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elMEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
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served.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1917
The War: What Against, What
For.
(By William English Walling)
W e are fighting for America
and against Germany. But.
even military autocracy does
not dare to defend massacres
on tin* mere ground of nation
al egotism. The German rul
ing class organized its vast
propaganda solely to convince
the world, including the Ger
mans, that it is fighting for
principle. And the consider
able development of that pro
paganda is chiefly due to its
positive elements. The Ger
mans tell us they are fighting
to spread “kultnre,” scienti
fic efficiency and organization
state socialism.
We are fighting against the
effort of autocracy to spread at
the expense of democracy. We
are fighting to prevent militar
ism from committing success
ful aggression. We are fight
ing against war, against the
return of barbarism. What
are we fighting for?
Why rest with the statement
that we are fighting against
war and preparations for war.
Ts it not infinitely more inspir
ing that we are fighting for
that ceaseless improvement of
the relations between the na
tions which can not fail to lead
toward the federation of the
world ?
Why say we are fighting
merely to defend democracy?
Are we not fighting to spread
it ? We can not spread it by
means of tin* machine gun. We
do not issue an ultimatum to
the Go ■rman people: You must
accept democracy. But we do
see—and say—that as long as
autocracy continues to exist
we shall be obliged to wage
some kind of warfare against
it.
but the German people may
adopt some deceptive compro
mise that is neither autocracy
nor democracy. This we in
tend to prevent, but we can
prevent it only by demonstrat
ing to the Germans and to all
the world that democracy is
superior in war, in diplomacy,
in industrial technique and or
ganization. in the handling of
racial and other minorities;
that we lead in educating our
selves as to the issues of war,
iii the formulation of just terms
of peace, and in willingness to
sacrifice the smaller for the
larger good.
We art* fighting to demon
strate the superiority of dem
ocracy. But what democracy
has given us chiefly so far has
been individual opportunity.
In tin* jack of national organ
ization this opportunity has
been li*tlle utilized for the na
tional welfare.
We are fighting to develop
a superiority where Germany
has thrown down the challenge.
We have to beat her in hei
chosen field, the development
of industrial technique under
tin* leadership of government.
We shall not soon excel her as
to thoroughness, which means
long preparation and often co
ercion or subordination of the
individual. But we shall ex
cel in the far more important
matter of bringing fort individ
ual initiative. And our nation
al organization—in proportion
as we build up a national or
ganization-will prove super
ior because so many individu
als in all ranks—too much not
being demanded of them—will
give more than is demanded.
Again the Germans have
produced an efficient govern
ment. But they have produc
ed it by physical, mental, and
moral compulsion of the indi
vidual. The state* is everything,
it shapes the ve*ry thoughts and
aspirations of the people. As
a result the state is worship
peel, ne»t only for what it is but
also what what it is not. The
state can do no wrong—at
least abroad. At home it may
not be omniscient, but it is om
nipotent. It is fate; resistance
is ineemceivable, resolution an
outworn theory. How can the
great bulk of citizens de*velop
[either courage en* intelligence
in their attitude tee such a
state?
The denmeratie governments
of the* world nisei have been as
suming vast industrial func
tions since the war—anel it is
possible that some of these
functions will be* permanent.
But these activities are not
based on any state doctrine
taught the people by govern
ments. When the people have
felt a need, the state has been
their servant to supply that
need—whereas in Germany it
is the people that are the ser
vants of tin* state. In America
it is our state, and we are
fighting to show not only that
it can do everything that the
German state has done, but
can succeed where autocracy
has failed.
J Ins is what we are fighting
for. However humiliating it
may he, we did not seriously
aim at the maximum of nation
al efficiency in government
and industry in time-of peace.
Only the frightful punishment
and curse of war could bring
the democratic peoples to ex
ert themselves to the maximum
as nations. Not only are we
obliged to do our best now to
remove every national weak
ness. The enemy gains still
more from the baseness that
has lingered among us—the be
trayal of our own democratic
principles.
