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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920
URGES SURVEYS OF ALASKA
WATERS
Pointing out that the development
•f Alaska has far outstripped the prog
ress of coast and geodetic surveys,
due to the small number of vessels
available for that work, Dr. E. Lester
Jones, superintendent of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, has
filed his annual report with the de
partment of commerce. The text of
the report was received recently. It
©overs the fiscal year ending June 30
last.
“In order to appreciate the need of
rapidly extending the surveys of
these waters,” says Dr. Jones, in
speaking of Alaska, “it should be
clearly understood that Alaska’s only
connection with the rest of the world
is by water routes. The amount of
the natural resources of Alaska ripe
for exploitation has been so great and
the prize they offered so tempting that
transportation could not wait for the
government to make the way secure.
It has gone ahead finding its own path
in new fields, suffering great losses
in so doing, but content to suffer them
because the returns wrere so im
BMmsely great.”
Dr. Jones lays emphasis on the ex
treme need for completing the wire
drag work of the survey in Southeast
er* Alaska waters. The wire dragging
of the main steamship routes has been
completed 55 per cent, he says, and
n© time should be lost in doing the
rest of the work.
The report makes a strong appeal
for better financial support for the
survey service.
“Few realize the sacrifice a man of
ability is making at the present time
by remaining in the Coast and Geo- j
detie Survey,” said Dr. Jones. “Be
fore this country entered the war con
ditions had grown to a serious stage,
and since the signing of the armistice
steady disintegration has gone on, and
the situation has reached a point
where the quality of the survey’s em
ployes is declining principally under
the stress of present economic condi
tions. Unless proper relief is forth
coming at once, and the present sal
aries are materially advanced, this
important, branch of the federal gov
ernment, which has so much to do
with the protecting of human lives,
will, in a measure at least, be stripped
of its best brains.”
In the report it is shown that while
the service has a considerable num
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her of surveying vessels, due to cer
tain vessels used as patrol boats by
the navy during the war having been
turned over to the Coat and Geodetic
Survey, yet these vessels were not de
signed for surveying duties, and there
is a loss of efficiency in using a vessel
for survey work that is not suited for
sueh duties.
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Ex-Ambassador Gerard, who wrote
the book, “My Four Years in Ger
many,” aspires to write a companion
work entitled “My Four Years in the
White House.”—Douglas News.
Ninety-two per cent of the busi
nesses of non-advertisers failed last
year, according to reports made by
eommercial agencies, while but a frac
tion over 20 per cent of those adver
tising failed in business. The moral
is obvious. The more attention you
attract the more notice you get.—Val
des Miner.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Remember the date, Jan. 24.
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Feed America first, last and ail th<
time.
If only some profiteer \vould run foi
office!
Burgling is one American industrj
that needs no protection.
Idleness and extravagance are oftei
the gateways to crookedness.
•‘Fair price of butter and eggs high
er.” But can a fair price be any high
er?
Some landlords must think an in
crease in the rent an added attrac
tion.
A new premier in Jugo-SIavia is
considerable of a wear and tear on th«
tonsils.
Wise men cleave to their Libertj
bonds as they cleave to their bettei
fractions.
It’s only the old-timers that re
member when things were in apple
pie order.
Will not the cost of living commis
sion investigate how many sections
has a pie?
A minimum wage agreement never
suffices to do away with maximum as
pirations.
A churn goes up and down like
that. The price of the butter goes
principally up.
Berman gold is arriving in this coun
try, and it is not going to the propa
gandists, either.
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Pork at wholesale is cheap and
plentiful, but the retail profiteers con
tinue to take large profits.
Another of life’s minor tragedies is
the shortage of butter just at the
opening of the flapjack season.
In the cider market it is just the
opposite. When the demand for
sweet cider is weak, it finishes strong.
There is no American scenery to sur
pass the sight of the Star Spangled
Banner over our own merchant ma
rine.
A good many men who served in the
army will wonder where the govern
ment kept that army bacon during the
war.
Kitchen bolshevists are not finding
the cordial support in America that
the parlor bolshevists led them to ex
pect.
The miracle of the age is the amaz
ing spectacle of a dollar turning into
a half the instant one gets it in his
hands!
If the bolsheviki ever get the upper
hand in America it will be a sad day
for the manufacturers of bathroom
fixtures.
The nonproducer can always be de
pended on for an effort to make up
in conversation for what he lacks in
industry.
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Perhaps the reason we have not
heard any goose-bone weather predic
tions is because nobody can afford to
cook a goose. •
When men are able to live without
work, then thev court mental and
physical degeneration, which is na
ture’s penalty for idleness.
