Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
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the local news published herein.
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despatches herein are also reserved.
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1918
CHANGING VIEWS OF THE WAR
I he United States is rapidly awak
enlng to a realization of the fact that
the war is going to draw heavily upon
all of its resources, and that, on a
day much earlier than has heretofore
been expected, the struggle will test
the willingness and the determination
of the American people to throw
everything they possess into the scale,
that the balance against Gorman ag
gression may be made permanently
secure.
Leaders of the people, Including)
their representatives in Washington,j
have ceased to talk of or to plan for
an early peace. They have come to
understand that no peace satisfying
to civilization and democracy is pos
sible, early or late, that does not
follow the complete overthrow of
German militarism. They are now
looking beyond the defense of Paris,
the defense of the Channel, the de
lense of London, the delivery of
French, Belgian. Serbian, Polish and
Rumanian territory from enemy pos-;
session, and the restoration of Al-!,
saoe-Lorraine, to the invasion of Ger
many and Austria and the laying down
of terms to these nations in their own
capitals.
Gradually and actually, the public ,
of the I nited States has come to re-' :
gard the war and the relation wl^ch
tho republc bears to it in a light alto
gether different from that in which (
it was observed a year ago. There i
was at that time a belief current in
the country that Germany would he :
brought to see its error, to court ne- ,
gotiations which would result in a (
cessation of hostilities, to offer such s
indemnity and restitution as would ,
satisfy the nations she had outraged,
and thus be enabled to go about her
business again, defeated, badly dis
abled, perhaps, but not beyond recov
ery.
Reasoning, speculating and dream
ing along this line are now apparently!1
of the past. Sentiment in the United; !
States today, to a large extent, scorns
any proposal for a peace settlement
that does not carry with it, as a basic,
requirement, dismemberment of the'
Central Empires. Particularly is this
indicated in references to future de
mands upon the nation for men, mu-!
nitions and supplies. The scale of
reckoning has been enlarged to ten
times its original dimensions. The!
nation is talking in millions where a!
year ago It talked in hundreds of
thousands, In billions where a year
ago it talked in millions. The figures
in all estimates are being multiplied.!
Limitations are being removed from!
the draft law. Representative Kahn!
favors an army of at least 5,000,000
and former President Taft declares
that an army of 7,000,000 is a ne
cessity.
This is the pass already reached,
and the climax is apparently far in
the future. It has required a long
time for the real spirit of the nation
to awaken and assert itself, but it is
at length aroused, and it will not be
content until all the faith and all the
hope which the democracy of the
world has placed in the United States
shall be justified and realized. No
matter what untoward event may hap
pen now upon the war front, no mat
ter what reverse may occur today,
tomorrow, next week, or next month,
the thing that needs to be remem
bered, at home and abroad, is that
the United States is only beginning
to- fight.
Let those who question this turn
to the proceedings of congress and
note that measures are being taken
which, aside from all other drafts and
enlistments, will automatically add
1,000,000 young men to the strength
of the army every year, for an in
definite number of years. The war is
never going to be ended' until it is
ended rightly, and it is never going
to be ended rightly, as the United
States views it, until the cause of
such cataclysms shall be permanently
removed.—Christian Science Monitor.
FIND WHO BLUNDERERS ARE
President Wilson could honestly
have done, nothing else but sanction
an investigation into the activities of
the airplane production board. For
reasons that are not definitely estab
lished, this board, though it had all
the money it needed, has actually not
sent a single completed airplane to
France, according to statements made
in the senate.
By .July 1 i^ext there will be a bil
lion dollars invested in airplane pro
duction, Senator Poindexter says. By
that time there may be a few liun
dred American machines in France.
That sum of money should have
produced at least 200,000 battle planes;
and bomb-dropping machines. Thej
English and French are producing!
their planes for less than $5,000 each.
If the money had been wisely spent
and if the managers of the airplane
program had matured their plans
there would have been 200,000 planes
either in France or ready for France
before a billion dollars had been
spent.
If such a number of machines were
ivailable this summer the war would
)e close to its end.
It has been hinted that some scan
lals will be unearther in the probe.
Some senators have suggested that
here has been large scare grafting
;oing on.
Probably there has been no dishon
esty. but surely there has been colos
sal blundering. Ten-eent men have
seen placed in million-dollar jobs.
The country is expecting a thor
»ugh and an honest investigation in
)rder that the parties responsible for
:he utter failure of a means to end
he war may be known and that those
ifficials associated in aircraft pro
luction who proved capable may not
uffer in reputation for the acts of
>thers.
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THE RIGHT SLOGAN
“Treat ’em rough.”
That is the slogan of the men who
lave enlisted for duty with the United
states army tanks. i
Their coat of arms is a wildcat. No
oink tea artists are wanted in this
service. Tough customers are wel
comed. Not the ordinary “tough guy,”
jut the fellow who likes to mix things
an any occasion and who has plenty
of brains.
