THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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. H. G. STEEL
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919
STILL WASTING.
Someone has said that with our re
sources France would have saved
enough since the beginning of the
present century to pay her own and
Great Britain’s war debt.
We have been for many years the
most wasteful people on the two hemi
spheres. We have prospered only be
cause our natural resources have been
limitless. We were so rich in re
sources that we believed there was
little need in settling down from
spendthrifts to savers.
Out of our resources we have been
feeding the Europeans and supplying
them with war materials which rap
idly devoured our substance. It is
true that we still are far from the end
of those resources, but in our squand
ering we have contracted a debt of
$35,000,000,000 which we must pay.
The interest alone will be about $1.
400,000,000 yearly. We can pay the
interest and principal by wasting our
resources or by a systematic policy of
fh rift
The war itself was testimony of our
wa( efulness. The Hog Island ship
pin project has required an expendi
tur of $60,000,000, and only one shop
has een completed. About $1,500,000
000 ms appropriated for airplanes
and hundreds of millions were ex
pended, but only 1,000 airplanes were
delivered in France. Nearly $5,000,
000,000 was appropriated for ordnance
and fewer than 125 guns of the “sev
enty-five” type had been delivered to
our army in Europe at the date hos
tilities ceased.
All of us can sense the wastefulness
of ^demobilization. Inefficiency is cost
ing us millions of dollars every day.
We feel quite sure that demobiliza
tion will be as wasteful as war, but
no figures can be presented until the
process of mustering out the soldiers
is much farther on its way. Then the
figures will disclose to us scandals
that will not be overshadowed by the
Hog Island and aviation scandals.
And how are we to save in era
when work must be provided for the
hotnecoming• soldiers? Must we not
spend more lavishly than ever?
We must spend, but we must spend
to a purpose, and, at the' same time
we must acquire the habit of thrift
and save as we never saved before.
It will be impossible for us to extend
•our trade in competition with the sav
ing peoples of Europe unless we learn
the lesson of economy. If we can pro
duce wealth as rapidly as ever and,
at the same time, save more of what
•we produce our future is assured.
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jfr' KILLJOY SENATORS.
Kill-joy senators continue to declare
that we “did not go to war to make
the world safe for democracy, but be
cause our flag was attacked and our
people killed by the Germans.”
These literalists, if it pleased them,
would tell you that the North went to
war with the South solely because ,
Fort Sumter was fired on.
Perhaps there is some politics in
this insistence of the kill-joys. Per
haps they represent President Wil
son’s battle-croy, “Make the world
democracy."
In the light of subsequent events
the president shibboleth was .unfiw*
tunate. If he had used the word lib
erty instead of democracy he would
have expressed more nearly the Am
erican ideal, for today even anarchy
is garbing Itself in tne fair trappings
of democracy. The most brutal and
detestable of men advertise them
selves as the champions and chieftains
safe for democracy.”
But the inspiring fact remains that
we went to war for loftier reasons
than the realistic senators proclaim.
A formal declaration of war is fre
quently like a legal document—by its
very nature it must be technical, and
technicalities often obscure the moun
tains and abysses of tragedy.
When we leaped into the war we be
came the comrades of those who were
fighting for liberty and our entire his
tory and tradition fitted us for the
fight.
However sufficient the technical rea
sons alluded to in the negotiations
and in the formal declaration of war
yet the bigger truths were elsewhere.
They were in the hearts and con
sciences of the American people.
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HUNS AS LYNCHERS.
During their days of arrogance,
when victory seemed certain and
when they could visualize a whole
world under their dominion, the Ger-.
mans feigned to scorn American opin
ion, • slighted our pleas, and if we
ventured to remind them of their
atrocities promptly taunted us with
our lynchings. Every hour of the war
the Huns were committing outrages *
against humanity that made our oc
casional lynchings, even the burning
of negroes at the stake, dwindle into
triviality. If they were not murder
ing Edith Cavelle and Captain Fry
atts they were helping the Turks to
massacre a million Armenians. And
yet they evidenced no sense of shame.
Often they boasted of their misdeeds.
The other day a lynching occurred
In Germany and the Germans, recall
ing their hollow excuses, became al
most hysterical in their expressions
if shame and remorse. If they ha^
been victorious they would not have
been so thin skinned, for had they
not declared that might made mor
ality? Had they triumphed the world
would have seen a new morality
everywhere. The old commandments
would have fallen into disrepute. New
cannons of public and private con
duct would have been set up by the
followers of Nietschke, Trietschke,
Von Bernhardi and William Hohen
zollem. The moral law would have
been simply the will of the strong.
Haying suffered defeat the Huns
mtist conform to the old standards.
They must cry with the poet, “Thou
hast conquered, O pale Galilean!”
The law that was born in Galilee and
has spread over the world, they would
have overthrown, but now it has over
thrown them.
