THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919.
AMERICAN LABOR IS SOUND
Amid the sanguinary orgies of revo
lution and the crash of institutions
America stands erect. It would be a
foolish, futile and brutal boast to
wreath ourselves in the artificial
smiles of the professional optimist and
say “all is well.” On the other hand
it would be equally absurd and dan
gerous to imagine that our industrial
system is destined to disaster. The
pessimist, like the optimist, ignores
the most obvious facts.
Industrial civilization is sounder in
America today than anywhere else.
Let us not be affrighted by the ever
present problem of capital and labor.
It will be our chief problem for many
years. Capital and labor will be ad
justing themselves to changing con
ditions always.
If there is a menace it lies not in
the problem, but in the hearts of
those who must work out the problem
—the laborer and the employer.
Our industrial system is sound be
cause American labor is sound. Amer
ican labor in its doctrines, in its as
pirations, in its practical plans and in
activities differs from Bolshevism as
much as Russia differs from the
United States.
Alarmists have been predicting revo
lutions in this country for a genera
tion. Twenty years ago they could
see the time near at hand when a
few men would own virtually all of
the national wealth. Ten years ago
there began a diffusion of wealth that
still is in progress. The growth of
vast industrial concerns has not led
to the enslavement of labor.
Because American labor, at heart,
is sound, because its head is clear and
because it has clung to common sense
amid the red currents of radicalism,
it recognizes its community of inter
est with capital. It does not believe
in class hatred or the class struggle.
All of us look back with regret and
yet with encouragement on the con
troversies of the last few decades.
The fault, as a general rule, was of
the head and not the heart. That
solutions for every problem between
labor and capital were not speedily
attained was due, not to the innate
viciousness of either party to the dis
pute, but to the fallibility of the
human intellect.
Through all these disputes labor in
the United States maintained an at
titude that made ultimate solution
probable, it avoided altogether the
attitude of European labor which
preached revolution and practiced it
wherever it could. Russia affords no
parallel for usf It would have been a
miracle had the Russians been able
to solve their problems without revo
lution.
When the czar was crowned more
than twenty years ago at the Petrov
sky palace $40,000,000 was expended
on a celebration lasting two weeks.
It occurred to some of the soft-hearted
and soft-headed aristocrats that the
autocracy would show its thoughtful
benevolence if it distributed bread
among the populace. It really occurred
to them once in many years that the
people needed bread and they decided
to accord the boon by way of cele
brating the czar's enthronement. The
distribution lead to a riot among 100,
000 underfed men, women and children
and 6,000 were killed or maimed in a
stampede. When the czar was in
formed of the tragedy he wept and,
in the evening, he danced.
We mention that scene because it
was a symbol of the rottenness at the
heart of the Russian nation. Whatever
radicals may say, whatever aliens
maddened by European conditions
may attempt to tell us about our own
industrial weaknesses, we know that,
amid all our political and economic
struggles, we had nothing of that de
gree to contend with.
Both labor and capital have been
misled by blatant reformers who
promised that they would solve all
our problems and make prosperity un
failing if only elected to office. At
one time they talked in terms of tariff,
or of bitmetallism, or what not, but
their promises proved empty. It was
only by the patience and common
sense of the American people of all
classes that we were able to advance
slowly, step by step, toward a better
day.
If the industrial problems are to be
solved with the maximum of speed
and efficiency it goes without saying
that capital as well as labor must do
its part. American labor can be sane,
practical and enlightened, but if capi
tal is stubbornly recationary our
problems will not be solved. Only by
recognizing this can the new commun
ity of interests be made fruitful of
good for all.
We are optimistic enough to be
lieve that both sides understand their
obligations and will do their duty.
On the one hand labor is striving to
maintain itself against high prices. On
the other capital Is straining every
nerve to pay excess profit taxes and
other imposts and yet continue in
business. When the worker finds that
food and clothing cost twice as much
as they did a few years ago, when he
must pay as much for his baby’s
shoes, for example, as he paid for his
own five years ago he knows that the
only solution is a high wage scale.
And on the other side capital strives
to pay that scale despite the money
needed to meet all the increased costs
of commodities and the enormous re
quirements of taxation.
To say that such a problem is easy
to solve, that it presents few elements
of danger and that we shall pass
through the valley of difficulties to
the peaks of contentment without
using every element of good will and
sound judgment is to display the op
timism of the clown. But all of us
should be encouraged to believe that
though the way may be hard and our
lamps not always burning or burning
but dimly we shall come at last to the
desired goal. without revolution. And
if we do, much of the credit will be
ascribed justly to the good will and
sound judgment of the American
toiler.
