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CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2, HUM.
THE LAST WORD
Are our prayers about to be an
swered? Can it be possible that a
sincere desire for peace has taken
possession of the hearts of all the
peoples at war? Has President Wil
son's clarion call to the raging na
tions, to pause and consider the cost
before the last bridges are burned,
awakened a responsive chord? Will
his inspired appeal to the better na
ture and sober judgment of mankind
find a favorable reply before the win
ter’s storms are settled and America
strikes with all her pent-up might?
The answer still lies across the wa
ters—behind the far-flung battle lines
of the enemy—but every day the pros
pects are growing brihter for an early
and earnest exchange of honest views
that will pave the way for speedy set
tlement of the controversy.
How and from whom these over
tures will come is still a matter for 1
speculation. The war lords are still
a matter for speculation. The war,
lords are still as thirsty for blood as i
ever but their power over their peo
ples is on the wane. The truth of the
treacheries to which they have un
wittingly been made a party is slowly
beginning to dawn upon the befud
dled minds of the unforunate masses
comprising the population of the cen
tral empires, and they are sure to
’Strike with a vengence at those of
"their own blood who betrayed them
Snto the commission of their awful
''rime against civilization. There is a'
limit to human endurance. There is a
limit to which even the most servile'
and lowly-hearted will suffer them
selves to be sujected. Rumblings of
the approaching upheaval can be heard
on every hand. It would seem that the
’"hour when these poor misguided peo
pie will arise and assert their rights <
is about to strike.
That the. President’s eloquent and
.itYaigbt-fOf-war'i appeal wjll hasten the
<day of the self-emancipation of
tftffcaclded Europe there can be no
doubt. To argue otherwise is to hold
MVliVUl "OHIO Mi n UJ UUCO.1 uuu
That all Europe is a madhouse from
•which reason has fled, never to return,
AVe must hold to our faith in human
ity. America’s declaration of good
•will and honorable resolve to all peo
ples cannot fail to make a profound
impression everywhere, even upon
those who are now bearing arms
against her.
America demands an enduring peace
—a peace that will disarm militarism,
redress the wrongs committed, re
store to the expatriated peoples their
liberties and lands, remove all racial
prejudices, level all commercial bar
riers, safeguard the highways on the
seas, and secure to every man his per
sonal rights in every clime and under
every condition. To this end she pro
poses a federation of the great na-1
lions of the earth, such as will guar- i
antee for all time the inviolability of
this compact. It is a magnificent un-j
dertaking for mankind to contemplate.!
President Wilson’s plain statement
of the program for peace leaves
nothing to be desired. It is the last
word. An whether this form of peace
is obtained by friendly consultations,!
effected in good faith and without fur
ther bloodshed, or by heaping high
upon the altars of its righteous cause j
every sacrifice of life and treasure it
has to offer, this plea to the nations |
will inure to the everlasting glory of
the Great Republic.
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REPRESENTATIVES PEO-'
PLE FORCED OUT.
The Russian constituent assembly,
elected by the people to draw up laws
for the nation, met for a few hours.
Then it ceased to be. The Bolshevik!
were in a minority, and they refused
to play. When the majority decided
to continue the meetings, the Bolshe
viki dissolved the sessions by force.
Poor Russia! She will have to suf
fer much, it seems.
The men elected to establish a gov
ernment have been dismissed by those
who have no right to tell them what
they may or may not do. But the
Bolsheviki now have the power, and it
harbors ill for those who oppose them
too strongly.
While the constituent assembly was
in session, solemnly getting down ti
business, one delegate jumped fron
seat and tried to slaughter a fellov
member. A revolver was taken awa;
from him before he could fire it.
Many revolvers may be fired am
many Russians slain by their fellov
citizens before the unhappy people
trying to assert their power, to pu
their wishes into law, and to form i
stable state, are able to make head
way against the elements of disordei
and anarchy.
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AMMUNITION FOR HUN
PROPAGANDA
Something should be done to pro
tect the nation from people who have
gone to seed on certain questions.
A petition has been presented tn
President Wilson signed by many wo
men urging the chief executive to do
all in his power to stop polygamy in
this nation from being an outcome of
the war.
