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SATURDAY, JUNE S, 101S
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE
rtohably there was not an American
heart in Cordova last night that did
not thrill vith pride end justifiable ex
•iirauon at tne account published in
the Daily Times dispatches from the
battle fronts in France last night. It
is not difficult to imagine one sees
those sturdy American lads, held
in leash so long while in the process!
of tedious and strenuous training, hav
ing at last been given the word to
“go," tearing through the demoral
ized German ranks with the enthu
siasm and determination characteris
tic of American enterprise and will
to do. The message says that they
■"dashed into the Germans yelling like
Indians," It is probable, however,
that the yell was a combination of
the famous rebel yell of civil war days,
ami the unearthly but inspiring yell
emitted by baseball fans when "the
bases are full and no one out.” Under
such circumstances it is no wonder
that the bewildered Hun seriously
considered the advisability of utiliz-l
bog his sometimes treacherously-used
cry of surrender—"Kamerade.”
t Aside from the splendid showing
made by the Americans in the fight
ing on the banks of the Marne, yes
terday's dispatches contained another
significant story. We have become
so Used to the idea that our troops'
are not yet in readiness for actual
participation in the fighting at the:
front that we do not realize that we
have been at war for fourteen months, |
and that during that time many thou-j
sands of young Americans have been
in constant training for the great or-|
deal awaiting them “over there."
Therefore it will come as something
of a surprise to read in the dispatches
from Washington that American
troops; in the different training camps
are being given a new kind of school
ing, to "prepare them for the for
ward movement of the allies which
is expected to follow the ultimate
crushing of the German offensive pow
er.”
How near that expected forward
movement may be we may not know.
But this we do know; That the Ger
man offensive is rapidly expending
ll-sejl LU« cuutu lilies, illlU II1UL
the great loss of man power attendant
upon their mad rushes in mass forma
tion, in which the forces of the al
lies were simply overwhelmed by the
weight of numbers, must have had
the weakening effect which will soon
.justify a change of tactics on the part
of the allies.
When the time for this forward
movement arrives the American boys
will be the mainstay of the forces of
democracy, and with the spirit and
enthusiasm already displayed by the
soldiers of the great republic, who
shall say that, when once the forward
movement shall have begun, it will
not end until the victorious allied
forces shall march in triumph down
Unter den Linden itself, and the terms
of peace shall have been dictated in
the halls of Germany’s imperial capi
tal?
All honors to the khaki-clad lads
who did so nobly at the Marne, and
who are but the forerunner of the
millions that will soon joi nthem to
make the “world safe for democracy.”
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MAKE THEM PROVE CHARGES
If the exposure of Mr. Gutzon Bor
glum shall have the effect of making
the senate committee on military af
fairs less ready to serve as a sound
1
ing board for every disappointed
promoter and contractor who wishes
I to assail those who are bearing the
i burden of our war-making the coun
try will have derived some profit
from this incident. That a good many
of the outcries against the administra
tive officers of the government voice
merely the disappointment and resent
ment of men who have tried to sell
| their services to the government is
i not to be doubted. It has become
equally manifest that all such disap
pointed self-seekers can always lie as
sured of a credulous hearing by the
senate committee on military affairs,
which has the effect of giving their tin
| founded charges a publicity which
would be impossible if they sought
j to adress the country directly. It is
I the recognition which they receive
I from the Senate committee on mili
tary affairs which accords them access
to the newspapers. It is the duty of
the senate committee on military af
fairs to be receptive of stories which
allege blundering and incompetence,
hut it is equally the duty of that com
mittee to exact some proof of such
stories before it gives them the moral
indorsement which it does when it
makes them the subject of an investi
gation. or when its members make
such tales the basis of speeches in the
Senate.
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Tlte Borglum instance is typical of
many. A few weeks ago Senators
Brandagee and McCuinber made loud
outcries of grafting in the aircraft pro
duction board, and now it transpires
that their authority was Gutzon Bor
glum. It was the tale of Mr. Borglum
which so excited Senator Chamberlain
as to move him to announce that his
committee would undertake a merci
less inquiry into the work of aircraft [
production and put its finger on the'
man or men who were responsible for
delay and extravagance. Their pre
dicament is not comparable, of course,
to that of Mi Borglum; nevertheless
it is humiliating enough to excite the)
sense oi pity They stand exposed as '
having lent the prestige of their office
and the influence of their names to
give currency and credibility to slan-j
derous falsehoods. That thov vverei
influenced by any malignant motive is, I
ol course, not to be supposed. Party
prejudice, personal jealousies and a
wounded sense of dignity have unfit
ted them to judge fairly; have made
them credulous of almost any tale
which imputes ineptitude and malfeas
ance to men in the administrative de
partment of the government. They
are not agents of German propaganda,
but if they were they could hardly
serve more efficiently than they do by
being always ready to discredit the
work of the government.