Foreign agitators who came here to
stir up a revolution reckoned without
their long suffering but now thorough
ly aroused and determined host.
“Murder will out,” and the “inside
history” of the world war that is now
being written shows how tragically
misleading outside appearances often
are.
Greater production is advocated as
one main cure for the present situa
tion. But with everybody striking
everywhere, how is the remedy to be
applied?
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Vesuvius is showing signs of un
rest. The old mountain decided not
to be overlooked in a general state
of affairs that may be described as
volcanic.
Foreigners are accused of making
most of the trouble in the steel mills.
The fact that many of them are re
turning lo their first homes may help
to ease matters al?ng.
An airplane has been equipped with
Pullman accommodations. Nervous
passengers will require some other
word than “tip” to describe the cus
tomary attention to the porter.
Another thing that hits the family
purse is the custom of the high school
girl of dressing as if she were going
to an exclusive social function instead
of to a place of work and study.
The grocers’ statement that pork
prices are still high because the con
sumers demand choice cuts indicates
that wealth is more generally distrib
uted than it is usually thought to be.
In other words, let the law be en*
forced against all violators of the
peace and order society, but where
the violator happens to be an alien he
ought to be hustled into the steerage
of an outgoing ship and returned t®
his native heath.
. N. R. G. laundry tablets wash clothes
without rubbing. Contain no lime,
lye, paraffin, wax or other injurious
chemicals. Nothing like it on the
market. Phone 142—5 rings. 12-tf
Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR RENT—Cabin in Oldtown. In
quire of Paul Bloedhorn. 23-tf
FOR RENT—Housekeeping rooms. In
quire Room 6, Mickelson & Currier
building. 22-6t
FOR SALE—1 bed spring, 1 mattress,
1 library table, 1 large clothes
press, 4 dining room chairs, 1
rocker, 1 tapestry Brussels rug. Call
Pioneer cottage No. 3, between 1
and 8 p. m. 21-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabin. See
Ed Lee or phone 61—2 rings. 21 tf
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LOST—Purse containing currency.
Reward if returned to Osborne
Bros. 19-tf
FOR SALE—Speed boat. Apply Gus
Cozokas. 19-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished apartment.
Call 104. 17-tf
FOR RENT—An apartment. Apply to
C. J. Goodall. 15-tf
WANTED—To buy or rent one female
canary for breeding. Call 29-2. 10-tf
WANTED—Leather couch, in good
condition. Apply Times office. 8-tf
FOR SALE—L. C. Smith typewriter;
first-class condition, $40. See Cor
dova Adjustment Co. 27tf
LOST—A monogram watch fob, with
two small diamonds in setting. Re
turn to Times office and receive re
ward. 8-ti
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
WANTED—Two tiemakers; good tim
ber; '40 to 45c; ties to be put in
bunches not less than three in a
p
bunch; parties will batch. Apply
Harry Christie, Mile 19.
•0 YOU GO
TOCHURCH?
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IF NOT, THEN WHY NOT?
Are you one of those who blame
society for the present unrest, and say
the church is not doing its duty? Then
| why not get into the church and do
your part? The church needs men
with ideas to carry it forward. Many j
men today are following the ethics of i
Christ although not professing Chris- ,
tians, because they know He was
right. * That being so, why not sup
port His church and your time will
be well spent You say you attended
the church in the States? Why nor in
Cordova? Hear the music and the
sermons at the
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
"The Church with a Message”
11 a. m. 8 p. m.
ROSSWOG
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TOURNAMENT
IS NOW ON
TONIGHT
AT 7:30
Charles Brown
vs.
Slim Taylor
THREE PRIZES
FIRST—SUIT OF CLOTHES
SECOND—PAIR OF SHOES
FHIRD—STETSON HAT
A New Shipment of
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BLACK
KNITTING
YARN
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Aunty Keating’s
| Wee Shop
Socks, Sweaters and Caps Made
to Order
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THE TAILOR
Opposite Kenny
Holden’s
Phone 188
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SHOE REPAIRING
DIMON NICKALOFF
Currier Building,
C Street. P. O. Box 986.
Keist Furniture
Company
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Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
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LAUNCHES
PIONEER AND SWAN ~
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master ^
REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND /TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings
TRY THE
WINDSOR ,
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For Rooms that are
Comfortable
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JUST RECEIVED
A LARGE SHIPMENT OF D
LIVE CHICKENS
Good Roasters
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Phone 22
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