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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917.
NEUTRALS AND THEIR SHIPS
The United States has found a
means of increasing marine tonnage
between American ports. Some of the
neutrals still have many vessels for
which they have little or no use ex
cept as food carriers for themselves.
These neutrals have not shown a dis
position to permit the use of their
ships in carrying supplies to the Al
lies—in fact could not allow this to
be done without violating their neu
trality, and laying their ships open
to submarine attack.
Since ships are required in the
coastwise trade of the United States,
in order that the vessels of American
register may be used in the transpor
tation of troops and supplies, the
United States has determined that the
neutrals may have food from America
only on condition that the neutral
ships be sent back to the United
States to be used as coastwise car
riers.
The first instance of this kind is
the Dutch steamer Nieuw Amster
dam. This vessel is at an Atlantic
port seeking to take on a cargo of
wheat for Holland. The Washington
administration has refused to grant
export license unless assurances are
given by the Dutch government that
the Nieuw Amsterdam will be sent
back to this country for use here.
Warnings have been sent to sea-port
elevators that they are not to load
neutral ships until license is granted
by the government. The Dutch min
ister is said to have advised his home
government to comply with the Amer
ican request.
Formerly the law stood in the way
of foreign ships carrying coastwise
freight. Congress has remedied this
condition for the period of the war at
least.
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HOW ABOUT SUGAR?
au acute shortage in the supply of
sugar Is threatened at the present
rate of consumption. This is accord
ing to the statements which Charles
Christ, representative of Herbert
Hoover, national food administrator,
is credited with giving out at a con
ference of delegates from Washing
ton discusing food conservation at
Portland. Mr. Christ predicted that
if the nation keeps using sugar at
the present rate the visible supply will
last only until Dec. 10. It is incum
bent on the United States to export
sugar to France and England. Other
wise the Allies would be deprived of
this commodity.
Now, on the other hand, the cur
rent issue of Facts about Sugar de
cries the alarmist reports of an im
pending shortage in sugar and says
that while the relations between the
current demand and the available
rt'pply are nicely balanced, a scare
that would frighten consumers into
purchasing for the purpose of hoard
ing might work incalculable harm.
The trade journal alluded to advises
members of the sugar trade to make
it a part of their business during the
next several weeks to hold down or
ders to the level of actual require
ments, to refute groundless reports of
impending shortage, and to allay need
less alarm among customers. s
It will not be many months before
the state of Washington will be get
ting a supply of beet sugar from the
factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Com
pany at North Yakima. With com
mendable enterprise this company
had a representative distributing lit
erature at the Puyallup fair and ac
quainting people with the properties
of beet sugar, which experts declare
is identical with cane sugar. W. H.
Snyder, an authority of national pro
minence, is quoted as declaring that
refined sugar, whether made from the
cane, beets, corn, maple sap or any
other products, is the same chemical
ly, and he says it is impossible to dis
tinguish between refined beet and re
fined cane sugars. It may surprise
many people to know that one-half
the world’s sugar production is beet
sugar and it is asserted that no hu
man being nor science can distin
guish a difference.—Ex.
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The Daily Times’ auto contest closes
on Wednesday evening.
WHAT PREPAREDNESS IS DOING.
The German war lords are seeing
the early days of the great world con
flict re-enacted. At the outset, because
of the careful preparedness of the Ger
mans, It was possible for them to walk
through Belgium almost without oppo
sition. They came down to the bor
der line of France and crowded well
over into French territory before the
French and English could mass men
and guns enough to stop them. There
the combined military strength of the
allies was sufficient to hold them.
Ffor three years they have been un
able to make greater progress. For
the same three years the allies, still
unprepared, have been unable to drive
back the Germans.
Today an example what prepared
ness will do is again being given to the
world. England, France, Canada,
Australia and the United States have
been gotten ready. General Haig daily
is demonstrating what this prepared
ness means, not only to the allies and
the world, but to the Germans. Be
cause his munition supply is greater,
because he has more guns, more air
planes and more men to serve them.
General Haig is compelling the Ger
mans to give ground, and slowly but
surely bending their lines backward
out of France and Belgium.
The progress of the allies today Is
not so great, day by day. as was that
of the Germans three years ago. The
reason for this is plain. When the
Germans began their attack on the
Belgian frontier, the world knew little
about modern warfare. Three years
has served to explode theories built up
after previous wars. Three years has
served to teach the Germans, as well
as the allies, a great deal In the way
of defensive fighting. The Germans
today are Immeasurably stronger on
the defensive than were the allieB
when the war began. Despite this edu
cation of three years—despite the pre
paration against allied offensives—
the Germans are being driven back,
mile after mile, and it is not too much
to expect that, before long, they will
have to come to the end of their de
fensive preparation and a general re
treat of a hundred miles or more will
be necessary in order to shorten their
lines and gain the men required to
hnM thorn
It is easy, even for the non-militar
ist, to see the objective of the allies.
If the Germans can be driven out of
Belgium, can be forced back Into Ger
many, and if the allies can take terri
tory adjacent to the Kiel canal, Ger
many will have been completely bot
tled up from the sea, and it will be
possible to starve the submarines into
subjection and eliminate them as a
danger to oceanic traffic.
General Haig is driving along the
Belgian coast. The Germans are
massed in greatest strength opposite
him. The German military machine
realizes that it must hold this coast
at all odds if it is to continue to be
a submarine and aerial menace to
Great Britain.
