THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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MONDAY, JULY 26, 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
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE IS BACK
OF THIS?
After six years of Wilson control
of congress the suffrage amendment
had not been submitted. A Republi
can congress then submitted the suf
frage amendment. Of the thirty-five
legislatures which have acted favor
ably on the amendment twenty-seven
are Republican, five are Democratic,
three are divided. Of the legislatures
which have voted against the amend
ment one is Republican, eight are
Democratic. Of the states which
have not acted, two are Republican
and four are Democratic. For six
years President Wilson dominated
congress, and while all other import
ant items in his legislative program
were put over, suffrage was not,
though all the time, it was a burning
and a growing issue. Called upon to
urge its passage. President Wilson
told a delegation of women that he
could not consistenly promote any
measure not pledged by his political
party. Senator Harding voted, as a
senator, for the submission of the suf
frage amendment. On the thoroughly
unjustifiable ground that a political
party or party leadership is in posi
ticn to coerce every legislature or gov
ernor to act favorably upon a consti
tutional amendment, certain radical
suffrage leaders are attacking the
Republican party, organization and
candidate. From this recital of the
situation it may be easily understood
what influences might naturally de
sire and become responsible for such
a campaign, cleanly intended to bene
fit, not the suffrage cause, but the
special interests of the Wilson ad
ministration and the Democratic
party at the attempted sacrifice of
those who really have been of ser
vice to the suffrage cause. Fortunate
ly such influences reach only a fewr
and will not, in the light of the facts,
deceive a large number.
OVER HERE AND OVER THERE
Offical announcement was recently
made by the British Ministry of Muni
tions that the Slough Motor Trans
port Depot at Cippenham, Slough, had
been sold for $16,750,000. The depot
cost the government $12,500,000, so
that a profit of $4,250,000 was real
ized. The British Ministry of Muni
tions has never been accussed of pos
sessing superhuman business capacity,
but as compared with Baker’s crew of
inefficiency experts it seems to be a
wizard at driving bargains. For in
stance, the Bakerized war department
spent $60,000,000 on a powder plant at
Nitro, W. Va., produced only a few
•tons of powder none of which was
ready before the war ended, and
stores of supplies which, it is under
stood, have been marketed for a con
siderable proportion of the total pur
chase price.
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LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY
Shipment by the government of se
lected cattle stock into the Matanuska
and Tanana Valley regions for making
an experiment to determine the feasi
bility of stock growing in those sec
tions will be watched with consider
able interest not only in Alaska but by
stockmen in the Western portion of
the United States. This undertaking
was first suggested several years ago
and but for an unfortunate shortage
of funds on the part of the depart
ment of agriculture for its Alaskan
work would have been started at
least one year ago.
In the Tanana valley there are thou
sand of acres of country which is
suitable for grazing purposes. A sim
ilar condition exists in the Matanus
ka district. It is a question whether
stock sufficiently hardy can be se
cured to stand the severe winters
without requii’ing heavy feeding ex
penses. It it is necessary to cure and
store feed for the animals for several
months each year, the industry will
hardly thrive on account of heavy
feed bills incurred.
It is the belief of those most active
ly concerned in the matter that the
average feed bill, however, will exceed
but little, if any, the cost of feeding on
the western ranges. Horses have been
turned out over the winter in the Tan
ana Valley and have come through in
good shape without any feeding except
what they were able to forage. The
snowfall there is not excessively
heavy and the growth of native grass
es for hay is luxuriant and the hay
of superfine quality. Dairy stock
owned by the farmers of the Fair
banks district do well on it.
Stock raising on a commercial basis,
however, has never been tried out in
the district. Opinion as to its success
is about evenly divided, but it is
noticeable that men best posted on
the care and growing of cattle are
among those who believe in the poss
ibility of establishing the industry in
interior Alaska. At any rate, the ex
periment is one well worth trying and
success will add greatly to the ever
growing list of the territory’s mater
ial resources and industries.—Juneau
Empire.
SHORT-ARM
JOLTS
What you say is so, may be only
so-so.
You’re old when you cease doing
new things.
The cock man ought to expect to
be henpecked.
There is a mouse for every cat—
where’s yours?
Your bad luck generally brings
somebody good luck.
Bright philosophy seems to break
down in dark weather.
If you are young and contented
you are really old and rusting.
You may be affable to everybody
without being agreeable to anybody.
