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FRIDAY, AUGUST, 13, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress-—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
ARTHUR FRAME
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
REPUBLICANS GET BUSY
Many people would like to do some
thing in politics, but do not know how.
There is a Republican committeeman
lor your precinct or township. He
will doubtless be both surprised and
gratified to have you call him up or
write him and tell him that you would
like to help and woulcl be glad to
hear what you can do to stir things
up for the party in your locality. Ii
he is the right man for. the job, this
committeeman will encourage the vol
unteers under his jurisdiction to get
busy. No one is either too important
or too unimportant to help in this
great work we have in hand, for
while it’s a great work, national poli
tics is simply the vast sum of little
details such as the ones that need to
be looked after right in your own im
mediate locality between now and elec
tion. Are you a worker or a slacker
in the Republican cause; which neans
right nowr your country’s cause?
PARTISANSHIP, NOT SUFFRAGE
In a statement attacking the Repub
lican party on woman suffrage Carrie
Chapman Catt, a staunch administra
tion partisan, says that the reason
more than five times as many Repub
lican as Democratic legislatures have
ratified the suffrage amendment is
that the Republicans control more leg
islatures. To no one but a blind Wil
son worshipper, however, would this
explain why eight times as many Dem
ocratic as Republican legislatures have
rejected the amendment. There are
reasons for believing that there is a
good deal more thought of Democratic
partisan advantage than of the suf
frage cause back of the effort to dis
credit the Republican record on suf
frage.
ANCIENT HISTORY OF THAT DOL
LAR A DAY FICTION
We can show by tables when the
next transit of Venus will occur, but
who will be the next candidate ac
cused of saying that a dollar a day is
enough for any wrage earner is a mat
ter beyond estimate.
The lie has been told in one cam
paign after another. It goes to sleep.
It is half forgotten. It comes forth
again. It is proved to be a falsehood.
Again it is revived. There are .today
intelligent children under six years of
age who do not know that the canard
is an old one, but there is not a four
teen year old newsboy in the country
who has not laughed at the stale in
vention.
The writer of this pargraph has
known two candidates for office liv
ing within a mile of each other who
wrere accused of saying that a dollar
a day was enough for any workingman.
In neither case did anybody believe
the charge. In both the ancient and
fishlike smell w’as a matter for ridi
cule. But there is often a grain of
history in a handful of myth, and it
may be of some interest to go into
the pedigree of the story.
Long ago Henry Ward Beecher
said that a man could exist on a wage
of a dollar a day. At the prices of
that era many dicf live on less than a
dollar per day. Under the low tariff
of 1857 there were mechanics who
accepted half a dollar per day. Many
of us can remember day laborers wrho
■received ninety cents per day, and who
existed. They lived so near their
work that they had no carfares to
pay; their rents were low; their diet
wras plain; they sometimes obtained
their fuel at without cost, and extra
jobs were sometimes compensated by
food. At all events Beecher wras not
speaking of luxury or of comfort, sim
ply of a standard under w^hich the lab
orer could keep body and soul to
gether. Henry David Thoreau has
left a statement of his expenses, and
his bills were surprisingly small.
New York papers used to print fan
tastic stories of the diet on w'hich
George Francis Train managed to sup
port his frame. We have not the ac
couts of Goldsmith’s hermit who had
“a scrip with herbs and fruits sup
plied, and water from the spring,”
but presume that the vegetable prod
ucts were cheap and that there wras
no water tax. There is no towrn,
scarcely a village, without a legend of
a miser who lived on a trifling ex
penditure.
But the tongue of rumor was in
‘Beecher’s time, as in all times, active,
and it was soon gossiped about that
he had said that a dollar a day w'as
enough for any workingman. An
angry mob threatened to break his
■ windows. From that day the story
has been recurrent at longer or short
er intervals. This year it has been
told of one whose harmonious rela
tions with a labor union were a suf
ficient answ'er to the ancient though
not venerable accusation.—Ex.
: MANY SOCIAL EVENTS
FOR OLYMPIC ENTRIES
ANTWERP, Aug. 13 (by Associated
Press).—Olympic athletes and offi
cials are expected to find most of
their spare time occupied during the
period of the Seven Olympiad with a
round of entertainments arranged by
the Belgian committee. Dozens of din
ners, receptions and visits to chateaux
and other places of interest have been
already arranged.
The principal public event is to be
a reception to all the teams, at the
Antwerp Hotel de la Ville, on the night
of August 18. There will be a similar
reception at the Bhussels Hotel de la
Ville during the course of the rowing
events on the canal between Antwerp
and Brussels.
King Albert is expected, also, to ar
range a reception for the leading of
ficials of the various countries parti
cipating. Various diplomatic and con
sular representatives are also planning
dinners for the teams of their nations.
Count Baillet-Latour, who. next to
the king himself is the chief Belgian
official of the Olympiad, will enter
tain a number of the officials and per
haps some of the athletes at his cha
teau late in the progress of the games.
In the pulpwood industry pioneer
conditions have been met and over
come by the successful establishment
of paper mills in nearby British Col
umbia.
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Cordova Jazz Orchestra Dance at
Eagle Hall on Wednesday and Satur
day nights. Music by the Ragtime
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NATIONAL GUN SHOOT I
MANILA, P. I., Aug. 13 (by Associ
ated Press).—Orders have been issued
at department headquarters of the
army here, naming the rifle team
which will represent the Philippine
scouts in the national rifle and pistol
matches at Camp Perry, O., late this
month. The team which was chosen
from the most successful competitors
in the recent department competition,
represents the cream of the shots of
the Philippine scouts.
