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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1918.
BRAVE MEN AND TIMID DOLLARS
Never in the history of the world
have men been braver than they are'
today. Never has the Death of Bat
tles stalked in a more hideous dr
more terrifying form. Men in thous
ands have braved the terrors of the
sea the dread typhoon-the obscur
ing fog the iceberg and the hidden
reef. They have fought battles, ship
to ship when gun belched into gun
and sharpshooters fired from the
fighting tops, but never before have
they faced the unseen terror that
sneaks through the dark blue depths
of the ocean and launches its deadly
bolt with comparative safety to its
own hull and crew.
The very thought of falling from a
height is terrifying to the average
man. and yet our boys eagerly go up
aloft until they are meres specks upon
the sky. and there in cockleshells of
(doth and spruce, they light like eagles
for the mastery of the air.
Men have gone down in mines to
(dubs and slings, arrows and swords,
damp, but never has the air we must
breathe been poisoned over areas
bounded by miles, when the eyes
smart with acid tears and every
breath is an agony ending In a hideous
death.
Men in the past have faced spears.
Icubs and slings, arrows, and swords,
bullets and cannon balls, but the ina
chine gun and the high oxploslve
shell are beyond all previous exper
ience and they shatter nerves when
they fail to break bones.
Death holds high carnival on the
poppy Helds of France, yet our boys
go “over there" with a smile and a
jest, singing their battle hymns.
There are many brave hearts who
are condemned to stay at home, but
since that must be, do not humiliate
your spirit by nursing timid dollars.
Do not compel your government to
bomb your wealth out of the dugouts
and cellars in which you have hidden
it anil take it away at the point of
the bayonet. Marshal your money and
pet it on the firing line with our boys
invest in Victory Liberty Is worth
the price.
Subscribe today!
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COPPER AND COTTON.
The promise of a large crop of cot
ton this year has been blasted by un
favorable weather, and we are now
confronted by the certainty of a short
crop. Normally this would be follow
ed by a further advance in price, as
it was, although the latter was already
high. Hut now the War Industries
board proposes to step In and fix the
price for cotton, the immunity of
which has heretofore been the sub
ject of pungent comment. Immediate
ly the Southern senators and repre
sentatives rose in rage and rushed
to the White House to see about this
iconoclastic idea of interfering with j
what has previously been sacrosanct, j
It may be conceived that the White
House was embarrassed by this sit- j
nation, but the President seems to
be meeting it manfully.
However, the Immunity of cotton j
heretofore has been akin to a scandal
in our affairs. We compare it with
copper, for the latter has been the
chief scapegoat. Moth cotton and cop
per are essential elements in ammu
nition. Copper is used for making |
tile cartridge cases, cotton for making)
the explosive that is put into them. )
Copper is produced in the North and
West by companies that are largely
owned in New York and New England.
Cotton is produced in the South, chief
ly by individual planters. In the ec
onomic policy of both the Adminis
tration and of congress there has been
a mighty difference according to geo
graphy and a mightier one according
to whether a group of, say 20,000 peo
ple combine to do business together,
or w'hether the same number under
take business Individually.
The people In the West and North,
where copper is produced, cannot es
cape the feeling that their industry
has been arbitrarily handicapped, and
that of the South has been left free.
Really there Is far more reason for
fixing the price for cotton now than
there ever was for fixing the price
for copper. Cotton Is a commodity
of seasonal production. The planting
of this year's crop was determined
by the price for last year's, but before
the real commodity price of last year's
crop could be determined there were
many speculative adjustments and j
maneuvers. In a situatoln like the j
present there would naturally be un-1
usual turmoil and great profits by j
some shrewd and lucky people at the |
expense of those less shrewd and |
lucky. Such situations seldom de- j
velop in commodities of regular pro- j
duction, like the metals—at ieaHt not
to the same extent- for they are never j
stocked up In the same way.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Gust Farlstrom:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended during the years 1914 and
1916 $200 In labor and improvements
upon the "Deep Gulch" placer mining
claim, situate on right limit of Chltitu
ereok, adjoining No. 8 creek claim and
on first tier of benches. In Nizlna
mining district. McCarthy recording
precinct, Alaska, the location certifi
cate of which Is found of record in
Book 9, Page 41, in the office of the
recorder of said recording precinct,
in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendments thereto approved
January 22. 1880, concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said claim
for the period ending on the 31st day
of December, 1914. and the 31st day
of December. 1916; and if within
ninety days after the publication of
this notice, you fail nr refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as a co-own<;r, which
amounts to $100, your interest in the
claim will become the property of the
subscriber, your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure, by
the terms of said section.
F. PETER MILLER.
First publication, Aug. 10, 191S.
Last publication, Nov. 1C, 1918.
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