THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
PESTILENCE AND FAMINE
If you are feeling sorry for yourself
these days it may chirk you up a bit
to read the following review of world
conditions boiled down from state
ments by Henry Davidson, chairman
of the general council of the Red
Cross. Mr. Davison guarantees these
facts. Somehow, after reading of con
ditions elsewhere, our own- private
struggles with high cost of gasoline
high rents, high foods and reduced
clothing—reduced to about 100 per
cent higher than before the war—
seem to lose much of their impor
tance. Perhaps it is better, after all,
to have high priced beefsteak, than
none at all, and to fatten the bank
account of shylock landlords than
have no shelter of any kind.
Here is the situation in central and
southern Europe at a glance:
Poland—Wholesale starvation is
threatened during June and July un
less large importation of food from
America is secured. There are now
approximately 250,000 cases of typhus
in Poland and in the area occupied by
Polish troops. From present indica
tions the population is threatened
with one of the Avorst typhus fever
epidemics in the history of the world,
Avhich unless checked, will prove a
danger to the whole of Europe. There
is a great lack of doctors, nurses
and medical supplies as Avell as food.
In some districts one doctor to 150,
00 c people.
TTkrainia—Typhus and influenza
are widely prevalent. In villages of
2,000 or 3,000 people, half the people
are frequently ill with typhus at the
same time, and practically without
medical care. Doctors who haAre to
treat disease in areas in which there
are 20,000 to 30,000 typhus patients
have no medical supples. Prices for
necessities of life now are about 500
times more than at the beginning of
the war.
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“There are rations for three weeks.
The people are apathetic, fatalistic
and tired. At least 25,000 hospital
beds have become useless owing to
the shortage of hospital supplies.
One hundred thousand school child
ren in Vienna are underfed and dis
eased. Crime among the child popu
lation is on the increase. General
death rate has risen 46 per cent since
1913. The mortality from tuberculo
sis has risen 250 per cent in the
same period. The middle class living
on salaries are selling their belong
ings to live even on government
rations. Today an overcoat costs
three month’s salary of a court just
ice.”
Hungary—In Budapest, the popula
tion of which has increased from 900,
000 to 1,500,000, indescribable misery
is the lot of those least able to bear
“it, namely, the children. The number
of death is double that of births.
- Czecho-Slovakia—The shelves of
1 the pharmacists are bare and are not
^ being replenished because of the low
value of the national currency. In
1919 typhus appeared in all four coun
tries comprising the republic; also
smallpox. There is serious lack oi
physicians.
Rumania—Tuberculosis is spread
ing in an alarming and unprecedent
ed manner.
Serbia—There is a great shortage oi
doctors. It is said that there are only
200 for the entire country, and that
i 80 per cent of the doctors have lost
their lives during the war. Typhus
has broken out again. There are
areas with 50,000 to 60,000 people
with practically no medical care.
Montenegro—Food is running short.
Typhus has broken out. Not ovei
four or five doctors for estimated pop
ulation of 450,000.
Esthonia—About 15,000 cases of
typhus reported. Acute lack of food,
clothing and transportation.
Armenia—Distress and destitution
beyond description.
REPORT DISAPPOINTING
We must confess great disappoint
ment in the report of the Alaska ad
visory committee. To repeat statistics
showing the furs, fish and minerals
produced since 1867, but at the same
time pointedly omit mention of the
United States government railroad
scandal of 1920, is nothing short of an
invitation to criticism and censure. On
the other hand, the bureaus of the dif
ferent departments at Washington,
who really are responsible, are white
washed and, to offset this, several rec
ommendations, impracticable and ab
surd in the light of existing conditions
and impossible of fruition, are sug
gested. Mr. J. Bart Payne, the new
secretary of the interior, must be
somew7hat of a josher, for according to
a telegram sent by one of the news
paper correspondents, he told the com
mittee to at once place its recommend
ations in effect. Realizing the weak
ness in the personnel of the commit
tee, it will be extremely interesting to
see how they are going to break the
Sherman anti-trust law and the inter
state commerce act, what sort of a
smelter they will build in Alaska, and
how they will dodge conservation and
other strangulating regulations as ap
plied to the northern territory.—Rail
way and Marine News.
READ THIS AND BECOME A
SUCCESS
David R. Forgan, Chicago banker,
has time, outside of business hours,
to hand out a word of advice now and
then to his young admirers, who want
to know how to become a bank pres
ident and a man of wealth. The
following is a sample of what Mr.
Forgan can say:
Begin with a definite object. Deter
mine to become an expert in your
line.
Begin by courting difficulties. You
cannot succeed by shirking them.
Work hard. Persist. Be square.
Remember that integrity is the par
amount power in industry. However
rich and influential a man may be,
his sins will find him out.
Select a business wherein you can
begin small, on your very own ac
count, but with no limit to the chances
of growth.
Pick a line in which earnings will
go to you, not to stock holders or
others.
Begin with your own savings. That
is the best kind of capital. They
were hard to accumulate. You will
not waste them.
Do not forget that the future offers
a good man far more opportunities
than the past ever held.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
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With the rumors of big wild straw
berry crops to be harvested this year,
many people will be tempted to take
along their short cake and going to
the picking grounds.—Douglas News.