MANY COflBfllS DEPART
ON STEAMSHIP ALASKA
The steamship Alaska sailed for Se-j
attle at 9 o’clock this morning with,
the following passengers from Cor
dova:
Mrs. Lilydahl, C. C. Keenan, Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Winkler, D. W. Walker,
Louise Walker, Mrs. II. G. Robinson,j
Naomi Robinson, May Day, Joe Best,!
B. D. Sigsbee, Mrs. F. E. McConaghy,!
Mrs. R. C. Games, R. C. Games,
Royce Peterson, R. C. Calvert, Mrs.
Abbott, Mrs. George Kennedy, Mrs. A.
A. Kennedy, S. S. Lee, G. A. Murphy,
Miss A. Klien, Mr Reilly, Mr. Black,
Mr. Ponohoe, W. A. Prout, P. Bertel
sen, L. Tipps, Nick Drises, R. Berg
man, N. Ordonic, Jacob Mathisen,
Pete Makoff, Oscar Malmquist, L. M.
Hare, Jim Kuskey, Nick Yakodis, Geo.
Talsor,’ Charles A. Clark, H. R. Lim
erick, A. Greenbaum, Miss E. Thomp
son, M. J. Miller, J. Hyland, Mrs. Bir
ney, W. M. Kohler, John Duffy, Pat
Ruchis, A. Mathisen, Alex Soundlos.
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SlItE! HID EM ill
IN mUCIN PlilES
I
The returns thus far filed in the dis
i trict clerk’s office at Valdez show
that H. A. Slater of Cordova, J. M.
I Murray of McCarthy, J. L. Reed of
I Valdez and ,T. Lindley Green of Sew
ard have been nominated by the Re
publicans as candidates for the lower
house of the Alaska legislative as
sembly in the Third judicial division.
The votes stand in the order given,
j Green is ten votes ahead of Arthur
Thompson of Anchorage.
For road commissioner in this divi
sion the indications point to the nomi
ination of James L. Galen of Cordova
over Harvey L. Sullivan and Edward
Wood, both of Valdez. Galen leads
Sullivan by nine votes.
Nine precincts in the division harve
not been heard from, namely: Chog
Kiung, Nushagak and Naknek, in (he
Bristol bay region; McDougal, in the
Cache creek country; Nelichik, or
, Cook inlet, and Illiamna. It is feared
that most of these precincts held no
primary election, and that the results
as above noted will not be changed
by the complete returns.
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ARE LIBERAL
ANCHORAGE, June 8.—By donat
ing approximately $2,250 to the Amer
ican Red Cross during its recent cam
paign for funds, employes in the An
chorage division of the Alaska engin
eering comission brought their sub
scriptions in connection with war work
to a total of $212,054.
Included in this aggregate amount
are $1,007 to the Interior Department
Wark Work Association; $4,947 for the
maintenance of beds in (he American
'niviiifol -if ...1
850 in Liberty Bonds.
Subscriptions t-> the Interior Depar
ment War Work Association, the head
oi which is Mrs Franklin K. Lane,
w.ie of the secretary of the inteiior.
arc made mainly by employes in the
Anchorage division. The signe i
pledges for monthly contributions in
employes range from 25 cents to $2.
The association is an auxiliary of the
Red Cross.
Pictures of (ho beds in the hospital
at Neuilly endowed by Anchorage di
vision employes were recently received
here. The photographs show five of
the beds, each containg a patient
Above three of the beds arc signs read,
ing, “Department of the. Interior, An
chorage, Alaska.” The sign over one
of the two remaining hods carries the
name Matanuska instead of Anchorage,
and the sign over the other bed car
ries the name Turnagain Arm on t
The pictures arc unusually clear. For
instance, the nurse chart can lie seen
hanging at every bed, and the patient's
temperature line on the chart can
be discerned.
In the htlrd Liberty bond loan cam
paign, employes of the Anchorage di
vision bought $82,850 of the bonds.
