THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS.
When a man gets a thousand dol
lars saved up there are always op
portunities for a good investment. It
is hard to place much less than that.
That is why wealthy men who are
self-made advise young men to begin
early and save the first thousand.
Until we went to war, in order to get
a thousand dollars together one had
to go to the bank and put a little away
each month or each week or tuck part
of his salary away in an old sock.
It was troublesome to go to the bank
and the sock was too handy. Now,
however, there is an easy way to get
that first thousand. The answer is
War Savings Stamps. In them the
government of the United States,
backing those stamps with a guar
antee of four per cent interest com
pounded quarterly, opens the way.
One can begin with “two bits.”—
Wrangell Sentinel.
The movement started by the newly
organized Commercial Club to secure
the dredging of Wrangell Narrows is
one which should have the backing
of every man and woman in Alaska,
from Anchorage to Ketchikan. For
some years it has been a known fact
that the larger boats could not use
Wrangell Narrows except in cases of
extreme tide and were thus forced to
make the longer trip around the out
side, necessitating a longer trip, the
loss of many hours in their running
time, and in one instance the loss of a
fine big passenger liner, and its cargo
estimated at $1,507,200. Mails and
freight have been greatly delayed and
have been endangered by storms and
rough weather. Wrangell Narrows is
always calm, and always safe, except
in case of foggy weather, which is apt
to occur at any time at any place.
Money spent in dredging in the Nar
rows would not have to be respent in
a. few years as the current keeps the
channel clear in the Narrows at all
times. In the past sixteen years the
channel has not shifted and the water
un uie uur nas uecreaseu leas uiaa
two inches.—Petersburg Report.
Governor Riggs and the Alaska leg
islature are going about the work of
preparing for a territorial steamship
line between Alaska and the states
in a manner that means business.
They have determined to have an ade
quate transportation service between
Puget Sound and Alaska at rates
which will permit of continued devel
opment of the north. In this work
there is no doubt but that they have
the people of Alaska behind them. It
would be preferable to have this serv
ice rendered by private capital and
thus permit the territorial govern
ment to devote its attentions to
needed development in other direc
tions. But continued advancing
freight and passenger rates and the
ever present difficulty met by those
engaged in mining and the fishing in
dustry to get their freight moved is
not promising to this preference. Gov
ernor Riggs did his best to find some
other solution for the situation than
the entrance into the shipping game
by the territory, but none was dis
covered. Governor Riggs, Senator
Price, Representative Noon and other
members of the legislature who have
given closest attention to this matter
are convinced of the practicability of
the developing plans. The people of
the territory have confidence in their
ability and earnestness, and they will
give them the backing and support
that may be necessary to crown their
laudable undertaking with success.—
Juneau Empire.
FTSHQUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN^ April 23—Yester
day’s fish prices were: Halibut, 8%c;
sableflsh, 3c; red rock, l%c.
SALONIKI IS
METING POT
OFHANITY
SALONIKI, March 15 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—The
American visitor finds here an extra
ordinary mixture’s of races, tongues,
beliefs and customs. Saloniki is lit
erally a melting-pot of humanity. No
other city in the world, unless it be
one of the great American centers, is
so thoroughly cosmopolitan. Greeks,
Mongols, Turks, Slavs, Teutons, Ital
ians and Europeans mingle and each
understands the language of the
other. The market place is a babel
of tongues. The lowliest 3treet ped
dler speaks at least four languages.
But these diverse races associate
together only for business purposes.
In their religious beliefs, aspirations
and senitments a great gulf separates
them. Each has a different ideal and
a distinct viewpoint of life. In Mace
donia all religions are tolerated.
Saloniki, or Thessalonica, as it was
called in early times, is said to have
been the door by which Christianity
entered Europe. Indeed, devout resi
dents relate with pride that it was
here the Apostle Paul, after having
evangelized Syria and Asia Minor,
came to preach the gospel to the un
believers of Macedonia.
The money-changer has been a fix
ture in Saloniki from time immeror
ini r\M<«inn> iirnx Tin i>na norl *1 rinTl
harvest on the fluctuating value of the
curency of the war-affected countries.
The American dollar was the only cur
rency that he could not buy at a
profit. It resisted all the vicissitudes
and varying fortunes of the war and
held steadily at 100 cents when all the
other money of the world was
fluctuating.
Saloniki is essentially a Jewish city,
for there are more than 100,000 Jews
w'ho make their home here. They con
trol the bulk of the business. About
80 per cent of them are Spanish He
brews whose ancestors were driven
from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella
in the fifteenth century. To indicate
the wide diversity of other aces, how
ever, it is sufficiently only to say that
there are five Greek newspapers,
seven Spanish-Hebrew, four French,
three Serbian, one Turkish and one
English. The lone English newspaper
is published by the British army for
the use of its men in the Levant.
