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H. G. STEEL
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1916
YANKEE WIT WILL WIN.
The Yankee soldiers have prove
that they can stand up against til
Germans and deliver blow for bio
and not flinch.
! he first news of serious encounter
between the Americans and the enem
are up to highest expectations. Aim os
every day, in the future, there will b
accounts of our boys in action. The;
W1H take care of themselves.
Stories of the recent encounter:
recite that our men who were wounder
refused to leave their line. That i
the regular Yankee spirit as reporter
to the war department by commanders
since the days of Washington.
Who failed to get pleasure readinc
how the Americans, anticipating i
German raid on themselves, nipped il
with a well directed barrage fire"
Yankee wile and ingenuity is not dead,
and it will be heard from many times
before peace is made.
In fact, may not wits more than ma
chines, win the war? We have all been
told that this is a war of machinery
*ind that the human element is not the
^ mortant. Is an very well, but
’iW' m**. ^*nes on each side are near a
'tiead 5<*>Ur ^be armies that face each
other bavS gi*§ftt guns and instruments
of death without end. There is nearly j
a balance in that element.
That being so wh^' will not the hu
man element, the bfairik, the wits, the
initiative of the fighters be the weight
that will overturn the balance and
bring victory?
Indeed, it may. For our part we are
putting a lot of faith in American com
mon sense. Nimble brains are the best
bet when other things are near equal,
and for heads that plan and think
quickest you must look on American
shoulders.
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"LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR”
In the report of the Alaska Road
Commission for 1917, Gen. Richardson,
chairman of the board, says in part:
"The population consisted chief
ly of mining and other industrial
(mostly fishing) towns and camps
along the shores of Southeastern
Alaska and scattered through the
interior, separated in most cases
by great distances with but little
of mutual interest, each with a jeal
ous eye upon the others and with
a firm intent to have its full share
of any favor to be bestowea."
This was true in 1905 and the same
condition exists today, if anything ag
gravated by an increased population,
each town trying to get something
away from the other town, and all
bucking each other in an indiscrim
mate manner, without system or rea
son. Anchorage is jealous of Seward
Cordova and Valdez; Seward is jeal
©us of the other three, Cordova twists
the knife after the incision, and, w<
regret to say, Valdez would gladly se»
any of the others fall, if by so doint
It would gain a temporary benefit.
And yet this is no way to build u]
a country. If ever there was a timi
when co-ordinated effort was needei
in the affairs of the territory that timi
Is now. A combination of interests o
the four towns In the Third divisio:
would give it the balance of power ii
the territory, and the laurel wreath o
victory would replace the ashes c
failure on the part of any of the town
to acquire a lasting advantage.
Each town wants the court house
each town wants soldiers statlone
within its confines; each town want
a railway. Valdez has the court hous
and a post, while the other thre
towns have the railway. Each of th
towns are pulling against the other
_ and none are accomplishing any gooc
for themselves. It seems to be the de
r*
sire of all to get something the othei
- town has got instead of exploiting th<
natural resources each possesses.
d Cordova and Valdez have the fisl
and mines; Seward and Anchoragf
)0 have the coal and the railway. Eact
— town has its loyal body of citizen:
who swear by it and cheerfully li<
_ themselves black in the face whei
g talking to a "stranger." Each towi
iy could do three times the business thej
jf do if they attended to the business a
r- their doors.
10 The commercial bodies of the foui
, towns should federate into one or
11
ganization to work for the Third di
_ vision. The merchants should organ
ize and exchange ideas and credit rat
.. ings to prevent the peripatetic dead
■beats from working one town to :
standstill and then moving to another
Hundreds of thousands of dollars an
undoubtedly lost in this way. Th(
papers should organize on the sam<
basis, and to promote a better feelinf
among their neighbors, a standard
price for work should be charged, and
a standard rate for advertising and
subscriptions.
The pastors of the four cities could
form an organization looking to bet
terment. of the social life of their con
gregations. The schools could have
their yearly Ohatauquas, the teachers
meeting and exchanging ideas. The
city councils could undoubtedly bene
fit by an exchanging of civic views
with neighboring councils.
e But so far every effort to co-operate
■v has fallen fiat. The agitator is among
us, and his clarion voice drowns our
s common sense. We covet our neigh
y bor’s ox and maid servant and wait
t apathetically tot something to turn up
2 instead of going after it and getting it.
r\ Whatever helps one town in the
Third division is bound to help the
1 other. To attempt to draw enter
I prises belonging to one city to an
s other city is bound to promote 111
1 feeling and dissension. The Third di
vision would be better off without a
court house or a railroad, provided
its citizens could harmonize over its
. resources, than under the present plan
of attempting to hog everything in
sight.
This division is unfortunate in hav-’
ing four towns of nearly the same size
in its bounds. Each town is so near
ly on a par with the other in popula
tion and business that the spirit of
emulation creates petty jealousies and
useless bickering.
If some means could be devised
whereby committees from each town
could meet in a common cause and
bind themselves to keep their hands
off the other fellow’s property we
might look for anything from the mil
lennium to a real estate boom, but:
So long as we keep our hammers
industrously working and keep our
tongues wagging we are harming our
selves as much as we harm the other
fellow and are missing the advantaiges
of co-operation and co-ordination.
General Richardson’s estimation of
our greatest ailing is a true one and.
we should benefit by having the mir
ror held up to our eyes.—Valdez Miner.
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WHEN WAR ENDS LET IT END
The National Association of Manu
facturers does not want the United!
States to enter a trade boycott against
Germany after the war.
The association is right.
The time to fight Germany is before
the peace is signed. Let us do all our
fighting then, and give the kaiser the
dose of defeat that will do him good;
And then when Germany is defeated
land ready for peace, let us make a
just peace and proceed to forget the
war as rapidly as we can—which will
be long enough without trade boycotts
and other devices to keep up interna
tional bad feeling.
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The United States gave Russia a
credit of $325,000,000. Of this sum but
$187,779,000 was acutally loaned Rus
sia before the government stopped ad
ditional loans. Therein, perhaps, lies
the reason for the Bolshevikl being
peeved at this nation.
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i
, The kaiser is taking the water cure
the Spa. The waters there will gener
ally clean out a person’s system. But
, the kaiser may have to try a vacuum
. cleaner and six packages of ground
l brick Internally to get the corruption
, out of his old hide.
r -♦
i Is it news to announce that a Ger
l man editor is in hot water? It would
f seem that the real news in this line
f would be of an editor or any other
3 German who was not in more or less
hot water.
; -♦
i A society note says women’s skirts
s are to be shorter and tighter. These
e are evidently the days marking the
s evolution from a real skirt to rea
3 bloomers.
PIITIH Mm
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JAMES L. GALEN
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Republican Candidate for
Road Commissioner
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Primary Election Tuesday, April 30
JAMES E. WILSON
Road Commissioner
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Primary Election Tuesday, April 30
VOTE FOR
HENRY A. SLATER
Republican Candidate for
Representative
Primary Election Tuesday, April 30
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