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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1015.
GETTING NOWHERE
in our correspondence with England we are making no
more headway than we are making with Germany. England as
artfully evaded reference to the legality of the British orders
in council regarding the rights of American ships as Germany
avoided a discussion of the legal propriety of undersea war
fare.
Neither shows the slightest solicitude for the rights which
neutrals claim under the international rules. Each is bent on
victory, and anything that can be made to contribute to that
end will be resorted to, with no deference to the welfare of
those nations outside of the “iron ring.” And the United
States, if sorely pressed by war, would demonstrate no more
affection, either for supposed friends, or enemies.
Germany continues her desperate warfare, and' it will grow
more desperate if her predicament grows more desperate;
England continues her violation of shipping rules, and she will
make her rule more intolerable if her situation grows more
desperate.
England and Germany are in the same boat, so to speak,
with reference to the United States. Each wants our support,
but neither will give up for us anything that can be used to
wield a body blow against the other. Their positions are
identical, and perhaps if we were rid of the sentimentalities
which surrounded’ the Lusitania, wTe would be condemning
England for what even the New York World calls “impudent
persistence in wrong doing,” and answering us with “sophistry
and falsehood,” just as sharply as we are condemning
Germany.
The World, which has been sharply pro-allies, continuing
its criticism of England, says:
“When the United States under international law lias
rights clearly established, what can be more intolerable than
to have a professed friend say that those rights will be invaded'
only with the minimum of inconvenience? What can be more
insolent than to be assured by such a friend that on interrupt
ing our lawful trade with neutrals, it will graciously refrain
from violence or confiscation? Is there any outrage that one
nation can inflict upon another at peace more humiliating than
to subject its legitimate commerc to a piratical censorship?
“We went to war with Great Britain a century ago for a
cause no more grievous.
“If the United States cannot command respect in Great
Britain, what reason have we to hope for consideration in
Germany ? ’ ’
And, as said before, the administration’s letter writing is
not getting us anywhere and there is doubt if it ever does—
until after the war is over. Then all the European belligerents
who have wronged and are wronging us, will humbly apologize
and' send handsome checks covering the price of the obloquy.
After which we will all again get together and solemnly draft
a new book of rules—to be submarined into innocuous desue
tude in the next war.
When the bull dogs are in combat they are not interested
in canary birds.—Tacoma News.
MILITARY TRAINING
West Point graduated one hundred' nnd sixty-four officers
this year and we are told that it was the largest class ever
graduated.
Secretary of War Garrison last fall asked Cougress to
make an appropriation to establish a school for training officers
in the simpler duties of soldiers. Such officers to be ready to
train volunteers in case a great host of raw recruits should ever
be called to the colors. Congress turned down the recommenda
tion. That is something which the states could help the
country and the national administration at the same time in
without much expense. Nearly every state has high schools.
In many of these high schools are cadet corps. Whenever tried
these cadet corps have proved to be most acceptable. They
give students a better carriage and bearing; make them more
efficient in their studies, bring out their characters. By adding
a little so as to make them good riders, good swimmers, good
swordsmen, and able to handle all kinds of guns from revolvers
to cannon, they would', all their lives thereafter, be ready to
train raw men in a soldier’s first duties. This carried on
steadily would, in the event of a war, enable each state to train
its own contingent in the elementary duties of soldiers in camp
and field.
From these cadets the state’s quota for West Point and
Annapolis would be annually selected. Those appointments
should be prizes for the cadets to struggle to obtain. There are
vacations in all schools in the warm summer months. Two
weeks of that vacation should be spent by the cadets in an
encampment where the maneuvering of men in large bodies
should be practiced, and the establishment of sanitary camps
should be made imperative.
This would keep the military spirit alert in the minds of
the people which is most essential to a nation. We may say
the most essential requirement of a nation. Peace to the
nations is yet a long way off and it is criminal for a state to
neglect elementary military training of its youth.—(Ex.)
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
The DuPont Powder company shares have reached $<il2
owing to the concern’s tremendous earnings. It has contracts
for unlimited delivery of smokeless powder at $1 a pound.
The normal price is .10 cents. It would be a groat thing if its
output could be employed in blowing stumps out of western
Washington instead of leaving stumps on men.
Those of us who have been expecting our ships to come in
shouldn’t forget the submarine menace.
Those troubled with English sparrows might try the
expedient of displaying the German colors.
Content with nothing short of risking all, Italy has declared
war on Turkey and will send' an army to the Dardanelles, the
cables say. Bulgaria still abstains, tottering no doubt between
the land lure which the allies dangle before her, and tin*
opportunities tor making untold wealth by remaining
neutral. Bulgaria is in position to do a hot-cake business
with both sides by remianing out of the conflict.
War orders with American factories are nbout $1,500,
000,000, about one-third going into iron and steel products and
base metals. The steel district never was so busy. The effect
is bound to be felt in lumber to some extent. The Pittsburgh
Steel Company has just ordered 200,000 tons of blast furnace
coal a month. That will make it hot for tin* Germans.
The action of the German governor in Belgium in mak
ing it a crime for a Belgian to fight for his country, shows
another queer twist in the Teutonic mind. That may l>e one
way of conducting a war, but to the average man it savors
largely of oppression. Patriotism is a fine thing, but the
Germans are trying to make a patriotic Belgian a criminal.
The coal strike in England is over, and' the British can
once more give their attention to the business in hand, namely
subjugating the obstreperous Teutons.
The Russians are still retiring so the dispatches say. Well
there is some virtue in being consistent, and the Russians have
been retiring pretty consistently of late.
Russia has banished the swallow but it is not so easy to
avoid the double-eagle.—Columbia State.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
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ASA C. BALDWIN
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between 8eattle, Ketch
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SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PA9SAGE
Sails from 8eattle— Sails from Cordova—
July 12.NORTHWESTERN.July 21
July 18.MARIPOSA.July 28
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juntau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valder ard Latouche. Explos
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Cordova, 25th of each month.
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without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
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Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALA8KA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, JULY 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, JULY 27
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice
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Depot.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Pessenger Trains Be ' ’
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