If the Apostle Paul could come to
Saloniki today, he probably would
preach to the Thessalonians a gospel
of cleanliness as well as of piety, for
dirt seems to be an inseparable part
of the city and of the people. Hygienic
and sanitary methods, as the allied
military authorities soon learned, are
woefully primitive. During the allied
occupation thousands of British,
French, Italian and Serbian soldiers
succumbed to malaria, typhoid and
other diseases arising from lack of
drainage and sanitation. Through all
the centuries plagues and epidemics
have visited the city and carried off
thusands of its inhabitants. Being on
the principal thoroughfare from Asia
into Europe, Saloniki has been the
means of spreaing Asiatic cholera to
the towns washed by the Mediterran
ean. The city itself has suffered great
losses of life through this great
scourge.
OLDEST WOMAN VOTER
A RESIDENT OF WYOMING
LARAMIE, Wyo., April 23 (by As
sociated Press).—This city not only
claims the oldest woman voter in the
United States, but also lays claim to
having had the first woman voter and
first woman court bailiff.
Mrs. Nancy Wilhelmina Brown, re
cently made “mother of the conven
tion” of the National American Wom
an’s Suffrage Association at St. Louis,
is the wife of Judge Melville C. Brown
of Laramie County’s police court. She
is the oldest votor in the association.
Mrs. Brown was not old enough to
vote when women suffrage in Wyom
ing became a fact but she began visit
ing the voting booths in 1874 and has
been voting at every election since.
“Grandma” Swain of Laramie was
the first woman voter in the United
States as far as the records show. She
cast her vote while on her way to
market to buy groceries. Mrs. Nathan
Stark, now of Fort Morgan, Colo.,
reached the polls In Cheyenne shortly
after "Grandma” Swain had voted.
The late Mrs. Martha Atkinson,
mother of John M. Symons of Lara
mie was the first woman court bailiff.
Mrs. Stephen Boyd, first school teach
er in Laramaie county, now dead, was
a member of the first grand jury to
be composed of women.
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MEXICAN FINANCE
TO RECEIVE AIRING
LOS ANGELES, April 22 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Details of the legal
transactions by which Francisco Villa,
Mexican bandit leader, supported his
revolutionary army are expected to be
revealed when the suit of Alberto Ma
iero against Lazaro de la Garza, in
an effort to recover $220,000, comes
to trial in the superior court here
soon. Madero is a brother of the late
Francisco Madero, slain president of
Mexico. De la Garza formerly acted
as Villa’s financial agent in the United
States.
Madero’s action, which was filed last
December, declares that $75,000 was
loaned by Madera to De la Garza for !
the purchase of 1,000,000 rounds of
ammunition for Villa from an Eastern
cartridge factory. Madera continues,
in the complaint of action, that De la
Garza entered into a contract for the
purchase of the ammunition, but later
transferred the contract to the J.
Pierpont Morgan company for $220,000,
a profit which, Madero declares, right
fully is his.
In his answer to the suit De la
Garza refers to the Pershing punitive
expediton and declares that the court
action instituted by Madero is based
on transactions with Villa, and can
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of the United States.
De la Garza adds in his answer that
Villa still is hostile to the United
States, and that for this reason the
trial of the Madero action in the local
courts would be against public policy.
WHY ENGLISH GIRLS
DISLIKE DOMESTIC WORK
LONDON, March 26 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—There
are three reasons why English girls
f'ght shy of domestic service: Loss of
social status, long hours of duty and
lack of companionship.
These are the findings of one of the
rumerous committees which, on be
half cr the government, are trying to
lino a solution of the servant problem
in this country.
‘ The fact cannot be denied,” says
the report, ‘‘that domestic workers
are regarded by other workers as be
longing to a lower social status. The
distinctive dress they are required to
wear marks them out as a class apart,
the cap being generally resented.
“It is sometimes stated that the
differentiation in the quality of the
food for the dining room and that for
the servants’ hall or kitchen is an
other class distinction which leads to
a spirit of bitterness. The customs of
addressing dometic workers by their
Christian name or surname is one of
the causes of the superior attitude
adopted by other workers recruited
from the same or even from a lower
social status.
“Further, the attitude adopted by
the press and the stage is usually an
unfortunate one, as servants are fre
quently represented by as comic or
flippant characters and are held up to
ridicule,”
An advisory committee of the min
istry of labor has laid down the first
official minimum wage scale for do
mestic servants. It ranges from $110
a year for a housemaid of 18 years
or more up to $150 for a cook or a
housekeeper, in addition to board and
washing. Hours of leisure are fixed
at two hours daily, a halt-holiday
every week, part time on Sundays, 4
and two weeks’ holiday each year
with wages.
The Pioneer a weekly newspaper at
Ketchikan, has been absorbed by a
company that will publish a daily
paper there. The company also pur
chased the Daily Progresive Miner of
that place.
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