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SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1919.
VICTORY LOAN PAYMENTS.
Carter Glass, secretary of the
treasury, has announced the dates
upon which payments will be required
on the notes of the Victory Liberty
Loan as follows:
Ten per cent with application on or
before May 10.
Ten per cent on or before July 15.
Twenty per cent on or before Aug
ust 12.
Twenty per cent on or before Sep
tember 9.
Twenty per cent on or before
October 7.
Twenty per cent on or before No
vember 11, with accrued interest or
deferred installments.
Payment in full can be made on
May 20, the ten per cent required
with application having been duly
paid on or before May 10. Payment
can also be completed on any install
ment date with accrued interest.
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THE THIN VENEER.
A fair correspondent from the
windy city of Chicago, writing to the
Miner this week, concludes her quer
ies by saying: “But after all, if the
thin veneer of civilization were
stripped from the Chicagoan, would
he be any different from an Alas
kan?” We wot not! Our Ibsen has be
come mixed with Tolstoy until we
give it up. Besides we are a married
man and cautions. The last case we
recall where an Alaskan stripped off
the thin veneer of civilization occurr
ed in Seward last winter when a man
dashed down the city streets with no
clothing on but a Big Ben alarm clock
tied around his neck. The inhabitants
of that city emulated the clock and
placed their hands before their face.
Even the snowbirds were of. a car
mine hue by the time the clock ran
down and the marshal led the strip
ped one to jail, covered with goose
pimples until he looked like a non
skid tire. Chicago may have sartorial
customs which leave nothing on but
the thin veneer of civilization; but
this don’t go in Alaska. Not a-tall.
Before an Alaskan strijps off anything
he looks at the little old thermometer
and don't. Even veneer is some pro
tection with the mercury 50 below.—
Valdez Miner.
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WEARY OF “RUSSIAN PROBLEM.”
As a country Russia stands outside
the pale. No other nation that is
sound in mind and body recognizes
the alleged government of that land
and no other country will have any
thing to do with it. For some reason
or other Russia now stands before the
peoples of the earth as a swindler, as
a rioter, as one who will not pay
debt. Merchants of America and
Great Britain will not sell goods to
Russia, fearing they wil not get their
money.
It almost seems to be a hopeless
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vists has caused much worry and agi
tation. There seems to be no desire
among those people to better them
selves. Therefore, why not let Russia
alone? Let those bearded vodka
drinkers work out their own salva
tion, if such a thing be possible. As
a military power Russia can do little
harm to any other country, and, using
a common phrase, the Russians are
their own worst enemies.
The allies have troops in Russia,
including a force of Americans.
General Richardson, who made a good
record in Alaska, has been apointed
to take command of the Americans in
the czar’s former empire; and with
this announcemnt comes the state
ment that as soon as the warm days
of spring arrive he wil withdraw our
troops from Russia.
Good news this. "In Russia we have
no great interest and never did have,
and perhaps never will have any. If
the bear needs pacifying, let the Bol
shevists do it themselves, if they can.
And if they cannot, it need not con
cern us or our allies. They owe us
some money, that is true; but the
time will come when that will be
collected.
But for the present let us dismiss
Russia from our minds and permit her
to go her own crooked way; and even
if that way leads down to the pit
where the fire is never quenched and
the worm dieth not, it mattereth not
to us.
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WHAT IS AMERICA’S DUTY?
All eastern Europe is being flooded
with Bolshevism. Recently the bar
riers of the old civilization were car
ried away in Hungary and the flood
overran the country like the tidal
waves of barbarism which swept out
of Asia in the early Christian ages
and submerged the civilizations of
Greece and of Rome.
In such a crisis what is the duty of
Europe, of America? Let us say that
it is the duty of Europe to erect new
barriers and to repair those which
have been swept away. Let us say
that it is the duty of Europe to carry
on ceaseless warfare against the Bol
sheviki. What, then, is our duty? Are
we required to remain in Europe till
the last Bolshevik is dead?
No sooner has the covenant of a
league of nations been promulgated
than nations which were to become
members of the league are threat
ened with extinction before their
boundaries have even been agreed
upon. As a member of the league,
under the present covenant, we would
be required to maintain their terri
torial integrity and existing political
independence. But what if they capi
tulate to Bolshevism? What if Poland,
xvuiiiaxiici, * timu, uugv
Slavia, and Serbia adopt the soviet
form of government and commit
themselves to Russian anarchy and
the social system of free love? Shall
we recognize them and admit them to
the league of nations and shall we
fight for them and their institutions?
In the present turbulent state of
Europe would it not be better to wait
until European nations have establish
ed enduring governments? We must
ask ourselves this question in all
seriousness because we must know
who are to be our associates in the
league. Democracy cannot consort
with anarchy; Christian civilization
cannot be at peace with those who
scoff at all religion and morality.
If Europe promptly vanquishes Bol
shevism or even compromises with it
the chance of establishing the league
will be brighter, but the present indi
cations are that revolution will not
run its course in a few months, nor,
in fact, in a few years.
America can still serve humanity,
as of old, by its example. The statue
of Liberty will stand in New York
harbor and shed ever brightening
rays across the world. It has been by
example that we have served the
world best. It is not merely of recent
years that we have preached liberty,
justice and democracy. From the day
that Paul Revere rode through every
Middelsex village and farm and told
the waiting colonials that Governor
Gates had at last determined to crush
liberty by force Americans have held
belore the world the ideals of freedom
anti justice, tn iblz to 11111 we vin
dicated our right to sail ships freely
upon the seas without asking permis
sion of any nation. In the days of the
Civil war we purged our body politic
of the poison of slavery. We raised
stricken and shackled Cuba from the
blood welter of an ancient despotism
and bade her gaze with unflinching
eyes upon the torch of ligherty en
lightening the world .