We are fighting, then, not
for what democracy was at its
worst, but for wlmt democracy
can be at its best. No; this is
not a negative war. It is a
war to advance democracy.
And the only way we can ad
vance* democracy—even in war
time—is to develop it. Only
in this way can we admiuistei
to the enemies of democracy a
lasting physical, mental, and
moral defeat.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The standard of service oi
the Associated Press lias beer
so high that newspapers re
gard its great feats in handling
the war news as incidents tt
be expected. Yet its achieve
meats under difficulties have
been so splendid tlml those
who come into direct eontacl
with its matchless service daily
pause occasionally to pay it
the slightest tribute due an or
ganization whose work is well
performed.
No news service has attain
ed so high a standing as the
Associated Press. If is an ex
ample for old world services,
which have long been tainted
with advertising. Its method
of gathering and disseminating
the news of the greatest war
in history, under greater hand
icaps than have ever been en
countered through the exercise
of press censorship, has com-I
mended itself to every new spa-1
per editor, and it is a tribute jj
to this vast organization that
has violated no confidence nor
attempted to embarrass the
the United States or its allies
in distributing news of the
greatest moment but which, if
published, would injure the na
tion’s cause.
Yet the Associated Pres;
men are on the job, alert as
always, and with an organiza
tion behind them more efficient
than ever. No sooner had the
war staff in France permitted
I it to be announced last week
| that Americans were on the
! fil ing line than the Associated
| Press had a full and graphic
story on the cables, presenting
those little details which give
a news dispatch its enduring
value. And this is only one of
a thousand rattling good news
dispatches which have come
directly from the fields of bat
tle to the dinner table in an
incredibly short time.
Americans are appreciating
the value of this great associa
tion. which not only is argus
eyed, but which sees clearly.!
its reliability is an asset no:
less valuable than its effici
encv. Its great aim—to pres-1
ent the news accurately, im
partially and quickly—has
made all the attributes of the j
world “official.”
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NEW HERRING PLANT * ■' W
STARTED AT KILLI$NOO
A. ,H. Humphrey and Royal Shep
herd of Juneau, have started construc
tion of a herring plant at Killisnoo.
The Scotch method of mild curing
will be used first. The company that
is to be formed expects to go ulti
mately into the canning of salmon.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION.
No. C-131.
Lily Dockings, Plaintiff, vs. James
Dockings, Defendant.
SUMMONS.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting:
To James Dockings, the above named
defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of the
publication of this summons, to-w;t,
within thirty days after the 25th day
of November, 1917, and answer the
complaint of Lily Dockings, the above
named plaintiff, in the above entitled
cause, which cause is an action for
divorce in one of the cases prescribed
by law wherein the plaintiff prays for
riage between herself and you and for
a decree dissolving the bonds of mar
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such other and further relief as to
the court may seem right and proper
in the premises. And you are hereby
notified that if you fail to appear and
i answer said complaint as herein re
quired, the said plaintiff will take
judgment against you for want there
of, and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in her complaint, as
hereinbefore set out.
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
First avenue, $500. Terms. See C.
on the 19th day of October, 1917.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, Judge of said court, and the
seal thereof, this 19th day of October,
in the year of our Lord the one thou
sand nine hundred and seventeenth
and of our independence the one hun
dred and forty-second.
(District Court Seal)
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
By C. H. Wilcox, Deputy.
Bank of Alaska
f ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $105,500.00
Resources Over $1,000,000.00
CORDOVA OFFICERS
ANDREW STEVENSON W. R. HILLERY
President Vice-Pics. (Managing)
IB. R. COLKETT
Asst. Cashier
COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
Safe Deposit Boxes Travelers Checks
The NATIONAL ARMY is Neither wage-earner nor mer
drawn from our reserves of chant can afford to always
men. If you are drawn will live close to the margin of
you leave a cash reserve in the their resources. Whether you
bank? You may not need it join the colors or not, start
during the war but you cer- now building up a reserve by
tainly will when you are mus- depositing with the BANK OF
tered out. ALASKA, an institution that
carries ample reserves and
builds for the future.
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I YOUR EARNING POWER
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