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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918
AMERICAN SOLDIERS SHOW
WELL
The fighting of American soldiers on
the western front is the best war
news that has come over tho cables
in the past few wreeks.
The Americans have “gone over the
top” in splendid style. The artillery
has worked in perfect unison with the
infantry, and American flyers have
bested German machines and gained
control in the air.
Reading of the work of the Yankees
the Huns must see their final doom.
They are doing their utmost to forge
out a peace before Americans can
get to France in large numbers.
Roosevelt in several speeches has
declared there is too much boasting
going on in this nation.
Americans are not vain over the
performances of their men, but they
have believed that a Yank is a better
man than a Hun, and the battles of
the past few weeks bear out that con
tention.
The Germans professed to think
that the American army would never
be able to seriously resist them. They
must now know differently and their
leaders must now see that If the war
continues the Yankee troops will one
day be their conquerors.
The present German drive can not
result in any great success, military
men believe.
1 However much is achieved, the Ger
mans will continue to find their Neme
sis in the Americans.
If the Germans should actually de
feat France, which is impossible, and
should force the brave French people
to ask for peace, they would be no
nearer to victory than they are today.
The allies would only be further from
getting the decision that they will
finally win.
England and the United States can
wear out the central powers alone if
they have to do so.
They command the seas. The Ger
mans would be bound one day to ad
mit defeat on that account if the war
is to become a deadlock. Cut off
from commerce with all nations ex
cept stricken Russia, Germany and
Austria would finally go into bank
ruptcy and starvation.
In the wearing-out process the al
lies can stick the longest, and no
doubt of that.
Not that Germany will be defeated
because the allies will hold on the
longest. The war will not end that
way. This fight; is going to end with
a knockout, and all the allies standing
up in the ring.
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TAX THE PROFITEERS
President Wilson has proven again
and again that he is able to gauge
public sentiment.
His recent speech in congress de
manding heavy taxation of the profits
. of war profiteers voices the sentiment
of the great majority of the people.
' Prom the beginning of the war the
average man has been unable tp see
why some business enterprises are al
lowed to make enormous profits when
the government day after day is call
ing upon all to unite in sacrificing for
the common cause.
The present is no time for an ex.
hibition of selfishness. When a house
is afire, what would one think of a
man taking much of the furniture
and storing it up for himself in one
of the rooms that is likely to burn,
when he should be helping to quench
the conflagration for the benefit of
all the dwellers?
Capital should get a fair return on
! n" one desires to
tamper the ortferly business of the
country. The complaint Is with those
who want more than Is right under
the circumstances.
If congress listens attentively to
the great bulk of the people, from
laboring men to heads of corpora
tions that are not engaged in profit
eering, it will quickly enact laws to
take the bulk of the excess profits
and put them in the national treas
ury. and at the same time keep swol
len fortunes from being built up from
the war, with consequent popular
clamor in the future.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
St. George’s Mission, Red Dragon
Clubhouse—Fourth Sunday after
Trinity. Matins and holy communion
at 11 a. m.; church school at 12 m.;
eversong at 4 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching service, 11 a. m., “God
Working in Us”; Sunday school, 12
m., “Jesus Triumphant Over Death”;
preaching service, 8 p. m., “God's
Plan for This Age.” The evening
service will be of great interest to
those desiring to know the plan of
God for our age and observe the ful
fillment of prophecy. Our mid-week
study in “Prophecy and War” is prov
ing to be most interesting. Join us
next Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock.
We cordially invite strangers, friends
and you to worship with us.
A. G. SHRIVER, Pastor.
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RED CROSS WORK
IN VIRGIN ISLANDS
The people of the Virgin islands, the
most recently acquired possession of
the United States, have organized for
Red Cross work, according to a report
received at Red Cross headquarters
in Washington from the chapter in
Prederiksted, St. Croix. The w'ork pro,
gressod with such intensity that ma
terials gave out and it was necessary
to borrow from Porto Rico neighbors,
rhe report says: “We have two work
rooms. The ladies, are now busy on
the hospital garments received from
Porto Rico.”
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WOMEN CLERKS WILL
LEARN TO SWIM
Women government clerks in Wash
ington, D. C., have signified that above
anything else they wish to learn to
swim. To meet the many applications
for instruction in swimming that have 1
been received by the district war
samp community service from war
workers, a corps of swimming instruc
ors is being formed by Miss Margory
Day, director of girl’s work, which
will be at the esrvice of the young 1
women in any government office.
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Madame Lydia, the panxist, wlii be
found in the Currier & Mlckelson
building on C. street. 16-tf
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The potato is a good soldier. Eat it,
uniform and all. 1
FOB FUNDS TO
Once again the W. C. T. U. wishes
to call attention to the fact that we
are collecting old kid gloves for mak
ing jackets tor aviators. If you have
any to donate, please call 91 or 160-3,
and they will be called for. Remem
ber, this is as patriotic as buying
bonds.
