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('< >K>I» )\'A, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 2(5, 1915.
getting acquainted
Secretary Lane shows that a considerable part of the
min red millions a year which Americans heretofore have been
expending in Lurope is this year being invested in getting
acquainted with America. It’s a remedy for several of our
ills.
America is big. Its east is not as well acquainted with its
west jus it ought to be. The west, largely the child of the east,
does know considerable about the east. In recent years the
south and the north have become acquainted. Tourist travel
mid the investment of northern capital in Dixie have wiped out
the Mason and Dixon’s line.
(letting acquainted! What a paralysis of prejudices it
causes. In several cities walking clubs have been organized
with the aim of making citizens acquainted with their own
cities. Many eyes have been opened to opportunities The
spirit of progress and optimism has been given a new life.
CRYING FOR NOVELTY
‘‘The problem of the school is to get rid of old ideas and
uibstitute new,” says Prof. W. E. Ogburn, of the department
>i sociology and domestic science of Reed College, Oregon.
‘Manual training and the social life, the economic life and
lomestic science—these are the subjects which must enter the
\merican scholastic system.”
} es, indeed, and we must have reading, writing, arithmetic,
polling, grammar, history and English. Then add literature
n the right proportion, domestic science the same, a proper
'mount of sociology, and manual training for those who intend
0 follow the trades.
W e cannot have something new all the time or we will be
hanging constantly. If there is any variation to be made let
s lay bold of the thoroughness of the old country school. We
ear that Prof. Ogburn speaks under the excitement of the
loment, from the viewpoint of an instructor in the department
f sociology and domestic science. We agree with him, how
ver, when he says: “Our children are turned out ignorant,”
>r aren’t we all ignorant?
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HOIST ON HIS OWN PETARD
It will be recalled that Gifford Pinchot once dilated' upon
le value of the standing timber of Alaska. He repeated it
me and again and brought it out quite prominently in his
rticle appearing in the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia
1 December, 1911 an entire article which was proved to be a
ssue of falsehoods. Alaska was pictured by Pinqhot as pos
■ssing the greatest area of valuable, marketable, standing
mber known to the world. Now comes the United States
wemment prepared'to build railroads in Alaska, initial work
wing started 60 days ago. Among the first orders were those
>vering approximately two million feet of rough lumber
liich were placed in Seattle and the lumber shipped North,
ow let every eastern conservationalist, who ever had any faith
Gifford Pinchot, answer this one question. If Pinchot was
en partly correct, why should the government not put in a
aall sawmill and produce timber rather than sending to the
ty of Seattle, 1,660 miles away, and purchasing same and
ipping it north at considerable expense. If there is one
ticere individual connected with the National Conservation
>ciety, let him answer this question. If the Saturday Evening
>st possesses a remnant of editorial decency let it not correct
e infamous article of Pinchot it published in 1911.
REMNANTS OF THE WILD WEST
While the Wild West is but a memory where oner it
igned unbridled, there still remain spots of it. There are
my great ranges loft, the stage coach trundles through many
Us, not, however, with the picturesque trappings of the ’f>0s
r its profane Jehus and there are still towns in which the
’luence, if not the actual ministrations, of vigilance coni
ttees exercise dominion over evil doers. And in the White
no country of Nevada just now the ranchers are trying to rid
miselves of the wild horse pest.
These animals have been described by some writers as
jcendants of horses which escaped from early Spanish
ilorers. They may or may not be. But it is certain they are
id. Within the last few days the farmers have shot about
) of them. To capture and tame them is said to be an almost
possible task. They dodge the lariat with savage cunning,
ny of them are too devlish for any vaquero to ride, though,
ing to the demand for war horses in Europe, attempts have
•n made by the cowboys to corral and subdue some of them,
t the game is scarcely worth while, for after paying doctor
s the cowboys have little profit left.
The horses usually rove in bands of from 40 to 75, led by a
ister stallion, wise and fleet-footed. The animals are a
sauce to farmers, as they jump fences and destroy crops and
ice domestic horses away.
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Mexico is giving us another valuable lesson in fiat cur
ey. One of the reasons for much of Mexico’s trouble, past
present, has been her ridiculed “Mexican dollar.” No
ntry can thrive far on a money that depends for its value
a mere say-so, and the situation becomes all the worse if
*e is any instability in the government itself.
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The men who make them have decided the freak shoes for
nen of odd colors and shapes—we’re talking of shoes, not
./omen—shall be made no more'and that the plainer, saner
eties only shall be sold. Some are laced on the side, and
e behind; of s hades there are as many as of curious shapes.
. >n posterity, some centuries hence, digs into our ruins and
gs to light some of our feminine footwear, it will have to
irk that we were fond indeed of the loud pedal.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Are the Germans going to spill the rest of the beans?
The London Times says the German emperor has promised
to end the war in October, and we’d like to believe it.
“Corsets must go,” says Prof. Flynn. That’s about the
only part of woman's apparel that hasn’t.
Alaska is suffering from a heat wave—which will l>e as
surprising east of tin* Mississippi river as news of skating on
the equator.
The Finglishmen do not seem able to agree among them
selves. The Dutchman, on the other hand, has no trouble in
agreeing among hitneslf.
The Reward Commercial Club has elected President Wil
son, Secretary Lane, Commissioners Edes, Riggs and Mears
and Colonel Richardson, honorary members of that organize
lion.
“Demure Reattle becomes lively with Nile smile,” says a
headline in the P.-I., showing how adaptability of word to
width of column may sometimes reach the peaks of the
grotesque. Seattle demure? Oh, Susie!
One of the special writers at the front quotes a Russian
leader to the effect that the Russians have dictated the course
of the war since August. Verily as the hare directs the course
of the hound or as the smoke follows the wind.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calla may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
O E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
GEO. F. WHITE
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Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
E. F. MEDLEY
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exposed on the surface of this
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Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
Sound, adjoining navigable water.
All of these properties could be
made producers with a small
amount of money and for a party
who can open same up or can se
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an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
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ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
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Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
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Cordova, 25th of each month.
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without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not bo received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
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ADMIRAL WATSON, JULY 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, JULY 27
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
I Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
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