Their slogan is all right, and so is
:heir insignia.
Treat ’em rough.
Give ’em a lick and a cuff.
Make ’em yell enough.
Let all the Yanks do it.
That's the stuff.
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The American Bakery serves good
bread.
MLROSO
Word comes from Anchorage this
morning of renewed activity in rail
road circles. Four hundred men have
been put to work on the twelve-mile
gap between Seward and Anchorage
and it is predicted that the road will
be in operation between these twc
towns by July 1.
Work has also commenced on the
new 1.000-foot dock and governmen
wharf.
Sumner Smith, superintendent ol
mines, is doing good work in the
Chickaloon and Matanuska coal fields
Additional miners are being put tc
work daily and new mines are being
opened up under government super
vision. The matter of private leasee
has not been definitely decided, bu<
indications point to an affirmative de
cision. There are several private coa
mines being operated at the presenl
time, and all successfully.
The report further says that the
Matanuska valley farmers are start
ing the spring planting and that man*
additional acres are being cleared foi
cultivation.
The quartz and placer mining in
terests contiguous to Anchorage have
not suffered as a result of the war
The quartz district of Willow Creel
especially will have a prosperous sea
son. Several new mines in this dis
trict will be operated this season
Operations in the Cache Creek dis
trict will not suffer. The Cache Creek
Dredging Company has started oper
ations, and most of the hydraulic
plants will be working full blast this
season.
While the big appropriation has not
passed, the people of Anchorage are
grateful for any consideration from
the government at this time. Busi
ness men in a position to know pre
dict that times will be good again in
Anchorage this summer.
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
List of subscribers to the second
Red Cross war fund up to noon to
day:
S. R. Hedges, S. P. Hedges, Geor
gina Hedges, Gladys Hedges, Mrs. S.
R. Hedges, Mrs. Tora Shold, Paul
Bloedhorn, Mrs. Chester Mellison, Ru
dolph Voight. Fred Frederickson, Mrs.
Henry Maillard, Mr. Bogue, Harmon
Machinery Company, Mrs. Vera Har
mon, Mr. Bryant, Mrs. Lacey, Mrs. E.
L. Harwood, Mrs. E. P. Harwood,
bldla Salo, J. B. Carlyle, D. C. Czer
ivenka, J. V. Lydick, Albert Nelson,
S’els Stark, L. Wick, Albert Dahl, R.
E. Myerberg, P. Jensen, Abe Court
-ight, Charles Foysten, G. F. McDon
ald, Caleb Corser, J. D. Loring, R. J.
De Leo, C. Hendrick, Mrs. S. Scott,
r. A. Nicolett, Mrs. Esther O’Lough
in, Mrs. W. B. Hancock, Len Cox,
Seorge Buchannan, Archie Field,
k’erne Elliott, John Day, Frank Ford,
i. A. Fraisure, R. E. Eisner, Miss C.
d. Belding, A. Miller, John Spitz, W.
3. Fitzgerald, H. Dunk, E. A. Yeager,
rom Todorof, John Graves, Steve
3reeu, E. C. Tillman, D. Nickaloff, Ir
dn Nelson, P. Allen, John Chillagos,
rheo Nest, Frank Palo, H. S. Hutch
inson, Morton De Loch, Mrs. C. E.
Winkler, H. V. Hoskins, Mrs. R. B.
Jiles, Mrs. Ed Currier, Mrs. Schultz,
Mrs. E. E. Tuerck, Frank Angerman,
Mrs. F. E. Sayres, A. La Motte, Ed
Pike, Helen Taylor, W. R. Hillery,
Charles Getty, A. J. Merrill, Mrs.
Charles Cochran, Ben Osborne, Mrs.
Ben Osborne, Bjorn Osborne, Mrs.
Hub Bollinger, Mrs. W. RathweU, Don
Bollinger, Mrs. Fred Anderson, Made
line Anderson, Harriett Andarson,
Charles Lamphery, Mrs Charles Lani
phery, C. P. Michelson, Mrs. C. P. Mi
chelson, Joe Miller, M. Ellison, George
J E. Burleigh, Mrs. Powell, Adeline
Martenson, Miss Elvira MarHnsrm
Mike Simn, J. R. Melvin, George Ito,
Mrs. Maude Weatherly, G. B. Boling,
J. E. Most, J. N. Steffgen, Dougherty’s,
T. J. Sully, R. B. Giles, Mrs. Gamble,
H. J. Hasch, J. F. R. Appleby, J. Lo
gan, Max Peyser, T. N. Hubbert, A.
Benson, Mrs. J. W. Thirkill, Mrs. O.
