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FRIDAY. APRIL 19, 1918
PERSHING DECORATES FOR
BRAVERY
General Pershing has already
awarded the first distinguished crosses
and medals which have been author
ized by act of congress. The govern
ment has wisely left the grant of
these distinctions to Pershing, who
will receive reports from officers un
der him. Both officers, soldiers and
sailors are eligible to receive the two
decorations, which will be granted for
gallantry and special services in ac
tion.
The United States in the past has
been very slow to grant medals to
brave soldiers and sailors, and up to
the present less than 800 men have
been decorated with the congressional
imedal of honor, sometimes called the
Medal of Valor. This was the onlv
decoration authorized tn this country
up until the present war. It was in
stituted in 1862.
Despite the fact that few received
the congressional medal, there has
been considerable scandal attached to
awarding it in the past. When Gen.
Miles was commanding the army con
gress went into the records of the
holders of this most distinguished of
war medals and discovered that sev
eral men were wearing them with no
real right to do so. They were asked
to neturn their decorations, and all
of them except one readily did so.
Politics was responsible for these hav
ing obtained the medal without any
meritorious act to recommend them.
In the civil war congress at one
time voted to award the medal to
more than 800 members of a Maine
regiment, Tneir sole recommendation
was that 300 of their number had
agreed to remain in the Union army
after their term of enlistment had ex
pired. The case attracted so much
unfavorable comment and criticism
that the action was rescinded.
Among the less than 800 who wore
the Medal of Valor was Dr. Mary
Walker, the eccentric suffragist, who
won the medal for her services as a
surgeon during the civil war. She
was the only woman who was ever
awarded the distinction.
A great deal of discretion has beer
given to General Pershing in award
ing the distinguished service medals
and crosses, as well as the Medal ol
Honor, during the present war. The
last-named medal will be given oul
rarely; the other two will be pre
sented to all who deserve them as fai
as possible. Pershing must depenc
on his officers and trust that thej
will not s,how favoritism. At least il
can be expected that favoritism wil
be much rarer than political prefer
ence under the old system of congres
sional awards with the scandals that
system brought about.
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Cordova was today awarded at
fconor star in its third Liberty loar
flag. Why not make it two?
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OPPORTUNITY IS RIGHT HERE
Distance always lends enchantment.
Russell Conwell, in his great lec
ture, "Acres of Diamonds," tells the
story of the prince of India who wan
dered over the world looking for dia
! monds, and when he dissipated his
fortune In his quest he returned,
broken in spirit, to his old home and
found that rich diamond fields had
been discovered in his absence on his
former holdings.
The far-away is the land of riches
and of opportunity.
Early settlers came to the New
World to search for such things as
rubies as large as robins’ egg3 and
fountains of youth.
Jason's attempt to get the golden
fleece, recited in Greek mythology
expresses the same hope of large
Herodotus wrote for the Greeks an
account of a place in India where ants
almost as large as dogs burrowed into
the ground and brought up for the
people huge nuggets of gold.
But the gold in far places is seldom
found. Searchers generally make their
trips in vain.
Opportunities are right at our feet,
if we will see them. They can be
created if they do not already exist.
Invest your money w’here you are
living; draw more population to the
city and you will build right here those
conditions that you often believe ob
tain in places at the end of the rain
bow.
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GERMANY’S LAST TRUMP
Indications are that Verdun is to be
repeated on the western front. The
Germans have their threatened offen
sive under way, and normally it car.
be expected that for v/eeks a fierce
struggle will be waged on the Cam
brai sector.
The Germans will gain no lines per
manently from the allies.
They will lose several hundred thou
sand in killed if they will fight long
enough. Their losses will far exceed
those of the allies.
Defeat in a second Verdun will dis
hearten the Germans at home and re
duce the morale of the population to
a minimum.
After the battle is ended the Huns
will be further inferior to the allies
and will be in poorer position to with
stand an allied drive.
Those are things to be remembered
in reading the story of the conflict
from day to day, gloomy though they
i may be.
The German drive is the last trump
card of the Hun. The allies will take
the trick and perhaps thereby wir
the game.
The war has largely forced the dem
agogues to find another way to earr
their bread and butter, which helps
some.
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German ships are rotting in theii
ports, but it will be many years yei
before they become as rotten as Ger
man kultur.
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As a result of the German drive ir
France the work of riding pro Ger
mans on ralis and giving them coats
| of tar has been accelerated in Amer
ica.
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Bill the Slaughterer thinks his sue
j cesses are ordained by God. Imagin'
I the kaiser and old Hindenburg as tin
heavenly twins bringing about God’:
will on earth!
