PLEADS FOR
DEVELOPMENT
OF ALASKA
"‘Develop Alaska,” This slogan has
been added to the original motto of
the New West Magazine, “Building
the West.” So announces the New
West Magazine of Salt Lake, the cur
rent numbetr of which devotes more
than twenty illustrated pages and con
siderable editorial space to Alaska,
In completing its announcement,
among other things, the New West
Magazine says:
"The Alaska number herewith pre
sented to the public is our initial
effort only and will be followed by a
continuous monthly revelation of the
truth regarding Alaska conditions and
Alaska opportunity. No exaggera
tions or misstatements will be found
in The New West Magazine.”
The articles in the current number
of the New West Magazine on Alaska
include “Alaska’s Need—A Construct
ive Policy That Will People Her Vast
Rich Areas, by J. L. McPherson;”
"Scenic Alaska,” by Captain R. A.
Stretch; “Alaska’s Scenic Highway,”
by J. L. McPherson, a story of the
Richardson road; “Feeding the Mul
titudes,” by Miss Lena H. White,
daughter of Speaker E. .T. White of
the Alaska house of representatives;
"Alaska’s Mineral Development, 1918,”
and "United States railroad in Alas
ka,” both by J. L. McPherson, and
"Farming in Alaska,” also by Miss
Lena H. White. The articles are illus
trated with thirty pictures and maps
of Alaska.
“Alaska’s Need—A Constructive
Policy”
Mr. Me Pherson’s article, appearing
under this title, follows:
“With the world at peace, man’s
thought will turn from destruction to
the conquering of nature, in making
available for mankind the great
buried wealth and natural resources of
the earth.
“During the war period the atten
tion and thought of all were directed
to the old world; with the dawn of
peace, this attention will be diverted
o the frontier lands—and ours will,
laturally, turn to Alaska, our rich
northern empire.
“A country about one-sixth the size
of the entire United States, rich be
yond all estimate in natural resources,
both of land and sea, ft is peopled to
day with less than 25,000 whites.
“Of the inestimable wealth of Alas
ka’s rich resources we are now ad
vised. In the year 1917, when the
need of the world was food, metals
and fuel, Alaska sent to our shores (
from her boundless store a greater
output of metals than was produced
by the State of California and more
fish products than were produced by
the states of California, Oregon and
the province of British Columbia com
bined; Alaska has the fuel in endless
store, but not available for use, as our
policy of reservation toward Alaska
has effectively blocked all develop
ment of her rich coal and oil re
sources.
“We have blundered along, and
needlessly, with the development of'
Alaska. As a colonizing nation we
Vm.A i tl OA»>l nototlAD lin
equaled by any people—for with thi
settlement of other frontiers and ou
own great West from which to dra\
lessons of success and mistakes, ther
is no reason why we should not maki
the development and settlement o
Alaska one of which others couk
pattern.
‘‘We find our Golden State of Cal
fornia, in its effort to people its ur
occupied area, today going farther i
liberality than anything ever befor
deemed necessary.
"Alaska’s growth and prosperity i
dependent, like all other countries, o:
people—men and women who will b
attached to the country by home am
business ties. The country ha
proven so rich in natural resource!
both of the land and sea, as to assur
a strong and stable population, bu
such a people will only be attracted t
Alaska through a policy of encourage
ment.
"The type of men and women wh
will make Alaska their home unde
such a policy will be of the ver
strongest, for the country, both i
physical and climatic conditions, call
for only the hardiest, who must b
mentally and physically equipped t
overcome the great obstacles wit
which the forces of nature have sui
rounded her Northern treasures.
"The sterling type of Alaskan cit
zen has been strikingly evidenced i:
the period of crisis. Crippled in th
curtailment of her industries, as ha
no other section of our land, Alask
has given of her all and emerged a
the close of tlje war with every recor
in service of manpower, Liberty Loan
and all other war activities. Alask
furnished for service in the trenche
over 10 per cent of her present whit
population—a record equaled only b
that of the Canadian Yukon, her siste
land of the North.
“The adoption of a broad construi
five policy that will make for th
rational development of Alask
through the peopling of the countr
by men and women equipped to con
bat the trials and hradships of th
Northern frontier, and such a peopl
attached to Alaska by home and bus
nes ties is the only foundation o
which may be built a prosperous an
progressive Northland that will be
source of strength to the nation.
“The problem of Alaska develoi
ment is today the problem of the year
past, so aptly expressed by Robei
W. Service, in his lines:
“Lofty I stand from each sister-lanf
patient and wearily wise.
With the weight of a world of sadnes
in my quiet, passionless eyes;
Dreaming alone of a people, dreamin
alone of a day,
When man shall not rape my riches
and curse me and go away;
Making a bawd of my bounty, foulin;
the hand that gave—
Till I rise in my wrath ana I swee
on their path and I stamp then
into the grave.
Dreaming of men who will bless m<
of women of esteeming me good.
Of children born in my borders, o
women radiant motherhood,
Of cities leaping to stature, of fam
like a flag unfurled,
As I pour the tide of my riches in th
eager lap of the world.”
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Prices are coming down. So ar
our ham and eggs. Now 50 cents a
the City Bakery. 2-6
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siihor-rihe for the Dally Times.
■WILL REWARD
■ TRAILBLAZERS
OF COLORADO
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DENVER, April 3—Pioneers of
Colorado will receive recognition from
5 the state frontier trail blazing if the
1 Noonon bill now pending in the gen
' eral assembly of the state becomes a
1 law. The bill provides an annuity of
5 $360 to be paid in quarterly install
’ ments to persons who came to Colo
5 rado prior to January 1, 1861, provid
1 ing their annual income from other
’ sources does not exceed $300.
