THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
ARTHUR FRAME
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
CAN YOU PROVE YOUR RIGHT
TO VOTE?
The right to vote is only one of
many important rights which may be
difficult to prove without legal evi
dence. Because a birth record is the
best evidence of age, parentage and
citizenship, and because of the im
portance to the individual and to
society of careful birth records, the
Childrens Bureau of the United States
department of labor in a pamphlet
recently issued recommends better
birth registration as the first meas
ure in a children’s year follow-up
program.
Only twenty-three states and the
District of Columbia now keep birth
records with sufficient accuracy and
completeness to admit them to the
United States birth registration
aerea. These states are California,
Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Ken
tucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachu
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, New York, North
Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvan
ia, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Utah, Vermont Virginia, .Washington
and Wisconsin. They represented,
in 1919, 58.4 per cent of the popula
tion of the countxy.
Children now being being born in
the remaining twenty-five states rep
resenting almost half of the popula
tion may be seriously embarrassed
in not possessing a birth certificate
when the time comes to prove that
they are old enough to go to school,
to leave school, to go to work, to
vote, to marry. They may have
trouble in proving their title to in
herited property in the absence of
proof of parentage, and their right
to hold public office or receive pass
ports for foreign travel may be ques
tioned if evidence of citizenship fur
nished by a birth certificate is lack
ing.
The community also is handicapped
in undertaking measures for the pro
tection of life and health if it does
not have vital statistics based on sat
is factory birth and death records,
Important welfare work for mothers
and babies is impossible without care
ful registration. The phenomenal
growth in “health visiting” of babies
in, England during the last five years
is attributed to the Notification of
Births Act of 1915*.which made noti
fication within 3 days compulsory
throughout the kingdom.
^ igorous efforts for one year, de-1
Clares the Children’s Bureau pam
phlet, would place every state in the
United States in the birth registra
tion area. In communities in which
there is a good law, not sufficiently
enforced, a birth registration test
is recommended. In states where
there is no adequate law, campaigns
for better legislation should be
waged.
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THINGS WE THINK
Things Others Think and What We
Think of the Things Others Think.
The almighty dollar is God enough
for many.
Taft does not smoke—but is not ad
verse to a puff now and then.
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The fellow who nails a lie and
makes it stick is a knocker worth
while. .
Death and taxes are certain—and it
is about as hard to pay one as the
other.
The person who eats his vitals out
with envy is due for a long attack of
biliousness.
After a women has raised four or
five children, she doesn’t talk much
about theories.
Willie Hearst has gotten into the
bad habit of believing the editorials
in his own papers.
A proposed reform is often made
possible and popular because of the
arguments against it.
Refusing to pay what you owe is
not economy under the strict inter
pretation of the word.
.Some people take pleasure in pre
dicting that all sorts of terrible
things are goiiig to happen.
We all believe that children should
be whipped for their own good—but
we like to see it tried out on our
neighbor’s kids first.
Why pay a dollar a word for edi
torials when you can get exactly the
same language in Webster’s at a dol
lar for about 500 words.
A revolution is reported to be im
minent in Ecuador, but it is not ex
pected that the world’s equilibrium
will be perceptibly disturbed.
Considering the state of mind
young folks get into, it is a wonder
that so many show as good judg
ment as they do in making a choice.
Some men spend ten dimes making
good fellows of themselves with the
fellow who has spent a dollar, and
think it a profitable way of adver
tising.
An eastern university professor
says that the miracles never hap
pened. When a college prof, gets an
idea like this inculcated in his
“think tank,” it is not a very far cry
to believe in the probability and
possibility of miracles.
UTAH PLANNING
RESTING PLACE
BIRDS IN FLIGHT
OGDEN, Utah, Aug. 24 (by Associ
ated Press).—Through the efforts of
the Weber County Rod and Gun
Club, with the co-operation of the
government, a large resting grounu
for migratory birds will be provided
soon upon the shores of the Great
Salt Lake, near here.
The government has sent three men
to Utah to work out the question of
boundaries. Irving C. Emmett, act
ing federal game warden, and two
assistants will spend 90 days in Ogden
and vicinity preparing the reserve.
It is planned to have the unsur
veyed land in Boxelder county sur
veyed and set aside as the reserve.
The reserve will also take in the
west shore of the lake which is said
to be the greatest resting ground
for birds in the United States. In
spection of the district has shown
the largest variety of water fowl
ever found on any inland body of
water. There are sea gulls, pelicans,
cranes, geese, snipes and hundreds
of other varieties.
In connection with the reserve the
lederal agents will gather statistics
on filing and holding of private duck
clubs. No additional ground will be
permitted to be added to the clubs’
grounds. The greater part of the
clubs are located along the Bear river
near its mouth.
The plans for the reserve have
been before the Weber County Rod
and Gun Club for about a year. It
was efforts of Alfred T. Hestmark,
president of the club that the organ
ization secured the game reserve or
sanctuary, containing 150 square miles
set aside for this city, taking in three
scenic canyons, Ogden, Weber and
North Ogden. In the mountains and
streams of the reserve the Rod and
Gun Club expects to have beaver,
deer, elk, mountain sheep and moun
tain goats and wild land fowl.
