THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1919
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CONGRESSMEN COMING TO
ALASKA
A congressional party composed of
the members of the committees on
territories and appropriations will
leave Washington on Saturday to visit
Alaska and inspect the work done on
the government railroad. The terri
tories committee today favorably re
ported a $17,000,000 appropriation
with which to complete the railway.
Cordova is included in the itinerary
of the visiting legislators, and while
we have no special favors to ask of
congress, other than that the $100,000
already appropriated for a public build
ing here be made available for the im
provement. the local Chamber of Com
merce will arrange to receive and en
tertain our guests while here. This
is as it should be. All of Alaska is
interested in having the work on the
government railroad pushed to com
pletion, and the more favorable im
pression made upon the congressmen
the more apt they are to give the
needs of the territory favorable con
sideration.
THE SALVATION ARMY
The strongest plea for the Salvation
Army is the testimony of the return
ing soldier. How worthy the Army
is to receive the donations of the pub
lic is attested by the soldiers who wit
nessed the wonderful work of the Sal
vationists in France. As near the
firing line as they were permitted to
go they ministered to the wants and
comforts of the soldiers with an effi
ciency possessed by no other welfare
organization.
The cause of this efficiency lay in
the very nature and experience of the
society. To all other organizations
the work for the soldiers was some
thing new and complex. To the Sal
vationists it was merely a new appli
cation of the work in time of peace.
The loyal workers of the other organ
izations gazed with envy on the
smoothly-operating engineery of the
Salvation Army. Its discipline, its
familiarity with distress and suffer
ing, its experience in meeting the
wants of struggling humanity—all
proved invaluable in easing the lot of
the well or wounded soldier.
In the nation-wide campaign for
funds the Salvationists have met with
universal approval.
“I am all the more happy to com
mend this organization because it is
free from sectarian bias,” writes Car
dinal Gibbons. “The man in need of
help is the object of their effort, with
never a question of his creed or color.”
Colonel Roosevelt voiced the com
mon testimony when he said: “At
last it has won its way to recogni
tion, and there are few thinkers now
adays who do not recognize in the Sal
vation Army an invaluable social as
set, a force for good which works ef
fectively in those dark regions where,
save for this force, only evil is power
ful.”
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
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Whether or not there is sunshine
here, there is a little moonshine still.
—Ketchikan Chronicle.
According to the papers, Delegate
Grigsby won the second round in the
delegateship fight in congress. It
may be possible that Mr. Wickersham,
who has heretofore been the undis
puted champion, may not be able to
come up for the call of time at the
end of the third. It has happened to
bigger men than he.—Douglas Island
News.
The near stampede out of Valdez
reminds one of Alaska in the old boom
days. Every man in town hooted at
the idea of platinum being found so
close to the city, but in the still hours
of the night they slipped out and lo
cated. The habit is too firmly estab
lished to be shaken off in a few years.
—Valdez Miner.
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AMERICA TO BE
SYMBOLIZED IN
COMING OPERA
ROME, June 16 (Correspondence ol
Associated Press).—Pietro Mascagni
the composer, expects a great Ameri
can opera to be produced by an Ameri
can composer, with an Americar
theme which shall crystallize Amer
ica’s musical attainments. This work
he said, was shaping itself in the ef
forts America was now making in hei
music halls and conservatories.
“I am looking forward with some
amount of anxiety to the productior
of a great musical work in America
in the near future,” said Signor Mas
cagni. “There will certainly be pro
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duced soon a great American musical
composition. I believe it will reflecl
the life of America. I feel that it will
be built up out of the music of Amer
ica, music which is so popular there
The strains which take the populai
ear will repeat themselves in this nev
work I am expecting. It will be the
expression of America in all her so
cial, economic and artistic life, anc
will be another step and another con
tribution to the great musical produc
tions.
“It will symbolize America, just as
Russian music symbolizes Russia, anc
Italian, Italy.
“The music of the negroes is so en
trancing,” said the maestro. “I like
to hear it so much. I think it, too
will have i£s part in the musica
achievements of America.”
Ragtime, he said, would also have
its great part in American produc
tions.
Mrs. W. B. Rodman, who formerly
resided at Tanana, where her husbanc
was owner of the Tanana Commercia
Company, died recently in New York
leaving an estate valued at $110,000
The Rodmans sold their Tanana busi
ness several years ago and went to the
States. Mr. Rodman returned to Tan
ana some time ago to prospect foi
gold. His wife’s administrator is en
eleavoring to communicate with him
Mrs. Rodman left her husband $50,000
Special turkey and chicken dinnei
served at the Cordova Grill on Sunday
from 12 to 8 o’clock. Price $1.00.
SENATORS DENOUNCE LAWLESSNESS I
Radicalism, lawlessness and vio
lence in America and anarchy as ex
emplified by soviet rule in Russia are
denounced in a report made public by
the senate judiciary subcommittee
which made an exhaustive investiga
tion of these and other subjects during
the last session of congress. Senator
Overman of North Carolina is its
chairman.
Recommendations by the subcom
mittee for legislation included:
A permanent law similar to the
war-time espionage act designed to
control “forces of anarchy and vio
lence” and “adequately protect our
national sovereignty and our estab
lished institutions.”
Strict regulation of the manufac
ture, distribution and possession of
high explosives.
Regulation of “mushroom organi
llilfliiiirfrWitiftlfili zations anu special interests wmcn
propagate “notions of government, so
ciology, benevolence, or what not.” Control and regulation of foreign-language
publications.
; More specific identification of newspaper interests by amendment and
i broadening of the law requiring publishers to report their ownership, editors,
creditors, circulation, and other facts to the post office department.
Strengthening of the corrupt practices act regarding political contribu
tions, existing state and federal laws being declared “entirely inadequate to
meet present-day political methods.”
The report comprised nearly 25,000 words.
AMERICAN FINANCIERS
PLAN TO LAY CABLE
DIRECT TO SWEDEN
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STOCKHOLM, June 13 (by mail).—
. Strong financial interests in the Unit
, ed States have under consideration
. with authorities of the Swedish gov
. eminent a plan to lay a cable from
. America to Sweden, making the land
ing at Gothenburg, says the Dagens
Nyheter.
British monopoly and control of
cable connection between Sweden and
r the United States and the exercise of
British censorship in the war have
caused some adverse criticism here.
The American minister, Ira Nelson
Morris, now in the United States, is
said to be energetically supporting the
plan under consideration, and it is un
derstood here that one of the pur
poses of his visit to America was in
connection with the proposed new
cable service.
Advocates of the proposal point to
the prospect that a considerable part
of American trade with Russia, Fin
land, Poland and the Baltic provinces
will pass through Scandinavian coun
tries, and they see in this increased
need of a direct cable service with the
United States.
Advertise in *he Daily Times.
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