THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919.
WITH A KICK
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This deporting of undesirable aliens
has a pleasant sound to most Ameri
can ears. With the enormously valu
able population that has come to us
from foreign lands and without which
the United States today would be a
ltttle nation huddled down in the
eastern half of the continent, there
has been a limited number of very
undesirable citizens. These people
have been so perverse, or so hope
lessly saturated with European ideas
and situations, that they have proved
dangerous to the community. We are
not as a people, let us hope, subject
to the naive British feeling that, to
achieve municipal perfection, it is
only necessary to exclude the alien.
We know and admit that Europe has
sent us as good timber as we our
selve possessed, and that among our
blackest criminals those of American,
birth and ancestry are as frequently
found as those of European origin.
But, to the evil tendencies that our
own development has brought into
life, the Europeans, when they are of
evil agency, have brought problems
that are peculiarly European. We
have had, for instance, the alien of
unpronounceable name who slew
President McKinley. We 'have the
Russian Jewish anarchist who, in this
land of freedom, have the first chance
to get together and propagandigate
to their hearts’ contest, and who seem
unable to. adjust themselves to the
fact that, on this side of the ocean,
they are no longer being oppressed
but have been given the same war
ranty deed that all Americans are
born into—the right to take a place
in the contest known as the surival
of the fittest. These imported bolshe
viks, continuing to harrangue against
the government just as they did—or
would have done had they dared—
against their former rulers can never
become a useful element in our popu
lation and must ever be a menace.
These we would gladly see deported.
The only trouble with the system is
that there is now ay of branding
them. Once they have been deported
they can shave—or whatever will dis
guise them best—and return to our
shores under the name of Smith. If
only modern ideals would permit us
to brand them upon the vaccination
mark with a “B. C.”—bad citizen—all
would be well.
RAILWAY PRINCE AND PAUPER
Of fourteen standard railways, rep
ressing forty-five per cent of Ameri
can railway mileage, only six sue
ceeded in earning anything for the
government above their three yeai
guarantee. The one railway that furn
ished the bulk of all the profits thai
Uncle Sam could use to offset hie
losses In the foolish railway adven
ture, is the Union Pacific. This wa:
partly due to the fact that, being the
shortest line, it received much freigh
that normally would have gone ove
other lines. The Southern Railwa:
w'as the second largest contributor te
the government’s surplus account, i
poor third was the Chesapeake ane
Ohio, followed by the Louisville ane
Nashville, the Atchison and th
Southern Pacific. The last three coij
tributed very little.
On the debtor side, the Penney!
vania made an appalling showing. I
led all others in the size of its deficit
The St. Paul came next and the Ba
timore and Ohio third. All showe
very heavy deficits. In order th
other worst liability roads were th
Great Northern, Northwestern, Net
York Central, New Haven, Illinoi
Central, Boston and Maine, Roc!
Island, Missouri Pacific, Lehigh Va!
ley and Norfolk and Western. Man;
of the railways failed, not only t
make dividends and interest on thel
bonds, but actual expenses.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The action of the city council in
calling for bids for the construction
of a good float for small boats, shows
that the members of the municipal
body aie determined to spare no en
deavor or expense to bring the down
sound trade to Valdez. This float will
be large and of ample capacity to pro
vide convenient landing for any num
ber of small craft, and it will be sub
stantial enough to withstand any
storms which blow. It will be a trade
getter for the city.—Valdez Miner.
The city authorities have issued
notification to all propery owners to
clean up their premises by the 10th
of May. Civic pride should cause the
people of the town to clean up with
out being compelled to do so by the
city. Old tin cans and ashes scat
tered about do not add to the attrac
tiveness of the place, neither do they
tend to help the health of the com
munity. Clean up!—Douglas News.
In imputing general rottenness of
conditions in connection with the con
struction of the Alaska railroad, O. B.
Miller, the Susitna miner, is but fol
lowing the example set by James
Wickersham. ^ Once Wickersham
broke the ice, other chronic kickers,
self-constituted reformers of the
world in general and Alaska in par
ticular, were bound in the nature of
things to take the plunge.
It is an easy and cheap method of
acquiring newspaper notoriety. We
venture to say that this man Miller
got more notice in the one front-page
appearance of his name in the Se
attle paper than he ever before had
in his entire life. He may be in the
Alaska “Who’s Who,” but our copy
apparently left him out.—Fairbanks
Citizen.
Ain’t it a grand and glorious feeling
when you send out a bunch of bills
to subscribers who are several months
in arrears and get no answer for a
month or so and then all of a sudden
the money begins to roll in. Oh, boys!
—Xaldez Miner.