Conservative German 'newspapers
are wearing sackcloth and ashes be
cause Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem
bourg were lynched, but deep in their
souls they rejoice that the firebrands
of revolution were thus summarily
eliminated/
The assassination of Liebknecht -)
and the Emma Goldmann of Germany 1
was quite in accord with the military -
precepts followed by the Pan-Germans
in their war upon the world. The 1
Pan-German was always ready to
murder first and to argue afterwards.
Whether he- was defending murders
by U-boats or by military judges in
Belgium he never was at a loss to
invent excuses or extenuating circum
stances. American lynchings were' 1
seized upon by the Hun apologist, not
because the Hun conscience was
shocked bv them, hut mereTv hpeanup
they served as controversial material'.
And today the German evidences of 1
shame and remorse are mere mockery.
Sooner or later, perhaps, Liebknecht
would have fallen in the fight, by fair i
means or foul. His whole life of radl- ■
salism had been a challenge to the
powers that be. If he had not been
murdered he would have hurled him
self again and again into peril. He
Pad the courage of his red convictions.
While other radicals were- snivelling
it the feet to the kaiser during the
war and playing the HohenzoUern
lame, Liebknecht refused to bow bis
leek under the imperial yoke and suf- -
’ered wounds and prison for his un- •
:ompromising boldness. j
We would be among the last to de
end the Bolshevism of Liebknecht,
put every sincere man deserves at
east a tribute to his honesty of soul, i
sven though we may account his ‘
political doctrines as the very stuff
pf hades. At least he deserves to be
lifferentiated from such hirelings as |
Uenine and Trotzky.
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The registration book of the town
>f Cordova will be open at my office, ~
n the corner store, Michelson & Cur
•ier building, First street, Cordova, <
svery day from 12 o’clock noon until !
1 p. m. <
The registration book will be closed
it 4 o’clock p. m. Saturday, March
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C. H. LAMPREY, Registrar. .
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DELINQUENT TAXES OF THE TOWN
OF CORDOVA, YEAR 1918
Real Estate
. Val- Pen- In
Name Block Lot uatlon Tax alty terest Total
M. Baldwin .I7Z7 3R. i^Add. 4 $ 150.00 i 1.50 * .07 $ .03 $ 1.60
Andrew Beck ..E K 1,700.00 17.00 .85 .18 18.03
Andrew Beck .D L 1,700.00 17.00 .85 .18 18.03
R. J. Boryer.... 3 24 1,000.00 10.00 .50 .10 10.60
R. J. Boryer... 3 25 1,000.00 10.00 .50 .10 10.60
R. J. Boryer.3 26 1,000.00 10.00 .50 .10 10.60
R. J. Boryer . 4 12 1,000.00 10.00 .50 .10 * 10.60
3. T. Brightwell & Co. 7 acres, more
or less, N.
of R.R. Ad. 3,000.00 30.00 1.50 .30 31.80
Barton & Crawford. 4 19 1,500.00 16.00 .75 .16 15.91
Gabie Coutard .E O 2,000.00 20.00 1.00 .20 21.20
Deyo & Holland. 7 27 1,350.00 13.50 .67 .14 14.31
W. G. Fitzgerald . 2 R. R. Add.
16 300.00 3.00 .15 .04 3.19
Dan Hedlcan . 7 29 1,350.00 13.50 .67 .14 14.31
Deorge Hickman . 3 R. R. Add. t
10 350.00 3.50 .17 .04 3.71
Dertrude Johnson. 5 5 1,500.00 15.00 .75 .16 15.91
Dertrude Johnson. 5 6 1,500.00 15.00 .75 .16 15.91
M. G. Leach . 26 6 250.00 2.50 .13 .04 2.67
D. E. Morris . 26 8 250.00 2.50 .13 .04 2.67 -
3. Murchison . 6 23 1,050.00 10.50 .52 .12 11.14 *
3. Murchison . 6 24 1,050.00 10.50 .52 .12 11.14
F. E. Marshall . 2 R. R. Add Ik % W* ifc &
3 200.00 2.00 .10 .02 2.12
r. C. McEchran .16 10 500.00 5.00 .25 .06 5.31
i. C. McEchran .16 11 750.00 7.50 .35 .08 7.93
Mrs. A. J. Nelson..-. 2 20 250.00 2.50 .13 .04 2.67
W. A. O’Neill. 4 20 2,000.00 20.00 1.00 .20 21.20
Fohn Richards . 6 11 1,500.00 15.00 *.75 .16 15.91
M. B. Shannon.26 11 100.00 1.00 .05 .01 1.06
Michael Shannon .J7 17 100.00 1.00 .05 .01 1.06
-lenry Schaffer .12 11 1,275.00 12.75 .64 .14 13.53
rohn Strigsvle .:. 6 14
and 20 feet
of 13 2,700.00 27.00 1.25 .28 28.53
Mrs. E. L. Schooling.... 5 12 750.00 7.50 .37 .08 7.95 I
iVm. Wentzell .25 feet and
bldg. N. of I
R. R. Add. 300.00 3.00 .15 .04 3.19 =
r1- Wernstede . 5 9 1,000.00 10.00 .50 .10 10.60
-*■ Wernstede . 5 10 1,200.00 12.00 .60 .12 12.72
Totals.,.........|35,625.00 *356.25 *17.67 * 3.79 *377.71
