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H. G. STEEL
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FRIDAY, May 31, 1918
OUR SILLY STATESMEN
As one scans the pages of the Con
gressional Record day after day the
Thought comes that it is developing
into pretty much of a joke book; that
all too many of our congressmen are
rapidly degenerating into clowns; and
that the general tendency of our' na
tional legislators is to see how silly
thy can he and how absurd they can
act. notwithstanding the fact that
’ley are face to face with the most
serious business that lias ever con
fronted any session of congress.
By way of a fair sample of the
style of speech and sentiment that
consumes the time of the house day
alter day, we cite the following in
sTitnc: It happened one day recently
•hat Congressman Heflin of Alabama
engaged in a personal attack against
1 ngressmati Mason of Illinois. The
Pillowing day Mason he of patent
medicine fame took the floor and an
swered the gentleman from Alabama
in the following fashion:
< heap peanut polities! I purpose
now to answer him if 1 have to get
down unto his intellectual level toj
do it.
■‘Every time this man from Ala-1
biiiiia gets up in the morning and;
gets liis trousers on he thinks this
• ntry is about half dressed.
He goes tilting down Pennsylvania
avi nue, usually in a long frock coat,
with a white vest, with perfectly man-:
if tired eyebrow s, and wonders that
Pennsylvania avenue does not tip to
one side because lie is all on that
side. Then when lie comes into the
he use and walks down the aisle and!
easts bis eye upon the ladies’ gallery,
a hero, an Adonis, and then comes j
down here and bellows liow patriotic
he is and how traitrous you are—I
oven without a megaphone he shakes
the walls of Berlin—and that gentle
man feels that Cod and he have a mo
nop Ay on all the good things and
have the world by the short hair.
Those on the front seats without;
Umbrellas usually move back a lime
to avoid the perspiration and the sa
liva. **
‘•Why, when my friend Burnett
ask< d him why lie did not enlist, his
knees knocked together. He has the
most patriotic mouth and the most!
cowardly pair of legs ever put on a
human being. He does not knotv the;
difference between a heart and liver;
and bacon.”
So much for “Billy" Mason, and the;
sorry feature of it is that there are
many more of similar caliber in both
houses. When one considers the pres
ent membership of congress, individ
ually and collectively, it is not in the
least surprising that the Solons at
Washington should be playing second
fiddle to the President. In fact, the
wonder grows that they are permitted
to play in the official orchestra at all.
In his autobiography now appear
ing in a current periodical. Speaker
Clark recalls the experience encoun
tered by a green congressman who,
upon first taking his seat, looked
around the house and wondered how
ho ever happened to get into that if
luscious chamber; lull later on, when
he became better acquainted with the
members, he wondered how the other
fellows managed to get in. In no other
session of congress lias this illustra
tion had such striking application as
tin* present one.
Yet these are the selfsame states
men who will soon take the stump
and endeavor to convince their fel
low-citizens that they should be re
turned to Washington as the only pos
sible means of saving the country.
They will "point with pride" to their
support of the President’s war poli
cies, hopeful that their “me too” alti
tude will make an especial appeal to
the voters. It won’t. The American
people are going to elect a congress
of real men this fall, and the molly
coddles who are hoping to hoodwink
their constituents by means of the
customary camouflage this year are
due to find some hard sledding ahead.
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Sometimes it looks like ilooveri/.a
tion has been carried so far at our
table that we won't ever need a nap
kin again.
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Maybe you have also known men
who seemed to put no energy into
anything but sneezing.
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What lias become of the old-fash
ioned Democrat who helped elect the
best man by bringing a jug of whisky
to the polls?
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It seems that the German Ameriean
Alliance raised money in this country
for German wounded, and then gave
it to able-bodied propagandists
A XCHOKAG10, May 31. liread,
two-thirds of tho ingredients of which
are potatoes, is served in the mess
houses and at the construction camps
of the government railroad. The
l>r(ead, in its whiteness and delicious
taste, cannot be distinguished from
bread made entirely from white flour.
'l’he recipe was arrived at by K. I..
