The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1917.
IS IT THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
A dispatch says the British soldiers on the Tigris have of
late been successful. What are British soldiers fighting on the
Tigris for? To win new territory, or to put a new lock on the
hack door of India!
The Tigris flow’s through the lands where civilization’s
cradle was rocked’. It flourished for a time, then moved west,
leaving nothing behind but its vices. Now, after the people
there have stood still for five and twenty centuries, they are
aroused something akin to .love’s thunders and the killing of
men has been resumed.
That is what civilization carries back to them. In their
benighted minds it certainly can awaken no new hopes. If they
were like our races, they would call a new primary and resolve
that civilization is a failure. The poor “peasants in their
sheds.”
Surely Christianity is on trial in the world today. After
nineteen hundred years of trial, the present situation now must
make millions of people doubt if their prayers are ever heard
or answered.
These are days when men should read the Book of Revela
tions. All through we read of the angels that pour out vials of
wrath upon the children of men, but in the closing chapters
there is a change: the devils are chained; the new Jerusalem
comes down as a bride arrayed in all splendor; the reign of
peace is ushered in, and the world “lives happily ever after.”
Let us hope that after the cyclone and the earthquake
passes, a calm will come, reason will have sway, the people will
have their rights secured to them; and that the beginning of the
time will come when “the nations will learn war no more.”
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THE WINTER’S PANORAMA.
Old winter, who has held the trenches so long, seems to be
falling hack, but in scientific military order. He has evidently
withdrawn his big, heavy howitzers of cold', hut keeps his light
guns of wind and young snow playing upon us.
His occupation here was a tedious one, but out from under
his snow tin* grass comes up green, with here and there a flow
er; and the ground has been prepared for the spring planting.
He seems to he in disposition a little like our president. He likes
to have his press agents—the wind, the frost and lowering
skies announce his coming in the autumn, to scare away the mi
gratory birds and start prudent housewives to breaking the
sleep of their husbands by telling them that the winter is close
by, and how many things need' to he attended to.
Then his coming in person is always spectacular. His old
piper, the wind, sounds his approach; the frost follows to kill
the autumn flowers; then in his white mantle of snow lie conn s
and plants his white flag on the mountain crests and valley,
changing the babble of the brooks into hushed murmurs, mak
ing the schoolboy clamor for mufflers and mittens, and hushing
the songs of all men, save the coal dealers.
This is kept up with new possibilities of sorrows to he
sounded every day until he starts hack to his White House,
which is his summer home; and then it is discovered that he
really did not intend'any permanent sorrow, and really at heait
had the good of all mankind. The coming and going of winter
in high latitudes is a most interesting panorama.
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In this trying moment when the country is trembling on
the verge of war, it becomes the plain duty of every citizen to
take counsel with himself and keep his personal prejudices un
der control. He should' not permit himself to he governed by
the inflamed opinion of the jingoes, or the highly colored scare
heads of sensational newspapers. And it would seem also; that
♦ his is no time for enterprising news agencies to exploit vague
rumors and reports at the expense of still further exciting a
people whose mental tension now is almost at the breaking
point.
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In one of its bulletins the American Society for Thrift,
commenting on the seriousness of the economic situation in Am
erica, says that while the nation is prosperous the individual
is profligate, and “only 3 per cent of the men leave estates
amounting to $10,000 or more.” With life insurance cheap
and sound', and with life insurance agents as thick as gnats
around a Nebraska cow, why in thunder should any widow
suffer?
Colonel Roosevelt declines to debate with Colonel Bryan
(lie subject of preparedness. ’Twould be a waste of time, Colo
nel Roosevelt says, to discuss a “non-debatable subject.” Well,
it deprives us of a picturesque political episode, but one which
we can do without. Public opinion would not be altered by it.
nor the destiny of this republic deflected' by a hair’s breadth.
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Filibuster is a Spanish word and originally was applied to
buccaneers, freebooters and pirates. Later on it was used in
connection with revolutionary expeditions to Cuba and else
where, and finally became a usable word in American politics.
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The federal trade commission finds that there is no real
shortage in paper and fixes the price at $50 a ton, which is very
fine, but it does not restore to the public the millions' iirswag
stolen by the paper magnates in recent months.
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The report again coming up from the border describing
General Villa at the rope’s extremity is an admirable nudge to
double the guards and set the powder can in a dry place.
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China has been examining her financial status and now has
discovered strong moral reasons for entering the war under"
certain conditions.
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Again we are told that Germany is melting down her
church bells for cannon. It seems to be a performance suscep
tible of endless repetition.
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We might not have felt so badly over that conspiracy busi
ness if Kansas had been included in the list of states to be an
nexed by Mexico.
In the district court for the terri-1
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Notice of ter mof court at Cordova,
Alaska.
The president of the United States
of America, to the residents of the
Third division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to all whom it may con
cern, greeting:
You and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a term of the district court for the
territory of Alaska, Third division,
has been called and will be held In
Cordova, Alaska, beginning on the
2nd day of April, 1917, and continuo
as long thereafter as the public wel
fare may require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 2.7rd
day of February, 1916.
(District FRED M. BROWN.
Court Seal) District Judge.
Attest: Arthur Dang, Clerk.
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