The Noonon bill, which has the
suport of the backers of the Owen old
* age pension bill, overcomes consti
r tutional objections which, according
' to members of the legislature, beset
1 the Owen bill. The later bill provides
3 an annual payment of $300 to all resi
3 dents of the state over 65 years of age
3 who have resided in the state more
1 than twenty-five years and are natur
' alized citizens of the United States.
This bill has been reported on favor
- ably by the house insurance commit
i tee and now awaits a roll call.
3 Legislators claim that the constitu
3 tion of the state specifically states
» that the legislature cannot, as a class,
t award pensions to residents of the
1 state, which presages defeat for the
3 Owen measure. On the other hand
i they claim that the Noonon hill- does
3 not provide a pension but instead an
3 annual gratuity on the part of the
V state toward those whose efforts
r made possible the development of the
onmmnnu/OQiLh Tho TVJoonmi hill PUT
ries an appropriation of $71,000 for
8 the payment of the gratuities and
a, provides for an annual appropriation
Y but instead provides for the payment
- of the pensions out of the inheritance
3 tax receipts.
3 Some opposition developed in the
- committee to the Owen bill, those op
l posed claiming that it would prove a
i burden to the state, while its sponsors
x stated that it would be a saving,Jo the
state and counties in that it would in
i- a large measure reduce pauperism
3 and would reduce the cost of the up
t keep of county poor farms.
The only thing that will prevent
passage of one of the measures^ legis
, lators says, will be the press. <k bills
during the closing day of the session.
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; age arrived on this boat. Blum,
O’Neill Co.
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MIDDLE CUSS
OF ENGLAND
ORGANIZING
LONDON, March 1 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Members of
the great middle class of England have
at last taken steps to organize to pro
tect their own interests against the
aggressions of capital on the one hand
and increasing wages of workmen on
the other. Leaders of the middle class
declare that only by organization can
they escape an unfair share of the bur
dens of life.
English people of education and
moderate incomes have felt tor some
time that they were being ground be
tween the upper and nether millstones
operating in the social mill. Profits
of capitalists from war contracts have
increased and the wages of workmen
have steadily advanced. But nobody
had to have the services of the pro
fessional man, the small business man
nor the schoolmaster.
They felt that they simply made up
a large part of the population whose
duty, it seemed, was to meet con
stantly increasing costs of living and
tax rates without any corresponding
increase in income. It was not until
now that they summoned sufficient'
courage to give their protests weight
by forming the nucleus of an organ
ization with which both capital and
labor may eventually have to reckon.
A preliminary meeting was held un
der the chairmanship of Major J. It.
Pretyman Newman, member of par
liament. It was decided to call the
organization the “Middle Class Union.”
Among the purposes of the union are:
“To remove undue burdens upon the
middle class, including the cost of
living.
“To protect the middle class against
bureaucratic and industrial tyranny.
“To combine for common protection
of those members of the community
who have no organization to safeguard
their interests.”
Letters appearing in support of the
union show that many army officers
and other soldiers are deeply inter
ested in the movement. One soldier
wrote:
“Unless we of the middle classes or
ganize and combine to thwart and de
stroy the anarchical aggressions of
certain communities in the industrial
world we will sooner or later be Bol
sheviked out of existence.”
How the Middle Class Union will
be received in the political field by
the capitalists and the trade unions
which now monopolize it remains to
be seen.
SOLDIERS MAY RETAIN
THEIR EQUIPMENT NOW
Postmaster Scheffler recently re
ceived the following notice relative
to the act of congress which permits
discharged soldiers to retain their
clothing and equipment:
“Postmasters are hereby advised
that a recent act of congress permits
discharged soldiers to retain clothing
and equipment which they take away
with them, and that, therefore, post
masters should not accept parcels con
taining these articles for return to the
war department.”
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BONOS
Fidelity and surety.
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Trips made whenever weather
permits.
MATTHEWS & ARNOLD
Cordova
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JUST RECEIVED
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
LIVE CHICKENS
Excellent Roasters
FRESH EGGS
FOR SALE
JOEFREY
Phone 22
Alaska
Barber
Shop
Has been removed to Kennj
Holden’s pool room, where th<
best of service will be given
Two chairs, with Frank Cun
ningham and Ben Sherman
formerly of Fairbanks, alwayi
on the job.
CHUTTER &
INGALLS
Producers—Selling Agents
Fresh, Frozen, Salt
and Mild-Cured
FISH
Correspondence and Consign
ments Solicited.
COLMAN BLOG. SEATTLE
FOR SALE
New Boat Hulls
Pish and Clam Power Boat
Hulls now ready at shop on Sec
ond street, next to jail building.
E. D. LACY
OSBORNE BROS.
JEWELERS AND
OPTICIANS
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
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NOTICE.^-We are making new additions to our Machine Shop in Cordova, which before April the first will be complete, and comprise the fol
1 lowing new equipment: One 18-inch Monarch Lathe, 16-foot bed; one 13-inch South Bend Gap Bed Lathe; one Wilmarth & Morman Universal
I Grinding Machine* a Vulcan 60-ton Hydraulic Press; one Buffalo Boiler Plate Slitting Shear; a Buffalo 4-inch Furnace; one Oster Pipe and Bolt
I Threading Machine; a Becker-Brainard Milling Machine, 20x80-inch table; one Baker Key Seater; two Buffalo Upright - Geared grilling and
■ Reaming Machines: a Universal Wood-Working Machine, and many other electric and universal hand machines, including an Ox-Weld Acety
lene Welder and Detroit Electric Hardening Furnace.
HARMON MACHINERY COMPANY, INC.
I CORDOVA. ALASKA
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