THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1919.
THE TASK AHEAD FOR AMERICA
The task of winning prosperity is,
if anything, greater than was the task
of wining liberty.
It can be won only by our uniting
to solve the problems of peace as we
united to solve those of war; by con
tinuing, each one of us, to do his or
her individual, personal share.
The war expenditures of the gov
ernment were not cut short by the
signing of the armistice; the immense
machinery of warfare could not be
wiped out in a day.
We still have an unpaid balance of
several billion dollars of war debts.
We still have a huge army overseas
that must be fed, supplied, paid, and
brought back home. Our disabled
soldiers and sailors must be tenderly
cared for. Great hospitals and de
mobilization camps must be main
tained.
In a multitude of unavoidable ways
the country is still under an enormous
war expenditure.
We have got to finish the job.
THE RETURNED SOLDIER
What manner of men came back to
New York on the Leviathan and the
Mauretania? Not boastful, braggart
men, telling tales of their own
prowess. Those who told us that our
boys would come back brutalized by
their work of war forgot that “the
bravest are the tenderest.”
“Not in all the journey,” wrote a
correspondent who made the trip with
the men of the 27th Division on the
Leviathan, “did I hear one of them
say that he had killed a German. They
had other things to talk about.”
It may puzzle the folks at home to
know just how their boys have
changed, but changed thev are as
suredly. They do not talk about their
idealism; few American boys are so
constitued; but the idealism is there.
Only to an occasional man is given
the gift of expressing what remains
unuttered in most hearts. One of
these living voices is Coningsby Daw
son, of the Canadian army and author
of “Carry On." Writing- in “McClure’s
Magazine” of the returning soldier
and the thoughts and ideals he is
bringing back, Lieutenant Dawson
says:
"Presently we shall take off our
khaki, but we shall not cease to be
soldiers. We shall not be soldiers in
the sense that you dread—swaggers,
people banded against the civilian by
the pride of military caste. You see,
we never wanted to be soldiers—the
thought filled us with horror. It was
your need, the heroic fact that some
one had to die in your defense, that
made us fighting men. Nevertheless,
though we don civilian dress, we have
not done with fighting yet. We are
coming back to man the trenches of
a kinder social order and to follow
the barrage across No Man’s Land in
pursuit of a new heaven and a new
earth. Our souls will still be clad in
khaki; we shall be a brotherhood for
righteousness.”
More briefly, that Is the testimony
of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, jr., himself of the 27th
Division, who predicted that every
man who went through the war would
be so uplifted that the whole nation
would feel their upward urge.—New
York Tribune.
Keeping pace with the times the
Saturday issue of this paper will be
enlarged to twelve pages, for the
present. In addition to our reliable
Associated Press telegraphic service,
editorial comment and the local news
of the day, there will also be five
special departments, covering Red
Cross work, public school notes, min
ing news, society /md the happeings
in all parts of Alaska. You can’t af
ford to miss a single issue of the
Daily Times and the Saturday paper
Is an excellent one to send to your
friends in the states.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS.
Juneau people can now sleep well
at night, secure in the thought that
their fair city is safely guarded by
the frowning guns of a gunboat and
two sub-chasers.—Douglas News.
John Troy’s refusal to assume the
office of customs collector for the
Alaskan district until after the can
vassing board makes its award of the
certificate of election to the winner of
the last delegate election is extremely
well-timed. And it is charcteristic of
John Troy that he should so well
judge the niceties of the situation
that he remains in a position where
he will in no way be connected with
the board’s award. He might, with all
the propriety in the world, have as
sumed his office as soon as the con
firmation was made. No one could
have found fault with him had he done
so. It was the perfectly natural thing
for him to have done, and many men
would have gone ahead without a
thought of other matters which II
might involve.—Fairbanks Citizen.
The governor’s proposition to ap
point a shipping board to charter or
buy vessels to be used in oppositon
to those now running in territorial
waters migt be a good scheme, if it
worked out right, and cheapened rates
and improved service; but, if it only
accomplishes the purpose of running
the lines now serving the territory
out of business and then blows up,
the people will be the losers. The
present companies have given as good
service as the business warranted,
and no less than ten freighters and
passenger vessels have plied these
waters all winter. With but five mil
lion dollars to buy ships and with but
four vessels in operation the people
would have no service at all to speak
of. If these boats did not need re
pairing and made a trip a week, and
were not wrecked, and could get
cheap help, the proposition might pay,
but it won’t. We are not against the
proposition but it is unwise to burn
our bridges behind us, until we are
sure the proposition is as feasible as
its supporters would have us believe.
It will take a hundred million dollars
to duplicate the lines now serving us,
and fifty million dollars more to pro
vide docking facilities, agents, ware
house and other necessary requisites.
—Valdez Miner.
