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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1920
POLITICS AND THE FUTURE
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Nothing could have brought home
to the average American and Alaskan
more forcefully the importance of ex
ercising the rights and privileges of
citizenship than did the war. Boiling
and bubbling underneath the serenity
of the national existence was a sea of
radicalism and disloyalty, and the only
reason that such a state of affairs
could exist was because of the disin
terestedness of the American citizen
in the management of the government,
the disregard of issues and the men
being placed in power.
For years in Alaska, ever since the
law first moved north of 53, there has
been criticism of public officials;
much bitter and severe fault-finding
at times. There have been and are
charges of gang rule and inner circle
politics, sometimes justifiably and
other times without reason. And that
state of affairs probably will continue
for many years to come, but there is
now presented an opportunity to
change a condition that has always
existed in the North, for the selection
of officers to enforce the law and ad
minister the affairs of the territory
is virtually in the hands of all the
people. Through the enactment of
the primary law and by placing the
national committeemen of the parties
in the status of elective officers, the
legislature gave to the people indi
rectly the choice of the administra
tive and judicial officials of Alaska.
It is a matter of common knowledge
and a fact that the national commit
teeman of any state or territory prac
tically has the naming of all federal
appointees, or that his recommenda
tions go far with the party in power.
The national committeeman was
named by the party convention in the
territory, which was made up usually
of delegates the greater part of whom
were professional politicians, men who
had sufficient interest to attend the
conventions. It therefore was in the
hands of a few to name the national
committeemen, who in turn named
the federal appointees.
This order has now changed. In
stead of being responsible to the few
who placed him in power and in a
position where he could care little for
the rank and file of the party and the
good of the country in general, the
national committeeman who is now
to be chosen by the voters them
selves must answer to them. For the
4rst time in the history of Alaska
national committeemen, or prospec
tive national committeemen, are prom
ising publicly, openly, what they in
tend to do if elected, and those prom
ises sound well. They are that the
committeeman will recommend for ap
pointment to office whoever the rank
and file select in the particular sec
tion for which the appointment is to
lie made.
J. C. McBride, known all over South
eastern Alaska and parts to the north
ward as “Jack” McBride, has filed his
candidacy for national committeeman
of the Republican party. He comes
out with the announcement that the
party shall rule in appointments, and
not the national committeeman, If he
is chosen and if the Republicans are
victorious in the national election.
For twenty years or more he has
been a prominent business man of the
territory. Sourdough that he is, he
has worked long years to build up
Alaska, and after his life of square
and conscientious dealing, he is strong
at home and abroad, holding the con
idence and respect of hia neighbors,
friends and business associates, and
even his opponents. None of them
but will say that if Jack McBride says
he’ll do a thing he will do it. And
this being the case, his announcement
•f intention to serve and not domineer
the party is convincing. Should the
Republicans win out, as they confi
dently expect to do, Alaska will benefi
by such a policy and there will no
be the room for criticism that ther<
has been in the past.
Particularly should those who hav
seen fit to find fault take a part in th<
coming election, to elect a nationa
committeeman for both parties whi
will serve Alaska and not himself o
his few friends or any interest. It ii
the duty of every Alaskan to study u]
the political situation, to see who th<
candidates are, what they stand for
as well as their motives for running
or in permitting their names to b<
placed *on the ballot.
The average office-seeker is no
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worthy of the office. The man who i;
sought out for the1*'office is seldom i
disappointment. Such is Jack Me
Bride, for he consented to run onlj
after he had been forced to do so bj
staunch members of the party in al
sections. He is not a member of anj
faction, is strictly a man for all the
party, wants to unite all wings, tc
make them one for the betterment o1
the party and Alaska.