When General Haig has succeeded
in driving the Germans out of north
ern Belgium, he will have accom
plished more than half of the task of
whipping the Germans. When the Ger
mans are again on their own soil
—and they are slowly but surely be
ing pushed back — the kaiser and his
ministry will be compelled to go to
the people with the truth. And when
the people learn the truth — when
they finally realize the impossibility
of ultimate German success — there
will be a clamor for peace that will
not be denied.
Train dispatchers in Indiana have
time to burn and one of them has just
figured that the $58,000,000,000 so far
spent by the allies would make a sil
ver girdle around the earth at^the
equator eight-one inches wide and that
there would be 23,106 miles of dollars
left for a rosette and 320 feet for a
tassel to the girdle.' This would rep
resent 7,250,000,000 feet, or 1,137,106
miles, plus 320 feet. The dollar mea<
sured one and one-half inches in dia
meter would make a column 7,250,000
inches high or 604,166,666 feet and 8
Inches or 112,361 miles 586 feet and 8
inches high. There is evidently no
shortage of paper at Greencastle.
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SOME FIT.
The following little skit has had
considerable publicity, but it will bear
reproduction:
Tbe Lookout, the monthly of the
Seamen's Church Institute, digs this
gem out of an Elizabethtown, N. J.. pa
per: "A young lady Just learning to
knit, sent her first effort, a pair of
socks, to Europe for the use of an
English soldier. She hsd pinned her
card to the package, and after several
months received the following ac
knowledgement:
Socks received, lady,
Some fit. ■1 •
I wear one for a helmet
And one for a mitt.
I hope to meet you
When I've done my bit;
But where In the world, lady,
Did you learn to knit?
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BUNGLING RAILROAD WORK, '
Edmund Ellsworth Sumner, a writer
in the Railway and Marine News, pub
lished at Seattle, takes the govern
ment "scorchingly” to task for what
he is pleased to term its short-sight
ed and inefficient policy in connc»
tion with the building of the U. S.
Alaska railroad, pointing out where
the original estimate of $59,000 per
I mile is but little more than half what
| it is really and actually costing to
I construct a mile of the road. The
j article insists that the increased cost
of material is no excuse, as it was
i negligence to not order the material
when appropriation was made more
| than three and a half years ago. Ac
cording to the article, the writer of
which Is apparently posted on the sub
ject at issue, the whole matter of
building the road has been bungled
from the start until the present —
not only in the matter of purchasing
material, but in that of transporta
tion as well.
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California wine growers have start
ed an initiative measure to eradicate
the saloon and its attendant evils.
They propose to limit drinking in that
state to beers and light wines, with
an alcoholic content of not more than
21 per cent. Even fortfled wines and
champagne are to be eliminated. Li- j
quors under the proposed law, may I
be had only with meals and in regu
larly operated restaurants, cafes and
hotel dining rooms. Wholesalers are
to be permitted to sell beers and light
wines in limited quantities for home
consumption.
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Chicago fio far la not taking interest
in the senatorial candidacy of Mayor
William Hale Thompson. When he
cast hia bat Into the ring he an
nounced that in order that his candl
dacy "may not be involved In the local
election of aldermen next spring” he
would withhold the publication of his
platform until after that election.
This in construed to mean that he is
waiting to see which may tbe cat
may jump.
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A high brow exchange ask* "who
has not felt the instinctive feeling
of distrust that certain individuals
create, though there is nothing out
wardly to indicate that anything Is
wrong?” Has the writer been
"touched" for a loan?
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The Peruvian congress, by a vote of
105 to 6, has voted to send the Ger
man minister home to the kaiser.
Recent exposures, of German dupli
city was responsible for the action.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
United States Land Office, Juneau,
Alaska.
August 25, 1917.
Notice Is hereby given that Nels
Hawkinson, of Cordova, Alaska, has
filed application under the provisions
of Sections 2305-2306. R. S„ as as
signee of Joel W. Hevern, to make
entry of the lands embraced in U. S.
surveys 1216 and 1217, situate on the
north shore of Miles Glacier Lake and
on the west side of the Copper River
& Northwestern Railway at Mile 50,
Lat. 60 degrees 41 minutes 24 seconds
N., Longitude 144 degrees 45 minutes
W., and latitude 60 degrees 42 minutes
00 seconds N„ Longitude 144 .degrees
45 minutes W., and more particularly
described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at M. C. No. 1 on Miles
Glacier Lake, whence U. S. L. M. SAH
NH bears S. 38 degrees 05 minutes
W. 4.41 chs. thence W to Cor. No. 2
6.18 chs. thence S. 28.97 chs to Cor.
No. 3, M. C. on Miles Glacier Lake,
thence meandering N. 56 degrees 30
minutes E„ 6.93 chs; No. 27 degrees
50 minutes E., 4.72 chs; N. 5 degrees
53 minutes E... 6.12 chs; N. 8 degrees
21 minutes W„ 16.05 chs., to M. C.
No. 1, the place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 19.84 acres, Mag. Var.
29 degrees 15 minutes E., and known
as U. S. Survey 1216.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence U. 8.
L. M. SAH-NH bears S. 2 degrees 31
minutes W. 36.14 chs., thence N. 16.08
chs. to Co. No. 2, thence W. 4.82 chs.
te Cor. No. 3, thence 8. 15.08 chs. to
Cor. No. 4, thence E. 4.82 chs. to Cor.
No. 1, the place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 7.27 acres, Mag. Var.
29 degrees 45 minutes E., and known
as U. S. Survey 1217.
C. B. WALKER,
» *i. Register.
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