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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1915.
A W UKU TU THE SAGES.
A good many gentlemen in the Senate and House are
quietly hoping that lightning will strike them next summer,
and that the nomination for president will fall in their front
yard. All such should remember that the people were never
more alert than today, and that never did congressmen have
a better opportunity to reveal any real greatness, if they are
carrying the germs in their souls, that they will have between
now and March 4. The country is in a state of expectancy;
the people are not quite satisfied with the look of things and
are straining their eyes to catch any new light, not the tallow
dip, not the old-fashioned smoky lamplight, not even the in
candescent lamp, but the arc lights of real statesmanship. Tf
any senator or representative has one of these he should be
putting in new carbons, polishing the glass and getting ready
to shine.
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TIME TO CALL A HALT.
The rulers and writers of Europe are beginning to explain
who was to blame for the war. It is not necessary. They were
all to blame except poor Belgium and poor Poland'. They had
all for years been making their preparations, and combina
tions; either to precipitate it or to meet it. Lust for territory
and power, the desire to extend and dominate trade, fear, hate,
all the dark passions were nursed until the strange paradox
was presented of the expected coming when it was not ex
pected. *•
But under tin* explanation the truth shines out — they
are exceedingly tired and would welcome any excuse which
would stop the carnage, the mighty cost, the appalling heart
aches—the disintegration, almost of society and civilized
methods.
The Hague Tribuntal should be convened, and through it
the peaceful nation should utter something nearer a command
than a petition for peace.
The most furious of the fighting nations have their ears
to the ground', at this very moment, listening earnestly for
that call.
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DR. BRANNER’S RETIREMENT.
The resignation of Dr. John Casper Branner, uncle of Miss
Alice Branner, formerly of Cordova, as president of Leland
Stanford' University, takes place on December 31. He has al
ready' taken leave of the campus, and will be gone for an inde
finite period. He was invited to make* his home at Stanford
after his retirement, but it is understood that he has declined,
as he desires to have a complete rest, and to remain entirely
away from the scene of his former labor. Within the past two
years the presidency was added to his duties as professor of
geology, and while the presidency of the university may be
accounted an honor, it also added very largely to the labor.
Doctor and Mrs. Branner will visit New Orleans and Wash
ington, and they may go to Panama. Dr. Branner attended the
Pan-American Scientific Congress, which opened in Washing
ton today, under the auspices of the government, and contri
buted to the congress a paper on “Recent Contributions to the
Geology of Brazil and Their Relation to the Development of
that country'.”
Dr. Branner is a member of the committee in charge of the
congress, and also the committee on economic geology. Prof.
Bailey Willis, who will succeed Dr. Branner as head of the de
partment of geology at Stanford, is also a member of tin* latter
committee. Prof. (1. H. Clegenger, of Stanford, is a member of
the committee on metallurgy, and Dr. Margaret Sclmllenbur
ger, California, commissioner of education, is on the committee
on education of women.
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TP Marshall modesty is infectious then Heaven save Con
gress from innocuous desuetude. Vice-President Marshall re
fuses to be interviewed for or against the administration’s
preparedness program, saying he is not enough of an expert
to judge of its value or propriety. Now what if all the con
gressmen and senators should be frank and' honest about their
own non-informative disabilities. Oh, my, what a menagerie
of silence!
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Those who endorsed the Lansing note to Austria did so
on the theory that the administration knew precisely all the
facts. There are indications that it may have taken things for
granted in the Ancona case. If true, this country is in the
position of the man who, because the dog was asleep, assumed
that it wouldn’t wake up and bite—and he got his.
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That Houston, Texas, man who lost his memory wdiile he
was on his way to be married' should be examined to ascertain
if he had aphasia, fear, a fine quality of horse sense or an ab
horrence of participating in the Great Lottery.
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Chairman Smith, of the street committee, is keeping the
sidewalks clear of snow, and is thus earning the thanks of the
pedestrians. ,
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