The W. C. T. U. of Cordova is in
receipt of a letter from Madame
Veuve Picant, mother of Rene Picant,
protege of the local union. A pho
tograph of the widow and her five
children was received, which will be
on display In different churches and
windows of business houses.
Among the various lines of relief
work taken up by the ‘W. C. T. U.
women of America there is none
more constructive and patriotic than
the giving of aid to the fatherless chill
dren of France, the fathers having'
given their lives in this great strug-;
gle for democracy.
The local nuion gave the sum of
$36.50, an equal sum being allotted by \
the French government, the sum to
tal of which keeps a stricken child'
one year in war-torn Franco. Through
our union other people have adopted
French children. Such a small thing
—the giving of $36.50—but such a
wonderful cause, the maintenance of
the future generations of our allies in
this horrible struggle. If, on reading
this, anyone should feel that out of
his luxuries he can give the sum
mentioned, or by clubbing together
the sum can be raised, get in touch
with the Cordova W. C. T. U. and
the organization wnTH adopt a child and
get its photo for you.
The letter from Madame Picant,
translated, follows:
“Essy, May 5, 1918.
“Dear Madam: I thank you verjt
■nuch for your kindness in my behalf
n sending me a check ($36.50) for my
little boy Rene. It gives me great
pleasure to see that there are certain
people, very charitable, who will come
;o the aid of a poor widow like me,
left with five poor little orphans. Es
pecially under the circumstances we
are going through now. It is
hard to raise a small family. There
Is one thing that consoles me, how
ever, and that is that they are all In
;ood health at present. Tn order th®'
you can judge for yourself I inclose
vith this letter a photograph, which
1 know will give you pleasure to know
your little god-child.
“From time to time I will WTite you
ind will be glad to hear from you
ilso in our mutual interest. Thank
ng you once again, please accept, dear
nadam, my sincerest regards.
MADAM VEUVE PICANT.
Essey les Nancy, 33 Grande.
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Quality talks. Smoke an El Roi Tan
Cigar and be convihweo, they are
lild. tf
Do Women of Voting Age Really
Outnumber Men of Similar Ages?
By GEORGE B. GLOVER. New York
Is the day drawing near When American women will hold the prin
cipal offices and no longer figuratively biit literally rule the nation?
Now that the feminine citizens of the Empire state are to join with
their sisters in many other states of the Union as voters at the polls, the
question has been propounded, What will the feminine voting strength
of equal suffrage states be and how will the feminine vote affect the aggre
gate vote of the nation?
The question has received various answers from friends and enemies
of equal rights among practical politicians and political theorists, but the
first emphatic response, so far as New York state is concerned at least,
will come when the citizenesses first march to the polls with fathers, hus
bands and brothers. And some surprises will come to many “antis” as
well as “pros” when the women first do undergo that long-fought-for
experience of dropping their ballots into the ballot box, and one of those
surprises will be found in the voting strength of the feminine side of sev
eral prominent families.
In the statewide talkfest which helped to bring about the great event
of November 6, 1917, in New York state, a feminine spellbinder was heard
to say to a crowd of curious but very attentive men at Broadway and
Forty-fourth street:
“Do you know that statistics show there are more women than men
in the United States? Look out 1 Oh, you short-sighted men!”
Perhaps the cartoonist who pictured recently the mere men party lead
er!, hats in hand, presenting their compliments to the idealized feminine
vote in a most obsequious manner heard that warning. At any rate, a mere
Tnftn did, and he laid to himself, “Kight-o 1” as he called to mind several
leading families which can turn in a much larger feminine than mascu
line vote.
Do women of voting age really outnumber men of similar ages all over
America? Will they some day unite their vote to seize all the offices and
national control? _____
I A Group of Prominent Bankers and Capitalists Conceived the Idea of
and Financed the
BANK OF ALASKA
With tne Aim that Its Growth Will Give
the Name Full Significance
Practically all the territorial banks In Alaska had their origin In
a mercantile business, and were the outgrowth of a condition. The
BANK OF ALASKA was launched purely as a bank, and without the
support of other Interests than the business that comes to it In the
regular channels.
The trend of American banking legislation Is toward branch bank
Ing systems. The pioneer In this territory Is the BANK OF ALASKA,
which Is the first and so far the only branch aystem.
Complying with the laws and regulations governing the Institu
tion, from the combined paid-in capital there Is apportioned to each
branch sufficient capital to cover the legal requlremnt of an Inde
pendent bank. Each branch makes full Individual report to the bank
ing board. Each must show how It is progressing Individually.
In the final analysis the strength and Justification of the system is
apparent, for each branch has the full strength of the entire system
back of It.
The system Is backed by very able men, and furnishes all the ad
vantages of a metropolitan bank, having the facilities of checking ac
counts, certificates of deposit, savings accounts, travelers’ checks and
safe deposit boxes. Your account is solicited.
Bank of Alaska
JUST RECEIVED
A Large Shipment of
LIVE
CHICKENS
Excellent Fryers
FRESH EGGS
FOR SALE
JOE FRY
Phone 22
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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