There is about as much danger of
polygamy getting a foothold in the
United States as there is that some
if the wild men from Saturn will des
cend upon us and wreck our civiliza
tion.
The petition will get a hearty laugh
in this country, but it will not be
overlooked in Berlin. Stories of the
breakdown of Anglo-Saxon morality
will be set in motion by German
agents, and probably accounts of an
iprising of American women will be
nvented.
The war is likely to result in a stric
ter rather than in a looser morality.
Anyway, the Anglo-Saxon regard for
vomankind and the system of mon
igamous marriage has been too long
n building and is too firmly imbed
led in our nature and in our laws to
tie toppled over by war or by anything
;lse than can be imagined.
MEN IN SERVICE TO GET
BEST POSTS
The boys who are in the National
irmy and navy now, and who will be
in that army before the war Is over,
are going to run this United States for
more than a generation to come.
Young men.who do not join the serv
ice might as well take a back seat now,
for after the war that is precisely
where they will be pushed. Before the
war is over several million young men
will have been in the two branches.
They will return to the walks of peace
members of a huge brotherhood of
those who fought. They will have
saved the nation by the might of their
arms, and they will feel that they are
entitled to consideration.
After the Civil war for many years
it was difficult for a young man to
rise in either public or private life un
less he had been in the Grand Army
of the Republic.
The same thing is sure to occur
after this war. So, young man, if yon
want to get a reserved seat at the
table of public favor, the place is al
recruiting headquarters.
A few years after the war people
will look askance at you unless yoi
served in the hour of your country’s
peril.
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WAR IS WIPING OUT SELF
ISHNESS
It is apparent that selfishness is or
the decline in the world.
Those persons who never knew wha
it was to assist any cause with a dolla
or a turn of their hand have beei
forced to dig into their purses am
to roll up their sleeves for the publi
good. If nothing else, public opinio:
and a feeling of shame have drive
many who were wrapped up in then
selves to do a little something for th
whole people.
The partial banishment of that mea
and lowly selfishness that is the ban
of society as contrasted with the large
selfishness upon which depends s
much of man’s advancement may b
one of the mightyf results of the wa
The eradication of base selfishness i
one of the requisites to the poetics
conception of the federation of mai
kind.
NOTICE.
I The registration book of the town
of Cordova will be open at my office
at the postoffice store, Second street,
Cordova, from February 1, at all hours
1 during the day and evening. The
registration book will be closed at 4
o’clock p. m., Saturday, March 30,
1918.
( HAS. M. ROSSW OG, Registrar.
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CORDOVA
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Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 182
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Blacksmithing, General Repair
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lene Welding and Cntting.
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BUILDING
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I Vf e Must Determine Much j
of the Future Now”
Neither political nor financial conditions will ever be the
same as before the war. Economic conditions mould the
political. We must think, work, and save NOW to make con
ditions better when the war is over- Careful and consistent
saving is an absolute necessity. Bring or mail your wages or
income to us. We will help you and you will help the com
munity and the Nation.
The real strength of a banking institution is the men back of it
Bank of Alaska ;
has that strength. It has the resources, connections, and facil
ities to satisfy you.
Checking Accounts.
Demand Certificates of Deposit.
Four per cent on Time Certificates for twelve months. )
Savings Accounts paying 3 per cent subject to withdrawals.
Travels Checks—Drafts. V
I Safe Deposit Boxes.
War savings certificates and thrift stamps.
Capital and surplus of institution $105,500.00
I If You
ARE LAID UP IN THE HOSPITAL
YOUR EARNING POWER
Stops
Does your Insurance cover you? If not
Get a Q TV 1 POLICY IN THE J. D. Hollenbeck
A NORTHERN LIFE District Agent, Cordova
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POPULAR RECREATION PLACE
Where We Can Always Find Our
Friends.
Finest Billiard and Pool T able* In
Alaska.
BEST GRADES OF STANDARD
BRANDS OF CIGAR8.
LOGGERS, ATTENTION!
We pay $10 per thousand for
spruce logs and $9 for hemlock,
delivered.
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