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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MOND AY, JANUARY 7, 1918.
A HARMFUL REPORT.
While fhe government is
considering idle and pernicious
reports that are given circula
tion with the result that people
lose some of their faith In the
conduct of the war, it might be,
appropos to take up the speech
of Con gressman Miller of Seat
tle, delivered in Washington,
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Congressman Miller said in
this speech that he had discov
ered snobbery among the Unit
ed States officers in France.
He said he discovered that en
listed men were made to do
menial tasks against their
wills, and that they felt like
servants as a result of having
to wait upon their officers.
There are snobs among the
officers of the army, for the
simple reason that snobbery is
occasionally found in every
class of people. •
But we do not believe that
the officers in France as a class
are snobs. i
We do not believe that they
are acting as though they are
better then the men who are
under thorn
AV do not believe that the
soldiers deem themselves in the
the nosit ions of servants and
menials.
And we do believe that Con
fvvnotjvn on Af 111lion wi n /l « 4b n
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far ana\ 4 l . T I mch harm.
Congressman Miller will
have to show us
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Earning- $9 a Day at School.
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The American people like to
see things put down in plain
figures, and where possible be
reduced to a dollars and cents
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The United States bureau of
education lias figured out
whether or not schooling pays
and how much it pays Its con
(■1’iciinK oro plain and can be
understood bv all. The figures
should convince every parent
that it p*'vs in money to make
anv sacrifice to keep a boy or
girl in school until the high
school course is finished.
An uneducated laborer in
nation earns an average of but
d)' it iroitil tit A I 4l1V\/iO
He is out of employment so
much that his total wage
veachoo that small amount. Tf
he works for 40 years lie will
earn $20,000.
Contrasted with that, high
school ev aluates earn $1,000 a
year, or $40,000 in 40 years.
To (aim this additional $20,
0000 it !-• necessary that a boy
go to school 12 years. Count
ine' 1^9 clays in school to the
year lie attends 2,1 GO days in
that time.
For those 2,1 GO days he re
ceiyes oar in later life at the
rate of $9.02 a day. That is the
fi<>ur<» when the number of
davs lu* attends school is di
yided into the $20,000 that he
earns during his life above the
iv!>"p of the uneducated man.
Therefore, the bulletin is cor
rect in saying that no parent
is justified in keeping his child
out of school unless the child
can obtain employment at the
rate of $9.02 a day. i
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Tacoma maintains night
schools where persons can ob
tain additional education after
reaching maturity and while
following their regular employ,
ment.
More will attend the night
schools if they will consider the1
figures given in the bulletin
taken from an exhaustive
study of the night schools in
Newark, N ,T.
At the age of 20 those who
had attended night schools
were earning $10 a week, while
those who had not attended, in
the same lines, received hut
$8.50 a week. This ratio con
tinues more and more in favor
of the night school graduates
until at the age of 40 in many
lines they earn twice the wage
of those who are content to go
along in their rut without*try
ing to improve themselves at
the evening schools open in
most cities.—Tacoma News. '
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Sustenance for Gloom Seekers.
For those of our readers
whose natural element is gloom
and who are never so miserable
as when they find nothing to
be miserable over, we desire to
suggest some of the dire things
that are. likely to result if Ger
many wins the war.
Without dwelling on such
matters as huge indemnities,
ho.^^'^rom among our lead
itTg of;!?TrT sWues of<Wfde
devastation resulting from a
German invasion of this conn-'
try, we will turn to the somber
picture of tlm dark day when
German kultur has s]>read it
self like a blanket of night over!
this blithe land.
That is the German aim. If,
Germanv wins, kulture will one
day be ours.
Read the extract from a Ger
man newspaper that is repro-j
<luced in “Conquest and Kul
ture,” an authentic book set
ting forth German aims and is
sued by the United States gov
ernment :
“In a hundred years the Am-!
erican people will be conquered|
by the victorious German spir-j
it. so that it will present an en-,
ormous German empire. Who
ever does not believe this lacks
confidence in the strength of
the German spirit.”
And in that somber day
those who do not embrace Ger
man knltnr with a neat kiss on
the wrist will he sent to dark
est Africa to find refuge and
to spend the remainder of their
miserable lives wishing they
lived in the all-embracing sha
dow of tin* kaiser’s greatness.
On page 100 of “Conquest
and Kulture” there is a rich
meal for all our little gloom
hunters. Let them read this
from a German leader and be
delected for a week:
“Not only North America
but the whole of America must
become a bulwark of Germanic
Knltnr, perhaps the strongest
fortress of the Germanic races.
That is everyone’s hope who
has freed himself from his own
local European pride and who
place the race feeling above
his love for home. Also South
America must and can easily
become a habitation for Ger
man or Germanoid races!
“The lands will ho settled
upon by people of Hermann
blood, the non-Germanic inhah
itants being driven into reser
vations or at best to Africt
(Morocco, Algiers, Tunis
Egypt.)
“A free South America foi
those of Germanic blood—tha'
too, is a sublime end, whicl
will be attained by war, noi
perhaps by the conquest of th<
land by North American or bv
European troops, but througl
the colonizing efforts and self
assertion of the South Amor
ican Germans.”
Take your choice, you hunt
ers of despair, Africa or a res
ervation—when the kaisei
wins.
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Will the Saloon Come Back1]
Now that Alaska has gout
dry will liquor establishments
ever come back ? Liquor men
in Seward are divided in opin
ion but it is almost safe to pre
dict that the day of the saloon
has gone for good. As one
prominent liquor man said, “It
liquor comes back the produc
tion will be sold over a counter,
not a bar. Liquor will be sold
the same as any commodity in
other business. The product
will be in bottles and sold but
the day of the individual drink
has gone. If the liquor busi
ness is re-established the gov
ernment will exercise its con
trol exclusively.”
The logic sounds good and
may be correct.—Seward Gate
way.
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CHANGE IN HOURS.
Hereafter we will open our market
at 9 o clock a. m. and close at
o’clock p m., in order to comply with
the new eight hour law. One delivery
will be made each afternoon to (he
hill, company row and the old town.
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET.
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delivered.
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