HOW ADVERTISING PAYS
There is no longer any argument as
to the value of advertising for the
man who has something to sell. It
has more than proved its worth. Busi
ness success is now generally accepted
as founded on advertising, and the
more effective the advertising, the
more successful the business.
It is still worth while, however, to
call attention to the value of advertis
ing from the point of view of the man
who wants to buy. Advertising ren
ders a service to the customer no less
important than that which it renders
to the dealer.
In these days of technical methods
and large scale production it is a phys
ical impossibility that a purchaser
should know, at first hand, all the
features and details that enter into
manufactured articles. He has to gain
this information by short cuts—and
here advertising helps him. The adver
tising of a manufacturer tells him
clearly and concisely just how that
manufacturer’s product differs from
others; what its special merits are,
and for what purposes It may best be
used. Whether the purchaser wants a
washing machine or an automobile, ad
vertising is his guide, for through ad
vertising he is ableto choose the model
best adapted to his needs.
Furthermore, advertising is of great
value to the man who buys with a
close watch on the values his dollars
return to him. By consistently follow
ing the advertisements in his daily
paper he is able to buy what he needs
at prices that often mean considerable
savings over the usual costs.
The information and education
service, department of labor, believes
this is a time to encourage buying,
in order that business, now resuming
after the war, may be made normal as
quickly as possible. Buying now means
aid in the resumption of business; it
is an act of patriotism, just as it was
patriotic to refrain from buying dur
ing the war. But now, as at any other
time, buying should be undertaken
wisely; and there is no better guide
to sane, constructive purchasing than
advertisements.
VOICE OF THE* ALASKA PRESS
The worst kicker in Valdez about
the high prices charged by the steam
ship company is a man who came here
in '98 and has not been Outside since.
—Valdez Miner.
Another congressman has a notion
as to how the fish of Alaska should
be saved. The latest one is Joshua W.
Alexander, of Missouri. It would seem
to us that Josh is quite a long ways
from salt water to be an authority on
salmon.—Douglas News.
Get your fresh milk and cream at
the Blum, O’Neill Company and Cash
Grocery Stores. T. U. Pirtle. 28-3t
Best coffee in town at the
Bakery.
The best and quickest route to Bur
banks and interior points. Bur^eis
Karstens Auto Line, Chitlna, Alaska.
New Perfection oil cook stoves p-e
just the thing for summer. StlAfr
western Hardware Company. 71tf
If you change your address, do not
notify the carrier boy—report your
new address to the office.
Bulgarian and sweet butermilk. Call
Northwest Soda Works. Phone 187.
8UMMON8
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Cor
dova Abstract & Realty Company,
a corporation, plaintifT, vs. George
D. Reid, defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting, to George D.
Reid, the above-named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within
thirty days from the completion of
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 25th
day of June, 1919, and answer the
complaint of Cordova Abstract &
Realty Company, a corporation, the
above-named plaintiff in the above
entitled cause, which cause is an ac
tion on a contract wherein the plain
tiff prays Judgment for the sum ol
three hundred and eighty-nine and
67-100 ($389.67) dollars, and for its
costs and disbursements in the ac
tion, and for such other and further
relief as to the court may seem right
and proper in the premises. And yon
are herebj^notifled that if you fail tc
appear and answer said complaint as
herein required, that the said plaintifl
will take judgment against you foi
want thereof, and will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in its
complaint, as hereinbefore set out
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
on the 7th day of May, 1919.
Witness the Honorable Fred M
Brown, Judge of said Court, and th<
seal thereof, this 7th day of May, ir
the year of Our Lord the one thou
sand nine hundred and nineteenth
and of our independence the one hun
dred and forty-third.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division
Territory of Alaska.
May 13, 19, 26. June 2, 9, 16, 25.
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BONDS
Fidelity and surety.
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Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton
and Provisions
Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Orders from
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points. Halibut and other
Fresh Fish of all kinds will be kept in stock when available.
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ALASKAN GRILL
FRANK A. DOUGLAS, Proprietor
“THE HOME OF QUALITY AND ATTENTION”
ONE VISIT TO THE ALASKA GRILL WILL MAKE YOU A
REGULAR PATRON
“Bevo” Is Here
It’s a drink that surely fills the bill.
Delivered to the trade or families in
large or small quantities
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Blank Forms—anything you may have been
planning and neglecting to order.
Bring your printing troubles here. We’ll
help you plan or design anything that may be
done with paper and ink.
Prices no higher than outside figures mm
first-class work.