If you are always being imposed
upon, the chances are you deserve it.
The man who is conceited over his
wisdom hasn’t any worth mentioning.
Any man can lie to his wife, but
only the wise wife will pretend to be
lieve him.
The reason a loafer needs more
wages is bcause he has more time to
spend it in.
Even if you don’t know the differ
ence between right and wrong the
neighbors do.
A busy man always has time for
worth-while things, but a fussy one
only has time for small things.
If you are generous you will be
imposed upon and if you are a
“tightwad” you’ll be talked about.
Care may have killed the cat but a
really bright- cat would have killed
care.
If your bank balance has a good
footing you’ll naturally have a good
standing.
Happiness in married life is a rela
tive thing—that is, it depends upon
not having too many relatives
around.
A farmer’s dream of complete hap
piness is a land where he’ll never
have to feed the animals early in the
morning.
There may be nothing new under
the sun but if so how do you account
for the new faces that girls wear in
the afternoons?
Hard work may not bring you
werlth nor happiness, or it may, but
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I BUDGET MEASURE GETS GOOD START |
Senator Medill McCormick of Illi
nois (portrait herewith), chairman of
the special senate committee for con
sideration of a national budget, an
nounced the other day that the sub
committee composed of himself, Sen
ators Keyes, Edggp, Simmons, and
King, unanimously had agreed upon
a national budget measure. The sen
ate bill i9 a combination of the Mc
Cormick bill, introduced several weeks
ago, and the Good bill, which was
passed by the house last fall.
There will be set up in the treas
ury department a budget bureau,
which shall collect all department es
timates and revise them. The secre
tary of the treasury will approve them
to the president, who shall have power
to revise the estimates. The presi
dent, before the 10th of December
each year, must submit his budget to
congress.
' m oraer to permit tne secretary
of the treasury to serve as a real finance officer and not compete with his col
leagues in the cabinet as a spending officer, the extraneous bureaus in the
treasury will be transferred to other departments.
The bill creates a department, independent of all others, known as the
accounting department. This department will leview the expenditures made
by the departments and report on them to congress, suggesting improvements.
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Discontented School Pupils Make Child Laborers
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THE million and more children under sixteen years of age who leave school
annually in the United States to go to work are not all forced into industry
because of poverty, according to the first official reports of the Children's
bureau on the “back to school” drive
. . held in connection with Children's
SCHOOLIN' 3 , DON'T Year.
roOQ'hO ^UKfETO Schools must be made more at
HOW- ^ GO TO tractive and parents more sensitive to
school the value of a completed education.
says this report. One reason for keep
ing children in school is keeping them
out of industry before they are pre
pared to assume these burdens. The
experience of child welfare commit
tees showed that discontented school
pupils became the child laborers.
Unattractive school buildings, poorly trained teachers and sparse equip
ment are factors in making the boy or girl restless at school. It is also declared
that the present federal child labor law does not reach more than 300,000 of
the 2,000,000 working children over ten years of age, as at least three-fourths
of these are in the agricultural districts.
In many cases there are no schools to attend. The ‘‘back to the school”
drive stimulated local surveys of the school resources. Some of the schools
were closed for the lack of teachers, and the general report lays this lack to
the low salaries paid. A few of the states met this condition by making a
minimum teaching salary from $1,000 to $1,200, but there are communities
where teachers are paid only $40 a month.
It was the opinion of those conducting these campaigns that once the
parents were reached the ways and means of keeping the child in school would
be forthcoming.
one thing it is sure to do is to keep
you out of meddling.
Whenever a traveling salesman
tells you “Blankville is the best d
town in the state,” he means he sells
more goods there than in any other.
If you play for high stakes in the
game of life, you at least may win
some middle-size ones but if you play
for small ones you can only win small
ones.
It is somewhat disconcerting to a
man’s vanity even though flattering
to his judgment in after years to real
ize that the girls he discarded all
grew fat.
For ages literary folks have com
pared the uttermost in foolishness to
a dog's barking at the moon. But
probably all the time the dog was
barking at the dog-star.
A baby knows more than some men.
You can’t fool a baby by making it
think water is milk, but you can fool
lots of men by making them think
blue-sky stock is a good security.
It takes a good man years of ex
perience to distinguish between a
poser and a thinker and between a
worker and a busybody, and by the
time you’ve found out its generally
too late to be of much benefit.
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