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The prohibitionists expect to hav<
the nation dry in seven years, bu
there will be longer than a seven
year drought follow the seven yeari
that will be wet.
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A Portland highwayman held up !
young couple and made the girl searcl
her sweetheart’s pockets. We wage
the young man wouj^d have been son
if he had been caught without a cen
in his jeans.
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It is funny who will come out or
the stage and try to carry major role:
when the stage door is left open for i
minute or two. Now there are Lenin'
and Trotsky, not to mention Senato
Reed of Missouri.
Through the signal corps headquar
ters in Seattle, the following, a copy
of a wire from YTan Smith .the Lib
erty loan campaign manager of the
Pacific coast, was sent out today:
"Total honor flags? for the Twelfth
district now number 307. Official fed
eral reserve figures show that $82,
092,700 has been subscribed in the
Twelfth district. This is 39 per cent
of the quota. .
"Oregon leads the district, with
more than 50 per cent of its quota
subscribed.
"Stanislaus county, California, holds
the distribution record for the Twelfth
district, 8,499 people having sub
scribed, while the population is IV
522.”
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On Sunday, April 21, the Sunday
school and church services will be
held in the Presbyterian church, on
the hill, instead of at Eagle hall. Rev.
A. G. Shriver.
NOTICE OF HEARING
In United States Commissioner's Court
in and for Cordova Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska, in Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Bill
Orozugula, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that F. E.
MeConaghy has filed in the above
| entitled court, a petition, praying that
| letters of administration upon the es
j tate of Bill Orozugula, deceased, and
J that Saturday, the 27th day of April,
11918, at 2 o’clock p. m., at the
office of the United States Commis
sioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge
of Cordova Precinct, at Cordova,
Alaska, has been set for hearing said
petition, when and where any person
interested may appear and show
cause why said petition should not be
granted.
Dated, April 2, 1918.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
United States Commissioner and Ex
Officio Probate Judge in and for
Cordova Precinct, Territory of
Alaska.
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You have gone “over the top” admirably, fel
low townsmen. Now hold the ground you have
taken. Plan to meet your Liberty Loan pay
ments on the dot and put by something for the
next advance. Remember, to insure victory you
must not only have your battle line strength but
powerful reserves. Begin now to mobilize your
reserves for the emergency moment.
Will to win and work
We will help you
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT
CHAS. A. SULZER"
Candidate for Re election
As
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
From Alaska
“In deciding to enter the primaries as a candidate for Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, I feel impelled to make a brief statement to the people of the
territory. It is now nearly a year since I was seated in the House as Alaska’s
representative to congress. During the most of this time the United States
has been engaged in a world war, and every resource of the nation, including
money and man power, is being devoted to the single purpose of winning this
great war. Every member of congress in considering legislation for the na
tion has placed the country’s war needs above all needs and requirements and
has subordinated his desires to the military establishment of the United States.
“Alaska has responded nobly to the nation’s call. She has given her share
willingly and unstintingly. When the Democratic party went before the peo
ple of Alaska in November, 1916, it stood for a certain constructive
program which embodied as its principal elements a wider measure of
home rule for the territory, and a sane and rational policy in the develop
ment of natural resources and every possible aid to the pioneers of the coun
try.
“I have introduced among others the following bills in congress which I
am pressing for passage as opportunity affords:
“Granting Alaska full territorial form of government with home rule the
dominating principle.
“Regulating the fisheries of Alaska along lines that will be fair to all, and
the protection of the salmon supply from depletion.
“Making changes in the homestead laws by abolishing the eighty rod
reservation.
“Authorizing free surveys of homesteads in isolated sections.
“Changing the game laws so as to give the people a better opportunity to
use the game of the country without its being slaughtered.
“Extending the federal farm loan act to Alaska.
“Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within th^pterritory.
“At all times I have endeavored to keep constantly in mind the needs of
the territory and the people of the territory. In spite of the war some meas
ure of progress has been achieved. I have assisted in passing a law which
helped the prospector by suspending assessment work on claims during the
years 1917 and 1918. The extension of the wireless and cable system in'Alas
ka has been accomplished with bright prospects for a further extension.
“Recognition has been forced for Alaska in the matter of appointments to
the second series of training camps for officers. Contracts which prevented
the farmers of the interior from supplying army posts with their vegetables
are canceled.
“Suggestions and requests that I again go before the people of Alaska have
come to me from Alaskans all over the territory. Reiterating my desire to
serve the best interests of Alaska I am submitting my name as a candidate
for the democratic nomination for Delegate to Congress.”
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