ALASKA HIGH SCHOOLS *
TO BE ACCREDITED
That the studies included in the
| curriculum of the high schools of
Alaska are sufficient for the admis
sion of graduates of the schools to the
University of Washington is the lat
est word in the educational line.
Territorial Commissioner of Educa
tion L. D. Henderson has received
word that Alaska high school will
be accredited to the University of
Washington upon his recommenda
tion.
While in Seattle, Mr. Henderson
conferred with Frederick Bolton, dean
of the department of education of the
University of Washington, regarding
the matter of allowing schools to be
accredited upon his recommendation
and without the approval of a univer
sity inspector which has previously
been necessary. Heretofore one has
been brought north to inspect schools
at the expense of the local school
boards, and the new arrangements
will save this expense.
CLEAN-UP NOTICE
If you have not cleaned up your
premises you had better do so at
once. Prosecutions will be started
immediately against those who have
failed to do so.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
' W. H. Chase, Health Officer.
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Best coffee in town at the City
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WANTED — Finnish woman wants
work by day or hour. Address A.
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FOR SALE—Edison Diamond Disc
Phonograph, with 55 records; all
for $70. Inquire C. H. Phillips, care
Blum, O'Neill Co., furniture depart
ment. 7-4t
: FOR RENT—Bachelor room. Phone
185.
FOR RENT—Rooms over Bank of
Alaska, formerly occupied by North
' land Club. Will be altered to suit
satisfactory tenants. Apply Bank of
[ Alaska. 3-tf
s WANTED — Woman for general
housework. Apply to Mrs. Geo.
Dooley. 16-tf
WANTED — Woman baker. Apply
Northland Bakery. 29-tf
- FOR 8ALE—McCarthy Greenhouse.
1 Everything modern and up-to-date;
3 doing fine business; will sell cheap
s > If sold right away. Owner must
t leave for states. Wire or write Mr.
3 Norman A. Erickson, Box 888, Me
c Carthy, Alaska.
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FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. 8ee
^ Dooley. 81-tf
r WANTED—A marble slab. Inquire
Times office.
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SET YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD MARCH 29 |
The daylight-saving law will go
into effect Sunday, March 30, as the
Sixty-fifth congress failed to pass the
agricultural appropriation bill which
carried a 'rider repealing it. Here is
the luw as it stands:
“That at two o’clock antemeridian
of the last Sunday in March of each
yenr the standard time of each
zone shall be advanced one hour, and
at two o’clock antemeridian of the
last Sunday in October of each year
the standard time of each zone shall
be, by retarding one hour, returned to
the astronomical time of the degree
of longitude governing each zone, re
spectively.”
The national war garden commis
sion has led the movement to retain
the law. Secretary P. S. Ridsdale,
who has just returned from Europe,
says: “This is one of the most con
structive pieces of legislation. In
Europe they consider the daylight sav
ing one of their greatest reconstruction assets, it means muuuus uj. ummre m
Increased food production and to better health of the bench, shop, desk and
counter workers. Here it means that for 210 days one hundred million people
will have advantage of an extra houf of daylight. The commission points out
that it means more than two blUloh eight-hour days to the people of this
country.”
Tale of Two Mothers and One Sailor Boy’s Grave
COMISKEY, IND.—Soon after the United States entered the war there
enlisted In the navy two youths unknown to each other: John Patrick
Rlordan, son of Mrs. James Rlordan of Comlskey, who chose the aviation
service and was stationed at Newport
News, Vn., and John J. Riordnn, son
of Mrs. Catharine Rlordan, 4420 Wil
cox avenue, Chicago, who chose bat
tleship service.
These two boys possessed one
trait In common, the forgetfulness of
youth. Each, absorbed In the emo
tional excitement of bis new life,
failed tfo write home. And this aided
fate. Let ns begin with Mrs. Catharine
Rlordan of Chicago:
For weeks she had worried over
the silence of her son. There had beefi no mall, no news. Then on December
17 last she received a telegram from the navy department at Washington. It
read:
“Your son died of cerebro-splnal fever December 16. We are shipping
body 40 Chicago.”
The body arrived December 28 from Norfolk, Va., and was burled the
same day with naval honors. The silver star In the home at 4420 Wilcox
avenue was changed to gold. On January 2 Mrs. Rlordan received a letter.
It was postmarked Panama canal tone and dated December 20. It read:
“Dear Mother: We have been here for some time. I am In the best of
health, and would like to see you. Your son, JOHN.”
In the meantime Mrs. Jamas Blordan of Comlskey, alarmed oven the long
silence of her son, had sought the aid of Congressman Will R. Wood, a
neighbor. Through his efforts It was learned that the boy burled In Chicago
was In all probability her son. Bo the remains In the Chicago grave were
exhumed and a brother of the boy who had given hla all for his country
Identified them.
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