While the treasury regulations govern
ing the sale of the securities required
that only 5 per cent of the face valua-;
of the purchased bonds had to be paid
at the time of subscribing for them*
the initial payments by commission
employes amounted to $44,176, or more
than 50 per cent.
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ANCHORAGE, June 8.—Anchorage
this season is experiencing a profitablei
trade with fish canneries and salteries
operating on Cook Inlet. Their power;
crafts call frequently at the local
port. Among the boats that make
weekly visits are those belonging to,
Libby, McNeil & Libby, of Kenai;
the Kachemak Canning Company, of,
Swanson Creek and Kachemak Bay;
the R. R. Hunter saltery, of Moose
Point, and the Beluga Whaling Com
pany of Beluga.
Small craft traffic this year on Turn
again Arm and the Susitna River is;
quite active. To acomodate the mo-!
squito fleet, a dock, sixty feet long, is
in progress of construction in Anchor
age harbor by McNally and Maitland,'
lumber dealers, who have considerable
water-borne business. On condition
that no charge be made for wharfage
or dockage, the Alaskan engineering
commission lent its piledriver to the
builders of the improvement to drive
the piles.
Increase in navigation led the Unit
ed States coast and geodetic survey e>
direct its attention to the waters in
the vicinity of Anchorage. Under the
supervision of Captain It. Hand, and
Aides E. M. Wilbur, J. D. Crichton
and W. D. Patterson of the survey,
soundings are being made of Knik
arm from Point Cairn to Fire Island,
and exact observations of the tides.
A power boat and a barge, which re
cently w’ere launched from the marine
ways of the commission, and ten men
are engaged in making the soundings.
This work will extend over a period
of five months. The tidal observations
will continue for a year. Captain Hand
ten years ago made the soundings in
Cook inlet, near Illiamna bay. Until
recently he was engaged in coast and
geodetic work in the Philippines.
A Group of Prominent Bankers and Capitalists Conceived the Idea of
and Financed the
BANK OF ALASKA
With tne Aim that Its Growth Will Give
the Name Full Significance
Practically all the territorial banks in Alaska had their origin in
a mercantile business, and were the outgrowth of a condition. The
BANK OF ALASKA was launched purely as a bank, and without the
support of other interests than the business that comes to it in the
regular channels.
The trend of American banking legislation is toward branch bank
ing systems. The pioneer in this territory is the BANK OF ALASKA,
which is the first and so far the only branch system.
Complying with the laws and regulations governing the institu
tion, from the combined paid-in capital there is apportioned to each
branch sufficient capital to cover the legal requiremnt of an inde
pendent bank. Each branch makes full individual report to the bank
ing board. Each must show how it is progressing individually.
In the final analysis the strength and justification of the system is
apparent, for each branch has the full strength of the entire system
back of it.
The system is backed by very able men, and furnishes all the ad
vantages of a metropolitan bank, having the facilities of checking ac
counts, certificates of deposit, savings accounts, travelers’ checks and
safe deposit boxes. Your account is solicited.
Bank of Alaska
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REINDEER MEAT MAT
RELIEVE EOOD SHORTAGE
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Reindeer steaks may some day take j
the place, of beef, if the meat short-j
age becomes more serious. Under!
proper management Alaska may be
come the source of large food sup
plies, William T. Lopp, chief of the
Alaska division of the United States
bureau of education, believes. Thou- ■
sands of surplus male reindeer are
to be had in Alaska every year, ac
cording to this authority, and while
small shipments have been made from
time to time, there has been no sys
tematic exportation on a large scale.:
In a recent interview Mr. Lopp, who!
has been working with the native Es
kimos for twenty-five years, gave in
teresting statistics showing the suc
cess of the United States govern
ment in the work of converting a na
tion of hunters and fishermen into a
pastoral people. This the government I
has done through the importation of
reindeer into Alaska from Siberia and
through the encouragement of the
Alaska division of the bureau of edu
cation.
“Of the total of 98,582 reindeer now
in Alaskan territory 67,448 are now
owned by 1,569 native Eskimos all of
| whom are expert herders, trained
through the apprenticeship system in
| Ftituted by the schools,” said Mr. Lopp.
‘■Reindeer meat is said to be as
nourishing as beef, and it would con
tribute toward the consevation of live
stock, since reindeer live on a white
lichen, which would otherwise be use
less, and there aro no expenses at
tached to their maintenance beyond
the labor of herding and the cost of
shelter and butchering.”
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