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WHAT PREPAREDNESS MEANS
That word “preparedness" is about the biggest in our
language. It means to be ready to meet opposition.
As recently used', it has only been applied to meeting an
attack from foreign powers, but that does not begin to cover all
its meaning. We put a lock on tin* door in defence ot possibl
burglars. That is one form of preparedness. W e put on mittens
and mufflers when we go out into zero weather, that is another
form. W e drain stagnant ponds to discourage the lever that
may he waiting on the wings of the malarian and charge upon
the health of the household. W'e say the nation should he ptv
pared to meet any attack, but the states should likewise he pre
pared. An idle and hungry man is a danger to a state, and the
state should he prepared to give such an one employment and
wages for his work. The pest that attacks fruit trees is a danger
to lie prompt ly met. Some of our hortieulturalists have learned
to he prepared against tin* spring frosts that ma> steal in and
attack the orchards when in bloom.
The prudent man insures his house to he prepared against
fire. The prudent state secs to it that all the children are en
rolled in the schools as a means of preparedness against that
Yen' worst enemy of man, ignorance.
As it is often easier to prevent sickness than to cure it, >o
a prudent eitv see> to it that the vices arc not Haunted in the
faces of the children or vulgar plays or pictures presented A
humane eitv keeps tab on its poor to sec that sutlering is pro
vented and that there is not through want an incentive given to
the very poor to commit crime.
Men, women and children are like birds. Some are depeii
dent, ot hers are like birds of prey, and when society is eulight
died it sees to it that the strong do not crush the weak. Thus
we see that the elm !' end of tin* enlightenment of the earth i>
to in to keep ihe world prepared against enemies. These
enemies ale cold, and hunger ni i disease and sorrow and want
as well as the strong hands that come to despoil their fellow
men.
Foreign powers do not often attempt an invasion and con
11ucst, but these other enemies are always on watch and ready
lo attack any weak place.
W hen a cold wave is on the march and headed this way,
a tun of coal and a big box of food make a wonderful prepared
ness for a household of poor women and children. Preparedness
is a splendid thing for a nation it is more splendid when rd
the people of the nation are prepared against idleness, ignor
ance, want and sorrow.
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HAS EUROPE GONE MAD?
\\ In'll a mortal is too sorely tried lie is liable to lose Id''
reason.
Why should it not lie the same way with nations! The
nations of the old world have been preparing for war for years.
They have brought to frightful perfection all the instruments
of destruction; they have been fighting on a scale never
dreamed of before now for about eighteen months until their
soil is piled high with their dead; their homes are desolated;
the accumulations of years have been swept away; one horror
seems to be a death-lock and the truth is forced home upon
them that there is not victory in sight for any of them.
There are evidences in sight that there is a breaking down
of judgment in many places; that under the tearful shock they
are losing their reasoning powers and are in imminent danger
of having their respective countries filled with lunatics.
Tim spectacle that the homes of the old world presents is
enough to unhinge the brains of strong men; the vacant chairs,
the emptv cradles; the mourning robes, the hungry women and
children; the broken hearts and devastated fields; who can j
measure the cataclysm that has already broken upon them!
Who can begin to estimate when there will be any surcease tori
the sorrowf
The most sinister feature of all is the apparent effect thus
far made upon the living. Kadi is charging the blame upon tin*
desire for vengeance. Kneli is charging the blame upon tin*:
other, and most ol the peace talk, so far, has been \\ ith the con
dition that no peace will be accepted that does not include re
paration for the losses thus far sustained. There is not a j
reference to “the everlasting Father and Prince of Peace.”
Ships are falling from the clouds with their dead, the seas are,
engulfing other ships with their dead, and on land along a
thousand miles of battle front tin* chariot wheels of war are;
grinding their wav over the hearts ot men till “all the earth I
■wears the red record lighted with cities aflame” and armies j
are taking on the outward look of wild beasts bent only upon
destroying their kind.
The war has now extended until it is raging around where
the cradle of civilization was first rocked; the savage tribes that
have succeeded the enlightened races that in that region began
the world’s regeneration, are organizing and training and by
nature are cruel as death itself. The scientists tract* out the
eras through which at intervals the outer shell of the earth has
been shattered and all animal life has perished under those
cataclysms which are called geological periods. It begins to
look in the old world as though another form of destruction had
been decreed to exterminate men there.
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CHITINA - - - ALASKA
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store,
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store, Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office in Adams Building
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA. ALASKA
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E, A. HEGG
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Views and Post Cards
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ALASKA*
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fait and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
i ikan, Wranqell, Juneau, Skaqway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Kails from Seattle. Sails from Cordova.
January 30.NORTHWESTERN.February 8
February 10.ALAMEDA.February 19 ^
Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. S. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
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, 1
General Agent Ticket Agent j
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. S. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.January 18
ADMIRAL EVANS.January 28
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Iniet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
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j Northwestern Ry. |n
Effe^ve October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and £
Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making £
£ connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving g
. g from Seattle. g
jg Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, g
Mondays and Thursdays. §1 <
jg Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays. g"
g Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays, £
£ Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays,
jg The above schedule subject to change without notice, g
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Peetenger Train* Be- g
tween Cordova and Chitina.
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£ Freight received from 9 A. M. lo 5 I’. M.
Tickets on sale it Depot or up-town office*, Alaska £
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