Ketchikan boasts a large number of
fraternal organizations, lodges and
societies, says the Ketchikan Chroni
cle, all working for the betterment of
the condition of their members and of
society; yet, a remarkable situation
exists in the town; these orders with
out exception refusing to help the
home paper, which is ready by their
members. Every organization should
carry a card in its home paper. By
so doing it helps support an institu
tion which would be a distinct loss to
a community were it to go out of busi
ness, and shifts the burden of informa
tion where it belongs.—Valdez Miner.
For many years Alaska has been
declared to be “the promised land” in
national political convention plat
forms, and then forgotten. Although
Alaska was not mentioned by the Re
publican national convention platform
it is just possible that it is the inten
tion of the Harding administration to
“cut out the bull” and inject a common
sense administration in Alaska. The
Alaska Dispatch will wait for a dec
laration on Alaska from Harding, and
if it comes, believes it will be a sin
cere declaration of what the people
of Alaska amd their voting friends in
the states can expect.—Alaska Dis
patch.
Organized town boosting in Ketchi
kan is lacking. . The observant resi
dent realizes that and every friendly
visitor tells it to the people here.
They all agree that it is the one thing
about Ketchikan which keeps it from
attaining a greater degree of renown.
A state senator from the middle west,
a member of the Shrine party which
visited Ketchikan, pointed out to a
number of business men the lack of
organization in Ketchikan. He as
serted that Ketchikan, with its pres
ent activity, if it had a commercial
club with a paid secretary who de
voted his time to nothing else but the
upbuilding of the town, could bring in
such big interest on the investment
that its advantages and opportunities
would be sung far and wide.—Ketchi
kan Chronicle. v
The edition of July 3 of the Cordova
Times contained a four-page supple
ment devoted to the town and sur
rounding country. It was-handsomely
illustrated with cuts of substantial
buildings, churches, schools, hotels
and other business houses. It de
voted considerable space to the indus
tries of the section of the territory
for which Coiflova is headquarters and
describes in some detail the mineral
resources of the country adjacent to
the town. It was a splendid, well writ
ten edition, in which both the publish
ers and the town of Cordova may well
take pride.—Juneau Empire.
FOREST SERVICE NOT
;age women as
LOOKOUTS THIS YEAR
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MISSOULA, Mont., July 14 (by As
sociated Press).—Women lookouts
will not be employed by the forest
service during the fire season this
year, it is announced. While Amer
ica was in the world war, a number of
them were engaged as lookouts in
the woods to “spot” fires, but with
the close of the war, and the return
of the men from abroad, the neces
sity for women in this rather hazar
dous employment is removed, forestry
officials at local headquarters say.
Several women school teachers in
summers past have found employment
of this kind in District One, among
those last year being Miss Mary O’
Donnell, who in 1918 was a candidate
for state schpol superintendent on the
Democratic ticket.
The Daily Times Job Plant is well
equipped for all classes of commercial
printing.
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Duty of Government Is to Protect the
People Who Are Dependent on It.
By GOVERNOR H. J. ALLEN of Kansas
It is the duty of government, and it has the in
herent power, to protect the people whose welfare ie
dependent upon it. Facing a desperate situation,
through a stoppage of coal production at the beginning
of winter, government in Kansas is brought to the
pass of using all its powers to protect the people whose
suffering will be unspeakable unless relief is afforded.
If the government is to mean anything, then its obliga
- tion is to prevent innocent people from becoming the
victims of a fuel famine which, in the course of events,
is both unnatural and unnecessary.
Every department of human life is bound up in this issue. Every
industry and private occupation which government is organized to support
is affected by it, and the challenge of those who would bring upon us this
catastrophe is a challenge to government. So far as Kansas is concerned,
government is going to accept the challenge.
It is the age-old obligation of just government to protect the innocent
against the ruthless quarrels in the making of which they have had no part
The people know that this is not in any sense a strike-breaking enter
prise. It is not intended to affect the adjustment of the issues between the
miners and the operators.
But once and for all it must be understood that the powers of the
state now summoned into action for the protection of its people are above
and beyond those of any association or organization, whether of capital or
of individuals.
Exit Automobile and Enter Fool-Proof Airplane?
THE world is now entering the aerial age—the last stage of civilization
This is the opinion of I’rof. Samuel Pickard, president of the Kansas Citj
(Mo ) Aeroplane school. “Man has conquered land and water transportation.”
said Prof. Pickard, “and he is no\t
I'M COMING conquering air transportation. Aii
_ travel eventually will be safer that
traveling by land or water. In fact, i’
is now only a question of a few month?
when a new fool-proof machine will b<
ready for the market.
“It is a simple combination of tin
features of the aeroplane and balloon
with helium gas. The new air machint
will be on an equal competitive basis
commercially with the automobile. Ii
will enable one to land on the stree’
or rise directly in the air, for it is nothing more than a lighter-than-air airplane
“These machines will be small in size, not much bigger than the present
five-passenger automobile. It will be possible to rise or descend with as much
facility and ease as to go forward or backward. As much of the power of the
present plane is utilized in keeping the machine aloft, only a lightweighl
motor will be necessary.
“The new type of machine will be absolutely safe and in perfect contro1
at all times. It will be possible to operate it at any speed, from two or three
miles up to sixty or 125 miles an hour, depending upon the power of the motor
“It will be the universal mode of transportation and travel. The cost o1
producing the machine will make the selling price within the reach of prac
tically everyone, including the skilled workman, whose present income is suffi
cient to buy and operate one.” .*
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