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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1918
NEW BUILDINGS FOR CORDOVA
That there is to be considerable
building in Cordova this summer is
very gratifying news and demon
strates the confidence our residents
have in the stability and prosperity
of the community. The largest and
most important structure will be
erected by Captain A. E. LathropJ
whose business sagacity cannot be
questioned. He has had the plans
drawn and soon expects to begin work
on a five-story reinforced concrete!
building, to be used for the Empress
theater, and offices and apartments. I
This skyscraper will be a monument
to its owner and the pride of all Cor- j
dovans. It will represent an expedi
ture of nearly $100,000 when com
pleted and ready for occupancy, and
no more appropriate place can be
found for the floating our of Liberty
loan honor flag than from its flagpole.!
The contract has also been let for a j
new Episcopal church, while plans are I
being formulated for the erection of
several large buildings, and possibly
one of the largest hotels in Alaska
n.a> loom up, on a most commanding
site, before the summer season is over.
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SUCCESS TO SOUTH CAROLINA
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Ordinarily the election of a United 1
States senator in the state of South '
Carolina would give the country slight *
concern. This for the reason that
the old Palmetto state is so over- 1
whelmingly Democratic in its politi- <
cal complexion as to preclude all pos- i
sibility of a serious contest on na- l
tional issues therein. But this year ’
will see a contest which, although i
confined to the Democratic party, will ;
nevertheless invite the concern of the
country at large. The issue will be
clear-cut and championed by two fiery <
Southerners who will fight it out to
a finish and ask no quarter. j i
Ben Tillman is seeking his fifth
term in the senate, and for the first
time in almost a score of years he
is facing serious opposition. He has
a dangerous opponent in the person
of the notorious Cole Blease, who
while governor of the state some
years ago openly manifested his
friendship for the lawless element and
through the wanton use of the execu-1
tive pardon became the greatest jail
deliverer of modern times. His de
liberate defiance of all the dictates ofi
common decency and his reckless pros-'
titution of his high prerogatives soon1
resolved themselves into a state scan-[
dal and bade fair to become a na
tional issue. Then, as if to add insult,
to injury, in an attempted justifica
tion of his policy, he had the audacity,
to declare to a conference of the gov
ernors of the several states that^
“When mobs are no longer possible
liberty will be dead. In the South an
aroused mob is an outraged law which [
carries out the law, but brushes aside
with mighty force the law’s techni
calities and delays.”
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Cole Blease la a demagogue of the
moat dangerous type. In that his dam
nable doctrine makes a straightfor
ward appeal to the discontented and
uhdesirable element. Also he Is a
resourceful politician, and his candi
dacy is assuming threatening propor
tions. He will give his distinguished
opponent the fight of his life, but Old
Ben is no slouch himself. He was a
splendid scrapper in the old days
when he gained for himself the sobri
quet, "Pitchfork” Tillman, and while
the weight of his years is bearing
heavily upon his shoulders, it is to
be hoped that he will be able to fight
his last and most stirring campaign
with all his old-time fierceness and
flourish. And it will be a fitting cli
max to his long and honorable career,
whatever the outcome of the cam
paign. that he should champion the
cause of law and order against such
a vicious opponent and make his last
political stand fighting for the good
name and glory of his beloved state.
The South Carolina senator has al
ways been a diamond in the rough. In
the old days he was considered by
many as a pretty hard customer, but
no one who knew him ever questioned
his personal integrity, his high sense
of public honor, or his uncompromis
ing Americanism. Of late years, how
ever, his turbulent old soul has soft
ened somewhat, and with all his
faults he is a signal, credit to his
country and an inspiration to his fel
low-countrymen. The issue that has
been injected into his campaign to
succeed himself strikes at the very
vitals of free institutions; next to the
war, it is America’s chief concern
ment today; and in his fight to quell
tne uprising that endange?* tie’se
curity of hi* own state and threaten*
to spread throughout the country, he
flU have the prayers and wishes
oif his fellow-Americans of jui part*
and parties, ft will be' worth while
watching Ben Tillman go^ to hat
against the Bolshevik! leagWta South
Carolina.
FOUR NORWEGIAN SHIPS
CHARTERED BY UNCLE SAM
WASHINGTON, Ap.ii ’i.—The
shipping board has chartered four
hundred thousand tons of Norwegian
sailing ships, which will be put into
j the non-hazardous South American
trade, thus releasing ships for war
trade.
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A San Francisco dispatch gays;
From Apia, Samoa, comes a request
by O. F. Nelson for a $1,000 Liberty
loan bond to be held “as a memento
of my American trip and to keep ever
fresh in my memory the many kind
nesses and courtesies extended to my
family and self by the many friends
during our short sojourn in your great
country.” The request was made to
D. B. Crane after Nelson’s recent visit
to this country. Crane made the sub
scription.
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Quality talks. Smoke an El Roi Tan
Cigar and be convinced; they are
mild. tf
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Food will win tde war—produce It.
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WASHINGTON, April 24.—Congress
a'ill soon be faced with the necessity
•>f providing millions of dollars for
he 1920 census.
Just what inquiries will be made at
livery American home is the problem
low being worked out before deter
mining upon the exact appropriation
leeded. Census Director Rogers es
irnates that the total cost of the cen
sus, including the annual and other
nquiries occurring during the decen
lial census period, if done in accord
ince with plans the census bureau
ias formulated, will not exceed $20,
100,000 to $22,000,000. The estimated
:ost of taking the population census
done is $10,440,000.