RAPA IS WORST
PUCE OF ALL
FOR LAZINESS
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RAPA, Dangerous Archipelago,
Aug. 24 (by Associated Press).—They
toil not, neither do they spin, and in
all the reaches of the Seven Seas
it would take a long voyage to find
a more lazy population of men than
Rapa’s. In Rapa the women are the
hewers of w-ood and the drawers of
water. In other happy climes of
Micronesia and Polynesia, the self
appointed “lord of creation” will
deign to raise his hand aloft and
pluck for himself the fruit of the
banana and orange tree. In Rapa,
however, he will not even feed him
self. 'Wpien meal time comes the
women of the family, after foraging
for food and cooking it, must also t
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put it into the mouth of her lord
and master. They roll the taro
“poi” into little balls and toss them
into the open mouths of the men
folks.
The people of. Rapa wear no clothes
—or did not until a scandalized white
missionary from Tahiti insisted on
gathering some old garments from
his more favored parisherners in
Papeete and hurried them to Rapa.
Rapa, known also as Oparo, is one
of the most isolated and most inter
esting islands in the South Pacific.
It lies south of Tahiti, far out in the
tropics, included in the French set
tlements in Oceania and inhabitated
by Polynesians of the same type as
the Tahitans.
It is one of the few spots most
lightly touched by the finger of civil
ization. Seldom does a schooner
touch here—not more than once a
year—and once in a great while a
French gunboat from Papeete will
voyage into the Dangerous Archi
pelago.
The island itself is mountaneous,
with strange castlelike peaks rising
in the interior. It possesses a good
harbor, and what is most unique in
the South Sea islands, has deposits
of coal, not of very good quality,
though.
When the Panama canal was near
ing completion there was much talk
in Tahiti of establishing a coaling
station here, Rapa being close to the
Southern Great Circle route, and ad
mirably adapted to such a purpose,
but no such thing has come to rude
ly shock the serene existence of the
Rapa men.
CAR SERVICE IN
SMALL TOWNS
DISCONTINUED
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BERLIN, Aug. 24 (by Associated
Press).—Owing to the enormous in
crease in the cost of operation, street
car service in many of the smaller!
German cities has been discontinued.
Jena, Wuerzburg, Freiberg and Heil
bronn are among the towns trying now
to get along without trams. Attempts
wrere made to keep the lines going by
radical increases in fares, but the pub
1 lie, unable to pay the price, took to
walking.
Berlin and other large cities, where
street car traffic has fallen off alarm
ingly because of increased fares, are
facing the problem of reorganizing the
service, retaining only those lines
which are absolutely necessary for the
accommodation of persons having to
travel long distances. Wagons and
carts brought out to give a lift to
pedestrians during recent strikes of
street car employes have indicated
which routes through Berlin are vital
for transportation.
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HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Including Dishes, Books, Rugs, Sew
ing machines, Victrola and fifty
high-class Records.
ARCHIE WEATHERBY
WEE SHOP
CORDOVA
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Clarence Henry Golden, his
heiis, assigns, administrator and to
all whom it may concern.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned co-own
er of Clarence Henry Golden in the
Alsac, Amazon, Francisco, Pelly, Mc
Kenzie, Columbia and Yukon claims,
situate on the left bank of Chokosna
river, about eight miles from the Cop
per River Railway at Mile 158, and
found in the records of the Valdez
Mining and Recording district at
Valdez, Alaska, has expended in labor
and improvements upon said claims
the sum of $1400 during the years
1913 and 1914, and that Clarence
Henry Golden being the owner of a
one-third interest in the above named
claims, and having failed to do or per
form any labor, or expend any money
for the same, there is now due and
owing from you, your heirs or assigns,
me-third of $1400, as your proportion
of the amount necessary to be ex
pended for the years 1913-1914, to
hold possessory right and title to
the said claims under the provision of
section 2324 of the revised statutes
of the United States and the amend
ments thereto.
And if within ninety days after
this notice by publication is com
pleted you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such
expense as before stated, your inter
est in the aforementioned claims will
become the property of the subscrib
er hereto, and under the section of
the law above mentioned which gov
erns assessment work on lode mining
claims.
TOM KINNEY.
First publication Aug. 4, 1920.
Last publication Nov. 3, 1920.
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TAILORING AND
CLEANING
Hats steam cleaned on Mondays by
a real hatter at the same price of
dry cleaning.
Tailored Suits at ready-made suit
prices from the best of woolens and
in the best of workmanship.
See some of our finished work.
T. N. HUBBERT
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CARDS
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clusive line of engraved stationery,
such as Wedding Announcements,
Calling Cards and Holiday Greetings.
What would be more appropriate than
to send one of the latter to your
friends? They are pretty, attractive
and artistic in appearance. Sold at
outside prices. Drop in and see our
samples.
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