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H. G. 8TEEE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
(-ORIX)VA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2.‘1, 1!>17.
WHAT OF THE SIGNS.
We it re told tlmt the Germans and the allies tire alike pre
pering for a final desperate drive on the west front in France,
when the favorable spring weather comes.
We do not expect that, in case this comes, it will make any
difference, except to emphasize the fact that the final settle
ment must come through reason, and not through sword’. The
Germans will get no nearer Paris or Ijondon; the allies will get
not much nearer Berlin.
(in both sides, the utmost that can be done by war will be
shown; but when tin irresistable wave strikes an immovable
headland, only sonic rocks tire broken off and some waves shat
tered into spray.
But behind the armies are the people. How much longer
can they bear the strain? Their very condition must bring
about the final settlement.
la the meantime, American farmers should plant every
available acre. A starving world will need every pound of
available food when the next winter comes.
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HOW TEXAS MUST FEEL.
What n mercy it was that Mexico did not accept Mr. Zim
merman’s proposition: Suppose they had swept into am
through Texas, up across the country through Cumberland Ga|
;md on to Washington, making the president and congress hum
their holes, and from there had sent a wireless to Berlin tha’
the trick was too easy—to give them something hard to do.
In the last days of Wow lor, the infamous, in Cuba, lie sai<
to General Fit'/. Hugh Lee, who was there in an official capa
city; “1 could take ten thousand of my veteran soldiers, lam
in Florida, and March to Bunker llill monument.” ‘‘I tliinl
likely,” said Lee, “if you paid your way and behaved your
selves, but if you put on any airs the police would run you in.’
And one can easily imagine an old Texan reading the ac
count of the proposed Mexican invasion to conquer Texas am
put it again under Mexican rule. One can imagine how h
would look, but not how he would act, or the swear words h
would use in giving vent to his indignant wrath over the prc
posterous proposal, or the individual offers he would make i
the hlankety blank greasers would try it, just once, so ilia
Texans might finally have an excuse for going down and avenj
ing the unsettled account of the Alamo.
Mexicans claimed that ever since 1847 that, except for th
Texans, they could have wliipped the United States easily i
that war; and now to read the proposition from a foreign Ian
that, if they would go up and conquer Texas, New Mexico, Ar
zona and California, they might have them all, may make th
other states smile. But it mafrea.tUfiJfoxans mq{l
flung else can; their nil-absorbing desire is that the propositio
he given a trial, but the most trying thing of all is that the
know that this glorious opportunity to even up matters is no
likely to come.
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A GOOD TIME TO KEEP A LEVEL HEAD.
People who think for themselves will agree with the recen
statement ol I). F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, that th<
present food situation is one that will not be helped by hysteri
ml thinking or action. Prices of foodstuffs me high, but a sat
istactory explanation does not lie in a dictatorship of the Uni
led States or one state. Those who advocate that method an
doing so without considering the consequences, rushing inti
an unknown situation with the chances 100 to one of makim
a worse muddle than we now have.
The chaos that might follow a forced dictatorship is point
ed out bv the secretary of agriculture, part of which would lx
caused by the interstate commerce law and state regulations
The federal dictatorship could apply, under the interstate com
merce law, only to interstate traffic in foodstuffs. A dictator
ship by each state, with the conflicting traffic regulations
would lx* productive of trouble.
The agency best equipped to find a reason for the presen’
conditions of the food supply and suggest a solution is the inter
state commerce commission. That body is delving into the facti
as last as they can be uncovered. The evidence so far seems
to lx* that there is no actual feed or fuel shortage in this conn
try. The difficulty appears to result from traffic congestion
brought about possibly through an unwise centralization ol
transportation efforts.
The housekeeping problem is serious and food costs much
more than it did a year ago, but we should get a firm grip ol
the situation before advocating a wild plunge into an untried
course, lest it be a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.
Fvidently there must be control of food supplies and distri
bution, but the thinking people of America want, least of ail
proposed remedies, control by a dictator.
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Central America regards Uncle Sam as a “menace,” and
proposes to shut him out of a naval base in the gulf of Fonseca.
Uncle’s displeasing habit of dropping his cash register into
one of the little republics down that way and of compelling
Spanish dishonesty to pay its just debts hasn't made hinTpopu
lur, and all of the nations whose feet are laved by the seas that
ebb and' flow in the Panama canal have been as suspicious as
Indians since the Colonel annexed the canal strip from Co
lombia.
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Europeans are studying English because of the literacy
test clause recently enacted. Another case of “If the mount
won’t come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mount.’’
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If we were on the verge of war a couple of months ago
when Secretary Lansing issued his famous statement we are
now on the ragged edge of war.
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“It is the suicide of the Hohenzollerns,’’ says a Boston
man. The torpedo route—that’s a new way.
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The line of least resistance should never he a nation’s first
line of defense.
In the district court for the terri-14
lory of Alaska, Third Division.
Notice of ter mof court at Cordova,
Alaska.
The president of the United States
of America, to the residents of the
Third division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to all whom It may con
cern, greeting:
You and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a term of the district court for the
territory of Alaska, Third division,
has been called and will be held In
Cordova, Alnska, beginning on the
2nd day of April, 1917, and continue
as long thereafter ns the public wel
fare may require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, Hits 23rd
day of February, 191(1.
(District FHED M. BltOVVN,
Court Seal) District Judge.
Attest: Arthur Bang. Clerk.
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