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By “OPTIMO”
“Puff to the end, let the smoke float
where it will”
Deportation of undesirables is as
old as the race itself. Consider what
happened to Adam and Eve when they
disobeyed orders.
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There is one trouble that people in
Alaska are not bothered with. Over
190,000,000 worth of automobiles were
4 *^olen in the United States during
the year 1919. Who ever heard of
an auto being stolen in Alaska?
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The world do move. Here is Colonel
Lynch, a famous Australian, veteran
of the Boer and Great wars, advocat
ing the abolishment of that deep
rooted British institution, royalty.
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The western world worries about the
shortage of print paper. The con
gress of the United States, supposed
to be the laboratory in which all our
political and economic troubles are
diagnosed, still continues to be one of
the most wasteful consumers of paper.
A recent speech in the senate on the
peace treaty was printed and sent out
all over the country. Four tons of
print paper were used in its produc
tion.
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A visitor to Cordova who came here
with credentials from Juneau left sud
denly witn about $2,500 which he in
veigled criminally while here. He
talked a lot about how much better
Canadian institutions were than
Americaan, claiming that he came
from British Columbia. Now that the
results of his industry are known, one
can form his own opinion as to
•whether he was right or not.
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Thirty-two states have ratified the
proposed nineteenth amendment to
the constitution, providing for woman
suffrage. The interest of the Alaska
women in the question is only aca
demic. They already have the vote,
the act conferring it being the first
act of the First Alaska legislature in
1913. The nineteenth amendment will
confer no additional privileges on
them, as we can’t vote for President
in Alaska anyway. In this territory
at present the women are as fully
enfranchised as the men. They have
the privileges of ithe stronger isex
^without the responsibilities and duties.
They are not subject to jury service
and they pay no poll tax. It is time to
consider the formation of an equal
rights league for men.
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The average intelligent Alaskan
weeps when he reads of the proposi
tions to experiment with airplane de
livery of mail in Alaska. If the pro
posed appropriations for airplane serv
ice were used to increase the present
inadequate boat service, some real
benefits would result.
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There is a great deal of uncertainty
as to how much meat will be found in
the cocoanut of Governor Riggs’ plan
for alleviating the shipping situation
by raising the tonnage tax from $1 to
^ $3. The average man has difficulty in
discerning how things will be cheaper
and better by raising prices.
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^Wanted—Three candidates for com
mon councilman and one candidate for
mayor in the town of Cordova, Alaska.
No references required. Previous ex
perience unnecessary. Open to men
and women. Splendid opportunity fo
persons desiring chance to do hard
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work without any reward but criti
cism.
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The Bolshevist government of Rus
sia, held up to us downtrodden Ameri
| cans by certain radical thinkers as an
example of a perfect government, has
passed a law forbidding strikes and
requiring enforced labor. An example
of freedom which our rdical friends
decline to comment on. The autoc
racy of Lenine and Trotzky is more
complete and more cruel and ruth
less than that of the late czar.
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A famous doctor says anent the pop
ular belief that whisky is good for the
flu that it does no physical good for
the disease. On some people it acts
mentally by lifting the scare which
comes over them when they find they
have influenza. The resultant im
proved mental condition assists the
patient—sometimes.
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There is little Balm of Gilead to be
derived by the devotees of Bacchus
from the official announcement that
the Alaska “dry” law would be super
seded in some details by the Volstead
act. To the man who has not got his
cellar stocked this news but makes
his misery worse, as he thinks of what
might have been.
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The peace treaty still continues to
be the chief cause of dissension and
| acrimonious discussion in these Unit
j ed States.
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One thing that many people fail to
discern is that extreme conservatism
is but radicalism by another name.
1 Reactionary policies and red doctrines
are roads that run to the same end.
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The proposition to have England
convey the Bahamas to the United
States to help liquidate its debt to us
does not meet with the approval of
all Americans. The Bahamas at pres
ent are much frequented by Ameri
cans desiring to escape the prevail
ing aridity in this country. The near
est of the islands is but forty-five
miles off the Florida coast. Being only
forty-five miles from a real drink is
a strategical advantage not to be
sneered at.
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One wonders how much real good
would be accomplished if all the en
ergy, money and propaganda now be
ing expended in an effort to nullify
the prohibition law were directed into
What is going to happen to the poli
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One can not but have a sympathetic
feeling with those senators who op
posed the immense appropriations for
the creation of a federal department
of air on the ground that the country
could not afford it. The advocates of
the measure pointed to the immense
sums European countries were spend
ing on the development of aeronautics.
They were met with the apt rejoinder
that if these nations could appropriate
such large sums for airplanes they
could also pay the interest on Ameri
can loans and send food supplies to
their starving neighbors instead of
turning to Uncle Sam.
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real, serviceable channels,
tician who, when the women are given
the vote, refers to an audience of
female voters as “the plain people”?
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We are a versatile people. There is
no doubt of it. Shortly after the
prince of Wales was given a great
reception in New York, the freedom'
of the city was extended to De Valera,
the president of the “provisional re
public of Ireland.”
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The doctors say that last winter the
flu was epidemic, and that this winter
it is pandemic. If you can get any con
rsolation out of that, go to it.
First-Class Fighting Man, but Reckless Criminal
NkVV YORK.- Donald Hammond lias been .sentenced to a term of three and
a half to seven years in stale prison. Hammond, 24-year-old son of Wil
liam Hammond, dean of Cornell University, was placed on probation under a sus
pended .sentence last August, after he
had pleaded guilty to forging a check
for $2,(MX) in the name of Norman
Bradford Jr., a wealthy Newport, R. I.,
clubman. He .violated his pledge by
forging other papers and committing
many thefts.
At the outbreak of the war in 1914
young Hammond hurried to Canada
and enlisted in the first contingent. He
^ was cited for heroic conduct in battle.
He was caught in the first gas attack
and wounded by an exploding shell.
Neglecting to get his discharge, he escaped from his hospital and returned
to America. A number of New York hotels and business houses were the
first victims of his forged checks and unpaid bills.
Lionized at Newport and Atlantic City, he speedily ended his welcome by
stealing jewelry and money from his hosts. Finding the authorities closing
in on him, he returned to England, joined the royal air force, gained a reputa
tion as a terror among his comrades and the German forces opposite his
aerodrome, and was made a sub-flight lieutenant.
In a daring raid over the enemy trenches Hammond was wounded again.
He gave up flying and returned to the United States. Invited to Maine and
New Hampshire watering places, he soon scandalized his friends, including
many young society women, by his drinking and thievery.
His father and several friends sent him to Manitoba. He tired of the
quiet life and reappeared in Boston, stole $15,000 worth of bonds, was cap
tured in New York, changed places with a murderer he met in the Tombs
prison, pleaded guilty to the other’s charge and succeeded in some mysterious
way in obtaining a suspended sentence under that name.
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Under the Auspices
of the
Ladies’
Altar Society
Wednesday, March 17,
at Eagle Hall
PROFESSIONAL
* DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office arid Residence, Cordova
General Hospital ^Ostrander
Building).
Phones—Residence, 115; Office, 132
DR. W. H. CHASE
Physician and Surgeon
Lathrop Building
Phone 9
Established Cordova 1908
*W. D’ARCY CHACE, M. D*
Office Suite B, Lathrop Building
Residence Windsor Hotel. Calls
may be left at Windsor Hotel or
at Northern Drug Store
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DENTAL OFFICES
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
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