Resides considering population, the
mreau’s plans contemplate the usual
daborated inquiries on manufactures,
tgriculture, mines and quarries, an
nial special inquiries and other work.
Phis includes vital statistics, statistics
)f cities and states, tobacco, cotton
md cottonseed products. Taken ool
ectively, Director Rogers says that
he estimated costs of various lines
if work would run: Manufactures,
nines and quarries, $2,593,000; agri
culture, $6,049,000, mostly for field
vork; population, $10,440,000. The
expenditures for the census of 1910
A'ere about $15,500,000.
The census bureau is receiving
many suggestions for extension of the
usual field of nation-wide enumera
tion. There has been a great demand
to know the stock of hides, leather
and manufacture of saddles, shoes,
boots, belting and leather goods, and
it was deemed essential to get at once
the leather output, including wool
drawn from the hides of kids and
sheep that goes into the ^manufacture
of woolen goods. The Tanners’ coun
cil, an organization of the tannery
owners, is getting that information
now and furnishing it to the govern
ment at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000
They collect statistics of raw mate
rial, different kinds of leather, amount
in stock, as well as the cured or fin
ished product, but the census bureai
purposes to ascertain more than that
The bureau wants to know the uses
to which the raw material and inanu
factured product are to be put, th«
stock on hand, consumption by th<
manufacturers and the prospect of
having a supply for the country's fu-i
ture needs, all of which delves into
the field of shoes, boots, saddles, belt
ings, harness and many finished prod
ucts of value. The census will gather
this information by mail and through
special agents.
Despite criticisms of belated census
reports in past years, Director Rogers;
says the population of the United
States could be ascertained and made,
public in less than six months,
likewise the number of far in's,
counties and states, and that any
other information on which the gov |
ernment wanted quick results could
be sent out promptly. He says the
fuel administration, war trade board,!
tariff commission and internal rev
enue bureau make daily use of the
basic census facts.
Before the house census committee,!
which is about to frame tne necessary
legislation, there has been consider
able criticism of a limiting provision!
proposed by the census bureau, that
“in no case shall information fur-i
nished under authority of this act be,
used to the detriment of the person!
or persons to whom such information!
relates.” Representative Miller of
Washington contends that the infor-j
mation should be permitted such use!
as a court or governor might see fit,
as it is not a judicial or inquisitorial
proceeding. Representative Houston
of Tennessee contends the clause is
futile.
Director Rogers thinks the individ-j
ual has the personal right to keep
private information from otner per-;
sons; that manufacturers, for Instance,!
are willing to tell the census about
their business for statistical purposes
but do not want publicity of it, andj
if they knew it were to be published!
they would not give the information
at all or would do so under protest.
Chairman Helm of the committee be
lieves they do not want to give their
trade secrets away.
“An individual informs the census
of his father, and mother, his age,
and where he was born and where he
lived at a certain time,” explained
i Mr. Rogers. “Now in the selective
draft he is questioned about his age,
; nationality and identity. That man
s is to be prosecuted upon the state
ment he made to the census. I would
refuse to give information to anyone
other than to the local constituted au
thority for the annoyance or prosecu
tion of that man. If the court were
to issue an order that the state's in
terests are involved and it is my
duty to certify the record as it was
given at a particular time, I would
do so. The same kind of a question
comes up as to an estate, and the
census does not wmnt to be used in
the courts to the prejudice of any
man who makes a confidential state
ment. It is now discretionary with
the director.”
Uta&stiW Rogers hhM Tie wo«M ***»♦
protest against elimination of the dis
puted provision.
INTSMBSiBEfIS
TO PUNGLE UP TOR PAPER
Eskimo newspaper subscribers of
far northwestern Alaska, like their
fellow-citizens on “the Outside,” are
somewhat slow in paying their sub
scriptions, according to The Eskimo,
a monthly publication issued by gov
ernment teachers in that section for
the benefit of the natives.
Nearly every number of The Eskimo
has an editorial note of warning urg
ing the natives to pay their dollar
yearly subscription to their paper.
For some reason the October num
ber was not put out until January, so
Arthur Shields, school superintendent
and editor, published the following
announcement:
“I tell you this race not very fast.
Calendar speaks this January month,
but Eskimo paper only for October
month. All the same three months
behind. Paper try hard to catch cal
endar but that fellow he too fast go.
But maybe paper not much good short
race; maybe if race plenty long then
paper catch calendar. I think so.
Say, maybe you fellows send me one
dollar then paper go little more fast.’
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Madame Lydia, the paimist, will be
found in the Currier & Mickelson
t'uilding on C. street. 16-tf
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If you want to keep posted on the
war read the Daily Times.
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
BANK OF ALASKA
if Good Printing
Is Essential to Good Business
fp? Better Let Us Figure on your
ill Work and Save Money.
I The Daily Times Job Dept.
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT
UHAS. A. SDLZER
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 ixapeUed 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
I willingly and unatintingly. When the Democratic party went before the peo
| Rle 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
j 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 fcrm loan act to Alaska
“Providing for the care of Alaska’s insane within the territory.
“At all times 1 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. 1 have assisted in passing a taw 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 iheir 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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