THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
Entered at the Fostofflce at Cordova,
Alaska, as second-class master.
H. G. STEEL
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1919
Who wants a 2.75 per cent jag, any
way?
The beef trust says we use too ex
pensive cuts of meat. Always rubbing
it in.
A headline says, “Government Wilis
Beer Case.” Government should pass
it around.
Cupid has certainly been on the job
in Cordova during the past few
months.
Cordova is now quite metropolitan,
since it has a street commissioner and
a dog catcher.
“Congress Voted Dry,” says a head
line. Congress was voted dry by unan
imous consent long ago.
“Punish the kaiser with his con
science,” says H. Rider Haggard.
That wouldn’t be much punishment.
J. Ham Lewis says a third term is
a first term when President Wilson
runs for a third term the first time.
This is the harvest season for the
local painters, as practically every
building in town is being “touched up.”
Being president of the Irish repub
lic entitles you to as many terms as
the British want to give you if they
catch you.
We read that Germany is trying to
make both ends meet. The peace
council made both ends of Germany
nearly meet.
Tourist travel to Alaska continues
heavy, and one of the greatest attrac
tions offered them is a view of our
glaciers in action.
The city council has decided to
“stand pat” on the dog ordinance, and
hereafter many of the worthless curs
will be missing from the main thor
oughfares.
In the swing-around-the-circle the
President should carry a special exhi
bition train with him to show oft the
million dollars’ v,orth of presents he
collected in Europe.
The coal and oil land leasing bill
is again being discussed, and if con
gress will pass the measure promptly
it won’t require your glasses to see
Cordova grow.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The more we study the statutes the
more we become in favor of enforcing
the laws against everybody but our
selves.—Seward Gateway.
We wish to congratulate the Cor
dova Times on the way it puts up its
telegraphic news. We venture to say
that’s the best first page of news in
the territory.—Juneau Gleam.
There are numerous old shacks in
Juneau that are untenanted, unsani
tary and unsightly. They should be
removed. The city council should act
in this matter.—Juneau Empire.
Judging from the number of tour
ists that are coming to Alaska this
season, crowding the Northerners off
the boats, it certainly appears that the
former are practicing the slogan of
“seeing America first.”—Ketchikan
Chronicle.
The assignment of Captain M. H.
Faust to duty Outside is a distinct
loss to Valdez. Captain Faust has
virtually grown up with Alaska, hav
ing been stationed here many years,
first as M. E. of the signal corps, and
later in charge of the office here. We
believe that Captain Faust knows
Alaska better than any military man
within the borders of the territory to
day, and many of his suggestions,
adopted by the war department, have
made great saving in time and money.
—Valdez Miner.
COSTS MORE TO LIVE IN
SOUTH AMERICA THAN
IN UNITED STATES
SANTA FE, N. M., July 30 (by As
sociated Press).—Saving money is a
harder task in South America than
in the United States, despite the
higher salaries paid there, says Eu
i
gene Lujan of Santa Fe, who recently
resigned his position as clerk of the
American legation at La Paz, Bolivia.
In a letter to his father, who is as
sistant secretary of state of New Mex
ico, young Lujan points out that,
that one can earn more in South
America than in North America, th&
cost of living is higher. Shoes which
sell for $6 in the United States cost
$12 in Bolivia. Board and room
amount to $80 a month, laundry at
least $12, and everything else in pro
portion.
“Although Spanish is the official
language,” Lujan writes, “there are
many dialects, for the population is
considerably mixed. We have Aya
maras, who are pure Indians; the
fcholos, or half-breeds; the Bolivians,
the English, the French and the Ger
mans.”
PUNCH OF DEMPSEY
GREATER THAN FITZ’S
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (by Associ
ated Press).—“Despite all the men
who have gone before him, Jack Demp
sey is in line to make pugilistic his
tory that will live forever.”
This was the comment of James J.
Jeffries, formerly world’s heavyweight
champion, on the victory of Jack
Dempsey over Jess Willard at Toledo,
when Dempsey annexed the highest
honors of the squared circle.