This is the second time the Philip
pine scouts have sent a team to the
competition at Camp Perry, the team
last year, Captained by I. F. Costello,
finishing in seventeenth place for the
team prize out of a large field.
The team consists of three officers |
and sixteen enlisted men.
The officers are: Captain Per Ra
mee, team captain; Captain Spencer,
E. Shearer, team coach, and Lieuten
ant Harry Black, quartermaster.
Members of the team are expected
to sail for the United States early in
July on the army transport.
40 PER CENT INTEREST
DUE EACH YEAR ON
NOTE 4,000 YEARS OLD
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—An unpaid note for
four shekels in silver bearing forty
per cent annual interest for nearly
four thousand years recently was
found among the clay tablets at the
university of Pennsylvania museum by
Dr. Leon Legrain. The note was
given by a man named Bur-Mama to
II Sinnutum in October, 1962 B. C., the
“year in which King Sim-Sin occupied
the town of Dur-Damigilisha.”
There were four witnesses to the
note. Instead of signatures the wit
nesses placed their seals on the docu
ment and were not liable for pay
ment unless it was shown they knew7
the character of Bur-Mama was bad
when thev swore it was good.
Although comparisons are difficult,
Dr. Legrain said, a shekel of silver
at the time the note was made was
equal to about $100 at the present
time.
DISCOVERYOfSTRAltS? j
OF MAGELLAN TO BE
CELEBRATED IN FALL
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The fourth centenary
of the discovery of the Straits of Ma
gellan will be celebrated at Punta
Arenas, Chile, the southernmost city
of the world, between November 23
and December 10.
An invitation has been extended to
the king of Spain, who sometime ago
announced a proposed visit to South
America, to be present, and a monu
ment now7 under erection dedicated to
the explorer, Ferdinand de Magellan,
will be unveiled. In spite of its hav
ing been known t,o modern nations
for four centruies, southern South
America, which is called Patagooia*
“the land of big feet,” and which
took its name from the legendary
giant stature of its inhabitants is still
very sparsely settled.
ENGLAND CONQUERS
AIR IN CIVIL FLIGHTS
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LONDON, Aug. 13 (by Associated
Press).—With 38,954 flights and a
total of 70,000 passengers carried dur
ing the first year of civil flying in
England there was but one fatal ac
cident. Announcement of this, made
at the International Air Show, caused
much comment and led Comptroller
General of the Civil Aviation, Major
General Sir F. H. Sykes to say:
“We have conquered the air, and our
immediate task is to exploit our vic
tory in the interest of commercial de
velopment.”
The number of miles flown was 734
200 for the first year and goods car
ried totalled 116,498 pounds. Up to the
end of March more than 200,000
pounds worth of imports and exports
were carried by air between the
United Kingdom and the continent.
A total of 114 aerodromes were li
censen and 519 machines were regis
tered during the first year of civil
flying in England.
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Potatoes grown in Alaska* have
yielded as much as 18,876 pounds per
acre.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Clarence Henry Golden, his
heirs, assigns, administrator and to
all whom it may concern.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned co-own
er of Clarence Henry Golden in the
Alsac, Amazon, Francisco, Pelly, Mc
Kenzie, Columbia and Yukon claims,
situate on the left bank of Chokosna
river, about eight miles from the Cop
per River Railway at Mile 158, and
found in the records of the Valdez
Mining and Recording district at
Valdez, Alaska, has expended in labor
and improvements upon said claims
I he sum of $1400 during the years
1913 and 1914, and that Clarence
Henry Golden being the owner of a
one-third interest in the above named
claims, and having failed to do or per
form any labor, or expend any money
for the same, there is now due and
owing from you, your heirs or assigns,
one-third of $1400, as your proportion
of the amount necessary to be ex
pended for the years 1913-1914, to
hold possessory right and title to
the said claims under the provision of
section 2324 of the revised statutes
of the United States and the amend
ments thereto.
And if within ninety days after
this notice by publication is com
pleted you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such
expense as before stated, your inter
est in the aforementioned claims will
become the property of the subscrib
er hereto, and under the section of
the law above mentioned which gov
erns assessment work on lode mining
claims.
TOM KINNEY.
First publication Aug. 4, 1920.
Last publication Nov. 3, 1920.
SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Louise
Dorothy Hegg, Plaintiff, vs. Roy Ed
ward Hegg, Defendant. No. 1047.
Summons.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting—To the Above
Named Defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within thirty
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to-wit, within
thirty days after the 12th day of
August, 1920, and answer the com
plaint of the above named plaintiff in
the above entitled action, wherein said
plaintiff prays that she be granted a
decree of absolute divorce from you,
the said defendant, forever dissolving
the bonds of matrimony now existing
between you and said plaintiff.
And unless you so appear and
answer the said plaintiff will take
judgment against you for want thereof
and will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in her complaint as
hereinabove set out.
The date of the order for service by
publication herein is June 30, 1920, and
such order was duly made and entered
and filed herein on said ,date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is July 1st, 1920, and the
date of its last publication is August
12th, 1920.
Witness: The HONORABLE FRED
M. BROWN, Judge of said Court and
the seal of said Court on this 1st day
of July, 1920.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By Thos. S. Scott, Deputy.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for
Plaintiff.
First publication, July 1, 1920.
Last publication, August 12, 1920.
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