Once more the clouds of barbarism
are sweeping, as in the older days,
from the borders of Asia into Europe.
Let us keep that torch aloft so that
its shafts may pierce those clouds and
transfix the zealots of anarchy and
brutality with terror. And when Eur
ope shall have set her house in order,
shall have made herself fit for true
liberty and justice, then we can join
with her in some league of nations
that will guarnatee peace and pave
the way for international justice.
It is our hope that we may be per
mitted to form that league soon, but
can we afford to form it amid the
wreck of nations? You may hear it
said that if it is not formed now it
never will be '■formed, but it is not
true rather that if it is formed now it
will not endure?
At all events let America be true to
itself, true to its old ideals, ready to
help where help it may, but let it
avoid entangling alliances that will
neither help itself nor others.
Today we have a league of nations,
but it is a league for war. It will be
called upon to enforce the terms of
peace and no doubt we shall be asked
to do our part. It is the plan to incor
porate the league of nations in the
treaty of peace and the argyent is
:hat peace can best be niiimltwed by
:he machinery of the league. But
if ter all is said and done we shall have
nerely an alliance for a long time,
in alliance to compel peace by force
if arms.
In the nature of things a confedera
ion which will maintain peace
permanently throughout the world
must be developed by gradual pro
cesses that grow out of ever widening
experience.
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS.
The general manager of the only
private concern operating in the Mat
inuska coal fields says there is not
1 dollar of Southern Pacific railway
noney in his company. He ought to
mow.—Anchorage Times.
The difference between a pessimist
ind an optimist is that he pessimist
ran see nothing but that the fare to
Seattle has been raised by the steam
ship companies while the optimist
discovrs they have been lowered
between all points in Alaska.—Valdez
Miner.
We have been thinking lately that
if some of the territorial senators
would expend half the energy that
;hey use in thinking up some measure
whereby they can Inject a little
politics into the territory business, by
drafting a few bills that would be of
service to the people, things would go
smoother both In Juneau and in other
parts of the territory.—Douglas News.
The Ketchikan Progressive-Miner
says Judge Wickersham informed it
that he had not meant his letter to
Secretary Lane to be published, that
it was simply a letter from him, as
delegate to congress, to the secretary
of the interior. The Progressive-Miner
thinks the Wickersham explanation
pretty thin, and praises Secretary
Lane for giving it out, if he did so.—
Juneau Empire.
An act to provide for vocational
education for children in Alaska was
endorsed last night by the Seward
Chamber of Commerce and endorse
ments will be sent to the Woman’s
club of Anchorage, the territorial leg
islature and Alaska’s delegate at
Washington. The memorial will set
forth that as the Smith-Hughes act
has been passed by congress appro
v
printing approximately $40,000,000 for
vocational education in the states, and
as Alaska is not included, that con
gress set aside $500,000 to be used in
Alaska.—Seward Gateway.
When the election contest commit
tee, of the national house of repre
sentatives ruled that the election law
passed by the Alaskan legislature was
merely directory in certain of its pro
visions The Citizen, at the time,
stated that it was the duty of the next
legislature to pass an Australian
ballot law which would be mandatory,
which would be more than a set of
printed directions of procedure, which
if not followed, did not change the
status of the vote cast. We con
tended, and do still that the vote ol
Alaskans is entitled to as much pro
teetion as that of any state in the
union.—Fairbanks Citizen.
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AT THE EMPRESS.
Those who see Harold Lockwood in
his latest Metro starring vehicle,
“The Landloper,” an adaptation of
Holman Day’s novel of the same
name, when it is shown at the
Empress tomorrow will have an op
portunity to view the beauties of
Palm Beach, Florida, for a number of
scenes in “The Landloper” were
photographed at that famous Florida
winter resort.
The scenes made In Palm Beach are
those in which Walker Farr (Harold
Lockwood) figure when, as a young
man of wealth, he wagers that he can
assume the role of a knight of the
highway for three months and thus
prove his theory that any man car
find happiness, no matter what his
station in life may be. The wager is
accepted and Farr begins the journej
which begets him the title of the land
loper. Farr proves his theory, but noi
before he has been the center of £
whirl of romance and adventure
which gives the story its interest.
“The Landloper” is a colorful ro
mantle drama and provides the stai
with a most congenial role.
Douglas Fairbanks in “A Moderi
Musketeer” on Monday. Douglai
Fairbanks has proved to be one of th<
most entertaining of screen stars. Hii
tireless vitality, teeming with goot
muor, won lntant popularity. Hii
name ia synonymous of a good pic
ture of which "A Modern Musketeer’
is one of the best. '
Tonight only "The Kiss” for thi
last time. Also Hearst-Pathe News.
Employes of the government rail
road on the Anchorage division have
signified their willingness to draw
only what pay is necessary for their
work front now on until July 1, when
an appropriation is expected to be
made to cover deficiencies. This was
necessary if the work on the railroad
is to continue owing to the fact that
the senate failed to pass the sundry
civil bill.
After June 1, according to goveri
ment regulations, all ocean-going ve
sels, including those running ft
Alaska, will be compelled to be equip
ped with life preservers with a collar
large enough to hold the head of a
person well above water. All vessels
of over 150 gross tons burden will
also be required to carry a gun cap
able of shooting a lifeline.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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