L. Johansen, S. T. Brightwell, W. E.
Brown, Grant Caughey, M. S. Wilson,
N. J. Smith, Fred Exeell,
M. Brennan, L. E. Dickenson, H.
Leach, H. Hapgrat, Sam Miller, B.
Destas, S. Maimair, Elo Patro, M.
Mori, Joe Harmon, N. Brandon, J.
Christensen, J. S. Meeker, P. John
son, Norman Bicford, H. P. Hansen,
P. Laylor, J. R. Reebs, Mike Elo, J.
B. Kelley, Mrs. J. B. Kelley, Mabel I.
Smith, B. L. Wood, V. J. Swanberg,
John Schultheis, Pete Peterson, John
Miklo, Tim Hurley, Nick Stick, M. R.
Hussey, George Kapick, M. R. Malloy,
Frank Douglas, H. G. Steel, C. A.
Derry, L. G. Belter, Julius Struck,
George E. James.
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BILLS ORDERED PAID
The following bills were ordered
paid by the town council of Cordova
on Monday, May 21, 1918:
Cordova Power Co., lights_$278.15
Blum, O’Neill Co., supplies_ 16.20
Dick Kerwood, labor. 4.20
D. R. Baker, labor. 17.40
B. L. Wood, labor._ 11.40
James Kennedy, labor.. 18.00
F. W. Willie, labor. 9.00|
John Schulthis, labor . 3.601
Tom Matthew, labor. 6.00 j
George Hartman, labor. 49.20!
E. B. Jarrett, labor. 49.20 I
Cordova Lumber Co., lumber.. 185.621
Finkelstein & Sapiro, lhmps.. 6.00 j
Northern Drug Co., . supplies.. 1.80
Cordova Machinery Co., repairs 12.75
Cordova Drug Co., supplies_ 1,40
NATHANAEL GREENE, Clerk.
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NOTICE TO COMMITTEES
All the committees of the second
Red Cross war fund drive, likewise
business houses who have made sub
scriptions to the fund, are requested
to turn in said subscriptions to the
treasury every day by noon, in order
that the public may be informed in
this paper daily cf the results secured
up to that time.
E. V. BOYLE, Treasurer.
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Copies received here of “The;
Splker,” a magazine published by:
members of an engineering regiment''
recruited largely in Alaska, Washing-:
ton and Oregon, and which Is now in:
France, tell of a San Francisco boyi
who, because of the California city’s i
earthquake and fire in 1906, must, per-|~
haps, wait until the war ends and|
he can leave France before he can1
marry the girl of his choice, who tap-!
pens to be a daughter of that sunny!
land.
They met soon after his regiment
landed there, and acquaintance ripen
ing into something deeper than friend
ship, he obtained her consent, as well
as that of her parents, and matters
went smoothly toward a wedding at
an early date. Then he ran afoul of
a very strictly-observed French law,
which insists on prospective brides
and grooms producing their birth cer
tificates before they can marry. The
girl readily produced her certificate,
The Red Dragon
CORDOVA. ALASKA |
Headquarters of Cordova
Chapter American Red Cross.
Club House founded in 1908
by Episcopal church. Open
from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.
REV E. P. ZIEGLER
Supt
,
while the soldier hastily dispatched a
letter home asking his relatives to
forward the necessary paper as
quickly as possible. The letter of re
ply not only failed to inclose the cer
tificate, but informed him that the
records of his birth had been de
stroyed in the fire.
"Without a certificate he can never
legally convince the French authori
ties that he was born,” says "The
Spiker.” Hence, no wedding bells in
France.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
ROOM FOR RENT—Apply Dr. Coun
cil-___tf.
WANTED—Stenographic position for
month or six weeks. Mrs. V. P.
Abbott, Windsor hotel.
LOST—An earring, between the Re
ception and the dock, on Sunday
last. Finder please return to Mrs.
James MacCormac.
LOST—Key ring, with three Keys,
return to Times office.
FOR SALE—Box couch. Apply Man
hattan Hotel.
<V ANTED—Boat builders and ship car
penters. Apply to Ohm Fish & Pack
ing Co. 11-tf
rOR SALE—1 4 H.P. Vulcan Marine
Engine complete. Inquire Blum
O’Neill Co. 9-16
WANTED—An experienced hardware
man; also deliveryman. Apply to
Finkelstein & Sapiro, Inc. 20-tf
rOR 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 W. R. Millard, Valdez. 5-4-2w
:OR RENT—Six unfurnished cot
tages. Cordova Abstract & Realty
Co., Adams building.
LOST—Bunch of keys; one pass key,
two trunk keys, two safety deposit
keys and beer opener on small ring.
Finder return to Alaskan hotel.
PIANO FOR SALE—Price $250. Write
Mrs. J. C. Martin, Valdez, Alaska,
for further particulars.
rOR SALE—A piano. Apply to Thos.
S. Scott 17-tf
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