Every red-blooded, loyal American
citizen will most heartily endorse and
urge the passage of a bill introduced
by Representative Pennington, of the
fourth division. The bill speaks for
itself and follows: “An act to prohibit
and prevent within the territory of
Alaska, the use of any flag, banner,
or emblem of any character, symbol
izing, or intending to symbolize, a
purpose to overthrow by force or vio
lence, or by physical injury to per
sonal property, or by the general ces
sation of industry, the government cf
the United States or the government
of the territory of Alaska. And also
to prohibit, prevent and make it un
lawful within the territory of Alaska,
to advocate or incite, or to write, or
listribute, any document, book, paper,
journal or communication, in or by
which, ther is advocated or incited
the overthrow by force or violence of
the government of the United States,
or the government of the territory
of Alaska, and declaring an emer
gency.”—Anchorage Times.
m ms BALL WORM
FI GATED AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, April 25 (by Associated
Press).—To combat the Egyptian boll
worm, a dangerous pink worm which
insists on visiting Seatttle every so
often, nearly $1,000,000 worth of cot
ton is fumigated by scientific pro
cess each year, in two government
fumigating stations maintained in
Georgetown, a suburb. The boll worm,
it is said,has spread throughout nearly
the whole world except the United
States, and because of its appetite
for all classes of plant life, rigorous
inspection methods have been en
forced to prevent its entry into this
country.
Cotton shipments from India and
China received here are promptly
transferred from dock to these fumi
gating stations where the cotton is
placed In a large, air-tight receptacle
filled with poison air. Manchurian and
Australian corn have also been sub
Jected to much the same treatment
here to avoid the spreading of now
pests.
Sergeant Glen Carrington, of the
Drdnace department, and Sergeant
Walter L. White, 21st Aero Squadron,
arrived in New York city from France
on April 4, according to advices re
ceived in the mail. Both men were
aboard the transport Arizona. Carring
ton is a well known traveling man
making the Alaska terrritory.
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CAVALRYFROM
TEXASBORDER
MARFA, Tex., April 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—After a year and a
half of history making service guard
ing the Big Bend border of Texas, the
Eighth United States cavalry has
been orderd to return to Fort Bliss,
Texas, where the regiment was sta
tioned in the permanent post prior
to marching to Marfar for duty in the
Big Bend.
During the time the cavalry com
mand has been patrolling the great
reaches of sandwaste and cactus, a
battle has been fought at Ojinaga, op
posite Presidio, Tex., many raids
across the border have been made
and punitive expeditions followed
these into Mexico and killed many of
the bandits. The most recent one was
the Ruidosa raid on the Nunez ranch
March 22 when Captain Kloopfer's
troop M pursued and killed five cattle
thieves.
Colonel George T. Langhorne, dis
trict commander, also led an expedi
tionary force into Mexico after the
Glen Springs raiders in May, 1916,
and has directed the other raids, in
cluding the one after the Brite ranch
raiders Christmas day, 1917.
CHINESE BOYS ISSUE
A YOUTHS’ MAGAZINE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 (by As
sociated Press).—Four Chinese school
boys, the oldest 17 years and the
youngest 13, are the publishers of the
Chinese Youth’s Magazine, which has
a circulation of 2000 copies which are
read, not only in all sections of the
United States, but also in South and
Central America and China.
It was in November, 1917, that Lum
Ing Chwe Chee then 14 years old, and
Janies Gar Bein aged 15, decided that
Action and good verse was a long felt
want which they should supply their
countrymen in America. Acting on
the decision they issued in December
an eight page edition which was pro
duced on a memeograph. This hap
pened in Mariana, Arkansas, and
the magazine was an instant success.
Since then the two editors have
moved to San Francisco. The Chinese
Youth's Magazine now has forty-eight
pages, plenty of advertising and an
augmented staff. The new members
of the staff are Raymond Jung, 13
years old, circulation manager; Sam
uel Ng, 13 years old, delivery chief,
and Low Gong, 17 years old, mail
superintendent.
The magazine now boasts a printed
cover, for a hand press and a stitcher
have reinforced the mimeograph.
Editor Lum has announced that by
July he expects to have a regular
press and plenty of type of all sizes.
The latter has been ordered from
China—for the Chinese Youth’s Maga
zine is printed in Chinese.
FIFTEEN FEET OF SNOW
DRIFTS ON PIKE’S PEAK
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COLORADO SPRINGS, April 25 (by
Associated Press).—Pike’s peak this
winter has been covered with the
heaviest snow blanket in years, drift
in some places near the peak having
been fifteen feet deep. This snow will
melt and fill the lakes and reservoirs
which give Colorado Springs its water
supply.
If you do not receive your copy of
the Times regularly, please notify the
circulation manager.
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