THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TUESDAY. APRIL 13, 1920
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{ • GIVE US GOOD MEN
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion is row the most powerful agency
of government in the United States. It
has a more direct and intimate con
trol on your business future than any
other organization in Washington,
The new railway enactment gives the
commission absolute power in every
direction. It can lower or raise freight
and passenger rates, change the re
lation of rate making territory; in
fact, do anything it chooses with re
lation to American transportation.
It is therefore important that only
men of the highest type be named by
Ihc president for membership on the
commission. At present there are
three vacancies to be filled. The en
larged powers conferred upon the
commission have made necessary pro
vision for two additional members,
and one vacancy already existed.
What sort of men are to be named for
this responsibility?
In the past most of the appoint
ments to the commission have been
notoriously unqualified. President
Wilson has erred as badly as, or worse
than, his predecessors. Only one of
his several appointees had any
shadow of the ability and standing
that the position required. Two were
men entirely unfitted. The fact was
brought out during the railway hear
ings that never once since the com
mission was formed has there been
appointed to it a civil engineer or a
shipper or a railway man or anyone
who knew anything about railway
problems, except as learned in the un
desirable school of state utility com
missionship. Most of the appointees
were second rate lawyers with politi
cal pull. If President Wilson does
not now appoint men of real qualifi
cations trouble is bound to occur, for
the commission now has such power
that its decisions can be ruinous, not
only to the carriers, but to most of
the business interests of the country.
RUINING BURLESON’S SURPLUS
The government has at last seen
the error of its way in regard to rail
way mail pay, and has arranged to
add $30,000,000 a year to the amount
paid the carriers for transmitting the
letters, publications and parcels
post. But the change is in no wise
the work of the postoffice department.
When the parcels post was inaugurat
ed a large amount of matter that
theretofore had gone by express was
changed to the mail bags. "When it
went as express the railways re
ceived a profitable return upon it.
But when it got into the mails, the
post office department did not in
crease the remuneration and as a re
sult the mails were being hauleid
about the country by privately owned
roads at much less than the cost of
service.
•The matter was finally turned over
to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion for adjudication. As a result
Postmaster Burleson’s proud little
surplus of some $2,000,000 or $,3000,
000 for 1919 is changed into a deficit
of about $28,000,000 and, what makes
matters worse, the decree is retro
active, so that the carriers will get
their additional $30,000,000 clear back
to the first of 1916.
The post office should be run on a
legitimate basis, like any private bus
iness, and the commerce commission
is to be commended for having stop
ped this grafting by the post office
on the rails. The award in this case,
however, is an academic justice
rather than a practical one, as regards
its retroactive feature. For it simply
means that the post office deficit
will be increased and the federal rail
way administration’s deficit reduced
■—which leaves the tax payer about
where he was before.
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatie lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed
school tax collector for Cordova, in
conformity with Chapter 29, Alaska
Session Laws, 1919.
All male persons between the ages
of 21 and 50 years, except sailors in
the United States army or revenue
cutter service, volunteer fiemen, pau
pers and insane persons, are subject
to tax in the sum of five ($5.00) dol
lars.
Should you be living in Alaska on
or prior to the first Monday in April,
1920, said tax shall be due and payable
on said first date and shall be delin
quent after May 1, 1920. Should you
arrive in Alaska later than first date
above mentioned, tax will be delin
quent thirty (30) days after your ar
rival, or within ten (10) days after
notice is given you.
All persons, firms and corporations
employing labor shall furnish list of
employes to collector and are author
ized by law to deduct amount of tax
from wages of employes.
Fines and imprisonment are pro
vided by the act above quoted for
those who fail or neglect to pay tax
or furnish list of employes. Upon ap
plication undersigned will show com
plete text of law.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, March
17, 1920. K. G. ROBINSON,
School Tax Collector for Cordova.
Nature is a Riot of Color
Next to direct color photog
raphy is Ansco Speedex Film—
the one film that gives in shades
of black and white all the values
of the different colors in any
subject you photograph.
Ansco Speedex Film fit all
makes of cameras. We carry
all sizes; also Ansco Cameras,
Cyko Paper, Ansco Chemicals.
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ters Ik Che name of your favorite
tobacco ©r ®igar.
Double this number.
Add eight
Divide by two.
Subtract the number you
started with.
Multiply by three.
Add one.
Subtract six.
Come into the Horseshoe, and
if the man at the counter can
not tell you the correct answer
he will treat you to a cigar.
We are as certain of the su
perior quality of our cigars and
tobacco as we are of solving
this problem.
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WEE SHOP
BEAUTY WORK
Of All Kinds
Facial Massage
Manicuring and
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1:30 to 7 p. m.
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