUe Sails from Cordova—
February 1. ALAMEDA .. February 8
February 8.MARIPOSA.February 15
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, 8heep Creek
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Expio*
Ives, S. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; 8. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOl^D ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle Will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, February 5, Through to Kodiak.
. ADMIRAL EVANS, February 15
Via _ INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Ka**lla, Cordeva, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island. «.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA rI RANSFEIi CO., Local Agents
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Copper River &
Northwestern Ry.
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EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914. j \
Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave ■ ’
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Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays I»
Chitina for Kennecott— '» ;:
Tuesdays, Fridays an^^Saturdays. •
Kennecott for Chitina— '!
Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays.
Chitina for Cordova— -'
Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays i;
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Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
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