Wagner, cook at the construction
•amp Xo. S3, on the Turnagain Arm
ine of the government railroad. He
served the bread early in May at a
dinner taken at the cant]) by William
Gerig, engineer in charge of the An
chorage division, who was making air
inspection trip. Mr. Gerig, struck by
the tales and appearance of the bread,
asked for the recipe for it. At his
direction, the recipe was tried in the
mess house at Anchorage and proved
so successful it was adopted there
and at the lunch room of the Kail
road Young Men's Christian Assoei
ttion in Anchorage. Subsequently it
was used in all mess houses and
camps of the railroad.
The recipe follows:
“To 25 pounds of dry mashed po
tatoes, add four Magic yeast cakes,
which have been placed in enough
warm water to disintegrate them. Mix
thorougly with the potatoes: Let it
stand for twelve hours. Add lard,
sugar, salt as usual, and knead into
this enough white flour to make a
stiff dough. Fourteen pounds of the
white flour will be sufficient if the
minimum amount of moisture has
been used in the potatoes and the
yeast. Let rise to double its size,
then knead into loaves. Let rise
again and bake. This should make
36 pounds of, bread.
DETROIT, May SO—Quantity pro
duction is to lie the watchword of the
great Ford shipbuilding yard which b
being erected here tjor the construe
tion of the United States navy
“Eagles", the little vessels which, il
is hoped will help rid the seas of thf
German U-boats.
The assembling plan has been gre it
lv elaborated and will he applied t<
the building of the “Eagles”. Tin
raw materially will enter one end o
the plant to emerge at the other cut
a complete lighting craft. Each of tin
little vessels will he passed along by
. powerful machinery from one groip
of workmen to another and, as it pa
j es, each group will add something t
the boat.
M hen the last rivet has been dri
!>. in th - steel hull, the boat will *■
I 'eked iij bodily by a powerful iiv
draulic lift and deposited turtle*
(! wn th? ways " here ski le-l work
men will install the motor epuipmc1 t
Three ways have tr e.i construct1**!
f ell to h; Id seven of te > suhmartii
Ci users. ,t is general ? itndcrstoo'
that the p'nnt will lie ibi? te put ii
lc; the water one corn pie'..* I ‘ tlage
a day and some estimates have pia
the number as high as I lire** tor eat
twenty-four hours.
There will be no champagne ehri 1
enings nor elaborate launching ccr«
monies. No efforts are being mad'
to give the boats any touch of ail
licial beauty, the sole effort Dei
to turn out with as great speed
possible an efficient weapon again
(lerman ruthlessness on the sea
Government secrecy shrouds the m
jor details of construction.
“If these boats will hasten (lie ei,
of the frightful carnage and tiring
lasting peace, there will lie no oc<
sion to worry over the cost,” sa
Henry Ford in discussing the pi
jeet. “This is your war and my w.i
and although we did not make it, \
must see it through to a success!;
conclusion.
Sixty days ago the land on whirl
the plant is being erected was a tie-'
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olate marsh, a vast acreage of nun
through which wandered aimlessly ;
sluggish river. Now it. is a .net .vtfrl
of railroad tracks with locomotive;
running between great buildings o
steel, tile and glass.
W'liat engineers here say is one of
the largest buildings in the world
will hi' used to house at one time
a score of the little vessels. It is’
I 1.7UU feet long. 300 feet wide. The
building where the boats are to be
assembled is fully half a mile from the
Kongo river. The launching basin
adjoins litis building and thence a
channel is being evacuated into the
. river.
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We fulfil the President's wishes,;
, and use the government’s formulas
-I in our bakery. The American Bak
l erv.
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Madame bydia, the paimlst, will be
found in the Currier & Miekelson
‘mildlng on C. street,^ . 16 if
pmnnan nnmirn i
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SOMKWIIRRK IX KKAXCK, Maj
30. The sandbag is one of the most '
useful pieces of military equipment
found anywhere, and the soldier puts
it to manifold uses. Their official
use, of course, is to he filled with f
sand or clay and built into ramparts,
barricades and trenches. Their unof
ficial uses are legion. •
The infantryman always uses a
sandbag for carrying and storing his
rations, for patching and re'.nforc
mg his clothing, for lining and our
laming his dugout. for muffling mal
lets and stakes when putting up wire
in Xo-Man's land. They make excel
lent gaiters, being tied on over the
puttees as a further protection against
mud and damp. They make cosy
mufflers iu bad weather. The\ are
used to cover shrapnel helmets to
prevent reflection, and they are fro-1
quently used for rifle covers.
