The Cordova Daily Times
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CORIX>VA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 10,1915.
DO THE RIGHT THING!
This is a time for all Americans to keep their heads level.
The American race is a blending of nil European races,
[n the past fifteen years quite a million per annum of those
Europeans have landed on our shores and have merged, or are
merging, with our race. Many of these still remember the
land of their birth and in the conflict now l>eing waged across
the sea, have natural sympathies with native land. But that
does not change their ideas of their duties toward our country
and government. Indeed many of these came away because
they thought they saw in flu* signs of the times what they
believed to be a certain premonition that what has come to
their own countries would surely come, and they came away to
avoid its horrors.
There are many men and few newspapers on our soil that
are trying to promote discord' here; to array these immigrants
from the different countries one against another and to excihj
the masses of the American people behind these immigrants to
break the spirit of the neutrality that has so far been main
tained. All these should be frowned down.
We are not secure against war. Mexico is a constant
menace; Japan, by its acts, no matter how bland may be its
protestations of innocence is a doubtful factor, the crisis with
Germany is acute once more and' in any event the American
people should present a solidarity to any foreign country that
Would leave no room for doubt as to where our fealty lies and as
to what direction our patriotism takes. Natvie sons, New
England' Yankees, Irish, German, Italian, English or French,
we are all Americans here, joint beneficiaries of a free country
and we only hope that our foreign friends with their warped
diplomatic views of affairs, will not misunderstand it. We
advise them not to make any moves on the theory that they will
have the support of their American descendants.
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Weary of the spirit, the Russians are said to have turned
on their pursuer and' hit him a sockdolager between the eyes,
after which the Germans surrendered Kopaszyska, probably
fearing it would choke them to death.
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William Loeb tells us that Col. Roosevelt is coming west,
but he sets a rainbow over the announcement by promising
that the smelter is to be considerably enlarged.
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Those fellows who stole a piano from a third story of a
public hall in broad daylight committed the crime by the
easiest of methods. They simply put on the soft pedal.
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“The fighting is particularly desperate east of Zale
Szszvky. That got over without an impaction of the cables.
Electricity is a wonderful thing.
REVENUE DEFICIT AND TRADE
Tlio report of the comptroller of the treasury for the fiscal
year ending June 30 indicates that there will be a large deficit,
probably amounting to $75,000,(MX). When it is contemplated
that all Europe is rapidly reaching the credit limit bv saddling
debt on the people at the rate of several million dollars each
day, the overdraft of our own government sinks into insignifi
cance. Naturally customs receipts began to fall off with the
outbreak of the war and the war emergency tax is said to have
failed as a measure of making up the estimated loss. There was
a marked falling off on the whiskey tax, and the postoffico
receipts also show a decline of some $15,000,(MX).
Turning to the obverse side of the situation we find that
the trade balance has been shifted from Europe to the United
States during the same period, the report of the department
of commerce showing that it now exceeds a billion dollars in
favor of the United States. New York is making rapid strides
toward becoming the money center of the world and London is
ceasing to be the pawnshop of JCurope.
While it is true that the government revenue measures
have proven inadequate, it is also true that there has been a
tremendous increase in American exports at a good profit. The
material wealth and earning power of the American people
have not been impaired, and it is impossible to escape the
conviction that conditions throughout the country are sound.—
Juneau Dispatch.
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The squabble between tin* pope and tin1 Italian govern
ment embraces many of the essentials of a red-letter schism.
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The German is the man behind the run.
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THE FAMILY RECORD
The daughter of the Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives, has just been married.
A collective invitation to the ceremony was issued to the entire
population of the state of Missouri. A good many of them
attended, and the opportunity of securing an historic picture
suggested itself to sundry exploiters of “movie” dramas.
Speaker Clark, however, interfered with this commercial
enterprise. He warned them all off and arranged for a private
“film” of his own, which shall have place in the ancestral
archives and be shown only in the sanctity of the family circle.
This adaptation of modern invention to the inherited ideas
of sympathetic reverence is admirable. Heretofore there lias
been only the family Bible with its simple record of births,
deaths and marriages, the pile of stiffly posed “daguerreo
types,” the worn trinkets of personal adornment, that per
petuate the memory. Now we can have the whole scene in
living actuality before our eyes and the eyes of our children’s
children.
Bring out the “film” and set the machine a-going, and
there grandmother in her finery, with grandpa and smiling
attendants, will trip in sight of their descendants. It is the
real thing.
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CHINA AS AN EXAMPLE
Tlio wires tell us that the Chinese have n[iothesiz<sl some
ot their ancestors who were great military commanders, and on
stated days meet to worship their memories. It is further
explained that they hope by this to inspire a more earnest
patriotism among their young men. Suppose that through the
weary centuries they had kept the memories of those old fight
ers more closely in mind, and had seen to it that their youths
had been taught that they must always be prepared to defend'
nati\e land, how different things would have been now. Russia
h ranee, Great Britain and Germany have been encroaching
upon them, each has on one or another pretext stolen her ports
and lands, pressed exactions upon her people and now Japan
with only one-tenth of her population, has practically made
her a subject state.
1 lien, having lost her military spirit, she has grown lax in
every other way. She has never half cultivated her land. Not
an acre of it has ever been thoroughly plowed; she has paid
no attention to sanitation; half the work that was required to
build her great wall would have made good roads all over her
vast area—she might have made of herself tlx* fear, rather than
the pity of the world.
Slx> is the most potent example of a people who neglect in
time of peace to be kept prepared for war, in all the world.
Her people are acute enough of intellect, strong enough
physically, but six* has permitted the elements that make a
People great to shrivel up as a China woman’s feet that all
through childhood were compressed and not permitted to grow.
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ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
Copper River &
Northwestern Ry.
Effective June 12th, 1915. ;;
Two trains every six days between Cordova and 11
Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making ! 1
connection with Alaska Steamship Co. iteumers arriving 11
from Seattle. ° ;;
Trains between Chitina and Shushanna Junction, -
and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and '
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All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street '■
Depot. 11
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be- ••
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Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
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Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
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