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Delinquent Taxes of the Town of Cordova for
Year 1917—Real Estate
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Andrew Beck..E . K^? 1,700.00 * 34.00 * 1.7* * 4.42 * 40.12
Andrew Beck......D ;l. _ L 1,700.00 34.00 1.70 4.42 .<40.12
t. J. Boryer . 3 £4 1,000.00 20.00 1.00 2.60 23 60
t. J. Boryer ;.;. 3 25 1,000.00 20.00 1.00 2.60 23.60
t. J. Boryer . 3 26 1,000.00 20.00 1.00 2.60 23.60
l. J. Boryer .— 4 12 1,000.00 20.00 1.00 2.60 23.60
Dan Hedican . 7 29 1,350.00 27.00 1.35 3.52 31.87
D. E. Morris....26 1 8 250.00 5.00 .25 .66 5.91
M. B. Shannon.26 11 ioo.OO 2.00 .10 .26 2.36
Michael Shannon .17 17 100.00 2.00 ,10< .26 2.36
Total-;--9,200.00 *184.00 * 9.20< *23.94 *217.14
Delinquent Taxes of the Town of Cordova for -
Year 1916—Real Estate
1. J. Boryer-3 24 . $ 940.00 $ 9.40 % AT f 2.38 $ 1225
1. J. Boryer..'. 3_k 26 *> - *340.00 9.40 AT 2.38 1226
*-J- Boryer.. 3*"* 26 940.00 9.40 .47 2.38 1225
1. J. Boryer- 4 12 750.00 7.50 .35 1.12 827
it -— ----_
Totar------$ 3,670.00" f 36.70 $ 1.7* f 8.26 $ 45J2
Note. I certify that the foregoing and attached list is a true and correct
•opy of the delinquent tax roll of real property of the Town of Cordova, Alaska,
'or the years 1916, 1917 and 1918; that said taxes for the year 1916 became de
linquent February 12th, 1917; that the total amount of delinquent taxes due
’or said year is $35.70; total penalty due is $1.76;: total interest due is $8.26 ;
tnd the aggregate of the. whole is $45.72.
And I further certify that the taxes for the year 1917 became delinquent
>n February Ilthi,. 1918; that the total amount of: delinquent taxes due is
>18.4.00; total penalty due is $9.20; total interest due is $23:94; and the ag
;iegate of the whole is; $211.14.
And f further certify that the taxes Jot. the year 1918 became delinquent “
m February 10th, 1919; that the; total amount of delinquent taxes due is M
>356.25; total penalty due is $17.67; total interest due Is $3.79; and the aggre
;ate of the whale Is $3,77.71.
And 1 further certify that said delinquent tax' roll has been completed and
s now open for public Inspection at the office ot. the town clerk. In the office
>f the Alaska Public Utilities building, Cordova, Alaska, and on April 21st,
1919, said date being not Less than thirty days after the completion ot the pub- 1
lcation of the delinquent tax roll aforesaid, the said delinquent tax roll will
>e presented to the district court, territory of Alaska, Third division for ad
ustment and order of sale.
Witness my hand and seal of the said town this 14th day of February 1919,
<Seal) NATHANAEL GREENE,
__Town Clerk, Cordova, Alaska.
Delinquent Taxes on Personal Property tor Year
. 1918—Town of Cordova, Alaska
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Val- Pen- In
Name— Description uation Tax alty terest Total
iindl D. Brown. Barber Shop I
Fixtures $ 400.00 $, 4.00 $ 20 $ .04 $ 4.24
C. E. Smith-Auto 300.00 3.00 .15 ,04i 3.19
TotaJ.— ---.—-*.$ 700,00 $ 7.00 $, .35 $ .08 $ 7.43
Delinquent Taxes on Personal Property for Year
1917—Town of Cordova, Alaska -
Name—_Description® uation Tax alty terest Total
Jordova Grill- Restaurant i
__fixtures $500.00 $J6.00 $ 2ft $1.30 $11.80
Note.—Notice is hereby given to the, above delinquent personal property
>wners that unless said delinquent taxes, together with penalty and Interest
or such delinquency, are paid, the property upon which taxes are a lien will
ie sold at public auction at the town hall, Cordova, Alaska, in the council
hambers therein, at 10 o’clock Monday, March 24th, 1919.
Witness my hand this 14th day of February, 1919, at Cordova, Alaska.
THOS. 8. SCOTT, Town Treasurer. I
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Black Boar brand of union made Overalls and Jackets.
A oomplete line of Wool and Cotton Blankets, Quilts of all kinds,
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Parkees, Qloves and Mittens, 8hoe Pacs and Rubber Overshoes.
Tents, Bed 8heets, Pack 8aeks and Clothes Baas.
Towers’ Fish Brand Oil Coats.
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looks a lot better and
feels better.
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