“The record he has made in the
last four years,” said the ex-champion,
“with his sleep-producing punches, is
one of the marvels of the prize ring,
and stamps him as a pugilist with hit
ting powers such as few champions
have possessed since glove contests
succeeded the days of bare knuckle
lights.”
After comparing Dempsey’s ring
record with those of other pugilists
who wore the coveted belt, Jeffries
said:
“Some of the old-timers declare that
Bob Fitzsimmons was the hardest
puncher in ring history. But great
as was old Fitz’s record, the list of
knockouts he hung up was not as long
as that which Dempsey piled up in
four short years.”
Fitzsimmons, continued Jeffries,
was credited with twenty-four knock
outs, while Dempsey has ended forty
five bouts with the count of ten.
LOS ANGELES TO PUT
PEP INTO BALL GAMES
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (by Asso
ciated Press):—Home runs are ex
pected to feature baseball games
played hereafter at the Los Angeles
Washington Baseball park, as the re
sult of the erection of a mesh wire
fence ten feet high inside the present
inclosure at an average of ninety feet
nearer the home plate.
The fence will limit the zone of the
outfielders and make it possible for
such sluggers as Bates, Crawford,
Meusel, Killifer and Fournier to put
a little more life into the game and to
revive enthusiasm in the national
sport that the officials of the Los An
geles club say has been lacking. Sen
sational hitting, they say, has been
practically impossible because of the
great distance—435 feet—between the
plate and the center field fence.
MOTORCYCLE CLIMES
MT. SAN BERNARDINO
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., July 30
(by Associated Press).—Jack Fletcher
and John E. Hogg announced here to
day that they had accomplished a ride
on a two-seated motorcycle to the top
of Mount San Bernardino, commonly
known as Mount Baldy, a lofty, snow
capped peak near here.
This height had been attained pre
viously only by mountaineers afoot
and with burrors. The trail leading
to the summit is seven and a half
miles in length and very steep. In
a single mile it rises two thousand
feet by a series of zigzags up a per
pendicular cliff, over a surface strewn
with loose rocks and crumbled gran
ite. Three hours and forty-two min
utes were required to reach the sum
mit, which is 11,600 feet high.
Special turkey and chicken dinner
served at the Cordova Grill on Sunday
from 12 to 8 o’clock. Price $1.00.
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Woman’s Land Army Unit Makes Good in Nebraska
CHADRON, NEB.—Unit No. 1 of the woman land army, three New York girls
who have taken to real farming, has been in Chadron for a month. It is
composed of Miss Ann Marshall, Miss Katherine Sampson and Miss Linda
Schroeder. All Chadron was at the
station to see the girls arrive. It put
them down as of the “city type.” And
city girls are house plants, the Chad
ronifes reckoned. Marcus J. Cain
! was waiting for the land army. Cain
| lives 18 miles out of Chadron on a
4,000-acre farm, with seven men work
ers. Next morning Cain arose to
pilot the New Yorkers around the
place and show them their duties. But
he was late. The first thing on the
schedule had been “milk the cows.”
It was just sun-up. Cain found his army out milking the cows. And that wms
not Cain’s only surprise. He found that the army, clad in businesslike bloom
ers and high boots, was able to do any job on the ranch on which it was put,
and to do it as efficiently and as quickly as did the men.
Chadron expected a failure. Cain’s first visit to town was an event. He
■was surrounded by a crowd who wanted to know about his “farmerettes.”
Cain’s answer was contained in four words sent by telegraph to the Woman’s
Land army in New York: “Send more farm girls.”
Chadron is now speculating just how long Cain can keep his land
army intact. There are more bachelors with farms out in this country than
anywhere else on the face of the earth.
In the month they have been here the girls have won fame for them
selves, besides experience, admiration and $2 a day with, board, room and
laundry thrown in.
The Woman’s Land army stands high in this part of Nebraska. If it ha-vs 1
any more farmerettes like these three that are already here northwest
Nebraska can take care of them.
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