Many soldiers always put two sand
bags over their feet and lees when
going to bed iu billets; in other
kords, the sandbag is tommy's pa
jamas. The warmth and comfort of
a burlap sand-bag when pulled over
chilled feet is astonishing.
The postman's mail-bag at the front
is nothing more than an empty sand
bag, and tiie water-carriers also use
two sand-bags, slung back and front
a pertol full of water.
:0R SALE—A piano. Apply to Thos.
S. Scott 17-tf
’IANO FOR SALE—Price $250. Write
Mrs. J. O. Martin, Valdez. Alaska,
for further particulars.
WANTED—Hoat builders and ship car
penters. Apply to Ohm Fish & Pack
ing Co. 11-tf
-OST—Key ring, with three Key
return to Times office.
.OST—Bunch of keys; one pass key,
two trunk keys, tw-o safety deposit
keys and beer opener on small ring.
Finder return to Alaskan hotel.
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OR RENT—Six unfurnished cot
tages. Cordova Abstract & Realty
Co., Adams building.
We Must Stand By Our Boys Who Are
Fighting for Us “Somewhere in France”
By PAULINE WORTH HAMLIN
Word has come hack from iL hoys in Franco "We will be all right
over here in the trenches if you fo ,s over there will stand by us.”
What do they mean by standi g by?
They mean for us* to do ou part in food conservation, in buying
Thrift stamps and Liberty bonds. They mean for us to stand by the Ked I
Cross with our money, our hands and our brains. They mean for us to;
refrain from buying nonessential.- >o that the men and women who make
them can be released for the making of essentials. They mean for us to;
place a one-eeut stamp upon our periodicals when we have finished reading
them so that the hoys may have good things to read.
They mean for us to write cheerful letters to them. One voting sol
dier said, “1 don't mind the dagger and the discomforts if 1 feel that
everybody is all right, at home, hut when 1 get a letter saying that Frank
is out of a job and Sister Hattie is sick and food is so high tlt% can't af
ford it and there is no coal—well, L feel like the devil.
Remember that by the timt that letter reaches France Frank may
have a better job, Hattie may be fat and rosy, food may be easier to get
and the coal shortage ended. Even if that is not true write cheerful letters
anyway. The hoy over there needs cheer, it isn t his place to he cheering
you. Remember that whatever uiseomforts we may he having over here
they are comforts compared to what they have over there. Let us not fail
our boys who are lighting for us. d'he very least we can do is stand by.
The star-spangled banner that tells how many employees are in their
country's serv ice is worthy of all honor, too.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
FOR SALE—Box couch. Apply Man
hattan Hotel.
FOIi SALE—1 4 IIP. Vulcan Marine
Engine complete. Inquire Blum
O'Neill Co. 9-16
FOR SALE—Gas boat “B. F. M„ forty
two foot, twelve-foot beam, ten tons
net, thirty-six horse-power, Kahlen
berg engine, full equipment Ad
dress \V. R. Millard, Valdez. 5-4-2w
FOR RENT—Caoins. See Oooley.
A Group of Prominent Bankers and Capitalists Conceived the Idea of
and Financed the
BANK OF ALASKA
With tne Aim that Its Growth Will Give
the Name Full Significance
Practically all the territorial banks in Alaska had their origin in
a mercantile business, and were the outgrowth of a condition. The
BANK OF ALASKA was launched purely as a bank, and without the
support of other interests than the business that comes to it in the
regular channels.
The trend of American banking legislation is toward branch bank
ing systems. The pioneer in this territory is the BANK OF ALASKA,
which is the first and so far the only branch system.
Complying with the laws and regulations governing the institu
tion, from the combined paid-in capital there is apportioned to each
1 branch sufficient capital to cover the legal requiremnt of an inde
pendent bank. Each branch makes full individual report to the bank
ing board. Each must show how it is progressing individually.
In the final analysis the strength and justification of the system is
apparent, for each branch has the full strength of the entire system
back of it.
The system is backed by very able meta, and furnishes all the ad
vantages of a metropolitan bank, having the facilities of checking ac
counts, certificates of deposit, savings accounts, travelers’ checks and
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