While the Chronicle is strictly in
dependent in politics, it will not dodge
political questions, or issues. So in
this matter it stands with and for the
candidacy of J. C. McBride for na
tional committeeman of the Repub
lican party in Alaska, believing that
it will be to the best interests of all
the people, Republicans and Demo
crats and Socialists and what not, tc
have him in that office, should the Re
publicans be victorious at the polls in
November.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
WHAT IT COST
Three thousand dollars is a lot of
money, but that was almost the cost
of installing the X-ray laboratory, and
although smaller and less complete
outfits might have been selected, the
same kind or grade of work could not
have been done with them. While a
cheaper outfit can “TAKE PIC
TURES.” it is not just the “PIC
TURE” that is valuable to you, but
the accuracy and detail in it.
An inefficient machine is a positive
danger, for should there be a lesion
and the machine fail to show it the
diagnosis would be incorrect. That
means that the very thing that should
have been discovered would continue
to remain undiscovered and work its
ill results.
This is the best machine of its kind
procurable, and there is perhaps not
another city or town in the world of
even ten times the size of Cordova
which has an *X-ray laboratory.
A typographical error in last even
ing’s print occurred in the fees
charged for dental radiography. They
should have read: Dental films, show
ing three or four teeth, $3.50; a full
set of all the teeth in the mouth, re
quiring from ten to twelve pictures,
$20.00.
CORDOVA X-RAY LABORATORY
Third Floor Lathrop Building
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tobacco or cigar.
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Divide by two.
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started with.
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he will treat you to a cigar.
We are as certain of the su
perior quality of our cigars and
tobacco as we are of solving
this problem.
THE
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[ Since the Armistice All the World Has
Been a Bundle of Mutinous Nerves
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. Since the armistice the world has been one big union of mutinous
) nerves.
j The first danger is that we may allow this period of world-wide weari
. ness to become a period of world-wide misanthropy. There are difficulties
’ connected with the situation in itself, but the most dangerous thing is not
the situation but the way we feel about it.
We are confronted by a state of mind which is a good deal more dan
gerous than the actual state of the world. If the Christian mind settles
down into heavy misanthropy the danger is that it will create the thing
it fears.
The second danger is another aspect of the first. It is that we may
allow a worJd-wide nervous reaction to become world-wide ethical reaction.
We are all on edge nervously, but we do not like to admit that, except
collectively.
During the war fathers and mothers at home and the boys at the
front did not realize that all the while their nerves were being held tense—
and that after the armistice was signed their nerves went on strike, joined
a big union of mutinous nerves.
That nervous reaction had to come. One of the greatest assets of
the Christian religion is a sense of humor. If we were to refuse to take
our nerves seriously we should perhaps learn what keeps the God Almighty
steady, for we read that “even He who sits in the heavens laughs.”
FRENCH TROOPS ARE
CAPTURED BY TURKS
LONDON, Feb. 24 (by Associated
Press).—Reports from Damus are to
the effect that four hundred French
troops have either been captured or
killed by Turks and Arabs near
Houron, Palestine, says the Central
News of Cairo.
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TODAY OF PNEUMONIA
SPOKANE, Feb. 24 (by Associated
Press).—J. B. Yeomans, vice president
of the Old National Bank, died today
of pneumonia.
Fresh French puffs daily at the City
Bakery. K)-tf
FOR SALE—One wolf robe. Phone
100. 20-tf
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR RENT—An apartment. Apply to
Charles J. Goodall. 21-tf
WANTED—A grown boy who is not
afraid of work, to learn the printing
trade. Apply Times office.
FOR RENT—Two-room apartment
with bath; down town. Phone
29—4 rings. 14-5t
FOR RENT—Cabin in Oldtown. In
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FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
LAUNCHES
FIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master
REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings
The O.-T.-O. Shop
Mrs. Grant Reed has taken over Mrs. J. C.
Funk s stock of goods, which has been added
to her stock of goods recently removed from
her McCarthy store, and is now open for busi
ness at the Windsor Hotel
THOROUGHLY MODERN. NEAREST TO EVERYTHING
POPULAR PRICES
HOTEL 0
Corner First Ave. and Pine St.
SEATTLE, WASH.
J. A. Farnham and E. Taylor,
Proprietors
Headquarters for Alaskans. Ted
Taylor, formerly chief steward
S. S. Alaska
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