Tlffi CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 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
HERE'S ONE BIG FLOCK OF
WHITE ELEPHANTS
Three hundred wooden ships, built
at a cost to the American people of
a quarter of a billion dollars, ride at
anchor at Wilson’s Point, Conn.;
Hog Island; Alameda Cal.; Seattle
Wash.; North Portland, Ore.; and at
four Gulf ports. They have never
been used, and in all probability nev
er will be. Many of the big boats are
warped and clearly unseaworthy.
None can be operated in competition
with other steam vessels. Besides
the completed steamships there are
171 hulls and converted barges await
ing disposition. A few of these have
been sold at a big loss.
With the world on fire the adminis
tration went to experimenting on
ships and planes. It was unwilling in
this, as in other matters, to accept
demonstrated facts; it Avas going to
smash more precedents and show the
world a feAv new tricks. So the Amer
ican government, instead of accepting
the results in aeronautics of three
years of Avarfare, got busy experi
menting Avith a neAAr aeroplane engine
and by the time the war was over
the experiment was pronounced a suc
cess—much after the manner of say
ing: “The operation Avas successful,
but the patient died.” Wooden ships to
meet the needs of modern transporta
tion were an experiment, but Chair
man Denman, of the shipping board,
with characteristic administration
omniscience, insisted on trying it.
General Goethals objected so strenu
ously that President Wilson forced his
resignation. A little later Chairman
Denman followed Goethal’s example.
But the experiment was on, and it
cost the American people a quarter
of a billion in hard earned cash.
The lumber interests and the cost
plus contractors profited by the con
struction of this wooden fleet, but the
people lost a cool quarter of a billion.
It is, besides, taking a big sum to
keep this huge white elephant, one
of the souvenirs of the Wilsonian mal
administration. A parade of these
vessels up and down the Atlantic and
Pacific coast would hardly be what
you might call a Democratic campaign
demonstration.
Turkey will observe the anniver
saries of the signing of the peace
treaty as days of mourning. Of mourn
ing, perhaps, over the misguided
judgement that let the kaiser lead
them into war.
The number of slackers who are
to be rounded up—173,911—will seem
large only to those who realize what
a big country we live in. Consider
how many there were who did their
duty and more.
All we need is a cheap and easy
process of deliquoring the beverages
that are being seized by the govern
ment to make a substantial addition
to the country’s stock of alcohol for
use in the arts and sciences.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Only a few days ago a flock of
four airships landed in Fairbanks,
the first airships Fairbanks ever saw.
They were on their way from Min
eola, Long Island, to Nome, and
there was much money bet in New
York that they would not all reach
Nome. All did, and here they are,
back in Fairbanks again, bringing Si
berian dogs, nuggets, furs and souv
enirs from the Arctic andj strong
enough to sit up and take notice. In
fact none of them are as yet “pick
ing at the counterpane.” Which sim
ply shows, in the language of the
north, that you never can tell.—
Fairbanks News-Miner.
The announcement of Col. Jones
that he proposes to spend a part of
each summer in Alaska is pleasing
to Northerners. Alaska has no
more enthusiastic or better informed
friend in official Washington than is
Col. Jones.—Juneau Emipre.
Each year in this section of Alas
ka some one is lost either in the
woods or the hills. Sometimes it
is a young man or men and at other
times it is someone of mature years.
This time it was a man of sixty
years of age who went out alone to
climb Mount Juneau. We will say
that the act was a rash one, but
nevertheless we feel sorry that any
human being should meet the terri
ble death of perishing in the hills.
—Douglas News.
Dance Eagle Hall Wednesday and
Saturday nights.
CAN A WOMAN KEEP
A SECRET? FIND OUT
AT EMPRESS TONIGHT
DOESN’T it strike you as strange
AND peculiar
WHEN YOU read those grey-bearded
jokes
ABOUT WOMEN who can’t keep
a secret,
AND WHEN they say it’s all the
same, if
YOU TELL a phone, or telegraph or
TELL A WOMAN, not to mention the
WIRELESS and the party lines;
MR. EDITOR, please tell us why, be
cause we
KNOW if you know you’ll tell,
WHY, if lovely women can’t keep
FROM TALKING,
WHY WAS THE SPHINX chiseled
out of the rock
BY THOSE OLD Egyptians in the
feminine gender?
AND Mr. Editor, if you don’t know,
YOU can find out by going over to
The EMPRESS TPIEATRE
TONIGHT to see Madam Sphinx.
I THANK YOU
The banner potato state is no
longer Maine, but Wisconsin. That
ought to check the eastward drift of
the center of population.
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After Poland’s, experience, small
nations not prepared to fight will
hardly welcome the role of buffer
states.
Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
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Days
In a few days, the school bell, after many
weeks of silence, will be tolling forth the
summons, “Back to school.” To mother,
it will mean the beginning of more work and
less help around the house.
Clothes to be gotten into shape—youngsters to be dressed and
fussed over—-little folks too busy and excited to be of much use
to mother.
Fortunately for mother, she has no longer to worry about the
clean clothes problem—each week she is sending her family wash
to us. The time once given to slaving over the wash-tub and
wrestling with heavy boilers and baskets, are now devoted to
better care of the children and the home.
The spic-and-spanpess so noticeable in school children today
is a laundry product. Why not YOU give yourself and the kiddies
the benefit of it. A minute at the phone will do the work.
Jones’ Laundry
Phone 66
THE NORTHERN CLUB
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Braxton house. 7-tf.
LOST—A black leather handbag, con
taining a pair of glasses and a sum of
money. Reward for return to Daily
Times office. 6-tf.
FOR SALE—Furniture and household ef
fects including: wicker set, consisting
of 5 pieces; Brunswick phonograph
with records, rugs, aluminum cooking
utensils, etc. Apply to apartment G,
Lathrop building. 6-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished house and apart
ment. See Chas. J. Goodall 3-tf
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FOR RENT—Three-room furnished cot
tage. $20 per month. Apply to Blum,
O'Neill Co. 26.if
WANTED—A cook at Cordova general
hospital. Apply to Mrs. W. W. Council.
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FOR SALE—A three-room unfurnished
cottage at Ocean Dock. Inquire I. L.
Smith. 23-tf
FOR SALE AND RENT—Pianos. Ex
pert piano tuning. Anderson piano
Shop, Juneau. 2-tf
WANTED—An Ironing girl. Apply at
Northern Laundry. 15-tf
FOR RENT—Apartments In the Burk
hart flats. Phone 61. 8-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins.. Apply
to Cordova Abstract & Realty Co. 22-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished Cabins. See
Dooley.
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We carry the largest and most ex
clusive line of engraved stationery,
such as Wedding Announcements,
Calling Cards and Holiday Greetings.
What would be more appropriate than
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samples.
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New and Second-Hand
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SPECIAL MEETING
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REPUBUCAN CLUB
ON
THURSDAY NIGHT
8 O’CLOCK
EAGLE LODGEROOM.
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HON. DAN A. SUTHERLAND
Will be present and address the Club
All members and those desiring to affiliate
with the Republican Club are
invited to be present
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